Cobain’s MTV sweater may fetch $300,000
The sweater Kurt Cobain wore for Nirvana’s iconic performance on MTV’S “Unplugged” is up for auction – and may fetch as much as $300,000. The vintage green cardigan, unwashed and still marked with cigarette stains, was bought by its current owner for $137,500 four years ago. The unidentified businessman has kept it in acid-free tissue in a safe. Its only potential flaw: it’s missing a button. There’s been a major increase in the value of Cobain’s items in the past two years, according to Darren Julien, president of the auction house handling the sale.
“We advised the client that this is the right time to sell the sweater,” Julien said. “The starting bid on the sweater is $50,000, and it could sell for double or more than what the client paid for in 2015.” Cobain died by suicide at age 27 about six months after taping “Unplugged.” The performance was played hundreds of times on the network in the months following his death, and the album version released in November 1994 sold more than 5 million copies.
Fonda arrested at U.S. Capitol protest
Jane Fonda was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday as part of a climate change protest, the latest act of civil disobedience by the Oscar-winning actress, who said that she planned to reprise her role every Friday for the rest of the year. Fonda, 81, was among 16 people charged with unlawfully demonstrating on the East Front of the Capitol, a misdemeanor under a Washington law prohibiting protesters from obstructing public building entrances, Capitol Police said.
She had just finished speaking as part of a Fire Drill Fridays protest, the first of a weekly series of planned climate change demonstrations, when she was taken into custody.
With the Capitol Dome as a backdrop, Fonda said she wanted to show solidarity with young climate change strikers such as Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in an emissions-free yacht to draw attention to global warming.
“We have to ensure that the climate crisis remains front and center,” Fonda said. “I’ve been feeling that I wasn’t doing enough.” Fonda vowed to return to the Capitol, saying that she was moving to Washington for the next four months out of a sense of urgency and moral outrage.
“The same toxic ideology that took this land from people who already lived here, that kidnapped people from Africa, turning them into slaves to work that stolen land, justified it by saying that those kidnapped and displaced people were not human beings, cut down the forests and exhausted the natural world just as it did the people — this foundational ideology is the same one that has brought us the human-driven climate change that we’re facing today,” she said. The arrest of Fonda recalls her rebellious activism during the 1960s and 1970s, for which she has received both acclaim and criticism over the decades.