Dec 26, 2007 – Jan 1, 2008
A Guide to First Night; State Cracks Down on Chinese Restaurant Owners; What is a Mental Timeline?; Preserving the Past With Digital Archiving; A Vermont Food Fantasy Roundup
Second Childhood
When I went out to drive last Saturday night, I discovered a fat pen on the backseat, left by a previous night’s customer. I had no idea why it was so chubby, so I began to fiddle with it. Towards the top was a little button. Ah-ha. When I pushed it a sharp, tiny red…
Counting the Hours
What does your mental timeline look like, and where did it come from?
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their fifth album Blood Sugar Sex Magick in 1991, it blasted them into rock stardom. They stopped performing at intimate nightclubs and appeared exclusively at large arenas. They won a Grammy, had a hit song at the top of the charts, and sold millions…
All Is Calm, All Is Bright
Art Review: “Shifting Fancies and Celestial Lights,” a group show of 15 artists, featuring the paintings of Tracy Vartenigian Burhans. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne. Through January.
Top 10 Vermont Recordings of 2007
For better or worse, Burlington has long been known as a “rock town.” Specifically, a jam-rock town. But 2007 saw a remarkable phenomenon blossom in the Queen City and beyond, as a flood of local releases running the genre gamut were unleashed on our eager ears. Anaïs Mitchell, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and Page…
News Quirks
Bad News, Good News, Bad News After British doctors told John Brandrick, 62, he had pancreatic cancer and would probably die within a year, he quit his job, sold or gave away everything he owned, stopped paying his mortgage and went on a spending spree. Two years later, completely broke, he learned that the suspected…
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Goodbye 2007 [SIV59]
12/24/07: Eva says goodbye to 2007 and looks back at one full year and 59 episodes of Stuck in Vermont. What is next? Music: The Smittens, “I Hate Vermont” Gentlefication Now! The Jazz Guys, “Jungle Jackson,” So Moped Puree Colin Clary, “Me Loves You,” “The Year of Having Fun,” Apocalypse Yow! For more Stuck in…
Bumpy-Boo!
Still feeling quite reminiscy. This is a seasonal affliction I come down with annually. So here’s a posting in that spirit. Back in the ’80s, I regularly worked the airport. Things were far less organized back then. The taxi regulations were sketchy and the enforcement, such as it was, was spotty. It was like the…
