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NEUTRAL IS NAIVE Hats off to Pat Paquin for bringing up the Quebec issue, re: her portrait of McGill stu­ dent Jim Daniels (Seven Days, October 30). Readers should not be fooled by Daniels’ idealism, though. There is no neutral position that English speakers can hold in Quebec. It goes without saying that the decline and fall of practically everything m MH “Anglo” in Quebec is nothing compared to the fate of the French language in St. Louis de Ha! Ha! W ith all the linguaphobic laws regulating the province’s Phonecian alphabet, just pulling up to a “Stop/Arret” sign in ^ Quebec is enough to heighten anyone’s appreciation of the absurd. ^ ^ If the political turmoil in Quebec could be solved by simMNNMMi ply recognizing Quebec’s specific culture, McGill students could all breathe easier. But as former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau pointed out, either distinct society means something or it doesn’t. If it means something, it amounts to more political power. Unfortunately, the French and English are heredi­ tary enemies. Despite all the goodwill of conditional federal­ ists and soft nationalists, there’s a colonial grudge-match that’s still being played out in Canada.

It’s great to see a Vermonter getting involved.

Quebec’s future will have a huge impact on Vermont. But Daniels is deceived if he thinks he belongs to a “strictly neutral” group of sympa­ thetic bilingual Anglos in Quebec. How ironic that his neutral group also supports the right of Quebec’s National Assembly to determine Quebec’s future, as though Canadian voters in the province are of no significance and the geo­ political interests of Canada, France, the U.S. and others are not at stake.

— Bill Dodge Burlington

As a lesbian, I am continually faced with a women’s community which pays lip service to diversity and inclusion, but only to those who think, speak, act and support the exact narrowly defined “politically correct” views of their “les­ bian movement.”

I was present at the rally for Matt Stickney, and I have to say that Peter Kurth’s original arti­ cle (October 9) certainly reflected the event as I saw it. The fact that Kurth could find humor in the farce of a “non-event” (or should we call it what it really was: a failure) is a credit to his insights and writing abilities.

A couple of specifics about this whole affair particularly irritate me. That Karin Eade could disavow Outright Vermont’s involvement in organizing the event is appalling. The gay and lesbian community knows it was Outright which did the legwork necessary to secure the church, get Transsexual Menace involved, and generate the press coverage that ensued. If Outright does not want to admit its community actions, then I question why the organization exists at all. As a nonprofit agency funded in part with our tax dollars, I expect Outright Vermont to be doing what we pay them to do: support young gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth. If they are not the agency to set the example in doing this, then Eade and her staff should be put out of business.

Additionally, I am amazed that Seven Days' coverage included a lengthy piece by Jess Bell, a woman who does not even reside in Vermont any longer. She left the area long before Matt Stickney donned his first frock, and her perspec­ tive is about as relevant to our local community as mine would be if I attempted to exert my influence over a community’s standards in California or Florida.

Finally, I have to say that all this railing about the political correctness of the situation only strengthens the stereotypical belief that les­ bians are a narrow-minded and humorless bunch of unhappy, unfulfilled women. Being a lesbian myself, I find myself struggling against that prejudice on a daily basis. Thanks to Karin Eade, Jess Bell and their cohorts, for they are the ones making my life more difficult, not Matt Stickney or Peter Kurth...

— Elise McKenna Burlington

KURTH WAS R IG H T Adults with their own not-so-hidden agendas battling for print space at the expense of a teenage boy is revolting. Seven Days ongoing coverage of the M att Stickney debate (Weekly Mail) has forgotten that this story started out being about a teenage boy reconciling himself to his gay self-identity. Instead, we now have a small minority railing about transphobia, which was not... a part of the original controversy.

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[SAVED! I Never in a generation has our republic and ■ our fair city been so threatened. These truly are 1 the times that try men’s souls. Across Vermont, 1 citizens are huddling in fear in the wake of the | shocking election results that have vaulted a band ■ of ex-hippies into the role of major party status.

The Grassroots Party received a righteous I scolding in yesterday’s edition of the distin­ guished Burlington Free Press. "The last thing this state should be doing is awarding a seal of • acceptability on people who advocate drug use,” declared the editorial.

Pass the Prozac, please!

The problem is a simple one. Too many people voted for Grassroots Party candidates.

There must be a way to either invalidate their votes or at least get a list of names of just who these people are. Once we have the names, we 1 can easily develop strategies to deal with them.

The list could be printed in the Freeps.

Blockbuster Video could refuse to serve them.

There are ways.

Closer to home in our fair Queen City, 1 where right-thinking, morally sound | Progressives rule the roost, the shining beacon | of Prohibition has risen like a mighty sword.

Monday’s midnight decision by the courageous members of our city council to J revoke the liquor license they gave that Shawn Cliche fella ■ last month means he’s been shut down before he could even a open up his downtown nightS club, the Coliseum. The council has spared us all a great evil pro­ fs liferating through society. * Cliche’s plan for Cherry Garcia » St. included not only alcoholic 1 beverages but dancing, too, in | the former Knights of 1 Columbus Hall. Pass the holy water, Father!

I Doing his best Barry 1 Fitzgerald Monday night was | Kevin Scully, embalmer, protec­ tor of widows and orphans, and Chief of Police. Cliche’s new i nightclub would create a new I drinking “corridor,” said Scully. | Y’all know how crime spreads as quickly as a spilled Margarita, right? Monsignor Scully laid it on thick. Molly Lambert, direc1 tor of the Marketplace, backed | him up, and in the end they all rolled over except for Gary Hevey, a Ward 7 Republican.

Scully’s sermon also made a big impact on Jim West, owner of Samsara, a restaurant and I coffee shop on the Marketplaces upper block.

“That guy should be up for an Academy Award, West told Inside Track. “He was unbelievable.

Scully let it out that Mr. Cliche had never I bothered to genuflect and kiss the chief s ring, like a good prospective new Burlington bar | owner should.

West wasn’t buying Scully’s malarkey. He ®recalled attending the original license hearing 1 “at which the liquor inspector testified Shawn | runs really good establishments. There were no | complaints,” recalled West. Next time he runs ■ into our redoubtable police chief, said West, he’ll inquire of him, “Where have you been for the last 10 years, while everybody was vomiting all over Main Street?”

Reality — what a concept! (Hey, wasn’t that Mayor Peter Clavelle cutting the ribbon at the Sweetwater’s re-opening Friday?)

Let’s face it. Cliche has grown into a largerthan-life character. Monday night, WCAX-TV referred to him as “strip-club owner Shawn Cliche.” News anchor Roger Garrity reported, “Cliche is well-known for his strip clubs in Barre and South Burlington.” Really?

Everyone knows Club Fantasy was quickly shut down by Bill Cimonetti and the South I Burlington sex police (the First Amendment I took a hit and spurred a Stephen Goldberg I play). But Cliche never owned a strip club in I Barre, contrary to what WCAX reported.

Barre’s strip club, Planet Rock, is owned by I someone else and, despite its existence, Barre I has managed to survive without church burn­ I ings or a rise in prostitution and drug dealing.

I Cliche does own and operate two establish­ ments in Barre — a fern bar/dance club with a I Hawaiian motif called Gilligan’s, and a Mexican | restaurant, Trackside Depot. You’ve no doubt | heard the stories about what too much Mexican food will do to you? Jumping beans and all.

Cliche has been quite clear that he had no intention of turning the Coliseum into a strip joint. He welcomed a strictly worded entertain­ ment permit, if that’s what the moral majority wanted. But he never got the chance. Monday night Cliche was ambushed. No one told him before the meeting it was coming. The council revoked the liquor license they issued him just last month. And they did it not because of any­ thing Cliche did wrong. His record is clean on the alcohol front — unlike that of Progressive Councilor Haik Bedrosian, who has two liquor | violations on his rap sheet without ever owning a bar. (Word is, Haik’s days of celebrity are coming to a close. Former Progressive councilor and State Rep. Tom Smith is planning a comeback in March. Take a hike, Haik?)

Republican Councilor Kurt Wright voted with the moral majority Monday, but Tuesday morning he was having second thoughts. Shawn Cliche, he said, “jumped through every hoop we $ put in front of him.” The morn- | ing after, Wright said he had “serious misgivings” about the council’s actions the previous evening. “We probably werent fair to him,” said Wright.

No kidding.

I Cliche’s lawyer, Karen I ■ L Shingler, told Inside Track I I I I Tuesday “We’re researching our 1 | options.”

Wanna bet a beer?

Mayoral Race — March isn’t ■ that far off, and Peter Clavelle is j? wondering these days who his ® opponent(s) will be. | Republicans Diane Deforge and g Kurt Wright are still smarting after getting shel- | lacked in their respective races for the legislature Wright noted “an unbelievable number of people mention it [a run for mayor] to me. It’s a | __ T J •_T’™ tough1 race.

I’d'J_• enjoy- doing it. I’m not going to rule it out,” said the Kerry’s Kwik Stop manager.

Deforge said she’s “licking her wounds.”

And she senses the timing may be bad “for a moderate,” to take on Mayor Progressive. “The climate is worth consideration and the climate is not real healthy she said. Deforge lost to newcomer Hank Gretkowski, a Howard Dean Democrat. And, she noted, Bernie Sanders car- | ried her New North End district 2-1.

Media Notes — New to the local boob tube are I two graduates of “Seven Sisters schools.

I Tiffany Eddy, a 1992 graduate of Mt. Holyoke (English major) is the new late-night I anchor at WVNY, Ch. 22. She comes to I Vermont from WKTV in Utica, New York.

I Annie Silberman, the new education I reporter at WCAX, is a 1987 graduate of Barnard, taught First grade at a public school in I Manhattan and worked on the Senate I Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

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There’s a whole lot shaking in the baking busi­ ness these days — in Burlington, anyway. Weather worries have forced Mirabelle’s to close their waterfront cafe for the winter — a business decision co-owner Alison Lane sums up as “cutting off the arm to save the body.” To those left behind in the cold, the bakery is offering free lunch deliveries. Location is also the long-time lament of Liz Lowe at Queen ofTarts. After the holi­ days, Lowe is moving her pastry shop from a back room in Pine Square to a four-table cafe on lower St. Paul Street. Look for a limited selection of coffee drinks and a wide variety of breakfast, and after-Flynn, goodies at her new place. Lilydale, meanwhile, will be focusing on lunch.

Angelo Mariano denies the rumors that the downtown bak­ ery is throwing in the dish towel.

“We are sticking around,” Mariano insists, “emphasizing the entree menu and the sand­ wiches.” But he is die first to admit that making a go on the corner of Main and St. Paul hasn’t been easy. “There are so many cafes and delis in town —- its crazy. And they keep com­ ing.” The big question is whether the New England Culinary' Institute has fine dining plans for the Queen City or a Burlington branch of La Brioche. It’s a wonder anyone can make enough dough.

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LOCH, STOCK AND BARREL ! Screenwriter John Fusco penned Loch Ness more than 10 years ago, before he put the throb in Thunderheart and moved his moviemaking to Morrisville. The screenplay was optioned repeatedly, but never saw celluloid. Until it resurfaced last year, in the able hands of the British production company that made Four Weddings and a Funeral. The filmmakers and Fusco spent three misty months on a camera boat with actor Ted Danson, who stars in the film as a disillusioned American zoologist sent to Scodand to debunk the Loch Ness myth. His bonny adventure airs Saturday night on ABC. Interestingly, for a moment it looked like the “location” might switch to Lake Champlain, because of weather and labor problems. “One of the execs said during a meeting, ‘It’s too bad there isn’t a famous loch with a legendary monster in the U.S,”’ Fusco explains. “Somebody mentioned Bricish Columbia. I said, ‘What are you guys talking about? Have you ever heard of Lake Champlain?’” For a while it looked like Champ might get a cameo in the feature film, which played movie theaters in Europe before it was picked up by American television. Looks like Fusco >ubled waters for awhile. His next will stick to :rg, is an adaption of novel about ay,

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Winston paraphrases director Stanley Tucci, “and ambiguous like a great Italian movie.” Sprinkle that on your pasta . . . If Marc vanderHeyden has the same aptitude for leadership that he does for marketing, St. Michael’s College is in for some cre­ ative promotion. The new president invited 150 local dentists to attend the student production o f The Dentist — a commedia dell’arte creation that dates back to the Renaissance. Ouch.

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Although only a third of the student-chefs are women, females make it through the two-year training with fewer casualties. The drop-out rate is between 13 and 20 percent.

“The kitchens are hot, you spend a lot of time on your feet,” says Ellen McShane, vicepresident of admissions and student services. “We do our

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Alton Brown, demonstrates a disciplined zeal not often seen in the civilian world. And no wonder — they are students at the New England Culinary Institute.

W hat sort of person pays $38,000 to slave over a hot stove for two years in the inter­ est of proper sauteeing? Pulitzer Prize-winner Edgar May, for one. The former state senator is currently serving eggs and bacon in a cafeteria he might have patronized as a legislator.

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Chief Operating Officer John Dranow, which has rendered it “not only respectable, but hip.”

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates about a 30 percent increase in the number of jobs for chefs by the year 2000.

Sixteen-year-old New England Culinary is appealing for its outstanding studentteacher ratio — seven students to one chef — and its “into the frying pan” approach to food preparation and service. In the last two years, the only profes­ sional cooking school in Vermont has increased its stu­ dent population by 30 percent

right, prepares for pastry at New England Culinary Institute.

best to make sure people know what they are getting into.”

Despite the reality check, enrollment figures suggest more men and women of all ages are seeking out cooking careers via Vermont — many of them without prior exposure to fine food and wine. Except for a handful of chefs who got their training in Europe, cooking in America used to be a blue-col­ lar, in-the-trenches vocation.

Now it ranks as a liberal arts endeavor, says co-founder and

— from 440 to 670. Its list of restaurants has also burgeoned: In Montpelier, students staff the Chef’s Table, Main Street Bar & Grill, La Brioche Bakery & Cafe, the cafeterias at the Department of Employment and Training, and Vermont College. In 1989, the operation expanded to a second campus at the Inn at Essex, where it operates Butler’s Restaurant and the Birch Street Cafe.

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called ‘The One I Love.”’

Brown was “at the top of the totem pole” when he decided he was tired of shooting com­ mercials and wanted to be a cook.

Although he insists he is “back on the bottom,” Brown moves through the halls of the New England Culinary Institute like a player, stopping in the “meat fabrication” kitchen to relate a story about butchering a dead bear, addressing passing chefs defer­ entially along the way. Two buildings later, we are peering in the bustling, baker-filled kitchen that supplies La Brioche. Sans sound, it bears a resemblance to Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. It’s easy to see how Brown might view the kitchen as a movie set.

“I don’t find cooking that much different than directing,” Brown says, likening the educa­ tional experience to “some­ where between being in the Army and being in medical school.” The 34-year-old chefto-be likes systems — mental and physical — and knows how to get results from a team of people. “I loved the work but hated the business,” he says of his full-time job directing commercials in Atlanta. “I had some problems with advertising in general,” he says. “ There is nothing ambiguous about feed­ ing people.”

Brown’s ultimate goal is to own and operate a small coun­ try inn with his wife, probably in North Carolina. And “the cook I turn out to be wi 11 be directly related to the director I was,” Brown suggests. “It’s an American phenomenon — great chefs who have come to cooking from other walks of life. That is unheard of in France.” tive for highly educated, highly motivated people.” Like Alton r in East Barre, for that Brown, Katie Roche and Carlos matter. Twenty-one-yearBarrios. old Katie Roche is one of about 80 Vermonters at the econd-year student-chef New England Culinary Alton Brown calls the Institute, indicated by the small kitchen “the great equaliz­ “V T” in the lower right-hand er,” but his background in corner of her nametag. She commercial film production transferred to Montpelier after makes his notion of democracy her second year at Castleton suspect. His first big cine­ State because she was “looking matography break was a job on a music video. The band?

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Burlington. Dranow confirmed the institute is negotiating to buy the Mayfair building on upper Church Street Marketplace. He is spare on details, but assures, “yes, you’ll be able to eat there.” That means Burlingtonians can expect to see white-clad wannabes strolling the streets, as they do in Montpelier — people from all walks of life, and wildly varied previous careers.

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BOOTLESS&UNHORSED (Irish), Last Chance, 7:30 p.m. No cover. ERICAWHEELER (contemporary folk), Burlington Coffeehouse, City Market, 9 p.m. $6. COMMONGROUND, FASTBREAK, EXECUTE (hardcore; CD release party for Common Ground), 242 Main, 8 p.m. $5. THEFIDDLEHEADS (basketful of angels), Java Love, 9 p.m. No cover.

