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STRAIGHT DOPE DISHES THE DIRT FILM: STRANGE, STRANGE DAYS KITSCH IT ON CABLE ABIGAIL STONE COOKS UP A WINNER

ODD, STRANGE, CURIOUS AND WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBE Criminal

Offense

V, Carol Publishing agreed to pay a convicted murderer $1000 rather than defend itself against his lawsuit charging that one of the company's books misidentified him as a serial killer. He complained that he is actually a multiple killer.

Holding

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Rabbis in Jerusalem ruled this winter that Shoshana Hadad and Masoud Cohens 13-year marriage was illegal because of a sin her family committed nearly 2600 years ago, After a distant ancestor of Hadad s was rumored to have illegally married a divorcee in 580 B.C., rabbis decreed that no daughter from Hadad's family could ever marry a Cohen, according to Moshe Friedman of Israels Religious Affairs Ministry They accused Hadad and Cohen of marrying by "deception and in criminal ways."

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Air pollution in Beijing has given rise to oxygen bars. The "yang bars" typically charge $6, nearly half a Beijing workers weekly wage, for 30 minutes of fresh air. Medicated and scented air cost more. One entrepreneur, Wang Zhaofen, 39, said that in the past year he sold 60 U.S.made oxygen machines, each costing $3600, to "hotels, discotheques and private buyers."

The trend has spread to other Chinese cities suffering frdm air pollution, according to the

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Xinhua news agency, which reported that the owner of one oxygen bar in the northeastern city of Dalian offered free 10minute-doses to traffic police, .o spend all day breathing carti-monoxfde fumes. 1

drive to the nearest city of Cambridge to buy beer.

• Army veteran Shawn Timothy Nelson, 35, stole a 60-ton%my rank from a National Guard ^ armory in San Diego in May, r . then went on a 20-minute rampage, crushing or damaging 40 Nut* Behind the Wheel unoccupied cars, a parked van When Jeffrey Main started with a woman and child inside, having trouble with his brakes in two utility poles a public teleMilford, Connecticut, he pulled ; phone and a public bus bench. over and put the car in park.

When the tank got hi a After he got out, the car : highway barrier, four slipped ccrs leaped atop it and opened the hatch with liliil bolt cutters. After Nelson failed to heed their orders to surrender, they opened fire and shot the S unemployed plumber to death, ^ov^ * After Israeli army Sgt. Amit Nehemiah, 20, was denied a weekend leave to visit his girlreverse with the steering wheel . cocked at an angle. It spun in cir- friend last November, he commandeered a tank and drove it cles for more than two hours, down a highway in southern drawing crowds of onlookers and Israel, occasionally shooting a rifle causing a three-car crash on before crashing into a bus and a Interstate 95 as drivers tried to car and injuringl 1 people. watch. Police andfireofficials finally stopped the car by surrounding it with large trucks and Something U in the Air rushing it with three bucket loadBangladesh Fisheries and ers.

Livestock Minister Abdullah Al• Maryland state police stopped a Normal accused an unnamed fire truck driven by Timothy company of illegally dumping Peddicord after it was reported 880 tons of rotten garlic into the stolen from the Elliotts Island Bay of Bengal. He said the resultFire Department. The 38-year-old ing stench polluted the air in volunteer firefighter insisted he adjoining coastal areas, disrupted was taking the truck to have its aquatic life and reduced fish fire extinguishers refilled, but catches.

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Bamboo Ravine in Chinas Sichuan province caused the disappearance of hundreds of people over the years in the cold, humid region known as "Chinas Bermuda Triangle." Citing the ; finding of 50 scientists, the Xinhua news agency reported that .the decaying plants produce a

improved nutrition mean women today are larger, resulting in deeper voices.

Reasonable explanation

In Sonora, California, Gary Gunderson, 43, was convicted of id theft and embezzlement ! of^icitjfs testified he stole in the air, "suffocating people and trUckloads of government propermaking them fall in the abyss." ty, ranging from tent straps and • Determined to prevent a recurready-to-eat meals to furniture rence of a 1986 disaster that killed and a 5000-watt generator. At his 1746 villagers around Cameroon's sentencing hearing, the former Lake Nyos, French scientists : Forest Service worker explained to devised a way to remove carbon Judge William Polley that he diddioxide from the lake using a netn't realize how much he had work of pipes, dubbed the Nyos stolen because his eyesight is so Organ. Volcanic activity below the poor he couldn't see it. lake causes the gas to build up until tremors or strong winds Land off the Setting cause it to suddenly surge to the Sun surface. The heavier-than-air gas Japan's Biox Corp. introduced stays close to the ground, where it fish-oil soap, at $22 perlO-ounce can suffocate people without bottle, advertising that it doesn't warning. just keep you clean, it also improves your brain. The Jou've Come a Long Fugetsudo company's unveiled Way Cypress Ice Cream, made with oil from pulp-mill waste. The comChanges in society and the pany insisted the wood-chip ice workplace are affecting women's cream has a "refreshing and voices, according to Australian bucolic bouquet." Omrom researchers at Flinders University.

Corp. s earthquake alarm, dubbed Noting that women's voices are "Shaking Boy," senses seismic 10 to 20 percent lower than the activity, indicates its magnitude, average pitch 50 years ago, the and starts flashing an emergency researchers cited three reasons. beacon and announcing useful First, women's voices today convey more authority and credibility emergency procedures, such as, "Dive under the table." Hayashi at the office and in public & Co. introduced a new dog forums. Second, women today treat; beef-flavored sherbet. • don't shift speaking tone as often as they did 50 years ago. Third, participation in sports and

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BIG BROTHER IS loiterer for the sunset is a suspect, recorded on

WATCHING

magnetic tape by security technicians.

Mannie Lionni's architectural review of Burlington's

Venturing into public space virtually becomes a

new police station ( S E V E N

criminal activity. These cameras are the

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mechanical analog of the professional agents

dissects this strip-mall-cum-

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fortress eyesore. In between the

Burlington security innovation — the "friendly"

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snoops of community-base policing.

Of course, one maybe should expect to see

graceless, reactionary columns

FERMENTING REVOLUTION By

Irving

Shelby

however, he did neglect to

in a society where "law and order" is a highly

mention one of the structure's

divisive and self-serving phenomenon. What

progressive ornaments: the gar-

Burlington's political establishment couldn't get

rison of surveillance cameras

by hook in numerous unsuccessful bids to woo

that unevenly punctuate the

Burlington voters, they now have by crook,

GROUNDS FOR RENEWAL

perimeter.

through the largess of real-estate baron and

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One of the four cameras

police booster Antonio Pomerleau, who owned

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points untiringly toward the

the premises. The strip mall-cum-fortress itself

park. Another jaggedly sweeps

sits appropriately on the edge, overlooking the

COME AND GET IT

back and forth along North

waterfront capital investment zone that is

Avenue. Compared to the ages-

quickly sprouting upscale commercial, shopping

old articulation of authority

and tourist facilities, and facing (with cameras!)

through sheer size and force, of

the gentrifying lower-income neighborhood in

which the chubby columns are

the other direction.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE A sneak preview of the Burlington International By

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of crime bills, one million imprisoned in the

news

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U.S., the growth of wealth- and race-based

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ment and a vehicle to insert self-policing into

urban enclaves — and local complicity with

the heads of citizens.

all of this.

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Dear Cecil, I'm sure you've never been asked this before, but is it okay to eat clay? I'm a student at the Art Institute, and I've been eating clay for four yeas. You are probably not familiar with the process of clay, so I will briefly explain. When the clay is completely dry but has not been fired it's called greenware. That's when I eat it. But I once ate a whole teacup after it had been fired (bisqueware). I don't have anyone to ask, because they'll think I'm crazy. Please give me an answer.

