10 Newspapers That Do It Right 2013 posted: 3/4/201 This is why we Love SEVEN DAYS! And because they put our picture in their paper! by: Kristina Ackermann As newspapers trudge on through report after report of declining ad sales, shrinking audience, and waning relevancy, they are also, thankfully, getting better at tooting their own [...]

Happy Mardi Gras Y’all Again!!     It is time for the 18th Annual Magic Hat Mardi Gras Parade this Saturday at 3pm down Main Street in Beautiful Burlington Vermont. It is a party to benefit Hope Works. Hope Works provides support to survivors of sexual violence in Chittenden County through a 24 hour hotline, [...]

Hey Y’all.  I know that you just love my recipes that I’ve put on here for my Bitchin’ in the Kitchen so I know you love to cook.  Now you can enter a contest!! The Northern Decadence Food & Travel Expo is seeking amateur bakers to enter the Decadent Cupcake Competition.  The second annual “Northern [...]

Y’all we had more fun this year than we did last year at the Daysies Award held at the ECHO on beautiful Lake Champlain. We did not win a Daysie but we were in the running for a couple of categories. Our name came up for Best Hair on a local personality and for our [...]

Wow – Seven Days, Vermont’s Alternative Weekly, has been asking their readers to pick the best of local stuff for ten years now!  And, we, The House of LeMay, have been honored a few times for this blog that you’re reading!  Thank you to Seven Days and to YOU for voting.  So, it’s that time [...]

It’s Restaurant Week in Vermont thanks to our good friends at Seven Days and Higher Ground.  And it got a sweet start last night at the Sweet Start Smackdown.  Ten local chefs prepared some wonderful tastes and our own Amber LeMay was one of the judges!! Amber got special treatment from some of the chefs… [...]

THE Joan Rivers will be appearing in Burlington next week at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.  For fun, the Flynn asked comedians (men only – Joan’s rule) to try out for a five minute opening set.   Our own Amber LeMay was asked to judge(!) and help select the lucky man.  Well, Joan [...]

We gave you the first six months HERE… let’s get going on the rest of a GREAT year! JULY – For the past several years, July has been Pride Month in Burlington (in 2012 it will be September!)… so we did a lookback at our past Pride activities… to get the city ready for Pride [...]

That’s right Y’all! I took my Seven Days articles down to the “DOSTIE BROS. FRAME SHOP” in Burlington, Vt. at 308 Pine Street Suite 101. They did a fabulous job framing the article that Alice Levitt wrote “Kitchen Queen”. And I also had the Bros.  frame the Seven Days  Feb.  2006 issue when we were [...]

Hey Y’all. What a busy fun  Saturday, Sept. 10th. We attended the  Northern Decadence Food Festival then Art Hop Strut and then out to Higher Ground for the Northern Decadence Dance Party and Underwear Fashion Show that we got to  host and then back to the Art Hop to stop by and Wish a “Happy [...]