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If the best way to combat speech you find offensive is with more speech, the same goes for art. Last fall, a South End Art Hop talk occasioned by the display of Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann‘s mural “Independence Paintings” drew protests from people disturbed by the work’s visual analogy between Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and Palestinians under Israeli authority.... Read more

Four. Thirty. Five.

That’s the price per gallon of gas in Saranac Lake, N.Y., and the motivation behind a marketing ploy at Pendragon Theatre.

To encourage carpooling and relieve a parking crunch, the Pendragon is giving drivers of high-occupancy vehicles $5 off admission to summer series shows. Drive in with three people or more, and you can buy a gallon of gas, a couple of cookies at intermission, whatever.... Read more

When the St. Albans Artists Guild first approached painter Harald Aksdal of Fairfax with the idea, he had one response: “I don’t have time for this.”

After some thought, he decided the proposal had its upsides: funding for the Guild, exposure for his arts community, and though he can demand thousands of dollars per original work a chance to exercise his talent on a new subject.

Wildlife.

“I had to make the time for it,” Aksdal says. “It’s that special.”... Read more

It’s a tale with a happy beginning, a troubled middle, and knock wood - a happy ending.... Read more

Montpelier’s Savoy Theater kicks off the second edition of its Sci Fi July series over the Fourth of July weekend with two scary monster flicks: Ridley Scott’s Alien on July 4-5 and John Carpenter’s The Thing on July 5-6. The series that puts speculative classics back on the big screen will also feature Fahrenheit 451, Barbarella, A Clockwork Orange and more, with matinees added to the late-night screenings.... Read more

Any self-respecting child of the ‘80s will remember Choose Your Own Adventure books -- those second-person tales with titles such as Mystery of the Maya and Lost on the Amazon that gave the reader the power to determine his or her fate. If you thought the series had gone the way of Cabbage Patch Kids and Lite-Brite, think again.... Read more

Vermont’s historic contribution to the development of the American left is most famously embodied in Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist who broke through to electoral success. But Vermont was also home for many years to a lesser-known figure: Murray Bookchin, who revived the anarchist tradition and melded it with an influential green critique of centralized industrial society.... Read more

Christopher Thompson is the first to admit he doesn’t have the “typical background” of an art gallery curator. For one thing, the brand-new chief curator of the Firehouse Gallery has an inordinate amount of experience with computer systems when he was growing up the son of a Princeton physicist, he explains, the family home always “had a connection to the Princeton mainframe.” That history alone separates him from most arty types indeed, from nearly everyone.... Read more

If you don’t know about the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial yet, no doubt you’ll soon be hearing, and reading, plenty. The 400th anniversary of the lake’s “discovery” by Samuel de Champlain is in 2009, but for event planners that’s just around the corner. And the momentous occasion has inspired a frenzy of projects from creative, commercial (think tourism) and educational types, all linked to the “sixth great lake.”... Read more

Shout It Out: The Voices Project Movie has some things in common with tween hit Disney’s High School Musical — locker-room angst, candy-colored dance numbers and even a few teenage heartthrobs. It also has abusive parents, cyber-bullying, teen pregnancy and realistic levels of cussing and drinking. Hence Bess O’Brien’s tagline for the film, which premieres this Friday in Burlington: “The real high school musical.”... Read more