UVM grad worked for Merrill Lynch in Connecticut
Musician and soundman was the first licensed performer on the Church Street Marketplace
Daughter, Mother, Sister, Friend
Longtime activist fought for LGBTQ rights and environmental and economic justice
Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) was given a last-minute slot at the DC Improv comedy club in Washington D.C. Wednesday night to prepare for another somber day of testimony in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Reacting to reports that the proceedings lacked the “pizzazz” that viewers now prefer over historical significance, the House Intelligence…
Headline Doesn’t Help “Broken Parents = Broken Kids” [November 6] by Kate O’Neill is a nuanced and informative look at the complexities of family relationships and mental health when parents are struggling with opioid-use disorder at the same time as their children are working on accomplishing important developmental tasks. I am very appreciative of the…
It really is a small world after all. Disney has turned it into a theme park. Comic Book has been adopted as the universal language. Everywhere human beings of every background flock to watch the same superhero blockbusters. For talented filmmakers, the brass ring these days isn’t getting the chance to make their dream project,…
Artistic inspiration can come from pretty much anywhere. Romantic love is basically responsible for the entirety of popular music, give or take, and no small number of history’s most important works of visual art were fueled by religious devotion. But what happens when the spirit that moves someone is, quite literally, a spirit? That’s the…
Egg Drop Help yourself to an early stocking stuffer with James Kochalka Superstar’s surprise album Eggs. The impish singer-songwriter hung up his hat in 2017 — well, he at least retired (mostly) from live performance. But that didn’t mean the Burlington-based cartoonist was going to give up music completely. The brand-new 12-track album features more…
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked. You don’t have to struggle through any special machinations to open it or go through it. Furthermore, the realm of the soul is always ready for you. Always! It harbors the precise treasure you need in order to…
Historical tales of endurance elicit a range of responses from readers. When confronted with harsh conditions — Revolutionary War heroes traveling 300 miles through New England, midwinter, for example — some readers feel grateful for cars, grocery stores and gas heat. Others — generally considered somewhat nuts by the former group — respond to the…
It’s a sign of Vermont’s vibrant music scene that two community orchestras can thrive side by side: the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra and the Vermont Philharmonic in Barre, the latter being the state’s largest and oldest orchestra of its kind. And they have done so for 24 years. “[The chamber orchestra] started with a group of…
Not so long ago, Grace Potter thought she was done with music. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, the Vermont-born rocker, with the aid of her longtime band the Nocturnals, saw her popularity skyrocket. She nabbed the attention of rock-and-roll legends such as the Rolling Stones and Jackson Browne and had built an enthusiastic international…
(self-released, CD, digital) With her chin cupped in the palm of her hand, elbow gently resting on her pink-tulle-covered knee, Amber deLaurentis has a wistful glint in her eye on the cover of her latest album, Innocent Road. She looks like a grown-up Disney princess about to burst into song — perhaps something from the prime…
(Self-released, CD, digital) It takes only a simple Google search to find claims that stress levels, climate anxiety and depression among teens and young adults are on the rise in the U.S. When it feels like the world is on fire (literally), is there still room for hope, joy and heartbreak? On her latest EP,…
I’m going to be blunt about it: People who favor summer, the sunny warmth and smiley ease, are shallow and lame. Sorry, folks, but you are. On the other hand, those of us who feel a deep kinship with winter, who enjoy nothing more than a sideways storm and a subzero night — oh, we…
Dear Reverend, I had gone on a few dates with this guy and invited him to a dinner party at my friends’ house. Everything was going fine until he had a few too many drinks and his true colors came out. And those colors were not pretty. He was extremely abrasive and rude to the…
Audiences never tire of laughing at people sillier than themselves, and The Sleepover — A Comedy of Marriage offers a full dozen fools in love. Local playwright Carole Vasta Folley directs her own script, and 12 actors fill the stage as delightfully miscommunicating couples. The Girls Nite Out Productions show perfectly fits the company’s mission…
