Sep 21-27, 2016
AG Candidate T.J. Donovan: Bold Moves and Political Ambitions; Glass Acts at the Bern Gallery Pipe Classic; Philosophy Profs Consider the Ethics of Food Systems
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‘TV T.J.’ Donovan: The Likely Next AG Pushes Criminal Justice Reform
T.J. Donovan was running behind schedule last Friday morning. He was supposed to be in plea negotiations on a pending fraud case, and then in…
Obituary: David Budbill, 1940-2016
David Budbill died peacefully at his home in the early morning hours of September 25th with his wife of 50 years, Lois Eby, and his…
DIY: Backyard Stone Fire Pit
On a crisp Vermont evening, there’s nothing like toasting marshmallows over an open fire. Two years ago, however, things got a bit too crispy for…
Perfect Sense: A New Space in Barre Lets Kids With Autism Explore and Relax
For Maleia Darling, a 20-year-old Barre woman living with autism, the everyday world is often unbearably overstimulating. Fluorescent lights, for example, cause her physical discomfort…
The Parmelee Post: Indigenous Vermonters Form Abenaki First Group
Emotions ran high at the Swanton Public Library last week during the inaugural meeting of the newly formed anti-settlement group, Abenaki First. “Enough is enough,”…
Theater Review: The Syringa Tree, Lost Nation Theater
In The Syringa Tree, a one-woman show playing at Lost Nation Theater, Courtney Wood whirls onto the stage and rivets the audience’s attention from her…
Dave Keller, Right Back Atcha
(Tastee-Tone Records, CD, digital download) Dave Keller has lightened up. The Vermont bluesman’s 2014 album Soul Changes was a deeply personal work, written and recorded…
Art Review: ‘The SHE Project, Part I,’ Living/Learning Gallery
Kristen M. Watson and Mary Admasian’s collaborative installation “The SHE Project: Part I” feels barely contained by its site — the small gallery in the…
The Odd Couple: Starch-Shirted Brock, Ponytailed Zuckerman Vie for LG
Tom Ostler of White River Junction was just about to bite into an Italian sausage at the Tunbridge World’s Fair last Thursday when Sen. David…
Free Will Astrology (9/21/16)
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m confident that I will never again need to moonlight as a janitor or dishwasher in order to pay my bills….
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River of Light: Harvest Moon Winooski Paddle [SIV460]
9/16/16: More than 60 people embarked on a moonlit adventure Friday night on the lower Winooski River in brightly lit kayaks, canoes, and SUPs on…
Is There a Penis Size That’s Just Too Small?
Dear Athena, Is there a penis size that is just too small? I am worried that I am abnormal and it will affect any relationship…
Letters to the Editor (9/21/16)
Greed, in Deed One cannot help but sympathize with the Thibault family [“Brothers’ Keeper,” August 31]. Losing two of three children to something as senseless…
Moran on Main? Officials Seek Solutions for Memorial Auditorium
Cresting the hill at the top of Main Street, visitors to Burlington come upon the University of Vermont’s manicured green and the fine old buildings…
Charlotte, Connected By Land
“Will you go to Charlotte?” the young man at the curb asked me through my passenger window. It was Saturday night, and I was first…
Complete Unknown
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Somebody Different Every Few Years for the Most Pretentious, Hyper-Corny Reasons Conceivable would have served as a far more apt…
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Twelve years after Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, was anyone holding their breath for another installment in the singleton’s saga? But in the interim,…
Kelly Ravin Turns Alt-Country Bard
Kelly Ravin is where he often is these days: standing on the stage of a small local bar. He’s tuning his low-slung guitar as I…
Modern Threads: Brazil’s Luísa Maita on Her New Record
Change is the only true constant, as the rapid pace of technology perpetually underscores. But it can be difficult to accept. Brazilian singer-songwriter Luísa Maita,…
State Auditor Doug Hoffer Wants to Keep His (59th) Job
Doug Hoffer keeps a running list of every job he’s ever had. The document has columns for position, employer, location and dates. It’s ordered chronologically,…
Bess O’Brien Doc Gives Voice to Eating Disorders
When Bess O’Brien was in the midst of a statewide tour of her 2013 film The Hungry Heart, a documentary about Vermont’s opioid addiction crisis,…
Ethicists Consider the Rights and Wrongs of Food Systems
I’m sitting on a love seat in the lounge of the University of Vermont’s philosophy department with a sumptuous picnic spread out in front of…
Documenting Memorial Auditorium — on Instagram
Mary Zompetti is a newcomer to Memorial Auditorium, but the photographer is already developing an unusual relationship with the old building. The Grand Isle resident…
Isole Dinner Club Launches Lit-Inspired Supper Series
In 2011, local chef Richard Witting founded the Isole Dinner Club. For a couple of years, he hosted themed meals in Burlington and Winooski exploring…
Artist Divines Climate-Change Anxiety With Tarot
Scientists have a lot to say about climate change and the future. But what about diviners? Ask Brooklyn-based contemporary artist James Leonard. This Thursday, September…
Blowing Big at Bern Gallery’s Pipe Classic 11
As Eusheen Goines quickly approached his 3 p.m. deadline, he was smoking on a pipe — not puffing it, but creating it. The Evergreen, Colo.-based…
Vermont Sculptor Lars Fisk Shows Balls in NYC
A sculptor born and bred in Vermont is soaring to star status in the Manhattan art world. The New York Times recently attested to —…
Kälte Brewing Brings Lagers to Morrisville
While most drinkers prefer a frosty brew to a tepid one, temperature is especially important when it comes to lagers, which require weeks of cool-temperature…
Soundbites: Thoughts on GPN; New Records Galore!
Before we dig into the news of the week, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on last weekend’s Grand Point North festival and…
Book Review: Lost Wax: Essays by Jericho Parms
The title of Jericho Parms’ book, Lost Wax, might confound anyone removed from the art world. A hundred pages into this debut collection of 18…
Luther, Luther
(Crow on Ten Records, vinyl) Everyone in Vermont knows how it goes. There comes a point, usually sometime in late January, when the glow of…
Shinjuku Station Offers Takeout Sushi in Burlington
In the kitchen of Shinjuku Station, located at 260 North Street in Burlington, across from Mawuhi African Market, lives a robot of sorts nicknamed Suzy….
