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A look into Burlington’s secondhand scene at FleaNearMe vintage market
Burlington’s secondhand clothing scene is a well-known and well-appreciated part of UVM student culture. Vintage pop-up racks can be seen consistently in and around the Davis Center, and if you ask where someone got their outfit, the likely answer will be “I thrifted it”. On Oct. 3,...
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Book Review: ‘Alice Sees Ghosts,’ Daisy Rockwell
Can haunting be benevolent? That’s the question posed by Alice Sees Ghosts, the second novel from Bennington author, visual artist and translator Daisy Rockwell. Despite its Halloween-adjacent U.S. release date, the book is more comedy of manners than horror tale. But it does evoke an eerie sense that everything we do is haunted by the specters of our forebears.
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Crumbs: Burlington Bagel Adds St. Albans Location; Westford Provisions Closes
The Fersing Family has announced it will open a fifth Burlington Bagel Bakery, its first outside Chittenden County. The newest addition will be located at 133 North Main Street in St. Albans in a former location of Feldman’s Bagels. Feldman’s closed that location and its flagship Burlington bakery on Pine Street abruptly on June 18.
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East Charlotte tractor parade brings generations together
Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship, for the Charlotte News. On Sunday, Oct. 11, tractor owners and families gathered in East Charlotte for the annual tractor parade, bringing vintage tractors, longtime farming connections and a new generation of participants to Green Mountain Hay on Spear Street.
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ECHO After Dark, an exploration of death
Purple lights cast long shadows, the silhouettes of ghosts and ghouls flooding over tables displaying animals long dead. Beetles gnaw on bones, while vivid descriptions of death and decay fill the room. On Friday, Oct. 16, the ECHO Leahy Center hosted Memento Mori, an adults-only event centered around nature, death...
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Student musicians take center stage at Sonic Futures Battle of the Bands
Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship, for the Waterbury Roundabout & Valley Reporter. Following a girls volleyball quarterfinal win down the hall, Harwood Union Middle & High School’s auditorium was filled to the brim Friday night for the annual Sonic Futures Battle of the Bands.
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Charlie’s Boathouse to turn into public park after family sells to Winooski Valley Park District
COLCHESTER — Colchester residents could soon be across the river from a new park. Located along the Burlington bike path near the bridge over the Winooski River, Charlie’s Boathouse was a community staple offering boat rentals and a snack bar until Charlie died in 2021. This year, the owner decided to sell the structure and its land to the Winooski Valley Park District which will turn it into a public park.
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Magnificent 7: Must-See, Must-Do Events in and Around Vermont, Oct. 28-Nov. 4
Pooches parade their most fetching duds down Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace at the highly anticipated Howl’ween Dog Costume Contest. Spectators ooh and aw from the sidelines as masked maltipoos and decked-out dachshunds (and their humans!) strut their stuff for prizes in categories such as Silliest, Most Original and the coveted Best in Show.
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‘Dark Botanica’ at BCA Center Presents the Unsettling Side of Flowers
Think of works with a slightly sinister cast within the vast history of botanical art, and you may recall Dutch master Rachel Ruysch’s luminous bouquets in shadowy spaces, Henri Rousseau’s ominous jungles or Vincent van Gogh’s vases of intense, manic-depressive blooms. Unless you are Seven Days music editor Chris Farnsworth, who, when told of the exhibition “Dark Botanica” at BCA Center, immediately referred this writer to Christopher Walken’s classic 2008 “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Indoor Gardening Tips From a Man Who’s Very Scared of Plants.”
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Dream House Tour: A beautiful modern farmhouse on Lake Champlain
Goldsmith & Davis Architects, along with builder Red House Building, designed and built this gorgeous modern farmhouse. It sits on a 1.5-acre parcel with its own private beach on Lake Champlain in Colchester, Vermont. The interiors were planned to bring a large family together. Big windows frame the Vermont landscape in nearly every room.