Every Friday we'll be scouring the internets for tidbits of randomness, local and otherwise, to help you tick minutes off the clock until quittin' time. Here's this week's installment.

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On the home front …

Ad Hoc's Michael Sugarman has a favorable review of the new collaboration between Burlington's Greg Davis and Ben Vida, Working Models.

Former Seven Days music freelancer Will Ryan has caught on as a critic at Beats Per Minute. He's a fan of the dark new record from the Haxan Cloak, Evacuation.

The website for this year's Waking Windows festival is live.

Betcha didn't know the most depressing (and hilarious) job interview ever happened recently in Burlington. 

Ever lament, er, wonder how many Kickstarter campaigns there have been in Vermont? (And which ones were or weren't successful?) Wonder no more. 

And in nonlocal happenings…

Would you be more or less likely to see Fast 6 if it were filmed using remote-controlled cars?

Hey hey, my my. Rock and roll will never die … at least if Maroon 5's Adam Levine and his alleged harem of groupies and drugs have anything to say about it. 

Or David Lee Roth, for that matter.

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

And finally, this:

This Week in Movies You Missed: What would happen if you crossed the Harold and Kumar movies with David Cronenberg? Or Men in Black with a stoner's shaggy-dog story?

What You Missed

David Wong (Chase Williamson, pictured) relates his unlikely adventures to a journalist (Paul Giamatti). It all started (or did it?) when his friend, John (Rob Mayes), got dosed with a drug called "soy sauce" at a show. Suddenly John found himself moving through time and space, accessing other dimensions and knowledge he wasn't supposed to have — and then he died. Or did he?

The sauced experiences of John and David (a pseudonym, he hastens to point out) will lead to their becoming "spiritualist exorcists" who routinely encounter interdimensional portals in shopping malls, giant spiders, ghosts, aliens, sentient viruses and slugs that try to burrow inside you.

When you're connected to the heartbeat of the universe (or something like that), nothing ever is what it seems.

What's new in movie theaters this week?

A Jackie Robinson biopic. Scary Movie 5 (wish I were kidding).

And, most promisingly, director Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines (pictured), in which Ryan Gosling does his Ryan Gosling thing and Bradley Cooper gives his second sterling performance, or so I have heard. It's at the Roxy and Savoy.

This weekend also brings us a glut of one-time or rare screenings, so take out your calendars:

On Friday, the annual LunaFest, a benefit for Vermont Works for Women and the Breast Cancer Fund, brings a program of nine short films to Burlington. They include narratives, documentaries and animation — all by and about women. This year, one nonfiction selection profiles Georgena Terry, founder of Burlington-based Terry Precision Cycling.

Terry doesn’t live in Vermont, but filmmaker Bess O’Brien does. Catch her speech at the reception.

Speaking of O’Brien, her husband, Jay Craven, will premiere his new movie this week at five locations.

For the very first post in our new arts blog, perhaps it's fitting that we direct you to ... the paper! Or, of course, the website.

Whether you're a fan of print or pixels or both, each week we'll post a summary here of what we have to say about music, theater, art, dance, film, books and other cultural entertainments.

So here you go:

In our State of the Arts column, I preview Tesla in New York, showing Friday and Saturday at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College. A collaboration of composer Phil Kline (pictured right) and indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch — and a co-commission of the Hop — the work-in-progress performances this weekend offer a peek at roughly half of the opera expected to premiere in late 2014. It's about the life of everyone's favorite mad inventor, Nikola Tesla.

Freelancer Julia Shipley, a poet herself, writes about the Harbor Mountain Press, a small publisher of mostly poetry and based in White River Junction. Owner Peter Money, writes Shipley, "persists with the stability of a mountain, unaffected by the shifting sands of the publishing industry." Harbor Mountain's latest, and 21st, title is A Cage Within, by Cuban poet Wendy Guerra, translated by Dartmouth prof Elizabeth Polli.

Megan James talks with Middlebury College assistant professor of theater Andrew Smith about a new-play festival called "Undressing Cinderella." The provocatively titled fest, performed this week through Saturday, features short theatrical works based upon the classic tale — but the works are focused on any character except Cinderella.

The Independent Television & Film Festival is relocating from Los Angeles to tiny Dover, Vt. this year. Seriously? Yup. Read Margot Harrison's explanation here. That event isn't until September. But this month, you could check out the new Monadnock International Film Festival in Keene, N.H., to fulfill your star-spotting needs.

With sorrow we report on the passing of Bradford "Bear" Ingalls, who died last week at the age of 61. Bear was a beloved stage and TV technician with a long behind-the-scenes career at, among other places, the Flynn Center. His colleagues at VCAM share a memoriam.