By old rules, this all qualifies as a fascinating curio.
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At the same time, she's an exotic curio of jihad.
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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.
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I could have bypassed the Curio, but I made a call.
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For listening to the news: Curio, TuneIn, Breaker, and Apple Podcasts.
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Other businesses, such as curio shops and restaurants, appeared shortly after.
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I had them cremated and I have them in my curio cabinet.
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He previously co-founded several consumer startups, including Skylight Frame and Curio Road.
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I spent many a happy hour tinkering with Toshio Iwai's musical curio Electroplankton.
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"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is an engaging curio, but nothing more.
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He might have to reconsider if he feels Curio has a good chance.
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The Hunt is a curio shop set up in an old appliance storefront.
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SOUTH DAKOTA: Hotel Alex Johnson Rapid City, Curio Collection by Hilton in Rapid City
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A great curio for non-watchers of the show, and a must for fans.
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Hilton Worldwide's brands include Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Curio and Double Tree as well as Hilton.
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"As with any graduating class, the themes and concepts are varied and distinct," explains Curio.
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So what worth are his art writings to us now outside of a bemusing curio?
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Donald Trump's defense lawyers showcasing a bizarre-o world curio cabinet of alternative impeachment facts.
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Jonathan Adler's whimsical Squirrel Match Strike holder is a perfect curio to keep by your candles.
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Mr. Ocean has willed himself from R&B curio to major pop star to art student.
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But as a page from an artist's notebook, and a time capsule curio, it rates pretty high.
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Tourism withered, the curio shops closed and there was a painful tear in the cross-border culture.
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But it also feels like a commodity, like going to the market and buying an African curio.
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This installation, part of Design Miami's Curio program, brings it all back as a statement about conformity.
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Zanzibar Emerson Hurumzi The Zanzibar Curio Shop 1001 Organic Spicery benjamin mkapa Rd. stone town kenyatta rd.
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He throws on the Curio Wheel, a functional miniature pottery wheel that he designed and built himself.
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He can also get a negative Quirk, and sometimes that Quirk is very directly linked to the Curio.
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Carnival rides, international food court, curio cottage thrift shop, face painting, sand art, raffle, bake sale and more.
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Keeping it in a closet felt wrong and I wasn't about to display it in my curio cabinet.
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For his part, Mr. Younkers was overwhelmed by his get: the curio cabinet and all its tiny figures.
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In the process, he has gone from industry curio to known quantity and artist's favorite, especially among female musicians.
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The result is Curio + Ta Ta, a collaboration between the cafe space and the couple's obsession with all things rice.
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If a player commands a hero to use that Curio, that hero might get gold, or information, or a disease.
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So far they are being offered in Hilton, Doubletree and Curio brands, but could move to other, lower-priced properties.
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All in all, while pretending to be a whimsical curio, "Karawane" cannot disguise its sophistication, beauty or unexpected emotional power.
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Though he lacks the support of Gauland and Hoecke, Curio has wasted no effort in trying to sell his pitch.
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I installed a battery on my Curio Wheel and decided to head outdoors for the summer for my throwing sessions.
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More than just a curio, Lynskey would like the game to eventually be used in schools as an educational tool.
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Unfortunately, the box set was missing the 1967 spoof Casino Royale and that 80s Sean Connery curio Never Say Never Again.
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Not well-regarded and quickly forgotten, Film is now the sort of cinematic curio that only attracts the attention of historians.
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It includes reviews of every mainstream NES game released in the US along with information and factoids and NES curio history.
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This astringent yet oddly desultory book, a curio from a very good writer, more resembles, for good and ill, an anchovy.
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Started in 2011 in a Stanford dorm room, Snap has grown from a curio for millennials into a broad social phenomenon.
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I spent a night in the latter and found it to be a great deal for Hilton&aposs boutique Curio brand.
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"Curio is an eloquent speaker who knows how to fire up a crowd," an AfD lawmaker said, on condition of anonymity.
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Macron's book project is a curio, but it typifies his intellectual décor, his taste for the solitary authorship of immodest fates.
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In fact, the organization has even begun collecting bizarre donated items in a gastronomic curio cabinet dubbed The Wall of Shame.
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This nasty little stop-motion curio makes full use of its medium to convey icky textures in a way conventional film can't.
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Now the DBC has become more than just a futuristic curio, with a peer-reviewed paper published this month in Nature Biotechnology.
