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Be patriotic! Go shop.
The retail doomsayers are predicting a cataclysmic Christmas season. The stores are bracing for the worst. The gloom is so thick that we're thinking this Christmas shopping season should be subtitled "The Day the Mall Stood Still." But remember last...Tags: Christmas, Religious Festivals, Henry Paulson
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Spending urge curbed
Tribune reportersYou could call Terri Taylor the new American consumer. When her iron broke, she went shopping, found one marked down 40 percent and resisted the urge to buy anything else. "No clothes, no shoes, no distractions," is how Taylor describes her new shopping...Tags: Real Estate Sales, Consumers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Neiman Marcus, Sales
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Retailers brace for shoppers to cut back holiday spending
South Florida Sun-SentinelSanta's helpers could find themselves with less work during this holiday season. Cash-strapped consumers are expected to pare gift-giving, which points to a grim season for retailers. The housing malaise, mounting job losses and turmoil in the financial...Tags: Consumers, Candy, Flowers and Gifts, Macy's, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Pembroke Pines
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Look pretty, save pennies
McClatchy/Chicago Tribune newspapersThe slumping economy shows no signs of letting up. Even the most committed fashionistas are considering ways to trim spending. That's OK. You can keep your look, and your money. "Style goes beyond fashion and beauty products," says personal style...Tags: Personal Service, Christianity, Beauty Products, Salvation Army
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makeover
sylvia.king-cohen@newsday.comWhen E. Kavourias brought designer Anne Lombardi of Anne Lombardi Designs in Roslyn to her Manhasset home she wasn't sure what to expect. "We don't come from the kind of folks who hire designers," says Kavourias, who had turned to friend and longtime... -
'27 Dresses'
Zap2It.comIf you couldn't commit to a date with "27 Dresses" on the big screen or admit to your friends you wanted to see Katherine Heigl prance around in candy-colored gowns, then the DVD release, accessorized with a few amusing bonus features, is a fun, if...Tags: Rhode Island, New York, Marriage, Family
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Kitchens at New Yorks Hotel Milburn save guests money
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNew York City makes everyone's Top 10 list of the most expensive cities in the U.S. to visit. Our problem was compounded by the fact that we are a family of four: Where could we find a hotel room in the Big Apple that not only fit our budget of less...Tags: Madonna, People, Upper West Side, Hotels and Accommodations, Tourism and Leisure
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Indulging fashionistas with designer labels
Special to the TribuneAs fashion boutiques go, Beta Boutique is hardly among the city's toniest. It doesn't carry up-to-the-minute trends, unless they didn't sell well at full price elsewhere. When it is crowded, sheets hung from the ceiling are pulled across the back of the...Tags: Bucktown, Fashion Trends, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Inventories, Skokie
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Boston, girlfriend getaways, Grand Canyon guides
Tribune staff reporter"The Historic Shops & Restaurants of Boston" (The Little Bookroom, $16.95) Boston has always been a city acutely conscious -- and appreciative -- of its rich history. In 1996, the city inaugurated the Boston Business Heritage Project whose purpose was to...Tags: Personal Service, Charles Dickens, Paul Revere, Maine, Colorado
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Chelsea
Special to amNewYorkKnown for its galleries and large gay population, Chelsea has long been a haven for a creative, diverse community. Once an undesirable neighborhood where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols allegedly stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death at the...Tags: Theft, Gays and Lesbians, Jez Butterworth, North Fork, Woody Allen
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Shopping
Bostonians have finally traded in the ancestral hand-me-down wardrobe for the newfound joys of department-store gluttony and boutique fussiness. But Puritan habits still inform the choice of goods here, which tends towards the utilitarian - heavy on...Tags: Health and Beauty Products
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Don't call 'em punk
Born the same year Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me," Blondie's "Heart Of Glass" and The Knack's "My Sharona" ruled the airwaves, the four Palo Alto, Calif., women who make up the Donnas were, perhaps, destined to create power pop music. After nearly...Tags: Folk Music, Crimes, Popular Music, Magnificent Mile, Music
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