The Sex Issue 2009
The Sex Issue: A Topless Diner in Montréal; Vermont Women Talk About Recreational Exotic Dance; Planned Parenthood Offers Adults Some Carnal Knowledge
Westminster Votes to Dump Vermont Yankee
Perhaps it’s their proximity to a potential nuclear ground zero, but at this weekend’s town meeting, the residents of Westminster “fired the first salvo for a Nuclear Free Vermont After 2012,” according to Dan Dewalt, who’s leading the Town Meeting Day campaign to stop the relicensing of Vermont Yankee in 2012. “In a nearly unanimous…
The Eagle Has Landed
The Vermont Times, which in its latter years was known as the Times Sentinel, has officially ended its reign as a Chittenden County weekly. The publication’s owners — New Market Press — have folded the Times Sentinel and The Addison Eagle into one paper, called The Eagle. The weekly will be based in Addison County…
UVM Student Reps on Budget Crisis
The Burlington Free Press and the Vermont Cynic, a University of Vermont campus newspaper, have informative articles on their websites today about yesterday’s well-attended budget forum at Ira Allen Chapel. (Read the articles here and here.) But neither article quotes the two UVM students who gave formal remarks. The first student speaker was Clint Jasperson,…
So long, Rocky Mountain News
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado, published its final issue today. The 149-year-old daily, owned by E.W. Scripps, Co., was one of two in Denver. Jim Hopkins at Gannett Blog notes that it’s the largest-circulation daily to close its doors in the current “newspaper-industry crisis.” Staffer Matthew…
Burlington Election Predictions
In Montpelier yesterday, while the day’s news was all about the Democratic budget framework for dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis, more people in the lunchroom wanted to talk about who might win the Queen City election. I have a few thoughts on how the vote may go down Tuesday night, and I’ll share them…
UVM Organizer: 400+ Vermont Students Traveling to D.C. Climate Conference
478 Vermont college students are going to Washington D.C. this week for the Power Shift ’09 youth climate summit. That’s according to Jessica Serrante, an Environmental Studies major at the University of Vermont. In a phone interview, Serrante tells Seven Days that the state ranks 6th nationwide for Power Shift enrollment. (The conference website doesn’t…
Explaining The Credit Crisis
Jonathan Jarvis recently posted this great video on Vimeo explaining the credit crisis visually. It does a fantastic job explaining the “process” the financial system followed to get us all in this mess.The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Best Vermont-made beer (retired cat.)
Magic Hat Brewing Company & Magic Hat Brewing Company
Best place to do lunch outside Chittenden County (retired cat.)
Eat Good Food & Sarducci's
Best place to do lunch inside Chittenden County (retired cat.)
Cobblestone Deli and Café & Stone Soup
Best place to have dinner anytime
American Flatbread, Burlington Hearth & Black Sheep Bistro
Best indoor place to get fit (retired cat.)
Sports & Fitness Edge & Sports & Fitness Edge
UVM Students Protests Job Cuts
Students from the University of Vermont led demonstrations to protest the move by administrators to slash jobs, an effort to meet their budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Richard Cate, Vice President of Finance at the University, attempted to calm tensions, reassuring students that the University is not pleased to make cuts, but it’s the…
Vermont’s “News Guy” on his New News Site
As Shay Totten reported in December, Vermont has a new news website: www.vermontnewsguy.com. Started in December by veteran reporter (and occasional Seven Days contributor) Jon Margolis, the site is designed to provide the kind of “old-fashioned” journalism that, according to Margolis, Vermont sorely lacks. (For an old-fashioned kind of guy, Margolis seems to be making…
Vote for David Sirota!
We got an email plea from syndicated columnist and author David Sirota today asking for our help in persuadng MSNBC to hire him as a host for a vacated 10 p.m. slot. I’m going to paste his email here, as he explains it better than anyone else. Btw, David is also a former aide to…
Stimulating Burlington
Wondering what that stimulus package might buy for Burlington? According to the United States Conference of Mayors report on the stimulus, Burlington has submitted a mere $145 million worth of projects for consideration in the stimulus package. Check out the list of proposed projects at StimulusWatch.org. The projects named range from the mundane (building bus…
The Sex Issue
This week Seven Days published our own “stimulus package” — the results of our biennial sex survey. Yowsa. Check out Pamela Polston’s steamy summary here. Don’t miss Margot Harrison’s write-up about on-screen sex scenes, and Paula Routly’s review of respondents’ memorable sexual experiences. We also commissioned a few sex-themed stories for the issue. Pole dancing…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for February 25 – March 4, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): Beware of people who act like polite jerks or tone-deaf music critics or emotionally numb lovers. While they may be able to teach you a lot about what you don’t need, they’re…
The Seven Days Sex Survey
Everyone is hoping President Obama’s gazillion-dollar stimulus package will save the flailing American economy, or at least begin to stanch the hemorrhage. Meanwhile, one Vermont business has lit on a recession-proof revenue generator: sex. The Weston-based Vermont Country Store — of lucrative direct-mail-catalogue fame — has generated huffy letters from hundreds of uptight customers since…
Good by Association
Art Review: “NVAA: Past and Present,” works by members of the Northern Vermont Artists Association from 1930 to 2000. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Through March 15.
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police investigating a credit card theft in New Britain, Conn., identified Joel Rubin, 42, as their suspect. They said that after using the stolen card belonging to a coworker to make an $11 purchase, Rubin handed the clerk a store discount card in his own name. • A man entered a business…
Letters to the Editor
ANDY MAN After reading Kevin Picard’s thorough profile of Andy Montroll [“Detail Man,” February 11], I wanted to remind folks that, though Andy may be quiet, he is a passionate and proven leader. Andy has been involved with city issues for many years and understands what it takes to get things done. He listens before…
Good Text
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England offers adults some carnal knowledge
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Kitestorm [SIV117]
2/21/09: Snowboarders, skiers and skaters all harnessed the power of the wind this weekend at the 6th annual Kitestorm festival at Sand Bar State Park in Milton. Music: Deep Soda, Pose Dead – Collected & Destroyed Vol. 2, “Spirit Flies Ahead” Location: Sand Bar State Park, Milton Vermont
2009 Guide to Readers’ Picks
Seven is our favorite number, for obvious reasons. So this seventh consecutive iteration of the Daysies makes us extra happy about doling out awards. No doubt the people who win them will feel the same — especially those who’ve won every single time. Getting bored yet, you perennials? Didn’t think so. What really blew us…
Best Vermont band (retired cat.)
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals & Dirty Blondes
Best pizza (retired cat.)
American Flatbread & American Flatbread, Burlington Hearth
Best outdoor outfitter
Outdoor Gear Exchange (OGE) & Outdoor Gear Exchange (OGE)
Best florist
Maplehurst Florist (Essex, Burlington) & The Pink Shutter (Burlington)
RETN / Comcast Ink Funding Deal
The growing battle between telecom giant Comcast and the small non-profit Regional Educational Technology Network (RETN) is cooling off — for now. The two sides, yesterday, successfully negotiated in principle a short-term funding agreement. They hope to have a signed agreement by Friday. As first reported in “Fair Game” three weeks ago, Comcast has criticized…
Best Bites: Sakura Sushi & Kitchen
Sakura Sushi & Kitchen19 Taft Corners Shopping Center, Williston, 288-8052 By Alice Levitt Growing up near New York City, my family shopped at a grocery store in Yonkers called Meiji-ya almost as much as much as at our local supermarket. In Vermont, the only place (besides my home) where I can get my Japanese home-…
Tweet Meet
I went to my first tweetup this morning, at the New Moon cafe in Burlington. If you walked into New Moon and wondered why there were a dozen-plus people sitting in a circle around a table covered with little name tags and a plate of yellow candy peeps, well, now you know. It was an…
