 Hello, we are CDAE Community Media Production and today we're going to be talking about what to do in Burlington and where to find out about local happenings. I'm Jackie. I use she, her pronouns. I'm Jake. I use he, him. I'm Danny. I use they, them pronouns. I'm Robin. I use he, him. I'm Sadie. I use she, her pronouns. And I'm Anna. I use she, her pronouns. One of my favorite things to do in Burlington is go to the bike path because I'm a nanny and it's like perfect to walk the kids and then in the summer there's a bunch of beaches off of it and it's also like a great place to run. But I don't really know like besides that like where to get information on other cool places to go in Burlington. So that's kind of been a struggle. Yeah the summer, I can go. The summertime is a lot of fun because you know we're out in the sun and the beach is always a cool place to be and you really can't beat that. And North Beach is especially my favorite and also hiking here in Vermont is a great place to be. I think the Burlington Parks and Rec Department has a pretty active Instagram and I had a friend who ran it over the summer and she was always doing reporting from various fun outdoor things to do in Burlington so that can always be a good resource to look at. I like following different restaurants and artists on Instagram that are local to Burlington. It would be a good place to find out about like new openings or shows. Yeah I feel like nature wise I find out about a lot of like places to go from word of mouth. So I feel like I don't know Burlington is such a little tight-knit community it's nice that you can just kind of like talk to people and ask them like where they like to go and create your own list of like good places to visit based on just where other community members have told you is a good place to visit. Yeah you can like find some of that stuff on Instagram if you follow like accounts around Burlington restaurants as we were talking about before it's a great way to like figure out what's going on downtown right before it happens. Yeah it's even just walking around. My friends had a little party the other day and their neighbors who had a band decide to come outside and play some live music for us and some other neighbors started standing out on their porch listening and eventually like came over and it was just like a fun a fun impromptu little musical event. Yeah I feel like honestly Burlington is so it's like kind of small in a way where like if you go to one like I was at North Peach one day and then I crossed the street and I went down a path and the lake was frozen and if you go along more there's ice caves and I was like I had no you just you can find everything anywhere. For me I find most of my information from Twitter and I think the Burlington Free Press does a solid job of posting maybe like the water the water's not safe to be in sometimes I see like there's like I forget what the green stuff is called. Sino bacteria. Sino bacteria and sometimes I see them post that water's not safe to be in or why people are loving the water so much this weekend or what the weather's gonna be like so that's where I get most of my information from. Yeah I do have to say I read a lot of like like VT Diggers articles and they have a lot of like reviews on restaurants and like stores around here which also helps when you're like looking for dinner or something. I really like front porch forum like an email sort of forum that you can have with your neighbors and it's like based on your neighborhood and you know sometimes it's stuff for sale or lost and found but a lot of times it's also just various organizations and groups advertising their events that's a good place to find stuff. Also like Facebook groups there's a bunch of like like there's old North End Facebook group post a lot of like like there was like the Momos summertime bash I don't know something like that but they post a lot of events. One thing I do wish was that I'm a big for my free time I do like to eat and do like reviews I wish there was a app or some kind of account that did reviews on like local donuts or local cookies or because I'm big into sweets and I think that'd be really cool to to see reviews on like reactions to trying these different foods out. Oh I'd love to see something that that has a list of things that you can't find here maybe because I spent way too long trying to find a dim sum place in the state of Vermont and I don't think that exists. Now we have one. Well there's cafe dim sum but that's not is it real dim sum like with the carts. Oh no I guess it's not yeah we are lacking some important things here. Um what is dim sum by the way? Dim sum is like I don't think I'm the most qualified person to explain it but it's generally like I believe Chinese food but I don't like Southeast Asian food and it's brought around on carts like and then you kind of pick from the cart what you want and at the end and they like tally off what you've gotten from the cart and then you just pay at the end but it's really fun. That's cool. You get to pick what you want. You get to pick what you want dumplings and buns and good things like that. Awesome. Well thank you guys for tuning in today. I really appreciate everyone watching. This is CCTV. Hi, welcome to CCTV. Today we're going to talk about some of the best things to do in Vermont in every season and now we're going to introduce ourselves. Hi I'm Brian, I use the he pronouns. Hi I'm Patrick, I use he, him pronouns. I'm Maeve, I use she, her pronouns. I'm Sophie, I use she, her pronouns. I'm Claire, I use she, her pronouns. And I'm Avery and I use she, her pronouns. So I think we're going to start with winter because we're currently in winter. I don't ski or snowboard but there are still a lot of interesting things to do here in the winter. Speaking of skiing and snowboarding, we're finally getting snow so now is the time to get out there and take advantage of all the mountains that we have pretty close to us. Otherwise... I personally love going to coffee shops, dobertea is a good place to go. Just go somewhere like warm and cozy during winter time is nice. Yeah I love staying in with hot chocolate and just