Word: emporium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early skeptics, from principals to PTA moms, are coming around to Combs' point of view, but it hasn't been painless. Richardson High School, north of Dallas, had to shut down its profitable Eagle Emporium, which sold candy that paid for VCRs in every room as well as sheet music for the choir. "As sad as I was to lose the money," says former PTA head Pat Epstein, "we don't need to be stuffing our kids with bad food." At Haggar Elementary School in nearby Plano, principal Vicki Aldridge mourned the loss of the Donuts for Dads events...
...Upmarket emporium Fortnum & Mason of London's Piccadilly will ship shortbread, Gentleman's Relish (posh anchovy paste) and hampers worldwide. www.fortnumandmason.com...
...Juliet takes on a new twist as the Montagues and Capulets are turned into feuding families of sandwich-selling truck stops, in the world premiere of the musical comedy, Peanut Butter & Juliet. Pappy Montague’s Peanut Butter Sammich Store and Clem Capulet’s Jelly Sammich Emporium are happily at odds until Juliet Capulet and Bubba Monague fall in love. Currier House Drama Society. Tickets $8 general; $5 student/senior; free if under age 8. 8 p.m., Sat. at 8 p.m., Sun. at 4 p.m. Currier House Fishbowl. 64 Linnaean Street, Cambridge...
...anything - trout, salmon, cheese, venison, ostrich - and deliver across the E.U., but not beyond. www.smokedeel.co.uk Cottage Delight of Staffordshire will send home-made date-and-walnut cake, flapjacks, ginger biscuits, vanilla fudge, mango chutney, apple sauce, thick-cut marmalade and piccalilli (it's a mustard pickle) worldwide. www.cottagedelight.co.uk Upmarket emporium Fortnum & Mason of London 's Piccadilly will ship shortbread, Gentleman's Relish (posh anchovy paste) and some hampers worldwide. www.fortnumandmason.com Brits abroad miss basic corner-shop fare. Expat Shopping delivers worldwide those delicacies they can't live without: English mustard, Marmite, baked beans, mint jelly, brown sauce and well-loved...
...Sometimes it seems that Delhi's taxi drivers have only one suggestion for a visitor: "Want to see a handicrafts emporium?" If you're interested in overpriced trinkets churned out in sweatshops, take your cabby's offer. Inevitably, you'll find yourself in a claustrophobic showroom with someone at your elbow needling you to buy. The cabby, of course, gets a commission for delivering...