Jul 23-29, 2014
Vermont’s “Grain-to-Glass” Craft Distilling Movement Comes of Age; Farm Fresh Foods for Patients; Bugging Out at the BIoblitz; Prepping for the Apocalypse; A Gastropub with Games
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Vermont’s Craft Distilling Movement Comes of Age
Ryan Christiansen stands on a stainless-steel platform beside a tall, silver column and explains how it’s used for raising spirits — not from the dead…
Obituary: Gary F. Belrose
Gary F. Belrose, age 73 years, died Sunday afternoon July 27, 2014, in the Northwestern Medical Center. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer on October,…
Obituary: W. Donald Horrigan, M.D.
W. Donald Horrigan, M.D. Isle La Motte, VT, formerly of Princeton, NJ, passed away on July 24, 2014 in Burlington, VT. He was born on…
Fun and Farm-to-Table Food at Tilt Arcade
Ever since the legendary Barcade opened its original location in Brooklyn in 2004, many members of Generation X have dreamed of owning their own adult…
Theater Review: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
At last Thursday’s preview performance, Weston Playhouse audience members signaled their delight in Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike with loud, long…
Begin Again
For Irish writer-director John Carney, Once was the charm. The 2006 musical drama had the lowest concept possible: Two struggling singer-songwriters meet in Dublin and…
A Boutique Hotel Proposed for Winooski’s Roundabout
Winooski officials say they hope to approve a recently unveiled plan for a boutique hotel on the downtown roundabout, but parking and pedestrian-safety issues could…
Things Are Fizzling in the Bedroom and I’m About to Snap
Dear Athena I love my boyfriend of more than seven years; he’s caring, sweet and extremely loyal. But things in the bedroom have been fizzling…
Vermont Sex Offender Registry’s Problems Persist
In May 2007, a Windham County teenager was convicted of having sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl when he was 17. He pleaded guilty. At…
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Co-op Gardening with Bonnie [SIV362]
7/18/14: For the past 21 years, artist Bonnie Acker has tended the lush gardens at Burlington’s City Market, Onion River Co-op – first at their…
GameShowVT Puts the Play in Team-Building
Business etiquette these days dictates that employees shut down their smartphones at most meetings, or at least look at them discreetly on their laps. But…
BioBlitz Turns Citizens Into Scientists
The Vermont Butterfly Survey, an ambitious cataloguing of every single such insect that flutters within the state’s boundaries, was a huge project stretching from 2002…
Burlington-Rutland Passenger Rail Line Coming
The train’s late getting to Burlington — by about 60 years. Railroad riders have been waiting since 1953 for long-distance passenger service to return to…
From the Rockies to the Greens
“My goodness, it is nice to be getting back to Rutland.” The source of my customer’s happiness was no mystery. Renee Bishop had just been…
Granite State of Mind: Scott Milne’s Ode to New Hampshire
Is Scott Milne running for governor of Vermont or New Hampshire? To hear the Pomfret Republican discuss his decade-long quest to build a $30 million…
Free Will Astrology (7/23/14)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A report in the prestigious British medical journal BMJ says that almost 1 percent of young pregnant women in the U.S….
Life Itself
Mysteries of the ages: How were the pyramids engineered? What became of Amelia Earhart? Did Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel really hate each other? Among…
News Quirks (7/23/14)
Curses, Foiled Again After a camera was found secretly recording in the women’s locker room at a fitness gym in Seekonk, Mass., police examined the…
Crazyhearse, Tornadic Beige
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Every now and then, even the savviest local music fans run into a band they probably should have caught years ago…
Black Rabbit, Lipstick and Dynamite
(Self-released, CD, digital download) On their 2013 self-titled debut EP, Burlington punk trio Black Rabbit offered a glimpse of the band they might become. Though…
Seasoned Traveler: Ping Wang’s Green Mountain Chinese
In October 2009, Ping Wang worked at the zoo restaurant in Chongqing, China, at the edge of Szechuan Province. John Braun was in town on…
Catching Up With the Nth Power’s Nikki Glaspie
The Nth Power has Vermont roots in guitarist/vocalist Nick Cassarino, and might not exist were it not for another Vermont expat, Jennifer Hartswick. But the…
Book Review: The Hundred-Year House
Yaddo. MacDowell. Loci of longing and feverish endeavor, reservoirs of growth and doubt and wild energies. The names of these artists’ colonies evoke exclusivity and…
Soundbites: Pitchfork (farm) Music Fest Debuts
Stick a Fork In It The big to-do on the schedule this weekend is the Manifestivus music festival in Cabot, Vt. More on that in…
A Charlotte “Prepper” Braces for the Worst
I can’t tell you his name, or where he lives — to do so, the Prepper told me, would compromise “OPSEC.” If, like me, you…
New Law Allows Restaurants Tasting-Size Beer Portions
Last week, Gov. Peter Shumlin stopped by Burlington’s Farmhouse Tap & Grill to sign Vermont Senate Bill S.299 into law. It allows Vermont restaurants to…
Bookstock Lines Up Laureates and Best-Sellers
Call it a sign of the times that Bookstock, the annual literary festival in tiny Woodstock, regularly attracts 1,000 people while last March its coordinator…
Vermont Hospitals Prescribe Farm-Fresh Food
What if, instead of meds, doctors prescribed peas and carrots? That’s the idea behind a growing partnership between the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps and two…
Thai Dishes Opens in Burlington
Six weeks after its target opening, Claire and Art Jilandharn’s new restaurant, Thai Dishes, opened its doors in the old Pacific Rim space in Burlington…
Sean Prentiss Explores Creative Writing’s ‘Fourth Genre’
A telltale sign of a Vermonter is his or her wearing of multiple hats. We all know folks like the landlord/state legislator who does carpentry…
Letters to the Editor (7/23/14)
The Price of Politics Lt. Gov. Phil Scott is quoted in Paul Heintz’s Off Message post [“Corren Calls for Expanding Public Election Financing,” July 10]…
Burlington’s Renegade Writers Go Out With a Bang
When July ends, so will the year-old Renegade Writers’ Collective, the Burlington-based group that has offered all manner of literary services to writers. Cofounders and…
Film News: All-Ages Animations, Vermont on PBS, Plattsburgh Film Fest
Short Takes on Film: All-Ages Animations, VT Shorts on PBS.org, Plattsburgh Film Fest It’s never too early to show your kids there’s a world of…
Art Review: Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition
The Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition, on view this month at the capacious Big Red Barn at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield, includes nearly 90 paintings by…
New Dining Concept Unveiled at the Essex
Last week, the Essex Culinary Resort & Spa began a soft opening of its latest restaurant, Junction, which will celebrate its grand opening on August…
