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When Justice Center Tennessee, got a call that some one had robbed a bank three -> blocks away, officers looking a 12th-floor window couid see the suspect running straight for the towering brick building which houses the city police department, the Shelby County Sheriff's Department and the

county's criminal courts, and is next door to the jail. As they directed officers on the ground, police in the building ^"watched the suspect duck behind a law office, stash the dye-stained cash behind an air conditioner, then hustle up the walkway to the center. After pulling on locked glass doors, the suspect turned arid laced a group of officers with guns drawn. Inspector Joe Holt reported the suspect "was overheard to make a statement to the effect, "This isn't the police department, is it?"

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OUT ON A LIMB "In the beginning was the word.. .and on the seventh day" — we all know what happened. Hope you and your dream team are getting some much-deserved R&R from the epochal labor pains of creating yet another new publication.-The resemblance of SEVEN DAYS to its unfortunately hostage birth-mother can only be attributed to the fact that you are the grandmothers! Given the history and chutzpah of its genesis, I look forward to it with even more relish than I did its precursor.

Since your goal is "to provide... the definitive word on life in Vermont," and your Central Vermont fans are legion, it would be great to see more about the action in the Barre-Montpelier area. There are a lot of hot-ticket events at the Barre Opera House, Lost Nation Theater, Pyralisk, etc. While I know you can't be all things to all people — how about regularly featuring local poetry pieces? Maybe even having a consumer column to review such basic services as: affordable places to get gas; good eats (not necessarily at the same location); clothing; honest, competent auto repairs; effective, holistic health care; etc.

Acccess to health care is a real concern for many un- and underinsured Vermonters. Those in the capitol city area should know that the year-old Peoples Wellness Clinic in Barre (Yellow Pages under clinics) offers basic services and wellness classes on a donation basis. An innovative model worth duplicating in other communities, it is staffed (except

for a salaried director) entirely by volunteer professionals. They come from both traditional and alternative disciplines in an almost unheard-of yet successful collaboration between chiropractors, MDs, a nutritionist and massage therapists. The planned addition of mental health services (as soon as counselors are available) will round out its holistic approach.

Anyone in need of care; interested in information or in contributing services, funding, "equipment or supplies is encouraged to call.

Thanks to all of you for going out on a limb to preserve the integrity of your vision while mirroring the panoramic collage of visions that make this such an interesting place to live.

— Layla Ray Montpelier BEET THAT BREZSNY! Come on, come on, get rid of that kooky "Real Astrology" by Brezsny. When I heard the editors of Vox walked out to start their own paper — without big-city financing and influence — I cheered. When I thought you would leave that stupid astrology behind, I smiled for days. Leave "Real Astrology" to Vox, find something different.

It was too much reading how he taped phone conversations with Pisceans and had them analyzed. You know, this drivel is already available in Vox, let it go, leave Vox something. It's already available! Get rid of Brezsny, do a jazzy astrology or numerology. Have a call for area occultists who interpret and write with a voice that fits SEVEN DAYS. Salute and brava on your paper. We need more in Montpelier. It was "sold out" at State Street Market and Hunger Mountain Food Co-op. Hey, I noticed advertising from businesses in my area.

When shopping for my next truck, I'll carry the paper under my arm. And we have some wonderful pizza here, too.

Winter squash, sweet beets and blessings to you all at SEVEN DAYS. — Barbara Bruno Montpelier

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A jet-lagged report on the UN Conference on Women

By Leigh Steel

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Family Man In his most

ambitious residency ever, David Doifman explores movement, metaphor and social change

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C o r r e c t i o n s : Vermont is full ol prominent Howards. The one referenced in the question-and' answer last week with Plainfield author Eric Zencey should have been Howard Norman, not Howard Mosher. Zencey and Norman have the same editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mosher, who reviewed * Panama last week for Seven Days, is published by Doubleday.

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You mean well, Colin, but you couldn't write a proper question to save your soul. What you want to know is what the framers of the Bill of Rights intended the Second Amendment to mean, and whether their intention has any continuing legal relevance in view of the (supposedly) dramatically-altered social landscape upon which we gaze today. The answer to the second question is easy: Yes, why else have a Constitution? But the answer to the first is knottier.

Historically there have been two interpretations of the Second Amendment: the states-rights argument and the individual-rights argument. The states-rights view is that the Second Amendment merely guarantees the states the fight to organize militias and citizens the right to join. (Militia here means any armed force raised for the common defense, not just the National Guard.) The individual-rights view is that the Second Amendment means what it says: Citizens have the right to keep and bear arms. The states-rights view currently prevails in federal case law, but the individual-rights view is probably closer to the framers intent. A reasonable restatement of the amendment might go sbme thing like this: "Since "we as a nation have found it necessary to organize citizen militias to defend against tyranny and may be compelled to do so again, and since these militias are necessarily composed of volunteers supplying their own weapons, the right of individuals to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Okay, some gun-control advocates will concede, but that merely means infringed by die federal government. As an article in Mother Jones put it, "The legal precedents are clear: Almost any state or local gun-control action is fine; the Second Amendment does not apply.

On;t|te federal level, laws interfering with state militias are prohibited."

WjS| j j | t|il ipl m This is a crock, also pathetically spar: courts and the legal enlight "The aspect of law the Bill o. the states as ; Few today would argue let them gut the second, «„ re& see urban violence on the scale we face now. Maybe they didn't, but so what? Civil-liberties excuse'to curtail ion against unlawful izure. ojtid Amendment at face value doesn't mean you can't regulate gun " — N o one can argue plausibly that the authors of the Bill o meant to make the authorities powerless to disarm criminals. The framers likely would have objected to a blanket proscription of handguns, which they would have seen as legitimate weapons of self-defense, and arguably they would have opposed a ban on assault rifles, the AK-47 being to todays oppressed what the long rifle was to those of 1776. But local gun registration presents no obvious Constitutional problems. Criminals don't register guns, of course; that's the point. Arrest a earful of mopes with guns and no permits and you have a good ipso facto case for throwing the book at them. How much better to approach gun control on a reasonable MSIS rather than make a religious war out of it.

- -. -, ; — Cecil Adams Is there something you need to get straight? Cecil Adams can deliver the Straight Dope on any topic. Write Cecil Adams, Chicago Reader, ; 11 E, Illinois, Chicago, IL 6 0 6 1 L : ' * September

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A jet-lagged report on the U.N. Conference on Women

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hirty Vermont delegates were among 30,000 in attendance at the United Nation's Fourth World Conference on Women and the parallel non-governmental organization forum in Huairou, China. The U.S. media picked up daily reports on the situation for women "in Beijing": the mud, the idiosyncrasies of bus drivers, the leaky tents and the lack of translators, the fear that few Chinese — thanks to their government — would get the message about human rights. News reports ran heartwarming features — with a twist. Like the one about the woman who pawned her wedding ring to pay for her and her daughter's trip to China. ("The marriage was history...so I hocked that sucker.")

Here's a partial account of what you didn't read about — just a few peripheral events from a single day at the conference.

A workshop entitled "Women in Agriculture" presented by the Pesticide Action Network of Asia and the Pacific. The key speaker was Vandana Shiva, an Indian physicist and philosopher known worldwide for her writing on environmental and feminist issues. Despite her wisdom and commanding presence, Shiva was accessible and down-to-earth. As always, she made the essential connections between the domination of the earth and the domination of women. She talked about the availability of local, safe and sufficient food for communities, about how GATT and the

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World Trade Organization's free trade policies have undermined food O R I E N T I N G W O M E N : Signs of the times in Beijing security in developing where visited the tent — often the rural province of Simbu. countries. In Malaysia, for at great personal risk.

Most are illiterate and 99 perinstance, rice paddies are used cent live in abusive relationYou may have read about to raise shrimp for export while the McDonald's tent, where Big ships. Sarah Garup, from Papua locals are malnourished.

