After months of public input, staff investigation, and legal advice, the Selectboard has approved an ordinance that will limit the amount of money that landlords can require tenants to pay upfront. The ordinance, approved on Dec. 15, limits advance costs to rent housing to the equivalent of first month's rent and a security deposit. The security deposit must total no more than the amount of one month's rent. Proponents of the ordinance say it will increase access to rental housing...
Running on Top of the Water (billed as “a play of Mania and Mastery”), written, produced, and acted by Charles Monette, with words of Robert Lowell, and directed by Miles Keefe, had its world premiere at the Hooker-Dunham Theater on April 11. Monette's nuanced portrait of Lowell's life is brilliant and sets a stunning familiarity with the world of this quintessential New England poet, aristocrat, and cultural icon. Collaborative artifice and thespian intimacy explore the relationships among art, human suffering,
In partnership with Windsor-based musicians' collective What Doth Life, it's “loud fun crunchytime” at Stage 33 Live, according to a news release, when The Jobz and Jessica Rabbit Syndrome come to record and film concert sets starting around 6:30 p.m., and going to around 9 p.m. on Jan. 20. Jessica Rabbit Syndrome's music “wraps you in a freaky glitter blanket of Glamour Trash Witchcore attitude,” according to the news release, while The Jobz “are nuts and have been around long...
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