Sep 11-17, 2013
The Performing Arts Preview 2013-2014; Parent’s React to Calendar 2.0; Artists Reimagine the Moran Plant
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The 2013-2014 Performing Arts Preview
September is a bittersweet month of endings and beginnings. If we’re bummed to say goodbye to gardens, beaches and the indolent days of summer, there’s…
Obituary: Patrick Henry McGrath
Patrick Henry McGrath, 67, lost his courageous battle against illness and passed away on September 4, 2013 at his home in Maryville, TN. He was…
Obituary: Paul Edward Gaboury
Paul Edward Gaboury, age 76 years, died Wednesday afternoon September 11, 2013, at the Franklin County Rehab Center where he had resided since 2003. Born…
Obituary: Mrs. Jeanne d’Arc Rainville
Mrs. Jeanne d’Arc Rainville, age 91 years, died Wednesday morning September 11, 2013, at the Our Lady of Providence Residence in Winooski. Born in Dunham,…
Burlington’s Front Porch Forum Expands Statewide
How do you share hyper-local news with your neighbors? If you live in Chittenden County, you’ve probably been using Front Porch Forum to spread the…
Find Jobs, Robots and 3-D Printers at the 7th Annual Vermont Tech Jam
It feels like summer outside, but I’m not fooled. I know it’s fall, because I just sent out a press release for the 7th annual…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again When two men showed a gun at a busy Chicago restaurant and announced a holdup, the owner asked them to come back…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart,” wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his book Stranger…
Charles Bradley Talks Soul, Sadness and Salvation
When Charles Bradley answers his phone on his tour bus to speak with a Seven Days reporter, his voice, that glorious geyser of a voice,…
Chefs Bring Fine Dining to Sodexo
Being a chef is grueling. The long hours, sweaty nights in the kitchen and hurry-up-and-wait stress are enough to drive most sane people to drink…
WTF: What’s the story behind the “sacred” bricks of Norwich University?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Artists Find Inspiration in the Moran Plant
From the outside, Burlington’s Moran Plant is a hulking eyesore, a fenced-off, industrial brick behemoth plunked on the Lake Champlain waterfront like an oversize step…
Acconci Sculpture Re-installed at Middlebury College
“Vito Acconci: Thinking Space,” which recently opened at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, is as much an act of atonement as an art show….
Book Review: Little Island by Katharine Britton
For the first half of Little Island, Norwich author Katharine Britton’s unsettling second novel, 64-year-old innkeeper Grace Little is stymied and confused — and we…
Taste Test: Revolution Kitchen
It’s a brave new world for vegetables. Though my own meat-free days were short-lived, I once subsisted on the pabulum of veggie stir-fries and avocado…
Letters to the Editor
Syria Error Good reporting on the hard choices facing our congressional delegation on Syria [Fair Game: “Syria Business,” September 4]. Here’s what I wrote Leahy,…
Obituary: Timothy R. Wellinger,
WinooskiTimothy R. Wellinger, 30, of Winooski, unexpectedly left his family and friends on Sunday, September 1, 2013, due to a tragic accident. Although his journey…
Obituary: Theresa Ann (LaChance) Ralston,
1958-2013, Colchester/South BurlingtonTheresa Ann (LaChance) Ralston, 55, passed away on Monday, August 26, 2013, at home with loved ones and friends at her side after…
Richard “Dick” Yeaw
1931-2013, BurlingtonA memorial service in celebration of the life of Dick Yeaw will be held Saturday, September 14, 2 p.m. at First Unitarian Universalist Society…
