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Half-price tickets for carloads of polo match fans at the ‘Care to Learn’ fundraiser

Charity/Philanthropy / family
May 29, 2015

The “Stirrups for Students: Charity Polo to Benefit Care to Learn” event will take place from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 6 at the Blue Heron Farm, 4020 Benne Road in Defiance.

Care to Learn was founded in 2008 by Springfield businessman, Doug Pitt, with support from his brother, actor Brad Pitt.

The Pitt brothers had grown up in the region and Doug still lives in the area with his family. Learning of the high incidence of extreme poverty in his own hometown, Doug shared the challenge with family and friends and founded Care to Learn.

Since then, Care to Learn has funded 500,000 individual children’s health, hunger, and hygiene needs.

Now in the St. Charles, Wentzville, and Hazelwood districts in our region, Care to Learn St. Louis is hosting a charity fundraiser. This fun-filled day (for all ages) will have a polo match at the Blue Heron Farm in Defiance.

Read more. Great initiative!

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie list their place in New Orleans

Brad / family
May 8, 2015

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have maintained a residence in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

The 1830s property owned by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has a main house and a guesthouse
The row house owned by actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in New Orleans’ French Quarter is on the market at $6.5 million.

Set on a 5,920-square-foot lot, the charming dwelling has a front balcony, arch-topped French doors, flower boxes and dormer windows. The Traditional-style house includes five bedrooms, an updated kitchen, a laundry room, three full bathrooms and two half-baths within 7,645 square feet of living space.

Built in the 1830s, the brick house features Venetian-plastered walls, custom-designed marble mantles and crown moldings.

Despite putting their French Quarter mansion on the market, actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie haven’t fallen out of love with New Orleans, according to their manager.

Cynthia Pett-Dante, through the Brillstein Entertainment Partners — the company that manages Pitt — sent NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune a statement late Wednesday (May 6) night confirming the sale, but declaring the couple’s commitment to the city it has embraced since Hurricane Katrina.:

“Yes they are letting go of this property and will look for something more off the beaten path down the road. In the meantime, they remain committed to, and infatuated as ever with the city of New Orleans, and will continue to focus on growth in the lower 9th through the Make It Right Foundation.”

Churchill Exhibition includes painting owned by Pitt & Jolie

Brad / family
April 19, 2015

Telfair Museums announced today that its upcoming exhibition of Sir Winston Churchill paintings, The Art of Diplomacy: Winston Churchill and the Pursuit of Painting,” will include one of Churchill’s most important works, a landscape called The Tower of the Katoubia Mosque (1943). The exhibition is on display April 23-July 26 at the Jepson Center for the Arts

Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery

family
March 25, 2015

LOS ANGELES — TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. I lost my mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer.

I wanted other women at risk to know about the options. I promised to follow up with any information that could be useful, including about my next preventive surgery, the removal of my ovaries and fallopian tubes.

I had been planning this for some time. It is a less complex surgery than the mastectomy, but its effects are more severe. It puts a woman into forced menopause. So I was readying myself physically and emotionally, discussing options with doctors, researching alternative medicine, and mapping my hormones for estrogen or progesterone replacement. But I felt I still had months to make the date.

Then two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor with blood-test results. “Your CA-125 is normal,” he said. I breathed a sigh of relief. That test measures the amount of the protein CA-125 in the blood, and is used to monitor ovarian cancer. I have it every year because of my family history.

Fire service called to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s home

family
February 24, 2015

The fire service and paramedics were called to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Los Angeles mansion on Monday. © Provided by Bang The fire service and paramedics were called to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Los Angeles mansion on Monday.

Fire fighters and paramedics were called to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s home.

The emergency services are reported to have rushed to the couple’s LA mansion on Monday (16.02.15) and were later spotted chatting to a passer-by walking his dog before vacating the residence.

It is not yet known why the firemen and medical team were called to the property and whether Angelina, 39, Brad, 51, and their six children, Maddox, 13, Pax, 11, Zahara, 10, Shiloh, eight, and six-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox were at home during the incident.

However, it is likely the couple were in the area at the time after stepping out together at the American Society of Cinematographers 29th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards held at the nearby Hyatt Regency Century Plaza near Beverly Hills on Sunday.

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