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Lab-Grown Meat Could Help Feed a Climate-Changed World. Newly Launched Burlington Bio Hopes to Take a Bite.
In a University of Vermont lab crammed with equipment, Rachael Floreani and Irfan Tahir are working to create the food that might someday feed a…
Book Review: ‘Text Appeal,’ Amber Roberts
How would you like texting to be your job? What if it meant you had to keep a legal pad full of synonyms for the…
What Are the Pros and Cons of Digital Dildos?
Dear Reverend, My partner travels for work a lot, and we spend more time apart than I would like. I’ve heard about sex toys that…
Champlain College Students Go Full ‘Psycho’ With the VSO
Three college students hovered over a laptop, mumbling to each other, while their instructor dimmed the lights in an office at Champlain College’s Emergent Media…
Free Will Astrology (10/18/23)
LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): I’m not enamored of Shakespeare’s work. Though I enjoy his creative use of language, his worldview isn’t appealing or interesting. The…
Nothing’s Fair in Love or Business in Chloe Domont’s Tense Drama ‘Fair Play’
I’ll be honest: I don’t really get Taylor Swift. I mean, her songs are fine, but I don’t get her. So, rather than my irrelevant…
Letters to the Editor (10/18/23)
Hold My Beer Six months ago, trans TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney was featured in a social promotion for Bud Light. The backlash was swift, contributing…
Now Playing in Theaters: October 18-24
In addition to Killers of the Flower Moon, here’s what is playing in Northern and Central Vermont movie theaters this week. Listings include new movies, vintage films and a directory of open theaters.
Short on Reporters, a Vermont Newspaper Turns to AI
For as long as he has owned the Randolph-based White River Valley Herald, editor and publisher Tim Calabro has had trouble getting reporters to cover…
May Day’s New Brunch Has Doughnuts, Breakfast Wine and Room for a Crowd
In a lifetime of brunches, I have spent more time waiting than I have eating. Some of that is the nature of a weekend morning…
Bird, a ‘Dockless’ Bike-Share Program, Has Landed in the Burlington Area
Anyone who’s visited the Burlington area since June has seen them: a fleet of seemingly free-range bright blue bikes. Frequently, they’re taken for a spin…
Low Bar to Open in Vergennes
When City Limits Night Club closed in June, it left a late-night dive-bar hole in Vergennes. Later this month, Antidote and Hired Hand Brewing owners…
Soundbites: 99 Neighbors Move Out
Being in a band is weird. You get together with some other musicians and, based on a shared taste in music, form a collective. Maybe…
A Randolph Lab Offers Futuristic Manufacturing Solutions for Local Businesses
Benchmark Space Systems, a Burlington company that makes satellite propulsion equipment, had a rocket engine with a problem last winter. The coffee cup-size engine, which…
Waterbury’s Blackback Pub Sold to General Manager-Chef Team
After almost a decade as owners of Blackback Pub in Waterbury, married couple Lynn Mason and Dave Juenker have sold the bar and restaurant to…
Crumbs: ArtsRiot Space for Lease; Jones the Boy Closes Bristol Retail Bakery; ‘Seven Days’ Makes Late-Night TV
The building at 400 Pine Street in Burlington that hosted the ArtsRiot restaurant and entertainment venue is for lease again. James Unsworth of the Howard…
On the Beat: Rick Norcross’s New Album, the Burlington Electronic Department Gets Spooky
After 60 years of writing and performing his own brand of country and folk music, Rick Norcross is winding down a glittering career. The singer-songwriter…
Remi Russin, ‘A Second Pass’
(Self-released, digital) About a year ago, I happened to be deejaying on the same bill at a local show as singer-songwriter Remi Russin. The headliner…
Montréal Museum of Fine Art Revisits the Work of Midcentury Art Star Marisol
There’s a party going on in Montréal where celebrities, hipsters and regular folks are brushing elbows with stuffed dolls, giant babies and menacing sea creatures….
Another Sexless Weekend, ‘Ice Cream Window & the Dynamic Flavors’
(Self-released, CD, digital) Trying to pin down where in the hell Another Sexless Weekend are coming from can be exhausting work. The Burlington-based “band” (more…
From the Publisher: Technically Speaking
Fifteen years ago, shortly after the launch of the iPhone, Seven Days helped plan the first Vermont Tech Jam. It was a response and solution…
Seven Vermont Tech Startups Worth Watching
Vermont will probably never rival Silicon Valley, Austin or Boston as a tech hub; its woodsy reputation is too deeply ingrained. But as a setting…
A Middlebury College Exhibition Overlays Histories of Photography and the Near East
At the Middlebury College Museum of Art, “The Light of the Levant: Early Photography and the Late Ottoman Empire” depicts a game-changing convergence of time,…
A Burlington Game Developer Hopes to Hit It Big With ‘Fitment’
Burlington resident Samara Fantie, 30, grew up gaming. She’s partial to action-adventure games such as Doom and Metal Gear Solid. As the cofounder and chief…
UVM Philosophy Professor Randall Harp on the Moral Dilemmas of AI
Each day, artificial intelligence gets a little better at impersonating us. It can express fears and hopes, write a novel about cats in the style…
Theater Review: ‘Selling Kabul,’ Northern Stage
Playwright Sylvia Khoury’s war story takes place in an apartment. It’s a place of hiding, not battle, but the merciless world outside controls everyone within….
The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, October 18-24
The days are getting shorter, but there’s no shortage of ways for Vermonters to connect, learn and have a good time. We’ve compiled seven must-do events, including two appearances in Middlebury by internationally acclaimed Rapa Nui (Easter Island) concert pianist Mahani Teave.
Obituary: John Moroney, 1928-2023
Korean War veteran was an expert in aircraft applications and earned several patents
Obituary: Alvaro Richard Boera, 1925-2023
Lyndon’s 1989 Citizen-of-the-Year once had a private meeting with Albert Einstein
In Memoriam: Kenneth Hood, 1933-2023
A celebration of life will be held on October 22, 2023, at the Silver Pavilion at the University of Vermont Alumni House, 61 Summit St.,…
Former Vermont Poet Laureate and Nobel Prize Winner Louise Glück Dies at 80
Former Vermont poet laureate Louise Glück, whose gift for suffusing the mundane with the sublime won her virtually every honor available to a writer in…
Phantom Theater Finds New Winter Venue in Waitsfield
Since its inception in 1985, Warren-based Phantom Theater has been a summer-only staple in the Mad River Valley, as fleeting and elusive as its name…
Obituary: Allyson Adele Ward, 1978-2023
Former lifeguard and swimming coach was chosen to participate in the Disney College Program
Obituary: Marlene Wallace, 1939-2023
Former state archivist will be remembered as a generous, intelligent and kind-hearted soul
In Memoriam: Donna Newhall Larrow
A remembrance service for Donna Newhall Larrow, who died on October 1, 2023 will be held on Saturday, November 4, at 2:00pm at the Faith…
Obituary: Glenn Stoops, 1941-2023
A major bike accident inspired avid cyclist to become a blood donor throughout the rest of his life
Obituary: Roger McLaughlin, 1939-2023
Talented builder’s work ethic and integrity were impetus for the recently established Building Vermont Award at Mount Mansfield Union High School






