click to enlarge Courtesy UVM Lane Series; Naughtons Audiences see double at the latest UVM Lane Series installment: a performance by twin pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton at the University of Vermont Recital Hall in Burlington. The stupendous sisters stun audiences with a program of classical duets for two pianos and for four hands on one piano. The Secret Garden Wednesday 18 click to enlarge Courtesy Of Beowulf Sheehan Camille Dungy Burlingtonians bask in the words of renowned author and poet Camille T.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Patricia Trafton A seasonal Adventure Dinner in 2022 While is on hiatus following the departure of its co-chefs, Adventure Dinner will use the Shelburne restaurant from late October through December to offer public dining on Thursday and Friday nights and ticketed Saturday events. Founded in early 2020 by Sas Stewart and currently based in a Colchester kitchen, Adventure Dinner hosts themed food and drink events around Vermont. Stewart said she approached Peg and Ter's owners Johnny and Tina Helzer when she heard about their planned break.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Piper Patterson From left: Andrew Sepic, Nicole Grinstead and Chris Johnson of Seven years after opening their first mobile café in Essex Junction's Five Corners , owners Nicole Grinstead and Andrew Sepic are selling their shops. Nomad's head baker, Chris Johnson — who has built a following for his croissants and kouign amanns over the past two years — will buy the biz at the end of October. This winter, Johnson plans to add a bakery on Burlington's Church Street Marketplace.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Lindsay RaymondJack Photography From left: Starnubia, Angella Katherine, Ashley Nicole Baptiste and Monica Leigh Rosenblatt Lost in the history of the civil rights movement are the stories of women who traveled to the newly desegregated South to campaign for equal rights. Sadly, they're nearly lost in Vermont Stage 's production of Cadillac Crew as well, which resists using theater's strengths to tell a story and settles for presenting a tribute.

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click to enlarge ©️ Seven Days Jay Wimette pouring nitro cold-brew I've been up before dawn regularly at two points in my life: a three-year stretch when I worked a 7 a.m. barista shift; and the past three months, when I've watched the sunrise most days with my newborn. In both instances, I relied on convenient, ready-to-drink cold-brewed coffee. While you brew with hot water to prepare a traditional cup or regular iced coffee, the cold-brew method involves steeping coarsely ground coffee in cold water for at least 12 hours.

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click to enlarge Chestnut tree Allan "Buzz" Ferver, a 66-year-old with a fetching grin and an Abe Lincoln-style beard, stood at his kitchen island holding a clear plastic bag. Inside was a pale, nondescript meal, a few shades creamier in color than white flour. He spooned some into a mug, added boiling water and stirred. As the water swirled around the grounds they darkened to tan, and the steam developed a sweet, nutty aroma. "Chestnut coffee," he said as he handed over a cup.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Vermont Female Farmers book cover featuring Liz Guenther of Three Cow Creamery Photographer JuanCarlos González had been interested in agriculture since growing up in Maunabo, Puerto Rico, where his grandmother ran a small farmstand. As the grandson of a rural farmer and the son of a woman who was one of 11 children, the majority of whom were women, he said it "was always in my mind that women can do anything." But he couldn't escape the widespread assumption that farmers must be male — whether from customers in Maunabo or from diners asking where vegetables were sourced at a Vermont restaurant.

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click to enlarge Mike Oxready and Vermont Humanities host Drag King Night at the Telegraph Club , the Northeast Kingdom's hottest drag show/dance party/book club, at the Catamount ArtPort in St. Johnsbury. The evening features a set list of suave, strapping performers such as King Cocktail and Sid Vixen, alongside trivia and other activities related to this year's Vermont Reads book, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. Denmark My Words Saturday 7 click to enlarge Courtesy Of Kristoffer Juel Poulsen Dreamers Circus Middlebury music lovers may have the last visit from Dreamers' Circus burned into their brains: It happened in March 2020, days before the beginning of lockdown.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Erica Allen Photography Paprika's empanadas After two years of selling empanadas at pop-ups and farmers markets, Paprika Catering is going brick-and-mortar in Waterbury. Jacqueline de Achaval and Jennifer McCabe-de Achaval will open an empanada shop at 44 Foundry Street in mid-October or early November. Paprika will offer Argentinean-style baked empanadas for on-site dining as well as takeout. The menu will feature at least nine varieties made with local ingredients, including the Buenos Aires — a traditional steak, malbec and hard-boiled egg combo — and vegetarian and vegan options such as the Fall, with butternut squash, caramelized onion, walnuts and basil.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Clare Barboza Appalachian Gap spirits cofounders Lars Hubbard and Chuck Burkins sold majority ownership of their Middlebury distillery to longtime employee Will Drucker in July. The pair launched the distillery in 2011 with a focus on whiskey after taking a course at New York's Cornell University on artisanal distilling. In 2018, Drucker, living in Brooklyn at the time, partnered with Appalachian Gap to brew Split Spirits , his idea for a whiskey line infused with flavors from various types of wood.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Liam Woods Amythyst Kiah Grammy-nominated rocker Amythyst Kiah returns to the Northeast Kingdom, six-string in hand, for a show at Vermont State University-Johnson's Dibden Center for the Arts. Her vibrant, immersive brand of roots music weaves together authentic emotion and blistering blues riffs for an unparalleled Americana experience. Cheese All That Saturday 30 click to enlarge © Grafvision | Dreamstime Cabot Cheese & Culture Festival The first annual Cabot Cheese and Culture Festival brings cheesemakers and fermenters from across the state to one of Vermont's most famous dairy towns.

