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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...We spent last Christmas in the unworldly peace of Siwa, swimming in hot springs, riding over sand dunes and, like Alexander, visiting the eerie temple of the oracle on its knob of rock overlooking the palm...
...sensory” tour of four spaces in the city’s 6th arrondissement....
...He stays in the city, in a council-funded flatlet, kept afloat by benefits....
...city of Jerusalem, beneath clouds whipped by a breeze animating the entire scene....
...Chicago-based Gang, whose work includes the seductively liquid Aqua Tower in Chicago and the just-opened Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, is not much interested in theoretical justifications...
...Rostov-on-Don was swiftly occupied and a lengthy convoy of battle-hardened Wagnerites sped unopposed from the south towards the city of Voronezh....
...at the Monterey Pop Festival – a moment immortalised in one of the most famous rock ’n’ roll photographs of all time....
...His clothes retain a sense of the city’s casualness at their core. Owens was born in 1961 in Porterville, California — a small city about 160 miles north of Los Angeles....
...Farrell Sanders was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the American South, in October 1940. (The sobriquet Pharoah was bestowed on him in his early twenties by the visionary bandleader Sun Ra.)...
...Her aunt was “a Hasidic Jew who took off her wig and appeared on the cover of fitness magazines”. Very little of her own career trajectory therefore feels unusual....
...Surat’s polishers, who sit in cramped offices hunched over abrasive wheels to transform rough rocks into dazzling gems, have won the city its reputation in part by tackling small gems hewn from Siberian...
...People who grow up in cities often have a view of the countryside as a broad, expansive land through which one can wander in any direction....
...In 2002, Li invested in BYD, then a little-known maker of electric batteries....
...Igor had an office inside city hall, one floor below the mayor, where he worked as an elections official. He liked it because it required doing very little, except in the weeks ahead of an election....
...Separately, Frank Scott, mayor of Little Rock, on Thursday issued a mask mandate requiring everyone to wear a face covering in public places owned and operated by the city....
...Quick-fire Q&A I recently spoke to Marc-Alexander Christ, co-founder of SumUp which provides mobile point of sale technology....
...In downtown Little Rock, a chorus echoes around the room at Willy D’s Rock & Roll Piano Bar as groups of friends clutching beers and each other sing along to the soul hit “Stand By Me”....
...Clinton’s popularity in Little Rock has declined dramatically since he left office, but for the restaurant, which sits in a heavily Republican city, the photos of and letters from the ex-president are a...
...A drama about a solitary woman talking into a phone might seem a little too close for comfort after the couple of years we’ve had....
...Alexander Prigarin, an ethnologist at Odesa national university, said that as Russian forces took control of Crimea, there were many in the city who wished their city would be next....
...Zheleznyak soon asked Leontiev to join him at the offices of their client, Alexander Varshavsky....
...The project has covered “rust-belt” cities such as Detroit, one of the first urban areas to reorganise around the automobile, but also places such as Little Rock, Arkansas and Houston, Texas....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...After shots of that, I need to try Teremana, The Rock’s tequila....
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