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HOLLYWOOD — Authorities say 10 people were injured Monday night at a Hollywood rap event after a possible stampede.

It happened shortly after 9 p.m. outside the Hollywood & Highland shopping center, where the rapper Phora was holding a meet and greet in a shoe store.

Several fans @PHORAONE album release event are injured after a stampede occurs near Highland and Hollywood Boulevard in #Hollywood. Highland CLOSED between Franklin and Hollywood. #cbsla pic.twitter.com/jxIaWwkpmP

— Jeff Vaughn (@JeffVaughn) October 9, 2018

KABC-TV says when Phora stepped outside, he was engulfed by fans, some of whom had been standing for hours. Police called it a stampede. Fans said there was only pushing and shoving but some people hyperventilated and passed out.

The Los Angeles Fire Department says 10 teenagers and young adults were treated for illness or injury from a crowd surge. Eight were taken to hospitals. None of the problems are life-threatening.

Phora apologized to the fans and said he hoped nobody was seriously hurt.

Police cleared the crowd. No arrests were made.

An Anaheim rapper, Phora’s real name is Marco Anthony Archer.

City News Service contributed to this story.

As I listened to ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ on Monday I realized there are many ways one can enjoy, or perhaps more accurately “enjoy,” these grand dames of reality television.

There’s a scene at Housewife Shannon Beador’s house where housewives Kelly Dodd and Tamra greet each other as they do: with Tamra saying, “I’m wearing my Kelly shirt!’ and Kelly replying, “Oh, yeah, motorboating!” and then burying her face in Tamra’s décolletage while blowing raspberries with her lips.

Typically tacky, right? But now replay that scene as it would be if it was narrated by Sir David Attenborough on some BBC nature series: “One female now approaches another and greets her in a manner unique to the species Realus Housesapiens … .”

From trash to class! You’re welcome.

This will be a breezier recap than most because if you noticed at the top my mention of “listened” and thought, Doesn’t the male Recapus Televisionus watch and not listen, well, normally you’d be as correct as Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, i.e., 100 percent.

But Monday was a very busy day, which included a work trip to Los Angeles, a trek I can make in less than a day but Matt, the soon-to-be-ex of Housewife Gina Kirschenheiter, can only muster the energy and provisions to make every few weeks.

And since it was also my 24th wedding anniversary on Monday and I was pretty much another 100 percent sure that my Actual wife’s interests did not include watching the Housewives and then watching me write this folderol, I decided to listen to the screener in the car on the drive home.

Which taught me this: As an audiobook, “The Real Housewives of Orange County” is even worse than it as a TV show, as dull yet trashy as Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” crossed with Judith Krantz’s “Dazzle.”

This episode wasn’t much more exciting than the previous one though there was a more respectable amount of booze downed, though alas, not in my Housewife-mobile.

Gina continued to talk about how carefree her impending divorce with Matt will be though her frequent tears belie that just a bit.

Housewife Emily Simpson continued her efforts to persuade husband Shane to have a fourth baby, as easy as popping one of their nine frozen embyros into a surrogate mother, though Emily’s sister is apparently calling it quits after carrying Emily’s twin boys and daughter. “She said, ‘Oven is closed,’” Emily’s mother-in-law tells her fertility doctor.

And both Gina and Emily just can’t stop talking about why Shannon isn’t friendlier to them faster, a point that’s underscored when Shannon throws herself a dinner party after returning from her successful QVC sales tryout.

Tamra tells husband Eddie Judge that she’s headed to Shannon’s for “a celebratory dinner,” though Eddie’s ears do not deceive him and he hears what we all hear, which is that Tamra thinks celebratory is pronounced “celibate-ory.”

“She’s going celibate?” he asks Tamra.

“No, she was celibate when she was married,” Tamra cracks.

“Actually she didn’t sell-a-bit, she sold-a-lot,” she continues, referencing how much of Shannon’s frozen food she sold on QVC, and once again that just as a ’70s heavy metal anthem is better with more cowbell, an episode of the Housewives is always improved with more Tamra.

