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Arts

Special section: Brattleboro Film Festival

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 — Issue 176

BRATTLEBORO — Our special supplement for the first annual Brattleboro Film Festival, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 2 through 4:

Overview

-Films that movie lovers from Brattleboro would appreciate seeing: A new festival celebrates worlds where people might be demented, enlightened, brave, interesting, vulnerable, charming, gifted, and sometimes even joyously happy, by Joyce Marcel.

Schedule

-First annual Brattleboro Film Festival, Nov. 2-4, to feature 12 films, special discussions, and events

Reviews

-Staten Island kids sing at the Oscars. Review of Once in a Lullaby by Robin Antepara.

-A homage to art, dance, song, and jazz, jazz, jazz. Review of Chico and Rita by Arlene Distler.

-Love, legal connections, and defining families. Review of Any Day Now and Cloudburst by Suzanne d'Corsey.

-Recipients of our best intentions, victims of our worst inclinations. Review of One Nation Under Dog by Debbie Jacobs.

-'Unlikely activists asking tough questions.' Review of The Atomic States of America by Lissa Weinmann.

Arts

Secrets and motives, tensions and suspicions

By
Annie Landenberger

WILLIAMSVILLE-The Rock River Players (RRP) seem to be making a name as producers of new...

‘One of the things that makes jazz really special is connectivity’

By
Eugene Uman

BRATTLEBORO-The Emerging Artist Festival (EAF) is one of the cornerstones of the Vermont Jazz Center's...

Tasha Tudor Society wins publication award

MARLBORO-The journal of the nonprofit Tasha Tudor Society won first place in the Newsletters &

Documentary focuses on anti-trans legal battles

BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont premiere of a new documentary, Heightened Scrutiny, will be held Saturday, Nov. 1,

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New faces from different places

By
Taryn Heon
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 — Issue 401

“Are you ready to withdraw loyalty [to your country]...” were some of the initial words spoken by the Honorable Colleen A. Brown, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, just before she administered an Oath of Allegiance to twenty new U.S. citizens. The group of newly established Vermonters had assembled on stage at The Grammar School in Putney for their Naturalization Ceremony. They represented 15 countries - Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, France, Moldova, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sweden, the U.K., Vietnam, and Yemen...

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Voices

Request at Town Meeting can prompt a school update

By
Nancy Olson
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 — Issue 550

When I opened my Putney Town Report and looked at the warning for Annual Town Meeting, I faced the reality of our merged school district: no Putney Central School portion of the meeting on March 3. However, under Article 13, “To transact any other town business that may legally come before the Annual Town Meeting,” we voters can request from the floor that someone associated with Putney Central School give us an update on the school. A voter will make...

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Arts

BAJC hosts Purimpalooza Musical Costume Party with Wanda Houston, Eugene Uman at Vermont Jazz Center

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 — Issue 348

The Brattleboro Area Jewish Community (BAJC) marks the holiday of Purim this year with Purimpalooza, a costume party open to everyone, starring jazz vocalist Wanda Houston and Brattleboro's own jazz master pianist Eugene Uman, along with several other local performers, on Saturday, March 19, from 7 to 10:30 p.m., at the Vermont Jazz Center at the Cotton Mill. “Purim is the most joyous of all Jewish holidays,“ BAJC Cantor Kate Judd said in a news release. ”We celebrate the story...

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