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SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2019

People attend the ‘Karl For Ever’ event to honor late German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld at the Grand Palais in Paris. — AFP

ick Jagger swaggered back to the stage fist. agger,J 75, underwent heart valve some of the most enduring and successful rock Mon Friday in his first concert after under- replacement surgery in New York in early musicians of all time. going heart surgery in April as the April, and in May reassured fans that he was kicked off the No Filter Rolling Stones kicked off a delayed North back in shape by posting video on Twitter of tour in Europe in September 2017, playing the American tour. The veteran British band opened him dancing in a studio. last show there in July 2018. The tour grossed its No Filter tour in at the city’s 61,500 “He (Jagger) went through it very easily,” $116 million in 2018, according to touring seat stadium, after delaying the 17- Stones guitarist told the industry publication Pollstar, making it the 10th date US and Canada tour to allow for Jagger’s Toronto Sun in an interview ahead of the biggest worldwide last year. The North medical treatment. Chicago concert. “He’s in great shape - rock- American No Filter concerts will take the band Opening to a sold-out crowd, the band ing. As I say, it seemed to be no problem at all across the , and to one date in Books from the Harry Potter series by author J K Rowling are seen on a shelf inside kicked off with its classic hit “Street Fighting really.” The 1960s band, whose current mem- Ontario, Canada, before ending in Miami on Widnes Library in Widnes, Britain. — Reuters Man” as the Stones frontman, dressed in skinny bers Jagger, Richards, and Aug. 31. —Reuters black jeans and a black and white jacket, strut- are now all in their 70s, has ted across the stage, singing and pumping his played more than 40 tours, making the quartet

he creators of mobile gaming phe- said. “You see all your favorite characters Tnomenon Pokemon Go unleashed a and artifacts, whether it’s the Sorting Hat, new game on Thursday that features or Buckbeak, or whether it’s Harry himself Harry Potter and other characters from or Newt Scamander,” said Jonathan the wizarding world made famous in Knight, studio head of Warner Bros. Games best-selling books and blockbuster San Francisco. movies. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was There is also a new story that unfolds co-developed by Pokemon Go developer within the game, Knight said. “There’s a Niantic Inc and AT&T Inc’s Warner Bros, crafting game where you’re collecting which owns the rights to develop enter- potion ingredients and creating potions tainment based on author J K Rowling’s and using them to be a better wizard,” he popular Harry Potter series. said. Pokemon Go exploded after its intro- Wizards Unite had been scheduled to duction in 2016, sending players into city debut on Friday, but players in the United streets, offices, parks and restaurants to States found they were able to download it search for colorful animated characters. on Thursday afternoon. Like Pokemon Go, Actress Tiffany Haddish, an avid fan of the Wizards Unite uses augmented reality and Harry Potter books, was given an early Google mapping to make it look like char- look at Wizards Unite. acters are appearing in the real world. At a launch event held by Warner Bros., Players see characters, creatures and other Haddish said her favorite part of the game elements overlaid on the landscape that was that it forces people to move around they see through their phone’s camera as to search for clues and characters. She said they move around. she had lost five to 10 pounds when she In Wizards Unite, users play the role of was walking around playing Pokemon Go. a new recruit within the Statute of Secrecy “I’m about to be starting playing this like Task Force to help solve a mystery. Players crazy,” Haddish said. “Maybe I’ll lose 10 to can discover artifacts, cast spells and 15 pounds. Who knows?” —Reuters of the Rolling Stones performs as they resume Ronnie Wood, left, and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones perform as they resume their encounter characters from the Potter films their “No Filter Tour” North American Tour at the Soldier Field “No Filter Tour” North American Tour at the Soldier Field in Chicago. and prequel movie series “Fantastic Beasts in Chicago. — AFP photos and Where to Find Them,” the developers