Within a half-mile radius of North Street in Burlington, a cluster of small shops sells everything from boxed mac and cheese to homemade macaroni salad, toothpaste to candy, fresh bok choy to frozen camel meat. But beyond the goods on their shelves, these small markets deliver another, less tangible good. At Dot’s Market & Deli…
Several Vermont lawmakers have signed on to a House bill that would require retailers to accept cash as payment, saying Vermonters who cannot or chose not to pay with plastic could otherwise lose their purchasing power. “Not everyone has the abundance to be making credit card payments,” said Rep. Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (P/D-Burlington), a cosponsor of H.527,…
Foreign intelligence specialist worked under nine U.S. presidents and loved travel and the natural world
Brandon man who often served others was known for his love of the outdoors, willful spirit and pun-filled humor
50-year mathematics educator was committed to his community and made friends everywhere he went
Burlington native will be remembered for her kindness and generosity to all people and animals, especially cats
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Two local businessmen, both former Republican candidates for office, are buying central Vermont WDEV radio from the Squier family, which has owned it for nearly a century. The sale to Myers Mermel and Scott Milne comes about two months after longtime owner Ken Squier, a racing and radio legend, died at age 88. The two…
New Year, new jazz. The popular Jazz at the Lantern series returns to Stowe’s Brass Lantern Inn this month and will run until summer. (Ah, the summer…) Once a month, the inn doubles as an intimate little jazz club, featuring some seriously talented musicians who make for a classy après ski. The series kicks off…
Vermont legislators returned to Montpelier last week eager to help the state recover from July’s floods, rebuild with resilience and prevent future catastrophes. They quickly introduced several flood-related bills, and others are in the works. Some measures are narrowly focused, such as a proposal by Rep. Peter Anthony (D-Barre City) to compel redesign of a…
(Equal Eyes Records, digital) The Vermont hip-hop scene is a strange construct: a collection of stylistically diverse micro scenes, united by the sheer fact of existing in such a sparsely populated state. While hip-hop in the 802 is cross-generational, younger rappers have been making a lot of the noise of late, from former 99 Neighbors…
(Self-released, digital) During the kickoff of “Dicks,” the third track on the Obvious Tells’ latest LP, Push Comes to Shove., singer Jessica Amelia makes a bold proclamation: “You have to stop having strong emotions about penises,” she says as drums rumble in the background, building toward an explosion of pounding hardcore music. “Like, we, as…
As the executive director of a nonprofit that assists older Vermonters, Megan Humphrey sends a lot of mail. So she was thrilled this year when she found gold-embossed stamps online at a third of the price she’d pay at a post office. In mid-December, Humphrey enlisted volunteers to stick the stamps onto 1,600 pieces of…
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos was mainly an art-house favorite until his 2018 historical comedy The Favourite won a slew of awards. Now he brings us Poor Things, an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name. The movie won the Venice International Film Festival’s Golden Lion and, on Sunday, two Golden Globes: Best…
Memories help us make sense of ourselves. But because they are always tinged with subjectivity, memories can also tempt us to distort the truth into fairy tales of our own making. In Maria Hummel’s new novel, Goldenseal, two 70-year-old friends meet after a long estrangement in a grand Los Angeles hotel that has seen better…
new in theaters THE BEEKEEPER: Jason Statham plays a former clandestine operative who goes on a vengeful rampage in this action thriller from David Ayer (Training Day). With Emmy Raver-Lampman and Josh Hutcherson. (105 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Paramount) THE BOOK OF CLARENCE: In this comedic take on a biblical epic, directed by Jeymes Samuel…
Monkton composer, arranger and musician Kyle Saulnier is immediately recognizable: His head is shaved, and he sports a wildly untrimmed salt-and-pepper beard. He manages to look both his age — 43 — and far older. “I had a gorgeous ‘Jew fro,’ but I started losing it in grad school. It migrated. Now it’s on my…
Helen Lyons is a dramatic soprano with a big voice. Originally from Williston and now a resident of Ferrisburgh, she has had an international career in opera, soloing with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in China and performing lead operatic roles at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the Bronx Opera in New York…
