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CUR OSITIES The Gold Bug is an adoringly eccentric and ageless shop, pleasing to both your Jekyll and your Hyde UNION STREET’S ESOTERIC MIRAGE is humbly lodged somewhere between parking decks and a Container Store. Stumbling upon The Gold Bug by happy accident is one of the purest thrills availed to Pasadena shoppers, and now the specialty art and curio boutique has expanded to accomodate still more treasures. Don’t be intimidated by the glorious experiment; There are few places you will be greeted more warmly than this one, run by owners Stacey Coleman and Shelley Kimball, both true curators of the singularly exotic. The Gold Bug, 22 E. Union St. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.6 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (626) 744-9963, goldbugpasadena.com