Jan 23-29, 2008
The Vermont Tech Business Issue: Niche Software Companies Take Hold in Vermont; Is Vermont’s “Brain Drain” Reality Or Rhetoric?; With Ann DeMarle’s Popular Video Game Courses, Champlain College Levels Up
I’m Twittering!
I feel so 21st century! In December I made a Facebook page, and a couple weeks ago I started Twittering my meals. Wanna check it…
The Second Oldest Profession
Last night was a strange one. Early on things were super-slow. The “adults,” it appeared, were not yet recovered from the holidays and were staying…
Evoking Mississippi
Though I’ve been penning the “Hackie” column for 11 years (Egad), the creative process has never grown rote. If ever it should become automatic, that’s…
Chocolate Troubles (and a poll!)
Since my recent confession that I’m not as passionately entranced with chocolate as others seem to be, I’ve realized that I’m being punished by the…
They’ve Got Game
With Ann DeMarle’s popular video game courses, Champlain College levels up
I Love Blackflower Chocolates
I have to confess that I like chocolate, but I’m not a chocolate fiend — most likely because I don’t have much of a sweet…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year,” said essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. That’s…
Waitsfield Just Keeps Getting Sweeter
Side Dishes: Big Picture meets Small Donuts, and Liz Lovely goes nuts
Facing the Music
Amadis performs with Maneuvers and Cccome? at 242 Main, Monday, January 28, 7 p.m. $5/6.
Scene@ Yankee Sportsman’s Classic Hunting, Fishing Outdoor Rec. Show
Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Junction, Saturday, January 19, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Wired and Windblown
Art Review: Carol Norton: “Cyclone!: The Colors of Iowa From A to Z,” oils on canvas; and Peter Robinson-Smith: Wire mesh sculpture. Flynndog, Burlington. Through February.
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A man broke into a condo in Clinton Township, Mich., only to be confronted by the owner, who had just returned from…
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Dealer.com [SIV63]
1/18/08: Ping pong, lattes, plants, OH MY!Dealer.com is a VT company that recently expanded into plush new digs and is hiring a young, technically savvy…
Weld
Though it sometimes seems that way, not all the downtown weekend revelers are young and unattached. Saturday night I drove a married working man home…
Noshin’ on “The Onion”
It’s time once again for a fun round-up of food-related stories from The Onion. 1) Historians Discover Children’s Menu on the Back of U.S. Constitution2)…
