Oct 12-18, 2016
Patrick Leahy, 42 Years a Senator; Electronic Music Pioneer Tod Machover in Burlington; Rowan Jacobsen’s Oyster Love
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Forty-Two Years a Senator: Has Leahy Served Long Enough?
After decades in office, the dean of the United States Senate wasn’t saying whether he would seek another term. But an ambitious Vermont politician wouldn’t…
Obituary: Dave “Big D” Fayette, 1945-2016
Our dearly beloved Dave Fayette, 70, left us on Thursday, September 29, 2016. He was born on October 22, 1945, to Ellen and Frederick J….
The Parmelee Post: Joe Biden’s Vermont Itinerary Revealed
This intense election season has been nonconsensually grabbing the attention of otherwise self-respecting voters across our great state. So it came as a welcome surprise…
Obituary: Jill Marie (Mortimer) Hartman, 1958-2016
St. Albans – Jill Marie (Mortimer) Hartman loved, lived, nursed and nurtured with an energy that drew out the best in others. She was born…
The Birth of a Nation
Never before have the fortunes of a filmmaker and his debut creation soared to such prerelease heights, only to come crashing and burning back to…
Electronic Music Pioneer Tod Machover Plays Burlington
Electronic music was born of experiments with radio equipment after the Second World War. The advent of the synthesizer brought that technology to compositions as…
The Girl on the Train
Rachel is a train wreck. A public drunk. A stalker. She’s the kind of woman who visits her ex’s house and sinisterly cuddles the baby…
The New Siberians, Black Blue + White
(Self-released, digital download, vinyl) If you’re going to go almost a decade between album releases, you might as well turn out a double album, right?…
Fable Farm Fermentory Experiments With Apples
Long shadows were all that remained of an October afternoon. Sapling fruit trees, arranged in meandering berms, lined the drive to a regal timber-frame barn…
Whitney’s Julien Ehrlich Has Nothing to Hide
Chicago’s Whitney have spent the past year putting themselves out there — way out there. To wit, the septet’s inaugural Instagram posts were essentially a…
Kin & Quality, The Uninvited
(Self-released, digital download) Burlington rapper Kin has grown up on record. He first bum-rushed the stage, metaphorically speaking, in 2013 as one half of UnKommon…
Wild Hart Distillery Plans Tasting Room
Naomi Clemmons and Craig Stevens, founders of Wild Hart Distillery, view each sip of a craft-distilled spirit as a collection of stories. And they plan…
Shumlin’s Unlikely Legacy: A Judiciary of His Appointees
In assessing Gov. Peter Shumlin’s legacy after six years in office, observers are likely to note the obvious highs and lows: his fight against opiate…
Soundbites: On Jim Breuer, Pete RG and the Return of Funkwagon
This is a local music column, so it only makes sense to begin this week with a nationally renowned standup comedian, right? OK, fine, that…
Tea Talks in Middlebury; a New Market for Winooski
At last: Winooski grocery shoppers will soon have a new option. Owner Michael Hughes says the third location of Commodities Natural Market, located in Keen’s…
How Can I Tell Women About My Foot Fetish?
Dear Athena, I have a confession: I have a foot fetish. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an infatuation with women’s bare…
Hunting Foes Want to Snare Seats on Vermont’s Fish & Wildlife Board
As sunlight filtered through an overgrown apple orchard in Lincoln, Patrick Berry lifted his shotgun and fired. A loud boom echoed through the tangle of…
Letters to Editor (10/12/16)
Best of Bennett [Re “Wizard of Awe,” September 28]: Yep, “magic” is right! And I had the honor of having gotten a bit of it…
SecurShade Aims to Shield Schoolchildren
For 30 years, Gordon Clements has manufactured and sold window shades, curtains and blinds out of a Williston business he founded in his basement: Gordon’s…
Who Built the Otter Creek Dugway, and Why?
When reader Karl Riemer of Underhill emailed recently to ask, “Who dug the Dugway between Otter Creek and Fields Bay, when and why?” my initial…
At Off Center, Burlington’s Fringe Fest Is Back
The Burlington Fringe Festival at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, which bills itself as “the fourth annual,” began five years ago. No, that’s not…
Art Review: ‘Of Land and Local: Watershed,’ BCA Center and Shelburne Farms Coach Barn
Two venues. Three cocurators. More than a dozen artists. Many mediums. It’s the fourth edition of the ambitious annual art show jointly organized by Burlington…
Theater Review: Smokey Joe’s Café, Girls Nite Out
For its fall production, Burlington’s Girls Nite Out Productions brings Smokey Joe’s Café: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller to Main Street Landing Black Box…
Free Will Astrology (10/12/16)
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most of us can’t tickle ourselves. Since we have conscious control of our fingers, we know we can stop any time….
Free College? Minter Proposes; Scott Skeptical
Two Castleton University students were among those asking questions at a gubernatorial debate last month in Rutland, so the conversation naturally turned to higher education….
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Queen City Ghostwalk [SIV462]
10/8/16: On a windy evening in downtown Burlington, paranormal historian Thea Lewis led a brave group through back alleyways as part of her Queen City…
Dug Nap Draws From Life in ‘Artsy Fartsy’
The term “artsy-fartsy” is a fun, flatulence-inflected dismissal of the pretentiousness that can attend the art world. As such, it’s an excellent choice of title…
Ditching Donald: Will Trump Doom Vermont Republicans?
Last April, Republican Senate candidate Scott Milne slammed his party’s future presidential nominee, Donald Trump, for “cozying up to the [Ku Klux] Klan.” But, he…
Damon Ferrante Guitar Composition, Inspired by Calder
Vermont composer Damon Ferrante often finds inspiration for his music in instances of visual movement: the interplay of rhythms between his windshield wipers and a…
Theater Review: Macbeth, Northern Stage
Disorientation may be the ideal way to liberate an audience. In his bold vision of Macbeth, director Stephen Brown-Fried uses surprise to help viewers see…
Piecemeal Pies Sets Up in White River Junction
White River Junction has seen no shortage of new developments in recent years. And this Tuesday, October 11, the town gained a new restaurant when…
Author Rowan Jacobsen Talks Oyster Love
Most of the time, Calais resident Rowan Jacobsen describes oysters as if he were recalling lovers, his words like fingertips brushing across skin. Of the…
