Of course, the sisters had already broken into the mainstream thanks to an abundance of So Jealous tracks being featured on Greys Anatomy. Amanda Parris is a columnist for CBC Arts, the host of CBC Arts: Exhibitionists and Marvins Room on CBC Music, and the author of the Governor General Award-winning play Other Side of the Game. To balance making millions, raising twins and mayyyyybe also to rescue Las Vegas tourism after the catastrophic crash of the Great Recession, Dion launches a second residency on the Strip. On Valentine's Day 2014, Elliot Page put his heart out there for all of us to see when he gave a thoughtful, deeply moving speech at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. Starring (then) real-life couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the franchise spun four books into five movies. The 2010s saw screen industries worldwide experience a fundamental metamorphosis: streaming services changed the game in terms of the ways audiences watch content and how creators compete in the marketplace. Its a reminder that Edmonton has a thriving theatre community and is at no loss for artistic talent or creativity. It evoked emotions many of us hadnt felt since junior high and tapped into a nostalgia that ended up defining the decade in its own way. The Fortress Mountain Resort in Kananaskis stands in for a snowy nightmare maze. Originally founded in 2000, the Obsidian Theatre continues to elevate Black artists in Canada. ), Scott Thompson brings Aprs le Dluge: The Buddy Cole Monologues to Toronto. She acted opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Dane DeHaan, and was dubbed The Millennial Meryl Streep. And ultimately, the quality (and quantity) of her work on Orphan Black boosted by the support of critics and Clone Clubbers alike won her an Emmy in 2016, making her the first Canadian actor in a Canadian series ever to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category. Thats the bigger, think-ier and way more 2010s question that underpins the whole series. A few facts stood out: the then 24-year-old was from Toronto, Ont., had already appeared in Selma, Race and Homecoming (not to mention Degrassi: The Next Generation, a rite of passage for every Toronto actor), and is the younger brother of Shamier Anderson, whose resume is similarly stacked. The rest, as they say, is history. Its glass walls, for instance, are no match against Calgary vandals (or Calgary weather), and according to the local CBC News outlet, the citys spent around $300,000 repairing the panes. She turns heads in her Atelier Versace dress, but a picture of her eating a New York hot dog after the event (posted to her Instagram) sends a clear signal: Cline Dion is cool now. ), The plan: Nathan will beat his fear of the opposite sex by dating not one, but 10 women at the same time.. Three of the five premiered in the 2010s: Eclipse and Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2. Its fitting that one of Cline Dions biggest songs is called A New Day Has Come because upon the debut of her second Las Vegas residency (called Celine) in 2011, she sparked the Dion renaissance that only seems to be getting stronger even now. Thomas Leblanc is a Montral-based broadcaster, comedian and producer who co-hosts CBC Podcasts Chosen Family. One hilarious early example comes in the first-season episode Rude Kid, when the five-year-old son of Janets white professor is misbehaving and Appa (Jung and Janets father, played by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) instinctively flicks the boys forehead and is quickly scolded for it. So, he invents a Bachelor-style reality show. And, more often than you might realize, those fantasy worlds on screenwere actually somewhere in Canada. But for the rest of us, it was a banner moment for the cultural landscape. The waxy ashen faces of nuns, RCMP officers and priests are in ghastly contrast to the pained expressions of the women and children. The album is titled the most Alanis-y title possible: Such Pretty Forks in the Road. Instead, I like to think, we all just run together. The mood is claustrophobic appropriate, considering youre trapped on a farm with family of Puritan zealots. According to Citadels artistic director Daryl Cloran, the set and overall look of the play evolved thanks to its run at the theatre, and Hadestowns success has been a real boost for the city. But in March 2013, two became one. The Hamilton native scored a Tony nomination for best featured actor in a musical for his portrayal of Cheech in the 2014 production of Bullets Over Broadway. During her rise, her voice was as powerful as her bad taste (or that of her entourage), and she was dismissed as the most bland person on the stage of 1998s VH1 Divas Live concert. But the #MeToo movement has made me re-contextualize one of Alaniss bigger hits, which I now cant help but see as a precursor to the movement. Her takeover has only just begun, and I for one cant wait to see what she does in the next decade. He later wrote and starred in a one-man cabaret at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival called Boy Falls From the Sky, which detailed his