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Alice Tchernookova is an arts, culture, business and lifestyle journalist and writer based in London.
She has previously worked at VICE media, GARAGE magazine, the DailyMail's lifestyle page Femail, Le Bonbon, and has been freelancing for a range of publications across France and the UK.
Most recently, Alice has been producing content for Francais a Londres - a website devoted to news and events for the French community in London.
Her writing skills span several languages, including French, English and Russian.
Alice is also fluent in 5 languages, and is passionate about dance and music, to which she devotes much of her free time.
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Winners from five different categories collected their prizes during an emotional evening at the Bulgari Hotel in London's West End - An article by Alice Tchernookova from francaisalondres.com A dashing crowd of international attendees gathered at the Bulgari Hotel in London on November 4 to celebrate the winners of the 2021 Franco-British Business Awards.
On 7 October, Baroness Sue Black , forensic anthropologist and pro-vice chancellor for engagement at Lancaster University, and Baroness Susan Greenfield , neuroscientist and founder and CEO of Neuro-Bio Ltd, engaged in a tongue-in-cheek conversation about the lessons they learnt throughout a lifetime working in the science sector at the Sofitel London Saint James .
An article by Français à Londres On 14 September, we organised our first Cocktail after 18 months of interruption. As both sides of the English Channel continue to reel from Brexit in the unstable context of Covid-19, naysayers may be tempted to say that Franco-British relations have reached at an all-time low.
Looking at the EU and UK trying to patch up their relations feels a bit like watching a divorced couple struggling to recreate a bond they should probably never have broken in the first place. The truth is, the only way forward in the globalised world we live in is through cooperation - and certainly not through division.
Depuis petite, Terrie Karam aime faire des dessins pour les autres. À 20 ans, elle décide de se lancer pour tenter de faire de cette passion un métier, prenant pour toile le corps humain.
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Pierre-Antoine : Chanteroy était une des premières épiceries Françaises de Londres lorsque qu'elle a ouvert ses portes en 1998. Au tout début, sa force était simplement de pouvoir importer des produits français et de les revendre ici, ce qui à l'époque n'était pas aussi simple que maintenant.
Photo subjects are all anonymous. This article originally appeared on VICE UK. While the fall of the hard-line Islamist Taliban in 2001 helped to reduce violence against women in Afghanistan, women there still have a long way to go in terms of living in safety.
Substantia Jones started the Adipositivity project in June 2007. Since then, she's photographed several hundred happy naked women of larger proportions, a handful of big men, and about 40 couples, she thinks. The project essentially includes photos of "fat" people, as Substantia describes them, posing naked, most of the time.
"Bettina Reims", courtesy of Bettina Reims, Patrick Remy and TASCHEN. Maison Europeenne de la Photographie's retrospective of internationally acclaimed French photographer Bettina Rheims is nearing its end, which closes on March 27th. Over 500 photographs taken over 35 years, featuring celebrities such as Kate Moss, Madonna, Monica Bellucci, Claudia Schiffer or Naomi Campbell, make up the ...
Cordula Reyer, Camargue, France, 1993; gelatin-silver print, Illford multigrade; 50 x 60 cm (unframed), 66.5 x 78.5 cm (framed); © Peter Lindbergh, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. "This should be the responsibility of photographers today to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection," Lindbergh once proclaimed - a timeless statement.
How speech bubbles turned a painting of Superman, Supergirl, Batman and the Flash having sex with Wonder Woman into a rape scandal.
Eikoh Hosoe, b.1933; Kamaitachi 1969; private collection; © Eikoh Hosoe courtesy of the artist and Akio Nagasawa Gallery; publishing (Tokyo) and Jean-Kenta Gauthier (Paris) Through a selection of 500 images including vintage prints, large-scale works, marketing posters and even Instagram posts, Tate Modern's latest photography exhibition, Performing for the Camera, tries to understand why we use photography and ...
This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. "Football is one of the strongest bastions of manhood," says Selin, a star player and co-founder at Turkish club Sportif Lezbon . "Therefore, it's a place where LGBT people, and women particularly, struggle to be heard."
Serpentine Pavilion 2016 designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG); Design render © Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) The Serpentine Galleries last week revealed the design for their 16th annual Pavilion, as well as four newly commissioned Summer Houses that will accompany it. Serpentine's Architecture Programme - which happens once every year - is a unique exhibition of contemporary, ...
Last month, PornHub released its annual review of the world's sexual quirks. And the world, it turns out, is really into watching other people fuck. In 2015, we as a planet streamed over 4 billion hours of smut on PornHub alone, with the UK ranking second for both overall traffic to the site and page views per capita.
Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus (reduced replica), 1846; oil on canvas; 73.7 x 82.4 cm; © Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986 (1986-26-17). The National Gallery's newest exhibition is a killer: Entirely devoted to Eugène Delacroix, the collection will be comprehensively assessing his career, which spanned over 40 ...