When the dinner gets started Kelly shoves her face in Tamra’s chest, Gina gets all weepy over Matt, Vicki Gunvalson muses over whether Gina is suffering from “divorce remorse.” By the time I heard Shannon wonder, “Is it done? Is it overdone?” I wasn’t sure whether she was talking about her main dish or Gina’s marriage. Could have been both, though one was served with a lot more ginger than the other.

Because this was the podcasting equivalent of reality TV I didn’t track all the tears and beers and unseemly jeers. I do know that no one fell down, and I’m still not happy about that.

But next week should be better, as the Housewives head for a Jamaican get-away. Kelly says she recently binge-bought 27 swimsuits, Shannon says she doesn’t want to wear one once, and judging from the trailer for next week we’re in for middle-aged white women wearing Rastafarian tri-colored beanies and trying out bad patois.

So … yay?

Sharon Chappell experienced a burst of creativity from a very unlikely source: a breast cancer diagnosis.

Chappell, who went through 10 months of chemotherapy, grew frustrated with the lack of literature available to read to her seventh-grade daughter to help explain how cancer would affect her and their family.

So the CSUF assistant professor of elementary and bilingual education took the matter into her own hands, writing a children’s book, “The Little Green Monster: Cancer Magic!,” which will be published Nov. 2.

And as she worked on the book, as well as her own art and poetry to help herself cope with the disease, she took on another project — curating the exhibition that opened in the Pollak Library’s second-floor west terrace just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.

“Nevertheless, We Persisted” features artworks by Chappell, fellow CSUF faculty and staff members, and local and national artists who are breast cancer survivors. It explores personal, political, social and medical issues related to breast cancer.

“Really, when you are faced with dying, there are a lot of ways you can approach it,” said Chappell, who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer last November. “These women who have created the art have thrived. They see themselves as strong women and creative people whose voices need to be heard.”

According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, except for skin cancers. Currently, the average risk of a woman in the United States developing breast cancer sometime in her life is about 12 percent, or a 1 in 8 chance, Chappell said.

The exhibition, which takes up most of the library’s terrace, came together after Chappell reached out to the California Arts Council and others on campus for submissions.

Joy Lambert, a reference and instruction librarian at CSUF, made a Girl Scout sash that touts her achievements after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 — two weeks before her daughter, Lily, was born.

“My doctors came up with a treatment plan, so as soon as my daughter was born the train left the station and treatment started,” she said. “It was pretty crazy, but now I feel great.”

Her star badge is her daughter.

“Everything I went through was worth it to be healthy for her,” Lambert said.

Along one wall are several display cases full of “Artful Bras,” colorful bras decorated with beads, fringe, feathers and other materials. One of Chappell’s contributions is a black bra that has photographs from her diagnosis and various procedures during chemotherapy and radiation.

“My bras were constructed with mixed media materials and hand-sewn poetry I wrote,” she said. “They were a way of me expressing my different experiences with breast cancer, from my reaction to the survivor pink, to the grid of photographs of my medical care, to the super bloom of creativity I felt during this difficult time.”

Strung along the opposite wall is a collection of healing flags, with scenes of sunsets, flowers, patches of fabric and inspirational messages.

At a public reception from 2-4 p.m. Oct. 20, visitors can participate in a ‪”Hope Made Visible” workshop led by expressive arts therapist Alessandra Colfi, who will help them create their own healing flag.

Below the flags is a collection of knit beanies that were given to Chappell. She wore them occasionally, but frequently left her head uncovered.

She explained why in a poem titled “Isn’t Your Head Cold?” Here is an excerpt:

“Every time I am asked to put on a hat,

to cover up, to hide my lack of hair,

I am reminded that chances are,

you believe my beauty is lost

(just temporarily, don’t worry).

I want to tell you: this body is my own,

I am embracing this head.

I don’t need a hat, thank you very much.”

Images from “The Little Green Monster: Cancer Magic!” are prominently displayed. Based on Zoe, a rescue parrot the family adopted after Chappell was diagnosed with cancer, the monster helps children when they are sad, celebrates special moments with them and reassures them.

“He’s full of magic and helped our family during difficult times in cancer treatment and he also helped us enjoy regular moments,” she said about Zoe.

The book also tackles questions children often have: why does hair fall out, how does medicine help and what is the difference between regular cells and cancer cells.

