Nov 1-7, 2006
Getting Down With Vermont’s Independent and Alternative-Party Candidates; Martial-arts Instructor Laurie Shover Teaches Women to Hit Back; Some Health-Conscious Consumers Like it Raw
The New Gypsy Swing Quartet
Reinhardt & Grappelli Manouche Jazz. Address: Doug Reid 1714 Vertical Mile Road , 05851 Phone: 802-626-8896 Web: newgypsyswing.com E-Mail: newgypsyswing@aol.com
David Murphey
American roots music. Multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, ukulele, etc.) sings and plays Americana from country blues to early bluegrass, Jimmie Rodgers to The Carter Family, Honolulu to Memphis. Address: David Murphey 242 Main Street , 05602 Phone: 802-223-1862 E-Mail: dmurphey1@verizon.net
Blurry
The ANTI-classic rock band! Blurry performs 80’s, 90’s, and today’s rock and roll, with a intersting variety of familiar songs/artists that havent’s been played to death at every club and radio station. The band showcases talented musicians with passion for performing. Blurry’s sound draws from modern rock, alt rock, and grunge. Address: John Mc Donald…
17 East
17 East is an Original Alternative/Indie rock band from the central Champlain Valley. The Alternative Rock genre is quite eclectic, and 17 East explores its’ boundaries with a sound ranging from mellow acoustic numbers to window rattling rockers. Mixed in with a number of originals are a number of select covers from bands such as…
Spencer-Dickinson, The Man Who Lives For Love
(Yep Roc Records, CD) Spencer-Dickinson (not to be confused with the Rhode Island-based politician) is the nom de plume of punk-blues shit disturber John Spencer and Luther and Cody Dickinson of r&b/jam crossovers the North Mississippi All-Stars. Their debut, The Man Who Lives for Love, is a collection of chicken-shack skronk and lowdown soul that’s…
George, By George!, Radio Songs
(Self-released, CD) Rutland singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist George Nostrand – also known as George, By George! – must spend more time playing music than sleeping. In little more than a year he’s released the 10-track, original disc Radio Songs and a live recording from the Windham in Bellows Falls, and he recently started another band called…
News Quirks 11.01.06
Curses, Foiled Again British police arrested three men who robbed an armored car in Liverpool after a group of schoolchildren helped identify them by memorizing the getaway car’s license plates. A passerby who spotted the car feared she would forget the number, so she told it to a group of 9- and 10-year-olds in a…
An Actor Prepared…
Hardwick actor Edgar Davis turns in a powerfully taut performance as Walter Lee Younger
SLITHER***1/2
Screenwriter James Gunn makes his feature film-directing debut with this suspense-fest about a sleepy town invaded by an older-than-time organism intent on devouring all life on the planet. Starring Michael Rooker and Elizabeth Banks. (96 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/slither/
NACHO LIBRE**1/2
Jack Black re-teams with School of Rock-scribe Mike White for this comedy about a Mexican monk who leads a secret life as a Lucha Libre wrestler. With Peter Stormare and Ana de la Reguera. Directed by Jared Hess. (91 min, PG) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/nacholibre/
MONSTER HOUSE***1/2
Steve Buscemi, Jason Lee and Catherine O’Hara are among the voice cast in this animated horror-comedy about a trio of tots who tangle with an evil edifice. Gil Kenan makes his feature directorial debut. (91 min, PG) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/monster_house/
AN AMERICAN HAUNTING**
Writer-director Courtney Solomon brings us a fright-fest based on the only documented case in U.S. history of a supernatural spirit causing a person’s death. Starring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek and Rachel Hurd-Wood. (90 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/anamericanhaunting/trailer/
