Apr 11-17, 2007
King Leopold – Who’s Really Running the City of Burlington?; Vermont’s Impeachment Cry Gets National Attention; Eating and Drinking at Burlington’s International Airport
Avi & Celia, Off The Floor
(Self-released, CD) Like many local acts, Burlington’s folk-blues-rock-soul duo Avi & Celia came together while attending UVM. Since then, the two have played both small coffeehouse gigs and big-ticket concerts with their backing band, The Walkin’ Line. Their debut disc, Off the Floor, brings together six spirited originals steeped in American musical tradition. The majority…
Raising Lowers the Bar
Theater Review: Parenting 101: A Musical Guide to Raising Parents
News Quirks 04.11.07
Curses, Foiled Again Police investigating a break-in in Bettendorf, Iowa, concluded that the burglar used an identification card to jimmy the lock because they found the card in the apartment. Issued by the Illinois Department of Corrections to released inmates, it identified Robert Alan Fry, 43, who got out two months earlier after serving time…
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Guys and Dolls [SIV17]
4/6/07, Guys and Dolls: Lyric Theatre Company, one of New England’s largest volunteer community theatre groups, presents “Guys and Dolls” April 12-15th at the Flynn Center. This is the third time the company has put on this show and their 36 member-cast hails from 14 Vermont communities. Eva talks to the colorful cast and crew…
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Machine Madness [SIV18]
4/7/07, Machine Madness: Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich held its 4th annual Machine Madness event this past Saturday. Inventors and engineers of all ages brought their Rube Goldberg inspired machines to the museum and hooked them all up to one another for one massive chain reaction! Will it work or will it need help?…
Neale’s Deal
EXHIBIT: Maggie Neale: “Evolution and Expression” a gathering of paintings. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier. Through May. ARTWORK: “What Lies Below” by Maggie Neale In her new show, entitled “Evolution and Expression,” Montpelier artist Maggie Neale affirms what Abstract Expressionism founders Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman said in a 1943 manifesto: “There is no…
Mike Gaito, Beard Of Bees
(Self-released, CD) The real buzz around Vermonter Mike Gaito’s perfectly baffling solo debut Beard of Bees doesn’t come from Gaito’s facial hair, but from his inventive interlacing of folk, prog rock and jazz. Consider that a compliment. Where else can you hear the musical tale of a Cuban-cigar-smoking, flask-guzzling emu named Hobart? And let’s not…
VOLVER****
Penelope Cruz stars in Pedro Almodovar’s portrait of La Mancha women coming to grips with every conceivable variety of travail, from daughters stabbing their predatory fathers to ghosts appearing in the trunks of cars. With Carmen Maura. (121 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/volver/
THE GOOD SHEPHERD****
Robert De Niro directs this fictional account of the birth of the CIA. Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie head a cast that includes De Niro himself, along with long-lost pal Joe Pesci. (168 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/thegoodshepherd/
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT**1/2
Gabriel Range directs this fictional television documentary about the assassination in the year 2008 of George W. Bush. Becky Ann Baker, Michael Burke and Jay Patterson star. (93 min, R)
BLACK CHRISTMAS*
College students’ holiday season is marred when a psycho terrorizes their sorority house in this remake of a 1974 slasher. (84 min, R)
CHARLOTTE’S WEB***1/2
Dakota Fanning stars in Gary Winick’s live-action adaptation of E.B. White’s classic tale of loyalty, trust, sacrifice and pork. Featuring the voices of Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey and Robert Redford. (98 min, G) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/charlottesweb/
