July 2011
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Top 10 links of the week: a shuffle board game...
First of all, SO FLATTERED: We’re on Carpe Vegan’s neat Vegan 100 list: vote us to the top! Also, the San Francisco Bay Guardian totally gave us a Best of the Bay 2011 award for “Best Righteous Vegan Sass” (WHAT?) and we’re extremely pleased and honored and in very fine company so WOO AWARD WINNERS WHAT?
Apparently in Bosnia, they make bulls fight each other and...
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Australia: Cocoluscious is vegan ice cream for the...
GOOD MORNING AUSTRALIA!
I should jump in here and say it: I’m a CocoLuscious addict. I first tried it as an omni and it may or may not be a large part of the reason I became vegan.
A few of the flavours in The Green Edge, my local vegan shop thing.
CocoLuscious is a coconut milk-based ice cream that’s made with totally natural ingredients. And it’s absolutely...
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Melissa Vegenista loves LoveLikeBeer: San Diego's...
Our pal Melissa the Vegenista loves her vegan food! And her beer pairings! Just like your Vegansaurus, only she lives in beautiful, sunny, beachy San Diego, while we have to wait until fall for our perfect summery weather.
However, beer goes with basically everything, and there’s nothing more charming than beer pairings with fancy, tasty vegan food. Check out Melissa’s photos from...
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Rosie the pit bull made me cry
Last Sunday July 24, New York Animal Rights Alliance America (NY-ARAA) held a demonstration outside the Brooklyn Animal Care and Control exposing the horrific mass euthanasia occurring in their New York shelter locations. Joining protesters at their local shelters across the country, the NY-ARAA dressed in red as a reminder of the unnecessary death that occurs daily at these kill shelters.
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Happy Veggie Kids: Riley!
This is Riley with her rescue cat, Spenny! Spenny is a pretty great name, btdubs. Riley is a Columbian—wait, that’s what we call people from Columbus, Ohio, right? She’s thirteen and totally awesome.
What is your favorite food? Riley: Grilled cheese.
What is your favorite kind of birthday cake? Riley: Chocolate with chocolate frosting.
Why are you vegetarian? Riley: My mom...
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Your government loves puppies again!
Everyone loves puppies. Politicians love puppies! Or at least, they hate them less than they hate you, because California Governor Jerry Brown signed S.B. 917 into law this week, and now the puppies are saved! Or at least, puppies and also kittens and also other pet-type animals can no longer be sold from public property like parking lots and streets. This is supposed to cut down on puppy mills...
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This is a post for the single males out there!
OK guys, normally I’m not this desperate (lie), but I really need you! Actually, Karine Brighten needs you to sign up for Veg Speed Dating on Aug. 3 in Berkeley! Dudes, I know you like free shit, so here’s the deal: on Facebook, “like” Karine Brighten Events, then leave a comment saying you want a ticket; or on Twitter, follow KBrightenEvents and then tweet her up to let...
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Your government hates you: big fat fucking meat...
A company from Cincinnati, Ohio called Tri-State Beef has issued a recall on nearly 229,000 pounds of ground beef because it “may be contaminated” with our old friend E. coli 0157:H7. That is over a quarter-million pounds of ground beef!
A company in Miami, Fla. called Northwestern Meat, Inc. has issued a recall on over 6,000 pounds of “frozen boneless beef products”...
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Lunch in Oakland is getting sexier, or at least...
If you’re around Lake Merritt and hard up for a sandwich, Merritt Station Cafe has got your back. Situated too close to a Gold’s Gym for my liking, it’s still a pleasant place to sit down to a large $4.99 Tofurkey sandwich with all the fixings! Check out this mega-sandwich that I had for mega-cheap! Also, the guys who made it were super nice! Also, I got to stare at people in...
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Help a vegan couple out, San Francisco!
We got an email from a vegan person called Daniel, who is looking for a place to live in San Francisco proper along with his Special Person, Madeline. Generally, your Vegansaurus isn’t your Vegan Craigslist, but this email was awfully nice and we do try to practice tikkun olam. It’s the Golden Rule! Make the world better, treat others as you would be treated, live without violence, and...
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Yo! Bunches of Vegan Drinks happening tonight and...
Our the one and only Megan Rascal is djing at tonight’s NYC Vegan Drinks. Woohoo! I’ve been spending a fair amount of time in the same turntable rooms as that heifer and she can SPIN. She’s got all the fly tunes to make your vagina pop. If you’re not dancing to her sweet sounds, I don’t know what you’re doing, but we certainly can’t call it living, can...
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Party at SaveABunny on Saturday!
