Hostel Takeover: Sleeping on the cheap in Burlington’s New North End
Dorothy Delaney, the daughter of a former Vermont legislator, remembers lying awake at night, listening to her father and his political friends discussing the presidency…
And The Meat Goes On: Souza’s
Wielding skewers big enough to gore an ox and knives worthy of Benihana, waiters make the rounds at Souza’s, offering diners succulent grilled beef, chicken…
String Shift: Regina Carter
Jazz violinists aren’t exactly a dime a dozen. Though Jean-Luc Ponty and Stephane Grappelli come to mind right away, most casual fans would be hard-pressed…
Losing Winn: A Burlington activist dies the way she lived—fighting poverty
Sixteenth-century French essayist and gardener Michel Eyquen de Montaigne once wrote, “I want death to find me planting my cabbages.” Death found Virginia Winn three…
Singing the Blues
The news of almost 1000 job cuts at IBM’s massive Essex Junction facility hit the street Tuesday morning, just as this column was being put…
Flick Chick
The last time Vermont filmmaker Walter Ungerer dabbled with overtly political material, the Vietnam War had not yet ended. Keeping Things Whole, a 1972 quasi-documentary…
