The Health & Fitness Issue 2014
VT Women Learn Self-Defense; Grown-Ups Rediscover Recess; Professional Foodies Slim Down; Does VT Really Have a Drug ‘Crisis’?
Obituary: Marcel O. Beaulieu
Marcel O. Beaulieu, age 76 years, passed away Friday afternoon January 17, 2014, at the Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, VT. Born at home in Highgate Springs, VT on September 23, 1937, he was the son of the late Albert and Blanche (Thibert) Beaulieu. Following his graduation from high school Marcel enlisted in the…
Obituary: James Caryl Morgan
James Caryl Morgan, age 65 years, a lifelong East Highgate resident, died Wednesday morning January 15, 2014, at the Fletcher Allen Health Care Facility in Burlington. Born in St. Albans on May 7, 1948, he was the son of the late Caryl and Eltha (O’Rourke) Morgan. He graduated from Highgate High School and was married…
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The Wood Guy [SIV338]
1/11/14: Pat Stanley has been a firewood dealer for the past 24 years, earning him the nickname of “The Wood Guy.” Eva visits Pat at his Richford warehouse and follows him on a delivery to St. Albans. It’s been a rough winter for Stanley — the below freezing temperatures have created an unusually high demand…
More Questions About Large Labia and Lovemaking
Mistress Maeve: Your guide to love and lust…
How Restaurants Are Coping With Food Allergies and Intolerances
Dining in a London restaurant a few years ago, I received an order of penne bolognese drowning in sauce. When I asked if I might have a less slathered version, the server sneered, and my boyfriend slumped in his chair, mortified. In England, I learned at that moment, you eat what you are given —…
Ursa Major Wants Men to Get the Message About Skin Care
In December 2010, a new Vermont company called Ursa Major launched its first product: a shaving cream. And its founders, Emily Doyle and Oliver Sweatman, had a moment of terror. “We launched with this expensive shaving cream in a recession, in Vermont, where everyone was already growing a beard, and with a [company] name no…
Soundbites: Predicting the Year to Come in Local Music
At the start of a new year, it’s become tradition in this column to gaze ahead at the calendar and make some generally silly predictions about the year to come in local music. Typically, that piece would run in the first column of the year. But due to the circumstances and tone of last week’s…
News Quirks
First Things First A Pakistan International Airlines flight was preparing for an on-time departure from the Lahore airport to New York City when the pilot learned that the airline’s cost-cutting policy limited the in-flight menu to peanuts, chips and cookies. He demanded “sandwiches at any cost,” even though the catering department informed him they had…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Whose enemy are you? Are you anyone’s adversary or obstructionist or least favorite person? Answer honestly, please. Don’t be in denial. Next question: Do you derive anything useful from playing this oppositional role? If your answer is yes, that’s fine. I won’t try to talk you out of it. Continue to…
A Burlington Startup Invites Professionals Out to Play
It was 12:36 p.m., and I was wheezing like a beached whale. Metallica blasted from one corner of the Edge athletic complex in Williston. In one of its facilities — a large AstroTurf field house — a dozen guys in white and black pinnies were sprinting to and fro. Yours truly was doing his best…
Vasu Sojitra Skis With the Best, on One Leg
If I had read the description of Mt. Ellen’s black-diamond Bravo run before venturing up, I might have been put off. “Nice and steep with a gnarly headwall at the third tower from top,” the trail map reads. Instead, I’m already at the top, listening to Vasu Sojitra’s recommendation for the best (safest?) way down.…
Crumbs: Kitchen Table Goes Casual; Guild Changes Name; New Pub in Colchester
Chefs need down time, but starting on Sunday, January 19, the staff at Richmond’s Kitchen Table Bistro will no longer get Sunday off. That’s a major gain for diners. According to general manager Neal Johnston, “A lot of our favorite restaurants are closed on that day. There isn’t much [open] on Sundays, and what we…
WTF: Why Did the Family Behind Seventh Generation Launch an Eco-Friendly Condom?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Vermont Culinary Professionals Are Slimming Down
When I became a full-time food writer in 2008, I stopped weighing myself. My heft (or lack thereof) was never of any concern to me. I’d eaten whatever I wanted my whole life, and with my height of just more than five feet, the number on the scale had only ever grazed triple digits. So…
Blues Man Guy Davis Talks About Music, Acting and His Formative Years in Vermont
Guy Davis, 61, wears a lot of hats. He is a well-regarded actor, writer, composer and director. But first and foremost, Davis is a blues man. Blues music and all its attendant traditions are at the core of everything Davis does, from writing and performing his own stage plays to recording each of his 15…
Art Review: “Observing Vermont Architecture,” Middlebury College Museum of Art
Say the words “Vermont” and “architecture” together, and the image of a barn — say, Waitsfield’s Round Barn — may spring to mind. But what about the Canal Street School in Brattleboro, an elegant beaux-arts work from 1892 by McKim, Mead & White, who would complete their masterpiece, Manhattan’s old Penn Station, 18 years later?…
Vermont Black Belts Arm Women With Self-Defense Skills
Beware, Burlington bogeymen, burglars, sexual predators and any other jerks who attack women: You do not want to meet Christine DiBlasio in a back alley. A third-degree black belt in kempo jujitsu karate and a licensed psychologist, she will take you down physically, mentally and verbally — whatever she has to do to keep herself…
Letters to the Editor
Bettering Brattleboro I read [“Can ‘Niches in Inpatient Psychiatry’ Redeem the Brattleboro Retreat?” December 18] with interest, for I finished up an eight-year term on the board of trustees in 2012. In fact, I was involved when the organization decided to expand the specialty service offerings as well as to open its doors to the…
Obituary: Sally Gail Fox,
1951-2014, South Burlington Sally Gail Fox, age 62, died peacefully on January 10, 2014, with her loving family by her side. She was born on January 30, 1951, in Omaha, Neb., to Delores and Philip Fox. She married her husband, Michael Sirotkin, on October 7, 1979, in North Ferrisburgh, Vt. Sally and Michael resided in…
