Mar 6-12, 2013
After a year at City Hall, How Is Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger Doing?; Conductor and Violinist Jamie Laredo; Vermonter Survives Avalanche; To Eat, or Not to Eat, Gluten
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After a Year at City Hall, How’s Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger Doing?
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger marked the anniversary of his election last Saturday with a public display that suggests he’s getting comfortable in the job. Wearing a gold lamé shirt, silver boots and a flouncy, feathered hat, the sometimes tongue-tied Weinberger waved and swayed as he led the raucous annual Mardi Gras parade through downtown. Hizzoner…
Budnitz and Flahute Custom Bicycle Companies Roll Into Burlington
The latest artsy spot in Burlington’s South End has a brick-wall background, exposed overhead pipes and spotlights illuminating swoopy curves of metal. It’s pleasing to the eyes — but it’s meant for the legs, the lungs and the lifestyle. In fact, the half dozen pieces on display are specifically designed to ride right out of…
Jack the Giant Slayer
Once upon a time, when Hollywood couldn’t come up with good ideas for movies, it resorted to sequels and remakes. OK, it still does. But recently the entertainment industry has discovered an almost limitless and largely untapped source of ideas it doesn’t need to come up with itself to make big bucks: the fairy tale.…
Taste Test: The Lighthouse Restaurant and Lounge Review
Chef Levi Carter spent his childhood being shuttled among family members in Vermont and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. A similarly varied experience characterizes his culinary career, which began at the Vermont Pub & Brewery and took him to the New England Culinary Institute for a degree, then to A Single Pebble. Later,…
Is Vermont’s Secessionist Movement Still Relevant? A New Book Argues Yes
When Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence debuted in the summer of 2005, the homegrown newspaper devoted to exploring Vermont secession had, at the very least, a curious audience. In the age of George W. Bush’s presidency, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act, the idea of breaking free from…
Wish List: Review of The Other Wish by Diane Swan
Wishes are those fanciful things we have as children (à la Disney’s “When You Wish Upon a Star…”). Wishes often contradict reason: When we grow up, we call them goals. Or intentions, or mission statements, or objectives. Mate the youthful “wish list” with the grown-up “to-do” list, and voilà: We have the “bucket list.” The…
Tommy Sands and the Music of Healing
That art can inspire dramatic social or political change is a romantic idea, if sometimes a specious one. But for some, such as Irish folk singer Tommy Sands, the power of music to affect change is ironclad. “I think everything changes things,” he says in a recent phone interview from his home in Northern Ireland.…
Studio Profile: Storefront Studio Gallery, Montpelier
Imagine watching van Gogh as he attacks the canvas. Or Matisse, his scissors careening through bright paper. Or shirtless Picasso, splashing Prussian blue on canvas. Their time is long gone, but there are still opportunities to observe artists in the act of creation. Glen Coburn Hutcheson is offering just that in his brand-new Storefront Studio…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you’re not literally in exile. You haven’t been forced to abandon your home and you haven’t been driven from your power spot against your will. But you may nevertheless be feeling banished or displaced. It could be due to one of the conditions that storyteller Michael Meade names: “We may…
A Charlotte Backcountry Skier Survives a Rocky Mountain Avalanche
The last image seared into Charlie Brush’s mind, right before a 500-foot-wide wall of snow buried him alive, was that of a fellow skier’s orange pants as she yelled, “Stop!” Then his world went dark. If his rescuers had taken another two or three minutes to find him and dig him out, Brush likely wouldn’t…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A woman told police in Des Moines, Iowa, that she returned home one morning to find a strange vehicle in her driveway. She parked behind it and saw a man walk out of her front door. He told her two other men had broken in and that he was driving by, saw…
Could the Gluten-Free Trend Endanger Vermont’s Local Grains Movement?
A few years ago, a Wisconsin cardiologist named Dr. William Davis began asking his prediabetic and diabetic patients to give up wheat. His theory: Foods made with wheat flour can cause blood sugar to spike. After some of those patients underwent health transformations — dramatic weight loss and the disappearance of chronic conditions, for instance…
Letters to the Editor
Shirt Shrift Thank you to Ken Picard for doing an amazing job retelling and condensing the complicated story of my “Cure for the Blues” T-shirt design [“After 20 Years, a Graphic Designer for Clinton-Gore Gets His Just Rewards,” February 27]. However, readers may have come away with the impression that Connie Fails sold counterfeit shirts…
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Skateboarding Punk Rock Lawyer [302]
12/14/12: Spencer P. Crispe is a 7th generation Vermonter and the 4th generation in his family to practice law at the Crispe & Crispe Law Firm in Brattleboro. Unlike most attorneys, Crispe is as comfortable in the mosh pit and at the skatepark as he is in the courtroom. He uses his knowledge of the…
