As we go through life, we carry our traumas with us. The pain, sadness and guilt we experience accumulates within us. How we choose or don’t choose to confront those experiences comes to define who we are and how we live our lives. Failing to confront them can create an unending loop of pain…
It’s kind of a formal for families.
To the very end, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” has been a colorful burst of comedy and optimism. In their followup to “30 Rock,” Tina Fey and Robert Carlock dialed down the cynicism to create something that was equal parts unflappably charming and riotously funny.
More than two dozen local artists and appreciators braved the February chill last Saturday night to welcome back to Rutland Milwaukee portrait painter Debo Mouloudji. Mouloudji was one of six artists-in-residence last summer at 77 Gallery. It was the gallery’s first venture into a residency …
What is it about the Harry Potter books that won over millions of fans and continues to be so popular more than 20 years after the first book came out? It could be any number of reasons.
Oftentimes, the most obvious question is the best one to ask. That’s the approach rapper and activist Michael “Killer Mike” Render takes in his new Netflix docuseries, “Trigger Warning with Killer Mike.”
A one-day pull from the Rutland Herald calendar brought up a list of things to do in the area, all today, Thursday, Jan. 31 ...
With the snow piling up and cabin fever setting it, let’s spend this week taking a look ahead to what we’ll be watching this coming winter and spring.
You’re in charge
There are two art shows over the next two weekends full of work by people you may know. Between a collection from students in nearby schools and a group exhibition of longtime Vermont artists, it’s an easy way to see some great museums, the muse in many forms and some artistic visions of the…
West Rutland musician and filmmaker Duane Carleton will screen his documentary “Divided by Diversity” at Green Mountain College on Tuesday.
“Black Mirror” is a television series that masterfully plays on the anxieties of living in the modern age. Its paranoid, pessimistic view of the creeping reach and influence of technology is made more chilling by its familiarity. Series creator and writer Charlie Booker approaches existing t…
Here’s why pottery is fun for anyone, not just for kids: Perfection is not the goal, creativity is.
It’s easy to get lost in the world of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino (“Gilmore Girls”), who has a knack for building specific, live-in worlds, has created a saccharine, candy-coated alternate-universe 1950s-era Manhattan full of luxurious spaces and gorgeous cl…
Ladie’s Night Out
You might recognize local musician Ron Pulcer from anywhere from Giorgetti Park to the Chaffee Art Center — he’s been playing venues around Rutland for years — or from one of his many teaching gigs.
Curling Club Open House
If Bruce Springsteen had retired 30 years ago, his legacy as one of music’s most profound and consequential singer-songwriters would already have been secure. But he kept working, kept touring, and kept writing and releasing new music. Along the way, he’s remained relevant in ways few of his…
“The process of making a book happens in different ways,” Lizi Boyd says. Her latest book “Night Play” was published just a few months ago and she’ll be at Phoenix Books in Rutland, at 2 Center St., at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, for a reading.
It’s New Year’s Eve and there are two ways to spend it — going out or staying in. Staying in is tempting, but if you’re up for going out there are a couple good family-friendly options.
Last year Miss Lorraine’s School of Dance revived its annual holiday “Nutcracker” for the first time after 20 years, and this year owner Heather Brouillard says it’s even bigger.
Two holiday shows are up for just a couple performances this weekend that you won’t want to miss.
This weekend features two unique concerts nearby with local talent.
A decade ago, news that Julia Roberts was starring in a TV show on a streaming video service would have sent industry observers clucking with speculation that her career was on the skids. Today, it’s hard to imagine the Oscar-winning actor doing anything as interesting and ambitious as “Home…
Yoga for Men
Two unique, Christmas-y, family friendly events are happening this Friday and Saturday in Rutland.
“Bodyguard” begins in a state of extreme tension and never lets up. The hit BBC series, which premiered on Netflix last month, opens on a commuter train bound for London where police Sgt. David Budd (Richard Madden), who’s traveling with his two young children, discovers a female suicide bom…
It still seemed a little early on a snowy Tuesday afternoon a couple weeks ago to see a giant wood cutout of a red sleigh parked just off of West Street, and lights beginning to be strung up in Main Street Park. But I’ll admit it, if there had been trees for sale that day, I would have bough…
Thursday
Musical happenings in and around the capital city.
When I was growing up, Star Search was the big talent competition show on TV. American Idol and shows like it are just as fun to watch, because no matter who wins, the surprise of seeing someone new, full of talent, is exciting.
In a sunny room full of windows upstairs at Rutland’s Chaffee Art Center, a row of yellow tie-dyed shirts are draped over folding chairs ready to be used as smocks for the next “Paint and Sip.”
Growing up in the restaurant industry, I’ve learned a thing or two about cooking. I know my way around a busy kitchen. The sights, sounds and smells are baked into my mind like a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet: the sizzle of the sauté pans, the crackle of the grill, the hurried chop of kniv…
Growing up in the restaurant industry, I’ve learned a thing or two about cooking. I know my way around a busy kitchen. The sights, sounds and smells are baked into my mind like a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet: the sizzle of the sauté pans, the crackle of the grill, the hurried chop of kniv…
Musical happenings in and around the capital city.
If your memories of Shakespeare are sitting through a high school English class trying to get through “The Merchant of Venice” and wondering how what you were reading could be English when it was so hard to understand, Harry McEnerny wants to change your mind.
Rotary Week Celebration
The best horror stories aren’t about ghosts or demons or knife-wielding murderers. The monsters that chase us into basements and down darkened hallways aren’t real; they’re merely grotesque manifestations of the human condition. The best horror stories are psychological; they poke and prod a…
In the 1970s when the Rutland Halloween Parade was just 10 years old, it reached a level of fame when it was used as the setting of a number of comic books by DC Comics and Marvel Comics.The parade has been a tradition and favorite event with Rutland families for over 50 years, and this year…
Book reading
A few years ago, when a friend’s cousin died, it fell to my friend’s husband to clear out the house and get it ready to sell. Unsure of what to do with a duffel bag full of personal effects, he brought it home and left it on the living room couch. They were sitting on the couch the next day …
Pollinator-Friendly Landscapes
There’s no way to talk about “Forever” without spoiling it, so consider yourself warned.
“It’s all in the eyes,” Mikki Lane says. “You can tell so much from your eyes.” The note of direction was given during a rehearsal at the Courcelle Building last week, for Rutland Youth Theatre’s latest production, “The Snow Queen,” which Lane is directing.
Every time. Every time the depression horse show gets me.
Getting Froggy
It’s definitely autumn, but that’s no reason not to get out and have fun.
“Beyond the Pale”
The first season of “American Vandal” came out of nowhere. It was a surprisingly smart, well-observed parody of true-crime documentaries that blended low-brow comedy with high-concept execution. The result was a deadly funny, pitch-perfect representation of low-stakes high-school drama writ large.
The first season of “American Vandal” came out of nowhere. It was a surprisingly smart, well-observed parody of true-crime documentaries that blended low-brow comedy with high-concept execution. The result was a deadly funny, pitch-perfect representation of low-stakes high-school drama writ large.
