VINS to Host Photography Workshop, Exhibit in April

Quechee — The Vermont Institute of Natural Science will host a bird photography workshop and an exhibition of wildlife photography this spring. Local photojournalist Rob Strong will teach a portrait class using hawks, owls and other birds at VINS on April 7, from 1-3 p.m. The workshop, designed …

‘Stoker’ Has a Creep Factor

The Stoker house is in mourning. Widow Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) has crawled into a bottle, weeping. Teenage daughter India (Mia Wasikowska), already withdrawn from Mom, pulls further into her sullen shell. She hates to be touched, becomes even more of a loner at school, and loses herself in …

When Premises Collide, Most Times One Bombs

When veteran filmmaker Roland Emmerich was first offered the chance to direct a movie about terrorists taking over the White House, he couldn’t believe his luck. “It’s such a good idea,” Emmerich, the money-minting director of movies such as 2012, said last week at a Culver City editing …

Why the Miniseries Is the Ideal Story Form for Television

New York — Top of the Lake, which was co-written and partly directed by Jane Campion and began this week on the Sundance Channel, may be the best thing to air on television this year. A dark story of rape and birth and death and trauma, it stars …

Actresses Go Slumming in ‘The Call’

Here’s a safety tip: Next time you’re kidnapped from a mall, thrown into the trunk of a car, and driven off to who-knows-where, make sure you get Halle Berry’s desk when you call 911 on the cellphone you’ve got hidden in your back pocket. She will find you. …

Theater Review: Mamet’s ‘Race’; What’s Next?

If any modern playwrights were willing to examine race relations in America, it’s hardly surprising that David Mamet would be among them. From the ambition and sexism of Speed-the-Plow to Oleanna’s focus on a he-said, she-said scenario, Mamet tackles head-on the issues that other playwrights might approach in …

• Letter: A Closer Look at Mamet’s Craft