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...experiencing a traditional bust, in which economic woes spread to housing. In San Diego, the housing decline seems to be a self-generated phenomenon, the product of too-high prices and too-crazy lending practices. Now the "housing market is dragging down the rest of the economy," says Alan Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego. The same is true in and around Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington, New York City and Tampa, Fla.--all metro areas where house prices skyrocketed until 2006 and have since fallen in the face of otherwise positive economic...
...featured artist in this year's edition of Documenta, the provocative contemporary-art show held every five years in Kassel, Germany, El Bulli has become the focus of a lively debate about the aesthetic value of avant-garde cuisine. Suddenly art critics and foodies alike are scrutinizing the gin fizz that manages to be simultaneously hot and cold, the edible paper dotted with flowers, the frozen Parmesan "air" that comes packed in a Styrofoam tub, and asking, Is it art--or is it dinner...
...year for most of their long careers--and relatively cheap. Both forged long relationships with their sponsoring studios. And Bergman was a strong influence on Allen's work: from his New Yorker parody of The Seventh Seal ("Death Knocks," in which the hero plays not chess with Death but gin rummy) to a cameo by the Grim Reaper in Love and Death and, more deeply, the inspiration for the theme and tone of Interiors and Another Woman. Shooting his new film in Spain, Allen took time to talk about Bergman with TIME's Richard Corliss...
...year for most of their long careers - and relatively cheap. Both forged long relationships with their sponsoring studios. And Bergman was a strong influence on Allen's work: from his New Yorker parody of The Seventh Seal, "Death Knocks" (in which the hero plays not chess with Death but gin rummy) to a cameo by a Grim Reaper in Love and Death and, more deeply, the inspiration for the theme and tone of Interiors and Another Woman...
...would like to have dinner in Spain. A car picked the couple up at 8 a.m. on July 2, and drove them to the airport for their flight to Spain. By 7.30 p.m., they were seated on the patio at El Bulli, enjoying those hot-and-cold gin fizzes. They returned to Kassel the next morning...