Jun 5-11, 2013
Getting a Grip on Vermont’s Asian Sex Market; Burlington Magnet Schools at Five years; Rusty DeWees Acts Up in Jail; Foodie Fervor in the South End
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Inside Vermont’s Asian Sex Market
Here’s how I landed the seediest assignment of my journalism career — and wound up naked on a massage table in Williston, turning down sex from a Korean woman in a pink thong. It all started on May 7 when FBI agents and local police raided two Asian massage parlors in Bennington. According to police…
Obituary: Eileen A. Tremper
Notice of Interment Eileen A. Tremper – Interment services for Eileen will be held Monday June 24 11: am in Veterans Cemetery Randolph. She died February 18, 2013 and will be interred next to her husband Carlton Tremper, Jr. Arrangements are under the care of des Groseilliers Funeral Homes Church St. Hardwick.
Obituary: Joann Perkins
Notice of Interment Joann Perkins – Graveside services and interment will take place for Joann Saturday June 29 in Lamoille View Cemetery Johnson at 11: am. Joann died March 8, 2013. Arrangements are in the care of des Groseilliers Funeral Homes Main Street Johnson.
Obituary: Ronald James Campbell
Ronald James Campbell a lifelong Swanton resident died Friday evening June 7, 2013, on his 78th birthday, in the Franklin County Rehab Center with loving family at his side. Born in Swanton on June 7, 1935, he was the son of the late Raymond and Bernadette (Lauzon) Campbell. He graduated from St. Anne’s Academy and…
Programmers Are Hard to Find â?? So Are Profs to Teach Them
Computer programming grads from Champlain College are in demand. It seems like the college can’t turn them out fast enough to fill openings for security experts, video game programmers and web and mobile developers. Unfortunately for Champlain, that also means qualified instructors can be hard to find. Champlain College Assistant Professor John Pile Jr., who…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The longest natural arch in the world is the Fairy Bridge in Guangxi Province, China. Made of limestone, this 400-foot-wide span crosses over the Buliu River. No one outside of China knew about it until 2009, when an American explorer spied it on Google Earth. Let’s make the Fairy Bridge your…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Federal agents tracking a man who claimed he was selling 700,000 stolen identities identified Nathaniel Troy Maye, 44, as their suspect after a witness informed them he received a flash drive containing 50 identities from a man named “Maye” during dinner at a Morton’s steak house. Using data on the flash drive,…
Why Wine Mavens Love Vermont, the Small State With the Sophisticated Palate
Over the past few weeks, all of this happened: A trio of quasi-famous French winemakers trekked to Burlington to pour their wines during a private meal. The head of the Austrian wine marketing board came to Quechee to lead a seven-course dinner with pairings. And a celebrated wine writer drove six hours from New York…
How Are Burlington’s Magnet Schools Doing Five Years In?
Ten years ago, Burlington education officials were considering shutting down H.O. Wheeler and Lawrence Barnes, the Old North End’s two elementary schools. Both were failing, demoralized institutions with declining enrollments and the lowest test scores among the city’s six primary schools. Today, there’s a waiting list for the kindergarten class at both Barnes and Wheeler.…
Work: Intellectual Property Attorney Peter Kunin
Ben & Jerry’s holds a federal trademark on the shape of the fish-shaped fudge pieces in Phish Food ice cream — thanks to Peter B. Kunin. Before it was sold to Unilever, Vermont’s Finest relied on Kunin to protect its quirky brand from imitators. Kunin, 50, is one of Vermont’s most seasoned intellectual property lawyers.…
Vermont Actor Rusty DeWees Performs in the Big House
Rusty DeWees thought he might have to stop the show. The comedian, known throughout Vermont as the muscle-flexing, thong-shilling, redneck Logger, was halfway through an hourlong standup set for 90 inmates at the Caledonia County Work Camp last week when he accidentally sparked a near riot. DeWees had already performed two shows that day at…
WTF: What’s Humpty Dumpty Doing on Top of a Building in Colchester?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Art Review: Gail Salzman
Water is the theme but not the medium of Gail Salzman’s sensual solo show of abstract paintings currently at the BCA Center. The veteran Vermont artist is here conducting a “metaphorical investigation of water’s seen and unseen influence on our lives,” according to a wall text introducing her show “Soundings.” Most of the 10 large-scale…
Letters to the Editor
Different Drummer Gretchen Parlato just needs to get herself another drummer or tell him to play the brushes instead [“Finding Her Voice,” May 29]. His ticketyticketytickety loud rim strikes interfere horribly with her beautiful singing. James Dylan Rivis Montpelier Dutch Treat? Interesting piece about the good life in the land of Hans Christian Andersen [Last…
Trying Out the New South End Truck Stop
“We’re running out of food.” That was the word at 7 p.m. last Friday from Felix Wai, one half of the ArtsRiot team and an organizer of the South End Truck Stop. Wai’s looming problem was both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, what is a food-truck event without any, well, food?…
Dumpstaphunk’s Ivan Neville Talks Funk, Family
New Orleans’ Dumpstaphunk are an all-star band of sorts, featuring a funkdafied gumbo of ace Crescent City players, including drummer Nikki Glaspie (Jay-Z, Beyoncé) and the two-pronged, low-end thump of bassists Tony Hall (Dave Matthews) and Nick Daniels III (Neville Brothers, Cyril Neville). It also boasts a pair of Nevilles, guitarist Ian and keyboardist Ivan…
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South End Truck Stop [312]
5/31/13: Hundreds of people crowded into the parking lot behind 400 Pine Street on Friday evening to sample the food, drinks and art at the 2nd South End Truck Stop hosted by ArtsRiot. This weekly food truck rally will be held every Friday from 4:30-9pm through November. The event was so popular that long lines…
