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• Thom Browne goes for spectacle at Paris Fashion Week

  19-01-2019 21:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Thom Browne provided the biggest spectacle on a relatively quiet day at Paris Fashion Week as some fashion houses decided to switch presentation dates or showing times to ......
  
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• What Classifies A House Style: What Makes A Bungalow Home?

  19-01-2019 13:00
  If you’ve been paying attention to architectural trends lately, you know that bungalows are back in a big way. With that in mind, we thought it was the perfect addition to our What Classifies A House Style series. Keep reading to learn what makes this architectural style so unique and why the bungalow home has held a special place in our hearts for so many years.Bungalows originated in Bengal, India. Image: M Valdes Architects PLLCHistory of the bungalow home
  The word “bungalow&rdquo
  
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• The joys of the UK's best walking festivals

  19-01-2019 13:00
  The UK’s 150 walking festivals make hiking convivial, as we found on a Black Mountains trek in Wales. Plus, read on for more events around the countryWe started in drizzle, progressed into blow-you-off-your-feet wind, moved into milk-chocolatey mud and finished in stair-rod rain. But it was great to be outside. Following guides Anthea and Wally, their energetic collie and a bunch of other waterproof-encased walkers along this Black Mountains route, I’d ticked off 11 miles, three hill
  
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• Shutdown sojourn: Free museums, music for furloughed U.S. workers

  19-01-2019 12:11
  It may not put a meal on the table for furloughed federal employees, but some U.S. museums and symphonies are supplying food for the mind in free admission for workers affected by the longest partial...
  
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• They said I'd go blind. Now gene therapy has changed that

  19-01-2019 12:00
  Matthew Bishop was told there was no treatment that could save his vision. But now scientific breakthroughs in gene therapy have given him, and others, hopeIn his office in Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital, Prof Robert MacLaren sits upright, his back as straight as a soldier’s, and tells me about the lowest point in his 20-year career. It was the rejection, many years ago, of his grant application for a project investigating how gene therapy might treat conditions causing blindness.
  
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• The cabin in the woods: 'When it rains, it’s loud but lovely'

  19-01-2019 12:00
  Created from sustainable sources by architect Piers Taylor, and parked in a Somerset valley, is a mobile home that’s both in and of the treesMobile home. It takes just two words to stir up the contradictions in British attitudes to that most basic of needs: where, and how, to live. On the one hand, prejudice, embodied in the phrase “trailer trash”, with all its snobbery and classism, and in the ever-present persecution of traveller communities. On the other hand, middle-class f
  
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• Tamal Ray’s recipe for quick chocolate and pistachio macaroons | The sweet spot

  19-01-2019 12:00
  Blissful, chewy macaroons that take only 15 minutes to prep and 10 to cookA few years ago, while in the throes of yet another health kick, I bought a new blender; one of those fancy ones that promises to provide you with an endless supply of delicious, healthy smoothies. Though I quickly grew bored with drinking dubiously coloured, pureed salads, I soon found new uses for the blender. In the summer it churns out the best iced coffees. But I also found it was perfect for grinding nuts into a fine
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan scrambled tofu | The new vegan

  19-01-2019 11:00
  Silken tofu is perfect cooked akuri-style, with ginger, garlic and chilli – just like the Parsi community in Mumbai eat their eggs‘If she says “Wow”, you’ve got a winner’: Ottolenghi and other cooks on their recipe testers Scrambled tofu is not a poor substitute for scrambled egg but a genuine contender in its own right, and silken tofu’s mild personality makes it the perfect vehicle for louder Indian flavours. Here, I’ve cooked the scrambled tofu
  
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• 'If she says "Wow", you've got a winner': Ottolenghi and other cooks on their recipe testers

  19-01-2019 11:00
  A home recipe tester who is brutally honest is every great chef’s secret weapon. Yotam Ottolenghi, Meera Sodha and Anna Jones’s spill the beansBefore I started working with Claudine, I tested all my recipes myself. It became too much in 2007; I had started my Guardian column and was working on my first book. Claudine would come to my apartment every week and we’d test together. That graduated to her testing from home in London, before she eventually moved to Wales. Continue rea
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s traybake recipes

  19-01-2019 10:30
  One-pot wonders to soothe the soul (and save on the washing-up): chickpeas with dates and marinated feta; spicy chicken and split peas; and pork and mushroom pasta‘If she says “Wow”, you’ve got a winner’: Ottolenghi and other cooks on their recipe testers I get the impression that my most popular recipes are the ones where a whole dish is cooked, from start to finish, in a single vessel. Traybakes, or braises, aren’t necessarily the simplest to prepare (though
  
