Vermont has always appealed to certain kinds of escapists — the homesteaders, the reclusive artists, the doomsday preppers, the celebrities who don’t want to be…
Sculptor’s work was exhibited in high-profile galleries around the world
Young Vermonter delighted in biking, climbing trees and exploring trails
At work and home, UVM ed professor worked his magic
Equal Rights Amendment activist devoted her life to feminism, spirituality and charity
Gordon Clifford Gilfilian, 85, beloved husband of Sue Firman, passed away peacefully on August 27, 2020, after a long illness. Private services are planned. Please…
1. Birds of Prey Hear ye, hear ye! Visitors at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee are transported to centuries past as they…
Shortly after the coronavirus hit in March, Vermont began releasing nonviolent inmates from prison in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease in…
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo poet Mary Oliver was renowned for giving herself permission. Permission to do what? To become a different person from the…
“There is nothing tidy about this volume,” Scudder Parker warns in the introduction to his poetry debut, Safe as Lightning. This is a humble beginning…
Like all music organizations these days, Opera Company of Middlebury has entirely remade its current season. But this small opera company’s new plan doesn’t just…
This story has been updated to reflect an extension of the submission deadline. Good news can be hard to come by these days, but if…
Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I review the latest from cult writer-director Charlie Kaufman,…
Dear Reverend, I am recently single after over a decade. The last few years I have seen zero action, and I’m afraid that whenever the…
Like millions of other New Yorkers, I was moving about our city like a fast-paced germ. Mid-March, days before the shutdown, we were elbow to…
Castleton native Arantha Farrow was just 4 years old when her father, a Black man from Zimbabwe, applied for a green card to stay in…
One way or another, pandemic or not, I’ve been determined to ride a cute ferry to a cool island this summer. You see, every summer…
(Self-released, CD, digital) Happiness is a strange sort of capital these days. You find it where you can, hold on to it tightly and quantify…
Margot Harrison’s second contemporary YA thriller, The Glare, is informed by creepypasta — an unsettling genre of internet folklore — and accidentally intensified by current…
Those of us in print media have a tricky little problem to deal with on a regular basis: cramming all of our thoughts, observations and…
(Back Pasture Music, CD, digital, vinyl) Maple Run Band are a Vermont country outfit blessed with taste and chops. For this reviewer, that came as…
In early July, southern Vermont was rocked by reports of a dramatic outbreak of COVID-19. One in five residents who walked into a Manchester urgent…
CORRECTION The photo illustrating last week’s WTF column was not of an emerald ash borer. This is what the invasive insect looks like. This Bugs…
A viral meme popular with Vermont teachers is making the rounds. Lifted from the sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” the 46-second clip features the character Moira, labeled…
Benjy Adler turned 39 on Friday, March 13. It was an ominous time. Six days earlier, the state of Vermont announced its first case of the coronavirus. Three days after Adler’s birthday, Gov. Phil Scott ordered all restaurants in the state to stop offering in-house dining, effective the next day, to curb the spread of…
Aaron Martin, chef-owner of Plate in Stowe, opened a second restaurant a few doors down last week: Umami, at 151 Main Street, Unit 5. Designed…
Crystal Maderia, chef-owner of Kismet, has moved her Montpelier restaurant back to its original location at 207 Barre Street, where she opened its casual café…
