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...The waiting staff notice Francis Spufford before I do. Not for his three-decade-long career as a writer. No, not that. It’s his headgear....
...Francis Spufford never repeats himself....
...The Los Angeles gallery will be in a former nail salon off Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and comes with a “beautiful courtyard garden”, says gallery co-owner Gordon VeneKlasen....
...Fiona Hill, a former official on the US National Security Council, said: “This is just [Putin] saying: ‘It’s just me, guys. You’d better get used to it.’”...
...“Grunge is an anti-fashion moment that becomes a quick high fashion phenomenon and then lingers in fashion for decades,” says Colleen Hill, curator of costume and accessories at The Museum at FIT in New...
...Andrew Hill, a senior visiting research fellow at Liverpool university’s pharmacology and therapeutics department, said the drug also had potential side effects for pregnant women....
...Apprenticed at 11 to his grandfather the banner painter, he learnt early to make eye-catching, lively, clear designs, evident in the Louvre’s youthful panels “The Stigmatisation of Saint Francis” and “The...
...bellinitravel.com Your own private Cortona Cortona has gone through a few up-and-down cycles in the three decades since Frances Mayes released her memoir Under the Tuscan Sun, thereby making the lovely hill...
...Since 1980s blockbusters such as Giorgio Beverly Hills, Dior’s Poison and Obsession by Calvin Klein, fragrance trends (with a few notable exceptions, mainly courtesy of Tom Ford) have been understated to...
...Pope Francis, an Argentine Jesuit, soon established a reputation as a comparative liberal. If Benedict lived by the letter of Church law, Francis lives by its spirit....
...Big Dude made its entry to the garden world in 1989, having been raised by Phil Savage of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, who specialised in breeding cold-hardy specimens....
...There, organisers are planning to set up screens amid the trees to create an “enchanted cinematic village”, as well as a “one-of-a-kind domed cinema” (named Francis Ford Kupola)....
...At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where we first meet, the history she is exploring is that of America’s railroads, which linked the Atlantic and Pacific coasts during the settlement of...
...Competence and capability must surely come first, says Andrew Hill. How common are bad bosses? Recent scandals show few sectors are exempt, writes columnist Pilita Clark....
...Not quite as many of the Golden State’s premier or boutique winemakers have a side gig in growing olives as in Tuscany (or Umbria, or Sicily); but in the absurdly postcard-pretty hills of western Sonoma,...
...From £22.50 for adult non-members; family and child tickets available, kew.org A Family Christmas at Borde Hill, West Sussex A Christmas kids’ trail and a visit to Santa’s Grotto tick the boxes for children...
...Backed by Francis O’Connor’s sleek naturalistic design, O’Rowe’s 100-minute staging preserves the original Norwegian setting and sticks closely to Ibsen’s text....
...In less sure hands it would be chaos, but if you rightly loved Golden Hill, you’ll know to trust the author....
...When I met Pope Francis in the Sistine Chapel, I gave him a printed copy of “Die Dunkelheit”....
...At the top of a hill, a somewhat neglected folly looks over the boundary of the land. If I had time, Amanda would take me on her favourite adventure....
...on Washington Japan: the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency is scheduled to launch a rocket in an attempt to become the fifth nation to successfully land on the Moon UK: culmination of the Notting Hill...
...I think it was Paul Ryan, McCarthy’s Republican predecessor, who started the trend of jettisoning the Washington apartment in favour of sleeping in his Capitol Hill office....
...August 24 to 26; further information and tickets here Notting Hill Carnival Each year over the August bank holiday, revellers descend on Notting Hill for the much-loved Caribbean carnival dating back to...
...Rolling hills, sea coasts and farmland are evoked through a blustery mix of lemony-peppery elemi, hay, sandalwood and vetiver....
...It turns out that Fee Hudson Francis, 27, and Matthew Bartram, 35, are staying in one of the other cabins....
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