Hints and tips:
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...Set on the banks of the Reuss river, the 300-year-old chalet oozes charm, with its exposed timber beams, geothermal heating and antique skis mounted on the walls....
...“L’heure des bleus”, the opening section, pairs a group of Monet’s water gardens with Mitchell’s fluid panorama “Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas”....
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...The Fontaine de l’Observatoire sits astride the 0° meridian from which the world is measured. Except it’s not. That too was a French dream....
..., while planetary deities and personifications of the seasons and rivers — Milan’s Po as a bull — spill from cloud banks and trompe l’oeil cornices....
...But, as H L Mencken is supposed to have said (though may not have done), “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”. This is a powerful example of that truth....
...Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World, by Laurence C Smith, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 368 pages Victor Mallet is the FT’s Paris bureau chief and author...
...Tongcheng Life, an online Chinese platform that facilitates group buying of fresh produce, has raised $200m in Series C funding....
...According to C&B, this is “a rare cuvée named after Oliver Minkley — a talented comedian who used to tell jokes to the sheeps [sic] while working at Breaky Bottom”....
...In the summers Simpson took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago while visiting her grandmother....
...Reading a list of recent acquisitions, Grynsztejn reels off artists from Egypt, Argentina, Lebanon and Portugal, as well as African-American artist William Pope L....
...Before that, scattered masterpieces by Pissarro, Sisley and Whistler display each at his best responding to the Thames: Sisley’s airy, broadly painted scenes of the river beneath big skies “Molesey Weir,...
...He should have visited Cat Head blues shop, where the owner would have directed him to the homes of Ike Turner, Sam Cooke, Rev C L Franklin and others....
...by Barkley L Hendricks, who died this year....
...Eragny, a village on the river Epte upstream from Giverny, was Pissarro’s home from 1884 — Monet paid for his house there....
...(Private Equity International) K&L Gates’ Chicago office has hired David D Dueno as a partner in the private equity practice. He joins from private equity firm Quantum Global Group....
...Angel L....
...We were on the river an hour and a half....
...And the janitors and the secretaries and the co-eds enjoying their barbecue out on the college lawn, who find themselves in the line of fire emanating from the lecture hall because li’l Johnny-from-Lubbock...
...Susan Lambert, an author of the University of Chicago study, says: “When your hours are unpredictable it is very difficult to budget. It creates enormous uncertainty in workers’ lives.”...
...“La Belgique — c’est à moi,” he declared to his Italian pupil Paolo Pejrone in an atypical flash of pride....
...Chanel embodied her own style, epitomising chic in the way she wore her designs and in the double intertwined “C” that became her logo....
...It was tramline C that took me to the Miroir d’eau, the “water mirror”, which sits between the river and Bordeaux’s best façades on Place de la Bourse....
...“He is going to define the city for the next 25 years,” said Mitchell L Moss, a professor of urban policy and planning at New York University, and a campaign adviser to Mr Bloomberg in 2001....
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