Nov 19-25, 2014
Ryan Miller Gets Weird With a Web Series and a New Guster Record; Graphic Arts in Med School; Rookie Shooters Feel the Skeet; Jewelry on the Wild Side; Fiddlehead’s New Brews
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Guster’s Ryan Miller Gets Weird and Makes Friends
Ryan Miller sits at the bar of the Tilt Classic Arcade & Ale House, a vintage-video-game-themed pub tucked into the far end of a strip mall just off Shelburne Road in South Burlington. I find the Guster front man past a cluster of flannel-clad dudes huddled around a pinball machine, down a long, gleaming expanse…
Obituary: Marvin James Braley
Marvin James Braley, age 64 years, a resident of the Parizo Road died suddenly Tuesday, November 18, 2014, in the Northwestern Medical Center. Born in Colchester on May 14, 1950, he was the son of the late William Delmar and Bernice Armina (Robtoy) Braley. He attended schools in Fletcher and formerly worked for Tobin’s Garage…
Obituary: Barbara J. Delphia
Barbara J. Delphia, 89 passed away at Burlington Health & Rehab. on Saturday Nov. 22, 2014. Visitation is on Monday evening from 6 to 7 P.M. Funeral service will follow at 7 P.M. in the Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave. A full notice will subsequently be posted.
Obituary: Rebecca Boardman, 1948-2014, Woodstock
Eleanor Rebecca Silliman Boardman, known to all as Rebecca, died suddenly and unexpectedly, but peacefully in the early afternoon of Saturday, November 15, as she lay on a couch reading “Freaky Green Eyes” by Joyce Carol Oates while she waited to go on a dog walk with a friend. She was a four-year survivor of…
Obituary: Robert C. Morin
Robert C. Morin, 68, passed away peacefully at U.V.M. Medical Center on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. He was born on July 8, 1946 in Burlington the son of Rene F. and Yvonne E. (Boucher) Morin. He leaves two children and their spouses: Brian and Jen Morin and Kim and Carl Sourdiff; four grandchildren and four…
Obituary: Gary A. Moody
Gary A. Moody, 64, passed away unexpectedly at home on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. He served his country honorably with the U.S. Marines in Vietnam and, in civilian life, worked for both Trono’s Bakery and the Baker’s Dozen. Memorial Services will be held on Saturday at 1 pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave.…
Obituary: Walter Edward Carlisle. Jr.
Walter Edward Carlisle. Jr., age 59 years, died Friday morning, November 14, 2014, at The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. Born in Springfield, VT on, June 22, 1955, he was the son of the late Walter Sr., and Rebecca Oressa (Weatherby) Carlisle. He graduated in 1973 from Fall Mountain High School where he…
Drawing From Life: Cartooning in the Medical Arts
Eleven University of Vermont medical students and faculty members sat in small groups, studying photographs of a chickadee at a bird feeder. Their assignment: to arrange the images into a coherent story. Cartoonist and MacArthur “genius” Alison Bechdel flitted from table to table, coaching them encouragingly. Bechdel is a James Marsh professor-at-large at UVM —…
What’s the Story Behind Woodbury’s Medieval Stone Tower?
