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Life in the Flask Lane

Wowee — a hunt ball in upstate New York that’s a match for its booze-sodden English counterparts. Bottoms up, says…

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Idle Thoughts

Ah, there’s nothing like a massive traffic jam on a stretch of the M4 to liberate one’s most tender, wistful…

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When Worlds Collide

Art, architecture and design have always been seen as distant relatives, but now they are kissing cousins, says Anthony Haden-Guest…

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Go Figure

Aesthetes may sniff at the very notion of buying art as an investment, but there’s no denying its potential. Just…

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Cold Snap

Is it the timing, the unfamiliar faces, or the dreadful waffle these people talk? Whatever it is, something about Frieze…

By Alessandro Tome

High Art Goes Hi-Tech

There’s more to digital design than gimmicks and gadgetry — which is why curators and collectors approach it as a…

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Fall in the Mind

Was it the gorgeous autumn weather or the excitement of Fashion Week that brought on my moment of wedding-crashing madness,…

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Dude Looks Like a Lady

What gives the hard-working male executive the edge in these tough times? Plastic surgery, a makeover and a touch of…

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A Spring in his Step

Diaghilev was no simple showman: working with the best composers and visual artists of his day, he took dance into…

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Pussies Galore

Alessandro Tome on plagues of black cats, unprepossessing politicians and other unseemly augurs of ill fortune LA ISLA BLANCA, they…

By Alessandro Tome

Chasing Goldman Sachs

How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street… And Why They’ll Take Us to the Brink Again SUZANNE McGEE…

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A Full Cup

Sir Thomas Lipton’s Extraordinary Life and his Quest for the America’s Cup MICHAEL D’ANTONIO Riverhead, 368pp Review by Peter York…

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Dog Days

Alessandro Tomé growls at the crossbreed coalition that governs this mongrel nation SO IN THE end I wasn’t right. But…

By Alessandro Tome

Highly Strung

Vanessa Neumann meets Philippe Petit — twinkle-toed titan of the tightrope, unreconstructed rebel and barn-building DIY superstar I WAS STAR-STRUCK,…

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Dead End Gene Pool

Dead End Gene Pool: A memoir Wendy Burden Gotham, 288pp Buy Dead End Gene Pool in the Spear’s/Amazon store Review…

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