May 1-7, 2013
Rewinding Burlington’s Late, Great Waterfront Video; VT Beef Producers Disagree Over What’s Local; Cyber-Grads in Demand; Dan Bolles on Waking Windows 3; Vermont Restaurant Week Diaries
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Final Credits for Burlington’s Waterfront Video
Not long ago, Seth Jarvis taught a playwriting workshop at a local high school. Introducing the Burlington actor and dramatist, a teacher mentioned that he also happened to work at Waterfront Video, which sparked a telling discussion. “During the break,” Jarvis recalls, “the kids talked about video stores — this historical relic.” He paraphrases in…
In Barre, Native Son Charles Semprebon Leaves a Stone Sculpture Legacy
When Barre businessman Charles Semprebon died in 2009, the 66-year-old left more than $2 million to his city. About half of it — $500,000 each to Barre City and Barre Town — was earmarked to complete the bike path that links those two communities. The rest was intended for civic improvements to the city, one…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Two car thieves being chased by police holed up in a house in New Haven, Conn., while a dozen officers surrounded the building. When hostage negotiators threatened to unleash canine units, the suspects heard barking and surrendered. There were no dogs, however, only officers pretending to bark like dogs. “These cops were…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you afraid that you lack a crucial skill or aptitude? Do you have a goal that you’re worried might be impossible to achieve because of this inadequacy? If so, now is a good time to make plans to fill in the gap. If you formulate such an intention, you will…
The Fourth Annual Restaurant Week Diaries
Seven Days diners fan out to stuff their faces
Gallery Profile: nido
In both Spanish and Italian, nido means nest. So it’s a fitting name for the cozy Burlington shop where Phiona Milano has sold hand-spun yarn and colorful fabrics to knitters and sewers, the ultimate nesters, for the last four years. Before opening the place, Milano, 34, worked as a media coordinator for area nonprofits and…
An Interview With Saxophonist Colin Stetson
In 2008, bass saxophonist Colin Stetson began an ambitious trilogy of impressionistic records with New History Warfare Vol. 1. That album cycle continued in 2011, with New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges. It comes to a close with the recent release of the project’s final chapter, New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light.…
Seven Bands to Watch at Waking Windows III
The best thing about the Waking Windows Festival in Winooski is its wealth of intriguing underground music. But for casual music fans, that overabundance is also its most challenging aspect. Occupying venues both conventional (the Monkey House) and nontraditional (Stoplight Gallery, the Winooski Welcome Center) around the Onion City’s infamous roundabout, the two-day indie-music fest…
Theater Review: Good People, Vermont Stage Company
Which is tougher: moving up and out of a poor neighborhood, or staying put to make a hardscrabble life there? For the people in the working-class “Southie” neighborhood of Boston in David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, getting ahead isn’t a matter of making good choices. Sometimes it depends on having any choices at all. Currently at…
Book Review: The Back Road to Boston by Bill Mares
In 2002, when Bill Mares of Burlington was 61, he decided he could sing a three-hour performance of Bach’s emotionally draining St. Matthew Passion on a Sunday afternoon and then run the Boston Marathon at noon the next day. That he not only did so but published a book about the experience a decade later…
Vermont’s College Grads in Digital Defense Are in Huge Demand
As a kid, Catherine Stamm was always interested in police work and criminal forensics, until she realized she couldn’t stomach “the whole blood thing.” But as a high school student in North Babylon, N.Y., she also loved messing around with computers. So she decided to attend Champlain College and pursue a degree in computer and…
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Rewind: The Last Days of Waterfront Video [308]
4/27/13: After almost 17 years in business, Waterfront Video will close its doors April 30. The age of Netflix and instant streaming has finally brought about the demise of the last video store in Burlington. Eva talks to Waterfront staff, regulars and movie lovers about what the store meant to them. Music: The Jazz Guys,…
Letters to the Editor
Minimum Order As a short-lived employee of Thibodeau’s Ice Cream, I was glad to see your article [“Small Vermont Retailers Frozen Out by Ben & Jerry’s New Purchasing Rules,” April 24]. Everything is true except for the minimum-order requirement. Eight cases is the minimum, but that includes all products. A 64-pint, eight-case minimum on Ben…
