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...Graddy's data indicate that between 1850 and April of this year, the value of professional-quality instruments rose in real terms (i.e., after inflation) about 3% annually. High-end violins have appreciated at much higher rates - particularly rare instruments made by Italian masters like Stradivari, Amati and Guarneri del...
Read a Q & A with Guillermo Del Toro on vampires
Vampires these days are sorta lovelorn and wimpy. Not Guillermo del Toro's. His will suck you dry with a stinger-tipped tentacle. It's not really the kind of stuff teen girls want to read. But Del Toro, director of the Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth - as well as The Devil's Backbone, Blade II and the Hellboy series - isn't trying to appeal to the Stephenie Meyer set with his new novel. The first in a trilogy (co-written with author Chuck Hogan), The Strain opens with a plane that lands in New York City, lights off, windows...
...task is expected to be formidable. Part of the job of the chief restructuring officer will be to dispose of real estate such as closed factories. GM assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich. and Wilmington, Del., as well as power-train plants in Livonia, Flint and Ypsilanti Township, Mich., Parma, Ohio, and Fredericksburg, Va., were just added to the list. The automaker also is shutting underutilized stamping plants in Indianapolis and Mansfield, Ohio; and closing warehouses in Boston, Jacksonville, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, all by the end of this year. Workers at all nine plants and the three warehouses were told...
...decide not to post about your friends, or are you impartial about whom you blog about? - Roberto Torres, Wilmington, Del. I'm not impartial. Nor do I pretend to be. I think my readers like the fact that I have opinions and strong ones. I never set out to become friends with celebrities. The ones that I am friends with know what I do for a living. Also, I'm not friends with the ones that are continually going to rehab or getting arrested...