- Marian, Chicago No question, telling people you eat teacups does have a way of bringing conversation to a halt. But be bold. Say to yourself, its not weird — it's performance art. What you've got is a form of pica, the craving to eat the inedible or to eat normal food in obsessive quantities. If you think teacups are a little over the top, try toilet air-freshener blocks, which one lost soul used to consume at the rate of one or two a week. Some cravings are so common they have names of their own, such as pagophagia, a hankering for ice (one sufferer admitted to a five-tray-a-day habit supplemented by bags of crushed ice obtained at convenience stores); xylophagia, a yen for wood toothpicks; coniophagia, a lust for dust from Venetian blinds; and my personal Sf^orite, gooberphagia^nathological consumption of peanuts. J Other cravings include 10 bunches of celery a day, a peppermint Life Saver every five minutes, salad croutons by the handfoam rubber, and worse. One woman, a nonsmoker, reportedly "would burn cigarettes to obtain the ashes," and when her husband smoked would follow him with cupped hand to catch the ashes as they fell.

The particular condition you've got is called geophagia, the desire to eat clay or dirt. It's common among poor rural black women, especially during pregnancy — in fact, during the 19th century dirt and clay eating was called cachexia africana. Its so common that one writer (R. Reid, Medical Anthropology, 1992) thinks we should reassess our whole attitude about it, the idea evidendy being that if one person does it its sick, but if thousands do it it's an affirming cultural experience that may confer some medical benefit. Incidentally, many geophages are switching to laundry starch, something to think about if your taste for teacups begins to flag. ^ t • * . , j-i r Geophagia and pica in general are often associated with iron-deficiency anemia. No one knows whether anemia is a cause or an effect, but it's worth looking into in your case, since one can't help thinking that art students as a class could stand a ; M e more,,you know, red meat. According to the medical literbeen cured by with giving ' f pica sufferers, including pregnant women ce-cream-type cravings, have been cured by givir

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ALTHEA LATER? Chittenden County Assistant Judge Althea Kroger is on the hot seat this week — finally.

The Vermont Association of County Judges has been conducting investigative hearings since Monday, hearings brought on by Kroger's belief she's God's gift to the Vermont judiciary.

But let's not forget Althea is first and foremost a politician, and not just any politician but a Chicago politician. She once told yours truly back in the days before she stopped returning Inside Track's phone calls that her dad was a precinct captain back in the Windy City. In Chicago, that's royalty.

Here in Vermont, Princess Althea has enjoyed a sterling career in public life first as a state representative from Essex and then as a state senator from Chittenden County. Along the way she picked up an M.P.A. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (without getting indicted for it like Brian Burns did), and a degree from Vermont Law School. Then last year out came her idiotic guncontrol bill that was shot down quicker than Starksboro buck on the opening day of hunting season.

But all that name recognition she'd piled up was enough to win her one of the county's two assistant judge positions, and the rest — well, the rest has been a nightmare for the court stafT and Assistant Judge Elizabeth Gretkowski. Judge

"Ski" served in the post for eight peaceful years without Princess Althea. Now she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. You see, Judge "Ski," unlike Judge Kroger, is not a politician.

The best example of Princess Althea's skill as a political spin doctor was demonstrated by the fraudulent letter she sent out a couple weeks ago on Superior Court stationery to every town clerk and selectboard chair in the county.

"Last week," wrote Althea, "the Vermont Assistant Judge Association created a 'Study Committee' to explore issues regarding the county budget and the accountability of Assistant Judges to Vermont's local governments. I write to you.. .and ask for your help during this important exploration."

Althea invited the recipients of her missive to contact the chair of the association, Assistant Judge Allen Hogdon with their "insights."

Sounds harmless enough.

Sure, she got the name of the association screwed up — it's the Vermont Association of County Judges — but her intent seems noble, right?

Wrong.

The fact is, Althea's letter was a very calculated smokescreen designed to upstage the Association, misrepresent the truth and shore up support in ' her hour of need.

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And this week those committees are investigating Althea Kroger and the mess that bears her signature.

Benson asked the recipients of Kroger's spin-doctor special to "disregard" her invitation to comment on what Althea called "county budget and accountability issues." He noted the Association has no problem with "the current statutorily sanctioned budget process." He wrote that "Judge Kroger's representation that the Association is considering otherwise is misguided and not based on fact."

"Misguided." No word better reflects the reign of Judge Althea Kroger than that one.

Club Fantasy Update — Hats off to Chairman Bill Cimonetti and the South Burlington City Council for their success in turning the only strip joint in Chittenden County into a teen hangout.

Way to go, fellas! That, after all, is the effect of their decision to suspend the Club Fantasy's liquor license for 45 days.

Without the liquor license, proprietor Shaun Cliche has opened the doors to 18-yearolds. It's showtime!

And it's beginning to look like Cliches nightclub will become a long-term fixture on Williston Road. Shaun admitted to the council at one of their recent inquisitions that he had received "bad advice" from his attorneys. No kidding. Last week he signed up a new lawyer —former Deputy State's Attorney Karen Shingler. Good move.

Despite all the moral out" rage vented by the righteous few, city officials concede Club Fantasy has had none of the problems that some South

Burlington nightspots encounter, such as underage drinking, over-drinking and fighting. Cliche runs a pretty tight ship.

Nevertheless, Cimonetti and company are reluctant to remove the blue from their noses. In the interest of protecting their city from moral decay, the council has required the Club's female talent to stay at least four feet away from the patrons while- performing.

(That's 48 inches if you're counting.) This despite the fact that Cimonetti told Inside Track last week that the^ocal constabulary has informed him there's no problem with "touching" at the club. You see, any patron who touches a dancer receives an immediate free pass to the parking lot without passing Go. Cimonetti, who's also the state chair of the Republican Party, continues to play the role of Chief of the Sex Police with unbridled passion. Thanks to his wisdom, the city will have to equip each member of the South Burlington Police Department with a tape measure. Duty calls. •

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an anomaly — a cult repository for unpublished manuscripts as imagined by the author of The Abortion and the better-known Trout Fishing in America. Burlington entrepreneur Todd Lockwood brought the whacky concept to life way before its time. Now his book-lined brainchild on College Street is short on trustees. Says Lockwood, "We haven't been able to find people who are like we were five years ago." Earlier this month, the board made an existential decision to move the books, mayonnaise jars and Brautigan paraphernalia to a place where people get paid to watch the stacks. "We approached three libraries about it, says Lockwood, "and they were all intrigued" by the idea of taking on the collection as a permanent exhibit. By the end of the year, the Brautigan will be accepting-Submissions over the Internet. "It's the best of all possible endings to this story," Lockwood says. The lucky new. location will be announced later this week.

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A lot of ice cream has gone down since the New Republic trashed Ben and Jerry in a conspiracy-theory cover-story entitled "The Evil Empire." Last week Ben Cohen responded with a "poem to the editor," which makes light of the allegations in six rhyming stanzas. The penultimate couplet is the best:: 'Doing good's just a con,'you say in your canto. Leave the real work to GM, Mobil and Monsanto. Guess the ice cream man still knows a thing or two about marketing. ...One hundred eightytwo is not exacdy the top of the charts. Especially in the ColUge Music Journal ratings. But it's good news for Burlington cartoonist-musician James Kochalka. His new album, The True Story of James Kochalka Superstar, is getting pretty good play on college stations around the country.

Nationwide feedback?

"He is whacky, but not stupid whacky," "Oh, that was funny but unairable," and the more typically collegiate, "I love that fucking album."

