The Halloween Issue
The Halloween Issue: Ghost Goblins and Ghouls Oh My!; A Frightful Fiction; Sculptor Mike Ridge Builds Beasties; Monstrous Artwork at S.P.A.C.E
Obituary: Sylva Roger “Ti-Boy” Langevin,
1933-2013, St. Albans Sylva “Ti-Boy” Langevin, age 80, passed away on October 22, 2013, at his home surrounded by his loving family after several years of failing health. He was born in Highgate, Vt. on June 10, 1933, the son of Henri and Beatrice (Gagne) Langevin. Ti-Boy was a 1952 graduate of St. Anne’s Academy…
Obituary: Sue Freeburn
Sue Freeburn – August 1, 1955 – October 19, 2013 Cabot lost a fine member of the community with the passing of Sue Freeburn October 19. Sue moved to Cabot in 2006 and immediately jumped into supporting local activities. She became active in the church, serving as secretary of the board and she was responsible…
A Writer Auditions for a Theatrical Nightmare
On the day I allegedly stabbed a man named Skittlez through the heart, the biggest surprise was not that he came back to life, or that there is a person named Skittlez, but that I liked it. I’d deliberately avoided coffee that gray September morning before my audition at Nightmare Vermont — an annual haunted-house…
Thrills, Chills and Damnation at Dead North
The following is a fictionalized account based on the author’s recent visit to Dead North at the Great Vermont Corn Maze in North Danville. “Dan, I think we’re lost.” “We’re not lost, Sarah,” Dan said over the crunch of car wheels on gravel, the little red sedan shaking as it sped along the dirt road.…
Why is There a Marble Column in the Middle of a Field in Weybridge?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
News Quirks
Never Forget NBC Sports Network canceled “Under Wild Skies,” a hunting show funded by the National Rifle Association, after animal rights groups criticized host Tony Makris for shooting a wild elephant in the face in Botswana from a can’t-miss distance of 20 feet. While stalking the elephant with a .577 rifle, Makris declared the weapon…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I’m greedy,” says painter David Hockney, “but I’m not greedy for money — I think that can be a burden — I’m greedy for an exciting life.” According to my analysis, Aries, the cosmos is now giving you the go-ahead to cultivate Hockney’s style of greed. As you head out in…
Mike Ridge Builds Creatively Creepy Creatures
“There’s no metal filing in my eyeball,” Michael Ridge happily reports upon returning from a visit to the eye doctor. This is good news — Ridge was worried that he’d incurred an unfortunate work-related injury. Fully functioning eyeballs are pretty useful when you spend your day creating giant motorized sculptures of demons and cartoon characters.…
Going on a Supply Run with an Asian Grocer
Thanh Pham has taken exactly one day of vacation since opening Namaste Asian Market with his wife in 2010. That respite came two Sundays ago, when Pham (whose first name is pronounced “Tan”) played hooky to take the couple’s 16-month-old daughter to the Buddhist temple in Concord, N.H. Pham, a 44-year-old immigrant from Vietnam who…
![Beth Robinson’s Strange Dolls [SIV327]](https://i0.wp.com/www.sevendaysvt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/episode327.webp?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1)
Beth Robinson’s Strange Dolls [SIV327]
10/18/13: Beth Robinson’s Strange Dolls have been delighting collectors and doll enthusiasts for the past decade. Eva visits Robinson’s handmade doll army in her S.P.A.C.E. Gallery studio in Burlington and then it’s off to Lakeview Cemetery for some atmosphere. Music: Kevin MacLeod, “Industrial Music Box.” “One-Eyed Maestro,” “Supernatural,” “Tenebrous Brothers Carnival – Act Two” and…
Comedian Doug Stanhope Talks About the Union of Philanthropy and Prickiness
In May of this year, Rebecca Vitsmun’s Oklahoma home was destroyed in a tornado. In a TV interview in the aftermath of the storm, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Vitsmun if she thanked “the Lord” for her decision to evacuate the house with her 19-month-old son moments before it collapsed. Vitsmun’s response: “Uh, I’m actually an…
Art Review: “The Art of Horror,” S.P.A.C.E. Gallery
Is there something inherently more haunted about women than men? Images of ladies possessed, trapped and blood-spattered are all over the walls of Burlington’s S.P.A.C.E. Gallery as part of its annual “The Art of Horror” show. And what a show it is. Katherine Taylor-McBroom’s life-size self-portrait, curiously titled “and they found mother… (death by dental…
Theater Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Middlebury Actors Workshop
There is a kind of friction when truth rubs against lies. It can take its time sanding away a life or rip it apart in an instant, but rasp it does. In Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, six members of a Southern cotton plantation family take a good long look at…
Meet Some of Vermont’s Top Cheese Experts
In 2004, the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese was established at the University of Vermont to help researchers study cheese and to educate laypersons on how to make it. Many of the state’s top cheese makers are alumni of the center’s programs, which dealt with the art and science of producing artisan cheese. But last…
Letters to the Editor
Protesters are Ignorant The fact that people are protesting the methadone clinic in South Burlington indicates the level of ignorance and intolerance in our society today [“South Burlington Methadone Clinic Attracts Patients — and Opposition,” September 25]. Perhaps some of those protesters and the good folks who have signed the petition could learn a little about…
