“American Sniper,” the latest film from Director Clint Eastwood, has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screen Play and Best Actor.  There’s a reason for...

JSC's own Stearns Performance Space hosted the musical talents of both Eli Smith and the Four O'Clock Flowers on Thurs., Nov. 13. New York City resident Eli Smith is a banjo player, songwriter and strong...

On my way to the Dibden theater, I noticed how quiet and deserted the campus was. It made me question how many people would actually attend the show since the play was not a creative audience. Then again,...

One night a year, all kinds of crime are legal for 12 hours. The Purge seems like the perfect solution to all problems, right? In the James DeMonaco movie, “The Purge: Anarchy,” a father goes out seeking...

Christopher Nolan, the man responsible for “The Dark Knight Returns” and “Inception,” has provided us with a very ambitious and realistic (for the most part) sci-fi flick called “Interstellar.” Set...

It all comes down to our stories, and whether we want to hold our hands fisted in the world or keep them open. In this work of nonfiction, Will Storr shows us how easily we construct unshakeable beliefs...

Artists David Powell and Peter Thomashow teamed up  at JSC to deliver the collage series “Exposition of Matter & Magnetism: The Wonders of Science Revealed.” Their work displayed in the Julian...

Friday, Nov.  14 and Saturday, Nov. 15, the original one-act play ‘Bonnie’s Diner’ will be performed in Dibden Center for the Arts. The play was written and directed by theater arts major, Heather...

“Bedroom Farce” is a play about arguments and kisses, about food in bed and losing the ability to embrace the one that used to get you hot. It’s about feeling beautiful, marital challenge, and domestic...

Using basic human tools of perception, our planet’s leading scientists have determined the actual worth of the highly acclaimed motion picture “Birdman,” directed by Spaniard Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu...

Artists David Powell and Peter Thomashow discussed their collage series “Exposition of Matter & Magnetism: The Wonders of Science Revealed” at JSC on Nov. 6. Their work, displayed in the Julian...

“Gulp” is not for everyone; in fact, I’m not even sure it is for me. It’s true that author Mary Roach does a great job of explaining everything from how your taste buds perform to how your bowels...

Nikki Hill rocked Dibden in a Creative Audience event on Sept. 25. Her website advertises her music as “roots rock ‘n’ roll,” roots like the site’s look – ‘50s diner. Roots like her style,...

They are unfiltered; they are dysfunctional; they are repressed; they are going to rip each other’s heads off. They are the Altmans, the centerpiece of “This is Where I Leave You.” The family...

I don’t know if advertising is art, but I’m certain there’s an art to advertising – just like I’m certain that’s “Gone Girl”’s lone triumph: its advertising. I wager most readers know...

Saxophonist Brian McCarthy for Johnson State College students and community members on Sept. 25. His jazz quintet consisted of trumpet player Ray Vega, a professor at the University of Vermont; pianist...

“Breaking the Illusion” is an original play by Patrick Houle, a JSC performing arts instructor who is known to inspire his students to shove past barriers, to work and achieve far beyond what seems...

Nikki Hill’s music is known to invite booty shaking and hand clapping. Her website says, “Those who have seen Nikki Hill sing her ass off agree—this isn’t just another newcomer on the scene, this...

Chinese food is for me possibly the greatest of the comfort foods, which is a good thing if you live in Vermont. It’s almost a guarantee that any town of respectable size will have at least one Chinese...

“So Little Time” is a compilation regarding our current world climate issues. There are poems, reflections and photos, and they aren’t subtle. The book’s message is that we are killing our planet...

There’s something you must know. Half way through "The Silver Star," I read the ending. I wanted to know how the narrator and her sister landed, and I couldn’t stand the suspense.  Perhaps you’ll...

Whit Stillman gets down to the bare, naked, nymphish seduction of the romantic in “The Cosmopolitans.” It’s a mystery series -- the mystery is the absurd clueless mystery that is romance. Who’s...

Award-winning writer Meg Kearney will visit campus on Tuesday, Sept. 23, the second in this fall’s author series. Kearney will follow poet, editor, and writer Mike Young, who visited campus Sept. 9. “She’s...

Homemade food is a wonderful thing. Ever date someone else because their mother was just such a good cook? The thing is, there often isn’t time to cook something fancy during the course of a normal day:...

As a child, creemee stands and snack bars were a favorite summer destination, and though I have fallen in love with a few during my lifetime including Seb’s Snack Bar in South Hero, Joe’s Snack Bar...

Johnson State College’s Lisa Kent, a librarian at the Willey Library and Learning Center, has turned her love of writing into a full-length novel, due out later this year. The book, “Peace Cottage,”...

Henry’s Diner is a weird-looking mint-green stucco building with a yellow wood growth jutting out of it. Above this polyp is an old neon red sign that says Henry’s Diner. When I first saw it, I thought...

A crowd of 48 people filed into Dibden Center for the Arts on Friday, April 25, to witness an interesting rendition of Amadeus, a play by Peter Schaffer, directed by Patrick Houle. Two of the 48 people...

Extracurricular student bands helped keep the excitement high for the Johnson Earth Day celebration Thursday, March 24. With music on the quad during the day and a bonfire concert at Lowpo in the afternoon...

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” is “The Shining” as a humanistic comic fantasy. Both films are built on hotels. Both films center on their respective hotel’s distinctive caretakers. In director Stanley...