Feb 22-28, 2012
A Surprising New Photography Exhibit Pictures Iran — From the Inside; NEK Towns Weigh the Superfund Options; Female Workouts Three Ways; Corin Hirsch Stops at Crop
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Weinberger Shatters Burlington Mayoral Fundraising Record [Updated]
This post has been updated to add charts. There’s still a week to go in the Burlington mayoral race, and Democrat Miro Weinberger has already shattered previous fundraising records. Since the start of the campaign last September, Weinberger has raised more than $118,000 and spent just shy of $100,000. That blows away the previous fundraising…
Movies You Missed 27: Blank City
This week in movies you missed: Take a trip back to lower Manhattan, late 1970s. Rents are cheap, rats are plentiful, hippie optimism is over, Talking Heads are playing CBGB, and a bunch of young arty types are experimenting with skinny jeans, pills and movie cameras. What You Missed If you think ultra-cheap DIY filmmaking…
In Health Care Vote, Wright Sides With Dems
As we reported earlier this week, Kurt Wright has styled his campaign for mayor of Burlington as a post-partisan affair, despite a reliably Republican record representing the New North End in Montpelier. Last night, Wright’s post-partisan cred was put to the test as the Vermont House voted almost entirely along party lines in a preliminary…
Burlington’s Decidedly Un-arty Mayoral Candidates Speechify About the Arts
The last time I sat in the audience at Burlington’s FlynnSpace, I was riveted by Jane Comfort’s wild and inventive dancers (including one in a Superman suit) as they brought Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie to life. This afternoon’s FlynnSpace offering was considerably less inspiring. Mayoral candidates Miro Weinberger, Wanda Hines and Kurt Wright gathered…
As Free Press Adopts Pay Wall, Vermont Media Landscape Shifts
In a move that’s sure to shift the media landscape in Vermont, the state’s largest daily newspaper, the Burlington Free Press, announced Thursday that it would start charging readers for online content later this year. The Free Press’ parent company, Gannett, announced at an investor meeting Wednesday that all 80 of its community newspapers —…
Dems Ask Attorney General to Investigate Campaign For Vermont for Violating Election Laws
The Vermont Democratic Party has filed a complaint with the attorney general’s office accusing the right-leaning adovcacy group Campaign For Vermont of violating campaign finance laws by running radio ads attacking Gov. Peter Shumlin. In a letter dated February 21, Democratic Party executive director Jesse Bragg asks Attorney General William Sorrell, a Democrat, to investigate the…
Dems Accuse Wright of “Borrowing” Campaign Plan… But From Whom?
The Vermont Democratic Party on Wednesday accused Republican mayoral candidate Kurt Wright of “borrowing language” in a recent campaign plan from the Washington state attorney general. In a press release, the party takes Wright to task for failing to offer Burlington voters specific proposals and says a 22-page government transparency plan the Wright campaign released…
American Original: More From This Week’s Q&A With Anaïs Mitchell
So many words, such tiny word counts. The interview with Anaïs Mitchell that appears in this week’s Seven Days (“American Original”) was but a snippet of a longer conversation we recently had with the local songwriter about her new record, Young Man in America. What follows is more from that chat, in which we cover reconnecting…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to identify all the things in your life that you really don’t need any more: gadgets that have become outdated, clothes that no longer feel like you, once-exciting music and books and artworks that no longer mean what they once did. Don’t stop there. Pinpoint the people who…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When police pulled over Walter Upshaw, 32, for failing to come to a complete stop before entering a roadway in Orlando, Fla., Upshaw apologized to Officer Shawn Overfield and explained, “My gun is digging in my hip.” Overfield found the loaded .380-caliber pistol, which Upshaw, as a convicted felon on probation, is…
Ryan Fauber, The Believer
(Jenke Recordings, digital download) With a title like The Believer, you’d think Ryan Fauber’s debut studio album would be a tad brighter. Instead we find raw, unpolished folk music. In his lisping, raspy voice, the Burlington-based songwriter sings about the darkest plights of struggling America. The album pays homage to traditional American song forms through…
Letters to the Editor
Who Controls the Internet? [Re “Monopoly Board,” February 15]: I’m not sure how this skipped past the attention of reporter Ken Picard and the copy editor, but the following line has a fairly startling inaccuracy: “The PSB is a quasi-judicial body of state government that regulates electric power, telephone and internet service, cable television, pipeline…
Wright for Progs? Brennan Backs Republican Mayoral Candidate
Without a candidate of their own to succeed outgoing Mayor Bob Kiss, Burlington Progressives have been mum about whom they might support in next month’s mayor’s race. But tomorrow, for the first time, a Progressive officeholder will formally endorse one of the candidates. And it might not be who you’d expect. Progressive City Councilor Vince…
James Beard Foundation Recognizes Pistou & Hen of the Wood
The nominations are in and as usual, the James Beard Foundation has named some Vermonters among the semifinalists for its restaurant and chef awards. For his fourth consecutive year, Eric Warnstedt, chef-owner of Hen of the Wood in Waterbury has made the short list for Best Chef Northeast. Could this be the year he finally…
Crumbs
Leftover food news: Cosmic Bakery serves dinner; Don Pedro’s bottles sauce; accolades for VT brews
