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Amsterdam life and early tourism along the British art coast from 1880-1950. “Welcoming the Stedelijk Museum: Ma- National Maritime Museum levich” exhibits 16 paintings by Rus- Sept. 17-April 13 % sian artist Kazimir Malevich 44-20-8858-4422 (1879-1935), illustrating his evolution www.nmm.ac.uk from an Impressionist style to the geo- Vinyl revolution metrically abstract “Suprematism.” art Van Gogh Museum “Zen Calligraphy and Painting by Yamaoka Tesshu” includes 22 hanging Until Nov. 9 scrolls of Zen calligraphy by Japanese % 31-20-5705-200 statesman Yamaoka Tesshu and his www.vangoghmuseum.nl contemporaries Katsu Kaishu and Ta- The LP record kahashi Deishu. Antwerp Victoria and Albert Museum makes a comeback fashion Until Dec. 14 “Maison Martin Margiela ‘20,’ The Ex- % 44-20-7942-200-0 in the digital age hibition” celebrates 20 years of fash- www.vam.ac.uk ion house Martin Margiela, known for its deconstructivist approach and use Munich of second-hand materials. art ModeMuseum Provincie “Traces of the Spiritual” brings to- Antwerpen gether 350 major works including Until Feb. 8 paintings, sculptures, installations and % 32-3-4702-770 videos exploring the spiritual aspect www.momu.be of 20th century art. Haus der Kunst Berlin Sept. 19-Jan. 11 art % 49-89-2112-7113 “Ayse Erkmen—Travel Companions” www.hausderkunst.de shows sculptures and film work by Turkish-born conceptual artist Ayse art

Erkmen (born 1949). Private collection, Jay Jopling/Cube “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World and Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für its Roots in European Art” juxtaposes Gegenwart—Berlin original drawings, paintings, figure Until Jan. 11 models and film clips produced by the % 49-30-3978-3439 early Walt Disney Studio with art by www.smb.spk-berlin.de German Romantics, French Symbol- ists, Victorians and Surrealists. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung art Sept. 19-Feb. 15 “The Art of Stones—Celebrating 15 % 49-89-2244-12 Years of the German Suiseki Society” www.hypo-kunsthalle.de shows a collection of Suiseki stones, which according to Japanese tradition are selected because of their pleasing Oslo shapes, formed through natural forces. art Museum of Asian Art “Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol” illumi- nates the artist’s personal connection Until Oct. 12 ‘There’s a lot of to themes such as icons, the consumer % 49-30-8301-438 Money in Chairs,’ society, politics, religion and the self. www.smb.spk-berlin.de 1994, by Tracey Astrup Fearnley Museum of Emin, on view in Modern Art Edinburgh. Bonn Sept. 13-Dec. 14 sport % 47-2293-6060 “Women at Olympia” shows works by ing contemporary theater, dance, live rary Art” shows contemporary photog- Until Oct. 12 www.af-moma.no 36 female artists, including installa- art, mixed media and music. raphy and film focused on the coun- % 32-9-2679-999 tions, paintings, photography, sculp- Dublin Fringe Festival try’s domestic circumstances. design.museum.gent.be Venice tures and video art, following the de- Until Sept. 21 Jüdisches Museum architecture velopment of female participation at % 353-1-8171-677 Until Nov. 16 “Marcello Morandini—Arte, Architet- the Olympics and Paralympics since Hannover www.fringefest.com % 49-69-2123-5000 tura, Design” shows more than 60 1896, when no women were allowed art www.juedischesmuseum.de pieces of art, architecture and design to compete. “Desired Men—Dress Codes that Prom- created by Marcello Morandini from Frauenmuseum Edinburgh ise the World” exhibits paintings that art Ghent visualize male dress codes from the 1978-2008. Until Nov. 9 design Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria d’Arte Moderna % “Tracey Emin—20 Years” is a retro- 17th to 19th century. 49-228-6913-44 “Design from Fifties & Sixties” in- Until Nov. 16 spective of the controversial British Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum www.frauenmuseum.de cludes work from Italy, Scandinavia % 39-0417-21127 artist, whose works—appliquéd blan- Until Nov. 30 kets, paintings, sculptures, films, draw- and the U.S. created in the 1950s and www.museiciviciveneziani.it music % 49-511-9807-686 ings and prints—focus on her difficult ’60s by such designers as Arne Jacob- “International Beethovenfest Bonn www.landesmuseum- childhood and teenage years. sen, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Vienna 2008” presents 60 concerts exploring hannover.niedersachsen.de Scottish National Gallery of Aarnio, Tapio Wirkkala, Gio Ponti and books the political legacy of Beethoven’s music. Modern Art Harry Bertoia. “Libraries of the Late Antiquity: Read- Until Sept. 28 Until Nov. 9 Design Museum Gent Helsinki ing and Living in Egyptian Monaster- % 49-228-2010-345 % 44-1316-2462-00 decorative art ies” shows manuscripts from monas- www.beethovenfest-bonn.de www.nationalgalleries.org “The Fascination of Porcelain—Russian teries in ancient Egypt. Porcelain from the Collections of the Papyrusmuseum Brussels art National Museum of Finland” exhibits Until Nov. 14 design “Exhibiting Surrealism—The Interna- Russian porcelain objects from the % 43-1-5341-0 cq “Design September” is the first Brus- tional Surrealist Exhibition, London 18th century to the Soviet era. www.onb.ac.at sels Design Festival, covering furni- 1936” re-examines the famous event, National Museum of Finland ture, industrial, graphic and landscape where works by Dalí, Miró and Ernst Until Dec. 31 Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Service, WSJE research. design. dazzled the British public. % 358-9-4050-9544 Until Sept. 30 The Dean Gallery, Paolozzi Gift www.nba.fi/en/nmf % 32-2-3493-595 Sept. 13-Nov. 9 WSJ.com www.designseptember.be % 44-1316-2462-00 London www.nationalgalleries.org history What’s on WSJ.com subscribers can see an Dublin “Beside the Seaside: Snapshots of Brit- expanded version of the European performing arts Frankfurt Will St Leger ish Coastal Life, 1880-1950” shows arts-and-culture calendar at art Georgina McKevitt and Jacinta Sheerin photographs, posters and seaside “Dublin Fringe Festival 2008” presents WSJ.com/Europe more than 100 performances, includ- “Access to Israel II—Israeli Contempo- in ‘Before Colour,’ in Dublin. memorabilia examining both working Big names for fall books The man behind Hirst W20 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL v Music 10-11 | Cover story Music 7 | Sports DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES Contents Golf Journal: The game is hard Vinyl revolution work...really! The vinyl revolution 3 | Fashion The LP record makes a comeback | Art in the digital age 8-9 Continued from page W11 On Style: Lots of looks on sic funk and world beat tracks from around the world. New York runways Damien Hirst’s secret The store also sells CDs but is doing more business in vinyl. Mr. weapon t 4-5 | Books Jones points out that with some types of music, like dubstep (a bass- Top Picks: heavy dance genre popular in Lon- Autumn reads don, in which tracks are sometimes mixed and arranged on the fly by Events in London and Berlin DJs), many groups release their albums on vinyl only. “Over the last Annie Proulx on familiar 12 | Taste five years vinyl has done nothing but go up,” says Mr. Jones. “I really territory do think there is a future for vinyl.” Ground(ed) Zero Back on Berwick Street are two 6 | Film other shops worth visiting. Revival Records (www.revivalrecords.uk. 19 | Music com) buys and sells rock and pop Telluride’s high classics. It’s strictly a used-record shop, with everything from dusty ob- The price of a Bose SoundDock scurities for around £2 to hard-to- points t find classics for £50 and up. You can also find the occasional new release. 20 | Time Off A mint-condition copy of The Hold Bill Allerton (right) and a Collecting: Steady’s “Stay Positive” was re- customer at Stand Out Classic movie cently on sale for £12, compared Records in Notting Hill. Plus, London record shops Our arts and culture calendar with £16 at HMV. posters Like most of the record shops in Ilpo Musto for The Wall Street Journal and top turntables the area, Revival stocks its racks Summers. Tucked away on Blenheim Cres- PHOTOS: ILPO MUSTO with empty album covers; the Browsing the racks one recent cent, a few steps off Portobello WSJ.com records themselves are kept behind morning is Swedish musician Idris Road, Minus Zero Records (www.mi- the counter. It’s like a library with a Aly Omar, 27 years old, who is visit- nuszerorecords.com) is two shops colorful card catalog: Ask a clerk to ing London with his parents and hit- in one: Minus Zero owner Bill For- bring you the music, which you can ting all the record shops in Notting syth is on the left as you enter; Silly season House of the week Big on taste inspect for scratches or even spin Hill. “It started in the ’90s, with hip Stand Out records owner Bill Aller- Elizabeth Blackshire Editor on one of the turntables before buy- hop,” says Mr. Omar, who has ton is on the right. They both stock A new generation of A 23-acre estate and Our wine columnists find Deputy editor Craig Winneker ing. Revival’s selection is nicely amassed about 4,000 records since an amusingly bizarro mishmash of Art director pranks and pranksters is 18th-century villa in impressive boldness in Fahire Kurt eclectic. On a recent visit, I picked Assistant art director he started buying vinyl as a teen- 1960s and ’70s psychedelia, folk Kathleen Van Den Broeck up Ry Cooder’s self-titled solo de- ager. “I was looking for samples. oddities and old-school British sweeping the U.S. Tuscany, for Œ8 million. America’s Petite Sirah. Matthew Kaminski Taste page editor WSJ.com/Lifestyle WSJ.com/Real Estate WSJ.com/Wine but, and Kraftwerk’s “The Man-Ma- But then you get interested in differ- punk—everything from classic Dy- Questions or comments? Write to [email protected]. chine.” ent types of music. I like the rarity lan and Stones to really weird stuff, Please include your full name and address. For more new releases, head a of it. There are a lot of records that such as a recording of Kurt Von- few doors up the street to Sister Ray aren’t available on CD or digital.” negut reading “Breakfast of Champi- Records (www.sisterray.co.uk), (Rough Trade’s new store just ons.” Even more fun to browse than which has a more modern record- off Brick Lane in London’s East End the records are the old magazines, THE JOURNAL CROSSWORD / 60 Marmee’s youngest 4 Song with the lyric “we ain’t 53 Community orgs. 85 “So that’s it!” shop feel—with CDs and DVDs on supersizes the indie-record-shop postcards and concert posters. Edited by Mike Shenk daughter got a barrel of money” 54 Way off? 86 Stimpy’s pal sale as you enter and thumping mu- concept, with books and CDs and a Further up Portobello Road, Hon- 61 Baseball’s “Little Giant” 5 Nearly worthless coin 55 Parent company 25 Cosecant’s 37 East Germany’s 49 Music producer 88 Trying individuals sic on the stereo. But the selection long row of turntable listening sta- est Jon’s (www.honestjons.com) Across 6 Mussolini’s movement of Capitol Records reciprocal secret police Gotti 62 Largest member of the dolphin 92 It’s re-served of vinyl in the back of the store is ex- tions. It also adds such contempo- specializes in soul, world beats and 1 Stockpile family 7 Class in the phylum ___ 56 Instrument in much ’80s 93 Easy mark 6 Businesses 26 “It’s against 39 Labor Day 50 First name among Arthropoda tensive and fun to browse: every- rary touches as a coffee-and-juice jazz. The shop has joined with rock 65 Was in session pop 94 Trample 11 Some pasta time” tourney hotelkeepers 8 Potential school ___ thing from classic jazz (Miles Davis, bar, lounge seating and free Wi-Fi. musician Damon Albarn to found 66 Movie about a fellow who 58 Mah- 95 Normal habitat 18 Ham carriers 27 Owner of the 43 1980s attorney 51 Top part becomes a country singing 9 Tousle 61 Like most testimony “Kind of Blue”) to pop (new releases There are near daily in-store perfor- the record label of the same name, Canaries 96 Staff note from Madonna and Paul Weller) to mances by bands.) which releases eclectic African and 20 Expired general 52 Movie about an star? 10 Jazz music technique 63 Item involved in horsing 28 “Science Guy” 99 Lariat loop dubstep (The Bug, “London Zoo”). Asian music and archival compila- 21 Columnist 44 Movie about a abusive Hollywood 71 Lineup ID 11 Coastal state of Brazil around? Bill 101 Easy ___ tions, such as the newly issued Huffington female teacher father? 73 Japanese noodles 12 “The Murders in the Rue 64 American way? Side Two: Notting Hill 29 Vatican name Morgue” killer 102 Card game for two Arbitrage “Give Me Love: Songs Of The Bro- 22 Movie about in an inner city 57 Stealthy assassin 75 Org. that’s in the red? 67 Coincide 104 Cabinet choice Portobello Road in Notting Hill kenhearted—Baghdad, 1925-1929,” two good ol’ gals 32 Heartbreaking London school? 59 Like fabric by the 76 Singsong syllable 13 Expert 68 Birds on Canadian 105 Fig. on an eHarmony is one of London’s most popular foiling Boss Hogg? 35 Eye sores 48 Potent leader? yard 77 Discernibly furious 14 Cartoon devil, for short dollars a collection of early 78-rpm record- 15 Words with uproar or instant questionnaire shopping areas, a mecca for people 79 Chevy minivan 69 Afore ings of Middle Eastern music. 16 Professor ’iggins 70 Courtroom 106 He bent Siva’s bow looking to buy everything from vin- Another shop, Sounds, on the Real Sex Changes/ by Andrea Carla Michaels & Patrick Blindauer 81 Movie about a group of young 107 Not naked female vampires? 17 “Smooth Operator” singer promise tage clothing to antique jewelry. It’s main Portobello drag, has a 12345 67891011121314151617 19 Pictures put into PCs 72 Difficult to deal with 108 Sports car, briefly also a target-rich environment for cramped back room with used LPs 84 Growing 110 Out of harbor 18 19 20 21 business? 20 Book, informally 74 Shoots to eat vinyl lovers, with a half dozen but is worth poking your head into 113 Discharge 87 Magazine mailing plea 23 Charlemagne’s realm:Abbr. 78 Big fellow in Sherwood record shops all within a few blocks if you’re looking for something spe- 22 23 24 Forest 114 Chrysler Building style 89 Olympics entrant:Abbr. 24 Considerably of each other in addition to the sev- cial in the classic-rock genre. 30 Width designation 80 Most reliable 115 NYPD employee 25 26 27 28 90 Acapulco aunts eral used-record vendors who set Back at Intoxica Records (www. 31 Smidge 81 Double 117 Duncan of the 91 Movie about two shades- up shop along the street market intoxica.co.uk) on Portobello Road, 29 30 31 32 33 34 82 Item found in a shell NBA wearing singing ladies? 33 Relative of -esque held every Saturday. Mr. Gebologlu has paid for the 34 Ironing challenge 83 Rte. suggestions 118 ___ polloi Bose 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 96 Displaying no emotion Rough Trade (www.roughtrade. Smiths record and is heading out. 35 Weeks, in Juárez 84 Org. that investigates 119 Infamous Amin 97 Olympic crafts com), located on a side street, is usu- It’s music he already has, but he 43 44 45 46 47 36 Takes care of price-fixing 120 Intl. commerce group 98 Tangle ally the first stop in the area for SoundDock wants it on vinyl, too. “I down- 38 Highway department record collectors. Originally affili- loaded it, but I also want to buy it,” 48 49 50 51 99 “Blue Chips” star supply 100 Senators’ city Last week’s solution ated with the record label of the he says. Downloading without pay- 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 40 “Al Aaraaf” author portable 103 Door feature same name, which in the 1980s re- ing “is not good for the artists. It’s 41 Co-star of Teri, Marcia and HOMER TWA TR I BE JOB leased albums by the Smiths, Aztec stealing.” 59 60 61 62 63 64 106 GE purchase of the 1980s Felicity OX I DE H I F I SOAK I N ADA Camera and a host of postpunk 109 “___ Little Prayer” (Dionne 42 Composer Rorem digital music Intoxica sales associate Debbie 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 DES I GNATEDH I TTERS VOL bands, the shop is now a separate Smith says the shop has struggled Warwick hit) 43 ___ operandi NOT I NTHESAMEBAL L PARK entity but has a reputation for a to stay in business in the digital era 73 74 75 76 77 78 111 Chum 44 Square root of nove ME SH ADOBE SAL system 112 Force followers 45 Fertilization sites LARGE ORY NARA VALL I good selection and knowledgeable but is doing better now. “Vinyl, as 79 80 81 82 83 staff. 116 Movie about coverups by 46 Customary behaviors EWE R S B L O G T E E Y E ON City Local currency Œ an artifact, is coming back. Young 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 female aides? 47 Approval indicator: Abbr. NASA NUD I STS REDSTAR New vinyl releases and CDs are people have never known vinyl— 121 Family members 49 “___ idea!” IRONBARS TENONED HONE upstairs, and used records—every- Tokyo ¥46,200 Œ303 they have no concept of it—so it’s a 91 92 93 94 95 96 NEWDRUG BATATHOUSAND 122 Fixed thing from junk to collectible rari- New York $432 Œ306 cool thing for them. They’re discov- WSJ.com SAG F I B POL CHR ties—are in the basement. The ering that it sounds so much better 97 98 99 123 Congressional committee CATCHOFFBASE LA I DOFF Hong Kong HK$3,980 Œ361 subject records are organized in clever cate- than downloads. You can’t collect Crossword online DADA TAFFETA MOTHBAL L 100 101 102 103 104 105 124 Nudist gories. Some groups, like the Beat- London £300 Œ374 MP3s.” For an interactive ICINESS RATRACE AKIO 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 125 Peter, Paul or Mary AANDP ISH CIO ALICE les and the Stones, get their own Frankfurt Œ398 Œ398 126 One way to go out version of The Wall NOSEE STOL PAL GL ESS shelves, but other albums are WSJ.com 116 117 118 119 120 Street Journal Crossword, grouped by interest: “UK Seventies Paris Œ399 Œ399 REO ONESO SOUR Hot tracks Down WSJ.com subscribers GOES I NTOEXTRA I NN I NGS Prog,” “Celtic Folk,” “Texas New 121 122 123 Brussels Œ400 Œ400 See more images and get address 1 Critics’ concerns can go to LOX STEPSUPTOTHEPLATE Country.” There are a lot of rarities info for London’s record stores at 124 125 126 2 Polynesian food fish, for short WSJ.com/WeekendJournal UZ I TWEETS OK I E PEPUP and dance remixes, “things you just Note: In gloss black; iPod not included. Prices, ME T SODDY SNR ARENA including taxes, as provided by retailers in each WSJ.com/Europe 3 Arabian Peninsula port can’t find on a download,” says Mr. city, averaged and converted into euros.

