Hints and tips:
...Outdoor pot-smoking has been banned in the city centre. In a turnaround that few saw coming a decade ago, it’s now probably easier to buy legal weed in New York than in Amsterdam....
...Two films projected on large adjacent screens show two actors smoking and lounging on an armchair on a Californian beach. The ocean’s edge creates a threshold between our world and theirs....
...Footage inside a bus of a man boarding and planting an already smoking device repeats on a loop. Clock hands whirl....
...There is no smoking gun. But something is quietly happening in a high tech unit of the Dutch police that’s about to blow the case wide open....
...And in April 2017, Assadi booked a room at the Savoy Amsterdam for one of his agents. So we know he was working in the Netherlands at around the same time that Ali Motamed was murdered....
...I suggest to him that he consider working for journalists or investigative companies such as Bellingcat, who use “micro-details” such as “paint patterns on building columns, the design of a no-smoking sign...
...Prof Dr Leonard Hofstra Professor of Cardiology,VU University Medical Center,Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
...Quazi Islam, 34, recently moved to Amsterdam from Bangkok....
...We could be in Munich, or Warsaw, or Amsterdam, or Berlin; this community knows that its days are numbered....
...Many congratulations to Rowan Coorens from Amsterdam who won on the tie-breaker....
...“Deana Lawson” is at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, June 8-September 1; huismarseille.nl....
...Based in Amsterdam, it has to compete with the likes of Booking.com, Netflix and Uber for hires....
...When I sulked, our American goalkeeper lectured me on the thrill of smoking pot legally....
...He also knows every nook and cranny in every EU treaty, from Maastricht to Lisbon via Amsterdam. We agree on the essentials....
...A smoking shelter at Terminal 2 was priced at £1m — more than twice the “normal” price for such a structure....
...Forget playing outside: you could get the same effect by smoking a few cigarettes on the sofa....
...(FT) French cinephiles fuming A call for French directors to stub out smoking on screen has been greeted with a mix of disbelief and outright ridicule....
...News round-up Going Dutch The European Medicines Agency will move from London to Amsterdam after the UK leaves the EU, creating new regulatory headaches and disrupting supply chains....
...“The day after, the company imploded — there were tax increases, a smoking ban, everything. Fifteen thousand pubs were closed in the following four years....
...His burly figure is often found outside Mishcon de Reya’s gleaming headquarters on Kingsway, smoking a cigarette....
...That sense of quiet, brittle despair is heightened here by Sam Gold’s stripped-back, decontextualised staging, which originated — in Dutch — at Toneelgroep Amsterdam in 2015....
...Poised on the scaffolding for the new town hall, Jacob van Ruisdael drew an intricate aerial view of Amsterdam on a scrap of paper no bigger than the palm of a hand....
...They dodge curfews and checkpoints to meet in a Chinese restaurant, or end the day smoking joints on the roof of her flat....
...When lung cancer struck, nearly 25 years after he had publicly quit smoking, part of him must have been fascinated: he always liked standing in operating rooms watching surgeons at work....
...There’s a lone gentleman (I reckon Persian, from Hamburg) off to my right smoking a massive cigar and enjoying his newspapers, with only the sound of the rushing river and birdsong in the background....
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