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I read Mac’s book Rare Earth and I couldn’t disagree more with Robert Finkle’s “review” [“You Can’t See Mac Parker’s Film, But You Can Read His Book,” May 2]. I wonder at the choice of that interview, given that he admits to being “so angry and disgusted by Mac Parker that anything he attempts in the guise of creativity is repulsive to me.” I just think there’s been enough judgment already. It’s a rare article that pauses to see things through Mac’s eyes. Which is the other side of the story. I honestly don’t know how Mac has gone on in the face of the brutal reality he wakes up to every day. But, God bless him, he does everything in his power to repay the lenders in whatever way possible, while being a responsible father and husband, friend, brother, and son. He still has to feed his family, keep them warm and dry. I appreciate Robert and Sharon’s positions, but suggesting he should live in a tent? Really? Marna Ehrech SHELBURNE
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F-16s have been operating out of Burlington International Airport for more than 20 years and now residents are complaining about the noise [“F-35 Fighter Jets in South Burlington? Air Force Idea Bombs and Soars,” May 16]? Get real. If that’s the case, tell some of these punks driving around town with their radios blasting to move out of town.
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The statements by local residents regarding the noise and environmental impact of stationing F-35s in Burlington reveal the pervasiveness of the military mindset in U.S. culture [“F-35 Fighter Jets in South Burlington? Air Force Idea Bombs and Soars,” May 16]. Dismissing the roar of the jets and the consequent disruption of human thought processes that occurs because of the roar ignores reality. However, the aspect of this debate that bothers me the most is the one that is barely discussed by anyone. That is how towns in the jets’ flight path are so willing to prostitute themselves for the supposed economic benefits of these latest unnecessary contrivances of the war economy. While one expects businesspeople near the base and various promilitary citizens to champion the F-35, St. Michael’s College president Neuhauser’s statement that the college welcomes the jets, their noise and their murderous capability not only denies the very real concerns of local residents, it contradicts the very teachings of the Catholic Church regarding modern warfare. Furthermore, left unsaid in the debate about these planes is their role in supporting an upgrade in U.S. nuclear weapons capabilities — an upgrade that is supposedly less possible without the F-35. Vermont would be better off without these planes, even if it means the end of the Air National Guard base at Burlington International Airport — a very unlikely consequence.
the F-35 fighter jets coming to our towns [“F-35 Fighter Jets in South Burlington? Air Force Idea Bombs and Soars,” May 16]. Rumbling buildings, shaking windows and near misses, along with nightly flights — is 9 p.m. really necessary? — are some of the experiences that the current F-16s bring. The F-35s are supposed to be “bigger and badder.” Three weeks ago in the afternoon, an F-16 was flying lower than normal by our complex, and the vibration was so intense that it actually knocked a plant from my windowsill. Then came the loud after-burner noise as it disappeared. Was this a near miss? I think so, but, of course, nothing was mentioned in the papers. The fear is always there that an inevitable crash will occur in these close precision flyovers of a very populated area. If we are all to live respectfully with each other, couldn’t a new flight pattern be designed which would not fly over heavily residential neighborhoods? I’m sure the monies we would be getting for these military jets could support that plan. And I wonder if Leahy, Welch and all the other “pro F-35ers” would be so supportive if they lived here?
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SUMMER PREVIEW The advent of summer can only mean one thing: It’s almost fall. So Dan Bolles jokes in his roundup of Vermont’s outdoor music festivals. But, of course, the season, if short, is packed with organized activities, from farmers markets to the Vermont City Marathon and other races. And, of course, the great outdoors beckons. Brian Mohr and Paul Heintz focus on Vermont’s burgeoning trail networks for biking and hiking. Kathryn Flagg reviews a precious Burlington commodity — boat slips — and Amy Lilly takes a landlubber tour at the city’s Intervale. Flagg and Megan James explore quirky little museums around the state, while Alice Levitt and Corin Hirsch survey beloved snack bars. Prefer to loll around? Margot Harrison recommends beach books by Vermont authors. If that’s not enough for your must-do list, see our growing “greatest hits of summer” resource at sevendaysvt.com. Now, get out.
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The physically fit overrun Burlington at the 24th annual KeyBank Vermont City Marathon & Relay — and, like last year, a squad of strapping, Spandexed Seven Days relay racers will be among them. The rest of us will be cheering them on from lazy downtown brunches. You know, to each their own. Go team!
Its glossy surface seems tame today, but Lake Champlain has witnessed its share of deepwater drama — and it has the sunken ships to prove it. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Shipwreck Story Day illuminates the nautical battles and other series of unfortunate events that sent more than 300 vessels to a watery grave.
In two short years, Greensboro’s Hill Farmstead Brewery has become one of the most buzzed-about small-batch breweries in the world. So what’s on tap for its Anniversary Celebration 2012? Well, you can bet on some special suds — as well as food, camping and live music from the Eames Brothers Band and Brian McCarthy Trio.
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Bring on the belly laughs: The fourth Green Mountain Comedy Festival, continuing through Sunday, boasts its biggest lineup yet. Throughout the state, Vermont yuksters humor us with standup showcases and improv workshops — and let’s not forget Thursday’s That’s Just Wrong! Late Show. Very funny, indeed. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 48
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“Exciting, energizing, mysterious and downright terrifying.” In his artist statement, these are the words central Vermont painter Ed Epstein uses to describe his craft. The mood-swing roller coaster adds extra depth to his recent paintings, exhibited in the Vermont Supreme Court Lobby through June 28.
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How does a young hip-hop DJ find himself at the forefront of the 1960s soul revival? It’s not as big of a stretch as it seems for Mayer Hawthorne, a Michigan native with a decidedly fresh take on vintage soul. “His wink-nudge seducer’s anthem ‘No Strings’ can get you pregnant from a hundred yards out,” writes the Los Angeles Times — so you may want to stand toward the back when he plays at Higher Ground Ballroom.
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ov. PETER SHUMLIN says he doesn’t need a raise. Secretary of State JIM CONDOS says he does. So does State Auditor TOM SALMON, who is putting three kids through college. State Treasurer BETH PEARCE? Either she doesn’t need a salary bump or isn’t taking it. Ditto for Attorney General BILL SORRELL and Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT. The dawn of the 2012 campaign season finds Vermont’s top officeholders in a tricky predicament — one that involves their taxpayer-funded salaries. Last week, Secretary of Administration JEB SPAULDING sent a memo to the state’s “exempt” employees — those not covered by a union contract — explaining how they’ll be affected by the restoration of salary cuts that date back to 2009. Back in the Great Recession, the state’s unionized workforce sucked up a 3 percent pay cut to help balance the budget during Ecco Clothes tough times. Then-governor JIM DOUGLAS 81 Church Street asked Vermont’s top elected officials to Burlington | 860.2220 voluntarily accept a 5 percent pay drop eccoclothesboutique.com in solidarity with the union grunts. All of them eventually did. Now that revenues are rebounding, 8v-ecco052312.indd 1 5/21/12 1:09 PMstate employees are getting their 3 percent back, plus a 2 percent cost of living increase. Just in time for summer vacation season! Salary hikes for union employees are automatic. But the exempt employees whose salaries are set by state law — i.e., the statewide officials Vermonters elect By appointment only every two years — have a choice: Take the all services performed by instructor-supervised students 5 percent pay restoration or decline it. If they take it, politicians risk looking insensitive to recession-weary voters in an election year. Refuse it, and they might be declining money they actually need — and rightfully deserve — simply to make a point that could end up being lost on the voting public. What to do? If you’re Shumdog Millionaire, who reported a net worth of $10 million in 2010, you refuse the money, of course. “The governor’s not going to take the salary restoration as provided by law,” Spaulding tells Fair Game. “It’s not the right time to increase the salary at the upper end. Too many Vermonters are still struggling, and it’s too early in the economic recovery.” Connect outer beauty with That means Shumlin will continue inner well-being, earning $136,700 a year rather than the call for your appointment today. $143,977 he’s authorized by law to collect. Condos says he does plan on asking for his $95,000 salary to be restored. Why? “Because that’s what the state says I’m Find more information online at entitled to, and I think everybody should www.obriensavedainstitute.org be compensated for their work.
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“I’m not a wealthy person,” adds Condos, noting that his current $90,000 salary is not even close to the governor’s and is less than what most of the gov’s agency secretaries make. That would be $115,000, which will increase to $122,000 on July 1. “I basically live check to check,” says Condos. “I’m an average Vermonter from that standpoint.” Salmon is taking the extra money, too, “for the good of the office. It’s not really going to affect me.” Salmon announced last week he wouldn’t seek reelection to another term as auditor this year — in part because he needs a job that pays enough to put his kids through college. Salmon estimates that he could fetch a salary of “between $160,000 and $220,000, reasonably” in the private sector.
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As auditor, Salmon earns $90,000 and will make $95,000 after the pay cut is restored. He said the job should pay between $118,000 and $125,000 to attract qualified professionals. Pearce, who was appointed state treasurer by Shumlin and is seeking election in her own right this year, says she won’t take the pay increase. “Right now, I think that it’s premature,” says Pearce, who also currently earns $90,000. “I would rather let that pass and accrue to the taxpayers.” Asked if her decision was political, Pearce said, “This is policy decision. I am comfortable with my salary. My first interest is serving the taxpayers of Vermont.” Sorrell spokesman MIKE PIECIAK says AG Sorrell won’t boost his $105,000 salary — at least not this year. “With so many Vermonters struggling in this economy, it was no time for him to abandon voluntary sacrifice,” Pieciak says. Scott initially said he didn’t know whether he’d take the higher pay. The lite guv still draws income from his private construction business, so the public pay cut — from $63,701 to $60,515 — didn’t hit him terribly hard. “If everyone else is going to continue to be reduced, I might just stay the same,” Scott said.
OPINION But after getting some questions answered, a Scott staffer says the lite guv will refuse the dough. “Times are still tough. Irene recovery is not over yet,” says aide NANCY DRISCOLL. “He wouldn’t feel quite right about taking it.”
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Abortion is legal. So is protesting abortion. That’s why you frequently see people holding anti-abortion signs and praying with rosary beads outside Planned Parenthood clinics and other facilities that provide abortion services. But the Burlington City Council wants to make it illegal to protest abortion within 35 feet of abortion clinics, and to fine violators $50 to $500 per offense. The reason? Planned Parenthood says it’s seen an increase in protester activity since moving last November from Mansfield Avenue to its new downtown office on St. Paul Street. Patients have been “physically approached and verbally harassed,” said Planned Parenthood’s JILL KROWINSKI, creating “a serious publicsafety issue.” Lots of people agree with her. Monday night’s city council meeting was packed with people in pink shirts, holding pink signs that read, “Protect Me, Vote Yes.” A parade of pro-choice women — and a few men — told councilors that they believe in free speech, but not when it makes patients feel threatened and intimidated. Opposing the “patient safety zone” were a priest from Underhill and a halfdozen middle-aged women wearing lapel pins that read, “Life is Precious.” Over and over, pro-lifers said they never intimidated anyone — and challenged anyone to produce evidence to the contrary. Amazingly, no one testified about being harassed or bullied by the protesters. Krowinski said the cops have been called twice, but testified that she wasn’t aware whether anyone was found to have broken a law. Under questioning from City Councilor PAUL DECELLES (R-Ward 7), Council President JOAN SHANNON (D-Ward 5) said she hadn’t invited the police chief to the hearing to provide that information. If she had, she would have learned that the two incidents with protesters were sort of nonevents. According to the cops, that is. Fair Game requested police reports from all incidents in which officers responded to protesters at Planned Parenthood’s new location. There were two — both in March — during a 40-day pray-in organized by the group 40 Days for Life. On March 13, Planned Parenthood called police to report four protesters
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“standing still in front of the entrance in violation of city ordinance.” In his report, the officer on duty concluded, “No violation. On greenbelt, sidewalk and doorway clear.” On March 27, police responded to a complaint of “protesters bothering people in front of Planned Parenthood.” Upon arrival, the officer found two protesters standing outside the clinic, holding signs. The officer asked Planned Parenthood staff if the protesters had blocked people from going in and out of the building. The answer was no. The officer explained that there’s no law against “loitering,” and that if the protesters weren’t acting disorderly or impeding traffic, they weren’t breaking any laws. “I spoke with the two protesters, who were very polite, and asked them if they had been on the sidewalk earlier in the day while protesting,” the officer wrote. “They responded that briefly one of them stepped on the sidewalk.” Are Planned Parenthood supporters making up stories of intimidation? Hard to believe. But they haven’t provided much in the way of convincing evidence, either. Not that it mattered much to city councilors. Decelles was the lone councilor to vote against sending the no-protest zone proposal to the ordinance committee because, he said, there weren’t enough facts on the table. “What I’ve heard tonight is a lot of emotion on both sides,” Decelles told fellow councilors Monday. “I was looking for clarity from the police department on what tools they have to deal with this. Before passing this, I wanted clarity. All 14 of us should want clarity.”
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Remember how Gov. Shumlin made Vermont one of the most immigrantfriendly states in America by making “look the other way” the state’s official policy on immigration enforcement? Well, apparently the Obama administration didn’t get the memo. Last week, the Shumlin administration learned that the feds plan to activate a controversial program called Secure Communities in Vermont on Tuesday, May 22. The fingerprint-sharing program links up local police agencies with a federal immigration database to look for deportable criminal aliens. The feds have been rolling out S-Comm state by state with the goal of making it nationwide by 2013. Several states opted out of the program, only to find out it was mandatory. Vermont is home to hundreds of migrant farmworkers who milk dairy cows and do lots of other hard work that Americans turn down. Many of the farmworkers are here illegally and live in fear of being rounded up and deported to their impoverished home countries. Under pressure from farmworkers and their advocates, Shumlin established a new
policy last year that directs state police to refrain from asking suspected illegal immigrants for papers unless they are suspected of committing a crime. The state legislature followed suit with a bill that could result in Vermont issuing driver’s licenses to immigrants, making it easier for them to get around, open bank accounts, etc. The goal of S-Comm is to catch and deport dangerous immigrants who would roam free if not for the government’s state-of-the-art, fingerprint-matching technology. But the program has come under fire for sweeping up large numbers of minor offenders and separating foreignborn families. Last November, Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT) signed onto a letter calling on President Barack OBama to “immediately stop” the enforcement program, writing that it “sows mistrust of the police and other uniformed personnel, thereby making our communities less safe.” Maybe the president thought it was junk mail. Will S-Comm make Vermont the next Arizona? No, but it will shift prosecutorial discretion from local police agencies to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities, who are notorious for issuing “ICE holds” — written demands that require states to hold suspected illegals — for minor violations. As Brendan O’neill of the Burlington group Migrant Justice says, “ICE holds can be issued for people who were selling tortillas without a business license.” Vermont Public Safety Commissioner keith Flynn tells Fair Game that state police will maintain their policy of not asking crime victims and witnesses about their immigration status. But once someone is fingerprinted, it’s out of Vermont’s hands. Fingerprints from local police agencies are currently checked against an FBI crime database. With S-Comm, those fingerprints will also be run through an ICE database, Flynn says, and anyone that ICE finds questionable could be whisked away to an undisclosed jail. It happened to an 18-year-old Brazilian woman in Boston, who faced deportation after police stopped her for a traffic violation. And to a 28-year-old mother from El Salvador living in suburban Maryland. She was arrested and threatened with deportation — and separation from her 2-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen — after calling police for protection from an abusive partner. Feel safer now? m
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High and Dry: In Burlington, Boaters Wait Years for a Place to Park B Y KATHRYN FL A GG
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he waiting list for a slip or mooring in Burlington’s municipal marina is so long that, in some cases, boaters can’t remember how long ago the clock started ticking. “Maybe eight years?” guesses Rich Malaspina, a Winooski resident who moved from limbo onto the water this year. “I can’t recall.” Vermont’s most competitive real estate market is arguably in the Queen City’s front yard: Burlington Harbor. All told, there are 331 pending requests for space on the municipally owned waterfront. Some people are holding out for slips, which secure boats alongside a dock or pier; others have their hearts set on moorings, which are located out on the open water, accessible only by dinghies or rowboats. The wait averages nine years for a slip at the Burlington Community Boathouse, the most coveted location; it’s between five to seven years for moorings or slips at Perkins Pier. The demand-supply ratio has fueled rumors of traded slips and circumvented wait-lists. But the city has an economic incentive to accommodate all of these nautical types. If all 138 people on the waiting list for the Boathouse — the most expensive dockage in the city — received spots, they’d bring in more than $400,000 per year. The 111 people on the waiting list for Perkins Pier are worth an estimated $195,000, based on average rates across all boat sizes. There’s not much more room down the waterfront, either — boating is booming all along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain. “This side of the lake tends to be always full,” says Karen Claxton, the office manager at Shelburne Shipyard, where the waiting list runs two to four years. “Certainly there are things that have suffered in this economy, but it isn’t dockage.” Furthermore, the greatest demand — both in Burlington and other regional marinas — is for larger boats.
Turnover tends to be among smaller slips and moorings. That tells marina managers that not only are people still boating with enthusiasm; they’re trading up. Or laterally. Malaspina now has a mooring, but no sailboat to occupy it. He owns a motorboat, which he docked for many years in Malletts Bay, before he caught the sailing bug about five years ago. Now that he’s got the spot for a wind-powered vessel, he plans to sell his motorboat and buy a sailboat. Even after eight years, though, longsuffering Malaspina says, “I didn’t think they’d call me this soon.” That’s because he’s been checking in every year to note his spot on the waiting list. Last year he was number 11, just two spots ahead of the year before.
Burlington’s docks opened to seasonal boaters on April 23 — three weeks ahead of schedule thanks to the mild winter, says waterfront coordinator Erin Moreau. It was payback for last year, when Lake Champlain boaters lost a month because of record spring flooding. Then, on August 27, Tropical Storm Irene hastened the season’s end. Moreau, in blue jeans and topsiders, grabs a seat at a picnic table alongside the community boathouse. The Burlington Boathouse is actually a boat — or a barge, to be specific — which was floated up to Burlington from Texas in 1989. The words “Houston-TX” are emblazoned on the south face of the barge, which is hooked in place by enormous metal rings fastened to tall wooden pilings.
Last year’s flood lifted the barge to within inches of the tops of those pilings. But all in all, Moreau says, Burlington’s marina weathered the high-water event pretty well: Unlike marinas with buildings vulnerable to encroaching water, the barge literally rode out the flood. Still, the facility is “maintenance intensive,” Moreau says: Exposed to the elements, the aging barge requires “constant and continuous” attention. The docks are in good shape, but Parks and Rec director Mari Steinbach says the boathouse kitchen got a $60,000 overhaul this year, and the facility is slated for an estimated $120,000 flooring and roofing repair under the city’s capital plan. Parks and Rec has additional improvements in mind, such as a
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renovation of the restroom and shower space. Seasonal fees at the Boathouse facilities, but there’s no money in the run between $2000 and $4094, budget for it. depending on dockage size and “It’s just outdated.” Steinbach ex- resident status. Perkins Pier rates plains. “We’ve done a great job with are slightly lower, and moorings very limited resources.” What’s more, — which are roughly half the rate expanding the city’s dockage and moor- of Boathouse docking by foot — are ing facilities would require significant the most economical: $45.50 per underwater construction to deal with foot for Burlington residents. navigational hazards. So far, there’s In addition to the seasonal spots, neither the money nor the plan in place the marina also reserves a few slips and to expand slips and moorings for transient moorings. boaters who stay anyBoth Steinbach and where from one night Moreau defer to the to a month. Most come mayor’s office when down from Montréal, asked about future but some hail from as far waterfront redevelopaway as Florida; Moreau ment. In the run-up to recalls one sailor who8v-trinket052312.indd his election, Burlington had made the “long loop” mayor Miro Weinberger from Alaska. called for completing Meanwhile, local the “unfinished work” of boaters are there to stay. transforming the lake’s Roughly five to eight edge into a modern, spots open up per year, world-class waterfront. depending on the locaHis plan included an tion. Moreau and the expanded marina facilwaterfront staff acknowlity, additional boat slips, edge the wait is long, KAr EN cl Ax toN , an extended boardwalk, ShE lbu rN E ShIPYArD but insist it’s fair. They and more shops and match boat registrations restaurants. to dockage contracts and His Republican challenger, Kurt troll Craigslist to prevent boaters from Wright, specifically mentioned the epic subletting slips or moorings. waits for boat slips and moorings during Jim Madison is a Shelburne resithe mayoral campaign. dent who has moored his sailboat in But there aren’t any firm plans the Burlington mooring field for 10 in place for redevelopment yet: years. Every now and then he weighs Weinberger says he has more think- the high price against the limited reing to do, and is waiting for the final sources that Burlington offers. There report from PlanBTV — a community isn’t a valet service to ferry boaters visioning and planning process that back and forth between the mooring will yield the first-ever master plan field, for instance, or year-round boat for Burlington’s downtown and water- storage. front. Weinberger says the goal is to But for Madison, the location have a plan drafted by the end of the wins out. “If there’s no wind, you’re summer that Burlington can translate sitting on your boat with an amazing into new zoning rules. view,” he says. And when the breeze Strong demand guarantees that is up, the location is perfect for strikeven with outdated facilities and lim- ing a broad reach into the lake. “You ited services, Burlington can charge can go in any direction you want,” top dollar for dock and mooring he says. m
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It’s a Families Affair: The Genealogy of AG Candidates Bill Sorrell and T.J. Donovan b y An d y Broma ge
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was the patriarch of another Burlington Irish clan that lived up the hill from the Sorrells, on North Prospect Street. Leddy was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in 1958 — losing by just 709 votes — four years before Phil Hoff successfully ended 108 years of GOP rule in Montpelier. In 1966, president Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Leddy to a federal judgeship in Burlington. Bernard Leddy had five children — including T.J.’s mother, Johannah “Joey”
Dizzy yet? Imagine how it is for longtime Burlingtonians with ties to both families. Some are choosing to endorse a candidate; others, to sit the whole thing out. Attorney Joe McNeil isn’t publicly weighing in. He grew up with Bill Sorrell in the Queen City — their parents were best friends, he says — went to the same college (Notre Dame) and launched a law firm in the late 1970s with Sorrell as his partner (McNeil Murray and Sorrell).
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racing the family histories of Bill Sorrell and T.J. Donovan is like one big game of political connect-the-dots. Both are the products of prominent Democratic families from Burlington and they will face off this August in a closely watched primary for attorney general. Sorrell is the baby-boomer incumbent, first appointed by then-governor Howard Dean in 1997. He hasn’t faced a serious reelection opponent in 15 years. Donovan is the Chittenden County state’s attorney, an ambitious and politically savvy Gen Xer who isn’t waiting for Sorrell to step aside before making a run for his job. Over the last half-century, the Catholic families of the two candidates have intersected and intertwined like a Celtic knot — connections both men play up and down on the campaign trail. That’s made it awkward for some longtime friends and supporters. “It’s a challenge for many folks who know both families and both candidates from so many different perspectives to sort out who will be the best attorney general,” says Judy Stephany Ahearn, who represented Burlington in the Vermont House and Senate and has not endorsed a candidate. Ahearn also served as a senior staffer for former governor Madeleine Kunin — one of two governors that Sorrell’s mother mentored and encouraged to run. Esther Hartigan Sorrell also launched Dean’s political career. A longtime behind-the-scenes Democratic operative and eventual state senator, Esther Sorrell was a political force in Burlington when the Queen City was a Democratic enclave in a heavily Republican Vermont. The family lived in a home near Smalley Park in Burlington’s South End before moving to Hickok Place off Pearl Street. Bill Sorrell’s father, Thomas W. Sorrell, was a U.S. marshal appointed by president John F. Kennedy in 1961. The guy who helped Thomas Sorrell land that patronage job was Bernard J. Leddy, T.J. Donovan’s grandfather — for whom the public park and skating arena in Burlington’s New North End is named. A political power broker, Leddy
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Leddy Donovan — all of whom went to Catholic school and church with Sorrell and his four siblings. Bernard Leddy’s daughter Molly was Bill Sorrell’s juniorprom date at Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington. Son John T. Leddy became Sorrell’s law partner in private practice in the 1980s. Another son, Jim Leddy, hired Sorrell to do legal work for the HowardCenter when Jim was the mental health center’s director. Jim Leddy in turn says he leaned on Esther Sorrell for advice when she was a state senator and he was director of the state’s alcohol and drug abuse programs. Jim Leddy went on to serve in the Vermont Senate from 1999 to 2007.
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But McNeil has ties to the Leddys, too; one of his first hires was John Leddy, T.J. Donovan’s uncle. Sorrell left the practice to return to public service, and John Leddy became a partner in what is now McNeil Leddy and Sheahan. McNeil also coached T.J. Donovan in youth basketball. “The connections have just been really close,” says McNeil. “I have the greatest respect for both of them, and I’ll just leave it at that.” Maurice Mahoney, a former Burlington city councilor and Democratic Party chair, played football with Sorrell in high school and is first cousins with the Leddys. But he’s picked a side — Donovan’s — and feels confident
the choice “isn’t going to cause any problems with my friendships.” Donovan and Sorrell each have heavy hitters — with valuable connections — in their corner. Howard Dean has endorsed Sorrell’s reelection bid, and several veteran campaign staffers from the Dean machine are now working for the AG’s campaign. For his part, Donovan has ties to behind-the-scenes political kingmaker Harlan Sylvester, the money manager who has advised Vermont governors for decades. Donovan has said Sylvester is responsible for his “political education.” Former governor Kunin is backing Sorrell. Vermont’s first female governor credits Esther Sorrell for encouraging her to run for office in the early ’70s and says she “can’t erase that connection.” Kunin has ties to Bill Sorrell, too; when she became governor, Kunin lured him away from private practice to fill a vacancy as Chittenden County state’s attorney — the job T.J. Donovan now holds. Mahoney says such old-guard connections will be valuable in the attorney general’s primary but won’t be enough to push Sorrell or Donovan to victory. “Both of them are going to have to rely on new people and bringing new energies into that primary race,” he says. In an interview, Sorrell recalls his Leddy clan encounters. As a kid, he and his father went deer hunting with Bernard Leddy in Duxbury. Later, at his mother’s urging, young Bill Sorrell donned a sandwich-board sign for Leddy’s 1958 campaign for governor and served as a human billboard on College Street. A picture of that electioneering ended up in the afternoon paper, the Burlington Daily News. Sorrell still refers to Molly Leddy as “my first true love.” Sorrell says he remains close with the Leddys — he attended a January 6 Feast of the Epiphany party at John Leddy’s house this year — and is trying not to let the campaign get personal. “There is so much family history here and there will be so much family future here, that I am just trying to set it aside,” Sorrell says. “I want this to be a positive experience and not have there be scars at all.”
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Sorrell since childhood and still calls him a friend. “We have too much in common and too much real regard for one another to have it not. This is not a battle of ill wills. It’s a battle of different perspectives on how the attorney general can impact policy in the state of Vermont. Nothing more than that.” Kunin concurs. “I don’t think it will be the Hatfields and the McCoys,” she says of the primary race. “There have been too many connections, too much working together. I don’t think it will be a negative campaign.” m
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“The dynamic makes people uneasy and probably keeps a lot of people on the sidelines,” Donovan says. “And frankly, I’ve probably upset some people and I recognize that. But I’ve got to do what I think is right. For me, it was really trying to find a balance between being respectful to history but not bound by it.” “Joey” Leddy Donovan, T.J.’s mother and a current state rep from Burlington, predicts the families will survive this feud. “The relationship will endure,” says Joey Donovan, who has known
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“I certainly know the history and I respect the history, but it wasn’t my experience,” Donovan says. Bernard Leddy died before T.J. Donovan was born, and the state’s attorney says he never met Esther Sorrell. In fact, Donovan says the first time he met Bill Sorrell was in 2006 during Donovan’s first campaign for state’s attorney. Sorrell declined to endorse in the three-way Democratic primary that year, but publicly backed Donovan after he won it. Donovan said in weighing whether to challenge Sorrell, he struggled with issues of “loyalty.”
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Asked if he felt betrayed by Donovan’s decision to run, Sorrell said he “went through a period of time ... where I wasn’t happy about it.” “And then, quite frankly, I just said, ‘You know. There’s nothing underhanded about this. There’s every right to run. It’s not personal and I respect what he wants his career track to be or whatever,’” Sorrell says. “And I’ve got a record I’m proud of.” For his part, T.J. Donovan is mostly playing down the family history in the campaign. At 38, he’s a generation younger than Sorrell, who turned 65 on March 9.
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Progressive Party chairwoman Martha Abbott says she’ll join Republican Sen. Randy Brock in challenging Gov. Peter Shumlin for the state’s top job. But the Underhill resident, who has run for governor and state auditor before — twice each — says she’s not necessarily in it for the long haul. “There’s a lot of issues we don’t agree with [Shumlin] on,” she says. “But I’m not saying I’m going to stay in the race. I’m not saying I’m not going to stay in the race.” Why all the indecision? Abbott and Progressive Party executive director Morgan Daybell say the party is fielding a candidate for three reasons: One of its statewide candidates has to win 5 percent of the vote for the party to retain major party status; they want to keep candidates from other parties from hijacking the nomination; and, most importantly, they want to push Shumlin to the left. According to Daybell, by putting the squeeze on the Democratic governor, they can “sort of hold Shumlin’s feet to the fire on budget, tax and labor issues that the Progressives feel he’s not been doing well on.” If Shumlin promises to focus on Prog priorities, Daybell says, Abbott will withdraw from the race after the August primary. Shumlin aide Alex MacLean contends that the governor already shares “common goals and a common agenda” with the Progs. “Governor Shumlin has worked closely with Progressives on issues like single-payer health care and Vermont Yankee, and looks forward to continuing to do so,” she said.
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Castleton State College’s brand-spanking-new polling center has fielded its first survey of 2012 candidates — and it found some interesting results. The poll of 607 Vermonters — commissioned by WCAX-TV, WDEV radio and Vermont Business Magazine — finds that 65 percent of respondents approve of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s job performance, while only 23 percent disapprove. An early head-to-head matchup with one declared opponent — Sen. Randy Brock (R-Franklin) — puts the incumbent in the lead, 60 to 27 percent. “You’ve got to think that Shumlin’s pretty comfortable,” says Castleton polling director Rich Clark. Another matchup shows Attorney General Bill Sorrell beating challenger T.J. Donovan, the Chittenden County state’s attorney, 49 percent to 23 percent in a Democratic primary. Of course, it’s early yet for head-to-head horse race polls to show much. Castleton began making calls May 7 — just two days after the legislative session came to an end and before Donovan held his campaign kickoff. The survey did not question the degree to which name recognition factored into Sorrell’s early lead. Presumably, the seven-term incumbent is better known than an upstart who has never run for office outside Chittenden County. And the poll relied on Vermonters to self-identify the likelihood they would vote in an otherwise uncontested August primary — a reliable recipe for low voter turnout. “Is it too early to predict?” asks Clark. “Absolutely. Are people paying attention? Not yet. But at the same time, To read the full it’s our first marker. You’ve got to start stories, go to sometime.”
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Well-Offed in Vermont by Amy Patricia Meade, Midnight Ink, 236 pages. $14.95
Bennington resident AMY PATRICIA MEADE, the author of several previous mysteries, kicks off her new “Pret’Near Perfect Mystery” series with this whodunit set in the fictional Windsor County town of Teignmouth. (“Pret’ near,” according to the book, is one of those things real Vermonters say.) Nick and Stella Buckley are a New York professional couple who arrive at their just-purchased bucolic farmhouse to find a fresh corpse in the well. Evicted by the police investigation and unable to find a motel during leaf-peeping season, they move into a deer camp and spend their time playing amateur sleuth. Was Allen Weston, the owner of Speedy Septic Service, the victim of a hunting accident or a murderer? Well-Offed is a “cozy” mystery, which means the tone stays light, with lots of flirty banter between Nick and Stella and no dwelling on the creepiness of the local criminal element. In fact, the
residents of Teignmouth come across as mostly harmless, if none too bright, as one by one they spill their guts to the nosy flatlanders. Even the sheriff amiably steps aside, on several occasions, to let the Buckleys do his job for him. Fans of the darker, savvier Vermont mysteries of ARCHER MAYOR and DON BREDES may be rubbed the wrong way by Meade’s focus on the newcomers and their snarky reactions to the town’s eccentric yahoos. That said, the protagonists are otherwise likable, the mystery isn’t too simply solved and the tone may be just right for your beach blanket.
The Nightmare by Nancy Means Wright, Perseverance Press, 264 pages. $15.95
Here’s a different kind of whodunit. Middlebury’s NANCY MEANS WRIGHT, with her own series of Vermont-set mysteries under her belt, has shifted her attention to 18thcentury England. Her sleuth is Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical writer often called the “first feminist” for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Wollstonecraft lived on her own, rejected domesticity (but not love) and would eventually die giving birth to the future Mary Shelley. In short, the historical record paints her as a considerably more tempestuous and risk-taking figure than was Jane Austen — who has also become a mystery heroine of late. When we catch up with Wollstonecraft in Means Wright’s second novel about her, set in London in 1792, the writer — still a virgin in her early thirties — has fallen hard for Henry Fuseli, the Anglo-Swiss
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Caves! A deadly virus! Special-ops agents! Technogadgets! A kickass heroine! Tabor adds a dash of James Bond to the Michael Crichton template for a compulsively readable, if occasionally silly, thriller. Exploring those miles-deep subterranean passages will keep you cool on a hot day.
