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Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit 900-Year-Old Crusader Castle in Lebanon

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Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress in Lebanon, was reportedly struck directly by Israeli airstrikes on May 27, according to footage posted on social media and local reports. The news follows intense Israeli strikes on the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Lebanon that is home to some of the region’s most significant Phoenician and Roman ruins, as well as a large civilian population. As reported by the Associated Press , the Israeli military released footage appearing to show troops at Beaufort Castle after advancing for several days through villages surrounding Nabatiyeh. The capture of Beaufort Castle—a strategic outlook—is a major development in Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon, marking the deepest encroachment into Lebanese territory since 2000, and a violation of the official ceasefire that has been in place since April 17. World heritage sites and civilians alike have emerged as casualties of the milit...
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DuSable Museum President Responds to Whistleblower Lawsuit in New Filing

The president of Chicago’s DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Perri Irmer, has responded to a whistleblower lawsuit that shook the institution months ago with allegations that she and other leadership misused funds.  In December, Kim Dulaney, the museum’s former vice president of education and programs, filed a whistleblower and retaliatory discharge lawsuit in the Cook County Circuit Court, alleging that she was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about the museum’s operations under president and CEO Perri Irmer. The Chicago Crusader reports that Irmer has filed a 15-page response seeking dismissal of the lawsuit. In it, her attorneys argue that Dulaney failed to meet a requirement of the Illinois Whistleblower Act because she did not refuse to participate in the museum’s allegedly unlawful conduct, including the alleged misappropriation of funds within the education and programs department. Dulaney had served as vic...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Petone (59) v Marist St Pat’s (19)

Your 2026 Swindale Shield leaders. Petone produced a swashbuckling first half of attacking rugby to exhaust Marist St Pat’s defensive supplies, and went to halftime leading 40-5. The home side were in peak form, the visitors meeting a side playing like it was 1973 all over again. First year Left wing William Davis, out of...
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Art World Commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, Better Known as Jerry Gogosian, Found Dead in São Paulo

Artist and art world commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein was found dead on Sunday in São Paulo’s Rosewood Hotel, according to a report by Brazilian television network Globo . Helphenstein, better known by her pseudonym Jerry Gogosian, was found in her hotel room beside an empty vodka bottle, a broken glass, and unidentified pills. A man who identified himself as her plastic surgeon said he went to her room after she stopped answering her phone, according to Globo . He said further that she had been in Brazil for three weeks while she had a surgical procedure. The death was registered as suspicious by the police, and tests have been requested, says the paper. “Rosewood São Paulo confirms that the guest Hilde Ann Lynn was found dead on the afternoon of Sunday, May 31,” the hotel said in a statement quoted in Globo . “Since the observation of what happened, the hotel has provided full collaboration with the competent authorities, promptly providing all the ...
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British Museum Evacuated After Suspicious Device Found in Restroom

The British Museum was briefly evacuated Saturday after staff discovered what was described as a “suspicious device” inside a restroom, prompting a police response at one of the world’s most visited museums. The Metropolitan Police were called to the museum’s Bloomsbury headquarters around 2:50 p.m. local time after reports of a suspicious package, according to  The Independent .  Officers investigated the object and later determined it posed no threat. Visitors were allowed back into the museum shortly after 4 p.m. and normal operations resumed. In a statement, the museum said it had also received what it described as “malicious communications” before the evacuation. “The safety and security of our visitors, colleagues and volunteers is always our highest priority,” a museum spokesperson told  The Independent , thanking visitors and staff for their cooperation during the evacuation. The museum decli...
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Sideline Conversions 1 June (some rugby news and information to start the week)

Jordan Soli dives over to score a first half try for Ories against Poneke on Saturday. He is the clear-cut leading points scorer in the Swindale Shield – more below. Photo: Andy McArthur.  Welcome to a new week and new month of rugby. There is a whole lot going on over the next few weeks...
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Julio Le Parc, Pioneer of Kinetic Art and Venice Biennale Prize Winner, Dies at 97

Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born artist whose shimmering mobiles, vibrating light installations, and participatory environments helped redefine the relationship between art and its audience, died on May 30 in Paris. He was 97. His son, Yamil Le Parc, confirmed the death to the Argentine newspaper  La Nación . The artist had been hospitalized in recent days after a decline in health and died at the American Hospital in Paris. According to his son, Le Parc remained deeply engaged with his work until the end and had been eagerly anticipating a  major retrospective  scheduled to open at Tate Modern in London on June 11. He had hoped to attend the exhibition, which surveys nearly seven decades of his career. For more than six decades, he pursued a simple but radical idea: art should not be something that happens to viewers. It should happen with them. Working with mirrors, light, movement, color, and optical effects, Le Parc became one of ...
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