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Best Supporting Activist: Uber-organizer Chris Wood is the man about Montpelier
Chris Wood is nursing a double mocha latte at the Capitol Grounds in Montpelier, and he seems to know every hippie, yuppie and crusty farmer…
Six Actors in Search of Pirandello
If you want help unraveling the knot that is The Probable Pirandello’s Wife, playwright Herb Propper is the last person to ask. “Why don’t you…
Haunting License: The Haunting of L. by Howard Norman
A snapshot of photography in the 1920s: Ernst Leitz introduces the first 35mm Leica camera. George Eastman, of Eastman Kodak fame, goes on safari to…
Hurray for Hollywood, Sort Of: Good may have triumphed at this year’s Oscars, but greatness was ignored
History was made and justice done on a number of fronts Sunday night. Not that deserving people didn’t leave the 74th annual Academy Awards empty-handed….
School Choice: Introducing a college-bound daughter to a suitable bachelor of arts
In some cultures, the parents of a 16-year-old girl would plot their daughter’s future by consulting the local matchmaker. As ours began the spring semester…
Riding High: Vermont’s laid-back Olympians go with the snow
The scene was just like I’d pictured it Ñ two snowboarders, a guy and a girl, casually dressed and posed under a large Burton banner….
Tony Gets Religion
Running out of allies who could maintain a straight face, Anthony Pollina has pulled the plug on his legal and public relations war against the…
Mencken Connections
Third-rate men, of course, exist in all countries, but it is only here that they are in full control of the state, and with it…
Waste Not?
The shit almost hit the land last week at Burlington’s Intervale. That is, until its board got wind of a potential controversy and pulled the…
Flick Chick
Many people believe that today’s Islamic fundamentalists are on a par with 20th-century Nazis, and that liberating Kabul is akin to conquering Berlin. The battles…
