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...The R&B singer has the stature for the marquee event. In his pomp, hit records poured from him like the sweet cadences of his singing....
...OK, but not yet, says the FCDO: This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 22 (1) (a, b and c) of the FOIA (2000)....
...It hit a high of almost $140/b in early March after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine....
...Newcomer Giorgio Bulgari used coral cabochons in his Giorgio B collection that launched in 2023. “It’s a deep red Mediterranean coral,” he says....
...Konstantine Arkoudas There was just one business professor who tested ChatGPT on five exam questions from his course and concluded that the answers would get a B minus to be great....
...Gordon Lish’s drastic and fastidious work on Raymond Carver’s prose created the author’s stripped-down style....
...Space-age design II Up 1 (1969) Created by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, this vacuum-packed foam chair came flat....
...Joni Mitchell once said, “I’m a painter first, and musician second”. Do your music and art coexist or are they independent partners? They coexist for sure....
...Most other white first moves fail to Rh6+-h8 or Rf1+-b1 stopping White’s b pawn. Chess: 2287 (a) e3 (b) h1 (c) a8 and mate by 1 Qc8 (d) g7....
...While US oil output is still rising, growth is expected to be just 200,000 barrels a day over the next 12 months, well below the expansion of 2mn b/d reached between 2018 and 2019....
...Musician Joni Mitchell turns 80 on Tuesday. As someone who felt the loss when she pulled her songs from Spotify, it’s time to enjoy her latest album, reviewed here by the FT’s Ludovic Hunter-Tilney....
...Or at least it is for DIY retail group Kingfisher, owner of brands including B&Q, Screwfix and Tradepoint....
...M&B’s share price was down 5.1 per cent to just above 128p in early morning trading in London....
...Take Mitchells & Butlers, owner of chains including Toby Carvery and All Bar One. Net debt — borrowings minus cash — has reached an ugly £1.7bn including leases. Its shares are worth £800mn less....
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...British opera director Katie Mitchell is at the helm....
...The club’s website credits her for a role in the $160mn refurbishment of its Raymond James Stadium....
...It takes the framework from Joni Mitchell’s album Blue and it’s beautifully written....
...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....
...M&B, which operates 1,482 pubs nationwide, reported a 0.9 per cent increase in like-for-like sales in the 13 weeks to July 16. Drink sales were down 1.3 per cent over the period....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, said on Thursday that cost pressures presented a “major challenge” to the business and the wider hospitality sector....
...Two of the UK’s largest pub groups have warned that cost pressures are a “major challenge” to the industry and have forced them to axe discounts, reduce energy use and simplify their menus.Mitchells & Butlers...
...And more than half of working-age adults are estimated to have low basic numeracy. 5 is going to be B. Good....
...“Founders have always been a core pillar of a successful brand,” says Margaret Mitchell, chief commercial officer at SpaceNK....
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
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