Sage magazine has set up shop in Vermont. The ad-free biannual lifestyle publication is “centered around folks within the outdoors, activism platforms, and creative spaces,” according to its website. It primarily features lengthy interviews with foragers, farmers, activists, gardeners, makers and artisans of all stripes, paired with crisp photography and colorful illustrations. Founder and creative director Bella Brodsky,…
Dim lights cast spindly shadows on the walls as I stood at the corner of my kitchen counter. I was three years sober, and I was getting ready to prepare a stir-fry dinner. After dropping several handfuls of diced vegetables onto the surface of a hot frying pan, I turned the flame down to a…
Birchwood Terrace nurse enjoyed helping people
Finding a place to live in Vermont is hard — and has been for as long as I’ve hung my hat here. In those 44 years, I’ve occupied more than a few dumps, from the unfinished room I rented off campus while a student at Middlebury College to the attic apartment on Burlington’s lower Bradley…
(Calahan Hill Records, digital) Longing is such an acutely strange state of being. On his debut album, Dear You,, Newport-based singer-songwriter and producer Owen OK leans hard into his. The 22-year-old (real name Owen Krisak) longs for relationships that have gone silent, for the passion that’s withered into apathy and, above all, for reestablishing communication.…
(Self-released, digital) Burlington-area hip-hop producer Es-K has churned out jazzy, dusty boom bap instrumentals of rare refinement for more than a decade. His evolution has been incredible: Somehow, he is able to increase the quantity of his output while simultaneously raising the bar on his quality control. Beat tape About This is Es-K’s latest release,…
Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a snuggle of sloths. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book…
Skiing Sisters To continue your story of “Uphill Climb” [February 23] on the development of women Nordic skiers in the U.S., the high school Nordic State Championships were held on February 24 and 28, and 20 schools and 140-plus young women skiers competed. The top three team results went to Burlington, Harwood Union and Mount…
Recently, we came across three bills in the legislature whose implications, at first glance, appear less than ideal. H.201 would remove the criminal penalties for the sale or possession of switchblades. S.57 would prevent police from enforcing Vermont’s motorcycle helmet law unless the motorcyclist had already been stopped for another infraction. H.635 would make certain…
State of Vermont Superior Court Probate Division Chittenden Unit Docket No.: In re ESTATE of MATTHEW D. GARROW NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: MATTHEW D. GARROW I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4)…
Here’s some inspiration to get you through mud season and looking ahead to summer adventures. Burlington cartographer Bill Morris has created a Twitter bot named Every Long Trail Mile that tweets out details about each mile of Vermont’s famed 272-mile hiking path. Every weekday around 2 p.m., the bot spits out a description of another…
The woods, streams, ponds and small waterfalls of the Northeast don’t typically inspire a sense of monumentality. Yet Eric Aho manages to make them so in “Headwater,” an exhibition of new work at the BCA Center in Burlington by the established Saxtons River painter. On mostly large canvases — measuring up to 78 by 70…
currently playing 2022 OSCAR SHORTS: See the short films nominated this year in the Animated, Live Action or Documentary categories. Each category is a separate program; check with theaters for more info. (Run time varies, NR. Marquis, Roxy, Savoy) THE BATMAN ★★★1/2 Robert Pattinson plays yet another version of the Caped Crusader in this adventure…
Maybe it’s the pandemic. Maybe it’s the relentless hype. Maybe the sheer humorlessness of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice broke me. Anyway, I couldn’t force myself to go to a theater and sit through yet another iteration of The Batman. Or maybe I’m just slipping toward agoraphobia, not unlike Angela Childs (Zoë Kravitz), the…
At first glance, the painted portraits in Winooski artist Corrine Yonce’s exhibit, “Voices of Home,” look like open windows along the side of an apartment building. Mostly solitary figures stare out into the world through the frames that surround them. Audio interviews supplement some of the images. As the recordings play and listeners learn about…
According to Merriam-Webster, the word “doggerel” refers to verse that is “loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect” — a wedding speech delivered in singsong rhyme, for example. Despite its second, more derogatory meaning (“marked by triviality or inferiority”), “doggerel” manages to keep one paw in highbrow culture: Think the…
