Happy Monday, Burlington. Soak up today, because it's the warmest day of the week, sunny with a high near 62 and a light south breeze, and one more good chance to catch the foliage even with color past peak in a lot of places. A dry cold front slides through tonight without a drop of rain, so Tuesday turns mostly sunny and cooler with a high near 56 and a north wind. Wednesday stays sunny with a high near 55 and Thursday is mostly sunny near 57, while the nights drop to around 34 midweek with a few frosty mornings. There's no rain anywhere in the forecast!
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Monday has The Hive Writing Collective at Wild Meadows Books & Café in Williston, May Day's legendary patty melts at Foam's first ever Monday Meltdown to celebrate their new collaboration beer, Vermont Reads with former Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden at CCV in Winooski on the very first Vermont Libraries Day, and trivia at the Monkey House. Tuesday starts with the Helping Hands Quilt Sew In at Yankee Pride Quilts, where you can help finish quilts for local charities without a sewing machine, then Traditional Tuesday at Mesmer Kava, French conversation and a crafters drop in at Fletcher Free, a 5K run from Burlington Beer Company, figure drawing at Karma Bird House, Dad Guild's night of rock climbing at Petra Cliffs and the CityPlace Phase 2 meeting on the rest of the old mall. Tuesday night has All Them Witches with Emma Ruth Rundle at Higher Ground, Rehash in the Showcase Lounge, a free bill at the Monkey House, swing dancing at North Star, Dead Is Alive at Einstein's and trivia at Queen City Brewery. Wednesday starts with the mayor's South District meetup at Zero Gravity and a native tree planting at the Intervale, then our own pickup basketball at Gutterson and trivia at Citizen Cider, a JumpStart talk with a founding team member of Lime, the Zine Potluck at Fletcher Free, Stories from the Vermont Queer Archives in Essex Junction, Bluegrass Nights at Foam, a $5 spooky improv night, a poetry open mic, the Ribbit Review song circle, West Coast Swing, the last waterfront Ghostwalk of the season, the ABBA tribute Mania at the Flynn and Jazz Night with Ray Vega. Thursday brings a free neonics documentary at Shelburne Farms, our trivia night at Four Quarters, Sam Jay at the Vermont Comedy Club, Weekend 2 of the Williston One Acts, a memoir launch at Phoenix Books, Gaelic Storm at Higher Ground, Bored Teachers at the Flynn, The Way Out ski film at Outdoor Gear Exchange, a roller derby learn to skate session and the Funk Jam at The 126. The full newsletter has every event with times, locations, and links, plus a lot more to pick from.
In the news: today is Vermont's first Vermont Libraries Day, the state is using a helicopter to help restore the Spruce and Elmore fire towers, and South Burlington's OnLogic is being bought by Omron for $675 million with its headquarters and jobs staying put and a big bonus for every employee. A month in, drivers are giving the diverging diamond in Colchester positive reviews, Seven Days found great new Mexican food at Doma Bar and in the University Mall food court, and a cannabis pilot could bring legal sales to festivals and farmers markets. On the harder side, a lawsuit says Winooski police broke a man's neck during an arrest. Young voters are organizing at UVM and Middlebury, and two constitutional amendments are on the November ballot. Quick hits cover Main Street closing for three days, a new Breeze flight to Myrtle Beach, UVM Promise expanding, a museum of Burlington history in the works and Burlyaxe closing its Burlington space. The newsletter has the full context, quotes, and commentary, along with more articles not listed here.
From our corner, we are a Meetup group too, and everyone is welcome at Btown Brief IRL. Pickup basketball is Wednesday at 5:30 indoors at UVM's Gutterson Fieldhouse with a $12 day pass, Tony will save a table for 8 at Citizen Cider trivia Wednesday at 6:15, and Jon is restarting our every other week trivia night at Four Quarters in Winooski on Thursday at 6. After that, our movie night for the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, is Friday at 7 at the Majestic 10 in Williston, and Coffee Club with Social Pulse is Saturday at 10 at Zero Gravity.
There is also a news quiz, the full events calendar, and UVM Athletics, where men's hockey handed No. 11 BU its first loss before falling in overtime, and men's soccer came back to beat UNH.
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