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• The Insider’s Guide to Luxury in the Coachella Valley

  04-03-2017 21:00
  
  Even if Coachella and Stagecoach aren’t your thing, there are plenty of high-end ways to enjoy the desert this spring…Amanda Millin
  
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• 56-Meter Explorer Yacht from Turquoise Yachts

  04-03-2017 21:00
  
  Turkish shipyard provides greater detail of recently revealed retro explorer-yacht project…Danielle Cutler
  
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• Paris gets Hadid-mania, as Saab and Mugler channel dark, 80s

  04-03-2017 18:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - It was designer Elie Saab's first collection since his coup of dressing Meryl Streep for the Oscars following the actress' high-profile spat with Chanel.The deep blue embellishments of Streep's lauded Oscars gown were picked up again in Saturday's fall-winter Paris show, inspired by the...
  
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• $100,000 Worth of Rare Vintage Concert Posters Are Up for Grabs

  04-03-2017 18:00
  
  The Beatles, Bob Marley, and Barbra Streisand all hit the auction block in this landmark sale…Sheila Gibson Stoodley
  
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• Jetstar Pacific Device Holder

  04-03-2017 13:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You might remember on Random Good Stuff the hack for a barf bag smartphone holder. Now Jetstar Pacific Airlines realized that there is a need for a device holder in front of every seat (Economo Class or not).
  In the video below you’ll notice the little sign, I was like … WHAAAAT device holder. It took me a while to figure it out (sorry, I can be slow at time) but once I did I was thinking why is not every airline has this little tray and clip? It doesn’t cost anything.
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• Minimalism: another boring product wealthy people can buy

  04-03-2017 13:00
  
  Minimalism is just another form of conspicuous consumption, a way of saying to the world: ‘Look at me! Look at all of the things I have refused to buy!’I hate minimalism. I hate it as the incredibly tedious piece of personal performance art it has come to be in our society, but I also hate it as an aesthetic: your white-on-white-on-white life and meticulously crafted wardrobe of only the most wispy products Everlane and Aritzia have to offer are, frankly, a saltine cracker’s id
  
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• 30-a-day habit: the tastier Asian way to variety | 10 veg a day

  04-03-2017 13:00
  
  An Asian approach to variety at mealtimes celebrates flavourful veg in great variety of pickles, small plates and dips. Suddenly 10-a-day doesn’t look so hard ...If you think 10 sounds tricky, consider the fact that Japanese school kids have, since the mid-1980s, had “30 a day” drummed into them. Thirty different foodstuffs – I have friends in their 40s who still occasionally do a daily tally to make sure they’ve hit their target. And the reason this is not a crushi
  
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• Mash Inn, Radnage, Buckinghamshire: hotel review

  04-03-2017 12:00
  
  This pub with rooms is surrounded by Michellin-starred restaurants, but the food here is good enough to rival the famous names – and at a fraction of the priceI went to the Mash Inn with high hopes for dinner. The recently reopened pub makes much of its prime position in foodie country, name-checking illustrious neighbours such as the Hand & Flowers in Marlow, the Fat Duck in Bray and Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Great Milton. Clearly, owner Nick Mash and chef Jon Parry would lo
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: should I make space for my strawberry tree?

  04-03-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has the answerWe planted a strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) in our small garden seven years ago. It is now just over 2m x 2m, and is touching a birch tree on the north side, and a smaller pittosporum to the south. Should we consider getting rid of the pittosporum, and hope to train the tree southwards?
  Arbutus are very easy to prune and respond well to being clipped; I regularly give mine a haircut. I find crown-lifting the canopy to get more light underneath p
  
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• Alys Fowler: top tips for growing rhubarb

  04-03-2017 11:59
  
  It’s a myth that rhubarb can grow in deep shade: it’s a woodland edge plant and some sun makes for the tastiest stems Most of us inherit our rhubarb from the previous gardener or the gardener before that, or even the one before that. A healthy rhubarb plant can live for a very long time. But what is this unknown variety? There’s a good chance it’s ‘Victoria’, the most popular. It has thick cardinal-red stems with green flecking, and the flesh is also tinged re
  
