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TCU leading scorer Frankie Collins will miss rest of season after breaking left footA little over six months ago Ezra, a young Congolese artist, landed in Australia with his large family straight from one of the largest refugee camps in Malawi to a quiet, leafy street where he appreciated the sounds of chirping birds. or signup to continue reading "Cockatoos are the most unique creatures I've ever seen in my life and that's why I decided to paint them," he told AAP. "There is much security here not the same as overseas, we were insecure." The 18-year-old was referring to Dzaleka, the sprawling United Nations-administered camp housing over 50,000 people, mostly comprised of Democratic Republic of Congolese like himself where millions have fled violence into neighbouring countries in recent years. "Once you move outside of the camp, you would get beaten and robbed. You have no rights once you step outside of the camp," Ezra noted. The renewed fighting in February between Rwanda-backed Tutsi rebels and the army in the resource-rich nation has displaced over seven million internally. "Sometimes I look at it (violence in DR Congo) on social media and feel depressed because we have friends and relatives back in Congo so I usually feel sad about it." Packed in classrooms of 250 students in the Malawi refugee camp where his learning was impeded, Ezra was quickly drawn to stencil drawing and painting aged 9. "I didn't get the chance to study arts formally because I was assisting my family financially but I started learning from my friends and would pick up information from them then use my own perspective and my own ideas." He and one of his brothers would sell chickens at the markets to make ends meet because they would go hungry for days without food due to looters. "Life was so difficult. I couldn't even afford to have my own mobile phone so I couldn't even capture what my paintings are about," he said. Since joining a creative arts mentorship program with Settlement Services International, a large Australian agency tasked with resettling refugees, he has been able to track his progress with photos of his canvases on his phone. The initiative which began last year is spearheaded by Ghasan Saaid, a prolific Sudanese-Australian visual artist who is a manager with the Humanitarian Settlement Program which helps new arrivals navigate their way in Australia from education to housing to finding a job. "Art is powerful because there's emotions and it's a very good tool for healing where artists become leaders in their communities," Mr Saaid explained. "So when we take care of those talents we are increasing the sense of belonging and enriching the cultural scene in Australia too." The creative arts project run out of Sydney provides refugees with artistic opportunities whether it is in music, theatre or visual arts with a professional industry setting. They pair them with experts and masterclasses in collaboration with cultural bodies such as the Art Gallery of NSW and link them with local art centres such as Casula Powerhouse and Blacktown Arts Centre in culturally diverse western Sydney with the view to earning a living off their work. "The art scene in Australia is very difficult to navigate especially with all the settlement barriers so ... guidance is the best thing to nurture them," Mr Saaid said. This was Ezra's experience, having sold one of his paintings displayed at an exhibition at NSW Police headquarters recently. He is hard at work painting a couple of new canvases for an upcoming exhibition next month marking International Human Rights Day. Advertisement Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date. We care about the protection of your data. Read our . Advertisement
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There’s good news and bad news about the latest east Los Angeles house listing: It’s a new Spanish-style home in an amazing neighborhood, but it may or may not have been the site of something sinister, which prompted the Morgan family to put it on the market in the first place. In Netflix’s latest dark comedy series three couples are vying to buy this Los Feliz home that harbors a mysterious past, digging up dirt on the owners in the process. Lydia (Lisa Kudrow) and Paul Morgan (Ray Romano) are empty nesters who are finally giving up his family home after their son Jacob died there three years earlier. Reeling from grief, the couple aren’t on great terms—something the potential buyers notice. Leslie and Sarah (Abbi Jacobson and Poppy Liu, respectively) take the cake for their amateur detective skills, sniffing out the fact that a death happened in the home via a lead on the Citizen app. JD and Margo (Luke Wilson and Linda Cardellini) are wealthy neighbors living across the street that wind up more involved in the crime than initially expected, while Dennis and Carla (O-T Fagbenle and Teyonah Parris) are newlyweds that aren’t even sure if the home is for them. In the season 1 finale “Sold,” everything comes to light. Lydia, Paul, and their daughter Emily have been living under the assumption that Emily accidentally fired the bullet that killed her brother, thinking he was a burglar. But it turns out that the fatal shot was fired by none other than Margo, their social climbing neighbor, whose real name is actually Luann. Margo, who had only married JD for his money, was having an affair with Jacob and the teen picked up a nasty theft habit as a way to dote on his older lover. When she tried to end things, he began to steal the gifted jewelry back. On the night of his death, she chased him back to his house, and shot him in an act of desperation. Lydia first exonerates Emily when she and Leslie read his autopsy report and figure out that the bullet casing does not match the family’s gun (something you’d think the Morgans would have investigated earlier, but we’ll let it slide). When she realizes that Margo was messing around with her son, Lydia marches over to confront her. We never see who lights the match—JD is also seen driving away gleefully—but soon the house is up in flames with Margo inside. Dennis and Carla’s somewhat unrelated arc finds them buying the plot of land where JD and Margo’s home once stood. Carla’s estranged billionaire father still hasn’t met his grandson, even though he’s the reason they had the money to buy it in the first place as Dennis secretly accepted his $5 million check behind Carla’s back (she believes the money is from a generous book advance). He texts Dennis calling him out for cashing the check but withholding his grandson. Dennis doesn’t respond. So who ends up getting the house? After JD and Margo’s offer is declined due to money issues and Carla and Dennis’s offer is rescinded when they find out about the murder, meddling couple Leslie and Sarah wind up getting their dream home. The women are ecstatic about their luck and even mention a promise they made to Lydia about watering her favorite mandarin tree, indicating they’re the spiritual successors to the Morgans. The closing moments of the episode provide a montage of happy endings for almost everyone else, too. JD’s struggling acting career is revived by an arc that looks like an episode of this universe’s . The Morgans finally feel like a family again, with Lydia and Emily performing a duet at an open mic while a flashing bulb in the lamp next to Paul indicates that Jacob is there in spirit. Even Margo looks like she’s escaped death’s clutches as she sips on a martini at the bar in a six month flash-forward. Half of her face is heavily scarred from the burns, but she doesn’t seem fazed as she cruises for a new husband. But her jig is up pretty quickly—Paul’s police officer nephew, Nate, places his badge on the bar before arresting her as Luann. There are barely any loose ends to tie up—Carla’s father and Margo’s jail sentence are hardly enough to warrant more episodes—so it’s hard to imagine returning for another season in this capacity. And with a convoluted story that included a nonsensical drug bust—and more attempted family murders in the home—there’s no reason to revisit this specific story again. But who’s to say it won’t get the treatment with a new cast and mystery house in season 2?
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Max Verstappen returned to the Las Vegas Grand Prix as the defending winner of the Sin City spectacle and a fourth consecutive Formula 1 championship well within his reach. The Dutchman needed only to finish Saturday night's race ahead of Lando Norris of McLaren to make it four straight for the Red Bull driver. Verstappen starts fifth and Norris is sixth. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
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