The Independent

An Insider’s Field Guide to Brattleboro

By Lukas J. Martin— Food & Drink Shin-La Restaurant & Sushi Bar – 57 Main Street. This small, friendly, and comfortable Japanese-Korean fusion spot is on my personal top-3 list in Brattleboro.  The sushi is good, yet nothing amazing, but the spicy tuna and salmon rolls pack a punch.  They have sake, domestic and import [...]

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Column: Getting Back to Nature in Putney, VT

By Avi Kaiser—   It may be lacking extravagance like Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Giorgio Armani, or five-star restaurants like chic sushi bar Nobu in Manhattan and Wolfgang Puck’s Spago in Beverly Hills, but the Route 5 drag of real estate from Putney to Brattleboro, VT has no shortage of its own brand of [...]

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Soulful Butterfly Performs…and Dazzles!

PUTNEY – On the evening of February 3, 2011, acclaimed singer-songwriter and street musician Natalie Gelman took the spotlight in front of a lively crowd, and made her Landmark College debut performance in the Student Center Game Room. Ms. Gelman, a native of New York City, led the audience through an impressive set of original [...]

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