Balancing Act

Balancing Act

by | Feb 26, 2009 | Leisure

On the morning of August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit fulfilled a dream and an obsession. Balancing on a wire suspended between the rooftops of New York's World Trade Center towers, the French tightrope walker spent 45 minutes in a meditative trance, far above the...
Domino Theory

Domino Theory

by | Mar 12, 2009 | Leisure

Last February, Mike and Steve Perrucci built and then toppled a course of several thousand dominoes in the main gallery of the Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, and the event was so successful that they are back to do it again. Domino Toppling II: Brattleboogaloo is...
Busta Move

Busta Move

by | Mar 17, 2009 | Leisure

Arguably the greatest comedian of the silent film era, Buster Keaton consistently inspires uproarious laughter without the often overbearing sentimentality of the perhaps better-known Charlie Chaplin. In the 1928 film The Cameraman, Keaton plays a photographer who...
Surviving Hell

Surviving Hell

by | Apr 14, 2009 | Leisure

Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza is an inspiration for many survivors of genocide. She tells of her own endurance in her talk, Faith, Hope and Forgiveness: The Story of a Survivor of the Rwandan Genocide at Amherst College. After losing most of her...
Well Versed

Well Versed

by | Apr 16, 2009 | Leisure

A winning night of poetry at Smith College features Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon (pictured) and four Massachusetts teens selected (by Muldoon) as winners of the 2009 Smith College Poetry Competition for High School Girls. Muldoon is an internationally recognized...