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She retrieved several photographs from her smartphone of her own craftwork, including a curio cabinet that she salvaged from junkyards and restored.
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Read more: The best Marriott credit cards We stayed our other BA night at Anselmo Buenos Aires, part of Hilton's Curio Collection.
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In Los Angeles, a panaderia could give way to a fancy café or a botánica to a curio shop for Silver Lake shamans.
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I'd walk over near the register and push the manual turntable on the curio display to look at all the rifles and shotguns.
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Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale was already something of a curio that was selling for between $19863 and $30 in July.
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Personal curio: since you had access to the Rai archives, I presume you must have spent hundreds of hours just watching this material.
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Once relegated to academic footnotes as a bemusing curio, Jean-Jacques Lequeu is finally being fully recognized for his cheeky and dazzling drawings.
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Also part of the Curio program, it was inspired by Henri Matisse's vibrant and influential cutouts from the late 1940s and early '50s.
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The hotel is also now a part of Hilton&aposs Curio Collection, which is the brand&aposs collection of boutique and luxury properties.
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It was a curio, albeit a supposedly magnificent one, like the last great silent film released just as the talkies were taking over.
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For example, The New World Order III: The Curio Shop at Artists Space in 1993 used the Chinatown store as a visual reference.
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The market is especially shifty for so-called specimen emeralds—those that are big and weird, destined for curio cases and natural history museums.
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If music fans want to travel to an unfamiliar town to catch a show, Cities by Curio can help plan the post-show party.
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In the span of 30 years, virtual reality has transformed from a science-fiction curio to a growing asset for the real estate industry.
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The curio, cast in steel for the first time, still sports its biomorphic curves, and is set for a run of just eight pieces.
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This speaker, at Plusdesign Gallery's street scene Curio booth, reminded us of Dutch mid-century design and something the Jetsons might keep in their house.
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Largely, that's been in the form of ambient and drone pieces—both beautiful and broken—but there's a cool curio in their just-released batch.
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Depending on your interior decor tastes, it could even be a central conversation piece adorning a coffee table or curio cabinet when not in use.
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In-game, meanwhile, Richard Joseph provided the music, each of his tracks a whirring curio that honoured both Joi's input and the game's bizarre clockwork.
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Lately, these shops have been joined by a crop of independent businesses, making Noailles a destination sure to appeal to gourmands and curio-seekers alike.
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Trained to do tricks and trussed up in bows (foreshadowing the pet clothing of today), the brown rat became a desirable curio among Victorian gentry.
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Andrew Kovacs, curator of Archive of Affinities, uses clippings and artifacts from his curio cabinet of built patrimony to create towers, hotels, and a dog park.
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When looked at with sobriety and objectivity, the Piano Fortes cost an order of magnitude more than a shiny curio with a good sound signature should.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship seemed for years to be a curio, a niche sport for those interested in seeing combatants pummel one another in an octagonal cage.
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Still, as mentioned, it's a good measure of Wayne's mind at this point in time, which makes it a curio as far as analyzing his career.
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The hotel is part of Hilton&aposs Curio boutique brand, where hotels come with all the Hilton services guests expect, but with a more individual feel.
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Last fall, the Ocean's Eleven and Magic Mike director released Mosaic, an HBO miniseries and experimental curio told through a choose-your-own-adventure-style smartphone app.
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The Starbucks Mobile App identifies the playlist in the given store which is being played by the CURIO, then shares this information with customers in the app.
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Where Dylan went electric, Wayne began using AutoTune—then looked at as a passing curio—in weird and wonderful ways, amping up the otherworldliness of his voice.
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To uncover your curiosity type, you can take the "Are You Curious?" quiz and discover your next travel moment with Curio Collection by Hilton, bookable at curiocollection.
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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.
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Tamir's ashes now rest in a blue and white marble urn, surrounded by his toys, in a curio cabinet in the dining room of his mother, Samaria.
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The last of the 225 properties that ringed the lake through the 1920s, the Hotel Saranac has been rebranded as part of the Curio Collection by Hilton.
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A soggy week on the Tanzanian archipelago leads to a mysterious curio shop, a taste of Zanzibar pizza, conversations with locals and a bit of spice lore.
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If my circumstances had not been so dire — or rather, if my circumstances had been drier — I might never have found myself at the Zanzibar Curio Shop.
