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Year 29, No. 10
Celebrating 29 Years of Community News
November 6 – November 12, 2013
Lansdowne Folk Club Concert with Judy Wicks, White Dog Christine Havrilla and Gypsy Fuzz Cafe Founder, Talks About New Memoir
With special guest the Robert Bobby Duo on November 21 The concerts are held at the newly renovated Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA. Freshly prepared dinner and desserts will be available for sale before and during the show. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 with advance
Jane Norman’s “A Holiday Evening of Love” Page 8
Lansdowne Folk Club presents Christine Havrilla and Gypsy Fuzz with special guest the Robert Bobby Duo on Thurs., November 21.
Andrew McCarthy & GEOfest Page 9
Cultural Mystic & Storyteller Zsun-nee Matema Page 10
Dining & Entertainment Pages 6 & 7
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ansdowne Folk Club is continuing its 20th Year of presenting great live music with Christine Havrilla and Gypsy Fuzz with special guest the Robert Bobby Duo on Thursday, November 21.
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reservation and $18 at the door. No credit card sales at the door. Free street parking available. For reservations, advance ticket sales or information call 484-466-6213, visit www.folkclub.org or email Lfolkclub@ Judy Wicks, community activist and founder of the White gmail.com. Dog Cafe, will talk about her new book at Tredyffrin Public Portland, Oregon Library on Thursday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m. based Christine Havrilla embarked on an ambiudy Wicks, community activist and founder of the White tious new journey with Dog Cafe, will talk about her new book Good Morning, her Gypsy Fuzz project in late 2011. Havrilla, Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist a Philadelphia native, who has six studio Entrepreneur and Local Economy Pioneer on Thursday, albums, three EPs, and over a decade of tour- November 14, 7:30 p.m. at Tredyffrin Public Library, 582 ing under her belt, continues to venture out Upper Gulph Road, Strafford. under “Christine Havrilla & Gypsy Fuzz,” showIt’s not often that someone stumbles into entrepreneurship and ends up reviving a community and starting a naSee Lansdowne Folk Club Concert on page 7 tional economic-reform movement. But that’s what happened when, in 1983, Judy Wicks founded the White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her house on a row of Victorian brownstones in West Philadelphia. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy grew what began as a tiny muffin shop into a 200-seat restaurant—one of the first to feature local, organic, and humane food. The restaurant blossomed into a regional community hub, and a national powerhouse for modeling socially responsible business. Her memoir traces the roots of her career—exploring what it takes to marry social change and commerce, and do business differently. Good Morning, Beautiful Business explores the way Wicks not only change her neighborhood, but change her world—helping communities far and wide create local living economies that value people and place as much as commerce and that make communities not just interesting and diverse and prosperous, but also resilient. Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse and author of The Art of Simple Food, said of Wicks’ book, “Guided by her own powerful activist sensibility, Judy Wicks beautifully conveys the important influences that a restaurant, or any business, can have within a community—politically, economically and socially.” Wicks recounts coming of age in the sixties, a stint working in an Alaska Eskimo village in the seventies, her experience cofounding the first Free People’s store, now well known as Urban Outfitters, her accidental entry into the world of restaurants, the emergence of the celebrated White Dog Cafe, and her eventual role as an international leader and speaker in the local-living-economies movement. Her work has earned numerous awards, including the James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award, the Inter-
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C HEF S ARA G LASSMAN TO H OST T HANKSGIVING C OOKING C LASS hen people traditionally think about Thanksgiving dinner, they think about stuffing more than just the turkey. Certified Natural Foods Chef Sara Glassman will show holiday goers how to stay healthy with new side dishes during the holiday season. On November 14 at 5:45 p.m., Sara will host a fun and energiz-
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Certified Natural Foods Chef Sara Glassman will host a fun and energizing cooking class at Arrowroot Natural Foods to show guests her creative twists on Thanksgiving Day menu items on November 14 at 5:45 p.m. Photo/©All rights reserved by arrowrootnaturalfoods ing cooking class at Arrowroot Natural Foods to show guests her creative twists on Thanksgiving Day menu items. Sara Glassman is a caterer and private chef turned instructor who helps people eat better and makes cooking fun. All dishes are vegetarian plant based which include gluten free ideas, so they are appropriate See Cooking Class on page 6
See Judy Wicks Speaks About Her New Memoir on page 3