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• Churches reborn as stores, cabarets, cheese plants

  19-08-2018 21:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Night peering through the stained-glass windows, the dancer preens like a burlesque black swan at what was once the Mackenzie Memorial Gospel Church in Stratford, Ont.It's the SIN Burlesque Erotic ...
  
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• Food for thoughts: you don't have to eat like every meal is your last

  19-08-2018 20:00
  Eating for a living may be a dream job for a lucky few, but something’s got to give if you’re doing it all day, every day OK, so it’s not terrible having a vocation that people respond to with: “You’re so lucky, you have the best job in the world.”It’s literally my job to eat as widely as possible so I can write about the food world. From street food stands to the world’s fanciest food temples, there’s nothing I won’t eat and, in the wo
  
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• Fast food chains look to capitalize on vegetarian, vegan trend with new items

  19-08-2018 17:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The once meat-dominated world of fast-food and casual restaurants is starting to cater to the one-in-ten Canadian diners who identify as vegetarian or vegan by adding an increasing array of ......
  
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• Online socks seller Bombas mixes commerce and charity

  19-08-2018 17:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - David Heath co-founded online socks company Bombas not because of an overwhelming desire to make a comfortable sock, but after realizing that they were the No. 1 ...
  
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• Church-flipping: chapels reborn as cabarets, cheese plants and rock-star shrines

  19-08-2018 15:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Night peering through the stained-glass windows, the dancer preens like a burlesque black swan at what was once the Mackenzie Memorial Gospel Church in Stratford, Ont.It's the SIN Burlesque Erotic ......
  
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• How the gap year became a 'gap month' – and the best ways to spend it

  19-08-2018 15:00
  A year abroad between A-levels and university is now a thing of the past. Instead, frugal would-be students are saving up for a life-enhancing month away
  Who remembers the viral skit Gap Yah? Probably not Generation Z, which will be too young to remember it. Gap Yah (“I’m literally in Burma”) took aim at posh kids called Tarquin who went on “spiritual, cultural, political exchange things”. This was back (eight years ago!) when making fun of Old Etonians was as vicio
  
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• 12 Living Room Rug Ideas That Will Change Everything

  19-08-2018 14:00
  A modern pattern with accents of black and gold jazz up a neutral living room rug. Image:Rejuvenation We’re always interested in easy ways to rev up living room decor. If you can only add one item to make a big impact in your space, an area rug is an excellent choice. The right living room rug can pull all of your accent colors together, add pattern to a neutral color palette or soften hard edges in a contemporary room. 5 things to consider when choosing a new living room rugSize: Make sur
  
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• Wild at heart: six recipes from River Cottage’s Gill Meller

  19-08-2018 12:30
  Roast artichokes and fennel mayo, crayfish salad with radishes, plum and almond tart – delicious dishes from Gill Meller’s new cookbook TimeMaking time to cook has become one of the most important things I do in my life. When we stop for a moment and do it, even in the simplest sense, it makes us feel good inside. Not only does it nourish our bodies and sustain our minds, but it’s vital for our happiness and wellbeing. Cooking has opened my eyes to change. I feel closer to my p
  
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• Grand Dishes: the kitchen stories of our grandmothers

  19-08-2018 12:30
  Meet the stars of an award-winning project celebrating the lives and recipes of the true heroes of family cooking“She cooks like no one else I know,” says Anastasia Miari of her grandmother, whose name is also Anastasia Miari (her grandchildren call her Yiayia – the Greek for granny) and who lives by herself in a tiny house in Corfu. “She’s pretty ferocious, but she cooks the most phenomenal food over an open fire, aged 80, and really shows her love for me and the r
  
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• Wild sea kayaking adventure in Sweden

  19-08-2018 12:00
  On the third leg of his Scandi trip, Kevin Rushby and son kayak the fjords of a huge archipelago, camp on magical islands – and meet not a single other person
  • Scandi tour: part 2, part 1We round the headland and see the island for the first time: a distant ridge of bare granite with a lighthouse on one end. At the same time we hit the swell and the wind sizzles spray off the wave tops, whipping it into our faces as we drive the kayaks forward. For a moment I wonder if this island mi
  
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• Taste Test: from vegetable crisps to guacamole, which are the best chips and dips?

  19-08-2018 12:00
  Cookery writer Sabrina Ghayour tastes and rates supermarket snacks Continue reading...
  
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• My Himalayan journey – trekking to Shangri-La

  19-08-2018 08:00
  A group walking holiday in the Indian Himalayas provides a rare chance to enjoy true solitude high above the cloudsAt the top of the Miyar Valley in the high Himalayas, a chain of seven tiny turquoise pools nestle below the snout of a formidable glacier. Each one looks deceptively inviting. We plunge in and our shouts, as we brave the icy water, echo off walls of rock into empty air; there is no one but our group around to hear. For miles in every direction there are only mountains; their white
  
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• Three classic French whites that go perfectly with seafood

  19-08-2018 07:00
  Lovely light wines with the freshness and and breeziness to make a fine match with fruits de merDomaine Félines-Jourdan Picpoul de Pinet, Languedoc, France 2017 (£8.50, The Wine Society)Picpoul de Pinet is never going to come off well in a comparison with some of the bigger French wine hitters. The dry, unoaked white wine from the western end of the Languedoc isn’t the kind of thing anyone would buy to put in a cellar, or make a flashy fuss of ordering at a restaurant. The gap
  
