The Performing Arts Preview Issue 2017
Vermont Begins to Tear Down Flood-Prone Houses; Bread and Puppet’s Peter Schumann Talks Rye
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Spotlighting the 2017-18 Performing Arts Season
When performing arts presenters announce their new seasons, we get a frisson of anticipation: Who and what will be coming our way this year? Reliably, we find a diverse mix, from beloved Broadway shows, musicians and standup comedians to edgy, experimental acts that might push our buttons or blow our minds. Or both. It’s no…
Obituary: Jim Glabicky, 1964-2017
Jim Glabicky, 52, of Jay passed away on August 22, 2017, surrounded by his loving family and friends. Jim was diagnosed with ALS in December 2015 and fought courageously without complaint against this life-altering disease. He went peacefully on his own terms at his home. Jim was born and raised in Marblehead, Mass. After graduating…
Seriously: An Ode to Victory
In this episode Ricky McGinny performs an ode to the town (at least for now) of Victory, Vt. CREDITS “An Ode to Victory” by Bryan Parmelee and performed by Ricky McGinny Written, filmed and edited by: Bryan Parmelee Artwork/photography courtesy of: Tim Newcomb, Dreamstime.com, Archive.org Logo/art direction by: Don Eggert Music/audio by: Bryan Parmelee Special thanks…
Obituary: Kelly King, 1960-2017
Kelly Brannagan King of Jericho passed away on September 17, 2017 after living with brain cancer for 1 ½ years. She died surrounded by a houseful of people crying, hugging, eating and laughing. She was a wife, homeschool mom, LLL leader, permaculturist, forager, church lady, nanny, and farmers market manager. She is survived by her…
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Rhythm of the Rein Therapeutic Riding & Driving Program [SIV504]
9/7/17: At the picturesque Water Tower Farm in Marshfield, horses and riders mingle. Some riders put aside canes and wheelchairs before mounting the massive animals with the assistance of a motorized lift. Founder Dianne Lashoones is a physical therapist who uses equine therapy to assist people with physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges. Last Thursday afternoon,…
Eat This Week, September 13 to 19, 2017: 39th Annual Harvest Festival
Shelburne Farms hosts a day of farm fare and fun, with treats made on the premises, as well as from Savouré Soda, Jam and Pickle; Maple Wind Farm; the Good Food Truck; and other vendors. City folks get a chance to ogle farm animals and ride on horse-drawn hayrides. Jon Gailmor, Genticorum, Very Merry Theatre…
Movie Review: This Forgettable Rom-Com Suggests You Shouldn’t Go ‘Home Again’
Homecoming stories have become old hat for Reese Witherspoon. In 2002, the perky actress scored her biggest live-action box-office success with Sweet Home Alabama. A run-of-the-mill but occasionally charming romantic comedy, it featured Witherspoon as an engaged New York socialite who returns home to the Deep South to finalize a divorce from her blue-collar husband.…
Graffiti Artists Throw a Festival in Burlington
Graffiti has long carried a negative stigma, but an upcoming festival in Burlington just might help to change some minds. Anthill Collective — a team of artists primarily composed of Scottie Raymond, Brian Clark and Harrison Holmes — has been adorning Chittenden County walls since 2011. Raymond says the idea for a local graffiti festival…
Free Will Astrology (9/13/17)
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming weeks, you might want to read the last few pages of a book before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing. I also suggest you take what I just said as a useful metaphor to apply in other areas. In general, it might be…
Vermont Hemp Farmers Find Fertile Ground in CBD Crop
A roomy, red-sided milking parlor remains the focal point of Quarry Road Farm, just as it has since Joel Pominville’s father founded it in 1953. But there’s a new addition this year to the 180-head Middlebury dairy operation. On a 13-acre field where corn used to grow, the first crop of hemp is nearly ready…
One Way to Avoid Storm Damage: Knock Down Flood-Prone Homes
Barre resident Jason Hallock has a rule: If the weather forecast calls for more than three inches of rain, he prepares to evacuate his home on Reid Street ahead of potential flooding. A first-time visitor to the neighborhood might think Hallock’s plans are an overreaction. Gunners Brook, the body of water he fears, is usually…
Soundbites: Get Up, Get Down; A Few Pointers
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of checking out the fifth annual Otis Mountain Get Down in Elizabethtown, N.Y. The backwoods indie-music hootenanny is as out-of-the-way as it gets. It’s a bit of a trek from Burlington, but the remote location gives attendees license to be unabashedly uproarious without the risk of disturbing any neighbors.…
Bern Notice: Sanders Lays Down a Health Care Marker
Right about the time this newspaper hits the streets, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will officially propose his long-awaited “Medicare for All” legislation. Vermont’s junior senator has been teasing the announcement for at least six months, but now it is finally coming to pass. Which raises a couple of questions. First, why did it take so…
Letters to the Editor (9/13/17)
Wrong About Eva! I, for one, am quite impressed with Eva Sollberger’s Stuck in Vermont [Feedback, “Can’t Please Everybody,” August 30]. I love the whimsical style of her videos and have found so much more to love about Vermont through her videos. Sometimes I do feel stuck in Vermont, and watching her pieces often makes…
Strange Tales From Comedy Troupe Asperger’s Are Us
Toward the end of Asperger’s Are Us, the Netflix documentary about the sketch comedy troupe of the same name, AAU cofounder New Michael Ingemi tells the camera his hope for his future Wikipedia page. “I can imagine the opening paragraph,” says Ingemi, who changed his name to New Michael to distinguish himself from his father,…
Vermont’s Only Black Church Fights to Revive Itself
The sparse crowd didn’t appear to dampen the spirits of Margaret Burgess as she welcomed congregants to New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church on a Sunday in late August. “Praise the Lord, everybody,” said the deaconess, who helps oversee church operations. “Praise God,” 10 congregants intoned in response. It was a regular Sunday service for Vermont’s…
Best American Poetry’s David Lehman Comes to Burlington
This weekend, acclaimed poet David Lehman will make not one but two appearances in the Queen City. The Best American Poetry series editor-in-chief will travel from New York City for a reading at the Painted Word Poetry Series at the University of Vermont and at the Friday-evening opening of the Burlington Book Festival. Founded and…
Tul Niroula Bridges Cultures for Winooski Schools
Name: Tul Niroula Town: Burlington Job: Home-school liaison at Winooski School District Tul Niroula’s greatest strength is arguably his adaptability. The son of a Hindu priest, he attended a government-run boarding school in his native country of Bhutan and read Buddhist scriptures as part of his daily routine. In the refugee camp in Maidar, Nepal,…
Talking Rye With Bread and Puppet’s Peter Schumann
The visitors have thinned out at the Bread and Puppet museum-in-a-barn in Glover, and the grass amphitheater is empty. Four pails of flowers, the blooms dry and faded at summer’s end, stand sentinel on the counter of the Bread House. Its shelves, all but bare, hold a bird’s nest with a sole feather inside. At…
WTF: How Can Private Parking Lots Issue Tickets?
