Underhill woman lived a life full of friends, family, love, laughter and music
Loving husband and proud father is remembered as faithful, generous and humble
Lawyer, educator and activist found his true calling in writing and loved his family above all else
Entrepreneur and restaurateur had a huge heart and simply loved having fun
U.S. Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) wants the country to invest $500 billion in affordable housing, take new measures to prevent landlords from price-fixing and remove zoning barriers that stymie housing construction. Balint has signed on to several bills since she was elected to Congress in 2022. But the housing bill, introduced on Monday, is her…
Beloved wife and mother was founding member of Stowe’s first synagogue
Weybridge woman served her community as a teacher and by helping families find safe, affordable housing in Addison County
Founding member of the Dutch Mill Family Restaurant loved to help others under any circumstances
The U.S. Postal Service is considering a plan that would route some of the letters mailed in Vermont through Hartford, Conn. — even those sent from one Vermont town to another. Postal officials said they plan to hold public hearings on the proposal, which would move the letter-sorting operation from facilities in Essex Junction and…
Dancer, choreographer and teacher from Guinea, West Africa, had an inspiring and long-standing impact on the lives of families, children and artists throughout Vermont
Scott Finn, the former president and CEO of Vermont Public, has been hired to help the University of Vermont’s Center for Community News increase the number of college students who are reporting local news through public media stations around the country. Finn most recently served as president and CEO of Vermont Public, which was created…
Award-winning professor emeritus, storyteller and cultural explorer inspired students and colleagues
Family man and car connoisseur took pride in all that he did and made sure to enjoy every moment
Unless you live under a rock or recently awoke from a yearslong coma, you’re probably aware that Vermont is set to experience a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event in April: a total solar eclipse. What does this rarish alignment of the sun, moon and Earth have to do with Seven Days’ annual Love & Marriage issue? Glad…
In “Righty Tighty, Black & Whitey,” an exhibition at Hexum Gallery in Montpelier, “black” is the most pertinent word in that amusing title. The half dozen artists wield only graphite or charcoal in the creation of their remarkable drawings. The range of tones, from lustrous ebony to a whisper of gray, redefines the term “penciled…
Nostalgia is a strange beast. It can lead to all sorts of trouble: You revisit a movie you swore was a comedy classic, only to find out it’s a problematic, unfunny mess. You hear a song that triggers a memory, and suddenly you’re thinking about the ex you listened to that song with. Hell, you…
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Reading through the annals of famous authors’ quotes about love, I’m horrified by the relentlessness of their sour assessments. “Love is merely a madness,” wrote Shakespeare. “Whoever is not jealous is not in love,” St. Augustine said. “General incivility is the very essence of love,” declared Jane Austen. “It is impossible…
Dear Reverend, I’m still in love with my husband but have been unhappy in the relationship for a very long time. He has no sex drive or desire and spends his spare time viewing porn. I haven’t had sex for 10-plus years. We don’t sleep in the same bed, and I feel slighted and have…
In case you somehow didn’t get enough Noah Kahan in these pages last week, here’s a Grammy update. The Strafford native, who was nominated for Best New Artist, lost out to New York City pop and R&B singer Victoria Monét at the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. While Kahan didn’t take…
Chris Winters faced a torrent of tough questions last month about a temporary homeless shelter the state hopes to set up in an empty Vermont National Guard armory in Waterbury. The commissioner of the Department for Children and Families sought to reassure anxious town residents that the proposed shelter, which would accommodate 40 to 50…
News that Barbie director Greta Gerwig and lead actress Margot Robbie had been passed over for Academy Award nominations set the mainstream movie world ablaze with claims of persistent industry sexism — and counterclaims about the quality of the year’s best box-office performer. That debate may rage right through the Oscars ceremony on March 10.…
Despite being home to the seventh-highest percentage of LGBTQ+ people in the country, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute, Vermont has just one gay bar — Fox Market and Bar in East Montpelier — and not a single lesbian bar. Enter Dyke Night, a monthly pop-up event for sapphics. Since its inception in 2022, Dyke Night…
It’s no secret that Burlington is in need of some lovin’. Business owners say safety concerns have led to reduced foot traffic on the Church Street Marketplace. The staff at Common Deer, a store selling locally made goods on College Street, are soliciting a timely cure to the Burlington blues: love letters. Inside the airy…
‘A Music Business Miracle’ I was surprised to read that some felt Noah Kahan hadn’t paid his dues [“Noah’s Arc,” January 31]. In my experience, his quiet persistence has everything to do with his current success. I’m the former program director of WNCS-FM the Point. Young Noah participated three times in the singer-songwriter contest we…
The Super Bowl isn’t coming to Vermont anytime soon, but this spring, we might find out what it’s like to host one. A Super Bowl’s worth of visitors could be headed to Vermont to see the solar eclipse on April 8. The path of total darkness — aka the “path of totality” — runs from…
