Sep 8-14, 2010
Maltex Building Reborn at Art Hop; Online Embarrassments and Cyber Slips; Alice Levitt Catcher Bieber Fever
Foursquare Hopping
As part of Seven Days’ sponsorship of this year’s South End Art Hop Juried Show, we set up a venue on Foursquare for the show and encouraged visitors to check in there and leave tips about their favorite art. We didn’t really know what to expect — Foursquare, a location-based service, is still a relatively…
Press Release: Two-Day Tech Jam Will Showcase Growing Vermont Businesses
For Immediate Release September 13, 2010 Contact: Cathy Resmer, Associate Publisher / Web Editor, Seven Days vt3@sevendaysvt.com, 802-864-5684 x14 What: Vermont 3.0 Tech Jam When: Friday October 15, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Saturday, October 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Where: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center on the Burlington Waterfront Cost: Free to…
Dubie, Shumlin Square Off in First Debate
* updated below * They stood just inches away from each other inside a cramped AM radio studio for their first, official gubernatorial debate, but Republican Brian Dubie and Democrat Peter Shumlin couldn’t have been farther apart on a wide range of issues. The pair debated on WVMT-AM’s popular morning show Charlie, Ernie & Lisa…
Johnson State Students to Quiz (Major Party) Statewide Candidates
It’s just one of those political rituals in Vermont: Forums before Johnson State College students hosted by political professor and State Sen. Bill Doyle (R-Washington). That’s why major-party candidates trek north to Johnson — far from the state’s major population centers — to climb the stairs to the second floor of JSC’s library and answer…
Alburgh Baker Lands Sweet Gig on “Top Chef”
By now, it’s a safe bet that everyone knows someone who’s been on a reality show. I know three people, one of whom works in this office. Yes, our own ad exec extraordinaire Allison Davis allowed the long lens of reality TV to creep, or rather barge, into her life a couple years back. Our…
I Was a Recount Volunteer
*** UPDATE: The Burlington Free Press reports that the totals are in, and Peter Shumlin is the winner of the Democratic gubernatorial primary. *** Last week, I received mass emails from the Doug Racine and Peter Shumlin campaigns calling for volunteers to help recount ballots in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Racine trails Shumlin by only…
Fringe Friday: Peter Diamondstone
For week six of “Fringe Friday,” we feature socialist candidate for U.S. Senate Peter Diamondstone, a perennial fringie who, for the first time in three decades, isn’t running under the banner of the Liberty Union Party he helped found. We mean no offense by “fringe.” Vermont has a strong tradition of putting independent and third-party…
Democrats File Complaint Against Dubie Campaign
The Vermont Democratic Party lodged a complaint with the attorney general’s office Thursday alleging the Republican Governors Association and the gubernatorial campaign of Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie violated state election law. The complaint is based on a series of allegations claiming that the RGA and Dubie campaign coordinated the filming of footage used in an…
Deal Breaker?
Dear Mistress Maeve, I have been with my son’s father for roughly three years. In the beginning, the sex was OK, but now it’s nothing. He is not willing to try new things because he says I’m not a slut like that. Hello! I like kinky stuff! When he does decide to have sex, he…
Gubernatorial Politics in Purgatory
As volunteers gathered in courthouses throughout Vermont to recount the more than 76,000 ballots cast in the Democratic primary for governor, the five Democratic candidates wound down a two-day tour of the state. Four of the five Democrats spilled out of a Leprechaun model RV just after noon on Wednesday and made the walk up…
Welch Fights Back Against “Natural” Syrup
Rep. Peter Welch is mad. Fuming, even. His ire doesn’t stem from repeated Republican stalemates, Obama’s plummeting poll numbers or the Tea Party’s limited grasp of English grammar. No, our good sir is pissed over syrup. In particular, maple-flavored syrup that claims to be “all natural.” In a letter sent to the commissioner of the…
Bieber Fever Spikes!
Too old to understand why little girls the world over love Justin Bieber? The 16-year-old is the latest teen idol to create mass hysteria. I hit the Champlain Valley Fair last Friday to try to make sense of the sensation. To read my impressions, click here. To see Bieber Fever in action, watch this video!
Graphic Imagery of White River Junction Hate Speech
This week’s print version of the Local Matters story, “White River Junction Neighbors Exchange Hate-Crime Accusations,” didn’t have space to run a cartoon by Brandon Elston. The 2009 graduate of WRJ’s Center for Cartoon Studies lives in an apartment above the Main Street Museum, next door to a used bike shop owned by Bob Pickering, the…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for September 8 – 14, 2010. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): My friend Alana suffered from a mysterious ailment for months. Symptoms included vertigo, stomach pains and numbness in her legs. After being treated unsuccessfully by six health care practitioners, both mainstream and alternative,…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again People noticed Dennis Hawkins, 48, when he showed up at a shopping center supermarket wearing a woman’s blonde wig, a sweater with fake breasts under it and clown pants. Police in Swissvale, Pa., said Hawkins proceeded to a Kmart store, where surveillance cameras caught him shoplifting a BB gun. He then went…
Letters to the Editor
It’s a Colorful World Thank you for [“The Diversity Test,” August 25]. Working at UVM for the last seven years, the lack of racial and ethnic diversity within our education system is a concern, as our new college students can sometimes have trouble finding role models and mentors who look like them and share similar…
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Vermont Yak Company [SIV191]
8/26/10: Gazing out at a hillside dotted with hulking, furry yaks, it is hard to believe we are still in Vermont. The three families that formed the Vermont Yak Company have been learning the ancient Tibetan art of yak farming since 2008. Eva tastes a strip steak to see what the yak-et is all about.…
Fast Bikes — 2010 Burlington Criterium
Perhaps one of my favorite events all year in Burlington is the Green Mountain Stage Race Dealer.com Criterium. This is when hundreds of cyclists with calves the size of grapefruits parade around town wearing ridiculous Spandex unis. And they also bike. Fast. Like 30 miles per hour fast. My car can barely go that fast.…