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MERICANS ARE preoccupied to keep us shopping for new looks, with war and a contentious and the cycle of new looks now is so Apresidential race. Taxpayers quick it’s a blur. are bailing out the mortgage indus- The runways so far this week try, and Woody Allen is directing have major nods to two diametri- Puccini. These are confusing times. cally opposed eras—the romantic Little wonder that the fashion late 1960s-early 1970s and the go- world, with its own economic wor- getter 1980s—often on the same runways. Alice + Olivia’s hippy-dippy collection (presented two days after On Style Diane von Furstenberg’s hippy- CHRISTINA BINKLEY dippy collection) included a 1980s- type yellow blouse with big bows and cap sleeves alongside a Victo- ries, is fleeing reality. The spring ’09 rian white lacy dress whose mother collections that designers are show- was worn to Woodstock. ing at New York’s fashion week are Alice + Olivia designer Stacey romantic, flirty and laden with doo- Bendet, 31 years old, spoke of a dads and detail, from Marc Jacobs’s link between our times and the LOS ANGELES CELEBRITY TROPHY South Normandy France plaid, beaded and gathered Ameri- 1970s. She wanted to “mix up hip- PROPERTY FOR SALE cana to Diane von Furstenberg’s pie and hipster,” she says, Haight-Ashbury hippie dresses. “because the hipsters are Michael Kors (far left) Working women who want sub- the modern version of had office-ready styles tlety next season will have to turn to what our parents were.” and colors. Marc Jacobs Michael Kors, or Oscar de la Renta if “For [our parents], it (left) blended eras; Alice + they can afford him—or rely on was them going to war,” Olivia (top) took a cue what’s already in their closets. Ms. Bendet said. But from the ’80s; and Diane Beautiful large 16th century modernized “I think everyone’s looking for es- in this war era, with- von Furstenberg evoked farmhouse in 10 acres, 20 Min bay of cape,” said Cynthia Steffe’s new cre- out a draft, “I hippies (above). Photos: Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal; Abaca/Newscom; Getty Images One of the Most Famous Properties in the Mount St Michel, 1 hr port of Caen, 5 bed ative director, Shaun Kearney, after don’t think Film and Entertainment Industry. (3 en-suite), lounge (50' x 20'), bar, his show Tuesday morning. The col- there’s the same Nanette Lepore is going gant, wide-legged pants, and a host work—a perfectly tailored gray A great “Glass Mansion”, perched like a jewel on games room, new kitchen, utility, garage lection he showed at Bryant Park passion,” Ms. back to her Boho roots of knock-’em-dead evening items. pantsuit—but what the heck. it’s own hilltop with over 14.5 acres, with 360 degree views and all just 25 minutes from LAX. (75'x 20') 3 detached barns with pp for was a “country club fantasy” of cute Bendet said. “I with floaty chiffon Marc Jacobs’s show of Ameri- “Right now people are feeling Designed by William Perriera architect of such 5, 4, and 3 bed gites and pp for a lake. print dresses and 1980s cropped- just want my clothes to blouses, leather skirts, cana was accompanied by Gersh- glum and depressed, and they need distinguished properties as San Francisco ‘s £ 430,000 landmark Trans America building and the and-pleated pants. be fun and make people layers of ruffles and—you win’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and in- to be reminded of [America’s] great Kennedy Center in Washingtion D.C. The estate tel 0033 233498638 There have been historical refer- smile.” heard it here first—a cluded references to the 1940s, heritage,” said Stephanie Solomon, includes a main residence with 7 bathrooms, 3 ences this week to nearly every fash- Matthew Williamson, touch of macramé. 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including a Bloomingdale’s fashion director, af- grand living areas, a gym, 2 offices, 4 complete email [email protected] guest suites and a 50’+ pool. Also, located on ion era since Queen Victoria ruled. who is fearless with vivid Halston was pure ’70s Halston— return to Mr. Jacobs’s early de- ter Mr. Jacobs’s star-studded cat- the property is a separate complete guesthouse Marc Jacobs gave us bustles. Mat- color, offered a hot pink featherweight silk gowns straight signer-grunge plaid flannel-look walk. with pool adjacent to a vineyard. This unique thew Williamson provided tie-dye. patent-leather coat, a se- from the archives and wearable only shirts. There was only one look that Email Christina.Binkley@wsj. property offers potential space for horses, additional offices, recording studio, sports The playful Betsey Johnson quined go-go mini-dress, if you have the body of Twiggy. could take a female executive to com. center, or family outbuildings if needed. Also marched out gingham hoopskirts and a tailored jacket with a Executives looking to inject included, a 4 bedroom home that is adjacent to the properties main entrance. This celebrity and bloomers that could have made busy pattern that reminded some spring style into their ward- estate has never been on the open market. their debut on “Little House on the me of my old Spirograph robes can still turn to Michael Kors [email protected] § 818-961-9963, USA Prairie.” set. We saw a similarly psy- and Oscar de la Renta, two design- So hoarders, take heart. Pull out chedelic look at the show ers who never lose sight of the your old clothes and wear them of Jonathan Saunders— needs of real-life women. Mr. Kors’s again: Nothing is out of style, accord- another Brit. Carolina spring collection offered a number ing to New York’s runways. We’ve Herrera was all flut- of solutions for the business-casual San Francisco, CA seen long hemlines, micro-minis, ters and ruffles. dilemma many office workers face. Pacific Heights View Mansion pencil skirts and flouncy skirts. Big- The navy, black, white and red color Claus Riedel’s legendaRy design fRom1958. Built in 1912, with incredible Bay views. scheme and the clean lines of many Surrounded by a park-like garden. 5BR/5BA, legged pants, skinny-legged pants. a fish Bowl? 5 wood-burning FPs, elevator, retrofitted, Lots of leather and much chiffon. WSJ.com dresses, skirts and, in particular, remodeled while perserving the finest wood Oceanfront Luxury 9000sqft Estate. It’s surprising that women’s fash- Escapism rules pants walked that fine line between Breathtaking Panoramic views across paneling. One block from schools, state-of- the-art security. Buildable lot. ion is getting frilly, given that other See more photos and read daily casual and professional. picturesque Bahia Descanso. 6BR, 9BA, Mr. de la Renta’s elaborate collec- 9 fireplaces, guest house, 3 fountains, Adele Zierler at 412-296-2239 aspects of design and architecture dispatches from the New York www.adelehomes.com waterfall. Baja’s most prestigious are going minimalist. (Our frocks fashion show runways, at tion will be priced several leagues oceanfront community. Finest finishes and will clash with our living rooms.) above Mr. Kors’s, and it spoke to his furnishings. Satellite, Surround, DSL. WSJ.com/Style Full Staff. Baja lifestyle only1 hour But fashion design has to move fast clientele. 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Heavy hitters: Star authors fill t Indignation Philip Roth Sept. 18, £16.99, this fall’s lineup of new books 256 pages During the Korean War, unfortunate Marcus Messner— By Robert J. Hughes Dennis Lehane’s “The Given Day,” a 700-page expected to sell well. The latest installment in the son of a kosher FTER A SLOW SUMMER, publishers epic from the “Mystic River” author that in- the best-selling “You: The Owner’s Manual” se- butcher in Newark, are rolling out their stars for fall. cludes characters such as Babe Ruth. The buzz ries of healthy-living guides—“You: Looking N.J.—begins his Toni Morrison, Stephen King, is also rising for Philip Roth’s “Indignation,” Beautiful”—lands in October in a two-million- sophomore year at an Ohio college. Annie Proulx and Marilynne Robin- the tale of a butcher’s boy in an Ohio college copy printing. Marcus is terrified of failing school son have new novels. So do Chris- during the Korean War. It’s a departure from the summer, when and being sent to Korea, and at the topher Paolini (who wrote “Er- In nonfiction, Bill O’Reilly, Malcolm Glad- some of the biggest books came from un- same time awakens to a fraught Aagon”) and Candace Bushnell (“Sex and the well and Ann Coulter are back. Alice Schroed- knowns, like David Wroblewski’s “The Story of sensual life through his relationship with the emotionally troubled City”). er’s authorized Warren Buffett biography and Edgar Sawtelle.” daughter of a local doctor. cable honcho Ted Turner’s memoirs are both Here are some of the season’s biggest titles. Prepublication reviews have been strong for Rather than embarking on a book tour, the widely popular and renowned 75-year-old author will make a live video appearance on publication day to bookstores nationwide.

