Curses, Foiled Again
Belgian authorities said two robbers overestimated how much dynamite it would take to blow open a cash machine in Dinant. The blast caused the building behind the ATM to collapse and killed both robbers. Bank officials said they wouldn’t have gotten any money anyway, since the ATMs are designed to implode when forced open and destroy all the cash inside.... Read more

“When you’re from Cleveland, it’s not about, like, jumping on the bandwagon. It starts when you’re a kid, and then you’re loyal for life.”

The tipsy woman expounding from the back seat had grown up in Cleveland, a point of great pride, apparently. Also in the cab were her husband and two friends — a couple visiting from Staten Island. She was bound and determined to make sure everyone in the cab, including me, understood definitively that Cleveland Indian fans were the greatest baseball fans in the world.... Read more

11/13/09: Chittenden Solid Waste District's (CSWD) Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) processes about 180 tons of single stream recyclables a day and over 42,000 tons of recyclables in a year.  See what happens to your recycling in a behind the scenes look at the MRF on the weekend of the 12th Annual America Recycles Day.... Read more

Here's the weekly astrological forecast for November 11 - 18, 2009. What's your sign, baby? They're all here...... Read more

What's got 2 pounds of beef, 4 ounces of bleu cheese, six slices of bacon and two eggs served on a crusty boule usually hollowed out for a soup bowl? The Reservoir's Double Truck Driver, voted best burger in Waterbury. Can Seven Days Food Writer Alice Levitt top Hen of the Wood's Jordan Ware in devouring the giant burger?

A piece of painted wood in the University of Vermont’s Davis Center bears these words: “I try to remind myself that I am on the outside free looking in at my mother who is trapped in this prison. But in reality I live in a cage as well, a cage without love and affection.”

The words, written by the child of an imprisoned woman in Columbus, Ohio, pop off their makeshift canvas. They bring to mind urban graffiti, only far more poignant.... Read more

Here's the weekly astrological forecast for November 11 - 18, 2009. What's your sign, baby? They're all here...... Read more

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11/8/09: The Green Mountain Hounds carry on the illustrious tradition of fox hunting with a modern day twist - instead of hunting actual foxes, the hounds trail the scent of anise.

Music:Renaissonics, Carols for Dancing, "Gaytas," "Fum, Fum, Fum"

Location: Charlotte, Richmond, VT

When I tell people I don’t own a television set or have cable, they often assume that I don’t watch TV. They’re wrong. My laptop is my boob tube, thanks to an embedded DVD player and the Web.... Read more