Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Of the hundreds of students Diane Phillips taught in her 39 years as a school vocal music director, one determined 16-year-old stands out in her memory. Shaina Taub, then a senior at Harwood Union Middle & High School in Moretown, asked…
A Washington County judge has rejected the Town of Roxbury’s request to stop an April 30 vote on a revised school budget that, if passed, would lead the town’s elementary school to close. The town had also asked the court to nullify the results of the first budget vote, which failed on Town Meeting Day.…
Married couple Camila Carrillo and Nathan D’Aversa will combine their crafts to open a shared wine bar and furniture showroom at 10 Green Street in Vergennes. Carrillo, 31, will run the wine bar in addition to making her La Montañuela wine and coferments as part of Gruppo Garagista in Barnard. More than a tasting room,…
Mechanical engineer had a lifelong attachment to the land
Mother of six boys found joy in sharing life’s simple moments with those she loved
Teacher’s passion for literacy and knowledge was inspirational to all who knew her
Shelburne Museum docent enjoyed traveling and exploring varied cultures
Longtime nurse deeply respected the natural world and excelled at arranging beauty in small spaces
Westford man had many interests, including music, science, astronomy and the N.Y. Giants
Rock and roll and adulthood are strange bedfellows. One minute, you’re a kid in a stinky, sweaty room filled with beer bottles and roaches (both kinds), huddled with some friends and playing music. The next thing you know, you’re a “professional musician” traveling 200 days a year, the stinky rooms have turned into studios, and…
Who doesn’t love The Little Mermaid and sex lube? (That got your attention, didn’t it?) University of Vermont sex educator Jenna Emerson is back with a new song to make us laugh while teaching such axioms as “Sex is better when it’s wetter, take it from me.” “Under the Sheets” is Emerson’s latest The Little…
(Self-released, digital) The standard trajectory of an on-the-rise Vermont singer-songwriter goes like this: A youngster from a small town makes some waves locally, spends a few years building buzz, and then departs for college or a bigger market than the Green Mountains can offer. From locally beloved songwriters such as Francesca Blanchard to breakout stars…
Flipped Eclipse? I think the time-lapse picture of the eclipse on the cover of the April 10 issue is flipped. We watched from Montpelier, and the shadow wedge entered from the bottom and traveled up the sun. After totality, there was a sudden wedge of bright white light at the bottom that looked like the…
(Self-released, digital) Ever wander around a city at 3 a.m.? Alone under the neon lights, on streets usually thronged with people, you experience a stillness that is at once soothing and concerning. You’ve found peace and quiet in a place where they don’t belong, and there’s this palpable absence you can’t quite shake. From the…
Cheryl Rose was ready to retire after 15 years as a care coordinator for Cathedral Square, a nonprofit that provides affordable housing for older adults. An avid crafter, she was eager to spend more time knitting and painting. In 2021, Rose, then 64, stopped working and started living off her savings and her Social Security…
For those of us who love A24, Civil War is a milestone: It earned the quirky indie distributor its highest opening weekend box office to date. Granted, built-in controversy surely drew many viewers to this dystopian drama from English writer-director Alex Garland (Men, Annihilation, Ex Machina), which depicts a U.S. civil war in the present…
In February, millions of TV viewers tuned in to Hulu and FX to watch the world premiere of “Shōgun,” a 10-part miniseries based on the 1975 best-selling novel by James Clavell. Because the story is set in 17th-century feudal Japan, Disney/FX, which produced the series, needed a consultant for building the dozens of traditional Japanese…
new in theaters ABIGAIL: Criminals who kidnap a gangster’s cute ballerina daughter get a rude awakening in this horror flick. With Kathryn Newton and Giancarlo Esposito. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not) directed. (109 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Sunset) HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS: A woman (Anamaria Marinca) finds herself forced to raise her girlfriend’s…
Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak’s first few days on the job were nothing short of celebratory, including a standing-room-only swearing-in ceremony and a once-in-a-lifetime eclipse festival. But the pomp and circumstance is giving way to more practical matters. Mulvaney-Stanak has been meeting with the city’s department heads and must decide which ones she’ll keep on the…
Kris Brown was in a supermarket last year when he noticed a “tall, skinny white dude” watching him intently as Brown and his family made their way through the aisles. A six-foot-two, muscular, tattooed Black man who’s lived in Vermont since 2013, Brown is never surprised when white people eyeball him. He steeled himself for…
