ODD, STRANGE, CURIOUS AND WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBE said Amanda Smisek, 17, who received a 30-day suspended jail sentence and three years’ probation, • In North Carolina, where a Gastonia judge announced he would enforce a 191-year-old state law forbidding sex outside marriage, attorney Curtis Harris commented, “If the states going to proceed with this, they’re going to have to lock up 15 percent of Gaston County’s population.” • Wives whose hus bands are unfaithful v are five to 11 times more likely to develop cervical cancer, especially if the hus bands frequent prostitutes or have many sexual partners, according to a study published in the Journal o f the National Cancer Institute. “Male behav ior is the important thing in v this cancer,” said the study’s co author, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor Dr. Keerti V. Shah. “In effect, the husband takes cancer home to his wife.”
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ENOUGH, ALREADY Well, I’ve gone and done it again. Against all resolutions to the contrary, I have once more read Peter Freyne’s sophomoric soliloquy, the grandiosely titled “Inside Track” of your October 2 issue. I read it not because of any interest in Mr. Freyne’s opinion, but because I had sadly made a bet with myself that up he could not possibly try to. get any more mileage from the hackneyed handles he has bestowed on every politician and institution within a hundred miles. I lost the bet. Mercy, please, Mr. Freyne. I, for one, have had enough of “Susie Creamcheese, Ol’ Bernardo, Ho-Ho and Dennis the Menace,” to say X. nothing of “WGOP-TV, the Freeps and Groovy-UV.” Get a life, get a * job, get some therapy, but most of all, get a thesaurus Even the UltraTolerant can only take so much. As far as being on the “Inside Track,” I suggest the opposite. If WGOP-TV was so “delighted to take Ol’ Bernardo’s money,” or any other politician’s, for that matter, why do they purposely limit the races that may advertise on the sta tion? (Races below statewide consti tutional level are not accepted.) Also limited is the amount of air time that candidates may purchase, except at the fed eral level, where limits may not be imposed except under specific conditions. In fact, ff WCAX were so mercenary, as Mr. Freyne impugns, why do they accept no Advocacy Advertising (advertising that sup ports one side of a political issue over another), no Paid Religion, no Psychic Hotlines, no 900 numbers, no Montreal Adult Clubs? These are all lucrative rev enue streams that WCAX declines that the other TV stations in this region gladly accept. The answer to alF of the above is that WCAX puts being a responsible broadcaster above adding to the bottom line. And, as Mr. Fryne is so obviously insinuating political bias with his “WGOP-TV,” I can assure him, with no reservation whatsoever, that the han dling of all political candidates’ advertising is as fair and equal as possible. As the person at WCAX who is assigned to work with all local political clients, I have never been questioned by Ownership as to my own political affiliation. Give it up, Mr. Freyne; you are in fact on “The Outside Looking In.”
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However, in deference to Mr. Freyne’s obvious fondness for Adorable Adjectives (even now I can conjure up the thought of him wriggling in delight at the opportunity of one more “Jeezum Jim” in next week’s column), I confer on him, with an ever-soslight wriggle of my own, the title of “St. Peter, the Patron Saint of Misinformation.” On his column, for reasons that I hope are self-explanatory, I confer the title, “The Peter Principle.” • — Judi Fisher Burlington Judi Fisher is the local/regional sales manager for WCAX-TV IRISH AYES While I was already somewhat aware of the story and had plans to view the film Michael Collins, I will now see the movie with more of an understanding of how that period in history affected “real people,” thanks to Peter Freyne. Peter’s story on the real Michael Collins, in the October 16 edition of Seven Days, was extraordinary. Why he chose to allow us this very personal look at his family’s connection with 20th-century Irish history, I don’t know. But I am grateful he did. Peter has helped this Irish-American (maternal side) understand a little more of “Ireland’s darkest secret” and the tragedy of the Civil Wa£ of 1922-23. Perhaps a discussion of this subject would be appro priate for next year’s Irish Festival? Thanks again, Peter, for taking the risk of show ing us your personal side. — Alan R. Yandow Burlington REVAMPING CLASSIC ROCK The two new “alternative” stations (the Buzz and the Pulse) which have taken over the airways recently just don’t seem to get the point. After alternative rock hit the mainstream five years ago a market opened up for retailers and radio stations to market new music which broke away from the classic rock mold which dominated for so long. This was good in that it gave us something else to listen to besides Foreigner’s “Dirty White Boy.” At the same time, however, it also opened the door to the trivialization and manipulation by mar keters of some of the most personal music made, hence we now have Bush and Collective Soul shoved down our eardrums. When Burlington radio listeners voiced their desire for a new music station, one which broke out of the classic rock mold, programmers listened. Unfortunately, those who responded were the two titans of Champlain Valley rock broadcasting. In cre ating their new stations, they ignored the root of our discontent. It was not necessarily the music that annoyed us so much as the repetition and strict adherence to playlists. Now, instead of hearing “Dirty White Boy” every day, we hear the same cuts from Bush, Dishwalla and other remodeled classic rockers. We also wanted to hear some music that deejays played because they liked it, not because a record label pushed it well. The sincerity of the deejays real ly must be questioned. I mean, do they all like the
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Clues? Pfui. We’ve cracked the freaking case, thanks to some out standing legwork by Jon Cryer — dactor, co-writer and co-producer of the movie Pompatus o f Love — and my new assistant, J.K. Fabian. J.K. has what it takes to make a real impact in this business: pluck, luck and an outstanding record collection. “Pompatus” mystified millions when Steve Miller used it in his 1973 hit, “The Joker”: “Some people call me the space cowboy. / Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love. / Some people call me Maurice, / Cause I speak of the Pompatus of love.” “Space cowboy” and “gangster of love” referred to earlier Miller songs. Maurice was from Miller’s 1972 tune, “Enter Maurice,” which appeared on the album Recall the Beginning —- A Journey From Eden. “Enter Maurice” had this lyric: “My dearest darling, come closer to Maurice so I can whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear and speak to you of the pompitous of love.” Great, now there were two mystery words. What’s more, it appeared Miller himself was uncertain how pompatus was spelled. It appeared as “pompatus” in at least two books of sheet music, but as “pompitous” in the lyrics included with Recall the Beginning. Miller has said little about the P-word over the years. In at least one interview, fans say, he claimed “it doesn’t mean anything — it’s just jive talk.” Not quite. Some sharp-eared music fan noticed the “Enter Maurice” lyric above bore a marked resemblance to some lines in a rhythm and blues tune called “The Letter,” by The Medallions. The song had been a hit in r&b circles in 1934. J.K. found the record. It had the lines, “Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of [something like epismetology] and discuss the [something like pompatus] of love.” J.K. tried to find the sheet music for the song, but came up only with The Box Tops hit, “The Letter” (“My baby, she wrote me a let ter”). Then came a stroke o'f luck. Jon Cryer, the movie guy, had stum bled onto the secret of pompatus. Eager to reveal it to the world, he sent it to — who, Rolling Stone! The New York Times! Of course not. He sent it to us. Speculation about “pompatus” was a recurring motif in the script for The Pompatus o f Love. While the movie was in post-production, Cryer heard about “The Letter.” During a TV interview he said that the song had been written and sung by a member of The Medallions named Vernon Green. Green, still very much alive, was dozing in front of the tube when the mention of his name caught his attention. He immediately contacted Cryer. Green had never heard “The Joker.” Cryer says that when he played it for Green, “he laughed his ass off.” Greens story: “You have to remember, I was a very lonely guy at the time. I was only 14 years old, I had just run away from home, and I walked with crutches,” Green told Cryer. He scraped by singing songs on the streets of Watts. One song was “The Letter,” Green’s attempt to conjure up his dream woman. The mystery words, J.K. ascertained after talking with Green, were “puppetutes” and “pizmotaiity.” (Green wasn’t much for writing things down, so the spellings are approximate.) “Pizmotaiity described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved/’ Green told Cryer. And puppetutes? “A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus pup pet], who would be my everything and bear my children.” Not real PC, but look, it was 1934. Green went on to record many other songs and is still writing today. He can be reached at P.O. Box 1394, Perris, CA 92572. Steve Miller must have loved r&b. Another line from “The Joker” goes, “I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree. / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time.”
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ITH E L A U N C H “You gonna go for something more than g governor someday?” asked the little old lady of ^ Gov. Howard Dean on W KDR’s “The Mark I Johnson Show” Tuesday. | “Oh, I don’t know,” replied Ho-Ho. “Not | anytime soon.” Let’s face it, folks. Ho-Ho wants to go to ®the top — the very top — and he’s right on 1 schedule. His calculated public confession of a | pot-smoking, beer-swilling college career regis§ tered 7.7 on the Richter scale. Big balloons for ‘ Howard B. Dean - doctor, governor and regular i human being! The dude inhaled, for chrissakes. 1 He got STONED! You can go right ahead and | mark you calenders. “Howard Dean for I President” has been launched. Come in, ’ Houston. We have a lift-off! 8 Our Washington, D.C., sources say Ho-Ho’s | straight talk on dope was heard loud and clear | on Capitol Hill. His gutsy declaration reverberp ated through political circles with lightning 8 speed. Howard Dean is on the radar down there I as somebody to watch — very closely. Ho-Ho’s | recent performances on C N N ’s “Crossfire” have | shown the country the guy is smart as a tack I and has the mouth to match. Dean’s the only “Crossfire” guest yours truly has ever seen who I cuffed and stuffed John Sununu, the bully boy of the | right wing. These days everyone crystal balling Ho-Ho’s future. Will he take a position in Bill Clinton’s | cabinet? Not likely He’s a politician, not a bureaucrat. The CW is, II he’ll finish out his coming two11year term as Vermont governor, | then take his “Universal Health Care for America’s Children” § crusade on the road until A1 * Gore taps him as his veep run ning mate in 2000. Al’s already | admitted to smoking dope in Vietnam. Howard sucked on ; the big bong at Yale. They can i swap old ’60s stories around the 1 lava lamp. Far out. : Another quite interesting | scenario involves Jim Jeffords, ' one of the state’s greatest politii cal success stories, who has | achieved everything he ever | wanted except being governor ii of the state he loves. He’s got : four years left on his term in the I U.S. Senate. He could have stayed quiet this | fall, but his aggressive public support for Susan | Sweetser reflects a desire to go before the elecI to rate now. W hy now? * Well, fact is, nothing’s stopping Jeezum Jim I from running for governor in two years. J W ithout Ho-Ho seeking reelection in ’98, I Jeffords would be the most experienced horse in H the field. And he wouldn’t have to surrender his U.S. Senate seat to do it unless he won. Then ! what happens? Just imagine. Jeffords cuts a deal with Dean | and, upon taking the oath as Governor of I Vermont in January 1999, Republican Jim 1 Jeffords appoints Democrat Howard Dean to 1 the United States Senate. Crazy? | We ran it by Sen. Jeffords Tuesday at Susie | Creamcheese’s latest fundraiser. He replied with i a rock-solid “no comment.” 1 Think about it. Jimbo would love sticking it | to the Republican right-wingers who’ve always § stuck it to him. It’d be a mucho satisfying pay| back. And secondly, Jeezum Jim and Ho-Ho are birds of a feather. They both play to the moder8 ate mainstream middle while dissing both the | far left and the far right. Republicans despise | Jeffords for behaving like a Democrat, and | Democrats loathe Howard when the Republican child inside him erupts on the surface.
