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...(b) 1 f6! gxf6 2 Kxg2 Kg5 3 a4 bxa3 en passant 4 bxa3 Kf5 5 a4 Ke5 6 d6! cxd6 7 c6! dxc6 8 a5 and White queens.. Chess: 2285 1 . . . d1=N!!...
...Such retro notes are evident from this album’s R&B-inflected opener, “Cut My Hair”, where she seductively schemes and sighs: “Good girls are so over-rated.”...
...Ireland’s taoiseach Leo Varadkar this week called for discussions with London on a “Plan B” should the executive not be restored this autumn, when Northern Ireland is due to host an investment conference...
...Cf. raw material n....
...The breathy shimmy of “Good At Breaking Hearts” is enriched by the gorgeous vocals of UK R&B talent JNR Williams....
...Trustfall feels less like a cohesive album than a catchy pick‘n’mix designed for digital playlists....
...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) Sex and power were the abiding obsessions of the colourful media mogul Sumner...
...We went from a very smooth kind of R&B to a very cool way of inflecting our rock’n’roll approach.”...
...Her music was an idiosyncratic but coherent blend of R&B, electronic music, hip-hop and surreal passages of Irish fiddle-playing, performed with bravura stage presence....
...The Tennessee-born singer, who has died aged 83, brought the tradition of blues and gospel shouters into the loudly amplified world of rock ’n’ soul in the 1960s....
...Unscripted (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams makes a worthy bid for Paramount founder Sumner Redstone to be considered Logan-worthy....
...If you do not fancy this, then Agnès b and American Vintage’s fine jersey and Hanro’s Ultralight tops work well too....
...It’s an eminently disposable B-Movie, but it’s hard for any film starring at least one of Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult or Awkwafina to be anything other than a good time....
...Her Mercury Prize-nominated debut album Devotion (2012) set her distinctly tender vocals to drum’n’bass rhythms as well as elegant ballads....
...(N.b. the Chart A referred to is the same as chart 2.9 above.) So the path to Bank-approved MRP analysis, it turns out, lay in simple heteroskedasticity. Why didn’t we think of that?...
Commodity margin squeezes; Apollo; d’n’b and much more . . .
...published this week, he concluded: “Chat GPT3 would have received a B to B- grade on the exam....
...Maria Shollenbarger travelled with Cazenove+Loyd, which tailors trips to Morocco from £6,000pp for seven nights’ B&B including private experiences (excluding international flights). cazloyd.com, riadmenaandbeyond.com...
...Mirroring the musical direction of his recent albums, they are mainly drawn from a pre-British Invasion repertoire of country music, orchestral pop, rock ’n’ roll, doo-wop, blues and R&B....
...Those lucky enough to have bagged one will see big names Guns N’ Roses, Arctic Monkeys and Lana Del Rey lighting up Somerset’s Worthy Farm....
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...They also share their “Twerk n Jerk” spin on jerk chicken. Because how could they not? “We grew up eating jerk chicken,” says Walker....
...“Vintage T-shirts tap into nostalgia,” says 34-year-old Deeps Samra, who collects rare hip-hop and R&B T-shirts....
...According to the annual Nielsen report, hip-hop and R&B surpassed it as the dominant genre in the US in 2017. (Later than I had guessed.)...
...Black British Artist Grant, an annual programme giving a leg up to figures within the arts and addressing diversity and visibility across the creative sector. a-cold-wall.com; community.samuel-ross.com B...
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