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Nola Pride Festival & Summer Wine Fest

By Sloane Berrent on June 22, 2010 in Events, Louisiana, New Orleans, North America, Photos, USA

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With the eye-popping revelry of Decadence two long months away, get a head start on celebrating LGBT culture with this weekend's newly revamped NOLA Pride Festival. The fest features a Friday night gala at the W Hotel,...

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Triple XXX in Lafayette, IN

By Scott R Kline on June 21, 2010 in Indiana, North America, Photos, USA

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The Triple XXX Restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana is one of those classic places where everyone should experience a burger. When I was in college, I enjoyed it, as generations of Purdue Boilermakers have. ...

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New Frontier Farmers and Processor Group: Reviving Farmland and Improving Livelihoods

By Bernard Pollack on June 21, 2010 in Africa, Ghana, Photos, West Africa

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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. This is the seventh piece in an eight part series about the Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development's (ECASARD) work in Ghana. In Anamaase, Ghana, the New...

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Chards, Cabs, Garlic, Lamb & Chihuly

By Renee Blodgett on June 20, 2010 in California, Featured, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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I attended a special event for wine club members at Pine Ridge Winery in Napa Valley this past weekend. They started everyone out with a sheriff's badge and an "incident investigation report" which listed all...

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V.E. Long on Mixed Media, Monotypes & Assemblage

By Renee Blodgett on June 20, 2010 in California, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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At Chandon recently, I not only sampled some fabulous (albeit small) oysters with a medium bodied Pinot Noir (wasn't in for the bubbly), but I also discovered a new artist named V.E. Long. I was drawn...

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Update on Mayor Bloomberg’s Plan for NYC Artists

By Renee Blodgett on June 18, 2010 in New England, New York, North America, Photos, USA

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The New York Times reports on the latest of what the Bloomberg administration plans to do about their desire to slash the number of art vendors in New York City parks. I wrote an extensive...

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PR2 Robots Now Play Pool

By Renee Blodgett on June 17, 2010 in California, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA, Videos

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The Willow Garage team programmed one of their PR2 robots to play pool and PR2 not only has a blast doing so, but its accuracy seems to be remarkably better than the Willow Garage's engineering...

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SF Spaniards Gather on Belden Place for World Cup

By Ray Lewis on June 16, 2010 in California, Europe, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, Spain, Switzerland, USA

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Head east down Bush Street from San Francisco's Union Square and you will come across an alley called Belden Place, with maybe 10 restaurants on one block, most of them Mediterranean or seafood. Two of...

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