

Calabrian Tasting Menu at L’Amante
Last Thursday, D. and I went to the first of L’Amante’s special regional dinners. Here’s a snippet about these dinners from my Side Dishes column:…
Jersey Girl
Last night northern Vermont descended into the deep freeze, which is just how I like it when I’m driving cab in the winter. Cold people,…
Millborne Farm Drinkable Yogurt
My lovely friend Devon clued me in about these tasty and nutritious yogurt drinks. I’d seen them on the grocery store fridges near the Odwalla…
Fun with Bacon
Bacon. Sometimes called “the gateway meat” because when a vegetarian starts eating bacon, you know what’ll happen next. Sometimes just called “the best thing ever”…
VT Comedy Divas [SIV62]
1/12/07: Vermont Comedy Divas sold out the ballroom at Higher Ground last Saturday. A line stretched around the building with VTers hungry for comedy and…
Rude Boys
The last “Hackie” column, “A Happy Hoosier Tale,” found me transporting three young men, Norwich College students, to Boston’s Logan Airport. In the story, I…
Bove’s vs. Bobby Flay: Lasagna Throwdown (Updated)
I mentioned this before the holidays, but thought I’d “throw” it out there again…The Food Network will air its lasagna throwdown, in which Bobby Flay…
Rash Conclusions
Are recent skin ailments at Burlington High a reaction to poor indoor air quality, or just a PR irritation?
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A man wearing a werewolf mask entered a sandwich shop in Pittsburgh, pointed his paper-bag-covered hand at the cashier and demanded money….
Game On
Game On: “John Deere Harvest in the Heartland”, “Master of Illusion”, “Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends”, “Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations”, $29.99 Nintendo DS, E for Everyone/ “Phoenix Wright” T for Teen
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I urge you to spend 2008 turning all of your pretty good but half-developed notions into a few brilliant, fully formed…
Choice, Before and After
Vermont’s first abortion providers give Roe v. Wade a check-up
Taste Test: Kismet
207 Barre Street, Montpelier, 223-8646. 8 a.m. – 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday
Scene@ Yale Glee Club Winter Tour Concert
McCarthy Arts Center Recital Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Thursday, January 10, 7:30 P.M.
Critical Mass
Art Review: Exhibit: “Spin Off,” a group show featuring the works of Tally Groves, Jerry Amici, Grace Nelson Lance, Marian Willmott, Robert Huntoon and Emily Bissell Laird. Emile Gruppe Gallery, Jericho. Through January 27.
Do You Wii (or WOW)?
Are you a whiz at whipping up fried gyoza and meat pies for Cooking Mama, or preparing gooey spider cake and curiously tasty omelettes in…






