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• Editor’s Picks: Our Favorite Lots at the Upcoming Phillips Geneva Watch Auction: FIVE

  23-04-2017 23:00
  
  Here’s where the smart money should be spent at one of Geneva’s biggest watch auctions of 2017…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Arts collective buys manufacturing plant to create exhibits

  23-04-2017 22:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. - A plant formerly owned by a mining and construction equipment company in Santa Fe will become space for arts production company Meow Wolf to help create its exhibits as it seeks to expand nationwide.The arts collective bought the former Caterpillar facility where workers...
  
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• Pininfarina’s Fittipaldi EF7 VGT Track Car Comes with Lessons from a Legend

  23-04-2017 22:00
  
  The coachbuilder teamed with renowned racer Emerson Fittipaldi to create the carbon-fiber competitor… Viju Mathew
  
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• Dolls, teddy bears return to eastern Mosul after Islamic State

  23-04-2017 21:55
  
  MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Toy shops are thriving in eastern Mosul, with Iraqi children once again able to buy dolls, teddy bears or action figures after Islamic State was driven out of the area.
  
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• Experience Rosé Like Never Before with This New Riedel Wine Glass

  23-04-2017 20:00
  
  An exquisite new way to enjoy rosé, just in time for summer… Experience Rosé Like Never Before with This New Riedel Wine Glass
  
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• Embrace the Caribbean Lifestyle by Buying a Beach House on Anguilla

  23-04-2017 19:00
  
  This eight-bedroom home is currently on the market for $14.5 million…Rebekah Bell
  
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• This San Francisco Gallery’s New Home May Be Best Described as a Mini-Museum

  23-04-2017 18:00
  
  Photo by Buce Damonte
  The newly designed space south of Market holds Berggruen Gallery’s Matisses, Picassos, and more…Scarlet Cheng
  
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• Saskatchewan move to cut funeral service for poor is dehumanizing: advocate

  23-04-2017 16:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  REGINA - By all accounts, Robert had a tough life that included a struggle with addictions, poverty and homelessness.But when he went to Carmichael Outreach in Regina, he knew everybody's names and took time to learn something about each person.Tyler Gray, who works at the charity, said when...
  
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• Tony Gwynn Jr. follows dad in brewing as well as baseball

  23-04-2017 15:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN DIEGO - Wearing safety goggles and glancing at his watch, Tony Gwynn Jr. waits for the right moment to add hops to a kettle of boiling water and malted barley as he tweaks his craft beer recipe on a two-keg system dwarfed by giant tanks at AleSmith Brewing Co.Gwynn followed in the footsteps
  
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• Mr Fu's fabulous Hong Kong pudding shop

  23-04-2017 13:00
  
  Venerable sweet shop Kwan Kee makes cakes and puddings from scratch every day, winning the Kowloon takeaway recognition from Michelin
  • Hong Kong shopping guideKwan Kee snack store has been selling sweets on a busy corner of Fuk Wa street, in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, since the 1960s. Owner Fu Wing-Cheung named the shop after his father, Fu Kwan, who sold sweets at a street stall when Fu was a child. The shop is known for sweet snacks: rice-flour pudding, steamed egg
  
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• Grayson Perry: ‘As an artist I find Brexit exciting. No doubt it will be a disaster’

  23-04-2017 13:00
  
  Britain’s finest transvestite potter is hard at work exploring the nature of masculinity. Over a game platter near his London home, he discusses motorbikes, body image and moreFor a while, perhaps all his life, Grayson Perry has been making a study of what it means to be a man. So, what do two blokes nursing a beer in the corner of a pub talk about of a Tuesday lunchtime? The topics of conversation with Britain’s greatest ever transvestite potter-cum-tapestry-maker kick off as follow
  
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• Can’t afford the finest wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux? Try these instead

  23-04-2017 13:00
  
  First growths and grands crus have become status markers for the supremely wealthy. But outstanding value is still available – if you know where to lookThere was a time, and it’s really not all that long ago, when the finest wines available to humanitywere just about within reach of ordinary mortals. Sure, Bordeaux’s first growths and the great grand crus of Burgundy have always been more expensive than other bottles. But not that much more. Not never-in-your-wildest-dreams, fo
  
