Hints and tips:
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...Various scores have been tried (Mozart, Rossini, Johann Strauss) but Wheeldon — like Ashton, Nureyev, Matthew Hart, Alexei Ratmansky et al — was seduced by Prokofiev’s bittersweet 1945 masterpiece, splendidly...
...and the imposing blocks of Unity and Africa Halls....
...The production is tied into a process that synchronises all of the videos, lights, sound et cetera....
...When Tennant and Beaton et al were having their elaborate costume parties, elegance as much as decadence was everything....
...Their gorgeous, luminous singing hit a peak with Morley’s sensuous “Et incarnatus est”....
...They were big occasions: she would invite 60 or 70 people for dinner and set up tables not only in the capacious dining room and kitchen, but also in the drawing room and the hall....
...For starters, it’s located in a former outbuilding, about 20 steps from Vanessa Bell’s front door....
...She described melancholic Arab song rising from the citadel’s immense corridors and vaulted halls. In this same empty palace, I startled two owls....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...There are some fantastic wood-effect porcelain tiles available — et voilà, a happy combination of taste and practicality....
...I went to a terrible school in south London and there was a copy of this painting hanging in the assembly hall. It is so peaceful – it was very moving and inspirational for me.”...
...Michael O’SullivanYou cannot go around like Al Capone. You can, but you’ll only last so long. Miles JohnsonThat’s next time on Hot Money....
...Philippe Grenon’s Émile et Moi is a simple platformer in which you jump between words to build a poem....
...The vessel accommodates eight guests in four cabins and sets sail from Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina, heading north-west to the Ad Dimaniyat Islands....
...Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al). Loss: length, character complexity and the loving build-up of an epic momentum....
...But oh no . . . there goes the lunch bell....
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...There are three bedrooms and 465 sq m of land, including a terrace for al fresco entertaining....
...“aerobes” floating through Tate Modern in Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall commission “In Love with the World”....
...Then look at the V&A or the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial, to either side of the Serpentine Gallery, with their rich terracotta detail, or at the massive holdings of ceramics in the museum, and it...
...“When we rang the gate – it was a cloudy day – a ray of sunlight broke through and hit the bell, and I thought, ‘Well, maybe that’s something . . . ?’...
...The Midnight Bell reunites the same Olivier-winning creative team....
...Expect many versions of young Naomi, Linda, Christy, Amber et al, as well as Hollywood icons along the lines of Charlotte Rampling and Nicole Kidman....
...Enter AA Milne’s dim but loveable Pooh, followed by Rupert, Paddington et al. Why “teddy” bears?...
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