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...The trial of one of America’s most famous Black citizens in a Los Angeles courtroom unfolded four years after the brutal beating of Rodney King, a Black man, by LA police, and racial tensions in the city...
...Their spines form colour blocks: NatGeo yellow and Monocle black, with a rainbow of Wallpaper copies adding a pop of pastel....
...There was sniffiness in some quarters that they sounded too much like The Strokes, Television et al. Others were just grateful for the affinity. 3D Country is the follow-up album....
...a city block, their mounds are....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...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...
...News round-up FCA lays out scale of investigation into Crispin Odey (FT) PwC tipped off Google on timing of Australian tax law (FT) Diddy claims Diageo dismissed his vodka as black brand with hip hop...
...Throughout his prolific career Lindbergh brought an otherworldly beauty to his black-and-white portraits – from Kate Moss to Linda Evangelista – for the likes of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar....
...being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...In the landscape of European football, al-Khelaifi has a better vantage point than most....
...I really like the ease of Jigsaw’s relaxed sweater (£110, jigsaw-online.com) If it’s arctic, use a light cashmere (Zadig and Voltaire’s “Brumy” is a good bet and currently on sale, £199, zadig-et-voltaire.com...
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...It is part documentary — the pioneering 1960s-70s photographs of how “black people perform in a certain vernacular”, as Armet Francis put it, are outstanding — about construction of identity in response...
...It sits one block along from Les Deux Magots, the café once frequented by Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir et al and which has become a hang-out for tourists and would-be existentialists....
...This take is less Sex and the City-style outrageous fabulosity, however, and more in line with the minimal, monochrome simplicity and silhouettes of Yohji Yamamoto, Helmut Lang et al....
...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....
...Georges and Anthony Karam opened Partisan Café Artisanal in the historical Arts et Métiers district....
...Meanwhile, El Salvador’s government is planning a volcano-fuelled bitcoin city that will also function as a tax haven....
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...But the renewal of Claridge’s is different; it is a renewal of his commitment to London, “one of the greatest cities, if not the greatest, on Earth”....
...“My dream was to create a boutique of luxe, calme et volupté, of haute fashion that couldn’t be found anywhere else,” says Iukuridze, whose own Paris apartment used to belong to Isabella Rossellini....
...As Mr Azoulay, Mr Jones et al reported last year, “successful entrepreneurs are middle-aged, not young”....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
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