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Crews work to restore clock faces on iconic Burlington church
The clock at an iconic downtown Burlington church is getting some much-needed TLC.
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Book Review: ‘Alice Sees Ghosts,’ Daisy Rockwell
Can haunting be benevolent? That’s the question posed by Alice Sees Ghosts, the second novel from Bennington author, visual artist and translator Daisy Rockwell. Despite its Halloween-adjacent U.S. release date, the book is more comedy of manners than horror tale. But it does evoke an eerie sense that everything we do is haunted by the specters of our forebears.
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ECHO After Dark, an exploration of death
Purple lights cast long shadows, the silhouettes of ghosts and ghouls flooding over tables displaying animals long dead. Beetles gnaw on bones, while vivid descriptions of death and decay fill the room. On Friday, Oct. 16, the ECHO Leahy Center hosted Memento Mori, an adults-only event centered around nature, death...
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Student musicians take center stage at Sonic Futures Battle of the Bands
Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship, for the Waterbury Roundabout & Valley Reporter. Following a girls volleyball quarterfinal win down the hall, Harwood Union Middle & High School’s auditorium was filled to the brim Friday night for the annual Sonic Futures Battle of the Bands.
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‘Dark Botanica’ at BCA Center Presents the Unsettling Side of Flowers
Think of works with a slightly sinister cast within the vast history of botanical art, and you may recall Dutch master Rachel Ruysch’s luminous bouquets in shadowy spaces, Henri Rousseau’s ominous jungles or Vincent van Gogh’s vases of intense, manic-depressive blooms. Unless you are Seven Days music editor Chris Farnsworth, who, when told of the exhibition “Dark Botanica” at BCA Center, immediately referred this writer to Christopher Walken’s classic 2008 “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Indoor Gardening Tips From a Man Who’s Very Scared of Plants.”
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New Nightclub Planned for Former Nectar’s Building
The space that hosted legendary Burlington music venue Nectar’s for nearly 50 years might open its doors again soon. Whether it will do so under the name Nectar’s remains to be seen. As reported by WCAX-TV on Thursday, businessman and nightclub owner Shawn Cliche has submitted zoning applications...
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UVM’s Perkins Museum of Geology reopens after 6 years
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - After years behind closed doors, the University of Vermont’s natural history museum is welcoming visitors again, starting with its most famous resident: a whale. The Charlotte Whale, Vermont’s official state fossil, is back on display at the Perkins Museum of Geology. The museum shut...
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Longtime Guild member takes on new role as gallery manager
MILTON — For Cathy LaClair, stepping into the gallery manager position at Milton Artists' Guild is more than a new professional opportunity. It's a chance to build on a relationship with an organization she has helped shape for nearly a decade. A longtime Milton resident, professional goldsmith and former...