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...By all accounts, Alexander Skarsgård is a nice guy, surprisingly down to earth for one so uncannily good-looking and abdominally chiselled....
...principal of a school filled with underpaid and half-fried teachers, kids capable of “psychological warfare” and maintenance issues ranging from flickering lights to pungent walls and escaped snakes, Ava Coleman...
...“Plants, like humans, have a clotting system that stops liquid evaporating, so if you do not re-cut, the stem cannot take in water,” says Coleman....
...On the most basic level, it functions as a benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the museum’s only self-funded department, which has staged blockbuster shows including Alexander...
...Coleman is part of an unprecedented wave of US workers quitting their jobs in 2021....
...White space-age uniforms and figure-hugging gold bodysuits rub up against epaulettes, tabards and cloaks (costumes: Melissa Simon-Hartman)....
...The author, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, a 23-year-old German Jew, wrote it at vertiginous speed in exile in 1938....
...of the new title Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs, the debut monograph from Melissa O’Shaughnessy....
...Another of his portraits “Alexander I, Emperor of Russia”, fetched £175,000 a month later in London....
...It is funny to imagine a reader coming to The Department of Sensitive Crimes, Alexander McCall Smith’s billionth comic novel, with no prior knowledge of the author’s work....
...begins with the gentle lyricism of Cohen’s “The Opening”, continues with the pedal point turns, hovering notes and melodic clarity of Avishai’s “Two Lines”, and ends with a magical reinterpretation of Alexander...
...My beauty gurus are Bonnie and Melissa, who cut and colour my hair....
...Alexander Gilmour is the co-host of Everything Else, the FT culture podcast...
...Regent’s Park is often considered “the younger sister to the beauty queen” of Hyde Park, says Alexander Lewis, residential development partner at Knight Frank....
...I wish I could say that I made sense of trauma by reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or Primo Levi’s If Not Now, When?....
...Redman’s elegant sax augments three tracks on Joey Alexander’s excellent trio album Eclipse....
...Scott Shleifer and Chase Coleman will continue to run the firm as co-portfolio managers. More here....
...The poet and satirist Alexander Pope did not cherish his time in Chiswick....
...Alexander Belyaev, managing partner of Engel & Völkers St Petersburg, recently faced the challenge of helping a buyer find a residence that could house his exotic animals, which included crocodiles....
...More homes at propertylistings.ft.com Photographs: John Alexander/Robert HardingWorld/Getty Images; Alamy/Chris Pancewicz; Stephen Dorey/Alamy...
...The novel, voiced by the irrepressible Alexander Portnoy as a rollicking psychoanalytic monologue, remains hilarious and shocking nearly 50 years after its publication: “Enough with being a nice Jewish boy...
...As well as the current “Opera” exhibition, those that have inspired jewellery include 2015’s Alexander McQueen show; last year’s “You Say You Want a Revolution” on the music and fashion of the late 1960s...
...Melissa Chiu, the Hirshhorn’s director, describes the work as “foundational . . . blurring the boundaries between performance and everyday life”....
...A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip, by Alexander Masters, Fourth Estate RRP£12.99, 272 pages Melissa Harrison is author of ‘At Hawthorn Time’ (Bloomsbury)...
...Melissa Hamilton, on leave from The Royal Ballet to dance in Dresden, seems to have gained a new expansiveness there, while Gina Scott and Denis Veginy brought the “Gavotte” into vivid relief....
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