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Feb 25, 2009; ... * MARCH ELECTION COVERAGE On Tuesday, March 3, Vermonters will go to the polls, or congregate in town halls, to approve local budgets and cast votes on issues that matter in our cities, towns and gores. The next issue of Seven Days newspaper goes to print before the polls close, ...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About IRV - But Didn't Know How to Ask
Feb 25, 2009; ... ELECTION In March 2006, Democrat Hinda Miller lost the mayor's race to Progressive Bob Kiss in the city's first demonstration of "instant runoff voting." According to election officials, IRV went off without a hitch - more than 99 percent of the ballots cast were deemed valid - and for a ...
In Burlington, at Least, It's Not the Economy, Stupid
Feb 25, 2009; ... ECONOMY Burlington's relative vigor in the face of a global economic swoon is the incumbent mayor's best selling point in the upcoming mayoral election. Even challengers to Progressive Bob Kiss preface their criticisms with nods to the success of his party's development efforts over the ...
FACING FACTS
Feb 25, 2009; ... MAN ON LIVE WIRE A skydiver crashed into 7200-volt power lines during a winter carnival in Brattleboro - without getting electrocuted. Now, that's a tough act to follow. BURLINGTON-HUNTINGTON VIDEO ABCs "Nightline" aired a segment comparing America's "fittest" and ...
CORRECTIONS
Feb 25, 2009; ... In last week's article "Granville Filmmaker Celebrates 99-Year-Old Activist," we incorrectly cited a Seven Days article as the inspiration for filmmaker Larry Holden's ...
Kiss Dis
Feb 25, 2009; ... Burlington Democrats are poised to regain control of a city council and mayor s office snatched from their hands nearly three decades ago. If elections break their way, Queen City Dems could have a working majority on the city council for the first time since the mid-1980s, and the first ...
Middlebury Presents Provocative "Post-Racial" Exhibit
Feb 25, 2009; ... ART Middlebury Presents Provocative "Post-Racial" Exhibit A combination of curatorial imagination and financial firepower has enabled the Middlebury College Museum of Art to stage a show stylishly in sync with the nation's current conversation about "post-racial" ...
Parini Novel Filmed with All-Star Cast
Feb 25, 2009; ... FILM Christopher Plummer plays the aged Leo Tolstoy. Helen Mirren embodies his wife. Paul Giamatti is his disciple, Vladimir Chertkov. And James McAvoy is his secretary. Adapted from the 1990 historical novel by Middlebury College professor Jay Parini, The Last Station has award-season ...
Middlebury's "DivaMan" Gets Literary
Feb 25, 2009; ... BOOKS If you live near Middlebury College, you've probably witnessed a rousing performance by François Clemmons. The setf-described "DivaMan" wows crowds every January with melodic renditions of American Negro spirituals. Come summer, he sings in multiple tongues for students of the ...
New Online Mag Aims to Be Forum for Vermont Artists
Feb 25, 2009; ... ART Art is about making something from nothing: filling blank canvasses; sculpting hunks of wood or stone; shaping forms from raw clay or globs of hot glass. All that's required is imagination, courage and a lot of hard work, right? But if an artist makes something in her own studio, ...
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Cody Sees the World
Feb 25, 2009; ... The nighttime Amtrak arrival into Essex Junction was a bust - nary a taxi fare to be had. Trying to salvage what I could from the situation, I pulled to the curb at the Railroad Street bus stop, positioning myself directly in front of a young man I had seen get off the train. His clothes looked ...
Good Text
Feb 25, 2009; ... SEX Planned Parenthood of Northern New England offers adults some carnal knowledge M ost people get their sex ed in middle school - that time of life when the sum of 45 and 24 is the funniest thing in the world. Perhaps not the best moment to absorb facts about the responsible ...
STIMULUS PACKAGE
Feb 25, 2009; ... The Seven Days Sex Survey Everyone is hoping President Obama's gazillion-dollar stimulus package will save the flailing American economy, or at least begin to stanch the hemorrhage. Meanwhile, one Vermont business has lit on a recession-proof revenue generator: sex. The Weston-based ...
The Daily Bump and Grind
Feb 25, 2009; ... SEX Vermont women talk about trying recreational exotic dance Green, yellow and red strobe lights flit over the floor. A DJ spins thumping hip-hop tunes, while the tracks' videos play on the flat screen behind the turntables. Beside the DJ, two women twirl around two poles on a ...
Good by Association
Feb 25, 2009; ... Good by Association The vitality of the Northern Vermont Artists Association and the richness of its past are abundantly clear in these waning days of winter at the Bryan Memorial Gallery. "NVAA: Past and Present," on view through March 1 5, is a two-gallery show of artworks by current ...
Standing in the Shadows
Feb 25, 2009; ... Sculptor Hugh Townley didn't get his due, at least not in his lifetime. That is not to say, however, that he wasn't a successful artist. Townley s abstract wooden sculptures reside in some of the nations most important museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago, the ...
A Christmas Tale
Feb 25, 2009; ... A Christmas Tale ***** MARROW ESCAPE A mother asks the black sheep of her family to risk his life to save her own. Hollywood factory-produces predictable stories in which dysfunctional families reunite for some special occasion and have at one another over ancient slights ...
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
Feb 25, 2009; ... Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail ** THE FAT AND THE FURIOUS Perry's popular franchise continues with the split-personality tale of a raging granny and a winsome whore. On the weekend of October 12, 2007, the highest-grossing movie in America was Tyler Perry's Why Did I ...
Boob Job
Feb 25, 2009; ... Montréal's topless diners serve up frontal views with the food From the outside, it looks unprepossessing, not so different from any other diner in a working-class neighborhood. But when I peer in the window, I'm greeted by my own reflected face. And on entry, a pair of tits meets my ...