LONDON -- Far from chestnuts roasting and choristers singing, Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop" is a curiously bleak tale for Christmas. Famous for the death scene of a most sympathetic ...

Has shopping lost its luster? In an age when just about everything you want can be found and ordered in one click, the joy of discovering that rare and special piece has been virtually eliminated. And ...

The saying goes that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Martha Grover would be inclined to agree. After all, she watched a customer of hers beeline straight toward a pink and green sparkly ...

SEATTLE — Come one! Come all! See the two-headed calf! The two-headed calf greets you at the door. "It's real, It's genuine and it's allegedly from the 1940's in Yakima," said Ryan Robbins, the ...

On Saturday, owner and campus alumnus Bryce Maritano opened ThriftyCat — a new thrift store on Martin Luther King Jr. Way — two blocks away from its sister store Curiosity Shop. Both ThriftyCat and ...

It's a question you'll ask over and over if you find yourself perusing the Big Top Curiosity Shop in Seattle's South Park neighborhood: what IS that?! From an alien in a jar to drawers full of teeth ...