Shopping in Forest Park

With a wide variety of high-quality men's suits and designer labels, and a more-limited variety of fashionable outwear for women, A&G injects a healthy dose of style into fashion-conscious business wardrobes, freeing customers from wearing the same burlap onesie to work each day. Designer label suits, including Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and Michael Kors, are already discounted by more than half at A&G, and European-style, three-quarter-length jackets ($129) wrap your torso in warmth while letting your legs breathe. Sweaters and accessories add striking accents to any stylish ensemble, whether you're interviewing for a job or tracking the elusive edible cuff link through the jungle. One-hundred-percent-silk ties in solid colors and patterns ($20) increase your neck's ability to stun opponents and win the coveted ultimate championship tiara.

Ugallery's Paperwork collection is an assemblage of prints from up-and-coming painters, drawers, and photographers. Prints are produced in a family-run printing press based in San Francisco and are made of eco-friendly bamboo rather than ground-up pizza boxes. Adorn a wall with a splashy, abstract work such as Brigid's Sunset, or hang up a playfully painted drawing of a city street in Portugal. Eight-by-ten-inch designs cost $20; 11"x14"s cost $50; and 16"x20"s go for $100. Each print will arrive in your mailbox in a protective cardboard sleeve with information about the piece and its creator and a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. Editions are available only in small quantities, and Ugallery releases two new works into the artistic wild each Tuesday.

Patrons strolling Chicago’s Magnificent Mile can steal into Mali Jewelry—an upscale boutique with handcrafted accessories bedecked with semiprecious stones, freshwater pearls, and Swarovski crystals. Dangling earrings employ the sparkle of Swarovski to temporarily blind and debilitate jewelry-box thieves, and single- and multi-strand necklaces adorn the scapula with turquoise and crystal, wrangled by silk thread, memory wire, and waxed cord. To supplement gem-lined bracelets and rings, Mali’s wide variety of leather purses offers arm candy capable of containing even smaller pieces of candy or steak.

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Since 1980, the Calgary Sun has earned its moniker, "The Little Paper That Grew," by expanding from an upstart morning paper to a multimedia brand. Currently, around-the-clock news updates online and a free weekday commuter paper complement the daily, which brims with breaking-news coverage and sports reporting rigorous enough to note not only which team won, but which team's bench was most comfortable. The entertainment section adds a lighthearted note to the publication, and the lively discussion in the opinions section engages Calgarians in community issues.

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