New York Gets Its Own Vegetarian Food Festival

Mark your calendars and launder your bibs: It’s the first annual New York City Vegetarian Food Festival, happening April 3 from 10 AM to 6 PM at the Altman Building in Manhattan. Read more »

‘Go Vegan’ Art Show Smells Like Meat

When the meat supplier Pat LaFrieda moved out, next door neighbor Gavin Brown Enterprise art gallery moved in. The Meatpacking District’s former meat processing factory now hosts a vegetarian-themed art show by Jonathan Horowitz. And it stinks of raw meat. 75 years of gutting bovine sunk the odor deep into the walls. Is the sculptural block of floating tofu is still vegan if it smells like beef? |ENT|

Che Guevara’s Granddaughter Goes Commando for PETA

The granddaughter of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is undressing for a new PETA campaign with the slogan “Start a Vegetarian Revolution.” With the permission of her family and a revolutionary spirit “in her blood,” 24-year-old Lydia Guevara posed nude, wearing only a beret and carrot-filled bandoleer that will hopefully inspire more vegetarians than her grandfather’s overexposed t-shirts inspire revolutionaries. |El Mundo|