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with my duties, I met with the governor at my earliest convenience.” Marshall didn’t request that meeting until January 2. In the meantime, while she was exploring job possibilities with Guité, Marshall helped organize a December 28 press conference with Shumlin to announce the $5.07 million grant to VTel. In a press release the governor’s office distributed after the event, Marshall was quoted as saying, “This grant to VTel Wireless, a Vermont company, represents a significant investment in leading-edge micro and macro cell technology that will meet the needs of Vermonters.”

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According to Shumlin spokesperson the administration “did not know she was discussing a job offer with VTel when we did the press conference.” While Allen says, “We have no reason to believe that Karen did not inform us of her job offer in the most timely manner feasible,” other administration officials, speaking on background, say they were steamed that Marshall took part in the press conference without disclosing her discussions with Guité. After Marshall met with the governor, on January 3, Allen says, “We informed Karen she would need to end her state employment immediately when we became aware of her decision in order to ensure compliance with the executive code of ethics.” That code of ethics precludes gubernatorial appointees from taking “any action in any particular matter in which he or she has either a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest, until such time as the conflict is resolved.” Further, it bars former appointees from lobbying the legislature and other public bodies for a year after leaving office. A separate VTA conflict of interest policy requires board

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members to “immediately disclose personal interests.” Both Allen and VTA board chairwoman PAM MACKENZIE say that Marshall complied with those policies because her job discussions began after the December 7 vote. Fellow board member STEPHAN MORSE, a former speaker of the Vermont House, agrees: “If you know Karen and know how dedicated she is and how hard she worked for both VTA and Connect VT, the question just isn’t there in my mind,” he says. Marshall herself says, “At all times I have acted ethically and with integrity for the benefit of the state in solving a very, very complex problem.” But at least one of Marshall’s colleagues has a different take. “It doesn’t look good,” says Rep. SAM YOUNG (D-Glover), who served with her on the VTA board. “I wish she had gone to a New Hampshire company.” Of particular concern to Young is that her role coordinating broadband and cellular deployment made Marshall privy to the confidential plans of VTel’s competitors. “It took a lot of work to get telecom providers to trust state government and share some of their information,” Young says. “I think that trust will be diminished for any future chiefs of Connect VT. I’m not quite sure there will be another one.” Marshall herself says she has “so much sensitive information — not just about VTel, but about all other carriers.” Nevertheless, she says she will comply with a provision of the executive code of ethics barring her from disclosing “privileged information obtained while in state employ.” Guité, Marshall’s new boss, argues that because she’ll be running a separate network serving academic and financial institutions, she won’t be involved with the company’s wireless business, which received the state funding. “Nothing she was helping envision and implement is what she’d be doing as president of the data network in Burlington,” Guité says. That doesn’t diminish the conflict, says BILL ALLISON, editorial director of the Washington, D.C.-based Sunlight Foundation. “Clearly having someone who knows all the players and the governor’s staff and the legislature and the grantmaking agencies will be hugely valuable to this company even if she never calls one of them,” he says. He suggests that Vermont should enact “some kind of tougher revolving-door regulation” that would prevent state officials from making such a quick transition.

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Mullin, the Rutland state senator, agrees. “I think one remedy is to set some sort of time guidelines before someone can go to work for a company they’ve awarded a grant to,” he says. “I know it’s a tricky area because you don’t want to eliminate the ability of good people to serve in state government. At the same time, it just ain’t right.”

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For readers interested in news from the Statehouse, the action — and the competition — is increasingly online. Two nonprofit news outlets — VTDigger.org and Vermont Public Radio — have added reporters to their legislative beats, while the once formidable Vermont Press Bureau has cut back to just one full-time Statehouse scribe. All three say they’re devoting more resources to breaking news online. For years, the Press Bureau, which provides coverage to the Mitchell family-owned Rutland Herald and BarreMontpelier Times Argus, has consisted of two full-time reporters and one parttimer, who also contributed to the TA’s local coverage. But this year, after the departure of two Press Bureau reporters — ThaTcher MoaTs and Jenna Pizzi — bureau chief PeTer hirschfeld will be a one-man band. Moats’ replacement, david Taube, is now covering the Montpelier beat. “Pete is more or less doing it by himself this time around,” says Times Argus editor sTeven PaPPas. Hirschfeld will contribute to the Press Bureau’s blog during the day, Pappas says, while writing a longer-form piece most nights for the print edition. “Our approach is not to have him cover everything. We’re going after stories we don’t necessarily think everybody else is going to cover,” Pappas says. “We’re going to let the AP handle the low-hanging fruit.” Under-covered stories may be difficult to find, given the reporting manpower VTDigger.org is throwing at the legislature this year. The online news nonprofit hired three new full-time reporters this summer “in anticipation of the legislative session,” says founder and editor anne Galloway. Those three will join Galloway and political columnist Jon MarGolis in trolling committee rooms — and the cafeteria — for stories. “One of the reasons why we can have this focus is because we’re a nonprofit. That enables us to cover things that aren’t necessarily going to boost our numbers,” Galloway says. “We can go geekier because we get support outside the advertising paradigm.” Fellow nonprofit VPR is also bolstering its Statehouse staff. While veteran reporters bob Kinzel and John dillon will

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and sexual dysfunction. As a result, a certain percentage of HowardCenter clients simply refused to take them. “I thought they were effective for a good chunk of people, and I knew they weren’t effective for other people,” Steingard says of the drugs she prescribed for hundreds of patients. “But I didn’t really know what else to do. I didn’t see any other path.”

psychotic drugs. As Steingard explains, researchers have known for years that schizophrenia is associated with a loss of brain tissue, which was long believed to be a result of the disease. Whitaker uses the studies to suggest the brain atrophy may be due not to the illness itself but to extended exposure to antipsychotic meds. Reading Whitaker’s findings, Steingard

says she felt like she’d been “kicked in the belly.” “If you’ve just spent your entire career giving people these drugs, and in many cases convincing people why this is what they really need to do, that’s a pretty horrible thing,” she says. “I wasn’t sure I would come to work the next day. That’s how profound it was.” Whitaker ends his book by introducing the Open Dialogue method, a form of family- and community-based therapy that involves talking to patients and the people most affected by their mental health crises. Steingard says she was initially skeptical about Whitaker’s findings and immediately emailed the author with questions about his research. She spent most of a summer going through all his primary reference materials, as well as “deconstructing and reconstructing everything I think about psychosis and optimal treatment.” Since then, she and Whitaker have become friends, and she’s invited him to Vermont several times to give talks and attend grand rounds at Fletcher Allen Health Care. Last summer, Steingard traveled to Finland for preliminary training in Open Dialogue. Patient outcomes in that country are almost exactly opposite of those in the United States: After five years, about 80 percent of patients are fully recovered from their first-episode psychoses and are back at work. In Finland, where antipsychotic drugs aren’t prescribed as much as in the U.S., only one in five patients require any maintenance meds — or those taken continuously — at all. “They’re not really seeing schizophrenia in Finland. They’re seeing the same number of people coming in with acute psychosis,” Steingard says, “but people are getting better.” As it turned out, Steingard’s reading of Whitaker’s book was well timed. After Irene knocked out the state hospital, the state asked agencies like HowardCenter for ideas on how to reduce the number of inpatient psychiatric beds. Steingard submitted a proposal to use Open Dialogue through the Stabilization and Recovery Team, aka START, which is the HowardCenter’s rapid crisis-response unit. The state agreed, and funded the pilot project with enough money to train three staffers in the therapy. Psychologist Greg Tomasulo says Open Dialogue is a perfect fit for START, which was launched in August with the goal of keeping people in crisis out of emergency rooms and hospital psychiatric units. He’s

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clinical director of the program that sends mental health workers into the community — generally, to a patient’s home — whenever they get a call that someone is having a psychotic episode. “Oftentimes people experiencing psychosis aren’t really interested in treatment,” Tomasulo explains. When someone becomes delusional and believes, for example, that he’s being pursued by aliens or government agents, he’s unlikely to agree to visit a physician’s office and accept pills from a stranger. Open Dialogue brings a team of two clinicians to a patient’s home to talk with everyone directly involved in the crisis, to create a “shared experience of reality,” Tomasulo says. The method intentionally focuses on the whole family, he says, “so it doesn’t single out one person as the ill person.” Through this process of “gradual engagement,” Tomasulo says, the patient begins to feel more safe and open to sharing whatever else is going on in his or her head. “One way of thinking about schizophrenia is that it’s a brain disease,” he says. “Another is that it’s how somebody expresses their most difficult experiences in a way that they can’t yet put into words, so they use hallucinations and delusions to express themselves.” By learning other ways of talking about difficult experiences, he adds, the patient no longer needs those symptoms anymore and they “resolve.” Both Tomasulo and Steingard, who are halfway through 100 hours of training in the Open Dialogue method at the Institute for Dialogic Practice, in Northampton, Mass., emphasize that this method is not “antimedication,” as it’s sometimes characterized. Patients treated with Open Dialogue can also be on antipsychotic medication. But as Tomasolu explains, “Under the old system, if somebody didn’t want to take medications, there was little we had to offer them. This is just another approach, another tool in the toolbox.” Because Open Dialogue is so new to Vermont, its results are still preliminary and inconclusive. Nevertheless, since reading Whitaker’s book, Steingard has tracked the outcomes of 55 of her patients. In one year, she’s seen a 30 percent reduction in their consumption of antipsychotic drugs. Only two have had to be rehospitalized. State mental health officials say they’re

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hen Middlebury College fired up its $12 million biomass heating plant in 2009, the college held a public celebration with speeches and tours of the facility. Middlebury touted the wood-burning plant as a giant step toward its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2016 and positioned the boiler behind a wall of glass windows so everyone could see it. Four years later, no one’s throwing a parade for Goddard College in Plainfield as it seeks to install a much smaller heatgenerating biomass incinerator. Instead, Goddard’s getting hit with legal appeals and complaints from angry neighbors who say the biomass plant is so close to a number of homes that it poses potential health risks as a result of particulate emissions. Eight residents near the college are challenging its permits in state environmental court and have circulated a petition to get a nonbinding question on Plainfield’s Town Meeting Day ballot, urging citizens to vote against the proposed “wood-chip incinerator.” The negative reaction to Goddard’s project is unusual. In a state where a third of public school students attend

classes in facilities heated by small wood-chip incinerators such as the one Goddard wants to build, opposition to biomass development has centered on industrial-scale plants that burn wood for electricity. Those include the McNeil Generating Station in Burlington, Ryegate Power Station and similar facilities proposed for Fair Haven and North Springfield. Smaller, community-scale biomass facilities that generate heat have been insulated from criticism. So no one at Goddard, arguably the funkiest college in Vermont, was prepared for blowback from Plainfield, a town synonymous with alternative lifestyles. “Honestly, we weren’t expecting it,” says Faith Brown, Goddard’s chief finance and administration officer. “It was a complete surprise to me,” says Tim Maker, the president of Community Biomass Systems, which is managing the project for Goddard. “I had no idea that people would be upset by something like this. It comes from a place of fear.” Is Vermont growing more skeptical of biomass power, whether for heat or electricity?

“There’s no question that the awareness of some of the impacts has increased — a hundredfold,” says Josh Schlossberg, Vermont’s leading anti-biomass activist. From his home in Waitsfield, Schlossberg edits a newsletter called the Biomass Monitor and coordinates with Energy Justice Network’s national antibiomass campaign. He says he was essentially “blacklisted” when he first arrived in Vermont and began criticizing biomass development. “It’s a weird blind spot,” he says. “Everyone thought it was green, or didn’t know it existed.” Schlossberg believes that’s changing, albeit slowly. He remains frustrated that most mainstream environmental organizations aren’t raising alarm about large-scale biomass burning operations. Because biomass has been “cast as green for so long,” he says, environmental groups may be reluctant to wager their “green credentials” in speaking out against new developments. Schlossberg isn’t alone in questioning the environmental and health implications of burning wood for heat and power. Rebecca Ryan, the American Lung Association of the Northeast’s

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director for health promotion and public policy in Vermont, points out that wood smoke contains thousands of chemicals, including at least five chemical groups known to cause cancer in humans. She says small particles in smoke can get trapped in the lungs or enter the bloodstream and are especially problematic for children, the elderly and those with chronic diseases. For that reason, the ALA “strongly opposes” the combustion of biomass in schools and other institutions with vulnerable populations. More than 40 Vermont schools use wood chips to heat, but only five are large enough to require air quality permits under state regulations. “This means that most of those schools do not have air-pollution-control technology, and kids could be at risk for greater exposure to particle pollution than before the system was installed,” Ryan writes in an email. Also up for debate is the carbon neutrality Middlebury promised when its biomass plant went online four years ago. Bill Keeton is a professor of forest ecology at the University of Vermont and chairs UVM’s forestry program. He also runs a carbon dynamics laboratory

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in which he and other scientists are studying the role forests play in carbon sequestration — the important job of trapping and storing greenhouse gases instead of releasing them into the atmosphere. Keeton says wood bioenergy is “often touted as being carbon neutral — clean, renewable, carbon neutral.” One assumption has been that even if carbon is released from a tree when it’s burned, that tree can be replanted and its carbon storage potential replaced. But Keeton says there’s actually a lot of scientific uncertainty about that theory. “The devil’s in the details,” he says. Research now suggests that burning wood biomass might actually increase carbon emissions in the short term as compared to fossil fuels, even if biomass provides a net carbon benefit over the long term. “The problem is that that near term is really important from a climate change standpoint,” says Keeton. “There’s this pretty well substantiated prediction that if we don’t do something about the climate, and about greenhousegas emissions within the next decade or maybe two decades at the most, we’ll see irreparable climate change … We’ve got to get a handle on this problem now. If there’s an unintended increase in emissions now, that could be a big problem.” Keeton says there’s no broad consensus on biomass carbon accounting, but he notes there is compelling research coming out of UVM that suggests for all of biomass’s potential benefits, a reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions might not be one of them. “This is one of those issues where things might seem to be intuitive, they might seem to be obvious … when in fact it’s really not,” says Keeton. The trick, he goes on, is to weigh the potential trade-offs. In Plainfield, Goddard’s project has already earned Act 250 and local zoning permits, though neighbors are appealing both decisions in Vermont’s Environmental Court. A court-ordered mediation between the two groups failed last February. In the intervening months, the skirmish has escalated into a convoluted legal battle. The town of Plainfield brought its own attorney into the mix in November, though the town neither supports nor opposes the project, says selectman Bram Towbin.

In the latest parry, neighbors have gathered 70 signatures — more than the 50 required — to land a question on Plainfield’s Town Meeting Day ballot. It will ask residents to oppose the construction of the Goddard woodchip incinerator until pollution from ultrafine particles, or nanoparticulates, are proven not to be a health hazard. It wouldn’t be a legally binding vote, acknowledges Karen Bouffard, who created the petition, but it would send a message to the college. Goddard’s Brown contends that a few disgruntled neighbors “don’t a town make.” She says the biomass project fits perfectly with Plainfield’s town plan and is playing up its environmental benefits. The wood-burning boiler would replace 22 old oil-burning furnaces scattered across campus and be fueled by wood harvested within 35 miles of the school. The plant would burn an estimated 900 tons of wood chips every year — a tiny fraction of the 400,000 tons burned at Burlington’s McNeil plant or the 20,000 tons burned at Middlebury. The $2.3 million plant would also include a state-of-the-art scrubber, called an electrostatic precipitator, to minimize air pollution. Maker says the college’s trustees voluntarily added that feature despite its $130,000 price tag. Rhea Wilson, one of eight neighbors opposing the project, admits that when she first heard about the project, she wasn’t overly concerned. She figured Goddard would plant trees to block the view — and the college has since added more landscaping. “My first reaction was, ‘This will be fine,’” recalls Wilson. But the more Wilson and neighbors researched biomass, the more they found not to like — particularly the potential emissions. Wilson and Bouffard aren’t satisfied with the scrubber the college plans to install; they say nanoparticulates would still escape the chimney. Community Biomass Systems’ Maker says their concerns illustrate the main problem in the biomass debate: Opponents are conflating industrialscale electric plants, and the accompanying potential hazards, with Goddardsize ones. He says, “People read about one kind of biomass and think it has relevance for everything.” m

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Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger typically plays it safe, so his decision to speak out on gun violence Monday was an uncharacteristic move. Barely a week before, he and the Burlington City Council were reminded of the strength of Vermont’s gun-rights community when nearly 100 activists showed up at city hall to oppose a proposed assault weapons ban. Apparently, the camoclad crowd wasn’t enough to dissuade Weinberger from pushing the issue further. “As the father of a first grader and as a mayor who gets one of the first calls when someone is shot in this city, I feel a deep responsibility to join the loud call for action now to protect our children and communities from illegal guns,” Weinberger said during a press conference at Burlington police headquarters. Standing beside the mayors of Montpelier and Barre, Weinberger announced that he’d joined Mayors Against Illegal Guns — a national gun-control group founded by New York’s Michael Bloomberg — and embraced three of its legislative priorities: to improve the federal background check system, to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, and to crack down on gun trafficking. Weinberger’s move was notable in this gun-loving state because prominent Vermont politicians have mostly sought to avoid discussing gun laws in the wake of last month’s deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. And for a local politician who clearly harbors statewide political ambitions, that’s a risky move. More noteworthy still was Weinberger’s decision to include in his press conference a cast of characters with viewpoints wildly divergent from his own. One of them — Burlington gun collector Ian Galbraith, who was part of the pro-gun crowd at last week’s city council hearing — said he adamantly opposes Mayors Against Illegal Guns’ agenda but supports better background checks to “keep more guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.” Even among Weinberger’s fellow mayors, differences of opinion emerged. Barre Mayor Thom Lauzon, who attracted national

attention last week with a plea to local gun-show organizers to temporarily desist from selling assault weapons, joined Weinberger in calling for more background checks. He argued that loopholes in federal law allow some 40 percent of gun sales to take place without a background check. “This is like setting up two lines at the airport for getting on a plane — one which requires a security check and the other that does not,” Lauzon said. “Today 6.6 million gun purchases are made each year in the line that has no security screening.” But Lauzon hastened to add that while he too was joining the national gun control group, he disagreed with its — and Weinberger’s — conclusion that assault weapons ought to be banned. Montpelier’s mayor went further than Burlington’s. While Weinberger declined to say whether he supports a state assault weapons ban, as proposed by Sen. Phil Baruth (D-Chittenden), Montpelier Mayor John Hollar said he’s all for it. “I think we need to work at both the state and federal levels to address this problem,” Hollar said. FILE: TIM NEWCOMB

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F-35 Opponents Unveil Petition to Cut Off Burlington Airport Funding Could F-35 opponents block the fighter planes from coming to Burlington by cutting off airport funding? A lawyer representing critics believes they can, and he’s circulating a petition that would propose just that. Bristol attorney James DuMont said a rarely invoked section of the Burlington city charter requires voter approval for the airport’s construction and maintenance budget. He wants to put a ballot question to voters in a special referendum that says, “so long as F-35 jets are regularly based” at BTV, money for construction, equipment and improvement shall not exceed Sen. Bernie Sanders $1. That would effectively deprive the airport, and the Vermont Air

National Guard, of the funds they need to operate. News of the petition came as the Air Force announced plans to delay for several months its decision on where to base the F-35s so it can consider new census data on the number of people who would be impacted by jet noise. DuMont, who intends to circulate his petition on Town Meeting Day, said the Air Force’s delay buys him time to collect signatures and to pursue numerous legal appeals related to the F-35 basing. Burlington City Attorney Eileen Blackwood said that her reading of Burlington’s charter suggests that the city council — not the voters — have sole authority to approve the Burlington International Airport budget. DuMont’s response? “Deciding issues like this is why we have judges.” — A ND Y B R O M A G E

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This first-time collaboration came about when Kimble and his wife were at a dinner party with their longtime friend, VSO violinist HILARY HATCH. Hatch mentioned that the VSO was “looking for something exciting to do,” recalls Kimble, who hit on the idea of projecting images of artwork to accompany and reflect the feeling of the music. VSO executive director ALAN JORDAN thought that sounded “great,” Kimble says. Jordan picked the Kodály piece, and Kimble recruited the three other artists. “The only rule was no faces, just your feelings,” says the 78-year-old folk artist known for his pared-down, flat-perspective barns, cows and trees. None of the artists communicated with the others while creating his or her response. Kimble, who says he learned what he knows of classical music from movies,

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The 230 people who turned out last Saturday in solidarity with St. Johnsbury’s ATHENAEUM were not up in arms but rather arm in arm: Arriving from nearby and from as far away as Massachusetts, they formed a human chain around the building to show support for the eight library staff members whose layoffs from the financially strapped facility will take effect on February 1. RURAL LIBRARIANS UNITE and the VERMONT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION organized the “Hug the Athenaeum” demonstration at the 142-year-old private nonprofit institution, bequeathed by Horace Fairbanks as a free public library and a gallery housing the family’s personal art collection. Last November, the Athenaeum’s librarians — who have served the institution for a combined total of 78 years — were summoned via email to a mandatory staff meeting. At that meeting, which occurred on December 3, they were notified by the institution’s board of the impending layoffs and encouraged to apply for five new positions. Participants in Saturday’s Hug, some wearing red sashes across their parkas, ambled through Protesters “hug” the Athenaeum slush, filed down the alley separating the Athenaeum from the police and fire station, and clomped around the staff entrance to the back of the building. There they encountered a chain-link fence that required careful maneuvering to complete the mitten-tomitten circuit with the huggers at the front. This active embrace was the final gesture in the hourlong rally, during which librarians from around the state held a white banner across the main entrance that declared, “The People Make the Library.” Cultural luminaries including author REEVE LINDBERGH, former Vermont poet laureate GALWAY KINNELL and Janus Press’ CLAIRE VAN VLIET attended the Hug. Van Vliet, whose books are in the Athenaeum’s collection, charged that the board’s hope to derive more revenue from its art gallery is an example of “the tail wagging the dog, as this collection receives favor at the expense of diminished library services.” COURTESY OF HOWARD GREENE

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he whole thing is wild.” That’s Brandon artist WARREN KIMBLE’s take on the VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s opening number at this weekend’s Masterworks concert. Called “Summer Evening,” it’s a folk-infused work written in 1930 by the Hungarian composer-ethnomusicologist Zoltán Kodály. The “wild” part is that, while the audience is listening to the 18-minute piece, they’ll also be watching a video installation projected above the orchestra on a 10-by14-foot screen. The visuals feature four 20-by-30-inch artworks inspired by the piece: paintings by Kimble, RUTH HAMILTON of Poultney and FRAN BULL of Brandon, and a photo by Salisbury photographer DON ROSS. Ross, who put the video together, “took pieces of each work and made them flow with the music,” Kimble says.

