Seven Days back issues from November 2007:
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Nov 07, 2007; ... * YO, HACKIE! There's no "Hackie" column in the newspaper this week, but if you're jonesing for more Jernigan Pontiac, you can check out his blog "Yo, Hackie!", at www. sevendaysvt.com. Jernigan's been writing his cab driver column for a decade, but he just started blogging last ...
Delegation in Vermont Protests Outsourcing of MLK Memorial
Nov 07, 2007; ... ACTIVISM BARRE - A national monument to Martin Luther King Jr. built in Barre? That's what would happen if a group of artists and activists - including a Vermont native granite carver - got their way. Two representatives of the Atlanta-based King Is Ours organization are arriving ...
Simulated Terror Attack Goes Unnoticed
Nov 07, 2007; ... HOMELAND SECURITY SOUTH BURLINGTON - If terrorists were to attack South Burlington, would neighbors bat an eye? Apparently not. For 18 hours last weekend, the Vermont Air National Guard conducted military exercises at its South Burlington headquarters, which abuts the Burlington ...
Harry Potter-Inspired World Cup Comes to Vermont
Nov 07, 2007; ... MIDDLEBURY - Cor blimey! It's Midd Quidd! A historic event is set for Sunday on the Middlebury College campus when a team from Vassar challenges the host in the first-ever intercollegiate World Cup Quidditch Tournament. No fewer than 12 Middlebury squads will battle one another earlier ...
Townies and Gownies Square Off Over Bar Proposal
Nov 07, 2007; ... COLLEGE MIDDLEBURY - Local merchants are offering mixed reactions to Middlebury College's plan to open a bar in a prime downtown location it recently leased, paving the way for a classic college-town showdown this winter. The 3500-square-foot Main Street space formerly occupied ...
Cheer Up!
Nov 07, 2007; ... The price of gasoline and home hearing oil is shooting up. The Vermont Foodbank, which serves 14,000 low-income Vermonters, reported this week that its shelves are looking a lot barer than they did last winter. And the Defense Department reported the death in Iraq this week of ...
Picture Book Helps Kids Prepare for Opening Day
Nov 07, 2007; ... BOOKS These days, kid lit doesn't shy away from a lot of potentially controversial topics - adoption, gay parents, disability. But when it comes to young 'uns carrying guns, publishers can get jumpy. That's what Calais author Susan Bartlett found when she pitched Opening Day, a picture ...
A New Play Talks, Er, Turtle About Teen Sexuality
Nov 07, 2007; ... THEATER As a family pet, the turtle lacks drama. It doesn't romp enthusiastically outside, or hock up attention-getting fur balls inside. But the mild-mannered reptile plays a surprising starring role at the center of a new play. In When Turtles Make Love, a hard-shelled softie named ...
An Iconic American Artist 'Pops' Up in Two Local Exhibits
Nov 07, 2007; ... ART Andy Warhol's share of fame has lasted waaay more than 15 minutes; his influence has spanned decades and generations already, and shows no signs of abating. case in point: He was the serendipitous link between two otherwise wildly disparate exhibits that opened last Friday night in ...
news quirks
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Be Very Afraid
Nov 07, 2007; ... Phew. We made it through anorher Halloween with no American child bursting into flame. For this we can thank the Consumer Product Safety Commission, whose Halloween Safety Alert admonished parents to dress children in flame-retardant costumes, emboss their bags and clothes with ...
CORRECTION
Nov 07, 2007; ... In a story that ran in last week's issue ["State Term-Limit Debate is Back"], Seven ...
You're History?
Nov 07, 2007; ... A new chapter at the Vermont Folklife Center brings a different director, a bigger building and a state-of-the-art audio lab You don't have to go to deer camp to hear Roy Hines talk about tracking a 10-point, 278-pound buck up a mountain and shooting it through the heart. No hunting ...
Gun Shy
Nov 07, 2007; ... Why is Vermont's hunter population dwindling? Vermont's young bucks gathered Sunday at the Neshobe Sportsman Club in Brandon for a barbecue celebrating the annual Youth Deer Hunting Weekend. Scores of young hunters toting rifles and gear bags emerged from parent-driven SUVs and pickups ...
Of Elk and Men
Nov 07, 2007; ... A Northeast Kingdom "farm" fights for the right to raise fenced game Any given morning in Irasburg, Doug and Richard Nelson can be found tending to their animals. Like most Orleans County dairymen, they're up at the crack of dawn, puttering around the family barn. But at about 8 a.m., ...
Killer Instinct
Nov 07, 2007; ... A Seven Days editor confesses his oft-taboo passion The writers, editors, sales people, web heads, graphic designers and general office-folk at Seven Days are a smart group of people. Several speak two languages some three - and most have hip side projects outside of work. In their free ...
