The social media scandal that erupted in December and prompted two Burlington Police Department leaders to resign made it clear that the department had a serious problem. But just how big a problem? Did police officials know that top cop Brandon del Pozo had used an anonymous Twitter account to harass a critic? And why…
Lifelong Vermont educator fostered creativity and empathy in students
Stowe attorney remembered for a life of community service and wise counsel
Following a spate of unseasonably warm days, Vermont’s maple taps are once again flowing and state officials have issued a boil advisory. “We advise you get that there sap over a flame ASAP, bud,” said Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets spokesperson Lee “Quid” Goldrush. “You can’t get that sweet without giving it a…
Lifelong educator was honored for “Distinguished Service to the Arts in Vermont”
A while back, Tom Cruise met with executives at Universal Pictures to brainstorm a way to breathe new life into the studio’s venerable but dusty catalog of horror properties. They came up with a plan for a shared “Dark Universe” that would include a Bride of Frankenstein remake starring Angelina Jolie, an updated Dr. Jekyll…
Movies about bad people doing bad things are a dime a dozen, but movies about their loyal henchpeople and accomplices are less common, perhaps because they’re less fun. The Assistant, a fly-on-the-wall drama about the assistant to a Harvey Weinstein-type movie mogul, is not fun at all. Documentarian Kitty Green (Casting JonBenet) approaches this potentially…
A beloved pet camel and frequent photo subject of passing motorists along Route 7 has died. Oliver was 17. Born in Wisconsin in 2002, Ollie — as he was affectionately known — ultimately landed in Vermont, at Judith Giusto’s Round Barn Merinos farm in Ferrisburgh. There, the two-humped ungulate shared a field with the sheep…
Dim Sum, Lose Some Most weeks, a couple of larger, meatier news items break up this column. And sometimes, you get a bunch of little bites of different things, like dim sum. This is a dim sum week. Enjoy! BiteTorrent Saxophonist Brian McCarthy unearths his project The Better Angels of Our Nature on Saturday, March…
Days after the 2016 election, India Tresselt was watching HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” when the host urged viewers to remind themselves every day, “This is not normal.” The Westford fiber artist, 61, took Oliver’s words to heart the only way she knew how. On Inauguration Day 2017, she made her first resistance…
When Peter Walke was finishing his senior year at Williams College in 2003, he listened skeptically as president George W. Bush stood on an aircraft carrier deck and all but declared victory in the Iraq War. The Montpelier native was studying political science with a focus on the psychology of terrorists and knew the Mission…
On February 24, Caroline Rose made her television debut on “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” Performing her new single “Feel the Way I Want” from her forthcoming album, Superstar, Rose dominated the stage, busting out zany dance moves and making some seriously intense eye contact with viewers at home. If the 30-year-old singer-songwriter’s 2018 album,…
(Birdwatcher Records, LP, cassette, CD, digital) Sometimes, a band’s name hints at what it sounds like. Punk and metal groups often choose words and phrases that align with certain touchstones of the genre — Slayer, Megadeth or Social Distortion, for instance. But it’s rarer for rock and pop groups to adopt monikers that suggest to…
(Self-released, CD, digital) Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cam Gilmour is wrapping up his senior year at the University of Vermont. During his college tenure, he’s honed a sound he calls “indie jazz,” which translates to sprawling prog-rock compositions that are heavy on bossa nova guitar work and horns as lead instruments — Gilmour plays a mean…
In seasons past, the Castleton International Film Festival has featured programs devoted entirely to French-language, Spanish-language and Israeli films. This year, the seventh edition of the free-to-the-public fest features movies from Kenya, North Macedonia, Senegal, Syria and China. The common denominator: Each of the five films, screened over two weeks, was directed or codirected by…
It took five years, hundreds of volunteers, thousands of dollars in donations and an 11th-hour creation of a new fictional universe, but the pilot episode of “Sweepers” is finally available for public viewing. The free science-fiction web series, filmed entirely in northwestern Vermont, debuted February 23 on YouTube, much to the delight and relief of…
