On Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day, the LGBTQ community celebrated the relocation of the Andrews Inn historic marker on The Square. The event also celebrated the naming of what now is the Andrews Inn Lounge, part of the Ciao Popolo Restaurant, and the installation of a plaque and photos there commemorating the building's history. Andrews Inn was a historic gay bar, nightclub, and inn that operated from 1973 to 1984, one of the few safe places for LGBTQ people...
BRATTLEBORO-I dip my pen into the swiftly congealing blood, the precious fluid that runs in all our veins. This line stumbles over bodies that lay neatly stacked on the bomb-pitted ER floors. Small faces contorted in a twist of anguish as the red thread divides those who live and die. My pen scratches out the last of a short life, my fingers trembling as the horizontal strand stretches. How long a line is the life of a child this tiny...
California singer/songwriter Mary McCaslin seldom ventures East, but she'll be stopping by the Windham Ballroom at Popolo Restaurant on Wednesday, Dec. 5. Joining her on the bill is guitarist and songwriter Rick Shea, a member of Dave Alvin's touring band The Guilty Men. McCaslin and Shea will each take a solo turn, then they'll perform classic songs from “The Bramble and the Rose,” a duo recording McCaslin and the late Jim Ringer made in a Vermont barn in the 1970s.
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