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THE LAST YEAR IN REVIEW COMPILED BY JEFF GOOD & TYLER MACHADO

TOP BLOG POSTS OF 2013

facing facts LONG FLIGHT

We mentioned the F-35 debate in this space a year ago.

The decision’s since been made — the planes are coming — but the story’s still not over.

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Live Culture: “An Interview with Phish’s Mike Gordon” by Paul Heintz. The Phab Phour’s bassist talks

Both Vice and the Weekly Standard have recently written about heroin problems in the Green Mountains.

You won’t see that in Vermont Life.

about how Vermont influenced Phish’s music and being on tour after 30 years.

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Bite Club: “Heady Topper Runs Out At The Emmy Awards” by Corin Hirsch. Vermont’s most beloved canned brew made it to the Emmy Awards, where even Neil Patrick Harris couldn’t get enough.

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Vermont’s DIY health care exchange got off to a rough start. The good news: Its signup rate is better than those in states using the federal solution.

Live Culture: “Dancing With Justin Timberlake: A Vermonter’s Dream Comes True” by Pamela Polston.

Vermont’s own Lindsay Richardson shared the stage with pop megastar Justin Timberlake at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards.

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SLOW RECOVERY

Live Culture: “R.I.P., Vermont Musician Mike Deutsch” by Dan Bolles. A fixture in the Burlington music

scene, Mike “Meistah” Deutsch died unexpectedly in June at age 41.

This year the Alchemist’s Heady Topper was at the Emmys, on Craigslist, at the top of craft beer rankings — everywhere but in your refrigerator.

See how much time and money you can save with your personal PATHe by calling 1-866-637-0085 or visiting our website at champlain.edu/pathe.

2. “Inside Vermont’s Asian Sex Market” by Ken Picard. This exposé of Chittenden County massage parlors found three fronts for prostitution.

3. “The Truth About Large Labia” by Mistress Maeve. This February response to a reader question is now one of Google’s top hits when you search “large labia.”

4. “How Do I Get Rid of My Gag Reflex?” by Mistress Maeve. A reader asks for advice on how to perform better oral sex.

5. “Tougher Child-Porn Law Would Make Viewing It a Crime” by Ken Picard. Vermont tries to close a loophole that allowed some child-porn suspects to escape prosecution.

6. “XXXtra, XXXtra: The 2013 Sex Survey” by Seven Days Staff. Vermonters share their raunchiest bedroom secrets.

7. “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Vermont: Finding Religion in the Most Godless State” by Seven Days Staff.

Vermont has a secular rep, but don’t discount the state’s diverse religious practitioners.

8. “Vermont Police Take Hands-Off Approach to Investigating Massage-Parlor Prostitution” by Ken Picard. Even when they knew about prostitution allegations in some local massage parlors, Vermont cops weren’t sure how to respond.

9. “Thirty-Six Hours in Newport, a City Waiting to Happen” by Corin Hirsch and Megan James. Up in the Northeast Kingdom, Newport wants to be Vermont’s next destination.

10. “What Parents Don’t Know About Vermont Childcare Could Hurt Their Kids”

by Ken Picard. It’s not easy for parents to find out about childcare center violations.

“I’m saving a year with Champlain’s online PATHe program.”

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1. “Thirty Years Later, Phish Are Still in the Groove” by Paul Heintz. How Burlington’s most famous musical export are staying fresh, three decades after they convened at UVM.

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Damn, Yankee.

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t’s the end of the year, which means list season here in Newspaper Land. Time to see what you the readers read, clicked on, pinned and tweeted the most this year.

Over in the far right column, in the usual Top Five slot, you’ll find the most popular articles that appeared in print first. The results: one epic story about Phish at the top, then four stories/columns about porn, prostitution and sex. Subtle.

Another Phish story takes the top spot in the list of our most popular online-exclusive blog posts, right. Interestingly, the list consists entirely of posts from our arts and culture blog, Live Culture, and our food and drink blog, Bite Club. But Off Message, the news and politics blog, got the most hits in total.

Have a happy new year, and we’ll see you in 2014 — in print and on the web.

Live Culture: “The Snobbiest Town in Vermont”

by Megan James. A website called NoseUp Vermont pitted the state’s towns against each other in a “snobbery” bracket.

The eventual winner (?): Stowe.

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Gov. Shumlin’s prolific fundraising is definitely “Fair Game” for Paul Heintz’s persistent, probing coverage [December 4]. Sadly, seasoned political observers are not likely to be shocked by revelations that Shumlin is dialing for dollars with the election still so far away. No big surprise, either, that his campaign cash calls went out to numerous real estate and energy executives who have profited personally from his administration’s decisions.

Heintz does not allege a formal quid pro quo, but he effectively highlights the potential for unseemliness and unfairness in a system obsessed with raising money from wealthy donors and corporations. Supper with Shummy reportedly cost upward of $1000 per plate — more than many Vermont families can spend on food in a month. Even the most virtuous politicians would have a hard time avoiding undue influence (conscious or subconscious) by those who pay big money for private audiences (full disclosure, I donated $100 to Shumlin’s last campaign).

We have to fix this broken system. Shumlin has no credible opponent on the horizon, plenty of campaign cash already in the bank and a large personal fortune. He can afford to spend less time calling campaign donors and more time joining the Vermonters who, on Town Meeting Day 2012, called for

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Rich Tarrant and Jack McMullen have helped Vermonters prove that their votes cannot be bought by the biggest spenders. Shumlin should take greater care in proving to Vermonters that his decisions cannot be bought, either.

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Two weeks ago you published that “no opponents have emerged to challenge” Gov. Peter Shumlin [Fair Game, December 4]. Allow me to emerge. I have requested that Seven Days allow my platform to emerge for the last two elections. I even filed an emergency injunction in court to be free to defend it in debates.

Last cycle I came repeatedly to Seven Days. Why? My candidacy challenges corporate political practice and leads us to a balanced economy and healthier communities with greater personal freedom from debt. My perma-farm policy is especially important to vet. But Seven Days has a gag order on my platform and candidacy. In fact, you published not a single word during the 2012 election season, with the ridiculous exception of suggesting I won a fashion poll.

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[Re “In the Wake of Arson, the Congregational Church Reaches Back for Its Future,” November 27]: I’m not religious, but I feel the power of ritual and know the profound art and architecture it can engender. Ritual provokes works that cross cultures and exceed the boundaries of time. So I was shocked and sick at heart when the noble 150-year-old steeple of the

Because of the care and attention of the demolition, I was lulled into believing that the spire would immediately be reconstructed — built anew. Last week, the repairs had been completed, and in record time. They’d put a hat on top of the tower. Where the spire had been was a practical, low, chubby rooftop, effectively crushing the entire thrust of the church, rendering it ordinary, mute, its valiant attempt to reach toward God derailed.

But the story isn’t over. It’s a temporary fix. Ann Vivian, the architect responsible for the church’s renovation several years ago, tells me that plans are to recreate the steeple to look just as it did. But first construction must be brought up to 21st-century code. The insurance needs to be worked out, and the water damage must be addressed — the main body of the church is not usable.

Even the arsonist knew it was beautiful: As he was being led away by the police, he asked if he could just turn around and watch the fire.

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Even when charred, black and skeletal, it retained its beauty; you could see the fine proportions even more clearly than when it had been whole: steeple, spire, pointer, priapus, seeking the sky.

Work began almost immediately after the fire: streets cordoned off, chain-link fences erected, genie lifts and equipment brought to what had quickly become a construction site. Workers carefully dismantled the steeple, section by section. One day, I saw a man sit in his pickup snapping pictures as a particularly beautiful piece was gently lowered to the ground, chronicling this sad event.

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All Together Now ˜ e performers at the Young Tradition Reunion may be young in age, but they are most assuredly old souls. Former members of the local music and dance organization reunite to pay tribute to their artistic roots. Taking the stage, Hana Zara, Jeh Kulu Jr. and others present a varied program that reflects their diverse professional pursuits.

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Who says humans have all the fun? Certainly not the costumed canines that accompany their people at the annual Dog Parade. Led by Sugarbush Resort president Win Smith, his wife Lili Ruane and their pooches, folks and their four-legged companions hit the mountain for an afternoon of wags and barks benefitting PAWSitive Pantry.

Local psychotherapist and author Polly YoungEisendrath entered her professions by way of Buddhism and Jungian analysis, to which she was introduced in 1971. She incorporates these elements into a consideration of the female psyche in “What Women Want” as part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series.

Nothing says winter in Vermont like getting outside to appreciate snow-covered landscapes. Nestled in the heart of the Northeast Kingdom, the Kingdom Trails Nordic Center boasts some of the state’s most expansive terrain. On the Moonlight Ski and Snowshoe, folks take advantage of trails illuminated by torches, then warm up with hot cocoa around a bonfire.

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In 2012, real estate developer Ernie Pomerleau selected artist Gisela Alpert to create a sculpture for an art park at his new Milton shopping plaza.

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or a nonelection year, 2013 offered plenty of news to keep your local political columnist employed.

We’ll go ahead and chalk that up as a victory.

To be sure, the biggest news in Vermont this year involved nuclear power plants, fighter jets and not-terribly-functional IT systems.

But there were plenty of other little stories that captivated us — for at least five seconds. Remember the state plane saga?

Potted plant-gate? The gubernatorial sixpointer? Gucci beer?

Doubtful — and that’s probably for the best. If you walk away from 2013 with at least a faint memory of the following top-10 political stories of the year, you’re doing OK. Here they are in loose chronological order:

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When he took the podium in January to deliver his inaugural and budget addresses, Shumlin fired a shot across the bow at the liberal legislators in the audience.

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Employing Reagan-esque language, Shummy vowed to fight the welfare state. Specifically, he proposed capping payments to those eligible for Reach Up — Vermont’s version of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program — and shifting $17 million from the Earned Income Tax Credit to childcare subsidies.

Lefties balked at the proposals. And pretty much everyone in the Statehouse laughed at another Shumlin plan to fund $17 million worth of energy priorities by taxing break-open tickets sold at service clubs, such as the local VFW. While the legislature eviscerated Shumlin’s original proposals, the governor got the last laugh.

REMEMBER THE STATE PLANE SAGA? POTTED PLANT-GATE?

THE GUBERNATORIAL SIX-POINTER? GUCCI BEER? DOUBTFUL — AND THAT’S PROBABLY FOR THE BEST. A months-long standoff with the House and Senate over whether to tax everything from income to soda to satellite TV ended when Shumlin prevailed and forestalled any new “broad-based” taxes.

Oh, except those hitting gasoline and property. No big deal.

When legislators attempted a lastminute tax reform that would have cut taxes for 72 percent of Vermonters and raised them for 5 percent, Shumlin objected. Calling it an “on-the-fly” scheme to raise taxes, he stared down House Speaker SHAP SMITH (D-Morristown) and Senate President JOHN CAMPBELL (D-Windsor) and killed the plan.

Breaking the Logjam

To placate an unhappy Senate Democratic caucus and hold on to his job as pro tem, Campbell promised in January to fast-track several pieces of socially liberal legislation that had been stuck in committee for years.

It worked. Campbell defeated his challengers and earned accolades for allowing the majority view of his caucus to prevail over powerful committee chiefs, such as the socially conservative Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, DICK SEARS. By the time the legislature adjourned in May, liberals scored three major victories.

They decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, granted driver’s

licenses to noncitizens and permitted doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill patients.

Shumlin, who supported all three proposals, happily signed them into law.

Dodging Trouble

Fresh off a solid finish to the legislative session, Shumlin found himself playing defense in May when an aggrieved neighbor claimed he’d been ripped off by the gov.

Faced with a looming tax sale the previous fall, a destitute ex-con named JEREMY DODGE had agreed to sell his 16-acre, East Montpelier homestead to Shumlin for $58,000. The property was assessed at $233,700 at the time, though a subsequent reassessment requested by Shumlin cut that figure to $140,000.

His eviction date on the horizon, Dodge told reporters he’d come to regret the deal he’d cut with the governor and without his own lawyer. While critics questioned whether Shumlin took advantage of man with an eighth-grade education, the governor said he was just trying to help a neighbor in “terrible straits.”

The controversy dogged Shumlin throughout the slow summer months, until he and Dodge struck a new deal to reverse the sale and return the property to Dodge.

Chairman’s Choice

Political prognosticators scratched their heads last December when Leahy turned down a chance to replace the late senator DANIEL INOUYE (D-Hawaii) as chairman of the seemingly all-powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. Instead, the newly minted senate president pro tem stayed put at the top of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

With the benefit of hindsight, the chairman’s choice makes all the sense in the world.

In a post-earmark world of austerity, sequestration and shutdowns, Approps ain’t what it used to be. In 2013, Judiciary was where the action was.

After a protracted fight, Leahy succeeded in reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. And he presided over major committee battles over gun laws and immigration reform — two of President Obama’s top priorities. Even Leahy’s longignored surveillance reforms took center stage following ex-NSA contractor EDWARD SNOWDEN’s infamous leaks.

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Two major national labor unions teamed up in Vermont last winter to fight for collective bargaining rights for independent homecare workers who contract with the state.

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When they won that battle, the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees faced off against one another to represent the new, 7000-member union.

Throughout the summer, the SEIU tried to convince home-care workers it had more national experience representing their interests. AFSCME, which already represented more than 2000 municipal workers in Vermont, portrayed itself as the local choice.

At the end of July, the SEIU unexpectedly dropped out of the race, calling theirs an uphill battle. Two months later, AFSCME formally won the right to represent the largest collective bargaining unit in the state.

As VHC’s problems came to light throughout the fall, Shumlin kept changing his mind about how serious they were and when he first knew about them. First he claimed that the paymentprocessing malfunction was a “nothing-burger.” Then he apologized profusely for his administration’s missteps and insisted he didn’t know anything was wrong until after Labor Day. Then he claimed he had been warning the public about it since July.

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The debate over whether to base a squadron of F-35 fighter jets in Vermont reached fever pitch this year.

A well-organized and press-savvy opposition kept the pressure on local and state officials alike. But business leaders, statewide pols and members of the Vermont National Guard fought back.

In the end, it’s unclear how much all the local sound and fury mattered.

Hundreds of miles away, Air Force planners decided to send 18 of the planes to Burlington International Airport, starting in 2020. Leahy, Shumlin, Weinberger and Adj. Gen. Steve cray announced the news at a raucous, Guard-only event December 3 in a Vermont Air National Guard hangar.

Despite the decision, F-35 opponents say they’ll fight on — and plan to sue the Air Force. So you might see this one on next year’s top-10 list, too.

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Like most states, Vermont struggled to launch its federally mandated health insurance exchange on October 1. But unlike other states, Vermont required those working for businesses with fewer than 50 employees to use it.

When many consumers and business owners found themselves unable to navigate Vermont Health Connect, Shumlin pledged to quickly fix the online marketplace. But with problems still plaguing the site in early November, Shumlin moved to allow business owners to bypass the exchange or delay enrolling until the end of March. By December, the system still couldn’t bill small-business employees who successfully enrolled through the site, so Shumlin delayed their coverage, too.

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Shumlin’s saving grace this year came in the form of a broke, tone-deaf and feuding Vermont Republican Party.

Throughout 2013, Lt. Gov. PhiL Scott openly battled with Vermont GOP chairman Jack LinDLey over control of the party.

Scott accused Lindley of alienating independents by echoing the rhetoric of the national party, while Lindley said the lite gov was attempting a power grab.

In September, as Scott courted candidates to run against Lindley, the party chairman suffered a serious but unspecified medical event that hospitalized him for more than a month. That didn’t stop former U.S. Senate candidate John MacGovern, nor Scott ally DaviD SunDerLanD, from challenging Lindley for his job.

Just days before November 9 party elections, Lindley dropped out and endorsed MacGovern. But by a 48-30 vote, Sunderland won, handing control over the party to Scott.

A month later, the lite gov pulled off a highly successful fundraiser featuring New Jersey Gov. chriS chriStie — a hopeful sign for the pitiable party. But will any toptier Republicans step up next November to challenge the state’s top Democratic incumbents?

So far, it ain’t lookin’ good.

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On August 14, Entergy Corp. prevailed over the State of Vermont in its long-running bid to continue operating Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. A federal appellate court agreed with Entergy that state legislators had overstepped their bounds in February 2010 when they cited nuclear safety as a reason to withhold an operating license from the plant.

But just two weeks after the ruling, Entergy announced it would close down Yankee anyway, at the end of 2014.

“The plant was no longer financially viable,” Entergy chairman Leo DenauLt told Bloomberg, citing low natural-gas prices and high operational costs.

The decision was a huge victory for Vermont’s antinuclear activists and a crushing blow to the plant’s 630 workers — not to mention the town of Vernon.

Plenty of questions remain, including: when Entergy will complete decommissioning the plant, how the company will pay for it and what will become of the spent fuel rods stored on-site. High-level meetings between Entergy officials, the Shumlin administration and Attorney General BiLL SorreLL were ongoing when Seven Days went to press.

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ost of the big news stories of 2013 are still getting ink —˛and pixels: The F-35 fight ain’t over yet —˛or so say opponents. Victims of serial killer Israel Keyes continue to turn up . O˝ cials are working on the multimillion-dollar details of Vermont Yankee’s shutdown. And the business manager of Seven Days is still waiting for a call back about medical insur ance from the IT department at Vermont Health Connect.

You’ve read all about it.

But in the spirit of “ alternative” journalism, our r eporters are always on the lookout f or s tories that no other media outlet is r eporting. Why are some Asian massage places open at all hours of the night —˛ even in f ar-f lung corners of Vermont? Ken Picard conducted a simple in vestigation and turned up glaring e vidence of human tr af f icking and uncaring cops in our own backyard.

Also from the police blotter: O˝ cers in Winooski and Burlington opened fire on

CHILDCARE

State to Release New Rules for Childcare Providers — One Year Later Than Promised In June 2012, a 3-year-old boy attending the Ed-U-Care Children’s Center in Essex Junction walked off the premises and into heavy traffi traffic on Susie Wilson Road. Luckily, a passing motorist pulled him out of harm’s way. A subsequent investigation by Vermont’s Child Development Division found that daycare staffers never alerted authorities that the boy had gone missing, as required by law. ° e state cited the center, but allowed it Th to remain open — and —˛and licensed.

Information about such serious incidents is supposed to be available to parents and other caretakers.

However, as Seven Days and its VT, discovparenting publication, Kids VT ered, it’s diffi difficult for potential clients to review a daycare center’s regulatory history — even when egregious and potentially life-threatening violations have occurred there repeatedly.

State law requires that every regulated daycare provider be inspected at least once a year. But CDD offi officials acknowledged that they don’t have the resources for annual visits, making it virtually impossible to identify violations or patterns of abuse. Some facilities, especially home-based programs, can open for business and operate for years without a state regulator ever setting foot inside. Th ° e same offi officials admitted that Vermont’s chronic childcare shortage puts pressure on them to keep as many places open as possible — with potentially tragic consequences.

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suspects, with results that ranged from alarming to tragic; and a pissed-o° artist succeeded in shaming the Shelburne 5-0.

Some Seven Days stories played out in the political realm, as lawmakers gave terminal patients the right to seek a doctor’s help to die; o˝ cials kicked hate groups out of the state employee charitable pool; and Champlain Valley superintendents heard loud and clear that parents want school out for summer.

Other stories sprang up from the grass roots, as volunteers launched a farm to make goat meat available to the newest group of Americans; entrepreneurs built a wind-powered barge to bring Vermont farm products to the Big A pple; and residents of Jericho and Underhill tried to resolve their feud over what to do with a sweet gift of land.

None of these dr amas ended the da y you read about them. To that point, Seven Days reporters followed up with their sour ces to get the lates t on everything from state daycare regulations and Burlington’s bike lock registry to leaderless Goddard College. What they found is nothing short of … well, read on.

UPDATE: CDD Deputy DeputyCommisCommissioner Reeva Murphy told Seven Days and Kids VT last January that new rules rulesgo governing verning daycare providers were due toto be released “in the ne next xt ffew ew months.” That process appears to be atatleas leastt a yyear ear behind schedule.

Murphy now reports that a new set ofofpr proposed oposed regulations governing aafter-school f ter-school programs is being fi finalized for review by an inter interagency agency committee in January.

A second set egs setofofr regs governing licensed daycare centers, and a third for regulated in-home daycare providers, are scheduled ffor or the the same committee’s review in FFebruary. ebruary.

Only after those folks sign o° off on the theprprooposed rules will willthey they be published online and available ffor or public public comment. None of them is likely to tak takee e° effect bef before ore January 2015.

Why the dela delay? y?

According to Murphy, the process proved more timecumbersome consuming and cumbersome than initially expected.

More troubling: The new rules adequatelyaddr address may not adequately ess the

concerns raised in theJanuary 30 cover story. Murphy claimed the s tate’s online portal that f acilitates r esearching a daycare provider’s regulatory history will soon be more comprehensive and user-friendly, with violations outlined in greater detail.

But some daycare providers are lobbying to limit the length of time violations remain public. Under one proposal, if a program goes five years without a significant violation, the provider could petition the state to have its violation history erased from view.

“I’d like to get more family input on that,” Murphy said.

There is some good news to report. Murphy noted that CDD has since incr eased its s taf f of licensing f ield specialists f rom seven to nine , thus allo wing the state to conduct mor e inspections. The goal is still to visit e very regulated daycare program in the state at least once, preferably twice, a year.

Governor Peter Shumlin has also made passage of a univ ersal pre-K bill a high priority f or the 2014 legislative session. I f and when that bill passes, Murphy said, it will lik ely include financial incentives f or da ycare programs to conduct mor e staf f training and of f er tuition r eimbursements f or families. As a result, she said, “There will be a lot of pressure to improve quality.”

Ed-U-Care is no w under new management and has since changed its name to R each For The Stars.

In November, the s tate notif ied F eels Like Home Play School, which the s tory also called out for r epeated and serious violations, that it no longer had a license to operate. It promptly shut down.

A third daycare center in Esse x Junction, Kangaroo Corner, which w as cited f or 1 6 violations in 2013 alone , closed une xpectedly in early December, leaving about 40 f amilies without any daycare.

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Nothing High-Speed About Campaign to Transform Troubled Burlington Telecom Almost a year ago, a group of Burlingtonians had the idea of forming a cooperative that would purchase the Queen City’s beleaguered municipal telecom to keep it from being sold off to some out-of-state entity.

Organizers of Keep BT Local tried to recruit members at City Market, a shining example of a successful co-op they imagined could serve as a model for their own venture. It would be a for-profit enterprise managed by qualified professionals, explained Alan Matson, a local financial consultant who has donated time and money to the initiative.

Co-op proponents argued that Burlington Telecom has a world-class fiber-optic network that can be an enormous asset to city residents and businesses — as long as key decisions are made locally.

In the way, however, are some formidable obstacles. Matson estimated that the co-op would need to raise at least $10 million to be considered a serious suitor for BT. About half that sum could take the form of traditional financing from banks, with the rest to consist of $1 million in member pledges and $4 million in private loans from wealthy co-op backers, Matson suggested. he knew it would be tough to convince potential investors to buy into what amounts to a bankrupt business. BT lacks the means to pay back Burlington taxpayers the $16.9 million it borrowed without authorization from the city’s cash pool. CitiCapital is meanwhile suing BT with the aim of either repossessing the telecom infrastructure or recouping the $33.5 million that it loaned the utility to lease and install the system.

The co-op’s founders set a goal of collecting a total of $250,000 in pledges from 1000 members by last valentine’s day.

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UPDaTE: Ten months later, Keep BT Local is halfway to its goal. As of last week, it had received $127,800 in pledges from 448 members, according to its website.

“We’re not stopped, but it’s been really slow,” Matson said in a recent interview. “It’s difficult for any outside party to push forward with finding financing when we don’t know how the litigation will turn out.”

Even the most venturesome capitalists pause at the prospect of buying into an operation that could have its entire infrastructure stripped away as part of a legal battle. No one is going to make a deal for BT until that uncertainty is resolved.

Early last year, it looked as though Burlington and CitiCapital might reach an out-of-court settlement. Negotiations foundered, however, and the two sides now appear headed for a showdown in federal court starting in March.

By then, the Keep BT Local campaign may be all but forgotten — even by some Burlingtonians inclined to support it. “There’s going to be a point where we’ll need to rebuild momentum,” Matson conceded. But, like BT, the co-op doesn’t have sufficient resources to fund a marketing campaign to sell itself.

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State Reins in Motel Stays for Homeless, but Demand and Cost Remain High With an eye on the budget, lawmakers last winter began questioning a controversial and costly practice in Vermont: housing homeless individuals and families in motels when shelters are full.

In fiscal year 2012, the state paid for more than 38,000 overnight stays in Vermont hotels at a cost of $2.2 million, a 55 percent increase over the previous year. By January, some officials estimated spending would reach $4 million by the end of the fiscal year.

Seven Days published the first-ever report on per-motel spending in January. Just which motels were benefiting most from this state program? Topping the list of moneymakers were the Ho-Hum motels on Williston and Shelburne roads in South Burlington; the two roadside motels received a combined $211,842 for housing the homeless in 2012.

Cost wasn’t the only concern about the program.

Homeless individuals complained about the conditions in which they were housed. Many motel rooms didn’t have a place to prepare or store food. Some motels barred the state-funded guests from using amenities such as the pool or continental breakfast. The message, 28-year-old mother Ashley Sawyer told Seven Days, was: “‘You’re not even worthy of eating our stale doughnuts.’”

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Upda te: The s tate racked up a $ 4.2 million motel bill in fiscal year 2013. Last spring, legislators task ed the Vermont Agency of Human Services with slashing that number, allocating just $1.5 million for fiscal year 2014.

AHS officials came up with new eligibility rules that they said would keep costs in check, but advocates for the homeless balked at a new points-based system they said would leave too many vulnerable Vermonters out in the cold.

AHS subsequently dialed back the rules , which took effect in August. Under the r evised system, motel vouchers are available when shelters are full; in catastrophic situations such as a fire or domestic violence; and f or individuals o ver 65, pregnant women in their third trimester, families with children under the age of 6 and f or disabled individuals r eceiving Supplemental Security Income benefits. Others can

qualify for a motel if they tally enough points through the new eligibility rules.

Stay lengths have been shortened.

Between August and the end of N ovember, state officials received 3865 applications for motel vouchers and granted housing for 53 percent of them.

Will those new rules keep motel spending in check?

Not to the extent that the legislature hoped. Department of Children and F amilies Deputy Commissioner Richard Giddings sa ys the economic -services division is on track to spend almost exactly as much as last year.

But Giddings says that without the new rules, spending would have come in even higher — around $6 million.

Giddings says the increase is due in part to the rising costs of motel rooms, and because the state is serving more individuals than at the same time last year. “There are more Vermonters that need mor e assistance,” says Giddings. The s tate has los t between 750 and 800 Section 8 housing v ouchers over the las t year due to the federal sequestration spending cuts. People living at the edges of homelessness ar e that much closer to the brink.

“We are here to help e very Vermonter,” says Giddings. “At the same time , yes, the legislatur e and taxpayers want us to adminis ter this program as efficiently as we can.”

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Compromise Law on License-Plate Info Leaves Both Sides Happy Enough Privacy advocates sounded the alarm when they learned that more than 30 Vermont lawenforcement agencies had obtained and were actively using portable automatic license-plate readers. By scanning thousands of plates per hour, the machines allow police to pinpoint the location of vehicles to see if their occupants have outstanding arrest warrants.

Information captured by the ALPRs goes into massive databases available to state and federal authorities. Police said the databases are invaluable tools for catching criminals and finding missing people. But the American Civil Liberties Union and some lawmakers expressed concern about the potential for misuse — as instruments to track and monitor innocent citizens, with little regulation. Police had been storing all information gathered by the readers for up to four years, even if it wasn’t part of a criminal investigation.

When Seven Days filed public records requests for information related to the license plates of two reporters, Vermont State Police refused to turn over the information.

“We could have cameras controlled by the state police looking at every single person’s front door in the state of Vermont, and that would go a long way towards public safety and catching criminals,” said State Sen. Tim Ashe, one of the lawmakers who sponsored a bill requiring police to purge license-plate data after six months. “But the public would obviously think that’s an invasion of their lives and privacy.”

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UPDATE : A bill placing limitations on use of the licenseplate data passed both chambers and was signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin. But the sausage -making

process left everyone with a bit less than they wanted.

The law requires police to delete the inf ormation after 18 months. The ACLU had hoped to limit the r etention to 30 days, executive director Allen Gilbert said.

“We were happy and not so happy. We were happy that the legislature agreed for the first time to r egulate data collection. What we weren’t happy with was the amount of time the la w gives police to retain the data,” Gilbert said.

Public S af ety Commissioner K eith Flynn, who had initially pr oposed a two-year retention period, pronounced the law “fair.” Meanwhile, license-plate readers have become more entrenched as a standard law-enf orcement tool in V ermont: Police deployed them along several border areas when alleged Boston Marathon bomber suspect Dzhokhar T sarnaev was on the lam.

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EDUCATION

Goddard’s Controversial President Leaves a College Struggling to Survive

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when barbara vacarr took the top job at Goddard College in 2010, she inherited a school that had gone from trailblazing to treading water over the course of a half century. The storied experimental college was up against declining enrollment, tight finances and unrest among faculty and staff. vacarr promised big changes, which boiled down to a two-part initiative: Raise the college’s profile, and make money in the process. She cozied up to potential donors and pumped new blood into the college’s leadership, recruiting at least 10 new members for the board of trustees. vacarr also brought on staff with experience in financial management and development. vacarr’s agenda rubbed some Goddard employees the wrong way. detractors bemoaned “corporate retooling” at a school renowned for its countercultural leanings. Goddard’s staff voted to unionize, a move vacarr opposed, and faculty members complained about a new trend of unilateral decision making.

At a place known for shaking things up, vacarr’s supporters characterized her changes as visionary, forward thinking — and, perhaps most significantly, crucial for Goddard’s survival.

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Just a few months after Seven Days published a cover story subtitled “How Barbara Vacarr plans to save Goddard,” the new president announced that she would step down at the end of 2013.

Avram Patt, a 1972 graduate who now serves as the chair of the board of trustees, said personal issues factored into Vacarr’s decision. But he also acknowledged that she caused friction on the Plainfield campus. In Barbara Vacarr late July, following Vacarr’s announcement, VTDigger.org reported that some faculty were considering a possible vote of no confidence. The “overwhelming feeling among both faculty and staff,” creative writing professor Jan Clausen told Digger, “has been that we need different priorities.”

Still, the board stood by Vacarr and, after she resigned, invited her to stay on for a few more months — an offer she declined. Her last day of work is December 31.

Two weeks before that date, the board was still scrambling to find an interim president who could be in place by the start of the new year, Patt said. If there is a gap of a few weeks between Vacarr’s departure and a new president’s arrival, the board plans to appoint an acting president to act as caretaker of the college’s business. He or she could be looking at a $1.5 million deficit, as the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus reported in June.

The board is still in negotiations with faculty and staff unions about benefits, compensation and working conditions. Patt declined to comment on that, except to say that Goddard has asked for some pay and benefit “concessions” that are still under consideration.

Patt acknowledged a “deep need” to diversify the college’s revenue, which right now is 96 percent dependent on tuition. That means finding new uses for a campus that sits empty for long stretches of time. Goddard is currently leasing space to an alternative high school and is investigating the feasibility of refurbishing the iconic “design-build” art buildings erected in the 1970s under the tutelage of Warren architect David Sellers.

Goddard has faced existential crises before. When it chose to shutter the school’s resident undergraduate program in 2002, Patt said, “the board had really been on the verge of closing the school and putting the assets up for sale.” But Patt said he thinks Goddard can push ahead. For now, he said, the college is paying its bills and making payroll.

He said, “I wouldn’t be involved in this if I didn’t feel like with some smart structural changes, and with the understanding of the Goddard community, we have the time and the space to bend the curve and get it going in the right direction.”

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Fairlee Hunting Park Makes Peace with State But May Shut Down Anyway For years, the Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife allowed Wild Hill Preserve, a captivehunting facility in Fairlee, to operate without submitting legally mandated documentation for every animal on the property. That raised concerns that the preserve could represent a chink in Vermont’s armor against the possible spread of chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological affliction that, like mad cow disease, has no known cure.

While CWD has not yet been found in Vermont, it has spread to at least 21 other states, ravaging local deer populations and costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in disease-control efforts. Almost all the outbreaks were traced back to captive-hunting facilities, where sportsmen pay thousands of dollars to hunt exotic animals in close quarters. Many of the creatures are not indigenous to the area.

Wild Hill has lured visitors to Fairlee since 1960 to hunt elk, Spanish goats, Mouflon rams and other animals.

Hunters pay as much as $6000 for a shot at a trophy kill.

In a March interview, Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Patrick Berry acknowledged his agency had been lax in enforcing state regulations at Wild Hill.

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“Frankly, if there are folks who think we should have moved this along more quickly, you could make an argument that they’re right,” Berry said.

