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Toronto Sun
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
Martin Solveig bids goodbye to DJing at retirement gig
The 48-year-old hit worldwide success with smashes including All Stars and Hello The DJ announced his retirement at a concert in western France. Photo by Christopher Polk / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account PARIS — French DJ Martin Solveig, who hit worldwide success with smashes including 'All Stars' and 'Hello,' has hung up his decks, announcing his retirement onstage at a concert watched by 70,000 people. 'It's a special moment. All my life, each time I came onstage I told myself: 'Play like it's your last concert'. Just until that moment arrives,' the artist told the crowd, which braved pounding rain at the Vielles Charrues festival in Carhaix, western France, to watch his final gig on Saturday, according to Le Telegramme daily. From the early 2000s, Solveig, together with fellow Gallic luminaries David Guetta and Bob Sinclar, brought the 'French touch' sound to the world's dancefloors, while he also produced songs for stars including Madonna. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Solveig helped bring the 'French touch' sound to international attentionMARK DAVIS/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Photo by MARK DAVIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Now aged 48, Solveig — real name Martin Laurent Picande — released five albums throughout his more than two-decade-long career, and played at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris along with 23 other DJs. Jerome Trehorel, the director of the festival where Solveig announced his retirement, told AFP that 'it was a surprise when he told us several weeks ago that the Vielles Charrues would be his only concert date this year, and that it would be his last'. 'It's an immense honour,' he added. Love concerts, but can't make it to the venue? Stream live shows and events from your couch with VEEPS, a music-first streaming service now operating in Canada. Click here for an introductory offer of 30% off. Explore upcoming concerts and the extensive archive of past performances. Toronto & GTA Canada Football Toronto & GTA Editorial Cartoons
Perth Now
16-07-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
Reclusive AFL great set to make shock return
AFL great Cyril Rioli will make his first public football comeback since his messy exit and prolonged absence from the game when he runs out in the reborn EJ Whitten Legends Game. After a six-year break, the charity match is returning in August with a raft of big names locked in, including Rioli and Gary Ablett Jr. Rioli, a four-time premiership player and Norm Smith Medal winner, was unveiled as the All Stars' No.1 pick on Tuesday morning. The selection of the former excitement machine is a positive sign after he was involved in a lengthy battle with his former club Hawthorn over historical claims of racism, including some levelled at his premiership coach Alastair Clarkson that were first raised in 2022. The matter involved mediation and court proceedings before being settled by the Human Rights Commission in May without a determination of the allegations. Rioli has played several matches in the Northern Territory but has lived a concealed life since his premature retirement. Another all-time great in Gary Ablett Jr was named Victoria's No.1 pick. All Stars coach Shane Crawford said he was looking for a 'bums on seats player' and found the perfect type in his former premiership teammate. 'We thought we might go with Kane Cornes when they said (Gary) Ablett Jr so we could tag him,' Crawford told SEN. 'Our No.1 pick, we want to have fun, we've gone the ultimate 'No.1 bums on seats player'. 'A player with one of the all-time great highlight reels in the history of the games and that is Cyril Rioli.' There was a report earlier this year that Rioli pondered an AFL return under coach Alastair Clarkson when he accepted the role as North Melbourne coach. Rioli's return never eventuated but he will lace up the boots at Marvel Stadium for the charity match on Thursday, August 28.
Perth Now
15-07-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
AFL great's exile set to end
AFL great Cyril Rioli will make his first public football comeback since his messy exit and prolonged absence from the game when he runs out in the reborn EJ Whitten Legends Game. After a six-year break the charity match is returning in August with a raft of big names locked in including Rioli and Gary Ablett junior. Rioli, a four-time premiership player and Norm Smith Medal winner, was unveiled as the All Stars' No.1 pick on Tuesday morning. The selection of the former excitement machine is a positive sign after he was involved in a lengthy battle with his former club over historical claims of racism including some levelled at his premiership coach, Alastair Clarkson, first raised in 2022. The matter involved mediation and court proceedings before being settled by the Human Rights Commission in May without a determination of the allegations. Rioli has played several matches in the Northern Territory but has lived a concealed life since his premature retirement. Another all-time great in Gary Ablett Jnr was named Victoria's No.1 pick. All Stars coach Shane Crawford said he was looking for a 'bums on seats player' and found the perfect type in his former premiership teammate. 'We thought we might go with Kane Cornes when they said (Gary) Ablett Jnr so we could tag him,' Crawford told SEN. 'Our number one pick, we want to have fun, we've gone the ultimate 'No. 1 bums on seats player'. 'A player with one of the all-time great highlight reels in the history of the games and that is Cyril Rioli.' There was a report earlier this year Rioli pondered an AFL return under coach Alastair Clarkson when he accepted the role as North Melbourne coach. Rioli's return never eventuated but he will lace up the boots at Marvel Stadium for the charity match which will be played on Thursday, August 28.
Boston Globe
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Bruce Lee, Globetrotters, rope walkers and a diving horse help tell a story of athletic spectacle
The show harkens back to a time when, as a wall text puts it, 'boundaries between sport, theater, and spectacle were blurred.' The focus of 'All Stars' is on the very long tradition of athletic endeavor as entertainment more than competition: extreme sports of a different sort. The show's 60-some items — books, prints, photographs, all sorts of ephemera (such as pennant, program, and poster) — are thematically organized, while also proceeding in a roughly chronological order. Bruce Lee unleashes his fists of fury at the end of 'All Stars,' not the beginning. Advertisement National Roller Derby Program, 1951. Houghton Library, Harvard University The themes are qualities required by athletic entertainers/entertaining athletes: Balance, Strength, Endurance, Daring, Nerve, Teamwork, and Combat (as in bullfighting, wrestling, boxing). Each attribute gets its own display case. There's also one devoted to Roots, with attention paid to the Roman Colosseum, medieval tournaments, Carnival in Renaissance Venice, and equestrian vaulting — it's the person who vaults, not the horse. 'All Stars' does have a diving horse. It would take a 40-foot plunge six times a day at Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Other notable performers, most of them human, make appearances. M. Blondin, a French aerialist, crossed Niagara Falls several times on a tightrope on a single day in 1859. A crowd of 25,000 watched. The Fearless Frogman was good at holding his breath. The English Samson was a muscle man, and the Female Hercules a muscle woman. Imagine if they'd met and had children. Advertisement Also encountered are contortionists, acrobats, 'hand balancers,' rope walkers, stunt pilots, 'Bloomer Girls' (members of all-female baseball teams), marathon dancers, and roller derby skaters. Roller derby! Those skaters (unlike the ones in the Balance display) are in the Teamwork section. They could also qualify for Daring, Nerve, and Combat. Perhaps the most wondrous thing in this gathering of wonders isn't a person (or even a horse) but an object. Robert Cruikshank's 'Going to a Fight,' from 1819, is a panoramic hand-colored etching. It shows 42 scenes leading up to a boxing match. This was five decades before the Marquess of Queensberry came along with his rules, so the bout must have been more UFC than Golden Gloves. The panorama, whose height is a little more than 2½ inches, is rolled up. Its full length is just under 13 feet. Competition may matter more now, but as proof that sports can remain entertainment simply consider the spectacle that is professional wrestling. It's hard to imagine Advertisement Brian S. Dyde, 'Antigua': hand-colored map, 1985. Houghton Library, Harvard University 'All Stars' covers a lot of ground conceptually. 'The Caribbean: Sea of Resilience' covers even more ground geographically — the Caribbean basin is slightly more than a million square miles — and with only half as many items. The exhibition runs through Aug. 22. Colonial exhibition of West Indian fruit and vegetables, c.1890. Houghton Library, Harvard University Places visited include Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Croix, and Antigua. Subjects include dance, agriculture, the The title of 'The Punched Card from the Industrial Revolution to the Information Age' is bigger than the show itself, which has just three items (books, not cards). But that makes its subject no less important. 'The Punched Card' runs through Aug. 28. W. J. Eckert, "Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation, 1940. Houghton Library, Harvard University This year marks the 300th anniversary of a bit of technology associated with main frame computers. Punched paper tape was used in France to automate looms. A century later, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were envisioning how punched cards could be used in ways that anticipated 20th-century computers. The story told here isn't as fun as the one in 'All Stars' or as vibrant (and often chastening) as in 'The Caribbean.' But in its own, ALL STARS: The Sensational History of Athletics as Entertainment THE CARIBBEAN: SEA OF RESILIENCE THE PUNCHED CARD FROM THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO THE INFORMATION AGE At Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, through Aug. 8, Aug. 22, and Aug. 28, respectively. 617-495-2440, Advertisement Mark Feeney can be reached at
Courier-Mail
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
MasterChef star Julie Goodwin's fiery statement over body comments: ‘Tired of it'
Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. Julie Goodwin has issued a fiery statement after receiving a deluge of comments about her appearance. The former MasterChef Australia star, 54, addressed concerns about her dramatic weight loss in an update on Instagram on Thursday, seemingly prompted by feedback on her most recent post. 'Thanks to all who have expressed concern about my health. I am well and I am within the healthy weight range. My doctor concurs,' Goodwin wrote. 'For those who have asked me for advice or tips, I am not qualified to provide this. It's advice that should be sought from your trusted health professionals, not from me. I'm a TV cook. 'For those who want to comment on the shape and condition of my body please, do it on your own page because I'm tired of reading it. For that reason I'll be turning off comments on this post. 'For all of us can we please find something more interesting to talk about. Can we please model kindness to our kids and grandkids and can we please leave this obsession with people's looks back in the 1980s. Peace and love.' Goodwin's recent post sparked a number of comments from followers. Picture: Instagram She found fame when she won the first season of the cooking series. Picture: Ten The TV personality and author first found fame after winning MasterChef back in 2009, beating runner-up Poh Ling-Yeow, and later returned to the franchise for the 'All Stars' edition. In 2016, Goodwin opened up about accidentally losing 20kgs, pointing out it was no cause for celebration. 'It's not that I've gone on some stupid, sad diet and dropped a whole heap of weight in a hurry. It's not anything like that,' she told Women's Weekly at the time. 'I am running a business and running around like a mad thing, and sometimes I forget to eat, none of which is healthy.' After her MasterChef win, Goodwin went on to establish a successful career as a cookbook author, columnist, and regular TV contributor, but later admitted she had struggled with her mental health amid her rising fame. She spoke about it on the Head Game podcast in March, describing it as going 'right down to the bottom of the well'. The TV personality and author at an event last year. Picture:'I had made a decision that everybody, everybody, my colleagues, my children, my husband, my family, everybody would be better off if I just racked off and let them all be,' Goodwin said of her battle with depression and anxiety. 'I just had nothing left. It's a sickness, right, severe depression is a serious illness,' she explained. 'The only way I could shut off my brain late at night, was to drink wine, so I was doing too much of that. So I was self-medicating, and that's a terrible, terrible way to sleep, because you wake up with your heart hammering.' Fortunately, as Goodwin recently told Nine Honey, she's now doing much better – but admitted it was an ongoing effort. 'I'm good, I really am. But it's a concentrated effort to remain good, you know.' Originally published as MasterChef star Julie Goodwin's fiery statement over body remarks: 'Tired of it'