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found Kodály’s piece to have “wonderful melodies and peacefulness. In other words, it’s not the William Tell overture or anything.” After listening to “Summer Evening” numerous times, he painted a red, setting sun over water using thickly textured gesso. All four works will be on view in the lobby during intermission. Kimble and Ross will explain the project during a preconcert talk. Kimble isn’t worried about that, but he’s not so confident about video technology. “I’ve never touched a computer, and believe me, that’s not a boast,” he says, “so I’m just a little panicked that it won’t get going when it needs to.” But, Kimble allows, “Artists need challenges that make art fun.” The concert’s second work will shift the focus back to the stage — and to a young soloist in particular. Cellist prodigy Cicely Parnas, 19, recently won first prize at the

A statement of support circulated at the event and signed by 205 attendees reads in part: “The primary function of the Athenaeum has been a free public library. This function should take priority for available funds in order to continue providing maximum library service for the good of the public.” The statement will be filed with the VLA and, surmises Friends of the Athenaeum copresident LYNN WURZBURG, presented to the trustees. Prior to the Hug, Athenaeum executive director MATT POWERS had announced that the library would be closed on Saturday so Athenaeum librarians could attend. (Though some protestors were skeptical that was the reason for the closure, according to a video RuLU made of the event.) Five of the librarians stood as a group and smiled as supporters mounted the granite steps to address the crowd. Reached later by phone, board of trustees chair BILL MARSHALL said, “I realize it sounds heartless,” referring to the executive decision to downsize from eight to five positions. He said the 18-member board has held discussions with the library staff since 2009 but has failed to secure long-term financial solutions. Even after reducing staff hours and cutting $150,000 from its annual expenses, the institution was still drawing too heavily on its endowment to be sustainable. “We’re not deciding librarians are unessential,” Marshall said. “We want to be decent, and we want to be financially responsible. Sometimes those things are not mutually compatible.” Post-rally, supporters met at North Congregational Church and established four committees, one of them tasked with communications with the Athenaeum’s trustees. They plan to meet again on Saturday, January 19, to finalize details of another, upcoming public forum. J U L I A S H I P L EY

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2012 Young Concert Artists Auditions, from a certain creativity she was born a prestigious international competition with.” based in New York City that provides its When Parnas started studying with winners with career-launching manage- her, Robinson adds, “she was already a ment services. She’ll play Elgar’s cello fully formed artist” with recordings, and concerto under the baton of VSO conduc- had a duo with her older sister, a violintor Jaime Laredo — who, of course, is also ist. As a teacher, the 63-year-old tries not conducting the Kodály and the final piece, to “get in her way” but is happy to pass on Mendelssohn’s fifth symphony. advice learned over a long career: a sense Parnas grew up near of the tradition of a piece, Albany, N.Y., but her conalong with pointers such nection to the VSO is even as “don’t waste orchestra closer: Not only is she a rehearsal time practicstudent of cellist Sharon ing your cadenzas” and — Laredo’s “tune on the sharp side to robinSon wife — but Robinson accommodate the winds and Laredo (a violinist) under the hot lights.” have both played with Parnas is not the first Parnas’ grandfather, the of Robinson’s protégées acclaimed cellist Leslie to succeed; over 40 years Parnas. Laredo shared the of teaching, she has had stage with him for years at plenty of students who both the Chamber Music found solo careers or posiSociety of Lincoln Center tions in major orchestras. and the Marlboro Music (Also an adept teacher, Festival. Laredo has mentored the ShAroN r obIN SoN “I’ve known Sharon likes of violinists Hilary and Jaime since I was Hahn and Jennifer Koh. pretty young,” Cicely Parnas admits during The latter will appear with the VSO at the a brief phone call. “And I knew I’d want to next Masterworks concert.) But Parnas study with Sharon eventually.” is the youngest such student she has had, Parnas began doing so two and a half Robinson says, and she worries about that. years ago, when Robinson and Laredo “It’s sometimes hard to make the leap were still teaching at Indiana University’s from child artist to adult artist,” she obJacobs School of Music. When the couple serves. At the same time, Robinson adds, “I moved to the Cleveland Institute of Music hope that I can work with her a little longer, last fall, Parnas followed to continue but she’s ready to go, she really is.” m studying with Robinson. “She doesn’t sound like anyone else,” Robinson says, speaking from Miami. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra (She and her husband travel extensively plays its 2012 to 2013 Masterworks for trio performances with pianist Joseph Series 3 Concert at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington on Saturday, Kalichstein, and for solo and conducting January 19, at 8 p.m., and at the Paramount gigs around the world; when in Vermont, Theatre in Rutland on Sunday, January 20, they live in Guilford.) at 3 p.m. Catch Sharon Robinson soloing “Cicely’s sound is very individual,” under Jaime Laredo’s baton at Farmers’ continues Robinson, who will be in the Night on Wednesday, January 16, 7:30 p.m. Flynn audience this Saturday. “It has a in the legislative chambers, Statehouse, very singing, beautiful, warm tone that Montpelier. Free. vso.org you can pick out of a crowd. It comes

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singers and musicians. He met Garcia in 1999, when the tenor was in his early twenties, at Central City Opera, a summer festival in Colorado. “Jesus was already a standout among a strong group of a dozen apprentices, with the charisma he had onstage and the beauty of his voice,” Domoto recalls. Two years later, Garcia would win the prestigious Met Opera National Council Auditions. (Moore had won them the year before.) Garcia went on to win a Tony Award for his performance in Baz Luhrmann’s rendition of La Bohème on Broadway, and to originate a role in the new opera Before Night Falls by Jorge Martín at Fort Worth Opera. Garcia and Moore met at a vocal academy in Philadelphia, and in 2006 he introduced her to Domoto as someone to sing in the Sergio Franchi Music Foundation’s annual memorial concert. Domoto has served as music director of the NYC-based foundation, which fosters young singers’ careers, since 1998. “We were immediately just blown away by her voice,” Domoto declares. YouTube videos of Moore singing Aida arias testify to her powerful spinto voice — like Leontyne Price, she’s able to push it for extra dramatic effect without strain — and her compelling portrayal of the enslaved Ethiopian princess. When Domoto came to the VYOA, he says, one of his goals was “doing a lot more collaboration between our choral and orchestral programs. I can’t think of another youth orchestra that has choruses,” he adds. This concert is the organization’s

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ast March, an understudy at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, soprano Latonia Moore, gained instant fame when she stepped onto the stage with a day’s notice and sang the role of Aida in the opera of the same name. Her performance brought down the house. Missed it? No problem. Just mosey on down to the Flynn this Sunday. That’s right. Thanks to VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION director JEFFREY DOMOTO, newly minted diva Moore and another internationally acclaimed young singer, tenor Jesus Garcia, will perform an afternoon concert of opera arias and duets. They’ll share the stage with Domoto’s own fiefdom of next-generation stars: the VYOA’s 85 orchestra members, 60 chorus members and 20 even younger concertchorale singers. From the Met to the Flynn: not the usual path for opera stars. Domoto explains that he secured the gig before Moore’s Met debut — and her subsequent triumph last fall singing Bess in the Berlin Philharmonic’s concert production of Porgy and Bess, led by Sir Simon Rattle. “It’s the sort of thing where we’re really lucky to have her at this moment, when everybody knows who she is but she’s not yet too busy,” Domoto says. That’s because opera singers’ schedules are usually booked two to three years in advance. Domoto, 48, became director-conductor of the VYOA two years ago. Before that, he served as assistant conductor at several opera houses, including New York City Opera, and worked extensively with young

The HOPKINS CENTER at Dartmouth College has been celebrating its 50th birthday in grand style — and, unlike most of us, for more than just a day. One of its party favors for the public? The world premiere of a Hop commission for Brooklyn Rider. The eclectic string quartet performed at Burlington’s FLYNN CENTER last November, but that program was not what listeners Brooklyn Rider will hear this Friday. In fact, says programming director MARGARET LAWRENCE, “The group only got the music to learn in the last couple months.” The Hop concert will comprise an installment in an ongoing project the foursome calls Brooklyn Rider Almanac. The Hop-commissioned pieces are by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch, Padma Newsome of indie rockers the National, pianist Ethan Iverson from jazz trio the Bad Plus and Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier. Don’t worry, classical fans: Brooklyn Rider will

CLASSICAL MUSIC first major production in that vein, and its first foray into opera. The program includes pieces that highlight the chorus and orchestra separately and together, sans soloists, as well as several in which both groups accompany the soloists. “Playing operatic music is a completely different thing for [the orchestra],” Domoto admits. “They’re learning the complications of what it takes to accompany singers. They have to be much more alert and open to things being different from what they expect.” To accustom the kids to the experience, Domoto brought in local tenor KEVIN GINTNER — a more useful approach than “my croaking the line,” he adds. VYO violist and bass singer GAWAIN USHER, 16, heartily seconds the nature of the challenge. “For me, it’s opened up an entire new dimension, being able to adapt to any crazy thing [the singers] decide to do.” It’s not like a Beethoven symphony, he says, which you play “pretty straight.”

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Usher, a homeschooled junior from Shoreham and a composer in his own right — BURLINGTON ENSEMBLE just premiered his latest work — says he has “looked up [Garcia] a few times on YouTube” and deems his voice “incredible.” But he had already heard of Latonia Moore. “I follow the Berlin Philharmonic on Facebook,” he explains. “I remember reading [about Porgy] and thinking, Wow, these people are going to come sing with us? That’s so incredible.”

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also perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14, which many consider his finest work for that ensemble. How does the Hop choose artists for commissions? No mystery, actually. “We have a strong relationship with Brooklyn Rider,” says Lawrence. “And they are extremely creative in how they go about working with composers. [In this case,] they wanted to see what would happen outside the classical-music realm.” Apparently, the Brooklyn-based quartet wanted to see what might happen outside the ivied walls of Dartmouth, too: On Monday night, they appeared with other cultural cognoscenti at White River Junction’s quirky-cool MAIN STREET MUSEUM for an event that director DAVID FAIRBANKS FORD called a “Creative Placemaking Dialog.” PA M EL A P O L S T O N

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SHORT TAKES ON FILM: SCREENINGS GALORE Holy Motors, Batman! One of the oddest films of 2012 — and my personal favorite — will be screened this Thursday by the BURLINGTON FILM SOCIETY at MAIN STREET LANDING PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. (The movie was also shown in December at CATAMOUNT ARTS in St. Johnsbury.) Directed by Leos Carax, the French film has a surreal premise: Over the course of one day, an actor plays an increasingly bizarre succession of “roles” on the stage of real-life Paris. The resulting vignettes can be appreciated as absurd comedy (and sometimes tragedy), but they’re also rich in allusions to French cinema, past and present. CAROLE ZUCKER, a Burlington acting instructor and former film professor at Concordia University in Montréal, says she noticed references to Godard’s Alphaville, Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast and the musicals of Jacques Demy. Classic horror fans should note that Holy Motors gives a central role to actress Edith Scob, famous as the young woman who wears a mask to hide her deformity in Georges Franju’s 1959 Eyes Without a Face (yes, it inspired the Billy Idol song). Franju, as it happens, is the subject of a retrospective also starting this Thursday, at Montréal’s CINEMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE.

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epends on what larger issue you’re getting at here. Is it plausible, in a fictional context, to have the protagonist take a bullet and pull through? Sure — four of five gunshot wounds are nonfatal. Is there such thing as a safe place to get shot? Don’t be absurd. There’s a one in five chance you’ll be killed. Surviving a gunshot wound is often described as a matter of luck, but that’s not to say it’s random. Take the case of Kenny Vaughn of North Carolina. In 1995 an ex-neighbor, apparently seriously pissed off, shot him roughly 20 times at point-blank range in the chest, groin, abdomen and extremities. Miraculously, Vaughn survived. Was he lucky? Absolutely,

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Dear cecil, In many movies and books where the protagonist needs to be injured for dramatic effect but not killed, he’s shot in the shoulder (usually about three or four inches down from the top surface of the shoulder and a few inches in from the armpit). The result is usually painful and bloody, but the character often has no trouble later using the affected limb —“later” meaning a few minutes at most. my question is this: How dangerous are puncture wounds of this type? What harm can they do (collapsed lungs, severed arteries, etc.), and how realistic are such portrayals in film?

but he had several kinds of luck. Unquestionably his biggest break was that his assailant didn’t shoot him in the head — a bullet between the ears is three times as likely to kill you as one anywhere else. Vaughn’s second-biggest break was that the shooter used a .22-caliber rifle, a relatively low-powered weapon. Had the assailant used, say, a Bushmaster assault rifle, the outcome would likely have been different. An ordinary .22 rifle slug carries at most a couple of hundred foot-pounds of energy. The Bushmaster’s .223 slug is only slightly larger in diameter, but its much greater mass and muzzle velocity gives it 1300 foot-pounds of energy, enough to shatter bone and shred flesh. It’s only when we get to Vaughn’s third break that we

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can credit sheer dumb luck. He was, after all, hit several times in the chest, and 85 percent of fatal gunshots involve wounds to the head or trunk. In his case, however, none of the bullets pierced a vital organ or major blood vessel. Two missed his heart by less than an inch. The lesson here is that, allowing for an element of randomness, a fictional hero can plausibly survive a gunshot wound to the shoulder if the weapon is at the low end of the lethality scale — for example, a small- to medium-bore handgun. I emphasize, however, that less deadly doesn’t mean harmless — handguns are lethal enough to have accounted for nearly half of U.S. murders in 2011. Writers no doubt target the shoulder for nonlethal bullet

wounds on the assumption that it contains no vital organs. In reality, however, it can be a dangerous place to get shot. The shoulder contains the subclavian artery, which feeds the brachial artery (the main artery of the arm), as well as the brachial plexus, the large nerve bundle that controls arm function. If you get hit in the brachial plexus, you’re probably not going to be walking around good as new five minutes later. A study of 58 gunshot victims wounded in the brachial plexus found 51 of them needed follow-up surgery to deal with blood vessel damage, severe pain and loss of motor function.

As for the subclavian artery, a study from a New Orleans hospital reported that out of 16 cases of acute injury thereto, four patients died and another lost the arm. Still, all this tells us is that a gunshot to the shoulder is potentially pretty bad. What happens in the real world? I had my assistant Una review 79 news reports of persons shot in the shoulder in 2012. Among the more memorable episodes: • A 9-year-old Pennsylvania girl wearing a black and white Halloween costume was shot in the shoulder by a shotgun-wielding relative who mistook her for a skunk. • A California weightlifter claimed he’d gotten his shoulder wound when he dropped a dumbbell on a .22-caliber cartridge, causing it to fire. • Following an argument over the price of condoms, a Detroit convenience store clerk pulled out a gun and fired a warning shot into the shoulder of an unruly customer, who subsequently died. But that last guy was the exception. Only three of the 79 shoulder wounds Una looked at resulted in the victim’s death. Writers therefore may indulge in this shopworn gambit without fretting that they’re taking factual liberties. I still wouldn’t volunteer.

Is there something you need to get straight? cecil adams can deliver the straight dope on any topic. Write cecil adams at the chicago reader, 11 e. illinois, chicago, il 60611, or cecil@chireader.com.

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And he insists that many rinks are still thriving — though there are none between Montréal and Boston. The rink where Perren’s own mother skated in the 1950s, in Mechanicville, N.Y., is still open for business. Perren says he was most impressed, during his travels, by a rink in Schenectady, N.Y., where events range from adult late-night skates to frequent birthday parties and regularly scheduled family fun nights. What he learned from polling successful rink owners is that most have a devoted band of regulars who skate at least three times a week. “It’s like Zumba,” Perren says. “They just have to keep going back.” Perren plans on a few modern-day upgrades for his Skateland, including an inline hockey league, which he insists will be popular; ’80s parties, and country-music skate nights. A parents’ café, outfitted with wireless internet and a television, will cater to adults who wish to stick around while their kids skate. As for the skates themselves, they’ll be pretty much the same — Perren admits roller skates haven’t experienced many technological leaps forward since the original Skateland closed. Chances are, those with cherished memories of the previous facility will find the new familiar. Will kids today dig the disco balls and ’80s rock that got their forebears rolling? Perren hopes so. “It’s our mission to get these kids off the couch and into some physical activity,” he says. Skating at eight to 10 miles per hour can burn as many as 600 calories an hour. And it’s better for the joints than running, Perren contends, because “you’re gliding, not pounding.” Besides, everyone knows that exercise is more fun under a disco ball.

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ig out those roller skates collecting dust in your parents’ attic: Skateland is returning. At least, that’s the plan, according to Scott Perren, the Malletts Bay man who hopes to revive the Williston family business that, for decades, provided a place for middle school kids to couples-skate their way awkwardly around a roller rink. Never mind that roller-skating may seem like a thing of the past. Perren is convinced that good, clean family fun — atop eight spinning wheels — never goes out of style. Now he plans to open Skateland, version 2.0, in mid or late 2013 in Essex. Perren’s parents, Dorothy Perren and Keith Wright, owned the original Skateland from 1974 until it closed in early 2000. Perren, now 43, spent every day of his childhood at the skating rink from age 4, and his parents enlisted him to work there once he was old enough: manning the concession stand, doling out skates and “floor guarding” — though

he says he was never much good at that last job: “I let everyone skate too fast.” The place, Perren says, was “something else.” Five big mirrored disco balls illuminated the rink. The sound system, which he contends was one of the best in the Northeast, pumped out classic rock. Diehard regulars circled the rink. There were even all-night skate parties: Parents could drop their kids at the rink at nine and fetch them the next morning. “It was the center of the community for 30 years,” Perren says. “There’s nothing like that today.” The family dissolved the business in 2000, after Wright’s death. For a little while, the building served as a teen center, but it was eventually demolished. Today, an empty lot marks the location where Perren says countless couples met and fell in love — and where, no doubt, a fair share of adolescent hearts were also broken. For more than a decade after Skateland closed, Perren would run into old friends and acquaintances who remembered it fondly — and who insisted he should bring the business back. “I heard it enough where I started really thinking about it,” says Perren. So he found a business partner — local real estate developer Al Senecal — and began eyeing a piece of land owned by Senecal in Essex. In mid-November, after nearly a year of touring skating rinks up and down the East Coast, Perren decided to test the waters. Could Skateland really make

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he door shut quietly behind me, and I was alone in the Himalayan salt cave. I had come to the Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center in Rutland to clear my mind and pamper my body. Yet I was suddenly overcome by anxiety. Was I really supposed to sit still for a whole hour in here? Each of the seven “zero-gravity” lounge chairs was positioned differently around a hearth; had I chosen the right seat, and how far should I recline it? If I fell asleep, would I miss out on my opportunity for meditation? Was the peach-hued “Himalayan salt” surrounding me in bricks on the walls and rough crystals on the floor really salt? I couldn’t relax until I knew. So I scooped up a handful of the stuff from the floor and rubbed it between my fingers. Then I touched my finger to my tongue. OK, it was definitely salt. And I’m definitely going to get a parking ticket, I thought, my frantic thoughts returning. I had parked an hour and a half ago in a two-hour metered spot directly across

from the spa on Merchants Row. Let it go, I told myself. Just let it go. Pyramid is no ordinary spa. It offers services as diverse as mental health counseling, acupuncture, massage (for humans and pets), energy readings, ear candling and nutrition counseling — in a city not known for a monied or trendy clientele, right across from a Walmart. It has exotic touches, too, like an oxygen bar and the cave where I was currently trying to relax. When homeopath Margaret Smiechowski built the Himalayan salt cave several years ago, it was the first public one in North America. Modeled after the naturally occurring salt caves in Smiechowski’s native Poland, the 500-square-foot structure remains one of the wellness center’s most notable features. It took four months to construct, and involved stacking Himalayan salt bricks up the walls and creating a cave-like ceiling — complete with stalactites — from papier-mâché and chicken wire, dotted with twinkly fiberoptic lights.

To give the cave a homey feel, Smiechowski outfitted it with props such as an antique sewing machine, old suitcases and chests, dimly glowing lanterns and miscellaneous old-timey tools. She calls it “Grandma’s Cabin.” I had expected more of a sauna experience, but the cave is just slightly warmer than room temperature, and clients wear regular clothes inside. The health benefits, explains Pyramid owner William Kelley, come simply from breathing the air, which is saturated with Himalayan salt, famous for its high mineral content and anti-inflammatory, antiviral and antifungal properties. The cave contains 16,000 pounds of salt, imported from Pakistan. Despite my anxiety at the start of my cave hour, I eventually let go as I snuggled under one of the provided fleece blankets. I stared up at the ceiling with its stellar lights and slipped into a kind of trance. At one point, I started seeing animals — a wolf and an eagle — in the curves and divots of the papier-mâché.

I emerged an hour later utterly relaxed. The Pyramid opened in 2007 on West Street in downtown Rutland. Kelley, a 42-year-old mental health counselor from New Hampshire, said he made a conscious choice to open his holistic wellness center in the much-maligned city. “I know that, had I done this somewhere else, like Burlington, it would be much more financially successful,” he admitted. “But this wasn’t about financial reward — it was about doing work I love in a place that really needs it.” In 2008, a rainstorm flooded the downtown sewage system and severely damaged the Pyramid building, including the original salt cave. “This is take two,” Kelley said of the new Merchants Row space. “It’s allowed us to fix some things we didn’t quite get right the first time.” The Pyramid has been expanding ever since. Kelley now has seven employees and contracts with 40 practitioners. At their request, he recently opened up a shop in the spa where he sells their handmade jewelry and other crafts, as well as books, relaxation CDs, candles, gemstones, tarot cards and even jokey T-shirts — one says, “What happens in the salt cave stays in the salt cave.” You can take yoga, kickboxing, belly dancing and martial arts classes here; browse the health-and-wellness library; sit under a lamp to combat seasonal affective disorder for free; or work out on your own at Pyramid Fitness, which opened a block away two years ago. The Pyramid even has its own massage and intuitive-wellness schools. Of the latter, Kelley explained, “We wanted to give legitimacy to some of these modalities, the stuff that most people think is sort of out there.” Acknowledging that it’s difficult to certify someone in intuition, Kelley said his instructors focus on teaching the business and ethics of being a healer. The breadth of activities going on at Pyramid on any given day is enough to make the head of a less Zen person spin. But Kelley keeps his cool. “My desire is to create a place where the stuff that people want happens,” he said. “We make the space for it.” And he works to keep it affordable. Treatments, on average, cost about $1 a minute. An hour in the salt cave is $12. Most of Pyramid’s clientele comes from within about a 50-mile radius of Rutland, Kelley says, but it now has customers from as far away as Montréal and New York City, including a family of four who take regular trips by train to use the salt cave. Kelley himself is a mental health counselor, hypnotherapist and musician. He does energy readings. His new-age compositions, featuring binaural beats — which Kelley describes as occurring below the level of human hearing — play inside the salt cave. He’s a parrot enthusiast

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(he has five of them). And he’s a lover of all things Egyptian (hence the name Pyramid). Upstairs, in what was once the local Shriners’ lodge, Kelley has created the Cairo Club, a large space for poetry readings, local bands and other community gatherings decked out with papyrus scrolls, a mural of Giza and a pharaoh’s throne. The Pyramid’s quirkiness extends to the massage rooms, which each therapist has personally decorated according to a rainbow color scheme. “People joke that this one is the purple leather brothel,” said Kelley, showing off a particularly eccentric room before leading me to a sun-filled

separating from my taut muscles with her deep-tissue massage — but then I drifted off, completely blissed out. An hour later, I stumbled out of the jungle room feeling woozy. I had one treatment left: the oxygen bar. In preparation, I sat in the Pyramid’s sunny café, sipping freshly squeezed carrot-beet-celery-pearginger juice and eyeing the black-bean soup and baked goods. The oxygen bar is located down the street at Pyramid Fitness. I’d never considered paying someone money so I could breathe highly concentrated oxygen infused with essential oils. (Pyramid charges $6 for five minutes of oxygen; $2 for mem-

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at the Nike Oregon Project. Immediately, trainers and physical therapists could see that the partial weight-bearing training on such a machine beat underwater running for reducing impact on joints and providing a cardiovascular workout. “In water running, you’re pushing through the resistance in the water, so it’s very different mechanics,” explains On Track founder and physical therapist Brian Loeffler, just before a demo of the AlterG. “It’s the mechanics of running; it’s exactly the same, you’re just reducing the impact.” It’s easy to spot the AlterG in the row of treadmills at On Track: the only machine with a plastic bubble around the sides and back. “If you were to imagine what it

would feel like to run on the moon, that’s what it feels like,” promises Loeffler, who decided to invest $30,000 in an AlterG after Stephenson mentioned the new technology and Loeffler tried out a demo that the company trucked in. “I got on it and ran for about three minutes and said, ‘I gotta have this thing.’ It’s absolutely amazing,” he says. Stephenson had tried the AlterG in San Antonio, Texas, where he lived before relocating to Burlington. “I was a little apprehensive about it but wanted to give it a try,” says Stephenson, whose muscular dystrophy has weakened his quadriceps, resulting in falls and multiple broken bones. “The AlterG allows me to walk or run in a protected way. It allows me to unweight my body so that I can walk faster than I could.” For the first time in 24 years, Stephenson can run. The AlterG’s gravity-reduction mechanism is silly looking: a pair of modified bike shorts with a collar that zips into the plastic bubble to create an air chamber. “My kids called them the Humpty-Dumpty pants,” Stephenson says. “But once you get over that, no problem.” At On Track, I’m relieved that there are few witnesses to see me wrangle the shorts over my True Religions as I give the AlterG a test spin. “Yeah, it’s not the most flattering,” Loeffler says. Soon, however, I instantly lose five pounds, then 10, then 15, as he zips me into the air chamber and adjusts the control so that I’m gently lifted and running at a percentage of my body weight. My feet are still moving along the belt, but with far less effort. I can see how elite athletes use the antigravity treadmill to work on their fasttwitch muscles without the potentially traumatic impact of repeated intervals or high mileage. “It helps athletes to maintain their sanity so they can still work out and get that sweat going,” says Loeffler, “and at the same time allow that injury to heal.” The pain that I occasionally feel in my left hip has disappeared, which, as Loeffler explains, can improve my running form. Clients who’ve undergone surgery that limits their lower-body movements

