The Winter Preview Issue 2016
Killington Hosts Women’s Alpine World Cup; Introducing the Fat Bike Ski; The Bumpy Science of Weather Forecasting. Also: NEK Voters on ‘Why Trump?’
Obituary: Arthur D. Wolk, MD, 1919-2016
Having lived the fullest of lives, characterized by selfless compassion and unbridled caring for his patients, family and friends, Dr. Arthur Wolk passed away on…
The Parmelee Post: Droves of Vermont Turkeys Immigrate to Canada
Grateful families meticulously planning their Thanksgiving dinners were aghast to find that the most crucial component of their feasts might be missing from the table…
Seven Days Hires Staff Writers, a Columnist and a Deputy News Editor
Seven Days is expanding its news team in anticipation of the upcoming legislative session. Political editor Paul Heintz is giving up the hard-hitting “Fair Game”…
Family-Friendly Fun at Stowe’s Adventure Center
I’ll never forget my first look, circa 1986, at Stowe Mountain Resort’s most famous feature: the fabled Front Four trails of National, Goat, Liftline and…
Tyler Daniel Bean, On Days Soon to Pass
(Skeletal Lightning/Tor Johnson Records, CD, LP, digital download) We are rapidly approaching winter’s dark onset. To sleep in on a Saturday morning in January is…
Brooke Scatchard Introduces the Fat Bike Ski
Brooke Scatchard unveils his pièce de résistance unceremoniously, with hardly a nonchalant wave. His fat-bike ski has been 15 years in the making; now it…
Drunk & In the Woods, Drunk & In the Woods
(Self-released, digital download) There was a time not that long ago when Burlington and the surrounding music scene was firmly encrusted in granola. Following the…
Looking for Love in the Digital Age: An Art Show
Christy Mitchell opened Burlington’s S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in 2009, and every November since 2012 she has mounted her own solo show. Sandwiched between the annual “Art…
The Winter Preview — 2016
If you’re feeling that our bubble just cracked, know this: Vermonters are good with duct tape. Seriously, life goes on and so do we. Meantime,…
Seeking Post-Election Solace in Cocktails
Wednesday, November 9, 6:30 a.m.: I woke up bleary-eyed after a long night spent watching election results. Though I’d missed Donald Trump’s victory speech, I’d…
A Collaborative Exhibit at JSC Tackles Racism
Earlier this week, Johnson State College sophomore Brittney Malik recited “Let America Be America Again,” a poem written by Langston Hughes in 1935. Her reading…
Mill River Brewery, Plus BBQ, to Open in St. Albans
St. Albans is slowly becoming a hub for beer and barbecue. This past September, 14th Star Brewing began supplementing its brews with an in-house barbecue…
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UVM Flash Mob at the Airport [SIV467]
11/5/16: Travelers passing through Burlington International Airport got a surprise last Saturday when a group of UVM students performed a synchronized dance routine around the…
After 20 Years, the Dillinger Escape Plan Make Their Getaway
It’s rare that we’re given the opportunity to end something — a relationship, a job, an artistic pursuit — in the way it deserves. Sometimes…
Meet the Man on the Sleigh — No, Not Santa
Pat Palmer isn’t an especially chatty fellow, not at first, anyway. Like many native Vermonters of his generation — the 69-year-old grew up on a…
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Inspires Vermont Artist’s Book
On First Night in Montpelier some 20 years ago, local artist Delia Bell Robinson made a friend who would become one of her most compelling…
The Inexact Science of Weather Forecasting
When Mike Wing predicts seasonal snowfall amounts, he pays no attention to the North Atlantic Oscillation, the likelihood of a weak La Niña, or the…
Art Review: ‘Laetitia Soulier: The Fractal Architectures,’ Hood Downtown
Laetitia Soulier’s richly detailed color photographs inaugurate the Dartmouth College Hood Museum of Art’s new gallery space, the Hood Downtown, on Main Street in Hanover,…
Should I Stop My Daughter From Seeing an Older Man?
Dear Athena, I was wondering what your stance is on a 16-year-old girl and 23-year-old guy dating. Recently I found out from my daughter’s friend…
Free Will Astrology (11/16/16)
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Does the word “revolution” have any useful meaning? Or has it been invoked by so many fanatics with such melodramatic agendas…
Won Way: Questions and Answers About Vermont’s Gubernatorial Election
Perhaps the only thing worse than modern campaign reporting is postelection analysis. For the past week, the same sages who misread the electorate throughout the…
Soundbites: The Soundbites and the Fury
I’ll be honest: It feels a little — OK, a lot — disingenuous to go about business as usual this week. Like I imagine many…
Women’s Alpine World Cup Skis Into Killington
Killington is, hands down, Vermont’s rowdiest ski town. But it’s about to get its wool socks knocked off when the women’s alpine skiing World Cup…
Letters to the Editor (11/16/16)
Better With Bernie [Re Off Message: “Sanders Breaks His Silence on Trump’s Election,” November 9]: I had hoped for “revolutionary” change as much as white,…
Why Many Northeast Kingdom Voters Chose Trump
The regulars in the tiny dining room attached to Bob’s Quick Stop in Irasburg said that Bernard Peters was the best person to explain how…
Growing Pains: Burlington Progressives Clash Over Development
Ted Wimpey left Athens, Ga., for Burlington, Vt., in the late 1980s because the city’s socialist mayor, Bernie Sanders, intrigued him. He quickly fell in…
Old Hands or ‘Fresh Eyes’? Building a Scott Administration, Job by Job
Last Thursday, governor-elect Phil Scott and Gov. Peter Shumlin convened for a half-hour, all-this-will-soon-be-yours meeting. Asked afterward for one piece of advice the departing governor…
Peter and the Farm
This most unusual movie opens with a drive down a road in Springfield, Vt. The frame is filled with majestic mountains and foliage fit for…
Lone Wolf
“Ma. Yeah, it’s Caleb. You won’t believe it — they put a no-trespass order on me, and the hospital security guards made me leave. I…
Pro Tips on Pulling Off Thanksgiving Dinner
My worst Christmas was the one when I spent hours painstakingly crafting a chestnut, mascarpone and truffle pasta filling from a recipe in The French…
Updates on Ski Season Eats
In Japan, skiers warm their bellies at ramen trucks and stands that set up shop slope-side and in resort parking lots. Here in Vermont, Momo…
