Saturday night was all right for the 400-plus music fans in the Double E Performance Center in Essex listening to the band Get Together play the music of Elton John and Queen. While front person Josh Panda belted out a powerhouse version of “Rocket Man,” images of stars and galaxies drifted behind him on a…
The first residents of the Elmwood Avenue shelter pods will move in this week, Burlington city officials said on Monday. They spoke in the shelter’s community center, located in the former parking lot at 51 Elmwood Avenue that has been transformed into a fenced-off pod community. Workers hurriedly applied finishing touches during a press conference. All 35…
What will $10 buy? If it’s Friday and you’re in Richmond, it’ll get you a trifecta of recreation, food and drink. Skiing is $5 every Friday at Cochran’s Ski Area. A grilled cheese sandwich at the snack bar costs $4; a cup of hot chocolate is $1. If you’re a little kid and you don’t…
Dear Reverend, I’m an old man looking for a lady to share life and love. Recently, I have shared consecutive crushes on two much younger ladies. Both crushes mutually faded. My parents had a three-year age difference. Some friends say a 10-year difference is all right. Given the circumstances, 20 to 30 years seems more…
It has all the hallmarks of a quintessential New England sleepaway camp: group games, swimming trips, bonfires and sing-alongs. Campers can expect to walk away with deep friendships and maybe a bad sunburn. But beyond all that, campers attending Uprise! Youth Activism Summer Camp also learn how to make protest banners and engage in nonviolent…
Sophie, a 15-year-old shih tzu from Burlington, has made canine history: She’s likely the first pup to have peed in nearly every town in the state — and she appears to be the first pooch to have visited each one. Stephanie Young, executive director of the 251 Club of Vermont — an organization of enthusiasts…
A Way to Pay I was reading through the “Who Cares?” article [January 11], about Vermont’s dysfunctional childcare system, when the amount families spend per month on childcare jumped out at me: $1,350 to $1,500. Why, that’s about the cost of fuel to fly one F-35 jet bomber for 15 minutes! If just one of…
This winter has been so dismal. A movie set at a high-end resort sounds like the perfect antidote. Even the title, Infinity Pool (in theaters), evokes the sumptuous endlessness of lazy days spent sunning oneself beside — wait, what’s that again? This is a horror movie that pushes the limits of the R rating? Directed…
new in theaters 80 FOR BRADY: Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Lily Tomlin play four friends determined to meet Tom Brady at the SuperBowl in this sports comedy directed by Kyle Marvin. (98 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Welden) THE AMAZING MAURICE: A clever cat (voice of Hugh Laurie), a young…
It doesn’t take long to peg Hunter Townsend and Alex Gordon as old friends. It’s clear in the way they reminisce, stumbling over details blurred by time, and in how comfortable they are pushing each other to try new things. A couple of years ago, the two flew in a small, single-engine plane, the adventurous…
Racist incidents in Vermont school sports involving both players and spectators have been in the headlines frequently over the past year and a half. But often, media coverage of these events doesn’t include the voices of students of color, who are most affected by the behavior. In January, a TikTok video that included the N-word…
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there,” wrote Aquarian author Virginia Woolf in her diary. What do you think she meant by “raise up the magic world all round me”? More importantly, how would you raise up the magic world around…
This summer, would the kids in your life like to practice hip-hop dance, learn to use a laser cutter, or build a kayak and paddle it the length of Lake Champlain? Would they enjoy horseback riding, harvesting and preparing their own food, or building Rube Goldberg machines? All these activities are on offer at Saturday’s…
Some of us binged television during the pandemic; others took up bread baking. If you were Robin Myers, however, you translated 25 books from authors in five nations on two continents and found time to publish dozens of your own essays and poems. All that work is bearing fruit. In January, the National Endowment for…
It’s easy to list what the new play ‘Bov Water doesn’t contain — a plot, a conflict, even a stable sense of time and place. Yet viewers may find themselves steeped in an experience of tragedy, triumph, wisdom, suffering, compassion and love. How those emotions arise is the difficult part to describe, but feeling them…
Jayna Zweiman has a knack for uniting sizable swaths of the global population in a common cause. In 2017, she launched Pussy Hat with Krista Suh, giving an indelible image and symbol to the January 21 Women’s Marches around the world that year in protest of misogyny. Since then, Zweiman has launched Welcome Blanket to…
