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Champlain College has spent a lot of time lately trying to sell its neighbors and the Burlington City Council on a plan to buy property near the heart of downtown, tear down a building, and construct new apartments for 200 students.... Read more

Bill Clinton’s national saxophone-playing debut is the best-remembered segment from Arsenio Hall’s 1989-1994 late-night talk show. But a regular monologue feature — “Things That Make You Go Hmmm” — also entered the pop culture lexicon.... Read more

Jon Taylor heads to Champlain College to find out what students would like to see in their Easter baskets.

What does the Facebook poke mean to you? Jon Taylor asks students from Champlain College.

So, you graduate from Burlington College with a degree in film production. It’s time to make tracks out to L.A., right?... Read more

What's your favorite cheesy love song? Jon Taylor asks Champlain College students in honor of Valentine's Day.

On a recent Wednesday evening, four students are giving a Power Point presentation in a basement computer lab at Champlain College. On the pull-down screen hovers the cartoon figure of a kid who looks like Dennis the Menace’s slower cousin, with a propeller hat and a crooked grin.

“Our game,” a male student says, “involves Bobby here getting trapped in this crazy world by demons and trying to find his way home.”... Read more

GREAT APING The recent documentary My Kid Could Paint That chronicles the strange case of a 4-year-old whose parents sold her abstract paintings to the tune of more than $300,000. Thetford writer Bob Nutt takes that scenario a step further in his screenplay Beau’s Art, in which the title character is an “artistic orangutan” so talented that human painters tussle for the chance to pass his work off as their own. Luckily, this story is fiction — and played for laughs.... Read more

A conversational poem called "Whistling Past the Dead," by award-winning Denver poet Robert Cooperman. A short memoir of Oxycontin abuse from Champlain College student Amanda Northrop. A rhyming poem called "King Kong's Shoe Repair" by Ned Bratspis, a marriage counselor from Washington State. A verse memory of haying from Charlotte writer Kathleen McKinley Harris. A short story consisting almost entirely of dialogue over a game of chess, by Champlain student Jackie Bishop.... Read more

The horrors of an ill-conceived war tarnish the international image of a wealthy, proudly democratic world power. America in 2007, or Athens in 415 BC? The answer is both, but sometimes the lens of history sharpens our view of current folly.... Read more