BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by...
BRATTLEBORO-The sun had just set when a lone car pulled into the partially hidden and empty parking lot of the Brattleboro Collision Center on Old Ferry Road. Out popped State Treasurer Michael Pieciak, who was on a mission to return $5,150 in unclaimed funds to Todd DeAngelis, who owns the business. All in all, Pieciak returned $150,000 of unclaimed property to businesses, nonprofits, and service providers across Vermont's 14 counties on Sept. 9 and 10. This Unclaimed Property Road Tour...
The Commons editors added material to my notice of acting workshop and classes at the Hooker-Dunham Theater this fall. The description of the Meisner technique taken from the website of the Meisner Technique Studio in San Francisco contains a quote that is startling. The quoted language is that the Meisner technique trains actors to be “fearless, authentic, moment-to-moment machines.” Oh, boy. I think Meisner would roll over and die again if he saw “machines” describing the aim of his work...
The public art project Sonic Blanket will hang a banner above Main Street that reads, “You are beneath the cover of the Sonic Blanket,” for a week beginning Saturday, Sept. 11. This banner will be part of a series of public artworks and handmade signs that have been installed throughout the listening area of Brattleboro Community Radio, WVEW-FM 107.7. Sonic Blanket is a year-long community art project consisting of a sound collage by local artists Jonathan Gitelson, Weston Olencki, and...
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