Sep 21-27, 2005
Performing Arts Issue: Keeping Up With Burlington’s Biggest Ballet Success
Submerged Series Part III: Just a Little While to Stay Here
Gambit Weekly editor reacts to Katrina disaster
Mike & The Ravens, Nevermore
(Bacchus Archives, CD) Back in the early ’60s, Mike & the Ravens wowed audiences in Vermont and upstate New York with their rugged rock ‘n’ roll and boyish charms. In an era when performers rarely played their own tunes, these five young gents wrote and performed all original music — talk about enterprising. A popular…
Meg Devlin Irish, Rock Solid Romancin’
(Self-released, CD) On her third recording, Rock Solid Romancin’, Vermont singer-songwriter Meg Devlin Irish collaborates with a number of other songwriters, making particularly fine use of Montpelier multi-instrumentalist Colin McCaffrey’s Nashville-style songwriting skills and tunesmanship. The result is far more pop-oriented and countrified than was Irish’s 2002 release Grounded. When it comes right down to…
News Quirks 09.21.05
Curses, Foiled Again A suspected drug dealer being chased by sheriff’s deputies in Alameda County, Calif., decided to throw away a bag containing 3 ounces of methamphetamine. When he was finally caught, however, he still had the drugs with him. The bag he threw away contained only trash. Sheriff’s Deputy Steve Angela said that suspect…
Astrology 09.21.05
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your adversaries may have a tough time of it in the coming days. I bet their schemes will backfire, their bad hair days will be frequent, their ignorance will be glaringly visible, and the trouble they’ve caused will be punished. How should you react? You’re allowed exactly one hour of gloating.…
Our Man in Baghdad
Checking in with Fox News’ new Iraq bureau chief before he leaves Vermont
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY***1/2
Douglas Adams’ freewheeling cosmic classic finally makes it to the big screen with this adaptation from director Garth Jennings. Martin Freeman stars as Arthur Dent, an ordinary chap who begins the adventure of a lifetime just as life on earth comes to an end. With Sam Rockwell, Mos Def and Alan Rickman. (110 min, PG-13)…
FEVER PITCH**
The Farrelly brothers adapt Nick Hornby’s autobiographical bestseller into a romantic comedy featuring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon as a couple trying to come to grips with Fallon’s all-consuming obsession with the Red Sox. (101 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fever_pitch/
