The Money Issue April 2014 (Theme Issue)
Does the Gov.’s Lake Clean-Up plan Float?; A Textile Collective Forms in Winooski; A Pair of Reporters Goes Thrifting
Burlington Writers Workshop Releases New Anthology
A young man bets on a boxing bout and finds himself rooting for the wrong fighter. A hotshot ad man fuels his creativity with cocaine….
WTF: Did Vermont ever have a state bank? Or its own currency?
Last month on Town Meeting Day, voters in 18 communities approved nonbinding resolutions calling on the Vermont legislature to create a state-run bank similar to…
Leland Kinsey Issues Seventh Volume of Poems, ‘Winter Ready’
Green Writers Press is a new Vermont-owned and -operated publishing company with a mission to spoil the reader and spare the tree by printing ecologically…
Theater Review: The Spitfire Grill
If spring has put you in the mood for a musical, Northern Stage has a cheerful, polished production of The Spitfire Grill for you. The…
ONE Pepper Grill Closes; A Social Drinking Site Grows
The Old North End has lost a craft-beer drinking locale — but its owner is staying solidly rooted in the beer world. Last Monday, ONE…
Vermont Supper Club to Open in Former Claire’s Restaurant
Hardwick locavore pioneer Claire’s Restaurant & Bar closed on March 4. But hungry residents won’t have long to mourn. On May 9, a new restaurant…
Dave Kleh, Me & My Friends
(Self-released, CD, digital download) To my recollection, I’ve never met Dave Kleh. But based on my limited knowledge of him, I suspect he’s an interesting…
Phantom Truck Joins the Mobile Food Scene
Eaters who never made it to one of chef Matt Sargent’s pop-up Phantom Dinners will soon have another opportunity to try his eclectic locavore dishes…
Squimley and the Woolens, 10,000 Fire Jellyfish
(Self-released, digital download) In the age of Pitchfork-wielding hipsters, the word “jam” has become something of a four-letter word, carrying with it a confining, maybe…
A Clockwork Orange Chimes in Middlebury
British author Anthony Burgess wrote his ultraviolent dystopian novella A Clockwork Orange in just a few weeks. Published in Britain in 1962, in the midst…
Four More Vermont-Made Albums You Haven’t Heard
So many records, so little time. Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record…
Pop-Up Plays Come to Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater
Deadline Drama What to do when a theater has a rare dark night? Why, throw together some pop-up plays, of course. That’s what Haley Rice…
Soundbites: Charlie O’s Reopens, More Concerts on the Green and Country Comes to the Monkey House
Thank God! After being closed for 10 spring-cleaning days, Charlie O’s World Famous in Montpelier reopens this week. And the capital city rejoices. Normally, a…
Vermonters Aim to Break Guinness World Record for Longest Contra-Dance Line
What does it take to break a Guinness World Record? First, a big idea. Second, perseverance. Just ask Eric Smith. The 52-year-old Cuttingsville resident aims…
How Soon After Childbirth Should I Feel Like Having Sex Again?
Dear Athena, Before we had children, my husband and I had a very active and intimate sex life. After the birth of our first child,…
Obituary: George Shumlin, 1925-2014, Westminster West
George Shumlin died April 10 at his home after a short illness, surrounded by his wife and children, who loved him. Born in May, 1925,…
Troubled Waters: On Champlain Cleanup, Environmentalists Doubt Shumlin’s Resolve
Since returning to state politics in 2007, Peter Shumlin has spoken clearly, compellingly and often about the perils of climate change. Back in 2010, when…
A New Textile Industry Takes Shape in Winooski
At one point in the early 20th century, Vermont’s largest employer was the American Woolen Company. Factories beside the Winooski Falls, powered by rushing water…
Art Review: “Stations of the Cross,” Cathedral Church of St. Paul
If a non-churchgoer can produce a set of charcoal drawings of the Stations of the Cross, then an agnostic former altar boy can sure as…
Seven Days Takes a Bite Out of Vermont’s New Chocolates
At first, it was a trickle — then a flood. After a few months of hearing about new chocolatiers and seeing their products on the…
Farmers Need Seeds to Cultivate New Hemp Crop
Last year, activists pushing for the legal cultivation of hemp scored a big victory in Vermont: In June, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law a…
Two Seven Days Bargain-Hunters Scour Area Thrift Shops
Ethan de Seife: “Hey, Ethan, you wanna go buy some rectangles?” So my friend Tom would periodically ask, back in grad school. “Rectangles,” in our…
Obituary: Lucienne (Roy) Pare, 1916-2014
Lucienne (Roy) Pare, 97, died peacefully Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in Starr Farm Nursing Center. Born in Winooski on Nov. 20, 1916, she was the…
Artists Draw Conclusions About Creativity and Financial Savvy
The expression “starving artist” may be hyperbole, but it has some basis in truth. Creative types are not the only ones who have a problem…
Early-Morning Helicopter Raid: A Wake-up Call for Winooski?
Around 4 a.m. on March 27, a bright light shone into the homes on Lafountain and Leclair streets in Winooski, sending residents scrambling from their…
Work: Franny Bastian, VPR’s Pledge Drive Guru
Franny Bastian wasn’t exactly a bookworm when she studied at the University of Vermont in the early 1970s. In fact, she admits her grades were…
Letters to the Editor (4/9/14)
Our Mis-take [Re “Next Act,” March 26]: In the sidebar entitled “Les Misérables by the Numbers,” it incorrectly says that the original Broadway production began…
Free Will Astrology (4/9/14)
Aries (March 21-April 19) Freedom is the most important kind of joy you can seek right now. It’s also the most important subject to study…
Feeding Families from Afar: Accounting for Vermont’s Remittances
It can be argued that Vermont’s most life-altering financial transactions aren’t happening in its banks and credit unions but over the counters of Rite Aids,…
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8th LEAP Energy Fair [SIV348]
4/5/14: The 8th Annual LEAP Energy Fair was held on Saturday at Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury. Eva talked to students who have been…
Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
Perhaps the most surprising thing about Lars von Trier is that he still can surprise us. There isn’t a filmmaker alive more controversial, indifferent to…
News Quirks (4/9/14)
Curses, Foiled Again Yafait Tadesse went to prison for stealing the names and Social Security numbers of a dozen people and using the stolen identities…
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
I have a confession: I’m bored of superhero movies. I’ve never been a big comics reader or a fan of guys zipping around in tights….