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An old-fashioned, plot-driven historical novel that covers centuries of passion and prejudice in the American South.
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And a Couple of Indies Resurrect by Kane Gilmour, Quickdraw Books, 315 pages. $14.99.
This high-concept action-adventure from a Montpelier author, about a Chinese magnate with a plot that threatens the Vatican, comes with a rave from best-selling thriller author Jeremy Robinson.
Snap by Steven Bredice, Fortean Fiction, 179 pages. $18
Why did England’s Centre for Fortean Zoology — a nonprofit committed to researching “mystery animals” — publish a book by a Williston attorney? Well, it’s about what happens when “a fishing trip goes horribly wrong,” and a group of friends attracts the wrath of a giant snapping turtle. Or do they? Using an unreliable focal character, Bredice keeps readers wondering what really happened.
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Dear cecil, I first heard the claim that Jesus was a copycat of the Egyptian god Horus when I watched the so-called documentary Religulous. Horus supposedly walked on water, was born from a virgin, healed the sick, etc. Naturally, I was skeptical and tried doing some research but found only biased opinions that weren’t backed by much evidence. So what’s the deal? Johnny oregano
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shortly before his death in 1907. Massey argues that the Judeo-Christian tradition borrowed heavily from Egyptian mythology and that the “Jesuslegend” in particular was based on Horus. He lists 269 alleged parallels between the two figures, including those mentioned in the Maher movie. Massey contends Jesus and Christianity were concocted in Rome based on myths borrowed from Egyptian gnostics. Why would the Romans do this? Massey doesn’t explicitly say, and later authors aren’t much clearer. The best I can make out is that Christianity as we know it was invented to help the Roman emperor Constantine control the masses. The point is, some take a
the above. Except Osiris wasn’t crucified — Seth initially had him nailed into a coffin. And he wasn’t really resurrected, just revived long enough to be a sperm donor, after which he died again. Then again, there really isn’t a canonical version of the Horus story. Browsing through the stelae, I find a variant in which the child Horus is stung to death by a scorpion, then restored to life by the god Thoth. So OK, are there points of similarity between Jesus and Horus? I’ll be big about it and say sure. Is one copied from the other? Get out. But let’s not fixate on Horus. The real difference between Egyptian mythology and the story of Jesus is that the former is clearly a fable full of beings with superpowers, whereas the latter is told in realistic terms with the occasional miracle thrown in. The simplest explanation for this is that the New Testament is largely about a real person, with embellishments added to impress the rubes or make a doctrinal point. I venture to say this was the working assumption among a sizable fraction of scholars for a long time, and many still hold to it. But I’d also say there’s a hardening realization that, setting aside obvious supernatural elements, we’ll never know which, if any, parts of the Gospel describe actual events and which are made up.
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view opposite that of religious fundamentalists: Whereas one side says everything in the Bible must be taken literally, the other side says nothing in it can be. That’s not to say neo-Masseyites are necessarily atheists. Harpur for one professes to be a Christian; he just doesn’t believe in the existence of Christ. If it all sounds pretty crazy, nothing Gerald Massey has to say will convince you it’s sane. The man was an eccentric whose work has never been taken seriously by scholars. His book is a weird mix of historical speculation, philology and theorizing about the precession of the zodiac, all presented as fact with minimal supporting evidence. Massey’s attempt to demonstrate that Jesus is merely a rewrite of Horus is tortured. Take the contention that Horus and Jesus were both of virgin birth. The most common legend about the birth of Horus is that the god Seth dismembered the body of Osiris, his older brother and husband of Isis. Isis collected the pieces of her husband’s body and sewed them back together, then took the form of a bird and fanned Osiris with her wings, reviving him enough to have sex and get herself pregnant with Horus. So it’s sex with a coma patient or necrophilia — not your classic virgin-birth story either way. As for the crucifixion and resurrection, the party involved wasn’t Horus but Osiris, as per
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up in someone’s backyard. In the meantime, if you’re looking to bike or walk to the other side of the beltline from the Burlington High School/North Avenue Alliance Church area, you’ll have to detour down to the bike path’s entrance off Manhattan Drive, or through Ethan Allen Park. In the early ’90s, there was a proposal to move the bridge to the Burlington Bike Path, where it would have spanned the Winooski River and given access to Colchester, according to that Free Press article. As we know, a brand-new bridge was built in that spot instead. So the bridge remains in its current location over the beltline, serving no purpose but an aesthetic one — and perhaps standing as a monument to well-intentioned laws gone slightly awry. Even if the bridge isn’t doing anything, locals can take solace in the fact that it’s still a pretty good-looking bridge. “We wanted to do something different,” Ranaldo says of the bridge’s design. “But within the boundaries of the park district, I think we wanted to do something a little more special, a little more appropriate for the setting. We had never designed a timber-arch bridge before, so it was a great process to go through.” Currently, the bridge’s wooden frame is weathered and needs to be cleaned of graffiti and bird droppings, but it doesn’t look decrepit or abandoned. One employee in the Burlington Department of Planning and Zoning suggests that the bridge be rechristened the “artwork to nowhere.” Might we suggest attaching a big “Welcome to Burlington” sign to the structure, Vegas style? m
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They are expensive to produce. Their purchasers are almost exclusively government agencies, which are frugal. Each consumer uses them at most a few times in a lifetime. And, when vaccines are effective, they put themselves out of business. A 2002 study by economists Michael Kremer of Harvard and Christopher Snyder of George Washington University determined that drug companies earn more treating the diseases that vaccines prevent than selling the vaccines themselves. Then there’s the prohibitive cost of product-liability insurance. This is not because vaccines are harmful. It is
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because anti-vax misinformation convinced enough people that they are. In 1974, a British researcher published an article saying that the pertussis vaccine had caused brain damage in 22 children. Personal-injury lawyers leapt on this and other stories of harm. Companies started withdrawing from the vaccination business. By the 1980s, myriad investigations had disproved claims of every serious harmful effect of vaccines, but the lawsuits kept coming. To cover the liability insurance, the price of a dose of pertussis vaccine rose from 17 cents to $11. One suit, alleging without scientific substantiation that a vaccine manufactured by Lederle had paralyzed a boy, won the plaintiff $1.13
million — equal to nearly half the pertussis vaccine market that year. More companies stopped making it. That led to shortages and even higher prices. Today, in nations that can’t afford vaccines, preventable pneumococcal diseases, such as pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis, take one child a minute, according to the United Nations. For each two survivors of the illness, one is disabled for life. Independent research overwhelmingly affirms that vaccines are safe, with extremely rare and almost always mild and transient adverse effects. The most commonly cited claim, that vaccinations cause autism, has been solidly and repeatedly disproved. “While there are still a handful of parents who, in almost a religious way, cling to the notion that vaccines cause autism,” the Autism Science Foundation proclaims, “there is no data to support an autism-vaccine link. There never has been. Vaccines don’t cause autism.” Vaccines are effective. They fail to work only when people don’t use them. That’s true for individuals and for populations. In Colorado, children whose parents refused vaccination were 23 times more likely to get whooping cough than fully immunized children, according to a study published in Pediatrics in 2009. The study cites earlier research demonstrating that “states with high nonmedical exemption rates have an increased incidence of pertussis among children ages 3 to 18 years.” One such state is Vermont. Thanks to gaps in vaccination, once-vanquished diseases are resurging. Europe has recently seen measles epidemics, and the illness is increasing in the U.S. Polio is spreading throughout the developing world. Paranoid ideology has helped bring back polio. In northern Nigeria, Muslim clerics convinced parents that polio vaccination was a Western plot to sterilize their youth. Parents stopped having their kids vaccinated. The boycott spread across West Africa to Sudan and the Middle East. Now 25 countries are no longer polio free. Afghanistan is one of them. Poli “PoliPsy Psy”isisa atwice-monthly monthly column column by by Judith Judith Levine. Levine. Got Got aa comment comment on on this this story? story? Contact Contact levine@sevendaysvt.com. levine@sevendaysvt.com.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how polio in Badghis Province might make its way to, say, Bennington County. Why do people who scoff at climatechange denial deny the global scientific consensus on vaccines? It’s not just skepticism of Western medicine or partiality to traditional and alternative practices. After all, the most traditional of practitioners — village healers in sub-Saharan Africa — cooperate with public health workers in vaccination campaigns. It’s not just criticism, however legitimate, of for-profit medicine or its government toadies. Some of the world’s fiercest critics of Big Pharma and the international patent laws that reward its greed are also the strongest advocates for universal vaccination. Reason has nothing to do with the antivaccination passion. The movement runs on two contrary emotions: fear and a blithe expectation of well-being. Much of the fear is the fruit of 30 years of conservative and neoliberal propaganda adulating everything private and condemning everything public — whether the CIA or the Census Bureau, the federal penitentiary or the local public school. This fall, the Tea Party crucified Texas Gov. Rick Perry — then a GOP presidential
hopeful — for his executive order to vaccinate all preteen girls against HPV, the virus that causes deadly cervical cancer. Rick Santorum called the vaccination order “big government run amok.” The anti-vax people in Vermont tend to be progressive on many issues. But paranoia festers where right and left libertarianism meet: in America’s radical individualism, the belief that all of us should take care of our own and the illusion that we do, whether with hand sanitizer and homealarm systems or with homeschooling and organic vegetables.
Vermont’s health services, education and environmental protections are superior to those in most states, and help explain why it is the healthiest state in the nation. That’s why anti-vaxxers’ use of this distinction as an argument for mistrusting public health officials is particularly circular, and galling. In fact, the state’s remarkable safety affords Vermonters the luxury of fearing imaginary perils — in this case, those lurking in a vaccine. Most of the world does not have this luxury. The spinning of those imaginary perils into felt truths helped hobble the vac-
The anTi-vax movemenT runs on Two conTrary emoTions: fear and a blithe expectation of well-being. The hubris of this individualism is seated in an emotion that’s antithetical to fear: the uniquely American expectation of well-being. Despising government and thinking you’re doing it all yourself means ignoring the public infrastructure, from clean-water regulations to wellmaintained roads — to universal immunization — that helps foster this reasonable assumption of safety in the first place.
cination industry. But this victory for the anti-vax movement had unintended consequences. It contributed to the diminished supply and high cost of vaccines, and those prices play a role in the deaths of millions of children. Pharmaceutical corporations must not be allowed to make life-and-death decisions based on their bottom lines. But individuals carry moral responsibility, too.
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Where immunization is concerned, each family’s responsibility reaches far beyond its own children, or even the other children in the schoolroom. In Vermont, the defeat of S.199 may look like the status quo ante. Shumlin’s flip-flop was nothing new, either. He concluded that politically, if not medically, the risks outweighed the benefits. But his capitulation to a clutch of noisy, individualist flat-earthers also will have unintended consequences. The governor has not just undermined Vermonters’ health and the credibility of his own health commissioner (if I were Chen, I’d resign). He has dealt a blow to the notion of public health — and the public good — itself, and to elected government as the chief agent responsible for promoting it. Shumlin has also damaged himself — that is, the chances for success of his own most ambitious and progressive project: single-payer health care. That damages the chances of ever winning universal health care nationally. Now, in addition to death panels and rationing of treatments and medicines, the opponents of reform have the evil vaccinators with which to foment paranoia. And paranoia is like the poliomyelitis or rubella virus: Its nature is to spread. m
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or a woman of 77 years, Jean Haigh scoots up mountains with astonishing speed. Leaning into her trekking poles, she takes short, quick steps as she scurries along the trail with the grace and precision of an insect. At stream crossings, she barrels forward, failing to consider which rocks will lead her to the other side — but she always seems to make it across. “I’ve only been up this trail about 30 times,” Haigh mutters as she briefly loses her way on a rerouted section of a new and growing trail network in the Northeast Kingdom. We are 10 miles north of Island Pond, in the unorganized township of Avery’s Gore, where the population held to a steady zero as of the last census count. In these woods, long home to saws and skidders, Haigh has labored for more than a decade to open up the working forest to a new crowd: hikers. Come June, Haigh’s efforts will be rewarded when she is named president of the 10,000-member Green Mountain Club. Founded in 1910 to build the nation’s first long-distance hiking trail, the club is charged with protecting and maintaining all 273 miles of the Long Trail, as well as 175 miles of side trails and a section of the Appalachian Trail stretching from Killington through Norwich. During her three-year term, Haigh will navigate the club through rugged terrain: It faces internal division over ridge wind power, disappearing funding for conservation initiatives and the growing distractions of a technological age. But those who have worked with Haigh to develop the GMC’s newest trail network say she has what it takes to crest even the steepest slope. “Everything you can see is part of the Champion Lands,” Haigh says as we pause on a stretch of trail overlooking Black Mountain and Gore Mountain. May is more than halfway over, but spring is still creeping up these hills just south of the Canadian border. Haigh is referring to the 133,000 acres — or 208 square miles — of prime Essex County timberland put up for sale by the former Champion International paper company in 1997. Since the late 1980s, industrial paper giants such as Great Northern and International Paper had been divesting themselves of the large tracts of northern New England land they had owned, harvested and kept intact for a century. When Champion put up for sale 300,000 acres of timberland in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York’s Adirondack Park, environmentalists scrambled to ward off development, while the forest-products industry sought to continue working the land, and traditional users fought to preserve access to it. An eventual compromise engineered by then-governor Howard Dean split Vermont’s Champion Lands among
three interests: One-fifth became a stateprotected wildlife management area, another fifth was added to the federal Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, and the remainder was sold to Essex Timber Company. Conservation and recreation easements ensured that the 84,000 acres that remained in private hands would not be subdivided and developed — and that hikers, hunters, snowmobilers and others could access it. Around that time, Haigh was just getting involved with the Green Mountain Club. A native of Rutland, she had grown up hiking and skiing Pico Mountain. With her second husband, she had taken to regularly climbing the Alps. But after they divorced, Haigh, then living in East Craftsbury, was looking for new people with whom to hike. “I never dreamt I’d become president of the club. Ever, ever, ever, ever!” she says. “I hated clubs!” Why? “Clubby people do clubby things,” she explains. In the summer of 2000, Haigh and a small group of GMC members founded a new Northeast Kingdom chapter of the club with the goal of finding a role for the organization in the Champion Lands. Hunters, anglers and snowmobilers had long plied these woods, says Ed O’Leary, director of operations for the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, but “There was not an established hiking trail on the property. It’s a new concept for that area.” Haigh and her fellow chapter members searched all over the Champion Lands for the right place to build a trail. Eventually, they settled on a stretch of Essex Timber land between two established trails: the Bluff Mountain Community Trail, which links that mountain to Island Pond; and the Gore Mountain Trail, which links Route 114 to an old fire lookout tower. Between the two lies a long ridgeline passing over Middle Mountain and overlooking the aptly named Unknown Pond. “It started out with a hand-sketched line on a topo map, and it sort of sat out there for a long time,” says Luke O’Brien, who, as trail director of the NorthWoods Stewardship Center in East Charleston, had pondered such a network for years. “We kind of pulled this out of the filing cabinet and said, ‘Here are two existing trails separated by around 12 miles.’” It took nearly a decade for all the entities involved to sign off on the trail, for Haigh and O’Brien to settle on a route, and for the GMC to break ground. Through it all, O’Brien says, Haigh was “the emotional leader of this whole project.” “Every volunteer effort needs somebody there cracking the whip and saying, ‘Come on, people,’” O’Leary says. “She’s a pit bull. She’ll get in there and push — in a nice way, but she’s influential.” As a resource supervisor for Plum Creek Timber Company, which bought
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Barely five feet tall and weighing 40 pounds less than Nahani — her 10-yearold wolf-malamute hybrid — Haigh takes two steps for every one step an averagesize hiker might. A series of back and spine ailments stemming from a 1964 car accident have left her with a noticeable stoop, along with numbness and pain in her back and leg. “But I manage,” she says. As we near Split Rock, Haigh’s lack of sensation in her leg causes her to trip on an errant root, and she sprawls headfirst on the ground. Barely skipping a beat, she hops back to her feet, refusing to take a break. Friends and colleagues cite Haigh’s perseverance and drive when they assess how she’ll fare as president of the statewide hiking organization. “She is small in size, but large in enthusiasm and determination,” says Tom Candon, a GMC member from Shelburne who hiked with Haigh two years ago during an end-to-end relay of the Long Trail to mark the club’s 100year anniversary. “I’ll tell you, it was a job keeping up with her. She set a good pace for both old and young on that hike. She loves it, and you can feel that when you’re with her.” Outgoing GMC president Marge Fish says Haigh’s “energy and her ability to work with many kinds of people” will serve her well during her three-year term overseeing the club. “I should have so much energy in 10 years!” Fish says. “She’s truly one of my role models. She’s 10 years older than me, and anytime I think I should slow down, I look at Jean and say, ‘Not yet.’” GMC executive director Will Wiquist, who joins us for the hike, says, “The only thing Jean doesn’t do well is retire.” Indeed, Haigh plans to continue training Northeast Kingdom teachers as a consultant for the state Department of Education even as she takes the reins of the GMC. A former special education director in several Vermont school districts, Haigh was also a professor of special education instruction at Johnson State College for nearly a decade. “It’s a lot of driving,” she says, “but it’s great.” At Split Rock, we reach the end of the trail — for now. Standing some 15 feet high, the two separated rock masses are covered
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with moss and pine and ancient stumps. Atop them, one can take in a sweeping view of mountains once accessible only to the intrepid explorer with map and compass. Here on Split Rock, we are still just two-and-a-half miles from Route 114. The rest of the trail, which will wind its way to the summit of Middle Mountain before heading 12 miles south to the Bluff Mountain Trail, may take another decade to complete. The NorthWoods Conservation Corps plans to build another mile and a half of trail this summer, O’Brien says, but in the present nonprofit funding environment, progress will likely be slow and steady. “There’s a lot to building a trail,” Haigh says. As we turn around and descend Middle Mountain toward Gore Junction, Haigh says the experience of mapping a public trail through private land has given her a new appreciation for the forest-products industry. Like many environmentalists, Haigh had long harbored suspicions about logging companies, but her collaboration with Plum Creek — the largest private landowner in the United States and an occasional subject of criticism for developing large tracts of wilderness — has largely been positive. “The more I work with foresters on the trail, it’s really made me more objective,” she says. Fife says that, while Plum Creek will continue to harvest timber near the trail, he is hopeful hikers will understand the
nature of the working forest: that an occasional skidder may cross the trail and an occasional clear-cut may be necessary. “We are all on the same page and understand the potential for conflict, just from hikers not used to seeing active forest operations, so we try to do everything we can to educate them,” Fife says. That the Champion Lands have a history of timber production is abundantly clear to any who walk these woods. This is hardly untouched forest. The trail crosses one clear-cut and many more disused logging roads. Young stands of trees suggest a history in which humans have taken much from these woods. Fife says Haigh understands and appreciates that. “I guess I would credit that to her being tied in to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. She understands the history of it, the economy that’s tied to the working forest, the access that’s provided by working forests with road networks and allowing people to get into some of these great spots to hike,” Fife says. Haigh says she is motivated in her trail work by “an appreciation for the forest, an appreciation for the land and the wildness of the land.” She hopes to make that land open and available to all — in the Northeast Kingdom and throughout the GMC’s vast trail network. “When you go out on that trail, you’re in the land of the moose, the bear, the fisher,” she says. “This is where they can connect across the forest. We’re trying to leave a very small footprint on this, but we’re trying to expose people to the importance of wild lands.”
Curatorial Curiosities An adventurer’s guide to Vermont’s quirkiest museums B Y KAT HRYN FL AGG & ME GAN JAME S
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The Destination: The Museum of Everyday Life, Route 16, about five miles south of the village of Glover, museumofeverydaylife.org You’ll enjoy this if … you’re attracted to the wild romance of the Northeast Kingdom — and aren’t afraid to let yourself into a spooky barn.
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You’ll find … the museum in a ramshackle barn off the side of a lonesome stretch of Route 16. Set beside a shimmering pond, the place is home to a donkey, a goat and a rooster. Soon it will also accommodate curator and “chief operating philosopher” Clare Dolan. Dolan’s house, once adjacent to the barn, burned down last January. All that remains is the crater of its foundation, which could pass for part of the collection in this museum — “a heroic, slow-motion cataloguing of life,” as Dolan calls it. Despite the fire, which spared the museum, Dolan is planning a brand-new summer exhibit to open June 17. “Our exhibit last year was on the matchstick,” she says, smirking at the irony. “So I thought I’d go for something with better karma this time: the safety pin.” Not surprisingly, Dolan has ties to nearby Bread and
After your visit … stuff your face with Doug and Cheri Safford’s homemade doughnuts at downtown Glover’s Red Sky Trading (2894 Glover Street, redskytrading.com). The self-service market offers everything from jars of the couple’s own jam and corn relish to magazines and books to Adirondack chairs and vintage dishes. The doughnuts are legendary: enormous, perfectly crisp on the outside, melt-in-your-mouth moist on the inside. Leave your money in a box on the counter and relax for a spell by the adjacent babbling brook. — M. J .
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Puppet Theater. A Chicago native, she came to Glover in 1990 to join the troupe. These days she works part time as a nurse when she’s not performing on the puppetry circuit. Though Dolan opened the museum in the barn last year, “It’s theoretically been in existence for many years,” she says. “I’ve always had a bunch of weird collections.” Some of them are on display in what Dolan calls the museum’s Grand Hall: a menacing stuffed bear, which stands at least 15 feet; a Dr. Seuss-like megaphone created by a North Carolina artist; and various snakeskins and turtle shells in drawers. But this isn’t just a cabinet of curiosities. Dolan’s match exhibit — a portion of which is still on display on Seven Days’ visit but will soon end — is thoughtfully curated and oddly revelatory. It includes a local phillumenist’s collection of antique Vermont matchbooks; erotic matchboxes printed with lenticular images (busty broads peek from behind shower curtains with each tilt of the box); and matchboxes transformed into tiny stages populated with matchstick puppets. Dolan even exhibits the matchstick violins of bluegrass musician Dale Brown, who so longed to make music while serving jail time that he meticulously broke the heads off matches and fashioned them into fiddles. “Everything in this museum is utterly worthless,” says Dolan. “Yet the objects are priceless because we use them every day.”
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A Southern Vermont Sculpture Stroll The Destination: The Museum of the Creative Process, Wilburton Drive, Manchester Village, 379-6350, museumofcreativeprocess.com You’ll enjoy this if … you’re tolerant of the peculiar, game for adventure and curious about psychological theory. You’ll find … the museum tucked away on the 30-acre estate of the Wilburton Inn. It isn’t well marked, so jot down directions from Google Maps before you go — and brace yourself. Looming sculptures line the long, treelined drive to the inn, where a gothic-inspired 1902 mansion dominates the hilltop. Spooky? Majestic? Take your pick. Expect a long conversation with museum founder — and resident psychiatrist — Albert Levis, 75. Something of an eccentric, Levis was born in Greece, studied in Switzerland and completed his psychiatric residency at Yale. Twenty-five years ago, he and his wife, Georgette Wasserstein Levis, purchased the mansion — now a hotel — that was once home to a Chicago philanthropist and millionaire. Seven Days arrived late in the day, just minutes before a torrential thunderstorm, so the mood falls on the spooky end of the spectrum. Still, Levis makes an enthusiastic host. Sprawling sculpture gardens — arranged in a very particular order — comprise the bulk of his museum, though Levis also keeps a collection of Henry Gorski paintings that are worth a look.
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Hoarders: A History The Destination: Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 1 Park Street, Middlebury, 388-2117, henrysheldonmuseum.org
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After your visit… amble over to Costello’s Market (2 Maple Street), a deli in the Marble Works complex. The fish taco is a local favorite, but you won’t go wrong with anything on the menu. There isn’t much in the way of seating at the tiny seafood market and Italian deli, so grab your sub to go, and munch overlooking the Middlebury Falls. — K .F.
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You’ll find… the museum housed in a 19th-century armory where Vermonters pioneered the field of precision manufacturing. Expect to be impressed. Who knew little Windsor — host to an outpost of Harpoon Brewery, but otherwise well off the touristtrodden path — was home to the
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You’ll enjoy this if … you’re mechanically minded, a Civil War buff or fondly tolerant of someone who fits either description.
You’ll find … Henry Sheldon — or, at least, a bearded, solemn-looking cutout of the collector — on hand to greet you at the downtown Middlebury museum, situated in the lovely 1829 Judd-Harris House. In 1880, museum founder Sheldon snapped up this former boardinghouse, where he’d once resided, to house his growing collection of … well, everything. The spirit of its founder looms large at this quaint but wellappointed little museum — which, thanks to Sheldon’s ambitions, is the oldest chartered communityhistory museum in the United States. “I hate to think of Henry and eBay coinciding,” says staff
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You’ll enjoy this if … you’re into antiques, little enough to fit in the dress-up clothing on hand for children or keen on Vermont ephemera.
member Suzanne Douglas — by which she means that Sheldon was already enough of a hoarder without the added temptation of internet shopping. The founder was particularly fond of ephemera — maps, old newspapers, photographs, autographs of Vergennes mayors. He even requisitioned his brother’s business ledgers from Middlebury’s general store. Sheldon also collected his share of strange items, such as the mummified child he purchased when an Egyptology craze swept the nation. “Henry decided he had to have a mummy for his little museum, too,” Douglas says, and so he bought one, sight unseen, from a New York antiques dealer. Sheldon never displayed the mummy, and it eventually landed in the museum’s attic … until, several decades later, a board member is rumored to have cremated it in a neighbor’s furnace and buried the ashes in Middlebury’s West Cemetery. Why cremation? The board member rationalized that a mummy buried in a graveyard would tempt a prank exhumation in the college town, says Douglas. Most of Sheldon’s stranger collections are packed away. The tidy permanent displays focus on everyday life in 19th-century Vermont. In addition, the museum is running a summer exhibit of lively photographs from the Addison County Fair and Field Days, past and present. But, if you’re not faint of heart, pull back the curtain to view the so-called “petrified Indian boy” — a hoax that toured the country in the 19th century before landing, once and for all, in Sheldon’s permanent collection.
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After your visit … dash around the corner to the Vittles Stop BBQ (19 1/2 Union Street). You can’t miss the handpainted signs and bright pink-and-blue picnic tables. Even if you do, your nose will lead you to the outdoor smoker. And you’re not likely to be disappointed by the sweet and smoky pile of meat. If you’re looking for a little more kick, add a hearty splash of the housemade “hell” sauce. It’s heavenly.
Photographs from the Sheldon’s Summer exhibit
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After your visit … skip the Manchester outlets and stop by Depot 62 (515 Depot Street), an all-in-one furniture shop, rug dealer and Mediterranean café.
largest collection of historically significant machine tools in the nation? The Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop is perched above a tributary of the Connecticut River, and the roar of the water below hints at the source that powered this once-thriving hub of early industrial manufacturing. During the Civil War, gaslights ran all night in the armory, while Vermonters churned out many of the rifles that armed the Union. The armory’s legacy reaches far beyond rifles, however. It was here that early innovators perfected what would come to be known as the American System: a new type of manufacturing using precision metal and wood-cutting machines that made mass production possible. “When it was operational, it was just rows and rows of machines,” says Nancy Hoggson, the development and communications manager. When we visit, the museum is decidedly sleepier — though volunteers and staff are busy putting the final touches on new exhibits set to open on May 26. The machines are all in impeccable shape, and polished diagrams and displays explain their context and purpose. Better still is the working machine shop, staffed during the summer by interns from the River Valley Technical Center.
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The sculpture series includes everything from an enormous carving of an Easter Island head to an image of Shiva to a sphinx atop a hulking rock. According to Levis, they outline his complicated “formal theory” of psychological behavior. It’s part art therapy, part critique of world religions, with a heavy dose of psychoanalytic thinking. Levis promises visitors will achieve enlightenment within an hour of a walk through the gardens — a claim we can’t verify based on one visit. Expect to hear phrases such as “relational modality” and “metaphor of power management” if Levis narrates your visit: His theories are dauntingly complex. More intriguing than the sculptures is the host himself. Levis grew up Jewish in Europe during World War II, and says his sculptures — some of which he created himself; others he curated to illustrate his theories — came in part from “the need to understand why the world is so crazy.” Go in with an open mind, and a valid excuse to cut and run after an hour or two; Levis is loquacious.
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The Sakyong reassures runners that they don’t need to master meditation from the get-go. Instead, following training principles similar to those of endurance events, they should work on building a base of simply coming back to the breath. “As we continuously and repeatedly reassociate the mind with the breathing, we are creating stability,” he writes. “In running and in meditation, the beginning can be the most challenging time.” With a stable base, runner-meditators can move through the four
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Shambhala phases proposed by the Sakyong: tiger (ditching the music, working on posture); lion (staying in shape, handling more pain); garuda (setting an “outrageous” goal); and dragon (contemplating deep and powerful themes). As the Sakyong explains, these four “dignitaries” represent the inner development of courage in Shambhala warriorship. When you’ve got balance and integrity, he suggests, you will have lungta — or “the ability to bring about long life, good health, success and happiness.” That sounded good to me, and so did the Sakyong’s favorite prerun breakfast
of blueberry oat muffins. But removing my ear buds, my Skrillex mixes and carefully cultivated playlists? I wasn’t so sure. That is, until I went for a run while traveling in London recently, and left my Nano in the hotel room. I followed my breath and the sound of my footsteps on the cobblestones and suddenly felt pretty uplifted. Though I’m decidedly still in the “tiger” phase of running meditation, I’m looking forward to “lion,” in hopes of really appreciating what the Sakyong calls “panoramic awareness” when I run. That’s when you “feel your internal environment — your rhythm, the pounding of your heart, your feet hitting the trail,” he writes. “At the same time, you tune in to your external environment — the sky, the air, the sounds of life.” So, actually, those Taiko drummers fit right in with the Sakyong’s vision of meaningful meditation. And anyone who might suffer a little pain while running this weekend should consider that meditating enabled the Sakyong to run with a 4-and-a-half-inch blister in his
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first marathon, the Toronto Waterfront, in 2002. That kind of powerful focus, he says, can be useful in any activity more demanding than, say, lifting a Bloody Mary to one’s lips. “Everyone knows that it’s healthy to have a level of ongoing physical fitness in life,” says the Sakyong. “What is not immediately apparent is that we also need to take care of our mental wellbeing. This naturally leads to less anxiety, less sickness and a more balanced life.” With that in mind, I caught up with the Sakyong in advance of the Vermont City Marathon.
SD: You write about being fully engaged on the treadmill — how is that possible? SM: Try to make the workouts on the treadmill interesting so that you stay engaged, like inclines or light interval training. In general, I recommend doing shorter workouts on the treadmills and saving the longer runs for the trails. SD: What about people who don’t like running at all? SM: People naturally want to find meaning in their physical activities. Whether you go play tennis, go for walks in the morning or go to the gym during your lunch break, you can always apply the principles of mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is staying present with whatever is occurring, with a sense of appreciation and gentleness. You don’t have to have an adversarial relationship with your body.
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Running With the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind by Sakyong Mipham, Harmony Books, 208 pages. $25. Karmê Chöling Shambhala Meditation Center in Barnet will offer running programs in July and August; for info, visit karmecholing.org.
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SD: What are your other memories of running the Vermont City Marathon, beyond the unusually warm temperatures that you write about in the book? SM: It’s not a flat race. People say that it’s an easy course, but when you hit Battery Street, you realize that’s just not true.
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in with your outlook on running and meditation? SM: Running can be a way that we connect with a greater world. We can work with others in a relay, we can have mindful conversations while running in groups or we can run for different social causes. Running meditation is an active way that we help ourselves and the world we live in. Therefore, depending on our motivation, a marathon can be a personal achievement or a way to benefit humanity itself.
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s the popularity of biking grows in Vermont, so do networks of custom-built, singletrack trails across the state. Most of these trails — also well suited for walking, hiking, running and even winter recreation — are developed and cared for by volunteer-based, nonprofit clubs such as Chittenden County’s Fellowship of the Wheel (FOTW). Since the late ’90s, FOTW has been dedicated to growing a world-class trail system, which now comprises more than 100 miles across seven towns. The group collaborates with private landowners, municipalities and the Vermont Mountain Bike Association to build partnerships with respect to access and trail design. FOTW organizes fundraisers, secures sponsorships and collects membership dues to help cover costs. And it rallies member-volunteers to get out and literally build what they ride, one trail day at a time. “I love the teamwork that goes into it,” says Mary Tracy of South Burlington, who has been riding and helping to build and maintain FOTW trails for six years. “There’s this great feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day. It’s nice to be able to say, ‘Yeah, I helped build this.’” Tracy favors the trails at Williston’s Mud Pond Country Park, the first network to be developed by FOTW and one of more than half a dozen under the group’s stewardship. This summer the fellowship will add new sections of trail at Mud Pond and improve existing ones to minimize soil erosion and improve overall flow for riders of all abilities. “The trails here have come a long way,” notes Tracy. “Sometimes I’ll ride with my dogs till they tire out, take them home and then head out again for some more riding. It’s really fun here.” All trail users are encouraged to join the club. Membership starts at $35 per year and includes access to trail maps, special discounts at area businesses and even trail passes at partnering trail systems, such as Sleepy Hollow in
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Two-wheelers roll out routes through Vermont Huntington, the Catamount Outdoor Center in Williston, Millstone Hill in Barre and Kingdom Trails in East Burke. But more than the number of members, it’s the spirit of volunteering that is key to FOTW’s success. “Volunteers are the lifeblood of the organization,” agrees Andy Weis, who works full time during the warmer months for FOTW. He and fellow trail coordinator Mickey Stone have been focusing recently on a scenic new section in Mud Pond, preparing for a couple of upcoming volunteer trail days. “We continue to improve Mud
Pond so that it can offer a little bit of something for everyone,” says Stone, referring not just to mountain bikers of different styles and abilities but to other kinds of trail users as well. “Our trails are always evolving.” Also slated for the summer is work on the popular trail network at Sunny Hollow Natural Area in Colchester, which features great options for beginner-tointermediate riders; and on a network in the Carse Hills area of Hinesburg. The latter is known for its more technical trails, but forthcoming additions will benefit beginning riders, too.
