Jul 25-31, 2007
Seasonal Foreign Workers Make a Limited Livelihood – and Lots of Friends – at the Basin Harbor Club; There’s More to Cookstove Cuisine Than Ramen; Burlington’s Bocce Players Get Their Own Court
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The Ramble [SIV38]
The Ramble is a free for all festival that takes place in big and small locations all over the Old North End, an eclectic Burlington neighborhood packed full of farmers, artists, young families…and chickens?! The Ramble was started by Heather Driscoll and Lee Anderson 4 years ago and is currently helmed by Lee and Sage…
Taste Test: Pulcinella’s
100 Dorset St. South Burlington, 863-1000. Opens for lunch at 11:30. $$$$
Greater Burlington’s Best Burger?
The other night I had an amazing cheeseburger — flavorful, savory and perfectly cooked. The meat — dry-aged, local ground beef from Wood Creek Farm in Bridport — was topped with caramelized onions and Shelburne Farms cheddar on Red Hen’s dense sweet brioche. Where did I eat this delightful creation? At the Ground Round in…
‘Guest’ Treatment
Seasonal foreign workers make a limited livelihood – and lots of friends – at the Basin Harbor Club
Best lunch
Zabby & Elf’s Stone Soup (Burlington) & Sarducci’s Restaurant and Bar (Montpelier)
Scene@ Muggle Madness Party
Friday, July 20, Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 10:30 p.m.
Best women’s casual clothing store
Sweet Lady Jane (Burlington) & Onion River Sports (Montpelier)
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Two managers interrupted a burglar at a restaurant in Wilmington, Del., who stayed on the scene too long because he needed to find safecracking instructions. Police arrested Branden M. Tingey, 28, who they said was using an office computer near the safe in the manager’s office to search the Internet when he…
Best Place to Have Dinner Anytime
A Single Pebble (Burlington) & Sarducci’s Restaurant and Bar (Montpelier)
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Writing in Poetry Flash, critic Rusty Morrison speculates that “the sublime can only be glimpsed by pressing through fear’s boundary, beyond one’s previous conceptions of the beautiful.” That’s a good theme for you to experiment with right now, Aries. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re very close to…
Best menswear
Michael Kehoe (Burlington) & Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel (Barre/St. Albans)
Best shoe store
Stella (Burlington) & Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel (Barre/St. Albans)
Locals Pick the Best of Vermont: Seven Daysies 2007
The number five is powerful: We have five fingers on each hand, and five senses — that we know of. The ancients represented the world with the number five, for the four elements of earth, water, fire and air plus the ether, or spirit. Many five-sided shapes appear in nature. And then there’s that really…
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Harry Potter [SIV37]
At midnight on Friday, July 20th 2007, the last installment of the Harry Potter series was released in bookstores across America. At The Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne VT, owners Elizabeth Bluemle and Josie Leavitt have been celebrating Harry Potter book releases for years. The costumed crowd numbered in the hundreds and the air was…