Home t Marilynne Robinson Sept. 25, £16.99, 336 pages “Home” shares characters and time periods with Ms. Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Gilead,” but changes the point of view. The new novel follows prodigal son Jack Boughton, one of eight children of former pastor Robert Boughton, from “Gilead.” It’s told through his sister’s eyes; the two siblings bond as they care for their ailing father. The author has picked up the pace: Her first novel was in 1981, her second in 2004. Getty Images t Lauren Uram Goldengrove Francine Prose Oct. 15, NONFICTION £10.99, 288 pages In this coming- of-age novel about family secrets, college-bound Margaret drowns in a lake while rowing with her sister. The sister, a pudgy 13-year-old, t t t The War t Hot, Flat, t Against Outliers: The Longest Within: and Crowded: Medical The Story Trip Home becomes close to Margaret’s boy- friend, as they deal with their loss. A Secret Why We Advice of Success John Grogan Need a Green Publishers Weekly called the novel White James Malcolm Jan. 22, “deeply touching.” House Revolution— Patterson Gladwell £16.99, The author’s “Household Saints” History 2006-2008 and How It Can Renew and Nov. 18, 352 pages was adapted into a 1993 film star- Bob Woodward America Hal Friedman £16.99, The author of ring Tracey Ullman. Ms. Prose has Sept. 8, Thomas L. Friedman Oct. 20, 256 pages “Marley & Me,” who written more than a dozen works of fiction, and her most recent nonfic- £18.99, Sept. 9, £15, In his new book, the author of made his family dog famous, tion book, “Reading Like a Writer,” 512 pages £16, 304 pages “Blink” and “The Tipping Point” writes about his Catholic says we pay too much atten- childhood, overcoming his was a best seller. Simon & Schuster says the Pu- 448 pages How a family copes with a tion to what successful peo- wayward youth, finding true litzer Prize-winning journalist The New York Times columnist son’s debilitating illnesses, in- ple are like—and not enough love, becoming a newspaper draws from secret documents and author of “The Lexus and cluding Tourette’s syndrome about how they were raised, columnist—and adopting a and interviews with partici- the Olive Tree” interviews peo- and obsessive-compulsive dis- when they were born, even pooch. The book launches a pants in the administration, ple around the world about en- order. It’s co-written by the the kinds of few months before the Christ- the Pentagon, the State ergy waste and environmental boy’s father, Hal Friedman, industries mas debut of a film adapta- Department, intelligence consciousness. For example, he who worked with Mr. Patter- their parents tion of “Marley & Me,” agencies and U.S. military shows how today’s paperless son at advertising powerhouse worked in. starring Jennifer An- headquarters in Iraq. society has placed great strains J. Walter Thompson. This is “The Tipping iston and Owen The three previous Wood- on energy usage, and that going the thriller writer’s first iStockPhoto Point” has Wilson (right). ward books on the Bush White green can be a competitive nonfiction book. two million “Trip” follows house were best sellers: “State advantage. Booksellers While Little, Brown usually WSJ.com copies in “A Very Marley of Denial,” the most recent, are eager for publishes one million or more print. Christmas,” a chi- has one million copies in print. the title. of Mr. Patterson’s thrillers, this Page turners dren’s book. The publisher is printing Mr. Friedman book will have a printing of See an interactive book list, about 900,000 copies of plans a multi- 600,000—still a substantial with author Q&As, book “The War Within.” month tour. number for nonfiction. excerpts and videos, at 20th Century Fox WSJ.com/Books iStockPhoto Retna Ltd.

W4 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 W17 FICTION FICTION Proulx mines the West for new stories t t By Robert J. Hughes gion, where her two previous collec- The Brass 2666 Annie NNIE PROULX HAS won a Na- Proulx tions of Wyoming stories were Verdict Roberto Bolaño Ational Book Award, a largely about men. “In a real sense, Michael Connelly Nov. 11, Pen/Faulkner Award, several O. women on ranches are secondary Oct. 16, £17, Henry Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. citizens,” Ms. Proulx says. “But £18.99, 912 pages She is probably best known for in- many, if not most, would be furious 432 pages The late Chilean spiring the film “Brokeback Moun- if you said that out straight. They Two popular Michael writer was tain,” which was based on her short see themselves as mythic Western Connelly heroes from previous embraced by the story about the tragic relationship women.” books—lawyer Mickey Haller and English-speaking world only recently, between two male ranch hands Since publishing her first collec- detective Harry Bosch—team up to several years after his death. Mr. Bo- from her 1999 book “Close Range: tion of stories in 1988, Ms. Proulx solve a lawyer’s murder. laño’s 1998 novel, “The Savage De- Wyoming Stories.” has been praised for her unwaver- The publisher and author released tectives,” which was published in the “ ‘Brokeback Mountain’ has had ing, and unsentimental depictions several videos online to support the U.S. last year, earned high praise and little effect on my writing life, but is of people who confront or avoid the release, including one featuring actor sold 60,000 copies in hardcover and the source of constant irritation in hardships of life. “Our human loves Corbin Bernsen as the victim. This paper. Publisher FSG hopes for the my private life,” says Ms. Proulx by and hates, one’s sense of self, a char- same for this novel, which Publishers will be Mr. Connelly’s biggest first email. “There are countless people acter’s behavior in parlous circum- printing, at 475,000 copies. Weekly calls “a brilliant behemoth.” Getty Images The five-part narrative, translated out there who think the story is stances all interest me,” she says, as from Spanish, begins with scholars open range to explore their fanta- tain.” The new book of short stories does “how the cold light of eventual- sies and to correct what they see as is her third set in the state. “The ity falls on the characters and what The Widows t looking for clues, hoping that the life of Eastwick of an obscure German novelist will an unbearably disappointing story. ideas for stories [for me] nearly al- they do with it.” John Updike shed light on the murders of women They constantly send ghastly manu- ways come from the geography, but The writer says this is the last scripts and pornish rewrites of the an occasional overheard phrase… collection of her Wyoming stories. Oct. 30, in a Mexican bor- der town. The story to me, expecting me to reply can start the machinery as well,” “It’s not because my idea of Wyo- £18.99, publisher is with praise and applause for ‘fixing’ she says. “You can make a story out ming story material is played out, 320 pages printing “2666” the story. They certainly don’t get of almost nothing if you have a mind but partly because I want to avoid For his 23rd novel, in one volume the message that if you can’t fix it that is inclined toward stories.” the regional-writer label,” she says. Mr. Updike revisits and in a three- you’ve got to stand it.” The nine stories in “Fine Just the “And because I’m attracted to differ- his 1984 darkly comic novel “The volume paper- With her new collection, “Fine Way It Is” explore the lives of aging ent landscapes and characters of Witches of Eastwick” and the Con- back edition, Just the Way It Is,” Ms. Proulx re- cowboys, ranch hands and pioneers. greater ethnic diversity. And be- necticut coven that conjured up hus- in a slipcase. bands. Now widowed, the witches turns to Wyoming, the setting of the The book pays particular attention cause I want to work on something embark on adventures to such places story behind “Brokeback Moun- to the lives of the women of the re- different.” as China, Egypt’s pyramids and the AFP/Getty Images Canadian Rockies. “The Witches of East- Just After t wick” was made into a Sunset hit movie in 1987, Stephen King co-starring Cher (right), and is now Nov. 12, HD being developed as £18, GAME PASS an ABC pilot. 368 pages This book of short

Photofest stories includes a possessed stationary bicycle at a t The Hour I gym, a blind girl who can work mir- First Believed acles and a psychiatric patient in Wally Lamb tune with the coming apocalypse. Mr. King says he wanted to BE A WORLD-WIDE RECEIVER Nov. 11, get back to writing stories after £18.99, guest-editing “Best American Short 832 pages Stories 2007.” NFL GAMES STREAMED LIVE ONLINE A couple moves to This is Littleton, Colo.—home of Columbine his first TO POINTS BEYOND NORTH AMERICA.* High School—to try to mend their short-story marriage. The wife is present during collection NOW IN HIGH DEFINITION. the infamous attacks, and her life in six years. begins to fall apart. After the couple returns to a family farm, the husband pieces together the true story

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& Noble placing a massive order. It’s t the first novel in 10 years from the The Given author, whose first two novels were Day Oprah’s Book Club selections. Dennis Lehane Jan. 29, £16.99,

A Mercy t 720 pages Toni Morrison Mr. Lehane casts Nov. 11, off the crime-thriller £13, genre in this epic novel built around 176 pages Boston’s police strike in 1919. “I’ve al- The Nobel Prize- ways loved the period between the winning novelist two world wars,” Mr. Lehane says. (“Beloved”) digs into This family saga encompasses the the roots of slavery. Catholic Church, the Spanish flu, an- NFL.COM/GAMEPASS Unlike the 19th-century settings archists, union organizers and bust- of most slavery novels, this tragic ers, politicians and sports figures like tale is set in and around a 17th- Babe Ruth. Don’t expect century plantation, and concerns a another thriller anytime GAME PASS HD GAME PASS slave girl, Florens, who is taken on soon, Mr. Lehane says. by an Anglo-Dutch trader as part of This is the first novel New and improved Game Pass with higher The original Game Pass powered by a debt. The author explores the at- in a planned trilogy. quality video and more features: Yahoo! Sports: mosphere in which slavery began The book could be the • Regular season games streamed live • Regular season games streamed to thrive. blockbuster of the Publisher Knopf has announced a fall. “It’s going to be online in High Deﬁnition live online first printing of 300,000 copies. very big for us,” says Stan Hynds, head • Unlimited access to archived games • Archived games available for 48 hours buyer at Northshire • Simultaneous viewing of up to 4 games • Compatible with low speed Bookstore, a major broadband connections independent • DVR controls, live stats, chat, and more bookseller in Manchester * NFL Game Pass is not available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Bermuda, Antigua, and U.S. Center, Vt. Territories. Additional restrictions may apply.

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Telluride, Colo. SLIP OF THE LIP got a warm laugh at this year’s Telluride AFilm Festival. While introduc- ing a film at the Sheridan Opera House, a beautiful little jewel box of a theater that dates back to the 19th century, a bright young woman said Sandra Bernhard had played there. Christie's She meant Sarah Bernhardt, of course, and she stood corrected by A poster for the Spanish version of several members of the audience, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’; estimate: but no matter; old and new play well £3,000-£5,000. together at a festival with a long history of taking the broad view. For more than three decades, movie lovers have come to this former mining town almost 3,000 Posters of the meters up in the Rocky Mountains

Film big screen JOE MORGENSTERN OSTERS FOR EARLY James PBond films with Sean Connery are among the most popular, and for refresher courses in where the there will be a number in a coming medium has been (neglected or sale at Christie’s. Among them: a downright unknown classics from very rare British poster for “Goldfin- the silent and sound eras alike) as ‘Slumdog Millionaire’; center, the ger” (1964) with a dramatic image well as where it’s at. animated ‘Waltz With Bashir’; of outstretched golden fingers (esti- On that count the 35th annual fes- bottom, Kristin Scott Thomas in mate: £4,000-£6,000). tival, which ended Sept. 1, was a ‘I’ve Loved You So Long.’ The auction, Wednesday at great success—scores of fascinat- South Kensington, is the second of ing features, documentaries and Ishika Mohan the year’s annual film-poster sales shorts, along with tributes to the ac- that fill the multiplexes to the re- tress Jean Simmons, the Swedish newed pleasure of watching nu- filmmaker Jan Troell and the Ameri- anced human behavior on a big Collecting can director David Fincher. Festival screen. Philippe Claudel’s debut fea- MARGARET STUDER regulars ask no more, even though, ture “I’ve Loved You So Long,” in in their heart of hearts, they may subtitled French and already re- hope for surprise and excitement. leased in some European markets, at Christie’s in London, the leader in Last year those hopes were re- provided that pleasure in hearts and the field. Christie’s specialist Rachel warded by “Juno,” and the year be- spades. Kristin Scott Thomas is Juli- Reilly says she sees growing inter- fore by “The Last King of Scotland” ette, a gaunt pariah who comes to est in posters from entry-level col- and “The Lives of Others.” This live with her younger sister, Léa, af- lectors because the images are both year’s schedule gave no hint of po- ter serving 15 years in prison for a striking and affordable. tential bombshells, but, again, that terrible crime. While Elsa Zylber- Stylish beauties, from Audrey was perfectly OK, given the quality stein is splendid as Léa, Ms. Scott Hepburn to Marilyn Monroe, are of the program as a whole. Then Thomas’s performance is absolute strong sellers. One siren poster fea- along came “Slumdog Millionaire.” perfection—sometimes hooded, oc- tures Jane Fonda as “Barbarella” in

