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...There is something a little spooky about the timing of Xochitl Gonzalez’s second novel Anita de Monte Laughs Last....
...A limited-edition selection will be available for purchase at the Saint Laurent store on Via Monte Napoleone....
...In 1960, she signed a lease on a loft in Chambers Street, and with La Monte Young organised events that attracted the alternative elite....
...The dining room at Victor Montes is tiny....
...I have sampled wines by Ntsiki Biyela, the first South African Black female winemaker, learnt about how a family-run Greek winery, Domaine Zafeirakis, resurrected the nearly extinct Limniona grape and tasted...
...It was inspired by Monte Verità, “a utopian haven of alternative intellectuals and creative souls who settled in Ascona, Switzerland, at the turn of the 20th century”, read the show notes....
...“It’s black. It’s dark. You feel locked inside,” says the film’s protagonist, Alessia Zecchini, an Italian freediving champion. “You can see things that don’t exist.”...
...Local bank Monte dei Paschi (established in 1472) is a lot less fun but is also very old. This appears to be one reason Italian politicians have strived to keep it alive....
...Large lenders like Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit are set to be the biggest contributors, but local banks such as Banco BPM and state-owned Monte dei Paschi di Siena are expected to take the largest capital...
...The still morning zithers with grasshoppers and chitters with glossy black alpine choughs. The sunlight picks out their bright yellow beaks and designer crimson leggings....
...I counted six black faces in a school of more than 2,500 students....
...No doubt more will queue for the new Monte Carlo branch due to open in September....
...But it was the only real black mark on an otherwise glittering, convincingly Capri afternoon, at a place that, like the hotel it’s now part of, seems to have the promise to eventually deliver on the dream...
...Olivero sought to relax in his acquisition by competing in gruelling races such as the Rallye des Alpes, the Monte Carlo and the Liège-Rome-Liège....
...A menacing black Land Rover Defender turns up, right on time. It doesn’t take long for me to be jolted into the parallel universe of the world’s most famous spy....
...Gucci’s venue, the 13th-century fortress Castel del Monte, is a national landmark featured on the back of the Italian cent....
...Not to be confused with San Miniato al Monte, the church that overlooks Florence, the hilltop town of San Miniato is not on many tourists’ radars, yet it sits in a sweet spot conveniently halfway between...
...Because they believe they can put out the fire,” says Paulo Fernandes, associate professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro....
...When it’s all over, the air is filled with thick grey smoke and intersections are indelibly covered in black tyre marks....
...A curtain of blocky green numbers geysered up my black terminal window, simulating fixtures yet to be played, goals yet to be scored, victories yet to be celebrated....
...They were grouped by style and/or reputation, and at one of the six or seven tables, for example, was Opus One 2018, Harlan Estate 2016, Bond St Eden 2016, Colgin IX 2016, Eisele Vineyard 2014 and Ridge Monte...
...I can’t face Monaco appearing on any black or grey list,” he says in his soft, American-accented voice, the legacy of his university years spent in Massachusetts....
...The controversy at Monte dei Paschi continues after executives at the world’s oldest bank were acquitted of helping hide more than €2bn in losses....
...The hum of Formula One cars had barely faded from the streets of Monaco following the grand prix when competitors began to arrive in Monte Carlo for EY’s annual World Entrepreneur of the Year....
...Prosus is now facing one of the weirdest valuation black holes in tech markets....
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