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n December, I suffered a debilitating brain fart and scheduled my vasectomy on the Friday before my busiest work weekend of the year. Traditionally, this is when the Seven Days staff produces two issues simultaneously to allow ourselves down time during the holidays. But if I postponed the procedure until January, my insurance wouldn’t immediately cover it, so I awkwardly requested the day off, offering my employers the oblique explanation that I was undergoing a “minor medical procedure.” Publisher Paula Routly immediately guessed its nature. “Getting snipped?” she blurted in a room full of fellow staffers, letting my sterilization plan out of the bag. “Why don’t you write about it?” Hey, no harm, no foul. I’ve published other personal stories about major milestones in my life, including my wedding, the birth of my daughter and deciding whether to circumcise my son. Saying sayonara to my sperm — or at least to their ability to swim downstream and cause trouble — seemed like just another (cough) seminal event. Besides, as news editor Andy Bromage chimed in, “This one is right in your wheelhouse.” He didn’t specify whether he meant health reporting or testicle humor. Unlike my son’s circumcision, my decision to get fixed wasn’t one over which I anguished. For one thing, it’s a socially responsible move. Ezra, my second child, was born last May. In the interest of zero population growth, my wife, Stacy, and I had already decided we’d stop at two. After her first labor — a hellacious ordeal that began, prophetically, during a viewing of Apocalypse Now and ended 38 hours later in an unplanned Caesarean delivery — her physician recommended a scheduled C-section for our second child. On the plus side, it would afford the option of getting Stacy’s tubes tied. Financially, it’d be akin to replacing the timing belt on a car: While the mechanic is already under the hood, we might as well change the oil and swap out the fuel pump, too. Shortly before her second C-section, however, when our world became very small and less certain, we had an 11th-hour change of heart. Fearing the irreversible consequences if something tragic were to happen to our newborn in the coming days or weeks, I agreed to get “fixed” instead. The scouting report from my male friends and relatives sounded promising:

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A vasectomy is a short, simple and painless procedure, I was told, one that would require only a few days of postoperative lounging in my La-Z-Boy, TV remote in hand and a bag of frozen peas on my crotch. One friend assured me that he’d resumed sexual activity within a few days; another knew someone who’d gone mountain biking a week later. My only real concern was convincing my 3-year-old daughter not to hop on Pop. But, as I soon discovered the hard way, even a “safe” and “routine” medical procedure is a statistical crapshoot. If 99 out of 100 men who get their grapes pruned on a Friday are back riding a mechanical bull by Monday, that leaves one unlucky lad gobbling painkillers like

Skittles, and icing a plum-colored nut sack the circumference of a grapefruit (OK, a blood orange). Guess who went home with that door prize? The morning I got clipped, Stacy drove me to the offices of Green Mountain Urology in Colchester. There, Dr. Richard Grunert walked us through the procedure, using such eminently comforting phrases as “no needle” and “no scalpel.” Still, we were talking about puncturing my scrotum, now shaved as smooth as eggs, with a sharp, metallic object. First, Grunert explained, he uses a highpressure spray gun to deliver lidocaine through the skin to the vas deferens. The vas are the ducts that carry sperm from the epididymis to the urethra. If you think of

sperm as Navy SEALs, the epididymis is where immature recruits learn to swim and storm an egg. The vas (Latin for “vessel”) is how they deploy into the Sea of Semen en route to their fertilize-or-die mission. Grunert explained how, using a specialized tool similar to a sharpened hemostat, he cracks the nut without a cut, isolates the vas, then cauterizes the ends to solder them shut. After a few internal stitches and a packing off of my ’nads in gauze, I’d be on my way. Grunert even suggested I not take my pants off, but just leave them around my ankles for easier dressing afterward. The entire procedure would take no more than 15 minutes. I kissed Stacy good-bye, dropped trou and lay back on the operating table. As Grunert shot me up with a mild sedative, my vision went slightly askew and I felt the warm embrace of an intravenous opiate hitting my bloodstream. I reclined, closed my eyes and felt not a trace of worry, even as I caught a whiff of cauterized flesh emanating from my nether region. I’ve had visits to the dentist far less pleasant. That feeling of peace and tranquility lasted all of one hour. The sedative wore off in the Colchester Rite Aid parking lot as I waited in the car for Stacy to pick up my prescription painkillers and about a thousand other items. As I began to double over in pain, I turned on the radio in search of a mild distraction. National Public Radio was reporting that, two hours earlier, a man with an assault rifle had entered an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and mowed down 20 first graders and six adults before killing himself. That dull but growing ache in my genitals — which would last not days but weeks — was now joined by a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. In an instant, the full weight of my decision never again to father a child landed in my lap like a swift kick in the groin.

he history of male sterilization, like that of most medical procedures, is longer and more sordid than I had previously imagined. As I learned later from David Brown, founder and webmaster of vasectomy-information.com, who lives in the south of England and is something of a vasectomy expert — a vasectorian, if you will — the vas deferens were first identified and named by Berengarius of Carpi in the 15th century.

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Vermont, the elephant hasn’t budged; it’s just becoming harder to ignore. One reason is the teenage brain’s vulnerability to alcohol. Adolescence to young adulthood is a period of rapid change in the developing brain, which doesn’t reach full maturity until at least the mid-twenties. Beginning around puberty, the brain starts to resculpt itself dramatically, first with a surge, then a purge. Connections between nerve cells proliferate rapidly as the brain sets up a rough scaffolding for the “wiring” that will see it into adulthood. Then the brain undergoes a massive “pruning” of neurons and connections that are deemed unnecessary. You’ve heard of “use it or lose it”? The brain takes this literally as it reshapes itself in accordance with the information it receives from its environment. Brain cells that get used are retained in the system, while those that aren’t active wither and die. Flood the system with alcohol in the midst of this process, and you may be priming the brain for alcohol dependence. “You’re reinforcing a maladaptive reward system. It’s a setup for a lifelong struggle with addiction, because you’ve got a brain that sees maladaptive behavior as rewarding,” says neuroscientist Jordan Grafman of Northwestern University. Nowhere is the brain’s remodeling more dramatic than in the all-important frontal lobes, the forward-most part of the brain and the last section to mature. This is where “higher cognition” takes place — decision making, impulse control, planning, social skills, and the ability to make good judgments and put the brakes on inappropriate responses. Think of the frontal lobes as the brain’s CEO, quashing crazy impulses and reacting appropriately when faced with important decisions. In teens, the CEO hasn’t quite moved into the corner office yet.

Neuroscientist Silveri likens the adolescent thought process to driving a vehicle without brakes or guardrails. Fast. On a slippery mountain slope. Add alcohol, and you’ve got a recipe for risk taking. The brain science of adolescence helps explain teenagers’ heightened vulnerability to alcohol, but it does little to explain why Vermont’s rate of underage drinking is so much higher than the national average. The rural nature of the state, the high number of colleges and universities, and more liberal social views are some of the reasons experts and advocates note, but there is no clear answer. “We really don’t know why,” the health department’s Cimaglio admits. Impossible to ignore is the “drinking culture” that society has created, in

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In the Northeast, five New England states and New York are in the top 10 for underage drinking; the lowest rates are seen in the South. What makes this region different? Are we genetically predisposed by some risk-factor gene? Are we self-medicating with alcohol to quell anxiety or feel less depressed? Is a hot toddy the best way through a long, cold winter? The state may not have answers, but Cimaglio says underage drinking is the top priority of the health department’s addictionprevention programs, which had a total budget of about $2.1 million in 2012. Increasing awareness is the cornerstone of these programs, via communitybased outreach and parental-education campaigns such as Parent Up (parentupvt.org), a website aimed at helping parents talk with their kids about alcohol and drugs. Colleges bear a large share of the burden of underage drinking — Vermont has the highest number of colleges and universities per capita of any state, according to Ann Gilbert of Central Vermont New Directions Coalition. Some colleges have taken proactive measures to reduce oncampus drinking, which can be effective when most students live on campus but do little to help when students just have to walk down the street to a drinking party. Usually, serious responses are reactive — a review of a college’s drinking culture after a sexual assault, say, or after a fatal accident involving alcohol. The current or former presidents of eight Vermont colleges and the former chancellor of Vermont State Colleges are among the 136 nationwide who have signed on to the Amethyst Initiative, an effort started by former Middlebury College president John McCardell to “rethink” the drinking age. The state sponsored a symposium at Norwich University in October that brought together representatives from 16 Vermont colleges and universities to “both inform and charge them to look at this issue and whether they are meeting the suggested policies that have been established,” Cimaglio says. A work group has been formed to keep the dialogue going.

The state also works with local groups such as New Directions, which brings alcohol-prevention messages to youths, college students, retailers and parents in Washington County. One program promotes the idea of “Live More Drink Less” through social-media contests and an eCheckup To Go tool that can be used to assess one’s own drinking behavior confidentially online in about 15 minutes. Is education enough? It’s hard to find strong evidence that alcohol- and drug-abuse education actually translates to behavioral changes in youth. A 2010 federal survey found no difference in alcohol use among young people who had seen or heard drugor alcohol-prevention messages compared with those who didn’t get the memo. Vermont reported somewhat more encouraging results last year, finding modest decreases in underage drinking and binge drinking after communityplanned and -implemented prevention programs in 24 Vermont municipalities, covering about 70 percent of the population. A five-year (20072012) federal incentive grant funded evidencebased programs tailored to each community, with informational campaigns, in-school programs, liaisons with law enforcement to enforce relevant laws and more. These local-born efforts are “where we see the biggest impact,” Cimaglio says. Apparently, preventing alcohol use in teens takes a village. But, experts say, it also takes a parent or two who pay attention to where their kids are and what they’re doing, who have honest, open conversations about drinking and who don’t send mixed messages that teen drinking is OK — even at home under supervision. “Parents’ position on drinking is one of the strongest protective factors against underage drinking,” says Harvard’s Silveri. “Parents need to be the guardrails, be their frontal lobes.”

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his is not what I had in mind for kicking my feet up on a Friday night. Facing a ballet barre in Burlington’s Core Studio, I’m frantically trying to hoist my right leg to 90 degrees so that my ankle rests gracefully flexed on the horizontal wooden pole. In a few minutes, I fear, instructor Liz Sheridan may have to call in the crew that raised the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to get my leg into position. But I do manage it, and the long-limbed, lithe Sheridan instructs my classmate and me to stretch forward over our raised legs before moving on to the next set of hamstringtorturing exercises. “Lift, lift, lift!” Sheridan encourages as Ke$ha’s “Die Young” plays on the stereo. “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, hold it!” Aargh! This new, innocuous-sounding BarSculpt class, a hybrid of Pilates, ballet stretches and sports conditioning,

is kicking my ass — literally. Even a fitness addict and former Pilates devotee like me feels like a bull in a china shop. But, after months of avoiding the issue of my chronic inflexibility (again), it also feels pretty freaking great. Called “Pilates evolved,” BarSculpt was the brainchild of a Maine fitness instructor and personal trainer named Leslie Hamm who wanted to combine high-energy cardio, strengthening and stretching. It taps into the growing popularity of ballet-based workouts; since Lotte Berk began teaching her dance-based exercise method in the 1970s, millions of gym-goers have turned to ballet-barre routines for stronger and more supple bodies. For Sheridan, who grew up in Belgium and New Jersey and played Division I lacrosse for Virginia Tech and Colgate University, barre-based routines were a natural application of the flexibility she acquired after taking

up Bikram yoga. Though she had no ballet experience whatsoever, the current Charlotte resident began practicing Bar Method while visiting family in New Jersey and then stumbled on the similar BarSculpt. Within a few months, Sheridan was trained and certified by Hamm in the latter’s Portland studio. “I like that BarSculpt works your entire body but focuses on toning the smaller muscle groups, so it keeps you from bulking up,” Sheridan says of her attraction to the new, 55-minute, nonimpact practice, which is done in socks (preferably ones with grip on the soles). “It stretches you at the same time, so you do really leave a class both sculpted and more lean.” Accustomed to lifting much heavier weights, I’m skeptical about the 1-, 2- and 3-pound dumbbells that bARRE Fly

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umerically speaking, 258 is innocuous; it could be a street address, an area code, the title of an Emily Dickinson poem. If you’re talking cholesterol, though, 258 is a bad, bad number — it’s alarmingly high. So when I recently learned that 258 was my own number, I had visions of my heart abruptly stopping while I was shoveling snow or just walking down the street. With a sinking feeling, I thought of the Lillé cheese, seared pork belly, butter-slathered shrimp and other foods that probably helped to infuse my blood with waxy steroids. Like the 12 pounds I’ve gained in the last two years, though, it was a problem much easier to identify than address. High cholesterol appears to be an occupational hazard of being a food writer who eats out regularly. If I need to review a pizzeria, I eat pizza several nights in a row. If the “signature burger” is smothered in bacon and cheddar, I eat that, too, even if my breakfast was cannoli French toast or a cider donut and a frothy latte. If I’m writing a story on cocktails, I sample them many nights in a row — sometimes subjecting myself to a low-grade headache and interrupted sleep. Of course, the job also entails giddy days traipsing around farms or tastetesting sandwiches, and blissful nights at cafés in the middle of nowhere where the chef showers me with new dishes. “Being a food writer must be such drudgery,” said no one, ever. So when others swoon over “how fun” my job must be, my rote reply is nodding agreement. I rarely try to explain the loss of control over my diet that comes with writing about food, because it might make me appear spoiled and ungrateful. From fellow food writers, I’ve heard stories about gout, gallstones and struggles with obesity. Frank Bruni — for several years the New York Times’ restaurant critic — wrote an entire book,

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He’ll scan my record. “We did that last time, Corin, and your enzymes were perfectly normal.” I’ll frown. He’ll smirk. I’ll leave. We’ll repeat this the next year, and the next. Since I’m adopted, I have no way of knowing my predisposition for heart attack, stroke or any other genetic ailment. But Dr. Jones tolerates my repetitive litany because he knows that both alcoholism and obesity plague my adoptive family. I escaped the latter but worry about the former — my mother, for instance, died of cirrhosis of the liver when she was 35. “And what did she drink?” Dr. Jones once asked me. Well, cheap bourbon (as if the expensive stuff were any healthier). “And you drink?” he asked. Wine, usually. Even so, when I’m swirling and sipping and taking notes on a quaff, I wonder if this methodic approach is a way of compartmentalizing and controlling my heredity so that it doesn’t control me. Alcohol draws me like a moth to a flame, though not in the same way it has others in my family — I hope. Back when I was a young stick figure among the giants of my family, I was obsessed with weight — that is, with gaining it. I was embarrassed by my mantis-like body, and would stand in front of mirrors willing my knees to come together. There was plenty of fuel around — fried okra, fried pork chops, fried everything from my mother’s Southern clan. On the other side, my grandfather was a butcher and instilled in his kids (including my dad) an enduring love of steaks. Both sides of the family seemed troubled when I couldn’t eat more than one serving (even now, I often cart much of my portions home). Some would take it as a slight; older women would look at my body and whisper to me conspiratorially, “You know, dear, one day it will all change.” The subtext was that I wouldn’t be thin forever; one day, I would look just like them, DD breasts and all.

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here’s little chance that I can cut cheese or croissants or fatty meats out of my eating (and writing) schedule to write exclusively about healthy things any time soon. Instead, I try to mitigate the damage by running, hiking, occasional yoga and — once a year — a visit with my doctor for reassurance. While some doctors are zealots about keeping their patients on a strict diet, mine is just the opposite. Dr. Jones, as I’ll call him, is a lean, baby-faced, gentle man with a Zenlike response to almost any question. No matter what my ailment is, whenever I see him I seem to ask the same set of questions. It goes something like this: “I eat a lot of cheese. Should I cut down?” “No, I wouldn’t worry.” “Also, I drink wine almost every night with dinner. Should I worry?” “Not unless it’s a bottle a day or more,” he’ll say. “I’d like my liver tested,” I’ll counter, trying to appear firm.

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While I’ll never be buxom, my chosen career could help bear out the women’s prophecy. I can live with an extra 12 pounds, but more troubling is the possible heart failure in my future. With 258 on my mind, I called Dr. Jones with yet more fretting. “Yes?” he asked, when we spoke over the phone. “This cholesterol count is high — really high,” I explained. “What should I do about it? Cut out eggs? Wine? Cheese? Should I worry?” “No, you’re fine,” he replied with typical calm. “Your overall cholesterol is high, yes, but your good cholesterol is so extraordinarily high that you don’t need to worry.” I scanned through the results again, this time more carefully, and there it was: an HDL of 86, which

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projects that analyze the gut microbiota and match bacterial genetic footprints to certain medical conditions.” He adds that prebiotic and probiotic foods are widely recommended for some patients with certain GI disorders. At Happy Bellies, Carpenter works with patients and their doctors to tailor diets to treat ills ranging from cancer to autism. Her method combines elements of her own hard-won food knowledge with the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) diet, the whole-fat teachings of Weston A. Price, and the detoxifying Body Ecology diet. Though the diet is unlikely to be harmful, not all doctors see much potential benefit. Moses writes in an email, “Yeast is ubiquitous in the environment. Pathogenic yeast (those that can cause human disease) are found on household surfaces, in our noses and mouths, and on our skin. These organisms cause disease in a small number of individuals only when immunity is compromised. It is scientifically unproven, phOtOs: Alice leVitt

hough personal therapeutic chef Tara Carpenter uses the word “diet” to describe her cooking methods, her Barre business, Happy Bellies, is not focused on privation. “We use a lot of fats. Goose fat, duck fat, pork fat. If I see a farmer downtown, I say, ‘Did you just slaughter?’” she says with palpable excitement. Weight loss can be a pleasant side effect, but it’s not the purpose of Carpenter’s cuisine. Her aim is healing. Currently a second-year online student in holistic nutrition consulting at Bauman College in Penngrove, Calif., Carpenter, 38, believes that 70 to 80 percent of the immune system is part of the digestive system. While a few of Carpenter’s recommendations may sound radical — one involves consuming the postnatal placenta — the principles undergirding them may not be, according to Carol Gardner, a Colchester osteopath and nutritionist who has not worked with Carpenter. Gardner agrees that digestive balance is key to health. “All holistic doctors feel that it’s not just ‘You are what you eat,’ but also what you absorb and utilize. We think that the GI [gastrointestinal] system is probably your most important immune organ,” she says. The Happy Bellies method is based on avoiding all potentially sensitivityinducing foods while bolstering the body with nutrient-dense, probiotic ones. Many of Carpenter’s clients come to her with specific physical complaints or on the instructions of their doctors. But Carpenter claims the diet is good for everyone; most people who follow it for

and very unlikely that a yeast-free diet has any effect on human disease.” But Carpenter has her own anecdotal evidence. The chef’s journey of medicinal eating began at age 21, when lifelong asthma and chronic allergies became too much for her to bear. “I would start the day with chocolate, then coffee, and French fries for lunch. That was how I ran my body,” Carpenter says. “I was taking Triaminic and Sudafed like candy to keep my body dried up.” Realizing that changing her abysmal diet might improve her health, Carpenter made the dramatic leap to macrobiotics. She ate lean, unprocessed vegetables and grains — until another health event made her rethink the method. During the pregnancy with her second son, now 5, Carpenter began to develop chronic strep and yeast infections. “Macrobiotics wasn’t helping me at that point. I realized I once again had to tighten up my diet,” she recalls. She runs to her bookshelf to share the tome that changed her life: The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity by Donna Gates and Linda Schatz. Their eating plan entails cutting out gluten, sugar and yeast; Carpenter says it eliminated the yeasts and fungi from her body in two or three weeks. She’s now working on a book of her own to help others in similarly dire circumstances. Already a macrobiotic counselor and

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one featuring radicchio, shiitakes and artichokes. Though “conventional” may not be the right word. One bite reveals the addition of bacon fat, which gives the bowl of greens a luscious waft of fatty smoke. A glowing green dressing of avocado and lime lends a bright flavor without added oils. Another vegetable dish, Japanese kinpira gobo, showcases Carpenter’s predilections not only for wild foods but for using every part of pastured animals. She wildcrafted the burdock at her older

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son’s elementary school. The blood purifier and prebiotic (it feeds good intestinal flora) is stir-fried with carrots in the fat from a goose that Carpenter purchased from a local farmer. Currently, pieces of a whole lamb, including nutrient-rich liver and heart, wait in her chest freezer, the result of the first slaughter of one of her own animals, courtesy of her husband Tomas Vondra. Vondra, a Czech architect who makes a mean natto (a gooey, cheesy-tasting Japanese fermented-soybean dish), designed the Happy Bellies Center that Carpenter will open in Cabot this spring. The center and its farm full of pastured animals will share land with Rhapsody Farm. There, the Welters family grows its own rice for a fermented drink called amazake, and processes the tempeh it started selling at the now-closed Rhapsody Café in Montpelier in 1997. Once the Happy Bellies Center opens, Carpenter will invite clients to learn to cook their own food in her commercial kitchen, using the lambs, chickens, goats and rabbits that she and Vondra will slaughter there — as well as Rhapsody tempeh, of course.

