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The Health & Fitness Issue: Cross-Country Skiing in Vermont; Herbalist Guido Masé; Belly Up to the Juice Bar; Vermont’s Dearth of Child Psychiatrists
Obituary: Shawn Ellis Turner
Shawn Ellis Turner, age 23 years, died early Sunday morning January 18, 2015, in the Northwestern Medical Center. Born in Saint Albans on June 6, 1991, he was the son of Sherry Machia and Lester Turner, Jr. He attended Missisquoi Valley Union High School and for a time worked on his grandfather, Thornton Machia’s farm…
Taste Test: ArtsRiot Kitchen
On a recent, subzero Tuesday night, a family of four, plus a couple of friends, straggled into a Burlington bar. A young girl — maybe 4 or 5 — was tucked into a pink hat, mittens and puffy jacket. A stuffed animal dangled from her grasp as she shuffled to a table. It was not the…
Obituary: Donny Roy Clark Sr., 1961-2015, Burlington
Donny Roy Clark Sr., 53, of Burlington died unexpectedly in his home on Sunday January 18th 2015. He was born in Burlington on March 30th 1961, to Eugene Clark Sr. and Beatrice (Rouille) Clark. Donny was proud to be an employee of Lane Press from 1983 to 2009. He loved to be outdoors, fishing and…
Obituary: Tony Carl Richey, 1946-2015, Winooski
Tony Carl Richey, 68, of Winooski passed away peacefully on Thursday January 15. Tony was born in Gilmer, Texas on December 24th, 1946. Tony was most at home outside. He loved animals, especially dogs and horses prompting him to ride everything under the sun. Tony attended Hardin-Simmons University in Texas and served in the US…
Obituary: Arthur Frank Green
Art Green died of natural causes on Dec. 19, 2014, one day after his 84th birthday. He was surrounded by his family, his primary focus in life. He was born on Dec. 18, 1930, in Somerville, Mass., to Arthur and Alice (DePugh) Green. He served in the US Army during the Korean War, and later…
Obituary: Donald John Galica
Donald John Galica, age 72 years, a resident of this area for over 30 years, died late Wednesday evening January 14, 2015, in Redstone Villa with his wife Mary Ann at his side after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts on June 12, 1942, he was the son of the late…
Obituary: Gregory Brigante Sexton, 1992-2015, Colchester
Gregory Brigante Sexton, 22, of Malletts Bay Ave. entered eternal life during the early morning hours of Monday, January 12, 2015 due to complications from epilepsy, at his home and in the presence of his family. “Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said to him,…
American Sniper
‘Tis the season for critics to pick apart award contenders “based on a true story” and point out places where their creators bent the truth or left it out altogether. You’ve read the rumblings, for example, about how The Imitation Game gave short shrift to Alan Turing’s tragic last years, and witnessed the huffing and…
Talking Warhol With Anthony Grudin
In a January 4 article in the New York Times, writer Ted Loos noted that some 40 Andy Warhol exhibits “will be flooding university art museums and institutions” this year. One of them is the Middlebury College Museum of Art, which has on view 10 silk-screen prints recently donated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for…
New Folks Buy Old Spokes
The owner of Burlington’s Old Spokes Home was worried when Bike Recycle Vermont moved into a basement across the street. How could two bike shops, just 160 yards apart, survive? Glenn Eames and Bike Recycle founder Ron Manganiello made a deal: Bike Recycle, which refurbishes and sells old bikes, would only cater to very low-income…
All the World’s a Movie Screen in Argentine Play
The term “movie theater” gets a new meaning in the latest work from Argentine writer-director Mariano Pensotti. Cineastas, which has earned enthusiastic reviews from Santiago to Toronto, makes its New England debut at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts this weekend and is certain to dazzle audiences with its audacious hybridization of stage and…
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Vermont Finders Keepers [SIV383]
1/10/15: Keith Mailhotte started Vermont Finders Keepers in 2012. Since then he has carefully carved about 350 eggshells and hidden them all over the state. Keith posts clues on his Facebook page and a group of avid hunters rush to be the first to find this eggsquisite prize. Eva met some fanatic finders and went…
Northern Stage Debuts New Plays
For 17 years, Northern Stage has been presenting plays at the 245-seat Briggs Opera House in White River Junction. With more than 100 productions under its belt and an annual attendance of some 24,000, the theater company is in no danger of resting on its laurels. Northern Stage continues to innovate, not just as a…
Selma
The problem with too many historical dramas is that they present foregone conclusions. We all know who won that war or that struggle for hearts and minds, even if we’re fuzzy on how. Give us a staid, pictorial depiction of events, and we tune out. At their best, though, historical dramas preserve the ragged volatility…
WTF: What’s Wrong With Cambridge’s Wrong-Way Bridge?
