By Dave Hoffenberg This weekend you have two opportunities to hear some great music at Slopeside Bar & Grille at Mountain Green, East Mountain Road in Killington. Kevin Howard makes his Killington debut, playing at Slopeside Friday and Saturday night at 9 p.m. Not only has he never played here, but he’s never been here,…

By Scott Funk Political correctness aside, I have always complained about parking spaces for the handicapped. Yes, it’s rude to admit, but who hasn’t pulled into a crowded parking lot and steamed at the sight of three perfectly good spaces right in front, except that they have that wheelchair logo sprayed onto the asphalt? If…

By Brett Yates At the dawn of the New Year, just moments after the ball dropped in Times Square, Kanye West unexpectedly gifted the world with a new song called “Only One”—and the world paid attention. The song was noteworthy for two reasons: 1) according to the accompanying (non-satirical) press release, Kanye had spontaneously crossed…

By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul In the woods behind our house, there’s a pile of cones and gnawed-apart bracts–easily two feet deep and twice as wide–built against the trunk of a tall hemlock. Over consecutive winters–when the newly discarded bracts stand out against the snowy white backdrop–we’ve watched as the heap continues to expand. This pile,…

By Tony Crespi The two young skiers boarding the chairlift were smiling. Then everything changed. As my wife Cheryl and I moved through the final turn in the maze and prepared to load, we observed that the young man on the second seat seemed awkwardly balanced as the chair moved up and away. As the…

KILLINGTON—“Out on a Limb,” an outdoor short film created by Richmond’s Tyler Wilkinson-Ray’s T-Bar Films and a finalist at the 2014 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, will be one of the many shorts featured at the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2014/2015, presented by Ski Rack at UVM’s Davis Center in Burlington, Jan.…

By Dom Cioffi My son has officially discovered social media. While visiting friends over the holidays, my son was introduced to the wonders of texting by one of his buddies. Initially I was happy for him (I figured it could only help with his suspect writing skills), but before I knew it, he had written…

By Brett Yates Now is the time of year when one cannot glance at a TV inside a restaurant or bar (the sort of restaurant or bar that never changes the channel from ESPN, I mean) without encountering a college football “bowl game” —the term used for the puffed-up, mostly meaningless cash-grab postseason exhibition matches…

By Mary Ellen Shaw I have always been a fan of reading about the good ol’ days in The Mountain Times. Josephine Blanchard entertained me for years with her stories and more recently Cindy Phillips has done the same. Each one had her own way of telling what life was like for her. I hope…

By Dave Hoffenberg Sunday may be considered a day of rest but at the Pickle Barrel this Sunday, Jan. 11, it is anything but. Keller Williams makes his return and brings the best one man show in the business. If it seems as if this is a man who never stops, that would be about…

By  Tom Joyce “You get a Moscow Mule..... You get a Moscow Mule.... You get a Moscow Mule!!!” Yes, the Moscow Mule is known to be one of Oprah’s new favorite cocktails. But I’m sorry it won’t be hidden under your chair, you’ll have to make one yourself — or better yet, get a local bartender…

By Joe Rankin Ice storm. If you live in northern New England, those words can send a chill up your spine. They portend demolition derbies on the roads, power outages and the ominous cracking sound of limbs breaking and trees falling in woods, parks and urban streets. Snow we’re up for. Ice, not so much.…

By Tony Crespi Each season the ski industry unveils new ski collections boasting advancements and refinements in technology and design. Often unrecognized by the public are the complexity of engineering and design principles involved in this process. The tip to tail shapes and dimensions used in a ski are crucial to its performance as even…

By Dom Cioffi So, another year is in the books with its movies, music, political drama, sports highlights, social commentary and countless other unique nuances. I always get melancholy this time a year as I ponder what has transpired in my own life over the last 365 days. Of course, the feelings are exaggerated by…

By Tom Joyce The Wild West Bartenders’ Bible spoke of a bar in New Mexico that would top off all of it’s cocktails with a splash of champagne. Genius. Can you imagine what it must have felt like to walk into an Albuquerque bar in 1886 and taste French sparkling wine for the first time?…