The Central VT Lifestyle
A Change of Seasons, a Green Thumb and Breakfast Carbonara
With the onset of April comes thoughts of spring, Easter, fresh blooms and hopefully, sunshine. The record breaking heat wave we endured in Vermont this month turned out to be exactly the type of madness I needed. A green thumb has lurked in [...]
Elizabeth Laprelle and Nicholas Francis at The Montague Bookmill on May 20th
This Friday, May 20th, the Montague Bookmill in Montague, MA is hosting an evening of old-time music in the form of two young artists.
Hailing from Rural Retreat, Virginia, Elizabeth Laprelle performs old-time songs in the mountain unaccompanied vocal style, a genre that takes [...]
Vermont’s Social Dancing Scene
It’s spring, and the rhythm of new life has gotten under our collective skin. What better way to express it than setting your heart aflutter and your toes a-tapping?
It’s not too late to catch Swing Noire on Saturday, May 14. The Vermont quartet brings “gypsy jazz” to North America; their music samples [...]
J Mascis: Several Shades of Why, CD/Album Review
Northampton, Massachusetts’ J Mascis has done it all. Okay, maybe that is a gross exaggeration of the truth, but with the release of Several Shades of Why, he has come that much closer to making that statement true.
From his heavy metal band, Witch, to the weirdo acoustic psychedelia [...]
Susan Hiller, The Last Silent Movie, Smith College Museum of Art, Review
An alumni of Smith College and a former anthropologist, Susan Hiller’s project, The Last Silent Movie, captures the long dead voices of 24 extinct or endangered languages. Using etched pictures and a “silent movie,” Hiller poignantly brings to life these worlds long buried, and [...]
Moti’s in Amherst, Restaurant Review
Tucked away between a crowded strip of restaurants in downtown Amherst is Moti’s, a restaurant specializing in Persian/Mediterranean food, bringing some much needed Middle Eastern flavor to the area.
The first thing you notice when entering Moti’s is the traditional Persian music and the very Middle Eastern décor–a cozy atmosphere with warm [...]
Southern VT/Western MA Mini Magazine: Best Events & Things to Do (Weeks of 5/2/11-5/15/11)
Looking for some cool things to do over the next couple weeks in Southern VT/Western Mass? We’ve got you covered. From author talks to innovative musical performance groups to great exhibits and star appearances, here’s our list of the Top 10 Best [...]
Review of Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt–at UMASS Amherst
I recently visited the UMASS Museum of Contemporary Art where the new exhibit, “Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt” is underway. David Goldblatt is a documentary photographer who has been observing and capturing South African life for the past 50 years.
As I roamed around [...]
Southern VT/Western MA Mini Magazine: Events & Things to Do: April
This coming Sunday afternoon (4/17), the Bennington Museum and Bennington Historical Society will host local scholar George Lerrigo’s discussion on the Corkscrew Railroad, focusing on the “mystery map” that sheds light on the rail of 1925 that never materialized, as well as what is currently [...]
Allston, MA-Based Band, The Clippers, An Evening With…, Review
At a house show last September, in the middle of a conversation I was having about music, a particularly imbibed individual described his impression of the, at the time, two-week-old band as “the sound of speeding down the freeway in a Porsche with a mullet in the [...]
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