From the premiere of “Stranger Things” to #OscarsSoWhite, 2016 was a wild ride, but the feeling the year conjured hasn’t occurred since.  2016 is spoken about with a particular nostalgia within...

Vermont is known for many things, including but not limited to maple syrup, outdoor activities and long, snowy winters. I chose to enroll at UVM knowing well that the winter season would be mentally and...

My ideal Valentine’s Day consists of three things: pizza, chocolate and cuddling up on the couch with a rom-com. As an extremely single hopeless romantic, I love to feel the joy and longing that comes...

“‘It goes without saying, I believe that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less’,” stated Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, reciting the work of James Baldwin. On Jan. 30,...

Whenever I enter a bookstore, my feet carry me to where the memoirs are stacked. I can’t pinpoint the genesis of my adoration for the genre, but reading Ellie Wiesel’s “Night” in middle school...

If you’ve forgotten what the feeling of discomfort is like, look no further than Ethel Cain’s new horrific soundscape of perversion and white noise to remind you. “Perverts,” released on Jan....

The gyms are empty, the fruits and vegetables are growing mold and the liquor stores have their customers back. While the semester is just starting up, many of us are already abandoning our productive...

Just as there are extreme personality differences between dog people and cat people, there are major differences between a dog show and a cat show.  At a dog show, you can expect impressive athletic...

Mac Miller’s second posthumous studio album, “Balloonerism,” came out on Friday, Jan. 17.  This was more than seven years after his death and exactly five years after the release of “Circles,”...

On Dec. 4, 2024, CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson was shot and killed in the early hours of the morning. The casings from the bullets that took his life displayed the words “delay, deny and depose.”  These...

My favorite way to spend a chilly winter day in Burlington is to stroll down Church Street with friends with a warm hot chocolate in hand to fight off frostbite. The delicacy dates back thousands of...

Perhaps it’s the English major in me that needs to know a word’s whispered implications, but recently I’ve been fascinated by the categorization of casual sex as “meaningless.”  College cultures...