If you’re a Honky Tonk Tuesday regular, you may have noticed that the ringleader of that long-running Radio Bean residency, Brett Hughes, is currently MIA. No worries, country fans. He’s just spending a little time doing Brett Hughes things down South for a few weeks. But in his absence, it seems that all hell is breaking loose over at the saloon on North Winooski Ave, as evidenced by this video featuring local gunslingers — and tonight’s fill-in HTT hosts — Ryan Ober and Lowell Thompson. (Cue Ennio Morricone music.)

Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...