Former U.S. Army dental surgeon was committed to public and professional service
Vermont College of Fine Arts has joined forces with the California Institute of the Arts to start offering residency programs at the Los Angeles-area school. Under the new affiliation, VCFA will eliminate 10 local jobs and sell College Hall, its iconic building in Montpelier. VCFA, which is devoted to graduate fine arts education, will hold its summer…
Architect and cofounder of Burlington’s Community Sailing Center helped shape the development and landscape of the city and its waterfront
Legendary musician with a remarkable career was never less than completely soulful and heartfelt
Two Chittenden County motels are kicking out their state-sponsored homeless guests next weekend so they can rent rooms to eclipse visitors who can pay premium prices. The Days Inn in Colchester and the Anchorage Inn in South Burlington have informed the state that their rooms won’t be available on Saturday and Sunday nights. The three-minute…
Stowe woman inspired all with her generosity, warmth and joie de vivre
Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday accused legislators of unfairly attacking Zoie Saunders, his choice for Vermont’s next education secretary, amid growing dissent about her appointment from political parties and the state’s teachers’ union. Scott announced his selection of Saunders, a school administrator from Florida, at a press conference last Friday, during which he hailed her experience…
A group of gearheads has created the Vermont Motorsports Hall of Fame to recognize local legends of racing. The new nonprofit officially fires up its engine on Saturday, March 30, at the first-ever Vermont Motorsports Expo in Barre. It will honor people in a wide range of motorized disciplines: stock car, sports car, hill climb,…
new in theaters A CAT’S LIFE: A girl (Capucine Sainson-Fabresse) and her kitten experience the challenges of the great outdoors on a country vacation in this family drama from France, directed by Guillaume Maidatchevsky. (83 min, PG. Majestic) GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE: The two legendary monsters square off again in this action adventure…
When April Royan moved her family from Florida to Vermont in 2019, she found herself making all sorts of lifestyle adjustments. She purchased snow gear for her two young children and quickly discovered what mud season was all about. She penciled in Town Meeting Day and started tapping her trees for maple syrup. But Royan…
They say two things are inevitable: death and taxes. Seven Days readers can add an item to that list: our annual Money & Retirement Issue, which arrives around tax season. This year, the “retirement” part has a special resonance because we recently launched “This Old State,” a yearlong series devoted to the ripple effects of…
In his eighties, Stephen Zeigfinger could be taking it easy, doing whatever he pleases. And actually, he is: For Zeigfinger, “whatever” means making color-drenched abstract paintings while operating a gallery and frame shop, as he’s done for more than 50 years in multiple locations. Abstractions, his new, aptly named spot in downtown Burlington, is Zeigfinger’s…
Vermont Stage has produced the premiere of local playwright Gina Stevensen’s Breakfalls, a show refined in collaboration with the cast and crew over a seven-month developmental period. The play’s subject is essentially its setting: a martial arts dojo, the perfect crossroads for strangers to intersect. The mats are a blank slate for the physical and…
I’d already sworn it off. Twice. When online sports wagering became legal in Vermont in January, I watched the barrage of advertisements with a mix of scorn and fear. Nothing signaled social decay more clearly, I ranted to friends, than using our collective pastimes as a means to put a casino in every fan’s pocket.…
This week’s Seven Days is about money — a subject that for many evokes fear, envy, shame, all the feels. Some people have more than they deserve; others never get their fair share. That matters because, at least in this country, it’s a currency of life. To build something, generally speaking, you need resources. For…
The current group exhibition at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield, titled “RISE: Trees, Our Botanical Giants,” offers a visual corollary to the Howard Nemerov poem “Trees.” That reads, in part: “To be so tough, and take the light so well, / freely providing forbidden knowledge / of so many things about heaven and earth.”…
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): In the coming days, your hunger will be so inexhaustible that you may feel driven to devour extravagant amounts of food and drink. It’s possible you will gain 10 pounds in a very short time. Who knows? You might even enter an extreme eating contest and devour 46 dozen oysters in…
Jackie Frazier was a student in the first kindergarten class at Roxbury Village School in the early 1980s. She left Vermont to attend college, then lived and worked in Los Angeles and Africa. In 2021, she decided to move back to Vermont with her two young children. She set her sights on Montpelier but couldn’t…
