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Stephanie passed away recently. Please join the Friends of the Horticultural Farm on Saturday, September 23, at the UVM Horticulture Research Center, 65 Green Mountain Dr., So. Burlington, for a celebration of Stephanie’s life from 2-4 p.m. Bring your memories and stories of Stephanie to share. Please RSVP attendance to info@friendsofthehortfarm.org
Ignore all the doom-and-gloom reports coming out of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Despite more than half an inch of rain that fell in 24 hours last week, turning the normally arid lake bed, or playa, into an impassible quicksand of gluey clay, 2023’s Burning Man festival was “fantastic.” That was the assessment of Duane Peterson, the…
Vermonters are still picking up the pieces after July’s catastrophic flooding. The state’s musical community has been heavily involved in relief efforts and fundraising, from Phish’s pair of sold-out benefit shows last month at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, which raised $3.5 million; to the “Hug Your Farmer: Hard Rain” all-star event going down at…
(Carpark Records, CD, digital, vinyl) Halfway through a verse on “Cry Cry Cry,” the fifth track on the new Speedy Ortiz album, Rabbit Rabbit, singer-songwriter and guitarist Sadie Dupuis drops the kind of lyric that can stop you dead in your tracks. “I know my way ’round the stats on pain,” Dupuis sings in a…
(Self-released, digital) Last winter, Burlington’s Nathan Nowak-Meunier, aka Burial Woods, sought a seasonal depression cure in the world of modular synth — a potential rabbit hole, given that modular synths are endlessly variable and customizable. Struck by inspiration once their setup was locked in, the artist embarked on their new EP, Pink Forest, which they…
One of my favorite novels of the past several years is Landscape With Invisible Hand. East Calais author M.T. Anderson, a past winner of the National Book Award, used this brief, brilliant tale of teens under alien occupation to satirize trickle-down economics, social media and Americans’ stubborn belief in their own exceptionalism. Cory Finley, director…
new in theaters ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE: Two Mexican American teens find friendship in this adaptation of Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s novel, directed by Aitch Alberto. Kevin Alejandro and Eva Longoria star. (96 min, PG-13. Palace) BOTTOMS: Superbad but make it sapphic? Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri play lovelorn high school…
In December 2022, Jeff Hall landed in a St. Albans prison cell with Mbyayenge “Robbie” Mafuta. Both men were being held for property crimes, and each had previously been homeless in Burlington’s City Hall Park. Their cohabitation at Northwest State Correctional Facility was short-lived. Within 48 hours, Hall, 55, was found unconscious in a pool…
Capital City Concerts, the Montpelier chamber series that flutist Karen Kevra has curated for the past 24 years, cemented the lineup for its 2023-24 season before the July floods submerged the city. Pianist Jeffrey Chappell was slated to give the first concert as a soloist. When he saw the images from his home in San…
Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman practices a straightforward approach to countering book bans across the country: Read from the books and talk about them. “In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard,” Zuckerman read from Toni Morrison’s Beloved with a poetic…
For years, I’ve made excuses to walk past a house up the street from mine in Burlington’s New North End. It isn’t one you’d notice right away. The yard is hard to see from a car, hidden by low trees and shade plants and tall perennial flowers guarding the road verge. But for sidewalk amblers,…
Bruce Hasse took a circuitous route to becoming a sculptor. While earning a degree in industrial design at Pratt Institute in the late 1960s, he became an avid photographer. After a short stint working in New York City, he moved to Vermont and embarked on a series of seemingly diverse professions: jewelry maker (with his…
Facing a shortage of spots in schools that serve students with special needs, two Chittenden County public school districts have launched their own in-house programs this year. Administrators say this approach will cost the same as — or less than — the districts currently spend and will provide other benefits for students who will be…
Dear Reverend, My boyfriend and I have been dating each other exclusively for a little over a year. I love him, and I feel like he loves me, but neither of us has come right out and said it yet. I want to say “I love you” to him, but every time I try, I…
Anyone who has been down Burlington’s Pine Street lately has seen the construction. Pedestrians are using a rocky path instead of the sidewalk that ran between Curtis Lumber and the Maltex Building. Drivers heading for Lakeside Avenue have been rerouted down Sears Lane. City Market shoppers have navigated a blasting zone to get their groceries.…
