Aug 2-8, 2006
Checking Out the Shelf Life at the Simpson Memorial Library; Complaints Surface About New Water Disinfection Method; Red Currant Dressing
Fermentation & Family Dinner
Hooray! The fridge is behaving. I’ve never been so excited to see ice before. I’m sure if it had broken our landlord would have replaced…
Keeping My Cool
Our fridge broke today. Or rather, it became temporarily disabled for a 24-hour period (we hope). It’s 20-plus years old, and not the most efficient…
Oaty-os
At last Sunday’s kickoff meeting in the Intervale, our little subgroup of Burlington-area localvores (check out the blog!) all chipped in for a huge 30-pound…
Tell No One, Just Breathe And Resist
(Self-released, CD) After three years of live performance, two extended hiatuses and a legally mandated name change, Tell No One (formerly known as Akrasia) deliver…
The Decoys, Meet The Decoys
(Self-released, CD) The Decoys are a blue-collar crew of rockers whose left-of-center ditties provide plenty of lighthearted fun. Their debut disc, Meet the Decoys, tackles…
News Quirks 08.02.06
Curses, Foiled Again When Thomas Reyes, 23, walked into a neighborhood grocery store in Philadelphia and pointed a gun at owner Eddie Gomez, one of…
Red Currant Dressing
One of the things that’s kind of tricky about cooking this month is that I can’t use citrus juice, wine, or any vinegar not made…
Barbecue bliss
For dinner last night Gahlord and I picked up some local ground beefalo from City Market, and several ears of fresh local sweet corn. I…
Getting Revved on Motor Mayhem at Thunder Road’s Enduro 200
Behind the steering wheel, green means go. And if that green is a green flag dropped over a racecourse, it means go like hell. But…
TSOTSI***1/2
Based on the novel by Athol Fugard, Gavin Hood’s Oscar-winning drama tells the story of a young Johannesburg gang leader who shoots a woman, steals…
FINAL DESTINATION 3**
Set six years after the original film, this sequel centers around a high school student who has a premonition of a fatal roller coaster accident….
BENCHWARMERS*
Dennis (Problem Child) Dugan directs this comedy about a millionaire nerd who forms a nerd baseball team to get back at Little League teams made…
ASK THE DUST***
Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek are paired in Robert Towne’s adaptation of the John Fante novel about a couple living on the edge in Depression-era…
Inaugural Breakfast & Lunch
Gahlord is taking one for the team, finishing up perishable leftoversthat we still have in our fridge, even after last night’s potluck wherelots of food…
Why Eat Local?
Lots of reasons! Several good ones are laid out here and here. This factoid particularly inspired Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon, founders of the 100…
