Apr 29 – May 5, 2015
The Past, Present and Future of Winooski’s Waking Windows Music Festival; Ag in the Hot Seat; Wendy Whelan on Modern Dance; Restaurant Week Diaries
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Waking Windows 5: The Past, Present and Future of Winooski’s Music Festival
Burlington is northern Vermont’s nightlife hub on most nights. But the typically bustling Queen City could be a bit of a ghost town this weekend,…
The Water Diviner
It’s fair, I think, to question whether this is a film Russell Crowe would have appeared in if he hadn’t also directed it. He does…
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Seth Rogen Returns to BTV [SIV397]
4/25/15: Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen returned to Burlington on Saturday to represent Hilarity for Charity, a non-profit they started in 2011…
UVM Student Matthew Lipke Screens Third Film
You’ve heard the rap on millennials. Narcissistic. No work ethic. Perhaps you’ve even read Mark Bauerlein’s The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young…
News Quirks 4/29/15)
Curses, Foiled Again Police responding to a drug complaint in Richmond, Va., spotted two men, who began running away. One of the fleeing men, later…
Waterbury Gets a Coffee Shop
In recent years, Waterbury has blossomed into quite the culinary destination. With award-winning breweries and restaurants such as Hen of the Wood, Prohibition Pig, the…
Landfill: Bristol Aims to Load Up Dump Before It Closes
The Bristol landfill was buzzing with activity on a recent Saturday morning. A pickup truck dropped off a large load of old toys and furniture….
Theater Review: The Mountaintop, Vermont Stage Company
Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop is a fierce, sweet call to action. The playwright employs a touch of magical realism to reimagine Dr. Martin Luther King…
Crazy Circus Peanuts
Business picks up in April. As winter recedes, customers whom I haven’t heard from in months poke their heads out of their gopher holes and…
Ex Machina
Longtime Seven Days readers will know the name of Bina48, a “socially advanced robot” created by Hanson Robotics for the Terasem Movement Foundation in Lincoln….
Champlain College Game Studio Courts Recruiters, Women
Last Friday night, the video clips that played on a large screen in Champlain College’s Alumni Auditorium offered an impressive sampling of the skills this…
Brave New Bureaucracy: REAL Licenses Slow Down Vermont Drivers
Several dozen people sat in a waiting room, each holding a ticket identified by a different letter and number. “Come on, A72,” a man wearing…
Callithumpian Consort to Perform Composer Alvin Lucier’s ‘Hanover’
Nearly a century ago, the father of composer Alvin Lucier played violin in the very first Dartmouth College jazz band, alongside a pianist, a drummer,…
Vermont Police Facebook Pages Get Likes … and Hates
The collection of mug shots posted on the South Burlington Police Facebook page is a bizarre rogues’ gallery. Some of the subjects look dazed or…
Classical Musicians Making More CDs Than Ever
A funny thing has happened to the classical music world over the past decade or so: It is swimming in compact disc recordings. This realization…
The Tax Man Cometh: Final Fights in the Vermont Legislature
Like a chastened schoolboy, Sen. Tim Ashe (D/P-Chittenden) wrote 10 times on a whiteboard in the Senate Finance Committee’s meeting room last week, “I do…
Vermont Artists in International ‘Telephone’ Online Exhibit
When Cabot artist Janet Van Fleet responded to an artists’ call, she didn’t know what she was getting herself into. Neither did Brattleboro painter Hannah…
Maryse Smith’s New Album is Her Best Yet
Maryse Smith likes to take her time with things. Like, approximately three years. “I’m a slow mover,” she says, the faintest trace of a self-conscious…
Soundbites: Digging the Local Bands at WW5
Windows to the Soul Man, I really love Waking Windows. You might have gathered that, given the amount of coverage the fest is getting in…
Neighbor in Need: Did Campbell Lobby His Way Into a Job?
Last year the Vermont House established its first-ever ethics panel, prompted by concerns about potential conflicts of interest among its 150 members. But the smaller,…
Deep River Saints, Acts of American Homes
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Deep River Saints began as a recording project for Patrick Crowley, formerly of the now-disbanded groups Cities on the Moon and…
Letters to the Editor (4/29/15)
Smokes Out I was very disappointed and dismayed to see a full-page ad for American Spirit cigarettes in your April 15 issue. As I am…
Sleeping In, Sleeping In
(Self-released, digital download) When Burlington’s Sleeping In premiered their self-titled EP on Boston-based music blog Allston Pudding, writer Tim Gagnon posited that the band could…
My Ex Wants Me Back But It Doesn’t Feel Right
Dear Athena, I was married to this woman for a few years. We had it OK, but things were hard and then she wanted a…
Former Ballerina Wendy Whelan Reinvents Herself as a Modern Dancer
In 2012, the New York Times dubbed Wendy Whelan “America’s greatest contemporary ballerina.” Last fall she bade farewell to her devoted fans and concluded a…
Art Review: ‘Interpreting the Surface,’ Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery
In 1976, American fiber artists felt cornered by the emphasis on weaving in academic programs and exhibitions. The loom’s grid was too restricting, too uniform,…
Free Will Astrology (4/29/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Chris Moneymaker was employed as an accountant in Tennessee. On a whim, he paid $39 to enter an online poker tournament….
Vermont Restaurant Week Diaries: Seven Days Dines Out
Can you believe this is the sixth year of Vermont Restaurant Week? For more than half a decade, Vermonters have been supping (and lunching) on…
Pan-Asian Market and Restaurant Opens in Burlington
Bhakti Adhikari and his brother-in-law, Som Timsina, took over the lease at Burlington’s 242 North Winooski Avenue from 99 Asian Market Eatery in February. Experienced…
