Norwich University's Sullivan Museum Becomes Smithsonian Affiliate

by Pamela Polston Posted on September 2, 2014 at 7:18AM

Henrich adds that the Smithsonian affiliation will enable the Sullivan to do more educational outreach in the Northfield community at large. Over the coming year, she and her colleagues will be looking to partner with a local public school in order to create additional programming — a boon to both students and teachers.

James Kochalka Announces Glorkian Warrior Art Contest

by Pamela Polston Posted on August 31, 2014 at 10:07AM

So, until Thursday, September 4, Glorkian Warrior is just 99 cents; it was released in March 2014 for $2.99. The game is available here.

What I'm Watching: Das Boot

by Ethan de Seife Posted on August 30, 2014 at 9:09AM

The restaurant scene's contrast is even more ironic. The crew's hosts are unctuous and fawning, well groomed and officious.

Movies You Missed & More: Blue Ruin

by Margot Harrison Posted on August 29, 2014 at 9:16PM

1-4 points: Do the characters seem like real people? Failing that, do they look pretty?

Acclaimed Dutch Film Borgman to Screen in Burlington

by Ethan de Seife Posted on August 25, 2014 at 9:00AM

Borgman screens Thursday, August 28, at 7 p.m., at the Main Street Landing Film House in Burlington. Free for VTIFF members / $8 general admission / $5 student.

What I'm Watching: Man on Fire

by Ethan de Seife Posted on August 23, 2014 at 8:29AM

Movies You Missed & More: How I Live Now

by Margot Harrison Posted on August 22, 2014 at 3:41PM

2/4. I'm a sucker for home-as-battleground imagery, owing to a Cold War upbringing and my conviction for many years that nuclear winter could happen tomorrow.

Burlington and Montpelier Make Outside's 'Best Towns Ever' List

by Xian Chiang-Waren Posted on August 21, 2014 at 10:55AM

Let's just get this out of the way: Duluth, Minn., topped the list in Outside Magazine's annual March Madness-style voting tournament for "Best Towns Ever."  But two small Vermont cities — Burlington and Montpelier — also ranked pretty high on the list, which included 64 towns at the start of voting.

Playwright David Budbill on 'Different Planet'

by Pamela Polston Posted on August 19, 2014 at 7:00PM

Parker, a New York bassist, has collaborated with Budbill for years on jazz and spoken-word projects, with the latter on shakuhachi, a Japanese wooden flute. In Different Planet, his role is to play musical interludes, to respond to things Jordan says — kind of a musical Greek chorus.

Semi-Obsolete Media — Get 'Em While They're Hot!

by Ethan de Seife Posted on August 19, 2014 at 11:42AM

Jeanne Montross, executive director of the Middlebury charitable organization HOPE, arranged for the purchase of the videos with private money: her own, that of some members of HOPE's board of directors, and that of a few other private citizens. Montross tells Seven Days that her original intention was to purchase and then loan out the movies as a way to develop library, secretarial and data-entry skills among the under- and unemployed Addison County residents who benefit from HOPE's services.