The club’s other priorities this season include building relationships with landowners, making trails even more sustainable, and training trail users to come and go quietly — and slowly — through the neighborhoods that host the networks. And FOTW’s calendar is filled with a number of trail days, most of which wrap up with a group ride and cold drinks. For more info about Fellowship of the Wheel, visit fotwheel.org. Brian Mohr can be contacted via emberphoto.com.
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104.7 Fm the Point presents Ben & Jerry’s concerts at the midway Lawn, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex, various dates It’s been two years since Higher Ground Presents, the off-site arm of local rock club Higher Ground, began experimenting with hosting concerts at the Champlain Valley Exposition’s Midway Lawn. It must be working. Teaming up with local radio station 104.7 FM the Point and Vermont’s most famous purveyors of frozen sweets, Ben & Jerry’s, the concert series continues this summer with Michael Franti & Spearhead (June 15), Cake (June 16), and Wilco (July 29). highergroundmusic.com
concerts on the Green, Shelburne Museum, various dates But wait, there’s more. Higher Ground is also continuing its beloved Concerts on the Green Series on the lawn of the Shelburne Museum. This series tends to skew a bit mellower than its livelier cousin on the Midway. This year’s slate includes Sarah McLachlan (June 24), David Gray (July 7) and Lyle Lovett (August 7). highergroundmusic.com
The Frendly Gathering, Timber Ridge, Windham, June 14-16 The Frendly Gathering is a festival started by a group of pro snowboarders who live by the cheeky motto “There is no I in frends.” There is, however, an “I” in Deer Tick, the Felice Brothers and Railroad Earth, all of whom will take the stage at this year’s fest. There’s no “I” in Dr. Dog, but they’ll be there, too, along with an eclectic mix of local and national bands. frendlygathering.com
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Now in its 29th year, the tiny Rattling Brook Bluegrass Festival is among the longest-running musical events in Vermont. This one-day hootenanny — or is it a hoedown? — will feature some fine picking talent, including Jimmy Gaudreau and Moondi Klein, Bluegrass Revisited, Big Spike Bluegrass, Cardigan Mountain Tradition, Bob Degree & the Bluegrass Storm, and the Modern Grass Quintet. belviderecommunityclub.org
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Completely powered by renewable energy, the Valley Stage Festival in Huntington is yet another local event with ideals as lofty as the high harmonies emanating from the stage. The seventh annual VSF has a family-friendly atmosphere and great tunes — this year from After the Rodeo, the Woes, Phineas Gage and, appearing for the third time, headliners Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem. valleystage.net
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Lake champlain maritime Festival, Waterfront Park, Burlington, August 9-12 Celebrating the area’s rich nautical heritage, the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival is a sprawling, and mostly free, weekend-long event highlighted by numerous boating demonstrations and expositions along Burlington’s waterfront. It also boasts some excellent music when the sun goes down. This year’s lineup includes gypsy punks Gogol Bordello, wily string band Old Crow Medicine Show, reunited jam favorites Strangefolk and rockers Citizen Cope. lcmfestival.com
The manifestivus, Cabot, August 17-18 The Manifestivus in Cabot bills itself as a “local festival with a global vibe.” And, for 10 years running, it has handily lived up to that designation. Curated by Afrofunk outfit Toubab Krewe, the fest features a heady blend of rock, funk, jazz, hip-hop and world music. According to the website, the 2012 lineup is “coming soon.” manifestivus.com
Grand Point North, Waterfront Park, Burlington, September 14-15 Last year, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals turned their annual homecoming gig at Burlington’s Waterfront Park into a two-day festival within a festival called Grand Point North. GPN, part of the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival, offered up big-name headliners as well as a slew of great local acts. The fest was a summer highlight. As a stand-alone event, this year’s Grand Point North promises to be even better. Joining Grace and co. are the Avett Brothers, Dr. Dog, Galactic and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, among many others. And, once again, local bands get to share the spotlight. grandpointnorth.com m 8v-greencandletheatre051612.indd 1
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Now entering its 16th year, Solarfest is both a music festival and a showcase for solar-energy education. This year’s lineup includes headliners the Wood Brothers and Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, and locals such as the Vermont Joy Parade, Gold Town and
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Bad news, yogis: The Liberate Music and Yoga Festival isn’t happening this year. But that doesn’t mean those who like to Downward Dog to choice music are out of luck. Wanderlust, a traveling music and yoga festival that also makes stops in California, Colorado and Whistler, B.C., is returning to the Stratton Mountain Resort for the second consecutive year. This year’s fest includes music from Ziggy Marley, Ani DiFranco and the Barr Brothers, among many others, along with dozens of renowned yoga instructors and speakers. stratton.wanderlustfestival.com
Nestled in the rolling foothills along Route 100 in Stockbridge, the Tweed River Music Festival is a quintessential Vermont fest. There’s amazing natural scenery, great music and, of course, a swimmin’ hole. Irene hit the festival grounds pretty hard last summer, but the cleanup reportedly has left them even better suited to camping and summertime frolicking. Curated by local alt-country stalwarts Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck, the typical lineup is an impressive, rootsy mix of rock, folk and Americana. The roster for this year’s fest was unavailable at press time, but announcements should be coming soon. tweedrivermusicfestival.com
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n Vermont, the foods of summer have long meant Michigan dogs, creemees and fried fish. We still love our classic Green Mountain snackbar fare, but this year, a new trend has made warm-weather eats more exciting than ever. Hot on the trail of a national movement, food trucks have finally started rambling Vermont’s roads (in some cases settling down in fixed locations). We’re not talking about hot dog carts. The mobile eateries are feeding a hunger for creative food made from fresh ingredients. Their young chef-owners are dipping their toes into the world of restaurant ownership in a fun, lowstress way, and we’re grateful for the grub. Read on to learn more about the Seven Days food team’s travels on Vermont’s highways and byways of summer tastes. We visit a few of the new breed of outdoor eateries but also pay homage to restaurants with history. (For more of those, check out our 2007 through 2011 snack-bar surveys online.) Enjoy, and save room for a trip of your own.
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THE NEW CART CREW StrEats Mobile Canteen 34 Prospect Street, White River Junction, 591-0140. Year-round, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Earlier this month, drivers emerging from under the Prospect Street railroad bridge in White River Junction were startled by new splashes of color against a usually muddy lot full of rusting cars. They saw two tropical-hued picnic tables adorned with umbrellas and fresh flowers and, nearby, a trailer airbrushed with gleaming, 1970s-style lettering. The lot is the new encampment of StrEats Mobile Canteen, a food trailer opened by culinary veterans Jason Northup and Chris Brewer, and it’s White River’s initiation into the gourmet foodtruck trend. The trailer is a dream come true for these Carpenter & Main kitchen alums, who planned the venture for months before finding a trailer in Foxboro, Mass. They kitted it out with a menu of snack-bar
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with jalapeños to fontina with mushrooms to crumbled blue cheese with caramelized onions, local bacon and a fried farm egg. The pair spirited away a few specialties from their last workplace. Among them is the divine maple-glazed chicken: a leg and thigh slathered in maple sauce and char-grilled to a velvety, earthy sweetness, which you can multiply exponentially by dipping each bite in the dish of maple jus that comes alongside. Both the burgers and the chicken come with exceptionally tasty, finger-thick fries, singed at the edges and sprinkled with coarse sea salt that rolls and crunches against your teeth. (That’s a good thing.) Almost every dish here has a twist: pickled red onions dot a spinach salad; cumin and herbs speckle grilled skewers of shrimp; minced, chile-flecked catfish and fresh pico de gallo fill tacos. Daily flatbreads might be topped with grilled chicken and fresh pesto or pulled pork. Fresh gnocchi — yes, gnocchi — comes four different ways, including a sweetsalty version tossed with crumbled bacon, cubed apples, a shaving of Pecorino cheese and a sage brown-butter. As Brewer cooks up orders, the easygoing Northup chats with customers while he blends sparkling lemonade from StrEats’ own fruit base, or pops open a root beer. A freight train rumbles by as he sends diners away with their meals — and the quiet certitude that they’ll be back. — C .H .
Misery Loves Co. staples, then took each of them two steps beyond the ordinary. Northup used to own a hot dog cart called Dino’s Dog House, so it’s no surprise that StrEats’ hot dogs are sublime. Their charred skins burst with umami juices at first bite, and the bun is toasted up so it crackles against your tongue. They’re served with fresh crisscross potato chips and a chunky slaw of pickled cabbage and carrots; the meal is an addictive mashup of vinegar, fat, salt and crunch. The burgers here are grass-fed beef, deeply flavorful and so moist they seem to ooze from the bun. Make that a cheeseburger and you’ll be offered a plethora of unusual combos — from Vermont cheddar
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Greater Burlington. Seasonality is “flexible,” still to be determined. Currently, the truck can be found at Burton Snowboards at 80 Industrial Parkway in Burlington from 11:30 a.m. until the food is gone on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Check Facebook and Twitter for daily updates. “That was a thing of beauty,” says a customer of the Misery Loves Co. truck, thanking staff for his Korean Reuben sandwich. He leaves the parking lot at Burton Snowboards’ headquarters sated by the fusion concoction: substantial slices of salty, house-smoked pastrami topped with kimchee and a slick of chile mayonnaise that combine into something like a spicy SNACK ATTACK 2012
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and nowclosed Bistro Sauce. A winter tour of the South informed Bette’s menu ideas, which will span American barbecue country. Definites on the small menu include Texas-style brisket, St. Louis-style ribs, North Carolina vinegar-based pulled pork and Germanstyle smoked hot links, another Texas specialty. “It was a great opportunity for me to have barbecue at its best,” Bette says of her trip. “We’re trying to have the same creativity and make it modern in our style and a good fit for Burlington and Vermont.” Once its staff perfects the basics, Bette says, Bluebird Barbecue may experiment with international barbecue styles, too. The menu will be “choose-your-own-adventure,” says Bette, allowing diners to mix and match proteins and sides. “Sides are the exciting part in a lot of ways,” she adds. “I think that it gives us the opportunity to show our Bluebird flair.” The Tavern’s famous fries are sure to be on the menu, joined by new additions such as vinegar-based coleslaw, pickles, pit beans, apple sauce and mashed potatoes. As always, the Bluebird team is doing its best to source local ingredients. However, the new restaurant will need such quantities of meat, says Bette, that she will probably purchase some from elsewhere in New England and New York. Bette’s goal, she says, is to give Bluebird Barbecue a fun atmosphere perfect for a relaxed meal. Live music will contribute to the roadhouse ambiance she’s long imagined. But the ruckus is optional. Bluebird Barbecue will also offer takeout service with online ordering, catering to busy families — and family is key to Bette’s vision. “The thing about barbecue is that it’s comforting, and it makes you feel good, but it doesn’t necessarily make you feel like you’re eating bad,” she says. “It’s a great option for families and folks.”
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It was late last August that BLuEBIrD taVErn owner suE BEttE announced her flagship restaurant would move from Burlington’s Riverside Avenue to St. Paul Street. But what would become of the Riverside spot? Bette answered the question on May 14 with an Instagram photo of a giant smoker arriving at the building. It’s confirmed. BLuEBIrD BarBEcuE will open in early July. Bette and executive chef mIchaEL cLauss will oversee the restaurant, while PauL LInk, with a year as a Bluebird line cook under his belt, fills the position of chef de cuisine. “He’s a technician in the kitchen. He likes details and is super thoughtful, so I think barbecue is going to be a great fit,” says Bette of the Missouri native, previously of the
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for takeout as well as table service), the kitchen offers up build-your-own antipasti plates with ingredients such as white anchovies, rapini crostini, baked goat cheese, soppressata, speck and marinated olives. A quintet of salads — prepared by amy Bacon of BrEaD anD ButtEr Farm — feature local greens and seasonal ingredients such as asparagus, roasted beets, fennel and arugula. The imaginative touches extend behind the bar, where Charles Bieler wines are decanted on tap, and a menu of imaginative cocktails includes a “Michelada Verità,” made with Long Trail Ale, and a “Morricone Old-Fashioned,” blended with grappa, bitters and grape-maple syrup. Some libations incorporate the trendy Italian liqueur Amaro, or simple syrups made with parsley and hot chile peppers. The pizzeria has been “years” in the making, according to Rao, who perfected his pizza by crafting hundreds of pies. The crust achieves its signature chewiness with the aid of a slow-rise method and Antico Molino Caputo Tipo 00 pizza flour from Italy. Wells, who is comanaging the front of the house, also studied the form at Kesté Pizza & Vino in New York City, the official United States location for the Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani, the guardian of Neapolitan pizza worldwide. “It’s been a really smooth ramp-up to opening,” says Wells, and adds that training the pizzaioli — or staff who make the pizza — has been easier than she expected. And the experiments will continue in tandem with Neapolitan traditionalism. Burrata-topped pies will be
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coleslaw. Chopped cilantro leaves provide a hint of relief from the heat. Three days a week, Big Red, a 1976 Winnebago that last housed Nonno’s Vermont Victuals in Montpelier, parks outside Burton. The lines of diners bustle with palpable excitement — energized not just by the prospect of a high-quality lunch but by the slightly hush-hush circumstances. Catering business Misery Loves Co. launched last summer with a series of pop-up barbecue dinners at Burlington’s Hood Plant. While less elusive, the food truck is still an erratic presence, its schedule updated regularly on Twitter and Facebook, so only the in-the-know are likely to scoop up a paper bag of the herb-speckled, bistro-style fries that Aaron Josinsky perfected when he was opening chef at the Bluebird Tavern. The entire Misery team worked at the upscale eatery, including Josinsky’s wife, Laura Wade, and her brother, Nathaniel, who were manager and sous-chef, respectively. They dubbed their vehicle Big Red after fiery-haired Laura Wade’s childhood nickname. Working with family makes for a relaxed atmosphere, says Nathaniel Wade, who is clearly having a ball as he jumps on and off the truck to help customers. However, the talented chef — most recently of Burlington’s ¡Duino! (Duende) — says that’s not the best part. “The funnest thing is not to be working for anyone else,” he says. “It has to be fun; it’s a food truck.” The food is suitably whimsical. A porkmeatball sandwich, served on lepinja rolls from Colchester’s A Taste of Europe, is called the “Anti-Hero.” The crumbly meatballs are flavored with fennel or tarragon and accompanied by tangy, tender broccoli rabe. A decadent wad of mozzarella provides comforting creaminess, as does caper mayonnaise, which also adds a zingy brightness.
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Even fried dough is elevated here. Hollow and crackly in some places, plump and chewy in others, the dessert is topped with honey butter that tastes like it came straight from hive and udder to its paper take-out container. A sprinkling of cinnamon makes it impossible not to finish the almost baseball-glove-sized treat. That can’t-stop-eating feeling is what he’s going for, says Josinsky. “We just want to cook good food.” “I’m sick of eating crap,” adds Wade. Though the catering business and Big Red keep them plenty busy, the Misery team is still in search of a brick-and-mortar spot to call home. The group purchased the Winnebago after they spent months searching fruitlessly for an appropriate restaurant space. “Of course we’re still looking,” says Wade. “This is just the first phase of our plan. It’s a natural extension from pop-up to truck to restaurant space.” Until then, we’ll enjoy our fried chicken banh mi in the sun. — A .L.
Humble Kitchen Harmony Court, Brattleboro, 380-2061, May through October, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday through Saturday. When it comes to Vietnamese cuisine, the Burlington area has an embarrassment of riches. But stepping out for a bowl of pho wasn’t an option in Brattleboro until May 2, when Humble Kitchen opened. Now office workers and artists converge on the retro cart for farm-fresh food with a Southeast Asian twist. The Humble Kitchen outdoor eatery looks like a metal hot dog cart — so much so that co-owner and manager Amy Gallant says, “At least five people a day come and ask, ‘Can I have a hot dog?’ Usually we explain and they go on their way.” Coincidentally, the last place Gallant and chef-partner James Smith worked was known for its great pub food, including hot dogs. Smith was the executive chef and Gallant the manager at Flat Street Pub when damage from Tropical Storm Irene shuttered it last August. The pub reopened in February, but in the meantime, Gallant — who also works in the mental health field — and Smith plotted their next move. Always fond of Vietnamese
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When MIRANDA SYP of SYP BRAND PIEROGI moved to Burlington from central Vermont last October, she sold her pierogi anywhere she could. “I was going around to construction workers and
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at Cobblestone on the first and third weekends of every month. “It’s like a farmers market booth, but inside,” says Syp, who makes her potato-cheddar pierogi from local cheese and spuds. The “little pockets of love,” as she calls them, are available on Saturdays from noon to 8 p.m. and on Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. Look for the Syp Brand to pop up next on June 2 and 3. — A .L.
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with cold basil-and-ginger limeade are biodegradable. It’s all part of the business’ mission. “It truly is a humble kitchen,” says Gallant. “We’re giving of ourselves to the community.” And the people of Brattleboro are eating it up.
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buried in a cumin-and-chile-flavored puree of beef that she claims is the very same recipe. Retired from a career in nursing, Singer, now 63, opened Pink Panther last year on property adjacent to the home she shares with her boyfriend on the MiltonColchester border. The white truck, decorated with wooden pink panthers attached8v#2-obriens052312.indd 1 by nails through their noses, can be hard to find, especially since Singer eschews signage. “I put up signs, but people steal them, so I can’t really advertise,” she says. Though she moonlighted in food service throughout her life, working at long-shuttered restaurants such as Castaways, Woodlands and the Rooster Tail, Singer is in business with the Pink Panther for one reason only. “I’m just here to get the bus paid off,” she says. The vehicle started as a relative’s investment, but Singer has taken the reins — and the spatula. That’s not to say she isn’t passionate about her food. Singer takes extra care to toast the buns on which her never-frozen hamburgers are served. She asks customSPRINAGL ers how they prefer their burgers cooked PECI S — and delivers. The medium really is LOSE ALL THE WEIGHT YOU WANT medium, with a juicy center and a lightly FOR ONLY $12.00 $6.00 PER WEEK charred outside. The Sea Dog is an enormous cod filet that comes to Singer frozen and pretreated
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Remember Charlie’s Red Hots? The Malletts Bay hot dog joint has been closed for nearly two decades, but recent Chowhound message-board threads demonstrate that its Michigan sauce hasn’t been forgotten. That recipe may be hard to come by and replicate, but Elicia Singer says you can try it at her Colchester snack bar. Courtesy of a boyfriend who once worked at Charlie’s, Singer is slinging McKenzie Country Classics hot dogs
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food, they thought the fresh, light cuisine would pair well with Vermont ingredients. Smith set to work refining the flavors he’d enjoyed, replacing exclusively Asian ingredients with locally grown veggies, mostly from Pete’s Greens. A delightful result is Humble Kitchen’s noodle bowl or bun. It’s available with grilled chicken, tofu from Vermont Soy or juicy pork patties from Vermont Family Farms. Rather than traditional vermicelli, the rice noodles are wide and dressed in tart chile-lime sauce. Without the dank flavor of fish sauce, the dish is all fresh vegetables, including pillowy leaves of Bibb lettuce, sweet bean sprouts and cucumber, garnished with bright lime and biting bird’s-eye chiles. On a hot day, sitting under a big umbrella on one of the brightly colored chairs in the Harmony lot, diners will find a banh mi equally refreshing. It’s served on a locally made baguette, and the eggs in the rich homemade mayonnaise are from here, too. A pile of lightly pickled carrots and daikon pairs beautifully with slabs of grill-marked chicken. The emphasis on local doesn’t mean there aren’t exotic treats. When Seven Days visited, the dessert of the day was a fluffy bread-pudding-type concoction flavored with Asian pears and ginger. The muffinshaped sweet was bathed in a shiny-white coconut-lime sauce. Gallant runs credit cards on a device attached to her smartphone (a method also used at Misery Loves Co.) and sends receipts to the customers’ own mobiles. Three refuse cans at the back of the lot are labeled “landfill,” “compost” and “recycling,” but nearly everything is compostable, from the food to the paper plates to spoons for the anise-and-cinnamoninflected chicken pho. Even the cups filled
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asking if they’d like to order some,” she recalls. Things became more stable for Syp last weekend, when she served her first plates of dumplings at her new pop-up restaurant at COBBLESTONE DELI AND CAFÉ in Burlington. Syp first shared her Krakowian grandmother’s pierogi recipe with Vermonters when she worked at L.A.C.E. in Barre. In 2008,
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with a rich beer batter, but she hand mixes its tartar sauce to order. The $9.25 dish is the second most expensive on the menu, but it comes with crispy, well-blanched, hand-cut fries and sweet, vinegar-bathed coleslaw. Guests can end the meal with a creemee. For now, there’s just chocolate and vanilla, but Singer says to expect local maple in the fall. It’s sure to be a sweet reminder of the summer gone by. — A.L .
Goodie’s Snack Bar 6035 Route 17 West, Addison, 759-2276. Second week in April to last week in September. Until Memorial Day, 4 to 9 p.m. on Friday; noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday; noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday. From May 28 to mid-June, hours are TBA. From mid-June, noon to 9 p.m. daily.
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There are indeed lots of goodies on offer at Goodie’s Snack Bar, but the name refers to owners Steve and Cindy Goodman. Not that either of them goes by the nickname. Before the Goodmans took over the spot 13 years ago, it belonged to Norma Collette, who called it Tootie’s Snack Bar. The couple named their eatery in tribute. “It just had a jingle to it,” recalls Steve Goodman. The couple still have full-time jobs, but they purchased the snack bar as a way for Cindy to exercise her already well-developed culinary muscles. Steve says another early goal was to give their kids a background in business and a strong work ethic. The Goodman kids have grown up, but
the education continues for local teenagers who staff the joint. That’s why Goodie’s hours are limited to weekends until school is out. Some of the young employees have left their creative marks. One of Goodie’s trademarks is an arrangement of stones painted to look like food, including hot dogs, hamburgers and strawberries. They’re the handiwork of a former employee who, on a whim, asked the Goodmans if she could paint the snack bar pink. The stones were a compromise. There’s no compromise involved in the flavors of the food. Cindy Goodman’s Michigan sauce is tangy, earthy and just a bit spicy. If the smooth ground beef is more suggestive of New York “red hots” than Vermont Michigans, that could be due to the eatery’s proximity to the Empire State. Located in Addison, the snack bar is only three minutes from the Champlain Bridge. According to Steve Goodman, about half his clientele crosses it to dine at Goodie’s. The Michigan is one selling point. Another is the meaty, crunchy, boneless wings. Actually white meat cut into imperfect cubes, they’re some of the best chicken nuggets around. For a little less guilt before creeGoodie’s Snack Bar mee time, guests can get them with a tossed salad instead of gravy-drenched poutine. However, the creemees are nonnegotiable. Particularly those served over Cindy’s
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homemade brownies, available plain or flavored with mint or peanut butter. Creemee flavors change weekly, and Steve says some faraway customers plan their travels around favorites. The strawberry is bold and gloriously artificial: Imagine a strawberry Nestle’s Quik in creemee form. You’ve gotta love it. The Goodmans do. “We taste everything,” says Steve. “We take a lot of pride in what we cook.” — A .L.
Brigante’s Snack Bar 21 Severance Road, Colchester, 8784707. Mid-April to mid-September, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. When Frank Brigante retired from teaching in 1991, he never imagined his new hobby would turn into a 21-year career. It’s a testament to his Michigan dogs that Brigante’s Snack Bar not only is still standing but has turned into a year-round business. The family name appears on packages of Michigan-sauce spices sold at a dozen stores throughout northern Vermont. Brigante and his wife, Dottie, also sell their
flavoring online — a nice sideline in the autumn and winter when the snack bar is off-season. For his part, Brigante is grateful to have made friends and neighbors happy for so long. He and Dottie went from a full-time schedule to a half-week one in 2006, scaling back by serving chips instead of handcut fries. However, the recipes they once cooked at home for their children are still drawing crowds, from IBM professionals on lunch break to construction workers at nearby S.D. Ireland Companies. The latter company bought the property that houses Brigante’s half a decade ago. Brigante realizes there’s always a chance that S.D. Ireland will decide to develop the lot and evict the snack bar, so before reopening each year, he checks town records, then gets to work setting up his kitchen. “You never know how long we’ll be physically able to, but until then, we’ll keep going,” he says. The chunky-meat Michigan topping, more sloppy joe than sauce, is available on McKenzie Country Classics hot dogs and hamburgers alike. There are also meaty
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Iconic Big Joy Boy emerges from his winter slumber every April with a fresh coat of paint, his raised hand beckoning the masses that still crowd Dari-Joy’s parking lot. Hot days, cold days, rainy days — it doesn’t matter; Dari-Joy is always busy. DeMuzio’s son, Richard, and his grandson, Philip, still run the place, along with cheerful high school kids who swirl and scoop 32 hard-serve flavors and 16 soft-serve ones into hundreds of cones, cups and sundaes every day.
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It was 60 years ago that Josef DeMuzio opened a soft-serve ice cream window in a lot adjacent to his home, a busy spot just north of the village of Bellows Falls where Route 5 forks into Rockingham and Atkinson streets. Back in 1952, the locals called it Joe’s, and they showed up in droves for vanilla soft-serve ice cream and hot dogs. The village teemed with Italian and Irish families who worked in the precisiontool plants along the Connecticut River, and they came often enough that Joe’s — officially named Dari-Joy — grew into a local staple. DeMuzio added a dining room and eat-in counter, then a menu of fast-food fare such as burgers and fries; in the 1960s, he topped the building with the coiffed, suspender-clad figure of Big Joy Boy.
Inside, the food is classic snack bar nosh — flat, messy burgers; bracelet-sized onion rings; spindly fries; and boiled hot dogs on soft, squishy buns. The vinegary Italian sub is still a meat-stuffed favorite, and the menu is peppered with healthy touches such as sweet-potato fries, wraps, a chef’s salad and frozen yogurt. But it’s the fryolator that reigns supreme here, its oily oeuvre on display with everything from fried clams to plates of fish ’n’ chips made with fresh haddock in batter so thick that the moist fish steams inside. When you wash all that crunchy, oily fare down with a mocha ice cream shake, summer happens in your mouth — the heat and salt jostling against the cold, rich cream. Finish up with a hulking banana split or pineapple sundae and, like the happy throngs around you, you’ll get lost in the throes of true dairy joy.
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Enjoy the Wonders of Fungi: Folks focus on the fungus among us as they learn to culture and grow mycelium into fungi with Eric Swanson of Vermush. Everyone brings home an oyster mushroom spawn. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop.
business
Vermont Business & Industry Expo: Exhibitors from Vermont companies attract attention at this business-to-business trade show. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. $10. Info, 223-3443.
comedy
Green Mountain Comedy Festival: Nearly 100 standup and improv comics coax out the chuckles in more than 20 performances over the course of seven days. New this year: free youth workshops and the High School Improv showdown. Visit greenmountaincomedy.com for details. Various locations statewide, 6 p.m. $8-12. Info, 373-4703 or 585-0025. Green Mountain Comedy Festival: Improv Drop-in: Spur-of-the-moment gags abound in “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?”-style games. Spark Arts, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 373-4703 or 585-0025.
community
Tropical Storm Irene Stress-Reduction Series: Folks affected by the storm practice self-soothing techniques, guided meditation and mindfulness exercises to ease their anxiety. 168 Wall Street, Northfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 279-8246.
crafts
Make Stuff!: Defunct bicycle parts become works of art and jewelry that will be sold to raise funds and awareness for Bike Recycle Vermont. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.
dance
Guided Argentine Tango Práctica: Buenos Aires-born movements find a place on a sprung floor. Elizabeth Seyler is on hand to answer questions. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8:15-10:15 p.m. $5. Info, 138-4959.
An Easy Way to Have a Greener Home & Raise Money: Eco-friendly folks learn about thrifty ways to go green with products for their homes and their bodies. New England Center for CranioSacral Therapy, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 578-9451. Spring Move-Out Project: Savvy shoppers scrounge for secondhand clothes, books, furniture and more before it’s all donated to charity. Loomis and Bradley streets. Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8111 or 656-1103.
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hat sets apart New York City jazz band La Voz de Tres — literally, “the voice of three”? The answer is, fittingly, threefold. First: Its Latin leanings, which range from traditional Andean folk songs to romantic bossa novas to spicy Uruguayan tangos. Second: Natalia Bernal and Mike Eckroth, a firecracker Chilean vocalist and an extensively touring jazz pianist, respectively. And third: Jason Ennis, “a seven-string guitar player who can finger-pick like every moment is a shoot-out in Once Upon a Time in Mexico,” as Las Vegas City Life writes. Get in on the action at the new Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Stuart McLean & ‘The Vinyl Café’: Listeners attend a live taping of the public-radio show. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7 p.m. $30-45. Info, 873-3022.
film
‘Coriolanus’: A banished general seeks revenge upon Rome in Ralph Fiennes’ modern take of Shakespeare’s dark thriller. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘The Summer of Walter Hacks’: Waterbury Center dairy farmer George Woodard’s black-andwhite coming-of-age film captures Vermont in the 1950s. Pre- and postscreening receptions with Woodard and producer Gerianne Smart. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Filmmakers Showcase at the Vermont International Film Festival. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $35. Info, 660-2600.
Bernal/Eckroth/Ennis: La Voz de Tres Friday, May 25, 8 p.m., at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. $10-15. Info, 875-1018. vtica.org
food & drink
Barre Farmers Market: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods in the center of the town. Barre City Hall Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, barrefarmersmarket@gmail.com.
health & fitness
Integrative Health Care Lecture Series & Neuroscience Grand Rounds: Medical directors Marc Brodsky and Mary Henwood-Klotz lay out “A Model for Building a Thriving Integrative Medical Practice.” Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, lecture, 8-9 a.m.; coffee and light breakfast, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 847-7937. Marna’s Weekly Guided Meditation: Universal energies help seekers of enlightenment find peace, bliss and joy. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11. Info, 238-7908.
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Baby Time: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659. wed.23
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CHEESE & DAIRY CELEBRATION Saturday, May 26, and Sunday, May 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 4572355. billingsfarm.org
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Besides fabled lake monster Champ, what else resides in the cold, murky depths of Lake Champlain? The Spitfire, the Water Witch and the Sarah Ellen, to name just a few of the 300plus sunken ships strewn across the freshwater floor. The tragic tales behind these capsized vessels are the focal point of Shipwreck Story Day, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s season opener. Cast members of Lyric Theatre’s Titanic: The Musical recall a more renowned wreck in a performance at 2 p.m., and museum staff look at our locally submerged canal boats, gunboats and schooners through a historical lens. Dive in.
If a mathematical genius dies and a groundbreaking proof is found in his office, then he wrote it — true or false? That’s the question at the heart of Proof, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play. But in Theatre Virsces’ production, the relationship dynamics of all involved — including Catherine, the mathematician’s brilliant but troubled daughter, and Hal, his former protégé — are an essential part of the equation. “The script plays with the audience,” says director Dawn Rose Kearn — so bring your deductive reasoning to a string of free shows this week.
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SHIPWRECK STORY DAY Saturday, May 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Regular admission, $6-10; free for members and kids under 5. Info, 475-2022. lcmm.org COURTESY OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM
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Chess Club: King defenders practice castling and various opening gambits with volunteer Robert Nichols. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
Fairfield Playgroup: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Highgate Story Hour: Good listeners giggle and wiggle to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. Kids in the Kitchen: Learning Center chef/ instructor Laura Wright hatches a plan to disguise deviled eggs as little chicks. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. Montgomery Playgroup: Little ones exercise their bodies and their minds in the company of adult caregivers. Montgomery Town Library, 9:3011 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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Italian Conversation Group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.
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Lockstepping Out Every year, Essex Junction hosts a MEMORIAL DAY PARADE to pay homage to U.S. servicemen and -women. A special flyover by the Green Mountain Boys launches the procession of World War II vets striding in crisp uniforms, followed by the younger generation of soldiers. An impressive lineup of high school marching bands makes it one of the largest assemblages of on-foot ESSEX JUNCTION MEMORIAL DAY PARADE: musical talent in Vermont. Saturday, May 26, Champlain Valley Themed floats vie for awards as the parade wends from gate Fairgrounds, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-1375, essexjunction.org. F of the fairgrounds through the Five Corners onto Route 15 and back to the fairgrounds. The procession begins at 10 a.m., but find a spot a half hour in advance to ensure safe viewing. Post-parade happenings include another Memorial Day tradition: great grilling at the VFW’s chicken barbeque.
