| 单词 | curio |
| 例句 | He unlocked a tall glass cabinet crammed with more books, preserved birds, bottled beasts, and other curios. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Flames burn low in the gilded fireplace, the tall bookcases stuffed with curios and relics loom in shadow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There were ottomans and framed photographs and curio cabinets full of souvenirs, their very frivolousness reassuring. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn’t think we were poor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Spoon Man traveled all over North Carolina, plying curios and cookware, tools and trinkets—and news. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I could see nothing that accounted for the meerkats’ fixed curiosity, and I might have given up on solving the mystery had squeaking and barking not erupted at a pond nearby. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Along with the stifling crowds, there were jugglers and swordsmen and curio sellers and camels lumbering under the weight of tourists in starched suits and petticoats. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A glassed case in the corner held the curios he had collected—specimens of butterflies, a rare arrowhead, a curious rock shaped like a human profile. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s an old one, he said, a curio of sorts. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He examined this curio and laid it aside to save. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At first the curios and etchings had blended in with the scholarly clutter of the office. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was one of those weird roadside curio shops that sell lawn flamingos and wooden Indians and cement grizzly bears and stuff like that. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Or a curio on top of a curio, since this version has roots in an obscure piece that Riley recorded in the 1990s. As Bang on a Can Returns, a New Generation Rises 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z The delay hasn’t stopped them keeping up: around the globe, this series has steadily gone from camp curio to the best reality show around, hands down. RuPaul's Drag Race: from camp curio to the very best reality show there is 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Without the distraction of expats here, though, "One Candle, Two Candles" proves worthwhile at least as a cultural curio. Jano Rosebiani's pedestrian explorations of Kurdish culture 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z A number of curios also are on view, like a trove of objets d’art that sank in a shipwreck off the Australian coast. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Explore once-grand halls that overflow with furniture, art, books, rugs and historical curios. 36 Hours in Savannah, Ga. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z A sacred object or sentimental curio should not be absorbed into an industry enamored with surface image, engaged in consumerism and focused on extravagance. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures It’s all quite insane, if par for the course for Troma, which has been churning out these low-budget curios for close to 50 years now. Review: The Director Lloyd Kaufman Returns With a Shakespeare Spoof 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z As well as this more familiar stuff there are also lots of fascinating curios for Hicks obsessives, including footage of a gig from October 1993, just a few months before he succumbed to pancreatic cancer. This week's new comedy 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Grafton’s novel is not simply a historical curio, but a genuinely offbeat and entertaining suspense story. Review | The writer who inspired Sue Grafton — her father — gets a welcome new edition 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z But as a page from an artist’s notebook, and a time capsule curio, it rates pretty high. Review: Dim All the Lights, Again: ‘Will You Dance With Me?’ 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z There's something of a theatrical curio at Richmond's Orange Tree, which has earned a reputation for productions of the unexpected. This week's new theatre 2011-03-12T00:07:43Z The vase is its own kind of curio. Possessed: A Narrative Has Many Blanks 2011-05-27T22:07:35Z “Beaches,” directed by Garry Marshall and released three decades ago, was a curio even in its own time: a pastiche of 1950s tear-jerkers that was set, strangely and uncomfortably, in the 1970s and ’80s. Review: They’ve, Sob, Remade ‘Beaches’ 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z He deserves to be more than a curio. Music Review | Yelawolf: Alabama Rapper at Brooklyn Bowl, With ?Trunk Muzik? Mixtape 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z Suites in the adjoining property conserve the grandeur and spirit of place but in a fun way, and are full of quality curios, desirable retro furniture, and lots of original art. Lisbon city guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Looking at depictions in popular culture, he found only jokey curios: B movies with titles like “The Legend of Boggy Creek.” ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z Western clothing store, in same location as its 1905 opening, with wide selection of cowboy hats and boots, plus toys and other curios. A snow dad reveals what makes a ski resort kid-friendly 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The trick, though, is that visitors are allowed to handle the curios, as well as the accompanying index cards on which Tuttle has made notes about their provenance and formal qualities. Richard Tuttle: Please Touch! 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z It's also a mostly incoherent mess, but that doesn't stop it from being an amusing curio like Herzog's previous feature, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done': a quirky matricide drama from Herzog, Lynch 2010-04-08T20:12:00Z Talks, classes and courses range from Latin to ukulele, but for the incredibly leisurely, there are also books and curios to browse and buy, plus coffee and cake. This week's new events 2011-02-26T00:08:01Z A limited US release never gave audiences the chance to decide whether a curio more in the Gilliamesque vein than the run-of-the-post-apocalyptic-mill was to their tastes. Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z A wistful sort of envy came over her, she said, as she saw the main character, Ruth Steiner, at home in a Village apartment of 12-foot-high bookshelves, cozy furniture and tasteful curios. Living Rooms: Onstage Spaces to Lust For 2010-04-29T21:42:00Z The latter is often dismissed as a cash-in or mere curio. Take two: who has made the best 're-version' of their own record? 2010-08-05T14:00:00Z Mr. Kime followed his instincts and his insatiable curiosity, mixing auction-worthy antiques with eye-catching curios foraged at antique shops and bazaars around the world. Robert Kime, Decorator for Nobility and Other Notables, Dies at 76 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Some of her luxurious leather handbags hold court from atop brass shelving, while others show off their lizard and python scales from inside a curio cabinet. Marin Hopper opens Hayward House on New York’s Upper East Side 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Screening Wednesday are fun curios including a Spanish trailer from 1933's "Sons of the Desert" as well the duo's classic 1937 comedy hit "Way Out West." The comedic genius of Laurel and Hardy 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z As with all actors with long careers Briers' CV was studded with curios across television and film. Richard Briers: a life in clips 2013-02-18T15:08:00Z Mr. Edsel expressed his opinion this week that more and more curios like Mr. Pistone’s album would surface now that the last surviving veterans are dying. Abroad: 13th Linz Album of Hitler?s Returned to Germany 2010-05-18T23:58:00Z Pleasing as it would be to report that Charlotte Moore’s production for the Irish Repertory Theater restores the sparkle to a dusty jewel, this intermittently captivating show is of interest primarily as a vintage curio. Theater Review: ‘New Girl in Town,’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-07-29T22:00:21Z It was all stuff that had once belonged to his father: one-of-a-kind items of clothing, rare posters, records, and assorted curios, valued, altogether, at more than six million dollars. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Elle was predicted to be nothing but a curio, tagged on to the end of a festival filled with more obvious surface-level substance and pomp. The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 3 Elle 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z That charm carries forth in its mishmash of crafts, curios and vintage Walt Disney comics. In New York, Every Borough Is a Comic Book Destination 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z They are moving the piano elsewhere to create more space, but plan to keep the curio cabinet and French-style chairs in the room. How to create a bright, comfortable living space for entertaining 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Like Wagner’s instrumental works from around that time, it doesn’t need to be taken out of the curio cabinet except for the occasional dusting. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z That’s true of “Television,” a 1939 curio that opens with an audience seated in the dark before a tiny glowing screen that abruptly grows larger, a stark encapsulation of TV’s challenge to moviegoing. Film Treasures, Streaming Courtesy of the Library of Congress 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z But the retrospective includes curios like “The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane,” a thriller starring a young Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen, as well as the indisputable gem “Atlantic City” from 1980. Recalling When Canada Was ‘Hollywood North.’ 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The ground floor is a restaurant and bar with wood-panel walls, camel-hue booths and curios like a parliament of ceramic owls perched overhead. No Guest List at this Lower East Side Hot Spot 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Located in the birthplace of rap and hip-hop, this museum dedicated to the genre features a rotating array of curios tracing its history. Had your fill of the Met? Visit these six quirky New York City museums instead. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Within: a ceiling that resembles a big top and compartments where the owner once kept his curios and potions. The Best Small Hotels Around the World 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z A panel on the print’s far right depicts the curios and precious objects that Maximilian collected and kept in his treasury. Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “Wigs,” from 1994, consists of a series of lithographs of various hairpieces printed on felt panels, which hang side by side like dead curios in a medical textbook. The Mysterious Darknesses of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z At “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” the quirky curios recalls the retro vibe of downtown clubs and restaurants like Freeman’s and Bedlam, intimating that brash attitude is on the way. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Exploding Art of Set Design 2010-12-09T18:21:00Z That eight-foot-high Buddha now beams down beatifically outside the entrance to Two Buttons, a store jam-packed with curios from Southeast Asia. | Elizabeth Gilbert: Love, Travel, Sell 2010-08-12T23:14:00Z Sometimes, she even frames her subjects within collages of flowers, antique curios and archival images. ‘In Our Mothers’ Gardens’ Review: Creating Space for Black Women 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z It was a film that largely set the tone for the 10 days that followed, as lightning flashed, arthouse curios sprouted and big American titles proved to be as rare as hen's teeth. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The booming market in antiquities also begat a booming market in forgeries — “an intolerable bit of shuffling and roguery in the Jerusalem game of the ‘curios,’” as The New York Times put it in 1874. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The popularity of such pictures well into the 20th century proves that they were not just a Victorian curio, but appealed to profound imaginative longings. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z But the museum is no mere curio shop. In Transit Blog: Tattoos, Through Time: A New Museum for Amsterdam 2012-01-10T11:00:26Z An odd mix of Three Stooges slapstick and prewar music hall, it is little more than an intriguing curio. Diana Dors: more than just the British Marilyn Monroe 2010-06-10T22:06:00Z Based on the idea of a cabinet of curiosities, this 85-minute work is a ragtag of scenes: some curios, some marvels, some junk. Circa 2011-07-22T08:08:00Z At the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, the company celebrated its anniversary true to form, with the debut of a 19th-century curio. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, at 40, at the Joyce 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In other words, this is folk art threaded through the needle of studied composition and artistry rather than curios fashioned by a self-taught savant. