.connection.infoBox { background-color: white; border: none; } Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Hardwick residents want to force a neighboring town to close its cherished but tiny elementary school. In Orwell, the owner of Buxton’s Store is struggling to hire kitchen staff. Senior housing complexes in Burlington…
Icon of counterculture community lit up Burlington’s streets with his mobile art-cart installations
Former director of the Vermont Association for Mental Health was a fierce advocate for consumer empowerment and innovative children’s services
Loving husband and father was a man of deep faith who gave back to his community
Former CPA loved to ski the deep powder snow of the Rocky Mountains
Graduate of the Culinary Institute of America had impressive career in the restaurant industry
A Vermont judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a Burlington cannabis entrepreneur who claimed he was “hoodwinked” by the Canadian company that bought his business. Shayne Lynn of High Fidelity alleged that Toronto-based SLANG Worldwide gave fraudulent and negligent misrepresentations when discussing its financial condition during a $25 million merger in 2021. SLANG,…
The music and arts booking collective Waking Windows announced on Thursday the return of its flagship annual festival. Now in its 12th year, the Waking Windows fest will take over downtown Winooski from May 3 to 5, featuring more than 100 artists across multiple venues, including restaurants, wine shops, breweries and pop-ups. The collective, run…
Listening to operas and missing you and the life and love we shared. Susan
It has been five years since your passing. The loss of your shining light and life is felt more as years pass. You brought so much to so many. You lived life to the fullest and gave so much to this world. Rest in peace, Joel. From your loving family
Seventh-generation Vermonter leaves a legacy of joy, compassion and service to others
The Stone Church in Brattleboro is bringing back its GRRRLS 2 the Front series, which debuted last year. With a month of workshops and a run of live shows at venues around the state, GRRRLS 2 the Front aims to increase participation among women, trans and nonbinary people in the music industry, particularly in sound…
new in theaters CABRINI: This biopic follows immigrant Catholic missionary Francesca Cabrini (Cristiana Dell’Anna) as she tries to relieve poverty in early 20th-century New York. John Lithgow also stars; Alejandro Monteverde (Sound of Freedom) directed. (145 min, PG-13. Capitol, Majestic) IMAGINARY: What if you returned to your childhood home to find your imaginary friend still…
Recent weeks have brought a flurry of attention to the safety debacle at Decker Towers, the Burlington Housing Authority high-rise for elderly and disabled residents. But so far, the 11-story building continues to serve as a de facto homeless shelter and a hub for drug use, leaving some residents afraid to venture from their apartments.…
Sponsor(s): Public Works Commission Action: Date: 2/21/2024 Attestation of Adoption: Phillip Peterson, PE Public Works Engineer, Technical Services Published: 03/06/24 Effective: 03/27/24 It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows: That Appendix C, Rule and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, 27 No parking except with resident parking…
(Self-released, CD, digital) Last year, André 3000 released an album of instrumental flute music called New Blue Sun. That album — the first from the former Outkast rapper in 17 years — inspired strong reactions from fans hoping for a hip-hop record. As comedian Leslie Jones put it while guest hosting “The Daily Show,” “This…
(Another Earth, cassette, digital) The ocean waves lap against craggy rock, their percussive whoosh and crashing almost — almost — keeping time. Wind plays against the water’s rush, the sound not unlike the brush of a drumstick against the bronze bell of a hi-hat. You’re alone, the sounds of thousands of years of peaceful isolation…
The second of two kids and a late-stage baby boomer, I always imagined myself on the younger side of life — like I was getting away with something. But there’s no denying that, demographically speaking, I’m now officially old. When I turn 64 next month, I’ll be one year away from qualifying for Social Security…
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Mud season isn’t beautiful, but it does signal the end of what tends to be a long Vermont winter. The sense of hope it brings is the inspiration for Scrag Mountain Music’s upcoming concerts in Montpelier and Warren, titled “Winter Wind, Melting Ice: The Season of Transition.” “We leave behind the cold, drawing-in energy and…
In “Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth,” gold is an idea as well as a material embellishment. The traveling exhibition, curated by Emily Stamey of the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N.C., is now on view at the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, N.H. The show asks us to “reconsider our value systems”…
Tabor Greenberg’s parents named him after a mountain, and he was on skis at 2 years old; Amelia Circosta didn’t see cross-country skis until she was nearly 7. Greenberg grew up in an athletic family and excelled at sports; Circosta has been homeschooled by parents with little sports experience. Yet the two Vermont teenagers share…
Jack Morris is a 16th-generation Vermonter with family ties dating back to Ethan Allen, or so he’s been told. His partner, Alex Weathers, is a Houston native who grew up surrounded by contemporary art. The two recently purchased Robert Paul Galleries in Stowe, which over its 34 years has primarily shown paintings and other artworks…
