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China sentences Chinese-Canadian star Kris Wu to 13 years
By The Associated Press on November 25th, 2022
BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in prison on charges including rape. Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court said Wu was given 11 years and 6 months for a 2020 rape, and 1 year and 10 months for the “crime of assembling a crowd to engage ... Read More »
1 responseSix major works by Lawren Harris sell for $7.3 million at Heffel auction
By The Canadian Press on November 24th, 2022
TORONTO – Six works by Lawren Harris led Heffel’s fall auction Thursday, selling for a total of $7.3 million. One of the canvases, “House in the Ward, Winter, City Painting No. 1,” sold for $2,521,250. A painting by female Automatist painter Marcelle Ferron led the postwar & Contemporary Art session, selling for $1,801,250. Andy Warhol’s ... Read More »
1 responseP.E.I.’s long-running ‘Anne of Green Gables — The Musical’ no longer an annual event
By The Canadian Press on November 24th, 2022
CHARLOTTETOWN – The world’s longest running annual musical theatre production, “Anne of Green Gables ““ The Musical,” will not be staged next year during the Charlottetown Festival. The Confederation Centre of the Arts announced today that from now on the production will be staged every two years. The musical will next return in 2024 for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!High-flying balloon characters star in Thanksgiving parade
By Associated Press, The Associated Press on November 24th, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) – Throngs of spectators lined the streets of New York on Thursday as colorful, high-flying balloons help usher in the holiday season at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Mostly sunny skies and a slight breeze are forecast for the annual tradition, which dates back nearly a century. International cartoon sensation Bluey, the ... Read More »
1 responseAlessandro Michele steps down as Gucci creative director
By Colleen Barry, The Associated Press on November 23rd, 2022
MILAN (AP) – Alessandro Michele is leaving his role as creative director of the Gucci, the fashion house announced Wednesday, bringing an end to an eight-year tenure that sharply redefined Gucci’s codes with romanticism and gender-fluidity, all the while powering revenues for the Kering parent. Womenswear Daily reported Michele’s expected departure on Tuesday, citing sources ... Read More »
1 responseNYPD: No known threats to Macy’s parade, but tight security
By The Associated Press on November 23rd, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) – New York is planning tight security around the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the wake of mass shootings elsewhere in the U.S., police said Wednesday, while stressing that there’s no known, credible threat to the famed event itself. The holiday tradition, which draws throngs of participants and spectators, this year comes ... Read More »
1 responseGone in 9 minutes: How Celtic gold heist unfolded in Germany
By Frank Jordans, The Associated Press on November 23rd, 2022
BERLIN (AP) – Thieves who broke into a southern German museum and stole hundreds of ancient gold coins got in and out in nine minutes without raising the alarm, officials said Wednesday, in a further sign that the heist was the work of organized criminals. Police have launched an international hunt for the thieves and ... Read More »
1 responseOfficial: Organized crime likely behind Celtic gold heist
By The Associated Press on November 23rd, 2022
BERLIN (AP) – A senior official in southern Germany said Wednesday that organized crime groups were likely behind the theft of a huge horde of ancient gold coins stolen from a museum this week. The 483 coins were discovered in 1999 during excavations of an ancient settlement near the present-day town of Manchning and were ... Read More »
1 responseAP fires reporter, reviews sourcing rules after Poland error
By David Bauder, The Associated Press on November 22nd, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) – The Associated Press has fired a reporter and is reviewing its standards on use of anonymous sourcing following an “egregious” error in a story about a fatal missile strike that killed two people in Poland. The national security reporter, James LaPorta, was dismissed after being deemed primarily responsible for a Nov. ... Read More »
1 responseHuge horde of Celtic gold coins stolen from German museum
By The Associated Press on November 22nd, 2022
BERLIN (AP) – A huge horde of ancient gold coins dating back to around 100 B.C. has been stolen from a museum in southern Germany, police said Tuesday. Bavarian state police said it was stolen early Tuesday from the Celtic and Roman Museum in Manching, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Munich. The 483 coins ... Read More »
1 responseGeoff Wonfor, director of Beatles ‘Anthology,’ dead at 73
By The Associated Press on November 22nd, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) – Geoff Wonfor, a Grammy-winning British filmmaker who directed the Beatles’ acclaimed “Anthology” documentary series and worked on the 1980s music program “The Tube” as well as several projects with Paul McCartney, has died at age 73. His death was confirmed Tuesday by daughter Sam Wonfor, who said he died in Newcastle, ... Read More »
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