Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2010
The Media Issue: A Master’s Degree on Video Game Design? A Burlington Journalists Talks About Climate Change Solutions; Jeffersonville Food Scene Rocks
The Twitter Cover
On January 27, 2010, Seven Days published a cover that parodied Twitter for its Vermont Media Issue. Not everyone got the joke, so we decided to shoot a video and explain ourselves. Did you miss the issue? Click here to download a .pdf of the cover…
Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates Woo Labor Leaders
At an all-day forum Sunday, candidates from across the political spectrum made their case before about 50 labor leaders from across Vermont at the annual AFL-CIO legislative forum. While most candidates had 15 minutes to give their best labor-oriented stump speech, the five Democratic candidates were given an hour to answer five questions. All five…
VT Yankee: Closing in on Source of Tritium Leak?
Vermont Yankee continues to focus on a key underground pipe that carries steam away from the nuclear power plant’s turbines to its main reactor stacks as a possible source of a tritium leak. However, Vermont’s top radiological health officer, Bill Irwin, told Seven Days that it is too soon to determine if this was the…
J.D. Takes His Leave
Editor’s Note: This post comes from Jernigan Pontiac, author of Seven Days’ regular “Hackie” column. — Margot Harrison I read the news today, oh boy. Quite unexpectedly, the report of J.D. Salinger’s death hit me emotionally. I mean, the guy hasn’t published a word since the mid-’60’s, and he spent the last 50 years of his…
Montpelier Send-Up for Artist Flo McGarrell
On Saturday, January 30, the good folks at Black Sheep Books radical bookstore in Montpelier will be hosting a memorial for Flo McGarrell, the Newbury, Vt., artist who was killed in the earthquake in Haiti. The memorial is one of many for the prolific and multidimensional artist. Already, art communities in Baltimore, New York and…
How Will You Watch the Olympics?
According to a recent Zogby poll, only 29 percent of Americans in the 18-29-year-old demographic still prefer to watch TV live. The rest would rather use a DVR or watch on a DVD or website. Two-thirds of them watched some TV online in the past year. This raises a question: What about the big events…
Gov. Douglas Calls for ‘Time Out’ on Vermont Yankee
Less than week after urging lawmakers to take a vote this session and allow utility regulators to decide Vermont Yankee’s future, Gov. Jim Douglas said Wednesday afternoon he is pulling back his full-throttled support for the embattled power plant. The reason? On its face, it’s because Douglas says Entergy has violated the confidence and trust…
Entergy Tells Miffed Regulators: “This Company Gets It”
The state’s top utility regulators — the three-member Vermont Public Service Board — took the unusual step today at a hearing of expressing strong displeasure with Entergy for providing incomplete information and misstatements to the board, the state, the legislature and the public. “I know Entergy has heard this already, but they should hear it…
Artist Provocateur
Art Review: Wafaa Bilal, “Agent Intellect,” Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through April 4.
The 20/20 Challenge: Pico Mountain (Week #7)
One Snowboarder’s Quest to Hit 20 Vermont Resorts in 20 Weeks
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Massachusetts State Police who stopped Francis Viliar, 36, for speeding said he showed troopers a driver’s license that had the name Luis Gomez but a different signature. When they asked him his birth date, he failed six times to match the one on the license, prompting his arrest. At the Brockton police…
Letters to the Editor
Senator Speaks Up I am writing to thank Senator [Peter] Shumlin and his efforts regarding the use of ATVs on state land [“Fair Game,” January 13]. It took great courage to stand before that group and express his feelings that ATVs do not currently belong on state land, and they need to prove that they…
We’ve Got News For You
How Vermont journalists, activists and entrepreneurs are reinventing “the media”
Brothers in Ink
While others elegize print journalism, Emerson and Angelo Lynn are hot on the presses
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for January 27 – February 3, 2010. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): Shakespeare got modest respect while he was alive, but his reputation as a brilliant bard didn’t gel right away. It wasn’t until almost 50 years after he died that anyone thought his…
Just Tweet It
For many local food businesses, the latest word in marketing is 140 characters long
Himalayan Market Takes a Trek
Side Dishes: Store moves to another Old North End location
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Winter Heat Dance Competition [SIV161]
1/23/10: Dance Teams from across the state of Vermont traveled to South Burlington High School Saturday for the 6th Annual Winter Heat Dance Competition. They competed in Jazz, Hip Hop and Pom but make no mistake, these are dancers, not cheerleaders. Check out the 2010 Dance Team State Championship, Saturday, February 13th, 1pm at Rice…
A Notch Above
Stowe may still get the glory, but creative chefs are heating up the Jeffersonville food scene
Vermont Schools Other States on FairPoint Sale
State and federal lawmakers are using their experience of Verizon’s sale of its landline operations to FairPoint as a way to slow, or deter, sales in other parts of the country. Late last week, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) and 21 members of Congress introduced legislation to close a loophole that allowed Verizon to avoid…
Best Bites: The Palms Restaurant
36 Strongs Avenue, Rutland 773-2367 Where was the first pizza served in Vermont? How about the state’s first television in a public place? The answer to both is The Palms Restaurant. The eatery opened in 1933, when cobbler Giuseppe Sabatoso’s lunches proved so appealing that customers demanded he switch from shoes to steaks. His son Primo…
