Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2012

Nov 28 - Dec 4, 2012 / Vol. 18 / No. 13
There’s No Place Like Home But We Still Have a Wish List…; A Reporter With a Record; Can Pot Dispensaries Pay Off?; the Read on Archer Mayor’s 23rd; Meet Three Fiber Fashionistas

Cover Story

News Quirks

Curses, Foiled Again Brian Hardman, 22, pointed a gun at Leonard Turner, who was putting air in his tires at a Detroit gas station, and demanded his car. Turner, 47, a former middleweight boxer, grabbed Hardman’s trigger finger and shot off the gun until it was empty, then threw Hardman to the ground. “He got…

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “They are trying to make me into a fixed star,” complained religious leader Martin Luther a few centuries ago. “I am an irregular planet.” I invite you to use that declaration as your own in the coming weeks. You have every right to avoid being pinned down, pigeonholed and forced to…

Letters to the Editor

Not So NIMBY I want to correct a misimpression left by Kevin J. Kelley’s otherwise excellent and balanced article on S.D. Ireland’s proposal to redevelop its longtime industrial site on Grove Street [“A New Apartment Complex Could Ease Burlington’s Housing Crunch,” November 14]. While I certainly have numerous concerns about the impact of 200 to…

The Moreau Horrors [290]

11/25/12: The Saints & Poets Production Company presents their most ambitious show to date, The Moreau Horrors.  Adapted from H.G. Wells’ 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by local playwright Seth Jarvis, with original music by Adam Cooper Wood and Nathan Jarvis.  The original musical comedy is a who’s who of Burlington artists, combining…


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