By Elena Kadvany
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I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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UPDATE: As of Tuesday, Dec. 16, this event met its threshold on Tugg.com (see below for more information) and will be taking place.
Documentary "
Occupy the Farm" tells the story of the battle over the Gill Tract, a large plot of University of California-owned land in Berkeley that the university planned to develop and community members wanted to preserve and use as farmland.
The film, directed by Todd Darling and produced by
Steve Brown of Woodside, documents a day in April 2012 in which hundreds of people flooded onto a section of the land and "occupied the farm," planting 15,000 vegetable seedlings in protest.
Watch the
trailer for more; the film premiered in early November but is just now making the rounds to Palo Alto, with a one-night showing at the Aquarius next Monday, Dec. 22, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. "Occupy the Farm" filmmakers and "special guests" will also attend for a Q&A after the screening (if it happens).
There's a catch ? the only way this screening will happen is if enough people express an interest by reserving tickets on Tugg, a website that allows people to request screenings at their local theaters, as long as the theater approves and then sells enough tickets.
As of Monday, Dec. 15 at 4 p.m., 82 people have reserved tickets for the Dec. 22 screening, and 13 more are needed by the end of the day.
Go to
tugg.com to reserve a ticket.