The film’s director, Danny Boyle, Ari Folman and David Polonsky, Sony Pictures Classics casionally ferocious, often unshowy the 1968 erotic science-fiction film. and the screen writer, Simon Beau- (and not at all showy about being un- Ms. Fonda plays an astronaut who foy, are both English, and they’ve single night. showy). The plot is not without its travels through space encountering both done fine work in the past. Mr. In “Flash of Genius,” Greg Kin- manipulations, but the film is so sub- all sorts of adventures. She fa- Boyle’s films include the gritty near brings a quirky intensity to the tle and smart that you either don’t mously does the film industry’s first “Trainspotting,” the exuberant “Mil- role of Robert Kearns, the inventor notice or don’t mind. zero-gravity strip tease (estimate: lions” and the elegant zombie epic of the intermittent windshield Seeing Bent Hamer’s inimitably £3,000-£5,000). “28 Days Later.” Mr. Beaufoy wrote wiper who won judgments against droll “Kitchen Stories” several Horror posters have a strong the deathless, as well as bottomless, Ford and Chrysler for appropriating years ago set me up to enjoy the Nor- cult following, and are often irresist- “The Full Monty.” Yet “Slumdog Mil- his idea. And in “Adam Resur- wegian filmmaker’s new feature, ible in their melodrama. A British lionaire,” which is set in Mumbai rected,” Paul Schrader’s fearless “O’Horten,” and I wasn’t disap- poster for a Hammer Films produc- and was adapted from Vikas film version of Yoram Kaniuk’s Holo- pointed. The hero, Odd Horten, is a tion of “Dracula” (1958) is a striking Swarup’s novel “Q & A,” takes us to a caust novel, Jeff Goldblum is noth- solitary and punctilious train engi- example. Dracula, as a terrifying level that tops the Rockies for ing short of dazzling as a former cir- neer who takes a sense of power lover with fangs bared, holds a heightened experience. An amal- cus clown being treated in an Israeli from the high-speed locomotives he swooning beauty; the text reads gam of “Oliver Twist,” “The Three Sony Pictures Classic mental institution. drives. When he reaches the age of “Don’t Dare See It Alone” (estimate: Musketeers” and Bollywood extrava- public screening anywhere—I said For me, as a working critic, Tellu- mandatory retirement—and misses £5,000-£7,000). A gorgeously dra- gance, it’s the saga—mainly in En- his film was a great example of what ride always amounts to a welcome the last run of his career—this shy, matic U.S. poster for American Inter- glish, plus some subtitled Hindi—of the late Carol Reed once advised: rite of passage—a passage from the gentle man faces a derailing soli- national’s “The Brain Eaters” a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, Find the right container, and you dispiriting sameness of the coarse, tude for which he’s ill-prepared. Or (1958), a film in which slimy alien played as a young man by Dev Patel, can fill it with whatever you wish. aggressively stupid summer movies seemingly ill-prepared. Surrounded parasites attempt to destroy the who pulls himself up by his brains in- “Yes,” Danny Boyle replied, “and I by decay, death and dulcet screwi- world by taking over people’s stead of his bootstraps, and gets a also try to follow David Lean’s ad- WSJ.com ness, Horten slowly but surely gets minds, is expected to fetch shot at becoming a millionaire on a vice to declare your ambitions in the back on life’s track. £300-£500. wondrously garish Indian TV quiz first five minutes.” The ambitions Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s At Christie’s March sale, 92% of show. declared at the beginning of “Slum- Opening this week in Europe film, “Waltz With Bashir,” deals offered posters sold, for 96% of “Slumdog Millionaire” will open dog Millionaire” are huge. By the n Brideshead Revisited Greece, with elusive issues of dissociation, their total estimated value. Bids commercially later this fall, so I’ll end they’re completely fulfilled. Netherlands, Sweden repressed memories and survivors’ came from around the world. The confine myself to only a few effu- American movies were in short n Hancock Greece guilt—in that sense it’s a companion three top lots were a U.S. poster for sions now, with more to come. supply, partly thanks to production n Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Norway piece to “Adam Resurrected”—by ex- the 1958 version of “Attack of the 50 There’s never been anything like delays caused by labor strife in Hol- n Redbelt Germany amining an infamous incident in the ft. Woman,” about a statuesque gi- this densely detailed phantasmago- lywood, but also to the vagaries of Lebanon war when Christian Pha- ant out to take revenge on her cheat- n Star Wars: The Clone Wars Italy ria—groundbreaking in substance, distribution. “American Violet,” di- langists massacred Palestinian civil- ing husband, selling for £11,875; a damned near earth-shaking in style. rected by Tim Disney from Bill n The Love Guru France ians at the Sabra and Shatila refu- British poster for “Dr. No” (1962), Mr. Boyle and his colleagues, includ- Haney’s script, is marked by the elo- n The Rocker Italy gee camps while Israeli soldiers sur- the first James Bond film starring ing his Indian co-director, Loveleen quent debut of Nicole Behaire as a n Tropic Thunder Austria, Finland, rounding the camps did nothing to Sean Connery, at £11,250; and an Ital- Tandan, have pulled off a soaring, young single mother named Dee Germany, Portugal, Sweden, U.K. stop them. Remarkably, the film is ian poster for director Federico Felli- crowd-pleasing fantasy that’s a tale Roberts. She’s the heroine of a n Vicky Cristina Barcelona Norway, Spain an animated feature, and the anima- ni’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), featur- of unswerving love, a searing depic- drama based on a landmark case in n Wall•E Greece tion technique works brilliantly. ing a sexy Anita Ekberg dancing tion of poverty and injustice and a which a similarly young and poor n You Don’t Mess with the ZohanNorway The blue-and-orange images that barefoot, at £10,000. marvelous evocation of multina- Texas woman brought suit against a first fill the screen, a pack of raven- The value of a film poster is tional media madness. When I local district attorney for a pattern Source: IMDB ing dogs running through the based on the fame of the films and WSJ.com subscribers can read reviews of spoke to the director after the first of racism after many black residents these films and others at WSJ.com/FilmReview streets of Tel Aviv, are as powerful actors, rarity, good condition and de- screening here—actually the first of her small town were arrested in a as any I’ve ever seen. sign impact.

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PERENNIAL SORE spot among golf fans is PGA ATour pros grumbling about how much golf they have to play. “Too much golf? And they’re being paid for it? Outrageous!” goes one familiar line of reasoning. “Why, when I was a young man…” begins another. Last year about this time, when the FedEx Cup Playoffs were held over four consecutive weeks (sandwiched between the PGA Championship and the biennial

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Presidents Cup by about a dozen days on each side), player com- plaints reached their zenith. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Padraig Harrington and Ernie Els each chose to sit out one of the events, pleading either fatigue or the de- sire for family time. This year the Tour, feeling their pain, spread out the schedule. After last weekend’s third playoff event, the BMW Champion-

ship in St. Louis, the Tour goes Mark Skillicorn dark for a week. That hasn’t been scheduled to happen in midseason since 1989. Then comes the Ryder Cup in Louisville, Ky., followed by leader boards, and all that takes a doesn’t work effectively.” should have taken his own advice. Jack Nicklaus in his prime limited the final playoff event, the Tour lot out of you. In order to play at A couple of days earlier, before He missed the cut at the Barclays his schedule to about what Mr. Championship in Atlanta. your peak level, you have to be play began at the Barclays, the but stayed on the premises to Woods does today, and less of it For nonprofessionals, this fa- physically and mentally strong, first playoff event, I questioned a practice over the weekend, then was overseas. And that Bobby tigue concept may seem a bit dubi- but if you play 40 weeks a year, very tired-looking Mr. Harrington missed the cut the next week at Jones retired from tournament ous. The Web site of an entity you can’t remain physically and about the same issues. He was the Deutsche Bank Championship. play at age 28 primarily because called the Golf Nut Society is bris- mentally strong.” coming off victories at the last Golf fans sometimes gripe that he found the competition too tling with tales of members doing Healthy young pros, he pointed two majors, the British Open and pros were tougher in the good old stressful and exhausting. things like playing 195 holes in out, don’t usually have a problem the PGA Championship, and all the days, when they had to drive from “It’s only stressful if you’re one day a few months after brain with the physical side of things. personal and media hoopla those tournament to tournament and in playing bad,” Kenny Perry told me surgery. So where does Tiger Eric Axley, for instance, now 34 wins entailed. some cases depended on their at the Barclays. “That’s when golf Woods get off saying he’s too years old, played in 36 Tour “In any given week, I will weekly earnings simply to eat. will beat you down.” But then, a tired to compete for a $7 million events last year, the most of any- spend 70-plus hours on my golf,” That life did require a certain few minutes later, he acknowl- purse? Last year Mr. Woods one. he said. “It may not be high-inten- stamina and resourcefulness, but edged that golf was equally drain- played in only 16 official PGA Tour “Some older guys, or guys who sity work at times, but including the pressures were not all-consum- ing when he played well. events. are injured from beating their my gym work, it is easily 10 hours ing. Dealing with the media gener- “This year was my best year “We’re treading on dangerous hands and wrists and elbows into a day, seven days a week, and it ally meant throwing back cocktails ever. I won three tournaments. ground here, because players the ground for so many years, catches up with you. I know a lot with a handful of reporters, and But the pressure, the adrenaline don’t want to appear arrogant,” they can’t take it as much any- of people work double weeks, but nobody had ever heard of a fit- when you’re at that highest level, former U.S. Open champion Jim more. But even for them, the fa- out here when you’re not at your ness trailer. it’s a crash when you come off Furyk told me a couple of weeks tigue is mostly mental,” Mr. Furyk peak, it shows up very quickly. The top players would have that mountain,” he said with a ago, when I asked about fatigue. said. “When you’ve been out there That’s why you have to take time been a match for the top players laugh. “Golf’s just a big roller- “But the better you play, the too many weeks, you start to get off. You can’t get away with being now, but the fields weren’t nearly coaster ride, I guess. Whichever harder it is to play more events. cranky and stale and make poor average.” as deep. Players could get away way you go, it’s all mental. It’s not You’re making all the cuts, you’re decisions. It’s like any office job, I Mr. Harrington, the world’s with being average. physical at all.” under more stress, you’re on the guess. If your mind is not fresh, it fourth-ranked player, probably It should be noted, also, that Email [email protected]

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W14 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 W7 v Art The man behind the fortune and frenzy