KAMIKAZECOMEDY (wacky improv), Cafe No No, 8 p.m. $2-5. BENSWIFT, D. NURMEGH (contemporary folk), Vermont Coffeehouse at Vermont Pasta, 9:30 p.m. $5. AERIUSW/CRAIGMITCHELL(house DJ), 135 Pearl, 9 p.m. $5. DAVEKELLERBLUESBAND, Vermont Pub & Brewery, 10 p.m. No cover. FROMGOODHOMES, CURRENTLYNAMELESS (groove-rock, alt-rock), Club Toast, 10 p.m., $8. MIDLIFECHRYSLER(vintage rock ’n’ roll), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m.

No cover. JEFFREYGAINES (soulful singer-songwriter), Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $12, followed by BABY'SNICKEL BAG, 10 p.m. $4. BL00Z0T0MY (blues, unhinged), Jake’s, 9 p.m. No cover. POSTTRAUMATICSTRESSDISORDER (blues), Manhattan Pizza, 9:30 p.m. No cover. JENNI JOHNSON (jazz/blues), Mona’s Jazz Bar, 5:30 p.m. No cover.

MICHELLEWALLACE, BIGGIRL(alt-rock), Last Elm Cafe, 9 p.m. Donations. JOHNLACKARDBLUESBAND, Old North Ender, 9 p.m. No cover. COMEDYZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 & 10 p.m., $7. THEADAMS (rock), Patches Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. WALTELMORE&ALLTHATJAZZ, Tuckaway’s, Sheraton, 9 p.m. No cover. BOWERS &HARNED (contemporary folk), Williston Coffee House, 8 p.m. $6. MIKETROMBLEYEXPERIENCE (rock), Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9:30 p.m. $2. HAWKEYE (party funk), Rusty Nail, 8:30 p.m. $4/5. WOODSHEDBLUESBAND, Charlie-o’s, Montpelier, 10 p.m. No cover. ELLENPOWELL&JERRYLAVENE (jazz), Main Street Bar & Grill Downstairs, Montpelier, 8 p.m. No cover. SMOKIN'GRASS (bluegrass), Mad Mountain Tavern, Waitsfield, 9 p.m. $3. TAMMY FLETCHER&THEDISCIPLES (soul, r&b), Gallagher’s, Waitsfield, 8:30 p.m. $2. DIAMONDJIMJAZZBAND, Diamond Jim’s Grille, St. Albans, 8 p.m. No cover. ...GROOVES R US

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OUTERMONGOLIA (noodle-groove champions), Java Love, 9 p.m. No cover. SKIN (alt-jazz), Samsara, 8 p.m. No cover. DAVEMALLETT, BILLSTAINES (contemporary acoustic), Vermont Coffeehouse at Mann Auditorium, Trinity College, 8 p.m. $12. ORGANICGROOVEFARMERS, DYLAN(groove-funk, poetry), Cafe No No, 9 p.m. Donations.

POOF (rock), Manhattan Pizza, 9:30 p.m. No cover. MIDLIFECHRYSLER(vintage rock ’n’ roll), Nectars, 9:30 p.m.

No cover. LITREMARTIN (funk/soul/house DJ), 135 Pearl, 9 p.m. $5. FIVESECONDS EXPIRED, THESCOFFLAWS, KILLGORE SMUDGE, HATEBREED(hardcore), Club Toast, 7:30 p.m. $5/7. JALAPENOBROS, (rock), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 10 p.m. No cover. BILLMONROEMEMORIALBLUEGRASSJAM, Last Elm, 6 p.m., followed by LOSTPOSSE (bluegrass), 9 p.m.

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THEPERCOLATORS (swing trio), City Market, 11 a.m. No cover. ACOUSTICSUNRISEBRUNCH(open jam), Java Love, 11 a.m. No cover. BIGPINE PUPPETSHOW(miniature ballet), Last Elm, 1 p.m. Donations. WOMEN'SCABARET (music and poetry), 135 Pearl, 8 p.m. $3. OPENMIKE (acoustic), Vermont Coffeehouse, Vermont Pasta, 8 p.m.

Donations. JALAPENOBROS, (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. FLEXRECORDSNIGHT (dub DJ), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. No cover. GROOVECOLLECTIVE (acid jazz), Club Toast, 9:30 p.m. $10. ALEXBETZ(jazz), Main Street Bar and Grill Downstairs, Montpelier, 11 a.m. No cover.

MONDAY OPENSTAGE(all genres), Cafe No No, 8:30 p.m. Donations. GRATEFULJAVAJELLY(open grateful/blues jelly), Java Love, 8 p.m. No cover. JALAPENOBROS, (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. L1NDYPEAR, STARLIGHTCONSPIRACY, UNCLE (alt-rock), Club Metronome, 9:30 p.m. No cover. WOMEN'S NIGHT (dinner), Last Elm, 6 p.m. $2/Donations.

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NOBLE CAUSE: Who says corporate giants can’t be neighborly? The supermarket of bookstores, Barnes & Noble — just six weeks in its new location on Dorset Street — has recently added local music to its mix of thousands of titles. Largely under the supervision of music seller Joshua Neimand, the small but diverse selection presently includes Belizbeha, Meg & Robyn, and Buck & the Blackcats, and expects an imminent arrival of The Fags, The Pants, Dysfunkshun, Viper House, et al.

“My personal preference runs to alt-rock and rocka­ billy,” confesses the 27-year-old Neimand, “but we’re trying to get as good an overview of the scene as possible.” Both Neimand and his supervisor, Steve Hrotic — both transplants from the BostonCape area — were “pleasantly surprised” by the Burlington music scene. “It’s more lively and fun here than in Boston,” says Hrotic. Before every musician in the state dashes off to B & N with their creative output, please note the criteria: the CD or tape must be shrinkwrapped, and the artist must be truly local — that is, Vermont-based. So far, across-the-lake folkie Carl Rubino is the only exception. “The more the merrier,” says Neimand.

“You can never support local music too much.”

Hear, hear.

ALTERNATIVE TO WHAT? You just never know where you’re going to run over a little speedbump of music-related news. The Champlain Business Journal? Well, yeah. Burlington’s newest pub for biz includes a listing of recent trade-name registrations, and amongst them are not one but three registries containing that controversial A-word. To wit: The New Rock Alternative. The Real Alternative. The

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Real Rock Alternative. All three have the same address as another registry further down the list: WBTZ The Buzz. Whoa. What does this mean? Is it a nefarious plot to co-opt all possible uses of the now-virtually-meaningless category, “alternative?” Is this co-optation of the English language actually legal? You can bet your sweet tattoos, boys and girls. It’s not only legal, it’s a standard business practice — if a cunning one. But, reveals CBJ Assistant Editor Eleanor Osborne, .there’s a long lag time before “registered” names are actually con­ firmed.

Anyway, by now you all know about the two modern rock stations that arrived last fall to bless the Burlington area with something other than baby-boomer fare. Both The Buzz and The Pulse understandably hoped they’d be the only station to deliver such musical manna, and now must go to greater pains to distinguish themselves. Registration of “alternative” phrases is simply “to protect use of those taglines for use in this marketplace,” states Sales Manager Larry Haws at Burlington Broadcasting, which owns The Buzz and WIZN. Meanwhile, the student-run WRUV has used the tagline, “the better alternative,” for over 10 years, according to faculty advisor and DJ Dr. Tuna (aka Professor Alfred Snider), and is now saucily using “defining alternative” in its station IDs. But is it registered? No. “As a noncommercial entity, we don’t register things like that,” says Tuna. “We can call ourselves anything we want.” He notes that other unofficial slogans have been “God’s hope for America,” “We just rock” and “The real alterna­ tive.”

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EtttCAWHEELEK | >fit?/ A H S'Fi , J The Harvest, Wheelers third CD, is beautifully produced by Rounder recording artist Laurie Lewis, who also contributes fiddle and back-up. vocals. Guest musicians on a variety o f acoustic instruments fill out Wheelers Appalachian and bluegrass-inspired tunes. The tracks alternate predictably between slow songs and fast, but otherwise, Harvest is like a big round moon on a chilling night —- and equally as bittersweet. The tide song is a devastating tale about a young husband and father-tobe who loses his life in a freak farming accident; “Arrowhead,” a crystalline ode to a lover long gone; “Goodnight Moon” — accompanied by W indham Hill pianist Barbara Higbie — uses a popular childrens book as a hook to recall the comfort and sim­ plicity of childhood. Half o f Wheelers songs could be the soundtrack for a good, cathartic cry; the rest are rollicking romps that owe their spirit to British Isles traditions and their sensibili­ ties to modern times. Erica Wheeler pays a visit to the Burlington Coffeehouse this Friday.

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Definitely a local hero to musicians and fans around the region, Miller has a well-deserved reputation for workaholic dedication to promoting — and providing a showcase for — contemporary folk music. As an unpaid volunteer. These 10 tracks (the Vol. 1 indicates more to come), though mosdy gleaned from other recordings, were seamlessly mastered by Charles Eller and, except Cv- .1... ..—. _______________ c.. ___ J

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A form er Richmond granary serves up people food Bv Jim Romanoff ridge Street in Richmond isn’t exactly the place I think to go when I want to wander around, do some shop­ ping and maybe grab a bite to eat. Don’t get me wrong, I like Richmond, and a breakfast of blue-corn pancakes at The Daily Bread would be on my short list of Vermont culinary experiences. Still, I wouldn’t say that the town is, well, happen­ ing. But for chef Debra Weinstein, Richmond’s low-key atmosphere made it the ideal location for her first restaurant, Blue Seal.

Weinstein had spent several years cooking at the trendy Manhattan restaurant Arizona 201 and learned what many chefs take a lifetime to discover — that “being in the restaurant business, it’s hard to have any life at all outside the business.”

So when she decided to open her own place, quality of life became a primary considera­ tion.

Weinstein knew she wanted the restaurant to be near Burlington — where she’d attended the University of Vermont — but not down­ town.

“Burlington was too com­ petitive a place,” says Weinstein, “and I felt that I would have to be open too many hours of the day to stay competitive.”

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It may be the lack of com­ petition in Richmond that helps make Blue Seal so com­ fortably unpretentious. The food is what Weinstein describes as contemporary American with Southwestern flavors, but the atmosphere and presentation of the entire meal also make this place worth going out of the way for.

Blue Seal might not be the best choice for a quiet, roman­ tic dinner — the single room is wide open and fairly noisy, and its off-the-shelf Ethan Allen decor is unlikely to win any interior design awards. But the relaxed mood makes it a place to enjoy a good meal with friends. Both times I was there, the crowd — a mix of locals and those venturing down from “the big city” — seemed to be enjoying themselves.

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the restaurant environment was a window through which I could watch the goings-on of the kitchen. It’s a good sign when a restaurateur is confident enough to let you see the food being prepared. And with Blue Seal I suspected that the win­ dow was as much for Weinstein

tation but seemed a bit rushed in preparation.

My savory tart was a superb combination of sweet potato, apple, red onion and cheddar cheese on a round of pastry — the latter unfortu­ nately a bit chewy, perhaps from being reheated.

grilled salmon roll with chilis, cucumbers and a wasabi dipping sauce and an outstanding warm arti­ choke salad with a garlic-ginger vinaigrette.

As I mentioned, the food was all quite beautiful and decidedly vertical in its presen­

SLICE OF LIFE Debra Weinsteins Blue Seal goes with the grain. to keep an eye on her cus­ tomers’ dining experiences.

Blue Seal’s food is confident, both in flavor and presentation.

The meal starts with fresh breads and a small pot of a spiced fruit chutney. The appe­ tizers I tried on my first visit were fine in flavor and presen­

The bruschetta with a garlic, white bean, fennel seed and herb dip was also extremely tasty, though the toasts could have been more crisp. However, on my second visit, I tried the savory tart again with much more crumbly, flaky results.

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tation, with layers of flavor, color and texture. I had a mixed grill of spicy shrimps, medal­ lions of pork tenderloin and an unctuous garlic sausage, all drizzled in a piquant roasted tomatillo salsa and served on a fluffy bed of basmati rice. An Continued on page 12

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irresistible peanut sauce. This was served with a garlicky red-cabbage coleslaw and a grilled slab o f moist cornbread.

My companions also ordered a pan-roasted salmon with aromatic roasted garlic mashed potatoes and light Fish stew with red potatoes, fennel and leeks in a subtle saffron broth.

Many people seem to think that because the restau­ rant is in Richmond it must be vegetarian. Not so.

Although Weinstein works closely with Jubilee Farms in Huntington to provide excel­ lent produce on her menu, there are always meat, fish and chicken dishes. O f the vegetarian offerings, I had an excellent seasonal dish of roasted buttercup squash with a texturaliy interesting selec­ tion of cracked wheat berries, roasted beets, soft mission figs and a pile of spicy greens on top with a sprinkle of crunchy pumpkin seeds. All the flavors were perfectly balanced by a reduced red wine and balsam­ ic vinaigrette.

Weinsteins dessert selec­ tions round out the savory foods at Blue Seal. She creates the dessert concepti ^6tkih,gniJOJ with pastry chef Carol Kent, and they are exquisite. I’m not usually a dessert eater, but my gluttonous side showed up, so I tried three — sharing, of course. A maple-walnut sun­ dae, made with Blue Seals own ice cream and topped with maple syrup, went right to the edge of the “too sweet” abyss without quite falling in.

There was also a buttery lemon cake with a slightly tart strawberry glaze and crunchy meringue wafers between the layers. The dessert I most wanted to keep to myself, though, was a moist apple­ sauce gingerbread covered with a tart lime cream and wisps o f spun sugar.

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I In 5-quart Dutch oven, heat H /2 this oil over m edium -high heat until hot Add one third o f beef and brown evenly, stirring occasionally Remove beef with slotted spoon, set aside Brown the remaining beef in tw o batches, adding 1/2 ibis of remaining oil each tim e ’ Sprinkle flour in sam e pan. cook and stir over m edium heat 1 minute Sur in beef broth, wine tom ato paste whisking until blended Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low Add garlic, bay leaves, salt, thym e and reserved beef Cover tightly and simmer 1-3/4 hours or until beef is tender " Add potatoes, carrots and onions, cover and continue cooking 45 m in­ utes or until vegetables are tender I Sur in mushrooms, simmer, uncovered. 10 m inutes Remove bay leaves Stir in parsley

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Whether it’s a 35-pound bird with the full complement of side dishes, sauces and pies, or a modest meal of turkey and mashed potatoes, Thanksgiving is a chore. A pleasurable chore, perhaps, for those who know which end of the spatula is up, but a daunting and complicated I chore for the culinarily chalj lenged.

When it comes to roasting the turkey, though, we’re all pretty much in the same (gravy) boat. The good news is that help is as near as your tele­ phone. For 16 years now, Butterball has made available a Turkey Talk-Line to offer advice, answer questions and give plenty of related good counssL Call 1-800-323-4848 anytime between now and December 23 and you’ll speak to one of 48 home-economists or nutritionists who have heard it all — from simple to strange, from the obvious to obscure.

They won’t laugh at you for not knowing how to set your oven temperature, and they don’t care if you bought a Butterball bird or a local farm-raised gob­ bler — although you wouldn’t be their typical caller if you did.

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“Presenting this master feast is an art,” say Jean Schnelle at Butterball. “We offer our years of experience and advice to help novice and expert cooks.”

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last year), but a West Coast caller went overboard by scrubbing her bird with bleach. Yecch.

• A Montreal school teacher called on behalf of her students (she claimed) to find out whether turkeys have belly buttons.

• Bored with the same old recipes, some callers offer inno­ vative techniques. One unusual suggestion: stuff a turkey tightly with raw popcorn, turn the oven on high, and stand back.

Another is to wrap the turkey in a butter-soaked pillowcase.

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question was, “W hat’s the best way to thaw a turkey?” Hint: It takes several days. I called with­ out a specific question and got a quick lesson on the history of Thanksgiving — it’s more com­ plicated than the pilgrim story we were taught — along with an earnest explanation of how important the Turkey Talk-Line

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• Having never seen an uncooked turkey, a first-timer queried about the plastic net and wrapper. “Should I unwrap the bird before putting it in the oven?” he wondered.

• Food safety is always an issue with poultry and leftovers (11,575 questions on the topic

I also ran into a few Vermont tales worth recounting: • Not wanting to overcook a fresh Vermont turkey from the Shelburne Supermarket, a local resident was checking the inter­ nal temperature when he dropped the bird and broke off the oven door. Needless to say, the turkey wasn’t done.

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Unless you’re already up to your elbows in oyster stuffing, you can also go on-line in search of turkey advice.

Butterball, of course, has their own web site (www.butterball.com.) where you can seek out menu ideas, recipes and hosting advice, or post ques­ tions. But beyond Butterball, every food-related web site is turkey-crazed these days.

