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    Renaissanceof the X-ray

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 29/05/2016

    » While Peng Janthasorn's work looks like Rembrandts that have been X-rayed, there is a major difference between the young artist and the Dutch and Renaissance masters she loves. Peng cannot paint.

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    On the offence

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 28/08/2016

    » The best defence is showing you're not offended, and for Jimmy Carr the easiest way to do that is to laugh. Carr knows a thing or two about offending people -- it's bound to happen when joking about everything from disability and dwarf shortages to car crashes. No subject is off limits for the English comedian and TV host who even called himself Roger Federer's weird little brother.

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    ‘Nine comedians walk into a bar ...’

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 13/03/2016

    » ‘I’m always introduced as a musical genius and a sex symbol, which is fairly accurate,” Earl Okin explains. “Music is what I’m about, I can’t help being a sex symbol. I didn’t choose it, but music I chose.”

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    Scales of greatness

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 24/01/2016

    » Jazz musicians are accustomed to winging it, but Peter Martin really wasn’t sure what he was in for when he turned up at the East Room of the White House for a state dinner in 2011. He and a band had been engaged for a feature performance, “but that means different things to different people” and the details were surprisingly vague for such an event.

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    A step in the right misdirection

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 15/11/2015

    » Adnan Khashoggi’s private yacht is a study in gold and opulence. It can also be an intimidating place at 9pm when waiting for an escort. Then 10pm rolls around, then 11pm. It is long before the days of mobile phones and Howard Posener is getting nervous, but a sheikh has flown him from London to Spain and promised £30,000 for a night of magic. By the time the Bentley and six guards have turned up and driven him from the luxury vessel to a compound complete with a moat and underground theatre, it is midnight.

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    The boys are back in town

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 24/05/2015

    » Well, he said it was jetlag, but that was clearly a joke. After all, they were five young men in a pop band who had been let loose in Bangkok while on their first major tour. The year was 1994, and Boyzone were still teenagers.

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