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As the future state of Israel approached independence in early 1948, acquisition teams scoured Europe for weapons in preparation for an expected conflict with neighboring Arab states. In addition to patching together a few barely functional Sherman tanks from British scrap yards in Palestine, the Israelis clandestinely purchased a number of better running tanks from depots in Italy. Only three Shermans were ready in time for the War of Independence. These three tanks intrigued me, being the Shermaholic that I am, and one, Tamar, is well-documented in photos. Using those and other documents as reference, I set about building one of the other two Shermans. I figured it would be an interesting project because, like the real thing, the model would be an amalgamation of different Sherman variants. The crew ISRAELI TANKERS wore…

SAGITTARIUS 23rd November to 21st December Your tendency this month will probably be to take things easy and be less sociable than usual. That’s fine, but make sure you don’t sequester yourself under the duvet to the point where you don’t get anything done! It’s also a good time to sort things out with a friend, lover or ex. Do what it takes to clear the air. CAPRICORN 22nd December to 20th January Weigh up what you really, really want. More free time? Are you willing to work harder, if that’s what is required to achieve your professional goals? Is family your first priority at the moment, and if so, are you living your life accordingly? The eclipse is urging you to get your priorities straight. AQUARIUS 21st January to 19th February You are focusing a lot on…

it’s gone midnight and I’m standing naked in a plush penthouse, drinking in the hedonistic scene before me with a mixture of trepidation and lust. There are tangled limbs and groans of pleasure; a mass of sensual, orgasming women of many different shapes and sizes, all fuelled by bi-curious desire. This is Skirt Club, an exclusively female network that champions female empowerment and sexual discovery, with branches in NYC, Sydney, Berlin, LA, San Francisco, Miami, Shanghai and Melbourne, as well as an annual party weekend in Ibiza. I’m at one of its signature events in London – pre-lockdown – to explore my own growing bi-curiosity. My husband, James*, who knows I’m here, is miles away putting our two young children to bed. You discover the secret location of the party the day…

IL MITO La liberazione di Andromeda Nella mitologia greca, Andromeda era figlia di Cefeo, re di Etiopia, e della nereide Cassiopea. Per scontare un peccato di vanità della madre (che sosteneva di essere la più bella delle ninfe del mare), viene incatenata a una costa rocciosa (sotto, in un dipinto di Gustave Doré), esposta alle fauci di un mostro marino. Qui la trova l’eroe Perseo, che la scambia per una statua; la fanciulla, infatti, tace per pudore. Tradita dalle lacrime, Andromeda rivela la sua storia, ma viene interrotta dall’arrivo del mostro. Perseo si lancia contro la creatura, trafiggendola, libera la fanciulla e la sposa. L’amore rende liberi. Il mito, simbolo dell’amore che libera, è rappresentato nella volta celeste dalle costellazioni di Andromeda, Perseo, Cassiopea e Cefeo. LA VIGNETTA IL CALVARIO D’ITALIA Questo disegno, a metà tra…

‘WHAT MAKES YOU COME ALIVE?’ That’s the question Charlotte Fox Weber longed to be asked in therapy. She wanted the opportunity to explore her hidden ambitions and ‘banished longings’, and what they might reveal. Which is why she began searching for answers herself, as a psychotherapist, speaking to thousands of people about their deepest desires. Luckily for us, Fox Weber is now sharing her findings in a new book, What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve Of Our Deepest Desires. By guiding the reader through case studies from her therapy work she shows us why we pretend to want the things we don’t and struggle to admit the things we do: freedom in a relationship, more attention from a parent, to win, to connect, to belong or to control. By the final…

IROBOT AND ITS ROOMBAS COULD GIVE AMAZON A WINDOW INTO YOUR HOME This is all very new stuff and growing pains are inevitable. What we need to do is come to terms with new tech’s ability to “know us.” It has to [know us], to serve us, but [tech’s knowledge of us] can also be used for any number of things we would rather wasn’t used for. We need to identify those things and pass legislation to forbid it being used as such. Of course, that would require elected officials representing the will and needs of their constituents over those of special interests in whose back pockets these politicians reside.—Moresuo This is the stuff from The Jetsons that we wanted years ago. Now that we’re getting some of it, people are complaining.…

I get a sharp reminder that I need to cheer up when, on the school run, I tell my teenage son that I’m feeling worried about something. And he says, ‘But Mum, you’re always worried about something.’ I hadn’t even realised I was low. But looking back, the last few months have gone like this: wake up at 5am worrying, school run, work, fight today’s fire, cook, clean, bed, wake up at 5am worrying. Then there’s the hard-to-get-your-head around stuff: Ukraine. The recession. The cliché is that life is a rollercoaster, but this feels more like when I went on the waltzer at Winter Wonderland wearing gloves so slippery I spent the whole ride feeling as if I was about to fall off. You might feel the same: a recent survey…

