Jul 24-30, 2013
With Three Wyeths, the Shelburne Museum Invites Viewers to Shift Perspectives; Jason Nokes’ Imperfect Past; Disability and the Divine, In Photos; A Thinking Person’s Beach Book; BBQ Competitors Feels the Heat
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With Works by Three Wyeths, the Shelburne Museum Invites Viewers to Shift Perspectives
Death. Danger. Dizziness. Those are key concepts in the optical roller coaster that is “Wyeth Vertigo,” a highly stimulating exhibit at the Shelburne Museum this summer. And if the name “Wyeth” calls to mind only “that painting with the woman crawling up the hill,” you probably haven’t seen it yet. There is so much more…
Obituary: Clinton “Calhoun” Deo
Clinton “Calhoun” Deo, age 88 years, a lifelong resident of the Isle La Motte Community, died from natural causes Sunday, July 28, 2013, at the Northwestern Medical Center. Born at home in Isle La Motte, he was the son of the late Minnie Bushway. He attended schools in Isle La Motte and on August 19,…
Artist Rod MacIver Fought a Bogus Shelburne Traffic Stop and Won. Now He Wants Damages.
Rod MacIver had a lot on his mind when he was stopped for running a red light on Route 7 in Shelburne last December. The painter and writer was preparing to open Heron Dance Wild Nature Art Gallery in Winooski, and his latest book — a collection of his artwork he had spent thousands of…
Ruby Course, Code Camp and Conference Coming Soon
If you live in the Burlington area and you want to learn to code, you’re in luck. There are not one, but two programming classes in the next couple weeks geared toward beginners. And the second annual Burlington Ruby Conference is also right around the corner. Want to learn Ruby on Rails? This Introduction to…
Boozin’ and Cruisin’: Should Vermont Lower Its Legal Limit?
Sanders says he’s ramping up his leadership PAC, Progressive Voters of America, with the goal of promoting like-minded candidates throughout the country.
Much Ado About Nothing
If you yearn for an old-school Hollywood romantic comedy, a new screen version of Much Ado About Nothing is reason to celebrate. When Shakespeare created the fast-talking Benedick and Beatrice, he practically wrote the template for the screwball setup of a gent and a dame who spar playfully (and sometimes angrily) to hide their true…
The Conjuring
James Wan’s 2004 breakthrough, Saw, was the definition of torture porn. His latest, on the other hand, is simply torture. There’s a reason so many of The Conjuring’s reviews have described it as a throwback to horror films of the 1970s. The script by Chad and Carey Hayes shamelessly appropriates tropes and motifs from a…
Joe Adler, Music Booker Extraordinaire, Outdoes Himself With Precipice II
At Radio Bean, one man is responsible for all the sounds bouncing off the walls of the eclectic Burlington venue. He can usually be found craning over the PA system or passing around the tip bowl, an unassuming figure with a fondness for wide-collared shirts and, until recently, a wild black mane. Joe Adler, 38,…
Vermont Kids Pick Up Programming Skills at Young Hacks Academy
Young Hacks Academy, a new computer programming camp for kids, wrapped up its first summer sessions last week at Colchester High School. The day camp offerred two week-long programs in July that attracted 58 kids, ages 10-12, representing 17 Vermont schools. The goal? To show campers how fun it can be to create using computers,…
An Artist With Neuromuscular Disease Uses Her Body to Create Spiritual Erotica
Jocelyn Woods is having a love affair with the divine — and wants to share her spiritual ecstasy with the world through her art. On the surface, it would be easy to assume that her “lover” has not been particularly kind or generous to her. Woods, 27, was born with a rare degenerative neuromuscular disease…
Meet Some of Vermont’s Top BBQ Contenders
In 2009, the Massachusetts barbecue team I Que made headlines as one of the first northeastern teams to be named grand champion at the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue. That event is the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, Grammys and Tonys of competitive barbecue, all rolled into one extravaganza that takes place each October in…
Gallery Profile: ZoneThree, Middlebury
“Sleep with your art.” That’s the tagline of ZoneThree, Rachel Baird’s salon-style modern art gallery in Middlebury. The implication is twofold: Consuming art should be an intimate experience; and don’t just browse the paintings and other works on display — buy them. Baird knows the pleasures of living amid great artwork. ZoneThree isn’t just a…
A Night at Montpelier’s Cheap Thrills Records Club
It’s 6 p.m. on a warm, sunny evening on Langdon Street in downtown Montpelier. Inside Buch Spieler Music, record store manager Knayte Lander is adding up the day’s receipts, but his day hasn’t ended yet. It’s the one night a week Buch Spieler stays open after hours — unofficially — for a meeting of the…
Book Review: The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan
Publicity copy describes the first novel from Burlington journalist Stephen P. Kiernan as “Michael Crichton meets The Time Traveler’s Wife.” That pitch suggests painfully cynical demographic targeting: science stuff for the gentlemen; tragic romance for the ladies! Given the marketability of the combination, it’s no surprise that 20th Century Fox has already bought film rights.…
Surveying Vermont’s New Crop of Wine Bars
The wine bar may be old hat in urban areas, but in Vermont it is still barely charted territory. Burlington’s pioneering Wine Works, which opened in 1999, was ahead of its time but soon transformed itself into a more conventional bar — and changed its name accordingly, to Drink. Since then, local restaurants have emerged…
ECHO AfterDark Premieres its Pop-Up Gastronomy Series
The pop-up restaurant trend seemed to have slowed down this year — until now. Tuesday, July 23, saw the debut of the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center’s tastiest addition yet to its ECHO AfterDark series for adults. The dinner for 60 people had a Provençal theme and seven courses priced at $60, excluding wine…
Letters to the Editor
All-Weather Symphony I would like to make a clarification to last week’s “State of the Arts” article entitled “Burlington Ensemble to Bring Summer Serenades to Shelburne Farms and Other Venues.” The Vermont Symphony Orchestra was not “rained out” for the past two years, as stated, but rather “rained in.” We performed for 1500 people at…
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Bagpipes at the Boathouse [318]
7/17/13: For the first time ever, the sound of bagpipes rang through the air at the Auer Family Boathouse (AKA Charlie’s Boathouse) in Burlington on Wednesday night. St. Andrew’s Pipe Band of Vermont, the longest continuously operating pipe band in the state, brought the entertainment and the neighborhood turned out to listen. Charlie Auer and…
