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...The sober hall near the Bank of England, with its black-and-white-chequered marble floor and its dark wood counters now has the air of ancient Rome after the sack, with City workers baying for cocktails....
...Then, last year, Ricky Lightfoot (yes, that’s his real name) beat the horse by two minutes with a time of 2:22:23....
...In search of what’s challenging, I find myself in a packed, dark room below Union Hall, a spacious bar in Brooklyn, watching Dylan Adler....
...Paris is planning “urban forests” on stone or concrete sites such as the forecourt of its town hall. But even a single flowering tree on the street can give residents joy, says Litt....
...In 2014, soon after completing his Irish-set period film Jimmy’s Hall, a particularly exhausting shoot, Loach announced his retirement. It didn’t last long....
...I paid but let him keep the receipt,” Ricky Gervais, star of sitcom The Office, once quipped....
...Masthaven, along with Atom and Tandem, created by entrepreneur Ricky Knox, is focusing on providing digital banking for individuals....
...“I’ve never seen Glasgow like this,” said Ricky Ross, the Deacon Blue singer. “There’s an excitement about [music] gigs, but this is different because everyone’s involved.”...
...Why: The house is owned by Ricky Ponting, former captain of the Australian cricket team....
...Ricky Burdett, an LSE professor and chief adviser on architecture and urbanism for London 2012, says: “Once you’ve created what urbanists call ‘porosity’ you’ve started something which over time a society...
...studied at the Royal College of Art in London, from 1953 to 1956, Blake was determined to paint autobiographical images directly reflecting the fact that “I was into wrestling, sport, fairgrounds, music hall...
...As for my compatriots, one of the grandest venues in Beijing is the vast Great Hall of the People, which is divided into many rooms with themes....
...My very with-it Mandarin tutor recently scolded me for, of all things, missing Ricky Gervais’s send-up of Hollywood at the Golden Globes awards night....
...Russell Whitehead as Frederic, the unwilling pirate apprentice, is chunkily affable, and Ricky Rojas is a Pirate King by way of Zorro – El Musical....
...Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen was an experienced jokesmith and stand-up by the time he started writing and subsequently directing films....
...The mayor has also begun renovating the city’s dilapidated downtown area, sanctioning plans to develop a mafia museum, due to open in 2011, next door to City Hall....
...Of the latter, one of the two men, Chris Hollins, an Oxford Blue, is a sports presenter on BBC1’s Breakfast (Monday-Friday); the other, Ricky Whittle, acts in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks (where he has the...
...Ricky Gervais will be looking to increase his American fan base at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, with a sequel to his Out of England show – imaginatively named Out of England II....
...It is one of the country’s top boxing centres, producing Amir Khan and Ricky Hatton, and in rugby union, rugby league and athletics, has three of the UK’s top teams in Sale Sharks, Wigan Warriors and Sale...
...Now celebrating its fifth year, the NYCF boasts a wide range of events presented in big-name venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Hammerstein Ballroom as well as more modest settings across the city....
...In 2006 the Venice Biennale, the world’s most important architecture festival, was curated by the London School of Economics’ Ricky Burdett on the theme of cities and blasted the visitor with a barrage of...
...“We’ve got a lot more competition because it’s a successful niche area in the travel business,” said John Hall of Gullivers Sports Travel....
...At the Fairfield Halls in Croydon the night before I had seen Rooney’s newest stage extravaganza, named after his most famous catchphrase, “Let’s Put on A Show”....
...In London, as in Venice last year, it has been curated by Ricky Burdett, London’s urban guru, who was adviser to the GLA and is now director of design for the 2012 Olympics....
...The ceiling above the underground space was designed in a series of lightweight vaults, an echo of the filigree iron and glasswork of the 19th-century halls of the city’s new central squares....
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