Olivia Lee

1 month ago | msn.com | Olivia Lee

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Olivia Lee

“To the Coffee-house, and there all the house full of the discourse of the great fire,” wrote Samuel Pepys of his trip to a 17th-century cafe – then the social nerve centre of London’s gossiping elite. Fast forward to the 21st century and the chattering classes have been replaced with the clattering classes – remote workers busily hammering away on their laptop keyboards and shouting on video calls to be heard over the mechanical grinding of coffee beans.

1 month ago | msn.com | Olivia Lee

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Olivia Lee

Movie buffs already lamenting the length of time it takes to get to the start of a film might be disappointed to learn that pre-cinema ads are getting longer. Over the past 10 years, adverts for products and brands have taken up a larger proportion of pre-film reels in cinemas, according to experts. “There has been a noticeable shift toward including more advertisements within the pre-film reel.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Olivia Lee

Dolly Parton has dedicated her new song, If You Hadn’t Been There, to her husband, Carl Dean, who died this week aged 82. The couple were married for nearly six decades, with Dean, a businessman, remaining largely out of the spotlight as Parton became an two-time Oscar nominee and 10-time Grammy winner as well as one of the biggest-selling US musicians.