Spain
Zut Alors! Cracks in European Housing Market
The housing market slump in the U.S. has spread to Europe, according to this morning's Wall Street Journal. It's the same story over there as here: higher interest rates, tighter lending standards and wavering confidence.
France in the third quarter had its first quarterly home-price decline in almost a decade, and the Celtic Tiger, Ireland, saw home prices in August nearly 2 percent lower than the same month the year before. In Spain, the average home price has fallen since July.
The housing market slowdown could impact these countries' economies, much as it has in the United States.
West Side Luminary Unveils New Menu, Not-So-New Look
James Hamilton
The Picholine
Last summer, Terrance Brennan, the chef and proprietor of Picholine, closed and revamped his restaur read more »
Cormac Goes to Starbucks
Once in those early years he’d gone into a Starbucks, seen the human forms cowled over white paper read more »
Cormac Goes to Starbucks
James Hamilton
The Bisexual Professor: Nathan Lane stars in Simon Gray
Once in those early years he’d gone into a Starbucks, seen the human forms cowled over white p read more »
Soldiers
James Hamilton
The Brit Aristocrat: Billy Connolly stars in Billy Connolly Live! at 37 Arts on West 37th Street.
It was not your typical V.F.W. reunion. read more »
Tocqueville Travels West, Arrives in Style Down the Block
James Hamilton
Always a place to find eclectic and innovative French-American cuisine, Tocqueville recently relocated to a swank Beaux-Arts building on the corner of Fifth Avenue.
While chefs in London, Paris and New York have been turning their temples of haute cuisine into bist read more »
In Spite of Age and Infirmity, Goya’s Sharp Gaze Persisted
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund
Francisco Goya
Hard on the heels of Memling’s Portraits, surely one of the finest exhibitions in the city wit read more »
A Spanish Spot Lures Crowds— At the Expense of Consistency
James Hamilton
Bar
Barça 18
One Star
225 Park Avenue South (at 18th Street)
212-533-2500
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Suba's Spanish Medley: Sangria, Tapas and Flamenco
At first glance, Suba looks like just another trendy restaurant that has invaded the Lower East Side read more »
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle: Mildly Amusing Martial-Arts Romp
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, from a screenplay by Mr. read more »
Smell Her Misery! And Be Nice to Those Perfume Sample Girls
In the Soho Bloomingdale's the other day, a young woman teetering on heels stopped me. read more »
Tapas Have Arrived: Tiny Tidbits Take Manhattan
Spain has been hailed as the new France in matters vinous and culinary, and with some reason. read more »
Alienated Spain Rejects Bush's War
If the carnage in Spain and its political consequences represent a defeat for liberal civilization a read more »
Dining out with Moira Hodgson
Has Tribeca's Victory Cry FadedTo a Voice From Another Room?
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Manet/Velázquez : Brilliant Exhibit Crossing Pyrénées
It has long been recognized that 17th-century Spanish painting exerted a powerful, transforming infl read more »
Preview of Coming Attractions: Sontag Looks at Images of War
Regarding the Pain of Others , by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 131 pages, $20.
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After All These Years, Il Buco Still Packs Them In
Il Buco is like one of those country trattorias where the host does the cooking with products he's g read more »
A Tasty New Mediterranean Makes a Splash in Hell's Kitchen
What better neighborhood than Hell's Kitchen for a restaurant named after a grimy industrial seaport read more »
Zarela Turns Down the Heat At New Murray Hill Cantina
Looking every bit the bombshell in a low-cut black dress andsexy high heels with ankle straps, Zarel read more »
Charm School for Spouses: Swarthy Scoundrels Coach Couples in Corporate Manners
It's hard enough getting ahead in this town. read more »
Why the English Like Spain, and Why Marichu Is Marvelous
"Some things are better from a can."It was a cool, breezy evening, and four of us were having dinner read more »
