Dec 29, 2010 – Jan 4, 2011
New Year’s Fitness Resolutions; Local Arts Organizations Look to the Future; Taking Note of Vermont’s Visual Arts
Corporations Line Up to Fund Shumlin Inaugural
During the 2010 election, the future of Vermont Yankee, health care reform and expanding broadband were hot debate topics. Now, it’s 2011 and judging by the list of top corporate donors to Governor-Elect Peter Shumlin’s inaugural ball, those are still issues very much on the minds of regulated companies. To wit, the state’s two largest…
Good Riddance, 2010
Ed. Note: During the last week of the year, we asked our writers to reflect on the highs and lows of 2010. While 2010 might have been a good year for Taylor Swift, rich people and the Internet, it has not been great for me. This is largely due to the fact that not only…
My Favorite Email Newsletter of 2010
Ed. Note: During the last week of the year, we asked our writers to reflect on the highs and lows of 2010. Before I explain my pick for best email newsletter of 2010, I have to offer a disclaimer. When Seven Days publisher Paula Routly tasked me with managing our first email newsletter in January,…
Calendar Countdown
Ed. Note: During the last week of the year, we asked our writers to reflect on the highs and lows of 2010. Not too long ago, in mid-November, I was reading “‘Stuck’ at 200,” Cathy Resmer’s interview with Seven Days multimedia producer Eva Sollberger. I felt a jolt of recognition when I got to this…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed,” said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011, Aries. From what I can tell, it will be relatively easy for you to rearrange the way things look, but trickier to transform them from the inside out.…
Out of Sight
Art Review: Cameron Schmitz, WalkOver Gallery and Mary’s Restaurant at the Inn at Baldwin Creek
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Jonathan Harris [206]
12/16/10: Internationally known artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris spends a cold winter day with Eva exploring Shelburne Farms, visiting with owls, sheep and a llama named Freckles while imagining the future of storytelling and the internet Music: The Cush, Between the Leaves, “The Deer and the Owl” Ryan Power, It Is Happening, “Mind…
What Ever Happened To … ?
Seven Days writers follow up on some of the stories they covered in 2010
How Vermont Police Train for High Speed Chases
Today’s issue of Seven Days is full of year-end updates to stories we published during 2010. Unfortunately, a story we published back in August — about how Vermont police train for high speed chases — is relevant once again. On Sunday, Burlington resident Kaye Borneman, 43, was killed in a car crash not far from…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Shortly after receiving a call about a robbery, Ottawa police said they got a second call reporting a stabbing. Responding officers found a man in his twenties outside a store that they suspect he robbed before tripping on his way out and stabbing himself with the knife used in the robbery. (CBC…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed,” said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011, Aries. From what I can tell, it will be relatively easy for you to rearrange the way things look, but trickier to transform them from the inside out.…
2010: Putting the ‘Tic’ in Politics
Ed. Note: During the last week of the year, we asked our writers to reflect on the highs and lows of 2010. My 2010 political season didn’t revolve entirely around the gubernatorial race — not when Burlington City Hall and the three-member Congressional delegation are part of my beat. Here are some of my most…
Letters to the Editor
Banging It Out Pop quiz. Name the “auxiliary” percussion instrument: A) mbira; B) tabla drum; C) shaker egg; D) steel drum. If you guessed “shaker egg,” you are correct. If you guessed “steel drum,” then your name just might be Dan Bolles [Review This: Camomilla, Anomali, December 1]. Referring to the steel drum as an…
Alice Levitt’s Best New Restaurant Dishes of 2010
Ed. Note: During the last week of the year, we asked our writers to reflect on the highs and lows of 2010. It’s tough to start a new restaurant. It’s even tougher to impress a jaded diner like me right out of the gate. Every year, I like to honor those eateries that, in their…
2010’s Best Google Alert for “Burlington:” Odor-free Puppies
Ed. Note: During the last week of the year, we asked our writers to reflect on the highs and lows of 2010. As much as I’d like readers to assume that we Seven Days staffers are continually poring through national newspapers, magazines, blogs, Tweets and other databases in search of the most compelling and hard-to-find…