Heliand Consort: As part of National Chamber Music Month, this quintet performs works by Mozart, Klughardt and Thuille in “Classics for Piano and Winds.” St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, St. Albans, 7:30 p.m. $15-20 suggested donation. Info, 735-3611.
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Keys to Credit: A class clears up the confusing world of credit. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114. Peaceful Parenting: A Mindfulness-Based Approach: As part of the Wellness and Resilience Lecture Series, the Garrison Institute’s Patricia Jennings offers brain research and ways for replacing automatic emotional reactions with thoughtful responses toward teens and young children. Auditorium, South Burlington High School, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0521, mmurrayv@gmail.com. Volunteers for Peace Leadership Training: Participants focus on cultural sensitivity as they learn about running a successful VFP work camp. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 3-8:30 p.m. $25 suggested donation; dinner provided. Info, 540-3060.
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Mountain Bike Ride: Onion River Sports staff bring intermediate to advanced riders to different area trails each week. Carpooling is an option; call ahead for details. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an adult; riders under 18 need signed parental permission; helmets required. Info, 229-9409. Wednesday Night World Championships: Fast riders vie for bragging rights in town-line sprints. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an
Mastermind Group Meeting: Big dreamers build a supportive network as they try to realize business goals in an encouraging environment. Best Western Waterbury-Stowe, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7822.
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‘Mélodies de La Belle Époque’: James Winn provides piano accompaniment as Katharine DeBoer — music professor at the University of Nevada, Reno — sings the music of Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and others. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 399-2643. Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers: Comedy laces the Grammy-winning actor’s acoustic bluegrass routine. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $57.50-91.50. Info, 863-5966.
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Linda Wheatly: The founder of Gross National Happiness USA pinpoints well-being indicators in a talk about her travels in Bhutan. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com. ‘The Gnosis Today’: Religious thinkers discuss the implementation of gnostic principles in daily life. Foot of the Hill Building, St. Albans, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@goldenrosycross. org.
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Auditions for ‘Charlotte’s Web: The Musical’: The Fairfax Community Theatre Company seeks singers and actors for a July production based on the children’s novel by E.B. White. Brick Meeting House, Westford, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 324-5637, fctc.charlottes.web@gmail.com. ‘The shadow box’: The Lake Champlain Waldorf High School class of 2012 presents Micael Cristofer’s play. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing, Burlington, 1 & 7 p.m. Free. Info, 425-6195.
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Book Discussion Series: Making Sense of the American Civil War: America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries illuminates a pivotal moment in the history of the United States. Kimball Public Library, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 728-5073.
5/21/12 5:07 PM Book Discussion Series: New England Uncovered: Readers find more to our region than meets the eye in Bill Bryson’s I’m a Stranger Here Myself. South Hero Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209.
Poe Jam With Dug Nap: Literati take to the mic with poetry and spoken-word expressions — plus a little music. BCA Center, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. Info, 865-7166. Self-Publishing Workshop: Vermont author Tim Brookes helps writers take on a new era of print by addressing social-media skills, eBooks, book trailers and more. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
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Spring Gardening Workshop: Master gardener Kelly Wakefield shares her knowledge of easy-care shrubs and perennials. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. Successful Sheep Raising: Helen Whybrow discusses her experiences raising purebred Icelandic ewes on a pasture-based system, with special attention to health, parasites, grazing management,
Vermont Business & Industry Expo: See WED.23, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
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Green Mountain Comedy Festival: See WED.23, 7:30 p.m. Green Mountain Comedy Festival: ‘That’s Just Wrong!’ Late Show: David Metzger, Timmy Weaver, Tim Trotochaud, Sam Pelletier, Chicky Winkleman, Aaron Black, Alex Nief and Kyle Gagnon deliver messed-up — but hilarious — jokes. Signal Kitchen, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 373-4703 or 585-0025.
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‘Back to the Future: Destination Vergennes’: Vergennes Partnership’s pictorial revue of the revitalization of the Little City includes past and present images, a Vision for the Future display, and informational tables. Vergennes Opera House, 6-7:30 p.m. Cash bar. Info, 877-6737, tara@ vergennesoperahouse.org. Tropical Storm Irene Support Group: Waterbury residents build community while sharing stories, learning coping methods and supporting neighbors. St. Leo’s Hall, Waterbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 279-4670.
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Champlain Longboats Launch Day: A brandnew 25-foot pilot gig joins the fleet at an on-water parade. Reception follows. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $6-10; free for members and kids under 5. Info, 475-2022. Feminine Spirit of the Living Earth: A women’s learning group embarks on a metaphysical exploration through meditation and oneness. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Donations accepted; call ahead. Info, 671-4569. Spring Carnival: Come one, come all to experience games, concessions and 15 exhilarating rides. Parking lot, University Mall, South Burlington, 5-10 p.m. $18 ride bracelets available for select days and hours. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. Stuart McLean & ‘The Vinyl Café’: See WED.23, 7 p.m.
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‘Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century’: Viewers screen episodes of the only prime-time, national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 12:30-1:30 p.m. & 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 253-8358. ‘Strong!’: Julie Wyman’s 2012 documentary looks at the triumphs and trials of Olympic weight-lifting champ Cheryl Haworth — who, at 300-plus pounds, has a hard time fitting in. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘White Hunter Black Heart’: The Burlington Film Society screens Clint Eastwood’s 1990 adventure film, which explores the work of director John Huston and the theme of the “white hunter.” Discussion follows with BFS founder Barry Snyder. BCA Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-7166.
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ECOS Project Ice Cream Social: Dessert motivates folks to chart a vision for the future
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Fletcher Allen FArmers mArket: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. McClure Entrance, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-0797, tanya.mcdonald@vtmednet.org. new north end FArmers mArket: Eaters stroll through an array of offerings, from sweet treats to farm-grown goods. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8072, newnorthendmarket@ hotmail.com. the digger’s dAnce releAse PArty: Oenophiles celebrate the return of this local favorite — boasting hints of fruit, chocolate, anise, vanilla and black pepper — by showing up for free samples and cheese. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 5-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1151. wAterbury FArmers mArket: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 522-5965, info@waterburyfarmersmarket. com.
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chess grouP: Novice and expert players compete against real humans, not computers. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $2. Info, 324-1143.
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Foot reFlexology For heAlth: Toes soak in aromatherapy foot baths while folks learn about reflex points and self-care with reflexologist Alicia Feltus. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:306:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com. integrAtive heAlth week: lunchtime lectures: Highly regarded medical experts look at cases of cancer and gastrointestinal disorders before a Friday panel discussion. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2333. meditAtion 101: Folks enlighten up as Martha Tack focuses on the stress-relief benefits of this calming practice. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136.
eArly-literAcy story time: Weekly themes educate preschoolers and younger children on basic reading concepts. Westford Public Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639, westford_pl@vals. state.vt.us.
FrAnklin story hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
let’s PlAnt A gArden!: Families get their hands dirty preparing beds for the Little Explorer Garden. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.
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thursdAy night nAtionAls: Bikers set the pace for a weekly ride along ever-changing routes. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an adult; riders under 18 need signed parental permission; helmets required. Info, 229-9409.
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AFter dArk sPeAker series: In “Science of the Sexes With Modern Medicine,” medical experts George Osol and Mark Plante host a walk-through talk of the “Our Body: The Universe Within” exhibit. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $15-20; cash bar. Info, 877-324-6386. Jerry whitField: An innovator in biomass energy discusses carbon-negative energy and biochar. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-8686, jpenca@shelburnefarms.org. lunch & leArn: Ariela Pelaia explores a Jewish legend — in which Adam’s first wife leaves him when he refuses to treat her as equal — in “Who Was Lilith?” Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Donations accepted. Info, 863-4214, jhersh@ burlingtontelecom.net. sArA willis: The author of Sara’s Story: Multiple Sclerosis, Karmic Memories and the Good Doctor shares personal experiences and her take on reincarnation and communicating with people from the “other side.” St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, noon-1 p.m. Free; bring your lunch. Info, 748-8291.
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FeAthered Frenzy: Avian enthusiasts spread their wings as they spy feathers above, build nests and marvel at bird eggs. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/ child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.
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Soft Rummage Sale: Shoppers stock up on gently used spring and summer clothes, as well as fiber items. Fill a bag for $2 on Sunday. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 793-1462.
comedy
Green Mountain Comedy Festival: See WED.23, 7 p.m.
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Queen City Tango Milonga: Warm-ups and skill building for all levels lead into open dancing in the Argentine tradition. No partner needed; wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, 7-10:30 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.
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Spring Carnival: See THU.24, 5-10 p.m.
film
‘Farmageddon’: Kristin Canty’s 2011 documentary looks at why small family farms are under attack from state and local governments. Hartland Public Library, 7:30 p.m. Free; popcorn provided. Info, 738-0215.
food & drink
Bellows Falls Farmers Market: Music enlivens a fresh-food marketplace with produce, meats, crafts and ever-changing weekly workshops. Waypoint Center, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2018. Chelsea Farmers Market: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987, chelseacommunitymarket@gmail.com. Community Dinner: Neighbors bring their appetites for food and community spirit. Osborne Parish House, Hinesburg, 5:30-7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 482-3352. Hardwick Farmers Market: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with fresh produce and handcrafted goods. Granite Street, Hardwick, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2337, hardwickfarmersmarket@gmail.com.
Backlight Zumba Fitness Class: A DJ and local instructors preside over a dance-fitness party with lots of neon. Perkins Fitness Consulting and Personal Studio, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $1520; wear indoor shoes. Info, 999-9748. Integrative Health Week: Lunchtime Lectures: See THU.24, noon-1 p.m. Myths of Mental Illness: Steven Morgan, executive director of Another Way, considers the “manufacturing” process behind modern mental illnesses, including the role of the media and pharmaceutical industry. Enterprise Center, Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, 10 a.m.-noon. $10. Info, 888-492-8218.
Cutthroat Logic, Long Cat, Vicious Intent, Ground Zero: Regional artists offer metal, punk and hardcore at an all-ages show. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-5. Info, 518-314-9872, rotagallery@gmail.com. Heliand Consort: See WED.23, Bethany Church, Montpelier. Middlebury College Choir: Past and present choir members bust out favorite repertoire for senior week. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. Swing Noire: Evoking the spirit of Django Reinhardt, the acoustic quartet performs lively jazz manouche. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 465-4071, info@brandonmusic.net.
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Mad Robin Contra Dance: The Irregulars offer a lively soundtrack to a traditional New England dance with a potluck dessert. First Congregational Church, Burlington, beginners’ orientation, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $8; wear clean, soft-soled shoes. Info, 503-1251.
Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.
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Ballroom Lesson & Dance Social: Singles and couples of all levels of experience take a twirl. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; open dancing, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.
health & fitness
Burlington Ensemble: Cellist Ben Capps performs works by Bach, Britten and Vermont composer Evan Premo in a solo program. Partial proceeds benefit Middlebury Area Land Trust. Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 598-9520.
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Rhubarb Jam: Canning expert Robin Berger demonstrates a no-commercial-pectin method. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 861-9700.
Bernal/Eckroth/Ennis: ‘La Voz de Tres’: In their debut album, Natalia Bernal, Mike Eckroth and Jason Ennis blend improv jazz with infectious Latin American rhythms. See calendar spotlight. Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester, 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 875-1018, info@vtica.org.
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Green Mountain Comedy Festival: Spark Improv Troupe: Random audience suggestions build original comedy on the spot. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $8-12. Info, 3734703 or 585-0025.
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Giant Spring Tag Sale: Bargain hunters thumb through a collection of clothes, books, toys and household items. There’s good grub, too. Jericho United Methodist Church, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3093.
Lyndon Farmers Market: of More than 20 vendors proffer a Lu cy rotation of fresh veggies, meats, Co u tu re cheeses and more. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, lyndonfarmersmarket@gmail.com. es
Giant Plant & Book Sale: Potted flowers, veggie starts and tons of tomes attract growers and readers alike. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 454-7767.
African Djembe Lessons: Beat keepers practice djembe and doundoun rhythms with Chimie Bangoura. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 3779721, chimieband@gmail.com.
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Granite Center Garden Club Annual Plant Sale: Flora fans take home perennials, annuals, herbs, shrubs and garden accessories to support local plantings and scholarships. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 6:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 479-1838.
Ludlow Farmers Market: Merchants divide a wealth of locally farmed products, artisanal eats and unique crafts. Okemo Mountain School, Ludlow, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 734-3829, lfmkt@tds.net.
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Pharma Foodie: Got guts? Folks learn how to best feed their “second brain” for digestive health. Menu items include honey-braised chicken legs and garlic-and-herb-crusted salmon. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. Tai Chi for Arthritis: AmeriCorps members from the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging lead gentle, controlled movements that can help alleviate stress, tension and joint pain. Winooski Senior Center, 10-11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-0360. Zumba Class: Movers and shakers party themselves into shape with Latin-based dance moves. The Flashbulb Institute, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $12 suggested donation. Info, 646-577-7985.
kids
Community Playgroup: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Enosburg Falls Story Hour: Young ones show up for fables and occasional field trips. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 933-2328. Montgomery Tumble Time: Physical-fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Swanton Playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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10th Annual Farewell Reunion: A barbecue kicks off tunes from Bread & Bones, Gary and Roland Clark, Patti Casey, Hannah Beth Crary, Tim Cummings, Bill Drislane, William Ellis, Deb Flanders, and many others. Grace Episcopal Church, Sheldon, 6 p.m. $15 donation supports the Tom Sustic Scholarship Fund; bring salad
outdoors
Astronomy Viewing: Weather permitting, stargazers take in the night sky with members of the Vermont Astronomical Society. Begins at sundown; call to confirm. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556. Spring Migration Bird Walk: Trailblazers wander a local birding hot spot, scouting out warblers, vireos, thrushes, waterfowl and other spring migrants. Hubbard Park, Montpelier, 7-8:30 a.m. $10; free for North Branch Nature Center members; call for meeting location. Info, 229-6206.
sport
Friday Night Fix: Serial cyclists get to know their bikes in a clinic covering brakes. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409, thefolks@onionriver.com.
theater
‘Almost, Maine’: As the northern lights are at play, residents of a remote town find themselves slipping in and out of love in this popular drama presented by MHS Masque. Montpelier High School, 7:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 225-8000. Auditions for ‘Charlotte’s Web: The Musical’: See WED.23, 6-9 p.m. ‘Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story’: Actor-storyteller Glen Williamson offers a solo romp through Goethe’s tragic play about bargaining with the devil. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 355-0958. ‘Into the Woods’: A baker and his wife brave the fairy-tale world to break the curse of childlessness in this Stephen Sondheim musical, presented by the Community Theater Players. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $14-16. Info, 518-523-2512.
‘Proof’: See THU.24, 7 p.m. Spielpalast Cabaret: See THU.24, 8 p.m. ‘You Can’t Take It With You’: An unexpected visit interrupts “just a quiet evening at home” in Rice Memorial High School Theater’s version of this timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 862-6521. ‘the napoleon 2012’: See THU.24, 8 p.m.
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Occupy Central Vermont General Assembly: Citizen activists incite the change they want to see in the world. Visit occupycentralvt.org for location. Montpelier, 3-5 p.m. Free.
agriculture
Annual & Perennial Plant Sale: Reasonably priced buds and blooms include hanging baskets, bedding plants and other garden treasures. Proceeds support the senior center. Charlotte Senior Center, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 425-6345. Plant Sale: Green thumbs find robust veggie plants, herbs and a wide variety of flowers. Bread and Roses Farm, Westford, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 233-4781.
art
Saturday Art Sampler: Painters learn the basic techniques and strategies for working with oils. Davis Studio Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24. Info, 425-2700. Spring Open Studio Weekend: Hundreds of Vermont artists and artisans open their work spaces to visitors for this statewide event organized by the Vermont Crafts Council. Download a map with directions at vermontcrafts.com. Various locations statewide, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3380.
bazaars
Book & Cookie Sale: People take their pick of tomes or treats before, during and after the Williamstown Memorial Day parade. Ainsworth Public Library, Williamstown, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 433-5887. Giant Plant & Book Sale: See FRI.25, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Giant Spring Tag Sale: See FRI.25, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Indoor Flea Market: Community donations supply an array of eclectic items from A to Z. Congregational Church, Charlotte, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2426. Soft Rummage Sale: See FRI.25, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Spring Fundraiser Yard Sale: New and gently used items draw buyers and gawkers. Pacem School & Homeschool Center, Montpelier, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1010.
comedy
Green Mountain Comedy Festival: See WED.23, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Green Mountain Comedy Festival: Comedy Showcase: Johnson State College grad Roger Miller headlines a funny affair, also featuring Autumn Spencer, Tony Bates, Mike Finoia and Nathan Hartswick. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 373-4703 or 585-0025. Green Mountain Comedy Festival: High School Improv Show: Budding standups share all-ages wit. North End Studio A, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 373-4703 or 585-0025. ‘Whose Live Anyway?’: Former “The Drew Carey Show” yukster Ryan Stiles heads up 90 minutes of improvised song lyrics, skits and impersonations.
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Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $29.50-54.50. Info, 775-0903.
finale. Various locations, Hardwick, 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 472-5906.
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Plant GiveAway for Tropical Storm Irene Survivors: Vermonters affected by the storm reclaim their lawns by taking home perennials, annuals and ornamental shrubs. St. Leo’s Hall, Waterbury, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 279-4670.
dance
Barn Dance Benefit: The Bottom Line and the Hardscrabble Hounds play at this rustic fundraiser for Emma’s Foundation for Canine Cancer. Kristy’s Korner, Grand Isle, 8 p.m. $10 donation; BYOB. Info, 238-3241. Danse Bergeron: A dance homage to Michael Jackson includes elements of ballet, hip-hop and cheerleading. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $7-12. Info, 873-3022. Traditional New England Dancing: Bill Olson calls the steps to tunes by the Homegrown Chestnuts. Wear soft-soled shoes; bring dessert to share. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $4-8. Info, 225-8921.
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Civil War Cemetery Walking Tour: Wander the cemetery with reenactors and historian Don Jackson as they spout details about the numerous generals residing six feet under. Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2075. Dedication of Civil War Historical Marker: Military and political leaders and a rifle squad commemorate the 2nd Vermont Regiment. A Civil War song program augments the affair. Battery Park, Burlington, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 644-2433. Kite Fliers Meeting: Common interests soar as fans of tethered aircrafts meet like-minded peers. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-0030.
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Shipwreck Story Day: of Opening-day festivities include Li zB os performances by cast members of si Lyric Theatre’s Titanic: The Musical and tales of sunken ships in Lake Champlain. See calendar spotlight. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $6-10; free for members and kids under 5. Info, 475-2022. y
Spring Carnival: See THU.24, noon-10 p.m.
Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. Capital City Farmers Market: Fresh produce, pasteurized milk, kombucha, artisan cheeses, local meats and more lure local buyers throughout the growing season. Live music and demos accent each week’s offerings. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@ montpelierfarmersmarket.com. Champlain Islands Farmers Market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Joseph Church Hall, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 372- 3291. Gourmet PreMarathon Pasta Dinner: Whether they’re running the marathon or just want to eat like it, folks carbo-load on creative noodle dishes, healthy sides, artisan baguettes and homemade desserts. Proceeds support Outright Vermont. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 865-9677. Hill Farmstead Brewery Anniversary Celebration 2012: Beer advocates sample brews from near and far as the Eames Brothers Band and other special guests perform. Hill Farmstead Brewery, Greensboro, noon-6 p.m. $10 admission includes one tasting ticket; $5 per additional tasting ticket; bring or buy your own Hill Farmstead stemware. Info, 533-7450. Mount Tom Farmers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 763-2070, foxxfarm@aol.com. Northwest Farmers Market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821. Norwich Farmers Market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447, manager@norwichfarmersmarket.org. Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, mushrooms, fresh-cut flowers, sweet baked goods, and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813. Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables at a presentation of the season’s best. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472, shelburnefarmersmarket@ sbpavt.org.
Hardwick Kiwanis Spring Festival: Start the day off on the right foot at a 5K walk/run and youth 1K run — followed by a craft and garden fair, a library book sale, a Memorial Day ceremony, a Kiwanis parade, a carnival, a chicken barbecue, live music, and more. Fireworks make for a bright
Spring Feastival: Foodies rate dishes for creativity, authenticity and spirit at this dinner competition, ending with a dance party. Pacem School & Homeschool Center, Montpelier, 6-10 p.m. $15, or bring a dish to serve six to eight people; semiformal dress code. Info, 223-1010.
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Brian Lies: The illustrator of More — and a bestselling author in his own right — shares the story of a magpie and a mouse. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 985-3999, flyingpigbooks@gmail.com. Green Mountain Comedy Festival: Improv Workshops for Kids/Teens: Little jokesters hone their wit through improv games with Spark Arts instructors. North End Studio A, Burlington, session for 8- to 12-year-olds, 10-11 a.m.; session for 13- to 18-year-olds, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 373-4703 or 585-0025. Spanish-Language Community Breakfast: Early risers pick up conversational español at this educational meet-up aimed at elementary students and their friends and parents. Students from Middlebury College’s Spanish department aid the learning through games and wordplay. 94 Main Street, Middlebury, 8:30-10 a.m. Free. Info, 382-9325 or 989-5200.
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Adam Cappa & Jonny Diaz: Two Christian pop artists take the stage in a double-bill concert. Christ the King School, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $12-20. Info, 233-9603. Burlington Ensemble: See FRI.25, Partial proceeds benefit Lake Champlain International. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 7:30 p.m. Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra: Anthony Princiotti conducts the Hop ensemble in Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-29. Info, 603-646-2422. Heliand Consort: See WED.23, Congregational Church, Middlebury. Onion River Chorus: “Where Everything Is Music” features contemporary a cappella choral works by Toby Tenenbaum and Don Jamison, as well as shape-note traditions. United Church, Barton, 7:30 p.m. $8-12 suggested donation; $25 suggested donation per family. Info, 476-4300. ‘The Vermont Civil War Songbook’: Linda Radtke employs music and letters in a costumed rundown of Vermont’s Civil War period with accompanist Arthur Zorn. Battery Park, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 644-6582.
Mountain Mayhem Mudder: Obstacles such as a tire maze, ski slalom and rope swing interrupt a 5K run in the first leg of the Stratton Summit Series. Stratton Mountain, 10:30 a.m. $25-40. Info, 800-787-2886. St. Albans Explorer Bicycle Ride: Helmet heads pedal along the hills in a 35-mile route to St. Albans Bay Park, or opt for a longer outing to Swanton and back. Georgia Park and Ride, 9:45 a.m. Free. Info, 735-1836.
talks
Energy Education Program Series: LEEDaccredited architect Jean Terwilliger details sustainable features in the new green sanctuary building in this presentation hosted by the Acorn Renewable Energy Co-op. Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 385-1911.
theater
‘Almost, Maine’: See FRI.25, 7:30 p.m. ‘Into the Woods’: See FRI.25, 8 p.m. ‘Proof’: See THU.24, 7 p.m. Spielpalast Cabaret: See THU.24, 8 p.m. ‘You Can’t Take It With You’: See FRI.25, 8 p.m. ‘the napoleon 2012’: See THU.24, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
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Poetry Reading: Sydney Lea, Baron Wormser, Meg Kearney, Cleopatra Mathis and David Keller deliver literary expressions in memory of Don Sheehan, the former director of the Frost Place. Brown Public Library, Northfield, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 485-4621. What’s Your Story?: Anecdotists deliver unscripted tales along the theme of “spring fever” at an open mic. The session will be recorded for radio broadcast on The Radiator (105.9 FM). The Firefly Collective, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 559-1795.
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Green Mountain Comedy Festival: See WED.23, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
Tomorrow Never Knows: Burlington’s Beatles tribute band emulates the Fab Four. Brandon Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $13-15. Info, 247-5420.
Green Mountain Comedy Festival: All-Star Final Show: Chad Cosby, John Lyons, Kit Rivers, Pat Lynch, Nathan Hartswick and Jason Lorber get the last laugh — alongside a few surprise guests. Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $8-12. Info, 373-4703 or 585-0025.
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Reptile & Amphibian Walk: Critter lovers catch sight of basking turtles, breeding frogs and stream salamanders on an excursion with Larry Clarfeld. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10 a.m.noon. $5-10. Info, 229-6206.
seminars
Digital Video Editing: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the editing software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692.
Miss Lorraine’s School of Dance: Rutlandarea dancers of all ages present “Our Best: Then and Now.” Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 1 p.m. & 6 p.m. $13-15. Info, 775-0903.
education
Preschool Open House: Prospective parents meet the program director and talk with member families. Center School Learning Community, Plainfield, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1947.
Open Media Workshop: Professional or novice film editors learn about various programs for mixing and enhancing all of their video assets into a SUN.27
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Cheese & Dairy Celebration: This dairy heritage fest brims with artisan cheese, ice-cream making, cattle trivia and more. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.
Memorial Day Pancake Breakfast: Fans of flapjacks get their fill along the parade route. Essex CHIPS & Teen Center, 8-10 a.m. $5-10; $30 maximum per family. Info, 878-6982.
Killington Stage Race: Competitive cyclists push the pedal in what has historically been one of the region’s most prestigious road races. Mountain Green Resort, Killington, 8 a.m. $25-225. Info, info@killingtonstagerace.com.
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Essex Junction Memorial Day Parade: Marching bands make music to support floats on the move. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-1375.
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‘Sonic Sensation’ Exhibit Opening: Good listeners experiment with pitch, test their hearing, make a movie soundtrack and step into the “Scream Chamber” in an interactive exploration of the sonic world. Exhibit open through September 4. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 10 a.m.5 p.m. Regular admission, $10-12; free for members and children under 2. Info, 649-2200.
Movie Night: Feline-themed reels — from “Looney Tunes” to an original adaptation of “The Cat in the Hat” to a whiskered western — prove to be the cat’s meow. North Country Food Co-op, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:15 p.m. Donations accepted for the St. John Feral Cat Fund. Info, 518-561-5904.
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Louisa Howard Chapel Opening: Architecture buffs get a gander at the fully restored High Gothic Victorian nondenominational landmark at Lakeview Cemetery. Held in conjunction with the annual Civil War General’s Cemetery Tour. Louisa Howard Chapel, Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2075.
‘Miss Bala’: Stephanie Sigman plays a wouldbe beauty queen whose dreams are derailed by the violence of the Mexican border in Gerardo Naranjo’s 2011 crime thriller. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
Waitsfield Farmers Market: Local bands enliven an outdoor outlet for homegrown herbs, flowers and fruits, and handmade breads, cheeses and syrups. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734.
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CHeese & dairy CeLebration: See SAT.26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. HartLand Farm Fest: Folks mingle with local farmers and food producers during a farmers market with horse and wagon rides, live music, and farm-skill demonstrations. Foster Meadows, Hartland, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 295-8563.
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‘tHe deep bLue sea’: Trapped in a loveless marriage, a woman enters into an erotic relationship with a Royal Air Force pilot in Terence Davies’ 2011 adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s play. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
food & drink
stowe Farmers market: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734, info@stowevtfarmersmarket.com.
games
burLington-area sCrabbLe CLub: Tripleletter-square seekers spell out winning words. New players welcome. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7558.
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meditation & spirituaL tooLs For intuitive Living, souL purpose & spirituaL HeaLing: Practitioners communicate with their higher selves through aura, chakra and energy activities. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 671-4569.
Qi-erCises: Jeff Cochran hosts a session of breathing-in-motion exercises. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 518-314-9872.
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montgomery pLaygroup: Infants to 2-yearolds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. sundays For FLedgLings: Youngsters go avian crazy in hiking, acting, writing or exploring activities. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m. Free with museum admission, $3-6; free for members; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont.org. tHe Junie b. Jones stupid smeLLy bus tour: The rambunctious title character breaks out her signature silly antics in a theatrical performance. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 2 p.m. $2-5. Info, 518-523-2512.
language
dimanCHes: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.
music
burLington ensembLe: See FRI.25, partial proceeds benefit the library. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 7:30 p.m. onion river CHorus: See SAT.26, South Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury. stratton mountain musiC FestivaL: Trevor Hall, Aaron Dugan, Brian Lang, Jordan Perlson, Cas Haley and Justin Young perform on the golf course. Stratton Mountain, 4-7 p.m. $15 benefits the Stratton Foundation. Info, 800-787-2886. sunday Jazz: Soul-funk singer Sharon Jones sounds off with sultry vocals. Brandon Music, 7 p.m. $15-18. Info, 465-4071. tHe opera Company oF middLebury: meet tHe singers: The cast of Thaïs belts out favorite arias after a meet and greet with drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Middlebury Inn, 5 p.m. $25. Info, 388-7432.
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sapsuCker sunday birding series: Binoculars in hand, folks spy and ID warblers, thrushes and more in a variety of Northeast Kingdom habitats. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 7-9 a.m. $10; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115, events@northwoodscenter.org.
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keybank vermont City maratHon & reLay: Long-distance runners pound a 26.2-mile path through the Queen City. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 a.m. Various prices and fundraising requirements. Info, 863-8412. kiLLington stage raCe: See SAT.26, 8 a.m. mekkeLsen rv memoriaL day CLassiC: Stock cars floor it in the first race of the Vermont State Late Model Championship Series. Thunder Road Speed Bowl, Barre, 1:30 p.m. $3-15; $30 per family; free for kids under 7. Info, 244-6963.
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destiny aFriCa CHiLdren’s CHoir: Orphaned Ugandan children share soulful traditional and contemporary song-and-dance selections to drum beats. Church of the Crucified One, Moretown, 10 a.m. Donations accepted for Kampala Children’s Centre. Info, 595-5857. ‘into tHe woods’: See FRI.25, 2 p.m.
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tropiCaL storm irene support group: Recovery workers gain peer support as they process their emotions and develop coping skills. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 855-767-8800.
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burlington ensemble: See FRI.25, partial proceeds benefit Richmond Historical Society. Old Round Church, Richmond. 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 players are welcome to pitch in as Burlington’s AfroBrazilian street percussion band sharpens its tunes. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017. the chAmplAin echoes: New singers are invited to chime in on four-part harmonies with a women’s a cappella chorus at weekly open rehearsals. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 6:15-9:15 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0398.
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Killington stAge rAce: See SAT.26, 8 a.m. ors cyclocross cruise: Riders rise and descend on a network of dirt roads. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an adult; riders under 18 need signed parental permission; helmets required. Info, 229-9409.
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tropicAl storm irene stress-buster boWling series: Deerfield Valley folks affected by the flooding blow off steam. North Star Bowl, Wilmington, 1-2:30 p.m. $4.95 includes bowling and shoes; mini golf is free. Info, 249-3628.
steps to Wellness: Cancer survivors attend diverse seminars about nutrition, stress management, acupuncture and more in conjunction with a medically based rehabilitation program. Fletcher Allen Health Care Cardiology Building, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2176.
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pAuse cAFé: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Levity Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.
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An evening With ZAcK dupont: The Burlington singer-songwriter celebrates the release of his album Somewhere in Between in a concert with his core band and special guests. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 863-5966. burlington ensemble: See FRI.25, partial proceeds benefit the Intervale. Intervale Center, Burlington. city hAll pArK lunchtime perFormAnces: Joshua Glass lets loose impassioned pop by the fountain. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.
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lAurA mArKoWitZ & john dunlop: In “Violin and Cello Music From the Baroque to Modern,” the musical duo tackle works by Back, Telemann, Bartók and beyond. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0471.
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join in as the ensemble tunes up for summer concerts. Band Room, Milton Elementary School, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398. ‘The VermonT CiVil War Songbook’: See SAT.26, Quechee Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 295-1232.
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aarP Safe DriVer CourSe: Motor vehicle operators ages 50 and up take a quick trip to the classroom — with no tests and no grades! — for a howto refresher. American Cancer Society, Williston, 10 a.m. $12-14; preregister. Info, 888-3394.
‘The human reSourCeS manager’: Eran Riklis’ 2010 Israeli tragicomedy focuses on a head of HR who rediscovers his humanity while dealing with a public-relations crisis. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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CreaTing a finanCial fuTure: Spenders and savers learn to build wealth over a lifetime. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.
baby Time: See WED.23, 10:30 a.m.-noon.
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a reVieW of regulaTory ChangeS in The JobS aCT: Cairn Cross, Brian Murphy, Janice Shade and John Cronin speculate about the new world of fundraising under the recent Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 923-1501, ccross@freshtrackscap.com.
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SaCreD CirCle DanCing: No experience and no partners are necessary for these ancient and modern movement patterns set to gentle, slow, international music. Suitable for all adults, including seniors. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:308:30 p.m. Free; bring water. Info, 978-424-1482.
geTTing STarTeD WiTh homeSChooling: Parents considering out-of-classroom options for their children’s education learn about how to make it work. Pacem School & Homeschool Center, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. $15; free for those already enrolled for fall 2012. Info, 223-1010.
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burlingTon enSemble: See FRI.25, partial proceeds benefit Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. Shelburne Vineyard. SPring ConCerT: Preschoolers through eighth graders pipe up in the school gymnasium. Central Vermont Catholic School, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-5015. Valley nighT: Middlebury folk-rockers Alpenglow grace the lounge. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 496-8994.