A few weeks ago, Nancy Rabinowitz was running late to meet her husband for their 19th anniversary dinner. As the Burlington resident related in a recent email to Seven Days, she was desperate to park near the restaurant. Finding no street parking available, she pulled into a private lot at 110 Main Street. There, she…
Movie Review: ‘It’ Is Just a Lazily Conceived Remake
How horrible a year is Hollywood having? Let’s see: Summer attendance was the lowest in a quarter century. Even factoring in the global market, 2017 is setting records for big-budget bombs. Foreign moviegoers famous for eating up anything with American stars in spandex are staying home in droves. It’s the industry’s worst nightmare. Everybody everywhere…
Victory Nearing Defeat? Nonprofit Threatens to Boot Tiny Vermont Town
Allegations of murdered pets, pilfered town money, voter fraud and electronic espionage: The decades-long feud between two warring factions in the Northeast Kingdom town of Victory has included all of the above. Seven Days first covered the dispute in 2015. In April of this year, Mark Davis reported that the situation had grown so dire…
Tank and the Bangas’ Tarriona “Tank” Ball Talks Improv, Stripping and Favorite Peers
Tank and the Bangas are having a banner year. Just days into 2017, the eclectic New Orleans band won National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Contest and landed an appearance in the ongoing Tiny Desk Concert series. The group was already well known in its hometown; the win catapulted the Crescent City 10-piece to international acclaim.…
Album Review: Robin Sunquiet, ‘Elastic Love’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Robin Sunquiet just wants to dance. Not only that, he really, really wants you to join him. The Burlington-born singer-songwriter was the leader of the now-defunct Queen City band the Move it Move it. Now that he’s flying solo, he’s less focused on the pan-global sounds of his former project and…
Art Review: ‘Exposed’ Sculpture Show in Stowe
Public sculpture can be a catalyst for cities to generate foot traffic, walk-in business and buzz. Vermont cities and towns haven’t invested in contemporary outdoor sculptures to the extent one might wish. (Indeed, the relative singularity of “Reverence,” aka the whale tails by Jim Sardonis, beside Interstate 89 may help explain why the sculpture is…
Mary Bonhag and Tanglewood Fellows Perform in Vermont
Soprano Mary Bonhag was on complete voice rest last week prior to a concert at the Resonant Bodies Festival in Brooklyn. So this owner of a beautifully expressive voice in both speech and song could use only email to describe what may have been her richest musical summer yet — as a 2017 fellow at…
Album Review: Tim Brick, ‘Just Passin’ Through’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Tim Brick has a restless soul. But his is precisely the sort of wanderlust befitting a classically molded country crooner. Throughout his career, Brick has followed in one of the great Americana traditions: looking to the road for inspiration. On his 2009 debut, Borderline, and his 2011 follow-up, Free to Run,…
Ask Athena: How Can I Tell If My Wife Has Cheated?
Dear Athena, How can I tell if my wife has had sex with someone else? In the past few months, she has changed. She shaved herself down there and talks about dirty sex stuff in ways I’m not used to. What do I do? What is going on with her? Signed, Seriously Suspicious Dear Seriously,…
Ambitious Plates at the Great Northern
“Wait a minute,” I said to my dining companion, pointing out a cocktail dubbed the Cigar Club. “This drink is made of tequila, rum, vermouth and Scotch? That’s crazy!” “Well, then, we have to order it,” she suggested. Because if the barkeep could pull off that bold blend of booze, he just might be a…
Mexican Food Returns to Stowe at Tres Amigos
Mexican food returned to Stowe with the September 8 opening of Tres Amigos at the Rusty Nail Stage at 1190 Mountain Road. The restaurant is the third eatery owned by business partners Mark Frier and Chad Fry, who also own the Reservoir Restaurant & Taproom in Waterbury and the Bench in Stowe. Tres Amigos offers…
Morrisville Co-op to Open This Month
The new Morrisville Food Co-op will open by the end of September and possibly as early as this weekend, said communications director Elizabeth Casparian. Known as MoCo, the member-owned co-op at 46 Pleasant Street occupies a 3,000-square-foot space in the center of town. Its location will offer residents without cars easier access to local produce,…
