Oct 25-31, 2017
Lost Nation Theater, a Class Act for 40 Years; A Murder Leaves Bhutanese Community Grieving; Loved and Loathed, Pumpkin Spice Is Back With a Vengeance
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Lost Nation Theater Celebrates 40 Years of Class Acts
In his quest to reunite with his wife, who’s trapped in the underworld, Orpheus enters the stage from a high platform and slides down two…
Seriously: Queen For a Day
In this episode, drag queen Emoji Nightmare gives Bryan a step-by-step drag transformation and explains what it means to be a queen.
Seven Days Hires Award-Winning Reporter Taylor Dobbs
Award-winning journalist Taylor Dobbs is joining the news team at Vermont’s independent newsweekly, Seven Days. Since September 2013, he’s been a digital reporter at Vermont…
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Lakeview Cemetery Tour [SIV509]
10/21/17: Preservation Burlington’s annual Lakeview Cemetery Tour brings history to life at the gravestones of notable Burlington residents. This year they partnered with Friends of…
Whistleblowers Share Insights About Vermont Yankee Doc
When Louisiana-based Entergy announced, on August 28, 2013, that it would close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power station at the end of 2014, the decision…
Movie Review: ‘Geostorm’ Won’t Blow You Away
It’s difficult to enjoy a disaster movie about extreme weather in the wake of a summer of extreme weather. Difficult, too, to enjoy a film…
Ask Athena: A Man From My Past Reached Out to Me…
Dear Athena, I am married (constantly working on the “happily” part). Recently, out of the blue, a man from my past reached out to me….
Album Review: Henry Jamison, ‘The Wilds’
(Akira Records, CD, digital download) The gents behind Color Study seem to be carving out a niche for the recording studio, record label and artist…
Comedian Mary Mack Talks Music, Writing and Touring With Her Husband
Mary Mack admits that she got into standup comedy “probably for all the wrong reasons.” The comedian was born in Minnesota and grew up in…
Theater Review: ‘Gorey Stories,’ Saints & Poets
Like Halloween’s safe little glimmer of menace, Edward Gorey’s stories provide an ironic perch from which to peer at the creepy, decadent and dark. Stephen…
Eat This Week, October 25 to 31, 2017: Food Science
Alton Brown, one of the New England Culinary Institute’s most famed graduates, returns to Vermont for a stop on his “Eat Your Science” tour. The…
Sound and Fury: Wind Foe Unleashes Blast of Rhetoric
On October 18, a prominent opponent of large-scale wind energy issued a press release to Vermont media that made some pretty serious charges against a…
Public Officials, Private Accounts: Court Says Documents Stay Public
A Seven Days inquiry has found that some Vermont public officials routinely conduct government business on private phone and email accounts. Public records requests sent…
Cleaver Attack Stuns Vermont’s Bhutanese Community
About 60 people gathered at the Elmwood Meunier Funeral Home in Burlington’s Old North End on October 18 to mourn the violent death of Yogeswari…
Gordon Sculpture Park Opens in Monkton
In recent months, visitors to Monkton and passersby may have noticed a curious juxtaposition: Beside an unassuming, dilapidated barn on the Bristol-Monkton Road, a gleaming,…
Vermont’s Top Grocery Bagger Is Headed to Vegas for Nationals
A Danby woman took home the title of Vermont’s best grocery bagger Saturday at the University Mall in South Burlington. Brooke Champine beat out 11…
JAG Productions Wins Regional Theater Award
It’s been a big inaugural year for Upper Valley theater company JAG Productions. Since its inception in 2016, the company has produced August Wilson’s Fences,…
Do Large Crosses Violate Vermont’s Billboard Law?
Traveling along Route 66, many a Vermonter has noticed three large, freestanding crosses on a hillside in Randolph. They’ve been there a while: Bisbee’s hardware…
MyFarmersMkt Moves to Groton With Food Hub Plans
In April 2016, Jennifer Bone cofounded MyFarmersMkt in South Ryegate, a business that aggregates local products so that shoppers can buy from their neighbors in…
Soundfrights: Hell of a Week; It’s Not You, It’s Me
Hell of a Week I’ve heard some people complaining about Halloween falling on a Tuesday this year. Folks mostly whined that it’s a school night…
Letters to the Editor (10/25/17)
Tech Troubles Forgive me for being skeptical of Seven Days’ cheerleading of the tech industry [Tech Issue, October 18]. I just moved here from the…
Album Review: Boomslang, ‘Attack the Vampire’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Anyone who knows them will tell you this: Montpelier hip-hop duo Boomslang are great guys. It’s no secret they’ve got a…
Quick Lit: ‘The Shower Scene from Hamlet’ by Daniel Lusk
Daniel Lusk’s newest volume of poems, The Shower Scene From Hamlet, spans a thousand years, a handful of visual art genres and a veritable encyclopedia…
Local Scenesters Confess Their Irrational Fears
I am deathly afraid of spiders. I feel sick at the very presence of an eight-legged creep in my general vicinity, indoors or out. The…
Free Will Astrology (10/25/17)
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “You never sing the same song twice,” said chanteuse Billie Holiday. “If you sing it with all the same phrasing and…
Drag Queens Turn Pages — and Heads — in Tiny Cambridge
It’s not every day that two drag queens sashay up to the door of the Varnum Memorial Library in Jeffersonville, a village within the small…
Sharing Meals and Cultures at Rockville Market Farm
Hans Rozendaal’s birthday fell on a Thursday this year, which made September 7 — the day he turned 9 — extra fun. Thursday is the…
Phet Keomanyvanh’s Journey from Refugee Camp to City Hall
When Phet Keomanyvanh (pa-et geld-ma-ni-vun) was about 6 years old, she had a frightening experience at school in St. Johnsbury that would shape her later…
Movie Review: This Tribute Demonstrates Why We Were ‘Lucky’ to Have Harry Dean Stanton
A boney old guy in sagging drawers, cowboy boots and a hat watering a cactus plant. Not a classically dramatic image for a movie poster….
Art Review: ‘Of Land and Local,’ BCA Center and Shelburne Farms
In Vermont, a show dedicated to art inspired by the local landscape — or by a particular natural element or feature — is no rarity….
Pumpkin Spice Is the Flavor We Love to Hate
On a Thursday evening in October, the entrance to the South Burlington Trader Joe’s boasts a display of pumpkins — oval, round, big, small. Far…
Hong’s Chinese Dumplings Opens Burlington Shop
After 17 years of running a dumpling cart on Church Street Marketplace, Hong Yu has opened a shop — Hong’s Chinese Dumplings — at 77…
Tight Squeeze Coffee Shop Changes Hands
Lisa Osornio and Matt Gress, owners of the 3-year-old Tight Squeeze Coffee Shop on College Street in Burlington, are moving on east. The pair are…