UPDATE: In September, the Vermont Fish & W ildlif e Department issued Wild Hill an operating permit that allows it to let cus tomers kill e xotic species of deer, sheep and goat within the 500-acre hunting enclosure through February 2015. Boar and moose ar e no longer among the options.

New American Community Goes for Goats at a Refugee-Run Farming Collective Meat by refugees, for refugees: That was the vision behind the Vermont Goat Collaborative, an innovative farming project that emerged last spring on a farm in Colchester, just a few miles from Vermont’s largest concentrations of New Americans in Winooski and Burlington.

The project aimed to solve several problems. Burlington’s New American community had long complained that finding fresh, locally raised goat was all but impossible; few American supermarkets stocked what is arguably the most-consumed meat animal in the world. Meanwhile, Vermont dairy farmers were struggling to offload the bucklings — male kids — that are the inevitable byproduct of breeding goats but serve little function on a dairy farm.

On a more personal note, Chuda Dhaurali, the lead farmer in the Goat Collaborative’s pilot year, was looking for a chance to reconnect with the agricultural traditions he left behind in Bhutan and Nepal.

Dhaurali and his brother-in-law, Tika Dulal, set out to raise a gaggle of goats. When Seven Days first reported on this venture in April, the goats were feisty kids, frolicking around in an old dairy barn conserved by the Vermont Land Trust. Dhaurali and volunteer Karen Freudenberger envisioned adding an on-farm slaughterhouse to the growing operation they hoped would someday employ several New American farmers.

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Fish & W ildlif e Maj. Dennis R einhardt said the preserve filed all necessary paperwork documenting its animals and safety measures, and wardens made a site visit to the facility.

There have still not been an y reports of CWD in Vermont. “We haven’t found any yet,” Reinhardt said.

But Wild Hill’s owners, Bill and Marlene Richter, aren’t completely satisfied with how events have unfolded.

While they declined to talk to Seven Days earlier this year, Marlene Richter said in a r ecent interview that she believes her business was unfairly maligned.

“It’s a well-run preserve,” Richter said. “Our preserve has always been in compliance with the s tate.

If all the farm animals in the country were as healthy as our animals — our animals don’ t have antibiotics; they have plenty of room.”

The operating permit sa ys that W ild Hill “indi cated a desire to end captive hunting at the facility by December 31, 2014.”

In the interview, Marlene Richter said the family was taking matters “ day to day” and hasn’t decided whether or not it will close the preserve.

“We’re playing it by ear,” she said.

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Update: The farmers and volunteers scrambled to build that slaughterhouse in time f or the October M uslim and Hindu holidays of Eid and Dashain, respectively.

Some disagreements between the V ermont Agency of Agriculture and Agency of Natural Resources over permitting made the timeline especially tight, but in the end, the cus tom slaughter f acility — f unded by state grants and matching f unds f r om Green Mountain Coffee Roasters — was finished by the end of September.

“We had volunteers out there every weekend working on it,” says Freudenberger, the tir eless volunteer who dreamed up the goat collabor ative. “We got it done in time, and it all worked out.”

Freudenberger says that, f or her , the highlight of the season w as the weekend of “goat choosing da ys” in late September. Dhaurali gathered his goats on the upper fields of the farm, near the barn, and families f rom Burlington and Winooski flocked to Colches ter to pick out their animals . Demand w as so gr eat that leaders in the Bhutanese and M uslim communities devised a system f or distributing the meat, pairing families to share a single goat.

Altogether, the collabor ative sold 117 goats , 77 of which were raised on the farm in Colchester. This particular custom-slaughter f acility allows customers to purchase a live animal on-site and then legally butcher it right ther e. Dhaurali brought in $ 20,000 — which means he’ll be able to operate his herd next year without grant funding.

In turn, the collabor ative plans to help another farmer get up and running next spring. The long-term vision calls for her ders to share the farm’s infrastructure while individually owning their goats.

“We surpassed e ven our o wn expectations,” Freudenberger says.

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Wind-Powered Barge Could Take Vermont Food Farther in 2014 ferrisburgh farmer Erik Andrus spent more than a year raising public awareness — and cash — to build a 19th-century-style, wind-powered cargo barge that could transport locally grown food and goods from the Champlain valley to new York City. his goal wasn’t just to prove it could be done; in the centuries prior to road, rail and air transport, it was commonplace to transport heavy cargo by boat on Lake Champlain, the hudson River and the St. Lawrence Seaway. instead, Andrus wanted to prove that wind-powered water travel, which has been largely overlooked in discussions of sustainability and carbon-emissions reductions, could once again be commercially viable along the Champlain valley. with financial and logistical support from his nonprofit sponsor, Monkton’s willowell foundation, and help from scores of student and community volunteers, Andrus constructed a nearly 40-foot, flat-bottomed vessel to carry 12 tons of farm and forest products Erik Andrus from ferrisburgh to the port of new York. The enterprise was dubbed the vermont Sail freight project, and Andrus envisioned the barge as a floating farmers market, of sorts, making frequent stops to buy and sell wares along the way.

As Andrus put it, “for small farmers, if you’re invisible, you’re dead. if you can’t get the story out there about what you’re doing and why it matters to the wider world, then the supermarket wins every time.”

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vessel was named for the ancient Roman goddess of agriculture, who is also recognized in statue form atop the golden dome of the Vermont Statehouse. After local and regional newspapers and broadcast outlets covered the story, publications as diverse as Crain’s New York Business, the New Yorker and National Geographic wrote their own versions.

Contacted in mid-December at his Ferrisburgh farm, Andrus reported that the barge had finally been put away for the winter. “We accomplished pretty much everything we set out to do,” he said, “so I can’t complain.”

The barge, which spent about a month on the water last fall, made about a dozen stops between Vermont and Brooklyn, N.Y., 10 of which were at markets. In all, the vessel carried 15 tons of freight — three more than initially expected — and with considerably more variety. According to Andrus, 37 participating farms proffered 160 different products ranging from locally raised apples and maple syrup to wild-harvested mushrooms and goat-milk caramels.

In fact, Andrus said the “ridiculous variety” of goods actually proved problematic, in that many of the items weren’t marked with prices. The crew also had trouble remembering where all the items were stored on the vessel.

“Those logistical problems hounded us for the entire trip,” he acknowledged. “So, we need to come up with a simpler model that’s got more retail streamlining built into it.”

Also needed, he said, is a more sustainable business model. As Andrus pointed out, the team pulled off the trade mission “by the skin of our teeth,” thanks largely to volunteer labor.

“But you can’t run a trading company indefinitely as a volunteer project,” he said.

“We need to start paying people and having enough capital for buying products and paying our bills on time.”

That could prove challenging, he noted, because the Vermont Sail Freight Project still looks too “businesslike” to qualify for most nonprofit grants, yet lacks the corporate governance structure and business model to attract for-profit investors.

Nevertheless, Andrus and his team are already looking forward to the 2014 season, and hope to have the barge fully loaded and ready to sail when the locks open in midMay. They’re even discussing ways of expanding their reach north to Montréal and adding ocean-worthy vessels to travel south to the Caribbean to buy coffee beans and chocolate.

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Lea” (the model) par agraph, I thought I’d accidentally s tumbled onto a dating page! Given that I am Canadian, at tended Ryerson, am a Brit, lived 15 years in Toronto (of ten perusing s talls along Spadina Avenue), I also thought I w as reading the Onion, Lea’s (and my) alma mater’s student rag. WTF … is there some kind of time warp here, or another “senior moment?”

Then I r ecalled that, af ter all, this is the company that likes to stretch our credulity with its mind games and titillating, suggestive exposures. But no, this time , Lanky Lea is only r evealing her boring midriff and outdated, bland jock ey club wear, hardly demanding of the w annabe starlet that she claims to ha ve once been. My eyes drop from this lithe Canadian to the s tore’s Burlington address, and I am snapped out of my stupor when it r eminds me that, Yes, I r eally am in V ermont. Maybe they switched ads accidentally? If not, then what the hell is this “ Made in USA — Sweatshop Free” clothing corp sporting a Canadian babe modeling their clothes? I sn’t this a breach of U.S. immigration law, employing someone f r om another country to “work” when AA could easily find many local, truly American beauties who probably would gladly strut their stuff?

James Dylan Rivis Montpelier

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“Cruelt y on a Plat e”

I don’t envy the serv er depicted in Harry Bliss’s thought-provoking cartoon [“Bliss”] from November 27. How could he respond truthf ully to the ques tion “What’s foie gras?” yet not disgust customers? Unless Leunig’s waitstaff condones force-feeding ducks and geese b y shoving pipes down their throats to intentionally give them liver disease, their honest answer to this ques tion should be, “Cruelty on a plate.”

Force-f eeding may occur thr ee times a da y f or w eeks, causing the birds’ livers to swell up to 10 times the normal size, resulting in fatty livers, or “foie gras.” Foie gras has been banned in Calif ornia and mor e than a dozen countries, and it is not pr oduced in Vermont. The closes t producers, including the one Leunig ’s reportedly buys from, are in New York.

Green Mountain Animal Defenders politely asked Leunig’s to sho w compassion and remove f oie gras f rom

their menu, as other V ermont restaurants have done. Sadly, we were advised that, as long as cus tomers order it, they will serve it. Now I am asking you, the public, to ref use to support the handf ul of r estaurants that of f er f oie gras in our ar ea. For more inf ormation, please visit gmad.inf o and stopforcefeeding.com.

Sharon MacNair Shelburne

Anoth er Argument Against th e F-35

[Re “Afterburned? Residents in the F-35 Flight Path Share Their V iews on the Plane,” December 11]: First of all, I admit I am an opponent of the F -35. I find myself disappointed, however, with the one-dimensional coverage regarding opposition to its basing here.

My f ellow dissenters ha ve talked to death about the en vironmental and health concerns, but what’s really missing is a discussion on the ethical implications of supporting these fighter jets. Are the potential jobs being pr omised by politicians and the military the kind of jobs that we want in our community ? Is it morally justifiable to support these w eapons of destruction simplyf or the possibility of economic ben efit? If we support the F -35, what aren’t we willing to support for financial gain?

And who will benefit the most f rom the F -35 being here? Low-income f amilies struggling to mak e ends meet? Not likely. If I could give any advice to the lead ers of the F -35 opposition movement, it w ould be this: Change your argument. The moral issue, not the noise , is the issue that will resonate most with fellow Vermonters. y bli ss

Your article on the lakeshore-protection bill highlights our ongoing sear ch f or a solution to our w ater-quality problems [“Too Close to the Edge: La wmakers to Focus on Lakeshore Protection,” December 11]. A passing mention is made of the waiting list at ANR’s new LakeWise program, while no mention is made of the important efforts of the BLUE Program.

BLUE has been implemented in the Lake Champlain watershed f or several years by Lake Champlain International.

BLUE is a lando wner certification program, where property owners can comply with simple but scientifically proven techniques that improve water quality. In certain communities, including B urlington, the program is f ree, and homeowners who meet pr ogram requirements will have their property certified as “BLUE.” This private program improves water quality not just in lakes but everywhere, and the BL UE certification may also improve property values, which is a winwin result. The pr ogram received the EPA merit award, was noted as a top-five innovative program for the country, and is a model that other communities ar e starting to implement, such as in T exas, Cape Cod and elsewher e. Plus, there is

no waiting list. Contact LCI at mychamplain.net for more information.

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On December 11, Seven Days featured a two-page article describing deterior ation of the quality of V ermont’s lakes and ponds due to an increasing number of shoreside camps and homes [“T oo Close to the Edge: Lawmakers to Focus on Lakeshore Protection”]. Although we can mak e regulations that might alleviate all these problems, we should recognize that they will get w orse if we allow Vermont’s population to in crease. Infinite growth is impossible , and the sooner we stop it, the better.

A new r eport written b y many expert environmentalists comes to the conclusion that Vermont’s optimal population f or w ater quality is about 600,000, and e ven lower f or some environmental f actors. You can r ead the report, titled “What is an Optimal/ Sustainable Population f or V ermont?” at vspop.org.

We can’t limit immigr ation into Vermont, but w e can help s tabilize Vermont’s population b y promoting the better education and f r eedom of women, and easier access to f amily planning services in V ermont, the U.S. and the world.

George Webb Burlington

A Mat t er of Ethic s

It’s too bad that the true belie vers who are f logging Obamacar e and Shummycare as the gr eatest inventions since the lightbulb ha ve totally ignored the ethical precepts addressed in Dr. Emmons’ letter [F eedback: “Ethical Treatment,” December 11].

Interposing state and f eder al government in the r elationship between doctor and patient is a very bad idea.

Inevitably, the quality and natur e of physician service will er ode in dir ect proportion to the size and scope of third-party reimbursement funded by taxpayers. Sure, the current system has def iciencies, but it isn’ t the sys temic failure the health care “reform” zealots would have us believe.

Single payer and its kindr ed can survive only if the r elationship between physician and patient is f un damentally altered. When medical care decisions ar e predicated on the bottom line ins tead of anticipated medical outcomes, we will be in ethi cal free fall.

Paul Giuliani Montpelier

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Green Mountain Mahler Festival: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony @ Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester

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VT Artists’ Space Grant Work-in-Progress Showing: Kate Donnelly’s “A Period of Confinement” @ FlynnSpace

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National Theatre Live: “Hamlet” @ Palace 9 Cinemas, So. Burlington

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Exhibit: Kate Gridley: “Passing Through: Portraits of Emerging Adults” (through 4/12) @ Amy E. Tarrant Gallery

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Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt @ Flynn MainStage

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Burlington Chamber Orchestra @ McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester

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Vermont Youth Orchestra Winter Concert @ Flynn MainStage

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He loved four hobbies: fishing, baseball, “The Powder Hounds all stones,” real and online poker, and smoking weed. Oh, and let’s not forget pyrotechnics for any and all occasions.

He was also a longtime character of the Mad River Valley and a very worthy adversary to Dave Dreckter, “former beloved sheriff of the valley.” He also loved all his animals and especially his last longtime friend, the Amazing Blue — she was a dog goddess.

Denny was a very kind and gentle soul and at times an enigma to most, and he would always go out of his way for a friend when he could. Denny died peacefully in his sleep (that lucky bastard) a couple of weeks ago in Waitsfield. But he was definitely a longtime Warren resident, so let’s just make that clear for the record.

He will be sorely missed by all that knew him. So Denny, don’t Bogart it, pass it on.

All Grassroots party members of the past are invited to attend the Warren 4th for remembering the GRP and Denny Lane. For info, please contact enigma711@gmavt.net.

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As I understand it, Denny was from and spent a lot of his youth in the Atlantic City and New York City areas starting in 1947. As a youth he was able to accidentally throw a water balloon into a patrol car window and get away with it. He went to Washington College and Fordham University, starting his college career at the age of 16 and graduating with a BA in international politics. Denny was a member of Young Americans for Freedom. In 1961 and ‘62, he worked on the William F. Buckley NYC mayoral campaign, and in 1964 he was a campaign worker for the Barry Goldwater for President campaign. Who would have thought Denny was a Republican at one time? At one point he was the Vermont rep for NORML (National Organization for Marijuana Law Reform), FEAR (Forfeiture Endangers American Rights) and FAMM (Families against Mandatory Minimums) and a member of the Marijuana Policy Project. He was also founder and chair of the Vermont Grassroots Party (VGP) and in ‘96 and ‘98 received enough votes in the elections to make the Grassroots Party the third viable political party in Vermont. By doing this he was able to piss off reporters from most of the major publications in Vermont.

He ran for Vermont governor in ‘94 and ‘96, Vermont secretary of state in ‘98, and Vermont auditor in 2002. He also ran against George W. Bush in 2000 on the ballots of Vermont and Minnesota. Denny was an advocate for the end of marijuana prohibition for most of his life and played a major role in the 420 demonstrations in Burlington back in the day. He believed in educating and making people aware of diverse subjects ranging from the Federal Reserve, the banking system, executive orders, the evils of drug prohibition and the display of gold-fringed American flags (you know what it means?). He ran several retail businesses: Native American arts, health foods, mail orders — you name it, he probably sold it. He was also the one to introduce Snapple drinks to the state of Vermont. While working for Advanced Independent Research Lab he created light sculptures and was able to sell the Grateful Dead a couple of the Plasma light sculptures for their light shows in 1985.

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f you’re like us, you probably look back at this time of year and wonder where the time has gone — how did 2013 slip by so quickly? We also think about some of the stories we wrote and wonder, What ever happened to…?

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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Last December, thef ate of one of Vermont’s f ew N ational Historic Landmarks seemed to hang in the bal ance. The St. Johnsbur y Athenaeum , a beautif ul 1871 building that houses the town library as well as a priceless collection of H udson River School paintings and other artw orks, attempted to s tem its annual financial hemorrhage by severely cutting back its library staff.

As Julia Shipley reported in a series of articles in Seven Days, eight s taff members were sacked and in vited to apply for four new positions . In protest, more than 200 libr ary supporters sur rounded the building in a giant hug . Ill will abounded, and lingered.

Mat thew Powers was the Athenaeum’s executive director at the time; he lef t the position v oluntarily in A pril and now heads the W oodstock Histor y Center .

Powers says he didn’ t agree with the board’s “aggressive” two-year time frame

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Savoy Theater In late September , T errence Youk of Montpelier’s Savo y T hea ter sent out a press release announcing “drastic cuts.”

Low 2013 ticket sales had forced the art house’s owner to r educe his s taff of 20 by seven.

It was the lates t in a series of f und raising appeals f r om the 33- year-old Savoy, but this time Youk said his priority was simply getting butts in seats . To that end, he’d try an e xperiment called Quid Pro Tuesdays: One da y a w eek, people could enter the theater f or f r ee and “pay us upon y our exit whatever you think the movie was worth.”

Upda te: The Savoy still shows movies nightly, and Youk says ticket sales have improved since the summer , when some Saturday-night shows drew only

a dozen view ers. Acclaimed films such as 12 Years a Slave have created “a little bit of an upsur ge,” he notes . “But it’s still pretty lackluster,” with those k ey Saturday-night shows drawing “never more than 50 or 60 people” at a time.

(The Savoy’s upstairs screening room seats 124.)

Quid Pro Tuesdays, meanwhile, have been “a very pleasant surprise ,” Youk says. The aim was to get more moviegoers to come out on a slow night, not to increase revenue, yet “We’ve averaged more than our base -price ticket” on Tuesdays, Youk says. When they set their own ticket price, “people will of tentimes give more.”

Why? Youk thinks the setup “tak es people out of the ‘I’m a consumer and

I’m going to get m y money’s worth’ mode.” When he explains the system to newcomers, he often finds himself having conversations with them “ about the value of having this kind of art form available.”

To keep those con versations going, Youk plans to ins titute a f r ee popcorn night starting in J anuary, and then a series of free TED talk lunch hours. He’s also designed a new marquee that would protrude from the building, calling more attention to the theater.

Meanwhile, Downstairs Video keeps on trucking with limited hours , though Youk admits, “I w ould have predicted that it would have gone away long ago.”

The region, he notes, still has “big pockets of places” without broadband access.

When it comes to f undr aising, Youk says, “I think people ar e really tired of hearing pleas in gener al, and ma ybe specifically f rom us. I am f atigued b y it. We’re trying to find different ways of engaging people besides begging f or money.”

The likely long-term solution, he says, is to bring the S avoy under the umbrella of the nonpr ofit Focus on Film , which pr oduces the annual Green Mount ain Film Festiv al . “The tricky part is for me to mak e myself whole and get compensated f or what I’v e invested in the theater.”

For now and the f or eseeable f uture, the shows go on.

— M.H .

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for eliminating the deficit, but he knew something had to be done. “The place would have had to close down in five to 10 years” — Powers directed it for two and a half — “and they would have had to start selling off assets,” meaning paintings, he says. Even that last-resort decision would have stemmed only short-term losses.

The board’s first step in restructuring was to make BoB Joly, previously a librarian who worked in the gallery, the new curator of collections. Powers says he “created that position with Bob in mind,” and with the aim of raising the gallery’s profile. Only two other former librarians retained jobs: Shara Mccaffrey and Donna Stinehour were rehired as librarian and associate librarian. The new hires were librarian alex lent and youth-services librarian MacKenzie roSS.

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Visiting Fiction Writer/Poet/Essayist: Bestselling author Julianna Baggott has published nineteen books. Film rights for her novel Pure, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and ALA Alex Award-winner, have been acquired by Fox 2000. The second book in the trilogy, Fuse, has just been released. She published her first novel, Girl Talk (a national bestseller) and was quickly followed by The Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family, and The Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam. Her seven novels for younger readers (under the pen name N.E. Bode) include The Anybodies trilogy, The Slippery Map, The Ever Breath, and the prequel to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman.

Reading: January 4th, 7:00 p.m., College Hall Chapel

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Distinguished Visiting Faculty in Poetry: Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass (Copper Canyon Press, 2010.) Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. Valentine was the State Poet of New York for two years, starting in the spring of 2008.

Reading: December 31st, 7:00 p.m., College Hall Chapel

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer & Poet: Alumni Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing, Lucinda Roy teaches poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in the MFA program at Virginia Tech. Her books include the poetry collection The Humming Birds (winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize), and the novels Lady Moses (a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection) and The Hotel Alleluia. Her latest book is a memoircritique entitled No Right to Remain Silent: What We’ve Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech (Three Rivers Press/Random House.)

Reading: January 3rd, 7:15 p.m., College Hall Chapel

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became the Athenaeum’s executive director as well, and Powers deems him perfectly suited to the dual job. “He’s friendly and easygoing but decisive,” says the former director.

Reached by phone at his new position, Joly is upbeat about the financial situation he is taking on. While the institution previously drew liberally from its endowment to meet budget each year, Joly aims to keep withdrawals well under 5 percent annually. As director, he’ll focus on increasing planned giving — cultivating those key relationships with current

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and potential donors — and writing more grant applications, despite today’s furiously competitive grant environment.

10-70% OFF In his curatorial role, Joly says, “My EVERYTHING goal is to make the gallery portion as STOREWIDE well known as the library portion.” He (INCLUDING SALE ITEMS) plans a frame-conservation project that is likely to get grant funding, a picturerail system for the second floor, and an updated lighting system. Joly also hopes to grow the fine-art collection with contemporary landscapes influenced by the Hudson River School — though he admits this would require finding a storage facility. Currently, the entire collection fills the walls, and the Athenaeum has no storage space. [and, yup, still free.]

Meanwhile, the library’s patrons continue to come not just from St. Johnsbury but from many surrounding towns. Will library services be affected 115 college st, burlington • 658-4050 by the reduced staff? The only change sun 12-5, m-f 10-7, sat 10-6 Joly mentions is that, starting in January, closed 12/26, 1/1 Tuesday and Thursday hours will be shifted — not reduced — to later in the day, bringing back the popular evening hours.

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Earlier this year, AARON GOLDBERG and JEFF POTASH, archivists at B urlington’s Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, spearheaded an e˜ ort to restore, preserve and relocate a one of -a-kind artistic treasure: a 1910 synagogue mural painted on an interior w all of an Old North End apartment building.

Dubbed the “Los t Shul M ural,” the extraordinary artwork is e vocative not only of centuries- old traditions of European religious painting but of Burlington’s own “Little J erusalem” community of the 19th century.

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raised only about $8000; at press time last week, that sum was beyond $60,000.

And, says Goldberg, “We have commitments for more funds.”

Even more satisfying for its founders, the Lost Shul Mural project has received several high-level endorsements, most prominently that of former Vermont governor Madeleine May Kunin. When she was a child, K unin’s f amily immigr ated to America from her native Switzerland to escape the H olocaust. Kunin’s unsolicited endorsement of the pr oject has refocused media attention on it.

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Illustration of the repaired Lost Shul Mural

Currently, the mur al is under going prof essional cleaning and r epairs, with conservationist CONNIE SILVER filling in cracks and restoring luster to the mural’s paint. Silver is working from a 1986 photo-documentation of the mur al, which was f unded b y the daughters of the artist, Ben Zion Black. “W e have

an extraordinary record of this mur al,” Goldberg says. “Who did it, his f amily history, all of the inf ormation that w e need for the restoration process.”

The project’s next task is to redouble its f undraising e˜ orts. When fi nally restored, the mural will be placed on display in a public space: the lobby of Ohavi

Zedek. “This is a piece that is going to be available to anyone who wishes to see it,” says Goldberg. “Nothing like it exists in the world.”

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Creative Economy Survey Vermont’s OFFICE OF THE CREA TIVE ECONOMY was launched in 2011 b y legislative order. The idea w as to put go vernment muscle behind those sectors of the cr eative economy for which Vermont is not necessarily known: film and new media, advertising and marketing, and software and gaming.

“Food, working landscapes — they’re critical, but not the entir ety of who w e are,” says LARS HASSELBLAD TORRES, who was appointed OCE director this year. “We’re also bio-inf ormatics” — not to mention film scores, video games, graphic design and the lik e. Vermont, declares Torres, should be kno wn as “ a state that pr oduces top-shelf mobile apps as much as cheese and maple syrup.”

But the o˛ ce isn’t entirely geared toward “cracking open the V ermont brand,” as Torres puts it. It is also tasked with growing those sectors. To determine how best to do so, OCE distributed an online surv ey to 1000 businesses

statewide last January. The 15-question survey was the brainchild of Torres’ predecessor, JOE BOOKCHIN, and the r esults came in a month before Torres did.

UPDATE: What did OCE learn, and how has it changed what T orres calls the of fice’s original “broad mandate” from the legislature?

About 180 business o wners and entrepreneurs responded. Sixty-f our percent hadn’t heard of OCE befor e seeing the survey — ine vitably, perhaps, given the still-fledging status of this branch of the Vermont Agency of Commer ce and Community Development.

The respondents were mostly tiny but established companies that employ between one and f our people . Torres says the biggest surprise was “how many had been at one person f or a long time and expected to grow to two in the next year. There was high optimism r elative to prior performance,” he notes.

What these companies’ o wners said

they needed most was marketing workshops and help with netw orking, both peer-to-peer and among businesses and “designers, engineers and de velopers.”

Startups sought the mos t help. And the biggest draw f or s tartup owners was Vermont’s quality of life.

The survey sample, though small, seems to have been accurate. MARGUERITE DIBBLE, president of thef our -person video game company BIRNAM WOOD GAMES in Burlington, didn’t know about the survey. But, when asked about her business, she cites similar points: She would like to see mor e marketing support, national recognition at events such as S an Francisco’s game-developer conference, incubator and accelerator programs for startups — “The fi rst year is the hardest time,” she sa ys — and the r ecognition that “Vermont and B urlington, especially, are pretty kick-ass communities.”

Dibble would also appr eciate actual seed money and mark eting dollars. The

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Winooski Art Galleries In February of this year, Rod MacIveR opened Heron Dance Wild Nature Art Gallery in a long-empty space at 45 Main Street on the Winooski roundabout. The venue carried his own serene, natureinspired paintings, prints, books and notecards, and MacIver planned to create outsize artworks in the high-ceilinged space, as well. Then, in July, he learned that his landlord was not renewing the lease. Frustrated and burned out, MacIver opted to close out his nearly 20-year-old Heron Dance venture altogether and, as he told us, “probably go paddling in Canada.”

Onion City benefited from a number of high-quality eateries setting up shop — along with a handsome wine bar, oak45, in MacIver’s former quarters — but this month another gallery arrived at the roundabout. JodI HaRRIngton and LIza cowan, both veterans of pop-up galleries, established wInooskI cIRcLe aRts, which features an eclectic assortment of fine art and creative home goods by some 35 Vermont artists. Let’s hope it has popped up to stay.

(It should be noted that other worthy venues joined the Vermont art scene this year, including the castLeton downtown gaLLeRy, the coMpass MUsIc and aRts centeR in Brandon, and the

Update: We haven’t talked with MacIver since — though he has turned up in a series of news stories when he challenged a bogus traffic ticket and sued the town of Shelburne. For Winooski, though, things have been looking up lately. Not only has the

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“grossly under-resourced” OCE, as Torres puts it, can’t provide such funds, but it can and does connect businesses with entities that do. Those include local events such as Peak Pitch, hosted annually by Fresh Tracks Capital, which matches businesses with investors; and venture-capital funds such as the Vermont Seed Capital Fund.

Post-survey, OCE will continue these efforts but focus on marketing, helping startups and recruiting and maintaining an appropriate workforce, according to Torres. And it will keep listening: The office plans to make the survey an annual affair. “Look for it again,” urges Torres.

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Pathogen In November, Burlington video game developer Birnam Wood Games released its latest downloadable title, Pathogen, f or iOS and PC. Pathogen, which evokes classic strategy board games such as Othello and Go, is a challenging , addictive game in which players compete to “infect” the “cells” that cons titute the pla ying field.

It’s simple enough to allo w players to grasp its rules in a moment, y et complex enough to yield rich and varied gameplay.

The designers and pr ogrammers at Birnam Wood — principal Pathogen designer Zach Bohn , company president Mar guerite Dibble , developer Mat t Brand and programmer Mike H opke — met and began working together at Champlain College’s game-design program. After a previous title, Loc, proved unsuccessful, the team connected with the independent game publisher Gameblyr.

Though Pathogen attracted positive attention in pr erelease, the mood at Birnam Wood bef ore its debut w as one of excitement tempered by anxiety: The market for downloadable games is notoriously challenging.

Upda te: The week immediately f ol lowing Pathogen’s release was “pretty damn exciting,” says Dibble, 23. Apple spotlighted the title in its “bes t new games” f eature; on the A pp Store,

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Upda te: BCA director Doreen Kraft , along with boar d and s taff members, jumped at the opportunity to pur chase UVM’s metal-working equipment, as we noted on the Seven Days blog Liv e Culture. Jewelry making is alr eady an extremely popular class offered by BCA, Kraf t said, but has been limited by the lack of pr of essional equipment. “This

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This story came together v ery quickly, just in the past few weeks. On November 27, we wrote a preview of an exhibit at Von Bar gen’s in Burlington that would feature jewelry by L aurie Peters — longtime professor of fine metals and jewelry making at the U niversity of V ermont — and some of her f ormer s tudents.

Those students, now successful jewelers themselves, include Jane Kople wit z, Jaco b Al bee and T imothy Grannis . The weeklong show opened on December 11.

We also r eported that, with P eters’ retirement this y ear, the UVM art de partment was planning to discontinue its fine-metals curriculum. That deci sion occasioned dismay and outrage among those who learned their cr aft in the program. It also presented a golden opportunity for Burlin gton City Arts , and ignited some quick action.

downloads, at pr ess time, were about 8000.

Pathogen received props f rom outlets that wield consider able influence in gaming cir cles. For instance, widely read tech w ebsite the V erge wrote: “Pathogen’s simple-yet-addictive gameplay is augmented by a terrific presentation, with visuals that mak e it f eel lik e you’re playing on a computer f r om a 1980s sci-fi film.”

Birnam Wood is b y no means done with Pathogen. A f ree, stripped-down version of the game is a vailable this month; in early 201 4, the team will im prove the online r anking and r ewards system and develop versions of the game for Android and Kindle.

As with an y video game , Pathogen’s rankings eventually dropped, but, as Dibble puts it, the favorable reviews “felt like a r eal proving of quality … I t was really validating for us.”

Pathogen was, f or a time , ranked No. 1 in iOS Boar d Games and N o. 5 in iOS Strategy Games. Dibble estimates the game was downloaded about 2000 times on the first day of r elease; total

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felt like the perfect moment to r espond to a community need,” she said.

BCA will now move into f undraising mode, Kraf t noted, seeking $ 2500 to purchase the equipment f rom UVM, and an estimated $2500 to $5000 to set up the s tudio at Memorial Auditorium.

Eventually, Kraft envisions a new, much larger f acility — perhaps in the city ’s South End — wher e BCA can bring all its education pr ograms under one r oof.

The fine-metals studio will be named in honor of Laurie Peters.

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such as TWA 800’s midair explosion or crashing into the side of a mountain.

How do you expect the average passenger to put on a parachute properly? If you’ve done any parachute jumping, you know getting the rig on right is no simple matter, and we all know there are plenty of air travelers who have enough trouble with the seat belt. And what about kids and babies, the elderly, the disabled, the just plain freaked-out? Now add in the chaos of everyone trying to manage this simultaneously in a cramped cabin with little or no instruction under emergency conditions. Ain’t happening, babe.

If by some miracle everybody got properly suited up, how would they get out of the plane?

Due to the difference between inside and outside air pressure, a commercial jet’s doors can’t be opened at altitude. If

they could, due to the aforesaid pressure differences, everyone would be sucked out and quite likely smashed against the aircraft, pulled into the turbines, or incinerated by the exhaust.

True, D.B. Cooper may have eluded these perils in 1971 when he parachuted out of the Boeing 727 he’d hijacked, but he was the only remaining passenger on a depressurized, slow-moving aircraft with a rear-facing exit door, and he had plenty of time to prepare. That’s a far cry from the emergency scenario we’re contemplating.

