Muffin’s Meals

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Local chef Muffin Batiste has started the new venture Muffin’s Meals. There are several entrees and salads to choose from each week, which Muffin prepares and delivers — you cook or microwave the dinner and unwrap the salad. The menus feature a variety of meats and vegetarian options, and frankly, look delicious.

The meals will cost you about what you’d pay in a restaurant — but quantity deals are available.

Also, Muffin is rocking Valentine’s Day for $35 a person. One of the lover’s eve dinners, for example, is mustard crusted rack of lamb with Kalamata olive risotto and seasonal vegetables. All entrees are served with artisan bread, sweet butter, chocolate mousse and cookies.

J.

PS- I’ve had Muffin’s food, and it is delish. So email her at lesouschef@msn.com for full details on menus, prices and availability.

Northwest Shirts opens retail space

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Maker of iconic Northwest-and-other themed t-shirts Chris Stevens is celebrating the grand opening of his new retail store and printshop at 807 Grand Blvd. in Vancouver on Dec. 5. Northwest Shirts will be open from 11-6 on Saturday for shopping and free coffee from local roasters Paper Tiger and in the evening from 7-10 for beers and music.

Help Chris end shirtlessness (and support other local artists and crafters, too!)-

J.

Get some culture

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11.27.09  Students from the Digital Technology and Culture program at WSUV are staging a tribute to the late Northwest poet and author Richard Brautigan on Friday, Dec. 4. The evening of poetry, performance and digital art will be held at 7 p.m. in the Administration building’s Tower Room (110). DTC professor John Barber is a leading Brautigan scholar and is working with the Clark County Historical Museum to make Vancouver the center of Brautigan research in the United States.

Go here for more and directions.

It all sounds just crazy enough to be fantastic-

J.

Love Lincoln’s Gallery

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Lincoln's Gallery Blog Post

If you haven’t been to Lincoln’s Gallery yet, go. there. now. Just what downtown needs, it is a mellow spot with creations from Reid Trevarthan, and, this month, longboards from Kevin Bay and Ken Hann of Selfless Creations. Located at 106/108 W. 9th St., the gallery fronts div., a clothing and design shop (which was closed when I was there, so sorry if I am a little uninformed about it). The place is owned by the men of Vancouver alt-folk band Lincoln’s Beard. The band plays on Frist Friday, so go check it out then. As for me, the minute I walked in, I just wanted to grab a coffee and hang out on the gallery’s couch for the afternoon. Try that. See how it goes.

J.

Celebrate Fall Harvest with Vancouver Food Co-op

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The Vancouver Food Co-op is celebrating the Fall Harvest on Saturday, Oct. 3 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Vancouver Marketplace on Columbia and Evergreen. The event will be catered by Woody’s Tacos, featuring appetizers and desserts made from ingredients grown by local farms (and you can bet when the VFC is doing it, that’s LOCAL farms, not the tri-state area).

The Co-op will be unveiling its new logo, designed by Vancouver’s Tribe2 Graphic Design and Creative Services, the same folks responsible for the Turtle Place mural, and talking about store opening plans. Bluegrass band The Grey Sky Boys will play.

The event is FREE, so don’t miss it. My only regret is posting this so late!

J.

Grow the YWCA Community Garden

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A reminder from my e-pal Glenn Grossman — thanks Glenn!

There are only 15 days left in the Umpqua Bank Click 4A Cause contest and the YWCA Community Garden project has fallen from a commanding lead to trailing by over 1000 points. If they win this contest, they’ll get $15,000 to devote to their project and they need your help TODAY. You can vote once per week, so that means you still have time to get a couple of votes in. Please click on the link, cast your vote, and help the fantastic folks at the YWCA win some serious money to help them with their community garden project!

I voted today! Woot!

J.

Lincoln’s Beard at The Grind

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Lincoln's Beard

You can find me (in case you care–and I know you do) at a Lincoln’s Beard show on Saturday night, July 11, at The Grind Coffeehouse in downtown Vancouver, 611 W. 11th St. Part of a two-month-long exhibition put on by Guerrilla Media featuring local bands and art, the show is FREE from 7 to 9 p.m.

I love the rockin’ y’allternative stylings of Lincoln’s Beard, and I especially love that Guerrilla Media has brought its artsy awesomeness to the Grind — and to First Friday and Craft in the Village, where I met them last weekend.

Be there or, well, you know the rest…

J.

River Maiden Coffee opens Saturday!

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River Maiden Coffee is set to open its second location tomorrow in DT Vancouver, Saturday March 21, to coincide with the Vancouver Farmers Market. The new location is at 7th and Main at the former bus mall, just two blocks from its former location at the indoor VFC. Initially, hours at the new River Maiden will be 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekends.

Drink up!

Fourth Plain parks granted kids program

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Has it been a week since my last post? Really, I am the worst. But I did have some technical difficulties….

Anyway, I thought this was cool.

The Community Foundation for Southwest Washington will award Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation $15,000 to fund year two of a 7-week summer program for children, teens and families in an under served area along the Fourth Plain Corridor. The grant will support a 5-day-per-week summer playground program at Evergreen Park (Fourth Plain and Rossiter Ave.) for elementary age youth, and weekly special events for teens and families at Water Works Park (Fourth Plain and Fort Vancouver Way).

Both Evergreen and Water Works parks have seen increased gang and drug activity over the past few years.

In 2008 several programs were offered for seven weeks beginning the week of June 30. Total combined attendance exceeded 1,000. Plus, a USDA grant allows for all who attend both daytime programs to be served a free lunch.

And, apparently, a comparison of July 2007 and July 2008 statistics showed a 25% reduction in police calls to Evergreen Park.

Hooray city of Vancouver-

J.

“Green Working and Living” at Clark College

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Next Thursday, Feb. 5, check out “Green Working and Living: Local Actions, Global Perspectives,” presented by the Clark County planning Commission. It’s in conjunction with the National Teach-in on Global Warming from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Clark College, Gaiser Hall, 1933 Fort Vancouver Way in Vancouver.

A panel will talk about ways that Clark County is already green, and tips for businesses and homeowners.

Panelists include Nicholas Phillips, city of Vancouver urban planner; Timothy Buckley, founder of Greenstone Architecture; Jill Sughrue, co-founder of the Lower Columbia Alliance for Living Sustainably; and Gary Bock, Vancouver Watersheds Council project manager.

Sounds power packed to me, don’t miss it.

J.

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