It took three feet of snow and three days in a Pine Street studio in 1995 for Burlington band Wide Wail to finally record their first album.

“It was a snowy, snowy day. It was one of those thunder-snowstorms,” recalls David Rosenstein, now 38, on of the band’s founders and a core member over its 12-year lifespan.... Read more

Eric Hagen had only been driving his taxi for a few weeks when he received some unsolicited feedback from the competition.

“You’re going to lose your shirt!” yelled a fellow cab driver, who’d pulled up alongside Hagen’s black SUV at a Winooski intersection.

The man, who drove for a cab company Hagen won’t name, was giving Hagen flack about the slogan emblazoned in capital letters across the rear window of Hagen’s Dodge: PAY WHAT YOU WANT. Underneath was his phone number.... Read more