May 4-10, 2016
Vermont’s Deaf Bhutanese Look for Signs; Vermont House Just Says No to Pot Legalization; Fun Facts About Waking Windows 6 Music Fest
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Missing the Signs: Vermont’s Deaf Bhutanese are Isolated and Underserved
A group of six women toiled silently in the kitchen at Howard Center’s Resource Center in South Burlington. One lowered the lid of a rice…
Carol’s Hungry Mind Adds Café on Route 7
Drivers on Route 7 near New Haven may wonder if they’ve accidentally strayed off the main route when they see Carol’s Hungry Mind Café. They…
Pianist David Kaplan’s Homage to Schumann
Once, during a phone conversation with Seven Days, pianist David Kaplan delivered an impassioned argument on behalf of live performance. Recordings of classical music, he…
Gilfeather Turnip Named Vermont State Vegetable
Last week, the legislature voted to designate the Gilfeather turnip the Vermont state vegetable after two years of advocacy by students at Wardsboro Elementary School….
A Saint Mike’s Student Hosts Trashy Exhibit
It’s not news that consumerism and throwaway culture produce a lot of trash. Just how much is hard to fathom. Disturbing yet vague information about…
Juicebox Relocates, Eden Brings on New Cider Maker
Burlington juice and smoothie bar Juicebox has moved east to 194 College Street, right next to Computers for Change and across from new arcade bar…
Cartoonist James Sturm’s Birdsong Invites Musical Storytelling
The Japanese storytelling art form known as e-toki — literally, “picture-explaining” — goes back more than a 1000 years. Its performers, many of them itinerant…
Theater Review: Living Together, Northern Stage
The firmly British characters take disappointment hard in Living Together, one third of Alan Ayckbourn’s clever room-by-room trilogy, The Norman Conquests. All three plays are…
Former Trooper Had a History of Illegal Searches, Documents Suggest
Vermont state police don’t often get fired — and when it happens, no one puts out a press release; in fact, the Vermont Department of…
Milton Flyer
I was dawdling in front of Nectar’s between fares. It was a warm evening, one of the season’s first, and the club’s roll-up window was…
Soundbites: Hey, You! Go to Waking Windows 6
Six years in, I think it’s safe to say that Waking Windows has reached a certain level of notoriety. No, it’s not quite on par…
I Really Don’t Like Giving Blow Jobs
Dear Athena, I have not had sex in almost seven years. Now that I’m officially single again, I’m interested in getting back in the game….
The High Breaks, Droppin’ Off With … the High Breaks
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Burlington surf band the High Breaks emerged some years ago as a side project of local indie-pop darlings Lendway. At their…
Opinion: Can a Democrat Be a Revolutionary?
I didn’t get involved in the campaign to nominate Eugene McCarthy as the 1968 Democratic presidential candidate, because I refused to “Get Clean for Gene.”…
The Static Circus, Through Radio
(Self-released, digital download) Despite the scale implied by the name, the Static Circus is actually the one-man operation of Kevin Bloom. Bloom is well-known to…
Senate Appropriations Wants to Give Vermont Life a Deadline
At the bottom of the budget bill that the Senate passed last week is an ultimatum concerning the future of Vermont Life magazine. The provision…
Free Will Astrology (5/4/16)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your ability to accomplish magic is at a peak and will continue to soar for at least two more weeks. And…
A Hologram for the King
Tom Hanks began his film career as a leading man in 1984, the same year I began reviewing films. One movie he made that year…
What’s Wrong With Burlington’s Senior Centers?
For decades, Burlington’s two senior centers have supplied $3 lunches, social activities and other services for older residents who might not otherwise venture from their…
Pot Shot: Shap Smith’s Marijuana ‘Compromise’ Misses the Mark
As he picked at a salad last Friday afternoon in his Statehouse office, House Speaker Shap Smith (D-Morristown) reflected on his inability to answer a…
Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson on Music, Food and the Cubs
Eric D. Johnson had been making music under the self-described “dumb, fake punk-rock name” Fruit Bats since the 1990s. But a few years ago, beset…
A Malaysian Cartoonist in Vermont Draws on His Culture
One Saturday afternoon in late April, students at the Center for Cartoon Studies hunkered down in the laboratory of the Colodny Building. The room was…
Gallery Profile: The Front, Montpelier
Montpelier has a healthy arts scene, with venues including the T.W. Wood Gallery and the Spotlight Gallery at the Vermont Arts Council. But it currently…
Vermont Bhutanese Graduate From Being Renters to Homeowners — and Landlords
Five years ago, Megnath Neupane was living in an overcrowded refugee camp in eastern Nepal. He and his family were holed up in a tiny…
Mason Brothers Salvage Puts the Past to New Use
Near the busy Five Corners intersection in Essex Junction, an unassuming warehouse complex holds one of Vermont’s biggest recycling operations. While the central warehouse is…
Letters to the Editor (5/4/16)
Moving Article I am passing through Vermont as the field adviser of a gap-year program. For nine months, I have traveled the world with 16…
The Skinny Pancake Adds Crêperie in Hanover
This Friday, May 6, the Skinny Pancake will celebrate the grand opening of a new location in Hanover, N.H. The outpost is the locavore crêperie’s…
Fun Facts About Waking Windows 6
Here are some stats about the sixth annual Waking Windows indie music and arts festival, which runs from Friday, May 6, through Sunday, May 8,…
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Spielpalast Exposed! [SIV441]
5/1/16: Spielpalast Cabaret celebrates its 15th year this week at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington. Every May the notoriously secretive, scantily…
Foam Brewers Opens on Burlington Waterfront
Last Thursday, April 28, Foam Brewers quietly opened on Lake Street in Burlington. The event was broadcast solely by word of mouth, but dozens of…
Lobbying 101: Jim Harrison Brings the Groceries
Jim Harrison was running late for an event in Burlington last Thursday. But as president and chief lobbyist for the Vermont Retail & Grocers Association,…
Junior’s Brings Italian Fare to Stowe
Renovations are in progress at the former home of Gracie’s, which will become Junior’s at Stowe. “I’ve loved that location for a long time,” says…
A Mother Aims to Put Healing Art in Every Vermont Hospital
In 2009, as Susan Sebastian lay dying at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, she told her mother that if she survived her illness, she…
Obituary: Steven Butler, 1948-2016
Steven Robert Butler, 68, of Northfield, Vermont passed away on Sunday, May 1, as a result of complications from CNS-Lymphoma. Steven, born in Hartford, CT,…
Mr. Mikes Pizza Opens Side Bar
For years, Mr. Mikes Pizza has been the go-to spot for late-night sustenance in downtown Burlington. The kitchen stays open daily until 1 a.m. or…
Lawson’s Finest Liquids Plans Expansion in Waitsfield
For many Vermonters, visiting out-of-state loved ones comes with a request: Can you bring beer? That usually means brews from the Alchemist, Hill Farmstead Brewery…
Meet the Diblings: How Two Moms and Their Kids Discovered an Extensive Extended Family
The most unusual thing about our family is not that our sons have two mommies. Here in Vermont, that rarely raises eyebrows nowadays. No, here’s…
