Apr 22-28, 2009
Will Vermont’s Same-Sex Marriage Law Precipitate a Wedding Windfall?; Vermont Bankruptcy Filings Up More Than 100 Percent; Two Prescriptions for Health-Care Reform
Swine Flu News
No, I don’t have any original reporting to offer. Just wanted to share a tip — if you’re looking for the latest breaking news on the flu, check twitter.com. Twitter users are aggregating info on the outbreak using the hashtag #swineflu. Tons of activity there tonight. Not surprisingly, it’s one of the top trending topics…
Review: “This American Life, Live! “
On Thursday, I attended a screening of “This American Life, Live!” at the Palace 9 in South Burlington. The theater was packed full of young and old alike — veteran public radio listeners and the hipsters who are in love with Ira Glass: together they make the tote bag crowd. And the show did not…
More Than a Shed
Art auctions are nearly epidemic these days, but here’s a unique twist: Norwich University’s Design Build Program, led by prof/architect Danny Sagan, constructed a T-Box–that’s short for Thoreau Box–this semester and is now auctioning it off. Trust me, you want this. But only some of you can afford it. The starting bid, on April 20,…
Fun with Ira Glass Glasses
Sadly, I did not get to attend last night’s “This American Life, Live!” show at the Palace 9. Look what I missed! Fun with Ira Glass glasses. Click here to make your own IG glasses. Kara, our intern, did go to the show, and said it was great. I think she’s planning a blog post…
Breaking News: NECI Closing Essex Campus
For a while, there have been rumors and discussions about how NECI has been doing financially. On April 23, the Times-Argus addressed some of those whispers with an article entitled “Changes in the Works at NECI.” According to two anonymous sources connected with the culinary school, students and faculty learned yesterday that NECI plans to…
Students Stand Up…on Twitter
So, I probably don’t need to tell you about the ongoing protests by students and faculty at UVM over budget cuts for next year and the lay-offs of 109 faculty and staff. It’s been really captivating to watch the situation unfold (and makes me glad that the biggest controversy at St. Mike’s revolves around student…
Attention, Public Radio Nerds
Tonight at the Palace 9 in South Burlington there is a special nationwide broadcast of This American Life Live! For those in the know, This American Life is a radio program (they also have a television program on Showtime) on Sunday nights where host Ira Glass and other writers, reporters and producers explore aspects of,…
April 25 “Invisible Children” Rally at Battery Park
More than 100 people have signed up for an “invisible children” rally on Saturday, April 25, at Burlington’s Battery Park. That’s the word from Brittany Gendron, a Middlebury College freshman who is co-organizing the event. Titled “The Rescue,” the event will be one of 100 mock rallies happening around the world, according to a press…
Wood Works
Art Review: Harriet Wood, “In the Moment: Now and Then,” a retrospective exhibit of paintings. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury. Through April.
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for April 22 – 29, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): Astrology and Tarot cards are my favorite divinatory tools, but I also get a lot of use out of magnetic poetry kits. These are boxes full of evocative words and symbols in the…
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SBNN [SIV125]
4/17/09: Every Friday, a group of 6th-8th graders air a news broadcast called SBNN, the South Burlington Network News, for the student body at Tuttle Middle School. They recently won two spots in a national C-SPAN StudentCam video contest for their work. In the ever changing media landscape, are these tech saavy students our future?…
Letters to the Editor
MORAN MITIGATION Thanks to Kevin J. Kelley for his story on arsenic in the soil at the Moran Plant — overall a good analysis of the extent and source of contamination there [“Arsenic and an Old Place: Burlington’s Moran Plant Turns Up Toxic,” April 8]. However, my quote regarding arsenic and Community Sailing Center (CSC)…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When Derek Shaun Clark, 26, kicked in the back door of a home in Evansville, Ind., entered with a drawn handgun and announced he was the police, homeowner Derrick Murray was skeptical because Clark and his accomplices “were talking in street slang.” Murray told WFIE-TV he ran and got his rifle from…
Pillow Fight Update
Pillow fight organizer Darin Cassler is officially off the hook. The Burlington Police Department does not plan to press disorderly conduct charges against Cassler, the 21-year-old who Facebook-organized last Friday’s Church Street pillow fight. That’s according to a department press release sent a few minutes ago. Department chief Michael Schirling confirms in a phone interview…
Tuesday Link Dump: All Video Edition
Without further ado… From Rock Cookie Bottom, who sang of our collective love for Paul Krugman, comes this new song where he sings torture memos. (H/T DTWOF) In today’s moment of “I Can’t Believe the 90s Were Almost 20 Years Ago,” Burlington Music Journal shares this video of Billy Corgan continuing to shred any affection…
Free Cone Day 2009!!!!
Chocolate Macadamia, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Berried Treasure — try ’em for free today at any Ben & Jerry’s scoop shot, because today is FREE CONE DAY, from noon to 8 p.m. Sometimes they’ll give you more than one if you get back in line. You can also visit multiple locations. Click here to find the…
