Archive for 'awesome'
Setting the Truth Free
A message from the Bloody Sunday Families and wounded:
To our supporters everywhere
On 30th January 1972, a dark cloud descended upon this beautiful city. It stayed until last Tuesday, 15th June 2010 – over 38 years of a journey. It has now been lifted.
It has been a long journey from the beginning of the Bloody Sunday [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2010 under Bloody Sunday, British army, British government, Consultative Group on the Past, Derry, Irish peace process, accountability, awesome, ballymurphy massacre, culture of impunity, human rights, impunity, ireland, justice, relatives for justice, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth commission, truth recovery process.
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Live tweeting the New York New Belfast Conference
I believe I may be the only person interested in live-tweeting the New York New Belfast Conference which begins today, but so be it! As someone who is interested in the post-conflict regeneration of the North of Ireland, absolutely loves Belfast (and New York!), I’m really looking forward to this conference. I’m also [...]
Posted: June 9th, 2010 under Brooklyn, Falls Road, Irish America, Irish Echo, Irish language, Irish peace process, NYC, New York New Belfast Conference, West Belfast, awesome, belfast, cross-community, economic justice, human rights, ireland.
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tuesday night’s dinner at momfuku ko
Here is the list of courses from our dinner on Tuesday night at Momfuku Ko. We did the best we could trying to reconstruct the menu from memory later that evening:
buttered biscuit with black pepper and miring glaze. chicarone with
togarashi. lobster and turnip cake over black garlic puree with meyer
lemon. deep fried curried lamb [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2010 under Momofuku Ko, NYC, awesome, delicious, restaurants.
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Footnotes in Gaza: “events are continuous”
I had the pleasure of attending a discussion with graphic journalist Joe Sacco last night at the Brooklyn Public Library. It was both my first visit to the library and the first time I’ve heard Sacco talk about his work.
Footnotes in Gaza chronicles Sacco’s quest to uncover the truth about what happened [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 under Brooklyn, Israel, Joe Sacco, Uncategorized, anti-zionism, awesome, human rights, justice, palestine, relatives for justice, truth, truth and reconciliation, truth recovery process.
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we met anthony bourdain last night and it was awesome.
Posted: November 8th, 2009 under Freshman in the Kitchen, ann arbor, anthony bourdain, awesome, cookbook, eve: the restaurant, max, michigan.
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up north
Max and I just returned from a short but sweet few days in and around Traverse City, Michigan, where he did a couple of Freshman in the Kitchen events. On the drive up, I noticed signs for at least three Michigan counties named after Irish ones–Roscommon, Wexford, and Antrim–which made me smile.
On Thursday evening, [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2009 under Freshman in the Kitchen, Uncategorized, adventure, awesome, cookbook, delicious, harvest, local food systems, max, michigan.
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Eli’s interview with Ben Ford on LAist
LAist.com has just published my friend Eli’s interview with chef and Ford’s Filling Station owner Ben Ford. Read the article here, and then go to the website to leave comments so Eli can make this a regular thing:
Ben Ford, head chef and owner of Culver City’s Ford’s Filling Station speaks of the farmer’s market [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2009 under Freshman in the Kitchen, awesome, cookbook, delicious, eli, farmers' market, food justice, harvest, local food systems, potatoes, sustainable agriculture.
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notes on a united ireland
Now that I can finally say I own a computer, I am finally getting around to writing a post about my participation in and my thoughts about the recent United Ireland forums hosted by Sinn Féin in New York and San Francisco. That’s a picture of me at the mic taken by my [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under American politics, Gerry Adams, IAUC, Irish America, Irish Echo, Irish language, Irish peace process, Legacy Commission, Sinn Féin, adventure, awesome, cross-community, economic justice, gerry, human rights, ireland, justice, republican, truth, truth and reconciliation, united Ireland.
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Votáil Sinn Féin!
Posted: June 4th, 2009 under Gerry Adams, Irish America, Irish peace process, Sinn Féin, awesome, belfast, choice, cross-community, economic justice, environmental justice, human rights, ireland, justice, republican, truth.
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this is amazing
I couldn’t resist the temptation to re-post these pictures from my friend Tucker’s blog. Tucker, an Ann Arbor native, took these pictures of the Good Friday procession in the town he now calls home.
Posted: May 9th, 2009 under Catholicism, Jesus, Mexico, adventure, ann arbor, awesome.
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