Empire
Sheikh Tahnoon’s IHC nears deal for stake in Richard Caring’s Ivy hospitality empire
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Richard Caring is in advanced talks to sell a significant portion...
The Caribbean Restaurant Reinventing the Momofuku Empire
If you ever had the pleasure of eating at Momofuku Ko, the wonderful, ambitious, and sometimes sort of compellingly bizarre tasting-menu restaurant that closed in 2023, it can be...
Weekend Feature: How my grandfather defended Empire in Kenya
The FeatureA small gathering of family members stood around an open grave in the English countryside, my father’s mother lying in a casket beside us. It was a summer’s...
“The Empire” Goes Beyond Good and Evil—to Rural France
The approach of springtime in New York means the arrival of French movies, whether via the annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema series in early March, the release soon afterward...
Trump, Putin, Xi and the new age of empire
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldYou have heard of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Now welcome...
The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel
The first challenge is deciding what to call her. She is encircled by famous surnames—men jousting over her identity. A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma...
Wolfgang Zwiener, Waiter Who Built a Steakhouse Empire, Dies at 85
Wolfgang Zwiener, who immigrated to New York City from Germany in 1960, ferried thousands of hissing platters of porterhouse to the oak tables as a waiter at Peter Luger...
Taika Waititi’s Open-Hearted Television Empire
Taika Waititi has been asking those questions for five years now, and many of his answers have been nothing short of extraordinary. Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker who...
Alex Jones’s Media Empire Literally Being Auctioned out From Under Him
“If you don’t self-report-deport, then you will never be given an opportunity at citizenship and when you leave, you will never be invited back, you will never be able...
Saudi Arabia breaks ground on $50B Mukaab, the ‘world’s largest building’ — which can hold 20 Empire State Buildings
It’s an out-of-the-box undertaking.What is expected to be the “world’s largest building” has officially broken ground in Saudi Arabia.The ambitious $50 billion project — called The Mukaab — in...
