Oct 12-18, 2005
Vintage Video Games; Burlington’s E-Sports Lounge; Richmond’s Computer Games Magazine
Astrology 10.12.05
ARIES (March 21-April 19): California’s San Joaquin Valley has the worst air in the state, and as a result, 12 percent of the kids who live there have asthma. The terrible pollution stems largely from burned fossil fuels trapped between the mountain ranges that surround the valley. Ironically, the smog often hides the mountains from…
Opinion: Body Politic
Call me a meat puppet, but I like my politics corporeal. Before the Internet, activism meant bodies in a room, arguing, scheming, flirting, drinking. Taking on a task, you made a commitment to people who could hold you accountable. The “movement” was a network of thousands of rooms, thousands of relationships. One commitment you made…
Back to Bach
For years, Blanche Honegger Moyse seemed unstoppable. In 1969, she and her then-husband, Louis Moyse, founded The New England Bach Festival, which lured music lovers to southern Vermont for two weeks of world-class concerts and classes amidst the fall foliage. A highlight was a major work performed by the Blanche Moyse Chorale; in 1985, the…
News Quirks 10.12.05
Curses, Foiled Again Police investigating a theft at a convenience store in Brewer, Maine, identified Matthew French, 21, and Gina Nelson, 22, as their suspects after the store’s surveillance tape showed Nelson distracting the clerk while French slipped $50 worth of cigarettes down his pants. Police learned their names because the clerk remembered while reviewing…
First-Person Shooter on Church Street
Turning on to Algebars, Burlington’s new e-sports lounge
Crazyhearse, Pigman
(Self-released, CD) Straight out of what must be the most dilapidated backwoods shack in Middlebury comes spook-country psychos Crazyhearse. With their rotten hearts on their sleeves and tongues firmly in cheek, the band lives up to its oddball moniker. Comprising David Kloepfer on guitar and banjo, Shan Reil on bass and keys and Corey Many…
Various Artists, Mondays at 10 PM
(Self-released, CD) A compilation CD can be a blessing or a curse. While such discs provide an opportunity to sample a variety of performers, some are spotty at best. Back in the ’90s, local comps were ubiquitous; the trend seemed to peter out in the new millennium. By then, many had grown weary of these…
THE INTERPRETER***
Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn are paired in Sydney Pollack’s political thriller about a U.N. employee whose life is endangered when she accidentally overhears an after-hours conversation in the General Assembly Hall. (128 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/the_interpreter/
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR*1/2
Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George and Jesse James team up for this remake of the 1979 horror chestnut about a family that experiences ominous phenomena that seem to be related to their new home’s violent history. Based on a true story. With Philip Baker Hall. (105 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/the_amityville_horror/
MY SUMMER OF LOVE****
Emily Blunt and Natalie Press star in this drama from director Pawel Pawlikowski, in which two young women find love together in spite of efforts by a former criminal and religious convert to stop them. Paddy Considine costars. (83 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/mysummeroflove.html
