Jul 19-25, 2006
Exploring the Winooski With the Author of In the Land of the Wild Onion; Vermont Ranks Lowest on List of Potential Terrorist Targets; The End of Iraq by Peter Galbraith
The Limes, Best Of The Zest
(Self-released, CD) Being in the school band used to mean playing lame arrangements of even lamer songs with a burned-out instructor who can’t understand why kids don’t like Paul Anka. My, how times have changed. Cabot, Vermont’s The Limes are a high school band under the guidance of a far more progressive music teacher, trumpeter…
Dan Zura, What Moves You Kid
(Self-released, CD) Throw discs by Jeff Buckley, Devendra Banhart and the Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano into a blender, then randomly re-assemble the pieces, and you might end up with something like What Moves You Kid, the debut from Montpelier singer-songwriter Dan Zura. Recorded live over two afternoons in March 2006, the album is a playful,…
News Quirks 07.19.06
Curses, Foiled Again Police investigating the theft of a safe from a fitness club in Florence, Ky., identified Jennifer L. Perriman and Stacey N. True, both 21, as their suspects because the two had entered the club after hours with a key belonging to Perriman, a club employee. They found the cleaning crew still working,…
TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY****
Michael (24 Hour Party People) Winterbottom directs this conceptually adventurous adaptation of Laurence Sterne’s sprawling, 18th-century masterpiece featuring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Naomie Harris and Gillian Anderson, who plays herself. (94 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/picturehouse/tristramshandy/
BASIC INSTINCT 2: RISK ADDICTION:
A mere 14 years after the release of the original, Sharon Stone is back as everybody’s favorite nutty crime novelist, Catherine Tramell. This time around, she moves to London and engages in a torrid affair with the psychiatrist assigned by Scotland Yard to evaluate her. With David Morrissey. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. (114 min, R)…
