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Green Mountain "Geek" Seeks Funds for a Military SF Anthology

by Margot Harrison Posted on November 1, 2013 at 3:31PM

War is serious business — and so is war-themed science fiction. Your mind may be leaping to the movie version of Starship Troopers.

Movies You Missed & More: Of Dolls & Murder

by Margot Harrison Posted on November 1, 2013 at 8:57AM

This week in movies you missed: Elaborate tiny doll abodes are just so adorable. But wait, what's that blood spatter doing on the wall?

New Tunes: "Island I Would," Nyiko Beguin

by Dan Bolles Posted on October 31, 2013 at 1:50PM

The last we heard from local songwriter Nyiko Beguin he was fronting a promising indie-folk outfit called Whales & Wolves. That band's 2012 release, Up to the Ground, though rough around the edges, was a solid step forward from its 2009 debut, Green and Gray.

Magical Moving Halloweeny Images at Stowe's Helen Day Art Center

by Ethan de Seife Posted on October 30, 2013 at 3:14PM

Halloween doesn't have to be about costumed ghouls and overloading on high-fructose corn syrup. For the artistically curious, Helen Day Art Center in Stowe is offering, on Halloween night, a visual smorgasbord of short films, accompanied by an original score by DJ Ikail del Toro. The second annual Magic Lantern Show Art Film Festival evokes the bygone tradition of magic lantern shows, which were an important precursor to cinema.

Ashley Campbell Has Knives, Will Carve ... Pumpkins

by Pamela Polston Posted on October 29, 2013 at 11:26AM

When Ashley Campbell moved to Vermont from New Jersey six months ago, it was to join her boyfriend, Michael Orfan, chef-owner of Rustic Roots restaurant in Shelburne. (Alice Levitt interviewed him for Seven Days in June.)

No More Time for Procrastinating: 'Wyeth Vertigo' Closes Thursday

by Pamela Polston Posted on October 28, 2013 at 11:24PM

You know who you are: the procrastinators who intended to go see "Wyeth Vertigo" at the Shelburne Museum but, for one reason or another, have not yet gotten around to it.People, people, did you not read my cover story about this exhibit? If that wasn't motivation enough, I don't know what is, except this: The show — one of the best seasonal exhibits at the Shelburne Museum ever — will end this Thursday, October 31.

Oh, Tiger Lillies, You Wild and Crazy Guys

by Pamela Polston Posted on October 25, 2013 at 2:56PM

If I didn't already have tickets to the awesome Dr. John at the Flynn tonight, I would be heading to Dartmouth's Hopkins Center to see these weirdly awesome Brits. Nuf said.

Movies You Missed & More: The Pact

by Margot Harrison Posted on October 25, 2013 at 2:53PM

This week in movies you missed: In honor of Halloween, I go looking for a scary movie that scares me.First contender: The Conjuring (just released on video). The first hour was genuinely disturbing, and I wouldn't give it one star.

Vermont Artists and New York Birds Flock Together

by Pamela Polston Posted on October 24, 2013 at 6:04PM

On a recent weekend, five Vermont artists — Barbara Zucker, Leslie Fry, Lynda McIntyre, Catherine Hall and Meg Walker — flew their coops in the Green Mountain State and landed at the Wild Bird Fund on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The name is a bit of a misnomer; the "fund" is actually a facility that accepts rescued injured birds and nurses them back to health as they're able.

7 Questions for Dead North Owner Mike Boudreau

by Dan Bolles Posted on October 23, 2013 at 10:05AM

Though it was a fictional story, much of the "Fright Night" piece in this week's print edition was based on actual events that happened on a recent visit to Dead North, the haunted corn maze in North Danville. My girlfriend and I did pass by a creepy abandoned farmhouse on our way to the maze.