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Austin, TX
Local Flavor Productions US tour 2011
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A tour of independently owned businesses and people with a Do- It-Yourself, local-minded vibe in cities across the U.S.
©2011 Shanna Gillette / Sasha Rae Photo
Christmas in Vienna is just the best. As a kid, my parents would make sure we will get lots of goodies at the Christkindlmarkt.
Media: Stained Glass Mosaic. Price: $ 250.00. Show: Local Flavor. Dates: October 7-30, 2016. Curators: Dawn Wyse Hurto. Location: Del Ray Artisans gallery at the Nicholas A. Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301. Curator's Choice Award Winner
I don't think I'll ever have this much fun performing ANYTHING again. This is a fabulous, hilarious, touching, satirical, off-the-wall musical. Go rent it, even though the movie doesn't do it justice.
Off to Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
Usually... it's a journey of secondary and side roads... of historical markers and yes... the 'world's largest ball of twine'. Not to mention a good dose of 'local flavor' along the way as we can. Back in the day... I even used to make vacation t-shirts which the kids loved to wear... well... until a year or so into high school. And that was that. =)
I'll be shooting during these days away... of course... but probably won't have much chance to post them again until I'm back. So the 365 does indeed continue for me... just not for YOU... for about 10 days.
I'll catch back up when I'm home again.
Austin, TX
Local Flavor Productions US tour 2011
www.facebook.com/pages/Local-Flavor-Productions/165535776...
A tour of independently owned businesses and people with a Do- It-Yourself, local-minded vibe in cities across the U.S.
©2011 Shanna Gillette / Sasha Rae Photo
Media: Photograph. Price: $ 45.00. Show: Local Flavor. Dates: October 7-30, 2016. Curators: Dawn Wyse Hurto. Location: Del Ray Artisans gallery at the Nicholas A. Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301.
Selinsgrove, PA
Soft lighting, elegant surroundings make this a unique dining experience. Can't say I've tried the food but I've heard from people who have eaten there that it is very good.
Wonderful revival of an old bank building.
Sadly, I just read an article in The Daily Item that Irene's will be going out of business in the near future.
I still think the building would make a great bar!
2010 update. There is a real estate company occupying the building now.
His sole job is to clean and gut the fish for a small price. Here he is cleaning half a dozen mudfish for our dinner. He would earn about 30 cents for 3 minutes of labor.
This was probably the best Pastrami sandwich I have ever had in my life. All and I mean all the ingredients were fresh. The onion rings were some of the best I've had as well. This is at a bar in Garden Grove, CA.
Mudfish are pretty sturdy. Since they have evolved to survive without significant water for long periods of time, they keep kicking (and presumably screaming) for a long time. Their fins aid them to move around in mud and are consequently pretty hard.
First he gave them a whack on their head which doesn't kill them completely. Then he takes the gills out. Finally he will scale them and remove the innards.
Pretty gruesome to watch. But better him than me. Best still if I turn vegetarian but then, we Calcuttans have classified fish to be vegetables of the sea.
These are the yummy bits for those in the know.
The head is specially delicious. It is shallow fried with spices and makes the head all crispy.....Calcuttans believe that eating a fish head will give you a lot of brain power.
January 20, 2009 - The long-awaited day has finally come: today Bush finished his presidency in an oddly quiet, demure fashion–figuratively riding off into the Texas sunset, like in a classic Western film (except he never got the bad guy); as T.S. Eliot wrote, “Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
But that doesn’t seem to matter today. It’s not about W anymore–everyone is looking ahead to the future. Who knows what Obama can accomplish out of the changes he’s promised; he is just a man, after all. More importantly, he has embodied the collective need for hope, need for change, need for optimism. Sometimes people need a focal point or impetus to bring out the change in themselves. So while Obama will undoubtedly be unable to deliver on all of his campaign promises, today I hope every American and every citizen of the world recognizes this “movement” behind him and recognizes that we each have the power within to make change in our lives, much more power than our political leaders possess.
There are my thoughts for this “historic day” (a term which has been so ‘buzzed’ about it already sounds cliché), as represented by this photo of someone’s yard in my neighborhood.
I think it really shows the scale of this “movement” (because I’ve never seen giant representations of any other politician towering over someone’s house–at least not of ones that weren’t dictators hahahaha). ;-)
Media: Low fired stoneware - textured, darted, white glaze. Price: $ 35.00. Show: Local Flavor. Dates: October 7-30, 2016. Curator: Dawn Wyse Hurto. Location: Del Ray Artisans gallery at the Nicholas A. Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301.
A tribute to my old home in Humboldt County. The local bagel shop's Everything Bagels were called Slugs (shaped like them and also in honor of the prolific banana slugs of the region). The topping was so good, that you'd scrape as much out of the bin as you could to savor. The shop caught on and began bottling the stuff, naming it "Slug Slime." Yum. On top is a mustard - a sweet dill mustard made locally there for a restaurant in Trinidad, Larrupin. Los Bagels would offer that as an additional topping, too. Double yum. I love onions so I diced a smidge for myself to boot.
I may be 2,000 miles away, but that doesn't stop me from savoring those good ole Humboldt flavors. Yum infinity.
Media: Acrylic. Price: $ 100.00. Show: Local Flavor. Dates: October 7-30, 2016. Curators: Dawn Wyse Hurto. Location: Del Ray Artisans gallery at the Nicholas A. Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301.
I went to the Burnt Toast maybe twice before it closed. Once to check it out, by myself, and that's when I shot this photo. And then another time with a girl who accidentally locked herself out of her room next door at the hostel and slept with me in mine for the night.
I was sad to see it go.
Nothing like poking about and testing the firmness of fish to verify freshness....
Also you can tell if the fish is carrying roe. Roe is highly prized and unlike western cooking, is served pan or deep fried either as a fritter or subsequently cooked in curries.
San Antonio has some very diverse neighborhoods and areas where the Tex-Mex culture is very evident in the choice of colors and decor. While on the "Mission Trail" I happened to spy this "ruin"... Just as i parked, the owner walked out from behind the building with a couple of not too friendly dogs...after explaining what I was doing in his driveway he friendlied up and related how this old house had served as a mexican location shot for an episode of some daytime soap opera years ago...