Screen printer and musician valued the arts
Colchester woman spent 35 years working to improve the lives of children and families in our community
Family matriarch adored spending time with her family at her Lake Champlain cottage
Resonant and evocative chords rang out as I pressed down on the keys of a concert grand piano. I was three years sober, and I was attempting to complete a seemingly insurmountable musical challenge. My producer had tasked me with finishing a complex jazz chart for an album that he was working on. The assignment…
Montpelier woman had a big heart and touched the lives of many in the AA community
Co-owner of Finnigan’s Pub had a big personality, an infectious laugh and many friendships
Whatever happened to the workplace novel? Specifically, what happened to all those novels about young people slacking their way through life in big, sleepy American corporations, wondering idly whether they should get jobs they cared more about? Since the Great Recession, those dull jobs with comfy benefits haven’t been so plentiful. Hustle culture has replaced…
If the food court is a shopping center’s beating heart, South Burlington’s University Mall was showing symptoms of cardiac distress at noon on a recent Saturday. In the mall’s central pavilion, just two eateries, a frozen yogurt stand and a pizza place, were serving food to a trickle of customers. Still, George Reyes, owner of…
Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a sedge of herons. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book…
In early March, Rebekah Thomas made it to the top of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. She’s one of thousands who will summit Africa’s tallest peak this year. But Thomas, 48, successfully completed the trek after donating two organs to strangers: part of her liver in July 2019 and one of her kidneys in September 2020. A…
Two years into a pandemic that has touched virtually every facet of daily life, we could all use a little more vision — a little more inspiration. That’s the goal Howard Center organizers had in mind when developing this year’s conference, “Vision, Visionaries and Voices.” It convenes online this Thursday, April 7, and marks the…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): To provide the right horoscope, I must introduce you to three new words. The first is “orphic,” defined as “having an importance or meaning not apparent to the senses nor comprehensible to the intellect; beyond ordinary understanding.” Here’s the second word: “ludic,” which means “playful; full of fun and high spirits.”…
The snow is flying — and so are we, the saviors of the streets! Our snowplow is formidable: a 50,000-pound vehicle girded with two mammoth plow blades and hydraulics to control them and carrying a ton of salt in the truck bed. Paul Goodrich, 74, in shirtsleeves and a white hard hat, nimbly threads the…
Dear Reverend, I live alone and, like most healthy people, masturbate frequently. Typically, I’m in my bedroom and I close the blinds for privacy, but I’m still visible to someone: my dog. He’s usually busy with other things, but sometimes I feel like he’s watching me, which is quite disconcerting. Does he know what I’m…
The seats were packed for opening night at the Grange Theatre. While warm preshow chatter buzzed, the audience could look over the complex set built by BarnArts volunteers. Every inch of the small stage was used to hold all of a shabby, two-room flat and a suggestion of the New Orleans French Quarter streets beyond.…
Where Students Live Thanks for “House Impossible” [March 9] and for publishing L. Diana Carlisle’s letter to the editor [Feedback: “Bad for Burlington,” March 30]. Airbnbs are not the only commercial properties that are causing the deterioration of neighborhood homes. Our limited housing supply is used by the University of Vermont for its corporate financial…
Whenever someone starts talking to me about sports, I pull a yellow card on them. I’m just not interested. If I’m at a restaurant where a game is playing, I’ve been known to call interference — on my dining experience. Much to my chagrin, the men’s NCAA college basketball tournament is all some people talk about…
Sometimes your friendly neighborhood music editor needs more than two spots to review the latest album submissions. Sometimes he’s just listened to so much local music that he needs to blab about all of it to someone, or he’ll start writing about himself in third person. (Wait. Did he just do that? Damn it.) Bob…
new in theaters AMBULANCE: Director Michael Bay applies his over-the-top action-thriller style to this tale of two robbers fleeing from a failed heist in an ambulance. Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II star. (136 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Star) EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE: Michelle Yeoh plays a woman who must travel the…
