Oct 28 – Nov 3, 2015
How Vermont’s Game Wardens Police the Wild; The Quaids Find Refuge in Lincoln; Cookbooks From Dead Celebs
Cover Story
Rules of the Game: Vermont Wardens Police the Wilderness
Before dawn last Saturday, two Vermont game wardens navigated a Boston Whaler down the inky black Otter Creek and onto Lake Champlain, stopping briefly to…
Obituary: Ginni Reeves, Burlington, VT
Ginni (Virginia) Reeves died at Vermont Respite House in Burlington, VT after defying cancer for 7 years. She was 73. Ginni grew up in Blue…
Pot — or Not? Vermont’s Looming Fight Over Marijuana Legalization
Debby Haskins paced back and forth at the front of a sparsely filled hotel ballroom Monday in Montpelier, inveighing against the dangers of marijuana. “We’re…
Outcomes: Pee Tests Meet a Social Mission at Burlington Labs
The UPS delivery was causing a bit of a stir in the cramped drug-testing laboratory in downtown Burlington. Workers in white coats clustered around the…
Cover Costume Party
The issue of Seven Days that’s on newsstands October 31 typically references Halloween on the cover. In presidential election years, the cover also alludes to…
Fallen Star: Randy Quaid Seeks Refuge in Small-Town Vermont
Randy Quaid was sitting in a Vermont prison cell on October 14, watching a WCAX-TV broadcast. The fire chief in tiny Lincoln was telling the…
Art Review: ‘Fractured / works on Paper,’ Helen Day Art Center
When light hits the eye, the cornea refracts it. The iris regulates the size of the pupil, and the lens focuses the light further. Photoreceptor…
Burlington School Officials Avoid Deficit but Keep Mum on Details
It’s not a TV spot that will likely be long remembered. Still, Burlington’s new superintendent of schools, Yaw Obeng, exudes warmth as he invites the…
I Broke My Boyfriend’s Penis! What Should I Do?
Dear Athena, A few months ago, I started sleeping with this guy, and things were really good. He’s hot and fun, and I like him…
Dick and Dottie
Traveling north on Route 7, we passed a barn with its side emblazoned with a huge American flag. An adjacent structure displayed an only slightly…
A Burlington Collection of Rare Books Is Museum Bound
With the press of a button, Kathleen Roberts raised the blinds, and sunlight illuminated a room filled with books in her Burlington home. As she…
Nest House Hunt: An Older House With Character for the Newlyweds
Nest House Hunt follows first-time home buyers on the search for their dream homes. In August, Jessica Hendry Nelson and Nicholas Adams got married. With…
Analysis: Is Sanders Sexist, as Clinton Claims?
In Hillary Clinton’s world, it’s apparently never too early to accuse your opponent of sexism. At the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner Saturday in Des…
Short Book Reviews: Work, Maps, Horror and More
Seven Days’ writers can’t possibly read, much less review, the boatload of books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one…
Soundbites: Halloween Rocking
It’s a Scream Season’s bleedings, boils and ghouls! It’s Halloween week, which longtime readers know is this columnist’s favorite holiday. Burlington does a lot of…
Kathy Griffin Talks Comedy, Politics and Anderson Cooper
I had a bunch of questions ready for my recent interview with Kathy Griffin. Preparing to speak with the Grammy- and Emmy-winning comedian, actress, author…
Off Trail: Helen W. Buckner Nature Preserve
Before I even set foot in the vast, rugged Helen W. Buckner Nature Preserve in West Haven, the act of traveling there provided a humbling…
Steve Jobs
On October 11, 2011, I received an email from Simon & Schuster asking whether I might be interested in having an author named Walter Isaacson…
Books: ‘Intimate Grandeur,’ a Chronicle of Vermont’s Statehouse
The Vermont Statehouse stands as “a repository for and expression of our history as a state and a people,” observes former Vermont Life editor Tom…
The Look of Silence
An optometrist fits an elderly man for glasses. Their seemingly idle conversation turns to the mass killing that occurred in their village nearly 50 years…
Recipes From Dead Celebs’ Cookbooks
My fascination with novelty cookbooks began early. I can clearly recall a beautiful summer day at the pool when 4-year-old Alice was too busy reading…
Producers Es-K and Loupo Lead the Local Beat Making Scene
As Burlington’s hip-hop scene continues to grow, both in numbers and in depth of talent, the city has more aspiring producers than ever. While rappers…
Grilling the Chef: Guild Tavern’s Phillip Clayton
Chef: Phillip Clayton Age: 34 Restaurant: Guild Tavern (executive chef; also chef-partner at the Farmhouse Group) Location: South Burlington restaurant age: three years Cuisine type:…
Free Will Astrology (10/28/2015)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): On a January morning in 1943, the town of Spearfish, S.D., experienced very weird weather. At 7:30 a.m. the temperature was…
Letters to the Editor (10/28/15)
Chasing Chasan Great story of a man who transcended his congregation to impact not only the Jewish community but the entire spiritual community of Vermont…
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VTIFF Turns 30 [SIV418]
10/23/15: The Vermont International Film Festival celebrates its 30 year anniversary with a jam-packed week and a half of films and special events. The festival…
Vermont Cemetery Stewards Are Headstone Heroes
One early October morning, Jim Woodman strapped a yellow harness around a leaning headstone in Richmond’s Old Village Cemetery. The harness was clipped to a…
Linda Bassick & Friends, Friday Morning Sing-Along
(Self released, CD, digital download) Linda Bassick’s weekly Friday Morning Sing-Along at Burlington’s Radio Bean attracts legions of local kids — and their parents —…
Theater Review: The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Middlebury Actors Workshop
To create a flawed character, a playwright has to build someone whose limitations are severe enough to be worth investigating but not so loathsome that…
The Would I’s, Sayay
(Self released, CD, digital download) On their Facebook page, Vergennes-based rockers the Would I’s bill themselves as blending “the mojo of the ’60s, the tight…
Salt and Phoenix Close; Cork Wine Bar and Mo-Vegas Fill Station Open
Former Seven Days food editor Suzanne Podhaizer is closing her Montpelier restaurant, Salt, just weeks short of its fifth anniversary. The final dinner will be…
Commodities Brings a Market to Winooski
Winooski may be known as Burlington’s Brooklyn, but it’s also a confirmed food desert. Both those reasons drew Michael Hughes to choose the city as…
