Brooklyn’s Annual Afro-Punk Festival – August 27-28 [CANCELLED]
Event has been CANCELLED due to the impending Hurricane Irene. — Afro-Punk is back with their 7th Annual Festival, August 27-28! The Afro-punk Festival features some of the biggest names in contemporary music with a stellar line up that includes Cee-Lo Green, Santigold, Janelle Monae, Fishbone, Jay Electronica, Toro Y Moi, Toshi Reagon , Ninjasonik, [...]
Sola at Lollapalooza 2011
Sunday evening, after being totally defeated by the rain while watching Foo Fighters’ amazing performance, an overflowing bowl of edamame made quite a delightful snack for the trip home. It surely helped take my mind off all the mud that was up passed my ankles. The Edamame from Sola had a soy cumin hemp seed [...]
The Gage & Henri at Lollapalooza 2011
We wandered into the huge crowd in Chow Town looking for our next eat. We noticed banh mi on the menu for The Gage & Henri and decided to try out this fancy-fancy take on one of our favorite Vietnamese food items. The Henri Banh Mi was a shrimp sandwich filled with poached shrimp, crunchy [...]
Blue 13 at Lollapalooza 2011
There was one food concession in Chow Town that I was curious to check out. Chicago Local is partnership between three local Chicago restaurants focusing on the use of sustainable, local, and organic ingredients. Chicago Local offered a vegetarian-friendly menu with Cactus Tostada from Blue 13, Watermelon Japapeno Popsicle from Elate at the Hotel Felix, [...]
Crescent Foods at Lollapalooza 2011
Lollapalooza’s Chow Town had a good selection of vegetarian options. One vendor in particular offered a complete Vegetarian/Vegan friendly menu. Crescent Foods is a family owned and operated food concession that offers gourmet vegetarian cuisine, prepared on site from local or organic produce. Apparently, they’ve worked many concerts and music industry events in the past [...]