Kochalka is thrilled. "A few deejays have gotten sort of fanatical about it," he says. •

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ages and scientists have long pondered what separates man from the other animals — manual dexterity, reason, emotion. But here's another, simpler suggestion: We like to drink beer. In the grand scheme of things, it's our privileged status as beer drinkers — as much as higher consciousness — that puts us over the top. On a good night, the two might even be indistinguishable.

It's been this way, apparently, since the dawn of civilization. Anthropologists tell us that our species first settled into organized farming communities in Mesopotamia 13,000 years ago. Why? To grow grain for making beer — the drink of gods, priests, kings and Ralph Cramden. The world's most ancient recipe, in fact, is one for beer, chiseled into a Sumerian stone tablet some 5000 years ago. We humans come by our role as the planet's party animal quite naturally.

So how is it that something as central to civilized living as fresh, well-crafted beer teetered on the brink of extinction in America? The same way that real bread went the way of Wonder for awhile, and locally owned newspapers became McPapers: Corporate mega-breweries make the sort of bland product that no one likes but every one buys because it's cheap. But fortunately, the days when all beer was a corn-based yellow liquid resembling pee are behind us.

During the past 15 years, the number of American breweries has jumped from 44 to more than 470. A good chunk of this growth has been in the "micro-brewery" market — the small local and regional breweries that tend to make a greater variety of beers and stand head and shoulders above most corporate brands and imports.

Four of the finest are right here in Vermont. Catamount co-founder Alan Davis speaks for them all: "Microbrewing is a philosophical movement as well as a business venture. We want to make a beer that is a quality, distinctive product that is not otherwise available to the consumer."

According to Roger Clapp, deputy commissioner for Agricultural Development, Vermont has the most breweries per capita of any state in the union.

Brewing is now a big enough deal in the state's economy to be featured in promotional literature aimed at tourists. Long identified with maple, dairy and specialty foods, the word Vermont may soon also say great beer to the rest of the nation.

A related development is a small-scale, experimental hop farm — the largest east of Idaho — in Thetford, run by 43-yearold John Blumberg. His first harvest, brought in three weeks ago, will appear in several pubs throughout the state this year as Thetford Red Ale. The only problem with the renaissance in beer is having to make sense of the bewildering array now crowding our stores and pubs (see glossary, page 10).

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Most of the beers we tasted are high quality, though the Vermont ones generally outclass those from Maine.

McAuslan's, the single Montreal brewery, is making exceptional beers across the board. The Vermont beers had an advantage, of course, as freshness is everything. Ail the more disappointing, then, to find inconsistent quality in the lineup from Long Trail — once topof-the-line in the state.

Both Catamount and Otter Creek are producing only first-rate beers — rivaling the best of their kind in the country. The new kid, Magic Hat, has a smaller selection but is also making beers of distinction.

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Catamount was co-founded in 1987

by Alan Davis in White River Junction for reasons both practical and aesthetic: proximity to interstate highways, and the plentiful, mineral-rich artesian well water that accentuates the hoppiness of their British-style ales. Brewmaster — and triathlete — Steve Mason is currently producing 20,000 barrels.

Plans are under way to build a new plant with a 50,000-barrel capacity.

Catamount is currently the most widely distributed of Vermont's breweries. Its products are Amber, Gold, Pale Ale, Porter, American Wheat, Octoberfest, Christmas Ale and Bock.

The Burlington newcomer, Magic Hat Brewery, makes Vermont's grooviest beers. Ingenious packaging includes hip graphics and enigmatic comments on the underside of the crown caps — such as "Love is blind to your behind," and "Suck the toe of Edgar Allen Poe."

Newman views Magic Hat as a company with an upfront socially responsible ethic and products with a strong personality He's the marketing whiz here, and leaves the brewing to Johnson. Among the many cool things about the company: "Growlers," the one-gallon glass jugs you

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can fill up with beer — for $6 — anytime you stop by the brewery off Flynn Avenue. Gotta love it.

After traveling in Europe and on the West Coast, brewer Andy Pherson founded the Long Trail line of beers in November 1989 in Bridgewater, where he'd kept a summer home for several years. From the start, demand has outstripped capacity, and the current 12,000-barrel facility will soon be expanded. Long Trail Ale is second only to Anheuser-Busch in draft sales in Vermont — no easy task. Actually Long Trail focuses almost exclusively on the Vermont market, shipping only small amounts to neighboring states.

Quality at Long Trail during the past year has not always matched that of its earlier successful years.

While far from lost in the woods, it's getting tired out there on the Trail — probably due to dated equipment.

With its expansion, the beers ought to be back on track.

Product line: Long Trail Ale, India Pale Ale, Kolsch, Brown Ale, Stout, Brown Bag Ale, Harvest Ale. Otter Creek is an exciting brewery making astoundingly rapid progress.

Founder/brewmaster Lawrence Miller, 28, was recently named Vermont's Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. His five-year-old plant is the third-fastest-growing in the country. Recent expansion into a state-of-the-art brewery will bring production levels up to a possible 40,000 barrels in coming years. This will allow Miller to meet increasing demand for his product throughout the Northeast.

Otter's line of beers is uniformly high-quality. The flagship brew, Copper Ale, is exceptional. Helles Alt is also a compelling drink. Other brews include the hearty Stovepipe Porter, Hickory Switch Smoked Amber Ale and two seasonal beers, Summer Wheat Ale and Mud Bock Spring Ale. Before, sampling all the Vermont and regional beers — this could take quite awhile — first bone up on the vocabulary. And if you really want to sound erudite, try out two new terms that even Greg Noonan didn't know before the Boulder beer bash: "Session beer" — a not especially demanding brew to imbibe while hanging out with friends. And "headphone beer" — a complex beer to savor slowly and contemplate. Bottoms up.

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JONATHAN RICHMAN, ANNE'S BAND (funk), Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $12. CHANNEL TWO DUB BAND (reggae), Club Toast, 9 p.m. No cover. NERBAK BROTHERS (rock), Nectars, 9 p.m. No cover. OPEN MIKE, City Market, 8 p.m. No cover. WOMEN'S NIGHT, Last Elm Cafe, 6 p.m. Donations. OPEN MIKE, Java Love, 9 p.m. No cover. JOHN LACKARD BLUES BAND (rock), Alley-Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover. RUSS FLANIGAN (rock), Silver Spur, Winooski, 8 p.m. No cover. SOFT SPOKEN (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover.

LOST POSSE (bluegrass), Sneakers, Winooski, 9 p.m. $2. PAUL ASBELL (jazz/blues), The Pyralisk, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $7. ^ ^ Q THURSDAY OMINOUS SEAPODS, URSULA (groove rock), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $5/7. EVERYTHING, DEREK TRUCKS (alt rock), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $5. BUCK & THE BLACK CATS (rockabilly), Nectars, 9 p.m. No cover. BREAKAWAY (folk), Burlington Coffeehouse, City Market, 9 p.m. $3. JAZZ MANDOLIN PROJECT, Last Elm Cafe, 9 p.m. Donations. DESIRED EFFECT (jazz), Halvorsons, 9 p.m. $2. OPEN MIKE, Cactus Cafe, 9 p.m. No cover. MARTY MORRISSEY (rock), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9 p.m. No cover. SOFT SPOKEN (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. LOCAL COLOR (invitational), Sneakers, Winooski, 9 p.m. $2. OPEN MIKE, Silver Spur, Winooski, 8 p.m. No cover. RISE UP JACK (bluegrass), Daily Bread Bakery, Richmond, 7:30 and 9 p.m. $3.50. TIM CAIRA (acoustic), Thrush Tavern, Montpelier, 9 pm.