Gestures of support came from all around the world last week after the Paris terrorist attacks that killed 17 people. On Sunday, more than 40 world leaders marched in the city to honor the victims and support freedom of speech.
On this special occasion, Sotheby's will display artworks by some of the most important contemporary artists, such as Yayoi Kusama or Antony Gormley, alongside Erdem's selection, which spans 50 years of artistic production including ground-breaking photography, Abstraction and American Figurative painting. Specially for this "Contemporary Curated" art sale, the Canadian creator hand-picked works that inspire ...
We have now reached the end of the much-awaited inquiry into the death by poisoning of former Russian FSB secret service agent Alexander Litvinenko. Everyday at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, witnesses were heard, testimonies were given, proofs were unveiled, and the events that allegedly led to the agent's death were being carefully scrutinised one by one.
President François Hollande. Photo via Wikimedia Today, Paris is still reeling from the mass shootings at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday and the shooting in Montrouge Thursday morning. At the time of writing, the death toll is at least 15, including two as yet unidentified people killed today at a siege at a kosher supermarket in the city's 20th arrondissement.
We talked to designers Alex Fine and Janet Lieberman about the "first hands-free, strap-free, non-intrusive" vibrator and what it means for female sexual pleasure.
Haven't we all dreamed of staying young and healthy? Some scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York say they have a pill that could help increase our healthy lifespan by reducing the contraction of age-related diseases.
Famous as much for revisiting popular comics and cartoon characters as for collaborating with big names such as Kanye West, Comme des Garcons, Nike, Lucas Films, and MTV - for whom he created a huge inflatable version of the iconic 'Moonman' - American artist KAWS will take his giant sculptures to the UK for the first ...
Ramzan Kadyrov (centre), head of the Chechen Republic (Still from film) At a time when news from Eastern Europe is almost exclusively focused on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it comes as a surprise to hear that someone has chosen to make a documentary about Chechnya, a place that we've heard little about since the end of the Second Chechen War in 2009.
(Photo by estillbham via) The Liberal Democrats had a horrendous election, losing 49 seats and their place in the coalition. Most blame this on a lack of trust in the party after they made a load of pledges before the last election, then gave up on them in order to form a government with the Conservatives.
Despite autism having been proven to be far more common in women than was previously thought, it seems we still have some catching up to do.
Having less meat eaters in the world would improve the quality of meat. Over time, industrial farming would vanish and we would get back to local production.
The Paris Observatory say they're adding a leap second to clocks this summer to catch up with atomic time. We asked some people on the street what they'd do with an extra second of 2015.
Photo not of Russians. By Matthew Francey. Every month seems to bring a fresh set of bans in Mother Russia. A couple of weeks ago, the government tightened its grip on the internet, introducing a new list of 136 banned porn websites, referring to some obscure agreements that were signed at the turn of the century in Paris and Geneva respectively.
A midnight death in San Pedro Sula, Honduras (All photos courtesy of Iain Overton / Canongate Books) "There is this enormous, diverse world around the gun. Some is dark, some is light." This is how journalist and activist Iain Overton presents his new book, Gun Baby Gun, to me.
All photos by Gino Kalkanoglu Next July, while you'll be lazily roasting your back in the sun, getting fatter and fatter from BBQs and beers, swimmer Ben Lecomte will be attempting his second ocean-crossing with only the strength of his arms and the odd kick of a leg to help him.
Hell knows why gay life should be "prohibited", and why gays don't deserve to be "integrated", but fine. So thanks to a "supportive" environment, as Andrew put it (or more like an army of morons who think that being gay is blasphemy), he finally "recovered", and got married.
Overshadowed by the glitz and glamour of the winter sports resort of St. Moritz, the Engadin region is too often forgotten when it comes to its place within art history and its contribution to contemporary art. A place that has always been a prominent location for art and artists, Engadin is commonly associated with the names of Nietzsche, Hermann ...
Leanne Kendrick, of Lancashire, says she is 'addicted' to winning Mother-of-two scours the internet entering 400 competitions a day She has prizes worth thousands including iPads, mini breaks and hampers Says her best prize so far was tickets to a Chelsea football game A woman has revealed she has won an enviable total of £35,000 worth of goods in just a year after spending entire days scouring the internet for competitions.
Phil Lavelle, 34, from Surrey, wrote letter to son Harry signing from 'Santa' He said Santa would collect his old toys to give them to children in need Creative letter received positive and funny reactions on Facebook Four-year-old Harry 'gasped' and was only too happy to share his toys A father who wrote a letter from 'Santa' to his four-year-old boy telling him that he was giving his old toys to needy children for Christmas has warmed other parents' hearts on Facebook.
by Alice Tchernookova, special to The Moscow News A playful new circus-themed exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art puts viewers right in the arena, creating an interactive journey through dressing rooms, tents and even animal cages. Along the way are a wide range of representations of the circus in Russian art, from Alexander Rodchenko to Oleg Kulik.