Recent Posts Tagged With 'Tallahassee'

• From the “it’s all about location” department.

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 21:36 in Hotel, development, restaurant, Tallahassee, Florida, downtown, eats, monroe street

  If you haven’t been paying attention to Twitter, Facebook and the local media, you may not know that the swank new Hotel Duval recently opened it’s doors.  Actually, the hotel is just one in a series of hotels occupying the concrete buil...

• North Florida Jambalaya

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 22:22 in recipes, beer, Tallahassee, Florida, cajun, rice, seafood, eats, slow food, locally grown

  I know I’m a little bit presumptuous to call anything made in Florida, “Jambalaya“.  There are geographies and cultures that claim the word for their own culinary traditions.   According to that unquestioned source of all knowled...

• Thinking (and Shopping) Locally

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 22:45 in Tallahassee, the economy, slow food, locally grown, local economy negroponte

  There are a lot of businesses who are very happy to take your hard earned money.  If you’re like most folks, some of them are based a long way from home.  This is a time that our economic system is getting a good shaking.   In his paradigm ...

• Cheap Eats: Hot Dogs in Tallahassee

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 07:18 in Tallahassee, Florida, hot dogs, eats, cheap meals, east leon county, ne capital circle, south monroe

  “A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.” Credited to the late American actor: Humphrey Bogart It’s said that one should never ask too many questions about how hot dogs are made.  For the most part, they aren’t...

• Podcast - Review of Cirque Tallahassee Opening Night

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 07:08 in music, review, podcast, interview, Tallahassee, Florida, hungary, downtown, circus, cirque du soleil, civic center, gergely boi

  Cirque du Soleil opened their Santimbanco run in Tallahassee tonight.  The show is amazing and worth attending - Here’s a brief podcast from Dave which includes an interview with Gergely Boi, from Hungary.  Gergely is a Cirque artist; a membe...

• As the worm turns….

  Posted on Friday April 24th, 2009 at 16:57 in environment, Government, Tallahassee, Florida, gardens, compost, compost machine, earth machine, passive technology

  I’ve been composting forever.  I started out with a little fenced in pile in my yard but have now graduated to one of these cool compost containers.  It’s a plastic unit with a twist off lid, and a slide door at the bottom for removing ...

• The Blessing of the Bikes

  Posted on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 at 16:21 in Tallahassee, Florida, Leon County, safety, bicycle, accidents, all saints, dirty politics, bicycle safety, bike route, railroad square, bicycle religion

  Every time I ride my bike in Tallahassee, I think about friends who have been killed on bikes in accidents with cars and trucks.  It’s a dangerous place to ride and the City of Tallahassee doesn’t seem to pay much attention to bicycle in...

• GRMS-2

  Posted on Wednesday July 4th, 2007 at 20:31 in Tallahassee, railroad, csx, track geomerty, level crossing, crossing signal, grms

  If you were around Gaines Street and Stone Valley Road today (4th of July, 2007), you probably noticed a very strange looking locomotive on the CSX siding. It's painted blue and yellow, has the CSX logo, is numbered "GRMS-2" and appears to be a rath...