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...Calvin Richardson, so deliciously camp as the unwanted suitor in Don Q, showed his versatility as the reptilian Ulysses....
...Both also ignited what may be 2024’s biggest trend: “cowboycore” western fashion. One question stuck in the mind: since when did US fashion become so self-referential?...
...Judge Arthur Engoron has already found that the former president and his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric, inflated their wealth by as much as $2.2bn in order to secure loans for their family business on advantageous...
...Japan: Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida will hold talks with Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Tokyo....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...The Icelandic composer’s doomy 2018 Metacosmos imagines a journey through a black hole, while 2021’s Catamorphosis ponders the climate emergency....
...Until February 18; further information and tickets here Festival South Beach Wine and Food Festival (SOBEWFF) 2024’s iteration of this long-running festival looks set to be spectacular....
...Scottish songwriter/producer/DJ Calvin Harris has arguably moved across more dance music scenes than any other major contemporary artist....
...But that benign conclusion was never likely to result from the series of encounters between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr during the explosive US political party conventions of 1968, the true story...
...The blue-chip S&P 500 ended the day up 2 per cent to end a six-session losing streak. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 2.1 per cent....
...Highlights Formula 1‘s Toto Wolff sits down for this week’s Lunch with the FT....
...Credit Suisse’s West Coast US investment banking head Gregory Quilici has joined the boutique firm William Blair in San Francisco....
...Husband-and-wife Idris and Sabrina Elba have just launched a range, too, called S’ABLE Labs....
...Years ago, I saw Hank Williams’ grandson play a London gig. Hank Williams III, whose father Hank Williams Jr was also a singer, did a two-set show....
...At our family farm, we went on hayrides and sang Hank Williams songs in the summer moonlight....
...William Howard Taft, the 27th US president, had choice words for describing what should become of former occupants of the White House once they left office....
...The report appeared on Tesla’s first day of trading in the S&P 500, weakening the electric carmaker’s shares....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...The evening’s world premiere, Bach Studies (Part 2), took the first half of 2018’s Bach Studies (Part 1) — set to the Violin Partita No.2 — and tacked on additional choreography....
...Here’s a reminder of why the S-400 is one of the world’s most advanced air defence systems....
...Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons, by Ben S Bernanke, Timothy F Geithner and Henry M Paulson Jr, Penguin, RRP$16/Profile, RRP£9.99 If what these three men did during the financial crisis...
...Even the conservative polemicist, William F Buckley, was lost in admiration for his use of words....
...William T Ti Jr, principal architect at WTA, explains that hosting events at the libraries was key in delivering the aim to engage a broad audience....
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