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...As told to Louis Wise Melodies On Hiatus, by Albert Hammond Jr, is out now on Red Bull Records Sudan Archives on the violin The singer and musician is reclaiming the fiddle The western view of the violin...
...On the red carpet, brother-sister duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (who scooped the award for best song), Poor Things actors Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo and model and actor Quannah Chasinghorse...
...Mark O’Connell in Slate asked what it is to play with cliché in Blarney and put-on Irishness....
...Louis Roederer, for example, owns all the (organic and biodynamic) vineyards that go into its vintage and Cristal cuvées, and has an enquiring approach that’s arguably more grower in spirit than many smaller...
...Louis Roederer’s Cristal 2013 is 22 per cent lower at £2,200 a case, according to Liv-ex....
...O’Connell still thinks a little perspective is needed....
...Between Daniel O’Connell and Charles Stuart Parnell in the pantheon of 19th-century Irish patriots stands John Mitchel: lawyer, polemicist, newspaper editor and sworn enemy of the British crown....
...Davidson also sent me a picture of Dina Kamal’s Louis pinky ring....
...Another Christmas treat: Louis Wise has interviewed artists who are taking inspiration from the Renaissance....
...The best gift I’ve received is a painting of Louis Armstrong, given to me by the grandson of the pianist Marty Napoleon, who used to play with him....
...They were rapidly normalised (in the West) and given the inevitable fashion spin: Louis Vuitton has a mask and bandana set for £350, and Burberry has introduced £90 versions made from excess fabric in its...
...Liv-ex’s Champagne 50 index rose 8.3 per cent, driven by top-end vintage champagnes such as Louis Roederer’s Cristal, Dom Pérignon and Salon....
...Then came Normal People’s Connell Waldron with his boyishly alluring silver neckchain. And everyone got hot under the collar....
...Tim Cox, Vienna, Virginia, US To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, by Mark O’Connell, Granta, RRP£9.99/Anchor, RRP$16.95...
...“Having employed the stick,” the excellent catalogue essay by Tim Clayton and Sheila O’Connell notes, “the government then proffered the carrot.”...
...Will Connell, performance director, British Equestrian Federation. Katherine Copeland, rower. Josef Craig, swimmer. Deborah Criddle, equestrian. Aled Davies, athlete. Neil Fachie, cyclist....
...One proudly becomes “the creator of the Gunther O’Connell saga, the Fourth Reich saga, and of the saga of Gunther O’Connell and the Fourth Reich, in which the previous sagas fuse into one”, while another...
...The design, by the Manhattan firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, is close to the ground, close to nature, compatible with its natural surroundings; the interiors, by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, are...
...Louis Theroux, the documentary maker, said journalism is a bit like prostitution - both employ “professional manipulation” and a “bit of beguiling and seduction”....
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