The crowd went wild Saturday afternoon as Bernie Sanders ascended a makeshift plywood stage at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo, Wisconsin. While the independent senator from Vermont grimaced and waved, two men standing 30 yards to his right initiated a chant that quickly spread through the rows of folding chairs to the bleachers in…
Judy A. Langlois, age 72 years, a resident of 8 Lake Street in Swanton Village passed away late Thursday evening September 18, 2014, at the Burlington Health and Rehabilitation Center in the presence of loving family. Judy was born in Burlington, Vermont on May 23, 1942, the daughter of the late Lawrence Langlois and Lauretta…
Diane Irene Creller, age 58 years, died Friday September 19, 2014, at her South Alburgh home with loving family at her side following a long courageous battle with ALS. Born in Manchester, Connecticut on February 3, 1956, Diane was the daughter of the late Leonard John and Charlotte Madelaine (Gilbert) Lawson. She attended Manchester High…
Joe White, “Poppee”, 71, of Essex died on Wednesday Sept. 17, 2014 due to complications from a lifetime battle with Rheumatoid Arthritis. He was surrounded by family. Joe was born in Massena, NY on Oct. 15, 1942, the son of the late Winfield and Ursula (LaCroix) White. He served in the U.S. Air Force from…
Aside from the Architecture + Design Film Series at Burlington City Arts and the Madsonian Museum of Industrial Design in Waitsfield (architect David Sellers’ collection of well-designed objects), Vermont doesn’t offer many prompts for the public to consciously admire good design. That will change beginning Monday, September 22, with the launch of the first Vermont…
Curses, Foiled Again Bradley Hardison, 24, managed to elude authorities for nearly nine months before they nabbed him after a local paper published his photo for winning a doughnut-eating contest at a police anticrime event in Elizabeth City, N.C. “I was pissed because it’s like throwing it in our face,” Camden County sheriff’s Lt. Max…
Dear Athena, I have been with my girlfriend for almost seven years and we have always had a good relationship. No major issues. But sometimes I think we are a little bored with each other. It’s been a long time since either of us has been with anyone else, and I was thinking about asking…
The big news on the local music front this week is … well, it’s actually food news. Namely, the inaugural Eat by Northeast festival slated for Oakledge Park in Burlington this Friday through Sunday, September 19 through 21. While the many-splendored gustatory treats of our locavore food scene are the focus of the fest, which…
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9/13/14: The Third Annual Vermonster Challenge was held at The Confluence/Green Mountain CrossFit in Berlin last weekend. Competitors from almost all of the crossfit gyms in the state tested their strength and endurance to find the fittest team of four. Music: Dirty Blondes, Sex the Elastic, “Crybaby” This episode of Stuck in Vermont was made…
Art comes off the walls of the Helen Day Art Center’s East Gallery this month with an exhibit that is anything but stationary. “In No Time: A Retrospective of Ideas in the Choreography of Polly Motley” is a largely improvised dance, video, sound and set installation that will develop in twice-weekly performances from September 19…
Everyday Error While it might be an everyday occurrence for Russ Weis to see the words “every day” misspelled as “everyday,” I’m sure he will allow that — as an adjective — it cannot be spelled otherwise. Now, if only it were nutritionally sound to make bacon an everyday indulgence. Nelson Caldwell Burlington Back to…
David Macaulay looks stumped. In the middle of a workday in early September, the author and illustrator of such famed works as Cathedral and The Way Things Work stands before a four-foot-long, hand-drawn blueprint of a steamship tacked to the wall of his home studio in Norwich. He waves his hands through the air in…
“Do you know he called twice while we were in the bar? He wanted me to pick him up some beer. I mean, what is up with that?” My seatmate was turned in her seat, talking to her two friends in the back. We were bound for Saint Michael’s College. All three of these girls…
Hot tip: Wanting It, by Brattleboro-based Diana Whitney, is a volume of poems that may make you beg for more. This debut from Brownsville’s Harbor Mountain Press burns with intensity and observations clarified by desire. Collectively, these narrative poems chart a woman’s experience moving through the landscape of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom and beyond. The book’s…
If “craftiest street in Vermont” were an official title, it would inspire plenty of spirited competition. And everyone would recognize Middlebury’s Exchange Street, between Route 7 and Elm Street, as an up-and-comer in the food-and-drink category. This mile-and-a-half stretch of industrial park, once the dreary domain of concrete warehouses, professional offices and a wastewater treatment…
The emphasis is on local at this weekend’s Burlington Book Festival, though attendees will spy luminaries from afar, too: Don’t miss the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, Brooklynite Vijay Seshadri, on Saturday afternoon. The BBF’s Friday evening opening ceremonies start with a dedication to Katherine Paterson in the fest’s new primary home: the Fletcher…
(Self-released, CD, digital download) On Sunrise Blues, his second “solo” CD release since parting ways with the popular bluegrass band Front Range, Northeast Kingdom bluegrass master Bob Amos once again showcases his many talents. He has just about everything one might need to make catchy and memorable string-band music, including a solid foundation in classic…
“Radioactive Boars Are Roaming Around Germany” reads a September 2 headline on Smithsonian.com. While the legacy of the disaster at Chernobyl has received much in the way of Hollywood treatment — flesh-hungry mutants and giant, scaly worms — the Geiger-inciting boars serve as a more acute reminder of human folly in the reality we all…