W ith a deal like that, everybody wins. Jeffords gets to realize his lifelong dream to be governor of his beloved Green Mountain State, and Ho-Ho moves one giant step closer to the White House. Hey, don’t Bogart that joint! Pass it back. False Reporting — That’s what Governor Dean says of the coverage of his marijuana heart-toheart by the state’s'largest out-of-state-owned newspaper. The story broke first in The Rutland Herald. The next day the Freeps ran an Associated Press take on the matter on the front § page. And the day after that, the Freeps got their prize-winning Montpelier bureau chief to do another version on page one. Only Ho-Ho says it was pure B.S. “The real story happened in Rutland,” said Dean, “and the Free Press tried to make it seem they hadn’t been scooped by juxtaposing an interview I had given to Jeff Good with an inaccurate and emotional headline implying I had had that discussion in front of my daugh ter’s class. That was not true. That did not hap pen. My wife was there. She was shocked. She works in the library. The Free Press reporter did n’t know that. She came home and she couldn’t believe the difference between what she saw and g what was in the Free Press.” g How come no one’s surprised? Gearing Up? - One little tidbit making the rounds in G.O.P circles is that § after the Bob Dole defeat, Republicans are going to have to g do something about the gender gap that plagues their party. One 8 solution being offered is to dump G.O.P Chairman Haley Barbour and replace him with a g dame. And one of the locals to ® make the G.O.P. dame list is I Sara Gear of Burlington, who j was a major domo at the San g Diego convention. g “No truth to it,” Gear told * H Inside Track the other day. All i she’s got planned right now is a | trip to Spain after the election, g Hot Ticket — “Bring your truck, g bring rope, bring your mother-in- ® law... to Green Candle Theater’s I Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens at | 135 Pearl. Yours truly left his g socks there Friday night and woke » up Saturday morning humming * the tune, “Glitter Boots Saved My Life” — and that’s off-theg record, buster. g Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is one hell of a show, the # likes of which Burlington has never seen. Jordan Gullikson gives a tour de force perforg mance as Saucy Jack. Chide Hughes, as Jubilee p Climax, leader of the Space Vixens, has the voice of an angel (the body of one, too), and i Bob Bolyard as William Von Wackoff casts a § wickedly sinister spell from his stool on the cor- | ner of the bar. Set designer Karl W. Steen deserves a standing ‘O ” for transforming the downstairs bar at 135 Pearl into something out of this world. Will Geisler’s costumes work magic. This show is hot! hot! hoA (Don’t say a word about it to the Progressive prudes on the City Council, or they’ll want to shut it down.) Keep your fingers crossed for an extended run, because Saucy Jack is already sold out through Saturday night. At press time seats are available for Sunday through Wednesday of next week, including a midnight show next Wednesday. Do yourself a favor: Pick up the phone right now (893-7333) and “come in, kick back, relax... at Saucy Jack’s!” Media Notes — The new guy sitting next toErin Clark on the Ch. 5 News is Tom Hallock. He replaces the super-suave David Scott, who moved on to Peoria. Hallock’s been the week end anchor in Portland, Maine at WGME-TV. He’s also a Plattsburgh State Cardinal and a for mer Ch.5 intern. Small world, isn’t it? □
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north wind is blowing through Chelsea, which is posing these days as the small town of Kingdom Common in the new motion picture by Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven. The crew is bundled up in wool hats and down parkas. Between takes, big-name actors load up on long-johns. Only Rusty DeWees looks impervious to the cold on the set of A Stranger in the Kingdom — shirtsleeves rolled up, bottle of beer in his greasy hand. When he explodes on the scene in a burst of raw, masculine energy, suddenly it’s summer. Things heat up pretty quickly in Stranger— black Reverend Walter Andrews transforms from mail-order pas tor to murder suspect after a teenage drifter girl is found dead nearby. But the scene being shot today precedes the murder. Andrews is off-duty at the harvest fest when he runs into the local sheriff, who has sles him for participating in two-bit carnival games. Unintimidated, the reverend responds with a mallet. One swing sends a weight up the vertical scale and rings the bell. Andrews is momentarily vindicated — until DeWees muscles in with his baseball buddies to show up the rev erend. The script called for a simple “whoa,” but DeWees trumped that up to a onearmed swing. In rehearsal, he gets an even better idea. Instead of going right for the bell, he suspends the mallet over his head just long enough to sug gest he might be capable of killing the pastor — or some one else, for that matter. Then in a beer-induced burst of testosterone, he brings the mal let down with one hand, a sec ond time with both. A quick consultation with Jay Craven, and the change is committed to celluloid. “Rusty is great. His part gets bigger every day,” Craven says of Vermont-raised DeWees and his bad-ass, red-neck role in Stranger. Craven wanted a Hollywood actor to play Harlafi Kitteridge, but when David Strathairn turned him down, he offered the job to DeWees five
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days before filming started. The director of Stranger has no regrets. Neither does the author. “Harlan is an s.o.b., but Rusty somehow makes him appealing. He never goes over the top,” says novelist Howard Frank Mosher. “He is just like my beer-drinking Northeast Kingdom buddies. He under stands the part.” The most striking thing about 35-year-old DeWees — besides his Paul Bunyan physique — is his untutored intelligence. A physical actor with almost no formal training, he has an intuitive, athletic approach to drama that puts the emphasis on action, not analysis. But knowing “nuthin from nuthin” about theater has n’t stopped him from honoring Chekhov, Sam Shepard and David Budbill with brilliant
Rusty DeWees, center, hits a homer in A Stranger in the Kingd om
portrayals of Waffles, Tilden and Antoine — he developed his French-Canadian accent for Budbill’s popular Vermont play Judevine watching late-night television commercials from Montreal. Now, finally, his outsized talent is turning industry heads. Since sparring with Rip Torn in Craven’s last Mosher-penned feature, Where the Rivers Flow North, DeWees has landed a dozen big commercial jobs — before Stranger, he spent six days on location with Brad Pitt. “The only thing that surprises me is that the world has taken this long to find him,” says Bob Ringer, who directed DeWees in Shepard’s Buried Child. The secret’s out.
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or all his talent, DeWees didn’t set out to be an actor. “There was never a point where I said, ‘This is what I want to do,’ he says in his raspy Tom Waits voice. The son of a Greyhound bus driver was a lousy student who excelled in drumming, basketball and the occasional musical at Stowe High School. He was driving schoolbuseTs and dump trucks when he got a scholarship to Champlain College — for his athletic, not dramatic, perfor mances. But his interest in theater persisted. DeWees took chorus roles in community musicals and teamed up with Vermont actor George Woodard to explore the realm of physical comedy. Budbill remembers the two men performing a hilarious “lateral soft-shoe vaudeville
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thing” at the Hyde Park Opera House. Woodard, whom DeWees calls a “mentor,” has the same low-brow propensity for drama. He played a haggard farmhand in Ethan Frome, which was also filmed in Vermont. DeWees had a smaller part, but remembers vividly get ting stuck — and tongue-tied — in the same makeup trailer with actress Patricia Arquette. Despite his taste for “damsels,” he confesses, “I can’t do the relationship thing. I’m too self ish.” DeWees was post-grad, playing a Nazi in a Lyric Theatre production of Cabaret when someone in the cast sug gested he try out for director Bob Ringer. Knowing he looked “Sam Shepardy,” and having no idea what it meant, DeWees showed up at Vermont Repertory Theater to read the part of Tilden in Buried Child. “He looked like a farm boy, couple of days’ beard, old work boots, kind of shy. My first thought was, ‘W hat is this?" Ringer recalls. “It took one sen tence. I let him read on, of course, but I knew... It was a remarkable performance.” DeWees liked straight act ing, and it showed. Ringer cast him in True West, O f Mice and Men and “a Chekhov that we have never recovered from,” Ringer says. Then and now, DeWees brought a powerful physicality to his roles that, despite his hulking physique, can also be extraordinarily deli cate. Ringer remembers one startling detail he contributed to True West— “He picked a fly out of the air and ate it,” Ringer recalls. “Strangely enough, it was just right. He was always surprisingly you with things like that.” The unexpected actor cer tainly surprised David Budbill, who had envisioned a short man in the role of the wild French-Canadian logger in his ensemble-play, Judevine. “When Bob Ringer came along and said, ‘I have the perfect person for Antoine — he is six-footfive and a redhead,’ I said, ‘No way, man. Impossible,’” Budbill says. “I agreed to give him a C ontinued on page 12
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GEORGE, BY GEORGE! (a c o u s t ic m o rs e ls ), J a v a L o v e , 9 p .m . N o co ve r. TOM CARROLL, SCOTT MCALLISTER ( c o n t e m p o r a r y fo lk ), V e r m o n t C o f f e e h o u s e at V e r m o n t P asta, 9 p .m . $ 5 . JAZZ MANDOLIN PROJECT, L i v in g / L e a r n in g R e s id e n c e H a ll, U V M , 8 p .m . $ 5 . ORGANIC GROOVE FARMERS ( a c o u s t ic f o lk - r o c k , p o e t r y ) , C a f e N o N o , 8 p .m . $ 3 - 6 . THE X-RAYS (ro c k ), N e c t a r ’s, 9 : 3 0 p .m . N o co ver. TABLE WINE ( a lt -fo lk ), S a m s a r a , 8 : 3 0 p .m . N o co ve r. THE QUEERS, 12 X OVER, CUB ( p u n k , a lt-ro c k ), C l u b lo a s t , 9 : 3 0 p .m . $ 6 . CHRIS CHIODA, OUTER MONGOLIA ( “T h e C h e m is t , ” a g u it a r / s y n t h c o m p o s it io n ; n o o d le ro c k ), L a s t E lm , 9 p .m . D o n a t i o n s . RONNY JORDAN, DANA BRYANT (a c id ja z z g u it a ris t ; s p o k e n w o r d jazz), C l u b M e t r o n o m e , 7 p .m . $ 1 0 , f o llo w e d b y RETRONOME ( D J ) , 1 0 p .m . N o co ver. COLD STEEL BREEZE BLUES BAND, M a n h a t t a n P iz z a , 9 : 3 0 p .m . N o co v e r. BOOTLESS & UNHORSED ( Ir is h ) , L a s t C h a n c e , 7 : 3 0 p .m . N o co ve r. COMEDY ZONE ( s t a n d - u p ) , R a d is s o n H o t e l, 8 & 1 0 p .m ., $ 7 . LITTLE MARTIN ( D J ) , 1 3 5 P e a rl, 9 p .m ., $ 4 / 5 ; a f t e rh o u rs p a rry, $ 3 . HARD LUCK ( b lu e s - r o c k ) , A ll e y C a t s , 9 p .m . N o co v e r. BLUE JAY WAY (ro c k ) , P a tc h e s P u b , H o l id a y In n , 9 p .m . N o co ver. SAM ARMSTRONG (jazz), T u c k a w a y ’s, S h e r a t o n H o t e l, 9 p .m . N o co v e r. SM OKIN'GUN (ro c k ), W o l f ’s L a ir, C o lc h e st e r, 9 p .m . N o co v e r. JAMIE LEE & THE RATTLERS ( c o u n t r y - r o c k ) , T h i r s t y T u rt le , W a t e r b u r y , 9 : 3 0 p .m . $ 2 . MICHAEL OAKLAND & ERIC KOELLER (jazz), M a i n S tre e t B a r a n d G r i ll D o w n s t a ir s , M o n t p e lie r , 9 p .m . N o co ve r. THE URGE (ro c k ), C h a r l ie - o ’s, M o n t p e lie r , 9 : 3 0 p .m . N o co v e r. VIPER HOUSE (a c id ja zz), M a d M o u n t a i n T a v e r n , W a it s f ie ld , 9 p .m . $ 3 . SETH YACOV ONE (b lu e s ), G a lla g h e r ’s, W a it s fie ld , 9 : 3 0 p .m . $ 2 . .
