Deliveries App Rappi Has Expanded Into Eight Latin American Nations

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Macau Daily Times | Edition 3345 | 02 Aug 2019 Movies: Luce Books: The Chelsea Girls: a Novel by Fiona Davis Music: Para Mi by Cuco Travelog: Gordon Ramsay Uncharted Migrant appiness? Deliveries app Rappi has expanded into eight Latin American nations since it was founded four years ago, mostly due to Venezuelan migrants fleeing their battered country en masse X2 PÁTIO DA ILUSÃO illusion

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A PHOTO AP in tense family drama in ‘Luce’

e yourself is a loaded idea Virginia, to raise him starting at for any 17-year-old, but es- age 7. Bpecially for one Luce (pronoun- And everything seems to be going ced “loose”) Edgar, the title cha- great. Everyone loves Luce, ex- racter of director Julius Onah’s cept for Harriet Wilson. Played riveting adaptation of JC Lee’s by Octavia Spencer, Harriet is a play “Luce .” no-nonsense history teacher who In this simmering drama, com- infuses her own worldview into plex themes of race, privilege, lessons — especially those about youth, family and parenting are race and justice — much to the poked at, deconstructed and left annoyance and exhaustion of her scattered all over the frame for students. And in a class assign- the audience to piece back to- ment where her students assume gether however they see fit. It’s the voice of a controversial world a perfectly crafted cocktail of leader, she believes she sees so- vision, talent and script that will mething concerning about Luce. leave your mind spinning for When she finds illegal fireworks days. in his locker, she becomes even Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is the more convinced that there might adopted son of two white paren- be a sociopath beneath the smarts ts, Peter Edgar (Tim Roth) and and charm and decides to tell his Amy Edgar (Naomi Watts). He’s parents about her suspicions. Tim Roth (left) and Naomi Watts in a scene from “Luce” a model student, charming and What follows is an enthralling polite to adults and peers, a talen- portrait of what happens when pivot or new information will be some audiences will just be perfection? Or is there some- he also knows enough to let the ted athlete and has a bright future doubt begins to creep into rela- introduced and you’re left pie- meeting Harrison Jr., who gives thing more sinister happening? story be the centerpiece and not in front of him. Current accola- tionships, made more heightened cing things together yet again. a nuanced and star-making turn And does it matter? Harrison try to push against its theatrical des aside, his background makes and dramatic by the facts of Lu- The script and acting is top notch as the titular character. He’s got Jr. strings the audience, and the origins. In other words, that it him even more tantalizingly per- ce’s childhood and the high-pres- and the four leads (Watts, Spen- an impossible-to-resist charisma, other characters, along both pa- feels like a play is not necessa- fect as far as college admissions sure expectations of his current cer, Roth and Harrison Jr.) all get and it’s easy to see why everyo- ths. I can’t even promise a tidy rily a bad thing. counselors are probably concer- surroundings. Everyone is me- their own arc throughout the film. ne falls for him. But beneath the conclusion, but it’s a fascinating ned (because what else matters rely trying to do what they think It wouldn’t be at all surprising to flirty smile and bewilderment journey. “Luce,” a Neon release, is in upper middle-class suburbia?). is best, which often backfires in see any of their names on awards that anyone might suspect ill of And Onah, who also directed rated R by the Motion Picture You soon find out that Peter and deliciously unexpected ways, lists later this year. him, there’s also a provocative the underwhelming “Cloverfield Association of America for Amy plucked this former child making the situation even more Although it’s might not be all menace lurking. Is it just the nor- Paradox,” has come back to pro- “language throughout, sexual soldier from his war-torn African complex and dire. Often times that surprising that Watts, Spen- mal rebellion of a too-smart and ve his merit and then some as a content, nudity and some drug home and plopped him down in just when you think you’ve got a cer and Roth deliver masterful too-controlled teenager pushing director to watch. In “Luce,” it’s use.” Running time: the tony suburbs of Arlington, handle on things, characters will performances, it’s possible that back against the expectation of clear he has style and vision, but 109 minutes.