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• Gloria Steinem: ‘I shouldn’t have been a Playboy Bunny – even to write an exposé’

  04-03-2017 10:30
  
  The writer on behaving badly with old lovers, Donald Trump, and the impact Little Women had on herBorn in Ohio, Gloria Steinem, 82, graduated in 1956 and became a writer. By 1972, when she founded Ms magazine, she was known as a political activist and feminist organiser. She is the author of many books and essays, including the bestselling My Life On The Road. Woman, her documentary series about violence against women, will air on Viceland UK on 8 March. She lives in New York.What is your greate
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for celeriac

  04-03-2017 10:00
  
  Celeriac is one of the most versatile of all our winter veg, so get grating, roasting or mashing it nowWith all the actual crises going on in the world right now, I’m not sure how seriously I can take the courgette shortage that has left the spiralising brigade reeling. I’m all for eating vegetables, and certainly wouldn’t wish bad weather on any producer, but there isn’t any need to eat courgettes just now. If we want green things at this time of year, we should be eatin
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the university dropout

  04-03-2017 10:00
  
  Social media is a constant reminder that other people are managing to do something that made me so ill I was forced to walk awayI wish I could tell you what really happened. If you cared, I could explain how I stopped eating and sleeping, about how I’d cry over deadlines and exams while isolating myself from my friends. If you want, we can talk about the antidepressants I now take and the counselling sessions I had in the three months I was away. But that’s not what you wan
  
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• Marriage isn’t for me – but the fight for an alternative is not a civil rights issue

  04-03-2017 10:00
  
  There are excellent arguments for straight civil partnerships, but the claim that heterosexuals are being treated unfairly is not one I can expend energy onI’ve been thinking a lot about equality this week (I work at the Guardian: that’s what we do for kicks round here). But before I get into that, I’d like to talk a little bit about marriage. My parents raised me on MGM musicals and fairytales. While my little sister was the classic tomboy who insisted on wearing dungarees and
  
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• 'I'll go to school on two and a half hours' sleep': why British children aren't sleeping

  04-03-2017 10:00
  
  Doctors are reporting a dramatic increase in children with sleep disorders, which affect their physical and mental health. Why? Plus expert tips on a good night’s restIf Elise Hill is asleep by 10pm, that counts as a success. Her parents have got used to the two-year-old going to bed at 10.30pm, after three and a half hours of trying to get her to sleep. Elise will insist it can’t be bedtime, not yet. She’ll run away, hide, ask to watch TV. She’ll grab the iPad and start
  
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• Beauty: the best new bases | Sali Hughes

  04-03-2017 09:00
  
  In my youth, when I really had no business wearing foundation, full coverage bases were like liquid surgical stockingsI am increasingly drawn to full-coverage foundations, not just because my skin is older, more flawed, less even toned, but because part of me feels that if I’m going to go to the bother of applying proper base (as opposed to smearing on tinted moisturiser), I might as well make it count.In my youth, when I really had no business wearing foundation, full-coverage bases
  
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• Modern tribes: the foodie

  04-03-2017 08:59
  
  Of course normally you’d age the wagyu steak for 48 hours to concentrate the flavour, and it had only done 24 but we thought what the hellSo yum, did you not see my Instagram, look, wagyu steaks? Remember I said I was going to try the Jamie roasted quails with couscous; well can you believe we were out of za’atar? I’d have made my own except try asking the corner shop for sumac, but we were already defrosting the wagyu for later, of course normally you’d age it for 4
  
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• Should I buy travel insurance for European weekend breaks?

