Getting Warmer?
It’s been a bad month for Earth dwellers concerned about global warming. Since early June the Bush administration has made a series of moves and missteps that have left utility corporations cheering — and environmentalists seething — over our nation’s response to what many believe to be the world’s single biggest ecological problem. It began…
The End is Near
What a difference a year can make. It seems like only yesterday “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” was the hottest thing on TV. Ratings began to plummet several months ago, though, and the future of the show was called into question. Host Regis Philbin got the final answer from ABC on May 14: The…
La Dolce Vita: Junior’s finds its sweet spot
Got Sfogliatelle? That rhetorical question, printed on the back of promotional T-shirts, is aimed at people hungering for authentic Italian goodies in ethnically challenged Vermont. The slogan was devised by four partners in a new Colchester venture. The Bakery at Junior’s, expected to open this week, offers an array of pastries, cakes, cookies, tarts, tortes…
Crack Addicts: Getting behind fashion’s latest fetish
Just a few years ago, it was considered in bad taste to reveal your butt crack. Getting cheeky was an icky faux pas reserved for plumbers and the odd teen-age boy with unresolved pant-to-boxer issues. Now, however, the tender cleft is in your face. Girls in low-slung jeans sit insouciantly on bar stools, “presenting” their…
Manchel’s Choice: Burlington College recieves the cinematic legacy of a lifetime
When he was 3, Frank Manchel and his little sister spent virtually all day, every day, in a Brooklyn movie theater. During the late 1930s their hard-working parents could not afford babysitters, but they knew the kids would be safe and entertained with cinematic childcare. “At that age, many times we didn’t know what we…
Minor Sensation: Judith Levine sparks controversy with a book about teen sex
The Green Mountains are full of high-profile writers. But only one has inspired a hunger striker, a congressional denunciation and references to Hitler with a single book. Judith Levine, a part-time resident of Hardwick, has been all over the national media since the March publication of her Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children…
True Glue?
Folks, let’s talk about Botox. I’m determined to be cheerful this week, and the only other items on the news this morning were Tiger Woods, Winona Ryder’s shoplifting trial and murdering Saddam Hussein. And that little girl in Utah, unfortunately, with the hundreds of male relatives, who got kidnapped out of her bedroom. And those…
Flick Chick
What a difference a year can make. It seems like only yesterday “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” was the hottest thing on TV. Ratings began to plummet several months ago, though, and the future of the show was called into question. Host Regis Philbin got the final answer from ABC on May 14: The…
Snelling Considers Leaving GOP
First it was U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords rocking the political world a year ago with his departure from the increasingly far-right-wing Republican Party. Now Seven Days has learned another prominent Vermont Republican is considering doing likewise. When asked this week if she would stand for reelection as a Republican, Chittenden County State Sen. Diane Snelling…
