Flick Chick
The last time Vermont filmmaker Walter Ungerer dabbled with overtly political material, the Vietnam War had not yet ended. Keeping Things Whole, a 1972 quasi-documentary that took six years to complete, looked at the spirit of those turbulent times. Since then the Montpelier filmmaker’s work has focused on introspective features and experimental animated shorts. Sixty-six-year-old…
Hostel Takeover: Sleeping on the cheap in Burlington’s New North End
Dorothy Delaney, the daughter of a former Vermont legislator, remembers lying awake at night, listening to her father and his political friends discussing the presidency of John F. Kennedy. He was very pleased that an Irish-Catholic Democrat had made it to the White House, Delaney says. And he was very inspired by Kennedys Peace Corps…
And The Meat Goes On: Souza’s
Wielding skewers big enough to gore an ox and knives worthy of Benihana, waiters make the rounds at Souza’s, offering diners succulent grilled beef, chicken and lamb. Part performance art, part excellent cooking, the eating experience at Burlington’s new Brazilian restaurant is worth the trip to its under-the-radar lower Main Street location. Souza’s occupies the…
String Shift: Regina Carter
Jazz violinists aren’t exactly a dime a dozen. Though Jean-Luc Ponty and Stephane Grappelli come to mind right away, most casual fans would be hard-pressed to name another. Enter Regina Carter, jazz violin’s hottest practitioner since Ponty broke out from the pack in the ’60s. The nose-ring-sporting Grammy nominee has picture-perfect posture, astounding technique and…
Losing Winn: A Burlington activist dies the way she lived—fighting poverty
Sixteenth-century French essayist and gardener Michel Eyquen de Montaigne once wrote, “I want death to find me planting my cabbages.” Death found Virginia Winn three weeks ago at Hannaford’s in South Burlington, when she suffered a heart attack while defending total strangers — a mother and her two children — who appeared to be in…
Singing the Blues
The news of almost 1000 job cuts at IBM’s massive Essex Junction facility hit the street Tuesday morning, just as this column was being put together. Big news. So big that WCAX-TV interrupted the network game shows with live reports including Gov. Howard Dean taking reporters’ questions on the Statehouse steps. Bravo, nice work! Now…
No Lie?
Word reaches me this week through the customary, loose-lipped channels that one of my readers thinks I ought to take tranquilizers instead of writing columns. I’d agree with him if you could ever get a tranquilizer in this country, but you can’t. Therefore, trembling, I report: In a commencement address at West Point last Friday,…