New Guinea, told me of her Macs were sold to conference The lesbian march — dream to start house-building participants. You might not inspiring to its participants, but projects with the women in her have heard about the action in an embarrassment to the village. I discussed with her which women toppled a large, Chinese conference hosts. how the women of Simbu plastic Ronald McDonald and Planned at the Lesbian Tent's could be trained for paying jobs entreated the crowd to eat local daily meetings, its purpose was — a la the Step-Up for Women food — supporting indigenous to increase lesbian visibility and training program in Vermont. farmers — rather than support demand that lesbian rights be Women driving heavy equipa multinational corporation included as human rights in the ment, welding, building a serving unhealthy meals.

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out all the stops last week, in hopes Fezheads would buy as many papers as did Deadheads. But if the Shriners spent money on newspapers, they did not drop much cash on culture. "Shriners don't buy art, they buy scooters," observes Pascal Spengemann from the Firehouse Gallery. Mary Morris, manager at Robert Paul Galleries, agrees. "We had a great view of the parade," she says. By November, however, Robert Paul will be changing its vantage point. After a year at the comer of Church and Cherry, the gallery is moving to new as-yet-undisclosed location in greater Burlington.

With more foot traffic

DEAD RIVER: Cultural casualties are rare in Vermont, and River City Arts did not seem particularly prone. When the organization suffered a devastating fire two years ago, it rebounded. Not so after a summer of soft ticket sales. Last week the board of directors voted to pull the plug on

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IN BRIEF: Somefoliageflackhas the right idea. Last Sunday Vermont

the studio. " I t just sort of d a w n e d on me that I could

was all over The New York Times. The travel section carried two glowing

actually m a k e a career out

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of pottery," he recalls.

took on the Northeast Kingdom Novelist W D . Wetherell, who lives in

T o d a y h i s w o r k is s o l d all over the state, a n d

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New Hampshire, offered a well-researched profile of Montpelier. Virtually

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Craft School. Turns out that

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film facts in an article about the "rise of die college city." Burlington came off like the Parisian

The Vermont State Craft

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In his most ambitions residency even David D* explores movement, metaphor and social

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ast week in Burlington a young boy approached his mother, embraced her, turned and walked away. He stopped, turned back and repeated the sequence. Twice. It wasn't a child ambivalent about leaving home — it was the opening gesture of a most unusual dance. Directed — and accompanied on accordion — by world-renowned dancer/choreographer David Dorfman, the piece was still a little rough. It was also intense, honest, raw, funny, poignant and completely captivating.

Even the occasional awkwardness was somehow right. The dance received a three-bow standing ovation.

Chances are, you didn't hear a word about it. Granted, the performance was brief — barely spanning a quarter of an hour — and took place without much public fanfare, not on the Flynn Theatre stage but at the

even — except for two remarkable members of Dorfman's company — real dancers. And that was precisely the point.

This performance — the culmination of a two-week after-school workshop led by Dorfman and dancers Lisa Race and Tom Thayer — was about family, not stars. And family values, unless the subject of a political speech, tend not to make the evening news. Neither do community arts projects, generally, or life-enriching, esteem-raising experiences.

Epiphanies. Kids — and grown-ups — making friends with people unlike themselves, or learning how to move from the right side of the brain.

For that matter, dance itself is not often in the public eye — never mind in elementary schools — or mentioned in the same breath as "social services."

But thanks to the largest grant of its kind ever received in

ture for David," says Artistic Director Philip Bither, "of extensive relationships with people who don't have much contact with the Flynn."

In an era of shrinking arts funding, the art-deco showpiece continues to amaze. In addition to raising more than $4 million for its capital campaign this year and providing the region with ongoing eclectic, adventurous shows onstage, the Flynn is acquiring a reputation among artists and funding agencies alike for hosting ambitious residencies and educational programs — Liz Lerman Company, Bill T. Jones and an earlier Dorfman project among them.

This service-oriented mission — which distinguishes the Flynn among most arts presenters — is both practical and visionary. Practical because incoming grant money for good projects enhances the esteem of

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Wheeler School in the Old North End. On, Dorfman quipped, "a special tile-on-concrete" gym floor. The performers were a dozen or so children and adults selected through their association with one of several Burlington social agencies: COTS, Spectrum, the Boys and Girls Club, the King Street Youth Center. No household names. No glamour. Not

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Vermont — $61,588 from the Lila WzW&cc-Reader's Digest Fund — the Flynn Theatre and David Dorfman Dance will engage, ultimately, hundreds of Vermont families in "Familiar Movements." For the most part, they're family members who rarely even watch dance, much less do it themselves — especially together. And that was also the point. "We created a struc-

the theater both locally and nationally, and enable it to provide those arts programs to the community. Visionary because community-based projects foster the enjoyment and understand ,tg of and long-term participation in the arts. A project like "Familiar Movements" provides immediate gratification as a cultural, social and personalgrowth experience. It also, theo-

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In short, community-based residencies are important vehicles of that stuff we call culture.

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he fortnight that Dorfman, Race and Thayer just spent in afternoon sessions with "inner city" Burlington residents was the First phase of a five-week residency. During two weeks in November, Dorfman and other company members will return for a similar process with suburban/rural communities (Jericho, Underhill, Richmond and West Bolton) and members of two Jewish synagogues. They will also hold general auditions to select dancers for a joint communitycompany performance in January at the Flynn.

One objective of the project is to examine the dynamics of family relationships as they manifest in movement.

Ultimately, Dorfman will extrapolate some of these moves into choreography for his company. Meanwhile, for the pairs of related children and adults — single mothers with daughters or sons, kids with mentors, roommates — exploring body language has meant deepening an understanding of their own relationships, especially, perhaps, the auto-pilot sorts of exchanges that occur between parent and child.

Initially, Wheeler School participant Violet Calhoun says she got involved simply to spend more time with her daughter, eight-year-old Nina Banks. In the process — including daily journaling — Calhoun acknowledged a fundamental difficulty she had had in parenting Nina. That admission was incorporated as text in the Wheeler performance: "I grew up in an unemotional family," she recited while the group gestured in response.

"Then I had my daughter. She was a very affectionate child.

But I was not used to that, and I pushed her away. She began to cry, so I promised myself I would never do that again."

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of three, also relished the opportunity to spend time oneon-one with her middle child, 11 -year-old Ashley, and to experience her in the context of a performing group. "My daughter is very talented — very athletic and dramatic," says Wilson. "I got to be a part of her expression of that."

Both women note that the biggest challenge the group faced was simply getting used to each other — accepting each other's differences in age, race, physical abilities, personalities, expressiveness or lack thereof.

As in the rest of life, this was harder for some than for others.

One uncooperative boy had to be expelled; some found it difficult to let their bodies do the talking. And then there was the little matter of stage fright. "I ? had to coax one kid out of the bathroom," says project assistant Rachel Siegel, "five minutes before the performance."

But in the end, personal issues gave way to the unique bonding of a group that performs — triumphantly — together. Call it a larger sense of family. In weekly follow-up sessions led by Siegel over the next month or two, the 25-year-old Burlington dancer and teacher will find out, along with her charges, just how deep those roots have grown.

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avid Dorfman, a Chicago

native now based in New York, has been thinking about families a lot this year — about the relationships, traditional or otherwise, that define family structure in the '90s.

About his 84-year-old father, his deceased mother, his sister whose daughters are grown; about — now that he's nearing 40 — maybe starting a family unit of his own.

But his interest in family dynamics through movement evolved from "The Athlete's Project," Dorfman's previous residency at the Flynn which ultimately traveled to 11 cities in the U.S. and Europe. A multi-sport athlete himself — like company member Tom Thayer, he didn't take up dance Continued on page 10 page21

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until college — Dorfman was a natural for exploring athletic movement. That vocabulary is evident in his own gymnastic performance style and that of company member Lisa Race, who just this month won a Bessie — the dance world's equivalent to an Oscar.

