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30 Established 1961 Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Lifestyle Music & Movies Cardi B visits Music Choice at Music Choice on April 10, 2018 in New York City. — AFP People enter and exit the Spectra installation by Newsubstance Sunday at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Eminem, Cardi B tap star power at Coachella minem and Cardi B may be at different stages of their musical versatility. Her debut album, “Invasion of Privacy,” than a year. Among performers on Sunday, Ibeyi-twin careers, but the two rappers have one strategy in brought in energetic, street festival-style horns on the French sisters of Afro-Cuban heritage-took aim at Trump’s Ecommon-when playing at Coachella, go big. Both track “I Like It,” which she performed live at Coachella. treatment of women with the song “No Man Is Big Enough Eminem, who playfully acknowledged concerns about his Cardi B has demonstrated striking candor about the for My Arms.” Set to a dominant bass line and trip-hop continued relevance, and the pregnant Cardi B, whose first finances of playing Coachella-arguably the most watched beat, the song samples former first lady Michelle Obama album just opened at number one on the US chart, kept a festival in the world, especially this year with Glastonbury as she says, “The measure of any society is how it treats its dizzying pace with a stream of surprise guests on the final in Britain on a scheduled break. women and girls.” Ibeyi performs with Kali Uchis Sunday at the Coachella Music day of the premier music festival. She told satellite radio SiriusXM that she spent Young British rocker King Krule performed a set of his and Arts Festival in Indio. Closing the three-day bash Sunday before thousands of $300,000 of her own money to develop a worthy set for explosive punk-infused jazz while French DJ Petit Biscuit often scantily clad revelers in the California desert, Coachella, where she will earn only $140,000. That sum- packed a tent full of thousands of revelers with his guitar- Eminem offered a disconcerting trip to “8 Mile”-a stage presumably reached before Cardi B’s recent meteoric infused yet minimalist electronic tracks. Indie rocker replica of his blighted hometown Detroit, cast in an even ascent- also includes a performance next weekend, when Japanese Breakfast, the stage name of Michelle Zauner, harsher light through special effects of rain and then arson. Coachella reconvenes for a second edition with an identi- paid tribute to late Cranberries frontwoman Dolores Eminem brought out 50 Cent, joining in the New York cal lineup. O’Riordan with a one-notch-louder cover of “Dreams.” rapper’s birthday anthem “In Da Club,” before the crowd Japanese Breakfast dedicated the track to a supportive erupted on sight of the elusive Dr Dre, Eminem’s mentor. Michelle Obama in trip-hop friend who flew to the show and who, at a younger age, Dr Dre, the gangsta rapper turned Apple executive Coachella prides itself on both recognizing rising artists “painted my hair purple in the bathroom and hoped my worth close to $1 billion, appeared in the Silicon Valley and showcasing splashy headliners, with pop superstar mom wouldn’t notice.” — AFP chic look of a black turtleneck. He united with Eminem for Beyonce on Saturday putting on her first show in more several classic tracks, including late legend Tupac Shakur’s “California Love.” Coachella marks one of the first con- certs for Eminem, who is 45, since the release last year of his album “Revival” after a four-year hiatus. Eminem, by far the most successful white rapper of all time, found a new political voice on the album as he lashed President Donald Trump, although “Revival” mostly received poor reviews Migos performs Sunday at the Coachella Music and Arts on its musical merits. Festival. Eminem confronted the criticism as late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel came to Coachella by video for a special edition of his televised segment on celebrities reading “mean tweets.” Faced with a tweet that said “No one’s (sic) has been paying attention to you since 2003,” Eminem faulted the Twitter user’s spelling but added, “I’m not mad at that. He’s kind of got a point.” Japanese Breakfast performs at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Pregnant twerking Cardi B was one of the most avidly awaited performers at Coachella, not only because she is rising quickly in hip- hop but because the 25-year-old-engaged to fellow rap- per Offset of Migos-recently revealed that she is pregnant. Despite her visible baby bump, Cardi B briefly squatted to twerk to the beat, comfortably getting back up to finish her dance moves. The Bronx native has quickly found star- dom with unsentimental rhymes about her rough life, including her stint earning a living by stripping. She saluted her former