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The Seattle Punk Rock Flea Market is part renegade art gallery, part unfathomable yard sale and part curated vintage mall, showcasing a blend of creativity and commerce.

The vintage market in Lafayette features a curated lineup of the Bay Area's top vintage dealers, popping up across multiple parking lots on both sides of a full block.

The Inner Sunset Flea Market transforms Irving Street into a lively community space filled with vintage and secondhand treasures, artists, makers, and community organizations every second Sunday from April to November.

This isn't your average Sunday market. It's a collision of style, sound, and subculture - where rare finds live next to handmade pieces, streetwear legends post up beside emerging creatives, and the DJ keeps the whole thing moving.

"I 'm the most hated man in town," Ray McKelvie told me. The town in question was Clinton, British Columbia, approximately 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, on Highway 97. Later, I asked another Clinton resident whether McKelvie's claim was true. She thought for a moment. "Well, there's Joe, who lives in the trailer park," she said. "We don't like him much either. But it's about even."

Rising utility costs continue to be a pain for the average U.S. renter. Energy-efficient rental features that help lower these costs like LED lighting, good insulation, and smart thermostats are becoming a baseline for renters.

I thought retirement would be about slowing down, but this gives me more energy than my teaching job ever did.

Picture this: you're knee-deep in renovation dust, crowbar in hand, when something unexpected tumbles from behind century-old plaster. A yellowed envelope? A strange metal box? That moment when your heart skips because you realize you might have just found something extraordinary. For some lucky homeowners, these discoveries turn out to be worth thousands of dollars, transforming a simple home improvement project into an unexpected treasure hunt.

It was an overwhelming first time at the bins, but also fascinating to see how they process donations and get everything into those big blue bins. While thrifting has always been popular, it seems to be having a major moment right now, especially among a certain demographic. Inside the outlet, also called "the bins," items are not organized by size or color on racks or shelves.

The resale market - which comprises roughly 8 percent of total fashion and luxury sales globally, per a 2025 Vestiaire Collective study - is becoming a potential growth frontier in beauty, too, as indicated by new data from Los Angeles-based live selling platform Whatnot. Launched in 2019 with a focus on selling collectible figurines via live video auctions, Whatnot has since expanded to other categories including sneakers, jewelry, electronics and beauty and fashion, with the latter two being the platform's fastest-growing categories.

In recent weeks, videos have circulated on social media showing rampant paint tagging and destruction inside the structure that was a cultural touchstone in the Orange County city of Westminster for decades after it opened in 1974. In its heyday, the mall was a gathering spot when there were few other places to hang out. It was where kids found the latest fashions and where "mall rats" roamed in packs after school.