Renee Jeanne Grenier Allen passed away at her home in South Burlington on August 1, 2019, after a lengthy illness. Renee was born in Toms…
On August 7, 2019, at Porter Medical Center, Laura (Mack) Rates and Bruno Rates welcomed a boy, Levi Mack Rates….
When Jay Barton moved into the corner office at WCAX-TV’s South Burlington headquarters, he got rid of the “Howard Johnson orange” carpets that, in his…
I fell in love with this guy unexpectedly — like, I never imagined liking him. He likes me, too, and I can feel that he’s…
A bounty of farm food and agricultural activities are the centerpiece of Vermont Open Farm Week. Farms across the state open their fields and barns…
Here at Seven Days, we get a lot of press releases. You name it, we’ve gotten a press release about it, whether “it” is housing,…
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in the summer of 2017, photos of the damage circulated immediately on social media. One showed a shark swimming in…
First things first: Bluum Zine is a “zine,” but it’s not actually a zine. Which is to say it’s not a homemade, self-published magazine but…
Nick Broomfield’s documentaries are seldom confused with those of Michael Moore or Errol Morris. Rather than unpack social issues, he likes to throw together projects…
You Are the Champions We here at Seven Days all breathed a collective sigh of relief last week. All the Best, our annual publication that…
On a Tuesday in late July, the top stories on Ever Widening Circles, a St. Albans-based online publication, included one about an organization that is…
In the summer of 1785, a free black woman named Lucy Prince walked from Guilford to Norwich — a distance of 63 miles as the…
In 2003, Christina Asquith hitchhiked her way into Baghdad with an idea. She wanted to write about the Iraq War from a perspective she hadn’t…
Twelve years ago, Ray Padgett was just another college kid obsessed with music. He had been writing a blog about Bob Dylan since high school,…
Actor-rapper-comedian Awkwafina has the body of a shy, slouchy millennial and the voice of a grumpy old coot. She can spout off the most ridiculous,…
One Upper Valley teen is doing his best to keep print media alive. After the Barnard General Store stopped selling the New York Times last…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one, but print media is dead. Or it’s dying. Or it’s got a bad cold or a hangnail or…
(Self-released, digital) Dread is one of the most visceral emotions, a Molotov cocktail of anxiety and fear often garnished with depression and self-loathing. And the…
The past 15 years have been grim for American newspapers. Roughly 2,100 have either merged with a competitor or gone out of business, the New…
Would it surprise you to learn that newsrooms in Vermont are, by most metrics, stunningly low in diversity? The state’s news organizations do well in…
Suddenly I noticed my customer’s right hand as he sat beside me in the shotgun seat. We had already been chatting for a good half…
(Equal Eyes Records, CD, digital download) The teaming-up of rapper Learic and producer Es-K was inevitable. They are both among the most tirelessly prolific and…
The small community of Windsor got a new restaurant last week when Nate Rose and Josh Martin opened Au Jus at 131 Main Street. Rose…
Kurt Wright starts his day when the songbirds are still sleeping. He’s up at 4 a.m., and by 5, he’s seated quietly in an overly…
‘Woke Opera of Vermont’ [Re “Barn Opera to Get Its Own Actual Barn,” July 31]: In your recent article about Barn Opera and its new…
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I am overjoyed that you’re not competing for easy rewards or comparing yourself to the mediocre crowd. Some people in your…
Twenty-one-year-old Cullen Paradis has heard the dire pronouncements about the future of journalism. Even so, he’s determined to become an investigative reporter. Paradis is one…
Visitors to the BCA Center who make their way up to the windowless back room on the second floor might be surprised to find something…
The photos are voyeuristic, capturing the scene frame by frame like a private investigator in the movies: Hartford police confront a transient man in White…
Oven-blistered pizza, fantastical creemee creations and bejeweled fruit tarts — these are the stars of some of the mouthwatering Instagrams that make us drool. Chefs…
Something about the term “influencer” feels very … Kardashian. Evocative of half-naked photo shoots and overpriced skin-care products, the buzzword might not seem to have…
Burlington favorite SoYo Frozen Yogurt has been acquired by the owners of New World Tortilla and is once again open for business. The fro-yo shop…
