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...I’m now looking forward to the audiobook of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood — a thriller with a climactic twist....
...He is inexorably drawn to the faded and fabulous remnants of the 17th and 18th centuries; almost nothing in his rooms – besides a few pieces of contemporary art and a fish plate by ceramicist Katy Stubbs...
...Bread at the Greyhound Inn is made up the road at Alexander and Emily Aitchison’s new Acre Farm bakery, where everything is baked in a wood-fired oven imported from Germany....
...Terry Wood, president of the West Suffolk Conservative Association, had written to the chief whip Simon Hart, requesting that Hancock be kept out of the party....
...Albany is a luxury resort community, jointly owned by Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Justin Timberlake and Joe Lewis, the British entrepreneur....
...At the wood-panelled bar in London’s oldest restaurant, Rules, the French 75 came in a frozen highball glass with ice....
...His earnest, nerdy persona charmed figures from Wall Street regulators to the pop star Katy Perry....
...“Cook was seen as a safe but rather conservative bet,” said Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight. “But what he’s delivered is nothing short of astonishing....
...Sophie Wood was also spurred by events of 2020 to set up a gallery, Among the Pines, that weaves philanthropy into the fabric of its business....
...Director Katy Rudd stages this story simply, just a forest of bare wood planks (designed by Rosanna Vize), beams of golden light, and snatches of projected footage from real 1930s camps....
...The comedy stage drew huge late-night crowds, with queues snaking through the woods for sets by Josie Long and Simon Amstell....
...Katy Moran, who shows with Stuart Shave’s Modern Art, makes her frames integral to her paintings, covering them with the pigments that spill beyond the canvas....
...“The oxygen that those products get is going to be unprecedented,” said Ben Wood, analyst at CCS Insight. “They will be the story, rather than just being ‘the other thing’.”...
...Best of the rest WHAT I’VE BEEN READING ELSEWHERE Returning once more to a ‘Little House in the Big Woods’....
...Among the successes of the New York manufacturing scene is Tri-Lox, a company that recycles wood from defunct rooftop water towers into high-end furniture, and Duro UAS, which makes underwater drones....
...But overall, quality is tepid; many contemporary paintings, particularly — several by Caragh Thuring and Issy Wood are examples — are too inept and thought-free to merit a place in any Tate....
...Katie Roberts-Wood completed five years’ medical training before turning to fashion design....
...Ms Grande, 23, performed with several acts and sang with Parrs Wood High School Choir, a Manchester school that had two pupils at the original gig....
...New songs were scattered throughout, the likes of “Moving On and Getting Over” adding a warm funk-and-soul swing to his more usual blond-wood palette of soft and folk rock....
...he asks as we look over the menu of stodgy staples such as pizza and lasagne cooked in a wood-fired oven. Enninful tells me he’s off meat since watching a documentary on Netflix called What The Health?...
...Katy Stephens’ Hippolyta looks aghast as Theseus spells out the cruel options to Eve Ponsonby’s feisty, disobedient Hermia....
...She took her models to secluded locations, into the woods or to a lake, and two years later shot another set of pictures near her childhood home in Arlington....
...The igloo: dome sweet dome Paying good money to sleep under bricks of snow and ice has been popular since the Swedish Icehotel opened in 1989, writes Katy Fallon....
...different sorts of music bled into each other, clashing art works lined the walls, and functional objects were subverted in the interests of fun — chairs were variously shaped like sombreros, piles of wood...
...At the most recent graduate collection, student Philli Wood won praise for oversized trompe l’oeil knitwear prints on parkas and leggings. It’s a delicate tightrope to walk....
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