HOT TICKET
Get your flea-market groove on beginning Thursday when Junk Bonanza 2008 gathers an expected 100-plus vendors of junk, salvage, vintage stuff and repurposed pieces in Medina for three days of shopping. Tickets are $5 at the door; checks or cash only (ATM on-site). Hours are 9 a.m. -7 p.m. Thu. and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri. and Sat. Just can't wait for the 9 a.m. opening Thursday? A $20 Early Bird fee will get you in two hours ahead of time. Purchase tickets for early entrance at the door. Details at www.junkbonanza.com. Medina Entertainment Center, 500 Hwy. 55, Medina; www.medinaentertainment.com.
KIM YEAGER, CONNIE NELSON
WE SPOTTED IT
Count on the new "Numbers Collection" of chairs by Luigi Billiani to stimulate conversation. Ten versions -- from 0 to 9 -- feature numerals as part of their open backs. In plain beech or lacquered in a choice of 180 colors; $545 each. Available from Eurotrend Furniture at 1-800-689-1020.
STARTRIBUNE.COM
Tour the 570-acre eco-estate of Horst Rechelbacher, founder of Aveda, who shares his Wisconsin home with 10 dogs, hundreds of eclectic collections and his green ethic. At noon Thursday at www.startribune.com.
ON TV
Don't forget to set your TiVo for Tuesday at 8 p.m.; that's when the Fine Living Network premieres its new, weekly half-hour spoof of domestic doyenne Martha Stewart. "Whatever, Martha" will be hosted by her daughter, Alexis, left, and Jennifer Koppelman Hutt, daughter of the executive chairman of MSLiving Ominimedia. The duo promises "very colorful, witty and sometimes shocking opinions" on vintage segments.
Poultry parade
If you're interested in learning about raising chickens in the city or seeing what a back-yard barnyard looks like, this is your chance: the first-ever Amazing Parade of Coops. The free tour, from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, will feature poultry coops in Minneapolis, St. Paul and several suburbs.
Guidebooks are available at the first coop on the tour, at 2521 29th Av. S., Minneapolis, from noon to 12:30 p.m. From there, you tour the rest of the coops and urban "farms" -- and enjoy home-grown refreshments -- on your own or with a guided group.
For more information, call Pete at 612-719-1988 or e-mail him at willc020@umn.edu.
