Apr 16-22, 2014
Deconstructing the Queen City’s Development Boom; BPD’s Clinician Responder; Randolph’s Co-Op Movie House; Waterbury’s Café Provence
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Deconstructing the Queen City’s Development Boom
Projects Under Way Stratos Project Hilton Garden Inn Abe’s Corner Champlain College Res Tri Project Champlain College Center for Communications and Creative Media Silversmith Commons King Street Center Won Final Approval But No Ground Broken Yet Maiden Lane Under Review, Preliminary Approval 140 Grove Street 110 Riverside Avenue Rejected, But Could Be Resurrected Eagles Landing…
Obituary: Barbara Jane Rollo
Mrs. Barbara Jane Rollo, age 90 years, a longtime resident of Highgate Center and more recently of Enosburgh Falls, died early Sunday morning April 20,…
Obituary: Berta E. Craig
Berta E. Craig, age 68 years, died unexpectedly late Tuesday evening April 14, 2014, at her winter residence in Tyler Texas. Born in Heddesheim, West…
Obituary: Gerard Joseph Beliveau
Gerard Joseph Beliveau, age 85 years, a longtime resident of Winooski and more recently of Swanton, died early Tuesday afternoon April 15, 2014, in the…
Free Will Astrology (4/16/14)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s Compensation Week. If you have in the past suffered from injustice, it’s an excellent time to go in quest of…
Bernie’s Big Dilemma: A Dem or an Indie Run?
A photo gallery of U.S. presidents lines the walls of the auditorium in Manchester, N.H., where Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke last Saturday. Each of those…
Liquid Gold
“Oh, Christ — the cellphone service is horrendous in Vermont!” In the back seat of my taxi, my customer, Fern Burns, was trying to reach…
The Raid 2
On April 15, Scott Mendelson of Forbes published an incisive little piece on the current economics of film. His premise: With 3-D spectacles filling theaters,…
News Quirks (4/16/14)
Curses, Foiled Again When the police officer who stopped Douglas Glidden, 25, in Livermore Falls, Maine, found marijuana in his vehicle, Glidden insisted the pot…
A Young Burlington Couple Enters the Antiques Trade
Jenny Jacobson met Brian Bittner in 2009, when she moved into the Hayward Street apartment inhabited by Brian and mutual friends in Burlington’s South End….
Label to Table: An ‘Organic’ Movement Leads Vermont Senate to Require GMO Labeling
Since he was first elected to the Vermont House nearly 18 years ago, Hinesburg farmer David Zuckerman has fought a mostly losing battle against the…
Theater Review: Our Town
In his preface to Our Town, Thornton Wilder recounted his dissatisfaction with the theater of his time. “It aimed to be soothing,” he lamented, and…
Randolph’s Co-op Theater Brings Movies to the People
On a recent Monday evening in Randolph, the Playhouse Theatre’s showing of the film Noah failed to attract much of a crowd, despite the thematically…
Burlington Beer Fans Aim for a Co-op Brewery
Imagine this: You and your pals are thirsty for a beer. You head down to your local brewery and settle in for suds and dinner….
Middlebury’s Edgewater Gallery Expands Offerings
It’s been four and a half years since Edgewater Gallery opened on Mill Street in downtown Middlebury, filling the space that had been home to…
Open Arms Food & Juice Shop Reopens in Shelburne
In 2008, Acoy and Samantha Cofino opened a cute little spot on Shelburne’s Harbor Road called the Open Arms Café. But in 2010, bad luck…
Eyewitness: Artist Rebecca Kinkead
On a crystalline afternoon in April, the looping, unpaved road leading to Rebecca Kinkead’s Ferrisburgh home and studio is slippery from the previous night’s rain….
An Essex Junction Apartment Makeover Sends Tenants Scrambling for Affordable Housing
In late March, roughly 100 residents of Green Meadows Apartments in Essex Junction returned home to find that eviction notices had been tacked to their…
Taste Test: Café Provence at Blush Hill
The last time I climbed the steep hill to Waterbury’s Best Western Plus hotel, it was out of both hunger and curiosity. I had never…
Letters to the Editor (4/16/14)
Missing Story? I always enjoy reading your weekly newspaper. But did you really just publish a Money Issue [April 9] and not do a stand-alone…
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Waylon Speed [SIV349]
4/9/14: Waylon Speed are arguably Burlington’s most renowned country-rock band. Since 2009 the quartet have been playing music and gathering both momentum and fans throughout…
Bread and Puppet and Sterling College Offer Arts and Activism Class
Northeast Kingdom neighbors Sterling College and Bread and Puppet Theater will collaborate on a four-week art-making course this summer, giving expression to their philosophical as…
Burlington Bakery August First Goes Screen Free
As national news outlets have reported recently, many Vermonters are struggling with addiction to a powerful, mind-altering substance that has an increasingly visible public presence….
A New Book Remembers Vermont Architect George Guernsey
In 1897, residents of the recently established city of Montpelier elected George H. Guernsey as their third mayor. No wonder. According to the book Vermont’s…
The Catching, Our Intimate
(409 Records, digital download) Kevin Sheltra is not your everyday guy. Besides his musical ventures and running his own record label, 409 Records, Sheltra is…
Activist Author Mike Bond Talks Elephants and Energy
An Earth Day talk in Burlington by author and environmental activist Mike Bond, sponsored by the Vermont Council on World Affairs, is likely to elicit…
SnakeFoot, Gold Collection
(Self-released, digital download) Gold Collection by Burlington’s SnakeFoot — aka Ross Travis — contains challenging music. It is not bad music; it simply demands more…
Quick Lit: Vermont Writer Sells Show to Syfy; Fantastic Readings
Here’s cool news that came to us via the blog Geek Mountain State: South Burlington-based screenwriter Hawk Ostby (Iron Man, Children of Men) is set…
Obituary: George R Nattress, Jr., 1926-2014, Winooski
George R Nattress, Jr., 88, a long time resident of Winooski, VT passed away April 12, 2014, at the Legacy House Hospice of Marion County,…
Soundbites: Record Store Day; Album News From Kat Wright
For the Records This weekend we will visit the holiest day on the Christian calendar. A day when a divine entity thought previously to have…
To Prevent Further Tragedy, Burlington Tries Dispatching a Clinician Instead of a Cop
Justin Verette is a first responder at the Burlington Police Department, but you won’t see him in a uniform, behind the wheel of a cruiser…
The Outrageous, Disgusting Musical Comedy of Touchpants
If you are a reasonably well-adjusted human being, there is no earthly reason why you should find yourself at Club Metronome on Sunday, April 20….
I’m Embarrassed by My Large Labia
Dear Athena, I have large inner labia and I’m embarrassed to show this area when having sex with my husband. I feel abnormal. And I…
Mi Casa Replaces Frida’s in Stowe
Last September, 4-year-old Frida’s Taqueria and Grill in Stowe closed with little fanfare. Owners Jack Pickett and Joshua Bard will soon open Phoenix Table &…
