"New Moon" at the Majestic [153]

11/19/09: Six theaters were sold out for Thursday's midnight premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the Majestic 10 in Williston.

A line that stretched around the building began earlier that day at 5pm. Twi-hards waited in the cold for hours to be the first to see New Moon.

New Moon sold a record number of midnight tickets totaling $26.27 million - this surpasses both Harry Potter and the Dark Knight.

New Moon cost 50 million to produce and in 4 days has grossed $285 million worldwide.

Music: Bad Flirt, "St Valentine's Day Massacre"

Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) [152]

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.

Music: Annemieke Spoelstra, Toccare, J.S. Bach Toccata in E Minor, BWV, 914

Green Mountain Hounds [151]

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

VT Horror Fest [150]

10/30/09: The 2nd Annual Vermont Horror Fest frightened a sold out crowd Friday at the Outer Space Cafe.

Two local directors, Mike Turner and Owen Mulligan and a recent Hollywood transplant, Rob Schmidt, entertained the crowd with their terrifying films.

VT author and folklorist Joseph Citro told ghost stories to get the crowd in the Halloween mood.

Locations: Outer Space Cafe, Greenmount Cemetery, Burlington, Vermont

Vermont 3.0 Innovation Jam [7DTV19]

10/26/09: Over 65 exhibitors and hundreds of attendees packed the third Vermont 3.0 event at the Sheraton Monday.  There were plenty of green, high tech, innovative companies on hand to offer a glimpse into Vermont's future.

Music: Ryan Power, Is It Happening, "Is It Happening"

Location: Sheraton, South Burlington, Vermont

Triptych Creations [149]

10/24/09: Triptych Creations is the handiwork of special make-up FX artists Rebecca Reil and Sara Glasgow. Eva visits Triptych HQ to get shot through the face for the 4th Annual Burlington Zombie Walk. Get ready for a hefty serving of blood, guts and brainz.

Music: Aaron Reil, "Scratch Me"

Locations: Triptych HQ, Church ST, Burlington VT

Emergent Media Center [148]

10/17/09: Champlain College's Emergent Media Center in Winooski is preparing students for the "real world" and helping to solve world problems at the same time.

Vermont 3.0 is Monday, Oct 26 at the Sheraton in South Burlington, see you there!!!

Music: Chuch, Juarez, "Hold Me Down"

Location: Champlain Mill, Winooski, VT

Giant Pumpkin Regatta [147]

10/11/09: The 2nd Annual Giant Pumpkin Regatta transformed the Burlington Waterfront Sunday with crowds of cheering fans and a bevy of floating pumpkin vessels.  The money raised will go toward the Linking Learning to Life program called PILOT.

The pumpkins were provided by the Vermont Giant Vegetable Growers Association and Eva met them at their State Championship weigh off the day before the race.

Music:
The Jazz Guys, A Blessing in Disguise, "The Best Five Minutes of Your Life"

Locations: Sam Mazza's Farm, Colchester, Burlington Waterfront, VT

The New Fab Format of Seven Days

10/5/09: Don Eggert, Creative Director of Seven Days, talks about the new magazine-style format Vermont's alt weekly is switching to October 7th, this Wednesday.

Music: Missy Bly, Clean Bee, "She N' Me"
La Strada, "Flying"

Location: Burlington, VT to North Haverhill, NH

The Vermonter [146]

9/26/09: Eva takes a day trip on Amtrak's The Vermonter train from Essex Jct to Brattleboro for $12/each way (make reservations ahead of time to nab this special discount fare, V189). Ride the rails and visit Vermont villages this fall!

Music: Missy Bly, MB3, "Afraid to Fly"