Construction prices have spiked about 33 percent in Vermont since last year, driving up the price of new homes and remodeling projects — and squelching the development of middle-income housing. It now costs about $500,000 to build a modest apartment or small home, compared to about $370,000 in 2022, according to the Vermont Housing Finance…
Dozens of visitors mingled genially at the grand opening of Bryan Fine Art Gallery in Stowe on Saturday, welcomed with abundant food and drink, live music by guitarist George Petit, and, of course, very fine art. Sunshine streamed into the gallery, too, animating the bonhomie. For executive director Stephen Gothard and gallery manager Garrison French,…
During the school year, Middlebury resident Will Robinson teaches preschool at a Head Start program in Addison County. In the summer, he hikes. A lot. One year, Robinson — trail name Flash — summited all of New Hampshire’s 48 mountains that are above 4,000 feet. Another year, he bagged Colorado’s 58 peaks over 14,000 feet.…
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): In honor of the Virgo birthday season, I invite you to be exceptionally distinctive and singular in the coming weeks, even idiosyncratic and downright incomparable. That’s not always a comfortable state for you Virgos to inhabit, but right now it’s healthy to experiment with. Here’s counsel from writer Christopher Morley: “Read,…
As a music journalist, I get a little worn out quoting touring bands on how they feel about coming to Vermont. To be fair, it’s the nature of the promotion game. But it gets tiresome listening to musicians (often disingenuously) say how much they enjoy their little stopover gig between New York and Montréal. So…
‘More Joy! Less Oy!’ Thank you for your report on the status of the synagogue building in the Old North End [“Burlington Entrepreneur Buys Historic Old North End Synagogue,” August 21, online]. A number of attempts were made to purchase the synagogue and carry on its legacy for the Burlington Jewish population, but, sadly, they…
In Larissa FastHorse’s glorious satire, the play within the play keeps sticking out a turkey leg, collapsing under the cultural weight of a story that is now impossible to tell and then gobbling for our attention again. The Thanksgiving Play features four earnest, vain and tragically self-absorbed white people straining to create an elementary school…
Our occasional series “Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner” recommends a day’s worth of meals in one Vermont city or town. Shortly after July flooding inundated downtown Montpelier, I spent a different kind of day walking from one wrecked restaurant to the next and talking with shell-shocked owners who were just beginning to grapple with the financial and…
Over the past eight weeks, the owners of Montpelier’s flooded restaurants have navigated a second storm of challenges: figuring out how to rebuild safely and better, applying for grants and loans, loading credit cards with debt, negotiating with landlords, struggling to find contractors, and often trading in their whisks and knives for hammers and trowels.…
After a year of working as co-chefs at Peg & Ter’s, Scott Como and Derek Robert have decided to leave their positions at the end of September. Johnny Helzer, a co-owner of the Shelburne restaurant, posted on social media last week that Peg & Ter’s will close on October 1 for “an extended break ……
Paradise Provisions, a specialty grocery store at 2367 Sugarbush Access Road in Warren, added a taproom to its store last month with exclusive offerings developed in partnership with Vermont-based Mount Holly Beer and KIS Kombucha. Customers can drink inside the taproom, separated from the grocery aisles by wooden half walls, or sit at picnic tables…
Leader in the field of children’s mental health never lost her sense of wonder and hope for a better world
Former resident of Underhill Center loved gardening, Vermont corn and adventures with his grandchildren
Veteran and longtime geologist loved sailing, gardening, bicycling, telling stories and Mark Twain
Foreign service information officer was devoted to family and had a lifelong passion for learning
Longtime teacher and coach. Please join us to celebrate the life of Robert Slayton on Saturday, September 23, at 2 p.m., at Catalyst Church, 100 Raceway Rd., Jericho, VT.
Stockbridge man made friends easily and kept them, and always lent a helping hand
Shelter From the Storm Thursday 7 Guitarist Bob Wagner leads an all-star band at “Hug Your Farmer: Hard Rain,” a concert at the Flynn in Burlington to benefit Vermonters affected by July’s flooding. Celebrating the music of Bob Dylan, the evening also features special guests, including Mike Gordon, Kat Wright, Josh Panda, and Dwight +…
Summertime Maidstone resident will be remembered for his gentle nature, frankness, and unconditional love for his family and friends
