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At one point, Wright proposed that a fire station should be built alongside the existing police headquarters on North Avenue. A listener pointed out to him that a fire station was already in place two blocks to the north. “What is this — Cherry Street?” one of the visiting consultants asked while pointing to a map projection during a public presentation. Someone corrected him: “It’s College Street.” Many of those who did contribute to Plan BTV expressed enthusiasm about the process. “This is a really great idea,” declared Tove Ohlander, co-owner of a glass studio on Pine Street, as she

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sk N.B. to recount the lowest point in her life and she doesn’t have to stop and ponder. In October 2006, the Jericho native recalls, the father of her child had kicked her out “for the 50th time.” An intravenous drug habit had withered her down to 85 pounds, and both her arms were bruised, from wrists to shoulders. Then she discovered she was pregnant again. “Something had to stop,” says N.B., who asked to be identified by her initials only. “I wanted to keep the baby, but I knew my lifestyle wasn’t going to allow that... I knew I needed help.” N.B. found that help at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, where a multidisciplinary team of physicians, social workers, mental health experts and substance-abuse professionals comprise CHARM — short for Children and Recovering Mothers. The goal of the team, which formed nearly 10 years ago, is to help pregnant mothers who are hooked on opiates overcome their dependencies so their babies can avoid the same fate. In 2000, Fletcher Allen delivered its first baby from a mother on methadone. Since then, as opiate abuse in Vermont has skyrocketed, so, too, has the number of pregnant women seeking help from the CHARM team. Over the last decade, the team has seen more than 800 babies — 127 in the last year alone, according to the nonprofit KidSafe Collaborative of Chittenden County, which coordinates the program. CHARM is now adding new clients at a rate of about 10 pregnant mothers a month. Similar programs have started up at other

hospitals around the state, including at Rutland Regional Medical Center, Central Vermont Medical Center and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. The good news: By all medical measures, CHARM assists these moms in getting clean enough to raise normal, healthy babies. Babies of drug-addicted mothers are often born prematurely, with lower birth weights. Even worse, pregnant addicts who try to quit on their own can send the babies into withdrawal and even cause them to be stillborn. “What we’ve noticed over time is that women are coming into treatment earlier, having more prenatal visits, and their gestations are actually a week longer, so their babies are just a bit bigger,” observes Marjorie Meyer, a maternal fetal medicine physician at Fletcher Allen and a CHARM team member. Earlier intervention also reduces the likelihood that the babies themselves will be born addicted. In the early days of the program, about 85 percent of the newborns required methadone or buprenorphine treatment, according to Anne Johnston, a neonatologist at Fletcher Allen’s Vermont Children’s Hospital and a CHARM team member. Currently, it’s dropped to less than 30 percent. One year, the rate dropped as low as 14 percent. Another plus: More babies are going home with their moms instead of into the custody of the state or another family member, and more of those women are breastfeeding. Why has CHARM succeeded where so many other addiction-treatment programs fail? For one, there’s no waiting list, unlike at most opiate-treatment programs in

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Vermont. Because timing determines whether the newborn comes out drug addicted or clean, the CHARM team does everything it can to help addicted mothers succeed, from treating their withdrawal symptoms to helping them secure reliable transportation, housing and daycare. “A lot of times, it’s the pregnancy that spurs them on to make that change of getting treatment for their opiate dependence,” says Sally Borden, director of KidSafe Collaborative. “So, many of them really, really want to be the best mother they can be.” N.B. first got hooked on opiates after the birth of her first child, by Caesarean section, at age 18. Her oxycodone prescription soon turned into a daily habit of six 80-milligram oxys and a half-ounce of cocaine. As she puts it, “It took me out of myself and out of my misery.” At the time, N.B. was also in a violent and abusive relationship. Her partner was a heavy cocaine user and drug dealer, and the couple often disappeared for weeks at a time, leaving N.B.’s young son in her mother’s care. One day, N.B. returned to pick up her son and her mother refused to turn him over. She reported N.B. to Vermont’s Department for Children and Families, which subsequently removed the boy from his mother’s custody.

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at a rate of about 10 new pregnant mothers a month. “I don’t think people understand that it’s not that you don’t love your kids. It’s that you’re trying to stay well and you’re just wanting to function normally,” N.B. explains. “But at that point, when you’re addicted, you can’t.” N.B. insists she never could have gotten clean without CHARM and the wraparound services it provided, such as home visits from the Visiting Nurse Association. “They were amazing,” she says. “They

didn’t make me feel like a horrible person for being in the situation I was in. Addicts have enough shame on their own that they don’t need it from anyone else.” Not surprisingly, most of their pregnancies are unplanned. Overcoming a chemical dependency and the symptoms of opiate withdrawal is a difficult task. Equally challenging, according to Johnston, is convincing these mothers-to-be to engage with people who can help them get some structure and order back in their lives. Pregnant addicts often have legitimate reasons for being wary of the medical community, says Johnston. Some have tried — and failed — in rehab repeatedly. Most have encountered doctors and nurses who are less than sympathetic to their plight, especially of mothers with a history of drug seeking. As Johnston puts it, “Dishonesty is a big part of this disease.” Meyer admits there’s not a lot of other hard data to gauge CHARM’s success, for the simple reason that drug-addicted mothers are notorious for avoiding prenatal care. Yet despite the limited data, Meyer says moms and their babies who go through the program compare “quite favorably” to the general population in terms of birth weights and overall health. The team follows the babies and their moms for 18 months after delivery. Fewer than 10 percent of the newborns go into immediate foster care, and among those who are born addicted, nearly all are weaned off methadone within four months. Due to staffing and space limitations, however, the mothers cannot receive longterm drug-replacement therapy through CHARM. Like other opiate-addicted Vermonters, they have to line up their own physicians to prescribe them methadone or buprenorphine — which can be very difficult, if not impossible, in many areas of the state. N.B. has made it work. She walked out of Fletcher Allen on October 23, 2006, and has been clean and sober ever since. She still takes methadone for her addiction and is resigned to do so for the rest of her life. Meanwhile, she now has custody of both her son and daughter and, two months ago, bought her own hair salon in Essex. For the first time, she says, she’s excited about her future. “My life is normal now,” she says. “Seeing me walk down the street now, you wouldn’t think I was once an IV drug user... I’m a recovering addict and I always will be, but I’m not a user. I’m a business owner, I’m a mom and I’m a girlfriend. That’s what I am today.” m

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public hearings along the way. To actually be implemented, however, the downtown-waterfront blueprint will require changes in a city zoning code that underwent a protracted revision process just a few years ago. It proved so rancorous that, in 2009, Burlington police were called to City Hall Auditorium as city councilors traded invectives over a proposal to increase allowable downtown building heights by a few feet. Regardless of what’s ultimately put on paper, nothing at all will be built unless private and public developers ante up wads of money — a dubious proposition in an anemic economy. Even then, state and city regs may still enable a single motivated neighbor to block a project for years, in the process raising its costs to the point where it becomes nonviable.

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STATEof THEarts Vermont Composer and Grammy Nominee Al Conti Conjures New Music About Ancient Tales B Y PA MEL A PO LSTON

orthern Seas begins with the sound of crashing waves — a storm on the ocean, perhaps. A foreboding synth sustain kicks in, then an ancient-sounding, minor-key melody, and then a haunting female voice. The layered effect is dense and spine-tingling and soothing all at once, a seemingly impossible feat. And that’s just the first track on this CD by Essex, Vt.-based composer AL CONTI. Ten more follow, for a total listening time of 49 minutes. With all its sweeping drama and intimate, emotional moments, this could be the soundtrack to a film filled with heroic — if not always victorious — adventures. Say, of Thor, Odin, Loki and Baldur. Yes, Northern Seas is inspired by Norse legends, which Conti says he researched extensively before creating this often achingly melancholic work. It’s

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the fourth disc on his Shadowside Music label, and his first to be nominated for a Grammy — for Best New Age Album. Conti, 44, plans to travel to Los Angeles for the February 12 ceremonies, where he may run into his competitors for the award: jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, for What’s It All About — a solo acoustic album of classic covers that seems miscategorized — and more traditional new-age artists Michael Brant DeMaria, for Gaia; Peter Kater, for Wind, Rock, Sea & Flame; and Zamora, for Instrumental Oasis, Vol. 6. Conti, born in Argentina, has lived in the U.S. for 28 years and Vermont for 14. When he came here to visit a friend about 15 years ago, it was love at first sight — for the place. “I just felt the energy here and I knew this was home,” Conti says. So homey, in fact, that he convinced his parents to move here, too. “They live two doors down,” he notes. “They clearly felt the same.”

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ast month, Citizens Bank, the Church Street Marketplace Foundation and the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce unveiled their 2012 community art project, “Burlington Bears Its Art.” Local artists and businesses will be teaming up to plant grinning bear sculptures all over the Queen City this summer, just as they gave us cows in 2010. But, let’s face it: The undecorated bear is kind of ugly. And a little freaky: Paws on its full belly, its eyes staring blankly, the fiberglass animal appears to have been lulled into a gluttonous stupor after devouring, say, an entire pot of honey. True, local artists haven’t had their way with the creatures yet. And when they do, in March, they’re sure to transform these zombie Care Bears

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into spiffier specimens. At the end of the summer, the decorated bears will be auctioned off to benefit Burlington’s Committee on Temporary Shelter. The cow project raised $10,000 for the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger. Can’t argue with that. Still, as public art goes, the animalsculpture thing strikes us as a little uninspired. A much cooler idea? “Hands on Pianos,” the public-art project unfolding in the Upper Valley, in which 50 donated pianos, painted and bedazzled by area artists, will be placed in parks and general stores, at bus stops and farmstands, for passersby to play during the month of July. The musical installation comes courtesy of Dartmouth College’s HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary season. While it isn’t fundraising for a nonprofit, the

project — modeled after similar endeavors in New York City and London — will benefit the community in other ways. First off, pianos are a bitch to get rid of. If you’ve ever cruised the Craigslist “free stuff ” section, you’ve no doubt seen pleas from piano owners desperate to offload a clunker. “We figured if we provided a licensed professional mover, and some glory, perhaps people would donate their pianos,” says MARGARET LAWRENCE, the Hop’s director of programming. She concedes that 50 is a lofty goal, but notes that some halfdozen pianos already exist in sites such as Lebanon’s AVA

Conti has always been surrounded by creative types — his mother was a ballerina, his father an architect and poet, his grandfather a concert pianist. So perhaps it’s no wonder that, at the age of 3, Conti announced to his parents he was going to be an actor. And he did just that, carving out a career that included television, stage, film and radio gigs in both Argentina and the U.S. “I always felt alive when I was acting,” Conti says, “understanding how someone else thought and felt — psychology was my second passion.” But a love for music was always there, too, and eventually it won out. “When music sort of took over, I realized I could not do both,” says Conti, who left behind acting — and the constant traveling — about eight years ago. He says he approaches music “as an actor,” and, indeed, his compositions seem filled with invisible characters, their stories shaping the arc and rhythms of

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his songs. The tales that most resonate with him are not the stuff of TV dramas, however, but of myth, legend, fantasy. “When I’m composing an album, I focus for the whole time on working with ancient tales,” Conti says. “I can feel that energy — it’s almost ancestral. It’s really hard to explain.” Someday, he says, he’ll explore the Argentinian folk tales of his former homeland. Conti’s sensitivity to timeless “energy” does explain why he gravitates toward the new-age genre. “It’s always called to me,” says the composer. “At age 20 I was listening to Enya. [The genre] also lends itself to what I like: books, stories — it’s like a movie with music.” Conti released his first album, Shadows, in 2006. The following year brought Poeta, a song for which he won a “best-of” award from Mystic Soundscapes Radio. With 2008’s Scheherazade, Conti dived into Middle Eastern legend, and began to crest on the charts: The exotic album was No. 1 for several months on the Zone Music Reporter and won a Best World Album award from that industry arbiter. A Grammy nomination for Northern Seas brings Conti broader recognition, whether or not he wins the prize. And if he does, it’s an award that Conti will happily share with his local

of West street in Fairfield was guitarist and engineer for the album. “He’s amazing — talented and personable, funny, just a delight,” enthuses Conti. He also credits Maquera with helping to find other Vermont musicians, including whistle player tiMothy CuMMings of Monkton and young fiddler hAnnAh Beth CrAry, a student at the University of Vermont. “She was just 17 years old when we did the album,” Conti marvels. “She’s incredibly gifted.” The presence of acoustic, old-timey instruments humanizes Conti’s compositions and helps tell their wordless tales; his is not an ethereal, synthetic sound but one that is grounded in… let’s call it earth energy. “Some new-age artists like listeners to get lost,” Conti acknowledges. “I would like them to embark on a certain kind of journey.” Looks like Al Conti is on a journey of his own — and not just to L.A. m crew.

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After all, it would make a good story, and donors are encouraged to include their personal history with their piano. The stories will be uploaded to the project website, along with videos and photos of people playing the instruments outdoors. “We love the idea of making music so accessible to people,” offers Lawrence, who says she can imagine someone playing the piano (“Chopsticks”?) on the Dartmouth green on a hot summer night. m

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“Burlington Bears Its Art,” sponsored by Citizens Bank. Accepting artist submission forms until February 10. Auction in October benefits Burlington Committee on Temporary Shelter. Info, Matt McMahon at 863-3489, ext. 208, or matt@vermont.org. Applications at vermont.org/bears.

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Gallery and the White River Junction VA Medical Center. The rest will be donated. They may be in rough shape, but they’ll be playable. “Pianos have a finite life,” says Lawrence, who notes that after many years, the instruments just can’t stay in tune. After the project wraps up, the pianos will be mined for usable and recyclable parts before they “go to the great Steinway store in the sky.” Placed in a roughly 15-mile radius around Hanover, N.H., the instruments will be secured with cables — as if someone could run off with one — and equipped with tarps, in case of rain. Each piano will be assigned a volunteer “angel,” who will check on it daily and report any damage. According to Lawrence, the donation submission forms are beginning to trickle in. “We just got a baby grand this morning, which we don’t want,” she says. Why? “It’s really hard to transport. We’re looking for uprights.” Still, an exception might be made for this one, which belongs to former Vermont legislator MAtt dunne.

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t first glance, the 2-foot clay model doesn’t look like much. Its diamond-shaped, gridlike exterior gives it an odd, Epcot-esque quality; inside the structure’s hollowed-out core, a puzzle piece rests on a pedestal. “It’s called ‘Inner Piece,’” explains Burlington sculptor MICHAEL NEDELL with a self-effacing grin. Ah, that explains everything. By the end of next week, if all goes well, this visual pun will be recreated as a 12-foothigh snow sculpture in the national snow-sculpting championships at Lake Geneva, Wis. There Nedell and his two teammates, ALEX DOSTIE and BROOKE MONTE, will represent Vermont and compete for the title of best snow sculptors in the country. This will be the team’s seventh trip to the national championships. The Vermonters took home second prize in 2005 and 2007, and have consistently ranked among the top six teams. They’ve also paid two visits to the (invitationonly) international championships in Breckinridge, Colo., in 2008 and 2011. This isn’t the first time Team Vermont has relied on a tongue-in-cheek design. There was “Marco Polo,” featuring two kids’ heads in a swimming pool playing the verbal hide-and-seek game of the same name. There was “Roller Coaster,” complete with two terrified-looking children at a skewed-perspective theme park. And then there was the time the

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trio sculpted three snow creatures… tools, no armatures, no colorants and sculpting each other. Clearly, creativity no materials allowed besides snow, isn’t a problem for Team Vermont. water and ice. But there are no regulaNor should it be. All three are artists tions against taking a rival team out for of some repute. Dostie is a painter, sculp- friendly drinks the night before, Nedell tor and set designer, and co-owns DOSTIE says, grinning. For Team Vermont, the camaraderie BROS. FRAME SHOP in Burlington with his brother, JEREMY. Monte is a painter and is part of the fun. And that’s a good thing a woodworker. Nedell dabbles in metal because, as Dostie puts it, “Michael sculpting and pottery. More importantly, told me I was gonna get really rich and he’s been “seeing 12-foot-tall things in famous… and that’s not at all how it’s my head for more than a decade now, panned out.” ever since I saw a call to artists in Seven True, but the three sculptors don’t Days about snow sculpting,” Nedell says. seem to mind. Dostie says he loves On that occasion, he rounded up a the chance to create art on a grand few friends and sketched a potenscale. “What other medium is there tial design for the 1999 Burlington where you can carve out a 12-footWinter Festival. tall sculpture in three days?” he His team decided on a woman asks. “Since I do a lot of theater, drinking champagne while I’m comfortable with creating riding a tortoise. art collaboratively, and it’s Next week in Wisconsin, challenging to execute each team will receive an a sculpture from the 8-by-9-foot cylinder model.” of snow and have Oh, yeah — Team approximately 40 Vermont doesn’t hours to create its often get a chance masterpiece. The to practice using sculpting culmireal snow. Nedell nates in a final, allpoints to the clear night frenzy before plastic box that the February 5 helps the team judging. There evaluate scale and are no limitations dimension. As it turns out, on the sculptures’ “Inner Piece,” Team Vermont’s 12-foot-high entry content. there are tricks of There are a few the trade, many of rules: no power which Nedell and

WIND POWER Never mind 15 minutes of fame; Jericho artist CHRIS

like me,” Cleary offers. His friend, photographer MATTHEW THORSEN, will shoot stills and video of all the

Marilyns this Friday. The resulting photo montage, Cleary says, will be called “The Monroe Doctrine.” As of last week, Cleary had lined up only “hairy men,” he notes, and expresses hope that some “good-looking women” will volunteer, too. What will happen to the photos? “I don’t know yet,” Cleary admits. “Perhaps keep it going, maybe put [the sculpture] on Church Street next summer.” One thing he knows for sure: This “shower scene” will only take about 15 seconds per person — not including wriggling in and out of that dress. PAM E L A POL S T ON

“THE MONROE DOCTRINE” Cleary’s work is part of the three-person exhibit “Fluid Dynamics” at the Flynndog in Burlington. Visitors can get their picture taken as Marilyn Monroe during the First Friday Art Walk on February 3, 6-9 p.m. flynndog.net, vermontsteampunk.com

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offering is not so much fame as an imitation of fame. Talk about meta. One of the most enduring and iconic images in American pop culture is the “wind skirt” shot of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate, dress flying upward. Taken for, and then deleted from, the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, the scene has inspired a new and totally unique, uh, homage. Cleary — whose copper-pipe sculpture at the FLYNNDOG was reviewed in last week’s Seven Days — is rigging his shower-like installation, titled “Sweat,” with a compressor at the bottom that will shoot air upwards when a cord is pulled. At a First Friday Art Walk event this week, he’ll be inviting visitors to don a blond wig and white halter dress (which he’s supplying), stand inside the sculpture, pull the cord and “do a Marilyn.” Why? Perhaps for no better reason than “Burlington is full of likeminded freaks

Lake Geneva Winterfest and U.S. National Snow Sculpting Competition in Lake Geneva, Wis., February 1-5. Judging takes place February 4. lakegenevawi.com, usnationals.org

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his team have picked up at competitions. He and Dostie are the official “debulkers,” meaning they take a first pass at shaping the cylinder with cross-cut saws and other large tools, analyzing the dimensions and making rough mathematical calculations. Monte is usually called on for the detailed finish work. For this project, the trio created a 7.5foot jig with an attached scraper blade, which will create the curved sides of the outer grid. The diamond-shaped openings are 18 inches wide. Monte’s shoulders are 16 inches across, “so I think we can hollow it out and squeeze him in there,” Nedell speculates. “Of course, I don’t know if it’ll fall down or not — and if it collapses, you’re done. Then it’s time to hit the hot tub and the bar for the rest of the week.” Another crucial requirement for a snow sculptor is the willingness to create art that may last a day at best. “That’s all part of the fun,” says Nedell. “The material’s free, it’s ecological, and you don’t have to sell it or store it. I’ve made a lot of big metal sculptures that just sit around in my garage … But with this,” he concludes, “you just snap a picture and you’re done. It’s all about the process.”

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The article on Mark Pendergrast’s studies on renewable energy [“As Goes Japan…” January 11] quoted him saying, “We have people here arguing that wind turbines are terrible for your health. There just aren’t the studies to indicate that.” This statement is not true. There are now more than 10 published scientific studies looking at health problems created by wind turbine noise; all have shown some level of adverse health effects. I know of no published studies showing a lack of harm. These studies examined the problems wind-turbine noise creates for thousands of people in many countries and consistently show annoyance, sleep deprivation, decreased quality of life and stress in many living near wind turbines. Additionally, there are hundreds — if not thousands — of case reports showing people suffering from sleep disruption, fatigue, stress, depression, headaches, dizziness and palpitations, among other complaints. In many instances, the problems have been serious enough that they have sought medical attention, abandoned their homes or had the wind companies buy their property. Further, the Vermont Department of Health has acknowledged that windturbine noise has the potential to create health problems. The questions now are: Do we care that our current noise standards do not protect Vermonters living near wind turbines? And if we do, when are we going to correct our noise standards and how are we going to help those already placed in harm’s way? teddi lovko, mD ira

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I was delighted to see the article about the Burlington Beltline [WTF: “Why does the Burlington Beltline close so often?” January 18] and, I will admit, more than a bit outraged at the “official” response by Burlington Public Works director Steve Goodkind. Like many of your readers, I know someone who has been involved in an accident on the Beltline. And like any Chittenden County resident with a fair amount of common sense, I can see the flaws in the design of the stretch of road in question. I would suggest, contrary to Mr. Goodkind’s analysis, that what is truly “problematic” is his reasoning. There are a number of obvious and inexpensive retrofits that would undoubtedly decrease the quantity and severity of accidents on the Beltline. A Jersey barrier would prevent accidents from involving traffic in the opposite direction, thus completely preventing head-on collisions. Better lighting (and leaving the lights on throughout the night) might be wise. Even something as simple as a couple of LED traffic signs at either entrance warning drivers of unsafe conditions could be beneficial. In short, I feel that the wise course of action, on the part of Burlington officials, would be to really analyze the situation, with the understanding that there are multiple problematic factors at play, and search for solutions to ensure motorist safety. And while we’re on the subject, has anyone tried making a left turn onto Pine Street from Locust Street during business hours lately? Perhaps the real solution to Burlington’s road woes is a new director of public works.

I respectfully ask you to surrender the film quiz now. When I first started reading Seven Days, I did not appreciate the sublime brilliance that is the film quiz. I thought, Who cares? That is some obscure stuff, and blew by. One day, lured by the prospect of winning a pizza from Junior’s and movie tickets from the Roxy, I took a chance and flailed. I am just not that good at movie trivia. With practice, I got better, and I learned how to solve the quiz by hook or by crook. It took luck, perseverance, a mastery of Google and social networks to dominate. The best prize was looking forward to Wednesday’s puzzle, the struggle for a solution and the Monday submission. The quiz had a special beauty of being difficult but obtainable. Life can be seen as a series of problems, many unsolvable. Please bring back Rick Kisonak’s puzzle and let the Seven Days flow once again.

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The facts: The incandescent lightbulb, though surely up there with the telephone as coolest invention ever, has, like old rotary-dial phones, been rendered obsolete by advancing technology. It’s one of the least efficient devices you’ll ever lay hands on, converting just 5 to 8 percent of the energy it uses into light, with the rest thrown off as heat. Easy-Bake Ovens used to

use a 100-watt incandescent bulb as their heat source. Not anymore — the toy was redesigned in the expectation that 100-watt bulbs would disappear. Halogen bulbs are only marginally better. Though much is made of the fact that they’re 30 percent more efficient than ordinary incandescent bulbs, 30 percent better than completely dismal is still embarrassingly bad. Ninety percent of the energy used by a halogen bulb is given off as heat — the bulbs can reach temperatures of 700 to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, making them a fire hazard. I’m sure there must be some reason to use halogen bulbs, but energy efficiency isn’t it. CFL (compact flourescent

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lightbulbs) bulbs are a different story. They use only about a quarter of the energy of an incandescent bulb to produce the same light, waste much less heat, and supposedly last eight to ten times as long. Though some complain about CFL light quality, in my estimation it’s comparable to incandescent light — nowhere near as harsh as what you get from old-fashioned fluorescent tubes. That said, CFL bulbs have annoying drawbacks. They can take a minute or more to reach full brightness, an inconvenience if you’re flipping on a closet light. They work poorly in the cold — I have one in a recessed ceiling fixture with an unheated attic above it, and when I first switch it on in the winter I can get more illumination by lighting a match. The failure rate is higher than advertised. I’ve had a couple burn out after just a few months

in recessed cans in the kitchen, a typical experience judging from news accounts out of California, which implemented anti-incandescent legislation a year ahead of the rest of the country. Disposing of CFL bulbs is a pain. They contain mercury and so must be brought to a special recycling facility rather than tossed in the trash. Early reports suggesting you’d have to call in a HazMat team if you broke one were exaggerated. The fact remains that the Environmental Protection Agency’s advisory about what to do if you have an accident lists 19 steps. Some say CFL bulbs are an interim technology that will eventually be swept away by bulbs utilizing light-emitting diodes. LED bulbs use even less energy than CFLs, reach full brightness instantly, don’t run on mercury, are unaffected by cold

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• Although halogen bulbs don’t offer much of an energy savings over ordinary incandescents, compact fluorescents sure do, and you’d be a fool not to use them whenever you could. Me, I’ve got ’em all over the house, including right here in my desk lamp. • Telling me I have to use them — production and import of conventional 100watt incandescent bulbs were effectively banned January 1 — is a pointless intrusion on my personal rights.

and supposedly will last 25,000 to 50,000 hours. Unfortunately, the LED equivalent of a 100-watt incandescent bulb right now costs on the order of 50 bucks. I won’t be stocking up on LED bulbs anytime soon. Still, I’m an eco kind of guy. Left to my own devices, my guess is I’d wind up with maybe 60 percent CFL bulbs at my house and the rest incandescent. But no. The government says that, except for specialty applications, I’ll have to replace them all. All in the service of the greater good, you say. If only it were so. The net social benefit of legislating incandescent bulbs out of existence is likely to be negligible. A spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council says changing bulbs will eliminate the need to build 30 electric power plants. That sounds like a lot until you realize the U.S. has 5800 electric power plants. Even the trivial gain being claimed is illusory. As we’ve discussed in the past, you run up against the Jevons paradox: As use of a resource becomes more efficient, it effectively becomes cheaper, stimulating greater use. After the passage of fuelefficiency laws following the 1970s energy crisis, for instance, gasoline usage went up. The perhaps unwitting response to moreefficient lightbulbs may wind up being something similar: Great, I can quit worrying about switching the lights off when unneeded and squander the energy savings on something else. Notwithstanding the Straight Dope tradition of calling ’em like we sees ’em, it’s odd to find yourself lining up with Rush Limbaugh and the Wall Street Journal. But there you are.

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When the gas pressure generated at a landfill exceeds the rate at which engines are designed to collect and burn it, the facility must do something with the excess gas other than release it into the atmosphere. As Sherman points out, methane is a greenhouse gas at least 22 times more potent than carbon dioxide. So the preferred method of disposal is to burn it off and convert it to heat, water and CO2. For safety reasons, excess methane cannot be easily stored and burned later. Flare stacks simply serve as a pressurerelief value to prevent explosions or other damage to the gas-collection equipment. Incidentally, if you ever noticed a funky smell as you drove by the Moretown Landfill on Route 2 or I-89, it was due to some initial snafus and fine-tuning during the start-up of the gas-to-energy system. According to ANR, its solid waste program has been working with the air pollution control division to resolve the problem, and complaints appear to have subsided. m

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But why does some of the methane need to be burned off in the open air? Adam Sherman is program director in the biomass fuel supply department of the Montpelier-based Biomass Energy Resource Center. As he explains, methane isn’t generated in landfills at a steady rate, but one that varies depending on the composition of the garbage. Throw away some wilted cabbage, waterlogged books or a mold-tainted loaf of bread, and you’ll get plenty of methane. Throw away an old bicycle or broken toaster? Not so much. When methane is allowed to vent into the atmosphere, it doesn’t just stink like rotten eggs and piss off the neighbors. It also contributes to smog and global warming and creates public health and safety concerns. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, landfills are the third largest source of humanrelated methane production, and contributed about 17 percent of all methane emissions in the United States in 2009. Another major methane source? Ruminant digestion. According to the EPA, cow belches and flatulence account for 5.5 million metric tons, or about 20 percent, of all U.S. methane emissions. Can you say, “Pull my hoof”?