What is it about medieval dwellings that people find so compelling? Maybe because we live in an age of less-permanent architecture, there’s something reassuring about the impenetrable walls of stone castles and towers that reminds us of the old adage “They sure don’t make them like they used to.” For sure, “they” don’t build many…
At the Shelburne Museum, a Jewelry Exhibit Reflects the Natural World
All that glitters is not gold in “Natural Beauties: Jewelry From Art Nouveau to Now.” The new exhibit at the Shelburne Museum’s Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education also features silver, platinum, brass, titanium and even lead in an array of jewelry that spans more than a century. But never mind metals; the real sparkle…
An Architectural Philosophy: Buildings for People in Need
“The history of architecture is about monuments.” So began last week’s talk by Michael Wisniewski of Duncan Wisniewski Architecture in Burlington. Wisniewski gave the 15th annual Roland Batten Lecture, the main event supported by the Roland Batten Memorial Fund. The Cornell University-trained architect was speaking mainly to a knowing audience of fellow architects and designers.…
Leaving ‘Rut-Vegas’: Influential Police Chief Has a New Gig
When Jim Baker first took over Rutland’s scandal-plagued police department in the winter of 2012, he had a running joke with the mayor. In department-head meetings during which a particularly vexing problem arose, Baker would hold up his city-issued notebook and point to the first word of his job title. “Mayor, mayor, look — ‘interim,’…
Rosewater
Jon Stewart’s feature directorial debut, Rosewater, is two films in one. One is a fairly standard “uplifting,” awards-friendly movie about how journalist Maziar Bahari found inner strength during 118 days of captivity and interrogation in Iran. The other is a darker, more ambiguous film that asks: Do you have to be a ranting ideologue to…
Closing Time: A Security Breach Leads to Gallery Shutdown
When members of Rising Tide Vermont occupied Montpelier’s Pavilion Building on Monday, October 27, they wanted Gov. Peter Shumlin to do two things: withdraw his administration’s support for Vermont Gas’ proposed natural-gas pipeline through Addison County, and oppose the construction of any other fossil-fuel infrastructure in the state. The protesters did not ask for the…
LocalStore: Stowe Kitchen Bath & Linens
What’s in a name? Even Shakespeare couldn’t answer that question. But in the case of Stowe Kitchen Bath & Linens, you should expect to find more than the sign at the store’s entrance suggests. The home goods shop on Mountain Road has carried kitchenware for 31 years, and bath and linen products since the store…
An Interview With Comedian John Hodgman
John Hodgman is quite upset that the world has not ended. Had the end times arrived in December 2012, as the ancient Mayans (and Hodgman himself, sort of) predicted, the Brooklyn-based humorist and minor television personality would never have had to justify sporting a preposterous mustache for many months. Because everyone to whom he would…
Gallery Profile: South Gallery
No sales associate waits patiently to answer questions. Exhibits don’t have catalogs. Hours are irregular. But those who enter 27 Sears Lane in Burlington’s South End will have no doubt they’ve walked into a gallery. The walls are white, the ceiling is high and the space is creatively partitioned by a curving wall. Plus, the…
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The YMCA’s Silver Foxes [SIV377]
11/12/14: The Silver Foxes is a group of women and a few men ranging in age from their 50s-80s who work out at the Pomerleau Family YMCA in Burlington three mornings a week. Whether exercising in the pool or on the floor, or maybe grabbing coffee afterwards for a chat, these fit seniors have become…
Work: Jim Dattilio, Dattilio’s Discount Guns & Tackles
Name: Jim Dattilio Town: South Burlington Job: Bow Technician At 9:30 a.m. midweek at Dattilio’s Discount Guns & Tackle, owner Jim Dattilio has been troubleshooting problems with a customer’s hunting bow for more than two hours. The second of two bow-and-arrow seasons doesn’t start until December 6, but the customer, Dale Adams, needs a string…
Talking Shop With Fiddlehead Brewer Matt Cohen
When Matthew (“Matty O”) Cohen opened Fiddlehead Brewing Company in 2011 after more than a decade brewing at Magic Hat, he wanted to get one thing right: an easy-drinking, well-balanced, draft-only IPA. “For the first year and a half,” Cohen recalls, “all anyone really saw from us was the IPA.” That was a deliberate decision,…
Mary McGinniss, Borderlands
(Self-released, CD, digital download) The term “terroir” is a current favorite in the vocabulary of food writers. It’s a French word that refers to characteristics resulting in food grown in a specific place. Local influences such as soil, weather or what animals are fed naturally affect the flavor and quality of the product. The culinary…
Two New Breweries Come to Tunbridge
High on a hill above the Tunbridge World’s Fair grounds, Andrew Puchalik and Chris Perry are busy building Upper Pass Beer, one of two new breweries slated to open in the tiny Orange County town later this winter. Puchalik says he’s been home brewing for years. Perry has collaborated on brews with Smuttynose Brewing and…
Back to Bach: Soprano Hyunah Yu Sings for Capital City Concerts
When reviewers try to describe Hyunah Yu’s voice, “pure” is often the word that comes to mind. In 1999, when the Korean-born singer was a student at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, a Baltimore Sun writer noted “her lovely voice, with its diamond purity.” A New York Times critic remarked on her…
Letters to the Editor (11/19/14)
Land Grab It’s time to find a creative way to save this amazing piece of land from development and preserve it for future generations [“Who Will Get the Land Around Burlington College?” November 5]. The City of Burlington needs to “build up” in areas that are already developed rather than utilize the last of our…
The Bondville Boys, Rivergrass
(Lonely Highway Records, CD, digital download) Various incarnations of the Bondville Boys have been rambling through the southern portion of the Green Mountains since 1990, which makes them one of the longest-lasting bluegrass bands — or bands of any kind, really — in Vermont. Though their ranks have shifted over the years, the group’s résumé…
Book Review: Like Water on Stone by Dana Walrath
When author Dana Walrath was a young girl, she asked her mother about her grandmother’s childhood in Armenia. The answer had a stark horror to it: “After her parents were killed, she hid during the day and ran at night with Uncle Benny and Aunt Alice from their home in Palu to the orphanage in…
Shumlin 2.0: How Does the Gov Get His Groove Back?
