Entertainment | Ap-entertainment Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have pulled production of their runaway slave drama “Emancipation” from Georgia over the state’s recently enacted law restricting voting access. The film is the largest and most high profile Hollywood production to depart the state since Georgia’s Republican-controlled state Legislature passed a law that introduced stiffer voter identification requirements for absentee balloting, limited drop boxes and gave the State Election Board new powers to intervene in county election offices and to remove and replace local election officials. Opponents have said the law is designed to reduce the impact of minority voters. |
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 | Ap-entertainment Italian police say they have recovered a 1st century Roman statue that was stolen from an archaeological site in 2011 and found in a Belgian antiques shop by two off-duty Italian art squad police officers. The Carabinieri art squad said Monday that an Italian businessman who used a Spanish pseudonym has been referred to prosecutors for further investigation into allegations he received and then exported the statue abroad. The statue, featuring a headless Roman wearing a draped toga, has been valued at 100,000 euro. It was stolen in November 2011 from the Villa Marini Dettina archaeological site on the outskirts of Rome. The two art squad police were on assignment in Brussels when they took a walk after work in an area known for its antiques shops. |
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 | Ap-lifestyles The Met Gala is coming back. Not only once, but twice. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that the annual high-wattage celebration of both fashion and celebrity -- canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic -- will return in person. The first will be a more intimate affair in September. And then the larger gala will return in 2022 on its usual date on the first Monday in May. There was no word yet on the celebrity hosts, or chairs. The galas will launch a two-part exhibition. “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” opens Sept. 18. Part Two, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” opens May 5, 2022. |
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Odd News | A Massachusetts nurse just wanted to take a stroll on the beach when she ended up feeling the way so many have during the pandemic. But in … |
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Most local elections in April attract low voter turnout. But the small southwest Missouri town of La Russell set a new low, when not one of… |
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 | Police in Sri Lanka have arrested the reigning Mrs. World for pulling the crown off the head of the winner of a Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pagea… |
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 | By Day 3 of being confined to his Brisbane hotel room for quarantine, David Marriott was getting bored. He’d watched a few seasons of “The … |
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