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...“He was tough,” says Alvin Santleban, 75, a retired border patrolman, whose Eagle Pass property peers down over Mexican scrubland....
...They’re mostly bejewelled balls that look like Christmas baubles. And there’s one bright bejewelled banana. It’s very compelling....
...My cousin, Alvin Batiste, was the creative director, and the jazz training is at the level of Juilliard....
...Manager Alvin Ziwa Nyombi, who did a mezcal-tasting apprenticeship in Mexico, recommends sipping the spirit with a slice of orange in your mouth to “open up the flavours”....
...Clara Baldock has selected stocking fillers for tardy Christmas shoppers , Kate (again) offers us instruction on how to rock Balmoral chic, no matter how urban the environment, and Alice Lascelles has asked...
...Book, a powerful new series from Macmillan Podcasts, the activist and minister Hezekiah Jackson recalls the trips he took with his family from Birmingham, Alabama, to visit his uncle in New York every Christmas...
...He was often out of town during his family’s Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays....
...“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” — as sung with appalling good cheer by everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Alvin and the Chipmunks — is a small classic of the rhetoric of threat and intimidation....
...Whenever Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (in New York until January) ends a show with Revelations, which is most of the time, the audience jumps up to applaud and remains standing throughout the inevitable...
...There were card games, dances, Christmas parties. But it’s a weird place to be at night, a little eerie, especially being up in the tower when the fog rolled in....
...The studio will also distribute the next two releases from Wallace and Grommit creators Aardman Animation: Arthur Christmas and Pirates....
...Alvin Yeung, an estate agent, says about a fifth of his clients are mainland Chinese....
...I’ve actually spoken to my manager about doing it for Christmas time. I thought that would be really sweet to do a Christmas release of Gaga, Gaga and the jazz standards....
...But in spite of all this pizzazz, the show is rather too much of a Christmas bauble: more surface glitter than substance....
...“The whole point is to create new work,” Spalding explains – and although Sadler’s Wells includes opera in its programme (in the run-up to Christmas, both Opera North and Glyndebourne Touring Opera are bringing...
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