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Arts

Sweetback Sisters bring their Christmas Spectacular to the Stone Church

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 — Issue 490

BRATTLEBORO — Christmastime is here again and the Sweetback Sisters are returning to The Stone Church on Main St. with their 10th annual Country Christmas Singalong Spectacular on Dec. 20 at 7 p.m.

With vaudevillian theatrics reminiscent of TV variety shows of the 1950s and '60s, the popular show includes trivia, prizes, and, of course, many beloved holiday tunes. Songbooks will be provided.

The Sweetback Sisters band will include their original guitarist Ross Bellenoit, Rob Hecht on fiddle and saxophone, and Charlie Muench of the Stray Birds on bass.

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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Brattleboro announces holiday closures

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 — Issue 593

In observance of the Christmas and New Year's holidays, the town has announced the following closures: • Town offices will close at noon on Thursday, Dec. 24, and will be closed all day on Friday, Dec. 25. All town offices will be open for normal business hours on Thursday, Dec. 31 but will be closed on Friday, Jan. 1. Emergency services during both holidays will operate as usual. • Brooks Memorial Library remains closed to the public. Curbside service will...

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Voices

Who is making the policy?

By
Michael Bosworth
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 — Issue 607

Leading up to Brattleboro's March 20–21 Annual Representative Town Meeting (ARTM), the one issue I was cogitating most extensively about was the relationship between the body's Human Services budget and the Community Safety Review Team's report (CSRTR). The intersection of these two topics, however, did not fit squarely into any article on the warning, and so it never actually came up. I would, however, like to raise this publicly now in the hopes that it will generate a useful exchange...

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Arts

Latchis hosts special screenings of ‘Secret Mall Apartment’

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 — Issue 812

BRATTLEBORO-The Latchis Theatre will host two special screenings of the 2024 award-winning documentary, Secret Mall Apartment, followed by discussions, on Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, at 7 p.m. Secret Mall Apartment tells the true story of eight Rhode Islanders who created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall in 2003 and kept it going for four years, filming everything along the way. "Far more than just a wild prank," film promoters say, "the secret mall apartment...

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