HEADLINER
NBA Lottery takes place today in Manhattan and the Chicago Bulls will be represented by Jimmy Butler not GM Gar Forman. The 32nd annual NBA Draft Lottery will determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the 2016 NBA Draft. Since the Bulls didn’t make it to the playoffs they are in the lottery albeit the best team in the lottery at 42-40 and will have only five combinations out of 1,000. Speaking of the NBA, Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns was selected as the unanimous Rookie of the Year.
MORE NEWS
• Kentucky and Oregon, you’re up. The never ending elections primaries continues as lone GOP candidate Donald Trump tries to convince us he’s just misunderstood, while Hillary Clinton tries to freeze Bernie Sanders’ heat which is killin’ her vibe at the mo’. Bloomberg reports that on Wednesday, Priorities USA, a pro-Clinton super-PAC, with $136 million in advertising, will begin airing its first television attacks on Trump. Read more
• Who’s driving that big truck? If it’s up to these guys, a machine. Four ex-Googlers have formed the startup Otto, to “rethink” the commercial trucking industry. One of the founders, Anthony Levandowski, led Google’s self-driving car efforts.
• Scott Leader, 38, and Steve Leader, 30, arrested Aug. 19, were sentenced yesterday to prison and probation for urinating on and beating a homeless Mexican man and telling police “Donald Trump was right: All these illegals need to be deported.” They were charged with causing bodily injury while committing a civil rights violation, as well as assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, among other charges.
ENTERTAINMENT
• The Webby Awards, named Kim Kardashian the recipient of their first ever Break The Internet Award in recognition of her ‘bold and creative’ use of online platforms, aka showing all your goods with no abandon. Webby is billed as the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet including Websites, Online Film & Video, Advertising, Mobile Sites & Apps and Social.
FASHION
• Jonathan Saunders has been named the chief creative officer of Diane von Furstenberg effective immediately and will report to DVF CEO Paolo Riva. Saunders, a known name in the fashion world who had his own line until it was shuttered earlier this year, has also previously worked at labels including Chloé and Pucci. “Jonathan’s extraordinary passion for colors and prints, his effortless designs, and his desire to make women feel beautiful make him the perfect creative force to lead DVF into the future,” said Diane von Furstenberg.
• Model Chanel Iman is channeling Prince on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Serbia’s latest issue. Copy is in Russian though.
“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.” ― Napoleon Hill
What to do and where to make THE scene this week in Chicago.
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So so sad, on the way to deliver her baby, a car crash kills mom, baby and husband survive
Australia will give special anti-viral condoms to Athletes headed to Rio
LOOK OF THE DAY
Sonam Kapoor @ “Loving” Cannes premiere
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