BRATTLEBORO-The Henrik Ibsen drama An Enemy of the People will lead audiences to question "the...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will head to Windham County to present two cutting-edge music presentations...
BRATTLEBORO-Throughout the month of April, River Gallery School will exhibit "Places We Know: Local Landscapes...
BRATTLEBORO-ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., is supporting the Vermont Reads community program by...
Students at the School for International Training are campaigning to have SIT divest itself from fossil fuels. The students are talking with administrators and board of the school's parent nonprofit, World Learning, to get the institution to divest the portion of its $48.5 million endowment that is invested in fossil fuel companies. World Learning is a nonprofit corporation that includes the SIT Graduate Institute, SIT Study Abroad, and the Experiment in International Living in Brattleboro, as well as the International...
“I write songs, and I play guitar while singing those songs,” says Gibson Chase-Pinkney, who prefers to go by his first name only. However, Gibson's music is more complicated than that. Think Jonathon Coulton plus Tom Lehrer times two minus satire; hyper-strummed, yet somehow deeply rooted in throwback coffeehouse folk. Often earnestly dark, but always with an impish grin - geeky, enthusiastic, energetic. There's not an easy way to describe Gibson's music, but he's smart, a load of fun, and...
Responding to a decade-long campaign initiated by Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, Ben & Jerry's announced on July 19 that it would no longer sell its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories after the company's current franchising agreement expires at the end of 2022. Writing in The New York Times, Bennett (Ben) Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who describe themselves as “Jewish supporters of the State of Israel,” said they were seeking to draw a “contrast between the democratic territory...
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