October – in – Brief
From Boston | Matt Robinson writes about food with equal parts of wit and clarity. Check out the Comfort Food at Michael’s Deli where Steven Peljovich reigns as the King of Corned Beef and knishes. If you’re in need of a buzz without coffee, JavaMeUp offers a delicious, portable, coffee-fueled snack line.
From Denver | You might remember our article about about the not-so-elusive poet Devan Kingsford from Denver. I’m happy to report that Devan is now our reporter covering stories about people and life in Denver. Read his latest story Wasted about a homeless man named Skyler.
From Rhode Island | A couple from Rhode Island have developed Wingerz to keep your fingers clean and free from having to be finger-licking good!
From Rochester, New York | We get the last news about Food Waste and what researchers are doing to turn waste into a valuable resource.
From Nebraska | Kindra Foster writes about an unexpected and heartwarming restaurant experience while she was traveling on the road in California.
From New Jersey | Don Mazzella, Author, Journalist and Publisher of the Small Business Digest, shares a heartwarming Thanksgiving tale about his Uncle Doad.
Cindy Weinstein shares her rendition of soul food feelings for Thanksgiving.
From Orlando | Why does Florida businessman Eric Holm give free Thanksgiving meals to more than 20,000 people at the Salvation Army gymnasium in Orlando?
From Seattle | Tim Girvin founded Girvin | Design in 1976, expanding to a global strategic branding design practice over four decades. In this issue, he shows us a rare cartography of how he creates a new restaurant design.
Also from Seattle | Jerry Johnson, President of Cascade Strategies: Everybody wants to know how the undecided voters will break in this presidential election -- beyond the regular coffee-table theories. Cascade Strategies of Seattle has found an intriguing answer by using an increasingly popular form of research: biometric measurement.
JoAnne Dyer sheds insight on what indigenous people were really eating during that first Thanksgiving. We can promise you it was not canned cranberry sauce!
Gregg Bertram, founder of Pacific ADR Consulting, shows us how legal disputes involving the sale of a restaurant can be resolved through mediation.
See the work of our regular monthly columnists: Kindra Foster on Travel, Barbara Lloyd McMichael (on Books), Oliver Roth (on Broadway), Dean Landsman (on Digital Strategy), Bill Lulow (on Photography) and Matt Robinson who always writes stories (on Food) even when it’s not our editorial theme for the month.
“Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never
ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey