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[Re “Monopoly Board,” February 15]: I’m not sure how this skipped past the attention of reporter Ken Picard and the copy editor, but the following line has a fairly startling inaccuracy: “The PSB is a quasi-judicial body of state government that regulates electric power, telephone and internet service, cable television, pipeline gas and some private water systems.” Replace internet service with telegraph, and you have a winner. Internet service isn’t regulated in Vermont. Federal preemption, FCC for the win. Telegraph (of which Western Union still holds a CPG but no longer operates the service as far as I’m aware) is within their jurisdiction, however. Neil Mortensen MONTPELIER

Picard responds: Technically speaking, Mortensen is correct. The Public Service Board does not “regulate” internet service in Vermont, but it does regulate certain aspects of some internet providers’ operations. For example, when FairPoint Communications sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2009, it had to ask the PSB for permission to amend its certificate of public good. Likewise, when the PSB discovered that Comcast had multiple violations of the DIGSAFE program, which requires utilities to mark the location of their underground lines, the PSB opened a docket to investigate.

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Somebody “read their lines” wrong in the article by Megan James on the 125-year-old Burlington Neighbors Club [“Meet the Neighbors,” February 15]. The C.P. Smith referred to as the “the Burlington business owner, state legislator and namesake of a local elementary school” is my grandfather. His name was C.P. Smith Jr. John Smith is not a greatgrandson of C.P. Smith Jr. Jill Freeman Smith DUXBURY

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Kudos to Ken Picard on this exceptionally fine article [Re: “Monopoly Board,” February 15]. It was a public service in itself to help us all learn more about the Public Service Board. In light of Vermont’s need to plan for future energy sources, we as voters need to understand who has the power to make the decisions and how they happen. Great job! Julia Curry

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In response to Kevin Kelley’s article [“We Built This City … Now What? How Plan BTV Reenvisions Burlington,” February 1], I would suggest that a willingness to listen does not translate into audience acquiescence to a five- to eight-story hotel on the ferry dock property in front

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of the Ice House. I was the only one to point out that filled land subject to the public trust doctrine cannot be used for private purposes such as hotel rooms, but I’m not the only one who would oppose a hotel on this site. Instead of a hotel there, I would strongly support a swap of city property south of Perkins Pier for relocation of the ferry dock. This would allow the city to extend the boardwalk and park space north of College Street all the way south to Perkins Pier. And in place of the hotel, I would suggest small, seasonal retail shops rented to local artists and craftspeople to display their creations to people drawn to the waterfront for the marathon, the triathlon, the 3rd of July and all the other festivals held on the green north of the Boathouse. One- to two-story buildings would not block views from the Ice House and other structures on Battery Street. The retail complex tucked in next to the Pelican Bay Resort in Freeport in the Bahamas comes to mind as the kind of vibrant retail shopping environment that would work well at this site in the summer. The hotel could then be built behind the new ferry docks on the old rail yard, where it won’t block any views. Hotel guests could then shop at the complex next door just as they do at Pelican Bay. This is a much better fate for the Burlington waterfront. rick Sharp

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Paul Heintz’s article on Wanda Hines gives a good sense of the controversy over whether Hines puts too much energy into diversity dinners and hasn’t gotten enough minority members onto boards and commissions [“Has Wanda Hines Improved Race Relations in Burlington? Depends Who You Ask,” February 15]. Puzzlingly, the article only hints at the fact that there may actually be serious issues facing communities of color, to the point that “racial tensions in the city are nearing a boiling point.” Surely racial tensions aren’t about to boil over because of the lack of diversity in city board members. If there are real issues being raised by Hines and her critics with respect to marginalized groups, might Seven Days do a story on this? David French Shelburne

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Last week’s article “Vermont Software Firms: Taxing the Cloud Has No Silver Lining” incorrectly defined technical bulletins as a tool for changing tax regulations. In fact, the Vermont Department of Taxes issues technical bulletins to clarify the department’s interpretations of existing regulations.