You object: I still want my .001 percent! Very well, let’s do a little cost-benefit analysis: What’s that minuscule chance of success going to cost?

A typical Boeing 737-800 holds 150 passengers and a crew of maybe six. An Army-grade T-11 model parachute could probably be had for about $600, but remember, we’re dealing with

up by eliminating about 26 passengers and their luggage. The good news is, this would free up space for everyone else’s chutes.

The bad news is, ticket prices would likely increase at least 20 percent to cover lost revenue from the missing passengers.

In short, we’re talking exorbitant cost with virtually no payback. By comparison, flotation cushions and life vests for a water landing are the height of practicality. Granted, water landings aren’t common, but they happen — witness the legendary 2009 ditching of US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River without fatalities by captain Chesley Sullenberger. Cushions and vests are cheap and easy to use, and the expectation, borne out by experience, is that the plane will be stationary and floating in the water when you exit.

To put things in perspective, your odds of being killed on a given airline flight are something like 1 in 20 million, whereas your odds of dying in a car accident per year are about 1 in 9200. Not to be heartless, but suck it up.

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To see why, ask yourself a few questions: What are the odds of an accident happening when a parachute would do you any good? Analyzing 49 years of fatal aviation accidents, Boeing found 12 percent happened on the ground, 20 percent while the aircraft was taking off or on its initial climb, and 36 percent while the aircraft was in final descent or landing. So less than a third of the fatal accidents occurred at a point in the flight when parachute use might have been feasible, and that’s ignoring instant-death scenarios

untrained users here — we’re going to need chutes equipped with an automatic activation device and possibly a reserve chute, which cost two grand and up.

Factor in the cost of new seats or lockers to stow the parachutes in, maintenance and inspections, and periodic replacement, and it’s safe to say the cost per plane would be upwards of $500,000.

Where would you put the chutes? As air travelers are painfully aware, commercial aircraft can barely accommodate a full load of passengers and their belongings as it is.

Each parachute would at minimum take up as much space as a roller bag. Where would they all be kept? Under the seat means no legroom or stowage; overhead means no room for carry-ons.

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“Well, congratulations to you,” I said with a chuckle. “In today’s world, that’s an accomplishment. Especially if you still like each other.”

That last bit of repartee might have been a touch cheeky on my part, but it wasn’t a conversation stopper, thank goodness.

“My husband is a surgeon,” Jung-soon continued. “He was a medical student when he was stationed with the Korean troops in the Vietnam War. He served as a medic.”

“Oh, yeah,” I said. “I forgot that foreign allies sent troops to fight with the Americans during that war.”

“But Byung didn’t discriminate. If someone was injured, he helped them. It could be a soldier, a civilian, even a Viet Cong fighter. When he left to return home, the Vietnam government gave him a humanitarian award. We still have it on the wall in the office. I don’t know what it says because it’s in Vietnamese. I think ‘Silver something,’ a Vietnamese patient once told me.”

As Jung-soon spoke, her wide-set, dark eyes shone with pride, the love and admiration for her husband filling the cab like a warm, gentle breeze.

Though he remained silent, I could tell Byung’s feelings were reciprocal; his eyes had an identical glow.

“Did you have any kids?” I asked.

“Yes, two,” she said. “Our son just got his MBA, and our daughter is a lawyer specializing in real estate development. They both went to Harvard.”

“Well, it doesn’t get better than that!

Were you what they call a tiger mom?”

EvErything about hEr immigrant lifE i found intErEsting, but, morE than that,

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“Oh, I don’t know,” Jung-soon replied.

She laughed softly, adding, “Well, maybe just a little bit.”

Byung suddenly cleared his throat, leaned forward in his seat and said, “Speaking of Harvard, let me tell you two stories, if I may.” He then began, and his tone was that of a keynote speaker at a commemorative dinner — very official, though sweet and slow, like the voice of a friendly great-uncle.

“There was a man who became a millionaire in the 1800s and wanted to donate money to Harvard University, 10 million dollars, to erect a new building. Everything was in place until he requested that his name be engraved on the building. The college officials told him no, hinting that he was insufficiently distinguished for such an honor. So, the man traveled out to California, to what’s now known as Silicon Valley, where an associate of his was attempting to launch a new college. The man donated his money to this effort instead of Harvard. His name was Leland Stanford.”

“Well, that is something,” I said. “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, right?”

“Here is another story,” he continued, ignoring me — not that I minded. If anything, his voice was growing yet more sonorous, and I was hooked. “It also concerns gift-giving. When Napoleon Bonaparte was a struggling student in Paris, he would often stop at a local fruit stand for something to eat. Even when he had no money, the kindly fruit seller, a woman, would give him a free apple.

“Many years later he returned to that same shop. He was now the Emperor of France, but the fruit seller didn’t recognize him — he had dressed modestly for the occasion. He asked her, ‘Do you know who I am?’ When she told him no, he said, ‘You helped me years ago when I was a poor student.’ He then handed her a bag of silver

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n this unseasonably warm afternoon, the customers in the backseat of my taxi were impeccably dressed — not chic, but classic. Byung wore a black suit, creamcolored shirt and light purple tie fastened in a perfect Windsor knot, obviously by an experienced hand. His wife, Jung-soon — a thin, articulate, bright-eyed woman — had on a blue silk dress and white kerchief.

Byung had undergone gallbladder surgery a week earlier at Fletcher Allen hospital. The procedure was “uneventful,” which is how you want your surgery to go. But, back home in Massena, New York, an infection set in and grew virulent, and he was transported back to Burlington via ambulance, with Jung-soon in tow. As I glanced at the couple in the rearview mirror, they appeared peaceful and relieved, evidence that Byung was over the crisis and on the mend.

Jung-soon had shared all this with me on the ride up to the Rouses Point Bridge, en route to their home.

Byung had said not a word; he just sat in repose with a beneficent smile, nodding slightly at different points in his wife’s exposition. Now, on the Empire State side of the bridge, I felt like chatting some more, at least with Jung-soon, who seemed lively and game.

“So you folks are from Korea, I’m guessing?” I asked.

“We are,” Jung-soon replied. “We both came to Boston as students in the late ’60s.

That’s where we met, and we’re now married 42 years.”

coins, saying, ‘Next time, you’ll remember me,’ and left the store. Astonished, the woman reached into the bag and pulled out a handful of coins. Each one featured the portrait of her customer, Napoleon Bonaparte.”

Tales told, Byung leaned back in his seat, returning to his smile of infinite contentment. I had no idea to what extent either of his stories was true, but who cared?

I returned the conversation to his more voluble wife. “So have you also pursued a career, Jung-soon?”

“No, I studied art history in college, but left school to raise our children. But the last couple of years I’ve been helping my husband in the office. He’s teaching me to assist with our outpatient surgery, and I really enjoy it. It’s fun.”

Jung-soon and I chatted for the entire drive across the North Country. Everything about her immigrant life I found interesting, but, more than that, I simply enjoyed her sparkling spirit. Just before we reached Massena, Byung surprised me by speaking for the second time.

“Do you know if Burlington has any observatories?” he asked “I’m not sure, but you’d imagine there would be at one of the colleges. Actually, now that I think of it, I do know of an observatory — at Saint Michael’s College, just outside Burlington. I have no idea how powerful a telescope it contains, but I’m sure you can find out.”

“That’s Byung’s great passion in life,” Jung-soon said, gazing at her husband.

After 42 years, the woman still seemed love-struck. “Every chance he gets, he wanders outside to study the stars. On clear nights, it’s hard for me to keep him in the house!” m

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On Lakeview Terrace, Packard Loft Residents Turn Out to Be Good Neighbors Six months ago, Diana Carlisle and Jim Inman hosted what amounted to a neighborhood gripe session in the living room of their Lakeview Terrace home. Many of the 50 or so residents in attendance hurled pointed questions and barbed criticisms at Justin Dextradeur, manager of the Packard Lofts project then taking shape at the northern end of the street perched on a bluff above Lake Champlain. ˜ ey complained about the scale of the building — 50,000 square feet on a two-thirds-of-an-acre lot — and the developers’ newly disclosed decision to rent Packard’s 25 units rather than sell them as condos, as had originally been announced. Renters aren’t as responsible as owners, a couple of the critics suggested, while another warned that the development could turn into “student housing.”

Neighbors also expressed fears about added traffic on the quiet street, as well as a shortage of curbside parking.

Dextradeur, a representative of the Hartland Group development firm cofounded by Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, sought to placate the project’s opponents throughout a meeting that lasted more than two hours.

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But there seemed no way to win over a few of the locals who had been trying for eight years to block the conversion of an old auto showroom and warehouse into a residential structure. If anything, these opponents had been further incensed by the demolition of the structure, which the developers had promised would be largely preserved through “adaptive reuse.”

UPDATE: Packard Lofts fi nally opened in J une. “I feel positive about it no w,” Carlisle said in an interview last week. “My main concern had been about tr a° c and safety on the s treet, but I don’ t notice any great di˛ erence.” She cautioned, ho wever, that “the pr oof is still to come.” The Hartland Group has said it intends to lease out a retail space on North Avenue as a co˛ ee house or restaurant, Carlisle noted.

Ivan Goldstein, a Lak eview Terrace homeowner who had likened Packard Lofts to a “cruise ship,” says the three-story blue-and-white building with balconies and setbacks “still seems disproportionate to me.”

Packard Lofts, in Goldstein’s view, is one of several recent or proposed changes with potential negativ e impacts on Lakeview Terrace. “If you keep eating away at a good thing,” he says of the street that o˛ ers

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Vermont’s New PhysicianAssisted Death Law May Have Had One Taker Should doctors be allowed to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients?

Political leaders avoided that emotionally charged question for more than a decade in Vermont —˛until — until February, when the state senate voted on it for the first time. ˜ e results were hardly conclusive: An almost evenly divided Senate initially Th eviscerated a bill legalizing the practice. But after the House approved the bill’s original language in May and Sen. Peter Galbraith (D-Windham) forged a compromise with its backers, both bodies found consensus.

When Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the bill into law on May 20, Vermont became the fourth state to allow physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs.

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stunning views of the lake, “eventually there won’t be a good thing.”

How are the new tenants? “They ’re a very polite and pleasant group of people,” Carlisle says.

Dextradeur says he’s pleased that man y longtime residents appear to be taking an accommodating ap proach to the pr oject and its occupants . “It’s really heartening to see the neighborhood welcoming new people,” he comments.

The building w as f ully leased e ven prior to its opening, Dextradeur notes, suggesting Packard Lofts is helping meet “an enormous demand f or housing close to do wntown.” The gr ound-floor space will likely be fi lled early in the new y ear, he adds . The Hartland Group is “in discussions ,” he sa ys, with “a local business that will be a gr eat addition to the neighborhood.”

Packard Lofts will remain a rental development for at least the next 10 years, Dextradeur says. Financing arrangements f or a pr oject that includes fi ve subsidized units require a long-term commitment to the leasing option, he explains.

— K .J .K .

UPDATE: So how many Vermonters have made use of the new law? Between zero and one one,, depending on onho how w you calculate it.

Physicians are legally rrequired equired to rreport eport to the theDepartment Department of of Health that they theyhahave ve complied with withr regulations egulations and writ writ-ten a ’ ’scrip. scrip. They do donot not ha have ve to r report eport whether aapatient patient has used the drugs.

“The physician is required to report that the requirements of the law have been met,” Department of Health spokesman Robert Stirewalt says.

According to Stirewalt, just one doctor has done so since the law was passed.

On December 14, the Burlington Free Press reported that a 47-yearold Middlebury man suffering from from stomach cancer obtained a prescripprescription. But according to his sister, he died of the disease on ovember 22 on N November —˙the — the very day he had intended to pick up the drugs.

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State to Consider Licensing Massage Therapists, Redefining Prostitution In May, local police and FBI agents raided two Asian massage parlors — but made no initial arrests — as a result of a two-year investigation of suspected prostitution and human traffi trafficking in Bennington.

Soon after, Seven Days decided to launch its own investigation. I spent one week and $500 visiting four Asian massage parlors in Chittenden County that were featured on Rubmaps.com, an adultentertainment website that bills itself as a nationwide guide to “erotic” massage parlors. ° e site features descriptions and reviews of the women working there, the sex acts they perform and how much each service costs. ° e working conditions Seven Days discovered suggested forced or coerced prostitution: undocumented, all-cash transactions with an exclusively male clientele; abundant use of surveillance cameras, locked doors and buzzers to screen customers; and windows covered with bars, boards or curtains. ° e women, all of whom were Chinese or Korean with limited English-language skills, said they worked seven days a week, from early morning until late at night, lived on the premises and worked for tips instead of wages.

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be held criminally liable f or allo wing prostitution or other criminal activities on their pr emises. Af ter one such letter was delivered to the Evergreen Spa in Essex Center, which Seven Days had neither visited nor mentioned, it closed “due to health concerns,” according to property owner Kevin Macy.

Shortly after Donovan’s letters were sent, Williston police stopped two men who had jus t lef t H armony Spa, both of whom admitted to having paid f or se x there. The police char ged the building ’s landlord, Thomas Booska, 68, of Burlington, with allowing prohibited sexual acts on his pr operty. In October , Booska pleaded no contes t to the char ge. His plea deal called for making a $ 500 donation to the P olaris Project, a national anti-tra° cking group, and cooper ating with f eder al o° cials investigating alleged sex trafficking through the spa. U.S. Attorney Tristram Co° n also fi led a f orf eitur e action against Booska’s building, which is currently in litigation.

State lawmakers are also discussing ways of discouraging such criminal ac tivities in the futur e. Secretary of State Jim Condos, who o versees Vermont’s O° ce of Pr of essional Regulation, said he’s willing to consider licensur e of massage therapists but w ants to a void a “knee-jerk reaction” to the problem in the form of burdensome or costly laws.

Senator Dick Sears (D -Bennington), Senate J udiciary who chairs thethe Senate Judiciary xpects to take Committee, said he he eexpects take up aa apists, bill in 2014 to license massage ther therapists, but recognizes that it’ll likely face strong industry opposition.

Sears said his committee ma y also discuss revising Vermont’s prostitution defines the crime as law, which currently defi as o˛ ering or rreceiving eceiving of of the “the off the body bodyf or for sexual intercourse for hire.” (Italics added.) f or or al sex Under that defi definition, paying for oral or the proverbial “happy ending,” aka hand job, isn’t technically prostitution. Sears suggested that his committee may recommend equent tougher penalties for “johns” who fr frequent such establishments but cautioned, “I’m not sure how many people we want to throw in jail for happy endings.”

Currently, at leas t six V ermont “exotic” massage parlors are still listed as activ e on the R ubmaps.com website.

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Within 12 hours of the s tory’s publication, one of the thr ee businesses profiled — Riv er Spa in B urlington — closed its doors. A second, Seiwa Spa in Essex Junction, shut down 10 days later.

None of the employees or owners could be located.

Despite the f act that all thr ee establishments were known to police , and two had had had prior priorrun-ins run-inswith withthe the la law, w, representatives from the Vermont State Police and the V ermont Human Tra° cking Task Force were slow to respond.

Harmony Spa was raided in 2004 for similar suspected activities, though no prosecutions were brought in that case because the business owner and witnesses all disappeared before the investigation could be completed.

A week af ter the Seven Days exposé, Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan convened a meeting of top la w-enf orcement o° cials and instructed them to hand deliver correspondence to about a dozen Chittenden County establishments, along with copies of the Seven Days article. The letters put the businesses and landlords “on notice” that they w ould

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Whatever Happened To...? « p.31 LABOR

After a Summer of Turmoil, State Employees Union Says It’s Back on Track Ever since he took the reins of the Vermont State Employees Association in December 2011, executive director Mark Mitchell has been shaking things up in Montpelier. Critics have questioned his hard-charging style, while allies say he’s just what the union needs.

Last summer, that shaking almost did him in.

On June 12, two VSEA staff attorneys brought a series of complaints about Mitchell to the union’s board of trustees. Mitchell, they alleged, willfully violated federal labor law by refusing to pay the union’s own employees time and a half for overtime work. Within hours, the board voted 10-6 to fire him.

But Mitchell and his allies fought back. One of them, board president John Reese, called the termination “crazy.” Five days later, the board changed its mind, voting 10-7 to reinstate Mitchell and put him on leave until it could complete an internal investigation.

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UPDATE: The monthlong investigation cleared Mitchell of wrongdoing. He went back to w ork — and the tw o staff attorneys who crossed him immediately resigned.

“It’s been great to be back,” Mitchell says, half a year after his temporary ouster. “Of course, I’m personally grateful for how things turned out.”

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After a board election in September, Mitchell says, more of its members support him and the more aggressive “organizing model” he’ s sought to implement at the VSEA. That model in volves training rank-and-file union members to fight for their own rights — and not just to rely on central staff to file grievances.

Says Mitchell, a couple of boar d members “who were not on the side of due pr ocess” were replaced in the elections.

According to Shelley M artin, who took o ver f rom Reese as boar d president, “The boar d is no w moving forward. We’re more focused on building an organizing

model and ha ving members mor e involved than [whether to have] Mark be here or not be here.”

Last fall, VSEA negotiators signed off on four new contracts with state government, each of which is currently being r atified by members. Mitchell sa ys he’s particularly proud that the new contr acts guarantee a living wage to those covered by them.

“Our union is health y and w orking hard to k eep our members in a good working environment so they can produce a good quality of w ork to the public, ” Martin says.

— P.H .

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Burlington Stands Firm on Yanking Liquor Licenses for Non-Taxpayers A Burlington City Council committee unveiled a novel method of tax collection earlier this year, threatening to deny liquor licenses to three restaurants that had fallen behind in their sales-tax payments to the city.

Even more controversially, the licensing committee warned the owner of Bove’s Restaurant that continued failure to correct housing-code violations at his residential rental properties would result in the same penalty.

Councilor Max Tracy, a Ward 2 Progressive, defended the committee’s tough tactics.

“Having a liquor license is viewed as a privilege,” Tracy said in July. “It’s an opportunity to make significant amounts of profit, so you should be in good standing with the city in every aspect of your dealings with the city.”

Dick Bove, founder of the Pearl Street pasta emporium, told the committee he strongly objected to linking liquor license renewal to what he said was the unrelated issue of housing-code compliance. The owners of the other three restaurants in arrears didn’t challenge the committee’s stand and said they would work out tax-payment plans. Radio Bean, ONE Pepper Grill and Kountry Kart Deli collectively owed the city close to $10,000.

Committee chairman Norm Blais, a Ward 6 Democrat, said at the time that he believed his panel had the authority to refuse to renew liquor licenses for reasons unconnected to alcohol service or consumption. He acknowledged, though, that the legal situation was not entirely clear.

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UPDATE: The licensing panel is moving ahead with its effort to tie liquor licenses to

tax payments. A letter signed by Blais, Tracy and the committee’s third member, Ward 7 Democrat Tom Ayres, was sent last week to all 200 or so liquor -licensed establishments in the city.

It warns that the committee will ur ge the full council to block r enewal of a license for any business that falls behind in its taxes. All Burlington restaurants and bars licensed to serve alcohol must apply for renewals before the end of March.

As of mid-December, city officials say that Kountry Kart Deli w as up to date on its taxes, Radio Bean was making regular payments and ONE Pepper Grill remained delinquent.

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Blais said last week, however, that housing-code violations will not be considered grounds for denying a liquor license. Doubts linger, he added, as to whether his panel is on sound legal footing in proceeding with the plan to hold licenses hostage to tax payments.

“The saf e r oute,” said Blais , an attorney, “would be to ask the legislatur e to broaden the scope of municipal violations that could be addressed by withholding liquor licenses.” He plans to ask the city council to press Montpelier to make such a change.

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Monkton Artist’s Battle with Police Moves to Federal Court, with a Stop at UVM Over the summer, Seven Days reported that Monkton artist Rod MacIver was suing the town of Shelburne in small-claims court for what he described as acts of perjury stemming from a bogus traffic stop.

Several months earlier, MacIver had been driving south on Route 7 when Officer Jason Lawton ticketed him for running a red light. At the time, MacIver blew up.

He denied the violation and asked — facetiously — if the cop had been “smoking pot or something.”

When MacIver later filed a complaint with the department, he apologized for his ill temper but maintained his innocence. Sergeant Allen Fortin insisted the video from Lawton’s cruiser cam proved MacIver’s violation.

In fact, it hadn’t. When MacIver later secured a copy of that footage, it showed him passing through the intersection under a yellow light. The artist used the video to get his traffic violation overturned, and subsequently sued Shelburne in small-claims court, requesting that the town amend its police complaint follow-up procedure and reimburse his legal fees.

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The July hearing was postponed because none of the Shelburne witnesses showed up, but that didn’t stop MacIver’s story from transfixing a small corner of the internet. In the following week, various news outlets, including the Huffington Post and a Japanese morning TV program, picked it up. The YouTube video of his traffic stop has clocked more than 260,000 hits.

It wasn’t just idle-minded netizens who found MacIver’s case compelling. This fall, the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Rod MacIver Liberties Union took MacIver on as its client. Dropping the small claim in Chittenden Superior Court, the ACLU brought his case to federal court, suing Officer Lawton for violating MacIver’s First and Fourth Amendment rights.

MacIver welcomed the assistance, he says, because he couldn’t find a lawyer to take his case pro bono. Also “small-claims court wasn’t the right venue, but I didn’t feel capable of bringing my case to federal court myself.”

Depositions for the case are scheduled to take place next month. Lawton’s attorney, Colin McNeil of McNeil, Leddy & Sheahan, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

MacIver’s case aside, it wasn’t a terrible autumn for the Shelburne 5-0. Competing in the 2013 National Law Enforcement Challenge, the department took silver in the category of municipal law-enforcement agencies with between 11 and 25 officers.

The national award, which is presented by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, honors the quality of traffic-safety initiatives and community involvement.

According to a press release from the Vermont Department of Public Safety, “the Shelburne Police Department has coordinated special high-visibility enforcement campaigns with all of the law-enforcement agencies in Chittenden County and elsewhere. These efforts have helped to make the roadways in Chittenden County some of the safest in the state.”

MacIver is still driving on them. In fact, around 11 p.m. on December 6, University of Vermont police pulled MacIver over and issued him a traffic ticket.

The department won’t share any specifics about the incident, and MacIver has also declined to comment on the case — that is, the artist says, until he has a chance to watch the footage from the officer’s cruiser cam.

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State administrators of a federal rent-subsidy program warned a few months ago that 2000 or more poor Vermonters could be forced out of their homes due to indiscriminate budget cuts ordered by Congress.

The across-the-board reductions known as sequestration were forecast to result in the loss of 11 percent of the state’s $49 million allocation for the Section 8 voucher program.

Under this 1930s New Deal initiative, eligible tenants are required to pay between 30 and 40 percent of their incomes toward a monthly rent level set through negotiations between local housing officials and private landlords. Uncle Sam covers the difference between the tenant’s share and the monthly payment specified in the lease.

Because of sequestration, the number of Section 8 vouchers issued to Vermont households was expected to fall from 6750 to about 6000 this fiscal year.

That could increase the number of Vermonters who spend nights in state-run shelters, housing advocates warned; last year there were 4400. The Section 8 cuts mean “the ability to access housing is going to get significantly harder,” warned David Yacavone, commissioner of the Department for Children and Families.

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Would a Bike Registry Help Recover Stolen Wheels?

Now There’s an App For That Bike theft tends to spike in Burlington around the time students return to area colleges. In one week at the end of last summer, the folks at North Star Sports turned away several people trying to sell bikes that appeared to be stolen.

The shop owners decided to go public with their concern.

Appearing before the Burlington Police Commission, Pat and Jay Miller requested that the department consider reinstituting a citywide bike registry. For decades, the city had required new bike owners to register serial numbers with the city in exchange for a sticker or license plate. The city abandoned that system several years ago, but if the police department reinstituted the database, the Millers argued, it would streamline the process of recovering stolen wheels.

Burlington police already keep an internal database of all bikes reported stolen, and the nonprofit cycling advocacy group Local Motion has a separate — if somewhat buggy — registry, too. But in response to the Millers, Burlington Police Chief Mike Schirling explained that he was open to having a third party create such a resource available to the riding and retailing public.

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Af ter reading Seven Days’ story, a gr oup of web developers from the Berlin-based cybersecurity firm Pwnie Express took that challenge upon them selves. For Hack VT, an October coding competition, they decided to build an electronic bike registry from scratch.

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“We did a bunch of market research, talked to bike shops and r eally got confirmation that the existing systems weren’t working f or their needs ,” says lead developer Gabriel K oss, pointing to Local M otion’s resource, as w ell as a national s tolen-bike registry “that’s pretty defunct and crusty, for lack of a better word, and it costs money.”

Ultimately, the Pwnie team didn’t receive any honors f or their H ackVT creation, a w eb-based service called S af e Spokes VT ( the winning team

smaller number of v ouchers than they r eceived prior to sequestration. But the spectacle of mass evictions of low-income renters has been avoided through stricter enforcement of the Section 8 regulations.

“People are losing housing vouchers not because of f unding cuts but because they ’re not meeting their obligations under the pr ogram,” says Janet Green, Burlington’s Section 8 coordinator.

The rate of attrition f or participants in the pr ogram has risen “somewhat, ” Dettman says, as s tate of f icials more closely monitor compliance with rules mandating timely rent and utility payments as well as law-abiding behavior.

Some vouchers are terminated f or “positiv e reasons,” Dettman notes , such as when a tenant gets a job that lif ts him or her abo ve the income eligibility level. A voucher also gets deducted fr om the state’s total when a Section 8 r enter dies or moves into an assis ted-living arrangement. But a larger-than-typical number of subsidized ten ants are now losing their v ouchers — and thus their homes — because they didn’t follow the rules.

A portion of these people w ould likely have been able to r emain in the pr ogram if the s tate had provided services aimed at pr eventing homelessness, Green suggests. Obtaining f unding f or these sorts of services has long been an aim of V ermont housing advocates. But, Dettman r eports, “We’re not making any progress in persuading the state to put money into prevention.”

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developed af unctional health-insur ance calculator). But that hasn’ t changed their plans to move Saf e Spokes VT onto the w eb as a f r ee app that would be accessible thr ough any browser or smartphone. Doing so w ould be easy , Koss says, because they completed 90 percent of the program in the 24-hour “hackathon.”

The system would allow bike owners to register their new or e xisting ride, then print out and af f ix a QR code somewhere on its f rame — Koss suggests tamper-resistant metal s tickers. In case of loss or thef t, a f inder or shop clerk could scan it with a smartphone and get in touch with the owner. Users of the program could also do a “fuzzy intelligence search” around Craigslist, to see if anyone was advertising bikes that matched their stolen one.

Koss says the bigges t challenge is f inding a partner — it could be B urlington police or bik e shops — who could host the database and promote the app, which would be available f ree of char ge to the public.

“The system only r eally has v alue if people adopt it and really start entering their data into it,” Koss explains. “More than a technical challenge , it’s a social challenge of promoting it and getting people to adopt it, and unf ortunately w e don’t have marketing skills. We’re technical people.”

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Last fall, a group of Champlain valley superintendents proposed a new way to reorganize the public-school year. dubbed “Calendar 2.0,” the idea was to break up the academic calendar with several one- to two-week “intersessions” that would allow underperforming students to catch up on schoolwork, while providing others a chance to pursue extracurricular enrichment. proponents argued that such refresher periods would shrink the achievement gap between students from low- and high-income families. what wasn’t to like? Students would lose two weeks of summer vacation to make room for those intersessions in the 175-day academic calendar.

Many parents cried foul. Some formed a group, the vermont Save Our Summer Coalition, and collected over 1000 likes on Facebook. They complained not just about the sanctity of summer, but also about the lack of data to support an experiment that would force students into hot classrooms in August and press parents to find childcare in winter.

In fact, no definitive study has proven the value of Calendar 2.0, but the superintendents defended their proposal by pointing to the problem of summer “regression,” when all students forget 6 percent of the previous year’s learning during the long vacation. The supers held four public forums in October and also welcomed feedback on a Calendar 2.0 blog in anticipation of an annual vote to establish the next year’s school calendar.

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Some parents and students voiced support for Calendar 2.0 in those forums, but the majority took issue with the idea. At the end of October, the superintendents nixed the proposal for 2014-2015.

But the concept behind “intersessions” lives on. Although she hasn’t taken a stand on Calendar 2.0 specifically, incoming Vermont Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe says she’s not opposed to redefining the school day — or year — if it helps kids learn. In her view, the achievement gap is exacerbated by the lack of intellectually stimulating activities — such as summer camps — available outside the classroom to students from lower-income families.

“The opportunities and concerns that gave rise to Calendar 2.0 are still out there, and I am sure community conversations will continue about how to best use time to support student learning,” Holcombe wrote in an email response to questions from Seven Days.

“We have good research now that shows that a lot of the achievement gap can be explained by learning — or less learning — outside of the regular 175-day, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. school year.”

To increase the “time children spend engaged and learning,” one of the programs Holcombe intends to focus on is 21st Century Community Learning Centers, a federal initiative that funds after-school or summer learning opportunities for lowincome students.

What does that program have over Calendar 2.0? Chiefly, data. Among the 15,000 students it served nationwide during the 2011-2012 academic year, math and language arts scores stayed the same or increased for more than 80 percent.

Emanuel Betz runs the program in Vermont, where 115 schools — roughly a third — are participating.

“I think it is fair to say we are invested in what works, and right now, the place where we can get traction on this very important issue is around the work Emanuel is doing,” says Holcombe. “His work directly increases the time children spend engaged and learning.”

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Antigay Groups Dropped from State’s CharitableGiving-Program When you think charity, you probably don’t think of fighting the homosexual agenda.

But as Seven Days reported in September, the annual charitable giving program for state employees, called VtSHARES, included at least two groups devoted to fighting for “traditional” marriage. One, the Mississippi-based American Family Association, has been categorized as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ° e SPLC cited the other, Colorado-based Focus on the Family, as an antigay organization. ° e cost to the state to operate VtSHARES, which allows employees to deduct contributions directly from their paychecks, is “pretty insignificant,” Secretary of Administration Jeb Spaulding said at the time.

Truth Wins Out executive director Wayne Besen countered: “° e fact is, if even a penny is spent on this, it’s too much.”

While Spaulding defended the program in September, he said he was already planning to review it “to make sure the vetting process works as well as it should.”

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RU12? executive director Kim Fountain told Seven Days she hoped Gov. Peter Shumlin, a strong supporter of gay rights, would take action to oust the two groups from the program.

“What I am going to assume is that Gov. Shumlin doesn’t know these groups are on the list,” she said. “And I’m also going to assume that once he fi finds out, something is going to be done about it.”

According to Deputy DeputySecr Secretary etary of of Administration Michael Clasen, Clasen,fifive 578 state employees pledged aa total totalofof$ $578 to Focus on the theFFamily amily during this thisf all’ fall’ss VtSHARES drive. That’s more than the $234 pledged b y two state workers last year. Nobody pledged to the American F amily Association, which was new to the pr ogram this year, Clasen says.

Next year, both groups — along with other out -ofstate organizations —°will be e xcised f rom the lis t of approved groups.

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part of ys. of the thecampaign, campaign,”” Spaulding sa says.

“He was not happy they were in there, but he was willing to give us the time to give it a thoughtful review and develop a plan to move forward.”

That review resulted in a policy change, Spaulding says.

“What we decided to do , starting with next year’s campaign, is to tSHARES limit the charities in inthe theVVtSHARES ermont-based orgacampaign to VVermont-based ovide nizations or businesses businessesthat thatprprovide ermonters, with aa direct services to toVVermonters, legitimate presence in Vermont.”

Organizations will have to be vetted and approved by either the U nited Way of Vermont or by the VtSHARES organizing committee.

“The long and the short of it is we think we can target a lot more funds to Vermont charities,” Spaulding says.

“We won’t have organizations such as the ones that were questionable in there anymore, and we’re going to focus on Vermont.”

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Town O˜ cials Intervene in Jericho Land Dispute Firefighters on the Underhill Jericho Fire Department butted heads with some Jericho neighbors last fall over the department’s plans to sell a 125-acre parcel in Jericho Center. ° e fire department maintained that the land, which was donated in 1986 by Mary “Alice” Rivers, should be managed for the department’s greatest possible financial benefit. ° ey slapped a hefty price tag on the scenic farm — $5.3 million — and put it on the market.

On Front Porch Forum and Facebook, neighbors cried foul, saying that the fire department’s plan violated wishes expressed by Rivers — who died last December at age 91.

She’d written that she wanted the farm to remain “as close to as God made it,” but it wasn’t a legally binding document.

Jericho’s fire department operates as a nonprofit, independent from the municipal government. ° us, even though 60 percent of its budget is tax dollars from the people it serves, those same residents wouldn’t have a say in how the Rivers property was managed.

“We all know what Alice Rivers wanted, and it’s not a question of legal versus illegal, or private company versus public company,” said Mike Kramer, the Jericho resident who organized a Facebook group in protest of the land sale.

