Oct 11-17, 2006
Senator Leahy Brings Home the Bacon – but is Pentagon Pork Good for Vermont?; VT’s Small Museums of Culture and History Face Uncertain Future; Is There More to Maple Than A, B and C?
Rise To Fight, Where Dreams Go To Die
(Self-released, CD) Lurking beneath Burlington’s jam-funk surface is a surprisingly resilient loud-rock scene. But with the majority of area venues courting college kids, groove-oriented acts…
Pretty & Nice, Pink & Blue
(Self-released, CD) Indie-rock quartet Pretty & Nice might not live up to their moniker, but they’re a striking band nonetheless. For the last couple of…
News Quirks 10.11.06
Curses, Foiled Again When a sheriff’s deputy in Harris County, Texas, tried to pull over a Ford Aerostar van for a traffic violation, the van…
The Democracy Diet
How Vermont’s political campaign staffs fuel the fire in their bellies
Taking (Live) Stock
Book review: Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm, by Linda Faillace
Paddy Warbucks
Senator Patrick Leahy brings home the bacon – but is Pentagon pork good for Vermont?
X-MEN: THE LAST STAND***
Brett (Red Dragon) Ratner takes the reins for the trilogy’s final installment, in which a cure for mutancy threatens to change the course of history….
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING***1/2
Jason Reitman (son of Ghostbusters director Ivan) makes his feature directorial debut with this blistering satire poking fun at both sides of the anti-smoking issue….
CHANGING TIMES***
Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu star in Andre Techine’s story of long-lost love set against the backdrop of cultural turmoil in Tangiers. (98 min, NR)…
