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Right now
Live hours for 281 places — patios, happy hours, late-night kitchens.
Tonight, this weekend, and beyond. Pulled from 25 sources so you don't have to check 25.
Will it actually be good? A scored forecast, and where to watch it from.
Weather, lake conditions, can-I-swim beach statuses, life scores.
Happy hours, daily specials, and the cheap-night standbys.
What changed in town since you last looked: beaches, roads, agendas.
What the town is talking about right now, with rise-and-fall arrows.
Go and do something
A local's guide — breweries, beaches, trails, and the definitive top 100.
Run clubs, board games, book clubs, pickup sports. Find your people.
Search every Brief ever written. Find the story you half-remember.
Live here
Every local property manager — email them instead of refreshing Zillow.
The newest postings across the city, the state, UVM, and the hospital.
Help this week — filtered by the time you've actually got.
Join in
The Telegram group — locals swapping finds and what's actually open in a storm.
Burlington through your lens. Send one in and it may run in the Brief.
Share a song, upvote the week's list, find Vermont artists.
Other people building things for Burlington. Add yours.
Burlington shirts. Wearing one is the entire marketing budget.
It really is just one guy behind all of this.
Seventeen free browser games, all set in Burlington. Leaderboards reset monthly.
Reflex
Run the Marketplace: dodge dogs, grab creemees, catch live headlines.
Two thumbs, one goal: survive the World's Tallest Filing Cabinet.
Flap Champ, the lake monster, through the schooner sails.
Dive the hills, ride the sunset, outrun the night.
Sugaring season, Knife-Hit style. Don't hit the taps.
Catch falling swirls and stack soft-serve to the sky.
Patch the potholes before mud season wins.
A new one every day
A fresh Burlington-flavoured word puzzle every single day.
Climb the trivia ladder: one wrong rung and you fall.
One local photo, one guess: name the spot.
How closely did you actually read this week's Brief?
Guessing games
Actual Burlington headline, or did we make it up?
Two moments in Burlington history. Which came first?
One local stat, then another. Keep the streak alive.
Put Burlington things in order. Sounds easy. It isn't.
When you're done playing
Swipe on this week's captions. The winner runs in the Brief.
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