Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Greg Gordon never shoots up alone anymore. He knows the heroin he buys on the street in East Harlem is deadlier than ever, often mixed with fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid, and xylazine, an animal tranquilizer. So when he wants to…
The Flynn announced on Wednesday that Brooklyn-based soul and funk artist Adi Oasis will serve as the guest curator for the 2024 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. A rising voice in R&B and modern jazz as well, Oasis has performed alongside artists such as Lenny Kravitz, Anderson .Paak and Big Freedia and released her debut solo LP,…
On Friday, March 22, Burlington’s Church Street Tavern reopened under new owners Jenn Sinclair and Victoria Cole. The business partners will carry on the tradition of the longtime marketplace staple, keeping its name, pub menu and tavern feel. The restaurant at 103 Church Street had been closed since shortly after its previous owner, Stephen Parent,…
Investors who want to make a difference are teaming up with a New Hampshire-based nonprofit in an unusual effort to create market-rate housing in downtown St. Johnsbury. The Northern Forest Center purchased a former hotel on Railroad Street in 2022 and is renovating it this year to create nine apartments and two commercial spaces. The…
Family, faith and friends were the most important parts of South Burlington woman’s life
Professor emeritus had a long and distinguished career in animal sciences
Essex man’s legacy includes the creation of Lang Farm
Travis J. LaFrance of Williston, Vt., born on August 25, 1994, died unexpectedly on March 14, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. His gentle, kind and caring spirit and wonderful smile will be missed by his family and friends.
Dedicated mother and talented photographer had a warm and delightful spirit that made people laugh and feel seen
A love of words led South Burlington man to a career as a UPI journalist
Truman Capote would have killed on social media. The novelist, journalist and man-about-town understood branding as well as any current celebrity. Capote, who died in 1984, could drop a sick burn on a talk show with aplomb that today’s comedians would envy. And he understood the art of the beef — or, as they called…
new in theaters THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES: In this comedy satirizing an all-too-familiar trope, a young man (Justice Smith) joins a secret society of Black people whose mission is solving white people’s problems. Kobi Libii directed. (104 min, PG-13. Roxy) GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE: A new generation of ghostbusters joins the old one to…
Phil Cohen has some hot takes. As the Westford-born singer-songwriter idly toyed with his chopsticks, moving the bok choy around on his plate of dim sum at a Burlington restaurant, he took on a look of intense concentration beneath his baseball cap and glasses. “I don’t think too many people would agree, but I think…
Dear Reverend, When I was a teenager, I was at a party where some people had a Ouija board. They were asking it questions like if they were going to get married. For some reason, I asked how old I would be when I died. The answer was spelled out as “sixty four.” At the…
Forest Station drop a single on Friday, March 22. “Yellow Aspens” is the debut song from the bluegrass band, which formed in 2023 after guitarist Eli Martell-Crawford and mandolinist Alex Skowron moved to Vermont from Bozeman, Mont., and joined forces with banjo player Thomas Bryce. The tune, a rolling and rollicking tribute to the gorgeous…
For thousands of years, humans measured the passage of time using nothing but the shadows cast by the sun, a remarkable achievement that combined astronomy with precise mathematical calculations. When Bill Gottesman set out to design a sundial that only works on the rare occasions when the sun is eclipsed by the moon, the idea…
‘Not All Bad’ Seven Days’ yearlong series “This Old State” is admirable in helping to break down some of the dynamics involved with an aging population. However, Colin Flanders’ series debut [“Getting On,” March 6] fails to incorporate some of the positive sociological developments an aging population may suggest. This may include longer average life…
In the piping-hot cauldron of global issues, immigration consistently bubbles to the top. There is nothing easy about it, from the conditions that force people to leave their homes to the dangers on their journey to the often-unwelcoming reception in another land. And then there’s the politics: The very word “border” is an election-season cudgel.…
