Eating healthily and losing or maintaining one’s weight are hard things to do in a busy life. We’re surrounded by fast food options everywhere: the din of junk food has become deafening, especially now that so much of it claims to be healthy (for example, Subway claims to be healthier than McDonald’s, which is objectively [...]

Recipe: Brown rice and lentil pilaf
If you’re like me and are always looking for low-fuss lunch food that can be pre-cooked and stored in the fridge for a few days, this is a nice recipe. I use a rice cooker for it. You can definitely make this in a regular stovetop pot, but the steps are slightly different (sweat the [...]

Recipe: Red kale pasta
Red kale is an interesting discovery. Not something I see very often in any of the grocery stores I frequent, even the organic ones. Our desire to include more greens in our meals often results in very ‘earthy’ tasting food – green kale, for example, is very sturdy and can be a little tough, even [...]

Listening to: Joey + Rory; Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
Reviews of Joey + Rory’s The Life of a Song and Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson’s Rattlin’ Bones “Turn it up loud so we all can sing along,” sings Joey Martin Feek at the beginning of The Life of a Song, Joey + Rory’s debut album. “Let the people decide if the music is right [...]

Listening to: Jill Barber, Chances
A review of Jill Barber’s Chances (2008) Jill Barber is a Halifax-based… traditional jazz singer? Swing singer? Country singer? Torch singer? Maybe “western swing,” antiquated as it sounds, is a good genre for her. I had previously heard, and loved, her album For All Time, which was a little more country and r&b, and a [...]

Today’s desert island disc: Eric Clapton, 461 Ocean Boulevard
A review of Eric Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974) I don’t really remember where I first got this, just that I first heard it when I was a teenager. Prior to this, I had only read about Clapton – the legendary British guitar slinger whose fans had spray-painted “Clapton is God” on an Underground station [...]
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- Great profile of Regina Spektor in NYT Magazine. j.mp/L78vyY 15 hours ago
- RT @JPBarlow: Google is Skynet. Pass it on while you still can. 2 days ago
- @metromorning Merci. 2 days ago
- @metromorning That last piece of music--what was it? Can't find ref. on Lula Lounge site. Stunning track! 2 days ago
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