Hours before the end of 2014, a fatal highway accident refocused attention on a notorious section of Vermont Route 15 in Cambridge. The December 30 accident, in which a car plunged into the icy Lamoille River, occurred just a few hundred yards from the “Wrong-Way Bridge,” a nickname used even by local journalists and police…
Shot in the Dark: Montpelier’s Next Gun Battle
Weeks after 20 children and six teachers were massacred at a Connecticut elementary school two years ago, Sen. Phil Baruth (D-Chittenden) introduced legislation to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition in Vermont. But after five days of intense pushback from the state’s fervent Second Amendment supporters, the Senate majority leader stood down and withdrew his…
Squimley and the Woolens, No Shame in the Cow Community
(Self-released, digital download) 2014 was a busy year for local four-piece psychedelic-funk-jam band Squimley and the Woolens. Their debut 10-track album, 10,000 Fire Jellyfish, dropped in April. In the months following, they gigged heavily and yet still found time to record and release a follow-up record, No Shame in the Cow Community, in mid-December. All…
Vermonters Kick and Glide Into a Fitter 2015
Shelburne’s Dave Connery is a fitness freak. He’s won multiple triathlons throughout the state. He placed sixth in the 2014 Vermont 50 Mountain Bike race, scorching the course in four hours and 16 minutes, and finished the Ironman Lake Placid in less than 11 hours, among other accomplishments. But for the activity he really geeks…
Chef Contos Kitchen & Store Launches Pop-Up Suppers
2014 was a fairly slow year for pop-up dining in Vermont, but in 2015, Courtney Contos will revive evanescent eating with a series of one-night dinners at her Chef Contos Kitchen & Store in Shelburne. The monthly dinners seat a maximum of 10 guests. The chef mostly cooks in a teaching capacity these days, leading…
Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Highlight Spice on Snow
Imagine all the work it takes for a small nonprofit to launch a successful music festival. Coordinating acts and venues. Dealing with marketing and PR. Putting up money and taking on risk. Now imagine launching a music festival in Vermont in the dead of winter. To get people to the shows, you have to overcome…
Letters to the Editor (01/14/14)
Press On For the courage and conscience of your stories, your responsible coverage of problematic and controversial issues, I write to thank you for your commitment to preserve and perpetuate the freedom of the press. Whether practiced here in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, which can and often does feel remote from the larger world,…
Derek Siegler, These Nameless Days
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Songwriter Derek Siegler is best known as the front man for local rockers Dr. Green. With that group, the singer inhabits something of a throwback persona. Though not simplistic, Dr. Green’s music harks back to a simpler era of rock, divesting songs that rely on raw riffs and equally raw emotion.…
UVM’s Clinical Trials Aid Medical Science — and Vermonters
The very phrase “dengue fever” conjures up grim visions of sweat-soaked safari suits and merciless mosquitoes. Though rarely fatal, dengue fever is a major issue in global health, infecting as many as half a billion people every year. This incurable viral disease, also called “breakbone fever” for the severe aches it causes in sufferers, typically…
Soundbites: Seven Steps to Better Band Press Releases
Every few weeks or so, I’m approached by some local musician or another looking to crack the mysteries of band promotion. While the specific questions vary and touch on myriad aspects of band-press relations, the bottom line is always roughly the same: How do I get the media to notice me? It’s a valid and…
Juice Couture: In Burlington, It’s Cool to Drink Your Vegetables
Health-conscious Queen City residents have been juicing for years. Now, downtown is home to at least three bars offering cold-pressed raw juice, and several others can be found in the city’s South End as well as South Burlington, two of which opened last fall. Then there’s the Juice Bar, which pops up at farmers markets…
Free Will Astrology (01/14/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never make anything that lasts forever. Nor will I or anyone else. I suppose it’s possible that human beings will still be listening to Beethoven’s music or watching “The Simpsons” TV show 10,000 years from today, but even that stuff will probably be gone in five billion years, when…
Using Yoga as Post-Trauma Therapy