experience during that production. Noah 40 Shebib is nominated for two best rap song Grammys in the same year, Photographer Norman Wong talks about the impact music producer Noah 40 Shebib has had on crafting the Toronto sound., Nathan Fielder opens Dumb Starbucks in Los Angeles. Grimess fourth full-length studio album blasted her previous incarnations away to create a space so uninhabitable, so comfortable, so off-putting and so compelling that Claire Bouchers reputation as an artist fixated on her/the future felt permanent. Following an orphan named Flicie who dreams of becoming a ballerina (Jepsen herself voices the girls mentor, Odette), Ballerina puts Cut to the Feeling centre stage in the films climax and its basically the best thing about the film. Prisons are terrifying its hard for me to even watch the caricatured version you see in Orange is the New Black. And to essentially copy/paste the spiel from the opening credits, heres the premise: Nathan Fielder (the shows star and co-creator) graduated from one of Canadas top business schools (University of Victoria) with really good grades (B average). And in the fall of 2012, NFY (accidentally?) When the New York Times named Saskatoon one of the 52 places to go in 2018, the Remai Modern was tipped as the main attraction. (In a 2018 episode of In The Making, Pite says her movements took a cue from a description of PTSD: this feeling of having the accelerator and the brake both to the floor.). Is he at fault? As we enter the 2020s, one can only hope the best is yet to come. Any ideas I had about how our relationship might affect the work that she might be a pushover or do whatever I told her, just because were friends were unfounded. But some Canadian-made songs didnt quite make the same splash outside of the country, even though they deserved that same worldwide recognition. Jan Versweyveld Each annual instalment generated more international bank than the last. Post-truth might have a political whiff to it, but few terms define the decade quite like it. So to the Asian kid crunching on shrimp chips while watching Marvel movies: your world is about to change. Farmers work A way out of the mirror was an ode to fountains and their monumentalizing and memorializing qualities. Fast forward almost 40 years and the Charlemagne, Que., native is on her way to achieving that goal. After earning popularity on Vine (RIP) in 2013, the 15-year-old Pickering, Ont., native went on to release his debut single Life of the Party in June, which became a record-breaker when it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the youngest artist in history to chart in the Top 25 with a debut single. But beliefs a powerful thing. . Its possible.. A lack of Asian-Canadian representation, as well as the ceremonys emphasis on First Nations culture despite, well, the Canadian government failing to prioritize Indigenous communities at any other time. Meanwhile, Dolan became mind-bogglingly prolific and had his arthouse blockbuster moment with Mommy, then produced Adeles Hello music video and directed in Europe and the U.S. As a francophone Qubcoise living in Toronto and working in the film industry, this decade felt like watching the kids we had cared for and supported emotionally and financially for years suddenly fly the coop and leave home. Like The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was created by Michael Schur, who is maybe the most Canada-obsessed American TV writer. Since Drag Race, we have seen countless new artists start performing because of the show. (In my mind, we are best friends.) Its the second half of Betroffenheit, though, that elevates it to genius. Always the wiser, Reeves responded by telling the fan, Youre breathtaking! The crowd went wild, and Reeves took it a step further, telling his audience, Youre all breathtaking! Video of the exchange has garnered millions of views. He originated the role of the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webbers 2010 musical Love Never Dies, and has played leading roles in the West End production of its long-running prequel, Phantom of the Opera. After posting his efforts on YouTube, the astronauts version of David Bowies Space Oddity became the first music video ever performed in space and has since earned over 44.6 million views. Not a child actor, not yet a woman, she was a model of Canadian kindness and patience. TOP STORY The Orphan Black Star Lined Up to Star as the Marvel Attorney/Superheroine (Photo by Marvel Comics; Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) The MCU's TV wing just got a little more badass: Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany has been tapped by Marvel to star in its Disney+ She-Hulk series, playing the leading lady who snagged super powers after sharing some of cousin Bruce Banner's . Thats nearly double the 38 we managed in the previous decade (though in terms of wins, its even, at 11 each) and representative of some incredible work both in front of the camera (including Christopher Plummer, who became the first Canadian male to win an acting Oscar in 64 years when he won for Beginners) and behind it (10 of those nominations came from the best production design category). I am now 34. Following the decade-long obsession with Yann Martels 2001 novel Life of Pi, the story was finally released in film form in November 2012. NFY was always more than a prank show, but in four seasons, it had evolved from poo jokes to this: a feature-length movie (documentary?) Seven Tony Award nominations later, its still playing in Toronto, New York City and London, and notably surpassed The Drowsy Chaperones record to become the longest-running Canadian musical on Broadway in October 2018. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada releases 94 calls to action in their final report, You are in the midst of an Indigenous renaissance. one of the hottest Hollywood agencies to have in your corner), was approached by Warner Bros. and MGM to direct Everything, Everything and began booking gigs directing episodes of Insecure, Grown-ish and First Wives Club. Bao wins the Oscar for best animated short. And similar to the Temple of Light in Santiago, this structure is a light-filled dome in the wilderness. Cline Dionat the Met Gala? Its an obvious delusion, but a romantic one the sort of beautiful lie you can build a story on. The song performed best in Furtados homeland, failing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. ), Jan Lisieckis debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon is released. Jessie Reyez has certainly achieved international success. He finished off the decade with a Tony Award for his choreography work on Aint Too Proud. Over the next six years, that would very much change. This is the year it happened. By tailoring her persona to different cultures America, Quebec, France, Japan she IS the epitome of an international star. But despite global success, Dion was never cool. Stephan Jamess star ascends with If Beale Street Could Talk. In less than a decade, a 29-room hotel in a Newfoundland town most Canadians have never heard of became one of the worlds most talked-about tourist destinations. Shortly after the birth of Winter this year, Alanis posted a raw and honest blog on her website, in which she described PPD as a sneaky monkey with a machete working its way through my psyche.. Writer/director Christopher Nolan hopped back to Alberta for his next sci-fi adventure. In November of 2014, Brampton, Ont.s Rupi Kaur released Milk and Honey, a collection of poems and prose that tackle subjects like sexual assault, violence, love and loss. Possibly! to a serious issue we should definitely have approximately 8,000 panels about until, finally, we were given the resources we deserved to thrive and succeed (thanks in part to gender parity initiatives set by the CBC and Telefilm Canada). A dream come true! The age of a celebritys S.O. Meanwhile, some of us will be awaiting that Titanic sequel about Rose Dawsons acting career in which we find out where Bill Paxton (RIP) bought his sweaters, which is the only James Cameron sequel we really need. Shes even seen wearing no makeup in the music video! She ended the aughts like she ended the 90s: telling the world how much being a mother was her real calling. Well, he nailed it. SCHITT'S CREEK, also a multi-CSA winner which just premiered in its third season, follows closely in second with 13 nominations, while KIM'S . It ruminated on histories, ruins and water itself, and it was a moving tribute to the site. With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy. It won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canadas International Prize in 2019. Hop a funicular car, and in less than a minute, a sleek glass cube will drop you in the river valley home to an extremely extensive network of trails. The roadblocks are even more momentous for Canadian female filmmakers. In 2017, while the building was being refurbished for the masses, Geoffrey Farmer was Canadas representative at the Biennale. The decade begins auspiciously for French-language cinema and its only le tip de liceberg. Tanya Talaga wins the RBC Taylor Prize for her first book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. Who knows how many times Canada has been referenced along the way at this point, but a 2019 episode co-written by Canadian Tim Long probably takes the cake for the most times weve been mentioned in a single shot. In particular, her Mariner 9 of 2012 a panoramic video installation that imagines a Mars of the future explored by an unmanned vehicle feeds my desire for bleak visions of faraway planets. Canadian pop no longer necessitated anybody saying Sorry? By the end of the following month, it had sold more than 160,000 units on iTunes and its accompanying music video had been viewed more than 4.5 million times. She was in Cas and Dylan with Richard Dreyfuss, The Other Half with her partner. But BoJack Horseman, an animated show about a famous actor/horse and his peers, managed to evolve into a touchstone for anyone acquainted with unhappiness. They also announced in their 2016-2021 Strategic Plan that supporting Indigenous arts would be a key priority. Fan theories about the control that her late husband and manager Ren Anglil had over her career abound. I