Think college kids today are self-conscious? “Call us the apathetic generation and we will become that,” wrote Joyce Maynard in her 1972 New York Times Magazine essay “An Eighteen-Year-Old Looks Back on Life.” “Say times are changing ... and you make a movement and a unit out of a generation unified only in its common fragmentation.”... Read more

Short films seldom hit theaters, which means many movie-goers don’t give them a thought till they hear the nominees in that category read at the Oscars. Even then, we may assume they’re just glorified film-school assignments. But the animated flick 9 got its start as an acclaimed short ... so, for that matter, did the recent sci-fi hit District 9. (Click on the titles to see the short versions of both on YouTube.)... Read more

If Kyle Bergman wasn’t an architect, he’d be a filmmaker. That’s why the 47-year-old New York resident combined his profession with his passion to create the Architecture and Design Film Festival, a new four-day event taking place at Waitsfield’s Big Picture Theater.... Read more

Tim Kavanagh, host of WCAX’s locally produced talk/variety show “Late Night Saturday,” announced last Saturday that episode tapings have been suspended “until further notice.” “The turbulent state of our economy has claimed many victims and our locally produced show is now one of them,” he writes in a mass email to “Late Night Supporters.” Kavanagh notes that WCAX will continue to air reruns of “LNS,” as well as &#822... Read more

The first female steamboat captain in the United States, Philomene Daniels, was vicariously honored with a painting of her boat … on the back of a chair. A theater seat, to be precise — one of the original seats in the Vergennes Opera House, circa 1897. That’s when Vermont artist Ernest Haas, renowned for his maritime scenes, adorned the seat with his painting of the steamboat Little Nellie.... Read more

Tin and aluminum are the traditional, if slightly boring, gifts for a 10th anniversary. But Vermont Stage Company is opting instead for a “greatest hits” gala to commemorate the decade-long union of Burlington’s professional theater troupe with both its artistic director, Mark Nash, and its home stage, the FlynnSpace.... Read more

A little less than a year ago, while the national financial markets were in a tailspin, Rutland’s Chaffee Art Center experienced its own bit of fiscal turmoil. The 47-year-old organization, housed in an ornate 1896 Queen Anne Victorian mansion, had run out of money and was forced to lay off its staff and close for the winter. But its fortunes didn’t exactly crash because of the stock market, so what happened?... Read more

Rich Rodriguez has two passions: tennis and acting. He grew up in a tennis-loving family in California, where his father, Ralph, was such a diligent member of the Stanford University tennis team that the school named the trophy clubhouse after him.... Read more

Calais farmer and actor Jim Hogue has run for governor (in 2006), grilled policy analysts on WGDR at Goddard College, and brought his Ethan Allen living history presentation all over the state, performing at many Vermont secession-movement gatherings. But it’s probably safe to say he’s never appeared on Dutch TV.... Read more

In the first three pages of Tess Stimson’s novel One Good Affair, a neonatalogist enjoys torrid sex with her long-time lover, thinks tenderly about her clueless husband, receives an emergency call, leaps out of bed and heads off to the hospital in her sky-high red stilettos.... Read more