By Dom Cioffi Back in college, one of my roommates was in a band that became fairly popular around campus. They played gigs throughout our four-year tenure and enjoyed a loyal following among students. By default, I became a roadie, […]
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Income taxes are complex but logical
By Kevin Theissen The Internal Revenue Service estimates that taxpayers and businesses spend 6.1 billion hours per year complying with tax-filing requirements. To put this into perspective, if all this work were done by a single company, it would need […]
Enjoy the bounty of summer wines
By Becca Zidik St. Supéry Estate Vineyards embraces the very best of Napa Valley and French château traditions to create award-winning wine. The flavors of St. Supéry Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay blend just as well as the traditions of the […]
A silent revolution
By Marguerite Jill Dye I was ecstatic at first, as I floated through the Clark Art Institute’s downstairs galleries filled with more than 80 magnificent works by “Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900.” The stunning exhibit in Williamstown, Massachusetts was organized […]
Hats off to you
By Dom Cioffi I begrudgingly get up between 5 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. every weekday morning. I hate the act of getting out of bed that early. In fact, my first waking thought once my alarm goes off is usually, […]
Rockin’ The Region with Silas
By DJ Dave Hoffenberg Andy Prior, a.k.a. Silas, has many configurations of groups and they’re all good. If you’ve heard them, you know that already. If you have not, then any time you see The Bubsies, Supply and Demand or […]
Tasting New Zealand varietals
By Becca Zidik If you thought the ’70s were wild in America, imagine the party New Zealand had when the first wine grape vines were planted in Marlborough! That’s right, in 1973, some extremely smart soul planted vines in the […]
Beyond the sea
By Dom Cioffi At the age of 7 or 8, I boarded my first commercial airline flight. It was February and I was headed to Florida with my mother to spend two weeks at my grandparents’ villa. “Villa” sounds fancy, […]
Rockin’ The Region with Dan Tyminski
By DJ Dave Hoffenberg RUTLAND—Dan Tyminski is excited to play the Vermont State Fair on Friday because he’s coming home. Tyminski has been living in Nashville, Tennessee, the past 15 years but was born and raised in West Rutland. “[I’m] […]
Empowering influences in a child’s life
By Marguerite Jill Dye “The most traumatic part of being a refugee for me was the loss of our home, our village, and being torn from the place where I grew up that I knew and loved,” Walter Hess said […]