“It’s just right and wrong.”

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the Rivers Property gathered steam. Kramer became its default leader; he set up a w ebsite, helped coordinate meetings and sifted through town documents to bolster the contention that Rivers wanted her farm to remain undeveloped.

But the con versation between conservationists and firefighters ultimately de volved, says Jericho selectboard member Catherine M cMains. “It had gotten to the point where people … were really having a not-so-civil back and f orth, ” she sa ys. “We said, ‘We’ll step in and see what we can do.’”

Mary Rivers’ property in Jericho

The selectboard and fire department agreed to hold o˛ on an y sale of the Riv ers property until M arch 1.

In the meantime , the selectboar d is negotiating with the department “to essentially tak e over the land, ” says McMains. There’s no talk of using a taxpa yersupported bond to make an outright purchase, but one proposal would have the selectboard essentially pay the department what it would have made in interest if the Rivers property proceeds had been put into a trust.

In the meantime, the town wants assurances that the asking price matches the property’s market value, and leaders w ant to see a mor e transparent budget from the fire department.

“We’re trying to say it’s in their best interest to make the townspeople happy,” says McMains.

That’s all the fire department wants, according to f ormer f ire chief Randy Clark. Clark says the department is dr opping the par cel’s price to $ 1.5 million.

That’s a good number f or the selectboar d to work with, says Clark. “The ball’s in their court, basically … We just want to get rid of it at this point, because we’re just fed up with the negativity of it all.”

Kramer remains “cautiously optimistic.”

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Supreme Court Decides Case of One Would-Be Murderer, Mulls Second Case The Vermont Supreme Court recently heard an appeal from Norman Stevens, a Burlington man who was the first defendant in state history to be sentenced to life in prison without parole for a crime other than murder.

Stevens, 58, was convicted of attempted murder for beating his ex-girlfriend with a hammer in 1999 and dragging her to a van where he had stored ropes and gasoline. He planned to set it on fire with her trapped inside and was stopped only when neighbors rushed outside and saved her.

Comparing him to the 9/11 terrorists, Judge Michael Kupersmith sentenced Stevens to life in prison without parole. Stevens appealed to the state Supreme Court, arguing that his sentence was disproportionate to his crime.

While Stevens’ appeal was pending, a second defendant, Edward Johnson of Barre, was also sentenced to life without parole for attempted murder, again by Kupersmith. Johnson also appealed his conviction.

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His appeal centered on several claims of error during his trial, including an assertion that he should not have been found guilty because, at the scene, the victim could not identify him as the attacker.

“These issues were already resolved by the jury in favor of the state,” Chief Justice Paul Reiber wrote in the opinion. “We are not triers of fact, and we will not substitute our judgment for that of the jury.” Stevens remains in a Kentucky prison, where Vermont sends most long-term inmates. Johnson is being housed in the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield.

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Rob Drain: U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in the southern

Bill Piper: Drug P olicy Alliance media contact on a press release titled “Poll: Three Out of Four Washington, D.C. Voters Want to R emove Criminal P enalties f or Marijuana Possession Under District Law.”

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Christ in East Braintree.

Angela Overy: author of the book Sex in Your Garden.

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Patti Cook: Burlington teacher and culinary educator.

Sid Hammer: 20-year-old student at the U niversity of Vermont who was arrested for possession of ecstasy, oxycodone and LSD. (“Sid” is a street name for LSD.) Trent Boozer: publisher of Recovery Campus, a magazine

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t’s been another banner y ear f or w ordsmiths (read: geeks) such as m yself who keep a vigilant ey e out for aptronyms — that is, names that align with their bearers’ professions, pursuits or extracurricular activities.

Listing them in our end- of -year issue has been a Seven Days tradition since 2007.

Admittedly, few years can measure up to 2011. That was the year when Anthony Weiner, a pr eviously respected Democratic congressman from New York City’s ninth congressional district, sexted selfies of his crotch to w omen who weren’t his wife. He emerged again in 2013 in another failed bid to become New York City’s mayor, proving once again that a Weiner is a gift that keeps on giving — especially to political cartoonists and late-night comedians.

Among the aptr onyms we discovered this y ear were Jeff Drew, a New Mexico-based freelance illustrator who’s produced work for Seven Days (including the cover of this issue); and Randall Drew (no relation), a cartoonist f rom White River Junction. I also f ound John Woolley, producer of “Shaun the Sheep,” a children’s animated claymation series from the UK; and Greg Beets, a music reviewer for the Austin Chronicle. (With aptronyms, spelling is less important than pronunciation.)

Some anti-aptronyms — or names that seem ir onic owing to their o wner’s circumstances — made the lis t, as well. They include Alexandra Parks, a New Haven woman who, on M arch 18, was allegedly spotted b y a V ermont State Police sergeant nodding off behind the wheel while her vehicle was still rolling. Parks was later cited for driving under the influence of drugs, f elony possession of controlled substances and reckless endangerment, as her child was in the backseat and her car w as rolling toward a moving train.

In the same v ein, in April, a Vermont trooper stopped Frank Liberty for driving 93 mph in a posted 50 mph zone on Route 116 in Starksboro. That day, Liberty was cited for speeding and r eckless driving and los t his f r eedom. And on October 28, Daisy Cowit drove into a her d of cows in Mount Hope, N.Y. In years past, I’ve also noted place names that w eren’t aptronyms but seem apropos given the circumstances, such as the town of Winner, S.D., where a $232 million winning Powerball ticket was purchased. This y ear’s ironic place name award goes to the Flintlock Ridge Office Center, which is home to the National Shooting Sports Foundation in Newtown, Conn. You can’t make this stuff up.

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s post-traumatic stress disorder a timeless side e˜ ect of war or a 21st-century buzzword? Readers may find themselves asking that ques tion as they delve into Nostalgia, the po werf ul new novel f rom Brattleboro-area author Dennis McFarland.

Malcolm Gladwell came down on the latter side of the debate in a 2004 New Yorker piece called “Getting Over It,” where he contrasted a post-World War II novel in which a veteran simply “gets over” his trauma with a post-Vietnam novel in which a veteran is haunted by his pas t. “Somehow in the intervening decades our understanding of what it means to e xperience a traumatic event has changed,” Gladwell concluded.

Well, maybe. But, as personal accounts f o invisible war wounds flood in, it seems mor e than a little callous to instruct veterans to “ get over it” and move on. (A J uly 2013 New Yorker story by David J. Morris revisited the PTSD controversy with more evidence and nuance than did Gladw ell’s piece.)

Moreover, other scholars argue that PTSD has e xisted from the beginning of time under di˜ erent names, sometimes une xpected ones. In the 18th and 19th centuries , f or ins tance, soldiers who experienced a mysterious malaise were often described as su˜ ering from “nostalgia.”

That historical f ootnote is the seed of Nostalgia.

McFarland tells the s tory of S ummerfield Hayes, a 19-year-old Civil W ar private and s tar baseball pitcher who arrives at an army hospital with a striking condition.

While everyone in the novel who witnesses H ayes’ symptoms explains them a bit di˜ erently, modern readers will immediately identify them as PTSD. “Baseball-loving Civil War soldier with PTSD” w ould serve as a perf ect pitch f or an Oscar -bait movie. Yet not a single passage in Nostalgia f eels gimmicky, generic or opportunistic. On the contr ary, McFarland — author of six previous acclaimed novels — has immersed himself so thoroughly in the language , physical details and ideas of Hayes’ world that this fi ction sneaks up and en velops the reader. By the end, it ’s hard not to see H ayes as a living rebuke to Gladwell’s thesis, even though he never existed.

The novel opens in a highly unsettling s tate of medias res. Bleeding from shrapnel wounds, “adrift in body and mind,” young Hayes has been abandoned in the V irginia woods by his regiment. We won’t discover where or how

he was wounded, or wh y he w as abandoned, f or man y pages, because Hayes’ troubled mind prefers to focus on memories that predate his first and only combat experience. In particular, he dwells on “the sole scrap of peace within him”: r ecollections of a regimental baseball game.

For its fi rst 70 pages , Nostalgia alternates between present-tense descriptions of Hayes’ wanderings in the f orest — jarringly interspersed with f r agmentary memories, hallucinations and dr eams — and e xtended flashbacks to his life when it made sense to him.

We learn that he w as recently orphaned, that he pitched f or a Br ooklyn ball club, and that he enlis ted in the Union Army in part because he’d begun ha ving “the wrong kind of dreams” about his older sis ter and beloved companion, S arah.

Bossy and sensible, Sarah is a gr ounding presence in the flashbacks, while Hayes’ own mind remains a confusing place to be.

Some readers may find this extended opening daunting, rif e as it is with disordered f in ormation.

But McFarland’s masterf ul prose pulls us thr ough the chaos and into the novel’s second chapter, in which Hayes wakes in a Washington, D.C., hospital to find himself being tended by, of all people, Walt Whitman.

In this year of the Civil W ar’s sesquicentennial, we’ve been hearing a lot about the gr eat American poet ’s work nursing wounded soldiers. Who better than a lightly fictionalized Whitman to w atch and w ait — patient and empathetic, with his “maternal maleness” — as H ayes finally begins to confront the specter of what happened to him on the battlefield?

Physically sound but unable to speak or write his name, Hayes appears to many observers like a mere “malingerer” trying to delay his return to the front. A doctor diagnoses him with “nostalgia,” which usually earns the a˝ icted a trip to the asylum. Only W alt (as Hayes knows the poet) argues that the young soldier be allowed to heal in his own time and way.

From this point on,Nostalgia’s reader is on sure footing.

While Hayes continues to s truggle with par anoia and a sense of unr eality, the hospital narr ative and Whitman’s guiding presence form a strong central thread. And when at last we learn what happened to Hayes during three days in 1864’s Battle of the W ilderness, McFarland summons all the po wers of his artis try and imagination — with stunning results.

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In the book’s acknowledgments, the author notes that that those three days are believed to have seen nearly 30 30,000 ,000 an inferno inferno,, or how casualties. How can one imagine such an it feels tosurviv survivee it? SSuffi tosasayy that this thisbr bravura f eels to u˙ ce it to avura sequence holds both bothbeauty beautyand andhorr horrors. ors. It erases the distance between Hayes and the reader, plunging us into a surreal world where nothing is linear, nor solid.

To survive the chaos chaos ofofengagement, engagement,wwee read, Hayes adopts “the par pared thew warrior.” ed mechanism ofofthe arrior.” Or, as McFarland describes his histr transformation another ansf ormation in another memorable passage: Something deep within him had gone numb , and then, for a moment or two, he lost touch with all the certainties, small and lar ge, that made him kno wn to himself. It was a kind of blankness , for sure, the result of obliterative noise, but not entirely without character: nothing in the w orld mattered, nothing in life possessed any value, and all human endeavor was as foul and menacing as the scavenging of wild pigs in the street. ousing In a world world where soldiers can can be becheerfully cheerfullygrgrousing companions one instant and unrecognizable corpses the next, it’s no wonder that Hayes loses his grasp of language, tories we tell ourselv es about wh logic and the the sstories ourselves whyy things adual matter. “Getting over it” isn’t an option for for him. him.Gr Gradual healing, it turns out, may be. of McFarland’s The passage above above is indicative indicative of McFarland’s prose ed cadence in general: It has the thef ormality formalityand andmeasur measured we associate with the 19th century but lacks the bar oque, pseudo-Shakespearean flourishes with which man y modern writers e voke the period. The narr ation calls no undue attention to itself and the dialogue is terse and natural — with e xceptions made f or Whitman’ s plainspoken eloquence. It’s the poet who comes closest to giving the no vel a “message ,” as he laments the cos ts of war or tells Hayes, “Your wounds are not visible like other wounds … Which isn’t quite the same thing as not real.”

Nostalgia is no sw eeping war epic. H ayes’ story is a deeply personal, even idiosyncratic one, and is stronger for that tight focus. The novel may be an e˜ ort to understand the “invisible wounds” of current conflicts by transporting their symptoms to a w ar long pas t. But McFarland has studiously ref rained f rom imposing a modern, ther apyspeak sensibility on 1864 . Hayes’ unhinged per ceptions and Whitman’s steadf ast belief in his inner r esilience appeal to our empathy regardless of our stance on the current conventional wisdom about trauma. By the novel’s end, the young soldier has taken his place among the great characters of his torical fiction: those who compel us to believe in their resonance, if not their reality.

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Their advance west out the Catharpin Road was bewildering and chaotic. The cavalry, instead of leading the infantry, stayed back with the wagons. Thus the infantry columns, forced to splay and detour around the hundreds of horses and wagons that clogged the road, inched forward in knotted factions and great confusion. The fog burned away early, and soon after the men were under way, the sun beat down upon them relentlessly. Despite all this — and despite the unsettling effect of advancing without a cavalry escort — Leggett put a hand on Hayes’s shoulder and said how glad he was to be on a course that would get them, at last, out of the forest.

Then, inexplicably, less than three hours along, they stopped.

The men, jammed close together, began milling about in the heat.

Hayes asked Leggett why he thought they’d halted.

“Don’t know,” Leggett said, reaching for his canteen. “I guess they can’t decide which way to take us. But if they make us wait here, we’ll know we’re in trouble.”

“How so?” asked Hayes.

Leggett passed him the canteen. Hayes had his own, of course, but it was Leggett’s way of being friendly. “Sometimes waiting’s a strategy,” said Leggett. “But more often than not, it’s what you do when you don’t know what to do next.”

Hayes reached into his vest pocket, took out his watch, and saw that he’d lost the fob. The watch slipped from his palm, hit the ground, and skittered, vanishing amid the feet in the crush of soldiers. Hayes squatted and found it easily enough, but already somebody had stepped on it unawares. Through the broken crystal the hands read ten minutes past nine o’clock; he held it to his ear but heard no ticking.

They would stay there, stuck on the narrow road among the pines, for what would seem like an interminably long time as the woods around them continued to heat up. Hayes was sure he could smell pinesap and another, burnt odor he couldn’t name. Soon, he got Leggett settled in a patch of deep shade off the road and persuaded him to hold his canteen against his swollen jaw. Leggett lay on his side, his knapsack for a pillow, and gazed meditatively at a single white mushroom that sprouted nearby from the dry brown leaves and needles covering the ground.

There was, Hayes thought, something oddly mesmerizing about the perfect little mushroom, an innocence about it amid the gruff army, the stomping and yelling and grumbling, the dust clouds left by the horses, the pyramids of stacked firearms. Their brigade […] was near the midpoint of the corps, which stretched a couple of miles ahead and behind. After a while, they heard sounds of combat, from faraway north, and out the Catharpin Road as well, to the west.

Leggett rose onto his haunches, pointed west, and said, “You hear that, Hayes? That’s artillery.

It’s started. Here it comes … and we didn’t get out of the damned Wilderness.”

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CULTURE Carpenter, the older woman was reserved.

Eventually, though, she opened up about her family. Her husband passed away from cancer, she revealed. She has five grown children and now enjoys painting and watching films.

For Mbengue, interviewing Carpenter has been a confidence booster. With his Cameroonian accent, he says, it can be difficult to make himself understood, especially by older Americans.

Nevertheless, he and Carpenter were able to communicate.

The VAL project was more than just a language exercise, explains Giancola.

Although the instructor had been mulling over the idea for a while, he was able to implement it only this fall, when a mini-grant from the Vermont Agency of Education allowed him to purchase a set of audio recorders. Over three November mornings, his students went to the nursing home to chat with residents in a well-lit activity room.

“Many of the students ask me, ‘How can I practice speaking English with native speakers?’ and I also know that many people, as they get older, don’t speak to people as much,” explains Giancola. “My goal was to bring the two

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t first glance, Sheila Carpenter and Alexis Wea Mbengue wouldn’t appear to have a lot in common. Carpenter, a whitehaired 71-year-old from Rutland, used to (the after party) work as a dishwasher and hasn’t traveled much outside Vermont. Mbengue, 32, was born almost 6000 miles away in Douala, Cameroon. After earning a bachelor’s degree in law and working for his family’s business, Mbengue moved to Vermont via Brooklyn and Wisconsin. But the two do share at least one important trait.

“We both have hearing problems,” Mbengue explains of his bond with Carpenter, a resident at Green Mountain Nursing Home in Colchester.

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While he prepares to tackle the latter, Mbengue has been studying English.

He met his girlfriend while getting his certificate of nursing assistance in Madison, Wisc. When she accepted a biology research assistant position at the University of Vermont last year, the two moved to Colchester with their 14-monthold daughter; now Mbengue works in a Shelburne nursing home.

This fall, Mbengue was enrolled in the advanced English class at Vermont Adult Learning, a nonprofit organization that provides free classes in a range of subject areas. Many of the center’s language students come from the state’s immigrant and refugee populations. For now open for registration a final project, Mbengue’s instructor, Go online today or stop in and see us just Louis Giancola, had the students prooff the corner of College and St. Paul! duce a book of stories about the lives of residents at Green Mountain Nursing Home.

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emigré, Daniel Bitodi, wants to attend an American university but now holds a quality-control job at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. He discovered that Green Mountain resident Winona Mitchell has a dog named Jack and a cat named Mitch. (It was particularly amusing to Bitodi to realize that Americans consider their pets part of the family.)

Such were the tidbits that made it into the class’ book, Senior Stories From the Green Mountain Nursing Home. Just 20 pages long and held together with plastic binding, it’s no Moby-Dick. But the book does contain the bios of each person involved in the project, along with photos and a touching forward by Giancola.

The son of an Italian immigrant and formerly a high school French teacher, Giancola started working at VAL 20 years ago, after getting a master’s degree in teaching English as a second language at St. Mike’s. The project was inspired by trips he took to see his mother in a Rutland nursing home, he says.

Just as important as the final product was the ceremony at which the students presented their book to the residents. In early December, all of them gathered as usual in the nursing home’s activity center. This time there were coffee and cookies, however, and a projector screen flashed images from the project. Barbra Streisand crooned through the room’s sound system.

Before presenting the books, each student said a few words. Jeehye Park, who came to the U.S. a year ago for her husband’s job with IBM, led the charge.

She’d enrolled in the class to better express herself in English, she said. She talked about how the resident she’d interviewed, Lena Bizzozero, is a kind woman who likes to go shopping with her niece.

Bizzozero, a former acrobat from Barre and easily the most outgoing resident in the room, demanded that Park come shake her hand at the end of the presentation. “We’re glad to have you!” she declared jovially.

Soon Matala spoke his part. “I was a lawyer in my home country, and I used to speak before many people. But this is the first time I’m speaking English before many people,” he explained to his 20 or so listeners.

“It was a good interview because I learned something about Mary,” Matala continued, “and she learned something about me.” m

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The students come from various African, Asian and European countries.

While some moved to Vermont to be with family members, others came for educational purposes.

Many of the interviews were conducted like Mbengue and Carpenter’s: The students brandished their audio recorders like journalists and bent down to engage the residents, many in wheelchairs.

Like Mbengue, Adam Matala, a 40-year-old native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was paired with a widow for his project. Mary Woodward, a soft-spoken woman, has spent most of her life in northern Vermont, though she migrated to Florida several times. Many years of her life were devoted to raising eight children, she told her rookie biographer. She never left the country, let alone went anywhere near the DRC. Before he boarded a plane to the U.S. with his children one year ago, Matala had never needed to use English.

His wife, a refugee, had left two years earlier, seeking asylum in Vermont because of her secretarial work with the country’s opposition party. On the journey to reunite with her, Matala says, he would have missed a connecting flight if he hadn’t lucked out by finding someone who could direct him to the terminal in French.

“There’s many things you can’t do if you can’t hear English,” says Matala, who worked as a lawyer in the DRC. “People are speaking and you can’t understand them, and sometimes you look like a crazy man! You want to ask them something, and you can’t.”

As the elders and English-language learners swapped stories, passing residents peered in at their exchanges.

According to the nursing home’s activities director, Diane McDowell, who helped with the project, the building is a gold mine of tales. One former resident, who has passed away, used to work for Elvis Presley, she says. Others spoke of a ghost named Trenchy who wanders around the nursing home and is thought to be a doctor who worked in the building when it was an army hospital.

In such a storied setting, the students proved themselves able reporters.

Born in Boston but raised in Spain and Morocco, native Arabic and Spanish speaker Adam Marshall Hantout learned that Lydia Elizabeth Loiselle had been the first woman to fly an airplane out of Buffalo, N.Y. Another DRC

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ats o˜ to you, 2013. With the calendar coming to a close and 2014 on the horizon, it’s time to end the year on a high note. Setting the tone for the days ahead, poet Rainer Maria Rilke once mused, “and now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” Taking this lighthearted approach, Burlington and St. Johnsbury’s First Night celebrations o˜ er far-reaching festivities that bring topnotch talent to revelers of all ages.

Buy a button or a wristband — they’re your “tickets” to music, theater, dance and fireworks. Burlington’s shindig begins at noon, while St. J kicks things o˜ at 4 p.m.

This year, First Night Burlington celebrates its 31st anniversary, making it the longestrunning event of its kind in the world. With this status comes a lineup of more than 100 perf ormers and activities at 18 di˜ erent venues. Newcomers including Afi nque, Ray Vega and Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul B and join mainstays such as Jon Gailmor, Burlington Taiko and Circus Smirkus. Also new this y ear is the Africa to V ermont program, featuring A2VT, Walinja and the B urundian Women’s Dance Company. Last but certainly not least, fireworks explode over Lake Champlain at 6 p.m. and midnight.

In the N ortheast Kingdom, S t. Johnsbury’s historic downtown comes aliv e with a multitude of merriment and both new and r eturning acts. Fan f avorites include the Wicked Smart Horn Band and fi re artists Dancing Djinn. Kiddos join the party at the Family Fun Fair and Kids R ock! All-Star Musical Revue. At 8:30 p.m., folks head to the St. Johnsbury Academy field house parking lot to release lighted lanterns into the winter sky, and then return at midnight for a fireworks display.

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AL: The smoked-pork sandwich f r om the Southern Smoke f ood truck w as love at fi rst bite. The smokedlamb-and-quinoa burrito and ever-changing fish tacos cemented my esteem for chef Brian S tefan’s creativity.

But it w asn’t until he s tarted popping up at ArtsRiot Kitchen Collective that the Sean Br ock protégé began showing his real chops. Stefan’s weekly barbecue nights are street food prepared with a fi ne-dining chef ’s skill.

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memorable f are of the y ear inside a br ewery tasting room, I would have allowed more time to gorge. I fi rst tasted chef Erik Larson’ s f ood af ter r eporting a s tory on Morrisville’s Lost Nation Brewing. That menu included snail- and chorizo -spiked gnocchi so tender they melted on m y tongue; a sculptur ally gorgeous sandwich of smok ed tof u with arugula on Elmor e Mountain Bread; and a charcuterie board that evoked a still life from the Dutch golden age, with buttered bread squares, pickled cauliflower, peppers and pickled eggs.

Larson’s housemade pork rillette w as so luscious , it tasted as if it were laced with foie gras (it wasn’t). 2013 was not a y ear for new chefs splashing onto the scene — it was more about quiet, unexpected experiences like this one. Woe is me that I don’t get up to Morrisville as often as I would like.

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Away Inn & R estaurant was barely on m y radar. But general manager Bruce H yde Jr. and chef R yan Mayo have remade the inn’s eatery into a loca vore destination. When I visited in September , I fl ipped f or the Parmesan-flavored risotto cak es in smok ed-tomato sauce and the buttery duck Reuben. Looking at the latest menu, I know I’ll have to return for the braisedoxtail grilled cheese with marr ow butter, pork-f at wings and pho.

AL: Given Burlington’s growing African population, it was only a matter of time befor e the city got a Somali restaurant. I’m jus t glad it ’s as good as Af rican S af ari Store & Deli. F or f ormer big -city denizens who miss injera, there are not one but tw o varieties of the sof t flatbread. Proteins change every day, but whether it ’s goat stew or jerk chicken, you’re guaranteed big, beautiful flavors.

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AL: The Hindquarter’s red truck s topped all o ver Burlington this y ear, finally taking a r egular space at the University of Vermont. I announced on m y Alice Eats Facebook page that the Vermont f ood truck had come of age in July after I tried its “side dish” of toothsome, Indian-spiced monkfish with pickled cauli-

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our devoted Seven Days f ood writers can barely leave the house without being asked variations on these ques tions: “What’s new and good?” “What ’s your f avorite restaurant?” and “Where should I be eating?”

These are the queries of amateurs. Those of us who eat f or a living ar e f orced to ask the ques tioner to be more specific. In Vermont, we have the happy problem of too many delights to choose from.

But as a New Year’s gift to you, curious readers, we’ll get more specific about our o wn choices with a lis t of superlatives f rom 2013. Sure, plenty of f a vorites f rom years past are still in heavy rotation, but this list is devoted to the new ones that have earned our love. Don’t sing “Auld Lang Syne” without having tried a handful — or a mouthful.

flower and mushrooms, beluga lentils and cucumber raita. Now, with a Friday pop-up indoors at ArtsRiot Kitchen Collective in Burlington, Hindquarter chef Luke Stone serves up some of the s tate’s most creative, sophisticated fare.

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AL: No question, this w as the Y ear of the B agel. It started with the opening of the s tylish Bagel Place in South B urlington, with its perf ectly f ormed sandwiches. Myer’s Bagel Bakery in B urlington expanded

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CH: Wine bars have been old hat in other parts of the country for a while, but Burlington really caught the wave this year. It began when L’Amante’s Kevin and Kathi Cleary opened their spacious, elegant Vin (originally called Uva) last spring beside their College Street digs. Then, in the fall, came a duo of new wine hangouts: the cozy, subterranean Sotto Enoteca — an anteroom for Burlington’s Trattoria Delia but a wonderful bar in its own right — and the airy, modern oak45 in Winooski.

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its offerings with eastern-European/ Jewish-inflected dishes such as smokedbrisket sandwiches, not to mention a veritable venture center of other foods prepared on-site, including cakes, doughnuts and hummus. Finally, the New York-style bagel came to Burlington with the opening of Feldman’s Bagels, which satisfies even the fussiest alte kakers with its bagels and matzo ball soup.

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AL: Sure, you can eat from your lunch-

box at one of the window counters at Bento, but it’s even more fun to take it back to the office and make your colleagues drool. I haven’t met a single dish I haven’t loved at the latest link in the San Sai Japanese Restaurant chain.

And I can afford to feed my dependence. Exceptionally flavorful miso soup is $1, while ultra-fresh, made-to-order sushi tops out at $6. I haven’t eaten my way through all the bento boxes just yet, but whether I’m ordering tsukune, gyoza or a hamachi collar, I know the myriad sides will be different from those of the day before and just as delicious.

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CH: It seemed like octopus was suddenly everywhere this year: grilled with garlic-flecked yogurt at Pistou in Burlington; smoky, tender, woodfired tentacles at Hen of the Wood in Burlington, curled atop a sunchoke purée; grilled with chorizo and charred lemon at Bluebird Tavern; braised and crisped atop cuminscented yogurt at SoLo Farm & Table in South Londonderry. There were even curls of octopus for sale at fish counters. Vermont had a cephalopod epidemic this year, and it was blissfully infectious.

CH: Butterworks Farm’s Jack Lazor is known and beloved far beyond the tight-knit world of Vermont agriculture, and not just for his luscious organic yogurts and kefir.

He’s also an innovator who has spent 35 years honing the art of growing grains in rocky northern Vermont. Recently, Lazor spent months distilling that knowledge into the 448-page The Organic Grain Grower: Small-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the Home and Market Producer, released by Chelsea Green Publishing last summer. It covers everything from judging soil fertility and flaking oats to granary design and the merits of various flour mills.

Most of the guidelines are drawn from Lazor’s direct experience. He quips that growing grain in Vermont is “a great way to lose money,” but his book is likely to be a touchstone for generations of farmers to come.

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reared its delicious head late last year when Misery Loves Co. in Winooski debuted meals such as fried chicken or steak with a choice of sides. South Burlington’s Guild & Company won me over with a Thanksgiving-like Sunday dinner option of local chicken with all the fixings. Nika has an amazing deal with three courses of delicious Mediterranean specialties for $20 on Sunday night. And the confited-andfried pork shank at the Hindquarter’s Friday night pop-up in Burlington?

It’s served a different way nearly every week, and I want them all. Tacos, bo ssäm — whatever chef Luke Stone throws at me, I’ll collect like edible baseball cards.

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AL: The crunch of the flaky exterior, the ooze of the Michel Cluizel chocolate, the buttery inner reaches. There isn’t a single region of the anatomy of the Little Sweets pain au chocolat whose description doesn’t sound almost pornographic. Just a chocolate croissant?

Perish the thought. Just like Andrew LeStourgeon’s canelés, raisin-filled cinnamon buns and pitch-perfect ice creams, this decadent sweet from the Hen of the Wood pastry chef is several cuts above.

CH: Though it’s not new this year, Quechee’s Trap Door Bakehouse & Café is the best bakery that most northern Vermonters have never heard of. Owner Theodora Damaskos and her staff fatten the Upper Valley populace with perfect, flaky croissants; crumble-topped blueberry muffins; and glazed koulourakia, a subtly sweet Greek pastry. I have a serious crush on Betwixt, the Bakehouse’s twist on Twix bars: buttery sugar cookies topped with caramel, a drizzle of melted chocolate and crumbled pecans. Even gluten-free eaters are not safe from their seductions: Carrot-cake petits fours, topped with blossoms of gingery buttercream and showered with grated coconut, lack gluten but are laced with goodness.

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AL: There are two kinds of guilty pleasures: food you’re embarrassed to eat because of its lowbrow cultural associations, and morsels that you know won’t do your body any good. Though it mostly deals in healthy noodle dishes, Dharshan Namaste Asian Deli in Winooski ticks off both boxes with its occasional special, the sausage banh mi.

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about the menu at Burlington’s Hen of the Wood, the new temple to noseto-tail cuisine that’s part of Hotel Vermont. Chief among those assets is tonno di maiale, a deceptive dish of ham that’s been braised in wine until it resembles the fish of its name.

The shredded ham, submerged in nutty olive oil, is tender and velvety,

thE YEAr iN LiquiDS I spend as much time thinking about and trying liquids as I do solids, and Vermont always has a flood of superlative drinks to choose from. Here are some of the highlights of the past year.

Best cocktail I came to Burlington’s Sotto Enoteca in search of an amazing glass of wine. Instead, I got lost in this wine bar’s beguiling cocktail list.

Intrigued by the miniature barrel behind the bar, I ordered the barrel-aged Negroni. The barkeep broke one perfect, oversize ice cube

ch: Woodstock is dense with tourists and locals during the day but can feel deserted after the sun goes down. So Worthy Kitchen is a blessing in this sleepy burg: a spacious, buzzing, industrial-chic hangout with very non-Woodstockian counter

tastes less like beer than like a hybrid of beer, cider and wine. When I popped open a large bottle of blend No. 1, it frothed like a living thing, tart and dry and rich and round all at once, with apple, apricot and maybe even wet-wool flavors. Though the ale was first released late last year, it only became widely available in 2013. Each new batch released (right now, blend No. 2 is out) offers a new tasting adventure.

Best cider Eleanor and Albert Leger of Eden Ice Cider Company have long made exquisite ice ciders from a mélange of apples they source in the

service, incredible beer and a menu of what might be called Vermont soul food. Buttermilk-fried chicken thighs are coated in a ridiculously crispy batter landscape of peaks and valleys.

Shoestring-thin truffle fries, dusted with salt and parsley, arrive greasy from their cooking in beef tallow but still crisp and utterly addictive. A hunk of moist, flaky roasted cod with spicy remoulade is served on a bed of salty kale chips. Crunch, crunch, crunch. And, though the Lard Donuts sound like they might block an artery, each cinnamon-showered pastry is like a little puff of heaven. m

wine to boot, using the La Crescent grape. I had only a taste of Deirdre Heekin’s 2011 La Garagista Vinu Jancu during a wine dinner at Burlington’s Pistou this past fall. But its unusual combination of succulence and grippiness is hard to forget.

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Best Spirit/Liqueur: I blame Black Snake Whiskey, the slightly sweet but crisp, corn-based whiskey that Quechee’s Vermont Spirits released earlier this year, for getting me hooked on moonshine. This stuff is made from organic corn sourced at Jack Lazor’s Butterworks Farm in Westfield, and produced inside a

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It may be overkill to mention the same people twice, but Eleanor Leger (of Eden Ice Cider) and Deirdre Heekin (of La Garagista) are two über-talented women who have collaborated once again to create Orleans Bitter, a companion to their Orleans Herbal.

This apple-based aperitif can sort of be compared to Campari — it has the same jewel-like color and a similar bitter kick, and it can be used similarly. But Orleans is drier and more herbaceous. I’ve gone through three bottles this year and happily just received another as a Christmas gift. Come December 24, I’ll be turning my family on to Orleans spritzes.

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There’s this rare, beautiful thing called orange wine, usually made from white grapes that have been left to macerate with their skins.