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QUADRA (rock), Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9:30 p.m. $2. COOPER & LAVOIE (blues, rock), Tom's Riverside Grill, Bristol, 10 p.m. $2. ^ ^ 0 SATURDAY VERTICAL HORIZON, QUIVVVER, STEPH PAPPAS (pop rock), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $4.

POCO LOCO FRITO (Latin, dance), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $5. ELLIS PAUL (folk), Burlington Coffeehouse, City Market, 9 p.m. $8. SEPARATE SOCIETY (hardcore), Last Elm Cafe, 9 p.m. Donations. BUCK & THE BLACK CATS (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. BLUE FOX on (blues), Alley Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover. SOFT SPOKEN (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. OUTER MONGOLIA (jazz, funk), Java Love, 8 p.m. No cover. SAM ARMLU STRONG (jazz), Tuckaway's, Sheraton, 8:30 p.m. FANATIX (classic rock), Silver Spur, Winooski, 8 p.m. $3. JOHN LACKARD BLUES BAND, Wolf's Lair, Colchester, 9 p.m. $2.

DYSFUNKSHUN, ROCKETSLED (funkmetal, hardcore), Pyralisk, Montpelier, 9 p.m. $6. PETRIFIED BLUES BAND, Charlie-o's, Montpelier, 8 p.m. No cover. QUADRA (rock), Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9:30 p.m. $2.

Q SUNDAY ROY ROGERS & THE DELTA RHYTHM KINGS (blues), Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $10. ONLY LIVING WITNESS, ROCKETSLED, 454 BIG BLOCK, SHED (hardcore), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $5. TEXAS TWISTER (country) Alley Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover. PATTI CASEY, BOB GAGNON, MATT MCGIBNEY (folk), City Market, 11 a.m. No cover. RUSS FLANIGAN (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. POTEEN (Irish), Pyralisk, Montpelier^ p.m. $6.

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PALACE BROTHERS, SATURNINE 60 (alt rock, alt folk), Club Toast, 9 p.m. $5. MADELINES, HUFFY (alt rock), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. No cover. GREAT RED SHARK (rock), Nectar's, 9 p.m. No cover. OPEN MIKE WITH KENRIC KITE, Java Blues, 7 p.m. No cover. DAVE & THE ALLEY-CATS JAM (rock), Alley-Cats, 9:30 p.m. No cover. ^

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FREDDY JONES BAND (rock, funk), Club Metronome, 8 p.m. $8. PARI MA JAZZ BAND, ParimaThai Restaurant, 8 p.m. No cover. GREAT RED SHARK (rock), Nectars, 9 p.m. No cover. FOLK JAM, Last Elm Cafe, 8 p.m. Donations. THE REPUTATIONS BLUES BAND, Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover.

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ANNE'S BAND (funk, soul), Club Metronome, 10 p.m. No cover. CHANNEL TWO DUB BAND (reggae), Club Toast, 9 p.m. No cover. HANNIBAL & AGOSTI (rock), Nectars, 9 p.m. No cover. OPEN MIKE, City Market, 8 p.m. No cover. NATO (unplugged pop), Cactus Cafp, 8 p.m. No cover. WOMEN'S NIGHT, Last Elm Cafe, 6 p.m. Donations. OPEN MIKE, Java Love, 9 p.m. No cover. BL00Z0T0MY (blues), Alley-Cats, 9:30 p.m.

No cover. REFLEX (rock), Patches, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. No cover. WILD BRANCH (bluegrass), Sneakers, Winooski, 9 p.m. $2. JOHN LACKARD BLUES BAND, Champion's Tavern, Winooski, 9:30 p.m. No cover.

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Now in his 15th year of touring, Roy Rogers (no, not that one) is the kind of musician that critics like to compare to good bourbon: smooth, sizzling, leaves a good aftertaste. Personally, I think bourbon's revolting, but Roy is rad. This California boy with a Delta soul found his calling as a teen and his fame as a member (and later producer) of John Lee Hooker's band. Slide Zone is his seventh solo recording — and the last before moving to Virgin/Pointblank. His guests include the great harmonica player Charlie Musslewhite, pianist Phil Aaberg and even banjo man Bela Fleck. Most scorching cut: the Little Featish honky-tonker, "Get Back in Line." Most lyrical: the title cut, an instrumental with lonesome gee-tar and spare percussion. Rogers and his Delta Rhythm Kings slide into Metronome this Sunday.

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LAGER, made at cooler temperatures with yeasts that are bottomfermenting. Left to mature for some time in cold storage before being released, they are usually lighter, smoother and less complex than ales. Most national brands are lagers.

GOLDEN ALE An American style of ale dating from the late 19th century. Lighter in color and less bitter than pale ales. Excellent examples include Catamount Gold and Otter Creek Helles Alt. AMBER ALE A richer style of golden ale, though still milder than pale ales. A very popular modern American style. Good example: Catamount Amber.

PALE ALE Pale, that is, in comparison to brown and black ales.

Pale ales are actually copper, bronze or amber-red in color.

Generally fruity and full-flavored with a pleasantly bitter finish.

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IRISH ALE Round, soft and buttery with understated bitter and fruit character. Magic Hat Ale is a terrific example.

ALTBIER "Alt" here means oldstyle and is not indicative of age.

A northern German style somewhat akin to a pale ale. A beautiful American interpretation is the Copper Ale from Otter Creek.

KOLSCH Very light in body and clean-tasting, this pale, soft, mildly fruity ale takes its name from the German city of Cologne. Even lighter than golden ales. The only example here — and a good one — is Long Trail's.

PORTER Dark, heavy and very full-flavored. Deep and rich with roasted malt flavors like caramel, coffee or chocolate. Catamount Porter is a very good example, as is Otter Creeks Stovepipe Porter.

STOUT A richer and somewhat acrid style of Porter. Some stouts are made with a percentage of oatmeal along with the barley. A truly amazing example of this intensely flavored, creamy and chocolately style of stout is the St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout from McAuslan's.

OCTOBERFEST A copper-colored lager with a pronounced sweet and spicy, malty flavor.

Originally an Austrian and German style of beer made to eel-

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Long Trail Ale is an excellent example, as is McAuslan's St. Ambroise Pale Ale. INDIA PALE ALE Pale ale with an extra dose of hops, giving the beer a decidedly tangy and bitter flavor. Created by the queen's brewers as a means of preserving beer during the long voyage to India. Two good examples: Magic Hat's Blind Faith and the Old East India Pale Ale from Maine's Seadog Brewing.

BROWN ALE Full-bodied and slightly sweet due to the heavy emphasis on malt and the sparing use of hops. Typically rich and creamy. An outstanding regional example: Griffon Brown Ale from McAuslan's. page

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SMOKED BEERS Beers made from barley malt that has been roasted over a wood fire. Otter Creek's Hickory Switch Smoked Amber Ale is a very good example. •

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David Carlson shoots on the strange side pening upon them. Though he modestly attributes some of his photos to "being in the right place at the right time," "Phoebe with Self-Portrait" exemplifies the right set-up at the right time. The quartet of 20x40-inch prints of his wife, the painter Phoebe Stone, places her in front of a painting of herself. With her long red hair and Morticia Adams features, she is striking enough, and uncannily

Carlson's photographs suggests he's just a little odd.

Or at least, that he has an eye for out-of-the-ordinary images.

It's a subtle thing, but the cumulative effect of his 40 chrome-framed prints — nowshowing at Woody's Restaurant in Middlebury — is to make the viewer believe that reality is not just passively hanging around; it's waiting to be noticed. It might even be lurking and ready to pounce.

