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Let Equality Bloom Fest to Combine Art and Activism
When people think of activism, they're more likely to think of petitions and protest signs than food trucks and festivities. But expect both of the latter at Let Equality Bloom: An Activism Festival,...
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Trying Out a Draft and Craft Night in Winooski
If you've known me longer than 10 minutes, I've probably roped you into watching comedian Chris Fleming's "Paint Nite" video on YouTube. With his singular brand of free-associative humor, Fleming...
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David Patrick Adams Gets Personal With 'Portrait Interviews'
When David Patrick Adams listens to people's life stories, their journeys can resemble the flights of glider pilots. In cross-country races, explained Adams, who is a licensed pilot, competitors...
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New Temple Sinai Rabbi David Edleson Embraces Tradition and Innovation
He's a rabbi who loves music and includes folk songs, Yemenite tunes and psalms in his services — and who discerned a kind of music in sign language when he served a deaf congregation. He's a gay man...
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Feverish World Symposium Seeks Artist-Led Responses to Climate Change
It was a hot, dry summer in Vermont. According to the National Weather Service in Burlington, July was the hottest month ever recorded in the Queen City. The average temperature was 76 degrees, and...
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Interracial Adoptees Find Support in a Group at UVM
Francesca Carasi-Schwartz loved the summer blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians so much that she watched it three times. The experiences of protagonist Rachel Chu resonated with her, said the University of...
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UVM Repurposes Former Taft School as Arts Center
Lots of elementary school kids eventually go to college. But it's not every day that an elementary school itself does. In a manner of speaking, that's what happened to the Elihu B. Taft School at the...
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Cuts and Cocktails at the Barbershop in Burlington
As I leaned back in Mick O'Brien's barber's chair, I explained to the friendly 27-year-old what I wanted done to my hair: close on the sides and in the back, a little length on top — basically, a...
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Burlington New Year's Eve Festival 'Highlight' Unveils Programming
New Year's Eve in the Queen City is alive and well. That was the message from Signal Kitchen cofounder Alex Lalli back in September when his Burlington-based creative agency and Burlington City Arts...
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Adoptees and Parents Reflect on Transracial Adoption in Vermont
One of Corazon Swanberg's most vivid childhood memories is of being ridiculed in kindergarten because of her hair. "My mom just didn't have time to braid my hair, and so she had combed it out and just...
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Remembering Vermonters We Lost in 2018
Stella SÅ‚awin Penzer (pictured) escaped the Nazis who killed her parents in Otwock, Poland, in 1942. She survived the Holocaust, married, emigrated to America in 1949, and advocated for peace and...
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Commissioning Vermonters to Do a Bunch of Cool Things
How many times have you started a sentence with "If money were no object..."? Never? Huh. Well, we did, when contemplating the opportunities of the brand-new year before us. And the rest of our...
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Remembering Seven Days Photographer Matthew Thorsen
On New Year's Day 2019, cancer ushered longtime Seven Days photographer Matthew Thorsen, 51, into his next great adventure. His wife, Diane Sullivan, said he passed peacefully at home; she and one of...
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North End Studios to Expand Into Winooski's O'Brien Community Center
This summer, North End Studios will start to transition into new digs at the O'Brien Community Center in Winooski. By June 2022, the Old North End institution plans to shift the majority of operations...
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New Human Rights Commission Director Bor Yang Has Big Plans
Not long ago, Bor Yang, the new executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, contemplated leaving the state. At the time, Yang was an administrative law examiner at the state agency,...
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Mycologist Cardy Raper Talks Love, Fungi Sex and Cardi B
One might call her the Esther Perel of the fungi kingdom: Cardy Raper, an expert in mushroom sex, could tell you stories about water mold reproduction that rival the most imaginative sci-fi erotica....
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Vermont Wedding Studio Offers Coworking Space for Marriage Biz
During the decade that Tracy Stolese operated Arabesque, a gift and stationery shop in Shelburne, she heard a lot of wedding-related stories and recognized a common phenomenon: Colleagues in Vermont's...
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Two Vermont Galleries Take Community Engagement Seriously
Given the constant reminders of a bitterly divided nation, the scads of scandals and investigations, it was refreshing to visit a pair of Vermont arts venues last weekend that actively welcome people....
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Scholarship Program Brings Syrian Students to St. Johnsbury Academy
Majd Alabas, 17, got down on all fours on the wrestling mat at the former Black Bear Tavern & Grille in St. Johnsbury and braced himself. Beside him Ayman Alsalloumi, 18, stood with his hands...
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Architect on National African American Museum Works With Clemmons Family Farm
More than five million people have visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C., since it opened in September 2016, according to the Smithsonian...
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