The Media Issue 2015
The Media Issue: Bernie’s Campaign Kickoff; the Crowd; and the Bro in Britain; Erica Heilman’s Path to Podcasting; Three Vermont Papers Making It Work; Tv Videographer Dave St. Pierre
Obituary: Linda Ann Vincelette
Linda Ann Vincelette, age 58, died in a tragic automobile accident Sunday evening, May 10, 2015, on Maquam Shore. Born in Branford, Connecticut on, December…
Obituary: ALFRED “GUS” GAETANI, Burlington
Alfred Francis “Gus” Gaetani, died with his family present on Feb. 6, 2015, at age 92. A kind, gentle person with a dry wit, he…
Obituary: Sarah H. Crocker, 1953-2015, Colchester, Vt
Sarah Crocker passed away quietly at home surrounded by loved ones on May 22nd after a long and heroic battle with cancer. Sarah was happiest…
Obituary: Carole Martel Patton
Carole Martel Patton, 81, passed away peacefully at her home in South Burlington, Vermont on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 following a long illness. She was…
Obituary: Robert F. Brown, Sr.
Robert F. Brown Sr., 82, a longtime resident of Washington Ave. in Bennington died Sunday May 24, 2015 at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in…
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The Paper the Ps Built [SIV400]
5/9/15: In celebration of the 400th episode of Stuck in Vermont and the upcoming 20th anniversary of Seven Days (the newsweekly that makes SIV possible),…
How Three Vermont Media Companies Keep the Presses Rolling
You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed the media news of the decade: Newspapers are struggling to survive in a world…
Free Will Astrology (5/27/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keith Moon played drums for the rock band the Who. He was once voted the second-greatest drummer in history. But his…
Vermont’s Northland Journal Focuses on the Past
Scott Wheeler and his buddy Joe Queenin tucked into a corner booth at a pizza joint an hour before the lunch rush on a recent…
Quick Lit: Read Between the Lines by Jo Knowles
The cover of Jo Knowles’ sixth novel sports a clever visual double entendre. A hand displays three fingers, the middle one’s nail emblazoned with a…
Tomorrowland
This isn’t so much a movie as two hours-plus of product placement. The nerve of Disney to sell us tickets to an ad for a…
Truckin’: Natural Gas Deliveries Fuel Industries — and Pipeline Foes
Starting next week, some 14 to 20 trucks will make a daily hour-and-45-minute trip from Milton to Ticonderoga, N.Y. They’ll be hauling compressed natural gas…
The Media Issue
At first glance, our media issue might seem a little like navel-gazing; we’re a newspaper, after all, solidly part of the fourth estate — or,…
Heat on the Beat: Former Cynic Editor on How to Win a Pulitzer
In April, University of Vermont alum Eric Lipton won the Pulitzer Prize for the second time. The New York Times reporter and one-time editor of…
Far From the Madding Crowd
Sometimes the casting of a literary adaptation serves its box office better than its source material. Early in this new version of Thomas Hardy’s Far…
Listeners Who Veer From Tired Stories Hit ‘Rumble Strip Vermont’
In the May 4 episode of Erica Heilman’s podcast “Rumble Strip Vermont,” St. Johnsbury salon owner Vaughn Hood recounted his experiences in the Vietnam War…
Previewing Vermont’s Summer Music Festivals
Waking Windows is in the books and the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival takes to its many stages next week. And that means Vermont’s music festival…
Bernie Begins: Sanders Launches His ‘Political Revolution’
Burlington’s favorite son promised a “political revolution” Tuesday as he kicked off an improbable campaign for the nation’s highest office. Judging by the 5,000 supporters…
News Quirks (5/27/15)
Curses, Foiled Again Police said they received their “strongest investigative lead” in the case of 80 frozen pizzas stolen from a warehouse in Gambell, Alaska,…
Bernie’s Bro: Working-Class Brooklyn Roots Shaped My Brother
Bernie Sanders wears his leftist politics as comfortably as the rumpled suit jackets he used to favor. The progressive principles he has consistently advocated throughout…
Off Center Revives Playwright Stephen Goldberg’s Screwed
If Burlington is enjoying a boom in original theater, it’s easy to pinpoint the catalyst. Since opening in 2010, Off Center for the Dramatic Arts…
Vermont Playwright’s Icon Gets a German Makeover
Playwright, director, actor, slam poet — Seth Jarvis has racked up a number of accomplishments in his onstage career so far. In fall 2013, Jarvis…
Soundbites: And the Winner Is
If you’re just joining us, for the past few weeks we here at your friendly neighborhood alt-weekly newspaper have been running the annual Grand Point…
Art Review: Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Castleton Downtown Gallery
The surreal and the playful find common currency in Erika Lawlor Schmidt’s new exhibition, “Blame It on My Youth,” at the Castleton Downtown Gallery in…
On the Restaurant Real Estate Hunt With Peter Yee
On a recent Friday, Peter Yee of Yellow Sign Commercial brings a local bar owner to look at the former Istanbul Kebab House in Essex…
Cantare Con Spirito Brings Unusual Program to Woodstock
Earlier this year, ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery in Woodstock inaugurated its new theater arts program, with 33-year-old Jarvis Green as director. In a…
I Hate Giving Blow Jobs
Dear Athena, One of my best friends recently told me the reason I can’t keep a boyfriend is that I hate giving blow jobs. She…
Y Naught, Initial Conditions
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Y Naught are a Burlington trio of former UVM physics and music students. Composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Wallace Kenyon,…
Friends to the End
When I pulled into the graveled driveway in Shelburne, two men were stepping out the side door of the house. One of them, clearly the…
Chasing the Images That Make the News
When police, fire and emergency medical personnel in northwestern Vermont roll up to the scene of a house fire, bank robbery or serious car accident,…
Letters to the Editor (5/27/15)
Pot Problem I would simply like to note that the long prohibition on marijuana and more recent war on drugs have destroyed many poor and…
Ghost Weapons, Collapse Songs
(Self-released, digital download) Gary Peters is a sad bastard. No, really. He applies the tag himself on his Bandcamp page, so we feel pretty confident…
Two Brews Podcasts Hosts Are Unlikely Connoisseurs
Kris Jarrett and Matt Gadouas — cohosts of Two Brews podcast, the beer-tasting web-radio show that aired its first episode last December — are not…
New Thai, Doughnuts, Breweries; Charlmont Returns to Morrisville
Formerly the home of Stacks Sandwiches, the corner lot at the intersection of Burlington’s Pearl Street and North Winooski Avenue will soon house authentic Thai…
