The county board of supervisors voted Tuesday to approve the current plan and release $117.5 million in taxpayer funding for it, despite last-minute entreaties from some art and architecture critics who urged the board to vote against the project. – The New York Times
Tag: 04.11.19
Actor Geoffrey Rush Wins Defamation Lawsuit Against Tabloid That Accused Him Of Sexual Harassment
“[The] Oscar-winning actor … has been awarded $850,000 [Aus] in damages and will receive further damages for economic loss after he won his defamation case against Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph over reports accusing him of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ towards a female co-star” in a 2015 Sydney Theatre Co. production of King Lear. – Sydney Morning Herald