“Music is good for your mental health.” That’s what the lead singer of the sextet Cozy told the crowd that had gathered at Hard’ack Recreation Area in St. Albans for the festival known as Afterglow. It was early afternoon on a sunny fall Saturday, and as attendees...

What causes anxiety? What can those who experience it intensely and persistently do to ease their burden? Anxious Nation, a documentary that played in five theaters across the state this fall in a series of special events organized by NAMI-VT, proposes the same answer...

The Howard Center Arts Collective kept busy in the second half of 2023, starting with a show at the Flynndog Gallery that ran from August through September. Sponsored by Chittenden County’s community mental health center, the Arts Collective, by its own description,...

Eugenics – the pseudoscience that promotes selective human breeding through policies like sterilization, marriage restriction, and family separation – became a nationwide movement in the first half of the 20th century. In Vermont, the particular concerns and...

"Time's practical joke, miss me please?" by Geoffrey L. McLam, St. Albans Serene happinessgarnered not withoutthe gentle caringthat goes along withconsidering one's self Feeling follyat the possibility of dying20 years before i potentiallycould. That's 20, twenty...

At scaredycatart.com, Burlington-based artist Sarah Brunkhorst sells prints and stickers at prices starting as low as $2. Her bright, often humorous digital illustrations, by her own description, contain “a lot of visual gags” while also touching on “subtle social...

Short fiction by Ron Merkin While walking on stage, John reminded himself not to tell the audience any of his stupid jokes. Then, as he stood in front of 4,000 people, in reply to one judge’s “Are you nervous?” – the most frequently asked question before America’s Got...