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z We found our way to Rubinstein Street, a trendy boulevard that has exploded in recent years with curio shops, theaters and ethnic restaurants. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z These songs are confections designed to get on the radio today, not to be respectable curios, bits of added-value for album-reissue projects. ArtsBeat: Michael Jackson Returns, at Least on Record 2014-05-09T16:41:06Z With the newfound prosperity, Moore said, Irish stories became more of a curio for tourists than a vibrant part of daily living. Animator Tomm Moore lives the dream with a 'Song' in his heart 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z He could not seem to help himself from buying more curios for the apartment online. The Life of Tobias Wong, Designer 2010-06-25T22:17:00Z Given the name Angelo, he grows up among aristocrats who treat him not as a servant but as a curio and a symbol of their own benevolence. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The Deadly Assassin sits as curio in Who-lore, an accident of circumstances that conspired to turn out another classic. The Deadly Assassin: Doctor Who classic episode #8 2013-06-14T09:00:00Z Ranging from architectural marvels to historical curios, about 4,500 properties are opened to the public as part of Heritage Open Days. Historic Britain: days out and short breaks 2012-08-17T21:45:06Z This sort of outlet wasn’t around in the mid-1990s; otherwise standard-bearing Chicago acts like Crucial Conflict and Do or Die might have been more than regional curios. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z The Rhino box includes several other curios, including posters, a replica of the original program and a book written by Michael Lang, one of the original festival creators. A 38-disc set lets you hear Woodstock’s stage 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z And so, The Guardian describes "The House," Netflix's 2022 horror anthology, as "a funny little curio to take your mind off everything for a bit." What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Her mother hadn’t remembered anything in two years, she said, but the Wienermobile and its signature curio shone through the fog. Six Enormous Hot-Dog-Shaped Vehicles Travel America, Spreading Only Brand Awareness and Joy 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z In all of Cornell’s boxes and in this dance, curios are arranged with care. Review: ‘The Mineralogy of Objects,’ With a Most Flexible Guest Star 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z I may not have been good for the nomming, but last week's thread was good for the reading and unlikely in the listening, most notably in the number of 60s curios nominated. Readers recommend: fantasy songs 2010-10-07T23:01:00Z Time turns these inquiries into a quaint curio we can laugh at, disowning our collective naivety in the same way we do our personal adolescent passions and obsessions. Are you ever too old for pop music? 2012-06-16T23:06:03Z In the curio category are a rendition of "Stand by Me" by one Cassius Clay in 1964 and Bruce Willis' 1987 cover of "Young Blood." Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z Dimly lit and sharply designed with reclaimed Wisconsin barnwood, metal and vintage curios, 8 oz. is a bit a of a mashup, fusing hip bistro with rustic sports bar. 8 oz. Burger Bar: Capitol Hill spot puts decadent twist on burgers 2012-03-22T20:09:04Z Colossal statues were dragged on to ships, mummy cases became must-have curios. Egypt's museums must be defended 2011-01-31T12:03:29Z Skulls, taxidermy, holy curios and books about death supply the “morbid” in this small museum’s name. Had your fill of the Met? Visit these six quirky New York City museums instead. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The Hunt is a curio shop set up in an old appliance storefront. Art Is Fashion Is Art Again 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z But instead of the scenes of adobe houses and sombrero-wearing peasants of the curios, this vessel is decorated with blank-faced Los Angeles office buildings. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z It remains a curio, though, not a reclaimed masterpiece. Thelma ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:51Z Originally only available for those who made the pilgrimage to Sai Anantam Ashram, it’s since become a beloved curio on the Internet, uploaded often to YouTube and garnering millions of views. Perspective | Alice Coltrane is finally heralded as a jazz great. A new reissue doesn’t do her justice. 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z It's off to Gallifrey for the one-off curio, The Deadly Assassin. Genesis of the Daleks: Doctor Who classic episode #7 2013-05-23T11:52:01Z To their chocolate bars—eccentric, expensive curios—they bring the devotion of priests. The Way Forward for Hipster Food 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Shop for pashmina shawls and curios, admire richly detailed saris and other fabrics, or simply marvel at the range of items on offer here, from flowers to feather-dusters to foodstuffs. 36 Hours in Kolkata, India 2012-11-22T15:12:44Z He captures Texas in the shorthand of abandoned drive-ins and curio shops, and billboards that read “If You Don’t Have An Oil Well … Get One!” Midnight Cowboy at 50: why the X-rated best picture winner endures 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z But it’s a magnetic curio, a fascinating relic of a vanished strain of European cinema. ‘The Unknown Man of Shandigor’ Review: A Sci-Fi Fable of the Nuclear Anxiety Age 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The spectacular Explorers Club is stuffed to the rafters with the treasures, curios, maps, and books collected by the world’s greatest adventurers. 9 Little Known Places to Visit in New York City (That Aren’t Tourist Traps) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z It is obviously the go-to platform for British cinema history, showcasing its extensive archive – including shorts, newsreels and assorted curios – for free. Six of the best places to watch European films on the web 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z But joy takes on a whole new meaning when Mickie finds herself transforming items from an owner of a curio shop who was thought to have committed suicide. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z A dedicated room at MoMA PS1 displays the contents of the collective’s “Canal Street Research Association” storage unit: foam Statue of Liberty crowns, miniature Empire State Buildings and other tourist curios. ‘Greater New York,’ a Show of the Moment, Dwells in the Radical Past 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z I assured myself that one angel wasn’t the gateway drug to a curio cabinet. Germany’s Christmas markets take yuletide spirit to another level 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Besides the curio collection and the furniture, the North Dakota Museum of Art’s recreation of Mr. Benes’s studio will eventually include his remains. Barton Lidice Benes, Provocative Artist, Dies at 69 2012-06-19T00:18:39Z Reading the novel is like walking into your beloved uncle’s bachelor pad: Every page is packed with curios and brimming with delightful nostalgia. Leif Enger’s New Novel Brims With Grace and Quirky Charm 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The sexual transgressions in make it nearly as much a curio as Killer Joe; and , in which McConaughey plays a renegade befriended by two kids, could earn him an Oscar nomination. Killer Joe: Matthew McConaughey as the Creepiest Cop in Texas 2012-07-26T12:00:44Z Today, tourist shops line the main streets of town, most of them jewelry and curio stores full of mass-produced souvenirs. The best way to witness Alaska’s stunning seascapes? Take a cruise along the Inner Passage 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Howard traces our “collective clutter agita” back to the Victorians, who favored parlors overstuffed with the curios generated by a burgeoning industrial economy. Review | Jennifer Howard’s ‘Clutter: An Untidy History’ takes Marie Kondo’s message a step further 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The Dirtbombs' new album Party Store – a collection of garage rock covers of Detroit techno classics – is perhaps never going to be anything more than an intriguing curio. Is techno human after all? 2011-01-19T13:00:27Z It also comes from my growing up in the curio shop that my father ran. Hugo Crosthwaite on Tijuana, Mexico's missing, the power of comic books 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Still, like many things in Moore’s career, it’s an engaging curio. 'Keeping the British end up': Roger Moore's career in clips 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Accompanied by definitions from Phillips's alternative dictionary, Clark's installations are spread throughout this mysterious, gloomy pile with its lights dimmed to preserve the thousands of strange artefacts and precious curios it houses. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z Yet from the vantage of film history, it’s a landmark achievement, fusing the base pleasures of Ozsploitation with the sophistication of Australian New Wave curios like Wake In Fright and The Cars That Ate Paris. Mad Max at 40: how the low-budget original remains a film-making feat 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Harries showed the perfect example of a film club find, the obscure, late-60s curio The Ballad of Tam Lin, in the summer. Film clubs: fancy a cheap night out at the Picture & Pint? 2011-01-18T16:54:53Z But while he became a star in Britain, and rightly so, he was never much more than a curio here, an ambassador unloved. Music Review: Katy B Plays the Studio at Webster Hall - Review 2011-09-15T23:02:21Z But it can charm as a curio from a fast-emerging talent. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s an Age of Aquarius curio, based on a 19th-century study of witchcraft and featuring alternately flowery and surprisingly graphic depictions of sex. Japan Cuts Film Festival at Japan Society Emphasizes the Eccentric 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Undoubtedly, some of the Cuban curios they purchase will be gifted to friends and family members. Spring breakers import Cuban rum, cigars and racist curios 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z The first half was given over to a striking series of curios. Prom 12: Academy of Santa Cecilia/Pappano – review 2013-07-21T13:08:06Z But several scientists and musicians believe it all could have power beyond being mere online curios. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z David Letterman is still an icon, albeit mainly now in the field of pogonology, while Schitt’s Creek remains a weird little curio that exists just beyond the reach of most peoples’ interest. Schitt's Creek: the funniest sitcom you're (probably) not watching 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z It's genuinely compelling, and not just for curio value. New York, I Love You ? review 2011-02-03T22:15:01Z The most consequential white hip-hop act since Eminem, this Seattle duo became a pop sensation, hip-hop curio and sociocultural lightning rod in 2012 on the back of the quirky breakthrough “Thrift Shop.” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Return to the Hip-Hop Fray 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Recently, my two children helped me unpack the holiday heirlooms I inherited from Aunt Cathy — a set of small Victorian dolls that she kept in a glass curio cabinet. You can't resolve your way through New Year's grief 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Younkers had secured the curio cabinet and all its contents, 58 items, for a total of $1,051. G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z They refuse to coalesce into legibility, continually hinting at different possibilities: abstraction, overgrown garden, messy studio, a naturalist’s curio cabinet. Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z For Minogue, 55 — a bona fide superstar abroad but more of a pop curio here — it’s one of a handful of breakthrough moments that have cemented her embrace among gay listeners. Kylie Minogue’s ‘Padam Padam’ and the Queer Club-Pop Canon 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z This astringent yet oddly desultory book, a curio from a very good writer, more resembles, for good and ill, an anchovy. ‘Crudo’ Is a Novel With a Real-Life Novelist in Thin Disguise 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Most of the antiques emporiums house multiple dealers, guaranteeing an eclectic variety of trinkets and curios, from the incredibly rare to the debatably collectible. On the search for antiques in small Upstate New York towns After the Drudge Report all but tipped over President Clinton by pushing the Monica Lewinsky scandal into plain view, Mr. Breitbart realized that the Web had moved beyond a curio for techies. The Life and Death of Andrew Breitbart 2012-04-13T23:02:42Z Mementos, curios and old photographs figure prominently, as evidence of past actions and symbols of their hidden significance. Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z A beard was the perfect retro-sportsman accessory to go with a scratchy wool plaid shirt and knit cap, a perfect ironic predigital curio that seemed overdue to be brought back into fashion. The Mirror: Whiskers on Kittens (or Are They Lions?) 2011-07-27T18:15:10Z Bookcases filled with curios, books and board games remind us of Adrian's failures, even as a kid. 'Snakes and Ladders': divorce, foreclosure-style 2011-06-30T19:42:08Z What’s certain is that a Vancouver Island curio dealer sold it to the natural history museum. Antiques: Antiques Dealers on TV (Casting Calls Posted) 2011-03-24T21:17:07Z It's weird how disco, once unarguably the unofficial soundtrack of the nation, has now become a cult curio for arthouse hipsters. New band of the day – No 1,285: The KDMs 2012-06-11T15:37:56Z Regrettably, nothing here really bests his hard-but-soppy curio Wonderful, which went top 20 last year. Angel: About Time – review 2013-04-13T23:05:05Z This record shop, which opened in late 2011, also stocks an astoundingly strange assortment of ghoulish curios. Surfacing: An Incubator for Creativity in Savannah, Ga. 2014-05-07T16:24:49Z It’s a tiny shop called Magic Jewelry, which advertises a variety of services, from feng shui consulting to Buddhist curios. What's in an aura? Stepping into the world of energy reading for health 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The bar, an ornate curio with only 16 seats and a low ceiling laced with paper cherry blossoms, is the work of Ariel Arce, who in June opened another ornate curio upstairs, Air’s Champagne Parlor. Ordering a Double (a Drink and a Song) at Tokyo Record Bar 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Pigeon, which looks a lot like the interiors of Arroyo's own home, is a cozy, welcoming space filled with new and vintage curios, furniture, art and collectibles from around the world. | Pigeon 2013-01-25T14:00:39Z In Toronto, a Second Act THE textile and fabric designer Julie Jenkinson was hard at work putting the finishing touches on her vintage curio shop, Verso, in a former garage. Heads Up: In Toronto, a Second Act 2012-07-13T16:01:55Z The museum looks like an organized antiques store, with old magazines and advertising pamphlets resting on wardrobes and curio cabinets thick with dust and Houdini-related tchotchkes. At the Houdini Museum, in Scranton, Pa., indulge in a different kind of escape 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z "The result is a round-the-clock opportunity to surprise unsuspecting passers-by; a curio to bring a little something extra into everyday Leicester life." Crochet animal art mimics taxidermy 2013-08-15T05:19:28Z Antique brass lanterns, pottery and other curios hung from the walls. Explorer: Sicily Turns Former Mafia Properties Into Bed-and-Breakfasts 2010-07-02T14:42:00Z It’s too early to tell if his character can be more than an Internet curio. A Shortcut to Comic Celebrity 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z At the time, though, it was little more than a curio. Country Music Opens Its Ears 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Cruise vessel travelers, by contrast, get prime downtown real estate, with their ships docked right in front of the jewelry, fur and curio shops set up to serve them. Pursuits: Uncruising to Alaska: Short on Frills, Long on Thrills 2013-08-20T21:20:23Z In England, we use the term to describe a curio. The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Its hard-working, unaffected dancers have been presenting repertory gems and worthwhile curios overlooked by major troupes, alongside new works by choreographers sometimes also unjustly neglected by the big guns. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Other items include jade jewelry, lacquer ware and curios like temple bells. 36 Hours in Yangon, Myanmar 2014-02-07T15:22:35Z General Lee, were just a few highlights from this highly entertaining “street culture” curio. Top 10 Racing Games 2011-11-01T09:00:18Z At the time, art experts considered these works little more than ethnic curios unworthy of a gallery. In making art, Haida culture is revived 2013-11-25T23:26:01Z One was a curio, a little greenhouse made of metal with topiary plants in it. Opening the door to a place of plants and privilege 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z But alongside high-end paintings and portraits are smaller curios and oddities, which means quite a few themes run through the show. The Winter Antiques Show Embraces the Evolving Definition of Antique 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Items on view will include fine estate jewelry and quaint Americana, as well as vintage furniture, handmade rugs, objets d’art and other curios. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In the mid-afternoon, light trickles through the leaves of the mulberry trees, illuminating the various curios, sculptures and remnants from previous art exhibitions that have become entwined in the shady garden. In New York City's Lower East Side, gardening is a political act of resistance 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Instead she revives an anecdotal curio from 1940s New York. The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland – review 2013-07-12T09:00:01Z What was once a curio—a relic of hobbyists and museums—had found, it seemed, new life. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It was a pioneering work, and a popular one, that has become an infrequently revived curio. Finding ‘Ghost Collaborators’ for an All-American Ballet 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z An engaging revival by the Metropolitan Playhouse falls somewhere in between and makes a good case for the piece’s being more than a quaint theatrical curio. | 'The Drunkard': Saved, Before Alcoholics Anonymous 2010-10-04T21:32:00Z Accents of green, in everything from plants to fabric, bring cohesion to a space filled with more art and curios, and also serve to connect with the garden, which backs on to Hampstead Heath. African express: an art collector’s colourful home 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Ideally the buyer will be someone who is willing to combine their joy at owning such a curio with allowing it to continue its good work on behalf of children of all ages. Want your very own U-boat? Now's your chance 2012-07-19T16:30:00Z Some musical curios are perhaps best left to recordings. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z In the ensuing years, the Three Stooges, the droll humorist Robert Benchley and the Little Rascals were typically nominated, as were an eye-catching grab bag of nature travelogues and explanatory curios. Every Film in This Oscar Category Is an Underdog You Can Root for 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z “A Loss of Roses” is a curio, but one that’s obscure for good reason. William Inge’s Revised ‘A Loss of Roses’ at St. Clement’s 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z It does not help to know that even if you unearth the perfect curio, it won’t remain yours alone for long. First Person: The New Baby-Name Anxiety 2013-05-31T20:39:26Z But heard today, these are simply curios, period pieces; any modern electronic keyboard can produce virtually any sound. A pianist with a penchant for the unusual 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z But it did fundamentally alter a curio of American foreign policy that deeply influenced popular culture and played an outsize role in U.S. presidential politics for more than half a century. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z But Netflix has just uploaded perhaps the biggest curio of them all. Larry David and death row: the amazing tale of how Curb saved one man's life 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z For his part, Mr. Younkers was overwhelmed by his get: the curio cabinet and all its tiny figures. G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Our “two-body problem” was back with a vengeance, but now, instead of being endearingly geeky strivers joined at the hip, we were one of those freakish museum curios floating in a jar. Modern Love: Is the Husband Going to be the Problem? 2010-08-12T23:00:00Z It's hard to say exactly who the audience is for the zany curio "Mortdecai." 'Mortdecai' mostly hits its madcap mark with zany Johnny Depp 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z By old rules, this all qualifies as a fascinating curio. Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti, Oddball Rap’s Children, at Play 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z In the process, he has gone from industry curio to known quantity and artist’s favorite, especially among female musicians. You May Not Know Jack Antonoff. But You Probably Love His Music. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Discovery is certainly the operative word when exploring The Shabby French Market, a Parisian-style arcade filled with antiques, heirloom jewelry and pretty much every curio one can imagine. Anacortes coastal culture has surprises in store this fall | Provided by Experience Anacortes 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Long relegated to a curio, in recent years, Cybersyn has attracted renewed attention. Column: What a utopian experiment in government by computer can teach us about building a humane future 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Not long after her older son became convinced that she was Satan, he took a baseball bat to their Laguna Hills home, smashing windows, framed pictures and a curio cabinet. CARE courts open in a month, promising hope for families. Not everyone is so sure 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z It has long been a curio of Scottish football that the biggest games of the season for the Old Firm come in the opening weeks. Rangers not ready for PSV, but should they have been? 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z A fascinating curio that speaks to many contemporary issues, “Biosphere” feels like a rough draft, as it hasn’t been honed to a degree that allows it to fully penetrate. Review: High-concept, lo-fi 'Biosphere' doesn't know where to take its interesting premise 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s a muddled if on-brand addendum, a tarnished curio, a not-bad epilogue and, intentionally or not, a lament for the film industry that used to be. Review: With the messy but poignant ‘Dial of Destiny,’ a franchise strains to keep up with the Joneses 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z And rather than become a nostalgic curio, a vestige of a less politically correct past, Suga Free is enjoying an unlikely but deserved renaissance. The (un)holy gospel of Suga Free 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z These same styling processes works for styling floating shelves, a curio or bookcase, the top of a buffet or honestly any area where you’d like to create a vignette in your home! 3 tips for styling your bookshelf 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z History classes come less often to her antiques shop, which sits in a century-old house reclaimed from a long-gone fraternity, stuffed with curios including an old Coke machine and a cabinet full of war medals. Colleges Have Been a Small-Town Lifeline. What Happens as They Shrink? 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z A volunteer in the 1990s, Robert E. Denney, was unbundling Civil War service records to be microfilmed when he saw an opportunity with a curio that had outlasted its usefulness. They’re getting rid of ‘red tape’ in Washington. Literally. 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Following its official discovery in 2005, the unique creature quickly became a coveted curio by collectors enthralled by its gem-like markings, earning it the dubious distinction of the most trafficked reptile in the Eastern Caribbean. Army of islanders to protect gecko the size of a paperclip 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z “I had no room for curio cabinets to collect uranium glassware,” she says. Uranium glass collectibles glow. But don’t worry, they’re not toxic. 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z At the same event, New York University law professor Melissa Murray said there is a “whole curio cabinet of weirdness” about the court. Supreme Court, dogged by questions of legitimacy, is ready to resume 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Turns out, it was not just another heavy stone curio suitable for plunking in the garden. Goodwill sold a bust for $34.99. It’s an ancient Roman relic. