May 25-31, 2011
Choose Your Summer Adventure; Amorous Emails Implicate UVM President’s Wife; VT Comedy Fest Comes to Town; Enjoying the Hot Dog Days of Summer; Belly Up to the Snack Bars
Invasion of the Healthy Vending Machines
Recently I spent a few days with family in a suburb in the South, and by the time I returned, a few extra ounces were…
Surfing Safari on Burlington’s Booth Street
As a portent of the end of the world (coming October 2011 or maybe sometime in 2012), we’ve had some intense weather thrown at us…
On Finding Gold in the Woods
Editor’s note: Frances Cannon is passionate about the contents of her plate and adventures in the kitchen. As the summer food writing intern for Seven…
Into the Hot Zone with Fletcher Allen’s Hazmat Decontamination Team
8:03 a.m. Wednesday morning: I’m about to get thoroughly soaped up, scrubbed down and hosed off by a grown man for the first time since…
Hanging Out With the Fort Ethan Allen Laundry Line
This garganutuan clothesline hung across Fort Ethan Allen Park, which appeared earlier this week, is actually a work of art, courtesy of Essex Junction artist…
Meet the 7D Marathon Relay Team… and Weep
Attention, Burlington Marathon relay teams: Prepare to eat our dust! That’s right. Seven Days is no longer just an awesome source for Vermont news and…
Need Help? Ask Some Drag Queens
As further proof that everyone and their mother is hopping on the digital caboose, our good friends over at the Hot Damn Trailer Park in…
Coming Soon — Made in VT Creemee Mixes!
Living in Vermont, we have come to accept, whether we want to or not (or even believe it), that everything made in the Green Mountain…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Matthew Dale Hudleston, 33, handed a bank teller in Foley, Ala., a note announcing, “I have a gun,” and detailing his demands….
Pick A Summer Adventure
Whether you’re an über-jock or a sun shunner, we’ve got you covered this warm season
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Weaseling out of things is important to learn,” said cartoon antihero Homer Simpson. “It’s what separates us from the animals —…
WTF: What’s the deal with Burlington’s yellow-shirted “baby cops”?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Come Sail Away
Despite high waters and low lake temperatures, it’s boom time at the Lake Champlain Yacht Club
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Heavyfest 2011 [224]
5/21/11: Big Heavy World teamed up with Magic Hat Brewing Company and Performing Arts Center to present Heavyfest, the first outdoor concert of the season.The…
Chinese Spring
Art Review: “Red Flag, Contemporary Chinese Art in Montréal Collection” and “The Warrior Emperor & China’s Terracotta Army,” Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
Letters to the Editor
Health Care? Humbug! Health care is not a human right [“Like Health Care Reform? So Does the Vermont Workers’ Center,” May 11]. A human right…
Dangerous Liaisons
For more than six years, Rachel Kahn-Fogel, wife of University of Vermont president Dan Fogel, sent suggestive emails to a member of the UVM staff…
Sweet on Gesine Bullock-Prado
Last night 7D food intern Frances Cannon and I went to see Gesine Bullock-Prado do a candy-making demonstration at, of all places, the New England…
Does White-Nose Syndrome Have a Silver Lining for Big-Wind Opponents?
Ordinarily, the several-gram body of a little brown bat is no match for the whirling blades of a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine. The massive rotors don’t…
7 Questions for… Miss Vermont USA
On June 19, Lauren Carter — recent college graduate, equestrian, nurse and jazz bassist — will represent Vermont in the Miss USA pageant in Las…