A new crop of Burlington city councilors took the oath of office on Monday, and one of their first orders of business is to decide whether the seats they just won will continue to exist. Later this month, the council will throw itself into the once-in-a-decade process of redistricting, an exercise in math and geography…
I first learned about zoning regulations — one of the subjects of this week’s cover story — years after I inadvertently violated one. My partner and I needed every inch of living space we could get in and around the 800-square-foot home on Burlington’s Ward Street where I hung my hat for 20 years. We…
Sitting in an unfurnished Burlington studio apartment, 1,500 miles from home, Tessa Cattermole burst into tears. The Kansas native had arrived a few weeks earlier for a $55,700 job as a first-year resident physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center. She had emptied her bank account, sold blood plasma and even pawned a flute…
The pandemic has had a least one good result: accessibility to museum collections. Shelburne Museum is among the institutions that have successfully mounted online exhibitions in lieu of, or in addition to, physical ones. Since the spring of 2020, the museum’s website has presented nine virtual shows, each with an opening in the form of…
It was a Sunday morning inside the boxing studio at Middlebury Fitness, where Diana Herasim had just gotten a membership. She had been there for more than an hour, pounding the hell out of a punching bag. The 15-year-old exchange student from Ukraine came to America in August to attend Middlebury Union High School for…
Have you ever finally escaped the frigid north for a blissful weekend on a sunny beach, only to stand in front of the ocean and wonder what actually constitutes “punk” these days? No bliss in sight. No? Because that would be incredibly stupid, as well as fabulously pointless on multiple levels, right? Wow, harsh but…
To the surprise of many, Netflix is not the first streaming service to have produced a Best Picture winner. That Oscar night honor (and two others) went to CODA, from the relative newcomer Apple TV+. Adapted from a 2014 French-Belgian film and directed by Sian Heder (Tallulah), CODA was a crowd favorite at the 2021…
Businessman and entrepreneur launched the Links at Lang Farm and Champlain Valley Self Storage
When I discovered Poorhouse Pies, I knew moving to Vermont was the right decision. I couldn’t figure out which I loved more — the pies themselves or the experience of buying them on the honor system. Stopping on a quiet road in Underhill, where the bakers kept their rustic self-serve shed, I and other customers…
Generally, I don’t seek out food at gas stations. Notable exceptions include the saag paneer from Rickie’s Indian Restaurant at the South Barre Citgo — and, of course, Fritos and sour candy to power long road trips. I recently discovered another worthy pump-adjacent food destination — which, I’m embarrassed to admit, has operated for about…
Last April, when I found out that Koffee Kup Bakery had abruptly shut down production, I grabbed my keys and burned rubber. With factories in Burlington and Brattleboro, the company made one of my favorite treats: a sugar-blasted Cruller Donut. I raced to snap up as many of the cellophane-wrapped goodies as I could, because…
A mother-daughter duo is bringing a bright new bánh mì spot to Winooski. Tuyet “Snow” Dinh and Mariana LyThach opened Sarom’s Café on March 25 at 10 Manseau Street. The airy, colorful café in the new Parc Terrace building serves a variety of the traditional Vietnamese sandwiches, as well as spring rolls, rice and noodle…
Over the Rainbow Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 The Vermont Youth Dancers return to the stage with Far From Home, in Search of the Emerald City at Jericho’s Mount Mansfield Union High School. A modern reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz’s classic story featuring compelling choreography set to hip-hop hits, the show is a feast…
Just over a month after he resigned as artistic director of the Flynn, Steve MacQueen has been named the new executive artistic director of Circus Smirkus. MacQueen and Circus Smirkus board president Michele Levy confirmed the news by phone on Monday. His official start date is Tuesday, April 26. “My real dream leaving the Flynn…
New North End residents, partners and Pingala Café co-owners Lisa Bergström and Trevor Sullivan are opening a second Pingala in their home neighborhood. Pingala’s new spot is next door to Volcano Asian Cuisine in the building at 1353-1355 North Avenue. The couple hopes to open the café in late April or May. They are in the process of…