There’s a new Peter Shumlin in town, and he’d really like to know what you’re thinking. Two weeks after the two-term Democratic governor narrowly escaped a surprise drubbing at the polls, the old Shumlin — cocky, glib and smarter than you are — is gone. In his place is a refurbished model: subdued, self-deprecating and…
Two Newbie Shooters Hit the Skeet Beat
The heart of the Sportsman’s Club of Franklin County is a small, uninsulated shack that sits at the edge of a reedy, weedy expanse, across from the much larger clubhouse proper. Its one wide window looks out on several of the club’s shooting ranges, but the view isn’t the main reason members gather in this…
Soundbites: Matteo Palmer is Really, Really Good
Earlier this year, I reviewed the debut record from Vergennes-based fingerstyle guitarist Matteo Palmer, Out of Nothing. If you missed it, here’s a quick summation of that review: Holy shit. Palmer is an 18-year-old prodigy and the protégé of Grammy-winning guitarist, producer, Windham Hill Records founder and reluctant New Age-music paragon Will Ackerman, about whom I…
Should I Feel Bad About Not Missing My Boyfriend When He’s Gone?
Dear Athena, I am totally confused. My boyfriend of seven years and I have a really good relationship. He’s funny and I’m attracted to him and we have a really nice time together. We have been living together for about six years, and things are going well. He recently went away on a trip with…
Planting Seeds: PlanBTV South End Engages Artists
On Monday afternoon, three South End artists gather in E1 Studio on Pine Street to put finishing touches on the 200 wooden “seeds” they plan to sow throughout the Burlington neighborhood. Muralist Tara Goreau, glass artist Terry Zigmund and woodcutter Matt Gang are collaborating on “Seeds for SEAD” (“SEAD” being the acronym for South End…
Free Will Astrology (11/19/14)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Someone on reddit.com posed the question, “What have you always been curious to try?” In reply, many people said they wanted to experiment with exotic varieties of sex and drugs they had never treated themselves to before. Other favorites: eating chocolate-covered bacon; piloting a plane; shoplifting; doing a standup comedy routine;…
Ye Olde Papers for Sale — and Not for a Few Pounds
Update, 12:35 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21: A private collector from Marblehead, Mass., purchased the document bearing Jefferson’s signature after bidding $32,500 via telephone. Once upon a time, the U.S. House and Senate were able to take momentous steps — agreeing, for example, to admit Vermont to the Union as the 14th state on March 4,…
News Quirks (11/19/14)
Curses, Foiled Again Alan Knight, 47, denied robbing his neighbor in Swansea, Wales, and avoided prosecution by pretending to be “quadriplegic and in a comatose condition, bed-bound at home” after a neck injury, authorities said. They uncovered the ruse by tracking his supermarket loyalty card. Surveillance footage of Knight walking and driving confirmed their suspicion.…
Junior’s Rustico to Open in South Burlington
The 25-foot black-walnut bar and 16 taps are ready. The brick walls feel appropriately rustic, and the open kitchen gleams with all-new equipment. So why isn’t Junior’s Rustico open at 408 Shelburne Road in South Burlington yet? The newlyweds behind the project say they want everything to be “perfect” before inviting the eager public inside.…
Taste Test: Grazers
The high ceiling is intact, but the wood details, fireplace and modern, 22-foot bar at the back of Grazers make it clear you’re not in Three Tomatoes Trattoria anymore. The latter restaurant, longtime neighbor to the Majestic 10 Cinemas, closed early this year, and local company Wow, That’s Good Food! — which operates the Vermont…