Southern Discomfort
Nov 07, 2007; ... Southern Discomfort Theater review: The Miss Firecracker Contest Regional stereotyping is a hallmark of crude humor the world over. Berliners bust on Bavarians; Venetians needle Neapolitans. Almost any perceived difference is fair game: accent, food, fashion and especially ...
"Remains" of the Day
Nov 07, 2007; ... "Remains" of the Day EXHIBIT "Nature Remains: The Artist as Environmentalist," Main Gallery, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Through November 17. ARTWORK "Eleusinian Mystery of the Quantum Honey Bees" by Cameron Davis PHOTO Marc Awodey This ...
New Game Worth a Look
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Hillary to Spend Rest of Campaign in Soundproof Glass Box
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Queen Anne's Lace
Nov 07, 2007; ... 73 Church Street, Burlington Their business card is pink. But most of their Christmas-season shoppers are male, say Queen Anne's Lace co-owners Stephanie Douglas and Kelly Sullivan of their upscale lingerie store. There's simply nowhere else in town to get a Montreal-made balconette with ...
American Gangster
Nov 07, 2007; ... American Gangster **** BROOKS BROTHER Washington does some of the finest work of his career in the role of real-life Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas. Ridley Scott's gangland saga has been called the "Black Scarface" and the "Harlem Godfather" It's not difficult to see why ...
Bee Movie
Nov 07, 2007; ... Bee Movie DEAD STINGER Despite all the, um, buzz, Jerry Seinfeld's animated flick is long on wordplay and short on wit. Was there ever a better time to make an animated kids' movie about bees? True, they're not very cute, and they sting. But all of a sudden, humanity is ...
They Got Game
Nov 07, 2007; ... In the fall, dining is a little wilder Church suppers - Vermont cuisine doesn't get much more down-home. Driving along the state's rural roads, you'll find unassuming places of worship with marker-scrawled signs announcing "Spaghetti dinner next Saturday, $6" or "Baked Ham Supper, with ...
Which Wine?
Nov 07, 2007; ... An oenophile offers some tips Joerg Klauck of Vermont Wine Merchants will provide the wine pairings for the game dinner at Mary's restaurant. Here are a few of his thoughts oh pairing wine with game: "Whether it's game or any other dish, I try to rely on two basic principles ....
Out of the Frypan . . .
Nov 07, 2007; ... Hunters and chefs share their recipes Helen Rounds, secretary of the Neshobe Sportsman Club in Brandon: Venison Stew "Usually you cube the meat out just like a regular beef stew. I cut up my carrots and put them in the bottom of the Crock-Pot, and put in some onions and ...
DIY Deer
Nov 07, 2007; ... A mini course in gutting and cutting If you're a novice hunter, chances are you'll be out in the field with an experienced woodsperson when you score your first kill. But what if you're not - or what if you find a steaming specimen on the side of the road and don't want the meat to go to ...
SIDE DISHES: food news
Nov 07, 2007; ... Deli Doings OASIS STILL GOING STRONG The Oasis Diner in Burlington has officially changed hands, but don't look for knish just yet. Although the breakfast hot spot will be converted into a Jewish deli, new owner Glenn Walter, who also owns Three Needs bar, plans to maintain the ...
sound bites
Nov 07, 2007; ... D.I.Y.? A-OK! For as long as there has been a Vermont, generations of Green Mountain denizens have lived and died by the "I'm from Vermont, I do what I want" ethos. From Revolutionary War times to the present, a do-it-yourself spirit has pervaded our insular northeastern culture and ...
LIGHT AT THE END
Nov 07, 2007; ... RUSTIC OVERTONES, LIGHT AT THE END (Self-released, CD) The music biz can get overly specific when it comes to genre tags. You have your glam rock, your indie-pop rock, your ambient alternative and so on. Many bands select these labels and stick to them, sadly pigeonholing ...
SWINGIN' IN DADDYLAND
Nov 07, 2007; ... LEWIS FRANCO & THE MISSING CATS, SWINGIN' IN DADDYLAND (Mom & Pop Music, CD) I don't like children's music. It's funny, because, for the most part, I like kids. And believe it or not, I like music. So what is it about the meeting of the two that rubs me the wrong way? Is ...
Broken, But Still Sociable
Nov 07, 2007; ... Kevin Drew discusses staying in the Scene Performance at UVM's Ira Allen Chapel this Monday, November 1 2, 8 p.m. $20. The concept of the artist's collective is hardly novel. But few have achieved the level of success of Toronto's Broken Social Scene. The Canadian indie ...
Local Lawyer Pens National Impeachment Resolution
Nov 14, 2007; ... JUSTICE BURLINGTON - Chalk up another political victory, albeit a symbolic one, for Jimmy Leas. On November 5, the Burlington patent lawyer and peace activist introduced a resolution at the National Lawyers Guild's annual convention in Washington, D.C., that calls for the impeachment of ...
