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Kabul. A suicide bombing has left at least 30 people dead and 327 injured in an attack the Taliban claimed responsibility for stating the target was a directorate responsible for security of high-level officials. An explosives-laden vehicle was detonated near the Afghan intelligence agency and claimed mostly civilians, including women and children. Read more
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• The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists were announced yesterday at Columbia University. Hot hot hot Broadway show ‘Hamilton’ the hip-hop musical about America’s Founding Fathers created by Lin-Manuel Miranda won the drama award, The Washington Post staff won for national reporting, fiction winner was Viet Thanh Nguyen for his debut novel “The Sympathizer,” T.J. Stiles won his second Pulitzer for “Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America.”
• The NY Primaries will take place today and the stakes are high. Bernie Sanders supporters Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, gave free ice cream on the campus of George Washington University. Donald Trump, poised for a resounding victory, spoke at a rally event in Buffalo NY confusing 9/11 with 7/11 saying “It’s very close to my heart because I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down, and I saw the greatest people I’ve ever seen in action.”
• The soap opera that is Chicago media landscape and Michael Ferro continues. Yesterday Robert Feder (check out that new photo) reported the Tribune Publishing chairman and largest stakeholder bought SPLASH, from the Suntimes and current Editor/Publisher of Chicago Magazine Susanna Homan will also lead that publication, but certainly there will be no conflict of interest ?. In other news, Sunday’s Chicago Tribune’s outside cover was an ad for hearing aids, so there’s that.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Joe Mangiello had to cancel a few gigs after his appendicitis surgery got a bit complicated, according to reports his appendix burst.
FASHION
• Alabbar Enterprises has invested €100 million in Yoox Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP) giving them just under 3% share ownership. Alabbar is the founder and chairman of Emaar Properties, which operates several key retail outlets and malls in Dubai, including the famous Dubai Mall.
• The media company cofounded by Marc Ecko and Rich Antoniello, Complex, has been acquired by Hearst and Verizon in a 50-50 deal for an undisclosed sum. Ecko will remain at the company in the role of chief branding officer, Antoniello will remain Complex’s chief executive officer. Verizon has been in the process of building its digital businesses with a recent investment in Vice in June and a $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL in May.
“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.” ― Seth Godin
Actress Doris Roberts passed away at age 90
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She livestreamed her friend’s rape as evidence, kids these days
LOOK OF THE DAY
Sir Patrick Stewart in full drag at a Starz and FYC ‘Blunt Talk’ event
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