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• Gaga among stars wearing white roses on Grammys red carpet

  28-01-2018 23:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Stars, including Lady Gaga, turned out on the Grammys red carpet Sunday displaying white roses in solidarity with the Time's Up and #MeToo movements against sexual misconduct ......
  
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• White roses top fashion statement on Grammys red carpet

  28-01-2018 21:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Stars turned out on the Grammys red carpet Sunday displaying white roses in solidarity with the Time's Up and #MeToo movements against sexual misconduct ahead of music's ......
  
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• Prehab – the humble warm-up gets a makeover

  28-01-2018 16:00
  How do you prepare for your intense workout class? The fitness industry has an answer! Sign up for another, less intense workout class …In some circles, “prehab” means preparing for overindulgence on a colossal scale – a mega-bender before a voluntary stint of detox. But the word has been co-opted by the fitness industry to describe one of the hot-to-trot workout trends of 2018: a session of sensible limbering up before you pig out on pullups and kettlebell reps –
  
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• Model Charli Howard: ‘They told me I was fat’

  28-01-2018 11:00
  Charli Howard knew all about the ugly side of modelling. Then one day she decided she’d had enough. The body-positive activist reveals why she had to stand up to the fashion industryIt started with a pair of leather trousers. Charli Howard was 23, and had just returned from a shoot in Stockholm when she got a call from her agent. It was 2015; she’d been modelling for six years, and starving herself for 10. “We’ve had a chat,” the booker said, carefully, “and w
  
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• Essex rediscovered: ghosts and falcons on a rural ride

  28-01-2018 11:00
  A cycle through countryside, on the trail of a great nature writer and the elusive peregrine falcon, offers fresh insights into Essex’s ‘dark mystery’ • Plus: 5 UK birdwatching safarisI have never been any good at spotting peregrines. I don’t have the knack. I consistently fail to see them amid flocks of panicking waders on the estuary, so I don’t fancy my chances as I pedal downhill from Danbury village on the outskirts of Chelmsford. The plan is to follow the
  
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• Why isn’t our rusting Dacia Duster suitable for the UK?

  28-01-2018 09:35
  It was made in India and we can’t get it changed for one manufactured in RomaniaWe bought a new Dacia Duster car in 2013 and, one year later, it was subject to a paint recall for surface rust. The fix, we were promised, was a robust one – once treated, the car wouldn’t require further work.Since the first recall, it has been treated for rust every year since, sometimes twice in the same year, and this year it will be three times. Often they re-treat the same areas, the rust hav
  
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• Dazzled by Detroit: how Motown got its groove back

  28-01-2018 08:00
  The Motor City is finding its rhythm again with a cultural scene that embraces home-grown talent, a deluge of new bars and restaurants – and a love of live music that’s timelessThey have a saying down here, in southern Michigan: “Nothing stops Detroit.” It’s a good moniker for the city. Beaten down, bankrupt, riddled with crime, Detroit was, for many years, the butt of a joke. Not any more. Recently voted by Lonely Planet as one of the hottest cities to visit in 201
  
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• Nigel Slater’s unplanned supper recipes

  28-01-2018 07:00
  Off the cuff meals from an almost empty larder can be a surprising treatA humble supper for a cold night. That was all I asked, all I needed. There were onions in the house, pearl barley in the cupboard and the usual mustard, garlic and a bunch of thyme. There were also a few vegetables that needing using up: a brown paper bag of mushrooms and a carton of cream (bought for soup which was never made) and a leek left over from heaven knows when, but which seemed fit enough. A challenge, then. I en
  
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• My friend’s husband gave me flowers, then asked me not to tell her | Mariella Frostrup

  28-01-2018 07:00
  Don’t make too much of it unless he makes a further move on you. Mariella Frostrup advises a woman who questioning a husband’s attentionThe dilemma While I was off work recently with a chest infection, my friend’s husband emailed me with the contact details of a builder I’d asked him to recommend, and I mentioned I was ill. On his way home that evening he dropped off a bunch of flowers. It wasn’t an expensive bunch and he didn’t come into the house, just hande
  
