Hints and tips:
...The other half — the “dividend”, as head bartender Luis Serrano refers to it — comes in a small carafe, resting in a dish of crushed ice....
...British architect John Pawson and French designer François Champsaur are behind the hotel’s contemporary, sophisticated look, with impressive attention to detail....
...Keep it simple with a bocadillo (sandwich) of jamón Serrano or jamón Ibérico de Bellota, a special variety made from free- range, acorn-fed pigs....
...“Every administration keeps on looking for the silver bullet, but the silver bullet is long gone,” said John Padilla, an energy consultant....
...Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in New York...
...Customs remain strong — come to Arties on St John’s Eve in June and you’ll witness burning branches of a fir tree being dragged through the streets, with local children leaping over them....
...A few minutes later, we were on the second lift and I was regretting going for the three-quarter-length long johns rather than full-length ones....
...From Andres Serrano’s 1987 “Piss Christ” to the 2008 work of Aliza Shvarts, a Yale student whose senior art project allegedly filmed her uterus undergoing monthly abortions, radical artists with an eye on...
...Notorious examples of offences against piety and decorum in the arts, such as Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ”, are routinely trotted out to justify the elimination of public support for the arts....
...The duo opened with the bittersweet fugue-like John Lewis composition “Django”, first recorded by the Modern Jazz Quartet, and continued with The Beatles’ “Because” and “Je t’attendrai” from the film Les...
...“The best way for the US to boost growth is to boost trade,” says Federico Serrano, president of Tijuana’s maquiladora association. As things stood, he added, the US was “investing in the wrong place”....
...(Reuters) Admiralty Arch has been sold to Rafael Serrano, a Spanish investor, for a figure near £60m, according to insiders, in the government’s latest property disposal....
...It was in 2001 when a then unknown Flórez made his London debut with Rosenblatt Recitals at St John’s, Smith Square....
...He set his sights on sex murderers, rapists, prostitutes, johns and the legless trunks of mutilés de guerre who troubled the streets of German cities....
...Elvis had Colonel Tom Parker, and John, Paul, George and Ringo had Brian Epstein. McGuinness is U2’s fifth Beatle....
...“In Los Serrano, everything the family eats is product placement – the milk, the cereal, the juice.”...
...Dos amigosWhen Santander Central Hispano executives met the Financial Services Authority recently, FSA chief executive John Tiner asked them to pass his regards to an old friend....
...SCH non-executive director Manuel Soto Serrano was a senior director at Andersen, where Tiner spent 25 years and headed its worldwide financial services practice before joining the FSA....
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