When four Huron-Wendat leaders from the Québec City area traveled to England in 1824 to assert their land rights to British monarch King George IV, they carried with them a souvenir of past alliances between the two peoples. In their luggage was a beaded belt, or wampum, known as the Great War Belt. Its beads…
.poem { min-width: 50%; } .poem > .indent { text-indent: 5%; } A poem called “Diagnoses” in Greg Delanty’s newest book begins, “Our world’s under general anaesthetic.” Yet on page after page, the Burlington poet’s flair for provocative, arousing lyricism asks a reader to wake up. Here are the next lines of that poem, the…
More than two centuries before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, at a time when women couldn’t vote or own property, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake made a home together in Weybridge. From their first meeting in the early 1800s until Bryant’s death in 1851, they were partners in love and work, the proprietors…
(Self-released, digital) The Burlington hip-hop and EDM scenes are packed with young talent these days, thanks in large part to the Digital Media Lab. The multimedia program founded by lead instructor Jason Raymond at the Burlington Technical Center provides a training area for high school students to learn photography, audio production and all manner of…
The first teaser I saw for Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest was on TikTok, of all places. It was presented in landscape format, usually a recipe for failure in a vertical video medium. Unlike most everything else on the platform, it had no quick cuts or obvious hook. But I couldn’t scroll…
(Starvation Records, digital, vinyl) Former Seattle musician Jason Dean, now based in Burlington, created his new project, Starvation Wages, with an ethos in mind: “Either explicitly or implicitly, all techno and industrial music is protest music,” Dean wrote in the press release for the project’s debut EP, Marketplace Fear. An album full of politically charged…
As a mom of two little kids, Trina Webster was already struggling for rest when her husband’s lifelong snoring worsened in middle age, shattering the peace of the marital bed. “It was like sleeping with a broken alarm clock,” Trina said of her spouse, Dan. Once awoken, she’d lie there “wondering when it’s going to…
All eyes were on Averie Brown as she stepped onto the circular platform in front of the large, gold-framed mirror. She wore a strapless bridal gown, the fourth dress she’d tried on. Before anyone in her entourage said a word, her future mother-in-law, who had been dabbing tears since the second dress, gushed a sigh…
When a 10-year romantic relationship ended last spring for “Joshua,” a young man living in the Boston area, he decided he needed professional help. He suspected there was a connection between the breakup and his powerful and at times crippling social anxiety. “I’d freeze up and stutter, or glaze over and lose track of the…
new in theaters LISA FRANKENSTEIN: A teenage goth (Kathryn Newton) hopes to make an exhumed corpse into her dream boy in this horror-comedy scripted by Diablo Cody and directed by Zelda Williams. (101 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Star) currently playing ALL OF US STRANGERS ★★★★1/2 As he embarks on a new romance, a…
The first few years after the Alzheimer’s diagnosis weren’t all bad, as the knowledge of the inevitable inspired Doug Cardin and Fred Silbernagel to go places and do things they never would have done otherwise. But as his husband’s condition deteriorated, Cardin, thrust suddenly into the role of constant caregiver, found it increasingly difficult to…
Imagine Yelp for dating. Instead of restaurants, this platform revolves around men. The reviews? Mostly not so great, ranging from serious allegations of abuse to quibbles about slow texting. And, just as a lousy meal review on Yelp can repel other diners, one bad date can permanently tarnish a guy’s reputation. This isn’t a “Black…
Buying an established restaurant bears some similarities to becoming a second spouse. It can be “tricky,” conceded Andrew Kohn, who, with his (first and only) husband, Don Jones, purchased the 22-year-old Michael’s on the Hill in Waterbury Center for $1.2 million in September. “You obviously live with the reputation of those who came before you.”…
If you got in your car and the steering wheel was sticky, would you immediately know why? For Mark Pasanen, husband of Seven Days food writer Melissa Pasanen, a recent sticky situation was easily explained: Korean chicken wings, which Melissa ate in the Donwoori parking lot. “She wanted to eat them while they were hot,”…
The co-owners of two Turkish restaurants in Vermont plan to open Cappadocia Café, a counter-service bakery and café, at 5 South Main Street in White River Junction this spring. Brothers Vural and Hasan Oktay and Vural’s wife, Jackie, own Istanbul Kebab House in Burlington and Tuckerbox in White River Junction. Vural and Jackie also own…
Since the Big Spruce opened in Richmond in November 2020, it has focused on Mexican-accented dinner, including tacos, enchiladas and sopes. Last week, the restaurant at 39 Bridge Street launched a fresh menu that retains a few of those favorites while adding breakfast and lunch service and new dinner items. Customers can now start the…
The longtime home of Maple Valley Café in Plainfield is buzzing once again. On December 7, Outer Spice Café opened with breakfast and lunch at 8195 Route 2. A restaurant since the 1920s, the building was both a café and a gift shop during its time as Maple Valley, from the 1980s to 2018. Dan…
Cello, World Sunday 11 Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph kicks off its 2024 performance season with South Korean duo CelloGayageum. Playing on the two titular instruments — the first of which will be familiar to Western audiences, and the second, a 12-string zither, probably less so — Sol Daniel Kim and Dayoung Yoon…