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Ken Picard’s otherwise excellent article regarding Vermont’s approach to the treatment of opiate addicts completely fails to mention other medical approaches to treating opiate addiction [“Can Vermont Fix Its ‘Dysfunctional’ System of Treating Opiate Addicts?” February 8]. Methadone and Suboxone are not the only treatment options available to addicts. Many physicians and substance-abuse counselors feel that methadone and Suboxone simply replace one addiction for another and keep addicts under the thumb of a drug and within a culture of dependence. It is possible to treat withdrawal symptoms with nonnarcotic medications and wean addicts off of opiates over a relatively short period of time, if the patient is truly motivated. When used in conjunction with appropriate counseling and community support, this approach has worked for several of my patients and those of my colleagues. Though the success rate is nowhere near 100 percent, the patients who are finally free from the cycle of

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Last year, it was Shostakovich. Now, it’s Beethoven. Exploring the complete works of a composer is the new norm for Pacifica Quartet, and they’ll ride out a pair of Beethoven quartets at Chandler Music Hall on Sunday. “The gloves come off,” wrote the Washington Post in a recent review, allowing the foursome to “really dig into the tortured side of the composer.”

From canvases and mixed-media installations to thrilling dance theater, the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery’s “Engage” exhibit and the related Vermont Artists With Disabilities Showcase work to expand audience understanding of the word “disability.” Dancer Lida Winfield (pictured), poet Eli Clare, pianist Michael Arnowitt, storyteller René Pellerin and VSA Vermont’s Awareness Theater Company take the stage in the latter on Sunday.

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Fronted by Nate Ruess of the late, great Format, New York City’s indie-pop trio Fun. are a tad more theatrical. “Its sung dialogue, bellowing horns and bombastic choruses are begging to be choreographed,” writes Paste. So clap your hands and stomp your feet, or maybe do a grapevine at the Higher Ground Ballroom next Wednesday. SEE CLUB DATE ON PAGE 64

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o the Vermont State Police treat black and brown drivers the same as white ones? Kinda. That was the takeaway by the state cops — and most Vermont news outlets — last week after release of an in-depth study of whether troopers engage in racial profiling during traffic stops. The state police hired JACK MCDEVITT from the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University to analyze data collected by state troopers from some 50,000 traffic stops between July 2010 and June 2011. The purpose was to identify any racial or ethnic disparities in enforcement — presumably so the police could fix whatever problems surfaced. Minorities are just 5 percent of Vermont’s population, making the state the second whitest in the U.S. after Maine. Not surprisingly, more Caucasians than nonwhites get pulled over, 95.6 percent of the total compared to 4.4 percent. McDevitt’s analysis pinpointed “a few areas where racial and ethnic dispari8v-obriens021512.indd 1 2/20/12 2/14/12 2:32 7:57 PM AM ties exist,” namely that minorities were searched “slightly more than whites” relative to their population and that such searches were actually less likely to turn up contraband for nonwhites than for white drivers. Plus, minorities were notably more likely to be ticketed than whites for traffic violations. “However, the data do not suggest that this is related to any systemic bias by VSP officers,” McDevitt concluded. “Overall, the analysis suggests that the VSP are professional in their enforcement practices.” The official state police press release — headlined “Bias Not Indicated by VSP Enforcement” — noted, “State police members stop very few drivers of color (4.4 percent) when compared to a state population, which is 5.7 percent nonwhite.” Also, the state cops conducted “relatively few” vehicle searches overall (1 percent of stops), the statement said, and when they did, contraband was found 73 percent of the time. In other e s s e x s h o p p e s & c i n e m a words, cops aren’t needlessly searching people. FACTORY OUTLETS It’s a pretty rosy picture. But don’t make “postracial” the state motto just yet. KITCHEN Drill down into the numbers — as University of Vermont professor STEPHANIE SEGUINO did — and Vermont 21 ESSEX WAY, ESSEX JUNCTION, VT WWW.ESSEXSHOPPES.COM | 802.878.2851 looks a whole lot less exceptional. 12 FAIR GAME

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For instance, the stop rate for blacks was almost double their population percentage. The rates for Asians and Hispanics were less. In other words, when you lump minority groups together, as the state-police report did, the overall disparity rate looks a lot less alarming. When you pull the data apart, it looks like blacks are being targeted. Granted, cops usually can’t determine the race of a driver who whizzes past at 80 miles per hour. But they can once they stop the car. And that’s where Seguino says the numbers take a more troubling turn.