Dorfman recalls a transformative experience in the "Athlete's Project": A woman expressed her desire not to support the weight of her daughter in a section of the piece because it mirrored what she did daily in their relationship.

Rather than split up the pair, Dorfman proposed that mother and daughter switch roles. The girl supporting her mother's weight effected a positive change not only in their dynamic but in the entire piece. It is experiences like this that Dorfman lives for — and incorporates into his work.

After finishing a business degree at Washington University, Dorfman got a masters in dance at Connecticut College. His thesis performance included "kids and old people," he says. Following school he studied with Kei Takei company, and 10 years ago he founded his own, incorporating both formal and naturalistic movement styles. This particular configuration has been together for five years, and the members appear to share Dorfman's vision. Says Thayer, "There's such a responsibility to teach.

[Modern dance] is still a new art form. And dance in the community has a certain therapeutic value. I'm not trained in social work, but David is so out there with his honesty — I'm glad there's room for that."

As was evident to his crew at the Wheeler School, Dorfman is a gifted — if not chronic — collaborator. "If a seven-year-old says let's try something," Bither notes, "David will go along with it."

"I just love the sense of people doing things differently," Dorfman responds. "I've found the broader sense of family." •

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Not bloody likely. Not anymore. "How are you," to the wary phone user of the '90s, has all the lyric promise of the click of the safety catch in a dark alley. No longer a greeting, it's a warning. You, with your fist around the receiver and the goofy, expectant grin on your face, have just fallen prey to a telemarketer.

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It's not just— though now we're getting warm — that when I hear "How are you" I envision all those desolate training sessions in which the sweaty denizens of telemarketing middle management lick their cigar stubs and disclose to new recruits the pinheaded psychostrategy of the trade ("Be sure to ask 'em how they are! That'll have 'em eating out of your hand!"). And it's not just that I

resent being called by my first name by somebody I've never met, somebody who's basically interested in selling me a cemetery plot. "How are you," indeed.

And you know what? It's not even just that I'm repulsed by the telemarketing industry's sordid association with fraud — especially that perpetrated on the elderly. The junk jewelry you might get if you spend $598 over seven months on vitamin pills. The sleazy tricks for finding out credit-card numbers of the credulous, all the scams for prying into personal financial records so that drafts ooze from your account to theirs without your knowledge. Fraud

on a scale of $40 billion annually, according to widely published estimates.

This appalls and nauseates me. But it isn't iust that.

It's..."Riiiiiing. Riiiiiing.

Riiii—" Me (getting up from the dinner table and the hot food on my plate, the beginnings of a relaxed, end-of-day conversation with my wife and sons, and clomping the length of the house. Or me, wresting my attention from the train of thought I've tortuously developed on an intense, deadlinedrenched afternoon): "Hello?"

"Is this, uh, Donald Power?

Don? Don, how are you!?" * How am I? How the goddam hell am I?

I'll tell you how I am. I am suddenly a human warhead. I'm Travis Bickle in the final scene of Taxi Driver, I'm a Menace II Society. My medullae are pumping whitecapped adrenaline into my nervous system.

I'm a creature of reddened vision, programmed for vengeance. I am pissed off — by this telephone call. And you?

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billion in 1991. The one that employs four million people nationwide, with 300,000 solicitors making 18 million calls daily. See, I don't accept that there is such a thing as a "legitimate" telemarketing industry. I don't want my telephone used as an advertising or sales conduit by anybody. Period.

But what choice do I have?

Clearly I'm in a minority here.

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recently declared that "stopping people from being bothered by salesmen isn't a function of government."

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on the coercive. If I don't want to read the junk catalogues glutting my mailbox every day — intrusion enough — I can throw them away. But when my phone rings, I'm going to stop what I'm doing and answer it, because I don't know who's on the other end of the line. It may be a lifeand-death call. It may be a friend or a student. It may be — call me a dreamer — someone who wants to give me money.

But when it's some robotic voice that says, after a pause to double-check the computerprintout list, "Ron? How are you?" then I want to say, "Would you mind holding please — until we write a law that gets you and your company the hell out of my private life?" Then I'll tell you how I am. I'm doing just fine. •

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The word on Vermont theater this season: homegrown

By Amy t's do-or-die time for Vermont's resident theaters.

Again. Time to find a way to lure post-summer audiences who think theater comes packaged in tour buses spewing diesel behind the Flynn. And this year, the stakes are high.

Because as Vermont enters its 1995-96 season, it sports nearly 30 resident producers — each vying for the same dollars.

Ironically, the state's growing thespian presence lowers survival chances for each player.

So, what's a theater to do? Play the state trump card: the "Vermont Made" label.

Scan this year's play choices, and you'll see a marked increase in commitment to local playwrights, collaborators and adapters. It's great exposure for some prominent talent in

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Even classics-prone Vermont Stage Company touts homegrown work as "a vital part of what theater can do."

Artistic Director Blake Robison describes his efforts to "bring new plays by Vermont writers" to First Night Burlington as "a chance to hear what's on the minds of local artists in the community." A likely candidate for that gig is nationally recognized Middlebury playwright Dana Yeaton, who runs the Vermont Young Playwrights Project with filmmaker Jay Craven.

THE STATE'S GROWING PRESENCE LOWERS SURVIVAL CHANGES FOR EACH PLAYER. WHAFS A THEATER TO DO? PLAY THE STATE TRUMP CARD: THE "VERMONT MADE" LABEL our writer-logged state, and it might just be the angle that packs 'em in.

Case in point: Green Candle Theatre Company — always a backer of original and new works — is shining its light on Jericho playwright Keefe Healy in a big way this

Champlain College tapped local talent for its fall offering: Burlingtonian Don Rowe's The Vampire Dracula. Rowe claims his adaptation of the Brad Stoker thriller will be "the most faithful version to the novel on stage or screen." Another local adapter, Northern Stage's

Katherine Blume, performs her one-woman approach to Beryl Markham's West With the Night in March. Northern is also courting Vermont writers for its December one-act festival.

Promoting local writing is business-as-usual for Vermont's ever-prolific Stephen Goldberg and his One Take Productions.

After years of self-producing his brooding plays — known for their names and content — Goldberg is taking his Quantum Dog in a Deep Blue Jaguar down to Manhattan's West Village in November. He's "just finishing up" his latest — the working title is Curb Divers Redemption — which promises to be "pretty intense, pretty wild" and hits the boards in January.

Cradle To Grave Arts visionary Hannah Dennison is as locally focussed as they come. Her multi-genre collaborations feature both Vermont artists and sets. Apparently recovered from last season's sold-out Winooski Woolen Mill epic, she's raring to get her merry band of actors, dancers and musicians into an abandoned bakery in Burlington's Old North End. What's it about? "Bread," she effuses, and explains her plans for percussion: "We'll probably play the building."

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attending the four-week arts and culture extravaganza, Ziter and Higgins found themselves performers in a cult hit.

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, an outrageously camp musical, received a prestigious Fringe First Award for its outstanding original production.

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Try an amazing year - under the circumstances. You would never know from the quantity and diversity of arts offerings in Vermont that Newt Gingrich was alive and well, or that the National Endowment for the Arts had been taken hostage in Washington D.C. Most of the season offerings are bigger, and better, than ever.

The Lane Series turns 40 this year, with 20 events. The Flynn, post-summer f a c e l i f t , is presenting 27 acts, not counting small performances on stage.

And almost every arts organization in the state is presenting the Vermontmade Terezin Project, masterminded by former Crossroads Arts Council director Ludy Biddle and Vermont Symphony Choral Director Robert DeCormier. The performance, featuring two operas originally sung by inmates in a Nazi concentration camp, will make almost a dozen stops in Vermont, from the arts center at Bennington College to Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury. I t ' s a testament to the power of art under the harshest of circumstances. Approp r i a t e in any dark age. ^ • I

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Some of the best stuff comes in the second half of the season: Choreographer Bill T. Jortes — who convinced a troupe of local movers to dance naked in Burlington five years ago — is back with another controversial piece about death and dying that had The New Yorker and the New York Times debating back and forth for weeks.

