May 25-31, 2011
Choose Your Summer Adventure; Amorous Emails Implicate UVM President’s Wife; VT Comedy Fest Comes to Town; Enjoying the Hot Dog Days of Summer; Belly Up to the Snack Bars
Invasion of the Healthy Vending Machines
Recently I spent a few days with family in a suburb in the South, and by the time I returned, a few extra ounces were clinging to my middle. Memories of childhood visits with my Southern clan are filled with Pepsi, grape jelly and American cheese sandwiches. Last weekend’s fare was an upmarket variation filled with…
Surfing Safari on Burlington’s Booth Street
As a portent of the end of the world (coming October 2011 or maybe sometime in 2012), we’ve had some intense weather thrown at us recently. While we haven’t had to deal with such epic natural disasters as the tsunami in Japan or the recent tornadoes in Missouri, which half flattened the town of Joplin,…
On Finding Gold in the Woods
Editor’s note: Frances Cannon is passionate about the contents of her plate and adventures in the kitchen. As the summer food writing intern for Seven Days, she’ll be contributing her thoughts on pastry, espresso and the wild forkfuls of the season Before the weather warmed, I made it my goal to find the heavenly trio…
Into the Hot Zone with Fletcher Allen’s Hazmat Decontamination Team
8:03 a.m. Wednesday morning: I’m about to get thoroughly soaped up, scrubbed down and hosed off by a grown man for the first time since I was a child. No, this doesn’t reflect some radical, new lifestyle choice on my part — not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. Actually, it’s an opportunity…
Hanging Out With the Fort Ethan Allen Laundry Line
This garganutuan clothesline hung across Fort Ethan Allen Park, which appeared earlier this week, is actually a work of art, courtesy of Essex Junction artist Ann Laberge. She describes her guerilla art as “a gift.” But the 74-year-old man walking the path beneath it Thursday morning sure didn’t see it that way. “Do you know…
Meet the 7D Marathon Relay Team… and Weep
Attention, Burlington Marathon relay teams: Prepare to eat our dust! That’s right. Seven Days is no longer just an awesome source for Vermont news and entertainment. With the debut of our relay team at this Sunday’s KeyBank Vermont City Marathon, we are now officially an unbridled athletic juggernaut. And we’re gonna waste your pathetic relay…
Need Help? Ask Some Drag Queens
As further proof that everyone and their mother is hopping on the digital caboose, our good friends over at the Hot Damn Trailer Park in Beaver Pond now have their own app. Vermont’s favorite drag queens, the Sisters Lemay, recently released “Ask Some Drag Queens,” a mobile app for iProducts and Droids made by the…
Coming Soon — Made in VT Creemee Mixes!
Living in Vermont, we have come to accept, whether we want to or not (or even believe it), that everything made in the Green Mountain State is better. Whether it’s maple syrup, cheese or those crazy-ass mismatched socks advertised in the New Yorker, if the product says Made in Vermont, it’s superior. As such, we…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Matthew Dale Hudleston, 33, handed a bank teller in Foley, Ala., a note announcing, “I have a gun,” and detailing his demands. He left with $9945 but returned awhile later for his holdup note, which he’d left behind. A Baldwin County sheriff’s deputy spotted Hudleston in a stolen vehicle, chased it until…
Pick A Summer Adventure
Whether you’re an über-jock or a sun shunner, we’ve got you covered this warm season
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Weaseling out of things is important to learn,” said cartoon antihero Homer Simpson. “It’s what separates us from the animals — except the weasel.” I normally don’t share that sentiment. My standard advice is to face up to challenging situations and take responsibility for the part you played in creating them.…
WTF: What’s the deal with Burlington’s yellow-shirted “baby cops”?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Come Sail Away
Despite high waters and low lake temperatures, it’s boom time at the Lake Champlain Yacht Club
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Heavyfest 2011 [224]
5/21/11: Big Heavy World teamed up with Magic Hat Brewing Company and Performing Arts Center to present Heavyfest, the first outdoor concert of the season. The rain held off, the sun shone brightly and Judgment Day came and went. Meanwhile, hundreds of revelers enjoyed plentiful Magic Hat beer, BBQ and local music courtesy of Heloise…
Chinese Spring
Art Review: “Red Flag, Contemporary Chinese Art in Montréal Collection” and “The Warrior Emperor & China’s Terracotta Army,” Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
Letters to the Editor
Health Care? Humbug! Health care is not a human right [“Like Health Care Reform? So Does the Vermont Workers’ Center,” May 11]. A human right is any right a human would have whether there was a civilization or not — like the right to the pursuit of happiness, the right to be right or wrong,…
Dangerous Liaisons
For more than six years, Rachel Kahn-Fogel, wife of University of Vermont president Dan Fogel, sent suggestive emails to a member of the UVM staff assigned to work with her on fundraising and special events. The emails, furnished by UVM in response to a public records request by Seven Days, detail an unusual emotional attachment…
Sweet on Gesine Bullock-Prado
Last night 7D food intern Frances Cannon and I went to see Gesine Bullock-Prado do a candy-making demonstration at, of all places, the New England Federal Credit Union. Why was she making candy in a credit union? Because NEFCU is a literary credit union, or at least encourages its members to be: It hosts a…
Does White-Nose Syndrome Have a Silver Lining for Big-Wind Opponents?
Ordinarily, the several-gram body of a little brown bat is no match for the whirling blades of a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine. The massive rotors don’t even have to strike the bats to kill them. Studies done in 2008 and 2009 by Boston University’s Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology reveal that low pressure near the rotating…
7 Questions for… Miss Vermont USA
On June 19, Lauren Carter — recent college graduate, equestrian, nurse and jazz bassist — will represent Vermont in the Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas. And by represent, we mean she’s gonna slap the Aqua Net right off those other girls’ shellacked heads. Then she’ll wipe their Vaseline smiles clear off. Once Carter gets…