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ommuters who routinely travel the stretch of Interstate 89 between Waterbury and Montpelier may have occasionally been jolted out of their subconscious driving trance by the sight of a large, perpetual flame burning just north of the Middlesex exit. The blaze isn’t always visible during daylight hours, as one reader observed recently, but at night it seems to hover in midair like some disembodied Olympic torch. Vermonters should be thankful that such industrial flares aren’t common features on the Green Mountain landscape. Drive certain stretches of the Jersey Turnpike or I-10 between Houston, Texas, and the aptly named Sulfur, La., and you’ll see — and smell — dozens of them undulating in the breeze high atop sprawling oil-refinery complexes. These torches cast their eerie orange glow into the night sky, creating a dystopian panorama that seems lifted straight out of a Mad Max film.

Gas flares, or flare stacks, as they’re known in the industry, are used for the disposal of excess methane gas. The gas flare along I-89 belongs to the Moretown Landfill, one of two commercially owned landfills in Vermont. (The other is in Coventry.) Tom Badowski is general manager of the Moretown Landfill, which takes in about 150,000 tons of waste each year. (For some perspective, the average Vermont home generates about a ton of trash per year, he notes.) Methane is a natural by-product of the decomposition of all that waste. At the landfill, the gas is then captured through scores of horizontal and vertical gas-collection wells that have been drilled into the landfill. “The main reason we capture it,” Badowski explains, “is for odor control.” Can’t all that natural gas be put to good use? Actually, Badowski points out, it is. Since 2008, the Moretown landfill has been generating 3.2 megawatts of electricity from methane — about enough to light 2800 homes — each year. “We’ve gotten so good at our [methane] collection that we now have more gas than we can make electricity out of,” Badowski adds. As a result, the company is applying to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) for a permit to install a third gas-to-energy engine on the property. Badowski expects a permit will be issued later this year, with additional electricity generation starting sometime in 2013. Since July 2005, the Washington Electric Co-op has operated a similar gas-to-energy operation in Coventry at Vermont’s largest landfill. That facility is owned and operated by NEWSVT, a subsidiary of Casella Waste Management of Rutland. Its electricity-generating plant has also been growing and now has five gas engines producing eight megawatts of power.

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n the fall of 2010, when the chance discovery of an out-of-sequence check revealed what turned out to be the biggest embezzlement in Vermont history, its victims kept quiet. The paper trail led straight to the criminal: Joyce Bellavance was filching massive amounts of cash from the Hardwick Electric Department, where she’d worked for 12 years. The numbers emerged — $1.4 million (later raised to $1.6 million) over 10 years’ time — as well as details about the loot: Pottery Barn furniture, Basin Harbor Club wedding, a Boston condo worth nearly $400K. Then came the indictment: 13 charges of wire fraud and money laundering, to which Bellavance pled not guilty. And the denials: Joyce’s husband, Marc, claimed he didn’t know. Asked why she did it, Joyce didn’t know, either. Behind closed doors in Hardwick and the 10 other towns HED serves, anger may have been voiced. Tradespeople who’d been whistling for years over the fancyshmancy renovation of the Bellavance home may have nodded as the pieces clicked together. But outside the well-attended public meeting called by Hardwick Electric shortly after the revelations, a town not known for keeping its opinions to itself was doing just that. Someone told me that folks viewed the whole thing as “a human tragedy.” Another said people felt bad for the Bellavances’ daughters. A rumor circulated that the hair stylist opened her doors early so Joyce could get a haircut without showing her face on Main Street. The Hardwick Gazette reported the story exhaustively. But the letters pages, which overflow with passion about issues large and small, received only one about this. Until the sentencing, the paper did not publish a photograph of Bellavance. How to explain this silence? Most obvious: The Bellavances are a huge Hardwick family; they have 19 listings in the 2010-11 phone book (including Joyce’s), many of them couples. Joyce is a Darling — another important surname in these parts. Like a large percentage of people in Hardwick, Joyce and Marc Bellavance are related to a large percentage of other people in Hardwick. The Bellavances are, moreover, from the right side of town. Joyce had a goodpaying job with benefits and a pension. Marc was regional director of Aubuchon Hardware. Their house overlooking Mackville Pond is hardly Versailles, even with the publicly funded Pottery Barn furniture in it. But you could do a lot worse in Hardwick.

At this writing — days after Bellavance’s sentencing — the Hardwick Establishment is still keeping its ranks, and its mouth, closed. So who speaks for the injured parties — who include everyone on the grid in 11 Northeast Kingdom towns? Mostly, the utility. At that first meeting, HED general manager Eric Werner listed some of Bellavance’s victims: the church and the school, the storekeepers and homeowners. At the sentencing hearing last week, he noted that each of HED’s 4200 customers was out $380 in the theft. Warren Hill, vice-chair of the board, said the embezzlement increased rates; surely, “there have been disconnects” because of it. Debbie Lawson, the woman who found the smoking check, recalled the “horror, shock, disbelief and sadness” everyone felt and the turmoil into which the investigation threw the office. They were talking about an individual betrayal of other individuals. In a way, that makes sense. HED is a little government enterprise, housed in a little white clapboard building, inside a little government; its four-member Board of Commissioners is appointed by the five-member Select Board. It’s the rare Hardwickian who is not acquainted with at least one person connected with HED. But the department isn’t just a collection of individuals, as Judge William Sessions reminded the convict and the public. It is a public institution, and Bellavance a public servant. Her crime, he declared, “shatters the respect for public institutions and public officials so that any public servant suffers.” So it is a mark of the popular disrespect of everything public that the only people catching scorn around here have been the bureaucrats who screwed up. That single letter to the Gazette did not condemn Joyce Bellavance. Instead, it scolded the HED board and management for its negligent oversight and proposed that the utility remit its fraud insurance payout to the ratepayers. The writer had a point about the oversight. Furthermore, when a million and a half bucks disappear on your watch, the honorable response is to fall on your sword

— or make a pantomime thereof. Werner didn’t. Still, you could say that Werner had to stay put, if only to continue as the face of the wronged community, a role that nobody else was assuming. Two kinds of community were in conflict — the community represented by a publicly financed institution dispensing an invisible, if crucial, commodity; and the community embodied in the

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AFTER JOYCE BELLAVANCE’S SENTENCING, THE HARDWICK ESTABLISHMENT IS STILL KEEPING ITS RANKS, AND ITS MOUTH, CLOSED. relationships of interlocking families. Blood is thicker than copier ink. In an earlier era, when transgression was punished directly by a community, Joyce and Marc Bellavance might have ended up in

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the stocks, with the rest of Hardwick jeering at them. Outrage and justice were one. The modern system, in which everyone is equal under the law and the state dispassionately metes out penalties, is — at least in principle — more just. But once justice is dispensed (if that’s what you call 42 months, plus restitution of the money, for a crime that could carry a decades-long sentence), rage still wants outing. Not the least of its appropriate objects is Joyce’s contention that she was a victim — alleging her thefts were the uncontrollable symptoms of depression and feelings of worthlessness stemming from childhood sexual abuse. And the chutzpah just keeps coming: Marc is still arguing he has rights to keep the house. In the end, it fell to Hardwickians from the other side of town to speak public bitterness and expose the iniquitous machineries of both social and criminal justice. “I am a taxpayer and townsperson in Hardwick, Vermont, and I feel that Joyce should get the strictest penalty for the crime she committed,” wrote one Hardwick Resident in the reader comments section of the Burlington Free Press. “Many people are sexually and physically abused and they cannot and do not use that as an excuse to commit crimes.” The commenter continued: “In this small town you are judged by your last name, and if your last name is one of those that are considered to be in ‘HIGHER STANDINGS,’ people look the other way and act as if they are blind to anything you do. This is unfair. If I was the one who had committed this crime, I would have been put in jail and given the strictest penalty!” Somewhat incoherently, an interesting detail emerges: “Joyce had my lights shut off in the past and I think that she should have to reimberse [sic] the town but ALSO reimberse the people who had to pay their bill more then [sic] once due to her embezzling — those who had to struggle to come up with money to pay shut off’s.” (HED charges $30 to reconnect service.) Another Hardwick resident wrote, “They just keep telling me they would shut me off and I’m on oxygen she didn’t care.” They being HED and she, Bellavance. While pocketing the people’s money, Joyce Bellavance was stringently enforcing the rules of the public institution at its most impersonal. For what were no doubt serial delinquencies on small bills, it was she who looked her neighbors in the eye and told them she had no choice but to turn the lights off. m

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et’s talk about RutVegas.” Jim Sabataso is sitting at a small table in Café Terra, “Rutland’s best coffee shop” — and only

one, he admits. Sabataso is 28 years old, bearded and friendly. His family goes back a long time in these parts: His great-grandparents emigrated from Italy and landed in Rutland; the Sabataso family has run the Palms restaurant downtown since 1933. Jim Sabataso is Rutland through and through. Which brings us back to “RutVegas.” “That’s our word, not yours,” Sabataso says. He’s good-natured about it, but there’s something to this. The Marble City has a chip on its shoulder. Defensive, a bit resistant to outsiders and staunchly selfreliant, Rutlanders bristle at the pejorative moniker and its attendant connotations. Perhaps with good reason: For decades, the blue-collar railroad town has battled a reputation as the unofficial capital of drugs and crime in Vermont. To outsiders, it’s a gritty place — the part of Vermont where your tires might get slashed. Where you should lock your doors. Where, at best, there’s not much to do. Residents don’t deny that their city has its problems. But that reputation? It’s just not fair, they say — or accurate. These days, something is undeniably afoot in Rutland. The city will break

ground this spring on a new downtown pedestrian marketplace. Green Mountain Power, on the verge of a merger with Rutland-based Central Vermont Public Service, is promising to make Rutland the state’s “solar city,” with more solar power generated per capita than anywhere else in Vermont. Last month, the Community College of Vermont opened its brand-new, $8 million facility downtown. Home prices are relatively low. Rent is cheap. And slowly, young people such as Jim Sabataso and Jacob Pluta — who, at 23, owns Rutland’s best and only coffee shop — are returning to the city they once left behind.

Herald, and now edits and writes for a hyperlocal section called “The Express.” “There’s a self-esteem issue in this town,” Sabataso says. “We’re our own worst enemy sometimes… You have to remind Rutland that we have a lot to be proud of.” When he’s not working, Sabataso is volunteering: for Restoring Rutland, or the Downtown Rutland Partnership, or a new group trying to bring together young professionals in the city, or for Sustainable Rutland. (That last one sponsors events such as plastic-bag-free days — this, Sabataso says, in a city where

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“sustainability” was still something of a foreign word as recently as 2008.) For someone who swore he was splitting town after high school — and who did leave for a time — Sabataso is kneedeep in the grassroots movement that is slowly revitalizing Rutland. It’s what more than one local calls a “pull-yourself-up-byyour-bootstraps” approach. “Rutland’s not a ready-made community,” Sabataso says. “It’s still a work in progress.”

ere’s the first thing Rutlanders want you know about that “work in

progress”: There’s no statistical truth to the perception that Rutland has greater problems with drugs or crime than Vermont’s other urban areas. “The reputation — I don’t see that image, and I don’t live that image,” says Christopher Louras, the lanky, dark-haired and, by all accounts, extremely popular city mayor. “That’s an outsider’s view, and it’s a misplaced outsider’s view that I don’t put any stock in,” he adds. “And I say that with my eyes wide open to the problems that any … Vermont-scaled urban center is dealing with.” Statewide, Chittenden County led the pack for the number of criminal offenses committed in 2010, followed by Rutland County. Factor in population, and offense rates were higher in Chittenden and Windham counties, with Rutland coming in third. Looking solely at drug offenses, the city of Burlington outpaced Rutland with 81 per 1000 residents in 2010, compared with 57 per 1000 residents in Rutland. Even if the stats don’t bear out the stereotype, there’s no shortage of good stories to swap about Rutland’s supposed crime rash. Among the more sobering is that of a break-in and assault that happened a week and a half ago, when two men from New York and a 20-year-old Rutlander allegedly entered a home and assaulted two women and a man using golf clubs and a knife. The story plays into a narrative familiar in Rutland, one that depicts drugs, and their associated crimes, as an epidemic flooding in from New York state. But again, fact and fiction don’t always line up. The rumors that drugs are coming in on the New York Amtrak train (nickname: Am-Crack) are just that: rumors, says

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sides by Rutland Town — and the stripmall development that characterizes this neighbor — the city has had to look inside its own borders for models of successful redevelopment. That neighboring development did come with heavy costs: Because the boundaries between town and city are unclear to outsiders, some city residents worry Route 7 sprawl unfairly overshadows an otherwise hidden historic downtown. But Louras thinks the city will hold its own. “Nationwide, municipalities are collapsing back upon themselves and their urban centers instead of embracing the strip development and suburban malls that had been the norm for the past 20 years,” he says. “We certainly aren’t going to return to the 1960s where the local downtowns were king, but there will be a renaissance.” Tooling around town in his VW wagon, Louras points out a few success stories. Among them is Pine Hill Park, the brainchild of Michael Smith, a literal trailblazer. The network of trails is among the top 25 mountain-bike destinations in the country — and anyone in the city can reach the park in about five minutes. Then Louras heads up the hill to the old armory, recently vacated by the National Guard and, according to the mayor, “haunted as hell.” The city recently held a public meeting to discuss possible uses for the space. Louras’ goal? Get it back on the tax rolls. In both cases, he says, the trick is in seeing possibility where it doesn’t yet exist. This is where Rutland boosters, such as Mark Foley, step in. “I get a little bullish on Rutland,” Foley says, pausing for a breath after a lightningquick explanation of his latest plans for property development. He leads a march through a still-underconstruction office space, perched high above the junction of Center Street and Merchants Row. The 3000-square-foot office smells of paint and dust, and late afternoon light from the west hits the exposed brick walls and structural trusses and beams. Foley calls this the “Loft,” and envisions an office-sharing and coworking space for professionals — part business incubator, part networking hub. There are tremendous views, both down to the street and out to the mountains in the distance. Born and raised in Rutland, Foley is in the regional family business of linen and uniform rentals. More significantly, the Foleys are major property owners in Rutland, with 14 large, historic properties in the downtown district. And, sure enough, once he gets rolling, Foley is “bullish,” indeed. He waxes eloquent about the beautiful downtown and the dynamic Paramount Theatre, where he is president of the board of directors. “Every [place] has empty storefronts,”

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Lynne Walsh, executive director of the community-justice organization Rutland United Neighborhoods. Criminals aren’t the only ones making headlines: The city police department has come under scrutiny, too. In one case, a sergeant was charged with and later convicted of mishandling evidence and lying to police. Another patrolman resigned after allegedly using improper force on a man handcuffed in a holding cell. In December, Chief of Police Anthony Bossi retired after months of debate among aldermen — who wanted Bossi out — and the police commission and rank-and-file officers. The city also placed two officers on administrative leave in December. Interim Chief James Baker says he’s managing a staff of 30 in a department that should have 39. “I do think some of the negativity that has circled around the police department has led to some of the difficulties with staffing,” Baker says. City leadership, and some residents, are circumspect when it comes to talking about changes in the police department. Sabataso puts an upbeat spin on recent developments: “I think the police department is in a moment of transition, and that’s a moment of opportunity.” Baker agrees, pointing out that, as the most visible public servants in a city, police officers should be ambassadors to the public. “If there’s a perception that a city isn’t safe, then no one is going to come to that city,” the chief says. Those perceptions come and go, says Walsh. But many who live in Rutland maintain that one of the biggest enduring issues is property crime fueled by drug habits. Police say copper thefts are a problem in the city, as vandals sneakily strip abandoned residential and commercial properties of their fixtures, pipes and wiring. Copper prices are down since they peaked in 2008, but the scrap metal still holds the promise of quick cash. “It’s easy money,” Walsh says. Compounding the problem are absentee or irresponsible landlords — some who have left properties abandoned, and others who let their houses decay, rent to a transient population and do little to discourage what Walsh calls “five-minute traffic,” meaning people come and go at all hours. She and others don’t diminish the problem Rutland has with drugs, and cite addiction — much of it fueled by poverty — as a central concern in the region. But, insists Walsh, it’s important to note that this is not a challenge unique to Rutland. “I think this community also has a lot more positive things going on,” she says. “I wouldn’t have set down roots and decided to raise my family here if I didn’t think it was a good place to live.” The story Mayor Louras would rather tell outsiders is this one: Bounded on all

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His remark gets at what may be the biggest problem facing Rutland. Not drugs, not real estate — or lack thereof — or even blighted, ramshackle properties. It’s a matter of convincing. “There’s just a general feeling of being passed over,” says Steve Terry, who worked as the managing editor of the Rutland Herald in the late 1970s and early ’80s. “It’s part of the psyche.” Take the issue of the highway: You

can’t spend much time in Rutland without hearing at least once about the interstate that never came. The town pushed hard for its own equivalent of I-89 — some 20thcentury speedway snaking up the western corridor of the state to better connect the city with the rest of the world. Rutland is still waiting. It wasn’t always this way. Rutland grew up in the 19th century, evolving from a small mill town on the Otter Creek into a bustling industrial center after the discovery of rich marble deposits in the region. The trains arrived in 1851, and soon Rutland was the railroad capital of the state and one of the world’s leading marble producers. The city still bears the marks of the turn-of-the-century boom times in its great, hulking churches and City Beautiful architecture. But Rutland’s heyday came, as all good things do, to an eventual end. The city’s population has been dropping since its peak in 1970. Today, about 16,500 residents live within city limits — fewer than in 1930. The marble quarries shut down in the ’80s and ’90s. The railroad left. At one point in recent years, Rutland boasted the highest unemployment rate in the state. (These days, Rutland County’s unemployment rate — 5.4 percent — is just slightly higher than the state average.) The city has 150 vacant properties on the books, and some of those

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Foley says, nipping in the bud the most common complaint he hears about the downtown. “But we have more square footage occupied this year than we did last, and more last year than we did the year before.” Next he pops into the Center Street Alley — right now, an empty, barren courtyard tucked behind the Paramount. It’s an expansive space, first developed in the late 1970s as an outdoor courtyard. It never really took off, though — private investments fell through, and the space is underused. (“Horribly dysfunctional,” Louras says more bluntly.) After years of planning, and a nearly $1 million earmark from Sen. Patrick Leahy, Rutland will break ground on an overhaul of the alley this spring or summer. City developers such as Foley imagine it as a green, shaded public marketplace, bordered by cafés and little shops. Right now the courtyard is surrounded by the towering backsides of buildings, including the theater and the seven-story Service Building. Foley unfurls some blueprints and shows how he plans to punch out the back of the building currently occupied by the Rutland Area Food Co-op. There will be outdoor seating for a café, he explains, and kitchen space for a new restaurant. Finally, Foley leads the way to the intersection of West Street and Merchants Row, one of the busiest thoroughfares in downtown Rutland. On the way, he passes the Walmart, dropped square in the middle of the city. On the whole, most downtown bigwigs say it could have been worse. Locating the retail giant in the Rutland downtown saved the city from an even

more pronounced exodus of shoppers to outlying developments. Still, Foley and others want to see a more vibrant local shopping scene. Every year some 3.75 million vehicles pass through the crossroads at West and Merchants, making it arguably the most desirable downtown location. But, as of 2010, Foley says, three of the four corners were vacant. Today, all have tenants. On one corner, already home to a women’s clothing boutique, Foley envisions developing the Shops at Gryphon Square, comprising food, electronics, and outdoor and sporting-goods stores. Standing on the street corner, he talks about the proud heritage of Rutland. “We’re proud of it, and protective of it,” he says. Looking around the downtown, Foley adds, “I think we’re holding our own very well.” It’s late Rutland Amtrak afternoon by now, and shopkeepers are closing up. As a service hub for the region, and the seat for the superior and district courts, Rutland’s downtown is well populated during the day, Foley notes. The trick will be convincing shopkeepers to stay open a little longer, and luring customers back downtown to shop or dine.

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residential and commercial buildings are abandoned and decaying, dragging down property values and tempting vagrants. The city is scrambling to draft an ordinance to deal with blighted properties. Drive Rutland’s neighborhoods, and you’ll find immaculately tended houses, outfitted with window boxes or wreathes, next to homes with broken windows and “No Trespassing” signs. All this leaves Rutland in the position of many small, once-bustling industrial towns in America: casting around for what’s next. Finding that thing — green energy? Local foods? New farms? — and agreeing on it can be tough for a community divided between

“I’ve been, in the past couple of years, seeing such a force of younger community members trying to step up,” Munger says. “We’re trying to move Rutland forward in that positive direction.” She’s not alone. Back at Café Terra, Jacob Pluta slips into a seat near the front window. He’s not much used to sitting still these days; he bought the café about a year and a half ago. At the time, Pluta, a Rutland native, was a young graduate of McGill University. He moved to Burlington but couldn’t land a job there; though he considered opening a business in the bigger city, he says the

it’s full of opportunity” — Pluta thinks the city is finding some momentum. “I think Rutland’s on the up-and-up,” he says. The new head of Rutland Redevelopment Authority, Brennan Duffy, says the same thing. In economic speak, he calls it “spiraling” — and this time it’s an upward spiral. That’s thanks in part to young entrepreneurs, to volunteers and to new blood in city government. At 51, Mayor Louras jokes that he’s an “old man” around city hall. These days the board of aldermen is skewing younger — a nice change of pace, says Sabataso, from the meetings he attended

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stakes were just too high. The low barrier to entry in Rutland inspired Pluta to gamble on buying a business, and his customers made it pay off. “They’ve been coming in since day one,” he says. “The town has been really supportive.” Pluta is too young to have known Rutland at its apex. He does remember that the city of his childhood — in the 1990s — seemed a more prosperous place than the one he knew as a teenager. After years of empty storefronts — with their signs proclaiming “This space is not empty,

on first moving back to Rutland in 2007. “You don’t see the board members like you had in the past who are either asleep through most of the meeting — I’m not joking — or just kind of, like, old-timers who are really out of touch, or people who don’t show up,” he says. Could Rutland become a model for other small manufacturing cities, caught between memories of the city that was and visions of the city that could be? Maybe, say rural-development experts such as Paul Costello, who helped jumpstart the “creative economy” conversations

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can-do youngsters and a population segment that’s reticent in the face of change. That’s where the convincing comes in. “It’s that Yankee stubbornness,” says Sabataso. “Change can be hard sometimes.” What’s certain is this: That feeling of being “passed over” means Rutland isn’t looking to anyone other than itself for reinvention. When Tropical Storm Irene hit, for instance, a group of volunteers, including 27-year-old Katye Munger, rallied to create the impromptu Restoring Rutland group. They took over a downtown storefront and began stockpiling supplies. Within a few days, they had created a pipeline for funneling volunteers into neighboring, harder-hit communities.

in 2005 and 2006 that paved the way for Rutland’s latest economic push. “From a far distance out here in Montpelier, Rutland is seen today to be a town on the move,” Costello says. “We point to Rutland and we say, ‘Here’s a town that has really pulled together.’” As executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, Costello stepped in to guide the city’s early conversations about revitalization. Those centered on the idea of developing the creative economy, which involves making a place more innovative and exciting for young people and entrepreneurs. It’s what some in economic circles call “soft” development. Creative-economy projects may not translate into a new factory or dozens of new jobs, but they stand to improve a city’s overall health and vitality. Costello says that Rutland residents turned out for those talks in overwhelming numbers, with as many as 400 people at some meetings. The goals the city identified in the beginning — including recreation, a more pedestrian-friendly downtown, strong farm and food links ,and sustainability — are guiding the major downtown revitalization projects under way now. The creative-economy conversation gave birth to Friday Night Live, a popular summer street festival during which Center Street is blocked off for a few hours. After the talks, the city also started Vermont’s first year-round farmers market, which is among the most vibrant in the state. Rutland boosters say those examples only scratch the surface of the energy the city is mustering. They point with pride to the Gift of Life blood drive — this year, the second-largest single-day drive in the country. There’s the Halloween parade. There’s the way the city turned out after Irene. When it matters, residents say, the city pulls together. “This town has a lot to give,” Sabataso says. “[That energy] exists here. It’s built into this community, and it’s just a matter of harnessing it.” m

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Jobs was ousted, he recaps, “The minute Sculley got the majority on the executive council, it was all over.” In fact, Jobs was just getting started. Apple went on to develop the iPod, iBook, iPhone and iPad. Last week, Apple briefly overtook Exxon as the most valuable corporation in the U.S. From his unique vantage point, Manock had a clear view of a visionary entrepreneur who employed what colleagues describe as a “reality distortion field” to charm, inspire and drive his employees to do the impossible. Manock lists Jobs among the top five most influential people in the world, along with Gandhi and Jesus Christ. You could say Manock, now 66, is an Apple apostle. The sole proprietor of Manock Comprehensive Design has mastered no shortage of design challenges, and for 21 years has taught a University of Vermont class on integrated product development. Art and engineering — and marketing — are compatible in Manock’s world. His wife, Mary Ellen, and two daughters, Abby and Katherine, are all artists. Abby borrowed her dad’s copy of Steve Jobs before Manock had a chance to do much more than check the index, confirm he was in it and determine Jobs hadn’t described him as a bozo. On a recent trip to Maine with her parents, “Abby read it all the way over and all the way back, and would all of a sudden start cracking up,” Manock says. “Then she’d ask me about those parts of it I was involved in. I loved her interest in it. And it is sort of part of her heritage, too.” The Manocks still have the teddy bear Jobs gave Abby on the occasion of her birth, almost 35 years ago. These days, Jerry Manock is busy readying all his other historic Apple paraphernalia — blueprints, business plans, confidential memos, color chips, hardware, project notebooks — to ship to the Silicon Valley archive at Stanford University, where he earned a bachelor’s and master’s in mechanical engineering with a graduate focus on product design. Manock suggested the curator come out to see what he’s got first, but a few brief mentions sufficed. “I started naming off some stuff,” Manock says. “He said, ‘We’ll take it.’” Not included in the shipment: Manock’s memories of working alongside a future legend, and their brief encounters after he moved his family to Vermont in 1985. That conversation — pieced together from talks at his Burlington home and office — is excerpted here. andy duback

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erry Manock’s Burlington office is crammed with industrialdesign jobs that never saw the light of day: a hockey skate with an adjustable blade; a “Cubic” furniture building block that IKEA almost bought; and a model for the “rumbler,” a bathroom-scale-like device designed to vibrate at a frequency to maintain elder bone density. Any number of factors — timing, money, patent problems — can kill a great invention. But Manock got at least one product right. In 1977, when he was 33 and Apple had just five employees, Steve Jobs hired him as a consultant to design the Apple II, one of the first personal computers in history to be successfully mass produced and marketed. Manock gets credit for almost everything but the circuit board and the logic (which was engineered by Jobs’ partner and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak): the machine’s “thermal management, the structure, the outside aesthetics, the color — beige, Pantone 453, the color of the deep-space universe,” Manock says, rattling off his contributions to the once-cutting-edge Apple II, which now looks like a yellowing typewriter on a shelf in his office. Beside it sits the smaller, selfcontained, revolutionary Macintosh. A successor to the Apple II, it was the first personal computer to incorporate both a graphical interface and a mouse in a way that inspired the term “user-friendly.” Manock was part of the original team of a half-dozen workers who designed the Mac. Both man and machine are Apple originals. Manock first turns up on page 73 of Walter Isaacson’s 627-page best-selling biography, Steve Jobs, which was rushed Jerry Manock and his Mac to publication last October, just three weeks after Jobs died of pancreatic cancer. Although Isaacson never spoke to Manock, the book reads like he did. Such positive reactions were rare. As Isaacson docuAbout the Apple II, he writes, “Jobs wanted a simple and elegant design, which he hoped would set Apple apart ments, Jobs was an unapologetic critic of every step of the from the other machines, with their clunky gray metal product-development process, from hardware functionalcases… He offered a local consultant, Jerry Manock, $1500 ity to the experience of opening the box. But he was satisfied enough with Manock’s work on the Apple II — and to produce such a design.” Manock says the deal was for $1800, and has a letter subsequent Disk II — to hire him full time as corporate manager of product design. signed by Jobs to prove it. For three and a half years, Manock and his colleagues Isaacson goes on: “Manock, dubious about Jobs’ appearance, asked for the money up front. Jobs refused, worked under Jobs, perfecting the Mac. He witnessed but Manock took the job anyway. Within weeks, he had Apple’s early innovation, exponential growth and subproduced a simple foam-modeled plastic case that was sequent conflicts — including the one between Jobs and CEO John Sculley. Although Manock left Apple before uncluttered and exuded friendliness. Jobs was thrilled.”

