Robert Penn Warren wrote that “many clear facts about America are best understood in reference to the Civil War.” This comment from his book The…
James Oliver Ploof Sr. passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on October 5, 2014. He was born December 29, 1931, to…
Peter passed away one year ago at the Green Mountain Nursing Home after a long illness on October 12, 2013. In 1959, he came to…
Gary P. Blanchette, 71, resident of St. George died peacefully on Friday, October 3, 2014 at Birchwood Terrace Healthcare in Burlington. Gary was born in…
Sally Ann Martin – 44 of Alburgh suddenly passed away September 29, 2014 at Fletcher Allen HealthCare after a lengthy battle with “small cell cancer.”…
David A Meatyard a resident of Vermont for 13 years and a former resident of East Aurora, NY died suddenly on September 24th. David’s endearing…
As Vermont’s political establishment prepares for an epic battle over whether — and how — to pay for the nation’s first universal health care system,…
It seems like only yesterday I closed my review of Roger Donaldson’s lame Taken rip-off The November Man with these words: “It doubtless won’t be…
The stop-motion creations of animation studio Laika bristle with adorable grotesquerie. Its films are full of things you want to pet, and other things that…
Chef Darrell Sawyer started his career as a teenager at Perry’s Fish House in South Burlington. He attended culinary school in California and made pastries…
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record…
Consider your run-of-the-mill colonoscopy. According to paperwork generated by MVP Health Care, the insurer paid an independent physician roughly $550 to complete the procedure. The…
Who wouldn’t want to be a ninja warrior? That’s the question that has me leaping through a mini-obstacle course of kid-size gymnastic equipment — alphabet-themed…
Euphemistically Speaking Plagued by repeated recalls, General Motors directed its engineers to avoid using 69 words when discussing GM automobiles. Among them: asphyxiating, deathtrap, disemboweling,…
“Can you take me to the Essex Resort or Spa, I think it’s called?” The woman at the curb asking the question was maybe 30,…
Thirteen Vermont inmates have been in solitary confinement for a month in an Arizona prison after guards used a “chemical agent” to quell their 30-minute…
Lost Nation Theater’s production of Comedy of Errors begins with a hint that we’re backstage, watching a theater company. Actors in street clothes casually stretch…
Conservative politicians are a rare species in the Queen City. Currently, eight of the 10 representatives Burlington sends to Montpelier are Democrats; one is a…
Who Is Bob La Follette? [Re “‘Run, Bernie, Run,'” September 17]: Paul Heintz’s report from the Sanders festival in Wisconsin produced an interesting quote from…
There are bad days. And there’s the day Derek and the Demons guitarist Kiel Alarcon endured last year. Last July, Alarcon and his best friend…
Each autumn, the Vermont Arts Council invites the public and the arts community to gather under one roof — this year, the impressive mansard roof…
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9/26/14: Green Mountain Cabaret has been bringing saucy entertainment and body positivity to Vermont audiences for two years now. Eva caught their show Geeks ‘N’…
Dear Athena, I left my boyfriend because he cheated and lied the whole time we were together. The truth is, I knew he was a…
La Traviata is the world’s most-performed opera. According to Operabase, a website that compiles opera statistics from around the world, this season alone (2014-15) will…
Milan Kundera once wrote, “The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.” Burlington writer David Huddle’s new novel,…
Last week we gave you the fall performing arts preview — if you missed it, you can still read it here. That was all about…
Last week, the Reservoir Restaurant & Taproom owners Chad Fry and Mark Frier opened the Bench in the former Pie in the Sky space at…
A Middlebury College graduate will join a select set of living American artists when the Museum of Modern Art celebrates his career with a full-scale…
(Self-released, CD, digital download) You Know Ono, a Monkton-based quartet formerly — and amusingly — known as Bible Camp Sleepovers, might just be the next…
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Certain albums are simply made for certain seasons. Bon Iver’s stark For Emma, Forever Ago, while brilliant any time of year,…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): As I hike through the wilderness at dusk, the crickets always seem to be humming in the distance. No matter where…
Jessica Maynard, 39 year old, died peacefully Saturday September 27 2014, surrounded by family at the Vermont Respite House. She was Born April 3, 1975…
Fran Bull presents the night life of humanity in her new work “STATIONS, a cycle of 14 sculptural paintings.” These are monumental, dimensional, figurative works….
Matt Sargent has been holding his Phantom Dinners since early 2010; this past summer, his food truck was a hit on the local festival circuit,…
People talk plenty about food and drink in the Northeast Kingdom. Greensboro’s Hill Farmstead Brewery has been lauded as the world’s best brewery since Shaun…
