Hints and tips:
...She briefly ran her own space there, called Current Plans, which she moved to Wong Chuk Hang in January 2024, courtesy of art patron Mimi Brown, who offered her a 14,500 sq ft space for free for a year....
...The all-day café and wine bar St Jardim has also been part of the new vanguard....
...Davide Giusti sings Rodolfo and Rebecca Krynski Cox stars as Mimi....
...A good bet is Le Café du Commerce in the 15th for a one-night knees-up of food and infinite Beaujolais consumption (until the barrels run dry, that is)....
...At the same time, Mimi Wilf, Ben’s wife, has escaped from her nursing home. Mimi has been suffering from Alzheimer’s and is lost in the labyrinth of her own mind....
...She is supported by Mimi, a small stray who projects confidence but is aware of her fragility. Cookie, Mimi’s kitten, helps a manga artist called Aoi to process a friend’s death....
...All are upstaged, though, by the magnetism of Danielle de Niese’s Musetta, when she attracts the attention of all with her comic bravura at Café Momus....
...This large man ran across and hugged and started kissing me, saying: ‘Mimi, Mimi . . . ’.” His identity dawned on her....
...“I’ve taken over the café and all the food is pink and green now,” she says. “I can’t cook, I just design it.” A delicious burrata comes on a plate rimmed with bright pink lips....
...Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann, Galley Beggar Press £9.99, 170 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...For Mimi Thorisson’s culinary workshops in Médoc and Piedmont, visit mimithorisson.com...
...In an unexpected show of seasonal goodwill, ENO has dumped its 2015 La bohème (remember the heroin addicts and the drug-crazed fright night at Café Momus?)...
...Corinne Winters is a slight Mimì, who nevertheless summons warm tone to fill out Puccini’s romantic vocal lines....
...“Addio, senza rancor,” sings Mimì with a tear in her eye....
...Miller’s updating of Puccini’s original, this is a traditional show of the best kind, with well-drilled crowd scenes and handsome, realistic sets that transform from the Bohemians’ upstairs apartment to the Café...
...Its latest revival, freshly powdered and wigged, reminds us that part of the action – the Café Momus scene – takes place on Christmas Eve....
...Bright of tone, he plays a gauche Rodolfo, who is nicely unsure of himself as he courts his Mimì, Ekaterina Scherbachenko....
...Puccini’s tragedy might have been written with this part of town in mind (there’s even a Café Bohème on the corner outside) and Robin Norton-Hale’s production for the young OperaUpClose company retains its...
...What are children doing at Café Momus, here a contemporary art gallery starring poseurs at a private view? Such improbabilities rarely get in the way of a good opera performance....
...It was not only Mimì’s hand that was cold to the touch. The whole opera was on the chill side....
...In addition to attending blogmeets in Paris cafés, Sanderson is happy to jump on the Eurostar to socialise with other members of the blog community....
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