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A Program at Spectrum Helps Multicultural Youth Thrive
Rabin Dahal knows what it's like to have to grow up fast. When he and his family moved from a refugee camp in Nepal to Rochester, N.Y., in 2008, his older brother became the head of the household at...
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On Open Data Day, Learning Humanitarian Mapping With Code for BTV
No offense to the late Stan Lee, but saving the world isn't just for superheroes anymore. In fact, some of today's most prolific do-gooders could be couch potatoes. Roughly 19 globally minded citizens...
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Two Grants Support Vermont Folklife Center Cartooning and Digitizing
From hardscrabble images of disappearing hill farmers to genteel portraits of Vermont's Colonial Dames, from the rustic majesty of windswept ice shanties to the cheap thrills of semipro wrestling,...
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In Burlington's South End, Two Side-by-Side Salons Share 'Head' Space
Commercial development in Burlington's South End is a study in consumer choice. If you like pizza with your beer, walk the west side of Pine Street (Pizza 44 and Queen City Brewery). If you'd prefer a...
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NPR Humorist and Woodworker Tom Bodett Opens a Maker Space in Brattleboro
The parking lot of the Dummerston School was packed to capacity. On both sides of School House Road, salt-encrusted Subarus and Priuses were lined up nose to tail with dirt-caked pickups and minivans....
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Dharma Pugliese Teaches a Holistic Business Revolution
Jason Pugliese was looking for answers. He was a few years out of college and running a startup concession business in Colorado. But something was lacking in his life, and he knew it. So he traveled...
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Fastened Together: Verd Mont Button Club Celebrates 40 Years
The first rule of Button Club is: You do not talk about Button Club. The second rule of Button Club is: Actually, scratch that. Unlike the members of Fight Club, the 30 or so members of Vermont's Verd...
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New Owners at Ripton Store Find Their Rural Groove
Back in Virginia, Eva Hoffmann was a technology integration specialist who worked with state-of-the-art computers in public schools. Now she spends her days operating a gilded, clamorous, World War...
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PechaKucha Night Burlington to Make a Comeback — at FlynnSpace
PechaKucha Night is coming back! If you missed it the first seven years, when it was held at the Un iversity of Vermont's Fleming Museum of Art — or if you miss it, period — perhaps you'll be glad to...
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Very Cool Organizes a File-Cabinet 'Worship' Service
The sculpture "File Under So. Co., Waiting For..."— better known as the World's Tallest Filing Cabinet — has towered over Burlington's Flynn Avenue for more than 15 years. Across the street from the...
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A Cynic Cozies Up to the Burlington Cuddle Collective
I've been told that I'm a good cuddler. What can I say? I know how to wrap someone in a hug, and my spooning skills are tops. But as a single person, I don't find many opportunities for cuddling in my...
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Saltwater Coral Business Is a Portal to Another World
For many of us, the word "coral" may bring to mind the bony white fragments found in ocean-themed bathrooms and on specimen-laden windowsills more than anything resembling a living, breathing animal....
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Meet Scripps Spelling Bee Pronouncer Jacques Bailly
Jacques Bailly knows firsthand the intense pressure facing the 550-plus students who, once a year, stand onstage in front of him as they try to spell obscure English words while an audience of...
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Meet Champlain Valley Dispensary's Edibles Expert, Amy Bacon
Amy Bacon cradles a large square slab of gelled strawberry purée and sets it on a machine called a guitar cutter. The cutter has a base of tines that hold the slab in place. Bacon pulls down a lever,...
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The Emily Post Institute's Lizzie Post Talks 'Higher Etiquette'
Since Emily Post published her first book on etiquette in 1922, her name has been synonymous with manners. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home is now in its 19th edition and...
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A B.I.G. Endeavor Aims to Spread Art, Music and Kindness
It's not unusual for people with good intentions to establish a nonprofit to fulfill them. That's why curator Sarah Drexler and musician Tim Danyliw recently founded the Balanced Intelligence Group....
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Gamelan Sulukala Performs Live Soundtrack for 1926 Animated Film
Americans tend to believe that Walt Disney's Snow White, from 1937, was the first animated film. But that honor actually goes to The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the earliest surviving animated...
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The Mighty Bucks: Pro-Football Dreams Lead Vermonters to a Humble Arena
The New England Premier Sportsplex, in Danvers, Mass., advertises itself as a place for batting practice and birthday parties. Its 200-foot-long indoor turf field typically hosts Little League...
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End of an Era: St. Johnsbury's Video King to Close Its Doors
Dawn Leroux wants me to stop swearing in her store. We're standing at the counter of Video King, the last video rental store in St. Johnsbury, when I unwittingly utter the banned word: "Netflix." No,...
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A Vermonty Pinup Calendar Benefits Lyme Nonprofit
As an advocate, Julie Gagnon Prior has had to give a lot of hugs. She didn't hug much before she got sick, she said, but now hugs are her greeting of choice — fierce, warm squeezes that she...
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