ByteDance to compete with Spotify and Apple

Bejing-based, TikTok, the Chinese company behind the popular video app is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple in the music streaming market with the launch of its rival service ByteDance, which is in talks with largest record companies with the largest record companies  like Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal…

Le Mans ’66

Directed by James Mangold with a budget of $97.6m, American Automotive designer Carroll Shelby and British race car driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physic to build a revolutionary vehicle for the Ford Motor Co, and they plan to compete against the race cars of Enzo Ferrari. Matt Damon is Carroll Shelby,…

“THREADS” – MONOLOGUES BY JEAN COCTEAU

“THREADS” – MONOLOGUES BY JEAN COCTEAU – A CHANCE TO GET FAMILIAR WITH A VERY UNUSUAL GROUND FLOOR VENUE IN VAUXHALL PLEASURE GARDENS LONDON. Who would imagine when going to a park area that they would find a formerly abandoned huge now restored  Victorian public house, tenderly refurbished with vast character,  complete with two resident…

Laura Mulvey the critic who coined “Male Gaze”

Laura Mulvey, 78-year-old academic  coined the phrase “Male Gaze” and almost 45-years-ago ignited a generation of feminists with her concept in 1`975, to describe the dominant assumption “ Sexual imbalance”  in Hollywood that the perspective film-maker and view is male, and how it strategically positions men as spectators and women as objects,  is now reaching…

Shares in betting companies plummets

  A recommendation by an all-party parliamentary group would bring maximum stakes on slot-machine –style online games to the level introduced for fixed odds betting terminals, slot machine notoriously known as “crack cocaine”. Share in UK betting companies plummeted yesterdays after MPs called for a £2-per-bet limit on online games to combat “public health crisis”…

Celesial singer honours at Houses of Parliament

On 14th October 2019, Indian singer Dr K J Yesudas was honoured at Houses of Parliament attended by Justice minister Philip MP and Martyn Day MP, Councillor Manu Shahul-Hameed  organised by The UK Event  Life. Celebrating 50+ years of glorious music the iconic Indian singer Dr KJ Yesudas, performing a multilingual musical feast in Malayalam,…

Asian Pop genres

Afghan born Pakistani poetess and writer Fatima Bhutto who studied at Columbia University writes about vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world, displaying truly global in its range and allure, challenging Hollywood, McDonalds and blue jeans.  K-Pop from Korea provide universal satisfaction – not merely as entertainment but on an emotional level too.…

Are you one of the two million people who uses emoji every hour

  Gretchen McCulloch, a Canadian linguist, making sense of  the ways we communicate online “ how internet is making us  more nuanced and inventive writers”,  in her latest book she writes “ because of internet, through a revolutionary period in linguistic history, where writing quickly, within character limits and deploying ever-changing internet slang, is enriching…