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z An avid curio collector who kept extensive photo and video records, he eked out a living working for Mr. Caddle on campaigns and selling items to auctioneers, friends said. The 2 Political Operatives at the Center of a New Jersey Murder Mystery 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Small dressers or chests can be nightstands, and curio cabinets can make handsome bars or vanities. How to create storage in small spaces 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z To some people, particularly whites, those statues originally erected to lionize champions of enslavement and treachery became, over time, little more than oversized curios — harmless, folkloric, quaint. Opinion | We need innovative solutions for relocating Confederate statues 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, at those prices, and without access to key Google apps and services like the Google Play Store, both devices will represent interesting curios rather than anything you should seriously consider buying. Huawei’s P50 Pro and foldable P50 Pocket are getting pricey Google-free releases outside China 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Racy Smith, 56, the owner of a Lincolnton antique and curio shop, said it seemed “ridiculous” to close rural polling places in a county with limited public transportation. In a Georgia County, Deep Distrust Over a Plan to Close Polling Places 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z “Italian Studies” is a unique curio of a film, a free sketch of time and place melting into a singular subjective experience that asks “does memory matter?” Review: Vanessa Kirby stars in 'Italian Studies,' a free-flowing lesson in self-discovery 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z It became one of those enduring social media curios — something you showed your mom on winter break. GeoGuessr made figuring out where on Earth you are the hottest new esport 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Since then, he has gathered an impressive, if sometimes alarming, array of 12-inch curios. Bad album covers collector puts trash hits on display 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z The Impossible Map YouTube A cartographic curio: this recently uploaded 1947 short from the National Film Board of Canada uses stop-motion animation and a cut-up grapefruit to illustrate the limitations of any 2D map. From Dune to Duran Duran: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z However, his latest cinematic curio, “The French Dispatch,” demonstrates that sometimes too much of a good thing can be a pretentious bore. Review: The grand letdown of Wes Anderson's boorish 'The French Dispatch' 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The result is a cinematic curio in search of a more conclusive theme and emotional payoff. Review: 'The Most Beautiful Boy in the World' remains an enigma in documentary 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Friske’s, which bills itself as “Not Your Average Fruit Stand,” features the Orchard Cafe, a bakery and a store stuffed with curios as well as everything needed to make pie. Sweet Cherries, Bitter Politics: Two Farm Stands and the Nation’s Divides 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z Sister Aletheia, a punk fan as a teenager, thought the morbid curio was “super punk rock,” she recalled recently. Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Reality TV personality and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner so far has appeared more curio than contender, barely registering in recent polling. Newsom’s spending binge reshapes California recall election 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z “That’s why they are hanging on the curio,” said Jones, where their paths do meet. Death on this scale makes survivors of us all: 61,000 dead in California and counting 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps the curio cabinet-effect reflects a desire to collect and recollect an essential American object Menand feels is in danger of being lost. Review: Louis Menand's history of 'The Free World' -- at least according to boomers 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A cult curio from the New Yorker’s super-cool fiction podcast series. Feed your soul: the 31-day literary diet for January 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z The internet is now a global bazaar for the multibillion-dollar black market for exotic pets and animal parts, used for everything from curios and medicines to leather boots and skin rugs. The black-market trade in wildlife has moved online, and the deluge is 'dizzying' 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z When audience imaginations do the scene setting, helped by sound and mailed curios, that’s not a problem. A forgotten female Sherlock Holmes gets her due in this audio play (with physical clues) 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Most Seattleites today associate the word “curio” with Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, for 121 years a tourist fixture with ghoulish attractions at several spots near or along the downtown waterfront, now at Pier 54. Curio shop postcard turns the corner on a curious puzzle 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z I shelved the piece as an isolated curio, unsure quite what to do with it. A strange game of dice 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, Mr. West’s curio candidacy has confused many fans and voters alike. Kanye West’s Perplexing Run as a Potential 2020 Spoiler 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z They are, at best, curios, fleetingly interesting deviations, but ultimately distractions from the majesty of the chip butty classique. How to eat: chip butties 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z I must admit that, even back then, as a huge Dexys fan, I regarded My Beauty more as a curio – I admired the sheer bloody-mindedness of it but found the arrangements a bit schmaltzy. Kevin Rowland on the My Beauty furore: 'I wasn't cracking up. I just wanted to wear a dress' 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Its abiding bittersweetness, in fact — more than its flashes of familiarly dithering humor — is what has become this “lost” curio’s chief preservative. Review: 'Mr. Topaze,' Peter Sellers' directing debut, emerges from the star's vault 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Indeed, the track sounds like a curio from the era of Spacelab, the moody, spacious Kraftwerk track released nine years later. 'I found the roots of electronica in a cupboard!': the tale of India's lost techno pioneers 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Most of the furniture is antique, and the shelves are filled with curios from foreign officials and books with names like “Cyberspies” and “Mobilizing Women for War.” In 1933, two rebellious women bought a home in Virginia’s woods. Then the CIA moved in. 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z As a candidate, Bloomberg has gone from curio to competitor with an unmatched torrent of TV ads, paired with traditional retail campaigning, that appears to have pushed him up in presidential polling. Snubbing Iowa, Bloomberg charts his own path in 2020 contest 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Colorful lounge chairs face a soaring shelf wall filled with eclectic curios, art and books. Hotel design trends: Lobbies and rooms with a point of view 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Instead, relish this modest ski hill for what it is — a snow-dusted curio in a world of mega-resorts that gobble each other up at every opportunity. On top of the world at Mt. Baldy, a winter wonderland 80 minutes from L.A. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The centre-forward role is still entrusted to the baffling curio that is Anthony Martial, surely the fastest extremely immobile man in any sport right now. Why Manchester United can’t see the Woodward for the trees | Barney Ronay 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z A Clash curio in that it’s the only one of the group’s songs to bear a writing credit for Keith Levene, the band’s original guitarist. The Clash's 40 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z There was a danger of filling the cavernous halls of 250,000 square feet with an eccentric collection of curios and ephemera. Washington's Newseum nears final deadline amid crisis in US journalism 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z For him, weather seemed an obsolete curio of a less-evolved time. 'A classist dystopia'?: inside the world’s largest underground shopping complex 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Fans took less than a day to unlock the secret ending in Kojima’s horror curio PT by deducing – despite no obvious clues – that you needed to plug a microphone into the PlayStation 4. Death Stranding: will Hideo Kojima’s mystery project redefine gaming? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Carter said in August that he was inheriting three generations’ worth of what he called “curio relic firearms” from his father’s side of the family. Aaron Carter moves boldly ahead with a Medusa face tattoo 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Within the world of Paper Beast, a plethora of curios and anomalies exist in harmony with one another. Paper Beast is a VR game that turns big data into a peaceful, ethereal world 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z At her Los Angeles apartment decorated with vintage curios, we talked about what’s missing from the typical American funeral. Caitlin Doughty's 'Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?' tackles taboo topics 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “My father was a military policeman for 21 years and I’m inheriting over 500 curio relic firearms from 3 generations on my fathers side.” Aaron Carter defends being a gun owner: 'I fully support the Constitution and my right to bear arms' 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z That would be interesting, though likely still just a curio. Taylor Swift's great re-recording plot: icy revenge or a pointless setback? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Modi once seemed destined to disappear into history as a fanatical curio. Perspective | The Kashmir crisis isn’t about territory. It’s about a Hindu victory over Islam. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The Rhino box includes several other curios, including posters, a replica of the original program and a book written by Michael Lang, one of the original festival creators. A 38-disc set lets you hear Woodstock’s stage 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Along with set designer Beauchamp Fontaine, Curtis assembled what they called the “special projects team,” a group of local artisans and fabricators in Pittsburgh who created curios and art pieces throughout the space. How Richard Linklater's 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' uses oddball architecture to reflect its heroine 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z She occasionally sells curios to make ends meet, and she fashioned Sarah’s first chessboard out of discarded soapstone from nearby stalls. This young Kenyan chess champion wants to take her moves abroad. The bureaucracy is keeping her in check. 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z While “Moop” might appeal to the Burning Man die-hard set, or for aficionados of the tales of doomed, Sisyphean film productions, beyond that, it’s not much more than a minor curio. Review: 'Ladyworld’ with Maya Hawke,' plus Bud doc ‘Kings of Beer,’ 'Consequences' and 'Moop' 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Macron’s book project is a curio, but it typifies his intellectual décor, his taste for the solitary authorship of immodest fates. Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z I still treasure its curios, including a souvenir tabloid with a custom banner headline, printed on the spot, employing the six-month show’s crowning landmark to convey whimsy: “Clay Eals Jumps Off Space Needle.” A fairly wide view of Seattle’s 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes offer a fetching version of it, in a curio ballpark that holds about as many folks as your backyard. The 15 things to do in L.A. before the end of summer 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The material included skulls, a jawbone and other fragments from the Torres Strait archipelago, collected by Europeans in the 19th century as scientific specimens and anthropological curios. ‘They’re not property’: the people who want their ancestors back from British museums 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z But they are not curios – they are horror shows. What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland' 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z He duly incorporated into the design as a curio in the basement of his home. House of Palestine: the architectural wonder built by a West Bank oil tycoon 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Our stockings hang in their new holiday home on a curio shelf. How I came to grips with a downsized Christmas | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Her maternal grandmother created works that she sold at the family’s curio shop in Tijuana. How artist Sandy Rodriguez tells today's fraught immigration story with pre-Columbian painting tools 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Few people gained entry into his small midtown-Manhattan living quarters, crammed with books, curios and cats, and one friend concluded, “There was no room for two in that apartment — or in that life.” In a new biography, a fresh glimpse into the world of macabre illustrator and real-life character Edward Gorey 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z "They were busting TV’s, fish tanks, our curio cabinet," he said. Pennsylvania mystery man, woman accused of breaking into home, launching meat cleaver attack 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, on the independent scene, there are now curios for every taste and interest. The game changers: meet the creatives shaking up the gaming world 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z He added that Dvorak's Overture to "Vanda," a lively, overstuffed curio that acted as the curtain-raiser, and Saint-Saens' Violin Concerto No. 1, were getting their first performances from the L.A. Review: Conductor Paolo Bortolameolli keeps his cool in Hollywood Bowl debut 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z It contains moments of optimism; Quart notes encouraging “curios around the edges … growing numbers of white collar unions for example, and more communication and solidarity amongst people who are in precarious states”. For the struggling middle class, Alissa Quart has a message: you're not alone 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z As early as 1952, national magazines lauded its “joyful, busy discordance” and “wonderland of food, services and curios” as “the real symbol of the Northwest.” The Seattles that might have been 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z For years, he told me, he collected newspaper articles and curios from the industry, storing them in his shed or his garage. Letter of Recommendation: Tiny Museums 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z I’d walk over near the register and push the manual turntable on the curio display to look at all the rifles and shotguns. Gun Culture Is My Culture. And I Fear for What It Has Become. 