Apr 18-24, 2007
The Animal Issue: Horsing Around With Vermont’s Four-Legged Law Enforcers; Kevin Kelley Talks Up Nobelist Elie Wiesel; Tagging VT Bobcats
Why Can’t You See My Face?
Yes — there’s a reason I’m hiding behind a bunch of Swiss chard! Sometimes I write restaurant reviews for the paper. When I do, I make reservations under different names and attempt to remain incognito — wouldn’t want extra attentive service or an especially pretty garnish to skew the review! Is it possible to maintain…
About Me and My Blog
About me: I’m the food writer for Seven Days newspaper and a devotee of all things culinary. I designed my own B.A. at the University of Vermont in a field called “Interdisciplinary Food Studies,” and own over 400 books about food. Many of these are cookbooks from all over the world, a bunch are other…
My Opening Salvo
So begins a new chapter in the Hackie saga . . . Ten years ago, this month, the first Hackie column was published. The column was sparked by the notion that my life – the day-to-day world of a Burlington cab driver – might provide fertile ground for an ongoing series of stories. How long…
Land and Sky
EXHIBIT: “Mapping the Way,” works in multiple media by Janet Van Fleet, Jessica Hatheway, Sandra Mudge, Peter Fried, Gillian Klein, June Campbell, Daniel Kuciz and Paula McCullough. SEABA Offices & Red Concrete Showroom, Burlington. Through June. ARTWORK: “Manhattan, Queens and the South Bronx” by Gillian Klein Maps do more than tell us where we’re going…
News Quirks 04.18.07
Curses, Foiled Again Twelve years after Anthony Michael Perone, 20, said a third-grade classmate broke his heart, he sent anonymous threatening letters to her Connecticut home, including one signed “Death Stalker.” Federal authorities identified Perone as the sender because the envelopes had his name and return address in Fairmont, Minn., where he lived with his…
Simple Symington?
In a phone interview from Democratic-controlled Capitol Hill, Sanders tells Freyne, The momentum is with us.
Alex Toth & The Lazybirds, Birdhead
(Self-released, CD) Ex-Burlingtonian Alex Toth may still be a pup, but he’s already accomplished plenty. Since graduating from UVM a couple of years ago, he’s been among the most celebrated musicians in the Green Mountains, performing with “psychotropical” act Guagua as well as his own outfit, the Lazybirds. These days, Toth and his saxophonist partner…
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Latin Day [SIV19]
4/13/07, 31st Annual Vermont Latin Day: Students from all over Vermont spend the Ides of April together celebrating Latin Day with trivia, displays, theater and prizes. Not only is Latin a great way to learn other languages, it is not as “dead” as you may think. It is the best day of the year to…
Dan Skea Quartet, But That Ain’t This
(Kenya Sands Music, CD) Since the lineup for Burlington’s Discover Jazz Festival was recently announced [see Soundbites, page 10B], I figured it’d be a great week to review some of our homegrown jazz talent. Pianist/composer/bandleader Dan Skea can be counted among the most active and accomplished artists on the local scene. He and his quartet…
BOBBY**1/2
Written and directed by Emilio Estevez, this ensemble piece revisits the night in 1968 when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and explores parallels to our time. The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Laurence Fishburne and Lindsay Lohan. (111 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/bobby/
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Step It Up [SIV20]
On Saturday, April 14th, National Day of Climate Action, Step It Up 2007 included hundreds of events across the country asking Congress to take action and save the environment before it is too late. The basic message was the same everywhere, “Step it up, Congress! Cut Carbon 80% by 2050.” Here in Burlington we had many Step…
