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...source of a unique wine, sherry, as well as some sublimely ageworthy Rioja and innumerable dramatic reds from Ribera del Duero, a wine region on the Castilian plateau famous only for the long-lived classic Vega...
...Francisco Garcia reports. Additional reporting by Irwin Cruz and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...They comprise 10 new stores across New York, Boston, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, San Antonio and Baton Rouge as well as 20 renovations and expansions.García said “the bulk” of €1.6bn in capital...
...The “Violet” episode, for instance, establishes Leo’s back-story, while “Yellow” sees him assemble his cadre of rogues (played by Paz Vega, Rosaline Elbay, Peter Mark Kendall and Jai Courtney)....
...I have about 80, including Joy Division, Dead Kennedys and Alan Vega. I especially love my New Order T-shirts, for the Peter Saville graphics. I like what these bands represent in English culture....
...David Rodríguez Vega London N10, UK...
...We experienced a similar pattern in the housing boom in the mid 2000s, especially in some cities such as Las Vegas and Phoenix....
...Two-thirds of the people who live in Nevada live in the Las Vegas metropolitan statistical area, so we tend to think of that as being the home of happy vice....
...Cardiff Garcia Okay....
...And from Tim: This week, signs proliferated at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that carmakers are preparing to leap into the future....
...Mr Santos, the second Colombian to win a Nobel Prize after Gabriel García Márquez, who won it for literature, could have received the award just days after ratifying the peace agreement, after dedicating...
...When 17-year-old Cynthia Salgado votes in Las Vegas on Saturday she will be just one of a growing number of Latino US citizens newly energised by Donald Trump....
...Finally, hosts Shannon Bond and Cardiff Garcia offer a few predictions for 2016. Music by: Blue Dot Sessions, Minden and Kevin MacLeod. Go to ft.com/alphachat for show notes....
...The invention of two Englishmen in 1997, TopGolf has three venues in the UK and 16 in the US, with one in Las Vegas due to open next Spring....
...In Las Vegas, the slow construction response to higher demand for housing temporarily limited the supply, which pushed up the prices of the existing structures....
...eulogy for Twitter (The Atlantic) - The quest for randomness (American Scientist) - Solar power: the market is finally making environmentalism easy (Pacific Standard) - Cannabis entrepreneurs in Las Vegas...
...“We are in no way proposing the privatisation of Pemex,” said Salvador Vega Casillas, a Pan senator....
...Federico Garcia Lorca wrote: “There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them.”...
...Over drinks and dinner, he came across as the kind of character Gabriel García Márquez would have conjured up if the master of magic realism had been living closer to Bakersfield than Bogotá....
...Wynn Resorts, which operates several casinos in Las Vegas and Macao, has been rocked by an acrimonious dispute between the company’s two founders and former friends....
...The Las Vegas-based casino group, which also operates a casino in Macao, is at loggerheads with Mr Okada, a 20 per cent shareholder and director of the company....
...Because maybe nobody wants to buy one of the empty houses in Las Vegas or Tampa or wherever, at any price. Many people who want to start new households will no longer want to buy houses at all....
...John McDermott has decided to spend the wholesome US holiday of Thanksgiving in Las Vegas, which means a) he needs gambling tips from the Rabble, and b) we’re gonna keep Western Union on speed dial next...
...Fight for Gomorrah One man eager to make the most of Spain’s regional rivalries is Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire boss of the Las Vegas Sands gaming empire....
...brought together an international judging panel of the FT’s wine correspondent; two top Spanish chefs, Jordi Roca from El Celler de Can Roca, Girona and Julián Serrano from Picasso at the Hotel Bellagio, Las Vegas...
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