When it comes to shopping, Ms. van Herpen likes the flea market at Porte de Clignancourt.
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That had been the whole idea, the lofty rationale behind the snow-globe collection and the flea-market eyewear.
It was a clear case of the flea swallowing the elephant by taking on billions in debt to accomplish the transaction.
The inside is almost entirely decorated with objects that Mr. Starck picked out from the flea-market over the course of two years.
It showed the distribution of the most common varieties including the human flea (Pulex irritans), the dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis) and the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis).
Jonathan organized a "Salvage Fest" in the same neighborhood as the Flea in 2007 with about 10 architectural salvage dealers, and it went so well he thought about expanding it.
Just as the flea pit around the corner will have to beat off customers with the proverbial dirty stick because it does have that buzz despite lousy music and the expense.
And so are the amusements, from high-tech rollercoasters to nostalgic charmers like Schichtl's famous fake beheadings and the flea circus where trained pests provide the oomph for miniature chariots that outweigh them a thousand-fold.
"This was a very intricate piece of writing which is completely unusual for a neophyte or a beginning playwright, " says Jim Simpson, the founder and artistic director of The Flea Theater, where "The Vandal" is playing.
If your eyes are bigger than your wallet, then you might be interested in the flea market held on Saturdays in Israels Plads , where high-street stores are said to unload the goodies they can't sell in their shops.
Raised on Long Island, where she frequented thrift stores out of necessity rather than adventure, she worked as a waitress in San Francisco in the 1970s but gravitated to the legendary flea markets that flank the coast.
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The Sand Flea can leap through a window or onto a roof, filming all the while.
Once a trader in the seafront flea-market, his souvenir shack was destroyed, and with it his livelihood.
He and I share a love for the bygone Chelsea and Manhattan flea markets of yore, and agreed that the idea of a Brooklyn Flea had legs.
Ms. Perillo began to build her collection of old-time cookbooks in 2007, when she was vacationing on Cape Cod and stumbled across the Betty Furness volume at the Wellfleet Flea Market.
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And back in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Flea, a year-round, weekend-only market presenting a curated mix of indie designers, regional food producers and vintage collectors, has moved indoors for winter, sprawling over three floors of a former bank in Fort Greene.
To frame the collection, Louboutin has placed searchlights from the Suez Canal (picked up in Cairo and at the Paris flea markets), Syrian columns purchased at auction, two Aztec-like totem poles from Mexico City and a pair of Indian rococo columns found in a Paris antiques shop.
In the dining room I am working on, I plan to hang a single fantastic picture on one wall and smother the opposite wall with pictures a mix of Hugo Guinness paintings, the odd flea-market oil painting, a vintage poster and vintage sandpaper pictures I found in Paula Rubenstein's Manhattan shop.
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There are shops selling jade and incense, and when the afternoon arrives, flea-market vendors spread their wares on the ground.
Previously, Crane also produced and hosted "I Believe, " a web series on religion in America, "Fleaing the World" a series on the business of flea markets, and a documentary on homeschooling titled "Home Ed".
The world's largest online flea market thought that it could revolutionize the traditional art auction business by creating a vast new class of customers who would bid on high-ticket items over the Internet.
Weekends also see the city's biggest flea market take over Strasse des 17 Juni, just west of the Tiergarten park.
On Sunday afternoons at Plaza Dorrego in the San Telmo Antiques flea market, a local legend and resident, El Indio, does a demonstration of tango accompanied by a bit of history (in Spanish).
Each year, roughly 10 to 20 people in the United States develop plague from flea or rodent bites, mostly from infected prairie dogs in rural southwestern areas, the NIH says.
This is like comparing a roadside flea market to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mexican immigrants running flea markets in the area routinely roll up their trucks to buy up clothes, furniture, gadgets and other items in bulk.
By playing recordings of calls to the males they were monitoring, the team found that those which had been flea-free managed to overlap with almost two-thirds of the outsider's call, whereas the others managed to cover less than half of it.
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Anyone who has visited a weekend flea market has noticed the old coin and currency collector displays filled with past experiments in national fiat money.
In my early twenties it was a year before she learned my boyfriend's last name, though she would dedicate weeks to hunting in flea markets for just the right piece of furniture for my apartment.
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