Jun 6-12, 2018
What’s Happening on Burlington’s Waterfront This Summer; Loving Day Vermont Honors Interracial Relationships; Banking on a Sustainable Protein: Crickets
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What’s New This Summer at 16 Burlington Waterfront Spots?
It’s hard to imagine that the curving Lake Champlain shoreline of Burlington Bay was once littered with oil tanks, industrial barges, timber and pollution-spewing smokestacks. A few remnants of the working harbor remain, but the stretch between Rock Point and Oakledge Park is increasingly a place for recreation, restaurants and pleasure boating. Some 30 years…
Memoriam: Alfred “Fred” Fengler
There will be a celebration to honor the life of Alfred “Fred” Fengler on Thursday, June 14, 2018, at 6 p.m. at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington. Please join us for an evening of remembrance as we share stories and memories of Fred, who, through his teaching and curiosity and zest…
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SoundCheck [SIV535]
5/25/18: SoundCheck is a social justice band comprised of a dozen students from nine different Vermont high schools. The teens write their own music addressing topics like pollution, racism and corporate greed. SoundCheck has performed at numerous events and schools during the last year. Eva caught up with the group two weeks ago at Essex…
Sampling Montréal’s Fringe Festival
Montréal in the summer is a beautiful thing. The long parkas disappear and festivals flood the streets — some, like the upcoming Mural Festival, more visible than others. While it may be harder to spot from the bustling streets, the St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival is still one of the region’s best bets for experimental theater.…
A Lyrically Inspired Not-Quite-Interview with the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy
The Decemberists’ front man and primary songwriter, Colin Meloy, is known for his verbosity. He frequently references arcane folklore and literary figures and concocts richly drawn characters, including wayfarers, peddlers, prostitutes and murderers. The Portland, Ore., group’s narrative songs often include vocabulary words no one has seen or used since preparing for the verbal section…
Food Truck Dosa Kitchen Releases a Cookbook
Patrons of Brattleboro’s beloved Dosa Kitchen food truck — and fans of Indian food in general — will be keen to know that married co-owners Nash Patel and Leda Scheintaub have released a cookbook. Dosa Kitchen: Recipes for India’s Favorite Street Food, published by Clarkson Potter, hits shelves this week. The book includes recipes for the dosa,…
Podcast ‘Brown ‘n Out’ Highlights Queer People of Color
Members and allies of the LGBTQ community — or anyone paying attention to local news — will remember the Mister Sister debacle. In February 2017, the owner of a Winooski bar, formerly known as oak 45, renamed it with what many consider a slur against trans people. The venue’s proclaimed target community reacted with outrage, and…
Eat This Week, June 6 to 12, 2018: Wine & Dine for a Cause
For its first annual Vermonters Feeding Vermonters fundraiser, Cork Wine Bar & Market has rallied nearly 30 food businesses from Lamoille County and surrounds to support the Vermont Foodbank. Whet your palate with sparkling wines, plus cheeses and charcuterie from Sage Farm Goat Dairy and Vermont Salumi. Then sample snacks courtesy of Stowe Seafood, Blackback…
Free Will Astrology (6/6/18)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Between 1967 and 1973, NASA used a series of Saturn V rockets to deliver six groups of American astronauts to the moon. Each massive vehicle weighed about 6.5 million pounds. The initial thrust required to launch it was tremendous. Gas mileage was seven inches per gallon. Only later, after the rocket…
Scarlett Letters: How Do We Make Anal Pleasurable for Both of Us?
Dear Scarlett, So, my partner and I have agreed to be open to anal, and she asked me to use a condom, which I don’t mind at all. I’m just wondering how we might go about starting foreplay and getting into the actual act? I want this to be as wonderful for her as possible.…
Theater Review: ‘Urinetown,’ Lost Nation Theater
Don’t be fooled by its title, setting and toilet-plunger ad motif; Urinetown gets no gloomier than any musical comedy’s brief dark before the dawn. If anything, the darkness itself is funny, for this show is about laughing at musicals while enjoying everything they have to offer. Lost Nation Theater’s production serves up big physical humor…
Movie Review: Questionable Choices Set a Survival-at-Sea Tale ‘Adrift’
Shailene Woodley stars in this survival saga that’s based on true-but-screwed-with events. Adrift was adapted from the 2002 book Red Sky in Mourning: The True Story of a Woman’s Courage and Survival at Sea by Tami Oldham Ashcraft. Fun fact: Interviewed by the Chicago Tribune shortly after its publication, Ashcraft made a striking comment about,…
Investing in Sustainable Protein: Crickets
Alan Newman became a leader of the environmentally friendly household-supplies sector when he started Seventh Generation. The self-described serial entrepreneur repeated that prescient success in the early years of the craft beer movement as cofounder of Magic Hat Brewing. Now Newman, 71, is betting the farm, so to speak, on the future of global livestock…
Soundbites: Remains of the Days; Hack and Slash
If you haven’t yet feasted your ears on any of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival’s delectable offerings, you still have plenty of time to binge-listen. But don’t dawdle, because the 10-day festival wraps up on Sunday, June 10. Opening weekend, June 1 to 3, was a blast. My personal highlight was watching New York City-based…
WTF: Why Do You Sometimes Have to Dial 802 in Vermont?
