Jun 20-26, 2012
Burlington Visual and Performance Artists dug Nap Is Self-Taught — to Succeed; Sorting Out the Senate Seekers; Judith Levine on the LGBTQ Brand; Dining in Farmers’ Fields
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Movies You Missed 44: Keyhole
This week in movies you missed: the world’s strangest gangster film from Canadian director Guy Maddin. What You Missed In a black-and-white world that evokes the 1930s, gangster Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) brings his ragtag gang back to his home, which is stuffed to the gills with ghosts and memories. After a shoot-out that leaves…
Vermont Dems Attack Brock for Supporting an Anti-Abortion Law He, In Fact, Does Not Support
Vermont’s Democratic and Republican parties spent the week in a press-release pissing match over whether Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock should be held responsible for the views of a pair of prominent GOP governors who are campaigning for him. By enlisting the help of Maine Gov. Paul LePage and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, the Dems…
In a Citizen Legislature, Should a Top Politician Go to Work for a Power Company?
Is it okay for the majority leader of the Vermont House of Representatives to take a “community relations” job with the state’s dominant power company? A company that just two months ago fought tooth-and-nail to kill a House bill that would have forced it to return $21 million to ratepayers? That’s the question after Rep.…
What the Farm Bill May (or May Not) Mean for Vermont Farmers
The 2012 farm bill is continuing on its arduous way through the sausage grinder after passing the Senate in a 64-35 vote this afternoon. It’s a behemoth of a bill, to which lawmakers at one point attached more than 300 amendments — some entirely unrelated to the business of food and farming. The complex bill…
More on Markowitz’s Muddled Message
As we reported in this week’s Fair Game, Agency of Natural Resources Sec. Deb Markowitz made a bit of a whoopsie last week at a Norwich University panel on Tropical Storm Irene recovery efforts. The ANR secretary and former gubernatorial candidate apparently stepped on her boss’ message, criticizing Gov. Peter Shumlin’s handling of the state’s…
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Dear Pina [271]
6/17/12: Dear Pina, is a dance/theater tribute to German choreographer Pina Bausch created by Vermont choreographer Hannah Dennison. Featuring 30 Vermont dancers and a ‘tall, dignified couple’ and set in the majestic Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms. The show runs June 25-30 and Eva caught a dress rehearsal. Read more about Dear Pina, in Megan…
Plane Spoken
As the Burlington City Council debates whether to base F-35 fighter jets at the city-owned airport, Sanders and the rest of Vermont’s congressional delegation reiterate their support for the basing.
WTF: What’s the story behind the Vermont Marijuana Growers Association sign?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A man walked into a Chicago bank carrying a bag and told the teller he had a bomb. Police said he ordered the teller to stuff the bag with cash, then, when the bag was full, the robber left without taking it. (Chicago Tribune) Two men flagged down police in Athens, Ga.,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Swans, geese and ducks molt all their flight feathers at once, which means they may be unable to fly for several weeks afterward. We humans don’t do anything like that in a literal way, but we have a psychological analog: times when we shed outworn self-images. I suspect you’re coming up…
Letters to the Editor
High Marks for Consistency When I pick up a copy of Seven Days, I may “agree to disagree,” but rarely do I pick up a dull issue! Now in the middle ages of life — and maybe more right of center on some issues — I find I value your community input greatly as the…
New Co-Working Space Opens in Montpelier for Vermont’s Nomadic Professionals
In the April 25 issue of Seven Days, we explored how Vermont businesses, from lone freelancers to major employers such as National Life Group, are thinking outside the conventional cubicle (“Spaces To Roam”). We also noted a growing trend: the creation of so-called “professional coworking spaces” — such as Office Squared (O2) in downtown Burlingtion…
Burlington City Council Neither Supports Nor Opposes Bed-down of F-35
Three Vermont Air National Guard officers (including Col. Joel Clark, right) sat silently at a Burlington City Council public hearing last night as speaker after speaker after speaker denounced the proposed basing here of the F-35 supersonic fighter jet. Afterward, however, the local military brass expressed satisfaction with the council’s decision to neither support nor oppose the…