By Kelly Crow AMIEN HIRST HAS found a new way to Damien Hirst shock the art world. (right) and his For the first time, manager, Frank the British artist is Dunphy. bypassing his galler- Dies and asking Sotheby’s to sell his latest suite of preserved sharks and polka-dotted canvases in an open auction. The Sept. 15-16 event in London could bring in as much as £90 million from the sale of 223 new works—about twice as many of his artworks as were sold in auctions overall in 2007. The sale is attracting wide- spread criticism. Mr. Hirst says his dealers are upset about being sidelined. And some of his collectors say that in trying to produce enough work for the blockbuster auction, he has created pieces that are mere echoes of his greatest hits of the past decade. Even Mr. Hirst, 43 years old, was initially skeptical. The direct-to-auction idea actually came from Frank Dunphy, his little- known business manager of more than a decade, whose previous clients include circus acts and exotic dancers. Mr. Dunphy, 70, started Above, ‘Psalm 6: Domine, Ne In Furore’ pitching it to the artist about two (top) and ‘Psalm 3: Domine, Quid years ago and eventually per- Multiplicati?’; estimate: £120,000- suaded Mr. Hirst to “go big.” £150,000. Right, ‘Transience Painting No living artist has ever taken 2’; estimate: £400,000-£600,000. so many of his or her own works directly to auction. Instead, most Martin Beddall for The Wall Street Journal rely on galleries to dole out a plore themes like death and decay. is over, Mr. Dunphy says he hopes works at a luxury hotel in Delhi, Broad, who has bought 23 of Mr. handful of pieces at a time to cura- Last year, the average auction esti- to finalize plans to exhibit the art- India, and hosted another show at Hirst’s works over the past de- tors, collectors and, eventually, mate for a Hirst piece was about ist’s diamond-crusted skull, “For a country club in Bridgehampton, cade, says he doesn’t intend to bid the broader public. Mr. Hirst and $470,000, up from $63,000 a de- the Love of God,” in Las Vegas af- N.Y., a wealthy summer hangout this time around. Too many of the Mr. Dunphy are betting that they cade ago, according to Artnet, a ter an October stopover in the east of New York City. In London pieces are reminiscent of older can make more money by cutting New York-based art-database ser- Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Friday, Sotheby’s VIP party will work, Mr. Broad says. (The sale in- out the middlemen altogether, sell- vice. In June 2007, the royal fam- “All the time, I’m thinking I feature guest deejays Lily Allen cludes five sharks in tanks, several ing new works themselves to the ily of Qatar paid Sotheby’s a haven’t exploited Damien suffi- and Mark Ronson. rotten cow’s heads and 84 mosa- highest bidders. If the sale is a record £9.6 million for “Lullaby ciently enough,” he says. At the Bridgehampton preview ics made from butterfly wings, all success, other star artists like Jeff Spring,” a mirrored cabinet lined In preparation for the London last week, the crowd of 450 in- of which are variations of some of Koons and Takashi Murakami may with shelves of multicolored pills. sale, artist and manager have cluded Howard Stern’s fiancée, his best-known series.) well follow suit. Since then, however, Mr. been working as a promotional model Beth Ostrosky, and real-es- “Clearly, Damien is interested Art-market analysts say a lack- Hirst’s market has shown signs of tag team, with Mr. Dunphy host- tate developer Emanuel Stern and in the economics of his work and luster turnout could weaken Mr. softening. Three months ago, 23 ing lunches and dinners with col- his wife, Liz. At one point, Ms. in creating wealth,” Mr. Broad Hirst’s asking prices overnight, of his works were offered at a lectors and Mr. Hirst giving tours Stern pointed to a life-size poster says. “He can be very innovative, however. Even worse, it could un- round of London auctions, but bid- of the salesroom at Sotheby’s to of a shark in a tank that Sotheby’s but he also seems to be doing dermine buyers’ confidence in the ding was thin and a quarter went major patrons such as François had plastered on the wall and more of the same.” Nevertheless, entire contemporary-art market, unsold. Pinault, Christie’s owner. The art- said, “Wouldn’t this piece look so Mr. Broad says he plans to stop by at a time when some collectors Mr. Dunphy has been working ist says Mr. Pinault gave him a re- cool on the side of a pool?” (The Sotheby’s for a peek on his way to are already cutting back. Oliver to insulate Mr. Hirst from the va- proving pinch on the arm at the actual shark tank, called “The an exhibit of Jeff Koons’s work at Barker, a Sotheby’s specialist, says garies of the marketplace for start of a tour recently but hugged Kingdom,” is priced to sell for £4 Versailles in France. the auction house is “aware of the years. In 1996 he started to rene- him encouragingly at the finish. million to £6 million.) The Sotheby’s sale has put Mr. risks” but believes the sale is a gotiate Mr. Hirst’s gallery con- The auction house, meanwhile, Some of Mr. Hirst’s veteran sup- Hirst’s dealers in an awkward posi- “democratic” idea worth pursuing. tracts, so that the artist could has focused on new collectors; it porters are less impressed, how- tion. Even though the direct-to- Mr. Dunphy’s art-market in- keep more of the proceeds from previewed a sampling of the ever. Billionaire-financier Eli auction model prevents them from stincts have served Mr. Hirst well the sales of his work (of which sharing in the proceeds, they may in the past. The artist says he Mr. Dunphy takes 10%). Today, the need to show up at the sale any- owes much of his global-brand sta- artist takes up to 90%, almost dou- way, if only to reassure their own tus and $1 billion personal fortune ble the industry standard of 50%. Hirst clients. Larry Gagosian, who to Mr. Dunphy, who tracks every He has also helped Mr. Hirst ex- has represented Mr. Hirst in New piece bought or sold within the pand his operation, which in- York for the past eight years, is artist’s empire and has negotiated cludes a staff of 160 people and sending a deputy in his stead, Mr. Hirst’s most lucrative business five studios in southwestern Eng- while he himself hosts the open- deals. As far as Mr. Dunphy is con- land. He manages the artist’s sub- ing of his latest gallery show in cerned, the prices for Mr. Hirst’s stantial personal assets, which he Moscow, scheduled for the same art have never been high enough. says include a $400 million art col- week. Only an open auction of the magni- lection and at least 50 real-estate Meanwhile, Mr. Hirst’s London tude of the coming London sale properties in England and Mexico. gallery, White Cube, is reeling can fully test the artist’s global In addition to his management from rumors that it leaked a list reach, he says. fee, Mr. Dunphy owns a 30% share of some 200 unsold Hirst works in Jose Mugrabi, a major Andy of the artist’s retail company, its inventory to a British art maga- Warhol dealer who owns 80 Hirst Other Criteria, which he says zine as a rebuke for being ex- pieces, says he plans to attend the earns around $12 million a year cluded from the Sotheby’s auction. sale but worries about the prece- through sales of prints, books and Tim Marlow, White Cube’s exhibi- dent being set. “Collectors want T-shirts. After the Sotheby’s sale tions director, denies leaking the to buy for beauty, but this feels list but says the gallery does have like a vulgar way to buy it,” Mr. WSJ.com more than 100 works in stock. Mugrabi says. Inside his head Mr. Marlow says the gallery Mr. Hirst, known for his devil- See a slideshow of works in the tried to caution the artist and Mr. may-care persona, rose to fame in Dunphy against selling art en

Hirst auction at Sotheby’s, at Sotheby's (3) the early 1990s by using dissected WSJ.com/Lifestyle masse, arguing that it could dispel or pickled animal carcasses to ex- ‘The Triumvirate’; estimate £1.5 million-£2 million. the aura of scarcity that tradition-

W8 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 W13 v Taste Repairing the Ground Zero Debacle

