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Constance Wu says her confidence is hard-earned

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New Music: Moira & Claire

3

Getting to Know Q: D.W. Waterson

4

Some run away and join the circus. Carisa Hendrix built her own

5

Remembering Oliver Jones, a Canadian jazz legend

6

Acting like a maniac never gets old for Weird Al

7

Why this director tapped into feminine energy for his new film

8

Ron Funches on his post-Traitors autism diagnosis

9

Rebecca Northan wants you to give yourself permission to play

10

Luke Wilson reflects on his comedic chemistry with Will Ferrell

11

How this artist created the “moccasin gaze” genre

12

He didn’t know he was auditioning for Avatar: The Last Airbender

13

New music: Elysia Biro

14

Shania Twain takes Timmins, Ontario with her everywhere she goes

15

Three Days Grace embraces the term “Divorced Dad Rock”

16

How one man went from corporate recruiter to protest photographer

17

How this music director keeps classical music alive

18

Why this playwright thinks kids’ worldviews are a superpower

19

Celebrating 25 years of Wet Hot American Summer

20

The Succession showrunner on writing about wealth and power

21

Her music was suddenly a huge hit. But this Canadian musician felt isolated

22

Why this musician recorded Newfoundland's rural church organs

23

Why Zoe Whittall changed her name to write romance novels

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How did Cape Breton become part of a drug smuggling ring?

25

André Sills on finding the humanity in Othello’s tragedy

26

Mae Martin on the movie they reluctantly walked out of

27

Before k.d. lang, before Peaches, there was Carole Pope

28

Is Evanescence’s new album their best work yet?

29

Oyin Oladejo on the healing power of Medusa’s rage

30

Jack Innanen is dying to play a young Chris Hadfield

31

Why Gail Maurice cast her own mother in a film inspired by her life

32

Anna Lambe thought TV was superficial until she found its power

33

New Music: True Mountain Laurel

34

Q Live in St. John’s!

35

What it was like singing backup for Céline Dion

36

Even bbno$ finds bbno$ to be too much sometimes

37

Tom Green on Tony Hawk, gaining a mule’s trust, and coming home to Canada

38

Carley Fortune’s adaptation non-negotiable? Keep the story in Canada

39

A cartoonist documents a chapter of queer American history

40

In a rare English interview, Diljit Dosanjh sits down with Q

41

New Music: Georges E. Sioui

42

When this Broadway vet won a Tony, she thanked her babysitters

43

Klô Pelgag on motherhood, creativity and francophone music in Canada

44

Breaking the silence on sexual abuse in the classical world

45

New Music: THEHONESTGUY

46

He’s produced for Taylor, Lana and Lorde. Now he’s telling his own story

47

How a cold call to Wyclef Jean led to a dream coming true

48

How getting sober led Jenn Harper to launch a groundbreaking beauty brand

49

Rheostatics are wearing their Canadianness proudly

50

Natalia Lafourcade needed to escape her fame. She moved to Ottawa

51

Why there’s a six-year waitlist for these banjos

52

How Tatiana Maslany’s “fraudulence” helps her acting

53

New Music: MICO

54

You may not know her name, but Steve Carell calls her a “secret weapon”

55

What’s in Vince Gill’s 50-year archive?

56

Behind the scenes of the Canadian Heritage Minutes

57

What happens when women are called crazy?

58

You don’t have to overcome stage fright to be a comedian

59

Audrey Hobert wrote hits for her best friend. Now she's telling her own story

60

How to write poetry about religion, the pandemic and garbage

61

How to keep all your old friends together: advice from Broken Social Scene

62

New Music: Wintersleep

63

What does Canada actually sound like?

64

New Music: Bye Parula

65

Don’t we all need a ‘stupid’ comedy right now?

66

Why everyone should hear Minnie Riperton’s music

67

Can music destroy the idea of time?

68

New Music: Joel Plaskett

69

How Katherine LaNasa turned a hard year into an Emmy win

70

RAAHiiM left church behind, but he’s still moved by the spirit

71

Andrea Martin on SCTV, Broadway and embracing your inner clown

72

Punk rock was his training ground for a life in politics

73

The surprising connection between Parks and Rec and Widow’s Bay

74

Jennifer Lawrence on Die My Love and how Mother! destroyed her

75

Prison didn’t up his rap game. Having a daughter did

76

Vittorio Angelone doesn’t want anyone to enjoy his stand-up show

77

Kane Parsons on being the youngest director in A24 history

78

Is Waiting for Godot the greatest creative achievement ever?

79

New Music: Daniela Andrade

80

Colm Tóibín on why writers imagine evil

81

He felt like he didn’t belong on screen. Now, he’s hosting Canada’s Oscars

82

Julie Kim couldn't express herself. And then she found comedy

83

How this choreographer is making ballet for everyone

84

Howie Mandel says fame is bulls--t

85

New Music: Laura Roy

86

Robby Hoffman’s unconventional path to comedy

87

Sheng Wang on the art of being present and writing a good joke

88

Boots Riley wants his art to inspire mass movements

89

Devin Cuddy on name-dropping Canadian cities in his music

90

Stratford Festival’s Antoni Cimolino loves Shakespeare “more than ever”

91

What Grey’s Anatomy taught Louisa Levy about showrunning sexy hockey romances

92

How learning the tabla awakened Jasmeet Raina’s creativity

93

Arizona O’Neill on drawing organs and making peace with her past

94

What Bruce Allen learned from managing the biggest names in Canadian music history

95

Chloe Tang went from working security at a music venue to playing it with Dua Lipa

96

King of Soca Machel Montano on the history of Carnival around the world

97

How this self-taught musician turned her passion into billions of views

98

Why you should take children’s books seriously

99

How to turn toxic masculinity — and Elon Musk’s satellites — into poetry

100

How Kathy Reichs changed the face of crime fiction

101

Mental health comes first for this music manager

102

How the dance floor got Arlo Parks out of her head

103

Looking for a sign to chase your dreams? Aysanabee is it

104

Directing made this actor writhe in a chair — from excitement

105

Burnt out, this country star found inspiration at an airport

106

Josh Groban’s dad gave up music. Now, they’re recording together

107

Dumb Crush have Had It with hustle culture

108

Why Arkells still want to play small venues — like a strip club

109

This filmmaker will teach you how to swallow a sword

110

Ziggy Marley is making music to please the angels on Brightside

111

This artist turns the thankless work of motherhood into vibrant art

112

Riz Ahmed says the only way through shame is laughter

113

Jeremy Dutcher worked with improvisers to score this thriller

114

Firefighter, naval officer, musician: the many lives of Kashus Culpepper

115

Why starring on The Pitt has made this Canadian actor more neurotic

116

Introducing: The Big Five with Tom Power and Donovan Woods

117

Kacey Musgraves shares her secret weapon for songwriting

118

Cat Clyde is done with apologizing for being a woman

119

This Montreal DJ’s weirdest gig? A Russian mob island castle

120

Banned in Iran, one singer found her voice in Canada

121

Why people want Peter Capaldi to tell them to “f–k off”

122

This artist takes “listen to your heart” to a whole new level

123

“Modern Whore” is Playboy if it was run by the Bunnies

124

Thrifting and old-school hip-hop inspired Cadence Weapon’s latest album

125

Beef creator Lee Sung Jin on the argument that inspired Season 2

126

This choreographer wants to dismantle the myth of the “responsible genius”

127

“It was like magic”: Ringo Starr on his psychic connection with his fellow Beatles

128

This filmmaker gets how hard it is to make a movie about mental health

129

Why Jean Yoon is playing a pre-teen character in her 60s

130

Why *did* American Pie drive the Chevy to the levee?

131

Chase Infiniti studied cults to prepare for The Testaments

132

Why are there so many Marys in the Bible?

