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Amanda
Drane | Oct 13, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, News, Stage
Within seconds of meeting each other, tap and jazz dancer David Bovat and percussionist Jeff Hinrichs are moving and grooving. Hinrichs lays down a quick tempo on the djembe, which makes a deep, hollow sound, and Bovat’s tap shoes start click-clacking in double time....
by Amanda Drane | Sep 22, 2015 | Arts, News
Chuck Close Photographs University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center From figures to flowers to faces, Chuck Close Photographs can be summed up in one word: intimate. Museum-goers get a feel for both Close’s subjects and the...
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Hunter Styles | Jul 28, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, News
The past five years were rough on Brattleboro. In the summer of 2011, tragedy struck the town several times: Tropical Storm Irene caused extensive flood damage, a five-alarm fire destroyed much of Main Street’s historic Brooks House building, and the Brattleboro Food...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jul 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is, I realize, July and it is already summer. I tend to post my Annual Summer Wish List a good bit earlier, sometime in June. Better late than never, people! In general, I end up with a dizzying list that includes many things I may or may not ever do (that...
by James Heflin | Jul 8, 2015 | Arts
When it comes to paintings of someone sitting around glumly, few have reached the level of notoriety of “Whistler’s Mother.” Even though the painting, which indeed does depict painter James McNeill Whistler’s mother, is actually entitled “Arrangement in Grey and...
