| Kensington market an eclectic customer experience
I have avoided writing about Kensington market. Though well known for its cheap and original second-hand finds, Kensington has seemed to me, paradoxically, to be a rather predictable style experience.
In fact, if I open one more weekly publication and see yet another Toronto style maven who has purchased parts of his or her outfit from a little shop in Kensington, I think the vintage vamp in me may explode.
But since Im a passionate used clothes horse — one who would never dissuade anyone from buying gently used over new — and because I wanted to honour Earth Day on April 22 and pay homage to those who reduce their ecological footprint by buying used clothing, I decided to write about Kensington.
The first shop I check out is on my must-visit list, and it doesnt disappoint.
New York: The Bowery Hotel
The Bowery is no stranger to hotels, except, of course, they were called flophouses. For several bucks, you once got a wooden cell with a bug-infested bed, bare bulb and chicken wire ceiling. So it's no surprise that some New Yorkers find the opulent 17-story Bowery Hotel a bit galling. The latest venture from Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson, who created the Maritime Hotel and numerous botes, the hotel evokes the Gilded Age of red waistcoats, hand-set bricks and wood-paneled elevators. And the views from the upper floors are positively grand. So what if you might have to step over a few vestigial bums to get there? THE LOCATION Depends on your perspective. It's either next door to a drug rehab center, a men's shelter and a Salvation Army shelter. Or it's near the shuttered CBGB, a rash of shiny condos and a fashionably seedy corridor between the East Village and NoHo.
Asselmeier & May Major 2 Day Antique Estate Auction MUST SEE!
Nice Country Punch Tin Pie Safe With Tin Sides & Doors, Pine 18th Century Hanging Wall Corner Cupboard, 2 Piece Step Back Cupboard With Open Top, Early Walnut Spindle Back Poster Rope Bed, Nice Round Walnut Kitchen Table With 2 Leaves, Nice Walnut One Drawer Stand Table, Glass Door Bakers Cabinet With Possom Belly Drawers, Set Of Early Ladder Back Rush Seat Chairs, Pair of Nice Firehouse Windsor Arm Chairs, 2 Piece Plantation Desk, Nice Walnut Day Bed, Beautiful White Iron Canopy Twin Bed, Primitive Slant Top Desk, Early Tapered Leg Stand Table, Beautiful Rosewood Grain Painted Game Table, Nice Folding Oak Book Shelf With Pressed Design, High Back Oak Youth Bed, Pine Fireplace Mantle, Oak 2 Drawer File Cabinet, Large Old Dome Top Immigrants Trunk With Hand Wrought Hardware, Nice Small Pine Trunks, Large Wooden Loom With Original Stenciling, Outstanding Oak Country Store Floor Step Down Display Case, Slant Front & Counter Top Display Cases, Ball & Claw Foot Piano Stool, White Art Deco Dental Cabinet With Black Milk Glass Top, Small Sewing Cabinets, Iron & Wooden Plant Stands, Small Primitive Wooden Benches & Stools, Cast Iron Patio Set, Garden Urns, Garden Figurines, Medicine Cabinet, Etc..
Personality Development Workshop at Shirva
Samanvaya Mangalore in Association with Manavika Association of St. Marys College, Shirva had organized a 2 day workshop on Personality Development for the benefit of the St. Marys College students at its conference hall on March 20-21, 2007. The chief guest and director of Samanvaya Rev. Dr Ronald Cutinha inaugurated the workshop by lighting the lamp and said, the lamp of personality development that was lit today may last till the end of your life. Add oil, change wicks and protect the flame from the breeze by constant knowledge, feedback and disclosure. The Principal of the college Rev. Fr John Barboza presided over the stage function. He empasised the need of value based personality development. The topics dealt were leadership, self-confidence, self-image, spoken english and analytical skills. Through group discussion, overhead projections, skit, exhibition of leadership skills etc.
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