Apr 10-16, 2013
Vermont’s ACLU Is on the Lookout for Drones, Discrimination and Bad Cops
Cover Story
Vermont’s ACLU Director is Sounding the Alarm About Government Intrusion. Is Anyone Listening?
Allen Gilbert has been thinking a lot about drones lately. Not the ones that rain Hellfire missiles on militants in remote parts of the Middle…
Is a Vermont Entrepreneur’s New Game-Specific Crowdfunding Site a Game Changer?
Video game developers looking to get their ideas off the ground have a new way to raise some quick cash. GameLaunched, an international, game-focused crowdfunding…
Nancy MacDowell, Green Mountain Harmony
(Self-released, CD) Last year, local singer Nancy MacDowell realized a dream nearly 20 years in the making with the release of her second album, Green…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): German theologian Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a central figure in the rebellion against the Catholic Church that led to the Protestant…
Taste Test: Review of Maple City Diner in St. Albans
Some of Vermont’s oldest operational restaurants are diners. Berlin’s Wayside Restaurant & Bakery opened in 1918, while Burlington favorite Henry’s Diner has been slinging hearty…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again After someone threw rocks with threatening messages and misspelled words through the window of Judge Frank T. Carpenter, investigators in Hudson County,…
Readers Defend Gluten-Free Diets and Point Out Problems With Modern Wheat
Sometimes, an article touches a nerve. So it was with “The Trouble With Wheat,” which ran in the Seven Days food section on March 6….
Work: Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Vermont Climatologist
“Get into an elevator, and what does everyone start talking about?” asks Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, a University of Vermont associate professor of geography. “The weather. It’s…
Three Local Albums (and One DVD) You Probably Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record…
Burlington Artist Ishana Ingerman Aims to Weave Together Vermont’s Fiber Network
What’s a woman to do with a pickup truck full of fiber? If you’re Ishana Ingerman, you’re about to launch a very warm-and-fuzzy enterprise: making…
WTF: What’s With the Extra-Tall Utility Poles on the Burlington Waterfront?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Capoeira Packs a Punch With Dance, Music and Martial Arts
Before you can learn capoeira in Fabio “Fua” Nascimento’s class, you have to learn a little Portuguese. At the beginning of each session, he passes…
The Secret Genius of Pedal Steel Guitar Builder Jerry Fessenden
“This is a horrible little shop,” Jerry Fessenden says as he opens the door to a shack abutting the muddy driveway of his rural Montpelier…
Art Review: Sarah Horne and Clark Derbes, West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park
Walk into Stowe’s West Branch Gallery this month, and you’re immediately faced with opposites: the ethereal gesture drawings of Sarah Horne, and the weight and…
Montgomery Elementary School Beats the Odds on Student Achievement
Nationwide, educators are grappling with one of the biggest challenges to hit schools in decades. Since the 1960s, the difference in test scores between economically…
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Reward Volunteers [306]
4/7/13: The Reward Volunteers app was created by Cabot Creamery Cooperative to celebrate the work of volunteers with recognition and prizes. Using this app for…
Letters to the Editor
Pro-“Union” The credibility of this story [Off Message, “John McClaughry: Free-Market Conservative and … Champion of Frogs?” April 4] is completely impugned by its scandalous…
