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There are two main antiquing areas in the city. A walkable collection of stores is concentrated in the French Quarter, mostly spanning eight blocks on Royal Street and seven blocks on nearby Chartres Street. These dealers tend to feature older, pricier and one-of-a-kind historic items. At the edge of the Quarter starts Magazine Street, which runs for six miles and ventures into residential neighborhoods that include the lovely Garden District. Shops on Magazine Street are more eclectic and offer newer, less costly antiques. These boutiques are spread out, so to take them in, it would make sense...
...considering buying as you wander from store to store so that you can visually compare different items at the end of the day. Examine pieces carefully by opening drawers and cabinets. Look for water damage and nicks. Find out the history, age and original location of the pricier pieces you're thinking of buying, urges Riddle of Let's Go Antiquing. Ask whether an antique is purely from one period or if it has "married" parts from different eras that may have been attached, says art dealer Kevin Molony, president of Royal Insider, a New Orleans host agency that offers...
...curriculum. But that's a claim opponents say masks many hidden expenses. A recent study by the American Friends Service Committee argues, for example, that after school districts subsidize military instructors' salaries, renovate facilities to accommodate JROTC instruction and fork over for mandated field trips, JROTC is usually pricier than conventional academic programs...
This San Francisco hangout is an internationally renowned temple of tequila cult. It serves more than 200 brands of the Mexican drink--varieties derived from the juice of the spiky agave plant and far pricier than the sugarcane-diluted rotgut of college frat parties. Tommy's Blue Agave Club, the nation's largest tequila-tasting group, boasts connoisseurs from five continents among its 5,000 members. Julio gives seminars in France, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. And when Mexican distillers visit Tommy's, patrons ask for their autographs. "They get rock-star status," he said...
...present situation for receiving unauthorized programming," says William Wade, an executive at Hong Kong-based satellite operator Asiasat. For one thing, the satellite programs now being received in homes are relatively uncensored and subscriptions for illegal cable service are dirt cheap?the government's monopoly is bound to be pricier. Still, bureaucrats have a plan for that too: they aim to buy up all the cable operations run by a hodgepodge of local authorities and bring them under a single national owner...