Posh Spice Poached pears are an elegant dessert on their own. But place them on a layer of velvety almond-frangipane custard atop delicate pastry, and they’re fit for tea with the Bridgertons. The key to this labor of love is breaking it down into a few steps. You can make and freeze the laminated pastry dough up to two weeks ahead of time. Poach the pears the day before assembling the tarts (or at least four hours prior, so they can soak up the lemon-zest, cinnamon, and vanilla flavors in the syrup). When you’re ready to bake, thaw the dough, make rounds with a cookie cutter, mix and spread on the frangipane cream, and nestle in the main events. Forward Flip Consider this another great reason to go apple-picking this September—or a fun…

Modelers have been using 3D-printed parts for more than a decade, and the quality of the printers and the items produced by them have continued to improve. While the technology hasn’t replaced traditional plastic and resin kits, it does allow us to build some subjects mainstream manufacturers are unlikely to produce. Such was the case when I went looking for a kit of Raven, my favorite member of DC Comic’s Teen Titans. Rather than a kit, I found several sellers offering files that could be fed into a 3D printer to produce parts. After finding one I liked, I purchased the files and had a friend with a high-resolution printer make the parts for me in UV-curing resin. FINAL THOUGHTS I ASSEMBLED THE VARIOUS components with two-part epoxy over the course of 24…

Membre très actif de l’alliance formée autour de la monture L avec Leica et Panasonic, Sigma aurait pu connaître une toute autre histoire. Ainsi, lors de notre passage à Aizu en début d’année, Kazuto Yamaki, président de Sigma et fils du fondateur, nous expliquait que “dans les premières esquisses du fp, en 2017, il avait été décidé d’utiliser une monture spécifiquement conçue en interne, avec l’idée d’offrir l’hybride 24 x 36 mm le plus compact et léger du marché. Mais lorsque Panasonic et Leica nous ont abordé pour nous proposer de travailler sur la monture L, nous l’avons étudiée et avons décidé de l’adopter car elle s’avérait idéale pour nos besoins”. Si ce premier fp devrait connaître des successeurs, Sigma ne prévoit cependant pas de le décliner avec différents capteurs,…

When I was growing up, my Pakistani family never particularly celebrated Christmas. After I married, I thought it fairer to spend the holidays with my husband’s English family instead, for whom Christmas appeared more traditional. And so, we fell into a routine; Christmas week with my in-laws, then stopping at my mother’s for New Year. After our children were born, we pretended it wasn’t that hard to make the six-hour round trip to my in-laws’ rural cottage with a newborn and a toddler. We were bone-weary, but everyone expected us. Though it was always a joy to see them, the broken nights were more difficult away from home and it was harder to console our small children. By the time we reached my mother’s house, our sons were usually overtired and…

Sala del Bigliardo La villa, con le sue collezioni disposte secondo un preciso progetto d’arredo, incastonate tra il Casino Nobile, il Kaffeehaus e il giardino all’italiana, è una sinfonia corale di architetture, paesaggi e opere d’arte. pagina precedente Il Casino Nobile. Loggia L’imponente loggia colonnata, sublime testimonianza del gusto antiquario, per cui Roma era divenuta meta privilegiata del Grand Tour, affaccia verso il giardino attraverso nove arcate dominate dalle statue degli imperatori. Sala Ovale Un sogno di classicismo preservato intatto dalla famiglia Torlonia che amplia la collezione e restaura la più importante dimora cardinalizia del Settecento dove nel 1870 venne firmata, sulla scrivania di questa sala, la resa di Roma da parte dello Stato Pontificio. Tempio delle Cariatidi Il progetto architettonico, influenzato dai talenti del Nolli, del Piranesi e di Winckelmann, a cui è dedicata l’erma incorniciata…

Star Wars possibly contains the most iconic spaceships of any science-fiction franchise in history. From the X-wing fighter to the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, and everything in between, even people who aren’t Star Wars fans recognize the ships. One of the easiest silhouettes to identify is the ubiquitous, eminently disposable TIE fighter. Dubbed “brutalist terror-balls” by author Chuck Wendig, TIE fighters scream through space and swarm Rebel ships, dying as often as dealing death. We’ve seen many iterations of the TIE fighter. However, I thought the Mining Guild TIE unique ever since it appeared in the animated TV series Star Wars Rebels. With notched solar-collector wings and bright yellow paint, the TIE fighter/mg (its official designation), catches the eye and holds it. I also wanted to add the sensor arrays that…