Though Carpenter’s job title is “therapeutic personal chef,” she says she prefers to teach clients how to make their own food rather than prepare it for them. “Having a personal therapeutic chef isn’t for everybody,” she says. “My motto is to teach people to fish for themselves. Cooking is wonderful, but I want to teach.” Customized menu plans are among Happy Bellies’ most popular services. Football Special Still, “hitting the bull’s-eye” every day, as 1 large 1-topping pizza, Carpenter puts it, can be a challenge. Not 6 boneless wings, everyone has time to make their own stocks 1 apple & 1 cherry turnover, and ferment their own veggies. Other cliand a 2 liter coke product ents are too ill to cook for themselves. A full-time student and mom, Carpenter finds time to maintain two or three perPlus tax. Pick-up or delivery only. Expires 1/31/13. sonal chef clients at a time. These have 973 Roosevelt Highway sometimes included patients in hospice Colchester • 655-5550 care, whom Carpenter seeks to comfort by www.threebrotherspizzavt.com balancing their yin and yang with warming or cooling foods. On the other end of the spectrum, 12v-ThreeBros0113.indd 1 1/2/13 2:46 PM Carpenter particularly enjoys working with postnatal mothers. She is one of New England’s few certified “placenta encapsulation” specialists, meaning that she dehydrates the uterine sacs for new mothers to consume in capsules, a practice meant to restore hormones and nutrients lost in childbirth. Demand is such that Carpenter drives all over the region several times a month to pick up placentas, which she then steams, dehydrates, grinds and puts $2 Switchback Drafts into empty capsules for the clients. $2 off any House The byproduct of the encapsulation Mac n Cheese process is called mother’s broth, a liquid that Carpenter recommends mothers mix 20 mac varieties to into soups or stews. For women not ready to take the plunge of eating their own choose from including: organs, she freezes the broth, just in case buffalo chicken • bbq they decide to try it later. “The placenta oils crab • lobster • beef & bleu help tighten things up and bring warmth chicken parmesan • surf & turf to the organs, especially to reproductive pb&j • mary had a little lamb organs,” Carpenter says. “When they take a mother’s broth, they feel a difference caprese • cheeseburger within a hour.” southwest • shrimp scampi Nutritionist Gardner, a vegetarian, mediterranean • blt wouldn’t eat mother’s broth herself but super cheesy • nutty new england says she can see the benefits of this praccheesesteak • breakfast tice. “It seems like it’s not just an old wives’ tale,” she says. “Placentas are really rich in proteins and irons. Their stem cells are special, powerful, very nutritious cells — really the essence.” Controversial as some of Carpenter’s claims may be, no one can argue with the flavors of Happy Bellies cuisine, and dishes such as lamb kebabs and Caribbean lime halibut are far from boring health food. And Carpenter isn’t afraid to serve up rich desserts, such as ghee-based truffles she calls Cinnamon Kisses. Leaving clients feeling like they can enjoy food without fear, whether at home or in restaurants, is Carpenter’s way of keeping them healthy for life. 36 Main Street, Winooski SEVENDAYSVT.COM

healing chef, Carpenter possessed knowledge of Chinese medicine and nutrition that allowed her to think outside the Body Ecology box, combine that plan with other types of low-impact eating and come up with her own methods. In its most basic form, the Happy Bellies diet is based on “properly combining” gluten-, sugar- and yeast-free foods so as not to feed pathogenic yeast, bacteria or parasites. What is a proper combination? Carpenter sets forth basic rules designed to enhance digestion of each food: Eat fruits alone or on an empty stomach; eat proteins and starchy foods with nonstarchy vegetables. In Chinese terms, these techniques balance the yin and yang of the food. Those regulations don’t stop Carpenter from setting out a feast for a recent lunch at her home. The meal begins with a shot of Purple Potion, the brine left over from a dish of cultured, unsalted cabbage and beets. The chef explains that the bright-purple concoction is best for children and for adults whose bodies may not yet be conditioned to handle the alcohol-like burn of fermented food. The slightly chunky shot of Purple Potion is sour enough to taste almost carbonated, yet just sweet enough to suggest powerful lemonade. The aperitif gives way to a cup of red clover, spearmint and raspberry-leaf tea. Carpenter explains that the tisane’s warmth helps relax the stomach for the work it’s about to do. “I rarely start a meal without it — just to let the stomach juices wake up and know that food’s about to arrive,” she says. To continue the warming trend, she serves a cup of spinach soup. The creamy texture of the dark green potage comes not from dairy, which causes sensitivity in some of Carpenter’s patients, but from sunflower seeds. Specifically, “predigested” sunflower seeds. This isn’t as gross as it sounds; no one chewed up the seeds, mother-bird style. They were simply soaked in salt water to remove hard-todigest phytic acid. The rest of the meal is a global mashup of whole-fat, high-nutrient foods. Though many of Carpenter’s patients are sensitive to eggs, she says the problems are usually just caused by proteins in the albumen. Yolks rarely cause the same damage to the “gut lining,” the chef says. Hence her frittatas, a popular choice with patients and at catering gigs, which combine creamy egg yolks with matchsticks of zucchini, seasoned with dill and parsley. Along with a pair of fermented salads Carpenter offers a more conventional

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Burlington BusinEss AssociAtion BusinEss summit: Local professionals share “Stories to Inspire,” after which Champlain College’s Lindsey Godwin leads a group exercise and discussion. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 7:30-11 a.m. $15-25; see bbavt.org for schedule. Info, 863-1175 . KEllEy mArKEting mEEting: Marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495.

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improv night: Fun-loving participants play “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”-style games in an encouraging environment. Spark Arts, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $7 suggested donation. Info, 373-4703.

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homEshArE vErmont’s opEn housE: Those interested in homesharing and/or caregiving programs meet with staff to learn more. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, informational session from 2-3 p.m.; meet and greet with staff from 3-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625. milton community youth coAlition mEEting: Hillary Boone, coordinator of Milton Mentors! gives an interactive presentation on the program that pairs students in grades 3 to 5 with adult companions. Milton Elementary School, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; dinner and childcare provided. Info, 893-1009 . opEn rotA mEEting: Neighbors keep tabs on the gallery’s latest happenings. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-0494.

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Knitting & crochEting group: Needleworkers of all levels gather to share ideas and work on current projects. Milton Public Library, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644. mAKE stuff!: Defunct bicycle parts become works of art and jewelry that will be sold to raise funds and awareness. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

education

EDucAtor rEcEption: Teachers learn about special programs for schools, including book fairs and using NOOK e-readers for instruction. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001 .

film

‘Any DAy noW’: Inspired by a true story, Travis Fine’s 2012 drama about a committed couple who take in a teenager with special needs explores the boundaries of love and legality. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. community cinEmA film sEriEs: ‘soul fooD JunKiEs’: This 60-minute preview of Byron Hurt’s documentary examines the cuisine’s ties to cultural identity and, in some cases, serious health issues. A discussion follows. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘thE sEssions’: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William Macy star in this independent drama based on the writings of a poet with debilitating health issues who is determined to lose his virginity. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600.

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Friday and Saturday, January 18-19, 8 p.m., at Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, at Middlebury College. $6-25. Info, 443-3168. middlebury.edu

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prEsErving thE hArvEst: orAngE mArmAlADE: Award-winning canner Robin Berger teaches fellow foodies how to make this sweet citrus concoction with many uses. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

games

ADult BriDgE cluB: Players of all experience levels test their memory and strategy skills with this popular card game. Milton Public Library, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644, kdulac@town.milton.vt.us. Burlington go cluB: Folks gather weekly to play this deceptively simple, highly strategic Asian board game. Uncommon Grounds, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free; bring a set if you have one. Info, 8609587, dfelcan@yahoo.com.

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mEDitAtion & Discussion: Powerful energies arise from this participant-led session, followed by 20 minutes of meditation and a brief discussion. Inspired Yoga Studios, Jay, 5:45-7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 988-0449. sAcrED co-crEAtion: Brennan Healing Science practitioner Nessa Rothstein leads guided meditation and visualization with sacred geometry. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202 . WED.16

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Many stories have been told about the acting teacher Stella Burden. Some, such as her exodus into the South American jungle, elevate her mythic status. A more factual account recalls the years 1954 to ’74, during which Burden only accepted acting students who, when asked, “Truth or beauty?” chose the former. Equally eccentric, the theater collective Rude Mechanicals seems perfectly poised to bring the guru to life onstage. Titled after Burden’s strict adherence to her own techniques and the rumored cause of her death, The Method Gun reenacts her company’s rehearsals for A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the journals, diaries and letters they left behind.

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community DinnEr: Diners get to know their neighbors at a low-key, buffet-style meal organized by the Winooski Coalition for a Safe and Peaceful Community. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult; transportation available for seniors. Info, 655-4565.

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JAN.23 | MUSIC Vibrant Virtuosos When the Ariel Quartet stepped onto the stage at the 2012 Vermont Summer Music festival, something was missing: sheet music. The foursome, who first played together as youths in Israel, performed works by Haydn from memory — and with style. Having recently celebrated 10 years as a group, their confidence and chemistry manifests in bright eyes, emotive gestures and smiles. The world has taken notice, as evidenced by several prestigious awards and artistin-residency appointments. The sounds of Beethoven come to life when these acclaimed musicians deliver the second of six concerts that will comprise the composer’s complete set of string quartets.

AriEL QuArtEt Wednesday, January 23, preperformance talk, 7 p.m.; performance, 7:30 p.m., at College Street Congregational Church in Burlington. $35. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

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Want to cross dogsledding and participating in a biathlon off your bucket list? You can do both activities, and much more, at the Stowe Tour de Snow, along the town’s 5.3-mile recreation path. Beginners take advantage of learn-to-ski and -snowshoe clinics, as well as free junior and adaptive cross-country ski equipment. Seeking a different kind of winter sport? Explore seven activity stations featuring everything from yoga to hockeypuck shooting to winter survival skills. The afternoon wraps up in Stowe village with refreshments and arts and crafts at the Helen Day Art Center.

STOWE TOUR DE SNOW Sunday, January 20, 12:30-4 p.m., at Stowe Recreation Path. $5. Info, 253-9216. stowetourdesnow.com

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ince its 2007 inception, attendance at Montréal’s outdoor ice and music festival, Igloofest, has soared from 4000 to 70,000. As the crowds have increased, so has the creativity. Interactive installations combine classic projection and lighting with flat screens and LED technology, while stacked ice-and-steel structures juxtapose traditional igloo constructions. This attention to detail keeps crowds safe and engaged as they gather by the masses to hear cuttingedge electronica from top DJs. Revelers in retro winter gear compete in the famed one-piece contest, while appetites are sated with the city’s Happening Gourmand culinary events. IGLOOFEST

Thursday-Saturday, January 17-19, 6:30 p.m.-midnight, at Jacques-Cartier Quay in the Old-Port of Montréal. $16-20; $40 weekend pass; for ages 18 and over; see website for future dates. Info, 514-904-1247. igloofest.ca

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BaBytime PlaygrouP: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659.

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FairField PlaygrouP: Youngsters find entertainment in creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. HigHgate story Hour: Gigglers and wigglers listen to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. moving & grooving WitH CHristine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and worldbeat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. PresCHool disCovery Program: Winter Wonders — snoW Fun: Little ones discover how people and animals can benefit from the ice crystals that blanket the ground in white. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $58. Info, 229-6206. st. alBans PlaygrouP: Creative activities and storytelling engage young minds. NCSS Family Center, St. Albans, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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enosBurg PlaygrouP: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing and other activities. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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green mountain taBle tennis CluB: Pingpong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 7-10 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913. traPP nordiC CuP 2012-13: Race against the clock in this weekly nordic 5K skate and/or timed trial at the home of the first cross-country ski center in the U.S. Trapp Family Lodge Nordic Center, Stowe, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $8 plus trail pass; see trappfamily.com for specific prices. Info, 253-5719.

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amy sCHram: The community outreach specialist from the Better Business Bureau of Marlborough, Mass., presents ways to avoid identity theft. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. mark stoler: In the first of a two-part series on the region, the UVM professor presents “The Road to Iraq: Origins and Evolution of U.S. Interests in the Middle East.” Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-2345, ext. 8. miCHael Pelletier: IBM’s lead advisory mechanical engineer discusses its new, free cooling system and related projects at the onsite chapter meeting. IBM, Essex Junction, 5:30-8:15 p.m. $25-35. Info, 735-5359.

story time & PlaygrouP: Read-aloud tales pave the way for themed art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

murray Banks: The backcountry athlete presents “Skiing Chamonix: Big Mountain Skiing and Hut-toHut Adventures.” Proceeds benefit Bolton Valley nordic and backcountry areas. Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. $5; cash bar. Info, 2621241 .

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taekWondo: Kellie Thomas of K.I.C.K.S. leads little ones in a playful introduction to this ancient martial art. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4369.

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B AN KS Winter mysteries: Little ones ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions use clues to discover which animals have been out and about this season. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/ child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

youtH media laB: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about movie making with local television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097.

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song CirCle: Community sing-along WitH riCH & laura atkinson: This experienced pair of musical leaders accompanies participants’ voices with a variety of instruments. No experience necessary. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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vermont symPHony orCHestra Farmers’ nigHt ConCert: Jaime Laredo conducts this annual performance, which features selections from Bach, Tchaikovsky and an original composition by high school senior Justin Gates. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free; first come, first seated. Info, 985-2507.

Beginner ComPuter Class: Those looking to become tech savvy hone basic skills. Milton Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 893-4644. w w w . e s s e x o u t l e t s . c o m

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nanCy somers: In “Creating the Life You Want to Live,” the physical-fitness expert presents the latest research on brain health and relationships. Milton Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free.

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steve Conlon: The founder of adventure travel company Above the Clouds discusses nearly 20 years of trekking in the southern Andes in “Patagonia.” Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.

theater

‘oliver!’ inFormational meeting: Meet Lyric Theatre Company members and learn about their upcoming April musical, based on Charles Dickens’ classic story Oliver Twist. South Burlington High School, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1484.

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Book disCussion series: linColn: BiCentennial oF His BirtH: John Turner leads a conversation about David Herbert Donald’s biography of the 16th president. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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Franklin County CHamBer oF CommerCe mixer: Members and area residents mingle over refreshments and take a look at new community websites. Eaton’s Fine Jewelry & Chow! Bella, St. Albans, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 524-2444.

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mount mansField sCale modelers: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

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iglooFest: An igloo village and electronic music from top DJs draw crowds by the thousands to this popular outdoor festival. See calendar spotlight. Jacques-Cartier Quay in the Old-Port of Montréal, Canada, 6:30 p.m.-midnight. $16-20; $40 weekend pass; ages 18 and over. Info, 514-904-1247.

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‘a nigHt WitH niCHolas sParks’ saFe Haven’: In a live broadcast, Maria Menounos moderates a discussion and Q&A with the best-selling author and cast of the film adaptation of his novel. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $12.50. Info, 864-5610. ‘any day noW’: See WED.16, 5:30 p.m. ‘Holy motors’: Leos Carax’s fantasy-drama follows a man who inhabits several different characters and lives over the course of a day. A discussion follows. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 355-5418. ‘tHe sessions’: See WED.16, 7:30 p.m. ‘you Can’t Be neutral on a moving train’: Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller’s documentary features rare footage of and interviews with renowned historian, activist and author Howard Zinn. Upper Valley Food Co-op, White River Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 295-5804.

health & fitness

Healing tHrougH CanCer: Ivan McBeth shares the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects that restored his health. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202 .

kids

aFter sCHool CraFt: snoWFlakes: Creative tykes use various materials to make unique versions of these wintertime symbols. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; for ages 5 and up. Info, 849-2420 . alBurgH PlaygrouP: Tots form friendships over music and movement. Alburgh Family Center of NCSS, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Franklin story Hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. middleBury PresCHool story time: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4369.

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montgomery inFant/toddler PlaygrouP: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

seed starting: This interactive talk provides green thumbs and novices alike with the tools for the first stage of planting. Gardener’s Supply: Williston Garden Center & Outlet, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.

musiC WitH raPHael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk music. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918.

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Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson 7-8 p.m.; open dancing 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.

music

CeLTiC WinTer gaThering: Master bodhranist Mance Grady joins Irish fiddler Tony DeMarco and percussive dancer Siobhan Butler in this cultural celebration. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7-9 p.m. $10-12. Info, 985-3819.

Kenny Werner Trio: The acclaimed pianist and composer performs with bassist Elliot Berman and drummer Jamie Eblen as part of the Brandon Music Jazz Series. Brandon Music Café, 7:30 p.m. $15; $30 includes dinner package; BYOB. Info, 465-4071.

seminars

engLish CounTry danCe: Lar Duggan, Albert Joy and Margaret Smith provide music for an evening of creative expression by newcomers and experienced movers alike. All dances are taught. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, introductory workshop, 7-7:30 p.m.; dance, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $8-10; bring a snack to share. Info, 899-2378.

talks

saMueL BaKKaBuLindi: As part of a four-week residency, the master percussionist and dancer features the music and dance of his country in the workshop “Doing It the Ugandan Way!” Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

BudgeTing To MainTain CrediTWorThiness: Learn to set realistic financial goals and create a spending plan for everything from managing bills to eliminating debt. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790 .

LunCh & Learn: Jan Orlansky presents “One Diplomatic Spouse’s View of Life in the Foreign Service,” which details her experiences living in different countries. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Donations. Info, 863-4214. ned sWanBerg: Vermont Watershed Management’s flood-hazard mapping coordinator explains new maps and insurance options to Washington County residents. Alumni Hall, Barre City, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 490-6160. PeTer & ann sTrauB: The former Bristol educators who spent two of their 15 years in Thailand teaching at the International School Bangkok share their experience in “An Evening of Kao jai.” Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 543-4147. TransiTion ToWn series: Environmentalprotection consultant Richard Czaplinski shares personal and professional experience in “Preparing for the Next Flood: A Checklist for Homeowners.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338 .

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naTionaL TheaTre of London Live: Tony Award-winner John Lithgow plays the title role in a broadcast screening of Arthur Wing Pinero’s Victorian comedy, The Magistrate. Black Family Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-23. Info, 603-646-2422.Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10-17. Info, 382-9222.

oPen sTage/PoeTry nighT: Readers, writers, singers and ranters pipe up in a constructive and positive environment. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-314-9872, rotagallery@gmail.com. sas Carey: The local author reads from her book, Reindeer Herders in My Heart: Stories of Healing Journeys to Mongolia, and presents slides and videos of the country. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4369.

BaLLrooM Lesson & danCe soCiaL: Singles and couples of all experience levels take a twirl.

‘hoW To survive a PLague’: David France’s documentary profiles the coalitions ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) and their collective efforts in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600 . MounTainToP fiLM fesTivaL: In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., human-rights films accompany Q&A sessions, panel discussions and live music. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 3-11 p.m. $6-10; free for students with valid ID. See mountaintopfilmfestival.com for schedules. Info, 496-8994.

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PresChooL sTory hour: As part of the ongoing “Race: Are We So Different?” exhibit, little ones www.ShivaShaktiYogaSchool.com learn about race and racism through literature and personal stories. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; 12v-shivashirayoga100312.indd 1 10/1/12 2:43 PM free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. sPanish MusiCaL Kids: Amigos ages 1 to 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. sWanTon PLaygrouP: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

music

BrooKLyn rider: The innovative string quartet complements an original composition with selections from Beethoven and the Brooklyn Rider Almanac project. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-40. Info, 603-646-2422. John MCeuen WiTh aLPin hong: The legendary Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founder joins the rising classical music star for a “bluegrass meets Beethoven” performance. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $33-35. Info, 457-3981 . MarTin sexTon: With a wide vocal range and a knack for improvisation, the singer-songwriter blurs the line between different genres of American music. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $52-65. Info, 760-4634 .

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food & drink

WonderfuL Wing nighT: The men’s auxiliary hosts a weekly smorgasbord of this favorite finger food in flavor variations that please every palette. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5-7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 878-0700.

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evening sLeigh rides: Pat Palmer of Thornapple Farm and a team of Percheron draft horses lead a celestial ride under the winter sky. Weather permitting. Shelburne Farms, rides depart at 6 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $7-15; free for children under 3; preregister. Info, 985-8686, jpenca@ shelburnefarms.org.

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MonTgoMery TuMBLe TiMe: Physical fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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BreaKfasT WiTh ChrisTine PLunKeTT: Residents join the president of Burlington College for the first meal of the day to learn about current activities, ask questions or voice concerns. Burlington College, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, 923-2335.

igLoofesT: See THU.17, 6:30 p.m.-midnight.

isLe La MoTTe PLaygrouP: Stories and crafts make for creative play. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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fairfax CoMMuniTy PLaygrouP: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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MarBLe vaLLey PLayers iMProv nighT: Gary Thompson hosts a “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”style dinner/theater show featuring local talent in an off-the-cuff performance. South Station Restaurant, Rutland, dinner at 6 p.m.; show at 7:30 p.m. $35; preregister. Info, 247-6778.

January ThaW ruMMage saLe: Community members look over donated items in a “take what you like, pay what you can” setting. Grace United Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-5923.

enosBurg faLLs sTory hour: Young ones show up for fables and finger crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

comedy

‘Cider’ Magazine aWards: “The Logger” Rusty DeWees and 13 local performers celebrate Vermont and New Hampshire’s top musicians, entertainers and business owners. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $15-35 plus tax. Info, 775-0903.

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avoid faLLs WiTh iMProved sTaBiLiTy: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.

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ToBy MaCnuTT: The Vermont Artists’ Space grant recipient’s use of crutches in One, Two explores her identity as a disabled person and a dancer. A Q&A follows. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 863-5966.

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SnowShoe Romp: Walkers take advantage of a lantern-lit course, then shake off the chill with a cup of hot cocoa by an outdoor fireplace. Snowshoes provided to those who need them. Hubbard Park, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free; for all ages and abilities. Info, 229-9409.

talks

natuRaliSt JouRneyS SeRieS: Wildlife photographer Heather Forcier shares images and stories from her North American travels in “Spectacles of Nature: A Photographic Journey.” North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

theater

‘almoSt, maine’: Tony Braca directs John Cariani’s play about the residents of a remote town and their midwinter adventures in — and out — of love. Barnard Town Hall, 7 p.m. $5-12. Info, 332-6020.

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‘GaneSh VeRSuS the thiRd Reich’: Back to Back Theatre examines culture and power as the elephant-headed god travels to Nazi Germany to recover the swastika, an ancient Hindu symbol. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-40. Preperformance talk, 7 p.m., Room 219, Wilson Hall. ‘the method Gun’: The Rude Mechanicals theater collective examines the life and unconventional training methods of popular actor-teacher Stella Burden. See calendar spotlight. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-25. Info, 443-3168. ‘the SunSet limited’: The St. Johnsbury Players present Cormac McCarthy’s play about the intense philosophical debates between an ex-con and a despondent college professor. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7:30-10 p.m. $7-10; not appropriate for young children. Info, 274-1833.

words

BRown BaG Book cluB: Bookworms voice opinions about Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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caBin FeVeR Book Sale: Lit lovers peruse affordable titles in various genres. Proceeds benefit library collections and activities. Rutland Free Library, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 25 cents-$3. Info, 773-1860.

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‘all Shook up comedy niGht’: Local comediennes supply an evening of laughs to benefit the Joe Shook Scholarship Fund, which helps campers with disabilities attend Partners In Adventure. FlynnSpace, Burlington, reception at 7 p.m.; show at 8 p.m. $45; cash bar. Info, 863-5966.

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John pinette: The award-winning standup brings his voracious appetite for life and laughter to the stage with anecdotes about food, dieting and everything in between. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $39.75 plus service charge. Info, 775-0903. maRBle Valley playeRS impRoV niGht: See FRI.18, 6 p.m.

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noRth countRy heRBaliStS meetinG: Members discuss the benefits of edible “kitchen” herbs and how to incorporate them into food and teas. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 518-314-9872.

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Dance & Drum Theater and the Montpelier Movement Collective join other local talent to benefit Puppets in Education. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20-23. Info, 863-5966. dance oF the GoddeSS, dance oF liGht: Myndy Kinzie and Spyralhead Lady lead participants in creative movement that incorporates spiritual practice. Congregational Church, Charlotte, 10-11:30 a.m. $13 or trade/sliding scale. Info, 846-7576.

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JanuaRy thaw RummaGe Sale: See FRI.18, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

fairs & festivals

iGlooFeSt: See THU.17, 6:30 p.m.-midnight.

film

‘how to SuRViVe a plaGue’: See FRI.18, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. mountaintop Film FeStiVal: See FRI.18, 3-11 p.m. ‘SmaShed’: See FRI.18, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘the centRal paRk FiVe’: Ken Burns’ documentary examines the 1989 assault of a female jogger and the resulting unjust conviction of a group of teenagers. A discussion with the filmmaker follows. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink

BuRlinGton winteR FaRmeRS maRket: Farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. capital city winteR FaRmeRS maRket: Root veggies, honey, maple syrup and more change hands at an off-season celebration of locally grown food. Gymnasium, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 2232958, manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com. Game SuppeR: Neighbors feast on fare that embodies the true meaning of local and free range. Proceeds benefit the Knights of Columbus Charity Fund. Knights of Columbus, Essex Junction, seatings at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. $6-15. Info, 878-8314. make mozzaRella cheeSe in youR own kitchen: Lindsay Harris of Hinesburg’s Family Cow Farmstand teaches foodies how to make this versatile fromage from scratch. Essex Junction Senior Center, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 881-2721. noRwich winteR FaRmeRS maRket: Farmers offer produce, meats and maple syrup, which complement homemade baked goods and handcrafted items such as pottery and jewelry from local artists. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. Rutland winteR FaRmeRS maRket: More than 50 vendors sell local produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at this indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 779-1485.

health & fitness

montRéal-Style acRo yoGa: Using partner and group work, Lori Flower leads participants through poses that combine acrobatics with therapeutic benefits. The Confluence, Berlin, 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. $16; as space permits. Info, 324-1737.

holidays

claSSic countRy Band: The six-piece group performs spirited oldies from the genre. American Legion Post 14, Vergennes, 2-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 872-5732.