The building that houses South Burlington’s city hall, public library and senior center is scarcely 2 years old, and many area residents may not have been inside it yet. But that’s not the reason a visitor could get lost in the first-floor hallways. No, it’s the trippy artwork lining the walls. Charlotte artist Marvin Fishman…
We talk a lot about how music moves us — how it can make us smile with nostalgia, cry over a broken heart, dance with wild abandon or even occasionally infuriate us. A somewhat less heralded effect, but one I cherish, is music’s ability to weird us out. Think about it: Have you ever heard…
(Self-released, digital) Teenage bands are cute, but they don’t always pass muster. Life experience fuels art. If you haven’t lived that long, you might not have a well of exploits and relationships deep enough to make truly absorbing work. But Brattleboro’s the Snaz were an exception — and exceptional. The defunct teenage quartet made preposterously…
(Self-released, digital) To abuse a cliché, former Burlingtonian Freddie Losambe is “criminally slept on.” That’s a haggard phrase referring to great artists who are neglected despite their prolific talent. Losambe is a producer, rapper, singer and multi-instrumentalist whose catalog displays huge range and superb, thoughtful writing — yet he seldom gets the acclaim he deserves.…
After 40 years of selling one of the world’s most popular indoor rowing machines, brothers Peter and Dick Dreissigacker had a solid handle on the demand for their product. Or so they thought. In 2021, a year into the global pandemic, stir-crazy masses snapped up all kinds of fitness equipment. Sales of the Dreissigackers’ RowErg…
Proud husband and father was deeply interested in politics, social change, films and pie baking
Back before Wi-Fi, there was hi-fi — shorthand for sound systems that play music with high fidelity to the original recording. Fidelity also means devotion, an apt descriptor for what drove the creation of Paradiso Hi-Fi, the Burlington listening lounge and restaurant that opened in late November tucked inconspicuously behind its sister business, Dedalus Wine…
Inside the entrance to the Hinesburgh Public House sits an antique wooden shelf full of cookbooks such as Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking, Jane Fonda’s Cooking for Healthy Living and The Great American Seafood Cookbook. The lower shelves hold children’s books and cribbage boards. It isn’t just an entertaining collection for customers to leaf through while they…
The past several years have brought major changes to Burlington’s downtown breakfast scene, including the move of Mirabelles Café to South Burlington after almost 30 years and the closure of Penny Cluse Café just shy of its quarter-century anniversary. But the longevity of those two landmarks pales in comparison with that of Henry’s Diner, which…
The Essex Experience is already a bustling beverage destination with a brewery, a distillery and a wine bar (see “Minding the Stores”). Soon the former outlet mall will add a cidery. Chris Line and Karen Wisehart will open Vermont Cider Lab in Suite 214 — between Magic Mann and the Mad Taco — in late…
Popular Stowe-based Japanese pop-up Kitsune has a winter home at Tälta Lodge. The nomadic biz, run by chef Matt Hiebsch and his wife, Alina Alter, offers dishes such as mushroom-and-bacon steamed buns, chicken katsu curry, and spicy miso ramen three nights a week at the hotel at 3343 Mountain Road. Kitsune ran a seasonal pop-up…
It’s Electric Saturday 4 Andrew Crust, the final candidate for music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, makes his case at the Flynn in Burlington conducting Electric Dreams. This high-energy program includes works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Canadian composer Jocelyn Morlock and hits its crescendo with a newly commissioned concerto by Latin Grammy Award-winning…
Colchester woman lived for her grandchildren and was married to the love of her life for 45 years
Former service member made friends wherever he went with his quick wit and big heart
Italian-born woman lived a life of faith and tradition
A rising tide of development in northwestern Vermont has claimed a fixture of the Malletts Bay community, the International Sailing Center, which for decades has provided an affordable route for young people to learn how to sail. The sailing center and school is losing its lease and looking for another berth on the Lake Champlain…
Energetic and gregarious woman always took the time to show her limitless love for family and friends
Avid fan of drag racing embraced the joys of life and walked his faith each day
Loving husband and father was also a skilled carpenter and a quick-witted poet
Former actuary had a sense of adventure and close ties to Lake Champlain
