Summer Preview 2012
Marathon Advice From a Buddhist Runner; On the Trail With the Green Mountain Club President; Vermont’s Unusual Museums; Sampling Snack Bars
Will Montpelier’s Savoy Theater Close?
Is Montpelier’s Savoy Theater “Too Culturally ‘Big’ to Fail”? That’s the headline on a special insert that Terrence Youk (pictured right), who has owned the Savoy since late 2009, is sending to his membership list today along with the usual newsletter and appeal. Youk continues: Since printing the membership appeal included in this envelope, our…
Movies You Missed 40: The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer
This week in movies you missed: John Malkovich plays a psycho (again!) in this filmed theater production from Vienna. What You Missed Jack Unterweger was a dashing Austrian who committed murder, went to prison for life, started writing books, became a celebrated public intellectual, was released from prison, and promptly started killing again. In 1994,…
Bob Kiss: I’m Running for State Senate as an Independent
Former Burlington mayor Bob Kiss confirmed today what he’s hinted about for months: He’s running for state Senate this November. The former Progressive told Seven Days he’ll run as an independent for one of Chittenden County’s six Senate seats. Kiss, who served in the Vermont House from 2001-2006, said he won’t shy away from his controversial…
Meet the New Seven Days Marathon Relay Team — and Prepare to Lose!
Remember last year’s Seven Days Vermont City Marathon relay team? No? Maybe that’s because while you were pathetically limping up Battery Street at mile 15, we were already finished — kicking back in the Waterfront Park beer tent. Maybe this post-race photo of Seven Days staff writer Ken Picard from last year will jog your…
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A Neighborhood’s Future is Up in the Air [268]
5/21/12: Burlington International Airport has grown in size over the years and this means an increase in noise for the South Burlington residents that live nearby. Under an FAA relocation program, the airport has bought about 120 homes in the areas surrounding the airport that are within the 65-decibel noise zone. Demolition permits are pending…
WTF: What’s up with the bridge to nowhere over the Burlington Beltline?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Moving Mountains
The Green Mountain Club’s next president has been hiking Vermont for nearly eight decades — and isn’t stopping
Let the Spirit Move You
Review: Running With the Mind of Meditation by Sakyong Mipham
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “My soul is a fire that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four cubic feet of new ideas every day, as a steamboat needs coal.” Your soul may not be quite as blazing…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Chicago police charged Raymond Jefferson, 20, with robbing a Radio Shack of $17,000 worth of merchandise after they tracked him using global positioning equipment that was among the stolen items. (Chicago Tribune) Fenton Graham, 35, was one of three people charged with twice robbing a drug store in Potomac, Md., where he…
Letters to the Editor
Lay Off Mac I read Mac’s book Rare Earth and I couldn’t disagree more with Robert Finkle’s “review” [“You Can’t See Mac Parker’s Film, But You Can Read His Book,” May 2]. I wonder at the choice of that interview, given that he admits to being “so angry and disgusted by Mac Parker that anything…
From Castleton, A New Poll — With a Couple Grains of Salt
As we reported in February, Castleton State College’s new polling center is sure to provide plenty of catnip for Vermont’s political chattering class. Indeed, results from Castleton’s first poll commissioned by Vermont news outlets — WCAX-TV, WDEV radio and Vermont Business Magazine — are trickling out this week. And the numbers released thus far include…