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click to enlarge ©️ Seven Days The bar and lounge at . Donnell Collins , chef-owner of Leunig's Bistro & Café and the Petit Bijou kiosk in Burlington and Le Marché Café in Shelburne, plans to open in mid-October in the Shelburne spot formerly occupied by the Bearded Frog . The latter restaurant closed in August 2022 due to short staffing. The chef became sole owner of Leunig's in early 2020 and opened her Shelburne café and bakery in December 2022. She lives with her family around the corner from the new restaurant, which is at 5247 Shelburne Road.

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click to enlarge Daria Bishop Poblano chile omelette at The notion of a bargain has shifted in the past year, with prices for everything from bread to burgers showing marked elevation. , a breakfast and lunch mainstay for almost 20 years in Essex Junction, updated its menu just a few months ago to reflect not only higher ingredient costs but also pay increases for employees. Those were necessary to attract and retain staff, according to owner Jake Tran. "I held out as long as I could," Tran said.

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click to enlarge Courtesy The bar at the new location of After devastating July flooding, the Montpelier restaurant formerly called Bar & Grill will relaunch as in a new location at 44 Main Street, said owner Tom Greene , who hopes to open in mid-October. The spot, which Greene said has been vacant since 2018, is best known as the former home of the Black Door Bar & Bistro. As previously reported by Seven Days , Greene decided to move from its original 118 Main Street location after floods destroyed the restaurant, which featured a basement lounge.

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click to enlarge James Buck Ropa vieja with tostones and red beans Oscar Arencibia and Luis Calderin will not be surprised on the day that Cuban-born movie star Ana de Armas shows up at , the long-anticipated restaurant they finally opened in Burlington's Main Street Landing on August 4. De Armas, who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in Blonde , recently bought a house in southern Vermont, the business partners said. "She will come," Calderin said confidently.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Milkweed Confections gummies In the early 2000s, Andrew LeStourgeon was studying forensic psychology in New York City when he decided he was much more interested in the restaurant work he'd always done to make money. "I realized that's what I wanted to do for a living," LeStourgeon, now 40, recalled. "You can take eggs, cream and sugar and, four hours later, hand somebody an ice cream cone for immediate enjoyment." LeStourgeon started out unpaid in the pastry kitchen of Balthazar, the noted brasserie in SoHo.

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click to enlarge Caleb Kenna Dan and Elyse Wulfkuhle When it came to buying their own farm, Dan and Elyse Wulfkuhle weren't set on moving to Vermont. Both Massachusetts natives, they spent the past decade on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where Dan, 35, managed large vegetable farms and Elyse, 37, worked in river conservation. But Dan's agriculture career has roots in the Green Mountains. "The first farm I ever worked on was in Vermont," he said. His experience, at age 17, at Barnet's Small Axe Farm "had a profound impact on me," he added.

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click to enlarge File: Daria Bishop Making macaron s'mores Chef-owner Alexx Shuman has renamed her 4.5-year-old South Burlington-based marshmallow business: Nomadic Kitchen has become the Vermont Marshmallow Company . When Shuman started making and selling marshmallows in December 2018, the trained chef gave her venture the open-ended name Nomadic Kitchen to "give myself an out," she said. " What if nobody cares about marshmallows like I do? " she recalled thinking. Plenty of people in Vermont — and around the country — turned out to care about Shuman's handmade marshmallows, which come in toasty vanilla, dulce de leche, cinnamon sugar and seasonal flavors.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Filet mignon at Headwaters Restaurant & Pub Headwaters Restaurant & Pub opened at 3075 Main Street in Cabot on September 9. Owner Russell Statman said he completely renovated the space, which used to house Cabot Café. Customers can eat inside beside a fountain and a mural, in the pub room, or on the outdoor deck overlooking the Winooski River. The menu offers a mix of fine dining — think filet mignon and tuna tataki — and more casual fare, such as chicken wings, a smash burger, and Cabot cheddar mac and cheese.

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click to enlarge From left: Mateo Block with customers Sarah Augeri and Nora Lakhani On a Friday evening in late August, my husband and I stumbled upon a sandwich board on Hardwick's Main Street that promised "Chocolate Upstairs." We did what any chocolate lovers would do: We opened the door and climbed the stairs. What once was a loft café inside Buffalo Mountain Food Co-op (relocated around the corner) is now Prophecy Chocolate . Mateo Block and his life and business partner, Wasi Rivera, opened the organic, vegan chocolate company in Hardwick last fall.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Wyat Taylor Shannon Curtis And now for something completely different. Shannon Curtis , touring in support of her 2022 album Good to Me , makes her Vermont debut alongside her husband and collaborator, Jamie Hill, at the Flynn in Burlington. Combining elements of concerts, TED Talks and visual art, the show places the album's 1980s-inspired synth-pop numbers in the context of what inspired them: climate change, rising fascism, and Curtis' anxiety about and hope for the future.

