This map shows a 100-mile radius around Kingston. Local food is closer than you think. (Source: 100milediet.org/map / Graphic by Jungyoon Kang and Yingwei Liu)

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Putting local eating on the map

A new diet is drawing in converts all across the country with its promise to entirely alter the way we consume our food. The 100-mile diet challenges consumers to eat food grown within 100 miles of where they live.

Previously in Postscript

June 26, 2007

Gym-going not a walk in the park

With obesity-related health problems on the rise and the growing pressure to live up to societal body norms, going to the gym is a practice that’s gaining popularity—especially for students. The gym has become the choice venue for student such as Sarah Langford, ArtSci ’08, to sweat out their personal fitness goals. Despite being less scenic than exercising outdoors, Langford’s primary motivation for hitting the gym is efficiency.

May 29, 2007

How to be a tourist in your own city

With the stresses of the school year finally laid to rest­—even if only until the fall—stirrings of adventure begin to consume the thoughts of many a burnt-out student. Really, there’s no better time to indulge in your explorative nature than during the summer.

April 5, 2007

The fugitive in the backseat

One night in August 2002, as we curved around the 401’s on-ramp, we saw a skinny, barefooted, young guy wearing a teal sweater and holding his thumb up in the air. “We should pick him up,” I said, mostly joking. Rick pulled the car over and we told the dude that we were only going to Napanee, but that he could ride with us that far. Months later, sitting in the town’s public library waiting for my ride, I picked up a Rolling Stone magazine. Flipping through back to front, I saw a picture of a face that caught my eye. Turning the page, I saw the words “Hunting America’s Most Wanted Eco-Terrorist: The Flight of Tre Arrow.”

March 30, 2007

Stuck in the middle with who?

Some would say the root of Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell’s extremely public beefing is a yearning for publicity or celebrity-induced mental instability. Others would say that it all comes down to birth order.

March 23, 2007

Disappeared

Morgan Vanek is alarmed that she will be completing her undergraduate degree in English, with a minor in development studies, in less than two months. She’s excited by the sudden new interest in prose on the Queen’s creative writing scene, too, because she thinks that poems—for all their poignant brevity—have been stumping student writers for far too long now. Her work is forthcoming in Lake Effect 3.