A Cultural Conversation With Roland Soong / By Alex Frangos targets that Mr. Silverstein had ground vehicle security center and By Leslie Hook agreed to in 2006. I remind Mr. a new office tower. After years of 7 NEW YORK—Christopher Ward of Robert Caro’s analysis in fights between insurance compa- Ward keeps two of this city’s mas- the “Power Broker,” his biography nies and environmental regulators, ter builders close at hand in his of Mr. Moses, that the “machinery” and then the discovery of 9/11 re- The Chinese Interpreter office at the Port Authority of of democratic governments isn’t mains five years after the attack, of Damien Hirst New York and New Jersey’s head- very effective at large-scale devel- the building suffered a tragic blaze Beijing officialdom loves to “netizens,” quickly noticed that quarters on Park Avenue South. opment. Mr. Ward gets that point in 2007 that killed two firemen. talk about how the Olympics were the picture was fake. But the local On the right of his desk is a pho- but defends the government’s role. “The rational mind goes, ‘I’m a chance for the world to “get to forestry department and provin- tograph of the prolific and contro- “The machinery of govern- going to go in there and analyze know” China. But here in Hong cial-level officials continued to versial Robert Moses. On the opment makes, for probably a lot of this and I’m going to fix it,’” Mr. Kong, one man has made it his promote the “discovery” of the posite wall is Mr. Moses’s great right reasons, everything difficult Ward says. Alas, for a project he mission to provide the West with rare tiger in a bid to increase tour- rival and longtime Port Authority to do. . . . Does that mean things likens to “Japanese origami,” solu- a window into greater China since ism to the impoverished area and boss, Austin Tobin, best known get slowed? Yeah. Does that tions aren’t easy. Mr. Ward now long before the Olympic Games raise money for a nature reserve. for leading the construction of mean we probably avoid some of hopes to see 130 Liberty down by began. Meet Roland Soong. This may seem trivial, but for the original World Trade Center. the mistakes that were made ear- mid-2009. But at the heart of the His blog, EastSouthWestNorth, Mr. Soong, it touched on a much Mr. Ward, the agency’s execu- lier? I think that’s for the good.” Trade Center conundrum is Span- receives as many as 26 million deeper issue: government legiti- tive director, doesn’t claim either iii ish architect Santiago Calatrava’s hits a month. It’s a bit like the macy. “[The officials] don’t recog- man as his model. But he sees Mr. Ward, 53, is the fourth exec- ambitious and expensive birdlike Drudge Report, but for greater nize the impact is a loss of confi- their portraits as an object lesson utive director of the Port Authority transit hall. One billion dollars China—a news aggregator with an dence and trust in what the gov- for a big part of his job—rebuild- in the seven years since al Qaeda over its original $2 billion budget, attitude and an out- ernment has said.” ing a new World Trade Center on destroyed its signature asset. For the hall is inextricably linked to all Tate © Estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2007 sized influence. His efforts—and an land the Port Authority owns. him, it’s a homecoming. He worked the other buildings on the site. De- ‘Triptych—August 1972’ by Francis Bacon. The bulk of Blogger official investigation— “Here are two colossal egos that at the Port Authority from 1997 to lays there ripple to the memorial ESWN provides Roland Soong paid off: In July, really did battle in shaping New 2002 as an executive, and was and Mr. Silverstein’s buildings. links to and English nine months after York, and they should have been working there when the Twin Tow- Mr. Calatrava aired his frus- translations of sto- brings China the photo was re- best of friends and partners be- ers fell and the agency’s leader at tration at the cutbacks that do ries in Chinese me- to the West. leased, the photo- cause they were in some ways the time, Neil Levin, perished. away with the vaulted under- Bacon’s darkness in a new light dia. But it is far graph was declared very similar. But be- ground passages n that the depiction of butchery, of vis- net were followers—at times, even imi- more than a transla- a fake. Seven offi- cause they both felt in the transit hub London art cera, blood and bones, while frighten- tators—of Hiroshige. Twenty of Hi- tion site. “My goal in running the cials, including the local Commu- they had to get their and adjacent shop- TateBritain’sbig “Francis Bacon”exhibi- ing,isnotdisgusting.It’sbeautiful,be- roshige’s landscapes are on view in a blog is neither fame nor fortune, nist Party Secretary, were thrown own way, they ping mall. He told tiongoesontothePrado, inMadrid,the cause what you are aware of seeing beautifulexhibition at Berlin’sMuseum but it is a personal attempt to in jail, and six were reprimanded. fought desperately,” The New Yorker re- city where he died in 1992, and then isnota simulacrumoforgans,butgor- of Asian Art, “Hiroshige: Landscape bring about a social transforma- Mr. Soong’s curiosity about the Mr. Ward says. cently: “If they moves to the Metropolitan Museum in geously applied paint. Woodcut Prints.” tion,” he wrote in 2006. I ask him way different media cover the There have been want to have an New York, the city where this great whether that is still true. “I want same event is part of what gives a lot of battles at ordinary under- painter of the human body had com- Real Bacon aficionados will want In the early 1830s, the subject mat- people to think,” he says. “I want the site such depth. There’s no Ground Zero by ground station mensurate commercial success. How- not only to see the exhibition at Tate ter of Japanese woodcuts began to for people to decide for them- clearer example than his coverage New York’s modern- and a shopping ever, the most appealing thing about Britain, but also at the Prado where shift from geisha girls and Kabuki ac- selves. If that is social transfor- of the Taishi village elections in day titans. Mayors mall, they will this splendidly installed show is that the paintings will be hung in the com- tors to famous sites in changing sea- mation, you can say yes.” 2005. The controversy began when versus governors. have it. They will youcanwalkaroundits tenrooms with- pany of the Velázquez portraits and sons. Hiroshige’s older rival, Hokusai, a reporter for the Guardian vis- Architects versus ar- get the full mea- out once thinking about the cash value other pictures that so influenced him. had a great success with his series ited the village, and wrote chitects. Developers sure of their per- of the objects on the walls, though it is The show must be seen in person— from the period, “Thirty-Six Views of that the Chinese activist versus Port Author- sonality. I do not in the hundreds of millions of dollars. it’s a revelation of Bacon’s handling of Mount Fuji.” Hiroshige, after taking a accompanying him was ity executive direc- say that New York In their joint foreword to the color,whichisnotapparent,forexam- journey from Edo to Kyoto in 1830, pro- beaten “lifeless.” The will get the sta- weightycatalog,Tate’sandtheMet’sdi- ple, even in the reproductions in the duced his own successful series a few tors. It goes a long LMDC excellent catalog. —Paul Levy years later called “Fifty Three Stations next day, other news- way in Mr. Ward’s The plaza, waterfall and the reflecting pools will be ‘available’ in 2011, tion it deserves, rectors, Nicholas Serota and Philippe Until Jan. 4 papers interviewed mind toward explain- but other parts of the memorial may need more time. but it will get the deMontebello, pointoutthatthis show of the Takaido,” several of which are on the fixer, who was ing how we got to a station it wants.” is the first major one not to have been % 44-20-7887-8888 view in the Berlin show. safe, at home. The point, seven years later, that the The Port Authority is a power- Mr. Ward jabs back. “Gently ally pushes up art prices. Now, eatery called The Pharmacy, which influenced by Bacon himself, or by his www.tate.org.uk Unlike Hokusai, who used dramatic outcry from Chinese $15 billion (and growing) project ful actor in the building of New put, he’s a man of clear vision White Cube is resigned to bidding he designed to look like a fanciful greatest critic and friend, David colors and exaggerated shapes, Hi- citizens—particularly that’s meant to respond to the York. The agency has a $5.9 billion who at times sees his vision as at the sale along with everybody chemist’s shop, with aspirin- Sylvester (who died in 2001). The Berlin n art roshige produced something like genre democracy activists, 9/11 attacks is so out of whack. annual budget, including its capi- the one that must be realized else. shaped bar stools and beaker- present curators, Matthew Gale, Chris Japan’s Edo period, from 1603 to scenesset againstdelicatelandscapes. who felt their trust “The complexity of all we tried tal projects, and received about $2 without recognizing that there “What choice do we really shaped lamps. When the restau- Stephens and Gary Tinterow, have no 1868, was one of transition from feu- In “Bridge over River Toyo,” from his To- in Western media was to have there is what we are billion of federal aid doled out af- are the practical realities of time, have?” Mr. Marlow says. rant closed in 2003, Sotheby’s ap- need to think about shielding Bacon dalism to modernity, symbolized by kaido Road series, a remote bridge, broken—was immedi- struggling with. In the rush to fill ter the 9/11 attacks for rebuilding. money and cost.” Still, Mr. Ward “People have a habit of under- proached Mr. Dunphy about auc- from what the foreword calls 50 years the changing role of the samurai, Ja- given minute detail to suggest its dis- ate. “The Guardian was that void, overburdening the site Most of its money comes from defends his predecessors’ quest estimating Frank,” Mr Marlow tioning off the restaurant’s fix- of “a negative critical response to the pan’s medieval warrior caste. No one tance, is contrasted with a small group not responding, so I kept with visions, expectations and tolls at the bridges and tunnels it for great architecture. “I heard says, “but you can’t outmaneuver tures, right down to the urinals. horrors of the paintings”—Bacon’s vis- chronicledthelatterstagesofthispe- of indifferent workers hanging on a doing the translations,” uses probably created problems, constructed decades ago. that argument that somehow this him. He believes in Damien Hirst Mr. Hirst balked at first, but Mr. ceral “images of straining bodies” that, riod with such skill and subtlety as building scaffold. In another early work, Mr. Soong says. He went so both political problems, budget Even before Mr. Ward arrived was the Port Authority’s temple more than he believes in God.” Dunphy convinced him. The sale inhisownwords,leave “atrail ofthehu- the painter and printmaker Utagawa “Evening Rain at Karasaki,” a rainstorm far as to list some recom- and expectation problems,” he back at the Port Authority in May, or cathedral to marry or match Tall and white-haired, Mr. Dun- was a huge hit, bringing in about manpresence.”Oddlyenough,these65 Hiroshige (1797-1858). is rendered in thickening straight lines, mendations for the Guard- says by way of explanation. Now he knew the World Trade Center or even surpass the memorial.” phy has a father-confessor de- £11 million. paintings, including no fewer than 13 Born into a samurai family of mi- and the emptied garden is gray, black ian on his blog. it’s his job to sound optimistic project was in a state of dysfunc- He sees it as an attempt to an- meanor that some attribute to his “Every artist should have some- large triptychs, plus a roomful of draw- nor government officials, Hiroshige and white. In a later, mysterious work, “Freedom of press and take the long view. “But 20 tion. But what he did next was by swer this question: “Will the ar- years of Catholic schooling in Dub- one like Frank,” Mr. Hirst says. ings, photographs and memorabilia became a master of the “ukiyo-e,” or called “Moon Cape” (1857), from his se- does not exist in China years from now, it will be just a some measures bold. He tore up chitecture of lower Manhattan lin. He spent years as an accoun- “He should be the norm.” from his studio, are the opposite of “pictures of the Floating World,” ries “One Hundred Famous Views of today, so . . . It is up to part of New York.” It’s the week the schedule and budget and called bring the sense of grandeur the tant, filing tax returns for British In recent weeks, both men dispiriting. woodcutprints depictingthesophisti- Edo,” a teahouse illumined by lamps the international me- before the seventh anniversary of the existing plan “unrealistic.” The way the Twin Towers did?” performers such as Coco the have been spotted scurrying What emerges from the show is cated pleasures of pre-industrial Edo overlooks a bay made bright by a har- dia to reveal the the attacks and Mr. Ward has qual- official denouement occurred on It’s an understandable aim for Clown and strippers like Peaches around Sotheby’s, sometimes in the brave, noble face of Bacon’s mili- (then the name for Tokyo). This vest moon. In the center are plates of truth of the mat- ified good news. He’s able to say July 1, when Mr. Ward declared an agency that built what were Page before meeting a shaggy- gas masks, monitoring the installa- tant atheism, his credo that we live a “Floating World” is a Japan of an unfinished meal, and from the cor- ter,” he wrote. “[T]he that the national memorial to the that things were so messed up then the tallest buildings in the haired Mr. Hirst over a snooker ta- tion of the artist’s pickled menag- fleeting existence in a world without teahouses, geisha and Kabuki, but in ner we can just make out two figures, myth of the power of 9/11 victims will be “available” on that he couldn’t produce a new world, only to be left homeless af- ble at London’s Groucho Club in erie, including its centerpiece, God, with no reason for being here, and Hiroshige’s unique renderings, it is probably geisha, who are falling asleep. the western media to the 10th anniversary in 2011. schedule and budget until the end ter 9/11. But won’t the new office 1995. The artist had just won the “The Golden Calf.” with no prospect of an afterlife. The also a transcendent vision of every- The atmosphere is both Vermeer-like speak the truth was ruined But “available” doesn’t mean of September. He identified 15 towers be the architectural monu- prestigious Turner Prize and his The tapioca-colored bull car- bleakness of this view is constantly day events and familiar land- and Van Gogh-like—a fading, ordinary in the case of the Guardian. finished or even open, a fact that points that needed to be addressed ment? “Let’s not make the same hard-partying ways had made him cass, in formaldehyde, is fitted and totally mitigated by the beauty of scapes—a vision that would strongly moment, given one last burst of de- None of us want to see that will rankle Mayor Michael to make the project work. mistake as Pennsylvania Station, a tabloid favorite. with gold hooves and horns; it is the paintings. In the magnificently pre- influence European modernism only scription. —J. S. Marcus happen.” Five days later, the Bloomberg and other impatient Two-and-a-half months later, when we tore down the old one Mr. Dunphy says he immedi- estimated to sell for £8 million to sentedroom4—theredofthethreecru- a few decades later. Until Oct. 5 Sitting in his apartment on Ka- Guardian published an editorial de- New Yorkers. “What the public his scrutiny has seen the number and built the rat hole we have ately recognized a star barely tap- £12 million. cifixion triptychs contrasting with the Both Van Gogh, who owned % 49-30-8301-438 doorie Avenue in sweatpants and a scribing the circumstances that led sees most importantly in terms of points grow. “Fifteen becomes now,” Mr. Ward says. Speaking of ping his financial potential. He of- One afternoon last week, cli- gray walls—you are suddenly aware around400Japaneseprints, andMo- www.smb.spk-berlin.de button-down denim shirt, Mr. to the inaccurate report and de- of the plaza, the reflecting pools another 15 and another 15, and by Penn Station, Mr. Ward notes that fered the artist his services, and ents trickled in every few minutes, Soong says he tries to keep his per- Ismael Roldan fending their journalist. and the waterfall will be avail- the time you’re done you’ve his agency is ready to take a lead- the pair soon settled into a com- stepping around crates to greet sonal views out of the site. “I don’t Born in Shanghai in 1949, he able,” Mr. Ward says of the memo- peeled back the onion to a consid- ership role in the long-delayed fortable partnership, with Mr. Dun- the artist in the leather jacket and particularly think that people will was taken to Hong Kong by his rial’s design, which centers on erable degree,” he says. “I actu- transformation of a Midtown post phy playing the bow-tied super- the manager in the grey bespoke be really interested to know what I family when he was just four two voids that mimic the towers’ ally feel good about where we office into a majestic new train sta- ego to Mr. Hirst’s id. suit. With each visitor, the men think on every issue.” Yet there weeks old as they fled the impend- footprints. The museum won’t be are,” he adds, though he warns of tion. (The Port Authority is flush Friends say the artist loves to grew more ebullient. are unmistakable patterns in the ing Communist takeover. His completed and public access re- “trade-offs”—design changes, de- from a recently approved toll in- play pranks on his manager. Dur- The pair was low key the next stories he mentions during our mother Mae Soong worked for the mains in question. lays and cost overruns, among crease at its bridges and tunnels.) ing a trip to New York several morning, however, when they met three-hour conversation—and in Voice of America there, and his fa- Critics say the complexity argu- them—when his official report is It’s an architectural atonement years ago, he crept in to Mr. Dun- for breakfast at the Wolseley Ho- the stories that have made his ther Stephen Soong was a writer, ment is an excuse. Developer Larry unveiled Sept. 29. “Make no illu- 45 years after the destruction of phy’s hotel room while he was tel, a years-long tradition. While blog famous. These are stories of translator and movie producer. Silverstein likes to note that as a sions, ‘save a lot of money’ is not the original Pennsylvania Station. sleeping and decorated the entire they waited for their food to ar- justice, of speaking truth to power, ESWN remains in a category private citizen he rebuilt his 7 in the future for Ground Zero.” “You can make a compelling case . room with cutout images of devils rive, the artist drew a sketch on of journalism gone awry, as well as of its own. Not just because of World Trade Center office tower The hurdles include figuring . . when all is said and done, it and demons “so that Frank would the back of a paper placemat—an- quirky human-interest tales. the quantity and quality of its while the government-owned par- out how to finally dismantle the will transform Manhattan more wake up in hell,” says Richard other mealtime ritual. On this day, Take the story of the pur- translations, but because it is val- cels, especially 130 Liberty St.—the shrouded remains of 130 Liberty than Ground Zero will,” Mr. Ward Wadhams, Mr. Dunphy’s former he depicted Mr. Dunphy with ported photograph of a “paper” ues-driven. “It does have a pretty former Deutsche Bank building— St., a skyscraper damaged on 9/11 says. The World Trade Center is business partner. deeply furrowed eyebrows. tiger. In October 2007 a poor strong personality,” Mr. Soong ad- have languished. Delays at the part whose travails since then have be- “more of a restorative project After Mr. Dunphy overhauled “I had this terrible dream last farmer in Shaanxi province faked mits. By our account, that’s a of the site the Port Authority con- come the dark symbol of every- than a transformative one. It’s crit- Mr. Hirst’s gallery contracts, he night that the paintings didn’t a photograph of a rarenear-ex- good thing. trols mean completion dates for thing that’s wrong with restoring ical, obviously. You couldn’t leave quickly expanded his influence, as- sell,” Mr. Dunphy said quietly, by tinct species of tiger in order to Mr. Silverstein’s other three sky- the World Trade Center. the void and not deal with it.” suming control of virtually all of way of explanation. Mr. Hirst

collect the reward money Ms. Hook is an editorial page scrapers will “need to be renegoti- The black monolith was meant the artist’s business endeavors. looked up from his drawing and Museum or Asian Art, Berlin, photo: Jurgen Liepe ($2,900) for sighting the tigerrare writer for The Wall Street Jour- ated,” Mr. Ward says, and they will to come down back in 2004 to Mr. Frangos is a staff reporter in For instance, in 1998, the artist be- shrugged: “I’m too exhausted to ‘Night View of the Eight Famous Sites at Kanazawa in Musashi Province,’ 1857, by Utagawa Hiroshige, in Berlin. animal. Chinese Internet users, or nal Asia. miss the 2012 and 2013 completion make way for a critical under- the Journal’s New York bureau. came part owner of a Notting Hill dream.”

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Sister Ray Vinyl revolution: In a digital age, Records in Soho. the LP record makes a comeback

By Craig Winneker Sounds of the Universe record shop in London’s Soho.

