Nov 20-26, 2013
Burlington’s Biggest Brand-Makers Downsize and Reenvision Themselves; Will Sodexo Workers Organize?; Bun in the Oven, Buns Onstage; Crisis Mapping the Philippines; Restaurant Chicken Dinners
Cover Story
Burlington Design Firm JDK Reinvents Itself
Even if you don’t know JDK, you know JDK. The Burlington design shop has shaped the looks of local darlings and global giants alike: Burton, Magic Hat, Seventh Generation, Merrell, Patagonia, Nike, Pepsi, Segway — all have been clients. And JDK’s creative minds are responsible for the look of Microsoft’s Xbox, including the hotly anticipated…
Obituary: Gilberte Bernadette Jette
Gilberte Bernadette Jette, age 80 years, died late Friday evening November 22, 2013, at her Messenger St. residence with loving family at her side. Born in Farnham, Quebec Canada on November 9, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Evelina (Gendron) Barabe. She attended schools in Canada and on March 26, 1951,…
Obituary: Denise Rachel Dumont
Denise Rachel Dumont, 57, passed away peacefully at Redstone Villa in St.Albans, VT. She was the loving daughter of Francois and Jeanne D’Arc Demers. She was born in Plessesville, Quebec, Canada on March 22, 1956. She moved to Lawrence, MA in the early 1960’s and attended Lawrence schools. In 1973, she married Gilles Dumont, had…
Obituary: Florence Wanzer Beard
Florence Wanzer Beard, 95, of Johnson, passed away Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at The Manor in Morrisville, Vermont. She was born in Fairfield, VT on April 7, 1918, the daughter of Allen and Edith Abel Wanzer. She was a resident of Johnson for 73 years. She was a graduate of Enosburg High School, where she…
A Pregnant Reporter Takes in an Exotic Male Revue
“Are you going to behave?” the bouncer asked while checking our IDs at the door. “Wait,” I said, handing a young woman my $12 cover fee, “I thought misbehaving was the point?” It was Friday night, and I had come with two friends, Sarah and Shayla, to Venue, a South Burlington nightclub tucked behind the…
At Karma Bird House, Creative Business Owners Make Connections
On a recent Wednesday, two tenants at 47 Maple Street in Burlington — aka the Karma Bird House — discovered that an online game called Foldit provided an unlikely link between their seemingly unrelated businesses. Foldit is based on software called Rosetta, developed in part by Xavier Ambroggio. He’s the 34-year-old general manager of Rosetta…
Vermont Cookbook Authors Deliver Off-Beat Thanksgiving Sides
Every Thanksgiving, my father rises at dawn to smother a giant bird with ungodly amounts of butter and shove it into the oven. He bastes dutifully every half hour until it turns coppery brown, then hands me the crispiest bits of skin in a wordless exchange we repeat each holiday. Once the butter-soaked mashed potatoes,…
Eyewitness: Painter Austin Furtak-Cole
Ask Austin Furtak-Cole about his paintings and the conversation is apt to veer toward existential concerns. When one can handle paint as well as this 32-year-old — Furtak-Cole has shown work in London, Toronto and New York City — what takes over, evidently, is intense questioning. With constantly evolving work that generally marries abstraction and…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Assistant manager Ariel Sinclair, 23, stole nearly $6000 from a drug store’s lottery machine after using its fingerprint-recognition feature to unlock it, according to police in Virginia Beach, Va. “If you’re providing your fingerprint to access this machine, I have no idea how, in your mind, you’re thinking you’re going to get…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The poet Charles Baudelaire prayed for help, but not to God — rather he prayed to the writer Edgar Allan Poe. Novelist Malcolm Lowry sometimes pleaded with God to give him insight, but he also prayed to the writer Franz Kafka. I really like this approach to seeking guidance, and recommend…
The Bird’s the Word: Weekly Burlington-Area Chicken Dinners
In January 2007, Thomas Keller opened ad hoc in Yountville, Calif., already home to his famous restaurant the French Laundry. The chef’s comparatively affordable, family-style menu was a hit, but the national buzz focused on one particular day of the week: ad hoc’s fried-chicken Mondays. The meal spawned long lines, lots of press and even…
Catching Up With Pete Bernhard of the Devil Makes Three
Read up on Santa Cruz-by-way-of-Vermont outfit the Devil Makes Three and, within the first paragraph or so of practically any article, you’ll encounter some reference to the group’s proclivity for genre-bending hijinks. (See? There it was.) And for good reason. Over the past decade, six records and countless shows, the acoustic trio has built a…
Vermonters Help the Philippines Relief Effort with Digital Map Making
It was one week after Super Typhoon Haiyan, and I was on a global team of volunteers performing emergency mapping work in uncharted areas of the island of Negros in the Philippines. My task was to mark the footprints of buildings — or where buildings had been before the storm blew through and destroyed them.…
What’s Up With the Old Pump House and Reservoirs at UVM?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Work: Moose Hauler Dennis Bingham
Let’s say you want to shoot a moose, and you’ve got a permit to hunt one. The next step is to line up your moose hauler. Unlike a deer, which is light enough (relatively speaking) for a single hunter to drag from the woods, a moose can weigh anywhere from 600 to 800 pounds. And…
![Deer Hunting Opening Weekend [SIV330]](https://i0.wp.com/www.sevendaysvt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/episode330-4-e1755138779702.webp?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1)
Deer Hunting Opening Weekend [SIV330]
11/16/13: Deer rifle season began this Saturday and will continue through December 1st. Eva went out on her first hunting trip with Tom Rogers from Vermont Fish and Wildlife in Stowe Hollow. Then she talked to hunters at The Fly Rod Shop in Stowe and at the Jericho General Store in Jericho about this Vermont…
Letters to the Editor
Not Democracy At All Your October 30 week in review [“Last 7”] describes the city council debate about the F-35 being based in Vermont, and it concludes, “Ah, democracy.”?If there is one thing at work in this process, it is not democracy. At the city council meeting, generally those who were allowed to give “public…
