Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2012
Is Secretary of State Jim Condos Doing His Job? Yes and No; After the Art Hop, Reasons to “Look Up” at Bite Me Organic Pizza; Two Photographers See Art, Not Dead People, at Vermont Cemeteries
Obituary: Sylvia Adams
Sylvia Adams died September 1, 2012, at age 90. She began taking piano lessons and concertizing as a young girl. Music became her lifelong passion and career. At age 14 she took on her first piano student; she continued teaching until the present. She loved music and theater, whether performing or in the audience. Her…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The data that’s stored and disseminated on the internet is unimaginably voluminous. And yet the 540 billion trillion electrons that carry all this information weigh about the same as a strawberry. I’d like to use this fun fact as a metaphor for the work you’re doing these days — and the…
Graveyard Shift
Two photographers see art, not dead people, at the state’s cemeteries
Mourning Star
For a fourth-generation mortician, funerals are still a deeply personal undertaking
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again After responding to a call that two men were carrying items from a house before dawn, sheriff’s deputies in Manatee County, Fla., spotted the men driving by the crime scene. They had returned, the sheriff’s report noted, because “they were lost in the neighborhood and trying to find their way out.” Deputies…
Rutland’s Rosy Glow
Side Dishes: Juice bar opens; winter farmers market finds a new home
Home, Not-So-Sweet Home
Eyewitness: Katherine Taylor-McBroom, S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington
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The Human Canvas [287]
9/29/12: The Human Canvas is a creative performance duo made up of DJ Frank Grymes and body painting artist Kadina Dinash. Since 2006 this engaged couple have been bringing their eclectic shows to Vermont and beyond. This has been a busy Halloween season for them with 9 gigs in 5 days. Eva caught up with…
Letters to the Editor
Boy Blunder [Re “Left Hook,” October 17]: Just asking whether [Vermont Republican Party Chair] Jack Lindley’s comment about “their boy Barack Obama” is offensive. The word “boy” in our troubled civil rights history carries lots of, well, history. I know they use the term without regard to race on sports talk TV and radio. But…
