If you’re a longtime reader of this newspaper, you might occasionally wonder: is Brett Yates ever going to leave us alone? Won’t he ever run out of opinions? Reader, I share your concerns. In a recent fit of anxiety, I […]
Category: Column
Altitude Sickness
Crampons and uphill travel, and yes, I’m still skiing!
By Brady Crain It has finally happened—I’ve transferred to the uphill season! As I write this, I have completed 173 days of skiing, and I have hiked Superstar four days in a row. My legs, once rubbery testaments to my […]
Looking Back
Sayings and fashion from yesteryear
Most likely we can all come up with expressions that are clearly associated with our parents. It’s also likely that these expressions will be heard by future generations. After all, “they”say that we turn into our parents at some point […]
Rockin' The Region
Rockin’ the Region with Appleseed Collective
Courtesy of Dave Hoffenberg APPLESEED COLLECTIVE When people ask me what my favorite band is, it’s tough to say because I like so many. When they ask me what my favorite kind of music is, I can’t narrow it down […]
Column, The Movie Diary
Music to my ears
By Dom Cioffi One of the first jobs I had as a teenager was at a local record store (of course, this was back when record stores actually specialized in selling records). It was a huge thrill to be around […]
The Outside Story
The Outside Story: There’s a little black spot on the sun in May
By Laurie Morrissey It’s just a tiny black dot moving very, very slowly. But if you’re interested in astronomy, this is an exciting dot. It is Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, passing between the earth and the […]
Generation Y
Art therapy
So far, the Internet-intellectual music criticism addressing the politics of Beyoncé’s new visual album “Lemonade”—an R&B confession of marital discord that attempts to locate, within its narrative of the spiritual-psychological consequences of infidelity, a counterintuitive yet interrelated locus of black […]
Column
Spending less isn’t as simple as it sounds
By Jon Margolis Editor’s note: Jon Margolis is VTDigger’s political columnist. Republicans in the Legislature think state government spends too much. They might be right. For the last several years, state spending has grown faster than the state’s economy. From […]
Column
It takes a community to raise a child
By Daris Howard As I stood in the grocery store checking my list, I thought I heard someone call my name. I turned around, but I didn’t see anyone I recognized, so I went back to my list. I heard […]
The Movie Diary
Pain’s part of the game
By Dom Cioffi It was supposed to be one of those perfect afternoons: the sun was shining, the temperatures were comfortable, the sky was a piercing blue and devoid of clouds, and I had nothing to do. My wife had […]