Jul 24-30, 2013
With Three Wyeths, the Shelburne Museum Invites Viewers to Shift Perspectives; Jason Nokes’ Imperfect Past; Disability and the Divine, In Photos; A Thinking Person’s Beach Book; BBQ Competitors Feels the Heat
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With Works by Three Wyeths, the Shelburne Museum Invites Viewers to Shift Perspectives
Death. Danger. Dizziness. Those are key concepts in the optical roller coaster that is “Wyeth Vertigo,” a highly stimulating exhibit at the Shelburne Museum this…
Obituary: Clinton “Calhoun” Deo
Clinton “Calhoun” Deo, age 88 years, a lifelong resident of the Isle La Motte Community, died from natural causes Sunday, July 28, 2013, at the…
Artist Rod MacIver Fought a Bogus Shelburne Traffic Stop and Won. Now He Wants Damages.
Rod MacIver had a lot on his mind when he was stopped for running a red light on Route 7 in Shelburne last December. The…
Ruby Course, Code Camp and Conference Coming Soon
If you live in the Burlington area and you want to learn to code, you’re in luck. There are not one, but two programming classes…
Boozin’ and Cruisin’: Should Vermont Lower Its Legal Limit?
Sanders says he’s ramping up his leadership PAC, Progressive Voters of America, with the goal of promoting like-minded candidates throughout the country.
Much Ado About Nothing
If you yearn for an old-school Hollywood romantic comedy, a new screen version of Much Ado About Nothing is reason to celebrate. When Shakespeare created…
The Conjuring
James Wan’s 2004 breakthrough, Saw, was the definition of torture porn. His latest, on the other hand, is simply torture. There’s a reason so many…
Joe Adler, Music Booker Extraordinaire, Outdoes Himself With Precipice II
At Radio Bean, one man is responsible for all the sounds bouncing off the walls of the eclectic Burlington venue. He can usually be found…
Vermont Kids Pick Up Programming Skills at Young Hacks Academy
Young Hacks Academy, a new computer programming camp for kids, wrapped up its first summer sessions last week at Colchester High School. The day camp…
An Artist With Neuromuscular Disease Uses Her Body to Create Spiritual Erotica
Jocelyn Woods is having a love affair with the divine — and wants to share her spiritual ecstasy with the world through her art. On…
Meet Some of Vermont’s Top BBQ Contenders
In 2009, the Massachusetts barbecue team I Que made headlines as one of the first northeastern teams to be named grand champion at the Jack…
Gallery Profile: ZoneThree, Middlebury
“Sleep with your art.” That’s the tagline of ZoneThree, Rachel Baird’s salon-style modern art gallery in Middlebury. The implication is twofold: Consuming art should be…
A Night at Montpelier’s Cheap Thrills Records Club
It’s 6 p.m. on a warm, sunny evening on Langdon Street in downtown Montpelier. Inside Buch Spieler Music, record store manager Knayte Lander is adding…
Book Review: The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan
Publicity copy describes the first novel from Burlington journalist Stephen P. Kiernan as “Michael Crichton meets The Time Traveler’s Wife.” That pitch suggests painfully cynical…
Surveying Vermont’s New Crop of Wine Bars
The wine bar may be old hat in urban areas, but in Vermont it is still barely charted territory. Burlington’s pioneering Wine Works, which opened…
ECHO AfterDark Premieres its Pop-Up Gastronomy Series
The pop-up restaurant trend seemed to have slowed down this year — until now. Tuesday, July 23, saw the debut of the ECHO Lake Aquarium…
Letters to the Editor
All-Weather Symphony I would like to make a clarification to last week’s “State of the Arts” article entitled “Burlington Ensemble to Bring Summer Serenades to…
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Bagpipes at the Boathouse [318]
7/17/13: For the first time ever, the sound of bagpipes rang through the air at the Auer Family Boathouse (AKA Charlie’s Boathouse) in Burlington on…
