Running coach Andrew Tripp greeted the high schoolers who trickled into Norwich University’s field house with a hearty warning: A brutal workout was in store, starting with three laps around the indoor track — 600 meters at full speed. Referring to the final turn, the U-32 coach said, “It’s going to hurt very badly, but…
Lawmakers are hoping Vermont can get the attention of the GPS companies that are routing truck drivers up the long, winding road through Smugglers’ Notch. A bill introduced this month would fine them $2,000 for failing to show drivers that Route 108, which narrows sharply and snakes through rock formations as it passes between Stowe…
Last Thursday Seven Days weathered an internet storm. It was a local problem — a physical outage at a Chittenden County data center with a server that hosts our company’s domain name. Geek-speak translation: bad news for Seven Days and a mess of other companies and organizations, including Vermont Public. For 10 hours our website…
Many critics have lamented the omission of Saint Omer from the list of Best International Feature Film Oscar nominations. This first fiction feature from director-cowriter Alice Diop won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival and is the first film directed by a Black woman to represent France at the…
Human beings just love to categorize things. Eighty percent of human history is just nerds roaming around doing inventories, from grain storage to family lineage to Dave Matthews Band set lists (you sick fucks). Did I make that stat up? Sure. But I’m not wrong, either. We can’t help ourselves. Maybe the most egregious example…
new in theaters BUNKER: A supernatural entity preys on soldiers trapped in a bunker during World War I in this horror flick from director Adrian Langley. Roger Clark and Luke Baines star. (108 min, R. Essex) CLOSE: In this Belgian Oscar nominee, two 13-year-old boys (Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele) feel the strain when…
The Burlington Electronic Department returns to drop some zeroes and ones on Radio Bean this Thursday, February 23. Hosted by Burlington’s top synth dance act, roost.world, this installment includes Beautiful Natural, Bone Bone, Debby Nights, Jewelry Company, Mole and Terminal Floor, with the visual accompaniment of projections from art collective Vanish Works. According to roost.world’s…
On a dance floor bounded on two sides by multiple large LED screens, two incredibly fit dancers face each other and start bouncing from foot to foot. Wearing black bodysuits adorned with long straps that activate with their movements, they bounce in unison through precisely mirrored moves to electronic music, never touching each other. Given…
In 2012, the Current in Stowe hosted a group show called “Migration” that included a single, beaded-heart sculpture by Esperanza Cortés. The Colombia-born, New York City-based artist now has a solo show of 28 works at the gallery, curated by executive and exhibitions director Rachel Moore. Titled “Tierra Dentro” (“inside earth”) — which is also…
Sponsor(s): Department of Public Works Action: Approved Date: 2/15/2023 Attestation of Adoption: Phillip Peterson, PE Public Works Engineer, Technical Services Published: 02/22/23 Effective: 03/15/23 It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows: That Appendix C, Rule and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, Section 19, Parking Rates, of…
As a professional skateboarder, Jordan Maxham has traveled to big cities around the world, doing massive frontside flips and jaw-dropping rail slides. But Maxham grew up in Barre and rose through the ranks of Vermont’s skateboarding scene, cutting his teeth on the half-pipe at South Burlington’s Talent indoor skate park. “Ever since I was 11…
‘Best Bus Driver on Earth’ Jackie Terry is the best bus driver on Earth [“Precious Cargo,” February 8]. I taught kindergarten in Vergennes for 26 years. My students spoke highly of her daily. I was especially impressed by how much out-of-pocket money and time she gave to her charges. Jackie went above and beyond her…
Last month, a New York City subway station made headlines when a work crew painted over a graffiti-covered pedestrian tunnel in Washington Heights. While some locals welcomed the newly white walls — reportedly primed for future murals — others were dismayed by the erasure of artwork that helped define the area’s character. As the Daily…
Well-thumbed monthly magazines, dusty midcentury encyclopedias, graphic novels and costly reference books: They’re all destined to be cleared from the library shelves at Northern Vermont University-Lyndon under a cost-cutting plan to go digital-only. Jay Bona, who has worked in the Lyndon stacks for decades, is one of nine library workers at campuses around the state…
With the number of music submissions Seven Days receives every week, occasionally some records slip through the cracks. Fortunately, the paper employs an AI-powered chatbot to harass and verbally abuse music editor Chris Farnsworth until he collects all the albums he missed. Hoping to salvage what’s left of his dignity from the savage attacks of…
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “What is originality?” asked philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Here’s how he answered: “To see something that has no name as yet, and hence cannot be mentioned though it stares us all in the face.” Got that, Pisces? I hope so, because your fun assignments in the coming days include the following: 1)…
Noon in Skip’s Clock Shop in Randolph sounds a lot like the introduction to Pink Floyd’s 1972 song “Time.” Before the hour strikes, the windowless workshop is quiet except for the steady ticking of the scores of antique timepieces that line its walls and shelves. Then a rising wave of mechanical melodies swells to a…