The highly influential fashion buying director of MyTheresa has been under house arrest in her London office since the health crisis first cast a shadow over her travels, and the very concept of runway shows and showroom visits. How is Tiffany Hsu reinventing her job to adapt to Covid-19 restrictions? An interview. Elle en a parcouru, du chemin, depuis son premier job d’acheteuse chez Feathers, un petit multimarque londonien. Depuis, Tiffany Hsu a poursuivi sa route chez Lane Crawford et Selfridges. Aujourd’hui, elle est l’importante directrice des achats de la plateforme d’e-commerce MyTheresa.com, dont elle a fait l’une des destinations shopping online des plus dynamiques. Sa recette? Un savant mélange de marques établies et de créateurs pointus, qu’elle déniche sur la route des capitales de la mode, entre New York, Londres,…

Like a knight in shining armour: that’s how I felt closing the Louis Vuitton cruise show in San Diego this past May. As the sun set behind the beautiful, brutalist Salk Institute, casting long shadows on the concrete runway, I walked out wearing a floorsweeping silver coat – my legs as golden as the early evening light, shimmering beneath metallic shorts – leading the way for the army of models behind me. Everything about the show was incredible: the clothes, the setting, that I had been asked to lead the finale, that I was there at all. It has been almost 10 years since I was rushed into hospital, just hours from death, with toxic shock syndrome (TSS) – a condition caused by an excess of staphylococcus aureus bacteria in the…

‘When a marathon runner crosses the finish line, it is the end of the race, but it also marks the beginning of a process of recovery,’ says Anna Mathur, psychotherapist, speaker and author of Know Your Worth (Piaktus). ‘We need to look at the next few months in the same way. After a 15-month, marathon-like slog through lockdowns, tiers and social-distancing rules, there should be a period of rehabilitation and recovery during which we process the emotional and physical impact that this has had on us.’ If you’re anything like me, this analogy will come as quite a comfort. Because while there’s definitely a sense of jubilation about the return of ‘normal’ life, the feeling of trepidation about what actually comes next is just as strong. Some people are even calling this…

This pandemic seems a little different in that the U.S. doesn’t seem to be serving as a model for how to best respond. What has been responsible for that? If you score the U.S., our domestic response has been weak but can improve. Our R&D response—funding vaccines and therapeutics—has been the best in the world. And then in the third category, making those tools available to the world, we’re hoping this supplemental bill—1% to the resources—would be enough to have a pretty dramatic effect and get other countries to give. So that one’s incomplete still. How do you think government leaders can better work with public-health leaders to learn from the lessons of Ebola, HIV and previous influenza outbreaks? Well, it is amazing, the contrast to Ebola—the U.S. allocated money and…

↓ DIRECTIONS: Do this workout as a circuit. Do each move for 40 seconds, rest 40 seconds, then go on to the next move. Do 3 rounds of the circuit. Enjoy the sweat. WARMUP WORLD’S GREATEST STRETCH Start in pushup position, hands directly below shoulders. Shift your right leg to just outside your right hand and tighten your left glute. Pause. Reach your right hand toward the sky, following it with your gaze (a). Return your right hand to the floor, straighten your right leg, and rock backward, stretching your hamstrings (b). Return to the start. That’s 1 rep. Alternate reps between sides for 60 seconds, then rest 30 seconds. Do 3 sets. WORKOUT 1 LATERAL BEAR CRAWL Get on all fours, hands directly below your shoulders, knees about shoulder-width apart. Tighten your abs and glutes,…

3 THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE YOU GO Postpandemic travel continues to change. Keep these points in mind before you hit the road. 1 RESERVATIONS ARE KEY Many popular attractions—amusement and theme parks, national parks, zoos, aquariums, and museums—require reservations to mantain safe attendance levels. 2 WHAT’S YOUR COMFORT LEVEL? Venturing outside your social-distancing bubble can be stressful. Determine what will make you feel safe—accommodations with contactless check-in, outdoor dining—and plan accordingly. 3 CHECK LOCAL GUIDELINES Last summer’s travel restrictions have loosened, but you’ll still need to pay attention to local regulations. For domestic travel guidelines, visit cdc.gov. WHAT TO DRIVE If you don’t want to drive your own vehicle, consider these options. RENTAL CAR COMPANIES A shortage of rental cars (agencies whittled down their fleetslast year) is expected to last through the year. Shop around and book early. CAR DEALERSHIPS Car manufacturers, including…