Not many producers make it — especially in the U.S. But Vermont is home to a wine iconoclast and visionary who has not only been growing grapes and making wine in this cold climate, but making an orange

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Married partners Erin Donovan and Matt Baumgart tuned in to Belgian-style beers during a two-year stint in that country.

Once they returned stateside, the couple began trying to pin down the styles they’d enjoyed abroad. In Vermont, they gathered wort from area breweries and fermented it in oak barrels, using a blend of wild and domesticated yeasts, before putting the ale through a secondary bottle fermentation.

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Northeast Kingdom. This year, they moved their production and tasting room to a much larger space inside the Northeast Kingdom Tasting Center in Newport. There the Legers released Eden Sparkling Cider, an exquisite dry, effervescent cider aged in oak barrels that tastes kind of like Champagne kissed by apples. It’s sold out for now, but more should be on the shelves by next year.

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They purchased the business from Rob Scharf of the Lemon Peel Café & Crêperie last year. Orfan elected to keep that name until June 2013, when he was ready to unveil his everything-from-scratch concept to Vermont.

Locals quickly fell for the offerings. Rustic Roots boasts a perfect five-star rating on restaurant-review website 7 Nights and comparable scores on national sites.

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Sometimes the only acceptable decision is not to decide.

That’s why my go-to item at Rustic Roots is the signature Rustic Breakfast. At $12, it’s like a mini breakfast buffet on a plate.

Orfan honed his charcuterie skills in his previous kitchen at Rat’s Restaurant in Hamilton, N.J. His expertise shows in a pair of homemade breakfast meats included in the dish.

Fennel bacon is Orfan’s take on lean Canadian peameal bacon, with smoky loin meat subbing for fatty belly. The crisp edges are enrobed in fennel for a sophisticated hint of anise flavor. The skinny link of coffee-maple sausage, served in two halves to prolong savoring, packs a sweet, earthy punch of bursting pork fat.

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When diners are presented with a choice of eggs, most chefs recommend them poached or over easy. Not Orfan, who knows his creamy scramble is something special. It’s a great complement to the tarragon-tossed potato chunks that replace more common hash browns.

The icing on the Rustic Breakfast cake is a puffy popover that bursts with herbed butter like a pastry version of chicken Kiev.

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At the soft opening of Rustic Roots’ now-discontinued small-plates nights, Campbell poured me a Spiked Fizz, a combination of herbaceous homemade soda and sparkling wine.

I don’t drink alcohol, but I didn’t mind. I later learned there’s also the Seasonal Fizz, a booze-free version of the same drink.

My go-to beverage, however, is the rich hot cocoa. On its own, the thick drinking chocolate would be worth a try, but the addition of cinnamon and other spices makes this winter warmer taste like gingerbread cookies melted in chocolate. It’s good enough to drink even in the summer.

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The work of local artists is on display all around the small, oftenbustling café, and its website offers links to the artists’ stores or websites.

This support of Shelburne-area artisans is no surprise, given Campbell’s own creative inclinations. She designed Rustic Roots’ tangled logo, but her primary artistic passion is more seasonal: carving jack-o’lantern portraits.

Campbell and her father, Steve, appeared on “The Dr. Oz Show” last year with her pumpkin portrait of the syndicated TV host. This year, she carved the Rustic Roots logo into an extra-large pumpkin for diners to admire. Clearly, this couple has some serious knife skills.

Orfan and Campbell’s warm, comfortable restaurant has certainly carved out a space in my heart — and stomach.

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Everything. No, seriously. If you’re like me, you’ll devote yourself to trying a different menu item each time, along with your staple Rustic Breakfast.

In the morning, that might mean the saltedcaramel French toast. The thickcut, homemade sweet bread is drenched in custard that transforms its texture into something akin to bread pudding.

A deep, dark slick of caramel is enlivened by a smattering of salt, which also keeps the dish from being too sweet.

At lunch, you can’t go wrong with Orfan’s from-scratch pastrami on house rye. Even the grainy mustard is prepared in-house. It would be wrong to say this sandwich tastes like a mother’s love; its appeal is far too carnal.

The more faint of heart might try the hickory-smoked chicken sandwich. Ideally balanced, its layer of onion jam sweetens the meaty bird and crisp bacon. Pungent Brie adds a comforting wash of cream to the fillings stacked on housemade focaccia.

And I haven’t even tried dinner yet. In recent weeks, Rustic Roots has added a three-course prix-fixe on Saturday nights. The $30 meal is definitely on my to-eat list.

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FROSTFEST: Animal-care demos, upcycled craft activities, themed story times and snowball fights augment the museum's exhibit offerings. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

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'EVERY 9 SECONDS': Kenneth Fink's drama explores the far-reaching consequences of domestic abuse, as experienced by a reporter working undercover at a women's crisis hotline. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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OPEN BRIDGE GAME: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3373.

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GROUP MEDITATION: Folks still their minds in a supportive session. Westford Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-3725.

HEALING WITH ANCIENT WISDOM: Reiki master Christy Morgan helps folks find relaxation through the Japanese technique, aromatherapy and Andara crystals. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11. Info, 671-4569.

SYSTEMA WITH RYAN MILLER: An in-depth exploration of breath and natural movement informs this individualized approach to the Russian martial art. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 7-8:15 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

VINYASA FLOW: Yogis place an emphasis on stretching, toning, balancing and releasing negative mental vibrations. Geezum Crow Yoga, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. $12-14. Info, hannasatt@gmail.com.

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CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: Families celebrate the holidays 19th-century-style with candle dipping, ornament making, horsedrawn sleigh rides and sledding. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

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FRANKLIN STORY HOUR: Preschoolers convene for tales, songs and crafts. Haston Library, Franklin, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 285-6505.

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.

MUSIC WITH DEREK: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family.

Info, 878-4918.

WORCESTER PLAYGROUP: Crafts, snacks and outdoor adventures delight little ones up to age 5. Doty Memorial Elementary School, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-1312.

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BEGINNER SPANISH LESSONS: Newcomers develop basic competency en español. 57 Charlotte Street, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757, gsyaranga@gmail.com.

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SLEIGH RIDES: Giddy up! Weather permitting, horses trot folks over snow-covered open fields. Rides leave every half hour.

Seats are first come, first served. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $8-10; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8442.

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'WHITE CHRISTMAS': Carol Dunne directs this Northern Stage interpretation of the holiday film about two World War II veterans who move their theatrical show to Vermont to win over the singing Haynes sisters.

Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $10-60. Info, 296-7000.

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Peaks and Valleys Brian Mohr and Emily J ohnson have dedicated their lives to the outdoors .

Avid skiers and adv enture seekers, the a ward-winning photojournalists and environmentalists own and oper ate Ember Photogr aphy, widely r egarded f or images of nature in its purest state. Having graced the pages of Outside magazine, the New York Times and other publications including this one, the Vermont-based pair focuses close to home with “ O˜ Piste in the N ortheast.” A mix of photos , video and narration, this ode to the region’s ski terrain doubles as a platform for ongoing conservation e˜ orts in the state and beyond.

BRIAN MOHR & EMILY JOHNSON Sunday, December 29, 7 p.m., at Castlerock Pub, Sugarbush Resort in Warren. Free; Saturday, January 4, 7 p.m. at Mad River Glen ski area base lodge in Fayston. $5-8.

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Home for the Holidays Behind Rusty DeWees’ ripped Carhartts , duct tape, weathered boots and over-the-top Vermont accent lies a prof essionally trained actor. Bef ore creating his no w-f amous character “the Logger,” he honed his theatrical chops at the V ermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre and New York City’s George Loris Actors Theatre School and Lee Strasberg Institute.

These days, the Stowe resident has a multigener ational following that fl ocks to live performances, including the Logger ’s Holiday Variety Show. Joined by champion fiddler Patrick Ross, Emmy Award-winner Peter Wilder and recording artist Keeghan Nolan, DeWees delivers a f as t-paced evening of comedy and music that showcases his gift for storytelling.

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In 1994, Rusted Root burst onto the music scene with their second album, When I W oke. More than thr ee million albums sales later, the Pittsburgh-based band — forever linked to the hit single “ Send Me on My Way” — is still at it. Melding acoustic, rock and world music, the six-piece group has an eclectic mix of infl uences. Their sound injects Af r o-Caribbean rhythms into a jam-band base. Marking their 20th anniv ersary, Rusted Root’s 2012 release The Movement brings the musical traditions of India, Af rica and Br azil into a concisely cr af ted pop format.

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n the world of professional dance, choreographer Bill T. Jones is a living legend. ˜ e Tony, Obie and MacArthur “genius” award winner leads the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music. Highlighting three works — Continuous Replay, D-Man in the Waters and Spent Days Out Yonder — the piece spans the years 1977 to 2000 and maintains a lightheartedness that only technical mastery can allow. Accompanying the New York City-based troupe, Boston’s Borromeo String Quartet presents works by Mozart and Mendelssohn, creating a masterful intersection of the two art forms.

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BallRoom & latIn DancIng: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required.

Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. maD RoBIn contRa Dance: Folks in clean, soft-soled shoes move and groove in traditional New England social dances to music by Pete Sutherland and guests.

All dances are taught. First Congregational Church, Burlington, waltzing, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 4:43 PM8-11 p.m. $5-10; bring a snack to share. Info, 503-1251.

Queen cIty tango mIlonga: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, introductory session, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.

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lama tsong Khapa Day: Attendees honor the founder of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism at a candlelit ceremony. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 633-4136.

fairs & festivals

FRostFest: See THU.26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

food & drink

pasta nIght: Locals load up on carbs topped with "G-Man's" famous homemade sauce. Live music by the Browns River Band follows. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. $7. Info, 878-0700.

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acoRn cluB stoRy tIme: Little ones up to age 6 gather for read-aloud tales. St. VT Center for Integrative Therapy Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 75 San Remo Drive, S. Burlington 748-8291. rushfordchiropractic.com, 658-9440 chIlDRen's stoRy tIme: Budding bookworms pore over pages in themed, weekly gatherings. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 1 12/13/13 11:06 AMMontpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

DRop-In stoRy tIme: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate children of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, sevendaysvt.com 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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avoID Falls WIth ImpRoveD staBIlIty: A personal trainer demonstrates daily prac3:19 PMtices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477. communIty Wellness Day: Practitioners offer Reiki, Shiatsu, aromatherapy, acupressure, energy work and more to those looking to experience alternative healing. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sliding-scale donations; preregister.

Info, 870-0361. hot yoga: A heated room allows for deeper stretching and accelerated detoxification.

Bring a towel, face cloth and water. Geezum Crow Yoga, Montpelier, noon-1:30 p.m. $12-16.

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eaRly BIRD math: Inquisitive minds explore mathematic concepts with books, songs, games and activities. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 434-3036. enosBuRg Falls stoRy houR: Youngsters show up for fables and crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

FamIly movIe nIght: Kiddos and their parents screen Monsters University, about two creatures who bonded for life after meeting in college. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. homeWoRK help: First through eighth graders get help with reading, math and science assignments from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science students.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216. lIttle DRIBBleRs BasKetBall pRogRam: Drive to the hoop! Preschoolers through first graders learn new skills in a supportive environment. Gymnasium, Highgate Elementary School, 4:45 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 868-3970. magIc: the gatheRIng: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or "planeswalkers," fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free; for grades 6 and up. Info, 878-6956. musIc WIth DeReK: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes.

Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 764-1810.

WRIte on!: Wordsmiths ages 6 to 10 brainstorm ideas and spin a story or two. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-4665. youth yoga: Yogis ages 14 through 17 hit the mat for a stretching session. Jenke Arts, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 279-6663.

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gIovannIna BuccI: The singer-songwriter and Plattsburgh native performs an all-ages acoustic show. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872, rotagallery@gmail.com. scRag mountaIn musIc: Accompanied by the duo Clockwise, soprano Mary Bonhag and upright bassist Evan Premo present works by Bach, Benjamin Britten and others.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $25-30. Info, 760-4634.

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KyRonschool oF neW conscIousness IntRoDuctIon: Kirk Maris Jones details the multistep approach to spiritual awakening.

Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $11 suggested donation. Info, 510-697-7790.

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the loggeR's holIDay vaRIety shoW: Backed by his band the Fellers, Rusty DeWees leads an evening of music, comedy and acting featuring special guest Uncle Furmon.

See calendar spotlight. Stowe High School, 8-10 p.m. $25. Info, 888-8838.

'WhIte chRIstmas': See THU.26, 7:30 p.m.

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FRostFest: See THU.26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

food & drink

mIDDleBuRy WInteR FaRmeRs maRKet: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 989-7223.

RutlanD WInteR FaRmeRs maRKet: More than 50 vendors sell local produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at the bustling indoor venue.

Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 753-7269.

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Kung Fu WIth DavID mcnally: The second-degree black belt brings 25 years of experience to a practice of the martial art's five-animals style. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 10:45-11:45 a.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

R.I.p.p.e.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. yoga WIth ReBeccah BRInton: A mix of asana, pranayama and meditation makes for a mixed-level, occasionally rigorous class. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9-10:30 a.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

holidays

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pReschool aRt class: Mini Picassos ages 3 to 5 and their adult caregivers get creative with painting, clay sculpting, collage and more. Davis Studio, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $20; preregister. Info, 425-2700.

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BIRD-monItoRIng WalK: Experienced avian seekers lead adults and older children on a morning jaunt to locate various species in their natural environment. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9:30 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167. moonlIght sKI & snoWshoe: Nature lovers take a self-guided excursion along a half-mile torchlit trail, then warm up with hot cocoa around an outdoor fire. Personal headlamps required. Kingdom Trails Nordic Center, East Burke, 6 p.m. $5; free for members and day pass holders. Info, 626-0737. sleIgh RIDes: See THU.26, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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3D pRIntIng, DesIgnIng & scannIng WIth Blu-BIn: Instruction in basic programs teaches attendees how to build digital models of their ideas. Blu-Bin, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 345-6030.

IntRoDuctIon to DIgItal vIDeo eDItIng: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite of VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor's permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692.

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Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $38-46. Info, 760-4634. the loggeR's holidAy VARiety show: See FRI.27, 8-10 p.m. 'white chRistmAs': See THU.26, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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Belly dANce with emily pipeR: Drawing from ancient traditions and far-reaching cultural influences, participants tap into meditation and self-compassion. Comfortable clothing required. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 5-6:30 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

JAmBo! AFRicAN-style teeN dANce pARty: Middle and high school students boogie down at this multicultural meet-up.

North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $3-5. Info, 862-2608 or 863-6713.

RussiAN plAy time with NAtAshA: Kiddos up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 764-1810.

language

FReNch coNVeRsAtioN gRoup: dimANches: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat.

Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

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gReeN mouNtAiN mAhleR FestiVAl opeN ReheARsAl: Orchestra and chorus parts are welcomed as the orgafairs & festivals nization prepares for its January benefit perforFRostFest: See mance of Beethoven's THU.26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Ninth. See vtmahler. film org for details.

North End Studios, 'ticket to Ride': Burlington, 1-4 p.m.

The latest installment Free. Info, 864-0788. of Warren Miller's legendary film series tRistAN heNdeRsoN & transports skiers and hAzeN metRo coNceRt: riders to the world's The winners of the 2013 most daunting peaks.

Young Tradition Vermont conCO UR TE S Y OF P Spruce Peak Performing Arts test bring bagpipes, infectious ETER MATHIS Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 rhythms and heartfelt songs to the p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634. stage. New City Galerie, Burlington, 7 p.m.

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outdoors Aikido with seNsei RyAN milleR: Students tap into personal empowerment sleigh Rides: See THU.26, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. during an exploration of the Japanese martalks tial art's self-defense techniques. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

BRiAN mohR & emily JohNsoN: In "Off $14. Info, 870-0361.

Piste in the Northeast," the local photographers highlight skiing in our region spiRituAl heAliNg & eNeRgywith photos, video and narration. upliFtiNg meditAtioN: Drawing Proceeds benefit conon 20 years of experience, servation organizations Cynthia Warwick Seiler in Vermont and beyond. facilitates this lighthearted See calendar spotlight. session aimed at accessCastlerock Pub, Warren, ing intuition, clarity and 7 p.m. Free; $5 for raffle awareness. Rainbow tickets. Info, 496-5434.

Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. $15 suggested theater donation. Info, 671-4569. 'white chRistmAs': See suNdAy yogA: Chelsea IA THU.26, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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BER PH O OT ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., noon. Free. Info, 518-314-9872. chRistmAs At the FARm: See THU.26, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

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TibeTan Singing & Healing bowl MeDiTaTion: Using multitonal frequencies, Kirk Maris Jones accesses the power of the ancient instruments. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $9 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569.

fairs & festivals

FroSTFeST: See THU.26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

film

'THe inviSible war': Kirby Dick's 2012 documentary examines the underreported epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-2600.

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cHeSS & briDge clinic: Monty Montgomery shares his expertise with players in a supportive environment. Vermont Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Trivia nigHT: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 651-5012.

avoiD FallS wiTH iMproveD STabiliTy: See FRI.27, 10 a.m. awareneSS THrougH MoveMenT: FelDenkraiS wiTH uwe MeSTer: Increased flexibility and range of motion allow participants to address habitual neuromuscular patterns. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, noon-1 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361. laugHTer yoga: Giggles help students decrease stress and tap into a playful practice.

The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300. prenaTal yoga: Sila Rood leads expectant mothers in poses and stretches focused on preparing the body for birth. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 7 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361. r.i.p.p.e.D.: See SAT.28, North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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cHriSTMaS aT THe FarM: See THU.26, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

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alice in nooDlelanD: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

MuSic wiTH peTer: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:45 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family.

Info, 878-4918.

STorieS wiTH Megan: Little ones expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes. Daycare programs welcome with one caregiver for every two children. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216.

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green MounTain MaHler FeSTival open reHearSal: See SUN.29. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0788. 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.

SaMbaTucaDa! open reHearSal: New faces are invited 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.

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Dog paraDe: Costumed canines offer barks and wagging tails to welcome the new year alongside their human companions.

Gate House Courtyards, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, registration, 2 p.m.; parade, 3 p.m. $10. Info, 583-6571.

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FaMily-FrienDly yoga wiTH DeboraH FelMeTH: Meditation, Vinyasa-style asana, chanting and yogic philosophy help parents tap into creative expression. Kiddos ages 3 through 5 do the same at an art class across the hall. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9-10:30 a.m. $14; $25 includes kids art class; preregister. Info, 870-0361. kunDalini FuSion yoga: A blend of ancient teachings and exercises facilitates an awareness of the body and mind. Jenke Arts, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 279-6663.

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'a rockin' new year'S eve': Revelers groove to live tunes by BandAnna and guests, then usher in 2014 with a complimentary champagne toast on the porch at midnight. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 382-9222. cHriSTMaS aT THe FarM: See THU.26, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

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Dave Keller's New Year's eve extravagaNza: Folks send 2013 off in style with the Dave Keller Band, Mad Taco fare, Three Penny Taproom drinks, a champagne toast and disco ball drop at midnight, and more. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $10-15; free for kids 17 and under.

Info, 229-2737. eCHO ICe Ball: Folks fête the new year with a plated dinner and wine, provided by Sugarsnap. Live music, dancing and a frontrow seat for the fireworks round out the evening. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 7 p.m.-midnight. $125; limited seating; for ages 21 and up. Info, 863-1848. eCHO last NIgHt DaNCe PartY: Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band entertain attendees, who sample dessert and welcome 2014 with fireworks and a midnight champagne toast. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 p.m.-1 a.m. $5060; limited space; for ages 21 and up; cash bar. Info, 863-1848.

FIrewOrKs & tOrCHlIgHt ParaDe: Sugarbush employees light up Lincoln Peak at this sparkly New Year's Eve tradition.

Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 7 p.m. Call for price. Info, 800-537-8427.

FIrst NIgHt BurlINgtON: Circus arts, theater, music, dance and fireworks make for a memorable New Year's Eve at this all-ages, substance-free celebration. Various downtown locations, Burlington, noon-midnight.

$5-20 First Night button; family packs may be available; additional $4 tickets required at select venues. Info, 863-6005.

FIrst NIgHt st. JOHNsBurY: Thousands of revelers convene for first-rate entertainment, from the fiery street performances of Dancing Djinn to mind-boggling sleights-ofhand by Marko the Magician. Various downtown locations, St. Johnsbury, 4-midnight. $13-20 First Night wristband. Info, 748-2600.

KNIgHts OF tHe MYstIC MOvIe CluB: Cinema hounds ring in the new year with screenings of the Dead by Dawn cult film series and the infamous ball drop. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m.

Free to attend; donations. Info, 356-2776.

NeCI New Year's eve DINNer: Foodies follow a champagne reception with a six-course tasting menu prepared by New England Culinary Institute students. NECI on Main, Montpelier, 6-10 p.m. $75-100; limited seating; preregister. Info, 223-3188.

New Year's eve CeleBratION: Merrymakers hit up an all-ages dance party, a bonfire, a torchlight parade and ... fireworks, of course. Smugglers' Notch Resort, Jeffersonville, 6:30 p.m. Call for price. Info, 644-8851.

New Year's eve CHIlI COOK-OFF: Hot stuff!

Local restaurants offer fiery flavors with different varieties of this one-pot meal while competing for top honors. Live music, kids activities and snow sculptures complete the festivities. Langdon Street, Montpelier, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604, festivals@ montpelieralive.org.

New Year's eve CONtra DaNCe: Folks in clean-soled shoes move to tunes by Cuckoo's Nest and calling by Ruth Sylvester.

Introductory lesson, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m.

Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $5-15; bring a snack to share. Info, 785-4607.

New Year's eve DINNer & DaNCe: Locals feast on a buffet of prime rib, salmon, potatoes, veggies, salads and desserts. A midnight champagne toast and live entertainment by Wes & Sally Blair DJ Service round out the evening. Cocktail hour, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 6 p.m. $30; $55 per couple; preregister. Info, 862-1342.

New Year's eve DINNer & tHeater: Kim Anderson, Justin Bouvier and Leigh Guptill offer classy cabaret-style entertainment after a sumptuous dinner of gourmet fare.

Reception, 6:30 p.m.; dinner, 7:30 p.m.

Middlebury Inn, 6:30-10 p.m. $85 includes admittance to the Town Hall Theater party.

Info, 382-9222.

New Year's eve PartY & FIrewOrKs: Dazzling light bursts act as a festive opening act for musical performers the Grift. Foeger Ballroom, Jay Peak Resort, 9 p.m.-midnight. $5-10. Info, 327-2154.

New Year's eve tOrCHlIgHt ParaDe & FIrewOrKs: Folks ring in the New Year with a sky-high lights show, best viewed from the base lodge. Bolton Valley Resort, 8 p.m. Free.

Info, 877-926-5866.

New Year's eve at BetHaNY CHurCH: An all-ages party kicks off with a kids craft activity, followed by an Italian buffet dinner and live music by Arthur Zorn. An acoustic show featuring central Vermont talent rounds out the festivities. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 3-4:30 p.m., 5-6:30 p.m., 7-9 p.m. Free kids event; $10-20. Info, 223-2424.

New Year’s eve rOaD raCe: Athletes end 2013 on a high note and pound the pavement in a 5K. See cvrunners.org for details.

Registration, 1:45-2:45 p.m.; race, 3 p.m.

Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 3 p.m. $10; bring sweets for post-race treat table. Info, 229-6288. veNue New Year's eve Mega BasH: Justice and Mindtrap get revelers on the dance floor, where they count down to 2014.

Venue, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $16.50-20; for ages 21 and up with ID. Info, 863-5966.

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TRapp NoRdic cup: Cross country skiers race against the clock at a weekly 5K skate and/or timed trial. See trappfamily.com for details. Trapp Family Lodge Nordic Center, Stowe, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $8. Info, 253-5755.

wiNooSki wedNeSdayS: Folks hit up the Onion City for an evening of local libations, small plates and live entertainment. Various downtown locations, Winooski, 5 p.m. Free.

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Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 875-1018.

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cockTail walk: Distillers, producers and bartenders make Vermont-inspired libations with local spirits and bitters, then discuss their creations. See vermontfarmtours.com for details. Various downtown locations, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 922-7346.

FiSh FRy: Plates of crispy, golden-brown fish satisfy seafood lovers. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 878-0700.

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10:30 a.m.; 5K, 11 a.m. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. $5-25. muSic wiTh RoBeRT: Music lovers of all Info, 863-8412, info@runvermont.org. ages join sing-alongs with Robert Resnik.

Daycare programs welcome with one ReSolVe To ReVolVe: FaT Bike demo caregiver for every two children. Fletcher day: Riders get acquainted with the verFree Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; satile two-wheeled vehicles through group groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216. rides, instructional clinics and more. An after-party follows. Kingdom Trails Nordic music Center, East Burke, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, BuRliNgToN eNSemBle 90/10 SeRieS: 626-0737.

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Yoga ToTs: Kiddos ages 2 through 6 move and stretch their bodies while learning to focus. Parent participation is encouraged.

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Saint Michael the Archangel, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Donations.

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Info, 592-3088. sport ruTland WinTer Farmers markeT: See bolTon aFTer dark: When the sun sets, SAT.28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. skiers and riders explore Vermont's most extensive night-skiing terrain, then screen holidays selections from Meathead Films. Bolton sWinging epipHanY CelebraTion: The Valley Resort, 4-8 p.m. $19 lift tickets; $2 18-piece Swing North Big Band Orchestra refreshments; cash bar. Info, 434-6804. reinterprets the Christmas story through talks scripture, jazz carol arrangements and swing standards. St. Mark's Episcopal brian moHr & emilY JoHnson: See Church, Newport, 7-8:30 p.m. $7.50 sugSUN.29. Base Lodge, Mad River Glen Ski gested donation; limited seating; preregisArea, Fayston, 7 p.m. $8; $5 for Green ter. Info, 334-7365.

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T he Poetr y Experience : Creative prompts inspire writers to put pen to paper, after which they share stanzas in a supportive environment. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 489-5546.

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Belly Dance With Emily Piper : See SUN.29, 5-6:30 p.m.

kids

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Samba tuca da! Open R ehearsa l: See MON.30, 6-8:30 p.m.

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Bill T. J ones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company : In Play and Play: An health & fitness Evening of Movement and Music, Aiki do With Sensei R yan the New York City-based Miller : See SUN.29, 11 company pairs awarda.m.-12:30 p.m. winning choreography Sou l Purpose with live music from Development : Light the Borromeo String Body Medit ation : Quartet. Intervals of Cynthia Warwick full nudity. See calenSeiler helps attendees dar spotlight. Moore access their higher Theater, Hopkins selves in a focused Center, Dartmouth practice. Rainbow College, Hanover, 7 Institute, Burlington, 11 p.m. $22.50-50. Info, a.m.-noon. $15 suggested 603-646-6422.

Co donation. Info, 671-4569.

Swing Dance Practice ur te sy Spiritu al H ealing & Session : Twinkle-toed parof P aul B. Goode Energy -Uplifting Medit ation : ticipants get moving in different See SUN.29, 11 a.m.-noon. styles, such as the lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain holidays Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 'Saint -Saëns Christmas Ora torio' : 448-2930.

Under the direction of Arthur Zorn, the the games Bethany Church Choir excerpts Handel's Messiah, accompanied by pianist Diane Gaming for T eens & Adults : Tabletop Huling. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 3 p.m. games entertain players of all skill levels.

Donations. Info, 223-2424, ext. 224.

Ages 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher kids Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free.

H omework H elp: See FRI.27, 2-6 p.m.

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French Con versa tion Group: Dimanches : See SUN.29, 4-5:30 p.m.

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'Dr. H orrib le's Sing- Along Blog' : See FRI.03, 6 p.m.

'J esus Christ Superst ar' : See FRI.03, 7 p.m.

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Cynthia W ar wick Seiler : The spiritual teacher presents "Soul Purpose Development: A Gateway to a Whole New You." Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 671-4569.

Viny asa a t the Viney ar d: A gentle, yet invigorating class incorporates long, strengthening holds with deep stretches to bring about renewed focus. A journaling session follows. Shelburne Vineyard, 5:45 p.m. $13. Info, 985-0090.

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'Fin ding the Mirac le' Gathering : Group meditation, journaling and excerpts from "A Course in Miracles" help attendees access an intuitive, holistic lifestyle. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30 a.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 861-4769.

T ibet an Singing & H ealing Bowl Medit ation : See MON.30, 5:30-7 p.m.

Crea ti ve T ues days : Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:15-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

Preschoo l Art Class : See SAT.28, 10-11 a.m.

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Interme diate Con versa tiona l Spanish Lessons : Adults sharpen their grammar skills while exploring various topics. 57 Charlotte Street, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757, gsyaranga@gmail.com.

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H appiness Medit ation : Ginny Sassaman of the Happiness Paradigm shares techniques for calming the mind and emotions.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $8-10, preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

Lit t le Exp lorer Program: 'F arming With Ms. Virginia' : Little ones gain knowledge about the vital role of Vermont's working landscape. Highgate Public Library, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970.

Preschoo l Art Class : See SAT.28, 10-11 a.m.

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Cady/Pot ter Writers Circ le: Literary enthusiasts improve their craft through assignments, journal exercises, reading, sharing and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 349-6970.

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Clou d Computing for Small Business Workshop : An interactive training session focuses on creating an online presence, protecting sensitive documents and increasing office efficiency. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 8:30-10 a.m. Free; preregister.

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Essentia l Online T oo ls for Nonpro fits Workshop : An open format with Rob Fish helps local organizations utilize digital technology to meet specific needs. Gilbert Hart Library, Wallingford, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-6091.

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Green Mount ain T ab le T ennis Club : Ping-pong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 6-9:30 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

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Annika Ljung- Baruth : The UVM lecturer considers Virginia Woolf's theoretical stance on women and writing, as manifested in A Room of One's Own and other works.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955.

Barrie Dunsmore : Considering the question "What if the war never ends?" the former community ABC News correspondent presents "Security Financia l Compensa tion for Crime Versus Civil Liberties: America's Perpetual Victims Informa tion Session : Dilemma." Congregational Church, Norwich, Attendees learn about application processes 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184. for various financial-assistance programs Caro l Berr y: The art historian outlines the available through the Vermont Center for painter and writers who influenced Vincent Crime Victim Services. Pickering Room.

Van Gogh, then examines his legacy on 20thFletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. century artists. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 241-1250, ext. 114.

Free. Info, 773-1860. dance J ule Emerson : Fans of the popular PBS series learn about the period's fashion with Bill T. J ones/ Arnie Zane Dance the Middlebury College artist-in-residence.

Company : See TUE.07, 7 p.m.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 2-5 p.m. health & fitness Free. Info, 388-4095.

New Year's R eso lution: H ealthy Paul Mono d: How has the British monEating : Lisa Masé of Harmonized Cookery archy survived the last 175 years? The shares strategies to help folks transition Middlebury College professor tracks the royinto new culinary habits. Community Room, al family from Victoria to Elizabeth II for anHunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-6 swers. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, p.m. $5-7; preregister. Info, 2237 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

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Paul Vincent : In "Daily Life R .I.P.P.E.D.: See MON.30, in Pre-War Nazi Germany," 6-7 p.m. the Keene State College professor explores how kids ideology and terror undermined humanity. St. H istor y for Johnsbury Athenaeum, H omeschoo lers : In 7 p.m. Free. Info, "Economy," children 748-8291. ages 6 through 12 explore the state's Polly Youngfinancial past and presEisen dra th : The psyent. Vermont History chotherapist references Museum, Montpelier, 1-3 Buddhism, Jung and Co p.m. $4-5; preregister; limother sources when exur il c te un ited space. Info, 828-1413. sy amining society's influCo of V s e i e r m on t H u m a nit ence on the female psyche in "What H omework H elp: See FRI.27, 2-5 Women Want." Kellogg-Hubbard Library, p.m.

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Lego Crea tions T oy Banks : Youngsters ages 5 through 12 create colorful receptacles for coins and bills as a way to learn about saving money. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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create atmosphere, and design a composition. Weekly on ˜ u., Feb. 6-Mar. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $160/person; $144/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PAINTING: CONTEMPORARY FIGURE: Intermediate and advanced painters, revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the figure. Turn the page on traditional representation, using fresh color and dynamic composition to strengthen your personal expression. Work from live models each week, explore a variety of contemporary techniques. Figure drawing experience helpful. Weekly on Wed., Feb. 5-Mar. 26, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Cost: $325/person; $292.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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art TOUCH DRAWING STUDIO WORKSHOP: Great gift idea.

Touch Drawing is a simple, intuitive, meditative process that moves us deeply into ourselves.

Paper is placed over inked Plexiglas. Impulses from within take form through the movement of fingertips on the page.

Artists of any level, including absolute beginners, can experience inner imagery coming alive.

Fri., Feb. 7, 14 & 21, 9:30 a.m.noon. Cost: $135/3 sessions (incl. basic Touch Drawing supplies & 1 canvas). Location: Expressive Arts Burlington/Studio 266, 266 South Champlain St., Burlington.

