Posted By Kymelya Sari on Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:06 AM

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Kymelya Sari

Clockwise from far left: Heritier Badibanga, Rida Kori, Olivier Enwa, Joy Garelnabi, Abdillah Hassan, Ramzi Kori

Burlington youths will now have a space that they can call their own right in the heart of the Old North End.

Burlington Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Department and the Association of Africans Living in Vermont on Sunday hosted a kickoff event for the O.N.E Youth Center, which is located on the second floor of the Old North End Community Center, the former St. Joseph School, on 20 Allen Street.

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Posted By Andrea Suozzo on Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:49 AM

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Courtesy of Seaba

South End Art Hop

The 25th annual South End Art Hop in Burlington is just around the corner. To commemorate the milestone, Seven Days is collecting stories and photos from the past quarter century. We'll publish a selection of your words and photos online on September 6 — and we'll see you all at Art Hop, September 8-10!

Fill out my online form.

Posted By Jordan Adams on Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 7:32 AM

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Courtesy of LoKi

LoKi, 0-25 (The 24HR Challenge)

The standard gestation period for a record — writing, pre-production, recording, mixing, mastering, promotion and distribution — is generally two to three years. But Burlington-based rapper LoKi (real name Liam Corcoran) recently decided to test his limits and record an entire album in 24 hours. The project is titled 0-25 (The 24HR Challenge).

Corcoran presents his work, along with visuals, on Saturday, August 26, at MilkHaus Studios' 5th Annual Art Show in Ferrisburgh.

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Posted By Jordan Adams on Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:00 AM

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TLC: Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins (left), Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas

You know their name. You know their music. You danced around your bedroom singing their songs into a hairbrush. You mimicked their outlandish fashions. You can effortlessly rattle off the qualifications of the garden variety "scrub."

They're called TLC, and they headline I Love the ’90s: The Party Continues Tour on Friday, August 25, at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction. Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, Rob Base, All 4 One, C&C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams and SNAP!  add support.

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Posted By Dan Bolles on Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 6:30 AM

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Posted By Sarah Tuff Dunn on Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:03 AM

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Courtesy of Laura Marttinen

Spruce Peak Stadium

From August 22 to 24, the largest summer sporting event will happen in Vermont — and it’s not baseball or boating. It’s tennis, bringing some of the tour’s top male players to the Green Mountain State on the eve of the U.S. Open in New York City.

Playing host are Grand Slam Tennis Tours, a Stowe-based travel company that has worked with Stowe Mountain Lodge to build a brand-spanking-new stadium, invite athletes and sell tickets. “What we’re doing here in Stowe goes beyond a tennis tourney,” says public relations director Kyle Ross. “It changes the American tennis landscape.”

This week, Seven Days lobbed a few questions at Ross about the Stowe Mountain Lodge Tennis Classic.

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Posted By Dan Bolles on Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:59 PM

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Steve Lemme

Super Troopers fans, the wait is nearly over. After years of speculation and rumors — and a ridiculously successful 2015 crowdfunding campaign to get the movie rolling — Super Troopers 2 is really happening. The long-anticipated sequel to the 2002 comedy classic about a group of bumbling Vermont State Troopers is unofficially slated for a spring 2018 release.  We know, we know: You want it right meow.  But according to actor Steve Lemme — aka trooper MacIntyre "Mac" Womack — it's gonna be worth the wait.

"It's going to be our widest release," says Lemme in a recent phone call with Seven Days. "And it's testing better than any movie we've tested. It came out fantastic."

Tags: Steve Lemme , standup comedy , Broken Lizard , Super Troopers , Super Troopers 2 , Vermont , Image , Web Only

Posted By Sadie Williams on Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:47 PM

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Steve Hadeka

Local woodworker Steve Hadeka recently appeared on the YouTube series "Woodshop Wars." Each episode of the show, which is organized by Mike Rapp of Missouri-based Mad Raven Woodworks, pits four makers from around the country in competition against each other, all of whom are assigned the same task. Hadeka's installment premiered on Thursday, August 10.  His challenge: To make a wooden spoon.

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Posted By Sally Pollak on Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:06 PM

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Zephyr Teachout in 'Happy Days' in 2012

In the five years since Zephyr Teachout performed in Happy Days at the Unadilla Theatre, she has run for governor of New York and the U.S. Congress to represent upstate New York, where she lives in the Hudson Valley.

Now the former Vermonter is returning to the Marshfield summer theater  to reprise her role of  Winnie in the Samuel Beckett play.

"It's a lot easier to tell people what you think about fracking than to memorize Beckett,"  Teachout said over the phone, on break from rehearsal. She added that her experience in theater proved useful to her as a candidate for political office.

"I will say that being at the Unadilla, over the years, certainly makes you more comfortable standing up in front of people and telling them what you think about things," Teachout said.

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Posted By Dan Bolles on Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:43 AM

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