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PEOPLE&ARTS Friday 30 June 2017
From bars to baseball parks:

Lady Gaga readies live shows

By MESFIN FEKADU
AP Music Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Wheth-
er it’s at a bar or baseball
park, Lady Gaga says she’s
going to give every perfor-
mance her all.
The singer will launch a
summer tour with stops
at arenas and stadiums
across the globe, and
Mexican actress Kate del Castillo listens at the headquarters of she’s also returning to the
the Organization of American States in Washington on Thursday Dive Bar Tour with Bud Light
June 29, 2017, as lawyer Alejandro Rojas Pruneda speaks.
Associated Press to perform a show in Las
Vegas on July 13.
Actress Kate del She called the first bar
completed
crawl,
last
Castillo files complaint fall around the release of In this Feb. 12, 2017 file photo, Lady Gaga performs “Moth Into
Flame” at the 59th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Associated Press
“Joanne,” a deep experi-
against Mexico ence. (August 30), to be head- “This one will be a little bit
“For what it’s worth, when
I got up there, I totally for- lined by other artists, who different,” she said. “I also
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ac- complaint Thursday with got where we were and I will be announced soon. like to change things up.
Gaga, 31, will launch a
“I have some other ideas
tress Kate del Castillo is the Inter-American Com- just went into performance world tour on Aug. 1 in Van- about how I’d like to per-
seeking international help mission on Human Rights in mode,” she said in a phone couver, British Columbia. It form some of my fans’ clas-
in a dispute with the Mexi- Washington. interview. “For me, no mat- includes stops at baseball sics.”
can government stem- The star of the Netflix series ter how small a venue is, parks like Citi Field in New Part of switching it up
ming from the secret meet- “Ingobernable” says she you don’t perform it differ- York, AT&T Park in San Fran- comes from the sound of
ing she arranged with Sean has been unable to return ently than you perform at a cisco, Wrigley Field in Chi- “Joanne,” which includes
Penn and former fugitive to Mexico to work because big venue, that’s not fair to cago and Fenway Park in rock, country and slower
drug boss Joaquin “El Cha- of investigations into her the fans.” Boston. songs compared with Ga-
po” Guzman. communications with Guz- Last year’s tour included a Now that she’s wrapped ga’s past electro-flavored
Del Castillo says Mexican man. He is now in the U.S. stop at The Bitter End, the filming “A Star is Born” with dance hits.
authorities leaked false awaiting trial. Mexico’s At- New York City bar where Bradley Cooper — an ex- “The album is extremely
information to the media torney General’s Office Gaga performed before perience she called “life healing and reflective for
and damaged her career has said there are no war- her pop star days. The new changing,” ‘’wonderful” me. I wrote about things
in apparent anger over her rants for her arrest but she Dive Bar Tour will also in- and “inspiring” — she’s fo- that I’ve never written
role in the 2015 meeting. has been mentioned in clude shows in Los Angeles cusing on the massive tour. about before that are ex-
She filed a human rights criminal investigations.q (July 26) and New Orleans tremely deep and person-
Review: ‘UNSUB’ is intelligent, compelling page-turner al, and dare I say, things
that haunted me, that
were poisoning me, that
were toxic to me, and I
By BRUCE DESILVA Edgar Award-winning nov- short of breath. had to get them out. And
Associated Press elist Meg Gardiner. The result is an intelligent, it was very revealing in that
A serial killer known only as Serial killers have long been sharply written, compelling way,” she said.
“The Prophet” terrorized a staple of crime stories, page-turner that is satisfy- “The cover of the album is
the San Francisco Bay area with too many novelists ing on every level. very indicative of that —
with a series of ritualized kill- and scriptwriters striving to Best of all, the novel ends me putting a hat on that
ings in the 1990s, taunting top each other by making with a cliff-hanger reminis- I’ve never worn before
the authorities with cruel each new fictional psycho- cent of an early Godzilla and just not sure where I’m
mind games that left the path more twisted, brutal movie — the one in which going at all — but knowing
lead detective who hunt- and terrifying than the last. the monster was finally van- I got to get out of where I
ed him a broken man. From TV’s “Criminal Minds” quished, the hero was be- am.”At the Coachella fes-
Then, as abruptly as they to hundreds of predictably ing cheered and the scene tival in April, where Gaga
began, the killings stopped, grizzly novels, it’s all be- suddenly shifted to an un- headlined, she released
and the killer vanished. come a bit tiresome. derwater chamber where “The Cure,” an upbeat
Now, 20 years later, the But Gardiner’s novel a huge egg was about to song about healing. She
killings have begun again, breathes new life into the hatch. said she wrote the song af-
and Caitlin Hendrix, a sub-genre with her mastery You knew, then, that there This cover image released ter performing at the Super
young detective haunted of police procedure; with had to be a sequel. by Dutton shows “Unsub,” by Bowl halftime show.
by her shattered father’s superb characterizations The conclusion of “UNSUB” Meg Gardiner. B” (Dutton), She added that she’s writ-
failure to catch the mad- of her heroine, the hero- makes a similar promise, by Meg Gardiner ing new music and said she
man the first time, vows to ine’s father and the killer; and Gardiner, in an ex- Associated Press could drop another song
bring the seemingly unstop- and with enough twists change of emails, con- unrelated to an album.
pable psychopath down. and turns to leave fans of firmed that readers will “You know, I wouldn’t say
That is the premise of “UN- TV’s “Scandal” and “How soon be hearing from Cait- that it’s out of the ques-
SUB,” the latest thriller by to Get Away With Murder” lin Hendrix again.q
tion,” she said.q