Mar 18-24, 2015
Threats, Lawsuits and Dead Animals in Victory; You Don’t Have Mail? Here’s Why; Eighteenth Green Mountain Film Fest; Madaila’s Mark Daly on the Record
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An Ongoing Feud in Victory Illustrates the Dark Side of Small-Town Life
Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting “Freedom of Speech” captures the civility of small-town democracy. The painter said he was inspired by a Vermont town meeting —…
Obituary: Sally Shane, 1936-2015, Shelburne
Sarah “Sally” Ide Shane passed away on March 11, 2015 at Wake Robin in Shelburne, Vermont, where she made her home for the past 10…
Obituary: Rita Pauline Dupont, 1922-2015, Swanton
Rita Pauline Dupont, 93, passed away on March 17, 2015 in Swanton surrounded by her loving family. She was born March 9, 1922 in Winooski…
Theater Review: Orwell in America
It’s rare for a Vermont theater company to produce a world premiere by a major American playwright, but Northern Stage defies the odds. The company’s…
Pheasants and Peasants
“Is it always this busy in Burlington?” the woman inquired from the backseat of my taxi. It was Saturday night of the Mardi Gras weekend….
Soundbites: Back to the Future
Back to the Future In case you couldn’t tell from the story leading off this week’s music section, I’m pretty excited about Madaila and that…
Timely Mail, Sunday Packages: Can Burlington’s Acting Postmaster Deliver?
Heather Hogan was irked. The Burlington resident wanted to know why the U.S. Postal Service suspended her mail delivery on South Winooski Avenue for several…
Hana Zara, The North
(Self-released, CD, digital download) On “Tatterhood,” the closing track of her 2013 album of the same name, Burlington songwriter Hana Zara presents an alternate take…
Queen of the City? Jane Knodell Poised to Become Burlington City Council Prez
“She was no rubber stamp.” That’s how Peter Clavelle recently described working with Jane Knodell, who led the Burlington City Council for three years while…
The Cop Outs, The Cop Outs
(Self-released, CD) If you’ve still got a swollen head from St. Patrick’s Day, you may want to dim the lights and pop an ibuprofen or…
Local Art Enlivens Hilton Garden Inn Burlington
Pedestrians who pass by the old armory building on Burlington’s Main Street frequently peer into the tall windows and make comments along the lines of…
Lucrative Lesson: Vermont Schools Look to Recruit More International Students
Natavan Dudkina learned about the University of Vermont at a college fair she attended more than 5,500 miles away from Burlington — in Baku, Azerbaijan….
Art Review: Richard Whitten
Richard Whitten’s odd artworks will amaze, amuse and possibly confuse visitors to his show at Stowe’s Helen Day Art Center, aptly titled “Experiments.” A master…
Letters to the Editor (3/18/15)
Better BCA Thanks to Ken Picard for writing about James Lockridge’s campaign to create a Burlington arts commission [“Big Heavy World Director Challenges Burlington City…
Blindness No Deterrent to Running Courthouse Café
Heidi Viens’ mac and cheese has a piquant pairing of Cabot Seriously Sharp cheddar and mustard with a buttery crouton topping. But if customers at…
My Relationship Is Dead and I Want Someone I Can’t Have
Dear Athena, I am in a basically dead relationship with my boyfriend. I am also totally completely smitten with someone I absolutely cannot have. I…
The 18th Annual Green Mountain Film Festival Preview
The 61 films in the 2015 Green Mountain Film Festival, which starts this week in Montpelier, suffice to rank it as the second-largest film festival…
Free Will Astrology (3/18/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re entering a time and space known as the Adlib Zone. In this territory, fertile chaos and inspirational uncertainty are freely…
Book Review: Girls I Never Married by Daniel Lusk
Most authors you “know” only through the inevitable blurb on their book jackets. Sometimes, though, you get to meet a writer at a reading or…
A Taxing Session: Shap Smith’s $113 Million Problem
The day after one House committee voted last Thursday to increase health insurance subsidies for low-income Vermonters, the chair of another proposed slashing them to…
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Poetry Out Loud [SIV391]
3/11/15: The 10th Annual Poetry Out Loud Semifinals were held at the Barre Opera House last Wednesday. More than 5,000 Vermont students from 43 high…
Run All Night
There’s good news and bad news about Oscar-nominated thespian-turned-geriatric action star Liam Neeson. The good news: He’s announced that the curtain will soon come down…
‘The Singer’s Art’ Series Returns to St. Mike’s
“Music is a lot of men in a lot of tails with a lot of chairs, and a lot of airs, and a lot of…
Cinderella
Retold thousands of ways in folk literature, invoked by dozens of dating reality shows, revised and parodied everywhere from Pretty Woman to “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,”…
Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Ed Koren Has a ‘New Yorker’ Show
Edward Koren’s two worlds — Vermont and New York City — are alternating settings for a dozen of the drawings included in a sampling of…
News Quirks (3/18/15)
Curses, Foiled Again Rocco Tumbarello, 41, stole stuff from a home in West Boynton, Fla., authorities there said, but he didn’t get far. He lives…
State of the Unions: Shumlin Strikes Out With Organized Labor
Six years ago, the president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate stood on the steps of the Statehouse and decried state employee layoffs proposed by…
The Transformation of Madaila’s Mark Daly
Mark Daly’s shirt is a little disappointing. There’s nothing wrong with it, exactly. The muted gray cotton Henley is stylish enough, with blue sleeves pushed…
Theater Review: Slowgirl, Vermont Stage Company
It takes courage and craft to bring a character to life onstage and draw the audience inside her hopes and fears. To see a high…
Obituary: Celebrate the Life of Larry Piano, 1954 – 2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:00 – 4:30 p.m. Tribute starting at 1:30 ArtsRiot Gallery 400 Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont Light refreshments provided Please share with…
Taverna Khione Brings Greek to Shelburne
The space that housed French restaurant Café Shelburne from 1969 to the final night of 2014 now bears little resemblance to its former self. The…
Frost Beer Works Opens to Public in Hinesburg
Beer has been flowing at Frost Beer Works at 171 Commerce Street in Hinesburg for a few weeks now. Last weekend, owner Garin Frost held…
Taste Test: Junior’s Rustico
The day had been long, cloudy and cold and involved too much driving. As I exited the highway onto Shelburne Road in Burlington, a gray…