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dance BEGINNER SWING DANCE LESSONS: Jun. 6-20, 6:307:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $30/3-wk. series. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Terry Bouricius, 8648382, terrybour@gmail.com, vermontswings.com. A short three-week series of beginner dance lessons is being offered by Burlington’s premier swing dance teacher, Terry Bouricius. Terry has taught thousands of people to swing dance since
1983. This class will be the basic style known as East Coast Swing or Jitterbug. No partner is necessary. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout! LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Lessons also avail. in St. Albans. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, FirstStepDance.com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is
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EXPRESSIVE SELF-PORTRAIT W/ SUZANNE BELLEFEUILLE: Jun. 24, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $50/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. How can the seeds of your soul, expressed by a symbolic self-portrait, be nurtured and grow? Create an image with photo collage, expressive drawing and painting. Guided imagery will be used as a tool to connect with your inner self. The focus will be on the process, not aesthetic result.
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cupping; healing sexual trauma; shamanic and magical roots of European traditional medicine; joyful dance of nature; medicinal properties of plants in light of botanical family. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wild Edibles Intensive 2012: Spring/Summer term: May 27, Jun. 24 & Jul. 22, 2012. Summer/ Fall term: Aug. 19, Sep. 16 & Oct. 14, 2012. VSAC nondegree grants avail. to qualifying applicants. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool. com, wisdomoftheherbsschool. com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.
HERBAL INTENSIVES AT VCIH: Schedule varies by class: see individual listing for day & time. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 250 Main St., suite 302, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Lisa Mase, 224-7100, lisa@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org. Special guest herbalist, flower essence practitioner, bodyworker and psychotherapist visiting from France. European
INSPIRING SUMMER CAMPS!: Cost: $300/week, $150/teen week-1/2 day. Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St. (3rd floor), Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@yahoo.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com. Session 1: Jun. 18-22, Art & FrenchFull. Session 2: Jul. 19-13, Art & Science. Session 3: Jul. 23-27, Art, Nature & Animals. Session 4: Aug. 6-10, Art & Space Galaxy. Session 5: Teen Week, Aug. 13-17, Art & French. Session 6: Aug. 20-24, Art & French.
language FRENCH CLASSES THIS SUMMER!: 6-wk. term, begins Jun. 11 & continues through Jul. 19; classes held 6-7:30 p.m.; immersion session Jun. 11-21, 16 hrs. in 8 sessions, 8-10 a.m. Cost: $135/6wk. class. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 302-304 Dupont Bldg., 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 497-0420, michelineatremblay@gmail.com, aflcr.org/ classes.shtml. Alliance Francaise Summer French Classes for Adults. Short refresh-and-review term designed to secure new skills, as a warm-up for your next level or to get you ready for a vacation in France, Québec, Guadalupe! Also: special two-week immersion for
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martial arts AIKIDO: Adult intro. classes begin on Tue., Jun. 5, 6:45 p.m. Try out this class for $10. This fee can be applied toward our 3-mo. membership special rate for $190 (incl. unlimited classes 7 days/ wk.). Children’s classes begin on Sat., Jun. 2, 9 a.m. (ages 5-6) & 9:45 a.m. (ages 7-12). Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 951-8900, burlingtonaikido. org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. The Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 7-17. We also offer classes for children ages 5-6. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. AIKIDO CLASSES: This is a summary of the repeat configuration. Cost: $65/4 consecutive Tue., uniform incl. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others and confidence in oneself. Vermont Aikido invites you to explore this graceful martial art in a safe, supportive environment. MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CENTER: Please visit website for schedule. Location: Martial Way Self-Defense Center, 3 locations, Colchester, Milton, St. Albans. Info: 893-8893, martialwayvt. com. Beginners will find a comfortable and welcoming environment, a courteous staff, and a nontraditional approach that values the beginning student as the most important member of the school. Experienced martial artists will be impressed by our instructors’ knowledge and humility, our realistic approach, and our straightforward and fair tuition and billing policies. We are dedicated to helping every member achieve his or her highest potential in the martial arts. Kempo, Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Wing Chun, Arnis, Thinksafe Self-Defense. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: 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. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardiorespiratory fitness. Brazilian JiuJitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence.
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 Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
massage ADVANVED GERIATRIC MASSAGE: Friday Jun. 15, 6:30-9:30pm, Sat. & Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $375/ Early Bird Special is $350 before Jun. 1st. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 658-7715, touchvt@ gmail.com, touchstonehealingarts.com. Prerequisite-level 1. (17 CEhrs) Two days are spent in a nursing home or assisted living facility working with elderly volunteers. Review of medical terminology and symptoms and how to select approaches. Cautions in positioning of challenged clients. In-depth information on most common age-related health problems and specific massage approaches. GERIATRIC MASSAGE 1-17 CE HOURS: Friday Jun. 8, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Sat. & Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $375/Early Bird Special is $350 before May 25th. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 658-7715, touchvt@gmail.com, touchstonehealingarts.com. By helping participants to gain insight into meaningful work with the elderly, the therapist who likes to work with seniors is put on the path to a massage career that is emotionally satisfying without being physically draining. Includes: Aspects of aging assessments, cautions, contraindications, modifications of technique, hands-on work marketing.
meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appointment. The Shambhala Café meets the first Sat. of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An Open House occurs every third Fri. evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. 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
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pilates Pilates RefoRmeR, CiRCuit, mat: Every body loves Pilates, 6 days/wk. Cost: $13/drop-in; better rates on your class card. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates. com, NaturalBodiesPilates. com. For a strong and beautifully relaxed body, mind and spirit, join Reformer, circuit and Mat classes in a calm and professional studio. In addition to strength and flexibility, Pilates exercise relieves stress, promotes whole-body health, restores awareness and results in a general sense of well-being. Private sessions available by appointment.
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lightheaRt sanCtuaRy Classes: Location: Lightheart Sanctuary, 236 Wild Apple Rd., New Haven. Info: Lightheart, Maureen Short, 453-4433, Maureen@ gmavt.net, lightheart.net. May 26: Fairy day: for kids to celebrate Nature spirits, make fairy houses, elf doors. May 29: sacred circle in the sanctuary: Walk the labyrinth, meditate, pray, sing, chant, tone with crystal singing Bowls. June 5: Venus Transit Download celebration! June 12: sacred circle at Rainbow Institute, 19 church st., suite 8.
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taRot foR life: Jun. 7-Jul. 12, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $150/6-wk. workshop. Location: The Firefly Collective, 200 Main St., Burlington. Info: Tarot Insights, Sherri Glebus, 2246756, sglebus@gmail.com, tarotinsights.vpweb.com. This six-week workshop of one two-hour session per week will guide participants through learning the basics of the deck, how to use it for readings for oneself and others, developing intuition, and using Tarot for personal and spiritual development.
yoga eVolution yoga: $14/ class, $130/class card. $5-$10 community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 864-9642, yoga@ evolutionvt.com, evolutionvt. com. evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner to advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, anusarainspired, Kripalu and Iyengar yoga. Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre-/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt. com/evoblog. laughing RiVeR yoga: Yoga classes 7 days a wk. Cost: $13/ class; $115/10 classes; $130/ unlimited monthly; Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. classes by donation, $5-15. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119, laughingriveryoga. com. summer unlimited only $330! We offer yoga classes, workshops and retreats taught by experienced and compassionate instructors in a variety of styles, including Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vinyasa, Yoga Dance, Yin, Restorative and more. Don’t miss Nada Yoga with soundstress Fletcher Boote on May 27. all bodies and abilities welcome.
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hwa yu tai Chi, montPelieR: Jun. 11-Jul. 23, 5-6 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $72/7-wk. semester. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St, 3rd floor. Info: Ellie Hayes, 456-1983, grhayes1956@comcast. net. Hwa Yu Tai chi summer semester, open to beginners and continuing students alike. enjoy a convivial atmosphere while improving balance and coordination; know the deep satisfaction of fluid and organic movement. Instructor ellie Hayes has been teaching since 1974. snake-style tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. yang-style tai Chi: New 8-wk. beginners class session began Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m. $125. Cost: $16/class. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Turn right into driveway immed. after the railroad tracks. Located in the
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aPaRtment fuRnituRe: Jul. 25-Aug. 29, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $290/6-wk., 3-hr. class, incl. materials, member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Road, Info: The Shelburne Craft School, Sage Tucker-Ketcham, 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool. org, theshelburnecraftschool. org. Your apartment may not be the biggest or most functional in town, but you take pride in making it your own. This course will help you personalize your space with an introduction to furniture making, focusing on material frugality and practical design. Build a modular coffee table, desk or shelf.
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old Magic Hat Brewery building. Info: 318-6238. Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease in blood pressure and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Janet Makaris, instructor.
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animal Reiki foR PRaCtitioneRs: Jun. 9, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $125/5-hr. class. Location: The Hooved Animal Sanctuary, Chelsea. Info: HeartSong Reiki, Kelly McDermott-Burns, 7468834, kelly@heartsongreiki. com, heartsongreiki.com. Prerequisite: Reiki level II. We will discuss ethics and protocol, as well as learn techniques using jumon and mantras for creating healing space for the animals. Reiju will be offered to each student plus practice time with animals. Includes manual and certificate of completion.
Classes foR adults: Become a member and save 10%. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Road. Info: The Shleburne Craft School, 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool. org, theshelburnecraftschool. org. classes, workshops and weeklong summer intensives for adults in clay, woodworking, metals, stain glass and painting. studios located in the heart of shelburne Village. Kids summer camps also available.
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renowned Capps to BE at first because the ensemble was still in its fledgling stage. “But then I was like, ’What the heck,’” Goetz says. “Ben’s the kind of guy who doesn’t want to turn down a gig. He wants to play, so let him play.” Capps’ BE premiere was at a Summer Serenade concert in 2011, followed immediately by a string of performances at Shelburne’s All Souls Interfaith Gathering. He says the music selection for his upcoming tour is among the most difficult he’s put together, though he certainly welcomes the challenge. “Ooh … Bach, Piatti and Britten. What more could one want from life?” Capps writes to Seven Days in an email. This week, he’ll also be performing “Echo Lake,” a composition by his friend Evan Premo, a double bassist and cofounder of Vermont’s Scrag Mountain Music. Dabroski and Hirsch say they like to ensure their song selections and concerts remain accessible to a wide audience. They keep ticket prices low and invite beneficiaries to speak at their events. Additionally, Hirsch has put together an intermission performance featuring local student groups, such as Vermont Suzuki Violins and chamber groups from the Vermont Youth Orchestra. “We want to involve the kids as much as possible,” says Hirsch, who grew up playing in the VYO. In addition to the BEliever Tour with Capps and July’s Summer Serenade tour, BE plans to collaborate with the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington in hosting a tuition-free summer camp at All Souls. Kate Lisman, a violinist currently earning her doctoral degree, will direct the weeklong camp. “We’re just thrilled about it,” says Mary Alice McKenzie, director of the Boys & Girls Club. “We’re all so unbelievably grateful, and Kate has a knack for teaching kids notes without them realizing they’re learning notes.” Hirsch adds that the collaboration will not only offer lessons and performances for the campers but will also introduce them to new surroundings. “Some of these kids in the [Old] North End of Burlington haven’t been out in the woods — ever,” she says. Summer’s end will bring BE’s String Quartet Project, a collaboration with
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he world of classical music isn’t generally known for lawless insurrection, but Michael Dabroski and Sofia Hirsch of Burlington Ensemble (BE) have been overthrowing the norms of chamber music since 2009. Observing that too many nonprofit music groups share the same small pool of donors, the violin-wielding duo decided to start charging for their shows and donating most of their proceeds to nonprofit organizations scattered around Chittenden County. BE’s experimental business model vindicates its success this summer, beginning with two tours around the state. The first, called the BEliever Tour, kicks off this Friday, May 25, at the Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. It won’t feature the penguin suits and other stereotypes of the genre. Instead, it will showcase a down-to-earth cellist from New York City: Benjamin Elton Capps. Dabroski describes the BEliever tour as “kind of a mixed bag” of the group’s regular 90/10 and Summer Serenade cycles. With the 90/10 concerts, 90 percent of the revenue goes to six nonprofits of Dabroski and Hirsch’s choice. The remaining 10 percent goes to BE; Summer Serenade tours fund the players for the 90/10 series. These musicians, by the way, earn “more than a competitive wage” from BE, says Dabroski. The BEliever Tour’s unique hybrid design allows BE to fund itself while increasing its number of beneficiaries. “But we also think of it as making relationships with new communities and new concertgoers that will be poised to communicate our message,” adds Dabroski. Ben Elton Capps came into the BE picture via Joe Goetz, the afternoon voice of VPR Classical. Goetz says he had kept in contact with Dabroski and Hirsch after the ensemble approached Vermont Public Radio regarding event publicity. Noticing their bourgeoning success, Goetz met with BE to help curate the 90/10 series that ended in April. Goetz, a professional musician himself, played the difficult piano part of Antonín Dvořák’s crowd-pleasing Dumky trio (Piano Trio No. 4) at the series’ final performance. Goetz says he met Capps at a house concert during the Manchester Music Festival in Manchester, Vt. He adds that he was hesitant to introduce the world-
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Music-COMP, formerly called VermontMIDI. Music-COMP is a national group based primarily in Vermont through which students submit musical compositions for review by professional mentors. BE’s upcoming 90/10 series will highlight these student-composed string quartets. “This is the height of music education right now,” says Dabroski. “It’s different from just seeing an instrument, petting it and walking away. With this, it’s like working on a paper or a garden.” BE also plans to help Common Roots, a local food-oriented nonprofit, promote cafeteria foodchoice mindfulness by collaborating with the South Burlington High School chorus and instrumentalists from the school band. Dabroski says that his time as a 13-year-old studying chamber music at the Apple Hill Center in Keene, N.H., helped prompt his focus on youth and social initiatives. BE’s flourishing presence indicates that its for-profit approach can liberate chamber groups from their current board-ofdirectors-burdened existence. Dabroski speculates the group stands alone with its
business model, because musicians typically don’t take the time to study the logistics of orchestra operation, and also because some consider approaching music as a commodity to be taboo. But without the overhead of a nonprofit, Hirsch and Dabroski say BE’s initiative enables them to give more money back to the community. “I love the idea of turning the for-profit model on its head,” says Hirsch. Goetz, who is hosting Capps on VPR this Thursday at 3 p.m., agrees. He says he’s thrilled to see BE growing so quickly. The upcoming BEliever tour is the first of its kind, but certainly not the last, according to Dabroski. “It’s our intention to develop many more of these summer tours,” he says, “because there’s around 3000 nonprofits in the state of Vermont.” Burlington Ensemble’s BEliever Tour begins this Friday, May 25, at the Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $20. For more dates and info, visit burlingtonensemble.com.
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Hosting, led by local comic Jason lorber, who recently killed it opening for Joan rivers at the Flynn Center. The fest wraps up that evening with an all-star showcase at the Doubletree Hotel Ballroom in Burlington, featuring some of the area’s funniest comics, including (not Bill) Cosby, Hartswick, Lorber, John lyons, Pat lynch and Kit rivers, the last of whom was a sensation at this year’s HG Comedy Battle and stunned this critic again recently with a positively hilarious set at Levity. She’s one of the funniest comedians in the state. And here’s the scary thing: She’s only 20.
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So did you happen to catch any of the Waking Windows 2 festival in Winooski a couple of weeks ago? I confess, I wasn’t able to attend as much of it as I would have liked. But what I did see was incredible. A newish band out of Middlebury called alPenGlow were a definite highlight. As a friend noted during their afternoon set at the Stoplight Gallery, “So they pretty much win, hands down, for best new local band.” Yep. The five-piece outfit has a
sprawling indie-folk sound that fans of bands such as fleet foxes or the low antheM could eat with a spork. This is swooning, harmony-laden stuff, complex arrangements laced with arcing fiddle, shimmering keys and healthy doses of ringing guitar punch. You can download their two-song EP from their bandcamp page (alpenglowband.bandcamp. com). Better yet, catch them live at the Big Picture Theater & Café in Waitsfield on Wednesday, May 30. Congrats to the roughly 734 local musicians involved with last Friday’s sold-out Hug Your Farmer tribute to the late, great levon helM at the Higher Ground Ballroom. Not to get all sappy on you, but it was one of those quintessentially Burlington nights that makes me proud to call the Queen City home. There wasn’t a clunker performance in the bunch — which is amazing when you think of how many moving pieces this show had, and in how short a time it all came together. Joshua Panda stole the show with his signature soul dynamism — and a few high leg kicks to boot. Had no idea you were so flexible, man.
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The Green Mountain Comedy Festival is in full swing this week. And, frankly, it’s a little overwhelming. Between now and this Sunday, May 27, there are — count ’em — 17 performances and workshops happening in venues all over the state, from Burlington to the Northeast Kingdom. The showcases feature some of the best and brightest local comedic talent and range, from family-friendly fare to at least one show that promises to be so disgusting that no one in their right mind should attend — and that I can’t wait to see. Ahem. There is honestly too much going on for me to cover in this li’l column. So here are the highlights for the remaining four days of the GMCF. Check out greenmountaincomedy.com for the full schedule. The slate on Thursday, May 24, is anchored by the aforementioned raunchy show, That’s Just Wrong! at Signal Kitchen in Burlington. If you go, understand this: The whole point is for comics to be as crude and offensive — and funny — as possible. It’s not for the faint
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1/2 LoungE: Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free.
nEctar’s: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Bluegrass Thursday with something With strings, 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.
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Franny o’s: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. MonkEy housE: GmcF: Kathleen Kanz, Abhishek Kulkarni, Greg swain, chris Rambone, Natasha Druhen, Justin Rowe, carmen Lagala, Kit Rivers (standup), 8 p.m., $10/12. 18+.
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nEctar’s: Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real, miZ (rock), 9 p.m., $10/12. 18+. onE PEPPEr griLL: Open mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free. on taP bar & griLL: Kode 3 (rock), 7 p.m., Free.
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raDio bEan: Emilie Rivera (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. chimney choir (Americana), 7 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. iamdux (singer-songwriter), 11 p.m., Free. rED squarE: Proud Women Play music (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. thE skinny PancakE: Pandagrass (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5 donation. t bonEs rEstaurant anD bar: chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.
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bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. gusto’s: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. MuLLigan’s irish Pub: Ryan Hanson & mike (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. PurPLE Moon Pub: Phineas Gage (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.
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o’briEn’s irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free. on taP bar & griLL: Left Eye Jump (blues), 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Jazz sessions, 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squarE: Funkwagon (funk), 7 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free. rí rá irish Pub: Longford Row (celtic), 8 p.m., Free. thE skinny PancakE: chimney choir (folk), 9 p.m., $5 donation. vEnuE: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.
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thE bLack Door: GmcF: Kathleen Kanz, sydney mcEwen, Phil Davidson, Josh star, Tim shaw, Tommy Waltz, Ryan Kenyon, Joel chaves (standup), 8:30 p.m., $8/10/12. 18+. charLiE o’s: First crush, the Jordan catalanos (indie), 10 p.m., Free.
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grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
his crushed-velvet croon is obviously — and overtly — shaded
nutty stEPh’s: The Hardscrabble Boys (acoustic jazz), 8 p.m., Free.
by the classic pop and R&B of the 1960s and ’70s. But more than
PurPLE Moon Pub: chicky stoltz (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
rehashing vintage sounds, the Michigan native’s latest album, How Do You Do, reminds us of a simple, immutable truth: Babymakin’ music is just timeless, no matter how you dress it up — or
city LiMits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.
undress it, for that matter. This Sunday, May 27, Hawthorne
city LiMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.
tWo brothErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
knocks up the Higher Ground Ballroom. The stEP kiDs open.
on thE risE bakEry: Open Bluegrass session, 8 p.m., Free.
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bEE’s knEEs: Alan Greenleaf & the Doctor (blues-folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog’s: D. Davis (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free.
bEE’s knEEs: Fred Brauer (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. broWn’s MarkEt bistro: Dave Keller (soul), 7 p.m., Free. choW! bELLa: marko the master magician, 7 p.m., Free.
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Moog’s: Tiffany Pfeiffer and the Discarnate Band (neo-soul), 8:30 p.m., Free.
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LiMErick irish EatEry: GmcF: James Huesssy, Jason P. Lorber, Nathan Hartswick, Nathan Brady crain, EJ murphy (standup), 7:30 p.m., $8/10/12. 18+.
MonoPoLE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.
burlington area
1/2 LoungE: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, Derek Burkins, Jessica smucker (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Electro shock with selector Dubee & Liam Havard (moombahton), 10 p.m., Free. cLub MEtronoME: AsAP Presents: the HNic3 Tour with Prodigy, Alchemist, Big Noyd (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $20. Dobrá tEa: Grup Anwar (Arabic), 6:30 p.m., Free.
ParkEr PiE co.: ira Friedman (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. riMrocks Mountain tavErn: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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MonoPoLE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. oLivE riDLEy’s: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free.
Franny o’s: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
tabu caFé & nightcLub: Karaoke Night with sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.
LEvity caFé: Open mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free.
thEraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.
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Marriott harbor LoungE: Nick cassarino (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.
backstagE Pub: Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free.
MonkEy housE: A chance for chase benefit with cash is King (altcountry), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. The mallett Brothers, mcKenna Lee, the Eva channel, Love it (rock), 9 p.m., $5.
banana WinDs caFé & Pub: Red stellar & the Workin’ man Band (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free.
nEctar’s: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. The move it move it (Afro-pop), 9 p.m., $5.
cLub MEtronoME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.
on taP bar & griLL: mitch & Friends (rock), 5 p.m., Free. PleasureDome (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
Franny o’s: Justice (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.
Park PLacE tavErn: Buddha, Eddie Blair & the Allstars (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
highEr grounD baLLrooM: spring Fiesta with DJ Two Rivers (EDm), 8 p.m., $15/20. AA.
raDio bEan: michael James Anderson (punk), 7 p.m., Free. Anthony Fallacaro (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Donations. Jessica smucker (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rusty Belle (punk-grass), 10 p.m., Free. Appauld Eagles (rock), 11:30 p.m., Free. The No Know Nose (rock), midnight, Free.
1/2 LoungE: Joe Redding (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Bonjour-Hi! (house), 10 p.m., Free.
highEr grounD shoWcasE LoungE: The Wood Brothers, seth Walker (Americana), 8:30 p.m., $16/19. AA. JP’s Pub: Dave Harrison’s starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LEvity caFé: GmcF: Bianca cosby, Dustin Bruley, Josh star, EJ murphy, Josie Leavitt (standup), 8 p.m., $8/10/12. 18+. GmcF: cori marnellos, caleb Aguiar, Nita Villareal, mike Thomas, Josie Leavitt, EJ murphy
rED squarE: Aaron Flinn (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Dave Keller (blues), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. FRi.25
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GRASMEYER. In addition to
celebrating “the life and times” of the Panda man, Adler is also unveiling the Joshua Panda crêpe, which includes fried chicken, mashed potatoes and bacon sausage gravy. Now, before anyone gets freaked out, I’m pretty sure Panda doesn’t give in to the typical vices that derail rock stars. As far as I know, he’s not addicted to booze, pills, or booze and pills. But after reading the ingredients for that crêpe, I might suggest Panda keep an eye on the ol’ cholesterol. Remember STRENGTH IN
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Montpelier will likely be your last chance to catch the indie-pop duo live. And if that weren’t enough to get you to the capital city, consider that the duo will be backed by a group called the JORDAN CATALANOS. If you get the reference, you know why that’s impossibly cute. (Hint: “My So-Called Life.”) And if you don’t get it, find an aging hipster and ask him or her. The longest running EDM dance party in Vermont, Sunday Night Mass, has a special installment on tap at Club Metronome this Sunday, May 27, when worldrenowned DJ and producer STEVE PORTER comes to town. Porter got his start as a traditional DJ but has since become one of the world’s foremost video remixers, creating video mashups for ESPN, the NBA, Disney and the Sierra Club, among others. But he may be best
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the brainchild of local sax monster BRYAN MCNAMARA and fused hip-hop grooves and pop sensibilities into something he dubbed “hip-pop.” (Get it?) They were really good, but as so many good local bands do, they eventually faded away as members got busy with other projects/life/etc. I’m happy to report that several members of that band have joined forces again for a new project, BRYSON BARNES AND THE NEW METHOD, who debut in Burlington this week. Barnes writes that the new group, which features SIN alums PARKER SHPER, ROB MORSE, DAN RYAN and MAX BRONSTEIN, further explores the “thumping grooves and smooth instrumentals of Strength in Numbers,” but filters it through an indie-rock prism. Color me intrigued. The New Method has a number of local shows lined up for the summer — the first is this Saturday, May 26, at Radio Bean. A debut EP, recorded at the Tank Studios, is planned for release next month.
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BEE’S KNEES: Dan Liptak & Greg Evans (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.
MATTERHORN: The Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 9 p.m., $5.
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
MOOG’S: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 9 p.m., Free.
STOMPING GROUND: Springfest (rock), 7 p.m., $5.
PARKER PIE CO.: GMCF: Patrick Tracy, the Mule, Chad Cosby, John Rodger, Ryan Kriger, Tony Bates (standup), 7 p.m. & 9 p.m., $7. 17+.
VENUE: Raptor (rock), 9 p.m., $5.
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BIG PICTURE THEATER & CAFÉ: GMCF: Spark Improv Troupe (improv comedy), 8:30 p.m., $8/10/12. 18+. THE BLACK DOOR: Queen City Bossa (bossa nova), 9:30 p.m., $5. CHARLIE O’S: Pariah Beat (indie folk), 10 p.m., Free. GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. PURPLE MOON PUB: Mind the Gap (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free.
RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Chappo (rock), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LEVITY CAFÉ: GMCF: Ray Mayman, Thom Hartswick, the Real beth, Mark Williams, Adam Cook, Ryan Kriger, James Huessy, Colin Ryan (standup), 6 p.m., $8/10/12. AA. GMCF: Hillary Boone, Melissa Moran, Marc Bouchard, Abhishek Kulkarni, Pat Lynch, Kevin Anglin (standup), 8 p.m., $8/10/12. 18+. GMCF: Regi B., Kyle Daley, Chad Smith, Colin Ryan, Natalie Miller, Kevin Anglin (standup), 10 p.m., $8/10/12. 18+. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Cooper & Lavoie (blues), 8:30 p.m., Free. NECTAR’S: Dan Lavoie (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Japhy Ryder, RootsCollider (prog rock), 9 p.m., $5. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Rhythm Rockets (rock), 9 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Christian Ericksen (indie folk), 6 p.m., Free. Heliotropes (rock), 7 p.m., Free. Mike Venman Going Away Party (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Secret Oobleck (funk), 10 p.m., Free. Bryson Barnes and the New Method (indie), midnight, Free. RED SQUARE: Greg Evans Trio (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Craig Mitchell and Motor City (soul), 8 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., Free. DJ Robbie J (EDM), 10 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Now is Now (rock), 10 p.m., Free. T BONES RESTAURANT AND BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.
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THE BLACK DOOR: Rusty Belle, Swampcandy (punk-grass), 9:30 p.m., $5. CHARLIE O’S: Lava Moss (rock), 10 p.m., Free. CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., Free.
MONOPOLE: Sinecure (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
POSITIVE PIE 2: Durians (live electronica), 10:30 p.m., $5.
NAKED TURTLE: Spiritual Rez (reggae), 9 p.m., NA.
PURPLE MOON PUB: Russ Rueger (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.
THERAPY: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.
THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: DJ Slim Pknz All Request Dance Party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
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TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles tribute), 8 p.m., $15. AA.
1/2 LOUNGE: Chris Dorman (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Flashback Reunion with Rob Douglas, Alan Perry, Moonflower (house), 10 p.m., Free.
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FRANNY O’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
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CITY LIMITS: Three Sheets to the Wind (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
BACKSTAGE PUB: Smokin’ Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Benno (EDM), 10 p.m., Free.
CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.
TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Jon Poustette-Dart Band (rock), 8 p.m., $30. AA.
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CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
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BEE’S KNEES: Open Mic, 7:30 p.m., Free. CHOW! BELLA: The Best Little Border Band (soul, jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. SAT.26
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leave us? I’ve just compared the guy to a bunch of artists who share few, if any, similarities. Some help I am, right? So how about this? Chris Dorman sounds like Chris Dorman, a profoundly talented and ambitious songwriter who is something of a sonic chameleon. And Sita is as unpredictable as it is fascinating and rewarding, regardless of how you categorize it. And the next time a Dorman record comes across this desk, it won’t sit for long. Chris Dorman plays the ½ Lounge in Burlington this Saturday, May 26.
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It took me a while to get around to Chris Dorman’s most recent record, Sita.. Released in late 2010, it’s been sitting on my desk for … well, you do the math. The songwriter moved to Vermont from Michigan relatively recently and, for one reason or another, I kept overlooking his album in my seemingly never-shrinking to-do pile. So before we dig in: Chris, I’m sorry, man. Sita is an intriguing gem of a record, long overdue for attention. Dorman is a tough musician to pin down. You could file him under “folk” or, even less helpfully, “singersongwriter.” But while those labels may work for iTunes — which has him somewhat egregiously under “alternative” — they don’t do much for us here. The thing is, dude’s kind of all over the place. In a good way. At times, he’s a fairly straightforward songwriter. Other times he’s bouncing around through sounds and styles, from art rock to indie folk to dreamily waltzing lullabies to — I’m not making
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After listening to his 2009 debut, Paths, I kinda fell in love with Zack duPont. (Note to Zack: I mean that in a platonic way. Don’t want things to be awkward when I run into you around town.) Anyway, it was a humble yet astonishing record that revealed duPont to be an uncommonly gifted player and a thoughtful, nuanced songwriter. Removed from the “pornprog” shenanigans of his other gig, playing guitar with Japhy Ryder, duPont delivered a shimmering suite of indie folk that evokes the likes of Iron & Wine, M. Ward and Nick Drake. Yeah, I know. That’s stupidly high praise, bordering on music-crit sacrilege. But give that record a spin and see if you don’t hear the similarities. I dare you. Now duPont is back with Somewhere in Between. Backed this time by a crack band, he fleshes out the sparse compositional style heard on his debut and proves to be a versatile and ambitious songwriter, and an arranger with a singular style and swagger. Those expecting Paths Vol. 2 might be in for a surprise. Rather than wallowing in the hushed confessional style that characterized that record, duPont lightens up and offers breezy pop, jazz-tinged rock, and art folk that slyly winks at adult contemporary. He plays with conviction and sophistication, transcending sentimentality but never lacking emotional potency. Whether lamenting the passing of a
friend (“Rusty”), honoring his brother (“Brother the Hero”) or musing on love (“Jupiter”), duPont writes, and sings, with delicacy. There’s a calming quality about duPont’s music, even when it’s emotionally heavy. He creates the sense that when life seems bleak, everything’s going to be OK. In lesser hands, this could be a recipe for maudlin disaster. Not so here. What’s remarkable is that the sentiment feels genuine coming from duPont, and it seems to flow from him effortlessly. While duPont is impressive, his bandmates also deserve some credit for the album’s mood and atmosphere. Bassist John Rogone, who provides a tasteful low end, is in perfect sync with drummer Tim Sharbaugh. Meanwhile, pianist Peter Krag illuminates spaces with light, airy keystrokes that balance duPont’s nimble guitar work. Somewhere in Between is a sterling effort from one of Vermont’s rising songwriting stars. Zack duPont releases Somewhere in Between at the FlynnSpace in Burlington on Tuesday, May 29.
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Matterhorn: The House Rockers with Joe moore (blues), 9 p.m., $5. Moog’s: seth Yacovone Band (blues), 9 p.m., Free. Parker Pie Co.: Gold town (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free. riMroCks Mountain tavern: DJ two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. roadside tavern: DJ Diego (top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
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MonoPole: Roadside mystic (rock), 10 p.m., Free. naked turtle: ten Year Vamp (rock), 9 p.m., Na.
red square: DJ chad mira (EDm), noon, Free. DJ Frank Grymes (EDm), 2 p.m., Free. Bob Wagner (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. DJ a-Dog (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. red square blue rooM: DJ mixx (EDm), 9 p.m., Free.
bee’s knees: Rapscallion (celtic), 11 a.m., Donations. secret Heliotropes (rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
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1/2 lounge: Family Night, 10:30 p.m., Free.
Club MetronoMe: sunday Night mass: porterhouse with steve porter, Eli Wilkie and the Repeat Offenders (EDm), 9 p.m., $12/15. 18+. doubletree hotel: GmcF all-star Finale: chad cosby, John Lyons, Kit Rivers, pat Lynch, Nathan Hartswick, Jason Lorber (standup), 8 p.m., $8/10/12. 18+. higher ground ballrooM: mayer Hawthorne & the county, step Kids (soul), 8 p.m., $10.47/15. aa. Monty’s old briCk tavern: George Voland JaZZ: Dan silverman and Dan skea, 4:30 p.m., Free.
