Leonard Starks

The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2023

Best films of 2023 — titans from Tár and Napoleon to Tom Cruise

...(Though to bring things up to date, it would also make a fine double bill with sparky new Leonard Bernstein biography Maestro.)On Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video and other digital platforms The Beasts A...

December 8, 2023

Americas companies

How Venezuela lost Citgo

...Judge Leonard Stark’s 61-page opinion reads like a list of what you are not supposed to do if you want to avoid creditors seizing your assets: “The Guaidó Government has accessed PDVSA’s US subsidiaries...

September 26, 2023

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

ReviewAlbums

Joan Shelley: The Spur — songs of isolation and retreat

...Even a song set before Covid, “When the Light Is Dying”, finds her seeing ghosts as she and the band drive through endless Kansas plains listening to Leonard Cohen’s valedictory You Want It Darker....

June 17, 2022

House & Home

How to create a city

...“The charter city label is unhelpful because it places the private sector and government in stark opposition,” he says. “It’s threatening to governments.”...

January 18, 2023

News in-depthCoronavirus

Bio-weapons experts call for tighter controls as Covid highlights risk

...When the convention was crafted, James Leonard, the US chief negotiator, described it as a “gentleman’s agreement”....

August 31, 2021

The Big Read

The nuclear power dilemma: where to put the lethal waste

...According to French law, the most highly radioactive elements of a plant, the fuel and the rods, should be removed as quickly as possible once the plant has been shut down — in stark contrast to policy in...

February 6, 2022

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ReviewFiction

David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue — the band who fell to Earth

...John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen drift in and out of Utopia Avenue’s rise to prominence in equally clunky, occasionally mind-boggling, moments....

July 3, 2020

ReviewAlbums

Souad Massi: Oumniya — exquisite and political

...The nursery-rhyme melody of “Enta Wena” takes the sting out of a tale of incompatibility as stark as sun and moon, night and day....

November 1, 2019

The Art Market

The Art Market — Lowry hits the heights at Christie’s

...“The Mill, Pendlebury” (1943) had belonged to Leonard D. Hamilton, a Manchester-born medical researcher who supplied the extracted DNA used in the discovery of the double-helix structure in the 1950s....

January 22, 2020

Special ReportHow we will live in 2050

Tech companies on front foot in push to recycle

...You can’t do much with it: you’re either burying it in landfill or burning it,” says Mr Leonard....

October 7, 2019

FT Magazine

From Russian oil to rock’n’roll: the rise of Len Blavatnik

...In stark contrast, Blavatnik was named Sir Leonard in the days after the party, knighted by the Queen for his philanthropic work just seven years after obtaining British citizenship....

June 6, 2019

FT AlphavilleColby Smith

Creditors are coming for Venezuela's assets

...In August, US federal judge Leonard Stark of the Delaware District Court had invoked the alter-ego argument and given Crystallex permission to seize the shares of the Venezuelan holding company — PDV Holding...

April 18, 2019

Scotland

Glasgow public sector staff strike over equal pay

...The strike is a stark example of the difficulty some cities face in resolving years of unfair pay for female workers....

October 23, 2018

US & Canadian companies

US judge allows Crystallex to seize Venezuela’s Citgo

...In his brief ruling, Judge Leonard Stark of the Delaware District court did not give his reasoning. His full decision is under seal....

August 10, 2018

The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion SS19

Designers and dance, the perfect pas de deux

...On another rail hangs the rather more minimalist costumes from Christopher Wheeldon’s 2018 production of Corybantic Games – a new ballet dedicated to the late composer Leonard Bernstein....

February 22, 2019

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

ReviewLife & Arts

Charles White — images of dignity, agony and redemption

...Religiosity tolls even louder in “Black Pope (Sandwich Board Man)”, a golden, Byzantine-ish painting from 1973 that is based on a Leonard Freed photograph from a decade before....

October 16, 2018

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The pendulum swings against privatisation

...Our politicians offer a different conclusion: the picture is stark, the details are irrelevant, and we metaphorically execute not our policies but our opponents....

September 29, 2017

ObituaryLife & Arts

Leonard Cohen: an appreciation

...It featured on Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), which sold more than 100,000 copies....

November 11, 2016

ReviewLife & Arts

Flawless grooves and constant invention at Cheltenham Jazz Festival

...Each piece changed shape along the way: rippling balladry morphed into pulsating groove; stark modality darted into bouncy swing....

May 1, 2017

Global InsightWorld

Spain’s once mighty socialists succumb to populist rage

...The choice today for Europe’s centre-left is stark, says Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations: “Either you are wiped out by Podemos or you become Podemos.”...

June 14, 2016

ReviewLife & Arts

Little Eyolf, Almeida Theatre, London — ‘Harrowing but disjointed’

...Eyre’s stark, spare staging embraces the rawness of the psychological drama....

November 29, 2015

Special Report

Foundations: The easy way to charity

...The contrast is stark with last month’s cocktail party, serving delicacies to titillate the richest members of the Cypriot diaspora....

May 4, 2016

Material WorldRetail & Consumer industry

Leonard Lauder’s $1.1bn donation to the arts – and luxury’s other big givers

...He added that his gift to the museum – which included an additional $22m endowment to fund its new Leonard A....

August 7, 2014

US & Canadian companies

Falling oil price to cut shale costs

...Melissa Stark, a managing director at Accenture, the consultancy, says the industry still has a lot of room for improvement....

October 22, 2014

ReviewLife & Arts

Suzanne Vega, Barbican, London – review

...“Jacob and the Angel”, on record a cluttered mess of clapping, was here stripped-down and stark, Leonard’s silvered guitar pouring down like the Shekhinah as Vega sang under a vast white halo projected on...

February 10, 2014

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