Another cultural and networking event of Azerbaijani Womens Association in UK took place on May 23 in Jumeirah Carlton Hotel. The event program included “Orphan Sky” book presentation by writer and famous composer Ella Leya. The book was published in the UK in 2015 and translated into Azerbaijani language recently in 2019. The Los Angeles Review of Books describes The Orphan Sky "as authentic, disturbing and brilliant as The Kite Runner." Another part of the event was the Spring-Summer 2019 presentation of the “HASANOVA” fashion brand owned by Azerbaijani Fashion designer Gunel Hasanova. The brand is getting famous not only in Azerbaijan but worldwide. The unique hats presentation by Samira Ebrahimi is the tribute to the upcoming Royal Ascot events made the atmosphere of the event more glamorous. “It is one of the series of the cultural and networking event featuring AWAUK members and local fashion, business and press community. We are happy to present … [Read more...] about Fashion, Networking and Cultural event by AWAUK held in London
Los angeles review of books
‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism
Conservatism is the dominant politics of the modern world. Even when rightwing parties are not in power, conservative ideas and policies set the shape of society and the economy. Ever since the transformative 1980s governments of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – with their new fusion of disruptive capitalism and social traditionalism – the assumption in Britain, the US and far beyond has been that conservatism is the default setting of democratic politics. Even when other parties have been in office, leaders such as Tony Blair and Bill Clinton have continued with the conservative project of privatising the state and deregulating business. For decades, armies of rightwing activists – with rich financial backers and many allies in the media – have successfully spread and entrenched conservative ideas. Many of conservatism’s opponents have come to expect that, somehow, it will always prevail. Despite the spectacular failure of Theresa May’s … [Read more...] about ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism
How the baby boomers sold out
In 1969, when Theodore Roszak wrote The Making of a Counter Culture, it was at least as difficult to be an optimist as it is half a century later. The United States had spent most of the Sixties locked in a bloody, pointless war. At home, its cities had suffered the biggest spike in violent crime since the Great Depression. In the face of all this, Roszak, then aged 37, conducted a survey of populism among younger generations that was critical in places but recklessly hopeful at its core. “It is the young”, he wrote, “arriving with eyes that can see the obvious, who must remake the lethal culture of their elders, and who must remake it in desperate haste”. Today, inured to a very different set of stereotypes about the young, one reads passages like this with envy for Roszak’s optimism. In hindsight, few prominent public intellectuals of his generation were so wrong about so many things. Even fewer were so right on the main points. **** Roszak is … [Read more...] about How the baby boomers sold out
Flight Review: Singapore Airlines non-stop to Los Angeles
At nearly 17 hours, the non-stop Singapore Airlines flight to Los Angeles is the fifth longest in the world. Singapore Airlines flight 38 departs Changi Airport just before 9pm and arrives around 9pm in Los Angeles on the same day. According to your watch, no time has passed, despite having just travelled over 14,000kms and being in the air more than twice as long as your average work day. Changi's Jewel: How the world's best airport just got better Which plane seat is better - window or aisle? Singapore Airlines operates an Airbus A350-900 ULR (Ultra Long Range) on this daily route. It's specially configured with just premium and business class on-board for the long-haul, sans economy. The Business Class Experience: Okay, I'll own up to it. I was lucky enough to fly business class on this flight, so the service onboard wouldn't be the same if I had been in Singapore Airlines economy, even if it existed on this route. One way airlines distinguish their business class … [Read more...] about Flight Review: Singapore Airlines non-stop to Los Angeles
Jonas Åkerlund on Lords of Chaos: “I remember seeing a story about the church burnings and knowing who was responsible”
0 Have your say In his new film Lords of Chaos, director Jonas Åkerlund explores how the violent posturing of Scandinavian black metal bands in the late 1980s and early 90s led to church burnings, homicides and more. It’s still hard to understand their motivations, he tells Alistair Harkness “She was the first artist that told me, ‘F*** MTV. We can do this without them’.” Jonas Åkerlund is recalling the moment he first worked with Lady Gaga. The veteran promo director responsible for some of the most iconic, provocative and cutting-edge videos of the last 30 years – The Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up, Madonna’s Ray of Light, Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful and Primal Scream’s Country Girl are all his – was, he says, on the verge of giving up when Gaga approached him to do the video for her 2009 hit Paparazzi. “Before that I was always in the hands of MTV and MTV was not good. They … [Read more...] about Jonas Åkerlund on Lords of Chaos: “I remember seeing a story about the church burnings and knowing who was responsible”