BOOK IT tTUNES Red scare of ‘50s tests friends Cuco brings layers to lo-fi in ‘Chelsea Girls’ love songs on ‘Para Mi’

est friends Hazel and Maxine, stars of Fio- ove songs may be known Bna Davis’ new book, “The Chelsea Girls,” Lfor their traditionally jovial never really got to be girls. Circumstances for- PHOTO AP PHOTO AP tone, but on Cuco’s full-length ced them to grow up quickly, so when they met debut he gives his love ballads during World War II as USO actresses in Italy, a darker tone. “Para Mi” has they were already brave women. Set up to be ri- lighter moments and a chil- vals, they developed an unbreakable bond when led-out hip-hop vibe, but it is they stood up to the atrocity of war. They were Cuco’s searing, often darker stronger together, and they’d always be that way. imagery that leaves an impres- When they returned stateside, they went their se- sion. parate ways, but their relationship’s foundation The 21-year-old Los Angeles was solid and they were destined to be reunited. artist Omar Banos, known by When Hazel left the comfortable Upper West Side his stage name Cuco, has lan- apartment in New York City that she had grown ded himself between indie pop up in — and the stifling family that she had shared and G-funk hip-hop with his it with — she headed straight downtown to the ar- lazy, relaxed and psychedelic tist hangout Chelsea Hotel, a place she knew from album. Maxine’s colorful stories. The two women see- Even the drug references laced mingly picked up where they had left off. throughout never cheapen the Of course, as in dependent thinkers in a time of Cuco, “Para Mi” (Interscope Records) record. “Keeping Tabs” is not change, they had their ups and downs. Maxine only about keeping tabs on his achieved some fame in Hollywood, but was ba- current state of mind, but also “trippin’ off the tabs in my room,” as he confesses, “I don’t sically a B-lister with a decent paycheck and a know why baby but I’m feeling blue.” photogenic face. Hazel carved out a career as Darker imagery in “Far Away from Home” is cushioned with synthesizers, fuzzy electric a theatrical writer but longed to write her own guitar, angelic whirling and chimes that flutter in the background as Cuco sings, “I’m Broadway blockbuster. “The Chelsea Girls: a Novel” (Dutton by Fiona Davis rotting in the image of my head.” They had each other as confidantes and co-conspi- In “Ego Death in Thailand,” the music is spacey, ambient and sunny as his voice echoes, rators, and they fully embraced the eclectic charac- Maxine was her star. Their proximity to success “Don’t look away look through my eyes/Every breath you take another part of me dies.” ters of Chelsea and the creative vibe that surrounded put them on the radar of Sen. Joseph McCarthy The appropriately titled “Lovetripper” is a dream-like love song where he takes his time them. They were having the good time that seemed and his witch hunt for Communists. The Red Sca- singing through the cycle of love. From an earnest beginning when “anyone can see the due to them after their unhappy childhoods. re tested their loyalties to each other and everyone obvious with their own eyes/That you’re special, special to me” to “the aftermath of love But their childhoods caught up with them at the else in their lives, bringing an end to their great and crying eyes,” Cuco’s voice is steady, guiding the journey. worst possible moment. moment together before it really started. “Para Mi” is a promising start for a rising artist. Hazel was poised to open that blockbuster and Samantha Critchell, AP Ragan Clark, AP 02.08.2019 fri

NEWS OF THE WORLD Manuel Rueda, AP

t’s six in the morning and Samuel Romero is already pulling his bicycle out of a Ismall garage. Venezuela migrants propel The 21-year-old Venezuelan migrant turns on his phone and logs on to Rappi, an app through which freelance cyclists get billion-dollar delivery app paid to make deliveries around Bogota, a traffic-clogged city of timate that couriers can make dy supply of migrants, as well 8 million. He checks his brakes $2.30 to $2.90 per hour during as local workers, keeps them

