As well as roller-rink funk curios, there'll be food and ping-pong here.
When it's the latter, the ambiguity softens the illicit nature of the request.A couple more curios: the English bribe is originally a French word that merely means "morsel" or "fragment".
Internet cafés on every street corner throng with surfers learning about the outside world, chatting with relations in Europe, or hawking curios to buyers in Hong Kong.But all is not rosy.
But it is also home to such curios as Canopic jars, which were used by the ancient Egyptians to store embalmed viscera.
But the enthusiast is still what he was a century ago; like today's trainspotters or the 18th-century assembler of some "cabinet of curios", he collects for fun what is fun, and the more curious the better.Time wind and rain, that is, lichen, moss and modern pollution are making this ever harder.
Prices were low with marvellous pieces going for a few glass beads or just loose change but that was because the pieces were bought casually as cheap curios or mere souvenirs.
I sometimes think of those who collect word curios such as triskaidekaphobia as a bit like the chemistry buff who says "I'm fascinated by ruthenium!" To most chemists, the interesting thing is not so much the elements but how they interact, and so it is with your columnist.
The discovery is reminiscent of Nicolas Cage's absurd "National Treasure" movies, in which America's archival documents are shot through with secret clues to the location of a fabulous horde of gold-encrusted curios amassed by the nation's surprisingly greedy and eccentric founding fathers.In Ms Allen's case, the evidence seems much more solid.
A light fog gives the streets around the imposing 19th-century basilica an eerie feeling, but the fenced-off pavilions and shops selling religious curios hint that this area isn't always so empty.
Sharks' teeth have some commercial value as curios.
Most are of limited economic importance; however, many forms are used in traditional medicines, as aquarium fishes, and as curios.
