By JIM SABATASO | STAFF [This interview originally appeared in the January 24, 2013, edition of the Rutland Reader.] Caitlin Canty doesn’t get stage fright. Behind her guitar, the Proctor-born singer-songwriter is all confidence and grace — comfortable in her own skin and her own voice. Fearlessness is a quality that serves a professional musician…
Craig Ferguson has announced that he and CBS are “consciously uncoupling at the end of 2014. The future of the host of CBS’ Late Late Show has been in question since the network announced Stephen Colbert would take over for David Letterman at 11:30. Ferguson’s departure leaves an opportunity for the Tiffany Network to to fill…
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF [A version of this review appears in the May 1, 2014, edition of the Rutland Reader.] If we are in a new golden age of television, Washington, D.C., is our capital. Sure, a case can always be made for New York or L.A. being the center of the TV’s fictional…
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF Editor’s note: This part of a series exploring the history of various cocktails the author likes to make for happy hour. Enjoy responsibly. Cocktails have muddled histories. In today’s cocktail renaissance, recipes are well-documented, and origins are easily traceable. But go back 100 years or so, and that was not the case.…
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF [Originally published on The Plaid Crew on Sept. 13, 2010.] I’m not good at consumerism. I rarely buy things I don’t need, and when I do I usually experience heavy bouts of remorse. Often, I will spend long periods of time in a store asking myself if I really need whatever…
The Plaid Crew 