133

How Dorothy Grant became a matriarch of Indigenous fashion

134

Edwin Raphael wrote his new album in his sleep

135

Why Montreal is the (unrequited) love of Chandler Levack’s life

136

This song will make you want to call your mom

137

Why this artist believes Indigenous stories are Canada’s DNA

138

Scrubs has a “no a–hole” policy to thank for its success

139

Maren Morris’s Dreamsicle is more than just a divorce album

140

These choreographers are making the invisible visible through dance

141

Piano virtuoso Lang Lang on the teacher who didn’t believe in him

142

Folk trio The Pairs don’t write songs with perfect endings

143

Superstar producer Greg Wells on his hitmaking career

144

The Dears almost quit the band several times

145

Mark Critch wants Trump to know he isn’t sorry

146

Jacob Collier moves toward restraint and limitation on his new record

147

Tenille Townes returns to her own intuition on her new song Enabling

148

Dan Levy almost left Hollywood to open a hotel in Italy

149

Nina Lee Aquino on "getting her teeth kicked in" for theatre

150

Q Live at the Junos: Part 2

151

Robert Bateman is one of Canada’s most misunderstood artists

152

How Magi Merlin created her own kind of “broken R&B”

153

Paul Anka on My Way, giving the Beatles advice and his love of Canada

154

Chantal Kreviazuk is reclaiming her most famous hits for other artists

155

Amanda Peet asks the hard questions about facelifts, validation and death

156

How Adam Sturgeon went from being a pro hockey player to a rock musician

157

Shamier Anderson says he was born to play Ben Johnson

158

Charlotte Cornfield cried when she heard Feist's vocals on her song

159

Why electronic band Holy F believes you can make music out of anything

160

Playwright Marlene Ginader wants to diversify serial killing

161

How leaving finance for acting changed Sterling K. Brown’s life

162

Q Live at the Junos

163

Is there anything Mae Martin can’t do?

164

A.C. Newman reflects on endings after a sobering year for The New Pornographers

165

Melissa Auf der Maur on Hole’s chaos — and its genius

166

This dad turned his toddler’s stories into viral hits

167

How Good Kid built a band with the internet — and what AI means for music

168

Tomson Highway and Patricia Cano on their decades-long creative partnership

169

Tedy is unapologetic about money and ambition

170

Forget kindred spirits — Project Hail Mary’s Lord and Miller are kindred weirdos

171

At the height of pop stardom, Tate McRae is learning how to stay present

172

Morgan Neville tells Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles story

173

You know J.S. Bach — but what about his cousin Johann Ludwig Bach?

174

Sindhu Vee on grief, reinvention and comedy

175

It’s a movie about killing your father — but that’s not what will haunt you

176

How a fatal skin disease is fueling Eddie Vedder’s fight

177

How Jeff Norton created Netflix’s latest teen drama about figure skating

178

Hanumankind brings a global influence to his rap music

179

Ian Tuason haunted his own home when making his new film

180

Lia Pappas-Kemps on why songwriting is like fortune telling

181

Dominique Fils-Aimé isn’t finding peace, she’s building it

182

Why Iggy Pop commemorated Canadian electronic music pioneer Nash the Slash in a song

183

Ronnie Burkett gives Shakespeare the puppet treatment

184

Kate Hudson: Aging and self-image, Almost Famous & her foray into music

185

St. Catharines’s own Ira Parker created A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

186

Stephen Colella and Karen Gilodo on the enduring magic of Robert Munsch

187

‘Feeling tears roll down my face’: The dance floor experience that changed Harry Styles

188

Never mind method acting. Baz Luhrmann is a “method director”

189

Director Emma Higgins reimagines teen girl fandom as a horror film

190

Ashton James reimagines a cult classic with his performance in Youngblood

191

Oscar-nominated animator Chris Lavis on the magic of stop-motion

192

Merkules is on tour with Snoop Dogg and doing songs with Shaquille O'Neal

193

How a Yale professor ended up in two of the year’s biggest movies

194

Ian Thornley didn’t see himself as a frontman, but his bandmates did

195

How a midlife crisis led Julia Dault to embrace the hyper-local

196

Hilary Duff is reclaiming her past as Lizzie McGuire

197

Jully Black is touring Canada’s most beloved intimate venues

198

Gorillaz on how loss and a trip to India inspired their new album

199

Montreal hip-hop group Muzion on bringing Haiti to the world

200

At 85, Candi Staton is living her best life

201

bbno$ on his journey from internet success to mainstream hitmaker

202

Reggae legend Leroy Sibbles is a “have been, not a has been”

203

Jesse Mockrin is reframing the lost stories of women in historical art

204

Director Oliver Laxe says Sirāt was written on the dance floor

205

Two weeks before thyroid surgery, Koladae wrote “a song to survive”

206

Suzy Eddie Izzard is bringing honour to the women of Hamlet

207

From stage fright to stage presence, Zochi is evolving

208

Peaches honed her punk chops singing for kids

209

Scott Turner Schofield is “Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps”

210

Comedy icon Dave Foley is a hockey fanatic

211

Make art and suffer better with Boy Golden

212

Kris Bowers says connecting to childlike wonder leads to your best work

213

Laila Biali on her unexpected Grammy journey

214

For comedian Laura Ramoso, impressions are a form of love

215

Natasha Mumba wants to change theatre’s “single narrative” about Africa

216

Natalie MacMaster on family, love and Cape Breton fiddle music

217

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Q Interview

218

Joan Chen is embracing her second act

219

Before stand-up, Wally Baram wanted to be a cowgirl

220

Aquakultre’s 1783 album celebrates Black history in Nova Scotia

221

Teagan Johnston turned her imposter syndrome into art

222

How Katherine LaNasa turned a hard year into an Emmy win

223

RAAHiiM left church behind, but he’s still moved by the spirit

224

Akinola Davies Jr. turned a childhood memory into an acclaimed film

225

The wild story behind Canada’s cult classic Project Grizzly

226

Why Tantoo Cardinal wanted to play an ostracized “witch"

227

How a trip to Guinea changed Elladj Baldé’s outlook on figure skating

228

Tanya Tagaq’s new stage show is a conversation with the future

229

Why Marina Zenovich went toe-to-toe with Chevy Chase

230

Bruce Liu thinks piano is still just a hobby

231

Remembering David Ruben Piqtoukun

232

Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland are on a lifelong creative adventure

233

Remembering Catherine O'Hara

234

Why Bruce McCulloch thinks you should embrace dark humour

235

Softcult ask their audience to join them on a journey of empowerment

236

James Acaster almost quit comedy because of his audience

237

Tania Willard wants to take you beyond the art gallery

238

Rachel Reid promises she’s reading your Heated Rivalry emails

239

Despite an Oscar nod, Hubert Davis still feels like an emerging filmmaker

240

Canada's first lady of musical theatre is still a child at heart

241

Jafar Panahi was inspired by Tehran’s political prisoners

242

Elle Fanning calls herself a "nepo sibling”

243

The unmasking of the once-anonymous Ghost

244

The Testament of Ann Lee is redefining the musical

245

Wesli’s music pays homage to his Haitian roots

246

Jennette McCurdy on female rage and forgiving your past self

247

How do roadside attractions shape our cultural narrative?

248

Jodie Foster feels like a different actor performing in French

249

Katie Tupper steps off the track on her debut album Greyhound

250

For George Takei, coming out has been a lifelong process

251

Spencer Badu is taking homegrown fashion global

252

Nat & Alex Wolff helped each other get through childhood fame

253

Why don’t we know more about this Canadian violin prodigy?

254

Sally Wainwright on her new menopausal punk TV drama

255

SNFU is Edmonton’s punk rock success story

256

Once a DJ, Stan Douglas uses art to remix history

257

Endless Cookie is a psychedelic family portrait of two half-brothers

258

It took María Zardoya 10 years to become an overnight success

259

Lee Byung-hun on fate and his accidental acting career

260

Rose Byrne is always looking for a joke

261

Jessie Reyez got everything she ever wanted — but it came with a cost

262

Jane Siberry did pay-what-you-want music before Radiohead

263

Zacharias Kunuk’s films will be studied 100 years from now

264

Why Bells Larsen decided to sing duets with his past self

265

She wrote Eat, Pray, Love. But Elizabeth Gilbert had more healing to do

266

How Phil Hanley’s severe dyslexia fuels his comedy

267

Anoushka Shankar wants you to hear the sitar differently

268

The highs and lows of the Guess Who

269

Mark Ronson looks back at his rise in the ’90s DJ scene

270

Phil Rosenthal is the luckiest person in the world

271

Atsuko Okatsuka was technically kidnapped by her grandma

272

Sandra Oh wants to know what you’d sacrifice to save the planet

273

The pressure of being a Palestinian American comedian

274

Why Anne Murray said no to Hollywood

275

Yanic Truesdale was told he spoke too quickly after Gilmore Girls

276

For Deepa Mehta, the whole point of filmmaking is to “start a dialogue”

277

Josh Safdie on Marty Supreme and the loneliness of chasing success

278

Sacha on her Grand Ole Opry debut

279

Vince Gilligan is over anti-heroes

280

Sterlin Harjo was roasted for being a genius

281

James Cameron says AI will never replace actors and artists in his films

282

David Soren is ready to draw his “invisible” disease

283

Will Arnett always intended to be a dramatic actor

284

Before music, Alan Doyle was a tour guide in Newfoundland

285

Wagner Moura wants to cure Brazil’s political “amnesia”

286

Rachel Cousins is letting go of pop perfection

287

Paul Anka on My Way, giving the Beatles advice & his love of Canada

288

Nicole Ariana’s latest song is “a warm hug” to her past self

289

Time hasn’t passed for the voice of SpongeBob

290

Hildur Guðnadóttir is trying to slow down time with her new album

291

For Leon Thomas, making R&B music is a responsibility

292

How faith inspired Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out mystery

293

Silvana Estrada on the difficult road to making her 2nd album

294

Yungblud is looking for “depth not dopamine”

295

If you had one day to pack up your life, what would you bring?

