Mar 14-21, 2018
Songwriter and Record Producer Kristina Stykos Finds Her Voice; Cooperage Makes a Comeback in Richmond; Reviewing Alison Bechdel’s ‘Self-Confessed!’ Retrospective
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Songwriter and Record Producer Kristina Stykos Finds Her Voice
Ariel Zevon is demoing a new love song. It’s a pretty little thing, with light, lovelorn lyrics set to a melancholy melody that sticks to…
Solo Act: At Champlain College, a Long-Running Program Helps Single Parents Defy the Odds
In 2016, Emma Longe was working long hours cutting hair to support her daughter, Kayleigh, then 4. With another baby on the way, she hoped…
The Cannabis Catch-Up: Cannabis-Themed Things Are All the Rage
As cannabis legalization sweeps the nation, entrepreneurs are finding new ways to weave weed into … whatever. Take these recent examples. Maine’s first radio show…
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Northeast Super Regional Yoga Asana Championships [SIV524]
3/10/18: The Northeast Super Regional Yoga Asana Championships were held at South Burlington High School on Saturday. This was the first time the event was…
Soundbites: Tips for the Band(s)
Recently, I received an email from a regional artist looking for coverage opportunities in Seven Days. The person used a particularly unusual phrase: They were…
Business Is Brisk for Vermont Company Trying to Stop School Shooters
A Burlington-based company that monitors social media networks for threats to schools has seen a surge of new clients in the weeks since a teen…
WTF: What Can Vermonters Do About Nuisance Drones?
Recently, a Seven Days staffer complained that someone in her Winooski neighborhood had repeatedly hovered, and occasionally landed, a drone in her backyard. Aside from…
Eat This Week, March 14 to 20, 2018: Film to Table
As part of the Green Mountain Film Festival, foodies follow the life and times of soup sensei Osamu Tomita as told in Koki Shigeno’s Ramen…
Movie Review: ‘Thoroughbreds’ Is a Thoroughly Assured Dark Debut Thriller
How much do you want to see a movie in which the sociopath is the most likable character? The answer may determine viewers’ responses to…
Scarlett Letters: I’m Attracted to This Guy, but I’m Still a Virgin
Dear Scarlett, I like this guy, but we live in different countries. I see him twice a year, but there’s another problem: He’s my friend’s…
Free Will Astrology (3/14/18)
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Although her work is among the best Russian literature of the 20th century, poet Marina Tsvetayeva lived in poverty. When fellow…
Perky Planet Café Will Employ People With Disabilities
Burlington has no shortage of coffee shops. But when Perky Planet opens on the first floor of a new Champlain College residential building at 170…
A Glassblower Branches Out to Conscious Clothing
Twelve years ago, Tove Ohlander started buying apparel from by Dem, a clothing business in her native Sweden. She liked the company’s focus on socially…
Movie Review: ‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’ Is Neither Strange Nor Scary
Four years ago, film scholar and reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz published something between a manifesto and a call to arms on RogerEbert.com, where he’s the…
Art Review: ‘Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel,’ Fleming Museum
In 2018, the curated confessional is a cultural staple. We tap, click and swipe every day, allowing vague audiences to glimpse our bodies, thoughts, communities…
Album Review: Doll Gods, ‘Summerhead’
(Self-released, digital download) Doll Gods are a Vermont band that never really happened — that is to say, they never performed live and broke up…
Album Review: ILLu & Rico James, ‘Tired of Waiting for Rappers: An Instrumental Series Vol. 1’
(Equal Eyes Records, digital download) Tired of Waiting for Rappers: An Instrumental Series Vol. 1 is the first in a run of collaborations from local…
Camaraderie, Games and Beers at South Burlington’s Old Post
Tuesday is Trivia Night at the Old Post in South Burlington, a bar that opened under new ownership last fall on Queen City Park Road….
Book Review: ‘The Flight Attendant’ by Chris Bohjalian
When we’re hurtling through the air at 35,000 feet, we tend to think of flight attendants as our devoted caretakers. For these consummate customer-service professionals,…
No Magic Formula: Education Finance Reform Falters
The 2018 legislative session began with a sense of optimism that Vermont might finally overhaul its famously complex education funding system. But by the time…
At Generator’s First Global Service Jam, Design Happened
Over the weekend, nine people gathered at Burlington maker space Generator for the first Vermont edition of the Global Service Jam. The activity prompts participants…
Screaming Females’ Melissa Paternoster Talks Tattoos, Basement Culture and Contentment
Power trio Screaming Females emerged in the early to mid-aughts from the DIY basement scene in New Brunswick, N.J. Since 2006, they’ve released seven albums,…
The Green Mountain Film Festival Comes of Age
The Green Mountain Film Festival turns 21 this year, and executive director Karen Dillon is determined to throw a big party. The “coming-of-age” theme informs…
Deer-ly Departed: Carcass Prompts Bureaucratic Runaround
Brooks Elder was taking his yellow lab, Scout, for a walk along a Burlington beach on March 6 when they came across something large and…
In Richmond, Three Army Vets Bring Back Barrel-Making
Tony Fletcher aimed a large propane torch at a small pile of scrap lumber stacked inside a coffee-can-size metal container and instantly set the wood…
Theater Review: ‘Sex With Strangers,’ Vermont Stage
Igniting a romance is easy. Two people alone in an isolated B&B closed for a snowstorm? Well, clothes are going to come off. But maintaining…
A Real Democrat? Hallquist’s Authenticity Issue
In late 2016, a member of governor-elect Phil Scott’s transition team placed an exploratory call to a prominent Vermonter: Would she be open to joining…
Letters to the Editor (3/13/18)
One More Thing Thanks to Pamela Polston for her review of my book, The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to…
Unfunny Money? Anonymous Satirical Outfit Skewers Vermont Pols
At the beginning of a video posted online last month, “James,” a plaid-wearing thirty-something with a five o’clock shadow, turns to his companion and asks,…
City Market Seeks Investments From Members
City Market, Onion River Co-op is seeking loans from its Vermont members to help pay for the cost of its expansion to the South End….
Sustainably Raised Caviar Comes to Vermont
Sitting at a table at Hotel Vermont in Burlington, clad in a black blazer over a white T-shirt, Iveta Sarova Parker scoops up a few…
