The Money Issue April 2015 (Theme Issue)
The Money Issue: Budget Buster Sen. Jane Kitchel on the Record; A Food-Biz Pitch Competition; Vermont’s “Numbers Racket”
Obituary: Virginia Mae Colt, 1918-2015, Burlington
Virginia Mae Colt, 97, a longtime resident of Burlington and Sarasota, FL, passed away April 10, 2015 at the University of Vermont Medical Center. She…
Taverna Khione and Noonie’s Deli Open in Chittenden County
Taverna Khione opened at the former Café Shelburne space at 5573 Shelburne Road on Tuesday, April 7. As owner Marc Provencher recently told Seven Days…
Work: Bank Teller Nick Darrow
Nick Darrow graduated from Middlebury Union High School and headed to an arts college in Colorado to pursue his dream: becoming an animator. He finished…
Fair Share? Officials Struggle to Regulate Vermont’s ‘Sharing Economy’
In early March, Vermont’s Department of Financial Regulation issued a consumer alert cautioning people that a “revolution” was brewing in the Green Mountain State. It…
Art Review: ‘The Waskomium: Where the Art Stops’
Burlington’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery is hosting something of a coming-out party for the world’s largest collection of contemporary Vermont art. “The Waskowmium: Where the…
As Canadian Dollar Sinks, Border Communities Tread Water
For more than a decade, Canadian customers at the Newport Natural Market and Café could buy their baguettes and organic milk with their own cash,…
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Danforth Pewter Turns 40 [SIV394]
2/26/15: For the past 40 years, Judi and Fred Danforth have been making art together and building one of Vermont’s most well-known and successful businesses….
Soundbites: Full BDJF Lineup Announced; Buch Spieler Sold
Remember last Friday when it was, like, 65 degrees and sunny? And then Saturday happened, and we awoke to find snow on the ground. Even…
Letters to the Editor (4/8/15)
Take Back Junior’s I agree with Hannah Palmer Egan [Taste Test: Junior’s Rustico, March 18]. Junior’s has lost its way, and I hope it finds…
AWOL Pols: Vermont GOPers Take a Walk on Indiana Resolution
When the Vermont House voted overwhelmingly last Friday for a resolution opposing Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law, just one legislator uttered the word “nay.” In…
Vermont’s Budget Cuts Meet the Great Pushback
Reps. Mike Marcotte and Butch Shaw have spent years advocating for greater government efficiency. So the two Republicans acknowledge the irony in their fight to…
At a Pitch Competition, Emerging Food Businesses Develop Their Wares
The Vermont Tortilla Company is brand-new, but its products are made with a technique that’s thousands of years old. Nixtamalization, explains cofounder April Moulaert, is…
The Red Telephone, Places You Return
(Raise Giant Frogs Records, CD, digital download) Once upon a time in Burlington, there was a band called Envy. This was during the alt-rock era…
Free Will Astrology (4/8/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Uitwaaien is a Dutch word that means to go out for a stroll in windy weather simply because it’s exhilarating. I…
Session Americana Eye the Next Level
If you’ve ever experienced Session Americana live in a small club, you’ve likely been there when the band blasts through fan favorite “Beer Town” as…
News Quirks (4/8/15)
Curses, Foiled Again Joey Patterson, 22, eluded Idaho authorities for several months, but then he posted his whereabouts on Facebook. He invited friends to play…
Dick FaceBat, Space Hearse
(Beautiful Music CDs, CD, digital download) Dick FaceBat is the alias of Burlington’s Richard Wright — not to be confused with the famed Native Son…
A Lottery Player Wants Vermont to Shake the Habit
Cole Ward is one of the top-ranked master butchers in the United States. He’s taught his trade to college students and farmers, been featured in…
Theater Review: ‘Almost, Maine,’ Parish Players
With winter barely in the rearview mirror, the Parish Players’ production of Almost, Maine stirs knowing laughter in audiences all too familiar with winter’s short…
Film Series Highlights Architecture on Fogo Island
Andrew Chardain first saw Fogo Island, off the fractured coast of Newfoundland, on a motorcycling trip with friends in fall 2011. Traversing the island’s long…
I Admitted to a Friend That I’m Interested in Him
Dear Athena, I have this friend I’ve liked for years. I finally admitted it to him. The reply I got was that he can only…
Vermont’s Opera Fan Clubs Keep Area Arias Alive
Good news for those rare souls pinging around the Green Mountains who like opera: You can now find one another. Vermont hosts two opera fan…
Jenn Karson’s Sonic Mapping Workshop Explores Burlington
Sound has always been Jenn Karson’s medium. The 45-year-old first became known around Burlington in her twenties as the lead singer of the all-female alternative…
Jane Kitchel Writes the Budget — and Brings the Sandwiches
Jane Kitchel, the six-term senator from Caledonia County, seemed a little preoccupied last Thursday afternoon. As she took her seat in the Senate Appropriations Committee’s…
WTF: Why Don’t All Vermont ATMs Offer French?
Among the 14 language options on the ATM at TD Bank’s downtown Burlington branch is one that few customers are likely to recognize: Shqip. That’s…
Seasoned Traveler: Himalayan Nepali Cuisine
Raymond Dewan doesn’t remember ever serving a fellow Nepali at his Morrisville take-out restaurant, Nepali Cuisine. “Our customers are all locals,” he says. What about…
Pierogi Café Opens in Quechee
In November 2013, native Pole Viktor Witkowski began selling homemade pierogi at the Woodstock Winter Farmers Market as Pierogi Me! Since then, the business has…
Montréal’s Tripes & Caviar Pops Up in Vermont
When Jean-Michel Leblond, the chef behind Montréal’s Tripes & Caviar, ventures stateside, the destination is always the same. “We’re super good friends with the guys…
