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...Given that the Royal Opera House now boasts two splendid studio theatres in which to test-drive new material, Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare’s decision to present four premieres on the main stage as...
...In Emily Burns’ beautifully modulated production, it’s like finding a photo album in your grandma’s house and suddenly falling into the past in all its warm, breathing, messy reality....
...New development — along with coveted Harlem town houses — are helping to keep them there....
...“She’s Got You” was the encore, a slice of Southern soul that brought the house down. ★★★★☆ wigmore-hall.org.uk...
...It’s a history of black women musicians, from Aretha Franklin to Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, and shows how they’ve informed intellectual life and the black female sound.”...
...Belt Sac, from $350, agnesbaddoo.com My favourite room in my house is my living room....
...sizes and colours. spicerandwood.co.uk Calypso wine glasses by Serena Confalonieri, £220 for a set of 2 Exquisite, hand-blown borosilicate glasses that bring a unique flair to the table. artemest.com Bessie...
...The selling point of Gurinder Chadha’s series Beecham House, continuing this Sunday on ITV at 9pm, was supposedly the equal emphasis on both Indian and European characters....
...But the song that brings the house down and brings the show back to its base — to the dragging poverty and worn-out struggle of Depression-era America — is Bessie Smith’s “Wasted Life Blues”, which Clarke...
...It is extraordinary that we still use a crude, 5,000 year-old technology to access houses and cars. And I frequently lose mine. Theoretically, keys could become obsolete....
...Into this house of mirth comes Bessie’s estranged younger sister and potential bone marrow donor Lee (Janeane Garofalo) along with her two sons Charlie (Luca Padovan) and Hank (Jack DiFalco), the latter...
...William Morris was living in Kelmscott House in Hammersmith surrounded by other artists. Kelmscott House is now privately owned, but the William Morris Society occupies the coach house and basement....
...LGBT people of all kinds have this lineage too — he mentions black bisexual singer Bessie Smith and black gay novelist James Baldwin....
...Is it “a lowdown old aching chill”, as the Son House lyric goes, or the chaos of life distilled to a jangling, repetitive complaint?...
...correspondents – Abelard and Héloïse, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath – with an immensely affecting set of letters from signalman Chris Barker, one-time post office messenger, to Bessie...
...In fact, the first big stars of American popular music were women, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith. And then it was co-opted by men who strutted around with a guitar.”...
...William Jackson, the maker of Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puddings, is poised to buy Abel & Cole, the organic food company....
...“‘Any twins here in the house? Yes? No?’ And if there is one of two identical twins in the house then the actor who asks the question will talk to them....
...Gray says of the changed streetscape: “There was a vet, pawn shop, picture houses, everything. It’s all gone now.”...
...At one extreme there are old-established family businesses such as Andrew Marr International, the Hull fish trading giant, William Jackson, producers of Aunt Bessie’s frozen foods, and Oldroyd and Sons,...
...The cross-cultural paintings by artists including Will Ashton, Ethel Carrick Fox, Bessie Davidson and Rupert Bunny evoke a city during a period of fragile calm....
...The death in the book’s title refers to Bessie Goldberg, one of the strangler’s supposed victims, murdered on March 11 1963....
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