Jul 22-28, 2009
Big Corporations are Finding Ways to Sell Themselves as the Folks Next Door; Judith Levine on Supreme Court Empathy; Fairly Motel and Drive-In
Venture Vermont 2009
Want a free pass to Vermont’s state parks? You can earn one by taking the Venture Vermont Outdoor Challenge. It’s a self-guided scavenger hunt that gives you points for completing environmentally friendly activities, most of which are centered around the parks. You get points for hiking, fishing, boating, climbing a tree, wading in the water…
After 29 Years, Savoy for Sale
Rick Winston and Andrea Serota, owners of Montpelier’s single-screen Savoy Theater, have announced that they’re looking for someone to buy the business. Winston has been showing indie and arthouse films at the brick-walled theater since 1980. Serota, his wife, became his sole business partner in ’99. So why stop now? Serota says in a phone…
Summer Reading List
“What’s Good,” the guide of all guides — the creme de la creme — thebane of our intern existence — goes to press tomorrow. With greatpride, we say goodbye to the hours spent in the “morgue” at the SevenDays office, finding the dankest of dank places for ourreaders to explore. We have squeezed all of…
Onion Interviews Steve Bissette
My favorite site for film reviews, smart-ass commenters and general pop-culture silliness is the Onion’s AV Club. So how excited was I this afternoon to click on my bookmark and find on their front page an interview with Vermont’s own Steve Bissette, who teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction? I…
Little Lost Kitty
Few things make me as sad as lost items. Perhaps sad isn’t exactly the right word. Losing an umbrella is obviously not nearly as wrenching as say, the plight of lepers in developing countries or the conscription of child soldiers in war-torn parts of Africa. But when I see lost mittens, abandoned bikes, the occasional…
Happy 40th to the One and Only Reverend Diane Sullivan!
Everyone here at Seven Days wants to wish one of our longest tenured employees, designer Diane Sullivan, a very special Happy Birthday. Diane is someone who makes every day at our office a little more fun. We love you D! Check out her new head gear we just presented her.
Dear Simon…
Dear Simon, Where are you? I’m the substitute who’s covering your Seven Days delivery route around Barre and White RIver Junction. While I enjoyed carrying the banner yesterday, delivering the news to Co-ops, coffee shops and general stores, I was bereft of one important piece of information: your whereabouts. Believe it or not Simon, but…
Jon Stewart Most Trusted? Not in Vermont
With Walter Cronkite dead, an online poll conducted by TIME aimed to find out who is the most trusted newscaster in America. The answer? The Daily Show’s anchor Jon Stewart. No foolin’. Stewart received 44 percent of the 9400 votes cast. Coming in second with 29 percent was NBC’s Brian Williams, followed by ABC’s Charlie…
“Outing” Media Complicity
In reporting an item for this week’s “Fair Game” I had the chance to talk to one of the main protagonists in the documentary film Outrage — journalist and blogger Michael Rogers of PageOneQ and BlogActive. The movie premiered Sunday night at Merrill’s Roxy in Burlington as a special fundraiser for Pride Vermont, and was…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for July 22 – 29, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): Storm chasers are people who love traveling around the continent in pursuit of wild weather. Nothing feeds their lust for life more than getting up close and personal with a tornado or supercell…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Billy Floyd Norris, 33, called 911 to report his roommates had robbed him, but when police arrived at his house in Hanceville, Ala., they found a working methamphetamine lab and arrested Norris. • When a woman called 911 to report a man who tried to rob her at gunpoint was in hot…
Letters to the Editor
WHO’S DRIVING THE GREEN AGENDA? Thanks to Seven Days for several interesting and well-written articles on green construction and house building [The Green Issue, June 24]. However, I think it important to point out that where you live may have more energy impacts than the house you live in. In Vermont, about one-third of the…
Twain Gain
Theater review: Mark Twain’s A Murder, a Mystery & a Marriage: A Musical Melodrama
Sleeping at the Movies
The Fairlee Motel & Drive-in Theater gives guests a unique view
All Together Now
Art Review: “Interme-diaries,” 2- and 3-D works by Jane Horner, Flynndog, Burlington. Through August.
Wanted: A Thieving Douchebag
Soundbites: Wanted: A Thieving Douchebag, Band of Brothers, Bite Torrent
An unapologetically biased look at Gordon Stone’s new album, Nightshade.
(Pssst! It’s pretty good.)
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Flynn Garden Tour [SIV138]
7/19/09: The 13th Annual Flynn Garden Tour drew over 400 people to the Champlain Islands last Sunday for a peek into some spectacular secret gardens. Music: La Strada, “Flying” Location: North Hero, South Hero, Grand Isle Vermont
Grand Ol’ Osprey
It’s not every day I get to see an osprey–in fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one. So pictures will have to suffice until I have time to detach from the computer and visit nature. That’s why I thought I’d share this image sent by Steve Costello. Steve usually sends us press releases from…
Best Bites: Zen Gardens
7 Fayette Drive, South Burlington 862-8885 When people find out I’m a food writer, the first question people ask me is, “Do you ever need someone to taste things with you?” The second: “What’s your favorite place for Chinese?” I didn’t have an answer for the second question — that is, until I tried Zen Gardens.…