In the days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, two southern Vermont newspapers published a commentary from their unconventional new owner that appeared to endorse the imminent conflict. Paul Belogour — a currency speculator from Belarus who bought the Brattleboro Reformer and Bennington Banner last year as part of a spending spree in southern Vermont…
Three recent Burlington High School grads have won seats on the city’s 12-member school board, adding youth to a body that traditionally has been the domain of much older people. Aquilas Lokossou, Faizo Hassan and Saja Almogalli, each 21 years old and a person of color, will represent wards 1, 2 and 8 respectively. They…
The first gig I ever played was a battle of the bands. I was 20 years old and a passable-at-best guitarist, and I knew that the band I was in was total shit. I didn’t even tell my friends about the gig — that’s how bad we were. Nonetheless, I remember being foolishly optimistic as…
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Singer-songwriter Jill Scott has earned one platinum and two gold records. She approaches her craft with diligence and intensity. On one occasion, she was frying a burger at her boyfriend’s house when she sensed a new song forming in her imagination. Abandoning the stove, she ran into the next room to…
Dear Reverend, I noticed during masturbation that my “liquids” smelled like a soup I had eaten earlier. Is this normal? Minnie Strohn (female, 18) Dear Minnie Strohn, There is truth to the old saying “You are what you eat.” Whenever I order extra garlic at Papa Frank’s, it seems to ooze out of my pores…
Throughout most of her 76 years, Peggy Luhrs appeared to relish conflict. “My enemies certainly make me feel good about myself,” she declared to the marchers assembled in City Hall Park for Burlington’s first Pride celebration in June 1983, of which Luhrs was a key organizer. “If the warmongers, witch burners and moral majority types…
Hugo Martínez Cazón was combing through microfilm at the University of Vermont, researching architectural blueprints for a project, when something odd scrolled across the screen. “I saw the name Lumière fly by, and I came to a dead stop,” the Argentinean-born and Burlington-based environmental engineer said, recalling a fateful day in 1991. “There were these…
In Nando Jaramillo’s native Colombia, round cornmeal cakes called arepas are a daily staple. But he took them for granted until the year he turned 20. Now 57 and living in South Royalton, Jaramillo recalled the long-ago winter when his attitude shifted. He was staying with friends in a small mountain town southwest of Medellín,…
We missed out on the whole fried snapper with bone marrow salsa and the tortas, which were “smothered in refried beans, avocado, mayo, grilled quesillo, shrettuce, salsas, pickled things and garlic crema,” according to the menu. Thankfully, we reached the front of the line at Qué Rico Taquería’s February 28 pop-up at the Double E…
The aroma of Waffle Cabin’s Belgian sugar waffles wafts up the slopes at several Vermont ski resorts. Starting this spring, that aroma will also fill the new location of Alpine Shop, the South Burlington source for ski, snowboard and outdoor gear. Last week, Alpine Shop owners Andy and Becky Kingston announced their plans to move…
Things are about to get sweeter in Waterbury. The former hair salon next door to the Wine Vault at 1 Elm Street is now Red Poppy Cakery, a commercial bakery offering custom cakes and sweet and savory baking workshops. Janina McCue started Red Poppy in April 2019 in the kitchen of Burlington’s New Moon, where…
Suvi Yimnirun picked the auspicious date of February 22, 2022, to open Suvi’s Kitchen at 370 Shelburne Road in Burlington. The new Thai restaurant realizes the longtime chef’s dream of having her own place. “I can decide the flavors and the menu,” she said. That menu includes Thai classics, such as green and red curries…
Born in the Valley Friday 11 From being the only girl at her music lessons to becoming the first woman nominated for a Latin Grammy in the cumbia/vallenato category, Colombian accordionist Diana Burco has long been a trailblazer. Audience members at her show at the Flynn in Burlington witness that drive, as well as her…
Allison Gibson and Cara Chigazola Tobin have dreamed of owning a brunch spot since they opened Honey Road in 2017. This spring, they’ll finally have one. The co-owners are targeting a May opening for the Grey Jay at 135 Pearl Street in Burlington. “It’s not just your classic eggs and toast,” executive chef/co-owner Chigazola Tobin…
The West has a terrible habit, said Lasha Tchantouridzé, of referring to everyone who lives in a country that was once part of the Soviet Union as “Russian.” This “pernicious tradition,” Tchantouridzé said, isn’t just culturally insensitive and historically inaccurate. It also allows the Russians to rewrite history. Vladimir Putin tried to do so in…
On Tuesday, Larissa Haas of Barre anxiously awaited word that her 82-year-old mother had managed to complete the long journey from her home in Kyiv, Ukraine, across the Polish border. By Wednesday, Haas had confirmed her mother was safe in Poland, but had left home in such a rush she had no clothes nor medications.…
