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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 14 May 2018
Netta Barzilai wins 2018 Eurovision Song Contest for Israel

By BARRY HATTON "Toy" as "horrible music," in-
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — sisting the focus should be
Netta Barzilai is sassy, she's on the music and not the
fun and she can sing — spectacle.
and now the Israeli has won But Barzilai, with her Asian-
the Eurovision Song Con- themed show in red and
test with a catchy techno yellow and her dancers do-
dance tune about wom- ing funky chicken moves,
en's empowerment. was unrepentant.
The 25-year-old pre-com- "I'm happy people chose
petition favorite beat out something different. It's
competition from 42 other refreshing," she said. "I be-
countries' performers Satur- lieve authenticity (shows)
day to claim the music ex- through."
travaganza's annual crown Her win — Israel's fourth and
at the Grand Final with her first since 1998 — means her
song "Toy." country hosts next year's
There was a strong field of Eurovision Song Contest.
contestants at this year's "Next time in Jersualem!"
event in Lisbon, Portugal, Barzilai shouted to the audi-
which was watched by ence as she picked up her
an estimated 200 million award. The international
people. The votes coming Netta from Israel celebrates after winning the Eurovision song contest in Lisbon, Portugal, Satur- contest began as a com-
in live from the capitals of day, May 12, 2018 during the Eurovision Song Contest grand final. petition between Europe-
participating countries de- an countries, but its huge
livered a tense finale, with up 529 points, compared You." was hosting the event be- popularity has led to the in-
Israel gripped in a tight, with 436 for runner-up Cy- The contest largely shed cause it won last year with clusion of Israel and Austra-
five-way race with Cyprus, prus with "Fuego" by Eleni its traditional hallmarks of Salvador Sobral's sober and lia among the performers.
Austria, Sweden and Ger- Foureira, and 342 for third- glitz and glitter in favor of a subdued ballad "Amar pe- Barzilai, known more usually
many. place Austria with Cesar more restrained and taste- los Dois." as Netta, has a witty and
Barzilai eventually racked Sampson's "Nobody But ful tone in Lisbon, which Sobral last week criticized endearing personality.q

Artist, poet publish book about heroin overdose victims

By HOLLY RAMER said D'Angelo-Lombardi,
PLAISTOW, N.H. (AP) — A who runs an adult educa-
partnership between a tion program in Boston.
poet and an artist who both "If you're talking about it,
lost loved ones to heroin it's out in the light, and it's
overdoses started with simi- healing."
lar phone calls at separate "Portraits, Poems & Heroin:
beaches four years ago. 30 Souls Tell the Story" in-
Mary Ellen D'Angelo-Lom- cludes a series of poems
bardi was waiting out a D'Angelo-Lombardi wrote
rainstorm in July 2014 when about her son's friend,
her husband called to say along with Zanfagna's
her son's best friend was brightly colored portraits
dead at age 18. Three of young people who died
months later, Anne Marie of overdoses and brief bi-
Zanfagna was on Cape ographies written by their
Cod for the weekend families. "Dan was a very
when she heard from her functional addict. He
husband that their 25-year- worked every day and put
old daughter, Jackie, had a lot of effort into his ap-
overdosed. pearance. If you saw him,
For months afterward, you would never think he
D'Angelo-Lombardi strug- was an addict," reads the Poet Mary Ellen D’Angelo-Lombardi, left, and artist Anne Marie Zanfagna display their book on
gled to return to her writing, biographical material ac- Monday, May 7, 2018 in Plaistow, N.H.
and Zanfagna's paints and companying the orange,
brushes went untouched. violet, black and white the tide." While the poems commonality of how those her daughter's painting to
But after eventually finding portrait of 40-year-old Dan- aren't specifically about left behind feel," she said. a grief support group, runs
separate solace in their art, iel Barnes. In the following those pictured, D'Angelo- "So although each poem a nonprofit organization
they came together to self- poem, "My Favorite Place," Lombardi said, they touch doesn't maybe match the called Angels of Addiction
publish a book they hope D'Angelo-Lombardi de- on the same emotions ex- portrait per se, there's just to raise money for scholar-
will reduce the stigma of scribes thinking of her son's perienced by their families a commonality that runs ships and addiction recov-
addiction but also warn friend whenever she returns and loved ones. "We relied through the grief of losing ery resources. Both women
young people away from to the beach where she on the commonality of all a loved one that way." Za- said the publishing process
drugs. learned of his death: "every the stories, the commonal- nfagna, who began get- was more complicated
"Every conversation this time I go your presence/ ity of addiction, the com- ting portrait requests from than they anticipated, but
book starts is a good thing," woven into the magic of monality of how it ends, the other parents after bringing worth the effort.q