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• Lullaby, the book of the moment, is a wake-up call for us all

  28-01-2018 07:00
  Leila Slimani’s troubling tale of infanticide is a portrait of desperate lonelinessI have just read that novel, the one that’s been translated into 18 languages with 17 more to come, the first line detailing the murder of two children at the hands of their nanny: “The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.” If you are a certain kind of person, you will have heard about this book. If you are a certain kind of person that finds nature overwhelming, and suspense addictive
  
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• I refuse to let cancer deprive my sons of their mother

  28-01-2018 07:00
  Having been orphaned herself, Genevieve Fox’s desire to look after herself when she became ill was matched only by her urge to look after her own childrenAs my husband and I approach the UCH Macmillan Centre for the results of the biopsy for a lump in my neck, I wonder if I’ll have a single malt at the pub afterwards, or a warming whisky mac. Richard, usually a decorous drinker, has suggested the stiff drink before we head home for the Secret Santa party we’re hosting later on.
  
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• How to live well: Judith Kerr’s reasons to be cheerful

  28-01-2018 07:00
  The children’s author on the delights of living to 94, walking along the river and not watching rubbish TVI don’t have any secrets to living this long. I’m just lucky. Walking has helped - it cheers me up. After my husband Tom died, I had friends who were kind, but life was very empty. You can watch rubbish on the telly if there are two of you, but it’s so difficult to watch rubbish on your own.Now I walk along the river, often after supper when I’ve finished my wor
  
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• Grow tiny chillies to add heat to the chilliest days

  28-01-2018 07:00
  Kick off the growing season early with small-fruited and intensely flavoured pickling chillisJanuary means one thing to me: the start of the chilli growing season. After months of waiting, finally there’s a chance to spark something new into life. While most vegetables won’t be sown for a good couple of months, these slow-growing, tropical understorey crops need a long season to fruit well – so now is a great time to get your seed orders in. If you are looking for something new
  
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• Fear and loathing on the last train home | Nikesh Shukla

  28-01-2018 07:00
  Heading back to Bristol at the end of a long day, Nikesh finds himself sharing a carriage with three men who make it very clear what they think about him…It’s late and I’m on a train back to Bristol. I’ve just done a talk about a book I worked on, about race and immigration and I’m wearing the name of the book – The Good Immigrant – across my sweatshirt.It’s late and I’ve spent the evening talking at people, so I’ve bought myself a bur
  
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• Edo, Belfast: ‘Go there for the wood-fired oven’ – restaurant review

  28-01-2018 07:00
  The region’s finest cuts of meat sumptuously roasted make Edo stand out in a vibrant restaurant sectorA few hours before I ate at this week’s restaurant in Belfast, I stopped off at Hannan Meats, in Moira, 30 minutes’ drive southwest of the city. Last year their beef, aged in a room lined with glittering bricks of pink Himalayan salt, was named Supreme Champion in the Great Taste Awards for the second time. It’s a serious achievement, but not necessarily a surprising one
  
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• Colour explosion in Nicaragua

  28-01-2018 07:00
  The streets of Granada are a polychromatic paradise – and you’ll need a bright lipstick to matchI’m writing this on holiday in Granada, Nicaragua, where the streets pop with so much colour that my eyes feel like they’re bursting. Each building is boldly painted in the most potent colours I have ever seen: deep Caribbean sea turquoises and blood orange reds, Caramac-wrapper mustards paired with satisfying raw cocoa browns, or dreamy unicorn lilacs and sunflower yellows.Why
  
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• Bondi Harvest's cauliflower steak with beetroot hummus recipe

  28-01-2018 03:39
  The clean-living chefs’ new cookbook is filled with healthy and delicious versions of family-friendly recipesThe more I cook and experiment with cauliflower, the more I fall in love with it. This white, brainy-looking flavour sponge just keeps on delivering the goods. Cut your cauliflower into a cross-section, then grill it like you would a regular steak. The flavour and texture are divine.Related: Bondi Harvest's beetroot lentil burger recipeContinue reading...
  
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