Though some of these photos have vaguely ominous overtones — foreboding shadows, looming pine trees or gravestones — some are simply quirky, and others are explosions of color in otherwise drab surroundings. In any case, Carlson looks through the camera with the eyes of a poltergeist — his observances are unnaturally acute and often question the innocent patina of normality.

One of his finest in the quirky category is "Larry's Flea Market, Pittsford, Vermont." On the surface it's a scene with high-voltage color.

At another level it's a man and his dog. But at Middlebury" 1994 (originally in this frozen moment and this foreshortened per«o duplicated in the portrait. The spective, it's a puny sliver last frame captures Stone in a of a dog and a whale of a perblur, as if passing into the next son, his back to the viewer, in dimension, leaving only her unflattering, florid pants. painted image for this world.

Between the two a leash strains Some of what Carlson calls tautly, a narrow bridge between, "expressive portraiture," using ostensibly, best friends. It's a flash at night or twilight, finds subtle bead on psychological subjects with caught-in-thedrama between man and aniheadlights faces. In "After the mal, owner and owned.

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side a chain-link fence encircling a green playing field. While the boy stands frozen in clownhood, a time exposure makes objects in the background appear to be in motion. "I used to work in film, and I'm going for a little more from a still image," says Carlson. "That element of chance — when it happens, it's amazing."

Using the drama of inky sky to good effect, Carlson flashes

a lovely nature study and an abstract vision of color and shape.

Though Carlson has no apparent intention of making Important Statements, his work explores the interaction of humans and the natural world with understated wit. The simply titled "Triptych" combines three sun-drenched shots: a lawn thoroughly decorated with ornaments and whirly-gigs; a

color), by David Carlson otherwise ordinary shots into the realm of startling beauty: his pubescent son Ethan before a stand of drooping, post-frost sunflowers; a diver in mid-leap toward a turquoise pool; a white granite sculpture towering, ghostlike, against the night.

Daytime landscape shots examine transitory light and shadow: A hillock of green, a brush of yellow-green shrubbery and cloud- laden sky make for both

black-clad, flame-haired Stone squatting against a burled tree; a treetop bowing against a beautiful blue sky and puffy clouds.

It's an idiosyncratic abutment of innocuous, unrelated images.

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The "right place at the right time" shots reveal what causes Carlson to screech to a halt on the road — or return to a scene when the light is better.

Generally, it's an arresting chunk of color. The bright blue tarp covering a trailer parked in a snowy yard. A rash of blood-red leaves against a white veranda.

Luridly colored plastic Easter eggs dangling from the winterbare branches in front of a dreary roadside motel.

An evergreen bush hung with tiny jack-o'-lanterns.

Color for its own sake, color as a concept.

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PRESCHOOL SCIENCE: Native American crafts, games and tales educate kids at the Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m. $4.25.

Register, 878-8687.

PLANETARIUM SHOW: Who is Orion hunting, anyway? Find out at the Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, noon. $4.50. Reservations, 878-8687.

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©Wednesday m u s i c TRIBUTE T O BARTOK: Sylvia Parker promises "listenable and appealing" selections on solo piano. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

CHERYL WHEELER: The feminist folk artist performs a benefit concert for the Peace & Justice Center. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 8 p.m. $14-17.

Info, 863-8326.

URSULA OPPENS: The contemporary pianist performs modern and traditional works at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 8 p.m. $16.50. Info, 603-6462422. A free discussion begins at 7 p.m. in the faculty lounge.

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Register, 229-9811.

OFF T H E CUFF: The audience sets the scene at this interactive comedy performance. Burlington City Hall, 8 p.m. $6.

Info, 872-2738.

t h e a t e r AUDITIONS: Champlain Arts Theatre Company is seeking actors, non-actors and techies of all ages and abilities for its fourplay season. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 6:15-10 p.m.

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ARMS & T H E MAN: This satirical assault on the false pieties of love and war scandalized Victorian audiences when it was first performed a century ago. The Middlebury Community Players take on George Bernard Shaw at Middlebury Union High School, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 388-6825.

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AMERICANS ABROAD': A four-part reading-discussion series starts with A Movable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway. S. Burlington Library, 7 p.m. Free. Register,

658-9010. e t c SOCIAL SAFETY N E T TALK: Twentyeight-year-old Jason Pramas is the youngest member on the board of the Gray Panthers. He gives a talk entitled "Age Must Not Divide Us" at St. Edmunds Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535WOMEN'S C O U N C I L MEETING: Women set their priorities at an annual meeting of the city-sponsored women's council. Burlington City Hall, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7200.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RALLY: Speakers raise awareness to stop violence against women. Body Shop, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 860-3664.

a r t MUSEUM VOLUNTEER TRAINING: Want to walk amongst the mummies?

Get oriented to be a museum attendant, art educator or clerk. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 1:30 p.m. Free.

Register, 656-0750.

DRAWING SESSION: Artists get inspiration from a live model at this weekly drawing session. Artspace, 171 St. Paul St., Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 862-2898.

w o r d s 'LIES MY TEACHER T O L D ME': Jim Loewen strips the whitewash from historical icons such as Paul Revere and Helen Keller. Book Rack, Winooski, 5:30 p.m.

Info, 655-0231.

EMERGING POETS READING: Twelve bards read at Cover-to-Cover Bookstore, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 728-4206.

Info, 864-0471.

VT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Beethoven's Ninth — his choral tribute to humanity — is performed by the full orchestra and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Flynn Theater, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-31- Info, 800VSO-9293. The conductor discusses the program at the Flynn Gallery, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

ORGAN RECITAL: jack Vosseller Austin is the new music director of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. He plays Sweelinck, Handel and Bach to benefit Respite House. St.

DISABILITY AWARENESS DAY: "Understanding the Complexities of our Workforce" offers expert advice on legal questions, a trade show and a comic break. Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. $90. Info, 655-7215.

MEDICAL HISTORY LECTURE: Professor John McCormack looks at the first 50 years of folic acid analogues. Hall A, Given Building, UVM, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 656-3131.

CONSULTANTS NETWORK: Exchange business ideas over breakfast at the Hampton Inn, Colchester, 7:30 a.m. $10. Register, 351-0285.

T H I R D THURSDAY OUT: Queer performers converge at the Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, 9 p.m. Donations.

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t h e a t e r OFF T H E CUFF: See October 19. ' W H O KILLED SANTA CLAUS': Santa Claus checks out before Christmas in this festive whodunit. The Essex Community Players solve the mystery at Essex Memorial Hall, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 878-9109.

'CROSSING T H E BRIDGE': Peter C. Murray of St. Albans wrote this new adult comedy. The Fairfax Community Theatre Company performs at the Bellows Free Academy Qym, Fairfax, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 527-1937.

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ABIGAIL STONE: The Middlebury author reads and signs her new novel, Recipes From the Dump. See review, this issue. Chassman & Bern Booksellers,

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C O N T R A C T FORUM: How will proposed medicare and med icaid cuts affect you? A panel answers questions at the Universalist Church, Barre, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-5118.

CHIROPRACTIC TALK: Chiropracter Robert Borowske discusses "moving toward wellness."

People's Health & Wellness Clinic, Barre, p.m. Donations. Info, 478-1229.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP People dealing with cancer get support based on the work of the National Wellness Communities.

Cancer Wellness Center, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Register, 8653434.J

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k i d s SINGING: Robert Resnik shares his prodigious musical talents with youngsters at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

PLANETARIUM SHOW: See October 19,7 p.m.

e t c CHINESE MEDICINE TALK: Five-element theory, yin-yang and chi will be explored in this introduction to traditional Chinese medicine. Burlington College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-862-9616.

