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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....
...Blanchard was first introduced to Lemmons through a friend when she began searching for a composer for her 1997 directorial debut Eve’s Bayou, a gothic drama starring Samuel L Jackson....
...‘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....
...“Mr Emmerson was a great designer and I think there was a little bit of Salvador Dalí in the Crash,” the late Dennis Gardner, a veteran designer at Cartier London, once explained to me....
...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....
...Also in the lot is a version of Magritte’s masterpiece L’Empire des Lumières, which the Belgian artist gifted to his muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet....
...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...
...The Midnight Sky is scripted by Mark L Smith, and based on the novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton....
...“We wanted to make sure that our clients were able to access their money from the moment the [material uncertainty] clause lifted,” said Rob Gardner, director of investments at SJP....
...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...
...The last one I purchased was an 1878 edition of Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson, a pioneer of Egyptology....
...K&L Gates has recruited Richard Hayes as a partner in its Sydney office. He joins from Hogan Lovells....
...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...
...At the Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, the collection’s raison d’être is to generate conversation – especially about the environment – through commissioning....
...The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, opened an exhibition around Raphael’s warm and intimate portrait of Tommaso Inghirami, the papal librarian, last autumn....
...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....
...Lennox Scott, chief executive of John L Scott Real Estate. The tech-fuelled economy continues to surge, he says....
...: Computacenter rated new “buy” at Stifel; 888 cut to “sell” at Investec; Grainger cut to “hold” at Stifel; Elementis rated new “buy” at HSBC; Raiffeisen restarted with “underweight” by Morgan Stanley; L’...
...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...
...What you’ve been saying Uber: let the venture capitalists beware — letter from J M L Stone: “Uber operates at a huge loss, funded by the venture capitalists who hope/expect that its penetration of the...
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