Arts + Culture
Theater Review: ‘Dakar 2000,’ Vermont Stage
Rajiv Joseph’s 2025 play, directed by Virginia Monte, is a tense two-hander designed to make viewers doubt what they see and hear.
Stuck in Vermont: Cambridge Volunteers Help an Established Cat Colony
Episode 777: Cambridge Community Cats and the Cambridge Village Market raised money to fix about 30 cats in 2023. Only four cats remain.
Three Questions for Forester and Ecologist Ethan Tapper
In his new book, ‘The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving’, the Bolton naturalist documents one year of stewardship in the woods he calls home.
New Documentary on Erik Satie Screens in Burlington
Bastien Loukia’s film about the iconoclastic French composer screens thanks to the Burlington-Honfleur Sister Cities Committee.
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Stuck in Vermont: The Witches’ Walk in North Pownal Celebrates Extraordinary Women
Episode 776: The Pownal Historical Society organized the event in remembrance of Margaret Krieger, a widow who was tried for witchcraft around 1785.
Visual Art
‘Vermont Vice’ in Bennington Tells the Lurid Story of the State
The exhibition offers art and artifacts that chronicle two centuries of Vermonters’ changing attitudes toward sex, money, alcohol and drugs.
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Music + Nightlife
Soundbites: Sinister Sounds and Silver Linings
In Vermont music news: Matt Hagen drops his murder-ballad opus, Oteil Burbridge and LaMP team up for Make-A-Wish, and Big Heavy World finds a home.
Movies + TV
Revisiting a Shameful Chapter in TV Journalism, ‘Primetime’ Explores the Roots of Our Current Reality Crisis
Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, host of the hit reality show ‘To Catch a Predator,’ who builds a career on confronting criminals with theatrical flair.
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Submit Your Audition Video for the 2026 ‘Spectacular Spectacular’ Youth Talent Showcase!
Know a budding comedian, singer, dancer or magician? Tell them to audition for the 13th annual Kids VT Spectacular Spectacular by October 25! The top 20 acts will perform in a live talent showcase on the big stage at Higher Ground in South Burlington on Sunday, December 6, noon-2 p.m. The show is brought to…
New Book Reveals Federico García Lorca’s Vermont Connection
‘Lorca in Vermont’ by Patricia Billingsley explores the Spanish poet’s secret relationship with a Hardwick man nearly a century ago.
Actors With Down Syndrome Present a New Version of ‘Hamlet’
In Peruvian company Teatro La Plaza’s ‘Hamlet,’ coming to the Hopkins Center, eight actors use Shakespeare’s famous play to tell their own stories.
Culturally Relevant: The Return of ‘Real Vermonters Don’t Milk Goats’
The Return of ‘Real Vermonters Don’t Milk Goats’ What does a 1983 humor book have to say about Vermont now? We explore this, plus a Vermonter’s HBO doc and the end of ‘Vermont Almanac.’
Local Film ‘Every Day: Big and Small’ Gives ‘Helpers’ the Spotlight
The latest documentary by Barnet filmmaker Bess O’Brien is her love letter to Vermont and the people who forge connections, build resilience and bring joy.
Vermont Author M.T. Anderson on His New Book, ‘Stealing Saint Nick’
The National Book Award winner explores the strange history of how Saint Nicholas became Santa Claus, getting his bones stolen along the way.
Fail Better: Ace Lehner Brings Queer Failure to the Barbershop
At the University of Vermont art professor’s BCA Center pop-up exhibition, participants get queer coifs and engage in positive acts of failing to conform.
Video: Vermont Stage Presents ‘Dakar 2000’
See Dakar 2000, running September 24 through October 11 at Main Street Landing in Burlington. On the eve of the new millennium in Dakar, Senegal, a Peace Corps volunteer and the State Department operative sent to investigate him form an unexpected partnership that changes everything. A neo-noir tale of modern espionage written by Rajiv Joseph…
Magnificent 7: Must-See, Must-Do Events in and Around Vermont, September 23-30
Explore our editor’s picks for must-do events in Vermont this week, including two appearances by Canadian folk rocker Lynne Hanson.
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