Info: Expressive Arts Burlington, Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org.

Teacher bios are also available online.

burlington city arts ARTIST MEET-UP & CRITIQUE: Connect with other artists in the community and receive constructive feedback on your artwork in a supportive setting.

Bring several pieces in any media, your artist statement and your ideas. Feb. 3 or Mar. 3, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $20/person; $18/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: Wheel ° rowing is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Explore various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes.

No previous experience needed!

Weekly on ˜ u., Feb. 6-Mar. 27, 12:30-3 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: Wheel ° rowing is an introduction to clay, pottery and the

ceramics studio. Work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Explore various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes.

No previous experience needed!

Weekly on ˜ u., Feb. 6-Mar. 27, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS6: Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator, creating interesting graphics, design posters and other single-page documents.

Participants will explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to their own interests. ° is class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. Weekly on Tue., Feb. 4-Mar. 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $205/ person; $184.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

DRAWING: In this introductory drawing class, learn a variety of techniques including basic perspective, compositional layout, and use of dramatic light and shadow. Work from observation and with a variety of media including pencil, pen and ink, ink wash and charcoal. Comics and illustrations may be incorporated. No experience necessary.

Weekly on Wed., Feb. 5-Mar. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $200/ person; $180/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

DROP IN: FAMILY WHEEL: Learn wheel and hand-building techniques at BCA’s clay studio in a relaxed, family-friendly environment. Make bowls, cups and amazing sculptures. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. No registration necessary.

All ages. Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free!

Weekly on Fri., Jan. 31-May 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $6/person; $5/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

DROP-IN: ADULT WHEEL: ° rough demonstrations and individual instruction, students will learn the basics of preparing and centering the clay and making cups, mugs and bowls.

No registration necessary, space is limited, first come first serve.

Purchase a drop-in card and get

the sixth visit for free! Weekly on Fri., Jan. 31-May 23, 8-10 p.m.

Cost: $12/participant; $11/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

DROP-IN: LIFE DRAWING: ° is drop-in life drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by local painter Glynnis Fawkes.

Spend the evening with other artists, drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary.

Purchase a drop-in card and get the 6th visit for free! Weekly on Mon., Jan. 27-May 19, 6:308:30 p.m. Cost: $8/participant; $7/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

DROP-IN: POLLYWOG PRESCHOOL: Participants will create paintings, sculptures, prints and more, with a variety of changing projects to keep everyone engaged! Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. No registration necessary. Ages 6 months to 5 years. Weekly on ˜ u., Jan. 30-May 22, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $6/child; $5/BCA members.

Purchase a drop-in card & get the 6th visit for free. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

KIDS: ITSY BITSY FAHION DESIGN: Bring your favorite doll (American Girl dolls welcome) and become a miniature fashion designer. Learn some basic hand stitch sewing techniques and create some fashionable outfits and accessories for your doll! Ages 6-8. Feb. 1, 1-3 p.m.

Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

MIXED-LEVEL DARKROOM: Take your work to the next level!

Guided sessions to help improve

your printing and film processing techniques; discussion of technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost includes a darkroom membership. Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience. Weekly on ˜ u., Feb. 6-Apr. 3, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $275/ person; $247.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PHOTO: DIGITAL SLR CAMERA: Explore the basic workings of the digital SLR camera, learning to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds, sensitivity ratings and exposure, and learn the basics of composition. Pair with Adobe Lightroom 4 for a 12-week experience learning the ins and outs of photo editing and printing!

Weekly on Wed., Feb. 5-Mar. 12.

Cost: $160/person; $144/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PRINT: ETCHING: Join local printmaker and illustrator Hilary Glass for an introductory etching class. ° is type of printmaking is perfect for artists who love to draw and want to make highly detailed prints. Learn the basics of etching a plate through drypoint and acid bath and transferring images onto paper.

Weekly on Mon., Feb. 3-Mar. 31, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $220/person; $198/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

PAINTING REALISM: Create paintings so real they pop off the canvas! Classically trained realist painter Sheel Gardner Anand presents a simple approach to oil painting from life and photos. Using a multi-layered process, learn to work with color to portray light and shadow,

PAINTING: OIL: Learn how to paint with nontoxic, watersoluble oils. Discover a variety of painting techniques and learn how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to your work. ° is supportive class will have a nice balance of studio time, gentle group discussion and critique. Weekly on Tue., Feb. 4-Apr. 1, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $250/ person; $225/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PRINTMAKING: ° is introductory class explores a whole range of printing techniques that can be used on their own or in combination to create unique artwork. Over the six weeks, you’ll be introduced to the studio’s equipment and materials and learn techniques such as block printing with linoleum, collograph and drypoint etching.

Weekly on Tue., Feb. 4-Mar. 18, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $200/person; $180 BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

SILKSCREENING: Torrey Valyou, local silkscreen legend and co-owner of New Duds, will introduce you to silkscreening and show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more! Learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Weekly on ˜ u., Feb. 6-Mar. 27, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $230/person; $207/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

THE UTILITARIAN TEAPOT: In this lecture-style workshop, Jeremy Ayers introduces the elements needed to create a successful teapot that is ready for daily use. Along with class discussion, demonstrations will be given on lid-to-body relationships and how to construct spouts and handles to make your teapots truly functional and beautiful. Feb. 9, 1:30-3 p.m. Cost: $20/person; $18/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

WHEEL THROWING II: Refine your wheelwork in Wheel II for advanced beginners and intermediate potters. Learn

individualized tips and techniques for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction cover intermediate throwing, trimming, decorative and glazing methods. Individual projects will be encouraged.

Students should be proficient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. Weekly on ˜ u., Feb. 6-Mar. 27, 9:30 a.m.-noon.

Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

astrology TUNING INTO YOUR CREATIVE IMAGINATION: WORKING W/ YOUR NEPTUNE: Learn how to access the wealth of inner treasures in your creative imagination by using insights provided by your Neptune. No familiarity with astrology is required. Led

by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Jan. 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2-4 p.m. Snow day Feb 1. Cost: $60/ person. Location: 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

dance B-TRU DANCE W/ DANIELLE VARDAKAS DUSZKO: B-Tru is focused on hip-hop, funkstyles (poppin, locking, waaking), breakin’, dance hall, belly dance and lyrical dance. Danielle Vardakas Duszko has trained with originators in these styles, performed and battled throughout the world. Classes and camps age 4-adult. She is holding a Hip-Hop Yoga Dance 200-hour teacher training this fall/winter. Kids after-school & Sat. classes.

Showcase at the end of May. Feb. & spring break camps ages 4-13 also avail. $50/mo. Ask about family discounts. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 4970136, honestyogastudio@gmail. com, honestyogacenter.com.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: 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! Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

DANCING WITH STYLE: Come check out our new third location!

Dancing with Style will be teaching Beginner Latin, Salsa and Ballroom dance classes every ° ursday night! 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Start anytime. Walk-ins welcome. Holiday gift certificates available. Give the gift of health!

Location: Dancing with Style, 14 Margaret St., off the Hookah Nightclub, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info: 793-7524, dancingwithstylevt. net.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa.

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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!

Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:159:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class.

Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

dreams Dreamwork Practicum: Learn how to apply Jungian principles in working with your dreams, including how to deal with symbols and gain insight and guidance from dream material. Led by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Jan. 6, 13, 20 & 27, 7-9 p.m. Snow day Feb. 3.

Cost: $60/person. Location: 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

drumming T aik o, Djembe & Congas!: Taiko drumming in Burlington!

Tuesday Taiko Adult Classes begin Jan. 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m., $72/6 weeks. Kids Classes begin on the same dates, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6 weeks. Djembe classes start Jan. 17, 6 p.m., $60/4 weeks, $18/class. Montpelier Djembe classes start Jan. 2, 7:30-8:30 p.m., $54/3 weeks!

Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington & Lane Shops Community Room, 13 N. Franklin St., Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@ gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.

MASTER GAR DENER 2014 COURSE : Learn the keys to a healthy and sustainable home landscape as University of Vermont faculty and experts focus on gardening in Vermont.

This noncredit course covers a wide variety of horticultural topics: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany basics, plant pests, soil fertility, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plant control, introduction to home landscaping, and more! Weekly on Tue., Feb. 4-Apr. 29, 6:15-9 p.m. $395/ person includes Sustainable Gardening book. (Noncredit course). Location: Various locations, Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Ctr., Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, White River Jct., Williston. Info: 656-9562, master.gardener@uvm.edu, uvm. edu/mastergardener.

Stone w all worksho p: Our introductory stone wall workshops for homeowners and tradespeople promote the beauty and integrity of stone.

The one-day, hands-on workshop focuses on the basic techniques for creating dry-laid walls with a special emphasis on stone native to Vermont. Workshops are held inside warm greenhouses in Hinesburg. Space limited. Jan. 11, Feb. 8, Mar. 8, Mar. 22; 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $100/1-day workshop. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Queen City Soil & Stone, Charley MacMartin, 318-2411, macmartin@igc.org, queencitysoilandstone.com.

herbs W is dom o f the H erbs School: Currently interviewing applicants for Wisdom of the Herbs 2014 Certification Program, Apr. 26-27, May 24-25, Jun. 28-29, Jul. 26-27, Aug. 23-24, Sep. 27-28, Oct. 25-26 and Nov. 8-9, 2014. Learn to identify wild herbaceous plants and shrubs over three seasons.

Prepare local wild edibles and herbal home remedies. Practice homesteading and primitive skills, food as first medicine,

ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES : Join us for adult Spanish classes this winter.

Our seventh 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. Also lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. Beginning wk. of Jan. 6 for 10 wks. Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ mins. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

Alliance Francaise W inter W arm- Up!: Six-week French classes designed to refresh, review and firm up your skills, readying you for your next full-term class. Just $135 per course starting January 18 and 21. Descriptions and signup at aflcr.org. Placement questions?

Contact Micheline. Two Winter Warm-up classes also available in Montpelier starting January 16; see aflcr.org. Cost: $135.

Location: Alliance Francaise Center, 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: 881-8826.

martial arts Aiki do: This circular, flowing Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape, develop core power and reduce stress. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher.

Visitors are always welcome. Visit our new website at burlingtonaikido. org. Adult introductory classes begin on Jan. 7, 5:30 p.m.; children ages 7-12, 4 p.m.; ages 5-6 kids classes begin Jan. 2, 4 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 951-8900.

Aiki do Cl asses: Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with

Comba t Fitness Martial Arts: Combat Fitness Mixed Martial Arts Academy featuring Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, boxing, Muay Thai kickboxing, judo, MMA, and strength and conditioning classes for beginners through advanced. Men, women and youth programs. Private lessons and gift certificates available.

Try your first class for free! All certified and caring instructors.

Exit 15. Location: Combat Fitness Mixed Martial Arts Academy, 276 E Allen St., Hillside Park, Winooski. Info: Combat Fitness LLP, Vincent Guy, 655-5425, vteguy@yahoo.com, combatfitnessmma.com.

VERMONT BRA ZILIAN JIU JITSU : Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State

meditation Contentment in Ever yday L ife: Introductory meditation course. Trains us to develop gentleness, precision, appreciation and steadiness.

Practicing these qualities leads to contentment, which helps us extend our mindfulness practice into everyday awake action.

Course includes meditation instruction and practice, talks on the Shambhala teachings, group discussions. Tue., 7-9 p.m., Jan. 7-28 (+ Sat., Jan. 25, 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.). Cost: $120/person.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 South Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Melinda Haselton, 881-2775, melindahaselton@gmail.com.

L earn to Medit ate: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. The Shambhala Cafe meets 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house occurs 3rd Fri. of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

Medit ation In Ever yday L ife: Introductory meditation course.

Provides a strong foundation in mindfulness-awareness meditation and addresses the complexity of our daily lives in order to develop courage and sanity in these challenging and uncertain times. Course includes meditation instruction and practice, talks on the Shambhala teachings, group discussions. Tue., 11 a.m.-1 p.m. from Jan. 7-Feb. 11.

Cost: $120. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 South Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Melinda Haselton, 881-2775, melindahaselton@gmail.com.

photography Adobe L ightroom Bootcam p: Adobe Lightroom 5 has quickly become one of the industry’s leading photo editing software applications. Join professional photographer Kurt Budliger during this one-day workshop, where you’ll learn to harness the power of Lightroom 5 for organizing, editing and making your

images sing. Sat., Feb. 15. Cost: $195/1-day workshop. Location: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, central Vermont TBA. Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, Kurt Budliger, 223-4022, info@ kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops.com.

support groups Social Anxiet y Support Grou p: Do you feel nervous when you are the center of attention? Do you avoid social situations? Does social anxiety prevent you from living your life fully? Meet other people with similar experiences and learn techniques to reduce anxiety based on the Social Anxiety Institutes program. A supportive and confidential environment. Weekly. Cost: $10/2 hrs.

Location: TBD, Montpelier. Info: Danielle, 595-9821, freefromsa@ yahoo.com.

tai chi H w a Yu T ai Chi, Mont pelier: Hwa Yu is an early form of Tai Chi in the Liuhebafa lineage. Regular practice of Tai Chi can enhance physical and spiritual well-being, improve balance and coordination, ease tension, and wake up the mind. Get grounded and let your energy flow. Mixed-level class maximizes mentoring potential. Weekly on Mon. starting Jan. 6, 5-6 p.m. Cost: $160/16week semester; $88/half semester. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St., 3rd floor, Montpelier. Info: Ellie Hayes, 456-1983.

Snake- St yle T ai Chi Chu an: 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.

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, ipfamilytaichi.org.

Yang- St yle T ai Chi: The slow movements of tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. Come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Tai Chi for Lunch meets weekly on Tue. at noon. $16/person. Location: Mindful Breath Tai Chi (formerly Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 735-5465, mindfulbreath@gmavt.net.

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FEL DENKRAIS : Move out of pain in 2014! The Feldenkrais Method is a way to learn how to use your body with ease and efficiency.

For more information, testimonials, weekly Awareness through Movement classes and weekend workshops in 2014, please visit vermontfeldenkrais.com.

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Aiki do in Bal ance: Learn how to manifest balance internally and externally. Move with grace and precision. Begin the study of observing your own mind.:) Tue. & Thu., 7-9 p.m. Cost: $10/class, $65 for monthly membership.

Location: Tao Motion Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Aikido in Balance, tyler crandall, 598-9204, tyler@aikidoinbalance.com, aikidoinbalance.com.

Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

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FL Y T YING COURSE : Schirmer’s Fly Shop will conduct a six-week fly tying course starting in the new year. It will be held on Saturdays and/or Sundays depending on student preference.

Schirmer’s provides the fly tying materials but students need their own tools. These are available at the shop. Call or email to sign up or get more info. Cost: $120/6-wk. course. Location: Schirmer’s Fly Shop, 34 Mills Ave., S. Burlington. Info: 8636105, schirmersflyshop@gmail. com, schirmersflyshop.com.

compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido. org.

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T ransitions: Solstice/ Equinox: Winter solstice marks the turning point from darkness to light. The dying time is over.

Our attentions turn towards new growth. This eight-week series ignites our creative selves through visual art, movement, sound, writing and speaking.

Let’s make art and mobilize our resources to move forward into new experiences. Great holiday gift. No experience necessary.

Thu., 6:30-9 p.m., Jan. 9-Mar. 13 (no class Jan. 30 & Feb. 27). Cost: $195/8-wk. series (all materials incl.). Location: Expressive Arts Burlington/Studio 266, 266 South Champlain St., Burlington.

Info: Expressive Arts Burlington, Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net.

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and skillful use of intentionality.

Experience profound connection and play with Nature. Handson curriculum includes herb walks, skill-building, sustainable harvesting and communion with the spirits of the plants. Tuition $1750; payment plan $187.50 each month. VSAC nondegree grants available to qualifying applicants; apply early. Annie McCleary, director. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool. com, wisdomoftheherbsschool. com.

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Location: Vermont Feldenkrais, Charlotte. Info: 735-3770.

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2013 in Review Looking back at the year in music news

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ith another calendar about to close, it’s time once again to look back and r eflect on the year in local music.

2013 got o° to a dis turbing start as we learned in January that longtime ar ea DJ Andy Williams, aka DJ A-Dog, had been diagnosed with leuk emia. A slew of benefit shows f ollowed in an e° ort to o° set the astronomical cost of treatment as Williams — like so many musicians, especially pre-Obamacare — did not have adequate health insurance.

His recovery in the months since has been turbulent. Williams received a bone marrow transplant, which itself was something of a mir acle, given the di˝ culty of finding a multiethnic genetic match. B ut f ollowing the pr ocedure, he has e xperienced several setbacks, some lif e thr eatening, including pneumonia and bacterial inf ection. Williams is curr ently undergoing treatment in Boston, where he and girlfriend Josie Sourdi° e keep the DJ’s legion of f ans and f riends pos ted on F acebook.

No word yet on when W illiams might be healthy enough to man the turntables again. But expect more benefit shows and general support for A-Dog in 2014.

Also in January, the Montpelier music scene was dealt a blow when the Black Door closed, adding yet another name to the roster of defunct v enues in the capital city. However, in February we learned that a new M ontpelier club w ould soon open in the vacated Langdon Street Café space.

Sweet Melissa’s opened in J uly, filling a much-needed niche in a vibr ant music town.

February saw the end of a grand experiment — and the closur e of another night club — as B urlington comedy club Le vity shuttered its doors after an 18-month run.

However, despite the loss of the state’s only comedy-specific venue, standup has continued to flourish in Vermont. More on that in a bit.

In March, the documentary film A Band Called Death, by VT e xpats Mark Covino and Je° Howlett, about Detroit protopunk band Death, caused quite a stir at SXSW. The film has since seen a nation wide theatrical release and garner ed adulation from critics and fans the world over.

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In May came the thir d installment of the Waking Windows festival in Winooski.

The two-day event was an unbridled suc cess. Curated by Angioplasty Media, with an assist f rom MSR Pr esents, Friends + Family and others, it proved to be a pitchper f ect showcase f o local and r egional underground talent. Other local festivals may have attracted more marquee star power. But Waking Windows staked its claim as the coolest music fest in the state.

Also in May, the Green Mountain Comedy Festival enjoyed its bigges t and bes t year yet. The fi ve-day laugh riot f eatur ed more than 100 local s tandup and impr ov comedians at venues in Burlington, Winooski, Montpelier and V ergennes. It also included several professional improv comedy troupes and national standup headliners, the most notable being Todd Barry.

In June, the B urlington Discover Jazz f estival celebrated its 30th anniv ersary with headliners such as Bobby McFerrin, Poncho Sanchez, Gretchen Parlato and Branf ord Marsalis. Betcha didn’ t know

that Phish and the BD JF were the same age, did you?

Also in June, the local music community was saddened by the sudden death of Mike Deutsch, a terrific musician known f or his w ork with bands such as Black Sea Quartet, Cccome?, Outer Mongolia and, most recently, Space Tiger — the las t alongside his son, Aidan Patterson Deustch. At a memorial at Radio Bean — an establishment he almos t singlehandedly saved f rom financial ruin — Deustch was remembered as a w onderf ul musician and e ven better friend. We miss you, Meistah.

In July, a pair of seminal 1990s Burlington bands, Guppyboy and Hover, reunited for a show at the Monkey House. Later in the year, Strangefolk and viperHouse, two other beloved local acts f r om that same era, also got their r espective bands back together.

In late July, another local music festival made waves as the second annual Pr ecipice music and arts fes t took up residence in the fields behind Burlington College

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on North Avenue. The three-day fest featured, well, almost every band in the ar ea.

Though it didn’ t quite meet e xpected attendance goals, it was widely regarded as a unique and special event.

The Art H op in September w as accompanied by the opening of a f antas tic new venue on Pine Street, ArtsRiot. In the months since, ArtsRiot has teamed up with the crew from Signal Kitchen and quickly established itself as a marquee perf ormance space.

Also in September, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, celebrating their 10th anniversary, returned home f or their annual end-of -summer blowout, Grand Point North. The tw o-day, two-stage rock f est at Burlington’s Waterf ront Park f eatured some major names, such as Charles Bradley, Shovels & R ope, the F elice Brothers, Gov’t Mule and Trombone Shorty. It also presented a strong lineup of local acts, including Alpenglow, the DuPont Brothers, Paper Castles, Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band and Rough Francis, among others.

Finally, one of the s trangest stories of the y ear emerged in October when a city attorney discovered that many of the seemingly draconian blue la ws regarding cabaret and special- events licensing at Burlington nightclubs don’ t actually e xist and never did.

As Seven Days’ Ken Picard reported, for years local bar owners and the Burlington City Council’s liquor committee ha ve essentially been oper ating under an urban legend: that a bar or r estaurant needed a special license to allo w dancing or char ge a cover at the door for entertainment. B ut in reevaluating the policy earlier this y ear, the liquor committee discovered that no such law was on the books on either city or state levels. In July, a single liquor license was created, covering all restaurants, bars and clubs in the city , with no cabar et exceptions whatsoever.

That’s a boon to v enues such as the r ecently expanded Skinny Pancake, which can now charge a cover and book bigger acts. However, the current licensing situation is due to be reevaluated by April 2014, when all local watering holes undergo the licensing process again. Stay tuned.

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We begin at Nectar’s and Club Metronome. If you’ve been following along in recent weeks, you know that GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS drummer MATT BURR has been jamming with some notable locals, including BOB WAGNER, JOSH WEINSTEIN and DAN MUNZING, as DARK SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, a PINK FLOYD tribute act. With the help of some special guests, each Wednesday in December — ’cept Jesus’ birthday, of course — the band has mined the depths of the Floyd catalog. And judging by the hubbub on the Facebooks, it’s been quite a show.

The band’s residency wraps up this Sunday, December 29, at Club Metronome, with an all-star blowout jam. Slated to appear are soul/ rocksteady diva KAT WRIGHT, WAYLON SPEED’s KELLY RAVIN and the HIGH BREAKS’ MATT HAGEN. But the big name here is keyboardist MARCO BENEVENTO, who likely needs little introduction ’round these parts.

Also, if I were a betting man, I might lay decent odds on Burr’s wife showing up, too. Just a hunch.

(As an aside, do you think Burr ever gets tired of being referred to as “Grace Potter’s drummer/husband,” as I’ve

seen other publications describe him lately?)

Speaking of Hagen, on Friday, December 27, Nectar’s is hosting a beach party called Swell that features the surf-rock stylings of the High Breaks, DJ NICKEL B spinning surf tunes and other beach-friendly music, as well as some as-yet-unnamed acts.

Word is the joint is going to crank the heat, so the promise of free entry with beach attire seems less foolhardy than awesome. I’m told there will also be specials on beach-y cocktails and a beach-themed photo booth. Now, if they really wanted to go all out, they’d truck in a bunch of sand for the floor, like that UVM frat whose party I went to in college. Ah, youth…

Moving on, rootsy soul duo DWIGHT & NICOLE have been pretty quiet locally since NICOLE NELSON’s impressive run on NBC’s “The Voice” last year — just google her rendition of “Hallelujah,” if you missed it. We’ll wait…

Anyway, they’ll be at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge this Friday, December 27, with RYAN MONTBLEAU. I’ve been saying this pretty much since they landed in Burlington a few years ago, but Dwight & Nicole are easily one of the area’s most compelling live acts, so take any chance you get to catch them in person.

Finally, happy birthday to the Monkey House in Winooski, which turns seven this Saturday, December 28.

The blowout bash features some killer local talent, including DINO BRAVO, BLUE BUTTON, BLACK RABBIT, EASTERN MOUNTAIN TIME and PHIL YATES & THE AFFILIATES, with more to be announced.

But the real news here is that this show will either be the last on the bar’s current stage, which sits in a corner by the front door, or the first on its new stage, which will go in the back of the room and, presumably, be far less cramped. Either way, that sounds like a reason to celebrate.

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So much hype. So little payoff.

No, no, I’m not talking about this column, or Anchorman 2. I’m referring to New Year’s Eve. (Important note: Due to early deadlines at Seven Days, this column was written on December 15, three days before Anchorman 2 came out. It’s possible the movie is good, and I’ll look like an ass when this runs. But given the film’s aggressive over-promotion and the dearth of advance reviews published leading up to the release — never a good sign — I really doubt it. I hope I’m wrong.)

Back to the point, I’ve never entirely understood the hubbub surrounding NYE. I mean, I get that it’s a natural time to celebrate the year that was and to look ahead at the promise of a clean slate. But the ratio of planning and expense to actual fun times on NYE has always seemed like fuzzy math. Why am I supposed to be excited about paying $75 to hang out at a bar I usually go to for $5? Oh, right. Cheap champagne in plastic flutes!

So we begin this year’s NYE preview by looking at some goings-on in the days leading up to the ball drop that, for my money, look to be at least as enjoyable as the bulk of the area’s NYE bashes.

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Dobrá Te a: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., free.

Fra nny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

Hal flo unge: Half & Half C omedy (standup), 8 p.m., free.

JP's Pub: Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

Manhat t an Pizza & P ub: Hot Waxxx with Justcaus & Pen West (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free.

Monkey Ho use: Earthborn, C lose to the S ilence (rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

Nect ar's : T rivia Mania with T op Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. Dionysia, C laudia Varona (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

O'Bri en's Iris h Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free.

On T ap Bar & Grill : Abby S herman & U ptown (rock), 7 p.m., free.

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R adio Bean: C ody S argent & Friends (jazz), 6 p.m., free. S hane Hardiman T rio with Geza C arr & Rob Morse (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Family Night Band (rock), 11 p.m., $5.

Red Squar e: T enderbelly Bluegrass Band, 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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Red Squar e Bl ue R oo m: DJ C re8 (house), 10 p.m., free.

R í R á Iris h Pub: Longford Row (Irish), 9 p.m., free.

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gazey folk.” The band plays a string of Vermont dates this week: Friday, December 27, at the Monkey House in Winooski; Saturday,

City L imits : T rivia with T op Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

December 28, at Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier; Sunday, December 29, during brunch at the Bee’s Knees in Morrisville, and later that

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p.m., free. S eth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. S well: Nectar's Beach Bash with the High Breaks, DJ Nickel B (surf), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

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Bee's Knees: Moonschein (gypsy jazz), 7:30 p.m., donations.

The Hub Pizz eria & P ub: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., free.

Moog's Pl ac e: Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

Park er Pi e Co.: Michael Hahn & Jim Musty (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., free.

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Monopol e: The S nacks (rock), 10 p.m., free.

Monopol e Downst airs : Gary Peacock (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., free.

The ra py: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYC E (T op 40), 10:30 p.m., free.

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Cl ub Metro nome: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

Fra nny O's: Indecent Exposure, U ranium Belt (rock), 9 p.m., free.

Higher Gro und Showcas e L ounge: Dwight & Nicole, Ryan Montbleau (soul), 8:30 p.m., $15/17.

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Whammy Bar : Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

Marriot t Harbor L ounge: Jeff Wheel and Friends (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

Monkey Ho use: The Big Lonesome (Americana), 9 p.m., $5.

On T ap Bar & Grill : Leno, C heney & Young (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. A House on Fire (rock), 9 p.m., free.

Whammy Bar : C had Hollister (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

Champl ai n L anes Famil y Fun Cent er : Laughs at the Lanes (standup), 8 p.m., $5.

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Cl ub Metro nome: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

City L imits : C ity Limits Dance Party with T op Hat Entertainment (T op 40), 9 p.m., free. Funkwagon (funk), 9 p.m., free.

Penal ty Box : S alsa Night with Hector C obeo, 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+.

On t he R is e Bak er y: Milo White Band (folk), 7:30 p.m., donations.

R adio Bean: Kid's Music with Linda "T ickle Belly" Bassick, 11 a.m., free. Milton Busker (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Alicia Phelps (jazz), 8 p.m., free. Miles & Murphy (blues), 9 p.m., free. Noordwiijk (ambient), 10 p.m., free. DubS tereoPrix (swampytonk), 11 p.m., free. Worried Well (indie rock), 12:30 a.m., free.

Tw o Brot hers T aver n: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

Red Squar e: Ellen Powell T rio (jazz), 5 p.m., free.

S tarline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., $5. DJ C raig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

Red Squar e Bl ue R oo m: DJ Mixx (EDM), 9 p.m., $5.

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Bee's Knees: Alan Greenleaf & the Doctor (folk), 7:30 p.m., donations.

Mat t er hor n: The Fizz (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

Moog's Pl ac e: Abby Jenne and the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., free.

Piecasso : Dave Keller (blues), 2:30 p.m., free.

Ru ben James: DJ C re8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free.

R imrocks Mo unt ai n T aver n: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

R í R á Iris h Pub: S upersounds DJ (T op 40), 10 p.m., free.

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Oliv e R idl ey's : Hot Mess (rock), 10 p.m., NA.

Charli e O's: S tone Bullet, 2 T one Joker (rock), 10 p.m., free.

Gr een Mount ai n T aver n: DJ Jonny P (T op 40), 9 p.m., $2.

Positiv e Pie 2: White Out Party with Mr. Yee (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., $5.

Sweet M elissa's : Honky T onk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 9 p.m., free.

Monopol e: S inecure (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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

Fra nny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

Higher Gro und Showcas e L ounge: Ricky Vaughn, HOBBZ, C oopDaville, ALXO, Ma1ach1 (EDM), 8:30 p.m., $14/15. AA .

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

Marriot t Harbor p.m., free.

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Monkey Ho use: Monkey House 7th Birthday (rock), 8:30 p.m., $5.

Nect ar's : Andy Lugo (rebel folk), 7 p.m., free.

Grippo Funk Band with Jen Hartswick, 9 p.m., $5.

On T ap Bar & Grill : Mitch & Friends (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. The C onniption Fits (rock), 9 p.m., free.

R adio Bean: Freddie S hehadi (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Joe Redding (country), 8 p.m., free.

S ongs & S tringstruments (acoustic), 9 p.m., free. C rying Wolf (country-blues), 10 p.m., free.

Drawing (avant garde), 11:30 p.m., free. the le duo (experimental), 12:30 a.m., free.

Red Squar e: Dave Keller Band (blues), 7 p.m., $5.

Mashtodon (mashup), 11 p.m., $5.

Red Squar e Bl ue R oo m: DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., free.

Ru ben James: C raig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

R í R á Iris h Pub: Pop Farmers (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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Backst ag e Pub: Last Words (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

Venue: S aturday Night Mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $5. 18+.

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Meanwhile, ArtsRiot on Pine Street has become Burlington’s most-talkedabout venue since its debut at this year’s Art Hop. So you know it’s probably got something cool for the Eve. Indeed, the club/gallery/restaurant features two sets from the HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE, who rocked a sold-out Signal Kitchen show with their badass fusion of jazz and hip-hop in October. It’s a pricey ticket, but there’s an open bar and catered food, which you know will be good.

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By now, you’re probably saying something like, “Gee, DAN BOLLES. That was great and all. And you’re right about NYE being overblown. But we still need some suggestions for what to do that night. I mean, isn’t that, like, your job?”

OK, fine. Here’s a quick rundown of some best-bet options for a RYAN SEACREST-less NYE. The big bash on the docket is undoubtedly RUBBLEBUCKET’s two-night stand at the Higher Ground Ballroom.

ALEX TOTH, KALMIA TRAVER and co. have inherited the year-end blowout from GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS. And, like GPN, they’ve taken to inviting some top-notch local and regional talent to open the shows. On Monday, December 30, the band will be joined by HELOISE AND THE SAVOIR FAIRE and Montréal’s HOW

incarnation of the weekly tribute series Dead Set. And if irie vibes are more your NYE style, the MI YARD crew hold court downstairs at Nectar’s, and there is a discounted deal for those who want to 60 Lake St, Burlington 540-0188 hang out on both floors.

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RADIO BEAN: Lotango (tango), 11 a.m., free. Pete Sutherland and Tim Stickle's Old Time Session, 1 p.m., free. The Big Lonesome (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free. Hillary Capps (pop), 7 p.m., free. Bert Wills and Clint Boyd (Americana), 9:30 p.m., free. Falcon Coffin (punk), 11 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS: Irish Sessions, 2 p.m., free.

CHARLIE O'S: Dance Party, 10 p.m., free.

POSITIVE PIE 2: Barika (West African groove), 10:30 p.m., $5.

SKINNY PANCAKE: Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, 1 p.m., $5-10 donation.

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Bert Wills and Clint Boyd (country), 10 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA'S: Blue Fox (blues), 5 p.m., free.

The Big Lonesome (Americana), 9 p.m., free.

BEE'S KNEES: The Big Lonesome (Americana), 11 a.m., donations. James Tautkus (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Steven Kellogg: Alone for the Holidays, Brooks Hubbard (alt-country), 7 p.m., $25.

MATTERHORN: Chris Tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., free. Funk Collection (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

WHAMMY BAR: Hot Diggity (blues), 7 p.m., free.

PIECASSO: Audrey Bernstein (jazz), 2:30 p.m., free.

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SWEET CRUNCH BAKE SHOP: Kim and Sharon (acoustic rock), 10:30 a.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., free.