Jean-Pierre Perreault is also a must-see. With "Joe," the French-Canadian dance troupe refines the term "pedestrian" and takes out an extra 10 rows of theater seats The Flynn Theatre season is in itself a for walking room. Two other shows — work of art — a winning combination of Spalding Gray and "P.S. 122 Field Trips" — big-name acts and delightfully offbeat ones. call for even more intimate seating arrangeWhere else do you find the Canadian Brass ments. Bither notes, "We are using one on the same season with the Moroccan facility to create the three-piece facility that musicians who inspired Ornette Coleman, we need."

Paul Bowles and The Rolling Stones? The That facility, by the way, was originally Will Rogers Follies two days after David designed to show movies, and this year revisDorfman Dance? its its former mission with two sort-of silent The Flynn is nationally recognized for its numbers. New-music guitarist Bill Frisell programming, which extends way beyond accompanies a trio of Buster Keaton films in performance to include residency activities, December. Six months later, musicologist workshops and classes.'"It's so much easier Gillian Anderson resurrects the original, to book an act, put it on sale and be done never-heard score for the Charlie Chaplin with it," says programming director Philip film, The Circus.

Bither. "But if you don't make it relevant for Bither is also excited about the people, the art form will die."

Contemporary Jazz Piano Ensemble — a But for the next nine months, anyway, keyboard extravaganza that brings together things at the Flynn look very much alive. ' some of the best players in the biz. That's The season opens with a Gershwin show — eight hands and four grand pianos. "I have a Crazy for You — and improves steadily from weakness for gatherings," Bither says. More there: Master Musicians of Jajouka, a Royal like a strength. pick-up version of Romeo and Juliet, the For more information about Flynn Theatre National Ballet of Caracas and more events, call 802-863-8778.

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Like Middlebury, the Hop boasts some of the best cinema in the region. This year the Dartmouth Film Society picked a popular theme: Sex in Cinema. Movies range from Carnal Knoivledge and Tropic of Cancer to Fritz the Cat and She's Gotta Have It. So do you. Get it at the Hop.

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Take Frederica Von Stade. Who would have thought the world-class diva would deign to perform in a small New Hampshire college town? "Somebody called and she said, yes,'" says media relations coordinator Georgia Croft. "We were able to get her because she is an absolutely wonderful person who is committed to doing performances in an academic environment."

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The VSO tours eleven communities during 1995 peak foliage season, with music to make each evening as colorful as the day. Join Kate Tamarkin, the Orchestra, and violinist Isabella Lippi in performances which include Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, the Dvorak Serenade for Strings and a new work by Middlebury composer Su Lian Tan.

September 21 Randolph September 22 Barre September 23 Newport September 24 St. Johnsbury September 28 Middlebury September 29 Johnson September 30 Springfield October 1 Dartmouth October 5 Rutland

Make your plans now to join the VSO for its 1995 Made in Vermont Music Festival. Call the VSO at 802-864-5741 for information and tickets.

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There is something unusual about the current concert itinerary of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Its 11-stop "Made in Vermont'' tour mades a detour around Burlington. Like every organization funded by the Vermont Legislature, the statewide symphony strives for democratic geographical respresentation — not to mention equitable outreach.

"The whole idea is to recommit ourselves to regionalizing what we do," says marketing director Karen Cox, "by doing concerts that work better in

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When it comes to classical music, the George Bishop Lane Series is in a league of its own. Few programmers make distinctions between high and low baroque, modern and period instruments — let alone offer world-class examples of all of the above in a single season.

With the exception of its twice-yearly opera imports — look for The Marriage of Figaro and La Traviata this year - and an annual sampling of Shakespeare, the Lane Series puts its programming energies into small classical music ensembles. Lots of them. Groups like the Orpheus Consort, specializing in renaissance instrumental music, and the Florilegium Baroque Ensemble, known for its winning way with Telemann.

Under the direction of flutist and professor Jane Ambrose, "there has been an effort to represent all the periods of music," says marketing director Natalie Neuert. But since it scaled back five years ago, the Lane Series defines those "periods" in academic terms. No more blockbuster Broadway shows. No more huge European symphonies. The Lane Series prefers its rent-free recital hall to the Flynn these days.

Which is not to say the season is sober. Ambrose included a number of "eclectic" programs for music buffs of another variety: a jazz concert by the String Trio of New York, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie, and a sure-to-be-rousing appearance of the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble. Even Senator Patrick Leahy plays a part — his reading for the Celtic Christmas show is backed by Irish musicians Robbie O'Connell, Jimmy Keane and Eileen Ivers. "Now that," says Neuert, "could be a rocking show."

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That means Burlington listeners have a choice: either catch a nearby concert while leaf-peeping, or hold out for the first of five symphony concerts at the Flynn — the Beethoven Ninth, with full chorus. From there, the Burlington programming really gets interesting: an organ concert by Boston-born Anthony Newman is followed up by a collaborative concert with I Musici de Montreal. Spring brings two romantic programs featuring female soloists. Not to mention Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev

and Stravinsky.

Diverse enough? How about a holiday pops concert — the first since Kate Tamarkin took over as music director — in the Arthur Fiedler tradition? Or a collaboration with the Flynn Theatre to present the Kronos Quartet?

For a small symphony with a big mission in a state as sparsely populated as Vermont, there is a first time for everything.

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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE c o n c e r t Location, location, location. Perhaps the best thing about concert series at Middlebury College is where it takes place. Three years after it was completed, the multi-million-dollar center for the arts is still the best-kept cultural secret in Vermont. Under one highly unusual roof, it offers everything the city of Burlington lacks: a black-box studio theater, two convertible dance spaces and a woodworked concert hall so intimate it feels — and sounds — like you are inside the instruments.

"We are really the best place to experience a recital, period," says director Susan Stockton,

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who took over the arts center last summer after a long leaderless stretch. Here classical music is defined broadly enough to include the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and cabaret singer Weslia Whitfield. Not to mention a theater piece on the subject of idiocy, a concert by Doug Varone and Dancers and two concerts of classical Indian music.

Looking for wilder fare? The well-endowed department of theater seems to deliver at least one ace act per semester. Last year it was Scenes from an Execution, which cleaned up at the American College Theater Festival in Boston, then moved

on to the Kennedy Center.

Director Cheryl Faraone will give Tom Stoppard a try this fall.

The film series is also worth the drive. Think of it as "Great Art Films You Missed the First Time Around." If Red and Crumb are not your kind of movies, consider a "Tribute to the Western" — a high-level professorial panel discussion followed by a screening of The Searchers. At Middlebury the price is always right — absolutely free.

For information about Middlebury College events, call the Arts Center at 802388-MIDD.