Dear Reverend, At the beginning of the pandemic, I bought some MDMA. I figured it was the end times, so why not? I never got around to taking it, so it’s just been sitting in my cupboard all this time. Would it still be good? Does MDMA have an expiration date? Molly Hatchet (nonbinary, 29)…
By 9 a.m., Chick’s Market has already been buzzing for hours on its corner in a Winooski neighborhood, as regulars stop in for morning breakfast sandwiches and a friendly word with the woman behind the counter. Pam Vezina, who has owned Chick’s for 24 years, helms the market for most of its operating hours —…
There’s more than one way to do Town Meeting Day now, thanks to pandemic-era changes. A number of municipalities, including Dorset and Norwich, like deciding local issues by mail so much that they will continue to make it an option. Other towns are committing more deeply to in-person decision making. In Panton, for example, this…
With five of 12 city council seats up for election on March 7, Burlington could see yet another swing in the balance of power in city hall. Democrats and Progressives have traded control in recent years, with Dems and their allies currently in the driver’s seat. Progressives hope to recapture an East District seat they…
In the early stages of planning the Black Experience, nuwave Equity Corporation CEO and founder Emiliano Void and poet Rajnii Eddins were a two-man show, “wearing about 986 hats,” Void recalled. The two men shared an outlook, he said: that systemic problems require systemic solutions. They also shared lofty goals, even as the wide-ranging celebration…
In the matter of: Aaliyah Heather Gaboriault Riley Spencer Gaboriault Case #: SV202300002 NOTICE OF INITIAL HEARING ON PEITION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP Notice is hereby given that the Petitioner: Gentilissa L Thibodeau has filed a Petition for Termination of Parent-Child Relationship with the Juvenile Department of the Superior Court in Cochise County regarding…
Bill Burrell has an ambitious goal: He wants to ski the length of Vermont. The 300-plus-mile journey on the Catamount Trail is his attempt to call attention to our warming winters. But Burrell, 56, is worried about one key ingredient — snow. The up-and-down weather this winter could imperil his 18-day trek, which would prove…
Boasting as many restaurants per capita as New York City and 110 festivals per year — including the largest jazz and comedy festivals in the world — Montréal doesn’t slow down in the winter. Fests that just ended include Poutine Week (which lasts for two) and Igloofest, an outdoor electronic dance music festival on the pier…
After a full day of shredding down Killington’s 73 miles of trails, many skiers and riders are ready for a drink. At Still on the Mountain, that drink could be a flight of old-fashioneds served on a wooden tasting board with the mountain’s image carved into it, trails and all. The cocktail bar and restaurant…
I am anti-American — specifically when it comes to those plasticky American slices so far removed from real cheese that they must be labeled “prepared cheese product.” My distaste for the stuff, I recently learned, is shared by Jean-Luc Matecat of Colchester’s Pioneer Lakeshore Café. But after discovering some redeeming qualities to American cheese, he…
At first glance, these ingredients may strike a reader as dissonant: anchovies and apples and vegetables? But when they go into Vermont’s Sobremesa kimchi — locally grown Napa cabbage, carrots and daikon smeared with an intensely flavored seasoning paste and then fermented — the result is symphonic. The flavor starts off sour, as you bite…
Joe Buley, chef and co-owner of the wholesale soup business Joe’s Kitchen at Screamin’ Ridge Farm, returns to the restaurant sector with this week’s opening of Café NOA in Montpelier. Buley and his wife and co-owner, Lori Martin Buley, both 59, named the café using the first initials of their three grown daughters’ names. The…
When he ran into health issues last year, chef Levi Carter started following the low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet to lose weight and get his blood pressure in check. Last Friday, he launched Carter’s Keto Kitchen, a ketogenic-friendly takeout biz in Essex. Dishes such as smoked-chicken Cobb salad, wild mushroom bisque, pan-roasted Faroe Islands salmon, and…
Jack-of-all-trades created mini-lobster boat to fish on Lake Champlain
Marvelous, creative cook managed several large restaurants and went out of his way to help others
Shelburne woman cherished her Scandinavian heritage — and fiercely guarded her Swedish meatball recipe
Update, March 1, 2023: This event was postponed due to a winter storm. It has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. on March 12. Rising crime rates. Police departments struggling with low morale and dwindling ranks. A steady drumbeat of news stories about cops who’ve abused their authority or broken the law. And communities distrustful of…
Magical Melodies Friday 24 & Sunday 26 Newcomer Canadian folk musician Annie Sumi makes appearances at Randolph’s Chandler Center for the Arts and Richmond Congregational Church this weekend. Accompanied by Jill Sauerteig on cello and Neil Whitford on electric guitar, the singer invites audiences into an ethereal, emotional soundscape that evokes the deepest wilderness of…
Dedicated horsewoman earned numerous blue ribbons, cherished every moment on the riding trails
Former UVM researcher was an avid reader and active library volunteer
East Montpelier man loved hunting and fishing and wanted others to appreciate the outdoors as much as he did
