Month: October 2007
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Zombies Don’t Eat Candy, Only Brains
Great new video, just in time for Halloween, from the folks at CommonCraft – Zombies in Plain English:
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Boston Vegetarian Food Festival Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the 12th Annual Boston Vegetarian Society Food Festival, at Reggie Lewis Athletic Center. If you’ve never been, you should check out the speaker schedule, the list of sponsors and exhibitors, and directions are all on the BVS site. Warning – it gets very very crowded by late afternoon – plan for plenty of…
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Killer Cow Emissions
Nice to see the LA Times taking up the links between vegetarianism and the environment: “Killer Cow Emissions” Now I actually have reason to use my digg and newsvine accounts. 😉 Highlights: All told, livestock are responsible for 18% of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide, according to the U.N. — more than all the planes, trains and…
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Windy City Vegan – Chicago Veggie Diner
Dinner last night was at Chicago’s famous Veggie Diner. The menu’s nicely varied – not too focused on the faux-meats, with a broad variety of dishes, as well as vegan organic wines and beers. We had a fabulous Sweet Potatoe Polenta cake appetizer, and I had a spicy Thai Tofu rice bowl with broccoli. Had…
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Nellie McKay at the Paradise tonight
<Update> – two photos on flickr from the show – sorry for the low quality but I only had the cellphone camera, and the way the stage was setup we were watching Nellie’s back through most of it. Strange to watch someone sing and play piano from behind – but the sound was great. Here…
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Happy World Vegetarian Day!
(Thanks to Maynard Clark of the Boston Vegan Meetup group for some of the links and descriptions) World Vegetarian Day is observed annually on October 1. It is a day of celebration established by the North American Vegetarian Society in 1977 “to promote the joy, compassion and life-enhancing possibilities of vegetarianism” World Vegetarian Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Vegetarian_Day…