Nov 16-22, 2011
More Than 40 Vermonters Have Gone Missing Since 1971 — How Do We Find Them?; No Candidate for the Dems; Potato Sack Pants Theater Acts Up; UVM Professors Study Happiness
Chick fil-A Files to Block ‘Eat More Kale’ From Becoming Federal Trademark
Eleven years ago, a farmer friend asked Montpelier folk artist Bo Muller-Moore to make a T-shirt for him that read “Eat More Kale.” So, Muller-Moore…
The Alchemist Pub and Brewery Will Not Reopen
Following months of mounting challenges, Jen and John Kimmich have decided not to reopen The Alchemist Pub and Brewery. The 10-year Waterbury landmark was devastated…
Movies You Missed 13: Bellflower
This week in movies you missed: Slackers meets The Road Warrior with a detour through Crazytown. Before we begin, a note of advice: Women, if…
Flynn Center Artistic Director Arnie Malina to Retire
It’s big news when the artistic visionary of the state’s largest performing arts center decides to call it a career. According to a press release…
Still Dishing
Grilling the Chef: Alexandra La Noue-Adler, Parker House Inn & Restaurant
A Big Bookstore for Burlington … in the Works
When Borders announced the closing of its Burlington store, everyone wondered how long the city could remain without a downtown bookseller. Well, not that long….
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again A witness observed a boy who appeared to be breaking into a pickup truck in Port Charlotte, Fla. When confronted, the suspect…
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Dennis Sparling [246]
11/12/11: Dennis Sparling has been sculpting metal in his former quarry home studio in New Haven Vermont for over 40 years. Burlingtonians are probably familiar…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is…
If You’re Happy and You Know It, Tweet
UVM researchers measure emotion through online communications
Letters to the Editor
Uppity Instrumentalist I’m getting pretty sick of hearing that Tiny Tim ruined the ukulele [“Uke Power,” November 2]. You can’t ruin the reputation of an…
Brattleboro’s Prison Legal News Featured on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
-Local listeners of National Public Radio’s Saturday-morning news and humor show, “Wait,Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” may not have picked up on last Saturday’s Vermont connection. Each…
From the Village That Brought Us the Men of Maple Corner Nude Calendar: A Happiness Store
Everyone knows you can’t buy happiness. Even Ginny Sassaman, the Calais artist and mediator who is opening a happiness store in Maple Corner this weekend….
