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    Area Teens Get a Taste of the Airwaves

    Twenty students involved in Linking Learning to Life’s youth leadership program, PILOT (Program to Inspire Leadership, Opportunity, and Thought) had the opportunity to engage in the media and communications field on April 6. This interactive field trip was designed to provide local teens...

  • Food/ Health
    Local organizations reach out to teens to reduce smoking

    Across Vermont, the number of youth (14-17 years old) who smoke has remained steady at 16 percent for the past five years, after falling sharply from 38 percent to 16 percent in the decade leading up to 2005.
     
    To support these older teens, Burlington Partership for a Healthy...

  • Arts/ Entertainment
    'True Grit' is sure as shootin' cinema
    Rated 3 & 1/2 popcorns

    Putting off for a paragraph or so my customary, bombastic analogies and gratuitous citing of metaphors, note that the Coen brothers’ re-creation of “True Grit” is a rip-roaring, sure as shootin’ adventure yarn, by cracky! To borrow from “The Lone Ranger” intro, it stirringly invites you to “...

  • Arts/ Entertainment
    'The Fighter' exhibits championship form
    Rating: 4 popcorns

     

    Director David O. Russell’s “The Fighter,” an absorbing, powerfully realistic account of light welterweight “Irish” Micky Ward’s trials and tribulations in and out of the ring, is both metaphor and anthropological critic. Pulling no punches, it identifies the vestigial emotions...

  • Arts/ Entertainment
    'Due Date' has not so great expectations
    Rating: 2 popcorns

    “Sacrilege … plagiarism … they did everything but pay the original writer royalties.” Thus I incredulously uttered as the plot of director Todd Phillips’s “Due Date” unspooled. Indignantly, I analogized my initial distaste. It was like once having a dear friend, now passed, and here shows up...

  • Arts/ Entertainment
    ‘Hereafter’ makes matter of life and death no big deal
    Rating: 2 popcorns

    Let’s say Clint Eastwood phoned a while back and said he wanted to tell you all about this movie, “Hereafter,” he was planning to direct. Be at the pub. Drinks are on him. You spend a swell night listening to his ideas and philosophy, and why he wants to explore whether or not there is a Great...

  • Arts/ Entertainment
    'Red' means go, in this case
    Rating: 3 popcorns

    A sweet ‘n’ salty, kettle popcorn of a film, Robert Schwentke’s “Red” is a mixture of farce and shoot-‘em-up action certain to warm the cockles of any retiree’s heart. You’ll see more and more of these whimsical tributes to Baby Boomers — depicted as virile, vibrant and virtuous — as they enter...

  • Arts/ Entertainment
    'The Social Network' proves ya gotta have friends
    Rating: 4 popcorns

    Call it a character flaw. But aside from a cherished gaggle of relatives and friends, I don’t much care what folks are up to if it doesn’t affect me. Thus my conspicuous absence from Facebook. However, after seeing director David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” about its wunderkind founder, Mark...