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Two original sins haunt America’s history: Native American genocide and African slavery. Their consequences have undermined some of the highest ideals of our founders, especially the principle that “all men are created equal.” The legal system in particular has never treated people of color impartially in the United States. Even in 2008, African-Americans are grossly overrepresented in the prison population and underrepresented in positions of power.... Read more

For such a small state, Vermont sure has a lot of ties to Russia. Middlebury College boasts one of the top Russian-language schools in the world. Project Harmony, a Waitsfield-based NGO, has been coordinating professional and student exchanges with Russia since 1985. Exiled Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spent 17 years in Cavendish.... Read more

Just outside downtown Montpelier, at 137 Barre Street, sits an elegant, baby-blue 1898 Victorian with a rickety porch. The building looks like a home, but a sign beside the doorway reads, “Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District.”... Read more

The 1878 Victorian residence on Montpelier’s Main Street roundabout houses the Lazy Pear Gallery, a haven for playful artworks. The Lazy Pear’s current show, “Adding Dimension,” lives up to its whimsical rep with mixed-media pieces by Vermont artists Alexandra Bottinelli, Timothy Fisher and Maggie Neale. Fisher’s frisky cloth collage images are always ebullient. While painters Bottinelli and Neale have been known to present moody works, their offerings here are upbeat.... Read more

After the talkies come the crankies. Say what?... Read more

Marking the five-year anniversary of the war, “Beyond Iraq: A Community Discussion” was a public forum organized by the band Pariah Beat. With twentysomething antiwar demonstrators, political candidates, press, ’60s-era veterans and others, it was standing-room-only at Langdon Street Café during the two-hour discussion.... Read more

Never mind juried shows; the works in “Marilyn Presents . . .” were selected by a single judge. A real one. Justice Marilyn Skoglund has been curating art exhibits in the lobby of the Vermont Supreme Court building on Montpelier’s State Street for a decade — voluntary “side work” she took on just six months after joining the state’s High Five. To mark her 10th anniversary, Skoglund selected a dozen artists — out of 55 total — who have shown at the court over the years.... Read more

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 Green Mountain Film Festival, which runs from March 21 to 30.... Read more

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 offices in Chittenden and Washington counties, scoops up buckets of scraps, and brings them to the Burlington business and to Montpelier's smaller Vermont Composting Company.... Read more

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 typeface — have become part of the central Vermont landscape, culture and vernacular. You've seen them printed on T-shirts, and on round green bumper stickers affixed to the backs of cars and trucks. Go to a website called eatmorekale.com, and you can even purchase the motto on an organic cotton onesie for your bouncing baby.... Read more