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2 | Erie Reader | eriereader.com August 21, 2013 CONTENT August9 21, 2013 editors-in-chief: Brian Graham & Adam Welsh FEATURE CULTURE Managing editor: Ben Speggen 9 Living off the Land contributing editors: 12 if We Were you... Cory Vaillancourt in erie county Here’s what we would do Jay Stevens Two Families Find an Alternative copy editor: Way to Subsist 14 TO-do LiSt Alex Bieler C. Brown CD Release contributors: Alex Bieler NEWS AND NOTES Party, Lost Orchards Pen Ealain Matthew Flowers 4 uPFRONT 15 John fetterMan: "Mayor Dakota Hoffman Another Brilliant Idea from of heLL" Leslie McAllister the Desk of Upfront Rich McCarty 16 aLBuM revieWS Ryan Smith 5 Street CORNER SOAPBoX Jay Stevens Say "Yes" to Term Limits 17 Street FASHIONISTA Rebecca Styn George Hammill Bryan Toy 6 the WAY i See it designers: What Airline Mergers Mean to Erie 19 you ought to KnoW Mark Kosobucki Dr. Dan Walker Burim Loshaj 6 tech WATCH cover Photo: Brad Triana Tech Life in the Here and Now cover Layout: 7 COMMunity Mark Kosobucki Revitalizing Erie in the B.E.S.T. Way Photographer: Ryan Smith Brad Triana dinner deals that tempt us with low But what about the people that Jessica Yochim cost and convenience, these families don’t have the time or energy or de- interns: From the Editors are getting their hands dirty, raising sire to raise chickens, to pull weeds Adam Kelly animals, cultivating produce, and from the raised bed of green beans? Ryan Maloney ew things in life translate instead, it ripened without seeing the plain and simple: living off the land. CSAs are on the rise, and have a Tom Shannon across cultures quite like light of day before hitting the shelf. And for Pennsylvanians, eating great place in this feature, too. And Adam Unger food. Think about the first But what about something more locally-sourced foods, otherwise this conversation’s been had in these time someone introduced complex, something processed for known as being a locavore, seems to pages before with local grocers, like 32 W. Eighth St. #500 you to kimchi and the spices tingled our consumption, say, a hamburger. be a budding trend. Frankie & May Fresh Grocers and Erie PA, 16501 on your lips as the burst of cabbage From a fast food joint. According to Strolling of the Heif- the Whole Foods Co-op, doing their [email protected] F offered a clean, fresh experience. Or Google “how many cows are con- ers, a Vermont-based local food ad- part to provide our community lo- the first time you bit into an edam- tained in one McDonald’s ham- vocacy group that recently released cally-sourced options, along with the The Erie Reader is Erie’s only free, independent ame pod to gently remove the beads burger” and you’ll find results with its second annual Locavore Index, various Farmers’ Markets through source for news, culture, and entertainment. with your teeth and tongue, tasting answers ranging from 55 to more which ranks all 50 states and the the city and county. The Erie Reader is a forum for ideas and the sea salt on the shell. Or when than 1,000. You’ll also find that some District of Columbia in terms of And perhaps best yet, food has discussion, and seeks to drive two-way you learned it was pronounced “ed- of the sources carry clear agendas, commitment to local foods, Penn- the ability to bring a community communication with its readers. At the Erie eh-ma-me.” Or when you struggled either supporting the world’s largest sylvania moved up six spots from last together. Which is why you’ll also Reader, we endeavor to highlight the best of Erie by providing in-depth, magazine-style with saying “quinoa” for the first food chain or denouncing it for its year’s list. The organization compiles find a compelling story by Ryan journalism that cuts to the heart of the time. unethical practices. its list with data from various sources, Smith about the Bayfront East issues that matter to Erie. The Erie Reader Food is fun. Food is an experience, Extreme polarities exist, and the which incorporates farmers markets, Side Taskforce and the work the is published every other week at The Corry a universal language. From the joy of lines in between are blurred. But consumer-supported agriculture op- nonprofit is doing – like raising a Journal, 28 W. South St., Corry, Pa. 16407. The gathering around a table with fam- people do seem to be thinking about erations, and consumer interest in community garden – to combat Erie Reader is distributed at over 250 high foot- ily and friends to the hunger pangs what they’re putting in their bodies, eating locally-sourced foods. various threats facing that part of traffic locations in Pennsylvania from North deep in our bellies, food comforts us, and for Matthew Flowers, that all Coming in at No. 32, the Keystone the Erie community. And while it’s East to Girard to Edinboro. The Erie Reader unites us, and drives us. But from the began with a hamburger. 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Direct inquiries frigerated tractor trailer, odds are, it for their goods – those apples shipped active interest in knowing how their and what type of community we to 814.314.9364 or [email protected]. wasn’t red when it was picked, and across the country – or dollar-menu food is sourced. want to become. August 21, 2013 eriereader.com | Erie Reader | 3 UPFRONT NEws Another brilliant idea from the desk of Upfront of the By: Cory Vaillancourt Weird couldn’t help but notice that we By: Chuck Shepherd are nearing an anniversary – the anniversary of a fierce, frenzied, savage event that made Erie fa- mous from London to New London, Roach Motel Iif only for a fleeting fifteen. Is it the 200th anniversary of The t age 20, Kyle Kandilian of Dearborn, Battle of Lake Erie on Sept. 10, 1813, Mich., has created a start-up business you ask? toA fund his college expenses, but it involves a Nope. roomful (in the family home) of nearly 200,000 The anniversary we’re nearing – the cockroaches. The environmental science major anniversary of a ferocious, frantic, at University of Michigan-Dearborn breeds shocking event that made Erie the species ranging from the familiar household center of global awareness from pests, which he sells on the cheap as food for Hamburg to Hollywood and lasted other people's pets, to the more interesting, a lot longer than a Warhol minute exotic Madagascar hissing roaches and rhino is the 10th anniversary of the col- roaches, which can live for 10 to 15 years. (Kan- larbomb. That’s right, on August 28, dilian told the Detroit Free Press in July that 2003, the sorry story of the totally of the 4,000 cockroach species, only about a idiotic collarbomb plot unfolded be- dozen are pests.) Why not choose a more con- Veken Gueyikian Veken fore a shocked Gem City, and blew ventional "pet"? Because "(m)ammals smell," up on Peach Street, taking pizza de- Is it time to cash in and capitalize on our tourism he said. (Missing from the Free Press story: liveryman Brian Mills with it. destination to every extent possible? details on the likely interesting initial conver- But these two anniversaries – the sation between Kyle and his mother when he Battle of Lake Erie and the collar- epicenter of Collarbombmania (Official slogan: dinner theater and dress them in light blue jeans, asked if he could have 200,000 cockroaches in bomb – have a lot more in common than you “The second ‘b’ is silent.”). nerdy white shoes, oversized clear coke-bottle the house.) [Detroit Free Press, 7-28-2013] might think. As the two-year Perry 200 Com- Obviously, the inevitable result of such a bril- eyeglasses, and, ironically, a white T-shirt that memoration winds down this September, another liant scheme as this will be the locust-like hordes says “America” on it.