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...“Studio, studio, c’est ma vie,” he raps in his latest whopper of an album, La route est longue (★★★☆☆)....
...Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years....
...Caroline Copeland, senior lecturer at King’s College London and the report’s senior author, said the research showed xylazine had “penetrated the UK’s illicit drug market”....
The reggaeton superstar has teamed up with Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu to bring art – and awareness – to Gen Z
...“C’mon Billy” was a pressing number about a woman calling for the absent man who fathered her child. Then the mood switched to the hazy title track from 2007’s White Chalk....
...“We had a lot of good news in recent months, helped by falls in inflation,” said David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...It is surely impossible to imagine that patients could now have a major medical diagnosis kept from them for years as many haemophiliacs and others did after contracting Aids or hepatitis C....
...Fifty-four per cent of participants are men, with Hunter McIntyre the fastest to complete the course, in 53 minutes. Megan Jacoby holds the female record of 58 minutes....
...Rising rates have driven more annuity hunters to change provider in search of the best deals, rather than buying from their current pension provider....
...C-pop is the umbrella term for all types of Chinese popular music. It encompasses numerous genres, including Cantopop and Mandopop. The former is sung in Cantonese and originated in Hong Kong....
...But many English words have penetrated everyday language, like “boring” (“c’est un peu boring, ça”), “bullshit” and “cute” (“mais il est trop cute”)....
...“Part of the Band” evoked Paul Simon; “Oh Caroline” was a high-definition vision of 1980s soft-rock. Saxophonist John Waugh gave an E Street Band uplift to “Happiness”....
...He tells the story of 16-year-old Caroline Quarlls, the child of an enslaved mother and a slaveowner, who ran away on 4 July 1843 to seek freedom via the Underground Railroad through Chicago....
...Caroline Scheufele, Chopard’s co-president and artistic director, says that she has become “keen to source some extraordinary and unique rough stones. It has been an amazing and new adventure.”...
...The song is called “Addition”, which is just a musical note, a C, from “addiction”....
...I also liked Ludovic Hunter-Tilney’s interview with veteran reggae DJ and filmmaker Don Letts....
...“C’est Marseille, bébé,” one of their number, SCH, rapped at the beginning amid a fusillade of boasts about drug-dealing and fast cars....
...His collection has grown to several dozen Owens pieces, mostly from second-hand or outlet shops (he’s an obsessive deal-hunter)....
...“I’ve been suicidal, you’ve been gone for weeks,” he sings in “Oh Caroline”, before thinking better of it: “Getting suicidal? Honestly not for me.”...
...Pewter rabbits (c 1920s) Fulk appreciates the craftsmanship of his cufflinks and was drawn to his only pair of rabbits by the deep carving of the pewter....
...“We were originally persistent hunters, not sitting around industrialised workplaces. Because the body and mind are so affected by each other, you end up with disordered mood states.”...
...The painting was sold in 2013 on behalf of the US collector Linda Hickox by the since disgraced British art dealer, Timothy Sammons; it fetched $4.85mn, with Simon C Dickinson gallery acting as agent to...
...Ben McKenzie, best known for playing Ryan Atwood on the teen drama The O.C., swaps the screen for the keyboard in something of a personal crusade to reveal the true nature of crypto....
...We spend the next two days exploring the jungles around Yaongyimchen with Nuklu and Emjun, a wiry former hunter with weather-beaten features and a lottery of remaining teeth....
...entity in FTX US — who then filed for Chapter 11 and chose S&C as counsel to the debtor entities.”...
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