Phish guitarist to found substance abuse treatment center

LUDLOW, VT. >> Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio plans to start a substance use disorder treatment center in Vermont, where the band was formed in 1983.

Anastasio, who is now 14 years sober, announced Thursday that his Divided Sky Foundation has purchased a building for the nonprofit center in Ludlow.

“Like so many people in America and so many in Vermont, I became addicted to opiates,” Anastasio said in a statement on his website. “I was extremely lucky to have access to care, and I know how important it is to be part of a recovery community.

“I’m grateful that we can help provide that opportunity for others.”

The center is tentatively scheduled to open by the end of this year.

Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear goes to ‘Loony Porn’

BERLIN >> Judges at the Berlin Film Festival announced Friday that the satirical movie “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” by Romanian director Radu Jude has been awarded this year’s top prize, saying it has the “rare and essential quality of a lasting art work.”

The film about a teacher facing scrutiny over a sex tape “captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time,” the Berlinale jury said as it awarded the film its Golden Bear.

The Silver Bear for best leading performance went to German actress Maren Eggert who plays a scientist exploring life and longing with a handsome humanoid robot in ‘I’m Your Man.’

It is the first time that the Berlin Film Festival has awarded a single award for best acting regardless of gender.

Denes Nagy of Hungary received the award for best director for his debut “Natural Light,” following a Hungarian unit hunting partisans in the Soviet Union during World War II.