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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...The pharmacy school at the University of North Carolina, his home state, is named after him. He now runs Eshelman Ventures, “an investment company primarily interested in healthcare companies”....
...That she’s of the north, we’re seemingly meant to infer, is a defect mitigated by her particular north being this former fisherman’s village....
...US school districts cling on to vehicles for longer, the effect of the 2008 financial crash and then the pandemic. They used to be sold after 10 years, but now it is closer to 20....
...“I’m a little cold-blooded about it. I realised I was going to have to stop thinking about what she would have wanted and just go ahead....
...The district is London’s indie-rock heartland. Tattoo parlours, pubs, clubs and venues are scattered around its sprawling clothes market and the surrounding streets....
...I’ve recently discovered Mostyn, a contemporary gallery and arts centre in the seaside town of Llandudno in north Wales....
...Memphis really is the punk rock of design, which is probably why I like it....
...For that, you need to head a couple of blocks south-west to Cavana, an ancient district laid out in the Middle Ages....
...Even before Covid, at least 10mn children were out of school, according to the government’s own estimates, roughly two-thirds of them girls....
...Music is a major passion, and his latest collection “Dark Haze” imagined a musician’s stage wardrobe inspired by the appeal of the guitar, and “black rock, punk and funk”....
...Earwax Records 167 North ninth Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211 Good for: Feeling old school, not old Not so good for: Cheap second-hand vinyl FYI: It’s closed on Thursdays Website; Directions Back...
...On Little Island, a whimsical new park floating atop the Hudson River at 14th Street, I’m one of the more than 400,000 people to visit since it opened in May....
...V. A month in, the occupation in Zuccotti Park — or Liberty Plaza — was becoming more permanent. Problems were emerging too....
...Cross Chetwynd Road (where Mike Barson of Madness grew up) and to your right is the Dartmouth Park district, home to two important figures in Beatles lore....
...The two sides of Sweden’s against-the-grain coronavirus strategy are visible from a small square in north-eastern Gothenburg....
...Richard Portes: Little change for the north, some “levelling down” for London. Adam Posen: Levelling down. Vicky Pryce: There is little chance of levelling up during 2021....
...“There is little question the elite high schools in NYC lack the gender, racial and ethnic diversity of the district as a whole,” the study found. In the 1980s and 1990s the numbers were much higher....
...A founder of Italy’s Five Star Movement, Grillo brought 2m protesters to the streets in 2007 for a “V-Day” rally....
...The fact that a snow leopard has picked off a sheep in the past three days seems of little consequence....
...They had little trumpets they were going to blow at midnight. They got those out early for me....
...E&V....
...A single slip, a rock falling from above, a broken handhold, and he’d be dead....
...Born in 1963 to a journalist father and book publisher mother, Kagge struggled at school in Oslo. “I was a loser at school, a bottom-three pupil, I think, in every class I attended for 10 years.”...
...But there is little doubt also that his high-profile involvement has sharpened opposition. The Mullin proposal appears to have awakened old ghosts from Great Tew’s past....
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