Sep 16-22, 2009
The Performing Arts Preview: Andrea Rogers to Leave Flynn; Judith Levine Ponders How to Help the President; Stories From the Host of “This American Life”
This is What Gay Marriage Looks Like
Dana Kaplan and Katie Dyer got married last Saturday at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe. Seven Days video journalist Eva Sollberger captured the ceremony and reception on camera for this week’s episode of “Stuck in Vermont.” You might recognize Dana Kaplan from Burlington indie-pop band, The Smittens. Yep, that’s Dana, singing the “Stuck in…
Snelling Announces Bid for Lt. Governor
Mark Snelling, the son of former Republican Gov. Richard Snelling, announced Friday he is running for lieutenant governor. The announcement caps weeks of speculation about Snelling’s political future. Seven Days first reported Snelling’s gubernatorial ambitions earlier this month. Though he didn’t mention this in his announcement, Snelling told Seven Days he will run as a…
State’s Attorney Recuses Self from Flanagan Probe, Cites Political Conflict
Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan today recused himself from the investigation into alleged lewd conduct by fellow Democrat State Sen. Ed Flanagan, citing his own desire to run for lieutenant governor. As I’ve noted in “Fair Game” for the past several weeks, Donovan has been talked about as a candidate for the state’s number-two…
Federal Student Aid Bill Leaves VSAC Future in Doubt
The US House of Representatives yesterday approved an overhaul and expansion of the federal student aid program by a 253-171 vote, and included an amendment that may keep non-profit lenders like Vermont Student Assistance Corporation in business. At least for now. As I described in a recent Seven Days story (“On Borrowed Time?”), the future…
Senate Republicans Block Media Shield Law
Journalists hoping for federal protection from being held in contempt of court, fined or even jailed for refusing to divulge confidential sources will have to wait a bit longer. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee blocked any further changes to the bill, specifically a suite of proposed changes agreed to in principle last week that…
Trashing City Hall Park
If you think your day is going badly, consider this one thing: At least you didn’t spend your morning sorting garbage. Unless you’re a garbage collector and you do that for a living, in which case, skip down a few sentences. Jennifer Green and Sandrine Thibault are not garbage collectors. Green is codirector of the…
VT Blogger Named One of 50 Most Influential Commentators
Steve Benen, the Vermont-based “blogger in chief” for the Washington Monthly has been named one of the 50 most influential opinion makers by the Atlantic Wire. Benen comes in at No. 44, just one slot up from CNN’s grumpy angry white guy Lou Dobbs. At the top of list is New York Times columnist Paul…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Max D. Hinton, 21, was interviewing for a job with the Montgomery, Ala., police when he volunteered that he possessed child pornography and had sex with an underage girl. An investigation led to a trial, a conviction and a 30-year prison sentence but no explanation why Hinton mentioned the pornography. • When…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for September 16 – 23, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): To the thug who stole my Chevy Malibu from its parking place while I was recording an album in San Francisco back in 1991: I forgive you. To the lovely and talented Artemisia,…
Art, Vermont Style
Art Review: Art Hop juried show and outdoor sculptures, Soda Plant, Pine Street and Flynn Avenue, Burlington. Through September.
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Dana & Katie Get Married [SIV144]
9/12/09: September 1st it became legal for same sex couples to wed in Vermont. Dana & Katie said their vows in front of a large crowd of supportive family and friends at Trapp Family Lodge Saturday. Music:The Smittens, A Little Revolution, “Jeans and Mittens” The Coolest Thing About Love, “One Hundred Roses,” “One for Me,”…
Letters to the Editor
BROMAGE NAILED IT I really enjoyed Andy Bromage’s piece, “Unfair Market?” [September 2]. I want to applaud Seven Days for running it and also to offer my congratulations to Mr. Bromage: (1) for successfully finding an apartment that fit his needs and (2) for telling a story that absolutely needs to be heard. My property…
At the Hop, Revisited
Soundbites: At the Hop, Revisited, Burlington in Microcosm, Bite Torrent
Are They Nuts? Sens. Leahy, Sanders Back ACORN — updated
In a lopsided 83-7 vote last night, the Senate voted to bar the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from granting any funds to the nonprofit group known as ACORN. Vermont Sens. Patrick Leahy (D) and Bernie Sanders (I) voted against the amendment, and have drawn the ire of Vermont Republicans. ACORN, which stands…
Album Station Goes Silent
Static between the owner and programmers of WCLX, the “Album Station,” has put the 10-year-old free-form rock station off the air—for now. The object of the dispute? In a word: money. License holder Dennis Jackson says he’s had to subsidize the station since December 2008, and he wasn’t interested in continuing the practice much past…
Eat Globally, Write Locally — The Foreignvore Challenge
Friends, today I embark on a great challenge (a challenge I was supposed to undertake yesterday, but I forgot). Today, on the 15th of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand niner, I begin my week of eating globally. For seven days, I shall become a foreignvore, eating only food that comes from…
Taste Test: Tourterelle
3629 Ethan Allen Highway, New Haven, 453-6309. Dinner Wednesday through Saturday beginning at 5:30 p.m. Sunday brunch 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Best Bites: Firebird Café
163 Pearl Street, Essex Junction 316-4265 Being half of a couple of obsessive eaters can be challenging: Sometimes one of you wants breakfast, the other wants lunch. Other times, you feel like something healthy, but your partner wants to down a few hundred calories per bite. From experience, I can recommend a compromise: Firebird Café. The…
This American Chitty Chat — Gabbing with Ira Glass
Yesterday I had the good fortune of chatting with my new best pal, the besuited, bespectacled Ira Glass of public radio’s This American Life. I don’t think he’s aware that he’s my new bestie, but no matter. Plenty of my besties don’t know of their exalted status in my social orbit — Dolly Parton, Alan…
