Nov 16-22, 2011
More Than 40 Vermonters Have Gone Missing Since 1971 — How Do We Find Them?; No Candidate for the Dems; Potato Sack Pants Theater Acts Up; UVM Professors Study Happiness
Chick fil-A Files to Block ‘Eat More Kale’ From Becoming Federal Trademark
Eleven years ago, a farmer friend asked Montpelier folk artist Bo Muller-Moore to make a T-shirt for him that read “Eat More Kale.” So, Muller-Moore went home, traced his fingers to make cutouts of the letters and printed the T-shirt, which he sold for $10. The logo took off, and a business was born. Six…
The Alchemist Pub and Brewery Will Not Reopen
Following months of mounting challenges, Jen and John Kimmich have decided not to reopen The Alchemist Pub and Brewery. The 10-year Waterbury landmark was devastated this summer by Tropical Storm Irene, which flooded the basement and filled the dining room with waist-high water. According to an email from Jen Kimmich, “Our basement was the lifeblood…
Movies You Missed 13: Bellflower
This week in movies you missed: Slackers meets The Road Warrior with a detour through Crazytown. Before we begin, a note of advice: Women, if you meet a cute guy with emo hair in a bar and ask him what he does and he says, “I’m building a flame thrower,” you may want to rethink…
Flynn Center Artistic Director Arnie Malina to Retire
It’s big news when the artistic visionary of the state’s largest performing arts center decides to call it a career. According to a press release issued by the Flynn today, Arnie Malina will retire at the end of January 2012. “He’s been there 15 years, 50 percent of the time the Flynn Center for the…
Still Dishing
Grilling the Chef: Alexandra La Noue-Adler, Parker House Inn & Restaurant
A Big Bookstore for Burlington … in the Works
When Borders announced the closing of its Burlington store, everyone wondered how long the city could remain without a downtown bookseller. Well, not that long. First, Church Street’s Crow Bookshop — known for used books — started selling more new titles. Now comes promising news from Renée Reiner and Michael DeSanto, who own Phoenix Books…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A witness observed a boy who appeared to be breaking into a pickup truck in Port Charlotte, Fla. When confronted, the suspect fled, but as he did, the witness told Charlotte County sheriff’s deputies, his shorts fell down, revealing red boxer undershorts. The deputies reported that they located the suspect, Antonio Kleiss,…
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Dennis Sparling [246]
11/12/11: Dennis Sparling has been sculpting metal in his former quarry home studio in New Haven Vermont for over 40 years. Burlingtonians are probably familiar with Sparling’s Church Street sculpture “Leap Froggers” and his “UVM Catamount” near the Royall Tyler Theatre. Sparling hopes to take his new 9 foot tall creation, Leonardo Da Vinci, on…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. Why? To me, the enclosure is distracting and unnecessary. Why can’t I just enjoy the arresting composition on the naked canvas,…
If You’re Happy and You Know It, Tweet
UVM researchers measure emotion through online communications
Letters to the Editor
Uppity Instrumentalist I’m getting pretty sick of hearing that Tiny Tim ruined the ukulele [“Uke Power,” November 2]. You can’t ruin the reputation of an instrument; it’s a freakin’ instrument. It’s meant to be versatile; it doesn’t have a reputation. That’s like getting angry because some punks play guitar badly in their garage band. Man,…
Brattleboro’s Prison Legal News Featured on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
-Local listeners of National Public Radio’s Saturday-morning news and humor show, “Wait,Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” may not have picked up on last Saturday’s Vermont connection. Each week, host Peter Sagal invites a celebrity guest to play a game called “Not My Job,” in which the celebrity is asked three questions about a topic that, presumably, he…
From the Village That Brought Us the Men of Maple Corner Nude Calendar: A Happiness Store
Everyone knows you can’t buy happiness. Even Ginny Sassaman, the Calais artist and mediator who is opening a happiness store in Maple Corner this weekend. She acknowledges the irony. Sassaman laughed just like everyone else did when a presenter at last year’s Gross National Happiness conference in Burlington showed a cartoon featuring a happiness store…
