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Zurich – Pot au vert

Last night I had dinner at Pot au vert, a vegetarian restaurant near the main train station (hauptbanhoff) in Zurich. Although the “menu card” (linked to the image)…

Bill Maher talks Turkey at the Huffington Post

Via the MARC list I came across Bill Maher’s excellent and well-timed pre-thanksgiving rant about turkeys. He links to a few slaughterhouse videos to emphasize the point: These…

Thanksliving 2007

Yesterday was Thanksliving 2007 at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. It was a fantastic event, which started with meeting three baby lambs recently arrived: We also toured around…

Vegan Food Blogs

The 2007 Blogger’s Choice Award winners are out. In the “Best Food Blog” category (on page 3 of the results), three out of four winners are vegan blogs:…

Get Happy

Nice video to get you through the midweek slump: Not one of our girls (Lucy and Georgia) but the same breed. Too funny.

New York, New Hotel

Last week I was in New York City for a couple of days on business. Unfortunately, all the hotels I normally stay in were either booked or askign…

Mary Gauthier at Club Passim

(Sorry the photos are so dark – I find flash photography at shows like this annoying so I try to stay away from the Flash). A few weeks…

Thanksliving

The good folks at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary hold a major event the weekend before the observance of Thanksgiving in the US. The basic idea is a major…

Zombies Don’t Eat Candy, Only Brains

Great new video, just in time for Halloween, from the folks at CommonCraft – Zombies in Plain English:

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Vegan Open Source: VegGuide.org

I love this post from Dave Rolsky at Compassionate Action for Animals, in which he outlines the philosphy behind VegGuide.org and how it differs from competing national and…

Vegan New York – Candle Cafe, Gobo

So I’ve fallen way behind in writing up good vegan restaurants I run into on my travels. Luckily no ones had trouble finding good vegan grub in Manhattan…

Too Chicken to Go Vegetarian? NY Times article on vegetarianism and climate change

Good article in today’s NY Times by Claudia Deutsch: “Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change” Includes very prominently one of PETA‘s new ads: The article…

Can’t Get This Out Of My Brain

Can’t stop singing this song. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not, sometimes I do wish the chocolate rain was not crashing through my veins. “Wish…

Control Trailer

International version of the trail for Control, the Ian Curtis biopic coming out in September/October (depending on where you live):

Erin McKeown and Winterpills at the MFA tonight!

[Update date=”8/16/08″] Photos from the show and a brief video (sorry about the point at which it gets cut off): [/Update] Concerts in the Courtyard Erin McKeown with…