The sky was a gorgeous shade of cerulean blue as I drove down a wide and open highway. I was three years sober, and I was grateful to be enjoying a beautiful and sunny day. It was late in the winter season, and the ice was beginning to slowly melt off the edges of the…
Longtime staffer for Sen. Patrick Leahy dedicated her working life to helping people
2002 Winter Olympics coach and medical professional was a free spirit who made friends wherever she went
Upper Valley native came close to his goal of hiking all of New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot peaks by the age of 30
Transplant surgeon saved hundreds of lives and made treasured memories with his family
It’s become increasingly clear since the start of the pandemic that Vermonters value local journalism and want to support it. They not only give generously to the state’s nonprofit news operations — such as VTDigger.org and Vermont Public Radio — but also want to donate to their community newspapers, most of which are, legally speaking,…
(Born For Burning Productions, CD, digital) The ghost of a murdered man gazes down on his broken body and ruined farm. His wife murdered, his flock slaughtered by men with “fouled hearts and hungry eyes,” the vengeful wraith has risen from the grave with a black hole for a face. Slowly, with a terrible inevitability,…
Unless you live under a rock or have carved out an existence blissfully free from social media, you’re probably familiar with Wordle. A twist on the guess-the-color game Mastermind, the daily online puzzle is a global phenomenon; last week, the New York Times paid its creator more than $1 million to add Wordle to the…
(Self-released, digital) Raw Deff occupies a strange place in the Vermont hip-hop scene. For years, the rapper has collaborated with many of the 802’s best, playing shows everywhere he can and earning so much respect that he’s often called one of the best MCs in the state. Thing is, though, he’s actually from Lebanon, N.H.…
Last week, the six Progressives on the Burlington City Council banded together to block the Democratic mayor’s choice for a permanent police chief. The 6-6 vote on Jon Murad’s nomination highlighted the caucus’ unique power. While members can’t advance their agenda without a seventh vote, they can coalesce to stop proposals they oppose, all on…
Yesterday it became official — the Danish film Flee has been nominated for the Oscars for Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature. The doc was a labor of love for director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, who met protagonist Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym) when both were teenagers. Rasmussen first considered making a documentary…
Kimberly Harrington began working on her second book, a memoir of her marriage and impending divorce, six weeks after she and her husband announced their separation and seven months after the publication of her first book, a memoir of motherhood. She doesn’t recommend mining your life for your art. “And if you do do it,”…
new in theaters BLACKLIGHT: Welp, Liam Neeson is back in action mode to help us fight the winter doldrums. He plays a U.S. operative who discovers a sinister plot in this spy thriller from director Mark Williams (Honest Thief). (108 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Stowe) DEATH ON THE NILE: Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh, who also…
Emily Shapiro didn’t remember much about Alex Belth from high school. But in a fateful reintroduction as adults years later in New York City, Belth certainly remembered her. How could he not? “She was one of the hot chicks,” Belth, 50, recalled in a 2018 piece for Men’s Health. Told against the backdrop of a…
Since the time Catherine Opie requested and received a camera for her 9th birthday, she has been photographing what she sees — and seeks out. As her gallery, Lehmann Maupin, explains on its website, Opie’s photography examines “the ideals and norms surrounding the culturally constructed American dream and American identity.” Her views on identity were…
‘Magnificent Reporting’ Just wanted to say thank you for [“Capitol Offense,” February 2]. What magnificent reporting, on such a short timeline. Your article would have been impressive even if you’d had half a year to do the research. Please keep up the good work. Kevin Wrenner Essex You Fell for It Did anyone at Seven…
Stephen Yurasits adores the new electric Chevrolet Bolt. It’s quiet, cheap to operate and surprisingly powerful when the retired financial planner gets the urge to mash the accelerator. “I’ll tell you, that thing really has some guts to it,” Yurasits said. It also has a hefty price tag — more than $38,000 before rebates — putting…
