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MARCH 2011

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SECOND JOB STRUGGLES

TRAIN OF THOUGHT See what Lisa’s thinking this month! p8

Can you survive the life of an artist?

p6

i love you but you

LOVE MEAT 2 p

SOUR GRAPES

Is being a vegetarian burning a hole in your wallet? p4

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ome relationships run aground on the perilous shoals of money, sex or religion. When Shauna James’s new romance hit the rocks, the culprit was meat.

Sharing meals has always been an important courtship ritual and a metaphor for love. But in an age when many people define themselves by what they will eat and what they won’t, dietary differences can put a strain on a romantic relationship.

The culinary camps have become so balkanized that some factions consider interdietary dating taboo. continued on p. 25

I love you but you

love meat

By Kate Murphy

“I went out with one guy who said I seemed really great but he liked meat too much to date me”

sour grapes

Is being a vegeterian burning a hole in your wallet?

Rather than rummage

also goes for smaller

through your average

health-food groceries

grocery store, looking for

and local chains like

organic options, I shop

Mrs. Green’s; these

at Whole Foods Market.

stores just tend to be prici-

Think what you will of this

er than conventional

all-natural chain—it is still

jumbo supermarkets.

the best place to get count-

continued on p. 42

less eco-conscious brands in one spot. But let’s not deny the one reason why many don’t shop at Whole Foods—the cost! This also

I simply can’t afford to live this way

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are you up to the challenge of surviving as a professional artist?

Are we (artists) a crazy bunch, or what?

We take some art classes (maybe even earn an art degree or two). We do a bunch of paintings (or weavings, or photographs, or sculptures, or...).

Then one morning, we wake up and figure it’s time to support ourselves with our art.

Yep, now we’d like to earn, say, $40-50,000 a year selling our work.

No, we haven’t actually sold any paintings yet Well, maybe we’ve sold several (or even several thousand dollars worth) We don’t have any financial resources to back us up. We haven’t figured out how - or where to market our work No gallery contracts Business plan?

What’s that?!? But we’re ready to earn a living from our art.

Geeze louise!

What the heck are we thinking?!? continued on p. 14

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