and rides into the chilly streets. peak times when demand is hi- running. PHOTO AP It’s the beginning of a 15-hour ghest. That’s twice as much as Luis Tarre, 60, said he began to workday, in which Romero is workers on Colombia’s mini- make deliveries for Rappi earlier hoping he can make around $15 mum wage make per hour. The this year because the app does — the equivalent of Venezuela’s company says that its platform not force him to comply with a monthly minimum wage but ba- is providing work opportunities demanding schedule. rely enough to get by in costlier to more than 18,000 couriers Tarre ran his own construc- Colombia. across Latin America. tion company in his home sta- “I am grateful to have some “This is a platform that allows te of Portuguesa in Venezuela. work” says Romero, who arri- people to generate additional But after business took a sharp ved in Colombia last year. “But income, in a flexible manner,” downturn, he moved to Colom- you really have to devote tons of said Alejandro Galvis, Rappi’s bia with his family, and has had time to this to make any decent chief of staff. “The beauty of this stints working as a building money.” is that through technology we administrator, a waiter, and a Around the world, immigrants connect two people” enabling construction assistant. are flocking to digital platfor- cyclists with spare time to serve “I had to leave that after a week ms like Uber, Doordash or Ra- customers without time to do because my body couldn’t hand- ppi for freelance work, because their own shopping, he explains. le it,” he said, waiting for the Ra- they offer a quick chance to earn But cyclists in Colombia com- ppi app to call him up for a new cash in places where newcomers plain that payments are falling delivery. “In Rappi, I only work struggle to find regular jobs. as more freelancers join the around six hours a day, which is But the gig economy can also be platform and compete for each what my legs can handle.” perilous for migrants, who end delivery, forcing them to work Tarre’s 20-year-old son, Raul, up working long hours in occu- longer hours to make similar or also works for Rappi, around 14 pations that provide modest pay, even smaller amounts of money. hours a day, making anywhere no benefits and few opportuni- “This was incredible the first from $20 to $30. His wife has ties for career advancement. three months,” Romero said found a job at a restaurant but In Colombia, which has recently during a long break in midaf- occasionally works as a Rappi taken in more than 1.3 million ternoon, when the app wasn’t courier on her extra time to Venezuelan bicycle courier Samuel Romero pedals through Bogota Venezuelans fleeing economic sending him any requests for bring home some additional in- hardship, thousands of immi- deliveries. He said that when come. grants like Romero are working he joined Rappi in February, on the Rappi platform, mostly he was making almost $22 each omero said it is not uncom- delivering small packages to day but that his average daily Rmon for members of the customers who can log into the amount had now dropped to same household to work on the app to order anything from Chi- about $15. app. He lives in a two-story nese takeaway to a box of dia- house that has been modified to pers from the supermarket. appi cyclists also lack be- make several tiny studio apart- Rnefits that are mandatory ments. Four other residents of he app has expanded into for minimum-wage employees, the house work as Rappi cou- Teight Latin American coun- such as health insurance or sick riers, all of them Venezuelans. tries since it was founded four leave. Couriers must also pay “It’s very difficult here to get a years ago by a group of young for the maintenance of their job in your own field,” said Ro- Colombian entrepreneurs, and bikes, and purchase from Rappi mero, who was working in Ve- raised more than $1 billion from an orange backpack that is- re nezuelan as an engineer for the venture capitalists, becoming a quired to work on the platform. national oil company. He left be- showpiece for the country’s up Company representatives say cause hyperinflation decimated and coming tech industry. the couriers are not its em- his salary to the point where it But Rappi — like similar com- ployees but “entrepreneurs” was just barely enough to afford panies — has also come under who work on their own schedu- food. criticism for its modern-day la- le and use the Rappi app to find Life hasn’t been that much ea- bor practices, which reflect some customers willing to pay for de- sier in Colombia, though. By of the shortcomings of the gig liveries. They say the app does 6:30 p.m., it starts to get dark in economy. not keep any of the money paid Bogota, and Romero, after being “This company grew so fast that for deliveries. Instead it charges on the streets for 12 hours, had it forgot about our welfare” retailers a fee for sales made made only the equivalent of $12 said Lina Hernandez, a cyclist through Rappi. on 10 deliveries. who works for Rappi in Bogo- But many of the Rappi cyclists He said he would stick it out ta, making less than $15 during approached by The Associated for three more hours, becau- 12-hour workdays. She recently Press said they were working se he needed money to pay his participated in a protest in front on the app for most of the day rent, and also to pay off a debt of Rappi’s headquarters, where because they have few other he incurred to fix his bicycle. some couriers set fire to their employment options. Critics of The previous bicycle he was orange-colored company ba- the app say a large number of using was stolen from him at ckpacks to express their anger couriers have basically become gunpoint. over the platform’s working full-time workers. Lawmakers “You could say I’m unlucky,” he conditions. in Colombia and Argentina are said, laughing. “But I do believe Rappi pays cyclists in Colombia considering regulations to boost that this will just be temporary.” Venezuelan bicycle courier Luis Tarre, 60, takes an order to a customer in Bogota anywhere from 60 cents to three protection for the workers. Romero was trying to get a work dollars per delivery, depending “Just because these are tech visa for Chile, where he had on the distance travelled and the companies, they cannot ignore been told by friends that there time of day in which an order is years of progress in ensuring are more opportunities for pro- taken. The couriers are not con- workers’ rights,” said Mario Va- fessionals like himself. sidered employees and work on lencia, an economist who directs “Rappi may be my job right now, a freelance basis, logging into the Center for Labor Studies, a but I’m not happy with this,” he the platform at their convenien- left-leaning Bogota think tank. said. “I want to grow as a per- ce. But as politicians debate ways to son, and move on to something Company representatives es- regulate technology apps, a stea- better.” X4 PÁTIO DO SAL salt