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There were about five people in the company when he called me to come up to the Homebrew Computer Club at Stanford Linear Accelerator [Center] to talk to him about the design of the Apple II. What totally stands out: I came up to a group of maybe four people that he was already talking to, who were kind of circled around him… He’d just work his way around the circle, and when he’d come back to me, he’d pick up exactly where he left off. And I thought, Oh, my God. That really impressed me. He had a very quick mind and was very savvy about what was going on. What I heard later is they had asked a lot of other designers in Silicon Valley if they could meet this very tight schedule — this was November or December of ’76 and they wanted to have multiple Apple IIs at the West Coast Computer Faire in April of ’77. I think a lot of other people, other designers, turned him down and said that’s totally impossible. I didn’t have that experience, so I said, “I’ll give it a try” and quickly started building models.

delivered the work, so it was totally stupid and naïve on my part. And he was a really incredible negotiator. I had just stopped working for a big company. I wanted to be on my own, set my own schedule. Then, like, 75 percent of my billing was to Apple. So I said, “Look, this is crazy. I’ll join you, but I only want to work half time. Twenty hours a week. Well, I wound up working, like, 50 hours a week, for half pay. I did that for about six months. I thought, This is totally stupid. When I signed the papers as a full-time employee, I was No. 246. I always tell people I could have been No. 6, which was worth, like, $85 million when they went public. But instead, I wanted my $20-anhour consulting fee.

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Walking back from lunch one day, I said, Steve, you paid me $1800 for the Apple II, and it’s getting to be more and more popular, and I really think I ought to have a royalty on that. I ought to get, like, a dollar a unit, because $1800 wasn’t all that much. He never hesitated. He looked at me and said, “You’re very good. But if you knew how many we thought we were going to sell in the next two or three years … You’re not that good.” What do you say to that? He was absolutely right. How many millions of those things did they sell? You can’t ask for royalties after you’ve

Steve was a really good motivator — of groups. He wasn’t necessarily good oneon-one. He wanted to see what was going on, so he’d come up behind with no warning and say, “What’s that piece of crap?” I’d start trying to explain, “Well, I had to take this into account and also this...” and get all tongue-tied. He’d just get disgusted and walk away. A lot of people took that as a negative criticism of what was being done, and then they would change it, and then they’d get fired.

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We still have Apple stock, but it’s not the original. The basis of that stock went from 3 cents a share to $65 a share when it went public. You can imagine some of those tech guys in the lab, with just a high school education, were given maybe a thousand shares of stock when they joined. These kids were all of a sudden worth millions of dollars. The IRS said, if you exercise the option, it’s just like earned income. You have to pay taxes on it. All of a sudden these guys were getting tax bills from the IRS for, like, $185,000. They didn’t know what to do … I wrote to the IRS and said, “I’ll try to pay you quarterly.” They wrote back and said, “Pay it all now or go to jail.” This was serious stuff. But we were lucky.

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iWitness « p.31 prepare, then go back to his office and say, “Steve, when you came by the other day, I wasn’t able to tell you these things, but this is why I did what I did.” He’d look at all of it and say, “OK, that’s fine. That’s great. Keep going.” I can remember a meeting, with what must have been 50 or 60 people, for an Apple project. The manager of the peripherals division did a critical path analysis of how long it would take to do. It was maybe a three-year time frame. Steve came in and sort of looked at it and said, “I want it done in nine months.” We all knew the analysis going in. When we walked out, we looked at each other and said: “We just agreed to do it in nine months. What happened?” Of course we did it in, probably, 10 months. He had this way of projecting that vision: his “reality distortion field.”

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say: They’re going to base their knowledge on what exists now. I know what is going to exist five years from now, and they’re not going to understand that.

When somebody asked him what kind of market share he wanted, Steve was famous for saying, “I want it all. I want 100 percent.”

His genius was in synthesizing different technologies and putting them together to solve a problem that you didn’t know you had — a couple of years out. Apparently, before he died, he laid out four to five years of product-succession plans.

Steve’s probably directly responsible for the experience of opening the box. The first thing you’d see was a plastic box that said, “Open me first.” Graphic pictures showed you how to set it down on the desk, take this end of the cord and plug it

in. Then the computer was programmed to come on and smile at you and lead you on to the next step. It was all part of the design of the product. Packaged experience. That’s concurrent engineering. You don’t have responsibility for just one part of the product. That was Steve’s vision. The whole basis of the class I’ve taught at UVM for 21 years is … integrated product development, which means concurrently

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Steve invited 10,000 of his closest friends to the Apple III kickoff party — at Disneyland — and the computer started having intermittent problems. It would black out and come back on. Everybody was blaming it on my thermal management. Finally we realized it was the circuit board. It was the last one that Apple laid out by hand before the computer made sure the lines were straight. Steve called me into his office one day, and I was expecting to get fired because of all these Apple III problems. Instead of that, he said, “This was a big problem, and I’m really unhappy about it, but I’m not going to fire you. I want you to join Jef Raskin on his Macintosh team.” That was the closest I ever came to getting fired.

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looking at all of these things: the aesthetics, the engineering, the marketing … which is what we were doing at Apple. Not necessarily purposefully, but everybody was just thrown together… I would walk through the software place and look around and see what people were doing … walk through the marketing area. I had my drawings all on the walls, so anybody could come up. There was a red pencil hanging there. I’d say, “If you see something you don’t like, or is a problem — I don’t care whether it’s a janitor or Steve — write the correction, circle it, put your phone there and I’ll call you and we’ll talk about it.” I have a sweatshirt upstairs that says, “90 hours a week and loving it.” At the end of the Mac project, when we were under pressure to release it, [Mac team colleague] Burrell Smith came to a party and he had crossed out the 9 with masking tape, so it said “0 hours a week and loving it.” The long hours were mitigated to some extent by Steve being very generous with bonuses. I also have an Apple Hero medal. People were recognized for contributions. He was very good at doing that.

it without ever touching a physical thing, without ever building a model to hold in your hand. To me, that’s really dangerous. I get really upset when I’m walking downtown and there are three young people walking toward me — all with their heads down. I try to make eye contact to say hello, good morning, and nothing. The disconnect there bothers me, and that’s going to get nothing but worse. I’ve got my iPhone and GPS and news anytime I want it. But my mindset is: I’m not married to this thing. I don’t have to look at it every five minutes. I can kind of use the technology for what I need. I feel pretty balanced that way. And I’ve made a conscious decision not to go with all the social-media stuff, because it takes up too much of my time. I can’t read a book. I can’t sketch. I can’t go to movies if I’m constantly tweeting somebody.

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When the iPhone came out, I sent Steve an email saying, “Why don’t you just buy your own communications satellite to have a worldwide cell network. AT&T has the iPhone in Vermont, and we use Verizon. His response was: “Thank you, Jerry.”

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A lot of the people at the end of the Macintosh project had really serious problems. The engineering manager, between the stress of getting that project out and the ScullyJobs battle, was called into the executive conference room and asked, “Who do you support?” He said, “Well, I work for the Macintosh division, and Steve is my division manager, so I support him.” And so they said, “Well, you’re fired.” Just like that. He got in his truck — he was married with two daughters — and just disappeared.

Mary Ellen and I went to California — it must have been 10 years ago. We went to the annual meeting, unannounced, and sat in the fourth row. The executive staff came onstage and they sat on their little stools, going through their business. Steve looked over at us and he did a double take. I thought, Well, that’s really nice. He recognized us. At the end of the meeting, when they asked if there was any more business, Steve said, “I have some business.” He said, “I just want to acknowledge Jerry Manock.” And he told of our contribution, being on the Macintosh team. Everybody stood up. It was a standing ovation. He didn’t have to do that.

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To me, basically, [Steve] was a compassionate person, who had super high expectations and tried to get the best out of everybody. He had a vision that we certainly didn’t have… People took the creativity it gave them and added their own, and made it fit, which is really rewarding.

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n Vermont, we read a lot of poetry about Vermont. From Robert Frost to David Budbill to current poet laureate Sydney Lea, poets have found rich and rare material in the state’s landscape, culture and contradictions. But Vermonters — even poets — occasionally do go elsewhere. In recent collections, two writers at different stages of life tell us what they found there. Travel is the thematic thread linking the lyrics and occasional prose poems in Neil Shepard’s (T)ravel/Un(t)ravel — a title that may confuse readers unfamiliar with grad-school-seminar wordplay. The idea is to read the word “ravel” and its opposite inside the word “travel” — and to consider how experience in foreign climes, which is supposed to enrich and build us, can unravel us at the same time.

of Paris where “the news is nothing but nice news,” Shepard registers a different, moral kind of disgust at the residents’ denial of past and present horrors. In verses about the Marquesas, he unravels more voluptuously — letting his muse revel in the too-muchness of the tropical landscape, then dreaming himself into the native spirit world “of dissolving souls / that smudge the light.” Time unravels, too, when Shepard visits the haunts of dead geniuses:

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“You’ve seen them unravel as the other world / spins into view,” Shepard writes of voyagers returned from afar, in the title poem that opens the collection. “Perhaps you’ve felt the vertigo, too — / the pig’s throat slit, spit dripped in a kava bowl, / maggots in a plate of noodles...” In another poem, “(T)ravel/Un(t) ravel: Monkey Forest Road (Ubud, Bali),” Shepard describes waking under mosquito netting beside his wife and gearing himself up to venture into the alienating chaos of the Bali marketplace, a block and a world away. “How will I arrive there unscathed and prepared?” he asks. “Or will I always arrive scarred and fearful, / my meditations unravelling.” It’s refreshing to read a well-traveled poet who acknowledges culture shock, rather than posing as blithely cosmopolitan. (Shepard, the senior editor of the Johnson-based Green Mountains Review, currently splits his time between Vermont and New York.) But the unraveling he describes in (T)ravel/Un(t)ravel is not just the wincing of sheltered Americans confronted with public animal slaughter and deformed beggars. In “C’est Dommage,” a poem about living in an affluent suburb

Shakespeare’s Avon, Keats’ house on Hampstead Heath, Wordsworth’s Mount Snowdon, Monet’s garden at Giverny. In “Following in the Footsteps of Melville,” he listens dutifully as a modern Marquesan explains what the white man got wrong. All these intertextual poems feel a bit dutiful, truth be told. The learned allusions are in place, the ironic historical consciousness functional, but we don’t feel the poet “unraveling” (or unraveling the mysteries of art and life) as he examines the traces of those who sang their songs before him. The closest Shepard comes to breaking through his own contemplative calm is perhaps in “Punting on the Cam,” where he watches students row the river once frequented by half the luminaries of English literature. Could it be that the “old poets ... postured / here as wildly” as these callow undergrads? As he envisions the antics of collegiate Byron, Shepard releases his inner curmudgeon: “oh, how much like you, youth, posturing / over the water before you fall in and drown.” Shepard’s alienation from the hotblooded, overweening youth of the great

BOOKS poets makes sense. His read like verses of a more settled age — reflecting on his unraveling in tranquility, as Wordsworth might put it. While Shepard’s images can be vivid — as travel poems must be — he tends to subordinate his pictures and his songcraft to carefully parsed ideas. Rare is the poem here that does as much as it says. Yet one feels, closing the book, as if one has traveled the world with a thoughtful companion. In a poem called “I Say Nada to Nada (Cadiz, Spain),” middle-aged Shepard engages with his younger traveling self, a kid who hadn’t yet reached that thoughtful stage: I was twenty, ripped jeans, rucksack, cervezas and chasers. I was dinner at 5 o’clock, no entiendo to every god-damn thing. I was guidebook-challenged...

My light the orange bulb of phosphorescent fungus, the firefly that pricks the night in flashbulb pops, the wooden yellow glow of an open eye before sleep shuts the animal down. Impersonating a fern requires the poet to pull off the artful naïveté of Blake in Songs of Innocence and Experience, and Rhoads does. Though her imagery can become dense, she alternates it with simple language that pulls the reader into an immediate relationship with, say, the book’s namesake: “[a] displaced bat / with pale fur and wings / I can see the sun through ... / ... / It is day. What is this bat doing out?” Indeed, what is this bat doing out? Like “The Day Bat,” or the self-protectively furling fern, the experiences sketched in these lyrics seem to resist full exposure. Yet sometimes nature steps in, bringing catharsis like a “Monsoon (Koh Chang, Thailand)”: In the gulf gathers blue bellied Garuda, god of courage. His wings sweep stiff winds across the bay, his beak blots out the sun.

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Whether she’s birdwatching or skipping out on an ashram lecture to hear the Ganges “babbl[e] on, aloof, meditating” (“Rishikesh”), Rhoads’ landscapes are always eerily alive. While Shepard turns his foreign experiences into carefully wrought exempla — totems of our hopes and fears, raveling and unraveling — Rhoads simply gets under a moment’s skin and puts us in it. And when she gives us moments closer to home, as in “Second Winter in Vermont,” we may feel a tonic shock of recognition. Coming home, it turns out, can unravel us, too.

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urlington poet Edie Rhoads evokes what sound like her own postcollegiate travels in The Day Bat, a handmade, letter-pressed collection published by local Honeybee Press with help from the Vermont Arts Council. But Rhoads doesn’t embrace the “nada” of hedonistic Europass travel, or write with the selfseriousness of many young Americans who find themselves abroad. Instead, she produces verses of tense maturity, whether she’s describing a parched cow in Chaco Canyon, a monsoon in Thailand, a riverboat in Laos or a Chinese lotus pond. More lyrical and personal than Shepard’s, yet also more oblique, Rhoads’ poems often approach the self through the landscape. “In my life there are few clean lines,” she writes in “Rigidity (Cabarete, St. John).” ).” “Tides swell, sands pile and slough.” In “At the Lotus Pond (Kunming, China),” ),” the poet finds herself “So far from home ... /... / I cannot remember our old ways. / My eyes crowd with bright light / and the white, pink-veined petals / of the lotus.” In “Fern,” the self literally is part of the landscape, as the fern

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lost her husband, Charles (Paul Ugalde), and Virginia acknowledges that she has lost her sense of purpose. These realities are thrown into harsh relief when Charles bounds into the house with his newfound soul mate, Ana (Alicia Kaplan), one of his breast-cancer patients. What follows is a comic meditation on love, life, death and laughter’s transcendent commentary on human existence. More dualities emerge: the objectivity of medical science versus the fated union of

strong performances from every member of her cast. Most notable is McGovern as Matilde. Her sullen demeanor and deadpan delivery, adorned with a quirky yet infectious Portuguese accent, earn a chuckle nearly every time she opens her mouth. The more gravely she proclaims her intent to channel the perfect joke, despite fearing it may kill her, the more comical her character becomes. She could be mourning the fate of a world deprived of this mystical zinger as much as the loss of her parents.

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As the frosty doctor Lane, Block walks a nuanced emotional line between devastation and rage. This allows her to become a basket case when news of her husband’s philandering hits, but also to show compassion when events appeal to her nature as a healer. As Charles’ paramour, Ana, Kaplan exudes an alluring, exotic appeal — her tango steps seem an extension of her personality. Her carefree persona shakes up the orderly world of The Clean House, forcing to the fore some of the play’s more poignant questions about living life to the fullest. Alicea’s directorial skills also find impressive expression in Ugalde’s turn as Charles and Wallman’s portrayal of Virginia. Until this production, these local acting talents were quantities better known to Burlington audiences than to newcomer Alicea, so it’s worth noting how successfully the director has drawn on their signature strengths. The ever-enthusiastic Ugalde brings

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two lovers; the blossoming of love versus the dying of cells; and the spotless home where dirty laundry hangs everywhere. Scenic designer Jeff Modereger’s set renders two different domestic environments — the aforementioned upper-class living room and, later, the front porch of a simpler seaside abode — with a level of verisimilitude that defies the confines of the FlynnSpace stage. John B. Forbes’ lighting design incorporates projections on the stage floor — Portuguese phrases and object motifs — that, while interesting to spot, were not clearly visible from many seats in the house. One suspects his intended effect was not fully realized in this production. Technical considerations aside, playwright Ruhl’s storytelling gifts are on brilliant display from scene to scene. The Clean House conjures the kind of narrative universe where even the most minor details, such as the black olive that Lane must toss in her martini for lack of a proper garnish, appear to reinforce the work’s themes. Director Alicea, too, demonstrates solid control of her material. She has elicited

to Charles a convincingly over-the-moon passion for his new lover, punctuated by a few well-timed comic strokes, such as when he rationalizes the union with a reference to Jewish law (neither he nor Ana is Jewish). Ugalde can run a little hot onstage, but in The Clean House he stays in the groove. Wallman has earned a reputation for consistency and range, and this production showcases her keen theatrical instincts and comic timing. To be sure, her Virginia is a bit unreliable — maybe those furniture-polish fumes are taking their toll. But Wallman doesn’t take her character’s eccentricity so far over the top that she can’t turn back to express credible angst, anger and a girlish infatuation with her brother-in-law. While spirited, well-rounded performances energize The Clean House, the story strays a bit in the second act — along with some characters — and takes on a looseness that contrasts with its crisp first act. In those spots where it becomes untidy, the play’s comedic luster also dulls. Not-so-comical complications — in Lane and Charles’ marriage, in Ana’s physical health — reveal the work’s more serious side. Matilde assumes a supporting role for a stretch, and her diminished presence is conspicuous. There are other minor inconsistencies in the play’s overall tone. Ruhl’s humor is rich and resonant throughout The Clean House, but a few magical-realist flourishes and sporadic moments of utter absurdity come across as more ornamental than integral. Levity is both medium and message in this play — the jokes illuminating deeper truths — but some moments feel more like gags. Any comic voice is bound to falter once or twice over the course of a routine, especially one the length of a play. Ruhl’s refreshingly original comedic vision, however, mostly buoys this work aloft on its punchy, poignant journey. That Alicea has chosen The Clean House for her VSC directorial debut reveals the talent, sensibility and technique on which she can draw in her tenure at the helm of the company. m

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iverse cultures throughout history have embraced the healing properties of laughter. But, for the Brazilian protagonist of The Clean House, Sarah Ruhl’s 2005 play, not just any jest will do. Only the perfect joke will cure her gloom. Now if she could just come up with it. That effort, dramatized in the Vermont Stage Company production of The Clean House currently running at FlynnSpace, is a laudable laughing matter. In her directorial debut as VSC’s new producing artistic director, Cristina Alicea distinguishes herself as resourceful and ambitious. This is a funny, clever play. But its humor derives from the complex interactions among characters struggling with thorny emotional circumstances. Under Alicea’s direction, the show wrangles this messiness into a breezy comedy that celebrates humor’s power to lift us out of darkness. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, The Clean House is a masterpiece of amusingly incidental ironies and paradoxes. The main character, a Brazilian maid named Matilde (Deanna McGovern), is a would-be standup comic mourning the recent loss of her parents — “the funniest people in Brazil,” she claims. Her mother literally laughed to death at one of her father’s jokes, whereupon he killed himself. Matilde’s black attire contrasts with the stark-white furnishings of the American home where she works and lives. As she mopes about, racking her brain to come up with the perfect joke, her preoccupation prevents her from carrying out her duties — much to the dismay of Lane (Dana Block), one of the married surgeons who employ her. Lane struts about in a cream-colored pantsuit — an imperious portrait of competence and order. Yet she can’t move her maid to do her job, and she appears blind to problems in her own marriage. Enter Lane’s sister, Virginia (Ruth Wallman). Despite her Bryn Mawr education, Virginia has domesticated herself so fully that, once she has completed her daily cleaning regimen at home, she can’t think of anything else to do. The moral and psychological boost she derives from house cleaning drives her to Lane’s house, where she volunteers her services to Matilde. It’s a perfect arrangement. Neat. Tidy. Until it’s not. No sooner has Virginia taken over Matilde’s chores than the real dirt in this Clean House is unearthed. It’s a potent mixture of loss to which Matilde, Lane and Virginia all contribute. Matilde has lost her parents, Lane realizes that she has

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Tucked behind the bar of LEUNIG’S BISTRO is a secret: a Leunig’s Bistro stairway that leads to the new upstairs bar, which opened on Tuesday. The art-deco décor amplifies the speakeasy feel, but anyone who can ascend the slim staircase needs no password to enter, starting at 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays. The upstairs stays open, like the downstairs, till 10 p.m. during the week and 11 p.m. on weekends. General manager BOB CONLON says the lounge was built to handle the overflow of diners waiting to be seated downstairs. But it’s likely to become a destination itself, with a menu that includes fun bar foods not available at the restaurant proper. Kettle chips are sweet with duck fat and come with a sensuous truffle aioli for dipping. French onion bites offer all the best parts of the Leunig’s signature soup, sans broth. Diners seeking a light snack before heading downstairs will find charcuterie plates, crudités and nuts. During Leunig’s popular Sunday brunch, the upstairs offers a treat of its own. An array of special Bloody Marys accompanies a raw bar. Those looking for a meaty wake-up call can try a Mary made with bouillon, bacon and olives stuffed with pepperoni.

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With the legislative session going hot and heavy, folks under and around Montpelier’s golden dome are sure to be hungry. This month, they’ll have a new option for breakfast, lunch and dinner when CLEAN SLATE CAFÉ opens in the turn-ofthe-century building at 107 State Street, last occupied by the THRUSH TAVERN, which closed in 2008. According to general manager DAVID WOLFE, who also helped to open CAROLINE’S FINE DINING in Jericho, he and owner ATHENE CUA are working hard to make the café a departure from Thrush Tavern’s “smoke-filled backroom” atmosphere. “We just want a really comfortable place for people to have a little lunch, have a little breakfast and something a little bit nicer for dinner,” Wolfe explains. Chef JON BERESFORD has that covered with a seasonal menu of meals crafted from local ingredients. Diners can start the day with andouille sausage biscuits and gravy, a lighter take on the traditional Southern dish, with a spicy sauce filled with parsley. “It’s something a little different than your average truck stop,” Beresford says. Lunch includes a potpie du jour, corned beef on marbled rye and meatloaf on focaccia. At dinner, there’s lamb shank with red wine demi-glacé and scalloped potatoes — a dish Beresford says typifies his simple but elegant oeuvre. “So much food today is overdone, with too many flavors going on and too much stuff on the plate,” he explains. “I want to bring out the products I’m using, so diners can really understand the product and not have it muddled.”

Contractors are hard at work building a new openplan kitchen and full-service bar. Wolfe hopes to start bringing tasters in with soft openings announced online in upcoming weeks. Once Clean Slate is fully open by the end of the month, he thinks it will attract guests not just from the Statehouse but from across Central Vermont and “even as far as Burlington.” Time to plan a trip.

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This is all new to Finsen. Until now, he was a passionate amateur butcher. “This is my first time having this as actual employment,” he says. “It’s nice to do something you love to do. I was a painter, bartender and bouncer before this. It took a lot of things to pay for my hobbies, basically.” Chief among those hobbies were raising his own heritage Jacob sheep (a coincidence, he swears) and rabbits — for meat — and running an on-farm slaughter service with his brother. The pair grew up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, slaughtering six pigs a year with their chef father and breaking them down in the garage. Today, the brothers’ customers include Crop Bistro chef Tom Bivins, who acorn-finishes his porkers for nuttytasting ham that he shares with friends and family. Finsen was working as a bartender and “door tender” at Charlie O’s in Montpelier when he became acquainted with Nagy, the chef at Three Penny Taproom. The two struck up a friendship, largely based on their affection for the other white meat. Late in 2010, Nagy left the Montpelier bar to open his taqueria, an homage to the Mexican flavors of his native southern California. Meanwhile, Morris had just convinced his former employer, Amerian Flatbread’s George Schenk, to sell him his walk-in freezers. These were the backbone of a project close to Morris’ heart — a place where Mad River Valley farmers could make value-added products. “It’s about maximizing the income you could make,” Morris says now. “When you come into a kitchen or meatprocessing facility, you can double and triple [the product’s] value. It’s an allaround plus, plus, plus.” Even as the VMC expands beyond being able to rely on the state’s small haul of whey pigs, it will continue to buy 100 percent of its meat from Vermont farmers. “We very well could buy pork from

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out of the state or even out of the country, but it’s important to us to keep that agricultural sustainability going in the state,” says Nagy. “That’s our No. 1 goal.” “Absolutely, it’s the best you’re gonna get,” adds Finsen. “That goes without saying.” Nagy foresees eventually having two separate VMC lines: one featuring sausage and bacon made from conventionally fed Vermont pigs; the other specializing in cured products such as pancetta and guanciale crafted from the whey-fed porkers. The latter line will expand as more whey-fed pigs become available. It calls for special curing facilities, necessitating another HACCP plan and lots more work for Finsen.

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donations are down by more than half. Food-shelf warehouse manager Bill Dennison has noticed that, two holiday seasons ago, donations of food were more varied. This year, he says, “We had pallets and pallets of creamed corn, canned food coming out of our ears.” Donations of staples such as peanut butter and cans of tuna fish, foods “high in protein with core value,” have fallen, says Judy Stermer, the Vermont Foodbank’s director of communications. So the Foodbank is buying more of those staples — sometimes at staggering prices — to augment the U.S. Department of Agriculture foods on which the nonprofit relies. Those purchases are one reason why the Foodbank will increase its food budget by 30 percent this year. “A more typical [yearly] increase might be 10 to 12 percent,” Stermer says. Food prices are based on a complicated web of factors. For instance, last year, peanut butter cost the Foodbank $13.54 per case. Since then, peanut production has decreased due to the drought in Texas and farmers turning their efforts to more lucrative cotton crops, so the price is up. The Foodbank paid $23.39 per case for its

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Weather or Not It’s hard to claim full-blown cabin fever in a winter as balmy as this one, but folks with inklings of that dreaded seasonal antsyness can kiss it goodbye at the Green Mountain Club’s 16th annual Snowshoe Festival & Winter Party. Weather permitting, outdoorsy types embrace the whiteblanketed landscape through sledding, snowshoe minigolf and a snowman-building contest. Snow or no, hikers of all ages and experience levels take in wooded hills and fields through guided nature walks. Dog-sledding demos, a bird-on-glove presentation and an animal-tracking excursion augment the activities. At 3 p.m., Dave Day and friends kick a winter party into gear with live Irish tunes. Hot cocoa and s’mores are a definite.

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Friday, February 3, 7:30 p.m., at UVM Recital Hall in Burlington. Preperformance talk at 6:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455. uvm.edu/laneseries

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he vocals are mostly soft murmurs and the rhythms are spare, but there’s no denying the punch behind Meklit Hadero’s restrained melodies. It’s not just their overtly sensual nature — “I know how you kiss your lovers,” she purrs in “It Will Be Quiet” — but their boundless cross-cultural roots. Hadero inflects each song with folk, jazz and Afrobeat traditions that speak to her upbringing as an Ethiopian-born, Americanbred singer. Called “an artistic giant in the early stages” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Hadero is currently launching a campaign to bring together musicians along the Nile River in multicultural exchanges of sound. Sample songs from her full-length debut, On a Day Like This..., on Friday.

