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...From April 5; further information here Festival Festival del Verde e del Paesaggio, Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone Admire glorious flora, pick up artisanal gifts, taste local street foods...
...(A vintage Citroën DS and a Jaguar E-Type are attracting particularly admiring looks, including from me, and I’m not even interested in cars.)...
...L.E.K....
...As of December 14, Indonesia had reported a total of 623,309 cases with 18,956 deaths, the highest in Asia after India....
...“When I put my hand in the clay, that was a turning point because it’s such a primary thing; clay is matter,” she says....
...And earlier this year, Soho Home, the interiors e-boutique offshoot of Soho House, commissioned ceramicist Ella Hookway to create a bespoke collection of inlaid, slab-built clay plant pots....
...Brasserie Zédel, 20 Sherwood Street, W1 (brasseriezedel.com). HR Higgins (Coffee-Man), 79 Duke Street, W1 (hrhiggins.co.uk)....
...And while e-commerce still accounts for only 15 per cent of all luxury spending, no retailer can afford to be cavalier about the clients....
...Mercado de San Miguel, Plaza de San Miguel, 28005 (mercadodesanmiguel.es). Prado Museum, Paseo del Prado, 28014 (museodelprado.es)....
...Millennials are particularly partial to the solid clay stick made by NY brand Milk Makeup, which one can swipe about oneself in pursuit of a fresher complexion....
...Larry King, Velvet Texture Clay, £22, larryking.co.uk This texture clay is great for adding a little unruliness to short hair....
...From €99; Carretera GI-623 12km, 17473 Ventalló (+34972-793 005; www.lolivar.cat)....
...Grant launched ready-to-wear as E Tautz which now shows at London Collections Men, has its own store on Duke Street, and last year won the BFC/GQ Designer Menswear Fund award, with a prize of a £150,000...
...He is anonymous, a black everyman, but other works celebrate specific heroes — Jesse Owens, Charlie Parker, Cassius Clay — as if instating them in art history....
....”**** More recently, in 2013 the government arbitrarily shut down street vendors selling imported products and private movie theaters being run out of homes....
...And elsewhere there are historic samurai and geisha districts with pedestrianised streets of wooden houses with cantilevered upper storeys....
...(Financial Times) It is stupid to believe that the Tea Party has no brain (Financial Times) When C.E.O.’s embrace the cccult — a tale of extradited fortune-tellers in South Korea....
...And it is a shock to see the artist himself in a film from 1915, walking the streets of Paris, dignified, inscrutable, somewhere between the old world and the new....
...Clay could do with anger-management classes but his fiery personality makes this a one-session rocket of a thriller....
...The plaudits of the Wall Street analysts soon took on the menace of the witches’ predictions in Macbeth....
...JEM SOUTHAM Cornwall China clay, or kaolin, is a fine white clay mineral which can be created in rare circumstances through the decomposition of granite....
...The spat between two British financiers in a Manhattan court threw up oddities such as lawyers struggling to explain clay-pigeon shooting and cricket, and muddling up pounds and dollars....
...She had just won the e-Boks Sony Ericsson Open. She was tall, blonde and pretty....
...She says how important it is for the shop to continue street vending in the neighbourhood. Like a milk round, it is almost a community service....
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