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...“Find me a place,” she implores, “where rituals don’t matter/where customs fall like leaves, where the past is left behind.”...
...The riddle is in keeping with the Detroit-raised MC’s image as the live-wire jester at the court of US rap — but on this occasion he isn’t joking. The album is an act of self-reckoning....
...“There isn’t any evidence of the Labour vote falling significantly post [the Hamas] October 7 [attacks],” he said....
...The celebratory finale, Rhythmic Resurgence, featured the buzzy English National Ballet Youth Company throwing shapes to a beatbox reimagining of Les Noces by MC Zani performed by Jack Hobbs, who flooded...
...“You’re not going to do that with a crazy little margin that isn’t going to pay for anything.”...
...“Banks . . . have a lot of power they can’t yet wield,” said Matthew Boyes of Hometree Finance, a financier of gas boilers that plans to offer heat pump loans....
...He was expelled from school for selling weed and always wanted to be a grime MC. He couldn’t compute that kind of money; it alienated him from friends and relatives....
...Nigeria-born Onikeku, who acts as an MC, works hard in Afropolis to encourage audience participation, but it’s a hard sell....
...“The sporting industry wasn’t known for sport,” Murray says diplomatically, flashing a bright-white toothed smile. “[The] corporate world in general was not known for fitness.”...
...“I also wouldn’t rule out anyone with an east- or west-facing roof, as we might have done 10 years ago.”...
...“I don’t have any shame in saying that. But I’m not a millionaire to make you feel bad. I didn’t become a millionaire to shit on anyone or look down on anyone....
...Some of it feels as if MC Escher drawings have come to life and mated with Frida Kahlo’s paintings. James would draw the structures he wanted, some with impossibly complicated shapes....
...“The local customer doesn’t expect to pay restaurant prices,” he said. “Most of our fish is from Russia; it’s been hit by the tariffs....
...Porter, now 53, hit the primetime with his Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning role as MC Pray Tell in Ryan Murphy’s New York drag-ball-culture television drama series Pose....
...In June, British hip-hop stalwarts Stereo MC’s played a DJ set in Kyiv. Dance music DJs from Europe and the US have also made appearances at clubs....
...Digga D’s show in the Woodsies tent opened in a torpid fashion — “Got to protect my energy,” the drill MC rapped over a lazy beat — but it picked up tempo, acquiring the raw, thuddy feel of an old-school...
...I don’t sound Irish on the records . . . ” We’re in a pub in Rotherhithe, south London, next to the Thames....
...An MC was calling on moderators to bear witness and, one by one, they rose to their feet....
...NI voters, as expressed in the recent election and without their consent, it is the NI protocol bill that has the real potential to undermine the GFA and, ultimately, the UK constitution itself.Martin Mc...
...I haven’t used a proper street map in years. But there was a time in my life when you couldn’t find me without some sort of map in my bag or pocket....
...CoN & KwAkE are rapper Confucius MC and Kwake Bass on drums....
...“They didn’t do that back in the day. There were certain clubs that black people couldn’t go to. Dance music broke that down.”...
...And don’t forget, A22 isn’t Uefa’s only competitor for the hearts and minds of clubs....
...Paying homage to MC Hammer’s voluminous trousers, they don fraud-detecting “scammer pants” which inflate when Ant receives a rogue text offering a 90 per cent discount on designer sunglasses....
...“It doesn’t mean that most companies will go in,” Mc Garry cautions. “But you’d be surprised at how many are willing to take such risks.”...
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