On a blustery Sunday that looked almost mild enough to ditch the coat but windy enough to blow the change out of your pocket, I braved the in-between season to venture into the haven of the Four Seasons hotel, where a warm welcome was all that was needed to shake off the chill. Outside, the…
There’s an air of military behind Thom’s disarming smile. Perhaps it’s the precision with which he goes about his business, or the clean-cut appearance and vice-like hand shake upon introduction. Either way, being surrounded by his extraordinary collection of historic aircraft at Warbird Adventures certainly adds to the sense of combat.
I volunteer at a Positive Health Programme, aimed at improving the wellbeing of HIV patients. I am not HIV+ myself, but I have friends who are. I didn’t ask to serve in this programme. They needed accredited personal trainers and I am one, so I offered. (In the interests of full disclosure, I also get free gym…
A phone to accessorise your Bentley? There’s only one contender. Just when you thought you’d got all your car accessories sorted, Bentley goes and releases the Vertu for Bentley phone. The two marques have signed a five-year deal and this is the first that bears both names. Each handmade model has the Bentley badge embossed on…
“Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?” “What have you got?” THE WILD ONE (1953). So then Johnny (a young, magnificent, brooding Marlon Brando) goes to pull the object of his attentions towards him. She walks away but the rebel as an icon in American cinema stays put, staring down the camera in an act of bravura…
Some people think golf is a boring sport. If you’ve ever Googled ‘fun facts about golf’ you might agree. But after all that fist-pumping at Gleneagles last weekend we decided it was utterly gripping. Besides, it’s the only sport we know where practice doesn’t make perfect; it doesn’t seem to help at all. Which means Ryder…
Fortunately we’re not talking about anything related to Saul Goodman and Associates. LUSSO has met up with Frank M. Ahearn, bestselling author of How To Disappear From Big Brother. He’s not a criminal lawyer from Albuquerque with a highly stylised office in a cheap strip mall (or a direct phone link to Ed, who can make ‘the necessary arrangements’); Frank…
‘A father’s love can make or break a girl… He is the hero of her childhood and often a wall she pushes against during her adolescence. He is often both the rule-maker, laying out laws of discipline and competence, and the rule-breaker, helping his daughter take risks… and explore uncharted world. He often exists at…
Cannes 2014 was notable for many things – Nicole Kidman’s turn as Princess Grace in the risible ‘Grace of Monaco’; Timothy Spall’s Best Actor win for his role in Mike Leigh’s triumphant biopic ‘Mr Turner’; Abel Ferrara’s upstaging of the whole shebang with ‘Welcome to New York’, his thinly veiled satire about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which…
Having inhaled the estery fumes of practically every still house for each category of spirit several times over, I was surprised to realise that I had never once passed the threshold of a Scottish distillery, despite their relative proximity to myself in person as well a having somewhat of a soft spot for the spirit in question. As a…