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...An avuncular, grey-bearded presence behind a pair of decks, Bovell introduced Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo, then a protégée, L Dot, an attitudinal teenage rapper....
...‘Making History: The Ceramic Work of Simon Pettet’ at Dennis Severs’ House, London It had been years since I’d visited Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields; I returned this autumn for a show of Simon Pettet...
...Ogulu made his musical debut in 2010 with a string of single releases, eventually releasing his debut album, L.I.F.E – Leaving an Impact For Eternity in 2013....
...L’Oréal purchased Aesop from Brazilian conglomerate Natura for $2.5bn last year, in a record deal that makes it the French beauty company’s highest-value acquisition to date....
...designer Elsie de Wolfe....
...Alison Dennis, a partner who co-heads the life sciences division at law firm Taylor Wessing, said while UK financial penalties for breaking the industry code can be as little as £4,000, any suspension of...
...I’m taken with the selection of well-aged lowboys, which would smarten up a landing or L-shaped entryway dressed with a lamp and a tray or potted fern....
...The downstairs “Den” room, which I peeked into, has a terrace and a gorgeous trompe-l’oeil autumn-leaf design on the floor that made me briefly wonder if housekeeping had slacked off that day....
...WPP signed global deals with Coca-Cola and Google during the period and won assignments from clients including AstraZeneca, L’Oréal and J Sainsbury....
...Sturm Hydrating Face Mist, €85 Givenchy L’Intemporel Blossom Cream-in-Mist, £48 Drunk Elephant Sweet Biome Sake Spray, £35 Chanel Hydra Beauty Essence Mist, £48...
...SAFE — whose leadership council comprises executives from several large US companies, including Royal Caribbean Cruises, FedEx and L-3 Communications — wants the US to revive and expand federal incentives...
...London Polymath 1,006: Dr Colin C Mackay, Delaware, USA Crossword 16,069: Steve Abel, York; Alan Cruse, Stockport; M McQuillan, Edinburgh Polymath 1,005: Mrs SM Fraser, Middlesbrough Crossword 16,057: G Dennis...
...K&L Gates has hired Steven Olenick as a corporate partner in the New York office. He joins the from Loeb & Loeb....
...Other highlights include three anonymous works: a 17th-century Dutch school painting of a King Charles spaniel (£1,500-£2,000), a 19th-century French school trompe l’oeil of a nun peeking through a shutter...
...forward to the modern era, those styles persist: Trump’s 1980s heyday was characterised by extravagantly pouffed, ruffled and padded dresses, worn by the kind of pin-thin society women the novelist Tom Wolfe...
...“This is a once-in-a-generation market,” says Jack Wolfe, an agent with LIV Sotheby’s International Realty....
...He sold Pierre Soulages’ “Composition” (c.1952) for €450,000, and André Masson’s “L’homme ivre (l’homme libre)” (1962) for €220,000. Both works were acquired by European collectors....
...The city is home to the biggest story in US commerce — yet the tech boom does not yet have its Tom Wolfe Serious Money: Leave or Remain?...
...Dennis Berman will join Lazard as a managing director. Berman is a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter and editor....
...In Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, humans are empowered to follow their passions and bend the gods’ will to their own designs....
...Couperin L’Apothéose de Lully Arcangelo (Hyperion) The delightful scenario of L’Apothéose de Lully imagines the composer Lully, one of François Couperin’s forebears at the court of Louis XIV, being wafted...
...In 2007 McLaren was stripped of all its constructors’ championship points and fined $100m by the sport’s governing body, the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), after being found to have collaborated...
...Botanist Mark Spencer introduced me to the elusive Sisymbrium irio L., commonly named “London rocket”, as it was abundant in the capital after the Great Fire of 1666....
...The biggest parlour game in French M&A circles relates to guessing how Macron will deal with the holdings of the French state, with particular focus on the Agence des Participations de l’Etat (APE)....
...Once he understood the bankruptcy landscape, he put together a bid for a part of the collection — about 4,500 photographs — that had been held under contract at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland...
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