The Winter Reading Issue 2014
Winter Reading Issue: Fiction, Small Publishers Talk Business, An Artist’s Book of Hauntings
Obituary: Marie Mae (Bechard) Lamothe
Mrs. Marie Mae (Bechard) Lamothe of Swanton, Vermont, went to be with her Lord, Sunday, December 21, 2014 at the University of Vermont Medical Center…
Obituary: Lionel Joseph “LJ” Palardy, 1941-2014, Winooski
Lionel Joseph “LJ” Palardy, 73, of Winooski, passed away on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, in the Vermont Respite House in Williston, after a nine-year campaign…
Obituary: Mary Lynn Rupe,
Mary Lynn Rupe is with us now only in our hearts, our memories and in each of the works of art she created over the…
Obituary: Yvette Theresa Ouimet
Mrs. Yvette Theresa Ouimet, age 89 years, a longtime Swanton educator died Friday morning December 19, 2014, in the Franklin County Rehab Center. Born in…
Obituary: Gary Arnold Ladieu
Gary Arnold Ladieu, age 59 years, a longtime resident of Fourth Street in Swanton Village died Thursday morning, December 18, 2014, in the University of…
Obituary: Richard P. “Dick” Reynolds
Richard P. “Dick” Reynolds, age 68 years, died Monday evening December 15, 2014, at his Hog Island residence with loving family at his side. Born…
Duane Carleton, A Girl Like That
(Higher Road Records, CD, digital download) Rutland County rocker Duane Carleton has been cranking out all manner of original electric and acoustic music since the…
Paying Homage to Unsung Heroes of the Local Music Scene
When it comes to local rocking, musicians tend to get the most acclaim, both from fans and the media. And that makes sense. They’re the…
Book review: Nothing Saved Us: Poems of the Korean War by Tamra J. Higgins
OK, sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. And in the case of Nothing Saved Us: Poems of the Korean War by Tamra…
Work: Font Designer Alec Julien
Name: Alec Julien Town: Burlington Job: Font Designer Alec Julien reads more closely than most people. It’s not that the Burlington graphic designer necessarily has…
A Worldly Dining Experience at Woodstock’s Lincoln Inn
The following story requires a disclaimer: The dishes described therein will probably never exist again. I ate them and they are gone. Chef Jevgenija Saromova…
Eyewitness: Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr.
Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr. is known in Vermont as a painter whose vernacular works often feature old houses. It’s natural for artists to paint what…
Wassailing With Vermont Druids
As a reporter approaches Dreamland, the forest thickens. The boughs of tall softwoods are heavy with snow and ice from the week’s winter storms; the…
LocalStore: Old Gold
What party first brought you to Old Gold? Back in my not-so-distant college days, friends and I would trek to the vintage-and-costume mainstay in downtown…
Arvad’s Reopens; 14th Star Brewing Releases Cans; Bento Offers Music
After a week of closure for renovations, Arvad’s Grill and Pub reopened in Waterbury with a fresh new look — and changes to the menu….
FairPoint Customers Suffer Through Strike, Outages
“Enough is enough.” That was Gov. Peter Shumlin’s message in a December 12 letter to FairPoint Communications CEO Paul Sunu. The governor urged the telecommunications…
Quick Lit: The Silent Girls by Eric Rickstad
In 2000, Viking Penguin put out Eric Rickstad’s debut novel, Reap, which probably ranks as the least Rockwellian coming-of-age tale ever set in Vermont. While…
Letters to the Editor (12/17/14)
Another Thing About Winooski I wanted to submit a correction to the Winooski police story [“Small City, Big Divide: Winooski Cops Seek Community Bonds,” December…
Librarians Are Digitizing Vermont’s Past
Something odd took place one February day in 1886 in what would come to be called the Northeast Kingdom. The St. Johnsbury Caledonian, the newspaper…
Shelagh Shapiro Talks About Her New Book and Radio Show
When Phish announced their imminent breakup in 2004, Shelagh Connor Shapiro found a novel-worthy idea. The short-story author and MFA graduate from Vermont College of…
Fiction: The Hit Deer
Kurt was driving the kids back to Mona’s, Sarah Vaughan crooning on the radio, Stip strapped into his booster seat reading Captain Underpants, Kate in…
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Exodus: Gods and Kings has four credited screenwriters, too many visual effects technicians for me to count, and actors who speak in at least 20…
Quick Lit: Proof Positive by Archer Mayor
Benjamin Kendall, a Vietnam vet with PTSD and a severe hoarding disorder, is found dead in his home, crushed by a mountain of papers. But…
Soundbites: Of (More) Holiday Shows and Robotic Surf
Mele Kalikimaka, music fans! Judging from ye olde “Kiss Saves Santa” advent calendar here in the Seven Days fortress of rockitude — OK, fine, my…
Montpelier’s Center for Arts and Learning Buys a Building
They say good things come to those who wait. We’d add that good things are more likely to materialize if you work your tail off….
Free Will Astrology (12/17/14)
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Too much happiness can make you unhappy,” reported journalist Marta Zaraska in the Washington Post. Citing research by psychologists, she concluded…
Three Small Vermont Publishers Talk Business
So you’ve written a book. You’ve polished it within an inch of its life. Maybe you’ve already submitted it to every possible New York agent…
News Quirks (12/17/14)
We Feel Your Pain Law school students at Harvard, Columbia and Georgetown universities demanded that their schools postpone final exams because they were traumatized by…
Burlington Progs Put Mall Man Through the Paces
Last month, the new owner of the Burlington Town Center unveiled a $200 million plan to redevelop his property. What’s more, Don Sinex promised to…
WTF: Questions From the Road
We get lots of questions from readers for this column, which is awesome. You spot a local mystery; we try to figure it out. But…
Police Wear Cameras to Record — and Avoid — Trouble
In early November, a video that quickly went viral showed Burlington police officers using force against a seemingly defenseless man lying in the middle of…
I Think I Might Be Masturbating Too Much
Dear Athena, I think I might be masturbating too much. My girlfriend is starting to stress about it. We were talking recently, and she asked…
Left Behind: Will Elizabeth Warren Eclipse Bernie Sanders?
Four years ago last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) captivated progressives with an eight-and-a-half-hour floor speech opposing the extension of Bush-era tax breaks for the…
Boomslang, Boomslang
(State & Main Records, CD, digital download) Hip-hop is one of the most relentlessly prolific genres in existence today. Success is often defined by an…
Butch & Babe’s Opens in Burlington
Burlington’s Old North End will welcome its long-awaited neighborhood pub, Butch + Babe’s, on January 2. Owner Kortnee Bush describes her plan for the 45-seat…
Waterworks Food + Drink Opens in Winooski
In 1912, the American Woolen Company’s fourth Winooski factory opened in the building now known as the Champlain Mill. France, Germany, Poland and Lebanon were…
