UTA RALLY FOR THE ACLU

UTA's "United Voices" rally, which will supplant the agency's annual Oscar party this year.

Jodie Foster, Michael J. Fox and Keegan-Michael Key

 were among the speakers and performers.

Other speakers include Iranian-American author Reza Aslan, Tony winner Cynthia Erivo and Wilmer Valderrama.

UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom also speak at the rally, outside UTA's Beverly Hills offices. 

MODERN RELIGION

Post by Cde Simba Rashe.

ACE HOTEL FOUNDER DIES

Alex Calderwood, co-founder of the Ace Hotel who had a knack for transforming all but discarded buildings into hip and happening hotels, has died. He was 45. The cause of death is not known.

Calderwood’s most recent hotel project is the Ace Hotel LondonShoreditch. There are four others.

The Ace Hotel Palm Springs is a 170-room hotel that moved into what was a former Howard Johnson’s motel in south Palm Springs. It has helped to spawn a collective energy making the city attractive to younger travelers in search of live music, pool parties and the kind of stylish sensibility that seems to be that perfect blend of both random and curated.

Calderwood grew up in Seattle, where in 1992 he opened Rudy’s, a barbershop where guys could get a fashionable haircut in setting that may have been more flea market than salon. There are now 14 Rudy’s scattered across Seattle, Portland, New York and Los Angeles.

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