Feb 27 – Mar 4, 2008
Who’s Bottling Vermont’s Water – and at What Price?; Vermont’s ANR Shuts Out Seven Days; Homeless Vermonter Pens Book; Beer & Food Unite
The Apeman
Driving crazy hours in the taxicab, I listen to a lot of radio. Endlessly. Sports, music, talk – everything. Here’s two Tarzan stories I recently heard on the radio. Grandma in the Trees. Mia Farrow is one of my favorite actresses and human beings. Well, I don’t actually know her personally, but I’ve heard her…
Slip Sliding Away
How awesome is Patchen Road? True, the South Burlington constables ticket speeders all day long along this stretch of road. (To paraphrase Nancy Reagan: just slow down.) Never mind the speed traps – Patchen Road is the mother of all shortcuts. It will take you from Gracey’s Corner on Williston Road, over the Interstate, onto…
Snacking on Boing Boing
Scary how time flies…here’s a fresh installment of weird and exotic food stuff from Boing Boing. Arts: One trend this time around is unusual art. For example, sculptures by Jodie Carey made partially of royal icing. What’s so weird about that? Carey uses delicate flowers made of the stuff to decorate images of human bones.…
This Week’s Farm Share: 2/28/08
Usually my Pete’s Greens farm share arrives every Wednesday, but this week, due to a snowstorm, it came on Thursday. I swung by the pick-up point on my way to meet friends for a birthday party at American Flatbread. Here’s what we got: A very pretty, unusually shaped loaf of Elmore Mountain Bread with blue…
Chocolate and Scallops? Yeah Baby!
Didn’t have the romantic, Valentine’s Day dinner of your dreams? You can make up for it on March 5. On that evening, Chef Aaron Millon of Montpelier’s Restaurant Phoebe is teaming up withNutty Steph — the famous granola maker who recently added a chocolate factory to her business — to present a 7-course chocolate pairing…
Contest Winning Poems from Mary’s Restaurant’s at the Inn at Baldwin Creek
Each year, Mary’s Restaurant at the Inn at Baldwin Creek runs a romantic poetry contest leading up to Valentine’s Day. Poems may be of any style or meter, but must be composed at the restaurant — no crib sheets allowed. Owner Linda Harmon says that they typically receive nearly 200 entries. Whew! Usually Author Chris…
The Journalist and the “Mouthpiece”
Why is Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources stonewalling Seven Days?
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Lakeview Terrace at Mardi Gras [SIV68]
2/23/08: Lakeview Terrace is the only neighborhood float to participate in Magic Hat’s annual Mardi Gras parade. So what makes them so special? Odele Peter and her rabbit Betty have been master minding the float for years and fashion designer Allison Bannister is a more recent addition to the hood. Together Thing 1 and Thing…
Radio Bean Roulette
In Memory of Pluto and The Villanelles @ Radio Bean, Saturday, February 23.
Dogged Pursuits
A homeless Vermonter pens an autobiography to fund a Buddhist temple in Asia
Thinking of Moonie
One would think that after 11 years I’d have the column writing down pat. But I don’t. What follows is a recently composed would-be story. I realized, after the fact, that it didn’t pass muster as a “Hackie” column. Not that it wasn’t good enough, but it fell outside of the “Hackie” brand that I…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Two men walked into a bank in Slidell, La., with a note demanding money. When the teller handed one of them money, the other exclaimed, “Hey, don’t take that woman’s money!” According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the companion, identified as Harry G. Wilson, 42, then tackled the robber and knocked the…
Scene@ Green Mountain Roller Derby Dames
Gosse Court Armory, Burlington, Sunday, February 24, 6 p.m.
Pictures of Us
Art Review: We Are Vermont: Contemporary Portraits in Photography,” works by Vermonter photographers. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Through March 22.
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): What’s the opposite of a freak out? Let’s call it a freak in. I suspect you’re about to enter into this state. That means you will have at your disposal all the intensity of a hysterical fit, but you’ll be able to express it artfully as you accomplish acts of amazing…
Vermont Playwright Blends Fact and Fiction in New Work
State of the Arts: Maura Campbell, Clarke Jordan, Colin Cramer
