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Vermont will likely never be known as a comedic hotbed. Sure, we’ve got funny folks such as actors William H. Macy and Luis Guzman taking up part-time residence in our fair state. And of course, there’s the Green Mountains’ answer to Jeff Foxworthy: Rusty DeWees. But the chances that we’ll ever be able to support a vibrant comedy scene on par with, say, the improv circuit in Chicago, or the stand-up clubs of New York City and Los Angeles are pretty slim.... Read more

Parting is such sweet sorrow. All good things must come to an end. If you love something, set it free. I’m out like a boner in sweatpants.

There are many ways to say goodbye — albeit some more poetic than others. But dress them up as we may, the message stays the same and dealing with loss is never easy.... Read more

Bluegrass is generally seen as having been launched by the radio performances of Bill Monroe in the mid-1940s. Earl Stanley, of the famous Stanley Brothers, says that bluegrass music didn't even get its name until 1965, when the organizers of the first festival couldn't think what to call it and decided to adopt the name of Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys. It changed the meaning of the word so radically that this is now perhaps the only example on Earth of a music genre named after a band.... Read more

In the mid-1970s, the epicenter of the Burlington acoustic music scene was a joint called The Opry, located in a warehouse-y brick monolith at 101 Main Street. Before it became the R.W. Hunt Mill & Mining Company -- later known simply as Hunt's -- and long before its current incarnation as Sh-Na-Nas, The Opry was a large, dark room with a good-sized stage at one end and a bar at the other.... Read more