296

bill bissett: The Canadian story of one of Jack Kerouac’s favourite poets

297

Choclair says Canada “second-rated” itself in rap

298

Noah Reid believes in the magic of a big ol’ Christmas sing-along

299

Maggie O’Farrell on the tragedy of Hamnet

300

Rogers v. Rogers is like the Canadian version of Succession

301

The Dears almost quit the band several times

302

Mark Critch wants Trump to know he isn’t sorry

303

Dav Pilkey came up with Captain Underpants in the 2nd grade

304

Cœur de pirate’s most toxic relationship is with anxiety

305

Easy Rawlins exists to testify about Black history in America

306

How the 1992 cod moratorium led to the rise of Newfoundland music

307

Why we still need classical music

308

Heather Ogden on dancing the Sugar Plum Fairy

309

How getting sober led Jenn Harper to launch a groundbreaking beauty brand

310

Rheostatics are wearing their Canadianness proudly

311

Chantal Kreviazuk is reclaiming her most famous hits for other artists

312

The joy of gay, smutty TV

313

Meadowlarks is a family drama about the ’60s Scoop

314

Why Nia DaCosta wants to see Black women behaving badly on-screen

315

The Barr Brothers had to get honest with themselves

316

Joe Hill’s new novel is in conversation with dad Stephen King’s work

317

Remembering Jimmy Cliff

318

Gerry Dee’s dad was obsessed with serial killers

319

Meredith Moon found her voice busking

320

William Prince on Neil Young, the Opry and all things Winnipeg

321

Tom Allen’s new book is an almanac for classical music lovers

322

How Nattie Neidhart revolutionized women’s wrestling

323

Yukon Blonde on the grounding power of being in a band

324

Elizabeth McGovern sheds light on the real Ava Gardner

325

Q Live! Part Two

326

Robert Plant isn’t precious about the past

327

Julianna Riolino is leaning into her confidence as an artist

328

How Kathy Reichs changed the face of crime fiction

329

Living Hour captures what yearning sounds like

330

Q Live! Part One

331

Elle Fanning calls herself a "nepo sibling”

332

Amaarae’s new album is dedicated to kids who don’t fit in

333

Before acting, Sydney Sweeney considered becoming a professional boxer

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Comedian Benny Feldman is his own heckler

335

How a 2-second clip led to Stephan James's biggest role

336

Brendan McLeod honours the soldiers who fought at Vimy Ridge

337

Alex Cuba’s newest album is a thank you to his ancestors

338

James Barker Band revisits their hometown in new album One Of Us

339

Robert Bateman is one of Canada’s most misunderstood artists

340

The Hello Crows on reconnecting with their Indigenous heritage through music

341

Jennifer Lawrence on Die My Love and how Mother! destroyed her

342

This play looks at how Columbine and 9/11 haunted a generation

343

Bahamas isn’t sure if this is his 2nd last album — but he’s not ruling it out

344

Audrey-Anne Bouchard creates theatre performances you’re not supposed to see

345

Rochelle Jordan is rewriting her story and reclaiming her power

346

Lee Lai finds her voice in Cannon

347

Elijah Woods says don’t be afraid to be cringey on the internet

348

Begonia is the same flamboyant performer onstage and off

349

There’s nothing spooky about Shad’s new album

350

Harris Dickinson on his directorial debut and playing John Lennon

351

Maren Morris’s Dreamsicle is more than just a divorce album

352

These choreographers are making the invisible visible through dance

353

Colin Farrell plays a desperate gambler in his new movie

354

How three Toronto filmmakers made the scariest movie of 2025

355

Judd Apatow takes comedy seriously

356

Why Renée Fleming had her brain scanned while she imagined singing

357

50 years of Rocky Horror with Patricia Quinn

358

Christian McBride almost reunited The Police

359

Skye Sweetnam’s journey from teen pop star to hard rock frontwoman

360

Steve Martin and Alison Brown on their love of the banjo

361

Superstar producer Greg Wells on his hitmaking career

362

Jafar Panahi was inspired by Tehran’s political prisoners

363

Tanveer Alam on what Kathak and ballet have in common

364

Piano virtuoso Lang Lang on the teacher who didn’t believe in him

365

Folk trio The Pairs don’t write songs with perfect endings

366

Ryan Reynolds on John Candy’s impact and legacy

367

After winning the Polaris Prize, Debby Friday bet on herself

368

Jeff Wall says beauty isn’t what you think it is

369

What’s poetry’s role in the housing crisis?

370

Rose Byrne is always looking for a joke

371

Classical superstar Ludovico Einaudi on The Summer Portraits

372

Remembering D'Angelo

373

Nicholas Sparks teams up with M. Night Shyamalan

374

Leith Ross on grief, community and showing up even when it’s hard

375

Blue Rodeo look back on 30 years of Five Days in July

376

Natalie MacMaster on family, love and Cape Breton fiddle music

377

Dropkick Murphys stand up for themselves — even if they lose fans

378

Wolf Alice realized they were dreaming too small

379

katherena vermette on being a descendant and a future ancestor

380

Geddy Lee recalls the Rush show he'll never forget

381

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane sings like Sinatra

382

How a banned sex scene led Robert Lantos to build a Canadian film empire

383

Why PIQSIQ wrote a song about Mahaha, the Inuit tickling demon

384

Alex Edelman says good comedy shouldn’t be funny all the time

385

How To Sing For Money? Ask Maggie Andrew

386

Don’t ask Cillian Murphy what his movies are about

387

Alyson Stoner on the cost of child stardom

388

Benny Safdie tells the inspiring story of a loser

389

Gustavo Gimeno on Igor Stravinsky’s 1967 Toronto curtain call

390

For Tantoo Cardinal, there’s no turning back

391

He used to steal his mom’s copies of Vogue — now he works there

392

How losing his voice made Patrick Watson a better singer

393

Why Sebastian Gaskin started embracing his Indigeneity in his music

394

Scarlett Johansson was “humbled” directing Holocaust survivors

395

“Having the space to fumble" shaped Hanorah’s music

396

Sterlin Harjo was roasted for being a genius

397

Amy Millan had to break up with her guitar

398

Brett Goldstein is obsessed with love stories

399

Akinola Davies Jr. turned a childhood memory into an acclaimed film

400

Rachel Bobbitt’s debut album is an emotional homecoming

401

Mark Ronson looks back at his rise in the ’90s DJ scene

402

Toni Collette acted her way into appendix surgery as a kid

403

How Joan Shelley found inspiration in Toronto’s frigid winter

404

Zosia Mamet was in a Nyquil-induced haze when she auditioned for Girls

405

This musical is a digital detox for our brains

406

Sarah McLachlan on the legacy of Lilith Fair (Live)

407

Why Blair Underwood leads with his humanity

408

Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira on becoming an indie cinema darling

409

How Tim Key got Carey Mulligan in The Ballad of Wallis Island

410

Bob Odenkirk says embarrassment is sometimes a good thing

411

Basia Bulat found inspiration in video games and Polish disco music

412

Why adapting Stephen King’s bleak novel The Long Walk was so hard

413

Playwright Makram Ayache is telling the queer stories he never had

414

Susan Aglukark was “truly afraid” to open wounds with her music

415

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Q Interview

416

Jen Sookfong Lee explores the body horror of motherhood

417

Sister Ray trades rejection for joy on their new album Believer

418

Why Anne Murray said no to Hollywood

419

Catherine Hernandez wants you to ask for help

420

Théodore Pellerin on playing a fame-obsessed lurker

421

Billy Idol should be dead — thankfully he's still alive to tell you his story

422

Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes on being an outsider

423

How Kathleen Edwards learned to tell hard truths

424

Caity Gyorgy breaks down her approach to scatting

425

What made Graham Greene an icon? Talent, discipline and luck

426

Why Stellan Skarsgård doesn’t give his kids acting advice

427

Gabrielle Drolet is finding new ways to create with chronic hand pain

428

The Beaches are embracing their messier side

429

At the height of her career, Melanie Fiona lost her voice

430

Alana Bridgewater on playing jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald

