Aug 21-27, 2013
Burlington Code Enforcers Have Your Landlord’s Number; Vermont Police Tackle Bias; P.E. Gets Out of Dodgeball; the Show Sherpa Pitches Tents; Review Flannel and Roost
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Burlington’s Code Enforcers Have Your Landlord’s Number
Foil-covered smoke alarms. Smashed toilet bowls. Electrical wiring running up the outside of a building to an illegal residence. Bill Ward has seen it all as director of Burlington’s Code Enforcement Office. The 48-year-old was a Queen City police lieutenant before he became the chief enforcer of the city’s rental housing standards. Walking the beat…
Thomas Richard Marian Larkin
Burlington On August 9, 2013, at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Kimberly (Smith) Larkin and Robert Larkin welcomed a baby boy, Thomas Richard Marian Larkin.
Obituary: Francis A. “Butch” Duprey
Francis A. “Butch” Duprey, age 60 years, died late Friday evening August 23, 2013, in the Northwestern Medical Center with his loving family at his side. Born in St. Albans VT on May 10, 1953, he was the son of Francis and Myrtle (Martell) Duprey. He graduated in 1971 from Bellows Free Academy – St.…
Obituary: Hon. Thomas M. Crowley,
1935-2013, Burlington Hon. Thomas M. Crowley, 77, a lifelong resident of Burlington and wellknown throughout the State of Vermont died peacefully with loving family by hisside on Saturday, August 17, 2013. Thomas was born in Burlington, VT on September 30, 1935, the son of G.Bernard and Ila Mae (McKenzie) Crowley. Tom graduated from Burlington High…
Pyramid Scheme: Vermont’s Congressional Delegation Disagrees on Aid to Egypt
After a military coup, Sanders opposes cutting off aid to Egypt.
Seasoned Traveler: Candela Tapas Lounge
“I’m so sorry.” The host is profusely apologetic when we arrive for a 7:30 reservation at Candela Tapas Lounge and the table isn’t free. It should be a sleepy Tuesday night in Hanover, N.H., but Candela is packed and boisterous. Though we don’t care a whit, the host generously offers us free drinks — a…
Four More Vermont Albums You Probably Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up. Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure. To that end,…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again To celebrate getting permission to remove the ankle monitor that held her in house arrest in Osceola County, Fla., Angela Estrella, 37, rented a car and headed for New York City. A few hundred miles up I-95, the rental car broke down. When the tow truck sent to rescue her arrived, Estrella…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): An Indian student named Sankalp Sinha has invented the “Good Morning Sing N Shock.” It’s an alarm clock that plays you a song and gives you a small electrical jolt when you hit the snooze button. The voltage applied is far less intense than, say, a Taser, and is designed to…
Gym Class Gets a Makeover
My middle school gym teacher, Mr. Leto, used to buff his bald head to a high gloss. He always had a sly smile and seemed to derive pleasure from the pain he inflicted — whether it was making us run the mile or hurl heavy rubber balls at each other while crab walking on scooters.…
The Show Sherpa Makes Music Festivals Comfy
What shapes your experience of a weekend music festival — that is, besides the music? Weather, traffic, bad acid? Try being unprepared for camping. Did you forget ice? Enjoy those warm cans of Bud Light, bro. Is that a raging thunderstorm on the horizon? Better hope that $25 Walmart pup tent holds up. Did you…
Art Review: “Unbound Vol. III” at ArtisTree Gallery
An exhibit titled “Unbound” might include just about anything, as the word implies a jettisoning of restraints. But in the third annual show of that name at Woodstock’s ArtisTree Gallery, the artworks are confined to a single concept: that of the book. While that frames the definition of “bound,” the “un-” aptly conveys that the…
Book Review: Spiritual American Trash: Portraits From the Margins of Art and Faith by Greg Bottoms
“I take nothing and make more nothing from nothing … it’s just what I have to do.” That statement could be a liberal paraphrase of Genesis 1 or something uttered by a Dadaist. It’s actually the explanation that Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder, aka Frank Van Zant, offered for building five acres of concrete statuary and…
First Bite: Flannel and the Roost, Topnotch Resort
The Vermont-themed restaurant has existed as long as skiers and hikers have dined on salt pork in refurbished barns or sugar shacks in the mountains. But it took a while for restaurateurs to take advantage of the idea. This summer, the “Vermont” concept has come of age. First, Hotel Vermont’s Juniper debuted in Burlington dressed…
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Bread & Puppet Turns 50 [320]
8/18/13: Bread & Puppet Theater celebrates their 50 year anniversary this summer in Glover. Eva attended the Total This and That Circus in Two Parts on Sunday to meet some of the artists and activists.
Letters to the Editor
System Failure Congress is not going to restore funding to Section 8 or stop larger cuts in the future [“Gimme Shelter: In Vermont, Sequestion Leads to Homelessness,” August 14]. The election of more Tea Party Republicans in 2014 and 2016 will be the final nail in the coffin for this entitlement program — at least in…
