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“I am the me I choose to be.” ― Sidney Poitier
CHICAGO NEWS
• The Underground will host a launch party for The Warehouse movie project about “The Godfather of House Music” Frankie Knuckles at 6pm. The movie is still in its infancy with no script written or director chosen. Tickets to the party is $20 which includes cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. [DNA INFO]
NATIONAL NEWS
• A manhunt is underway for Wossen Assaye who escaped from Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia while being watched by a private security guard and he’s considered armed and dangerous. Assaye was being held by the nearby city of Alexandria on federal charges of armed bank robbery and was taken to a local hospital after he tried to harm himself. [ABC NEWS]
• Thats cold and cheap! Cablevision Systems Corp, controlled by the Dolan family of the New York Knicks, plans to make an offer for newspaper New York Daily News as early as this week, valuing the troubled tabloid at just $1. Cablevision’s $1 bid takes into account the New York Daily News’ reported $30 million annual loss and $150 million investment in a printing press. [REUTERS]
WORLD NEWS
• Tick tock says the clock, or in this case the six world powers in negotiation with Iran. The deadline in the preliminary deal on Tehran’s nuclear program is hours away but both sides can’t seem to agree on the duration and the lifting of sanctions. The real deadline in the talks, Western and Iranian officials said, is not Tuesday but June 30. [REUTERS]
SPORTS
• Bring the noise, just don’t fake it! The Atlants Falcons conceded to pumping artificial crowd noise into the Georgia Dome and for that the NFL has fined them $350,000, loss of 2016 draft pick and suspension of team president Rich McKay from the league’s powerful Competition Committee for at least three months. The Falcons violated league rules that state “at no point during the game can artificial crowd noise or amplified crowd noise be played in the stadium” from 2013-2014. [USA TODAY]
BUSINESS
• Cie. Financière Richemont SA plans to merge Net-A-Porter with Italian Web-based clothing company Yoox SpA to create Yoox Net-A-Porter Group, an internet shopping giant with revenues of more than $1.4 billion in an all-stock deal. Federico Marchetti, the founder and chief executive will become the combined company’s CEO. Ms. Massenet founder of Net-A-Porter, currently executive chairman of Net-A-Porter, will take on the same role at the enlarged company. [WSJ]
CELEBRITIES
• Squadddd! What looked like a 2015 version of “We are The World” was actually the roll out of new music streaming service TIDAL. Beyonce, Madonna, Deadmau5, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Chris Martin(via video),Nicki Minaj, Jack White, Jason Aldean were all on had to sign the “declaration” of the Jay Z owned paid subscription streaming service with two tiers, where a majority of the company will be owned by artists and compete against Spotify, Google and soon Apple. [NY TIMES]
FASHION
• Karl Lagerfeld hosted Cruise with Karl, a dinner on a boat over the Hudson river in NYC Monday night that included Katy Perry, models of the mo Cara Delevingne,Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Kris Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, Mia Moretti. [MIRROR UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• IVANKA TRUMP @ premiere of Woman in Gold
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