Most people have heard of the physical benefits of yoga. The word means “union” in Sanskrit, and the ancient practice of combining breathing and physical postures builds core strength, flexibility and alignment. As a fitness activity, yoga is comfortably in the mainstream now, with more than 25,000 yoga (and Pilates) studios in the United States…
For Psychiatric Help, Vermont’s Children Must Wait
Dr. David Rettew’s office has a flying Lego machine and a three-story pink and purple dollhouse, but his work is far from childish. The toys help transform a potentially scary examination room into a welcoming space for his patients — young Vermonters with psychiatric needs. Rettew is a tall, bear-like man, but his friendly demeanor…
Herbalist Guido Masé Cross-Pollinates Modern Medicine and Traditional Remedies
When Guido Masé was a teenager, he had what he remembers as a life-changing revelation. One day it struck him that the two seemingly opposed forces pulling on his life — his fascination with mystical spiritual traditions and his interest in chemistry, biology and other hard sciences — weren’t diametrically opposed at all. Instead, he…
One Year Later: Was Opiate Addiction Addressed?
One year ago, Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State address to what he called Vermont’s “opiate epidemic.” He described a “crisis” that had ensnared thousands and overwhelmed the system designed to help addicts get clean. The speech received national media attention and included many proposals — to increase treatment options for…
Work: Kel Rossiter, Ice-Climbing Guide
Name: Kel Rossiter Town:Burlington Job: Rock- and ice-climbing guide, Adventure Spirit Kel Rossiter proves that a person can make work out of play. He helps people ascend mountains, ice covered or not. He transports clients to Smugglers’ Notch, the Adirondacks and the White Mountains and teaches them how to place stable screws and prevent “whippers,”…
News Quirks (01/14/15)
Curses, Foiled Again Fugitive Jacob Moore, 25, tried to divert police attention from his home, where officers were preparing to execute a warrant, by calling in a bomb threat to an elementary school in Hayden, Idaho. Moore forgot to turn off his caller ID, however, allowing authorities to trace the call to his phone and…
Insult Comedian Bianca Del Rio Comes to Stowe
Pageant queens, old-school club queens, goth queens and fishy queens all have their own performance styles. Drag artistes are a diverse lot, but only Bianca Del Rio would sum up her style, as she did for the New York Times, as “erotic clown.” The razor-witted insult comic, 39, could pass for a filthier Don Rickles…
The Education of Shap Smith
Shap Smith, the mild-mannered Speaker of the Vermont House, turned heads on the opening day of the legislative session last Wednesday, when he delivered an unusually passionate, 30-minute address to lawmakers who had just reelected him to be their leader. Tracing his family’s journey from suburban Connecticut to rural Wolcott, the 49-year-old attorney weaved together…
Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble Premieres Local Works
Vermont composers of new chamber music have cherished a singular resource for the past 27 years: the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Led by clarinetist Steve Klimowski, an affiliate artist at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, the ensemble specializes, according to its website, in performing “rarely heard 20th- and 21st-century chamber music and works…
I Care About My Girlfriend, But My Desire to Make Love Is Diminishing
Dear Athena, I started seeing a woman who is three years younger than me in April 2013. We hit it off great, and have great chemistry. We have been living together since July 2014. Everything is going great. We have a nice home. We have a group of friends that we do a lot of…
Local Chef Shares Ethiopian Culture at South End Kitchen
Fans of Ethiopian food have gotten to know Alganesh Michael over the past year as one of the two chefs behind Authentic Ethiopian Nights at ArtsRiot in Burlington. Now Michael is joining forces with another Pine Street business to share her native culinary skills. On Saturday, January 31, she’ll debut a series of classes at…
New Year, New Restaurants, and One Less Market
Since Lisa Curtis opened Sweet Simone’s on Friday, January 9, she’s had a problem. She can’t keep her new full-scale Richmond bakery stocked with homemade bagels. The scones have been going fast, too. And the New York-style crumb cake. “Actually, it’s everything,” Curtis admits. “I can’t keep the case filled. We’re doing much more than…
