Nearly four months after the premiere of “Serial,” I finally experienced the cultural phenomenon that was Sarah Koenig’s murder-mystery podcast. A spinoff from NPR’s “This American Life,” Koenig’s project was a 12-episode audio program that reexamined the 1999 killing of […]
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The Outside Story: When nature comes knocking
By Michael Caduto We two-leggeds build inviting habitats and fill them with ample food supplies. We heat these spaces in winter, cool them in summer, and keep them dry year-round. And when our wild neighbors have the audacity to move […]
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Big Brother is watching you
By Dom Cioffi I was in Copenhagen, Denmark, on business this past week. It’s a bustling city, but not in the way Americans think of bustling cities. First of all, because of the economic system that’s in place in Denmark, […]
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Rockin’ the Region with Frank Chase
“Sing us a song you’re the piano man Sing us a song tonight Well we’re all in the mood for a melody And you’ve got us feeling alright” ~Billy Joel Frank Chase has been making folks in Killington feel alright […]
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The writing on the wall
By Dom Cioffi In the early 1940s, as World War II was raging in Europe, a young man named James J. Kilroy was hired to work as a riveter at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass. Kilroy was a […]
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Cocktail corner: The Lumber “Jack” Old Fashion
Photo submitted Bartender Tom Joyce stands behind the bar at On The Rocs and prepares the “The Lumber ‘Jack’ Old Fashion.” By Tom Joyce It’s great to see our friends from Jack Daniels back on the Killington Road this week. […]
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See and hear a piece of Killington history
By Robin Alberti Jimmy Mee and The Freeze are a very popular Killington Mountain band and have been the mainstay for 28 years at the former Red Rob Inn. These days you can see them performing regularly on Fridays at […]
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Après adventures and activities abound in our area
Photo by Robin Alberti Kids prepare for a guided snowmobile tour driving their own small sleds at Vermont Snowmobile Tours in Killington. Child size snowmobiles are available at Killington and Okemo. By Karen Lorentz It’s called après-ski—the activities enjoyed after […]
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The beer that men buy
One of several interesting aspects of Budweiser’s schizophrenic 2015 Super Bowl commercial—not the one with the puppy, the other one: the anti-microbrew ad that characterized craft beer drinkers as effete posers while asserting the unfussy superiority of plain old Bud […]
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Why we’re addicted to falling in love
By Dr. Rebekah Thomas “Romantic love” is the phrase humans use to describe feelings and emotions associated with a person to whom one feels both attracted to and passionate about. In some, it is associated with a racing heart, a […]