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restaurant review // WHEATFIELDS BAKERY the taste of the town. one meal at a time.
Whether you have an early-morning hankering for an omelet, or want to pick from a vast selection of baked goods, Wheatfields Bakery and Café will satisfy even the hungriest breakfast seeker.
Tucked behind Massachusetts Street at 904 Vermont St., Wheatfields offers a tranquil environment and an extensive menu to suit all breakfast lovers. Also offering lunch and a seasonal dinner menu, Wheatfields will be sure to please with its wide variety of menu offerings.
Wheatfields serves food all day, but its specialty is breakfast. I dined on the biscuits and gravy, quiche and the whole grain Wheatfields Waffle. The fare proved to be a perfect combination between grandma's home cooking and Lawrence-style health consciousness.
If you're not an early bird, Wheatfields lunch and dinner options are equally as scrumptious. And the atmosphere offers additional appeal — the gourmet coffee and window-side seating beg students to linger for a morning study session.
The price tag on most menu items seems slightly high, but portions are large enough to compensate.
Wheatfields lives up to its reputation as the local go-to for gourmet breakfast, sandwiches and salads. Stop in for a loaf of fresh baked bread, or drag yourself out of bed in pursuit of a Wheatfields Saturday brunch.
If not ground-breaking, Wheatfields cuisine will certainly not disappoint.
SASHA LUND
movie review // 'CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY'
Hollywood hits, indie flicks and everything in between.
But despite all of this, Capitalism: A Love Story is still an important even essential film that deserves public attention from both sides of the aisle. In many ways, it's the most
No one could ever accuse Michael Moore of subtlety. His latest documentary, *Capitalism: A Love Story*, functions as both scathing corporate takedown and bleak rumination on the future of free enterprise in America. It contains just about everything we've come to expect from the portly provocateur, from the faux-reassuring narration to the usual darkhorse parade of grandiose stunts and skillfully edited interviews.
bi-partisan statement of Moore's career. He blames almost everyone in the U.S. government for bowing to the bailout and contributing to our current recession. He paints the Republicans as fearmongering pit bulls and the Democrats as lilly-livered bagmen who blindly believe that democracy and capitalism are inexorably bound. Neither party is given an ounce of quarter from the ham-fisted furor of Moore, who seems to delight in his newfound role as equal-opportunity offender.
Like Sicko and Fahrenheit 9/11 before it, the movie is often exceedingly clever. The opening credit sequence convincingly compares our country's decadence to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Other highlights include Moore attempting to make a citizen's arrest of the entire AIG board and wrapping yellow crime-scene tape around the perimeter of Wall Street itself.
However, all this fun but futile grand-standing would feel unearned if it weren't for the movie's more poignant moments. Sometimes Moore will stop short in his blustering long enough for us to hear from the real victims of corporate greed,
such as the blue collar family being forced off their ancestral farm or the widower whose wife's life insurance was cashed in by her Wal-Mart employers as part of their self-described "dead peasants" program. Watching Moore's elderly father, a laid-off auto worker, tour the ruins of the General Motors plant in Flint, Mich., is a painful lesson in what only the most heartless among us could call progress. In a movie so full of righteous sound and fury, these moments of thoughtful silence speak loudest of all.
// LANDON MCDONALD
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