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Indoor WInter CarnIval: Little ones take a break from the snow with carnival games, Joey the Clown, face painting and more. University Mall, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $3 suggested donation. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. MusIC WIth raphael: See THU.17, 11 a.m. open tot GyM & Infant/parent playtIMe: Tykes work up an appetite for snacks with feats of athleticism. Gymnasium, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. oWl needle feltInG: Annette Hansen, artist and owner of Make Life Cozy, gives a tutorial on this unique handicraft. Participants take home their creations. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $10; preregister; limited space; for ages 8 and up. Info, 849-2420. play date: WInter on the farM: Kiddos explore themed activities and get acquainted with a live owl via Outreach for Earth Stewardship. McClure Center for School Programs, Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $3-5; for ages 2 to 5; accompanying adult required. Info, 985-8686. saturday story tIMe: Little ones and their caregivers listen to creative tales that engage young minds. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. sWanton tuMble tIMe: Vivacious youngsters monkey around in an open gym. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. youth audItIons for ‘olIver!’: Lyric Theatre Company holds tryouts for its April musical, based on Charles Dickens’ classic story Oliver Twist. Callbacks set for January 20 and 21. The Schoolhouse, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; for kids 8 and up; see lyrictheatrevt.org for details. Info, 658-1484.

music

verMont syMphony orChestra MasterWorks serIes: ‘youth & beauty’: Jaime Laredo conducts the third concert of this series, featuring 19-year-old guest cellist Cicely Parnas performing works by Kodály, Elgar and Mendelssohn. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. A free discussion at 7 p.m. precedes the concert. $9-59. Info, 863-5966. WInter folk MusIC festIval: See FRI.18, 10:30 a.m.-midnight.

outdoors

bIrd-MonItorInG Walk: Experts share their ornithological knowledge, while beginners learn song basics and intermediates fine tune fieldmark identification. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 8-10 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068. bolton baCkCountry tour: The Friends of Bolton Nordic and Backcountry group introduces appropriate terrain to intermediate and advanced crosscountry skiers and snowshoers. Bolton Valley Nordic Center, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 262-1241. forestry for the bIrds takes flIGht: Attendees experience the timber-harvest phase of a project to improve habitat for avian species and other wildlife. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 9 a.m.-noon. $10; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115. lake ChaMplaIn bIrdInG: Participants don binoculars and explore wetlands, fields and water bodies for waterfowl and winter birds. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 229-6206.

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WInter WIldlIfe CelebratIon: Indoor crafts and games complement outdoor activities that culminate in s’mores and hot cocoa by the campfire. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Regular admission, SAT.19

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L JAN O VITz GréGoIre Maret Quartet: Regarded as one of the world’s best, the jazz harmonicist leads the internationally renowned foursome in an evening of original compositions. Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, 8 p.m. Info, 254 -9088.

sleIGh rIdes: Weather permitting, jingling horses trot visitors over the snow on a wintry tour of rolling acres. Rides leave every half hour; seats are first come, first served. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $6-8; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8442.

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sleIGh rIde Weekend: If a blanket of snow remains, horses will pull folks across farm fields. In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, the award-winning documentary A Time for Justice screens on the hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.3:30 p.m. $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

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boW thayer & perfeCt traInWreCk Cd release party: Central Vermont’s beloved rocker and his band perform their new album, EDEN, in its entirety, with the help of several special guests. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 728-6464. bruCe hornsby: A solo performance showcases the voice and piano skills of the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 8 p.m. $85. Info, 748-2600 .

the andreW & noah band: The brothers lead a versatile group of young musicians, who bring world music influences to an exploration of American music. Tunbridge Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $15–20. Info, 431-3433.

raptors up Close: Experience these predatory birds firsthand and get a behind-the-scenes look at their rehabilitation and training. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 2-2:30 p.m. $10-12; free for members and ages 3 and under. Info, 359-5000.

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headliners Dirk Powell and Riley Baugus. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $20-25. Info, 917-1186.

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organization for U.S. armed forces troops and veterans gather for support and to discuss current projects. American Legion, Colchester, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 951-1790.

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VCAM ACCess OrientAtiOn: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

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ChAndler FilM sOCiety: Small-town love gets complicated in Ingmar Bergman’s comedy Smiles of a Summer Night. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7 p.m. $9. Info, 431-0204 . ‘hOw tO surViVe A plAgue’: See FRI.18, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

FACe-OFF AgAinst BreAst CAnCer: Eleven women’s hockey teams compete in various divisions to raise money and awareness. Special guests Curtiss Hemm and Ruth Heimann speak on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Memorial Sports Center, Middlebury, 8:15 a.m.-10 p.m. Donations; see faceoffagainstbreastcancer.org for information and schedules. Info, 989-0376.

ApprAisAl dAy with kyle sCAnlOn: The founder of Vermont Estate Services answers questions about attic treasures and estimates their worth. Proceeds benefit the Champlain Valley Agency of Aging. Vintage Inspired, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $5. Info, 488-5766.

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tOur de trApp: Crosscountry AC H EL I LL O YD skiers take to the snow and compete in 15- or 30K freestyle skate races. Team relay options are available. Trapp Family Lodge Nordic Center, Stowe, 10 a.m. $35. Info, 253-5719.

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CABin FeVer BOOk sAle: See FRI.18, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. JACquith puBliC liBrAry BOOk sAle: Bookworms bargain shop for new reads to add to their shelves. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 25¢-$2. Info, 426-3581. s.s. tAylOr: The author signs copies of her new book, The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man’s Canyon, in which the children of a famous explorer are left with half of a strange map after his death. Bradford Public Library, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

‘stAnd up, sit dOwn And lAugh’: Series veteran Josie Leavitt delivers punchlines with fellow yuksters Sue Schmidt, Ashley Watson and Colin Ryan. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 863-5966.

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indOOr gArden wOrkshOp: Peter Burke teaches his innovative method for growing and harvesting salad greens throughout the winter. City Market, Burlington, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 861-9757.

the Met: liVe in hd series: Joyce DiDonato plays Mary, Queen of Scots, in a broadcast production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518523-2512.Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

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‘sMAshed’: See FRI.18, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

‘JOseph And the AMAzing teChniCOlOr dreAMCOAt’ AuditiOns: Echo Valley Community Arts holds tryouts for its May production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical comedy based on the biblical story of Joseph. Christ Church, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; roles for adults and children ages 9 to 16. Info, 225-6471.

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FrenCh COnVersAtiOn grOup: diMAnChes: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

VerMOnt syMphOny OrChestrA: ‘yOuth & BeAuty’: See SAT.19, Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 3 p.m. $9-30. Info, 775-0903. VerMOnt yOuth OrChestrA winter COnCert: Opera stars Latonia Moore and Jesus Garcia perform with members of the orchestra, chorus and concert chorale. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. $10-15; $85 for VIP tickets include a preshow talk by opera expert Peter Fox Smith and a reception with guest artists. Info, 863-5966. winter FOlk MusiC FestiVAl: See FRI.18, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

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rAptOrs up ClOse: See SAT.19, 2-2:03 p.m. sleigh ride weekend: See SAT.19, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. sleigh rides: See SAT.19, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. stOwe tOur de snOw: Ski, snowshoe or walk the 5.3-mile Stowe Recreation Path and play winter games along the way, then continue the festivities at the Helen Day Art Center. Free junior and adaptive crosscountry ski equipment and lessons available for children. See calendar spotlight. Stowe Recreation Path, 12:30-4 p.m. $5. Info, 253-9216. twigs, Buds & BArk: Through exploration, participants learn to recognize features of common trees in Stark Mountain’s hardwood and boreal forests. Mad River Glen Ski Area, Fayston, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 496-3551.

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liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT members during weekly games. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $5; for ages 15 and up; players under 18 need parental permission. Info, 578-6081. Face-OFF against Breast cancer: See SAT.19, 8 a.m.-8:40 p.m. green MOuntain curling cluB: Players of all abilities sweep the ice every Sunday throughout the season. No special equipment is needed. Green Mountain Arena, Morrisville, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $12 per game with membership; $16 per game otherwise. Info, 399-2816. retrO-gear tOur series: Skiers explore pristine terrain on vintage equipment — ideally with relevant fashion to match. A percentage of proceeds benefits the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum. Strafford Nordic Center, 1 p.m. $10 plus trail pass; preregister. Info, 765-4309. WOMen’s PickuP sOccer: Ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while passing around the spherical polyhedron. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.

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sOuth herO PlaygrOuP: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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‘let FreedOM ring!’ cOncert: Middlebury College’s Martin Luther King Choir, artist-inresidence François Clemmons and visiting artist Samuel Bakkalindi join student performers in a tribute to the civil rights leader. Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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recOrder-Playing grOuP: Musicians produce early folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net.

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saMBatucada! OPen rehearsal: New players are welcome to pitch in as Burlington’s samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

‘alMOst, Maine’: See FRI.18, 2 p.m.

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sPanish iMMersiOn class: An experienced teacher offers an interactive music class en español. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 9-9:45 a.m. $15; for ages 1-5. Info, 917-1776, constanciag@ gmail.com.

Michael Mcknight: The Champlain College professor leads a discussion of Ethan Allen’s philosophies, as outlined in the latter’s book, Reason: the Only Oracle of Man. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556.

acting/theater WOrkshOP: Veteran performer Ethan Bowen leads a series of intensive sessions that explore acting essentials and his “serious fun” technique. Spice Performing Arts Studio, Rochester, noon-3 p.m. $25. Info, 767-4903 .

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shake yOur sillies Out: Tots swing and sway to music with children’s entertainer Derek Burkins. JCPenney Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10:35 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

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create a VisiOn BOard: Life-empowerment coach Marianne Mullen demonstrates how visual representations of goals can bring about positive change. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $7-10; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

Basic cOMPuter skills: Community members enter the high-tech age and gain valuable knowledge. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3403.

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‘hOW tO surViVe a Plague’: See FRI.18, 5:30 p.m. ‘iF these Walls cOuld talk 2’: The Emmy Award-winning television series features three separate storylines about lesbian couples in different time periods. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. MOuntaintOP FilM FestiVal: See FRI.18, 3-11 p.m. ‘sMashed’: See FRI.18, 7:30 p.m.

aVOid Falls With iMPrOVed staBility: See FRI.18, 10 a.m.

herBal cOnsultatiOns: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism provide personalized sessions focused on individual constitutions and current health conditions. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free preregister. Info, 861-9700.

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ru12? rainBOW reading hOur: LGBTQA families come together for stories and activities. Bent

Jane Beck: The acclaimed folklorist provides insight about the African American legacy in Vermont through the story of Daisy Turner, the child of former slaves. Vermont History Center, Barre, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2180. Martin luther king Jr. cOnVOcatiOn: Keynoter Mary Frances Berry presents “A Hopeful Time: The American Conscience and the 2012 Elections” to begin a five-day program centered on the civil rights leader’s legacy. Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Martin luther king Jr. day OF serVice & steWardshiP: Celebrate the civil rights activist with the Edmunds Elementary School musical I Have A Dream, a show by Puppets in Education and a facilitated dialogue on race, inclusion and diversity. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $2. Info, 877-324-6386.

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OPen Mic cOMedy night: Folks with a knack for cracking people up put their skills to the test in a supportive environment. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, sign up at 7:30 p.m.; show at 8 p.m. Free. Info, 518-314-9872.

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Women Business oWners netWork Winter ConferenCe: Workshops, information sessions and keynoter Linda Kelliher of Kelliher Samets Volk ad agency reflect the theme “Change and Renewal — Evolving Your Business in the New Year.” The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa, 1-8 p.m. $60-175; includes dinner. Info, 503-0219.

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‘HoW to survive a Plague’: See FRI.18, 5:30 p.m. mountaintoP film festival: See FRI.18, 3-11 p.m. ‘smasHed’: See FRI.18, 7:30 p.m.

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five Common Barriers to Healing: Alicia Feltus discusses nutrition-response testing and its detection of chemical and metal toxicity, immune balances, food sensitivities and scar tissue that contribute to illness. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. laugHter Yoga: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 355-5129.

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Creative tuesdaYs: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

rose diamond: The singer and certified McClosky vocal technician discusses how the subconscious interacts with voice mechanics. A Q&A follows. Pathways to Well Being, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-2328.

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st. alBans PlaYgrouP: See WED.16, 9-10:30 a.m. storY time & PlaYgrouP: See WED.16, 10-11:30 a.m. toddler taekWondo: See WED.16, 10:15-11:30 a.m. YoutH media laB: See WED.16, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

WYnton marsalis: The Grammy-winning musical director leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in original compositions and works by Ellington, Coltrane, and others. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-70. Info, 863-5966.

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imProv nigHt: See WED.16, 8-10 p.m.

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oPen rota meeting: See WED.16, 6 p.m.

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an evening of raPtor enCounters: A Vermont Institute of Natural Science educator presents three live birds and hand-on materials to educate attendees about this predatory species. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 359-5000.

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sPend smart series: This practical introduction to money management focuses on personalized financial goals. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114 .

moving & grooving WitH CHristine: See WED.16, 11-11:30 a.m.

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musiC WitH roBert: Music lovers of all ages join sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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montgomerY PlaYgrouP: Little ones exercise their bodies and their minds in the company of adult caregivers. Montgomery Town Library, 3:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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‘smasHed’: See FRI.18, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

frenCH Conversation grouP: Beginner-tointermediate French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

HomesCHool Program: ProJeCt miCro: Janet Schwarz from UVM’s Microscopy Imaging Center helps students use microscopes to investigate the properties of various materials. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister; for kids 9 and up. Info, 878-4918.

adult auditions for ‘oliver!’: Lyric Theatre Company holds tryouts for its April musical, based on Charles Dickens’ classic story Oliver Twist. Callbacks set for January 25. The Schoolhouse, South Burlington, registration from 5:45-6:15 p.m.; workshops: 6:15-7:20 p.m.; auditions: 7:30-10 p.m. Free; see lyrictheatrevt.org for details. Info, 658-1484 .

HigHgate storY Hour: See WED.16, 10-11 a.m.

Pause-Café frenCH Conversation: Francophiles of all levels speak the country’s language at a drop-in conversation. Mr. Crêpe, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

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martin lutHer king Jr. ConvoCation: Panel disCussion: St. Michael’s professor Katherine Dungy moderates ‘‘A Call for Action: The Significance of the ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail.’” McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

‘HoW to survive a Plague’: See FRI.18, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.

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HenrY louis gates Jr.: The renowned Harvard professor delivers the keynote address for UVM’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-1107.

fairfax storY Hour: Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

riCHford PlaYgrouP: Rug rats let their hair down for tales and activities. Cornerstone Bridges to Life Community Center, Richford, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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CHess CluB: Checkmate! Players of all ages and abilities apply expert advice from a skilled instructor to games with others. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420, knorwood@ fwsu.org.

PresCHool storY Hour: Three- to 5-year-olds keep their hands busy with crafts at tale time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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mountaintoP film festival: See FRI.18, 3-11 p.m.

kale tHree WaYs: Cookbook author Andrea Chesman demonstrates different recipes for these highly nutritious winter greens. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

ariel Quartet: The internationally acclaimed foursome from Israel perform the second of six concerts comprising Beethoven’s complete cycle of string quartets. See calendar spotlight. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Preconcert lecture at 7 p.m. $35. Info, 8635966 .

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investing 101: Financial consultant Jonathan Whitehouse breaks down the basics of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and asset allocation. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790. WeigHt loss & metaBoliC Conditions seminar: Board-eligible Chiropractic Neurologist Aubry Tagert presents underlying causes of chronic health issues. Get Healthy Vermont, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 230-4678.

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green mountain taBle tennis CluB: See WED.16, 7-10 p.m. traPP nordiC CuP 2012-13: See WED.16, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m.

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martin lutHer king Jr. ConvoCation: student disCussion: Campus groups lead a conversation on race, college activism and social justice. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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omar al-masHHadani: In the second half of a two-part series, “An Intimate Conversation on Iraq,” the new Vermonter discusses life in his home country and his work with the arts. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-2345, ext. 8.

Burlington go CluB: See WED.16, 7-9 p.m.

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adult Bridge CluB: See WED.16, 1-3 p.m.

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adult auditions for ‘oliver!’: See TUE.22, 5:45-10 p.m.

ConneCting WitH tHe seasons: CHinese mediCine in Winter: Acupuncturist Brendan Kelly presents options for a balanced diet and lifestyle in harmony with nature. City Market, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

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meditation & disCussion: See WED.16, 5:45-7 p.m.

Julie CamPoli: The local landscape architect discusses her book, Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form, which examines environmentally friendly land-use patterns. Room 004, Kalkin Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1312. m

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enosBurg PlaYgrouP: See WED.16, 10-11:30 a.m. fairfield PlaYgrouP: See WED.16, 10-11:30 a.m. HigHgate storY Hour: See WED.16, 11:15 a.m.

ContemPlative meeting: Reading material inspires discussion about the Gnostic principle “Perceiving With the Heart.” Foot of the Hill Building, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706.

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dance ADULT BALLET: Jan. 10-Feb. 28, 10-11 a.m. Cost: $96/8-wk. class. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 540-0044, southendstudiovt. com. Improve your coordination, posture and overall grace through the traditional dance form of classical ballet. Each class will include barre exercises, short step combinations, turns, jumps and port de bras (arm movements). You will feel comfortable in a relaxed atmosphere as you learn or solidify the beginnings of ballet technique. BALLROOM AT DARKROOM GALLERY: Jan. 14-Feb. 18, 7-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $200/couple for 6 wks. of 1.5-hr. classes. Location: Darkroom Gallery, 12 Main Street, Essex Junction. Info: Open Space Ballroom Dance Lessons, Bonnie Dattilio, 777-3686, info@ darkroomgallery.com, http:// bestdanceinstruction.com. Darkroom Gallery of Essex is opening its doors to dancing! Monday nights starting midJanuary, Open Space Ballroom is offering a 6-week-long dance class for couples. Learn salsa, swing, waltz and foxtrot. 1.5-hour classes in the gallery surrounded by art with a superb sound system! Sign up today!

BEGINNER WEST AFRICAN DANCE: 6:30-8 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $13. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 5400044, southendstudiovt.com. Try out a beginner orientated African dance class with Sidiki Sylla, master artist and director of Jeh Kulu. Classes will be geared to those with little or no dance experience. Please bring comfortable clothing, bare feet or studio-friendly sneakers, water bottle and an open heart; you just may surprise yourself! DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA:. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! DSANTOS VT SALSA: Mon. evenings: beginner class 7-8 p.m., intermediate 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt. com. Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Lessons also avail. in St. Albans. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, FirstStepDance.com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online. INTERNET TOOLS FOR ARTISTS: Feb. 20, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $15/ person; $13/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 2nd floor, Burlington. Discover creative and low-cost solutions for

developing a web presence for your art-based business. BCA communication director Eric Ford and David Barron of Dave Barron Design will give you tips on how to use the internet to market your artwork. Get suggestions on how to start making your own website for free. CLAY: INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WHEEL: Weekly on Thu., Jan. 31-Mar. 28, 9:30 a.m.noon. No class Feb. 14. Cost: $252/BCA members; $280/nonmembers. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag. Glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Local pottery artist Jeremy Ayers will help you refine your wheelwork in this morning class for intermediate and advanced potters. Learn individual tips and techniques for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, decorative and glazing methods. Students should be proficient in centering and throwing. Over 30 hours per week of open studio time included. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: Weekly on Thu., Jan. 31-Mar. 28, 6-8:30 p.m. No class 2/14. Cost: $216/BCA members; $240/nonmembers. Clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag. Glazes and firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This eight-week class is an introductin to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Learn basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Learn various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No previous experience needed! Class includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice. Instructor: Chris Vaughn. DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS6: Feb. 5-Mar. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $184.50/BCA members; $205/ nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator, a program used to create interesting graphics and more! Learn how to lay out and design posters and other single-page documents. Explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to your own interests. This class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. DESIGN: SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS: Feb. 7-Mar. 7, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $202.50BCA members; $225/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn how to create and publish your own artist books using Adobe Creative Suite and online publishing tools such as Blurb and LuLu. Basic layout and design principles, color management, and software techniques utilizing InDesign. Photoshop and Bridge will be covered. Students will end the session with a beautiful book layout

ready to publish. Bring highresolution files to the first class. DRAWING: Weekly on Wed., Jan. 30-Mar. 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m. No class Feb. 27. Cost: $176-BCA members; $195/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Learn a variety of drawing techniques, including basic perspective, compositional layout and use of dramatic light and shadow. Students will work with a variety of media, including pencil, pen and ink, ink wash, charcoal, conte crayon, and colored pencil. Comics and illustrations may be incorporated based on student interest. Instructor: Marc Nadel. DRAWING: FASHION: Weekly on Thu., Jan. 31-Mar. 14, 6:30-9 p.m. No class Feb. 14. Cost: $176/ BCA members; $195/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Learn the basics of fashion drawing! Students will draw and paint using gouache, watercolor and more and will be encouraged to render fabrics, illustrate their own designs and experiment. Mixed-level class, open to both beginners and advanced students, some prior drawing experience is helpful. Class will include figure drawing with a live fashion model. Instructor: Jacquelyn Heloise Liebman. PAINTING: OIL: Weekly on Tue., Jan. 29-Apr. 2, 6:30-9 p.m. No class Feb. 26 or Mar. 5. Cost: $225/BCA members; $250/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: burlingtoncityarts.org. Learn how to paint with nontoxic, water-soluble oils. With an emphasis on studio work, this class will

consist of fun exercises. Discover a variety of painting techniques and learn how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to your work. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Instructor: Linda Jones. PAINTING: CONTEMPORARY FIGURE: Weekly on Wed., Feb. 20-Apr. 17, 1:30-4:30 p.m. No class Feb. 27. Cost: $320/ person; $288/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Intermediate and advanced painters: revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the figure. Work from live models each week, explore a variety of contemporary techniques with water-soluble oils and get supportive feedback in a small-group environment. Figure-drawing experience is very helpful. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Instructor: Linda Jones. PHOTO: INTRO FILM/DIGITAL SLR: Feb. 6-Mar. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $144/BCA members, $160/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Ditigal Media Lab, Burlington. Explore the basic workings of the manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds and exposure, and learn the basics of composition, lens choices and film types/sensitivity. Bring an empty manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera and it’s owner’s manual to class. PHOTO: PORTRAIT: Weekly on Mon, Feb. 11-Mar. 11, 6-9 p.m.

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health THE NEW LEAF RESOLUTION: Jan. 21-Apr. 1, 7-8:45 p.m. Cost: $180/12 consecutive Mon. nights. Location: Fairfax Associates in Medicine, 1199 Main St, Fairfax. Info: Pondermountain, John

Schraven, 310-1363, jas@ surfglobal.net, pondermountain. com. In this unique 12-week program, we will teach you that the ability to sustain weight loss is about what is going on in your head as well as what goes in your mouth. Led by Audrey von Lepel, MD, this is a multifaceted approach to weight loss, using meditation, exercise and group support. WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER: Apr. 6-Apr. 14, 8-5 a.m. daily. Cost: $865; $250 deposit; tuition includes texts & instruction materials. Only 21 slots; register now. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 250 Main Street, Suite 302, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. org. Taught by Peter Muckerman, WEMT. This 76-hour course offers nationally recognized Wilderness First Responder and adult CPR certificates. It trains “everyday people” to be medics when the need arises: to engage emergencies with competence, courage and confidence, whether at home, at work or in the wilderness.

herbs COMMUNITY HERBALISM WORKSHOPS: Winter Wellness w/ Shona MacDougall, Wed. Feb. 6, 6-8 p.m.; Aphrodisiac Herbology w/ Andrew Wolf, Wed. Feb. 13, 6-8 p.m. ($8 materials fee); Luxuriously Health Hair: Simple Hair Care Recipes w/ Joann Darling, Mon., Febr. 18, 6-8 p.m. ($5 materials fee); The Heart of the Matter: Perspectives and Strategies for Working With Anxiety w/ Sarah VanHoy, LAc, Wed. Mar. 6, 6-8 p.m. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 250 Main Street, Suite 302, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. org. Workshops cost $10 for members and $12 for nonmembers. Some classes may have a materials fee, noted in the descriptions. Registration is required for all classes. Please call or email to reserve your space. Detailed descriptions at vtherbcenter.org. MEDICINE IN THE MICROCOSMOS: Feb. 16 & 17 & Mar. 2 & 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 28 hours total. Cost: $280; $30 deposit required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main Street, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. org. Discover the many different levels at which the environment interfaces with human beings. Examine basic chemical structures, study the fundamentals of cell biology, and explore solubility, extraction and absorption to gain a rich and nuanced understanding of the actions of what we put into our bodies. Taught by Guido Mase.