The Bennington Museum has various permanent and traveling displays of artwork and historical memorabilia, from its “Gilded Age Vermont” exhibit to the world’s largest public collection of paintings by Grandma Moses. Most days, the bodies of work don’t talk to the visitors or walk out the door when the museum closes. But on Friday, April…
I can’t stop thinking about last week’s eclipse. I know it’s been nine days — an eternity in the news business — since the sun silhouetted the moon in the path of totality, an awe-inspiring display for everyone lucky enough to have seen it. While the hot stories of the day burn up like so…
Chinese astronomers began to predict solar eclipses in the fourth century BC. Scientists have known the day and time, down to the second, of the April 8, 2024, totality for ages. Nikki Laxar didn’t need quite that much time to prepare for “Phased,” but the eclipse-inspired exhibit was a no-brainer for a place with a…
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I suspect two notable phenomena will coalesce in your sphere sometime soon. The first is a surplus supply of luck. I’m not sure why, but the fates will be sending surges of good karma your way. The second phenomenon is this: You might not be entirely alert for the potential luck…
This story has been updated. What a difference a ceiling makes. A high ceiling, that is. When Beth Bluestein moved her Middlebury store, Sparrow Art Supply, to 44 Main Street earlier this month, regular customers remarked on how much bigger it is than the previous location. “In fact, it’s a little smaller,” she said cheerfully.…
Dear Reverend, My sister is obstinate about saying Taylor Swift sucks when it’s objectively clear that she is talented, not just musically, but also as a media mogul. I think my sister is stuck in patriarchal thinking that keeps her from appreciating a woman who is successful for doing “girly” things. How do I get…
Pathways Vermont, in collaboration with Duncan & Wisnieski Architects, is soliciting proposals for qualified Construction Managers for the renovation of a community/group home located at 141 Maple Street, Burlington, Vermont. This project entails retrofitting an existing building for Pathways Vermont’s A Home for Soteria Project. The objective is to convert the current structure into a…
In July 2016, I spent one last day scrubbing down the tiger-lily-orange kitchen walls of my recently closed Montpelier business, Salt Café, and locked the door behind me. Since 2010, when I left my full-time job at Seven Days to open a restaurant, I’d spent nearly every day there, making flourless chocolate cake, rolling out…
A new brewpub will liven things up near Smugglers’ Notch this spring. Lot Six Brewing is targeting an early May opening in the former Brewster River Pub & Brewery at 4087 Route 108 in Jeffersonville. It’s an unexpected project for Justin McCarthy, former Zero Gravity Craft Brewery director of brewing operations; and Adam Shirlock, who…
In 2017, the media seized on a data point from a survey suggesting that 7 percent of American adults believed chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Clickbait aside, the lesson was not actually how far removed people are from the source of their food but the risk of misinterpreting research with little context. Without knowing…
Chef Jason Merrill and his wife, Leslie, plan to open a restaurant called REDCAN in downtown White River Junction early this summer. The name honors Jason’s late mother’s favorite drink, Coca-Cola in a red can. It will offer “polished, contemporary-style dining” with a raw bar and dinner menu featuring many local ingredients, he said. REDCAN’s…
Two Vermonters, both members of the faculty at Dartmouth College, have been awarded prestigious fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Vievee Francis, of White River Junction, is an award-winning poet and associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth. Francis’s fourth book, The Shared World, which Seven Days ‘ Jim Schley reviewed…
Saturday’s mail brought an unexpected windfall to stunned residents around Winooski — two crisp $100 bills, along with a cryptic note. Each envelope, postmarked from Burlington, contained the same amount of cash and the brief message, printed on a small sheet of paper headlined “RIPPLES.” “Take one and pass one,” the note read. “If you…
After 15 years of staging annual literary festivals — and just weeks before its 2024 event was to open — Bookstock announced on Monday that it is closing down. The Woodstock festival scheduled for June 21 to 23 is canceled. Cofounder and board chair Peter Rousmaniere told Seven Days that disparate visions for the festival…
Pauline’s Café at 1834 Shelburne Road in South Burlington has closed just a couple of years shy of its 50th anniversary. Robert Fuller, the building’s owner and former chef-owner of the restaurant, confirmed that current chef-owner David Hoene shuttered Pauline’s without advance notice in early April. Hoene declined to comment. “It’s a sad, sad story…
Black Friday Friday 19 Community arts organization Grimm’s Domain celebrates the culture and heritage of Africa and Black people around the world at Diaspora: Hair or There. This electrifying showcase at Burlington’s Main Street Landing Black Box Theater features local rapper Omega Jade and headliner Rain Supreme alongside other burlesque and pole dance performers. Better…
