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The metal band Amadis set the Champlain Valley Fair on fire, dunk the clown, ride the carousel and challenge the Best Cock for his title.

Amadis play Higher Ground September 18th. Prepare your hand over mouth stare, wear your leather and prepare to kick ass.

Music: Amadis, Leatherhouse"

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Check out the metal band Amadis performing "To the Teeth" and "heavy metaling" the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction Vermont.

I crouched near a light post beside a woman with her young daughter and took out my pen and paper. A man, presumably The Act, was circling two pyramidal metal structures with a wire stretched between them. No one in the gathering crowd spoke as he started pouring a clear stream of liquid from a white bottle onto the bricks at his feet. After a few laps, he finally spoke into the microphone mounted beside his face: “I make a quick boundary line,” he said. ”Some use rope; I use lighter fluid.”... Read more

I am a ChaCha Guide. That probably doesn’t make sense to most of you, so let me back up. I am a workaholic.

I inherited my work ethic from my parents, both full-time teachers, who pack their free time with odd jobs. I work as an office manager at Seven Days, a sales associate at the University Mall, a fundraising event planner, a babysitter and a freelance writer. Still, I never feel like I’m accomplishing enough, adding sufficiently to both my resume and savings account.... Read more

Love him or hate him, Peter Freyne has been Vermont's most renowned political journalist for over 20 years.

Freyne recently retired his Seven Days column, "Inside Track" and Eva caught up with him to have a look back at his legacy with some old friends.

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Rene Kirby is a self-proclaimed "gimp without a whimp." He has never let his small stature detract from his active lifestyle.

Rene (said "REEN") never wastes time complaining. Whether he is getting around on all fours or using his specially tailored bike, he feels better constructed than the "normies."... Read more

A non-leap year consists of 8760 hours: more than enough time, you’d think, to take care of everything that needs to get done. But sleep eats into waking life, and modern innovations such as Snood, email and cellphones offer endless opportunities to piss away idle moments. It seems that by the end of a given day, we hardly have a minute left to collect our thoughts.

There aren’t enough hours in the day. The common lament has become a cliché. The more important question may be: What would you do with an extra hour if you had it?... Read more

I encountered my first “aptronym” in the summer of 1972 at Camp Mar-Lin in Windsor, Connecticut. It belonged to an infirmary nurse named Sandy Sheets. My next aptronym — that is, a name aptly suited to a person’s profession, hobby or other distinguishing feature — was a Scarsdale, New York, dentist named Lou Smoler. Some people, it seems, were born into their professions, while the rest of us muddle through our lives with names that hold no particular meaning.... Read more

Hype and fizzle — that’s often the Hollywood way. How many film projects have generated “buzz,” only to languish on studio shelves? Back in 1997, the same thing happened on a smaller scale — a Vermont scale — to Keith Spiegel’s locally shot independent film Groupies. In April of that year, the writer-director, then 26, wrapped a movie that featured Hollywood stars Ally Sheedy and Justin Henry in major roles, plus a bunch of talented locals.... Read more

Vermonters aren't known for being trendy. Last month, the National Restaurant Association proclaimed that serving Scandinavian dishes and topping food with edible flowers were quickly becoming passé, but this earth-shattering pronouncement barely registered in the Green Mountain State. Why?... Read more