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Fighting, and how. After first opposing his engagement to the 37-year-old Blanca Cuesta, and publicly suggesting in the gossip rags that her son's intended was a gold digger, the former Miss Spain turned baroness refused to attend the wedding. When the couple's son was born in 2008, Tita required the newborn to be DNA tested - five times - before accepting him as her legitimate grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Feud Imperils a Prized Spanish Art Collection | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

These better-tasting beers have found a receptive audience among Europe's middle-aged drinkers, thanks in part to government health campaigns. "People today are more informed about health risks," says Julio Cuesta, spokesman for Heineken Spain, which owns the country's best-selling alcohol-free beers, Buckler and Kaliber. Those trying to tame their beer guts also like that many nonalcoholic beers contain half the calories of their intoxicating cousins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lighter Brew: Nonalcoholic Beer | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...office. Are there any quiet beaches left in Andalucía? Yes. Take the 442 coastal road from Mazagón toward Matalasca?as, in the province of Huelva. From Mazagón, stop after about 5 km at a right-hand roadside parking spot known as the Cuesta de Maneli. Leave the car and walk along the treated pine boardwalk that undulates through scrub-covered dunes. Roughly 15 minutes later you are overlooking the Atlantic. The beach below is not zoned, but nudists tend to go left, the clothed right. In summer there are a few chiringuitos - makeshift beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dreamy Dunes | 2/29/2004 | See Source »

Films about suburbia typically caricature the bare, brittle conformity of lawn and lane; Michael Cuesta, director of indie fave L.I.E., finds beauty in it, intercutting sequences of whip-sharp candor with brief, glistening fantasy. In his critically-lauded rendering of an adolescent boy’s knotted relationship with an older man in the wake of his mother’s death, Cuesta is gentle, but spares his characters nothing...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Truth About L.I.E. | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

Clemente also mentioned junior-college transfer and former teammate, Bryan Parker, as an immediate contributor to the team. Clemente and Parker, a graduate of Cuesta College in California, played together at St. Thomas More Preparatory School in Connecticut in 1996-97. Clemente is excited about renewing his past on-court chemistry with Parker...

Author: By Pamela F. Peng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Clemente Leads Crimson Attack From Perimeter, Paint | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

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