Merchant A-Z

Where to find reproduction furniture (Detroit Free Press)

PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- It's a handcrafted wooden chest with two rows of side-by-side drawers, a type found in 17th-Century New England. But this beautiful piece of furniture, made from oak and pine, with decorative red and black applied moldings and wooden turned drawer pulls, is not an antique.

'Australia' may be country's best advertisement (Baltimore Sun)

National tourism board launches campaign based on Nicole Kidman film, highlighting Western Australia state's wilderness The film camera sweeps across the landscape, taking in flat plains, gushing waterfalls and a dusty country town. The color is brilliant, the emptiness palpable, and the soundtrack soars dramatically as warplanes bomb a city.

Furniture taken in nine-hour raid (BBC News)

Thieves steal more than £80,000 worth of Indian furniture in a burglary that lasted up to nine hours.

Vine Country Mercantile opening in Glen Ellen (Sonoma Index-Tribune)

Ushering in a new focus on local, sustainable and renewable products, Kristin Wrisley and Kim Ryals have just opened Vine Country Mercantile on Hwy 12 in Glen Ellen next to Triangle Body Shop (former home of Garden Court Cafe).

Falling for 'Australia' (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

The film camera sweeps across the landscape, taking in flat plains, gushing waterfalls and a dusty country town. The color is brilliant, the emptiness palpable, and the soundtrack soars dramatically as warplanes bomb a city. Photo caption: Above are the Kimberley Waterfalls in Western Australia. At left is the Strickland House near Sydney. Photo by Associated Press photos