Seven Days Sues Dean
As expected, last fall’s battle over Gov. Howard Dean’s daily schedule is going to court. Last week a lawyer representing the Rutland Herald/Times Argus filed a complaint in Washington County Superior Court challenging the governor’s refusal to release copies of what the papers argue is a public document. This week, Seven Days has joined the…
Brazil or Chill
“Could you come pick up Natalie at the restaurant?” a familiar voice spoke to me on the cellular. I’m still not sure who makes this regular call — the kitchen manager, I suppose. “Sure,” I replied. “I should be there in about 10. Little early tonight, isn’t it?” “Yeah, it’s a slow weeknight, so we…
Back Talk
GETTING THE HANG OF IT Burlington’s Exquisite Corpse Artsite died slowly, and elegantly, at Jager DiPaola Kemp Design in July 1999. Employee Rachel Comey curated shows in the lower Maple Street space for three and a half years before the higher-ups pulled the plug. The costs of running a public gallery in a private business…
Watts Up: In February, the light’s fantastique in Montreal
Sad, isn’t it, to put away the Christmas lights? They were a welcome respite from the darkness that descended so early last year, on September 11. Our lights went into storage a couple of days after New Year’s Eve, and I truly miss them. It had been my habit since mid-December to plug in the…
Flick Chick
Nora Jacobson never seems to rest. While most of us were frittering away the holidays on festive pursuits, the Norwich filmmaker was laboring at her craft. She began shooting Out of Her Mind on November 13 in New Hampshire and Vermont, with some scenes at the Statehouse slated to give genuine legislators a chance to…
A Reel Revolution: Vermont’s John Fusco Resurrects Ethan Allen on Film
It was May 1775 when Judah Moffat helped capture Fort Ticonderoga from the Redcoats. More than two centuries later, he’ll be portrayed by one of his descendants in a movie reenactment of that crucial Revolutionary War battle. Now only three years older than his ancestor was then, 41-year-old John Fusco also wrote the screenplay for…
Wicker’s Word: A former Times man and presidential observer weighs in on world—and Vermont—events
The mother of modern dance didn’t much like the art form. Not the dance of the time, anyway, which was the late 1800s and early 1900s. As Isadora Duncan was giving birth to the concept of new movement, dance barely existed outside of music halls in the United States. There was classical ballet in Russia…
On the Record: DJ Craig Mitchell is behind Burlington’s newest record store… and a hit dance song by Yoko Ono
It’s been more than a decade since electronic beats filled the dancehalls of London and Berlin, revolutionizing the dance-music culture of Europe and elevating the deejay to the same holy status usually reserved for rock gods. For the first time since the saccharine days of late-’70s disco, people flocked to dance clubs, each boasting his…
