Julie Chadwick (of Vegan Happy Hour at The Short Stop fame) and other artists will be playing this Saturday night at Kulaks Woodshed in North Hollywood. It’s an acoustic music recording studio that streams their shows live on the web. This Saturday will be “Animal Night.” The event is free to attend but they will be asking for donations which will be going towards Cindy Paul’s animal rescue efforts. She does a lot of great work with LA Animal Services. Here is all the information:

When: Saturday, Feb 28th from 8-10 PM
Where: 5230 1/2 Laurel Canyon Blvd.,Valley Village, CA

Here’s a cool idea, short videos about miscellaneous vegan topics. Oakland resident Michelle Taylor just started the site a couple of weeks ago and you can check it out in all of it’s Hi Def goodness here.

Good news on the Foie Gras front, the West Hollywood city council last week passed Resolution 09-3772 supporting California’s upcoming ban on the sale and production of foie gras, and directing city staff to send copies of the resolution to all restaurants in the city found serving this product of animal torture. It’s good to see that issues like this are coming before the community and getting a bit of discussion. You can peruse the resolution here.

One of the organizations that The Vegan Collection donates a portion of our profits from sales to is Animal Acres. We feel very strongly about supporting the fantastic work that they do and in their latest newsletter they put the call out for volunteers to work at L.A. festivals to recruit other members and volunteers. They are looking for volunteers to help educate people about the plight of farmed animals and let our community know that L.A. has, and needs, a farmed animal sanctuary. If you are at all interested, contact Katie Arth at membership@animalacres.org.

Normally I don’t care about celebrity veganism, but I DO care about everything Gossip Girl, so when I saw Ecorazzi’s Exclusive article on Gossip Girl’ Dreama Walker of course I had to read it. It’s a nice little fluff piece about trying out veganism for a month. The interesting part is that her “conversion” came due to an Earthlings screening organized by the article’s author. I’ve often wondered how anyone can sit through that documentary and not come out unchanged. Here’s a link to the article.

I just saw this little piece of information in the Animal Rescue, Media & Education (A.R.M.E.) newsletter. Every time you shop at Ralphs, you can have your Ralphs Card set up to donate a small percentage of each purchase to A.R.M.E.
Simply register online at Ralphs.com [http://cts.vresp.com/c/?UncagedFilms/c4508c8d85/bf4a82930d/66ceddab63]:

1. Click Services; then

2. Click on School Programs; then

3. Click on Community Contributions LEARN MORE; then

4. Click on Participant ENROLL; finally

5. Enter ARME or Animal Rescue, Media & Education.

Imagine that! Every time you buy groceries a small portion goes towards funding their next project without you having to do anything but your regular grocery shopping. Very cool and very easy.

It’s that time of year when 2008 earnings releases and annual reports start to trickle out and the ALF is no different. The North American Animal Liberation Press Office has just published their Year-End Report on Animal Liberation Activities in North America and it is available for download on their website here. It has a whole slew of data, including all the actions that happened in 2008 as well as diagrams, discussions of future directions, the information about current prisoners and the snitches who put them there. Very interesting reading for anyone who has even a passing interest in the ALF.

After waxing about the number of vegans in Europe and the US I came across this interesting post about vegan demographics on Vegan Bits.

Vegan demographics
Most likely to be female and under 35.

Vegans By Age:

They pulled this information from the same source I sited in my earlier post, but I didn’t see these charts. Wow! Nearly 80% of US vegan are women. I thought it would be more equal. Good news for single vegan guys! You can look at the full study here.

I just got word that one of my favorite restaurants, Flore Cafe, is having an All You Can Eat Vegan Brunch this Sunday from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.Miranda’s brunch used to be the highlight of my week when she had it every Saturday at her previous restaurant, Tierra Cafe in downtown. I can guarantee there will be a lot of hungry vegans, so get there early! Here are all the details:

Event: All You Can Eat VEGAN BRUNCH “we will keep it coming until you say no more!”
Time: Sunday, February 22 at 10:00am to 3:00pm
Where: Flore Cafe, 3206 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026

Sorry about the lack of posts as of late. My real-life job has gotten in the way of regular posting. I’ve been busy on other fronts and I’m excited because the belt samples that I ordered just showed up this week, and they turned out amazing.

Look for them in The Vegan Collection shop in the not too distant future (say a month or so).