Bristol Site Offers Eternity, the Old-Fashioned Way
Nov 14, 2007; ... ENVIRONMENT BRISTOL - Here's an opportunity to the for. Some Bristol-area residents are aiming to develop New England's first eco-cemetery on the grounds of a local conservation area. The advocates envision non-embalmed bodies in pine boxes or cotton shrouds being buried in unmarked ...
City Squares Off with Building Owner Over Busted Sidewalk
Nov 14, 2007; ... PUBLIC SPACE BURLINGTON - On September 5, 2003, an engineer opened a hatch on a Main Street sidewalk in downtown Burlington. Once underground, he began exploring the empty space that abuts the basement of Nectar's Restaurant. It wasn't a ploy to get backstage. The engineer had ...
Middlebury Police Won't Seek Out Illegal Workers
Nov 14, 2007; ... HOMELAND SECURITY MIDDLEBURY - Middlebury police officers that encounter foreign nationals who may be in the country illegally will no longer detain them or contact federal immigration agents unless that person is known or suspected of committing a crime or terrorist act, according to a ...
Workplace Bully Bill on Tap at Statehouse
Nov 14, 2007; ... WORKERS' RIGHTS MONTPELIER - You may not be getting tortured on the playground during second period, but that doesn't mean you aren't the target of a bully. In fact, some worker advocates estimate that millions of adults across the country - mostly women - are bullied by co-workers on a ...
Is He, or Isn't He?
Nov 14, 2007; ... Only his hairdresser knows for sure, eh? That was the feeling one got reading and listening to the reports in the daily press this week as the news shops tried to figure out whether Anthony Pollina, 55, did or did not toss his hat into the 2008 gubernatorial ring at Saturday's ...
Local Troupe Reinvents Bawdy Operetta for the Small Stage
Nov 14, 2007; ... PUPPETRY A staggering-drunk puppet haltingly navigates his way through a lavish party thrown by a local dignitary. He punctuates nearly all conversations with pointed sexual come-ons to any woman within earshot, but finds his usually dependable lady-killer techniques hampered by frequent ...
Architects Display Designs for Green, Modular Housing
Nov 14, 2007; ... ARCHITECTURE Are green, architecturally designed developments the answer to the problem of affordable housing in Vermont? Members of Vermont CORA (Congress of Residential Architects) from across the state have spent the last two years collaborating on their own interpretations of that ...
Portraits by the Artist as a Very Young Man . . . and His Mom
Nov 14, 2007; ... ART Montpelier's Langdon Street Café is a funky hangout with worn, mismatched furniture and thriftshop décor. A dark-roast aroma fills the air, creating something like a permanently caffeinated climate. The place is wired electronically, too, for laptoppers and live musicians. All this ...
news quirks
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Talkin' Trash
Nov 14, 2007; ... For many Vermonters, Saturday mornings are sacred. They can be occasions to kick back with a third cup of coffee, linger over the newspaper, and enjoy the beginning of a day unburdened by remunerative labor. But when that peaceful interlude is over, it's high time to get to the ...
Ghoulish Tips
Nov 14, 2007; ... Halloween fell on a Wednesday this year. The bulk of the celebration - and I'm speaking here of the adult division - took place over the preceding weekend. On both Friday and Saturday night, downtown Burlington was awash in slutty nurses and purple-suited pimps. The relatively mild weather ...
On the Obama Bus
Nov 14, 2007; ... Vermonters travel to New Hampshire to canvas for a senator from Illinois Last Saturday, about two dozen Vermonters ranging in age from 17 to 72 schlepped through the streets of Littleton, New Hampshire, on behalf of a presidential candidate they believe can transform American politics ....
Crop Circles
Nov 14, 2007; ... Vermont farmers, activists and ag experts weigh in on the 2007 federal Farm Bill Picture a 3000-mile-long dinner table spanning the United States. Then imagine all 303 million Americans sitting down to eat. All of them, that is, except for members of Congress and a bunch of lobbyists and ...
CORRECTIONS
Nov 14, 2007; ... * In the October 24 "Inside Track," Seven Days incorrectly identified the month of poet Grace Paley's death. She passed away in August. * ...
Moving Pictures
Nov 14, 2007; ... Moving Pictures Book review: James Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems James Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems by James Sturm, Drawn & Quarterly, 191 pages. $24.95. I'd bet anything that James Sturm is a picker of scabs. The part-time Vermont resident and director of White ...
Song Fool, Part 1
Nov 14, 2007; ... On days he's desperate for a new song hell buy a sack of CDs, rip one open in the car, slide it into the player - and almost immediately see the fool again, the one whose mother sang to him so softly while she nursed him his first day out of the ...
