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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 back Jo and I caught Mary Gauthier at Club Passim in Harvard Square. Passim is an excellent place to see anyone – a folk club about to…
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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 party where the Turkeys are the guests of honor rather than the main course: celebrating (and raising money for) compassion. In addition to the food (main dish…
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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…
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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 local guides: The goal of the guide is provide a tool that helps makes it easier to live a more animal-friendly life. Specifically, we want to make…
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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 in the last 20 years (if you ever do, just head over to SuperVegan or vegguide) but a few bright spots in my recent experience are Gobo…
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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 talks about the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report “stating that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined” as…
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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 real hard it goes away somehow . . . “
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Control Trailer
International version of the trail for Control, the Ian Curtis biopic coming out in September/October (depending on where you live):
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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 the Winterpills 7:30 pm Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Calderwood Courtyard Related Links: Erin McKeown’s Homepage Erin McKeown on MySpace Winterpills Homepage Winterpills MySpace I’ll try to get…
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MyThai Vegetarian Café and Bubble Tea Bistro
Formerly Buddha’s Delight Too, My Thai Café and Bubble Tea Bistro is an all vegetarian restaurant in Broookline, on Harvard Street, outside Coolidge Corner (toward Brighton). (404 Harvard St., Brookline MA) I had dinner there last week as part of a Boston Vegetarian Society / Boston Vegan Meetup meeting.Since Raven introduced me to Bubble Tea…
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Elvis Perkins, Dr. Dog, and Edward Hopper
Updated: See photos at Flickr. Way too hot. Dr. Dog brought out the indie kids dancing in the front row, and the mix seemed off – vocals too low, all a bit muddy. But maybe I’m just being cranky because it was too damn hot. Apparently the lead singer’s quit smoking, which made his performance…
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Pre-order / Sponsor Mieka Pauley’s new album
Go to ElijahDropYourGun for your chance to preorder / sponsor Mieka Pauley’s new album. I first heard Mieka Pauley at a concern on Halloween eve (10/30) 2004 – a campfire festival concert which also featured Antje Duvekot, Dan Blakeslee, Tiger Saw and others – all playing to a small but attentive crowd at the Masonic…
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Lunch at Veganopolis – Portland
Took the opportunity to flee the Oregon Convention Center at lunch today and head over to Veganopolis for lunch. Just a few short MAX stops from the convention center, and with a vegan lunch buffet.
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