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HEADLINER
Basketball: Mamba out and Ball breaking Warriors! Last night a career 20 season, 5 championships, 18 all star appearances plus one rape scandal, in the NBA all with the same team- LA Lakers, was capped off as Kobe Bryant scored 60 points and a win in his last game and the team’s final 2016 game, they didn’t make it to the playoffs. The Golden State Warriors are headed to the playoff and their final regualr season game almost got overshadowed if not for the fact that they just broke a long standing record held by the Chicago Bulls of 72 wins during the regular season. Read more
MORE NEWS
• Facebook is poaching and building. Dr. Regina Dugan, most recently Google’s vice president of advanced technology and projects, has been hired to lead a team at Facebook called Building 8, to develop hardware powered by Facebook software that will combine R&D with product development, and focus on technologies that “fluidly blend physical and digital worlds.”
• It has been 2 years since 276 girls from Chibok went missing, believed to have been kidnapped by Boko Haram. The girls have yet to be returned.
• Inky the Octopus escaped from the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier, into the ocean cementing his starring role in the upcoming Madagascar 4: Inky’s Great Escape.
ENTERTAINMENT
• After announcing yesterday morning the $250 million donation to cancer immunotherapy, later that evening the likes of Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson, Bradley Cooper, Princess Beatrice, Allison Williams, Katy Perry, Orland Bloom, Peter Jackson, Emilia Clarke, James Corden and wife Julia Carey all turned up for the Parker Institute For Cancer Immunotherapy Gala in Los Angeles.
• The Tribeca Film Festival opened last night in NYC with the film, “The First Monday In May.”
FASHION
• LVMH Moët Hennesy Louis Vuitton’s Kendo division is collaborating with Rihanna on a complete makeup collection called Fenty Beauty by Rihanna to debut in the fall of 2017. The Rihanna makeup brand will be the third major color cosmetics project that Kendo has undertaken, following those by Kat Von D Beauty and Marc Jacobs Beauty.
• alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet hosted a festival themed see-now buy-now runway show in partnership with Neiman Marcus at Neuehouse LA last night with guests including Kourtney Kardashian, Anna Paquin, Emily Ratajkowski, Lindsey Vonn, Jennifer Morrison, Mischa Barton.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
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