Hints and tips:
...Les Amazones D’Afrique’s new album, Musow Danse, opens in a squall of distorted likembé, or thumb piano, from Levy Ekofo....
...The way her working environment challenges expectations is apt....
...Workmen wear battered leather aprons and display their finished brogues and boots on mahogany shelves. 72-74 High Road, London N2; kokos.co.uk CB-D L’Épée de cuir, ParisEver picked up your luggage from...
...That was Samer’s term for it, “cut”, and its rustle of evocation of the mother tongue was apt....
...Laura Bailey was a guest of the Domaine de l’Île, Porquerolles, domainedelile.com Letter in response to this article: There’s nothing simple about defining luxury / From Wendy Lee, Gruissan, Aude, France...
...Château d’Yquem is always a good idea at the end of the night....
...So Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg, Anjelica Huston, Betty Davis, Lee Miller, PJ Harvey. There are so many. The best gift that I’ve given recently is one of my drawings – a dragon for my goddaughter....
...Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase may be able to get people working like they did pre-pandemic, but from my reporting, I’d say very few others can....
...It’s not something I imagine we’d discuss much if we were eating together....
...In another life, I would have been a Madam in some bar in the old west; I’d technically be running a “business” and I’d also get to drink whiskey....
...Taking the “L”, I am accepting that, you know, I’m asking for sympathy in a difficult time for the Bush trading fund. Miranda GreenHow about you, Lucy? Lucy FisherI’m buying Rachel Reeves....
...The newest hotel in Venice, Violino d’Oro (violinodoro.com; doubles from €658) is close by, as is the Pensione Accademia (pensioneaccademia.it; doubles from about €300)....
...So l asked Scott what he thought were the most useful things employers can offer....
...and this year announced the investment of €1mn in the Himalayan Regenerative Fashion Living Lab, which helps develop regenerative farming and support textile makers in the area. brunellocucinelli.com D...
...And though the precinct is definitively manufactured, with a roster of shops from leading designers — Zimmermann, Lee Mathews, Bassike, Dion Lee, Sir The Label — somehow there’s the energy of a more natural...
...scientific and sentimental” – which, to my mind, also sums up the twin approaches needed for buying the perfect gift. perfumesloewe.com Chanel neon hair clip, £385This is one of those accessories you’d...
...Now He’d Like You to Read His Book. (NYT)...
...Beauty and the brute: few shows and venues give as much to one another as Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty, the new exhibition reopening the Barbican Art Gallery next week, and it’s marvellously apt, upbeat...
...Lee says that including the work for the Miami OVR feels particularly apt....
...And on my wishlist is a sculptural form by Kate Crassweller via L’Editions. I met Kate at university and we both moved to New York....
...“Neither one thing nor the other” maybe a more apt one. I should not hand over to Gillian without making a positive observation....
...Edinburgh Polymath 1,020: Abizer Nasir, London Crossword 16,152: Roger Clews, London; Vivienne Blackwell, Kent; Jenni Humphreys, Dorset Polymath 1,019: Robin Ratchford, Belgium Crossword 16,146: Lela Lee...
...Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, by William Quinn and John D Turner, Cambridge, RRP£18.99, 296 pages A lovely book....
...(FT) ‘Muppets v Sharks’ Small-time retail investors who ploughed money into the oil market thinking they’d spotted an opportunity to make money as prices crashed were left holding the bag, so to speak,...
...“At the core of this question is ‘I want control, and I don’t have control’” says Georgia Lee Hussey, chief executive of US wealth manager Modernist Financial....
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