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Bayou Bakery chef and owner David Guas, a history buff, accentuated the building's past with antiques, period curios and Civil War illustrations from Harper's Weekly. Little Pearl will be a coffee shop and wine bar like no other in Washington 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z It was the room of a pack rat: curios crowding shelves, books stacked floor to ceiling. Perspective | A Washington ghost story: The Haunting of Halcyon House 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Nearly 200 breakfasts were delivered the first two mornings, said Amanda Bryant, who owns a curio store and took it upon herself to run the volunteer operation at the beach. A Gem of California’s Shore Becomes a Refuge From Wildfires 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z I love By the Sea, but it’s a gorgeous curio when set alongside the rest of her output. Angelina Jolie has found a powerful voice as a director. It’s time we listened | Bidisha 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Even her decision to return to a pop landscape that has replaced the fizzing pizazz of those Girls Aloud curios with slower tempos and Spotify algorithms was more of a whim at first. Nadine Coyle: ‘None of the girls were really speaking to each other' 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z A nice curio to tide you over until that forthcoming Morrissey album. Listen to an exclusive unreleased Smiths song, recorded live in Boston 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z I had them cremated and I have them in my curio cabinet. What They Saved: Texans Reflect on Treasures Plucked From Harvey 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z People bought dead corals as curios, valued for their ornate skeletons but not as living critters. Homegrown coral reefs are beautiful — and potentially dangerous 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z On the main floor, most rooms feature a few curio cabinets. Kansas couple purchases second house to hold collection 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z That is why it is so heartening to see electric cars, considered curios for the rich or eccentric or both not that long ago, now entering the mainstream. Editorials from around New York 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z We recommend it as a quaint and unique curio of aboriginal Earth culture. Catalogue of Items in the Chess Exhibition at the Humanities Museum, Pre-Enlightenment Wing : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z It's never all that scary, but it is pretty darn funny — a curio to be enjoyed for its silliness more than anything else. Horror-lite 'Wish Upon' delivers more yucks than scares 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z It took several attempts to finally grab Niantic's augmented reality curio, and first impressions weren't strong. Why Pokemon Go Matters One Year Later 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z There, with the help of the painter Hamza Aussie, I met a group of women who owned curio shops that lined the grassy courtyard. Bringing African folktales to life - BBC News 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Cafes, curio shops and an aquarium with its own orca joined ubiquitous tour boats before and after the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. Seattle’s waterfront became less about work and more about entertainment in the 1960s 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z For someone who has a reputation for jokes and a personality so large it sometimes overshadows his astute songwriting, his set at the Outdoor Theatre cemented his switch from bedroom curio to bonafide indie stalwart. Coachella 2017 lineup: Friday acts The xx, Father John Misty and more reviewed 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z This time, Cockcroft had written in appreciation of the series of blank pages that Macfarlane had left at the back of the book, in the hope that readers would record linguistic curios. Pen Pals Provide Linguistic Curios 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The film it serves may have become a dated curio, but its soundtrack still carries an intoxicating whiff of not just one, but many futures. Macca’s banjo, Mellotron and a Monkee: the story of George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It seemed to prove a theory some had that Future was a rap curio who wasn’t quite right be a mainstream star. Future: ‘You’ve got to set your own destiny and go for the impossible’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z What seemed like a fun curio when IBM’s Watson was winning game shows only five years ago is now the “secret sauce” in a massively changing ecosystem. Monitor monikers: why what we call our robots matters 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z To contemporary ears, its simplistic drum-machine programming and nursery rhyme rap cadences may sound too basic to appeal except at the level of historical curio. Run-DMC – 10 of the best 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The Market’s website offers printable walking guides including Market 101, Kids and Families Guide, Sweet Treats and the Rain or Shine guide to the indoor, lower-level collectible, curio and art shops. What's happening at Pike Place Market this winter 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s easy to read these fables of nationhood as curios from another age. In Search of Post-Brexit England, and Swans 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z When the curio and souvenir shop opened on the waterfront in 1899, Seattle was still recovering from the Great Fire only 10 years before. Seattle’s waterfront 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Surely this would be the curio from my childhood that my son and I would bond over at last. Is the Nintendo NES Classic Edition the Key to Father-Son Bonding in the Digital Age? 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “After that, things fell apart for a while,” she told me, as we stood together in the dining room, where her mother-in-law keeps her collection of Pepsi memorabilia in curio cabinets. Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Images from the building’s website depict a wooden studio filled with antiques, sculptures and curios. Rescue Workers Sift Through Charred Warehouse After Fire Kills at Least 9 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The few low tables are set against a tufted banquette, beneath lighted, glass-fronted curio cabinets filled with oddities Elford scavenged from all over. Beer geeks and food lovers, No Anchor will be your happy place 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Less noticed is the great transfer of tchotchkes, mementos, lawn ornaments, curio cabinets and faded family heirlooms that are now causing friction and subterfuge in families. Lock the Door! Your Boomer Parents Have Decided to Downsize 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z In addition to an exclusive furniture line designed by Baena, the store now carries an expanded collection of lighting from Candela, which references glass curio boxes commonly used for jewelry storage in many Mexican households. The Store Putting Tijuana on the Design Map 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Staley grew up in Seminole, Oklahoma, with little awareness of his Native American heritage other than a curio cabinet kept by his great-grandmother. The long decline of Haskell Indian Nations University's all-conquering football team 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “It’s not even the worst album Oasis made. People might start listening to it again as a curio. There’s something really strange about it. It’s a fascinating historical document.” ‘Flattened by the cocaine panzers’ – the toxic legacy of Oasis’s Be Here Now 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z But after a few weeks, I decided they were curios, not life-changing gadgets. Shutter falls on life-logging camera start-up Narrative - BBC News 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z They became sources of media fascination and later competitors to some of the titles that had once figured the company a curio. Gawker’s Sale is Bad News for Independent Media 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Footwork wizard Jlin released "Downtown" as part of Adult Swim’s Singles Program, a yearly event that usually yields a handful of stellar tracks and a dozen other worthy curios. This is your next jam: Father John Misty, Mac Miller, and more 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Gold astronaut hands and a full-size Sputnik model are just some of the curios being auctioned off on July 20. 15 Gold Astronaut Hands Among Rare Space Items for Sale The developers selected Hilton because of the curio collection of hotels, but also because of the superior quality of their reservation and loyalty programs. The Virginian hotel renovations moving ahead 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z “Nuts!” is an intriguing, if patronizing, curio from the cabinet of American arcana, a geegaw from the collective attic that, when dusted off, looks grotesquely funny in the light of today. ‘Nuts!’ revisits a forgotten chapter of medical history with a playful wink 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z He has uncovered fascinating curios that future biographers will thank him for, including a photograph of Bacon in the unlikely guise of an air-raid warden during the blitz. Francis Bacon: creating order from chaos 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Carnival rides, international food court, curio cottage thrift shop, face painting, sand art, raffle, bake sale and more. Things to Do in Connecticut, June 11 Through June 19 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He shakes hands with staff members who rise hastily from their desks, and studies the home state curios on the walls. For Merrick Garland and Republicans, a Tango of Praise and Rejection 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “It’s designed to be a unique experience. No two curios are the same.” The Virginian hotel renovations moving ahead 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z By 1927, there were just 12 left in London, curios from a recently vanished past. How Uber conquered London | Sam Knight 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z These curios make a humorous counterpoint to the impressive canvases in the room: Across the expansive office is a somber painting by Francis Bacon, while to his right a large Picasso leans against the wall. The Art of Larry Gagosian’s Empire 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s easy to imagine the store’s shelves lined with homemade pies or curios. Oregon pot competition having effect in Washington state 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z She retrieved several photographs from her smartphone of her own craftwork, including a curio cabinet that she salvaged from junkyards and restored. Jason Day’s Long Rise to No. 1 Began With a Mother’s Save 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z She said she is related to Jake Gold, who had a curio shop near the Santa Fe Plaza in the second half of the 19th century. New Mexico woman among few playing glass armonica 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z His office is noticeably tidy, but filled to capacity with books, model train engines, railway timetables, rail-themed greeting cards and art and unique curios - including old tools used in rail yards and train engines. Clemson University professor made career of railroads 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z More broadly deukhu were assumed to lead idle, unproductive lives, shut away in dingy flats playing video games or scouring the web for their next frivolous curio. Zero to hero 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, such releases are generally regarded as curios for fans, rather than part of the artist’s canon. Has Kanye West killed off the album as we know it? