The Summer Preview Issue 2017
Diving for History at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum; Climbing and Floating at Vermont’s Newest State Park; Three Theme Picnics and Where to Eat Them
The Parmelee Post: Plotting Return to Sea, Technology Park Whales Invest Heavily in Fossil Fuels
The stars of one of Vermont’s most popular roadside attractions have taken the unusual step of reinvesting their entire net worth into fossil fuel companies….
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Champlain Voices Record Project [SIV490]
5/12/17: The fourth and fifth graders at Champlain Elementary School in Burlington have been busy the past five months making a limited-edition record. This project…
Sweet Alchemy Bakery and Café Comes to Essex Junction
For three years, Bhavatarini Carr has been selling baked goods made in her Burlington kitchen under the name Four Sisters Bakery. This month she’ll soft-open…
Bridal Brawls: The Old Lantern Fights Its Neighbors Over Noise
Vermont is a popular place to get married, but not all of the people who live next to its rural wedding venues are celebrating. The…
Seven Laws-to-Be That Could Affect Your Life
When Vermont’s 2017 legislative session ends — assuming it ever does — readers are sure to know the legal status of a certain mind-altering substance,…
Album Review: The Mangroves, ‘The Grand Scheme EP’
(Self-released, digital download) The Mangroves are an instrumental quartet from Lyndonville. They came together as students of Lyndon State College’s innovative Music Business and Industry…
Exploring Vermont’s New State Park: Taconic Mountains Ramble
Word to the wise: If you check out Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park, don’t wear Chuck Taylors. This is a lesson I learned the hard…
Three Theme Picnics and Where to Eat Them
You’re driving a wooded byway abutting a state forest, keeping one eye on the road while the other looks out for wildflowers, waterfalls trickling down…
Diving Into History at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
As summer approaches, Vermonters invariably turn their eyes toward the sparkling waters of Lake Champlain. While most people engage in aquatic recreation on or near…
Locked In: Contract Guarantees Inmates Get Sent Out of Vermont
Vermont’s long-standing goal to reduce its reliance on out-of-state prisons has never seemed more attainable. From 2014 to present, the number of inmates the state…
Album Review: Joey Agresta, ‘Let’s Not Talk About Music’
(Wharf Cat Records, CD, digital download, vinyl) Joey Agresta doesn’t want to talk about music; he wants to talk about love. Real, beaming, smiling, universal…
Art Review: Susan Calza, Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop
“As humans, we’re so damn awkward,” says Susan Calza, “[but] we’ve got this incredible radiance, too.” In a recent phone interview, the Montpelier artist shared…
IAA Portrait Project Features Diverse Families
Last week, visitors to North End Studios in Burlington found themselves gazing at an unusually engaging art exhibition. From Howard Center employees in a training…
Vermont Stage to Produce ‘Fun Home’ Musical
Tucked into a recent program for The Call at Vermont Stage was an announcement for the 2017/18 season, and reading it gave some theatergoers a…
Social Running Groups Pick Up the Pace
Waiting for the light to turn green at the corner of Flynn Avenue and Pine Street, I had my first sighting: about 10 of the…
Movie Review: ‘Colossal’ Has a Monster Dose of Originality
A reviewer can go years without encountering a genuinely original, one-of-a-kind film. I figured The Red Turtle would have to hold me for the foreseeable…
Soundbites: And the Winner Is…
Last week, numerous Vermont-based bands, artists and DJs aggressively campaigned via social media to get on the bill at this year’s Grand Point North music…
Movie Review: ‘Snatched’ Is Funnier When It’s About Nothing
I guess we should be thankful to Hollywood for figuring out that women can enjoy R-rated comedies, too. Without its bracing moments of rudeness, lewdness…
Rookie Mistakes: Vermont’s Three New Leaders Collide
Heading into the 2017 legislative session, Vermonters knew to expect a triumvirate of fresh-faced leaders at the Statehouse: a new governor, Senate president pro tempore…
Summer Preview — 2017
After a chilly, just-kidding spring, we’re ready for sunny days. And we’ve got ideas on how to spend them. It’s a short season, after all,…
Letters to the Editor (5/17/17)
Pain Policy We are all very aware of the opioid epidemic in Vermont and across the country. But as you noted in [“Do No Harm:…
Architect-Sailor Marcel Designs a Dreamboat Sailing Center
If the Queen City has a crown, it might be the public-minded waterfront. And one of its brightly shining gems is the Community Sailing Center….
Soulfully Good Serving Breakfast and Lunch in Woodstock
Five weeks ago, Vicki Ferentinos and Shannon Parker-Ferentinos moved from New York City to Vermont. Last weekend, the couple began serving breakfast and lunch at…
It’s (Almost) Summer in Vermont, and That Means Music Festivals Galore
We’re on the cusp of a colossal outbreak — a pandemic surge of infectious revelry I like to call “festival fever.” And Vermont is patient…
Hackie: Driving to Bombay
“Apparently, an early landowner named the town in tribute to his wife, who grew up in Bombay, India. That’s the story, anyway.” I was conversing…
Going, Going, Gone: A Crowd Turns Out to Buy Vermont’s Used Stuff
A large crowd gathered in a Berlin parking lot last Saturday to watch two men compete for a coin-fed washing machine. It was a surprise…
Free Will Astrology (5/17/17)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My pregnant friend Myrna is determined to avoid giving birth via Caesarean section. She believes that the best way for her…
Burlington’s Lost Shul Mural Inspires a New Play
Two years ago, members of Burlington’s Jewish community finally unveiled the newly restored Lost Shul Mural, a distinctive work of folk art that was painted…
Ask Athena: I’ve Fallen in Love With My Best Friend
Dear Athena, I recently fell in love with my best friend. The only problem is that he’s in a partnership with another woman (also my…
Eat This Week, May 17 to 23, 2017: All About the Beer
Celebrate American Craft Beer Week with tours and pours hosted by the 40-odd brewer-members of the Vermont Brewers Association. Put some cheese in your steez…
The Great Northern Opens in Burlington
The new sign at 716 Pine Street in Burlington’s South End looks like the marker for a National Forest: dark brown wood, pine tree and…
Vermont Growers Reinterpret the Farm Store
It’s a classic Vermont scene: You’re cruising along a back road through some rural hamlet when you happen upon a farmhouse, an old red barn or a little roadside shack with the words “Farm Stand” painted on the side. You’ve got a few dollars in your wallet, so you pull over. After all, these are…
