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HEADLINER – Oct. 12
Trump! The President of the United States went on Fox news yesterday for a sit down with Sean Hannity, following his tax reform speech, where they talked about several topics one of them being Colin Kaepernick. Trump said “Frankly the NFL should have suspended him for one game and he would have never done it again.” This was hours after he tweeted about taking away broadcasting licenses following NBC’s piece on a tense WH July meeting he called fake news. The president is expected to sign an executive order that will allow individuals and small businesses to buy skimpier insurance coverage at lower prices, bypassing state regulations and Affordable Care Act protections. He has nominated Kirstjen Nielsen, who currently serves as top aide to his COS Gen. John Kelly, to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is already up and at ’em with the tweets and this time its directed towards Puerto Rico….Read more
MORE NEWS
• A family of 5 kidnapped by the Taliban five years ago are now free. The American woman, Caitlan Coleman, 31 and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, 34, along with their three children were secured in an exchange between Pakistani military and U.S. commandos late Wednesday in a secret operation.
• In Chicago news: Chad M. Estep, 34, who randomly (or intentionally) pushed a rider off a CTA platform and onto the train tracks this summer has been charged with attempted murder. His wife has since bailed him out. Estep received a Ph.D. in neuroscience in March from Northwestern University. In other Chicago news, the owner of the Double Door building in Wicker Park, Brian Strauss, is getting a dose of Chicago politics. The owner evicted longtime occupant, music venue Double Door. The Alderman of the district Joe Moreno, looking for payback perhaps went windy city on him, as City Council voted to downzone the building and the Strauss’ argue it “would make the property less valuable and harder to sell. A string of attacks and robbery in the Streeterville neighborhood has prompted increased security as police released photos of people they said attacked and robbed a man Sunday night.
• We’ve been tracking the blooming relationship between Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle and according to some reports, they are already engaged and will make the announcement “soon.”
ENTERTAINMENT
• Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Times released a piece titled “Dirty John” which is actually a 6 part podcast series and its soo sooo good/riveting. It’s a real life story of Debra Newell Stewart, a divorceé in Los Angeles who meets the too-good-to-be-true John Meehan on a dating site, they hit it off and things move very very quickly from there. If you haven’t read or listened its a must. Start here. Let’s discuss on Facebook.
• BET announced that it will end the run of its signature drama series, Being Mary Jane, which starred Gabrielle Union, in a two-hour movie to air in 2018. Being Mary Jane initially aired on BET back in 2013 as a movie and then continued on as a series.
FASHION
• Gucci’s going fur free! CEO Marco Bizzarri made the announcement while speaking at the 2017 Kering Talk at the London College of Fashion, that the Kering owned brand will remove fur from all its collections as of spring/summer 2018. Gucci’s fur-free policy going forward will include mink, coyote, raccoon dog, fox, rabbit, and karakul (otherwise known as Swakara, Persian lamb or astrakhan) and all others species specially bred or caught for fur. In other fashion news, Coach is changing its company name to Tapestry Inc., effective October 31.
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Margot Robbie in Versace ’18
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