love drag. And those graphic novels, which make up a six-part series by Bryan Lee OMalley, are a time capsule of 2000s Toronto. The reality is that, despite the success of Indigenous artists prior to 2015, there wasnt a national push to both recognize and, more importantly, fund Indigenous artists until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) released its final report in December of that year. Other notable filming locations include Chinatown and Gastown. Most excitingly, the 2010s have seen a shift of consciousness that empowered Indigenous women to tell their own stories. But 30 Rocks peak interest in Canada came in the 2011 episode Double-Edged Sword, when Alec Baldwin and Elizabeth Bankss characters travel to Toronto and then, to their chagrin, end up having their baby there. the three luckiest kids in the world). I cannot imagine what my life would be without it. If its successful, hell make a hero out of a stranger: a random dude (Corey Calderwood) who lets Nathan assume his identity and, you know, carry out the plot. To say that alternative drag is in any way a new concept is not only misguided but a fundamentally flawed assessment. Its hard to be a filmmaker. The 2010s have been all about fame often vapid, toxic, shallow and undeserved fame, a new kind of parasitic stardom that almost anyone can attain just as long as theyre desperate enough. Hes never married. That's largely thanks to Maslany, a 10-year improv veteran who won the Canadian Improv Games in 2002 during high school. Anyone with even the most miniscule knowledge of Canadian pop respects and worships at the altar of Shania Twain, one of the biggest country-turned-pop (and yet still country) stars, well, ever. Its a shame it didnt get the international recognition of its sister single, but at least we Canadians get to enjoy this gem ourselves. Maybe you dont really know the mans story either. (As a wee baby music journo, I remember the scramble that year to snag tickets to his show at the Mod Club and my inability to do so because I had no idea who represented him or how to find out.) Mordecai Richler gets a big-screen adaptation with Barneys Version. In her seminal book Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, Margaret Atwood theorized that the central symbol in Canada, and therefore Canadian literature, was survival. She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany reveals alternate finale ending that was 'more serious' Head writer Jessica Gao told Maslany "there were like 20 versions" of the ending, the actress says. The Rose . Ghosts? Well, duh, because then he wouldnt be Buddy. Jacinto, instead, is hot and dumb on the show, and frankly, its pure fun to see an Asian character portrayed in this light far from reserved, put together and obedient. And that vision is, in many cases, true Ive known artists whove lived temporarily in Iceland, explored the ocean on freighters or casked whisky at the Glenfiddich distillery in Scotland. She didnt take up a lot of space. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava (who does not, to my knowledge, work for Stark Industries), both Azure and Designboom praised this downtown pedestrian/cyclist bridge as one of the worlds top architectural moments of 2012. Since I was adopted by my drag family House of Filth in 2013, Ive had the immense privilege of getting to see countless performers across this country dabble, experiment, create, destroy and share some of the most incredible drag Ive ever had the pleasure of seeing. Well, anyone who tuned into the pilot on Jan. 13, 2015, TBH. Carly followed that by releasing her own video for the song, and it has since been viewed over one billion times. Canadas premier pop punk darlings went full pop with this single. As we move out of a decade that has seen immense progress in LGBTQ representation, its important to remember that despite this, the world remains a dangerous place for many LGBTQ people which is why its imperative more celebrities take a page from Page and use their platform in a more aggressive manner. Although his appearance was limited to just a few scenes where he plays himself, Reeves stole the show for many on social media. Because sometimes life actually is beautiful, Owen Pallett joined forces with Arcade Fires Win Butler to compose the score for Her, the Spike Jonze futuristic drama about love and loneliness. The launch video has to be seen to be believed. Kent Monkmans The Scoop borrows from the scale and pomp of European (and Canadian) history paintings to viscerally depict the kidnapping of Indigenous children from their parents in the 1960s. Glass walls, etched in the pattern of a mashrabiya screen (a common feature in Arabic architecture), cast latticed shadows when the light is just right. Her roadmap is one that commits to a specific and focused vision while thinking big. government was telling the arts community they wouldnt get as much funding if they didnt try harder to include us.) What was once considered the great equalizer for drag in the United States has become a global standard for drag as viewed by the mainstream.
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