Though sometimes derided and often controversial, sampling has become a bedrock of modern popular music. It had its birth in hip-hop in the ’70s, when producers took drum breaks from soul, funk and R&B records, especially anything by the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, who has been sampled more than 9,000 times to date. In…
Dear Reverend, I met a guy on a dating app, and we really hit it off chatting via text and on the phone, so we decided to meet up for a coffee. He was handsome and funny, and I really liked him a lot. Except for one thing: He was wearing way too much cologne.…
Later this month, the Burlington City Council will debate the most substantial rezoning proposal the city has seen in 30 years. If approved, the BTV Neighborhood Code would allow people to build multifamily homes where they’re currently banned — including in their own backyards. Buildings would be allowed to take up a greater portion of…
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): I invite you to entertain the following theory: Certain environments, companions and influences enhance your intelligence, health and ability to love — while others either do the opposite or have a neutral effect. If that’s true, it makes good sense for you to put yourself in the presence of environments, companions…
GennaRose Nethercott’s new collection of prose fiction arrives riding a wave of fanfare for her previous work. The Lumberjack’s Dove (2018) is a book-length poetic parable chosen by Louise Glück for the National Poetry Series, and Thistlefoot (2022) is a propulsive magical-realist novel about a pursuit across centuries, set partly in Vermont. Nethercott, who lives…
A Vermont cat is competing in a national contest that will crown “America’s Favorite Pet.” Goose, an orange tabby who lives in South Burlington with owner Alyssa Bohack, is in the middle of a competition that began in January and will end with one cat and one dog named as champions. Anyone can enter, but…
More Heartwarming Stories, Please Please, more stories like Melissa Pasanen’s article about David Corey at City Hardware [“‘Mr. Helpful,'” February 21]. It was heartwarming! Scott Hamlin Winter Garden, FL Fifty Years Later The Lawson’s Finest Liquids ad for Black Is Beautiful beer [February 7], with proceeds to “go to the development and growth of Black…
In the wake of the superhero boom, it takes a lot to persuade me to see a big-budget epic in which the protagonist strolls away from explosions. But I read Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune at a tender age and saw the David Lynch version on its 1984 release, so I couldn’t stay away from…
When Leunig’s Bistro & Café chef-owner Donnell Collins announced her latest project, she told Seven Days that Electra’s Restaurant was named after a friend’s cat, not Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb. The 110-seat restaurant in the circa-1796 Shelburne Inn may be unaffiliated with the nearby museum’s founder, but its elegance would fit in among…
As home gardeners leaf through colorful seed catalogs, dreaming of this summer’s edible bounty, farmers are already starting seeds in greenhouses across the state. Many are undoubtedly hoping for a strong season after last year’s devastating May frost and record-setting rain. Despite unseasonably warm recent temperatures, Vermonters know there are still months to go before…
When TV dinners were invented in the 1950s, the Swanson company coined its name in order to tap into the popularity of the television, newly a status symbol in American homes. But when it comes to food marketing in 2024, “VT” may have more of a magical ring to it than “TV.” That was Emily…
Montpelier’s Capital City Farmers Market has relocated five times since 2019. A flood recovery project in the upper parking lot at 133 State Street may have it on the move again. In November, market manager Keri Ryan confirmed with the Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services that the 45-year-old market could return to the…
A pair of brothers originally from Nepal opened Delight Restaurant at 1130 North Avenue in Burlington on February 8. The menu describes the new restaurant’s cuisine as “transcultural.” It includes Indian curries and biryanis, Nepali dumplings and noodle soup, and Indo-Chinese dishes, such as fried rice and chow mein. Owner Bharat Partel, 28, and his…
Be More Pacific Wednesday 6-Friday 8 Over three days of events at Middlebury College, performing arts project Small Island Big Song reunites the distant yet interconnected musical traditions of 16 countries from across the Pacific and Indian oceans. A documentary screening on Wednesday, a panel discussion with the featured artists and cofounder BaoBao Chen on…
Tickets for “The Sound of Music in Concert,” a joint performance by Lyric Theatre and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra at Trapp Family Lodge, go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 1. The performances run Thursday through Saturday, June 20 through 22, in the concert meadow at the Stowe lodge. The…
Theater asks audience members to suspend disbelief and, for the duration of a show, allow themselves to be transported to another place and time. People watching Michelle Azar in the one-woman show All Things Equal: The Life & Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg go willingly, according to playwright Rupert Holmes. “They just accept that this…
