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December is the darkest month, but for years, Upper Valley residents could count on a suite of shiny entertainments to take their minds off the lack of sunlight.Northern Stage would install a crowd-pleasing musical, and in recent years Opera North...

For a nonprofit organization, AVA Gallery and Art Center is well-established, but it isn’t particularly old for a gallery.Founded in 1973 in a Norwich barn, the nonprofit visual arts center has grown steadily, and sometimes swiftly. It now inhabits...

Of all the world’s writers, Jodi Picoult seems least amenable to sequestration. The irrepressible author of more books than Dickens, Picoult typically travels to research her novels and revels in book tours that allow her to connect with readers.So...

If there’s a universal tough time, one that everybody has to go through, eighth grade is probably it.Young adolescents grow at different rates and discover their individuality and their interests, experiences that at first can be as alienating as they...

Some of the visitors to the pop-up gallery space next to Amy Morel’s studio in the east end of Woodstock Village have asked about the title of the show on display there: “Crit Group 2.” What does it mean to be in a critique group, to gather with other...

For most musicians, taking your act on the road is part of the deal. Some take it more seriously than others.The Rough & Tumble, the Americana duo of Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler, gave up their Nashville apartment in 2015 after an extended period...

Given the number of prominent artists and writers in Vermont, winning a statewide award in the arts is no small thing.Newbury poet Sydney Lea didn’t have any illusions after his wife nominated him for the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the...

WINDSOR — What Doth Life, the collective of musicians that orbits Windsor, held its first music festival a couple of years ago. There were bands; there were food trucks; it was fun.The event was a kind of dress rehearsal for 2020, the 10th anniversary...

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A pastiche is a work made in a style that’s gone before, even the style of a particular writer or artist, a kind of homage.In conversations about art, pastiche gets kind of a bad rap. It’s the kind of genre before which critics add “mere,” as if a...