Cue all manner of special effects: spiders the size of hubcaps, elephants in the hallway.

NEWYORKER: Jumanji

Nathaniel regularly incorporates random found objects like pieces of sheet metal, gutter pipes, pots, pans, and hubcaps in the mix.

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Pecos is famous for its cantaloupe melons though these rely on groundwater pumps rather than the river, which is here no more than a few isolated puddles among the hubcaps and beer cans.

ECONOMIST: The Pecos river

Off-duty Michelin-starred chefs head to a local restaurant (Pane Vino) and Spring Studios, where they shoot Louis Vuitton and Salvatore Ferragamo campaigns, has forged a partnership with the New York creative mega agency, KCD so town cars purr in a backstreet where you used to fear for your hubcaps.

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