Sep 11-17, 2013
The Performing Arts Preview 2013-2014; Parent’s React to Calendar 2.0; Artists Reimagine the Moran Plant
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The 2013-2014 Performing Arts Preview
September is a bittersweet month of endings and beginnings. If we’re bummed to say goodbye to gardens, beaches and the indolent days of summer, there’s still a frisson of anticipation for what lies ahead. For some of us, that means going back to school. For sporty types, it means looking forward to gliding down the…
Obituary: Patrick Henry McGrath
Patrick Henry McGrath, 67, lost his courageous battle against illness and passed away on September 4, 2013 at his home in Maryville, TN. He was born on January 27, 1946 to Earl James McGrath and Hilda Rutz McGrath and grew up in Burlington, VT where he attended Burlington High School. Patrick married Mary Frances Blow…
Obituary: Paul Edward Gaboury
Paul Edward Gaboury, age 76 years, died Wednesday afternoon September 11, 2013, at the Franklin County Rehab Center where he had resided since 2003. Born in Pawtucket, RI on February 25, 1937, he was the son of the late Eugene and Irene (Cournoyer) Gaboury. He was raised in St. Albans where his family lived on…
Obituary: Mrs. Jeanne d’Arc Rainville
Mrs. Jeanne d’Arc Rainville, age 91 years, died Wednesday morning September 11, 2013, at the Our Lady of Providence Residence in Winooski. Born in Dunham, Quebec Canada on April 29, 1922, she was the daughter of the late Delvini and Emma (Comette) Jette. She attended schools in Canada, graduating in 1943 as a Registered Nurse…
Burlington’s Front Porch Forum Expands Statewide
How do you share hyper-local news with your neighbors? If you live in Chittenden County, you’ve probably been using Front Porch Forum to spread the word about break-ins, lost cats and municipal meetings. The Burlington-based online community building service, created in 2006 by Michael Wood-Lewis (pictured) and his wife, Valerie, has become part of the fabric…
Find Jobs, Robots and 3-D Printers at the 7th Annual Vermont Tech Jam
It feels like summer outside, but I’m not fooled. I know it’s fall, because I just sent out a press release for the 7th annual Vermont Tech Jam, which is coming up in a few weeks. Here it is, below: Burlington, Vt. – Dozens of the state’s fastest growing and most innovative companies will participate…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When two men showed a gun at a busy Chicago restaurant and announced a holdup, the owner asked them to come back in an hour when fewer customers would be around. After they agreed and left, the owner called police, who were waiting when Mario Garcia, 39, and Domingo Garcia-Hernandez, 28, returned…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart,” wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his book Stranger Than Fiction. From what I can tell, Aries, the sequence is the reverse for you. In your story, the disruption has already happened. Next comes the part where you laugh.…
Charles Bradley Talks Soul, Sadness and Salvation
When Charles Bradley answers his phone on his tour bus to speak with a Seven Days reporter, his voice, that glorious geyser of a voice, is a barely audible croak. The Screaming Eagle of Soul’s tired rasp on this day can most likely be attributed to his recent run of West Coast shows, performances that…
Chefs Bring Fine Dining to Sodexo
Being a chef is grueling. The long hours, sweaty nights in the kitchen and hurry-up-and-wait stress are enough to drive most sane people to drink — or to find another career. Add kids to the mix, and even the most dedicated culinarians may begin searching for other options. For a chef with a family, stability…
WTF: What’s the story behind the “sacred” bricks of Norwich University?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Artists Find Inspiration in the Moran Plant
From the outside, Burlington’s Moran Plant is a hulking eyesore, a fenced-off, industrial brick behemoth plunked on the Lake Champlain waterfront like an oversize step stool. Inside — as I learned on a recent tour with Community and Economic Development Office director Peter Owens and Burlington painter Katharine Montstream — it’s a grand cathedral of…
Acconci Sculpture Re-installed at Middlebury College
“Vito Acconci: Thinking Space,” which recently opened at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, is as much an act of atonement as an art show. It chronicles what has to be one of the creepiest incidents in the 213-year history of the highly respected higher education institution: the escalating destruction of a public sculpture created…
Book Review: Little Island by Katharine Britton
For the first half of Little Island, Norwich author Katharine Britton’s unsettling second novel, 64-year-old innkeeper Grace Little is stymied and confused — and we readers are confused right along with her. It all starts with a scene in which Grace, tending to her dying mother, Joan, finds a faded 1937 photograph by her bedside.…
Taste Test: Revolution Kitchen
It’s a brave new world for vegetables. Though my own meat-free days were short-lived, I once subsisted on the pabulum of veggie stir-fries and avocado sandwiches. Now, tattooed vegans Instagram photos of chard pancakes, and hotshot chef-authors such as Yotam Ottolenghi have shown home cooks how to sprinkle broiled eggplant with pomegranate seeds and not…
Letters to the Editor
Syria Error Good reporting on the hard choices facing our congressional delegation on Syria [Fair Game: “Syria Business,” September 4]. Here’s what I wrote Leahy, Sanders and Welch:?“I hope you will stand in the way of the rush to war in Syria. Hafez Assad is a despicable, evil tyrant willing to mercilessly slaughter his own…
Obituary: Timothy R. Wellinger,
Winooski Timothy R. Wellinger, 30, of Winooski, unexpectedly left his family and friends on Sunday, September 1, 2013, due to a tragic accident. Although his journey with us ended so soon, Tim was doing what he loved the most during his last moments. He was employed by Aris as a personal care provider for children…
Obituary: Theresa Ann (LaChance) Ralston,
1958-2013, Colchester/South Burlington Theresa Ann (LaChance) Ralston, 55, passed away on Monday, August 26, 2013, at home with loved ones and friends at her side after a long-fought battle with COPD. Terri was born in Milwaukee, Wis., on January 14, 1958, to Kenneth and Patricia (Rasmasson) LaChance. She married Fred Ralston on February 13, 1982,…
Richard “Dick” Yeaw
1931-2013, Burlington A memorial service in celebration of the life of Dick Yeaw will be held Saturday, September 14, 2 p.m. at First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, Vt. Dick died July 21 surrounded by family after a five-year battle with cancer. Donations may be made to your favorite environmental organization.
