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Rod MacIver to Close Heron Dance After Nearly 20-Year Run

by Pamela Polston Posted on July 11, 2013 at 10:14AM

Rod MacIver is following a rough patch with liberation: ending Heron Dance Art Studio. He's been selling his nature- and Tao-inspired paintings, prints, books, greeting cards and other items — and writing a daily contemplative e-newsletter for thousands of subscribers — for almost two decades.

Read About Jay Craven and "Place-Based Cinema" in Orion Magazine

by Margot Harrison Posted on July 9, 2013 at 2:10PM

How many Hollywood movies reflect the way you live? If you live outside New York and LA, not many, argues Bill Kauffman in the current issue of Massachusetts-based Orion magazine.

Shelburne Museum's New Arts and Education Center Gets a Name

by Pamela Polston Posted on July 9, 2013 at 9:44AM

Build it and they will ... name it after you?The Shelburne Museum has announced the long-awaited moniker for its not-even-open-yet Arts and Education Center, and it is Pizzagalli! Which is a good thing, because "Arts and Education Center" is really boring.

What's in a Name? You Say Winooski, I Say Onion

by Kevin J. Kelley Posted on July 9, 2013 at 9:00AM

The first installment in this series suggested that the settlement south of the mouth ofthe Winooski River came to be called "Burlington" becauseof a clerical error. This week, we're tracing the originsof that river's name.

The Read on 'Legendary Locals of Burlington'

by 7D Staff Posted on July 8, 2013 at 4:13PM

Fitting Burlington into a book is no easy task. The eccentricgamut of its residents included in Robert J. Resnik’s recently released Legendary Locals of Burlington leavesyou with a sense of just why that may be.

Movies You Missed & More: The Tall Man

by Margot Harrison Posted on July 5, 2013 at 12:36PM

This week in movies you missed: If you found this 2012 thriller randomly on Netflix Instant, you'd probably assume it was a standard vehicle for Jessica Biel. You'd be wrong: The Tall Man isn't standard anything.What You MissedOne by one, children have been disappearing from the dying Washington mining town of Cold Rock.

Raves for Sandglass Theater's "D-Generation"

by Pamela Polston Posted on July 5, 2013 at 9:57AM

For Alzheimer's patients memories are elusive, but as far as Doug Anderson is concerned, "D-Generation" is unforgettable. In addition to the usual publicity avenues, the executive director of Middlebury's Town Hall Theater is sending personal emails extolling the latest work by Sandglass Theater.

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