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(550 Music, CD) — Upstate New York rockers Moe have been this way before, but this time they come with a new CD under their belts. The inscrutable title, No Doy, hints at Moe’s sense of humor — a quality that turns up in its grooveheavy music as well. This is not to say the quirky quartet doesn’t take its sound seriously. No Doy is a studio-sawy piece of party rock ’n’ roll, somewhat more cohesive than its feverishly improvisational live shows. Still, No Doy demonstrates the band’s buffet-style platter of influences, stirring jazz, funk, blues, rock, bluegrass and hillbilly — not to mention the effects box — into one big fat musi cal meal. Chewy, four-boy singing. Guitarist Chuck Garvey, drummer Chris Mazur, bassist Rob Derhak and guitarist Al Schnier up their indiehippie-cred with a north-country version of the Allman Brothers — rockin,’ funk-injected and spirited. Moe celebrates the release of its new disc this Thursday at Toast. Rumor has it that their pals in PFunk might come down after their Mem Aud gig, so don’t go home early.
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NowTakingOrdersTorYourThanksgivingTable. Bv Brvan S t r a t t o n top me if you’ve heard this one before: A licentious band of transgendered, humanoid misfits, dressed in bondage gear and 1970s throw aways, live under the roof of an egomaniacal and dangerously unstable ringleader. Occasionally, they break out into spontaneous rock songs, extolling the virtues of disco and cheap science fiction. Along the way, each character has a defining sexual moment
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haystack to wade through for that dandy little needle. If I’d only had to sit still for 60 minutes, maybe I could have overlooked Mitch (Robert Toms) Maypole’s direct para phrase of Rocky Horrors “Don’t Dream It, Be It” when he coun sels a fellow character that “You can’t just dream it, you’ve got to live it!” I could have overlooked the astonishing similarities between trenchcoated not-sostraightman William (Bob Bolyard) Von Wackoff’s fetish
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RIVALING ROCKY Space Vixens just want to have fun. to think that I was the only which changes his/her/its life good thing to come out of the forever, and everyone lives hap 1970s. But I understand the pily ever after, except for those basic premise of the play, that who were killed in gory, yet it’s a parody of a cliche. There’s darkly amusing, ways. a lot of laughable stuff inherent Welcome to Saucy jack and the Space Vixens, a play so deriv in ’70s pop music and ’50s scifi. But it’s not as if this is an ative that it should be paying unmined vein, people. There Rocky Horror Picture Show were folks making fun of disco auteur Richard O ’Brien royal and Ed Wood while both were ties hand over fist. Presented by still alive, for God’s sake. Burlington’s ever-ad venture us Which is not to say that Green Candle Theatre Saucy Jack is without redeeming Company and directed by features. Like Jordan Chris Ziter, it’s a not-too-plotGullikson’s performance as the dependent murder mystery set title character, who combines in a futuristic outer-space the best aspects of Meatloaf and nightclub called Saucy Jack’s, the worst aspects of William where some malcontent has Shatner. Like the cast’s remark been slaughtering third-rate able, improvised interactions performers who want out — with a sequined sling-back heel, with the patrons of Saucy Jack’s — the audience. Even I could no less. Not quite an ice pick, n’t help from but it does the laughing out job. loud at the Eventually, Saucy Jack and the cold brutality three off-duty Space Vixens, of the “life is Space Vixens Green Candle cheap” message — interstellar Theatre Company, following the peacekeepers directed by Chris demise of and masters of Z it e r . 135 P e a r l , Chesty the legendary Bu rl ing to n. October Prospects, “disco boots” 24-30, 8 p.m., played by Nina — show up plus a special DesOrmeaux. and get to the midnight showing But it’s a bottom of the October 30. two-hour whole mess.
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revelation, and Dr. Von Scott’s garters-and-stockings scene at the end of Rocky Horror. And I could have overlooked the fact that the band managed to play a lot of swing and some 80s synth-pop but very little real disco. Ultimately, however, the only people who seemed to care about Saucy s lack of substance or originality were myself and my companion. The crowd loved it. Their enthusiasm lagged a bit in the middle, just after the intermission, but by the end, they were all on their feet, grooving to “All I Need is Disco.” We took the opportuni ty to cut out while the crowd was distracted — these people were frenzied; they could have killed us without thinking. Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is as subtle as a gold lame station wagon, and more contrived than the Republican Party platform. It’s campier than spending two weeks in the woods riding horses and stitch ing leather wallets. But there’s nothing wrong with stupid fun, and if you happen to like it, neither this review nor anything else will ruin your enjoyment of the show — even the fact that you’ve seen it all before. □ (SE V IM l D M S
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mon-sense ideas that was the victim of a failure to communi cate. Gropper’s own campaign is seeking a $100 million cut in the state budget. Part of the money ostensibly saved by restructuring government would go toward paying for education, he says. And some of those funds would funnel new technology to the class room. As for abortion, Gropper considers himself “pro-choice,” but advocates outlawing the late-term “partial birth” abor tion procedure and mandating parental notification in the case \ of minors. He also believes that 1 women seeking abortions ' should be informed about adoption alternatives. Getting the word out on his ideas has been tough — the man has little name recognition and limited funds. As of the last filing with the Secretary of C ontinued on page 3 6
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d a n c e ‘GIRLS’ N IG H T O U T ’: This lesbian hip-hop dance party is open to all. Cafe No No, Burlington, 9 p.m. $3-6. Info, 865-5066. ‘FREE SPIRIT D A NCE’: The weekly barefoot boogie convenes at Earth Dance Healing Arts Studio, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $5. Info, 482-2827. CO N TA C T IMPROV: Make contact with other fearless movers at Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington, 7:15 p.m. $1. Info, 860-3674.
t h e a t e r ‘T H E C H ER IE & YOLANDA S H O W ’: The drag Queen of Uranus explores unchartered interview territory with a special guest. 135 Pearl, Burlington, 8 pm. $2. Info, 863-2343.
film ‘T H E DESK SET’: Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in this ’50s flick. All ages are welcome at the Waterbury Senior Center, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-6648.
w e r d s BO O K TALK: Bibliophile author Kevin Graffagnino considers the future o f books in a post-literate age. Fletcher Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. BOO K DISCUSSION M EETING: Readers meet xo organize a discussion series of four short novels. Fletcher Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. BOO K DISCUSSION: Jane Austens Persuasion gets a group reading at the St. Albans Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-1508.
k id s TEEN PARENT-CHILD GROUP: Teen moms hang out with their babies at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. STORY TIM ES: Kids three to six hear stories and craft, 10-10:45 a.m. Those under three listen up, 11-11:30 a.m.
Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-7216. % STORIES: Kids listen while they eat snacks and make crafts at the Children’s Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.
etc PROPERTY TAX REFORM FORUM: State Senator Jean Ankeney teams up with the League of Women Voters for a taxing discussion. Winooski High School, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3178. NATURE BENEFIT AUCTION: A cougar, a bobcat and adults wolves will be on hand for an educational presenta tion to benefit the Jericho-based non profit, Keeping Track. Shelburne Farms, 5:30 p.m. $5. Info, 899-1998. ‘GREAT GAY O RIEN TA TIO N ’: Gay men get briefed on social, political and health-related goings-on in the Burlington area. Fletcher Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 800-649-2437. HOLOCAUST LECTURE: History professor Gerhard Weinberg talks about
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W ORRY T O WELLNESS: Living on the edge? You’re not alone. Twentyeight million Americans now suffer from panic attacks, phobias and other anxiety-related disorders. W hat does that say about our stressful society? Paul Foxman, author o f Dancing With Fear, waxes about worry at a laid-back booksigning. Thursday, O ctober 24. Barnes &C Noble Bookstore, S. Burlington, 78:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4399.
23 H A U N TED HISTORY: You can count on Ethan Allen to show up this weekend. In spirit, anyway. His old homestead lends itself to ghoulish recreations o f haunted history. Jack-olanterns, and ghostly Green Mountain Boys, lead the way back in time. Friday and Saturday, October 25 and 26. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington. Every half hour from 6:30-10 p.m. $4. Info, 865-4556.
BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL: W hen it comes to getting dressed for work, you cant beat a home-based business. But even pajama-wearing professionals have to deal with postage, banking and marketing. A one-stop business expo offers simultaneous seminars on every thing from strategy to stay-at-home spirituality. Saturday, October 26. Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. $5. Info, 865-2422.
BREW HA HA: Magic H at Brewery takes a hands-on approach to Halloween. Hands on drums, bottles o f beer and whatever else... grabs you. The user-friendly beer business cele brates its second year o f local brewing with music and spirits at “Night o f theLiving Dead.” Come in costume. Saturday, October 26. Magic Hat Brewing Company, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington, 7 p.m. $13. Info, 658-2739.
I i2 r7 GRAPE ESCAPE- The next best thing to a fine wine tasting? Hopping into a tub full o f grapes and crushing them yourself. Celebrate other barefoot sensualists at a fundrais er for the Waitsfidd-based Green— pR. Mountain Cultural Center. Celebrity stompers include Elisabeth Von Trapp. The hills are alive. Sunday, October 27, Green M ountain Cultural Center, Waitsfield, 3:30 p.m. $18. Info, 496-7722.
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d a n c e C O M M U N IT Y SOIREE: Bring your own beverage, instrument and dancing shoes to this biweekly event. Middlesex Town Hall, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 229-4668.
t h e a t e r ‘SAUCY JACK & T H E SPACE VIX ENS’: The sci-fi glam-rock musical touches down for a two-week run. Green Candle Theater Company performs at 135 Pearl, Burlington, 8 p.m. $7-15.
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w c rd s BIBLIO PH ILE TALK: See October 13, S. Burlington Library. Info, 652-7076. ‘D A N C IN G W IT H FEAR’: Psychologist Paul Foxman signs his book on the most common emotional disorder in the U.S. — anxiety. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, S. Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-4195. POETRY LECTURE: Poet Geof Hewitt considers the relationship between poet Robert Frost and “the real Vermont.” Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 253-8358. POETRY READING: Award-winning poet Margaret Lloyd reads from her verse at Cover-To-Cover Bookstore, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 728-3202.
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etc PROPERTY TAX REFORM FORUM : See October 23, Founders, Essex Town School. E C O N O M IC HISTORY LECTURE: The Fairbanks scale, made by the largest manufacturer in Vermont, was used in commerce all over the globe in the last century. Allen Yale offers a case study of industrialization in rural Vermont. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389. ‘HA UNTED FO R EST ’: This pagan-fla vored celebration of Halloween in a very spooky setting usually sells out in advance. Green M ountain Audubon Nature Center, H untington, dusk, $7.50. Info, 434-3068. JO A N N E RATHGEB DAY: Joanne Rathgeb was a beloved teacher, actor and activist who died of breast cancer two years ago. A performance of music, dance^ and poetry honors her memory at the M cCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535. A reception starts at 7:30 p.m. ‘RAIN BOW ’ MIXER: The Rainbow Business Association sponsors an art party. All are welcome at the Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 658-8645. VEN TU RE N E T W O R K M EETIN G : Gary Chassman discusses “virtual pub lishing” at a regular meeting of investor types. Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 8-10 a.m. $15. Register, 658-7830. ‘LABRADOR, T H E LAND BEYON D’: Check out shots of sea kayaking, sailing and hiking at a slide show of past and present Labrador. Burnham Library, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576. W OLF PROGRAM : Meet two live wolves in an educational program at Smuggler’s Notch Resort, Stowe, 7 p.m. $3. Reservations, 888-9218. TOASTM ASTERS PARTY: Professional and non-professional people hone their speaking, listening and leadership skills. Econo Lodge, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6142.
