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A new documentary tells the story of small-town Vermont attorneys Beth Robinson and Susan Murray, who, with Boston lawyer Mary Bonauto, led the two-decade-long struggle for marriage equality that won several historic breakthroughs in LGBT rights.
Directed by Jeff Kaufman, The State of Marriage profiles the remarkable men and women pioneering the national marriage equality movement through their efforts in Vermont in a grassroots campaign that changed the United States.
In the recent Academy Award-winning movie, Whiplash, a student is terrorized to learn how to play jazz by his teacher at a prestigious music school. Eugene Uman, artistic director of the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC), says he has not seen the movie, but has read all about it. He...
When Shoot the Moon presents a beloved (if chilling) classic Halloween tale, Dracula, the old becomes new and the new is actually old. A group of actors is continuing its annual Halloween-themed performance series with a dramatic adaptation of the time-honored Dracula. But this familiar story will get a...
The new New England Youth Theatre (NEYT) executive director, Hallie Flower, says she finds that her head is swimming with all the details of what “this amazing organization” is up to. “To be frank, my exciting and challenging job is an octopus,” she says. “Executive director is a big responsibility, but it is amazing to work with people who are so passionately clear about what they are doing. And there is so much heartfelt programming at NEYT of which I...
The murals on the walls of the Latchis Theatre are beautiful to behold. but there's so much more to them than meets the eye, believes Jon Potter, Executive Director of Latchis Corporation/Latchis Arts. “Painted by renowned artist Louis Jambor for the Grand Opening of the Latchis Memorial Building in 1938, the murals have been there for Brattleboro audiences to enjoy for nearly 80 years,” says Potter. He discovered that many people in Brattleboro had seen them but never really thought...
Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher was fielding questions at a recent conference when a young man began to say to him, “As an aspiring writer...” Mosher interrupted, asking, “What do you mean 'aspiring writer?' I am an aspiring writer too. I am trying to prove myself from one book to the next, and I never feel certain.” This 73-year old aspiring writer hopes to be inspiring when he appears in Brattleboro to launch the publication of God's Kingdom. On Thursday,
The ichthys (or the “Jesus Fish” as it is more commonly known) has become an icon of modern Christianity. It so often can be seen on the rear of automobiles that it has spawned many parodies. The most familiar is perhaps the Darwin fish: an ichthys symbol with “evolved” legs and feet attached, and usually with the word “Darwin” or “Evolve” inside. The punch line plays up how Darwin's scientific theory of evolution contrasts with creationism which is often associated...
Vermont's newest poet laureate, Chard deNiord, writes lyrical poems about what he calls “immense particulars.” “I concentrate on details that become large and important,” deNiord says. His subjects can be the seemingly plain things in life, like close friends lost, marriage, and farm life in Vermont (which he learned about when teaching at the Putney School, which has a farm on its campus). But he transforms the mundane and familiar through poetry, as can be seen in the first half...
