Thursday, April 13, 1 p.m.—WEST PAWLET—On Thursday, April 13, the Mettawee Community School’s sixth-graders will present “Dig It!, A Musical Tale of Ancient Civilizations” written by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson. There will be two performances: 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The community-at-large is invited to these free, handicapped accessible presentations. Through “Dig It!” the…

Friday, April 14, 7 p.m.—CASTLETON—“The Opulence of Integrity” is a theatrical, multimedia ensemble work inspired by the public life and inner searching of boxing’s outspoken superstar, Muhammad Ali. Inspired by Ali’s career as a boxer and life as a social activist, public martyr, and human being, choreographer Christal Brown deploys her eclectic movement vernacular to illustrate the…

Friday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.—RANDOLPH—Join Chandler Friday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. to experience a captivating evening of music with Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, as they weave together the styles of gospel, chamber, blues music, and Appalachian murder ballads. Both musicians are innovators as banjo players and composers in their own eclectic avenues. Béla…

Tuesday, April 18, 7 p.m.—CASTLETON—Castleton Arts and the Castleton University Soundings program are thrilled to present the Vermont premiere of a truly remarkable collaboration featuring acclaimed British actor Julian Sands in “A Celebration of Harold Pinter” directed by John Malkovich. Billed as an “evening of Homeric theater with an extraordinary actor,” this unique production has…

Saturday, April 15, 1 p.m.—RUTLAND—Paramount Theatre continues its Live in HD broadcasts from the National Theatre of Great Britain with the second in a three-play series. The broadcast—Peter Shaffer’s masterpiece “Amadeus”—will screen Saturday, April 15 at 1 p.m. Lucian Msamati plays Salieri in Shaffer’s iconic exploration of music, power and jealousy. The production also features…

Saturday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.—BRANDON—Acclaimed and celebrated Scottish concert pianist Murray McLachlan will perform at the Compass Music and Arts Center April 15 at 7:30 p.m., the first recital to be given on a classic 1915 Steinway piano recently donated to the Compass Music and Arts Foundation by the estate of late New York jazz…

T.A.G. Vision: Together, Art Grows RUTLAND—Welcome springtime into the neighborhood by decorating garden stakes, cute ladybug rocks, and other fun crafty creations during April school vacation. Tuesday, April 18, 4-6 p.m. there will be a Spring Craft Party in the Community Green Space at 113 Library Ave., Rutland. The rain date will be the next…

Sunday, April 16, 5:30 a.m.—What better way to start off Easter Sunday than with a sunrise service at Killington Peak? Then, watch the kids as they search for treats left behind by the local Easter Bunny, including lift tickets and season passes. Easter sunrise service is set to begin at 6:30 a.m. at the Killington…

Friday, April 14, 1:30 p.m.—BROWNSVILLE—Brownsville Community Church will sponsor the first of a series of free concerts open to the public Friday, April 14. The first concert will be a Good Friday concert which starts at 1:30 p.m., followed by a brief service at 2:30 p.m. The concert will feature treasured works from Bach and more including…

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By Daryle Thomas We have now suffered through the first few weeks after daylight saving. Spring ahead, loose an hour. “Don’t worry,” my friend said. “The days are getting longer.” Spring means it won’t be long before the deep woods snows begin to melt, swelling the brooks, streams and rivers across Vermont’s greening landscape. In…

By Elise Tillinghast Every year around this time, my husband, kids and I haul out the tent blind from our garage and set it up in the field in front of our house. We toss in a few folding chairs, a thermos, maybe a neighbor. At dusk, we take our seats. First come the vocalizations…

I suspected Trump’s surprise electoral victory was Russia’s doing, until I discovered an important puzzle piece I knew nothing about. Now I believe the meddler extraordinaire was more complicated, sinister, and insidious than Kremlin hacking alone. Have you ever heard of “psychometrics?” I hadn’t until I happened upon an article called “The Data That Turned…

When I was a kid, I never woke up in the morning and said, “When I grow up, I want to have a needle in my spine.”  Of course I also never said, “When I grow up, I want to be single at the age of 46.” And also, I never said, “When I grow…