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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

Summers in Vermont boast an embarrassment of riches chief among them the idyllic grounds of Shelburne Museum. Set impossibly close to Route 7, this rolling green Mecca is a wonder of the northern world. Miles of groomed pasture stretch out to a stunning wooded horizon, where five times this season, local sponsors will land a mother ship of marquee music. And who better to pilot its inaugural, hazy June opening than goodwill emissaries Michael Franti and Spearhead?... Read more

Tom Messner has been delivering the weather with a smile for 18 years on WPTZ/NewsChannel 5.

His grandma assumed he would grow up to be a chatty salesman.  Little did she
know, Tom would one day be 'selling' the weather to the masses with his trademark grin.

Messner is so well-known that he can't get very far without being recognized. That is the thing about being a popular weatherman, people feel like they know you since you come into their living room every night.... Read more

Dear Mistress Maeve,

I've been out a few times with a guy I find very interesting and sexy. I think the feeling is mutual, but I have one concern: He has bad breath. I noticed it the first time we met, but I just figured he was nervous and had dry mouth or something. The second and third times we hung out, I noticed the same smell. It's not a food odor, like garlic or onions; it's more like morning breath.... Read more

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

Vermont is in the midst of a baby boom, but it’s not a trend anyone is celebrating.

Linda Ryan, who runs the Samaritan House, an emergency shelter in St. Albans, had a homeless woman referred to her on Christmas Day who had just given birth to her second child. Kendy Skidmore, director of the Bennington Coalition for the Homeless, says she’s had newborns at her shelter, too five in the last six years, with another one due any day now.... Read more

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

“Is there any nostalgia more powerful than the exile’s passion for the food of home?” That was the question U.K. Guardian writer Alex Renton asked back in April on his blog Word of Mouth. He went on, “Koreans dream of kimchi, East Africans write poems about ugali; Brits abroad get Marmite DHL-ed to them.”

Another blog noshtalgia.blogspot.com is... Read more

(Self-released, CD)

When I was 9 years old, I was playing my first year of Little League baseball. I finished the season with exactly zero hits and considerably more dropped balls than caught ones out in right field. That’s a summer of my youth I’ll never get back. So it is with no small degree of jealousy that I report 9-year-old Aidan Patterson Deutsch is making far better use of his childhood than I did.... Read more

(GTD Entertainment, CD)

Burnt MD and Tha Professor’s self-titled album opens in cinematic style, with the orchestral majesty of the Universal Pictures theme song. It’s an appropriate first gesture, as the Vermont hip-hop duo then takes us on a journey that transcends the mere aural. Like any epic movie or hip-hop album there’s an award-worthy supporting cast, high-profile cameos and a smart script that suggests Webster’s dictionary was close at hand when these two were growing up.... Read more