Aug 12-17, 2015
Artist Milton Rosa-Ortiz Explores Past and Future in a Shimmering Exhibit; Explaining Vermont’s Public Nudity Laws; African Soccer Teams Kick It Up a Notch; Eating Himalayan in Burlington
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Artist Milton Rosa-Ortiz Explores Time in a Shimmering Exhibit
Time is a concept as big as the universe and smaller than a New York minute. Time gone by is compressed into chapters of human…
Burlington’s African Amateur Teams Are Serious About Soccer
Thirty minutes before kickoff, Juba Star Football Club captain Noor Bulle led the team’s warm-up session at Tree Farm Field in Essex Junction. A few…
Four More Local Recordings You (Probably) Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record…
WhistlePig Prepares to Distill Onsite
After almost five years of hemming and hawing over Act 250 permits, Shoreham’s WhistlePig finally has a still. Since its founding in 2010, the company…
Opinion: Listen Up, Bernie
It’s exasperating to watch: Sen. Bernie Sanders onstage at the Netroots Nation convention in Phoenix, Ariz., doggedly sticking to his script while the chants rise…
Middlebrook Restaurant to Offer Farm-Fresh Groceries
Middlebrook Restaurant in West Fairlee, which opened for its second season in May, will incorporate a new gourmet market starting on August 15. Middlebrook Market…
Soundbites: A New (Old) Venue in Montpelier; House Music on the Waterfront
Back in Black Not too long ago, live music in the capital city was in a bad place. In the span of about a year,…
Theater Review: Guys and Dolls, Weston Playhouse
While life comes down to a crapshoot for some of the characters in Guys and Dolls, ticket buyers take no risk with Weston Playhouse’s thoroughly…
Children and Families: Tragedy Strikes Central Vermont
Scott Williams exited the Washington County Courthouse Monday afternoon carrying the gray sport coat he’d worn earlier that day to a press conference on the…
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Knight’s Spider Web Farm [SIV409]
8/2/15: For almost 40 years, Will and Terry Knight have welcomed visitors from around the globe to their Spider Web Farm in Williamstown. Eva stopped…
How Do You Make Sexual Chemistry Happen?
Dear Athena, I feel like the guy I’m dating and I don’t have any sexual chemistry. But in every other way I have ever wanted,…
Burlington ‘Mama Bear’ Tells Drug Dealers to Go ‘Elsewhere’
For months, Burlington mother Erin Scott worried about suspicious activity in front of her rented duplex on Spruce Street: Drivers would park, seemingly exchange money…
Letters to the Editor (8/12/15)
Funny to the End Where is “Curses, Foiled Again,” the listing of possible Darwin Award applicants? [News Quirks] is usually right after the comics. Did…
WTF: Why Is Public Nudity Legal in Vermont But Public Disrobing Isn’t?
Vermont’s flip-floppy attitude on public nudity can confound newcomers who learn that, though it’s legal to be naked in public, it’s illegal to get naked…
A Dance to Remember: ‘Lonesome Bend’
Under the dammed waters of the Wrightsville Reservoir in Middlesex, just north of Montpelier, lies a story of flood and displacement. Heather Bryce, artistic director…
Free Will Astrology (8/12/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): To ensure the full accuracy of this horoscope, I have been compelled to resurrect an old-fashioned English word that isn’t used…
Burlington Sculptor Kate Pond Opens Time Capsules
Kate Pond’s World Sculpture Project gives a twist to a slogan familiar to many Vermonters: The state’s most internationally involved artist thinks cosmically and acts…
Burlington College Preps for a Big Test
“It’s not too late to apply,” reads the banner outside Burlington College. A visitor heeding that call last Friday might have seen a man on…
Hay Bale Art Inspires Smiles, Donations
Ever wonder who’s behind the huge roadside puppies, teddy bears and maple syrup jugs made of strategically stacked hay bales? Anyone who regularly drives through…
Where Does Sanders Stand on Foreign Policy?
It’s a truism of presidential politics that foreign policy matters little to U.S. voters as long as the country isn’t embroiled in a major war….
Moran Plant Gets a New Mural
Last Saturday, just around the corner from the bustle of the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival, a 16-by-90-foot mural took shape on the lakefront side of…
Up on the Roof, Down in the Basement
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Five-piece Johnson jam-funk band Up on the Roof released their first EP in January, cheekily titled Greatest Hits Vol. 3. This…
Talking Art With Tom Leytham
Tom Leytham’s love of drawing initially inspired him to become an architect, so it’s no surprise that buildings would be his favorite subjects. In 2007,…
Hornbeam, Hornbeam
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Northeast Kingdom-based Hornbeam take their name from a unique species of tree found only in northern temperate regions of the world….
Two Shots Rang Out in Barre, and a DCF Worker Fell
Shortly before 5 p.m. on Friday, a few workers began to trickle out of their offices at Barre City Place to head home for the…
Off Trail: Roy Mountain Wildlife Management Area
Mosquitoville Road, which I had to take to reach the Roy Mountain Wildlife Management Area in Vermont’s Caledonia County, seems like a bit of cartographical…
Ricki and the Flash
Back before his movies won multiple Oscars, Jonathan Demme made small, rough-edged films like Melvin and Howard (1980) and Something Wild (1986). While their heroes…
Alice & the Magician Finds New Home; Vermont Sports Grill Closes
Vermont’s first culinary fragrance company has a space to call its own. Alice & the Magician debuted its new laboratory and “aroma bar” with an…
Tasting Burlington’s Wealth of Himalayan Eats
Men in colorful hats known as Dhaka topi and women in saris no longer seem like mysterious foreigners on Burlington’s North Street. Passersby are just…
