Sep 11-17, 2019
Show and Tell: the 2019-20 Performing Arts Preview; Tracking Down Former Priests Accused of Abuse; Nutty Steph’s Rebrands as Rabble-Rouser, Opens New Location in Montpelier
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Show and Tell: The 2019-20 Performing Arts Preview
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. We can imagine that the fine folks behind the Middlebury Performing Arts Series might have a frayed poster…
Obituary: Perry Nunn, 1962-2019
For years the Burlington musician played Friday nights at Ruben James
Art Review: ‘East to West: A Ceramic Dialogue,’ BigTown Gallery
In an article called “Art Escapes: Four Galleries Worth the Trip,” Art New England recently named BigTown Gallery in Rochester the must-see gallery in Vermont….
Greaseface, ‘You Fucked Up My Car’
(Self-released, digital) Greaseface have a reputation. Most folks familiar with the Burlington punk rockers will expound some variation of “Dude, they’re sick”; or “They rock”;…
Quick Lit Review: ‘Made Holy,’ Essays by Emily Casey
By the end of Made Holy, an essay collection by Emily Arnason Casey, readers may feel as if they’ve visited the lakeside cabin where she…
Fossa, ‘Bones’
(Self-released, digital) Some people put a lot of faith in astrology. I’m not knocking it, just observing that it isn’t uncommon for people to tell…
Burlington’s St. Paul Street Makeover Confounds Drivers
Elaine Russell was trying to avoid Pine Street. She and her husband were driving from Burlington home to Vergennes, and road construction was the last…
A Friend of a Friend Gets Aggressively Sexual When Drunk
Dear Reverend, A female friend of a friend of mine gets aggressively sexual when she gets drunk. She tries to make out with everyone in…
Work: Chittenden County Forester Ethan Tapper
Name: Ethan Tapper, 30 Town: Burlington Job: Chittenden County forester In the 1800s, approximately 80 percent of Vermont forests were cleared for pasture-based agriculture. That…
Comedian Tracie Spencer Debuts One-Woman Show, ’60 First Dates’
Five years ago, comedian Tracie Spencer found herself at a daunting life crossroads: freshly divorced, unemployed and about to turn 50. So she did what…
Williston Teacher’s Project Explores Storytelling as Key to Resilience
Michael Kellogg remembers a nugget of knowledge he heard from a man he interviewed at the Champlain Senior Center: “Problems aren’t problems. Problems become your…
Vermont Doesn’t Have One, But a Driving Curfew Could Curb Teen Pregnancy
Here’s some sex education: A newly released study by a Hunter College economics professor has found that nighttime driving curfews can decrease teen fertility by…
A Powerful HBO Doc Explores What Happened ‘In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11’
Many movies have been made about the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Eighteen years after the atrocity, can there really be anything new of…
‘It Chapter Two’ Takes Us on a Long, Strange Thrill Ride
There’s a reason many horror fans don’t love digital effects: Fear needs grounding. When a cheerful clown opens his mouth to reveal a second set…
Seven Days Tracks Down Ex-Priests Accused of Sex Abuse in Vermont
John “Jack” Kenney happened to be standing in his front yard when a reporter drove up the long dirt drive to his two-story home in…
Eat This Week, September 11 to 17, 2019: Farm Birthday
A dinner to celebrate a century of farming at Parsons’ Farm in Richford will be held Saturday, September 14, at a historic inn in Montgomery….
A VTDigger Legal Fight Reveals That Key EB-5 Docs Are Missing
A protracted legal battle between a Vermont news outlet and the state attorney general has revealed gaps in the public record of how the state…
Letters to the Editor (9/11/19)
No Empathy I’m so saddened by Mark Syzmanski’s letter, “Enough about Addiction” [Feedback, August 28]. He is apparently without any vice of his own. Two…
Soundbites: Big Heavy World’s Tiny Museum, Vampire Weekend and Grand Point North
Small Wonder Have you all ever noticed that sometimes I start this column with a friendly greeting and other times I just jump right into…
Free Will Astrology (9/11/19)
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote, “Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place…
What Are Those New ‘Trees’ Being Planted in Fields Across Vermont?
“What’s up with all the trees that have suddenly been planted in the town of Charlotte in unused farm fields along Route 7?” asked one…
Theater Review: ‘Shakespeare’s Will,’ Lost Nation Theater
Last Thursday night’s preview audience at Lost Nation Theater laughed as Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, described the lovers she’d had while her husband was in…
The Commotion and Community of Henry Finch & the Capacity Ensemble
When watching Henry Finch & the Capacity Ensemble play for the first time, it’s not immediately evident which member is Henry Finch. It wouldn’t be…
Nutty Steph’s Becomes Rabble-Rouser, Opens New Location
A brand-new spot in Montpelier is the subject at hand, but first: a quick vocabulary lesson. The word is “rabble.” Its 13th-century meaning is “pack…
A Vermonter Brings V Smiley Preserves Back Home to New Haven
“Growing up, it was our job to fill the pantry,” V Smiley said on a recent tour of her childhood home in New Haven. A…
With Food, Drink and Live Music, Moog’s Joint Brings Nightlife to Johnson
In the former Long Trail Tavern building, which most recently held Hogback Snacks, Moog’s Joint was hopping on its second evening open in late August….
