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The Creemee Challenge

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Summer in Vermont is all about the creemee, that delicious mountain of soft-serve ice cream that does a body good.

There are many, many creemee stands in Burlington, and Lou visits them all as he tries to eat as many creemees as he can in a single day.

Warning: This isn't pretty.

Executive Producer: Lou Armistead
Camera operator: Max Resnik of www.collegeishard.tv

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Coffee’s Off

Side Dishes: For River’s Edge, It’s Over

While some eateries are adding options, for others, the game is over. River’s Edge Coffee Shop and Grill, on Riverside Avenue in Burlington, closed its doors last Sunday.

Ann Marie Silva, who owned the quick stop with her husband Bert, attributes the loss to the widening of Riverside Avenue, which wound up last summer. “We were the new kids on the block before the construction started; we really didn’t have our feet planted in the ground, and when it hit, it hit hard.”... Read more

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Councilors Debate Merits of Research-Funding Increase

Local Matters

In 1984, Jonathan Leopold, the city of Burlington’s chief administrative officer, began setting aside a small amount of money each year so city councilors could commission studies or hire professionals to better understand proposals presented to them by city administrators.... Read more

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Clay Date

Handmade Tales: Dan Siegel, Pottery Artist

Burlington potter Dan Siegel may spend hours watching a wheel turn, but it’s after firing that his work really gets around. This year Siegel showed up among 200 juried artists at the Renegade Craft Fair, held on the floor of a huge, unused public swimming pool in one of Brooklyn’s hippest neighborhoods. Dubbed “the alt-design equivalent of the Venice Biennale” by a New York Times writer, the fair sets trends in the design and crafts worlds alike.... Read more

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Vignette

State of the Arts: Pendragon Theatre

Four. Thirty. Five.

That’s the price per gallon of gas in Saranac Lake, N.Y., and the motivation behind a marketing ploy at Pendragon Theatre.

To encourage carpooling and relieve a parking crunch, the Pendragon is giving drivers of high-occupancy vehicles $5 off admission to summer series shows. Drive in with three people or more, and you can buy a gallon of gas, a couple of cookies at intermission, whatever.... Read more

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Art Is for the Birds and Other Critters in Refuge Exhibit

State of the Arts

When the St. Albans Artists Guild first approached painter Harald Aksdal of Fairfax with the idea, he had one response: “I don’t have time for this.”

After some thought, he decided the proposal had its upsides: funding for the Guild, exposure for his arts community, and though he can demand thousands of dollars per original work a chance to exercise his talent on a new subject.

Wildlife.

“I had to make the time for it,” Aksdal says. “It’s that special.”... Read more

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Montpelier Program Makes Reading a Walk in the Park

State of the Arts

It’s a tale with a happy beginning, a troubled middle, and knock wood - a happy ending.... Read more

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Phantom Theater

Stuck in Vermont 85

The Oakley Truck Comes to Burlington

Loutube News

What is a giant Oakley-sponsored trailer doing sitting in the middle of Church Street? And what does the world really look like through high-definition tinted lenses?

Executive Producer: Louis Armistead
Special Guests: Max Resnik and Alex Dayan, of collegeishard.tv
Assistant Camera Operators: Max Resnik and Marshall Green

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Taste Test: Doria’s

22 Merchants Row, Middlebury, 388-3624

Amigo’s Cantina in Middlebury was a Tex-Mex standard for 20 years, so when the taco joint closed this spring and the building re-emerged as an Italian restaurant with a striking red and black façade, people took notice. The new eatery, Doria’s, opened on May 1 and threw its grand opening celebration earlier this month.... Read more

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