Feb 2-8, 2011
Burlington Cracks Down on Cabs; Hand-rolled Cigars on the Big Day; Seven Days Daters Tell All
Early Childhood Education Gaining Attention at Statehouse
A state senator Monday spent more than an hour Monday working at a childcare center in Colchester as part of an effort to raise awareness about low wages earned by childcare providers. The legislature is scheduled to begin debate in the coming weeks on a bill allowing early educators to unionize. Supporters say the effort…
Pres. Obama’s Efficiency Plans Mirror Welch Legislation
In his effort to “win the future,” Pres. Barack Obama is proposing two new energy-efficiency programs that mirror legislation introduced in the last Congress by Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT, center in photo). Obama is currently touring the country in an effort to drum up popular support for investing in energy efficiency as a way to…
Maple Wedding Cookies
If you read my story this week about spending at day at Vermont Cake Studio, perhaps I’ve inspired you to reach for your mixing bowls and bust out your own layer-cake masterpiece. …Or not. If the thought of fooling around with fondant is just too much, you’re in luck. VCS owner and pastry chef Perrin…
Pronouncement Anxiety
Veteran officiants explain the ins and outs of uniting friends in marriage
Stoked About Stogies
A Vermont vendor puts a hand-rolled twist on classic wedding favors
Free Will Astrology
Here’s your weekly astrological forecast for February 2 – 8, 2011. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now and then, members of other astrological signs complain that I seem to favor you Aries above them. If that’s true, I’m certainly not aware of it. As far as I know, I…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When a woman reported that a man exposed himself to her and her children, police in Mesa, Ariz., knocked on the apartment door of upstairs neighbor Michael Polley, 55. He answered with his pants still around his ankles. Court records noted he became “immediately angry” at being interrupted and began cursing at…
The Seven Days Setup
Your favorite weekly paper plays Cupid to help two singles find love. Or not.
WTF: What’s with all the crows in Burlington?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Stepping Right Up
Art Review: “Under the Big Top,” “George Rouault: Cirque de L’Etoile Filante” and “Masked Spectacle”
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Side Dishes: Two Burlington eateries are in flux – and a third closes
Raising the Barn
Side Dishes: Mad River Valley Localvore Project donates to Pete’s Greens
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Vermont Pond Hockey Championships [210]
1/29/11: 28 teams from all over New England traveled to the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee this weekend to compete in the 2nd Annual Vermont Pond Hockey Championships. Last year’s winners the Trailer Park Boys do what they can to hang on to their title and win the coveted Golden Sap Bucket. Music: Cave Bees,…
Letters to the Editor
How Hsaio Oh frabjous day, callooh, callay. After months and years of bad news from every corner, on almost every subject, at last I have found an article that shows solutions to a big problem — how to fix the health care mess in our state [“For Health Care Reform, Dr. Hsiao Is the Man…
Why Don’t You Chill and Lose 20 Years?
Seven Days music editor, Dan Bolles, has a message for people who chat during live music concerts. And I respectfully quote: “Shut. The. Fuck. Up.” But no one has ever likely told Bolles to “chill and lose 20 years” at a show — as a fellow audience member suggested I do at Neko Case on…
Got Al Jazeera?
As the world continues to be glued to the unfolding revolution in Egypt, cable TV viewers in the United States are receiving a decidedly Western view of the ongoing protests and unrest. That is, unless you’re a Burlington Telecom subscriber. If you are one of the few thousand BT subscribers you can watch Al Jazeera…
Avec Crêpe Day
We Americans know February 2 as Groundhog Day. Apparently, that’s because we are heathens. Good Catholics are more familiar with the 2nd as Candlemas, or Virgin Mary’s Blessing Day. The French celebrate it with crêpes, hence the name of this post and the colloquial name for the holiday. In fact, the festival has spawned an…
Evil … or Mentally Ill?
We received an essay from Burlington playwright James Lantz that we didn’t have room for in the paper. But I thought the subject matter deserved publication, so decided to share it on Blurt. Jim writes in response to the shootings in Tucson and Virginia Tech — and way too many other places — from a…
