Oscar Wilde

and #8216;Green Fairy' tasting enlightening

‘Green Fairy' tasting enlightening Toastmaster Jerome Cloche sips a glass of the once forbidden absinthe at Worcester Art Museum's absinthe tasting event. An SRO crowd of about 150 people got a chance to lift their spirits at...

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Ode to Rome, a city of pilgrimage

A new film bringing the life of John Keats to the big screen prompts a personal Romantic pilgrimage to Rome The rose-seller is stalking me. It is a brilliant blue-skied November morning in Rome and I am standing on the Spanish...

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Joseph star Lee Mead talks about life with Denise and on becoming a father

EXCLUSIVE by Deborah Sherwood 22/11/2009 'The baby is the biggest thing I’ve ever prepared for, bigger than any role I’ve played or any job I’ve done' - Lee, 28, has barely been able to contain his excitement since new wife...

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“Bat Boy: The Musical” Is the Best Kind of Beastly

Last night Sarah Camiscoli attended Bat Boy along with a mob of eager Columbia students that filled Lerner Black Box to the rim. Thankfully, several poor souls abandoned their spots on opening night, offering Bwog a spot in the...

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Palm Beach 'Social Butterfly' dishes on oh-so-serious afflictions of 1895

Shannon Donnelly does a terrific job of keeping us up to date on the antics of our fellow Palm Beachers, but I was wondering what the Shiny Sheet's society column would have looked like in the earliest days of the island, long...

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David Robbins: How I learned to stop worrying and love the beard

By David Robbins Saturday November 21 2009 I am growing a beard. This radical step was not, I wish to make clear, undertaken as part of 'Movember', the annual drive to get men to grow moustaches at this time of the year in...

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Some Quality Film Story Lines To Check Out (Mabel Grant)

It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Below is...

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Author, author: Michael Moorcock

This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice...

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The Magnificent Mrs Tennant | Book review

Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostess Gertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface today primarily due to...

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Lunch with the FT: Evgeny Lebedev

Lunch with the FT: Evgeny Lebedev By Peter Aspden I wouldn’t dream of asking most of my Lunch with the FT guests what they are thinking of spending their money on in the near future. Right now this particular Russian, the...

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