

Coming Soon!
The month-long Vermont Localvore Challenge begins tomorrow, August 1, and I’ll write more then about what the challenge is, and why I’m doing it.In the…
Rick Davies, Siempre Salsa
(Emlyn Music, CD) Plattsburgh trombonist Rick Davies knows from salsa. I, on the other hand, do not. Is that a hindrance to my enjoyment of…
Patrick Fitzsimmons, Live 2005: The Birthday Shows
(Itz Fitz Music, CD) Vermont-based singer-songwriter Patrick Fitzsimmons is a familiar presence in the Green Mountain acoustic scene. A former member of major-label folk-rockers From…
Astrology 07.26.06
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The honest man must be a perpetual renegade,” said French essayist Charles Peguy. The honest woman must be one, too, I…
News Quirks 07.26.06
Curses, Foiled Again When British motorist John Hopwood, 44, received a traffic ticket after a speed camera recorded him driving 48 mph in a 30-mph…
Greenbelt Green Thumbs
A year after an effort to restrict them, curbside gardens are still abloom in Burlington
SHE’S THE MAN**1/2
Andy (Who’s Your Daddy?) Fickman directs this teen comedy about a boarding-school student who decides to disguise herself as her twin brother. Starring Amanda Bynes,…
CLEAN ****
From writer-director Olivier Assayas comes this wrenching drama about a woman attempting to balance the roles of mother and fast-lane heroin addict. Starring Maggie Cheung,…






