Jul 6-12, 2011
A New Yorker Fixture and Proud Vermonter, Cartoonist Edward Koren Gets His Due in a 50-Year Retrospective; Pride Week in Randolph; Borders Closes On Church Street; Ice Coffee Survey
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In Toon
A New Yorker fixture and proud Vermonter, cartoonist Edward Koren gets his due in a 50-year retrospective
7 Questions For… Wayne Besen, Gay Rights Activist and “Ex-Gay” Mythbuster
In December of last year, Truth Wins Out — an advocacy organization dedicated to fighting anti-gay religious extremism, debunking the myth of “ex-gay” therapy and exposing its oft-hypocritical supporters — moved to Burlington from New York City. The nonprofit’s founder, gay rights activist Wayne Besen, was taken by our quaint college town on the lake during…
Some Long Thoughts about Short Videos
Every week I post a fresh video in my “Stuck in Vermont” series. This past week was my 230th video and I have been working full-time on this series for the past four years. I cover just about anyone and anyplace in Vermont but my preferences are profiles on passionate artists, crafters, and quirky…
Dough Boy’s Bakery & Coffee Shop To Close
***Updated, below.*** After 40 years in business — 31 of those on Pearl Street — Dough Boy’s Bakery & Coffee Shop will be closing at the end of July. A handwritten sign in the window proclaims the sad news: “Doughboy’s is Retiring.” Owner Rod Boutin says that his landlord, Hinsdale Properties, will not renew his…
Some Wine With Your Mandolin?
Musicians hitting up South Champlain Street’s Advance Music for a Marshall amp or new set of guitar strings might soon discover another reason to linger: Artfully displayed in a brick-walled nook are a couple dozen bottles of wine for sale, alongside handwritten, irreverent notes such as “I hate Chardonnay, but I love this one!’ It might…
No Charges Filed Against Entergy for Misleading Regulators About Vermont Yankee
* Update below: Reaction from Gov. Peter Shumlin * Attorney General Bill Sorrell said Entergy Vermont Yankee personnel repeatedly misled state officials regarding the existence of underground and buried piping that carried radionuclides, but his office lacked “compelling evidence” that the company’s actions constituted a crime. “We demonstrate in our report today that, in our…
Burlington Taxi Drivers Object to Porn Prohibition, City Councilors Say
It’s not every day that one Burlington city councilor tweets another about porn. But last week, Councilor Joan Shannon (D-Ward 5) fired off this titillating tweet to Councilor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (P-Ward 3): @emmajmsvt how many taxi drivers have pleaded w u to allow them to have porn in cabs? I’m up to 5 #WTF #BTV…
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Pond Hill Pro Rodeo [230]
7/2/11: Cowboys and cowgirls competed in the Pond Hill Pro Rodeo Saturday night in Castleton. The Pond Hill Ranch is owned and operated by the O’Rourke family who have been producing rodeos for 45 years. 4th of July weekend is known as Cowboy Christmas and many cowboys travel from rodeo to rodeo competing for cash…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Camden, N.J., police Sgt. Jeffrey Frett, 40, plotted an early retirement by having his wife meet him while on patrol to shoot him in the leg so he could claim he’d been the victim of a random shooting. The scheme unraveled after a plainclothes officer passed the couple and noticed the wife’s…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s my observation that women find it easier than men to tune into their natural rhythms. The menstrual cycle helps cultivate that ability. We men experience less dramatic physical shifts, and that seems to give us license to override messages from our bodies for the sake of ambition, laziness or convenience.…
WTF: What’s that concrete monstrosity on Route 302 in East Barre?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Going to the Mountain
What attracts so many spiritual seekers to the tiny town of Lincoln?
Letters to the Editor
Don’t Forget Photog? As a photographer — albeit an amateur one — I’m interested in seeing the credit for an image or series of images. “The Unkindest Cut” [June 29] credited the reporter, Ken Picard, for his part, but I had to hunt to find the name of the photographer. I did find the name…
Bike Maps Are So Hot
What’s hotter than West Texas pavement in late July? How about the new Burlington bike map. Oh, yes. This smoking hot ticket dropped about two weeks ago and can be yours for free. That’s right — free. The new map, which features bike routes in Burlington, South Burlington and parts of Winooski and Colchester, is…
Poem Mysteriously Disappears, Then Reappears, at Waitsfield War Memorial
Here’s a weird little tale for Independence Day week, courtesy of a Seven Days reader, about a poem left at an Afghanistan war memorial in Waitsfield that went missing numerous times only to reappear days or weeks later. Martin McGowan says he wrote a poem and left it by the memorial in September 2010, near…
