May 27 – Jun 2, 2009
Vermont Pulls Its Inmates from Cut-Rate Alabama Prison; Best Bites: The Alchemist Pub & Brewery; Which is Hipper – Burlington or Brattleboro?
Burlington City Council to Get Spun on Disc Golf
Burlington’s City Council is wading into dangerous territory tonight. No, not the activities of a waterfront manager, or election recounts, but the controversial topic of … disc golf. Both opponents and supporters have been emailing councilors en masse in recent days. And, it’s expected that at least 50 people will speak out tonight during the…
Vermont Legislature Lets it All Hang Out — Wet Laundry, That is
Governor Jim Douglas didn’t get his panties in a bunch over this line item — a new law that guarantees Vermonters the right to dangle their damp drawers outdoors so that Mother Nature can do her thing. As improbable as it sounds, until last week municipalities and homeowner associations could outlaw the age-old practice of…
Tiller’s Death Recalls VT ties to Anti-Abortion Violence
More than 10 years ago, when the last abortion provider was murdered, Vermont was at the center of the national media storm. That’s when upstate New York doctor Barnett Slepian was shot in his home by James C. Kopp, a man with ties to Vermont. He resided for a time in the St. Albans area,…
One Person’s Trash…
Burlington area residents and students scrapped their well worn couches, roller blades, skis and other miscellaneous bric-a-brac yesterday at the annual Spring Move Out Project (SMOP). SMOP is a collaborative swap provided by the City of Burlington, Chittenden Solid Waste District, Recycle North, The Center for Community and Neighborhoods, as well as the University of…
Fran in France: Paris and the Champlain Plaque
Journalist Fran Stoddard is in France this week with a group from Burlington City Arts, to celebrate the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. She sent this report from Paris. Click here for her earlier posts. Thursday, May 29 We arrived in Paris last night and went round and round the Marais district in our comfortable, but big…
VIDEOS: Fran in France
Journalist Fran Stoddard is in France this week with a group from Burlington City Arts, to celebrate the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. She’s been recording videos of the trip on a Flip Mino, and now that we’ve solved the technical challenges of posting them to the web (thanks, John Canning!), we’d like to share them with…
The Nation on USAID, Plan Colombia and Burlington-based ARD
About six months ago, I got a phone call from a reporter who claimed he was calling from Colombia. I automatically assumed he meant the institution of higher learning in upper Manhattan. “Columbia University?” I asked. “No, Colombia the country,” he replied, without a hint of condescension. The man was looking for some background info on…
Extra Pizazz on Dr. Kevin Dann
This week, Seven Days contributor Kevin J. Kelley interviewed Dr. Kevin Dann for an article about Dann’s Quadricentennial-themed walk. I went along for the ride — literally. On May 21st, the warmest day of the year thus far, Kelley and I tookthe Grand Isle ferry from Vermont to New York and rode our bikes 18miles…
Comcast Polling on Support for Public Access TV
The ongoing turf war battle between national telecom giant Comcast and Vermont’s community access television stations is heating up again. This week, Comcast has been polling Vermonters around the state in an effort to gauge if they watch community-access programming, We’ve covered this issue in both “Fair Game” and Blurt for months. The issue first…
Fran in France: Honfleur
Journalist Fran Stoddard is in France this week with a group from Burlington City Arts, to celebrate the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. She sent this report yesterday from the port of Honfleur. Click here for her earlier posts. Wednesday, May 27 Although its history can be traced back 1000 years, Honfleur’s heyday coincided with Champlain’s lifetime.…
Samuel de Champlain Sighted on the Lake
While Fran Stoddard and friends from Burlington City Arts are roaming around France to find out more about Samuel de Champlain, the explorer himself has been sighted here in Burlington! Here’s a recent press release from Robert Resnik at the Fletcher Free Library: Monsieur Samuel de Champlain is back! He has been spotted gazing in…
Fran in France: Mont St. Michel
Journalist Fran Stoddard is in France this week with a group from Burlington City Arts, to celebrate the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. She sent this report earlier this week, from Mont St. Michel. Click here for her earlier posts. Sunday, May 24 Mont St. Michel is an astonishing fortified village and Abbey that reaches for the…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for May 27 – June 3, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): While reading a crime report in the online version of Northern California’s Arcata Eye newspaper, I came across this entry: “A dreadlocked man attacked a lamp post on the Plaza with his…
Quad Be Praised
Kevin Dann, PhD, spreads the word about de Champlain — and wizards, the Bible and Mayan calendars
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Art Review: “Things That Make Us Happy,” a group show in multiple media. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery, Stowe. Through June.
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Burlington Farmers’ Market [SIV130]
5/23/09: The Burlington Farmers’ Market is THE place to be Saturdays this summer. Over 50 vendors/farmers crowd into City Hall Park to sell their food, plants and produce to the eager masses. Featuring Arethusa Collective Farm, Boucher Family Farm, Stray Cat Flower Farm, Lewis Creek Farm, Dragonfly Sugar Works and Pitchfork Farm. Music: La Strada,…
Letters to the Editor
UNFAIR TO FLANAGAN After reading “Continuing Ed” [May 20], something did not sit right with me. I paced the house trying to parse out why my stomach felt unsettled. I am in favor of accountability for public officials and, conceptually, the topic of the performance of a state senator is fair game. However, the approach…
The Joy of Sax
Essex High School senior Dan Rome fronts the Burlington Chamber Orchestra … with a saxophone?
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police arrested Remo Spencer for stealing laptop computers and iPods from the Wal-Mart store in Great Falls, Mont., where he worked after he aroused a store manager’s suspicions by posting an ad offering to sell the electronics items on the store’s employee bulletin board. The Billings Gazette said a review of surveillance…
Warning: Potter (and Popper!) News Ahead
Soundbites: Warning: Potter (and Popper!) News Ahead, WTF?, The Party is Over, Bite Torrent
Vermont Reacts to Sotomayor Supreme Court Pick
Pres. Barack Obama’s pick of Sonia Sotomayor as the next justice of the U.S. Supreme Court won praise from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Judiciary Committee that will oversee her confirmation hearings. If chosen, Sotomayor would replace Justice David Souter, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Sotomayor is currently a judge on…
Best Bites: The Alchemist Pub & Brewery
23 South Main Street, Waterbury 244-4120 Why would someone who doesn’t drink beer drive 45 minutes only to wait another hour… just to eat at a brewery? The food is that damn good. On May 12, The Alchemist Pub & Brewery reopened after kitchen renovations earlier this month and I went to check it out. I…
Fran in France: Champlain the Spy
Journalist Fran Stoddard is in France this week with a group from Burlington City Arts, to celebrate the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. She sent this report yesterday, from St. Malo, the “city of pirates.” Click here for her earlier posts. Sunday, May 23 I want to add a bit more about Champlain’s life before he ventured…