Katy Abbott pulled the neck of her top aside to flash her bra strap in the showroom of L’ivresse Lingerie on a late-January evening. “I have on this bra that I love,” Abbott explained to store owner Nicolette Baron, who immediately identified the Marie Jo style with molded cups and fabric circles along the straps.…
Israel Helfand isn’t easily shocked by his clients’ sexual proclivities, but he was somewhat taken aback by the district attorney who got aroused by dressing as an adult baby. The DA’s wife was far more surprised when she found her husband sprawled on their bed, wearing nothing but a man-size diaper and sucking a pacifier.…
Sarah Lyman hates the word “divorcé(e).” In her view, it has negative connotations, and it doesn’t do justice to the learning and growth that happens during a marriage. To replace it, she coined the term “marriage alumni,” and she doesn’t care if it elicits an eye roll or two. Lyman, 43, is the founder of…
I was having an upbeat day overall, happy with the state of romance in the world, when Bob Epstein lowered the boom. “If you look at relationships, very, very few of them, percentage-wise, work over a long period of time,” the retired teacher and certified life coach told me over the phone. “We always hear…
Dear Reverend, My fiancé and I are getting married next year. We were having dinner with his parents the other night, and his mother said she couldn’t wait ’til there was another “Mrs. Their-Last-Name” in the family. I brushed it off, but it made me realize that he and I hadn’t discussed the name-change idea.…
AQUARIUS(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Actor Leelee Sobieski was mourning her romantic adventures — or rather the lack of romantic adventures. She said, “If only I could find a guy who wasn’t in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I’d be madly in love.” The good news is that Sobieski knows precisely what she…
I don’t drink coffee. There, I said it. Recoil in horror if you will. Wonder out loud how I can possibly form coherent sentences in the morning or make it through an eight-hour workday without those beans you all love so much. To me, you’re all like the navigators in Dune, addicted to something that…
Sarah Dopp pulled her Volkswagen onto the shoulder of Old Farm Road, a short byway off Route 116 in South Burlington that rises past what was once forest and pastureland and is now, to her great dismay, a construction zone. To the east, Mount Mansfield appeared almost translucent in the distance, as if it had…
Navy veteran and world traveler was a kind man with simple needs
Lifelong Vermonter often reminisced about hunting and fishing in the woods and waters surrounding what is now Shelburne Road
The idiom “love at first sight” is largely a chimera — more myth than reality. “Love at first bite” is a more common experience. I remember the anticipatory tingle when I first saw vibrant fuchsia raspberry sorbet ribboning out of Shy Guy Gelato’s machine on social media. My inaugural mouthful shone with pure fruit flavor,…
Todd Haire and Bob Grim traveled to Nelson, New Zealand, in April 2019 to look for hops for Foam Brewers. But they came home jazzed up about a different crop: grapes. At a small winery adjacent to the hop farm they were visiting, Grim and Haire got a tour and a taste. The winery was…
After more than 35 years in the restaurant and bar business, Emily Etesse is applying all she’s learned to her new Emily’s Bar & Bistro in Waitsfield’s Village Square Shopping Center. The casual, full-service spot opened on January 18 with a small menu of comfort food — “a local’s local bar,” in Etesse’s words. Emily’s…
The menu at Stowe’s Cork Restaurant & Natural Wine Shop now has a Boston accent, thanks to new executive chef Eric Buonagurio, 31. He made the move from Massachusetts in early December 2021, three years after he fell in love with Vermont while hiking the Long Trail. Among the items on his fully revamped menu…
Avid for Avians Sunday 13 LGBTQIA++ hikers and birders stroll trails and watch for winged wonders in Pride Hikes: Red Rocks Park + Great Backyard Bird Count. During an easy two-mile route through South Burlington wetlands, forests and rocky ledges by Lake Champlain, bird lovers of all ages practice focusing their peepers on glimpsing and…
We can think of a few Super Bowl inventions that are necessary: a stellar squad on special teams, a wardrobe that functions (see Janet Jackson, Super Bowl XXXVIII) and seven-time Super Bowl champ Tom Brady. The list of unnecessary Super Bowl inventions is probably longer. It includes a Jeep commercial starring a boringly earnest Bruce…