SaveABunny is hosting a summertime party for bun-fundraising on Saturday, July 30! They will have “amazing food, a silent auction, cool stuff, tiki drinks and BUNNIES! Guaranteed fun and guaranteed to help support our rescue work!”
How can you say no? More importantly, how can you deny the face of a bun in need? What about the tail? You can’t, is the answer. LOOK AT THOSE...
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Hello, friends! It's WTF Wednesday!
You guys, work is really stressing me out. I am going to spend most of my half-day off catching up on horrible paperwork and I am dreading it already, as I would prefer to spend the day eating bonbons and playing Super Mario Galaxy. When I am bummed like this, there is only one thing that makes me feel better (well, two, but crystal meth is pretty expensive on my salary), so after Allen picked me...
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Ask a Vegansaur, vol. 01
Hello, and welcome to what might pass for an advice column on Vegansaurus! I’m a vegan, and people ask me a lot of questions. I’m getting pretty good at answering them, I think, so I want to share with you. Please note that my answers to your questions, while they have to go past some editors here, will only reflect my own opinions. Let’s go!
Damian asks: Should there be a...
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Matt & Nat mega-sale happening right this very...
Miss the last one? Yo, there’s another Matt and Nat sale at Pure Citizen and it goes through Friday! Deep discount on sexiness, y’all. Love that bag above BUY IT FOR ME. You know we make hardly nothing running this site for you, right? The very least you could do is buy me a fly-ass handbag so I can walk down the street knocking fools over with it.
Some other favorites!
This J...
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Guest post: the Milk Board is still rude
Two weeks ago, the Milk Board launched an incredibly sexist ad campaign claiming that chugging a buttload of milk will cure PMS woes, both for the ladies experiencing the symptoms, and for their heteronormative male partners. These claims were based on a research article published in 1998, which the Milk Board called a “recent study.”
In those short two weeks, the Milk Board learned that PMS...
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Another police officer kills another family dog
Payton, above, was shot in the head for no real reason, and the police wouldn’t even allow the family to have the body.
An Ohio county deputy sheriff was fired for using a “garden tool” in an alleged attempt to kill and bury a dog that had been injured in a car accident. The dog was later “found wandering near the road.” A Texas family has hired an attorney after a...
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San Francisco: How not to starve in Fisherman's...
I recently spent a weekend staying at Fisherman’s Wharf with some out-of-state relatives who wanted nothing from this city of ours but to stroll the tourist-packed length of Pier 39, to watch dolphins frolicking in the waters of the bay just off Alcatraz, and to eat repeatedly at the Best Western Tuscan Inn’s Café Pescatore. They apparently do some kind of bitching Italian that my parents...
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Guest recipe: Seitan in mole!
Knifestyles of the Fit and Fabulous has an amazing recipe for seitan in mole. Yes, SEITAN IN MOLE! Delicious, spicy, chocolatey, rich, decadent mole sauce. This is a meal that will impress you and yours so inflict it upon everyone you know! Have a dinner party! Fancy it up! Gorge yourself on the happiness that is vegan food! You deserve it, you’re such a good person, and so attractive, too!...
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Shelters want to keep pets cool in this hideous...
[Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com]
Hey guys, it’s been hot as all get-up lately! Well, prob not in San Francisco, but in New York and the rest of the country, in the words of Beverly Hills Cop, the heat is on. Reader Natalie M. sent me an email about the Helping Hands Humane Society in Topeka, Kan., and reminded me that this heat affects all the animals too! Kansas...
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Denver's Garbanzo = Chipotle + Falafel. Be...
The A-students, stalkers, and private detectives among you may be aware that this Vegansaurus writer has recently left the cushy vegan comforts of the Bay Area for the wild west of Denver. I’m still mourning the loss of Ike’s Place (we barely knew each other!), Souley Vegan, and Millenium, but now at least I’ve found something y’all in New York and San Francisco should...
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Make it: the famous Farmhouse veggie burger,...
I love veggie burgers personally and professionally, so when I say this is the best veggie burger I’ve ever had, you better believe this veganized Farmhouse veggie burger is the best veggie burger you’ve never eaten. Unfortunately, the original recipe isn’t vegan, but with one small substitute, it can be yours! And that one substitute is Daiya cheddar (or any shredded vegan...
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SF Vegan Drinks is Thursday!
Hey vegan drinkers, guess who got a new job?! Me! So guess who can attend next week’s installment of vegan drinks? ME! Scout out the shy-but-intellectual-looking one in the corner. Or the balls-to-the-wall drunk, I could easily be either. As usual, it will be held at Martunis (on the corner of Valencia and Market Streets) from 6 to 8 p.m. this Thursday, July 28. I am so getting seven trying...
