Lately, I have been hearing a lot of things that are very commonly believed, but actually untrue. I figured it was time for another myth busters article! The important thing to remember is that these things are commonly believed, so no one blames you for believing them. I like to go over the…
It was a Friday in December when Nick Monaco, of Rutland, got the call that would change his life.
I’ll always think of my grandmother when I make lentil soup. She always seemed to have some ready when I stopped by for lunch. Sometimes it was homemade. Other times it was from a can with some of her own vegetables and spices. Either way, it was good with me.
One of the great things about reading is that it can transport you to different places, ones that you might never visit in person. Writers with a strong sense of place can work the landscape and feeling of a region into a book so it acts almost as an independent character that the people in …
It is now officially autumn — time for leaf-peeping, cider pressing, and of course, the first cold viruses of the season. I have a 4-year-old daughter and a 7-month-old son, and with my daughter’s entrance into preschool this year, the little ones have had two colds already since the start o…
Joanna Tebbs Young CIRCLES OF COMMUNITY Last month my family drove to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a week’s vacation at the beach. Motoring along the highways of...
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TV Review
Let’s start with what “Shrill” isn’t: it isn’t a show about a fat woman taking pratfalls or being a cruel, easy punchline. It’s a confident, gently funny, slice-of-life show that benefits from the streaming model, where niche shows can find an audience, as it explores issues and characters y…
In Silicon Valley, the old adage “fake it ’til you make it” is often a guiding principle of fledgling startup companies. Sometimes, turning a good idea into a viable business and, potentially, revolutionizing society, requires a bit of smoke and mirrors. The danger, of course, is knowing how…
Watching “Arrested Development” is a lot like hanging out with an old friend. No matter how long you’ve been apart, you’re always happy to see them. And, like spending time with an old friend, that pull of nostalgia and shared memories makes it easy to fall into the same old routine. But at …
Growing up reading “X-Men” comic books, I never really considered the psychological toll fighting crime and saving the world would have on the young super-powered characters that often populated the teams. With few exceptions, the books often glossed over how traumatizing all that violence a…
It’s difficult to critique longstanding institutions. Over time, aged bodies like the Catholic Church or Congress become so towering and entrenched that even the sharpest criticisms tend to bounce off them or are waved off by defenders who dismiss them as subjective, petty, facile or ignoran…
Local
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, after a year online in collaboration with Burlington’s Vermont International Film Festival, returns in-person to Town Hall Theater for the 2021-22 season. This year’s MNFF Selects theme is “Humans and Animals: Shared Experiences, Intersecting Worlds.”
Whether or not you believe in fate, moments of destiny seem to happen to us all. That’s where we meet two soulful strangers with secrets in “The Tangled Skirt.” Playwright Steven Braunstein’s noir crime comedy begins at a dimly lit bus stop in the middle of nowhere, just past midnight when t…
When Brandon’s Barn Opera House “officially” opens next weekend, it will be with one of the most beloved gems of the repertoire, Giuseppe Verdi’s “La traviata.” And the audience will be invited to share in the festivities — even on stage.
They’re performing in a new play presented by the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance (VSCA) about the history of women’s suffrage, “The Suffragist Reenactment Society,” directed by Laura Roald, that will tour the state Oct. 2-30, including West Rutland (Oct. 9) and Montpelier (Oct. 30).
The museum introduces a scientific way of looking at art. Instead of examining aesthetic qualities of isolated sculptures, canvases and images, it examines groups of artwork as formally interrelated emotions that lead predictably to conflict resolution totalities.
Julia Dorr now gazes upon downtown from the lawn of Rutland Free Library.
Downtown Rutland’s newest place to sit is “No Place to Sit.”
When Annie Rosen plays the role of Joan of Arc in the Opera Company of Middlebury production of Tchaikovsky’s “Maid of Orleans” next week, few audience members will have anything to compare her performance to.
Steve Halford’s latest exhibit is solely raku clay pottery, the one-of-a-kind pieces you won’t find in Target or T.J. Maxx. “Silent Spring Revisited” is currently in the Chaffee Art Center for its new exhibit with the Rutland County Audubon Society, “Nature Revealed, A Wildlife Art Show.”
Gloomy certainly describes many Irish-American plays, comedy or drama. And gloom certainly sets the stage for “Outside Mullingar,” John Patrick Shanley’s romantic comedy about a most unexpected couple in rural Ireland — or perhaps not so unexpected.
One recent day did not go as planned, but after starting with sadness, tension and adrenaline, it came to an end with an incredible feeling of happiness.
Della Mae is headlining an outdoor end-of-summer celebration at Okemo’s Jackson Gore Inn courtyard in Ludlow with a beer garden from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, for a new event called Okemo Mountain Taps & Tastes.
After a two-year hiatus the Vermont Book Award is back and bigger than ever.
New Music on The Point and Scrag Mountain Music are joining forces to create “A Murmur in the Trees,” an immersive concert experience performed in nature.
The heart-pounding, palm-sweating, deafening butterflies that can take over just before going on stage happens to a lot of performers, but Maxine Linehan knows they’re really a good thing.
Behind and all around the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland are the remains of what was years ago a thriving marble quarrying operation with a rich history, which the blocks of marble, old equipment and looming structures left behind only hint at.
It was a miracle! Vermont opened its first real opera house, and it’s in a barn. And, just as important, it filled it with fine professional opera.
