Mar 14-20, 2007
Singer-Songwriter Lowell Thompson Gets His Licks In; “Cyber-Bullying” Common Among VT Teen Girls; Sanders Ignores Town Meeting Resolutions Calling for the Impeachment of President George W. Bush
News Quirks 03.14.07
Curses, Foiled Again When a man demanded cash at a department store in Hamilton, Ontario, the clerk refused to hand it over. Police said the medium-built suspect pushed the “petite” clerk aside, grabbed the register drawer and dashed outside to wait for his getaway vehicle. Before it arrived, the clerk confronted the thief and asked…
Tenor Time
Soundbites: Beau Bledsoe, Nathan Granner, Chuch, Margaret MacArthur, St. Patrick’s Day
The Pandas, Solutions
(Rogue Tape Records, CD) Post-rock – or whatever we’re supposed to call that dreamily expansive and mostly instrumental genre these days – has lost a good deal of its novelty. Earlier in the decade, it seemed like every musician with a delay pedal and a Tortoise record was taking a stab at the sound. This…
Town Meeting Resolutions Fall on Deaf Ears
Sanders ignores a second wave of town meeting resolutions calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
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dug Nap [SIV12]
3/9/07, FlynnSpace, Burlington, VT: Local Burlington artist dug Nap performs his one-man, one-night sold out show, “My Imaginary Girlfriend” to an eager crowd. Audience members muse about dug, his art, his cards, his show and his many hats. Location: FlynnSpace in Burlington VT Music: The Hero Cycle, “You vs Them”
Four Play
EXHIBIT: Paintings by Ray Brown, Galen Cheney and Frank Woods, and neo-pop collages by Rob Booz. Artpath Gallery, Burlington. Through April. ARTWORK:”Repose” by Rob Booz Artpath Gallery exhibitions are really four solo shows, so it’s fortunate that this long, narrow hallway venue is roomy enough for artists to mount coherent collections without being crowded. Through…
THE DEPARTED***1/2
Who cares if it’s a remake when it’s Martin Scorsese doing the remaking? The Goodfellas director transforms Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs into a saga of duplicity and deception within the ranks of Boston’s Irish Mafia. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Alec Baldwin star. (150 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thedeparted/
BABEL***1/2
From 21 Grams-director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu comes this meditation on the invisible connections between people and the way a tragedy can ripple from one side of the world to the other. Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Elle Fanning, Gael Garcia Bernal and Koji Yakusho. (142 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/babel/
LET’S GO TO PRISON*1/2
Dax Shepard, Will Arnett and Dylan Baker star in this comedy, which plays off every jailhouse joke ever made. Bob Odenkirk directs. (84 min, R.) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/letsgotoprison/
FAST FOOD NATION***
Richard (Waking Life) Linklater combines forces with Eric Schlosser, author of The New York Times bestseller, to turn the nonfiction work into a dramatic feature focused on the lives behind the book’s facts and figures. Starring Ethan Hawke, Luis Guzman, Greg Kinnear and Kris Kristofferson. (106 min, R.) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/fastfoodnation/
CONFETTI***
Debbie Islitt directed this British comedy, which follows three couples as they compete in a contest for the Most Original Wedding of the Year. Martin Freeman and Julia Davis star. (100 min, R.) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/confetti/
BORAT***
Brit wit Sacha Baron Cohen brings one of his characters from HBO’s “Da Ali G Show” to the big screen. Kazakhi journalist Borat Sagdiyev crosses the U.S. making a documentary and exposing prejudices and hypocrisies along the way. Pamela Anderson costars. Larry Charles directs. (82 min, R.) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/borat/