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The Food and Wine Network seems to be especial­ ly eager to help first-timers with their lists of do’s and don’ts — do make lots of lists and don’t freak out when nothing goes as planned. And if that’s not enough to send you running to the nearest caterer, check out the list of Thanksgiving essentials according to WilliamsSonoma: over 31 kitchen sup­ plies, available, of course, in their catalogue.

It can be comforting to find other clueless cooks on­ line, posting desperate queries for help. Along with turkey talk, you can find more gener­ al sage advice for this familyoriented holiday: “Make a vow to each other when you wake up that morning: ‘We are going to have a good time today — and whatever goes wrong, it is not a big deal.” □

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e pours more coffee refills than anyone in town, and probably tells more jokes than anyone, too — invariably followed by his patented devil­ ish laugh. Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., Robert Conlon presides over the bar at Leunig’s bistro at the crossroads of College and Church Streets in Burlington. The portly, mus­ tachioed 46-year-old — a Winooski resident, graduate of Saint Michael’s College, and a Libertarian — has been a fix­ ture on the Marketplace nearly since the bricks went down. In the last 15 years, he’s seen ’em come and he’s seen ’em go.

Enough said.

Conlon’s attraction to the restaurant business was passed down from his father, who waited tables at an old Irish restaurant called Harmon’s in his hometown of Waterbury, Connecticut. The elder Conlon got his son started while still a wee lad with a job as a busboy.

Last Thursday after his Leunig’s shift, Bob the Bartender sat down with Seven Days for chat.

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Seven Days'. So, what do you like about working behind the bar?

Robert Conlon: You’re not dealing with anything life-shat­ tering. It’s not like you’re a doc­ tor or a financial planner. It’s like, c’mon, are you comfort­ able? Are you having fun? Did that taste good?

RC: One of the hazards of the job is, I run into people and I don’t know their names. I apol­ ogize for it. Fact is, I see a lot of people... I know it’s black cof­ fee, bagel-no-cream-cheese, jam. I don’t know who you are, but I know what you eat.

There’s a lot of people like that.

In the course of the week I see hundreds of people.

SD: Any hazards?

SD: So what’s changed over the

years, from your vantage point behind the marble-topped Leunigs bar gazing over down­ towns busiest intersection?

RC: I’m 46 instead of 32.

That’s a change. I don’t think the city’s changed much. I think there’s fewer local people on the street. I think of Tom Racine (a regular who owned Bertha Church and was general manager of the Vermont Expos) dying. I look at The Nature Company — it used to be Hall’s, an old family card shop.

There was Cassler’s Toy Store, an old established local busi­ ness. The hardware store. It’s become much more of a boutique-y mall.

SD: Money passes through your hands daily. Is the economy better today?

RC: We’re busy. I don’t see all the same faces, but I see new faces. We still get tourists that come back year after year after year, and more of them. It’s got­ ten to the point now that when people come from out of town, downtown is a tourist attraction for them. “Holy cow, look at

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SD: Give me a thumbnail description o f Leunigs.

RC: I can only tell you what it is from 7:00 a.m. until 2 p.m.

At night, it’s a dinner place. It’s different. Monday through Friday, breakfast and lunch, I see a lot of regular customers.

People have their seat... at the bar or at a table.

SD: There have been two owners over the years, Denny [Morrisseau] and Laura [Thompson, his wife], and now Attila [Keller] and his wife, Kathy. Have things changed much?

RC: The music is better now.

It’s loosened up. While we still play Spanish, French and some Italian music, you also might hear Oscar Petersen, Sarah Vaughan — more jazz. This is the perspective of a 46-year-old guy. A boss is a boss is a boss.

You do what you’re told.

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Friendly, brief, able to spill out an entire menu in a blink of an eye, the person on the phone might have been one of the two men I’ve subsequently met: Mark Bayer and Bruce Cahan, owner and manager, respectively, of Menus on the Move. Just over five years ago, Bayer says, the delivery service in the Burlington area was lim­ ited to pizza, chicken wings and Chinese. And though his busi­ ness will soon expand to include 33 restaurants, he can tell you that some things have stayed the same: Pizza and Chinese are still the most popu­ lar requests.

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him it will be a 45-minute wait. But unlike a Wall Street trader, he’ll manage the meal for you — and if anything goes wrong, he’ll take the blame, offer you compensation, even send you a free meal certificate.

The first thing that caught my eye in the Menus office was Bayer’s pride, a complicated computer program. Type in a customer’s phone number and their name, address and favorite restaurant pop up. The menu is catered to the customer’s prefer­ ences: salad dressing, bread, cheese, degree of doneness on the burger. When the order is complete, a copy is faxed to the restaurant where, hopefully, someone jumps right on it.

The most complicated part of coordinating this business is exactly what you would imag­ ine, Bayer confirms — timing.

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PICTURE-PERFECT FOOD For mouth-watering photographs — try a little lard

Bv Mariallsa Calta helburne photographer Paul Boisvert, New England Culinary Chef Roland Czekelius, and I — a freelance writer specializing in food — are watching a tower of gin­ gerbread parfait collapse. It was not a very attractive parfait to begin with: a tall, beige, gelati­ nous heap, which a gener­ ous portion of gluwien zabaglione — a topping of spiced wine, egg yolks and whipped cream, also beige — does nothing to enhance.

Czekelius has gamely arranged the parfait on a pretty blue plate, upon which he has etched a snowflake in confectioner’s sugar. It helps, but not much.

Now it’s top­ pling.

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pudding — and two other desserts — for an article on ‘“Austrian Christmas Desserts” that will be syndicated to news­ papers around the country.

Austrian-born Czekelius has developed the recipes, I’m

The three of us have gath­ ered at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe to photograph said

responsible for the words, and Boisvert’s job is to make the stuff look as good as it tastes.

food look good for the camera, This, I have learned over the and who have a number of years, is easier said than done. tricks up their sleeves. For The fact is that some great­ instance, they undercook tasting dishes can look — as one food magazine editor indel­ turkeys — cooked ones have wrinkly skin — and paint them icately put it — like “barf on a with Kitchen Bouquet or food plate.” Or worse. If you doubt colorings. this, check out (Stayner notes the garish that, for photographs turkeys, an above the atomizer is far counter at superior to a your nearest paintbrush.)

Chinese take­ Food stylists out. It’s a won­ stuff pies with The fa ct is that der these mashed pota­ places have toes and paper any customers some great-tasting towels to keep at all. And the crust from they probably sinking. They wouldn’t if the dishes can look — undercook place didn’t vegetables and smell so damn pasta to help good. as one food maga­ those foods “The inter­ retain their esting thing color and about food is zine editor indeli­ shape. that when you cook it, you Sometimes, smell it, and cately p u t it — they even fake the wonderful things: The smell can miti­ “ice cream” gate its ugli­ like <(barfon a you see in ness,” says magazines and Burlington food photogra­ plate. ” Or worse. newspapers may be an pher Becky inedible mix­ Stayner. “But ture of Crisco in a photo­ and sugar. graph, there’s Kate Hays, no smell,” she the former continues. chef at “The photog­ Burlington’s rapher has to Daily Planet and now co-owner make up for that somehow.” of Global Bites catering, freeEnter food stylists — the people whose job it is to make I

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CONLON'S CORNER C ontinued from page 15 SD: But looking at how Leunigs fits into the tapestry o f our local culture, for years there were peo­ ple who would never be caught dead in here because o f Denny [who recently lost his second con­ secutive bid for the Vermont State Senate as a Republican].

Westward Ho! [a program that offered one-way bus tickets to homeless transients] was an incendiary element in town.

like. I look forward to seeing them. It’s social for me.

SD: You don’t just wait on them, you converse with them. It’s part o f the day’s social intercourse? * *■ RC: Right. And when I wait on people 1 don’t know, I try to wait on them the same way as people I do [know]. Maybe that wouldn’t work in a fancy resort. At least Kathryn and Attila still let me be me, like Denny and Laura let me be me.

es, they’re embarrassed about laughing, and there are some who are disgusted by it. What are you going to do?

SD: How do the waitresses o f 1996 compare to the waitresses o f 1982?

RC: Boy, they seem a lot younger. In 1982 I was only 10 years older than them, and now I’m 25 years older [laughs]. I’ll tell you, waitresses have changed because the times have changed. When I started RC: Right. Some people won’t working in a restaurant in drink Gallo wine or buy SD: And it’s also a place where 1965, waitresses were “women Texaco gasoline. More power you can usually get the politically of easy virtue.” They may not to ’em. Denny was a have been, but in local character. He grew Connecticut when I up here, lived here all started working in the his life, and he had Then I went to work in restaurant it was ille­ strong opinions and he’s gal for a woman to sit still here. Kathryn and at the bar. They had Attila are from out of to sit at tables to be town. They live out in the restaurant and I met served. So women Jericho. They’re doing who worked in the their best to be part of bars, they would tell the community. the jokes. I went to some waitresses who were Sacred Denny and Laura Heart High still have high school School, where they buddies here, which is told us all women something most people were like the Virgin not like the Virgin Mary. ” don’t have. But that’s Mary. Then I went to part of the change on work in the restaurant the street. and I met some wait­ Robert Conlon resses who were not SD: Is it still fu n work­ like the Virgin Mary. ing here after all these All the women years? today who are waiting incorrect joke o f the day? on RC: Yeah. Lots o f fun. s.I or post-gr: RC: I don’t think there’s a bar think they’re a little resentful of SD: But 15 years is a long time. in this town where you can’t the feet that they’re waitresses, I ’ve never had the same job for get the politically incorrect whereas 20 years ago women more than a couple years at a joke o f the day. who were waitresses were wait­ time. resses, period. It was better SD: But many are spawned here money than they could make RC: The fact of the matter is, a on your shift, aren’t they? as sales clerks or in a factory. lot of the reason people do Today there are a lot of what they do is for recognition. RC: They come in here. People waitresses who’ve finished col­ I’ve always been made to feel who tell jokes find out who lege and thought when they like people liked me when they else tells jokes to tell them got o u t... they’d be one of come in here. I get regular cus­ jokes. You tell people the joke those people on the ads on TV tomers. I like them. Ninetyabout the Macarena [and taking their glasses off and hav­ nine percent of the customers Christopher Reeve] and there’s ing earnest conversations with that come in here I honestly some people who are in stitch­ C ontinued on page 2 6

GET IT TO GO Continued from page 16 “We ask our drivers to leave just five minutes before the meal would be ready,” Bayer says, “and that means knowing the cooking style of each restaurant.”

“We walk right into the kitchen to pick up the food,” says one driver. To keep the meal hot, they place it directly into insulated bags, then drive to the client immediately. The whole thing, from phone call to delivery, takes about 45 minutes. M .O.M .’s six drivers pace themselves, carrying twoway radios to check in with the main office if necessary.

But what if the place is crowd­ ed and the kitchen gets behind?

“One night I walked into this restaurant and they had just pulled the fax off the machine,” says another driver, rolling his eyes. “What could I do?” Because the pick-up and delivery of multiple meals is so coordinated, one delayed order has a domino effect on the rest of the night. M.O.M. always telephones clients to let them know if their dinner will be late. This hassle is exactly why most restaurants won’t take the time, or spend the money, to deliver.

“We’re just gravy,” says Cahan. “We supply a service that otherwise a restaurant could survive without.” But for Menus on the Move — with a delivery charge of $2.75, a 25 percent cut from the tab, and an average of 80100 calls a night, business is thriving.

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“It’s worth the extra charge,” says one regular cus­ tomer, a mother of two. “On weekends I want to relax, and this way we can please every­ one in the family without the stress of cooking.”

And if everyone in the family has a hankering for something different, Menus on the Move can deliver from up to three restaurants to please their palates.

No surprisingly, M.O.M. does its best business during the snowy months. “When the parking bans are in place,” says Cahan, “we provide service for the restaurants who might lose clients because people can’t find parking spots. And we make it easier for people who want to stay in and eat at home.”

For some the service has been indispensable: A local disabled couple try to use as many of the restaurants as M.O.M. represents. One regu­ lar customer always eats the same meal: his Chicken Cordon Bleu is ready at 8:15 p.m. at The Rotisserie every Saturday night.

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PICTURE-PERFECT C ontinued from page 17 lances as a food stylist. She has spent hours on such tedious tasks as placing tiny bits of diced vegetables on a plate of pasta.

“I use tweezers or tooth­ picks or skewers, or my hands,” Hays testifies.

“You can spend hours and hours making [food] look ‘nat­ ural,’” says Hays. Glenn Moody, another Burlington photographer recalls a shoot for an out-of-state ice-cream man­ ufacturer for which he hired a stylist who “specialized” in ice cream. “We had 200 half-gal­ lons, and she scooped hun­ dreds of scoops,” he says. “She fashioned the ‘skirt ‘ [the dol­ lop of ice cream that surrounds the scoop] separately. We kept the scoops hard in a dry-ice freezer, and then when we were ready to shoot the best-looking ones she carefully removed the frost by blowing on the ice cream with a straw.”

Such painstaking measures — and artifice worthy of Hollywood — is not uncom­ mon in the world of food pho­ tography. “Food stylists can be a little on the retentive side,” says Stayner. “But that atten­ tion to detail is often what makes the photograph work.

“O n the other hand,” she adds philosophically, “in the end, it’s only food. A photograph of a plate of stew is not going to change the world, even if you change the color of the bowl or use tweezers to put more vegetables on top.”

Actually, food photography is far more natural than it was in the the not-so-ancient days when photographers coated turkeys with motor oil, or used white paint instead of milk (it pours better).

Journalistic ethics discour­ ages the practice of faking any photo, and truth-in-advertising laws prevent product manufac­ turers from doing it. Years ago, action was taken against a canned-soup manufacturer for allegedly c ~.j : xputtingo marbles in the bottom of a soup bowl to make the vegetables float to the top.

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and Q-tips — is what Stayner calls “more real and natural — more like what actual food is about.”

But stylists still have their problems. Next to ice cream, the consensus is that meat is the hardest food to photo­ graph. “There is a fine line between having it look like a bloody lump o f flesh and a dried-out hunk of flesh,” says

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Food photography is fa r more natur­ a l than it was in the the not-soancient days when photographers coated turkeys with motor oil, or used white p a in t instead o f milk (it pours better).

Melissa McClelland, who styles food for her husband, Burlington photographer Len Mastri. McClelland, coinciden­ tally, is a vegetarian. “You smell like meat for weeks” after a shoot, she says. The couple shot and styled the photos for Julie Stillman’s recently pub­ lished Great Women Chef cookbook.

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Though a well-established pho­ tographer, Boisvert was new to shooting food when we started.

As a writer, I knew none of the sylists’ “tricks.” We learned by trial and error. We found out, for instance, that that too much dill weed can make a dish of vegetables look dis­ eased; that a plate of sausages can look not just unappetizing ! but downright obscene; and J that a fudge souffle closely resembles blood pudding. ; But early on Boisvert ; decided to use only real food, v> unenhanced by anything more : than an extra drizzle of oil for j shine, or an extra sprinkle p f chopped herbs for texture.

“Years ago, I took a semi­ nar in Manhattan about food photography, and it seemed to me that the photographers were using elaborate and unnecessary tricks,” says Boisvert, who has since sold food photos to Cooking Light, Food & Wine and other culi­ nary publications. “If you real­ ly shoot it fresh — right out of the oven, or out of the pot — you don’t need tricks.

“Plus,” he adds, “you get to eat it when you’re done.”

Which brings me back to that gingerbread parfait. While Boisvert and I are gobbling the disaster, Chef Roland returns to the kitchen, re-plating another serving of the dessert.

This time, he artfully places some cookies —- with nuts and chocolate, with some texture and pizzazz — to make the plate look more attractive. We nestle it amongst evergreen boughs and Austrian orna­ ments, on a carved sideboard near a window which overlooks snow-covered mountains. The parfait is flanked by a serving of Chestnut Souffle with Walnut Sauce and Glazed Pears, and a dish of Oatmeal Crumble with W inter Fruits. I look through the lens and, sud­ denly, it’s Christmas in Austria.

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with a lot of wrist action — not on the celery, and not on his plate, either, but directly on the clean linen tablecloth. He’d shake until he had a little dome of salt going for him there beside his water glass. Then he would take the celery stalk and tamp it into the salt-pile; tamp it in with an odd delicacy and care, and he’d close his eyes and take that first crunchy bite of salted celery. And our Thanksgiving dinner would be under way.

