Owner of Minor’s Country Store provided for his family, friends and community
Calais man was a lifelong skier, teacher and gardener
Updated December 28, 2020. New England Culinary Institute has announced that it will discontinue all credit-bearing programs, effectively closing the 40-year-old Montpelier-based culinary school after…
Restoration architect helped shape towns and villages across Vermont
Québec-born woman was a force and lived for her children
Dear Reverend, I’ve got the hots for Santa Claus, and I don’t understand why. I really want to get it on with my husband while…
What happens as we reach closer to the veil and cross over? This question has tortured poets, philosophers and spiritual seekers for millennia. And while…
Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable…
We will always be flatlanders. I get that. But nevertheless, we’d like to join your Vermont. My wife and I moved to Middlebury this summer,…
Here we are, on the precipice of a New Year’s Eve like none we’ve ever experienced. I know I’m getting ahead of myself a smidge,…
Smoking Gun? [Re “Weinberger Knew of Burlington Police Chief’s Anonymous Twitter Account,” December 15]: There is one way to get to the bottom of the…
(Self released, digital) I love when a record has a big mood. And if the two overriding themes driving that mood are outer space and…
(Self-released, digital) In 2017, music critic Ann Powers published an essay introducing “Turning the Tables,” an NPR series honoring influential women in American popular music….
Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I caught up with playwright and TV writer Radha…
In March, voters in Burlington will consider a ballot measure that would set up a powerful police oversight board with the authority to directly punish…
The outgoing president has called the press the “enemy of the people.” So naturally that became the name of the Seven Days house band —…
The 19-year-old woman whose poetry I’ve been reading alternately rages with political protest and coos with gender-bending sensuality and self-discovery. On the first page of…
Vermont’s new law establishing a retail marijuana market does too little to recruit people of color to the legal cannabis industry, racial justice advocates say….
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The birds known as red knots breed every year in the Arctic regions. Then they fly south — way south —…
If ever there were a year that called for a stiff drink, it would be 2020. Make it a double for John Dubie, owner of…
Stephen Cramer’s affinity for hot sauce goes back to his years in graduate school. The award-winning poet and senior lecturer in the University of Vermont…
Damon Brink believed he had found a path to spiritual fulfillment, self-awareness and financial success. Days into his initial training with a mysterious group outside…
The dozens of books that arrive at the Seven Days offices over the course of a year span a wide range of genres, topics and…
Melissa Squires knows a thing or two about tough times during the holidays. Back in December 2012, the Manchester mom of three learned her father…
At first, novelist Howard Norman was simply a devoted customer of Bohemian Bakery, first at its original location close to his home in Calais and…
Nothing beats curling up with a good book somewhere cozy in the winter. That should be especially true this winter as we collectively hunker down…
Cookbooks, at their simplest, are collections of pages filled with ingredients and instructions. But if we return to them often enough, they transform from prescriptive…
Chefs rarely follow recipes, but many of them find plenty to savor in cookbooks, nonetheless. They read for inspiration, education, context and community. They earmark…
