Sep 23-29, 2015
Harnessing the Healing Power of Horses; Sen. Sanders Preps for Democratic Debates; Seven New Beers for Fall
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Tim Hayes Harnesses Equines’ Healing Touch
Tim Hayes first recognized horses’ power to heal when he saw a burly gang member from South Central Los Angeles come face-to-face with a wild…
River Roost Brewery to Open in White River Junction
When Mark Babson started kegging beer at Magic Hat Brewing five or six years ago, he hoped the job would evolve into a career in…
Marlboro College Students Get on the Bus for Expedition Ed
Like many bus drivers prepping for the first day of school, 57-year-old Neal Taylor was getting his vehicle in order on an August afternoon. First…
How to Avoid Helicopter Parenting
Some professors begin the first lecture of the year with a warning to their classes: “Don’t be the student whose parents contact me.” This is…
Soundbites: After 10 Years, Honky Tonk Tuesday Nears the End … Maybe
Close Up the Honky Tonk? On Tuesday, September 15, Honky Tonk Tuesday celebrated its 10th anniversary. The weekly Radio Bean residency hosted by songwriter, singer…
Theater Review: The Hounds of Baskerville, Lost Nation Theater
Comedy and mystery both depend on surprise. If a detective story begs viewers to try to guess ahead, a comedy asks them to lean back…
South End Artists Hope to Stall the Champlain Parkway
Burlington artists against the proposed Champlain Parkway organized a tug-of-war at the South End Art Hop earlier this month. They invited supporters of the roadway…
Talking With Voice-Over Artist Brian Thon
Name: Brian Thon Town: Richmond Job: Voice-over artist We live in a world where machines tell us what to do, from when to board an…
Fightin’ Words: Bernie Sanders Readies for the Big Debate
Jim Rader remembers the first time Bernie Sanders hit the airwaves as a political candidate. It was 1971 and Sanders, the Liberty Union Party nominee…
WTF: What’s the Story With the Stairway to Nowhere at UVM?
The mint-green concrete steps behind the University of Vermont’s stately Williams Hall are akin to bad plastic surgery on a beautiful person: They aren’t pretty….
Manure Storage Wars: In Ferrisburgh, Flower Power Fights Big Dairy
It’s no secret Vermont dairy farms are major contributors to the phosphorus runoff that is polluting Lake Champlain. In particular, the way they dispose of…
The Internet’s Matt Martian Talks Ego Death
If you google “the internet,” the first result that pops up is not a Wikipedia entry for the humanity-altering global communications network through which you…
Playwright John Milton Oliver Asks a Lot of Questions
Don’t go to The Question looking for answers. The new play by Burlington writer John Milton Oliver, which will have three more performances this week…
From Prison to Gallery: Talking Art With Jeremy Lee MacKenzie
The eight large-scale scrollwork scenes on the walls at the Flynn Center for the Perfoming Arts’ Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington are intricate, fantastical…
How to Navigate Burlington Book Fest 2015
For the 11th year, one weekend in late September brings scribblers of all sorts to Burlington for a slate of readings, talks, panels and more….
Reviewing Poets David Cavanagh and Chard deNiord
In “Adam’s Curse,” W.B. Yeats describes a paradox in the practice of making poems: “A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it…
A New Film Follows the Survivors of a School Shooting
Three years before the Columbine High School massacre, in February 1996, a Washington State teenager shot his algebra teacher and two students. Jessi Shuttleworth, a…
Rue Mevlana, Pop Corn
(Prog Shock Productions, CD, digital download) Burlington dance-pop outfit Rue Mevlana have been relatively quiet on the recording scene since releasing Synthetic Emotion in 2012….
The Education of Matt Dunne: Schooling Shumlin and Smith
Last spring, former senator Matt Dunne seemed to be one of the few Democrats ready and willing to challenge Gov. Peter Shumlin for the state’s…
Christine Malcolm, Crickets, Coyotes & the Big Yellow Moon
(Self-released, CD, digital download) One moment on Crickets, Coyotes & the Big Yellow Moon, the debut recording from Elmore’s Christine Malcolm, not only characterizes the…
Black Mass
Johnny Depp ditches the flouncy flourishes, silly accents and funny hats and gets back down to the business of acting in Black Mass, easily his…
Four to Tango: the Piazzolla Project
Vermont is far from the geographical origins of tango music, in Argentina and Uruguay. But last year, two sets of musical spouses living in the…
A Fig Farm Grows in Vermont
D.H. Lawrence, never one to shrink from the erotic, wrote a poem called “Figs.” Oddly, it chides “overripe” women of his day for their “self-assertion”…
Free Will Astrology (9/23/2015)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are destined to become a master of fire. It’s your birthright to become skilled in the arts of kindling and…
Vermont Brewers Pour New Beers for Fall
When the leaves start to crisp, the mornings cool and tourists begin their annual leaf-peeping pilgrimage down Route 100, many Vermonters transform from sleek, summer…
Letters to the Editor (9/23/15)
Good Visit In [Movie Review: The Visit, September 16] Rick Kisonak writes, “I’ve watched loved ones suffer the indignities of dementia and can’t help but…
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Jamie’s List [SIV413]
8/25/15: When Jamie Perron of Jeffersonville was 19 years old, she was hit head on by another car and became a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the…
Vermont Hackers, Artists and Inventors are Sharing Ideas — and Solving Problems
Originally published July 3, 2012 Excerpt: Vermont’s “makers” — a term that originated in the early 2000s, meaning any amateur or professional inventor of physical…
My Boyfriend Is Close to His Ex and I’m Jealous
Dear Athena, My boyfriend is really close with one of his ex-girlfriends, and it’s starting to really bother me. I’m feeling jealous. They were together…
Even in Vermont, Sanders Trails Clinton in the Race for Superdelegates
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has had little trouble talking rank-and-file Democrats into supporting his surging presidential campaign. He’s now the — wait for it —…
Bistro de Margot Opens in Burlington; Spice Traders Kitchen Brings Exotic Flavors to Winooski
This past summer, L’Amante fans were devastated to learn that the downtown Burlington Italian restaurant would close in August after 12 years in business. But…
Food for Fairfax: Erica’s American Diner
It’s been a long rough patch for Fairfax’s 951 Main Street. After more than 20 years in business, town hub the Country Pantry Diner closed…