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biting into it with passion, flinging the skin to the dogs

an animal has had a cheery, normal life with its parents and other relatives, allowed to roam around pecking and talking, it’s easier to justify the death.

underfoot. Give me the base scene, of spilled wine on wood from dark and heavy glasses, the ritual of food as content­ ment. Power.

bone of meat, gesturing with it,

Those sad little swollen chick­

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ens that have their legs broken

cosy kitchen wood cookstove.

and are force-fed, scrunched up in cages, taste like ultimate sor­ row. They are weightless, de-

The sound of the twins putting black olives on their fingertips and laugh-

boned, brutalized life. Without having lived, how can it be

W hy he had to shake the

out onto the table­ cloth was the

and that weird thing my Dad

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Thursday of my kidhood. A lot of weird things went on around

part I never understood. But I had the feeling it was bound up in old memory for him. Some

that table, of course, what^

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throats, skinned them and

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rum from this salesman who

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the pure from your impure life.

never had much occasion to

ancient as Abraham and Sarah,

I shake the hands of all the

thumb his nose. I wish I’d

though luckily we don’t look

women who patted your chub­

asked him. It looked like fun.

900 years old, and we are part

by sides, who basted your glossy

did with it every Thanksgiving

always of his

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fistsful, maybe three,

roasting pan, whisper in Italian,

self, who turned you from fowl to pleasure. Grazie.

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of finechopped orange with rind, two golden blobs of it, and crush it in, and then add sugar, no thin sprinkling, but a cupful dumped and awakened with a wooden spoon to a thick suffusion, drench of sourness, bite of color,

Middlebury writer Abigail Stone is the author ofR.ccipes from the Dump.

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the bowl faintly becomes audible, a scarce wash of sound, a tiny

salty, gray potato mud — with a puddle of butter in the center — that nobody wanted to eat.

bite of my Tabasco mashed potatoes.

It takes a certain touch to bubbling, and then in a glass bowl set it out and let it be eaten last, to offset gravied breast and thigh of the heavy fowl, liverish stuffing, the effete potato, lethargy of pumpkins gone leaden in their crusts, let it be eaten so that our hearts may be together overrun with comparable sweetnesses, tart gratitudes, until finally, dawdling and groaning, we bear them to the various hungerings of our beds, lightened of their desolations — John Engels

get them right. Easy doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay attention to what you are doing.

I went through a sour cream phase, then a grated cheese phase. My new thing is Tabasco sauce. The look on the face of a guest when that first bite bites back can be more rewarding than the potatoes themselves.

— David Huddle David Huddle is a professor o f English at the University o f Vermont. His most recent book was Tenorman.

G ravy The rest is gravy.

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and safely transported through the day. One year, someb

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before I could even simmering. Another year, another “helper” threw out th lj finished stock so she could wash the pot. Worst of all was the year when, in the kitchen of a potter who couldn’t bear to throw her broken creations away, I decanted my precious hot turkey nectar into a bowl

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as secure as any blue chip. And

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wanted hit

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cooking in my own kitchen, with only properly selected and drilled souschefs. My stock is

toes advo­ cate —

with his calculator trick. I didn’t

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woman’s got that makes Lionel Sappier than all the sweet pota­ toes in the world,” he said. “In fact, she’s got two of them.”

And he dug into the meal with fisted fork, never once taking his eyes off Deborah’s morethan-generous gifts that were resting just about level with the table’s edge. My brother, 11 years old and acting just like any other man that’s ever gone hungry for a girl. He shoveled stuffing with chestnuts, dark,

is one of the most nerve-wrack­ ing and labor-intensive of all Thanksgiving dinner chores, because you have to make it from scratch, on the spot, using

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can’t line up

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privi­ lege of making them. Fair

enough. I would’t want to face a Thanksgiving turkey John Engels is a professor o f

without mashed potatoes. Not

Ron Powers

But never mind the flourand-turkey-grease roux, which you have to make in the roast­ ing pan (hence the two burn­ ers), nor the careful balancing

Waterville-based Bill Scheller authored The Bad for You Cookbook.

poetry at St. Michael’s College.

only are they turkey’s ideal taste

act you have to accomplish when you blend in turkey

His most recent book is More

companion, they also remind

stock, cream, cognac, salt and

Water. A new collection o f poems,

me of long-departed grandpar­

pepper to get the flavor and

Sinking Creek, is forthcoming

ents and aunts and uncles seat­

consistency right. For me, the

have married my first cousin,

next year.

ed around the dining room table. It’s a privilege to do a lit­

greatest challenge has always been getting the stock made

Lionel, if it hadn’t been for Deborah Causeway and her

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tle cooking to commune

sweet potatoes. She told us to

I called my mother to ask

When I was eight, I would

with past generations. I

pronounce her name

curb my goofy incli­

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over the phone, she described to me how she made mashed

nations. I

had to reheat her Thanksgiving

don’t

that she’d been making them

sweet potatoes at 375 degrees for half an hour at the very least.

for so long that she’d stopped

Lionel had curly hair and

keeping track of the measure­

had once showed me how

ments. I didn’t sweat the small

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stuff; I just generally followed

culator, spells “BOOBLESS”

my mother’s general directions.

upsidedown. I was

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for her recipe. As best she could

potatoes — her difficulty was

oily turkey parts and, yes, sweet

1 a jigger of lemon juice; feet potatoes Deborah had though watchh^Sossen was sup-

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106.7WFZN © Wednesday music VAUGHAN RECITAL: Jose Lezcano performs “Two Hundred Years of Sonatas for Guitar,” exploring artists from Scarlatti to Brouwer through a variety of musical forms. Faulkner Recital Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

d a n c e MASTER CLASS: Director Gilles Maheu

20 S A D . STORY: Does winter make you weary, irritable and hungry for junk food? Millions o f Americans suffer from sunlight deprivation without realizing their complaint has a name: seasonal affec­ tive disorder. Find out if your winter blues are “treatable” from two psy­ chologists who have seen the light.

Wednesday, November 20. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-9079.

21 VERTICAL LIFT: A legendary climber with a penchant for precipices, Peter Croft makes tracks up rocks most people write off. He established two new routes in the Royal Arches area o f Yosemite and soloed its most daunting North Face.

Get the view — without the rope burn — at his lecture-slide show.

Thursday, November 21. Climb High, Shelburne. 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 985-5055.

RITALIN REVOLUTION: May I have your attention? How is it that so many kids these days are sufficiently “hyper­ active” they need drugs to concentrate? Visiting psy­ chologist Richard DeGrandpre explain how “culture manufac­ tures disease” at a rivet­ ing lecture about the rush on Ritalin.

Thursday. November 21. 301 Williams Hall, UVM, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005.

22 COPYWRIGHTS A N D WRONGS: Need may be

of Carbone 14 shares bis athletic approach to movement in a class for “the actor who dances.” Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $12. Register, 863-8778.

‘FREE SPIRIT DANCE’: The weekly barefoot boogie convenes at Earth Dance Healing Arts Studio, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $5. Info, 482-2827.

CONTACT IMPROV: Make contact with other fearless movers at Memorial Auditorium Loff, Burlington, 7:15 p.m. $ i . Info, 860-3674.

the mother of invention. But who gets cus­ tody rights? Protecting intellectual ideas is not always as simple as obtaining a patent or a copywright.

The ins and outs o f innovation are the subject o f a conference keynoted

by U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

Friday, November 22. Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 8:15 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Free. Info, 658-5878.

t ilm JOHN SAYLES RETROSPECTIVE: Matewan shows at 5:30 p.m. and Eight Men Out starts rolling at 8:10 p.m. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington. Donations. Info, 658-7458.

‘PICNIC’: Kim Novak, William Holden and Rosalind Russell star in an oldies film for all ages. Waterbury Senior Center, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-6648.

2 3 CUSTOM CARDS: Tired o f Hallmark holidays? You don’t have to be Michelangelo to pull off a potato print portrait or to send a rubber stamp sentiment. The people at Boutiliers can help you find your inner artist at a card-making work­ shop for hands-on holiday types.

They’ll even set you up with the envelopes.

Saturday, November 23. Boutielier’s, Church St., Burlington, noon-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-5475

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T H E MAKING OF A PHOTO­ GRAPHER’: Walter Rosenblum speaks about the evolution of 20th-century pho­ tography and the education of photogra­ phers today. 304 Johnson Building, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-6433.

QUEER COALITION: Vermont’s queer commu­ nity doesn’t always get along. But it does get together — for an annual “Our Town” meeting. “Politics as Unusual” is the theme of this year’s conference, which aims to celebrate diversity and offer new visions of community and justice. Don’t miss the “cruising and schmoozing” part.

Saturday, November 23.

Brattleboro Union High School, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $12-30. Info, 258-2826.

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t h e a t e r ‘THE DENTIST’: A servant dresses up as a dentist to unite a couple kept apart

by Renaissance rules. Students perform the 15th-century Italian comedy in the McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535.

‘A M ONTH IN THE COUNTRY’: This Turgenev play depicts love and free­ dom as opposing choices. Unadilla actors perform at Montpelier City Hall, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 456-8968.

‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NO TH ING ’: Shakespeare’s comedy of sex, love and marriage is performed by London Stage.

Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 8 p.m. $17.50. Info, 603-646-2010.

w erds ‘WATER: A NATURAL HISTORY’: Vermont author Alice Outwater hosts an environmental forum based on the con­ cepts in her newest book, Water: A Natural History. Refreshments will follow.

Book Rack, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

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Barre Opera House. Free. Reservations, 800-639-1383.

‘VERMONTER’ POLL RESULTS: Fred Schmidt moderates a panel discussion of findings from the annual Vermonter Poll.

Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656- 4389.

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kids CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK: Authors and illustrators talk to their constituents.

Today meet Susan Milford. Fletcher Library, Burlington, 10 & 11 a.m. Free.

Register, 865-7216.

‘CHILDREN & BOOKS’: Learn about selecting books for your child. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, S. Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-8001.

PRESCHOOL PROGRAM: Have har­ vest fun, early Vermont style, with cider pressing and johnny cake making. Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, 1 p.m. $3. Register, 434-3068.

TEEN PARENT-CHILD GROUP: Teen moms hang out with their babies at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420.

STORIES: Kids listen while they eat snacks and make crafts at the Children’s Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655- 1537.

‘DRESSING FOR WINTER SPORTS’: The Green Mountain Club demonstrates how to stay warm this winter. Fletcher Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6885.

‘A N ENGAGED LIFE’: Dr. Jackson Kytle explores the peak experiences of our daily rhythms of mood and attention span, which he believes have profound implications for the way we live — and the future of education. Noble Hall, Vermont College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8715.

‘CAN AMERICA SURVIVE SUBURBIA?’ James Howard Kunstler makes the connection between zoning laws — which he opposes — and the charm and livability o f American towns.

St. Stephen’s Church, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2145.

‘WINTER BLUES’: Depressed, lethar­ gic, craving starchy foods? Two psycholo­ gists discuss how to treat seasonal affec­ tive disorder — a type o f depression trig­ gered by the absence of sunlight. Fletcher Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-9079.

TRANSPORTATION MEETING: The Draft Long Range Plan for Transportation is the focus o f a regular meeting o f the Metropolitan Planning Organization. Williston Town Hall, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3004.

‘HIV/AIDS IN ‘96’: What does the lesbigay community need to know about home test kits, protease inhibitors and the “HIV resistant” gene? Terje Anderson speaks at Cafe No No, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-649-2437.

CH .A.D .D. MEETING: Children and adults with attention deficit orders talk about managing anger and stress. Essex Cofnmtinity High School, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 657-2655.

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‘POETRY OBSCURA’: Valerie Koropatnick and Michael Breiner read their works at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2224.

‘FAMILY: A W IN D O W TO CHINA’: Family explores a popular Chinese theme.

Discuss the book at the Jericho Town Library, Jericho Center, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4686.

BOOK DISCUSSION: Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility gets a group reading at the St. Albans Library, 7 p.m. Free.

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t h e a t e r ‘THE DEAD SOULS’: An abandoned house comes to life with the memories o f its previous inhabitants in a series of moving tableaux. The Montreal-based troupe Carbone 14 performs at the Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $1223.50. Info, 863-5966.

‘MUCH ADO ABOUT N O T H IN G ’: See November 20.

‘THE DEN TIST’: See November 20.

‘A M O N TH IN THE COUNTRY’: See November 20.

‘LOVE LETTERS’: The ink is still dry­ ing on the drag queen version o f this epistolary drama. Robert Toms and Cherie Tartt star. 135 Pearl, Burlington, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 863-2343.

‘A MIDSUMMER N IG H T ’S DREAM’: Punk fairies threaten the sleep o f conventional society in an updated, urban take on the Dream. Studio Theatre, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. $4. Info, 443-6433.

Vermont crafters exhibit at the Sheraton Conference Center, Burlington, 10 a.m. 8 p.m. $2. Info, 223-2636.

‘PLANNING FOR POSTPARTUM’: After baby, then what? A video and dis­ cussion help you prepare for parenting.

135 Burgess Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6885.

MEDICAL HISTORY LECTURE: Dr. John Bland gives a lively talk on “Playing the Aging Game to Win.” Hall A Given Building, UVM, Burlington, noon. Free.

Info, 656-3131.

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES LECTURE: A brown-bag lecture by Ambassador Oerter Secchia addresses the

sion at this regular monthly meeting.

Radisson, Burlington, 8-10 a.m. $15.

Info. 658-7830.

INVENTION CONVENTION: Hundreds o f middle school student inventions and business exhibits are on display in conjunction with an innova­ tion and intellectual property seminar.

Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m & 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8486.

SOIREE: Take your instrument and dancing shoes to a community party with a French accent. Wallflowers are also wel­ come at the Middlesex Town Hall, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 229-4668.

© friday music ARDEN TRIO: The Vermont Mozart Festival hosts the world-class piano trio in a concert of works by Haydn, Brahms and Schubert, with Sharon Moe on French horn. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18. Info, 800-639-9097. A talk begins at 7 p.m.

VERMONT JAZZ ENSEMBLE: The acclaimed big band plays Latin, rock and fusion to benefit the food shelf in Burlington. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m.

Info, 244-7638.

CARNEGIE CHAMBER PLAYERS: “Brahms and His Circle” commemorates the centennial o f the composer’s death and features his vibrant Piano Quintet in F minor. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 8 p.m. $12.50. Info, 295-5432.

dance ORCHESIS DANCE COMPANY: See November 21.

DANCE CONCERT: Advanced and intermediate student choreographers show their works. Dance Theatre, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $4. Info, 443-6433.

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‘TH E DENTIST’: See November 20.

‘A M ONTH IN THE COUNTRY’: See November 20.

‘LOVE LETTERS’: See November 21.

‘A MIDSUMMER N IG H T ’S DREAM’: See November 21.

KAMIKAZE CO M ­ EDY’: Burlington’s improv collective promises new and improved super­ heroes, a psychic and “crowd-pleasing stan­ dards” of spontane­ ity. Cafe No No, Burlington, 8 p.m. $3-6. Info, 8636120.

t i lm ‘BEYOND RANG OO N’: This film is based on the true story o f a woman who visits Burma during the rise o f military power. UVM Women’s Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005.

words POETRY SERIES: J.K. Durick and Kelly Thomas read from their verse at the Book Rack, Champlain Mill, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-0231.

art ‘WOMEN & PHOTOGRAPHY’: Naomi Rosenblum, an award-winning historian and curator of photography, shares her perspective. Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-6433.

t ilm ‘SNOWRIDERS’: Snow stopping ski footage from scenic locations worldwide make this film a must-see for down­ hill types. The latest from Warren Miller screens at the Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 6:30 & 9:30 p.m. $12. Info, 863-5966.

kids CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK: See November 20. Today meet Jim Arnosky at 10:30 a.m.

FAMILY SUPPER: Make and eat dinner at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 2:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420.

etc CLIMBING TALK: Peter Croft estab­ lished two new climbing routes in the Royal Arches area o f Yosemite. He shares stories o f free, solo and speed climbing from his travels throughout the world.

Climb High, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 985-5055.

‘RITALIN NATIO N’: The author of Drug Policy and Human Nature explains how our fast-paced, rapid-fire culture promotes the loss o f patience and atten­ tion. 301 Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2005.

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HOUSE RULES: An abandoned bouse conies to life in The Dead Souls, a moving tableau o f dance-theater from Montreal based Carbone 14. Doors open Thursday at the Flynn. relationship between Bosnia, Italy and the U.S. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, noon. Free.

Info, 656-1096.

CONSULTANTS NETWORK MEETING: Linda Benoit leads a focus group entitled, “Developing a Marketing Plan.” Hampton Inn, Colchester, 7:30 a.m. $10. Register, 351-0285.

VENTURE NETWORK MEETING: Product innovation is the topic of discus­

TOASTMASTERS MEETING: Professional and non-professional people hone their speaking, listening and leader­ ship skills. Econo Lodge, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6142.

Donations. Info, 654-2535.

‘SYMPHONIC MEASURES’: The UVM Concert Band plays an overture, a concerto and Symphony No. 3 for Band, composed by Giannini. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 6567774.

