WILLIAMSVILLE-For better or for worse, I have some 90 shows under my belt - if...
BRATTLEBORO-We set out on a fierce act of protest. This month in Brattleboro, beginning on...
MARLBORO-Marlboro Music's 2025 summer season concludes this weekend with the traditional Beethoven Choral Fantasy among...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts continues its Bandwagon Summer Series Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Putney Inn...
The future is looking brighter at Bradley House. A December merger with Brattleboro's Holton Home has brought stability to the longtime residential care facility. And a much-needed structural overhaul and expansion project - which will add seven rooms to Bradley House, as well as new dining facilities - is scheduled to start later this year. On July 6, Gov. Peter Shumlin traveled to Brattleboro to announce more than $2.8 million in community-development grants for residential and commercial projects across the...
BRATTLEBORO-The name "Somethin' Else" refers to the 1958, desert-island-worthy recording by saxophonist Cannonball Adderley that enticingly featured trumpeter Miles Davis. The band "Something Else" - performing at the Vermont Jazz Center on Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. - is a seven-piece, three-horn band organized by alto saxophonist Vincent Herring that draws on the rich repertoire of soul jazz, a music that came to fruition in the early 1960s. Soul jazz successfully combined the sophistication of jazz improvisation with the danceable...
When I was a kid in Vermont, I ran around in the woods all the time, and I'd never seen a tick. When I was a kid, it didn't rain after every snowstorm. Have you forgotten already how different it was back then, when I was a kid? I'm not even 30 years old. When I was a kid, I read all the time. Fantastical adventure stories where the protagonists saved the world from certain destruction - a destruction brought...
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