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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....
...Eleanor Dennis as Ofglen and Avery Amereau as Serena Joy also have handsome, “speaking” voices....
...‘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...
...David Stevenson is an active private investor. Email: adventurous@ft.com. Twitter: @advinvestor...
...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....
...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....
...An alternative is short and leveraged (S&L) trackers....
...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...
...On a sunny spring afternoon in L’Oise, the bucolic French département an hour north of Paris, it was a pensive pleasure to be alone in the room of a stranger....
...But the themes underpinning the Stefan Cooke label, which is rich in trompe l’oeil effects, textile manipulation, skinny trousers and eye-catching accessories, were established early on by founders Stefan...
...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...
...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...
...There’s a new appointment for The Doctor, Robert Icke’s revelatory Schnitzler adaptation starring Juliet Stevenson (Duke of York’s, London, from April 20)....
...Six of South Africa’s leading galleries, including Blank Projects, Goodman Gallery and Stevenson, have pulled out of the FNB JoburgArtFair, due for its 11th edition in September....
...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....
...Dennis Berman will join Lazard as a managing director. Berman is a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter and editor....
...We’re factoring that as a positive for resolving its offshore refinancing issues,” said Dennis Lee, an associate director at S&P Global....
...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...
...HBOS was led at the time of its aggressive expansion by James Crosby from 2001 to 2006, who then handed the reins to Andy Hornby, and Lord Dennis Stevenson as chairman....
...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...
...Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter Ernest L Arbuckle professor of business administration, Harvard Business School I read Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson while thinking about the need for institutional change...
...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....
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