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The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine
The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine

Travis LeClair, Staff Reporter

Travis LeClair joined the Basement Medicine staff in Spring 2014, assuming the position of staff reporter.

All content by Travis LeClair
McKee’s shepherd’s pie

McKee’s offers the comforts of home

Travis LeClair
December 17, 2015

Could be a sad day: Craig’s last waltz with 007?

Travis LeClair
December 17, 2015
“Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” offers more Panem and more Katniss

“Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” offers more Panem and more Katniss

Travis LeClair
December 17, 2015
“The Boys Next Door” humanizes the intellectually disabled

“The Boys Next Door” humanizes the intellectually disabled

Travis LeClair
November 12, 2015
Some of the best pie in Vermont

Some of the best pie in Vermont

Travis LeClair
November 3, 2015

New sushi restaurant flounders for this college student

Travis LeClair
November 3, 2015
“Crimson Peak” a story of sadism and tragedy

“Crimson Peak” a story of sadism and tragedy

Travis LeClair
November 3, 2015

“Promise of a Pencil” inspires

Travis LeClair
November 3, 2015
Pho Dang that's tasty

Pho Dang: cheap, simple and tasty

Travis LeClair
October 19, 2015
“Everest” presents human struggle and unforgiveable terrain

“Everest” presents human struggle and unforgiveable terrain

Travis LeClair
October 19, 2015

16 Reasons (Tracks) Why I Love Dre’s New ‘Compton’

Travis LeClair
September 29, 2015
Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band brings Eastern-Europen Jewish

Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band brings Eastern-Europen Jewish

Travis LeClair
September 29, 2015

Shepard kicks off fall author series

Travis LeClair
September 29, 2015
Collaborative envisions Vermont as hub: says, “Yes we cannabis!”

Collaborative envisions Vermont as hub: says, “Yes we cannabis!”

Travis LeClair
September 29, 2015
“Straight Outta Compton”: Hip–Hop/America’s High and Low Notes

“Straight Outta Compton”: Hip–Hop/America’s High and Low Notes

Travis LeClair
September 16, 2015
Spaghetti Nero

Trattoria Delia serves up an exceptional experience

Travis LeClair
September 16, 2015
Om Dahli

The language of a restaurant: How I became aware of the Nepalese

Travis LeClair
May 7, 2015
Nepalese church offers community for Bhutanese refugees

Nepalese church offers community for Bhutanese refugees

Travis LeClair
April 23, 2015
The singular journey of Bidur Dahal

The singular journey of Bidur Dahal

Travis LeClair
April 23, 2015
Jupiter Ascending a downer

Jupiter Ascending a downer

Travis LeClair
March 11, 2015

Learning Communities pilot program yields positive results

Travis LeClair
December 4, 2014
Jessie Warren and Prof. Sean Clute

Culture-shockingly nice: one professor, two students and art in Dubai

Travis LeClair
December 3, 2014
Left to right: Leila Bandar, Peter Tomashow, David Powell

Powell and Tomashow’s collaborative collage exhibit at Julian Scott

Travis Leclair
November 22, 2014
The throes of passion

“Bedroom Farce,” a tale of survival

Travis LeClair
November 12, 2014
Peter Thomashow’s collage “Smith Brothers Two”

Gold, garbage and biodiversity

Travis LeClair
November 12, 2014
Former POW and Pvt. Jessica Lynch

PBS special explores the struggle of “Women in War”

Travis LeClair
October 30, 2014
Ali Baba Kabob

Ahli Baba is a trip worth taking

Travis LeClair
October 30, 2014
Trevor Hall, with his father and father-in-law

Jan Herder

Herder creates the SOLE

Travis LeClair
October 19, 2014
Liz Dolci

Dolci and students study asbestos mine site, present at conference

Travis LeClair
October 19, 2014
The TV-funny cast of “This is Where I Leave You”

“This is Where I” leaves you sighing

Travis LeClair
October 19, 2014
Patrick Houle

Houle’s “Illusion” students work through the summer

Travis LeClair
September 24, 2014
Nikki Hill

Prepare to shake booty with Hill

Travis LeClair
September 24, 2014
Leila Bandar, Alexandra Heller, and daughter Diane

The Hellers’ world: Dreams, horror and transformation

Travis LeClair
September 18, 2014
Jensen Beach

Writing & Lit. goes to the Beach

Travis LeClair
September 18, 2014
Staci Born

A new behavioral scientist is Born

Travis LeClair
September 18, 2014
Jim Black

Learning communities shoot for connection and retention

Travis LeClair
September 18, 2014
Vijay Seshadri

Spring author series concludes with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Travis LeClair
May 8, 2014

“Noah” goes slowah

Travis LeClair
April 24, 2014
Jessica Nelson and Jacob White

White-Nelson tell tales of hard knocks, real and imagined

Travis LeClair
April 24, 2014
Kelsey Lamphere

JUMP provides leadership opportunities and peer mentor support to residence halls

Travis LeClair
April 24, 2014
Eva Green: “Rise” indeed

“300” sequel: 1D film, 3D sex

Travis LeClair
March 27, 2014
Jessica Hendry Nelson

White and Nelson to read April 1

Travis LeClair
March 27, 2014
Award-winning author David Huddle

Huddle ponders Steve Earle, Appalachian angst and young love

Travis LeClair
March 27, 2014
The Mule's “Works for Me,” a burger topped with pickled onions, arugula, and aioli priced at $18.

Mule Bar kicks ass

Travis LeClair
March 15, 2014

Creative Audience film highlights continuing discrimination against women

Travis LeCLair
March 15, 2014
Bed bugs are incredibly difficult to eradicate once established.

Students survive bed bug onslaught

Travis LeClair
March 15, 2014
Intern Valerie Moyer with Collective founders Angela Palm and Jessica Nelson

Renegade Writer’s Collective: Literature’s Positive Power

Travis LeClair
February 20, 2014
The entrance to the Vermont Pub & Brewery in Burlington

VPB offers a meal worthy of lions

Travis LeClair
February 20, 2014
Joaquin Phoenix as the lonely Theodore Twombly

“Her” looks like a painting, feels like love

Travis LeClair
February 19, 2014
The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing

Travis LeClair
February 18, 2014
Dobrá Tea's Bank Street entrance

[Photo] Dobrá Tea brings the East to you

Victoria Greenia
February 15, 2014
The cover of Beyonce's "Mine" single

Beyonce’s Declaration of Independence

Travis LeClair
February 6, 2014
Waka Flocka Flame on fire

Waka Flocka Flame lights up B-Town

Travis LeClair
February 6, 2014
Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey, hanging out in “Dallas Buyers Club”

“Dallas Buyers Club” gives AIDS outbreak a personal look

Travis LeClair
February 6, 2014
Film highlights a national scourge

Film highlights a national scourge

Travis LeClair
December 5, 2013
Salvation Farms founder wages battle against hunger in Vermont

Salvation Farms founder wages battle against hunger in Vermont

Travis LeClair
December 5, 2013

Award highlights essential function of academic advisors

Travis LeClair
November 14, 2013
Jay Friedman (courtesy NCLS.com

J-Spot educator: “Loosen up, Americans!”

Travis LeClair
October 31, 2013
The skin as canvass (courtesy of Event Horizon)

Inked!

Travis LeClair
October 30, 2013
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