Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2005
The Ritalin Riddle – The Debate of Vermont’s k-12 Drug Habit; Teaching Old Folks Cyber Strokes; Two on the Aisle – Equinox “Liaison”
Simplicity
Rock Superstars Address: Brian Moore 27 North Winooski Ave. , 05401 Phone: 313-570+3650 Web: www.simplicitymusic.com E-Mail: bmoore@simplicitymusic.com
Dawna Hammers, Melody
(New Clear Music, CD) Vermont has long been famous as an outpost for leftist ideals and lovey-dovey hippie happiness – these are the “green” mountains, after all. But sometimes all that talk makes the place feel more like a commune than a community. It’s wonderful that so many residents are peaceful folk, but it doesn’t…
Dolorean, Violence In The Snowy Fields
(Yep Roc Records, CD) Dolorean got their start in 1999 with low-key performances in restaurants, cafés and basements around their hometown of Portland, Oregon. Their stark, melodic folk-pop soon gained greater recognition, and in 2002 the band was scooped up by Yep Roc Records of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Violence in the Snowy Fields, Dolorean’s…
News Quirks 03.30.05
Curses, Foiled Again An agency that serves the poor in Fostoria, Ohio, called police after thieves broke in through a back door and stole a safe. The safe was empty, according to Susan Simpkins, director of the Fostoria Bureau of Concern, who explained that the agency had been intending to throw it out, but it…
Astrology 03.30.05
ARIES (March 21-Apr. 19): Sabotage all attempts at cooperation. Resist acts of unification. No matter what, refuse to forgive anyone. Your role models should be the Israeli rabbis who prayed for the failure of February’s peace summit between prime minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. APRIL FOOL! I was just kidding, of course.…
5 Seconds Expired
Josh Cooper (guitar) Jeff Howlett (vocals) Shaun Varney (bass/backing vocals) Gary Williams (drums/percussion) 5 Seconds Expired combine eclectic influences in a textured, melodic, agressive and rhythmic range of sounds. 5SE expand this approach on their newest self-titled release. The band has a long history of writing and performing together, both in this band and other…
THE FINAL CUT**
Robin Williams stars in the feature debut of writer-director Omar Naim, a futuristic thriller about a man who works with a new technology which allows him to edit the memories of the dead into footage to be shown at their funerals. With Mira Sorvino and Mimi Kuzyk. (94 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/the_final_cut/
FAT ALBERT**
Kenan Thompson plays the heavy in this live-action update of the ’70s animated series based on characters created by Bill Cosby. Dania Ramirez and Keith Robinson costar. Joel Zwick directs. (100 min, PG) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fat_albert
DISTANT****
This award-winning Turkish film tells the story of two Istanbul brothers who have very dissimilar lives and problems but share the same inability to find happiness. Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. (95 min, NR)
BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON***
Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant reprise the roles they originated in the 2001 hit Bridget Jones’s Diary. Despite that film’s happy ending, the sequel features an hour and 48 minutes of romantic misunderstandings and embarrassing situations. Gemma Jones costars. Beeban Kidron directs. (108 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/theedgeofreason/
BEING JULIA***
Annette Bening and Shaun Evans star in Istvan Szabo’s character study about an aging London theater actress who suffers something of a breakdown until love comes into her life in the form of a young man half her age. With Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon. (104 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/being_julia.html
