May 24-30, 2006
Burlington’s Beloved ’90s Band The Pants Roll Up Their Cuffs for One More Show; Vermonter’s Medical Marijuana?; New & Selected Poems by Hayden Carruth
News Quirks 05.24.06
Curses, Foiled Again Federal authorities said that Gary E. Peel, 62, a lawyer in Madison County, Ill., had an affair with a 16-year-old girl who was his sister-in-law, then 32 years later tried to use sexually explicit photographs of the girl to leverage his ex-wife out of her share of their divorce settlement. Instead, he…
Caracalla, Letters To The Dead
(Self-released, CD) It’s been a long time since I’ve heard a new release from a Vermont-based extreme-metal band. Maybe I’m just out of touch — I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t get to many heavy shows these days. Nevertheless, I’m absolutely blown away by Caracalla’s debut EP, Letters to the Dead. The…
Gary Sisco & Pals, The End Of The Trail
(Frederick Productions, CD) How do you review a CD by an artist who hasn’t picked up a guitar since 1984? Well, it helps to remember that Gary Sisco played some incredible sets of music back in the late ’70s and early ’80s. And he kept good company: The late barroom crooner Jeffrey Frederick and cult…
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS*1/2
Camilla Belle stars in this remake of the 1979 horror hit in which a babysitter survives an attack by a killer only to find herself pursued by him years later. Brian Geraghty costars. Simon West directs. (PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/whenastrangercalls/
THE WHITE COUNTESS***
In James Ivory and Ismail Merchant’s final collaboration, Todd Jackson is a jaded American diplomat in 1930s Shanghai keeping sordid company with a refugee Russian countess (Natasha Richardson) who’s been reduced to prostitution. Kazuo Ishigur (Remains of the Day) wrote the original screenplay. (138 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/thewhitecountess/
THE RINGER**1/2
Johnny Knoxville stars in the comic saga of an ordinary young man who infiltrates the Special Olympics in order to experience the thrill of victory. Brian Cox costars. Barry W. Blaustein directs. (100 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/the_ringer/
THE PRODUCERS**1/2
First it was a movie. Then it was a Broadway hit. Now it’s a movie again. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick play showmen who put on a musical designed to lose money. Susan Stroman directs. (165 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/the_producers/
DOOGAL*1/2
Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and Whoopi Goldberg are among the voice cast for this animated adventure about four doggy friends who team up to save the world from an evil sorcerer. Directed by Frank Passingham, Dave Borthwick and Jean Duval. (79 min, G) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/doogal/
Classic Fit
Vintage but not distressed, Burlington’s beloved ’90s band The Pants roll up their cuffs for one more show
Mr. Natural
Book review: Toward the Distant Island: New & Selected Poems by Hayden Carruth