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Saturday, February 4, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., at Green Mountain Club Visitor Center in Waterbury Center. $8-10; free for kids under 12. Proceeds support GMC education programs. Info, 244-7037. greenmountainclub.org

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Sarah Ruhl’s play of healing and forgiveness, presented by Vermont Stage Company. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-32.50. Info, 863-5966.

politics Mayoral Debate: The three candidates weigh in on crime and violence in a forum cosponsored by Burlington College’s Institute of Civic Engagement and the Caroline Fund. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800-862-9616.

seminars Financial Literacy Presentation: Spenders and savers learn to control their cash and plan for the future in a seminar with the University of Vermont’s Kit Ardell. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476, karen.madden@jsc.edu. Tech Savvy: Experience the wonder of the web while learning about free online classes available to those with a library card. Bradford Public Library, 3 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536, bradfordpubliclibrary@gmail.com.

sport Night Riders: Skiers and riders compete in the illuminated terrain parks for prizes. Bolton Valley Resort, 4:30-8 p.m. $18 includes lift ticket; $12 for season-pass holders. Info, 877-926-5866.

talks David Schütz: The Vermont state curator explores the architectural, cultural and political significance of the Statehouse. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. Gordon Robison: In “One Year After the Arab Spring,” the journalist and UVM lecturer considers the lingering challenges for policy makers in the U.S. and the Middle East. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. Irene Kacandes: The Dartmouth professor analyzes approaches to life writing in “The Memoir Boom: Who, What, Why.” Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

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Lunch & Learn: Herbs, veggies and houseplants all year round? Speaker Mike Ather explains how in “Light Gardening.” Gardener’s Supply, Williston, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.

community Thursday Night Potlucks: My precious! Twenty- and thirtysomethings discuss the spiritual and ethical implications of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy at an evening organized by Burlington’s First United Methodist Church and Ascension Lutheran Church. 25 Buell St., Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free; bring a dish to share. Info, 881-3768, rachelstampul@gmail.com.

crafts Every Woman’s Craft Connection: Inventive females work on artful projects at a biweekly meet-up. Essex Alliance Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 879-5176.

etc. Community Bike Shop Night: Steadfast cyclists keep their rides spinning and safe for year-round pedaling. FreeRide Bike Co-op, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 552-3521.

Todd Lecture Series: Ellyn McColgan, executive advisor to New York City’s Aquiline Capital Partners, delivers a lecture on career-building leadership principles in “You Cannot Lead From the Middle.” Dole Auditorium, Norwich University, Northfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2633, toddlectureseries@ norwich.edu.

theater ‘Humble Boy’: The death of his father strains a man’s relationship with his mother in Charlotte Jones’ comedy about love, redemption and beekeeping, presented by Champlain Theatre. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-20; free for Champlain College students. Info, 865-5468. ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’: Love is a cruel game in this deliciously wicked play based on the novel by Choderlos de Laclos and presented by Northern Stage. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $30-60. Info, 296-7000. ‘The Clean House’: A housekeeper obsessively searches for a joke to define her parents’ lives in

‘Inland Empire’: An actress’ life begins to mirror the fictional film in which she’s starring in David Lynch’s 2006 experimental thriller. BCA Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-7166. ‘Kevin Smith: Live From Behind Featuring ‘Jay and Silent Bob Get Old’’: The indie filmmaker and his frequent sidekick Jason Mewes host a podcast before a live, interactive Q&A broadcast to theaters across the country. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $15. Info, 660-9300.

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‘Food for Thought’ Library Volunteers: Pizza accompanies discussion of books and library projects for teens. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Franklin Story Hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Georgia Playgroup: Provided snacks offer an intermission to free play. Georgia Youth Center, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Middlebury Preschoolers Story Hour: Tiny ones become strong readers through activities with tales, songs and rhymes. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Montgomery Playgroup: Infants to 2-yearolds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Music With Raphael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves to traditional and original folk music. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Pajama Story Time: Little kids rock nightgowns and flannels as special guests read from books. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Snug in the Snow: Kiddos experience winter, like meadow voles and river otters nestling under the powder and sliding atop it. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068, vermont@audubon.org.

Step Up to Green Electrical & Plumbing: Informational Session: Folks learn about getting into the electrical and plumbing trades through an eight-week, coed, preapprenticeship course with a sustainability focus, to begin in early March. Vermont Works for Women, Winooski, 12:301:30 p.m. & 4:15-5:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 655-8900, ext. 112.

sport Tele Thursdays: It’s all downhill as folks try out free-heel skiing with the crew from Eastern Mountain Sports. Bolton Valley Resort, 5-8 p.m. Regular lift-ticket prices apply; reservations suggested to reserve demo equipment. Info, 877-926-5866.

talks Green Mountain Global Forum: William Arkin, coauthor of Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, presents his findings and conclusions on an invisible branch of government. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994. Jerome Shedd: Just before the Metropolitan Opera’s live broadcast of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, this conductor and composer offers insight into the complex Ring cycle finale. Middlebury Ambulance Center, 7 p.m. Donations accepted for the Opera Company of Middlebury. Info, 388-1436.

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Auditions for ‘Lend Me a Tenor’: wn Ha l The Shelburne Players get the ball Teen Advisory Board: Middle and l Th eater rolling for their April production, a madcap high schoolers have a say in program plancomedy about an Italian opera superstar who disning and the teen collection. Fletcher Free Library, appears just before his Cleveland debut. Shelburne Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Town Center, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, rhhibbert@ comcast.net. music To

‘A Cappella @ Home’: Lebanon High School’s Superlatives and Dartmouth College’s Rockapellas sing sans instruments. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 603-448-0400. Burlington Songwriters: Lyricists share and critique original works. Heineberg Community & Senior Center, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 859-1822. ‘Motown II’: Student performers show what they’ve learned at the culmination of a winter-term class taught by Miles Donahue. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 443-3168.

Healthy People, Healthy Planet: A six-week reading and discussion series explores the link between human health and the environment. Topics include preventive medicine, eating well, household toxins and more. Quechee Public Library, 6:30-8 p.m. $15 for guidebook; preregister. Info, 295-1232, quelibra@sover.net.

Music in the Loft Concert Series: Phil Henry executes contemporary folk laced with old-school storytelling. Ten percent of proceeds support the Vermont Community Foundation’s Farm Disaster Relief Fund. Shelburne Vineyard, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; wine available by the glass (proper ID required). Info, 985-8222.

Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Bradford: The Bradford Conservation Commission hosts a six-week discussion group. Bradford Public Library, 6:30-8 p.m. $10 for guidebook; preregister. Info, 222-4536, bradfordpubliclibrary@gmail.com.

The Voodoo Fix: The California-born band brings rock, funk and folk together. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1232.

Wellness & Resilience Lecture Series: Patricia Broderick of the Pennsylvania State University Prevention Research Center speaks on “Using Mindfulness Practices to Help Protect Adolescents From Depression and Anxiety.” Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0521.

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of Susan Cooke Kittredge: In “The Su sa Unseen Alistair Cooke,” the daughter nC . M orse of the late journalist shines light on his life beyond reporting. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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Fletcher Playgroup: Little ones make use of the open gym before snack time. Fletcher Elementary School, Cambridge, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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Mayoral Debate at Ward 6 Neighborhood Planning Assembly: Candidates Wanda Hines, Miro Weinberger and Kurt Wright ask each other questions and respond to audience queries on issues related to the Ward 6 neighborhood. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3272 or 399-2240.

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Natalie Kinsey-Warnock: With her grandmother’s quilts in tow, the author explores the generational stories that inspire her writing in “Patchwork: Piecing Together Family History.” Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902.

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Sue Morse: The founder and lead instructor of Keeping Track shares wildlife photography and tips for making sense of animal prints in the fields and woods. Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 595-0467.

Garret Keizer: The author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise talks about the consequences of living in a loud world. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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Early-Literacy Story Time: Weekly themes educate preschoolers and younger children on basic reading concepts. Westford Public Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639, westford_pl@vals.state. vt.us.

Marjorie Ryerson: The author explores one of life’s most profound experiences in “The Intimate Privilege of Being With the Dying.” Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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Auditions for ‘Moon Over Buffalo’: The Brandon Town Players seek men and women for Ken Ludwig’s comedy about the offstage misadventures of a theater troupe. Storm date: February 5 at 4 p.m. First Congregational Church, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 558-5653. ‘Cages: A Live Memoir’: As part of Lost Nation Theater’s four-week-long Winterfest, Donny Osman stages a series of autobiographical stories illustrating life lessons. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 229-0492. ‘Humble Boy’: See WED.01, 8 p.m. ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’: See WED.01, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Clean House’: See WED.01, 7:30 p.m.

words Afternoon Poetry & Creative Writing Group: Scribes come together for an artistic exploration of the inner voice led by lit-lover Janie Mardis. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585. Book Discussion Series: ‘Futures: Utopia and Apocalypse’: Readers explore 19th- and

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Hotel Vermont. Live music and drink specials follow at the Courtyard Marriott. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Farm Disaster Relief Fund. Hotel Vermont, 41 Cherry Street, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $20; for ages 21 and up. Info, info@hotelvt.com.

Martín Prechtel: The author excerpts his newest work, The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants – Keeping the Seeds Alive. Town Hall, New Haven, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 9223488, mahony.susan719@gmail. com.

kids coMMunIty PlaygrouP: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

enoSBurg FallS Story hour: Young ones show up for fables and occasional field trips. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 933-2328.

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SenIor art claSSeS: Folks ages 55 and up explore drawing, pastels, oil and acrylic paints, printmaking, collages, and sculpture while discussing basic design concepts such as shape, texture and color. Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 864-0604.

dance BallrooM leSSon & Dance SocIal: Singles and couples of all levels of experience take a twirl. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; open dancing, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. Dance nIte: Folks in motion boogie down to ‘50s and country hits. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 8-midnight. Free. Info, 518-643-2309.

englISh country Dance: Those keen on Jane Austen’s favorite pastime make rural rounds to music by Impropriety. All dances are taught; first half-hour for experienced dancers. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $5-8; bring finger food to share. Info, 899-2378. UR

Paul taylor Dance OF ST coMPany: The cutting-edge AN GIS KE troupe offers a repertoire spanning more than 40 years, from 1962’s Aureole to 2008’s Beloved Renegade. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25-50. Info, 863-5966.

DocuMentary ScreenIng & concert: Matt and Erica Hinton screen their documentary Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp and answer audience questions before folk artists Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine perform. New City Galerie, Burlington. $5 for the 7 p.m. film; $15-20 for the 9 p.m. concert; seating is limited. Info, 355-5440.

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Ice Bar: Bundle up for Vermont Spirits vodka cocktails served at an ice luge at the site of the future

SWanton PlaygrouP: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

music charlIe alBrIght: The solo pianist blazes through the masterworks. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 775-0903. leWIS Franco & Dono SchaBner: Two instrumentalists offer original swing, vocal harmonies and jazz-based guitar after a preconcert potluck at 6 p.m. Private home, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation; call for reservations and directions. Info, 229-1403, hendrixfiddle@gmail.com. MeklIt haDero: The Ethiopian-born artist melds sultry jazz with an Afrobeat punch. See calendar spotlight. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455. terrance SIMIen & the zyDeco exPerIence: An eighth-generation Louisiana Creole brews together Zydeco roots, N’Awlins funk and reggae-flavored Afro-Carribean. See calendar spotlight. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $16-18. Info, 518-523-2512.

outdoors Full Moon SnoWShoe hIke: Crunch across snowy hillsides in lunar light. Snowshoes and hot chocolate provided. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. $5-8; preregistration recommended. Info, 229-6206. SnoWShoe WIne & DIne: Explore the natural world on a guided excursion of Marshland Farm before a three-course meal. The Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm, 6-9 p.m. $32-40; preregister. Info, 359-5000, ext. 223.

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‘leS lIaISonS DangereuSeS’: See WED.01, 7:30 p.m. ‘the clean houSe’: See WED.01, 7:30 p.m. ‘the ForeIgner’: An introverted Englishman pretends he doesn’t speak the language on a getaway to the American South, only to become privy to a boatload of secrets in Larry Shue’s witty romp, presented by the Plainfield Little Theatre. Town Hall, Cabot, 7:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 563-9965 or 426-3955, cpitkin@fairpoint.net.

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garDen tool MaIntenance: Greenskeepers preserve their equipment in a hands-on workshop with Ben Crockett. UVM Horticultural Research Center, South Burlington, noon-3 p.m. $10-20; bring a few tools on which to practice. Info, 864-3073.

art WorkShoP In chaIr PaIntIng: Artists spruce up seats and stools in a creative class with Kirstin Quick and Rebbie Carleton. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. $10; call for required materials. Info, 728-9878, director@chandler-arts.org.

bazaars craFt & art Sale: Shoppers scope out awwinducing artwork by Kimberlee Forney, Megan Humphrey, Susan Luce and Moe O’Hara just in time for Valentine’s Day. 13 St. Louis Street, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; food and drink provided. Info, 864-7528.

community toWn MeetIng: Sen. Bernie Sanders and local leaders hear out Vermonters’ opinions on the economy, climate change, health care and national debt. Community Center, Jericho Center, 10:30 a.m. Free; brunch provided. Info, 202-224-5141.

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SenIor craFt claSSeS: Folks ages 55 and up experiment with applied decoration — flower arranging, jewelry making, glass painting and more — while discussing design concepts and color. Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 864-0604.

dance BallrooM leSSon & Dance SocIal: See FRI.03, 7-10 p.m. BurlIngton WeStIe BaDaSS BIrthDay BaSh: A west coast swing dance workshop for newcomers precedes a celebratory blowout attracting dancers from Burlington, Montréal and beyond. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $5; free for out-oftown guests or if you bring food to share. Info, 863-6713, info@vpal-us.org. caPItal cIty contra Dance: Steppers move their feet to tunes by David Kaynor, George White and Beth Robinson with calling by Bill Olson. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 744-6163.

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Mary ruSS: The executive director of White River Partnership covers conservation practices and flood-recovery efforts in Central Vermont. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, noon. Donations accepted; bring your own lunch. Info, 728-9878.

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cookIng WIth JozeF harreWyn: The owner of Chef’s Corner Café & Bakery prepares a few of his favorite dishes, including shrapnel pizza tart and classic French tart tatin with chantilly cream. All proceeds benefit the Williston Food Shelf. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

MontgoMery tuMBle tIMe: Physical-fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

‘laverne Devoe ... ISn’t She DeaD?’: Pianist Fred Barnes plays a long-suffering accompanist to Sarah Stone, who belts out jazz, blues and show-tune favorites in the guise of a has-been songstress. Proceeds benefit the Foundation for Alcoholism Research. StudioThree, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 639-6577.

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colcheSter WInter carnIval: A three-day town party includes music and dance performances, a pancake breakfast, a Play-Doh extravaganza, horsedrawn hay rides, skating with cops, and more. Colchester High School, 5-8:30 p.m. $5-6. Info, 264-5643 or 862-3425.

MIDDle School Book cluB: Burlington students lay eyes on awesome reads. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

‘huMBle Boy’: See WED.01, 8 p.m.

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go reD For WoMen: CVPH Medical Center’s medical director of cardiothoracic surgery, Anne Cahill, keynotes a charity dinner raising awareness about heart-disease prevention for women. West Side Ballroom, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 4 p.m. Call for price; preregister. Info, 518-869-4040.

kIDS nIght out: Kindergartners through fifth graders relish active games, crafts, movie time and snacks. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $12; preregister. Info, 864-0123.

cocktaIlS WIth larry MIller: The Hollywood funnyman serves comedy, theater and music on the rocks. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $38. Info, 760-4634.

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at this black-tie affair set to live accompaniment by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Proceeds benefit statewide VSO programs. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. $175-325 includes dinner; cash bar; call for reservations. Info, 800-876-9293, ext. 25. West AfricAn DAnce Workshop: Experienced native dancer Chimie Bangoura demonstrates authentic Guinean moves for kids, teens and adults. Burlington Taiko, noon-1 p.m. $10-12. Info, 377-9721.

education cAmpus tour: Prospective students and their families scout out the institution of higher education. St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-762-8000.

etc. every WomAn’s cAfé: Bonnie Dumaine guest speaks at a breakfast gathering. Community Center, Essex, 9-11 a.m. $7-10. Info, 878-8213, ext. 21.

fairs & festivals Burlington Winter festivAl: Call it a “wintry mix”: The Queen City is home to the Penguin Plunge, the Kids VT Camp and School Fair, the Young Tradition Showcase, the Vermont Snow Sculpting Competition, and more. Various downtown locations, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Various prices; $1 “Ice Breaker” button. Info, 864-0123. colchester Winter cArnivAl: See FRI.03, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

film WooDstock film festivAl: Winter series: A small Australian community strives to preserve its culture in the face of 21st-century globalization in In My Father’s Country. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $4-10. Info, 457-2355.

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cAleDoniA Winter fArmers mArket: Freshly baked goods, veggies, beef and maple syrup feature prominently in displays of “shop local” options. Welcome Center, St. Johnsbury, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088. chAmplAin islAnDs Winter fArmers mArket: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. South Hero

Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $3-9. Info, 388-9782.

a.m. $15-25; $65 per family of four. Info, 496-3551, ext. 117.

community BreAkfAst: Neighbors become fast friends over the first meal of the day. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 655-4565.

BoW thAyer & holy ploW: Story-driven lyricism plays out in Americana and roots tunes. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $16-19. Info, 728-9878.

moonlight ski & snoWshoe: A blazing bonfire and hot chocolate await in a wooded clearing, just a kilometer’s traverse away. Kingdom Trails Nordic Center, East Burke, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 626-6005 or 535-5662, info@kingdomtrails.com.

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health & fitness Acro yogA montréAl: Lori Mortimer leads participants in partner acrobatics with a yogic consciousness. Oxygen, Stowe, 1-3 p.m. $20-25; preregister. Info, 324-1737.

holidays vAlentine Arts & crAfts fAir: Love is in the air as artists, crafters and bakers share their heartwarming endeavors. Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce, Berlin, 9 a.m.-noon. Free; $20 to register for a vendor table. Info, 431-3540.

kids BeAch pArty: Fifth through eighth graders slip into summery attire for an evening of food and music that takes them far away from Vermont’s chill. Highgate Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970. chittenDen county youth & pArent expo: Dozens of exhibitors serve as a gateway to family-friendly activities. A magic show, live music, entertainment and giveaways round out the affair. University Mall, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0040, ext. 1028. Drop-in fAmily ski & snoWshoe progrAm: Weather permitting, kids and adults get some fresh air and exercise. Hot chocolate and art activities also provided. Schmanska Park, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Cost of rentals. Info, 864-0123. fAirfAx tumBle time: Tots have free rein over the open gym. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. ‘kiDs vt’ cAmp & school fAir: Representatives from more than 50 Vermont organizations share information about upcoming programs at this Burlington Winter Festival activity. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5482, ext. 73 . north hero tumBle time: Kiddos hit up exercise stations around the gym. North Hero Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. vAlentine’s DAy crAfts: Little lovebirds adorn a wooden heart frame. Creative Habitat, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $3. Info, 862-0646.

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DArtmouth college glee cluB: Gleeks concentrate on Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, a collection of joyous 12th-century poems, and Aaron Coplan’s Old American Songs. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-22. Info, 603-646-2422. northeAst kingDom clAssicAl series: Composed of top players from the Big Apple’s leading orchestras, the Wind Soloists of New York slide from Haydn to Hindemith and beyond. South Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $6-16. Info, 748-2600. sAcreD hArp singing school: Tunesmiths learn about the traditions of sacred choral music with Matt Hinton. New City Galerie, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 355-5440. shApe-note singing: Vocalists match notes to solfège syllables under the guidance of Ian Smiley. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-4008, vtshapenotesingers@ gmail.com. terrAnce simien & the ZyDeco experience: See FRI.03, Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $36. Info, 760-4634. the sky Blue Boys: “Banjo” Dan and Willy Lindner offer acoustic country music inspired by the “brothers duets” of the 1930s and ‘40s. StudioThree, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 866-639-6577. vermont philhArmonic orchestrA: Musical greats get their due credit in “Symphonic Titans: Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mahler.” Music director Lou Kosma hosts a preconcert talk. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 476-8188. West AfricAn DjemBe Workshop: Chimie Bangoura trains kids, teens and adults alike in traditional rhythms and techniques. Burlington Taiko, 11 a.m.-noon. $10-15. Info, 377-9721.

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Winter ecology nAture WAlk: Naturalist George Lisi explores the elemental beauty of edible and medicinal plants, animal adaptations, and the vital role of snow and ice. Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury, 2:30-4 p.m. Donations accepted; preregister. Info, 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

seminars geneAlogy Workshop: John Fisher of the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society explains how to utilize Québec notarial records to track down ancestry information. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 238-5934.

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snoWshoe festivAl & Winter pArty: Strap-on footwear is the star in a wintry day of nature walks, dog-sledding demos, s’mores and hot cocoa. See calendar spotlight. Green Mountain Club Visitor Center, Waterbury Center, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $8-10; free for kids under 12. Info, 244-7037.

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sleigh riDes: Weather permitting, jingling horses trot visitors over the snow and rolling acres. Rides depart every half hour from the Welcome Center. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $6-8; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8442.

nek snoWmoBile DrAg rAcing: Speedy racers catch some snow around a 660-foot track. Route 114 North, Lyndonville, registration and tech inspection, 7-9 a.m.; race meeting, 9 a.m.; races begin, 9:30 a.m. $5 general admission; $20 entry fee plus $10 insurance. Info, 535-6802, lyndonsnocruisers@ hotmail.com.

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penguin plunge: Stouthearted swimmers in creative costume dunk themselves in Lake Champlain to raise funds for Special Olympics Vermont. Waterfront Park, Burlington, registration begins at 8 a.m.; plunge at 11 a.m. $25 registration fee plus $150 fundraising minimum; free to watch. Info, 863-5222, ext. 105.

young trADition shoWcAse: A frenzy of traditional music and dance fills the auditorium. Performers include Sarah Blair, Ian Watkins, Tim Cummings, Haliana Burhans and many more. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 238-4923.

BluegrAss gospel project: Top-tier vocalists and instrumentalists interpret Southern spirituals, Appalachian gems and contemporary songs alike.

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Burlington Winter fArmers mArket: More than 50 local farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts, and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@ burlingtonfarmersmarket.org.

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System, Town by Town.” Grange Hall, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0782.

Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

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Auditions for ‘Moon over BuffAlo’: See THU.02, 7 p.m.

‘BACH tHe teACHer’: Local musicians celebrate the legacy of the German composer with performances of his concertos. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

‘CAges: A live MeMoir’: See THU.02, 7:30 p.m. CirCA: An Australian circus company delivers an acrobatic mash-up of their hit shows The Space Between, by the light of stars that are no longer... and FURIOSO. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966.

BrigHt Wings CHorus: Ten powerful singers produce note hymns, gospel numbers and Appalachian ballads. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15 donation. Info, 238-4923.

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Argentine tAngo: Elizabeth Seyler introduces this Buenos Aires export to beginners at 6 p.m. and to intermediates at 7:15 p.m. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier. $3-12. Info, 318-4859. ContACt iMprov ClAss for Beginners: Points of physical contact are the starting line for spurof-the-moment movements. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier. $5-10 for 10 a.m.-11 a.m. class (includes jam); $3-5 for 11 a.m.-noon jam only. Info, 318-3927.

fairs & festivals ColCHester Winter CArnivAl: See FRI.03, 12:15-2:15 p.m.

film ‘World on A Wire’: A cybernetics engineer involved in a major virtual-reality project uncovers a conspiracy in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 sci-fi drama. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-3991.

CoMMunity BreAkfAst: The Ladies Auxiliary sponsors this all-important first meal of the day. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 9-11 a.m. $3-7. Info, 878-0700.

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language diMAnCHes: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher

verMont pHilHArMoniC orCHestrA: See SAT.04, Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 2 p.m. Info, 748-2600.

outdoors CAMel’s HuMp CHAllenge: Cross-country skiers traverse the perimeter of the peak to support the Vermont chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Bad weather date: February 12. Camel’s Hump Nordic Ski Area, Huntington, 7:30 a.m. $125 minimum in pledges or donations. Info, 316-3839. Moose on tHe loose: Sharp eyes scan for antlers as folks learn about the mammal’s behavior, eating habits and seasonal cycles. Mad River Glen Ski Area, Fayston, 10:30 a.m. $15-25; $65 per family of four. Info, 496-3551, ext. 117. nAked trees & sHruBs: Walkers ogle nude twigs and branches to ID them even without their leaves. Warm drinks by a woodstove follow. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-4 p.m. $10-15; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

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sleigH rides: See SAT.04, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. WintervAle: Families slide into gear on three miles of groomed trails. Mulled cider, hot chocolate, cross-country ski clinics, and ski and snowshoe demos add to the outing. Intervale Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 660-0440.

sport MAd river vAlley ski MountAineering rACe: Intrepid athletes travel the Long Trail from Mad River Glen to Sugarbush. Mad River Glen, Waitsfield, 10 a.m. $20-40. Info, 496-3551. uvM WoMen’s BAsketBAll vs. HArtford: Dribblers play the court. Kids in attendance are invited to a postgame shoot around. UVM Patrick Gymnasium, South Burlington, 1 p.m. $8-10; email rallycatamount@uvm.edu for free kids tickets. WoMen’s piCkup soCCer: Ladies of all ages and abilities break a sweat while passing around the spherical polyhedron. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, 862-5091.

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WoMen’s ski dAy: Beginner to intermediate cross-country skiers partake in technique lessons, waxing clinics, and a yoga and stretching workshop. Proceeds benefit the Stride Foundation. Rikert Nordic Center, Ripton, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $25-35; $10 for lunch; preregister. Info, 443-2744.

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BABysitter Mingle: Parents of tots in need of minding meet potential student caregivers — and kids in attendance get a say in the matter. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregistration appreciated. Info, 656-9405.

sArAH stiCkle: Bruce Springsteen, Gillian Welch and Mumford & Sons influence this Burlingtonbased folk singer-songwriter. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569.

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lAugHter yogA: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 11:30 a.m. $10 suggested donation; preregistration by email no later than three hours before the class is appreciated. Info, 888-480-3772, contact@essasky. com.

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nortHeAst fiddlers AssoCiAtion: Stringedinstrument players gather for a monthly jam. Moose Lodge, St. Albans, noon-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 728-5188.

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Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. Donations accepted for Branch Out Burlington! Info, 656-5440.

theater ‘Cages: a Live MeMoir’: See THU.02, 2 p.m. ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’: See WED.01, 5 p.m. ‘The CLean house’: See WED.01, 2 p.m. ‘The Foreigner’: See FRI.03, 2 p.m.

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neTworking LunCheon: Amy Mattinat of Auto Craftsmen guest speaks at a workshop about improving sales and cash flow through marketing savvy. Vermont Women’s Business Center, Barre, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free; bring lunch. Info, 4797439, mjohnson@cvcac.org.

games Chess CLub: Players shuffle around royalty and their underlings on a checkered board. An experienced instructor leads the group. Fairfax Community Library, 2:45-4:15 p.m. Free; bring your own chess set if possible. Info, 849-2420.

health & fitness aura-CLearing CLiniC: Call to reserve a 15-minute energy-field-healing session. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090.

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genTLe Yoga For everYone: Yogis ages 55 and up participate in a mostly seated program presented by Champlain Valley Agency

on Aging’s Neighbor-to-Neighbor AmeriCorps program. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-0360, ext. 1049.

swanTon PLaYgrouP: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

herbaL CLiniC: Folks explore the art of “green” health care at a personalized, confidential consultation with faculty and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

wriTing For Fun & hoMework heLP: Fifth through eighth graders pen short stories, memoirs, poems and more — and receive assignment tutelage from high schoolers. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

ZuMba goLD: Invigorating Latin music fosters a party-like workout atmosphere for baby boomers and active older participants. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 5:15-6 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

kids Dungeons & Dragons: Imaginative XP earners ages 9 to 12 exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures with dungeon master Ben Matchstick. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338. isLe La MoTTe PLaYgrouP: Stories and crafts make for creative play. Yes, there will be snacks. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. LeT’s Learn JaPanese!: See WED.01, 4:30-5:30 p.m. MusiC wiTh raPhaeL: See THU.02, 10:45 a.m. shake Your siLLYs ouT: Tots swing and sway to music with children’s entertainer Derek Burkins. JCPenney court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10:35 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. sTories wiTh Megan: Preschoolers ages 2 to 5 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

music CaPiTaL orChesTra: Brass and string players join the ensemble at weekly rehearsals leading up to a spring concert under the direction of Dan Liptak. Band room, U-32 High School, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 272-1789. voiCe Lessons aT DisCover a CaPPeLLa nighT: Women of all ages attend open rehearsals of the Champlain Echoes, a barbershop chorus, where they’ll receive one-on-one pointers on vocal production, breath support and unit sound from music director Carol Spradling. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0398.

