Former Pan Am stewardesses remember their glory days in the air — and nitpick the new TV series
A few weeks back, Jake Burton Carpenter, Burton Snowboard’s Shredder-in-Chief announced to his staff via company memo that he was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer. While the prognosis looks good (this type of cancer is considered very curable), Carpenter, 57, will be taking it easy as he undergoes three months of treatment. He’s already begun…
I heard the tragic news yesterday that Mikey Welsh was found dead, at age 40, in a Chicago hotel room. It still feels like a slap in the face. Such a cliché, rock-star way to go. Oh, Mikey, why? It shouldn’t have ended this way, or this soon. Online fan and news sites were abuzz with…
More than 350 people marched through downtown Burlington on Sunday afternoon in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City — the third such rally in as many weeks. With a street band leading the procession, the throng marched from City Hall Park up Church Street to the fountain at the top…
NEW YORK — Despite the looming skyscrapers and the fidgety cops, many Vermonters might feel right at home in Liberty Plaza, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street uprising. Ian Williams and TC Kida (pictured at right) certainly find the scene congenial. When not marching on Lower Manhattan’s citadels of capitalism, the two Vermonters have…
This week in movies you missed: A 102-year-old director makes a film that, unsurprisingly, seems adrift in time. What You Missed According to IMDB, The Strange Case of Angélica is the 56th film helmed by Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira since 1931. That’s right: He’s been making movies longer than most of us have been alive.…
It sounded a little too good to be true. Burlington International Airport was going to let me, Seven Days designer Celia Hazard, photographer Andy Duback and three former Pan Am stewardesses have our way with a JetBlue plane during the hour it sat on the tarmac between flights. They’d fling open the back door, wheel up…
For the second time this year, a Vermont judge has ruled against an out-of-state political action committee — saying the PAC’s spending in the 2010 election violated state law. Today, Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford ruled that political ads run by the Republican Governors Association last year violated the state’s campaign finance laws because the…
Democratic mayoral hopeful Miro Weinberger released a five-point plan on Thursday to help Burlington dig out of an estimated $80 million hole. Weinberger, a nonprofit housing developer and member of the city’s Airport Commission, promised at his campaign kickoff (pictured right) that he would offer voters some concrete plans to deal with the city’s fiscal…
From the files at federal court in Burlington comes this story of hard time. A Vermont prison inmate is suing corrections officials after an adverse reaction to a prescription medication caused an erection that lasted for five days and left him with permanent erectile dysfunction. James Stewart, age 34 (not pictured at right), alleges that…
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9/24/11: One month after Tropical Storm Irene devastated the quaint Southern Vermont town of Jamaica, Eva takes a tour of the damage with VT State Representative Oliver Olsen. See stills here. Music: F. Chopin, Fantaisie – Impromptu in C# Minor Opus 66, as interpreted by Annemieke Spoelstra,”Toccare”
Many of Vermont’s big names in music and art have stepped up to raise money for Vermonters affected by Tropical Storm Irene. Now it’s the sports world’s turn. If you’re obsessed with your fantasy baseball team — or if you just watched Moneyball and find yourself suddenly interested in Sabermetric analysis — here’s a flood relief…
Miss out on tix for this Sunday’s Irene benefit show with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals at the Flynn? You’re in luck. Vermont Public Television will carry two hours of the gig, live on the teevee beginning at 8 p.m., and stream the broadcast on their website, vpt.org. And just so viewers don’t feel like…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Do unto others as they wish,” advised French artist Marcel Duchamp, “but with imagination.” I recommend that approach to you, Aries. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can create good fortune for yourself by tuning in to the needs and cravings of others, and then satisfying those…
Curses, Foiled Again Boston police reported that a man walked into a bank and handed a teller a note that read, “Give me all your money.” The teller refused, informing the would-be robber the window was closed. He moved over to the next teller, where a customer scolded him for cutting in front of the…
A new plaque marks Burlington’s lost Italian neighborhood
Education happens off the lesson grid at a home-based Burlington school
Side Dishes: Vermont International Film Fest serves up food series
Side Dishes: Two Vermont food writers release very different cookbooks
Art Review: Wosene Worke Kosrof at the Fleming Museum of Art
Book Review: The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
Soul-Stirring Soup This is an open letter to Sandy Lincoln [“Baking the Blues Away,” September 21]. As I read the Seven Days article about you, your café, your town and your “signature” African peanut soup, I said to myself, Gosh, I’ll have to make a trip up to Rochester and get me some of that.…
It’s official: Voters sent a clear and unequivocal message to the Colchester selectboard today, voting to reject the $4.5 million purchase of the former Camp Holy Cross property on Malletts Bay. The results of Tuesday’s special election, announced shortly after 8 p.m., revealed that “no” votes outnumbered “yes” votes by a more than 2-to-1 margin.…
Side Dishes: In Burlington, you can get cupcakes — and comedy — ’til late
As a kid, Gov. Peter Shumlin struggled with having severe dyslexia. And a big nose. But it got better. Now he’s the governor of Vermont. Suck on that, small-nosed bookworms! Shumlin just released a video for the “It Gets Better Project,” an initiative launched by syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage and his partner Terry…
If you think Vermont has nothing in common with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, think again. The whole flap about the “N-word” variant “n*****head” being painted on the entrance to Perry’s family hunting compound has highlighted the fact that this term was used throughout the United States as a place name, including in Vermont. Last night,…
You can’t throw a dart at the Seven Days calendar section these days without hitting an Irene benefit (because naturally, you’d be throwing darts at our paper, right?). They’re everywhere from church basements to theaters to your neighbor’s kid’s romper room. And that’s a good thing. We need to take care of each other, especially as…
