Posted By Dan Bolles on Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:30 AM

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Posted By Pamela Polston on Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:39 AM

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Dreamstime

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Posted By Amelia Devoid on Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 8:07 AM

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Guy Derry

I hope 2017 is the year that unites the growing number of excellent bedroom producers in Vermont into a self-sustaining movement. There is a distinctive, laid-back and transcendental personality to much of the experimentation and development going on. Let's recognize and celebrate it as an exciting new style emerging from our community. Between renowned Burlington-based audio plug-in company Soundtoys and Champlain College's fostering of digital arts, there's got to be a big wave of  slick electronic music on the horizon.

Tags: CMBN8R , electronic , production , beatmaking , ambient , new age , club , indie , Burlington , Image , Web Only

Posted By Sadie Williams on Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 2:25 PM

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Sadie Williams

Brautigan Library courtesy of Todd Lockwood

Burlington seems to have a cosmic connection to counterculture author Richard Brautigan, known for his 1967 novella Trout Fishing in America, among other titles. On Sunday night at Radio Bean in Burlington, a small group of local artists and fans got together to celebrate the spirit of the writer's work with the Richard Brautigan Group Art Show.

The event, which riffed on a fictional library in Brautigan's 1971 book The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966, invited attendees to bring a piece of original artwork to hang on the walls of the small coffee-shop-cum-concert-space. Artists Sarah Letteney, 32, and James Bellizia, 40, organized the event/exhibit and said the works will be on display for a month.

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Posted By Rachel Elizabeth Jones on Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 4:09 PM

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Rachel Jones

Lindsay London

Saturday afternoon in Burlington, Winooski resident Lindsay London shouted through a megaphone at the top of Church Street: "'Hysteria' comes from the Latin word for 'wandering uterus'!"

London was met with cheers, jeers, moans and wails from a group of approximately 20 people, assembled for a "Public Panic Attack" in response to the impending inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump. "Because sometimes the only reasonable response is to PANIC!!!!!!" declared the group's Facebook event.

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Posted By Amelia Devoid on Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 6:30 AM

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Elizabeth Jewett

'thoughts count', Chance McNiff

Hey, pals. Remember my first post for the Live Culture blog? I wrote about an obscure musical artifact from 2013 titled Sequoiahedron, by Brattleboro's Chance McNiff. In the post, I predicted that McNiff had some new sounds in his reserve and expressed the hope that 2017 would see them presented to the public. To my delight, just one week into the new year, McNiff sent me a Bandcamp link to a new collection of modular synth compositions. The collection, titled thoughts count, is a hypnotic exploration of  vaguely psycho-tropical ambience and rhythm with minimalist execution.

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Posted By Sadie Williams on Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:36 PM

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Courtesy of Renata Hinrichs

Renata Hinrichs

There's a new act in town — or, more precisely, four new acts. Monica Callan, of the local theater company MOXIE Productions, is gearing up for a winter run of solo shows titled the "One & Only Series" at the Grange Hall Cultural Center in Waterbury Center.

Renata Hinrichs opens the series with performances this Saturday and Sunday, January 14 and 15. The New York City actor and playwright presents her autobiographical show, Random Acts, which chronicles her upbringing as the daughter of a white Lutheran minister on the South Side of Chicago. The show won Best Storytelling Script in the 2014 United Solo Festival.

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Posted By Jordan Adams on Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:54 AM

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Courtesty of Betsayda Machado

Betsayda Machado

Mixed Methods is bringing Afro-Venezuelan icons Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo to Burlington for a special performance on Wednesday, January 11, at North End Studios. Below, you'll find a video announcement made especially for their Burlington show.

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Posted By Sadie Williams on Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:16 PM

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Sadie Williams

Lars Hasselblad Torres at Generator on Sears Lane

Burlington's Generator has completed the move from its former home in Memorial Auditorium to new digs on Sears Lane in the city's South End. The move was financed by a $300,000 fundraising campaign. Leased from Champlain College, the new Generator includes some notable changes.

One of them, explained director Lars Hasselblad Torres, is a new key card system installed by John Yasaitis, a former Generator member and a cofounder of the Alternator lab on Pine Street.  The system allows studio members to access the studio any time of day or night.

Generator's educator-in-residence program is also new. The maker space is offering a Vermont educator two months of free studio time and a $500 monthly stipend. The goal, said Torres, is to provide the teacher with the time, and physical and intellectual resources, to develop a new curriculum.

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Posted By Dan Bolles on Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM

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