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• Zoe Adjonyoh: ‘My only access to Ghana was the food’

  23-04-2017 12:00
  
  The Brixton-based chef behind Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen rediscovered her heritage through cooking. Here she talks family, food and identity – and shares two recipes from her new cookbookZoe Adjonyoh’s dad gave her precisely one cooking lesson, when she was 10 years old. “How do you know when it’s done?” she asked, straining to catch a glimpse of the stove. Zoe liked to hover close to him when he cooked, enthralled by the sights and smells of the Ghanaian ingredients
  
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• Five of the best sports watches

  23-04-2017 10:30
  
  Inspired by the London Marathon? A running watch – with GPS, distance tracking and health and fitness stats – is a great way to monitor your progressTomTom’s Runner 3 is waterproof to 40m and comes in four versions with different features. I opted for the top-of-the-line Runner 3 Cardio + Music with GPS, heart rate and built-in music playback. Continue reading...
  
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• Intersex and proud: model Hanne Gaby Odiele on finally celebrating her body

  23-04-2017 10:00
  
  When the Belgian model revealed she was intersex earlier this year, she gave voice to something she’d always been told to hide. Here, the face of Balenciaga talks about knowing she was differentLike many models, Hanne Gaby Odiele has a lovely limber angularity. Sitting in a Manhattan restaurant booth she seems to open and close like an umbrella, expanding when she’s in full flow, folding up when she’s mulling something over. Folded up and closed off was how she felt for a long
  
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• Feel the burn: why do we love chilli?

  23-04-2017 10:00
  
  It’s not just about the flavour – or even the pain. In this extract from his new book, Bob Holmes uncovers the pharmacology and psychology behind humanity’s heat-seeking desireI’ve been procrastinating. On my dining room table I have lined up three hot peppers: one habanero, flame-orange and lantern-shaped; one skinny little Thai bird’s eye chilli; and one relatively innocuous jalapeño, looking by comparison like a big green zeppelin. My mission, should I cho
  
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• Nathan Outlaw: Family-friendly recipes from the Michelin-starred chef

  23-04-2017 09:00
  
  At his Port Isaac base, the chef discusses his far-flung restaurant empire and introduces foolproof dishes from his new Home Kitchen cookbook – including sticky toffee pudding and pork chops with broad beansNathan Outlaw admits that he only really has three passions in life: his restaurants, cookery books (he has a library of many hundreds) and music (likewise, mostly vinyl). So when he started to put together his latest cookbook, which, unusually for a chef, he writes, styles and recipe-t
  
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• Jessa Crispin: ‘Today’s feminists are bland, shallow and lazy’ | Rachel Cooke

  23-04-2017 08:05
  
  Rachel Cooke talks to Jessa Crispin about her incendiary new book, Why I Am Not a FeministIn her slender but merciless new book, Jessa Crispin pours petrol over pretty much the entire surface of 21st-century feminism, and then gleefully sets it alight. Boom! Up it goes, leaving behind only scorched earth. What she hopes will grow in its place isn’t completely clear. “I know! I know!” she wails, when I tell her she offers more questions than answers. But having no desire to be a
  
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• Concrete thinking's in fashion at Brussels' brutalist Jam Hotel

  23-04-2017 08:00
  
  Budget hotels always offer basic, boxy rooms, but not many are as creative as this alternative gem in the Belgian capitalBrussels is a city of grand townhouses and art nouveau. Yet plonked in the middle of the Belgian capital, on a nondescript street corner, has appeared a hotel that looks like downtown LA had it been swallowed by lava. An old 1970s art college has been redesigned and rebuilt, by people who usually make film sets, to become the oddest, most fashionable, most affordable stopover
  
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• The eco guide to fast fashion | Lucy Siegle

