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Arts

‘Local Music & Food’ series continues at Next Stage with M.O.D.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 — Issue 544

PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project continues its bimonthly Local Music & Food series in the Next Stage Cafe on Friday, Jan. 17, with Molly Steinmark's trio M.O.D. and dinner from the Top of the Hill Grill.

M.O.D. plays a mix of funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, and R&B and features Steinmark on drums and vocals plus a rotating cast of some of the area's finest musicians.

For this concert/dance party, Darby Wolf (keyboards and bass) and Dan Thomas (guitar) round out the trio.

The Cafe will offer pulled pork/cole slaw, andouille/blue cheese and portobello/mozzarella sliders with pickles and chips for $4, and a beer/wine cash bar, starting at 6 p.m. The music starts at 7 p.m.

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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News

Motel program residents return to homelessness

By
Ellen Pratt
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 — Issue 718

On a recent hot morning outside the Quality Inn on Putney Road, Kayla and Travis are loading bags of clothing and small pieces of furniture into the back of a pickup truck. They are part of the first wave of evictions from Vermont motels, after the end of the federally funded pandemic-era program that sheltered some 3,000 Vermonters (and around 270 people in Brattleboro) experiencing homelessness. In Brattleboro, an informal group of local service providers, town administrators, and leaders from...

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Voices

A simple climate solution: quit buying SUVs

By
Marcia Hylan
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 — Issue 556

Are we really going to just wait for our government to change the laws regarding the miles per gallon a vehicle should get? The industry says we don't want these cars that get better mileage and that we want lots of room and for the gas prices to go down. Can we prove the industry wrong? According to the Harper's Index, our penchant for SUVs has placed that type of vehicle as the number-two contributor to our increased carbon emissions...

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Arts

Multi-instrumentalist Owen Nied to perform in Bellows Falls

Wednesday, January 1, 2020 — Issue 542

After appearing as an opening act in August, multi-instrumentalist Owen Nied returns as the main event to the Stage 33 Live listening room, 33 Bridge St., on Jan. 5. Nied's original music spans edgy pop, jazz, blues, rock and hip hop, and his influences include artists as diverse as Wes Montgomery, Les Paul, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jack White, Jeff Beck, Brian Wilson, B.B. King, Dick Dale, Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, Chet Atkins, and Ella Fitzgerald, according to a news release.

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