"I don't mind that it takes a little longer as long as it's done right, says Branigan. "So that when it does register as an independent business, then it'll be sustainable because the people who are running it know what they're doing."
A screening of Emmanuel's Gift followed by a presentation by Bikes Not Bombs founder and international-programs director Carl Kurz will take place on Thursday, November 6, at 6:30 and 8:30 pm at City Year Headquarters, 287 Columbus Avenue, Boston. Tickets available for $7 to $15 online at bikesnotbombs.org, or, at the door for $15. Call 617.522.0222.
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- Wheels in Motion
David Branigan, who recently returned to town after more than a year in Koforidua, in Eastern Ghana, says what he missed most about Boston is the "efficiency." That might come as a shocker for those of us here who have ever waited for the Number 66 bus in the thick of winter.
- Ready to roll
Whether you've been slogging through the streets on two wheels all winter, or are only now retrieving your bicycle, dusty and cobwebbed, from the basement, the extra light, the warm air, and the promise of snow-free roads are calling.
- Bicyclists to spell support for Obama
There are the usual ways of spelling out your support for a candidate, and then there’s this weekend’s “Bike Write for Obama.”
- Universal tales
For the 11th consecutive year, the Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS) are bringing stories and tellers from near and far for the eight-day FUNDA Fest (January 18-25).
- Slideshow: Bike cover art contest 2010
Bob Maloney's Experimental Illustration Class competes for the cover spot on the Phoenix 's 2010 Bike Bible
- Pedal promise
Boston has its fair share of deserving bad reputations: the sports fans whined for some 86 years about a “curse” because the Red Sox couldn’t seal the deal; the drivers are terrible; and, thanks in no small part to those driving skills, the city’s streets were thrice voted by Bicycling Magazine as some of the worst in the country for cyclists.
- Stark reality
Steven Stark is known to Phoenix readers for his "Presidential Tote Board" odds-making feature, but it turns out that he and his son, Harrison, are also soccer aficionados, having become fans of London side Fulham FC during stays in the British capital.
- Ghana baby Ghana
Florida Road is a crowded strip of bars and clubs in Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa.
- Review: South of the Border
Oliver Stone may have been easy on W. in his bio-pic, but he chops the dummy's head off in this revealing documentary about the social-welfare-minded neo-liberal leaders running South America, and the liars in the Bush administration who compared them to Hitler and bin Laden.
- So you think you can foufou?
African foufou is not something you learn once and get. I've had three different teachers, Kenyan, Congolese, and Ghanaian, and I can "do" it, but I still look like one those unbelievably bad dancers on So You Think You Can Dance?
- A trek through the Minuteman Trail
Years ago, when I was a completely out-of-shape cycling novice, I had a vague dream of someday riding my bike the entire length of the Minuteman Bike Path — a 10-mile trail that starts in Cambridge, winds through Arlington and Lexington, and ends in Bedford.
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