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...When the strikes are resolved, LA’s recovery will be “not nearly as fast as you would think”, Klowden said....
...Ellie was a visual artist, author and documentarian. But she sometimes struggled to forge her own identity given her driven, famous husband and children....
...Less than two months after losing control of the book, Simpson and five ex-convicts confronted two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room....
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...In 1970, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce hired a management consultancy to come up with a plan to diversify its gambling-centred economy. Their recommendation: just stick to gambling....
...Kevin De León, a member of LA’s city council, issued a motion this week in which he called Oceanwide Plaza a “black eye on an otherwise vibrant part” of downtown LA....
...For most of the silent film era, the place to catch a movie in Los Angeles was downtown, where a six-block stretch of Broadway was lined with a dozen cinemas fronted with grand marquees and buzzing neon....
...Lecavalier, punk ballerina with 1980s combo La La La Human Steps, co-starred in David Bowie’s Sound+Vision tour and performed a broken-doll duet in Frank Zappa’s Yellow Shark concert....
...That meant modern Soho funk/disco with old-school Italian classics: “La Dolce Vita music that transports people to sunny Italian piazzas,” says Gelardin....
...effort to arm Ukraine for the long term / From Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany; Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark; Petr Fiala, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic; Kaja Kallas,...
...Christopher GrimesRight. That’s a really good question....
...Budweiser has produced a nostalgic ad featuring a team of Clydesdale horses and a Labrador making a beer delivery....
...Sir Christopher Hohn’s activist hedge fund TCI has opened an office in Abu Dhabi, joining a wave of groups betting that the United Arab Emirates will help power the industry’s growth....
...Meanwhile, the cost of living in LA has risen sharply, with the median price for a home reaching $1.2mn in June, according to Realtor.com....
...Christopher Grimes is the FT’s LA bureau chief Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter *This story has been amended to clarify that Tenet was not released on the HBO Max...
...The solicitors were between 35 per cent and 50 per cent “worse off in real terms” by 2021 than they had been in 1996, the society said, citing the review led by Sir Christopher Bellamy KC....
...His colleague, Christopher Apostle, says of this work in particular, “Velázquez took inspiration from Rubens and created the Baroque language of Spain.”...
...This can be a risk — slapstick can carry a whiff of misogyny — but the writing is just the right blend of klutzy virtuosity in the tradition of Ashton’s Alain in La fille mal gardée or the drunk scene in...
...Republican party, told the FT’s Christopher Grimes....
...”, according to the V&A Museum’s Christopher Turner, writing in Apollo magazine in 2021....
...“My dream is to paint a backdrop for an opera,” she says. Kylie Manning’s scenographic collaboration with choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, meanwhile, “came out of the blue”....
...As is the case with many transplants to LA, Schwarzenegger eventually warmed to the city. “Within a year I finally figured it out,” he says....
...Adding to the annual race in Austin, Texas, F1 signed a 10-year deal to host a Grand Prix in Miami from 2022, and later this year Las Vegas will host its first night-time race on the strip after a 41-year...
...The old TV model meant Hollywood writers could make a good living in LA, maybe even a great living. But young writers and actors say they can barely afford to live there now....
...Soprano Elena Xanthoudakis plays Lucia; tenor Rosario La Spina is her lover Edgardo....
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