The Love and Marriage Issue
Wedding Rituals From Wondrous to Wacky; Longtime Unmarried Couples Talk About Tying the Knot — or Not; One Vermont Bride Plans a Jordanian Wedding Feast
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Welcoming the Achindas [299]
1/20/13: Robert Achinda believes in miracles, and after hearing his story, some Vermonters do too. Originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Achinda, his wife Anna and 3 of their children fled to Tanzania in the ’90s to escape civil war. The Congo conflict has become one of the bloodiest since World War…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible,” said poet Theodore Roethke. For the foreseeable future, Aries, you could and should be a person like that. I’m not saying that you will forevermore be a connoisseur of amazements and a massager of miracles and a magnet for unexpected…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s deputies investigating a convenience-store robbery in Niceville, Fla., arrested suspect Zachariah Dalton Howard, 22, after they spotted him at a nearby supermarket calling his mother for a ride home. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) Police searching for thieves who broke into a home in Gaithersburg, Md., and then stole the homeowners’ car for…
Union Rites: Wedding Rituals, From Wondrous to Wacky
Ask any soon-to-be-married couple what they want most out of their wedding ceremony, and you’re likely to hear a version of the following: I want my wedding to be special, unique and memorable. You want memorable? Consider adding some of these traditional touches from around the globe to your wedding. In Malaysia, the bride and…
Bliss Ridge Offers Organic Produce — and DIY Weddings
All they wanted was a log cabin and an acre to call home. But when Jordan von Trapp’s parents arrived at the top of the hill at Old Gove Farm in Moretown in 1983, everything changed. They had driven their Volkswagen bus all the way up the East Coast after leaving their home in the…
Taste Test: The Bistro at Ten Acres in Stowe
On a January night, the junction of Barrows and Luce Hill roads in Stowe can be a wind-whipped, dark and lonely place, with seldom a soul in sight. This remoteness is probably what makes the corner’s red lodge, built in the 1820s, seem like such an oasis. For almost a century, travelers of all stripes…
Local Musicians Tell the Stories Behind Their Love Songs
According to Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, love hurts — and scars, wounds, mars and burns. According to Def Leppard, love bites — and bleeds. And, according to Frank Sinatra, love is lovelier the second time around — doo be doo be doo. The annals of pop-music history are filled with love songs for every…
Longtime Unmarried Vermont Couples Talk About Finally Tying the Knot — or Not
Faced with the question of whether to tie the knot, some long-lasting Vermont couples have answered, “Not!” Bobbie Lanahan and John Douglas, for example, are enjoying their 22nd year of unwedded bliss. Lanahan, a 65-year-old artist and writer whose mother was the only child of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, was married previously and says…
An Interview With Yo La Tengo’s James McNew
In the pantheon of indie rock, Hoboken’s Yo La Tengo occupy a place alongside the giants of the genre, bands such as Built to Spill, the Pixies and Dinosaur Jr., whose contributions have directly influenced subsequent generations and shaped the course of indie-rock history. Just don’t tell them that. “I really don’t think much about…
Theater Review: Time Stands Still at Vermont Stage Company
Playwright Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still tells the story of two war veterans, but not the sort you expect. Sarah, a photojournalist, and James, a freelance writer, are in their eighth year of living and working together. Which makes it their eighth year of putting off getting married. After ample experience covering the world’s wars…
One Vermont Bride Plans a Jordanian Wedding Feast
Eman Hayyat never thought she’d be engaged at 18. “I was not planning on that. It just kind of happened,” says the now-21-year-old University of Vermont global studies major. “He’s an awesome guy.” The Middlebury native is talking about Alaa Bader, the 30-year-old engineer and lifelong family friend she married in a ceremony in Jordan…
Gallery Profile: ArtsRiot
Tucked among the artist studios that populate Burlington’s South End is ArtsRiot, a gallery with a conscience, say its cofounders. Launched by Felix Wai and PJ McHenry in July 2012 as a website, ArtsRiot aims to bring people together — primarily via social media — through shared interests in art, food, music and culture. “The…
Letters to the Editor
Same Movie? Wow, reading Rick Kisonak’s review of Rust and Bone [Movie Review, January 23] made me wonder: What film did he see? From his plot description I could more or less guess we watched the same film, but very little else in his review matched what I saw. I’ve read many of his reviews…