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Opportunity, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114. sTeP uP To green eLeCTriCaL & PLuMbing: inForMaTionaL session: See THU.02, 11 a.m.-noon.

talks Jean vissering: The landscape architect explores methods of cultivation of the natural landscape. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

words MarJorie CaDY MeMoriaL wriTers grouP: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@comcast. net. shareD MoMenTs oPen MiC: Green Candle Theatre Company’s Recille Hamrell organizes an evening of spontaneously-told true tales about pivotal life events. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 863-1754.

inTro To LisTen uP! verMonT: E-reader owners learn how to start downloading books from a lending library to their devices. Fairfax Community Library, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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OVERWEIGHT SUBJECTS WANTED on a presentation with director Rick Gordon, and have a homemade dinner. The Compass School, Westminster, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2517, besty@ compass-school.org.

grand isLe PaJama sTory Time: Listeners show up with blankets for bedtime tales. Grand Isle Free Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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Kids in The KiTchen: Cookies for breakfast? Well, sure, when they’re bursting with grains, fruits and nuts. Budding bakers measure and mix them up in a hands-on class. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

TransiTion PechaKucha: Ideas for a world without oil flow rapidly at a forum organized by Transition Town Montpelier and Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Donations accepted; preregister to present. Info, 229-0509.

etc. communiTy BiKe shoP nighT: See THU.02, 6-8 p.m.

fairs & festivals VermonT ouTdoor JoB Fair: Don’t worry; it’s held inside. Reps from the Student Conservation Association, Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, Vermont Youth Adventures and other organizations specializing in outdoor programming share job opportunities. Withey Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, fair, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; formal interviews, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926, bendert@ greenmtn.edu.

film ‘on The WaTerFronT’: Marlon Brando plays a wannabe prizefighter who witnesses a gang murder in Elia Kazan’s Academy Award-winning drama. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations accepted for the Vermont Folklife Center. Info, 540-3018.

food & drink We ❤ LocaL BeeTs: Nothing says “I love you” like red soup for Valentine’s Day. Participants make and try borscht and beet kvass. Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

health & fitness BuiLding your immuniTy For WinTer: Folks let food be their medicine as they learn a recipe for “immunestrone” soup packed with warming herbs and spices. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

LaughTer yoga: See SUN.05, Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5:30 p.m.

kids creaTiVe Tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

FrosTy & Friends TheraPy dogs: Young readers share their favorite texts with friendly pooches. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:304:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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oPen comPuTer Time: Teens play games and surf the web on library laptops. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. PreschooL sTory hour: Stories, rhymes and songs help children become strong readers. Sarah Partridge Community Library, East Middlebury, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. science & sTories: shadoWs: Kids have aha! moments regarding what the groundhog did or didn’t see. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. sesame sTreeT LiVe: ‘1-2-3 imagine! WiTh eLmo and Friends’: Postcards from far-away places spur an imagined vacation with kids’ favorite Jim Henson muppets. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $18.00-54.75. Info, 863-5966. souTh hero PLaygrouP: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. sT. aLBans PLaygrouP: Creative activities and storytelling engage the mind. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. sTory hour: Picture books and crafts catch the attention of 3- to 5-year-olds. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

language Pause caFé: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Levity Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

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music BLacK hisTory monTh concerT: On the 100th anniversary of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s death, musicians play works by the so-called “African Mahler.” Chapel, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

seminars hoW To negoTiaTe a BeTTer deaL When Buying a car: Looking for a sweet new ride? With tips on loans and useful websites, this class makes an informed consumer out of you. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790. sPend smarT: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114. sTeP uP To green eLecTricaL & PLumBing: inFormaTionaL session: See THU.02, 9-10 a.m.

theater masTers oF iLLusion: Daring escapes! Exotic animals! Audience members may even be called onstage at this thrilling magic show. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $45.50-55.50. Info, 775-0903.

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FairFax sTory hour: Good listeners are rewarded with folklore, fairy tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5246.

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sTress-reducTion PracTice series: Adults take steps toward “Mindfulness and SelfCompassion: A Pathway to Overcoming Habitual Stress Patterns” with therapist Emily Miller as their guide. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0521.

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sTePs To WeLLness: Cancer survivors attend diverse seminars about nutrition, stress management, acupuncture and more in conjunction with a medically based rehabilitation program. Fletcher Allen Health Care Cardiology Building, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2176.

music WiTh roBerT: Music lovers of all ages engage in sing-alongs. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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idenTiFying enVironmenTaL & nuTriTionaL FacTors reLaTed To aLzheimers disease: Suzy Harris pinpoints hidden toxicities and nutritional deficiencies that can be linked to many diseases, including Alzheimer’s. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

highgaTe sTory hour: See WED.01, 10-11 a.m.

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behind-the-scenes operations. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

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SEED SWap & Talk: Gardeners get psyched about the growing season as the Egg Farm’s Penelope Newcomb discusses how to sprout your own seeds, as well as the politics surrounding seed saving. Greensboro Free Library, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 7556336, swapsisters@gmail.com.

comedy Improv NIghT: See WED.01, 8-10 p.m.

community WINooSkI CoalITIoN for a SafE aND pEaCEful CommuNITy: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by planning community events, sharing resources, networking and more. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1392, ext.10.

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food & drink 50-pluS luNCh buNCh: Seniors sit down to a midday meal. Transportation can be arranged at Senior Housing Complexes. Bridge Street Café, Richmond, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 864-0123.

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groWINg STroNgEr: See WED.01, 1 p.m. TuNg TaI ChI ChuaN: See WED.01, 5:30-7 p.m. vINyaSa floW: Advanced yogis and athletes place emphasis on breath, balance, stamina and release in a class with Hanna Satterlee. Zenith Yurt Studio, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $12. Info, 598-5876.

holidays hErbal valENTINES: See WED.01, City Market, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

kids baby TImE: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659.

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ChESS Club: See WED.01, 5:30 p.m.

film ‘baTTlEShIp poTEmkIN’: A Russian crew mutinies in Sergei M. Eisenstein’s 1925 historical war epic, now fully restored. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

ITalIaN CoNvErSaTIoN group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101., St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.

farmErS NIghT: Continuing a series of winter entertainment begun in 1923, folks celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the LandGrant College Act of 1862, introduced by Vermont’s Justin Smith Morrill, with period music. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8505. STarlINE rhyThm boyS: The Vermont band sounds out swingin’ honky-tonk and rockabilly. Bayside Pavilion, St. Albans, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 524-0909. vallEy NIghT: Folk By Association grace the lounge with a mix of folk, roots, bluegrass, jazz and world music. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.

seminars SpEND SmarT: See TUE.07, 10 a.m.-noon.

ENoSburg playgroup: See WED.01, 10-11:30 a.m.

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faIrfIElD playgroup: See WED.01, 10-11:30 a.m.

NIghT rIDErS: See WED.01, 4:30-8 p.m.

hIghgaTE STory hour: See WED.01, 11:15 a.m.12:15 p.m.

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homESChoolErS EvENT: Stay-at-home learners stamp and otherwise embellish winsome bookmarks and Valentine’s Day cards. Fairfax Community Library, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Small materials fee; preregister. Info, 849-2420. lET’S lEarN JapaNESE!: See WED.01, 4:30-5:30 p.m. mIDDlEbury babIES & ToDDlErS STory hour: See WED.01, 10:30-11:15 a.m. moNTgomEry STory hour: Good listeners are rewarded with an earful of tales and a mouthful of snacks. Montgomery Town Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

fraNk bryaN: In “The Road Not Taken: The Green Mountain Parkway Decision as a ‘Tipping Point’ in Vermont History,” the John G. McCullough professor of political science and several commentators explore the issue in terms of development and wilderness. North Lounge. Billings Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389.

ToDD lECTurE SErIES: Canadian designer Bruce Mau delivers a lecture. Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2633, toddlectureseries@norwich.edu. Tom JIamaChEllo: The Vintage Inspired vendor reviews the impressive body of work of Vermont studio potter Stanley Ballard. Vintage Inspired, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 488-5766, mary@ vintageinspired.net.

theater ‘auguST: oSagE oraNgE’: Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy, presented by the JSC theater department, reveals the darkest secrets of one Oklahoma family. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 2 p.m. $5; free for matinees and the JSC community. Info, 635-1476. ‘humblE boy’: See WED.01, 8 p.m. ‘ThE ClEaN houSE’: See WED.01, 7:30 p.m. ThE mETropolITaN opEra: lIvE IN hD: David Daniels, Joyce DiDonato, Danielle de Niese and Plácido Domingo star in a broadcast screening of The Enchanted Island. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $18-24. Info, 660-9300.

words amy SEIDl: The author of Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Global Warming offers proactive solutions to increasing resilience in the face of climate change. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 401-536-7241. poETry rEaDINg: The literati take in words from local authors Sherry Olson, Carol Henrikson and Sarah Hooker. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@ gmail.com. rEaDINg & DISCuSSIoN: farmS & garDENS SErIES: Bibliophiles react to Sue Hubbell’s A Country Year, digging into the philosophical roots, family dynamics and personal enrichment associated with tending and growing. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. m

morNa flaum: The speaker presents “Supercharge Your Learning and Take Control of Your Life With Stories, Maps, Metaphors and Imagination” as part of the Teachers’ Learning Community lecture series. Stearns Cinema at Johnson State College, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

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CommuNITy CINEma: Filmmaker Shukree Tilghman embarks on a cross-country trip to end Black History Month in More Than a Month. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

SESamE STrEET lIvE: ‘1-2-3 ImagINE! WITh Elmo aND frIENDS’: See TUE.07, 3:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.

No DaIry, Sugar or WhEaT? So WhaT CaN I EaT?: Tasty options abound, even on a limited diet. Learning Center chef/instructor Nina LesserGoldsmith whips up black bean burgers, creamy risotto, soba noodle salad and more. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

kNIT NIghT: Crafty needleworkers (crocheters, too) share their talents and company as they spin yarn. Phoenix Books, Essex, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

grEEN mouNTaIN habITaT for humaNITy INformaTIoNal mEETINg: Potential Habitat homeowners learn about a new building project scheduled to begin in Winooski this spring. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8726.

paJama STory TImE: Evening tales send kiddos off to bed. Berkshire Elementary School, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $13.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

art ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Location: Middlebury Studio School, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. Info: Middlebury Studio School, Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, middleburystudioschool@ gmail.com, middleburystudioschool.org. Adult: Drawing, Pastels, Pottery: Monday Night Wheel begins February 6, Watercolors begins February 7, Oils begins February 8, Silver Jewelry begins February 9, Digital Photography February 11-March 31. Children’s classes: after school wheel and hand building, multiage wheel, teen wheel, collage begins February 6, Cartooning February 7-28. Call Barb at 247-3702 or email ewaldewald@aol.com.

PHOTO: SCHOOL VACATION CAMP: Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 9 a.m.noon. Apr. 23-27, 9 a.m.-noon. Cost: $195/person, $175.50/ BCA member. Location: Burlington City Arts Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Explore both darkroom and digital photography! This camp will include guided photo shoots in downtown Burlington and will cover the basic of darkroom and digital printing. Bring a charged camera and its connection cord on the first day; film cameras and all other supplies will be provided. Ages 9-12.

coaching BCA offers dozens of weeklong summer art camps for ages 3-14 in downtown Burlington from June to August – the largest selection of art camps in the region! Choose full- or halfday camps – scholarships are available. See all the camps and details at burlingtoncityarts.com.

DESIGN: GRAPHIC BASICS: Mar. 13-May. 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $205/ person, $194.75 BCA member. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Info: 865-7166. Learn the basics of graphic design principles and elements and how to use them in creating effective materials. Whether you are interested in creating business cards, letterhead, brochures, greeting cards, or calendars, or just want to learn what makes a good design, this class will cover the basics.

BITE-SIZE WORKSHOPS: Schedule & other registration info at roundstoneintl. com. Cost: $135/person for 3-hr. workshop, $50/person for Lunch & Learn. Location: Main Street Landing, 1 Main St., Burlington. Info: 238-4310, Leslie@rounstoneintl.com. Half-day workshops teach effective and essential skills in communication, building relationships based on trust, and recognizing behaviors that get in the way of your goals. Individual or groups of employees will benefit from these workshops. Precision coaching guaranteed to help you find a new way of working.

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dance BALLET, MODERN, & BELLY DANCE!: Ballet I: Tue., 9 a.m., Ballet II: Thu., 6:30 p.m., Modern: Wed., 5:15 p.m., Belly Dance: Tue., 6:45 p.m. Great rates w/ studio class card! Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Modern Dance with Marley Schneider: Intermediate/ Advanced Modern Technique with a focus on improvisation and composition skills. For a strong, flexible and beautifully relaxed body, take Ballet Barre with Lucille Dyer! Come to Belly dance class with Gail McKenzie ready for a positive change in mind, heart and body. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 7:15 p.m. Argentine Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or

HEALING DANCE FOR WOMEN: Jan. 28-Mar. 17, 9:30-10:45 a.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $160/8-wk. session. Location: Chace Mill, suite 312, 1 Mill St., Burlington. Info: Turnstone Assoc. in Psychotherapy & Expressive Arts Therapy, Luanne Sberna, 863-9775, knittens@aol.com. Awaken body, mind and spirit! Using dance and other movement, we will reconnect thought, feeling, sensation and action. Previous dance experience unnecessary. Excellent for recovery from depression, anxiety, addictions. Facilitator Luanne Sberna is a registered dancemovement therapist and licensed clinical mental health/ addictions counselor with over 23 years of experience. LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4wk. class. Location: The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Lessons also available in St. Albans. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, FirstStepDance.com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginner classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. UNIVERSITY MALL DANCE STUDIO HAS REOPENED: Location: Dancing With Style, University Mall, in front of Applebee’s, S. Burlington. Info: 793-7524, dancingwithstylevt.net. Ballroom dance lessons, salsa, tango, cha-cha, rumba, waltz, swing and more. Private lessons available. Beginner group classes. Dropins welcome. Don’t forget to check out our new Hip Hop dance classes. Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. On January 28 there

dreams INTRODUCTION TO DREAMWORK: Feb. 15, 22, 29, Mar. 7, 14, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/ course. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. Learn how to work with your dreams, connect to your inner life and empower yourself in a safe, supportive setting. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

drumming TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, 18 Langdon St., Montpelier. AllTogetherNow, 170 Cherry Tree Hill Rd., E. Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail. com. Burlington! Beginners’ Taiko starts Tuesday, March 13 and April 24; kids, 4:30 p.m., $60/6-wk. term; adults, 5:30 p.m., $72/6-wk. term Advanced classes start Monday, March 12 and April 23, 5:30 and 7 p.m. Women’s Haitian Drumming starts Friday, February 17 and March 9, 5 p.m., $45/3-wk. term. Morning Taiko by appointment, Saturdays, 9-10:45 a.m., $45/3 weeks. Cuban Bata, & house-call classes by request. Montpelier Thursdays! Voudou drums start February 16 and March 22, 1:30-2:30 p.m., $45/3-wk. term. East Montpelier Thursdays! Djembe starts March 22, 5:30 p.m., $45/3-wk term. Cuban congas start February 9 and April 19, $45/3-wk. term. Taiko starts March 22, 7 p.m., $45/3-wk term.

education EXECUTIVE FUNCTION STRATEGIES: Feb. 8, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $180/1day workshop. Location: Stern Center for Language and Learning, 183 Talcott Rd., suite 101, Williston. Info: Stern Center for Language and Learning, Linnea Oosterman, 878-2332, loosterman@ sterncenter.org, sterncenter. org. This one-day workshop is designed for elementary teachers, special educators and administrators who are interested in learning about executive function and how EDUCATION

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ACCESS COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG: 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org/ access. Computer & Internet Basics Tutorial, iWant iPods & iPhones, Improve Your Internet Experience, Windows

ACCESS CRAFT CLASSES IN HINESBURG: 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org/access. Pottery, Woodworking, Basic Machining, Electrical, Wood Carving, Bead/Wire Jewelry Making, Metal Bracelet, Spindle and Knobs, Wooden Bowl Turning, Make a Hula-Hoop, Basket Weaving, Rug Hooking, 3 Bag Sewing, Pillows, B&W Darkroom Use, Crochet, Felting, Quilting, Monotype Print, Mosaic Garden Frame, Mosaic Birdbath, Cake Decorating, Knitting, Cartooning. Full descriptions online (look for Access, Community Education link). Senior discount 65+.

DANCING MAKES YOU SMARTER: Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, top floor, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. A major study in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that the only physical activity to offer protection against dementia is frequent dancing. It is the split-second decision making, as opposed to just mimicking rote franchised exercise routine. Use your mind, better your body, International dance at Burlington Dances!

will be beginner group salsa dance lessons, 9:30-11:30 a.m., at the Rusty Nail in Stowe. Come back in the evening for a salsa band. Morrisville Studio open Thursday nights, 6:30 p.m. Salsa, 7:30 p.m. Learn to dance like the stars (samba, waltz, swing).

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PAINTING: CONTEMPORARY FIGURE: Feb. 22-Apr. 11, 1:304:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $285/person, $256.50/ BCA member. Location: BCA Center, 3rd floor, Burlington. Intermediate and advanced painters: Turn the page on traditional representation using fresh color and dynamic composition to strengthen your personal expression.

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JEWELRY: BELT BUCKLES: Sat. & Sun., Mar. 10 & 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $150/person, $135/BCA member. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St. (craft room), Burlington. Techniques such as sawing, hammering, soldering, and etching will be utilized to create a bronze belt buckle of your own design.

SELF-CARE FOR CAREGIVERS: Feb. 21-Mar. 27, 6-7 p.m. Cost: $80/6-wk. class. Location: Serenity Caregiver Coaching, Stowe. Info: Stephanie, 448-0879, stephanie@ serenitycaregivercoaching. com, serenitycaregivercoaching.com. Caregivers: Reduce stress and restore balance in your life with group coaching. Learn effective self-care techniques that will allow you to put yourself back on your list of priorities. Take charge of your health and wellness today!

Security: File and Control Panels, OpenOffice, Google Smarts, PowerPoint, Publisher, MS Word Basics and More, Smartphone Use, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Website Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, Understanding Game Design, Personalized Lessons. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online (look for Access, Community Education link). Senior discount 65+.

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ACCESS CLASSES IN HINESBURG: 200 offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org/access. Lose Weight, Feel Great; Beekeeping; Creative Writing; Ten Amazing Journeys in History of the World with Chris O’Donnell; Solar Energy 101; Bridge; Cribbage; Mah Jongg; VT Architecture; Knots; Myers-Briggs; Poetry Workshop; Creative Writing; Pruning Trees; Tree Health; Grief Etiquette; EFT; Suburban Homesteading 101; Motorcycle Awareness; Map and Compass; Backyard Astronomy. Guaranteed. Full descriptions at online (look for Access, Community Education link). Senior discount 65+. INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP TO SOUL COLLAGE: Feb. 4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $49/ workshop. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Joan Palmer, 578-9825, jbpscollage@gmail.com. Tap into your inner wisdom as you work with your imagination and intuition in this introduction to the Soul Collage process. Participants will come away with several collaged cards and insights into themselves. No artistic skills required. Facilitated by Joan Palmer, trained Soul Collage facilitator. MAKING GOOD CHOICES: Feb. 16-Mar. 8, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $60/ course. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. Learn how to make good choices in life, based on the teachings and principles of Carl Jung. Includes discussion of the larger context of our lives at this momentous time of transition for the planet. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

RESTORATIVE YOGA FOR OPEN HEARTS: Feb. 12, 6:158:15 p.m. Cost: $20/class. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. Join Martha for a rejuvinating practice of restorative yoga. This relaxing class will allow you to draw into a deeper place inside yourself as you are guided into supported restful yoga poses. Come relax, restore and recharge on Valentine’s Day. Please preregister; this popular class will fill up.

family FAMILY-TO-FAMILY OFFERED BY NAMI VT: Mar. 5-May. 21, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Location: Venue TBA, Williston. Info: 800-6396480, info@namivt.org. Do you care about someone with a mental illness? Join us for a free education program, family-to-family. An evidencebased educational program consisting of a series of 12 weekly classes structured to help families and friends of individuals with mental illness understand and support their loved one while maintaining their own well-being.

gardening BASICS OF SEED STARTING: Feb. 9, 12-12:45 p.m. Free. Location: Gardener’s Supply Company, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 658-2433. Learn the basics of starting your own flower, vegetable and herb seeds. Led by David Boucher. LIGHT GARDENING: Feb. 2, noon-12:45 p.m. Location: Gardener’s Supply Company, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 658-2433. Grow herbs,

SNOWBOARD DESIGN WITH DENNIS HEALY: Feb. 18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $45/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Explore the process of developing a snowboard graphic for retail with Burton’s creative manager of graphics. Students will run through the design process as a whole from start to finish. The importance of creative presentation of ideas and concepts will be stressed.

herbs APHRODISIACS THE HERBS OF LOVE: Feb. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $20/2-hr. fun-filled workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 W. Canal St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 865-4372, info@purpleshutter.com, purpleshutterherbs.com. Are you ready to move beyond flowers and chocolates? We’ll look into the lore of this romantic holiday and the plants and foods that have added sensual and sexual enjoyment since time began! We’ll create stimulating items for the body and mind! Recipes and titillating, fun secrets will be shared. WILDCRAFTING W/ THE SEASONS: Feb. 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $60/7-hr. class & take-home tincture. Location: Metta Earth Center for Contemplative Ecology, 334 Geary Rd. South, Lincoln. Info: Metta Earth Center for Contemplative Ecology, Gillian Comstock, 453-8111, info@ mettaearth.org, mettaearth. org. Class includes discussion of Chinese medicine ideas on healthy living during winter, seasonal Qi Gong exercises, introduction to tongue diagnosis, outdoors-based wildcrafting and herbal medicine making. Each participant will take home their own tincture ($50 value). Workshop is a combination of ideas and hands-on practice. Taught by

Brendan Kelly, acupuncturist/ herbalist. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Winter Ecology Nature Walk with naturalist George Lisi, Sat. Feb. 4, 2:30-4 p.m. Sliding scale $20 to $0. Pre-registration appreciated. Wisdom of the Herbs 2012: Apr. 21-22, May 19-20, Jun. 16-17, Jul. 14-15, Aug. 11-12, Sep. 8-9, Oct. 6-7 & Nov. 3-4, 2012. Wild Edibles Intensive 2012: Spring/Summer Term: May 27, Jun. 24 & Jul. 22, 2012 & Summer/Fall Term: Aug. 19, Sep. 16 & Oct. 14, 2012. VSAC nondegree grants avail. to qualifying applicants. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool. com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

language ACCESS LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG: Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org/access. Beginner French: 2 levels, Immersion French, Beginning Spanish: 2 levels, Intermediate Spanish, Immersion Spanish, Italian for Travelers: 2 levels, Beginning Mandarin: 2 levels, German: 2 levels. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online (look for Access, Community Education link). Senior discount 65+. FRENCH CLASSES THIS SPRING!: Seven courses, 11week term, begins Mar. 5 and continues through May 24 (note: no classes Apr. 23-29). Classes meet 6:30-8:00 p.m. Cost: $225/11-week course. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 302-304 Dupont Bldg., 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 4970420, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, aflcr.org/classes. shtml. Beginner? Re-starter? Still need some grammar? Ready to jump into topicdriven conversation? Looking for some “vacation French”? There’s a class for your level! Excellent instruction with experienced native speakers. JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: Feb. 14-Apr. 17, 7-8:30 p.m., Every 10 weeks on Tue. Cost: $195/10

1.5-hr. classes. Location: St. Michael’s College, 1 Winooski Pl., Colchester. Info: JapanAmerica Society of Vermont, Larry Solt, 865-3113, l.solt@ burlingtontelecom.net, jasv. org. The Japan-America Society of Vermont is again offering beginning Japanese language lessons. This class is an introduction to speaking, listening, reading and writing Japanese, with an emphasis on conversational patterns that occur in everyday life. Students will also be introduced to life in Japan and Japanese customs and culture. LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Broaden your horizons and connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring, including AP. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS?: Location: At your home or scheduled meeting place, Burlington, Mad River Valley, Stowe, Montpelier. Info: 4967859, yvescompere@yahoo. com. Communication and vocabulary enrichment, some grammar review. Fun and useful. Taught by Yves Compere, French native.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Thu., Feb. 2, at 6:45 p.m. Try out this class for $10. This fee can be applied toward our 3-mo. membership special rate for $190 (incl. unlimited classes 7 days a week). Children’s classes begin on Sat., Feb. 4, at 9 a.m. (ages 5-6) & 9:45 a.m. (ages 7-12). Join now & receive a 3-mo. membership (incl. unlimited classes 7 days a week) for $190. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 951-8900, burlingtonaikido. org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 7-17. We also offer classes for children ages 5-6. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome.

AIKIDO: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Special holiday opportunity through January 31st! Get 2-for-1 membership for up to three months. Offer also good for children’s classes, January Intro, and winter LGBTQ Intro. Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting physical flexibility with flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself. COMBATFITNESS MMA MARTIAL ARTS: Weekly on Wed. Location: Combat Fitness Mixed Martial Arts, Winooski. Info: Combat Fitness, Vince Guy, 343-3129, vteguy@yahoo.com, combatfitnessmma.com. Make fitness fun this year. Brand new 5000 sq.ft. training facility. Learn effective self-defense from experienced, certified and caring instructors while getting in the best shape of your life! Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Western Boxing, Judo, MMA and Cardio programs. Student, military, law, family discounts. Just off I-89 exit 15. MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CENTER: Please visit website for schedule. Location: Martial Way Self-Defense Center, 3 locations, Colchester, Milton, St. Albans. Info: 893-8893, martialwayvt.com. Beginners will find a comfortable and welcoming environment, a courteous staff, and a nontraditional approach that values the beginning student as the most important member of the school. Experienced martial artists will be impressed by our instructors’ knowledge and humility, our realistic approach, and our straightforward and fair tuition and billing policies. We are dedicated to helping every member achieve his or her highest potential in the martial arts. Kempo, Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Wing Chun, Arnis, Thinksafe Self-Defense. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts

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program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian JiuJitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

massage Asian Bodywork Therapy Program: Weekly on Mon., Tue. Cost: $5000/500-hr. program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, elementsofhealing.net. This program teaches two forms of massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB-assigned school.

Every Body Loves Pilates!: The Cadillac lets you use resistance springs & straps for a great workout without all the stress. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. For a strong, flexible and beautifully relaxed body in a calm and professional studio setting, come in today! Improve your posture and mood. Be more creative in your career. Save on expensive medical bills. Improve the quality of life. Have more enjoyable relationships and derive pleasure from healthy movement!

printmaking Intro to Letterpress Printing: 4 classes offered: Sat. Feb. 11 & 25, Mar. 10 & 24, noon-5 p.m. (3-students-perclass limit). Cost: $200/5hr. class. Location: Zoe Ink Studio, 266 Pine St. (Soda Plant building), Burlington. Info: Zoe Ink, Zoe Papas, 8631468, zoe@zoeink.com. Learn to print on a 1930 platen press.

skiing Backcountry Skiing for Women: Feb. 4 & 5. Sat., 8 a.m.-4 p.m. (followed by apres-ski). Sun., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $195/person, incl. Alpine & Nordic area passes on Sat., Nordic area pass on Sun., 2 days of instruction, coffee/ tea & light breakfast in the mornings, Sat. apres-ski wine & cheese. Location: Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Valley Access Rd., Richmond. Info: 655-8900, vtworksforwomen.org. Build skills and increase your confidence in a supportive environment! Twoday program offers women a nonintimidating and fun introduction to backcountry skiing. You’ll learn the basics of backcountry skiing through plenty of individualized attention. This program is designed for beginner to intermediate skiers who want to take their skills to the next level. Some experience on skis is necessary.

spirit 2012: New Consciousness Dawns, with Dabadi Thaayrohyadi, Toltec Wisdom Keeper, Elder, Sound Healer and Native Artist: Jan. 28-29, Feb. 2526, Mar. 21-24, Apr. 21-22, May 19-20, Jun. 14-15, Jun. 16-17. Cost: $200/weekend class, $125/day, $950/series. Sliding scale and work exchange possible. Location: Central Vermont. Info: Council of All Being, 851-7697, gwenhs@ gmail.com, councilofallbeings.org. Mayan and Toltec Prophesy, Meditation and Practice for new times. Sacred

tai chi Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Tai Chi Easy: 4-Part Series: Feb. 11, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Location: Healthy Living Market, 222 Dorset St., S. Burlington. Info: Jade Mountain Wellness, Liz Geran, 399-2102, jademtwellness@gmail.com, ww.jademtwellness.com. Taught by Liz Geran, acupuncturist and herbalist, Jade Mountain Wellness. Tai Chi Easy is a series of simple, slow movements that are a profound way to cultivate wellbeing, offering stress relief, improved balance, heart health, immunity boost, improved mental focus. Preregister by calling Healthy Living Market, 863-2569, or visit healthylivingmarket.com. Yang-Style Tai Chi: New 9-wk. beginner’s session started Jan. 11 & meets on Wed. at 5:30. $125. All-levels class on Sat., 8:30 a.m. Cost: $16/class. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Turn right into driveway immediately after the railroad tracks. Located in the old Magic Hat Brewery building. Info: 318-6238. Tai Chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease in blood pressure and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Janet Makaris, instructor.

