Hints and tips:
...An indulgence we would never forgo is trying small-batch mezcal from El Destilado and tequilas from The Sampler on Upper Street....
...There’s even a bespoke pool table in the lounge area made out of white marble....
...Mandalay gave him a $75,000 limit to lure him from Caesars Palace, which only let him bet $50,000 a hand....
...He worked under chefs like Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Georges Vongerichten (in the US) and Ferran Adrià (at El Bulli in Spain), before moving to London....
...And in the FT — you must read Mohamed El-Erian’s extremely sharp take on why the markets are still way too upbeat on Covid-19 and how we should be reshaping our portfolios....
...When lunchtime came we moored the launch in the pale blue-green shallows of El Mosteño, another pristine white-sand playa where Christian served me fish ceviche, smoked marlin salad and Pacífico beer....
...‘I want etched glass’ Mr Ruffin became the man with the golden touch — in Mr Trump’s eyes — when he sold the Frontier site in 2007 for $1.24bn to El-Ad of Israel....
...EL James’s Fifty Shades follow-up, Grey, exasperated reviewers but nonetheless swiftly broke through the 1m mark for print sales in both the US and the UK....
...Friedberg, an American academic and former White House official, is a hawk, and his book is particularly strong on the military aspects of the struggle....
...All have deserted beaches of white sand. Seeing these magnificent ruins from a hundred yards offshore is a rare experience....
...It was Cleopatra, seducer of Caesar, lover of Mark Antony, and the last of the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty to rule over Egypt....
International Edition