Dec 6-12, 2017
Three Photographers Document Vermont’s Changing Ways of Life; Gun Sense Vermont Moves Forward With New Leader; In Windsor’s Artisans Park, Food Businesses Thrive
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How Three Photographers View a Changing Vermont
In a 1988 music video, Vermont comedy duo Gould & Stearns sang, “Vermont is a third-world country (but the people don’t know).” Provocation? Perhaps. But…
Obituary: Kathleen O’Neil, 1957-2017
Kathleen O’Neil passed away peacefully on November 13 at her home in Warren after a long battle against metastatic breast cancer. She was born in…
Seriously: About Last Week
In this episode, Bryan catches up on the news he missed while out of the office and plays tag with a six-year-old to better understand the process of selecting a buyer for Burlington Telecom.
The Cannabis Catch-Up: Stories This Week From Around the Web
Welcome to the Cannabis Catch-Up! Seven Days wants to keep you up on the latest cannabis news from around the country. Every Friday, we’ll round…
Obituary: Joan M. Cawley, 1930-2017
Joan Marie Cawley (Ardini), 87, passed away peacefully on Wednesday December 6, 2017 after a long illness. Joan was born in Winthrop Massachusetts on June…
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Female Founders Speakers Series [SIV513]
11/29/17: Season Two of the Female Founders Speaker Series kicked off last Wednesday at Hotel Vermont in Burlington with a panel of women leaders from…
Eat This Week, December 6 to 12, 2017: Going in Circles
Sip holiday-themed cocktails and snack on free treats from Miss Weinerz and Sneakers Bistro while shopping for gifts all around the Winooski roundabout. Vendors offer…
Vermont’s Ma & Pembum Crafts Leather Bags With an Altruistic Mission
Four years ago, Phebe Mott had a nightmare: “My kids had been taken, and I didn’t know where,” she says. Sitting in a sunlit booth…
Movie Review: Even Denzel Washington Can’t Make a Case for Legal Drama ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’
Over the past 40 years, Denzel Washington has played so many attorneys (at least five by my count), he could probably pass the bar. He’s…
New Burger Joint Buddy’s Famous Comes to Montpelier
After owning and operating Park Row Café in Waterbury for more than two decades, Jeff Stoudt has left it to open a restaurant in Montpelier:…
Why Does Vermont Often Appear at the Top, or Bottom, of State Rankings?
We’ve entered the season when local news outlets look back on the past year and compile their best-of/worst-of lists. Invariably, those lists mention how Vermont…
Letters to the Editor (12/6/17)
Local Lifeline When you purchase items on Amazon that you could have purchased from your downtown community merchant in Montpelier, Barre or Church Street in…
A Gunshot Survivor Aims to Secure Background Checks in Vermont
The new leader of Gun Sense Vermont understands gun violence better than most. When Clai Lasher-Sommers was 13, her abusive stepfather shot her in the…
Rutland’s Chaffee Art Center Embarks on Expansive Makeover
The Chaffee Art Center in Rutland has been closed since May. But big plans are afoot there, and not just to renovate its historic building…
Questions, and Answers, About ‘The Bachelor: Winter Games’
Earlier this fall, reports began circulating that a spin-off of ABC’s hit reality dating series “The Bachelor” would be filmed in Vermont over the winter….
Album Review: Metamorph, ‘E T H E R’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Each corner of the back cover for E T H E R, the latest album from Montpelier-based tantric-techno duo Metamorph, is…
Album Reveiw: Ol’ Crow & LoKi, ‘ET’
(Milkhaus, digital download) Vermont hip-hop has had a strong run in 2017, with more shows, more artists and more albums than any year in recent…
Seven Questions for Vermont Folklife Center’s Kathleen Haughey
Two years ago, Kathleen Haughey moved from Rhode Island, where she had completed a master’s degree in ethnomusicology at Brown University, to become the education…
Movie Review: Kids Run Wild in the Gritty, Joyous Indie ‘The Florida Project’
Whether it villainizes or sanctifies them, Hollywood seldom offers us convincing portraits of the contemporary poor. Panhandlers and welfare moms apparently don’t fit the aesthetics…
Free Will Astrology (12/6/17)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) As far back as ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece, people staged ceremonies to mark the embarkation of a new ship. The…
Two Notorious Crashes Fuel Marijuana Legalization Debate
Recent news that the drivers in two deadly crashes had used marijuana is adding fuel to the ongoing debate over whether the drug should be…
The New ‘Collected Poems’ Invites Re-Reading Galway Kinnell
A munificently talented and prolific generation of American poets is leaving us. In recent years, we’ve lost Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Maxine Kumin, Daniel Hoffman,…
A Vermont Lawyer Says He’ll Take Payment in Bitcoin
In Vermont, the practice of bartering for goods and services is as old as the hills. But accepting payment in cryptocurrency? That’s just plain futuristic…
New Zine ‘Sniff This BTV’ Showcases Skateboarders
Evan Litsios sounds like an ethnographer when he talks about Burlington’s skateboarding scene. Its culture, he asserts, is built on a foundation of shared stories…
Trivial Pursuits: The Strange Allure of Low-Numbered License Plates
Ever think about your license plate? I don’t. Couldn’t even tell you the number. But apparently, some of Vermont’s most prominent citizens think about it…
Soundbites: Let’s Dance; Syl-ver Lining
Let’s Dance In case you haven’t already heard, Vermont was recently selected as the primary shooting location for “The Bachelor: Winter Games,” an upcoming installment…
Four More Local Albums You (Probably) Haven’t Heard
Vermont’s music scene is an embarrassment of riches. If you find yourself wondering how it’s possible for a state with such a small population to…
Sandi Earle’s Recipes Are Beer-Enhanced
Before Sandi Earle became the executive chef of Champlain College, she cooked at McDonald’s, sliced meat at a bygone deli in the Old North End,…
Ask Athena: Hemorrhoids Are Affecting My Sex Life
Dear Athena, I have hemorrhoids. My boyfriend has a very large penis, and we like to do it doggy style. The last time we had…
Facebook Group Sensi-Babeington Offers a Safe Forum
It’s no secret that the internet is a scary place. It’s home to bullies and scammers of every stripe. It may be slowly sucking the…
Page 32: Five Short Takes on New Vermont Books
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…
How the Burlington Telecom ‘Debacle’ Divided a City Council
Five hours into the Burlington City Council’s November 27 meeting, Councilor Dave Hartnett (D-North District) decided to take matters into his own hands. His colleagues…
Food Businesses Thrive at Windsor’s Artisans Park
At SILO Distillery in Windsor, the bartenders shake up a drink called Patio Punch. It’s a combination of cucumber vodka, pink grapefruit juice and orange…
Burlington’s Cobblestone Deli Changes Location and Name
Cobblestone Deli in Burlington has moved and changed its name, trading its Battery Street location for a storefront at 55 Main Street and becoming Main…
Jamaican Supreme Moves Indoors, on Weekends
For four years, Bilon Bailey has been dishing up curried goat, jerk chicken, beef patties and fried plantains from his Jamaican Supreme food truck. Now…
