Hints and tips:
...I’m not sure our efforts did much for the drinks, but it was roundly agreed to be a five-star performance....
...When the band stretched out, their core aesthetic criss-crossed between edgy M-Base funk and Afro-inflected jazz....
...This, as far as I’m concerned, should come with a trigger warning....
...Because I’m not interested! My interview, my questions.” Anyway, he adds, the film is scarcely light on betrayal....
...I’m already looking forward to returning....
...M&A lawyer Jon Bowden has joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a partner in Singapore. He joins from White & Case....
...Her image was larger-than-life, a beehived composite of Betty Boop and Ronnie Spector magicked into being with a mascara wand and singular imagination. She was witty, clever, ribald and charismatic....
...“I’m too tired to be sad about the Queen’s death,” said Elisio Nyaga, a 93-year-old who fought in the Mau Mau uprising....
...“When I’m making music, it’s more or less an energy,” he says. “I’m just going with the vibe. Painting – I’m not going with the vibe....
...The 39-year-old spent her childhood in the lush surrounds of New Zealand; her father was an artist and her mother, Angela Wickstead, owned a fashion boutique in Auckland’s Parnell....
...Much of this centres around a bowl of M&Ms....
...Vibraphonist/pianist Joel Ross delivered two houses of hip-hop inflections and modernist lines at Ronnie Scott’s, while Pizza Express Jazz Club presented a brace for the established Trio M’s left-field blend...
...I’m starting at equity and inclusion, and I hope to connect that to environmental thoughtfulness....
...“Sometimes I’m Happy” is the opener, and the pianist’s singular approach immediately surfaces with an introductory scatter of briefly sustained notes....
...“He kept asking if I was Welsh, and I said no, I’m Irish, to which he replied, ‘Well, that explains everything.’”...
...I’m lucky I’m not a writer.” He grins conspiratorially. “Actors do all these things people don’t know about. Almost every actor I know secretly paints, and it’s mostly pretty awful.”...
...Other visitors to get the pale white sand between their toes include musicians Ronnie Wood, Harry Styles and Mariah Carey, plus Bill Gates, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and Kate Moss....
...At the moment I’m focused on Eugène Delacroix. I love the action in his work, the way he paints horses and people and movement....
...Ronnie Campbell, a northern Labour MP for 32 years, recalled his decades down the pit as “a hard slog”. “The conditions could be brilliant if you knew the pit....
...Among the archive photos and films shown during Ronnie Spector’s concert was footage of American Bandstand presenter Dick Clark hosting The Ronettes on his pop music showcase in 1963 where the trio — Ronnie...
...“I’m a little nervous, it’s my first gig,” he announced to everyone’s surprise. “No, at Ronnie Scott’s . . . under my own name,” he added, to clear thing up....
...Given H&M had a higher customer density than peers pre-COVID (higher than Primark), social distancing could be more challenging for H&M....
...Mick Jagger cavorted in a corner of his living-room as though in a stadium and Ronnie Wood played a charismatic solo in what seemed to be a landing by a staircase....
...Parnell grew up in the Fens in eastern England, “starved of trees”, he writes: “The woods enthralled me.”...
...“Along with quite a few pieces by the late Ronnie Cutrone.”...
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