watching everybody be on the couch and I'm dead by nine. My roommates and I have been really liking ordering takeout rather than going out, makes it feel more cozy. We get to have roommate time that a lot of us don't get during the day and yeah that's been our routine weekly outside. I feel like there are so many good places here to eat pho which is so good in the winter because it's super warm and cozy and perfect. Yeah I think the biggest part of winter in Vermont is just making sure you don't get seasonal depression. Some people go ski, snowboard but others just find their own way to do stuff and still connect with people and obviously COVID has lessened here so it's much more easy to connect with people over whatever you have in common just inside. Yeah what about spring though I mean I know mud season comes around and that's not too easy to get outside like I know I'm itching to go hiking again but we still have to wait because we don't want erosion or to fall off trails but my favorite thing to do in the spring is just like get outside and play tennis just so I can see the sun again. I think on the days that the sun actually comes out in the spring it's super important just to get outside. I love going down to the waterfront, going for a sunset walk just whenever I can. Shop and farms is a wonderful place to walk in the spring is when all the lambs are getting or being born and so it's a really special time to go out there and you can explore everything that they have because it's a beautiful place. Yeah I feel like I get lost there every single time I go but I find like a cool new little spot and there's so many different things to do. I also love how in like late winter early spring it's also maple syrup season so that's when we're tapping all of our maple trees and making that maple syrup and that's always an exciting time. We can move on to summer which is my favorite month in Vermont and I think there's quite a few things that all of us like to do. We're lucky enough to live by the lake in Burlington but there's a bunch of other swimming options if you drive like 30 minutes outside of Burlington. A lot of water and water holes, yeah. Little Gordo, delicious, creamy, that's my staple of the summer. Always a big line. Yeah I try to take advantage of like the bike path, I get my bike out again. I just really enjoy doing that. I'm a big fan of the sunsets, I think APM sunsets over like Champlain's hit different. So true. Okay, should we move on to probably Vermont's most popular season, fall? Yeah, sure. I know leaf peeping is big. I haven't done it but I've gone on hikes. I don't really understand the full concept of it. Do you just like, do you just look up at the leaves or are you like collecting leaves? Yes. I didn't get it either. Yeah, but I knew when I was trying to have a friend come up here my freshman year and I was like, oh yeah it's fine, it's pretty and then we looked at like the hotels and they were booked out for the entire fall and I was like, well, I guess I'll see you later. Yeah. If you take a drive through the Notch Road in Stowe you'll definitely understand leaf peeping. Cool, well that's all we have for tonight. Thanks for watching and enjoy your night. Hey everyone, I'm Erin Deloni with CCTV. We're talking about how social media affects the way we get our information. I'm Natalie. I'm Brooke, she, her. I'm Will, he, him. I'm Finn, he, him. I feel like I get most of my information from Instagram, that's the app I'm on the most and it's really easy to just click, follow on different organizations, Instagrams, they also have like the ads that pop up a lot. I don't know, what about you guys? I'm on TikTok a lot, too much. And so sometimes I'll get my information from there, I'll like see a TikTok and then I'll look it up on the internet to see if it's true. Or I'll use TikTok as a search engine if there's like something I'm looking for. My brain like it's lazy now, so I just want to see a quick video. So I'll look up what I need to look up on TikTok and it's usually always there. I feel like I used to be really addicted to social media and had a cleanse and deleted it for a while and that was great. And then I got back onto it, Instagram, TikTok, and now I'm back off and it's definitely like made me appreciate, like sometimes I'll read the news on social media or on TikTok or something and then actually read the news and like they can be different. So I feel like it definitely skews my opinion and like where I get stuff for sure. I think for me I use Instagram as well just because it's such an easy app and it was like one of the first ones I downloaded, like when I was younger, so I've never really like went away from it. I just think it's like a simple way to kind of just see things, you just scroll down and people always have like news stories and links and things you can see from there. Yeah, same with me. I get a lot of information from Instagram and a lot of sports stuff on Instagram and then like TikTok, if I'm scrolling through, I get like random information that I don't need to know, but I love and I just eat up, keep scrolling, like, you know. And the TikTok is different because the algorithm kind of chooses stuff that it knows that you'll like, so I feel like that's good because it helps me like see things I'm interested in but then also maybe some things I wouldn't go looking for I wouldn't see, but it's addicting. That is the one thing about TikTok. I try not to get on it because it is so addicting. I've deleted a few times from my phone just because it's so time consuming. You look at the clock and not even realize how long you've been on it. Do you guys feel like the like information you get on like TikTok and Instagram is like accurate? Because I feel like sometimes, especially on Instagram, like you'll see something and you're like, how is this real? And then either it ends up being real and you're like confused or it's like just not accurate at all. Yeah. That's a good question. That's a good question. Sometimes for me, like, I don't know why, but like the stats, it's somewhat the algorithm, but it just like hits diff to me at that point. In a moment, I'm like, whoa, like, it's exactly what