Coming Together
Nov 14, 2007; ... Coming Together Fran Bull is a versatile artist, and not just in terms of the media she uses. She has a utilitarian approach to subject matter - that is, using any approach or medium, without regard to formal rules - that gives a surprising conceptual unity to her body of work. For her ...
Music to Your Ears
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Bush Gives Musharraf Tips on Eliminating Democracy
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Wristcutters: A Love Story
Nov 14, 2007; ... Wristcutters: A Love Story **** DEAD ASLEEP Fugit and Sossamon find the after-life's not so different from the one they lived before in the feature debut from Goran Dukic. If you see just one picture this year directed by a Croatian and based on an Israeli novella set in ...
Lions for Lambs
Nov 14, 2007; ... Lions for Lambs ** TALKY PICTURES Pretty much every talking point from the last five years is jammed into Robert Redford's political "drama." Robert Redford has won a directing Oscar, created the Sundance Film Festival and permanently imprinted himself on the hearts of ...
All Souped Up
Nov 14, 2007; ... Potage preparers - and lovers - weigh their stock options There's an inverse relationship between soup sales and the temperature outdoors. As one goes down, the other soars. That's why falling leaves precipitate Crock-Pot thoughts and every ski resort eatery offers a steaming soupe du ...
Hot Stuff
Nov 14, 2007; ... The "Soup Mama" brings home cooking right to your door Camille Murray-Wilson is not a fan of her mother's homemade soup. "If I had to eat that, I would want to puke. I'm sorry," the youngster proclaims. "I don't like the grilled cheese at school, because it comes with soup." Despite her ...
SIDE DISHES
Nov 14, 2007; ... food news SCUFFER DO-OVER BONES AND BEER REIGN AT NEW "STEAK & ALE" JOINT The Rusty Scuffer, a homey Church Street mainstay, will re-open this week as The Scoffer Steak & Ale House. If everything goes as planned, Wednesday will be the day, says new owner Mike ...
sound bites
Nov 14, 2007; ... DEAFENED BY HARDCORE The year was 1996. Bill Clinton was celebrating the first days of his second presidential term with . . . um, cigars. Jamaican port authorities opened fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, "mistaking" it for a drug trafficking aircraft - with U2 singer/messianic wannabe ...
PLAY FOR LOVE
Nov 14, 2007; ... DAVE KELLER, PLAY FOR LOVE (Self-released, CD) The best blues musicians know it's all about space - hang back a little and you can let that guitar perform a triple-bypass. Creating space by knowing when not to play is exactly what makes local bluesman Dave Keller's new album ....
APOCALYPSE YOW!
Nov 14, 2007; ... COLIN CLARY, APOCALYPSE YOW! (Asaurus Records, CD) Who decided that letdowns are romantic? Whoever it was is probably owed billions in royalties from weepy singer-songwriters who've built entire careers around the premise. Conor Oberst, we're looking in your direction. In any ...
Feeling Gourdgeous
Nov 14, 2007; ... Sippin' on "Gin & Juice" with The Gourds' Kevin Russell Let's get this straight: That hillbilly version of Snoop Dogg's "Gin & Juice" you've got on your iPod ain't Phish. Nor is it Ween, Umphree's McGee or any number of bands the tune has been erroneously attributed to since it ...
Protestors Worry Planned Parenthood Staff and Patients
Nov 21, 2007; ... ABORTION VERMONT - There was a time when working at an abortion clinic necessitated wearing a bulletproof vest. Or stepping over chained protestors blocking the front door. In some cases, it meant giving your life. Is the past repeating itself at Planned Parenthood of Northern New ...
Are Vermont's Employers Leaving Kids Behind?
Nov 21, 2007; ... HEALTH CARE VERMONT - A few weeks back, the Minnesota-based nonprofit United Health Foundation deemed Vermont the "healthiest" state in the nation. But a policy brief issued around the same time by a Washington, D.C., think tank stated that the number of Vermont kids receiving ...
Cash Crop
Nov 21, 2007; ... SHORT SHORTS STATE MAY CONSIDER INDUSTRIAL HEMP BILL VERMONT - George Washington recommended that its seeds be sown far and wide throughout the colonies, and Thomas Jefferson once called it the "first necessity to the wealth and prosperity of the nation." Abraham Lincoln penned ...
Grammy Theft Auto
Nov 21, 2007; ... POLICE FIND BURLINGTON WOMAN'S CAR IN FLORIDA BURLINGTON - "Get a life. Get off the streets. Go to school. Get a job. Do something with your life." That's the advice 75-year-old Burlington resident Jane Dworshak has for the punk police say stole her car last Thursday morning. The ...