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...The House of Bernarda Alba National Theatre, London Three households; three classic dramas; three generational clashes. And three new approaches....
...The Browetts’ last visit, on Sunday morning, was to Massolino in Serralunga d’Alba....
...It was a favourite of a much-missed friend, the couturier Sir Hardy Amies, whose Cotswold garden continues to thrive thanks to Amies’s friend David Freeman....
...Rice salad in Novara consists of rice, anchovies, a hint of garlic, parsley and, surprise, surprise, “un bel tartufo d’Alba”....
...February 27 to June 2; further information and tickets here Performance ‘La casa de Bernarda Alba’ (The House of Bernarda Alba), Teatro María GuerreroThis grand, classical theatre is putting on Lorca’s...
...At Kew, he has combined several, including the yellow-green stems of Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea; amber C sanguinea Anny’s Winter Orange; red C alba Sibirica; and purple-black C alba Kesselringii....
...In the wake of the electoral disaster in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, one of Yousaf’s predecessors and now leader of the rival Alba group, Alex Salmond, suggested that Yousaf had “days” to save his job....
...The wines were donated by David Brown, who arrived straight from his work at the wine software company Bevica, saying he’d been planning this tasting for 20 years....
...He’s especially good for photographs and if I have a special event, such as my belated 80th-birthday party at the Duke of Alba’s palace in Madrid, he is a must....
...Before Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum, David Henry’s interest in politics rarely extended beyond following it on TV....
...Alba still rates very lowly in Scotland and that survey that I mentioned is only running at 1 per cent....
...There was the enormous screen, the breathtaking architecture of David Lean’s shots, William Holden’s roguish charm, and the quiet charisma of Alec Guinness....
...I have better results from roses, especially the excellent alba rose, Queen of Denmark, flowering once but so healthy, shade tolerant and extremely pretty when showing its double soft-pink flowers....
...“The Duchess of Alba”, “The Clothed Maja”, kings, courtesans and witches preside at Basel’s Fondation Beyeler in the once-in-a-generation Goya, a pageant of flamboyance balanced by inwardness....
...The old roses are once flowering gallicas, damasks, albas, centifolias and the heavenly scented moss roses, or the later-developed repeat-flowering bourbons, China roses, noisettes, Portland and tea roses...
...In the process, Verisure’s owners — H&F’s funds, as well as GIC and the Spanish investment group Alba — will take out a more than €1.6bn dividend....
...Aleks Cvetkovic 9 Savile Row, W1; drakes.com Massimo Alba, MilanIn the hip Brera district of Milan, Massimo Alba’s shop is festooned with the designer’s signature soft corduroy tailoring in rare hues, washed...
...The menu, approved by the prince, featured lobster, caviar, and a £35,000 truffle from Alba the size of a baby’s head. “Ooh la la!”...
...This solo album teams her up with Mark Mulholland, a Scottish guitarist and frequent Bamako resident — his album as part of the Alba Griot Ensemble, mixing Celtic folk music with ngoni blues, was a highlight...
...Chevron said the deal included stakes in its Alba, Alder, Britannia, Captain, Elgin/Franklin, Erskine and Jade fields, adding only that closing was subject to regulatory approvals....
The title track starts as a meditation on chance, coincidence and roads not taken, and ends up as a contemplation of death
...Designed by late Irish architect David Collins, its textured walls in platinum silver leaf, dark leather and mirrored panels evoke a 1920s cubist aesthetic....
...Chevron assets, which the company put up for sale this summer after a strategic review, include its stakes in the Britannia platform and its satellites, alongside the Jade, Erskine, Elgin/Franklin, Alder and Alba...
...If its other planned sales go through — including its stakes in the Jade, Erskine, Elgin/Franklin, Alder and Alba fields — it will only retain a 19 per cent stake in the Clair field....
...The Chevron assets that are being put up for sale include its stakes in the Britannia platform and its satellites, alongside the Jade, Erskine, Elgin/Franklin, Alder and Alba fields, Chevron said....
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