The Tourism Issue
A Guide to Seizing the Summer; Vermont’s Best Outdoor Towns; Quaint & Queer Bed and Breakfasts; Enjoying the Views at Lakeview Cemetery
Hands Off The Mute!
For a full-bodied TV addict like myself, those who mute the commercials don’t know what they’re missing. To me, skipping the commercials is like eating at a fine restaurant and passing on the condiments and the side dishes. OK, this is a weak analogy, but you get my point: TV commercials are tasty! My current…
Vignettes
State of the Arts: The Simpsons Movie, A Little Lingerie Company, Champlain Valley Fair, Vermont Council on Rural Development, Free Gallery Space?
Stop the War
“I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” From…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Among the Yanyuwa Aboriginal people who live along the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory, the word for “fat” is nalu-ngiliny. It doesn’t merely refer to the greasy stuff that grows naturally under the skin of animal bodies. It’s also a metaphysical term for vitality. Anything that’s rich in nalu-ngiliny is healthy.…
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Cirque du so Gay [SIV35]
7/7/07, Pride Party: On July 7th, hundreds of people in Burlington celebrated 25 years of PRIDE in Vermont. After a rainy day parade, revelers squeezed into tight corsets, applied pasties and false eyelashes, adorned themselves in bold stripes, domineering top hats, riding crops and a plethora of sequins for Cirque du so Gay at Higher…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police summoned by a neighbor who suspected a burglary in an upstairs apartment in Hilton Head Island, S.C., arrested Isaac Talavera Jr., 25, whose getaway was slowed by having to call his mother to come pick him up and drive him home from the crime scene. The mother told Beaufort County Sheriff’s…
Visiting Shelburne Farms
Where can you watch cheddar being made, buy delicious sticky buns and olive-studded ciabatta and see baby pigs frolic, all within one building? Shelburne Farms, that’s where! In the past, I’d visited the Coach Barn at the farm for a production of Romeo and Juliet, and also for a presentation on maple terroir. But I’d…
