Jun 19-25, 2019
Inventor/Entrepreneur Matt Benedetto Is an Unreal Genius; Green Mountain Transit Rolls Out New Routes and Apps; Post-Madaila, Mark Daly Talks Fatherhood and a New Album
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The Unreal Genius of Entrepreneur and Inventor Matt Benedetto
And now, a late-night TV commercial for a product that doesn’t (quite) exist. We open on a well-dressed couple enjoying a candlelit dinner at a…
Obituary: Furman ‘Chip’ Crawford Horton III, 1957-2019
On June 23, 2019, Furman “Chip” Crawford Horton III passed away suddenly. Chip was born on January 19, 1957, to Helen (Muth) and Furman Crawford…
Obituary: Susan Brody Hasazi
Susan Brody Hasazi, 72, of South Burlington and Duxbury, Vt., passed away on May 14, 2019. A memorial service to honor and remember Susan will…
When David Got Dengue: A Mother and Son, Far From Home, Contend With a Deadly Illness
In June 2018, days after my son David finished 8th grade in the United Arab Emirates, we flew to rainy Sri Lanka for a break…
Hot Lunch: Student-Run Restaurant Wows Diners in St. Johnsbury
The hottest lunch spot in St. Johnsbury is a high school classroom. Before you think chips and Snapple, cramped student desks and an adolescent atmosphere,…
WTF: Can Vermont’s Justices of the Peace Serve as Judges?
For two decades, Jay Furr of Richmond worked a tech job that kept him on the road as many as 40 weeks per year. He…
Musician/DJ Robert Resnik Receives 2019 Herb Lockwood Prize
Robert Resnik might be best known as the host of “All the Traditions,” the freeform Vermont Public Radio show devoted to local and regional music…
Movie Review: Local Director Jay Craven Takes on Science Fiction With the Ambitious ‘Wetware’
I wish I could give five stars to Jay Craven’s Wetware just for being a major step outside the director’s wheelhouse and one of the…
Correct Change? Green Mountain Transit Rolls Out New Routes, Apps
I stood waiting for the bus on Monday at the corner of Hickok and Elm streets in Winooski like a kid on the first day…
One Fish, Two Dozen Fish (and a Turtle) Rescued From Burlington Fountain
The concerned citizen on the phone described a scenario JoAnn Nichols had never encountered. A couple dozen goldfish — and a turtle — were swimming…
Book Review: Pandemic and Politics in ‘The Rationing,’ by Charles Wheelan
In 2014, former British prime minister David Cameron commissioned a study on the social and economic impact of the rise of antimicrobial-resistant infections — also…
As Act 46 Deadline Looms, Districts Rush to Finish Their Math Homework
On July 1, the Huntington School Board will effectively cease to exist. Unless a court intervenes, the five-member board overseeing Brewster-Pierce Memorial School will lose…
Letters to the Editor (6/19/19)
Just Say Yes On June 11, the city hosted the Burlington Housing Summit. Over the course of two meetings and dozens of small group conversations,…
Word on the Street Project to Set Poetry in Concrete
In a few years’ time, stanzas of poetry will dot the town of Middlebury like X’s marking hidden gems on a treasure map. By the…
Volunteers Fear Respite House Is Trading Hominess for Solvency
Volunteers organized to create the McClure Miller Respite House back in 1991. Thousands of terminally ill people have since lived their final days in the…
Art Review: Sam Talbot-Kelly, Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop
Sam Talbot-Kelly is a mixed-media artist with a special interest in costume and fashion. Her work has appeared locally in Strut, the fashion show of…
End of an Era: St. Johnsbury’s Video King to Close Its Doors
Dawn Leroux wants me to stop swearing in her store. We’re standing at the counter of Video King, the last video rental store in St….
Free Will Astrology (6/19/19)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next four weeks, you’re not likely to win the biggest prize or tame the fiercest monster or wield the…
Jack Fairweather Writes Story of Unsung Hero at Auschwitz
On September 19, 1940, Witold Pilecki awoke near dawn, just before German soldiers and plainclothes police pounded on his door to arrest him. Pilecki, a…
I’ve Got a Weird Penis That Curves to the Left
Dear Reverend, I’ve got a weird penis. When I get a hard-on, it curves to the left a bit. I’ve had sex with a few…
Soundbites: Revelry Theater Relaunches as Nonprofit
Revelry’s Reverie In a recent phone conversation with Seven Days, Revelry Theater founder Anthony Apodaca said that one of the most frequent things he hears…
Post-Madaila, Mark Daly Takes Stock of His Life on a New Solo Album
“I’ve always put family and relationships first,” singer-songwriter Mark Daly muses on a warm Sunday afternoon. “That’s the most important thing to me.” The tall,…
Eat This Week, June 19 to 25, 2019: Wine on the Waterfront
Burlington Wine & Food celebrates 10 years in town with a lineup of events highlighted by a food and drink extravaganza on Saturday, June 22,…
Pro, ‘After Dinner Before Dawn’
(Equal Eyes Records, digital, vinyl) Pro is a Burlington MC who made his name with the Aztext, one of the most successful hip-hop groups in…
Django Soulo, ‘Alone Together’
(self-released, CD, digital, vinyl) Have you ever been at a party — maybe sitting by the fire in early fall, sipping a cold one and…
Work: Travel Adviser Robin Bentley
Name: Robin Bentley Town: Middlebury Job: Travel adviser and Middlebury branch manager, Milne Travel Robin Bentley has the kind of voice you want on the…
Vermont Democrats Begin to Explore 2020 Bids for Governor
Last week, Gov. Phil Scott dismissed a question about running for reelection in 2020. “It was just five or six months ago that I was…
Movie Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Zombie Movie ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ Has Brains to Spare
Jim Jarmusch has been making films exactly as long as I’ve been reviewing them. I’ve reviewed a fair share of his, Stranger Than Paradise (1984),…
At SHIFT Festival in Hanover, Filmmakers Present a ‘Portal to the Sky’
Throughout history, humans have gazed up at the night sky and pondered their place in the cosmos. But only since the moon was first photographed…
Birth: Adalyn Grayce Portzer
On June 18, 2019, at Porter Medical Center, Alison Lussier and Matthew Portzer welcomed a girl, Adalyn Grayce Portzer….
Daytripping to Frelighsburg, Québec, for Eats, Art and History
As my friend Marcella and I drove up Route 108 toward Frelighsburg, Québec, less than three miles north of the Vermont border, we considered the…
Grilling the Chef: Adam Woogmaster Talks Tacos and Food Trucks
Chef Adam Woogmaster Position: Chief cook and bottle washer, Chez Mami Catering food truck Location: Route 2 in Marshfield, in front of Onion River Campground…
Vergennes Farmers Market Returns to Downtown Green
This market season, as the Burlington Farmers Market relocated from City Hall Park to a parking lot on Pine Street, the Vergennes Farmers Market made…
Chef Contos Closes Shelburne Shop, Focuses on Wellness
Courtney Contos closed her culinary classroom and store, Chef Contos, on June 10 after more than six years on Falls Road in Shelburne. “I have…
