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• Jon Landau, AVATAR Producer, Hosts Blu-Ray Release Screening

  

  Jon Landau, executive producer of James Cameron’s phenomenally successful film AVATAR and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, recently hosted a press day introducing the soon-to-be released AVATAR Blu-ray edition.

   

• Cannes Yachting Festival – New Waves of Inspiration With Elegance and Comfort

  

  At the Cannes Yachting Festival, Berret Racoupeau's yacht design team will present their four most recent production designs: the Amel 50, the Wauquiez PS 42, the Saona and the Océanis 51, as well as other construction projects and one-off designs.

   

• Op/Ed: Mental Health and Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear Button

  

  The media is going berserk over an exchange between North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and President Trump about their respective nation’s nuclear arsenals. With Trump taunting the dictator, from one bully to another, with veiled retaliatory challenges.

   

• Media Alert: di Rosa and the Northern California Wildfires

  

  Due to the recent Northern California wildfires, di Rosa Center for Contemporary art is closed until further notice. This includes postponement of all events related to the upcoming exhibition Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times.

   

• Puerto Ricans Vote To Join United States in Statehood Referendum

  

  The people of Puerto Rico took to the polls to show their unequivocal support, a resounding 97%, for the Statehood referendum that, if the ratified, would make the island nation the 51^st State of The United States.

   

• The Trip To Spain Review – Fun-Filled, Michelin Rated, A Gastronomy Orgasm

  

  The Trip to Spain, from IFC Films and Revolution Films, presents the third road film, that have our companions headed to parts unknown to write reviews from the premiere, off the beaten path, restaurants for marketing and film promotion.

   

• Mr. Peabody & Sherman Review - An Instant Classic From DreamWorks Animation

  

  "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," from DreamWorks Animation and The Lion King Director Rob Minkoff, brings to the screen a charming, enchanted, tale of a modern blended family and emphasizes the fun of learning through eye popping 3-D trips back in time.

   

• Beltway Insider: Obama Fails Handling Belgium Attack; Brussels; ISIS, Taliban Strike Three Cities; Election 2016

  

  Two separate terror organizations, Islamic State and the Taliban, initiated an active, multi-national, campaign this week, sending out three teams of suicide bombers, killing at least 141 and injuring more than 500 in the attacks in Belgium, Iraq and Pakistan.

   

• “Grace of Monaco” by Olivier Dahan to open the 67th Festival de Cannes

  

  French director Olivier Dahan’s "Grace of Monaco"  is to open the next Festival de Cannes. The world preview will take place on Wednesday 14 May, 2014, in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, in the Official Selection category, Out of Competition.

   

• UPDATE: Chicago’s Bloody Christmas Weekend Thankfully Ends; 2016 Expected to Be Third Highest

  

  Chicago’s bloody rampage continued Monday with a sharp spike in shootings and with five days before New Year’s Eve the 61 shootings, 50 wounded and 11 homicides, over the three-day holiday weekend bring the 2016 total to 785 homicides.

   

• Smart Home Gift Guide: Perfect Gifts For The Contemporary Home

  

  Looking for the perfect gift to enhance any home’s value, be the envy of every guest and neighbor, and add days and years of pleasure, be handy for apartment dwellers and home owners, be smart and environmental friendly?

   

• Celebrity Interview: Talking with Armie Hammer on Final Portrait, Geoffrey Rush and Inspiration

  

  Armie Hammer, who's star power is seriously on the rise, is becoming quite well known and after his award nominated performance in Call Me By Your Name, is their anywhere on the planet where he isn't recognized?

   

• Beltway Insider: Immigration Ban Challenges Trump; E.O’s; PM May Visits WH; Princess Diana; MTM/Emmanuelle Riva

  

  President Donald Trump spent his first full week as the 45^th President alienating our nearest neighbors demanding the Mexican government pay for the proposed "Border Wall" that resulted in the Mexican President cancelling an upcoming White House visit.

   

• Climate Activist Michael Foster Sentenced To Three Years In Prison

  

  Climate activist Michael Foster will be imprisoned for shutting off the emergency valve on TransCanada’s Keystone 1 tar sands pipeline in North Dakota. This morning in Pembina County Court, Judge Laurie A. Fontaine sentenced Foster to three years.

   

• Sandy Hook Massacre: The Slaughter of the Innocent

  

  20 children and six adults were slaughtered, Friday, when a lone gunman fought his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, armed with enough ammunition to murder every student in this small New York City suburb.

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