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Southern Style Fourth of July!
Looks like I’m going to Atlanta next summer to crash the Fourth of July party Nate and Adrienne will be serving at. I will go anywhere to indulge in this spread!
Amazing! For more pictures and stories of their fourth of July cooking escapade (and HELLA delicious looking cupcakes), click here! Thanks for the submission, guys!
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Best popcorn recipe ever, you're welcome
One of my favorite late-night snacks is salty popcorn damp with melted “butter;” don’t even talk to me about kettle corn, or we are not friends. Once I was no longer able to enjoy prepackaged microwave popcorn (even SmartPop has dairy, NOT SO SMART AFTER ALL), there was a void in my life. Oh, sure, I tried to fill it by air-popping bulk popcorn in the microwave; this technique...
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Go buy Hail Merry macaroons right now
Holy coconut, vegans! I just* tried the best cookies ever. These raw, vegan, gluten-free macaroons are like little kisses from an angel. I took more samples than was dignified, and if they’d been for sale at VegFest Colorado, where I tried them, I would have taken home a whole case and eaten them until I puked.
Somehow these morsels defy the laws of physics, because the vanilla ones are...
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WatchHumane Society commercial from the ’80s! HSUS posted this vintage video the other day and it’s too adorbs, right?
I feel like their old logo is pretty dope. Bring it back!
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Top 10 links of the week: a festive boat ride...
[This poor turtle got his leg burned and it had to be amputated. Poor guy! I’m glad they gave him a wheel but am I the only one who thinks this wheel is kind of difficult to maneuver? He’s using it kind of like a stub, it looks like.]
Brooklyn Bliss is doing a giveaway for a four-piece Paul Labrecque curly hair care kit valued at $92! They tell me the brand is vegan. Go enter or...
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Reminder: Sunday, July 24 is the East Bay Vegan...
You’re totally going, right? How else are you going to purchase delicious vegan baked goods to support Bay Areas Girls Rock Camp and Save KUSF? Check out the EBVB’s Facebook and Twitter for more information—they’re still taking donations if you want to bake for them! Come out to Issues at 20 Glen Ave. in Oakland between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday, OK? Bakesale!
UPDATE!...
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Free People's vegan leather line!
Free People makes clothes for the neo-hippie with money. Who else to do vegan leather? Refinery 29 has their lookbook, and on Free People’s site they have an adorable little video with some of their veg designers talking about why they love their vegan leather and how super-duper excited they are to wear it.
Man I am super-duper excited about vegan leather, too. Leather looks cool, leather...
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Fish are smart, exhibit W: Tuskfish uses a tool!
A pro diver caught this series of pictures documenting a blackspot tuskfish in the Keppel region of the southern Great Barrier Reef carrying a cockle over to a rock where she (he? it? I pick she) “was seen repeatedly bashing the shellfish to get at the fleshy bits inside.” Nice description, National Geographic! Jeez louise. Come on Ms. Tuskfish, go vegan already!
People have...
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Still life with backyard chickens
So much talk about keeping chickens these days! I spent four months living in a developing country with intermittent and unreliable internet and I come back to find everyone’s gone crazy for chickens.
I lived on a small farm for two months, with three pigs, three cows, one dog, and about 15 chickens (…two monkeys, one father, six turtles, and me). The chickens had a big, hay-filled,...
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SF Bay Area! Help feral cats!
From Nadine! She’s an SF Bay Area cat-rescuing superstar and she and the cats need our help! They are shining their cat signal into the air, who will answer their cat calls!?*
Two small feral cat colonies in the Chinatown/North Beach area need a little help! If you live in the area, do you have a little time to feed these feral cats one or two days a week starting in August?
Feeding the...
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Today only: Matt & Nat on super-sale!
Matt & Nat on sale at ideeli! Best purses ever, I loooooove Matt & Nat. This fancy little number retails for $135, and ideeli’s got it for $59! That is like 56 percent off and a GOOD DEAL.
They have 26 bags—including some adorable wristlets, Megan Rascal’s favorite!—and five wallets on sale and if you have bag-buying money, you should BUY ONE. The sale only...
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Vegenista interviews LoveLikeBeer! →
Vegan beer-and-food events San Diego! We have another reason to envy San Diego!
Here’s an excerpt from the interview, which you should go read:
Vegenista: Both your first event and your upcoming event are at non-vegan restaurants. What has been the typical response from the chefs when you’ve approached them about doing an all-vegan menu?
LoveLikeBeer: The chefs are looking at it as an...
