Apr 30 – May 6, 2008
In the World of Fair Housing, “Discrimination” is in the Eye of the Beholder; New Political Column “Fair Game” Takes Aim; Finding the Biggest Losers in Vermont; “Hog” Wild Women
Don’t Mess With the Model Horse Hobbyists!
Freelance writer Alice Levitt went to the “Everything Equine” horse show last weekend and wrote about it for our column, Scene@, that appears in the Calendar section of the newspaper. Scene@ is a short little feature — 350 words or less. It’s basically a first-person “being there” piece, so it has more “attitude” than a…
A Little More Yakking
One thing I didn’t mention in my article about the Vermont Yak Company this week was that Rob and Kate Williams, two of the yak farm’s owners, invited me and my husband to their house in Waitsfield for a multi-course yak dinner…and man does it taste good. First we snacked on slabs of yak summer…
It’s Not What You Think…
It’s a cake! My sister Monica made it. Here’s the recipe. I’m the resident Crazy Cat Lady here at Seven Days (I have six… but I don’t wear kitty sweatshirts and crap… yet…), so I think I need to bring one of these in to gross everybody out. Here’s a photo of a pretty cake…
Very Short List
Every now and then the title of the daily e-mail from Very Short List urges me to not hit delete. Today’s culture du jour is about a project on Library Thing called “I See Dead People’s Books,” a growing list of the books found in the libraries of famous dead folks. There’s something appealing about…
Popcorn Peril
Throughout the winter months, my CSA share occasionally provided popcorn on the ear with instructions about how to prepare the snack in a microwave. It seemed easy enough: put the ear in a paper bag, tape the bag shut, nuke it. Not having a microwave at home I ended up with a bunch of ears,…
Al’s Last Trip
Could we ever know — is it even worth contemplating — what impact the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, who died yesterday at 102, had on human affairs? On April 16, 1943, in his lab at Sandoz Corp. in Basel, Hoffman absorbed a small amount of LSD-25, a substance he had isolated in 1938 while researching…
(VT) Yankee Doodle Doldrums
Earlier this month, Christian Parenti, a contributing editor at The Nation, gave a lecture at the University of Vermont. I think the talk was ostensibly about climate change, but who knows? Parenti spent most of the time talking about other stuff, and I couldn’t follow his thesis. In a May 12 Nation cover story (that…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Christopher Allen Koch, 28, pulled into a bank parking lot in Liberty, Pa., and, according to police, waited in his car for about 20 minutes before heading for the bank entrance wielding a shotgun and wearing an orange ski mask. The door was locked, however, because the bank had closed a minute…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for April 30-May 7, 2008. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here…. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your power symbol for the week is an ant carrying a potato chip. It means you’ll possess so much strength that you’ll be able to hold aloft burdens that are much bigger than you.…
Everything Equine and Horse 2008
Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, Saturday-Sunday, April 26-27, 8:30 A.M. – 6 P.M
Losing It
Fat in Franklin County? Vermonters start their own version of “The Biggest Loser”
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King Lear [SIV77]
4/19/08: So you think Shakespeare is boring, eh? Vermont Stage Company’s new production of King Lear will quickly dispel that notion as it explodes onto the FlynnSpace stage. Fights, betrayal, backstabbing, bloodshed, love, sex, madness – King Lear is a complex family drama set in an nondescript time period. Vermont composer and percussionist, Brian Johnson…
Larger Than Life
Art Review: “Fragmented Figure,” prints by Chepe Cuadra. SEABA Gallery, Burlington.
Before he leaves, they let the intern speak
It’s my last day as an intern and someone suggested I might have a bit to say here. This didn’t happen until after being given a thank you gift so I think that makes it a bribe, but fortunately I’m not above such things. I’ve only been here for one semester and in ways it…
Suckered By Marketing
Since I’ve been so busy recently I’ve been buying a lot of food from the Cheese Outlet/Fresh Market on Pine Street. I’m usually a pretty good little localvore, but the other day I noticed a bag of Tyrrells Lightly Sea Salted Potato Chips from Herefordshire, England. They came from far away, but I saw all…
Vermont: The “Social Capital Capital”?
Last weekend, while I watched soldiers parade through downtown St. Albans during the annual Vermont Maple Festival, I experienced a mushy moment. Militaristic fanfare aside, I thought, this is a really nice, wholesome, inspiring community event. I had just eaten a corn dog and a maple-glazed donut, watched Jim Douglas and Anthony Pollina shimmy down…
