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...“I’m a little cold-blooded about it. I realised I was going to have to stop thinking about what she would have wanted and just go ahead....
...Stormzy headlines alongside The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Haim, with strong supporting acts Jayda G and singer-songwriters Angel Olsen and Tove Lo....
...I’ve recently discovered Mostyn, a contemporary gallery and arts centre in the seaside town of Llandudno in north Wales....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...The biggest of today’s stars — Beyoncé, Rihanna et al — treat the notion of complete self-revelation to an interviewer, a staple of rock stars of the past, as utterly alien, so why would they sign up for...
...“There is little question the elite high schools in NYC lack the gender, racial and ethnic diversity of the district as a whole,” the study found. In the 1980s and 1990s the numbers were much higher....
...A founder of Italy’s Five Star Movement, Grillo brought 2m protesters to the streets in 2007 for a “V-Day” rally....
...Along the way they became global stars, a combination of their David v Goliath adventure and their supporters’ fearsome Viking-style chanting....
...Its celebrated alumni — Shackleton and Captain Scott, Wilfred Thesiger, Ranulph Fiennes et al — were typically former public-school boys and army officers, deeply rooted in the establishment and celebrated...
...My own dish had arrived by now, but I found I had little appetite....
...When Saudi Arabia last month announced with Russia and other big oil producers a conditional agreement to freeze production at current levels in the face of rock bottom prices, the decision was seen as an...
...securities fraud, and Samir Khan, an American al-Qaeda acolyte who was killed at age 25 by a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011....
...and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee, and put them to work building a film industry in the North....
...al, and without the stay in place....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Holding an imaginary microphone up to her mouth, she does a little anchor-meets-rapper ditty....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...There was precious little to go on; a few chimneypieces and a couple of original doors....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Pico Iyer Little Rock, Arkansas If there’s one place I wasn’t eager to visit in a year that took me to Alice Springs, Shanghai, Banff, southern Ireland and Hiroshima, it was Little Rock, Arkansas....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...Sleeping in vacant rooms in the district office and equipped with a V-Sat internet link to keep in touch with superiors in Kandahar city – but no shower – they must figure out how to work with Jabar to build...
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...There’s a reason the Little Rock Nine defied a governor and a mob....
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