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Shelburne Museum Expands Winter Lights Festival
The days are getting shorter, but Shelburne Museum's annual holiday lights spectacular is getting longer — and brighter. Winter Lights extends its run this year, presenting new installations alongside...
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10 Vermont Holiday Markets You Can't Miss in 2024
State of the Arts Central Vermont shoppers flock to Randolph's long-running Artisan Holiday Market, a one-stop gift shop. In a room bedecked with paper snowflakes and lace, more than 60 local artists...
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2024 Vermont Holiday Gift Guide
At the end of a divisive and draining election year, what the world needs now is love, sweet love. Our annual Gift Guide is here to help spread it. We made a list and checked it twice to ensure that...
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Vermont Holiday Shows Yule Be Glad You Caught This Season
'Twas three weeks before Christmas, and all through Vermont We were so tired of the same Christmas schlock. From Griswolds to Grinches to another Christmas Carol, TV options were stale as a tin popcorn...
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Noah Kahan Look-Alike Contest at UVM Draws a Crowd
You could be forgiven for thinking the bearded man in the photo to the right is Noah Kahan. After all, even AI can't tell them apart. Last Thursday, the University of Vermont Program Board held a...
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VTrans' Highway Signs Make the Season Bright — and Safe
'Tis the season for shopping and sing-alongs, holiday parties and heavy tipplers — and, on the highway, slick roads, lane closures and lost composure. The Vermont Agency of Transportation knows you...
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Burlington Crowns Bernie Sanders Look-Alike Contest Winner
When John Bronstein heard about a Bernie Sanders look-alike contest happening in Burlington, the 84-year-old Putney resident with white, receding hair and glasses had a feeling it could be his moment...
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Secondhand Arts and Crafts Supply Store Opens in Burlington
Used cars have long been offered for sale. Ditto secondhand clothes, shoes, books and even housewares. But art supplies? Avid crafter and thrifter Arianna Soloway read an article about secondhand arts...
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Photo Essay: Looking Back at 2024 in Vermont
This year we thought we'd give ourselves — and you, our dear, tired readers — a holiday break and fill a few pages of the paper with photos recapping the past 12 months. We soon found that playing...
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Afghan Muralists the ArtLords Leave Their Mark on Vermont
Negina Azimi painted her first mural as a member of ArtLords of Afghanistan in March 2017. It was Nowruz, the Persian New Year, a celebration of spring and new beginnings. The 18-year-old had just...
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Young Vermonters Are Drinking Less Alcohol
On a Saturday in December, the pop-up bar in Montpelier's North Branch Café was packed to the walls. Twentysomethings sipped drinks laden with fancy herbs in the dimly lit space. On a makeshift stage,...
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Travel Guide: Three to Six Hours in Brattleboro, Vermont
Named after a brigadier general who likely never visited, Brattleboro is a town whose history offers few clues that it would become the vibrant cultural hub it is today. Originally called Wantastegok...
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Humane Society of Chittenden County Helps 'Dump Your Ex'
For some, Valentine's Day is a celebration of the many splendors of romantic love, filled with red roses, chocolate hearts and sweet nothings whispered over wine before a roaring fire. ("No, you're...
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The Vermont Marble Museum Has Closed
The Vermont Marble Museum in Proctor, one of Vermont’s first tourist attractions, quietly closed last fall after nearly 90 years in operation. The museum, housed inside what was once the Vermont...
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A Cannabis-Themed Magic Act Will Play Tricks on Your Mind
The concept sounds almost too easy: A magician puts on a cannabis-themed magic show in which he performs tricks with a lighter, blows smoke in creative ways and makes a jar of weed disappear into thin...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, SistaStrings Headline the Black Experience
When consultant Emiliano Void and poet Rajnii Eddins met in a Burlington coffee shop in 2021 to discuss how to create a flagship Black History Month celebration for Vermont, they dreamt big. "As in,...
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Speaking Volumes Opens Third Store in Downtown Randolph
Central Vermont will soon have a new purveyor of used books, antiques, vintage clothing and vinyl when Speaking Volumes opens its third store, in downtown Randolph. Proprietor Norbert Ender said he's...
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Barre Social Club Offers a New Coworking Space and Hangout
The idea for the Barre Social Club germinated in Nick Allen's mind over more than a decade of upheavals. His wife, Cat, worked for a software company that relocated them as often as every three...
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Who's the Best? Nominate Your Favorites in the Seven Daysies Now Through...
The Seven Daysies ballot is open for nominations now through Monday, April 28. Help us celebrate the best of Vermont by nominating your favorite businesses, people and places. The top nominees in each...
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Modern Anxieties Fuel a New Wave of Vermont Homesteaders
Beaver was on the lunch menu at the Roy house. In late February, Brad Roy stood over an electric meat grinder in the kitchen of his family's Middlesex home. Sporting a reddish-brown beard and green...
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