Infertility & Stress Reduction w/ Deb Sherrer: Feb. 2-Mar. 15, 6:30-7:45 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $95/ series. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcyt.com. Come explore the use of gentle yoga poses and breath awareness to calm the body and mind, as a means of diminishing and counteracting the issues that arise with infertility, while reestablishing a sense of personal empowerment. No prior experience with yoga is necessary. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Group with Adrienne Slusky: Feb. 6-Apr. 30, 6-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $40/class. Sliding fee options available, Medicaid payment accepted. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcyt.com. DBT teaches new skills or behaviors that can be applied to current stressors to ultimately bring us the quality of life and/or peace of mind we deserve. The philosophy behind this group is that mindfulness practice is an essential DBT component that enables us to fully utilize newly learned skills. Healing Grief Through Mindfulness & Movement: Feb. 6-Mar. 5, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcyt.com. Many of us hold unresolved grief. Is there a disappointment or loss from your life that stands in the way of your happiness now? Having trouble letting go? If you feel ready to engage in your life in a new way or renew your faith in yourself, join us. Special guests Joey Corcoran and Susan Sassaman.

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: $14/ class, $130/class card. $5-$10 community classes. Location:

Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 864-9642, yoga@evolutionvt.com, evolutionvt.com. Evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner to advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, Anusara-inspired, Kripalu and Iyengar yoga. Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre-/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt. com/evoblog. Kundalini Yoga for the Spine: Weekly on Tue. & Thu., 6:30-7:45 a.m. Cost: $13/class (better rates w/ studio class card). Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, top floor, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Lucille@NaturalBodiesPilates. com, BurlingtonDances. com. Awaken the serpent spine, strengthen the core, and teach the body to move and undulate naturally in its animal form. Build heat and awareness, push through the blockages in our energy that cause pain and stagnation, and give love to those places in our body that we so often neglect. Laughing River Yoga: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. classes, sliding scale $5-15. Cost: $13/ class; $110/10 classes; $130/ unlimited monthly. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com. Our essence is unconditional love. Explore for yourself with yoga classes, workshops and retreats taught by experienced and compassionate instructors in a variety of styles, including Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vinyasa, Yoga Trance Dance, Yin, Restorative, meditation and more. All bodies and abilities welcome. Slow Yoga: 50+ w/ Jill Mason: Weekly on Tue., 10:30-11:45 a.m. Cost: $14/ class (or $120/10-class yoga card). Location: Burlington Dances Studio, upstairs in the Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Lucille@ NaturalBodiesPilates.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Slow down in a sped-up world and deepen your practice with time to explore what feels best as you go into a pose. Notice the feeling in your body, make adjustments, allow your muscles to relax and find your own best expression of each pose in the moment. Breathe.

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Usui Reiki, 1st Degree: Feb. 19, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $175/6-hr. class (CEs avail. for NCTMB). Location: Gathering Room, Hinesburg. Info: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Cindy Carse, 985-9580, cindy@energymedicinevt.com, energymedicinevt.com. Learn Reiki, a traditional Japanese healing art that facilitates health and transformation on all levels (body, mind and spirit). Reiki can be supportive of any life path or career. In this class, you will be attuned to Reiki and trained to practice Reiki for yourself, loved ones, plants and animals.

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Introduction to Zen: Sat., Jan. 28, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $30/half-day workshop, limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 9859746, ecross@crosscontext. net, vermontzen.org. This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher, and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online.

CAMERA CLASSES IN HINESBURG: 200 offerings for all ages.. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, cvuhs.org/access. Photoshop Basics, Digital Camera: Buttons/Menus, Share Photos, Aperture Info, Shutter Speed Skills, Photoshop Basics, Digital Spectrum, Next Layers of Photoshop, Advanced Digital Photography: Blending/Filters. Full descriptions online (look for Access, Community Education link). Senior discount 65+.

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drumming, sound healing, ancestral connections, listening for wisdom in nature, finding your voice, meeting your guides, 8000 Drum Ceremony, Council of All Beings. To read workshop details, please visit global-community.org/cgi/gc/ cab-program-info.html.

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Postural Techniques: Mar. 10-11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245/14 CEUs ($225 if paid by Feb. 24; call about risk-free introductory fee). Location: Touchstone Healing Arts , Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com. In this ortho-bionomy class, techniques to work with spinal curvatures and scoliosis are presented and practiced. Participants also learn to evaluate and address inefficient postural habits. Techniques focus on assessing and releasing areas of tension in the spine and ribs. No prerequisites.

The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Sat. of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An Open House occurs every third Fri. evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr. org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

music The Sound and the Fury and the Banjo Metal Monday rawks Nectar’s BY J O H N F L ANAGAN

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rior to a recent Metal Monday at Nectar’s, Matt Hagen, onehalf of the team that founded the weekly metal and hardcore series, is discussing his very unmetal New Year’s Eve with a quizzical bystander. “I went to Phish at Madison Square Garden,” he says. Moments later, “Metal” Matt Longo, who has become a patriarch to the local metal scene and is Hagen’s cofounding partner, enters the room. With his prosperous red beard, glasses and savage mane bridled into a ponytail, Longo, 31, looks like a metalhead. Hagen, also 31 and spectacled, with his messenger bag, shorter hair and Derek Smalls-esque mustache/mutton chop combo, does not. “That’s sort of what Metal Monday is all about,” says Hagen, regarding both his appearance and the general concept of the weekly series. “Expanding the image of metal.” The Matts launched their gothic brainchild in April 2011 when Hagen, a business-minded fellow and devoted listener of Longo’s six-year-old WRUV broadcast, “Mind Over Metal,” came to Longo with the idea of curating “more than just another night of music.” The two crafted their event to impart a liveradio-show quality by slotting Longo as host and DJ, and Hagen’s metal outfit, Nefarious Frenzy, as house band. Since the series’ inception, Queen City crowds have welcomed the weekly onslaught of sludge or doom as bands of varying metal styles have chugged out their fuzzcaked din. But why Monday? “Because it’s the most expendable night,” Hagen says, rebutting the suggestion that his event was founded upon alliteration alone. Though Frenzy is no more, Hagen still gets his rocks off under the moniker Angel Bones, armed with a guitar and electric drill. He is also the guitarist of decidedly un-metal local indie-rock outfit Lendway. The duo books both local and outside talent to pack the room each week, enticing attendees with free earplugs, mov-

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ies — such as the Evil Dead series — and unique posters for each event designed by Vermont artist John Tether. The show is free to those 21 and over — $5 for 18-plus — and every band gets paid. A bill in early January included a diverse group of face-melters representative of Vermont’s many planes of shred: Musical Manslaughter (“This song is for all the ladies in the house. It’s

called, ‘You’re Just a Whore.’”); Knights of Crinitus (“We are Knights of Crinitus and we are here to blow some shit up!”); and Amadis (“In this next song, we’re the shark, and you’re the victim!”). Another band, Mac Swan and Black Holly, confesses it’s “a little different fare than the normal Metal Monday.” The group, a local favorite of both Longo and Hagen, features, of all things, a banjo

player. During the band’s set, the crowd reacts as though watching the Avett Brothers open for Cannibal Corpse. “I definitely see an overlap between bluegrass and metal,” says the banjo player in question, Andrew Stearns. “It’s the same shit.” With Stearns’ electric clatter filling the room during a rendition of Bad Brains’ “Don’t Need It,” Amadis lead singer Sid Dystic, dressed head-to-toe in black leather and sporting silver spikes and two sets of handcuffs — one small enough to incarcerate a rodent — makes his way to the bar for a beer. While Stearns accepts all facets of metal, Dystic seems to honor no amendments to his esteemed genre. “All those other people have gone home because they’re pussies,” he later tells the crowd at the onset of Amadis’ set. “They were here earlier, thinkin’ they were metal, but now they’re at home, crankin’ their fuckin’ country! Blech!” Despite their differences, Black Holly and Amadis both operate with the aggressive playfulness endemic to the genre. Banjo man Stearns muses that Burlingtonians crowd the event because it is unusual, compared to other “regular” nights around town. Hagan and Longo attribute it to metal’s broad spectrum, which allows stylistic variations to manifest. “We’re all fuckin’ nerds, man,” Longo says. “We just want to be understood.” “And all metal guys are so nice!” Hagen adds. As the night winds down, Hagen’s words are vindicated. A swarm of determined rockers remains, fists pumping to Amadis’ “Metal Never Dies,” while Dystic twirls the mic stand above his head. The show ends after Dystic and his crew tear through their song “Skin,” during which a six-person mosh pit erupts — though it could be described as a ferocious hug. Metal Monday takes place every week at Nectar’s in Burlington, 9 p.m. Free/$5. 18+. liveatnectars.com

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Congratulations to both MSR Presents and Angioplasty Media for presenting a dynamite evening with Thurston Moore at the UU Church in Burlington last Sunday. Backed by an acoustic band that included

It’s hard to do jazz hands in mittens, and though it’s only February, the 2012 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival is closer than you think. Need proof? Last week, the BDJF began leaking the names of some acts appearing at this year’s fest, including chrisTian McBride and inside sTraighT on the Flynn MainStage on June 8, and the Mary halvorson QuinTeT at the FlynnSpace on June 7. Think warm thoughts.

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Among the big stories of the past week was the grand opening of the new Three Needs in the spot vacated by Parima last year. All weekend long, the line from the bar’s front door stretched down Pearl Street. And with good reason. The bar is awesome, making good use of Parima’s unique design and sprucing it up (down?) with the Needs’ distinctly homey and

eclectic dive aesthetic. As a longtime devotee of the old Needs, I approve. However, losing a great music venue in Parima still stings. That’s why I’m delighted to report that music is returning to the space, at least on a part-time basis. Songwriter — and hardcore Giants fan … grrr — Scott Mangan wrote in recently to inform us that his wildly successful and delightfully hedonistic monthly bash, Mildred Moody’s Full Moon Masquerade, is coming home to roost, after a short stint moonlighting across the street at Radio Bean. The next installment is this Tuesday, February 7, and will feature some familiar faces, including Mildred Moody (Mangan’s band), Jenke Records’ ToMMy alexander, headliners dr. ruckus and, as always, the body painting high jinks of the huMan canvas.

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at the prospect of my beloved Pats playing for another title and avenging their SB loss to these very same Giants four years ago. However, some of my best friends are Giants fans. The prospect of never speaking to them again, should things go awry, saddens me greatly. And I’m only sort of joking. (It doesn’t upset me all that much, really … go, Pats!) Clearly, I’m a mess of emotions right now. My thoughts are scattered. I can’t focus. I’m having trouble sleeping and eating. There’s only one solution: a good, old-fashioned, rapidfire, all-BiteTorrent edition of Soundbites. So strap on those shoulder pads and let’s get dirty.

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As I write this column — Monday morning — we stand on the brink of an event that could permanently fracture relations between two significant portions of our local population: fans of the New England Patriots and fans of the New York Giants. For the non-sports fans out there, or anyone who awoke from a coma this week, those two NFL teams will meet this Sunday, February 5, in the Super Bowl. Especially as Vermont is uniquely located both in New England but next to New York, this year’s game is indeed a very big deal around these parts. So if you’re wondering why there’s almost nothing going on at local clubs Sunday night, there ya go. Ditto why two-thirds of the local workforce will call in “sick” on Monday morning. (Note to President Obama: Wanna win reelection in November? Declare the Monday after the Super Bowl a national holiday. You’re welcome.) If you think I’m overstating the potential divide, you weren’t at the ThursTon Moore show on Sunday. About mid-set, the estimable Mr. Moore innocently mentioned that his drummer was from Boston, prompting a shout of “Go, Pats!” from the balcony — which may or may not have erupted from the mouth of dino Bravo’s MaTT Perry. Moments later, a response erupted from the back of the room: “Go, Giants!” (Anyone know if scoTT Mangan was at the show?) It was an awkward, tense moment. And keep in mind the context here. This was a low-key, acoustic indie-rock show. In a church. When it comes to local allegiances for this year’s Super Bowl, nothing is sacred. (And fear not, more on Thurston in a sec.) As a die-hard New England fan, I’m overjoyed

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violin and harp, Moore was as compelling and daring as you’d expect the cofounder of sonic youTh to be, playing in unusual tunings and seriously pushing the limits of what one can do with a 12-string guitar and balloons. (You had to be there.) He’s also really, really tall and doesn’t seem to have aged — he’s 53 and still looks like a gangly teenager. If you didn’t go — and since it didn’t sell out, many of you didn’t — you missed something special. Normally, this would be the part of the column in which I chastise you for not going to a show that should have sold out within hours of tickets going on sale. But I’m not going to do that. You have your reasons, I’m sure. Instead, I’ll simply offer that MSR and Angio have big plans to utilize the UU Church this year for similarly unique shows. It’s an exciting development that could become a regular thing, but only if we collectively support it. And with performances such as Moore’s — and Jeff ManguM’s last summer — to be had, why the hell wouldn’t we?

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on that show, you can check out the official Emancipator pre-party on Friday, February 3, at Rusty Nail Bar & Grille in Stowe, featuring live EDM acts BIODEISEL and SONIC SPANK. Interesting note about the former band’s drummer, JOHNNY RABB: He holds the Guinness Book of World Records title of fastest drummer on Earth. True story.

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The 2011 winner of the annual Advance Music Singer-Songwriter contest, GIOVANINA BUCCI, is something of a mystery to Vermont audiences. In part that’s because she’s from Plattsburgh and doesn’t make it across the lake very often — except to school our Green Mountain tunesmiths in competitions, apparently. Anyway, this Thursday, February 2, Bucci makes a rare Vermont appearance at On the Rise Bakery in Richmond as part of the monthly In the Round at On the Rise songwriter series. It’s hosted by DEREK BURKINS,

who was also a finalist in the Advance contest last year. Rounding out the bill is Burlington’s JOSHUA GLASS.

this Saturday, February 4, with downtempo auteurs EMANCIPATOR, LITTLE PEOPLE and NATASHA KMETO at the Higher Ground Ballroom. Emancipator nearly sold out the Ballroom last year and is a safe bet to do so this time around. But if you miss out

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Red Square debuts a new series called Old Soul this Thursday, February 2. As astute readers may have inferred, the weekly series focuses on, um, old soul music, specifically 1960s- and ’70s-era hits from the likes of SOLOMON BURKE, BOOKER T. and BILLY PRESTON. Noted local musicians ALEX BUDNEY, ANDRIC SEVERANCE, MAX BRONSTEIN and CALEB BRONZ make up the house band and will be joined by different local vocalists each week.

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THE BLACK DOOR: Swift Technique (hip-hop, funk), 9:30 p.m., $5.

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version of that band’s high lonesome country and early bluegrass, reminding us that there’s just something about brotherly music duos. And cool moustaches. This Saturday, February 4, the Boys take the stage at StudioThree in South Burlington.

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as “On & On,” “Enough” and “Imagining Everything,” James’ delivery is direct and forceful. What he lacks in nuance he makes up for in intensity, which suits the band’s forthright songwriting style. Citizen Bare won’t rock your world with profound social commentary. But those of a similar socially conscious mindset should find a lot to latch onto. While the bulk of the band’s material falls in the alt-country rubric, Citizen Bare do dabble outside the genre’s twangy constraints. Traces of jam, soul and straight-up rock can be heard throughout. That deference to myriad stylistic influences is largely a strength, and suggests a healthy sonic curiosity and willingness to take risks. But those risks don’t always pay off. The EP’s closing track, “Underground Veteran,” is a ham-fisted mishmash of jammy Americana and limp hip-hop whose unifying message loses all urgency in translation. And that’s the crux of the problem with the EP. With freedom comes responsibility. While there is potential on Carnival, Citizen Bare do themselves, and their noble message, a disservice by settling for mediocrity. They have talent and, with more attention paid to detail, could overcome those failings. After all, freedom isn’t … well, you know. Citizen Bare play the Monkey House in Winooski this Friday, February 3, with This Way and Kingsley Flood.

mastered my hard-learned lesson. Everything about the band’s debut album, The Rot of the World, screams — often literally — that this quintet pays meticulous attention to detail. The result is the most comprehensively impressive local heavy-music release in years. More than a mere collection of songs, the record is a work of art. Alive & Well trace their lineage to another local metal band, equally noted for their own attention to particulars, Romans. A&W are the brainchild of ex-Romans drummer Kevin Savage — who plays guitar in A&W — and front man Josh Zelazny. Together with drummer Urian Hackney (Rough Francis) and scene vets Matt St. Gelais and T.J. Maynard on guitar and bass, respectively, they form a juggernaut of elegant — yes, elegant — progressive metal fury. The LP’s immaculate packaging suggests the excellence found on both of the heavy-gauge vinyl records within. Keenan Bouchard’s eyepopping watercolor cover imparts as much frustration and sadness as does Zelazny’s anguished howls on “Starting Fires.” And the gaping skull

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that winds from the front cover to the back evokes as visceral a response as does the ferocious yet refined, melodic guitar attack on “Carry You.” Hackney’s punishing assaults throughout reflect the sinister tone of the dead rose and watering eyeball gracing the front cover. You could just listen to The Rot of the World — ideally on a good turntable, and loud. But from near-virtuosic performances to the uncommonly conceived cover art, everything about the album suggests it’s meant to be experienced. Presentation does indeed count. And with Alive & Well’s debut record, it’s practically essential. Alive & Well celebrate the release of The Rot of the World at Nectar’s Metal Monday this Monday, February 6.

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When I was in seventh grade, I had an argument with my English teacher, Mrs. Folley, over a book report I had written. I recall it being among the finer works of my adolescent writing career. Mrs. Folley agreed. But she still gave me a D. The problem, she said, was that she couldn’t parse the horrendous chicken scratch that was my virtually illegible handwriting. I countered that if it was a writing assignment, I should be judged solely on the quality of my prose, not on what it looked like. Her response: What good is fine writing if no one can read it? She had me there. Though it took twice as long, I typed every paper thereafter and aced the class. The lesson? Presentation counts. I don’t recall Alive & Well being in my seventh-grade English class. But the local metal band seems to have

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Live free, die naked. So says local Americana outfit Citizen Bare. After five years of toiling in local juke joints, the Jericho-based band has transferred its cheeky motto to a debut EP, Carnival, with mixed results. Living free — clothed or not — is fine and dandy. But we hold certain musical truths to be self-evident. Among them: It’s important for a band’s players to be locked in with one another. While there are several nice moments to be found throughout their EP, Citizen Bare too often err on the side of unchecked disorder, bordering on sloppiness. Take the opening track, “On & On.” The loping, alt-country tune begins promisingly enough as a sauntering lead-guitar line, courtesy of John Gratton, it sets a dusty tone. But as the full band enters behind him, things begin to unravel. The primary culprit seems to be the tandem of drummer Darin Savard and bassist Jesse Cowan, who never quite synchronize. In particular, Savard’s drum work is too busy, favoring a quantity of strikes over quality. As a result, he struggles to lock in the beat, which has a trickle-down effect and distracts from the band’s overall performance. Songwriting credits are given to the band as a whole, though Andrew James is generally the front man. Lyrically, the group trades in high-minded sociopolitical messages with an activist bent that aligns well with the Occupy movement. Particularly on tracks such

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Higher Ground Ballroom: Emancipator, Little People, Natasha Kmeto, Mushpost DJs (EDM), 9 p.m., $15/18/20. AA. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Patty Larkin (folk-pop), 8 p.m., $20/22. AA. JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. Monkey House: When Particles Collide, Boom Chick, Black Rabbit (rock), 9 p.m., $5. Nectar's: Tom Connors Duo (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Grippo Funk Band, 9 p.m., $5.

Red Square: Calvin Betancourt (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Kingsley Flood (folk), 8 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5.

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1/2 Lounge: Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. Scott Mangan (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free.

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Hoots & Hellmouth (roots), 7:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. Leunig's Bistro & Café: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

sat.04 // Somerville Symphony Orkestar [gypsy punk]

Eastern (Rock) Bloc Not unlike Balkan Beat Box, DeVotchKa or genre darlings Gogol

Monkey House: Tickle Belly, the Canadian Lesbian Twins (folk), 8:30 p.m., $5. Tickle Belly, Canadian Lesbian Twins (folk), 8:30 p.m., $5. Nectar's: Soule Monde (organ groove), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

Bordello, the Somerville Symphony Orkestar filter Eastern European influences through a distinctly Western prism

On Tap Bar & Grill: Pine Street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free.

The Skinny Pancake: Carol Ann Jones (bluegrass), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

of rock, pop and punk. The band’s self-titled debut album was a hit in and around their native Boston, so now they’re

Radio Bean: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

T Bones Restaurant and Bar: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean.

taking the gypsy-punk caravan on the road, including a stop this Saturday, February 4, at Burlington’s gyp-ster haven,

Red Square: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. The Anatomy of Frank (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

Parker Pie Co.: NEK Roller Derby Fundraiser with the AV Club, 7:30 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free.

The Black Door: Conscious Roots (reggae), 9:30 p.m., $5.

Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Charlie O's: Soulstice (reggae), 10 p.m., Free.

Roadside Tavern: DJ Diego (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

Cork Wine Bar: Billy Ruegger (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Rusty Nail: Yarn, MiZ (roots), 9 p.m., $5.

Espresso Bueno: Espresso Brain-O (trivia), 7 p.m., Free.

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Radio Bean: Tommy Goldman (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Free. Old Time Sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (gypsy jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Tango Sessions, 7 p.m., Free. Anti Racist Action Benefit: Trapper Keeper, Hunger, Bullshit Tradition (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Bagitos: Irish Session, 2 p.m., Free. Ty Wick (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free.

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Moog's: Open Mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

Rí Rá Irish Pub: Beantown Project (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

central

Purple Moon Pub: Patrick Fitzsimmons (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., NA. The Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room: Bumpin' Uglies (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern: The Kind Buds (jam), 9 p.m., Free. Tupelo Music Hall: Joe Bowie and Sol Food (funk), 8 p.m., $15.

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City Limits: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. Two Brothers Tavern: The John Cugno Band (blues), 10 p.m., $3.

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The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: GT Duo (bluegrass), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: Mushpost presents Microhaus (house), 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+.

On Tap Bar & Grill: A House On Fire (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., Free. Briana White (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Nick Young (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Jon Paul (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Giaovanina Bucci (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Micah Plante (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., Free. Somerville Symphony Orkestar (gypsy punk), 12:30 a.m., Free.

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The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Barika (world rock), 10 p.m., Free. Moog's: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 9 p.m., Free.

Monopole: Eat Sleep Funk (funk), 10 p.m., Free. Tabu Café & Nightclub: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.

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The Tamarack Grill at Burke Mountain: Benefit for HOPE with the Slant Six Swing Band (swing), 9 p.m., $10 donation.

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Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Helicopter Showdown (dubstep), 8:30 p.m., $12/14. AA. Monkey House: Super Bowl Party, 4 p.m., Free. Monty's Old Brick Tavern: George Voland JAZZ: Dan Silverman, Tom Morse, Dan Skea, 4:30 p.m., Free.

central

Nutty Steph's: Mary Collins and Don Tobey (folk), 10:30 a.m., Free. The Skinny Pancake: Nicole Erin Carey (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., $5-10 donation.

champlain valley 51 Main: Super Bowl Party, 5 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's Knees: David Langevin (jazz), 11 a.m., Donations. Tall Grass Get Down (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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1/2 Lounge: Family Night Open Jam, 10 p.m., Free. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Kathleen Edwards, Hannah Georgas (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., $16/18. AA.

Nectar's: Metal Monday: Alive & Well, Caulfield, Abaddon, Vultures of Cult (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. On Tap Bar & Grill: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Shannon Hawley (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free. Red Square: Industry Night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. Ruben James: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

central

Bagitos: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Mike Martin & Geoff Kim (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Monkey House: John Smyth, Joe Redding, John Daly (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., Free (18+). Monty's Old Brick Tavern: Open Mic, 6 p.m., Free. Muddy Waters: Masefield, Perkins & Bolles (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free. Nectar's: Grateful Dread (reggae), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. On Tap Bar & Grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

The Skinny Pancake: Wednesday Night Fun-Waiser with Joshua Panda (soul), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

central

Bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam, 6 p.m., Free. The Black Door: Comedy Open Mic with B.O.B. (standup), 9:30 p.m., $5. Gusto's: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. The Skinny Pancake: Wednesday Night Fun-Waiser with Mark LeGrand (country), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

northern

Radio Bean: Stephen Callahan and Mike Piche (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Dave Keller (blues), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3.

Moog's: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

Red Square: Upsetta International with Super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free. Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

City Limits: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

T Bones Restaurant and Bar: Trivia with General Knowledge, 7 p.m., Free.

northern

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

TUE.07

burlington area

1/2 Lounge: Sofa Kings with DJs J Dante & Jordan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Club Metronome: Bass Culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (dubstep), 9 p.m., Free. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Passafire, Jimkata, Summer People (rock), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA.

champlain valley

51 Main: One Eyed Jacks (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

On the Rise Bakery: Open Bluegrass Session, 8 p.m., Free.

central

Bee's Knees: Vartain Marmigonian (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Charlie O's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

Moog's: Paul Cataldo, 8:30 p.m., Free.

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Two Brothers Tavern: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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giLLigAN’S gEtAWAY, 7160 State Rt. 9, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-8050. moNoPoLE, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222. NAkED turtLE, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200. oLiVE riDLEY’S, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200. tAbu cAfé & NightcLub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-0666.

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“30/30 Anniversary Print Project,” Amy E. Tarrant Gallery

wo of Burlington’s most celebrated arts institutions, Burlington City Arts and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, turn 30 this year. Fittingly, they’re celebrating three decades of culture together with a visual-art project that draws on a stellar lineup of more than 30 Vermont artists. Their works are currently on view at the Flynn’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery. The “30/30 Anniversary Print Project” engaged artists and a handful of nonartist notables — including icecream magnates Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, former governor Madeleine Kunin and Flynn executive director John Killacky — who worked with printmakers Sumru Tekin, Jennifer Koch and Gregg Blasdel to create limited-edition prints in the BCA Print Studio and Koch’s studio. All the prints in the exhibition are available for sale via silent auction, both online and at the Tarrant Gallery, with proceeds benefitting the youth education scholarship programs of the Flynn and BCA. Since the prints were made especially for the exhibition by artists who were not necessarily versed in the materials and procedures of printmaking, the works exude a unique experimental quality, even as they reflect the often-familiar styles of the artists who made them. Katharine Montstream’s Intervale landscape print translates her normally colorful work into a subtle, crumbly world of shifting grays. In his piece, Hal Mayforth’s signature scratchy pen lines widen with the graphic blockiness of a wood cut. Harry Bliss, better known as a cartoonist, created a wood-block illustration of Sen. Bernie Sanders. The show is mostly lighthearted and almost a celebration of process itself — that is, of the way an artist can transcend the limitations of a given medium to create work that mingles concept, material and the joy of creation.

