5/2/09: Last Saturday, 15,000 volunteers across the state of Vermont picked up more than 40,000 bags of trash in honor of Green Up Day.

Music: The Activists/Dictators, “Out of the Picture”

5/2/09: Burlington became the 14th city to host a Snuggie Pub Crawl on Saturday night. The procession of blanket-clad revelers was organized by brothers Matt and Bastian Gadouas with a little help from Facebook.

Music: Missy Bly, Clean Bee, “Wanda”
Rue Mevlana, Drop the F Bomb, “Tight Core Snuggin”

This article appears in May 6-12, 2009.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...