Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Remarkably Mark #52

Remarkably Mark #52: Chinese New Year

A Soundseeing tour at Chinatown's Annual New Years Parade, celebrating the coming Spring this year of the Golden Boar! I run into Thuy-Vi Quach-Braig from Harbin Beer (check out Culinary Roundtable #6, and ReMARKable Palate #79), and then wander around capturing the sounds of the revelry. And I finally find a knife bag! Listen with your headphones for the full binaural experience.

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This one is for John Ong

I knew that most things were cheaper in Chinatown, but I honestly had NO IDEA!!!!



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Monday, February 26, 2007

Remarkably Mark #51

Remarkably Mark #51: The Big RUIN


The Big Fatty joins me for a Big Run Rundown, as we catch up on the first two episodes of The Amazing Race All Stars, and we use that term loosely. Who's the biggest (or shall we say, smallest?) drama queen this year? Did the Coal Miners have a Queer Eye between seasons? Who does Big Fatty HATE the most? Find the answers to these and other exciting questions this week on The Big Ruin.

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Sunday, February 25, 2007

Go See an Off-Broadway show!

This is an amazing promotion: From March 4-March 11, for one week only, go see any off-broadway performance for $20, if you walk up to the box office 20 minutes before the show!



I'm hoping to see Sealed For Freshness (a woman who went to my high school a few years behind me is in it), and maybe Jacques Brel, but you could also see Altar Boyz, The Fever, Spalding Grey: Stories Left to Tell, Naked Boys Singing, The Fantasticks, and more...

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Chef Mark Featured on TheStreet.com

Steve Marzolf shadowed me on a day of cooking, and this article at www.TheStreet.com is the result:

Home-Cooked Cuisine, by Steve Marzolf

He's putting in hours at the office, but his galley kitchen uptown has become the set of an intricate ballet performed by personal chef Mark Tafoya.

Braised beef bubbles into a plume of Moroccan spices, and steam sizzles from a deglazed pork pan.

Tafoya has been at work for about an hour and a half, and he's entering what he refers to as "prime time," which means all real estate has evaporated from the oven, stovetop, counter and cutting boards.

Once the smoke clears, a $100 trip to Whole Foods has been transformed into a week of fresh food, all available at the touch of a microwave button.

Cooking at a Clip

Tafoya's day starts with an animated trip to the market at 11 a.m. He bills clients half his hourly rate for shopping, and not a penny's wasted as he shoots his cart through open spaces, grabbing granola or a bunch of carrots as he rolls by.

Attacking the store with a list of items tailored to the shelves' layout, he's exacting about the details, from the quality of ingredients to how they're packed in the insulated bag slung over his shoulder.

"Is your flank steak butterflied or pounded?" he asks the meat clerk before having a pork loin cut to his specifications.

"Some of the checkers know me and pack things the way I want. They're like, 'It's the weirdo chef!'" Tafoya quips.

The cooking itself, carefully choreographed to keep burners free and progress moving, takes two or three hours and ends with seven dishes cooling in microwave-safe containers.

Read the rest of the article HERE.

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Friday, February 23, 2007

First Freedom First

I wanted to share with you this email I received:



Dear Friend of First Freedom First,

When we learned this week of a newly unveiled Department of Justice (DOJ) initiative titled the "First Freedom Project," our interest peaked. After comparing it to our own effort, First Freedom First we were deeply disappointed.

First Freedom First would welcome an initiative by Bush administration officials to truly preserve and protect religious freedom in America, but their track record shows that they only believe in half of the First Amendment's two religious freedom clauses. The DOJ's First Freedom Project is a scam.

How timely and hypocritical. Next week in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, administration lawyers will argue before the Supreme Court that taxpayers should be denied the legal right to challenge government spending that favors religion.

So this week, they unveil a program that claims to protect our religious liberties. No administration in our history has trampled the First Amendment more than the Bush administration.

Deceptively naming this program First Freedom is a typical strategy of the Bush administration. The title hides its true purpose, just like the USA PATRIOT Act, the Healthy Forest Restoration Act and No Child Left Behind.

In the most religiously diverse nation in the world, religious freedom is for everybody. It's not the freedom of our government to impose or even favor one religion over others. We invite everyone who cares about religious freedom to compare the attorney general's First Freedom Project with First Freedom First.

Our petition has already been signed by over 100,000 people and will be presented to political leaders throughout the nation to encourage their renewed commitment to the First Amendment.

To help safeguard separation of church and state and protect religious liberty, please forward the petition to at least one friend.

Thanks again for your support!

All the Best,

Beth Corbin and Bethany Moore of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Donna Red Wing and Eric Shutt of The Interfaith Alliance Foundation



"What makes us special and different from other countries is that our right to decide whether and how to worship is a private matter protected by the Constitution."

