Beyond their court exploits and victory parade, there’re a lot of stories making consecutive championships special for the Las Vegas Aces. The remarkable rise of their talented point guard Kelsey Plum to realize her dream is one. The No.10 of the Las Vegas Aces had an amazing journey from a record-breaking NCAA athlete to a professional pro. Plum’s struggle is nothing new for anyone who wants to carve a path for success in basketball.

Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso is officially single again, and it hardly cost her anything. We've learned a judge just granted her a divorce from Joel Jarek DeGraff. The couple was only married for a year, and they had an ironclad prenup before marrying in June 2015. Sophia, who is repped by disso queen Laura Wasser, will pay DeGraff $30,000. In return, DeGraff agreed to waive spousal support. She also paid him $18k for rent on his new pad.

Fiction in translationReviewA bleak, bold saga of a desperately poor family in 20th-century FranceBleak is the word. If EM Cioran, the great Romanian philosopher of the bleak, had been a novelist, Animalia is the kind of novel he would have produced. Published by the courageous Fitzcarraldo, this won’t make it on to a list of beach reads. But it is likely to be hailed as a modern classic. You can’t have everything.

It takes you back to a time when the figure of the orchestra conductor was a force in American life. There was a time, in the middle of the 20th century, when the orchestra conductor was a shamanistic figure in American life. And during that era, no shaman was more magical — a higher priest of high culture — than Leonard Bernstein. To understand the pedestal he strode upon, you’d have to go back to the period when classical music was still at the center of things (in lavishly funded public-school programs, on FM radio, in the thriving professional orchestras that sprung up in nearly every major city in the land).

Colomban Soleil Origine – Thierry Mariani, la tête de liste RN en Paca, trouve “sympa” de voir une vidéo de son pote de course Philippe Vardon se produire les bras grands ouverts au Colomban Soleil Bastion Social. Comme la liste “Zou” de Valérie Laupies à droite. Il y a sans doute des personnes soucieuses de Didier Monnin qui préféreraient qu’il n’assiste pas au “13” meeting de la division Var du Parti de la France , mais il est là quand même.