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Style’s Totem Animal

Back to the Future: Jim Sends Greetings from the Bottom of the Cliff in 2112

This is my end-of-the-year lawn, but I'm so grateful to you loyal lawners out there for showing up, I'm going to go you one better. In fact, 100 better. This is "Get Off My Lawn" from the year 2112. So here I am in the year 2112 still cranking out lawns thanks to the last-minute invention of a new ... More >>

The Cinematic Side of Neiman’s

CD Source's 19th Anniversary/Black Friday Party

Friday, November 23, at CD Source

Brighten Up Black Friday

The Gypsy Wagon Swap and Flea: Lonely Stuff Needs a Home

What caught our eye with this one was the phrase: "bargain hunter's paradise." This Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. you can troll for treasures at The Gyspy Wagon Swap and Flea where more than 20 venders will encamp to peddle their best vintage, oddities and straight-up junk. No crafts though, sorry ... More >>

Skip Black Friday for Canton in the City

Meet A Real Ace

Meaty Question: Is Bulk Packaging a Mistake?

At last, someone acknowledges the problem of finding 1 pound of meat for Hamburger Helper! Not that we -- heh, heh -- eat that stuff.​American shoppers aren't swearing off meat -- 80 percent of home-cooked meals still include a piece of animal flesh -- but they'd prefer not to buy their meat i ... More >>

La Duni: Fuel Up So You Don't Drop
When You Shop

​Each week, Happy Eating will highlight a different restaurant happy hour food menu, keeping you informed of what deals there are out there. This week we seek refuge from the holiday shopping at La Duni. Where: La Duni Latin Kitchen and Coffee Studio in NorthPark Center. When: 4-7 p.m d ... More >>

This Weekend: Charitable Drinking and Holiday Shopping

​'Tis the season of charitable giving and charitable drinking. Go to Hacienda on Henderson this Sunday for Tequila for Toys: A Care-aoke Christmas, benefiting Toys for Tots. Bring an unwrapped toy for the charity and receive a free shot of Tequila Avion. Margaritas and Avion shots are $3 all ... More >>

Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons

RaceTrac to Help Get Your Coffee Buzz On
To Face the Black Friday Hordes

​Atlanta-based RaceTrac gas station and convenience store chain wants to energize consumers by offering free coffee on Black Friday, November 26. Those touched enough to wake up at an ungodly hour for silly deals now have another one to take advantage of. The promotion will be available from m ... More >>

"Purple Friday" Brings Free Iced Beverages To 7-Eleven

​A press release from 7-Eleven today announces "Purple Friday" as an alternative to "Black Friday," the busiest shopping day of the year, when hordes of deal-seekers rise at the asscrack to trample each other for large-screen televisions, game systems and other crap they couldn't possibly survive ... More >>

On Your Mark, Get Your Lists, Go

Blue-Eyed Carols

Yes, But Will a Heavier Police Presence at Local Malls Encourage More Spending?

Toothpaste for Dinner​Scared to flash your wallet this holiday season at the mall for fear somebody might nab it? Hate leaving your goodie bags in the car will result in a smashed-in window? (No, we're not talking to you, NorthPark Center. Why do you ask? Oh ... right.) Look, don't worry: The ... More >>

Meet The Real Holiday Elves

Art To Go

Start Your Drinko Por Cinco Today At Masaryk

Masaryk's tastings will feature tequila, not Tila. Oh, well...either way. A few years back, when the economy was in better shape, people used to wring their hands about how retailers seemed to start the Christmas shopping season earlier and earlier every year. But have you ever noticed how, aside fr ... More >>

Art Divaz Bring A Gallery To Cliff Cafe

An image from the Art Divaz-affiliated Caprichos Studio.No surprise that anyone who calls herself a "diva" would use the term "retail therapy" for what most of us call "shopping." The million-dollar spending sprees of notorious divas like Britney Spears, Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson come to mind ... More >>

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Exactly the sort of movie we don't need right now

Tre Seasonal

Wilcox teaches how to tackle holiday meals

From the Any—And I Mean Any—Excuse To Party Department

To The World

DSO rocks shoppers

Put On Your Fancy Shoes

A Doggone Good Deed

Absolutely Fabulous

It's a fashion jungle out there unless you have the right guide

Wrapping Paper

Whole Lotta Whole Foods

Picture Pages

Grab free pens and pencils at Kids Fest

Eat This

A million here, a million there--shoot, it's not the council's money

Better Than Nothing

Best Sister Act

Slinky Whistle Bait

Best Girlie Explosion

Talulah Belle

Till You Drop

It's not greed; it's charity

Best Place to Get Caught in a MILF Storm

Highland Park Village

Best In-Store Greeting

Harold's

Best Florist

Village Garden & Gallery

Best Blues Club

Hole in the Wall

Best CD Store (Used)

CD World

Best Place to Outfit a Ski Trip

Doug and Lynda's Ski Shop

Best Outlet Store

Nordstrom Rack

Best Thai Restaurant

Chow Thai

Best place for great junk bargains

Sarah's Thrift Store

Best women's clothing

Arden B

Best music browsing mecca

CD Source

Best revival of a shopping center

Wynnewood Village

Best new bookstore

Borders Books Music & Café

NIGHT & DAY,

1998 December 3-9