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• Victoria Beckham: ‘You have to be quite controlling’

  19-01-2019 09:00
  She juggles a global fashion brand, four children and one of the world’s most scrutinised marriages: how does the former Posh Spice keep the show on the road?
  Along an Edward Hopper-esque cobblestone street two blocks from the Hudson river, outside a Brooklyn warehouse that is now a photographic studio the size of a baseball field, black SUVs are parked bumper to bumper. Inside, Mario Sorrenti, fashion royalty since he photographed a nude Kate Moss face down on a sofa for Calvin Klein&rsqu
  
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• What links gossima, battledore and kitten ball? The Weekend quiz

  19-01-2019 08:00
  From a guitar to Andrew Garfield, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 “As a free man, I take pride in the words...” – what came next?
  2 Which stock market index has never passed its 1989 peak?
  3 Which British bird can climb down trees head-first?
  4 Whose Red Special guitar was partly made from a fireplace?
  5 What would an arctophile collect?
  6 Which suffragette received a state funeral in Ethiopia?
  7 The book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is about what film?
  8 What politi
  
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• Japan’s arty-pelago: Naoshima and beyond

  19-01-2019 08:00
  Among shrines, rice fields and abandoned buildings, contemporary art has transformed 12 rural islands into a creative paradise – the setting for the 2019 Setouchi TriennaleI’m sitting on a concrete floor watching water droplets as they skitter across the smooth surface. Around me, other people seem equally transfixed. They stand in silent contemplation staring at beads of water bubbling up from tiny holes in the floor, or lie gazing at the vast domed roof, where two oval openings let
  
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• 'I’m a freegan – I get food from bins, foraging or my garden'

  19-01-2019 08:00
  Green activist John Cossham, 52, on how he earns very little so he can live a low-carbon lifestyleName: John Cossham
  Age: 52
  Income: £10,000
  Occupation: Entertainer and ecology educatorI’m an enthusiastic green activist and I earn very little so I can live a low-carbon lifestyle. That’s the way I like it; I don’t want much money, because people who earn a lot have a high carbon footprint. This green lifestyle saves my family about £10,000 a year on utilities, food a
  
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• Gill Meller's recipes for hearty meat dinners

  19-01-2019 08:00
  Warming, meaty meals for a chilly day. Choose from lamb broth, chicken casserole, beef stew or venison piePrep 20 min
  Cook 4 hr
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• Fit in my 40s: want to socialise while you Om? Try AcroYoga | Zoe Williams

  19-01-2019 08:00
  It’s halfway between yoga and acrobatics (and exceedingly intimidating)Fitness tips: AcroYoga for beginnersEven after all this time, yoga (hot or cold) continues to be my mad enthusiasm, my evangelism, the handbrake turn of my middle age. I still can’t do a side crow or even a regular crow. And I spend quite a lot longer planning to go than actually going, as it’s quite a bite out of the day. But I never leave, sweaty and freezing, having failed in some way large or small, feel
  
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• A letter to... my neighbours, and their apple tree

  19-01-2019 07:45
  ‘Your apples are a precious resource: free, healthy food for me and my children’: the letter you always wanted to writeYou have always been reserved, polite neighbours who kept to yourselves. You have the best house in the row – the one at the end that still has the small orchard from the allotments that were there before the houses were built. How strange to think the big apple tree is older than your house – in fact, older than me.The legacy of the allotments is great,
  
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• How to make delicious barley water from leftover cooking water | Waste not

  19-01-2019 07:00
  Instead of discarding your vegetable or grain cooking water, add sweetener and lemons, and serve with a sprig of mint and plenty of iceCooking doesn’t have to be complicated, a skill disappearing with our great-grandmothers or a knowledge harboured only by chefs of great talent. Cooking is, or at least can be, the simplest thing in the world. It’s about having respect for ingredients and where they came from that really ups our game, allowing everyone to produce remarkable and delici
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,195

  19-01-2019 01:00
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  19-01-2019 01:00
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• Dior pulls the stars in conveyor-belt menswear show in Paris

  19-01-2019 00:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - The black box construction branded "DIOR" was so big it obscured the view of the Eiffel Tower.The sheer scale of menswear designer Kim Jones' pop-up venue of 2,840 ......
  
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