The Real Estate Issue 2013
Former Refugees Moving on Up; Rating Rentals Around Vermont; 36-Page Guide to the Vermont Film Festival
Obituary: Michael S. Majarian
Michael S. Majarian, 80, of Monkton, died peacefully at his home on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. He was born in Colchester on Feb. 6, 1932, the son of Michael and Lena (Francis) Majarian. He was educated in Colchester schools and served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. On Aug. 27, 1955,…
WTF: What’s With the Free House on the Barre-Montpelier Road?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Microsoft Game Jam and Hackathon at Champlain College
Yesterday, thanks to Champlain College’s spiffy new email newsletter, I found out about this Microsoft Game Jam and Hackathon at the school’s Game Studio at the Miller Center on the Lakeside Campus. The Miller Center is a new building across from the former General Dynamics that also houses the Emergent Media Center and the Patrick Leahy…
The Couple Behind Desserts by David Glass Gets a Fresh Start in Vermont
If you lived in the New York area in the past 30 years, chances are you tasted a cake from Desserts by David Glass. Beginning in the 1980s, many a shopper discovered the rich, creamy marvels of the chocolate-truffle cake in elegant black boxes sold at stores such as Zabar’s, Stew Leonard’s and even Trader…
How Can I Learn to Boss Around My Boyfriend in Bed?
Mistress Maeve: Your guide to love and lust…
Bernie One-Note: In Second Term, Sanders Stays Relentlessly on Message
In a sitdown interview in his Capitol Hill office, Sanders reflects on his time in the Senate.
Work: K.C. Scanlon: Vermont Estate Sales & Transition Services
When the owners of a 5000-square-foot family home decide to downsize, where does all the stuff go? That’s a question Kyle Scanlon is well qualified to answer as he readies a stately Victorian in Burlington’s Hill Section for a tag sale. Scanlon, 43, co-owns K.C. Scanlon: Vermont Estate Sales & Transition Services with his wife,…
Theater Review: Race at Northern Stage
David Mamet’s Race, now playing in a powerful, professional production at Northern Stage, lays down a challenge: Arrive with an open mind, then learn how closed it really is. In a law firm’s conference room, a rich white man, Charles, seeks legal representation after being accused of raping a black woman. The two male attorneys…
News Quirks
sleep!Curses, Foiled Again Mario Hili, 64, avoided thousands of dollars in traffic fines by reporting his car stolen each time a traffic camera caught him speeding or running a red light. After the latest incident, Senior Constable Siobhan Daly told an Australian court “it was the 21st time since 2000 that Hili had reported his…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 20-April 19): If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.” That could turn out to be a useful mantra for you in the coming week. Being pragmatic should be near the top of your priority list, whereas being judgmental should be at the bottom. Here’s another mantra that may serve you well:…
High Rollers: When Money Is No Object, Vermont’s Luxury Realtors Step In
If your pockets are deep enough, there are some beauts to be snapped up in the Vermont real estate market. Looking for that classic Vermont gentleman’s farm? Nearly $8 million could buy an “exceptional family recreational retreat” on more than 1000 acres in Woodstock. For $1.9 million, you could own a cozy, 4670-square-foot lakefront residence…
What Does $1200 Per Month Buy in Vermont’s Tight Rental Market?
When it comes to Vermont’s housing situation, the news this year isn’t bad — if you’re buying a home. According to the Vermont Economy Newsletter’s just-released annual housing affordability analysis, the share of median family income needed to finance the payments on a median-priced home fell last year to 11.7 percent — a quarter-century low.…
Burlington’s Rock Point is Prime Real Estate, but It’s Not for Sale — Yet
A 146-acre peninsula jutting into Lake Champlain two miles north of the Church Street Marketplace hosts a school, a conference center, community gardens, hiking trails, a huge solar-power installation, one of the most famous geological features in Vermont and a magnificent set of stained-glass windows. Yet many Burlingtonians have never set foot there; some may…
The Curious Case of Blanche Blanche Blanche
“It seems to me that we have a marketing problem,” says Zach Phillips. “We’re very hard to identify with.” Phillips, speaking by phone from his home in Brattleboro, Vt., is a founding member and keyboardist of the experimental pop band Blanche Blanche Blanche. I’ve just asked him, rather reluctantly, how he would describe his band’s…
Art Review: “High Trash,” Fleming Museum of Art
French artist Marcel Duchamp was the first to present a humble object and claim it was “high art.” Signed “R. Mutt” and titled “Fountain,” the urinal Duchamp submitted to a 1917 exhibition as a legitimate work incited outrage. It was dismissed as rubbish and cut from the exhibition. Now, scholars refer to “Fountain” — the…
All About Location? The Changing Culinary Fortunes of Burlington’s 156 St. Paul Street
The turn-of-the-century bricklayers who erected Burlington’s 156 St. Paul Street probably didn’t foresee the draw of pan-seared halibut or Neapolitan pizza. Yet, since it went up in 1899, the two-story brick structure that now houses Pizzeria Verità has had more than the proverbial nine lives. After its days as a livery barn, most of its…
Letters to the Editor
Budnitz Boo-Boo I’m writing from Budnitz Bicycles to make a small correction to the article [“Budnitz and Flahute Custom Bicycle Companies Roll Into Burlington,” March 6]. In it, our least expensive bicycle is quoted at $5500, when, in reality, our most affordable model, steel-framed bike is $2600. Let me know if you have any questions…