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Dimatos says that was just one of a wave of “last mile of transportation” projects on Kickstarter, and though many start as curios they occasionally break out, as the hoverboard did. CES 2016: cars, virtual reality and a lot of hype 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Late morning light brightens the casual clutter of books and sailing ships, trains and street signs, Civil War curios and Wonderland chess pieces. Not bound by history, L.A.'s Caravan Book Store continues to turn pages 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Gun writers and ideologues worried aloud that the end was near, that within a generation the gun might become a museum curio. Carmelo Anthony Displays His Toughness in a Public Arena 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z “Covering bottles with basketry has been sort of a curio tradition for a really long time,” Simpson said. Alaska Native art sent to Ketchikan museum 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It could also be about creativity, lust, memory or any number of other themes that Sorrentino picks up and then discards, like curios in a cinematic Cabinet of Wonder. Movie review: ‘Youth’ cloys, despite gorgeous visuals 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z This is unfair, say people like Defrin, whose gallery sells costly figurines, vases and other ivory curios. Push to save African elephants stirs U.S. clash over antique ivory trade 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Kingsberry said he created more than the iconic cowboy, including the Gunfighter Museum in Canyon, a curio shop and a small motel. Efforts made to renovate ‘Tex’ artwork, statue in Canyon 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The biggest disappointment of all was that they did not give the excised appendix to me afterward so that I could keep it as a curio to discourage houseguests. How to lose an appendix in 10 easy steps 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The relative lack of anonymity creates an environment in which Heywood’s character was a curio, and may have contributed to her popularity. Twitter Celeb @BroadwayGirlNYC Talks Anonymity, Positivity On Social Media 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Carson’s mind is, to rob from Tom Stoppard, a cabinet of vulgar curios. Chris Christie and our GOP corruption nightmare: Fight, or this is how Ben Carson and Huckabee catch fire 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z In Thamel, a haven for backpackers, curio and trekking shops were mostly open, although the usual bustling crowd of young and tattooed tourists was largely absent. Hints of Normalcy in Katmandu, but Rebuilding Lies Ahead 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z In the 19th century they were greatly prized as sort of natural history curios by collectors, so a lot of them were collected then. Rare elephant bird egg could fetch more than $70,000 at auction 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z On this date in 1913, the first vodka in sample lots was received in Tucson by a local “collector of curios.” Today in Arizona History 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z She believes there are probably slivers of Einstein in attics across America - the samples distributed by Harvey to scientists who then kept them as interesting curios. The strange afterlife of Einstein's brain 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z There are curios—turtle paperweights, bookends made of zebra feet and footstools crafted from elephant feet. Where the U.S. Government Keeps Confiscated Animal Parts 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The list of projects includes plenty of curios and trinkets - model cars, figurines from popular TV shows and bottle openers - but also the big-thinking ideas that Chow hoped for. In Ohio State experiment, students use 3-D printers for free 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z In the living room, porcelain Lladros figurines, Hummel collectibles, and blue and white China fill a curio cabinet by the fireplace. The World's Most Profitable Company Ever Was Launched in My Grandma's House 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z There, Cox says, pointing, is the life-size cutout of Alford that hangs in the lobby, among a mess of other curios. UCLA Coach Steve Alford has roots, and rooms, back home in Indiana 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Over the years, the archive has rescued historical gems and curios that, unless one happened to own the original hardware on which to run them, were often impossible to play. Video Games and the Curse of Retro 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Rumored to be a mix between a jackrabbit and a deer or an antelope, the mythical Western creature is rarely spotted in the wild, but often found in curio shops and small-town bars. AP-UT—Utah News Coverage Advisory, UT 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Just curios - why do England keep picking Hartley? England errors frustrate Guscott 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z As for the numerous displays of porcelain figurines, George says they are all fine art - including Royal Doulton pieces - not the “kitschy stuff” found in gift shops or grandma’s curio cabinet. Dogs welcome at St. Louis museum about, well, dogs 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Gates resists any suggestion that Big History is some sort of curio or vanity project. So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class . . . 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z There are mirrors and pedestals draped with tangles of fibers, and cabinets arranged with geodes, glass-domed taxidermic birds and other curios. Stitching Together Yarn, Memory and History 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Even the hotel’s lobby boutique, Sideshow, is a branch of the funky, folksly American Visionary Art Museum’s in house curio shop. The Historic Lord Baltimore Hotel Comes Back To Life 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z She bought a marble table for the dining room, microsuede furniture for the living room and filled a curio cabinet with angel statuettes. Mayor Mike Duggan’s Pledges Echo in Detroit’s North End 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z But the Facebook reaction persuaded him to salvage the curio, if only to imagine a younger generation trying to decode its instructions: A Town Won’t Let Go of a Coin-Drop Line to the Past 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z On a recent Monday, the market's alleyways, flanked by rows of shops selling curios, were empty of customers. Kabul's Bush Bazaar dwindles as US troops withdraw from Afghanistan 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Most of all they are the emblems of teamwork and camaraderie, curios that help cement the bonds of a hockey club. N.H.L. Teams Pass the Hat, or Shovel, or Maybe a Belt 2014-04-02T17:09:10Z Maybe he became a curio for Hudson Janisch, governor in the 1880s. Enjoying a stroke and a grunt at 182 2014-03-13T01:04:36Z The oldest joke in advertising — “I waste half of my money advertising, I just don’t know which half” — is now a historical curio, just like the ad agencies on Mad Men. There won’t be a liberal Rush: The economics of conservative media 2013-12-28T14:45:00Z For the last 20 years, the priciest curio from what was called the biggest yard sale of the 20th century lay undiscovered, but not unappreciated, in Barry Lubetkin’s apartment on the Upper East Side. Once Part of Hoarders’ Famous Collection, a Clock Resurfaces 2013-12-25T22:41:15Z To most in China today, it is perhaps a curio from a bygone era seen mostly at tourist shops. In rural China, teacher upholds Mao Thought to save the world 2013-12-16T07:45:42Z Perhaps they will remain little more than curios. Currents: A New World Where We All Keep Score 2013-09-06T13:58:59Z And he would spend part of his week crafting some of the curios that he or members of his family would be selling to passing ships.” Tom Christian, Descendant of Bounty Mutineer, Dies at 77 2013-08-24T01:22:35Z It is a town house chock-full of paintings and curios, treasures of Greek and Roman art. Museum, All 60 Square Feet of It, Celebrates the Eccentric 2013-08-09T23:13:47Z Much of the ivory is sold to foreign tourists in curio shops. Ban Elephant Ivory, Legalize Rhino Horn? 2013-03-02T19:45:00.207Z Behold the latest curio in the cabinet of RNA oddities: naturally occurring circular RNA molecules that influence gene expression. Circular RNAs throw genetics for a loop 2013-02-27T22:50:30.380Z But in play, Capcom's curio effortlessly establishes its own identity, with a slew of fascinating multiplayer ideas and a single-player quest that heaves and rolls with as much drama as its rugged landscape. The 20 best games you may have missed in 2012 - part one 2012-11-19T11:58:58Z The presidential election sometimes serves as a conversation starter, like a curio placed between the salt and pepper shakers. | Donna's Diner: This Land: Losing Sleep but Not Hope at a Diner in Elyria, Ohio 2012-10-14T05:55:13Z The other 400 or so lots include tables, chairs, wall-paper prints, paintings, pottery, as well as curios and knickknacks. French president auctions chateau contents 2012-09-28T23:50:44Z Mr. Moore rattles off the specimens and curios that constitute the society’s haul. Royal Society Holds Firm Amid Political Challenges to Science 2012-09-03T19:06:06Z While the storied baseball venue had seen its fair share of soccer curios - this was the first time the newest version of the stadium had hosted such an event. Chelsea and Paris St Germain's Yankee Stadium draw 2012-07-23T05:17:00Z After an Artist’s Death, His Home Becomes a Work of Art Over the past 42 years, Barton Lidice Benes turned his dimly lighted apartment in Greenwich Village into a cave full of curios. City Room: After an Artist's Death, His Home Becomes a Work of Art 2012-07-17T22:57:06Z The lavish red-carpeted second floor was dominated by a cabinet of Japanese curios, bogus copies of masterpiece paintings, and expensive faro and custom-built roulette gaming tables. City Room: 100 Years After a Murder, Questions About a Police Officer's Guilt 2012-07-15T14:00:00Z It was a curio cooked up by some woman named Arianna that seemed like a showcase for her and her famous friends. The Media Equation: Huffington Magazine Continues Digital Media’s Incursion 2012-06-18T00:27:52Z No one would disturb the site of the Arizona and say coins from the desk drawer of the captain ought to go around the neck of curio collectors.” Odyssey and the Lost Spanish Treasure 2012-06-07T22:20:33Z I’ve written about The Atavist before, calling it a “tiny curio of a business,” but I might have been wrong about that, as the buy-in by Mr. Schmidt and the others suggests. The Media Equation: The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform 2012-05-21T13:50:02Z Afghanistan’s poverty, and international demand for rare wildlife curios, assured that poaching existed long before the current war, persisted under the Taliban’s rule and was part of Afghan markets long before the American military buildup. At War Blog: Fur, Feathers, Ivory and Bone: The U.S. Military and Endangered Species Souvenirs 2012-04-30T20:15:25Z Country villages, he reflected, were ransacked nowadays by collectors of curios. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Both Hopaphema and the Jongpen had a very good idea of the value of money, and were not at all afraid of asking a stiff price for any of the curios which they produced. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z KALAI-PAHOA, THE POISON-GOD The Bishop Museum of Honolulu has one of the best as well as one of the most scientifically arranged collections of Hawaiian curios in the world. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z The traders found a sale for the curios on the Argentine naval transports that call there every three weeks. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z The curios are shown in a large hall on the ground floor. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z It had probably been designed as a curio cabinet by the builder of the house. The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House 2012-02-27T03:00:12.427Z Knowing that we were anxious to collect such curios as were available, he produced all kinds of things for our inspection. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z But it was massage parlors and bars on Canal Street, and curio shops downtown, an old-fashioned business model. Nogales, Mexico: A Few Steps, and a Whole World Away 2012-02-23T22:07:18Z At Punta Arenas and at Ushuaia a new class of curios appears. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Once, last year, Miss Edith took some of us in there, and Mrs. Walton showed us all her curios and relics. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z When at home, she inhabits a delightful dwelling which, from entrance to attic, teems with pictures, rare books, curios, and other souvenirs of her many friends in many lands. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z The light wood is put to many uses now, and in the curio bazaars of the south it plays a conspicuous part, made into many small articles. