Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and plans to make every track available without copy protection.

As the Canadian Opera Company raised the curtain on its 2009-10 season today, a new music director was also named, 34-year-old German conductor Johannes Debus.

Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the Stooges whose raw sound helped inspire the first generation of punk musicians, has died. He was 60.

It's another girl for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

The clan MacGregor won t be trying to conquer Chicago after all.

It isn t a lot, but it s a lot better than nothing. The biannual TV critics tour, mid-season edition, begins here today, a significantly smaller and less elaborate event this year thanks to industry-wide recessionary belt-tightening.

For 17 months, the Canadian Opera Company s superb orchestra has been without a leader, ever since the sudden death of Richard Bradshaw in August 2007.

Salvador Dali was perhaps the most celebrated practitioner of Surrealism, and there will be a number of Dali showstoppers on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario throughout this summer.

Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the Stooges whose raw sound helped inspire the first generation of punk musicians, has died. He was 60.

Actor John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, have returned to Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son, Jett, who died at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama.

Guy Maddin s bizarre, fantastical tribute to his hometown, My Winnipeg , has won a new $10,000 film prize.

Love at Last: Though he wasn t picked in last summer s finale of The Bachelorette , Jason Mesnick isn t just giving love another shot – he says he s found it.

Elizabeth Abbott s "Sugar", Tim Cook s "Shock Troops" and Ana Siljak s "Angel of Vengeance" make up the shortlist for the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, it was announced Tuesday morning in Toronto.

Teenage country sweetheart Taylor Swift is the year s top-selling artist in Nielsen SoundScan s year-end U.S. music sales report. Swift, 19, sold slightly more than four million albums from Dec. 31, 2007 through Dec. 28, 2008.

He may be dancing with the stars this winter, but Lance Bass says he can foresee an N Sync reunion somewhere down the road.

Los Angeles– Could The Dark Knight , the biggest box-office champ of the decade, become the first superhero movie to win the Best Picture Oscar?

Juliette Binoche hesitates and then breaks into a shy smile when she s asked how she enjoyed dancing in the production of In-I , which opens in Montreal today.

Homeland Security USA , an ABC reality series about the men and women who police America s borders, has the look and sound of a documentary without the pesky burden of responsibility – it s homage, not reportage. And that s not a surprise, given that the executive producer, Arnold Shapiro, the creator of Rescue 911 and Big Brother , is also the mastermind behind Blow Out , a reality series about Beverly Hills hairdressing.

Jett Travolta s body shows no sign of head trauma and his death certificate says he was killed by a "seizure," an undertaker said yesterday, as the 16-year-old s celebrity parents prepared for a Florida funeral.

"Why don t you come back, baby? Why don t you go away?" Elvis Costello sings in the duet "Go Away" with indie rock favourite Jenny Lewis on his recent CD, Momofuku .