Sep 16-22, 2009
The Performing Arts Preview: Andrea Rogers to Leave Flynn; Judith Levine Ponders How to Help the President; Stories From the Host of “This American Life”
This is What Gay Marriage Looks Like
Dana Kaplan and Katie Dyer got married last Saturday at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe. Seven Days video journalist Eva Sollberger captured the ceremony…
Snelling Announces Bid for Lt. Governor
Mark Snelling, the son of former Republican Gov. Richard Snelling, announced Friday he is running for lieutenant governor. The announcement caps weeks of speculation about…
State’s Attorney Recuses Self from Flanagan Probe, Cites Political Conflict
Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan today recused himself from the investigation into alleged lewd conduct by fellow Democrat State Sen. Ed Flanagan, citing his…
Federal Student Aid Bill Leaves VSAC Future in Doubt
The US House of Representatives yesterday approved an overhaul and expansion of the federal student aid program by a 253-171 vote, and included an amendment…
Senate Republicans Block Media Shield Law
Journalists hoping for federal protection from being held in contempt of court, fined or even jailed for refusing to divulge confidential sources will have to…
Trashing City Hall Park
If you think your day is going badly, consider this one thing: At least you didn’t spend your morning sorting garbage. Unless you’re a garbage…
VT Blogger Named One of 50 Most Influential Commentators
Steve Benen, the Vermont-based “blogger in chief” for the Washington Monthly has been named one of the 50 most influential opinion makers by the Atlantic…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Max D. Hinton, 21, was interviewing for a job with the Montgomery, Ala., police when he volunteered that he possessed child pornography…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for September 16 – 23, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): To the thug…
Art, Vermont Style
Art Review: Art Hop juried show and outdoor sculptures, Soda Plant, Pine Street and Flynn Avenue, Burlington. Through September.
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Dana & Katie Get Married [SIV144]
9/12/09: September 1st it became legal for same sex couples to wed in Vermont. Dana & Katie said their vows in front of a large…
Letters to the Editor
BROMAGE NAILED IT I really enjoyed Andy Bromage’s piece, “Unfair Market?” [September 2]. I want to applaud Seven Days for running it and also to…
At the Hop, Revisited
Soundbites: At the Hop, Revisited, Burlington in Microcosm, Bite Torrent
Are They Nuts? Sens. Leahy, Sanders Back ACORN — updated
In a lopsided 83-7 vote last night, the Senate voted to bar the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from granting any funds to…
Album Station Goes Silent
Static between the owner and programmers of WCLX, the “Album Station,” has put the 10-year-old free-form rock station off the air—for now. The object of…
Eat Globally, Write Locally — The Foreignvore Challenge
Friends, today I embark on a great challenge (a challenge I was supposed to undertake yesterday, but I forgot). Today, on the 15th of September,…
Taste Test: Tourterelle
3629 Ethan Allen Highway, New Haven, 453-6309. Dinner Wednesday through Saturday beginning at 5:30 p.m. Sunday brunch 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Best Bites: Firebird Café
163 Pearl Street, Essex Junction 316-4265 Being half of a couple of obsessive eaters can be challenging: Sometimes one of you wants breakfast, the other…
This American Chitty Chat — Gabbing with Ira Glass
Yesterday I had the good fortune of chatting with my new best pal, the besuited, bespectacled Ira Glass of public radio’s This American Life. I…