  04-03-2017 08:01
  
  Do I need cover beyond my Ehic card, and if so, which policies are worth buying?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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• Women lead the way on a tour of northern India

  04-03-2017 08:00
  
  Being shown the beauty and history of Old Delhi and Agra by women pushing back against traditional gender roles makes a trip to India all the more uplifting – and a fitting salute to next week’s International Women’s Day• Women’s tourism enterprises around the worldAt dawn, the hazy morning light lends Delhi’s Jama Masjid mosque a dreamy, soft-focus quality. One of India’s largest mosques, it can hold 25,000 people, but only a handful of early visitors wa
  
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• Sister acts: women’s tourism enterprises around the world

  04-03-2017 08:00
  
  To celebrate next week’s International Women’s Day, we highlight female-led tour companies and guides who are tapping into tourism to realise their potential
  • A women’s led tour of northern IndiaA new project in the Pamir mountains will soon see the country’s first women guides leading treks. Women rock’in Pamirs is a 10-strong team who are being trained in mountain skills – covering everything from risk management and lighting stoves to navigation and t
  
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• Kopi luwak coffee has undergone what process? The Weekend quiz

  04-03-2017 08:00
  
  From the Black Panthers to Buggles: test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which two non-member states have UN observer status?
  2 What happens to cells during apoptosis?
  3 When would you hit a sliotar with a camán?
  4 Which Booker winner donated half his prize to the British Black Panthers?
  5 Kopi luwak coffee has undergone what process?
  6 What was targeted by the Stuxnet computer virus?
  7 Who did Margaret Thatcher call “that man who paints those dreadful pictures”?
  8 Which
  
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• ‘I want a career rather than a series of jobs’ – our work expert responds

  04-03-2017 08:00
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help a mum returning to work after five years raising a child, and someone who wants to ask for time off for therapyWhen my son was born in 2012 I decided to take an extended break from paid work to look after him. I had been working in environmental education and the role wasn’t very child friendly, and after paying for childcare I wouldn’t be taking much, if anything, home.Continue reading...
  
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• When the cat goes missing, I have an awful sense of fear

  04-03-2017 07:45
  
  Harry is an online dating asset – all my matches like cats. He is also the ersatz fourth member of the familySomething is wrong. “Is Harry in?” I don’t claim a sixth sense but, with no rational reason, I have arrived home and am immediately fearful for Harry, Helen’s humongous Siberian cat. “As we left for Matt’s music lesson, Harry headed into the garden,” replies Helen’s sister Sarah, who helps on Mondays, bringing her siblin
  
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• Family life: My great-aunt, the Resistance heroine, Marvin Gaye’s I Heard it Through the Grapevine and Grandma’s mashed up egg in a cup

  04-03-2017 07:45
  
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes
  This photograph shows my maternal great-grandmother, my grandmother and her siblings. Her husband is probably off laying transatlantic cables. Family legend has it that every time he came home, he gave her another baby and another jewel. Continue reading...
  
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• Ask The Expert: Fort Garry Gate

  04-03-2017 07:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Dear Mike: Can you tell me anything about this article? It’s cast iron, I think, and stands about five inches by 4½ in by 2½ in.My father gave it to me many years ago, long before I was interested in asking him anything about it. I have used it as a bookend ever...
  
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• A letter to … My daughter, who hates me for not being vegan

  04-03-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeWhen you told me you had decided to become a vegan, I was worried. You had always been a fussy eater and I feared that, with such a limited diet, you wouldn’t get the nutrition you needed.But you were over 18, so it was your choice. In addition, you did begin to eat more fruit and vegetables and tried to include the right food and supplements in your diet, so I was, at least partly, appeased. Continue reading...
  
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• Seventeen going on 70: the play that connects the generations

  04-03-2017 07:44
  
  A new play aims to show teenagers and people in their 70s how similar they are. Joanna Moorhead talks to the director and cast about crossing the generational divideMichael Feast and Roger Sloman are on a climbing frame: Sloman is yanking himself up on the bars, and Feast is crawling across the top of it on all-fours. Today was the last day of their A-levels; tonight they are planning to get, in their words, “shit-faced” on the beer they have brought along. It is the e
  
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• In defence of Kellyanne and Ivanka

  04-03-2017 07:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Brace yourselves for a shock, because today I am going to do something I never expected to do — defend key members of Donald Trump’s team.On a typical day, I am forced to defend myself after being deluged with emails from Trump’s fans, who want to make the central point that I
  
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• Football: the bond that lasts longer than many marriages

