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Given
Have no fear of birthdays: it’s a Given that you’ll find worthy gifts for all ages in this emporium of offbeat design, from Kimochi the cuddly cloud to a wallet disguised as a memo-pad. If this storefront seems familiar, you’re right: this was once Harvey Milk’s camera shop, and the shop closed for six weeks so that the Academy Award–winning Milk could be filmed here.
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Shops of Historic Charleston Foundation
This place showcases jewelry, home furnishings and furniture inspired by the city's historic homes, like earrings based on the cast-iron railings at the Aiken-Rhett House. Pick up a 'Charleston' candle, scented with hyacinth, white jasmine and tuberose.
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Celestial Treasures
Your one-stop shop for spiritual and metaphysical needs, this shop has accoutrement, books, cards and components for those interested in Zen, Kabbalah, Wicca, Yoga, Buddhism and Hinduism. Also has staff psychics on hand.
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Metta Boutique
A cute store that exemplifies the evolution of the Grove from hippie hangout to massive market, in that it sells consumer goodies – clothes, journals, accessories, gifts and tchotchkes – that are decidedly green/organic/sustainable/fair trade.
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Zambezi Bazaar
Pick up quality gifts and artifacts at Leimert Park's Zambezi Bazaar.
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Bésame Mucho
This place is well stocked with high-end beauty products, eclectic jewelry, clothing and housewares.
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Paper & Concept
Slick pens, fancy greeting cards and, of course, really flash paper products await in this friendly little boutique.
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Mon Pére et Moi
Mon Pére et Moi sells exquisite ribbon-tied boxed handmade chocolates; there’s also a café and pétanque games on Fridays from 5pm to 8pm.
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National Air & Space Museum Shop
A three-floor emporium offering books, toys, kites, posters, model aircraft and such iconic DC souvenirs as freeze-dried astronaut ice cream.
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Delta Junction Visitor Center
More of a gift shop than a visitor center, this place is usually jammed with RVers clamoring to purchase 'End-of-the-Alaska-Highway' certificates.
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Jewish Museum of Florida Gift Shop
The gift shop in the front lobby of this museum is tiny, but it has a lovely little selection of Judaica, including menorahs, Sabbath candle holders, mezuzahs and prayer books.
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Boutique du Vampyre
Dark candles and Gothic gargoyles look down on you, promising a curse of blood and terror and the undead on those who only browse but do not buy its vampire and voodoo themed gifts! Mwahaha! Or…not.
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Climate
‘Eclectic’ doesn’t do justice to the array of items packed into this small store, including cocktail party kits, sassy dating guides and other tongue-in-cheek essentials for urban living.
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Blue Skies Boulder
A cute gift shop stocked with handbags and scarves, elegant perfume, fantastic jewelry and aromatherapy products, much of it sourced from local artists and artisans. The Pearl Street Mall doesn't get much groovier.
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8 Ball
It’s Vegas-kitsch with Swingers style at cozy 8 Ball, where leopard-print bowling shirts lounge beside tiki torches, Twinkie cookbooks and Betty Page heels. Frank and Elvis books flirt from shelves up front.
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Java House Imports
There are, indeed, cool imports and statues from Java here, as well as Balinese and West African masks, Indian-style Buddhas, lacquer-work from Lombok and all the other items that prove what a savvy traveler you are.
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Senzatempo
Amid all the deco, you’d think there’d be more design shops lying around. Well, come to this retro gallery, with its decorative pieces and 20th-century designer furniture, plus plenty of clocks and watches, to feed that fix.
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Lalique
The French makers of fine gifts present their awe-inspiring collection of crystal vases, fine stemware, leather bags, silk scarves, porcelain dishes and high-end watches and jewelry. It’s the perfect place to shop for a high-class bride.
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Ichiban Kan
It's a wonder you got this far in life without penguin soy-sauce dispensers, 'Men's Pocky' chocolate-covered pretzels, extra-spiky Japanese hair wax, soap dishes with feet, and the ultimate in gay gag gifts, the handy 'Closet Case' – all for under $5.
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Not a Number
This card and gift shop in Wallingford sells smarty-pants books, cards and knickknacks, plus some enviro-friendly toys and gadgets. The signs in the shop’s front window give you a pretty good idea of what you’ll find here, in terms of both product and attitude.
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China Bazaar
Wire racks are perilously overloaded with bargain novelty items in no discernible order, except for the tiki section, which will add some aloha to your home bar. Just when you thought home decor couldn’t get any cheaper, check out the ceramics sale section downstairs.
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Wake Up Little Suzie
This funny and original gift shop sells stuff like neon clocks, bright metal-and-ceramic jewelry, polka-dotted pottery, cards and T-shirts. If you have a need for an Invasion of the Monster Women lunch box or boxing-rabbi windup doll, Suzie’s your woman.
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Erotic Bakery
Kind of worn-out and vaguely icky in a not-all-that-hilarious way, the Erotic Bakery nevertheless clings to its ‘local landmark’ status with boob cookies, penis cakes and other baked goods shaped like body parts. Send one anonymously to your boss on his or her birthday.
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Giftland
After you see it, you’ll wonder how you’ve lived without it: a toast-scented Hello Kitty eraser. Giftland stocks a swell supply of pens, stationery, coin purses and backpacks donning the images of Kitty as well as Mashimaro, Pucca, Doraemon and other Asian cartoon characters.
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Juneau Artists Gallery
To take home something that is truly unique shop at the Juneau Artists Gallery, a co-op of 26 local artists who have filled the store with paintings, etchings, glass work, jewelry, pottery and quilts. The person behind the counter ready to help you is that day's 'Artist On Duty.'
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