http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog A sister site to Minnesota Stories Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:45:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Click To Play In this episode of Spices of Life, Nina Simonds interviews Ravi and Sonia in their car, the studio for their show DriveTime, and gives them strategies to make their dinners easier and healthier. Nina's suggestions include making meals in one dish, cooking food on weekends and reheating during ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2007/04/27/dinner-doctor-busy-young-couple-no-dishwasher/ Click to Play Nina Simonds visits the Imperial Seafood restaurant in Boston's Chinatown and exposes you to the best traditional food served for Chinese New Year. Nina explains the significance of each dish including Chicken, Dumplings, Mushrooms, Pork, Clams, Noodles, Fish and more. Happy New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy! Alternate versions: ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2007/02/17/chinese-new-year-best-food-exposed/ The New England Belt Sander Racing Association held the 2007 Winter Nationals. I was there to interview some of the entrants and catch some of the action. Click To Play Proceeds from the event went to support the New Orleans Women Artist Collective and Community Servings. This report aired on Rocketboom on ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2007/02/13/belt-sander-races/ Click to Play I interviewed the Boston Typewriter Orchestra at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston. These guys make music using old manual typewriters. I spoke with Derrik Albertelli who told me how the band got started and Alex Holman who talked about making music with a typewriter. I was there ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2006/12/12/boston-typewriter-orchestra/ Click To Play Local historian discovers 400 plus unmarked graves in Southborough, MA, oldest cemetery. Using geophysics and a 3D mapping device subsurface objects are clearly displayed. Further research is planned by a Newton archeologists in conjunction with the local Historical Society. David Falconi, a long time resident of the town ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2006/12/05/grave-identities/ Click To Play Home movies form the Mutascio Family of Jamaica Plain, MA 1939-1963 Contains moving images of Centre Street, Horse Riding the Jamaicaway, Jamaica Pond, Sledding, a wedding, Franklin Park Zoo. Fleeting moments captured on film. Courtesy of Rick Minot Photography by Samuel Minot Video Transfer and Sound by Steve ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2006/11/30/jamaica-plain-home-movies/ Click To Play  This is a little trick that my grandmother, Sylvia uses all the time. She cuts an old cracker box on three sides along the edge and lines it with wax paper. Then she fills it with sweets, this time jam squares which are my favorite. Depression babies know ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2006/11/16/the-box-trick/ Click to Play Deval Patrick: Just Words Speech 10/15/06 Boston Common I will not engage in the politics of fear. Because fear is poisonous. All through history it has been used to hold back progress and limit fairness. Only hope defeats fear. It always has. At a candidates forum last week, ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2006/10/15/deval-patrick-just-words-speech-101506/ Click to Play Steve Garfield interviews Peter Houk, director of the MIT Glass Lab about the lab and the glass pumpkin patch fundraiser. The MIT Glass Lab The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch Peter Houk, Lab Director Black and White photographs and text by Andrea Silverman Color Photos ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2006/10/05/mit-glass-pumpkins/ Andy Carvin tossed together a two-minute piece for Rocketboom on an art mob that assembled at Boston's Public Garden. At first I thought they were war protestors holding signs, but they were actually a group of photographers who were standing in a circle holding out large photos they'd taken around ... http://www.newenglandstories.com/vlog/2006/08/27/art-mob-at-the-public-garden/