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EntErtain LikE a ChEf 58How to deliver the goods at your next

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SHARP BRIEFING 30Things that are worthy of your time this month.

SHARP WOMAN 32Ana de la Reguera doesn’t mind if you make fun of her accent.

48 HOURS: DUBLIN 34Cheers to your weekend on the Emerald Isle.

DESIGN: MID-CENTURY MODERN 35A living room to make Roger Sterling proud.

RACING WATCHES 36Gentlemen, start your chronographs.

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TECH 42Gadgets that can take the plunge.

BOOKS 44How to be a better man. One who can spot psychopaths.

FILM AND MUSIC 46Movies to see, movies to skip and the soundtrack to your summer.

HEALTH AND GROOMING 50Quick workouts for busy guys, and essential products for your gym bag.

CARS 52The world’s most beautiful automobile, and the allure of Ayrton Senna da Silva.

SPORTS 54The UFC may be big-league now, but it’s got some growing up to do.

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It’s been scienti� cally proven that a pair of classic shades like these will make anyone look at least 40% cooler. And as if that weren’t enough of a reason to invest in a pair of Persols (famously Steve McQueen’s frames of choice), you can rest assured in the knowledge that their high-quality polarized crystal lenses will protect your eyes from the sun’s harmful rays. Handmade in Italy, and

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A few things you will find on JAy-Z’s bAllin’ new lifestyle blog, life + times:• A section profiling cool cantilevered homes. • An interview with bespoke suit designer Duncan Quinn.• Reviews of obscure indie rock bands.• Frequent, earnest use of the term “jet-setting.”• Nothing written by Jay-Z.www.lifeandtimes.com

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summer JAmsFor their seventh album, Atlanta DIY garage rockers The Black Lips decided to go a different route and hire an actual producer. They man-aged to nab the perpetually in-demand Mark Ronson, who’s best known for his work with Amy Winehouse. That might sound like a big deal, but when you’re dealing with a four-piece garage band, there’s only so much a producer can do. The flower punks remain intact.

whAt we’re wAtching (in July)Sure, it’s not Mad Men, but both The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad are back this summer on AMC—the former with a whole new crew of writers and the latter another installment in the slow-motion car crash that is Walter White’s career in the meth trade.

frAmpton comes Alive…AgAin, live! The Montreal Jazz Festival is always a good time, and this year is no exception. They’ve invited Peter Frampton to recreate his most famous album, Frampton Comes Alive. Which means you’ll finally get a chance to watch him do that thing where he makes his voice sound like a musical robot in real life, instead of your parents’ basement circa 1976. 7 PM, June 30 @ Salle Wilfred-Pelletier

our fAvourite thing found on lyonstAte, our fAvourite new online mensweAr shop:Billy Reid Duck Boots. Handmade in Italy, $395.www.lyonstate.com

or you could Just wAtch Braveheart three times…One Thousand and One Nights has been hyped by the organizers of Luminato, Toronto’s annual haute culture fest, as their “most ambitious commission” to date. Fair enough! The two-part, six-hour (!) stage version of the classic twenty-odd tales, adapted by Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shayk and English director Tim Supple, has been generating buzz since pre-production, when the 38-person creative crew had to relocate from Alexandria in Egypt to Fez, Morocco, due to the Arab spring upris-ing. Expect sex, violence, and other makings of good theatre.

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NAME: Ana de la RegueraAGE: 34HOMETOWN: Veracruz, MexicoOCCUPATION: ActressWHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER: As Danny McBride’s object of affection in Eastbound and Down, and any number of telenovelas you’ve watched accidentally, thinking they might be steamy low-budget foreign films. WHERE YOU WILL SEE HER: As Maria, Sam Rockwell’s wife and reason to kick some extraterrestial ass in Cowboys and Aliens. ON THE STRUGGLES OF SUCCESS: Success came so quickly for this bombshell that she and most of her colleagues at Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura, which we think is Spanish for, “Like the school in Fame, only Mexican,” opted out of performing their final play. “It was a good generation, they graduated us three months early because everyone was working.” After about a decade of award-winning dramatic work in Mexico, in both films and television, de la Reguera decided it was time to make the leap across the border. “I wanted to give it a shot. I was going to come, but my accountant stole all my money. I didn’t tell anyone because it wasn’t news.” Luckily, after being swindled, she quietly got a role in Jack Black’s luchador comedy, Nacho Libre.THE REASON WE SHOULD STOP DERIDING

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ENGLISH IS YOUR SECOND LANGUAGE: While the actress mostly played dramatic roles in her homeland, since crossing over she’s had more roles in comedies, “People think it would be harder to do comedy,” she says of making people laugh in a second language, “but it’s easier, because I don’t know how I sound in English. You don’t judge yourself that much.”

