John Coon uses serious scare tactics in a nightmarish new show

by DAVID WARNER
(10.29.03)

The scariest part wasn't the witches and the wizards -- it was losing the kid. This year's edition of The Haunted Forest, the "theatrical Halloween in the woods" at the Catamount Family Center, culminated in a stumble through a pitch-black hut.

(11.5.03)

Halloween -- what better time to review a museum show about bats? After all, bats are creepy and scary. They're blind mice with wings that want nothing more than to suck your blood and get caught in your hair, right? Wrong. Setting the record straight is precisely the point of "Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats," a traveling exhibit on view at ECHO in Burlington this fall.