Gift List #3: Where to shop for the holidaysTo help with the holiday hullaballoo, the SFBG staff is revealing -- at last! -- its secret shopping secrets, to perhaps give you some gift inspiration. In this installment: Senior Arts and Entertainment Editor Kimberly Chun's adorable-minded giving pleasures. Previously, Dulcinea Gonzalez and Marke B. shared their faves.
Check out more suggestions in our ginormous 2008 Holiday Guide -- and enter our contest to win $500 in gift certificates if you spend $100 locally. Wowza.
Too-cute Mummy Boy figurine from Super7
Rare Device
Wow: adorable, beautifully designed gifties for your design-junkie chums -- books, tchotchkes, jewelry, stationary -- and is there a nicer, quirkier selection of covetable handbags around? I also dig the precious metal objets a la the human tooth.
1845 Market, SF. (415) 863-3969, www.raredevice.net
Park Life
Can't resist the inhouse T-shirt designs, awesome '80s-old-school watches, art and design tomes, and of course the always-intriguing art shows in back.
220 Clement, SF. (415) 386-7275, www.parklifestore.com
Curiosity Shoppe
Adore the faux moustachio - and the cute necklaces and DIY kits - all so winsomely displayed.
855 Valencia, SF. (415) 671-6384, www.curiosityshoppeonline.com
Cotton Sheep
Had to get the toddler socks shaped like Godzilla at this little Hayes Valley outpost of pricey but hella-well-made Japanese organic garb and goods.
572 Hayes, SF. (415) 621-5546
Super7
A little depot of J-pop to stop in at after browsing Japanese magazines at Kinokuniya in Japantown: the selection of vinyl figurines will make Ultraman fans drool.
1628 Post, SF. (415) 409-4701, www.super7store.com
Asakichi Incense
A breathtaking selection of Japanese incense from the modish Listen line to genuine temple sticks.
1730 Geary, SF. (415) 921-8292, www.asakichi.com
Urban Nest
Girlie fun amid the Francophile dishware, candles, jammies, and linens. My fave find: the doorstopper topped with a mouse shoving back where it counts.
3927 24th, SF. (415) 341-0116, www.theurbannestsf.com
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