AEROBIC FUNDRAISER: An aerobics marathon raises money to stop violence against women. Body Garage, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.nj. Pledges or donations. Info, 660-2639.

ADVERTISING AWARDS: The art of marketing is celebrated and rewarded at*? the statewide Pegasus bash. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 5 p.m. $32.

Reservations, 655-0093.

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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.

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC: Helene Gagne is the featured soloist in Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104. Works by Handel and Schubert will also be performed. Barre Opera House, 4 w c r d s p.m. $10. Info, 476-8188.

KLIMOWSKI ENSEMBLE: The chamALISON BECHDEL PARTY: The ber group plays Beethoven, Faure and local, nationally-famous cartoonist celeDonato Lovreglio on clarinet, cello and brates the release of her new book, piano. Mary Bryan Art Gallery, JefferUnnatural Dykes to Watch Out For. Peace sonville, 4 p.m. Reservations, 644-5100. & Justice Store, Burlington, 1-3 p.m.

VAUGHAN RECITAL SERIES: Free. Info,. 863-8326.

Contralto Elizabeth Anker and pianist WRITERS CONFERENCE: Professional witers learn about the business of r Eda Mazo-Shlyam perform Songs of Time, of Low, of Wonder — songs set to contracts, including the latest in electrontext by May Sarton, Emily Dickinson ic rights, kill fees and indemnity clauses. and others. Faulkner Recital Hall, Bethany Church, Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 4 Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 4 p.m. $20. Info, 985-9729. p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

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VT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: See October 20.

d a n c e PEACE DANCES: Dances of Universal Peace are simple, joyful, meditative circle dances and songs celebrating world unity.

Tai Chi Studio, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 658-2447.

LAST ELM CONTRA DANCE: Rachel Nevitt calls the moves for the "house" band. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5430.

CONTRA DANCE: David Millstone calls for Northern Spy at the Capitol City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $5.

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WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS': See f October 20.

AUDITIONS: See October 18, Delehanty Hall, Trinity College, 10:30 a.m. 4 p.m.

'TALES FOR A LATE OCTOBER NIGHT': Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder bring to life one of Grimm's grimmest tales. Grunberg Haus, Waterbury, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 244-7726.

PLANETARIUM SHOW: See October 19, 1 p.m.

e t c HOUSING CO-OP GATHERING: Find out about co-op home ownership from people who have already taken the plunge. First United Methodist Church, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5430.

HONDURAS ADVENTURE SLIDES: Derek Parent gives an illustrated talk about trekking, cargo boating and flying through the Honduran Mosquitia.

Fletcher Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

FUN RUN & WALK: The five-kilometer loop offers outrageous views in honor of Nurse-Midwifery Week Shelbume Farms, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-2756.

MICROBREW OPEN HOUSE: Free tours and tastings are held at the new improved brewery, just down the street from the old site. Otter Creek Brewery, Middlebury, 1-4 p.m. Free. 800-473-

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'JOURNEY INTO COURAGE': This documentary celebrates the spftit of six Vermont women who survived domestic violence and childhood abuse. Champlain College Auditorium, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. and the Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 3 p.m. $5. Info, 633-2306.

m u s i c O P E N REHEARSAL: The award-winning Champlain Echoes w e l c o m e your vocal c h o r d s at this h a r m o n i o u s rehearsal. K n i g h t s o f C o l u m b u s H a l l , B u r l i n g t o n , 7 p . m . Free.

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Free. Register, 863-2345.

GEOLOGY LECTURE: Mary Hubbard details a Himalayan example of "Ductile Shear and Inverted Metamorphism." 200 Perkins Building, UVM, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0242.

ADAPTED SWIM: Disabled folks are invited to swim with one-on-one instruction. Ross Sports Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 6:45 & 7:30 p.m.

Free. Register, 654-2674.

TEEN HEALTH CLINIC: Teens get information, supplies, screening and treatment for sexually-related problems.

Planned Parenthood, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Info, 863-6326.

Jm • MARKETING WITH AD-ITUDE: Some of die best art work in Vermont comes out of advertisiog a'gencies — locally-made logos circulate nationwide. They also turn up at Pegasus, the areas "academy awards" of advertising. Meet the marketeers today at Memorial Auditorium.

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m u s i c LUNCHTIME RECITAL: Violinist Raymond Anderson and pianist Robert Rachlin combine musical forces at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 864-0471.

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k i d s SMALL PET SHOW: Enter your forry fave in a show for kids through fifth grade. Community Center in Jericho, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $1. Info, 899-2103.

e t c CANOE TRJP?„Paddle from Johnson to Jeffersonville via the Lamoille River.

Bring all your gear to the Montpelier High School Parking Lot, 8:30 a.m. Free.

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CHRISTMAS CAROL AUDITIONS: Lost Nation Theater Company and the Montpelier High School Masque open their auditions to all. Smilie Auditorium, Montpelier High School, 3-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-0492.

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Or carve a few of the several hundred jack-o-lanterns, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, Free. Info, 434-3068.

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'WOMEN WOVE T H E MORNING': The feminine face of God is the focus of this video. Discuss the experience over soup and bread at Bethany Church, Mont-pelier, 6-9 p.m. $25. Register, 2296202.

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ABIGAIL STONE: See October 20, Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m.

Info, 229-0774.

CHRIS BOHJALLAN: The columnist, novelist and screenwriter talks about his reactions to the televised version of his novel, Past the Bleachers. McAuley Arts Center, Trinity College, Burlington, 45:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0337.

WOMEN'S BOOK DISCUSSION: We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Readers discuss the book at the Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Register, 8644076.

k i d s MAGIC TOURNAMENT: Win cash in this mystical card game. Montpelier City Hall Basement, 6:30 p.m. $2. Info, 2235932.

e t c LIVING HISTORY TRAINING: Do you enjoy teaching about early Vermont to children? Get oriented to the "living history" volunteer program run by the Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, 9:30 a.m. - noon.

Free. Info, 434-3068.

REIKI CLINIC: Experience healing energy at a free clinic. Spirit Dancer, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-8060.

Burlington, 8 p.m. $18.50-41. Info, 863-5966.

GUITAR & PIANO SUMMIT: Burlington Coffeehouse organizer Jeff Miller is the beneficiary of this charity concert. Brooks Williams, Paul Asbell, Barbara Wells, Dana Robinson and Rachel Bissex perform. St. Pauls Cathedral, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15.

Info, 863-6648.

t h e a t e r CHRISTMAS CAROL AUDITIONS: See October 24, 3-5 p.m. & 7-9:30 p.m.

k i d s SPOOKY TALES: Storyteller Judith Witters talks ghosts for school kids. S. Burlington Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-9010.

e t c ANTHROPOLOGY TALK: The daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson answers difficult questions about cultural preservation. Mann Hall, Trinity College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6580337 x 297.

EUGENICS TALK: Nancy Gallagher presents a historical overview of the Vermont Eugenics Movement. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $2. Info, 656-0750.

SENIOR GATHERING: Elders converse over caffeine. Wheeler School, Burlington, 8:15-10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-0360.

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ACRYLICS: Monday, October 23,1:30 p m Thursdays in Montpelier. $ 12. Info, Old Town Hall, Johnson. Free. Register, 800658-0658. StuartPaton teaches skin-on-skin 887-2203. A Golden Acrylics rep demonstrates music making. the use ttfui discusses the fytsi&ty c^fjis Yfiedttovi* OILS & PASTELS: Tuesday October 24, 7:30 p.m. Old Town Hall, Johnson. Free.