431

The creator of BoJack Horseman is back with a new series

432

Some might call artist Shirley Moorhouse a late bloomer

433

Ikky wants Canadians to open their minds to Punjabi music

434

How music helped Billianne find herself after being a teenage wallflower

435

Jon Batiste proves he’s the “king of cold calls”

436

Patrick Tarr’s debut novel puts a supernatural spin on WWII history

437

John Fogerty reveals the origin of CCR’s Fortunate Son

438

How Crystal Shawanda found her peace through song

439

Comedian Andrew Barr is literally running on the treadmill of addiction

440

How theatre helps us feel less alone in our personal muck

441

Why Seán Devlin made a comedy with Typhoon Haiyan survivors

442

Haviah Mighty is feeling lucky

443

Sarah Harmer uses her voice for something bigger than music

444

Rick Astley doesn’t have an attitude about Rickrolling — anymore

445

Ribbon Skirt found inspiration in renewing her antiquated “Indian” status card

446

Maggie Kang didn't know a movie could be as popular as KPop Demon Hunters

447

Tiny Horse didn’t mean to become a band

448

TOBi knows you have to be vulnerable to tap into your strength

449

Bob Dylan couldn’t have written Ada Lea’s new single

450

Fortune Feimster uses standup as therapy

451

How 5 solo artists came together to create the self-produced girl group NADUH

452

How Mustafa kept his faith through devastating loss

453

Washington Black explores joy as a form of resistance

454

LU KALA is the next big Canadian pop star

455

The high stakes of reimagining Anne of Green Gables

456

Kristin Scott Thomas made a movie inspired by memories of her dads

457

d'bi.young anitafrika on 20 years of The Sankofa Trilogy

458

Why Dana Sipos wrote a love song to her friends

459

Honey Jam founder Ebonnie Rowe walks it like she talks it

460

Anjulie’s pop star dream had to die so she could start again

461

How BAMBII went from DJing to producing her own music

462

Devon Healey wants to leave you with “a little speck of blindness”

463

Severance stars Tramell Tillman and Zach Cherry

464

How a chance encounter at a truck stop got AHI into songwriting

465

After winning the Polaris Prize, Debby Friday bet on herself

466

Shook is sort of like a Toronto version of Good Will Hunting

467

Abraham Anghik Ruben preserves his life and culture through sculpture

468

How an edible changed Charlie Houston’s life and career

469

Prabal Gurung explains why Kamala Harris’s pockets matter

470

Cate Blanchett forgot the sound of her real voice

471

Heather and Arizona O'Neill find a bit of magic on the Montreal Metro

472

How Brian Tyree Henry overcame his imposter syndrome

473

The pressure of being a Palestinian American comedian

474

Angélique Kidjo’s life and work is defined by one thing: freedom

475

Thriller writer Ruth Ware has never done a sequel — until now

476

Robby Hoffman’s unconventional path to comedy

477

Yves Jarvis gave himself a concussion making music

478

Remembering Ozzy Osbourne

479

Joseph Kahn on Ick, music videos and the magic of '80s horror flicks

480

Blake Shelton fell back in love with music, all thanks to Post Malone

481

Saya Gray on her debut album and gigging as a teen with a fake ID

482

Why Rhys Darby thinks robots can’t do stand-up comedy

483

Jessica B. Hill’s childhood dream came true

484

Zarna Garg treats comedy as a business, not an art form

485

Why Josh Homme wanted to perform inside the Paris Catacombs

486

Little Simz split with her producer. Now she’s unstoppable

487

How Stratford’s Richard Manuel became a rock and roll legend

488

Nathan Fillion was a shy comic book kid. Now he stars in Superman

489

Why PIQSIQ wrote a song about Mahaha, the Inuit tickling demon

490

Simple Plan was both loved and hated for being pop-punk

491

How Tarralik Duffy uses pop art to show her memories of Nunavut

492

Steph Tolev wants to make farting less shameful for women

493

The forgotten history of classical music among the Labrador Inuit

494

How Emma Donoghue’s new musical stands up for immigrants then and now

495

The dark side of writing a life-changing hit

496

Finn Wolfhard's childhood 10-year plan worked out

497

Jason Mantzoukas wants to be the ugly American villain

498

Evan Redsky is exploring the cosmos

499

Atsuko Okatsuka was technically kidnapped by her grandma

500

This play is an adaptation of the longest poem ever written

501

How The Young and the Restless led to more Black women becoming doctors

502

The Bear's Liza Colón-Zayas on the “cult” that tried to brainwash her

503

For George Takei, coming out has been a lifelong process

504

Phil Rosenthal is the luckiest person in the world

505

This post-apocalyptic thriller is a love letter to the director’s mom

506

Why Stephan James is “at risk of being great”

507

How Jully Black uses her singing “superpower” to advocate for others

508

Don’t call Jan Lisiecki a child prodigy

509

How Sorry, Baby takes a nuanced look at sexual assault

510

Stephen Graham Jones is reinventing the vampire

511

Weekend Listen: Ocean Vuong finds beauty in a fast food shift

512

Jerry Bruckheimer knows how to build a summer blockbuster

513

U.S. Girls' Meg Remy is finally rooting for herself

514

Anar Ali quit her corporate job and created a hit cop drama

515

Tanika Charles confronts her complicated family relationships

516

How to Train Your Dragon author Cressida Cowell

517

How Refused’s New Noise became a global hit after the band broke up

518

Misty Copeland honours trailblazing Black ballet dancer Raven Wilkinson

519

Ribbon Skirt found inspiration in renewing her antiquated “Indian” status card

520

Why the director of Materialists quit her past job as a matchmaker

521

Lido Pimienta and Owen Pallett march to their own beat

522

For Tantoo Cardinal, there’s no turning back

523

This driving school sitcom is a celebration of Black culture in Nova Scotia

524

Domee Shi on Elio, aliens and one-dimensional moms

525

Playwright Tim Crouch doesn’t want his actors to hear this podcast

526

Joshua Jackson had to make a tricky transition before Dawson’s Creek

527

Endless Cookie is a psychedelic family portrait of two half-brothers

528

Owen Wilson’s childhood was a real-life buddy comedy

529

Comedian Malik Elassal on why it's important to make fun of everything

530

Adam Duritz wrote a song about wanting to be famous — and it came true

531

What made Graham Greene an icon? Talent, discipline and luck

532

How Boxcutter celebrates Toronto, hip-hop and young artists

533

What if Macbeth was set in the world of biker gangs?

534

Why Robert Adam won’t be singing their queer country music in the U.S.

535

Alessia Cara is an introvert in an extrovert’s industry

536

What made Oscar Peterson so exceptional

537

Teddy Swims was terrified to shift away from covers

538

Alicia Moffet's pop career had a few false starts

539

Hannah Moscovitch is trying to unredact her life

540

How writing about love is similar to writing about murder

541

Cynthia Erivo says her new album makes her feel “totally naked”

542

Katie Tupper says that songwriting helped her settle into her identity

543

“It becomes more personal as you go along” — Wes Anderson on creating films about family

544

Christopher Stowell on the future of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

545

Suddenly struck by pain, Gabrielle Drolet learned to write and draw again

546

Savannah Ré bet on herself, and it led to a creative breakthrough

547

Rebellious and reflective, Billy Idol looks back on a life in music

548

Dawn Macdonald on the mess and beauty of growing up in the Canadian North

549

Losing her voice taught Melanie Fiona to speak up for herself

550

The wrestling saga at the heart of The Halluci Nation’s new EP

551

Wiz Khalifa found peace in not needing praise

552

Sofi Tukker: The electro-pop duo on their Brazilian influences & new album Bread

553

Quick Q: Jonah Yano on his 30-minute improvised experimental noise music piece

554

Lara St. John: Exposing sexual abuse in classical music with a new doc

555

Garfunkel & Garfunkel: Their father-son album & reconciliation with Paul Simon

556

Quick Q: Ombiigizi explore the feeling of shame on their sophomore album

557

Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood, her DIY punk roots and foray into Americana

558

Haley McGee: How hospices, mystics and trips to the cemetery inspired her work

559

Bill T. Jones: His incredible life in dance and groundbreaking work with Keith Haring

