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...Lost and yearning to return home, they find themselves trapped in a secret valley full of dragons, talking animals and scary rat creatures. Humans live here too, including Thorn, a pretty farm girl whose parents have died, leaving her in the care of her apple-cheeked yet oddly strong Gran'ma Ben. As the Bone's lives become more entwined with Thorn's it becomes clear that she has a secret past that her Gran'ma has been keeping from her. Meanwhile an evil, unseen entity known as the Lord of the Locusts has been gathering armies, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Bones About It | 9/17/2004 | See Source »

...vintage. And so since 1997, the area of Carmenere vines has risen 1,800% in Chile, to more than 15,000 acres and counting. (Terrunyo--the best Carmenere at Chile's largest winery, Vina Concha y Toro--costs about $30 in the U.S. Other highly rated labels, like Terranobles' Gran Reserva or Casa Silva's Los Lingues, can be had for less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Tierra del Vino | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...audiences, both old and new, won’t soon forget the car—Starsky’s red and white striped, souped-up 1974 Ford Gran Torino, a visual icon of the era from the original series. In the movie, when Starsky gets behind the wheel of his beloved car, his uptight intensity lets loose, literally hurling his character—as well as Hutch—to wild extremes. “I did take driving classes and I got to do a couple of peel outs and skid stops,” Stiller states...

Author: By Christine Ajudua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stiller and Wilson, Starsky and Hutch | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...AUTO-MOTION PICTURES ALSO REFLECT newer media. Car films are today's video games. And vice versa. Virtual rides like the Grand Theft Auto games (including Vice City) and the Gran Turismo series have sat on best-of lists. They're also helpful aids to directorial research. John Singleton says he played hours of Turismo while preparing 2 Fast 2 Furious. He put the Nissan Skyline (which isn't sold in the U.S. and had to be imported from Japan) and the Mitsubishi Evo VII in the movie because they're in Turismo. "We wanted to get the cars that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Of Vroooom | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

WIEGAND Trefethen Riesling, 2001 IMMER Cavit Pinot Grigio, 2000 KOPEC Chivite Gran Feudo Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imbible | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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