Hints and tips:
...There are cafés with outdoor terraces, a fine concert hall, a great archaeological museum and some gripping modern museums that catalogue the idiocy and horrors of the communist period....
...In 2014 two management researchers, Corinne Post and Kris Byron, combined evidence from 140 studies and found that “the relationship between female board representation and market performance is near zero...
...Trumpeter Byron Wallen joined Cole in the front line and drummer Hamid Drake and percussionist Yahael Camara Onono delivered a complex rhythmic web....
...This overlap is the subject of Poetry Games, a new exhibition at the National Poetry Library in London’s Royal Festival Hall....
...It is a pleasure to hear the latter re-engaging with the guitar, which has been superseded lately by his successful composing work for films and concert halls....
...Elgin became a hate figure for some in Britain, notably the great Romantic poet Lord Byron, who eventually died in the cause of Greek freedom....
...Katy and I had enjoyed our brief stay in Buffalo — not least our discovery of the Art Deco gem and relic of the city’s heyday that is the City Hall....
...Dozens of people remain stranded on the roofs of their houses with some buildings, including a historic town hall near Byron Bay, washed away entirely, according to reports....
...Rylance, one of our most brilliant, mercurial actors, is superb at portraying loners and mavericks: Iago, Hamlet, Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall and the charismatic, roistering outlaw, Johnny “Rooster” Byron...
...Adrian Tinniswood, Jonathan Cape £30/Basic Books $32, 432 pages The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People by Clive Aslet, Yale £18.99, 246 pages Miranda Seymour is the author of ‘In Byron...
...The rooms capitalise on strip-wood floors and tall sash windows to bring the downtown-loft vibes; the deli handles the pastrami and salmon brief with aplomb; and the capacious lounges and “study hall” spread...
...No room here for Lady Byron (the poet’s maligned widow) and her pioneering work in co-ed schools and prisons? Instead, Thompson presents a gossip-strewn survey of rich women with time on their hands....
...As Spinderella faded, an elderly badger appeared with a copy of Byron’s Don Juan....
...Bryan Ferry’s latest release is a live album of a 1974 show at the Royal Albert Hall....
...But Baudelaire and Byron won’t get you far in the more kinetic, impatient New York....
...A brilliant student, adored at her convent school (its enlightened nuns later praised The Female Eunuch as “a delight to read, a work of deep scholarship”), Greer’s thesis on Byron’s satire won her a scholarship...
...A magnificently preserved banking hall nestles within, alongside its own museum with artefacts from former customers including Lord Byron, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen....
...Mary Shelley came up with idea in 1816 when, holed up by rain while on holiday in Geneva, the couple went to dinner at Lord Byron’s villa....
...My wife and I biked our feast through the midday heat to Byron’s Pool, just beyond Grantchester, where the swimmer-poet is supposed to have spent some of his happiest hours as an undergraduate....
...Like his British literary heroes Lord Byron and TE Lawrence, he is a man of action who aims to change the world....
...What fatally undermines the show is Stew’s meandering and frequently baffling book, which pits Joe against his musically gifted son Marty (Ato Blankson-Wood) and an interloping British record producer Byron...
...I still remember the dessert from Hipping Hall [in Kirkby Lonsdale in the Lakes]. But I’ve always thought that being a food critic is sort of not a proper job, however eloquent you might be....
...James Arben and Byron Wallen punctuated the set with the characteristic pentatonic brass fanfares of Ethiojazz while Tom Skinner and Richard Olatunde-Baker kept a rhythm at once easy and propulsive....
...A series of murals in Manchester Town Hall celebrates the triumph of economic progress in the 19th century: the substitution of machinery for the skilled artisan....
...We couldn’t use the village hall because the vegan ice-cream makers had booked it for the morning. So we drove out to Debbie’s place....
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