Culture

Millennium – Gourmet Vegan Cuisine

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After embarking on a raw vegan ‘cleanse’ for a few weeks, a sumptuous meal at Millennium, a gourmet vegan restaurant near Union Square in San Francisco, was to be the congratulatory meal for suffering the anticipated feeling of  deprivation.  But by the time the night had arrived, deprivation was an extremely inaccurate description, so instead [...]


Film Review: Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life

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Film snob/contributing writer, Logan Green, breaks down Terrance Mallick’s summer art house film, Tree of Life.


Haven for the Homeless

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California is nice to the homeless. I know. It’s been good to me.


Kickoff: Dinner and Drive-In

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  In the 2.5 years I’ve spent in Northern California the possibility that Winters and it’s surrounding areas housed a particularly ambitious culinary scene did not seem possible. So when the welcoming handshake was extended while walking up the tree lined path from the car to the farmhouse, it was apparent that even if the [...]


Food Fight!

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Having a limitless variety of oranges to pick from is exciting, in theory. Read more.


Q&A: Sean Stout of TerrorEyes.TV

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Like his Tera Melos buddies, Sean Stout, is a native of Sacramento with a love of music and video making. He and Zach Hill made the best video ever to represent the general malaise of life in the River City. We ask him some questions. You read the answers.


I Need a Hamburger and Glass of Wine

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Sluggish.  Sleepy.  Stuck-in-a-rut.  The Northern Hemisphere is awakening from its seasonal slumber but springing from sleep is the last thing my body wants to do. Solution? The one I’ve considered is a ten day green cleanse. The variations of which are endless but the point of this one is to cut out all ‘toxins’ and [...]


Capital Beer Festival: The Highland Cherry Ale. Good.

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The first-ever Capital Beer Festival took place at Cal Expo this past weekend (March 5th & 6th). FLABmag was on hand to sample the goods.


You Don’t Choose Your Food; Steve Jobs Chooses For You.

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The Daily Meal has compiled a list of ‘America’s 50 Most Powerful People in Food’. You won’t believe who’s at the top!


Review: Black Swan, 2010

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Why Portman has been so lauded for her acting in this movie is beyond me.


Herland: A Review

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Gilman uses the land as a metaphor for the female body as well as the domesticity to which women have oft been assigned. Reassigning land especially highlights the specious reasoning behind labeling women’s sphere as ‘natural’ instead of merely conventional. Interestingly the novel’s weaknesses betray the very conditions of alterity under which the author labored.


5 Weeks in Colombia

Flab contributor, Joh Hurtado, traveled through Colombia for five weeks this summer. This is his report.


Film: The Kids Are Alright, 2010

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Given the glowing political conversation surrounding director Lisa Cholodenko’s gay family portrait, The Kids Are All Right, I expected a tight little PSA-portrait of a happy, healthy lesbian couple raising a family rather than an actual film. Instead, what I found was a layered, interesting story of an unconventional family upended by the arrival of [...]


Review: Byrne’s Book – Bicycle Diaries

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…There is a minimum of proselytizing in Bicycle Diaries, something not easily said about much of today’s bicycle community.


Jenna Jameson: This Woman’s Worth

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Ugh. Are you kidding me. You actually read that? Yep. But not for the pictures. Seriously.


John Waters: This Charming Man

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John Waters is much loved and for good reason.


Opera 101 with Mezzo-Soprano Lindsey Falduto

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Opera explained by someone who knows: A singer who hates attending operas.


Review: Obsessed 2009

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Fight…Fight…Black Girl and a White…!


Red Box: Sunshine Cleaning 2008

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Mid week boredom leads to a Red Box Rental: Read why you should rent this movie or not….


Review: La Mission

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In La Missiòn a Latino father discovers his only son is a homosexual. All sorts a tele-novela style drama ensues.


Red Box: The Night Buffalo 2007

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Not even languorous shots of Diego Luna’s pinga, nor the Mars Volta soundtrack can save this movie from treacledom.


Bustelo: a short story in prose

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Poetry is a dying and mostly boring art. However, in the hands of some it can be, at least, an interesting read.


Red Box: I Love You Man 2009

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Director: John Hamberg Starring: Paul Rudd, Jason Segal, Rashida Jones Plot Summary Courtesy imdb.com: Friendless Peter Klaven goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding. But when his insta-bond with his new B.F.F. puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancée, can the trio learn to live happily [...]


Red Box: Revolutionizing the Weekend Movie Night

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McDonald’s finds yet another way into your Weekend Date Night.