Stories by Annie Landenberger
Issue of May 31, 2023 (#717)
- A posthumous tribute: Charles Norris-Brown exhibit celebrates an artist’s wide-ranging life and work
- Releasing Charles Norris-Brown’s art to the world
Issue of May 24, 2023 (#716)
- Actors Theatre Playhouse season begins in June: Ten Minute Play Festival opens the community theater company’s 48th season
Issue of May 17, 2023 (#715)
- Theater as an act of resistance: Putney native Kati Schwartz brings ‘Indecent’ — the story of an ‘incendiary drama’ — to Next Stage Arts as a direct challenge to increasing antisemitism and aggression toward LGBTQ+ people in our society
Issue of May 10, 2023 (#714)
- How do people, relationships, experiences, and movements shape us?: Chuck Collins, author of a new novel that anticipates our ‘collision course toward a climate catastrophe,’ notes that ‘fiction can play an important role in imagining how we move forward’
Issue of May 3, 2023 (#713)
- Hanging up the tongs: With Top of the Hill Grill, a beloved and award-winning barbecue joint, closed for good and up for sale, owner Jon Julian reflects on running a business and building a local institution
Issue of Apr 26, 2023 (#712)
- Juno was gone. And now it’s back.: Orchestra returns under the Brattleboro Music Center umbrella with a focus on showcasing women composers, starting with a concert on April 30
- Putney ceramics artist’s work on display at SVAC: ‘My way forward is through my art, traveling with people who seek only the opportunity to become fully whoever they yearn to be,’ says Susan Wilson
- ‘Weapons of death into tools of life’: Community organizations, law enforcement agencies, and faith communities plan Swords to Plowshares, addressing gun violence by taking firearms and forging them anew into gardening tools, jewelry, and works of art
Issue of Apr 19, 2023 (#711)
- ‘Poetry Around Town’ spreads nearly 100 poems all over Brattleboro: Installation of public poetry downtown started three years ago as a response to the isolation of Covid, but “Yes, the need to connect was more urgent during Covid, but ‘the desire to see and hear each other is still with us’
- Extremes of feeling: Brattleboro Camerata presents world premiere of work by composer Kitty Brazelton
- ‘The valuing of life itself’: Author and organizer Tim Stevenson of Athens prepares to launch a new book, ‘Transformative Activism,’ on the spiritual maturity required to change today’s world
Issue of Apr 12, 2023 (#710)
- Black choral music looks to the future to confront the past : Kathy Bullock brings vast knowledge, eagerness to share abundant resources, passion for African American music, and commitment to its understanding
Issue of Mar 29, 2023 (#708)
- Awareness and empathy: Area writer David Blistein brings his own journey with mental wellness to his work on a PBS documentary series exploring the emotional well-being of young people. He started with interviews in Brattleboro.
Issue of Mar 8, 2023 (#705)
- ‘It’s society that needs enlightenment’: Autistic actor Casey Metcalfe, formerly of Putney and Brattleboro, is part of the ensemble cast of ‘Champions,’ a Bobby Farrelly film starring Woody Harrelson
Issue of Feb 15, 2023 (#702)
- ‘There is always more’: St. Michael’s congregation and extended community honor the service of retiring Episcopal church Music Director Susan Dedell, who has used the arts to reach out and expand a music ministry
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
