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This weekend kicks off the second annual Vermont Culinary Classic in Stowe, which starts on Saturday with a "Bounty Festival" featuring a pancake-eating contest and a wild-food seminar, and ends 10 days later with a "grand tasting and silent auction."

In between, hungry visitors can find cooking classes, seminars and great deals at Stowe-area restaurants.

Vermont's hottest property, the ecologically friendly Stowe Mountain Lodge, opens this Saturday. But its two restaurants, the moderately casual Hourglass Bar & Lounge and Solstice — touted as a fine-dining destination with an extensive localvore menu — quietly started serving sumptuous fare late last week.... Read more

“Angels are terrible creatures,” Mexican painter Rafael Cauduro has said. “They are executors of power. They always arrive to impose power to harm our will and freedom.”... Read more

The ubiquitous phrase “Made in China,” usually stamped on the bottoms of things Americans buy, has a decidedly pejorative connotation. It calls to mind lead paint in toys, toxic pet food and efficient factories where millions of workers claw mechanically at endless assembly lines.... Read more

The 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire once wrote, “Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, décor, even — all must combine to realize a character.” The approximately 80 images appearing in “We Are Vermont: Contemporary Portraits in Photography,” at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, embody the truth of Baudelaire’s assertion. Yet the exhibition is more than a collection of individual faces.... Read more

Chronic fatigue? Depression? Back pain? Listen, maybe it’s time to face the music. Sound therapist Eileen McKusick, 39, practices what she calls “harmonic balancing” by using acoustic resonators to diagnose and treat everything from blocked tear ducts to tight shoulders to vertigo.... Read more

La Carreta, Rosita's and El Mariachi are gone. Miguel's Stowe Away in Burlington lasted less than a year. Then, on April 7, the long-lived Miguel's Stowe Away Lodge in Stowe - family-owned for 30 years - closed its puertas. What's troubling Latin and Tex-Mex restaurants in Vermont?... Read more

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A misty rain is falling at the base of the Mountain Road in Stowe, and teenaged boys are circling their mountain bikes through puddles in a small dirt parking lot. Their twice-weekly trail ride hasn't even begun, but already their shirts and backsides are streaked from the rooster tails of mud spraying off their back tires. The logo on the back of the boys' T-shirts aptly reads, "Dirt is good."... Read more