GROUP OF 20-something tour- ists from Istanbul are wandering along London’s Portobello Road when one of them, Surhan Ge- bologlu, walks into Intoxica, a Spin control: Top turntables bamboo-covered record shop Awith an inviting array of LPs displayed on its FTER A RECENT Brussels con- dock.) It also works on newer stereo sys- walls—everything from Sly and the Family cert by the The Duke Spirit, I tems with no phono input. “We sell Stone’s “A Whole New Thing” to “Scientist at Astood in line to buy the up-and- loads of these,” says Chris Summers, the Controls of Dub.” coming British rock band’s new record, manager of London’s Rough Trade “I just got a record player,” he says, inspect- “Neptune,” on vinyl. The group’s lead record shop in Notting Hill, adding that ing a mint-condition copy of “The Queen Is singer, Liela Moss, was signing fans’ most young buyers don’t bother with Dead” by the Smiths. “My girlfriend bought it purchases. A teenager next to me the USB connection. Unlike the other for me and I want to use it.” smirked as he asked, “Do you even have turntables listed here a dust cover isn’t He’s not alone. The 12-inch vinyl LP a record player?” I gave him a quick included; the company says it will start record—in decline for the past two decades, “Sure, dude,” but was too busy getting selling one for Œ39 at the end of Septem- clung to only by DJs, audiophile nerds and col- Ms. Moss’s autograph on the album ber. lectors—is back. Sales of new LPs are on the cover to explain that it probably pre- Œ148, www.numark.com rise—the only segment of the market for phys- dated him. ical-format recorded music (CDs, tapes and In fact it was the same Technics belt- Pro-Ject Debut III records) to expand during the digital revolu- drive model I’ve had for 30 years. A Sleek design and simple controls dis- tion—and more groups are releasing albums month ago it was finally wearing out, tinguish this entry-level model from an on vinyl, often creatively packaged in combi- and I decided to replace it. I was sur- Austrian manufacturer of high-end nation with digital formats. For young people prised by the range of record players turntables. The Debut III is sold in a va- just discovering vinyl and older listeners in- still on the market—from basic models riety of cool colors, from fire-engine dulging in a bit of sonic nostalgia, a record under Œ100 to ultra-high-end audio- red to lime green. It requires a phono in- player is suddenly a trendy new piece of audio phile contraptions from Continuum put or optional adapter to play on most equipment. Sales of turntables increased Labs and Thorens costing Œ10,000 or recently manufactured stereos. Also, more than 80% from 2006 to 2007 and are con- more. Several new turntables will even changing from 33 1/3 rpm to 45 rpm to tinuing to rise this year, according to the Con- convert music from vinyl records to play singles is a hassle (you have to re- sumer Electronics Association. CDs or MP3 files, though the process move the platter and change the belt While LPs remain a niche product—the can be cumbersome (with some soft- from one sprocket to another, or else sales figures are minuscule compared with ware, you have to tell the computer buy an optional speed-changing attach- the amount of music sold digitally—their re- where tracks begin and end). Yes, a few ment). surgence is notable. World-wide sales of LP die bands who press a few thousand LPs and downloads included. 60,000 discboxes. U.K. sites eral were doing on a recent models even have iPod docks. Œ229, www.project-audio.com records doubled in 2007 (from three million sell them at gigs. There’s also a boom in vinyl Radiohead’s release late last year of “In “People want to hold something,” says Mr. have beefed up morning—and Cockney fruit-and- One thing to keep in mind as you to six million units) after hitting an all-time editions of old albums. U2 just rereleased de- Rainbows” was a watershed for the new sales Jones. “They like the pictures, the artwork.” their vinyl sections veg men shout out friendly hellos. shop: Many of today’s compact stereo Vestax Handy Trax low in 2006, according to figures from IFPI, luxe remastered LP versions of its classics strategy of value-added vinyl. The band made So do older listeners, who remember the in response to increas- It’s also the kind of place that still is systems don’t have “phono” inputs, The iPod of turntables. This porta- the international recording industry trade as- “War” and “October.” Earlier this year, its new album available online and asked peo- days when buying a new record was some- ing demand (recent top sellers home to record shops, a half dozen or so of which boost the analog signal from a ble unit folds up like a clamshell, has a sociation. Global sales of CDs dropped 12% in Michael Jackson’s 25th anniversary edition of ple to pay whatever they wanted to for it. But thing special. “You forget how gigantic the art- include the new Metallica and classics like them clustered on or near Berwick Street. A phonograph needle. Some new turnta- built-in speaker and headphone jack the same period, after having fallen 10% the “Thriller” hit the shelves in a vinyl edition they also released the music in a £40 “disc- work was, how much more interesting the al- Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”). EBay few of the area’s shops have closed in recent bles will plug directly into normal and can run on batteries, so it can be previous year. In the U.S., sales of vinyl with extra tracks. box” edition, with two vinyl records, two CDs bums are than CDs or downloads,” says Mr. and the online Gemm network have created a years, but the remaining ones claim business “line” inputs found on most stereos, taken to parties and picnics. But it also records increased 36% from 2006-2007 while Some artists are even rewarding buyers of and a thick souvenir booklet. (Like the five LPs Allen. “It’s a bit of a lost joy.” huge virtual market for vinyl records by allow- is picking up as demand for vinyl increases. but if you buy one that can’t you may has a good enough needle to use at CD sales dropped nearly 18%. Those figures their new LPs with digital versions of the mu- in the special edition of Metallica’s new al- Sound quality also plays a role. Vinyl fanat- ing small shops around the world to sell to any- They all do business over the Internet and a need a separate preamp. And don’t for- home through hi-fi stereo systems are just for new purchases; they don’t include sic, effectively selling them the best of both bum, “Death Magnetic,” the “In Rainbows” ics have always maintained that LPs sound one. Retail giants such as Best Buy, HMV and few also sell CDs and DVDs. get: You have to get up from the sofa to (even ones without a phono input). the vast secondary market for LPs online and worlds for one price. Major acts like Beck, records are made to play at 45 rpm rather warmer and richer than digital formats. Britain’s Fopp! have vinyl sections. Start at the southern end, where Music & flip the record to side two. Œ138, www.vestax.com in used record shops. Tom Petty and Wilco—as well as newer indie than 33 1/3, allowing for higher-quality “There has been a resurgence of vinyl among But the most rewarding way to shop for Video Exchange and the appropriately named Here, a look at four popular and Technics SL1200 MkII “Last year and this year have been our busi- sensations like Fleet Foxes—have recently re- sound.) Even with the music available digi- people who believe that with CDs and down- LPs is by flipping through the racks in a great Vinyl Junkies are right next to each other. Mu- widely available record players. The old war horse of the turntable est ever,” says Kris Jones of London’s Sounds leased albums on vinyl with free CDs or MP3 tally for free, Radiohead has sold more than loads the sound quality is not there,” says record store, perhaps one specializing in your sic & Video Exchange is worth a brief stop—a —Craig Winneker of the Universe record shop, which sells more IFPI’s Francine Cunningham. favorite kind of music. Plenty of small record real grab bag, with racks of used records in all world, a sturdy direct-drive model fa- music on vinyl than on CD. “It’s really crazy.” That was especially the case in the early shops have closed in recent years, but most cit- genres. Vinyl Junkies (www.vinyl-junkies. Numark TT USB vored by DJs everywhere but also fine Why the sudden interest in a bulky, old- days of CDs, when methods of transferring ies still have a few. Collectors and experts fa- com) has a more attractively arranged selec- A dependable, inexpensive unit perfor home use—though your stereo fashioned format that costs more than down- master tapes to digital formats failed to sat- vor places like Croc-o-Disc in Paris, Hard Wax tion, including new releases, especially in fect for someone starting a new record needs a phono input. (I ended up buy- loading and requires equipment most people isfy audiophiles. CD sound quality has im- in Berlin, Second Life Music in Amsterdam house, disco and funk; vintage classic rock; collection or dusting off the old one. It ing an inexpensive imitation made by banished to the basement long ago? Some of it proved greatly since then, says Mr. Allen, but and Runtrunt in Stockholm. and a wall full of 45s, perfect for DJs seeking includes a USB connection and soft- American Audio that cost Œ98; it works is due to increased visibility in a changing mar- there have always been people “who found dig- For the best shopping, though, they head unusual beats. ware for converting LPs to fine but isn’t as solidly built as the Tech- ketplace. Record companies are looking for in- ital music harsh and cold.” The same is true to London, where around 20 record stores are “We try to sell a bit of everything,” says digital formats. (Nu- nics.) novative ways to make people pay for music— with MP3s, which typically are saved onto still in business, concentrated mainly in two store clerk Dave James, “from drum-and-bass mark’s new TTi USB Œ435, www.panasonic.com often music they already have in another for- players as compressed files, much smaller areas, Soho and Notting Hill. Collectors go to African funk, Latin, reggae.” model adds an iPod mat—rather than get it free or at a reduced than the data on CDs, that sacrifice some au- crazy in these shops, which cater to every Like many of the shops in the area, Vinyl price over the Internet. Vinyl is one way to at- dio quality. taste from acid jazz and soulful house to punk Junkies has several turntable-and-headphone tract buyers with something more tangible There’s also a novelty aspect. To a young to Afro-beat. But even casual buyers can while listening stations, so you can check out poten- than a computer file. buyer, a record is something unusual—even away hours looking through the racks. tial purchases. Store employees report an up- “There’s a reaction against the commoditi- something you listen to from start to finish as Here, a look at a few of the city’s best shops tick in business recently—especially with zation of music” that downloading repre- an artistic whole rather than on shuffle play. selling new releases and vintage LPs. sales over the Internet. “A lot of people are sents, says Mike Allen, a music-industry con- “People have gotten tired of downloading all Side One: Soho only listening to MP3s,” Mr. James says, “but sultant and former vice president of interna- of a sudden,” says Chris Summers, manager of there are still a lot of people who want to hold tional marketing for record company EMI London’s Rough Trade Records. “Young listen- Today’s London may seem like a city of something in their hands.” Group. “With vinyl there’s something that has ers crave something new. To them, vinyl is cookie-cutter pubs and Starbucks-quaffing Just around the corner, on Broadwick innate value—a physical object.” new.” hedge-funders, but Berwick Street, in the Street, is Sounds of the Universe (www.sound- heart of Soho, retains a bit of what people like LPs hitting the market in recent months softheuniverse.com). This airy, sunlit shop fea- The Pro-Ject London’s best vinyl to think of as swinging ’60s vibe. It’s the kind have run the gamut from major acts like Cold- tures several albums from its own label, Soul Debut III turntable. play and Madonna to hip new groups like Photos: Ilpo Musto for The Wall Street Journal The Internet has made it easy to find al- of place where students strike artistic poses Jazz records: mainly new compilations of clas- Black Kids and the Hold Steady and even to in- The vinyl section in the HMV store on London’s Oxford Street. most any record anywhere. 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Sister Ray Vinyl revolution: In a digital age, Records in Soho. the LP record makes a comeback

By Craig Winneker Sounds of the Universe record shop in London’s Soho.

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Golf Journal JOHN PAUL NEWPORT

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W6 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 14, 2008 W15 FICTION FICTION Proulx mines the West for new stories t t By Robert J. Hughes gion, where her two previous collec- The Brass 2666 Annie NNIE PROULX HAS won a Na- Proulx tions of Wyoming stories were Verdict Roberto Bolaño Ational Book Award, a largely about men. “In a real sense, Michael Connelly Nov. 11, Pen/Faulkner Award, several O. women on ranches are secondary Oct. 16, £17, Henry Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. citizens,” Ms. Proulx says. “But £18.99, 912 pages She is probably best known for in- many, if not most, would be furious 432 pages The late Chilean spiring the film “Brokeback Moun- if you said that out straight. They Two popular Michael writer was tain,” which was based on her short see themselves as mythic Western Connelly heroes from previous embraced by the story about the tragic relationship women.” books—lawyer Mickey Haller and English-speaking world only recently, between two male ranch hands Since publishing her first collec- detective Harry Bosch—team up to several years after his death. Mr. Bo- from her 1999 book “Close Range: tion of stories in 1988, Ms. Proulx solve a lawyer’s murder. laño’s 1998 novel, “The Savage De- Wyoming Stories.” has been praised for her unwaver- The publisher and author released tectives,” which was published in the “ ‘Brokeback Mountain’ has had ing, and unsentimental depictions several videos online to support the U.S. last year, earned high praise and little effect on my writing life, but is of people who confront or avoid the release, including one featuring actor sold 60,000 copies in hardcover and the source of constant irritation in hardships of life. “Our human loves Corbin Bernsen as the victim. This paper. Publisher FSG hopes for the my private life,” says Ms. Proulx by and hates, one’s sense of self, a char- same for this novel, which Publishers will be Mr. Connelly’s biggest first email. “There are countless people acter’s behavior in parlous circum- printing, at 475,000 copies. Weekly calls “a brilliant behemoth.” Getty Images The five-part narrative, translated out there who think the story is stances all interest me,” she says, as from Spanish, begins with scholars open range to explore their fanta- tain.” The new book of short stories does “how the cold light of eventual- sies and to correct what they see as is her third set in the state. “The ity falls on the characters and what The Widows t looking for clues, hoping that the life of Eastwick of an obscure German novelist will an unbearably disappointing story. ideas for stories [for me] nearly al- they do with it.” John Updike shed light on the murders of women They constantly send ghastly manu- ways come from the geography, but The writer says this is the last scripts and pornish rewrites of the an occasional overheard phrase… collection of her Wyoming stories. Oct. 30, in a Mexican bor- der town. The story to me, expecting me to reply can start the machinery as well,” “It’s not because my idea of Wyo- £18.99, publisher is with praise and applause for ‘fixing’ she says. “You can make a story out ming story material is played out, 320 pages printing “2666” the story. They certainly don’t get of almost nothing if you have a mind but partly because I want to avoid For his 23rd novel, in one volume the message that if you can’t fix it that is inclined toward stories.” the regional-writer label,” she says. Mr. Updike revisits and in a three- you’ve got to stand it.” The nine stories in “Fine Just the “And because I’m attracted to differ- his 1984 darkly comic novel “The volume paper- With her new collection, “Fine Way It Is” explore the lives of aging ent landscapes and characters of Witches of Eastwick” and the Con- back edition, Just the Way It Is,” Ms. Proulx re- cowboys, ranch hands and pioneers. greater ethnic diversity. And be- necticut coven that conjured up hus- in a slipcase. bands. Now widowed, the witches turns to Wyoming, the setting of the The book pays particular attention cause I want to work on something embark on adventures to such places story behind “Brokeback Moun- to the lives of the women of the re- different.” as China, Egypt’s pyramids and the AFP/Getty Images Canadian Rockies. “The Witches of East- Just After t wick” was made into a Sunset hit movie in 1987, Stephen King co-starring Cher (right), and is now Nov. 12, HD being developed as £18, GAME PASS an ABC pilot. 368 pages This book of short

of their families, based on found let- iStockPhoto ters and diaries. Publisher HarperCollins is going out with 400,000 copies, with Barnes

