Apr 15-21, 2015
Readers Clear the Haze Over Vermont’s Cannabis Culture; CEOs Talk Legal Weed; The Fagbug Visits Johnson; Taste Test: Istanbul Kebab House
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Vermont Marijuana Users Come Out of the Cannabis Closet in Survey
It’s no secret that many folks in the Green Mountain State enjoy their green bud. But we’ve only recently learned just how much. Last year,…
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Vermont Marijuana Users?
The prospect of Vermont becoming the first state on the East Coast to legalize marijuana for recreational use is so close, Seven Days stoners can…
Why Funding for Vermont’s Anti-Tobacco Efforts Is Going Up in Smoke
In 1998, Attorney General Bill Sorrell announced that he and his counterparts in 45 other states had reached a landmark deal with cigarette companies. The…
Farmhouse Group Expands Beyond Commissary
“I wouldn’t say we’re closing,” says Farmhouse Group owner Jed Davis of Winooski’s Guild Commissary. Call it what you will, but the facility that began…
Art Review: Mary Admasian, Vermont Supreme Court Gallery
Natural and man-made elements conspire to create a beautiful, dark vision in Mary Admasian’s new exhibition “Boundaries, Balance and Confinement: Navigating the Limits of Nature…
Betty’s Beer Fest Spotlights Women Brewers
Hey, girls, there’s a new beer fest coming to town. Scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, at Waitsfield’s Big Picture Theater &…
Cherchez la Femme
It was a Saturday night, and the previous day had been the first day of spring, for what it was worth — which wasn’t much….
Van Phan Billiards Owner Calls the Shots
Van Phan carefully places two pool balls on a table in a South Burlington billiards hall. The arrangement would make it tricky for anyone to…
Entrepreneurial Dream Team Sets Sights on Marijuana
When Will Raap was building Gardener’s Supply into a successful business three decades ago, he met regularly with a few other young Vermont entrepreneurs. They…
Letters to the Editor (4/15/15)
Clear Boundaries I want to offer a point of correction to Ethan de Seife’s assertion that “the jurisdictional relationship between Cambridge and Jeffersonville is anything…
Phil Yates & the Affiliates, No Need to Beg
(Almost Halloween Time Records, digital download, vinyl) The 1990s are hot right now, and Phil Yates is into it. Beginning with the title of the…
I’m Trans and Nervous About Getting Intimate
Dear Athena, I am a 30-year-old trans woman, and I’m finally at the point in my transition where things are getting better in every aspect…
Dan Johnson and the Expert Sidemen, Mercury 85
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Leaving behind New York’s Hudson Valley and burrowing in a cabin in Jericho, folk singer Dan Johnson ruminated on, then wrote…
Four More Local Albums You (Probably) Haven’t Heard
No Humans Allowed, Yesterday, Tomorrow and You (Self-released, digital download) No Humans Allowed are a mercurial hip-hop duo consisting of Boston-based rapper Louis Mackey and…
Danny Collins
Imagine a filmmaker discovering that a folk singer once received a letter from John Lennon 34 years after it was sent, getting the rights to…
Soundbites: WTF is Going on With Grace Potter & the Nocturnals?
After Midnight? Last week, Grace Potter announced that she’ll release a solo record this summer, titled Midnight. In support of that record, she’ll also embark…
Woman in Gold
Given that the vast majority of multiplex movies pander to young moviegoers, is it unsporting to point out that Woman in Gold panders to their…
Erin Davies’ Artful Fagbug Crusade
Eight years ago in Albany, N.Y., Erin Davies walked to her car to find it had been vandalized. Red spray-paint letters announced on the hood…
News Quirks (4/15/15)
Curses, Foiled Again Cass Alder, 22, bought table napkins made with images of $100 bills on them, then cut out the images, glued them onto…
In Brief: Governor’s Gallery, Vermont Creative Network, Poet Laureate
The Governor’s Gallery is back! Where has it been? Well, on the fifth floor of the Pavilion Building, right outside Gov. Peter Shumlin’s office, just…
Free Will Astrology (4/15/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The California Gold Rush hit its peak between 1849 and 1855. Three hundred thousand adventurers flocked to America’s West Coast in…
Book Review: A Slant of Light by Jeffrey Lent
Early in Jeffrey Lent’s new historical novel, A Slant of Light, a teenage hired hand named Harlan turns to a powerful lawyer who’s questioning him…
Gasoline Scheme: Sorrell’s Suit Could Bring Loot to Donors
When Attorney General Bill Sorrell filed suit against 29 oil and gas companies last June, he cast himself as a crusader against those who would…
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HSCC’s Planet Cat aCATemy Awards [SIV395]
4/12/15: The 2nd Annual Planet Cat aCATemy Awards were held Sunday afternoon at the Majestic 10 Cinemas in Williston. This fundraiser for the Humane Society…
Bouffez Montréal: Korean Fried Chicken on the Rise
Over the past decade, Vermont’s food landscape has seen a gustatory revolution. Menus tout local ingredients aplenty, and global cuisine is on the rise: Within…
Can Suburban South Burlington Build a Real Downtown?
A swath of woods in the center of South Burlington could soon give way to something novel for the sprawling suburb: a real downtown. After…
Obituary: THELMA H. (STODDERT) GODDETTE, 1917-2015, Colchester
Thelma H. Goddette, 98 passed away peacefully on Monday, April 13, 2015 surrounded by her family and close friends. Thelma was born in Burlington on…
Taste Test: Istanbul Kebab House
About three years ago, Vural, Hasan and Jackie Oktay opened Istanbul Kebab House at the base of an apartment complex in Essex. In a subsequent…
Asiana Noodle Shop Owner to Open Sushi Stop
Rumors of Asiana Noodle Shop’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Panic started among pan-Asian food lovers when an April 10 Burlington Free Press article stated…