MONTPELIER COFFEEHOUSE: Musician Rachel Bissex teams up with poet Gina Logan at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5.

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MASTERS OF MEXICAN MURALISM’: A slide lec­ ture focuses on the role o f murals in Mexico, with examples o f work by Jose Orozco, David Siquerios and Diego Rivera. 101 Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, noon.

Free. Info, 654-2535.

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classes SWING DANCE: Beginners, Saturday, November 23, 4-5:30 p.m. Edmunds School. $6. Intermediates, Sunday, November 24, 1-2:30 p.m. Champlain Club. $7. Burlington. Register, 4858737. Eric Hollman, a professional dance instructor from New York, teaches singles and partnered movers of all abilities.

ADULT MODERN-JAZZ: 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.

kids ‘EXPLORING HERBS’: Sunday, November 17, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. Sliding scale. Register, 865-HERB. Kids over nine hear a story, have a tea party, make a dream pillow and plant seeds.

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PREVENTING STROKE’: Wednesday, November 20, 7-8:30 p.m.

MCHV, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-2278. Eighty percent o f strokes are preventable, and new treatments mini­ mize the damage when one does occur.

MENOPAUSE PROGRAM: Wednesday, November 20, 7-8:30 p.m.

Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free.

Register, 865-2278. Merck Pharmaceuticals sponsors a series on menopause; tonights class discusses alter­ natives to pharmaceuticals.

‘CANCER CURES’: Monday, November 25, 6:30-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. Sliding

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Info, 253 4733. John DiCarlo leads ongoing classes.

writing WRITERS WORKSHOP: Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Cafe No No, Burlington. Free.

Info, 865-5066. Take a journal and your uniting spirit.

yoga YOGA: Daily, Burlington Yoga Studio, 174 Main St. Info, 658-YOGA. Classes are offeredfor pregnant women, kids and people with bad backs, in Astanga, Iyengar, Kripalu, Bikram and Kundalini styles. Beginners can start anytime.

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‘A M ONTH IN THE COUNTRY’: See November 20.

‘LOVE LETTERS’: See November 21.

‘A MIDSUMMER N IG H T ’S DREAM’: See November 21, 2 & 8 p.m.

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t ilm ‘SNOWRIDERS’: See November 22.

art ‘EAT YOUR ARTS O U T ’ FESTIVAL: Local artists and crafters come up with interactive booths that engage spectators in creation. Waterbury Elementary School, 1-5 p.m. Donations for the food shelf. Info, 244-4168.

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PATENT SEMINAR: Your intellectual property needs protection, too. A day­ long seminar keynoted by Robert Reich shares the power of patents, trademarks and copyrights work for you. Radisson Hotel, Burlington, 8:15 a.m. - 5 p.m. $75. Info, 879-6323.

OUTRIGHT SUPPORT 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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Info, 434-3901.

QUEER TOW N MEETING: The Vermont Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights holds an “our town” meeting with a showcase of queer Vermont artists, ven­ dors, craftspeople and healers.

Brattleboro Union High School, 9 a.m. 6 p.m. $12-30. Info, 258-2826.

CORN HUSK DOLL DEMO: Frog Hollow hosts an interactive demo that shows people how to make a traditional Native American harvest doll. Atrium, Miller’s Landmark, Burlington, 1-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-6458.

CRAFT DEMO: Learn how to make your own holiday greeting cards using rubber stamps, embossing and block prints. Boutilier’s, Burlington, noon - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5475.

FAKE STAINED GLASS DEMO: Check out the “gallery glass” alternative.

Stamp On It, Essex Junction, 1-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 872-0877.

FARMERS’ MARKET: Look for squash­ es, potatoes and brussel sprouts at a Thanksgiving farmers market.

Montpelier High School Gym, 10 a.m. 2 p.m. Free. Info, 229-1935.

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ARDEN TRIO: See November 22, South Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 800805-5559.

B.B. KING: No jive, the king of blister­ ing blues returns with crown intact.

Young acoustic bluesman Corey Harris opens. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 8 p.m. $35.50/25.50. The show is sold out. Info, call 863-5966.

dance ORCHESIS DANCE COMPANY: See November 21.

DANCE CONCERT: See November 22.

CENTRAL VERMONT SQUARES: AJ Monty calls for the “mainstream and plus” crowd. Capitol City Grange, Montpelier, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Info, 485-6655.

LATINO DANCE PARTY: The Greeks give way to the Latins tonight at the Lincoln Inn Banquet Room, Essex Junction, 9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 862-5082.

CONTRA DANCE: Eric Hollman calls for the Clayfoot Strutters. All dances are taught at Edmunds School Cafeteria, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $2.50. Info, 658-0832.

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‘AMERICAN GIRL’ PARTY: A series of stories about lively nine-year-old girls liv­ ing throughout history at different times give children an understanding of American past. Old-fashioned snacks are also provided for the seven-plus crowd.

Book Rack, Winooski, 7 p.m. Donations for the food shelf. Register, 655-0231.

BEAN MOSAIC MAKING: Use beans to make beautiful pictures and designs.

Folks over five make art at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 865-7216.

‘TURKEY TROT FOR TOTS’: Races of varying lengths on picturesque dirt roads conclude with random drawings for turkeys, maple syrup, massages and other prizes. Westford Elementary School, 10 a.m. Donations for the Family Nurturing Program. Info, 8782902.

CARNEGIE CHAMBER PLAYERS CONCERT: Youngsters hear music from four continents and try their ears at com­ posing “classical” music. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 1-2 p.m. $3-5. Info, 295-5432.

STORY TIME: Kids over three listen up at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

©Sunday music LANE SERIES: The Bach Wind Philharmonia plays Bach, Ravel and more contemporary composers under the direction o f George Bedell. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 3 p.m. $12. Info, 656-4455.

ST. MIKE’S COLLEGE CHORALE: The 50-voice chorus sings spiritual and seasonal songs from both sides o f the Atlantic, including the “Messe de Minuit,” by Marc Antoine Charpentier.

St. Augustine’s Church, Montpelier, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535.

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previously viewed duets using movement derived from post-modern, athletic and improvisational dance traditions. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6372.

OPEN REHEARSAL: Women lend their vocal chords to a harmonious rehearsal o f the Champlain Echoes. S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6703.

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‘AN EVENING WITH ALICE WALKER:’ The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple speaks as part of the Trinity College lecture series, “The Ties That Bind: Human Relations in the Family.” The event has been sold out for weeks. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.

‘THE DENTIST’: See November 20, 2 p.m.

A M ON TH IN THE COUNTRY’: See November 20.

‘A MIDSUMMER N IG H T ’S DREAM’: See November 21.

‘AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’’: Motown leg­ end Martha Reeves stars in this Fats Waller musical — the only show in his­ tory to win Tony, Drama Critics, Drama Desk, Obie and Grammy Awards. The show is sold out. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 7 p.m. $16-34. Info, 863-5966.

LESBIGAY DOCUMENTARY: Nitrate Kisses looks at archival footage of gay and lesbian history from the Nazi era to the current AIDS epidemic. Cafe No No, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5066.

k i d s BILL SH O N TZ CONCERT: The singer-songwriter tells “Animal Tales” — an afternoon o f song and silliness for the whole family. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. $5-8. Info, 8640218.

etc HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR: See November 2 1 ,1 0 a.m. - 5 p.m.

BUSHWACK: Crampons or snowshoes may be necessary to get up Bone Mountain. Meet at Bolton Valley Ski Area parking lot, 8:30 a.m. Free.

Register, 893-1266.

WALK: The Green Mountain Club hikes the length of the Stowe Bike Path — and back. Meet at Montpelier High School, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-0918.

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other emotional problems meet at the O ’Brien Civic Center, S. Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-9036.

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tics. Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

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ALLIANCE FOR TH E MENTALLY ILL’: Friends and families affected by mental illness convene for a regular sup­ port group meeting. Howard Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 425-2814.

TRADESWOMAN PROGRAM: Are you a tradeswoman interested in owning your own business? An orientation gets you up to speed on training opportuni­ ties. Network away at Barnes Elementary School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Register, 658-0337 ext. 372.

ARTHRITIS SUPPORT MEETING: Living with lupus, fibromyalgia and arthritis can be a pain. Get relief at 226 Laurel Hill Dr., S. Burlington, 3 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-4988.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: You don’t have to be Scottish to learn Highland figures and footwork. Take your soft-soled shoes to St. Joseph’s School, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1.50. Register, 864-0123.

t i Lm FILM FESTIVAL: Two films — Rishte and Ventre Libre— examine the rela­ tionship between women’s reproductive rights and eco­ nomic and social equality.

Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7200.

art ART LECTURE: An art historian dis­ cusses the pho­ tographs of Sally Mann, whose images of children stretch the boundaries of art, feminism, moth­ erhood and artistic freedom. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535.

words FICTION READING: Liz In ness-Brown reads from her new novel. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 654-2535.

POETRY ROUNDROBIN: Poets of all stripes share their verse. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Donations. Info, 658-7458.

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FRACTURED FAIRY­ TALES’: Robert Resnick m ulti-lingual a n d only 26, but Corey Harris sounds fo r all TEEN HEALTH and Carol Scrimgeour rein­ CLINIC: Teens get the world like an old blues guy w ith Delta m u d on his boots. terpret the classics for folks information, sup­ over four. Fletcher Library, plies, screening and The talented acoustic slide player warms up M em orial Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. treatment for sexual­ Info, 865-7216.

A uditorium fo r The K in g — B.B., that is — this Saturday. ly-related problems.

‘BABIES 1 & 2’: A parentPlanned Parenthood, The show is sold out. child play group meets at Burlington, 3:30-6 the Wheeler School, p.m. Pregnancy test­ Burlington, 11:30 a.m. - 3 ing is free. Info, 863-6326. p.m.

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VT-CURE MEETING: Concerned citi­ FATHERS & CHILDREN TO GETH ­ zens interested in reducing crime through ER’: Spend quality time with your kids the criminal justice reform meet at the and other dads at the Wheeler School, Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 5 Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, p.m. Free. Info, 482-2438.

OPEN REHEARSAL: The Amateur 860-4420.

EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS: Stressed Musicians Orchestra welcomes new play­ STORY HOUR: Kids between three and out? People with depression, anxiety and ers, especially ones with brass instrufive engage in artful educational activi-

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CONTACT IMPROV: See November 20.

kids STORIES: Kids listen while they cat snacks and make crafts at the Children’s Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.

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Skm One time on Thanksgiving, my dad comes into the kitchen.

And he sees that the heart and

Knot, found the old lost town

the liver and stuff are sitting

in the worst and unlikeliest of

right there in the center of the

spots, between mountains and

right-hand red bowl, the one

near no good source of running

for food. You could see him

water. He found the rows of

think about it.

cellar holes, filled up with pines

My mom is cooking, stirring

He picks it out of the bowl

and bunches of white birch. He

squash, cranberries, whatever.

and puts it on a toothpick and

breathed hot air onto his hands

My dad gives a sniff around,

salts it and doesn’t wipe it off at

and knew what he’d found.

then notices that the little silver

all, and nobody says anything.

“I’m not stupid,” he said right

saucepot that was on top of the

He eats it in front of the pic­

into the already-going-dark sky.

stove for the last hour isn’t there

ture window like always, look­

His teeth felt stale from coffee

anymore. That’s the pan that

ing out on everything, but you

hours earlier.

has the giblets in it, the little

can tell it doesn’t taste the

liver and other little organs,

same. when I first found myself

the Air Force, had run off on

a weird guy’s watch.

thinking, sure, heredity, but

the Tuesday before, chasing a

what about free will? I resolved

strong silent whitetail deer she

that Thanksgiving never to eat

would never catch. Knot found

the giblets, ever, but to practice

her tracks in the first sticking snow.

“Where’s the giblets?” he asks her.

My mom gives the spoon a couple of turns. “I gave them to

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The skin is a huge mis­

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look at my dad, which is kind

shapen, mahogany-colored

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more flavorful. You

open and cleared with the new

eat it and you feel

snowblower, and then he runs

like a mass-murderer.

the heart between his teeth.

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But this year my mom is

potato chip, one

for it, let me tell you,

and she gives him a really bland

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f all the trappings and ritu­ als of culinary sophistica­ tion — four forks or sixcourse meals, for example — wine surely takes the gateau. Its intricate and chancy alchemy, its categorical complexities, labyrinth of vintages and vari­ etals, arcane argot and, not least, prices that can seem unhitched from any semblance of reason, put it in a class all its own.

W hat other food or drink, after all, reaches the heights of description and adulation of a rich, complex Bordeaux or suc­ culent St. Emilion? It’s no sur­ prise that the ins and outs of wine-making have a fancy Greek name all their own: oenology. Nor that wine aficionado-ism runs the biggest gamut of the prandial pursuits, from casual interest to pedantic snobbery and trendiness.

Indeed, a kind of ostentatious fanati­ cism fills the pages of Wine Spectator magazine, where collectors preen in their million-dollar wine cellars.

Deciphering this rarefied realm is not easy, which is why a veritable wine-tasting circuit exists for those who, by profession or for business interests, must become cognoscenti of the almighty grape. Earlier this month, I finagled an invite to Stowe’s swanky Topnotch Resort to experi­ ence a wine-tasting firsthand, eager to meet an impetuous Beaujolais, a stun­ ningly seductive Pinot Noir or a ripe, luscious Chardonnay.

The occasion was Calmont Beverage’s 15th annual “fashion show of new brands we’re intro­ ducing to Vermont,” in the • words of wine consultant and sales manager John Fagan. A natty dresser with a bright sense of humor, Fagan and his min­ ions welcomed 120 restaura­ teurs, beverage-store owners, buyers, innkeepers and wine stewards to the afternoon-long tasting. A sumptuous $45 feast followed.

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I’m an entry-level oenologist who knows Cabernet from Merlot, but have neither the time nor income to be other than happy with a $6-10 bottle.

So I expected the wine-tasting would be an education for my palate and tonic for my intel­ lect. OK, maybe I also figured this had to be the greatest scam going: a whole afternoon of drinking wine, some of which costs more than what I usually fork over for my telephone bill.

The opening reception began with samplings of four champagnes, including a $100 Perrier Jouet ’89, plus a table filled with “house” wines for by-the-glass sales. For the actual tasting, we sat at long tables in a huge conference room like students before a lectern, except that each setting had three wine

the crash of glasses echoed through the room.

“It’s too early for that,” quipped Fagan from the head table, where a host of winemak­ ers, vineyard reps and distribu­ tors sat to promote their brands and offer insights — and to engage in impassioned and highly opinionated discussion.

Before long, they’re taking amusingly catty, oenophilic potshots at each other: French versus California, wines made of varietals (one grape) versus blends, small vineyards versus conglomerates, small distribu­ tors versus big ones. It began to sound like Viniculture Debating 101.

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The last two figured promi­ nently in the peculiar ritual we were about to begin: See, swirl, sip and spit.

Wine-tasting is not about drinking, and the reason is quickly apparent: We sampled 36 wines, arrayed in “flights” of three apiece. Sip every one and there would be flying indeed.

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defender of French wines against the two American Sauvignon Blanc whites in the same flight.

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Wending my way through 36 wines turned out to be much more work than plea­ sure. I consumed copious amounts of bread, swirling, sniffing, trying not to swallow, and studiously trying to dis­ cern differences. It didn’t help that the lingo of wine compris­ es arcane terms about as com­ prehensible as Esperanto.

Extended maceration.

Inoculation. Decanting. Front­ line. Disgorging. Or perhaps it was that, despite my best efforts, by the time we got to the reds I’d already acquired a slight buzz, a sniffer’s “fume blank” from breathing in all those wine scents. OK, I’ll ’fess up: I’d been sipping a bit, too.

Fortunately, sitting next to me was Richard Fink, a friend and the clear-headed wine savant at Topnotch, who falls into the helpful professional enthusiast category of oenophiles. He translated the wine lingo and leavened my first reactions to whiffs of a wine’s “nose” and its taste.

Maceration, he explained, is the steeping of the grape skins and pulp; inoculation means injecting a specific strain of yeast to create more consisten­ cy in fermentation. And so on.

Recoiling at the,surprisingly odd, musty, smoky nose of a $60 bottle of Bordeaux, he explained that it’s a Bordeaux

characteristic from the oak and ; Pinot Noir, “This is a very pre­ cocious, very juicy, very up­ diminishes as the wine - front and in-your-face” wine. breathes. Sure enough, eventu­ Kane called a ’92 Morey St. ally that scent receded, and Denis Pinot Noir “lovely and hints of vanilla and berry seductive.” Wines may have a emerged. Fink agreed that a flavor of, dubiously, “smoky Merlot I liked is a “crowd bacon fat,” taste “grassy,” pleaser,” but suggested another exhibit vanilla, hazelnut, apple in the same flight would “wear blossom and papaya flavors or better” as the evening went on.

