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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

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

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

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

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

More than two years after it was convened to help guide the city-owned cable operation, an advisory group for Burlington Telecom is still struggling to understand its role, according to the annual report it recently submitted to the Burlington City Council.

In the report, the Burlington Telecommunications Advisory Committee expresses frustration with BT’s tendency to “hold back” detailed information about its operations since the departure of former general manager Tim Nulty late last year.... Read more

Christopher Thompson is the first to admit he doesn’t have the “typical background” of an art gallery curator. For one thing, the brand-new chief curator of the Firehouse Gallery has an inordinate amount of experience with computer systems when he was growing up the son of a Princeton physicist, he explains, the family home always “had a connection to the Princeton mainframe.” That history alone separates him from most arty types indeed, from nearly everyone.... Read more

The “New York Graffiti Field Identification Guide” located at Gridskipper.com lists Faro among the city’s “most recognizable artists.” The site explains: “Though much of his work is featured around SoHo and Manhattan’s Lower East Side, he has yet to make commercial inroads. That may not be his goal.” On the other hand, maybe it is.... Read more

Sarah Grillo has only lived in Burlington for two years, but she knows the local taxi business pretty well. Grillo, who waits tables at Nectar’s, often takes a cab home after the club closes to her apartment on North Avenue near Burlington College.... Read more

Montpelier, Brattleboro and tiny Chelsea beat the Queen City to the punch, but starting this winter, B-Town will finally have a year-round Farmers’ Market.

Featuring meats, cheeses, baked goods, pickles and preserves, and hearty winter vegetables, it’ll happen monthly from November through April at Memorial Auditorium. The first market is Saturday, November 22, the weekend before Thanksgiving, and locals can purchase their provender on the third Saturday of each month thereafter.