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Gone are those concrete rectangles plowed into the backyard and surrounded with that plastic patio furniture that sticks to your legs. Instead, homeowners are installing pools with underwater speakers, fire pits--even fake lagoons that emit something the pool industry calls Faux Fog. Small wonder the average cost of new pools has leaped past...
This summer topnotch chefs are moving the backyard grill, source of much of America's classic cuisine, beyond the realm of traditional burgers and hot dogs to a more global way of cooking outdoors. Three new cookbooks show how the American barbecue can embrace ingredients and influences from regions as diverse as Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean...
Action-sports photographer and skater Patty Segovia, 32, who had to use boys' gear when she started skating in dry backyard pools as a teen, says the corporate interest is helping the sport grow and makes women feel more welcome. "If girls don't have clothing and equipment designed for them, it just adds to the sense that they don't belong," she says. Such discord is often enhanced by skeptical male skaters. "Skating with guys can be intimidating," says Segovia. "I still get heckled in skate parks." This occurs even when she is skating with championship skateboarder (and Olympic...
...preparation, Braff had Portman watch one of his favorite films, Harold and Maude. Like that movie, Garden State quickly establishes an off-kilter tone, using odd pacing and such surrealistic touches as the giant pet cemetery in Portman's character's backyard to create a marijuana-like haze between the main character and his surroundings. "I love stuff that's totally realistic, then dips across the line," he says. "Sometimes I crossed the line...
...does business out of Belgium. In Germany, the Taxpayers' Federation regularly generates headlines by publishing a "black book" of wasteful practices. "We've pretty much reached the limit," rages Michael Jäger, who helps run the federation's Bavarian chapter. Among recent examples in Jäger's backyard: an artificial lake near Munich airport that's costing almost €20 million to build instead of the budgeted €11 million; a €76,500 traffic light in Garmisch Partenkirchen that only worked for a day before it was dismantled; and a gas station on the grounds...