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Dr./Gov./Chairman Howard Dean appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation this morning to discuss the public option in the proposed health care reform bill. He was announced as joining the discussion via satellite from Burlington, Vermont, so he must have been at WCAX. WCAX is the Burlington CBS affiliate and as far as I know, the [...]

Congratulations to the fine ladies of The House of LeMay for bringing home the 2009 Daysie for Best Vermont Blog (non-political)! At last year’s Daysies party they made it abundantly clear that their much-mascaraed eyes were on the prize in 2009. I bow at their impressively clad feet. Candleblog is proud to be in the [...]

I just left a comment at Blurt that I think it deserves it’s own post. Howard Dean is guest-hosting Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight and tomorrow night and I think this is a good occasion to call WCAX to the mat for making Vermonters look bad. WCAX is Burlington’s CBS affiliate and it’s one of [...]

I spent all day last Monday at the Windjammer conference center in South Burlington with a TV crew recording a conference put on by the ACLU of Vermont called Thought and Expression in a Changing World. It brought together a bunch of lawyers who specialize in civil liberties case law to talk about how our [...]

Once again the Savoy Theater in Montpelier is running a series of classic sci-fi gems on the big screen on the weekends. This is a chance to see these classics in 35mm (I assume they’re not running DVDs). It’s a decent line-up this year: Close Encounters, Slaughterhouse Five, Aliens, Brazil, Dr. Strangelove, among others. Check [...]

VCAM is at the Vermont ACLU conference (Thought and Expression in a Changing World) today at the Windjammer in South Burlington, covering it with our cameras. My co-worker Seth decided on a whim to try and stream it online. We did no real planning for this, he just brought along a laptop and we figured [...]

74 Vermont Twitter users sent in 73 photos featuring 91 Vermonters (or former Vermonters) for this mosaic snapshot of the Vermont Twitterverse, circa June 2009. How many can you name? We’ll eventually publish a list of what Twitter IDs correspond to what photo, but in the meantime, see how many of these folks you recognize. [...]

Seven Days has released it’s annual readers’ choice awards ballot, asking Vermonters to vote on everything from their favorite restaurant to their favorite newscaster. Candleblog has been honored to receive the Best Vermont Blog (non political) “Daysie” for a few of the last several years. After winning the award last year, I predicted that my [...]

Over the past several Junes I’ve made a habit out of of soliciting photographs of Candleblog readers and constructing collages of them for the blog. I even turned it into a contest for the last couple of years to help generate interest. This year, I want to try something a little different. Let’s take a [...]

Here are a couple of examples of some of my early editing work. Back in the mid 90s I was transitioning from public access TV producer and film student to the community media center staff person and filmmaker I am today. The world of media making was transitioning too, from analog videotape to digital video. [...]