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Hilton, which is pursuing the same strategy with Curio, counts among its properties the Asheville Foundry Inn in Asheville, N.C., and the Hoodoo Moab in Moab, Utah.
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In the scramble, the Downings managed to grab their cat, Gunk, as well as a few clothes, a television set, a curio cabinet, bedding and their medicines.
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Gottfried Curio, a physicist and musician, announced his surprise candidacy on YouTube, where his rhetoric against Muslims has turned him into a star with almost 52,000 followers.
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The El San Juan Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton, known for its opulent lobby crystal chandelier from the 1950s, reopened in December after extensive renovations and repairs.
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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.
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There are tons of strange things to be said about this game, but to look at Dragon's Dogma as a mere hip curio does it a huge disservice.
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BowieNet came at a time when the internet was only slowly transitioning from curio to integral part of human existence, but it's clear Bowie saw this change coming.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Ultimate Fighting Championship seemed for years to be a curio, a niche sport for those interested in seeing combatants pummel one another in an octagonal cage.
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After being badly hit by Hurricane Irma in 2017, Hilton Key Largo re-emerged as Baker's Cay, a 200-room Curio Collection resort on a former pineapple plantation.
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To the chagrin of local people, phalluses have become a curio to peddle in all sizes and colors to the increasing number of visitors to the Himalayan kingdom.
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It sounds cute, but remember before you read it that 120 Days of Sodom is not just a historical curio, but a genuinely cruel and disgusting piece of writing.
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This isn't a revelatory idea, but Kakutani does her best to chart the fragmentation across time, as Trump crossed from publicity-hungry mogul to reality-TV curio to candidate.
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The hotels, now managed by Al Habtoor Group, will be rebranded as Habtoor Palace - LXR Hotels & Resorts, V Hotel - Curio Collection by Hilton, and Hilton Dubai Al Habtoor City.
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The book comes across as such a cerebral curio that (like Mr. Lerner's thinky and digressive novels, "Leaving the Atocha Station" and "10:04") it's almost impossible to describe.
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"When you were a kid, didn't you feel weird about that?" he asks incredulously, as two elderly white women gawk at them from the window of a curio shop.
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In curio boxes, the curators have gathered the objects with which she makes her prints, both found objects and originally crafted tools; it's an interesting peek into her process.
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Apple—uproarious, impulsive and chaotic—was the wrong fit for the quiet, melancholic and reflective Mr Taylor, and his first, self-titled album (1968) was misarranged into a baroque curio.
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On Monday afternoon, Bharat Shah, who runs a Nairobi curio shop, held up a pad of paper with the number 360 scribbled on it, for 360 shillings, less than $4.
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Once relegated to academic footnotes as a bemusing curio, Lequeu is finally being fully recognized for his cheeky and dazzling drawings that experimented with both perplexing structure and taunting narrative.
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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.
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Many of the plush rooms in this Hilton Curio Collection property overlook the Chicago River and I highly recommend my Vista Suite for the prime river views and comfortable accommodations.
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It would have been entirely understandable if Gritty had simply become a curio after the early backlash, a thing we all talked about for a day and then moved on from.
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Hilton plans to introduce its Curio Collection, an upscale hotel brand, on the continent, starting with a hotel at Lagos airport in Nigeria, Chris Nassetta, the company's president and CEO, said.
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In addition, Gangarossa produced an invoice showing he paid more than $37,000 for the Hollywood curio, a purchase that he told CNBC did not leave him financially strapped or in debt.
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A fun take on the events of "Goblet of Fire," this Polyjuice Potion hip flask is ideal for a Mad Eye Moody costume, or simply as a silly, booze-holding curio.
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Tru follows the recent launch of Curio Collection, a Hilton concept aimed at the other end — boutique hotels around the world targeting upscale travelers that provide ties to local hot spots.
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The 213-room hotel, part of Hilton's upscale Curio Collection, is located in the original Beaux-Arts building, along with a 143-story glass addition that was built during the renovation.
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Music is played in Starbucks stores using PlayNetwork's CURIO content delivery system, which is an internet-connected device that lets Starbucks employees control the music in their stores using an iPod touch.
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But these outfits weren't big enough for Meng and Gonçalves to spread their rice-y wings, and the pair stopped trading in May to focus on Curio + Ta Ta's new permanent home.
