Hints and tips:
...British opera director Katie Mitchell is at the helm....
...May 28 to June 2; further information and tickets here ‘Both Sides Now’, Harbourfront Centre Theatre An ode to Joni Mitchell, this three-night run celebrates the long career of the Canadian singer-songwriter...
...… Make Mine a Martini: 130 Cocktails & Canapés for Fabulous Parties, by Kay Plunkett-Hogge, Mitchell Beazley, RRP£14.99 Like an over-friendly drunk, memoirs of “my life in booze” usually get boring...
...Nonetheless Kay Metzger’s stage direction is excellent, sharply conceived and precisely executed....
...Kay Metzger’s production is a modest affair, simpler and more literal than Mitchell’s multi-layered extravagance....
...Les Dawson, Eric Morecambe, Ken Dodd and Peter Kay all benefited, Nevin writes, from the “lightness and whimsy” of the Celtic influence in Lancashire, whereas Yorkshire people are “sad and surly.”...
...In this excellent book, Kay, a fellow columnist on the FT, explains how this came about and what to do about it....
...johnkay@johnkay.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Uncertainty helps communicate risk / From Prof James Mitchell and Prof Shaun Vahey...
...From Prof James Mitchell and Prof Shaun Vahey....
...Jason Manford, a kind of junior Peter Kay who also plays to large arenas, has sold fewer than 20,000 of his memoir Brung up Proper (2011)....
...RHS Botany for Gardeners: The Art and Science of Gardening Explained and Explored, by Geoff Hodge, Mitchell Beazley, RRP£14.99 Anyone who loved A-level botany as much as I did will love this book, with...
...He then produced Phoenix Nights, a sitcom set in a northern nightclub, which launched the career of performer Peter Kay. In the 1990s, Sheffield was in the grip of techno-music....
...Daniel Cable a visiting professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School and Virginia Kay, a PhD student at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
...but will be over a year late – FT It should be easy to separate good quangos from bad ones – John Kay, FT...
...He donated in the name Helen Mitchell because “it wasn’t mother’s name but it was grandmother’s, and mother would know in heaven, right?”...
...Ben Dunn, head of Kay’s publisher Century (also home to one of last year’s big seasonal winners, Dawn French’s Dear Fatty), explains why Kay’s follow-up Saturday Night Peter is outselling almost all its...
...Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly , by John Kay, Profile RRP£10.99 Kay is both a first-class economist and an excellent writer....
...Gloomy stuff, too, from pubs group Mitchells & Butlers, which said: “The outlook for consumer spending remains uncertain and the first winter of the English smoking ban will be challenging.”...
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