Seven Days back issues from March 2008:
Exit Voices
Mar 05, 2008; ... Barack or Hillary? Approve the city budget or vote it down? Demolish the Moran plant or develop it? By the time you read this, we'll know what the voters chose. Unfortunately, Seven Days goes to press before the polls close. So we can't announce the results of this exciting ...
Is Vermont Disappearing? Yes, and a New Study Says There's Only One Solution
Mar 05, 2008; ... INCONVENIENT TRUTHS George Plumb grew up in Massachusetts, but he has been a Vermonter since 1963. Some years ago, after settling in Washington, Vermont, he began wondering: Why did every bucolic place he'd ever lived eventually get so crowded? The answer was obvious, and in ...
Agreement With City Opens Gates to Lakeview Cemetery for Muslim Burial Rites
Mar 05, 2008; ... RELIGION Ezzedine Fatnassi takes comfort in knowing that when his time comes, he can be buried in a Muslim-only section of a cemetery in his adopted hometown of Burlington. Fatnassi, a 54-year-old immigrant from Tunisia, helped negotiate an agreement last summer that sets aside ...
Vermont Law Students Travel to D.C. to Lobby for Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Mar 05, 2008; ... MILITARY AFFAIRS In Kathy Stickel's experience, the problem with the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy isn't the sex. It's the paperwork. Stickel, who is in her second year at Vermont Law School, served eight months in Kuwait with the Army Reserves. Her unit was in ...
Phoebe Stone Goes to Paris - and Sixth Grade
Mar 05, 2008; ... ART/BOOKS Many authors paint to give their minds a break, and visual artists often pen their thoughts. But only a few creative types - such as William Blake and Dante Gabriel Rosetti - are celebrated equally for their written and visual works. By now, Phoebe Stone of Middlebury - veteran ...
Refugees Tell Their Tales in Words and Pictures in a New Exhibit
Mar 05, 2008; ... CULTURE The experience of the refugees who have made their way to Vermont in recent years has often been presented as a feel-good story in which a tolerant, benevolent community welcomes hardworking newcomers. Charlotte-based Ned Castle's series of photos and testimonies at the Vermont ...
Dana Yeaton's Redshirts Nominated for Helen Hayes Award
Mar 05, 2008; ... THEATER What does an award nomination mean to an artist? Middlebury College playwright-in-residence Dana Yeaton learned last week that his new play, Redshirts, is up for a prestigious Helen Hayes Award: the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical. He admits that the ...
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The Man Behind the Movies
Mar 05, 2008; ... NAME JOB LOCATION Seth Jarvis Buyer for Waterfront Video Burlington and Middlebury Putting things in the Netflix "queue" is all well and good, but sometimes you want to see 30 Days of Night or 2 Days in Paris right now. No mail-order business can ...
A Friend of Grace
Mar 05, 2008; ... Gracie is a self-described "party girl." I'm not sure precisely what that means. She must be in her forties; I've been driving her for as long as I remember, and she was already beyond her twenties when she first started calling my cab. Des.pite the partying - however defined - she still looks ...
HAVANA DREAMS DEFERRED
Mar 05, 2008; ... Four Vermonters sue the U.S. government for the right to see their families in Cuba Some might say it takes major cojones to file a lawsuit against the United States government on behalf of yourself and several million Cuban-Americans over an entrenched, half-century-old foreign policy - ...
CUBA 101
Mar 05, 2008; ... Late last month, as Cuba's National Assembly in Havana voted to nominate Raul Castro as the nation's first new president in 49 years, six Burlington College students were witnesses to history. As members of the Semester Study in Cuba program, the group - which arrived in Cuba's capital on ...
Viva L'Arte
Mar 05, 2008; ... Viva L'Arte A retrospective of Cuban works in Montréal is nothing short of revolutionary Vermonters, or any Americans, who are curious about Cuba should travel to the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts before June 8 to see the most comprehensive exhibit of Cuban art ever assembled ...
Memory Keeping
Mar 05, 2008; ... Memory Keeping Book review: Reliquaries by Angela Patten In the poem that gives Angela Patten's new collection its title, the fossilized tongue of St. Anthony sits under glass, a reminder of "the numinous particulars of flesh." As it takes on a meaning beyond words, the severed tongue is ...
All in the Family
Mar 05, 2008; ... Artistic dynasties are uncommon, so when an especially talented family tree bears fruit, its well worth celebrating. The "Azarian Family Art Show," on view through April 22 at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier, pays homage to one of Vermont's most creative clans by gathering artworks by nine ...
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Semi-Pro
Mar 05, 2008; ... Semi-Pro ** COURT JESTER Ferrell's hoop spoof is likely to score with few besides his diehard fans. One can argue that Anchorman and Talladega Nights represent Will Ferrell's crowning comic achievements to date. The former offered a send-up of '70s culture and convention ....
