Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2013
Can Local Farmers Keep Feeding Burlington In an Uncertain Climate; Good, Bad and Ugly on Church Street; A Night at the Fair With Ke$ha; The Alchemy of Pickling
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Can Local Farmers Keep Feeding Burlington in an Uncertain Climate?
Horns blend with the strings of the kamel n’goni as Afro-funk band Barika rocks out in the Intervale Community Barn. It’s Thursday, and from late June to early September, that means Summervale, a community event designed to draw families to Burlington’s Intervale Center. Parents and kids line up for pizza from American Flatbread. Samples of…
Obituary: Antoinette G. Monte,
1917-2013 WEST PALM BEACH, FL No matter how hard I tried on Saturday, it seemed I couldn’t go fast enough, driving to Kennedy (left BTV at 7:15 and was at the gate by 1:30 despite stopping and traffic) and finally flying to Fort Meyers. When I arrived at Hospice, my Mom was resting comfortably. She…
New Church Street Shop Aims to Spark 3-D Creativity
Blu-Bin founder Dan Riley preparing the company’s new Church Street location. Photo by Taylor Dobbs Next week, a new store on Burlington’s Church Street is set to open offering 3-D printing services to businesses and retail customers for virtually any object they can imagine. Blu-Bin, a startup out of Poultney founded by Green Mountain College…
Hot Mess: An Evening with Ke$ha at the Champlain Valley Fair
It was my first pop concert. I went to see Ke$ha at the Champlain Valley Fair with a glittered-up posse: three girlfriends from college and Seven Days marketing and events manager Corey Grenier, who had braided her platinum hair into cornrows. I wore a skin-tight denim jumpsuit because … why not? We were in it…
Pickling: Harnessing the Transformative Powers of Vinegar
Whenever my grandmother saw my 7-year-old nose stuck in a book, she assumed I was bored and roped me into kitchen projects involving Ball jars, fruit, vinegar and sugar. We canned tomatoes, we made Concord grape jelly (the avalanche of sugar that went into this was horrifying) and we made pickles from my grandfather’s dimpled…
The Brattleboro Farmers Market: A Feast for the Senses for Nearly 40 Years
Every Saturday morning during the summer in Brattleboro, just west of the covered bridge on Route 9, the road typically fills with a crush of cars. They’re headed toward and away from a cluster of tents loaded with seedlings, ice cream, meat, cheese, vegetables and more. It can take a while to find parking at…
Mayer Hawthorne Talks Steely Dan and French Fries
On his new record, Where Does This Door Go, Mayer Hawthorne sheds the fitting but confining “retro soul” label affixed to his previous studio albums, A Strange Arrangement (2009) and How Do You Do (2011). Helmed by famed producers such as Jack Splash, Da Internz, Kid Harpoon and Pharrell Williams, Hawthorne’s latest presents a hodgepodge…
Obituary: Leigh Wren Butler, 1975-2013, Hinesburg
Leigh Wren Butler, 38, of Hinesburg, died on August 5, 2013, in Burlington, Vt. She is survived and terribly missed by her parents, James and Merry Butler of Aiken, S.C.; her maternal grandparents, Ivey and Marjorie Drewry of Huntsville, Ala.; many relatives, dear friends; fellow Phunky Bitches; and her cat, Mr. Pants. She was also…
Saint Michael’s Puts the Focus on First-Generation Students
Sometimes, Michael Bosia says, he likes to “torment” his students at Saint Michael’s College. The political science professor tells them that when he pursued a bachelor’s degree in 1979, one semester at California State University cost him about $60. Even adjusted for inflation, that price tag must sound puny to the students and parents who…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Antoine Jennings covered his head with a Chicago Bulls cap and a skin-tight black skullcap while robbing three suburban Chicago banks of $4500, but then he posted photos of himself wearing the caps on Facebook, using his real name. FBI agents matched the photos to security camera footage of the heists and…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You seem primed to act like a ram, the astrological creature associated with your sign. I swear you have that look in your eyes: the steely gaze that tells me you’re about to take a very direct approach to smashing the obstacles in your way. I confess that I have not…
Work: Eric Hanson, Vermont Loon Recovery Project Coordinator
Listening to Eric Hanson describe the characters he works with, you might think he directed a reality TV show. Among them he counts stunningly beautiful couples who summer on the lake, Casanovas who bust up long-term relationships and fathers who shun their mates to rear their offspring solo. When he shares these stories, Hanson says,…
What Are Those Reflective Things on Top of the Vermont House?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Book Review: I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman
Howard Norman’s writing is compelling in its restraint. That may sound like trumped-up literary-critic praise and not an honest reaction: Who really likes restraint? It’s a withholding of something, not a giving. But it’s also a mystery. The dry, elliptical utterances hinting at hidden depths of feeling; the terse precision of word choice; the rhythmic…
Gallery Profile: Walker Contemporary
Stephanie Walker says she ended up in the art world by chance. An Essex, Vt., native, she studied sociology in college and got her first gallery job, in the ’90s, because she happened to be savvy with computers. “I tripped and fell in,” she says with a smile. But the 38-year-old art dealer and owner…
Letters to the Editor
Hateful Letter Last week’s letter in response to a story about Burlington City Councilor Rachel Siegel offended at least a few readers. Running it was a tough call, but in the end, we decided the views expressed therein perfectly illustrate what Siegel went into politics to fight. I just got finished reading the Feedback pieces…
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Camp Outright [321]
8/22/13: The 3rd Annual Camp Outright is organized by Outright Vermont in partnership with the Common Ground Center in Starksboro. Open to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and allied (LGBTQQA) youth, there are traditional summer camp activities with a queer twist. Eva visits for the afternoon to meet some of the campers. Related Stories