Club MetronoMe: WRuV & miss Daisy present motown monday with DJs Big Dog, Disco phantom, Thelonius X, Llu, the Engine-Ear, EOK (soul), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. neCtar’s: Longo’s Going away metal monday: alive and Well, Boil the Whore, Kairos, s’iva (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
Mobb Deep cofounder Prodigy very carefully. Ahem. Sir, your first two H.N.I.C. albums were seriously the shit. That you’re currently touring in support of the forthcoming third installment delights hip-hop fans from person in charge. As such, allow us to formally welcome you to Burlington when you play Club Metronome this Thursday, May 24, with big noyd, J the s and benefit, and
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burlington area
1/2 lounge: sofa+Kings with JJ Dante & Jordan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Club MetronoMe: Oz Noy trio with Keith carlock and James Genus (jazz), 8 p.m., $12/15.
Club MetronoMe: strictly Vinyl with DJs Big Dog and Oh J Freshhh (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
t bones restaurant and bar: chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.
Charlie o’s: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.
franny o’s: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.
central
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leunig’s bistro & Café: cody sargent trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.
central
Monkey house: The pinstripes, King tony (ska), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.
two brothers tavern: trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.
Monty’s old briCk tavern: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free.
northern
neCtar’s: mind the Gap, Radio underground, Jonah salzman (indie pop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
red square: industry Night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. ruben JaMes: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
northern
bagitos: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free.
Moog’s: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.
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neCtar’s: tuesday Bluesday: the Bob macKenzie Blues Band, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on taP bar & grill: trivia with top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. radio bean: stephen callahan and mike piche (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Vedora (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Honky-tonk sessions (honkytonk), 10 p.m., $3. red square: aaron Flinn Band (rock), 7 p.m., Free. upsetta international with super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.
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bee’s knees: Emilie Rivera (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
one PePPer grill: Open mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free.
Moog’s: Open mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.
on taP bar & grill: Leno & Young (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free.
wed.30
radio bean: Herego, 7 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. studio chicken trio, 11 p.m., Free.
burlington area
1/2 lounge: Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. scott mangan & guests (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., Free.
red square: Driftwood (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. the skinny PanCake: pandagrass (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5 donation.
bagitos: acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. big PiCture theater & Café: alpenglow (indie), 8 p.m., $5. gusto’s: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
City liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.
northern
bee’s knees: D. Davis (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog’s: sam averbuck (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.
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MonoPole: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. m
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t bones restaurant and bar: trivia with General Knowledge, 7 p.m., Free.
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radio bean: april patterson clemens (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Dan Lavoie (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.
on taP bar & grill: pine street Jazz, 10:30 a.m., Free.
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red square blue rooM: DJ Baron (house), 11 p.m., Free.
leunig’s bistro & Café: cody sargent trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.
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on taP bar & grill: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.
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burlington area
neCtar’s: mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free.
radio bean: Jessica smucker (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Free. Old time sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. Wylia skye (singer-
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1/2 lounge: songwriter’s series (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free.
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tabu Café & nightClub: all Night Dance party with DJ toxic (top 40), 5 p.m., Free.
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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. bLAck cAP coffEE, 144 Main St., Stowe, 253-2123. thE bLuE AcorN, 84 N. Main St., St. Albans, 527-0699. thE brEWSki, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. broWN’S mArkEt biStro, 1618 Scott Highway, Groton, 584-4124. choW! bELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. cLAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053. coSmic bAkErY & cAfé, 30 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0800. croP biStro & brEWErY, 1859 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4304. thE hub PizzEriA & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626. thE LittLE cAbArEt, 34 Main St., Derby, 293-9000. mAttErhorN, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. thE mEEtiNghouSE, 4323 Rt. 1085, Smugglers’ Notch, 644-8851. moog’S, Portland St., Morrisville, 851-8225. muSic box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533. oVErtimE SALooN, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357. PArkEr PiE co., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366. PhAt kAtS tAVErN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064. PiEcASSo, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411. rimrockS mouNtAiN tAVErN, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593. roADSiDE tAVErN, 216 Rt. 7, Milton, 660-8274. ruStY NAiL bAr & griLLE, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. ShootErS SALooN, 30 Kingman St., St. Albwans, 527-3777. SNoW ShoE LoDgE & Pub, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456. SWEEt cruNch bAkEShoP, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 888-4887. tAmArAck griLL At burkE mouNtAiN, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., E. Burke, 626-7394. WAtErShED tAVErN, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100. YE oLDE ENgLAND iNNE, 443 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-5320.
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giLLigAN’S gEtAWAY, 7160 State Rt. 9, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-8050. moNoPoLE, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222. NAkED turtLE, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200. oLiVE riDLEY’S, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200. tAbu cAfé & NightcLub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-0666. thErAPY, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-561-2041.
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51 mAiN, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209. bAr ANtiDotE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555. brick box, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570. thE briStoL bAkErY, 16 Main St., Bristol, 453-3280. cAroL’S huNgrY miND cAfé, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101. citY LimitS, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. cLEm’S cAfé 101 Merchant’s Row, Rutland, 775-3337. DAN’S PLAcE, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. gooD timES cAfé, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. oN thE riSE bAkErY, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787.
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ArVAD’S griLL & Pub, 3 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-8973. big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. thE bLAck Door, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 225-6479. brEAkiNg grouNDS, 245 Main St., Bethel, 392-4222. thE cENtEr bAkErY & cAfE, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500. cAStLErock Pub, 1840 Sugarbush Rd., Warren, 583-6594. chArLiE o’S, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. ciDEr houSE bbq AND Pub, 1675 Rte.2, Waterbury, 244-8400. cJ’S At thAN WhEELErS, 6 S. Main St., White River Jct., 280-1810. cork WiNE bAr, 1 Stowe St., Waterbury, 882-8227. grEEN mouNtAiN tAVErN, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935. guSto’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. hoStEL tEVErE, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222. kiSmEt, 52 State St., Montpelier, 223-8646. kNottY ShAmrock, 21 East St., Northfield, 485-4857. LocAL foLk SmokEhouSE, 9 Rt. 7, Waitsfield, 496-5623. mAiN StrEEt griLL & bAr, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. muLLigAN’S iriSh Pub, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545. NuttY StEPh’S, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090. PickLE bArrEL NightcLub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. thE PizzA StoNE, 291 Pleasant St., Chester, 875-2121. PoSitiVE PiE 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453. PurPLE mooN Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. thE rESErVoir rEStAurANt & tAP room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827. SLiDE brook LoDgE & tAVErN, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202. South StAtioN rEStAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1736. tuPELo muSic hALL, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 698-8341.
South StAtioN rESAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1730. StArrY Night cAfé, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. tWo brothErS tAVErN, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.
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1/2 LouNgE, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012. 242 mAiN St., Burlington, 862-2244. AmEricAN fLAtbrEAD, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999. AuguSt firSt, 149 S. Champlain St., Burlington, 540-0060. bAckStAgE Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494. bANANA WiNDS cAfé & Pub, 1 Market Pl., Essex Jct., 879-0752. thE bLock gALLErY, 1 E. Allen St., Winooski, 373-5150. brEAkWAtEr cAfé, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276. brENNAN’S Pub & biStro, UVM Davis Center, 590 Main St., Burlington, 656-1204. citY SPortS griLLE, 215 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 655-2720. cLub mEtroNomE, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. DobrÁ tEA, 80 Chruch St., Burlington, 951-2424. DoubLEtrEE hotEL, 1117 Wiliston Rd., Burlington, 658-0250. frANNY o’S, 733 Queen City Park Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. hALVorSoN’S uPStrEEt cAfé, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278. highEr grouND, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777. JP’S Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389. LEuNig’S biStro & cAfé, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. mAgLiANEro cAfé, 47 Maple St., Burlington, 861-3155. mANhAttAN PizzA & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 864-6776. mArriott hArbor LouNgE, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 854-4700. moNkEY houSE, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563. moNtY’S oLD brick tAVErN, 7921 Williston Rd., Williston, 316-4262. muDDY WAtErS, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466. NEctAr’S, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771. NEW mooN cAfé, 150 Cherry St., Burlington, 383-1505. o’briEN’S iriSh Pub, 348 Main St., Winooski, 338-4678. oDD fELLoWS hALL, 1416 North Ave., Burlington, 862-3209. oN tAP bAr & griLL, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309. oNE PEPPEr griLL, 260 North St., Burlington, 658-8800. oScAr’S biStro & bAr, 190 Boxwood Dr., Williston, 878-7082. PArk PLAcE tAVErN, 38 Park St., Essex Jct. 878-3015. rADio bEAN, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346. rASPutiN’S, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324. rED SquArE, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. rEguLAr VEtErANS ASSociAtioN, 84 Weaver St., Winooski, 655-9899. rÍ rÁ iriSh Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401. rozzi’S LAkEShorE tAVErN, 1022 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester, 863-2342. rubEN JAmES, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. thE SkiNNY PANcAkE, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188. t.boNES rESturANt AND bAr, 38 Lower Mountain Dr., Colchester, 654-8008.
thrEE NEEDS, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 658-0889. VENuE, 127 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067. thE VErmoNt Pub & brEWErY, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.
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“House/Home Project” by Mary Zompetti
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ast weekend, a house in Burlington’s New North End was transformed into an art installation. Mary Zompetti, the artist behind the “House/ Home Project,” had been working on a series of photographs of her home when a colleague suggested hanging the photos on her walls to get a new perspective on them. Zompetti, who says she often advises her photography students at Champlain College to “live” with their work when they’re unsure of its direction, decided to install the photographic series in her house, which she plans to sell this summer.
“After I arrived home from our meeting, I walked in the door, packed my living room, immediately, and began to consider the ways in which I could use that space to view the work,” Zompetti explains in an email. “Rather than simply hanging prints for viewing as originally intended (as one would do in a studio space), the project evolved into a more complex, site-specific installation.” And so last Friday Zompetti opened her home to the public to experience it. “House/Home Project” showed art and also turned the rooms themselves into artworks, employing the architecture and furniture along with photographs of same. In Zompetti’s sunny living room, for instance, a large, black-and-white photograph of a sunbeam, tiled across smaller sheets, was laid out on the carpet where the original photograph had been taken. At first, it was hard to tell the photo from the phenomenon it recorded. “There is a considered dialogue between the work placed in the physical space of the house itself and the viewer’s interactions and observations,” Zompetti writes. The locations of her photos in the house often echoed an occurrence there — overlaying a recorded “memory” of the space on its current reality. Zompetti is interested in how viewers experience art, and in what she calls “tension” between the moment when an image was captured and the moment when a viewer sees it — between “the act of visual observation and the inevitable inflection of personal experience.” It’s as if the photograph connects the photographer’s and the viewers’ respective moments in time.
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THE LOCATIONS OF ZOMPETTI’S PHOTOS IN THE HOUSE OFTEN ECHOED AN OCCURRENCE THERE — OVERLAYING A RECORDED
“MEMORY” OF THE SPACE ON ITS CURRENT REALITY.
Large photographs of the living room window, which looks out on a serene suburban street, were tiled across two walls of the living room. Beside the window — again, where the photos were taken — hung a column of smaller photographs of the potted plants that used to grow on the windowsill, and the soft curtains that fell around them. The actual curtains remained, further emphasizing the absence of the plants and — more pointedly — the absence of the home’s inhabitants. In the kitchen, a photograph of a fridge surrounded by the
homey clutter of a lived-in kitchen hung on the cleared surface of the same fridge in the image. The contrast between the photograph and the kitchen seemed one of presence versus absence, of memory versus present experience. Zompetti’s exhibition consisted of more than photographs of the house. In two rooms, she blackened the windows, allowing light in only through a small hole. In this way she made the rooms into cameras obscura, protophotographic image-making devices. Through her simple apparatus, the sunny outside
world was projected upside-down on the walls of the darkened rooms. In one, the inverted house of a neighbor gained eerie clarity as the viewer’s eyes adjusted to the darkness. In another, a row of spindly trees became a lacy wainscoting in the room’s half-light. The inversion of interior and exterior space made the walls of the house seem conceptual and meditative instead of comfortingly solid and familiar. In a corner of her basement, Zompetti projected an image taken in one of the camera-obscura rooms, further fragmenting her house into conceptual “rooms” that were themselves artworks. On another basement wall, a video work depicted an oscillating row of rainbow discs bobbing toward a bright white dot — the camera obscura’s projection seen from another angle. Zompetti calls the beautiful phenomena she recorded in the video “a happy surprise,” observed on her last night living in the house. Up a narrow set of stairs, the angularceilinged attic space housed an installation on one side and two serene photographs on the other. One photograph seemed to record the light cast from a nearby window, installed in the place where the sunlight would fall, as with the floor photograph in the living room. Beside it hung a tiled photograph of rumpled bedsheets bathed in a soft, even light. Across the room, a wine-colored, velvet antique sofa presided over an oblong rectangle of scattered photographs. All around the sofa and the photos, a web of fishing line stretched in wild diagonals across the space. This network of silvery lines prevented anyone from entering the area, and contrasted with the plush texture and warm color of the sofa and images. The work seemed to represent the impossibility of diving into the comfortable certainty of the past, perhaps suggesting that nostalgia is a trap. While the obvious content of the photographs might have been “home,” Zompetti’s ambitious installation raised compelling questions about art installation and viewership. As with the couch in the attic blocked by illuminated lines, we can’t return to Zompetti’s installation, but it lives on as both a memory and a fresh idea. A M Y R A HN “House/Home Project” by Mary Zompetti, maryzompetti.com
199.95 Regularly $ 283.95 Art ShowS
ongoing burlington area
Bech evans & erik rehman: "Vessels and semblances," new works in clay. Through May 31 at new City galerie in burlington. info, 735-2542. Brian collier: "The Collier Classification system for Very small objects," a participatory exhibit of things big enough to be seen by the naked eye but no larger than 8 by 8 by 20 millimeters. Through october 15 at Durick library, st. Michael's College, in Colchester. info, 654-2536. ccv spring student art show: Drawings, paintings, prints, digital photography and graphic design. Through May 31 at Community College of Vermont in winooski. info, 654-0513. christopher lisle & shaun Boyce: large digital photographs by lisle and abstract paintings by boyce. Through May 29 at nectar's in burlington. info, 658-4771. clark derBes: "Time Travelers and shapescapes," carved and polychromed wooden sculptures. Through May 30 at Rlphoto studio in burlington. info, 860-4972. 'curtains without Borders': large photographs of Vermont's painted theatrical scenery created between 1900 and 1940, plus one 1930s curtain from beecher Falls, Vt. Through July 28 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4510. david magnanelli & Brian eckert: Drawings by Magnanelli and photographs by eckert, friends and reciprocal art influences for more than 10 years. Through May 31 at uncommon grounds in burlington. info, 865-6227. dug nap: “dug nap’s stuff,” paintings and an “art bed,” which the artist slides under an easel so he can paint in comfort. he’ll hang out on the bed throughout the month, working on an upcoming performance-art piece. Through May 31 at Frog hollow in burlington. info, 863-6458. duncan mckee: "A sylvan suite and other Recent works," paintings celebrating the beauty and grace of trees. Through May 31 at north end studio A in burlington. info, 863-6713.
'eye of the Beholder: one scene, three artists' visions': pastel works by Marcia hill, Anne unangst and Cindy griffith. Through May 31 at shelburne Vineyard. info, 985-8222. galen chaney: "street level," large, abstract paintings inspired by Aramaic script and urban graffiti. Through June 23 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166.
hing kur: black-and-white photography. Through May 27 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614. JacoB martin: work by the digital illustrator. Through May 31 at speaking Volumes in burlington. info, 540-0107.
Justin hoekstra: "Fist of ginger," abstract paintings by the uVM senior and bCA Center Artlab artist in residence. Through May 26 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166.
'vermont artisan festival': Art showings, a live auction, musical performances, a vaudevillestyle show and a grilling competition. Full schedule at vtartisanfestival.com. Friday, May 25, 3-9 p.m.; saturday and sunday, May 26 and 27, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., smugglers' notch Resort, Jeffersonville. info, 644-6506. north chittenden women's art collective: work by bonnie baird, Althea bilodeau, M.e.h. holland, gabrielle McDermitt, Kathryn Milillo and Jeannie podolak. saturday and sunday, May 26 and 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., grange hall, north Chittenden. info, 483-2521. donna mcdermid: The local artist demonstrates sculpting with felted wool. sunday, May 27, 12:30-1:30 p.m., The gallery at phoenix books, essex Junction. info, 872-7111. lynn cummings: The south burlington artist demonstrates painting negative space with watercolors. sunday, May 27, 11 a.m.-noon, The gallery at phoenix books, essex Junction. info, 872-7111.
'cheap art sale': A variety of affordable artwork. saturday, May 26, 1-5 p.m.; sunday and Monday, May 27 and 28, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., 54 Ridge street, Montpelier. info, 223-0352. stowe spring artisan market: handcrafted products, artwork, specialty foods and live music. saturday, May 26, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Main street, stowe. info, 793-2101.
receptions champlain elementary school show: Clay scenes, sculptures and paper lanterns by fifth graders. Through May 30 at Fletcher Free library in burlington. Reception: proceeds from sales of student-designed note cards benefit the Red Cross. sunday, May 27, 3-5 p.m. info, 865-7211. chittenden county high school seniors' art exhiBition: work by many of the county's finest high school artists. Through May 23 at union station in burlington. Reception: wednesday, May 23, 6-7 p.m. info, 864-1557. ‘cut & paste’: Collage work in a variety of media, from paper and paint to film and digital media. Through May 26 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. info, space galleryvt.com. champlain valley photo slam: Voting for people's-choice awards, door prizes, discount coupons and refreshments. Through June 3 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. Reception: saturday, May 26, 5-7 p.m. info, 777-3686.
kadie salfi: "Apex predator: body parts," pop-artinfluenced graphics depicting animals targeted for their body parts. Through June 23 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166. kathy hart: paintings and pastels; gaBriel tempesta: Milk paint on board; adria lazur: Vertical landscapes on canvas. Through May 31 at The Daily planet in burlington. info, 862-9647. kimBerlee forney: Art Affair by shearer presents paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 30 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. info, 658-1111.
'fantastic dreams: searching for the art of Bazinga': Medieval-style, anime and still-life drawings by local teenage artists Tyler Minck, lucas hughes, Keven Archer and Anthony Jenson. May 26 through June 8 at RoTA gallery in plattsburgh, n.Y. Reception: saturday, May 26, 5 p.m. info, 518-314-9872.
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Jenny peck: “50+ or - Years of Art in the Making,” paintings, photographs and an etching. Through May 30th at Fletcher Free library in burlington. info, 865-7211.
dr. sketchy's anti-art school: Artists age 16 and up bring sketchbooks and pencils to a cabaret-style life-drawing session. This month features side-show stunt performer hell'n Fury. wednesday, May 23, 7-9:30 p.m., American legion, white River Junction.
hattie saville: The essex Art league member demonstrates watercolor painting. saturday, May 26, 11 a.m.-noon, The gallery at phoenix books, essex Junction. info, 872-7111.
anci slovak: "Celebrating Anci," a retrospective featuring paintings, drawings and collages spanning four decades. Through June 8 at Julian scott Memorial gallery, Johnson state College. Reception: saturday, May 26, 4-7 p.m. info, 635-1469.
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20th open studio weekend: hundreds of Vermont artists and artisans open their work spaces to visitors for this statewide Memorial Day weekend event organized by the Vermont Crafts Council. Download a free map with directions at vermontcrafts.com. saturday and sunday, May 26 and 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., various locations statewide. info, 223-3380.
david goodrich: The Vermont artist demonstrates ink drawing. saturday, May 26, 3:30-4:30 p.m., The gallery at phoenix books, essex Junction. info, 872-7111.
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'emergence': An exploration of digital media by the inaugural class of Champlain College's emergent Media MFA program. Through May 25 at seAbA Center in burlington. info, 859-9222.
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Michael Sipe: "Silent Faces," photographs of Burlington's homeless community. Through May 27 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 658-6016.
Ed Epstein: New paintings. Through June 28 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.
Mr. Masterpiece: "The Naughty Naked Nude Show," figurative drawings and semiabstract acrylic paintings. Through May 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men's Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088.
Hannah Lansburgh & Ben Peberdy: "New!™" collage work. Through June 6 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776.
Peter Weyrauch: "Rodz," black-and-white photographs, Gates 1-8; Julia Purinton: Oil paintings, Skyway; Gillian Klein: Oil painting, Escalator. Through May 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.
Jeanne Carbonetti: "The Power of Beauty: Introducing the Paradise Suite," watercolors. Through June 17 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018. John Brickels & Wendy James: Clay creations by Brickels and paintings and photography by James. Through May 31 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.
Rachel Laundon & Lizzie Post: "Fur & Fins," dog and fish sculptures by Laundon; "Goin' Back Home," New Orleans-themed artwork by Post. Through May 31 at The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Info, 734-7344.
Kally Pajala: Contemporary quilts and wall hangings. Through June 6 at DaVallia Art & Accents in Chester. Info, 875-1203.
Riki Moss: "The Paper Forest," an installation of curious life-forms. Through June 12 at Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery.
Kathrena Ravenhorst-Adams: "Spring Bloom," watercolors, oil paintings and pastels. Through June 30 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-1275.
Rob Hunter: "Barnyards," photographs documenting Addison County's agricultural landscape. Through May 30 at Brickels Gallery in Burlington. Info, 825-8214.
Linda Maney & Missy Storrow: "Textural Abstracts," acrylic, watercolor, oil, collage and mixed-media work. Through June 2 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com.
Sara Katz: Industrial landscapes in oil, often depicted as if seen through the windows of a passing car. Through May 31 at Vintage Inspired in Burlington. Info, 355-5418.
Rachel Gross: Prints and works on paper. Through May 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.
Shahram Entekhabi: Happy Meal, a film featuring a young Muslim girl eating a McDonald's Happy Meal, in the New Media Niche (through August 26); 'Up in Smoke': Smoke-related works from the museum's permanent collection (through June 3). At Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.
Susan Bull Riley: "Closely Observed," watercolors of flowers and birds. Through May 31 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 540-679-0033. Susan Smereka & Jodi Whalen: "Repair," an installation of 1700 weathered clothespins and more than 100 chine-collé collages, by Smereka; abstract landscapes by Whalen, who uses her grandfather’s antique French paintbrushes. Through May 31 at Quench Artspace in Waitsfield. Info, 496-9138.
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'Snow Mobiles: Sleighs to Sleds': Early, experimental snowmobiles, machines from the '60s and '70s, and today’s high-powered racing sleds, as well as horse-drawn sleighs; 'Man-Made Quilts: Civil War to the Present': Quilts made by men; Elizabeth Berdann: "Deep End," miniature watercolor portraits on pre-ban and prehistoric mammoth ivory. Through October 28 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. Spring Exhibit: Work by Joan Hoffman, Lynda McIntyre, Johanne Durocher Yordan, Anne Cummings, Kit Donnelly, Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, Don Dickson and Kari Meyer. Through May 31 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Stephanie Holman Thwaites: "Collecting Light," nature paintings in oil, acrylic and mixed media. Through June 30 at Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. Info, 660-9005. Tabbatha Henry & Sage Tucker-Ketcham: "TWO/Tabbatha Henry and Sage Tucker-Ketcham: Two Artists, Two Locations, Two Mediums," largeformat ceramic work and paintings; smaller work by both artists concurrently exhibited at Shelburne's Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery through June 5. Through June 30 at Select Design in Burlington. Info, 985-3848. 'The 3rd Floor Show': New work by artists who occupy one floor of Burlington's Howard Space Center: Julie Davis, Sharon Webster, Linda Jones, Maggie Standley, Paige Berg Rizvi, Maea Brandt, Maggie Sherman and Wylie Sofia Garcia. Through July 29 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, bren@ flynndog.net. 'The Road Less Traveled': Artwork by Rock Point School students. Through May 31 at Rose Street Co-op Gallery in Burlington. Info, 863-1104. Ward Joyce: Oil paintings exploring the forms of the city and the architecture of the human body. Through May 31 at Salaam in Burlington. Info, 658-8822.
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'Sweet!': Works in a variety of media make up this sugary feast for the eyes; 'The Teeny Tiny': Four-square-inch works and other silent-auction items to benefit SPA programs; Hal Mayforth: "My Sketchbook Made Me Do It." Through May 26 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.
'We Deliver!': Mail and stamp art that has made it through the postal service to SEABA. Through May 31 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.
'The Art of Creative Aging': Juried work by artists over 70 from Washington, Lamoille and Orange counties. Presented by Central Vermont Council on Aging. Through May 29 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 476-2681.
Richard and Nancy Weis Through the use of natural objects
such as feathers, stones, bones and twigs, Nancy Weis attempts to tap into a crosscultural visual language. The resulting collage work features spirals, handprints and circles. Her partner, Richard Weis, sees each of his abstract paintings as “a visual artifact of engagement with the world,” he writes in his artist statement. The Castleton couple met as undergrads at Bemidji State University in Minnesota and have inspired each other’s artwork ever since. Their work is in a show called “Shared Visions” at Jackson Gallery in Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater, through June 24. Pictured: “Shades of Summer” by Richard Weis.
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Area Artists Show: "Beyond Landscapes," work in a variety of media. Through June 10 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 431-0204. 'Art-Ability': Work by Vermont artists with disabilities Larry Bissonnette, Ella Skye Mac Donald and Ann Lynch. Through May 31 at Big Picture Theater & Café in Waitsfield. Info, 496-8994.
'Artist Community: Rhode Island': Work by Dale Chihuly, Bunny Harvey and John Udvardy, among others, in the first in a series of mixedmedia group exhibitions examining the extended network of relationships that define creative communities. Through June 10 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.
'The History of Goddard College: An Era of Growth, Expansion and Transitions, 1969-1979': Photographs, films and archival documents focused on the radical, innovative programs created at Goddard in the '70s. Through June 20 at Eliot D. Pratt Library, Goddard College, in Plainfield. Info, 454-8311. Thesis Exhibition: Original artwork by graduating cartoon studies students. Through June 16 at Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. Info, 295-3319. 'Tol’ko Po Russky, Pozhaluista (Russian Only, Please)': Russian School photographs, Slavic festival costumes and Russian Imperial badges make up this exhibit chronicling the history of Norwich's Russian School, which operated from 1968 to 2000. Through September 2 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183. Upper Valley PhotoSlam 2012: More than 180 photos by photographers of all ages and experience levels. Through June 1 at PHOTOSTOP in White River Junction. Info, 698-0320. 'Vintage Vermont': Vermont photographs developed from antique glass-plate negatives dating between 1890 and 1920. Through June 12 at Festival Gallery in Waitsfield. Info, 496-6682.
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Call to artiStS artiStS & FooD ProDuCerS: Seeking food producers and VT artisans in all media for a retail cooperative store that will be opening this summer in the Burlington Town Center. Curious? Check out our Facebook page, Vermont Artisans Craft Gallery, or our website, vermontartisanscraftgallery.webs.com. oFF the wall: This show will include a wide variety of bold, sculptural works made from wire, paper, fabric, stainless steel, fiber, duct tape and more — hanging from the ceilings and walls, and standing on pedestals around the floor. Show dates: July 17 – Sept. 8. Deadline: June 8. Info, studioplacearts.com. 2013 GallerY SubmiSSionS: Lower Adirondack Regional Art Council’s Lapham Gallery in Glens Falls, N.y., invites new and emerging artists to submit images of original, recent work for jury by June 30. All disciplines welcome. Download prospectus and application at larac.org or call 518-798-1144, ext. 2. reD SQuare neeDS art! Artists needed for monthlong exhibits at a busy establishment on Church St. in Burlington. All mediums considered. Please contact Diane at creativegeniuses@ burlingtontelecom.net.
winooSki PoP-uP GallerieS: Kasini House seeks artists to participate in a unique project in downtown Winooski this summer. Info, winooskiwelcomecenter.com. Call to PhotoGraPherS: For submissions to “Among Trees,” a photography exhibit. Deadline: July 7, midnight. Juror: Beth Moon. Darkroom Gallery. Info, darkroomgallery. com/ex31. worlD’S larGeSt CollaGe! Join us at the Backspace Gallery as we attempt to create the world’s largest collage! Guinness has been notified, so bring your supplies and scrap paper, or just bring your hands, and we will provide the rest. The interactive collage continues during the open gallery hours until May 26. At Space Gallery in Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt.com, 578-2512. wall to CanvaS: Seeking street-style artists who use wheat pasting, stencils, collage, spray-painting, markers and the like to create unique pieces of art for a creative liveart competition for cash prizes, at the Magic Hat Artifactory on Saturday, August 25. Must be 21+ to apply. Deadline: July 20. Submission forms at magichat. net/walltocanvas. CallinG For entrieS: A juried photography exhibition: “Secrets and Mysteries.” Deadline: June 6, midnight. Juror: Catherine Edelman. Exhibit to open July 5. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex30.
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DaviD CarlSon & Phoebe Stone: "Lost & Found: Recent and Rescued Photographs," new color shots paired with prints from black-and-white negatives by Carlson; pastels and oil paintings by Stone. Through May 31 at Carol's Hungry Mind Café in Middlebury. Info, 388-7050.
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DoCumentarY ShowCaSe: More than 100 documentary works, in film, photography, books and audio recordings, produced in the last nine months by Vermont students, at-risk populations and adults with disabilities. Through June 2 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. 'here'S lookinG at You': Self-portraits by artists and community members. Through June 29 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. Jill maDDen: Landscape paintings examining moments of solitude. Through May 31 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. klara Calitri: "Flower Power," paintings and pastels. Through July 1 at Brandon Artists' Guild. Info, 247-4956. 'lake StuDieS: ContemPorarY art': Work by painters Janet Fredericks, Catherine Hall and Nancy Stone, sculptors Chris Cleary and Kate Pond, fiber artist Marilyn Gillis and installation artist Jane Horner. May 26 through July 29 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Info, 475-2022. nanCY & riCharD weiS: "Shared Visions," Nancy's encaustic collages and Richard's abstract paintings. May 25 through June 24 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 388-1436.
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allie murraY: Historic photographs of early Mechanicsville and Hinesburg, printed from glass negatives by Tyler Dawson. Through June 11 at Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg. Info, 482-2878.
FlaminGo FlinG: The southern bird flies once again! Twenty-five pink flamingos are available for artists’ interpretation to benefit SEABA for this year’s Flamingo Fling and Annual Meeting at the Soda Plant. Pick up your bird at the SEABA Center, 404 Pine Street, Monday through Wednesday, 9-5 p.m. Decorate and bring back by June 15 for participation in the event. Info, seaba. com, 859-9222.
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northern ben bArneS: "Lesser Landmarks of Vermont," paintings. Through June 8 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158. dAvid SMith: Landscape paintings. Through May 31 at Peacham Library. Info, 592-3216. hArAld AkSdAl: "Colors, Lines and Dots," paintings. Through June 17 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.
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'CooPerativeS build a better north Country': Artwork by community members. Through May 25 at North Country Food Co-op in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info, 518-314-9872.
'Star WarS: identitieS: the exhibition': An interactive investigation into the science of identity through Star Wars props, costumes, models and artwork from the Lucasfilm Archives. Through September 16 at Montréal Science Centre. Info, 514-496-4724.
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'nature tranSformed: edWard burtynSky'S vermont Quarry PhotograPhS in Context': Monumental photographs from Danby and Barre, Vt., and Carrara, Italy (through August 19); 'men of fire: JoSé Clemente orozCo and JaCkSon PolloCk': Paintings, drawings and prints Pollock created following his 1936 trip to Dartmouth to see Orozco's recently completed mural cycle, plus Orozco's preparatory drawings for the mural (through June 17). At Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808.
