PASADENA, Calif. – The childhood home of Eddie Van Halen and a sidewalk outside a nearby liquor store have been turned into memorials to the legendary rock guitarist in his adopted hometown near Los Angeles. The shrines began popping up shortly after Van Halen’s death from cancer at age 65…

NEW YORK – Fans of Broadway will have to wait a little longer for shows to resume – until at least late May. Although an exact date for various performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows…

NEW YORK – The Pixar film Soul will skip theatres and instead premiere on Disney+ on Christmas, the Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday, sending one of the fall’s last big movies straight to streaming. The move, widely expected after the recent exodus of most major upcoming releases, marks one of…

The Princess of Wales Theatre is expected to reopen next month for the first time since the theatre was shuttered in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a news release, Mirvish Productions announced Thursday that ‘Blindness,’ a socially distanced sound installation, will see its international premiere at the Toronto…

LONDON – Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread. The ruling came in a tax dispute brought by Bookfinders Ltd., an Irish Subway franchisee, which argued that some of its takeaway…

Facebook also said it was taking steps to address QAnon groups’ fixation on child trafficking and child safety. Over the last few months, QAnon groups have latched onto the issue of child trafficking in order to recruit new followers and make the conspiracy theory more appealing amid crackdowns from social…

Toronto is one of seven world cities most at risk of a residential real estate bubble, according to a new report released by UBS this week. Toronto scored 1.96 in the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index, the third-highest score below Frankfurt and Munich, which scored 2.26 and 2.35, respectively.…

VANCOUVER — An American man from Bellingham, Wash. has been fined $1,000 after navigating his boat into Canadian waters to pick up his girlfriend in Surrey, B.C., according to RCMP. Mounties announced the Quarantine Act violation in a news release Wednesday. They said the incident that led to the fine…

Vancouver Coastal Health has named five more schools in Vancouver, West Vancouver, Richmond, and Squamish for potential coronavirus exposure this week. Potential exposure means that someone infected with coronavirus was on school property. Contact tracers will still reach out to the patients’ close contacts directly to inform them they need…

To fill its empty CMO position, Facebook just promoted a longtime Facebook executive focused on product growth to the C-suite. Former VP of product growth and analytics Alex Schultz, who has been with the company since 2007, announced the move Tuesday in a Facebook post. Schultz will fill position left…