Apr 19-25, 2017
Restaurants Are Reinventing How We Eat Out; Comedian Kendall Farrell Is Creating a Scene; Can an Arty Beer Can Make You Buy It?
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Restaurants That Are Reshaping How We Eat Out
In a chic, dusky wine bar in a former industrial space in Burlington’s South End, servers glide around the room, pouring guests tastes of old-world…
The Parmelee Post: Farmhand-to-Table Restaurants Allow Patrons to Harvest Own Ingredients
Maggie Oldenfold walked deliberately through the seemingly endless rows of crops at Nature’s Other, Other Valley Farm in Tunbridge. After careful consideration, she stopped, at…
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Walk the Long Trail at Berlin Mall [SIV486]
4/3/17: Almost 600 people have spent the last four months walking the Long Trail…at the Berlin Mall. Participants have logged almost 12,000 miles in the…
Ask Athena: Should My Partner Know My Number of Lovers?
Dear Athena, I have been with the same man for seven years, but I was promiscuous from the time I was 15 to 18. I…
‘Rebels’ Yell: Protests Build Over South Burlington’s Mascot Change
Some South Burlington “Rebels” are living up to their nickname. Resistance has grown steadily in Vermont’s second largest city since the local school board decided…
Caroline DeCunzo and Jack Braunstein Stake a Claim in Burlington’s Experimental Music Community
For the average listener, experimental music is a hard sell. It’s usually bereft of the comforting hallmarks of conventional, popular music: catchy hooks, identifiable melodies,…
Russian Sister City Troupe Performs ‘The Cherry Orchard’ in Vermont
The current political climate between the United States and Russia may be chillier than a Siberian winter, but culturally, Burlington and its Russian sister city,…
Album Review: Bluegrass Gospel Project, ‘Delivered.’
(Vital Records, CD, digital download) Bluegrass Gospel Project began with a one-off show for a First Night celebration in Burlington back in 2001. Throughout the…
Art Review: ‘Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage,’ Amy E. Tarrant Gallery
In May 2012, then Vermont governor Peter Shumlin signed into law the state recognition of four of Vermont’s Abenaki tribes: the Elnu, Nulhegan, Koasek and…
Album Review: Bostjan Zupancic, ‘MicroMetal Volume II’
(self-released, cd, digital download) 1998 is a year I chiefly remember for scoring a job reviewing videogames, then promptly getting such a glorious case of…
After Decades of Feuding, Is It Time to Disband the Tiny Town of Victory?
Victory Town Clerk Carol Easter has a lot on her mind these days. Last month, a predecessor sued her, alleging she committed “massive voter fraud.”…
Vermont Choral Union Commissions 50th Anniversary Song Cycle
Vermont choirs are not exactly fly-by-night ensembles. The Burlington Choral Society is wrapping up its 40th season this weekend with performances of Johannes Brahms’ powerful…
Find a Classic Shave and Haircut at Winooski’s Old Soul Barbershop
A cop, a lawyer and an ex-convict walk into a barbershop. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. It’s a typical day at…
Movie Review: As ‘Sandy Wexler,’ Adam Sandler Thrives on the Small Screen
Man, do we live in the future or what? It seems like only yesterday Netflix was this kooky company that mailed you movies. After they…
The Black Box of Ethics: Proposed Panel Would Operate in Secret
The purpose of ethics laws is to provide a safeguard against abuses of public trust. Right? So what does it mean if an official ethics…
Inside the Conservative Takeover of Vermont’s Coolidge Foundation
Six days a week, John Donald walks a quarter mile from his Plymouth Notch farmhouse to the hilltop hamlet’s tiny post office, where he works…
Chefs Speak to the Art of Plating Food
The image is arresting: prosciutto, pink meat lined with creamy fat, spread flat on a circular white plate; on top, thin slices of horned melon,…
Book Review: ‘Dryland: One Woman’s Swim to Sobriety,’ Nancy Stearns Bercaw
Nancy Stearns Bercaw was a champion swimmer as a youth and is now a champion again in the YMCA’s masters program. Her new memoir Dryland:…
Eat This Week, April 19 to 25, 2017: Whet Your Palate
The eighth annual Vermont Restaurant Week kicks off with a boozy after-work social this Thursday. Gather in Maglianero’s open, light-filled space for springy cocktails, courtesy…
Free Will Astrology (4/19/17)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): After George Washington was elected as the first President of the United States, he had to move from his home in…
Pete’s Greens to Offer Brooklyn CSA
Beginning on May 4, Brooklyn residents will have access to something that until now was available only to Vermonters: Good Eats vegetable CSA shares from…
Comedian Kendall Farrell Is Making a Scene
Kendall Farrell doesn’t tell people he’s a comedian. This is a little weird given that he spends virtually every waking moment either onstage telling jokes…
Movie Review: ‘The Fate of the Furious’ Is to Keep Getting Faster and Furiouser
The eighth installment of the Fast and Furious series is distinguished by stunts so absurd they could only have been accomplished by someone sitting at…
Page 32: Short Takes on Five Vermont Books
Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, the number of books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one…
In Vermont, a Somali Bantu Youth Finds His Voice
When Aden Haji was 8 years old, he and his family were on the cover of the Burlington Free Press. Haji and his parents, two…
Convict-Turned-Lawmaker Pushes Criminal Justice Reform in Vermont
Rep. Janssen Willhoit (R-St. Johnsbury) stood in the chamber of the Vermont House for 90 minutes last month defending a bill that would allow some…
Letters to the Editor (4/19/17)
Clean Up Church Street The City of Burlington, Church Street Marketplace and Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s Office must take immediate, affirmative steps to deter crime…
Hackie: Little Sister
“They’ve modernized the décor, and it really looks great,” Alex explained to me from the shotgun seat. “Yeah, two of the old bartenders bought the…
Soundbites: Hello/Goodbye
I apologize for starting out this week’s column with a stone-cold bummer of an announcement, but news is news: Brattleboro-based indie rockers the Snaz are…
How Breweries Are Arting Around With Packaging
A quick perusal of the beer selection at your local grocery store reveals an almost equal number of cans and bottles. But brewers say it…
New Greensboro Art Center to House Hardwick Street Café
Greensboro is about to get a brand-new town landmark — and a restaurant to match. Builders are hard at work finishing up the Highland Center…
Pingala Café Adds Williston Location and Rebrands
In recent months, visitors to Burlington’s Pingala Café & Eatery may have noticed a few updates. Owner Trevor Sullivan and his team have painted the…
Sing “Stuck in Vermont” Karaoke at Waking Windows
Add your voice to the 500th musical episode of Stuck in Vermont, airing August 18th. Sign up and we’ll record you singing the Stuck in…
