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...But then, I’d have to kill you . . . ” Only a slight dimple gives her away. Concerts in London and Antwerp in February and in New York in March, elimchan.nl...
...The best thing about The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions at this year’s Festival d’Aix-en-Provence is its title....
...This is just one of the hundreds of tiny, heartbreaking details in Simon McBurney’s brilliant new Wozzeck for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence....
...He’d sent it to Martin, who told Larry, ‘OK, I’d like to meet this guy.’ But that was translated into, ‘He knows your work’!”...
...After the interval, César Franck’s D Minor Symphony was a necessarily more bombastic affair. Barenboim conducted without a score; this was familiar territory for everyone....
...They were a fixture in the wardrobes of young boys and girls (see Shirley Temple and, later, a young John F Kennedy Jr)....
...A belated disinterment at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca seven years ago paved the way for the German premiere of the piece in Frankfurt....
...Shirley Valentine Duke of York’s Theatre, London The scent and sizzle of hot fat fills the room as Sheridan Smith fries an egg on stage in Shirley Valentine — a mundane moment made exotic and strange by...
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...There are songs by Shirley Bassey and Bond movies and whatever, and it’s worked, right, and the jewellers have sold lots of diamond rings for weddings and whatnot....
...The things you didn’t think you’d enjoy are often the greatest pleasures....
...You’d be forgiven for spending half the evening wondering if this is a woman playing a man dressed as a woman, or a woman playing a man dressed as . . . whatever....
...The first event held at the hotel after its conversion from a private residence was the silver-wedding anniversary of Roy and Shirley Erskine (Murray’s grandparents) in 1981....
...Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas, Virago £25/Farrar Straus & Giroux $35, 576 pages...
...She came across the song when a search for Shirley Collins’s “Hares on the Mountain” sent her down a YouTube rabbit hole....
...“We are way ahead in innovation and we have demonstrated the ability to rapidly transfer R&D to mass production.”...
...Like Arsenal’s standing in the Premier League or Matt Hancock’s career in television, the Mary Jane shoe is rebounding in the fashion world, surprising everyone who’d written off dainty footwear for chunky...
...Yes it can look 1950s Shirley Temple too, but it can also cater to those who favour geometric designs and minimalism, and has popped up at edgier brands such as Alaïa and Comme des Garçons this season....
...The #dirtyshirley – a Shirley Temple spiked with vodka (20.3mn views) – has lately been back in the news. The #dirtymartini’s (42.1mn views) been trending too....
Plus a conceptual Salome and an unsatisfying Idomeneo
...Shirley Chisholm famously said, “I’ve been black, I’ve been female . . .”...
...Ajesh has also looked at the custom of going for dim sum in lieu of the Christmas meal: while he makes a stab at handmade dumplings, I think I’d rather eat the ones made at London’s A Wong....
...I mentioned missing Weymouth, my hometown, and because she’d never visited, she suggested a trip. A welcome break from filming her latest documentary....
...With the 2021 arrival of maître d’ Jesus Adorno, a jazz enthusiast, music has become a focus too....
...who complained that between busy lives, and lingering exhaustion from the pandemic years, they’d lost their ability to read fiction....
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