Flick Chick
When Terry Zwigoff’s Louie Bluie documentary came out in 1986, Howard Armstrong — the visual artist and musician who sometimes used that rhyming pseudonym — was a mere 75 years old. The guy is now in his early nineties and still playing blues, gospel, rags, Appalachian folk and Tin Pan Alley pop like there’s no…
Should It Stay or Should It Go? Seven Days’ readers weigh in on “The Leapfroggers”
Last week we invited Seven Days readers to tell us whether the recently vandalized “Leapfroggers” sculpture should be returned to Church Street — and if not, what might go in its place. Not that your preferences, or ours, have any hope of affecting the fate of the frolicking little girl-and-boy statue: The Church Street Marketplace…
Best-Laid Plans? Champlain College builds a case for urban architecture
The word “entrepreneurial,” when used in association with architecture, is usually a harbinger of disaster. Those who fancy themselves entrepreneurs tend to build expecting a fast return on the buck, and that inevitably leads to cheap design and construction. Thus a tip of the cap is due Champlain College, which prides itself on being a…
Faith in Goddard: A collective memorial for “Little Moscow on the Hill”
In the first week of my first semester at Goddard College during the early 1960s, northern lights danced wildly above the Plainfield campus. Everyone ran outside to watch a spectacle of the cosmos I had never even imagined as a 17-year-old girl from New York. In a flash, the school and the rural state that…
Fast Foodie: Swimming, biking and running are on the menu for one Burlington restaurateur
Corporate executives are feeling the heat this summer as a result of a string of highly publicized financial scandals. But in Lake Placid, 19 head honchos are sweating for all the right reasons. Next weekend, a select group of business owners will swim, run and bike in an Ironman triathalon that gives new meaning to…
Meet the Prez?
Pinch me! Pinch me! Pinch me! Is this really happening? Does Vermont Gov. Howard Dean M.D. really have a shot at the White House or is all this just a dream? Those were the thoughts streaming through our mind Sunday morning as our favorite presidential hopeful sat across the big table from NBC’s hard-nosed interviewer…
Model Behavior
I noticed a gaggle of friends exchanging hugs as I approached the Sweetwaters corner in downtown Burlington. Slow down, I thought this could mean the end of their night on the town and one or more of them might need a ride home. Actually it was subtler than thought. After two decades of hacking,…
Back Talk
Is culture catching? Due north of the Williston whale tails, a landlocked salmon is taking shape along the South Hero recreational path. Three sculptors from the United Kingdom are crafting the state’s newest work of public art — a marble “big one” that acknowledges the aqueous origins of the Champlain Valley. The piece is destined…
