

Frodo in Penny Cluseshire
Today I decided to take my lunch at Penny Cluse. I say “take my lunch” because it sounds fancy. Like I’m a lady who lunches…
VPR Reporter Is Keeping Tabs on Iranian Election
Vermont Public Radio editor and reporter Steve Zind is no doubt keeping track of today’s elections in Iran more closely than are most of us…
Missing: Farm Animals and Clothespin People
It seemed like Burlington’s Spring Move Out Project on Loomis Street a couple weeks ago was a big success… but not for one woman who…
Swine flu update: Fletcher Allen confirms first H1N1 case among its own staff
The New York Times reported this afternoon that the World Health Organization has raised its alert on swine flu to its highest level, the first…
Compost or Die
Yesterday I heard a report on the inimitable “All Things Considered” on NPR that San Francisco just passed a law requiring people to compost. Well,…
Senator Shumlin: On the Nuclear Offensive – *UPDATED*
SEE UPDATE BELOW – Vermont Yankee spokesman takes exception to the hiring of Arnie Gunderse, deeming it “unwarranted.” With the dust barely settled from the…
RETN Calls Comcast’s Bluff
The dispute between Comcast and the Regional Educational Technology Network entered a new phase today, with RETN officials calling on the telecom giant to release…
The Hills Are Alive… With the Sound of Former Child Actors
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens! I don’t believe it! The fictional von Trapp kids from the iconic movie The Sound of Music are…
Shay Totten on WPTZ
Back in April, we announced that Seven Days had entered into a partnership with WPTZ Newschannel 5. Each week, political columnist Shay Totten and music…
Time to Pick the Daysies!
It’s time again to vote for your favorite local stuff in our annual “best of” Daysies competition. Click here to complete the online survey.Voting ends…
Letters to the Editor
HOE, SWEET HOE As a small farmer, I was glad to see Amy Picchi’s story highlighting the South Village model [“Plated Community,” May 13], which…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Four men trying to steal a pickup truck in Jefferson County, Ark., didn’t get very far because it wouldn’t run. Undeterred, they…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for June 10 – 17, 2009. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): So you’re trying…
Reinventing the Past
Art Review: “Inspired Stories: Artists Reflect on the Historical Collection of the Sullivan Museum,” a group exhibit in mixed media. Sullivan Museum and History Center, Norwich University, Northfield. Through August 28.
Ava Bishop [SIV132]
6/8/09: Fashion in VT? Local designer Ava Bishop is making it stylish to be a Vermonter.Music: Missy Bly, Missy Bly 3, “Handmade Love”Try Missy Bly’s…
Saving Loads: Money- and Earth-Saving Tips for Laundry Day
Getting By: How Vermonters Are Surviving the Recession
Shaken and Stirring
A conversation with Pink Martini founder, bandleader and musical ambassador Thomas Lauderdale
Still 99.8 Percent Jazz Free!
Soundbites: Still 99.8 Percent Jazz Free!, Curses! (Are Fun), Whistlin’ Dixie, Summer of [Still Blank], Bite Torrent






