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...lost a little breath but gained restraint, and Nashville, Burke's album of country covers (out Sept. 26) finds him undersinging and inhabiting songs (Tom T. Hall's That's How I Got to Memphis, Patty Griffin's Up the Mountain) in ways he never did at his vocal peak. The aging musician doing his best work is a modern cliché, as is a collaboration with contemporary artists as a form of tribute. But Nashville is a great way to discover a legendary voice, and Burke's guests--Dolly Parton, Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris--know their...
...portable freezer with goodies such as the delicious but hard-to-catch threadfin salmon. Glen, a tanned and trim 62-year-old who still works as a carpenter, keeps an eye on the charts, goes to fish two hours before full tide, and stays for an hour after its peak. When the tide is out on this shallow coast, he'll walk 3 km over the wet sand to cast his line...
...market rather than accept lowball offers. It happened in Boston in 1991, when condo prices tanked and two-thirds of the inventory was withdrawn for sale, says Chris Mayer, a Columbia Business School professor. Sellers then had to wait up to six years for prices to hit their previous peak. Robert Shiller, a Yale economist who has long warned of a bubble, thinks price stagnation (or worse) is here to stay but that Americans don't want to believe it. "People still expect double-digit gains," he says, citing surveys of homeowners...
...park queues. It's called low season. The weatherman may not be able to promise perfection, but low season is the time of year when the crowds are thin, the experience is purely local and the price is right. Forget Paris in the springtime, and check out these off-peak havens instead...
...These days, just about everyone else is drawn to "St. Trop" (around 100,000 visitors swarm the town each day in high summer)?but not during the fall, when hotels like the 19th century Ch?teau de la Messardi?re offer palatial rooms at almost half the peak-season rate. You'll also enjoy crowd-free beaches, no-hassle dinner reservations and blowout boutique sales...