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ANCESTRAL HABITAT: WORKS ON PAPER AND CANVAS AND ASSEMBLAGES, an exhibit drawing on theme of “Dead Souls,” by Carolyn Shattuck and Barbara Smail. Flynn Gallery, Burlington, 863-8778. On view to the public November 21, 6-7:30 p.m. before Carbone 14 perfor­ mance, and during a post-performance reception the same evening. Call to view at other times through December.

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respected poll recently found that only 27 percent of New Hampshire’s adults do not believe in angels, and that a full 46 percent read their horoscopes.

Sociologist James Tucker was shocked: “You usually think of New Hampshire as conservative, traditional and pretty conventional. This is really something you’d expect to find in California.” I’m going to take this as a sign that it’s time for me to come out of the closet as an angel-hugging, UFO-fondling, reincarnation-cherishing, out-of-bodytraveling, telepathy connoisseur. I’m counting on the possibility that you won’t judge me too harshly — especially because this is an opportune astrological moment for you to pursue your own woo-woo tendencies.

freaky angel for vigorous exchange of juicy secrets.”

2) Leave a sophisticated, Jungian-style message on his or her answering machine; something like, “My anima wants to eat crackers in bed with your animus.” 3) Go up and whisper in his or her ear, “You have what I need, so share it already!”

C A N C E R (June 21 -July 22): Like everyone in the world, your body has some special weakness. Since you’re a Cancer, chances are that the problem originates in your stomach or lungs.

Like everyone in the world, your skill at coping with your special weakness is undermined by a mix of hopelessness and uninformed theories. Since you’re a Cancer, you’re now in prime time to change all that. To start getting inspired for reinventing your approach to healing, try reading Andrew Weil’s Spontaneous Healing, James S. Gordons Manifesto for a New Medicine, or Michael Murphy’s The

T A U R U S (Apr. 20-May 20): For

ecades the Chinese government prohibited Western scientific teams from searching for dinosaur remains in the Gobi desert. Not until 1990 did it lift restrictions. The first expedition recovered a rich plunder of fossils, including many previously unknown species, which rivaled die greatest dinosaur discoveries of the last halfcentury, This story reminds me of an imminent development in your own l£fk|A tOTitory dW* long off^ been , * limits to you his.tiow reopened for MploratiOn. As soon as you get brave enough to investigate, you’re likely to some stunning relics that will s fhe contours of your memories y ^ r entire self-image.

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helpful for you to read Anne Klein’s book> Meeting the Great Bliss Queen.

The tide’s a bit misleading, though. It’s not so much a celebration o f feminine forms of hedonism and ecstasy as it is a rreatise on making traditional Buddhist practices accessible to Westerners. And besides, your fete will be far more vivid if you do more than merely read about meeting a great bliss queen. 1 suggest, instead, that you do whatever it takes to be invited into her once

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V I R G O (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Once or twice a year, there comes a grace period when it’s actually pretty painless to express hard-to-admit feelings. This is one of those times, especially if you schedule the Spillathon to take place in your home.

I advise you to begin working behind the scenes right now to make your nest a sanctuary where unspoken wishes and mysterious trends can safely and constructively erupt into view. You might want to launch the festivities with a pillow fight or food fight in which everyone has permission to shout out teasing complaints. And be sure to give everyone the chance to melodramatically sing a song wherein they reveal their most intriguing

L I B R A (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I

apologize in advance for being so bossy, but I simply must insist that you start living up to the next level of your true potential. And please don’t give me any of that “But Dr. Brezsny, I don’t even know what my true potential is." When you talk like that ,you remind me ,of1my 1 friend Marta, who spends so much energy worrying about whether or not she’s a genius that she rarely gets around to doing the work that would prove she is a genius, S C O R P I O (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’d strongly advise you not to indulge in a good old-fashioned self-loathing session this week, or to punish yourself

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deposit diamonds. This’ll also be an absolutely fabulous time to achieve putty-like consistency in the presence of a master sculptor.

S A G I T T A R I U S (Nov. 22 -Dec. 21): Astronomers have made a wacky discovery that seems symbolically related to your recent fate. In a stellar cloud located in the constellation of Sagittarius, they detected a vast reservoir of vinegar. The reason I find this so eerily apropos is that your moods have reminded me of vinegar lately, as has the predominant expression on your face. On the other hand, as the astronomers noted, vinegar was probably one of the building blocks of primordial life on Earth. Maybe it’ll serve as a metaphor of genesis for you in the next few weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I heard a story on the radio recently which reminded me of a predicament you’ll soon face. The speaker was a man named Ed Dames. He recounted how he’d been walking on a beach when he spied a motionless pelican.

Assuming it was sick, he decided he’d try to help. To his horror, he found it was covered with ants. He brushed them off as best he could and drove the bird to a veterinarian. The doc informed him that the pelican was suffering from a rare fungus which, if Dames hadn’t interfered, would probably have been eaten away by the ants. In other words, Dames had prevented the pelican from attending to its own healing. Keep this tale in the back of your mind during the

The slogan I like to use to promote my column goes like this: “I live in the future so you don’t have to.” Only problem is, that won’t apply to you in the coming week. You’re going to be visiting the future at least as much as I am. Here’s my question. Will this merely become an excuse for you to escape and ignore today’s most pressing dilemmas? Or will you take advantage of your time-traveling to nab visionary revelations that’ll be useful in resolving those dilemmas when you return to the present?

P I S C E S (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): The dictionary includes these definitions of “window”: “1) in space research, a period of time within which a spacecraft must be launched to accomplish a particular mission; 2) the area at the limit of the Earth’s atmosphere through which a spacecraft must pass for successful re-entry.”

Both those meanings remind me of the advice you need, Pisces. You’ll soon be zooming back from your adventures in the wild blue yonder, you see. And you’ll be more likely to find practical translations for all the heady lessons you’ve learned out there if you can manage to come back down to Earth through the right window. □

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I can’t remember the last time I saw a film that had generated the calibre o f buzz Swingers has and yet so little resembled the movie I’d been lead to .2 expect. Virtually every review and article I’d read seized on the way this group of voung male friends in the movie had cultivated their own lingo and liked to affect a retro, mock-Rat Pack cool. Much of ;jpie ipm evidently involved Las Vegas. What a swell idea for a motion picture, I thought.

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Star Trek spin-offs are starting to make me feel old. It’s been 30 years since the Enterprise flew its first mission. A TV series and eight movies later, there’s not a Vulcan or a bad toupee in sight. The latest adventure pits the cast o f The Next Generation (never watched it) against the Federation’s robotic nemesis, the Borg, and is designed to boost the faltering ratings of television’s “Deep Space Nine” (never saw that one, either) and “Voyager” (yeah, right). With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes — who also directs — Brent Spiner and Levar Burton.

BEAUTIFUL THINGA story of teen love set against the backdrop o f a repressive British boarding school. Hey, is there any other kind?

SET IT OFF From director E Gary Gray comes this moving drama about a closely knit group of women who share their hopes and dreams, their trials and tribulations. And then rob banks. With Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah.

JINGLE ALL THE WAY In his movies Arnold Schwarzenegger has hunted alien monsters, morfing cyborgs and just busloads o f bad guys. His holiday comedy finds him on the trail o f a sold-out toy that he’s waited until Christmas to buy his son. Brian ( The Flintstones) Levant directs. ' -• $ '' , '' ' • " vf y'"/' V 'Vf/f?•>,/t/

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RANSOM*** Mel Gibson is the star of Ron Howard’s first thriller, an industrial-strength nailbiter about an airline magnate who takes matters into his own hands when his son is kidnapped. With Rene Russo, Delroy Lindo and Lili Taylor.

THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES ( NR) For someone who claims to have had lifelong insecurities about her looks, Barbra Streisand sure makes a lot o f movies designed to draw attention to them. This time around she directs a remake of a 1959 French romance about a beauty-impaired professor who dreams o f a more glamorous life. With Jeff Bridges, Mimi Rogers and Lauren Bacall, SPACE JAM (NR) One o f the kookiest — and at $100 million one o f the cosdiest — movies ever ------- A

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CINEMA NINE Shelburne Road, S. Burlington, 864-5610 Star Trelc First Contact* 11:45, 2:10, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50. Jingle All The Way* 11:55, 2:15, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35. Space Jam 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7:15, 9:30. The Mirror Has Two Faces 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40.

Ransom 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 6:45, 7:15, 9:35, 9:55. Romeo and Juliet 12:45, 3:45, 7, 9:45. First Wives Club 12:40, 3:35, 6:35, 9:50. Sleepers 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30.

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NICKELODEON Cl NEMAS College Street, Burlington, 863-9515.

Star Trelc First Contact* 11:50, 2:20, 5, 7:30, 9:55. Beautiful Thing* 12:50, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10. Swingers 12:15, 3, 7:10.

Mirror Has Two Faces 12:30, 3:15, 6:50, 9:30. Secrets and Lies 12:40, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40. Romeo and Juliet 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10. Big Night 9:35.

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ETHAN ALLEN CINEMAS 4 North Avenue, Burlington, 863-6040.

Larger Than Life 12:30, 3:10. Tin Cup 6:30, 9:25. The Ghost and the Darkness 7, 9:40, Dear God 12:15, 3. Jade 12, 2:45, 6:40, 9:35.

Man With a Plan 12:35, 7:10. Independence Day 2:30, 9:15. Evening times Mon-Fri, all times Sat-Sun.

SHOWCASE CINEMAS 5 Williston Road, S. Burlington, 863-4494.

Jingle All The Way* 1:15, 4, 7:10, 9:35. Set It Off* 1, 3:50, 7, 9:30. Michael Collins 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15. Space Jam 12:15, 2:15, 4:15, 6:50, 8:40. Ransom 12:50, 3:40, 6:45, 9:25. Evening shows Mon-Fri. Ail shows Sat. & Sun. unless otherwise indicated.

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Secrets and Lies Fri.-Sat.: 6:30, 9:10. Sun.Wed.: 7. Sat.-Sun. 2. * S ta r ts F riday. M o v ie tim e s s u b je c t to change. P lease c a ll th e th e a te r to con firm .

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Classifieds real estate G O V T FORECLOSED HOMES FOR pennies on $1. Delinquent tax, repo's, REO’s. Your area. Tollfree, 1-800-898-9778, ext. H-6908 for current listings.

studio space FLYNN AVE., 390 SQ. FT. OLD FACTORY LOFT. Business/art/ craft. High ceilings, large windows, finished wood floor, brick walls. $250, includes heat. 862-1060.

apartment for rent BURLINGTON: Modern, 2 bdrm. apartment available Dec. 1. ><$575/mo. + utils. Cat allowed.

Includes laundry, off street parking.

Call Deb or Tony, 658-9281.

BURL./BATTERY PARK: 1 bdrm. w/ great views o f lake & moun­ tains. Restored building; cool, emaculatc interior. $525/m o., includes all. Pets O.K. Call Jan or Alex, 863-4275 (e); 660-2772 (d).

H U NTING TO N: Prof. NS to rent cozy, private, furnished studio apt.

Galley kitchen, deck w/ views, X-C skiing out the door. Now - May 1. $375 + utils. Call Tim, 434-6328.

JEHRICO: Gay couple has large, sunny, 2 bdrm. apartment. Share deck and yard w/ owners. $675/m o. plus utils., deposit. Ready Jan. 1.

“Snowplow and trash inch Call 2349344 M-Th, 899-4920 F-Su.

housemates YOUNG FEMALE & CAT LOOKING for roomate(s) to begin an apartment search with for 12/1 or ASAP. Please call Jen, 425-2804.

COUPLES COM M UNITY EXPERIMENT seeks one couple to join a 6-month to 1-year experi­ mental cooperative household, emphasizing couples communica­ tion and personal and spiritual growth. Vegetarian meals coopera­ tively prepared. Located in rural VT, 35 min. to Burlington, with beautiful mountain views and thou­ sands o f acres o f wild lands to explore. Call 434-3669.

BURLINGTON: 2 friendly, soulful women seeking 3rd housemate (M or F) for cozy home near down­ town, Looking for responsible, laid back NS. Piano, woodstove, W /D. $333/mo. + utils. No pets (already have cute, black lab). Please call Lynn or Karen, 863-9828.

BURL., SO. END: NS prof, to join our active, eclectic household.

Great neighborhood, hrdwd. firs., /ard, W /D , parking, dog. No cats! $325/mo. Call Meg, 865-9698.

BURLINGTON: 2 F looking for Ptlaxed, responsible housemate to share No. End apt. Drug + smokefree, queer positive, quiet home on friendly street w/ garden & parking.

Available Dec. 1. Call 864-9460.

BURL., SO. END: 1 F and 1 M (NS, 32 + 37, socially conscious. seek a N /S F to share nice, large house in quiet, pretty neighbor­ hood. W /D , both woodstove & gas heat. Near lake, Oakledge, bike path. No cats. $250 + 1/4 utils.

864-7480.

BURLINGTON: Quiet, consider­ ate, professional NS to share house on lake until June 1. Private bath and entrance, share kitchen. $375 + 1/2 utils. Peggy 865-2317.

BURLINGTON: Roommate want­ ed Dec. 1st. 2 bdrm. apartment on School St. $275, includes heat.

Background in photography pre­ ferred. Matthew, 863-8313.

RICHM OND: Grad./prof, to share large 2 bdrm. apartment. Parking, heat, hot water inch $340/m o., ref. & deposit required. Leave message, 434-6013.

RICHM OND: 1 room available in 2 bdrm. apartment with female.

Month to month lease. $180 + 1/2 utils. No smoking, no pets. Be neat.

Call Liz, 434-4286.

SHELBURNE/SO. BURL.: Seeking roommate for 2 bdrm. townhouse at Locust Hill.

Fireplace, great views o f lake, extremely quiet. $400 for big room or $300 for very small room. Call 985-9285.

UNDERHILL: 1 - 2 rooms avail­ able in country home on private road with W /D , wood heat, wood­ ed lot and close to Smugg’s. Two women seek F housemate. $325 + 1/3 utils. Call 899-4397.

W1LLISTON: Non-custodial, sin­ gle dad seeks prof. F to share nice 3 bdrm. condo. W /D , no pets, refer­ ences. $375 + utils. Bob, 872-0622.

buy this stuff MOVING SALE!! Flat-bottom boat, furniture, art & supplies, fine china, misc. household stuff.

Nov. 23 & 24, noon - 5pm, 125 Holmes Rd., So. Burlington.

863-6435. * * 1 1 A S T A 1 R P * Revealing booklet tells secrets o f getting start­ ed in TV/Theatre/Movies. Send $9.95 to UICo, Dept. SI 101, Box 5112, Wayland, MA 01778 REMEMBER IN F IN IT Y IM P O R T S Well, now you can get the same stuff, only cheaper. Sweet rings & other sterling silver jewelery, funky masks, wood carvings, hand-made batik wall hangings & more! Please call David, 658-4397.

BREW YOUR OW N BEER! Homemade wine and soft drinks, too. With equipment, recipes, and friendly advice from Vermont Homebrew Supply. Now at our new location next to the Beverage Warehouse, E. Allen Street, Winooski. 655-2070.

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DECORATIVE PAINTING. Childrens custom creations painted on walls o f child’s bdrm., nursery or playroom. Characters and colorful designs: Mickey, Pooh, dinosaurs, anything! Cheap. Call 654-5509

SALES HELP WANTED. Ground floor opportunity with exciting new telecommunications firm. Positions opening for: F/T and P/T; inside and outside. Call 860-0718 to apply for interview.

VERMONT I.D.s: Don’t be turned away again. Choose one of three Vermont I.D.s. Cheaply, quickly. Send $5 to K Corp., PO Box 1891, Burlington, VT 05402.

SCREEN PRINTER, experienced preferred, 802-862-3048. Ask for Craig Duckworth.

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food & catering

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W O M EN’S FESTIVAL OF CRAFTS looking for a whole foods person to cater food booth Nov. 30th &c Dec. 1st. 658-6676.

for 2 5 w ord s per w eek .

$ 1 8 . 5 0 per month.

tutoring

$ 3 0 for 2 months.

TUTORING. Experienced, certi­ fied teacher. Jr. High - College.

Math, science, language arts. $ 15/hr. Call Carl at 860-8482.

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house cleaning PARENTS COMING TO VISIT? Don’t panic! Call Diane H., HOUSE­ KEEPER TO THE STARS. 658-7458.

house-sitting HOUSE-SITTING & PET-SITTING . Short or long term.

