NEWS UK

CAT CAFÉ 
London 

Happy new for cat lovers - London is to get its first cat café after Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium finally secured planning permission. Inspired by Tokyo's popular cat cafés, The Emporium will offer Londoners the chance to play with its resident felines over tea or a latté. The café already has a waiting list of 6,000...and that's before it has any cats! 

COMMENT: A cat cafe in east London has moved a step closer to opening after planning permission was granted. At Lady Dinah’s, visitors will have the opportunity to kick back and relax with a cup of tea and spend time in the soothing company of our purring feline friends. We are currently preparing our exciting new venue in Shoreditch, East London.

We are a home for our rescued cats. Our greatest and most important duty is to ensure the happiness and well-being of London’s soon to be most loved felines.

Our venue is designed with the emotional and physical needs of our resident rescue cats in mind and our induction process for the cats is long and gradual to help give them the time, space and resources they need to form a harmonious household. We provide a safe, comfortable place to live and a home where they can exhibit their full range of natural behaviours. Cats will have free choice at all times to stay indoors with patrons, or relax outside for some time-out in their private two-story, cats-only garden.

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What's the headline? Cat Café 

Is there a video/image you can include? Yes. (Down) 

Can you explain it in your own words? In London there is the first Cat Café called Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium and it have a big waiting list and it's before it has any cats! 

Add 3 new words you have learnt
1. Waiting list: llista d'espera
2. Permission: permís 
3. Purr: ronc

Why is it relevant to you? Because is a strange notice. 

How is this connected with other news that have an impact on our world? It connects to the world because now the animals are more in the human world and there is more consideration for them. 

NEWS USA

BANSKY FOR SALE 
Beverly Hils, California

Banky's "Flower Girl" mural is to be sold at an auction in Beverly Hills this month, along with four earlier works. The piece, wich appeared on a Los Angeles gas station wall in 2008, is expected to go for $300,000. The final price, though, could be much more. Another mural by the British artist, "Slave Labour", found behind a shop in London, sold recently for 750,000 pounds. 

COMMENT: Banksy is a pseudonymous United Kingdom-based, graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world

Asked about his technique, Banksy said:

I use whatever it takes. Sometimes that just means drawing a moustache on a girl's face on some billboard, sometimes that means sweating for days over an intricate drawing. Efficiency is the key.

Peter Gibson, a spokesman for Keep Britain Kiddy , asserts that Banksy's work is simple vandalism, and Diane Shakespeare, an official for the same organisation, was quoted as saying: "We are concerned that Banksy's street art glorifies what is essentially vandalism."In his column for The Guardian, satirist Charlie Brooker wrote of Banksy "…his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots."

"Flower girl"

A mural taken from the side of a Hollywood gas station by famed street artist Banksy has fetched more than $200,000 at a Beverly Hills auction.

The 9-by-8 foot artwork titled "Flower Girl" sold for $209,000 at Julien's Beverly Hills Gallery on Thursday. The winning bid came from a Los Angeles buyer who requested anonymity.

The mural shows a little girl holding a flower basket under a surveillance camera planted atop a tall stalk. The work was painstakingly removed from its original location and placed in an aluminum frame. 

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What's the headline? "Banky for sale"

Is there a video/image you can include? Yes. (Down) 

Can you explain it in your own words? Banky is a famous graffiti artist wich is famous for the style of graffiti that he paints. One of the most famous works is "The Flower Gril (mural)". He finally sold it for  $ 300.000. 
Add 3 new words you have learnt
1. Fech: anar a buscar
2. Surveillance: vigilància
3. Atop: a sobre

Why is it relevant to you? Because is different from the other artists, and he paint diferent and ironic themes for each work. 

How is this connected with other news that have an impact on our world? Because he paints ironic themes of reality and he criticizes society.