The Health & Fitness Issue 2013
Can Skateland Make a Comeback?; Alcohol and the Teenage Brain; A Fitness Trend Borrows From Ballet
The Health Toll of Food Writing: High Cholesterol
Numerically speaking, 258 is innocuous; it could be a street address, an area code, the title of an Emily Dickinson poem. If you’re talking cholesterol,…
News Quirks
Popularity Contests Sophie Laboissonniere, 21, pleaded guilty to rioting after the Vancouver Canucks lost the National Hockey League finals in June 2011. Shortly before the…
No. 1 in the Nation for Underage Drinking, Vermont Has a Long-Range Problem
Vermont has earned a lot of “firsts” over the years, but the dubious distinction of No. 1 in the nation for underage drinking is nothing…
Trying an Antigravity Treadmill
A new antigravity treadmill in Burlington lifts elite and elderly athletes alike
Rejuvenating in Rutland
Taking an affordable and quirky spa day in an unlikely location
Happy Bellies Chef Teaches Clients to Eat for Digestive Health
Though personal therapeutic chef Tara Carpenter uses the word “diet” to describe her cooking methods, her Barre business, Happy Bellies, is not focused on privation….
Ballet Meets Fitness at BarSculpt
A new fitness trend mashes up Pilates, ballet stretching and sports conditioning
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it,” wrote nineteenth-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Every arrow…
An Interview with Jazz Icon Archie Shepp
Don’t call Archie Shepp a jazz musician. Also, as we found out recently, don’t call him before 4 p.m. — Shepp is nocturnal and might…
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Joan Robinson’s Final Bow at the Flynn [296]
1/10/13: After 18 years as a leader of the education programs at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Joan Robinson is leaving behind an…
Sen. Patrick Leahy Exhibits His Photos From a Political Life
Art Review: “The Eye of Senator Leahy”
When a “Routine” Vasectomy Doesn’t Go as Planned
In December, I suffered a debilitating brain fart and scheduled my vasectomy on the Friday before my busiest work weekend of the year. Traditionally, this…
Letters to the Editor
Miserable Movie [Re “Kisonak and Harrison at the Movies 2012,” December 26]: Well, I held my nose and went to see Les Misérables, which I…
