Aug 20-26, 2008
Political Reporters Love Middleburg College Professor Eric Davis; A Cheerleading Coach; Gets Ready for School; Remembering Vermont Communes
Dem. Convention: Rednecks for Obama
Ed. note: Seven Days writer Kevin J. Kelley will be blogging this week from the Democratic National Convention in Denver.Here’s another photo from Kevin.
Dem. Convention: Photos
Ed. note: Seven Days writer Kevin J. Kelley will be blogging this week from the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Kevin just sent these photos, with the following captions: The orange-suited demonstrators represented Guantanamo prisoners at a march along Denver’s pedestrian mall this afternoon. (Monday). Chant: “No torture, no war, that’s what we’re fighting for!”…
War Photographs, Then and Now
Earlier this month, I traveled to Danville, a beautiful town located on Route 2 between Montpelier and St. Johnsbury, to report a story about Howard Coffin, an ex-Rutland Herald reporter (and former Senator Jim Jeffords press secretary) who is traveling to every town in the state in search of Vermont Civil War lore. So when…
Dem. Convention: Recreate 68 on Fox News
Ed. note: Seven Days writer Kevin J. Kelley will be blogging this week from the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Here’s a video of yesterday’s “peaceful” Recreate 68 march Kevin wrote about earlier. Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins waded into the march asking protesters to explain their motives. It looked to me like he just…
Goss Dodge Mopar Muscle Car Event
Christine and I checked out the Goss Dodge Mopar Muscle Car event this past Saturday August 23rd in South Burlington. They had about 15 classic cars and a bunch of the newly built Challengers and Chargers that merge a retro look with modern engineering. I was especially interested in the Challenger which is new for…
What’s Good Articles
If you’ve seen the print magazine companion to this blog, you know that there some interesting and useful articles that you might want to check out while you’re online. Throughout the year we’ll add more cool college-related articles to the list, so check back often! From the magazine: Published in Seven Days:
Dem. Convention: Recreate 68?
Ed. note: Seven Days writer Kevin J. Kelley will be blogging this week from the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Recreate 68 — that’s what the protest coalition here at the Denver Dem convention calls itself. It’s a reference to that nasty 1968 bustup in Chicago, which I attended in a non-journalist and certainly non-blogger…
Obama-Biden
Woke up this morning to a text message on my cell phone: “Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee.” At 3:26 a.m. Glad I had the phone on vibrate. Stay tuned this week — Kevin J. Kelley will be blogging the convention here on Blurt.
State, Vermont Compost Co. Reach Truce
A deal was struck late yesterday between the Vermont Natural Resources Board and Vermont Compost Company that will keep the Montpelier composter in business through 2010 without having to get an Act 250 permit. The agreement now needs to be approved by the Environmental Court. The two parties just made the announcement … Here’s the…
McCardell Still Trying to Lower the Drinking Age
Former Middlebury College president John McCardell has spent the last couple years working to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. His campaign has been getting a ton of media coverage lately. I heard him on NPR the other day, and the Google News search I just did turned up a bunch of stories…
Alice Levitt’s 100
Hi there, Omnivore gourmets and gourmands (Yes, there is a difference, look it up). For those who don’t know me yet, I am Seven Days’ food intern. Think of me as Suzanne Jr. You may remember me from such stories as Exquisite Corpse, detailing my week as a butcher, and Cart Course, in which I…
Essex Junction’s Political Animal
Must-read Washington Monthly blogger Kevin Drum announced yesterday that he’s leaving his Political Animal blog on Friday, to be replaced by… Steve Benen of Essex Junction. Steve has been blogging at The Carpetbagger Report for the past five-and-a-half years, and he’s built up quite a reputation. He’s parlayed his personal blog into writing gigs with…
Hippie Havens
It was 40 years ago today…the “forever young” generation reflects on life in Vermont’s first communes
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When a man wearing a wig and sunglasses tried to rob a pizza shop in Denton, Texas, employee Stephanie Martinez emptied the register, but co-worker Rudy Sandoval attacked the intruder, knocking off his disguise. “I dropped the money,” Martinez told the Denton Record-Chronicle. “I said, ‘Don’t hit him again! That’s my dad!'”…
Star Light, Star Bright
Soundbites: Starline Rhythm Boys, Jesus Vanacho, Nick Cassarino, Bryan Kapschull (1978-2008)
Fleeting Images
Art Review: David Johansen, photographs. Grannis Gallery, Burlington. Through August.
Be Still, My Beating Heart
Death-defying Vermont songwriter Aaron Flinn delivers yet another solid album
The Omnivore’s Hundred
This delightful meme is the brainchild of Andrew Wheeler, who is co-author of a blog called Very Good Taste. Andrew made a list of 100 foods every omnivore should try, from the utterly mundane (s’mores) to the absolutely weird (roadkill). Here are the rules: 1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these…
“Top Chef of the Champlain Valley,” revealed!
It sounds like a nightmare: You’re seated at a raised table in front of an audience a couple hundred people strong, and they’re all watching you eat. And then, as you raise a forkful of risotto to your mouth, a big glob falls off your fork. But it wasn’t a dream. It happened yesterday evening…
Free Press or Logic?
Speaking of the Burlington Free Press, what gives? The Gannett-owned Burlington paper just raised its daily, non-Sunday sticker price from 50 to 75 cents. According to NYC-based Media Post Publications, the Freeps’ recent price hike is not unusual, but emblematic of a nationwide trend. Newspaper analyst Ken Doctor, according to Media Post, says bigwigs like…
So Long, Shamy
A recent announcement of layoffs at the Burlington Free Press reminds me of Then We Came to the End, a fascinating new novel about, among other things, workplace paranoia in a time of mass layoffs. I just finished the book, so it’s on my mind. A first effort by Brooklyn-based Joshua Ferris, the novel almost…
Six Cut at the Free Press
The Times Argus reports this morning on the Free Press layoffs: “The layoffs are a result of economic trends that are impactingadvertising revenues. Unfortunately, we anticipate these trends tocontinue through 2008,” the newspaper said in a prepared statementissued by Executive Editor Mike Townshend. “Currently there are213 employees at the Burlington Free Press. Although the six…
