Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2013
From 4000 Feet, Hugh and Jeanne Joudry Have Kept Watch Over Vermont for Decades; Guard-Inmate Sex Tests Law; Barre’s Public Art Has Teeth; Winter Floor Hockey Faces Off; Exploring Vermont’s Haunted Restaurants
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From 4000 Feet, Hugh and Jeanne Joudry Have Kept Watch Over Vermont’s Stratton Mountain for Decades
When Hugh and Jeanne Joudry first ascended Stratton Mountain 45 years ago, “We had no idea what we were doing,” Jeanne recently recalled. Back then, Jeanne was 23 years old and fresh out of art school; she and Hugh, a 29-year-old math teacher, had signed up to spend the summer of 1968 working as fire…
Obituary: Charles Albert Cook
Charles Albert Cook, age 88 years, a resident of the Little County Road, died late Saturday afternoon, November 2, 2013, at Redstone Villa in St. Albans City. Born in St. Albans, VT on July 17, 1925, he was the son of the late Albert James and Nora (Cornell) Cook. He attended school in St. Albans…
Obituary: Dylan “Snow Bear” Airoldi
Dylan “Snow Bear” Airoldi, age 20 years, died unexpectedly Friday morning November 1, 2013, in the Northwestern Medical Center. Born in St. Albans on August 20, 1993, he was the son of Paul and Janice (Bellrose) Airoldi. He received his early education at the Sheldon Elementary School, attended Bellows Free Academy-St Albans and in 2011,…
Exploring Vermont’s Haunted Restaurants
Around this time of year, we become especially attuned to things that go bump in the night. For those who work in bars and restaurants — especially in Vermont’s centuries-old buildings — the end of service often intersects with the witching hour. Chefs, kitchen staff, innkeepers and servers in the state’s older buildings brim with…
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Vermont’s Divisive “Debate” Over F-35s
Missing from Burlington’s heated debate over a fighter jet basing? Sanders and the rest of the Vermont delegation.
Soundbites: Halloween Rock Roundup
As regular readers know, Halloween is the official holiday of Soundbites. So, as has become tradition, we begin this week’s column with a rundown of some Halloween-themed shows happening over the weekend, complete with some stupid costume ideas specific to each show — and some bonus ideas later in the column, just because. We begin…
Floor Hockey Fever Hits Vermont
Ron Stewart is on fire tonight. With seven minutes and 14 seconds left in the first period, he picks up the momentum from goaltender Pierre Heroux’s stellar save and scores for the Royals, deftly maneuvering his stick as his ponytail swishes against his back. By the time the clock reads 1:21, Stewart has scored again,…
Pianist-Composer Bob Merrill Gives Voice to Silent Movies
There’s never been a better time to listen to movies than the present. Not only do most theaters offer incredibly realistic, 360-degree “sonic experiences” for their patrons, but many of us have sound systems at home that are nearly as good. Yet there’s still much to be said for silent films — or, more specifically,…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Philippine authorities charged Jeane Napoles, 23, with tax evasion after she posted pictures on social media documenting her lavish lifestyle, including one showing her bathing in money. “We follow the internet,” Bureau of Internal Revenue chief Kim Henares said. “That is where we heard about her.” (Agence France-Presse) Belgian authorities arrested Somali…
Eyewitness: Artist Nissa Kauppila
“There’s just this part of me that loves destruction,” says Nissa Kauppila, sipping a de-stresser tea in her South Burlington home. The 31-year-old painter doesn’t look particularly destructive. She’s dressed neatly, her long, brown hair stylishly blown out, and she’s poised and well postured on her living-room couch. Her gouache paintings are similarly paradoxical, simultaneously…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Once when I was hiking through Maui’s rain forest, I spied a majestic purple honohono flower sprouting from a rotting log. As I bent down close, I inhaled the merged aromas of moldering wood and sweet floral fragrance. Let’s make this scene your metaphor of the week, Aries. Here’s why: A…
Nectar’s Sergei Ushakov Is a Sound Guy
A good sound man is like a good referee: If he’s doing his job correctly, you should hardly notice he’s there. Save for the most persnickety of audiophiles, few people give the sound engineer a second thought at a concert. Unless, of course, a singer’s vocals are set back too far in the mix, the…
4 More Local Albums You Probably Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up. Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure or far out.…
Book Review: The Séance Society, Michael Nethercott
In 1956 Connecticut, a millionaire with a spiritualist bent has himself hooked to a machine designed to transmit messages from the Great Beyond. The “Spectricator” puts him in contact with the dead, all right — by electrocuting him. That’s the neat setup of Michael Nethercott’s debut novel. A mystery whose release is aptly timed for…
Book Review: Three Can Keep a Secret, Archer Mayor
The best reality-based movies are riveting even when we know what’s going to happen — Captain Phillips being a current example. The same is true of Archer Mayor’s latest iteration of his Joe Gunther detective series, Three Can Keep a Secret. The Newfane, Vt., author’s 24th novel is set into motion against the backdrop of…
Letters to the Editor
Smack Down I was a little shocked to see the graphic image of a heroin user in the “By the Numbers” posting [Last 7, October 23]. Rather than glamorizing drug use and sales by pointing out the $126,000 street value, a more salient number would be the cost to Vermont taxpayers to “house” these thugs…