profession in her tight, half-hour set as dancers stretched acrobatically on strippers’ poles. She also brought out her own celebrity guests including Princess Nokia performs with Kali Uchis Sunday at the Petit Biscuit performs at the Coachella Music and Arts Chance the Rapper. After the hard edges of her break- Cardi B performs Sunday at Coachella Music and Arts Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Festival. through song “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi B has shown greater Festival. ‘Miss Sunshine’ star Dano to make Bearded diva Conchita directorial debut at Cannes Wurst reveals HIV-positive ustrian bearded drag queen and out is better than being outed by some- Eurovision winner Conchita one else. I hope to give others courage ollywood star Paul Dano’s much-anticipat- Women dominate Young documentary-maker Anja Kofmel AWurst has announced in an and to take another step against the ed directorial debut, “Wildlife”, will open Unlike the main festival, which has been criti- investigates the murder of her cousin, a journal- Instagram post that she is HIV positive, stigmatization of those who... have con- HCritics’ Week at the Cannes film festival cized for its dearth of female talent, Critics’ ist who was killed during the wars in the former saying she is being blackmailed by a tracted HIV,” Wurst added. Wurst said next month, the organizers said yesterday. The Week is dominated by films by and about Yugoslavia, in her film, “Chris the Swiss”, which former boyfriend. Wurst, the creation of that she had been receiving medical film by the “There Will Be Blood” and “Little women. While only three of the 18 films compet- is partly animated. “Sauvage” takes on the Austrian singer and artist Tom treatment since her diagnosis and that Miss Sunshine” actor features his friend Jake ing for the top Palme d’Or prize are by women, rarely touched world of male prostitution while Neuwirth, 29, said in the post late on it had been suppressed to undetectable Gyllenhaal, who played opposite Dano in the they make up the majority in the Critics’ Week another gritty French film “Sheherazade” dives Sunday that the ex-boyfriend was levels, so it could not be transmitted. Oscar-nominated “Prisoners” in 2013. The film is competition. Indian director Rohena Gera turns into the chaotic life of a young prostitute and “threatening to go public with this pri- “I’m stronger, more motivated and freer based on a Richard Ford novel about a teenager the romantic comedy on its head in her first fea- her boyfriend in the port of Marseille. French vate information”. “I won’t give anyone than ever,” Wurst said. watching his parents’ marriage fall apart. ture, “Sir”, Tesson said, a master-servant love star Romain Duris plays a union stalwart whose the right to scare me and to influence She praised the “unconditional sup- Critics’ Week director Charles Tesson said it story that shakes class and caste taboos starring wife leaves him with their children in the my life in this way,” said Wurst, port” she had received from her family includes an “extremely impressive” performance rising Bollywood actress Tillotama Shome. “One Belgium drama “Our Battles”, which is being describing the decision to go public as and added that sparing them the pub- from British actress Carey Mulligan, who was Day” by the Hungarian Zsofia Szilagyi follows shown out of competition. removing a “sword of Damocles”. licity was one reason she had not cho- nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the manic day of an overstretched working The line-up for the main competition at The post has already received more sen to share the information before “An Education”, the coming-of-age drama mother trying to hold her own and her family’s Cannes is markedly more political than usual, than 26,000 “likes” yesterday. “Coming now. “My friends have also known for based on journalist Lynn Barber’s bestselling life together, while “Woman at War” is the “fun- with an Iranian and Russian director who are quite a while now and have approached memoir. “Paul Dano shows himself to be a true ny and stirring” story of an Icelandic environ- banned from leaving their countries, in the run- with it a spirit of acceptance that I cineaste in his first feature film,” Tesson told mental activist. ning for the Palme d’Or. It is highly unlikely that would wish for all those affected,” she AFP, “a profoundly human portrait at the disin- Iran’s Jafar Panahi and Russia’s Kirill said. Wurst shot to fame after winning tegration of an American family... done with ele- Serebrennikov will be able to attend, despite the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014 gant classicism.” pleas by festival organizers and the French with her song “Rise Like A Phoenix” The parallel event for first- and second-time authorities.

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