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VT M O ZA RT FESTIVAL: The Los Angeles Piano Quartet plays Brahms and Schubert at the First Congregational Church, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18. Info, 800-639-9097. A talk begins at 7 p.m.
MARILYN M ANSON: The punk-rock band tours in support of its Satanic new album, Antichrist Superstar, after a stint with Nine Inch Nails. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966. O N IO N RIVER JAZZ BAND: Expect to hear traditional tunes By Jelly Roll M orton, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake and Bix Biederbecke at the Congregational Church of Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 388-7634. T H E ROCHES: The sisters of perpetual har mony compare notes at the Briggs Opera House, W hite River Junction, 7 p.m. $22.50. Info, 295-5432.
Studio, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3880. NANCY MEANS W RIG H T: The Vermont writer reads from her new mys tery, M ad Season. Chassman & Bern Booksellers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4332.
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hear songs, 10-10:25 a.m. All ages sing along with Robert Resnik, 10:30-11 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-7216.
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d a n c e ‘CALL & RESPONSE’: West African and AfroCuban drummers team up with tap dancers and a jubilee gospel choir for a celebration o f “Music and Dance Traditions of the African Diaspora.” Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1222.50. Info, 863-5966. See related classes and join in on the free gospel sing-a-long at 5 p.m.
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ners. Burlington Boathouse, 6 p.m. $6. Info, 864-0123. M ID D L E EAST SIG N IN G : Delegations from Israel and Palestine, including the Mayor o f Arad, come to Burlington to sign Sister City agree ments. Burlington City Hall, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3172. MASKED BALL: Dress accordingly for a night o f horror movies and mistaken identities. Cafe No No, Burlington, 9 p.m. $7. Info, 865-5066. ESSEX CRAFT FAIR: Christmas is coming. Look for jewelry, ornaments, pottery and dozens of other crafts and gifts in heated tents and buildings. Champlain Valley Fairgrounds, Essex, noon - 8 p.m. $4. Info, 878-5545. W IN E & D IN N ER CRUISE: A fivecourse harvest dinner is followed by the national debut o f four “Terra Nova” wines from Chile. Leaving from the Burlington Waterfront, 6-8 p.m. $30. Reservations, 862-83Q0. M O N T PE LIE R COFFEEH OUSE: The first six sign-ups read with wordsmith headliners Mark LeGrand and Sarah Munroe. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 2447638. ‘C O M M U N IT Y ID E N T IT Y ’: The author o f Ancient Futures offers a lecture on “C om m unity Identity in an Age of M onoculture.” Plainfield Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 454-8493. O U T R IG H T SU PPO R T GROUP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth are invited to an ongoing support group meeting. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9677.
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T H E ROCHES: See October 25 and preview, this issue. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1 1-23. Info, 863-5966. CLASSICAL CON CERT: The Montpelier Brass Chamber Orchestra performs in the Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. $8. Info, 635-1386. JAZZ CON CERT: Vocalist Rebecca Pa,rris combines musical forces with pianist Paul Broadnax and saxophonist Fred Haas. Concert Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $9: Info, 443-6433. W O M E N SIN G : A dozen women sing spirited a cappella renditions o f music from around the world. Methodist Church, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 388-3622.
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t h e a t e r ‘SAUCY JACK & T H E SPACE VIXENS’: See October 24. ‘CAMILLE’: See October 24, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘DRACULA’: See October 24. ‘FOOLS’: See October 25. ‘M ARGARET’S T V IEW ’: The reformed Catholic comic takes the stage to laugh at life and howl at the full
moon. Burlington City Hall, 8:30 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966. DRAGON DANCE THEATER: Dress warmly for this annual autumnal varia tion on Bread and Puppet Theater. Ubu Cuckold is the final chapter of the Soly Luna epic. Five miles north of Montpelier on Route 12, take a left at the Rumney School sign and follow the arrows. 7 p.m. $5. Info, 223-5124.
film GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL: See October 25. Today see Before Stonewall at 1 p.m., Stonewall at 3 p.m., Girlfriends at 7 p.m. and The Celluloid
Closet at 9 p.m. $15 for the quadruple feature.
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w e r d s ‘PASSING STRANGE’: Joe Citro signs his latest collection of New England ghost stories. The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.
k id s PHANTOM OF T H E BARN’: See October 24, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. & 6-10 p.m.
•classesart M O N O P R IN T IN G : October 30-31, November 21-22, December 5, 17-18. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. 61 Macrae Rd., Colchester. Info, 862-9037. Carol MacDonald demonstrates monoprinting techniques using an etching press in oneand two-day workshops. Fully-supported studio time to work on your images is included.
dance BRAZILIAN MASTER CLASS: Friday, October 25, 1-2:30 p.m. Burlington City Hall. $ 12. Register, 863-8778. Capoeira is an African self-defense technique disguised as acrobatic dance. Before an evening Flynn performance, an authentic Capoeira compa ny introduces the art form. TAP MASTER CLASS: Friday, October 25, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. $12. Register, 863-8778. Tony award-winning tap dancers teach an intermediate-level class before their evening Flynn perfor mance. AFRICAN FORMS: Saturdays, 4-6 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. $12. Info, 223-3783. West African, Haitian and African-American movement is led by Lynn Ellen Klarich. A Dunham technique warm-up and live drumming invite all levels. ADULT M O DERN-JA ZZ: Tuesdays, 7:10-8:45 p.m. for slow and intermedi-
ate dancers. Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. for intermediate and advanced. Olympiad, 70 Farrell St., S. Burlington. $9. Info, 985-5216. Jane Selzer leads ongoing classes. JAZZ MASTER CLASS: Saturday, ^ October 26, 10-11:30 a.m. Dance Studio, Patrick Gym, UVM. $12. Info and registration, 656-4183. Award-win ning teacherTom Ralabate teaches class.
herbs C O S M E T IC SALVES & LOTIONS: Thursday, October 24, 6:30-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $25. Register, 865-HERB. Learn how to make all-natural medicinal massage oib, lip balms and bath salts. STIM ULANTS & SEDATIVES: Monday, October 28, 6:30-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. Sliding scale. Register, 865-HERB. Learn about muscle and nerve problems, and how to get to sleep and wake up again. You'll make a medicinal oil to take home. ‘T H E BEAUTY W IT H IN ’: Tuesday, O ctober 29, 7 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $20. Register, 865HERB. A fu n night o f faciab for women and men covers cleansing grains and masks, steams and creams. Take a towel W IN T E R HEALTH: Wednesday, October 30, 7-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $20. Register, 865HERB. Make pillbalb from powdered
H A UNTED HO M ESTEA D: See October 25. ‘HAUNTED FO REST’: See October 24. There may be tickets available for the matinee performance. 1-4:30 p.m. $7.50. Info, 434-3068. ‘STORIES, MYTHS, LEG EN DS’: Cynthia Payne-Meyer, Wolfsong and Clarke Jordan tell traditional world tales o f the season. Grace Church, St. Johnsbury, 3 p.m. $6-8.50. Reservations, 800-805-5559. STORY TIM E: Kids over three listen up at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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BACKYARD BIRD CARE: Saturday, October 26, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Vermont Institute o f Natural Science, Woodstock. Free. Register, 457-2779. Leant to feed, house, identify and enjoy winter birds. Live animab are part o f the program.
‘DA N CIN G W IT H EARTH & SKY’: Saturday, November 2. Ages 4-6, 910:30 a.m. Ages 7-10, 10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Old High School, Bristol. Register, 453-3690. Madeleine PiatLandolt leads a monthly workshop which incorporates dynamic patterns o f universal movement, rhythms and sound harmo niously. HALLOWEEN MASK MAKING: Saturday, October 26, 1-3 p.m. Lower Level, Miller’s Landmark, Burlington, Free. Info, 865-5254. Whitney Kitchpre pares young ones fo r the big day. C H IL D H O O D DIABETES CARE: Monday, October 28, 7-8 p.m. Burlington. Free. Register, 865-2278. Hear about new methods o f insulin injec tion fo r better control
meditation M EDITATION: First & third Sundays, 10 a.m. - noon. Burlington Shambala Center. Free. Info, 658-6795. Instructors teach non-sectarian and Tibetan Buddhbt practices. SHAM ANIC JO URNEY W O R K SH O P: Saturday, October 26, 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Moretown. $60. Register and location, 485-8928. Participants learn the classic shamanic practice o f the “jour ney”fo r personal guidance and healing.
tai chi TAI C H I: Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. & 8-9 p.m. Food For Thought, Stowe. $10. Info, 253-4733- John DiCarlo leads ongo ing classes.
theater ‘DRAMA T H E F T ’: Monday, October 28, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Flynn Gallery, , Burlington. $18. Register, 863-8778. The day before her Flynn performance, Deborah Lubar teaches how to create oneperson shows out o f other people’s stories.
writing W RITERS W O RK SH O P: Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Cafe No No, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-5066. Bring a journal and your writing spirit.
yoga YOGA: Daily, Burlington Yoga Studio, 174 Main St. Info, 658-YOGA. Classes are offeredfo r pregnant women, kids and backs, and in Astanga, Iyengar, Kripalu, Bikram and Kundalini styles. Beginners can start anytime.
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Teams from Australia, Hungary, Canada and all over the U.S. compete to qualify for the Pan-American games in Mexico in January. Shelburne Farms Coach Barn, 9 a.m. $5 to watch. Info, 537-4929. W IN E TASTING: Sample two dozens wines from around the world at a grape crushing fundraiser for the Green M ountain Cultural Center. Joslyn Round Barn, Waitsfield, 3:30-6:30 p.m. $18. Info, 496-7722. FORUM O N CO M M U N ITY VIOLENCE: A retired judge, a counsel ed the police chief, a legislator and a reli gion professor ponder “potentially violent persons and the community.” Vestry, Congregational Church of Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2481. W ILD G O O SE CHASE: The Sierra Club watches thousands of geese drop by on their way south. Meet at the Dead Creek Wildlife Observation Area, then take an easy hike up Snake M ountain for a bird’s eye view. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 655-9611.
care professionals covers everything from laser therapy to adult day care. Ohavi Zedek Synogogue, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8969. ‘T R IC K O R TREAT ST R E ET ’: A fun and safe Halloween alternative features a spooky street of business booths decorat ed, staffed and stocked with candy. Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, S. Burlington, noon - 4 p.m. $3. Info, 863-3489. ‘W O M E N YOGA & NATURAL HEALTH’: Lorilee Schoenbeck, natur opath and Kripalu yoga instructor, teach es postures, nutrition and herbs for the
tilm GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL: See October 25. Today see Bar Girls at 2 p.m., Girlfriends at 4 p.m., The Celluloid Closet at 7 p.m. and Stonew alls 9 p.m. . $15 for the quadruple feature. ‘CABINET O F DR. CALIGARI’: The expres sionist classic focuses on an evil hypnotist who trains his servant to kill at night. Cafe No No, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5066.
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RICHARD T H O M PSO N : The British folk-rock artist who founded the Fairport Convention sings from his new album, You? Me? Us? Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $27-33. Info, 863-5966. CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: The Army Field Band Chamber Ensemble plays at the UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 12:20 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. O PEN REHEARSAL: Women lend their vocal chords to a harmonious rehearsal of the Champlain Echoes. S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6703.
k id s PET SHOW : Your cos tumed pet could win a prize today. Bring proof o f rabies innoculation to Fisk the Com m unity Center Hall. in Jericho, 1-4 p.m. $1. Info, 899-2103. FAMILY HAL LOW EEN: Visiting ghosts and goblins lend a hand in making cider and pum pkin ice cream. Halloween is historic at Billings Museum, Woodstock, noon - 4 p.m. $6.50. Info, 457-2355.