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SEPTEMBER 20 Frederica von Stade Internationally renowned mezzo-soprano 23 Saffire — T h e Uppity Blues W o m e n Acoustic blues trio 27 The Hal GarperTrio with Special Guest Jerry Bergonzi 29-30 San Francisco M i m e Troupe Escape to Cyberia Electrifying, musical political comedy

Cassandra Wilson Jazz, blues and folk 4 Dartmouth College Glee Club 11 Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble Tribute to Julius Hemphill 12 The Operas fromTerezin The Emperor from Atlantis and Brundibar 14- 19 Dartmouth Department of D r a m a Romeo and Juliet 14 W o r l d Music Percussion Ensemble 15 Dartmouth College C h a m b e r Singers A Concert for the Occasion 18 Dartmouth College Gospel Choir 18 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra 21 Dartmouth W i n d Symphony 27 Sally Pinkas Piano solos by Beethoven and Rochberg 28 Handel Society Celebration for the Season

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OCTOBER 7 Robin Hirsch Kinderszenen: Scenes from Childhood 9-10 Mark Morris Dance G r o u p World's most musical choreographer 12 The Master Musicians of Jajouka Bewitching music alive with primal energies 14 Guillermo Gomez-Pena Performance art exploring issues of identity 15 C h a m b e r W o r k s with Diane Heffner Free admission 16 Guitar S u m m i t Four guitar superpowers 19 Ursula Oppens Contemporary and traditional piano 21 Fall Fling Dartmouth's own a cappella artists 26 The Lydian String Quartet 29 C h a m b e r W o r k s with The Westminister Quartet Free admission

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' T H I R D T H U R S D A Y OUT*: Queer and queer-friendly folk showcase Vermont-grown visual and performance art. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Donations. Info, 863- 2307. ' T H E ART O F T O U C H ' : Roz Driscoll makes art that is designed to be touched.

She speaks about her installation of sculpture and collages in the Upper Gallery, Middlebury Museum of Art, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3711 x 5007.

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SINGLE PARENTS N E T W O R K Single parents and their children gather for community and discussion. Middle School, S. Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-6613.

PARENTS A N O N Y M O U S : Terrible twos or teens? Get support for parenting while your kids play next door. Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-4014.

FREDERICA V O N STADE: T h e worldclass mezzo-soprano sings to a sold-out audience. Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N . H . 8 p.m. Info, 603-646-2422.

d a n c e C O N T A C T IMPROV: Gravity plays a crucial role in this kinetic free-for-all.

Dancers meet at Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington, 7:15 p.m. $1. Info, 660-0866.

t h e a t e r O P E N COMPANY MEETING: Northern Stage kicks off its second season with an organizational meeting for interest: ed actors and techies. Northern Stage Studio, 242 S. Winooski Ave. #6, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-ARTS.

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Free. Info, 388-3467.

k i d s N A T U R E W O R K S H O P : Preschoolers and their adult companions explore the synergy of seeds. Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, 1 p.m. $3. Info, .434-3068,

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e t c . ' T H E D I G N I T Y O F LEGISLATION': Politcal philosopher Jeremy Waldron speaks about "Liberal Rights" and "The F R A N K F O L K : What to expectfrom the sole act on Righteous Babe Records? Songs Right to Private Property." 110 Kalkin, that "walk a long bridge between Joni Mitchell and PearlJam," writes the Los Angeles UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, Times. Catch Ani DiFranco Friday at the Flynn 656-4318.

BUSINESS D I S C U S S I O N : Evaluate Regional Planning Office, Essex series. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, your shipping process with a circle of Junction, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3004. peers. Rhino Foods, Burlington, 3-4:30 8 p.m. $15. Info, 800-VSO-9293.

M A N A G I N G T R A N S I T I O N S ' : Ben & p.m. Free. Info, 655- 4300.

Jerrys veteran Chico Lager offers pointers CONSULTANTS N E T W O R K M E E T t h e a t e r on the subject of "What to Do When ING: Accounting software is the subject 'IN T H E B L O O D ' : Some went all Your Business Outgrows You." Sponsored of this meeting and buffet dinner. Hampthe way to Edinburgh to see this play

by Vermont Businesses for Social ton Inn, Colchester, 5:30 p.m. $18.50. by local Keefe Healy. Fresh from Fringe Responsibility. Gardeners Supply, Register, 351-0285.

Festival, Green Candle performs at Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Register, BIRTHWISE SUPPORT GROUP: Burlington City Hall, 8 p.m. $10 or 655-4300.

Women and families explore prenatal, whatever you can afford. Info, birthing and postpartum issues. 4 Park 893-7333.

Ave., Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6885.

CANCER S U P P O R T G R O U P : People a r t with cancer and their families sample supPOLITICAL ART TALK: New York port based on the work of the National m u s i c curator Nina Felshin presents a slide lecV E R M O N T SYMPHONY ORCHWellness Communities. Cancer Wellness ture on "The Spirit of Art as Political ESTRA: Autumn Lute Song, by VermonCenter, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Activism." St. Edmund's Hall, St. ter Su Lian Tan, is one of four works feaFree. Register, 865-3434.

Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. tured in this "Made in Vermont" concert Free. Info, 654-2535.

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ANI D E F R A N C O : The New York folkpunk singer puts girl talk to music. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $21. Info, 863-5966.

t h e a t e r 'IN T H E BLOOD*: See September 21. ' T H E WAR O F T H E ROSES': Three actors from Vermont Stage Company perform monologues and scenes from Richard II, Henry IVand Henry V. Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 388-6433.

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k i d s STORY T I M E : Folks under two-and-ahalf start a six-week story series at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Free. Register, 865-7216.

S I N G I N G : Robert Resnik shares his musical talents with youngsters of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

PLANETARIUM S H O W : Can you explain "heaven" to kids? Transport them to the Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $4.50. Reservations, 878-8687.

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Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 863-5966.

KEVIN LOCKE: The flute-playing Lakota hoop dancer and storyteller perform at the Concert Hall, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. $8.

Info, 388-MIDD. SAFFIRE: This acoustic trio is following in the tradition of "uppity blues women" like Bessie Smith, Sippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey. Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $14.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

d a n c e CONTRA DANCE: Susan Kevra calls for Mary Lea and Mary Cay Brass.

Potluck at 6:15 p.m. Edmunds School Cafeteria, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 865-9363.

t h e a t e r 'IN THE BLOOD': See September 21.

OFF T H E CUFF: You set the scene: The comedy offshoot of Theater Factory improvs at Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 872-2738.

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ARTIST SESSION: Artists and photographers get a new angle on their art with a live model. 150 Elm St., Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-5253.

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EDITING 'BLINK': Middlebury grad Rick Shaine edited the "intense, terrifying and erotic" feature film, Blink. He shows clips and discusses his process at 4 p.m. The film is screened in its entirety at 7:30 p.m. Twilight Hall, Middlebury College. Free. Info, 388-MIDD.

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JOSEPH BRUCHAS: The award-winning Abenaki author of Dawn Land signs the sequel, Long River. Book Rack, Winooski, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231.

k i d s SAFETY DAY: Learn fire safety with Pluggy the Robot and see the inside of

an ambulance. Midas Muffler, S. Burlington, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 864-4543.

STORY TIME: Kids over three listen up at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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ORGANIC FESTIVAL: Taste corn, pesto pizza and pickles made from organically-grown ingredients at a day-long harvest celebration. Gardener's Supply, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $2 per car.

Info, 660-3505.

BIKE TRIP: Explore Burlington area bike trails from the Burlington Boathouse, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 862-3249.

MARKETFEST: There could be a shopping spree in your future. Downtown stores celebrate autumn with music, entertainment and fortune-cookies.

Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7253.

WASHINGTON COUNTY DAY: Washington County residents — who can prove it — get into the Shelburne Museum for free, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Info, 985-3346.

HARVEST MARKET: This old-fashioned country fair, featuring a parade and foot race, entertainment and flea market, was rated a top 10 event by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

Underhill Town Green, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Free. Info, 899-1104.

HAWK WATCH: Outreach for Earth Stewardship leads a hawk-watching trip to the Monkton range. Meet in Hinesburg at 8:30 a.m. $8. Info, 985-8783.

REMOTE-CONTROLLED SAILBOAT RACE: Watch serious model-boat sailing at Commodores Inn, Stowe, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 800-247-8693.

FOLIAGE PADDLE: This "mystery canoe trip" sponsored by the Montpelier Green Mountain Club requires little more than a paddle. Those needing partners and canoes are matched up ahead of time. Meet behind Montpelier High School, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 223-0030.

INTERNATIONAL BIKE TRIP: The Stowe Bike Club provides maps, a sag wagon, energy bars and mystery prizes for those peddling 100 kilometers or 100 miles through Northern Vermont.