Register, 800-887-2203. Dominique Sennelier WOMEN'S SELF DEFENSE: Three offers an illustrated history (foils and pastels.

Mondays starting October 23 at Northgate WEAVING O N A LOOM FRAME: Apartments Community Room, Budington, Saturday, October 21,9 a m - 5 p.m. Frog or three Wednesdays starting October 25 at Hollow, Burlington. $66 Register, 863-6458. the Burlington Police Department, 6:30-8:30 Learn the basics on a GoodWoodframe loom. pjn. $30 if you have it. Rape avoidance is part of the program EATING DISORDERS: Wednesday, October 25,7-8 p m Burgess Hall UVM, INTRO TO COMPUTERS: Thursday, Burlington, Free. Register; 865-2278. Learn October 19,7:20-9:20 p.m. Burlington about the connection between body image and College. Free to Old North End residents.

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SENIORS STRETCH: Monday, October BASIC DATABASE: Wednesday October 18, 23,7-8 p.m. Burgess Hall UVM, Budington, 5-7 p m Department ofTraining & Free. Register, 865-2278.

Employment, Burlington. Free to Old North 'VITALITY & HEALTH': Tuesday, October Endresidents.Register, 860-4057. Learn basic 24,7 p m Chittenden Food Shelf, Burlington. spreadsheets on the 25th. $3. Info, 863-3659. Jim Robicsek talks about nutrition, supplements and lifestyle.

FITNESS: Thursday, October 19,7 p.m.

Williston Coffeehouse. $8. Info, 878-7122.

AFRO-CftRIBBEAN DANCE- Thursdays Forpersonalized tips, come with known goals.

10 ira. - noon. Capitol Gty Grangs, MINDFULNESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE': Montpelier. Fridays 5:30-7:30 p.m Chace Thursday, October 19,7:30 p.m. Community Mill, Burlington. $8. Info, 985-3665. Cork Center in Jericho. $4. Info, 899-3077. Jane Kevorkian teaches traditional dances (fCuba, Haiti and Brazil CHINESE MEDICINE: Thursday, October AFRO-INSPIRED DANCE: Tuesdays 19,6-8 p.m Collaborative Healthworks, 5:30-7 p.m. HinesburgTown Hall.

Montpelier. $20. Register, 229-6202 The $8. Info, 453-4490. Anna Consako teaches an treatment of autumnal diseases is covered by Afro-Caribbean-style dass with live drumming.

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en years after its founding, the Vermont International Film Foundation is in a doubting mood. The program for its upcoming fest — Vermont's homegrown masala of films, videos, people and politics — throws out questions for its audience: Are we ready for the future? Is there such a thing as "good war?" Can we still feel the impact of Hiroshima? Does memory, in the case of the United Nations, turn into despair? Now in its seventh incarnation, the festival has, to some degree, always built its programming upon similar kinds of inquiry. But this year,

The Vermont I n t e r n a t i onal Film F e s t i v a l : Looking Back, L o o k i n g Forward, 1945-2000+, October 2 6 - 2 9 .

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the questions have been made explicit, lending the event a deeply reflective tenor.

The films, videos and panel discussions programmed under the headings of these questions do point in the direction of some answers. Take, for example, the marvelous and too-little-known case of the "righteous Gentiles" explored in Weapons of the Spirit by Pierre Sauvage.

These were ordinary people who, following the precepts of their Christian faith, took it upon themselves to shelter the Jews in their midst, saving more than 5000 lives — including that of the filmmaker.

A more current example is the mass media social education programs initiated by Population Communications International in places like the Philippines, as documented in People Count: Soaps for Social Change. True to the philosophy of founders George and Sonia Cullinen, who made it their personal mission to enlighten the world about the dangers of

nuclear proliferation, the festival is about the action that validates reflection.

Questions about that founding mission have also come up. Are there enough resources in a small rural state like Vermont to sustain an international film festival? Are there enough viewers to make it viable? Over the past decade, the festival has grown from a modest event V E R M O N T TO that screened some 28 films to 100 viewers, to one that last year screened over 160 films and videos to 8000 in eight nights and days. Not, however, without organizational sacrifice. The festival greatly „

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over-extended itself, and board members spent much of the year reconsidering the size and substance of future events.

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GROUNDS FOR RENEWAL

By C a s s a n d r a

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hen Drex Wright was growing up in Hardwick, it was still the "armpit of Vermont."

Halloween meant gang fights on Main Street and the occasional flaming feline. It was the sort of town that might support a county jail — not something called the Renaissance Cafe, where patrons sip cappuccino and admire the art.

"Hardwick has always had a reputation as a lawless kind of gunslinging town," says Wright, a former social worker employed as a mechanic at his family's auto shop. But lately Hardwickians have been promoting their businesses as diligently as their "art park" — where the X-rated theater once stood. There is new spirit in town, as evidenced by the abundance of yellow "I Love Hardwick" bumperstickers distributed by an enterprising local car dealer last summer at the Vermont Reggae Festival.

Hardwick's first bonafide coffeehouse is symbolic of this new boosterism. "The cafe offers an aspect of culture I wasn't aware of in Hardwick before," says Wright. And it's significant that the place is named for a medieval era of revival: the Renaissance. Cafe founder Linda Fox doesn't usually serve iced coffee this late in the year, but Wright likes it, so she not only keeps up the supply, she stocks his preferred brew.

Run entirely by volunteers, the Renaissance Cafe operates as a coffeehouse — and art gallery — by day. Area lawmakers stop by in the early hours, for "legislative breakfasts." But

A Hardwick cafe mixes cappuccino and

at night, the calico-curtained meeting house attracts a broader cross-section of "cafe society," from Weight Watchers and loggers to the Hardwick Area Business Group. Other nights, poetry and music are offered up along with steaming mugs of java or herbal brews.

The cafe has "proven that new things can happen — and succeed — in Hardwick," says Fox. Tucked between a deli and a flower shop in a once-grand hotel now known as Centennial House, the Renaissance Cafe invites local artists to hang their work, encourages customers to sit awhile, and even opens its restroom to the public. And like many Hardwick businesses, it

AT NIGHT, THE CALICOCURTAINED MEETING HOUSE ATTRACTS A BROADER CROSSSECTION OF "CAFE SOCIETY; FROM WEIGHT WATCHERS AND LOGGERS TO THE HARDWICK AREA BUSINESS GROUP. keeps a running tab for those customers who need one.

Mental health worker Ken Bridges finds the Renaissance is a welcoming place to bring his mentally disabled clients. In fact, they've started volunteering on Friday afternoons. While

Bridges runs the cash register, Gary Brice washes dishes and keeps the tables in order.

For 10-year-old Courtney Benway and her 13-year-old cousin, Corey Chaffee,"There's nowhere else in town where we can come in and not pay much."

On their latest visit, the girls sip cups of water and look at the art — a show featuring self-portraits of community members.

Alexander Bottinelli, a member of the "art committee," relaxes in a chair to view her work. "We think showing art by community members brings vitality," she says. "It's inspiring to artists when they know they can hang their most recent work." r When Fox opened the Renaissance Cafe in April 1993, she intended it to be a community center — or, as she puts it, "a community building experiment."

Her $2500 budget included a grand from the town's rotating loan Q^ fund and the rest from community shares. She invited anyone interested to join as "associates" in the nonprofit cooperative. About 25 people have stayed with it, each donating $25 a year. Volunteers handle everything, from working the counter to watering the plants. .;.< Fox says the cafe now turns

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"a slight profit" — all of which either returns to members or goes back into the cafe.

Members used last year's earnings to finance the move to the Centennial House.

