October 30 • 1996
On a Role: Craig Mitchell’s One-Man Show Is Not the Same Old Song and Dance; Politics: The French Connection; A “Mall” Order: Davis on Development; Devil in a Codpiece; Freyne on Drugs, TV and Prog Mutations
The Man Who Malled Williston: Jeffrey Davis on historical preservation and future shock
Twenty years from now, Vermonters may look at the mega-mall at Taft Corners and see nothing exceptional about it. By 2015, Chittenden County could be so thoroughly suburbanized that its residents will regard Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Toys R Us and all of Williston’s other chain outlets as inevitable components of a typical shopping-centered landscape. A…
Rhythm & News (10/30/1996)
VIRTUAL TOP TEN There’s a thang for the blues blooming in the Green Mountains, as Charlie Frazier’s recent compilation CD testifies. But who thought Vermont bluesters could shake a lizard’s tail in Stevie Ray Vaughan country? Well, reports proud daddy-o Jimmy Branca, Bloozotomy is currently number 4 on AudioNet’s World Wide Web blues chart. Based…
