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...Last Sunday, the city’s National Football League franchise, the Ravens, narrowly lost their bid for a berth in the Super Bowl, following defeat at the hands of defending champions, the Kansas City Chiefs...
...Brûlé, who is self-trained, established his New York City studio in 2016....
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...buy from London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...the kind that we saw in the seats that the Tories took off Labour, where young families moving, priced out of the cities, moving to smaller cities, smaller towns, commuter belt places....
...With Climate Week in full swing, FT coverage has been shaking up the conversation on this side of the Atlantic....
...Nabokov and Mann père et fils — from the author of 1913: The Year Before the Storm....
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...“Paradise Edict” is a monumental painting of writhing bodies in a gorgeous, snake-infested Eden, based on Kenya’s forested coast at the Somalia border, contested by al-Shabaab and the Kenya Defence Forces...
...Other visitors include thousands of caribou and a run of Atlantic salmon with the bulbous profiles of Airbus A380s, which is what drew me and my brother....
...Amid the visual signatures of a city like no other — the high-rise Art Deco and Atlantic sunsets — directors have always been drawn to Miami as the backdrop for tales of elaborate crimes and volatile romances...
...Less fragrantly, goods from Antwerp fuelled the Atlantic slave trade: “The price of a human being was brass and copper bangles on the Benin River.”...
...The company has been working on a number of different designs in recent years but said it had now “converged” on the new CityAirbus that features fixed wings, a V-shaped tail and eight electrically powered...
...“You have an imperial period in New York,” he says of his early years in the city....
...Michael Bloomberg, the media executive and former mayor of New York City, is planning to plough $100m into former vice-president Joe Biden’s bid for the White House against Donald Trump in Florida, a pivotal...
...We write in response to James E Hansen et al’s letter (“EU must include nuclear power in its list of sustainable sources”, December 17), which mistakenly advocates nuclear energy to address climate change...
...Flanked by former vice-president Al Gore, New York governor Andrew Cuomo last year signed what he called “the most aggressive climate law in the United States of America”....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...If money and the absence of political correctness will defeat Trump et al, so be it . . . The means will justify the outcome....
...Recent viewers of ESPN documentary “The Last Dance" know Adidas whiffed at a chance of signing Michael Jordan, who desperately wanted a shoe deal with the three stripes when he turned pro in 1984....
...mehreen.khan@ft.com; @mehreenkhn michael.peel@ft.com; @Mikepeeljourno...
...Creative Paris , by Clemence Barbier et al, Flammarion RRP€22/£25 Macron’s Paris is overrun with impossibly stylish creatives, but what do their diminutive apartments look like?...
...“[Scrapping the test would be a] political band-aid [that] would not fix a single one of the [city’s] 480 broken middle schools,” says Kirsten John Foy — a former aide to Al Sharpton, one of the city’s most...
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