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...Hijack is an altogether different sort of entertainment. Succession seemed able to bear any amount of King Lear-for-billionaires cultural elevation....
...Vista Social Club and many more....
...1 The Dorchester Rooftop A big hit when it debuted last year, the hotel’s rooftop pop-up returns for the summer season, setting fine dining to ’gramme-worthy vistas over Hyde Park....
...Vista Outdoor is betting these new players stick around. The sporting-goods company is buying golf-simulator maker Foresight Sports for $474m....
...Vista intends to integrate Blue Prism with Tibco, the Silicon Valley-based data analytics company it took private for $4.3bn in 2014. 3....
...As head of marketing for Buena Vista Home Entertainment, his job was to persuade fans to build a library of Disney movies on tape or disc instead of renting them from Blockbuster....
...Of finding a vista of escape. Occasionally of confronting fear. And all of this excitement on a daily basis....
...For centuries the Thames flowed as the capital’s primary transport artery, a working river that functioned as both a thoroughfare and a place for entertainment....
...As Guy Debord wrote in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): “The spectator does not feel at home anywhere because the spectacle is everywhere.” illuminatedriver.london...
...People I knew who had quarantined at home in London presumed that I, too, could sneak out for a walk. “I am still in this room!”...
...Smart reads Hong Kong high society A New York Times investigation digs into assets and luxury homes in Hong Kong owned by relatives of top officials in China’s ruling Communist party....
...Wenders’ camera scrolls to another mesmerisingly recreated vista of iconic desolation: the row of pumps at an empty petrol station in “Gas” (1940), shining neon on a deserted road at dusk....
...Radical change in home entertainment After the launch of the second generation Kindle from Amazon set the market racing, 2009 became the year of the ereader....
...But there, at the foot of the golden temple or high up on the pine-covered mountain, we stand to find that there is so much of “us” intruding on our vistas....
...He was the frontman of the Buena Vista Social Club ensemble, whose 1997 album of the same name sold 12 million copies. He now performs with his own band, Grupo Patria....
...Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group said on Monday it has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Buena Vista International, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, to release more than 1,000...
...From Buena Vista Social Club to Gypsy Kings to La Macarena to Ricky Martin. But they were completely random,” he says. “Now we’re thinking about global hits, and they are not random....
...Across the road from the villa a green amphitheatre designed in around 1700 by Palladio’s follower Francesco Muttoni used to provide evening entertainment....
...He’d been approached before [by labels], but we went to him with the idea to do a Buena Vista Social Club for New Orleans, and that connected with him.”...
...contemporary home for $2.5m....
...Wanda still owns the One Nine Elms site in the same area, which is slated for a 200-metre-high development that includes 437 homes and 3,584 sq ft of retail space, as well as one of the first Wanda Vista...
...The most potent symbol of the global entertainment industry has no visitor centre (or even gift shop)....
...Jane Owen is editor of House & Home and deputy editor of FT Weekend Next week: Alexander Gilmour’s ‘London life’ Illustration by Michelle Thompson...
...As the entertainment industry moved into online video, multichannel networks such as Fullscreen and Maker Studios appeared to provide a home for YouTube creators, with their growth supported by investment...
...Homes aimed at this demographic — ageing, affluent, but still ambitious for high-end homes within a walk of excellent eating and entertainment facilities — are in short supply near London....
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