Oct 20-26, 2010
Winter Preview: Skaters Flock to Jay’s New Rink; VT’s Sports Academics Hit a Peak; UVM Seniors Carve Out a Ski Niche
VTIFF Report: ‘I Killed My Mother’
I saw this movie Saturday night at the Vermont International Film Festival. Producer Carole Mondello came down from Montréal to talk to us, but only a handful of people showed up. Maybe the movie’s title spooked them. Shouldn’t have. While you may be expecting a heavy metal song or a ’60s pulp exploitation flick, J’ai…
New Political Ads Are All About “Choice”
* updated * Two days after Republican Brian Dubie dismissed women’s reproductive rights as an important issue in the race for governor, the Republican Governors Association launched an ad featuring pro-choice women who support the lieutenant governor. You can watch the RGA ad here. The ad comes after Democrat Peter Shumlin and his allies —…
Gingko Redux: Barfberry as Delicacy
File under: Not everything that smells like a overflowing Dumpster in mid-August tastes like an overflowing Dumpster in mid-August. Earlier this week, I received an email here at 7DHQ from a fellow named Rob who recently moved to the area. He wanted to thank me for a blog post I wrote last year about Gingko…
Nightmare VT Haunts Abandoned South Burlington Cul-de-sac
Talk about a ghost town: The houses on South Burlington’s Picard Circle, just minutes from the Burlington International Airport, sit deserted — and have for a while. Their proximity to the airport made the former residents eligible for a federally funded program that allows the airport to purchase homes within a 65-decibel-and-above noise zone,…
Burlington Police: No Signs of Break-In at Murder Victim’s House
Burlington police said this morning they found no evidence of a break-in at the Park Street home where Kathleen Smith was found murdered Monday morning. “There’s no obvious signs of forced entry,” police spokeswoman Lt. Jennifer Morrison told reporters at an 11 a.m. news conference. “We do have a lot of evidence that we continued…
New Leak Found at Vermont Yankee
Entergy Vermont Yankee is working to plug a pinhole leak on a one-inch drain line. The leak is located in a safety-related system used to inject water into the reactor if the plant suddently shuts down. The leak was discovered on September 24 when an operator, during normal rounds, observed a puff of steam coming…
What I Want From My Governor
During this election season, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want from my politicians, and in particular, from my governor. Now, this is dangerous since I know somewhere between not much and absolute bubkes about politics. OK, that’s not necessarily true — I work for a newspaper, so I’m not totally out of…
Free Pass?
Dear Mistress Maeve, My girlfriend and I have been together for two years. She is much younger than me and has never been with anyone else. Lately, she has had doubts about our relationship, not because she doesn’t care about me, but because she has never experienced anyone else sexually. She is fairly sure about…
Rink Review
Built to enhance a resort, the Jay Peak Ice Haus Arena anchors a local skating community
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Army prosecutors said Pvt. Jonne T. Wegley, 19, wanted out of basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., so badly that he offered a fellow recruit $5000 and a job to shoot him in the left leg so he could get out of the Army with a medical disability. He figured he’d still…
Vermont International Film Festival Preview
You know how sometimes you take a chance on an obscure movie and like it so much you want to tell everyone you know? That’s how I feel about two films playing next week at the Vermont International Film Festival. Both these foreign flicks are girls’ coming-of-age stories that put disturbing twists on the theme…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “There’s one ultimate goal during sex,” says Cosmopolitan magazine, a renowned source of erotic guidance for women. That is “to be as sensually stimulated as possible.” I don’t quite agree with that assessment. Having emotionally pleasing fun should also be an important consideration, as well as creating a playful ambiance and…
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NASA at Vermont 3.0 Tech Jam [SIV197]
10/15/10: Vermont 3.0 Tech Jam brought about 1,200 people and 65 exhibitors to the Main St Landing Performing Arts Center Friday and Saturday. And did we mention that NASA was in attendance too? Eva spoke to exhibitors and attendees and discussed Vermont’s unique brand. Music: The Smittens, The Coolest Thing About Love, “C’mon! (When The…
Letters to the Editor
Support the Steeple Imagine my astonishment when I turned the page in Seven Days and saw the steeple of the brick meetinghouse where I am a minister depicted as a flaccid penis. An arresting image to accompany the article “Sex and the Queen City,” [October 6], certainly. Respectful? No, but it provides an alternative view…
McCain: Britton vs Leahy is ‘Sleeper’ Race of 2010
U.S. Sen. John McCain spent a few hours in Vermont on Friday. He was here stumping for U.S. Senate candidate Len Britton at a public rally, to try to help the longshot GOP candidate oust incumbent Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy. About 250 people — many of them veterans — gathered inside a hanger near the…
Burlington Police Investigate Possible Homicide; Signs of Struggle in Park Street House
*** UPDATE 5:42 p.m.: Update: Burlington police have released surveillance photos of an unidentified “person of interest” in the case, and are asking for the public’s help in identifying him (at right). Police do not consider this individual a suspect, but says he “may have important information related to this case.” Anyone with information is…
Theater Review: SLaM Misses Goal
I wanted to like SLaM: The Hockey Rock Opera, I really did. As someone who is often caught without a rhyme while making up goofy songs on the fly with my boyfriend, I loved creator Lauren Walker’s boldness: She actually recorded the ditties she made up with her boyfriend while traveling through Europe and turned…
“Parody” Video Claims VT is Better. Than Everything.
Some dude sent this to 7DHQ this morning. Apparently, living in Vermont is better than living in a place with fast food and smog. Who knew?