ANTICA ROMA Duemila anni di olio Scovato a Pompei, l’olio più antico arrivato fino a noi ha una storia davvero curiosa. Fu ritrovato infatti nel lontano 1820 tra i resti della città devastata dall’eruzione del Vesuvio nel 79 d.C. Era all’interno di un recipiente che dai tempi degli scavi borbonici è rimasto quasi dimenticato nel deposito del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Nel 2018 il divulgatore televisivo Alberto Angela per una delle sue trasmissioni si imbatté in quella bottiglia contenente del liquido biancastro solidificato. L’intuizione fu che potesse essere proprio olio. Frantoi romani. Ci sono voluti due anni di accurate ricerche scientifiche coordinate da Raffaele Sacchi del dipartimento di Agraria dell’Università Federico II di Napoli, per arrivare al responso definitivo: si tratta proprio di olio, solidificato nella bottiglia in seguito ad alterazioni chimiche…

Kevin Sharkey EVP and executive director of design, Martha Stewart brands, New York City He’s the ace who vets thousands of her products, the decorating whisperer for all her homes, and the only person (besides her daughter) Martha trusts implicitly with scissors in her gardens. Kevin is a longtime employee, but also her dear friend. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design and working at the Parish-Hadley interior-design firm, he started as a style assistant at Living in 1996. It wasn’t glamorous—he mainly called in items for shoots, packed and unpacked boxes, and swept floors—but he learned daily from an “A-team of talent” and worked tirelessly, two qualities that caught Martha’s attention. So did the iconic images he created, including a vase exploding with hundreds of towering snapdragons. “I didn’t become…

IN MAY, the killing of George Floyd brought a harsh reality to the forefront of conversations worldwide: Racism permeates every aspect of society. And science, as part of society and my own profession, is not immune. Social media movements in 2020 such as #BlackInTheIvory and #BlackBirdersWeek urged the scientific community to take a hard look at the racism that lies within its walls, as revealed by its own community members. Thousands of Black scientists took to Twitter, Facebook and beyond to share personal stories of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination faced throughout their careers. These experiences have had devastating consequences for their mental health, professional success and, ultimately, willingness to stay in their fields. Racism in science is nothing new. For centuries, science has been a foremost tool used to build, defend…

Liya Kebede Founder and creative director of Lemlem, model, and actress New York City and Paris In a Lemlem dress, you can’t help but float through summer. Whisper-light and awash in happy, sun-drenched colors, each one is hand-woven on wooden looms by African artisans, following centuries-old traditions. The brand’s founder is Ethiopian model and maternal-health advocate Liya Kebede, who rose to fame in the early aughts as the face of Tom Ford’s Gucci and the first Black spokesmodel for Estée Lauder. On a trip to her hometown of Addis Ababa around that time, she noticed a distressing drop in the demand for traditional garments, and got busy. “Weaving is a craft that has been passed through generations and holds deep cultural significance,” says Kebede, who set her mind to preserving the art,…

FOR MORE THAN TWO decades, experts have prophesied that stem cells will someday revolutionize medicine. While adult stem cells have long been used to treat a handful of blood and immune disorders, the excitement has centered on two more versatile varieties: embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), both of which can be transformed into any cell type in the body. Google “the promise of stem cells,” and you’ll get at least 200,000 hits, involving ailments ranging from diabetes to neurodegenerative disorders. So far, however, no one has managed to translate that potential into a practical therapy. In 2020, a string of breakthroughs suggested that the revolution may finally be near. The most dramatic news came in May, when the New England Journal of Medicine published the first case…

Илья Кирилин попал в SWN, откликнувшись на объявле-ние на фейсбуке. Исход из мира маркетинга и крепкого алкоголя в вино случился удачно, особенно помог де-густационный проект «Поку-пательского гида». За время работы дважды был коман-дирован в Японию, побывал на кухне Chateau Margaux, завёл привычку по сентябрям уезжать на урожай в Европу. Последняя поездка в должно-сти штатного СВНщика была в Новую Зеландию, после чего решил уйти в свободное плавание и писать не из офи-са, а среди виноградников. Но планам помешала панде-мия, и Илья оказался в стане блогеров, запустив серию прямых эфиров в Instagram. Сегодня @garnacha_man не только пьёт херес и гарна-чу, но и готовит карри, устра-ивает дегустации, преподаёт в Школе вина «Энотрия» и ждёт открытия границ. Подписывайтесь. Гарри, принц Ютубский Эмигрант из Белорусской ССР Гарри Вайнерчук вывел вино в интернет, а оттуда ушёл в большой…

Всего за несколько лет Stella di Campalto стала одним из самых дорогих и желанных производителей брунелло, за ней охотятся модные сомелье по всему миру. Как так вышло? Помогла ли дружба с Сольдерой, или биодинамика, или другие магические силы? Давайте честно. Мы не поняли, как Стелла делает такие вина. Городская жительница, которая не пила вина до тех пор, пока её не занесло в эту глушь (и утверждает, что до сих пор пьёт разве что чуть-чуть бургундии), человек без энологического образования, теории и практики. Кто её посмел сравнивать с Сольдерой? Noble Rot? Вы что, с ума посходили в своём Лондоне! Слушаешь, смотришь, динамизируешь информацию и не веришь. Не веришь, пока в бокале не оказывается drop of wine, пара капель вина, здесь это стандартная дегустационная доза. Эти пары сотен капель шокируют, удивляют и заставляют…

