First Slice 8-9-17: The Fox Theatre rolls out a new app
Plus: RIP Chantek
Joeff Davis/CL FilePour up: Fox Theatre has launched a new mobile app to help cut down on the drink lines during intermission.
The parents of a Georgia teen who was found dead in a rolled-up gym mat have been ordered to pay the legal fees of the folks they brought a wrongful death lawsuit against.
RIP: Chantek, the cool orangutan who was raised like a human and could use sign language, died at Zoo Atlanta on Monday.
Do we have dragons we don’t know about? The president has vowed to bring down “fire and fury like the world has never seen” on North Korea if the country doesn’t cool it with the nuke threat.
Meanwhile: Vice has learned that Trump gets a positivity folder twice a day. According to sources inside the White House, it’s “filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.”
He’s bacccckkkk: David Letterman is coming to Netflix next year with a six-episode talk show.