Live Culture

UVM's Orchesis Dance Company Hosts Spring Showcase

by Jenelle Roberge Posted on March 28, 2014 at 12:09PM

Orchesis will not be the sole group onstage this Saturday. The company invites other dance clubs at UVM to participate, too, making for a show with greater variety.

Following Successful Film About Living With Autism, Mark Utter Writes On

by Ken Picard Posted on March 27, 2014 at 2:41PM

Utter also participated in a writing assignment given to the entire class, which required students to pen a letter to their parents explaining “why you are an artist, what you make and what your work is about.” Utter’s letter to his own parents read as follows: “Dear Mom and, comfortably mowing grass in heaven, Dad, I am writing to tell you that after many years of thinking it over I have decided to be an artist.

Somerset's pysanky eggs with nontraditional daisy design

7 Questions for Theresa Somerset, Traditional Ukrainian Egg Painter

by Xian Chiang-Waren Posted on March 26, 2014 at 9:15AM

James Kochalka Writes a Letter to Himself ... in the Past

by Pamela Polston Posted on March 26, 2014 at 9:00AM

With apologies to Kochalka, I'm excerpting his excellent ode to silliness on Dear Teen Me: "A silly man’s life doesn’t have any less meaning than a serious man’s life.

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in 'Speed'

What I'm Watching: 'Speed'

by Ethan de Seife Posted on March 25, 2014 at 5:52PM

Still, what impresses me most about Speed is its writing — specifically, the three-part narrative structure, each part of which is anchored by a central, extended action scene. (First part: the rigged elevator; second part: the rigged bus; third part: the subway chase.)

Interview With Jazz Singer Molly Ringwald

by Ethan de Seife Posted on March 25, 2014 at 9:31AM

Molly Ringwald performs at the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Saturday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. $20-69.

Photographer Peter Miller's 'A Lifetime of Vermont People' Wins Regional Book Award

by Xian Chiang-Waren Posted on March 24, 2014 at 6:58PM

A psychedelic 17th-century rope parade (or something) in A Field in England, by Ben Wheatley

Green Mountain Film Festival Dispatch: 'A Field in England'

by Ethan de Seife Posted on March 24, 2014 at 4:59PM

Turns out Wheatley has some pretty experimental leanings. A Field in England is really quite challenging at the level of narrative, and it uses editing and cinematography in some unconventional ways.