Моя любовь к вину нача-лась с путешествий по испанским Риохе и Ри-бере-дель-Дуэро. Мне нравятся достаточно плотные, тяжёлые, те-лесные, танинные вина. Я до сих пор храню верность Испании и всегда предпочту испанские вина италь-янским или французским. Но и в Америке, где я сейчас живу, у меня появились любимые вина. Два года назад я узнала о калифор-нийском зинфанделе от Rombauer Vineyards. В Америке этот сорт называют просто «зин». Для меня, любителя риохи, он всегда казался достаточно жидким, но у Rombauer он удивительно колоритный. Во Флориде бутылка этого вина стоит порядка $40–45. Калифорния — это сокровищница, здесь надо ездить и искать своё. От Сакраменто, столицы штата, до виноградников Напы — 30–40 минут на машине. Моя стратегия — про-сто гуглишь и едешь. В прошлом году мы так оказались у Captain Vineyards. Владелец — француз арабского происхождения,…

1976 — биржевой брокер Дик Грейс из Сан-Франциско в поисках загородного дома нашёл подхо-дящий в коммуне Сент-Хеленс и высадил рядом около полугектара каберне совиньона. С 1978 года из урожая этого участка делал вино Чарльз Вагнер на своей винодельне Caymus Vineyards под названием Caymus Vineyards Grace Family Vineyard. 1979 — Билл Харлан купил уча-сток в Долине Напа, который раньше принадлежал Чезаре Мондави (отцу Роберта), и основал там винодельню Merryvale. С Робертом Мондави они обсуждали будущее Напы, которое Роберту виделось как новосвет-ское отражение величия Бордо и Бургундии, так что Мондави взял Харлана в поездку по бордоским премьер крю. 1980 — Дэвид Эбрю, калифорний-ский виноградарь в третьем поколе-нии, основывает собственную вино-дельню Abreu Vineyards в Сент-Хе-ленсе. В том же году он учреждает консалтинговую компанию David Abreu Vineyard Management, кото-рая в разные годы помогала с вино-градниками почти…

Standard weightshift is used to give a nicely coordinated turn, especially when thermalling. If you are thermalling right then you use right-side brake and apply right weightshift, which means putting more load on the right side of the harness seat on the side where you are braking. If you are thermalling left, you apply left brake and weightshift left. A nice combination of weightshift and brake will help you to make a more efficient turn and improve your climb rate, especially in a tight core. This technique is used by all pilots and is a fundamental part of good flying. Opposite weightshift Sometimes pilots use another completely different technique in certain situations, which I call ‘opposite weightshift’. I have not heard of pilots discussing this often, but once I pointed it out I realised…

Farah Ebrahimi & Philipp Mainzer … sind seit 23 Jahren ein Paar. Zu Hause sprechen die Köpfe hinter E15 nicht über die Arbeit. Das erledigen sie lieber auf langen Autofahrten. e15.com Was war zuerst: Liebe oder Arbeit? Die Liebe. Was erfüllt Sie bei der Zusammenarbeit? Was strengt an? Das Schönste ist sicherlich der gemeinsame Nervenkitzel. Und das intrinsische Verständnis, das man braucht, um zusammen zu einem guten Ergebnis zu kommen. Das Schlimmste ist der Stress, der uns manchmal übermannt. Herz oder Hirn, was entscheidet? Beides. Immer. Streiten Sie auch? Ja. Dann nehmen wir uns Zeit, um den Kopf frei zu machen und eine Lösung zu finden, ohne aus den Augen zu verlieren, woran wir glauben. Was haben Sie während der Pandemie über Liebe und Arbeit gelernt? Die Liebe nicht als selbstverständlich anzusehen. Und dass Arbeit nicht alles ist. Ihr Partner in einem Satz? Farah…

When overnight guests arrive at your home, what will they find when they make their way to their room? It could feel as spectacular as a bedroom in a luxurious villa or as unpleasant as a tired roadside motel. The difference depends on design choices, which is why so many designers are intent on pushing the decorative envelope in these spaces, even if many of us struggle to mentally move beyond the primary suite. “Because neither you nor your guests will be staying too long in that room, you can be more daring than you would be in the rest of the house,” says Nicolò Castellini Baldissera, an interior designer in Milan. “I like pattern, fabric, toile, stripes, and color, color, color. It should be more personal than a hotel…

