Corporate Agribusiness doesn’t give a damn about you.  They prove this with every recall, with every outbreak of botulism, every time a slaughterhouse gets fined and keeps doing what it does.
The movie FOOD, INC. is being shown at Lyndon State College on Saturday night at 8:00 PM.  There is no charge.  It’s being presented by [...]

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Kate McGarrigle       1946 – 2010
I first heard Montreal’s The McGarrigle Sisters thirty-five years ago on Jonathan Schwartz’s show on WNEW-FM.  (And also on the Sunday Show on WNEW-AM.)  They entered the American mainstream when Garrison Keillor started featuring them regularly on Prairie Home Companion.  From there it was on to Letterman and SNL and when [...]

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Where are we headed, and what’s with this handbasket??
Since economists have no clue at all, we decided to have the Great Recession explained by a…cartoonist.  Fortunately, we went to the top.
On Wednesday morning, Bob Mankoff, New Yorker Magazine cartoon editor (and a damn fine cartoonist in his own right) called in.  Amazingly, as we talked, [...]

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Jennifer Hartswick left Sheffield, her hometown, eleven years ago.  She graduated from Lyndon Institute, headed to New York City, spent a couple of years at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford and lives now in Chicago.
She plays trumpet, she sings, she mixes jazz, funk, soul and other genres and brings her [...]

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Yes, we have liquor in the studio on occasion.   When we have our Halloween and Christmas parties (coming soon!), bottles of Champagne (or at least sparkling wine) and Kahlua show up.  Some linger. We’re unsure if it’s legal, but the FCC hasn’t busted us yet so we’ll continue.
Just to our north, Ric Peterson, the afternoon [...]

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Click here for a great story from the October 5th issue of The New Yorker.

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Editor’s Note:
He finished his last show at Dead North in Danville nearly four years ago and then disappeared into the night. Until today, nobody knew where he’d been.  But the man known as Jingo The Dark Clown is back in St. Johnsbury, preparing to perform at the Belly Dance Circus, at Catamount Arts on [...]

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