Merchant A-Z

Firestone Park woman has a gift for thrift (Akron Beacon Journal)

Patty Kerr doesn't need a lot of money to decorate her house. All she needs is imagination and effort — and a whole lot of white paint.

BOM 2008: CITY LIVING (New York Press)

As much as we were deflated by CBGB’s closing, we have to admit that until that final farewell we rarely visited the stinky joint. Actually, the last time we visited, someone passed us a stinky joint, which made it much more fun to withstand the blisteringly loud guitar thunks.

Student Survival Manual 2008 (Metro Santa Cruz)

It isn't easy mastering the basics of college life. A person isn't born knowing where to go for a cheap breakfast or how to locate a papasan chair for $10. These things are learned gradually, usually after many misadventures and some expense.

Shoppers turn to used furniture (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The National Association of Retail and Thrift Stores says the resale market has been growing 5 percent annually and that furniture is its fastest-growing segment. This glass dining table set was purchased in Florida as part of the décor for a '70s-style home.

Buckingham Palace: A right royal makeover (Independent)

"Taste," the Queen is supposed to have said, "doesn't always help." It's a brilliant thought. Taste – she obviously meant advanced visual discrimination, not finer feelings – doesn't always help. I've known people with perfect pitch in clothes, houses and food whose manic quests were so obsessional they brutalised everyone around them in the search for the perfect bleu marin or knocked-back ...