Experienced, reliable, references available. Call Carl, 860-8482.

automotive SAAB 900S 1986: 4dr., 5 sp., sun­ roof, PW, new Nokia NRWs, high mileage, but good condition. $1950. Call 253-9391, evenings.

1975 PEUGEOT 504. Sunroof, stick-shift, fuel injection, 4 tires.

Runs well. Body good. Just out of storage. Asking $800. Call Phil, 442-9104.

SEIZED CARS FROM $175.

Porsches, Cadillacs, Chevys, BMW’s, Corvettes. Also Jeeps, 4W D ’s. Your area. Toll-free, 1-800898-9778 ext. A-6908 for current listings.

M A N ’S B E S T FRIEN D - fantastic collection of contemporary folk songs about dogs. “Stellar perfor­ mances,” says Seven Days. Great gift. Tape: $12.95, CD: $17.95 (inch tax & ship). (802) 253-2011 or 800-893-4978.

CAT SITTING: experienced vet­ erinary technician. Daily visits to your home (Burlington, So. Burl­ ington, Shelburne) $7 a day. Call Lynne Matthews @ 863-8403.

BUSY CHIROPRACTOR in Shelburne seeks friendly, health conscious receptionist/assistant for part-time position w/ potential for full-time. Computer skills neces­ sary, familiarity w/ chiropractic care a +. Please send resume and cover letter to: Dr. John F. Guerriere, 1971 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT 05482.

PART-TIME PERMANENT CUSTOMER SERVICE REP. & full-time temporary gift wrap peo­ ple needed. Apply in person to Customer Service, Burlington Square Mall.

ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITAL­ ISM. Progressive marketing compa­ ny is searching for special breed of environmental capitalist: motivated people who are eager to make positive change. 862-8081. $ 1,000’S POSSIBLE READING BOOKS. Part-time. At home. Tollfree 1-800-898-9778 Ext. R-6908.

INNOVATIVE BUSINESS com­ bines advertising, sales and technol­ ogy. Great earning potential.

Locally owned. Selling for $3000.

For details call 654-6861.

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MILTON to SO. BURLINGTON. KbnbaH Ave. My gas guz.

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Jfcl TON. I need a i jbretch mV Will pay, (2138)

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864.CCTA tion o f wild, organic products.

Must be enthusiastic and outgoing.

Call 800-576-5294, ad# 133935.

DRUM FOR FUN? Garage band trio (guitars, sax, keys, and/or bass) seeks friendly, talented drummer.

Covers plus originals, rock ’n roll, R&B. Call Michael, 860-2262 days, 864-028Q evenings.

LOTS OF G O O D STUFF YOU SHOULD BUY: Re-issue Stratocaster, $350; 1966 Fender Bassman Head, $2 5 0 : Seymour Duncan Convertible Tube Amp, $300; Boss RV3 Reverb/Delay, $100; Boss Overdrive Distortion, $50; Yamaha FX500 Multi-effect 1/2 rack (chorus, delay, EQ, comp, dist., more), $100; Tech 21 XXL Distortion Pedal, $45; Rat Distortion Pedal, $45. Call 8649062 or 658-5665. O.B.O.

COMPLETE CD A N D CAS­ SETTE DESIGN. From concept to FINAL FILM. Creative design, illustration and digital imaging at CO M P ETITIV E RATES. JIM BURNS, (802) 388-7619.

BASS PLAYER NEEDED. Signed, hard-rock band seeks professional for touring. Rehearsals a.s.a.p. Call 518-532-9114.

MUST MOVE!!! Peavey XM-4 PA. Head - mint condition, used only twice. Bought new for $350, yours w/ speaker for $275. Burton Air 6.1 snowboard, $200, o.b.o.

Yamaha KX-88 weighted controller keyboard. Incredible action! Great for studio and live. Indestructible!!

Blue book value is $650, yours w/ case for $300 o.b.o. Call 865-3417.

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COLCHESTER to BURLING­ TON. Do you have an empty Jjleat in your could fill? I looking for a ride M-F to my office on Kimball Ave. My work ' hours are 9-5. WEtimg tobfetp with gas money. (2192)

HAIRSTYLIST WANTED for well established salon in Stowe.

Experience required. Flexible days & hours. Call 253-8108.

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BURLINGTON to SO. BURL. I know it seems a short distance, but with my work hours of I lp.m.-7a.m. I need a ride to ' . -,fV mm

BIG HEAVY WORLD seeks interns with an interest in Burlington’s music scene. WWW experience a plus. Jim, 373-1824 (Burlington).

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nation 8:30-f)a.ra.'and picked up | « 3 : 3 0 p .« n .W ili^ » t 1 n H' gas costs. Can be dropped off at BC/BS office if more convenient.

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SAX PLAYER WANTED for established 5 piece, Motown/blues band. Call 863-6989 (days), 8636809 (eves.).

TH E KENNEL REHEARSAL SPACE. AVAILABLE NOW. 3017 Williston Rd., So. Burlington.

Living room-like atmosphere.

Renting blocks o f time per month.

Reserve your space now! Call Lee at 660-2880.

BURLINGTON DOES BURLINGTON double CD avail­ able at Pure Pop, Vibes, Silvermine North and Peace & Justice Center in Burlington, Tones in Johnson, Buch Spieler in Montpelier, Alley Beat, Sound Source and Vermont Bookshop in Middlebury, Gagnon Music in Hardwick, www.bigheavyworld.com or send $22 ppd to PO Box 5373, Burlington, VT 05402.

GET ORGANIZED A N D GET REAL. Without a kick-butt Press Packet, your Band might as well SUCK. The K House does it for you; w ell and C H E A P . Call 6588645. con tin u ed on p a g e 3 7

SEVENDAYS CLASSIFIE DS, IT MUST BE WORTHLESS. CALL 8 6 4 -5 6 8 4 SEVEN DAYS

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music instruction

ALL WINTER!

carpenfry/painting

KEYBOARD LESSONS: R+B - Funk Country - Pop. Studio Musician/Seasoned Pro. A ffo r d a b le . Brian Bull, 865-3930.

Acoustic Guitar Lessons also available.

IR ONW OO D CONSTRUCTION. Conscientious repair and renovations for your home. 658-0305.

PIANO LESSONS: Contemporary piano.

Children and adults welcome, all levels. 10 years teaching experience. Studio located in downtown Burl. Julie Sohn, 865-9869.

GUITAR INSTRUCTION: All styles, any level. Emphasis on developing strong tech­ nique, thorough musicianship and personal style. Paul Asbell (Unknown Blues Band, Kilimanjaro, Sklar-Grippo, Gordon Stone, etc.). 862-7696.

BURLINGTON: Weekly womens art/painting group in waterfront studio. All levels welcome. Purpose: ideas, feedback, support, fun. 862-3269.

SPORTS FANS FIND O U T NOW. Up-todate-scores/spreads &c much MORE!! LAS VEGAS 5 STAR PICK (3 PER DAY). 1900-255-2600 x7891; $2.99/m in. Must be 18 yrs. Serv-U (619) 645-8434.

internet GET 3 M O N T H S FREE ADVERTISING in TOP-AWARD W IN N IN G Internet Shopping Mall. You don’t even need a com­ puter to advertise. Call Webworks at 802-658-4991. Be sure to mention this ad.

snow removal

PRIMARY PAINTERS. Top quality interi­ or painting at a reasonable price, References available. Call Chris at 658-8724.

REPAIRS, RENOVATIONS, PAINTING, consultations, decks, windows, doors, sid­ ing, residential, commercial, insured, refer­ ences. Chris Hanna, 865-9813.

personal training GET IN SHAPE FOR THE HOLIDAYS! Feel good, look good, and have more ener­ gy for all those parties. Julie Trotticr, per­ sonal fitness trainer (ACE-Certified), 8782632. Leave name + address for free brochure.

CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following items are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amend­ ments to the City o f Burlington’s Code o f Ordinances, Appendix C, Traffic Regulations.

Tues/Thurs Evenings Beginning - Advanced

Sec. 22. Closing o f Streets.

The following streets are hereby closed to vehicular traffic, except service and supply vehicles, for pedestrian convince:

massage

(2) Depot Street, from Lake Street to North Aye. Reg. o_Q:26-g,6

U N D E R STRESS? Take a health break with Tranquil Connections. Hot tub, shower & massage. Certified Therapist.

Sessions: intro $35, reg. $50, extended $65.

654-6860. Please leave a message.

Adopted this 3rd day of March. 1986 by the Board o f Public Works Commissioners.

THERAPUTIC MASSAGE: Swedish Esalen Body Work. Special intro rate. Sliding scale fee available. We make house calls!

Karen Ross & Lynn Waller, 863-9828.

N EW CLASSES! Box Aerobics Yoga

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announcements A FREE VACATION? A dream trip of your choice to the value of $10,000. Enter the free drawing now. Just call: 453-6171.

relationships

PROPERTY PROS. Total property mainte­ nance, SNOW REMOVAL, painting, landscap­ ing & light construction. Call the best: 863-0209.’

Ski Conditioning Class

SINGLE VERMONTERS: Dating/ Introduction service. The unique, afford­ able way to meet people. You choose whom you want to meet. It’s fun, confidential and it works. 802-660-1946.

For Fall Specials!

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Consultations Herb Walks Workshops

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inability to feel relaxed nervousness in social situations worry obsessive thinking

A Collaboration of your personal thoughts and my God-given talents, creating an original work of art, that will last a lifetime.

• panic • fatigue ■ muscle tension • racing heart ■ low self-esteem

Anxiety is highly reduced through brief and effective treatment.

A ten week highly effective anxiety reduction group ts forming for winter and spring. Call Juliana O'Brien M.S.W., M.Div. for information on individual and group treatment.

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W O M 1 N M i K IN G M E N SERIO US RELATIONSHIP. NSAF, 30, attractive, educated, well-cultured, seeks M , 30-40, for love, marriage and more.

Sincere and serious only. Race unimpor­ tant. 64128 LO OK, T H IS IS T H E STORY: I AM A 26 YO funky professional woman. I like to telemark, drink coffee, play cribbage, cook exotic food, write, travel, listen to inspired music and laugh at life’s little ironies. You are: 26-36, SPM , a skier/ “hikey-bikey” sort, evolved, stable, sub­ stance-free, funny and difficult to locate.

Are you out there? N o meshugenahs, please. 64122 LOVELY, PLAYFUL, IN TEL LIG E N T SWPF, 28, new to VT, seeks sensitive (!!)

W PM , 30-45, to ski, rollerblade, ride horses, hike, converse, have snowball fights & make romance with. Must be financially secure w / sense o f humor!

Com e play w / me... I dare you! 64121 H O O K E D O N S N O W B O A R D IN G .

Educated, beautiful, self-employed SWF, 28, ISO tall, handsome SPM for winter companionship. Brains, passion both pluses. N o hippies please. 6 4 1 2 6 LIFE IS G O O D ! B U T IT C O U L D BE even better. Blue-eyed SW PNSF, 27, seeks good-looking SW PN SM , 25-32, with a positive attitude, a knack for con­ versation, a penchant for fun, and a ready smile. Likes: creative, cerebral and plain old silly stuff. 6 4 110 SELF-SUFFICIENT LO NER IN A friendly, gregarious way. N o leaders, no followers. N o chips on shoulder. Love to live, love, learn. Imperfect, but improv­ ing. Let’s write, talk first. Fall into like, friendship, then... who knows? Life is full o f surprises! Tell me your hopes, plans, dreams. Tell me about YOU! 6 4112 REC HERCH E VOYAGEUR TEM ERAIRE, at least 30, interested in world music and dancing, looking with­ in, opening up and com municating. I am 38, a world traveler and looking for a spiritual connection. I live and believe in an alternative lifestyle and openness o f mind. Ecris-moi. 641 0 2 ATTRACTIVE, FIT, F U N , FORTYISH , secure man sought for an equal relationship. Ready for a roll down the bike path or a night at the Flynn? Com e with me. DWF, 40, one child. 64105 SW F SEEKING SW M (25-33) FOR companionship; likes to dance and party, play pool, watch movies, etc. Have a ;ood sense o f humor. 64081 MART, FU N N Y , CYNICAL, C U T E and slender redhead, 24, seeks grown-up boy, 24-3 5 , who appreciates good wine and cold beer; Baryshnikov and baseball; the N ew York Times and Dilbert; haute cuisine and a mean ‘za; and who is tired o f the games his friends still play. 64084 W O R K IN G N IG H T SHIFT. Financially and em otionally secure DWF, 44, enjoys fishing, camping, hiking, bik­ ing, dancing, exercise; seeking N S, fit S /D W M , 38-48, with similar interests.

640 7 2 A N A D V E N T U R E IS G O IN G T O H A PPEN . SWPF, N S , 34, ENFP, Attrac­ tive, athletic, educated, curious, passion­ ate. Enjoys V T ’s wondrous outdoors, arts & music, travel, exploring, good food

and having fun. Seeking same; SW M , 30s, fun, kind & caring to enjoy all that V T and friendship have to offer. 64073 43 YO DW NSPF, W ARM, AFFECT IO N A T E , sincere, attractive, honest, athletic, positive, loves to laugh and be held, looking tg tor for companion. 64049 YO U ARE IN V IT E D T<[!): enjoy laughter, conversation and quiet times. SWF, 47, seeks a SW M , N S, N A who has the time to share and willingness to care for possible ible LTR. 64038 G ENTLE, CRAZY SWBiF, 5WE 19, S T U ­ D E N T , smoker and .party / ggirl )rl ISO e d ­ lege guy, 19-24, w / same likes (concerts & sex) and a unique devotion to desire.

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IT ’S BEEN SO LO NG I FOR GO T H O W T O DATE. H ow can you meet if you don’t try som ething new? Early 40s w / Brett Butleresque humor. 64020 G O O D T H IN G S C O M E IN SMALL PACKAGES. SWPF, 30, N S /N D , petite, physically fit/active, well educated, cre­ ative, enjoys outdoors, music, cultural events and the finer things in life...ISO SW PM , 30s, N S /N D , same interests, physically fit/active, well educated, trusting, caring. 64016 SWF, 35, N E W T O B U R L IN G T O N .

Attractive, intelligent, worldly? Kind w / that mid-thirties je ne sais quois. Let’s do coffee, talk books, laugh a little. 64012 SWF, 32, PRETTY, INTELLIG ENT healthy and fun seeking attractive male, 25-33.Passion, honesty and sense o f adventure needed. 64021 SW FN S, 30, FIT, ATTRACTIVE, funny, spice for life, sports, family & friends, wants honest, attractive, well rounded SW M , 25-35, 5 ’7 ” - ready to live, laugh and laugh. 64027

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Seeking tender lonely woman. Photo app. 64127 SW M , 3 2 , 6 ’, 270lbs., LONELY, looking for companionship and possibly more. Let’s talk. Reply, now. 64123 DEAR SANTA, DW M (33, SMOKER) asks one Christmas wish. Please bring me a petite woman, 24-40, who desires a close, very loving and intimate relation­ ship. 64131 D W I MALE, 32, ENJOYS WALKING in the moonlight, walking in the rain, walking, walking, walking. Desperately seeking SWF with vehicle. Late model preferred. 64129 NEE D S O M E O N E T O SPOIL! SW M , 40; heart o f a wizard; soul o f a poet; mind o f a philosopher. Sense o f humor required. 64108 I HAVE A HANK ER FOR YO U ~ G O TC H A ... It’s without reversal; it’s desire at its best — true blue romance for­ ever... Date... 6 ’3 ”, 200lbs. and fun loving — k. 64114 IS T H IS YOU? SWF, 26-40, ready to be pampered and respected in a long-term relationship. I am a professional N S /N D SW M, 40, 5’5”- World citizen and trav­ eler looking for the special woman to share the wonders o f life and make a family. N o games. 64101 ABNORM AL G UY LO O K ING FOR an abnormal woman. I’m 31, have a few degrees and teach crazy kids. Outside the asylum I hang out, read, workout and enjoy living. I’m looking for a similar woman. Remember: to be better than the norm, you have to deviate from it.

64109 RO M ANCE, PASSION A N D FUN awaits the right, good natured, attractive, intelligent SF, 25-40, with great sense o f humor. D W M , young 43, attractive, professional, seeks friendly dates and pos­ sible LTR. Call or write. 64117 EVERYTHING B U T T H E GIRL! SWM, 26, ISO SF, 20-36, for soul excursion o f romantic diversion. I enjoy SF, the mountains and music o f most varieties. You: sophisticated, intelligent, mature. D on’t miss your chance on this once-in-a-Iifetime opportunity!

YOU: M O DEL, STR IP-D A N C E R O R look-a-like, goddess? N o grey-heads. For: companionship, role playing. Me: edu­ cated, tall, “work-outer”, giver, non­ short, dark hair, like some kink & fetish.

