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Sometimes it takes a bunch of completely stoked twentysomethings to remind everyone that the Queen City, like, totally rules. University of Vermont students Connor Boals, 20, and Lily March, 21, are so enthusiastic about Burlington’s creative scene they’ve founded an online magazine about it. “We’re all just really in love with Burlington,” confessed March, the magazine’s art director, at the launch party last Wednesday night at Halvorson’s.... Read more

After 21 years of wearing an officer’s badge in the largest municipal police force in the State, Stephen Dixon had to learn to be the top cop in a small town, and he had six weeks to do it.... Read more

Real crime is no laughing matter, especially a vicious homicide. Yet the audience for Mildred Taken Crazy — a short play based on a notorious late-19th-century murder in Montpelier — can expect some humor at its performance in Burlington next week. Bellows Falls-based actors/playwrights Steve Friedman and Denny Partridge like to say: “Our plays are always funny, no matter how serious.”... Read more

When it debuted in Berlin in 1928, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) instantly turned old-fashioned opera into groundbreaking musical theater. It had a political edge, thanks to the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), and its music was infused with the sounds and sensibilities of 1920s German cabaret, courtesy of the great composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950).... Read more

If you thought the nerdy-white-guy-rapping movement began and ended with the “Lazy Sunday” video, maybe it’s time to check out Nerdcore Rising, a documentary screening at the Palace Cinema 9 at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 4, as a benefit for the Vermont International Film Festival. Burlington filmmaker Bill Simmon caught the premiere of the film last month at the South by Southwest film fest in Austin, Texas.... Read more

When is a toy not really a toy but a dramatic set? Not to mention an oracle, a sort-of GPS for domestic orientation, and a bit of a ruse?... Read more

A few weeks ago, kung-fu adventure The Forbidden Kingdom, scripted by Morristown’s John Fusco, conquered the opening-weekend box office and gave moviegoers an early taste of summer fun fare. Now comes Marvel Studios’ Iron Man, which ushers in the new season of warm-weather action with a huge coast-to-coast release this Thursday evening.... Read more

Following its successful conference on how to develop creative-economy projects in Vermont communities, held last fall at the Statehouse, the Vermont Council on Rural Development put together a DVD to assist said communities. And now the whole shebang is online. Visit www.vtrural.org/creative-economy/ for video and audio presentations, success stories and resource guides — and get crackin’ . . . Burlington College filmmakers put their best footage forward next Tuesday, April 29, at the Student Film Festival at Higher Ground in South Burlington.... Read more

What’s a nice girl from Essex doing in a show like this?... Read more

Parents and schoolteachers know that all kids go through stages. At Burlington’s Very Merry Theatre, it’s the actual stage that counts. Make that center stage. VMT, the brainchild of Donald Wright, began in 2002 as a summer drama camp in which a small herd of spirited children modified Shakespeare — call it Baby Bard.... Read more