Apr 14-20, 2010
Connecting With Canadian Tourists; Vergennes Restores Races in Italy; Vermont Maple Syrup – Liquid Gold?
Whoops! Miss Congeniality Was Congenial, Just Not in Vermont
From the Department of Big-Ass Mea Culpas: Well, friends, it turns out that America’s favorite scrappy-do movie star was NOT actually in Vermont over Easter. Contrary to what I wrote a few hours ago on Blurt and what a number of online gossip sites “reported” a couple days ago, Sandra Bullock did not dine at…
Sandra Bullock Dries Her Tears… In Vermont
A few days after Sandra Bullock took home the Oscar for best gal-next-door actress, it was revealed that her motorcyclist husband Jesse James was slumming it with a woman who has multiple facial tattoos and a fascination with White Power. Classy. Naturally, our pal Sandy went into hiding after the philandering was revealed. What else…
Forbes: CVPS Among Nation’s Most Trustworthy Firms
It seems like a day doesn’t go by when we don’t hear of how some of the nation’s top companies, as well as some high-profile Vermont firms, have misled the public and investors. A new national report offers a glimpse at the flip side — companies doing right by their investors and the public. And,…
Leahy: New Supreme Court Justice to Be Named by August
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy said today he expects a new Supreme Court Justice to be named before lawmakers break for their August recess. Leahy, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, will lord over the nomination hearings as the president seeks to replace Justice John Paul Stevens, who announced last week that he is retiring from…
Will the U.S. Supreme Court overturn gay marriage in Vermont?
This week, Vermont will host a national conference taking stock of the decades-long civil rights battles of gays and lesbians and where the movement is headed. Appropriately, the conference is being held 10 years after Vermont enacted civil unions and one year after it approved same-sex marriages—the first state to enact such a law by…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When Jonathon Michael Smith, 22, tried to buy a $28,000 pickup truck with a check, the manager of the Ford dealership in Fairbanks, Alaska, became suspicious. He checked with another car dealer and found Smith had used a forged check to buy a vehicle there. In fact, he’d used forged checks to…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for April 14 – 21, 2010. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES(March 21-April 19) Photons work hard to get from the heart of the sun to the surface. They can take up to 160,000 years to complete the 400,000+-mile journey. And yet once Earth-bound photons get topside, they…
Living Room
At Joe Adler’s eclectic Burgundy Thursdays, the performers are just part of the fun
Pilgrim’s Progress
Art Review: Sally Linder, “Pilgrimage: Remote and Inner Landscapes.” Firehouse Gallery, Burlington. Through May 1.
Lost and Found
Archaeologists use 21st-century forensics to identify and honor Vermont’s 19th-century war dead
Letters to the Editor
Easter Offense A while back, Red Square ran an ad caricaturing the figure of Christ [February 17]. I left a message with the establishment expressing my anger, but wasn’t able to find the right words for your paper until tonight, when I made a visit to my 93-year-old Catholic friend. Before I left, she pointed…
Italian Stallion
Vergennes vintage-car restorers give some TLC to race machines of yesteryear
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Speaking Volumes [SIV172]
4/12/10: Speaking Volumes is full of interesting old stuff, books, records, antiques and collectibles – each doodad with a story to tell, usually one that speaks volumes. Owner Norbert Ender recently opened Barge Canal Market (in the same building as Speaking Volumes), a 3,600 sq ft space chock full of vintage furniture and flea market…
Flynn Center Hires Replacement for E.D. Andrea Rogers
It’s a good news day for Burlington’s largest arts venue: John Killacky (pictured), a program officer at the San Francisco Foundation, has been hired to replace outgoing CEO and founding executive director Andrea Rogers at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, its board of directors announced this afternoon. Killacky has headed the Arts and…
“Project Runway” Wants You!
The other day Tim Gunn, the kindly mentor on Lifetime’s “Project Runway” and all-around dashing fellow, gave me a call. He was all like “Hi, Lauren. This is Tim Gunn. Can you get some Vermonters to audition for “Project Runway”? We’re tired of these slick city kids and their geometric, bedazzled pap. Thanks.” Then he…
