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BELLOWS FALLS-Unlike several of her Republican colleagues who have faced some very vocal voter outrage...
BRATTLEBORO-Windham County educators and community members have been quick to stand up for diversity, equity,
Selectboard members were all ears at an April 8 "listening session" and spent most of...
BRATTLEBORO-U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes slept in one of its bedrooms in 1877. Writer Rudyard...
New England Center for Circus Arts 74 Cotton Mill Hill #300, Brattleboro • Website: necenterforcircusarts.org • Facebook: facebook.com/NECenterforCircusArts/ • Founded: 2003, as a component of Nimble Arts LLC, the touring company under which Serenity Smith-Forchion and Elsie Smith perform. The circus school was incorporated as tax-exempt, tax-deductible nonprofit in 2007. • Employees: 30–50, varies seasonally • Annual revenue: $844,522 in 2014 • Products/services: As described on NECCA's website: “The New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) offers people of all...
Sean Altman's “Jewmongous Unkosher Comedy Songfest” will invite holiday revelers to come “[c]elebrate the birth of the most famous Jew” Altman's specialty is “an irreverent, sometimes vulgar, but always illuminating view of American Jewish life,” says Rabbi-Cantor Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue in Manhattan in a testimonial on Jewmongous's website. The performance takes place Saturday, Dec. 27 at the Hooker-Dunham Theater. “Lyrically, I try to channel my inner Lenny Bruce via John Lennon, but sometimes it comes out as my...
E. M. Forster wrote “Only connect … ” as the epigraph to Howards End, and I have been thinking of that maxim as I have considered recent developments in American political life. A lot is going on, from new awareness of how frequently white police officers kill unarmed black people, to a recognition that our system of incarceration is both fascist and deeply broken, to an understanding that rape is rampant on our college campuses. It is as if we...
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