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...February 16 to May 18; further information and tickets here Coconut Grove Arts Festival The 60th anniversary of the chic neighbourhood’s annual celebration of the arts....
...Mauritius Vallée de Farney eau de parfum ($93 for 50ml) is an island escape from Maison Louis Marie that recreates the nature reserve of the same name that’s home to more than 100 plant species....
...James Hallworth perchandco.com Tab x Tab, London An upscale café in Westbourne Grove, West London – think matcha lattes, cortados and 70 per cent cacao hot chocolates. “The team is spot on.”...
...Matrix by Lauren Groff, William Heinemann £16.99/Riverhead Books $28 Who was Marie de France?...
...Sister Debra Marie Sciano always wanted to be a lawyer, but instead she became a sister — and a lawyer....
...Marie Kidd, who moved from the suburbs of London to Tuscany with her Italian husband in the early 2000s, says the hassle and cost is what keeps most Italian buyers away....
...Who played Duncan in the TV youth drama Byker Grove? Thanks largely to Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying (above), which verb entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015?...
...The multinational car mogul whose empire straddles the world from France to Japan has held parties in Marie Antoinette’s palace in Versailles....
...The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Corsair, RRP£12.99/Grove Press, RRP$25 Stories on the migrant experience by the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
...Marie-Françoise Mathiot-Mathon, the current owner, considers the garden a process of discovery. “It is a game of hide and seek,” she says....
...I have met a few beauty pioneers in my time but Rose-Marie Swift is something else....
...… H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99/ Grove Press, RRP$28 Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Macdonald’s account of training a goshawk after the death...
...A Sport and a Pastime holds together because it is structured around a single driving obsession, the hunt for love in the thick groves of lust....
...pumps up Jean-Marie Ancher, its general manager, and his team....
...house , has 70 stores across Turkey and last year opened its first international outlet in west London’s Westfield shopping centre, with three more to open (including one in Hampstead and one in Westbourne Grove...
...The same mistral blows on both sides of the Rhône and the same sunshine bleaches the same Roman landscapes, with the same rolling hills covered with vineyards, cypress trees, olive groves and lavender....
...This is the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) or, more picturesquely, Marie Celeste syndrome, and scientists, farmers – and journalists – have been worrying about it for several years now...
...The building is a low modern structure rendered in a sort of yellowish terracotta reminiscent of Provence, as are the lavender fields and olive groves that surround it....
...In fact, the whole area of Ramatuelle is blissfully quiet, made up of vistas of pine, olive groves and vineyards, with very little development....
...Only our long Japanese REIT portfolio and our unlisted fund of Spanish Olive Groves have held their ground, though regretfully we refrained from hedging the currency risk, and so these too, are now in the...
...The most memorable climb that I ever had was with Steve and Marie in the Atlas grove of redwoods in California last year, a grove only discovered in the 1990s....
...“People love to buy a mas and come and sit by the pool,” says Marie Gendebien in the tourist office....
...René Pape made a dignified Sarastro, Paul Groves a slightly strained Tamino and Christian Gerhaher a Papageno one hardly noticed....
...Mr Beck’s political career began in Steinfeld, his home village in Rhineland-Palatinate, tucked between vine groves on the German-French border....
...“My good friend Andy Grove once said ‘Only the paranoid survive’ and my mother, while not putting it that way, would always think like that.”...
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