A light morning fog was just burning off as Vermont Rail System engineer Justin Gibbs eased the throttle forward on locomotive VTR-210 and motored the freight train across a tangle of track crisscrossing the Rutland rail yard. With its bells clanging and horns blowing, the 250,000-pound diesel locomotive slowly rumbled north onto the main line toward…
In loving memory of Alexa Rose Cioffi 11/21/1985-04/09/2016 You are always and forever in our hearts.
San Francisco-born and now Brooklyn-based artist Jana Flynn makes a foray into New England with an exhibition at Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction. Collectively titled “Blind Spot,” the half dozen mixed-media works consist of silk-screened prints on paper sewn together. The images — layers of concentric rings in contrasting colors — are…
Every autumn brings a new crop of prestige films, some of which are shoo-ins for Oscar consideration while others lack the mainstream appeal to gain a voting majority. For moviegoers willing to gamble on something new, however, the latter group often contains the best surprises. Case in point: this debut feature from Scottish director Charlotte…
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 skulk of foxes. 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…
new in theaters THE MENU: A culinary adventure goes awry in Mark Mylod’s horror comedy about a young couple who pay for an exclusive tasting menu experience. Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes star. (106 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy) SHE SAID: Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play the New York Times reporters who broke…
While most of the state — and the nation — was focused on who would win the midterm election in the week leading up to November 8, a group of Vermonters gathered at the Statehouse with a different agenda: celebrating the small-“d” democratic values we have in common. On November 3, a crowd of 100…
Human vanity is always a prime source of comedy, especially when family members compete to top each other with their suffering or their success. Christopher Durang’s 2012 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a rogue’s gallery of the self-absorbed, all occupying the same fuzzy line between misery and foolishness that Anton Chekhov explored.…
Shelburne Village Self Storage 3933 Shelburne Rd. Shelburne, VT 05482 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid. William Kinnear Unit #A27 Arthur Hathaway Unit #723 Galen Sampson Unit #901 Said sale will take place at Shelburne Village Self Storage,…
For a person who likes to travel by sleigh, Fin Ciappara lives in the right place: a house in a hilly neighborhood in Barre where a sled would pick up speed with ease on a snowy eve. The porch is adorned with a red-and-white striped pole and a sign that reads “North Pole.” At the…
NOTICE OF CROSS-APPEAL NOW COME Interested Parties Craig and Chiuho Sampson, by and through their counsel, MSK Attorneys, and pursuant to Rule 5(b)(2) of the Vermont Rules for Environmental Court Proceedings hereby files this Notice of Cross-Appeal concerning Natural Resources Wastewater Permit No. WW-4-4800-1 dated September 6, 2022. This appeal concerns property located at 4354…
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Sylvia Plath had a disturbing, melodramatic relationship with romance. In one of her short stories, for example, she has a woman character say, “His love is the twenty-story leap, the rope at the throat, the knife at the heart.” I urge you to avoid contact with people who think…
Dear Reverend, My partner always defers to his parents and older brother when planning holidays. He and I would love to host or at least just not have to travel every time. His brother says work is too busy for him to take time off, and the parents guilt my partner into making the trip.…
Ordinance 5.28 Sponsor(s): Councilors Barlow, Carpenter First reading: Referred to: Rules suspended and placed in all stages of passage: 10/24/22 Signed by Mayor: 11/08/22 Published: 11/16/22 Effective: 12/07/22 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That, Chapter 22, Parks, of the Code of Ordinances of the City…
Aaron Starmer’s new middle-grade novel A Million Views starts with a bottomless pit. Actually, it’s a regular hole that 12-year-old Vermonter Brewster Gaines hopes will look like a bottomless pit in a 10-second video. Making videos is Brewster’s raison d’être, and he spends most of his free time plotting them out, filming solo, editing them…
