Apr 2-8, 2008
The Governor Wants to Cut 400 State Jobs – But Which Ones, and at What Cost?; “Facing the Facts” – A New Weekly Weigh-In; John Fusco’s Kung-Fu Premier in VT; I Land At FlynnSpace
Commenters Bash Cops on Addy Indy Site
The Addison Independent recently put a controversial poll on its website, asking if readers think the police are doing enough to find missing Middlebury student Nicholas Garza. The poll has generated 727 votes, and two pages of reader comments, many of them critical of the Middlebury PD. Apparently, the cops asked the Indy to take…
Greetings From…
I stumbled across this very cool website the other day. It’s kind of a postcard pen pal matching service. When you register, you can get up to 5 addresses of people to send postcards to and your address gets put in the pool. When the postcards you’ve sent out get received, you can get more…
The Hard Way to Get a Moose Permit?
Serve in Iraq or Afghanistan. A press release from anti-war Rep. Peter Welch: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2008 CONTACT: Andrew Savage Welch lauds Vt. law establishing moose permit program for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans “I commend the Vermont legislature and Governor for their bipartisan work to see this idea through, from a cafeteria…
End Women’s Suffrage?
Here’s a disturbing viral video from UVM TV — last year, reporter Matt Lewis asked female students what they think about the dramatic increase in women’s suffrage since 1920. Can you guess what they said? And yes, we’re talking about the right to vote… but of course Lewis didn’t explain that to them. I find…
Seven Days Hires Shay Totten As New Political Columnist
Stop the presses! Veteran Vermont journalist Shay Totten will be taking over as our new political columnist. We sent out a press release earlier today. SEVEN DAYS HIRES SHAY TOTTEN AS NEW POLITICAL COLUMNIST Vermont’s only alternative weekly, Seven Days has a new political columnist: Shay Totten of Burlington will take over the beat previously…
MS Poster Girl
I got an unexpected phone call the other day — yet another one of myacquaintances was just diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I wasdiagnosed with MS in 2002, and actually wrote a first-person story about it in 2005. Since then, three local thirty- and forty-something women Iknow have contacted me to let me know that they,…
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Skate Deck Art Show [SIV73]
3/28/08: Margaritas, fake mustaches, 80s chic, skulls-a-plenty and skate deck art for a good cause. For three years now, Maven has been been teaming up with local artists and presenting different themed Skate Deck Art Benefits. This year they raised money for the much needed redesign of the Burlington Skatepark. In March, funds were approved…
The Yogurt Project: Cabot Nonfat Black Cherry
This is my fourth yogurt trial so far…if you’ve read any of the others, you can skip right down to the “taste test” portion. If not,I’ve reprinted my intro below: What’s the deal with little cups of yogurt? Just a few years ago,fermented-dairy eaters had a choice between Dannon and Columbo.Remember Columbo? I didn’t…I had…
Fwd: A Guide to U.S. Newspapers
I got this email from my sister in Wisconsin. I’d seen it a million times before, blah blah blah, but then…. This one came with a nice twist. 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run…
What’s Good in the ‘Hood
Burlington’s Old North End serves up everything from Americanos to pho tai
Sled Cats Vs. Montreal Dragons
Scene @ Cairns Recreation Arena, South Burlington, Sunday, March 30, 3:15 P.M.
Lessons of History
Art Review: Danilo Gonzalez & Christopher Griffin, new paintings. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park, Stowe.
Vignettes
The Vermont women’s chorus Bella Voce didn’t take a lot of time to rest on the laurels of last fall’s well-received CD, Now Let Us Sing! The latest project of the 40-voice group directed by Dawn Willis is an ambitious work entitled Lessons from the Sea, a cantata by Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker featuring texts…
Because You Can’t Spell Fundraiser Without F-U-N
Soundbites: The Starline Rhythm Boys, Ray Vega
How Do You Escape the Vermont Cold?
The Campus Question: Burlington College students respond
Is Vermont Really on the Job?
Apparently Jim Douglas’ old campaign slogan, “Jim = Jobs,” was only a little bit right
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for April 2-April 9, 2008. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here. ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the film Fight Club, the character played by Brad Pitt storms into a convenience store with a gun, then herds the clerk out back and threatens to execute him. While the poor man…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Tennessee resident William K. Anderson, 51, tried to apply for welfare benefits in Lee County, Va., but was arrested after arousing suspicion by arriving in a 2004 H2 Hummer with Michigan plates. “We thought it was unusual that a high-dollar vehicle with out-of-state tags would be at the department of social services,”…
Clinton Deathwatch
You knew it was coming. Slate Magazine parses the meaning of the latest news on the campaign trail and, today, determines that Hillary Clinton currently has a 9.7 percent chance of securing the Democratic nomination. Blogged with the Flock Browser
College Students Object to “Pornography”
A group of University of Utah students calling themselves “No More Porn” is complaining because students in an English class there were required to read Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home. The group has started a petition to protest the book. Bechdel, who lives in Bolton, mentioned it on her blog. This is not an…
April Fool’s Day Prank
Check it out — “Wood Lot” at Vermont Scrap Wood wrote an eerily observant April Fool’s Day post poking fun at the Vermont blogosphere, including me and 7D: I’ve been as confused as anyone with all the changes to the 7Dayswebsite and blogs recently but it all became clear in a pressconference this morning when…
More Random Acts of Poetry
Following up on Mike’s post about urban poetry — ever since I signed up for Twitter, I’ve been trying to think of some creative way to use it. One idea I had was posting a series of Twitter haikus. So this morning, as I was standing in front of the Champlain Mill waiting for the…
On Random Acts of Poetry
“Literary,” or just observant, or restless, people who reside in large cities (what’s the plural form of “metropolis”?) enjoy an unfair advantage over us Vermonters: They’re blessed with an abundance of casually strewn messages — etched by strangers on subway bathrooms, sidewalks, phone booths that don’t work — that allow them to read meaning and…