In Grace Weaver’s monocolor print, a semiabstract figure gazes at herself in a hand mirror. One foot lunges forward in a dancelike step, while the other bends in a rubbery curve. The body seems to twist at the torso as the woman draws a comb through her long hair. Weaver writes in her commentary: “For this print, I thought of the tubular bodies of Hindu bronze sculpture, women primping in front of mirrors in Japanese ukiyo-e prints, and the bendy bodies of Popeye’s Olive Oyl and contemporary Barbie dolls. I loved learning this print process, which felt more like building a sculpture than making a drawing or painting.” Indeed, many of the contributing artists describe making the prints as an illuminating process that introduced them to new ways of working, and to

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new artists in the community. Painter Alice Murdoch’s commentary echoes many of the others: “The project was a lot of fun since I’ve only done one print in my life … Sumru was terrific and so patient. It was refreshing to step outside of my comfort zone and do something entirely different.” That newfound enthusiasm for the medium of printmaking may be a positive side effect of the 30/30 Project that outlasts even the benevolent effect of its fundraising component. BCA executive director Doreen Kraft notes that the visibility of BCA’s printmaking facilities has increased. “It wasn’t an original goal but a beautiful outcome,” she writes in an email. Kraft points to the nearly concurrent appointment of Blasdel as this year’s BCA Artist-in-Residence as another reason for an upsurge in interest. “His energy, enthusiasm and talent in

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the [printmaking] studio inspired others,” she writes. “We have lots of new students and community renters as a result.” Exposing an array of artists to new ways of working while fundraising for future efforts fits BCA’s mission “to make art accessible to all.” In form and function, the project reinforces the intentions of the institutions it celebrates — educating, community building, and facilitating the creation and exhibition of art in Vermont. The “30/30 Anniversary Print Proj-

ect” soulfully contributes to — and continues — the two institutions’ shared stewardship of the arts. Here’s to the first 30 years, and the promise of many more to come. A M Y R A HN “30/30 Anniversary Print Project,” Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington. Through February 18. Bidding will continue through the closing reception for the exhibition on Saturday, February 18, 5-8 p.m. flynncenter.org burlingtoncityarts.org biddingforgood.com

Tuesday

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First FridAy Art WAlk: More than 30 galleries and other venues around downtown stay open late to welcome pedestrian art viewers. Friday, February 3, 5-8 p.m., various downtown locations, burlington. info, 264-4839. ‘creAtive comPetition’: Artists bring a work of any size and medium and face off in the Root gallery and public Art school’s people’s-choice competition. $8 entry fee; winner takes all. Friday, February 3, 6-10 p.m., Rlphoto studio, burlington. info, 540-3081. evie lovett: “backstage at the Rainbow Cattle Co.,” photographs documenting the drag queens at a Dummerston gay bar; in collaboration with the Vermont Folklife Center. Through March 31 at bCA Center in burlington. The photographer gives a talk called “why should i Care About Drag Queens?” wednesday, February 8, 7 p.m. info, 865-7166. ‘Art oF the chAir: Process And PossiBility’: Two- and threedimensional works by 20 Vermont artists exploring the history, personalization and personification of the seat. Through March 6 at Chandler gallery in Randolph. Chair-painting workshop: saturday, February 4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. info, 431-0204. josé chePe cuAdrA: “Retratos de espaldas (portraits From the back),” thesis work by the MFA candidate. Through February 12 at Julian scott Memorial gallery, Johnson state College. The artist discusses his work: Thursday, February 2, 3-4 p.m. info, 635-1469.

vAlentine Art & crAFt FAir: Jewelery, wood crafts, paintings, pet art, candy and more. saturday, February 4, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce, berlin. info, 431-3540. ‘Fluid dynAmics’: sculpture by homer wells, ethan bond-watts and Chris Cleary. Through February 25 at Flynndog in burlington. Amateur models don Marilyn Monroe-style costumes and wigs and step into Cleary’s steampunk shower for a 15-second photo shoot by Matt Thorsen. Friday, February 3, 6-9 p.m. info, 863-0093.

recePtions ‘2nd tuesdAy’: new work by Cheryl betz, Alex bottinelli, Maggie neale, elizabeth nelson, Kathy stark, Janet Van Fleet and Ann Young. Through February 17 at Christine price gallery, Castleton state College. Reception: Thursday, February 2, 12:30-2:30 p.m. info, 468-6091. djAngo hulPhers: “Americons,” collages. Through February 29 at north end studio A in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-7 p.m. info, 863-6713. ‘invisiBle odysseys’: Autobiographical dioramas by undocumented migrant workers telling the story of their journeys from Mexico to Vermont; includes text in spanish and english. February 3 through April 28 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-7 p.m. info, 388-4964.

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AdAm PutnAm: “Magic lanterns,” installations in which putnam projects architectural interiors on empty gallery walls; drawings of abstracted cathedral-like sculptures; and photos of the 6-foot-8 artist folded into cabinets and bookcases. Through February 25 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166.

FeBruAry shoW: work by “Vermont bag lady” nan Adriance, photographer David Juaire and watercolorist Kristan Doolan. Through February 29 at Artist in Residence Cooperative gallery in enosburg Falls. Reception: sunday, February 5, 1-4 p.m. info, 933-6403. jude Bond & michelle sAFFrAn: “Yours Till niagara Falls: brides and grooms and honeymoons,” photographs. Through February 29 at Vintage inspired in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-8 p.m. info, 488-5766. ritA FuchsBerg: “Rock-a-bye baby 2012,” works in colored pencil. February 3 through March 11 at Carving studio and sculpture Center in west Rutland. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-7 p.m. info, 438-2097. ‘sound ProoF: the PhotogrAPhy oF mAtt thorsen, vermont music imAges 1990-2000’: Chemical prints accompanied by audio recordings in which the photographer sets the scene and the bands play on. Through March 31 at governor’s office gallery in Montpelier. Reception: Thursday, February 2,

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dAWn o’connell: “Camera Raw,” portraiture and street photography. Through March 3 at uncommon grounds in burlington. Reception: Thursday, February 2, 7-9 p.m. info, 999-4572.

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and Rebecca schwarz; aurora-borealis-inspired lighting design by Jason “liggy” liggett. Through February 28 at burlington City hall park. info, 865-7166.

‘Burlington electric: energy-eFFicient Art’: Drawings by fourth graders. Through February 3 at Metropolitan gallery, burlington City hall. info, 865-7166.

isAAc WAsuck: “The Figure of it is,” paintings. Through February 28 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. info, 660-9005.

dj BArry: “instantaneous,” the artist’s response to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, plus other acrylic paintings. Through March 31 at healthy living in south burlington. info, 461-5814. ‘illuminAtions: light And sculPture in city hAll PArk’: sculpture by Kat Clear, Chris sharp

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jAmes mArc leAs: oil paintings that blur the line between landscape and abstraction. Curated by seAbA. Through February 24 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614. kAtherine gluck & kelly holt: “landscapes and portraits,” oil paintings, watercolors and prints by gluck; “light Metal Drummer,” mixed-media works on aluminum and paper by holt. Through March 1 at the Daily planet in burlington. info, 316-7269. buRlingTon-AReA ART shows

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Beth FitzgerAld: photographs of everyday life in a small Tanzanian village by the founder of the African empowerment project. Through February 14 at the gallery at burlington College. info, 923-2350.

‘clAy Bodies’: objects accommodating and evoking the human form. Through March 3 at living/learning Center, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-4200.

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‘occuPy love’: work in a variety of media by local artists. February 3 through 29 at the Firefly Collective in burlington. Reception: live acoustic music, Friday, February 3, 5-8 p.m. info, 279-1624.

‘All ABoArd: An exhiBition oF trAins’: paintings and videos, plus model and toy trains; ‘things thAt move’: paintings and sculpture; ‘the legAcy collection,’: work by 20 gallery artists. February 3 through April 1 at bryan Memorial gallery in Jeffersonville. A reception for all three shows follows a roundtable discussion with some of the ‘All Aboard’ artists: sunday, February 5, 1-4 p.m. info, 644-5100.

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jAmes vogler: oil-and-wax paintings. February 3-29 at left bank home & garden in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-7 p.m. info, 862-1001. AigA student design chAllenge: Campaigns aimed at boosting tourism and brand awareness for the town of Middlebury, by Vermont student finalists in the annual competition. February 3 through 6 at JDK in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 6-8 p.m. info, vermont.aiga.org/home.

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mAtt thorsen: photographs. Through February 29 at Red square in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-8 p.m. info, 318-2438.

doug hoPPes: “landscapes with a Twist,” paintings. February 3 through March 31 at seAbA Center in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-8 p.m. info, 859-9222.

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‘30/30: AnniversAry Print Project’: prints by Vermont artists, including Michael Jager and harry bliss, created to celebrate the 30th anniversaries of both the Flynn Center for the performing Arts and burlington City Arts. Through February 18 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center in burlington. info, 865-7166.

suzAnne dollois: “Assembled landscapes,” photographic collages. February 3 through 28 at brickels gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-8 p.m. info, 825-8214.

‘the cute shoW’: Quirky adorableness, with a hint of satire, in a variety of media. February 3 through 25 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-10 p.m. info, 578-2512.

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‘interPreting the trAil’: photographs, pastels, bottle-cap clocks, backgammon boards and more by artists inspired by the long Trail. Through February 29 at Frog hollow in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-8 p.m. info, 863-6458.

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‘lenses on the lAnd By moonlight’: Marshall webb leads a sunset, moonrise and moonlight photography workshop; supper is provided. saturday, February 4, 2:30-10 p.m., shelburne Farms. info, 985-8686.

luis cAmnitzer: The professor emeritus of art at sunY College, old westbury discusses his work. Friday, February 3, 7 p.m., noble lounge, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier. info, 828-8600.

Bill rAmAge: A centripetal drawing. Through March 2 at Feick Fine Arts Center, green Mountain College in poultney. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5-7 p.m. The artist discusses his work: Tuesday, February 7, 6-7 p.m. info, 287-8398.

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juliA BryAn-Wilson: The university of California, berkeley associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Art discusses her work. Thursday, February 2, 4:15 p.m., noble lounge, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier. info, 828-8600.

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last year: The Granite City endured serious flooding the previous May. It’s appropriate, then, that Studio Place Arts is focusing on storm-related art in “Weathering It Out,” through February 25. Janet Van Fleet’s installation, “Pandora’s Box (or Nature Spills Her Guts)” (pictured), is made from siltcovered buttons and boxes that were salvaged from one of the floods at SPA. Joan Curtis’ paintings, part of a series called “At Home With Nature’s Wiles” (also pictured), offer a zen perspective from an artist whose hometown, Brandon, was badly damaged by Irene. In them, people sit calmly indoors

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Kimberlee Forney: Whimsical paintings of cows, sheep and people. Through February 29 at Magnolia Breakfast & Lunch Bistro in Burlington. Info, 310-9159. Leigh Ann Rooney & Hilary Glass: “Ethereal Terra,” paintings and photography by Rooney; etchings and illustrations by Glass, on the first floor; Robert Brunelle Jr.: “Cold Snap,” paintings, on the second floor. Through April 27 at Community College of Vermont in Winooski. Info, 654-0513. ‘Local Color in Winter’: Work by members of the Vermont Watercolor Society. Through February 18 at Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 652-9893. Mary Hill: Paintings. Curated by SEABA. Through February 24 at Speeder & Earl’s (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 658-6016. Northern Vermont Artist Association: Work in a variety of media by local artists. Through February 29 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. ‘Persian Visions’: Contemporary photography from Iran; ‘Imagining the Islamic World’: Late 19th- and early 20th-century travel photography. Through May 20 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. Sarah Ryan & Creston Lea: Lea’s hand-built guitars painted by Ryan. February 6 through March 2 at Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-4211.

Shahram Entekhabi: Happy Meal, a film featuring a young Muslim girl eating a McDonald’s Happy Meal, in the New Media Niche (through August 26); ‘Up in Smoke’: Smoke-related works from the museum’s permanent collection (through June 3). At Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. ‘The Human Form’: Photographs of the body. Through February 19 at Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686. ‘Variations in Abstraction’: Paintings by Steven Goodman, Beth Pearson and Gail Salzman presented in collaboration with Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery. Through February 17 at Select Design in Burlington. Info, 864-9075. Winter Group Show: Works by Brittany Foster, Donna McDermid, Paige Dunbar, Eric Fitzgerald and Rick Evans. Through March 2 at The Gallery at Phoenix Books in Essex Junction. Info, 872-7111. ‘Winter Landscapes’: Paintings by Sean Dye, Mary Krause and Tony Conner. Through February 29 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222. Zoe Bishop: “Beast and Bird,” paintings and papier-mâché works. Through March 15 at Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington. Info, bumblebishop@ rocketmail.com.

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Adrian Wade: “Montpelier of Belonging,” drawings in pencil and charcoal. Through February 29 at the Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454.

‘Eye of the Beholder’: Paintings by Anne Unangst, Cindy Griffith and Marcia Hill. Through February 4 at City Center in Montpelier. Info, 229-4326.

Mary Mead & Bert Yarborough: Work by the Colby-Sawyer College printmakers. February 3 through March 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

Glen Hutcheson: Drawings and paintings of gods, saints, Montpelier locals and the artist’s mother; Gwen Roolf: “Found and Forgotten,” photographs. Through February 28 at KelloggHubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338.

‘Natural Wonders’: Sculptural assemblages by John Udvardy; mixed-media drawings by Marcy Hermansader; and paintings by Anda Dubinskis. Through March 19 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

Graduate Exhibition: Works by Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA candidates. Through February 4 at T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center in Montpelier. Info, 828-8703.

Ray Brown: “From Vermont to Italy,” landscape paintings that straddle abstraction and realism. Through April 6 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, 371-4375.

Janet Van Fleet: “Discography,” mixed-media work that incorporates discs into grids. February 7 through March 19 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 563-2486.

‘Weathering it Out’: Work in a variety of media including installations made from items salvaged after storms; Jeneane Lunn & Jim Lund: “Vermonters in Italy,” paintings and drawings; Maggie Neale: “What Lies Beneath,” abstract and textural paintings. Through February 25 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

Janet Wormser: Paintings. Through February 28 at Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-3293. Jennifer Burger O’Brien: “Then and Now,” large oil paintings and tiny watercolor illustrations. Through February 2 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676. Laura DeCapua & Geoff Hansen: “Our Town: A Snapshot of Tunbridge Residents in 2011,” environmental portraits. Through March 10 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404. Laurel Fulton: “Pigments and Volumes,” expressionistic skyscapes in giclée prints. Through February 29 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com.

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Aldo Merusi: “Locked in Time,” photographs by the 1937-74 chief photographer at the Rutland Herald. Through February 11 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. Elinor Steele: “The Art of Tapestry,” contemporary handwoven tapestries. Through February 26 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Info, 388-1436. ‘Environment and Object in Recent African Art’: Artworks made of found objects and used materials and reflecting the environment’s impact

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Call to aRtists Call to PhotoGRaPheRs: “Night Light,” a photography exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery. Deadline: midnight, March 21. Juror: Linda Rutenberg. Info, DarkroomGallery.com/ex27. Call to PhotoGRaPheRs: Spontaneity is the hallmark of great documentary and street photography, where the moments of life are often ironic, poignant, emotionally charged and tragic. Deadline for submissions: February 22. Info, DarkroomGallery.com/ ex26. CultuRehall new aRtists: Culturehall, a curated online registry for contemporary artists, invites artists to submit work to an open application call. Deadline: February 12. To apply, visit culturehall.com/ apply.html. CallinG indie CRaFteRs! The Queen City Craft Bazaar is now taking applications for its spring show. Find out more and apply online: queencitycraft.com. hands on Pianos — a PubliC aRt PRoJeCt: Free to enter. Deadline: February 20. In celebration

of its 50th anniversary, the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College is launching Hands on Pianos, a public art project that will install fancifully decorated pianos in public spaces throughout the Upper Valley in July 2012! Artists whose proposals are accepted will receive a $120 stipend to cover materials costs. Download application at avagallery.org. JuRied aRtist membeRshiP: The Chaffee Art Center in Rutland is accepting submissions for juried artist membership. Submission deadline: March 20. Info, info@chaffeeartcenter.org, 775-0356. Poem CitY 2012: Call FoR Poems! The Kellogg-Hubbard Library and Montpelier Alive invite Vermonters to submit poems for our annual text display for National Poetry Month. Deadline: February 1. Send one to three poems as Word documents no longer than 24 lines. PoemCity2012@ gmail.com or PoemCity 2012, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main St., Montpelier, VT 05602. seekinG aRtists FoR show: Vermont Artisan Festival seeks vendors. May 25 through 28 in Jeffersonville. Info, vtartisanfestival.com.

we want YouR love! The Firefly Collective will host a community art show in February. Theme: Occupy Love! All media welcome. Deadline: February 2. Info, info@XXKHT. com. woRkshoP/Class teaCheRs: The Chaffee Art Center in Rutland is looking for artists interested in teaching workshops and classes. Info, info@chaffeeartcenter.org.

Ruth hamilton: “A Walk Through the Woods and Other Favored Spaces,” paintings of England and Vermont. Through February 29 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.

Jean CheRounY: “Source of Empathy,” recent paintings. Through May 20 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Info, 388-0320.

david smith: Paintings of the Vermont landscape. Through March 11 at Claire’s Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

FRank woods: “Topographies,” oil paintings of landscapes and kimono in various degrees of abstraction; PhilliP RobeRtson: Prints and paper constructions inspired by the natural landscape. Through March 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261. ian & saskia Reinholt: Handmade furniture and skis by Ian; oil and watercolor paintings by Saskia. Through February 27 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 279-4239.

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Jeanne CaRbonetti: Still-life and landscape paintings. Through March 12 at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury. Info, 875-3763. kathleen kolb: “Snow Light,” oil paintings. Through April 30 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. kevin FaheY: “A Painter’s Voice,” work by the artist and chef. Through February 26 at Galleria Fine Arte in Stowe. Info, 253-7696.

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Paula bRadleY: “From Color and Light,” pastels. Through February 29 at Island Arts South Hero Gallery in South Hero. Info, 372-5049.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

‘ReveRend maRtin lutheR kinG JR. CelebRation, RemembRanCe and exhibition’: An exhibition honoring the legacies of Stephen Huneck and King. Through February 29 at Stephen Huneck Gallery and Dog Chapel in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-2700.

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RiChmond hookeRs show: Hooked rugs. Through March 31 at Jericho Center Town Hall. Info, 899-2974.

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‘snow’: Winter perspectives by gallery artists. Through March 10 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943. ‘the aRt on buRton’: Work by artists who have contributed to the design of Burton Snowboards, plus videos exploring the process of design (through April 15); ClaRk deRbes: “Shapescapes,” paintings, sculptures and installations (through February 26). At Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. NORTHERN VT SHOWS

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doRian mCGowan: “Bike Art,” work made from discarded bicycle chains, seats and gears. Through February 29 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-9158.

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‘Chittenden east aRt teaCheRs’ aRt show’: Work by local art educators. Through February 5 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

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veRmont aRtist sPaCe GRant: The Flynn’s Space Grant provides 60 hours of creation time in one of its studios. Projects can be theater, dance or music, or a combination. Awards include an informal public showing of the work. Deadline: February 27. Info, flynncenter.org/ spacegrant.html.

and Robert Huntoon. Through March 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653.

‘YounG visions’: Photographs by Champlain Valley and Mount Mansfield Union High School students. Through February 15 at Gallery 160 in Richmond. Info, 434-6434.

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submit to ReaChinG out! Outright Vermont’s ’zine wants your art, stories, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drawings, photography, rants, thoughts, recipes and articles. Info, dawn@outrightvt.org.

on contemporary African life. Through April 22 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.

‘the GoveRnment moRGan’: Photographs, paintings, prints and leather tack. Through March 31 at the National Museum of the Morgan Horse in Middlebury. Info, 388-1639.

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Almost three years ago CVMC celebrated with Scott, one of our Hospitalists, and Laura Nelsonthe arrival of Wyatt, their first born. What a wonderful surprise to walk into the room and find that very young man cuddling his newborn brother, Asa James Nelson. Tall and sweet and cuter than words can express, Wyatt is a very confident big brother and quite the ham in front of a camera! He introduced us to little Asa who arrived on January 22 and weighed 7lb/11oz. He is 21.5 inches long and beautiful — guaranteed to meet the standard set by his big brother. We were absolutely captivated by these two beautiful children — and it appears that mom and dad are too! CVMC congratulates and again celebrates this happy family. It is wonderful to watch the CVMC family grow. The Nelsons live in Burlington. We wish them all the best!

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Institute of the Arts in 2008, works primarily in 35mm film on the old Nikon FM2 she inherited from her godmother in high school in Montgomery, Vt. Dollois documents her environment, focusing on architecture, modes of transportation, and deterioration. She uses the resulting photographs to construct handcut collages, often full of surreal juxtapositions, such as the crowded and dusty interior of a dairy barn framed by a fringe of fresh green vines. Her show “Assembled Landscapes” is at Brickels Gallery in

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‘Native americaN art at Dartmouth: highlights From the hooD museum oF art’: More than 100 historical and contemporary works, many on view for the first time, make up an exhibit that explores continuity and change within north American indigenous cultures. Through March 11 at hood Museum, Dartmouth College in hanover, n.h. Info, 603-646-2808.

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WeNDy cross: “not a pretty picture: America in the 21st Century,” paintings depicting scenes of economic decline. Through February 26 at Gallery in the woods in Brattleboro. Info, 257-4777. WiNter members exhibitioN: paintings, sculpture, photographs and mixed-media work by member artists. Through February 3 at southern vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Info, 362-1405. m

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Randolph-area seniors, plus audio recordings and text from their memoirs; D’aNN calhouN Fago: A retrospective. Through February 10 at AvA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, n.h. Info, 603-448-3117.

‘Interpreting the Trail’

There’s no doubt about it: Vermonters love the Long Trail. The 272-mile trek, Mountains from the Massachusetts to the Canadian border, is the oldest longdistance trail in the country. It’s such a fixture in the state’s culture, there’s even in a show called “Interpreting the Trail,” sponsored by Long Trail Brewing Co. and

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his is an odd little movie about an odd little man. Directed by Rodrigo García (Mother and Child) and based on a story by George Moore, the film portrays life in a late-19thcentury Dublin hotel from the vantages of multiple characters of different classes, but never seems to decide what it wants to say. The odd thing about Albert Nobbs, of course, is that he’s a woman. Glenn Close has received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as a servant with a secret. To the establishment’s guests and to “his” fellow employees, Nobbs appears a paragon of dedication and discretion. He’s mastered the art of standing in the shadows, seeing everything and saying nothing, materializing only when needed. No one suspects the strange, sad truth. That corseted beneath the black suit and starched collars is a frightened member of the female sex who was traumatized by an assault during her youth and, determined never again to be a victim of male domination, decided to masquerade as a man. There’s a deeply tragic story of self-denial at the heart of Albert Nobbs. But, unfortunately, the film’s script — adapted by Close, Gabriella Prekop and Irish novelist John Banville — and the star’s performance fail to bring it into focus. The screenplay is too

busy showing us too little of the lives of too many secondary players. Meanwhile, Close’s turn in the title role is a showy collection of stylized quirks and mannerisms that all but screams, “Look at me!” It’s the sort of acting to which the Academy traditionally is drawn; the sort that never seems like anything but acting. Close can’t, for example, stop herself from teetering into the Chaplinesque. Wearing a bowler hat, carrying an umbrella and walking stiffly through the city streets, she gives a comic edge to a character for whom nothing about life is funny. The story eventually splits onto two tracks, one of which serves the film far more effectively than the other. Terrified of being found out, Nobbs is taken aback when asked to share his room for a night with a worker painting the hotel. The laborer is a lanky, likable bruiser named Hubert Page. Given that British actress Janet McTeer has been nominated for an Oscar for her performance in this role, it can hardly be considered a spoiler to note that he, too, (what are the odds?) is a woman. The difference is that Hubert has used the ruse to embrace life rather than hide from it: He even has a doting wife waiting at home. McTeer totally steals the show. Inspired by Page, Nobbs makes the fateful decision to realize his lifelong dream of own-

The Grey ★★★★

hen I had cable, one of my guilty pleasures was a show called “I Shouldn’t Be Alive.” From the producer of the 2003 survival doc Touching the Void, each episode featured reenactments of real people battling sharks, cold, heat, avalanches and other mighty natural forces. The point wasn’t finding out who survived but watching people grapple with the realization that they might not. Who would be paralyzed by the imminence of death? Who would fight to the end? Moviegoers who buy tickets for The Grey anticipating an action-fest in which Liam Neeson takes on Mother Nature with his fists may be dismayed to find that Joe Carnahan’s thriller plays more like an episode of “I Shouldn’t Be Alive.” While it has its animal attacks and B-movie contrivances, The Grey isn’t Taken with wolves. It’s really about Liam Neeson versus mortality, and the actor’s quietly forceful performance as a man enduring beyond reason and hope buoys it above the usual action flick. Actually, Neeson’s character, a sharpshooter named Ottway, is well beyond hope when we meet him. Unspecified events have severed him from the woman he loves, and

ing a tobacco shop and running it with a wife. What follows is a convoluted soap opera of a final act into which the film’s creators toss everything but the kitchen sink. The plot developments with which we contend include the waiter striking up a bafflingly delusional courtship with a mercenary young chambermaid (Mia Wasikowska); the young woman simultaneously courting the hotel’s handyman (Aaron Johnson); an unwanted pregnancy; a threat to the hotel’s survival; an unexpected death; even a countrywide attack of typhoid fever for good measure. The great Irish actor Brendan Gleeson has a small part as the hotel’s hard-drinking house doctor, and he speaks one of the movie’s final lines: “What makes people live such miserable lives?” This is, after all, the film’s central question. Nearly two hours after meeting

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the film practically opens with him sticking a gun in his mouth. In a voiceover that approaches Twilight levels of purpleness, Ottway tells us he works at a desolate Alaskan oil refinery because he prefers to mingle with “men unfit for the company of mankind... I move like I imagine the damned do, cursed,” he continues. So far, so ridiculous. But just when The Grey is showing all the signs of a he-man camp classic in the making, Carnahan puts Neeson and some of his fellow damned souls in a genuinely harrowing plane crash. He follows that with a wrenching death scene in which Ottway demonstrates his empathy. From there to the end, The Grey lurches between silly stock plotting — danger always, predictably, appears when the men think they’re safe — and surprisingly raw drama. The danger takes the primary form of a wolf pack preying on the crash’s seven survivors, and the secondary form of one angry nihilist (Frank Grillo) trying to replace Ottway as the human pack’s alpha. Fans of wolves won’t be happy with their portrayal here, nor will fans of coherent action cinema be happy with the blurry mush Carnahan puts on screen. But, while the fight scenes in The Grey are as wasted as those in Carnahan’s

The A-Team, they’re a lot shorter. When he holds the camera still on the actors’ faces or the bleak, stunning landscape (it’s actually British Columbia), things get real. If you want to be pretentious about it, wilderness survival stories are just hyped-up dramatizations of things we all face sooner or later. Viewed in that light, the last shot of The Grey is appropriate — necessary, even. Because its trailer raises certain expectations, however, I feel duty bound to identify this as the first multiplex sighting of what my colleague Rick Kisonak calls the “art-house affectation of the no-ending ending.” That’s right: Jarring cuts to black just when “things were getting good” have gone mainstream. The Grey refuses to gratify the audience almost as flatly as Martha Marcy May Marlene — and a postcredits scene doesn’t offer much more closure.

TRANCING WITH WOLVES Neeson gets in his tough-guy zone but does surprisingly little hitting in this survival thriller.

