The “Pop up” form of marketing is becoming increasingly used around the world. Record labels open pop up shops; celebrity chefs open pop up restaurants, and children open pop up books (couldn’t resist, sorry). They create a sense of urgency that you do not get in other shops, as they are there for a limited time only, which in turn makes them all the more interesting.

Dour Festival is something on a rarity on the festival scene. Not small but not huge Dour has built up a reputation few festivals could manage to muster even if they tried. Relaxed, safe, fun, insane, wet, and a line up you would sell your grandmother to see Dour Festival is truly one of a kind…and all for under 100 Euros.

Having grown tired at the way the USSU is being run and how students are supposed to engage with their own union I have decided to write a series of articles that examines the weakness, as I see it, in how University of Sussex Students Union is failing its student members. I have tried to engage with the sabbatical team with little results. These articles are not meant to be hurtful or overly negative but more a call to have the union handed back to the students making a a real place for students by students.

Sunday saw a rare screening and Q & A with Oscar winning director Sir Alan Parker director of “Evita”, “Fame”, and “Angela’s Ashes” the director was on the Southbank to talk about his debut film “Bugsy Malone”.

It seems like Tinseltown is showing their old double standards when it comes to how it wants to treat certain members. The latest one to fall by the wayside is Brett Ratner who was slated to produce the 2012 Oscar Telecast and has now resigned after an apparent gay slur over the weekend. Though the Academy was standing by Ratner in Monday they have now accepted his resignation.