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InterviewMusic
Actor Billy Porter: ‘I wanted to be the male Whitney Houston!’
...Signed to a major label, he was originally stylised as a heterosexual R&B smoothie, serenading women in his videos. The final straw came when his planned big single release was used for Celine Dion....
September 1, 2023
FT SeriesHow to host a cocktail party
Ryan Chetiyawardana creates a ‘house party’ mood at his Thameside bar
...His music choices are eclectic, spanning R&B, hip-hop and 2000s French rock. The goal is to be “as real as possible”, he says....
November 24, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Democrats question Reckitt Benckiser’s plan to sell baby formula unit
...US senators Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders, along with House representative Katie Porter, sent a letter on Tuesday asking Jonathan Kanter, head of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust...
June 22, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Ibrahim Maalouf: Capacity to Love — a thrilling cultural mix
...The stylistic range is wide — trumpeter Maalouf was born in Lebanon, raised in France and is a fan of hip-hop and R&B — and collaborators stretch from JP Cooper and Gregory Porter to rapper Erick the Architect...
November 11, 2022
Music
The best summer music festivals worldwide
...Guitarist Pat Metheny, Malian songstress Fatoumata Diawara and Grammy-winning vocalist Gregory Porter share the limelight with rising sax talents Lakecia Benjamin and Immanuel Wilkins as well as alternative...
May 30, 2023
HTSI
In Bali, paradise is being upcycled
...Spanish designer Andreu Carulla works with Desa’s on-site R&D workshop, producing roly-poly stools from recycled Styrofoam....
March 2, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
HTSI
15 buys to brighten up the home
...Technogym Kinesis Personal Heritage training equipment, £12,100, conranshop.co.uk Bang & Olufsen Beolab 28 speaker, £11,950 Barisieur tea and coffee alarm clock, £345, harrods.com Barber Osgerby Signal R...
May 22, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ghost Song — gripping juxtapositions
...The banjo strums that sustain the fast pace of “Optimistic Voices”, a consonant-crammed lyric from The Wizard of Oz, segue via a burst of free-jazz flute to the sultry R&B of Gregory Porter’s “No Love Dying...
March 11, 2022
Inside Politics
Cracks in the NHS go deeper than Truss and Sunak think
...The pay problem isn’t just impacting consultants; it potentially drives lower paid NHS workers — porters and cleaners — to move to warehousing and airport jobs....
August 26, 2022
HTSI
Jens and Emma Grede – the brains behind Skims
...They also masterminded the original idea for ecommerce site Mr Porter (Torstensson’s partner is Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet)....
May 11, 2022
ReviewDance
Alessandra Ferri shows off her astonishing technique in L’Heure Exquise
...Willie (a tender, deadpan Carsten Jung) is a suitably Beckettian figure with his vest and bowler hat: more porter than porteur....
October 21, 2021
InterviewHow to Lead
How a love of science led to health breakthroughs
...It brought in third party investors and was sold in 2009 to bring in more funding and critical mass to support the costs of R&D....
September 5, 2021
The best beauty buys of 2020
Winemakers are stepping into the beauty game. Do they measure up?
...But that didn’t stop the essence becoming a bestseller on Net-a-Porter and winning a slew of awards....
November 22, 2020
US retail
Neiman Marcus files second big US retail bankruptcy of lockdown
...Neiman Marcus is the latest addition to a list of private-equity backed bankruptcies in retail, which includes Toys R Us, Gymboree and Payless ShoeSource as well as J Crew....
May 7, 2020
The best beauty buys of 2020
The great beauty reset: how to reboot your skin
...Its first product, the Resurfacing Compound (which sold out three times on UK stockist Net-a‑Porter), was designed to replace toner, vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, AHAs, physical exfoliants, antioxidant serums...
September 7, 2020
FT Live
Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific
Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region
Thursday, 16 MayHong Kong
Wish I were there...
Wish I were there: Edmund Hillary’s ‘Happy House’ in Nepal
...In Rhythms of a Himalayan Village, the American writer Hugh R....
April 9, 2020
ReviewMusic
Cheltenham Jazz Festival — chimes, strums and grainy honks
...It has become something of a Cheltenham Jazz Festival tradition that tickets for the American singer Gregory Porter swiftly sell out....
May 7, 2019
Fashion
Hi it’s Burberry, wanna chat?
...Instant messaging services have already been employed by online retailers Net-a-Porter and Matches Fashion (although only for VIP clients)....
September 6, 2019
Moral Money
Coronavirus hits home; Oil shocks threaten green investments; EU carbon tax plan falters
...The study establishes that within five years of coming under pressure from activist investors, companies lost on average 7 per cent of their employee base while operating expenses and investment in R&D fell...
March 11, 2020
InterviewMusic
Don Was on running Blue Note without a business background
...The previous evening Was had been at a gig by then-little-known singer Gregory Porter, and was overflowing with excitement....
August 12, 2019
Professional services
Pennsylvania state court breakthrough on gerrymandering
...“For decades people have been challenging redistricting plans in federal court,” says R Stanton Jones, partner at Arnold & Porter....
December 11, 2018
Jane Owen
Old Money: Should ancient people hit the slopes?
...We are paying thousands of pounds per person to indulge in a bit of R & R which risks death, requires helmets, body armour and (in my case) regular moments of heart-palpitating terror....
April 18, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
North Sea Jazz Festival — restless energy
...Though this early evening gig was pitched against Pat Metheny, Gregory Porter and the Mingus Big Band, the collective held their own, and bodies began to sway....
July 16, 2018
Sarah Churchwell
When your creative juices bring nothing but trouble
...Another short-story writer, Katherine Anne Porter, needed 22 years to complete her only novel Ship of Fools, which became a bestseller; when readers complained, Porter retorted: “Look here, this is my life...
January 8, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
The Last Hotel, Linbury Studio Theatre, London — review
...(Mikel Murfi)....
October 12, 2015

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