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Tourists usually stick close to the fence, which accounts for the density of curio shops, and now the density of dental practices. Nogales, Mexico: A Few Steps, and a Whole World Away 2012-02-23T22:07:18Z The curios which a traveller may gather on a voyage like this are not many in variety, but they are very interesting as far as they go. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Kashan is a great place for curio buyers, who enlist the Jews in their service. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The house is large, nice, and looks very pretty, as the Minister has been both in China and Persia and has brought back some beautiful things, carpets, tentures, and curios of all kinds. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z For two years she labored at Palabala, frequently writing letters home and occasionally sending back to her beloved Spelman a box of curios. Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools 2012-02-08T03:00:23.060Z As his business expanded, so did his interest in military rarities and curios. American Military Insignia 1800-1851 2012-02-04T03:00:18.780Z Amongst the miscellaneous curios are a model of C�sar's famous bridge across the Rhine and a globe of the planet Mars. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The religious affairs of each were conducted by a priest called curio assisted by a flamen curialis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z After dinner M. de Pina showed us some of his curios, which are interesting and very well arranged. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z I was most struck, however, with the freshness of the colours; amongst those old curios the portrait shone like a gem. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z A large mirror in an elaborately carved frame surmounts the mantel-piece, which is laden with Satsuma ware and other Japanese, Chinese, and Indian curios. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z A thousand curios from all the ends of the earth had been accumulated in this beloved apartment, and here, too, stood Dora's Pleyel piano and Philip's bookcase of precious volumes on art, all richly bound. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z Seen from a distance, they almost have the appearance of ivory knick-knacks, such as you see exhibited for sale in Japanese curio shops. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z She sang very well after dinner, and we went later to Lady Ashburton's, who has a beautiful house crammed with pictures and curios of all kinds. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z The "country cousins," one of them especially, were far from being the curios he had imagined. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z The greater number appeared to be engaged in the import of tobacco and curios, or Eastern carpets. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z One day while inspecting a costly vase in the house of the wealthy poet Rogers, he asked with a smile who made the table on which the curio stood. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z "But when you get home and hang the thing up in your den with the Navajo blankets and swords and other curios, think what a fine souvenir it will be," urged Mr. Peasley. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z The Sunday-school and the Christian Endeavor society will do well to make a collection of curios for such purposes. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z It may be that to etchings in books of Cruikshank's period is ascribed, since the usurpation of the process-block, the factitious value of curios, and that he, Beraldi's Great Omitted, profits thereby. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Others, again, come regularly to meet the Indian tribes, and purchase from them skins, ostrich feathers, and curios. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z I had instructed him to lay in a supply of curios, silks, and other oriental things, and bring them to Boston. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z The principal products of this country are insects, dust, guides, and fake curios. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z I was wandering through a half-subterranean Spanish chapel, fitly set with huge old missals, dark altar-pieces, covered stalls, and quaint curios. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z He could not help laughing, and watched her with growing interest as she wandered on from one curio to another, until she came to his writing table. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z The museum p. 119is a place worth a visit to those who are interested in curios. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z But the crocodile skin, Sam Vesthreim said, was a bit of a curio, and he particularly wanted it left at some friend’s place farther up-country. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z It is the lonesomeness of feeling that one cannot adapt himself to the unfamiliar background and therefore is sure to attract more or less attention as a curio. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Lots of old medical curios, unusual taxidermy, and other objects that defy description.” Metropolitan Diary: A Laugh on the Subway, and Other NYTimes.com Reader Stories ? Metropolitan Diary 2011-11-28T03:13:46Z It was about as much like the genuine and beautiful beadwork of the older tribes as the tawdry American imitations are like true Japanese textures and curios. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The whole affair was rather a curio, not the sort of ring which a gentleman of the present day would be likely to care to wear. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z On another is a decorative wall filled with curios long locked away, including a light from when the “Today” show broadcast from here in the 1980s and an applause sign whose origin is unclear. All-star team and new studio ready, Williams set to debut NBC newsmagazine 2011-10-27T12:43:47Z He said he had an old bookcase at home which he was going to convert into a curio cabinet. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Later on, Victorian homes displayed them as curios. Too Much Love Threatens Chambered Nautilus, Scientists Say 2011-10-24T14:59:17Z In the bazaar many of the dingy native shops were filled with curios to attract the white resident or globe-trotter. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z I collected many curios in my travels and arranged them into a Museum during Christmas holidays. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z Well, I could ride twenty miles without much trouble if I had an object back of it; and I certainly do want to see what you told me was in that box of curios, colonel. Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield 2011-09-22T02:00:24.220Z The Buckeye store sells general supplies, photographs, films, curios, etc., and furnishes light meals and overnight accommodations. Sequoia [California] National Park 2011-09-21T02:00:31.497Z But," says I, after a little, "what'll we do with that curio room, anyway? The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z The front room was crowded full of old china, lamps, silver and other curios, but Mr. Maxton led them directly to the rear room where the furniture was kept. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z The artist who lived there for a number of years, used to drop in here every week just for the entertainment of picking up curios. Polly in New York 2011-09-18T02:00:27.103Z Elmer had never before looked upon such a queer assortment of curios. Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield 2011-09-22T02:00:24.220Z "Ah!" said the Teapot with a sneer, "when one only dates from 1887, and hasn't a handle to one's back, one should retire to the seclusion of the cupboard, and remain there as a curio." The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z The old warrior reverted to his curios and spent a couple of minutes in balancing an Afghan dagger on his finger, till, apparently inspired by the performance, he laid the venomous blade aside. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z After leaving the Gobelins, Mr. Fabian took his party to some of the old curio shops in Paris, where one can spend many interesting hours—if one likes antiques. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z They had gone to various places in Europe and England, inspecting and studying all the famous old works of art, and the ancient buildings that made fitting caskets for these rare curios. Polly in New York 2011-09-18T02:00:27.103Z Some bows and arrows, spears, etc, were taken as curios; then, just as the sun was sinking red behind the sea, every hut and house was fired. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z Nothing was taken out of her except a few shields and spears that the men got by way of curios. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z They found the Gloaming Star ready for sea, and after selling their skins and curios they embarked, and made all sail for the sunny south. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z Nobody sick, but knew ye liked curios, doctor, sir.” In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z The sharp-sighted collectors of old brain-lumber and such curios may still keep busy, and tie up their dry bundles of mythology and religions; but I myself could make plenty more. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z My children," said Lebrenn in an impressive voice, indicating the historic curios gathered upon the table, "behold the relics of our family. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z Today, it is merely a curio from which everyone will walk away unscathed. Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011-08-27T23:06:10Z You girls had better walk about the tea room and enjoy the curios until I recover my good humor.” Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z Various curios, native and foreign, were bought and sold there at exorbitant high prices. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z As we had just hailed from China, it was only natural that I should have brought with me a whole cargo of curios. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z The mere household accessories were simple enough; but the books, the pictures, and the curios were a joy. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z It is a great curio, though of not the least value as poetry; in fact, as verse it is ridiculously bad. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z A substantial boardwalk fronted the beach where people bathed, lined with stores, booths, and curio and souvenir tents. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z R. Glasspoole of Ormesby, who had himself presented many curios to our Museum, and who published a most interesting account of his experiences whilst a prisoner in the hands of Chinese pirates. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z Many of the original exhibits and curios are back on display - from a stuffed puppy to a World War I hot cross bun. The history house 2011-07-30T02:35:13Z Restaurants and curio shops, followed and at the turn of the 20th century, promoter Fred W. Swanton decided to open a casino and boardwalk that would be the “Coney Island of the West.” You can still go for the brass ring at 100-year-old carousel on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 2011-07-28T19:05:39Z One ambitious work is remembered, when remembered at all, as a curio of literature. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z The girls seated themselves on two teakwood chairs and stared silently at the many curios that gleamed from cabinet and screen, each betraying some eccentric custom of the land of the yellow peril. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z The office was small, and it had something of the attraction of a curio shop. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z A third and fourth visit succeeded,viii and after almost every visit the author's collection was enriched by some new curio. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z I will fix it up like a Florentine shop, full of beautiful old stuffs and curios. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z Waiting alongside were two or three bumboats well stocked with fruit, soft-tack, eggs, and such curios as a sailor might be supposed to covet. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z But curios pall in time, and so the girls were not at all reluctant to follow their hostesses into the quaint old kitchen, gayly decorated with the orange and blue of the Dutch Republic. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z Many people would pay the $15 and perhaps store the purse in a curio cabinet. City Room: Chasing a Name Lost to Time 2011-07-02T14:00:35Z At length, so frequent became these visits to the curio shop, that hardly a day passed without the author putting in an appearance. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z Therefore the writer did not sign the proposed orders but kept them as legal curios. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z From the cabin to the forecastle the decks were almost impassable for the piles of curios of all kinds—clothes, cigars, birds, etc. