Every Saturday, Capitol Hill’s Century Ballroom throws open its doors for a good old-fashioned Parisian-style flea market. Here, the American flea market trend of random detritus loitering dustily on card tables is replaced with curated collections of stuff you won’t find anywhere else: clothes and wares from both local designers and vintage collectors, antiques, jewelry, artifacts, etc. Wear comfortable shoes. (Century Ballroom, 915 E Pine St, 324-7263, 11 am–3 pm, free)
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The link here goes to Carissa’s Weird, and the event doesn’t show anywhere in your Suggests page. Neither does the category “Stuff”. Even a search for “flea” with date and category cleared returns nothing.
Google found it:
http://www.thestranger.com/suggests/9885…
But your own search can’t. Might want to fix that.
Don’t forget the Jet City Comic Show, the indie version of the Emerald City ComiCon, run by the same people.
http://www.jetcitycomicshow.com/
Fnarf:
There’s a big triangle-looking arrow to the right of the paragraph about Carissa’s Wierd. Click on that and it’ll take you to the flea-market write-up.
Not the most intuitive design, but the info is there.
The flea market sounds expensive, like the sort of place where the term “Shabby Chic” is bandied about.
The best deals are always had at places with “random detritus loitering dustily on card tables”