64118 TALLISH, SLIM, BRAINY, CRE­ ATIVE, N S /N D SM, 30s, into body­ work, dancing, the outdoors, com m uni­ cation, growth... seeks lighthearted, gen­ tle spirited, healthy, playful F, 20s-30s for intimacy, fun, maybe more. 64107 SW PM , 37, H A N D S O M E , IN ­ SHAPE, down to earth. I like romance, skiing, travel, movies, cooking, writing an adventure ISO young at heart F for companionship. 64104 W H AT D O YO U LIKE? Outdoors, the cultural life, friends, deep connection with someone? Creative, educated, in­ shape, good-looking SWPM seeks similar SWF (25-35) for everything. 64103 WAR VET, 45, ST U C K IN LATE 1960s, needs compassionate, understand­ ing F to bring him into 90s. Single, strong, shy and muscular. Last date: 1972. Help, please. 64099 EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONSHIP sought by handsome NSSW M with integrity, humor, creativity, intelligence and charm loves skiing, music, movies, life! Seeking fit F, 33-43, with brains, beauty, smiles, spontaneity. 64100 SWJPM, 31, 5 ’8 ”, ATTRACTIVE, FIT, educated, successful, happy, into hiking, biking, jazz/blues, seeking relaxed, em o­ tionally secure, fit, N S SPF/student, 2332, with a sense o f humor. 64093 H A N D S O M E D A D D Y OF O N E seeks attractive PF, 23-30, to cherish. Must tolerate/enjoy pool and nights at home.

Perverse sense o f humor and competetiveness required. 64096 H IR SU T E LOVER: 50ISH , 5’10”, I751bs., attractive, fit, Mozart to soft rock, arts, theatre, jeans to dressing up ISO wonderful, wanton, willing, slim, attractive, sensual woman for life’s adventures. 64091 T H E LOVE Y O U G ET is equal to the love you give. D W M , 45, 145lbs., 5’8 ”.

Likes being w / som eone special and doing fun things. H ow about you?

64090 SEEKING U N IQ U E , EASY-GOING M ATCH (SWF) for SW PM , 23, who enjoys the outdoors, simple things in life, and is fit, intelligent, honest and sincere. 64082 FREE HEAT. D W PM , 37, romantic, caring, enjoys dining, adventure, travel,

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> PERSON .ports. Works 2nd shift. N o games - sick pf the bar scene. You: attractive, friends Irst/LTR. 64089 DW M , 45, 184Ibs. I’M A VERY SEN5ITFVE man who likes camping, fishing, dinning in or out. Looking for som eone :o share life’s pleasures. 64088 SWM, 29, N S , SEEKS SWF, N S , FOR i LTR. I like romantic evenings, art, photography, cuddling and sharing qualiy time. All interested F, 18-25, RSVP. 54083 \R E Y O U A N ATTRACTIVE 2 0-30 IfO F who would like to explore your iubmissive side with a tall, attractive, fit, athletic, well educated, 43 YO SWPM? 34077 WANTED: SIZZLING H O T Central VT woman w/ insatiable apetite. You: laughty girl, submissive, desiring a man :o play with for you own pleasure. Me: 29, W M , 5 ’9 ”, 170lbs., intelligent, pas:ionate, gentle and open-m inded. Write -ne and dominate. 64078 GENTLE, LO VING , SPIRITUAL, MUDIST, wharf rat, BiSW M, 41, sm ok­ er seeks adventurous, alike BiF w / van for companionship (age, race, looks jnimportant). 64079_____________ ______ SWM, 39, ISO SWF, 25-3 5 , who loves novies, sports, music, likes to just hang put and talk and have a good time.

Sounds good? Try me. 64075 SWPM, 44, N S , 6 ’, ACTIVE, FIT, ittractive, witty, not to mention humble, oves biking, skiing, travel, movies, music. Seeking sane woman, 30-45, for fun or more. 64062 W IN TER’S C O M IN G ! D o you feel a :hill? Let’s melt together beside a raging Ire after a passionate day o f skiing and make whipped cream for our cappucino.

SWM, 25, tall, fit, and handsome seeks pappy, healthy, wholesome F, 22+, for winter excursions. 64067 SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP. N SA SM , 30, handsome, honest, single, 5’10”, 155lbs., perfect in cooking. Searching for 22-40 YO for real life, well cultured LTR. 64051 O NE W IL D ASPARAGUS. SW M , 20, MS, attractive Burlingtonian. Interests: diking, photography, reading, nature, :ooking, movies. Seeking: creative, hon­ est, healthy, attractive, Fun F, 19-29.

54048 MID 40s, FLOWER BEARING, easy *oing, pleasant to be w /, attractive, nshape guy ISO an attractive partner w / t sense o f humor who enjoys travel, long walks, the outdoors and laughter. Please find me, I can’t find you. 64061 WANTED: LATINO O R H ISPANIC ady. W PM looking for som eone to wine ind dine. Give it a try. Let’s have some fun. 64050 MO M O RE H EAD GAM ES. SPM, 33, 5’, I60lbs, interested in meeting som e­ one ready for relationship. Must be fun ind independent and like kids. Call me!

Won’t regret it. 64053 REVEL IN VER M O NT. Play hard and ong in all seasons, outdoors and in. Tall, >lim, attractive lawyer seeks LTR with :ongruent NSWPF, about 40, possessing ntelligence, warmth, passion energy, cul:ure. Kayak, hike, bike, ski and travel by lay. Attend theatre, dances and movies i>y evening. Talk and read unceasingly.

540 54 \ G O O D CATCH! SW M , 33 , FIT professional, N S, enjoys golf, theatre, lining out, running, sports, good con/ersation and much more ISO physically fit, S/DW F, N S , 27-36, for fun and pos>ibly more. 64058 SWM, 18, LO O K ING FOR SW F to go put and party with, but not looking for elationship. Let’s have som e real fun!

54060 SEEKING T E N D E R , LONELY W O M AN who loves music. I’m a musi:ian, mid 40s, 5 ’5 1 /2”, decent looking, ^oung at heart. H oping for a compatible partner. 64055 LONELY R O M A N T IC . D W M , 44, p’10”, N D seeks slim /m edium D/SW F, 38-46, to share quiet times, humor, lancing, music, dining, theater, outloors, your interests and more. Let’s talk.

54045 LAME? PERHAPS N O T ! I need not question the SWF ISO a 23 YO SW M who is athletic, comely and intelligent.

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PERSON A D V E N T U R O U S , Y O U N G SW M , 4 6 , NS seeks F w ho enjoys hiking, concerts, biking, theater, canoeing or evening din­ ing out. 6 4 029 GEN. G EO RG E A R M ST R O N G CUSTER seeks out Elizabeth (SWF, 25+) for a ride into history. This leg­ endary stand won’t be a last. 64041 TELL M E A B O U T YOURSELF. Photo welcome. Reply guaranteed. 40 YO SM: smart, good looking and fun. Responses from wom en aged 18-40 - o f any race welcome. 640 3 9 DW M , 55 , N S /N D W 7 N O U N A C CEPTABLE H A BITS, brown hair and eyes, medium build, 5 ’5 ”, looking for companionship in the hopes o f finding an unattached lady w ho would enjoy evening rides and spending som e free time together. Please respond ladies, even if you would just like a friend. 64014 VERY SIMPLE! SBM , 42 , N A /N D , is looking for som eone who is serious about life, love and relationships. 640 1 3 SM, 41 . O U T O F DREAM S. Reduced to wishes and schemes. 64024 FUN + R O M A N C E . INTERESTS: friends, walks, sports and movies. SW M , 33, seeks SF, 20-30, to share special times with. 64011 28, SW PM , JU ST M O V E D HERE. Active, fun, attractive, 6 ’, 200 lbs., likes rollerblading, skiing, golf, good restau­ rants & conversation. Wants similar SF for friends, dating, possible relationship.

64026 IT’S BEEN SIX YEARS SIN C E MY DIVORCE. I’m ready for a relationship if you are. SW M , N S, prof., superb shape. Serious replies only, please. 64010

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WOMEN SEEKING WOMEN I AM A W OM AN SEEKING SPECIAL woman. Goal: longtermer. Try it, you might like it. GBF, 62, wants you, 50-65. Others, try. 05403______________________________ IN SEARCH OF FEM TO SOFT BUTCH, 20-30, sincere, romantic, wild woman to share quiet and wild times exploring! Enjoy movies, toys, fishing, pic­ nics, beaches, sunsets and moonlit skies.

Looking for someone to fill a big hole in my heart. 64092________________________ COME SUMMER, breathe in the dance of the butterfly, the flight o f 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 shipper. Slim/feminine appearence. 43 YO, N S /N D , 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 DO W N 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 AUSTRALIAPHILE, 23, seeks fellow sufferer. Must possess clean lungs, a

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> PERSON W ATERFR O N T V ID E O , BATTERY ST. You: black beret, goatee, near Truffaut collection. Me: Juliette Binoche w/ blue eyes, deciding between Diva and Blowup. Want to travel the world o f for­ eign film together? H ow about this Friday night? 64135 T O T H E GIRLS WHO LIVE ABOVE' U N C O M M O N G R O U N D : I could peep on you for hours. H ow com e you never make me dinner? I get hungry, too, you know. Love, your Church St. neigh­ bor. last elm & c o r d o n s t o n e . you danced. Your long hair did too. Very red hot chili pepper... and very, very sexy. ___________________ 64132 BUSY SPACE VIXEN: Act now or the wrath o fW A . will begin. Hint: it’s past Halloween.

1 1 /8 ,1 -8 9 . P M J E N . YO U'RE BILL, incredibly cute, blond, goatee, killer smile that made my day. G ot off too soon (exit 10). Talk outside cars? 64130 B O U R N E ’S TE XACO , 1 1 /9 , 3:30pm .

You: red Volvo wagon, brown curly hair, stunning, great smile. Me: beard, glasses, hat, leather jacket. Let’s continue our TIRE-som e conversation. 641 1 9 SAUCY JACK’S, 1 1/5. YO U: 20s, thin, black pants, boots, hair (glossy), dark tur­ tle neck sweater, sitting by post in front o f bar, sensitive, kind, creative. Me: 20s, thin, brown pants, sweater, hair, facing you, table by band, gentle, creative and felt a connection. Let’s talk, meet. 64113 CITY MARKET, 1 0 / 2 6 , 9:30pm . You: blonde, quiet smile, white blouse, table near counter. Me: green shirt, curious glances, window table. Care to meet?

Conversation? Soon? Let’s. Box 063

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 workouts, cars, comedy... oh yeah, fun (20-40). 64052______________ BURLINGTON AREA GW M, 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

reverence for nature and art, and be pre­ pared to take the cure next..April? Letters, please. 64017 GAY, BIG, TALL, LO O K ING F O R A nice woman (Chitt. County would be nice). I’ll give my heart. 64015

MEN SEEKING MEN SEEKING MIKE + GUYS LIKE HIM. Approx. 6’, gorgeous, call me “sir”, polite, full of fun. Me: BiWM, 35, 5’10”. I62lbs„ seeking fun, not relationship. 64111_______ WM SEEKS 4-6 G/Bi/STR M FOR REG­ ULAR poker games. I’m 40, 5’8”, 150lbs.

Let’s make new friends. Anything could happen! 64125_________________________ SWM, ALL MAN, MANY INTERESTS. Fun times, rough play or quiet nights. 32, 5’11”, 200 lbs. Very new, need teacher.

64095_________________________________ SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 19, 5’9”, I601bs., college student looking for someone to teach me. I’m interested. Discrete fun, no strings. Burlington area. 64097___________ SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 18, 5’11”, 190lbs., looking for hot, discrete fun. No strings!

18-25 YOs. 64086 WHOLESOME A ND SEXY. 6’2”, swim­ mer’s build, Italian, handsome, big smile, open-minded, distracted professional and foreign adventurer seeks confident, natural, masculine, 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., N S /N D , ATH­ LETIC, liberal minded, seeks GM, 20-36, for friendship, possible LTR. Physically dis­ abled GM considered, too. Willing to relocate statewide. 64070 ________________ _ ADORE H OT LADDIES. Me: I’m very nice looking; don’t look my age (46 yrs.

a n ier Bi MALE CD SEEKS DISCRETE PEO­ PLE for fun and play. Tired o f boring evenings and long days. Call and leave message. 64071_____________________________ BLACK HARBOUR Episode 20. Me, you and Keith’s for two. Director and writer retire to Nova Scotia to take care o f people they never met. Open a cobbler/vacuum shop under the name Emile Dupont. Prefer wicker furniture and Maker’s Mark. Love long and large until the cows come home.

EVERYTHING BUT... ME? Man w/o mailbox: tell me your SF includes LeGuin, Forward, Brin, Tepper — and I’ll supply cof­ fee, gorp, conversation & trails.

Opportunity knocks! 64133

I SPY HEY KINKY H AIRED GIRL W / BAD knees, runny nose & has trouble when it comes to keeping holes out o f little bags.

Yes, Kim, I’m talking to you. You’re still alright in my book.

5 digit box numbers can be contacted either through voice mail or by letter. 3 digit box numbers can only be contacted by letter. Send letter along w, $5 to PO Box 1164, Burlington, VI 05402 ATTRACTIVE, FUN LOVING, SW FND, 44, light smoker, enjoys exercise, romantic dinners, horseback riding, X-C skiing ISO SM ND, 35-45, reasonably attractive. Photo please. Box 069

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from Russia and would like to have an American friend. I am 41 YO and work as a translator of English. I’m fond of dogs and like reading books (I’m fond of your writer, Stephen King). Hope to hear from you soon. Box 076 PRETTY, CULTURED, W ID O W (trahsplanted New Yorker) seeks gentle man, 6070, for heart to heart friendship. Box 071

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PROFESSIONAL W OM AN, 55, creative, smart, looks OK. Loves nature, backpack­ ing, travel, mountains, desert, ocean. Enjoys Mexican food, dark beer, looking for rocks, collecting seeds, architectural design, gar­ dening and Steinbeck. Seeking communica­ tive tall man with compatible interests, relaxed outlook and sense o f adventure. Box 066.

fit, 50s, seeks gentleman, 50-65, NS, to be guest and date for upcoming gala social event. Please respond w/ note. Box 058 I ADORE MEN! Extremely happy Southern Belle (now living in VT) seeks pen-pal who loves the lost art o f letter writ­ ing. Box 050

HI, DEAR FRIEND. I AM 40 YO & LIVE in Petrozarodsk (Russia) and work as a lawyer. I would like to have a friend in America. My life is rather interesting, but lonely. Maybe you will be interested in cor­ responding. Box 077

SWM, 33, 5’10”, FON D OF CHERRIES and cream and licking the honey-pot clean.

bling. Late Jan., ‘97. Why should I take you? Box 070___________________________ WE ARE SINGLE, 20-28, socially con­ scious, broad-minded, fun loving, adventur­ ous. Seek: compassion, depth, sincerity. Are: fit, attractive, intelligent. Love: culture, dance, outdoors, life. Pursue: righteousness, dignity, love. Box 068____________________ SWM, 27, LOOKING FOR A G O O D ONE. Or a good bad one.. Laffs and silly adventures to follow. Make yourself up as you go along. Box 065___________________ QUINTESSENTIAL NICE GUY! SWM, NS, 35, fit, happy, health, educated, aspir­ ing poet, singer/songwriter. ENJF. Desires to meet like minded woman. Let’s create something together, friendship... Box 064 SWM, 41, DEAF, WANTS CHANGE & new beginnings, seeks F, same age (25-42).

Lets start at coffee. Box 048

ISO S/DWF, 19-39, slender build. Write soon! Box 075___________________ _______ fP A IN T LIKE M ONET (right-handed), I sing like Caruso (mouth open), I am built like a Greek God (two arms, etc.). If you are a smart and beautiful twenty-something SWF, send me a photo and letter and I will write you back like Shakespeare (that is, in English). Box 073_______________________ ISO VERY CONFIDENTIAL LOVER to spend completely sensuous afternoons with.

WM, 43, 6’2”, 2251bs., blond hair, green eyes, handsome, fun and sexy! Box 072 WILD- EYED IRISHMAN, 41, with tales to tell. Looking for fit, active, professional lass with stories of her own, for non-typical partnership based on growth, discovery, romance and children. Box 067 YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL, SMART, INDEPENDENT and under 26. Your friends and family are amazed you’re not seeing anyone, but you’re special, and you’re picky. Me: funny, sensitive, good-looking, vegetarian, and in the same boat. Send smiley photo, and risk $5. At least we’ll be friends.

Box 074________________________________ SWM, 50s, SEEKS FEMALE FOR TRIP to Las Vegas all expenses paid, except gam­

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