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o one who’s seen Borat or Brüno will be surprised to learn that Sacha Baron Cohen’s new comedy is likely to shock in places. What is unexpected is that the most shocking thing about The Dictator is how thoroughly conventional it is. This is basically Coming to America with more gross-out gags. Baron Cohen abandons the mockumentary approach that made him a global megastar for the scripted story of Admiral General Aladeen, the despotic ruler of Wadiya, a fictitious North African country. That’s the first sign that the comedian has begun to pull his satirical punches. “I am not an Arab,” the character is careful to announce in the movie’s opening moments. At the same time, the targets of almost every joke in the film are Arab culture and Middle Eastern mores, so the disclaimer feels oddly disingenuous. Since when is Baron Cohen afraid to offend? Aladeen is a fairly standard-issue tyrant. He lives in garish splendor while his people go hungry. He collapses in laughter when he speaks publicly about enriching uranium “for clean-energy purposes.” One of the Wii
games we see him playing in his palace gives him extra points for beheading Westerners. You know, like they’re always doing in North Africa. Well, you can’t have a fish-out-of-water comedy if the fish doesn’t leave the water, so the picture’s writing team contrives a cartoony twist. Aladeen’s scheming Uncle Tamir (Ben Kingsley) replaces him with a double during a visit to New York, where the tyrant has traveled to address the UN. Tamir’s plan involves turning Wadiya into a democracy so he can sell oil to foreign interests (only democracies can sell their oil?). Before Aladeen knows what hit him, he’s out of power and out on the streets. At about the same time one recovers from the shock of watching Kingsley slum through the most one-dimensional role of his career, another stunning realization sets in: The Dictator, for all practical purposes, is a romantic comedy. Through a convoluted series of events that don’t merit rehashing, Aladeen winds up working at a health-food co-op run by an eco-friendly feminist named Zoey and played by Anna Faris. In theory, the character provides a love interest, but in practice she’s little more than an easy target
POWER TRIP A megalomaniac leader mixes it up with the American masses in the new comedy from Sacha Baron Cohen.
for obvious jabs. I lost count of the bits involving her unshaved armpits. Other easy targets include post-9/11 anxiety. The scene that comes the closest to matching the outrageousness of Baron Cohen’s previous feature work has him sharing a helicopter with a pair of American tourists. As the group takes in sights such as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, Aladeen converses with a darkskinned companion in what sounds like Arabic. The joke is that the Americans, catching portions of the conversation such as “9/11” and “2012,” are horrified to overhear him apparently planning an attack on the city. Edginess gives way to silliness, however, when it turns out Aladeen is bragging about his new Porsche. Given the character’s circumstances, it’s a bit of a stretch. Let’s be honest: Borat was a seismic com-
ic event, something new and brilliantly original, but it’s been downhill from there. In the wake of Brüno’s less enthusiastic reception, Baron Cohen and his now three-time director, Larry Charles, decided to tweak their formula. And there are laughs here, though too few to fill even this picture’s modest 83-minute running time. Wherever the solution to the team’s artistic dilemma lies, it’s probably not assimilation into the cinematic mainstream, something Baron Cohen and Charles attempt halfheartedly here. The answer, more likely, is regime change. Perhaps the partnership has run its course, and the time has come for the one-time king of comedy to see whether he has what it takes to regain the throne on his own. RICK KISONAK
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Battleship ★★
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omewhere, far out in the reaches of space, some pissed-off aliens must be plotting a regime change. Their leaders intercepted a signal beacon from a harmless-looking bluegreen planet and, instead of ignoring it and minding their own business, like most of us do when someone “pokes” us on Facebook, promptly decided to invade. What they expected to find on Earth is not clear. What they did find, after a jaunt that presumably entailed faster-than-light travel, was a stretch of ocean bristling with well-armed U.S. Navy vessels and burly young men itching to show their mettle. Upon which, rather than summarily dispatching these puny foes and proceeding to the resources they’d come to plunder, as one might expect from a species of overwhelming technological superiority, the alien generals submerged their gigantic crafts and waited placidly for their associates to repair a broken communication line. When a cocky human lieutenant with something to prove (Taylor Kitsch) came around and poked them again (because we never learn), they finally dignified the Earthlings with their notice. But once again, rather than wasting our entire pathetic fleet, these incompetent
commanders left one ship afloat. And that’s when, to while away the time until they could appear on alien CNN and declare their mission accomplished, they decided to accept their enemy’s invitation to play a round of Battleship, the popular grid-based strategy game. What a pity Douglas Adams isn’t alive to chronicle the blunderings of these invaders, who somehow found themselves caught in a feature-length commercial for a Hasbro product. One in which the only line viewers are really hoping to hear — “You’ve sunk my battleship!” — is never uttered. The aliens aren’t the only ones who should feel trapped in this Transformers rip-off. Director Peter Berg brought some zaniness to the summer action movie with Hancock, but in Battleship he restricts his comic touch to an opening sequence that showcases Kitsch’s bad-boy charisma. This teaser is so stylistically incongruous with the relentless smashing and exploding to follow that it feels like a “Looney Tunes” short subject attached to a very long recruitment commercial. Kitsch, Liam Neeson and Alexander Skarsgård are similarly ill served here, though one can’t say the same for Rihanna in her grating acting debut; or Brooklyn
IN THE NAVY Rihanna helps Kitsch fight a poorly planned alien invasion in her inauspicious film debut.
Decker striving to look perturbed by the carnage around her. Some of the other actors have fun with their one-note roles, including Hamish Linklater as the requisite science nerd and Gregory D. Gadson as a disabled vet who demonstrates that aliens are no match for an angry double amputee. Aiming for the global box office, Hollywood executives appear to have decided that extraterrestrials make the most politically correct bad guys. Thus, what should be a source of existential terror — the emergence of an alien craft from the waves, looming like the 2001 monolith — becomes just the prelude to a video game. At least Independence Day gave us time to cringe at the destruction of world capitals.
Battleship hand-waves away the small issue of the Earth’s fate to address the more important question of whether Kitsch’s character can kick enough alien butt to impress Admiral Neeson and win his hot daughter’s hand. Enormous spoiler: He does! As for the aliens, with their whirling, razor-toothed superweapons that appear to have been pinched from the Transformers design template, we shall never know how their plans for galactic domination panned out. We only hope that in the next election cycle they find themselves a commander-in-chief who can resist board games. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N
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CHIMPANZEE★★★ A baby chimp cavorts in the rainforests of Uganda in the latest cute-critter documentary from Disneynature. Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield directed. (120 min, G. Majestic; ends 5/24) DARK SHADOWS★★1/2 Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, a vampire who pops up in the Nixon era to find his ancestral home full of polyester, in this dark-comedy adaptation of the cult 1966-71 TV soap from director Tim Burton. With Chloe Moretz and Helena Bonham Carter. (120 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)
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THE DEEP BLUE SEA ★1/2 Rachel Weisz plays an aristocrat in postwar London realizing her love affair with a younger pilot (Tom Hiddleston) has gone sour in this adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play from director Terence (The House of Mirth) Davies. (98 min, R. Roxy) THE DICTATOR★★ Sacha Baron Cohen adds another imperiously bizarre character to his résumé in this comedy. He’s an autocratic ruler who finds himself forced to adjust to life among the American rabble. With Anna Faris and John C. Reilly. Larry Charles directed. (83 min, R. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Sunset) THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT★★★ Here comes another R-rated romantic comedy with a Judd Apatow connection, in which Jason Segel and Emily Blunt play a couple whose engagement lasts rather longer than expected. With Chris Pratt. Nicholas (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) Stoller directed. (124 min, R. Essex, Palace, Roxy; ends 5/24) THE HUNGER GAMES★★★★ A teenager (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to replace her sister in a televised gladiatorial combat to the death in this adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young-adult novel, set in a dystopian future. With Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci. Gary Ross directed. (142 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) JOHN CARTER★★★ Disney plundered the nonTarzan-related work of Edgar Rice Burroughs for this adventure tale of a Civil War veteran (Taylor Kitsch) who somehow finds himself fighting aliens on Mars. With Lynn Collins and Willem Defoe. Andrew (WALL-E) Stanton directed. (132 min, PG-13. Sunset) THE LUCKY ONE★ Zac Efron plays a Marine searching for the woman he believes was his good luck charm in Iraq in this romantic drama based on the Nicholas Sparks novel. With Blythe Danner and Taylor Schilling. Scott (Shine) Hicks directed. (101 min, PG-13. Majestic; ends 5/24) MONSIEUR LAZHAR: A Montreal teacher (Mohamed Fellag) tries to inspire his sixthgrade classroom in the wake of a tragedy in this acclaimed Québécois film from director Philippe Falardeau. (94 min, PG-13. Savoy; ends 5/24) NOW PLAYING
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BULLY★★★ Lee Hirsch’s controversial Bully Project documentary travels around the country for conversations with school administrators, bullied school kids and their families, including the survivors of teens who committed suicide. (94 min, PG-13. Savoy; ends 5/24)
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BATTLESHIP★1/2 Sailors are the world’s last line of defense against a mysterious and deadly armada in this gigantic action flick based on a small strategy game. Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch and Alexander Skarsgård star. Peter (Hancock) Berg directed. (131 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)
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wednesday 23 — thursday 24 Battleship 6:40. The Dictator 7. Dark Shadows 6:50. The Avengers 6:30.
friday 25 — thursday 31 *men in Black 3 1 & 3:40 (Sat-Mon only), 6:50, 9:10 (Fri-Sun only). Battleship 3:50 (Sat-Mon only), 6:40. a life! The Dictator 1:10 & 4 (SatMon only), 7, 9:10 (Fri-Sun only). Dark Shadows 1:20 (Sat-Mon only), 9:10 (Fri-Sun 4/23/12 11:23 AMonly). The Avengers 12:50 & 3:30 (Sat-Mon only), 6:30, 9:10 (Fri-Sun only).
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wednesday 23 — thursday 24 The Deep Blue Sea 1:15, 4:10, 6:30, 8:40. The Dictator 1:05, 3, 4:50, 7:15, 9:15. What to Expect When You’re Expecting 1:10, 3:30, 6:50, 9:10. Dark Shadows 1:20, 4, 7, 9:25. The Avengers 1, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20. The Five-Year Engagement 1:25, 3:50, 6:20, 9:30. friday 25 — thursday 31 *The Best Exotic marigold Hotel 1:15, 3:55, 6:50, 9:15. *men in Black 3 1:20, 3:35,
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friday 25 — thursday 31 *chernobyl Diaries at 8:45, followed by Dark Shadows. *men in Black 3 at 8:45, followed by 21 Jump Street. The Avengers at 8:45, followed by John carter. Battleship at 8:45, followed by The Dictator.
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wednesday 23 — thursday 24 Battleship 7, 9:30. Dark Shadows 7, 9. The Avengers 7, 9:30. friday 25 — thursday 31 *men in Black 3 2 & 4 (SatMon only), 7, 9. Battleship 4 (Sat-Mon only), 9. Dark Shadows 2 (Sat-Mon only), 7. The Avengers 2 (Sat-Mon only), 7, 9:30.
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THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS★★★1/2 Aardman Animations offers a stop-motion comic take on the pirate craze, with Hugh Grant voicing a captain in pursuit of the Pirate of the Year award. Peter (Chicken Run) Lord directed the family adventure. With Salma Hayek and Jeremy Piven. (88 min, PG. Bic Picture, Majestic [3-D], Palace) THE RAVEN 1/2★ In which Edgar Allan Poe becomes a serial-killer-hunting action hero, played by John Cusack. He should’ve thought to team up with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. With Alice Eve, Luke Evans and Brendan Gleeson. James (V for Vendetta) McTeigue directed. (110 min, R. Big Picture, Essex) SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN★★★1/2 Ewan McGregor’s struggle to satisfy a sheik’s whim of fly-fishing in the desert becomes a metaphor for chasing dreams in the latest from director Lasse Hallström. With Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas. (107 min, PG-13. Palace; ends 5/24) THINK LIKE A MAN★★1/2 Steve Harvey’s relationship guide Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man spawned this ensemble comedy in which the book becomes a pawn in the battle of the sexes, starring Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson, Chris Brown and Kevin Hart. Tim (Fantastic Four) Story directed. (120 min, PG-13. Big Picture) THE VOW★★1/2 Amnesia comes between newlyweds Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum in this sudser inspired by a true story. With Sam Neill, Scott Speedman and Jessica Lange. Michael Sucsy (HBO’s Grey Gardens) directed. (104 min, PG-13. St. Albans; ends 5/27) WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING★★ Expect this: An ensemble comedy full of attractive actors playing couples who laugh, cry and learn to deal with the issues posed by their impending bundles of
joy. Oh, and gags about pregnancy hormones. With Chace Crawford, Cameron Diaz, Chris Rock, Dennis Quaid, Brooklyn Decker, Jennifer Lopez and many more. Kirk (Everybody’s Fine) Jones directed. (120 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy)
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Chicago police charged Raymond Jefferson, 20, with robbing a Radio Shack of $17,000 worth of merchandise after they tracked him using global positioning equipment that was among the stolen items. (Chicago Tribune) Fenton Graham, 35, was one of three people charged with twice robbing a drug store in Potomac, Md., where he worked after a surveillance video of the second robbery showed his accomplices forgetting to take the bag of money and then showed Graham taking the loot out to their car. (Washington Post)
Irony of the Week
A Scottish court fined truck driver David Loudon, 34, after he admitted falling asleep at the wheel in Dumfries and Galloway and hitting a sign advising, “Tiredness can kill, take a break.” (BBC News)
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After an Oklahoma state trooper stopped a vehicle for speeding in Okmulgee County, he questioned passenger Davis Lee Williams, 54, about a suspicious chemical odor. Williams ran away, but the trooper caught him. As Williams resisted, his pants exploded. Trooper Shiloh Hall said Williams had a portable meth lab, known as a one-pot lab, in his pants that burst during the struggle. He was uninjured but arrested. (Tulsa’s KOTV-TV)
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Police responding to a domestic disturbance in Myrtle Beach, S.C., charged Alesha Sommer Babcock, 33, with hitting Wayne Emmanuel Malcol Beachem, 37, with an inflatable hammer. Beachem blocked the attack, grabbed the hammer and threw it into the bushes, where officers found it. Babcock told them she remembered attacking Beachem with the inflatable novelty tool because she was trying to kill him. (Myrtle Beach’s Sun News)
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Arizona resident Jesus Llovera, 43, is suing actor Steven Seagal and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for his arrest, which the civil lawsuit claims was staged for a reality television show that followed Seagal’s exploits as a “deputized officer.” Llovera said Seagal and deputies raided his home because they suspected he was raising fighting roosters, although he insisted the more than 100 roosters on his property were for show, not for fighting. He noted the Sheriff’s Office SWAT team showed up in full riot gear, handcuffed him and took him outside, where Seagal waited, wearing camouflage and sunglasses and hoisting a rifle, while four cameras filmed the event for the cable series “Steven Seagal: Lawman.” The program was slated to premiere on the
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Quantifying Intangibles
The Department of Health and Human Services is funding a panel to try to define and measure happiness. If successful in determining reliable measures of “subjective well-being,” they could become official statistics. The panel, organized by the nonprofit National Academies, includes experts in psychology and economics and has already met with two key figures in the U.S. statistical bureaucracy. “There has been a lot of momentum,” said Arthur Stone, a professor of psychiatry at Stony Brook University who chairs the panel. Its budget is $370,000. (Washington Post)
Deal of a Lifetime
After Antoinette Galluzzo admitted stealing $51,601.62 from a New Jersey youth program while employed by the city of Englewood and using the money to gamble, pay debts and cover rent, she was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay $10 a month in restitution. Galluzzo’s attorney, Robert Galantucci, said even $10 a month is a lot for someone who is unemployed to pay. When Bergen County prosecutors argued that Galluzzo cashed in her pension and should have made a lump-sum payment, Judge Eugene H. Austin upheld the restitution arrangement, explaining, “I’m certainly not going to require her to pay more to set her up for failure so she gets a jail sentence.” (Bergen County’s Record)
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Britain is facing a culinary crisis, thanks to the government’s immigration crackdown, which has created a shortage of Asian chefs and forced the closing of some Indian, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Thai restaurants. Britain has some 12,000 Indian and Bangladeshi restaurants, serving 2.5 million people a week, and thousands of Chinese and Thai ones. The government’s response has been to set up five “centers of excellence in Asian and Oriental cookery” to train jobless young Britons in the art of making curry and other popular dishes. (Washington Times)
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Federal investigators concluded that the crash of a helicopter in Kamiah, Idaho, which killed the pilot and two passengers, was caused by an aluminum clipboard belonging to one of the passengers that fell out of the aircraft and hit the tail rotor. (Associated Press)
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taURUs (april 20-May 20): Here’s a great
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
“Sometimes I think and other times I am,” said French poet Paul Valery. Most of us could say the same thing. From what I can tell, Gemini, you are now entering an intensely “I am” phase of your long-term cycle — a time when it will be more important for you to exclaim, “Woo-hoo!” than to mutter, “Hmmm”; a time to tune in extra strong to the nonverbal wisdom of your body and to the sudden flashes of your intuition; a time when you’ll generate more good fortune by getting gleefully lost in the curious mystery of the moment than by sitting back and trying to figure out what it all means.
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you can’t see the darkness. admit to its presence. accept its reality. and then, dear Cancerian, walk nonchalantly away from it, refusing to fight it or be afraid of it. in other words, face up to the difficulty without becoming all tangled up in it. gaze into the abyss so as to educate yourself about its nature, but don’t get stuck there or become entranced by its supposedly hypnotic power. i think you’ll be amazed at how much safety and security you can generate for yourself simply by being an objective, poised observer free of melodramatic reactions.
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(July 23-aug. 22): it’s oK with me if you want to keep the lion as your symbolic animal, leo. but i’d like to tell you why i’m proposing that you switch over to the tiger, at least for now. People who work with big cats say that lions tend to be obnoxious and grouchy, whereas tigers are more affable and easy to get along with. and i think that in the coming weeks it’ll be important for you to be like the tiger. During this time, you will have an enhanced power to cultivate friendships and influence people. networking opportunities will be excellent. your web of connections should expand. by the way, even though lions are called kings of the jungle, tigers are generally bigger, more muscular and better fighters.
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liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): i have a heads-up for you, libra. Do your best to avoid getting enmeshed in any sort of “he said/she said” controversy. (of course it could be a “he said/ he said” or “she said/she said” or “trans said/ intersex said” brouhaha, too — you get the idea.) gossip is not your friend in the week ahead. trying to serve as a mediator is not your strong suit. becoming embroiled in personal disputes is not your destiny. in my opinion, you should soar free of all the chatter and clatter. it’s time for you to seek out big pictures and vast perspectives. Where you belong is meditating on a mountaintop, flying in your dreams and charging up your psychic batteries in a sanctuary that’s both soothing and thrilling. scoRPio
(oct. 23-nov. 21): in some australian aborigine cultures, a newborn infant gets two names from the tribal elders. The first is the name everybody knows. The second is sacred, and is kept secret. even the child isn’t told. only when he or she comes of age and is initiated into adulthood is it revealed. i wish we had a tradition similar to this. it might be quite meaningful for you, because you’re currently navigating your way through a rite of passage that would make you eligible to receive your sacred, secret name. i suggest we begin a new custom: When you’ve completed your transformation, pick a new name for yourself, and use it only when you’re conversing with your ancestors, your teachers or yourself.
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(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The 21st flight of the 4.5-billion-pound space shuttle Discovery was supposed to happen on June 8, 1995. but about a week before its scheduled departure, workers discovered an unforeseen problem. northern flicker woodpeckers had made a mess of the insulation on the outer fuel tank; they’d pecked a couple of hundred holes, some quite deep. to allow for necessary repairs, launch was postponed for over a month. i’m choosing this scenario to serve as a useful metaphor for you, Capricorn. regard it as your notice not to ignore a seemingly tiny adversary or trivial obstacle. take that almost-insignificant pest seriously.
aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): it’s official:
Dancing increases your intelligence. so says a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Unfortunately, research found that swimming, bicycling and playing golf are not at all effective in rewiring the brain’s neural pathways. Doing crossword puzzles is somewhat helpful, though, and so is reading books. but one of the single best things you can do to enhance your cognitive functioning is to move your body around in creative and coordinated rhythm with music. lucky you: This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to have more impulses and opportunities to dance. take advantage! get smarter. (More info: tinyurl.com/Dancesmart.)
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): your animal totem for the next phase of your astrological cycle is a creature called a hero shrew. of all the mammals in the world, it has the strongest and heaviest spine proportionate to its size. This exceptional attribute makes the tiny animal so robust that a person could stand on it without causing serious harm. you will need to have a backbone like that in the coming weeks, Pisces. luckily, the universe will be conspiring to help you. i expect to see you stand up to the full weight of the pressures coming to bear on you — and do it with exceptional charisma.
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question to pose on a regular basis during the next three weeks: “What’s the best use of my time right now?” Whenever you ask, be sure to answer with an open mind. Don’t assume that the correct response is always, “working with white-hot intensity on churning out the masterpiece that will fulfill my dreams and cement my legacy.” on some occasions, the best use of your time may be doing the laundry or sitting quietly and doing nothing more than watching the world go by. Here’s a reminder from philosopher Jonathan zap: “Meaning and purpose are not merely to be found in the glamorous, dramatic moments of life.”
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mate hotte You: Dobra dark-haired tea barista, famous alpinist Michael Wejchert look-alike. Me: Red-lipped girl with my gal friend who giggled when you told us to pour water right down the straw. Maybe next time you’ll join us for a three-way mate circle. When: Friday, May 18, 2012. Where: Dobra Tea. You: Man. Me: Woman. #910203 Long Lost Pea The bliss I have felt since finding you once again goes beyond my wildest dreams, to the bottom of the deepest sea, to the top of the highest peak. You are built for me and I for you, and it’s proven every day we grow together. You are my Pea and I am yours, sweet and perfect and delicious. When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Where: Sterling. You: Man. Me: Woman. #910202 Blood orange margaritas, El Cortijo You: Wonderful and Boisterous. Bad to the Bone. Making margaritas, that could make a man moan. Mmmm, delicious. Conspicuous to please. Me: just a friend visiting from overseas. Last night I had a dream, and saw your pretty face. Realizing I missed your smile, your company in any case. Stay gold, Ms. Kelsey. Kisses... When: Saturday, December 31, 2011. Where: El Cortijo. You: Woman. Me: Man. #910201
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gentle Short purple hair and a gentle walk, I feel I can imagine your warm laugh. I’d been admiring you during lunch; you met my eyes to a plaintive accordian and your smile made this day. Stay graceful. When: Monday, May 7, 2012. Where: lower Church St. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #910175
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mistress maeve Dear Mistress,
I have been dating a guy for about a month. I met him through friends about a year ago and was psyched when he actually asked me out (I was crushing hard). We have a great time together, but he almost always has too much to drink when we hang out. One time he became distraught in a bar, saying things like, “There’s no way a girl like you would like a guy like me.” Then he abruptly left, leaving me alone. He’s also been too drunk to get it up, so we have yet to have sex (although the foreplay has been awesome). The final straw happened a few nights ago: I got a call from him at 1:30 in the morning on a Tuesday. I didn’t answer, and his voicemail made no sense. He was slurring and said that I was “probably still in Florida” — a trip that I had taken two weeks before, and we’d hung out since then. When we talked the next day, he said he didn’t remember drunk-dialing me. I think he’s really great, but in these drunken moments, I find him incredibly unattractive. I have addressed my concerns openly with him yet he continues to binge drink — I hear stories from mutual friends that he drinks almost nightly. I want to end it, but I feel like I might be overreacting. Mistress, does he have a problem?
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PRicE REdUcEd! Incredible historic building on the national preservation register. Presently the home of Sherwood Real Estate and The Richford Antique and Craft Center. All original woodwork. Ebay store and Antique shope will all convey with property including all merchandise! A lifetime of collecting that retails for more then a million. Caretaker’s apartment in the back. Broker owned. $269,900 for building only, $499,900 for building with business and inventory.
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Wonderful turn of the century spacious 5-BR, 3-BA home w/ original stained glass windows and great outdoor porches to enjoy the summer! Beautiful woodwork all original. Great place to raise a family. The yard is nicely landscaped. Nice covered porch, slate roof, large garage. Laundry is conveniently located upstairs. $249,900.
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SHELBURNE RETIREMENT CONDO 1-BR, 1-BA on ground floor with 700+ sq.ft. plus deck. Recent upgrades in all rooms. Numerous services, activities, facilities includes private van for transportation and next door club/activities center. 55+ community. See “Zillow” for more details. $72,000. 518-585-7019. Make an offer!
2 BR cape. Open floor plan, kitchen has lots of cabinets, stove & newish refrigerator, half bath. Wide stairway up to 2 bedrooms & full bath. Laminate wood floors throughout. Basement great for storage, hobbies, studio. Driveway parking. Heart of downtown Montpelier. Walk everywhere! $170,000. 802-223-6329
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FREE STUFF MON. 5/28 YARD SALE 19 White Pl. (off Shelburne Rd.), S. Burlington, 8-noon. Books, housewares, clothing, music, jewelry, Pilates trainer, dance shoes, rhubarb coffeecake. Cash only. No early birds.
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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On May 16, 2012, Hinesburg Hillside LLC, filed application #4C1139-4 for a Project generally described as: subdivide Lot #2 into 11 footprint lots and one common lot and construct nine (9) single family residences and one duplex unit all served by municipal sewage disposal system and water supply . The Project is located on Lavigne Hill Road in the Town of Hinesburg, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies
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interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.
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By /s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE On May 7, 2012, The Miller Realty Group, LLP, filed application #4C0842-16A / 4C09967A for a Project generally described as:
Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by June 5, 2012.
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for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. The Project is located on Gauthier Drive in the Town of Essex, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Essex Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www. nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above. A hearing will be held on June 13 at 9 AM, site visit at 8:30 AM at the Essex Junction District Office of the Agency of Natural Resources, 111 West Street, Essex Junction, Vermont, if and only, on or before June 5, 2012, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by June 5, 2012. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning
Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (5). Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 17th day of May 2012. By /s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us CHARLOTTE PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to Title 24 Chapter 117 V.S.A. and the Charlotte Land Use Regulations, the Charlotte Planning Commission will meet on Thursday June 7, 2012 at the Town Hall to hear the following: 7:15 PM Continuation of the Final Plat Hearing of a proposed subdivision amendment in the form of a boundary adjustment and modification to building envelopes by David and Constance Lewis at 114 and 118 Mt. Philo Road. Application materials can be viewed at the Planning and Zoning Office. Participation in the hearing is a prerequisite to the right to appeal any decision related to these applications. OPENINGS BURLINGTON CITY COMMISSIONS/ BOARDS On Monday, June 4, the Burlington City Council will fill vacancies on the following City Commissions/Boards: Board of Assessors Term Expires 3/31/15 One Opening Conservation Board Term Expires 6/30/16 One Opening Board of Health Term Expires 6/30/15 One Opening Housing Board of Review Term Expires 6/30/17 One Opening Library Commission
sevendaysvt.com/classifieds 2004, and recorded at Volume 619, Page 205 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction on June 15, 2012 at 9 AM at 13 Cushing Drive, Essex Junction, Vermont and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being Condominium Unit #42 (the “Unit”) of the Whitcomb Heights II Condominium Cluster I which property was acquired by Defendants by warranty deed of South Street Associates, LLC, dated July 26, 2004 and of record at Volume 619, Page 201 of said Land Records. The address of the Unit is 13 Cushing Drive, Essex Junction, Vermont 05452. To said deeds and plan, the records thereof, and to the deeds and records therein referred to, reference is hereby made in further aid of this description.
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expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at sale or inquire at Bergeron, Paradis & Fitzpatrick, LLP, 34 Pearl Street, Essex Junction, Vermont 05452, 802.879.6304. New England Federal Credit Union By: Edward D. Fitzpatrick, Esq. Bergeron, Paradis & Fitzpatrick, LLP STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S065110 Cnc Nationstar Mortgage, LLC f/k/a Centex Home Equity Company, LLC, Plaintiff v.
Diana M. Miller, Lawrence L. Miller, RAB Performance Recoveries, LLC Capital One Bank and Occupants residing at 2849 East Main Street, Richmond, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Diana M. Miller and Lawrence L. Miller to Centex Mortgage Equity Company, LLC dated November 1, 2005 and recorded in Volume 168, Page 40 of the Land Records of the Town of Richmond, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions
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Open 24/7/365. of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 8:00 A.M. on June 12, 2012, at 2849 East Main Street, Richmond, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to Diane M. Miller and Lawrence L. Miller by deed of Cynthia J. McIntosh and Douglas E. McIntosh recorded 5/5/1999 in Book 100 [sic] Page 605, of the Richmond Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale
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The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the The Chittenden premises at any time County prior to the sale by Transportation paying the full amount due under the mortgage, Authority (CCTA) will hold a public including the costs and Calcoku meeting to update the expenses Using of thethe sale. enclosed math operations as a guide, fill public1on the grid using the numbers - 6 the onlyCCTA once in each Transit Center Project rowto and Other terms becolumn. and to solicit public announced7+at the15+ sale or 9+ 2÷ input. The meeting inquire at Lobe & Fortin, will be held at 6:00 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 16+in PM on May 31, 2012 306, South Burlington, Contois Auditorium at VT 05403, (802) City Hall. The 660-9000.3÷ 48xBurlington 1public is encouraged to attend. City Hall is fully DATED at South 5+ this 5 3accessible. Questions Burlington, Vermont Complete the following puzzle by using the about attending the 11th day of May, 2012. numbers 1-9 only once in each row, meeting should be column 25x 12x and 3 x2-Mortgage, 3 box. directed to Stephen Nationstar Carlson at scarlson@ LLC cctaride.org1-or by phone at 802-864-0211 ext. 30. By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq.
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nowhere to go but outside with her feline sisters and brothers. Eventually we were able to take in all five cats. Lo and behold, Pacer was the most social and most outgoing. Now she resides in one of our community rooms, the last to be adopted from her original clan. But why is this friendly, affectionate cat still here? Studies show black cats are the least likely to be adopted in a shelter. Could that be why? Staff and volunteers are stumped. Who will take this wonderful cat home, the unmistakable kitty who sits in chairs with her legs spread and her belly showing?
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Term Expires 6/30/15 have been appointed as One Opening personal representative of the above named Public Works estate. All creditors Commission having claims against Term Expires 6/30/15 the estate must present One Opening their claims in writing within four months of Board of Tax Appeals the first publication of Term Expires 6/30/15 this notice. The claim Two Openings must be presented to me at the address listed Telecommunications below with a copy filed Advisory Committee with the register of the Term Expires 6/30/15 Probate Court. The claim One Opening will be forever barred if it is not presented as Applications are described within the four available at the Clerk/ month deadline. Treasurer’s Office, Second Floor, City Hall, Dated: May 17. 2012 and must be Signed: Holly Hance received in the Clerk/ Print Name: Holly Hance Treasurer’s Office by 4:30 Address: 41 Morgan Road p.m., Wednesday, May Jericho, VT 05465 30, 2012. Applicants Telephone: must be nominated by (802)373-0328 a member of the City Council to be considered Name of the Publication: for a position; a list of Seven Days Council members is also First Publication Date: available at the Clerk/ May 23, 2012 Treasurer’s Office. Please Second Publication Date: call the Clerk/Treasurer’s May 30, 2012 Office at 865-7136 for further information. Address of Probate Court: The City of Burlington Probate Court, District of encourages Chittenden persons from diverse P.O. Box 511 backgrounds to apply Burlington, VT 05402 to serve on boards, commissions and STATE OF VERMONT committees. The City is SUPERIOR COURT committed to providing CHITTENDEN UNIT equal opportunity to all CIVIL DIVISION persons without regard DOCKET NO. S0460to political affiliation, 11 CnC race, color, religion, age, NEW ENGLAND FEDERAL sex, sexual preference, national origin, disability CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff v. or any other non-merit SHAWN T. HOY, DELSA factor. A. MEEHAN, DISCOVER BANK, and occupants STATE OF VERMONT residing at 13 Cushing DISTRICT OF Drive, Essex Junction, CHITTENDEN Vermont Defendants PROBATE COURT DOCKET NO. 34098 NOTICE OF SALE IN RE THE ESTATE OF SHAD W. HANCE By virtue and in LATE OF JERICHO execution of the Power of Sale contained in a Notice to Creditors certain mortgage given to New England Federal To the creditors of the Credit Union by Shawn estate of Shade W. T. Hoy and Delsa A. Hance late of Jericho. I Meehan, dated July 30,
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If you like people almost as much as you love pets and animals, 4 Legs & a Tail magazine has your dream job! We are expanding in northern VT and have an immediate opening for an advertising sales representative. This is the perfect opportunity for a creative, energetic professional. Flexible hours. Send cover/resume to: TimH.4lt@gmail.com.
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Lamoille County Court Diversion Restorative Justice Programs is hiring a
Court Diversion Case Manager Do you share our passion for community-based restorative justice? Do you have case management experience? LCCDRJP is a team-oriented, nonprofit agency based in Hyde Park. We have a full-time position for someone who possesses strong communication skills and a clear sense of boundaries, brings a human services background, and embraces a restorative- justice philosophy. Responsibilities include a blend of work with participants in the Court Diversion and Teen Alcohol Safety Programs. A bachelor’s degree and experience in a related field is required. Interested individuals can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to the following email address: info@lamoillecourtdiversion.org .
We have an immediate full-time position in our Middlebury, Vt.-plant for an experienced Plant Supervisor. Responsibilities include supervising employees 10:51 AM engaged in producing the plants dairy products. Supervises employees in receiving and testing milk and in cheese production, such as pasteurizing, separating, evaporating, drying, cooling, and storing the plants dairy products. Examines samples of product for plant standards, directs the cheese cooks and starter operations to maintain plant standards and product consistency. The Plant Supervisor will insure that production operations and labor are scheduled in an efficient manner and that an adequately trained workforce is maintained. The successful candidate will possess strong cheese manufacturing and whey production experience. Minimum of at least five years’ related experience and/or training, or a combination of education and experience. Must have the ability to apply cheese-making principles from technical material and/or manuals, write detailed correspondence, instructions, and memos. Must have the ability to effectively present information to employees, customers and clients. Candidate must have a strong math knowledge base. Agri-Mark/Cabot Creamery offers a competitive starting salary and excellent benefits package. Please send resume and cover letter to:
Applications accepted until position is filled. LCCDRJP, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. More information about LCCDRJP is available at www.lamoillecourtdiversion.org.
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Cleaning Technicians Do you get satisfaction out of putting things back in order? Are you independent, energetic and wanting to earn extra money? Join our growing and locally owned green cleaning team to enjoy a job where you see results every day! Both temporary and permanent work available throughout Chittenden County. Car and license required. Background/credit checks will be performed. Experience not necessary; we are willing to train. Retirees welcome. Please apply online at www.vtjanitech.com.
