Beating Around the Bush
Now that the media have decided it’s safe to criticize the Bush administration and its leader, Poppy’s pride, I want to know: What took them…
Media Matters
funny thing happened to my journalistic mission last week at Governor Howard Dean’s weekly press conference. I went in looking for the guv’s response to…
Flick Chick
Even earthbound people clueless about skateboarding are likely to enjoy Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary chronicling the obscure origins of a sport that first took…
Caught in the Middle…East: Move over, Colin Powell—Burlington may have something to teach its warring sister cities
Burlington’s three-way sister-city program with Arad in Israel and Bethlehem on the West Bank was marked at birth by both contentiousness and conciliation. And so…
The Grunge Report: A clinical study looks at the physiology of forgiveness
Love hurts. For “Nadine,” a Winooski graduate student who wants to remain anonymous, it even howls with pain. “I went ballistic after I walked in…
Secession Story
In 1832, in the remote reaches of northern New Hampshire just across the river from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, a motley assortment of lumberers, trappers, scofflaws,…
This Play Is Your Play
More Woody Bonnie Christensen isn’t a folksinger, but her voice has joined in on a good many labor songs while standing in picket lines in…
Austen Empowered
The Novelist in a nutshell: Jane Austen should’ve gotten laid. Leave it to a male playwright — in this case the eminent Howard Fast —…
Mother Tongue: For the Stones of Vermont, poetry is all in the family
At the end of March, poet Ruth Stone experienced two firsts: She read in public with her daughter Abigail and Abigail’s three children — Hillery,…
Politics of Blame
Early indications are that this year’s Vermont election will offer a heavy dose of Republicans blaming Democrats for the falling sky. The GOP’s gubernatorial hopeful…