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ThE Most Beautiful Car iN ThE WORLdFifty years of the Jaguar E-Type.

BY BradLeY horn

it is said that when Malcolm Sayer designed the E-Type for Jaguar circa 1960, he locked himself in a room, alone. We can only

imagine, then, that the former aerodynamicist for the Bristol Aeroplane Company sat hunched over a massive desk in Coventry, drew a No.2 pencil, a slide ruler and a french curve, and set to work.

A man with an affinity for the minutia of mathematics, history says he used secret formulas and ellipses to craft a perfect aerodynamic shape. Ironic it is then that this mathematician would create what many—including one Enzo Ferrari—consider the most beautiful car to ever touch pavement.

Fifty year ago, the E-Type was born into a Britain finally emerging from the bleak aftermath of the Second World War. The stiff upper lip was beginning to temper; “Keep calm and carry on,” was no longer the directive. The Swinging Sixties were taking shape and the “perfectly proportioned” English sports car would become as synonymous with the era as the Beatles’ music, the miniskirt on Twiggy and Bond, James Bond in cinema.

The E-Type found instant affinity with both sexes at a time when gender equality was a boiling concern. Some said it was the car’s phallic profile, but even Jag’s current head of design,

Ian Callum, argues that the shape is “much too voluptuous,” for that interpretation. Either way, in 1996 an opalescent blue example became only the third car put on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

We can actually pinpoint the exact moment in Jaguar lore when the E-Type set the sports car world on its ears: March 15, 1961 at 4:30 p.m.—Swiss time. That’s when Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons unveiled his company’s latest creation to a small scrum of journalists at the Hotel du Parc des Eaux Vives on the eve of the Geneva Motor Show.

Subsequent public excitement over the coupé and the clamour for demonstration runs up a nearby hillclimb was such that police were called to keep the peace and Lyons ordered Coventry to send another car double-quick. In the middle of development laps, Jaguar’s chief test driver Norman Dewis was ushered off the circuit, plied with fish and chips and told to drive his prototype E-Type overnight some 1,200 kilometres from the British Midlands to Geneva. He beat the 10:00 a.m. deadline by eight minutes—and still managed some of the best times over the hillclimb.

Indeed, the E-Type’s “inherent rightness of proportion” aside, this was a world-class sports

car for roughly half the price of the Aston Martins and Ferraris of the day. Developed from the Le Mans-winning C-and D-Type competition cars, this Jaguar was built from a monocoque structure, rode on an advanced fully-indepen-dent suspension and was powered by a triple-carbureted, 265-horsepower, straight-six engine. Simply put, the E-Type was then the world’s fastest production car, capable of 240 km/h. The car won its first motor race one month after its debut, with future Formula One World Champion Graham Hill at the wheel.

From the outset the E-Type was offered as a soft-top or a coupé, with 2+2 and V12-powered versions following later. The E-Type remained in production over 14 years and three generations, making it Europe’s first mass-produced sports car. Peculiar it is, then, that it was the United States, and not the UK, where the car found its largest audience. When the E-Type—or XK-E as it was called in the US—bowed at the 1961 New York Auto Show, some 500 orders were taken on the spot.

Apparently, upon seeing the Jaguar in the flesh for the first time, Frank Sinatra himself declared, “I want that car, and I want it now.”

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All available at Planet of Sound.

Shag Rug by Elte, $865.


Whether you camped out in front of the Apple store or not, the only thing more

important than possessing the latest and best in tablet technology is keeping it in

something equally stylish.

MAKR CARRY GOODS For the rugged man. Handmade in the USA from

top-quality leather. $200

BURBERRYClassic, understated and practical—just like

their famous trenchcoats. $400

LOUIS VUITTONTimeless luxury for a device that’s very of-the-

moment. Makes sense. $375

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something equally stylish.

MAKR CARRY GOODS MAKR CARRY GOODS top-quality leather. $200

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The lightweight fabrics and pale colours of our favourite

summer suits look great, sure, but they’re also practical: light

cottons, wools and linens are exceptionally breathable, helping

you keep cool, while pale colours reflect the sun’s rays. If that’s

not enough to convince you to add a summer suit to your

wardrobe, did we mention how great they look?

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Calvin Klein fitted suit, $1,295; Strellson

shirt, $165; Nautica silk woven tie, $40;

Johnston & Murphy Italian suede bucks,

$134.


Left page: Strellson two-button linen suit, $895; Black Fleece by Brooks Brothers three-quarter- button harlequin shirt,

$80; Johnston & Murphy leather strip belt, $70.

Right page: Dior Homme mix-matched cotton suit, $2,700;

Calvin Klein double-collar shirt, $325; Brunello Cucinelli

reversible pocket square, $115.


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