The Summer Preview Issue 2015
The Summer Preview Issue: Foot Races for Fanatics; Lakes Beyond Champlain; Woodchuck Gardening Advice; Summer Dining Bucket List; Women’s Jail Drug Unit Criticized; Burlington v. Uber; A Q&A With Wyatt Cenac
Obituary: Richard J. Bissette, Anita Bechard Bissette, 1923-2014, 1921-2014, Waterbury
A military funeral service for the late Richard J. Bissette and Anita Bechard Bissette will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9, at…
Obituary: Louise Diamond, 1944-2015, Burlington
Native of Washington, D.C., long- time resident of Vermont, graduate of Oberlin College (1966), the University of Michigan (1967) and Union Institute (1990), Louise Hantman…
Obituary: Michael Rowley, 1968-2015, Westford
Michael Rowley, 46, passed away May 9, 2015 at the Fletcher Allen Medical Center in Burlington, VT. He was born in Burlington, VT, to Leonard…
Obituary: George St. Gelais, 1920-2015, Hinesburg
George A St. Gelais, 94, of Hinesburg passed away Monday April 27, 2015 surrounded by his loving family. George was the first born of 14…
Breaking Down the Green Mountain Comedy Fest
Now entering its seventh year, the annual Green Mountain Comedy Festival is better than ever. But with 30 shows and more than 100 improv, sketch…
Asleep at the Deal: Democrats Dodge a Veto Fight
A sleepy Sen. Mark MacDonald (D-Orange) may have saved Vermont Democrats from civil war late Friday night. With a day remaining before their self-imposed adjournment…
Béla Bartók: Peasant Jewels by Sylvia Parker
In 1987, after she built her house in Berlin, Vt., pianist Sylvia Parker began hearing rumors about the neighborhood’s musical history. “People started asking me,…
Opinion: Against Policing
When Gov. Peter Shumlin appointed a former state representative to investigate allegations that Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell violated campaign finance laws — by, for…
A Giant Hummingbird (Mural) for Burlington
The tiny ruby-throated hummingbird is a familiar sight in Vermont, where it darts about flowers and backyard feeders every summer. But the hummingbird that has…
Training for Vermont Race of Endless Loops: Infinitus
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, what happens when you lope an infinite loop through the…
Vermont Coffee Company to Open On-Site Café
Soon Middlebury’s Exchange Street — once called the “craftiest street in Vermont” in these pages for its concentration of craft food and beverage businesses —…
Interview: Master Gardener Ron Krupp
Ron Krupp’s book The Woodchuck’s Guide to Gardening has been a fixture in local garden shops for more than a decade, its bright green binding…
Three Needs Resumes Brewing
When Three Needs Taproom & Brewery opened on College Street in Burlington in 1995, it was one of the few places in Vermont where patrons…
Fleming Museum Hires New Curator
On the heels of last week’s Seven Days cover story about director Janie Cohen, the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art has revealed that…
Vermont Gets Its First Local Corn Tortilla
Locavores can now add another item to their grocery list: tortillas. All Souls Tortilleria, a Waitsfield-based company, is giving Vermont its first homemade version of…
Taxi Trials: Are Burlington’s Standards Lower Than Uber’s?
One driver peddled drugs out of his cab. Another posed a lewd question to a 14-year-old girl. A third continued to pick up passengers after…
Endurance Athletes Flock to Goshen
“By the end of [a long race], it looks like a Michael Jackson ‘Thriller’ video,” says Andy Weinberg. The boyish 45-year-old hops up from his…
Mad Max: Fury Road
Moviemaking, you may have noticed, has become a franchise factory, a mill that churns out business plans and Marvel-verse flow charts and is powered by…
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Bloom-Time Festival at the Hort Farm [SIV399]
5/16/15: The 20th Annual Bloom-Time Festival and Open House was held at UVM’s Horticulture Research and Education Center in South Burlington on Saturday. Organized by…
Controversial Program Locks Down Drug-Addicted Female Inmates
Ed Adams paused outside a locked door inside the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility and waited for a guard to buzz him in. “I don’t usually…
WTF: What’s Up With the Metal-Wrapped Tree?
Vermonters have a special place in their hearts for trees. We tap them, hug them, build wheelchair-accessible houses in their canopies and periodically dance naked…
Letters to the Editor (5/20/15)
A Little History… The little building pictured in your article [WTF: “What’s With All the Tiny Houses in Burlington?” May 6] was actually Sharon’s Market….
Pitch Perfect 2
Mad Max: Fury Road is a sequel that boldly redefines its series. Pitch Perfect 2 is the kind of sequel we’re all more used to…
Scoreboard: Winners and Losers of the 2015 Legislative Session
Yes, we know governance isn’t a game. But politics sure is — and any politician who tells you otherwise is probably on the losing side….
Not Caleb, Good Childhood
(Self-released, digital download) There is a frantic immediacy about Good Childhood, the latest full-length recording from Burlington singer-songwriter Not Caleb. Not Caleb is, in fact,…
Bring the Heat: Summer Preview 2015
The first thing we think of when warm weather finally comes, besides shedding the layers? Eating creemees. Jumping into, paddling across or otherwise enjoying a…
Blahvocado, Suck Up All Your Guts
(Self-released, digital download) We need to come up with a new pseudonym for songwriter and recent New Jersey transplant Matt Pignatore. For one thing, it’s…
Soundbites: Kyle Gagnon Gets Weird
Kyle Gagnon is bombing. But it doesn’t seem to bother him. For one thing, he’s hardly the first comic to fall flat tonight. It’s a…
Seven Vermont Lakes That Aren’t Champlain
It’s easy to forget, when you live near the sparkling expanse of Lake Champlain, that Vermont has lots of other lakes. To be exact, 46…
Essex Community Players Get Their Shakespeare On
Rehearsals spanned eight weeks instead of the typical four to six. The cast of 17 is much larger than those of most contemporary plays. The…
I Want to Pee on My Girlfriend
Dear Athena, I want to pee on my girlfriend when we are getting ready to have sex, and I am afraid of asking her if…
Interview: Comedian Wyatt Cenac
Wyatt Cenac is perhaps best known for his time as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” which ended in 2012….
News Quirks (5/20/15)
Curses, Foiled Again Moments after robbing a tourist of her gold chain on a street in Miami Beach, Fla., the gunman returned to the scene…
Talking Art With Sumru Tekin
Conceptual art can be a hard sell, and Sumru Tekin’s sound and video installation “One Day” is no exception. It doesn’t help that the exhibition…
Free Will Astrology (5/20/15)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): James McNeil Whistler was an influential painter in the latter half of the 19th century. He advocated the “art for art’s…
Farm Share: Lambing Season at Bonnieview Farm
The milking parlor at Craftsbury Common’s Bonnieview Farm is teeming with children. Two interns from Sterling College — who arrived days ago to work for…
Michael’s on the Hill Owners Take Over Crop Bistro
After a week of closure, Stowe’s Crop Bistro & Brewery reopened last Thursday with Laura and Michael Kloeti, owners of Michael’s on the Hill in…
Seven Days Staffers’ Summer Dining Bucket List
Summer in Vermont is synonymous with deliciousness. It’s the season for farmers markets and fresh produce. And also creemees — everyone has their favorite soft-serve…