Chappell raised $8,000 to have the book produced and to provide copies to families affected by cancer. She makes herself available for readings and art workshops, where children can create their own “green monster,” in cancer support groups, libraries, schools and community centers.

As an elementary educator, Chappell said she has learned that being open and honest with children is the best way to help them get through difficult times.

“They want to know and feel better when they know,” she said,

Chappell’s father died of terminal brain cancer three days after her diagnosis, and she explained to her daughter the difference between a survivable cancer and a terminal case.

“She understood that the treatment can remove this cancer from my body,” Chappell said about her daughter. “It can be difficult, but survivable.”

Chappell said she has a grant in the spring to create partnerships with schools and hospitals to use literature and the arts to help children understand cancer. It’s a mission she finds herself increasingly drawn to.

And with her specialty in gender diversity and LGBTQ inclusion, she said she wants to make sure the program reaches communities that have been marginalized.

“I have learned a whole lot, and I feel now like the person I was trying to be before,” she said. “I feel like I am more that person now than I have ever been.”

LONDON — Halloween may be three weeks away, but Bally is already dreaming of skeletons, flies and skulls, part of its new collaboration with Swizz Beatz, and the London-based spray paint artist known as Shok-1.
Bally will reveal the capsule accessories collection on Wednesday during a flash, two-day visit to Tokyo where Shok-1 will also unveil a mural on the side of Park Building in Shibuya and host a pop-up gallery at the brand’s Ginza flagship, its largest store at 8,640 square feet.
This is the latest collaboration between Bally and Kasseem Dean, the music producer known as Swizz Beatz, who works with the Swiss brand to find talent for one-off collections.
This latest offer includes totes, clutches, high-tops and hoodies with Shok-1’s delicate X-ray paintings of flies, skeleton torsos and bony hands that form one of music’s favorite gestures, a fist with the pinkie and index fingers extended.

A backpack from the new Bally x Swizz Beatz x Shok-1 collaboration. 
Courtesy Photo

Frédéric de Narp, Bally’s chief executive officer, said the brand and Swizz Beatz were both eager to work with Shok-1, a British artist who began his career as a chemist and who is now known for his graceful, large-scale murals, some of which are

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Designer and Indian celebrity favorite Sabyasachi Mukherjee has dipped into cosmetics with beauty giant L’Oreal Paris, working with actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for the 21-piece collection, which is now available for sale online.
While the makeup is positioned as a festive collection, Sabyasachi wrote when debuting the line on Instagram late on Monday evening that he wanted the range to feel classic and simple.
“For me, classic is iconic, because classic is unforgettable,” the designer said. “The whole world is moving towards a state of effective simplicity where classic will lead the way. Makeup will be more about a stronger, lasting identity. A winged black liner with a bold red mouth offset with a simple saree and wind-swept hair is perhaps an iconic Indian beauty look.”
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The campaign with Rai Bachchan was shot on July 15 at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Sabyasachi also shared how the look for the look for the packaging came together — inspired by a fountain pen that one of his team was using.
“It is sometimes funny how things just come together. We were all in deep discussion about the new packaging and nothing was quite working out. I wanted something

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NEW YORK — Given its name and the audience it targets, Hypefest, the first shopping event and festival put on by Hypebeast, was unexpectedly somber.
The two-day event, which took place this past weekend in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was spread between two buildings, which were filled with about 50 brand booths. The marketplace was complemented by talks, food and live performances from a stage outside.
It’s a formula that’s been proven successful for Complex’s ComplexCon, which started in 2016 and generated $20 million to $25 million in sales last year, and other shopping events including Yo’Hood in Shanghai, which was founded in 2013, and Sole DXB in Dubai, which started in 2010.
In its first iteration, Hypefest was a smaller version of those festivals — last year’s ComplexCon drew 50,000 visitors while Hypefest brought in around 10,000 — and was devoid of the running, onsite reselling and frenzy turned into safety hazards that spurred criticism of ComplexCon. In an Instagram caption that’s now deleted, Bobby Hundreds, founder of The Hundreds, was upset by the insatiable desire for product at ComplexCon, and grown men toppling over younger ones to get it. “You could smell the oils of commerce in the air,” he wrote.

The scene

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The Swiss watchmaker is just one of many pulling out of the watch industry’s trade show circuit.