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Dancing With Justin Timberlake: A Vermonter's Dream Comes True

by Pamela Polston Posted on August 26, 2013 at 8:55AM

Former U-32 student Lindsay Richardson danced her dream onstage last night with pop megastar Justin Timberlake at MTV's Video Music Awards. The best, and lengthiest, vid we found on the internets is on Perez TV right here.

Movies You Missed & More: Antiviral

by Margot Harrison Posted on August 23, 2013 at 3:37PM

This week in movies you missed: Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg, son of David, demonstrates the apple doesn't fall far from the tree with this high-concept science-fiction indie.What You MissedImagine if celebrity culture really got out of control, and you have the world of Antiviral. Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones) works at the tony Lucas Clinic, where ordinary people come to have themselves injected with celebrity diseases.

A Strong Woman and a Jamie Wyeth Portrait

by Pamela Polston Posted on August 20, 2013 at 8:22PM

My consciousness for all things Wyeth has been heightened since viewing and writing about the Shelburne Museum's exhibit "Wyeth Vertigo" earlier this summer. In fact, that exhibit taught me more than I previously knew about N.C. and Jamie Wyeth — father and son, respectively, of Andrew.So a recent article in the New York Times about Jamie caught my eye, as did the accompanying luminous portrait he made of one Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig in 1963, when he was just 17 years old.

Movies You Missed & More: My Amityville Horror

by Margot Harrison Posted on August 16, 2013 at 3:00PM

This week in movies you missed: Meet the real-life demonologist Vera Farmiga portrayed in The Conjuring in this documentary about one of the youngest victims of the famous Amityville house (or famous hoax, depending on your perspective).What You MissedIn 1975, when Daniel Lutz (pictured) was 10, his family moved into a Long Island ocean-front dwelling that they'd purchased at a discount after one of the former inhabitants killed his family of six there. Twenty-eight days later, the Lutzes fled the Amityville house, telling tales of haunting and possession that would spawn a bestselling book, talk-show appearances and a string of cheesy Hollywood films.This 2012 documentary from Amityville aficionado Eric Walter (who runs this site) is essentially a portrait of Lutz in his late forties.

New Movies: Caption Me, Bee-yotch!

by Margot Harrison Posted on August 16, 2013 at 2:44PM

Every week I choose still pics from new movies to place on our Showtimes page. Some of those stills are just crying out for creative captions, but, sadly, the studios do not supply them.You could, though!

Feel Like Screaming? Join Edvard Munch ... in High Def

by Pamela Polston Posted on August 15, 2013 at 9:51AM

Since the advent of high-definition broadcasts, Vermonters have been offered a regular diet of lavish productions in real time from New York's Metropolitan Opera, or La Scala in Milan. Then came documentaries, pop concerts and other specialty programs.

Artists Invade Waitsfield, But It's Still Safe to Go Outdoors

by Pamela Polston Posted on August 13, 2013 at 5:00PM

The Vermont Festival of the Arts brings art and artists of all stripes to the Mad River Valley throughout the month of August. But this weekend, hoo boy, it will be a veritable invasion.

Broadway Legend Len Cariou Sings in Vermont

by Alice Levitt Posted on August 11, 2013 at 1:21PM

You may know him as the bloodthirsty Sweeney Todd in Stephen Sondheim's musical of the same name. Or that guy Jack Nicholson pounded in About Schmidt.

Oh, Vermont, You Sexy Thang: A Travel Writer's Lusty Ode

by Pamela Polston Posted on August 10, 2013 at 9:52AM

Here is a very short quiz: What word does not belong in this series? Family, Long Trail, canoeing, Frisbies, green, mountain biking, Segways, sexy, vacation, Vermont, water parks, travel news...The eagle-eyed among you might have guessed "Frisbies" because it's misspelled. But no, my friends, the correct answer is "sexy!"

Was Werner Herzog in Burlington?

by Margot Harrison Posted on August 9, 2013 at 12:46PM

Apparently so.The revered German director of Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans directed this 35-minute documentary about the dangers of texting while driving for AT&T's It Can Wait campaign. It features a locally shot segment on Debbie Drewniak of Colchester, who was critically injured after being struck by texting driver Emma Vieira in 2011.A Silver Palm-winning director making a PSA?

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