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PRES. OBAMA IN CUBA
¿Que bolá Cuba? was the first tweet from @POTUS account upon touching down in a rainy Havanna last night. This is the first time in nearly 90 years that a sitting US President has visited the once ostracized nation. President Obama and President Raul Castro will have their fourth meeting today at the Palace of the Revolution where they will discuss economic and democratic reforms as well as US economic sanctions. Cuba will not waver from its 57-year-old revolution and government officials say the United States needs to end its economic embargo and return the Guantanamo Bay naval base to Cuba before the two nations can enjoy normal relations.
SNIPPETS
• Apple’s highly anticipated event scheduled for today may involve the introduction of a smaller, cheaper iPhone, “The iPhone SE,” after a large decrease in phone sales last year. They will also introduce a smaller version of its iPad Pro tablet with new Apple Pencil stylus and new Apple Watch bands.
•There might be a snag in Tribune Publishing and Chairman Michael Ferro’s bid to “save journalism.” After their $56 million bankruptcy auction bid to buy Orange County register was blocked by a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit Friday, Freedom Communications has decided to sell OC register to Digital First, pending a federal bankruptcy judge’s ruling today.
• Victoria Azarenka defeating Serena Williams, 6-4, 6-4, in Williams’ first appearance in the final of the BNP Paribas Open tournament since 2001 should have been the big news but it was the comments tournament director Raymond Moore made that’s making headline. Speaking with the media Sunday morning, he said female tennis players were “lucky” and owed their status to stars of the men’s game. “In my next life when I come back I want to be someone in the WTA, because they ride on the coattails of the men,” Moore said. “They don’t make any decisions and they are lucky. They are very, very lucky. If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they have carried this sport. They really have.” He might have to get down on his knees for a new job soon.
• Over the weekend, the surviving suspected terrorist in the Paris attack, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam was captured in Belgium. Pope Francis joined Instagram. A Flydubai plane, after circling a southern Russian airport for more than two hours because of high ground-level winds and poor visibility crashed during a landing attempt, killing all 62 people aboard.
ENTERTAINMENT
• The amfAR gala honoring Victoria Beckham in Hong Kong raised more than $4 million. Guests in attendance included: Uma Thurman, Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli, Michelle Rodriguez. Oscar winner Adrien Brody, donated one of his own artworks to the auction: a painting of a gray dragon.
FASHION
• Capping LA Fashion Week, the Daily Front Row‘s Fashion awards dinner/party at Mr Chow in LA was the place to be last night. Co-hosted by photographer Mert Alaş (of Mert & Marcus) and CR Fashion Book’s Carine Roitfeld, guests included Lady Gaga, Alber Elbaz, Jennifer Meyer, Nicole Richie, Kate Hudson, Nick Jonas, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West, Kris Jennerand boyfriend Cory Gamble, Ciara and fiancé Russell Wilson, Presley Gerber and Kaia Gerber. Honorees were: Brandon Maxwell, Bella Hadid, Rob Zangardi and Mariel Haenn, Lady Gaga, Karl Lagerfeld.
• London’s Dover Street is getting bigger with 5 levels as the celebrated curated fashion market founded by Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe of Comme des Garçons, relocated to London’s Haymarket. All the represented brands with dedicated spaces were given the freedom to design their area as they saw fit.
“When you assume negative intent, you’re angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.” ― Indra Nooyi
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Will the real Kevin Spacey please stand up
Sherwin-Williams to buy Valspar for $9.3 billion
LOOK OF THE DAY
Gal Gadot @ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice NYC Premiere
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