Time to play, “IS IT VEGAN?”

You know how sometimes, when you leave the SCV in search for an all vegan restaurant you come upon a place that just doesn’t seem quite right? Places that come off as a bit shady, with seemingly clueless employees that just answer every question about ingredients with a “yes, all vegan”. Maybe the food wasn’t [...]

No Sales Tax for Vegans in Santa Clarita

For those not aware, the California sales tax is being raised today, April 1st 2009 by 1%. Other cities and counties within California are also raising sales tax on top of that initial raise. Since the City of Santa Clarita is within Los Angeles County, our new sales tax rate will be 9.25% as of [...]

Happy Birthday SCVegan.com!

One year ago, today I made that first official post to Santa Clarita’s vegan blog. For those first several months hardly any hits made their way to this site, but things eventually picked up; everything included I am averaging about 1,000 hits a month. It’s a nice start, don’t you think?
Through this blog I have [...]

“Grammy Nominated Artists” – No Age

No Age was nominated for a Grammy in the catagory of “Best Recording Package” for their album, NOUNS. For the few people out there whom do not yet own a copy of NOUNS, the CD packaging is really neat featuring a photo book of No Age hanging out with their friends that helped, supported and [...]

Vote YES on Prop 2

Election day is approaching, and while here in Santa Clarita it seems Prop 8 is the only thing getting any press I want to bring your attention to another proposition to be voted on this November; the Prevention of Farm Cruelty Act, also known as Prop 2.
By voting YES on Prop 2 we are making [...]

Vegan Breakfast With The Gibbons

The Gibbon Conversation Center will be hosting a vegan breakfast fundraiser; Sunday, Oct 19th beginning at 8:30am until noon. Gibbons are small, tree-dwelling apes native to some tropical and sub-tropical regions of Asia. 15 different species of Gibbons are known and are generally considered endangered by most every native country. Most impressive is their speed [...]

No Age Censored by CBS on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson – But Craig is still cool.

Santa Clarita’s favorite local vegan punk band, No Age performed on The Late Late Show With Craig Fergusson on Oct 2nd for a taping to be broadcast Oct 27th. Five minutes before the band was to take the stage, guitarist Randy Randall was told he had to change his tee shirt that displays a picture [...]

VOTE FOR NO AGE – 2008 MtvU Left Field Woodie Award

No Age is up for an MtvU Woodie Award, and there is an on-line vote to select the winner. You can vote as many times as you want, so vote often! Voting ends 11/7/2008. Help the SCV’s favorite Vegan Punk duo bring home the gold wood.

Save the Cows, Save The World!

Interesting article in today’s L.A. Times. The United Nations is urging wealthy countries to dramatically change their eating habits to reduce meat consumption; beginning with one meatless day per week. Not only that, but once everybody in on board with the weekly meat-out, it’s said that we should progress from there to further exclude meat [...]

Souplantation 30th Anniversary and Essay Contest – FREE FOOD!!!

Souplantation is celebrating their 30th anniversary this month and will be holding an essay contest that could net you 30 FREE MEAL PASSES if your essay is picked as one of their 30 favorites. For those of you keeping score, 30 people will receive 30 free meal passes each. That’s 900 free meals! I love [...]