Johnson State College, 9 a.m. $20.

Register, 229-0192.

LONG TRAIL HIKE: Hike Killington Mountain from the Bucklin trailhead to Lower Road. Meet at UVM Visitors Parking, Burlington, 6:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 893-1266.

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VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: See September 21, North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury. ' T H E MAGIC FLUTE': Opera Burlington performs the Mozart masterpiece at Mann Hall, Trinity College, Burlington, 2 p.m. $20. Info, 862-2409.

d a n c e CONTRA DANCE: The Last Elm String Band plays while you do-si-do.

Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Donations. Info, 658-7458.

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BREAD & PUPPET THEATER: Enjoy a "cruelty-free" circus with trained animals made of cardboard. Bread & Puppet Farm, Glover, 4:30 p.m. $6. Info, 525-3031.

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TRINMEN: Eight men from the famous Trinity College Choir in England perform Lamentations of Jeremiah and lighter fare. Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 388-MIDD. OPEN REHEARSAL: The award-winning women of the Champlain Echoes welcome your vocal cords at their harmonious rehearsal. Knights of Columbus Hall, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6703.

k i d s NUTCRACKER AUDITIONS: Potential rats, snowflakes and superplums try out for the November production of The Nutcracker. Kids six to eight audition at 10 a.m.; those nine to 11 at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Dance Studio, Patrick Gym, UVM, Burlington. Info, 8782941.

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2 . CORN-O-PLENTY: ; Remember the dog days of summer? Well, it's payback time.

"Gorn^ apples, tomatoes — if it grows, you'll find it Saturday at the Intervale Organic Food and Garden Festival. Also sample the homegrown pesto pizza, gourmet pickles and maple fudge.

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MAKING PEACE' SERIES: Get an overview of Gandhi's "experiments with truth." Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Register, 863-2345.

GARDEN CLUB MEETING: A National Symposium teacher talks about "creative color." Faith United Methodist Church, S. Burlington, 1:15 p.m. Free.

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PARENTS WORKSHOP: Parents learn how to cook with kids at a Fletcher Allen-sponsored class. Edmunds Middle School, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Register, 862-9622.

STORY TIMES: Three-and-a-half- to five-year-olds hear stories at the South Burlington Library at 9:30 a.m. Those four through six listen up at 3:30 p.m.

Free. Info and registration, 658-9010.

MARKETFEST: See September 23, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

HARVEST MARKET: See September 23, noon - 4 p.m.

AUTUMNFEST: Local artists celebrate the end of summer with music, magic food and puppets. Middlebury College Art Center, noon, $4. Info, 388-7189.

'ORIGAMI BIONIC FROGS': Hear the story behind these paper animals that can jump six feet. All ages are invited to the workshop at Frog Hollow, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6458.

WALK/RUN FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS: Schlep five or 10 kilometers to support research efforts. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. $15 minimum in pledges. Info, 863-8900.

AUDUBON AUCTION: Bid on a glider ride, dog obedience school or antiques to benefit the Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center Sugarhouse, Huntington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3068.

O * IN T H E BLINK: For most filmgoers, Blink was just that — a fleeting preview, a two-hour feature film that came and went. But for editor Rick Shane, the movie meant managing miles of footage. Meet a former Midd Kid with Hollywood connections Saturday at Twilight Hall, Middlebury College.

BALLET BOUND: Nothing like Nutcracker auditions to close the book on summer. The Vermont Conservatory of Ballet is looking for a supporting cast of reindeer, mice and soldiers for the annual superplum spectacle. Tryouts are Sunday at Patrick Gymnasium.

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LEWIS CREEK GATHERING: Mac Parker tells tales of his life and neighbors growing up in the Northeast Kingdom.

Kids bring signs of nature from the watershed. Adults bring snacks to the Millhouse B&B, Starksboro, 2-4 p.m.

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SIERRA CLUB HIKE: Hike six moderate miles through fabulous foliage to see northern peaks. Carpool to Belvidere Mountain; hike 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free.

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t h e a t e r X I T T L E ACTS O F KINDNESS': Judevine playwright David Budbill revives his people play with music by The Disciples. Valley Players Theatre, Waitsfleld, 7 p.m. $6. Info, 223-7044.

'AS YOU LIKE IT': Lost Nation takes on Shakespeare's pastoral comedy at Montpelier City Hall, 8 p.m. $5.25.

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Info, 244-6352.

PARENTS ANONYMOUS MEETING: See September 21.

STORY TIME: Hear a story, then act out some aspect of it. Children's Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.

STORY HOUR: Kids between three and five are entertained by stories and activities. Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

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NATURE A U T H O R : Bill McKibben discusses and signs Hope, Human and Wild. Book Rack, Winooski, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 655-0231.

STORY TIME: Folks under two-and-ahalf start a six-week story series at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 10:30 or 11 a.m.^ree. Register, 865-7216.

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AGRICULTURAL OPEN HOUSE: The Center for Sustainable Agriculture, the Women's Agricultural Network and the Farm Youth Corps invite the public to learn about their programs. 590 Main St., Burlington, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 6562005.

SENIOR GATHERING: Elders meet for coffee and conversation. Wheeler School, Burlington, 8:15-10:15 a.m.

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WOMEN'S HEALTH TALK: Bryn Perkins discusses health problems affecting women from age 35 to menopause.

Food Shelf, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 863-3659.

'WRINKLE-RELIEF' TALK: A doctor discusses wrinkle causes and new research on Retin-A. Burgess Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Register, 865-2278.

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MOVEMENT IMPROVISATION: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:45-7:45 p.m.

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Info, 864-4705. Hannah Dennison and Working Ground dance-theater company invite the community to join in their classes.

WHOLE DANCE FOR WOMEN: Mondays, September 25 & October 2, Champlain Club, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m.

Info, 658-4972. Move to music — earthy exotic and ethereal— with a circle of iuomen.

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: Thursdays 10 a.m. - noon. Capitol City Grange, Montpelier. Fridays 5:30-7:30 p.m. Chace Mill, Burlington. $8. Info, 985-3665. Accompanied by live drumming, Carla Kevorkian teaches traditional dances of Cuba, Haiti and Brazil AFRO-INSPIRED DANCE: Tuesdays 5:30-7 p.m. HinesbuigTown Hall. $8. Info, 453-4490. Anna Consalw teaches an AfroCaribbean-style class with live drumming.

AFRICAN DANCE: Mondays & Wednesdays 5:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. $8. info, 862-6727. Padma Gordon teaches the moves with live drumming by the Jeh Kulu Drum Ensemble.

MODERN-JAZZ DANCE: Slow/intermediate adults, Tuesdays 7-8:30 p.m.

Intermediate/advanced adults, Wednesdays 6:30 p.m. Olympiad, S. Burlington, $9. Info, 985-5216. Jane Seker leads an ongoing class.

AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT: Every other Friday evening, September 22 December 15. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. $35 for the series.

Register, 767-9273. Jacky Gabe teaches moving from within.

DRUMMING BEGINNING TAIKO: Tuesdays 5 p.m.

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LANGUAGE BEGINNING SPANISH: Thursdays, September 21 ~ October 26> 7*8i30 p.m.

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PARENTING COMMUNICATION CLASS: Wednesday, September 20, 7-8 p.m. Burgess Hall, UVM, Burlington, Free. Register, 865-2278, Parents learn ways to encourage verbal development in the very young.

PHOTOGRAPHY NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: Saturday, September 23, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington. $4. Register, 434-3068.

Review the basics of35-mm camera structure and uses in landscape and wildlife photography.

SPIRIT 'PEACE BEGINS WITHIN': Saturday, September 23, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington. Free. Register, 863-2345. A psychologist teaches peace-ofmind techniques.

MEDITATION: First & third Sundays, 10 a.m. - noon. Burlington Shambala Center. Free. Info, 658-6795. Non-sectarian and Tibetan Buddhist practices are taught.