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AMAZON GORDON RAMSAY GETS HIS HANDS DIRTY FOR NEW TRAVEL FOOD SHOW

or his latest TV host on Fox’s “Master- with one Michelin star, Fshow, famed chef Chef,” told AP/MDT or two stars or even Gordon Ramsay has about being a fish out of three stars that want definitely left the com- water for once and how everything perfect forting familiarity of kitchens are changing. everywhere they go his kitchens. and I’m the opposite. On “Uncharted,” Ram- For the new show, I want to go there and say visits global desti- you’re climbing trees, get stripped of those nations to explore fla- fishing for eels and highfalutin accolades vors far from routine. rappelling down cliffs. and become a local. He eats guinea pig in Are you having fun? Peru, fishes for eel with Ramsay - I’m definitely What’s it like to get his bare hands to make having fun. It’s an ex- up close and person- a Maori dish in New traordinary journey of al with the ingredi- Zealand and forages discovery and peeling ents? for hearts of palm in back those layers with Ramsay - For the last Morocco. cultures that in this two decades, I’ve spent “It’s a million miles ever-moving foodie thousands of hours in away from my high- world — of London, kitchens with produce end, three-star Miche- New York and Paris — arriving at my finger- lin kitchen,” he says of (that) don’t tend to fo- tips. So, to do the oppo- the show airing on the cus on what’s going on site and get straight to National Geographic with Maori cuisine. So the source, it’s actually Channel. “It’s straight it’s traveling to great been, to be honest, to the source.” lengths to dig deep. more of a therapeutic After spending a week journey because I’m learning about the A more humble doing the opposite of ingredients, Ramsay side of you comes what I’ve been doing ends each hour-long through. You aren’t for 20 years. show with a cooking often out of your ele- competition, pitting ment, are you? You eat lovely things, himself against a local Ramsay - I find joy in like a mushroom chef. Think of it like being vulnerable, in a pizza and mangos. Anthony Bourdain way. It’s about gaining But you also sample crossed with Bear Gry- knowledge and that’s grubs and camel lls and then add some never left me in two meat. Was that hard “Top Chef.” and a half decades. to do on camera? Ramsay, who is also a There’s a lot of chefs Ramsay - I tend to

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MONDAY (AUG 5) TOMORROW (AUG 3) Portrait of Macau: Photography Exhibition Stamps Around the World – Liechtenstein, by Eva Mok TODAY (AUG 2) Kingdom of Stamps Pinkfong Baby Shark Live Musical Local artist Eva Mok has a keen interest in humanist The Communications Museum is holding ’s first photography, an international movement focusing “Pinkfong Baby Shark Live Musical” will stage a exhibition dedicated to the postage stamps of on images of people in their daily lives. She is also digital interactive live performance for the whole a single issuing country, in this case the tiny interested in capturing images of unique architecture family, including the highest-ranking hit songs in the European principality of Liechtenstein. The display around the world, for its aesthetic value and its eight-year history of children’s educational brand is divided into five collections, starting with “Princely important role in human civilisation. In this exhibition Pinkfong from the Republic of Korea. They include Treasures”, stamps that commemorate some of her work is divided into two sections: street scenes; the “Baby Shark” dance. The English-language the finest works of art in that country. Another daily activities by locals. The collection focuses on musical, with the original Korean cast, is suitable for collection, “Chinese Signs of the Zodiac”, began in traditional aspects of life in the city. Some of the audience members of any age. 2012 with the “Dragon” stamp, which was named images were taken in the old quarter, an area where in one appraisal as “Most Beautiful Stamp in the the artist grew up. She hopes the photographs will Time: 10:30am, 2pm & 5:30pm World” that year. be seen in future as a record of a way of life; one Until: August 4, 2019 that is gradually disappearing. Venue: Broadway Theatre, Broadway Macau Time: 9am to 5:30pm (closed on public holidays) Admission: MOP180, MOP380, MOP680 Until: August 30, 2019 Time: 3pm-8pm (Mondays) Enquiries: (853) 8883 3383 Venue: Temporary Gallery, Communications Museum 12pm-8pm (Tuesdays to Sundays) Organizers: King Entertainment (HK) Ltd, Admission: MOP10 Until: September 8, 2019 WanXing International Entertainment Culture Ltd Organizers: Liechtenstein National Museum; Venue: A2 Gallery, D1 Gallery, Albergue SCM www.broadwaymacau.com.mo Philately Liechtenstein Admission: Free Kong Seng Ticketing Service: 2855 5555 Enquiries: (853) 2871 8063 Organizer: Albergue SCM www.macauticket.com www.cmm.gov.mo Enquiries: (853) 2852 2550 Email: [email protected]