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click to enlarge File: James Buck Peg & Ter's After a year of working as co-chefs at Peg & Ter's , Scott Como and Derek Robert have decided to leave their positions at the end of September. Johnny Helzer , a co-owner of the Shelburne restaurant, posted on social media last week that Peg & Ter's will close on October 1 for "an extended break ... to explore future staffing and plans for our space." Helzer opened the restaurant with his wife, Tina , in 2018 in the location occupied by Café Shelburne for a quarter century.

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click to enlarge Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Chicken noodle pho at Pho Capital Over the past eight weeks, the owners of Montpelier's flooded restaurants have navigated a second storm of challenges: figuring out how to rebuild safely and better, applying for grants and loans, loading credit cards with debt, negotiating with landlords, struggling to find contractors, and often trading in their whisks and knives for hammers and trowels. But they are determined — and, little by little, many are clawing their way back.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Valerie Bigelow Paradise pale ale and Wanderfuel Belgian IPA Paradise Provisions , a specialty grocery store at 2367 Sugarbush Access Road in Warren, added a taproom to its store last month with exclusive offerings developed in partnership with Vermont-based Mount Holly Beer and KIS Kombucha . Customers can drink inside the taproom, separated from the grocery aisles by wooden half walls, or sit at picnic tables outside. In developing brews for the taproom, store comanager Peter Fusting said he tried to stay away from beers with "too many bells and whistles," instead opting for simple, all-natural ingredients.

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click to enlarge Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Noah Hodgdon with a Hotel California and a roast beef sub at Our occasional series "" recommends a day's worth of meals in one Vermont city or town. Shortly after July flooding inundated downtown Montpelier, I spent a different kind of day walking from one wrecked restaurant to the next and talking with shell-shocked owners who were just beginning to grapple with the financial and psychological toll of rebuilding. None of them was close to being able to serve a meal.

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click to enlarge A rt is at the heart of Burlington's South End, a multihued thread tying together the creative community along Pine Street and Flynn Avenue. Like foliage, those colors are on full display every September for the annual South End Art Hop . Back for its 31st year this Friday, September 8, through Sunday, September 10, the Hop unites nearly 100 local studios, galleries, makerspaces, restaurants and other businesses in a singular purpose: to roll out the welcome mat to visitors and celebrate art! Quick Links A digital edition of the guide Our guide on the web SEABA's Art Hop website The festivities include free events outdoors and in, an artists' market, a Kids Hop, and countless curated exhibitions and juried shows — you'll find everything from expressive portraiture to psychedelic paintings to landscape photography and beyond.

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click to enlarge Luke Awtry Nikki Laxar (left) and Christy Mitchell Thousands of Art Hoppers passing through the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington's Soda Plant this weekend probably won't notice a significant change: Founder and creative director Christy Mitchell has passed the enterprise she calls "my baby" to artist Nikki Laxar . That baby is now an adolescent. Even to the artist community and regular gallerygoers, the ownership transition has been nearly invisible.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Sarah Vogelsang-Card Part of the magic of the South End Art Hop is that it offers a rare window into the everyday occurrence of art making. Open studios throughout the arts district give a glimpse into the creative process — visitors can step inside to witness metalworkers crafting intricate jewelry, graphic artists designing witty prints, oil painters capturing evocative New England landscapes and sculptors shaping whimsical papier-mâché pieces.

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click to enlarge File: Luke Awtry Bob Wagner Guitarist Bob Wagner leads an all-star band at " Hug Your Farmer: Hard Rain ," a concert at the Flynn in Burlington to benefit Vermonters affected by July's flooding. Celebrating the music of Bob Dylan, the evening also features special guests, including Mike Gordon, Kat Wright, Josh Panda, and Dwight + Nicole, with all proceeds flowing to the Vermont Community Foundation's VT Flood Response & Recovery Fund. Dream Catcher Ongoing click to enlarge Courtesy Of Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery "Dreamscape I" by Carol MacDonald Carol MacDonald's monoprints in " Emergence (Coming to Light) " at Burlington's Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery transport viewers to a dreamscape where the once-familiar world has become altered post-pandemic.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Beef noodle bowl (left), Chicken noodle bowl , which has offered freshly made Hong Kong-style sweet and savory baked goods at 106 East Allen Street in Winooski since spring 2019, expanded its menu in mid-June to include noodle bowls. The stir-fried noodles topped with chicken, beef or pork belly are also on the menu of the business' newly launched food truck, which made its first outing at the South End Get Down on August 18. Ken Liu — who helps his parents, Ann Wong and King Chiu Liu , with the business — said the family is working on nailing down a regular location for the food truck by mid-September.

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