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Awakening Center, Shelburne. $60.

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I love eating. The changing textures in my mouth, the persistence of my teeth pureeing a stiff slab of Italian bread into tender cream. The rhythms of bite, tear, chew and swallow.

Unfortunately, I do not love to cook. But I do it anyway, because I can't afford an inhouse chef, dining out, or prepared frozen food. So, in my determination to eat well, I spend my money on the finest ingredients this area has to offer.

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Sweet basil flares my nostrils.

When I see it reasonably-priced in the grocery store, I buy it.

But it usually comes on woody stems, so I prefer to gather my own from my garden. All summer I pull on the tops of the plants gently so the stems break off where they're still delicate enough to eat. That way I don't have to pluck off the leaves once I get inside; I just cover my blender blades with some olive or canola oil, loosely pack it with the fresh basil, a clove or two of raw garlic if I feel like it, and turn it on. In a couple of minutes, when the basil becomes a grainy paste, it's pesto.

Most folks add grated Romano cheese and pine nuts during or after blending to make a traditional pesto. But since the time I left out the cheese for a friend who can't eat milk products, I have come to prefer both the simplicity of adjusting only two or three ingredients and the flexibility the mixture allows later.

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If I notice signs and symptoms early on, I take the fresh herb paste out of the freezer a day or two before I need it.

Usually, though, I resort to floating it, frozen in its container, in a bowl filled with hot water. Then, in my impatience, I scrape off the first thawed edges to spread on my toast.

Toast? I told you I was lazy.

Plain pasta with pesto drooled onto it is easy but doesn't inspire me. I used to make pesto lasagna, a Mooseivood Cookbook recipe with tons of spinach. It was divine. Then I discovered pesto pizza, also pretty heavenly, and so much easier.

I'd buy a frozen pizza crust, smear it with my pesto and sprinkle good-quality grated Romano or mozzarella on top.

In profligate moods, I'd spring for pine nuts, too. A brief bake and it belonged to my belly.

Then I found a crust more readily available, more compact in my freezer, more suitable for solo dining and even quicker to cook: pita. Without opening the pocket, I just did my usual smear and sprinkle. But because pita is smaller than pizza, I baked it in a covered cast iron skillet instead of the oven. A toaster oven, which I didn't have at the time, works even better.

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Of course, not every lineup Continued from page 13 includes local work this year. boundaries of conventional the- Montpelier's Lost Nation Theatre is collaborating with ater" in Burlington. Theatre Manhattan's Essential Stages in Factory gets collaborative this As You Like It. Champlain Arts year too, involving the creative Theatre Company continues its minds of area theater folk and classics focus with heavy hittheir audiences with "Off The ters: Shakespeare, Dickens, Cuff" improv. Icefire PerformHans-berry and Dylan ance Group's Bob Lisaius takes Thomas. University of a deserved break from touring Vermont tackles Shirley Lauro's in the spring with the Vermont new Vietnam-era drama A Piece world premiere of his one-man, of MyHeart, plus a Plautus multi-media gospel musical romp and a slice of Sondheim.

Shake Rattle V Roll. 'If all goes Hoping to recover from a fundwell," says the Warren-based ing drought, Big City Players Lisaius, "there'll be live snakes plans a November benefit on stage." evening of urbanesque one-acts And what season of Verfrom New York City playwright mont's own would be complete and actor Louis Timpone. And without some David Budbill? the ever-present Middlebury The highly anticipated revision Community Players — of Little Acts of Kindness will be Vermont's 35-year-old grand the featured act from Center dame of community theater — Stage Theatre Company. "The opens with Shaw's Arms and the ending just didn't work for me Man, followed in December by last time, even though people the Dylan Thomas classic, A liked it," says Budbill, who has Child's Christmas in Wales. since made "major alterations" It's anybody's guess how to the piece. The reworked many companies can thrive in a version melds some characters, state with such a small populaeighty-sixes others and includes tion.

Theater lovers can only blues backup from The hope those who fall by the Disciples. This fall's 13-city wayside stick around and join tour — born at a chance forces with the survivors. • Sarducci's encounter between Budbill, director Andy Doe For a complete guide to to the and Morgan Irons of Center 1995-96 theater season, check the Stage a few months back — Seven Days calendar each week. begins September 29

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CLOCKERS*** Spike Lee has taken a fine book about a white middle-aged cop and rewritten it into an only fair film about a 20-yearold black dope dealer.

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Clockers follows in the thematic footsteps of pictures like Menace II Society, Jason's Lyric and Fresh, movies which Lee groups together as "that whole hip-hop gangsta black shoot-'em-up drug film genre." Claiming to be sick of this particular form, Lee has expressed the expectation that his latest would be "good enough to be the final nail in the coffin" of the genre. However, each of these is a better film than his. Clockers, while at times affecting, is really more a footnote than the last word.

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S/TtfE/VThis looks like it could be fun. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt play detectives on the trail of a serial killer who, ironically, wants to make the world a better place. He's trying to cut down on sin by cutting up people in the act of committing them.

SHOWGIRLS Live nude girls from the boys who brought you Basic Instinct. The story of rival Vegas strippers, Showgirls is only the second major studio release in history to receive an NC-17.

TIE-DIED: ROCK'N'ROLL'S MOST DEADICATED FANS When the Grateful Dead say they © 1995 Rick Kisonak have a following, they're not kidding. Many of the bands fens literally trail them around the country as a way of life, and this documentary offers a glimpse into the subculture. Ben & Jerry's is sponsoring the films East Coast premiere Thursday, September 21. You know what that means: free ice cream (coupons redeemable at the Cherry Street shop) for everyone who shows up wearSEND ENTRIES TO: FILM QUIZ PO BOX 68, WILLISTON, VT 05495 FAX: 658-3929 ing tie-dyes.

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HACKERS** Oh, good, another movie about computers. This time teen cyberspace cadets get blamed when a big company's top-secret files are accessed wthout proper authorization. Yikes.

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THE USUAL SUSPECTS ****A hall of mirrors you'll love getting lost in, the latest from director Bryan Singer concerns a group of con men manipulated by a shadowy force. Rich with dark detail, deliciously malicious atmosphere and a plot that does more twisting than a busful of Chubby Checkers.

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rape, dowry burning, forced sterilization, the agony of the Korean "comfort women."x Hundreds of us held up these posters for an hour before the world's camera. How many of these pictures did the world see?

Now home, jet-lagged and exhausted, I continue to hear

the humming cicadas, see the constant flow of bicycles, smell the everpresent diesel fumes and burning coal. Along with these mental pictures of China, I have returned overwhelmed with stories of violence and abuse, resistance and perseverance. What restores me are the

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ARTSPACE GRAND OPENING, exhibits, music, food and activities for families at new learning facility, 171 St. Paul, St., Burlington. September 23, 1-9 p.m.

THE ARTS OF JAPAN: KIMONOS AND BEYOND, silk clothing and other artifacts. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Opens September 23.

figfChildren's Art of the Pacific Rim, curated by Lynda Reeves Colburn Gallery, UVM* Burlington, 656-2014. Through % t e m b e r 2 ^ / PICASSO: MULTIPli^tATE P R I N T S | | | | exhibition of lithographs by Pablo Picasso frooj^ the Ludwig Collection;;^), the Collection oFPacific Art and Artifacts. Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, But&gton^VJJ 656-0750. Through December 10.

CHILDREN phonographs by David VanBuskirk fkttri ^eru arid Bolivia, i Fleming Museum, Lower Lobby, Burlington, , 65&0750. Through October 29, MASTER OR M I S O G Y N I S T ? Whatever one feels about ORIGINAL ACRYLICS and PASTEL DRAWhis sexual politics, there's no denying Picasso stands alone INGS, by Jeanette Chupack and Cindy in 20th-century art. Following a rave-up exhibit last Wagner, respectively. Robert Paul Galleries, spring, the Fleming Museum revisits Pablo in an unusualBurlington, 658-5050. Through October 8. : ly intimate look at the creative process. "Picasso: MultipleRECENT PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS State Prints from the Ludwig Collection" is on view until

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PASTELS, by Eva Holden, Living/Learning Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington. Through September 28.