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th e a te r ‘SAUCY JACK & THE SPACE VIXENS’: See October 24. ‘YOU DO WHAT YOU D O ’: Deborah Lubar stars in in this one-woman drama by Marianne Lust about the German countess version o f Oskar Schindler. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 7:30 p.m.
$14. Info, 863-5966. See the related class listing.
t i l m GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL: See October 25. Today Girlfriends shows at 7 p.m. for $6.
w c rds ‘ECOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICA’: The author signs The Environmental
Destruction o f Indian Lands and Peoples. Barnes & Noble, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005.
CY SERIES: The biologist in charge of the biotechnology program for the Environmental Defense Fund discusses the release o f genetically engineered organisms. B106 Angell, UVM, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-4665. FOOD STAMP SHOPPING: Learn how to stretch food-stamp dollars by buying healthier foods. Budgeting tips and menu planning are covered at W oman Centered, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Donations. Register, 800-281-6866. FINANCIAL AID PRESENTATION: Parents and students learn about finan cial aid programs, application procedures and eligibility at Winooski High School, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-642-3177. FARMERS MARKET: It’s your last chance to buy organic produce, available for farm-to-family coupons or cash, at the corner o f Elmwood and Archibald streets, Burlington, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6248.
k id s ‘BABIES 1 & 2’: A parent-child play group meets at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. ‘FATHERS & CHILDREN TOGETHER’: Spend quality time with your kids and other dads at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420. STORY HOUR: Kids between three and five engage in artful educational activities. Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.
etc BREAST CANCER PROGRAMS: Oncologist Hyman Muss discusses the latest in breast cancer research at the Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2886. DANTE’S 'FIORE’: Diane Senior talks about love, sex and Dante at a brownbag lunch lecture. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4282. BIOTECHNOLOGY & DEMOCRA-
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UPTOWN STRING QUARTET: Jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime and spirituals get a hearing from this classically-trained quar tet led by the daughter o f Max Roach. Spaulding Auditorium, Dartm outh College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $17.50. Info, 603-646-2422. A discussion with the music faculty starts at 7 p.m. OPEN REHEARSAL: The Amateur Musicians Orchestra welcomes new play ers, especially ones with brass instru ments. No audition is required. Music Room, S. Burlington High School, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 985-9750.
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tilm GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL: See October 25. Today Stonewall shows at *7 p.m. for $6. JAPANESE LANr GUAGE VIDEOS: Videos o f everyday Japan are presented in the Weathervane Dining Room, LivingLearning Center, UVM, Burlinton, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4477.
October 23. HA U N TED MUSEUM: Witches, gob lins, ghosts and ghouls take over the Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, 6-9 p.m. $2-3. Info, 878-8687. OWLS FO R PRESCHOOLERS: Kids get up close and personal with a live
a rt ‘ART IN VIETNAM TODAY’: Vietnamese artist Tran Luong offers a gallery talk in conjunction with Smithsonian-loaned exhibit on view at the Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. $2. Info, 656-0750.
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JULIA ALVAREZ: The Vermont author Deborah Lubar recreates the remarkable woman o f How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents in a solo show based on interviews with the real draws on issues of German countess. She performs “You Do What immigration at Memorial Lounge, You Do, ” Tuesday and Wednesday onstage at the Waterman Building, Flynn. UVM, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3056. ‘FAMILY: A W IN DOW TO CH IN A ’: Wild Swans explores a popular great horned owl. Vermont Institute of Chinese theme — family. Discuss the Natural Science, Montpelier, 9:30-11:15 book at the Jericho Town Library, Jericho a.m. $10. Register, 457-2779. Center, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4686. STORY TIM ES: Kids three to six hear
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etc WATERBURY FARMERS MARKET: See October 23. Today’s is the last o f the season. RETAIL ISSUES BREAKFAST: See October 28, Dylan’s Restuarant, St. Albans. CAREGIVERS CONFERENCE: Families and professionals giving care to people with memory loss hear about diagnosis and treatment, respite care, reducing agitation and long-term plan ning. Ham pton Inn, Colchester, 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. $25. Register, 800-698-1022. HALLOWEEN PARTY & READING: Joe Citro reads from his latest collection o f New England ghost stories, Passing Strange. Wear a costume. Chassman & Bern Booksellers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4332. ABENAKI PROGRAM: Western Abenaki history, language, games and lifeways are the subject of a talk at the Waterbury Center Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. PASSENGER RAIL HEARING: Give your two cents on the proposed Charlotte-to-Burlington service at a transportation planning meeting. Shelburne Town Hall, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3004.
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of authority about the organizers for not having spoken to any of us! Fact: Practically the only coverage of transgendered peo ple in the media is sensational tabloids and talk shows that portray us as freaks or dismiss us as laughable — not unlike Kurth’s article. I organized the rally and alerted the local media so transgendered people could tell the truth about our own lives. Fact: M att’s well-being was
N ot a ll people in the queer commu nity feel, as Peter K urth does, that M a tt Stickney s struggle as a gen der-queer youth is a alousy issue to hang our collective hat on. ”
at the core of my motivation for organizing the rally. I believed that it was important for Matt to feel the support of some adults in our queer com munity. Not all people in the queer community feel, as Kurth does, that Matt’s struggle as a gender-queer youth is a “lousy issue to hang our collective hat on. Fact: I called Burlington High School and personally invited the principal to partic ipate in the gender rally. I also
left my phone number and a message that I wanted to speak with the principal about the incident and the rally. He never returned my call. Fact: Matt Stickney was dis criminated against based on his gender expression. Our agenda (TRANS-VT and Transexual Menace) is about fighting against gender-based discrimi nation. Thus it doesn’t feel like such a stretch that transgender activists would organize around this issue. Peter Kurth’s own transpho bia was evident throughout his article. He said the importance of this issue was exaggerated. He dismissed Matt’s struggle — a gender-queer youth going to school in a hostile and homo phobic/transphobic environ ment — as the antics of one messed-up kid, in it for the attention. It appears that Kurth made one phone call to back up his claims about Matt and the transgendered activists involved in organizing the rally. Kurth called the Vermont State Social and Rehabilitative Services. It is obvious to me that Kurth really went out of his way to put a cynical spin on the gender rally and to paint Matt Stickney as the anti-hero. W hat was his motivation for doing this? Humor? I don’t think so. It seems that Kurth was venting his own transphobia and, in doing so, missed a really good opportunity to applaud a courageous young man for sticking up for what he believed in and the community that ral lied in support of him. □ Jess Bell is co-founder o f TRANS-VT and founder o f Transexual Menace-VT For info about TRANS, write ROB 5687, Burlington, V T 05402.
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Knowing he looked “Sam Shepardy, ” and having no idea what it meanty DeWees showed up a t Vermont Rep to read Buried Child
Most of the soaps have also found work for DeWees. Ditto the sitcoms. “Law and Order” cast him as a psycho-killer — a choice part that involved get ting shot. His performance got the attention of the stunt coor dinator, who found him work
with Brad Pitt on The Devil's Own. DeWees rehearsed the fight scene with Pitt, but it got scrapped at the last minute. And when the brother of the stunt man showed up on the ! Stranger set, DeWees took note for further networking. Asked if he worries about typecasting, DeWees bellows, “No! Come on, please, typecast me.” If playing the bad guy means the difference, count him in. Harlan Kitteridge is right up his alley — even if he spent five months waiting for the role. He is just as thrilled to be “rapping” with Mosher about the next Craven collabo ration. “If this goes well,” DeWees predicts, “Disappearances is going to get more dough, more Hollywood actors.” In the meantime, DeWees is working on his own material — a solo series of quirky portrayals of Vermonters to be performed at First Night — and a new “Shakespeary thing” with Budbill for Christmas. Asked what role he would play if it had to be by the Bard, DeWees responds, “I don’t even know. Maybe that Puck guy.” He explains, “I think that takes something different than what I got. I’m not an actor. I’m not a good actor. I am just able to do these lines in a cer tain way that sounds good.” □
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MOURNING GLORY Humorous epitaphs, grandiose rituals and other grave issues Bv Nancv S t e a r n s Bercaw eath used to be so much fun. Just ask seventysome thing Addison-resident Marge Drummond, who has spent a lifetime laughing at it. She and her sister collect comic epitaphs. And they’ve left no New England gravestone unturned. During her deadpan lecture last weekend for the Ticonderoga Historical Society, Drummond confessed that she doesn’t know why we lost our
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defiance of the gloom of the usual stone also designed to attract the attention of passersby” Bur many eccentric epi taphs, he explains, are simply the result of an inadvertent wording or thought sequence. “This type of epitaph may be the result of illiteracy or a stone cutter’s error, or both,” Wallis writes. Drum mond’s collection of tombstone typos is to die for: “Thy glass is rum over; Gone to be an angle; and Lord, she is thin.”
