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...Othello is going to be premiering, ironically enough, in Chicago this fall at the Joffrey. It had its world premiere in New York years ago and then went to San Francisco and Paris. Lar Lubovitch is a wonderful choreographer, and we worked very closely together. The thing I had to learn was how dancers are athletes - only choreographers can really appreciate how long you can sustain a musical passage for a dancer onstage. Othello is a big challenge, one of the few if not the only commissioned American ballet to be in three acts. Given that it's a full...
...market, but today that job takes a different shape. She was recently approached by Luxury Home Magazine to write a piece on short sales - that is, selling your house for less than what you owe on your mortgage. "What might have been selling at $2 million two years ago could be selling for $1.2 million today," says Henderson. Compounding the problem: people who buy expensive homes often want them as second homes. Those folks are most certainly gone from the market, which means an even smaller pool of buyers...
...houses - is certain neighborhoods practically become no-sale zones. Rich Toscano, a financial adviser at Pacific Capital Associates in San Diego, crunched listings data for his metro area and found that while sales for the 20 most-expensive zip codes were down 8% in May, compared to a year ago, sales in the 20 cheapest were up 37%. Try to sell a house in Chula Vista and you're good to go - but don't expect much luck in La Jolla. Of course, what houses are selling for is a whole other question. Homes in those 20 least-expensive zips...
...City, a checkout line snaked around the corner as consumers hoarded pots, soaps and Cuisinarts. "Your home is your place of comfort, the only thing you can count on," says Tina Genitti, 21, while carrying a featherbed, a pillow and body creams to the checkout line. "A few months ago, I would have gone for the cheap featherbed. But I spent the extra $5 here because it's time for a treat." (See sustainable home furnishings...
...Here, it’s very popular to focus on race and ethnicity,” Bovenerk told me after a guest lecture I attended two weeks ago. “Xenophobia is rampant—to the point that minorities are actually afraid of deportation...