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French actor and director Jean-Pierre Baro poses at the Theatre National de Bretagne (TNB) in Rennes, western France, in this March 1, 2019 file photo. — AFP
French theater director quits after rape claim
PARIS —The director of a French theater has resigned the day after his staff went on strike urging him to quit over the fallout from a rape allegation.Jean-Pierre Baro, the first major theater figure to be hit by the #MeToo movement in France, denied assaulting a colleague in 2011 and police dropped the case for lack of proof.Baro, one of the few black men at the head of a French cultural institution, made his name with a stage adaptation of JM Coetzee's novel "Disgrace" about a South African university professor accused of sexually harassing a student.A formal complaint for rape was made last year shortly after he was chosen to head the Theatre des Quartiers d'Ivry on the southeastern edge of Paris."My conscience is clear," Baro said after stepping down on...
December 13, 2019

French theater director quits after rape claim

Virgil Abloh, the US designer, is applauded at a fashion show in this file photo. — AFP
Leonardo hoodie yours for $640 as Louvre cashes in street cred
PARIS — As an artist, architect and engineer, Virgil Abloh is fashion's renaissance man.Now the hyperactive US designer is measuring himself up against the greatest polymath of all with a collection of clothes inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.The T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies adorned with some of Leonardo's greatest works are a part of an official hook up with the Louvre museum in Paris, which is staging a blockbuster show to mark the 500th anniversary of the Italian master's death.The hoodies selling for up to 572 euros a piece ($640) mix Leonardo male nudes and paintings like "Saint Anne" with the four-arrowed logo of Abloh's ultra-hip Off-White label.The world's most visited museum has been a magnet for black American megastars of late, with music's...
December 13, 2019

Leonardo hoodie yours for $640 as Louvre cashes in street cred

This handout photography releases by Griffith University on Wednesday shows cave art inside Bulu Sipong 4, Sulawesi, Indonesia. — AFP
World's oldest artwork uncovered in Indonesian cave: Study
JAKARTA — An Indonesian cave painting that depicts a prehistoric hunting scene could be the world's oldest figurative artwork dating back nearly 44,000 years, a discovery that points to an advanced artistic culture, according to new research.Spotted two years ago on the island of Sulawesi, the 4.5 meter (13 foot) wide painting features wild animals being chased by half-human hunters wielding what appear to be spears and ropes, said the study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.Using dating technology, the team at Australia's Griffith University said it had confirmed that the limestone cave painting dated back at least 43,900 years during the Upper Palaeolithic period."This hunting scene is — to our knowledge — currently the oldest pictorial record of...
December 12, 2019

World's oldest artwork uncovered in Indonesian cave: Study

Harvey Weinstein leaves Manhattan Criminal Court, using a walker, following a hearing in New York on Wednesday. — AFP
Weinstein agrees $25m settlement with accusers: Lawyer
NEW YORK — Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a $25 million settlement with dozens of his alleged sexual misconduct victims, one of the women's lawyers said on Wednesday.The cash will be shared among more than 30 actresses and former employees who have sued the 67-year-old producer for offenses ranging from sexual harassment to rape.Aaron Filler, an attorney for "Boardwalk Empire" actress Paz de la Huerta, said he expected his client, who accused Weinstein of raping her in 2010, to be part of the settlement.Weinstein will not have to admit wrongdoing or pay from his own pocket, celebrity news portal TMZ said, with the bill instead being met by insurers for his bankrupt former movie studio, The Weinstein Company.The deal will have to be signed by all...
December 12, 2019

Weinstein agrees $25m settlement with accusers: Lawyer

US rapper ASAP Rocky performs during the Lowlands music festival in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, in this Aug. 18, 2019 file photo. — AFP
A$AP Rocky back in Sweden 4 months after assault conviction
STOCKHOLM — New York rapper A$AP Rocky was back in Sweden on Wednesday for a concert, four months after receiving a suspended sentence over a Stockholm street fight.The gig alongside Swedish rap artists Jireel, Z.E and Dree Low is set for Stockholm's Ericsson Globe, a golf ball-shaped arena that is the world's largest spherical building.A$AP Rocky's booking agency Live Nation said part of the concert's proceeds would go to charity.The 31-year-old rapper will have to be on good behavior during his stay in Sweden to avoid seeing his suspended sentence change to a spell behind bars.A$AP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was arrested on July 3 a few days after a brawl in Stockholm in which he and his entourage were embroiled with a 19-year-old plaintiff.Considered a...
December 11, 2019

