Socially Just Dining: Woodhouse Vegan Cafe and Space

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Woodhouse Vegan Cafe and Space just launched in Italian Village on the corner of 4th and 1st off the 670 4th Street off-ramp in October. Their presence has transformed the vegan community restaurant footprint in Columbus with a level rivaling Los Angeles or New York City in a mid-century modern style with industrial flair, fresh-smelling immaculate restrooms, and sparkling dining ware.

The entire non-vegan neighborhood has embraced Woodhouse Vegan Cafe regardless of being a vegan establishment, due to the wide appeal of this socially conscious (nonviolent) sustainable, healthier take on traditional comfort food. The food is so delicious it doesn’t matter to the 30-40% of the nonvegan customers that it is 100% plant-based.

If you are craving a grilled cheeze sandwich, loaded nachos, an amazing South African peanut stew, caesar salad, mac and cheeze, pretzel bites, and or have a sweet tooth for some decadent rotating desserts such as brownies, pies, cupcakes and fudge – you can be satisfied! As the name indicates, they also offer private space rental in the upper level, for events.

Former Dreamer running for Columbus City Council

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Every Columbus progressive and lefty knows who Joe Motil is and thank goodness we have him. But with the City Council vote just days away, do you know Liliana Rivera Baiman? She’s one of three Yes We Can candidates seeking to unseat several incumbents, known by many as the endorsed Democrats.

If you are unfamiliar with Liliana, a former Dreamer from Mexico, one of the first things you should know is how her passion to organize and lead was inspired at a very young age when her family moved to the hardscrabble Texas town of Dickinson.

Her father was a construction worker, her mother a custodian. There were three siblings and several uncles, also from Mexico. At one point the family numbered a dozen. Even though all adults had jobs, they still needed to find something affordable.

So the extended family moved into a three-bedroom trailer where their next-door neighbor's house was the headquarters for a large and active chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

Geek Speak: How About a Slice of Raspberry Pi?

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Looking for a challenge? Looking for a hobby? Looking for a little recreational (yet manageable) frustration? Then look no more! You may be interested in a Raspberry Pi.

A Raspberry Pi is a very simple, very small computer. A basic model (the Raspberry Pi Zero) can cost as little as $5, and that may be an option for you as long as you already have a good number of computer parts laying around. More complex kits with more advanced Raspberry Pis cost somewhere in the range of $30-$120

When I say Pis are simple, I mean it. If the Amish were in the computer business, they would love the Raspberry Pi. When you buy a $35 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, you get a motherboard with some chips stuck to it that you can plug stuff into; that’s it. No keyboard, no mouse, no monitor, no case.

Despite this intensely literal definition of “computer,” (it does compute, after all), a Pi is a pretty cool thing exactly because it is simple. This simplicity makes a Pi easy to understand for beginners, and because Pi operates on open source platforms, the software does not block modifications/hacks the way Microsoft, Apple, and the other corporate stooges do.

Weed Friends

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I don’t smoke weed, instead I watch internet programming about marijuana. You know those Yule log videos? It’s kinda like the moment where the non-homeless learned their thermostats then watched TVs with fireplace images. While I would like to believe that this is funny…

Weed internet is flouring because medical marijuana opened the door for weed investors who can overpower previous monopolies.

I read High Times’ website because you're either gonna learn about the changing weed laws or read well-written news stories that are often funny because weed is the subject. I don’t smoke weed. I’m trying to figure out how to ride this economic wave. I never sold weed because I didn’t want to open my home to potheads.

Most weed dealers work 120-hour work weeks at commission rates from their living spaces. Allowing complete strangers who just want drugs into my home doesn’t appeal to me.

I’ve decided to write articles about social weed culture from the vantage of someone who doesn’t smoke, but understands music writers exist in the new legal weed economy.

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