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Dave Chappelle’s Attacker Sentenced to 270 Days in Jail After Rushing Stage at Netflix Festival

Dave Chappelle’s Attacker Sentenced to 270 Days in Jail After Rushing Stage at Netflix Festival

Dave Chapelle Mathieu Bitton/Netflix Dave Chappelle The man who attacked Dave Chappelle onstage during his set at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival in May has been sentenced. Isaiah Lee was sentenced to 270 days in jail after pleading no contest to one charge of misdemeanor battery and one charge of entering a restricted area during a live event, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office confirms to PEOPLE. A judge previously rejected the request of Lee’s attorney, Deputy Public… Source link

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‘Impossible’ for touring & festival industry to recover

Shut down for two years due to COVID-19, festivals like Coachella and Stagecoach are finally making their comebacks — but the return of live events comes with a new set of hurdles as labor shortages, supply chain backlogs, and rising costs rock an industry that’s in the midst of a recovery. “We lost over half our staff to other industries,” said Daniel Nickleski, the COO of Illinois-based festival, concert and event production company Sound Works Production. The executive explained that… Source link

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Astroworld Festival victims were teens, college students and at least one aspiring model

HOUSTON – Rodolfo Angel Peña, 23, was an aspiring model and psychology student from Laredo, Texas, who dreamed of one day becoming a U.S. Border Patrol agent or seeing where his charm and good looks would take him. On Friday, he and some friends drove the five hours from Laredo to Houston to blow off steam at the Travis Scott show at the Astroworld music festival. By Saturday afternoon, his family was making funeral arrangements for him. Peña was one of eight people who died Friday night… Source link

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