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z A brace of curios from Federer, unforced errors on the forehand side, and then a backhand aimed down Kuku's forehand that skips fractionally wide of the line. Live - Kukushkin v Federer 2011-06-21T13:59:24Z The hotel has telegraph and telephone services, an information desk, curio shop, a grill room and soda fountain, swimming pool, barber and shoe-shining shop, photograph shop, a first-aid medical establishment, and other services. Glacier National Park [Montana] 2011-06-21T02:00:29.217Z It was a strange place, choked with odd lumber, where any curio might be obtained, from a mermaid to a mummy. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z Yet the hotel was 107 not too far from the bathing beaches and the curio shops along the plaza. The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z Bits of stuff, curios, knick-knacks from all over the world met one in odd corners; prints, books, all of the very best, seemed to fit into the scheme as if they'd grown there. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z God bless the crank and the curio!—what would life in this desert be without its mullahs and its dervishes? The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z It has a store for general supplies, a gasoline station, curio shop, and all modern conveniences. Glacier National Park [Montana] 2011-06-21T02:00:29.217Z And off trudged the author with this new acquisition to his collection of curios. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z Only a few well-arranged native curios, a good piano, and the kind of things people from home gather about them when they are sojourning in a foreign land. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z An active branch of business here is the sale of curios, antique silverware, china, gold, jewels, and bric-a-brac; in fact ancient articles of every description. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z All manner of cranks and curios, to whom I feel myself drawn by affinity. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Mr. Tucker had wanted pictures and prints; Dum had wanted bronzes, carved curios of all sorts and casts of masterpieces; Dee had a leaning towards soft Persian rugs, old china and pets. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z Welsh gold generally sells as a curio, at prices much higher than the market value of gold. Royal Gold in Wales: How It Got There and Got Out 2011-04-29T23:15:00.693Z Spruce Tree Lodge—Cabins, tents, meals, beverages, campers' supplies, and curios. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z In the Cedar Drawing-room are wonderful antique vases, furniture and other curios, which would well repay a much longer inspection than we can give them. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z He was the eldest son of Sir James Darcy Lever, and when he succeeded to his estate he achieved notoriety as a collector of "curios." Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Moreover, Nancy had the collecting habit inherited from her forefathers, sea captains all of them, and the old home in West Haven was filled with curios brought back on homeward voyages. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z When he finished the job to his liking, the ax or hammer resembled those Indian curios one sees in the museums of our large cities. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z “Say, perhaps Uncle Felix keeps some of his expensive curios aboard, and this Stackpole knows it, and means to get hold of ’em. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z The woods must have been full of human curios! When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z And finally this curio: Linford Christie aims to be the world's quickest...at ironing. London 2012: Ten best of the web 2011-04-01T11:50:20Z One time when a new little curio shop opened in Banning, I browsed happily and thoroughly through it, and finally selected a small item made of what looked like beautiful, glossy petrified wood. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z The fixture had also contained the statutory curio when Danny Welbeck, on loan to Sunderland from Manchester United, received his England debut as a substitute. England 1-1 Ghana 2011-03-29T21:03:45Z The result is The Atavist, a tiny curio of a business that looks for new ways to present long-form content for the digital age. The Media Equation: Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home 2011-03-28T00:50:09Z Yet she did nothing but smile after her sons returned, laden with treasures and curios which they laid out all over the room. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z But without the infrastructure to produce and distribute hydrogen as a fuel, these vehicles are little more than curios. Why don't governments push for more hydrogen cars? 2011-03-24T10:27:00Z Early explorers, missionaries, and others had collected the body parts for all manner of reasons, including as curios. Museum to return islanders' bones 2011-03-10T00:21:52Z The walls were a maze of firearms, prints, curios. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z But now you are back with all sorts of island stories to tell dad, and a few curios for me. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z “I’ll send this curio to Whitehall,” he said with a smile. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Yet, in some ways, he was a corrective to the self-complacency of his generation, a vast dilettante, lover of “Gothic,” of curios and antiques, of costly printing, of old illuminations and stained glass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z "Waltenberg bus invited us to inspect his collection of curios," he said. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z Hence, the four elderly people were soon interested in the game; while the bride and groom, ostensibly examining curios, were taxing their souls with a thousand questions relative to the future. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z If he had curios, weapons, or Naura gods, I would deal, but there I drew the line. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Wheat, boots and shoes, mining machinery, cement, lime, lumber, beer, and denatured alcohol are among the varied exports; the principal imports are ore, sugar, cigars, oranges, drawn work and Mexican curios. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z He found Burke alone in the library—the library whose every book and chair and curio spoke with the voice of the man who was gone—the man who had loved them so well. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z A few paid furtive visits to their bunks, and rummaged in kit-bags for some treasured curio or personal belonging which could be stowed away in a pocket. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z So, by means of various reports from Eastern sources, he discovered that Coravel Tio, the curio dealer of Santa Fé, was negotiating for the sale of the property, and held an interest in the mine. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z "And you are interested in my late aunt's curios," suggested Iris. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z In front of a wonderful window full of Indian curios stood a little woman looking up and waving a handkerchief. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z And she loves to fuss over old books and curios. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z It has a "Trunk of 300 le," and collectors of curios or strange plants should keep wide awake and see that they don't pass it in the dark. Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado 2011-01-12T03:00:34.043Z Señor, I am a curio dealer, no more! The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Collections of curios and coins left by her husband, additional objects of value, bought by herself, made the room almost a museum; and, in addition, her desk contained money and important papers. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z Those who are not Catholics do not wear them as curios or ornaments either, as upon cases of inquiry they attach some religious value to them even though they cannot explain what it is. The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' 2011-01-12T03:00:32.843Z Unfortunately, many of the curios, too, lack numbers. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z The best place to purchase genuine old knockers is in the curio shops, where only such things are for sale. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z I am a curio dealer, señor, and in other matters I take no interest.” The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z It was not difficult, for there were no alcoves or cupboards, the furniture was mostly curio cabinets, treasure tables, a few chairs and a couch. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z For many years it was kept in the Country Club as a curio. Guilt of the Brass Thieves 2011-01-04T03:01:18.213Z As if I could tell you anything about antiques and curios! The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z Among the early curio bottles shown are numerous fancy designs in the form of animals, fishes, eggs, pickles, canteens, cigars, shells, pistols, violins, lanterns, and the like. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The others were two white men who together approached the curio dealer. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The curios served as an interesting novelty, and became the subject of conversation. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z Hundreds of curios which could have appealed to a discerning Victorian or Edwardian bachelor are up for auction at a gentlemen's library sale taking place later this month. Curiosity shop 2011-01-02T02:00:14Z Of course, at first it was just about the work—we're cataloguing the curios; but lately it's been in other ways. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z But the drawers are full of valuables, jewellery—curios—all kinds of things which could easily be turned into money. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z “You came to tell me something,” prompted the curio dealer, gently. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z “It was made of braided silk strands by a Chinese curio man, and had two iron hooks to claw into the wood of window ledges.” The Wishing Well 2010-12-20T17:12:27.090Z This in itself is something of a curio, because some might argue that the Commonwealth Games are an anachronism. Whither the Commonwealth Games? 2010-09-21T11:32:00Z Burke Denby's only interests plainly were business, books, and the rare curios he and his father had collected. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z The giant iguana that graced its roof became a massive itinerant curio, now residing at the Fort Worth Zoo. | Of Honky-Tonks and Supper Clubs 2010-08-16T14:57:00Z Others brought them to Buddhist temples, where monks collected them alongside artifacts and other curios. Baan Na Kum Journal: Old Bones Yield a New Age of Dinosaurs 2010-07-13T01:02:00Z Where to eat and shop: Thamel is Kathmandu's social hub—a sometimes overwhelming conglomeration of backbacker bars, curio shops and tour outfitters. Exploring Kathmandu 2010-05-27T02:36:00Z A selection of Livia Firth's red carpet dresses will sit next to smaller curios such as a piece of the Love Actually film reel donated by Richard Curtis. Celebrities to staff Oxfam shop 2010-04-09T16:59:00Z The others were harvested for their ornamental value — because they look pretty in an aquarium — or as curios to be sold in shell shops and other stores. Scouring Florida?s Reefs for the Home Aquarium Trade 2010-03-22T18:57:00Z I had the deer mounted and Mrs. Boyington took it as she was collecting freaks and curios of this country. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. I turned aside into an old curio shop to buy some trifle for you which took my fancy, and it was Paschuli himself who served me. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 I know what will fetch him: 'Mr. Lightnut's compliments, and will he be pleased to honor him by passing upon an Oriental curio of rare scientific interest?'—that sort of merry rot! The Haunted Pajamas Mr. Thompson took us up into his den and showed us curios from all over the world and as many pictures as we would find in an art gallery. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl As if this were not enough, the room was filled with Egyptian curios from floor to ceiling. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance And afterwards he showed her about the huge old house, taking her to his laboratory, explaining a great deal about scientific experiments which she did not understand, showing her his books and his curios. Nancy of Paradise Cottage Ten pounds for that ring, my lady," the curio dealer remarked, "and it has a history. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 I have no use for such curios myself and am happy to present it to you. The New Gulliver and Other Stories We went through the rooms and saw many curios and paintings and also the library. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl British officers haunt the bazaars searching for curios, but with very little success. The Unveiling of Lhasa He collected facts, as an enthusiast collects curios, for purposes of decoration. The Vagabond in Literature In the deep gloom of the shop the curio dealer could not see the tears which glistened in her dark eyes. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 |
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