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...Here’s Patti Smith’s obituary and homage to the Television frontman (New Yorker) — CoinDesk is doing “Policy Week”. Here’s Marc Hochstein arguing that crypto needs its own Glass-Steagall....
...The Angel Makers: The True Story of the Most Astonishing Murder Ring in History by Patti McCracken (Mudlark/William Morrow) In 1929 a small Hungarian village was revealed to have been at the heart of a...
...“I once harboured a dream of having a café of my own,” wrote the singer and author Patti Smith in her 2015 memoir M Train....
...Last year’s event included dancers styled by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon and guest vocalists such as Vanessa Williams and Patti LuPone....
...There’s a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey to William Malcolm Hailey, Lord Hailey of Shahpur: “Mature in youth, youthful in old age. Adorned with grace of wit. Wise, kind, faithful in friendship....
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...“Food is a human right, it’s not a privilege that depends on your zip code,” says Williams, who grew up in the area and says she was “conditioned at a very early age to go outside my community to get my...
...“The Chelsea was like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe,” Patti Smith wrote in her memoir, Just Kids....
...Patti Waldmeir reports how it’s gone down in Chicago....
...and Patti Smith....
...Soprano soloist Lucy Crowe floated ineffably angelic top notes and baritone Roderick Williams touched the heart with his solo from Milton....
...It is based on “Manchester from Kersal Moor”, an 1852 watercolour by William Wyld — a forest of distant, smoking factories marching toward a bucolic idyll....
...patti.waldmeir@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Young American voters will not swing this election / From Robert Hunter, Washington, DC, US...
...Employers are in for a wave of post-pandemic litigation as lawyers predict a jump in pandemic protection and discrimination lawsuits, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...But now it’s time to move beyond the jaw-jaw, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...And the desire to escape those dreadful realities appears to have fuelled a fantasy boom in middle America, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...patti.waldmeir@ft.com...
...William Burroughs was a very good teacher. I learnt from him about how to carry myself, how to navigate life, about literature, about travel, but also about building one’s character....
...Since his death, international interest in his work has grown, and today he is often placed alongside two other great postwar photographers, Robert Frank and William Klein....
...She is explaining to our correspondent Patti Waldmeir how BLM went from a hashtag to a social movement. “We have taken the baton and are using the tools of our age,” she says....
...The dorms and bathrooms had a good half century — but not so the racial balance on campus, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...He is especially celebrated for his links to music – his work can be found in the art collections of Paul McCartney and Patti Smith....
...Patti Waldmeir visited South Bend, Indiana and spoke to black residents about his record as mayor....
...Patti Smith is one of rock’s great live acts....
...In the last midterm election in 2014, Missouri blacks voted 94 per cent for Democrats, says William Frey, an expert on electoral demography at the Brookings Institution....
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