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Bloomberg
3 days ago
- General
- Bloomberg
How China's One-Child Policy Led to a Wave of Forced Adoptions
One morning in the late 1990s while on a reporting trip in China, I went down for breakfast in my hotel, the White Swan. It was the swankiest in Guangzhou, the bustling capital of Guangdong province, and was usually jammed with foreign and Chinese businessmen. But when I stepped into the café, I seemed to have been teleported to a Howard Johnson's in Toledo, Ohio. Instead of besuited businessmen doing deals over eggs and congee, the room was packed with middle-aged Caucasian couples wearing New Balance sneakers and jeans. Even more surprising, many of them were carrying tiny Chinese babies.
Time Out
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The best beer garden in London in 2025, according to Time Out
If there's anything Londoners love more than pubs, it's beer gardens. Now that the sun has started rearing its lovely golden head, it's time for us to deliver the very best pub terraces and beer gardens that this fine city has to offer. Step forwards, Time Out's definitive list of the very best beer gardens in London, 2025. We've ranked our favourite 21 al fresco drinking spots across the capital, from Lewisham to Highbury, and top of the list this year is Finsbury Park's majestic, occasionally confusing Faltering Fullback. One of the weirdest, but most enjoyable beer gardens in London, this beer garden contains multitudes. A kind of treehouse/Ewok village hybrid, what the Faltering Fullback's beer garden lacks in width it makes up for in height. There are stairs. There are nooks. There are even crannies. And on a hot summer's day, it's pretty much the best place to be in London. Other notable entries include the beer garden at Brixton's Duke of Edinburgh, notable for being extremely vast and Newington Green's Army and Navy, notable for being extremely busy when Arsenal are playing. We've also featured some all time beer garden classics; Highgate's The Flask, Wandsworth's The Ship, Camden's Edinboro Castle and Twickenham's ever-charning White Swan, which is basically on the banks of the Thames.
Edmonton Journal
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edmonton Journal
'Mariko is a diamond': After 17 seasons, Alberta Ballet principal dancer Mariko Kondo's final performance will be in Don Quixote
Article content Kondo played the White Swan. 'I didn't think of going to Dubai at the end of my career,' she says with a laugh, 'But it was something I had never experienced before. The city and the beautiful opera house. Everything was more than I imagined.' But Kondo says the timing feels right for her to take her final bow. 'The injury was a big thing for me,' she says. 'I was injured in 2022, and I had pain since, but somehow I danced. But it is time for me. I don't know, but I just feel physically and mentally, it's a good time.' Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Kondo began dancing at the age of six. She trained at the International Ballet Academy in Japan and Canada's National Ballet School before joining Leipzig Ballet in Germany. While in Toronto, she made a tape of herself as an audition for Alberta Ballet, which was then led by former artistic director Jean Grand-Maitre. She arrived in the city in 2007 during the Calgary Stampede. 'I didn't know anything about the Stampede and I saw people wearing cowboy (hats),' she says. 'It was quite interesting to me. Because I didn't see that in Toronto or any other city. It was nice sunny weather. I didn't think I would stay this long. I was quite excited, that's for sure.'