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• Taking social media and email off my smartphone has made me happier | Nikesh Shukla

  19-08-2018 07:00
  Having the power to pick and choose when you interact with people is empowering, but negative comments were becoming hard to ignoreI feel happy today,” my daughter announces as we walk to her nursery. “That’s lovely to hear,” I tell her. “What’s made you happy?” She thinks about it. “I don’t know,” she says, after a few minutes of reflection. “This morning, when I opened-ed my eyes, I smiled and I was just happy.” “Tha
  
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• Stem, London: ‘We are fed delightfully’ – restaurant review

  19-08-2018 07:00
  This is precisely cooked food in a smart location at a fair price. It restores your faith in humanityStem, 5 Princes Street, London W1B 2LF (020 7629 9283). Meal for two, including drinks and service, £100 All you ever want to know is that everything’s going to be OK. You want to know that deciding to spend your money in a particular restaurant is not a gross, humiliating error of judgment. It could be the flashing white teeth of an engaged welcome that reassures you. Perhaps it&rsqu
  
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• Nigel Slater’s pizette recipes

  19-08-2018 07:00
  Magnificent mini-pizzas, easy as anything to make and even easier to eatI made a batch of pizzette this week, little discs of dough barely the diameter of a side plate and topped them with roasted peppers, basil paste and curls of cured pork, and then more with marinated artichokes and crème fraîche, and baked them until the dough was crisp, dark and chewy. I brought them to the table on a wooden board and let everyone fight over their favourites.My pizza stone, once the colour of a
  
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• My heartbroken friend is partying hard but I’ve had enough | Dear Mariella

  19-08-2018 07:00
  Tell her that the nights out have lost their shine and that she will too, says Mariella Frostrup. Plus you have to think about your own marriageThe dilemma One of my best friend’s boyfriends broke up with her 18 months ago, after 12 years together. She was utterly devastated. Since the break-up she has been going out clubbing several times a week and every weekend. I am one of the few in her circle who still indulges her and I try to go out with her as often as I can.The problem is I don&r
  
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• I was scared of losing my sight… then writing brought me clarity

  19-08-2018 07:00
  After being told disease would destroy her vision, Paola Peretti wrote a children’s novel – and found a template for lifePaola Peretti is losing her eyesight and she wouldn’t have it any other way. When she was 14, she became very short-sighted, virtually overnight. Three years later came the diagnosis of Stargardt macular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that destroys central vision, damages colour perception and results in blindness. Two years ago, finding herself in a place
  
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• Golden nail varnish memories

  19-08-2018 07:00
  A meditation on times and beauty products pastI’m revisiting an old, now discontinued nail varnish that reminds me of a Gustav Klimt painting. Bear with me. It is a classic, dusty antique shade of yellow gold like the colours of The Kiss painting I learned about at school.The nail varnish was given to me by a nice gentleman I was smooching at the time Continue reading...
  
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• Back in style: if you want to get ahead, get a headband

  19-08-2018 07:00
  Reborn trend is this summer’s chic and tidy lookThey were everywhere in the 1990s, and now headbands are back. Beyoncé and Jay Z have been photographed sporting matching his and hers, and Vogue has recently hailed them as one of this year’s standout trends thanks to nostalgia-loving supermodel Bella Hadid.The “headband of the day” has even become a mini-series for model Chrissy Teigen’s 19.7 million Instagram followers as her husband, the musician John Legend
  
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• Poundworld’s demise is curiously heartbreaking news | Eva Wiseman

  19-08-2018 06:59
  A few years ago pound shops were massive. Then people fell out of love with them. And now we’ve all changed so much that the model just doesn’t work any morePoor Poundworld, the last of its 335 shops closing this week with a screw-you shrug at all it’s ever stood for: selling much of its stock at the quite bewildering price of 70p. For me, the feeling of walking into a pound shop has always been one of rare and profound freedom. The knowledge that I can afford anything, the toy
  
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• Over 2 million Muslims begin annual hajj pilgrimage

  19-08-2018 06:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MECCA, Saudi Arabia - More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba from first light in Mecca that Islam's faithful ......
  
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• Hetty McKinnon's green bean tahini casserole recipe

  19-08-2018 03:13
  The Sydney-turned-New York cook shares vegetarian meals she serves to friends and familySince we have been in America, our family has really embraced Thanksgiving, hosting many friends around our small table. I have come to adore this holiday – it’s such a cosy and chilled time of year, when we can gather to cook and enjoy great food and friendships, without the gift-giving frenzy of Christmas.Related: Hetty McKinnon's cauliflower soup with smoky baba ghanoush recipeContinue reading.
  
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• How to wear … Yellow – in pictures

  19-08-2018 00:50
  Feel mellow in yellow, with our pick of the season’s cheeriest colour Continue reading...
  
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• The edit: animal print

  19-08-2018 00:45
  The Observer fashion team’s tips on how to style key pieces from this season’s animal-print trendContinue reading...
  
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