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As the accompanying text emphasizes, she is not only named, as opposed to just being identified by type, but her confident gaze also counters the typical exoticizing of women as curio objects.
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"The photography department at Yale University is revered as one of the most rigorous programs in the country," explains Seth Curio, a senior director at Shulamit Nazarian and curator of the show.
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It's a particular curio in Asus' case, however, since the company has publicly stated that it finds augmented reality more interesting than VR and plans to release an AR headset in 2016.
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Its nostalgia play will drag them to the theaters alongside their parents who saw the original when they were kids, and in time, the original Lion King will be but a curio.
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Isabel gave impromptu science lessons with the array of specimens she kept in a glass-front curio cabinet: drawers full of taxidermied birds, rocks, fossils and sand glass formed by lightning strikes.
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After an extensive monthslong renovation led by SHH Architecture and Interior Design, the Trafalgar St. James, formerly known as the Trafalgar hotel, reopened in August 2017 as part of Hilton's Curio Collection.
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But you have to listen to that stuff and read that stuff largely — I mean, I do it largely, more than a curio, I love when people pick up on the thematics.
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Born Barrington Hendricks but known affectionately to his fans as "Peggy," the US Air Force vet from Baltimore went from Bandcamp curio to underground sensation off the strength of this year's Veteran mixtape.
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As usual, sales were generally less frenetic at Frieze Masters, but a recreation of the curio-cluttered studio of the British Pop artist Peter Blake by the London dealer Waddington Custot proved popular.
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"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.
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Welles's began filming this self-financed curio in 1970, didn't wrap until 1976 and now it is premiering on Netflix in a version that has been meticulously constructed posthumously, in accordance with Welles's wishes.
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J.C. The latest dewey-eyed, sticky-sweet curio to come out of the bond between Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips is "We a Famly," whose message isn't much more layered than the title.
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The culturally layered cuisine I would sample, and the mishmash of trinkets I browsed at Zanzibar Curio Shop, scavenged from estate sales, told me more about Zanzibar than a sun-drenched beach ever could.
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Attracting business travelers and young professionals, LondonHouse Chicago, a Hilton Curio brand, is a well-appointed property with affordable prices, especially if you book standard rooms, which are downright cheap in the off-season.
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Trump's love of coal, steel, pollution, and other such manly 19th century pursuits is an anachronism and a curio, but it is having little influence on the thinking and plans of electricity-sector professionals.
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We bought this gigantic curio from an antiques shop, presumably with the idea of having large dinner parties around it, and though I can't remember those dinners my recollection of the table is entirely clear.
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There are a few scorched-but-recognizable husks of gas stations or curio shops but most of the 14,000 homes that caught an ember burned with such blowtorch intensity, only railings and the fireplace remain.
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Packaged as a curio called "Endless," it stars assorted Mr. Oceans (three of him) wearing sweats and sweaters, sending planks of wood through a table saw as airy, new, sporadically inviting music inhabits the soundtrack.
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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.
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"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.
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One of the original Chicago landmarks surrounding the Michigan Avenue Bridge (now called DuSable Bridge) in the heart of the city, LondonHouse Chicago, Curio Collection by Hilton has been meticulously restored with a contemporary feel.
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However, as Inverse noted, the company has endured criticism as a "tech industry curio"—particularly around the time Google put it on the open market in 2016 before its eventual sale to Softbank Robotics in 2017.
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I'm sitting in Curio Cabal, a new East London cafe where Nuno Mendes protégées Zijun Meng and Ana Gonçalves spend their weekends serving Chinese-inspired dishes from their previously roaming street food stall Ta Ta Eatery.
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An exquisitely crafted upright furniture piece with drawers that visitors can open and explore behaves as a curio cabinet containing a selection of her subjects made out of alpaca wool, invasive cheatgrass, and indigenous river rock.
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Nothing here is going to really affect what happens in XV, making Platinum more of a pleasant (and unexpected) curio for existing Final Fantasy fans than an essential eye-opener for complete newcomers to the series.
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That statistical curio was revealed in a pair of overdramatized tweets from a Netflix Twitter account apparently wrecked by feelings of jealousy and abandonment: but really, there was a 10% drop in plays during the eclipse today.
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Their 1988 debut as the Traveling Wilburys is mostly a curio for completists, but this gently swinging country tune is a gem that would have been a highlight among any of its participants' solo releases that decade.