  04-03-2017 07:15
  
  James Brown has played five-a-side football with the same men for 17 years. But while he often knows nothing about their lives, he says he knows their personalities inside outTomorrow morning at about 10.30am, I’m going to fight my way through a pile of unsorted clean laundry looking for a dark-blue Adidas football sock, shake off the black rubber pellets from my astro-turf football trainers, look under the sink for an empty plastic bottle to fill with tap water and then climb into a mate&
  
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• Why I love the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

  04-03-2017 07:00
  
  Who would have thought that a romantic comedy-drama with original songs would be a canny commentary on the narrow categories we put women in?There are formulae that make sense: 1+1 will (almost) always result in 2; dogs eating peanut butter is always heartwarming. And then there are others that seem to defy basic logic. One such formula is exemplified by one of my favourite TV shows of the moment, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Who would have thought that a romantic comedy-drama with original songs would
  
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• Three veg-based cake recipes to help you eat your 10-a-day | Baking

  04-03-2017 07:00
  
  Vegetable cakes are a sweet and stealthy way to raise your veg quotient. Squashes lend moisture to a delicate crumb, while root veg offer a toothsome structure to spongeGrating and salting the courgette for at least an hour leaches out excess water – the difference between a light and fluffy bake and a heavy and stodgy one. This cake has a delicate crumb and just the right amount of spice. Einkorn flour is an ancient grain with a lovely nuttiness. You could also use spelt, farro or common
  
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• James Cochran EC3: ‘A great chef. But not yet a great restaurateur’ – restaurant review

  04-03-2017 07:00
  
  ‘We’re made to perch at a not-very-congenial bar rather than the restaurant proper and left very much to our own devices. As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman: mistake, big mistake’James Cochran is a great chef. Really: quite, quite remarkable. I’m experiencing actual joy at his hands, at the ministrations of his pork shoulder, braised until it yields to the touch of a fork, but with skin expertly blasted into almost-cracknel so the whole thing comes together like a heav
  
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• Blind date: ‘We talked about giant spider v giant octopus’

  04-03-2017 07:00
  
  Damola, 25, content writer, meets Karen, 28, researcherWhat were you hoping for?A tall brunette with interesting things to say.Continue reading...
  
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• How to live and learn from great loss

  04-03-2017 06:59
  
  Julia Samuel specialises in helping people cope when a loved one dies. Joanna Moorhead finds out how we can stop feeling awkward and uncertain about death – and why we should talk honestly about griefPhil and Annette were on their way to the mortuary when Julia Samuel phoned. Their daughter Amber, aged four, had drowned in a swimming pool, and they were going to see her body. Not many people would have called them at that moment; not many people would have dared to encroach on such ra
  
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• Earliest Jewish manuscript in New World to return to Mexico

  04-03-2017 04:35
  
  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The oldest Jewish document of the New World will be returned to Mexico in March, the Mexican consulate in New York said on Friday, more than seven decades after it disappeared.
  
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• Whiskey of the Week: High West Yippee Ki-Yay Rye

  04-03-2017 02:00
  
  Utah’s top distillery gains ground for increasingly fine spirits…Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• Sudoku Killer 543

  04-03-2017 01:01
  
  Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.
  For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls will cost £1.03 per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at stan
  
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• Sudoku 3687 hard

  04-03-2017 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,609

  04-03-2017 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,136

  04-03-2017 01:00
  
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• Bremont Unveils Its 2017 Watch Collection at Groundbreaking London Event

  04-03-2017 01:00
  
  Bremont goes its own way by ditching Baselworld and hosting its own watch launch event in London…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• When vinyl was king

  04-03-2017 00:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Dave Kornas guesses he was 13 years old the first time he stepped inside Wild Planet, back when the Osborne Village T-shirt shop was located on Portage Avenue, near Garry Street, and dealt almost exclusively in new and used vinyl records, CDs and cassettes.“We drove in from Kenora, where
  
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• Subtle (very) 'gay moment' in new Disney film generates buzz

  04-03-2017 00:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  To be clear: "Brokeback Mountain," this isn't.The so-called "gay moment" in Disney's new live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast" is subtle — so subtle that one could easily miss it with an ill-timed sneeze or glance away from the screen. And it may sail over the heads of young...
  
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