SO NICE TO SEE YOU, UPPER VALLEY!
Oh my gosh! Partly sunny then outright sunny all day, high in the mid-30s this afternoon. Puts a bounce in your step, right? Barnard's La Garagista winery snags a coveted James Beard Award semi-final slot. This is a big deal, sort of like the Oscars of the food world. The wines are the work of Deirdre Heekin, who with Caleb Barber used to run Woodstock's pane e salute. "Some of the most talked-about wines in both the U.S. and the U.K." Food & Wine called them. And, oh, they're almost impossible to get. (Hat-tip for the tip to Jonathan F.)UV towns still waiting on funds for Irene recovery. Hartford, Norwich, Windsor have yet to see about $210,000 combined. The money's already in Montpelier, but, you know: paperwork. (VN, subscription required)New app measures, predicts line length at King Arthur cafe outpost at Dartmouth. The place is popular and it can be a loooong line. So a couple of students, using some pretty serious tech, created "Line@KAF", which gives you the current line length, hour-by-hour predictions on how long or short it'll be, and a drink and food inventory crowdsourced from users. Um, King Arthur in Norwich.... You aware of this?Hanover PBS will be off the air for a couple of weeks. If you happen to get NHPBS the old-fashioned way -- via antenna -- the channel's getting reassigned from 50 to 36. Maybe Murphy's will have Victoria on cable while you wait?Organic farmers from around the country meet in Hanover tomorrow. They're ticked that the "organic" label is being watered down by hydroponics, industrial monoculture, and other assaults on traditional practices. Some leading lights -- Eliot Coleman, Long Wind Farm's Dave Chapman -- are leading a daylong symposium on their "Real Organic Project."Tesla Model X Burns to a Crisp on Lake Champlain. The owner was going ice-fishing. Okay look, how could I not alert you to this? Thanks for that "burns to a crisp," Seven Days.What's it take to create an ice storm? Ice scientists over in the White Mountains want to study the effects, because we're going to be seeing more of them with climate change. So they've been spraying trees on cold nights. "It goes from a beautiful, mesmerizing experience to absolutely terrifying in the space of four to five hours,” says the team leader.Speaking of ice, "It is a different world under the ice of a frozen lake." That's NHPR's fabulous series, "Outside/In", up this week with a podcast about what happens in a lake after it freezes over -- what lives there, and how does it pull this off? It's a podcast, so just save the link for your weekend. Meanwhile...IT'S FRIDAY! WHATCHA DOIN'?Well, you could go chase winter away with some bluegrass. Jim Rooney, with Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing, will be at Seven Stars in Sharon., chasing winter away with bluegrass. Rooney's a veteran Nashville producer. A couple of years ago Lyle Lovett called him up to the stage at LOH, and while he was up there, Rooney absolutely owned that space.Or you could chase the laws of physics away with the Australian acrobatic troupe Gravity and Other Myths. They'll be at Concord's Capitol Center -- just 7 acrobats, their bodies, some drummers, and a small mat surrounded by the audience. Sure Concord's a long way to go, but heck, these people came from Adelaide to entertain us. You can get a taste of them here. So hey! Fly! Be free! See you Monday.
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