Enacting a policy similar to the one announced by UVM earlier this month, Rutland Regional Medical Center will require all its employees be vaccinated by Oct, 1 and is tightening its conditions for visitors after the number of COVID patients hospitalized in Vermont and Rutland County increas…
POULTNEY — The new K-6 school at the former Green Mountain College campus is in the final stages of being ready to welcome students in early September.
It was the middle of lockdown, and Rutland was a ghost town. Photographer Jon Olender drove around looking for something, anything interesting to capture for the local newspaper.
It was the middle of lockdown, and Rutland was a ghost town. Photographer Jon Olender drove around looking for something, anything interesting to capture for the local newspaper.
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company opened its production of “Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical” Friday under The Tent at Walker Farm. It was much more than a jukebox musical, delivering an unexpectedly rich portrayal of Cash to a broad spectrum of the music that made him famous, expertly performed.
The “Parade of Heroes” scheduled for next week has been canceled.
Tosca is one of the greatest roles in grand opera, requiring vocal and theatrical depth, as well as power and beauty. “It’s a dream role for me — so much so that my little dog is named Tosca,” says Andrea Chinedu Nwoke.
Never in a million years did Kate Schneider think she would be crowned Mrs. World.
I’ve always been a gardener — or at least as far back as I can remember. More recently, say the past 20 years or so, I’ve been a plant collector. What does that mean? If I fall in love with a plant, I want to grow other plants related to it.
If you’re a kid in need of a bike, the Rutland Free Library’s got you covered.
Drive by them during the day, the Tesla charging stations at the Woodstock Avenue Stewart’s in Rutland are frequently empty.
Weston Playhouse had originally programmed “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash” for the 2020 season, which was canceled because of COVID-19.
Whitney Ramage initiated the 77ART Residency program in 2018 with a “pilot program” at the former CVPS building at 77 Grove St. in Rutland. She wanted to create the kind of space in her home state that she had experienced in a residency at Mass MoCA, which had given her dedicated time and sp…
In travis tate’s new intimate comedy, “Queen of the Night,” father and son take to the woods to bridge their lifelong rift. It doesn’t help that the son is an artist, gay and unhappy, and the father is miserably facing the remarriage of his wife. Still, their clumsy communing with nature yie…
Robert DuGrenier’s glass shells are among the artworks by 21 glass artists in “2021˚ F: 10th Anniversary Vermont Glass Guild Exhibition” in the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum t at Manchester’s Southern Vermont Arts Center. The exhibition shows a stunning variety of techniques and expression in glass art today.
The story of Rutland’s unique downtown WalMart has been told and retold for years in “placemaking” circles, according the executive director of PlacemakingX.
Back before she moved to Rutland, Jeanette Langston walked into the Hop’n Moose, approached a man and asked if he was Steve Costello.
Weston Playhouse is presenting its Young Company in the popular musical comedy “Seussical” on tour to 11 different locations throughout southern and central Vermont July 22-Aug. 7 — and admission is free.
Following a nearly year-long stay in France, where she was born and raised and still has family living, Burlington-based singer-songwriter Francesca Blanchard didn’t really envision performing much this summer upon returning to Vermont in mid-April.
Weston Playhouse is presenting its Young Company in the popular musical comedy “Seussical” on tour to 11 different locations throughout southern and central Vermont July 22-Aug. 7 — and admission is free.
Before it was written down, “The Iliad” by Homer was passed down through the ages through an oral tradition being revised as it went. “An Iliad,” the 2012 theatrical adaptation by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, takes it a step further passing it down to today’s audiences.
Laughter may well be the best medicine and Dorset Theatre Festival is inviting its audience back to in-person theater after a year’s hiatus with lots of it — and a bit more.
Julia Doucet partnered with the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, and Mark Bennett, a New Hampshire cartoonist, and began pairing migrant storytellers with regional cartoonists.
Angella Gibbons has received recognition for creating a safe, loving place for people to learn and become closer to the Earth.
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents the “Close to Home & Far Afield: Homes & Gardens Tour”:
The bad news: The 10th anniversary edition of Grace Potter’s Grand Point North festival, which was scheduled to return to Burlington Waterfront Park Sept. 11-12, has been canceled.
From July 1 to 21, The VSO’s “Close to Home & Far Afield: Homes & Gardens Tour” will feature four ensembles — the VSO Woodwind Quartet, VSO String Quartet, VSO Brass Quintet and the VSO Juke Box String Quartet — in 17 concerts across the Vermont.
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, after last year’s virtual edition, is back, and the seventh annual will be in-person and — mostly — indoors. Already there have 432 film submissions — the previous high was 375.
Four rooms in Rutland’s Chaffee Art Center are filled with its latest exhibit, “4 Strong Women,” which is up until July 23. A rollercoaster of shapes and colors in the front gallery, a neon garden of flowers in full bloom in another, scenes of people living happy moments are the piano room, …
Taconic Music, the only Vermont music festival to present indoor in-person concerts last summer, is returning for its fifth year June 14-July 12 to Manchester’s Burr and Burton Academy.
Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta “Candide” is based on Voltaire’s 1759 satirical novella of the same name. Leaving an idyllic youthful lifestyle, Candide journeys through a slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences the real world. And it’s very funny.
Rutland artist Lopi Laroe (LMNOPI) has created giant timely murals around Rutland and the United States.
Currently open public art exhibits, galleries and museums throughout the region.
Currently open public art exhibits, galleries and museums throughout the region.
Currently open public art exhibits, galleries and museums throughout the region.