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Montpelier, VT – Upcoming festivities celebrate a variety of Vermont’s spring and early summer traditions. Some events are playful, like fiddlehead picking competitions; others are enriching, like plein air festivals and history exhibitions...

A few titles that didn’t make last week’s list: Across the Pacific (Warner Brothers, 1942) Not long after the release of The Maltese Falcon, John Huston reunited with Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet to make this war-era propaganda...

OCTOBER 12 In History 539 BCE : The Persian armies of Cyrus the Great captured Babylon .  Within the year, Cyrus would make it possible for the Jews to return to their homeland. 1285: The Jews of Munich ( Germany ) were caught in a claim of blood...

Visual Arts Highlights Seattle ARTRESOURCE Gallery presents a mini-retrospective of the late Northwest painter Frank Okada from Dec. 4th – Jan. 25th. Okada’s work is should be better known, his mastery of brush and color tonalities is unmatched but...

By David Swanson The demise of the antiwar movement has been greatly exaggerated. Working on planning a series of events in Washington, D.C., next month, and related events around the world, I’m finding tons of enthusiasm for organizing and mobilizing...