The Tech Issue 2017
Ambition and Algorithms at Localvore; Uber’s Speedy Rise in Burlington; Vermont’s Hotbed of Health Tech; Plugging Into Soundtoys
Seriously: The Technological Sage; Toys for Tones
In this episode, Bryan asks a customer service rep from the future about tech in Vermont and invites record producer Dr. Horace Wallace to demonstrate a few Soundtoys plug-ins.
The Parmelee Post: Avid Locavore Begins Preparing List of Justifications for Shopping at Target
Like most Vermonters, Vera Lokalai remembers exactly where she was the moment she found out that Target was planning to open a store in South…
Memoriam: Stephen Andersen
1960-2016 My Soulmate, My Husband, My Friend I love you in a place where there’s no space or time I love you for my life,…
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Myra Flynn’s Wedding Concert [SIV508]
10/13/17: Vermont raised singer, songwriter Myra Flynn had a busy weekend. Friday night she hosted a Wedding Concert at Shelburne Vineyard while also releasing her…
Letters to the Editor (10/18/17)
Who’s Accountable? The City of Burlington should use the collective impact approach to address issues associated with mentally ill homeless people in downtown Burlington [“Burlington…
Movie Review: Time-Loop Horror Comedy ‘Happy Death Day’ Gives Viewers Déjà Vu
This horror-comedy from director Christopher Landon (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) has a few good laughs, but the best one is at its own…
Highway to Hardwick: Driver Leads Vermont Cops on Slow-Speed Chase
A driver led cops on a slow-speed chase over the weekend that spanned 59 miles, according to Vermont State Police. It began around 11:30 p.m….
New Deal: Burlington-Based Localvore Aims to Be the Anti-Yelp
The creators of Localvore Today started their company five years ago with a simple goal: become a local version of deal-of-the-day services like Groupon. From…
Album Review: Sleeping In, ‘let you in’
(Self-released, digital download) A few weeks ago, I was flipping through one of those books that go directly from the new-release rack to the bargain…
Burlington’s Soundtoys Corners the Creative Audio Market
What do Beyoncé, Adele, Clean Bandit, Twenty One Pilots, Glass Animals and Yeasayer all have in common? Aside from being leaders in cutting-edge pop, R&B…
Electric Vehicles Are All the Buzz in Vermont
Todd Lockwood’s Tesla sailed smoothly and soundlessly, gliding like a ghost along a winding South Burlington back road. The sleek white all-electric sedan crested a…
Uber Has Sped to the Top of Burlington’s Ride-for-Hire Heap
Eric Bingham guided his Toyota Prius through Burlington’s New North End Monday morning and explained how he launched a second career. The engineer took a…
Vermont Reads Author Jacqueline Woodson on ‘Brown Girl Dreaming’
Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming is the 2017 pick for Vermont Reads, a program of the Vermont Humanities Council now in its 15th year. The…
Cash In: Sanders Leads Pack in Fundraising
Thinking about running against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2018? If so, consider this. According to his latest campaign finance report, submitted to the Federal…
Officials Explore Use of Secure Blockchain Technology
Say you go to your town’s general store and buy some Vermont maple syrup. You slide the cash across the counter and take your syrup,…
Stolen Glory: Trolls Doctor Vermont Photog’s Shot of Veteran
In June 2016, Burlington photographer Monica Donovan was hired to take photos of a Spartan Race, one of those epic outdoor endurance contests for the…
Album Review: My Mother’s Moustache, ‘Down From the Door’
(Self-released, CD, digital download) Joe Sabourin, the front man, guitarist and singer-songwriter of the eclectic folk-rock band My Mother’s Moustache, is a recent Burlington transplant….
How Vermont Became a Hotbed for Health Tech Companies
When Matt Berg arrived last week for his first day of membership in the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, he assumed that the co-working space…
The Tech Issue — 2017
George W. Bush was president on Wednesday, January 23, 2008, the day Seven Days published its first Tech Biz Issue. It was timed to coincide…
Art Review: Molly Bosley and Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, SPA
Molly Bosley and Athena Petra Tasiopoulos resurrect old materials and archaic techniques to bring life to their respective work in two exhibits at Studio Place…
Ask Athena: Am I Breaking Too Many Hearts Looking for ‘the One’?
Dear Athena Approaching 30, I feel no urgency to settle down. But I really want a long-term relationship that stimulates me in every way and…
Hackie: Gumshoe
When Ted Wilkerson called me to book a ride, I sensed he was a man with a big presence; I could feel his energy coming…
Vermont International Film Fest Brings Issues to the Screen
Politically and environmentally speaking, 2016 and 2017 have been real doozies. Anyone desperate for some sort of artful meditation on the world’s sundry crises can…
Theater Review: ‘Sense & Sensibility,’ Lost Nation Theater
Jane Austen supplies the characters, playwright Kate Hamill gooses the plot with modern irony, and Lost Nation Theater hands 12 actors lush Regency costumes to…
Eat This Week, October 18 to 24, 2017: Something’s Fishy
Drink beer from Foam Brewers, listen to tunes from Bardela and sample chowders made exclusively with Vermont seafood. Then watch judges choose their favorites and…
A Coding Academy Prepares to Launch in Burlington
Baby-faced Ben Boas and Alex Horner, both 25, get carded at bars, and Horner admits that he grew his slim mustache in part to look…
Longtime Locavore Chef Jack Pickett Keeps It Real
On a hot afternoon in late September, guests at von Trapp Brewing Bierhall Restaurant drank refreshing lagers at outdoor tables with mountain views. Inside, they…
Fifty Years, 13,450 Students and 5,000 Interviews: UVM’s Garrison Nelson Calls It a Career
When former Vermont governor Howard Dean ran for president in 2004, national media turned to University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson for insight….
Soundbites: Her, Too; Security Deposit
Following the recent, extensive media coverage of the allegations of sexual assault, harassment and discrimination leveled at film producer and all-around garbage person Harvey Weinstein…
Quick Lit Book Review: ‘The Names of Dead Girls’ by Eric Rickstad
With his 2014 best seller The Silent Girls, Bennington County’s Eric Rickstad established himself as an author of rural mystery-thrillers that are anything but cozy….
Movie Review: Swedish Film ‘The Square’ Brilliantly Dissects Modern Mores
Ruben Östlund’s latest suggests the Swedish writer-director’s gifts include an ability to see the future. It premiered at the Cannes festival this May and includes…
‘Dawson City’ Doc Tells Bizarre Story of Lost Films
The story would sound far-fetched if a Hollywood screenwriter devised it: In 1978, a construction crew excavating in the Yukon town of Dawson City uncovered…
Free Will Astrology (10/18/17)
LIBRA: (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) A woman I know, Caeli La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn. She journeyed across country and visited a…
Restaurant Review: Diners Beat a Path to Honey Road in Burlington
Dukkah. Freekeh. Markouk. Urfa. The words sound singsongy when said aloud, like a child’s counting rhyme in a language one doesn’t speak. All can be…
Shelburne’s Village Wine and Coffee to Expand
Village Wine and Coffee will more than double in size when owner Kevin Clayton expands into the space adjoining the café at 5288 Shelburne Road…
Shacksbury Cider Opens Tasting Room, Collaborates With Momofuku
“It feels like Shacksbury is kind of having a moment,” said Alex Consalvo, director of sales and marketing at the Vermont cidery. On October 28,…
Roving Bakery the Nomadic Oven Is For Sale
When she was 22, three months after finishing a degree at the University of Vermont, Meg Brickner bought herself a baking business. Jen Rose Smith…
