Hints and tips:
...If you can’t make the Royal Albert Hall, this year there are events in location as varied as Great Yarmouth, Derry, Aberystwyth and Dewsbury....
...My father [Albert Yaying Xu] designed the acoustics in these spaces....
...That guy on the underground too. Some years after they gained their 21st-century edge, the most fashion-forward woman you know is still working them – albeit with a new twist....
...Few of the original Frankfurt Kitchens survive today, but there is one at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and I make a pilgrimage to it regularly....
...Wednesday’s opening at the Royal Albert Hall is set to go ahead. Around the world, though, Cirque, like its acrobats and contortionists, needs to stay agile....
...His brothers-in-law Christopher, a film and advertising creative, and Des, producer of the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall, which Roger is a long-time patron of, also both live locally...
...Near Brut de Mer is the big market, the Albert Cuyp. I love to get fresh stroopwafels there – the famous caramel cookies, like very thin waffles. You can get big warm ones too....
...Hotels opened as early as 1800; the Hôtel Sablonnière et de Provence roughly occupied the current Burger King site....
...Bernheim, Belgian billionaire Albert Frère and former Total chief executive Christophe de Margerie....
...Another space has been furnished in fin de siècle green velvet, which gives way to an austere white studio where 10 photographs inspired by Aubrey Beardsley’s illustration are exhibited....
...“Which means that he is always a guy who can find the right people who are doing the right things and become part of it at a good moment.”...
...The Barn Roastery, Schönhauser Allee 8 (thebarn.de). RSVP, Mulackstrasse 14 and 26 (rsvp-berlin.de) My favourite website is Sothebys.com, for dreaming and scheming....
...Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Liberal bloc in the European Parliament, said: “It’s high time for de-escalation. Only a negotiated solution is the way forward.”...
...Carrer de la Princesa, 14, 08003; +34 933 19 98 81; cancisa.cat Bodega 1900 Every one of Albert Adrià’s restaurants, from the Michelin-starred Mexican restaurant Hoja Santa to the newly opened post-modern...
...Photographs: Luc Castel; Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot; Guy Marineau; Roberto Marossi...
...“That included the music of Schoenberg, Webern, and Stravinsky, who was considered a ‘bad guy’ because he had emigrated from the Soviet Union.”...
...The books on my bedside table are mainly historical and include The Real Lives of Roman Britain by Guy de la Bédoyère, a gift from an English friend, which I found fascinating....
...to the Casino de Ibiza....
...In particular she enjoyed working on pieces exploring entrepreneurship in France and the writer Albert Camus....
...I meet Mortensen at the Marrakech film festival where he is busy promoting Jauja and another starring role in Far from Men (Loin des Hommes), a French and Arabic language film adaptation of an Albert Camus...
...In Paris the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA), the trade body that organises the Biennale des Antiquaires, has announced a new art-and-antiques fair to be held annually in the Carrousel du Louvre,...
...“Famous names don’t mean they have merit but they have an insight that others don’t, which makes them collectable,” says Guy White, Snap Galleries’ director....
...The two contemporaries are the painters Albert Kresch, born in 1922, the same year as De Niro Sr, and Paul Resika, born in 1928, both of whom studied in Provincetown....
...Woodroffe, 60, lives mainly in Bath, in western England, but we meet on his boat on the Thames, near Albert Bridge – “the most beautifully lit bridge in London”....
...Hitch emerges as a supremely Ackroyd kind of guy: showman, fantasist, detail freak, ever poised between art and commerce....
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