Mar 6-12, 2013
After a year at City Hall, How Is Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger Doing?; Conductor and Violinist Jamie Laredo; Vermonter Survives Avalanche; To Eat, or Not to Eat, Gluten
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After a Year at City Hall, How’s Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger Doing?
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger marked the anniversary of his election last Saturday with a public display that suggests he’s getting comfortable in the job. Wearing…
Budnitz and Flahute Custom Bicycle Companies Roll Into Burlington
The latest artsy spot in Burlington’s South End has a brick-wall background, exposed overhead pipes and spotlights illuminating swoopy curves of metal. It’s pleasing to…
Jack the Giant Slayer
Once upon a time, when Hollywood couldn’t come up with good ideas for movies, it resorted to sequels and remakes. OK, it still does. But…
Taste Test: The Lighthouse Restaurant and Lounge Review
Chef Levi Carter spent his childhood being shuttled among family members in Vermont and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. A similarly varied experience…
Is Vermont’s Secessionist Movement Still Relevant? A New Book Argues Yes
When Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence debuted in the summer of 2005, the homegrown newspaper devoted to exploring Vermont secession had, at the very least,…
Wish List: Review of The Other Wish by Diane Swan
Wishes are those fanciful things we have as children (à la Disney’s “When You Wish Upon a Star…”). Wishes often contradict reason: When we grow…
Tommy Sands and the Music of Healing
That art can inspire dramatic social or political change is a romantic idea, if sometimes a specious one. But for some, such as Irish folk…
Studio Profile: Storefront Studio Gallery, Montpelier
Imagine watching van Gogh as he attacks the canvas. Or Matisse, his scissors careening through bright paper. Or shirtless Picasso, splashing Prussian blue on canvas….
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you’re not literally in exile. You haven’t been forced to abandon your home and you haven’t been driven from your…
A Charlotte Backcountry Skier Survives a Rocky Mountain Avalanche
The last image seared into Charlie Brush’s mind, right before a 500-foot-wide wall of snow buried him alive, was that of a fellow skier’s orange…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A woman told police in Des Moines, Iowa, that she returned home one morning to find a strange vehicle in her driveway….
Could the Gluten-Free Trend Endanger Vermont’s Local Grains Movement?
A few years ago, a Wisconsin cardiologist named Dr. William Davis began asking his prediabetic and diabetic patients to give up wheat. His theory: Foods…
Letters to the Editor
Shirt Shrift Thank you to Ken Picard for doing an amazing job retelling and condensing the complicated story of my “Cure for the Blues” T-shirt…
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Skateboarding Punk Rock Lawyer [302]
12/14/12: Spencer P. Crispe is a 7th generation Vermonter and the 4th generation in his family to practice law at the Crispe & Crispe Law…