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Bum Rush The Charts




HOW TO BUM RUSH THE CHARTS

“March 22nd you all have an assignment. An assignment to buy a specific track from iTunes both for a good cause AND to show the power and community of new media.”
- C. C. Chapman, Accident Hash

Podcasting gets little respect from corporate media. What they don't understand is that podcasting is more than just a delivery mechanism - it's a social movement. People are growing sick of the watered-down, cookie-cutter content that networks and record companies expect us to enjoy. We want and deserve more.

On March 22, 2007, we’re going to put an independent, podsafe band at the top of the iTunes Charts. We've also signed up as an affiliate of the iTunes Music Store, and every commission made on the sale of the song will be donated to college scholarships, partly because it's a worthy cause, but also partly because college students are among the most misunderstood and underestimated groups of people by big media.

Here’s how you can participate:

Step 1. Write down and share this address: http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/bumrush
You'll need it on the big day.

Step 2. Set up reminders for yourself - Google Calendar, Outlook, MySpace, doesn't matter. Mark the date carefully. March 22, 2007. On that day, and that day alone, buy the track Mine Again for a mere 99 cents. (you can, of course, buy the album, but the minimum participation requirement is that 99 cent purchase).

Step 3. Add a badge to your home page, MySpace page, web site, whatever. Need the code? Just copy and paste this text:

[a href="http://www.bumrushthecharts.com/">
[img src="http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/brtcbadge.gif" border="0" /]
(replace the [ ] with < > )

Step 4. Tell people about what's going on. There will be plenty of promos and things later on, but start spreading the word now - MySpace bulletins, emails, promos, whatever you can think of to spread the word.

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Spring Awakening on The View

Touch Me

The kids are back on TV with a great appearance on The View, performing "Touch Me", complete with opening dialogue (they cut out the middle dialogue), and a gushing interview with Rosie afterwards.

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Spring Awakening on Letterman

The Bitch of Living

The boys from Spring Awakening performed "The Bitch of Living" on The Late Show with David Letterman on Feb 21st. They rocked, with composer Duncan Sheik playing guitar in the background!

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Remarkably Mark #50

Remarkably Mark #50: Church and State

Tristin from the InTristin Podcast joins me as we discuss the Kearny NJ Teacher who is in trouble for teaching religion in his history class, a case going before the Supreme Court about separation of Church and State, and of course a little TV talk.

Lippard Blog
Freedom From Religion Foundation

Theme Music: "Viva Remarkably Mark!" by John Ong. www.onglinepodcast.com

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Chef Mark featured at Fast Company

Fast Company magazine has featured the ReMARKable Palate Podcast as one of the "12 podcasts you should be listening to", and included me in one of their distinctive Fast Company slideshows. I'm honored to be counted among BBC's Digital Planet, Uncensored Blues, Robert Scoble's Scobleshow, Harvard Business Review's Ideacast, and Doctor's Without Borders.

12 Podcasts for the Creative Class

Here are 12 must-listen-to podcasts for creative knowledge workers--those entrepreneurial spirits who start and staff the most innovative, fast-growing companies.

The creative class -- the nebulous, but much bally-hooed, demographic made up of knowledge workers, intellectuals, and artists -- constitutes an increasing portion of the American workforce. Social scientist Richard Florida, who gave the group its moniker, sees the rise of the creative class as a powerful force that is shaping the economies of post-industrial cities. Yet, today many members of the creative class can live and work anywhere, thanks to home-office technology and the Internet. Working as freelancers, researchers, or in Internet-related fields, the creative class is spreading beyond communities, like Austin or Seattle, that are typically associated with the demographic. Whether they live in Ellsworth, Maine, or Peoria, Illinois, creative professionals still look for ways to satisfy their artistic and technological interests. In towns without Universities or symphonies, the creative class can now go online to find intellectual and cultural enrichment. Here are twelve podcasts designed for the eclectic tastes of the creative class:


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For the chef: ReMARKable Palate

This podcast, part of the Gilded Fork's Culinary Podcast Network, is hosted by personal chef Mark C. Tafoya. Besides sharing recipes, Tafoya interviews chefs, food writers, and gourmets, and takes listeners behind the scenes of popular restaurants.

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Remarkably Mark #49

#49: Grandmas and Guitar Heroes

My brother Gabriel is learning the guitar, and while I was home in Albuquerque for my birthday, I joined Gabriel at Grandma's Music Center searching for a new amp, and we ran across a cool band called Le Chat Lunatique. Then we went home and played Guitar Hero!

www.myspace.com/lechatlunatiquetheband

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Remarkably Mark #48

#48: Mark's Gang Bang

Several queercasters from the New York City area got together at the NYC Podcasting Meetup, then went out for coffee afterwards, and had our own version of a group show in honor of our dear friend Archer. Alas, there was no porn star :-(

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