Justin Bieber is 15 years old, from a small town in Canada and definitely having a moment. This particular moment had what felt like a bazillion little girls lined up around the Hard Rock Café in Times Square to catch Justin's performance at the third annual "Tiki Rocks the Square for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals" event in New York.
Bieber's hometown was originally named for Stratford-upon-Avon, the town in England that William Shakespeare called home. Not surprisingly, the biggest annual event in town is the Shakespeare festival, which actually attracts top-shelf acting talent (Alec Guinness, Judy Dench and, uh, William Shatner have all performed at the festival). Though it's a small burg, Stratford has still produced a handful of other musical talents.
In addition to Bieber, Stratford served as the hometown for world music singer Loreena McKennit and Richard Manuel, the late multi-instrumentalist for the Band. And it wouldn't be a town in Canada unless it had a hockey arena, and the William Allman Memorial Arena is actually one of the oldest in the province and currently serves as the home of the Stratford Cullitons. (What's a Culliton? Though their mascot is a Native American warrior, the team is actually named after a local construction company. Capitalism!)
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