Cartoonist Ed Koren Donates 'Scarf' to SafeArt Benefit

by Pamela Polston Posted on April 5, 2013 at 3:37PM

At a silent auction featuring handmade scarves, you expect any number of knitted and woven numbers. And that's just what you'll see at SafeArt's benefit this Saturday, April 6, at the Vermont Law School.

Artsiness in Seven Days This Week

by Pamela Polston Posted on April 4, 2013 at 1:33AM

For the very first post in our new arts blog, perhaps it's fitting that we direct you to ... the paper! Or, of course, the website.Whether you're a fan of print or pixels or both, each week we'll post a summary here of what we have to say about music, theater, art, dance, film, books and other cultural entertainments.So here you go:In our State of the Arts column, I preview Tesla in New York, showing Friday and Saturday at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College.

Movies You Missed 81: The Comedy

Our weekly review of flicks that skipped Vermont theaters

by Margot Harrison Posted on March 29, 2013 at 5:26PM

This week in movies you missed: Oh, hipsters, what have ye wrought? The most divisive art-house movie of 2012, that’s what.

Movies You Missed 80: Smashed

Our weekly review of flicks that skipped Vermont theaters

by Margot Harrison Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:06PM

This week in movies you missed: drinking: an indie-film love story. What You Missed Kate and Charlie (Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul) are a young married couple who like getting drunk together.

Movies You Missed 79: 5 Broken Cameras

Our weekly review of flicks that skipped Vermont theaters

by Margot Harrison Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:17PM

This week in movies you missed: an Oscar-nominated documentary shows us life as a Palestinian in the West Bank. What You Missed Emad Burnat bought his first camera in 2005 to film his just-born fourth son.

Movies You Missed 78: The Bay

Our weekly review of flicks that skipped Vermont theaters

by Margot Harrison Posted on March 8, 2013 at 8:07PM

This week in movies you missed: Barry (Rain Man) Levinson gives found-footage horror an ecological twist. What You Missed On the Fourth of July, 2009, something bad happened in tiny Claridge, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay.

Movies You Missed 77: How to Survive a Plague

Our weekly review of flicks that skipped Vermont theaters

by Margot Harrison Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:38PM

This week in movies you missed: how ACT UP gave AIDS patients a future. What You Missed This documentary from journalist David France takes us through crucial stages in the early history of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), from its formation in 1987 (“six years into the epidemic”) to the first demonstration of an effective retroviral therapy in 1996.

Movies You Missed 76: Atlas Shrugged: Part II: The Strike

Our weekly review of flicks that skipped Vermont theaters

by Margot Harrison Posted on February 22, 2013 at 4:26PM

)This week in movies you missed: Visit a dystopian future, Ayn Rand-style. What You Missed In Atlas Shrugged: Part I (three are planned), we were introduced to a near-future society in which the energy crisis has made railroads central to the economy again.

Movies You Missed 75: Detropia

Our weekly review of flicks that skipped Vermont theaters

by Margot Harrison Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:53PM

This week in movies you missed: Want to see how America might look after a full economic collapse? Look at Detroit.

Movies You Missed 74: A Late Quartet

Our weekly review of flicks that skipped Vermont theaters

by Margot Harrison Posted on February 8, 2013 at 5:33PM

This week in movies you missed: No, this is not Quartet with Maggie Smith, which is slated for the Savoy Theater in Montpelier on February 15. It’s a different movie about classical musicians with an all-star cast.