May 21-27, 2008
While Neighboring States Move Ahead on Wind Energy, Vermont is Spinning its Wheels; Writer David Sirota Chronicles the Uprising; New “Grilling the Chef” – Burning Questions for Cooks; Kochalka Scares up a Kids Book
Shamms Mortier Remembered
Today I learned that an old friend, Shamms Mortier, died 5/22 at 3:30 pm. Shamms was the kind of bodhisattva that laughed and played tricks. He was an avant-garde jazz musician, writer and visual artist — but his biggest impact on the community may have come from his three decades of teaching at Burlington College,…
YouTomb — Not Dead Yet
Free Culture, a national student organization that promotes “open access to knowledge and culture,” has begun YouTomb, a research project at MIT to study why YouTube removes certain videos from the site. Unfortunately, you can’t watch the videos, among which are John McCain’s appearance on Saturday Night Live and some guy named Buckwheat Hicks doing…
Somewhere Over The Rainbow…
While I was busy trying to figure out how best to grill a slab of Atlantic salmon, a housemate caught site of a rainbow forming outside. Despite my preoccupation with the olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette marinade, they insisted I grab my camera and document it. Leaving the cookbooks behind for a moment, I scrambled…
Project Porchlight Looking for Volunteers
I saw this on my neighborhood front porch forum. I thought it would be some good information to pass on. The video is from their website. It’s from a similar event in Ontario, Canada. I am looking for community volunteers to deliver free compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs in their neighborhoods in Burlington, Colchester, Essex,…
Bias in the Eye
A piece by Conor Friedersdorf at Doublethink Online, which is affiliated with the conservative America’s Future Foundation, argues that media bias is inherently liberal because liberalism makes for better storytelling: Contra the least-thoughtful conservative critics, there isn’t any eliteliberal conspiracy at work. Bias creeps in largely because thenarrative conventions of journalism are poor at capturing…
Did someone pull the plug on Dr. Richter?
There’s been a lot of hoopla recently at the blog Green Mountain Daily regarding Dr. Deb Richter’s decision NOT to run against incumbent Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie. Rumors abound that some Progs were trying to muscle her out of the race, or at least make it known they were upset with her choice to…
Hey Daddio
Just in time for the 25th annual Burlington Discover Jazz Festival comes 100 Essential Jazz Albums, an online-only “guide for the uninitiated” from the New Yorker. The list was put together by New Yorker editor David Remnick, who says the titles “are meant to provide a broad sampling of jazzclassics and wonders across the music’s…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for May 21-28, 2008. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): After working for years in various jobs at San Francisco TV station KTVU, Frank Sommerville was promoted to the top of the heap – lead anchorman of the 10 o’clock news program. He promised that…
Take Two
Art Review: Joan Curtis and Richard Weis, Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne. Through June 17.
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police who stopped Cyheam Forney, 31, for a minor traffic violation in Melville, N.Y., discovered his license had been suspended. Officers arrested Forney for the misdemeanor but added a felony charge when he tried to pay his bail with a counterfeit $50 bill. * Police who discovered someone had broken into a…
Scene@ “What Moves You? Body Language”
Most people wouldn’t take directions from a boy wearing neon-checkered Hammer pants, a clown nose and rainbow knee-highs, or think that he could teach you anything about the forces of physics. But I’m not most people. Jacob Tischler, a performer for Circus Smirkus, was demonstrating the physics of clowning, juggling and circus performance as a…
Hot Under the Collar
In a new book, former Sanders aide David Sirota asks what it will take to build a populist movement
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The Clothes Exchange [SIV80]
5/15/08: Shop till you drop, recycle used clothing, socialize over cocktails AND raise money for a women’s charity? Sounds too good to be true, right? Actually, it’s the 7th Annual Clothes Exchange. In 2008, The Clothes Exchange was attended by over 450 women and together with local sponsors, they raised $30,000 for The Hicks Foundation. …
Five White Guys in a Room, Film at 11
Not just any five white guys, but three journalists and two scientists, who got together for a discussionat the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Among thetopics covered in the session: the challenges reporters face inexplaining scientific uncertainty to audiences. One panelist, ABC’s Bill Blakemore, who has covered climate changefor the network for four years,…
Chris Matthews Smackdown
Chris Matthews tries to shut up a right wing radio host in a shout fest about Bush’s comments in Israel labeling Obama as an “appeaser.”
