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NYXStrong Hearts Cafe
Strong Hearts Cafe is an all-vegan cafe in Syracuse, New York. I’ve been eying their menu for some time, attempted a trip once but fell ill enroute. Since, it has sat in my bookmarks in the folder To Do, subfolder To Go & Eat. Here, finally, I get a taste of Syracuse’s only exclusively vegan eatery. [...]
Vegan on the Jersey Shore, Part 3: Seaside Heights
When I spoke of my childhood memories of the Jersey Shore I was remembering our visits to Seaside Heights, an amusement-filled length of boardwalk that stretches into the Atlantic ocean. I hadn’t been there since I was a little girl and was happy to see that the place still had Carny spirit, a palpable energy of [...]
Born to Lose
When the Bouncing Souls announced they’d be playing discography shows in New York, I was a bit giddy. The years surrounding The Good, the Bad and the Argyle and Maniacal Laughter marks the period in my life where every morsel of discretionary income when to buying and seeing music. And the Bouncing Souls were one of [...]
Dear Panda Bear,
Thank you for playing the Williamsburg Hall of Music when so many hipsters were out of town, Sunday, July 3, 2011. With this recent Noah Lennox fix, I need not stand outside of Prospect Park’s Animal Collective show later in the month. Panda Bear collaborated with Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 fame last night, forefront [...]
April 8th
I know I keep talking about Neutral Milk Hotel, but it’s April 8th. And April 8th is one of my favorites.
Misc. March
I feel like March is my least favorite month of the year. At this point, I am through with winter and impatient for April, when warmer and brighter weather is more consistent. March’s sunny teases leave me annoyed. And it’s a loooong month. Somehow, it is almost over. Bringing us into the second quarter of [...]
1998 Called…
I did most of my growing up in the 90′s. I did a zine. Worked in record stores. Went vegetarian. Fell in love with misfits.. often who listened to The Misfits. Had an amazing record collection. Listened to Riot Grrrl. [Balanced that with Lou Barlow. Balanced that with Unwound.] Music was my everything, the score to a [...]
Jazz Bar, Vegan Options
Sometimes there are vegan options in unlikely places. Park Slope’s Puppets Jazz Bar being one of them. A seitan steak sandwich and jazz? Yes. Can I say something about jazz? I enjoy the dance of musical elements that is jazz, enjoy watching inflated cheeks and pursed lips on brass, music face… but unfortunately I have [...]
Food & Song
The cold weather means a weekly batch of soup. Soul-warming soup. We’re still here in autumn so here is a preview of my looming soup-a-thon, a scrumptious carrot and coconut milk soup in autumn’s color. Acorn squash stuffed with wheat berry, pecans, cranberry and green onion. A hearty edible bowl. If I was a superhero [...]
Nervous Energy
Tomorrow is the first day of school. So tonight I had lots of anxious energy to burn. I had to get in the kitchen and bask in a fragrant medley of like 40% of my spice rack… freshly-ground coriander, a heavy twist of the garlic mill, best buddies in dying my utensils yellow: turmeric and [...]
Vegan Missionaries
Home has many shapes and forms. This particular evening, in Green River, Wyoming, it came in the form of the Coachman Inn, yes, but more the huge sky and rock formations that surrounded the cluster stop on the way to the great Flaming Gorge. But morning brought us back onto I-80 West, heading to our [...]