As far as Drex Wright's concerned the cafe's success has proved his theory that a new mindset has overtaken his small

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labby Gabby Fulbriten asks romantic. So after downing a herself, over a low-cal huge chocolate sundae at the lunch of white chicken Creemee stand, she takes a cue with diet dressing, "Which is from Oprah: She puts herself more important, men or food?" on a diet.

Looking for love on a dead-end This fat-phobic, boy-crazy road gives the pudgy protagorant sounds like the stuff of nist plenty to chew on, espeCosmopolitan. But mixed up cially in fictitous Leadbelly, with entertaining personal ads, Vermont. Her offbeat observaoffbeat theories and excerpts tions and obsessions are the from Shakespeare plays, it essential ingredients in Recipes becomes a delightfully contrarifrom the Dump, a charming first an philosophy of love. On the novel from Abigail Stone about subject of men — another a single mother of three looking metaphor for meaning — for meaning — and men — in Gabby seems to pine for an earmiddle age. lier time, when men were the Revelatory and entertaining, "hunting, dangerous, scary, the book reads like a good jour- Adam's-apple-bulging guys they nal, full of ellipses and theories used to be." But her commenon everything from dreams to tary on the "spermless" trend is recycling. Stone writes with a followed up by more serious present-tense spontaneity that sociology: "Sometimes I feel matches the right-brain reasonlike we'll never get back togething of her loopy heroine. The er again. I mean men and narrative voice grows on you women. Here we are, stuck like so many rising loaves of dreaming about each other but Amish Friendship Bread — too afraid to say anything other which the Fulbriten family than candlelight." alternates with tofu and pizza.

Gabby turns her crazy wisIt's one of many dishes she dom on other anxieties as well: offers up for consumption that to the condo development call for ingredients edible and sprouting up across the field, otherwise. Like Water For the lump in her neighbor's Chocolate without the salsa. "Be breast, the little pools of smelly sure to open lid and stir every brown liquid that accumulate day," she suggests to kneady where water once was. In the breadmakers in process of bullthe first set of dozing for a from the symbolic cook- Recipes garden, she disDump, by A b i g a i l ing instruccovers a huge tions, "or it Stone, Norton, stash of glass will blow up and metal 271 pages. $18. all over the under the topplace." soil in her yard.

Plot is a not a big part of "Things came up, but with this literary work of domestic them came shards and plates existentialism. Gabby is looking and knifelike ridges of glittering for a husband — her third — glass," she writes. "So when I with odds comparable to "Joan water my garden, the glass Collins landing on the moon." sparkles and the beans grow.

She dwells on Muslim men, But will I dare eat anything?" missionaries, even dead soldiers This query, from a woman who at the Vietnam Memorial. But frequents McDonald's, is uniall the messing around in this versal. book is mental. And strangely Her paranoia, and the largnon-sexual. That she is more er undercurrent of ecological doom, intensifies in the latter popular among bill collectors than eligible bachelors is what really irks the 37-year-old Continued on page 22 October

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J J 1 A if ell, hi, howreyadoing?" my Mormon friend Sissy asked, pushing her cereal boxes along the conveyor belt. She put the tabloid back in its rack while I rang up her groceries. I was thinking, "Gee, she's lost weight . . . all that fasting keeps Mormons thin" though I knew she had had a kidney infection at one point from fasting too much when her husband left her. When the Mormons fast, they don't drink any water . . . it is their way of suffering as Christ did in the desert. Sissy's husband left her for a redhead who had gone inactive, and she

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He never strayed again . . . well, I can't say never because who knows? That didn't happen that long ago . . . anyway, she was in my checkout line buying Goofy Grape cereal and whole milk and a case of Campbell's soup and while I checked her through, she told me what was going on at the Today & Yesterday. "The manager, Mr. Marrow, fired three employees last week for being slow about spraying water over the vegetables . . . and my heck, one of them was his ex-wife." Sissy had a lot of coupons with her so I rang them in while I said, "He's divorced? I got a call from him once you know . . . I sort of thought he might be nice . . .

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She shook her head. "My heck, right before the holidays he fires his ex-wife . . . I mean what if they have children? I'm lucky Herb came home when he did or I'd be more worried about losing my job." She's always bringing up the fact that she got Herb back. Not that it's wrong but to me, a single, lonely, desperate, divorced woman, well, it's painful . . . why didn't my men come back?

I'll tell you why the father of Grace and J.D. didn't come back. Because he was a good Italian who did what his parents requested of him. And his parents didn't like me . . . why do

the in-laws always play such a prominent part in the lives of young lovers? If only the Montagues and the Capulets had left Romeo and Juliet alone they might have had a long and desperately intense affair . . . or, on the other hand, they might have had twins and split up because the pressure of children is really intense. I'm not against procreating or anything; it's just that it seems to make the man lose interest. It tends to wreck the relationship.

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"I challenge you to come to church this Sunday," Sissy was saying, as I bagged her groceries. "My heck we haven't seen you there in a long time . . . heavenly Father misses you. We all do. " "What about Mr. Marrow?"

I asked. There was no one else in line behind her, so she put her brown bags down. "He's there . . . at the store . . . " "But is he hiring again? Why did he fire three people?" I was trying to sound casual but a' " hint of hysteria was creeping into my voice. I sounded like my mother when she didn't know where one of us was. "I mean . . . is he needing somebody?"

"Gosh, I don't know," Sissy said. "I think he let those folks go because there isn't enough work to hold on to all the employees. Aren't you happy here?" Suddenly I saw her looking deeply at me and I was filled with shame. Beyond my drab checkout apron and my Hurry Up hat, beyond my wild unkempt hair that never stayed in place, beyond all the obvious faults, I saw what my Mormon friend saw . . . a roving lost soul, teetering on the wicked . . . seesawing toward evildoing by lusting after that which she did not have. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor thy neighbor's ass nor oxen . . . " I suppose that also means thou shalt not covet any man but wait ye therefore instead and either one will come along or one won't . . . but quit coveting.

I felt terrible guilt and humiliation then, looking at my clean, tidy, friendly Mormon friend.

Why couldn't I be like that? . . . tidy and married and shopping for cereal?

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part of Recipes, which makes frequent and increasingly gloomy reference to the Gulf war. Gabby dwells on the destruction — Scud missiles, oil-sodden birds — until it replaces almost all her prior obsessions. Except food. The man-hunting humor suffers while Gabby diets and worries.

The recipes, sprinkled in amongst the text like summarizing devices, reflect her shift in priorities: She stops serving Maleless Brunch, which mixes up several single mothers, Diet Coke and a shirtless man with a bulldozer, and instead offers a recipe for War Waffles. It calls for big countries, big weapons, a good cause, one or more victims and a flat pan to wage batter in.

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For filmgoers as well as organizers, this year's four-day "alternative" event will not only offer a breather from logistical logjams, but serves a commemorative function in the process.

This year — the 10-year anniversary of the foundation —i is also the golden anniversary of the end of World War II and

This year's event has its share of glamour items and premieres, including the U.S. premiere of Academy Award-winning Anna: 6-18, a documentary that views a 12-year period of transformation in Russia via the evolving relationship between the filmmaker and his daughter.

Somewhat different, however, will be the large number of older, "classic" films being screened. Notable among these is Frank Capra's 1942 Prelude to • War, a film which, like Leni Reifenstahl's contemporaneous • Triumph of the Will, confuses and complicates the question of artistry by attaching it to the question of political purpose.

Equally memorable is John Hustons 1945 The Battle of San Pietro, a film which, though the intent was propagandistic, got so close to the harsh reality of American foot soldiers in Italy s_ Liri Valley that Huston was rep-

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