  23-04-2017 07:00
  
  Reforms are under way but not enough has been done to end poverty wages in the garment industryTomorrow is the anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza catastrophe, in which 1,134 garment workers in Bangladesh were killed when their factory collapsed. The workers died in the overcrowded and poorly constructed building while working to meet our demands for fast fashion.Across the world conscious consumers will join fashionrevolution.org – a vibrant global civil movement focused on cleaning up the
  
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• The day I brought a martini to Courtney Love

  23-04-2017 07:00
  
  In a London hotel, the singer and actor, something of a free spirit, rings down for a drink…I have been quite fortunate in that I have always developed a sort of friendship and trust with the celebrities who came to stay at the Lanesborough Hotel. I was lucky enough to meet a few stars during my time as a bartender there: Courtney Love, Val Kilmer and Kevin Spacey, just to name a few.Courtney started to come to the Lanesborough around 2000, I can’t remember exactly when. She would c
  
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• Nigel Slater’s gyoza recipes

  23-04-2017 07:00
  
  Bursting with flavour, gyoza are so moreish that Nigel, fresh from a trip to Japan, just has to make some of his ownThe guy at the counter is unfazed by my request for a third batch of gyoza, the plump pouches of porcine joy he’s been cooking all evening and, for all I know, his entire life. The seats are uncomfortable, his kitchen could do with a damn good scrub and I invariably burn my mouth on the blistering little parcels, but I return time and again to this Formica counter in Fukuoka,
  
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• Living with history in Simon Carter's home

  23-04-2017 07:00
  
  Menswear designer Simon Carter’s south London home is bursting with old stories
  Simon Carter is recounting the history of his collection of mid-century glass which glows ruby red in the spring sunshine. “All the pieces are made by Whitefriars. I find the company fascinating because there’s something quintessentially English about its rise and fall. It began in 1717 and by the mid-20th century they were producing thousands of designs. But when cheaper imports started to flood th
  
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• It’s time to see things differently… to improve your life | Beau Lotto

  23-04-2017 07:00
  
  Our brains evolved to make sense of uncertainties, so there’s no need to fear doubtWhen you open your eyes, do you see the world as it really is? Humans have been asking themselves this for thousands of years. From the shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave in The Republic to Morpheus offering Neo the red or the blue pill in The Matrix, the notion that what we see might not be what is truly there has troubled and tantalised us.In the 18th century, the philosopher Immanuel Kant argued th
  
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• I’m concerned that my children are no longer employable

  23-04-2017 07:00
  
  Mariella Frostrup advises a mother how to stop her adult children living off the fruits of her labourThe dilemma My ex-husband and I have always encouraged our children to pursue their talents and dreams. We supported their learning throughout school and university; we have never pressured them towards any particular career and have always encouraged extracurricular activities.Following in their father’s footsteps, they have now acquired two buy-to-let properties. The rental yield has been
  
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• Everyone feels like an outsider. It’s not just you… | Eva Wiseman

  23-04-2017 07:00
  
  The minute you realise that every single other comfortable-looking person is trying just as hard as you are to belong, you’ll find yourself free to do as you wishOne of the most humiliating experiences of my working life was when I went to interview my hero, John Waters. I was wearing my favourite dress, and he approached with a blank smile, saying: “You’re here to meet me. I could tell by your outfit.” That cold wind of shame as I remembered I was not unique, that I was
  
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• Claude Bosi at Bibendum: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  23-04-2017 07:00
  
  Yes it’s expensive and the wine list is far too long, but the reborn Bibendum is everything a great place should be81 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London SW3 6RD (020 7581 5817). Meal for two, including wine and service: £180The best restaurants have a special, unforced ingredient. At Bibendum, it’s the sunlight. On a clear spring day, the vaulting first floor space with its stained-glass window of the Michelin Man in shades of sapphire feels like a room where only good things happen.
  
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• 6 Blended Scotch Whiskies That Will Delight Single Malt Drinkers

  23-04-2017 01:00
  
  These blends of rare old malt and grain whiskies elevate the art of blending to new heights…Tony Sachs
  
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• 10 Hybrid Superyachts for Earth Day

  23-04-2017 00:00
  
  Using a combination of diesel and electric power, these yachts help save the environment…Rebekah Bell
  
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