Jan 17-23, 2007
Health & Fitness Issue: Vermont’s New Health Plan; Sanders Misses Roll-Call Vote; Being a Blood Donor; a Mind-Body Approach to Managing Pain
News Quirks 01.17.07
Curses, Foiled Again Police in Edmonton, Alberta, reported that a man ordered a convenience-store clerk to open the cash register, then slammed it with a…
Sanders Plays Offense
Sanders introduces Jeffords global-warming bill and misses his first roll-call vote — a resolution remembering Gerald Ford.
All in the Delivery
How Vermont’s Black River Produce pioneered the local-food movement
Deep Soda, Pose Dead: Collected & Destroyed Vol. 2
(Self-released, CD) In another dimension, Burlington’s Deep Soda are legendary, spoken of with the same fervor as Frank Zappa, Oingo Boingo and Ween. In such…
THE NIGHT LISTENER**1/2
Robin Williams stars in this psychological thriller about a celebrated writer whose life is turned upside down when he receives a manuscript from a troubled…
THE ILLUSIONIST****
Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti star in Neil Burger’s period piece about the battle of wills between a master magician and the police inspector desperate…
QUINCEANERA***1/2
From writer-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland comes this Sundance-award winner, which explores the racial, class and sexual tensions in the Latino L.A. neighborhood of…
