Nov 12-18, 2008
From Weddings to Digital Rectal Exams, a Local Performer Does It All; Local Experts Weigh In On the State’s Financial Future; Urban Egg-Layers, Unite!; What Will Barack Do For You, College Student?
“Darn Tough” Times
Some Vermont businesses are perfectly positioned to weather the economic storm — or any old storm, for that matter. The check-out line snaked all the…
TONIGHT! Radiator Benefit Show @ Club Metronome
This is a pretty good week for music (of local and national varieties) in Burlington. There’s a show with four great local rock’n’roll bands going…
Dealer.com COO to Speak at Champlain
Dealer.com COO Michael Lane is speaking tomorrow night at Champlain College, as part of their BYOBiz Speaking From Experience lecture series. From the Champlain website:Lane…
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Champlain College had an open house last Wednesday to showcase its renovations and expansions beyond the Hill of Burlington as part of its eerily titled…
What Will Barack Do For You, College Student?
Almost all of the Vermont college kids voted for Barack Obama, but how many of them actually know what his plan is for higher education,…
Healthiest City in the U.S.? Burlington
I just learned that according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Burlington, Vermont is the “healthiest city” in America. Apparently, 92% of Burlingtonians…
Dem Backs out of Burlington Mayor’s Race
Just one week after officially throwing his hat into the ring in hopes of challenging Progressive Mayor Bob Kiss in March, Democratic City Councilor Ed…
Weekend Reading: The Last Word on Personal Attacks in Chitty 3-4
Some reading for the weekend:A few readers have been wanting to hear more about the personal attacks during the Chittenden 3-4 campaign that I mentioned…
Rubblebucket: On WWPV Monday, at Higher Ground Thursday
So there is a real solid band out of Boston by the name of Rubblebucket, known in a past musical life as Rubblebucket Orchestra. They…
Middvites
So, you’re really into that guy in psych101 who wears that neon hat and sits two rows and three seats to left of you. Or,…
Pro-Gay Marriage Demonstration Planned for Burlington
Dust off your placards, lace up your combat boots — there’s a good, old-fashioned gay rights demonstration in Burlington tomorrow. Gay activists and their allies…
Former Freeps Columnist Buys Franklin County Weekly
Ed Shamy, former news columnist for The Burlington Free Press, and his wife, Kim Asch, have purchased the County Courier, the weekly newspaper for Franklin…
Vermont Tent Goes to Washington
Last weekend, while visiting Washington D.C., I saw hundreds of painted tents staked out on the National Mall. Turns out they were “Tents of Hope”…
Barnard Requests Recount *updated*
Think Election ’08 is over? Hardly. Today, Democrat Denise Begins Barnard asked Chittenden County Clerk Diane Lavallee for a recount of the vote in the…
Urban Egg-Layers, Unite!
My story in this week’s food section profiles a 21-year-old Burlington goatherder, and his struggle to raise farm animals in accordance with the city’s convoluted…
Cabot Sock Sale 2008
The “Hunter’s Widow” Sock Sale at Cabot Hosiery Mills is happening this weekend, though you wouldn’t know it from searching the internet. I’m not sure…
Vermont Democratic Caucus Cluster#$@& *updated*
The race for top leadership posts in the legislative Democratic caucus is getting very crowded. As I pointed out in my post-election column, there is…
Howard Dean Soon-to-be Unemployed
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean says he plans on stepping down from his position as DNC Chairman at the end of his four-year term, which…
Brainwashed Students Elect Teenybopper
If you’ve paid attention to the hotly contested political races like the Ram, Zuckerman and Pearson 3-4 battle, you’ve surely noticed that college voters played…
Seven Days of Sex
Got an interesting article via Google alert this morning that I can’t resist sharing. Dallas pastor Ed Young is urging the married couples in his…
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VT Independence Convention [SIV104]
11/7/08: FREE VERMONT FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE! The Vermont Independence Convention, sponsored by The Second VermontRepublic, was held at the VT Statehouse in Montpelier on…
Break Like the Wind . . . of Change
Soundbites: Break Like the Wind . . . of Change, Grizzly Men, Unplugged Plug, Starline Kudos, Fun with Gypsies
Bob’s Your Everything
From weddings to digital rectal exams, a local performer does it all
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again After receiving a call from the manager of the Sunset Inn Motel in San Antonio, Texas, police found 15 newspaper vending machines…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for November 12 – 19, 2008. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): “You can’t know…
It Takes a City
Art Review: “Exposure: Studio Show II,” new work from selected ceramists, printmakers and photographers in the Burlington City Arts Member Studios. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington. Through December 13.
MicroStrain, Inc. Expands
Got a press release last week from MicroStrain, one of the companies that exhibited at the Vermont 3.0 Creative/Technology Career Jam in October. Looks like…
Hope, Expectations, and Our New President
A week has passed since Barack Obama was elected our next president, and life has become… strange. Everyone is just so happy. Paranoid, angry political…
Grannis Gallery is Closing
Sad, but true — designer goldsmith Timothy Grannis and his wife, Susan Hurd are closing their store, Grannis Gallery, Fine Jewelry, on Bank Street in…
