By Brett Yates Winter landscapes will never stop being kind of magical to me, no matter how joylessly and cynically grownup I become: the endless unstained carpet of a fresh snowfall, the sculptural perfection of an icicle, the fierce sting […]
Category: Column
Column, The Movie Diary
Feeding the Joneses
By Dom Cioffi At the end of last summer, just as the school year was beginning, I executed my son’s Xbox. I had been warning him for weeks that this scenario might unfold if he didn’t show some restraint with […]
Column, Rockin' The Region
Rockin’ the region with Bloomer
Bloomer returns to Killington this weekend and you can see his duo with Stuart Slocum Friday and Saturday, 8:30 p.m. at Outback Pizza. Bloomer also will be playing solo at The Foundry Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. Bloomer plays acoustic […]
Column, The Movie Diary
Finding the zone
By Dom Cioffi I’m at a bit of a crossroads with my son. He’s on the verge of turning into a teenager and with that transition he’s displaying many of the negative traits associated with the age. Lately he’s been […]
Column, The Outside Story
Foxes are active in late winter across Vermont and New Hampshire
By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul The first time I saw the fox last February, I did a double take. It was late morning when I glanced out the window on my way from one task to the next. The unexpected flash […]
Column
Beginning to connect the dots of the new regime
By Marguerite Jill Dye Capitalism, social democracy, free society, our Constitution. Immigration, cheap labor, scapegoats, enemy. I’m beginning to connect the dots and decipher the meaning of what’s happening in spite of the daily chaos and diversionary tactics of the new […]
Column
Are you thinking about starting a business?
By Kevin Theissen While many of us have thought about starting our own businesses, not all of us actually do. Why not make 2017 the year you take the dream out of your head and put it into practice? Yes, you […]
Altitude Sickness, Column
Comedy, Ambien and the English Channel
So the SnowPlow comedy contest at the Outback was fun. I broke all my rules, went in with new material (I usually rehearse myself silly), and engaged in filthy blue comedy (I am usually a clean comic, but contests are […]
Column, Generation Y
Principle and prejudice
Writers of internet content are in general unoriginal, pandering, and shamelessly given to formula, so when one particular article becomes a successful and widely shared piece of clickbait, you can bet that other articles in same vein will follow. Was […]
Column
Cracking the nutrition code without packing it on
By Kyle Finneron As I prep for my body-building competition I have realized that largest key to my success will be my ability to follow a proper diet and exercise plan to make the necessary changes. I am currently following […]