SHORT COURSES FOR SELFCARE: Registration now open for all courses. Medicine in the Microcosmos: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Feb. 16 & 17 & Mar. 2 and 3; Roots of Healing: Mon. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Mar. 18-May 20; Healing Presence: Mon. 6-8 p.m. Jun. 3-Jul. 1; Kitchen Medicine: Tue. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Mar. 12 & 26, Apr. 23, & 30, Jun. 25, Jul. 9, & 23, Aug. 20, Sep. 10, Oct. 8 & 22, & Nov. 12; Wilderness First Responder: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Apr. 6-14; Herbs From the Ground Up: Mon. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Apr. 29-Oct. 14; Traditional Body Therapies: Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 26, Nov. 9 & 23, & Dec. 7; Whole Human Wellness: Mon. 4:30-7:30 p.m. Jul. 18-Dec. 9. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main Street, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. org. The Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism is pleased to introduce the community health worker project, a new series of short courses designed to help people take care of themselves and their friends and families using safe, natural and traditional approaches. Visit our website, under community classes, for details and costs. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Open House Sat., Jan. 26, 1-3 p.m. at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Winter Ecology Walk w/ George Lisi, Sunday, Feb. 3, 3-4:15 p.m., call to preregister, sliding scale $0-10. Now accepting applications for Wisdom EightMonth Certification Program, Apr. 20-21, May 18-19, Jun. 15-16, Jul. 13-14, Aug. 10-11, Sep. 7-8, Oct. 5-6 & Nov. 2-3. Tuition: $1750; nonrefundable deposit: $250; payment plan: $187.50/mo. Applications for Wild Edibles spring term: Apr. 28, May 26, Jun. 23. Tuition: $300. VSAC nondegree grants avail. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

kids FREE DANCE CLASSES: Jan. 16Mar. 6, 10-10:45 a.m., Annually. Location: St. Michael’s College, Ross Sports Building, Tarrant Dance Studio, Colchester. Info: SMC, Annette Urbschat, 8609927, sundancestudiovt@gmail. com. Creative movement for children 4 and 5 years old. This class is taught by Annette Urbschat as part of an undergraduate teaching course at SMC. Children will explore seasonal movement themes and dance favorite stories, observed by SMC students who will later teach short segments of the class under supervision.

language ACCESS LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages w/ great instructors. Full descriptions online at cvuweb. cvuhs.org/access. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, 369 CVU Rd. , Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. French: 3 levels; beginning Spanish: 2 levels; intermediate Spanish: 3 levels; immersion Spanish; Italian for Travelers: 2 levels; beginning Mandarin: 2 levels; German: 2 levels. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Senior discounts. ALLONS-Y ET BONNE ANNEE! FRENCH CLASSES FOR PRESCHOOLERS, YOUTH & ADULTS: Preschool FRART! Jan. 11-Feb. 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Youth Afterschool FRART! Jan. 16-Feb. 20, 3:45-5:15 p.m. Adult Adv. Beg., Jan. 15-Mar. 19, 6:45-8:15 p.m. Adult Intermediate, Jan. 15-Mar. 19, 5-6:30 p.m. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: 233-7676, maggiestandley@ yahoo.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com/classes. Preschool FRART! French/Art through music, art, movement. Youth Afterschool FRART! Drawing, Painting, Sculpture with French. Adult Beginner and Intermediate French! Evening classes Tuesdays. Immerse yourself in beautiful, supportive environment opening new doors. New sessions January. Maggie Standley, fluent speaker and experienced instructor, has lived in Paris and West Africa. Weaving together cultural knowledge, multiple learning modalities and familiarity w/ language pitfalls, classes are “vraiment chouette!” JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: Level 1 classes Tue. beginning Jan. 22; Level 2 classes Thu. beginning Jan. 24 & continuing for 10 wks. 7-8:30 p.m. weekly, ending wk. of Mar. 26-28. Cost: $195/10 1.5-hr. classes. Location: St. Michael’s College, 1 Winooski Place, Colchester. Info: JapanAmerica Society of Vermont, Linda Sukop, 825-8335, linda. sukop@gmail.com, jasv.org. The Japan America Society of Vermont is pleased to offer Japanese language classes. The purpose of these classes is improving awareness and understanding of Japanese culture, history and language. The classes are open to the general public and students alike. LEARN FRENCH THIS SPRING!: Spring term classes meet weekly for 11 wks. from 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $245/11-wk. class. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 302-304 Dupont Bldg. (Fort Ethan Allen), 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 497-0420, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, aflcr.org/classes. shtml. Registration now open for the spring schedule of French classes at the Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region

in Colchester. Classes offered at six levels, evenings for adults, beginning the week of March 4 for 11 weeks through May 23. Full details and easy registration on website, aflcr.org/classes.shtml. SPANISH CLASSES STARTING NOW: Beginning in January for 10 weeks. Cost: $175/10 1-hr classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Join us for Spanish classes this winter. Our sixth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Specializing in lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details.

legal LIVING WITH INTEGRITY: Jan. 30-Mar. 6, 7-8:30 p.m., Every 6 wks. on Wed. Cost: $65/series; text incl. Location: Chabad of Vermont, 57 South Williams Street, Burlington. Info: Chabad of Vermont, 658-5770, chabad@ chabadvt.org, chabadvt.org. With real-life scenarios, Living with Integrity challenges you to voice your opinion while providing practical Talmudic wisdom to help you navigate through life’s inevitable ethical challenges. This course will also discuss common ethical dilemmas attorneys routinely face in the legal profession. Approved for 1.5 general credits and 7.5 ethics credits for CLE

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tue., Feb. 5 at 5:30 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and relieve stress. Classes for adults, teens and children. We also offer morning classes for new students. Study with Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 6th degree black belt and Vermont’s only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. AIKIDO CLASSES: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. Vermont Aikido invites you to explore this graceful martial art in a safe, supportive environment. COMBAT FITNESS MARTIAL ARTS: Location: Combat Fitness Martial Arts Academy, 276 E. Allen Street #8 , Winooski. Info: Combat Fitness LLP, Vincent Guy, 343-3129, vteguy@yahoo. com, combatfitnessmma.com. Combat Fitness Martial Arts

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spirituality GOddESS cIRcLE fOR WOMEN: Jan. 29, last Tue. of ea. mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $20/ circle. Location: Lightheart Sanctuary, 236 Wild Apple Road, New Haven. Info: Lightheart, Maureen Short, 453-4433, Maureen@gmavt. net, Lightheart.net. a lovely circle of women come together. In its eighth year, we share, sing/chant, pray, meditate, journey and tone to the magical resonance of crystal singing bowls. We enjoy a deep sense of well-being as we heal, ground and expand. LIfE PURPOSE JOURNEy GROUP: Feb. 5-Mar. 5, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $225/4 group evenings plus 2 private sessions. Location: Spirit Dancer Books, 122 S. Winooski Ave , Burlington. Info: HandTales, Janet Savage, 279-8554, janet@handtales. com, handtales.com. Four evenings plus. It’s all in your hands! Receive the key to open the doorway to your life purpose. come away with a greater sense of YOU, clarity about what is

cIRcLE Of cOURAGE: Jan. 30Apr. 10, 12-1:15 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $40/session. Inquire about insurance. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 201, South Burlington. Info: Amy Poland, 658-9440. Do you struggle with body image and disordered eating? Many women find the experience of an eating disorder an extremely isolating experience. Together we can take steps toward understanding the parts that are attached to our eating disorder, building connections with others and creating a foundation for a compassionate recovery. QIGONG fOR ANxIETy, cULTIVATING cALM: Feb. 5-Mar. 26, 9:30-11 a.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $160/series. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative

MINdfULNESS fOR TEENS: Feb. 5-Mar. 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. $20-120/series. Inquire about insurance. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, South Burlington. Info: 448-0665, catherine.e.schiller@gmail. com. Mindfulness for teens is a 6-week program in which teens learn mindfulness skills to bring to everyday-life experiences. This group will follow a 6-week curriculum, which will include opportunities for participants to practice formally and informally in a peer-supported environment. Time will be spent exploring ourselves, our world, our emotions and our relationships. MINdfUL PARENTS: Feb. 5-Mar. 12, 5:45-6:45 p.m., Weekly on Tue. $20-120/series. Inquire about insurance. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, South Burlington. Info: 448-0665, catherine.e.schiller@ gmail.com. Mindful Parents is a mindfulness-based series dedicated to parents of youth who are currently struggling with mental health issues. Mindfulness strategies will be practiced in a variety of ways for parents to learn how to apply these skills to parenting. Opportunities will be given for parents to also have open discussion and build an internal support network.

voice SAcREd SOUNd PRAcTIcES: Jan. 17-Feb. 7, 4:30-5:45 p.m. Cost: $50/series. Location: Honest Yoga, Blue Mall, 150 Dorset St., S. Burlington. Info: Honest Yoga Center, Heidi Champney, 453-2916, heidichampney@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. These delightful practices invite us to explore our relationships with our physical body, energetic field, intentions, each other and the Divine by engaging with the

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yoga EVOLUTION yOGA: $14/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt. com. evolution Yoga offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and prenatal, community classes, and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, core, Breast cancer survivor and alignment classes. certified teachers, massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose. HOT yOGA BURLINGTON: Get Hot — 2 for 1 offer. Mon., Wed. & Fri.: 5-6 p.m; Sat. 10-11 a.m. Cost: $14/1st 2 classes, multi-class cards avaliable. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave, Old North End, Burlington. Info: 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Hot Yoga Burlington offers creative vinyasa style yoga featuring practice in the Barkan Method Hot Yoga TM in a 95 degree heated studio accompanied by eclectic music. Try something different! LAUGHING RIVER yOGA: classes 7 days/wk. $5-13/class; 10-class card $115, monthly unlimited $130. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga. com. compassionate and skilled instructors offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Yoga Dance, Yoga Teacher Training and more. Deepen your practice with sunday morning intensives or one of our beautiful yoga retreats. Get schooled in yoga, love and leadership with coby Kozlowski. January 25-27. all bodies and abilities welcome. m

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yOGA fOR AddIcTION ANd ANxIETy: Feb. 6-Mar. 27, 5:457:15 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $120/series. Inquire about insurance. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, South Burlington. Info: 658-9440. Within anxiety, addictions can be born and feelings of claustrophobia within one’s skin arise and grow. This class will begin with a gentle heat, fueling the body with breath-based movements, then slowing down for long, comfortable holds focusing on reducing stress through restful rejuvenation and meditation.

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MEdITATION RETREAT fOR EVERydAy LIfE: Mar. 8-23. Location: Karme Choling, Barnet. Info: 633-2384, reception@karmecholing.org, karmecholing.org. Join us for a two-week meditation retreat focused on developing a deep understanding of shamatha, or “peaceful abiding,” meditation. Often a life-changing experience, this program gives us an opportunity to touch the tender heart we sometimes lose connection with in our daily lives.

SNAkE-STyLE TAI cHI cHUAN: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

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on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. call for more info or register online.

INTRO TO NATURE PHOTOGRAPHy: Jan. 19, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $145/8-hr. class. Location: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, TBA, Central Vermont. Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, Kurt Budliger, 2234022, info@kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops.com. ever wonder how professional photographers create those stunning images you see in magazines, calendars and books? Join professional photographer Kurt Budliger as he sheds light on the secrets. Beyond lots of inspiring imagery, this workshop will give participants practical take-home skills to help master exposure/metering, composition and working with light.

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on’t call Archie Shepp a jazz musician. Also, as we found out recently, don’t call him before 4 p.m. — Shepp is nocturnal and might not yet be out of bed. Sleeping habits aside, Archie Shepp, 75, is a an icon of the Black Arts Movement — a term he prefers to the word “jazz.” A playwright, poet, composer and saxophonist, he was mentored by John Coltrane and was a central figure in New York City’s thriving avant-garde and free-jazz scene in the 1960s, alongside Coltrane, Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, among others. Throughout his career, the Goddard College alum has been an outspoken advocate for social justice and civil rights. This Saturday, January 19, Shepp returns to his alma mater for a performance with his quartet at the Haybarn Theatre. He will also receive the school’s highest honor, the Goddard College Award for Excellence, which recognizes individuals who “exemplify the highest ideals and aspiration” in accordance with Goddard’s mission statement: “to advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world.” Shepp is only the third recipient of the award in the college’s history. In advance of that performance, Seven Days caught up with the saxophonist by phone.

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SD: I imagine that would make playing, say, a daytime set at a festival challenging. AP: It really is. These are the vicissitudes of a complex life as a performer, especially a performer of so-called “jazz” music. Classical musicians, they play all times of the day, and frequently not too late in the evening. But the jazzman, if you will, can sometimes have a very challenging schedule. SD: I gather you’re not a fan of the term “jazz.” AP: First of all, the word jazz originates around the time of the turn of the [last] century. It was first used in New Orleans, where some of the first scholarly writing about this music was done. But the people who originally wrote about it were not Americans; they were frequently French. African American folk music and so-called jazz music

SD: So you see it as a derogatory term? AS: “Jazz” was “nigger music,” it was black music because it was primarily played by black musicians. It was also used as a verb. “Jazz” could mean to fornicate. You could say “I jazzed that girl.” Well, you didn’t play music for her. SD: Well, you might have earlier in the evening… AS: [Laughs] I suppose that’s true. But it’s a term that’s more slang; it has never had any formal definition, like, “Western classical music.” When you say that, Stravinsky, all the masters, come to mind. But when we say “jazz,” there is a multiplicity of events that surround a word like that, none of them having to do with music. So why do we insist on using that term? SD: Well, when I hear the word “jazz,” I think of masters like Coltrane and Miles Davis… AS: We use it because it’s a familiar term. But do you know what it means, really? For example, the king of this music is Benny Goodman. Paul Whiteman is the father of it. Paul Whiteman [laughs]. I find the term jazz dichotomous, and that there are many discrepancies in the use of the term.

SEVEN DAYS: How long have you been nocturnal? ARCHIE SHEPP: Well, musicians generally work later in the evening and get up later in the day. SD: Sure, but your routine is to wake up at 3 p.m. and go to bed at 7 a.m. Most musicians I know still try to catch some daylight now and again. AS: It comes with the territory. When I was working in New York, the clubs close at four in the morning. So if you get home at six, you don’t expect to get up at nine. Frequently, I find the atmosphere, the solitude, very conducive to writing and creating music. And over the years, having often worked late at night, I find myself frequently getting up late in the day. Musicians are subject to all kinds of diverse schedules.

in these places would be, specifically, pianists. The first “jass” music was piano music played by people like Jelly Roll Morton. And the term alluded to the activities that went on in these places, more so than an appreciation of the music.

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WHEN WE SAY “JAZZ,” THERE IS A MULTIPLICITY OF EVENTS THAT SURROUND A WORD LIKE THAT, NONE OF THEM HAVING TO DO WITH MUSIC. SO WHY DO WE INSIST ON USING THAT TERM? ARCHI E S HEP P

were not of particular interest to American scholars, who were much more concerned with European music. So the term jazz, which was originally spelled j-a-s-s, seems to come from a French word, “jaç,” meaning “a dirty place,” a stable of some kind. And it was first used in conjunction with the bordellos, houses of prostitution. And

SD: You’ve lamented jazz music being taken from “uptown to Lincoln Center.” Does the, let’s say, “Berkleefication” of jazz add to that dichotomy for you? AS: Not so much. That is, if we’re talking about African American music, I mean, it was created by black Americans. But the demographic has changed. In 1959, all the clubs in New York were basically uptown, and there were some in the Village. But Harlem was a thriving atmosphere for the creation of this music. Now that music has moved downtown. People go to Lincoln Center in tuxedos. I remember I was in a club about 15 years ago, Christmas night. There was a young man playing alto sax and he sort of had a groove going with the blues, so I started clapping my hands. The waitress came over and shushed me. SD: She shushed Archie Shepp. At a jazz club. AS: Yes. I thought, How things have profoundly changed. I think the context has changed. It’s become more academic and much less a music that has social meaning. When I was a young man, this music was associated not only with swing and having a good time, but poverty and hard times, the blues. You can’t teach the blues in an academy. It was born in the cotton fields.

The Archie Shepp Quartet perform at the Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, in Plainfield this Saturday, January 19, 8 p.m. $35/40.

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After what seemed an interminable amount of time that had me seriously questioning my chosen career path, the line clicked again and Shepp reappeared. “OK. I’m here. Now, who are you?” What followed was the interview that appears in this issue. Mostly. There was much more, some highlights of which I’ll share with you now.

On the term “rapping”: “That term has existed almost forever. It has become commercialized as a term and has a more specific meaning, reciting poetry in rhyme and having that poetry configure with drum music.”

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the Haybarn Theatre at Goddard College, where Shepp performs this Saturday, January 19. Hammond had tracked down the elusive Mr. Shepp. I jumped in my trusty Volkswagen Snarkmobile — the preferred vehicle of music critics everywhere — zipped down to the office as fast as I (legally) could and dialed Shepp’s number. After several rings, a woman with a thick French accent appeared on the line. “’allo?” “Uh, hi. This is Dan Bolles from Seven Days newspaper. Could I speak with Mr. Shepp, please?” “Er … no. ’E eez, er … occupied? Could you call back een 10 meenutes?” (Slamming my head on my desk.) “Sure.” (Click.) Ten minutes later — and increasingly bewildered — I tried again. This time the French woman handed the phone to Shepp. “This is Archie Shepp.” “Mr. Shepp! This is Dan Bo …” “Uh, yes. Could you give me a few minutes, please? I need … a few minutes, please. Thanks.” (Slamming my head against my desk. Again.)

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When it comes to interviewing jazz legends, I am developing something of a checkered history. For example, several years ago, I interviewed Ornette Coleman for a cover story previewing that year’s Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. It was a weird, wild interview in which we spent more time talking about sex than music. Coleman also stopped the 90-minute conversation on at least three occasions to ask who I was and how I had gotten his phone number. Maybe that had something to do with all the sex talk? Hmm… For that same story, I also attempted to interview the late Bill dixon, a Coleman contemporary who, at the time, was teaching music at Bennington College. Despite agreeing to the topic of conversation in an earlier email, Dixon took umbrage at my calling him to discuss another musician and essentially told me to, ahem, go jazz myself. (In retrospect, I think Mr. Dixon was irked that his significant contributions to the avantgarde are often overlooked by historians and fans, often in favor of more widely known artists such as Coleman. He probably had a point.) The trend continued this past weekend when trying to interview saxophonist Archie shepp for the story that appears on page 58. (Incidentally, Shepp’s first record was a collaboration with Dixon titled Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet. The world is funny sometimes.) Originally, I was scheduled to speak with Shepp last Friday evening. But when I called, there was no answer — or even an answering machine or voicemail. After several attempts and no luck, I gave up and emailed his handlers to reschedule. Flash to the same time the following evening. This time, instead of endless ringing, I at least got a busy signal. (As an aside, when was the last time you called a number and got a busy signal? How many readers under the age of 20 even know what a busy signal is?) But after more than an hour of said busy signal, and being already late for another commitment, I threw in the towel again, angrily wondering what the hell I was going to do to fill the now open space in the paper by our Monday deadline. (A roundup of weird CDs or Band Press Release Mad Libs crossed my mind.) The following afternoon, a minor miracle arrived in the form of a phone call from Meg hAMMond, the one-time owner of Langdon Street Café in Montpelier who is currently helping to curate music at

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nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Flabberghaster (jam), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

City liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

o'briEn's irisH Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

on tHE risE bakEry: small Pipers session (bagpipe music), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

on taP bar & grill: Joe moore Band (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

tWo brotHErs tavErn: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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bEE's knEEs: D. Davis (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's PlaCE: Jason Wedlock (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free. ParkEr PiE Co.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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MonoPolE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.

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Club MEtronoME: Electrode Entertainment Presents Luminox (electronica), 9 p.m., $8/10/15. 18+. Dobrá tEa: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

raDio bEan: Dave Fugel & Julian chobot (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squarE: climbing up Walls (rock), 7 p.m., Free. rED squarE bluE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free. vEnuE: Thirsty Thursdays, 7 p.m., Free.

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bagitos: John mowad (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free. grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. PositivE PiE: Dave Keller (blues), 7:30 p.m., Free.

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tWo brotHErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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Moog's PlaCE: After the Rodeo (bluegrass), 8:30 p.m., Free. ParkEr PiE Co.: Live music, 7:30 p.m., Free.

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MonoPolE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. olivE riDlEy's: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free. tHEraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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baCkstagE Pub: Trivia with made in the shade Entertainment, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free. Club MEtronoME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. HigHEr grounD ballrooM: Johnny Winter, mr. French (blues), 8 p.m., $22/26. AA. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE loungE: mcLovins, Fikus (jam), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. AA.

City liMits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

JP's Pub: starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

on tHE risE bakEry: Gabe Jarrett (jazz), 8 p.m., Donations.

liFt: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. FRi.18

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workshops and concerts, is highlighted by appearances by DIRK POWELL and RILEY BAUGUS, two highly regarded traditional players who may be best known for contributing music to the film Cold Mountain. Other highlights include Swedish fiddler ANNA LINDBLAD, as well as a slew of local folk talent including PETE SUTHERLAND, JEREMIAH MCLANE, SARAH BLAIR and MAYFLY, to name but a few. For a full schedule and ticket info, check out summit-school.org.

Last but not least, a quick update on DJ A-DOG — aka ANDY WILLIAMS — who is currently undergoing chemotherapy in his battle with leukemia. As part of his treatment, Williams will need a bone marrow transplant. Finding a donor match is always tricky, but in A-Dog’s case, it’s proving especially challenging because he’s biracial — Filipino and African American. Typically, the odds of finding a match increase when you can draw from donors with similar ethnic backgrounds. Care to guess how, many folks in Vermont match Williams? (Answer: not many.) If you’d like to donate — even if you likely won’t match A-Dog — check out the National Marrow Donor Program at marrow.org. It’s easy, painless and free. So come on, people, give A-Dog a bone. (You had to know that was coming, right?)

A new EDM series is set to launch this Friday, January 18, at Signal Kitchen in Burlington. Dubbed — get this — the Real Housevibes of Burlington, the showcase aims to give local DJs a little more room to stretch out than the typical short sets found at most EDM showcases. Rather than have 15 DJs playing 20-minute sets, you’ll find a handful of artists playing extended sets. For the inaugural edition, DJs JAHSON, HELIXX, HAITIAN, SLEEZY D and SHARKAT man the turntables.

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With the recent news of another Montpelier venue, the Black Door, folding, the Capital City music scene could use a lift. Perhaps it will come in the form of the Summit School Winter Folk Festival, which runs this weekend, January 18 to 20, at various locations around the city. The fest, which includes numerous

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« p.60 Skinny Pancake: Two Tree (folk), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Moog's Place: Max Weaver Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Happy Ending Fridays with Jay Burwick (solo acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Dave Grippo Funk Band, 9 p.m., $5.

central

Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: The Woedoggies (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. The Complaints (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Green Mountain Tavern: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

Park Place Tavern: Area 51 (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Positive Pie 2: Summit School Winter Folk Festival (folk), 10 p.m., $5.