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wares courtesy of the crypt: VP His disconsolate widow continues to carry on his gro cery business at the old stand on Main Street. Cheapest prices in town. VP Beneath this piece of moldering clay, lays Uncle Peter Daniels, who too early in the month of May took off his win ter flannels. P.S. The fish mar ket formerly kept by him on Lake Street continued by his sorrowing rel atives. VP Sacred to the mem ory of
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Jared Bates, his widow, age 24, lives at 7 Elm Street, has every qualifica tion for a good wife and yearns to be comforted. But the ones Drummond loves most are the puns. Their rhymes often have no reasons — except sheer ridiculousness. Their sole raison d ’etre is to poke fun at the dying. They were, concludes Drummond, great exit lines:
VP Here lies John Yeast. Pardon me for not rising. VP Here lies Lester Moore. He died from the slug of a .44. No less, no Moore. VP Here lies a father of 29. He would have had more but he didn’t have time. VP Here lies an atheist, all dressed up and nowhere to go. VP Here lies the body o f... who died for the benefit of his • health. VP Underneath this stone lies poor John Round, lost at sea and never found. VP Seven wives I have buried, with as many a fervent prayer. If we all meet in heaven, won’t there be trouble there? VP Owen Moore has gone away owing more than he could
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VP Here lies Ann Mann. She lived an old maid, but she died an old Mann. VP Death came and set her free. I was glad and so was she. VP To follow you I’m not con tent. How do I know which way you went? VP She lived with her husband for 50 years and died confident of a better life. VP I told you I was sick. Mourning rituals, too, were theatrical expressions of life and loss. The “To Comfort the Living” exhibit currently at the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury recalls bereavement behav ior of the 19th century — a time when funerals were held in the parlor and an undertaker dared to advertise an exquisite corpse. Two dollars bought “a look of quiet resignation”; five bucks acquired “the appearance of Christian hope and content ment.” These days we offer a prayer for the dying and get on with the business of living. W hat’s morbid now was merry then — when death was proud and a friend. □
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C IV IL IZ A T IO N AND IT S DISCONTENTS, assemblage/sculptureby Julian Waller. The Gallery at Living/Learning, University o f Vermont, Burlington, 656-4200. Through November 7. ROGER SANDtS, bright and stylized still lifes of northern flora and fauna. Clarke Galleries, Stowe, 253-7116. Through November 3. PHOTOGRAPHY by Daniel A, Neary Jr. Eliot Pratt Center, Goddard College, Plainfield, 2222207. Through November 18. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY ; 1910 "1990, historical exhibit from the permanent collection. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 443-5007. Through January 26. LOCATI ON TO BE ANNOUNCED , a sample and history of club-culture design. Exquisite Corpse, Jager DiPaola Kemp Design, Burlington, 864-8040, ext, 121. Through November 1. OUR WORLD; THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILDREN, artw orkfrom Vietnam. Francis Colburn Gallery, DARK VOICES Burlington, 660-9060. Through November 2. A V ERMONT SAMP LER, handmade prints by Roy Newton. Isabel’s on the Waterfront, Burlington, 865-2522. Through November 15. DEEPLY HIDDEN, group mixed-media show exploring the secrets behind the artists’ facades. Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, 865-3924. Through October 28. WALLS, an exhibit o f “place” photographs by Dan Higgins and architectural photos from GKW Working Design. The Men’s Room, Burlington, 864*2088. Through October. THE LOCAL TENS, group show of local photographers. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 8657165. Through November 10. ' SENIOR C ITIZEN ART SHOW. Last Elm, Burlington, 658-7454. Through October, THE SOUL OF VERMONT: REFLECTION AND RETREAT, new color photographs by Josephine Santelli. Robert Paul Galleries, University Mall, S. Burlington, 658-5050. Through November. SACRED & PROFANE: THE BOAT SERI ES, paintings by Janet Fredericks, and PA I NT ING AND MUSIC, works by Barbara Scotch. T W Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, 828-8743. Through December 20. 19TH-CENTURY MOURNING CUSTOMS, focusing on common household practices and social customs following death in the 1800s. Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 388-2117. Through October. ART RESOURCE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL EXHI BIT featuring works by this 21-year-old central Vermont arts organization. Shayna/Ruth Pope Galleries, Montpelier, 229-2766. Through October 29. CHAMPLAIN VALLEY QUILT GUILD, exhibit of local quilters, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 863-3403. Through October. CONTEMPORARY VI ETNAMESE ART from the U.S. and Vietnam, Fleming Museum, University o f Vermont, Burlington, 656-0750. Through December 22. VERMONT LANDSCAPE : A TRI BUTE, photographs by Lome Abramowitz. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through October 27. IN THE ADIRONDACK AND RUSTIC TRADITION, a juried exhibit of contemporary artisans in the rustic style. Frog Hollow, Middlebury, 388-3177. Through November 3. MOTHER/DAUGHTER: AN EXH IBIT OF PAINTINGS, by Catherine Hall and Megan Lipke. McAuley Fine Arts Center, Trinity College, Burlington, 658-0337, ext. 425. Through November 1. BALINESE PAINTINGS made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. Christian Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 443-5007- Through November 24. CROWNING ACHIEVEMENTS: African Arts o f Dressing the Head, featuring contemporary traditional headgear and styles. Hood Museum, Dartm outh College, Hanover, N .H ., (603) 2095. Through December 1. SPI RIT & ESSENCE OF VERMONT , mixed media by 32 artists reflecting the beauty o f Vermont. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through November 19.
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ARICS (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Just in : time for your descent into the romantic underground, I’ve composed one o f my patented Cranky Love Prayers for your benefit. Here goes. “Dear Goddess, please arrange it so that the labyrinths Aries folks have to wander through with their lovers this week will be warm and safe and dry, not cold and dangerous and damp. And Goddess, if Aries and their sweethearts get into tussles that capsize their boats in the tunnel of love, please let it be in a place where the water is unpolluted. And finally Goddess, please inspire Aries and their darlings to love each other like Energizer bunnies — no matter how many subterranean caverns they must crawl through.” TAURUS
(Apr. 20-May 20): To the flaming radical in me, the apocalypse is already underway — courtesy of fundamentalist vipers, corporate feudalism, nihilistic media and the virus of plutocracy. To the boundless mystic in me, on the other hand, everything’s proceeding as it should. The greedy, fearful purveyors o f the status quo are slowing down the flood o f redemptive change just enough to prevent mass insanity. The weird thing is, 1 ultimately believe both these views are true. Which means I’ve passed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s test of intelligence: “the capacity to hold conflicting ideas in the mind at the same time and continue to function.” What about you, Taurus? Ready to live on the edge between future shock and the constraints o f the past? The stars say that’s your assignment. 1
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You Gemijw are the shapeshifters of the Izodiac. With an attention span that sometimes resembles a nine-year-c <f is Ritalin, you
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o f cruelty: absence. Dads who rarely show up at home or who withhold their best energy, he says, leave children with holes in their souls. And into those holes, sooner or later, stream demons. Maybe a few of you Aquarians had a doting papa who gave you the same vitality he gave his job. But if you did, you’re as rare as a woman in the boardroom of a Fortune 500 company. For all you other Aquarians, this is prime time not just to confront the wound bequeathed you by your father, but to begin some serious healing. To kick the process into high gear, I suggest you costume yourself as dear old dad this Halloween.
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hour than most people do in a week. On the other hand, there’s at least one way you’re maddeningly consistent. I’m talking about how you’re just so relentlessly, everlastingly cool. So devastatingly incapable o f being boring. So unfailingly stylish and suave and smart-mouthed. I mean, let’s meditate on this. Isn’t it hazardous to your Gemini nature to be so damn steady? I urge you to rebel. To rise up and throw off the chains of your hipness. I say, celebrate this Halloween in the nerdiest costume possible.
CANCER (June 21 -July 22): Your juicy astrological aspects impel me to predict that you’re about to get laid... and laid... and laid. There’s almost no chance you could screw this up — unless you indulge in any of the following acts of insanity. 1) You tell amusing tales about how you used to enjoy bugging your ex. 2) You invite your lover to a fun weekend at your parents’ house. 3) You offer to demonstrate how skilled you are at the an of obsession. 4) You insist that your panner help you act out a fantasy of doing it with Quentin Tarantino or Counney Love. 5) In an effort to finetune your shtick for the Halloween bash, you wear your “Crazy Crab” costume everywhere you go. LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): The red planet Mars, ruler o f ardor, aspiration and animal energy, is now gliding through the constellation o f Leo the lio n . In the next few days it will appear to brush up against the bright star Regulus, which is the very heart ion. 1 take this to be a
the noxious writing on the wall, and in March an old flame will deliver a hot tip. In April you’ll win a guerrilla skirmish with the global economy, and this should lead you to an even more convincing victory by June.
you nurture ambitions that are driven by your heart, not by your ego.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you all alone in a world oozing with danger and betrayal? Or are you surrounded by helpers in a beautiful world that never gives you more o f a challenge than you can handle? Trick question! The answer, o f course, is: It depends to some degree on your attitude. Which leads me to my next query: Can you learn how to live more full-time in the world of helpers? Trick question! The answer is: It depends to some degree on whether you believe you can.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To celebrate and propitiate the sexy, mischievous Halloween spirit, I dare you to whisper the following sweet nothings in the ears of anyone who needs to see more of the boisterous magician in you: 1) “Corrupt me with your purity, baby; beguile me with your honesty.” 2) “You’ll never quench my everdeepening thirsts — but then I don’t expect you to.” 3) “I’ve learned that the secret to eternal happiness is being easily amused. Would you like me to teach you?” 4) “Let’s put on untied army boots and lock lips in the middle of the road to Oz.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Follow your bliss and the money will come.” I believed that quixotic slogan from the moment I first heard it many years ago. And I continued to cling to it even during those long lean eons when I was following my bliss like a madman and cooking my twice-a-day rice and beans on a hot plate in my one-room shack. Now, at last, having graduated to more sumptuous digs and a more varied diet, I’ve acquired the wisdom to know that my beloved slogan is incomplete. It should read, “Follow your bliss and the money will come — although it might take 10 or 15 years.” That, my financially ripe friend, is your thought for the week.
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): While meditating on your horoscope, I had a dreamy vision of you on a mountaintop. You were preaching a divine doctrine to an excited crowd. As you raved on about a burning bush and a shimmering angel and a smashed window and a spraypainted Barbie doll, I sensed that you had had a spiritual revelation. What does my vision mean? It could simply be my subsconscious mind’s way of advising you to costume yourself as a hiero phant or priestess this Halloween. But I I suspect it could also indicate you’re I in prime time for a religious revival. □ i
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Why waste the robust Halloween vibes merely on pulling off a tour de force at work? I mean you could eat your competitors for breakfast and make a killing in the marketplace by noon every day. But why not also channel your champion’s instincts into the fun-and-games department? I would love to see you master the art o f useful frivolity. And I’d be ever so happy if you’d cultivate a craftsmanlike pass b n for lighthearted sex. At least for now, it won’t hurt to have the soul o f an investment banker and the heart o f a poet.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For your birthday I’m offering you an eight-month supply of divine intervention. Your first gift, a brand new biological dock, will arrive by November 17.
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THE HOYTS CINEMAS between whirling pieces o f dinnerware since 1982 and, as often as not, a dish or two hits smashed to the floor in the process. For every Rain M an, The N atural or Tin M en there’s been an Avalon, Jim m y Hollywood or a Toys — perhaps the single worst motion picture from a major director since Roman Polanski vomited up Pirates in 1986. Levinsons revenge epic is a four-course ^ W ith Sleepers, however, Levinson has not big-screen banquet. only kept all plates in the air, he’s served up a brilliant four-course big-screen banquet on them. Based on the controversial best-seller by Lorenzo Carcaterra, the film offers the fact-based account o f four boys from H ells Kitchen who were raped and tortured by degenerate guards while in reform school and later conspired to extract their bloody revenge — and theq.cover it up. Rather than tell the tale in flashback, the director wisely spends the first half of the film introducing us to the young men and their world. The picture’s first hour, in fact, has the sizzle o f a Scorsese film: dazzling camerawork, voice-over narration, strategic use o f rock music in the score, a lovingly detailed portrait o f neighborhood life, from the warfare o f the tenement kitchen to the corner bar where a local mob legend presides over the district’s invisible business. T he actors who play the youthful versions o f the four (Jonathan Tucker, G eoff Wigdor, Brad Renfro and Joseph Perrino) give consistently credible performances, never more so than when their paths cross that o f Kevin Bacon, who follows his impressive work as a prisoner in M urder in the First with a chill ing romp on the other side o f the bars. The scenes in which Bacon and his fellow guards defile and terrorize the children are harrowing and haunting. T he film’s second half deals with the four as adults. Two o f the group have been accused of murder. The remaining pair devise a remarkable plot to simultaneously save them and expose the corruption at the school where they were abused. On this end the principal players are Jason Patric and Brad Pitt, along with Robert D e Niro as a priest and lifelong friend forced to choose between honoring his vows and helping the young men accused o f the crime. Dustin Hoffman shows up as well in the role o f an alcoholic lawyer who gets sucked into the plan. You’ll want to buy your popcorn-and-butter-substitute on the way in, because this is edge-of-yourseat stuff from start to finish. Stylistically, Levinson’s at the top o f his game here. The acting is as uniformly powerful as the subject matter and, while I persoanlly found the picture’s first half more affecting, the second halPs complex courtroom drama is riveting. Questions have been raised concerning the veracity o f Carcaterra’s book. But that Levinson’s film is as moving and smart as mainstream moviemaking gets is beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Based on Michael Bradys 1986 play about a youn| widower (Peter Gallagher) who blows an entire weekend on Nantucket babbling to his dead wife’s ghost, the latest from T V producer David E. Kelley (who got his wife, Michelle Pfeiffer, to play the dear depart ed spirit) has gotten such withering reviews it may just arrive D.O.A. at the box office. MICHAEL COLLINS Liam Neeson stars in the epic new film from The Crying Game director Neil Jordan, the saga o f a controversial freedom fighter who in 1921 succeeded in liberating a portion o f Ireland from British control. With Aidan Quinn and Julia Roberts.