VERMONT ALE HOUSE: Michele Sarah Funk Band, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Turntable Warriors (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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BEE'S KNEES: Open Mic, 7:30 p.m., free.

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THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

MATTERHORN: Sophistafunk (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with Cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $6/10.

MOOG'S PLACE: Chris Robertson and the Socket Rockets (rock), 9 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Old Year's Party with the NEKTones (rock), 8 p.m., $5.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Rubblebucket, Heloise & the Savoir Faire, How Sad (psychedelic indie rock), 9 p.m., $17/20/35. AA.

PIECASSO: Dave Keller (blues), 2:30 p.m., free.

Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 10 p.m., free.

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able solo outing. Ben Campbell reestablished sainthood on a pair of brilliant new albums. And the NEKtones proved kings of the Kingdom.

Even the state’s waning jam scene made statements, as the A erolites discovered there’s no place like home and Bow Thayer f ound his groove. So, too, was prog rock represented, thanks to a heady e˛ ort from Elephants of Scotland.

It was a lean year for blues, despite solid e˛ orts from the Heckhounds and Shrimp.

However, the ever-soulful Dave Keller released what is lik ely to become his signature record.

On the world-music f ront, Barika rose up with heat-seeking West African fusion.

And Brattleboro’s the New Line explored the connections betw een Appalachia and Afropop.

Vermont’s singer-songwriter crowd was in fine form, delivering a bounty of introspective riches from the likes of Colby Dix, Milton B usker, Derek Burkins, Steve Hartmann and Kris Gruen, among man y others. Tyler Daniel Bean made a national splash, putting the emo in emotion. Kelly Ravin momentarily s tepped away f rom Waylon Speed to o˛ er a crushingly beauti-

Asbell f urthered his legacy as one of the state’s all-time gr eat players. The S tone Cold Roosters crowed. And transplant Dan Johnson proved an expert, with or without his longtime Sidemen.

It was a solid year, as well, for Vermont jazz. The sultry A udrey Bernstein provided a f resh voice, while the a cappella group Maple Jam o˛ ered many. Deja-Nous brought a bit of P aris to B urlington. And Brian McCarthy assured us that the next generation of local jazz is in eminently capable hands.

Don’t call it a comeback, but af ter a down year, hip-hop in the 802 r eturned in grand style, led b y Green Mountain hip-hop godf athers the Aztext. Not to be outdone, the L ynguistic Civilians again brought the party, while Jenke’s Bless the Child and Set U p City o˛ ered organic, free-range food for thought.

The state’s experimental crowd was typically mysterious, and r ewarding f or those who dar ed venture down the r abbit hole. Caring B abies teamed up with Pliable Tones on a mind-bending split r ecord. Tommy Bobcat o˛ ered a heady parting shot. Cloudey es posted glimmering post-rock. NNA Tapes’ Blanche Blanche

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the attention of the A cademy with Della Mae. Anaïs Mitchell r eturned home with a joyful bundle of old songs with Je˛ erson Hamer — and soon af ter , a bundle of jo y.

Sam Amidon found brightness in the dark music of the South.

In a r ecent Soundbites column, I r evealed that I w as considering e xpanding the traditional year-end top 10 to 15 or even 20 albums . I w asn’t kidding. If you polled 10 di˛ erent listeners, you’d get 10 di˛ erent lists of the 10 “best” local albums, likely featuring many of the names already mentioned — and R ough Francis and the Dirty Blondes, two deserving local bands who are ineligible for consider ation since they have members who work for this paper. Hell, my own list has gone through countless changes in r ecent weeks. With so much to choose from, I’m experiencing paralysis by analysis.

But choose I must. So above are 10 local records that especially s tood out to these ears in 2013 . Call them the “bes t,” if y ou must. But I’d rather think of them simply as fine representatives of a truly spectacular year in Vermont music.

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In particular, heavy music continued to assert itself locally . In the punk scene , we said good-bye to some favorites in Doll Fight!, Trapper Keeper and Poxy. But we welcomed Black Rabbit, Gorgon and a new punk label, Stick Shift Records.

Vultures of Cult veered from their typical stoner metal to hang 10 with the bur geoning local surf -rock scene. Stone Bullet reminded us that ar ena rock is aliv e and well, even in a state without an actual arena. And Vaporizer crushed on a sludgy new EP. On the indie f r ont, Shark V ictim introduced us to chaos pop. Bombardier to Pilot, Phil Y ates & the A˜ liates, Doctor Sailor and B andleader all deliv ered solid works, too. Ditto the lates t f rom Nocturnals guitarist Scott T ournet. Violette Ultraviolet mined love both lost and found, unearthing a sparkling , alt-country-flecked gem. Heloise Williams went electronic and turned out one of the mos t danceable Vermont records in memory.

Strength in numbers w as a theme around the state as quite a few local label/ collectives made notable mo ves. In B urlington, Jenke Records continued its ascent with a sharp outing f r om Quiet Lion and

Blanche made national noise. Nuda Veritas hooked us on her o wn meaty multiplicity.

Tooth ache. revisited and r erecorded her 2011 debut, an album that r anks highly in any year.

We heard good tidings from old friends in new places. Rubblebucket found salvation in the face of profound tribulation on a new EP. Myra Flynn proved she’s not to be pigeonholed. The globetr otting Avi Salloway got worldly and Wylder, while his old musical partner Celia W oodsmith caught

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On the Americana front, folk, old-time and bluegrass were, as always, a cornerstone of V ermont music. Rik P alieri and George Mann walked in the f oots teps of Guthrie and Seeger. Blackbird soared. The Bayley-Hazen Boys turned back the clock, and Rick N orcross celebrated a half century of r ambling. The r ambunctious Ida Mae Specker did her dad pr oud. Meanwhile, the Beerworth Sisters added a new Vermont f amily name to w atch f or. Paul

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Montpelier’s State & M ain Records f ollowed up a gr eat capital city comp with a strong debut f r om Lake Superior. Meanwhile, the Upper Valley’s What Doth Life quietly added to its e ver-growing catalog with intriguing releases from Ryan/Timothy, Derek and the Demons , Giant Travel Avant Garde and a tour de for ce from the Pilgrims.

Elsewhere around the state, Vergennes’ the Dead Cr eek Singers got delightf ully weird. Middlebury’s “El Rey” Tenedor y Su Conjunto Cuchillo introduced a spicy new genre, Vermexicano. Fellow Midd resident Peter Day shed his grifter persona on a lik-

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013 was an as tonishing year f or recorded music in Vermont. From any angle, by any metric, we set new highs in the quantity , quality and diversity of local music. And it ’s not an anomaly; it’s a trend. For many of the same reasons, 2012 was also a particularly remarkable year. And looking ahead to r eleases planned f or 201 4 — b y the lik es of Waylon Speed and Pours, among others — there is good r eason to think w e’ve yet to reach an apex.

The rock scene is often a good bar ometer f or gauging the o verall health of the local music community. And, as usual, rock releases dominated the landscape this year.

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AA. JP's Pub: pub Quiz with Dave (trivia), 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.

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MOnkey hOuse: Winooski Wednesdays! (rock), 5 p.m., free.

nectar's: nYE mi Yard Reggae night with DJs Big Dog and Demus, 9 p.m., $6/10.

nectar's: What a Joke! comedy open mic (standup), 7 p.m., free.

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Hana Zara (singer-songwriter), 2 p.m., free. nora Zimmerly (singersongwriter), 3 p.m., free. Joe Adler (singer-songwriter), 4:20 p.m., free. cricket Blue (folk), 6 p.m., free. Brett Hughes Honky Tonk Hoe-Down (honky-tonk), 9:30 p.m., free. Barika (West African groove), 11:45 p.m., free. red square: steph pappas (rock), 3 p.m., free. strange changes (rock), 6 p.m., nA. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. rí rá irish Pub: Groove Junkies (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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skinny Pancake: The snow Ball nYE party with Josh panda & the Hot Damned (rock), 9 p.m., $18/20.

Venue: new Year's Eve megabash (dance party), 8 p.m., $16.50/20.

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charlie O's: Karaoke new Year's Eve party, 10 p.m., free.

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On taP bar & Grill: chad Hollister (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. radiO bean: Timothy Davis (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. irish sessions, 8 p.m., free. chesh (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. red square: Woedoggies (blues), 7 p.m., free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. skinny Pancake: Josh panda's Acoustic soul night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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dObrá tea: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., free.

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. halFlOunGe: Half & Half comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Hot Waxxx with Justcaus & pen West (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free. nectar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. crunk Witch, Wave of the Future, Black Rabbit, DJ Tricky pat (electro-rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

O'brien's irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free.

On taP bar & Grill: nobby Reed project (blues), 7 p.m., free.

Pizza barriO : Juliana Just costa (down-tempo), 6 p.m., free. radiO bean: cody sargent & Friends (jazz), 6 p.m., free. shane Hardiman Trio with Geza carr & Rob morse (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11:30 p.m., $3. red square: The Dupont Brothers (folk), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. red square blue rOOM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., free.

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sweet Melissa's: Live music, 8 p.m., free.

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city liMits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. twO brOthers taVern: DJ Dizzle (house), 10 p.m., free.

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bee's knees: Keith Williams (folk), 7 p.m., donations. the hub Pizzeria & Pub: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., free. open mic, 9 p.m., free.

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Parker Pie cO.: parker pie music night, 7:30 p.m., free.

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MOnOPOle: The snacks (rock), 10 p.m., free.

skinny Pancake: Jay Ekis saves Wednesday in montpelier (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

MOnOPOle dOwnstairs: Gary peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., free.

sweet Melissa's: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free.

theraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ nYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., free.

whaMMy bar: open mic, 6:30 p.m., free.

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club MetrOnOMe: no Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

city liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

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lOunGe: First Friday: nuda Veritas, Disco phantom (experimental pop), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

MarriOtt harbOr lOunGe: Andrew moroz Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. nectar's: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Live music, 9:30 p.m., $5.

On taP bar & Grill: King me (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Wolfpack (rock), 9 p.m., free. radiO bean: Kid's music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick, 11 a.m., free. Juliana Just costa (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Ben cosgrove (contemporary instrumental), 8 p.m., free. The Trouts (rock), 9 p.m., free.

The north & south Dakotas (folk rock), 10:30 p.m., free. red square: Joe Adler (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., free. Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. red square blue rOOM: DJ mixx (EDm), 9 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.

Venue: Red stellar, the Fizz (rock), 8 p.m., $5.

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charlie O's: Bad Dog, new England Witch (rock), 10 p.m., free. esPressO buenO: Espresso Brain-o (trivia), 7 p.m., free.

Green MOuntain taVern: DJ Jonny p (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

POsitiVe Pie 2: Jon Demus (reggae), 10 p.m., $5. sweet Melissa's: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. Bobby messano & steve Geller (singer-songwriters), 9 p.m., nA.

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city liMits: city Limits Dance party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9 p.m., free. twO brOthers taVern: Funky Friday with DJ Bp (funk), 10 p.m., free.

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bee's knees: october Gold (folk), 7 p.m., donations.

MOOG's Place: mothership orchestra (funk), 9 p.m., free. riMrOcks MOuntain taVern: Friday night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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MOnOPOle: mike pedersen and Friends (rock), 10 p.m., free. theraPy: pulse with DJ nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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club MetrOnOMe: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

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

JP's Pub: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free.

MarriOtt harbOr lOunGe: Jeff Wheel and Friends (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

Nectar's: Michelle Sarah Band, Golden Dragon Dub Collective (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

ON tap Bar & Grill: Joe McGuinness & Longshot (rock), 9 p.m., free. pizza BarriO : EmaLou (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. radiO BeaN: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., free. Glenn Roth (fingerstyle guitar), 5:30 p.m., free. Will Cuneo (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. Stillbridge (Americana), 9 p.m., free.

Teagan & the Tweeds (indie), 10:30 p.m., free.

Great Western (alt-country), 10:30 p.m., free. red square: Mashtodon (mashup), 11 p.m., $5.

Equalites (reggae), 7 p.m., $5. red square Blue rOOm: DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., free. ruBeN James: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

VeNue: Saturday night Mixdown with DJ Dakota & Jon Demus (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $5. 18+.

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BaGitOs: Irish Sessions, 2 p.m., free. charlie O's: Dance party, 10 p.m., free. the reserVOir restauraNt & tap rOOm: Total Demo (rock), 10 p.m., free. sweet melissa's: Andy pitt (bluegrass), 5 p.m., free. Stovepipe Mountain Boys (Americana), 9 p.m., free.

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city limits: Dance party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., free. twO BrOthers taVerN: DJ Stanley Steam (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.

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the huB pizzeria & puB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. matterhOrN: Spiritual Rez (reggae), 9 p.m., $5.

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mONOpOle: Mike pedersen and Friends (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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FraNNy O's: Vermont's Got Talent open Mic, 8 p.m., free. mONkey hOuse: Spark Arts open Improv Jam, 7 p.m., $3. AM & MSR presents: potty Mouth, orlov (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10.

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ON tap Bar & Grill: Zack Dupont (singersongwriter), 11 a.m., free. peNalty BOx: Trivia with a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

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radiO BeaN: Bohemian Blues Quartet (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., free. pete Sutherland and Tim Stickle's old Time Session, 1 p.m., free. Trio Gusto (parisian jazz), 5 p.m., free. Tango Sessions, 7 p.m., free. Dan Johnson (Americana), 9 p.m., free. Social Club: the Return (downtempo), 10 p.m., free.

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MaNHattaN Pizza & Pub: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

ON taP bar & grill: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free. radiO beaN: Open mic, 9 p.m., free. red square: mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., free. rubeN JaMes: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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MONkey HOuse: Winooski Wednesdays! (rock), 5 p.m., free. Binger (jam), 9 p.m., free.

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NeCtar's: Gubbulidis (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., free.

Dead set: A month of Europe '72 (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

ON taP bar & grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

red square: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

bee's kNees: The Endorsements (folk), 8 p.m., donations.

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CHarlie O's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. sweet Melissa's: Nancy and Lilly smith (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Open mic, 7 p.m., free.

fraNNy O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

HalflOuNge: Wanted Wednesday with DJ craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

JP's Pub: Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free. Pub Quiz with Dave (trivia), 7 p.m., free.

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MOOg's PlaCe: The Jason Wedlock show (rock), 8 p.m., free.

radiO beaN: Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6:30 p.m., free. Brett Hughes & Kat Wright (beautiful melodies), 9 p.m., free. Honky-Tonk sessions, 10 p.m., $3.

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twO brOtHers taverN: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

NeCtar's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., free. Whiskey Wednesday: Hayley Jane and the Primates, the Red Newts (rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

ON taP bar & grill: Pine street Jazz, 7 p.m., free.

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City liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., free. twO brOtHers taverN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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radiO beaN: irish sessions, 8 p.m., free. Wren Kitz (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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red square: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. Wild man Blues, 7 p.m., free.

MOOg's PlaCe: Fred Brauer (blues), 8 p.m., free.

skiNNy PaNCake: Josh Panda's Acoustic soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

PieCassO: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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skiNNy PaNCake: Jay Ekis saves Wednesday in montpelier (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

bee's kNees: Al 'n' Pete (folk), 7 p.m., donations.

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isela Alpert is sv elte and slim, but she lik es her art work big and bold. A M ontréal native with a back ground in landscaping , Alpert paints much-larger-than-lif e-size close-ups of flowers. She has also chiseled the top portions of a pair of 16-ton, 12-f oottall black concr ete slabs that ar e part of her elaborate design for a small park at the entrance to a shopping plaza in Milton.

This installation, titled “U nity,” was commissioned by Burlington developer Ernie Pomerleau as an audacious addition to his r ecently completed H annaford supermarket project.

“It’s something di° erent for Milton,” says Alpert, whose design w as chosen from among eight pr oposals submitted in response to Pomerleau’s call to local artists. “It’s something that helps put Milton on the cultural map.”

“Unity” gives metaphorical f orm to the town’s main topographical features.

The twin monoliths are meant to represent the two highest points in Milton: Cobble Hill and Arrowhead Mountain. A wavy pattern etched in gr eenish granite that bisects the slabs at their base alludes to the Lamoille River, which is depicted as spilling into an o val that s tands f or Lake Champlain. The whole ins tallation is based on a circle, signifying unity.

It’s quite an undertakingf or a 55-year-old woman who’s been making art f or less than a decade . Alpert experienced an epiphany in 2005 right af ter she had fi nished remodeling the house in a rur al corner of Milton that she shares with her husband, BioT ek Instruments co-owner Adam Alpert.

“I was tired but very happy,” Alpert relates, “so I decided to buy myself a small birthday present” — an oil-paint kit. I t was an impulse purchase; Alpert wasn’t even an amateur artist at that point.

But, brimming with self -confidence, she plunged into painting without tak ing a single lesson. It didn’t seem appropriate to learn about art making in a formal way, Alpert explains while leading a reporter on a tour of the three-story studio that adjoins her equally spacious home.

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“Taking lessons w ould mean I wouldn’t be painting what I had in mind. I’d be painting what I was taught,” Alpert reasons. “I wished to let my own creativity flourish.”

And flourish it did.

“It was obvious from her fi rst e° orts that Gisela has a fabulous talent, ” comments Jane Morgan, a local painter who has watched Alpert’s art develop. It became more technically sophis ticated and aesthetically appealing as Alpert painted and painted — and as she pr ocessed suggestions f rom Morgan and some of the mor e experienced members of the Milton Artists’ Guild. Alpert joined the group a few years ago and, in keeping with her go -getter personality, now serves as its president.

“Painting turns out to be something I was born to do,” Alpert reflects, “although I didn’t realize it until later in life.”

Her resolute quest for self-expression has produced the over-scaled florals displayed throughout her studio and home.

Gisela Alpert and “Unity”

These close-ups appear as though they were painted while the artis t was looking through a magnifying glass.

The dazzlingly bright palette Alp ert f avors f urther heightens the visual impact. One of her r enderings of dahlias is particularly immersiv e. Viewers might f eel they ’ve been cas t onto an undulating sea of r ed petals, with a couple of sun-colored stamens bobbing like lif eboats on the roughly 6-by-3foot canvas.

It’s di˝ cult to look at Alpert ’s flowers and not think of Geor gia O’Kee° e’s achievements in that genr e. Alpert ac knowledges the association but insis ts she isn’t imitating O’K ee° e — and w as not even inspired by the luminous r epresentations of lilies , roses, irises and petunias that have become some of the most admired images in American art.

“I didn’t even know O’Kee° e’s work when I s tarted painting,” Alpert confesses. “Now I admire her tremendously, but I don’t think there’s much resemblance between what I do and what she did.”

That’s true. Alpert’s flowers are much bigger in scope and less micr oscopic in detail than ar e O’Kee° e’s.

Alpert also doesn’ t sexualize her sub ject matter to the e xtent O’Kee° e did, although there’s a sensual, e ven erotic, quality to the fl oral works hanging on walls or pr opped on easels in Alpert ’s sunny studio.

She sees sex in stones, too, Alpert announces, referring to the sculptures she started making in 2009. “At some point, no matter what y ou’re working on, a sexual organ comes out of the stone, and then it changes into something else ,” she suggests.

“I love the tactile aspect of sculpt ing,” Alpert adds . “It’s really di° erent from paintings, which are not so much about touching.”

She once again hurled herself into a medium that w as new to her . With sculpture, however, Alpert did tak e a tutor: Katharine S tockman, owner of Shelburne Pond Studios, to whom Morgan had introduced her. “I was OK with learning f rom Kathy because I had no f eel of m y own f or sculptur e, unlike painting,” Alpert explains.

It took Alpert a while to fi gure out how to work the backside of a stone that’s being transformed into a w ork of art, Stockman recalls. “Many painters at first have no idea what to do with a three-dimensional form,” she notes.

Alpert’s first sculpture — a f ar cry from “Unity” — emerged almost spontaneously from a piece of pink-and-white Colorado alabaster, Stockman remembers. “Gisela saw a woman’s torso in the stone right away, and she jus t carved it out.” The small-br easted, big-hipped figure now sits on a pedes tal in the liv ing room of Alpert’s home.

“The stone tells y ou what it w ants you to do ,” Alpert sa ys she’s come to realize. “You have some idea of what you want to create, but the end r esult probably won’t be 100 percent what you had imagined.”

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2nd AnnuAl Artist MArket: A selection of handcrafted jewelry, greeting cards, glassware and other holiday gift options by local artists. Through December 31 at seAbA Center in burlington. info, 859-9222.

Al sAlzMAn: "subversive," paintings and drawings. Through January 17 at ArtsRiot in burlington. info, 540-0406.

Antonello BorrA & deliA roBinson: borra's new collection of bestiary poems, Alfabestiario, with illustrations by Robinson, is displayed alongside Robinson's new works on canvas called "The Middle sister." Through December 31 at Flynndog in burlington. info, 863-0093.

'Art of Winter' exhiBition And PoP-uP Art MArket: eleven Vermont artists explore the season in paintings and photography; a temporary shop from Kasini house offers artful gifts in a variety of media. Through December 28 at burlington Town Center. info, info@kasinihouse.com.

BArBArA k WAters: An exhibit of mono prints in various styles by the local artist. Through January 31 at new Moon Café in burlington. info, 383-1505.

'Boldly PAtterned And suBtly iMAgined': The 22nd annual winter group show highlights the work of painter/printmaker/book artist Carolyn shattuck and potter boyan Moskov; and also features works by 16 regional artists in a variety of mediums.

Through January 31 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. info, 985-3848.

CArolyn WAlton: "Visions," an exhibit celebrating walton's 15 years showing her paintings at the gallery. Athenia schinto, susan bull Riley, betty ball and Tineke Russell also exhibit their work. Through December 28 at luxton-Jones gallery in shelburne. info, 985-8223.

'Color, PAttern, WhiMsy, sCAle: the Best of shelBurne MuseuM': nearly 100 works from the permanent collection including paintings, folk art, furniture, wallpaper, decorative arts, textiles, costumes and more, exhibited in conjunction with the grand opening of the pizzagalli Center for Art and education. Through December 31 at shelburne Museum. info, 985-3346.

Courtney MerCier: "escape," photography that represents adventures in the here and now.

Curated by seAbA, including in adjacent ReTn offices. Through February 28 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 859-9222. 'dorothy And herB Vogel: fifty Works for fifty stAtes': work from the Vogels' extensive collection by more than 20 artists, including Carel balth, Judy Rifka, pat steir and Richard Tuttle; 'eAt: the soCiAl life of food': A student-curated exhibit of objects from the museum collection that explores the different ways people interact with food, from preparation to eating and beyond.

Through May 18 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750. elVirA triPP: Art Affair by shearer presents work by the Mexican-born artist. Through December 31 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. info, 658-1111. 'gifts $50 And under': A dozen local artists display their works for one-of-a-kind, affordable presents. Through December 31 at backspace gallery in burlington. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

'Cool MoVes! Artistry of Motion': An interactive exhibit that explores the beauty of motion.

Through January 6 at eCho lake Aquarium and science Center/leahy Center for lake Champlain in burlington. info, 877-324-6386.

hAley BishoP: "Day Dreaming," mixed-media works by the local artist. Through December 31 at Vintage inspired in burlington. info, 355-5418.

CAMeron dAVis: "endless spring," paintings that address ecological emergencies and embrace our belonging to the earth and the cosmos. Through January 4 at All souls interfaith gathering in shelburne. info, 985-3819.

inAugurAl exhiBit: prints by bill Davison, sculpture by Kathleen schneider, photographs by Don Ross and paintings by John gonter. Through January 9 at Vermont Metro gallery, bCA Center, in burlington. info, 865-7166.

CArl ruBino: A selection of landscape photographs taken over the last six years. Through December 31 at Artspace 106 at the Men's Room in burlington. info, 864-2088.

internAtionAl Art exhiBit: Art objects from around the world from the private collection of ben bergstein and April werner, along with artwork by winners of last year's contest in the Vermont international Festival. Through December 31 at north end studio A in burlington. info, 863-6713.

JACkson tuPPer: "oh um Ah," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through January 28 at new City galerie in burlington. info, 735-2542.

essex Art leAgue Meeting: Members gather for business and social time, plus a presentation by a guest artist. Thursday, January 2, 9-11 a.m., First Congregational Church, essex Junction. info, essexartleague.com. life-drAWing session: Artists practice their painting and drawing techniques with a live model. Reservations encouraged. sunday, December 29, 2-5 p.m., black horse Fine Art supply, burlington. info, 860-4972.

'AProns-r-us': The Catamount Fiberistas organized this group exhibit, which "celebrates the apron through personal response and historical and cultural artifacts." on view are two- and three-dimensional samples made from fabric, clay, paper, recycled items and more. Through December 31 at Catamount Arts Center in st. Johnsbury. event: During

First night, visitors can try wearing various aprons while engaging in the activity for which it was designed, e.g., don a kitchen apron and make a popcorn ball, try a carpenter's apron while banging nails, and so on.

Tuesday, December 31, 6-8 p.m. info, 748-2600.

to submit one work of any size or medium to a vote by viewers. $8 entry fee, and winner takes all! Drop off work between noon wednesday and noon Friday, opening day. January 3 through 10 at backspace gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, January 3, 5-9 p.m.

reCePtions 'fACes': This group exhibit features portrait photography from a dozen countries by 60 artists selected by elizabeth Avedon. Through January 5 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. Reception: sunday, January 5, 3-5 p.m. info, 777-3686. 'sMAll Works': in this annual exhibit, artworks in a variety of media and subject matter measure 12 inches or less.

Through January 31 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, January 3, 5-9 p.m. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

CreAtiVe CoMPetition: now in a new location, the friendly comp invites artists

JAnet MCkenzie: Artwork depicting an African American Jesus and the women of the bible whose stories were untold. Through December 31 at salaam and the Men's store in burlington. info, 658-8822.

JeAn CArlson MAsseAu: limited-edition giclée prints of transparent watercolor and gouache paintings of the landscape and botanical subjects.

Through December 31 at pompanoosuc Mills in burlington. info, 482-2407.

Jon young: "where the wild Things were," paintings of north American wildlife vs. human expansion. Through December 31 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438. linCy sulliVAn: "sharpie Art show," drawings created with just sharpie pens. Through January 15 at Diversity studios in burlington. info, 349-6209. loCAl Artist grouP shoW: paintings by Carl Rubino, Jane Ann Kantor, Kim senior, Kristine slattery, Maria Del Castillo, philip hagopian and Vanessa

'lArge Works': Artists display works between three and 15 feet in size in this annual exhibition. Through January 31 at soda plant in burlington. Reception: Friday, January 3, 5-9 p.m. studio 266 grouP exhiBition: Fourteen working artists open their studios and show their works in a variety of media. January 3 through 31 at studio 266 in burlington. Reception: Friday, January 3, 5-8 p.m. info, 578-2512. lynn CuMMings: "Textures," collages and nature-inspired paintings on gessoed paper. Through January 31 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. Reception: Friday, January 3, 5-8 p.m.

Compton on the first floor; and by holly hauser, louise Arnold, Jacques burke, Johanne Durocher Yordan and Tessa holmes on the second. Curated by seAbA. Through February 28 at innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, 859-9222. lydiA littWin: "blind Contours," works drawn from memory, or from direct observation, with eyes closed. Curated by seAbA. Through February 28 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 859-9222.

MAllory BrAtton riCh: oil and pastel paintings of the landscapes of rural Vermont, eastern new York and coastal Maine and north Carolina.

Through January 2 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001. nAnCy toMCzAk: Avian watercolor paintings by the local artist and ornithologist. Curated by seAbA. Through February 28 at speeder & earl's (pine street) in burlington. info, 859-9222. buRlingTon-AReA shows

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CArol BouCher: More than 40 landscape paintings created from memory in the artist's essex Junction studio. Through December 31 at Alchemy Jewelry Arts Collective in burlington. info, 660-2032.

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In his

youth, Barre-based artist Phil Whitman visited the Civil

War battlefield in Gettysburg, Penn., known as Devil’s Den. The site of brutal combat during the w ar, and marked by configurations of enormous boulders , it later became a popular tourist destination. So popular that touris ts have posted online photogr aphs of themselv es posing at the site. And that’s what Whitman has f ocused on f or his “conf ederate pictures” series: H e’s collected thousands of these photos, compiled them into panoramas and manipulated the images — including depicting some of the visitors in various states of undress. “The time it tak es to recreate these images allo ws me to both commune with and selectively possess m y f ellow visitors,” he writes , “somehow perhaps r ecapturing a sense of De vil’s Den as a personal haunt.” Whitman’s mixed-media images are on view at Castleton Downtown Gallery through January 11.

Call to ar tists

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Crea tive Competitio n The S pace Gallery is now hosting the Creative Competition!

Artists may drop off one piece of work, in any size and medium, that is ready to display or hang on the wall. Entry is $8 and work will be labeled with the title, medium and price. Drop off at 266 Pine S treet from noon on W ednesday through noon on the First Friday of every month. The gallery will display the work during viewing hours for one week after the opening. Pickup/drop-off times, commission structure and location details can be found at spacegalleryvt.com/ call-to-artists.

Call to A r tists: Winter A r t Mar t The Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon is currently accepting work for its W inter Art Mart, to be held from January 15 through March 31. All types will be accepted, including pottery, jewelry, paintings, photographs, fiber work and more. S pace is limited. All artwork must be delivered by January 12 along with a completed submission form, which can be found at cmacvt.org. Info: Edna, 247-4295, or info@cmacvt.org.

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Indoor A r tist Yard Sale! The S pace Gallery in Burlington is hosting an indoor artist yard sale on January 25, 2014!

L ooking to make some money from those leftover art supplies, unused materials or unfinished art projects? All creative objects will be for sale, with the option to staff a booth of your own or drop off items for the gallery to sell for you. Visit spacegalleryvt. com/call-to-artists for all the details and applications. Deadline January 20, or until all the spots are filled.

R ed Squ are Need s A r t! Busy establishment on Church S treet currently booking monthlong shows for 2014. All mediums considered. Please contact Diane at creativegeniuses@burlingtontelecom.net.

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LO VE: CALLI NG FOR PHO TO S: Deadline: January 8. Jurors: Joe DiMaggio and JoAnne Kalish. L ove. H earts entwined.

U nrequited. Moonstruck. S tar-crossed. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex52.

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Nicole Welcome : "Reflections on Vermont," landscape photography in the Montpelier area.

Through December 29 at Fletcher Free L ibrary in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

'Once They Were' : An invitational exhibit of tricolor prints designed by 15 artists, in conjunction with BCA's Print S tudio and Torrey Valyou of N ew Duds; "L ocal: A Winter Sale" : Affordable works by more than 14 Vermont artists who participate in the BCA Art S ales and L easing Program; and "R efere nce for R adical s": An exhibit of works by local artists based on terms in an activist booklet and expressing the artists' experiences, beliefs and desires. Through January 8 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

'Poster R io t: 32 Year s of Performa nces at the F l ynn': S how posters from the Flynn archives, plus posters from partner organizations such as L yric Theatre Company, Vermont S ymphony O rchestra, Vermont S tage Company, U VM L ane S eries, H igher Ground and the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Through January 4 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4500.

STEEZ AR T: "VIBES ," signed and numbered prints by Kyle 'Fattie B.' Thompson. Through December 31 at H alflounge in Burlington. Info, 865-0012.

Stre ngth i n Number s: "A Mixing of W ords and Media," collaborative paintings and individual works by a group of art teaches who regularly meet to support each other in art making; in the Mezzanine Balcony. Through January 30 at Fletcher Free L ibrary in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

Susan L arki n: "L and & L akeshore," oil paintings of L ake Champlain and N orthern Vermont landscapes. Through January 2 at S kinny Pancake in Burlington. Info, 928-3081.

Tessa Hill : "Black Rhino Designs Mushrooms," wall hangings composed of painted polymer clay mushrooms and found wood. Through December 30 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107.

Todd Kiel : Paintings by the 2013 W all-to-Canvas winner, whose influences include vintage comics, retro signs, wartime propaganda posters, Bauhaus and the avant-garde. Through December 31 at Magic H at Brewing Company in S outh Burlington.

Info, 658-2739.

Vermo nt Ar tisan Craf t Sho w: The seasonal pop-up gallery features works in a variety of media by more than 50 crafters. Through December 28 at Vermont Artisans Craft Gallery in S outh Burlington.

Info, 652-0376.

Vermo nt Pho to Grou p: S even local photographers show their memorable images of portraits, still lifes, landscapes, abstracts and nature.

Through January 1 at Mirabelles in Burlington. Info, 658-3074.

Vermo nt Watercolor Socie ty: A selection of watercolor paintings by members of the Burlington and S t. Albans branches of the 240-member group. Through January 31 at Art's Alive Gallery in Burlington. Info, 660-9005.

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Buddhi st Tha ngka s: Beautiful scrolls by various artists from N epal and India are for sale, to benefit the nonprofit Child H aven International. Through January 31 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043.

