By Dom Cioffi I lay there looking up into the sky, only the clouds visible within my range of sight. I could move my fingers and toes (something my father always told me to do to make sure I wasn’t seriously injured), but I still felt like I was paralyzed. Only seconds earlier, all the…

This has been a strange winter for me, weather notwithstanding. This is the winter where, maybe for the first time ever, and certainly for the first time since my divorce, I let someone in. More than let her in, I saw her, met her, liked her, got to know her, let her know I was…

Has there ever been a time more plagued by pop-culture nostalgia than the present moment? Our new TV shows, increasingly, are old TV shows: not remakes or “reimaginings,” which typically carry the challenging novelty of all-new casts and new characters responding in contemporary style to the older premise (as in the short-lived, high-tech modernizations of…

By Joe Rankin It’s still the middle of winter, but the sun is climbing higher each day and I know that it won’t be long until my honeybees are out seeking nectar and pollen. From early-blooming red maple trees. Then sugar maples, apple trees, dandelions. From blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. From clover, staghorn sumac, and…

  By M. Kathleen Shaw, DVM Vermont Veterinary Medical Association Retractable leashes. They’re oh, so convenient! Instead of struggling with your dog to stay at your side, you can let them trot ahead of you to explore as far as 18 feet away. Dogs can sniff to their heart’s content, while you still have control…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Void-of-Course, Aquarius Moon that will entered Pisces. Within a bevy of aspects that includes Mars moving from Scorpio to Sagittarius, and Vesta’s entrance into Taurus, the big news highlights March 8, and centers around a Full…

Brickdrop—they may be a new band to many, but they plan on being around for a long time, so folks will be able to get to know them. If you want that to be sooner rather than later, go to Merchants Hall in Rutland this Saturday at 7 p.m. Brickdrop is comprise of Ben Bivins,…

Courtesy of Chaffee Art Center Local artist Ann McFarren will instruct the next Sip ‘N Dip class in painting this waterside landscape. Wednesday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m. — RUTLAND — Join the Chaffee Art Center for arts night out on Wednesday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m. Follow along with instructor Ann McFarren to paint a waterside landscape…

Courtesy of Michelle Roche Media Relations LIVE AT THE FILLMORE Thursday, March 10 at 8 p.m. — KILLINGTON — Live at the Fillmore, the definitive tribute to the Allman Brothers Band, will perform at the Pickle Barrel Nightclub on Thursday, March 10 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $120 at the door. The venue is…

By Chris Hornbecker

Courtesy of Sony Pictures Photographer Sebastião Salgado has traveled for the past 40 years, documented in the film “The Salt of the Earth.” Friday, March 11 at 7 p.m. — GRANVILLE, N.Y. — The Slate Valley Museum will host its second Sip and Paint on Slate on Friday, March 11 from 7-9 p.m. The class will be…

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Courtesy of Brandon Music VERMONT VIRTUOSI Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. — BRANDON — Vermont Virtuosi returns to Brandon Music on March 12 at 7:30 p.m. with a program of chamber music. “Once Upon a Time” features music that is narrative in character and takes listeners on a sonic journey that is sometimes pastoral, sometimes lively,…

Submitted Saturday, March 12 at 12:30 p.m. — Bring your pets to the drive up and poke rabies clinic in the Bridgewater Marketplace parking lot on Saturday, March 12 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Pay inside, take a number, and head back to the car for the “poke.” Rabies shots are due every three years—be…

Courtesy of CHIARA STRING QUARTET Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. — RANDOLPH — The Chiara String Quartet, much venerated by Chandler audiences over the years, makes its return to Randolph on Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. On the program will be two works by composer friend Gabriela Lena Frank and a quartet by Bela…