Sep 12-18, 2012
2012-13 Performing Arts Preview; Paul Heintz on Vermont’s New Super PAC; Seven Things Vermonters Should Know About the New Québec Government
Cover Story
Blurt Is No More. Here’s Where to Find New Seven Days Content
You may have seen the new blogs that we’ve been launching here in Seven Days-land in recent weeks. Now that those are up, it’s official: We’re retiring the Blurt blog. R.I.P., Blurt. Our dear friend Blurt, in all its green-tentacled, drooling glory, has served us well since early 2008. But it’s changed a lot through…
7 Reasons Shumlin Won — and Brock Lost — the VPR Debate
In the world of incumbent advantage, debates are the great equalizer. No matter who’s up or down in the polls, in the race for campaign cash or in organizing a ground game, debates bring to the table just candidates, ideas and arguments. It’s the best venue for a long-shot challenger like Sen. Randy Brock (R-Franklin)…
WTF: What’s up with the baseball players on Spear Street?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again! Louisiana State Police charged Joshua Adam Carter, 25, with trying to steal a car stopped at a traffic light in Shreveport, La., around 4:30 p.m. The unmarked vehicle turned out to be occupied by a state police detective and two members of the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force. According to the police…
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Hardcore Punk in a Burlington Basement [282]
8/26/12: Five hardcore punk bands (4 of them from VT) played in Jim Lockridge’s basement early Sunday evening. Hunger recently returned from a European tour and was celebrating the release of a 7″, The Worst Five Minutes of Your Life was reuniting after 9 years and the underground scene felt very much alive and well…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never be able to actually gaze upon your own face. You may of course see a reasonable likeness of it in mirrors, photos and videos. But the real thing will always be forever visible to everyone else, but not you. I think that’s an apt symbol for how hard…
Celebrity Sustenance
Side Dishes: New England Culinary Institute names new executive chef
Letters to the Editor
New Boss [Re “In Montpelier, Empty Storefronts Could Be a Thing of the Past,” September 5]: So often the changes we want to see in Vermont downtowns come as the result of hard work, preparation and then … I’d say the most important element is simply generational change. Barbara Morrow Sutton Don’t Forget Barre [Re…
