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Tons of stuff to blow your holiday bonus on.

The Bold and the Beautiful: The luxury you give comes back to you three times....

Holy Sh*t! Holy gifts for the truly devout.

Maturation Anxiety: From the thoughtful to the thought-provoking, an eclectic list for those who aren't quite sure if they're ready to make the leap into adulthood.

Multinational New Ideas: Ten big global gift ideas.

Cheap Trips: Gifts for the man (or woman) who has nothing.

Charmed, I'm Sure: Scene queens Julie and Julia spread Blood & Butter.

Job Interview: Mark Ewert assumes the position with a yogi.

Tara's Advice: Tara encounters mail-order bride mayhem.

Global Fashion: Ponchos arrive for the winter season.

One Card Monte: Getting a grasp on libidinal powers.

Turn Styles: A night of drinking and dancing with writer J. David.

Urban Libations: Pisa makes a stunning entrance in the high-end nut liqueur market.

Dangerous Booty: The New Langton Arts Auction offers up pricey but original holiday gifts.

Aroma Charges: Give the gift of youthful vitality with Essentiel Elements skin products.

Concrete Runway: Irene Emma Hernandez Felks at Market & 16th.

Style Mavens: Bed-head in a bottle.

Endurance Test: 'The War Zone' shows England at its least glamorous.

Film Picks: Reviews of 'Beyond the Clouds,' 'The End of the Affair' and 'Love Reinvented.'

Starr Power: Gang Starr's double-disc set bridges the old skool with the new skool.

Music Picks: Reviews of the latest CDs by the Foo Fighters, Third Eye Blind and Metallica.

Club Guide: Disco divas, hip-hop connoisseurs and salsa suaves to flannel-clad pinball players, jazz luminaries and more.

FRANKly, My Dear: Michael Stabile receives a warm introduction to JOHNFRANK.

Extreme Lepidoptery: Bianco on butterflies in 'Nabokov's Blues.'

Book Picks: Reviews of 'Ultimate Beer' and 'Radical Graphics/Graphic Radicals.'

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