Sep 5-11, 2012
The 20th Annual Art Hop STRUTS Into Town; Standup Comedy on the Bus; Pick Your Own Art Path; Clay Artists Light a Fire; Vacant Storefronts Filling Up in Montpelier
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Hoppyland
Overwhelmed by the South End Art Hop? Find your groove and go with the flow … chart
Movies You Missed 55: Making Plans for Léna
This week in movies you missed: The French make movies about screwed-up families better than anyone. What You Missed Léna (Chiara Mastroianni, pictured) has at least 99 problems, and she herself is the biggest one. The moment we see this dark, glamorous woman in the middle of a busy Paris train station, towing one small…
Quiz: Ben & Jerry’s Flavor or Porn Flick?
Revered Vermont institution Ben & Jerry’s found itself in the news today, and not for its yummy, creamy treats: The company filed a lawsuit against the producer of the “Ben & Cherry’s” series of pornographic films. Each title in the X-rated series is, you guessed it, a parody of a B&J’s ice cream flavor. The…
Treasurer Hunt
More on Bernie’s Labor Day bash. Plus, Bernie wins awards in the Washingtonian for being least eloquent and a fashion victim.
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again! Georgia authorities accused former DeKalb County Deputy Marshal Washington Varnum Jr. of unprofessional or deceptive conduct and bad moral character. According to Ryan Powell of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, Varnum tried to serve his own eviction notice and then “provided a sworn statement to the courts that he…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Life tests you all the time. Sometimes its prods and queries are hard and weird; they come at you with nonstop intensity. On other occasions the riddles and lessons are pretty fun and friendly, and provide you with lots of slack to figure them out. In all cases, life’s tests offer…
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Partners in Adventure [281]
8/7/12: For the past 13 years, Partners in Adventure has been providing summer camps for Northern Vermonters with and without disabilities between the ages of 8 to 25. Eva catches up with campers at a hip hop class led by local dancer Karen Amirault at the Essex Alliance Community Center in Essex Junction. Music: Kevin…
Letters to the Editor
Teach Your Children Educator-author Tony Wagner, quoted last week in [“The Schools of Tomorrow,” August 29], says, “The world no longer cares about how much our kids know. What the world cares about is what they can do with what they know.” Bravo to Wagner for channeling the words of Booker T. Washington, who said…