I was thinking about just now. But then other times I'm like, there's no way that's real. And then I just say it's not real, but I don't look it up or anything, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like I just kind of make it up in my own head. The comment sections, though, on almost every TikTok, you go in the comment section and it's like just counter arguments to the TikTok. So that's always interesting to look at. Yeah. Yeah. Also, do you guys remember like when infographics first started being a thing? Like I honestly would believe anything that was like presented to me in like a pretty way. And I feel like now we know that's not always the best option, but I feel like if you make anything look professional, people will believe it. It's definitely dangerous. Like you could put really like harmful information in an infographic and somebody would like repost on their story. Like unintentionally, like maybe not knowing that it was actually accurate or not, which is interesting. I like what they're doing with posts now. They kind of cover it up and make you like if you want to see the video, like view video, this contains harmful information. So it kind of warns you before you even get to that stage. Yeah, somebody was talking about like the gold check marks. And like how you can like buy. Yeah, I don't know. Does anyone know anything about that? Yeah, you can buy the blue check. But the gold check is like if you're a company like certified company or something like that. That's the basis that I know. But there's so many more blue checks now. Blue check used to be like a. Crazy. Dang, you got the check. Yeah, you can buy them on Instagram too. People can like hack the system somehow. I get DMs all the time like, hey, you want to do checks? Send me 2K. So yeah, that's a little weird now. Cool. Well, thanks for talking. Well, this is CCTV. Thank you. Good evening, Burlington. Today we'll be talking about the best and the worst of restaurants in the area. I'm Bo He-Him. I'm Kat. I use she, her pronouns. I'm Penny. I use she, her pronouns. I'm Lucas. I use he, him pronouns. So I will start with saying the best restaurant in Burlington. It's kind of hit or miss, you know, Burlington by now, the food scene. I would say on a good day, Misery Loves Company or Honey Road is my favorite. And then everything else hit or miss. Well, if you don't have that much money, like to go to Honey Road or Misery Loves Co, Tiny Thai and Winooski is very, very good if you like spicy. I'm pretty biased. I work at the Friendly Toast. And so not only do I love their food, I love the discount I get. Um, so that's probably my favorite. On the higher end, I'd definitely say I've had a really good experience at Deadless, the wine bar down on Pine Street. Oh, see, I haven't had a good experience at Deadless. On the lower end, Top of Franks and Winooski is great. Really cheap Italian food, big portions. And the worst, I got to go with Sweet Waters. No doubt. But it's gone now, so you don't have to worry about that anymore. Yeah, I would say Sweet Waters was pretty bad. Like their management, I heard a lot of things about them. I would also add kens to that. Not like the food, I could make that at home and it's still the same. But once again, the management there like sucked. The people at Alibaba's kebab shop are a little scary, but the food is good and cheap. And sometimes people spit in the food at the salad bar at the co-op. So, yeah, that's news to me. Well, I'm not going to use the salad bar anymore. But it's kind of good, though. Like, not the spit part, but the food. That's a little flavor. You know, there's so many disappointing meals that I've had in Burlington that I can't really, you know, have a top. I would say JR's original, right down the street from here, is pretty atrocious. Their calamari was god-awful and I'll never go back. Oh, the best food I've ever had, which I would never go back because it's so expensive, but my parents were here and they were treating was Trattoria, which is close to Ailes. Not that I've ever been to Ailes as a 20-year-old. But it's just so good. The Italian food there is to die for. I love it. I always wondered what was behind that big door. The big door, yeah. You ever made it to, what's that one, down by Hotel Vermont? Hen of the Wood? Yeah, I've never made it. I went there, like, three weeks ago for my birthday. So good. So many mushrooms on my food. Lives up to that. Love it, so good. See, Hen of the Wood, I believe a friend and I had a rabbit that was undercooked. It was raw. And then they brought out the, I'm not quite sure how to say it, a tzatziki or that. Tzatziki, yeah. And, or like the Kohlrabi thing. And it was bitter and so burnt. I love it. You know what I'm talking about. It's so, it was delicious. Everything I had was delicious, so I don't know what you're talking about. But I'd say it's a one. Um, we can also probably talk about the best and worst dining halls, if anyone wants to hop to that. I would give the best and the worst to the grundle. Experience is just unmatched, food also unmatched, but not in a good way, if anyone else wants to add. See, I've had a pleasant experience at the grundle with the Mexican cuisine as spot on. Also, the sushi is pretty good. It's better than gas station sushi. You know what you're getting into. I didn't know that was an option. Oh, it's so low. Central's picked up the pace, I think. I don't know. I did a lot of cooking in my dorm, though, when I lived there, so. Nice. I've never lived on campus. I transferred, so I have no opinion on any of them, actually. OK, well, I think in the hospital when the Atrium Cafe was open, it was fantastic and it was subsidized. So you can get a meal that would cost you like 20 bucks for like $5, which was excellent. Wow. Now they close down. Oh, one thing. Yeah, a lot of the food places on campus have closed. Waterman Cafe just reopened, but the Cyber Cafe has never been open since I've been here. So, I mean, maybe one day. Wow. So it's about time. I see that we have very differing opinions on food and differing scales. So I wanted to thank you all for listening. This has been a CCV production. I'm going to fight. CCV.