The beer case at City Market, Onion River Co-op In 2011, John and Jen Kimmich, owners of the Alchemist, began building a production brewery to package their beers for retail sale. And they made a decision that some in the craft beer industry thought was strange: They built a canning line. At the time, John Kimmich recalled in a recent interview, craft beer came almost exclusively in 12- or 22-ounce bottles; cans were associated with mass-produced beers. He knew of just a few other breweries in the U.S. using 16-ounce cans, but he had fond memories of drinking pounders while growing up in Pittsburgh.
Ali Hussein (left) and Elliott Katz Black, Indigenous and other people of color historically have struggled to overcome institutional and cultural barriers, and careers in STEAM science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics are no exception. But now,
Generator, the nonprofit maker space in Burlington s South End, has launched the new BIPOC Scholarship program, aimed at bridging that divide and making a range of career opportunities more accessible to these marginalized Vermonters. Maker spaces are communal design studios, workshops and manufacturing facilities where artists, craftspeople and entrepreneurs gather to share equipment, ideas and expertise. Launched in 2014 in the basement of Memorial Auditorium, Generator moved in 2017 to its current, 12,500-square-foot facility on Sears Lane.
Cheapbabyy27 instantly evokes visions of an alien spacecraft descending to Earth. The ship s titanium-alloy entrance ramp extends downward into billows of vanilla vapor. The Burlington band s front person, synthist, songwriter and
likely alien explorer, Zack Schuster, glides out of the craft as if floating. LEDs trim their iridescent spacesuit. Gigantic speakers pop open from compartments all over the ship, blasting the throbbing, four-on-the-floor grind of opener Rollerblading. Humanity is destined to twitch and pulse to the unrelenting dance beats. At least that s what comes to mind in the gurgling first moments of the newly released EP. Schuster, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, is a club kid through and through. They have released post-punk and dance music under the moniker Roost for a few years and recently changed it to Roost.World to differentiate from other bands with the same name. In Vermont, though, the group can be called simply Roost.
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Seven Days never bothered to note my candidacy for Burlington City Council in the Central District. Others have taken down my signs because we have a large group of authoritarians who cannot stand free speech or any speech that does not bow to their religious belief in a magical ability to change sex. Anyone who will not say men can be women if they say so is anathema to this self-righteous crew, which thinks that anything it does to a heretic is OK, including threats and robbery and violence. As I was putting up a sign, a hipster stopped his car to say, Take your hate somewhere else. I have lived here for over 50 years and was the first person to start a lesbian group here and an initiator of pride marches. But lesbian is a word you will rarely see now, except from men who claim to be one.