Mar 1-7, 2006
Could Electronic Election Fraud Happen in Vermont?; Burlington’s Mardi Gras; Clavelle’s Successor: Hinda, Bob or Kevin?
Pat Donohue, Profile
(Blue Sky Records, CD) Grammy Award-winning guitarist Pat Donohue is one of the hottest fingerpickers around. But his incredible facility on acoustic and slide guitar isn’t his primary claim to fame. Donohue’s got a regular gig as a member of Garrison Keillor’s rock-solid “Guys All-Star Shoe Band,” who perform every Saturday night on National Public…
Deep Soda, Jongles: Collected & Destroyed Vol. 1
(Self-released, CD) Several years ago, local rock oddities Deep Soda went into self-imposed exile, trading the stage for the studio. Now, after countless hours of recording, they’ve emerged with Jongles, the first in a proposed trilogy of new releases. Conceived as a deconstruction of advertising jingles, the album boasts 13 deranged- and ridiculously catchy -…
Astrology 03.01.06
ARIES (March 21-April 19): After viewing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1662, diarist Samuel Pepys called it “the most stupid, ridiculous play I ever saw in my life.” French philosopher Voltaire had an equally dim view of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. “One would imagine this piece to be the work of a drunken savage,” he wrote…
News Quirks 03.01.06
Curses, Foiled Again Swedish police investigating a burglary in Overtornea rang the number of a cellphone that had been among the items taken. “The thief answered the phone, but then just put it away without turning it off,” police officer Kurt Paavola said. Officers subsequently overheard the man complaining about the taxi he had called…
THE WEATHER MAN****1/2
Gore (Pirates of the Caribbean) Verbinski brings us this dramady about a popular Chicago forecaster whose career is looking more successful by the minute while his personal life verges on total disaster. Starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine and Hope Davis. (102 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/the_weather_man/
SEPARATE LIES***1/2
Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson are teamed in first-time director Julian Fellowes’ drama about an upper-crust English lawyer who learns the driver in a hit-and-run death is his wife’s lover. (87 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/separate_lies/
RENT**1/2
Based on Puccini’s timeless opera La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s musical follows a group of young New Yorkers struggling to survive in the East Village. Starring Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs and Jesse L. Martin. Directed by Chris Columbus. (135 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/rent/
NORTH COUNTRY****
Niki (Whale Rider) Caro directs and Charlize Theron stars in this fact-based drama about a female iron miner whose efforts to stop mistreatment at the hands of male coworkers resulted in the nation’s first class-action lawsuit for sexual harassment. With Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson. (126 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/north_country/hd/
DOMINO**
Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke and Lucy Liu star in this biopic about Domino Harvey, the daughter of the great actor Laurence Harvey and a one-time model who made the curious career change to bounty hunter. Tony Scott directs. (120 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/domino/trailer_2/
