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Three recent CDs that have spent a lot of time in rotation at getTRIO. Feist, the Canadian singer-songwriter who has toured with Broken Social Scene, has been scoring well-deserved adulatory reviews for her ... read more
There's an auction coming up on May 20th at Rago Arts in New Jersey that sculpture fans should note, whether or not in you're in the market to pick up a little statue. ... read more
Zippers and snaps? Them's fightin' words to button lovers -- an object which has its band of fans. (There's no real word that we know of for buttonphiles, but the fear of buttons ... read more
We can hardly believe it, but it's already twenty candles for the low-budget hit Dirty Dancing about summer loving, Patrick Swayze's pelvis, and what happens when you put Baby in the corner. And ... read more
What happens when a fashion stylist and a cartographer put their heads together and go green? In the case of Rachel Rheingold and Michael Berick, they create Maptotes, a line of canvas bags ... read more
One souvenir building is kitsch. Many souvenir buildings are a collection. We got hooked some years ago on those mini-Eiffel towers and mini-Empire State Buildings, only to find out we weren't alone. Not ... read more
The tree bed handcrafted in Shawn Lovell's Oakland, Calif. studio puts a whimsical spin on the old canopy sleeper. Gnarled wrought-iron branches frame you as you slumber, arching to a tangle of leaves ... read more
With the publication of his novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle a decade ago, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami secured his place as one of the world's great writers. That sprawling, sometimes hallucinatory work has ... read more
Uniqlo takes t-shirts very seriously. They've just launched a new website that features limited-edition designs, some by recognized artists, with hundreds of shirts available at any one time. The packaging is pretty cool, ... read more
