Aug 29 – Sep 4, 2007
Ten Years in the Making – and Remaking – Keith Spiegel’s “Groupies” Gets a New Name and a Release Date; Former Employees Reflect On an Outsourced Economy; Totally Pickled – A Food Writer Joins the Preservation Nation
The Epoch of Daniel
I had occasion to visit the Davis Student Center, UVM’s newest building. Everyone in town is aware of this edifice, both for it’s monumental size…
Supermarket Sues Youthful Rappers Over Video
The A&P Grocery Chain is suing two college kids for a million bucks. Yep, you read that correctly. The youngsters, brothers named Matthew and Mark…
The Science of Cheating
Game On: Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw, Addison-Wesley, 384 pages. $44.99
They’re Back. Deal.
You can love ’em; you can hate ’em. You can have mixed emotions. But, whatever your feelings, they’re back – all 10,000 of them. As…
Lights, Camera… Action?
Ten years in the making – and remaking – Keith Spiegel’s “Groupies” gets a new name and a release date
Natural Rhythms
Art Review: “Daily Beauty, Quiet Observations,” new work by Janet Fredericks
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Two teenage girls broke into a tattoo parlor in Fairfield, Maine, and tried to avoid setting off the alarm by using hairspray…
Tractor-pull Champ Bill Voreis is Into Fair Play
Holsteins and horses may be at the heart of the Champlain Valley Fair, but it’s horsepower that delivers the defibrillation. During the Grand National Truck…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Here’s how you can tell if you have a bad psychotherapist or counselor,” says my friend Laura. “She or he buys…
“Weird Al” Loves Food
Unless you’re share my predilection for parody and all things gastronomic, you may not have noticed that “Weird Al” Yankovic has an awful lot of…
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Champlain Valley Fair [SIV42]
Saturday was the opening day of the 2007 Champlain Valley Fair. Even impending rain could not keep the crowds away from the death-defying rides, tasty…
