Thee Euston-Fairweather Registry of Hyper Links: Year of the Tiger Edition

by Josh Wood Tuesday February 23, 2010

DC’s bag tax is expected to generate 3.6 million in income for stores, for the District and for the Anacostia River Protection Fund. But a reduction in the number of disposable bags is the true goal of the controversial bill. A London grocer called Unpackaged is taking the idea further by selling foods without packaging. It’s up to the customer to bring their own.

I don’t think stabbings was high on city hall’s list of the things they were hoping the Park Cinema would bring to Rolfe Square.

Congrats to the Cranston Public Library for securing a grant from the Confucius Institute to establish a Chinese collection. The grant was officially welcomed with a dedication ceremony on Monday night.

The loss of elementary school strings, chorus and band seems like a particularly harsh sacrifice in the carnage of the Cranston School budget cuts.

Apparently Garden City is updating its shopping center and marketing image – including some updates to facades and traffic flow. Chipotle Grill quietly opened up a restaurant in the outdoor shopping center in November.

The Liberty Elm, located in proximal Cranston, made Guy Fieri’s Diner’s Drive-Ins & Dives on the Food Network.

Cranston artist Theodor Kropf has a penchant for transforming objects. Lately he’s been sculpting plastic into porcelain, and manipulating scale in his unique dadaist alchemy. See the tiny results in “Extreme Scale” at the Providence Art Club, running from February 28 through March 19.

The West Bay didn’t make the Daily Beast’s 75 Worst Commutes in America list. The Providence metro region wasn’t shut out, however, as the 195/Washington Bridge made #41 on the list.

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