The Health & Fitness Issue 2013
Can Skateland Make a Comeback?; Alcohol and the Teenage Brain; A Fitness Trend Borrows From Ballet
The Health Toll of Food Writing: High Cholesterol
Numerically speaking, 258 is innocuous; it could be a street address, an area code, the title of an Emily Dickinson poem. If you’re talking cholesterol, though, 258 is a bad, bad number — it’s alarmingly high. So when I recently learned that 258 was my own number, I had visions of my heart abruptly stopping…
News Quirks
Popularity Contests Sophie Laboissonniere, 21, pleaded guilty to rioting after the Vancouver Canucks lost the National Hockey League finals in June 2011. Shortly before the rioting, Laboissonniere, who was one of the first suspects charged, took part in a Vancouver beauty pageant and was named Miss Congeniality. (Associated Press) Americans prefer root canals, colonoscopies, France…
No. 1 in the Nation for Underage Drinking, Vermont Has a Long-Range Problem
Vermont has earned a lot of “firsts” over the years, but the dubious distinction of No. 1 in the nation for underage drinking is nothing to brag about. According to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Vermont tops every other state in drinking rates among youth ages 12 to 20, with…
Trying an Antigravity Treadmill
A new antigravity treadmill in Burlington lifts elite and elderly athletes alike
Rejuvenating in Rutland
Taking an affordable and quirky spa day in an unlikely location
Happy Bellies Chef Teaches Clients to Eat for Digestive Health
Though personal therapeutic chef Tara Carpenter uses the word “diet” to describe her cooking methods, her Barre business, Happy Bellies, is not focused on privation. “We use a lot of fats. Goose fat, duck fat, pork fat. If I see a farmer downtown, I say, ‘Did you just slaughter?’” she says with palpable excitement. Weight…
Ballet Meets Fitness at BarSculpt
A new fitness trend mashes up Pilates, ballet stretching and sports conditioning
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it,” wrote nineteenth-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of the earth.” This is good counsel for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect you will have a good,…
An Interview with Jazz Icon Archie Shepp
Don’t call Archie Shepp a jazz musician. Also, as we found out recently, don’t call him before 4 p.m. — Shepp is nocturnal and might not yet be out of bed. Sleeping habits aside, Archie Shepp, 75, is a an icon of the Black Arts Movement — a term he prefers to the word “jazz.”…
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Joan Robinson’s Final Bow at the Flynn [296]
1/10/13: After 18 years as a leader of the education programs at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Joan Robinson is leaving behind an impressive legacy. A theatrical arts educator with a zest for life and a love of teaching, Robinson’s decades of work at the Flynn have helped shape its Education Department to…
Sen. Patrick Leahy Exhibits His Photos From a Political Life
Art Review: “The Eye of Senator Leahy”
When a “Routine” Vasectomy Doesn’t Go as Planned
In December, I suffered a debilitating brain fart and scheduled my vasectomy on the Friday before my busiest work weekend of the year. Traditionally, this is when the Seven Days staff produces two issues simultaneously to allow ourselves down time during the holidays. But if I postponed the procedure until January, my insurance wouldn’t immediately…
Letters to the Editor
Miserable Movie [Re “Kisonak and Harrison at the Movies 2012,” December 26]: Well, I held my nose and went to see Les Misérables, which I have assiduously avoided in theaters until now. What a bloody mess! Tom Hooper, after (unjustly) winning an Academy Award for The King’s Speech, has now gone on to show how…