Supporters of the Fletcher Free Library are exploring the possibility of a $19.8 million renovation that would dramatically revamp Burlington’s all-purpose information center. The downtown public library would have more meeting space, additional bathrooms, and an indoor café and outdoor terrace. A new stairway would better integrate the original 1904 beaux arts library known as…
For more than a decade now, Jesse Loomis has been carving out a niche — as well as wide, arcing swaths of powder — on mountains all across North America. Loomis’ handmade wooden PowderJet Snowboards have attained something of a cult following, particularly among backcountry enthusiasts, owing to their simple and customizable design, vintage feel,…
Half a dozen people took turns on November 4 telling the Burlington City Council that the city is being railroaded — literally. A proposal to service Amtrak trains overnight at the old Union Station would create more noise and exhaust on the downtown waterfront, one of the city’s most popular destinations and a residential area…
When the U.S. military’s special forces hit the roads of Iraq, Afghanistan and other global hot spots, their drivers need to know how to elude attackers and keep their vehicles moving through sand, dirt, mud and gravel. Many of those military personnel learned such driving skills at a rally racing school in northern New Hampshire.…
It feels like a long time since Pedro Almodóvar has been the bad boy of European cinema. So long that, after seeing his latest film, the semiautobiographical Pain & Glory, I found myself going back to a review of one of his early, anarchic efforts. “He may not know how to make anything stay with…
Scrawled on the inside of the pantry door in my mother and stepfather’s house are lines and dates marking their grandchildren’s heights over the years. My twin daughters’ growth is recorded there alongside my nephews’ and nieces’. My parents have been living in that place long enough now that I’m starting to ponder what to…
The person hailing my cab from the intersection of Burlington’s College and Church streets cut a striking figure. The “Woman in Black” popped to mind, a distaff version of Johnny Cash’s “Man in Black.” Everything she wore was jet-black, including — most Cash-like — a duster falling just above her high-heeled laced boots. Completing the…
Each November, Seven Days staffers bravely stare into the coming frigid abyss to put together our annual Winter Preview issue. The idea, of course, is to hip our readers to cool new trends in snow sports, food and arts — or to cozy ways to get hygge with it in the chilly season ahead. But,…
To fulfill a longtime dream — and fill an empty nest — artists and authors John and Jennifer Churchman recently opened the ArtHound Gallery in Essex. The idea had been brewing for years. The husband-and-wife creative team, who wrote the New York Times best-selling children’s book The SheepOver and four subsequent Sweet Pea & Friends…
He’s a head above the rest. A 9-year-old Williston boy won a $1,000 prize for growing a colossal cabbage. Nolan Anand’s leafy, 12.8-pound plant was the winner out of 1,116 cabbages raised by Vermont third graders as part of the nationwide Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program. He spent about 12 weeks over the summer tending the…
Grey Aiken is the fire starter and tender at Philo Ridge Farm in Charlotte, where he builds a blaze every morning in the fireplace of the common room that adjoins the farm market. Aiken, 47, uses a mix of hardwoods — oak, maple and ash — that come to the farm in 16-foot logs. He…
The Stone Mill Public Market held its grand opening on Saturday and Sunday in Middlebury. The market occupies the first floor of the Stone Mill, an 1840 building located at 3 Mill Street that was redeveloped earlier this year by Community Barn Ventures partners Mary Cullinane and Stacey Rainey. The mixed-use, multistory building is anchored…
Downtown Burlington will soon add a barbecue restaurant to its roster when Smokey’s Pit Stop opens in Orlando’s Bar and Lounge at 1 Lawson Lane, Smokey’s owner Jonathan Wish said. The eatery at Orlando’s will be an outpost of Smokey’s Low N’ Slow, the 125-seat barbecue restaurant and bar that opened in South Burlington in…
Hen of the Wood in Burlington is expected to reopen in two weeks, chef-owner Eric Warnstedt told Seven Days by text message. The restaurant at 55 Cherry Street has been closed since August 6, when a fire erupted in its ventilation system. No one was injured in the blaze, and the restaurant wasn’t damaged, but…
