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• Drink a $164 Dram of Rare Bourbon at This New NYC Bar

  21-01-2017 21:00
  
  Fine and Rare Bar
  Fine & Rare opens in New York as an ode to rare and amber spirits...Tony Sachs
  
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• Whisky of the Week: Craigellachie 17-Year-Old Single Malt

  21-01-2017 20:00
  
  Craigellachie 17-Year-Old Single MaltThe only thing more fun than saying the name of this Speyside whisky is sipping it…Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• Boy George talks politics at Paris menswear, Dior goes dark

  21-01-2017 18:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - Music maestro Boy George got political at Paris Fashion Week as Dior Homme went to the dark side, creating a hard, brooding fall-winter collection. Here are the highlights of Saturday's menswear shows.DIOR PULLS IN THE STARS, BOY GEORGE DEFENDS MELANIAA demure and relaxed Paris...
  
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• Melania Trump channels Jackie Kennedy but Conway grabs fashion headlines

  21-01-2017 17:20
  
  (Reuters) - New U.S. first lady Melania Trump channeled style icon Jacqueline Kennedy on Friday but the Inauguration Day fashion headlines were stolen by a military-style coat worn by one of her...
  
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• Johnson & Wales culinary arts museum to close to the public

  21-01-2017 16:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Johnson & Wales University is permanently closing its culinary arts museum to the public.The university announced Thursday that the closure will take effect Feb. 27. It is continuing to digitize the museum's holdings for research and viewing online .The museum opened in...
  
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• Ben Ainslie: ‘A lot of espionage goes into the America’s Cup’

  21-01-2017 15:00
  
  The sailor, 39, on challenges, luck, getting bullied as a kid and winning four gold medals at the OlympicsWe all need strokes of luck and my first big one was my parents moving from Cheshire to Cornwall when I was young. Living there gave me a passion for sailing that has defined my life.I was a bit Jekyll and Hyde when I was younger. Very shy on land and then when I was out on the water I could really express myself. These days, I hope I am the same man on and off the water. Continue reading...
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: why hasn’t my potted myrtle flowered?

  21-01-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has the answerI was given a common myrtle bush in a pot about a year ago. It seems to be flourishing, but has not flowered. I put bubble wrap around its base last winter and kept it outside on the steps. Myrtle (Myrtus communis), hails from hot Mediterranean hillsides and woodlands, where it survives droughts and toughs it out over exposed windy winters – or at least that’s my experience of the wild myrtle I’ve seen in Ischia, Naples.Like all Mediterranean
  
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• Can You Get Sick From Masturbation?

  21-01-2017 11:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, if you believe what you read in this book, first published in 1760, then yes, you can get sick from masturbation. Well the true answer though is no (and nope the earth is not flat either), otherwise humanity would be all diseased and irradiated. Nope, no more humans left because they masturbated too much.
  There are probably some cases where masturbation goes too far, for example of compulsive masturbation and such. I would say to some extend it’s even healthy for body, soul and socie
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the depressed new dad

  21-01-2017 10:00
  
  I’d never want to hurt you, son, but I was terrified by the thoughts I had You are supposed to be our future, a new chapter in the story of our lives, but I can’t help resenting you. Only a few weeks old, you’re demanding and unreasoning and I’m struggling to see the good that you bring.To start with, we got on with it, settling into a routine as we stumbled through nappies and nights when you wouldn’t settle, but it started to wear me down. You hear about mothers w
  
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• Modern tribes: the password bore

  21-01-2017 09:00
  
  Cybersecurity 101, if you can remember all your passwords either you haven’t got enough or they’re too easyOh please, can you believe Hillary Clinton, seriously, what kind of loser goes in for that level of data housekeeping? Fine, I know you liked her, but if you ask me, there are two kinds of people in this world: people who take their online security seriously, and ancient, technologically illiterate throwbacks who deserve only our pity. Well, can you imagine her picking her nucle
  
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• Beauty: luxury makeup at factory prices | Sali Hughes

  21-01-2017 09:00
  
  When I first heard about Beauty Pie, I momentarily dismissed it as yet another beauty box company, with sexier branding. Pleasingly, it’s nothing of the sortSubscription services, whereby beauty lovers pay £10-£20 a month for a box of full- or trial-size products – ostensibly bespoke but apparently random in selection – have become a huge success in recent years. I understand the appeal of receiving regular beauty parcels, and have tried to get onboard, but giving u
  
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• A place in the country: meet the new woodlanders

  21-01-2017 09:00
  
  If you go down to the woods today... you might find a school, a photographer’s studio, or a carpenter’s workshop. Britain’s forests are getting a new lease of lifeIn the stillness of autumn, the only sound on the old Saxon road is the gentle tapping of beech nuts falling on a carpet of terracotta-coloured leaves. “You must meet Robert Cunningham – he’s tremendous,” says Kathy Harris, pausing to touch the huge trunk of a venerable beech tree. Harris knows
  
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• Would a white carpet be a disaster?