560

Phil Wizard: Overcoming self-doubt to win gold at the Olympics

561

Francis Ford Coppola: Megalopolis and becoming Michael Corleone

562

Arooj Aftab: Pioneering Pakistan’s DIY music movement

563

Nava Mau: Baby Reindeer, her Emmy nod & her work with LGBTQ+ survivors

564

Sean Wang: How his film Dìdi puts a spin on the classic coming-of-age story

565

Victor Garber: Why there’s still one thing left on his acting bucket list

566

Maisy Stella: My Old Ass and giving advice to your younger self

567

Jovanni Sy: Revisiting Arthur Miller’s Chinese staging of Death of a Salesman

568

Paula Abdul: Music video history, Janet Jackson & American Idol

569

Cillian Murphy: Small Things Like These and his life post-Oscar win

570

Hangama Amiri: Using textiles to stitch together her memories of home

571

k-os: The 20th anniversary of his iconic album Joyful Rebellion

572

Brenda Lee: The story behind her smash hit Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

573

Tim Burton: Making Beetlejuice’s long-awaited sequel

574

k.d. lang: How she broke the mold of country music

575

Omar Apollo: God Said No, his acting debut and hot sauce

576

Quick Q: Mattea Roach on Jeopardy! and their new show Bookends

577

Robert Eggers: Why bringing Nosferatu back to the screen has been his life’s dream

578

Lauren Collins: From Degrassi to her new series My Dead Mom

579

Heather Ogden: Dancing The Nutcracker’s Sugar Plum Fairy

580

Suki Waterhouse: Making the pivot from actor to musician

581

Lin-Manuel Miranda: How a talk with George Lucas changed his perspective on success

582

Quick Q: The Sheepdogs on their 20 years as a band

583

Cher: The difficult reality behind the scenes of The Sonny & Cher Show

584

Remembering percussionist Zakir Hussain

585

Michael Healey: His stage satire about the failure to build a smart city in Toronto

586

D.D. Jackson and George Elliott Clarke: Can any poem be turned into music?

587

Gwen Stefani: No Doubt’s early days and her new album Bouquet

588

The OBGMs: How therapy shaped their new record

589

Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Why they believe in a Red Future

590

Jane Schoenbrun: I Saw the TV Glow and their ‘90s TV obsessions

591

Dennis Lyxzén: When your song becomes a big hit after the band breaks up

592

Remembering poet Nikki Giovanni

593

Elif Shafak: What being prosecuted for her novels taught her about freedom of expression

594

Clairmont the Second: How his album full of fear, loss, and paranoia ends in triumph

595

Valdy: The Canadian folk music legend reflects on his 50-year career

596

Patrick Nichols: What it’s like to photograph the Toronto hip-hop scene

597

Margo Martindale: How she turns sweet characters into "sticky" ones

598

Michael Ross Albert: Why the nightmare of buying a home inspired his new play

599

Alan Cumming: What connects him to a New Brunswick ad man

600

Julian Taylor: Why he needed to go inward to write his new album

601

Taylor Tomlinson: Her early days on the Christian comedy circuit

602

Ryan Ofei: Why some people think Christian music isn’t marketable

603

Fortune Feimster: Joyful comedy and how Chelsea Handler gave her her first big break

604

Quick Q: Klô Pelgag on motherhood, creativity & francophone music in Canada

605

John Adams: Classical music’s role in telling contemporary stories

606

Allan Louis: What it means to be the first Black actor to lead My Fair Lady

607

Shelley Niro: Why it’s time for new images of Indigenous womanhood

608

Quick Q: Jeremie Albino on working with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys

609

Anna Sui: Why we're so nostalgic for the authenticity of the ‘90s

610

Quick Q: Dorothea Paas on her new album Think of Mist

611

Oliver Jeffers: How the stories we tell ourselves shape our lives

612

Benjamin Von Wong: Why art is a key player in the survival of our planet

613

Paris Hilton: Fame, mental health & the abuse she endured as a teen

614

Tokyo Police Club: Why the band is saying goodbye

615

Henry Winkler: How being diagnosed with dyslexia liberated him

616

Payal Kapadia: Her big win at Cannes for All We Imagine as Light

617

Malcolm Washington: The weight of legacy & carving your own path

618

Sameer Farooq: Why flatbread belongs in a museum

619

Barry Sonnenfeld: The best gossip from his decades in Hollywood

620

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: Mixing Haida art with Japanese manga

621

Q Introduces | Personally: Short Sighted

622

Leon Bridges: Returning to his Texas roots on his new album

623

Graham Isador: Why he made a podcast to explain what vision loss feels like

624

Maggie Rogers: Songwriting, Divinity School & conquering her inner critic

625

Eve Hewson: Bad Sisters and the boom of Irish art

626

Samuel D. Hunter: Fatherhood, male friendship & hope for the future

627

Fat Mike: The end of NOFX

628

Quick Q: Logan Staats on meeting Taj Mahal, creative freedom & his song Deadman

629

Anna Marie Tendler: Why she left John Mulaney out of her new memoir

630

Wolf Castle: On the wake-up call that led to his new album

631

Cillian Murphy: Small Things Like These and his life post-Oscar win

632

Quick Q: Jennifer Castle shares how her song got featured on The Bear

633

Steve McQueen: His new film Blitz & how it tells a different kind of war story

634

Naomi Snieckus & Matt Baram: Their new show about memories, grief & “big stuff”

635

Marcel Dzama: Ghosts of Canoe Lake & his newfound love for Tom Thomson

636

Ian Williams: Courageous conversations, cancel culture & taking risks

637

Sean Baker: How a Canadian sex worker’s memoir helped shape Anora

638

Laila Biali: Wintersongs & the car crash that dashed her dream at 15

639

Sindhu Vee: Her move from investment banking to stand-up comedy

640

Saul Rubinek: How Playing Shylock critiques cancel culture in the arts

641

Jason Reynolds: On writing a tender love story from a teen boy’s POV

642

Andrea Bocelli: On his 30 years in music & the singers he admires most

643

JoJo: The trauma of child stardom & how she lost control of her career

644

k-os: The 20th anniversary of his iconic album Joyful Rebellion

645

Tia Wood: Finding her own sound in her musical family

646

Lindsay Ell: Authentic songwriting, fusing genres & playing guitar for Shania

647

Tegan and Sara: On the catfishing scheme that’s haunted them for 15 years

648

Brendan McLeod: On honouring the soldiers who fought at Vimy Ridge

649

Jenny Slate: How her new book tackles motherhood and self-criticism

650

William Stanford Davis: His 40-year path to Abbott Elementary

651

Riley Keough: Finishing her mom Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir

652

Elle Mills: YouTube burnout, social media’s shelf life & her pivot to directing

653

Matty Matheson: His journey as a chef, from culinary school to The Bear

654

Isabella Rossellini: Conclave, Catholicism & the family business

655

Paul Gilligan: How his childhood fear of Jaws inspired his new graphic memoir

656

Keith Morrison: On his stepson Matthew Perry's life and legacy

657

Ali Abbasi: Why Trump has condemned his new film The Apprentice

658

Quick Q: Billianne on how one comment from Taylor Swift changed her life

659

Q Introduces | Céline: Understood

660

Kaniehtiio Horn: Channeling her rage into Seeds, her directorial debut

661

Maev Beaty: The veteran Canadian actor takes on My Name is Lucy Barton

662

Nada Surf: Matthew Caws on Nada Surf's unexpected and beautiful career

663

Stars: On 20 years of love and Set Yourself on Fire

664

Mikey Madison: Anora and her strikingly nuanced portrayal of sex work

665

Andy Jones: How his deeply personal one-man show helped him grieve his son

666

Florence Pugh: How making We Live in Time changed the way she lives her life

667

Jae and Trey Richards: Their new comedy series The Office Movers

668

Heather Graham: Chosen Family and her estranged relationship with her parents

669

The Reklaws: Honouring their late mom on their new EP

670

Cameron Crowe: His lost Tom Petty film

671

Quick Q: Reuben and the Bullhorn Singers on what happens after truth and reconciliation

672

Jelly Roll: From incarceration to country music stardom

673

Quick Q: Tafari Anthony on the heartbreak that inspired his debut album

674

Cate Blanchett: Rumours, Disclaimer & forgetting the sound of her real voice

675

Amanda Peters: Why she calls her new book her “training wheels”

676

Tobias Jesso Jr.: How Adele changed the course of his career

677

Phil Wizard: Overcoming self-doubt to win gold at the Olympics

678

Jason Reitman: How guest writing for SNL inspired Saturday Night

679

Larissa FastHorse: The Thanksgiving Play satirizes good intentions gone wrong

680

Law Roach: Meet the “image architect” behind Zendaya, Celine Dion & more

681

Janelle Niles: Why Canada needs more pointed political comedy

682

Victor Garber: Why there’s still one thing left on his acting bucket list

683

Quick Q: How Patrick Watson channeled Leonard Cohen without imitating his sound

684

Kelsey Grammer: Why Frasier is more than just his most famous role

685

Carrie-Anne Moss: The Matrix and her new movie about a zombie-like pandemic

686

Ezra Koenig: Vampire Weekend is all grown up

687

Quick Q: How meditation helped Dylan Sinclair make his debut album

688

Liza Colón-Zayas: Finding family and stability on The Bear

689

Leif Vollebekk: How he literally dreamt up his new album

690

Nuno Bettencourt: The secret to a great guitar solo

691

Nemahsis: Why her label dropped her & her music video in the West Bank

692

Dr. Shirley Cheechoo: Why overcoming the residential school legacy is the job of warriors

693

Francis Ford Coppola: Megalopolis and becoming Michael Corleone

694

Marek Tyler: How his family — past and present — became his musical collaborators

695

Liane Moriarty: What would you do if someone predicted your death?

