The Real Estate Issue 2014
Closed Five Years, Pine Ridge Sits Empty; Oculus Rift Helps Clients See in 3-D; Meet Apartment Realtor Steve Lipkin
Five Years After Closing, Pine Ridge School Still Quiet
Commercial real estate broker Jed Dousevicz unlocks the front door of the unoccupied Delano Administration Building and lets a small group of prospective buyers inside,…
Should I Reach Out and Help My Ex-Boyfriend?
Dear Athena, My boyfriend recently broke up with me, and it came out of nowhere. He is sort of a loner because his family lives…
Steve Lipkin, Ace Apartment Realtor
Batting averages, fumbles, tackles and other stats are generally considered the stuff of sports leagues, but real estate agents abide by their own set of…
Soundbites: Previewing the King of VT Rap Battle
If there’s one thing the local hip-hop scene has been lacking, it’s a good old-fashioned rap beef. I mean, the whole peace, love and unity…
At the HowardCenter, an Arts Collective Engages Clients and Staff Alike
Nestled deep on some newspapers’ obituary pages a few weeks ago was a notice about the passing of 98-year-old Edith Kramer in Vienna, the city…
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects: Paper Bags
Andy Warner’s comics have been published by Slate, Symbolia, KQED, Popular Science, popsci.com and American Public Media. Andy is a graduate of the Center for…
Grand Ole Party Poopers: Shumlin’s Up for Reelection, But Will He Have a Race?
With Town Meeting Day in the rearview mirror, we can now safely turn our attention to this fall’s election season. And by that I mean…
Austrian Chef Remakes Derby Line Village Inn
Get ready for schnitzel, sauerbraten and Hungarian goulash poutine. Austrian chef Fritz Halbedl has hit the Vermont-Québec border. He and his wife, Paula, aim to…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you between jobs? Between romantic partners? Between secure foundations and clear mandates and reasons to get up each morning? Probably…
Burlington Beer Company Opens
Mason Jar Mild. Hills and Hollows. C’est Bon. Race horses? Nope — they’re the names of some of the newest beers to join Vermont’s craft-brewing…
Seriously
The dashboard clock had just clicked to 3 a.m., and downtown Burlington was quickly becoming a ghost town. A scant hour earlier, the streets had…
Bus Fair? CCTA Drivers Get Ready to Strike
By some measures, the Chittenden County Transportation Authority and its drivers have never had it better. Ridership has grown 60 percent in the past decade,…
House Hunting? What $250K Can Get You in Vermont
How much house does approximately $250,000 buy you in the Green Mountain State in 2014? We combed through the current listings and came up with…
Power Play: Developers Race to Run Lines Under Lake Champlain and Beyond
Large hydroelectric dams in the north of Québec are generating energy that is abundant and cheap. New England states and New York are clamoring for…
Carving the Commute: Crossing Lake Champlain in Winter
Lake Champlain is frozen all the way across for the first time since 2007. But that hasn’t stopped two boats from traversing it, all day,…
A Writer Says Farewell to Her Beef Cows — at a New Mobile Slaughter Unit
Slightly more than three years ago, one bull, five cows and two calves arrived at the farm in Shoreham where I live with my husband,…
The Great Beauty
When you think of the protagonists of the past year’s best films, aren’t you really thinking less about them than about what happened to them?…
Two Middlebury Grads Offer Software to Help You See in 3D
Shane Scranton and Nate Beatty are the first to admit that when they show up at an architecture firm, tiny black briefcase in hand, they’re…
Letters to the Editor
A Little F*#king Context [Re “Capital Fireworks: Incumbent, Ousted Employee Spar in Montpelier Mayor’s Race,” February 26]: Seven Days is the third newspaper in the…
Gallery Profile: Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery
Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery has been a mainstay in downtown Waterbury for more than 30 years. For its first three decades, the storefront at…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police investigating a burglary at a church in Chula Vista, Calif., found a cellphone at the crime scene with a photo that…
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Tara Goreau Leaves Her Mark at Pingala Café [SIV344]
2/7/14: Muralist Tara Goreau has been making her presence known around Vermont over the last few years: her large scale colorful murals dress up the…
Entendre, ‘Entendre’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) The well-to-do ski hamlet of Stowe, Vt., is hardly known as a hotbed of hip-hop. And as it stands now, Stowe-based…
Quick Lit: Mannies and Memories
Professional stay-at-home nanman looking for needy mistress with a lot of bang and a lot of buck. You: type-A powerhouse, sexy exercise freak, no time…
Poor and Perfect, ‘Ribs / Friends, Heart, Family’
(Academia Tapes, cassette, digital, 7-inch) Poor and Perfect represent the latest venture from Chris Rosenquest, formerly of the Providence, R.I.-based alt-country band the Tower and…
Aria Code: Green Mountain Opera Festival Throws a Musical Fundraiser
Cocktails in the milking parlor, opera singers upstairs: The Inn at Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield will once again host the Green Mountain Opera Festival’s…
Comedian Hannibal Buress Talks Comedy, Writing for Television and his Sorta Celebrity
Comedian Hannibal Buress likes to have a little fun with rap music in his act. A couple of years back, he joked about a Young…
Kit Rivers Searches for Signs of Intelligent Life at Off Center
Kit Rivers is best known in the Burlington area for her standup chops. The Saint Michael’s College senior broke into the local comedy scene during…
Taste Test: South End Kitchen
Referencing a certain Roald Dahl classic is only natural when discussing South End Kitchen. After all, the new Burlington breakfast-and-lunch spot is flanked on one…
Arcade and Ale House to Open in South Burlington
“When we were kids, all we wanted to do was hang out in arcades and play video games, but we didn’t have any money. Now…
California Cuisine Comes to Stowe
Stowe locals know Jamie Persky as the woman behind Jamie’s on Main, the popular Main Street breakfast-and-lunch spot that Persky and her husband, Mark Rosman,…