Terry Wendelken called recently with a question that many Vermonters might also have: Why is it sometimes necessary to dial 802 when calling a phone number that’s within Vermont? Wendelken, who makes many calls for his work in Barre, theorized that it’s not necessarily based on where he’s calling. He’s tried phoning towns near Barre,…
Movie Review: ‘RBG’ Explores the Compelling History of Legal Icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I admit, I don’t much like inspirational biopics or their factual counterparts, inspirational biodocs. Where some viewers enjoy basking in the admirable qualities of a real-life hero or heroine, I’d always prefer just to see a good story on screen. So I’m pleased to report that RBG, a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader…
Album Review: Myra Flynn, ‘Never Mind the Mourning’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) On her latest album, Never Mind the Mourning, Myra Flynn teamed up with Grammy-winning producer Jared Lee Gosselin. As he’s done with superstars Macy Gray, Corinne Bailey Rae, India.Arie and others, Gosselin helped the Vermont- and Los Angeles-based Flynn ratchet up her soulful pop tendencies. The singer-songwriter’s deep dive into radio…
Despite Bumps, Winooski Traffic Lane Pilot Rolls Forward
Leonard Gregory sat on his front stoop on Winooski’s hilly Weaver Street last Friday and eyeballed the fresh white paint marking a bike lane the city had officially rolled out just that morning. The change had already generated controversy. “Myself, I think it’s a good idea,” Gregory said evenly. He doesn’t bike but believes it…
Album Review: Mal Maïz, ‘Historia de un Inmigrante’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Mal Maïz are an Afro-Caribbean ensemble with a serious pedigree and the chops to match. They emerged from the long-running Latin Sessions at Burlington’s Radio Bean, a Monday residency led by Costa Rican inmigrante Maiz Vargas Sandoval. A bandleader in the traditional sense, the multi-instrumentalist handles all the arrangements and teaches…
Burlington’s Ruach haMaqom Launches Crow Cohen Events Series
Three months ago, Rabbi Jan Salzman was biking along the Burlington Greenway after hosting a weekly women’s Torah group at her congregation, Ruach haMaqom. As she passed the Lakeview Cemetery, she called out to an old friend, “Hi, Crow!” A fixture of Burlington’s activist lesbian community since the 1970s, Carol “Crow” Cohen was laid to…
Head of the Class: Did Lawmakers Politicize Vermont’s Education Chief?
As Gov. Phil Scott prepares to appoint Vermont’s next education secretary in the coming weeks, some lawmakers and education leaders are questioning anew whether the choice should lie with the governor’s office. Last week, Rep. Dave Sharpe (D-Bristol), outgoing chair of the House Education Committee, said voting in 2012 to transfer appointment authority from the…
Art Review: ‘Jack Rowell, Cultural Documentarian,’ Studio Place Arts
If no one had shown up for a recent opening night reception at Studio Place Arts in Barre, the third-floor gallery would still have had a crowd: the 30 people looking out from the confines of their frames. The subjects of Jack Rowell’s photographs on exhibit are so animated that one suspects they converse with…
On the Brink: Burlington Development Pushes Boundaries on Lakeview Terrace
Dennis Breitigan studied a thin fracture in the parking lot pavement at the top of Depot Street in Burlington. The Naylor & Breen Builders superintendent paused to think, then shouted directions at Josh Masterson, who maneuvered the claw of an excavator to shore up a wall of dirt with a large concrete block. Gazing down…
Loving Day Vermont Celebrates Interracial Relationships
When Sarah Brown began dating Nicholas Glass in 2009, she had never heard of Loving v. Virginia. After several months together, Brown, a white woman, sought to introduce Glass, who is black, to her family members — and some met her with resistance. “Once I processed the situation, and [my] anger, I really wanted to…
Letters to the Editor (6/6/18)
A Question of Psychiatry [Re “Committed,” April 25]: I was disappointed by your willingness to accept the prevailing orthodoxy that forced hospitalization and medications are a panacea for people with psychiatric diagnoses. The scientific research reported in Robert Whitaker’s book Anatomy of an Epidemic clearly demonstrates that popular notions about the nature of mental illness…
Vermont Officials Caution Drivers About Horses on Roads
Make way for your neighbors that neigh. That’s the message state officials and the Vermont Horse Council have for motorists in a new public service announcement. The 30-second video stars Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Anderson and Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts, who wore neon safety vests and led horses as they asked viewers to give the…
Gubernatorial Moneyball: Will Outside Money Flood Vermont Again?
Conventional wisdom has it that the 2018 gubernatorial campaign will be a sleepy affair. Republican Gov. Phil Scott is personally popular and has history on his side. It’s been 56 years since Vermonters rejected a first-term incumbent governor. But potentially uncompetitive doesn’t necessarily mean low-budget. In 2016, Scott and Democratic nominee Sue Minter spent a…
Barfly: A Sandwich and a Cocktail at Deli 126
I’ve eaten hot pastrami sandwiches with a side of coleslaw, a serving of potato salad and a big half-sour pickle. I’ve even had them with French fries, a sacrilege in the Jewish deli world. But, over a lifetime of eating pastrami sandwiches, last Thursday was the first time I paired one with gin. Beefeater. And…
Dedalus, Down Home Kitchen Open Outdoor Dining Areas
The evening of May 29 felt like a “rosé party” at Burlington’s Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, said owner Jason Zuliani. That’s the day the Pine Street business debuted its outdoor deck, giving the South End one more option for al fresco wining and dining. The entrance to the patio is through sliding…
