Nov 17-23, 2010
Writers Reminisce About Thanksgiving Day; Backing With Booze; Alice Levitt on Turducken
Corm and the Coach are Back (Maybe)
The morning radio duo Corm & the Coach may (again) return to the virtual Vermont airwaves — this time on an Internet-based sports broadcaster Northeast Sports Network. Steve Cormier (“Corm”) and Tom Brennan (“Coach”) are negotiating a deal to relaunch their show as part of a multimedia broadcast with NSN. In a joint release, the…
Leahy Takes Heat Over Support for Online Anti-Piracy Bill
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is coming under fire from Internet privacy and free speech groups for legislation he shepherded through the Senate Judiciary Committee that some believe is a ham-handed approach to clamping down on piracy and copyright infringement. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 19-0…
Tax This, Bill Sorrell!
Dear A.G. Bill Sorrell, What were you thinking proposing a tax on sugary drinks? I mean, I realize that liquid sugar bombs like Amp Energy (58 grams) and Rockstar (62 grams) are making us all morbidly obese. Hell, I practically bleed Snapple Raspberry Iced Tea. But it’s not the drinks’ fault that water is totally…
Vermont Legal Aid Goes to Washington
Vermont Legal Aid staff attorney Grace Pazdan is heading to Washington, D.C. tomorrow to give the White House a piece of her mind. According to a press release issued this morning, Pazdan was invited to participate in a summit put together by the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families and the Department…
Welch Wrangles With Rangel and Waters
* updated below * The U.S. Congress may be in a “lame duck” session, but it’s finding plenty of time to discipline some of its own members. And, Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) is in the midst of it all as a member of a key subcommittee of the House Ethics Committee. Technically, the Ethics Committee…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “You don’t want to be the best of the best,” said Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. “You just want to be the only one who does what you do.” That’s always good advice, but it will be especially apt for you during the next few weeks. You’re entering a phase when…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again After Dustin Matthew Marshall, 20, tried on a pair of jeans at a Walmart store in Gallatin, Tenn., and walked out without paying, police identified him because he left his old jeans behind, along with his wallet. (Nashville’s WTVF-TV) Police spotted a thief leaving a Walmart store in Alliance, Ohio, and gave…
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Jana Beagley [SIV200]
10/22/10: Over 3,300 people voted to decide who would be featured in the 200th Episode of Stuck in VT and the winner is….Jana Beagley, Artistic Producer of Nightmare Vermont. Jana has been a Vermont “haunter” for 20 years and this October Eva caught up with her at Picard Circle for a very creepy evening with…
A Literary Thanksgiving: Local Writers Help Set the Table
We’ve all had memorable home-cooked meals, but for Americans, Thanksgiving dinners — where family, food, tradition and reality collide — can be especially hard to forget. Some Thanksgivings inspire us to serve our forebears’ recipes to our children and grandchildren. Others inspire us to flee the kitchen and eat out on that Thursday in November.…
Letters to the Editor
Suicide Is Painful I want to commend Ken Picard for writing an article on the recent suicides [“UVM Acknowledges Two Recent Student Deaths But Won’t Use the S-Word,” November 3]. The article is very well written and brings to light the fact that many of us mourn in silence because of the blame, shame and…
“Superchef” Flies to Bluebird
Visitors to Burlington’s Bluebird Tavern tonight will get a taste of something unexpected: a new chef. Both Aaron Josinsky and his wife, manager Laura Wade, have left their jobs at the buzzed-about localvore eatery. In Josinsky’s place, Michael Clauss (pictured), late of The Daily Planet and a recent Bocuse d’Or contender, has entered the kitchen.…
Video: Turducken Construction
Some of us have simple dreams. One of mine was to make a turducken. I realized it when I headed to the Farmer’s Kitchen at Turkey Hill Farm in Randolph. Watch in shock and awe as I learn to debone a turkey, chicken and duck, then stuff them into each other. Once you’ve recovered, follow…
Humanitarian Dr. Paul Farmer Speaks to Packed House at St. Michael’s
About 700 college students, faculty and local social-justice activists crammed into the McCarthy Arts Center at St. Michael’s College Monday night to hear humanitarian Dr. Paul Farmer discuss his work in Haiti. Farmer was scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m., but the main auditorium was filled by 7. Several hundred more people crowded into an…
