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...The French mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez is the titular heroine; Belgian conductor René Jacobs leads the B-Rock Orchestra....
...Vital’s foundation runs two further institutions close by: the 17th-century Planta House in Ardez and a sculpture park in Sent, the village where he was born....
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...Bayfront Park is a great vantage point (get there early)....
...Original Travel has a new 13-day road trip that includes the Picos de Europa National Park, Ribadeo, the beaches and historic old town of La Coruña and three nights in Santiago de Compostela....
...La Bassey stops warbling, and those rivers of light streaming through my fingers dry up....
...B accommodation, ski passes and internal trains and transfers; powderbyrne.com...
...And more than half of working-age adults are estimated to have low basic numeracy. 5 is going to be B. Good....
...It’s powered by eight removable battery packs with a total capacity of 14.4kWh, and has a top speed of around 50mph (the original RC whizzed around the park at 20mph)....
...What’s the best thing about living in LA? And the worst?The way it looks and the way it looks. Which photograph do you wish you’d taken?...
...The furthest I’ve ever travelled for a hangover was a 90-minute taxi from north-east Los Angeles to République, a café near the La Brea Tar Pits....
...Some of my favourite drinks were the B&B Gibson and Tea Ceremony, and the fried-chicken, sando and uni rice were all delicious....
...My favourite building is Château La Coste [in Provence]....
...July 7-9, northseajazz.com Wireless, London This London weekender brings the best in hip-hop, grime and R&B from both sides of the Atlantic to Finsbury Park....
...There’s a frankly grotty pub up in Finsbury Park which was, until recently, a wholly terrifying Irish/Arsenal boozer....
...From The Notorious B.I.G. and Afrika Bambaataa to Mary J Blige and Eve (women’s contributions get a big nod), via Public Enemy, Nas and dozens of others, there are more than 200 photographs dated between...
...InterContinental London Park Lane, One Hamilton Place, Park Lane, London W1; parklane.intercontinental.com Balthazar Parisian Chocolatier Christmas The Covent Garden favourite celebrates the season in...
...Adele’s gig nerves have been well documented, yet she’s a natural onstage, with both silky-sweet vocal prowess and salt-of-the-earth charm (her accent still unmistakably Lahndahn, despite her move to LA)...
...Today, Xuly.Bët is part of La Braderie Solidaire and uses collaborations to raise money for an association battling against Aids and for La Maison des Femmes, which helps victims of domestic abuse. xulybet.com...
...Delicias, Montevideo “Best in the World is Las Delicias in Montevideo....
...Winter; from US$950; pavilionshotels.com Les Trois-Bassins, La Réunion Much of it designated a Unesco World Heritage Site, the Réunion National Park covers more than 40 per cent of this lushly verdant,...
...Run the Jewels was a given after the success of [our last collaboration] ‘Ooh La La’ . . . and I had to get a Nas record. This EP is a celebration of hip-hop history....
...You can dine and shop well enough in the La Brea district of Los Angeles to forget that its name translates as “tar”....
...I’ve put away kilos of B&B pudding in my day and consider myself an aficionado, but this stuff was way off any recognised scale....
...I replied that, in that case, the best grade he’d get would be a C — or maybe a B if he was very lucky. “What’s wrong with a B?” he said....
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