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...I have a lot of sympathy for José Luis Sanz, the recently elected mayor of Seville who has declared a war on nudity....
...Sean Panikkar returns to the production with the vocal challenges of Don José well sorted and builds the role to a heat of passion. ENO is lucky to have him....
...Neither Rodrigo Chaves or rival José María Figueres has been widely embraced by the electorate ahead of the presidential run-off due to take place on Sunday....
...Now open to all, the library is home to more than 200,000 holdings, with “beautiful glass cupolas ceiling, haunted silent reading room in the basement, portraits and busts of famous Victorian Geordie engineers...
...Who Luxury Portfolio International Villa, Baja California Sur, Mexico, $9.8m Where In the Pacific resort of San José del Cabo in the south of Baja California peninsula....
...Second, you stand a pretty good chance of meeting the 97-year-old novelist who owns it, F Sionil José, who can remember back to the second world war.”...
...The exterior of the structure will be reminiscent of a Victorian conservatory, with an arched, ribbed frame and imposing scale....
...And so in a cramped spare room at the back of a careworn, jerry-built Victorian terrace house in a suburban London street, the lockdown internet sensation known as Foulkes & Sons was born....
...When he finally subsides into her lap, the scene resembles — in José Quintero’s staging — a Renaissance Pietà....
...There is a seascape by Gustave Courbet (est £100,000-£150,000) and a painting of two young men beaching a boat by Spanish painter José Mongrell....
...This sold to the dealer Jose Mugrabi for £300,000 (£371,250 with fees), five times its high estimate and a record for the artist....
...such as Portola, Ingleside and Fisherman’s Wharf, have consolidated San Francisco’s place as one of the most expensive housing markets on the planet — and second in the US only to Silicon Valley’s San Jose...
...Billingsgate, a Victorian building that was once the capital’s wholesale fish market, was carefully transformed by Richard Rogers into a high-tech events space, which has always lacked its former vitality...
...“Colombia deserves an opportunity to show that by taking a more integral, intelligent and more permanent approach, we can replace coca,” vice-president Oscar Naranjo told reporters....
...Why The house is in a converted Victorian-era pub. The Dukes Head closed in 2012, though its name remains on the façade....
...San Jose international airport is an hour and 40 minutes by car, although the property has its own air strip....
...Were it not for the fact that it sits just outside the boundary, Palo Alto would be considered the jewel in San Jose’s crown....
...Replace the chalk and slate of the Victorian classroom with an iPad and the single answer with thousands of data points measuring each pupil response and you get a sense of how classroom practice is changing...
...What A five-bedroom, Victorian house with views of the sea from its large conservatory. The property has a boathouse and its own working harbour — one of only two privately owned harbours in Dublin....
...In art, Julie Cockburn and Jose Romussi are among those stitching threads on to photography to mesmeric effect....
...In the Victorian era, the coming of the Tube and trains allowed London workers to move to suburbs....
...I loved the labels — they are unlike any others and hugely varied, although some are the kind of Victorian period pieces that a modern marketing company might seek to emulate....
...Neville Hawcock Fiction in translation A General Theory of Oblivion, by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99/Archipelago, RRP$18 On the eve of Angola’s independence...
...He fought with the Czechs when Russian tanks crushed the Prague Spring, was a friend of Václav Havel, and travelled to Mexico in the 1980s to study muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco....
...The last few pages are a threnody for a dying culture: “The grand old Victorian ideals had dissolved. Scotland has never again found better ideals, though the time for that may be coming.”...
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