Nov 7-13, 2007
A Northeast Kingdom “Farm” Fights for the Right to Raise Fenced Game; Why is Vermont’s Hunter Population Dwindling?; Harry Potter-Inspired World Cup Comes to Vermont
Random and Obscure Fact: Steam
In 1969, a bunch of studio musicians wrote and recorded a tune that will live forever. Though it was a hit at the time, it quickly faded into cultural obscurity as they never had another hit song. The Resurrection. The 1980’s rolled around. On afternoon, at a blow-out game in a football stadium, the victorious…
Still Tubing It
It’s been a long while since I posted under the category, “My TV Addiction.” It’s not that I have stopped or even cut down on my viewing. I wish. No, the reason is my belated discovery that blogging about television represents the hands-down corniest, dweebiest – all right, let’s say it – lamest use of…
Food Poetry: Persimmons by Li-Young Lee
I ate a Hachiya persimmon the other day and it made me think of this poem. The first time I ever tried one, I didn’t know how to tell whether or not it was ripe, and the fruit had the most astringent, mouth-drying effect I’ve ever experienced. Now I know to wait until the fruit…
The $1000 Bagel
I’m always on the lookout for abnormally expensive food products. Tonight, I discovered the $1000 bagel. What would you expect on a bagel that costs that much? I’m thinking cream cheese made with the milk of a single cow which feasts entirely on alpine grasses and herbs, the flesh from a salmon that was raised…
What do you do with Thousands of Bananas?
Ask the folks who live on Tershelling Island and Ameland Island. Apparently, some weird stuff washes up on their beaches. Twenty years ago, it was a large number of sweaters. Last year, the current brought tennis shoes. This year, bananas. Bunches and bunches of them. The fruit was in a cargo container that fell from…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police investigating a break-in at a residence in Yonkers, N.Y., identified John Lyles, 36, as their suspect because he removed his boots to avoid making noise but then left them behind when he fled empty-handed after the homeowner’s dog began barking at him. A few hours later, an officer spotted Lyles walking…
You’re History?
A new chapter at the Vermont Folklife Center brings a different director, a bigger building and a state-of-the-art audio lab
“Remains” of the Day
Art Review: “Nature Remains: The Artist as Environmentalist,” Main Gallery, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Through November 17.
New Game Worth a Look
Game On: “Flash Focus” $19.99; Nintendo DS Nintendo DS, E for Everyone
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Read these lines by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, translated by Chana Block and Stephen Mitchell: “A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: These combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That’s why my feelings always come in…
How to Cook a Skunk, and Other Helpful Info…
In the course of putting together the food section this week, I found that I had more information about game than could possibly fit. So, I saved a bit of juicy stuff for the blog. David Coolidge, a chef-instructor at NECI, took the time to give me some tips on cooking on the wild side.…
Hippies are Everywhere!
Ratdog played the Memorial Auditorium this weekend. You know what that means. When the Grateful Dead disbanded upon the death of their leader, Jerry Garcia, in the summer of ’95, the Deadhead horde was bereft. Grateful Dead shows were about way more than music. For thousands of their avid fans, following the Dead around the…
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Jeh Kulu’s West African Dance & Drum Festival [SIV52]
The 13th Annual West African Dance & Drum Festival took place this weekend in Contois Auditorium in Burlington Vermont. Master artists from Mali, Senegal, and Guinea taught West African dance and music classes. Festival participants traveled from far and wide to soak up the knowledge. Saturday evening brought the high octane premiere of “Inu Sene”…
Time Mag’s “10 Questions”
Since 2002, as far as I can tell via Google research, Time Magazine has been doing a fun feature called “10 Questions With [insert the name of a celebrity here].” Sometimes the questions have been posed by one of their journalists. Other times, they come from members of the public. This week, they talked to…
