Stories by Annie Landenberger
Issue of Nov 30, 2022 (#692)

- Lepkoff plays the blues: Proceeds from concert will help fund the multifaceted local musician’s journey to a blues music competition in Memphis
Issue of Nov 23, 2022 (#691)

- Holiday arts roundup
Issue of Oct 12, 2022 (#685)

- ‘A walk into the unknown’: New England Youth Theatre moves forward with a new interim director and a revitalized board
Issue of Oct 5, 2022 (#684)

- An emotional pull: Vermont Center for Photography brings back its Open Juried Exhibition after a Covid hiatus
Issue of Sep 28, 2022 (#683)

- Spicing up the scripture: With puppets, music, and performance, a medieval mystery play explores the life of Michael, the patron saint and protector of various countries, military organizations, and rulers
Issue of Sep 14, 2022 (#681)

- For Leland & Gray students, free ski access — on one condition: New program discourages substance use in the broader context of building a healthy life
Issue of Sep 7, 2022 (#680)

- Reality, with the volume turned up: GennaRose Nethercott’s new book, ‘Thistlefoot,’ explores her family’s Russian Jewish heritage as a modern fairy tale using magical realism
Issue of Aug 31, 2022 (#679)

- Reaching for the stars : ‘Constellations’ at Actors Theatre Playhouse explores the infinite possibilities of a relationship
- Puppet slam brings edgy acts to southern Vt.: Creemee Dreemee explores the possibilities of puppetry as an art form for adults
Issue of Aug 10, 2022 (#676)

- Going big: Steve Procter, a musician turned potter, finds a common creative language in shaping the invisible
Issue of Jul 27, 2022 (#674)

- Celebrating a quarter century : Seth Knopp, Yellow Barn’s artistic director for 25 years, will be honored at its annual scholarship fundraising gala
Issue of Jul 13, 2022 (#672)

- For Marlboro Music, a new era: A famed summer festival now owns the campus it once rented for seven decades as it works on making the most of a new opportunity
- ‘The last big one’: Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven finishes ‘Lost Nation’ and reflects on the difficulties of keeping independent cinema viable
Issue of Jun 1, 2022 (#666)

- For Juno Orchestra, a swan song : After five years, orchestra finishes strong with farewell concert at Marlboro’s Parsons Auditorium
Issue of Apr 20, 2022 (#660)

- ‘You can make them feel as you do with words’: BUHS senior Ada Melton-Houghton talks about her experiences with Poetry Out Loud
Issue of Mar 30, 2022 (#657)

- At age 97, a writer sums up his full life: In ‘Fragments of Time,’ Peter Lindenfeld writes a memoir that takes the reader from pre-war Vienna to the world of academia
Issue of Mar 2, 2022 (#653)

- A picture of our times: In ‘You Never Get It Back,’ a collection of interwoven short stories examines what it’s like to be a young woman now. The book is by Cara Blue Adams, who grew up in Putney and graduated from BUHS in 1995.
Issue of Feb 23, 2022 (#652)

- Golub, Chevalier, Johnson-Alpin: vision, energy, commitment, and experience
Issue of Jan 26, 2022 (#648)

- More room to create: Vermont Center for Photography makes the most of its new space
Issue of Jan 5, 2022 (#645)

- Focused on a vision of art for all: At River Gallery School, a new leadership team commits to a long tradition of fostering creativity
Issue of Dec 15, 2021 (#643)

- Within a 10-mile radius, a trio of artists looks for creative connection: A yearlong project links the literary arts, the performing arts, and the visual arts, bringing it all together on the airwaves of WVEW
Issue of Dec 1, 2021 (#641)

- A musical rebirth: The Windham Orchestra split from the Brattleboro Music Center in 2020, emerging from the pandemic as the Windham Philharmonic with a new series of donation-funded concerts at the Latchis and grand plans for what its leader, Hugh Keelan, calls ‘a scale of operations massively more nontraditional’
- Arts for the holiday season: December ushers in a flurry of performances, exhibits, concerts, and more
Issue of Nov 10, 2021 (#638)

- Reveling in theater’s synergy after a long two years: The Front Page went into rehearsal in 2019; Covid tried to kibosh it all but, undaunted, we came back together
Issue of Oct 6, 2021 (#633)

- Listening and exploring, risking and living: Susan Dedell celebrates 30 years leading music at St. Michael’s Episcopal
Issue of Aug 25, 2021 (#627)

- A gift to community: Sandglass Theater’s biennial Puppets in Paradise returns, offering creative and diverse takes on environment, race, and empowerment
- Arts for all ages: A roundup of southern Vermont resources, in schools and beyond
Issue of Aug 11, 2021 (#625)

- Perfecting their specialties: Hideaway Circus brings a taste of the 1800s circus arts to two performances under the stars at NECCA
Issue of Aug 4, 2021 (#624)

- A labyrinthine work with ties to the region: A Guilford actor, dancer, and choreographer collaborates with a former Brattleboro resident in a streaming series that explores ‘the core meaning and significance of existence’
- ‘Like an anthem’: In ‘Listen Up!,’ director and producer Bess O’Brien translates Vermont youth voices into a live statewide performance, whose 16-member cast includes two students from the region
Issue of Jul 28, 2021 (#623)

- Baroque gems from a passionate trio: Trio Amphion — Jesse Lepkoff and friends — plan concerts in Grafton, Brattleboro, and West Dover
Issue of Jul 14, 2021 (#621)

- ‘Un-Tag Sale’ to benefit Loaves and Fishes
Issue of Mar 24, 2021 (#605)

- Holy Week at St Michael’s Episcopal features teens and a sunrise Easter vigil
Issue of Mar 17, 2021 (#604)

- An immigration story dodges conventions: In his new novel, ‘Sicilian Dreams,’ Marlboro novelist Vincent Panella tells broad truths about his Italian American roots
Issue of Feb 3, 2021 (#598)

- Without names, they raged with bravura: A mob has, in a sad and twisted way, done us all some good. We’ve plunged to rock bottom, and now we can begin to heal.
Issue of Oct 7, 2020 (#582)

- In Trump, I see America fading away: To actually call on truth, experience, compassion, facts, and wisdom in order to create a thoughtful productive response takes time. And in the recent debate with the president, that’s what Biden took — or tried to take.
- Rock River Arts brings its members’ work to Newfane Common
Issue of Jul 8, 2020 (#569)

- Rock River Artists calls decision to cancel 2020 tour ‘tough, prudent’
Issue of Apr 29, 2020 (#559)

- A tough season: On this Eastertide, turning prayers to the fields: one in New York City with bodies of the unclaimed; and the other, at home, where new plants will grow