The thermometer read 28 degrees as Max Tracy stripped off a fourth layer of clothing and hobbled barefoot toward the frigid waters of Lake Champlain….
Even when dealing with a global health crisis and social unrest, Vermonters continue to connect, learn and have a good time. We’ve compiled seven of this week’s must-do events, including a virtual adaptation of the annual Winter is a Drag Ball, hosted by Vermont’s own House of LeMay.
Happy Valentine’s Day to my love, Danielle Marie Guerin. I love you with all my heart always and forever. I miss you so, so much….
Bianca Amira Zanella was nothing short of exuberant as she welcomed Zoom participants to Phoenix Books’ monthly poetry open mic in late January. In a…
Some Vermont creations are so iconic that they forever changed how we experience winter: the first photographs of individual snow crystals, by Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley;…
A notable Vermont writer is among the recipients of a $50,000 cash fellowship from United States Artists, a Chicago organization devoted to supporting working creatives….
Among many other losses, the pandemic resulted in darkened stages and empty theater seats. But that, of course, is not the whole story: Thespians, like…
In 2017, the Tipton family — Benjamin, Michelle and two teenage children — returned to Vermont after nearly a decade away to establish a family…
It might seem a bit incongruous that in the same week Vermont looks its most wintry, our parenting publication, Kids VT, is hosting a virtual…
Major Misunderstandings Faculty union leaders would have you believe that the humanities are going away at the University of Vermont [“Major Fallout,” January 27]. That’s…
If there’s a vacant building in Chittenden County tagged with more graffiti than the former Pizza Hut at 764 Shelburne Road in South Burlington, we…
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Alice Walker writes, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird…
Time was when the most boring reporting assignment in Montpelier would have been to cover state auditor Alexander “Tino” Acebo, a Barre Republican who held…
On a January 21 conference call with hospitals, the Vermont Department of Health announced an abrupt change to its coronavirus vaccination plan: It would stop…
(Self-released, digital) I’ve been lucky to maintain most of my important childhood friendships. But I didn’t fully appreciate them until I realized that most adults…
(Self-released, CD, digital) A cardboard cutout of Gwen Stefani looks over my shoulder while I work in my home office. I frequently wear a No…
Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I watched director-cowriter Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Denmark’s official…
As we approach the pandemic’s one-year anniversary, I’ve been thinking a lot about the final days of normalcy in early 2020. For instance, my last…
When Vermont lawmakers left the Statehouse last March amid the worsening pandemic, they weren’t the only ones evicted from their stately digs. The army of…
Dear Reverend, I recently got a job that requires me to do a lot of driving. I try to do my business before I leave…
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What do restaurants have in common with bears, skunks, bumblebees, snakes, box turtles and snails? This winter, they’re hibernating. For animals, hibernation is a way…
When the world is ready for the simple pleasure of a table of friends sharing beer, Wunderkammer Biermanufaktur brewer Vasilios Gletsos will have just the…
The Swingin’ Pinwheel, a cowboy-themed restaurant at 11 Center Street in Burlington, announced on January 25 on social media that it will close at the…
Few things go together better than sparkling wine and salty snacks. Those pairings — Champagne and fried chicken, pét-nat and popcorn, cava and charcuterie —…
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