Arts + Culture
Inside the Mind of Booker Prize Nominee Makenna Goodman
The Montpelier author, whose novel ‘Helen of Nowhere’ has been long-listed for the prestigious award, talks about the complexities of simple living and writing from bed.
Theater Review: ‘Lobby Hero,’ Dorset Theatre Festival
Watching this razor-sharp production of Kenneth Lonergan’s play is an experience of emotional tension singing through four everyday lives.
Plasticiens Volants Brings Its Inflatable Puppets to Vermont
The Flynn’s Playing Fields series presents the French street-theater company at nearly a dozen schoolyards, football fields and city parks across the state.
Short Takes on Five New Vermont Books
Here’s the read on new releases from local writers, including an award-winning historical novel and the true story of a failed utopia.
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Stuck in Vermont: Boating With Michael Hendrickson of Burlington Harbor Launch and Tow
Episode 774: From April 1 to the end of the boating season, Hendrickson is on the water seven days a week and on call 24-7.
Visual Art
Two Programs Highlight Sculpture at Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
2025 fellow Sarah Peters and sculptor-in-residence Heidi Mortensen present their work amid gardens and monumental artworks by the Beaux-Arts master.
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Music + Nightlife
Meet Vermont’s All-Star High School Band, MINC
Composed of student musicians from around Vermont, the band is learning the ropes of the music business while laying down some serious jams.
Movies + TV
Horror Is a Love Language in ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’
Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder bond over slasher films, sexual trauma and sugar in a thought-provoking, surrealist meta-comedy from Jane Schoenbrun.
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Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Brings Star Power
Jane Fonda and Anaïs Mitchell headline the 2026 fest, the first with four-time Emmy winner Andy Knight Mitchell on staff.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn at Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival
The famed composer, who grew up in Cavendish, spoke about music, soccer and his famous father, Russian exile and writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Book Review: ‘The Nobody Code,’ Miciah Bay Gault
The ambitious second novel from the former director of the Vermont Book Awards follows a new mom trying to solve a mystery grounded in her Vermont adolescence.
Bits and Pieces: Mary Tapogna’s Mosaics at Kishka
The Lyndonvile artist creates connections between disparate works, from crosses to portraits of pop-culture icons, that make intuitive sense.
Magnificent 7: Must-See, Must-Do Events in and Around Vermont, August 19-26
Explore our editor’s picks for must-do events in Vermont this week, including acclaimed comedian Gary Gulman at Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.
How Wanda Audette Transformed Vermont’s Oldest Adoption Agency
Lund has found families for more than 12,000 children in its 135-year history. Audette, who retired in June, placed nearly half of them.
‘Valley Transit’ Films in the Upper Valley
Spearheaded by Junction Arts & Media with an all-local cast and crew, the movie is believed to be the first feature film shot entirely in the region.
Phil Acimovic Creates a Soundtrack for Cold Hollow Sculpture Park
The Yale lecturer and composer performs an original score inspired by the works of artist David Stromeyer at the Enosburg Falls park.
Wagner in Vermont Festival Features ‘Tristan und Isolde’
Brattleboro couple Hugh Keelan and Jenna Rae bring the composer’s epic operas to small-town Vermont. This year’s fest plays out August 14 to 19 at Latchis Theatre.
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