In Bruges
Mar 05, 2008; ... In Bruges **** FLEMISH DISASTERS Farrelland Gleeson paint the town red as bickering hitmen in a talented playwright's feature film debut. The downside of living in a twee tourist town is that sometimes you have to deal with people like Ray, Colin Farrell s character in In ...
Kale for Sale
Mar 05, 2008; ... Bo Muller-Moore's green-scene design goes viral It's catchy, quirky, cryptic, trendy. It also leaves people scratching their heads. Eat More Kale? In the past five years, these three words - in their distinctive, stubby black type-face - have become part of the central Vermont ...
SIDE DISHES: food news
Mar 05, 2008; ... Permit Problems COME SMELL OR HIGH WATER Each year Megan Kolbay, owner of Earthgirl Composting, drops off around 6000 pounds of waste - including beef bones, tea bags, cotton balls and pizza boxes - at Intervale Compost Products. The single mom zips around each week to homes and ...
Taste Test: Sadie Katz Delicatessen
Mar 05, 2008; ... Taste Test: Sadie Katz Delicatessen 189 Bank Street, Burlington, 864-5308 When I was a little girl living in Brooklyn, my parents used to take me to Brighton Beach on the weekends. Aside from riding on the overheated subway, I don't remember much about those trips - except my ...
sound bites
Mar 05, 2008; ... TOTALLY 'MENTAL Shortly before he departed for the nation's capital, the estimable Casey Rae-Hunter handed me an inconspicuous-looking album and asked if I'd heard it. I replied that I hadn't and in true, succinct, Contrarian form he uttered simply, "You should." The album was EPl & ...
MOSES ATWOOD, MOSES ATWOOD
Mar 05, 2008; ... MOSES ATWOOD, MOSES ATWOOD (Marrow Music, CD) In exchange for his soul, the Devil allegedly offered Robert Johnson the ability to play the guitar as no man before him ever had. One fateful October night at a crossroads in Mississippi, Johnson became "King of the Delta Blues," and ...
PARIAH BEAT, BABYLON IS FALLEN EP
Mar 05, 2008; ... PARIAH BEAT, BABYLON IS FALLEN EP (Self-released, CD, digital download) Boston-by way-of-Thetford's Pariah Beat is one busy band. Since its inception in 2006, the group has self-released two EPs and two full-length albums, totaling more than 30 original compositions in just over ...
Ochs for All Ages
Mar 05, 2008; ... "I Ain't Marching Anymore," a Phil Ochs Song Night, Burlington City Hall Auditorium, March 7, 7 p.m. $15/20. Music fans born after 1976 - the year Phil Ochs hanged himself in a fit of manic depression - can get acquainted this Friday with the work of a great American ...
EXCERPTS FROM OUR BLOGS
Mar 12, 2008; ... SOLID STATE [MUSIC] Liftoff! Man, The Radiator is freakin' awesome! Last night, I made my debut appearance on everybody's favorite low-power FM station. I was a guest host on Jim Lockridge's totally ass-kickin' local music hour, "Rocket Shop." If you haven't listened, or ...
Putting Freedom to the Test
Mar 12, 2008; ... What role should religion play in our public schools? That's a question Lee Sease, the Addison Central Supervisory Union Superintendent, has had to wrestle with in recent months, after a Middlebury Union High School student filed a lawsuit requesting that a religious club called Youth Alive be ...
Groundwater Moratorium Unearths Legal Uncertainties
Mar 12, 2008; ... NATURAL RESOURCES Citizen activist Carolyn Shapiro woke up on the Wednesday after Election Day with renewed faith in local democracy. The previous -evening, at East Montpelier's annual town meeting, her neighbors approved a referendum calling for what may be Vermont's first-ever ...
Local Girl Scout Troops Sponsor Mine-Sniffing Dog and Sarajevo Landmine Victim
Mar 12, 2008; ... LANDMINES Not all Vermont's Girl Scouts are out selling Thin Mints. The 11- and 12-year-olds in troops 820 and 125 - in Williston and Essex Junction, respectively - wanted to know what life would be like for someone hurt by a landmine. Troop leaders Jennifer Mignano and Chandelle Trahan ...
Bond Market Collapse Worries Vermont Student-Loan Agency
Mar 12, 2008; ... HIGHER-ED FINANCING Normally, this is a slow time of year for the Winooski-based Vermont Student Assistance Corp., which loans hundreds of millions of dollars annually to parents and students looking to finance higher education. But the latest crisis on Wall Street has the ...
Stowe Gallery Exhibits Chinese Food for Thought
Mar 12, 2008; ... ART The ubiquitous phrase "Made in China," usually stamped on the bottoms of things Americans buy, has a decidedly pejorative connotation. It calls to mind lead paint in toys, toxic pet food and efficient factories where millions of workers claw mechanically at endless assembly ...
