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Australian crime writer wins top UK crime writing award
Jay Z’s Tidal will be hosting a charity concert in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on October 20th, featuring high-caliber artists such as Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Prince and Jay Z himself.
Tidal’s music-streaming service reaches 1 million subscribers Remember when Jay Z said Tidal, the streaming music service he acquired earlier this year, was doing just fine? Well, as it turns out, things are still on a respectable course. The musician/ entrepreneur took to Twitter to reveal a significant milestone for Tidal: 1 million subscribers. “’Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists,’” Jay Z tweeted. “Tidal is platinum.” To celebrate, Tidal announced it will be hosting a charity concert in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on October 20th, featuring highcaliber artists such as Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Prince and, of course, Jay Z himself. And don’t worry if you can’t attend, the service says it plans to stream
it to everyone (including nonsubscribers) on its website. While reaching 1 million subscribers is an important feat for Tidal, that figure is still very far behind competitors including Spotify and Rhapsody -- which have 15 million and 3 million, respectively. Granted, Tidal hasn’t been around for long since being under Jay Z’s umbrella, so there’s room to grow and try to catch up to its rivals. The last time Tidal shared similar details was back in April, when Jay Z decided to tell the world his service had over 700,000 subscribers to date. “Tidal is doing just fine,” he said. “We have over 770,000 subs. We have been in business less than one month.” (Engadget)
Jim Carrey (53) and Cathriona White (30) dated on and off since 2012.
Carrey ‘shocked’ by ex-partner death HOLLYWOOD actor Jim Carrey says he is “shocked and deeply saddened” by the death of his former partner in her Los Angeles apartment. Cathriona White, 30, who was from County Tipperary in Ireland, was found dead on Monday of a suspected overdose. Police told the Associated Press the matter was being treated as a suicide but no conclusion has yet been reached. The website TMZ.com said the couple had an on-off relationship and
broke up again last week. “She was a truly kind and delicate Irish flower, too sensitive for this soil, to whom loving and being loved was all that sparkled,” Carrey said in a statement. The Canadian actor, 53, who starred in Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura Pet Detective, met White, a beauty therapist, in 2012. The Irish Times said White moved to California in 2009 and became involved with Carrey after meeting him on a film set.
An Australian writer has beaten stiff competition to win one of the world’s most prestigious crime writing awards. Sydney-based Michael Robotham won the British Gold Dagger award for his novel Life or Death. Former journalist Mr Robotham defeated prominent writers including JK Rowling - writing as Robert Galbraith - and Stephen King for the honour. Life or Death, his 10th novel, is the story of a prisoner who escapes shortly before he is due to be released. Mr Robotham, who lives in Sydney, said he was grateful for the respect of his fellow writers. “For all the fact that it’s lovely to have commercial success, to sell lots of books, to be able to be a full-time writer, something like the Dagger makes you feel you have the respect of your peers and you are part of a long tradition of very fine writers,” he said. Mr Robotham said that many of the autobiographies he ghost-wrote while in Britain of “the great, the good and the less good” assisted him in his novel writing. “I was very comfortable capturing the voice and making the characters
Former journalist Michael Robotham defeated prominent writers including JK Rowling - writing as Robert Galbraith - and Stephen King for the honour.
live and breathe on the page and making them seem very real because I had written for so many real people over that 10-year period,” he was quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald as saying. One of his subjects was the imprisoned performer Rolf Harris who was jailed last year for 12
indecent assaults on four girls, one aged just seven or eight. Mr Robotham said that he felt betrayed by Harris and “beat himself up enormously” about it. He has become the second Australian to win a Gold Dagger, after Peter Temple for The Broken Shore in 2007. (BBC)
Walker’s daughter sues Porsche over father’s death Paul Walker’s daughter has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche, claiming the sports car he was riding in had multiple design flaws. The suit, filed Monday on behalf of 16-year-old Meadow Rain Walker, seeks unspecified damages for defects it alleges contributed to her father’s death. “The bottom line is that the Porsche Carrera GT is a dangerous car. It doesn’t belong on the street,” Walker’s attorney, Jeff Milam, said in a statement. “And we shouldn’t be without Paul Walker or his friend, Roger Rodas.” Calvin Kim with Porsche Cars North America said the automaker hasn’t seen the lawsuit and wouldn’t comment on specifics. “As we have said before, we are saddened whenever anyone is hurt in a Porsche vehicle, but we believe the authorities’ reports in this case clearly established that this tragic crash resulted from reckless driving and excessive speed,” Kim said. The actor was best known for his role as Brian O’Conner in the “Fast & Furious” franchise. His life was cut short in a car crash in Southern
The suit against Porsche, filed Monday on behalf of 16-year-old Meadow Rain Walker, seeks unspecified damages for defects it alleges contributed to her father’s death.
California on November 30, 2013, during a few days off in the filming of the seventh movie in the popular series. He was 40. The lawsuit alleges “the vehicle lacked safety features that are found on well-designed racing cars or even Porsche’s least expensive road cars -- features that could have prevented the accident or, at a minimum,
allowed Paul Walker to survive the crash.” The court document contends the 2005 Carrera GT should have come with an electronic stability control system to protect against swerving. The car also lacked adequate side door reinforcement bars and had defective rubber fuel lines, according to the lawsuit.