696

Lucius: Why these two best friends re-recorded their breakout album

697

Steven Soderbergh: Making a haunted house thriller from the ghost’s POV

698

Chris Abraham: Why Rosmersholm — a political drama from 1886 — feels so timely

699

Elliot Page and Dominic Savage: Improvising a film about coming home

700

Maisy Stella: My Old Ass and giving advice to your younger self

701

Eve: Her new memoir, Ruff Ryders & hip-hop's double standard

702

Stephan Moccio: How isolating in the woods helped him make his best music yet

703

Omar Apollo: God Said No, his acting debut & hot sauce

704

Quick Q: Jim Bryson on getting The Tragically Hip to rehearse + his new music

705

Joseph Kahn: Ick, music videos & the magic of ’80s horror flicks

706

Mick Jackson: Threads at 40 — his realistic imagining of nuclear annihilation

707

Miranda Lambert: Postcards from Texas and why losing is sometimes for the best

708

Quick Q: T. Thomason is telling his truth and confronting transphobia through song

709

Kathryn Hahn: Her path from theatre kid to comedy best friend to Marvel star

710

Cody Lightning: From being a child actor in Smoke Signals to making a mockumentary about it

711

Kate Hudson: Aging and self-image, Almost Famous & her foray into music

712

Quick Q: New music from Softcult

713

Chloë Sevigny: Why she never let her It Girl status define her

714

Matthew Rankin: Universal Language combines classic Iranian cinema with Winnipeg

715

The Tragically Hip: A new doc gives an inside look at the band’s rise to fame

716

Quick Q: Caity Gyorgy breaks down her approach to scatting

717

Oliver Jones: A Canadian jazz legend turns 90

718

Quick Q: Enuka Okuma on her film Out Come the Wolves

719

Yann Martel: Life of Pi and the case for being a bit less reasonable

720

MJ Lenderman: Blending humour and sadness on his new album

721

Paula Abdul: Music video history, Janet Jackson & American Idol

722

k.d. lang: How she broke the mold of country music

723

Tim Burton: Making Beetlejuice’s long-awaited sequel

724

Catherine O'Hara: Moira Rose and Delia Deetz walk into a room…

725

Dame Evelyn Glennie: Why she wants to teach the world to listen

726

Amber-Sekowan Daniels: Telling a coming-of-age story through an Indigenous lens

727

RZA: Wu-Tang Clan and his debut classical album

728

Boman Martinez-Reid: Why he’s testing out every genre of reality TV

729

Ethan and Maya Hawke: Flannery O'Connor, ambition & the writer's controversial legacy

730

Valley: Making their most authentic album yet

731

Dan Levy: Living with self-doubt & breaking expectations after Schitt's Creek

732

Queen Priyanka: The queen is back with her debut album Devastatia

733

Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism, leaving bad relationships & music as a mantra

734

Nina Lee Aquino: Her haunting new play Snow in Midsummer

735

Matt Johnson: BlackBerry & the future of Canadian film

736

Lisa Loeb: Her new kids’ album & 30 years of Stay (I Missed You)

737

Karan Aujla: Overcoming tragedy to become a history-making global superstar

738

Mattea Roach: Jeopardy! and their new gig as the host of Bookends

739

Sheryl Crow: How AI is crushing the spirit of music

740

Quick Q: Bibi Club on their creative and romantic partnership

741

Tom Selleck: His “accidental” acting career, Magnum, P.I. & Friends

742

Jovanni Sy: Revisiting Arthur Miller’s Chinese staging of Death of a Salesman

743

Anna Marie Tendler: Her new memoir & leaving John Mulaney out of it

744

Luna Li: Her dreamy new album When A Thought Grows Wings

745

Josh Ramsay: Marianas Trench, the hero’s journey & Call Me Maybe

746

Kiesza: Her massive hit Hideaway & the traumatic brain injury that halted her career

747

MacKenzie Porter: The heartbreak of trying to make it in Nashville

748

Keysha Freshh: Her new album Pretty Boys Break My Heart

749

The Beaches: How everything needed to fall apart for everything to come together

750

Lucky Daye: Pushing the boundaries of R&B

751

Nava Mau: Baby Reindeer, her Emmy nod & her work with LGBTQ+ survivors

752

Sean Wang: How his new film Dìdi puts a spin on the classic coming-of-age story

753

Fat Mike: The end of NOFX

754

Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee: Jackie Shane’s fascinating story

755

Fede Álvarez: Behind the scenes of Alien: Romulus

756

Vinessa Antoine: Her new role on Plan B

757

Carley Fortune: Leaving journalism to become a romance novelist

758

Chris Stein: Blondie, his relationship with Debbie Harry & the ugly side of rock 'n' roll

759

Tommy Tiernan: Stand-up, Derry Girls & the price of authenticity

760

Quick Q: New music from Ruby Waters

761

Elin Hilderbrand: Why she’s retiring from writing summer beach reads

762

Quick Q: New music from Wild Rivers

763

Clarence Maclin: From 15 years in Sing Sing to starring in a movie about it

764

Kenzie Allen: Her complex relationship to figures like Pocahontas

765

Shakira: Going to hell and back for her new album

766

Alan Doyle: Welcome Home, Great Big Sea’s early days & 30 years in music

767

Anne Michaels: Her new novel Held & the unexpected reason she’s so private

768

Quick Q: Bye Parula shares the story behind Q's theme music

769

Orville Peck: Feeling like an outsider & finding his home in country music

770

Quick Q: Zehra Naqvi reads from her debut poetry collection

771

Jasmeet Raina: Overnight internet fame, his Sikh faith & his new show Late Bloomer

772

Quick Q: Hana Shafi on the power of everyday interactions with strangers

773

Josh Hartnett: Shedding the heartthrob label

774

Elijah Wood: Child stardom & his new movie Bookworm

775

Sarah McLachlan: Fame, stalkers & her biggest hits

776

Quick Q: Emily Austin on rewriting parts of the Bible through a queer lens

777

Keanu Reeves & China Miéville: Their new novel The Book of Elsewhere

778

Qasim Khan: Taking on the role of Hamlet

779

Karen Robinson: Her starring role on Law & Order Toronto

780

Marigold Santos & Rajni Perera: Their epic new exhibit in Montreal

781

Jelly Roll: From incarceration to country music stardom

782

Quick Q: Donovan Woods returns with his 7th studio album

783

Noah Kahan: Stick Season, authenticity, TikTok & lying to therapists

784

Quick Q: Randell Adjei on what artists and Olympians share in common

785

Chromeo: Adult Contemporary, growing up & staying funky in your 40s

786

Ian Harnarine: How Trinidadian doubles inspired his film about family legacy

787

Brittany Howard: Leaving Alabama Shakes, What Now & rehearsing in haunted houses

788

Naomi Jaye: Darkest Miriam & the inner life of a public librarian

789

Maya Rudolph: Loot, SNL, Bridesmaids & her cool parents

790

Will Butler: Stereophonic, writing ‘70s music & exploring thorny relationships in bands

791

G-Eazy: Freak Show, his struggle with fame & losing his mom

792

Allison Au: Migrations, her family history & what we mean by the idea of home

793

Liza Colón-Zayas: Finding family and stability on The Bear

794

Luke Gilford: Writing a queer cowboy love story without tragedy

795

Osgood Perkins: Longlegs, Nicolas Cage & making the scariest movie of the year

796

PJ Morton: Cape Town to Cairo & the life-changing trip to Africa that inspired it

797

Jim Cuddy: His new solo album, relationships & songwriting

798

Quick Q: John Carter Cash on his father Johnny Cash's new posthumous album

799

Stephen Graham Jones: X-raying the slasher genre

800

Gregory Oh: Celebrating mistakes with Lessons in Failure

801

Jennifer Esposito: How her film Fresh Kills brings a new perspective to the mafia genre

