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...Rival clubs and fans attribute City’s success to the financial firepower of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family who has controlled the club since 2008....
...The mad feast begins the minute you step into the Royal Academy’s courtyard: 13 wildly gesticulating figures in black patinated bronze and gold leaf entice you to their table in Tavares Strachan’s fizzing...
...The Royal Academy’s new Angelica Kauffman exhibition is not....
...London’s Soho, reflects Sony Music boss Rob Stringer, has changed since his days as a cub A&R man spending boozy afternoons in now vanished bars and clubs....
...Given that the Royal Opera House now boasts two splendid studio theatres in which to test-drive new material, Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare’s decision to present four premieres on the main stage as...
...Wisley’s trees are about 20ft high, each showing single flowers with a slight flush of pink and a faint scent of almonds....
...When Sarah Snook takes the curtain call at the end of her stunning performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray, she’s not in the company of other actors, but a black-clad crew of camera operators, dressers...
...Parker said Timms, who stabilised the Lincoln Center after years of upheaval, was a “transformational manager” but that the new man had not been hired to oversee a big shift in strategy....
...Paris, capital of the 19th century, comes to us multi-faceted, direct and intimate in the Royal Academy’s enjoyable new exhibition Impressionists on Paper....
...Suzuki shines brighter still in the evening’s finale: 2019’s Agora by Brazilian dancemaker Cassi Abranches, co-creator of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s recent Black Sabbath tribute, set to a rhythmic drip-feed...
...Metamorphoses features the Royal Ballet’s Kristen McNally and Matthew Ball, former Royal and English National ballerina Alina Cojocaru and contemporary dance and hip-hop virtuoso Tommy Franzen....
...Black Sabbath — The Ballet was the brainchild of Birmingham Royal Ballet director Carlos Acosta, who cannily surmised that joining forces with one of the city’s greatest exports would prove a natural audience...
...As reward for his services, the man — by then named Ray Dalio — was given a clerkship at the New York Stock Exchange by Isabel’s husband, Wall Street titan George Leib....
...My style signifier is a three-piece black suit made by David Chambers, often in corduroy. And red braces, with a blue shirt....
...He subsequently set up the Hamilton Commission in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering to help give opportunities to black people in motorsport and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
...Soon, Herbert was the go-to man for every major horticultural institution: as Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew chair (1991-97), he disentangled them from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and, with...
...Director and co-writer Nikolaj Arcel is best known for A Royal Affair, another period piece starring Mikkelsen....
...This week’s FT Weekend Magazine cover story written by DD’s Mark Vandevelde has the inside track on Wigdor’s legal war against Leon Black, once the most powerful man on Wall Street....
...Lustig, whose clients included Nat King Cole, Julie Felix, Jethro Tull and Nico, clearly had an eye for talent, but he had picked the wrong man....
...McLaren went on to study at Cambridge, the Royal College of Art and London Metropolitan University; Excell at Kingston University....
...Royal’s result built on an earlier strong performance at the Fide Grand Swiss in the Isle of Man, where he missed the GM norm by just half a point, and he showed that he can hold his own against elite grandmasters...
...The title comes from Derek Owusu’s book Safe: 20 Ways to Be a Black Man in Britain Today....
...Lanzino’s production boasts a neogothic steampunk vibe, with all the men in black kilts and stringy wigs....
...He used his fabulous wealth to ingratiate himself with elites from Beijing’s “red aristocracy” to the British royal family....
...In 2019 he remarked that she made him “want to hate all Black women”....
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