Mar 21-27, 2018
Vermont’s Maple Industry Taps Into Tradition, Technology and New Products; Can BTV Ignite Make Burlington Techier?; Burnin’ Love: Sampling Curry Restaurants in Montréal
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Vermont Maple Sugarers Tap Tradition, Technology and New Products
Never mind the recent snowstorms; spring is officially here. And one of its sure signs is steam rising from sugarhouses all over the state. Along…
Seriously: Shifting Tides
In this episode, Bryan wades into the shifting tides surrounding gun politics in Vermont.
Born to Ride: A Young Teen Spins and Soars to Snowboard Success
Name: Hans Huber Age: 14 Town: Stowe Two-time overall national snowboarding champion Hans Huber talked his way onto his first snowboard at age 4. He…
The Cannabis Catch-Up: Legal Weed a Boon for Former Football Star
It’s funny how quickly things change regarding cannabis. One of those laughing now is erstwhile football player Ricky Williams, who was suspended from the National…
Seriously: Propaganda Done Right
In this episode, Seriously’s senior satire correspondent investigates News Done Right, an anonymously-funded conservative satire site.
The Parmelee Post: In Show of Support for Equal Representation, Vermont Delegation Works in Drag
All three members of Vermont’s congressional delegatation arrived at the U.S. Capitol Building dressed in drag Thursday, in a show of support for equal representation…
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Outdoor Painting in Jeffersonville [SIV525]
3/16/18: For more than a century, plein air artists have been gathering in Jeffersonville to paint the natural landscape. Artists like Aldro Hibbard, Alden Bryan…
Stephanie Zuppo Launches DIY Print Studio
The art of making comics isn’t all funny business. Like other creative mediums, it requires space, specialized equipment and community. So, when Kristin Humbargar of…
Movie Review: ‘In the Fade’ Is an Oscar-Worthy Topical Revenge Drama
A couple of injustices have nagged at me since re-watching this emotionally wrenching drama from German filmmaker Fatih Akin (Short Sharp Shock). First, it’s such…
Recalling ‘Madame’ Stein’s Life and Legacy in Dance
According to Gabriel Quirk, Vermont is full of fascinating people. The puppeteer and touring variety performer based in White River Junction believes that, in the…
Knock, Knock: Address Mix-Ups Vex an Old North Ender
The Committee on Temporary Shelter opened its Daystation in a newly renovated building at 95 North Avenue about a year ago. Soon afterward, people started…
UVM Stages Euripides Classic With New Music
John Franklin knows how you feel about ancient Greek theater. “Usually, when people hear the label ‘Greek tragedy,’ their eyes glaze over,” he says. “They…
With an Extra $300K, Can BTV Ignite Make Burlington Techier?
The nonprofit BTV Ignite has had big plans since its inception five years ago: to help the Queen City capitalize on its speedy gigabit fiber…
Stonecutter Spirits Burlington Tasting Room Takes Shape
In January, in a piece on Folino’s new pizzeria at 71 South Union Street in Burlington, Seven Days reported that Stonecutter Spirits would be moving…
Murky Waters: Who’s Writing Vermont’s Clean Water Regulations?
Staff experts at Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources spent months last year devising new rules to reduce polluted runoff from large rooftops and parking lots….
Burlington Conference Highlights Beer and Tourism
The first beverage offered at the Hotel Vermont beer-pairing dinner on March 6 was not beer, but it was a vivid illustration of the state’s…
Soundbites: It’s Not Easy Being Green
Once in a while, a story just doesn’t pan out the way you hope it will. You think you have good idea or a fun…
Killed Bill: Senate Panel Deals Blow to Health Care Reform
When Democrat Peter Shumlin became governor in 2011, he carried the promise of a single-payer health care system for Vermont. Less than four years later,…
Free Will Astrology (3/21/18)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “School of Hard Knocks” is an old-fashioned idiom referring to the unofficial and accidental course of study available via life’s…
Movie Review: The ‘Tomb Raider’ Reboot Doesn’t Manage to Unearth Much Fun
One of the pleasures of mediocre tentpole movies is watching our favorite TV actors stroll through them, earning paychecks. Tomb Raider offers a double dose…
Letters to the Editor (3/21/18)
F-35 Not Part of Plan [Re Off Message: “Burlington Voters Approve Anti-F-35 Ballot Initiative,” March 6]: As one who has shuddered and recoiled from the…
TRIP Dance Company Builds Skills for Stage and Beyond
When young people are inspired, they can accomplish great things. For the past 18 years, Vermont’s TRIP Dance Company has won numerous awards at regional…
Conversation With a Pac-Man Competitor
Vermont is home to a plethora of hard-core athletes. Take survival-race enthusiasts, who push their minds and bodies to the extremes of human endurance to…
Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Jimbo Mathus on His Latest Swing Revival
Of all the trends in contemporary music that have come and gone over the years, the swing boom of the mid-to-late 1990s remains one of…
Album Review: The Atlantic Effect, ‘The Atlantic Effect’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) “Edge” is largely an ineffable concept, particularly when used to describe a band — “They’ve got this edge, man. Dig?” Sometimes…
Eat This Week, March 21 to 27, 2018: In the Beer
For the first time, the Vermont Brewers Association takes its show to the snow with a winter brewfest. Visitors are invited to ski — ticket…
Hackie: Keep Your Shirt On
“I knew they’d rescind the ban eventually,” Franny said. “Jeezum, it’s not like I shot somebody.” My customer was sitting next to me as I…
Album Review: Transitory Symphony, ‘Wearin’ the Blues’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) I think Jim Heltz is taking the piss, as the English would say. The local songwriter, along with his frequent collaborator…
Unlikely Allies Open a Homeless Shelter in Lamoille County
An improbable alliance of religious leaders, law enforcement officials and volunteers quietly opened Lamoille County’s first homeless shelter. The sheriff’s department owns the Yellow House…
Scarlett Letters: I Have a Foot Fetish, But I’m Only 15
Dear Scarlett, I have a foot fetish, but I’m only 15. Is there a way I could somehow experience this fetish at my age? Signed,…
‘The Laboring Self’ Critiques Digital Gigs
As the Atlantic announced earlier this year, “The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell.” The bleak story detailed Americans’ increasing reliance…
NRA Dollars Target Vermont Schools
The nonprofit arm of the National Rifle Association donated more than $212,000 to Vermont programs over five years, including tens of thousands of dollars to…
Hot Trend: Three Curry Restaurants in Montréal
My face was burning, and I felt like I could exhale fire. Montréal’s Pumpui Grocer and Curry Shop calls its jungle curry “très piquant,” and…
Two Indian-Nepalese Restaurants to Open in Burlington Area
Two new Indian-Nepalese restaurants will open in coming weeks in Chittenden County, one in South Burlington and the other in Burlington. Everest Indian-Nepali Restaurant is…