Ivan Klipstein likes to make art of the people, by the people and for the people. So just days before Christmas, the 48-year-old Burlington cartoonist gifted some of his art to the residents of the city he’s called home for a dozen years. It came in the form of a 13-month calendar written in English…
Three days a week, Jonathan Castro heads to the library of Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans to learn what he calls “high-class words.” In a humble classroom where self-help and fantasy volumes line the walls, the 33-year-old is acquiring the fundamental reading and writing skills he never mastered growing up. Castro is quick…
CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan. 19): In 2024, I predict you will be blessed with elegant and educational expansion — but also challenged by the possibility of excessive, messy expansion. Soulful magnificence could vie for your attention with exorbitant extravagance. Even as you are offered valuable novelties that enhance your sacred and practical quests, you may be tempted…
In re ESTATE of Annee Lamaje NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: Annee Lamaje, late of South Burlington. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of…
Dear Reverend, My wife and I have been married for 46 years. I still would love to have sex with her, but there are some issues. After she retired, she gained quite a few pounds. She refuses to have sex on a blanket on the floor, and the only position we can have sex in…
Death doesn’t take a holiday. Nor, it turns out, do the hardworking staffers who handle the obituaries in Seven Days. You’ll spot 26 death notices in this week’s issue — all published online since December 20, when Seven Days started its annual end-of-year break. While most of us were relaxing between Christmas and New Year’s,…
Didn’t get a puppy for Christmas? It’s not too late. Especially if you prefer one that definitely won’t pee on the carpet. All kinds of canines await their new best friends at Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington, and they’re as low-maintenance as they are cute. These “Rescue Dogs” are constructed of wood and…
Clark Derbes is not a mathematician, but geometry might be his muse. The Louisiana-born artist began to make a literal mark on Burlington some 20 years ago when his bold, blocky designs appeared on electrical boxes around town. (It was a commission, not tagging.) Since then, his distinctive public art has appeared on buildings, sidewalks…
Not That Old I doubt I am the only septuagenarian who has a problem with the cartoon depiction of a gent of our demographic that accompanies the Ask the Reverend column in the December 27 issue of Seven Days. The query of the week, from a 72-year-old man having some difficulty finding a suitable someone…
In 1986, hunted by a serious drug addiction, country music legend and notorious bad boy Waylon Jennings covered the song “Will the Wolf Survive?” by the Chicano rock group Los Lobos. Jennings named an album after the song and used it to speak to kicking a cocaine habit, crafting a version suffused with a yearning…
When Lost Nation Brewing opened in Morrisville in 2013, it quickly carved out a place in the New England beer canon with its beloved gose, Vermont Pilsner and Mosaic IPA session beers. And thanks to its prime location between the Alchemist brewery in Waterbury (now Stowe) and Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro Bend — not…
Living in a resort town has its perks. Sure, we grumble as high season kicks in, when navigating Stowe’s Main Street seems all but impossible and grocery shopping becomes a contact sport. But it sure is nice to reside in a small town with more than its fair share of great dining venues — and…
A pair of longtime Burlington industry professionals, Maura O’Sullivan and Sam Tolstoi, have partnered to open a small restaurant on the rotary in Burlington’s South End. After a complete renovation of the 1,100-square-foot space at 616 South Willard Street, they expect to launch Majestic this spring. The name nods to the spot’s previous incarnation as…
Business partners Casimiro De Jesús Martínez and Cayetano Santos plan to open El Comal at 28 Taft Corners Shopping Center in Williston in February. Both are natives of Oaxaca, Mexico, who came to Vermont in 2010. Their new restaurant is named for the traditional clay or cast-iron griddle used in foundational Latin American cooking techniques…
The wood-fired oven at the former Myer’s Bagels location at 377 Pine Street in Burlington will heat back up this spring. Starting on April 1, chef-owner Sean Richards will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner at Queen City Café. The Myer’s team had considered keeping the space when it moved to Shelburne Road and opened Myer’s…
Frost Things First Friday 12 Visitors snowshoe, ski or walk across the flame-lit grounds of Woodstock’s Billings Farm & Museum at Torchlight Snowshoe, meeting park rangers and learning about local wildlife and history along the way. The evening ends with complimentary s’mores and cozy drinks around the firepit. Bringing your own headlamp or flashlight is…