LITTLE MEANS MORE to me than comets. While in the sixth grade at Roslyn School in Montreal, I delivered the first of more than 2,500 lectures I’ve given in my life. The subject I chose for this first talk was comets, and it’s amazing to me to compare what we knew about comets then with what we know now. For example, all those years ago, we knew of a few hundred comets; now we know of at least 4,000. The most famous of all comets, Halley’s Comet, last rounded the Sun on Feb. 9, 1986. Twenty-one years before that, on Dec. 17, 1965, I began searching telescopically for comets. On Nov. 13, 1984, I discovered my first. I’ll never forget my view of a brand-new comet that no one else had…

At times of crisis, we’re often told to ‘just breathe’. Yet how often do we actually think about the functionality of our breath? ‘Oxygen is the most essential natural resource required by our cells,’ says breathwork coach Rebecca Dennis. ‘We can go without food for up to 40 days and water for three days, yet we get into trouble after just moments of not breathing.’ In short, breath equals life – which is why, according to Dennis, ‘Learning how to use the full capacity of our natural breathing system is comparable to giving our body and mind an MOT.’ And it seems this type of reset is sorely needed. Dennis continues: ‘The majority of adults and teenagers I see have dysfunctional breathing patterns and are not using their respiratory system to…

It seems astonishing to me that the first issue of Vogue I edited was published five years ago this month. Granted it was December 2017, the latter half of a different decade, before 60 months of living history at what felt like warp speed. Yet it really does seem like a lifetime ago, not least because of the level of change we’ve all witnessed in the world of fashion and beyond. I’m not especially given to looking back – what’s next will always grab my attention – but pausing for a moment, it is heartening to look through the pages of this issue here in my office at Vogue House and see a magazine that, I hope, feels effortless in its representation. Five years ago, Adwoa Aboah, the first cover star…

One of the basics of scenery is the underlying soil base – dirt, in other words. Even though it’s needed in almost all scenes in one form or another, modeling it isn’t always easy. Soil materials available from scenery manufacturers aren’t available in a lot of colors, and the colors that are available may not be a match for the soil in the region you’re modeling. You could make your own ground cover by going to the prototype site, collecting shovels of real dirt, and sifting it, but that can be time consuming and expensive. Recently I was at the hardware store and saw a color chart of earth tones posted on a display rack next to bags of grout. I’d always thought grout only came in whites and grays. Not…

Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy ★★★★ Superwolves DOMINO. CD/DL/LP A SENSE OF drama seems to be one of the defining characteristics of Superwolf/Superwolves music, both in writing and performance. How and when the pre-conditions for that drama are fulfilled, and whether the phase of the moon has a place in them, only Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy in his work-clothes, or on his workhorse) seem to know. But the union which coalesced so effectively between three songs played for the first time on a figurative high wire at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in 2003, and a Saturday night headlining set at the Green Man festival in August 2005, has reconvened 16 years later with its musical and lyrical potency miraculously intact. “When I come to your streets, make worry for me,”…

HOW TO DO PARTY NAILS It’s not Christmas without a classic red mani. Add a glossy top coat for glamour, or play it cool and go matte. For some festive sparkle without going overboard, try a pearlescent – I’m a big fan of OPI’s Snow Holding Back. Or try some tinsel-inspired glitter nail art: take a fine-liner brush and use gold or silver glitter polish to paint small swirls all over a nude base colour. Iram Shelton pro nail artist MAKE ANY OUTFIT FEEL INSTANTLY FESTIVE For me, Christmassy dressing is about being chic and not too literal, so it’s worth investing in a couple of longer-term pieces that speak to your style. These could be: a red jumper, a tartan top (a good staple), something brocade (sparkly but not too party), a pair of…

EMMA STONE CHECKLISTS THE THOMPSON ALLURE: “UNAPOLOGETICALLY HERSELF, AUTONOMOUS, FREE, UNBELIEVABLY INTELLIGENT AND DAMN FUNNY” Sometimes, Emma Thompson will enter a room and burst into tears. “This year and last year, the times I’ve really cried is when I’ve walked into a space my daughter used to be in and she isn’t there anymore.” The scene, featuring one of cinema’s top blubberers, is easy to picture – afternoon light, a little dust in the air, untouched bed, “and tears like a river,” says Thompson, who on top of seeing her grown-up daughter, Gaia, move out last summer, turned 60 a couple of years ago and has been feeling a bit “limbo-ish” ever since. “I have gone,” she says, that famous voice as smart and self-pillorying as ever, “a tad on the…