SUNDAY (AUG 4) What Are You Thinking – Picture Book by TUESDAY (AUG 6) Un Chi Wai Exhibition of New Works in MAM “Wisdom” – photography exhibition by João Collection – Ko Lai Chit Miguel Barros Taipa Village Cultural Association is hosting the first-ever solo exhibition of artist Un Chi Wai. “What Ko Lai Chit, whose parents were the founders of Portuguese artist and lawyer João Miguel Barros Are You Thinking”, features the illustrations for an the Guangdong-focused artistic movement known has been dividing his life and work between and original storybook that was published specially as the Lingnan School, moved to at an early age Lisbon for more than three decades. He began to for this exhibition project. The storyboard of this and followed in their footsteps via calligraphy works show his photography work in 2017 with individual children’s book has deliberately an open ending, and paintings ranging in subject matter from birds, exhibitions at Creative Macau – Center for Creative allowing for the reader’s own interpretation and flowers and landscapes, to portraits. Before he Industries, and in Lisbon, Portugal. “Wisdom” is the imagination. It makes for entertaining reading died in 2018, Ko Lai Chit’s daughter donated seven last activity featured in the “Month of Portugal”, a among parents and other grown-ups as well as of his calligraphy works and 13 of his paintings to festival held annually in celebrating Portuguese arts children. In addition to the publication, a selected the Museum of Art. Now his pieces are part of a and culture. number of the images from the picture book are special exhibition zone showcasing newly-collected being sold as limited-edition fine prints. artworks. Time: 3pm-8pm (Mondays) 12pm-8pm (Tuesdays to Sundays) Time: 12pm-8pm Time: 10am-7pm (no admittance after 6:30pm; Until: August 4, 2019 Until: September 30, 2019 closed on Mondays) Venue: A2 Gallery, D1 Gallery, Albergue SCM Admission: Free Until: November 10, 2019 Admission: Free Venue: Taipa Village Art Space, 10 Rua dos Venue: Museum of Art Organizer: Albergue SCM Clérigos Organizer: Taipa Village Cultural Association Admission: Free Enquiries: (853) 2852 2550 Enquiries: (853) 2857 6118 Organizer: Museum of Art Email: [email protected] taipavillagemacau.org.mo www.mam.gov.mo 02.08.2019 fri

WEDNESDAY (AUG 7) 2019 Brand Story – Original Fashion Exhibition III

The “2019 Brand Story – Original Fashion Exhibition” project aims to promote local fashion labels. The scheme provides a platform for fashion designers to launch and promote their work to the general public. Its third – and final – phase highlights women’s fashion labels GODDESS ARMOUR and SANCHIALAU. A sales area is also available, where visitors can acquire fashion products and accessories by a number of local brands.

Time: 10am-8pm (closed on Mondays) Until: September 15, 2019 Venue: Fashion Gallery Admission: Free Enquiries: (853) 2835 3347 www.macaofashiongallery.com

THURSDAY (AUG 8) Bathing in the Spring Breeze – Paintings by Liu Mengkuan

Hong Kong painter Liu Mengkuan started learning painting in 1977 with Yang Shanshen, who prompted him to explore the profundity and wonders of Chinese painting. Liu eventually decided to pursue a painting career and study hard the essence and techniques of the Lingnan School. As early as 1987, Mr. Liu hosted a painting exhibition at the Luis de Camões Museum, starting his relationship with our city. Now, 30 years later, with the notable achievements from his refined skills, and as a result of inheriting Master Yang’s artistic quintessence and his own innovations in quest of a personal style, Mr. Liu presents this exhibition Bathing in the Spring Breeze, renewing his connection with by adding a fine chapter to the history of the Lingnan School in the SAR, while also contributing his part to the cultural exchanges in the Guangdong--Hong Kong Greater Bay Area.

Time: 10am-7pm (no admittance after 6:30pm; closed on Mondays) Until: August 25, 2019 Until: November 4, 2019 Venue: Macau Museum of Art Admission: Free Organizer: Macau Museum of Art Enquiries: (853) 2836 6866 www.icm.gov.mo 02.08.2019 fri