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In August, CNN dispatched a news crew to Florida to track down the world’s most prolific disseminator of COVID-19 misinformation: Joseph Mercola, an osteopath with 4.3 million followers across 14 social media platforms who has been identified by the Center for Countering Digital Hate as the No. 1 spreader of pandemic falsehoods on the internet.…
Owner of antique shops was a woman of endless hobbies and interests
Friends and family are invited to a celebration of Bob’s life on Saturday, October 23, at the Burlington Country Club from 3 to 5 p.m. This past year has had many changes, challenges and celebrations for all of us. Since Bob’s death on July 23, 2020, we have been missing him and remembering him through…
George F. Devoid passed away at the age of 87 after a short battle with cancer. George was a veteran of the Korean War and a talented machinist for Emerson Electric, creating custom tools. George spent his golden years with his partner and friend, Barbara Baker, in Elgin, Ill. George had six siblings and is…
South Burlington native was a passionate musician, songwriter and actor
Sometime during the quarantine, I bought my dad’s old car. It’s a great ride, full of luxury features that cars a decade or so ago had. I love it and have been roving all across the state in it this last year. The only downside is that the car must have been the last model…
Leave it to beavers to escape from their home and still come back in time for supper. No, this isn’t an episode of the bygone TV show “Leave It to Beaver,” about the escapades of a suburban boy who always winds up safely at home after 30 mischievous minutes. It’s the true story of BK,…
It’s been 11 months since the Rutland City Board of School Commissioners voted 6-4 to retire the district’s Raiders mascot after students and alumni made the case that it perpetuated racist stereotypes of Native Americans. And it’s been seven months since the school board approved a new student-selected moniker — the Rutland Ravens. But last…
(Self-released, CD, digital) It’s intriguing to observe a prodigy over time. When a musician starts out with a lot of talent at a young age, it’s impossible to predict how they might develop. Aidan Ryan first entered the Vermont music scene playing beside his father, Greg, in the duo’s original band, They Might Be Gypsies.…
(self-released, digital) A few years ago, I saw Bob Dylan perform at Shelburne Museum. While he was never at the top of my list of must-sees, I decided it was worth the $75 to hear a living legend. After Dylan finally ambled onto the stage, my family and I lasted all of 20 minutes before…
Sitting in the cab of the truck simulator at Pro Driver Training, a commercial driving school in Milton, I had the lofty view of a real big rig, seven feet above the road. Through the three-screen video display, an SUV below looked like a Matchbox car. I turned the key in the ignition, gripped the…
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Happy Birthday sometime soon, Libra! As gifts, I have collected six useful mini-oracles for you to meditate on during the rest of 2021. They’re all authored by Libran aphorist Yahia Lababidi. 1. Hope is more patient than despair and so outlasts it. 2. Miracles are proud creatures; they will not reveal themselves…
Seven Days gets most of its revenue from paid advertisements. Generally speaking, anything goes as long as it’s legal and doesn’t promote hate or misinformation. Although we don’t endorse any of the products advertised in our pages, we’ll go to the mat for free speech every time. Last week I got an angry voicemail from…
It’s too bad Gov. Phil Scott rejected naming an independent lawyer to determine whether state officials acted improperly in the EB-5 scandal. Leaving the job to Attorney General T.J. Donovan is impractical given Donovan’s unavoidable conflict of interest: The AG’s first priority, Scott and Donovan acknowledge, is defending state employees whose conduct is being questioned.…
Frustrating Response [Re Feedback: “UVM Medical Center Responds,” September 8]: The University of Vermont Medical Center response to [“The Doctor Won’t See You Now,” September 1] is so frustrating. In his letter to the editor, president and CEO John Brumsted blames the backlog on the pandemic. However, over the past 21 years in private practice…
Dear Reverend, My wife and I share a computer at home. The other day, I was looking for something in the internet history and noticed a bunch of links to cuckold porn videos. Nobody else has access to the computer, so it must have been her. Does this mean she wants to bang another guy…
January 23, 2020, was the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival. Documentarian Nanfu Wang (One Child Nation) had flown to Utah to serve on the festival’s jury, leaving her young son in her native China with his grandmother. January 23 was also the day when the Chinese authorities locked down Wuhan in an effort…
About 1,100 years ago, a girl named Hervor was born into a noble family in southern Norway. Separated early from her parents by warfare, she grew up the ward of a ruthless Viking queen who presided over wild pagan rituals known as the Winter Nights. Tall, fast and fierce, more skilled with a sword than…
In the late 1990s, Paul Demers and Joanne Heidkamp’s 12-year-old son, Stephan, spotted an intriguing item in a mountain biking magazine. A nonprofit organization was collecting old bicycles in the U.S. and sending them overseas to people in developing countries. “It caught his attention that bikes were being provided to health care workers, teachers [and]…
The Burlington-based Architecture + Design Film Series, now in its ninth season, has a singular purpose for its three organizers: to share beauty with the community. The free series consists of eight documentary films selected by architect Andrew Chardain, artist Lynda Reeves McIntyre and Vermont Eco-Floors co-owner Karen Frost. Each spends oodles of time trolling…
The Burlington Police Department could benefit from more robust civilian oversight, according to a draft independent assessment of the department obtained by Seven Days last week. The report was delivered to city officials nearly nine months after Mayor Miro Weinberger vetoed a proposal that would have provided exactly that. Compiled by CNA, a Virginia-based nonprofit,…
An introduction to this year’s Art at the Kent exhibition, “20/20 Hindsight,” notes that “the buildings that still stand at Kents’ Corner are part of an original place of industry.” In the 19th century, this crossroads in Calais resounded with the busy operations of a shoe and harness shop, a brickyard, a blacksmith, and a…
new in theaters DEAR EVAN HANSEN: A lonely high schooler (Ben Platt) finds love and fame through an act of deception in the adaptation of the Tony-winning stage musical, directed by Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower). With Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams and Julianne Moore. (137 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Marquis, Roxy) THE…
Rebecca Tomaszewski and George Lowe of Barre, Vt., are very pleased to announce their marriage on Monday, September 20, 2021. The daughter of Edward Tomaszewski and Suzanne Adams of Middletown, Conn., Becca is a Reach Up case manager for the Vermont Department for Children and Families. She graduated from Northfield Middle & High School in…
Kate Wise thinks that the cosmopolitan is a great drink. Sure, the cocktail has some work to do to overcome its 1990s-syrupy-sweet-girly-pink reputation. But if she has anything to say about it, we’ll all be drinking them regularly even before the “Sex and the City” reboot launches this fall. “You see them in movies, and…
During a brief preamble to a recent mushroom walk at Shelburne Farms, workshop leader Ari Rockland-Miller asked each person to introduce themselves and share why they had signed up. Many in the group chuckled and nodded in agreement when Vincent Miller (no relation) of Williston said, “I’ve always been interested in mushrooming, but I don’t…
For Art’s Sake Thursday 23 Rep. John Killacky (D-South Burlington) shares insights on the arts and the art of politics at the launch of his book, because art: Commentary, Critique, & Conversation, at Burlington’s Pride Center of Vermont. The anthology, by the former executive director of the Flynn, takes a sociocultural tack in essays, speeches…