802

Quick Q: Shy Kids on their new single & winning the Prism Prize’s Hi-Fidelity Award

803

Trey Anastasio: Phish’s 40-year friendship, the key to improvisation & why we need live music

804

Jason Hopley & Jamie Shannon: Nanalan’s viral TikTok success

805

Wanda Koop: Her passion for painting, her new exhibit & how to engage with art at a gallery

806

Camila Cabello: Her new album and dealing with online comments

807

Nemahsis: Her debut album, why her label dropped her & shooting a music video in the West Bank

808

Darius Rucker: Hootie & the Blowfish and his latest country record

809

Waxahatchee: Her DIY punk roots, foray into Americana & new album Tigers Blood

810

Quick Q: Maggie Andrew on her debut EP Day Job

811

Tom Green: His comedy career, surviving cancer & coming back to Canada

812

Quick Q: How Fawn Parker’s poetry explores the complexity of grief

813

William Stanford Davis: His 40-year path to Abbott Elementary

814

Old Man Luedecke: His banjo-free album & lessons from scallop fishing

815

Green Day: Dookie, American Idiot, and why their album Saviors is the best they’ve ever recorded

816

Kapwani Kiwanga: Combining history and art at the Venice Biennale

817

June Squibb: On starring in her first leading film role at 94

818

Alexandra Stréliski: Fighting cynicism, burnout & hearing her music at the Oscars

819

Carol Burnett: Climbing the Hollywood sign, getting her first laugh & having fun at 90

820

Meghan Fandrich: Devastating wildfires, moving forward after tragedy & healing through poetry

821

Sam Smith: Gloria, self-love & why queer joy can feel radical

822

Quick Q: Jennifer Castle shares how her song got featured on Season 3 of The Bear

823

Karan Aujla: How he overcame tragedy to become a history-making global superstar

824

Jodie Comer: The Bikeriders, accent training, and her path to acting

825

Brendan Healy: The Inheritance, learning from the past, and how to stage an epic 7-hour play

826

Jamie Fine: Her new EP, starting fresh as a solo artist, and blowing up in South Africa

827

E.R. Fightmaster: Grey’s Anatomy fame and their new EP

828

Gracie Abrams: The Secret of Us, overcoming stage fright, and working with Taylor Swift

829

Quick Q: Dominique Fils-Aimé on releasing her first song in French

830

Dr. Shirley Cheechoo: Why overcoming the residential school legacy is the job of warriors

831

Remembering Donald Sutherland

832

Lily Gladstone: Life post-Killers of the Flower Moon & her new film Fancy Dance

833

Elisapie: How translating pop and rock hits into Inuktitut helped her heal

834

Paul Scheer: Joyful Recollections of Trauma, the cycle of abuse, and how improv saved his life

835

Quick Q: Weyni Mengesha on updating A Streetcar Named Desire for 2024

836

Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, perseverance, and the freedom of drag

837

Miles Greenberg: Working with flesh, Marina Abramović, and his physical journey in art

838

Dallas Smith: His switch from rock to country, his old band Default, and why he hasn’t moved to Nashville

839

Katori Hall: Telling Tina Turner’s story in The Tina Turner Musical

840

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Stretching into dramatic work, therapy with her mom, and her new film Tuesday

841

Walter Scott: Why he’s saying goodbye to Wendy, his most famous creation

842

Ally Pankiw: Comedy and tragedy, depression snacks, and her new film I Used to Be Funny

843

George McWhirter: The art of translation and his Griffin Poetry Prize win

844

Remembering Françoise Hardy

845

Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement, fatherhood, and his biggest jazz influences

846

Ahmed Moneka: His debut album, Afro Sufi music, and the death threat that forced him to seek asylum in Canada

847

deadmau5: His accidental EDM career, 25 years in music, and why he wears a giant mouse helmet

848

Sin Wai Kin: How sci-fi and drag changed their art and helped them realize their true identity

849

George Clinton: Funkadelic, James Brown and Kendrick Lamar

850

Haley McGee: How hospices, mystics and trips to the cemetery inspired her new solo show

851

Kiesza: Her massive hit Hideaway and the traumatic brain injury that halted her career

852

Jessi Cruickshank: Why getting real about motherhood is good for some laughs

853

Huey Lewis: How to make a radio hit, hearing loss, and his new Broadway musical

854

Quick Q: Bibi Club on their creative and romantic partnership

855

Devery Jacobs: Her path to acting, storytelling as activism, and her grueling years as a gymnast

856

Arooj Aftab: The allure of the night, pioneering Pakistan’s DIY music movement, and her new album

857

Dan Brown: His journey from failed musician to bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code

858

Billy-Ray Belcourt: His debut short story collection and writing about queer, Indigenous love

859

Denis Villeneuve: Dune 2, his vision for the sci-fi epic, and how the film reflects issues in the world today

860

Matt Johnson: BlackBerry, what happens when an outsider filmmaker goes mainstream, and the future of Canadian film

861

Quick Q: Frank Walker on his debut album Origin and putting a new spin on EDM

862

Patricia Field: Costume design, her NYC boutique, and dressing Sarah Jessica Parker

863

Ilana Glazer: Motherhood, loss, and her new film Babes

864

Lamar Johnson: The Last of Us, Brother, and being honoured at this year’s Canadian Screen Awards

865

Siphesihle November: On following his ballet dreams from South Africa to Canada

866

Quick Q: Nelly Furtado on why she took a break from music and what brought her back

867

Geoff McFetridge: Beastie Boys, skateboarding in Calgary, and designing for brands like Apple and Nike

868

Aminder Dhaliwal: A Witch’s Guide to Burning, burnout, and protecting your creativity

869

Tarsem Singh: On Dear Jassi and the real-life tragedy that inspired the film

870

Alexander Stewart: His pop music journey, the devastating moment his voice changed, and his debut album

871

George Miller: Furiosa, what Mad Max is really about, and his early career as an ER doctor

872

Jane Schoenbrun: I Saw the TV Glow, the trans experience, and their ‘90s TV obsessions

873

Ethan and Maya Hawke: On Wildcat and their love of Flannery O'Connor

874

Zainab Johnson: How some big plot twists in her life led to a career in comedy

875

Harlan Coben: After 80 million copies sold, the bestselling author still suffers from self-doubt

876

Quick Q: Canadian saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen on her new song Fantasy on Blue

877

Joyner Lucas: On his new album Not Now I'm Busy

878

Alana Yorke: Her near-death experience and new album

879

Laurie Anderson: AI and art, O Superman, and her prolific career

880

Kaia Kater: Strange Medicine and the Black origins of the banjo

881

Tom Selleck: His “accidental” acting career, Magnum, P.I., and his new memoir

882

Matthew Macfadyen: Playing desperate people and the success of Succession

883

Kathleen Hanna: Bikini Kill, the feminism of riot grrrl, and her new memoir

884

Quick Q: Don McKay on receiving the Griffin Poetry Prize’s Lifetime Recognition Award

885

Remembering Alice Munro

886

Serj Tankian: System of a Down, raising awareness of the Armenian genocide, and his new memoir

887

Quick Q: Billianne shares how one comment from Taylor Swift changed her life

888

Kevin Durand: On Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and going to “ape school”

889

Moya O'Connell: On directing Hedda Gabler — one of theatre’s most complex roles

890

Ncuti Gatwa: On becoming the first Black queer Doctor Who

891

Evany Rosen: On her new show Davey & Jonesie's Locker

892

Remembering Steve Albini

893

Laufey: On being called Gen Z’s jazz icon

894

Ryusuke Hamaguchi: How the music for Evil Does Not Exist came before the film

895

MacKenzie Porter: On the heartbreak of trying to make it in Nashville

896

Kuperman Brothers: On making their Broadway debut with The Outsiders

897

Jerry Seinfeld: Unfrosted, turning 70, and the Seinfeld finale

898

Quick Q: Softcult on their new EP Heaven

899

Béla Fleck: On tackling George Gershwin’s masterpiece Rhapsody In Blue

900

Carley Fortune: On leaving journalism to become a romance novelist

901

Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism, leaving bad relationships, and music as a mantra

902

Quick Q: Mark Clennon on his new film, HIV stigma, and the underbelly of Toronto

903

Charlotte Day Wilson: Cyan Blue, choosing music over hockey, and Patti Smith

904

Ari Kinarthy: On scoring his own legacy

905

Emily Henry: Bringing the romance novel into the age of dating apps and TikTok

906

Christian Sparkes: The King Tide and the darker side of Newfoundland and Labrador

