May 21-27, 2008
While Neighboring States Move Ahead on Wind Energy, Vermont is Spinning its Wheels; Writer David Sirota Chronicles the Uprising; New “Grilling the Chef” – Burning Questions for Cooks; Kochalka Scares up a Kids Book
Shamms Mortier Remembered
Today I learned that an old friend, Shamms Mortier, died 5/22 at 3:30 pm. Shamms was the kind of bodhisattva that laughed and played tricks….
YouTomb — Not Dead Yet
Free Culture, a national student organization that promotes “open access to knowledge and culture,” has begun YouTomb, a research project at MIT to study why…
Somewhere Over The Rainbow…
While I was busy trying to figure out how best to grill a slab of Atlantic salmon, a housemate caught site of a rainbow forming…
Project Porchlight Looking for Volunteers
I saw this on my neighborhood front porch forum. I thought it would be some good information to pass on. The video is from their…
Bias in the Eye
A piece by Conor Friedersdorf at Doublethink Online, which is affiliated with the conservative America’s Future Foundation, argues that media bias is inherently liberal because…
Did someone pull the plug on Dr. Richter?
There’s been a lot of hoopla recently at the blog Green Mountain Daily regarding Dr. Deb Richter’s decision NOT to run against incumbent Republican Lt….
Hey Daddio
Just in time for the 25th annual Burlington Discover Jazz Festival comes 100 Essential Jazz Albums, an online-only “guide for the uninitiated” from the New…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for May 21-28, 2008. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): After working for years in…
Take Two
Art Review: Joan Curtis and Richard Weis, Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne. Through June 17.
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police who stopped Cyheam Forney, 31, for a minor traffic violation in Melville, N.Y., discovered his license had been suspended. Officers arrested…
Scene@ “What Moves You? Body Language”
Most people wouldn’t take directions from a boy wearing neon-checkered Hammer pants, a clown nose and rainbow knee-highs, or think that he could teach you…
Hot Under the Collar
In a new book, former Sanders aide David Sirota asks what it will take to build a populist movement
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The Clothes Exchange [SIV80]
5/15/08: Shop till you drop, recycle used clothing, socialize over cocktails AND raise money for a women’s charity? Sounds too good to be true, right?…
Five White Guys in a Room, Film at 11
Not just any five white guys, but three journalists and two scientists, who got together for a discussionat the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism….
Chris Matthews Smackdown
Chris Matthews tries to shut up a right wing radio host in a shout fest about Bush’s comments in Israel labeling Obama as an “appeaser.”…
