May 30 – Jun 5, 2007
Slave Wages and Unsafe Housing – Exposing the Unsavory Side of Cheap Chinese in Vermont; A New Series About Car Love; Labor Department Links Free Trade to Vermont Job Losses
Ollie Speaks!
Whenever I have the time on return trips from Middlebury College or the Basin Harbor Club, I enjoy stopping to visit with the Ferrisburgh camel,…
Contois Auditorium
[image-x]This is actually an addendum to Lou’s posting of 5/31/07. Most of the artists that he mentioned performed at Contois. In the nearly twenty years…
A Good Start
[image-x]Well, the first 2007 Discover Jazz weekend offered us solid jazz, not the soft something-or-other of some past openers. (That comes later in the week…
Contact Info
[image-x]Just because L. J. requested it, here goes (if I’m out of line posting this, someone let me know please)–Unfortunately we no longer have a…
Palmieri Concert Thoughts
[image-x]I have kind of a strange perspective on this particular event since I’m kind of an insider, having played in the opening act of the…
Kenny Garrett Concert Comments
[image-x]Have you ever attended a National Drag Race competition? The vehicles go from zero to 300+MPH in less than 7 seconds in a race that…
The Great American Cookbook
I spent this morning with my “little” sister, who is living at my mom’s house while she waits for her PhD program to begin in…
I Bet You Can’t Guess…
Here’s another “guess the subject of this photo” post. As always (or at least the one other time I did one of these), the item…
Late Night Street Tour (6/01/07)
[image-x]I tried to slip out of the Flynn Theater after last night’s performance but I got kidnapped by an old friend who is aware of…
Eddie Palmieri Concert Comments
[image-x]I liked last night’s performance, but the longer you get to know me, there’s always a “but”. I was disappointed in some of the song…
Promoting BDJF
[image-x]When I recently discussed the Lake George(NY) Jazz Festival, I hinted at a rant. This is it. I find it hard to understand why the…
A Case of the Crabs
The Discovery Channel is an odd and wonderful TV channel. It’s part of a larger company (surprise, surprise) which owns a network of cable stations,…
Bob Blumenthal
[image-x]I agree with George’s assessment of Bob Blumenthal and his work. George introduced him to me the first year that he started this critic in…
New 7 Nights
I can’t believe I forgot to blog about our new 7 Nights Guide to Restaurants and Bars!! On May 16, we released the 2007-2008 print…
Lectures You’ll Love
[image-x]Bob Blumenthal is one of the great joys of The Burlington Jazz Festival. Here’s a guy who’s won two Grammys for his liner notes on…
Good-bye Groovy UV’ey
They’re gone. Well, most of ’em, anyway. This is the “day after” aspect of the Hackie column of 5/30/07, “Pomp and Circumstance.” The three largest…
Karaoke Evolution
Game On: “SingStar Pop” “SingStar Rocks!” Playstation 2, $29.99 each, E 10+ for Everyone 10 and older
Hot and Soured
Slave wages and unsafe housing – exposing the unsavory side of cheap Chinese in Vermont
Soaking Up the Grease Gospel With a Veggie-Car Mechanic
Mechanic Mark Penta has no environmental axe to grind. Around the time this race-car aficionado did his first “Greasecar” conversion, in 2001, vegetarian transport was…
Viva Viva
On my way to an interview this morning, I stopped in at Viva Espresso and snagged a fruit smoothie. ..it was delightful. The smoothies come…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s deputies investigating an armed robbery at a gas station in Orlando, Fla., noticed that the robber had left a gun case…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s deputies investigating an armed robbery at a gas station in Orlando, Fla., noticed that the robber had left a gun case…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Though one of the closest stars to our sun, Teegarden’s star was unknown to astronomers until 2003. Located in the constellation…
Marathon Man
I always enjoy marathon weekend in Burlington. The event attracts a more, let’s say, lucid crowd than the beer festival later in the summer. Or…
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VT City Marathon [SIV27]
About 7500 runners participated in the 19th Vermont City Marathon this past Sunday. The weather was perfect for racing, dark and dismal. The crowds came…