The following sections list the model names, specs, and pricing for the 104 loudspeaker manufacturers (including three subwoofer-only makers), and 34 cable companies (three of which also make speakers and/or subs) that we’ve chosen as being most worthy of your attention. We’ve also included the issue number of The Absolute Sound in which the product has been reviewed (if it has been reviewed), and whether the product has received an Editors’ Choice Award (EC), Golden Ear Award (GE), or, the ultimate prize, Product of the Year (POY) recognition. In many cases we’ve included the award indications for updated versions of products that have won those awards in the past, even if we haven’t fully reviewed the new version. We’ve done this only for those products that are substantially similar to the…

I began my editorship of British Vogue with one, way back in the mists of time in 2017, nine transformational fashion seasons ago – before a pandemic, before the global rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, just as the Me Too moment was crystallising in fashion, Hollywood and beyond, when the world looked so fundamentally different. The magazine has evolved a great deal in the few, if epic-seeming, years since, just as it should. But as British Vogue has raised its consciousness, to meet the moment and to become an active participant in the important conversations of our time, I also find comfort and power in the fact we will always be devoted to the fundamental wonder of fashion, in all its joy-giving, imagination-sparking, personality-shaping glory. To that end, whatever the…

Danger: there’s a word that’s familiar to every railroader. Danger comes with the job and it’s woven into the fabric of every railroad career. Years ago, when laws, security threats, and safety regulations were simpler (and litigation less prevalent and costly), many railroad employees would let photographers wander into company facilities with little more than a wave or at most a friendly suggestion to be careful. Many railfans were able to get close to massive locomotives and equipment without worry and without causing corporate or law-enforcement concern. The most cautious places made visitors sign a release. However, as time has passed, many employees are now trained to politely (but firmly) ask prospective visitors to leave or even to call the authorities to remove them. Much of today’s railroading happens in places…

I am writing this on a quiet morning in the Norfolk countryside, sitting at my desk at home, overlooking the garden and the meadow beyond. There is a graceful line of poplar trees, their branches swaying in a gentle breeze, reaching up towards skies, and I well remember seeing the same view two years ago and deciding in an instant that I wanted to move here and change my way of life. As a Londoner born and bred, with a job as editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, I had spent years in the beating heart of the city, racing to meet deadlines and dashing to appointments, always running towards the next challenge. And yet the moment that I fell in love with this pastoral landscape, I knew I wanted to embrace…

PRINCEGEORGE’S BIRTHDAY Ensure many happy returns with practical shorts and playful dresses Prince George’s eighth-birthday party is sure to be a lively affair, so classic but comfortable attire is called for. Smart stripy shorts worn with loafers and a crisp white shirt are de rigueur for any little prince, while their sisters will enchant in pastel-coloured party frocks and Mary-Janes. Presents should aim to please the parents too – eschew garish electronics and opt for a set of stylish Liberty skittles or a Tiffany teddy bear. LYDIA SLATER THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX’S BABYSHOWER Welcome the newborn in cosseting pinks Dressing up for arguably the most exclusive event of 2021 – Serena Williams co-hosted the last one – demands serious thought. Dior’s blush-pink gown is both exquisitely elegant and a graceful nod to the baby-to-be’s gender.…

"Es lo que llaman una CASA de aldea, las primeras piedras, en la COCINA, son del XVIII".REYES CASTELLANO La que liamos", dice Reyes Castellano enseñándome lo que era y lo que es ahora su lugar de vacaciones en Ulloa, Lugo, sí, dónde los pazos de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Parece que siempre estuvo así, pero ni mucho menos. "Está entre una casa de aldea y una grande, con la típica fachada popular de piedra. En ella se ven las costuras de las sucesivas ampliaciones. Según les iba bien a los habitantes, la hacían crecer. La intervinimos de manera que por fuera pareciera la misma, sin agresividad, pero dentro la obra fue total". El plural es procedente, porque todo el proyecto es obra de la firma que esta interiorista tiene en Madrid junto…

I grew up in Charleston and Miami and Tampa. My idea of beauty was a giant orange and yellow grass-hopper with pastel wings that I saw when I was a little girl. I chased my cousin Artie around with it! When I moved to New York and became a model, I didn’t know anything about the industry. I got a job modeling for Christian Dior for $50 a week. Once I started working, I made myself an athlete. I uncrossed my eyes. (Dick Avedon used to look up at me from behind his camera and ask, “Are they straight yet?”) I jumped around. I worked hard. But by 1972, there weren’t many of us models left. All the big girls like Veruschka, Twiggy, and Jean Shrimpton had basically split. I wish…