Vermont has adopted some of the most restrictive cannabis advertising rules in the country — regulations that some entrepreneurs say could stifle small businesses hoping to grow in the fledgling market. Among the restrictions: All ads must be approved in advance by Vermont Cannabis Control Board staff; media outlets must prove that less than 15…
Three political newcomers are vying to fill a city council seat on Burlington’s east side, where residents have been without full representation for two months. In September, Progressive councilor Jack Hanson stepped down in the East District, which covers Wards 1 and 8, to apply for a job in city government. A few weeks later,…
On a weeknight in February 2002, the Champlain College Beavers basketball team ran past Sage College of Albany for a 76-67 victory before the brimming bleachers and balcony of Burlington’s Memorial Auditorium. It was the last game the team played in the now-abandoned building. When the 2002 season ended, so did Champlain’s varsity athletics program.…
Culture Clash Regarding the recent article “Warning Shots” [November 2], I offer my own warning against the creepy, politically correct tone throughout, as if we are somehow at fault or have failed these people who threaten our lives. Where is the idea, at least referenced in passing, that as our guests these people are expected…
One of the first messages I received after taking the music editor post last year had the subject line “Hey, Shithead.” No “Nice to meet you” or “Hey, have you heard so and so?” Nope. Just a terse message accusing me of having feces for brains because I didn’t cover a concert that the reader…
Recently, Seven Days experimented with a new algorithm created by the music writers. It was supposed to listen to and catalog the massive numbers of new music submissions sent to the paper, eventually writing its own 500-word reviews. Using terms such as “a genre unto themselves” and “this was cooler in 2004,” the program was…
No one looks at a 15th-century Italian painting and thinks, SpongeBob SquarePants! No one except Plainfield artist Emilia Olson, that is. Her takeoff on Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” — “Birth of Venus With Toys” — replaces the supporting figures of the original with the perpetually excited blue-and-yellow cartoon star, as well as Bert…
In 2018, Rochester High School closed its doors. For years, enrollment had been dropping; the school’s final graduating class had just two students. Prompted by the passage in 2015 of Act 46 — a Vermont education law that encourages school districts to merge into larger units — Rochester joined with Stockbridge to form a unified…
In July, when Chelsea Morgan and Tom D’Angelo announced their plans to open Vermont Fine in Richmond, the chef-owners explained that the name is a playful attempt to sum up the state’s unofficial dress code: a flannel shirt and a Carhartt jacket. “You can come here right off the farm,” Morgan told Seven Days at…
Driving up Route 7 just north of Rutland, it’s hard to miss the bright purple-and-orange sign on Flavors of Our Travels, a takeout-only vegan restaurant open Friday through Sunday. The colors evoke the sunset that co-owners and partners Christian Cabrera, 31, and Katie Salomon, 30, see from their combination home and restaurant. They are “the…
Tricia and Ken Jarecki have sold the fresh pasta business that they started in 1992 to newly minted food entrepreneur Chad Brosher for an undisclosed price. Vermont Fresh Pasta began in the basement of the couple’s Killington restaurant and has grown over the years to operate in a 5,500-square-foot facility in Proctorsville where a team…
Although the sign and door at 2026 Williston Road in South Burlington still bear the name of the previous restaurant occupant, Phuong Lam reopened Pho Vo in the building she owns in late October. New signage is coming, said Lam, 42. She originally opened Pho Vo in that location right before the pandemic in early…
When Lisa DeNatale set out to obtain Italian citizenship based on her Sicilian lineage, things got complicated fast. Non-Italians can obtain citizenship if an ancestor was born in Italy, even one as far back as great-great-grandparents. DeNatale’s paternal grandparents, for instance, were born in Sicily and came over to the U.S. in the early 1900s. But…
Fiddle Me This Friday 18 QWANQWA, a supergroup made up of some of Addis Ababa’s most exceptional musicians, brings experimental Ethiopian music to Next Stage Arts Project in Putney. Using instruments such as the one-stringed masinko and the goatskin kebero drum, the quintet blends genres and moods for a psychedelic show. Summit Completely Different Thursday…
