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‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