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DEAR GOD From Garry Marshall comes this comedy about a con man who answers dead-letter-office messages to God and responds by telling their writers so send cash. The film features former talk-show host Greg Kinnear in his first starring role. . HIGH SCHOOL HIGH Dangerous M inds meets “Saturday Night Live” in this feel-goodathon from David (Airplane) Zucker in which Jon Lovitz stars as a teacher who leaves a posh academy to teach innercity high school kids. MA SAISOlf PREFEREEln English, “My Favorite Season” is French director Andr^ {W ildReed) Techine’s emotionally fearless story o f a middle-aged sister (Catherine Deneuve) and brother (Daniel Auteuil) cope with the strain o f their mother’s illness — and their own relationship.
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THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS**** Vai Kilmer and Michael Douglas are teamed for the true story o f hunters on the trail o f a pair o f lions who in 1896 killed 130 people. MAN WITH A PLAN**** Making its triumphant return to Burlington, Vermont filmmaker John {Vermont is For Lovers) O ’Brien’s sophomore effort features an actual dairy farmer named Fred luttle who, finding him self unable to pay his taxes, decides on a new career: Congressman. A wonderfully whimsical mix o f fact and fiction. GET ON THE BUS (NR) The latest from Spike Lee offers a low-budget ($2.4 m illion invested a group o f African-Americans, which included Johnnie Cochran and Wesley Snipes) look at a busload of 15 men from South Central L.A. who make the trip to Washington together for the M illion Man March. W ith Ossie Davis and Andre Braugher.
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Attest Frederick Matthews Traffic Division
legals CITY O F B U R LIN G T O N TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
The following traffic regulations are here by enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Chapter 20, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, of the Burlington Code of Ordinances: Sec. 20-55. General prohibitions. (a) As written. (1) through (5) As written. (6) On any sidewalk or in any crosswalk: or on the greenbelt, so- called, being that area of a public street located between the roadway edge and the sidewalk, or, if no sidewalk exists, between the road way edge and the adjacent property line;
Adopted 8/14/96; Published 10/23/96; Effective 11/13/96
See,, 2.Q-43.1. Designation pf through truck routes.
The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Traffic Regulations, of the Burlington Code of Ordinances:
(a) Purpose, The purpose of this sec tion is to create and preserve livable
(1) through (50) As written. (51) [On the south side of Pearl Street in the first space west of Church Street] Reserved. (52) through (53) As written. .
(b) through (e) As written.
Sec. 12-1. No parking except vehicles loading or unloading.
Sec. 20-66. Penalty. (a) As written.
(1) through (42) As written.
(b) Nonmetered Parking Offences:
(43) On the south side of Pearl Street in the first space west of Church Street.
(1) through (2) As written. (3) Parking on sidewalks and greenbelts and in crosswalks. The penalty for parking on a side walk or green belt or in a crosswalk in violation of section 20-55 (a)(6) of this chap ter shall be thirty-five dollars. However, the penalty for parking on a sidewalk during a parking ban is set forth below in subsection (4), parking ban violations.
The following items are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as adden dums to Burlington Code of Ordinance Chapter 20 and Appendix C.
CITY O F B U R LIN G T O N TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Sec. 12. No parking daytime or weekdays except by trucks loading or unloading.
(7) through (14) As written.
C ITY O F BUR LIN G TO N TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Adopted this 14th day of August, 1996 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners. Attest Frederick Matthews Traffic Division Adopted 8/14/96; Published 10/23/96; Effective 11/13/96 Material in [Brackets] deleted. Material Underlined added.
(4) through (5) As written. (c) As written. Adopted this 14th day of August, 1996 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners.
neighborhoods by promgting the .health. safety and general welfare of all the inhab itants of the City of Burlington and its visitors: to protect and conserve the value
of.i.is.diagn£.j>rope.rty; to secure safety; and to minimize damage to its streets and
road ways, (b) The term “truck” as used in this section shall mean and include any motor vehicle or combination of vehicles, at least one of which shall be motorized, which vehicle or combination of vehicles has a total vehicle weight in excess of 20.000 pounds. Total vehicle weight shall be com puted as required by 23 V.S.A. Chapter 7 Section 367. (c) The term “Calm Zone” as used in this section shall mean and is defined as an a^a in the Cky of .Burlington, sntirely bounded bv Truck Routes, as established in and by this Regulation and either areas if the City of Burlington bounded by Truck Route(s) Lake Champlain, or the
City limits, (d) Prohibition of Through Truck Traffic. No truck shall be allowed to oper ate or move upon any highway or road in the City of Burlington except upon those highways and roads designated as truck routes pursuants to Appendix C-Rules of the Traffic Commission. This section shall not apply to trucks making local deliveries or providing services, provided that these trucks travel into the prohibited area by the most direct and return by way of the
Sec. 20-13. Penelty. (a) A violation of any provision o f arti cles I, II, IV, V, or VI, except for viola tions of Sec. 20-43, of this chapter shall be a civil violation punishable by a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) to two hundred dol lars ($200.00). The waiver penalty for purposes of the municipal complaint (civil ticket) shall be ($50.00). Each day the violation shall continue shall be a separate offense. All law enforcement officers may issue a municipal complaint for violation of this chapter.
(9) N orth WjHard StKct (IQ) South W illard S tre e t. (11) South W inooski A yc., from Pearl Street to. M aia, Street (12) Riverside A ys .from N orth W inooski Avs, to W inooski Bridge (13) Colchester A yc. (14) East Ave.
( 15) Battery Street (16) Pearl Street
(17) M ain Street (18) Maple Street from Battery
(b) as is. (c) A violation of any provision on sec
tion 20-43 .shall be subject to a civil penalty. T he penalty for she first offense
Street
under this section shall be two hundred dollars ($200.00). For second and subse quent offenses within a twelve month period the penalty shall be no less than three hundred dollars ($300,00) and no
(2Q). Shelburne Street
more than five h updred.dQllar.s..(.l5QQ.,Q.QI,. The waiver penalty for a. vk>[atign_un.de.c this subsection shall be two hundred dol lars ($200.00).
Sec, la, The following roadways are desig nated as truck routes.
(3) N orth Street from N orth Ave, to North Winooski (4) Winooski Valley Parkway (5) Manhattan Drive from Park Street to North Champlain Street (6) Park Street (7) North Champlain Street (8) Hyde Street from Riverside Ave. to North Willard Street
(21) Pine Street from Queen City Park Road to Main Street (22) Industrial Parkway (23) North Winooski Ave.
(24) Flynn Ave- from pin? Street to Shelburne Street
(25) Home Ave, from Industrial Park to Shelburne Street (26) Sherman Street from Park
Appendix C - Rules of the Traffic Commission
(1) Plattsburg Avenue (2) North Avenue fron Plattsburg Ave. to . North Winoooski
Street, to Eins-Sttsst (12) Saint .Paul.Strcct from Shelburne St.reajo.M am .
Street to North Ave. (27) Queen City Park Road Adopted this 14th day of August, 1996 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners. Attest Frederick B. Matthews Traffic Division Engineer Adopted 8/14/96; Published 10/23/96; Effective 11/13/96 Material in [Brackets] deleted. Material Underlined added.
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MEN SEEKING WOMEN SEEKING UN IQ U E, EASY-GOING MATCH (SWF) for SW PM, 23, who enjoys the outdoors, simple things in life, and is fit, intelligent, honest and sincere. 64082 FREE HEAT. DW PM , 37, romantic, caring, enjoys dining, adventure, travel, sports. Works 2nd shift. No games - sick o f the bar scene. You: attractive, friends first/LTR. 64089 DW M , 45, 1841bs. I’M A VERY SEN SITIVE man who likes camping, fishing, dinning.in or out. Looking for someone to share life’s pleasures. 64088 SW M, 29, NS, SEEKS SWF, NS, FOR a LTR. I like romantic evenings, art, photography, cuddling and sharing quali ty time. All interested F, 18-25, RSVP. 64083 ARE YOU AN ATTRACTIVE 20-30 YO F who would like to explore your submissive side with a tall, attractive, fit, athletic, well educated, 43 YO SWPM? 64077 WANTED: SIZZLING H O T Central V T woman w/ insatiable apetite. You: naughty girl, submissive, desiring a man to play with for you own pleasure. Me: 29, W M , 5’9”, 170lbs., intelligent, pas sionate, gentle and open-minded. Write me and dominate. 64078 GENTLE, LOVING, SPIRITUAL, NUDIST, wharf rat, BiSWM, 41, smok er seeks adventurous, alike BiF w/ van for companionship (age, race, looks unimportant). 64079 SW M, 39, ISO SWF, 25-35, who loves movies, sports, music, likes to just hang out and talk and have a good time. Sounds good? Try me. 64075 SW PM , 44, NS, 6’, ACTIVE, FIT, attractive, witty, not to mention humble, loves biking, skiing, travel, movies, music. Seeking sane woman, 30-45, for fun or more. 64062 W IN T E R ’S CO M IN G ! Do you feel a chill? Let’s melt together beside a raging fire after a passionate day of skiing and make whipped cream for our cappucino. SWM, 25, tall, fit, and handsome seeks happy, healthy, wholesome F, 22+, for winter excursions. 64067 SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP. NSASM, 30, handsome, honest, single, 5’10”, 155lbs., perfect in cooking. Searching for 22-40 YO for real life, well cultured LTR. 64051 O N E W ILD ASPARAGUS. SWM, 20, NS, attractive Burlingtonian. Interests: biking, photography, reading, nature, cooking, movies. Seeking: creative, hon est, healthy, attractive, Fun F, 19-29. 64048 M ID 40s, FLOWER BEARING, easy going, pleasant to be w/, attractive, inshape guy ISO an attractive partner w/ a sense of humor who enjoys travel, long walks, the outdoors and laughter. Please find me, 1 can’t find you. 64061 W ANTED: LATINO O R H ISPANIC lady. W PM looking for someone to wine and dine. Give it a try. Let’s have some fun. 64050 N O M O RE HEAD GAMES. SPM, 33, 6 ’, I60lbs, interested in meeting some one ready for relationship. Must be fun and independent and like kids. Call me! Won’t regret it. 64053
