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...when 3 b8=Q or 2 b8=R draw by stalemate, 3 b8=B cannot win with two dark-squared bishops, and 3 b8=N+ Kb7 draws. Chess: 2314 1 Kd3! If Kf5 2 Kd4 mate, or Kd5 2 Qd4 mate....
...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.”...
...Responding to the comments, Nadhim Zahawi, a Conservative MP of Kurdish Iraqi heritage, tweeted: “Yr comments r offensive&racist. I wld b frightened 2live in country run by U.”...
...The breathy shimmy of “Good At Breaking Hearts” is enriched by the gorgeous vocals of UK R&B talent JNR Williams....
...Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux (W&N/Crown Currency) It’ll be a while before a definitive account of the cryptocurrency phenomenon appears, but Bloomberg reporter...
...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....
...Her multi-platinum repertoire has spanned golden-age R&B, punk-pop riffing, country-tinged ballads and clubby bangers, all powered by her gloriously sweet-spiky vocals and irrepressible attitude....
...Brought up as Anna Mae Bullock, she was given the stage name Tina by the R&B bandleader Ike Turner, who recruited her after hearing her sing in a St Louis nightclub in 1957....
...If you haven’t yet read Time Shelter (W&N/Liveright) by Georgi Gospodinov, winner of this year’s International Booker Prize, a treat awaits: it’s a brilliant, elegiac and darkly humorous story of memory...
...“I was really enjoying playing with all these genres, but I think maybe it was confusing for people; they didn’t know whether I was supposed to be a pop star, alternative or an R&B singer....
...July 7-9, northseajazz.com Wireless, London This London weekender brings the best in hip-hop, grime and R&B from both sides of the Atlantic to Finsbury Park....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...“Vintage T-shirts tap into nostalgia,” says 34-year-old Deeps Samra, who collects rare hip-hop and R&B T-shirts....
...I pedantically made the uninterested man at the luggage belt write down “R-I-M-O-W-A” in the hopes my newly purchased green trunk would wash up on the shores of Tom Bradley International Terminal....
...R Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University....
...Developed by creative director Paola Antonelli, curator and director of R&D at MoMA, the symposium was titled “Agency for the Future: Design and the Quest for a Better World”....
...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.)...
...R Retirement You can do it when you’re 25 and ranked world number one (Ash Barty). You can decline to do it when you’re 40 and no longer world number one (Roger Federer)....
...It was May of 2018 and the R&B artist, known as R Kelly, had been fending off lawsuits since the 1990s....
...The original rock’n’rollers of the 1950s shared R Kelly’s preference for very young girls....
...At the time, pop music and R&B were “male-dominated genres and these incredible female artists started to take charge and quite literally wear the trousers”....
...The tracks are confident, dramatically strong R&B songs, performed with a mix of power and openness. Ekwere’s patience and hard work have paid off....
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