Nov 20-26, 2013
Burlington’s Biggest Brand-Makers Downsize and Reenvision Themselves; Will Sodexo Workers Organize?; Bun in the Oven, Buns Onstage; Crisis Mapping the Philippines; Restaurant Chicken Dinners
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Burlington Design Firm JDK Reinvents Itself
Even if you don’t know JDK, you know JDK. The Burlington design shop has shaped the looks of local darlings and global giants alike: Burton,…
Obituary: Gilberte Bernadette Jette
Gilberte Bernadette Jette, age 80 years, died late Friday evening November 22, 2013, at her Messenger St. residence with loving family at her side. Born…
Obituary: Denise Rachel Dumont
Denise Rachel Dumont, 57, passed away peacefully at Redstone Villa in St.Albans, VT. She was the loving daughter of Francois and Jeanne D’Arc Demers. She…
Obituary: Florence Wanzer Beard
Florence Wanzer Beard, 95, of Johnson, passed away Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at The Manor in Morrisville, Vermont. She was born in Fairfield, VT on…
A Pregnant Reporter Takes in an Exotic Male Revue
“Are you going to behave?” the bouncer asked while checking our IDs at the door. “Wait,” I said, handing a young woman my $12 cover…
At Karma Bird House, Creative Business Owners Make Connections
On a recent Wednesday, two tenants at 47 Maple Street in Burlington — aka the Karma Bird House — discovered that an online game called…
Vermont Cookbook Authors Deliver Off-Beat Thanksgiving Sides
Every Thanksgiving, my father rises at dawn to smother a giant bird with ungodly amounts of butter and shove it into the oven. He bastes…
Eyewitness: Painter Austin Furtak-Cole
Ask Austin Furtak-Cole about his paintings and the conversation is apt to veer toward existential concerns. When one can handle paint as well as this…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Assistant manager Ariel Sinclair, 23, stole nearly $6000 from a drug store’s lottery machine after using its fingerprint-recognition feature to unlock it,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The poet Charles Baudelaire prayed for help, but not to God — rather he prayed to the writer Edgar Allan Poe….
The Bird’s the Word: Weekly Burlington-Area Chicken Dinners
In January 2007, Thomas Keller opened ad hoc in Yountville, Calif., already home to his famous restaurant the French Laundry. The chef’s comparatively affordable, family-style…
Catching Up With Pete Bernhard of the Devil Makes Three
Read up on Santa Cruz-by-way-of-Vermont outfit the Devil Makes Three and, within the first paragraph or so of practically any article, you’ll encounter some reference…
Vermonters Help the Philippines Relief Effort with Digital Map Making
It was one week after Super Typhoon Haiyan, and I was on a global team of volunteers performing emergency mapping work in uncharted areas of…
What’s Up With the Old Pump House and Reservoirs at UVM?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Work: Moose Hauler Dennis Bingham
Let’s say you want to shoot a moose, and you’ve got a permit to hunt one. The next step is to line up your moose…
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Deer Hunting Opening Weekend [SIV330]
11/16/13: Deer rifle season began this Saturday and will continue through December 1st. Eva went out on her first hunting trip with Tom Rogers from…
Letters to the Editor
Not Democracy At All Your October 30 week in review [“Last 7”] describes the city council debate about the F-35 being based in Vermont, and…
