They Shoot Horses

Leah McLaren discovers how the recent horse deaths at the Stronach family’s Santa Anita racetrack is part of a much larger family feud …

Boris’s Poll Dancer

Stuart Heritage debates whether Boris Johnson’s relationship with a pole-dancing American model who appeared in Naughty @ 40 will lead him to prison …

Renaissance Fare

Tom Kington calculates that Rome’s La Campana, the world’s oldest restaurant, is equal to 6.592 Keith Richardses!

Modern Times

Oktoberfest: it’s not just for too-tight lederhosen anymore …

Issue No. 12

The View from Here

By Alessandra Stanley

As we contemplate the latest Oval Office oil spill of venality, vulgarity, and brazen corruption, it’s hard not to pause, sigh, and wonder: What would a smarter, better educated, and less paranoid Donald Trump look like?…

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They Shoot Horses For the Stronach family, the fallout from the recent horse deaths at their Santa Anita racetrack is only part of a larger family feud with echoes of King Lear and Succession

By Leah McLaren

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She Worked Hard for His Money Will Boris Johnson’s relationship with a pole-dancing American model who appeared in Naughty @ 40 lead him to prison?

By Stuart Heritage

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A Modernist Marie Kondo

By Patricia Zohn

Charlotte Perriand’s first meeting with the imperious, bespectacled Le Corbusier is the stuff of architectural legend. When she, a precocious Arts Décoratifs graduate with a Josephine Baker crop, approached the great man for a job, he replied, “We don’t embroider cushions here.”

Then he and his cousin and partner, Pierre Jeanneret, saw her Bar sous le Toit, a hip space with metal stools she had confected for her tiny Saint-Sulpice apartment at the 1927 Salon d’Automne, and Le Corbusier knew he had made a mistake. He immediately offered her a spot among his devoted disciples in his interiors program.

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One of the Air France storefronts designed by Charlotte Perriand, London, 1957.

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Dirndl Power Behind the beer-soaked scenes at the corporate-networking extravaganza known as Oktoberfest

By Alexandra Marshall and Anne Philippi

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Renaissance Fare A 1518 receipt supports the claim that La Campana in Rome, favored by Caravaggio and Keith Richards, is the world’s oldest restaurant

By Tom Kington

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Palette Pleaser

When in London, it’s always a pleasure to duck into the Chris Beetles Gallery, on Ryder Street, but until November 2 there’s a special reason it’ll be worth a pause in your day: an exhibition devoted to the important landscape painter Albert Goodwin (1845–1932). Primarily a watercolorist, the prolific Goodwin, who was influenced by Turner, Whistler, and the Pre-Raphaelites, produced some 800 works, many of them landscapes, and many of those based on his extensive travels, including trekking through Europe with the critic John Ruskin. READ ON

The Land of Egypt, by Albert Goodwin, 1913. “In Search of Sun and Shadow: The Art of Albert Goodwin RWS” is on view at the Chris Beetles Gallery, in London, through early November.

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Protest or Die? Extinction Rebellion argues that radical, mass nonviolent civil disobedience is the only way to change current climate policies. On October 7, they’re going global

By Alex Bilmes

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Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Dolemite Is My Name struts into theaters this weekend with Eddie Murphy in top form, making a long-awaited return to R-rated material and playing a real-life character for the first time. Set in 1970s Los Angeles, it tells the true story of Rudy Ray Moore, a pudgy, middle-aged wannabe comic and singer—a contemporary of Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx—who strikes gold when he creates a foulmouthed, smack-talking alter ego: Dolemite.

What follows is a film within a film, as Moore self-funds a Dolemite movie with a ragtag group of cohorts (think The Disaster Artist or Ed Wood) that becomes a record-making success and a blaxploitation cult classic. It’s a rollicking good time, a salute to one man’s determination to make it in an industry that would not make room for him. READ ON

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