Two Toronto filmmakers have captured second prize in the YouTube Project:Direct contest, garnering them a ticket to the Sundance Film Festival. The $2,500 US prize was handed to Jason Gossbee and Ben Goldenberg for their five-minute short, White Collar Criminals.

Museums in the Netherlands have launched an investigation into works of art that may have been taken from Dutch Jews during the Nazi era in the hopes of returning them to their rightful owners.

A tycoon from Hong Kong has gotten the green light to restore the home of late martial-arts icon Bruce Lee, transforming it into a museum.

Actress Heather Allin, who has been councillor and vice-president with ACTRA Toronto, has been elected president of the Toronto chapter of Canada s actors union.

A publishing house in New York state says it s in talks with the author of a fake Holocaust love memoir about issuing the story as a work of fiction.

A former Orleans arts group will be offering art classes next year from the community s new $37-million arts centre after being absorbed by the Ottawa School of Art.

Johannes Debus, who conducted a sellout performance of War and Peace with the Canadian Opera Company in 2008, has been named music director of the Toronto-based opera company.

English businessman John Madejski is putting a rare sculpture by Edward Degas on the block, estimated to be worth as much as $20.7 million Cdn.

This week kicked off with a cloud, both literal and figurative, hanging over the world s largest gadget-fest, the Consumer Electronics Show.

Lionsgate, the movie studio known for producing the Saw horror film franchise, has cut a deal to buy TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com for $255 million US from Macrovision Solutions.

Bad news for northerners hoping to see British rocker Billy Idol play in Yellowknife this spring: news of a spring appearance north of 60 appears to have been a hoax.

U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has asked neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, CNN s chief medical correspondent, to serve as the country s surgeon general, CNN reported Tuesday.

After a two-month search, there is now a venue for an ambitious Calgary show featuring the work of 1,111 artists.

[IMAGE]Radio-Canada and the producers of the French-language broadcaster s popular New Year s Eve special are defending the show amid allegations that certain skits were insulting and racist.

Ron Asheton, a lead guitarist and later a bassist with the punk band the Stooges, was found dead Tuesday at age 60 in his home in Ann Arbour, Mich.

Cape Breton University is considering selling one its most valued pieces of art in its permanent collection, a Pablo Picasso sketchbook. The piece was valued at $1.3 million US about a decade ago.

Actor John Travolta and his family are back in their Ocala, Fla., home from the Bahamas, along with the ashes of his teenage son who died of a seizure.

A 91-year-old author is among the winners of the Costa Book Awards in Britain and is in the running for the award s book of the year. Diana Athill captured the biography category for her frank memoir Somewhere Towards the End.

A history of sugar, an account of Canadians fighting in the First World War and the unusual story of a young female assassin in Revolutionary Russia are finalists for the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction.

Cuba has digitized thousands of documents that writer Ernest Hemingway kept at his Cuban home and made them available electronically for the first time on Monday.