With its bluff-top setting overlooking a blue lagoon and the Pacific Ocean, the Four Seasons Resort Aviara was designed to project an aura of bliss. But as The New York Times skillfully reports , the Spanish Colonial-style resort north of San Diego has become the site of a pitched battle between its owners and the Four Seasons, which manages the property

Let’s get this straight.

Facing 100 mph fastballs and diving for screaming line drives couldn’t have been this hard. In his latest tumble, former baseball star Lenny Dykstra is being sued in federal court in Manhattan for allegedly failing to pay five people a combined $183,000 for helping launch The Players Club , his ill-fated magazine about the extravagant lifestyles of pro athletes. The plaintiffs include, the New York Post reports , Time magazine art director Arthur Hochstein and Mary Anne Gordon, a former head of photography at Time , as well as Marco Canora, a celebrated chef Dykstra hired for the magazine’s $400,000 launch party at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York.

Donald Trump may have won the Scottish government’s approval to build a massive seaside golf resort in the Highlands, but squabbles over the project continue. In an amusing column by Sarah Lyall , who delights in chronicling the quirkiness of British culture, The New York Times reports that Michael Forbes, the local fisherman and quarry worker whose 23-acre property lies within Trump’s proposed development, is standing firm in his refusal to sell the land he’s lived on for 41 years. He’s painted a big anti-Trump motto on the side of his barn and won’t even open mail from Trump’s people.

It’s hard to remember a time when exotic travel to so many places was as reasonably priced as it is today. If it’s the rainforest you’ve always wanted to see, here’s a recession special worth checking out. The Lost Iguana Resort in Costa Rica is offering a seven-night package for $999 that includes all meals (though not alcohol) and a $500 credit at its new Golden Gecko Spa as well as transportation to and from the San Jose International Airport

The first golf resort in Guatemala, a country more accustomed to attracting tourists to its ancient Mayan ruins, opened this spring outside the colonial city of Antigua.

Given all the depressing news out of Detroit these days, it might seem an odd time to promote a collection of housewares that evokes the golden age of the automobile.