Guns were prominent in the abuse Sean Wilson was said to have inflicted on his girlfriend. In 2017, after one of his shifts as a Brattleboro police officer, Wilson drove to her Colchester residence, broke down the door and fired a bullet over the bed where she lay, the woman said in court documents. He…
We’re so accustomed to thinking of poetry as an internal, meditative mode of writing that it may surprise us to read poetry about physical labor. But that’s precisely what Sean Prentiss, a faculty member at Norwich University and Vermont College of Fine Arts, offers us in his new “memoir-in-poems,” Crosscut. The book takes its name…
Zach Sherwin has built a career on wordplay. The Los Angeles-based comedian, writer and musician revels in witty puns and sly double entendres. That’s evident from his standup, his three comedic hip-hop albums, and his work on the CW show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” on Comedy Central’s “Problematic With Moshe Kasher” and for Mad magazine. Sherwin also…
Grateful for Two Stories Chelsea Edgar’s “Divine Intention” article about climate change and Hackie’s “Rehabilitation” column were superb [February 26]. In a way, they were about the same thing. If you think about it, the way people get out of the hardest jams in life is by people committing to take care of other people…
The thump and shuffle of bare feet dancing, the pulse of a bass line, the groove of a melody. In its premiere at Northern Stage, Citrus begins with music and demonstrates how rich theater can be when actors working together like a jazz ensemble combine poetry, movement and sound. The play’s subject matter is black…
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1637, renowned English poet John Milton wrote “Lycidas,” a poetic elegy in honor of a friend. Reading it today, almost four centuries later, we are struck by how archaic and obscure the language is, with phrases like “O ye laurels” and “Ah! who hath reft my dearest pledge?” A famous…
Name: Lisa Gosselin Lynn and Abagael Giles Town: Middlebury Job: Editor and assistant editor of VT Ski + Ride At the opening of what was then called the Vermont Ski Museum in 1993, the Rutland Herald reported on Olympic skier Doug Lewis telling the crowd, “Skiing is Vermont, even more than maple syrup or the…
Dear Reverend, I’m really worried about climate change and the role it will play in my own future. Meanwhile, all my friends are popping out babies right and left, seemingly unconcerned about what their kids might have to live through. I feel like we’re living on different planets. I also feel like I really need…
A rash of new businesses setting up shop in a neighborhood is generally one sign of a healthy economy, especially when those new businesses are banks. A couple of Seven Days readers wrote in recently to ask about all the new banks popping up in Chittenden County, including three within a half-mile stretch of Shelburne…
On March 3, 2020, at Porter Medical Center, Heather Lamoureux and Lexander Rosa welcomed a girl, Phoenix Eveliz Rosa.
Updated at 2:22 a.m. Over the past year, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) second presidential campaign has taken him to every corner of the country. On Tuesday, it brought him back home. As election officials counted ballots in the 14 states that voted on Super Tuesday, Sanders joined thousands of supporters for a raucous rally at…
In the fall of 2012, a pizza maker in Jacksonville, Fla., wrote a letter to Vermont bread baker Gérard Rubaud asking Rubaud to consider him for an apprenticeship at his Westford bakery. An acclaimed baker who grew up in France, Rubaud sometimes taught aspiring bakers at his hillside bakery in the years before his death…
Tidy, weed-free rows of salad greens basking in the warmth of a high tunnel, bursting bunches of kale lined up on a market table, colorful CSA shares photographed from directly above: These are the makings of an “Instagram farm.” They’re real farms, but the images being shared are the modern version of mid-’90s glamour shots.…
The James Beard Awards are the food industry’s highest honor — its Oscars, its Pulitzers, its Nobel Prizes. For the third year in a row, Vermont is represented in the awards’ semifinals by Cara Chigazola Tobin and Deirdre Heekin. The James Beard Foundation announced its 30th annual Restaurant and Chef Award semifinalists on February 26.…
