Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen, J.Lo and the ageing effect of the last four years
Images of the Week: The ravages of time showed on celebrities performing after the Biden inauguration. And while you can’t blame Trump, he sure didn’t help matters
Q&A: Novelist Richard Ford on Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and guns
In his new book, Ford reflects on his parents’ delight in New Orleans and his ‘blissful’ Mississippi childhood
Newsmakers: June 1-7, 2012
Kathie Lee makes viewers cringe, François Hollande caps CEO pay, and a bad week for the Biebs
Ignatieff’s pitch
I have a story in this week’s print edition about Michael Ignatieff’s position going into the last two weeks of this campaign and the complicated electoral math with which he is presently faced.
The Commons: Rise up
‘We’re in a funny place in this election campaign right now’
Ignatieff tries to get a rise out of voters
All through this campaign, Michael Ignatieff has taken the dual risk of speaking without a prepared text and answering many questions that haven’t been scripted from individuals who haven’t been screened and just happened to raise a hand in the crowd that’s turned out to hear him.
TIFF Newsmakers
Hilary Swank cleans up for the cameras, the Boss is still working, and the FUBAR guys have some advice for the PM
Springsteen talks Dylan, darkness and the “survivor guilt” of fame
“The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul”
The Wardrobe Malfunction Paradox
Colby Cosh on the current state of the Super Bowl halftime show—and how to fix it
Guy Laliberté’s space concert, Sarah Palin’s revenge, and a tribute for the Man in Black
Newsmakers of the week
‘Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band,’ by Jason Schneider
One of the few Canadian music books that goes back as far as Hank Snow and Wilf Carter—and sheds new light on some of the more canonized mouldy oldies
Glory days, courtesy of Rabbit and the Boss
Is there a more distinctively American expression of the pitiable state of a man not quite confronting mortality than nostalgia for his days as high school sports star? Bruce Springsteen struck that chord in the closer of his Superbowl halftime mini-concert, adapting the baseball image from the first lines of his old hit “Glory Days” for the game at hand: