Loose Ends: Sales, Lies, Deaths, Arrests, Releases, Weddings And More

Michael Buble's It's Time was the top-selling album in Canada by a Canadian artist in 2005, according to Neilsen SoundScan. The Vancouver crooner's record sold more than 430,000 copies in Canada and more than four million around the world following its February 2005 release. Only Green Day's American Idiot and Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business sold more units than It's Time in Canada last year. Buble will headline two nights at the Avalon Ballroom at Niagara Falls' Fallsview Casino on February 2 and 3.

Lindsay Lohan's admission to Vanity Fair magazine that she had an eating disorder and has dabbled in drugs was big news when it was revealed last week. Heck, we even covered it. Now the singing actress is claiming that her words were taken out of context and that she's appalled by the article. Vanity Fair is sticking by its reporter, Evgenia Peretz, who says she has everything that Lohan said in their interview on tape.

Two men have been arrested for the brutal murder of former House Of Freaks and Gutterball guitarist Bryan Harvey, his wife Kathryn, and their young daughters Stella and Ruby in their Richmond, Virginia home on New Year's Day. Ray Joseph Dandridge and Ricky Gray, both 28, are also suspected of killing three members of another Richmond family, whose bodies were found on January 6. Police have now broadened their investigation to see if the two men, who were apprehended in Philadelphia on January 7, may have been involved in similar crimes elsewhere.

Warren Parker of the Canadian gospel group the Parker Trio was killed on the night of January 7 when he was struck by a pick-up truck in Goose Creek, South Carolina while trying to direct traffic around their tour bus, which was being backed into a parking lot. State troopers were looking for the driver, who got out of the truck and ran away after hitting the 34-year-old. Parker's funeral was to be held in Ajax, Ontario.

Barry Cowsill, a member of the '60s singing family The Cowsills, was found dead on a wharf in New Orleans on December 28. It's believed that the 51-year-old's death was related to Hurricane Katrina, which struck the city on August 29. Barry was the bassist in The Cowsills, which had a number of hits between 1967 and 1970 and inspired the creation of The Partridge Family television series. Sister Susan Cowsill is still active in music. Brother Bill Cowsill, who's suffered from ill health in recent years, has been living in Alberta and was a co-founder of the '90s roots rock group The Blue Shadows with Jeffrey Hatcher.

Rapper DMX was released from Rikers Island prison in New York City on December 30. He had only served a month of his 70-day sentence but was let go early for good conduct and because he had accrued some credit for time previously spent in jail. The 34-year-old DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, had been imprisoned for a parole violation resulting from a guilty plea to a charge of reckless endangerment and driving under the influence.

British hip-hop artist Ms. Dynamite has been charged with disorderly conduct and assaulting an officer for punching a female cop in the face after she was arrested for allegedly kicking the door of a London, England nightclub. The 25-year-old singer, whose real name is Niomi McLean-Daley, was out celebrating her birthday with her brother when the incident occurred. Her sibling was charged with obstructing police work. They were both released on bail. Ms. Dynamite's 2002 album, A Little Deeper, was awarded Britain's Mercury Music Prize.

Aging British glam-rocker Gary Glitter was charged on January 6 with committing obscene acts with two girls, aged 10 and 11, at a home he was renting in the resort town of Vung Tau, Vietnam. It still hasn't been decided if the 61-year-old, who has been detained in a jail near Vung Tau since November 19 and is unlikely to be offered bail since he's considered a flight risk, will be put on trial. If he is, and he's found guilty, he could be imprisoned for three to seven years.

Pink married motocross racer and The Surreal Life participant Carey Hart on a beach in Costa Rica in front of 100 guests on January 7. The 26-year-old singer met the 30-year-old athlete at the 2001 X Games in Las Vegas. She proposed to him at a race last summer by holding up a sign that said "Will you marry me?" and another one that read "I'm serious." The couple planned to spend their honeymoon snowboarding with their four dogs. Pink, who has a role in the upcoming horror film Catacombs, will release her new I'm Not Dead album in the spring.

Members of Toronto's hip-hop community will come together at The Drake Hotel on January 14 to help bring attention and generate support for the children of northern Uganda who've been innocent victims in an ongoing civil war. BrassMunk, Citizen Kane, Mathematik, Shylow, 9th Uno, Red Clay, Okai and DJs Starting From Scratch, P-Plus, Son Of S.O.U.L., Linx, Taktiks, Seven:30 and Big Jacks will all take part in the event, which is dubbed Rise Up!. Tickets are $20 in advance from TicketWeb. Visit here for more information about the evening.

Toronto concert listings:
January 19-21 Gordon Lightfoot @ Dominion Club
January 21 Bon Jovi @ Air Canada Centre
January 22 Carole Pope, Vanessa Olivarez and Crack Puppy @ Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
January 22 Carole Pope and Tim Welch @ Ciao Edie
January 27 Tommy Lee @ This Is London
January 28 Jordan Knight @ Revival
January 31 Stacey Earle and Mark Stewart @ Hugh's Room
February 2 Ronnie Hawkins @ Dominion Club
February 2 Don Letts @ Harbourfront Centre
February 2 We Are Wolves @ Drake Underground (Chart showcase)
February 4 Lullaby Arkestra, Jon Rae And The River and Nikkei Fights @ The Boat
February 7 Gino Vannelli @ Mod Club
February 9 David Wall @ Hugh's Room
February 11 Beyond The Pale @ Glenn Gould Studio
February 17 Silverstein @ Mod Club
February 24 A Perfect Murder, Kreator and Napalm Death @ Opera House
February 25 Belle And Sebastian and The New Pornographers @ The Docks
March 1 KT Tunstall @ Mod Club
March 4 No Use For A Name, Suicide Machines, I Am The Avalanche and Versus The World @ Opera House
March 5 Between The Buried And Me, Bleeding Through, Every Time I Die, Haste The Day @ Phoenix
March 10 The Sisters Of Mercy and The Warlocks @ Kool Haus
March 21 Arctic Monkeys @ Kool Haus

Vancouver concert listings:
January 19 Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne @ Yale Hotel
January 28 Comeback Kid, Champion, Figure Four, Blue Monday and Sinking Ships @ Seylynn Hall
January 28 Mark Farina, Luke McKeehan and Jon Delerious @ Commodore Ballroom
January 28 KT Tunstall with Willy Mason @ Richard's On Richards
February 4 The Clumsy Lovers @ Richard's On Richards
February 4 Blixa Bargeld, Jarboe, F Space and Sixteens @ Richard's On Richards
February 8 Dead Meadow, Pink Mountaintops and Blood Meridian @ Red Cat
February 24 Relient K with Rocket Summer and Maxeen @ Croatian Cultural Centre
February 26 Supergrass with Pilotdrift @ Commodore Ballroom
March 7 Stereolab @ Commodore Ballroom
March 18 Morgan Heritage with Tropical Breeze and Lazare S. Halk @ Commodore Ballroom
March 29 The Subways with The Gun Shys @ Richard's On Richards