  21-01-2017 08:00
  
  Anyone have experience of one – surely it will end in stains and tears?Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• What did a former yacht showroom in Manchester become? The Weekend quiz

  21-01-2017 08:00
  
  From a death foretold to a hairy-eared dwarf, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What did a former yacht showroom on Whitworth Street in Manchester become?
  2 Who “foresees his death” in a poem by Yeats?
  3 Which radio quiz turns 70 this year?
  4 What is the only fan-owned major league sports team in the US?
  5 Which invasive plant has the botanical name Fallopia japonica?
  6 Which orchestra’s home is the Musikverein?
  7 What anti-hunting group was founded in 1924?
  8 Which Tr
  
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• The affair that saved our marriage

  21-01-2017 07:45
  
  Tal Araim’s affair brought his 16-year marriage to Samara to the brink. But four years later, they are still together and closer than ever – how did they survive? Anna Moore finds outIf any couple can be credited with pulling their marriage back from the brink, it’s surely Tal and Samara Araim. After 16 years and with two children together, Tal embarked on an all-consuming affair with one of Samara’s closest friends. It lasted two years, until Samara’s “oh-my-
  
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• I might be feeling the urge to nest but there’s no way I’ll do DIY

  21-01-2017 07:45
  
  A trip to the door shop sparks flashbacks of the undertaker’s, but I’m sure updating and improving the house will be worth it – I’m not sure what is to come but I’ll be readyIt’s only 11am on Monday morning and already it seems like a very long week. Sales specialist Brenda puts down her pen: “OK, that’s the doors ordered.” I pull out my payment card, only for her to glance coldly at it. “Good, now we look at handles!” She slams a
  
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• It's not easy being a sensitive dad

  21-01-2017 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  When I was growing up, parenting was a piece of cake.I base that observation on my own dad, who solved every potential parental crisis, even if it was emotional or spiritual, by wrapping it in duct tape, then ignoring it.It’s far more complicated today, because we modern fathers are...
  
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• An illuminating appraisal

  21-01-2017 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Dear Mike,I own this cast iron ship lamp that belonged to my husband’s late family. We have kept it for over 55 years.I do not know the original date these may have been made. There is a sticker on it that appears to say 1903 from Ontario Hydro.It weighs 6.2 pounds, and has its original cord
  
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• A letter to … My estranged daughter, who doesn’t want to talk to me

  21-01-2017 07:30
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI remember the night you were born. I stumbled into the maternity ward long after hours and demanded to see you. I was 16 and out of my mind on drugs and myself. Your mother tried to stop the nurse handing you to me but I held you in my arms briefly before heading back into the night, your stare still reverberating through the opiate haze. I never wanted a baby; I was a baby. But there you were. A baby.I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I saw
  
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• Six reasons why sleeping in separate beds can be a good idea

  21-01-2017 07:29
  
  Sleeping alone from time to time to avoid snoring, a young child in your bed and duvet hogging is a total luxuryYou have a young child. My name is Stuart Heritage, and sometimes I sleep in a different room from my wife. This isn’t altogether uncommon – it’s estimated that anything up to 40% of couples will do it at some point – but it’s still a taboo subject. Here’s why I do it: we have a two-year-old. At some point in the night, more often than not, he will e
  
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• Why I love... author Nicola Yoon

  21-01-2017 07:00
  
  Yoon’s award-winning debut novel, Everything, Everything, will be on the big screen this summerI’ve occasionally gone on TV and movie fasts, usually to course-correct after overindulging in too many screen-based activities. But books are a constant and during no period of my life was I more immersed in books than as a teenager. “Young Adult” or YA fiction ruled my life, and it still does, sort of.At the moment, no one is ruling my YA habit more than Ja
  
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• Donor siblings: do the ties of blood matter?

  21-01-2017 07:00
  
  Alice Jolly’s daughter was born as a result of donor conception and carried by a surrogate. In the years to come, will she be troubled by her origins? Genetics are only one part of the story – isn’t it more interesting to look forward?I am in the park with my friend Sarah. I first met Sarah because we both have daughters who were born as a result of donor conception. Now my daughter, Hope, often plays with Sarah’s daughter, Molly. As we watch them on the climbing frame, S
  
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• Claire Ptak’s recipes for Dutch babies and American popovers | Baking

  21-01-2017 07:00
  
  Add a few extra ingredients or change your cooking method and a simple batter can flip the end result from savoury – as in these American popovers – to sweet, like lemony, puffy Dutch babiesBatter is a wonderful thing. Baked, griddled or fried, it can be transformed into dramatically different forms. From crepes and pancakes to Yorkshire puddings and American popovers, the ingredients change very little, but the methods of cooking, and the order in which you incorporate the ingredien
  
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• Blind date: ‘He told one very inappropriate joke’

  21-01-2017 07:00
  
  Myles, 25, paralegal, meets Oliver, 28, partnerships managerWhat were you hoping for?
  To meet someone new and a bit different.Continue reading...
  
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• Tim Dowling: ‘I’m leaving you,’ my wife says. ‘I’ve had enough’

  21-01-2017 06:59
  
  When I wake up the next morning, I decide not to mention our impending divorce, in case my wife has forgotten all about itMy wife and I are going to see our friend Juliet’s one-woman show about divorce. When we get to the theatre, my wife points to the ticket window. “Just say we’re on the guest list,” she says. “I’m going to the loo.”I approach the ticket window, but there is no one behind the glass, just an empty chair. I stand there stupidly for a few
  
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• 10 Luxury Hotels with World-Class Art Collections

  21-01-2017 04:56
  
  From Dalí in the lobby to Picasso in the bar, these hotel art collections are giving museums a run for their money…Barbara Wysocki
  
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• 6 Capital Bars to Celebrate the Inauguration (or Drown Your Sorrows)

  21-01-2017 02:13
  
  Raise a glass in the nation’s capital this weekend at one of these preeminent bars…Dan Dunn
  
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• 5 D.C. Dining Destinations to Hit This Weekend

  21-01-2017 02:00
  
  Washington, D.C., has one of the country’s hottest culinary scenes. Here are our editor’s picks…Janice O’Leary
  
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• Floyd Mayweather’s Bugatti Veyron to Be a Big Hit at Barrett-Jackson Auction

  21-01-2017 01:28
  
  A 2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport formerly owned by Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  Once owned by the famed fighter, the 1,000 hp supercar has only 1,668 miles so far…Viju Mathew
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,100

  21-01-2017 01:00
  
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