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...Throughout May; further information here The Word on the Street A book and magazine fair celebrating literacy and Canadian literature at Queen’s Park which typically dates place in May....
...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....
...A wrought-iron door guards the address near Central Park where Guzel Ganieva lives on the upper floors of a townhouse dating from the Gilded Age....
...It’s an arrangement the Portland Press Herald described as “unusual though not illegal”....
...But since the eldest Koch put the place up for sale in 1999, the trail became harder to follow....
...The former stayed at Parker’s seven-bedroom Holland Park townhouse when he resigned abruptly as prime minister following the Brexit vote five years ago this month....
...Senior colourist Antonina (“Nina”) Popa took me to a gratifyingly pretty (and understated) cream-and-honey place with a careful balayage that wasn’t too precise....
...So-called consensus trades turning sour have ruined the bonuses of many masters of the universe on Park Avenue....
.../ From David Beffert, Portland, OR, US...
...Mitchell Algus, a high school science teacher-cum-art dealer, revived both Bernstein’s and Tompkins’ reputations by giving them solo shows in the 2000s....
...The studio lights were turned down low as fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and James Taylor sang backing vocals....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...The r-word is considered so unlucky that it is never used by Portland locals, who refer instead to “coneys” or “burrowing mutton”....
...On both sides of the Atlantic, there are still many unsold large companies in private equity groups’ portfolios – be it Alliance Boots, the UK pharmacy chain, or Toys R Us, the US retailer....
...For a while it was always Maytime in Mayfair and spring in Park Lane....
...In addition to the ten mega food park projects already being set up, the Government has decided to set up five more such parks. 54....
...For more views, go to the de Young Museum, by architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Golden Gate Park....
...Thorpe is no solipsist, however: he is deeply absorbed with nature, place and family....
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