Apr 2-8, 2014
In the studio with Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman; Keurig Green Mountain Expands; Mt. Mansfield Media Keeps It Weird; Vermonters Share Road-Food Favs;
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In the Studio With Windham Hill Founder Will Ackerman
Peter Jennison is having a hell of a time. Seated at the Steinway Model B grand piano of producer Will Ackerman’s Imaginary Road Studios in…
Obituary: Dale Jean LaBombard
Dale Jean LaBombard, age 74 years, a lifelong resident of this area died unexpectedly early Sunday morning March 30, 2014, while visiting her sister in…
Obituary: David James Greenwood, Sr.
David James Greenwood, Sr., age 59 years, a lifelong area resident died late Sunday afternoon April 6, 2014, at his Lamkin St. residence with loving…
Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England by Corin Hirsch
Many a harebrained scheme has been hatched in a bar. It might’ve seemed brilliant at the time, but that plan you once had for disco-ball…
Obituary: Winifred (Winnie) Bean, 1918-2014, Burlington
Winifred (Winnie) M. Bean, 95, passed away peacefully in her home with loving family by her side on Monday, March 31, 2014. Winnie was born…
Chef Jed Cohan Reopens Long-Closed North Royalton Inn
In 1818, stagecoaches began stopping for food and rest at Jacob Fox’s inn, an establishment that would welcome guests for nearly two centuries. After a…
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Eight films in, everybody goes to a new Wes Anderson release knowing exactly what to expect. That’s not a sign of predictability or imaginative limitation….
Book review: Translations From Bark Beetle: Poems, Jody Gladding
Translations From Bark Beetle, by Jody Gladding of East Calais, is more than a simple collection of poetry. It’s a convention-defying poetic gallery, meaning it’s…
CCTA Strike Moves Into Week Three, Bringing Devilish Details Along for the Ride
It can sometimes seem as if the problems between Chittenden County Transportation Authority drivers and managers are about much more than a contract. In picket…
Genre-Defying Nellie McKay Performs at the FlynnSpace
Even more striking than Nellie McKay’s ability to play nearly any instrument and tap into nearly any genre is her astounding confidence. McKay is a…
Oliver Charles Avelle Boright
On March 14, 2014, at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Erin Avelle-Boright and Jonathan Boright welcomed a baby boy, Oliver Charles Avelle Boright….
Guthrie Galileo, Sauce Vapor
(In Space &Time Records, digital download) Sauce Vapor is Guthrie Galileo’s debut EP, released by In Space & Time Records. A student at the University…
Rachel Armstrong Talks About ‘Living Architecture’
Vermont is often seen as a nexus of sustainable practices. Land is regularly protected from development. Old buildings are renovated to be more energy efficient;…
Enemy Self, Evolution Kills
(Self-released, digital download) In the early 2000s, local trip-hop outfit Manifest Nexto Me were among the most successful and well-traveled bands on the local scene….
Will the Keurig Green Mountain Cold-Cup Project Heat Up the Local Economy?
First came Tennessee, California and Québec. Next up: the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia and South Korea. Keurig Green Mountain, as its executives say, is going…
Soundbites: GMCF Tix Onsale, Anaïs Mitchell Plays a Benefit and the Worst. Song. Ever.
Trolling Right Along The big news on the local music front this week is Phish bassist Mike Gordon’s show at the Higher Ground Ballroom on…
Ken Burns Documents a Vermont School’s Gettysburg Address Project
Documentarian Ken Burns refers to it as “the Address.” A group of Vermont students and teachers who know the speech exceptionally well just call it…
Art Review: “Abstract Terrains” at Vermont Metro Gallery
Six months after the BCA Center opened the Vermont Metro Gallery on the building’s fourth floor, it’s clear this was a strategic mistake. Rather than…
Warren’s Scrag Mountain Music Brings Together Composers and Community
Scrag Mountain Music, founded in 2011 by Warren residents Mary Bonhag and Evan Premo, is not your conventional classical chamber group. Audiences are told to…
Mt. Mansfield Media Aims to Give Businesses “Share of Mind”
On a winter afternoon at Fletcher Allen Health Care, a buxom woman of a certain age lay wired to an EKG, seemingly unaware of a…
Hashtag Harry
Click image above to enlarge comic… Dan Rinylo graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2013. See more of his work at drinylo.com Drawn…
Roger Wilco
It was a huge snowfall for so late in the season, just over a foot and a half in Burlington when it finally stopped coming…
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Vinny Lizotte Refocuses [SIV347]
3/21/14: After more than three decades on upper Church Street, Vinny Lizotte, the founder of LeZot Camera Repair, is moving his business to Williston. Eva…
Vermont Teaching Artists Try Out Universal Design for Learning
“What’s this made of?” teaching artist Kim Desjardins asked a class of wide-eyed kindergartners one recent morning at Burlington’s Integrated Arts Academy. She held up…
Letters to the Editor (4/2/14)
Special Treatment? I read the article about the lesbian couple suing the town of Addison [“Two Against a Town,” March 19]. I read the article…
Dues and Dont’s: A New Union Powerhouse Takes on Burlington’s HowardCenter
As it seeks to grow its membership in Vermont, a national labor union is taking on the state’s largest human services provider — in court…
Newly Single After 20 Years of Marriage, I’m Ready to Date
Dear Athena, I’m newly single after 20 years of marriage and kids, and I’m just relearning how to date. I met someone through an ad…
News Quirks (4/2/14)
Curses, Foiled Again Michigan authorities identified Jules Bahler, 21, as the suspect in three bank robberies after he posted his picture on Facebook holding a…
Free Will Astrology (4/2/14)
Aries (March 21-April 19) In his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera says that the brain has “a special area which we might…
Lawmakers Consider Historic Overhaul of Vermont’s Education System
Rote memorization is out; personalized education is in. Textbooks are fading and iPads ascendant. But while education itself may have evolved greatly in Vermont since…
Citizen Cider’s Tasting Room Opens in the South End This Weekend
The newly acid-etched floors of Suite 114 at 316 Pine Street are covered with a deep, swirling red that’s both mesmerizing and slightly alarming. “Yeah,…
Uncle Pop Pop’s Tapas Restaurant to Open in Essex
Bocadillos and patatas bravas will soon join the Chittenden County foodscape when a tapas, sandwich and rum spot arrives in Essex Junction. Uncle Pop Pop’s…
Vermonters Share Their Road-Food Favorites
The old term “you can’t get there from here” still rings true in Vermont. For many workers in a state with a widely dispersed population,…
