Hints and tips:
...The best thing about The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions at this year’s Festival d’Aix-en-Provence is its title....
...Once you’d clocked the figures in the paintings, they couldn’t be unseen. I spent future shifts wondering how anyone could walk by this Kama Sutra extension pack and not gasp....
...(And I don’t like the smiley face logo on the brim, even if it is a secret handshake.)...
...When one of Cam’s many dating app hook-ups leads him to a “burly Latinx dude” living with his parents in a flat filled with smiley family portraits, he wonders “if they know he sucks dick”....
...He is at home on the island; a smiley, wiry firecracker about to turn 61, he speaks for hours with the pep of a 20-year-old, even while fending off bronchitis....
...“New money today is much harder,” Smiley said. Zai Lab said this month that it was confident of overall profitability by the end of 2025....
...This creates a culture of inauthenticity in which everyone is miserable, even as they’re clicking all those smiley faces....
...“Its smiley team, who are likely to be as – if not more – hungover than you, will nurse you back to health in no time.” Another favourite is Parlour in Kensal Green....
...Sommelier Bert Blaize, co-author of Which Wine When, has slummed it with more prestige cuvées than he’d like to say....
...He looks like a smiley, tanned Cal Ripken, backslapping his way through the place like he’s the mayor. He eats with us, eager to confer with Gold, who supplied his employees with Ivermectin....
...I see more clearly all the vicissitudes of [those things] against what I guess I’d call the low frequency of this place....
...Triangle of Sadness trailerSo is this runway casting for a grumpy brand or a smiley brand?...
...But I’d love a few more shades of grey. Email Jo at jo.ellison@ft.com Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Another James Bond, another George Smiley, another fiction glorifying what Roosevelt called “the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder”....
...Triangle of Sadness clipSo is this runway casting for a grumpy brand or a smiley brand?...
...Everything you need to know about Buns from Home can be summarised by that smiley-face emoji that has closed eyes and drool pouring out of its mouth. Buns from Home’s offering is so, so good....
...“If it was a brick that fell from the top, you’d get less positive feedback.”...
...she says, with the sixth of 12 exclamation marks (plus one smiley face) before our thread concludes....
...Here are the highlights: FT Commenter George Smiley: What risk factors have been identified for blood clotting after vaccination with AZ? Smoking? Anything else?...
...To the 17-year-old who wrote that, Ellie was another girl I presumed I’d never have the guts to talk to....
...A celebrity-fixated friend recently said to me: “I never thought I’d find an interview with an epidemiologist more interesting than Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian, but here we are.”...
...“I’d been there with my kids that weekend and I was going from talking about Pingu in a café to talking about nuclear proliferation.”...
...Visually witty allusions include a rainstorm of squids, and egg yolks in a cookery class forming the smiley face that cropped up continually in the graphic novel....
...But I think she’d breathe a sigh of relief and think: “It’s all going to be OK.” And there’s the superficial stuff: “Oh my God, you have grey hair.”...
...And if I was one of Sotheby’s experts, I’d keep my eye on that banana in the hand of an ominous-looking chimp in the bottom left hand corner. It used to be curving upwards, like a smiley face....
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