Winter Reading Issue 2011
Two Bookstores Vie for Eyes; Indie Publishers in VT; A Literary Passion for Produce
Movies You Missed 19: Saint Nick
This week in movies you missed: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And he’s going to kill you (in this horror flick from the Netherlands, that is). What You Missed This week in Vermont news, we learned that public school teachers can get in trouble for telling fifth graders that Santa is fictional, like…
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Four Months After Irene [250]
12/18/11: Eva revisits Vermont people and businesses affected by Tropical Storm Irene in Warren, Waitsfield, Waterbury, Jamaica and Wilmington to see how they are faring four months later. Music: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, “The Mad, Mad River” Full video of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the Flynn Center taken by Rachel Hebert Previous…
WTF: What’s up with those lights embedded in the lower Church Street sidewalk, and why haven’t they been working?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Burlington Photographer Chosen As Finalist in National Geographic Photo Contest
There’s probably no greater honor for an aspiring photographer, short of winning a Pulitzer, than to have one’s work recognized by National Geographic. This month, that honor belongs to Zoë Barracano of Burlington, whose photograph, “Magnetism,” was chosen as one of 10 finalists in National Geographic’s “Story Without Words” global photo contest. Barracano’s picture (right) was shot…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again John K. Rosenbaum, 22, drove from Jacksonville, Fla., to Kingsland, Ga., to illegally purchase a black mamba snake. During the transaction, the venomous snake bit him, he later told Georgia wildlife officials. He was hospitalized and released but faces up to a year in jail and a $1000 fine. (Jacksonville’s Florida Times-Union)…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the fictional world of the wizard Harry Potter, muggles are people who have no magical powers. Because of their deficiency, certain sights may be literally invisible to them, and certain places inaccessible. I’m going to boldly predict that you Aries people will lose at least some of your muggleness in…
Updating the News
At Vermont colleges, journalism is booming – and retooling for the digital age
Letters to the Editor
Can’t Read the Calendar We love the service Seven Days provides with listings of the week’s activities — who else but you? But please, please, please, two formatting changes would make it so much more user friendly: First, the dates on the edges of the pages are hardly legible, especially to us 50-plus-year-olds. Could you…
Center for Cartoon Studies Gets a New Home
It’s been a big year for the Center for Cartoon Studies. The nation’s only cartoon school, based in White River Junction, kicked off 2011 with the announcement of Vermont’s first, official cartoonist laureate, James Kochalka of Burlington. In August, CCS did battle with Tropical Storm Irene when the White River poured into the building housing…
