Interview: John Arlidge Robert Earl lost £700m when his Planet Hollywood restaurant chain went bust. Twice. Now the high-rolling British entrepreneur is back on the Las Vegas Strip for one fi nal throw of the dice THE MOMENT WAS pure Vegas. At the fi nale of Hans Klok’s top-billing The Beauty of Magic show, a blonde with [...]

Words: Rory Ross A pioneer of organic, locally sourced food, Alice Waters has been leading the taste revolution for over 30 years EARLIER THIS YEAR, Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, picked up the Lifetime Achievement gong at Restaurant magazine’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. As she received her foodie Oscar [...]

Words: Elisa Anniss Gilbert and Sullivan have struck a chord with generations of theatre-goers ­ and they’re more popular than ever YOU’VE ONLY TO SEE the populist appeal of the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage version of The Sound of Music at London’s Palladium Theatre to realise how perennially strong the attraction of musicals remains. It is [...]

Words: Michael Feeney Callan Sean Connery… Oscar-winning actor, tireless campaigner for underprivileged children and, for the last 16 years, patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The James Bond star and Hollywood veteran has come a long way since his childhood in a Scottish tenement THERE IS A TALE told by John Boorman, the director of Excalibur, [...]

IT’S HARD BEING A SINGLE BLOKE IN THE COUNTRY. ADRIAN MOURBY PUTS THE WIND UP THE LOCALS, TO EVERYONE’S HORROR INCLUDING HIS OWN ONCE UPON A TIME it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be moving to the country in search of a wife. In Jane [...]

Words: Alistair Duncan JK Rowling dropped `Joanne’ after her publisher advised it would make it harder to sell her book. Ten years on, a new wave of women have taken English writing by storm ­ and this time, their names are on the covers EVEN A WRITER with the most fanciful of imaginations could barely have conceived [...]

ARTIST DAN PROOPS REVEALS HOW ROCK STAR LOU REED NEARLY ENDED HIS CAREER AGED 14 AND HOW COMPUTERS REVOLUTIONISED HIS LIFE Are you from an artistic family? I’m the only artist, but my mum was in the Royal Ballet, my dad was in advertising and my grandmother Marjorie Proops was the Daily Mirror’s agony aunt. So [...]

Explore Moscow THIS MONTH EGOR TATARENKO OF THE ARARAT PARK HYATT OFFERS HIS MUST-DO LIST OF THINGS TO SEE IN THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL Concierge’s Corner FIRST TIMER? Whether you’re coming for leisure or business, make some time for a Kremlin tour (www.kremlin.museum. ru/main_en.asp). Once you’ve explored the cathedrals, palaces and the Government office within, head [...]

Words: Emma Juhasz TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE WITH SOME OF THE MOST REMARKABLE CREATURES IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM ­ ALL STARS OF A NEW BOOK BY PHOTOGRAPHER MARK CARWARDINE THE ANIMAL KINGDOM is filled with many bright and beautiful creatures, but as award-winning writer and photographer Mark Carwardine has discovered, some are more extraordinary than others. Animals have evolved [...]