907

Laura Ramoso: On going viral for doing impressions of her parents

908

Hangama Amiri: Using textiles to stitch together her memories of home

909

Richard Thomas: To Kill a Mockingbird and playing John-Boy on The Waltons

910

Justin Peck: Adapting Sufjan Stevens’s album Illinois into a Broadway musical

911

St. Vincent: All Born Screaming, oversharing, and working with Dave Grohl

912

Caitlin Cronenberg: Her eco-catastrophe film, photography, and her famous last name

913

Maya Rudolph: Loot, SNL, Bridesmaids, and her cool parents

914

Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee: Jackie Shane’s fascinating story

915

Jimbo: Clowning, Drag Race, and winning for weirdos around the world

916

Sophie Nélisse: Irena’s Vow and what training as a gymnast gives her as an actor

917

Nikki Giovanni: Poetry, the birth of hip-hop, and why she genuinely wants to go to Mars

918

Zarrar Kahn: How his debut film depicts the horror of living in a patriarchal society

919

Jay Baruchel: Existential dread, optimism, and why he stayed in Canada

920

Alexandre Hamel: Why he’s out to prove that ice skating is an art

921

Noah Kahan: Stick Season, authenticity, TikTok, and lying to therapists

922

Quick Q: Cadence Weapon on his new album Rollercoaster

923

Tonya Williams: The Young and the Restless, Reelworld Film Festival, and her barrier-breaking work

924

Mick Jagger: Hackney Diamonds and more than 60 years of the Rolling Stones

925

Fred Nguyen Khan: The Sympathizer, training with Shaolin monks, and acting in Vietnamese for the first time

926

Deryck Whibley: Why Sum 41 is disbanding after 27 years

927

Leanne Toshiko Simpson: Why the rom-com is the perfect format to discuss mental illness

928

Alex Garland on his new film Civil War + Hamza Haq on how Transplant saved his career

929

Kyle MacLachlan: Fallout, David Lynch, and how he really feels about Dune

930

iskwē: The ‘gut-wrenching roller coaster ride’ of making her new album

931

Mike Post on writing some of TV’s greatest theme songs + Joel Plaskett’s new spoken word piece

932

Ian Williams on courageous conversations, cancel culture and taking risks + Magdalene Odundo on her life in clay

933

Rudy Mancuso: Música and what it’s like living with synesthesia

934

Dawn Landes: The Liberated Women’s Songbook and the history of women’s activism through music

935

Joan Baez: Folk music, “Bobby” Dylan, and what it means to have an honest legacy

936

Brendan Healy: The Inheritance, learning from the past, and how to stage an epic seven-hour play

937

Guillaume Côté on retiring from the National Ballet of Canada + TOBi on his big Junos wins

938

'I went to hell and came back from it': Shakira on the strength and resilience behind her new album

939

Ani DiFranco: Hadestown and her new chapter on Broadway

940

Mary Elizabeth Winstead: A Gentleman in Moscow, Ahsoka, and Scott Pilgrim

941

Shakira on the resilience behind her new album + Zehra Naqvi on her debut poetry collection

942

Katy O'Brian: From bodybuilding to starring alongside Kristen Stewart in the queer erotic thriller Love Lies Bleeding

943

Adaline: Making her EP Hymnal, and reconciling her queerness with her evangelical upbringing

944

Sheryl Crow: How AI is crushing the spirit of music, her new album Evolution, and speaking up through song

945

Roy Wood Jr.: Why he left The Daily Show and where late-night TV is headed

946

James Ehnes on the reality of being a child prodigy + How Caroline Rose found healing through their most vulnerable music to date

947

The Last Dinner Party: Opening for The Rolling Stones, starting out as a live act and their viral hit Nothing Matters

948

Zelda Williams: On grief, directing the camp comedy Lisa Frankenstein and embracing the unusual

949

Clement Virgo: Adapting Brother, directing The Wire and maturing as a filmmaker

950

Regina King: Playing Shirley Chisholm, almost becoming a dentist, and the meaning of success

951

Stephen Tayo: Shooting street style in Lagos and his photography philosophy

952

Kelvin Redvers: Making his thriller Cold Road, the future of Indigenous film, and getting kicked off the Cannes red carpet

953

Josh Homme: Queens of The Stone Age, Taylor Hawkins, and his debt to polka

954

Nelly Furtado: Getting a record deal at 20, writing her biggest hits, and her big comeback

955

Alexandra Streliski: Fighting cynicism, hearing her music at the Oscars, and being transformed by burnout

956

Carol Burnett: Climbing the Hollywood sign, getting her first laugh, and how having fun is still a priority at 90 years old

957

Évelyne Brochu: French Girl, what she learned from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and working with Denis Villeneuve

958

Emma Portner: How her latest choreography in Islands is subverting ballet gender norms

959

Justine Triet: Anatomy of a Fall, a marriage on trial, and the future of French cinema

960

Fawzia Mirza: The Queen of My Dreams, Bollywood, and why loving herself makes her a better filmmaker

961

How Es Devlin creates concert spectacles on stage + DJ Karaba on how giving up on one dream can open the door to another

962

Michael Keaton: Knox Goes Away, getting Al Pacino to star in his film, and what Mister Rogers was really like

963

Cody Lightning: From being a child actor in Smoke Signals to making a spinoff mockumentary about it

964

Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan: Merry and Pippin, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and their decades-long friendship

965

Hip-Hop Week: Maestro Fresh Wes, the godfather of Canadian hip-hop

966

Maestro Fresh Wes: His journey to becoming the godfather of Canadian hip-hop

967

Q Introduces: Who Replaced Avril Lavigne?

968

Diana Lee Inosanto: Ahsoka, transitioning from stunt performer to actor, and her connection to Bruce Lee

969

Allison Au: Migrations, her family history, and what we mean by the idea of home

970

Bill T. Jones: Working with Keith Haring, athletic sweat versus poetic sweat, and his incredible life in dance

971

Steve Patterson: The Debaters, what happens when a comedian becomes a dad, and why he’s making soap

972

Denis Villeneuve: Dune 2, his vision for the sci-fi epic, and how the film reflects issues in the world today

973

Kim Gordon: Sonic Youth, TikTok, and her new solo album

974

Shana Carroll: How to see circus as an art form

975

Olufikayo Ziki Adeola: Calling out Disney, Iwájú, and showing Lagos in the future

976

Chloé Robichaud & Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Days of Happiness, toxic family relationships, and making conducting believable on screen

977

Chelsea Peretti: Her debut film, women in comedy, and Hollywood's reaction to #MeToo

978

Mark Seliger: Oscar Party portraits, capturing someone's essence, and the stories behind his most iconic celebrity photos

979

Lily Gladstone: Working with Scorsese, breaking into Hollywood, and Killers of the Flower Moon

980

Tate McRae: Performing on SNL, her hit song Greedy, and not being judgmental of your art

981

Corb Lund: Remembering Ian Tyson, The Grand Ole Opry, and El Viejo

982

Jeremy Dutcher on the sound of grief + New music from Elliott Brood

983

Jacob Collier is tired of making music on his own + Emily Austin reads from Gay Girl Prayers

984

Kōji Yakusho: Finding happiness in simplicity, Perfect Days, and working with Wim Wenders

985

Measha Brueggergosman-Lee on collaborating with Margaret Atwood to create Zombie Blizzard

986

Karen Robinson: Law & Order Toronto, moving from Jamaica to rural Alberta, and naming her character after family

987

Adrian Glynn: Why it's important to know your grandparents' story

988

Alan Ritchson on Reacher, Ordinary Angels, and living with bipolar disorder + Meredith Hama-Brown on her film Seagrass

989

Pam Grier: How she became the queen of Blaxploitation film and Hollywood’s first female action hero

990

Alexandra Billings: Queen Tut, chosen family, and the evolution of trans representation in film and TV

991

Marlon Wayans: From Scary Movie and White Chicks to his new life as a stand-up

992

Kablusiak: The winner of the Sobey Art Award, one of Canada’s most prestigious visual arts prizes

993

Brittany Howard on leaving Alabama Shakes, What Now, and growing up in poverty + New music from Mumford & Sons

994

Adam Beach: Exile, Smoke Signals, and his journey to acting

995

Shea Couleé: The Love Ball, their dance record, and life after Drag Race

996

Chromeo: Adult Contemporary, growing up, and what it means to be funky as you approach middle age

997

Diane Flacks: Funneling her guilt into art and mining it for comedy

998

Daniel Caesar: Never Enough, the myth of success, and collaborating with Justin Bieber

999

The Beaches: How everything needed to fall apart for everything to come together

1000

Seth Rogen: His love of pottery, The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down, and judging other artists’ work