A$AP Rocky back in Sweden 4 months after assault conviction

Juice Wrld performs onstage during the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival and Daytime Stage at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada, in this September 21, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Juice WRLD death sends shudder through 'SoundCloud rap' world
NEW YORK — The shock death of artist Juice WRLD has renewed mainstream focus on the "SoundCloud rappers," a hip hop subgenre whose angsty, jagged sound has taken the internet — and the charts — by storm.The unpolished movement takes its name from the Berlin-headquartered platform where its artists launched to fame, a streaming site started in 2007 that lends itself to discovery without the traditional gatekeepers.But once seen as hip hop's disruptors, the scene is increasingly succumbing to a tragic fate: rapper Juice WRLD's weekend death, causes still unknown, was only the latest to strike the subgenre.The DIY site SoundCloud once was rap's Wild West, where wannabe musicians uploaded their rough, often emotionally vulnerable music, promoting it to their...
December 10, 2019

Juice WRLD death sends shudder through 'SoundCloud rap' world

U2 frontman singer Bono speaks to the media during a signing ceremony in Manila on Tuesday. — AFP
Bono: 'No compromise' on human rights in the Philippines
MANILA — U2 frontman Bono said Tuesday there must be no compromise on human rights, in a rebuke of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ahead of the Irish rockers' first Manila concert.The Philippine leader has waged a deadly war on drugs that has claimed thousands of lives.Overwhelmingly backed by Filipinos but condemned by critics who say it is a war crime, the killings by police as well as unknown suspects are the subject of a preliminary inquiry by the International Criminal Court prosecutor.The rock icon, a longtime member of Amnesty International, a critic of Duterte's drug war, said human rights are "critical" which he takes "very seriously"."I would just say you can't compromise on human rights and that's my soft message to the...
December 10, 2019

Bono: 'No compromise' on human rights in the Philippines

Swedish singer Marie Fredriksson of the pop group Roxette performs in Cologne, western Germany, in this March 19, 2011 file photo. — AFP
Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies aged 61
STOCKHOLM — The lead singer of Swedish pop duo sensation Roxette, Marie Fredriksson, who shot to global fame in the 1990s with hits like "It Must Have Been Love", has died aged 61 after a long fight with cancer, her manager said on Tuesday.The mother of two, who died on Monday, had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2002 but went into remission and made a musical comeback a few years later.By 2016, however, the illness had taken its toll and doctors advised her to stop touring.Announcing her death, Dimberg Jernberg Management described Fredriksson as "a wonderful person with a huge appetite for life"."Marie leaves us a grand musical legacy," the company said in a statement."Her amazing voice — both strong and sensitive — and her magical live...
December 10, 2019

Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies aged 61

Comedian Bill Cosby leaves after the first day of a sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo. — AFP
Bill Cosby loses appeal after sexual assault conviction
NEW YORK — US comedian Bill Cosby, who is serving a three and a half year jail term, on Tuesday lost his appeal against his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago.Cosby had appealed to Pennsylvania's Superior Court, which issued a 94-page ruling upholding his conviction. He could now take his case to the state's Supreme Court."We are very pleased with today's Superior Court decision affirming the jury's guilty verdict ... as well as the sentence," district attorney Kevin Steele said in a statement."With this decision, it has been affirmed that no one is above the law."The 82-year-old, who shattered racial barriers with his role as a dad and doctor on the hit TV series "The Cosby Show," (1984-1992), was found...
December 10, 2019

Bill Cosby loses appeal after sexual assault conviction

Demonstrators protest the awarding of the 2019 Nobel literature prize to Peter Handke during a demonstration in Stockholm on Tuesday. — AFP
Handke faces protests at Nobel Prize ceremony
STOCKHOLM — Nobel literature laureate Peter Handke faced protests and boycotts over his backing of Serbia during the wars in ex-Yugoslavia as he received his prize at a gala ceremony on Tuesday in Stockholm.The Swedish Academy's pick for the 2019 prize, announced in October, triggered outrage in the Balkans and beyond because of Handke's support for late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.The 77-year-old Austrian author received his award from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony with this year's other laureates, followed by a gala banquet attended by more than 1,200 special guests.The Academy honored Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience".It called him "one...
December 10, 2019

Handke faces protests at Nobel Prize ceremony

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