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#leather-jacket

File photo of musician Arthur Alexander.Our new Hidden Gems series aims to educate and entertain readers with excellent but obscure music.We begin this month with an exquisite selection of what is known as deep soul, the gritty sounds of the southeastern United States, where much of the best soul music was made.

Dame Vivienne Westwood's son has called for his mother's dear friend Julian Assange to be freed during an address at the late designer's memorial.In a tribute delivered from the pulpit at Southwark Cathedral, the activist Joseph Corre praised his mother's clothes, their relationship and her legacy.To Vivienne, punk was a political idea not a social one, he said, before criticising the trumped up accusations from a corrupt establishment that had meant that, despite the family's best efforts, Assange was not present at the service.

My mother died today.Or maybe yesterday: the famously deadpan opening of L'Etranger (The Outsider) by Albert Camus.Love Me Tender starts in a similarly affectless mode, with an even more shocking declaration: I don't see why the love between a mother and son should be different from other kinds of love.

Tanner Leatherstein in a screenshot from one of his videos.tanner.leatherstein(RR.SS.)The basic tenets of luxury are exclusivity, and exquisite craftsmanship and materials.That said, luxury and its accompanying price tag can often be abstract.At least, that's according to Tanner Leatherstein, a leather expert who deconstructs luxury goods to find out if the quality of the materials justifies the price and if the craftsmanship is truly artisanal.

Constance Debré thinks her little boy, Paul, is "great" and "a little mensch."Even so, she wonders why the love between mother and son is considered so sacrosanct, different from other forms of love.Or, at least, that is her question by the time she pens Love Me Tender, an autobiographical novel that she published in France in 2020 and was released this fall, in Holly James's translation, by Semiotext(e).

The Toronto Maple Leafs are on pace to best their team record from a year ago, having refused to lose  for almost a month.Should the Toronto Maple Leafs prevail in their game tonight against the Calgary Flames, they will celebrate their one month anniversary of not losing tomorrow.That is because the last team to beat them in regulation was the Pittsburgh Penguins on November 11th.

The joy and excitement of the holiday season are most often seen through the faces of children.Discover the season's best gifts, influenced by classic French brands and current trends.Whether it's for the 2-12 year old petit Francophile in your life or the teen, for whom choosing a gift leaves you frazzled - we have you covered.