The paint is peeling on the little old church in New Haven Mills, but inside, local musicians will soon be swinging.

This weekend, the Preservation Society of the Union Church of New Haven Mills is launching a concert series in the Greek Revival building. There’s no electricity yet, but “the acoustics in the building are amazing,” says Susan Barron, who has been working to restore the place for the last three decades.... Read more

There’s something inherently silly about the Segway. The electric personal transporter was, after all, the vehicle of choice of the arrogant older brother and failed magician G.O.B. Bluth in the TV series “Arrested Development.” And it made ironic headlines in 2010 when the millionaire owner of the Segway company plummeted off a cliff to his death — on a Segway.... Read more

Rusty DeWees thought he might have to stop the show. The comedian, known throughout Vermont as the muscle-flexing, thong-shilling, redneck Logger, was halfway through an hourlong standup set for 90 inmates at the Caledonia County Work Camp last week when he accidentally sparked a near riot. ... Read more

Cat Cutillo and Ross Sheehan have a thing for transforming old spaces. Their Vergennes home used to be a shed, and their new gallery, just a few blocks away, was a carriage house long ago.... Read more

Pat Musick and Jerry Carr make a good pair. Musick has built a career out of using stone, wood and other earthy materials to articulate the tensions between the natural and man-made worlds. Carr has seen the Earth from outer space.... Read more

Bill and Benedicte Dodge have always believed that art should be affordable. It shouldn’t be about spending great wads of cash but about, as Bill Dodge puts it, “lifting people up where they need it, when they need it.”... Read more

When director Baz Luhrmann went on “The Colbert Report” last week to talk about his new adaptation of The Great Gatsby, he mentioned that a “very regal woman” took him by the hands after the movie’s world premiere and told him she’d come all the way from Vermont to see what he’d done with her grandfather’s book.... Read more

White River Junction artist Benjamin Peberdy doesn’t sign his name to the collages he creates, he brands them with a logo. Peberdy makes art under the appellation Deluxe Unlimited^TM, which he chose because he “thought it sounded nicely sort of self-important, and sort of vague.”

His pseudonym may be intentionally ambiguous, but what Peberdy is making is clear: cleverly composed, witty and often biting collages composed of vintage print advertisements, comic-book text bubbles and other illustrations. ... Read more

In the 1970s, when François Clemmons was playing Sportin’ Life in the Cleveland Symphony production of Porgy and Bess — the role that earned him a Grammy in 1973 — he asked musical director Lorin Maazel if he could ditch his tuxedo and wear a shimmering, multicolored silk smoking jacket instead.... Read more

Everyone gravitates to the kitchen. And why wouldn’t they? That’s where the food is and where the party is. But it’s also where clutter builds up. And where home cooks and hosts need things to actually function.

When things don’t, it may be time for a radical kitchen renovation.

Erica Ell, co-owner of Richmond’s HAVEN Design + Building, has remodeled a lot of kitchens. She says the key to a good renovation is “bringing in good lighting and daylight and opening up the kitchen into other living spaces.” ... Read more