Midcentury modernism is not the first architectural style that comes to mind when you think of Vermont. But the state’s modern structures, dating from the 1930s through 1970s, feature surprisingly often in the new film New England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century. And they look stunning. A project of Jake Gorst and Tracey…
The owner of a Burlington cannabis shop is hosting a weed “farmers market” featuring growers and producers who will be on hand to speak with customers about their products. Joshua Decatur of Heybud Dispensary says other stores have hosted “vendor days” where producers pitch their products. But he claims his event, on Sunday, March 24,…
ARIES(Mar. 21-Apr. 19) I suspect you will soon have far more beginner’s luck than you ever thought possible. For best results — to generate even more wildly abundant torrents of good luck — you could adopt what Zen Buddhists called “beginner’s mind.” That means gazing upon everyone and everything as if encountering it for the…
I had to drive to St. Albans to find out that I’ve lost some hearing in my left ear. After a scary bout of vertigo in December, my physician at the Community Health Centers of Burlington recommended that I consult an otorhinolaryngologist, aka ear, nose and throat specialist, aka ENT. It would have taken many…
Las Vegas is an escape. Carefully curated artificial environments, bottomless buffets, free-flowing booze, pulsating lights, deep-freeze air conditioning, plush suites and nonstop entertainment converge in a distracting, disembodying free-for-all. It’s one of North America’s best places to lose yourself. The tricky part is making sure there’s still some of you left after you’ve obliterated your…
Vermont has largely forgotten the patients who died at the former state psychiatric hospital in Waterbury. But Anne Donahue cannot. The Republican state representative from Northfield, newly retired from her job as an editor for a mental health advocacy group, has made it her goal to identify the final resting place of individuals who died…
(Matador, cassette, CD, digital, vinyl) Long considered one of indie rock’s defining figures, Kim Gordon continues defying convention and further solidifies her legacy with her second solo recording, The Collective. A darkened, chaotic batch of compositions, the album is a jarring critique of a world Gordon views as confusedly addicted to consumption and skewed by…
(Self-released, digital) I have to say I’m a bit hazy on what counts as a supergroup these days. Traveling Wilburys and the Highwaymen qualify, to be sure. But I recently heard someone refer to Wings as a supergroup just because Denny Laine was in the Moody Blues for a few years, and now I have…
Vermont’s largest city has a long and storied history, from its service as a garrison for several thousand U.S. soldiers during the War of 1812 to its timber port (once the third largest in the country) to its role as the birthplace of Phish and Ben & Jerry’s. Currently, though, there’s no museum or visitor…
Vermont officials’ attempt to wind down part of the state’s emergency motel program last week left hundreds of people looking for new housing, sent social workers scrambling to help and led the Vermont National Guard to set up temporary shelters that went largely unused. The March 15 end date for some in the program had…
Hat tip to the charmingly opinionated Trader Joe’s cashier who, when she learned I was a food writer, shouted out her favorite local restaurant: Istanbul Kebab House. The spot on Burlington’s lower Church Street had been on my list to revisit, but the steady flow of new eateries often trumps old standbys. Prompted by my…
What do Bigfoot, a bubbling cauldron and three-plus politicians tapping a single tree have in common? No joke — though it’s tempting — they’re all signs of Spring Maple Open House Weekend at Baird Farm. The 560-acre, fourth-generation family farm tucked in the foothills of the Green Mountains in North Chittenden is a favorite stop…
The Oktay family, which owns Istanbul Kebab House on Burlington’s Church Street, will launch a second business nearby in May. The Oktays plan to open a shop selling Turkish spices, wines and specialty foods, along with carpets and handcrafted gifts, at 99 Church Street, former home of the Sox Market. The shop will be called…
Need for Swede Thursday 21 & Friday 22 The Lena Jonsson Trio blends traditional Swedish folk music with star sensibilities at Cabot’s Willey Memorial Hall and Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. The electrifying fiddler and her band, steeped in traditions as varied as jazz, American roots and Scottish reels, breathe new life into the genre as…
