RE: “Grateful for book's shout-out to Shadis,” [Letters, May 9].
Wow, Peter Alexander, you and Ray Shadis have discovered the dastardly secret that Entergy is a for-profit corporation, out to use the free-market system to earn the best return it can for its shareholders.
Gasp.
Wonder where all you anti-nukers will be when the lights go out in Brattleboro and your energy bills skyrocket.
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The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents famed pseudonymous art activist “Frida Kahlo” of the Guerrilla Girls on Saturday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m., in person at Epsilon Spires (190 Main Street) and livestreamed via Zoom. Wearing her trademark gorilla mask, Kahlo will share “Trade Secrets” from the Guerrilla Girls' decades of exposing gender biases and discrimination in the worlds of art and culture. She will reveal how the activist collective creates posters, billboards, books, and actions that use...
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