Imagine if families on Medicaid, which provides health care to low-income people, could invest $3,200 on behalf of each newborn baby and leave the money untouched as the child grows. After 18 years, the investment would be worth about $11,500 — and available to help that teen pay for school, a car or an apartment.…
They set their own hours. They’re not on anyone else’s payroll. Their time is their own, but generally so is the responsibility for their health and unemployment coverage, vacation time, and Social Security contributions. They are gig workers, freelancers, temps or independent contractors, and their ranks are swelling. In the 2022 American Opportunity Survey conducted…
Author and Middlebury College professor Jay Parini, 75, is steeped in the life and work of Robert Frost. Parini spent a quarter century crafting Robert Frost: A Life, his 2000 biography of the iconic American poet (1874-1963). He has taught Frost’s poetry for 50 years, first at Dartmouth College and then Middlebury. So it makes…
Dear Reverend, My partner is from a very Catholic family. Although he doesn’t practice anymore, he grew up going to church and attended Catholic school. I, on the other hand, have never been to a mass. My family just never did any of that. His parents are coming from out of town for Easter, and…
I used to think being a music journalist meant being a cross between an anthropologist and a private eye. Before going to a show or listening to a new album, I’d spend days researching the band. I’d obsess over influences and try to decode the musical DNA. I’d take deep dives into the home scene,…
Get your audition tapes ready, bands. There are battles to be had! First up is the Jam 4 SlamT1D battle of the bands, a fundraiser to support the fight against type 1 diabetes. The three-day contest takes place on June 12, 19 and 26 at the Old Post in South Burlington. But the deadline for…
Retirement is the one time in life when it’s socially acceptable to boast about being unemployed. The problem is, many people assume they’ll never get there, either because they won’t live long enough or because they’ll never be able to afford not to work. Those assumptions could be faulty. Despite a slight dip in life…
(Self-released, digital) Burlington rock outfit Embers in Umbra are a proud oddity. Few bands in 2024 are devoted to the kind of radio rock that dominated the airwaves back when America was run by George W. Bush and Clear Channel and MTV still occasionally played music videos. It all started with an a cappella demo…
‘Farnsworth Is a Hoot’ I want to give a shout-out to Chris Farnsworth and his music reviews, such as [Review This, March 13]. The vast majority of the time, he’s reviewing music that I have absolutely no interest in hearing, but his writing is so enjoyable that I read them — often out loud to…
(Self-released, cassette, digital) On her new sophomore album, Alas, Burlington’s Lily Seabird brings listeners on a journey through raw human emotion as she blurs the lines between happiness and sorrow. Lulling the audience into lo-fi grooves, then startling them with twists in the form of a heartfelt wail from her gritty voice or a searing…
The serpentine ravine that bisected Burlington up until the end of the 19th century is the stuff of legend. It’s hard to imagine, but the city’s downtown was separated from the Hill Section by a deep gully with a stream running through it. The ravine was most likely thousands of years old and more than…
For the real Vermont beyond the tourism brochures, look no further than the documentaries of Bess O’Brien. Red barns and autumn vistas figure in the Barnet filmmaker’s work, but they’re backdrops to the stories of Vermonters who are dealing with decidedly less picturesque problems. O’Brien has already made docs about eating disorders, the opioid epidemic,…
Love has come indoors for the cold season at Isham Family Farm. Six-foot-tall wooden letters spelling out “LOVE,” which grace a small hillside in warmer weather, currently sit in the Williston farm’s largest barn, near Mike Isham’s 1999 BMW Z3. During a recent conversation at the farm, Mike called the sporty convertible his “creemee car,”…
For months, the future of federal farming policy has been the subject of a political stalemate in U.S. Congress. The current Agriculture Improvement Act, commonly called the Farm Bill, was passed in 2018 to direct roughly $428 billion to implementing policies on food and farming over a five-plus-year period. Set to expire in 2023, the…
Abby Temeles and Jacob Shane plan to open a Roman-inspired café called Rogue Rabbit at 9 Center Street in Burlington the weekend of April 6. The married co-owners will launch with takeout of square pizza al taglio (by the slice) and classic Italian sandwiches on house-baked bread. They will add seating, a small bar menu…
Punk Goes Acoustic Monday 1 Shelburne’s Bread & Butter Farm kicks off a new concert series in its historic barn with an appearance by Michigan singer-songwriter Elisabeth Pixley-Fink. Pixley-Fink’s unique brand of folk, infused with “bratty garage rock” and a hit of queer futurism, gets hearts racing and breaking. Chris Dorman opens. A New Hope…