Marriott Harbor Lounge: Eight02 (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Kid's Music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick (children's music), 10:30 a.m., Free. Mickey Western (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. J. Kaine (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Free. Maryse Smith (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Anna Pardenik (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. Quiet Lion (folk), 11 p.m., Free. Bless the Child (hip-hop), 1 a.m., Free. Red Square: Silent Mind (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Big Ol' Dirty Bucket Funk Band, 8 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. Ruben James: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. Rí Rá Irish Pub: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free. Signal Kitchen: The Real Housevibes of Burlington: Jahson, Helixx, Haitian, Sleezy D, Sharkat (EDM), 9 p.m., $3/5.

Bagitos: The Neptunes with Nancy Taub (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

Purple Moon Pub: Bobby Messano (rock), 8 p.m., Free. Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern: Blue Fox (blues), 9 p.m., Free.

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51 Main: Max Godfrey & Elias Alexander (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Verbal Onslaught (poetry), 9 p.m., Free. On the Rise Bakery: Steph Pappas Experience (rock), 8 p.m., Donations.

Marriott Harbor Lounge: Jeff Wheel and Friends (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. Monkey House: Insurrection: Dark Alternative Dance Nacht (EDM), 10 p.m., $5. 18+.

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Olive Ridley's: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., NA.

Nectar's: Ben Kogan Duo (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Lucid, Gang of Thieves, the Chroma Concept (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

Therapy: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

On Tap Bar & Grill: A House on Fire (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., Free. Randal Pierce Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Eddy Marshall (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Alycea & the X Isles (roots-rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. The Leather Bound Books (rock), 10:30 p.m., Free. Bandana (rock), 11:30 p.m., Free. The Great Destroyer (rock), 1 a.m., Free.

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Backstage Pub: Phil & the Blanks (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Red Square: Krag'll Rock (rock), 5 p.m., Free. The Folkadelics (folk rock), 8 p.m., $5.

Church & Main Restaurant: Night Vision (EDM), 9 p.m., Free.

Two Brothers Tavern: DJ Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: VT Comedy Club Presents: Deanne Smith (standup), 6 p.m., $10/12. 18+. Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

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Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

Matterhorn: The Equalites (reggae), 9 p.m., $5.

JP's Pub: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., Free.

Red Square Blue Room: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., Free. Craig Mitchell (EDM), 10 p.m., $5. Rí Rá Irish Pub: The Groove Junkies (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Skinny Pancake: Gatsby's Green Light (folk), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Churchill (folk rock), 7:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

Venue: 18 & Up Destination Saturdays, 8 p.m., Free.

Winter Is Coming Simply put, Johnny Winter is one of the baddest dudes to ever pick up a guitar. He was a

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pioneering figure in American blues-rock in the 1960s and ’70s and became a torchbearer for the genre — producing three Grammy-

Bagitos: Irish Sessions, 2 p.m., Free. Big Hat, No Cattle (western swing), 6 p.m., Donations.

winning records for Muddy Waters along the way. He has since been elevated to blues-guitar royalty, both as an inductee to the Blues

Positive Pie 2: Serotheft (live EDM), 10:30 p.m., $5.

Foundation Hall of Fame and one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” This Friday, January 18, Winter plays the

Purple Moon Pub: Bobby Messano (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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Railside Tavern: John Lackard Blues Band (blues), 9 p.m., NA. The Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room: Insignia (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern: The Kind Buds (jam), 9 p.m., Free. Tupelo Music Hall: Steve Blunt & Marty Kelley (children's music), noon, $7. Ralphie Joyal, Jason Lorber, Tony Bates (standup), 7 p.m., $17. Club 188 (dance), 10 p.m., $5.

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City Limits: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. Two Brothers Tavern: Face Off Against Breast Cancer Fundraiser with the Horse Traders (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

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Moog's Place: TallGrass GetDown (bluegrass), 9 p.m., Free. Parker Pie Co.: The Aerolites (rock), 8 p.m., $5. Positive Pie: Dave Keller (blues), 9 p.m., Free.

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Olive Ridley's: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., NA.

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Club Metronome: Sunday Night Mass: Meat Katie (EDM), 9 p.m., $10. 18 +. Monkey House: Paper Castles, Great Western (indie folk), 7:30 p.m., $5. 18+.

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Nectar's: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. On Tap Bar & Grill: Brunch with Andrew ParkerRenga (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Free.

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In the years following the dissolution of his acoustic-rock band, Simon, Burlington’s Steve Hartmann took a hiatus from public performance and focused his efforts on becoming a solo artist. Now, nearly 10 years later, Hartmann unveils the fruit of those labors, his solo debut, Waking Up the Echoes. The slickly produced album captures the essence of Hartmann’s sensitive-guy-with-anacoustic-guitar groove and harks back to the heyday of similarly earnest pop artists, such as Crash-era Dave Matthews and Recovering the Satellites-era Counting Crows. Depending upon your predilection for such fare, the album’s tendency toward confessional acoustic groove could

either be its great strength or fatal flaw. It is, in truth, a rather dated sound, and Hartmann does little to push it into the current century. But for those who pine for bygone days, the aptly titled Waking Up the Echoes could stir some longdormant specters. Hartmann is a polished guitarist. His nimble lead lines are buoyed by a percussive rhythmic style that is both laid-back and insistent. He’s equally compelling as a vocalist. In quieter moments, Hartmann’s clean tenor is sweetly soothing, which sets a fine contrast for those instances, typically choruses, when he lets loose with soulful bluster. While occasionally prone to oversinging — and thus going flat — he can certainly wail. And he’s judicious, rarely favoring force when a subtler approach is called for. Especially on cuts such as the title track, “Walk in My Rain” and “Coming Home,” Hartmann strikes a commendable dynamic balance that often

mirrors his potent, emotionally direct lyricism. The album’s flaw is not whether it was born a decade or two late, or occasional lapses in pitch. It’s a pervasive sameness. Say what you will about Dave Matthews, but, particularly at the time he rose to fame, his music was structurally adventurous — especially for pop. While Hartmann does an admirable job accenting his music with certain sonic flourishes — especially well-placed guitar harmonics — at their core, his songs are compositionally predictable. The result is a collection that, while generally pleasant, fails to inject new life, or ideas, into a wellworn idiom. Waking Up the Echoes by Steve Hartmann is available at cdbaby.com. He plays the Big Heavy World Musicians for Musicians Panel and Concert at the Black Box Theater at Main Street Landing in Burlington on Wednesday, January 23. DAN BOLLES

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Man,” the sisters delve a little deeper than airy folk-pop. Flanked by a mournful fiddle and melancholy piano, Pepin takes the lead and proves a commanding front woman. Her expressive, pure-toned alto exists somewhere between the vocals of Sara Watkins and Emmylou Harris — a high compliment, to be sure. For her part, Julia Beerworth adds exquisite harmonies, tastefully accenting her sister’s performance. It’s a nearly perfect country ballad. The Beerworth Sisters are obviously well schooled in folk and country. But what is intriguing about Simple Things is how the duo injects modern pop and rock influences while maintaining reverence for those more classic sounds. Melding rock and country is hardly a new phenomenon. But some, like these siblings, do it far more tactfully than others. For example, “Running Low.” Above an undulating bed of strings, piano and

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There really is beauty in simplicity. For proof, look no further than the appropriately titled debut from Burlington-based duo the Beerworth Sisters, Simple Things. Spare and elegant, the album is a striking collection of material that succeeds on little more than strong songwriting and solid performances, presented as straightforwardly as possible. Especially in an age when so many artists look to all manner of sonic contrivances to enhance — or sometimes mask — their songwriting, there’s something refreshing about an album so unassuming and, well, simple. Fittingly, it opens on “Little Tune,” a cheery duet between sisters Julia Beerworth and Anna Pepin. Backed by a breezily strummed mandolin, the duo frolics through bright, singsong verses and choruses that charm without becoming precious. On the following cut, “Some Kind of

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acoustic guitars, Julia Beerworth takes center stage, her breathy croon a subtle contrast to her sister’s fuller delivery. It’s essentially a pop song. In fact, the syncopated strings almost create an island vibe. But it fits seamlessly amid the dustier fare surrounding it. Perhaps some credit for the album’s twangy cohesion belongs to producer and multi-instrumentalist Colin McCaffrey, who, as ever, tweaks knobs and plucks a variety of strings with equal grace and skill. Guest instrumentalists, including Joshua Glass (piano), Tim Swanson (violin) and Kirk Lord (bass), among others, also add tasteful flourishes. But, as it should be, the focus of Simple Things is squarely on the Beerworth Sisters. Nowhere is this more evident than on the closing title track. Pretty but powerful, “Simple Things” is a beautifully understated duet that in some ways represents the record as a whole. It is a fine close to a fine debut. Simple Things by the Beerworth Sisters is available at cdbaby.com.

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1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (gypsy jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Gatsby's Green Light (jazz), 10 p.m., Free. V (experimental), 11 p.m., Free.

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BAGITOS: Aurora Brush (singersongwriter), 11 a.m., Donations. PURPLE MOON PUB: Kip de Moll (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

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JAMES MOORE TAVERN: Dewey Drive Band (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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NECTAR'S: Metal Monday: Skrogg, Iron Sword, Musical Manslaughter, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Project Organ Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: Industry Night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. RUBEN JAMES: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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BAGITOS: Old Time Session, 6 p.m., Free.

Off the Rails On their latest release, Eden, Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck continue to explore the outer reaches of “progressive mountain music.” Produced by Justin Guip (Levon Helm), the album presents a heady union of country, bluegrass, folk and rock as intriguing as it is soulful. Thayer and co. celebrate the release of their new record with a concert and benefit dinner at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph this Saturday, January 19. MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: Open Mic, 6 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: Mihali from Twiddle (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Live Music, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. OLDE NORTHENDER: Abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

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RADIO BEAN: Stephen Callahan and Mike Piche (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. All Night Funk, 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

burlington area

MONKEY HOUSE: The Whiskey Dicks, Jangover (rock), 9 p.m., Free. 18+.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Frank Grymes (EDM), 11 p.m., Free.

central

CHARLIE O'S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. WHAMMY BAR: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Free.

champlain valley TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

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FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

10 p.m., Free. Close to Nowhere (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

HALFLOUNGE: Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with Morgan, 10 p.m., Free.

SKINNY PANCAKE: Josh Panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dan Liptak Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

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BAGITOS: Acoustic Blues Jam with the Usual Suspects, 6 p.m., Free. THE PINES: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Bandleader (rock), 8:30 p.m., Free. 18+. NECTAR'S: Jimkata, Serotheft (electro-rock), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

champlain valley

RADIO BEAN: Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Zack duPont (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Lake Superior (rock), 11 p.m., Free.

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop),

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. 80s Night, 10 p.m., Free.

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MOOG'S PLACE: Lesley Grant (country), 8:30 p.m., Free.

regional

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Kode 3 (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

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en. Patrick Leahy displays, on his own website, a digital gallery of photographs taken since 2008 — though he has, by his own recollection, wielded a camera “since age 4 or 5.” The senator is now 72. His shutterbug habit has been noted numerous times in Vermont’s media outlets, including this one. He’s had photos of momentous events published in such august publications as the New York Times. So why would Leahy bother with mounting a local exhibit, like the one that opened last Wednesday at the Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier? Perhaps because Vermont’s senior senator likes to tell stories — particularly to his constituents back home. Leahy attended the reception in person, and, though his hoarse voice suggested exhaustion, he gamely related the anecdotes behind many of his images, here neatly framed and mostly in color. He brought to life the moments when he encountered a Tibetan native in China revealing a clandestine picture of the Dalai Lama; when former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and (now late) Gen. John Shalikashvili “slept together” — sitting up and leaning against each other on a cargo plane headed to Bosnia; when former president Bill Clinton hosted the Eagles (the band, not the football team) at Camp David; when President Barack Obama signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay

Restoration Act, in January 2009. That was Obama’s very first bill signing, and it was legislation that Leahy had worked on. The senator’s role is subtly implied by his position standing behind the president; his camera captures Obama reaching for a pen, the bill spread out before him, and the smiling crowd beyond. Leahy told the assembled media, “When I’m witnessing an important moment in history, I appreciate the opportunity [to take a photo], but it also helps me remember.” He’s got a lot of memories to keep track of. From refugee camps to the White House, Beijing to the Middle East, Leahy’s photographs reflect a life not only behind the lens but smack in the middle of current events, at home and around the world. Especially, of course, in Washington, D.C., where Leahy has represented Vermont since 1974. He is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the most senior member of the Appropriations Committee and a senior member of the Agriculture Committee. His increased security detail last week quietly underscored the senator’s recent elevation in status: With the passing of long-serving senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, Leahy was sworn in as president pro tempore of the Senate, making him third in line behind the president of the United

Refugee, El Salvador. Leahy calls this his “conscience” picture

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States. For a guy from Montpelier, Vt., a notorious Deadhead and Batman fan, that’s a mighty big deal. But at the Supreme Court Lobby last week, Leahy showed no sign of being puffed up with his stature; he was more interested in showing what his camera had captured. And he joked about the title of the show, “The Eye of Senator Leahy,” which may or may not have been an intentional reference to the fact

that he has vision in only one eye. While Leahy’s images could not be called art photography — some are simply capable snapshots — he has, without doubt, artistic vision in that eye. His compositions are strong, and his instincts about the precise moment to document an event are right on. This is evident in a shot taken at the second inaugural of President Ronald Reagan, held indoors because of inclement

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weather. In Leahy’s picture, the president is on the left, hand on Bible, facing Chief Justice Warren Burger. In the middle is Nancy Reagan, in a brightblue suit and hat with an intriguingly pensive look on her face. We can’t know what she’s thinking, of course, but that expression takes center stage in this image. In an image even more rife with visual significance, Leahy photographed president-elect Obama bidding adieu to the Democratic caucus a week before moving to the White House in January 2009. In the composition, Obama is in the lower left foreground; seen from the waist up, he gazes to the left with

Leahy’s photographs refLect a Life not onLy behind the Lens but

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SArAh roSedAhl: "Feathers, Fur & Fins," watercolor, acrylic and mixed-media works inspired by the Vermont artist's love of animals and nature. Through January 31 at island Arts south hero gallery. Meet the artist, wednesday, January 16, noon-1:30 p.m.; wednesday, January 23, noon-1:30 p.m. info, 372-5049.

winter wAtercolor Show: work by the Vermont watercolor society. Through March 2 at Dartmouthhitchcock Medical Center in lebanon. n.h. Reception: Thursday, January 17, 4:30-6 p.m., Chilcott lounge, Rubin building, Dartmouthhitchcock Medical Center, hanover, n.h. kAtherine BuchMAyr: paintings of rural landscapes and animals. January 17 through February 18 at the gallery at equinox Village in Manchester Center. Reception: Thursday, January 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 362-4061. 'digitAl regionAl': A photography exhibit featuring digitally manipulated images, virtual-reality photography and panoramas by ian Creitz, les Jorgensen and MaryJane sarvis. Through February 8 at Feick Fine Arts Center, green Mountain College, in poultney. Reception: Friday, January 18, 5-7 p.m. info, 287-8398.

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Anthony Sini: "An Arrangement of unequal Things," paintings and drawings. Through February 22 at Flynndog in burlington. info, 863-2227. Bill Boccio: work by the Vermont photographer. Through January 31 at brownell library in essex Junction. info, 598-0745. Brooke Monte: oil paintings, reproduction prints and gift cards by the burlington artist. Through January 31 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. info, 660-9005. 'Burlington electric: energy efficient Art': energy-themed drawings by burlington fourth graders. Through January 31 at Metropolitan gallery, burlington City hall. info, 865-7166. 'celeBrAte the holidAyS': new paintings by Carolyn walton, susan bull Riley, Athenia schinto, gail bessette and betty ball, plus jewelry by Tineke Russell. A portion of proceeds benefit sandy Dog nannies of Vermont, a group offering foster care to the canine victims of hurricane sandy. Through January 27 at luxton-Jones gallery in shelburne. info, 985-8223.

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'Source: guild of verMont furniture MAkerS': An exhibition of fine furniture by Vermont craftspeople with a focus on the source of all the elements that collaborate to make the final piece. January 18 through April 14 at helen Day Art Center in stowe. Reception: Friday, January 18, 6-8 p.m. info, 253-8358. '20-30/2d-3d': work in a variety of media by 20- to 30-year-old Vermont artists. Juried by cartoonist James sturm and printmaker Rachel gross. January 20 through March 13 at Chandler gallery in Randolph. Reception: sunday, January 20, 4-6 p.m. info, 728-9878.

'giftS for StrAngerS': Vermont artists' visual responses to the question: what would you give to a stranger for the holidays? Curated by Art's Alive. Through February 15 at union station in burlington. info, 660-9005. group exhiBit: photography by Jaques burke and Kristen watson; paintings by Marie lapre grabon and leslie McCool; mixed-media work by Maria Anghelache and Alan Arnold; collage work by elizabeth nelson and erika lawlor schmidt; and sculpture by Janet Van Fleet. Through April 30 at Maltex building in burlington. info, 865-7166.

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JAckSon tupper: line drawings transposed from the burlington artist's freshman-year notebook onto the white walls of the venue. Through January 31 at signal Kitchen in burlington. info, 399-2337. JeAn luc duShiMe: "The hands of hope," a photographic celebration of immigrants and 6v-GetHealthy011613.indd 1 former refugees who have rebuilt their lives in a new country. Through January 31 at ArtsRiot gallery in burlington.

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donA Ann McAdAMS: "A View From the backstretch," photographs and audio stories from the venerable saratoga racecourse, produced in collaboration with the Vermont Folklife Center. Through January 26 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4510.

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“The eye of senator leahy,” photographs at the Vermont supreme Court lobby, Montpelier. Through February.

'the wAy we worked': A traveling smithsonian institution exhibition that uses historical photographs, archival accounts and interactive components, as well as work by Vermont photographer Jack Rowell, to trace the nation's changing workforce and work environments over the last 150 years. Through January 27 at AVA gallery and Art Center in lebanon, n.h. Museum historian Jennifer pustz delivers an illustrated lecture called "Voices from the back stairs: Domestic servants in 19th- and 20th-century new england," sunday, January 20, 4 p.m. info, 603-448-3117.

‘in deepening Silence’: Four original star-chart talismans by Martha loving orgain exhibited with works by her teachers sonia landy sheridan and liane Collot d’herbois. Through January 31 at All souls interfaith gathering in shelburne. Reception: Friday, January 18, 5-7 p.m. info, 434-865-5330.

gAlen cheney: Colorful, large-scale, abstract paintings that evoke urban graffiti, architecture and the organic. January 18 through February 24 at helen Day Art Center in stowe. Reception: Friday, January 18, 6-8 p.m. info, 253-8358.

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dr. Sketchy'S Anti-Art School: Artists age 18 and up bring sketchbooks and pencils to a cabaret-style lifedrawing session. This month's event, "supersketchy," features supermodels in costume. Tuesday, January 22, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Triple play, west lebanon, n.h.

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the index finger of his left hand on the pinky of his right — perhaps beginning to enumerate his goals as president? High overhead and slightly to the right in this image hangs a large, gilt-framed portrait of George Washington on a wood-paneled wall. The 44th American president is a black man; the first one was a slaveholder. Leahy’s focus here is less the two men than the physical, and symbolic, distance between them. Many of Leahy’s photos are serious in content, not surprising given his placement in U.S. government. But even this milieu has its lighter moments. One of them came during the presidential administration of George H.W. Bush. Leahy explained last week that he promised the photo with the president wearing a Mickey Mouse hat would not be made public while Bush Sr. was still in office. Now it is. And you can see it, along with 50 other images, at the Vermont Supreme Court Lobby through February 28. At the reception, someone asked Leahy whether he considers himself a talented photographer. Said Vermont’s esteemed senator: “I think I’m a photographer who has a great deal of fun.”

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Jenna endresen: "Circling back," mandalas created with pen and ink and other media. Through January 25 at new City galerie in burlington. info, 735-2542. Joan Watson: "Assemble Disassemble Reappear," a ceramic installation. Through February 15 at living/learning Center, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-4200. John anderson: "Drawings: 2006-2012 Constructed Conceptual," four bodies of work by the Vermont-based artist and architect in which paper and graphite drawings are cut, torn, rolled, twisted, folded and painted to create sculptural objects; Jason hanasik: "Fall in line," photographs and video projections that aim to unpack traditional western expectations related to masculinity, social class and valor within the context of the military. Through January 19 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166. Jolene Garanzha & dana dale lee: "MotherFather," prints by garanzha; paintings by lee. Through January 31 at Vintage Jewelers in burlington. info, 862-2233. kathryn Milillo: "barns and landscapes," paintings, giclée prints and notecards by the Vermont artist. Through January 30 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001. lincoln halloran: impasto paintings from the artist's "sunday studio" series. Through January 31 at speaking Volumes in burlington. info, 540-0107. 'local: a Winter art sale': Affordable works by Vermont artists beth pearson, gary hall, Karen henderson, steven goodman, gillian Klein, Roger Coleman, lisa lillibridge, Tom Cullins, Mike strauss, susan larkin and more. Through January 25 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166. Marianne deVaux: Food-themed artwork. Through February 27 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614. Michael Metz: "hanoi, 2010," photographic portraits of street vendors in Vietnam. Through January 31 at Mirabelles in burlington. info, 598-6982.

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Michael strauss: paintings in acrylic and ink by the university of Vermont chemistry professor emeritus. Through January 31 at seAbA Center in burlington. info, 859-9222. nicholas heiliG: work by the burlington artist. Curated by seAbA. Through February 28 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 859-9222. nicholas taylor: "Jean-Michel basquiat: An intimate portrait," photographs of the artist at 19 taken by his friend and fellow frequenter of Manhattan's famed Mudd Club. The exhibit is on loan from niagara university's Castellani Art Museum. January 21 through March 30 at bailey/ howe library, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-3294. 'oceanic art and the PerforMance of life': intricately crafted objects, including masks, textiles and weaponry, from indigenous cultures of the pacific islands. Through May 24 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750. PhiliP Brou: "Central Casting," paintings of veteran film extras. Through February 1 at office hours gallery in burlington. 'rare earth': landscape photography from every crook and bend around the globe. Through February 3 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686. roGer coleMan: "Take outs From the hungry ghost series," paintings inspired by the creatures in Chinese mythology driven by intense emotional needs. Through February 28 at The Firebird Café in essex Junction. info, 658-1081.

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sarah e. Gordon: Colorful abstract paintings. Through January 31 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438.

Michael Metz In 2010, while Michael Metz was in China for work (he develops businesses that use precious metals in

electronics), he decided to spend a weekend in Vietnam. Metz has been an amateur photographer since high school in the ’70s, when he opted for a photography class over joining a sports team. He often takes time out during his travels to document the world around him with his camera. Metz spent his weekend in Hanoi photographing street vendors. “I was there alone,” he recalls. “It was hot as hell.” His show, titled “Hanoi, 2010,” at Mirabelles in Burlington, offers a glimpse into that steamy, bustling, barefoot scene. Through January 31. The pictured work is untitled.

sienna fontaine: "if we Rose From Feathers," abstract paint washes merged with bold marks in ink, pen and embroidery. Through January 29 at Vintage inspired in burlington. info, 355-5418.

Winnie looBy & kecia GaBoriault: Canvas, collage and textile work created collaboratively. Through January 31 at Rose street Artists' Co-op in burlington. info, 540-0376.

'sMall Works & ornaMents': Artist-made holiday ornaments and works smaller than 12 square inches; 'sMall Gifts under $50': work by 10 local artists, in the backspace gallery. Through January 26 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

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steVe clark: watercolor, acrylic and mixed-media works depicting iconic Vermont scenes. Through February 28 at shelburne Vineyard. info, 985-8222. steVen GoodMan: Abstract oil paintings, gates 1-8; Galen cheney: mixed-media abstracts, skyway; Joan hoffMann: "sand Dunes" and "Cathedral Rocks," oil landscapes, escalator. Through January 31 at burlington Airport in south burlington. info, 865-7166. 'this Place of Vision: 21st annual Winter GrouP exhiBit': work by more than a dozen artists, including featured artist Kerry o. Furlani. Through January 31 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. info, 985-3848. 'Watercolor Gone Wild': works by Vermont watercolor society members who use mixed media, unusual surfaces and nontraditional painting methods. Through January 20 at Davis Center, uVM, in burlington.

