Oct 17-23, 2007
Finally Faith-Based Sex Education That Doesn’t Leave Teens Groping in the Dark; A Gambling-Addiction Counselor Ups the Ante; Remembering Matthew Shepard; Adding Up Dim Sum
Little Pink Houses For You and Me
Fall in Vermont is not supposed to be like this, not that I’m complaining. This past weekend the temperatures bumped against 70, and on Sunday the sky was blue as Paul Newman’s eyes in Cool Hand Luke. Taking advantage of the gifts of the day, I wandered around the Old North End, taking pics of…
Recipe: Roasted Squash Gnocchi with Chard and Blue Cheese
I invented this dish a couple of weeks ago for a good friend’s birthday celebration. Because I made the gnocchi the “easy way” (stay tuned for details) it’s neither uniform nor particularly pretty. But it tasted really good! The recipe doesn’t have exact measurements for some things, ’cause I didn’t want to hold up the…
My Dear Old Nanny
In the last Hackie column, “Olde School Cabdriver,” a customer tells me about her childhood with a full-time nanny. I’m always somewhat floored when I run into a person with that history. I grew up in a time when most women, even middle-class women, stayed home to raise the kids. It was possible, way back…
Just Say Know
Finally, faith-based sex education that doesn’t leave teens groping in the dark
Natural Inclinations
Art Review: Bong-gi Park, gallery and site-specific outdoor sculpture
Low-Balling Verizon
Local Matters: Maine’s public advocate puts conditions on the FairPoint deal
Taste Test: Dim Sum at Zen Gardens & Tantra
Zen Gardens: 7 Fayette Drive, South Burlington, 862-8885. Tantra: 169 Church Street, Burlington, 651-9660.
Burlington Bacchanalia
Soundbites: Bass Nectar, Led LO/CO, Vermont Peace Song Contest, Another World is Possible
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A cashier at a convenience store in Westminster, Md., reported she was robbed by a man wearing an orange bandana but told police she could tell the robber was her boyfriend, Brendon Marshall, 50, by the way he ran from the store. Police who arrested Marshall said he had a large sum…
Still Saving the Princess
Game On: “The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass”, DS Nintendo, $34.99. E for everyone
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his book The Primary Colors, Alexander Theroux writes that yellow is the color of “early bruises, forbidding skies, dead leaves, dental plaque, foul curtains, speed bumps, and callused feet.” And yet, he muses, yellow is also the color of “the generous sun, butter, candlelight, ripening grain, translucent amber, and spring…
Fare Schwag
I was driving my customer to the Trapp Family Lodge, one beauty of a fare in the heart of the foliage season. It was early afternoon and, after three straight days of gray overcoat skies, the sun had broken through like water through a broken dam. As we approached the Stowe exit, the Hunger Mountain…
Eat Crap (an interesting article on Slate.com)
Think that irradiation is the answer to gastrointestinal woes? Think again! According to Kent Sepkowitz, what Americans really need to do is “ingest more excrement.” Read all about it… While munching on manure is anything but appetizing, I’ve certainly been swayed by the numerous articles that blame everything from allergies to drug-resistant strains of bacteria…
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Gogol Bordello [SIV49]
Friday night at the Vermont College Gym – two silvery tour buses idled outside and a sold out crowd undulated beneath dormant basketball hoops. Gogol Bordello may be the biggest music act to hit Montpelier Vermont in …. well, ever!? Ed DuFresne of Edifided Presents managed to lure the popular band to Vermont’s state capitol…
