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...started singing professionally when she was 10 to help pay the family bills. Some 60 years later, Bollywood playback queen Asha Bhosle is, quite probably, the most recorded vocal artist in history. No exact tally exists, but Bhosle estimates she has laid down more than 12,000 songs in over a dozen languages. For decades, slinky Bollywood actresses and dancers have been lip synching to her piquant vocal lines. In recent years, Bhosle has also occasionally collaborated with Western singers, including Boy George and Michael Stipe of R.E.M., and she opened a restaurant, Asha's, in Dubai...
...dramatic landscape of England's Lake District has long acted as muse to artist and writer alike. It's easy to imagine nature enthusiast and future [an error occurred while processing this directive] poet laureate William Wordsworth getting inspired during his visits in the early 19th century, rent in hand, to the home of his landlord on Lake Windermere's northeastern shore. That same house is now the Samling, an 11-bedroom hotel nestled in 27 hectares of pastures and woodland with gorgeous views of the lake. No wonder the Georgian house is occasionally hired out exclusively (and discreetly...
...started singing professionally when she was 10 to help pay the family bills. Some 60 years later, Bollywood playback queen Asha Bhosle is, quite probably, the most recorded vocal artist in history. No exact tally exists, but Bhosle estimates she has laid down more than 12,000 songs in over a dozen languages. For decades, slinky Bollywood actresses and dancers have been lip-synching to her piquant vocal lines. In recent years, Bhosle has also occasionally collaborated with Western singers, including Boy George and Michael Stipe of R.E.M., and she opened a restaurant, Asha's, in Dubai...
...This morning Vuitton president Yves Carcelle announced that the company would hand over all of the holiday windows in 350 stores worldwide to a special contemporary art project created by the 39-year-old Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. "The level of cooperation and, somehow, risk, is pretty high," said Carcelle, "because we won't have any products in our Christmas windows...
...Instead, Eliasson's Eye See You, a lamp shaped like the pupil of an eye, will stare out of Vuitton windows and create what the artist calls "a stage like setting on the street." The proceeds from sales of a limited number of the works along with Eliasson's fees for the project will be donated to 121Ethiopia, a charitable foundation established by the artist and his wife, Marianne Krogh Jensen, in Ethiopia...