'1861-1862: toWard a hiGher Moral PurPose': An exhibition exploring the experiences of norwich university alumni who fought in the Civil war, featuring photographs, artwork, weapons and equipment, including a cannon likely used by norwich cadets. Through April 30 at sullivan Museum & history Center, norwich university, in northfield. info, 485-2183. aMy lee: "nYC 1998 - 2012,” photographs. Through February 2 at Capitol grounds in Montpelier. info, curator@capitolgrounds.com. 'BeGuiled By the Wild: the art of charley harPer': Twenty-three serigraph prints by the artist known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations, presented alongside hands-on art activities and a companion exhibit, cartoonists' take on charley harPer: GraPhic Work froM the center for cartoon studies. Through February 3 at Montshire Museum of science in norwich. info, 649-2200.

'exPressions': bronze and alabaster nests, wall sculptures made from found objects and abstract paintings by blake larsen, Mareva Millarc, pat Musick, polly whitcomb and Johanne Durocher Yordan. Through January 27 at Vermont institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. info, 875-1018. holiday shoW: Member artworks, including small, unframed pieces for holiday gifting. Through January 31 at Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction. info, 295-5901. 'intertWined': innovative fiber works by Marsha Chase, pamela Druhen, elizabeth Fram, Christine Fries, Marilyn gillis, Rae harrell, Karen henderson and eve Jacobs Carnahan. Through March 9 at Festival gallery in waitsfield. info, 496-6682. Jan GhirinGhelli: "seen in Vermont," plein-air oil and pastel paintings from off the beaten path. Through February 3 at Three Mountain Cafe in waitsfield. info, 496-6570. 'liGht & sPace': work by printmakers sabra Field and Dan o’Donnell, fiber artist Karen Madden, and sculptor pat Musick. Through May 10 at The great hall in springfield. info, 885-3061. linda hoGan: "ever Moving ... ever Changing," digital photographs by the Montpelier artist. Through February 25 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness studio in Montpelier. info, 229-4676. Myra hudson: landscape and figure oil paintings by the Royalton artist. Through January 18 at Tunbridge public library. info, 889-9404.

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Patrick Leahy: "The Eye of Senator Leahy," a collection of photographs by the U.S. Senator, who has kept his camera close at hand during his 38 years in office. Through February 28 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. PiPer Strong: "Mastering the Figure Through Time: Steel, Brass and Enamel," painted metal constructions of art-history classics. Through January 31 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 745-8600. 'SurvivaL SouP': Collage, painting and mixedmedia work by Randolph artists Travis Dunning, Matthew Riley and Seth Tracy and White River Junction artist Ben Peberdy. Through March 8 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776. SuSan abbott: "Paris/Provence," still-life and landscape paintings. Through January 18 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, cvmc.org/art-gallery. SuSan buLL riLey: Oil and watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Vermont Thrush Restaurant in Montpelier. Info, 225-6166.

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'the hoLLy & the ivy': A holiday exhibition and sale of art and fine crafts by local and out-of-state artists. Through January 26 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616. theodore kaye: Photographs from central Asia, including landscapes, images from daily life and scenes from buzkashi, a fierce version of polo on horseback. Through January 27 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-0141. 'uSefuL and eLegant accomPLiShmentS': Landscape drawings by 19th-century Norwich University alumni and their contemporaries, many of whom were involved in the Civil War. Through June 30 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183. Ward Joyce: "Human Landscapes," paintings and drawings that explore the forms of the city and the architecture of the human body. Through January 31 at Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center. Info, 728-1237.

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Carolyn ShattuCk: Works created by layering individual monoprint plates over one another to create subtle environments of color, pattern and line. Through April 1 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071. DouglaS kirklanD: Photographic portraits of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, John Lennon and George Clooney. Through February 28 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222.

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EviE lovEtt: "Backstage at the Rainbow Cattle Co.: The Drag Queens of Dummerston, Vt.," Vermont Folklife Center audio interviews paired with photographs from a gay bar on a rural strip of Route 5 just north of Brattleboro. Through February 9 at Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

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e’re accustomed to finding Sean Penn at the scene of a disaster. The thing is, he’s not ordinarily its principal cause. The performance he gives in Gangster Squad, however, is such a creative catastrophe that anyone who buys a ticket should qualify for FEMA relief. January has long served as Hollywood’s dumping ground, a month when movie rejects mingle in the cineplex with award-season royalty. Even by early winter standards, though, the latest from Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) is an embarrassment. Initially scheduled for release last summer, the film was held back because it contained a scene featuring gunfire in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The studio feared the picture might offend, in light of the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo. Months later, with that scene removed, the picture merely offends. It’s The Untouchables for Dummies. Based on a 2008 series of articles Paul Lieberman wrote for the Los Angeles Times and adapted with criminal lameness by rookie screenwriter Will Beall, Gangster Squad is set in 1949 and chronicles the exploits of a special unit of cops assigned the task of

bringing down LA mob boss Mickey Cohen. You know, the way Kevin Costner and co. brought down Chicago kingpin Al Capone in The Untouchables. The copycatting doesn’t stop there: The role of Irish tough guy, played in Brian De Palma’s classic by Sean Connery, is played here by Josh Brolin. His sergeant John O’Mara is the team’s leader. The role of swarthy dead-eye played by Andy Garcia in the earlier film is played here by Michael Peña, no doubt wishing he was back on the beat he walked in last year’s infinitely better End of Watch. The role of brainy nerd previously played by Charles Martin Smith is played by Giovanni Ribisi. This time, the character is an electronics wiz who hits on the idea of bugging the palatial home of their target. I won’t give the plot points away, but suffice it to say the two films share so many that at times Fleischer’s feels almost like a remake. What Gangster Squad has that The Untouchables skipped is a love story. You’re likely to wish Fleischer had skipped it, too. Ryan Gosling plays veteran detective Jerry Wooters. Like just about everybody else in the movie, he’s less a character than an excuse for a period suit, fedora and gleaming road-

BAD DANCER Penn turns in an overthe-top performance as the legendary crime boss.

ster. Wooters appears to be in an exclusive relationship with his gold cigarette lighter, which he brandishes and strokes to the point of comic obsession — until he meets Grace (Emma Stone), Cohen’s moll. She’s all the reason he needs to want the mobster behind bars and sign on with the crew. Raids, shoot-outs and car chases ensue. None of it is remotely new or inventive, and much appears lifted from more accomplished exercises in the genre. Mostly, it’s noisy nonsense punctuated by laughably bad dialogue, hard-boiled banter that Beall cluelessly overcooks. What a colossal waste of talent. I can’t remember the last time a movie with this many tremendously gifted performers turned out as silly and instantly forgettable. Plus, you

know a director is doing something wrong when he makes you wish you didn’t have to look at Emma Stone. Gangster Squad is a movie in which much goes wrong, but nothing goes wronger than Penn’s Mickey Cohen. There’s no mystery or real menace here, just lots of latex and even more yelling. No doubt shooting for the breed of hammy monster that De Niro perfected with his Al Capone, the actor misses by a mile. His character is a cartoon and a bore. And that, along with Fleischer’s derivative direction and Beall’s tone-deaf script, is why a better name for this rip-off of The Untouchables would’ve been The Unwatchables. RICK KISONAK

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have a confession: Until recently, I thought A Haunted House and the upcoming Scary Movie 5 were the same film. But no. Somewhere along the way, Scary Movie star Marlon Wayans and his cowriter, Rick Alvarez, parted ways with the horror spoof franchise. So this year, audiences get two parodies of Paranormal Activity: one with Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan and what appears to be a subplot belatedly mocking Black Swan; the other with Wayans and Essence Atkins mugging their way through the suburban haunting conceit. Unlike the celebrity-cameo-studded Scary Movie 5, A Haunted House sticks to the found-footage, single-setting format and looks almost as low budget and low tech as the original Paranormal Activity. (First-timer Michael Tiddes directed.) The movie is not much different, one would guess, from watching Wayans and his buddies goof off on a Sunday afternoon, doing improvised riffs on the PA movies. But those buddies include David Koechner, Nick Swardson, Andrew Daly and Cedric the Entertainer. And, from time to time, they wring actual laughs from this sorry material. Granted, to appreciate those laughs, you must (a) have seen most of the PA films and (b) actively enjoy the comedy of bad taste.

When Kisha (Atkins) moves in with her boyfriend, Malcolm (Wayans), the first night terrors her presence occasions are ungodly farts. Sexual jealousy and relationship issues were an undercurrent in the first Paranormal Activity, with the demonic entity acting increasingly like the heroine’s spurned exlover as her boyfriend tried to prove it didn’t exist. (Plus, three-quarters of the film took place in a dark bedroom.) In Wayans’ version, the subtext is on the surface. Everyone who enters the haunted house, from Koechner’s racist security expert to Swardson’s gay psychic, makes crude passes at one or both of its inhabitants (a running joke that gets old very fast). As for the entity, well, he isn’t picky. This is the first film I’ve seen that depicts rape perpetrated by a bisexual, weedsmoking ghost, and probably the last. Eddie Murphy made the joke about horror movies and race best back in 1983, talking about Poltergeist: “Why don’t white people just leave the house when there’s a ghost in the house? … Very simple: There’s a ghost in the house, get the fuck out.” In the 30 years since, white people in movies have consistently failed to heed this advice. Wayans gives the joke a little contemporary twist: Once the ghost declares itself,

NOCTURNAL COMMISSIONS Wayans and Atkins display the appropriate response to paranormal activity in this unnecessary spoof.

Malcolm does attempt to get the fuck out, but the housing market is scarier than the supernatural realm. It’s one of several good ideas adrift in a sea of throwaway gags. Horror movies still rely on conventional images of the “perfect” (white, middle-class) suburban lifestyle to generate scares, and those conventions are ripe for satire. There’s potential in characters such as the Spanish-speaking housekeeper (Marlene Forte) who looms into the frame for jump scares, just like “creepy” rednecks and foreigners often do in real horror movies. (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil satirized that scary-redneck trope pretty well, as did The Cabin in the Woods.) But hers stays a one-joke character. So does Cedric the En-

tertainer’s ghetto priest, who arrives as part of a misguided detour into The Exorcist spoof territory. Wayans and Atkins are game for any silly gag, and certainly more likable than the stars of your average found-footage film. The fact that I didn’t look away for more than a few seconds at a time during a two-minute bit in which Wayans feigns having a threesome with his girlfriend’s stuffed animals is surely testament to his talent, or something. And it’s altogether possible that, next to the overblown, shooting-fish-in-a-barrel spoofery of Scary Movie 5, A Haunted House will look like classic comedy. That’s probably the scariest thing about it. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

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DJANGo UNcHAiNEDHHHH Quentin Tarantino goes Southern gothic. Jamie Foxx plays a former slave who sets out to rescue his wife from an evil plantation owner. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz and Kerry Washington. (165 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Welden) GANGStER SQUADH Los Angeles, 1949. A renegade LAPD team goes up against the ruthless mobster who owns the cops in this crime thriller that sounds like a mashup of L.A. Confidential and Young Guns, since it stars flavors-of-the-moment Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone — plus Sean Penn and Nick Nolte. Ruben (Zombieland) Fleischer directed. (113 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Stowe)

A HAUNtED HoUSEHH The makers of Scary Movie are back to their spoofing ways in this horror comedy about a couple who find themselves hounded by spirits, Paranormal Activity style. Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins and Nick Swardson star. Mike Tiddes directed. (86 min, R. Essex, Palace)

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JAcK REAcHERHH1/2 Tom Cruise plays Lee Child’s hard-boiled detective in this adaptation of the novel One Shot, about the search for a deadly sniper. With Richard Jenkins and Rosamund Pike. Christopher (The Way of the Gun) McQuarrie directed. (130 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount) lES miSERABlESHHH Hugh Jackman plays ex-con Jean Valjean in this adaptation of the long-running musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel about politically turbulent France in the 1830s. With Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe and Sacha Baron Cohen. Tom (The King’s Speech) Hooper directed. (158 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy) liFE oF piHHHH Ang Lee directed this adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel about a zookeeper’s son who finds himself adrift in a boat with an assortment of hungry animals. Starring Adil Hussain, Irrfan Khan and Suraj Sharma. (126 min, PG. Majestic [3-D]) liNcolNHHHHH Steven Spielberg directs this look inside Honest Abe’s cabinet during the Civil War, as the president (Daniel Day-Lewis) works to gather the political capital to pass the 13th Amendment. Playwright Tony Kushner scripted. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field. (150 min, PG. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Welden) mAHlER oN tHE coUcH: German filmmakers Felix and Percy Adlon tell the story of the single afternoon the great composer (Johannes Silberschneider) spent airing his marital woes with Sigmund Freud (Karl Markovics) in 1910. (98 min, R. Savoy; ends 1/17) moNStERS, iNc. (3D): The 2001 Pixar animated hit about monsters who generate power for their city by scaring kids returns with a new dimension. With the voices of John Goodman and Billy Crystal. Pete Docter, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich directed. (96 min, G. Majestic, Welden) pARENtAl GUiDANcEHH Billy Crystal plays a grumpy Gramps enlisted to babysit his spoiled grandkids in this comedy, also starring Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei. Andy (The Game Plan) Fickman directed. (100 min, PG. Capitol, Majestic, Marquis, Stowe) pRomiSED lANDHH1/2 A natural-gas salesman (Matt Damon) comes to a rural area to frack and ends up in danger of being fracked — er, fired — when an environmentalist (John Krasinski) opposes his efforts to win over the townspeople. With Frances McDormand and Hal Holbrook. Gus Van Sant directed. (110 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) SilVER liNiNGS plAYBooKHHHH Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence play two people with degrees of mental illness who forge an oddball bond in this dark romantic comedy from director David O. (The Fighter) Russell. With Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver and Chris Tucker. (122 min, R. Capitol, Majestic, Palace, Stowe) SKYFAllHHHH Sam (Revolutionary Road) Mendes directed the latest James Bond adventure, in which the superspy (Daniel Craig) faces a threat to M-16 from within. With Helen McCrory, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes. (143 min, PG-13. Big Picture) NOW PLAYING

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tHE impoSSiBlEHHH The true story of a vacationing family’s ordeal during and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsumani inspired this disaster drama from J.A. (The Orphanage) Bayona. Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland star. (114 min, PG-13. Roxy, Savoy)

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HYDE pARK oN HUDSoN: Presidential film incoming! Bill Murray plays FDR in this drama about an eventful weekend in 1939 when he hosted the British royals — and got up to mischief with his distant cousin (Laura Linney). Roger (Notting Hill) Michell directed. (94 min, R. Roxy, Savoy)

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tHE GUilt tRipHH1/2 Seth Rogen plays an inventor who somehow finds himself bringing his meddling mom (Barbra Streisand) along on a 3000-mile road trip in this comedy. With Adam Scott. Anne (The Proposal) Fletcher directed. (95 min, PG-13. Welden)

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friday 18 — thursday 24 *Broken city Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9. les miserables Fri: 6:15, 9:15. Sat and Sun: 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15. Mon to Thu: 6:15, 9:15. lincoln Fri: 6:10, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:30, 3:20, 6:10, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:10, 9. Silver linings playbook Fri: 6:20, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:40, 3:10, 6:20, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9. Zero Dark Thirty Fri: 6:15, 9:15. Sat and Sun: 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15. Mon to Thu: 6:15, 9:15.

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FAREWELL, MY QUEEN★★★1/2 One of Marie Antoinette’s servants fears for her beloved mistress as the French Revolution heats up in this costume drama from director Benoît Jacquot. With Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux and Virginie Ledoyen. (97 min, NR)

THIS IS 40★★★ Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprise their Knocked Up roles as a suburban couple with two kids, now facing the big four-oh, in this comedy from writer-director Judd Apatow. With Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, Jason Segel, Megan Fox, Lena Dunham, Apatow’s daughters and virtually everyone else he likes to work with. (134 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

THE POSSESSION★★1/2 A family makes the classic mistake of bringing a haunted box into their home in this horror flick. Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis, Madison Davenport and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star. Ole Bornedal directed. (93 min, PG-13)

ZERO DARK THIRTY★★★1/2 The team behind The Hurt Locker (director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal) bring us this controversial fact-based drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton and Chris Pratt star. (157 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe)

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A San Francisco writer named Maneesh Sethi decided he was wasting too much time on the internet. His productivity was suffering. So he hired a woman to sit next to him as he worked and yell at him or slap his face every time his attention wandered off in the direction of Facebook or a funny video. It worked. He got a lot more done. While I would like to see you try some inventive approaches to pumping up your own efficiency, Capricorn, I don’t necessarily endorse Sethi’s rather gimmicky technique. Start brainstorming about some interesting yet practical new ways to enhance your self-discipline, please.

novel idea or a crucial new lesson while you are tipsy or outright blitzed, you will probably forget it when you sober up. and it will remain forgotten as long as you abstain. but there’s a good chance you will recall the vanished information the next time you get loopy. i’m telling you this, taurus, because even if you haven’t been inebriated lately, you have definitely been in an altered and expanded state of consciousness. i’m afraid that when you come back down to earth in a few days, you might lose some of the luminous insights you’ve been adding to your repertoire. is there anything you can do to ensure you will retain these treasures? it would be a shame to lose track of them until the next time your mind gets thoroughly blown open.

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(May 21-June 20): studying the movements of the planets is my main way of discerning the hidden currents of fate. i sometimes supplement my investigations by reading tarot cards and the Chinese “book of Changes,” also known as the I Ching. to arrive at your horoscope this week, i used all of the above as well as the following forms of prognostication: catoptromancy, which is divination by gazing into a mirror underwater; cyclomancy, or divination by watching a wheel that’s turning; geloscopy, divination by listening to random laughter; and margaritomancy, divination by observing bouncing pearls. Here’s what i found, gemini: you now have the power to discern previously unfathomable patterns in a puzzling mystery you’ve been monitoring. you also have the ability to correctly surmise the covert agendas of allies and adversaries alike. Maybe best of all, you can discover certain secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself.

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even more resourceful than you already are. by this time next week, you will have figured out alternative solutions that you haven’t even imagined yet.

(July 23-aug. 22): My readers Paul and sophie wrote to let me know they have patched together three latin words to invent a term for a new concept: vomfiabone. They say it means “a curse that becomes a blessing.” Here’s an example of the phenomenon at work in their lives: While driving home from work together, they experienced car trouble and had to pull over to the shoulder of the road, where they called a tow truck. later they discovered that this annoying delay prevented them from getting caught in the middle of an accident just up ahead. extrapolating from the current astrological omens, i’m guessing that you will experience at least one vomfiabone in the coming week, leo.

sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We need new friends,” said essayist logan Pearsall smith. “some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.” smith could have been talking about you sagittarians in early 2013. according to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you need some fresh alliances. Their influence will activate certain potentials that you haven’t been able to access or fully express with the help of your current circle.

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next five months you will be obliged to carry more responsibility than you have in the past. you will find it hard to get away with being lazy or careless. i suspect that during this time you will also have the privilege of wielding more influence. The effect you have on people will be more pronounced and enduring. in short, Virgo, your workload will be greater than usual — and so will your rewards. to the degree that you serve the greater good, you will be a major player. as for next few weeks, you should concentrate on the work and service and responsibility part of this equation.

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(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “ronnyjohnson618” is a guy who posts his opinions on a wide variety of youtube videos. Many times, he claims to be an expert in the field he’s commenting on. responding to a live music performance, he says he’s a conductor for an orchestra. offering his opinion about a mimosa plant, he asserts that he is a botanist. beneath other youtube videos, he declares he is a meteorologist, chemist, psychologist, soldier, and geometry teacher. i love this guy’s blithe swagger; i’m entertained by the brazen fun he’s having. as you express yourself in the coming week, i recommend that you borrow some of his over-the-top audacity. Create a mythic persona. imagine your life as an epic story. Play the part of a hero.

liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): Do you know what

a “binky” is? it’s what a rabbit does when it gets so crazily happy that it exuberantly leaps up into the air, stretching and twisting its body as it flicks and flops its feet. i’m not sure if lexicographers would allow us to apply this term to humans. but assuming they might, i’m going to predict that you’ll soon be having some binky-inducing experiences. you’re entering the Joy and Pleasure season, libra — a time when abundant levels of fun and wellbeing might be quite normal.

Pisces

(Feb. 19-March 20): The earliest performance artist on record was the ancient greek philosopher Diogenes of sinope. in one of his notorious stunts, he wandered around athens with a lit lantern during the daytime, claiming to be looking for an authentic human being. i recommend that you undertake a similar search in the coming days, Pisces. you don’t have to be as theatrical about it. in fact, it might be better to be quite discrete. but i think it’s important for you to locate and interact with people who are living their lives to the fullest — devoted to their brightest dreams, committed to their highest values and sworn to express their highest integrity.

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(June 21-July 22): “to be reborn is a constantly recurring human need,” said drama critic Henry Hewes. i agree. We all need to periodically reinvent ourselves — to allow the old ways to die so that we can resurrect ourselves in unforeseen new forms. according to my analysis, Cancerian, your next scheduled rebirth is drawing near. For best results, don’t cling to the past; don’t imitate what has always worked before. instead, have faith that surrendering to the future will bring you the exact transformation you need.

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Sophie Laboissonniere, 21, pleaded guilty to rioting after the Vancouver Canucks lost the National Hockey League finals in June 2011. Shortly before the rioting, Laboissonniere, who was one of the first suspects charged, took part in a Vancouver beauty pageant and was named Miss Congeniality. (Associated Press) Americans prefer root canals, colonoscopies, France and NFL replacement refs to Congress, according to a Public Policy Polling survey that showed only 9 percent of respondents had a favorable opinion of Congress. Eighty-five percent held an unfavorable view. “We all know Congress is unpopular,” PPP president Dean Debnam said. “But the fact that voters like it even less than cockroaches, lice and Genghis Khan really shows how far its esteem has fallen with the American public.” Despite its poor showing, Congress outranked North Korea, the Kardashian family and former Sen. John Edwards. (The Washington Times)

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New York City police accused Dominick Anderson, 27, of brutally beating his grandmother and sister with an artificial elephant tusk. He then used the 18-inch tusk to strike one of the six officers he injured while they tried to arrest him. Police said Anderson attacked the women because he believed they put him under a voodoo spell. (New York’s Daily News)

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Victor Cingolani, who is serving 13 years in an Argentine prison for the murder of Johana Casas, announced plans to marry the victim’s twin sister, Edith Casas, 22. Cingolani denied killing Johana, a model with whom he had a relationship, and said his relationship with her was “casual” but that he is genuinely “in love” with Edith. She maintains that Cingolani was unjustly convicted, but the twins’ mother, Marcelina del Carmen Orellana, declared her daughter is “psychologically ill.” (BBC News)

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I recently had a friend tell me that she was dating a guy who frowned upon her masturbating in bed, and I’ll tell you what I told her: You deserve to orgasm. Always. By any means necessary. And your boyfriend needs to get on board. The bedroom is no place for ego, and he needs to check his at the door. Denying you an orgasm because he feels a little threatened by a vibrator is just plain ridiculous. How you orgasm has nothing to do with his masculinity or self worth — your orgasm is actually about you, not him. It’s time to have a chat with your guy about tag-teaming in the vibrator. Start by telling him how much he turns you on and how much you love having sex with him. Acknowledge that it’s frustrating for both of you when you don’t come and that you think it would be fun and intimate to try the vibrator. Assure him that using a sex toy together can be incredibly erotic, and ask him to give it a try. If he’s a good guy who genuinely cares about your satisfaction, he’ll put his machismo aside and run to the store for a pack of AA batteries.

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01.16.13-01.23.13

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Ingredients

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