Entertainment

ENTERTAINMENT – Warner Bros. sale will bring back the film oligopolies

December 15, 2025 // 0 Comments

By MATTHEW JORDAN Media Studies Professor, Penn State NEWS OF NETFLIX’s BID to buy Warner Bros. last week sent shock waves through the media ecosystem. The pending [Continue]

MUSIC – Chamber Musicians to present evening of Drama, Dance and Brahms

February 14, 2025 // 0 Comments

On Saturday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 6th and Douglas, Chamber Musicians of Kamloops presents Drama, Dance, Brahms. The concert, with [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Shed no tears for Buffy Sainte-Marie over her fall from grace

February 10, 2025 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BEVERLY JEAN SANTAMARIA is no longer a member of the Order of Canada. Better known as Buffy Sainte-Marie, she has been stripped of [Continue]

MOVIES – Will Clint Eastwood’s newest film be the 95-year-old’s last hurrah?

January 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

AT 94 GOING ON 95, there’s a sense that Juror No. 2 – his 40th directorial effort – is Clint Eastwood’s last movie. Taken together, his age and the film’s low-key [Continue]

JOHNSON – The stress of buying concert tickets these days

March 11, 2024 // 1 Comment

OMG … OMG … OMG. No … that’s not excitement of getting the tickets, well it is, but its also the anxiety ridden stress over the process of procuring [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Violence, nudity and coarse language in the movies

March 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

The following column was first published in The Kamloops Daily News on Nov. 18, 1983. A COUPLE OF NIGHTS AGO, I scanned the movie ads. The line-up went like this: some very [Continue]