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The pastry for apfelstrudel has to be rolled so thin you could read a newspaper through it. Or cheat and use filo - nobody will knowThere is apple in neat, thin slices; golden sultanas the size of pistachios; the warm Christ (Read More)
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Royal Court, London SW1, Pit, Barbican, London EC2Staged in the round, circular in motion, concentrated on the smallest of spaces. Cock (good title) is one of the most distinguished pieces of theatre to hit the London stage i (Read More)
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Having moved behind the camera, supermodel Helena Christensen has turned her focus on climate changeSupermodel-turned-photographer Helena Christensen goes beneath the surface with her latest project, a collection of pictures (Read More)
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Italian prosecutor demands 30 years in jail for alleged killers of UK studentA prosecutor in Italy yesterday demanded that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito serve life sentences for the murder and sexual assault of British e (Read More)
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Thierry Henry's handball against Ireland capped a miserable sporting year of shameless cheatingIt was another Frenchman, Jean‑Paul Sartre, who cooked up the phrase "by any means necessary" as a war cry to eradicate class in G (Read More)
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Robert Yates returns to the streets of Liverpool, where he grew up, to report on a story of deprivation and hopeIn a parade of shops on County Road in Walton, north Liverpool, a couple of signs compete for attention. "Slip! T (Read More)
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This 1825 account of one man's passionate relationship with food remains an appetising read, says Mary FitzgeraldSince its completion in 1825, this handbook has appeared in so many different guises – from 1889's Gastronomy as (Read More)
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Lyttelton, LondonWH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person as a crumpled plastic (Read More)
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Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica HollandWriting is difficult and painful and writers are all a little mad. That's the first impression you (Read More)
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When Maj Sjöwall and her partner Per Wahlöö started writing the Martin Beck detective series in Sweden in the 60s, they little realised that it would change the way we think about policemen for everIt might count as one of th (Read More)
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Colleagues laughed when a young journalist in Palestine announced his intention to tell the story of that region though cartoons. Twenty years later, Joe Sacco is one of the world's leading exponents of the graphic novel form (Read More)
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A bravura biography paints a masterly portrait of Charles II, says Geraldine BedellIn May 1660, Charles II disembarked in front of cheering crowds at Dover, following a nine-year exile. He had been invited home by a parliamen (Read More)
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Catherine Millet 60, writer, in a relationshipThe older I get, the younger I like my men. Young men have an energy that middle-aged ones don't. I live in artistic and intellectual circles, where the men are all a bit depresse (Read More)
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Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people…Peter Carey – novelistKamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition a (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Sic itur ad astra = Latin for "thus you shall go to the stars". Yet another beautiful work from artist Michæl Paukner. "I used some scans of old astronomy maps from the 17th century," he says. You can buy prints of his work n (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Autumn InternationalsMILS MULIAINA FULL-BACK – 7Showed astonishingly silky footwork and some delightfully deft handling of the kind too rarely seen on modern rugby fields. ZAC GUILDFORD WING – 5Saw a lot less of the ball than (Read More)
Tao of Photography:
The opening reception of the Worlds Within Worlds exhibit (held at the American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD, 20740, on Monday, November 16, 2009) was - by all accounts - a resounding success. Thi (Read More)
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Author : Steven MagillViolin is one classic musical instrument that is rarely learned by many music enthusiasts Although learning to play to violin is an easy task, mastering it is otherwise Mastering violin takes skill and (Read More)
New York Times:
The Staller Center honors Mel Pekarsky, a retired professor who has specialized in the dry beauty of the American Southwest.
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“Continuous Present,” at the Yale University Art Gallery, examines how 11 artists work with ideas of time, presenting contemporary artwork in an engaging yet scholarly way.
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