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P E RS ON < TO > P E R S ON L O O K IN G FOR A H A N D T O H O LD , someone easy to talk w/ and who enjoys the outdoors. Old fashioned SWPM, 23, seeks fit, intelligent, sincere, easy-going match. 64973 SWPM PHOTOGRAPHER, IN-SHAPE ~ and active, seeks active beauty (26-36) and collaborator for making art, cultural may hem, exotic travel and enjoying Vermont life indoors and out. 64983_____________ (FL) TEDDYBEAR ISO (VT) HUGS. Faithful, easy going, DWM, 40, 6’, 1951bs., br./gr. enjoys: gardening, camping, boating, scuba, children, pets, movies, travel, chess & photography! You: petite, 27-40, 150 lbs., artistic, honest & smiling. Willing to take a chance on romance. Boat or Darkroom a +. 64979 LOOKING AHEAD. SDM, 40, ISO lady w/ great pair of legs to hike and ski w/. Write or call now. 64975________________ DWM, 38, LOOKING FOR DESIRABLE WOMAN to enjoy life with. Love dancing, good conversation, watching the sunset. Want to know more? Give me a call. 64969 SWM, 28, NS, LAYERS OF MAN MADE PROGRESS, shifting with the morning breeze...clouds of dark betrayal, laughing as we try to breathe. Quiet times at times...wild inspiration surfacing during others. Musically passionate...inhibition exposition, testing senses all around. 64981
YOUNG PROFESSOR who studies the Middle Ages, but is not middle aged. I am an attractive SWM, 33, into having fun, but would like to have a long term relationship. I do more than read books. 64999 v ■ CENTRAL VERM O NT. SW M , 52, slender, athletic intellectual seeks SF who back packs, has Kronos Q uartet tapes, grows herbs and owns two long stemmed wine glasses. 64004 IT ’S BEEN SIX YEARS SIN CE MY DIVORCE. I’m ready for a relationship if you are. SWM, NS, professional, superb shape. Serious replies only, please. 64010 W ANNA TAKE A HIKE, M T N . BIKE O R G O SKIING? Independent SWM, NS, 39 YO seeks SWF outdoor compan ion with same interests. 64008 AUTUM NAL SWIRLS IN COLORS & EDDIES, and I am ready to meet a woman past 38 with a touch of spirit, matter and class. 64009 BORN AGAIN. SW PCM , 28, 5’11”, 160 lbs., enjoys outdoor activities, ISO SWCF, 24-32, in Burlington area, faith ful, committed to gospel, friendship, pos sible LTR. 64988 G O O D T O T H E LAST C O R E BAR REL O F FUN. Loose-fitting guy seeks fantastic woman for ultimate soul search —k... be direct object o f silliest feelings -ciao! 64987 HELP! 34 YO, W M , W ELL BUILT, good looking. Wanted: friendships and more w/ people enjoying the alternative lifestyle - straight, bi, age, race unimportant. Discretion assured. 64992_________ *CLICK HERE for more information on how to download a hot new version of the MALE species. Compatible with most high end FEMALE drivers. N O T a geek (I hope)! 64991
foreign adventurer seeks confident, natural, masculjne, muscular, playful friend and lover. 64076__________________________ LOVE TO #’%<*&!, but want more! Fun, playful GM, 26, 6’2”, 1651bs., looking for GM, 24-36, playful and honest. 64063 GBM, 36, 6’, 185 lbs., NS/ND, ATH LETIC, liberal minded, seeks GM, 20-36, for friendship, possible LTR. Physically dis abled GM considered, too. Willing to relocate statewide. 64070_________________ ADORE HO T LADDIES. Me: I’m very nice looking; don’t look my age (46 yrs. young), but act it. 6’, 195 lbs., dark hair, blue eyes, enjoy sex. No fatties, sorry. 64065 GWM, 33, 6’, 175lbs. I AM A MAN who likes men who are MEN!! Interests: intellec tual depth, rugged wo/kouts, cars, comedy... oh yeah, fun (20-40). 64052 BURLINGTON AREA GWM, 37, ARTIST, NS, attractive, young looking, seeks soulmate (25-45). Interests: spirituali ty, nature, foreign films, literature, watching sunsets and shooting stars at lake. 64047 DWM, 43, PROF., YOUNG & ATTRAC TIVE seeks same for Fall fun. Loves hikes, picinics, good wine, travel, music. OK, your move! 64019 GBM, 36, 6’, 1851bs., NS/ND, ESSEX AREA, athletic, outdoor type, liberal ISO GM or BiM, 18-36, for friendship & good times. 64005 NO T LOOKING FOR ROMANCE. GWM seeks Bi/married men for late after noon delights. Discretion assured. 64007 GET TIED by hot GWM. Looking for” another guy around 18 to play rough with. 64998 BELIEVE IT OR NO T there are some men who admire Fat Men and only Fat Men. I’m one of the lucky few. Check me ■ out. I’m 55, 230lbs., 6’2”. Anyone for videos and pizza? 64994 GWM, 35, BRN/BLU, 6’2”, 165, MASC, seeks someone for weekend workout, biking
shipper. Slim/feminine appearence. 43 YO, NS/ND, in straight marriage w/ CFS wants out, but unable to be self supportive. I desire loving, supportive, non-butch friends who are non-judgemental, kind, deep and gentle. 64066_________________________ SLIGHTLY OFFBEAT, BUT DOWN TO earth SF, 23, seeks similar (22* *27) to share friendship and to explore secret passions. Must be willing to have fun. 64059_______ HOMEY, INTELLIGENT FEMME ISO same. Are you spiritual, beautiful, sane? I’m a busy single mom looking for friends... possibly more. 64056__________________ CARUMBA! Run, dance, jump, snooze, deep talk, laugh, eat, hug, dream, stroke the cat, truly value one another, real friends. Lesbian seeks honest sister spirit. 64042 CHRONIC AUSTRALIAjPHILE, 23, seeks fellow sufferer. Must possess clean lungs, a reverence for nature and art, and be pre pared to take the cure next...April? Letters, please. 64017 GAY, BIG, TALL, LOOK ING FOR A nice woman (Chitt. County would be nice). I’ll give my heart. 64015_________ BITG (M TO F) SEEKS BI OR LF for friendship and fun; sweet, Rubenesque, intelligent. Enjoys lipstick, lingerie, movies, toys. Open minded only, please. 64000 GBF WOULD LIKE TO MEET GF at least 50 +. Love life, love sports. I am a NS/D. You are an adult. 64982
WOMEN SEEKING WOMEN MEN SEEKING MEN COME SUMMER, breathe in the dance of the butterfly, the flight of the cardinal, the waltz of the bumblebee. This winter, spend time getting acquainted. Older lesbian ISO nurturing nature wise companion. 64069 ARTISTIC, MUSICAL, ROMANTIC, bright, educated, child spirit, nature wor
SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 18, 5’H ”, 190lbs„ looking for hot, discrete fun. No strings! 18-25 YOs. 64086 WHOLESOME AND SEXY. 6’2”, swim mer’s build, Italian, handsome, big smile, open-minded, distracted professional and
or just hanging out. Any age, NS, no drugs. 64990
OTIIER JAMES, BLUE EYES, LIVES ALONE, 6’ tall, you {csponded to ad #64068, but did not leave a phone #. Try again!__________ HAPPY BIR THDAY to the prettiest prosti tute. XXOO + sogni d’oro. TO MY GOOD NEIGHBOR, I’d like to confer on the conference. Write on. Bi MALE CD SEEKS DISCRETE PEO PLE for fun and play. Tired of boring evenings and long days. Call and leave mes sage. 64071
I SPY WATERMAN C O M PU T E R LAB 10/7. Me: man in green jacket and blue baseball cap. You: woman, blonde, star ing at me. 1/3 shy, 2/3 lusty. Write. Box 059 CHERRY ST. BILLARDS - 10/18. You: AF, long hair, blue shirt. Me: W M , long hair, black shirt. You were at next table. Want to meet? 64087 _____ PO E T JEN: Met you briefly at Burlington Coffehouse, City Market, 9/25, but couldn’t stay. Looked, for you 10/9. Me: bearded with black leather jacket. Please call/write to talk poetry. 64074 RAQUETS EDGE - 9/28... PRETTY SM ILE w/ white cap on backwards. Yes, I did see your smile. Let’s talk. 64064
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PLEASE BE ADVISED that this svelte, capricously stubborn (SWNSF, 39) writer, performs perfunctory tasks poorly and rou tinely loses one sock to the hozone...Got any advice? Box 060 I’M A REAL CATCH! 24 YO WF, 5 7 ”, 1151bs., hazel eyes, blonde hair, single mom moving to VT to finish education to teach biology. I’m soft, feminine, elegant & sensu al with a great pair of legs. Wanting to cor respond with a NS gentleman who has a stable life, is financially secure, enjoys evenings at home or outdoor outings, an off the wall sense of humor (to match mine), is educated (or wants to be) and is not too
hard on my eyes! I’m also a terrific kisser! Am I wanting too much? Box 056________ SWF SEEKS A SW/DW GENTLEMAN, 50-63, to be her date for an upcoming gala social event. Box 058 TALL, FAIR, PERVERSE, impetuous, NS artist, 38, seeks tall, droll, cynical hardheaded, crusty, independent, well read/educated, savvy old soul to swap stories with. Box 052 28 YO HEDONIST, NOT YET PROFESSIONAL, no longer slacker, loves literature, swimming in the lake and PJ Harvey, seeks sexy world-traveller and educated, woman worshipper w/ great sense of humor. Box 054__________________________________ I ADORE MEN! Extremely happy Southern Belle (now living in VT) seeks pen-pal who loves the lost art of letter writing. Box 050__________________________ ATTRACTIVE, TALL & WELL EDUGATED. SF, 34, seeking mature, liberal S/DWM, 5’10” +, with intelligence and sophistication, for friendship, companionship and possible relationship. Box 043 STARTING OVER. Where do I go? Children are grown; I’m alone. Love light sparkles but where’s Mr. Markle?SF looking for SWM 50s & 60s, varied interests. Box 034
ATTRACTIVE, PROFESSIONAL BLACK WOMAN, 40 YO, W ITH CHIL DREN. Comfortable, honest, passionate. Traveling, dancing. Looking for professional white male, sincere, honest, sense of humor, understanding to share life together. Box 041
Let’s experiment together. I’m a heavy-set SWF looking for someone 30-38. Box 053 I’M LOOKING FOR A LOVI NG, CAR ING, WARM, ETC. RELATIONSHIP to share my dreams with. I’m very easygoing, kind, friendly, loving, warm, caring. Lots more of a person. Please write me. Box 040
can’t do it. Perhaps I can with women 37+ from writer warrior with love & lust. Box 042 ANARCHIST ARTIST 45+ with one exquisite dress and nice teapot sought by subversive SWM for probing the woof and weave of longing thread by thread. Box 037 PEONIES BLOOMING, ROSES SWELLING, IRIS DROOPED. Time to get out of chicken coop. Seeking 39+ lass full of sass from poet? Writer fire. Box 036
SWM, 41, DEAF, WANTS CHANGE & new beginnings, seeks F, same age (25-42). Lets start at coffee. Box 048 YOUNG, VERY SUCCESSFUL ATTORNEY, fit and energetic, looking for sensually attractive, elegant SPF, 22-32, to share his good fortune, sense of adventure, intellectu al vibrancy and to enjoy his full specrum of interests and passions from his beautiful home to trips to Boston & Montreal and exotic points beyond. Send letter & recent photo. 046 W HATT lO V E GOT TO DO W /... culturally/politically aware? Dignity? Nice abs? Single dad, 40, artisan, attractive, Adirondacker. Not boring. 045______ SEINFELD/IMUS They’re our men if they
MEN: AFTERNOONS FREE? ME TOO! PBiWM, 40, brn/bl, 165lbs., discrete, very open-minded, good looking. My place. Around the world in one afternoon. Write and express your secret fantasies and I’ll come your way. Box 061 GWM - 5 9”, I65lbs., BRN/BLU, OPEfT MINDED, honest, NS, loves the outdoors, hiking, biking, nature - seeks GM, 20-40 for friendship and good times. Box 062 SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 24, 6’, 185lbs., NS seeks same, 18-30, to satisfy our curiosity. Discretion a must. Write soon, photo appre ciated. Box 051 GWM, 18, BROWN HAIR, HAZEL EYES, 5’8”, 1351bs. seeks GWM, 18-25, to share summer with. Box 031
TS LESBIAN, TRAUMATIZED, discon nected from my body; seeking lesbian part ner w/ whom to reawaken in loving rela tionship of sensual, consensual, sexual plea sure. I’m 43 years old, 13 yrs. post-op, NS/ND, androgynous, Aquarius into per sonal growth. I’m seeking body conscious woman for deep, long-term friendship. If you’re out there will you join me in taking the risk to go into what feels like The Unknown? Box 057___________________ HELP: CURIOSITY STRIKES AGAIN. Is there anyone there who is also curious?
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