Oct 2-8, 2013
From Hostage to Hollywood, the Real Vermont Star of Captain Phillips Is Still at the Helm; Margot Harrison on ‘Captain Phillips’; Rethinking BTV Liquor Laws; Mother-Daughter Bonding in the NEK
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The Real Vermont Star of Captain Phillips Is Still at the Helm
How does the real Captain Phillips rate the movie version of his private pirate drama? “It was worse living it than watching it,” the 58-year-old…
Obituary: Mrs. Regina A. Bushey
Mrs. Regina A. Bushey, age 92 years, died early Monday morning October 7, 2013, at the University Hospital in Augusta, GA with loving family at…
Obituary: Mary S. Babcock
Mary S. Babcock, age 97 years, a well known Swanton educator since 1953, died late Wednesday afternoon, October 2, 2013, at the Northwestern Medical Center…
Are You Ready? Live Forum on VT Health Exchange 10/3
Vermont Health Connect, the state’s new health insurance exchange, went live on October 1 as required by the Affordable Care Act. Still wondering how it…
Angelique Kidjo Talks About Her Upbringing in Africa and her Latest Album, Spirit Rising
Angélique Kidjo lives to serve. The 53-year-old native of Benin, a small country in West Africa, is a tireless social activist and advocate who is…
Seven Days Surveys Autumnal Vermont Beers
Each year, they appear as surely as the first frost: coppery, malty and sometimes savory beers whose leafy, golden labels darken store shelves from early…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again While Joshua Burgess, Chaz West and Marquise Williams were awaiting the start of their trial for home invasion and armed robbery in…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you good at haggling? Do you maybe even enjoy the challenge of negotiating for a better price, of angling for…
Warren Baker Suzanne Slomin Keeps a Lost Art Alive
Fermented foods are hot right now. From kimchi to tempeh to cheese, healthy bacteria work their magic on the Vermont culinary scene. It’s a health-focused…
BCA’s Statewide Exhibit Considers the Power of Place
Oenophiles and gourmands understand the concept of terroir: that the natural environment in which plants are grown — including soil and climate — affect the…
A Weekend at Doe Camp With Mom
“No!” I screamed with each smack of my palm heel. I was striking a punching pad but pretending it was instructor Renald Mathieu’s chin —…
Eyewitness: Architectural Photographer Susan Teare
When Susan Teare arrives at the Burlington Furniture Company, where a selection of her architectural photographs hangs, she apologizes for not looking up to par….
Drifting Inside a Sensory-Deprivation Tank
Recently I drove to Shelburne’s Satori Float and Mind Spa and tried out Vermont’s first flotation tank commercially available to the public. In the course…
John Lackard’s Open Jam Gives Barre the Blues
It’s a Wednesday night at Gusto’s, Barre’s venerable neighborhood pub/entertainment complex. It’s quiet at the bar. But near the stage at the back of the…
Letters to the Editor
Drone Home “Jim Fox made light of the double dose of bad news,” [Paul Heintz wrote in last week’s Fair Game, to set up a…
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The Family of Ewe [325]
9/27/13: “The Family of Ewe” premieres at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington on October 3 and plays through October 13th. It…
Obituary: Robert Emmett O’Brien, MD FACP,
1921-2013, ColchesterRobert E. O’Brien, 1921-2013, ColchesterRobert Emmett O’Brien, MD FACP, 92, a longtime resident of Winooski and Colchester, Vt., died peacefully at home surrounded by…