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Newly elected Mayor Miro Weinberger is seeking an experienced and dynamic leader to serve as the city’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), helping to manage the municipal budget and broad services – from public safety to libraries and airport – in an increasingly diverse community that is anchored by a vibrant, growing local economy and outstanding cultural and educational opportunities.
The Hospital Diversion Program of NFI VT is seeking a Relief and full-time Residential Counselors. Hospital Diversion provides crisis stabilization, comprehensive clinical assessment, individual treatment and discharge planning in a small, safe residential setting. Responsibilities include counseling youth, ADL (activity, daily learning), assisting with hygiene and living skills and with treatment. Superior interpersonal skills and ability to function in a team atmosphere are musts. B.A. in psychology or related field required.
Burlington’s next CAO will oversee all of the city’s financial operations, prepare the mayor’s annual budget and administer it after its adoption by the 14-member elected city council. The CAO, supported by two assistant CAOs, is responsible for a host of key management functions, including working as both city treasurer and city clerk under Vermont state law.
Please email resume and cover letter to christineciavola@nafi.com or mail to Christine Kubacz, 100 Allen Road, South Burlington, VT 05403.
The CAO is a mayoral appointment and key partner in helping to support the mayor’s vision for the future of Burlington – growing good jobs, making the city more affordable, improving city services, completing the reclamation of Burlington’s spectacular waterfront from its industrial past and making significant capital improvements. Achieving these priorities will require the CAO’s partnership of 650+ employees, among other priorities. The position requires a bachelor’s degree in accounting, economics, public administration, business administration or a related field (masters preferred), and ten years of related work experience, including a minimum of five years in a supervisory role. The equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered. Knowledge of financial systems, budgeting, fund accounting, utility system management, economic development, and excellent administrative and organizational skills are required to manage Burlington’s $230 million combined operating and capital budget (General Fund and Enterprise Funds). Experience in local government accounting and management and working in a unionized environment preferred. Experience in and comfort with public speaking in a broad range of settings, including to boards and the media is essential.
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Benchmark develops, owns and manages over 40 senior living communities in the northeast and was voted one of The Boston Globe’s Best Places to Work for the fourth year in a row! We’re seeking exceptional individuals for our immediate opening at The Arbors at Shelburne community.
Assistant Director of Nursing
The salary range of $105,000-$137,000 is commensurate with experience. The total compensation package includes generous health and wellness benefits, paid time off, and a defined benefit retirement plan.
The Assistant Director of Nursing (Resident Care Coordinator) works side by side with our Resident Care Director (Director of Nursing) to oversee the direct care of 64 residents living with memory impairment. Primary responsibilities include supervising caregivers, completing assessments, conducting audits and serving as a clinical resource for staff and families.
To apply, send resume, cover letter, and City of Burlington Application to: HR Dept, 179 S. Winooski Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401. To obtain an application or to view the complete job description, please see our website: www.burlingtonvt.gov/hr/jobs. To learn more about the wonderful City of Burlington and all it has to offer, please visit our website www.burlingtonvt.gov. Available in alternative formats for persons with disabilities.
The position is a 24 hour per week commitment with a flexible schedule of day and evening coverage and the possibility of increased hours with covering floor shifts. Training and experience related to dementia is preferred. Qualifications: Current Vermont Registered Nurse License, a minimum two years of nursing experience, and CPR certification.
The City of Burlington values diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, or disability in employment or the provision of services.
We offer Health, Dental & Vision insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, 401K and Bonus Opportunities. Salary based on experience. Additional nursing opportunities exist at The Arbors for LPNs.
WOMEN, MINORITIES AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. EOE.
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SPECIAL EDUCATOR – MIDDLE GRADES Westford School District We are seeking a skilled professional to case manage, coordinate and implement effective interventions for special education, 504 and EST at our Westford Elementary School (grades K-8). The position shall involve consultation to grade level teams (5-8), and evaluating and developing intervention programs with a focus on literacy, math and behavior. Qualified candidates must hold or be eligible to hold a valid VT Educator license with a Special Educator (3-82) or Consulting Teacher (3-85) endorsement. Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a vertical teaching team and as a team of learning specialists also required. Experience working with intermediate and middle school students and knowledge of the developmental stages of students in grades 5-8 preferred. Successful co-teaching experience desirable. For consideration, please apply electronically through www.schoolspring.com, Job ID 69619.
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with diverse age range from early childhood Behavioral Interventionists, BA , 37.5 and hrs. high through adolescence for elementary Provide specific, individualized, goal-oriented school positions. Family-centered, strength-based services to assist children with behavioral clinical practice with strong crisis intervention challenges in early child and school age and assessment skills needed. requires classrooms. Candidates will Position have experience helpingparticipation children with behavioral and active on anserious interdisciplinary emotional challenges to remain in regular classroom treatment team. We are looking for an organized, settings. Positions require superior listening, team-focused practitioner. Master’s Degree communication and writing skills and the ability to required, license preferred. Supervision BA toward quickly form effective relationships. with LCMH is available. Positions are available for experience. the 2012-2013 year. Submit cover letter Please visitschool our website for more information. EOE and resume to www.rmhsccn.org H.R. 802-775-2381
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Specialized community Support Worker (3 vacancieS)
• Seeking an experienced individual to support a young woman in the Milton area to learn independent living skills. Ideal candidate has experience working with individuals on the Autism Spectrum, will set clear and consistent boundaries, and has good clinical judgment. 25 hours weekly, Monday through Friday, with a significant amount of travel.
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Vermont Works for Women, a dynamic, multifaceted nonprofit organization, is searching for a chef that is passionate about wellness and has a dedication to nutrition. This position will be integral to the daily operations of our FRESH Food program in Winooski. We are in need of a chef that operates well in a fast-paced environment, but also has patience and a commitment to training workers with limited culinary skills. The position operates Monday–Friday, 8:30-4:30, and will remain open until filled. Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
Seeking a skilled staff for in-home support for a 31-year-old female living independently in downtown Burlington. This strong self-advocate has a great sense of humor. Medication administration, light cooking and cleaning, running errands, some personal care, and caring for a friendly feline. Saturday 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 5-7 p.m., Sunday 9:30-12 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. with some flexibility.
MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES Senior laboratory technician — chittenden clinic
This Chittenden Clinic is seeking a male Senior Laboratory Technician to join our team. The Senior Laboratory Technician will be responsible for maintaining and managing the on-site urine toxicology laboratory at The Chittenden Clinic. This includes the conduct of all aspects of urinalysis and quality assurance testing for opioids and other drugs of abuse; management of all urinalysis data, reports, supplies and equipment; ensuring adherence to CLIA relevant regulations; providing appropriate training and ongoing supervision of Laboratory Technicians; providing assistance with clinical assessments and patient care support as needed; and maintaining close collaboration and communication with the clinic-wide team to ensure high-quality patient care. This is a full-time position with early morning hours.
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references by June 2 to Staci Grove at sgrove@vtworksforwomen.org or mail to VWW, 32A Malletts Bay Avenue, Winooski, VT 05404 VWW is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Substitutes needed to provide services to adults in a busy short-term social detox and crisis stabilization setting. Monitor clients’ well-being, including level of risk, medical conditions, mental status and /or withdrawal status. Provide screenings for incapacitation due to alcohol or other drugs; provide short-term case management and referrals to appropriate levels of care. Great learning opportunity for someone interested in the field of substance abuse. High school diploma required. BA preferred, but a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been acquired would be considered. Ability to deal effectively with crisis situations; ability to multitask and engage with clients, basic counseling skills, computer literacy and good writing skills. clinician — community Support
Seeking compassionate human service professionals to provide case management services to persons with major mental illnesses and co-occuring substance disorders. These are community-based positions that include service coordination, counseling and advocacy. Looking for applicants that are well-organized, strengths-based, flexible, energetic and team-oriented. Bachelor’s degree in related field is the minimum requirement along with human service experience. Full-time with excellent benefits.
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Seeking energetic and professional individual to provide a safe environment for adults with major mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse issues. Services include supportive counseling, crisis intervention, supervision of medication and assistance with daily living skills. Must have ability to exercise sound judgment and to be compassionate and respectful. Bachelor’s degree required; human services experience desirable. Limited part-time position, Saturdays and Sundays 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. reSidential counSelor — community apartmentS
Seeking energetic and professional individual to provide a safe environment for adults with major mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse issues living in community apartments. Work with clients in establishing and reaching goals aimed at symptom management, independent living skills, community integration and medication maintenance. Help develop skills in needed areas. Must have ability to exercise sound judgment, be compassionate and respectful, and able to work independently. Bachelor’s degree desired, human services experience desirable, will consider significant experience in lieu of degree if applicable. Full-time, 37.5 hours, excellent benefits and paid time off. reSidential counSelor — Spruce Street
Seeking energetic and professional individual to provide a safe environment for adults with major mental illness living in a residential setting. Work with residents in establishing and reaching goals aimed at independent living. Help develop coping and symptom management skills. Must have ability to exercise sound judgment and to be compassionate and respectful. Bachelor’s degree required; human services experience desirable. Will consider significant experience in lieu of degree if applicable. Full-time, 37.5 hours, excellent benefits and paid time off.
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HowardCenter’s Chittenden Clinic is looking for a part-time Registered Nurse who has excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills! This position is responsible for safely dispensing methadone, conducting health/addiction education counseling and completing pre-screen interviews with prospective patients recommended for methadone maintenance at the Chittenden Clinic. A minimum of 2 years experience in nursing and education based on that required by state of Vt. for licensure is required.
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HowardCenter’s Chittenden Clinic is looking for a substitute Registered Nurse who has excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills! This position is responsible for safely dispensing methadone, conducting health/addiction education counseling and completing pre-screen interviews with prospective patients recommended for methadone maintenance at the Chittenden Clinic. This is a nonregular position. A minimum of 2 years’ experience in nursing and education based on that required by state of Vt. for licensure is required.
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Surgical Assistant (Medical/Dental)
Vermont Restitution Unit
Collection Case Manager
Full time, Monday-Friday, position available in busy, outpatient surgery practice. Ideal candidate has two to four years experience providing direct patient care in a medical or dental office, keen eye for details, ability to juggle multiple priorities and work with a great team to deliver excellent service to patients. Send resume to:
CVOMS, ATTN: Practice Manager,118 Tilley Dr., Suite 102, S. Burlington, VT 05403
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Seeking a self-directed team member to collect court-ordered restitution from criminal offenders. Analyze legal documents, accurately enter information into database, research problems and find solutions. You should be a skilled negotiator, know how to set priorities, be comfortable making a high volume of phone calls, and be focused on our mission and goals. Fast-paced, interesting work and great benefits. Associate’s degree or two years’ work experience in relevant field. Email your cover letter and resume to: elaine.boyce@vru.state.vt.us No phone calls, please. Application deadline is June 8, 2012.
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ASSOCIATE CITY ENGINEER The City of Rutland, Vt. is currently seeking applications for an Associate City Engineer. The Associate City Engineer works under the general supervision of the City Engineer and performs a wide variety of engineering duties in connection with the Department of Public Works. Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s of science in a public-worksrelated engineering discipline, be registered as a P.E. (E.I. is acceptable), and have a minimum of two years of engineering work experience.
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Steiker, Fischer, Edwards & Greenapple, P.C. CORPORATE TRANSACTIONAL ATTORNEY Do Work That Matters Hiring for placement of an associate in our Burlington, Vt. office, we are the premier employee ownership transaction law firm in the country, with offices in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont. Visit our website at www.sfeglaw.com. If you have 2-6 years of M&A or corporate finance experience, top academic and firm credentials, and are looking for a way to do challenging legal work that makes a difference, talk to us. Our large flow of middle-market transactions enables us to do sophisticated work with manageable hours. Informal, intellectually challenging environment with competitive benefits and salary. Please submit a letter of introduction along with your resume, in confidence, to: careers@sesadvisors.com
The Associate City Engineer shall have the ability to read and interpret engineering plans and specifications, have knowledge of engineering principles and practices, and have computer proficiency with word processing, spreadsheets, and engineering modeling software. The Associate City Engineer must be able to establish and maintain good working relationships with other employees, city and state officials, and the general public. A copy of the complete job description and application for employment can be obtained at the Department of Public Works office in City Hall, on the Rutland City website, under the Department of Public Works link, (www.rutlandcity.com) or by calling 802-773-1813. Salary as of July 1, 2012, will be $1120.12 per week plus benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance, retirement benefits, paid sick leave, vacation time, and life insurance. Application packages with a cover letter, resume, and application can be dropped off at the Public Works office, sent to City of Rutland, Department of Public Works, P.O. Box 969, Rutland, VT 05702, or faxed to 802-775-3947. First round of application reviews is scheduled for June 11, 2012. Applications accepted until the position is filled.
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Want to work for a local company that values its employees, offers exceptional benefits and supports the community in a meaningful way? Review and apply for our open positions at www.citymarket.coop/jobs. RESIDENTIAL / CRISIS BED SUPPORT STAFF SUBSTITUTES
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Our Community Rehabilitation & Treatment team is hiring for Substitutes to1-CityMarket-052312.indd 1 toward a worthwhile goal. 5/21/12 11:29:13 AM work in our three residential settings. Candidates must be caring and teamoriented and will work in the Crisis Bed Program, Therapeutic Community Residence or work one-on-one with a female in her private residence and community. Position requires flexibility and the ability to work days, evenings, overnight hours, weekends and some holidays, if necessary. Responsibilities include providing a supportive environment to individuals CCS is seeking dynamic and energetic people to provide one-on-one with severe and persistent mental illness, assisting in problem-solving issues, inclusion supports to a variety of individuals with developmental behavioral intervention, crisis support and providing strength-based education disabilities. Work with a team of professionals assisting individuals with the goal of recovery. Applicants must have moderate computer skills, to reach goals and realize dreams. We are currently offering several good communication skills, be compassionate, organized and a strong team part-time, fully benefited positions as well as a substitute position. player. Knowledge of mental illness is preferred. Bachelor’s degree in Human Services field preferred, however, an Associate’s degree with relevant Experience in the field of developmental disabilities is a plus experience will be considered. Applicants must have a valid driver’s license but not required. in good standing and be able to transport clients. Competitive wages.
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Be part of an exciting new initiative to prevent psychiatric hospitalizations, reduce high medical utilization, and prevent unnecessary arrests and incarcerations. NCSS is forming a Mobile Crisis Team to provide 24/7 outreach and crisis services in Franklin and Grand Isle counties.
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If you are interested in joining our diverse team, please submit a letter of interest and resume to Karen Ciechanowicz, staff@ccs-vt.org. Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Avenue Colchester, VT 05446 (802) 655-0511
FOX 44 and ABC 22 is looking for an IT Broadcast Engineer with an extensive background in computers and networking. Responsibilities will include maintaining a computer-based newsroom and master control. Must be a self-starter with excellent interpersonal skills and have attention to detail. Broadcast engineering a plus. Please respond in confidence to: WFFF/WVNY Human Resources 298 Mountain View Drive Colchester, VT 05446 Or email resume and cover letter to jobs@smithmediavt.com. No calls please. EOE
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REGISTERED NURSE - Seeking a Registered Nurse with psychiatric and medical experience for outreach and coordination to reduce high medical utilization. Positions offer excellent benefits and a flexible work schedule. Supervision towards licensure available. Our clinic is located close to Interstate 89 and is a short commute from Burlington and surrounding areas. TEAM LEADER – INTAKE & ASSESSMENT
The Community Rehabilitation and Treatment Team (CRT) is seeking a strong clinician who is highly organized and energetic as the primary intake and assessment person. The CRT program serves individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. This person will work closely with the CRT Program Manager and the CRT Leadership team to provide safe and clinically sound services for individuals enrolled in the program. Must work in a supportive role to the Program Manager to assure responsible administrative oversight of the CRT Program. Will also provide both administrative and clinical supervision to direct line staff and coordinate with state and community resources. Strong supervisory experience is essential. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and openness to new program development. Master’s degree, licensed or license eligible and minimum of 2 years relevant experience are required.
NCSS Inc., 107 Fisher Pond Rd., St. Albans, VT 05478 hr@ncssinc.org
PURCHASING AND INVENTORY SPECIALIST BURLINGTON ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT The Burlington Electric Department is now accepting applications for Purchasing and Inventory Specialist at the McNeil Station. This position is responsible for purchasing, receipt, inventory control and distribution of all materials for the McNeil Generating Station, including all associated record keeping and documentation. The successful candidate will have a high level of knowledge of personal computers and be able to perform the essential functions of the position including the ability to unload woodchips from railcars on a regular basis. Associate’s degree in Business Administration or equivalent work experience, three years’ experience in purchasing, maintenance, business or materials handling preferred. A high level of purchasing knowledge and knowledge of stockroom and inventory practices, experience in the operation of forklifts and other related machinery, and a valid VT driver’s license is required. Knowledge of materials and equipment associated with a steam-powered electric generating station is preferred. Join BED’s team-oriented environment and send a cover letter, resume and a completed City of Burlington Application by May 30, 2012 to: HR Dept. 179 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT 05401. For a complete description of this position or to obtain an application, visit our website at www.burlingtonvt.gov/HR. Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. EOE. 7T-CityofBurlingtonHR-051312.indd 1
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SUMMER JOBS with VPIRG
Dental Assistant
- Earn $4000-$8000 -Work with VPIRG for a clean energy future -Travel and bike around VT -Make a difference Work with VPIRG for a clean energy future. Career opportunities and benefits available.
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Are you interested in expanding your horizons in the dentistry field? Are you a team player with a great attitude? Do you thrive in a diverse, fast-paced environment with an emphasis on excellent patient care? Then our office is for you. We are seeking a highly motivated Dental Assistant to join our team. Must have current dental assisting and radiology licenses. Evenings and Saturdays required. Competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please submit resumes and letters of interest to bentleyefd@hotmail.com.
Part-time instructors needed for fall 2012 at CCV (Winooski) to teach: Fall 2012 (September 4-December 17) Principles of Marketing Tuesday, 6:15 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Human Resource Management Monday, 6:15 to 9 p.m.
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We are currently accepting resumes for entry-level and experienced tax preparers and auditors to join our firm. The ideal candidate must to possess a degree in accounting and be eligible for certification or be certified. Competitive salary and excellent benefits package offered. Please send cover letter and resume to: Richard Brigham, CPA Sullivan, Powers & Company P.O. Box 947 Montpelier, VT 05601 rbrigham@sullivanpowers.com
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The Agency of Natural Resources is seeking an Executive Staff Assistant to assist the Secretary and the Assistant to the Secretary in coordinating agency communications with stakeholders, legislators, the media and the public. Duties will include reviewing the agency website to ensure formation is current, drafting and sending out press communications, and helping to coordinate public communication efforts of the various departments. This position will also assist the Deputy Secretary in coordinating the agency’s legislative response by managing the legislative bill review and tracking process, reviewing legislative calendars, and communicating with legislative staff. This position will provide back-up administrative assistance to the Planning and Litigation unit when there are big litigation deadlines. The ideal candidate will have great interpersonal skills and strong writing and editing experience. This position is temporarily located in Waitsfield. Reference job posting #30285. Application deadline: June 1, 2012. www.careers.vermont.gov
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Writing for Media in the Digital Age Wednesdays, 11:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
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Prior professional and college-level teaching experience desired. Graduate degree required IN APPROPRIATE ACADEMIC AREA. Send cover letter and resume to: Amer Mujezinovic, Assistant Site Office Manager Community College of Vermont 1 Abenaki Way Winooski, VT 05404 Email if desired: Amer.Mujezinovic@ccv.edu CCV strongly encourages applications from members of ethnic minority groups and other underrepresented backgrounds. CCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer, in compliance with ADA requirements, and will make reasonable accommodations for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant.
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CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN
at the Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services
Well-established engineering firm seeks Civil Engineering Technician for Middlebury office. Competitive salary, benefits and great work environment. Associates degree and 2+ years of AutoCad experience required. Send resume and references to:
The Center for Crime Victim Services is seeking a Financial Manager to coordinate and supervise the agency’s accounting, financial reporting, purchasing, facilities/equipment and budget management. Position also manages numerous federal grants.
Otter Creek Engineering, Inc., P.O. Box 712, East Middlebury, VT 05740. 3h-OtterEngineer-051612.indd 1
Sales Associate
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You must have excellent skills in communication (in person and by phone), customer service, the latest MS Office and social-media applications. Experience working with sales databases and CRM is a plus. We are looking for a college graduate with 1-2 years sales experience who is self-motivated and a team player, has a very positive attitude and will add to our phenomenal company culture.
Experience with the state’s budget management system and VISION accounting system desirable. Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or financial management and five years of relevant financial and grants management experience required. For a full job description, position requirements, and application instructions, please visit: www.ccvs.state.vt.us/jobs.
iSystems LLC is seeking a full-time Sales Associate to fill a new and exciting role in our fast-growing software development company. If you are a smart, personable, ambitious individual looking to work with an innovative Vermont company and you want to learn software sales from industry leaders, you will want to join our team.
Position is not a state employee. EOE. Application deadline: May 30, 2012. Please send cover letter and resume to: mmeyer@ccvs.state.vt.us
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The Intervale Center in Burlington, Vt. seeks an Accounting Manager. The Accounting Manager oversees financial management for a dynamic and growing nonprofit that strengthens community food systems. Responsibilities include oversight of the financial accounting function, some bookkeeping and assisting in the preparation of budgets and financial statements. Qualifications include a college degree and 5+ years’ experience with accounting, preferably at a nonprofit. To view a full job description, visit www.intervale.org/about-us/employment.
Housekeeper (Full time) Vermont’s premiere continuing care retirement community seeks a member to join our housekeeping team. Housekeepers work collaboratively to support residents who live independently, as well as those who live in residential care. Housekeepers are critical to the well-being of residents and the quality of the Wake Robin environment.
To apply, please email cover letter and resume by Friday, May 25, to Timothy Kranz, tim@intervale.org. No phone calls, please.
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Cook (Full time) At Wake Robin, residents are provided with a fine dining experience. With a manageable schedule and superb kitchen facilities, we offer a work environment that is hard to find in the hospitality industry. Our cook will have experience producing high-quality soups, sauces and entrees from scratch, demonstrated experience at all cooking aspects of from grilling to sautéing, and strong attention to the consistency, quality and delivery of food.
Servers (Full and part time) Servers facilitate a fine dining experience for our residents. We seek experienced servers with highquality food-delivery and table-service skills, demonstrated customer-service skills, and a strong desire to work with an active population of seniors. There are full-and part-time positions available. Wake Robin provides highly competitive wages and a full range of benefits for you and your family, 20 days of vacation, and a retirement package. If you have high standards of service and a strong desire to learn, please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to HR, (802) 264-5146. 7t-WakeRobin2-052312.indd 1
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MATERIAL HANDLER Curtis Lumber in Burlington is looking for a Material Handler to provide exceptional customer service in a yard environment. Ideal candidate will have experience in building materials, customer service, and forklift operation. Curtis Lumber Co. offers great benefits and a fast paced atmosphere. Stop by our location at 315 Pine Street in Burlington or email us your resume. You can also fill out an online application by visiting our website, georges@curtislumber.com
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NOFA-VT BAKER NOFA-VT’s mobile, wood-fired oven travels to farmers markets, private events, on-farm workshops and festivals from June-October to introduce eaters to the local farms, local foods and local flavors in their community, and to introduce people to NOFA-VT through a unique food experience. We are seeking an experienced baker for this seasonal project. A flexible schedule is important, along with a can-do attitude and interest in working in a training capacity with NOFA’s summer interns/outreach assistants. If you are interested, please send a cover letter detailing your interest in the position and baking experience to Enid Wonnacott, enid@nofavt.org. Seeking to fill this position immediately.
The Vermont Local Roads Program at St. Michael’s College seeks a temporary part-time (16 hours per week) Office Assistant. The Office Assistant will be responsible for a variety of tasks to ensure a smooth workflow for the organization. Duties include: data entry, organizing direct mailings for the center, workshop event preparation, occasional travel to workshops and other general office tasks. Potential for growth in responsibilities and employment exists. High School diploma or equivalent required. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the successful completion of a background and driving record check. Review of applications will begin on May 31 and continue until the position is filled. For a full listing and to apply, please go to: http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com.
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The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) is a nonprofit association based in Richmond, Vermont, working for local farms, healthy food and strong communities since 1971.
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Are you passionate about local and organic food, your community, and customer service? Do you thrive on working in a fast-paced, dynamic, supportive and fun environment?
If you answered yes to all of the above, you’ve come to the right place! Hunger Mountain Coop, central Vermont’s fastest growing member-owned natural foods market, accepts applications from qualified individuals who will provide our Member-Owners and the public with the excellent customer service they deserve.
Edlund Company, LLC. is an 85-year-old company that is under new corporate ownership and is poised for growth. Having recently been acquired by the Ali Group based in Milan, Italy, Edlund is now part of the largest multinational corporation in the food-service equipment industry. With a renewed business emphasis in industry-leading innovation, superior quality and outstanding customer service, Edlund is committed to providing solutions that meet the needs of a global food-sevice marketplace. Edlund Company is currently hiring for the following exciting new opportunity:
We are currently accepting applications from qualified candidates for the following positions: Wine Buyer: Put your professional wine experience to work at The Coop! We are seeking an innovative self-starter to select, price, and merchandise a variety of wines, to serve customers, and meet department goals. Knowledge of domestic and international wines required. Experience in a retail setting preferred. Excellent customer service and organization skills a must! Manager on Duty: Do you love being the go-to person and thrive in a fast-paced, customer-oriented environment? Provide excellent service to both customers and fellow employees. Oversee departments and store supervisory responsibilities in the absence of individual managers and close The Coop following established procedures. Management experience required, preferably in a retail environment. Outstanding customer service skills and knowledge of natural foods a must!
Materials Manager Tool and Die Machinist Please visit our website, www.Edlundco.com for additional information including a detailed job description. Edlund Company has been a family-owned business since 1925; we offer competitive pay, great benefits and a fantastic place to work. If you are interested in working in a challenging and rewarding position, send your resume and letter of interest to:
Please visit our website at www.hungermountain.coop to view the job descriptions and application instructions. Thank you for your interest in working at Hunger Mountain Coop!
Edlund Company, LLC. Human Resources PO Box 929 Burlington, VT 05402-0929 HR@edlundco.com
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BioTek Instruments, Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance, microplate-based, life-science instrumentation and software used to accelerate drug discovery and aid in the advancement of life-science research. Because of our continued growth, we are currently seeking dependable, enthusiastic individuals to join our team in the following positions:
Assembler/Advanced Assembler CNC Machinist (day shift) Warehouse Clerk For job descriptions and requirements, please visit our Careers page at www.biotek.com. BioTek, voted Best Places to Work in Vermont 2012, attributes its success to our dedicated employees and offers a flexible, casual yet professional work environment as well as a competitive salary and excellent benefit package, including medical/dental/ vision insurance plans, profit sharing, flex-time, 100% tuition reimbursement, wellness program and more.
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• Develops grant budgets and narratives and grant requirements; reports financial results to grantor. • Supervises one staff member whose responsibilities included accounts receivable, accounts payable and payroll processing. • Special Skills: knowledge of QuickBooks and Microsoft Office, teamwork and nonprofit experience, and sensitivity Please send resume and cover letter to ehudson@mercyconnections.org or mail to 255 S. Champlain Street, Suite 8 Burlington, VT 05401 www.mercyconnections.org Mercy Connections is an equal opportunity employer.
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There is an immediate opportunity for an export assistant at Century International Arms, Inc. We need someone who can coordinate documents to apply for and ship exports, work on orders/prior approvals, etc. and be back up for the person handling bond withdrawals and receiving.
Box 998, Highland Park Winooski, VT 05404 EOE/AA
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Some Job Duties and Responsibilities: • Research documents required for export sales orders to make sure goods can be exported. • Correspond with the customers to receive proper paperwork to apply for export license. • Updates the Customs list and sends request to U.S. Customs for visitors. • Prepares purchase orders, packing list and invoices for exports and gov’t sales to go with shipping documents. • Coordinates with transport companies to pick up the freight going out export. • Enters bills into accounts payable system for payment. • Prepares purchase orders for U.S. goods. • Receives internal receiving memos and enters goods into inventory system. Qualifications and Requirements • 2+ years experience in exporting. • Detail oriented.
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• Background understanding of ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations). Century offers competitive compensation along with great benefits: health, dental, 401(k), PTO, life insurance and many more. If you are looking for a great opportunity to work for a friendly team oriented company, please apply today!
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CENTURY INTERNATIONAL ARMS, INC. IS LOOKING TO HIRE!
Human Resources
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Part time Finance Manager, 24-hour-per-week position. Join a remarkable team and help realize the mission and values of Mercy Connections. The Finance Manager is responsible for generating, monitoring and reporting financial data to staff, Trustees and granting organizations. Additionally, the FM is responsible for the human resources function of the organization.
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FINANCE MANAGER
236 Bryce Blvd, Georgia, VT 05454 (In Arrowhead Industrial Park, off Rt. 104A)
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All applicants must pass a criminal background check and a pre-employment drug screening. We support a drug-free workplace and enforce a Zero Tolerance Policy. EOE.
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Office Assistant For South Burlington Physical Therapy practice. Medical billing experience preferred. Part time, 20 hours a week. Flexibility to work more hours as needed a must!
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PPRC, PO Box 486, Williston, VT 05495 Fax 802-658-1436 or email sdowling@poulinperformance.com
CCV is looking to hire curriculum developers for the following new courses:
• Health and Safety in the Workplace • Workflow Design and Analysis • Manufacturing Systems • Supply Chain Logistics • Transportation Systems and Operations • Transportation Policy and Law
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MARKETING COURSE COORDINATOR
Responsibilities include:
• Drafting learning outcomes and week-by-week activities and assessments. • Recommending textbooks, supplemental resources, materials and equipment. • Developing on-ground, hybrid and online delivery models. Graduate degree, college-level teaching experience, and familiarity with online learning preferred.
Send cover letter and resume to:
Diane Hermann-Artim, Associate Academic Dean Community College of Vermont, 10 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT 05753 or email to Diane.Hermann-Artim@ccv.edu
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The Granite Group, a plumbing and Heating wholesaler, is seeking a warehouse and delivery truck driver to join our busy Burlington, Vt. branch. The duties include shipping and receiving duties, 4:46:01 PMassisting in loading and unloading of the delivery truck, and completing multiple daily deliveries. Please apply at 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington, VT or email Barry Metayer at bmetayer@thegranitegroup.com. www.thegranitegroup.com
LABORIE MEDICAL, Williston, Vt., a leading manufacturer of medical equipment, is seeking a Marketing Course Coordinator responsible for managing all aspects of the educational courses offered by the company. Qualifications include: college2v-GraniteGroup-052312.indd degree, marketing and administrative experience, competence with Microsoft Office Suite, professional written and oral communication skills, and ability to work independently while maintaining a professional corporate demeanor in a fastpaced working environment. Some travel required. Interested applicants, please email resume and cover letter to emorse@ laborie.com. No phone calls.
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St. Joseph Residential Care Home in Burlington, Vt. has an immediate opening for:
Shared Living Provider Opportunities HowardCenter’s Shared Living Provider program matches people with a developmental disability or Autism Spectrum disorder with individuals, couples or families to provide a home, day-to-day assistance and individualized support needs. Generous tax-free stipend, respite budget and community-based support provided. Please call Marisa Hamilton, 488-6571.
Needed ProfessioNal roommates with good bouNdaries for a charming Twenty something man who loves music, video games, cars and playing basketball. Great sense of humor. Generous tax-free stipend, plus room and board with dynamic team support make this an exceptionally great opportunity for the right persons living in Chittenden County. emPloyed 32-year-old maN interested in community activities and sewing/ tailoring would like to live in or near Shelburne, with a sociable couple or single female possessing strong boundaries and a great sense of humor. Client is able to cook and clean for himself. Pets in the home a plus/no children please. Generous tax-free stipend and respite budget provided. seekiNg comPassioNate & dePeNdable caregiver(s) to provide two weekends a month of respite in the S. Burlington/Shelburne area to 22-yearold music-lover. This young woman requires 24 hour high-tech medical needs including tube feeding, medication administration, personal care and caring for her respiratory, neurological and digestive needs. Overnight professional staff provided. Medical knowledge/training helpful, willing to train dedicated person(s). Accessible home required. Generous compensation provided. Please contact Sheila Spencer 488-6534 HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to qualified employees.
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Truck Driver
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St. Joseph Residential Care Home has an opening for the Food Service Supervisor. This position requires experience in dining supervision, serving, hosting and cooking. High level of professionalism and service skills needed to exceed expectations of residents. Knowledge of all aspects of food services to include but not limited to: high sanitation and safety skills, knowledge of culinary nutrition, state and federal laws and regulations, oversee the inventory and ordering of food, equipment, and supplies and arrange for the routine maintenance and upkeep, scheduling of employees, and supervisory management experience. The individual needs to be highly organized in dayto-day operations in the food service department. Familiarity with Microsoft Office and email a plus. Cooking experience required. The candidate should share the vision, mission and values of St. Joseph Residential Care Home. Competitive wage and benefits. Apply in Person: ST. JOSEPH RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME 243 North Prospect St. Burlington, VT 05401 802-864-0264 or email: ckeough@vermontcatholic.org
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