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Executive chef Michael Clauss has left the Bluebird Restaurant Group for the Essex Culinary Resort & Spa. The Daniel Boulud protégé will work the same culinary muscles he used as a contestant in the 2010 Bocuse d’Or USA at the Chef’s Table at Amuse.... Read more

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The longest natural arch in the world is the Fairy Bridge in Guangxi Province, China. Made of limestone, this 400-foot-wide span crosses over the Buliu River. No one outside of China knew about it until 2009, when an American explorer spied it on Google Earth. Let’s make the Fairy Bridge your metaphor of the month, Aries. Judging by the astrological omens, I suspect there’s a good chance you will soon find something like a natural, previously hidden bridge.... Read more

5/31/13: Hundreds of people crowded into the parking lot behind 400 Pine Street on Friday evening to sample food, drinks and art at the second South End Truck Stop hosted by ArtsRiot. This weekly food truck rally will be held every Friday from 4:30 to 9 p.m. through November. TAGS: art, beer, burlington, business, culture, food, localvore movement, outdoors, south end art hop, stuck in vermont, tourism, video

Jeez, you people are slipping. After last week’s — admittedly mostly tongue-in-cheek — admission that I was having a hard time getting worked up for the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival this year, I expected the usual flood of emails from prickly jazz heads accusing me of anti-hepcat bias. But my inbox remained eerily quiet, suggesting you’ve either stopped reading this column (uh-oh) or, perhaps worse, you were feeling the same way. ... Read more

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On her debut album, Audrey Bernstein Loves Blue, local jazz singer Audrey Bernstein delves into the songbook of popular American jazz and regales us with a few of her favorite things. Though she doesn’t break new ground, Bernstein’s treatment of tunes by great composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Cy Coleman is an amiable listen and adds a welcome new voice in Vermont jazz.... Read more

Curses, Foiled Again ... Read more

Here’s how I landed the seediest assignment of my journalism career — and wound up naked on a massage table in Williston, turning down sex from a Korean woman in a pink thong.... Read more

That Chittenden County is growing ain’t exactly breaking news. But a report issued late last week by the Air Force sheds new light on what that growth means for a proposal to base next-generation fighter jets in South Burlington.

The short story? If the Air Force picks the Vermont Air National Guard to host a squadron of F-35s, plenty more people will be exposed to high levels of noise than the Pentagon previously acknowledged. ... Read more