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In those newly cosmopolitan times — the Mad Men era, for shorthand's sake — the Anytown, USA, that Rockwell had depicted on hundreds of Post covers was becoming a curio at best and an object of derision at worst.
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Curio Collection by Hilton, a portfolio of hotels and resorts known for their unique character and personality, wants to encourage travelers to explore the natural curiosities that motivate us to seek out those one-of-a-kind discoveries.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Artists, bohemians, obsessive collectors, and idlers have long frequented bazaars, curio shops, yard sales, and other offbeat emporia in search of the Marvelous, as the Surrealists called it, hidden in the everyday.
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American Crime Story What starts as an episode built around the Los Angeles Police Department's history of racism against African-American citizens ends with an image of a prominent officer polishing a curio cabinet full of Nazi memorabilia.
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Whether on something like the classical guitar nods of "Sempiternal Darkness" or the Ballad of the Band EP's hazy piano curio "Magellan," Lawrence tends to let his instrumentals float, offering space and respite amid the squirrelly upbeat numbers.
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It is a combination of archive, furniture showroom, Modernist curio cabinet and walk-in catalog; a biography of a business; and a diagram of a series of personal bonds and working relationships based on shared interests and ideals.
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The InfoWars Flat Earth Atlas $25.99 from Amazon Less an informative text and more an exquisite curio, the official InfoWars Flat Earth Atlas, 8th Edition is the perfect gift for that coffee table book enthusiast in your life.
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It feels like a curio — not an eerie, unexplained one, like the vintage photographs that inspired Riggs' Miss Peregrine trilogy, but a dated and familiar one, yanked out of the dusty old boxes piled up in the Burton archive.
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Though he has yet to visit Chamonix, he has been in touch with Roche who, in inimitable fashion, sent his family a memento: the throttle from the plane made up as a curio, mounted on a specially made pedestal.
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In choosing the Heat after negotiating the buyout with Brooklyn, Johnson made a decision that momentarily baffled a few pundits—Johnson eschewed certain title contender status with LeBron in Cleveland, and chose to augment the curio dark horse in South Beach.
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The New York State Athletic Commission has long been a curio of the state's bureaucracy, an odd little agency charged with the considerable responsibility of ensuring the integrity of professional boxing and the safety of fighters who risk harm for entertainment.
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Curio traders said the situation felt worse than the years from 2012 to 2015 when visitor numbers fell after a spate of attacks claimed by Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, which wants Kenya to pull its troops out of Somalia.
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A mile or so farther on, the curio shops, the taqueria where I'd once had a meal, the shop where I'd seen a pear-shaped, orange-haired piñata in the shape of Donald Trump, the plaza where I'd had a shoeshine.
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It's the the sound that birthed the 311, Sugar Ray, Incubus, and other less popular, bass-slapping headbangers with names that certainly contribute to memories of the style as little more than a garish curio: Style Monkeez, Psychofunkapus, Guano Apes, Super Junky Monkey.
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Those who stuck with it through Dougie's bladder problems, dead-end plots about drug dealer magicians, and a David Bowie tea kettle that puffs out letters like a Sesame Street sketch were treated to an 18-hour curio that is arguably Lynch's opus.
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Luckily, there are ways around this roadblock and Curio Collection by Hilton™ offers one-of-a-kind hotels stateside along with some local guides to make your vacation or weekend getaway memorable #IRL so you don't have to partake in the #bowwowchallenge.
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All Curio Collection hotels are bookable online or by using the Hilton Honors mobile app, where members get the best rates and other exclusive benefits including Digital Key and Points Pooling to make that weekend getaway or summer vacation with friends a reality.
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Having access to this diffuse network of people you once knew can be pleasant—a curio cabinet of memories—or annoying; if those good memories get spoiled by an old friend's new posts; or helpful, if you need to poll a large group for information.
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Between them, I sit down with a graduate from CNAM-Enjmin, a school in the west of France dedicated to the interactive arts, to play the ten-minute curio Commedia dell'Arte, which casts you as a performer in a masked improvised play (hence the title).
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Adapting (very liberally) the Russian dramatist Nikolai Erdman's Stalin-era play of the same name from 1928, Suhayla El-Bushra has sought to make something trenchantly contemporary out of an archival curio; the result is a stupefying mishmash that saw not a few patrons leave at intermission.