(State and Main Records, CD, digital download) Montpelier’s Anachronist began life as vehicle for veteran sideman Brian Clark to dabble as a front man. Though a 2012 EP, Row, was the first recording to bear the band’s name, the real Anachronist debut was Clark’s 2010 album, Solo Duo Trio. Drawing a line from that record…
When it comes to poetry, Chase Twichell is versatile and thorough. In addition to publishing seven full-length poetry collections, she has taught poetry (at Goddard College, Princeton University and Warren Wilson College, among others); she’s translated poetry (a collection by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore); and she’s published others’ poetry (in 1999, she founded Ausable Press,…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): These horoscopes I write for you aren’t primarily meant to predict the future. They are more about uncovering hidden potentials and desirable possibilities that are stirring below the surface right now. When I’m doing my job well, I help you identify those seeds so you can cultivate them proactively. Bearing that…
Two days after announcing her run for a Vermont Senate seat in Windsor County, Becca Balint received a handwritten postcard in the mail that read, “I urge you to end your political ambitions and stay home with your children.” It was a black-and-white reminder that, even in progressive Vermont, female candidates sometimes face an uphill…
If last weekend brought cooler temps and cloudy skies, it also hastened the fall harvest, and around the state, people are feasting to celebrate the autumnal bounty. Seven Days samples the tasty morsels on offer this weekend. “Harvest season is so special,” says Boyden Valley Winery owner Linda Boyden, who’s in the thick of her…
The local hip-hop scene has increasingly become a platform for a diverse collection of voices, often closely tied to kindred communities such as skateboarders, dancers and street artists. Hip-hop has always been as much about culture as rap music. So it’s appropriate, albeit surprising, that the latest landmark work in local hip-hop would come from…
When was the last time someone recommended an essay to you in an urgent whisper, or the cyber-equivalent? Leslie Jamison, who will read on Saturday at the Burlington Book Festival, writes hybrids of memoir, reportage and commentary that inspire just such fervent endorsements. “Write women? Or write pain? Here’s an absolutely brilliant essay,” began the…
Organizers expect more than 1,000 Vermonters to join 100,000 marchers on Sunday, September 21, in what’s being billed as the biggest-ever action on climate change. Traveling to New York City by bus, train, van and even bike, members of the Green Mountain contingent will troop through midtown Manhattan two days prior to a global climate summit…
Before I get into one of the most boneheaded PR moves ever made, I want to address a fact I find jaw-dropping: Idris Elba plays an escaped killer in No Good Deed, a movie certain to rank among the year’s most repulsive, creatively bankrupt and instantly forgettable. Last year Elba starred in the story of…
It was the kind of scenario that has preoccupied mental health experts and policy makers in Vermont in recent years: On Sunday, September 7, state police found themselves at a log cabin off a dirt road in Eden with a man threatening suicide and holding a knife. On several prior occasions, Vermont officers have killed…
The Drop features James Gandolfini’s final film performance, and, while hardly a stretch for the late actor, it’s worth seeing. Playing the eponymous owner of a Brooklyn bar called Cousin Marv’s, who sampled the criminal life in his younger years, Gandolfini exudes the short-fused frustration of a man who wanted to be an alpha dog…
Brewmaster Mike Gerhart slipped away from our table at Otter Creek Brewing’s Middlebury taproom and returned minutes later with a pitcher. “I shouldn’t be doing this,” he said with a wry smile. “But why not?” Gerhart set tasting glasses on the table and filled them with a semi-viscous golden liquid. We each buried our nose…
Vermont’s campaign for lieutenant governor has been billed as the hottest race of this admittedly cool election cycle. But does anybody really care who holds the largely ceremonial post? “The reality is the office of the lieutenant governor has virtually no power,” admits incumbent Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, a Middlesex Republican who’s served as number…
John Hammond was born into the music business. His father, for whom he is named, was a legendary record producer who boosted the careers of talents as diverse as Bob Dylan, Benny Goodman and Arthur Russell. He is also generally credited with reviving the music of all-important 1930s Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. Hammond has been…
Winooski, VT – Thomas M. Devine died on September 14, 2014. Tom was born on December 29, 1936 in Springfield , MA, the son of Thomas and Eleanor (Maroney) Devine. Mr. Devine was a career educator, having taught at Hinesburg High School, CVUHS, and at St. Michael’s College. He is survived by a sister, Susan…
In recent years, getting Tomgirl Juice Co.’s jars of colorful liquid delivered has become one of Burlington’s top hippie-chic status symbols. But soon owner Gabrielle Kammerer will be taking her juice to the street — 463 St. Paul Street, to be exact. Kammerer plans to open her new café and store on November 1, with…
After two nights of soft opening, the Gryphon officially opened its doors on Sunday, September 14. Located in the Vermont House (in the old Ramen space) at St. Paul and Main streets in downtown Burlington, the Gryphon is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, serving upscale but homey farm-to-table dishes with a slight…
Howard Ross Chandler, Jr., 47, passed away September 13, 2014 in Rutland, VT after an extended illness. He was born November 8, 1966 in Burlington, VT to Howard R. Chandler, Sr and Ethel Teresa Hanscomb. He leaves to cherish his memory his mother, Ethel McDonald and stepfather, Clayton McDonald of Colorado Spring, CO; sister, Brenda…
Erwin Leroy Lamotte, 65, of Burlington passed away September 15, 2014 after a long battle with cancer. He was born on August 11, 1948 to Elmer and Doris (Blow) Lamotte. Erwin enjoyed being a printer for the Burlington School District. His passions include golf and the fellowships he made over 30 years. He was a…
