Romance and Bridal Issue
Romance and Bridal Issue: Scenes From 12 Weddings; The Ring Thing – When Fire Met Metal; Talking Teddy Bears; Romance in Montreal; A Match Made in the Personals
Slideshow: Winter is a Drag Ball 2009
February 14, 2009 at Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT Click on a photo to see the photographer, comment, share, etc. Watch in full screen… Congratulations to the House of LeMay and the Vermont People with AIDS Coalition for hosting the most attended event in Higher Ground’s 11-year history: 1200+ people! ***** Thanks to all the…
Slideshow: Winter is a Drag Ball
More than 1200 people attended this year’s Winter is a Drag Ball hosted by the House of LeMay. Check out the official Seven Days slideshow of photos submitted by area photographers.
The Browser, with Jonathan Butler
I’ve been diving back in to Twitter the past few days and just discovered The Browser. It’s a new local radio show — and podcast — “about the people who bring the world wide web to btv.” (That’s cool-kid speak for Burlington; BTV is Burlington’s three-letter airport code.) The Browser airs every Wednesday on Burlington’s…
WCAX Nominated for GLAAD Award
Congratulations to Darren Perron and the rest of the team at WCAXtelevision on their GLAAD media award nomination. GLAAD, the Gay andLesbian Alliance Against Defamation, hands out annual awards to thosemembers of the media and entertainment worlds who demonstrate “fair,accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexualand transgender community and issues that affect their…
Champlain Leased Eagles Club for $1
Champlain College leased the former Eagles Club to the Committee on Temporary Shelter for $1, according to COTS Executive Director Rita Markley. As the Burlington Free Press noted yesterday, employees from local businesses J.A. Morrissey Inc. and Duncan-Wisniewski Architecture are converting the downtown social club, which sits on the corner of Maple and St. Paul…
Vermont Teddy Bear Company Catches Flack on Twitter
In this week’s Seven Days, I interviewed Pam Fay, a “bear assembler” at Vermont Teddy Bear Company headquarters in Shelburne. Fay was working hard, seeing as Valentine’s Day is Vermont Teddy’s biggest holiday. Returning to the Seven Days office after my interview, I discovered that several users of Twitter, a popular online messaging service, were…
Online Petition Supports Leahy’s Truth Commission – UPDATED
Leave it to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) — often dubbed the Cyber Senator for his embrace of web technology to reach out to constituents — to use the Internet as a way to champion a pet cause. On Monday Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, floated the idea of creating a Truth Commission to…
COTS Rents the Former Eagles Club
Remember last summer, when Champlain College bought the Eagles’ Club in Burlington? The college now says it has leased the building to the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS). Last Spring, Champlain was publicly defending plans to purchase the building and replace it with apartments for 200 college students. A few months after purchasing the Eagles…
Mayor Sexy
Although this video sure is entertaining, I’m still voting for my cat, Bunny. [Ed. note: Burlington filmmaker Art Bell posted this to Facebook yesterday. Guess it’s making the rounds. Anyone else have Burlington mayoral propaganda videos to share? will.i.am?]
Cocky Cookies
Today I stopped by Nunyuns in the Old North End of Burlington and picked up a half dozen “nudies.” The person-shaped cookies boast bold colored hair and don’t try to hide their, um, assets. The cookies will be available through Valentine’s Day — or until they sell out — so get ’em soon! How do…
Fernando Pagés on Green Building
This week’s Seven Days features a story about Fernando Pagés, an award-winning home builder from Nebraska who writes regularly about design and construction. Pagés is the keynote speaker at the Better Buildings by Design Conference at the Burlington Sheraton, a two-day event that ends tonight. Seeing as my interview with Pagés was so interesting (to…
Trayless Movement at SMC = Epic Fail
Remember when I blogged about how St. Michael’s was joining Middlebury, Champlain, much of UVM, and other schools by ditching trays in the dining hall? Well, never mind. As announced at a recent Student Association meeting by Secretary of Student Life Gary Levante, and elaborated upon in this Defender/Echo article, the plan to ditch the…
If You [Heart] Your Indie Bookstores…
Josie Leavitt, co-owner of Shelburne’s Flying Pig Bookstore, emailed me about a Valentine’s Day event called Kids Heart Authors. It’s happening at indie booksellers all over New England, and the press release says it was inspired by “a Twitter message from Newton, MA resident and author Mitali Perkins. ‘IDEA,’ she tweeted. ‘Indies partner with authors for…
Sanders v. Geithner
Sanders challenges Geithner in committee, wondering why bankers aren’t being punished for their abuses.
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Lubiana’s Bridal [SIV115]
2/7/09: Lubiana’s Bridal is a 30 year old multi-generational family business in Barre Vermont. Lubiana and her sister Anna came to Barre from Italy when their fathergot a gig sculpting granite. Now Lubiana’s daughter Tania helps runthe joint and brides to be come from all over the region to try on thetaffeta, ruffles and bows and…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When a man waving a knife and demanding money walked into a convenience store near Ormand Beach, Fla., the clerk greeted him with his own knife and stabbed him in the chest. Brandon Haught of the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office told the Orlando Sentinel the startled robber ran for the door, stopping…
Letters to the Editor
TAB? GAG! I never understood how anyone could drink TaB [“So Long, Aspartame,” January 14]. I once got a small amount of gasoline in my mouth, and it tasted just like TaB! Michael Marion BALTIMORE, MD GOOD SPORT Your sidebar on Freeps writers you love [“High Noon for the Burlington Free Press,” January 28], and…
I of the Beholder
Art Review: Bill Ramage, drawings. Flynndog Gallery, Burlington. Through February.
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for February 11 – 18, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to get all the mind-blowing sex you can this Valentine season, Aries. The entire cosmos will be on your side if you generate erotic wonders that rearrange your thought processes.…
A Knot to Remember
Nursing Brides. Tightrope vows. Wedding goers recall some noteworthy nuptials.
Eat Your Heart Out
From family brunches to nude cookies, V-Day surprises your partner will love
New, Must-Have Apple Product
Rabid Mac fans won’t want to miss Apple’s latest astounding innovation. Here’s a video report from The Onion News Network. Thanks, Bill.
Behind the Floral Wallpaper
One thing I like about my Front Porch Forum listserv is the regular updates from the Burlington Fire Marshal’s office whenever there’s a fire in my neighborhood. It’s rare to get detailed information directly from a public official about what happened at the scene of an accident — and despite the rubbernecking aspect, each update…
Be a U.S. Border Guard, From the Privacy of Your Own Bedroom!
Have you secretly dreamed of being a crime-fighting hero, but the requisite cape and red tights make your ass look fat? Do you fantasize about nabbing South American drug-smugglers as they shuffle across our porous desert border, their colons packed with condoms full of China white? Does the idea of untold hordes of Mexican nationals…
Best Bites: Café Mediterano
Best Bites: Café Mediterano17 Park Street, Essex Junction, 878-9333 By Alice Levitt Last fall, chef/owner Barney Crnalic of Café Mediterano introduced a savory deal. For $25.95, you and a friend (or two) will be treated to beer and wine, plus a table-sized serving of practically everything on the Bosnian/Mediterranean menu. Order his off-menu “special platter”…
Burlington City Council Sonnet #4
Last night the wings of City Hall were jammedwith many a fluffy handlebar mustache;The wearers weren’t part of some klezmer band,or VIPs at a Harley-Davidson bash. Turns out the mustachioed dudes were firemenincensed about their pension benefits —specifically, a councilor’s plan to tweak ’em,and allegedly spoil their plans for retirement. As union president Libby told…