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They watched the documentary over and over, to absorb the Beale lore and to highlight pieces that appeared in the film, like a ladder-back chair with a rush seat you can see during Little Edie's flag dance ($495), or a curio cabinet filled with tchotchkes ($695).
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This little-known curio stars Walter Huston as a corrupt, apathetic and adulterous president who, after nearly losing his life in an accident, undergoes a humanistic change of heart, becoming an all-powerful but benevolent leader under the tutelage of the titular angel and, ahem, Abraham Lincoln.
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Among the other highlights of the set — produced by Steve Berkowitz, Michael Cuscuna and Richard Seidel — are the complete session reels for "Water Babies" and "Fall," and a curio titled "Blues in F (My Ding)," a home recording of Davis on piano, illustrating an idea for Mr. Shorter.
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If they had held out Mansa Musa as the legendary sovereign of the stupendously wealthy Malian Empire in West Africa and broadcasted how he conquered 24 cities during his reign, the Block might have attracted curio-seekers who enjoy being regaled by tales of riches extravagantly displayed and spent.
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But early in our discussion, when I asked him to find a common denominator among successful sitcoms, he gave me a long dissection of what went right with The Office, which helped transform it from a one-season curio into a nine-season series that ran for over 200 episodes.
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Sean Hennessy, a hotel consultant and an assistant professor of hospitality at the Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality & Tourism at New York University, said that Scion's debut is part of a larger movement of hotel companies introducing affordably priced "lifestyle" brands, such as InterContinental's Even Hotels and Hilton's Curio.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "It's strange the details you transparently absorb/When you think you'll never see them again/things like curio shops/that i once despised/now i look on as curious beauty," wrote singer-songwriter Joe Ely in his 1987 ode to the American road trip, Lord of the Highway.
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In the year since that track, "Mo Bamba," was uploaded without fanfare to the streaming service SoundCloud, it has grown, largely via word of mouth, from a regional internet curio to a surefire party-starter and tastemaker's favorite, scoring Fashion Week events and Instagram posts by Odell Beckham Jr., Shaquille O'Neal and Hailey Baldwin.
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Lowe Art Museum When: See here for regular hours Where: 103 Stanford Drive, Miami There are a few worthwhile shows at the University of Miami's art museum, especially the Miami-based Michele Oka Doner's, Into the Mysterium, a kind of taxonomic curio of natural, beautiful objects: stones, twigs, pods, shells, and other traces of the environment.
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"The roots of the project started with an experimental toy piano sampling project with my brother, Ali, which eventually became the Impact Soundworks Curio: Cinematic Toy Piano Kontakt instrument, followed by a project I did at MIDI HACK 2015 where I turned a toy piano into a basic USB-MIDI controller," Lacey tells The Creators Project.
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Album Review An opportunist who parlayed a sort of social-media telegenic glow into a music career, a curio who embraced a quixotic anti-style and became a regular fixture on the Billboard charts, 6ix29ine has become one of the emblematic rappers of the SoundCloud generation, even if rapping itself isn't of much interest to him.
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On Ambergris Caye, Mahogany Bay Resort & Beach Club, Curio Collection by Hilton (from around $144 a night), Hilton Worldwide's first hotel in Belize, offers a mini-town of sorts, complete with 205 British Colonial cottages and villas, a beach club with overwater cabanas, a full slate of restaurants and operators for just about every adventure imaginable, from scuba diving to cave tubing.
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And that may well be the future for Ataribox: An exciting curio that comes pre-loaded with Atari classics and perhaps also — based on the few specs we do know — streams PC games and online video services to your TV. But one month after the reveal and two announcements in, any possibility of something more than that is merely smoke and mirrors.
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Every new technology gets a smirking remark that calls attention to how little the human experience has changed, every new wonder quickly blends into the scenery, and every new Great Work is just some fucking tchotchke that you have to find room for in your national curio cabinet so that people can come from around the world to gawk at it.
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" On his return to London, Bowie went on to push for an exhibition of contemporary South African art in the UK to coincide with africa95, a festival of African arts in the UK. His hope was that this would "challenge our preconceptions of 'otherness' and establish African art as being some of the most tantalising and provocative work to be seen," adding that, "if we continue to categorize art that is outside our cultural experience as somehow 'low art,' curio or merely artefact, we will be dealing these artists a serious injustice and we ourselves will be far poorer for it.
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