& Noble placing a massive order. It’s t the first novel in 10 years from the The Given author, whose first two novels were Day Oprah’s Book Club selections. Dennis Lehane Jan. 29, £16.99,

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Mr. weapon t 4-5 | Books Jones points out that with some types of music, like dubstep (a bass- Top Picks: heavy dance genre popular in Lon- Autumn reads don, in which tracks are sometimes mixed and arranged on the fly by Events in London and Berlin DJs), many groups release their albums on vinyl only. “Over the last Annie Proulx on familiar 12 | Taste five years vinyl has done nothing but go up,” says Mr. Jones. “I really territory do think there is a future for vinyl.” Ground(ed) Zero Back on Berwick Street are two 6 | Film other shops worth visiting. Revival Records (www.revivalrecords.uk. 19 | Music com) buys and sells rock and pop Telluride’s high classics. It’s strictly a used-record shop, with everything from dusty ob- The price of a Bose SoundDock scurities for around £2 to hard-to- points t find classics for £50 and up. You can also find the occasional new release. 20 | Time Off A mint-condition copy of The Hold Bill Allerton (right) and a Collecting: Steady’s “Stay Positive” was re- customer at Stand Out Classic movie cently on sale for £12, compared Records in Notting Hill. Plus, London record shops Our arts and culture calendar with £16 at HMV. posters Like most of the record shops in Ilpo Musto for The Wall Street Journal and top turntables the area, Revival stocks its racks Summers. Tucked away on Blenheim Cres- PHOTOS: ILPO MUSTO with empty album covers; the Browsing the racks one recent cent, a few steps off Portobello WSJ.com records themselves are kept behind morning is Swedish musician Idris Road, Minus Zero Records (www.mi- the counter. It’s like a library with a Aly Omar, 27 years old, who is visit- nuszerorecords.com) is two shops colorful card catalog: Ask a clerk to ing London with his parents and hit- in one: Minus Zero owner Bill For- bring you the music, which you can ting all the record shops in Notting syth is on the left as you enter; Silly season House of the week Big on taste inspect for scratches or even spin Hill. “It started in the ’90s, with hip Stand Out records owner Bill Aller- Elizabeth Blackshire Editor on one of the turntables before buy- hop,” says Mr. Omar, who has ton is on the right. They both stock A new generation of A 23-acre estate and Our wine columnists find Deputy editor Craig Winneker ing. Revival’s selection is nicely amassed about 4,000 records since an amusingly bizarro mishmash of Art director pranks and pranksters is 18th-century villa in impressive boldness in Fahire Kurt eclectic. On a recent visit, I picked Assistant art director he started buying vinyl as a teen- 1960s and ’70s psychedelia, folk Kathleen Van Den Broeck up Ry Cooder’s self-titled solo de- ager. “I was looking for samples. oddities and old-school British sweeping the U.S. Tuscany, for Œ8 million. America’s Petite Sirah. Matthew Kaminski Taste page editor WSJ.com/Lifestyle WSJ.com/Real Estate WSJ.com/Wine but, and Kraftwerk’s “The Man-Ma- But then you get interested in differ- punk—everything from classic Dy- Questions or comments? Write to [email protected]. chine.” ent types of music. I like the rarity lan and Stones to really weird stuff, Please include your full name and address. For more new releases, head a of it. There are a lot of records that such as a recording of Kurt Von- few doors up the street to Sister Ray aren’t available on CD or digital.” negut reading “Breakfast of Champi- Records (www.sisterray.co.uk), (Rough Trade’s new store just ons.” Even more fun to browse than which has a more modern record- off Brick Lane in London’s East End the records are the old magazines, THE JOURNAL CROSSWORD / 60 Marmee’s youngest 4 Song with the lyric “we ain’t 53 Community orgs. 85 “So that’s it!” shop feel—with CDs and DVDs on supersizes the indie-record-shop postcards and concert posters. Edited by Mike Shenk daughter got a barrel of money” 54 Way off? 86 Stimpy’s pal sale as you enter and thumping mu- concept, with books and CDs and a Further up Portobello Road, Hon- 61 Baseball’s “Little Giant” 5 Nearly worthless coin 55 Parent company 25 Cosecant’s 37 East Germany’s 49 Music producer 88 Trying individuals sic on the stereo. But the selection long row of turntable listening sta- est Jon’s (www.honestjons.com) Across 6 Mussolini’s movement of Capitol Records reciprocal secret police Gotti 62 Largest member of the dolphin 92 It’s re-served of vinyl in the back of the store is ex- tions. It also adds such contempo- specializes in soul, world beats and 1 Stockpile family 7 Class in the phylum ___ 56 Instrument in much ’80s 93 Easy mark 6 Businesses 26 “It’s against 39 Labor Day 50 First name among Arthropoda tensive and fun to browse: every- rary touches as a coffee-and-juice jazz. The shop has joined with rock 65 Was in session pop 94 Trample 11 Some pasta time” tourney hotelkeepers 8 Potential school ___ thing from classic jazz (Miles Davis, bar, lounge seating and free Wi-Fi. musician Damon Albarn to found 66 Movie about a fellow who 58 Mah- 95 Normal habitat 18 Ham carriers 27 Owner of the 43 1980s attorney 51 Top part becomes a country singing 9 Tousle 61 Like most testimony “Kind of Blue”) to pop (new releases There are near daily in-store perfor- the record label of the same name, Canaries 96 Staff note from Madonna and Paul Weller) to mances by bands.) which releases eclectic African and 20 Expired general 52 Movie about an star? 10 Jazz music technique 63 Item involved in horsing 28 “Science Guy” 99 Lariat loop dubstep (The Bug, “London Zoo”). Asian music and archival compila- 21 Columnist 44 Movie about a abusive Hollywood 71 Lineup ID 11 Coastal state of Brazil around? Bill 101 Easy ___ tions, such as the newly issued Huffington female teacher father? 73 Japanese noodles 12 “The Murders in the Rue 64 American way? Side Two: Notting Hill 29 Vatican name Morgue” killer 102 Card game for two Arbitrage “Give Me Love: Songs Of The Bro- 22 Movie about in an inner city 57 Stealthy assassin 75 Org. that’s in the red? 67 Coincide 104 Cabinet choice Portobello Road in Notting Hill kenhearted—Baghdad, 1925-1929,” two good ol’ gals 32 Heartbreaking London school? 59 Like fabric by the 76 Singsong syllable 13 Expert 68 Birds on Canadian 105 Fig. on an eHarmony is one of London’s most popular foiling Boss Hogg? 35 Eye sores 48 Potent leader? yard 77 Discernibly furious 14 Cartoon devil, for short dollars a collection of early 78-rpm record- 15 Words with uproar or instant questionnaire shopping areas, a mecca for people 79 Chevy minivan 69 Afore ings of Middle Eastern music. 16 Professor ’iggins 70 Courtroom 106 He bent Siva’s bow looking to buy everything from vin- Another shop, Sounds, on the Real Sex Changes/ by Andrea Carla Michaels & Patrick Blindauer 81 Movie about a group of young 107 Not naked female vampires? 17 “Smooth Operator” singer promise tage clothing to antique jewelry. It’s main Portobello drag, has a 12345 67891011121314151617 19 Pictures put into PCs 72 Difficult to deal with 108 Sports car, briefly also a target-rich environment for cramped back room with used LPs 84 Growing 110 Out of harbor 18 19 20 21 business? 20 Book, informally 74 Shoots to eat vinyl lovers, with a half dozen but is worth poking your head into 113 Discharge 87 Magazine mailing plea 23 Charlemagne’s realm:Abbr. 78 Big fellow in Sherwood record shops all within a few blocks if you’re looking for something spe- 22 23 24 Forest 114 Chrysler Building style 89 Olympics entrant:Abbr. 24 Considerably of each other in addition to the sev- cial in the classic-rock genre. 30 Width designation 80 Most reliable 115 NYPD employee 25 26 27 28 90 Acapulco aunts eral used-record vendors who set Back at Intoxica Records (www. 31 Smidge 81 Double 117 Duncan of the 91 Movie about two shades- up shop along the street market intoxica.co.uk) on Portobello Road, 29 30 31 32 33 34 82 Item found in a shell NBA wearing singing ladies? 33 Relative of -esque held every Saturday. Mr. Gebologlu has paid for the 34 Ironing challenge 83 Rte. suggestions 118 ___ polloi Bose 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 96 Displaying no emotion Rough Trade (www.roughtrade. Smiths record and is heading out. 35 Weeks, in Juárez 84 Org. that investigates 119 Infamous Amin 97 Olympic crafts com), located on a side street, is usu- It’s music he already has, but he 43 44 45 46 47 36 Takes care of price-fixing 120 Intl. commerce group 98 Tangle ally the first stop in the area for SoundDock wants it on vinyl, too. “I down- 38 Highway department record collectors. Originally affili- loaded it, but I also want to buy it,” 48 49 50 51 99 “Blue Chips” star supply 100 Senators’ city Last week’s solution ated with the record label of the he says. Downloading without pay- 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 40 “Al Aaraaf” author portable 103 Door feature same name, which in the 1980s re- ing “is not good for the artists. It’s 41 Co-star of Teri, Marcia and HOMER TWA TR I BE JOB leased albums by the Smiths, Aztec stealing.” 59 60 61 62 63 64 106 GE purchase of the 1980s Felicity OX I DE H I F I SOAK I N ADA Camera and a host of postpunk 109 “___ Little Prayer” (Dionne 42 Composer Rorem digital music Intoxica sales associate Debbie 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 DES I GNATEDH I TTERS VOL bands, the shop is now a separate Smith says the shop has struggled Warwick hit) 43 ___ operandi NOT I NTHESAMEBAL L PARK entity but has a reputation for a to stay in business in the digital era 73 74 75 76 77 78 111 Chum 44 Square root of nove ME SH ADOBE SAL system 112 Force followers 45 Fertilization sites LARGE ORY NARA VALL I good selection and knowledgeable but is doing better now. “Vinyl, as 79 80 81 82 83 staff. 116 Movie about coverups by 46 Customary behaviors EWE R S B L O G T E E Y E ON City Local currency Œ an artifact, is coming back. Young 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 female aides? 47 Approval indicator: Abbr. NASA NUD I STS REDSTAR New vinyl releases and CDs are people have never known vinyl— 121 Family members 49 “___ idea!” IRONBARS TENONED HONE upstairs, and used records—every- Tokyo ¥46,200 Œ303 they have no concept of it—so it’s a 91 92 93 94 95 96 NEWDRUG BATATHOUSAND 122 Fixed thing from junk to collectible rari- New York $432 Œ306 cool thing for them. They’re discov- WSJ.com SAG F I B POL CHR ties—are in the basement. The ering that it sounds so much better 97 98 99 123 Congressional committee CATCHOFFBASE LA I DOFF Hong Kong HK$3,980 Œ361 subject records are organized in clever cate- than downloads. You can’t collect Crossword online DADA TAFFETA MOTHBAL L 100 101 102 103 104 105 124 Nudist gories. Some groups, like the Beat- London £300 Œ374 MP3s.” For an interactive ICINESS RATRACE AKIO 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 125 Peter, Paul or Mary AANDP ISH CIO ALICE les and the Stones, get their own Frankfurt Œ398 Œ398 126 One way to go out version of The Wall NOSEE STOL PAL GL ESS shelves, but other albums are WSJ.com 116 117 118 119 120 Street Journal Crossword, grouped by interest: “UK Seventies Paris Œ399 Œ399 REO ONESO SOUR Hot tracks Down WSJ.com subscribers GOES I NTOEXTRA I NN I NGS Prog,” “Celtic Folk,” “Texas New 121 122 123 Brussels Œ400 Œ400 See more images and get address 1 Critics’ concerns can go to LOX STEPSUPTOTHEPLATE Country.” There are a lot of rarities info for London’s record stores at 124 125 126 2 Polynesian food fish, for short WSJ.com/WeekendJournal UZ I TWEETS OK I E PEPUP and dance remixes, “things you just Note: In gloss black; iPod not included. Prices, ME T SODDY SNR ARENA including taxes, as provided by retailers in each WSJ.com/Europe 3 Arabian Peninsula port can’t find on a download,” says Mr. city, averaged and converted into euros.

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