Sit-Down Comics: More over, Superman: A new brand of “graphic novel” gets the girls
A woman’s monthly “period” starts and she can’t find a tampon! Before long, her human body shape-shifts into a Godzilla-like creature that terrorizes the city. Blood surges through the streets, until she reaches a pharmacy with a supply of the secretion-absorbing plugs. Her PMS-induced nightmare is over. This scenario — which every female past puberty…
Funny Business: Pow! A wannabe comic-book writer rolls with the punches
Comic books were not on Jan-Ives Campbell’s mind when a tired driver ran a stoplight and — BANG! — broadsided his car on a highway in his hometown of Nashua, New Hampshire. His car was totaled that day five years ago, and Campbell was knocked into a coma that lasted a week. It wasn’t exactly…
Drugged Out
Imagine my surprise when I opened my copy of Newsweek the other day and saw that Prozac, “America’s favorite antidepressant” and boon to boomers everywhere, “may have no meaningful pharmacological effect at all.” Indeed, Prozac and its chemically similar relatives on the prescription drug market may be “little better than sugar pills” in relieving depression.…
Pulling the Switch
Vermonters got a glimpse into the political future last week when the U.S. Senate voted 60-39 in favor of shipping the nation’s nuclear waste to Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. While the en- dorsement wasn’t unexpected news here in Vermont, the votes of our two U.S. senators certainly were. Independent James Jeffords, a man who staunchly favors…
Flick Chick
In cinematic terms, Loranne Turgeon’s fade-out is scheduled for the beginning of September, but the lead has already been cast in the sequel to her term as executive director of the Vermont Film Commission: Out of 135 people auditioning for the role, Danis Regal was selected. And, luckily for the state’s future as a movie…
Gone With the Wind: is Vermont blowing its chance to support alternative energy?
Vermont was once a global pioneer in the development of wind power. Today it’s failing to tap the enormous potential of this leading renewable-energy resource. That’s the expert opinion of David Blittersdorf, a Charlotte resident and the head of NRG Systems, one of the world’s leading suppliers of wind-measurement devices. “When is Vermont going to…
Encore Curriculum: Atlantic Theater Company makes a play for Vermont
When The Beauty Queen of Leenane won four Tony Awards in 1998, the lead actress of the play stepped up to the microphone at the nationally televised ceremonies to thank the Atlantic Theater Company and its artistic director Neil Pepe. He had seen a performance of the Irish drama in London the previous year and…
Taliban in Retreat!
The big buzz ’round Chittenden County this week is all about the political demise of the local Taliban led by Rev. David Stertzbach of Williston’s Trinity Baptist Church. Two years ago, the Bob Jones University-trained clergyman led a right-wing, homophobic, gutter-level coup that dominated the GOP State Senate primary. The Bible-thumpers almost took down Republican…