His tender tale of four ink-drawn wanderers sold more than 1m copies last year, never leaving the bestseller list and becoming the longest-running Sunday Times Number One non-fiction hardback of all time. But Charlie Mackesy isn’t all that bothered by the figures. ‘They couldn’t be less relevant,’ he says. ‘The only things that matter to me are the emails I get saying, “This book really helped me.”’ Let’s just say, he gets a lot of them. Since it was published in late 2019, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse has brought comfort and joy to a global community trying to make sense of a ‘new normal’ induced by the pandemic. The illustrated account of four unlikely friends navigating a wild, beautiful and bewildering world became an instant…

Игорь не знал, потому что я ему никогда не говорила, но символом отечествен-ного виноделия для меня, как бы пафосно это ни звучало, он стал в 2007 году, когда выкатил своё первое розе «Эссе». Это и был момент нашего личного знакомства. Нет-нет, вы вду-майтесь, сухое воздушно-фруктовое розе в 2007 году! С тех пор его про-изведения всегда были встречены с благодарностью и поддержкой. Ещё бы! Игорь предложил то, что практически никто тогда ещё не де-лал, — современные сухие вина с жизнерадостным флёром надежды. Они казались особенными даже на фоне тогдашнего увлечения Италией, а Игорь — с удивлённым от всего про-исходящего лицом, любознательный, весёлый и тонко чувствующий — иде-альным виноделом. Вспоминаются его весёлые рас-сказы, как он со своим дядей, Русла-ном Классовым — ага, они вот такая родня, несмотря на один возраст — в студенческом угаре…

Смиром вина и высокой кухни я познакомился лет 30 назад благодаря соседу, с которым мы вместе снимали квартиру, потом он стал очень известным шефом в Сиэтле. Конечно, тогда я не мог предпо-ложить, что в 2004 году я стану одним из основателей винодель-ни. О земле, где сейчас находит-ся винодельня Ambassador Wines of Washington на Красной горе (Ред-Маунтин), я узнал случайно. Мой друг выиграл в аукционе, и призом было приключение на озере в Сиэтле. Нас было шесть лодок, в каждой был винодел с тарелкой закусок и кейсом вина. И вот винодел в моей лодке рассказал о женщине, которая продавала землю в зоне, кото-рая совсем недавно стала AVA (американская виноградарская зона). Я к тому моменту уже дав-но занимался недвижимостью и решил позвонить этой женщине. Я узнал, что в этом месте за по-следнее время…

Словосочетание «культовое вино» начали использовать в 1990-е для описания в основном выдаю-щихся каберне совиньонов из Долины Напа (с двумя исключениями) с опре-делённым набором характеристик. В этот набор входили: — высочайшие баллы от самых уважаемых винных критиков — хотя бы один «стобал-льник» в багаже имеет каждая культовая ви-нодельня. Высокие оценки должны быть еже-годными, подтверждая постоянство качества: возможная вилка — примерно 94–100 баллов; — очень ограниченный объём производ-ства (обычно до тысячи ящиков); — продажа исключительно по подписке внутри США и по жёстким квотам за их пре-делами. Для тех, кто хочет попасть в число подписчиков, существуют «листы ожидания» — у Screaming Eagle нахождение в нём зани-мает 12 лет, у Bryant Family и Sine Qua Non — около девяти. У Screaming Eagle есть даже «лист ожидания места в листе ожидания»! — очень высокие цены, иногда больше…

Здравствуйте, меня зовут Леонид. Я не алкоголик. Но дома у меня есть силико-новая форма для изготовления ледяных рюмочек. Заполняешь форму водой, кладёшь в морозилку — через полчаса рюмочки готовы. Иногда я добавляю в воду какую-нибудь мелочь вроде нескольких горошинок розового перца или иголок хвои. И тогда рюмочки буквально просятся в заметку под заголовком «Находке два миллиона лет» (ну вы знаете — про ископае-мых насекомых, обнаруженных в толще аркти-ческого льда). Пить из такой посуды чрезвычайно приятно (на-литая водка* охлаждается мгновенно), но есть нюанс: рюмочки норовят растаять, их хватает на два налива, иногда на три. Нужно успеть. И я успеваю — кое-какая сноровка есть. Это не имеет ничего общего с поспешностью, это про-сто попытка идти наперекор времени и законам физики. А лужицы, оставшиеся после того, как рюмки завершили свой земной путь, — пре-красная…

‘There is a really incredible natural scent to this place. Almost all of the doors are open most of the time – there is the salt of the sea, the freshness of the greenery,’ says Ben Gorham, founder of fragrance house Byredo, of his stunningly modern beach retreat on Gotland. ‘There’s also a faint whiff of sheep,’ he adds with a smile, referencing the animals that share their name with this remote dot of land in the Baltic Sea. The Swedish island may be best known for the medieval architecture of Visby, a picturesque town and UNESCO world heritage site, but it also has a wild side. It is the latter that attracted Ben to build a home here to share with his wife Natasha and their two daughters, Ines and…