CIRCLES OF LI FE, mandaia drawings by Alison S. Granucci (and one by Harold), Unitarian Church, Burlington. Through October 29.

AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHY by Seth Kestenbaum. Speeder & Earls, Church St., Burlington, 860-6630. Through September.

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WEST SHORE VARIATIONS, lino prints by Roy Newton. Pickering Room, Fletcher Library, Burlington, 8633403. Through September.

THE NAGASAKI SURVIVORS, by Japanese post-war photographer Tomatsu Shomei, in conjunction with the lecture series, "The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." McAuley Fine Arts Center, Trinity College, Burlington, 658-033?* Through October 19.

IMPRESSIONISTIC MONOTYPES by Elizabeth Iliff. McAuley Arts Center, Trinity College, Burlington, 6580337. Through November.

PAINTINGS by Karen Dawson. Lakeside Gallery and Art Studio, Burlington, 865-1208. Through October 15.

JUST ONE QUESTION, paintings by Sally Sweedand. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, 985-3848.

Through September 28; THE FIRES OF WAR, paintings of Gulf War fires by Susan Crile. ART OF TOUCH, sculptures and collages

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REFLECTIONS ON BASIN HARBOR, annual juried show of Vermont artists. Basin Harbor Town Hall, SAIL L L AWAY, classic and modern boating art. Four Winds Gallery, Ferrisburgh, 425-2101. T' -REVISTING THE ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE, contemporary interpretations of c turn-of-the-century movement. Frog Hollow, Middlebury, 388-3177.'

EBB & FLOW, fine craft exhibit. Frog Hollow, Burlington, 863-645 MULTI-MEDIA WORKS by R o b i n ^ S p g PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES, by Vermont artist Phyllis I Center, Johnson, 635-2727. Througjh Sef EXPOSED! VERMONT SCULPTURE O U T S I D E by 18 r "253-8358. Through October 15.

V Q & A If it's true that art heals, as Sally Sweetland believes, then a part of her technique must involve color therapy. Her current exhibit, entitled "Just One Question," at Shelburne's Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery reveals the Warren artist's passion for unexpected hues. Among these 12 works are shockingly yellow skies and shimthat embolden her canvases and set them n^SBSB^^ apart from normal L ^ H W 9 * ^^ag&J realism. So does the Bwjpr^^HFE^^^^e, blur.

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By contrast, several paintings inspired by Sweetland's trip to India evoke both its colors and its heat. The best of these, "India Dream," features three figures atop a young elephant which is ambling off into a shimmer of hot pink, lavendar and gold. The paintalso captures the Indian view of being^fMQQg^*',^ ness and impermai

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w w r m m w ARICS (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): The equinox arrives September 23. For a brief cosmic moment, the sun hovers directly over the equator; the length of day and night are equal.

For every sign, but especially for you, this is a projpitious time to conjure up mote balance, symmetry and harmony.

1 would ask, therefore, that you temporarily suspend your usual slambang approach to these themes. Resist the temptation to smash two opposites together just to see what happens, or to binge by night and purge by day, or to love what you hate and hate what you love.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Studies have shown that some teenagers at the peak of their growth cycle can sprout up virtually overnight, adding as much as an inch to their height in a single week. I bring this up because these last 20 days or so have been as close as you've been to the adolescent jgroove in years. I imagine you ve experienced some pretty rapid growth — emotionaJly and spiritually if not physically. Next, however, come the more discombobulating aspects of this spurt. Pimples and hormonal eruptions at your age?

GCMINI (May 21-June 20): I have been in denial.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I've continued to hope that the gende, laissez-faire approach would work with you. But now I see that its just not getting the job done.

Therefore, my waffling meanderer, I have no choice but to demand that you set a deadline. Well, wait a minute. That sounds harsh. I cant bear to imagine that hurt look in your eye. How about this: I humbly request that you start getting in the mood to set a deadline. By, say, this rime next week, promise me that you will inscribe in stone a date by which you wiU absolutely, positively do what you said you Were gonna do.

CANC€H (June 21-July 22): It's a good week to be like the fabled turtle instead of the fabled hate, and a bad week to barricade yourself inside a crumbling fortress. Its a great week to buy yourself a toy you've denial yourself for years, and an inauspicious week to watch TV until your eyes bleed. Its a fabulous week to take aggressive steps towards healing any abandonment you experienced in the past, and a terrible week to hide tm<fcr the wvers and fantasia about all the love youre gonna ntalce one day. (P.S. This is

This would I'd hate to see you hang onto when a couple fresh ones are so I VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 2 2 ) : ^ magazine screamed:'Are you paid enough? Unless you earn four times your age, the answer is no." So, like, if you're 25, you're a loser unless youre pulling a hundred grand. Uh-huh. Right. And Disney's Pocahontas is based on historical fact. And the most heinous problem in the world today is cyberporn, and welfare recipients are wrecking the economy. I mean, what fantasy planet do those Fortune people live on? Ignore them and their ilk, Virgo.

Youve got enough pressure on you to make ends meet without trying to live up to totally unrealistic standards. In feet, my advice to you is to wash but of your brain every definition of success except the one you know in your heart is true.

11 BRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sometime in the next five nights you'll probably dream of showing up nude for a public event, like an important meeting or the first day of school. Don't be alarmed. This is actually a very good omen. It means you'vefinallyshed the old disguises that have been preventing you from reinventing yourself. Its a promise that you'll soon be able to find out who the New You is.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov, 21): Long before the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, there was a Greek myth with a similar feel. It starred Persephone, a divine person who, like Christ, descended into the land of the dead only to return transfigured. The Festival of Eleusis, observed in September, honored the theme of Persephone's demise and redemption — as well as the rhythms of decay and renew' are always ' ' every mc* "' " ' ' ' a!' that at work* in you to celebrate the Festival of Eleusis tn an inventory. Whats decomposing anc your own world? What's ripe for rejuvenat ation? to Real, SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. plotting your Astrology 2000,

contacted them. On my Mthattempt, 1 trimmed my request down to one measly sign. "Please tell His Holiness," I begged, "that Capricorns, more than anyone else, desperately need has inspired spiritual guidance in the coming weeks." I explained to them how you're about to experience a rush of success on the material plane, putting you in danger of losing touch with your more soulful resources. Alas, my hero was too busy with Bosnia, Rwanda and Burma to lend his talents. You 11 have to rely on whatever other metaphysical muse you can drum up.

AQUARIUS 0an. 20-Feb. 18): It would be a good week to take a shower with your clothes on or drink two quick soft drinks and stage a burping contest with a good buddy.

Seriously. The more goofy things you do, the more open you'll be to the unbelievable truths that re trying to snag your attention. So wear a sneaker on one foot and a dress shoe on the other, or roll down a grasy hill screaming, "I am not an animal!" The less you're obsessed with your dignity, the more likely it is you'll notice all the pithy signals that re coming your way from undervalued people and odier sources you usually ignore.

PISC€S (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): If you've read this column for awhile, you know that I use the word "magic" very sparingly. When I do invoke it, I make clear that it has nothing in common with the "magic" of Hollywood special effects or the "magic" of the crap that Cher sells on her infomerciak To me, "magic" should be reserved for numinous events that make the hair prick up on the back of your neck or send warm chills through your funny bone. I hope, then, that you'll be duly impressed with the following prediction: The looming equinox, which is one of the catalytic turning points of the year, will balance those parts of your life that are overextended; it'll harmonize whatevers out of whack; and it'll set in motion changes — espedally in your relationships - that wiil feel hke magi,

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