The film is something of a bait-andswitch, owing its $20 million weekend haul to the graying star’s primal appeal to dads across America. Still, if watching Neeson punch Euro-trash thugs is deeply satisfying to some, watching him slug existential despair works for me. There’s no denying that, in a situation where you shouldn’t be alive, he’s the guy you’d want around. MARGOT HARRISON

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BiG miRAclE: A reporter, a Greenpeace activist and two rival superpowers team up to save whales trapped in Arctic ice in this family film based on events in 1988, from Tom Rose’s book. With John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore and Kristen Bell. Ken (He’s Just Not That Into You) Kwapis directed. (107 min, PG. Essex, Majestic, Paramount) cHRoNiclE: Undeserving teens acquire superpowers and film themselves using them and — surprise! — abusing them in this found-footage film from first-time director Josh Trank. With Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell and Michael Kelly. (86 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) tHE WomAN iN BlAcK: In which Harry Potter grows up fast. Daniel Radcliffe plays a rather young widower with a child who stumbles on a vengeful spirit in this British horror film from director James (Eden Lake) Watkins, based on Susan Hill’s novel. With Ciarán Hinds and Janet McTeer. (99 min, PG-1. Essex, Majestic, Palace)

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coNtRABANDHH1/2Mark Wahlberg plays a smuggler turned security guard who goes back for one more big score in Panama in this action thriller . With Giovanni Ribisi and Kate Beckinsale. Baltasar (101 Reykjavík) Kormákur directed. (110 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

tHE DEScENDANtSHHH George Clooney plays a Hawaiian grappling with family transitions after his wife suffers an accident in this comedy-drama from director Alexander (Sideways) Payne. With Beau Bridges and Judy Greer. (115 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Savoy, Stowe, Welden)

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miSSioN impoSSiBlE: GHoSt pRotocolHHH1/2 Tom Cruise returns as a secret agent going up against a nuke-happy madman in the fourth installment in the action series, which gives him a new team. Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Jeremy Renner and Michael Nyqvist also star. Brad (The Incredibles) Bird directed. (133 min, PG-13. Big Picture)

oNE FoR tHE moNEYH Katherine Heigl plays Stephanie Plum, an out-of-work Jersey girl who takes a gig tracking down bail jumpers, in this adaptation of Janet Evanovich’s bestselling novel. Mystery, meet rom com. With Jason O’Mara and John Leguizamo. Julie Anne (The Last Song) Robinson directed. (106 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

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HAYWiREHHH1/2 Having shown us a grim vision in Contagion, director Steven Soderbergh is back in his escapist mode. Mixed-martial-arts star Gina Carano plays a spy addressing traitors with her fists in this action thriller. With Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas and Channing Tatum. (93 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Stowe)

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tHE GREYHHH1/2 In the latest installment of “America Loves to Watch Liam Neeson Kill,” the star plays an oil-rig worker trying to survive in the wolf-infested Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash. With James Badge Dale and Dermot Mulroney. Joe (The A-Team) Carnahan directed. (117 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount)

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tHE GiRl WitH tHE DRAGoN tAttooHHH1/2 David (The Social Network) Fincher directed the American adaptation of the first book in Stieg Larsson’s best-selling mystery trilogy set in Sweden. A left-wing journalist (Daniel Craig) and a mysterious hacker (Rooney Mara) investigate the cold case of a teen’s disappearance. With Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgard and Christopher Plummer. (158 min, R. Big Picture, Bijou, Stowe, Welden)

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BEAUtY AND tHE BEASt (3D)HHHH Spunky Belle’s quest for freedom in the Beast’s castle gets a new dimension in Disney’s reissue of the 1991 musical animation. With the voices of Paige O’Hara and Robby Benson. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed. (84 min, G. Essex, Majestic)

EXtREmElY loUD AND iNcREDiBlY cloSEHH1/2 An 11-year-old New Yorker (Thomas Horn) tries to solve a mystery regarding his dad (Tom Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks, in this drama based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. With Sandra Bullock and Max von Sydow. Stephen (The Reader) Daldry directed. (120 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy)

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RED TAILS★★1/2 This military adventure from Lucasfilm tells a less familiar World War II story: that of the African American fighter pilots in the Tuskegee training program, who had to fight for a chance to fly. Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Nate Parker star. Anthony Hemingway directed. (120 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace) TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY★★★★ Gary Oldman plays a British intelligence agent seeking a mole during the Cold War in this adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel from director Tomas (Let the Right One In) Alfredsson. With Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy and lots of other British thespians. (127 min, R. Roxy) UNDERWORLD AWAKENING★★ Kate Beckinsale returns to the paranormal action series and her leather garb as a vampire who wakes from a coma to find herself with a teenage daughter who’s part werewolf. (Hey, these things happen!) With Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy, who should both know better. Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein directed. (88 min, R. Bijou, Capitol [3-D], Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Palace, Welden)

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Police identified Keith A. Rebori, 23, as their suspect in the robbery of a pharmacy in East Stroudsburg, Pa., after they found a backpack near the scene that matched the one a surveillance video showed the robber carrying. It contained the holdup note and Rebori’s birth certificate. (Pocono Record) Irish police accused Jason Glennon, 36, of burglarizing a house in Dublin. When the homeowner confronted him, Glennon ran but left behind a backpack and a mobile phone he’d previously stolen from a car. Police said he’d used the phone to snap his picture, which they recognized owing to his 53 previous convictions. (Britain’s Daily Mail)

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most of the outages on sailors flushing “inappropriate material or items” down the ship’s toilets. (Norfolk’s Virginian-Pilot)

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Republicans determined to curb government regulatory acts introduced three measures in the House of Representatives specifically intended to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from restricting farm dust, one of which passed, 268-150. Obstructionist Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), even wrote an op-ed article in the Washington Post decrying the “EPA’s proposed regulations,” and Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), declared, “Where’s the EPA going to be next, checking under my bed for dust bunnies?” Despite the outspoken opposition, the EPA has repeatedly insisted it issued no new rules restricting farm dust and has no plans to regulate that pollution. (Washington Post, Associated Press)

A federal court in Brazil sentenced politician Talvane de Albuquerque to 103 years in prison for ordering four of his aides to kill Congresswoman Ceci Cunha so he could replace her in the Chamber of Deputies. Albuquerque REAL was Cunha’s alternate and would have assumed her seat. Albuquerque was also convicted of ordering the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) murders of Cunha’s husband and two of her relatives. f you go to California’s Yosemite (Associated Press) National Park this month, you might

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Cary Dolego, 53, a write-in candidate for governor of Arizona in 2010, traveled to Ukraine to meet a potential bride, only to find himself the victim of an online dating scam. Dolego stayed, however, even though he was broke and forced to sleep in public parks in Chernivtsi. “I need a special lady,” he explained, “a Ukrainian lady, so that we can start a life together.” (Associated Press)

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A floating fence intended to stop terrorist attacks and protect Canadian navy ships has been dismantled after it was weighed down by mussels and kelp and battered by waves in Halifax harbor. The mile-long orange fence, which cost $3.5 million Canadian, was designed with hard plastic teeth jutting five feet into the air to thwart small boats carrying explosives. Dennis Smith of Whispr

Wave, a New Jersey company that has built similar floating fences for navies around the world, said the Halifax barrier was underengineered from the start and unable to withstand the “constant 24/7-365 pounding” from the waves. (CBC News)

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To deal with stares that greet foreigners traveling in Tokyo, Iceland native Arni Kristjansson, 29, created a fake cover to fit over whatever book he happens to be reading on the train. Its title, in Japanese, is, “Why Do Japanese People Stare at Foreigners?” Kristjansson, a DJ and musician, said most people’s reaction to his nonconfrontational approach is laughter. “When I explain the idea,” he said, “they realize that a 300-page book on why Japanese people stare at foreigners is pretty ridiculous.” (CNN)

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Following a rash of thefts from cars and trucks in a Detroit neighborhood, police banned street parking in the area. (Detroit Free Press)

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(July 23-Aug. 22): “Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo,” said author Don Marquis, speaking from experience. Something you’re considering, Leo, may seem to fit that description, too. It’s a project or action or gift that you’d feel good about offering, but you also wonder whether it will generate the same buzz as that rose petal floating down into the Grand Canyon. Here’s what I think: To the degree that you shed your attachment to making an impact, you will make the exact impact that matters most. Give yourself without any expectations.

get the chance to witness a reddishgold waterfall. Here’s how: At sunset, gaze up at the sheer east face of the rock formation known as El Capitan. There you will see what seems to be a vertical river of fire, also known as Horsetail Fall. I nominate this marvel to be your inspirational symbol for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have the power to blend fire and water in novel ways. I encourage you to look at the photo here — bit.ly/fluidicfire — and imprint the image on your mind’s eye. It will help unleash the subconscious forces you’ll need to pull off your own natural wonder.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sad but true: A lot of people seem to be perpetually in a state of wanting what they don’t have and not wanting what they actually do have. I’m begging you not to be like that in the coming weeks, Aries. Please? I’ll tell you why: More than I’ve seen in a long time, you will have everything going for you if you want precisely what you do have — and are not full of longing for what’s unavailable. Do you think you can manage that brilliant trick? If so, you will be amazed by the sublimity of the peace that will settle over you. TAURUS

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If Mark Twain had had Twitter,” says humorist Andy Borowitz, “he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn’t have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.” I think you’re facing a comparable choice, Gemini. You can either get a lot of little things done that will serve your short-term aims, or else you can at least partially withdraw from the day-to-day give-and-take so as to devote yourself with more focus to a long-range goal. I’m not here to tell you which way to go; I just want to make sure you know the nature of the decision before you. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You now have a special talent for helping your allies tap into their dormant potentials and latent energy. If you choose to use it, you will also have a knack for snapping lost sheep and fallen angels out of their wasteful trances. There’s a third kind of magic you have in abundance right now, Cancerian, and that’s the ability to coax concealed truths out of their hiding places. Personally, I’m hopeful that you will make lavish use of these gifts. I should mention, however, that some people may resist you. The transformations you could conceivably set in motion with

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I stumbled upon an engineering textbook for undergraduates. There was a section on how to do technical writing, as opposed to the literary kind. It quoted a poem by Edgar Allan Poe: “Helen, thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicean barks of yore / That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, / The weary way-worn wanderer bore / To his own native shore.” Then the book gave advice to the student: “To express these ideas in technical writing, we would simply say, ‘He thinks Helen is beautiful.’” Don’t take shortcuts like that, Libra. For the sake of your emotional health and spiritual integrity, you can’t see or treat the world anything like what a technical writer would. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you ready to start playing in earnest with that riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma? Are you looking forward to the Daily

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person,” said British writer Quentin Crisp. If you harbor even a small tendency in that direction, Capricorn, I hope that in the coming days you will make a concentrated effort to talk yourself out of it. In my astrological opinion, this is a critical moment in the long-term evolution of your healthy self-sufficiency. For both your own sake and the sake of the people you love, you must find a way to shrink your urge to make them responsible for your well-being. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): After singer Amy Winehouse died, actor Russell Brand asked the public and media to scale back their derisive opinions about her struggle with intoxicants. Addiction isn’t a romantic affectation or glamorous self-indulgence that people are too lazy to overcome, he said. It’s a disease. Would you mock a schizophrenic for his “stupid” propensity for hearing voices? Would you ridicule a victim of multiple sclerosis for not being vigorous? I’m of the opinion that all of us have at least one addiction, although it may not be as disabling as Winehouse’s weakness for liquor and narcotics. What’s yours, Pisces? Porn? Sugar? Internet? Bad relationships? The coming weeks would be a very good time to seek help in healing it.

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(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Comedian Louis CK told a story about his young daughter. She had a fever, and he gave her some Tylenol that was bubble gum flavored. “Ewwww!” she complained. Louis was exasperated. “You can’t say ‘ewwww,’” he told her. What he meant was that as a white kid in America, she’s among the most privileged characters in the world — certainly far luckier than all the poor children who have no medicine at all, let alone medicine that tastes like candy. I’m going to present a similar argument to you, Virgo. In the large scheme of things, your suffering right now is small. Try to keep your attention on your blessings rather than your discomfort.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Lessons could come to you from unforeseen sources and unanticipated directions during the next few weeks, Sagittarius. They will also come in expected forms from all the familiar influences, so the sum total of your learning could be pretty spectacular. To take maximum advantage of the opportunity, just assume that everyone and everything might have useful teachings for you — even people you usually ignore and situations that have bored you in the past. Act like an eager student who’s hungry for knowledge and curious to fill in the gaps in your education.

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(April 20-May 20): Of all the signs of the zodiac, Tauruses are the least likely to be arrogant. Sadly, in a related development, they’re also among the most likely to have low self-esteem. But your tribe now has an excellent opportunity to address the latter problem. Current cosmic rhythms are inviting you rather loudly and dramatically to boost your confidence, even at the risk of you careening into the forbidden realm of arrogance. That’s why I recommend Taurus musician Trent Reznor as your role model. He has no problem summoning feelings of self-worth. As evidence, here’s what he confessed when asked about whether he frequents music social networks: “I don’t care what my friends are

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rough-and-tumble fun that will ensue after you leap into the middle of that sucker and start trying to decipher its impossibly interesting meaning? I hope you are primed and eager, Scorpio. I hope you can’t wait to try to answer the question that seems to have no answer. Be brave and adventurous, my friend — and be intent on having a blast.

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Looking to explore fantises I am new to this. I want to explore my fantises and be taken sexually by another woman who willl romance me and then dominate me in the bedroom. Not looking for a relationship, just exploring. My husband is in support of my exploration so being discreet is a must. marriedandlookinforextrafun, 27, #122975 Quiet sexuality I am a woman who doesn’t look like she craves sex. But I do. I like a man who leads, but I am an active and willing participant. I am comfortable with my body and sexuality and enjoy the pleasure that they bring. enjoysit, 57, #122967

What’s your horoscope? Did you know Scorpio is the most sexual of signs? Looking for some NSA summer fun. Don’t be afraid to contact me for a walk on the wild side! sexiscorpio69, 26, l, #121339

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Lookin for fun I am looking for a woman to have some fun with. I’m new to town. Working but just have not met anyone. Would like to have some fun! Looking to find a partner to learn new ways to explore and please each other. Looking for a bit more spice to add to sex life. DavyGravy, 39, #123021

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Its Tress. Miss, Tress. Gothic freak in search of larger freak. Very rough play, softies need not apply. Prefer to dominate unless you smack me down, hard. Discreet or in the park, matters not. Obeyeitherway, 18, l, #122834 Takes Orders Well Lonely sub in need of a master. Looking to please you and be rewarded when I do a good job. Love lingerie and high heels, as well as public places. Wanna play? ExtraGirlieSub, 33, #122619

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Good times to be had I’m looking for a casual thing. Sex, 1:15:57 PM 1x1c-mediaimpact030310.indd 1 3/1/10 sleeping, foreplay, cuddling, oral, movies, drinking, hanging out. One, some or all of the above. Not sure what to expect from this, but message me and we’ll see what happens. c_ullr, 23, l, #122616 Bi-Sexual Femme Seeks Same I’m looking for open-minded friends to create fun, quality relationships with. If you like to go out on the town or enjoy a wild time at home, then look no further. You must be STD- drug-free, respectful and discreet. If you are a woman/women, or a “couple” (man/ woman) and are interested in the wilder side of life, let’s get together! whynotbeyourself, 43, #122313

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Eager Please wants to tease Hello girls out there, I am a 25 year old easygoing athletic type that enjoys nothing more than making you smile. Looking for a fun, sexy, horny young woman that loves to have fun! Ncblue, 25, l, #123018 just needing a little more sex I am a regular guy in a commited relationship in need of some good ole fashion no strings sex. Nothing else. I am clean, discreet and very respectful. Would really like to find a daytime fuck buddy. Please, serious responses only. I am tall, dark and handsome, a few extra pounds but it does not slow me down. 1horneydude, 44, #119697 cummingon Stud muffin looking for a little exchange of flirtations to start. pussykisser, 49, l, #123010 Got Hormones? Wanted: 40- to 70-year-old erotically challenged lady with hormones to share for an always-eager 60-year- old male suffering from ASS (apathetic spouse syndrome). No strings or rings, just good naughty fun. Looks? I’m not picky if you’re not, but a sense of humor, eager equipment and discretion are mandatory. Oh and big guns? Always appreciated. Churgel, 60, #123000 New Playmate Interested in finding a mature woman to enjoy mutual pleasure. I am a very uninhibited and attentive lover. I am somewhat dominant, but not into pain for either party. lookingforsum, 48, #108238 Erotic Sex Well-educated, physically active professional with strong, but unfulfilled sex drive. Looking for discreet encounters that will be mutually satisfying. Also interested in erotic email exchange. SailorBoy, 61, #122980 curiously curious Good-looking, smart with some college, sales professional looking for a hot, discreet sexual encounter with female or male who knows what they want. Not into rough, into keeping each other on the edge. Oral, touching, lightly probing, no anal. Appreciate clean and attentive hygiene, shaven, clean lite scents. I am very clean, disease free, in good shape and expect the same with the other. inneedindeed, 55, #122979 Want to blow your mind Straight SWM wanting more play partners. Open to wide range of ages, ethnic backgrounds or cultural differences. Weight is not important as long as you are healthy. Sensual, consensual, safe and disease-free FWB women wanted. SteveW420, 48, l, #122960 Loooking... Generally I go for the reserved type with a secret wild side. Someone who enjoys going out for good food and wine in order to set the mood for mutual

Please then be pleased So what can I say? I am 29 and a dude. If you wat to get to know me or if you don’t and just want to meet me for some fun, send me a message. I’m fun, I promise. smc1982vt, 29, #122943 you love a handsome devil I am a well-organized, fit and handsome discrete man who must insist that you keep private what we practice. Surely, you understand that the town is small. And so, if you are not married, disease free and are curious, then let’s link up. Uniqueness a plus - no fatties. asecretstill, 29, l, #122939

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Insatiable appetites for sex! Interesting professional couple (male, 40 yo, and female, 42 yo) searching for no-strings fun! We both have experience with groups and couples, all combinations, although experience is not a must! We require open and easy and willing participants! We want to suck and fuck for hours! Must love toys! 802lvnthedream, 42, #123003 Couple looking for more! My girlfriend and I are looking for a friend with benefits of the female variety, with the potential for becoming more than friends, or a couple to swing with. My girlfriend is the same age as myself, and we’re looking for someone(s) in a fairly close age range to ourselves. coupleplus1, 21, #122942

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I’m a dominant woman looking for a submissive or switch woman. I’m into sex, domination and all sorts of s&m play. I will date if I like your personality, but mostly looking for play. I also do erotic photography, so looking for models as well. I do not play with men, so don’t bother. DominantBeauty85, 26, l, #122954 FROM HER ONLINE PROFILE: What’s the kinkiest thing you’ve ever done or want to do? The kinkiest thing I’ve ever done is whip my girlfriend, blindfolded and cuffed to a cross, in a public dungeon. So much fun! *PLAY TIME IS NOW* Hello. Sweet guy here, non pushy. I am interested in playing with a female or couple. I am 5’ 11”, 220, avg hung. I don’t mind a little chub on a woman but do not enjoy bbw. Let’s connect up and see what happens. No pressures. Interested in fun times but also open to long-term relationships and friendships :). Sweet14u, 38, l, #122825 looking for fun encounters Hi. I am looking for a cool guy to hang out and have fun with. I am into pleasure, and have the tools to do things the right way. If you would like to have some fun, drop a line! Day times are great, I will answer all inquiries. Let’s explore together! hotrockin63, 44, #122800 Seeking Shared Sexual Fullfillment Man looking for a woman between 30 and 54 who is slender to average build and enjoys sex as much as me. Must like to touch and be touched. I love to please and be pleased. Skin on skin with a passionate woman is awsome. I am a single, fun and sexual guy. 47. lovehotsex1, 46, , #122781 BENEFITS FOR GUYS COMPANIONSHIP! Benefits for guys companionship! I am an average-looking guy looking to please any and all men. Love to service any need you may have. I can host any time. I live in central Vermont. Come one, come all! Discreet. Clean. Two holes await. Let me be your oral oasis. No withdrawals. REYER, 46, , #122767

Curious Couple Happy couple looking to have a little fun. New to this, seeking male or female for 3sum. No strings attached. Must be clean, discreet, no drugs/ stds. Would like to meet for a few drinks first and see where it goes. wewanttoplaywithu, 39, #122903 jessicaslut Hi. I am a 28 transgender slut who is planning on having the sex change done and I am going to look like Taylor Swift with C or D cup breast. I am looking for someone to fulfill all of my fantasies and must be cool with taking me out as girl and treating me like the girl slut. jessicaslut, 28, l, #122900 My Man Wants To Play! Bi curious couple looking to play. New to this. Would like to meet first, have a few drinks to see where it goes. Nothing serious and no strings attached. Must be clean and discreet, D/D free. Two40ne, 39, #122895 you know you want it We are interested in finding a female to enjoy this female. Can be bi or not cause ladies, a three is great and I love them, but if you just need a long hard nine, I will watch you enjoy my man as long as you want. Size and age not a major thing, just be fun. SpanksNkisses, 33, #122878

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to girl in the mirror Hey, I know you. You’re that cute girl who does that thing I saw that time. I think you’re cool. Want to hang out sometime? Love, the girl on the other side. When: Friday, January 27, 2012. Where: Everywhere. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909887 Goddess sighted here! In Hot2Trot saw your profile, and you are a goddess. Number 29, I want to blow your mind. When: Friday, January 27, 2012. Where: At desk. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909886 organic, gluten-free cookie duster To the hot, mustachioed cashier: I was checking you out while you were checking out my food. When: Thursday, January 26, 2012. Where: HL. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909885 Lovely blonde at copying machine You’re the cute blonde who had to make lots of copies at the Fletcher Free. We made eyes as you entered and I was leaving, and I came back. I had a green hat. I should have gotten your number then and kick myself since. It would be lovely to get together and get to know your eyes more. When: Monday, January 23, 2012. Where: Fletcher Free Library. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909884

Ski Vermont Guy You usually come in to have your Ski Vermont posters laminated and its always nice talking to you. Last week I saw you at Church and Main (I was with a guy friend). I was tempted before to ask you if you wanted to grab a beer with me but i am a bit shy, so I am asking here. When: Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Where: Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909880

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Can you heat it up? You: tall, fit, dirty-blond boy with the darkest eyes, behind the counter. Me: brunette girl, blue eyes and brown coat, asking for dinner advice. Thanks for suggesting the chicken pesto sandwich. That s**t was amazing. Were you giving me eyes, or do you already have a girl (or boy)? Coffee, tea, brew? I want to get to know you. When: Sunday, January 22, 2012. Where: City Market. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909875 Dream girl Davis center tunnel 10:45ish Saturday night. You were wearing a black puffy North Face parka walking into the tunnel. I was rude and didn’t hold the door. You smiled at me anyway. I never in a million years thought I’d write an I spy. I also never thought someone could truly take my breath away. I hope you see this, dream girl. When: Saturday, January 21, 2012. Where: Davis center tunnel (outdoor) entrance. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909874 thenewjerk You sound swell. I enjoyed your profile immensely. Tell me more. Ms.intrigued. When: Sunday, January 22, 2012. Where: Personals. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909873 A la chica del D.F. ¡Tenemos que bailar más! When: Saturday, January 21, 2012. Where: Positive Pie. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909872

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Handsome Man- Williston Quiznos 1/21 at 12:15. Williston Quiznos. You: handsome man with very nice eyes, you were sitting at a high-top table with your Christmas Tree Shop bags. Me: walked by and sat at the high-top table in front of you and we chatted about how I broke my foot. Would you like to get a drink sometime? When: Saturday, January 21, 2012. Where: Williston Quiznos. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909871

to you. Next time I will. Still curious how seven deadly sins is. When: Thursday, January 19, 2012. Where: Downtown mall. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909866

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mistress maeve Dear Mistress,

I’m having a hard time dealing with a friend who’s going through a divorce. He and I have been friends since college. I’m not close with his wife, but that doesn’t stop me from being appalled by the way he is treating her. He says he knew their marriage was over a long time ago, but instead of dealing with the failing marriage like an adult, he chose to have an affair (continually, over a long period of time, often in his bed while his wife was away on business). He and his wife have now split (he’s couch surfing and still paying the mortgage). The worst part is, when his wife went away on business recently, he took the opportunity to stay at the house — with his mistress! I have never heard of something so disrespectful. Obviously, I would never tell his wife, but I’d like to tell him that he’s being a first-rate asshole. I don’t know how much longer I can contain my disgust. In the meantime, he’s sleeping on my couch!

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You’re right — your friend is being a first-rate asshole. To have an affair is bad enough, but to invite the other woman into the bed he shares with his wife is despicable. When the going got tough in your friend’s marriage, he should have addressed the issues with his wife head-on until some resolution was found, whether it was staying together, opting for a trial separation or filing for divorce. Instead, he chose the coward’s way out by burying himself in an affair. That said, Friendly Fire, no matter how detestable his actions, it’s not your job to play morality police. You cannot control his actions, but you can control your own. You clearly need a break, so it’s time for him to surf on over to someone else’s couch for a while. You can also politely request that he keep the details of his love life to himself, particularly when they involve sullying his marital sheets. Even though you’re not close with his soonto-be ex, you can still show compassion for her. Remember, this is not your battle. Your buddy is currently in the process of making his bed all by himself — at some point, he will have to lie in it.

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Small Dog Encounter We exchanged laughs at our kids at the SoWhat SoLet’sDance Apple TV kids section. I had just left 1x3-cbhb-personals-alt.indd 6/14/10 You sent me a flirt 1today. I now have 2:39:13 PM A cold night in Montpelier work, wearing scrubs, dark hair, holding to pay if I want to talk to you. You We met at Charlie O’s on Friday night a yellow raincoat. You were running after have no picture. Upload a pic? Or (1/20). We were the last to leave and your son. You have auburn hair, jeans email me? Sorry, but that’s why I’m we sat and chatted outside of the and tall brown boots. Care to compare not responding. When: Monday, Coffee Corner. I can’t believe I left mini small-dog toys over a coffee? (You January 23, 2012. Where: 2ToTango. without your info. It was nice meeting took a long time choosing the right You: Man. Me: Woman. #909879 you and hopefully I will see you again one.) When: Wednesday, January 25, soon. When: Friday, January 20, 2012. 2012. Where: Small Dog Electronics. Antidote Sat. music Where: Charlie O’s in Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909883 Tall, long brown hair, black shirt, You: Woman. Me: Man. #909870 kindly re-hanging a painting. You September 24, 2011 didn’t notice that I, and every other Tall dreadlock guy led loco @ You were following pace on the other male in the bar, couldn’t keep our eyes nectars side of the sidewalk. You wore green off you! You were oblivious to it all? Tall gorgeous guy with nice dreads at slacks and a black tank top with There is something about you girls Led Loco show Friday night at Nectar’s... long dark hair. I was wearing a blue who don’t know their own beauty. crowded crazy fun. Not a great place to windbreaker and jeans. Saw you in Your energy is very amazing! And chat..single? Love to meet you and share Rutland in December; wanted so you seemed extremely pleasant to some positive vibes over a cup of tea or much to be able to talk to you. I have everyone you came in contact with. something :). When: Friday, January been trying to find you ever since. If Single? When: Saturday, January 21, 20, 2012. Where: Led Loco @ Nectar’s. you are able, I’d like to finally meet 2012. Where: Sat. Bar Antidote. You: You: Man. Me: Woman. #909869 and talk over coffee, tea, you name Woman. Me: Woman. #909878 it. When: Saturday, September 24, Lady of the Woods 2011. Where: The State House. You: Green cab We came out of the woods from Woman. Me: Woman. #909882 You were the cutest cab driver I’ve different trails at the exact same time, ever had. You gave me a ride Sunday nearly running each other over. Two Lost Woman night, and you told me you were a strangers colliding in an otherwise You were following my pace along jazz musician and you like scotch, uninhabited wilderness. I was singing other side of the sidewalk. You were but not Irish whiskey. You said you’re and you startled me, said you love wearing green slacks and a black tank moving to NYC, but if you want to that song. Do your eyes always look top with long dark hair. I was wearing have a drink before you go, let me so sad? I have other secret chords a blue windbreaker and jeans. I saw know :). When: Sunday, January I would sing to you in a heartbeat. you again in Rutland in December. 22, 2012. Where: Green cab. You: When: Saturday, January 21, 2012. Wanted so much to talk to you. If Man. Me: Woman. #909877 Where: On the frozen riverbank. You: you are able, I’d like to finally meet Woman. Me: Woman. #909868 you. Coffee, tea, you name it. When: Mary Cranberry Saturday, September 24, 2011 When: You’ve been spied! Nice to see you woman in red dress Saturday, September 24, 2011. Where: tonight! When: Sunday, January I want the same things for us that The State House, Montpelier, Vermont. 22, 2012. Where: Janas’. You: you do, and I still love you too. When: You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909881 Woman. Me: Man. #909876 Saturday, January 21, 2012. Where: Our lives. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909867

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