Merchant A-Z

Home, Hangout, Departure Lounge (New York Times)

Daniel Vosovic, who was a finalist on the second season of ?Project Runway,? shares an apartment on the Lower East Side that seems ready-made for television.

Finding bargains for the home: They can be inexpensive and still perfect (Bradenton Herald)

If you have Champagne taste during these beer-budget times, no problem. There's plenty of chic home decor available for cheap prices.

UW Tacoma students get new digs (Tacoma News Tribune)

They’re called the C17 kids – the 20 University of Washington Tacoma students pioneering the branch campus’ first residency program.

Expat and native, art lives here (Boston Globe)

In this colonial city, step into a gallery and art lies at your feet. Nearly every building in Mérida's historic center retains original 19th-century mosaic floor tiles, arranged like intricate Art Nouveau carpets. Rugs would have quickly moldered in the Yucatán's tropical climate, but heat and humidity did not stop citizens here from living the Belle Époque to the hilt.

Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln