The real festivities start on Christmas morning with champagne and smoked salmon. After the King’s or Queen’s annual Christmas speech, it’s time for the main meal, typically including a turkey or roast beef accompanied by various side dishes. France ...
Cover illustration: "The Queen's Return from the Highlands: Her Majesty Crossing Tay Bridge, Dundee, "Illustrated London News, 1879. Reprinted courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library. Collaged with 19th century printing of an airship."--Publisher's website.Byerly...
In 1802, my friends expressed the desire to sing in the chapel of the Quinze-Vingts. I brought together all your old students… I showed them with some difficulty the bass part of the mass we used to sing. That wasn’t all; many of my old schoolfellows were not at the Quinze-Vingt...
I still marvel at the delicate design of Queen Anne’s Lace as it stands stoic beside red clover. A grasshopper leaps ahead of me, dodging my every step. He has nothing to fear but I cannot resist the urge to pull apart a milkweed. The same silky threads still comfort me. I roll ...
“You have got an angel.” Thus was taken in a dark séance room, on a tintype, in three seconds, a picture which, for grace, beauty and loveliness, was never equaled by ancient or modern art. After the picture was taken the form came to the front of the platform and shook hands...
he was riding the Queen Mary to France as an assistant for a firm called Joe and Junior (they specialised in styles for teenagers) to sketch the couture collections in Paris. “I was so frightened that I fell down the steps of the first-class dining room right into the Crêpes Suzettes...
The Daniels are the third (credited) director pair to direct a best-picture winner, after the duos behind No Country for Old Men and the 1961 West Side Story.“A lot of the time when you’re starting off, you want to create timeless art, but that’s actually a terrible trap,” Kwan...
So here’s a picture of Michael Praed for you. You’re welcome. Note: Dark and delicious is fine, but I’m not really into bad-boy types unless they have some redeeming feature. Life’s too short to fall in love with a bastard. ...
THE BIGGER PICTURE Lil Baby SAVAGE - WINNER Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyoncé DIOR Pop Smoke 23. Best Melodic Rap Performance For a solo or collaborative performance containing both elements of R&B melodies and Rap. ROCKSTAR DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch ...
At first glance, this melodramatic noir is a gorgeous period picture, echoing the vintage visuals of Tom Ford’s “A Single Man” and Todd Haynes’“Far From Heaven” and “Carol.” Given this movie’s origins as a Patricia Highsmith novel like Haynes’ most recent work, that early impress...