Dec 4-10, 2013
In the Footsteps of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Vermont folk singer Rik Palieri Travels the Almanac Trail; Reiber Discusses Drug Policy; A Designer Brings It Home; Chefs Take Turns at Artsriot
Obituary: Bernice Shervington,
1931-2013, Burlington Bernice Shervington, age 82, of 3 Cathedral Square in Burlington received her angel wings on December 2, 2013. She died peacefully in her sleep after a long period of declining health. Bernice was born January 22, 1931 in New York City to Nathaniel Johnson and Louise Singleton Johnson. She enjoyed the simple pleasures…
Obituary: Mark Joseph Larose
Mark Joseph Larose, age 70 years, died Thursday December 5, 2013, at his Lake St. residence with loving family at his side. He is now resting in peace with his beloved Pamela Wilcox Larose. Born in Montgomery, VT on December 26, 1942, he was the son of the late Paul and Blanche (Smith) Larose. He…
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Zumba with Angel [SIV332]
11/30/13: Angel Herrera has been teaching Zumba in the greater Burlington area for five years and claims to be the first male Zumba instructor in Vermont. Born in Puerto Rico, Herrera has amassed a following in Vermont and students follow him from class to class. Eva tried some of his moves at the HammerFit Athletic…
Burlington’s ArtsRiot Pops Up With a Restaurant Incubator
Many food lovers have dreamed of opening a restaurant. Some may have a killer concept. Others just want to know what it’s like to work a line. The ArtsRiot Kitchen Collective isn’t the first space in the country to provide that opportunity to burgeoning restaurateurs, but it’s certainly the first in Vermont, and possibly in…
In the Footsteps of Seeger and Guthrie, Vermont Folk Singer Rik Palieri Travels the Almanac Trail
Rik Palieri has an unusual pen pal. The 58-year-old Vermont folk singer dutifully keeps all of his correspondence from the past 30 years in a finely bound scrapbook. (His wife, Marianna Holzer, is a professional bookbinder.) The collection includes more than 70 messages, yellowing letters both handwritten and typed, and dozens of dog-eared postcards sent…
Seven Days Holiday Gift Guide Part 2: Mind
Attention, shoppers: That conglomerate of events we inclusively call “the holidays” is upon us — not to mention the birthdays of any friends or family members who share December with the baby Jesus. That means it’s time to get crackin’ with the cash, credit cards and charitable donations. Choosing gifts can be hard, but not…
From Global Finance to Intimate Apparel, Andrea King Puts Her Savvy to Work for Women
When Aristelle owner Andrea King was growing up in St. John’s, Newfoundland, she certainly never imagined she’d one day have a lingerie store in Burlington, Vt., and be a bra-fitting expert. Never mind opening a second store, as she did this month, and casually envisioning more in the future. But King is no stranger to…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Johnny Deleon, 20, was thwarted in his attempt to steal hubcaps from cars parked outside a restaurant in Harris County, Texas, where law officers were holding a retirement party. After an officer who spotted Deleon confronted him, about 30 deputies inside the restaurant rushed outside to assist. Noting that Deleon failed to…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes I think too fast and too much. My logic gets sterile. My ideas become jagged and tangled. When this happens, I head off to Turtle Back Hill for a hike through the saltwater marsh. The trail loops around on itself, and I arrive back where I started in about 15…
Burlington’s Japhy Ryder Celebrate 10 Years
The Japhy Ryder of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums is a peripatetic Zen Buddhist poet, based upon the real-life Gary Snyder, who, as Kerouac describes him, answers questions, “right off the bat from the top or bottom of his mind.” The Japhy Ryder of Burlington, Vt., are a jazz-funk band with a “space” trumpet player…
A New School Lunch Cookbook Launches This Week
In farm-to-table-obsessed Vermont, school chefs cooking up delicious meals with local greens and cheeses may seem like old hat. Yet that approach is seen as so novel in other parts of the country that our Farm to School programs have gained national attention. The state’s school and child-nutrition corps, chefs included‚ has decided to distill…
Assessing the Year in Samples and Pitches at the 7D Food Desk
It’s a typical Wednesday morning: I rush into the office, throw my laptop bag down on my desk and give a once-over to whatever has landed there during the previous two days. A newspaper clipping from my boss, a seed catalog, a cardboard box. This last I cut open to find a pair of foot-long…
Meet Rebecca Holcombe, Vermont’s New Secretary of Education
Rebecca Holcombe, Vermont’s new secretary of education, has an ambitious vision: Close the gaps in learning opportunities. Public education, she says, is “the civil rights issue of our time.” But Holcombe herself isn’t the product of U.S. public schools. The daughter of United Nations workers, she went to U.S.-government-run international schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan,…
WTF: What is a Lost Utility? And Why Would You Need to Find One?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
When Sweet Potatoes Collided with Potato Latkes
Hanukkah may be the most anticlimactic of holidays, and never more so than this year. While the Fourth of July, Christmas and New Year’s reliably arrive on the same date each year, Hanukkah, which follows the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, is like the drunk brother-in-law of Jewish holidays. Once a year, it shows up unexpectedly, hangs…
Art Review: “Boldly Patterned and Subtly Imagined,” Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery
Viewed on its own, a work of art will look one way. Viewed in conjunction with other pieces both like and unlike it, that same work might be seen quite differently. This synergistic effect operates at full force in a new group show of about 50 works by 18 artists at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in…
Letters to the Editor
Democracy Rules? Kudos to Ben Eastwood for bringing up a point more important than the issue that was under discussion at the Burlington City Council meeting on October 28 [Feedback, November 6; “Last 7,” October 30; Off Message: “In Burlington City Hall, Eyes on the Ball,” October 29]. The whole point of having such a…