Ceilidh Gallo way-Kane: "The People, the Places," works in watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite by the Vermont artist. Through December 29 at Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com.

'Celebra te': An annual show of fine art and craft by artist members. Through December 28 at S tudio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

Deluxe Unlimi ted: "W reckage," a janitor's closet filled with collages that explore "the doomsdayhappy world we live in, and the cultural debris left in its wake," by the local artist also known as Ben Peberdy. Through December 31 at U tility Arts Center in W hite River Junction. Info, 345-6685.

'Ear th a s Muse: Beauty, Degrada tio n, H ope, R egenera tio n, Awake ning': Artwork that celebrates the Earth's beauty while reflecting on tensions between mankind and the environment

by Fran Bull, Pat Musick, H arry A. Rich, Jenny S wanson and Richard W eis. Through April 4 at Great H all in S pringfield. Info, 258-3992.

Eli zabe th Mayor : Innovative prints that turn into collage, sculpture and mini installations.

Through December 31 at S cavenger Gallery in W hite River Junction. Info, 295-0808.

F rederic R udi : "L aundry and Eggs," paintings.

Through January 7 at Jaquith Public L ibrary in Marshfield. Info, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com.

Garr y a nd Na ncy H obar t: The husband-andwife artists exhibit photographs and paintings, respectively, that chronicle their life on Dairy H ill farm. Through December 31 at Royalton Memorial L ibrary in S outh Royalton. Info, 802-763-7094.

Georgia Myer : "Authenticity," mixed-media works featuring oil, paper, pastels, charcoal, ink and watercolor on paper, canvas and linen. Through

December 27 at Governor's O ffice Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

Grou p Sho w: W ork by fiber artist Alison Cannon, blacksmith Chris Eaton, and beeswax candle makers Bonita Bedard and S hawna S herwin. Through December 31 at Collective — the Art of Craft in W oodstock. Info, 457-1298.

H olida y Sho w: S mall works by artist members in a variety of printmaking media. Through January 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking S tudio in W hite River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

'Inter pre ting the Inter states': Compiling photographs from state archives taken between 1958 and 1978, the L andscape Change Program at the U niversity of Vermont produced this exhibit, which aims to illustrate how the creation of the interstate highway system changed Vermont's culture and countryside. Through April 26 at Vermont H istory Museum in Montpelier. Info, 479-8500.

JUICE BAR Winter Sho w: The annual rotating members' show features works by Virginia Beahan and L aura McPhee, Jessica S traus, Kirsten H oving and Richard E. S mith. Through April 5 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

Janet F rederick s: "Quiet O bservations: Anthills, Insects & W ater," contemplative paintings on the natural environment by the Vermont artist.

Through January 10 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, 371-4100.

Janice Walrafe n: "Grief and Praise," decorative clay masks created by the artist in reflection of a seven-day walk-about fast in Arizona. Through January 21 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness S tudio in Montpelier. Info, 223-1242.

Jen Morri s: "Pastoral," photographs that explore the history and complexity hidden in Vermont’s idyllic countryside. Through December 27 at S upreme Court L obby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0321.

Jennie H arrima n & Chri stopher Smi th : "Intersectionalism: An Interdisciplinary Art S how," drawings, prints, paintings, sculpture, works of graphic design and childrens' literature, plus a participatory art activity. Through December 27 at Tunbridge Public L ibrary. Info, 889-9404.

L isa F or ster Beach : Abstract paintings by the S towe artist. Through December 31 at Festival Gallery in W aitsfield. Info, 496-6682.

Marc Beerma n: W ildlife and nature images by the Pennsylvania-based photographer. Through January 5 at VINS N ature Center in Quechee. Info, 359-5001.

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Mitch Moraski: Images by the local photographer and solar-home owner. Through December 26 at SunCommon Pop-Up Art Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 274-4756.

Peter Miller: An exhibit celebrating the iconic Vermont photographer's new book, A Lifetime of Vermont People. Through January 2 at Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock. Info, 457-2295. sarah rosedahl: Illustrations from the artist/ author's new book Chickens!, about chicken breeds from A to Z. Through December 31 at The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Info, 223-1981. 'soMething to celebrate': A twofold exhibit includes "Out of Bounds," works by Vermont Watercolor Society members Richard Weis, Johanne Durocher

Yordan and Frieda Post; and a variety of pieces by returning VTica artists Nancy Pulliam Weis, Miranda Updike, Laura Rideout, Irene Cole and Nicholas Kekic. Through January 19 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018. the Paletteers of VerMont art club: "Peaceful Places," works by members that speak to the theme. Through December 27 at Aldrich Public Library in Barre. Info, 262-6400. 'the White stuff': The group exhibit featuring local artists celebrates the "glory, glitter and moods of snow." Through December 29 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 522-3172. 'toys: the inside story': An interactive exhibit of playthings shows visitors of all ages the gadgets

and gizmos that make them work. Through January 14 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200.

Winter grouP shoW: Sculpture, illustration, photography and acrylic and oil paintings by nine Vermont artists. Through January 4 at Axel's Frameshop in Waterbury. Info, 244-7801.

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'confederate Pictures': A mixed-media installation by Phil Whitman based on a Gettysburg battlefield of the American Civil War, and using photographs he took of tourists at the site. Through January 11 at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. Info, 802-468-1266.

ellen sPring and bruce baker: Hand-dyed silk wearables and silver designer jewelry, respectively, by the Vermont artists. Through December 31 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032. 'fashion & fantasy at the edge of the forest': Selections from the museum’s vintage clothing collection paired with Vermont artist Wendy Copp's imaginative couture creations made from natural materials such as ferns, birch bark and hydrangea. Through December 31 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117.

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HANNAH SESSIONS: "Living Summer," luscious paintings with animal and agricultural themes. ˜ rough December 31 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098 .

JACKSON GALLERY SIXTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW: ˜ e juried exhibit includes works by 28 regional artists in a variety of mediums, from painting to quilts to jewelry. ˜ rough December 31 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall ˜ eater, in Middlebury.

Info, 382-9222.

JOHN GEMIGNANI: "Painting Outside the Lines," representational, graphic paintings and abstract, textural works by the Vermont artist. ˜ rough December 27 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188.

'NEW LIVES, NEW ENGLAND': Weaving, henna art, drums and other cultural traditions illustrate how Vermont's refugee communities stay connected to their heritage and form new lives from "whole cloth." ˜ rough February 8 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

R. BAIRD & G. WEBER-GRASSI: "Mary, Mary," modern visions of the Queen of Heaven, in mixedmedia. ˜ rough December 30 at Zone˜ ree Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 989-9992.

'SMALL TREASURES': Small-scale artwork and craft by guild members, plus handcrafted holiday ˜ rough January 28 at Brandon Artists ornaments. Th Guild. Info, 247-4956.

TOM MERWIN: Abstract paintings by the Vermont ˜ rough February 28 at Brandon Music. Info, artist. Th 465-4071.

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ANN YOUNG: New oil paintings. Th ˜ rough January 20 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.

CHRIS STEARNS: "Vermont on Aluminum," high-dynamic-range landscape photographs printed on sheets of ˜ rough aluminum. Th January 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

FESTIVAL OF TREES & LIGHT AND MEMBERS' ART SHOW & SALE: Ten holiday trees decorated by members of the community, along with a display of menorahs; and more than 180 pieces of artwork by 100 member ˜ rough artists. Th January 5 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

Info, 253-8358.

KENT SHAW: Color photographs taken in Morrisville, Elmore and Hardwick. ˜ rough January 20 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

'KICK AND GLIDE: VERMONT'S NORDIC SKI LEGACY': An exhibit celebrating all aspects of the sport, including classic and skate skiing, Nordic combined, biathlon, ski jumping, telemark and back-country skiing. ˜ rough October 13, 2014 at Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

PAUL GRUHLER: Abstract acrylic paintings on linen. ˜ rough January 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

'SHADES OF FALL: SMALL PICTURE EXHIBITION': One hundred fifty paintings by 88 artist members. ˜ rough December 29 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

'SURREAL': Surreal and otherwise weird paintings, photographs, sculptures and video by northern Vermont artists Bradleigh Stockwell, Mary Brenner, Donald Peel, Diana Mara Henry, Chris Hudson, Sam ˜ urston and Mandee Roberts. ˜ rough January 31 at 99 Gallery and Center in Newport. Info, 323-9013.

TIMOTHY JUDE SMITH: In the Upstairs Gallery, ˜ ere Is a Soul to Smith's solo show, "Wherever Th Admire," uses video and photography to investigate the midwestern phenomenon of suburbs being named after Walden Pond of Massachusetts, made famous in the writings of Henry David ˜Thoreau. ˜Through December 27 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

TRINE WILSON & DORIS WEEKS: Photography, and watercolor and oil paintings, ˜ rough respectively. Th January 31 at Westford Public Library. Info, 355-4834.

WILLIAM B. HOYT: "Realizations," realistic paintings. ˜Through February 28 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

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PAT MUSICK: “Our Fragile Home,” sculptures and works on paper inspired by the words astronauts have used to describe seeing the Earth from space. ˜Through February 28 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.

another, always with an intriguing theme whose call to artists brings in f ascinating

photos. In the current group show, “Faces,” portraits by a whopping 60 photographers capture diverse individuals from 12 countries. One of the artis ts is Burlington’s Diane Gabriel, whose image “Sissy 81” is pictured here. The images were selected by Elizabeth Avedon, f ormer daughter-in-law of the f amed portr ait photographer Richard Avedon and an independent cur ator, designer and photogr apher in her o wn right. The gallery

maker. ˜ rough March 9 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.

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AVA'S HOLIDAY SALE AND EXHIBITION: Locally made artisanal gifts by artists long affiliated with the gallery, as well as new ones. ˜ rough December 28 at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117.

JULES DE BALINCOURT: A premier exhibit of contemporary paintings by the Franco-American pictural artist. ˜ rough March 13 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000.

'SPLENDORE A VENEZIA: ART AND MUSIC FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO BAROQUE IN VENICE': An exhibit featuring approximately 120 paintings, prints and drawings, plus historical instruments, musical manuscripts and texts, including the first edition of ˜ e Four Seasons by Vivaldi. ˜ rough January 19 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000.

'STUDIO SELECTIONS': Work by current students in ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. ˜ rough January 26 at Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Info, 518-564-2474.

‘Toys: The Inside Story’ At the Montshire Museum of

Science in Norwich, it’s hands on, all the time — the interactive exhibits engage SABRA FIELD: “Cosmic Geometry,” work by the Vermont print-

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DAISY ROCKWELL: “Th “˜ e Topless Jihadi and Other Curious Birds,” paintings of women in political situations such as members of the FEMEN movement, a Ukrainian feminist group that stages protests topless. ˜Through December 30 at Bennington Museum. Info, 447-1571.

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'CATS AND TIGERS AND TURTLES, OH MY!': Artwork by Gayleen Aiken, Berta Diller, Huddee Herrick, Dot Kibbee and ˜ rough January 14 at Phyllis Putvain. Th GRACE in Hardwick. Info, 472-6857.

HOLIDAY SHOW: Celebrate the season with gift-size works of art by gallery owner Elizabeth Wooden and other artists, and refreshments every Saturday through the holidays. ˜ rough December 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 802-253-9653.

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you have thought you’d live to see this matchup? And see it work so perfectly?

MH: I laughed a lot at In a World… and Joss Whedon’s wonderful Much Ado About Nothing. But my choice is The World’s End, Edgar Wright’s successor to Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead.

Middle-aged buddies take a last-hurrah pub crawl in their hometown, and the results are even more bizarre than what happened in The Hangover.

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than our year-end wrap-up to note that in­­­2013 the ­­­­ end itself proved a major trend? I don’ t know what w as in the pop-culture water (global warming, the NSA, the Jonas Brothers breakup?). But the end of the world as we know it featured prominently in enough films for a festival.

The year saw end-of -the-worldathons such as The World’s End, After Earth, It’s a Disaster, Oblivion, Snowpiercer, The Colony and This Is the End — which, on November 11, coinci dentally was the last title ever rented by Blockbuster. Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder could be about the end of the world, too — who can sa y? One thing we can say with certainty, and sadness, is that it was the last title ever reviewed

by Roger Ebert.

The end, it became painf ully clear this year, has come for film itself, with venues across the country facing a ticking Go Digital or Go D ark time bomb .

For many small theaters and drive-ins (did you know the country’s smallest is in Bethel, Vt.?), the $70,000 to $100,000 conversion cost was too steep, bringing an end to a way of life, business and art.

Hey, way to kick things off on an upbeat note, huh?

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MARGOT HARRISO N: For sure, this

has been a difficult year for theaters. (If you want to keep your local art house or drive-in alive, support it!) And the closing of Burlington’s Waterfront Video was a sad day for local movie lovers.

More and mor e viewers get their entertainment f rom the small scr een — but, on the plus side , that entertainment can be far more adventurous than what they find at the multiplex. Netf lix has s tarted producing its o wn programming f or the older demogr aphics that Hollywood ignores. And, thanks to cable’s pioneering in that department, this year we heard more media buzz about W alter White than about Superman.

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Most Stellar Performance RK: Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine.

Not! Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia LouisDreyfus, Matthew McConaughey, Greta Gerwig, Bruce Dern and Joaquin Phoenix all impressed the hell out of me this year, but the performance that pierced me was James Gandolfini’s. Not because it was his last — it wasn’t — but because it was brilliant, hilarious, affecting and revelatory in every respect.

Enough Said.

MH: Joaquin Phoenix in Her and Adèle Exarchopoulos in Blue Is the Warmest Color both pulled off the same feat: telling stories with their faces. Their acting kept me enthralled even when their close-up countenances were the only things on screen.

Honorable mention to T om Hanks, my Most Annoying Performance awardee last year, for his r aw and unaffected portrayal of Captain Phillips.

Most Annoying Performance RK: Sean Penn was pretty frickin’ annoying in Gangster Squad. Ditto Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth

Estate, Inside Llewyn Davis’ Oscar Isaac and everybody in The Hangover Part III. But I’ve got to go with everything the pod version of Robert De Niro did this year — pandering paycheck parts in The Family, Last Vegas, Killing Season (direct to video!) and The Big Wedding — one of 2013’s biggest flops, according to Forbes.

MH: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson in Don Jon. Yes, they’re great actors. Yes, their broad impressions of a Jersey guy and gal were meant to be annoying. Why director Gordon-Levitt chose to torment the audience with these caricatures remains unclear to me. Honorable mention to Tobey Maguire’s mugging in The Great Gatsby.

RK: The Conjuring. Because, surely, they had to be joking with those superhokey old-school scares. That aside, I’d have to say it didn’t get a whole lot lamer than Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. For the first time, a Jackass feature went for “Punk’d”-style hiddencamera yuks. My suggestion: Next time, hide the whole thing.

MH: This year I managed to see only one lame comedy: A Haunted House.

Granted, it was a Paranormal Activity spoof in which Marlon Wayans experienced the trauma of ghost rape. So, yeah, lame.

Best Comedy RK: 2013 kept the apocalypses and the laughs coming with high-quality comedies like Noah Baumbach’s moving ode to inertia, Frances Ha, and This Is the End, which would’ve been my choice for Best Comedy if I hadn’t seen and fallen madly in love with Enough Said.

I can’t say enough about how wonderful Nicole Holofcener’s latest is. Elaine and Tony — in a million years, would

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Biggest Letdown RK: The Fifth Estate, Jobs and Renoir all should’ve done better by their complex, culturally significant subjects, and I was not impressed by Inside Llewyn Davis. But the biggest bringdown for me was simply that yet another year went by without a new movie from Jack Nicholson.

MH: Let me count the letdowns. The Counselor, The Canyons and Only God Forgives were all gruelingly unpleasant movies from writers and filmmakers I respect a great deal. For some reason, all three also featured terrifyingly vacuous, spray-tanned women.

Biggest Surprise RK: No. 1 That someone is finally trying to entice Jack back; and No. 2 that, of all the people who could take on this mission impossible, the guy trying to make it happen is everybody’s favorite couch-bouncing Scientologist. Which inspired me to tweet: “‘No More Tom Cruise Jokes,’ World Promises, ‘If You Pull This Off.’” MH: That Blue Is the Warmest Color was as much about talking and eating as about sex, and that all those activities were weirdly compelling. Abdellatif Kechiche’s drama reminded me that movies can immerse us in someone else’s sensory experience, Avatar-style, without using a lick of digital illusion.

the ghastly CBGB. If you had, though, there’s no way you would have recognized her as Greta Gerwig’s BFF, Sophie, in the fabulous Frances Ha. Sumner’s a woman of a million faces, and an infinitely more inventive, nuanced actor than her dad (himself impersonated in CBGB), Sting.

MH: We disagree on Oscar Isaac, star of Inside Llewyn Davis. I first noticed him in Sucker Punch and hoped he’d get a better showcase one day. He’s attractive, he’s personable enough to make us care about a prize jerk like Davis and, durn it, he can sing!

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RK: A close one. J.C. Chandor’s second feature, All Is Lost, is such a 180 from his 2011 debut, Margin Call, that you wonder what the writer-director can’t do. And with his riveting, heart-rending, fact-based debut, Fruitvale Station, writer-director Ryan Coogler took both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance. Finally, while Netflix is hardly a new name, what the company is suddenly pulling off behind the camera is completely unprecedented. It used to just rent movies and TV shows. Now it makes them. And very well.

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RK: Philomena for all practical purposes is this year’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with the minor difference that it blows like Duke Ellington’s horn section in hell, flames shooting out the saxophones and the devil doing the mashed potato in reverse. I’ve seen Lifetime movies with more artistic integrity. Judi Dench totally pulls a De Niro.

MH: I saw many formulaic blockbusters this year, and their appeal to their core audience — wide-eyed 14-yearolds — was perfectly explicable. Yet I had to marvel at the waste of talent and beloved source material in Oz the Great and Powerful, the year’s eighthhighest-grossing film and one of its least memorable.

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MH: Cultists already knew Shane Carruth for Primer (2004), but by making, starring in and self-distributing the hypnotic Upstream Color, he carved out a place in the annals of oddball art cinema.

Film That Was So Forgettable, I Didn’t Remember Reviewing It Until Doing This YearMost Inexplicable Hit End Review RK: I swear I’m not making this up: I read something about somebody believing Dead Man Down deserved nomination in some category, and, drawing a blank, I went to Rotten Tomatoes to find out what the movie’s about. What do I find staring back at me but my very own review.

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view, an omen of civilization’s impending downfall. The fact that Cormac McCarthy evidently wanted us to interpret it that way is. Unless the Pulitzer winner was punking us all with his screenplay, which is a distinct possibility.

Best Movie With No Movie Stars RK: Upstream Color. Not only did it have no stars; it had no discernible story. It was so out there it made Mulholland Drive look like Mary Poppins.

Plus, there’s a guy whose head is made out of material from the sun. Of course, Vermont comes up — an association I doubt the tourism bureau will jump on.

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RK: There was a time when Spike Lee could do no wrong. It was a long time ago. These days the embittered auteur can’t buy a hit. Thirty million should’ve bought a movie as stylishly wacked as Oldboy some overdue love, but, with ticket sales of slightly more than $1 million, it wound up one of the biggest flops of 2013.

MH: Maybe the problem was that everybody who loves stylishly wacked movies had already seen the Korean Oldboy. Speaking of Asian pop-cultural diaspora: In a summer of heavy-handed spectacles about metropolises being destroyed, Pacific Rim stood out for me as the rare one that was just plain fun.

Naturally, it sank.

Freshest, Most Creative Screenplay RK: This one’s a no-brainer, because the past year gave us a brainy, heartbreaking new movie from Spike Jonze.

His films are like comets. They don’t come around often, but when they do, you want to go out and get a look.

That’s certainly the case with Her, a story of the love that blossoms between a lonely man and a sophisticated digital operating system. The filmmaker and his stars, Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, do the most fantastic work of their careers.

MH: With Before Midnight, Richard Linklater and his two stars kept me interested in the usually not-so-scintillating topics of commitment fatigue and marital woes.

Most Formulaic, ClichéInfested Screenplay RK: James Wan’s 2004 breakthrough, Saw, was the definition of torture porn.

His latest, on the other hand, was simply torture. There’s a reason so many reviewers described The Conjuring as a throwback to horror films of the ’70s.

The script appropriates tropes and motifs from a decade’s worth of movies — and, in the case of one cheeseball chestnut, offers a virtual remake. Welcome to The Amityville Horror 2.0.

MH: Olympus Has Fallen. Yes, I imagine it was pitched as “Die Hard in the White House.” But with groaningly obvious plot twists and unmemorable one-liners, it isn’t fit to kiss the hem of John McClane’s stained wife-beater.

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MH: Hey, we agree! Besides Upstream Color, I want to mention Drug War, one of the year’s best action flicks. Its actors are probably considered stars in its native Hong Kong, but not here.

Worst Movie With an All-Star Cast RK: One movie would be hard-pressed to squeeze in more A-listers than August: Osage County. Plus, the play it’s based on won a Pulitzer. The movie charges out of the gate like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? with offspring that aren’t imaginary, but it fizzles into such a dysfunctional family formula that you end up wishing they were.

MH: The Counselor. This glossy, pretentious, portentous muddle is my least favorite film of the year, and the presence of Diaz, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz and Bruno Ganz didn’t help. Only Javier Bardem managed to make McCarthy’s overwrought dialogue sound halfway natural.

RK: I might’ve said Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring until I saw Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, a portrait of four female college students who embrace a break in routine as an opportunity to leave behind not only reading, writing and arithmetic but also their sense of right and wrong. And I’m not talking about taking drugs. I’m talking about taking lives. Coppola’s film depicted events that actually happened. The creepy thing is, Korine’s story of girls gone wild shows us stuff that, while unthinkable, is no longer unimaginable.

MH: The hilarious scene in The Counselor where Cameron Diaz has sexual congress with a Ferrari is not, in my

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Who We’d Like to See More of at the Movies RK: Jack Nicholson and Gene Hackman have stopped making films, and I wish they’d reconsider. On the other hand, Timothy Bottoms — who peaked in ’73 with The Paper Chase — has made a new movie or two nearly every year since. He’s great; we just never get to see the movies because they aren't.

Somebody should give the deserving actor his Bruce Dern moment.

MH: I’d like to see more of Bryan Cranston in big-screen roles that exploit his talent. No more generic stuffed-shirt characters, please. (And let’s agree to forget Rock of Ages.) You’d never know this is the same guy who mesmerized the “Breaking Bad” audience with his slightest twitches and intonations.

Who We’d Like to See Less of at the Movies RK: Daniel Brühl has made 13 or 14 pictures since Inglourious Basterds, and he’s just gotten less fun with every one.

After Rush (No. 83 on Box Office Mojo’s domestic scorecard) and The Fifth Estate (declared “The Year’s Biggest Flop”

by Forbes), something tells me we’ll be seeing a lot less of the Brühlster. I can live with that.

MH: This is an unpopular opinion, but I’m bored of Brad Pitt. He’s talented, and at this point he can afford to stick to roles that make him stretch, as in Burn After Reading or The Tree of Life.

There was absolutely no reason — except bankability — for him to pop up toward the end of 12 Years a Slave.

Best Documentary RK: Blackfish, director Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s infuriating and enlightening report on the consequences of keeping creatures as sentient as orcas

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MH: The Act of Killing. Like 12 Years a Slave, Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary concerns the institutionalization of inhumanity. The difference is, the people who committed these atrocities are still alive and happy to reenact their crimes for the cameras. What it

going to see that). Those look like The Godfather next to Saving Mr. Banks, though, which isn’t just the most cloying and annoyingly pinheaded film of Tom Hanks’ career but of the entire year as well. Somebody in his circle should’ve spent more time thinking about saving Mr. Hanks.

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MH: Excellent films both. And I haven’t seen American Hustle or a few other things yet. But for now, I’m going with Her. I’ve been waiting for a movie about people’s dependence on their handheld devices — the very phenomenon that’s helping kill big-screen presentation. But I expected something cheesy, preachy or both. I certainly didn’t expect Spike Jonze to concoct a genuinely affecting romance between a boy and his software that doubles as a stealth prequel to The Matrix or The Terminator saga. You wait — in a few years, machines will be reviewing the movies and making them! m

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Johnny Deleon, 20, was thwarted in his attempt to steal hubcaps from cars parked outside a restaurant in Harris County, Texas, where law officers were holding a retirement party. After an officer who spotted Deleon confronted him, about 30 deputies inside the restaurant rushed outside to assist.

Noting that Deleon failed to notice the parking lot held “a multitude of marked and unmarked police vehicles,” Assistant Chief Tim Cannon commented, “Unfortunately for him, his zest for thievery overrode any form of common sense which placed him straight into the hands of law enforcement’s finest.”

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Ophelia Neal, 53, pleaded guilty to robbing a bank with two cans of spaghetti sauce. Police said Neal entered the bank in Macomb County, Mich., and told a clerk she was carrying a bomb in her cloth bag. She fled with an undisclosed amount of cash but was later arrested with the bag, which contained the spaghetti sauce. (United Press International)

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After a resident reported spotting a motionless raccoon in his front yard in Alexandria, Va., an animal control officer investigated and discovered it was a brush from a push broom. (Washington Post)

Police pursuing a Car2Go vehicle going 75 mph in a 60 mph zone in Austin, Texas, reported that the driver crashed and fled on foot. Car2Go is a car-sharing service whose members can rent Smartfortwo vehicles by the minute wherever they’re parked. The driver spotted another Car2Go vehicle and took off, but after it turned down a dead-end road, police arrested driver Richard Delarosa, 33. A Car2Go official said the company would “evaluate” his membership status. (Austin’s KXAN-TV)

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Claiming to be a psychic, Stephanie Thompson took more than $115,000 from a client, telling her the money was cursed and that she would return it after cleaning it. Instead, Thompson lost the money gambling, police in Boca Raton, Fla., said after arresting her. (Miami’s WPLG-TV)

Justice Is the Name, Justice Is the Game Prosecutors in Williamson County, Tenn., filed a motion objecting to defense attorney Drew Justice referring to them in court as “the government,” arguing that “such a reference is used in a derogatory way and is meant to make the State’s attorney seem oppressive and to inflame the jury.” Justice filed his own motion, demanding that his client be referred to not as “the

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Circuit Court Judge Michael Binkley rejected the prosecution’s motion, saying the word “government” wasn’t derogatory. (Nashville’s the Tennessean)

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Earlier this year, Google denied reports that one of its Street View cars ran over a donkey in Botswana. “Because of the way our 360-degree imagery is put together, it looked to some that our car had been involved in an unseemly hit-and-run,” Google Maps official Kei Kawai explained. “The donkey was lying in the path, perhaps enjoying a dust bath, before moving safely aside as our car drove past.” (BBC News)

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Unfavorable reaction to a Facebook photo of students at Thailand’s Kasetsart University wearing special “anti-cheating helmets” caused embarrassment and stress to the faculty, according to dean Tanaboon Sajjaanantakul, prompting the school to discontinue their use. The picture, posted on the university’s alumni Facebook page, showed the cumbersome hats consisting of a headband with two sheets of blank paper draped on both sides of the head to keep students from looking at their neighbors’ answers. Only about 90 students in one course wore the headgear, which they designed themselves following a class discussion of how to prevent cheating. (NPR)

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you, Aries. you have bursts of brilliance that you sometimes don’t follow up on. you’re like a superstar who loses your concentration. but I’ve got a strong feeling that in 2014 you will at least partially overcome this tendency. your word of power will be consistency.

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In 1588, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan, confiscated the swords, daggers and spears belonging to every citizen. He announced they would be melted down and used to make a giant Buddha statue. I’d love to see you undertake a comparable transformation in 2014, Capricorn.

You shouldn’t completely shed all your anger and pugnacity, of course; a certain amount is valuable, especially when you need to rouse yourself to change situations that need to be changed.

But it’s also true that you could benefit from a reduction in your levels of combativeness. What if you could “melt down” some of your primal rage and use the energy that’s made available to build your personal equivalent of a Buddha icon?

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(May 21-June 20): your last best hope to get rich was back in the latter half of 2001 and the first six months of 2002. from July 2025 to June 2026, the cosmos will again conspire to give you a big fat chance to expedite your cash flow to the max. but why get bogged down dreaming of the past or fantasizing about the future when fertile opportunities to boost your prosperity are in front of you right now? financial luck is flowing your way. Viable ideas for making money are materializing in your subconscious treasure house. The contacts that could help you build your wealth are ready to play with you.

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(June 21-July 22): french poet edmond Jabès had this to say about the birth of big creative ideas that dramatically transform one’s life: “for the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.” regardless of whether or not you’re an artist, Cancerian, I expect that you will experience a wrenching and amazing awakening like this in 2014. The opening you’ve been hoping and working for will finally crack its way into your destiny. It may be one of the most pleasurable disruptions you’ve ever had.

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(July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming months, I’m betting that you will exit a confined place or shed cramped expectations or

ViRgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): “now that you

don’t have to be perfect, you can be good,” says a character in John steinbeck’s novel East of Eden. I suggest that you make this your rallying cry in 2014, Virgo. In fact, why not begin right now, wherever you are? say “now that I don’t have to be perfect, I can be good.” free yourself of the pressure to be the polished, ultimate embodiment of everything you’d ever hoped you would be. That will allow you to relax into being more content with the intriguing creation you have already become. you may be surprised by how much mojo this affords you.

libRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): In 1972, english folk musician nick Drake recorded his album Pink Moon. He finished it in a mere four hours, singing all 11 songs and playing every instrumental track himself. It took years for anyone to appreciate his artistry, but eventually the magazine Melody Maker selected Pink Moon as number 48 on its list of the All time top 100 Albums. Here’s one way I suspect your efforts will be similar to Drake’s in 2014, Libra: you will have the ability to get a lot done in a short time. Here are two ways your fate will be different from Drake’s: first, you will have a big pool of trustworthy allies to call on for help. second, what you produce won’t take nearly as long to get the appreciation it warrants. scoRPio

(oct. 23-nov. 21): Eierlegende Wollmilchsau is a colloquial German term for a mythical pig that lays eggs like a chicken, provides milk like a cow, supplies wool like a sheep, and ultimately becomes bacon and pork chops. Metaphorically, it may refer to a fanciful device that performs many functions. Imagine, for instance, a futuristic smart phone that could interpret your dreams, trim your unwanted hair, fix you a perfect cup of

coffee, tell you you’re beautiful in ways you actually believe and cure your little health problems. In the real world, there’s no such thing, right? not yet. but there’s a chance you will find the next best thing to an eierlegende Wollmilchsau in 2014.

sagittaRiUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We don’t accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do,” says rainer Maria rilke in the Duino Elegies. Do you promise to take that truth into consideration in 2014, sagittarius?

Will you pledge to diligently devote yourself to creating the right conditions for love to flourish? In the past, you may not have been fully able to carry out this slow-building marvel; you may not have had quite enough wise perseverance. but you do now. aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-feb. 18): The period

between last July and next June is prime time to find or create your dream job. That might mean simply upgrading your existing gig so that it serves you better. or it could involve you rethinking your relationship with work and going off in quest of a new way to earn a living. so how are you doing on this project, Aquarius? If you are proceeding on schedule, you should be halfway there by now. The goal should be clear, and you should be more disciplined, organized and determined than ever. If for any reason this isn’t the case, start playing catch-up.

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(feb. 19-March 20): “singing teaches two skills that are essential for any creative process,” says author and vocalist rachel bagby, “the ability to listen and the ability to be flexible and spontaneous.” I bring this to your attention, Pisces, because 2014 could potentially be a Golden Age for your creativity. It will be a time when you will benefit even more than usual from exploring and enhancing your imaginative originality.

That’s why I’m encouraging you to sing more than you ever have before. Make a list of your 50 favorite singable songs. be aggressive about expanding the music you get exposed to, and learn the melodies and lyrics to a lot of new tunes. Cut loose with your vocal stylings whenever you have a chance, and take a vow to propel yourself out of funky moods with the creative energy of your singing.

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by Kean’s inconsistency, regarding him as a great artist who on occasion lapsed into histrionics. “to see him act,” said Coleridge, “is like reading shakespeare by flashes of lightning.” now and then I get that feeling about

taURUs (April 20-May 20): ernest rutherford (1871-1937) is known as the father of nuclear physics not just because he won the nobel Prize for Chemistry. He was also a superb teacher. eleven of his students won nobel Prizes. That’s the kind of teacher or mentor or guide I urge you to connect with in 2014, taurus. The coming months will potentially be an optimum time for you to learn deeply, and at a rapid rate. one of the best ways to fulfill that promise will be to apprentice yourself to adepts who have mastered the skills and savvy you want to acquire.

break off your commitment to a compromise that has drained you. It may happen suddenly, or it could take a while to complete. How the escape unfolds will have to do with how thoroughly you extract the lessons that your “incarceration” has made available. Here’s a ritual that might also expedite the process: Give a gift to the people you’re leaving behind, or offer a blessing in the spot where your difficult teachings have taken place.

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