Feb 15-21, 2012
Meet the Public Service Board, Vermont’s Most Powerful Men You’ve Never Heard Of; Conflicting Views on Wanda Hines; the History and Future of the Vermont Accent; Post Irene, Misery on the Menu
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Meet the Public Service Board, Vermont’s most powerful men you’ve never heard of
Biomass or Biomess? Activists Protest Latest Biomass Development
The debate over burning trees for electricity is heating up again as a wood-fueled power plant moves closer to construction in Fair Haven. The Vermont…
Movies You Missed 26: Tiny Furniture
This week in movies you missed: no, not a documentary about obsessive miniaturists (for that, try Marwencol). Tiny Furniture is a low-budget comedy about aimless…
Tom Hanks Plays VT’s Capt. Richard Phillips in Movie Filming on Cape Cod
When Capt. Richard Phillips of Underhill arrived home after his 2009 ordeal as the hostage of Somali pirates who had boarded his cargo ship, the…
Seven Days Burlington Mayoral Debate … and Drinking Game
Missed out on the deluge of Burlington mayoral debates over the past few weeks? Never fear! We’re throwing our own this afternoon — and it’s…
House Bill Looks to Snuff Out Mail-Order Sales of Electronic Cigarettes in Vermont
Ex-smokers and others trying to quit or reduce their cancer-stick consumption are burning mad over a new bill in the Vermont Legislature. H.747, introduced by…
The Transparency Pander: Burlington Mayoral Candidates Go All In On Open Government
When you’re running for public office, you have to strike a bit of a balance. You want to let voters know where you stand, but…
Media a No-Show at Weinberger’s Economic Development Press Conference
If a mayoral candidate holds a press conference, and no press shows up, does he make a sound? He does if he’s Democrat Miro Weinberger,…
In The Market For A Hostel? Burlington’s Is For Sale.
Sharp-eyed readers of the Seven Days classifieds may have noticed an intriguing tidbit in the Jan. 25 and Feb. 1 listings: Two years after opening…
Speaking in Tongues
Work: Htar Htar Yu, staff interpreter, Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program
Say What? A video exploration of Vermont-speak
This week’s Seven Days features a story called “Say What?” that examines the origins and somewhat uncertain future of the native Vermont accent. To help…
WTF: What’s that weird shack in the Superblock parking lot?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again While police were in the process of citing Eldon Alexander, 36, and Korin Vanhouten, 47, for shoplifting merchandise worth about $25 from…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): What do you typically do just before you fall asleep and right after you wake up? Those rituals are important for…
Crumbs
Side Dishes: New Japanese restaurant in St. Albans; Gordon Ramsay visits Vermont
Meet the Neighbors
A 125-year-old Burlington club keeps the art of play reading alive
Letters to the Editor
Rutland Remembered I grew up in downtown Rutland in the late ’70s and early ’80s [“Leaving RutVegas,” February 1]. It was a unusual upbringing, growing…
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CSWD Creative Reuse Showcase [257]
2/11/12: Trash becomes art at this popular annual show. Eva travels to Adams Farm Market in Williston to see the 16th Annual CSWD Creative Reuse…
Growing Figs in Vermont with the Northeast Organic Farming Association
Figs are a sultry, sensual food. When opened, they are thought to resemble female sex organs. Purported to have aphrodisiac qualities, they contain zinc, magnesium…
‘Troublemaker’ Bill McKibben Talks Keystone XL With Colbert
Vermont’s own globetrotting, carbon-fighting climate activist Bill McKibben cropped up on national television again last night, this time in a repeat visit to the Colbert…