Third Vermont Composer Honors Chandler's 100th
Mar 12, 2008; ... MUSIC Reaching the age of 100 calls for celebration, and the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph has been doing it in grand style. As part of a yearlong fête for the century-old venue, the Chandler Center for the Arts commissioned work from three Vermont composers. Gwyneth Walker turned her ...
Local Artist Animates Hollywood Critters Long-Distance
Mar 12, 2008; ... FILM When Fox's big-budget animated version of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who opens this Friday, audiences will hear the voices of stars like Jim Caney and Steve Carell. But some of the images of cavorting critters they'll see on screen come from the Burlington studio of freelance ...
vignettes
Mar 12, 2008; ... Some banks offer free microwaves, iPods or checking to entice customers. The New England Federal Credit Union is taking a more highbrow approach: It created the Distinguished Vermont Writer Series, featuring the state's "top fiction and nonfiction writers." This Monday, March 17, at 5:30 p.m., ...
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Sticking It to PTSD
Mar 12, 2008; ... <HEALTH> Veterans are beginning to get the point of acupuncture For more information on the veterans' acupuncture clinic in Essex Junction, call Ann Ramsay at 922-1564; for the Montpelier clinic, call Pamela Brady at 229-1800 or Edward Kentish at 229-4537. The ...
A Whale of an Activist
Mar 12, 2008; ... <ANIMALS> A Vermont conservationist helped Americans hear songs from the deep For one Vermont resident, the key to environmental awareness and our place on Earth is . . . whales. "If the only thing you know is acoustics, and you see the world falling apart around ...
From the Horse's Mouth
Mar 12, 2008; ... <ANIMALS> "Open wide" isn't an option for a Vermont equine dentist Very few people choose a horse for its winning . . . smile. But in horses, as in humans, an unhealthy mouth is more than just a cosmetic concern. A horse with a dental problem can get ornery with a bit in ...
Purrfect Treatment
Mar 12, 2008; ... <ANIMALS> A feline-focused veterinarian chats about cats Move over, man's best friend. According to a 2007 survey conducted by the American Veterinary Medical Association, Americans own almost 82 million pet cats - that's 10 million more felines than canines. Still, other ...
Snow Sleuths
Mar 12, 2008; ... <ANIMALS> Spotting wildlife, in absentia Traditional sportsmen know half the excitement of hunting is in the chase. As Vermont's rifle toters track down deer, moose or coyote, they learn volumes about the habits of the critters they're aiming to kill. But you don't ...
Science and Fiction
Mar 12, 2008; ... art review BY MARC AWODEY Science and Fiction EXHIBIT "Between Soft Machines and Hard Science: The Interstitial Art of W. David Powell," an installation of digital prints and historic scientific instruments. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington. Through June ...
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Pour Relations
Mar 12, 2008; ... <THEATER> Pour Relations Theater review: Three Days of Rain Three Days of Rain, directed by Sara Lampert Hoover, produced by Vermont Stage Company. FlynnSpace, Burlington, March 12-16. Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m ....
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Mar 12, 2008; ... filmreviews 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days **** THE PRICE IS WRONG An abortionist exploits the desperation of two friends in Cristian Mungiu's harrowing drama. By the final stretch of award season, There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men had become critical ...
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Mar 12, 2008; ... Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day ** FRUMP CARD Frances McDormand gets a makeover from fellow Oscar honoree Amy Adams in a retro farce. If there's one good thing about this frothy period comedy, it's that it represents the fulfillment of a dream deferred. Seventy years ago, ...
The Goshen Gourmet
Mar 12, 2008; ... Tim Cheevers of Blueberry Hill Inn is a reluctant "celebrity chef" Finding the right chef is a tall order for any restaurant. But it's almost impossible when the dining room is on a dirt road 8 miles from the nearest town, and the job includes making breakfast and dinner for up to 40 ...
SIDE DISHES
Mar 12, 2008; ... food news Cultivating Relationships LOCAL REFUGEES ARE OUT OF AFRICA, INTO GARDENING Most Africans know their way around a garden. Cultivating the land is an integral part of the culture, whether the gardener's native language is Somali, French, Mai-Mai or Lingala. But ...
Fowl Play
Mar 12, 2008; ... Urban Vermonters raise city cluckers Burlington high schooler Zev Chasan used to know two ladies who lived down the hill. Then he took them home and got lucky. The females in question were chickens from Lucky Ladies Organic Egg Farm, a home for "happy hens" at the Burlington ...
Roman Empire
Mar 12, 2008; ... <MUSIC> Local hardcore band explores the Black Market The rumor has been floating around Burlington's underground circles for months: "Dude, did you hear Romans signed to Metal Blade?" Guess what, dudes. It's not true. Well, OK, it's sort of true. But not really ....
WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
Mar 12, 2008; ... When "Irish" eyes are smiling, it's usually because "Irish" mouths are drinking. And rarely are "Irish" mouths drinking more than on that most glorious of pseudo holidays, Amateuf Night, er, St. Patrick's Day. Unless you count Dublin vs. Westmeath in the All-Ireland Hurting Championships, that ...
HUNGRYTOWN, HUNGRYTOWN
Mar 12, 2008; ... HUNGRYTOWN, HUNGRYTOWN (Listen Here! Records, CD) West Townsend's Hungrytown is composed of wife-and-husband duo Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson. The pair has carved quite a niche in the modern folk scene, not only as Hungrytown but also as members of neo-traditionalist outfit The ...
THE RIDERS, 200 MILES FROM EVERYWHERE . . .
Mar 12, 2008; ... THE RIDERS, 200 MILES FROM EVERYWHERE . . . (Self-released, CD) Music criticism is funny in that it requires the reviewer to shelve his or her personal tastes in favor of maintaining that most elusive and important of critical qualities: objectivity. Ifs not enough to merely say ...
Freyne's Last Track
Mar 19, 2008; ... Regular readers of the ol' "Inside Track" and nowadays, in the cyberspace age, the "Freyne Land" blog - have noticed that yours truly has been "on vacation," printwise, and hasn't posted a bloody item online since Town Meeting Day two weeks ago. There's a reason. Bear with ...
EXCERPTS FROM OUR BLOGS
Mar 19, 2008; ... 802 ONLINE [VT BLOGS] 802 Offline Yep, you read that right - 802 Online is going offline. I started 802 Online in August 2004, and brought it to Seven Days ' the following April. I envisioned it as a clearinghouse for information about local blogs. For years I diligently ...
CORRECTIONS
Mar 19, 2008; ... Due to a source error, our review of Three Days of Rain ["Pour Relations," March 12] noted the play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. In fact, it was 1998. VPIRG - the Vermont Public Interest Research Group - was referred to incorrectly in the February 27 "Letters" ...
Can Burlington Reform Its Employee Retirement System - and Not Spark an Exodus of Workers?
Mar 19, 2008; ... CITY PENSIONS No one in Burlington City Hall was surprised when Police Chief Tom Tremblay, retired in January Rafter 25 year with the Burlington Police Depahmgnt. After all, as cops often say about the stress and long hours of police work, "It's not the years that get you, it's the ...
Getting Your Name on a Campus Building Will Cost You
Mar 19, 2008; ... MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE A couple weekends ago, luminaries in tuxedos and evening gowns gathered to sip champagne and celebrate the naming of Middle-bury College's 100,000-square-foot arts center after a Portland, Maine, businessman. Kevin Mahaney, class of 1984, had bestowed on his ...
CVU Student Brings Human-Rights Docs to School
Mar 19, 2008; ... FILM Hannah Solomon, 17, has a lot on her plate these days. The Champlain Valley Union High School senior from Shelburne works a parttime job at Shelbume Health and Fitness. She's learning Greek at night for a spring trip to Greece. And - oh, yeah - she organized a human-rights film ...
Indies Rule at the Green Mountain Film Festival
Mar 19, 2008; ... FILM Christine Vachon produced indie hits Boys Don't Cry, Far From Heaven and Velvet Goldmine. The Valentine Bandit - actually, he or she prefers "Phantom" - is an anonymous party who papers Montpelier with red hearts every February 14. Curious folks can see them both at this year's ...
Philly Stakes
Mar 19, 2008; ... Philly Stakes EXHIBIT "Young Philadelphia Realists," 10 emerging artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Through April 5. ARTWORK "Inside ICCE Motorcycle" by Andrew ...
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Turning the Page
Mar 19, 2008; ... At Burlington's Everyday Bookshop, the "Elizabethan" era ends Elizabeth Orr is a strong woman. A stranger might not think that to look at her: Nearly 81 years of living have bent her alreadypetite frame, and constant pain in her legs - she refuses medication - has hobbled her walk. Her ...
They Like to Watch
Mar 19, 2008; ... <HEALTH> A new study at UVM correlates TV time with eating, sleeping and, well, moving You may have seen them tacked between "Apartment for Rent" signs and Club Metronome fliers, particularly if you're given to wandering on the University of Vermont campus. The slightly ...
Can I Get a Witness?
Mar 19, 2008; ... Vermont's largest house of worship is searching for souls - and space The town of Essex Junction was covered in ice, but a little before 8 in the morning a few Sundays ago, some 200 men, women and children were filing into a nondescript white building just off Route 15. The lettering ...
the borowitz report
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