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Once stopped, minority motorists were searched two and a half times more often than white drivers, Seguino says. And only a third of those searches turned up something illegal. “The percentage of white stops in which no contraband was found was .24% of all cases, compared to 1.68% of minorities.” Seguino reports. “In other words, minorities were seven times more likely to be searched needlessly.” The likelihood of a minority driver getting a ticket instead of a warning? Two and a half times more than white drivers. Statistically, Seguino says, all that puts Vermont on par with states such as Florida and — gasp! — New Jersey when it comes to traffic-stop treatment. “They are over-searching people of color,” Seguino says of the state police, while crediting the agency with voluntarily conducting the race-bias survey.

“The news reports indicated that search rates don’t indicate racial disparities. But my reading of this data is that this underscores significant racial disparities.” The report’s justification for lumping minority groups together for analysis was the relatively small sample size: 1761 minority stops. That’s a small chunk of the 50,000 total, but Seguino says it’s plenty big to glean meaningful trends. She notes that it’s far larger than the numbers she collects and analyzes for Uncommon Alliance, a project that looks for racial disparities in data from police in Burlington, South Burlington and Winooski and at UVM. “It would appear problems are being underplayed,” ROBERT APPEL, executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, says of the report. “We have a long history of racial bias and prejudice in this country, and Vermont is no better than the rest of the country. We need to face facts.” Appel believes any racial disparity identified can be explained by “implicit bias” of state troopers rather than outright racism. But, he says, “recognizing the problem” — in this case, getting a firm grasp on everything the traffic data can tell us — is the first step toward addressing it. To that end, Appel emailed state police Col. TOM L’ESPERANCE requesting the raw traffic-stop data for a deeper analysis, but he was rebuffed. In an email obtained by Fair Game, L’Esperance told Appel: “I think we are getting ahead of ourselves a bit.” State police Maj. BILL SHEETS clarifies that the state police don’t yet have the raw data; they’re still with the Northeastern University researchers. State police are already six months into collecting traffic-stop data for year two of the research, and Sheets says the second year will examine stops, searches and citations by race. “We’ll be looking for someone locally” to do that analysis, Sheets says, adding, “and I hope it’s Stephanie.” Is Sheets worried about the gaping racial disparities identified by Seguino? If so, he’s not letting on. “I think it’s an opportunity to take a look,” he says. “I don’t want us to lose sight. Remember, most organizations nationally in law enforcement, the percentages of times they actually search a vehicle are far higher. We search 1 percent of all vehicles stopped. In that rate — and I’m taking race out of the equation

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The state police aren’t the only ones facing racial-profiling problems. On Monday, the City of Rutland agreed to pay $30,300 to an African American man from New York to settle allegations that he was unlawfully detained and strip searched by city cops after arriving at the Rutland Amtrak station last March. Mark allen, a 41-year-old cablesystem installer from Brooklyn, filed a “charge of discrimination” with the Vermont Human Rights Commission following the March 14, 2011, incident, claiming the cops violated Vermont’s Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act. Allen apparently came to Rutland for a love connection and hitched a ride from the train station with the gal’s friend. Cops stopped the car he was riding in for a nonworking brake light and discovered that the Southern Vermont Drug Task Force wanted the car for suspected drug trafficking. According to a settlement agreement signed by Rutland city attorney andrew Costello, police searched Allen and his luggage on-site — but no contraband was found. Allen consented to a strip search back at the station — again, nothing illegal turned up. The white driver and a second white passenger, meanwhile, were let go without being strip searched or charged. Allen believed that he “would not have been subjected to this degree of scrutiny and humiliation had he not been an African American male.” Rutland officials denied that race had anything to do with it, but nonetheless entered into a settlement to avoid threatened “litigation.” If approved by city aldermen (a vote was set for Tuesday evening, after Seven Days’ deadline), the agreement will require Rutland to adopt a bias-free policing policy within 60 days and hire someone to teach it to every department employee by next year. Allen’s lawyer, david sleigh of St. Johnsbury, quips, “It’s tough to find romance under these conditions.”

a lot about creating new jobs. Two of them aren’t waiting for the election. Miro weinberger has hired three full-time campaign staffers and one part-time one in his quest to become Burlington’s first Democratic mayor in more than 30 years. Campaign coordinator JessiCa nordhaus, field director Jaafar rizvi and campaign spokesman Mike kanariCk each earn $625 a week, according to Kanarick. deb liChtenfeld is paid $300 weekly to work half time, organizing house parties and fundraisers and handling campaign logistics. “As a small-business owner, Miro knows how important it is to hire a top-notch team, and that’s what he’s done in this campaign,” Kanarick says. Weinberger’s Republican opponent, city councilor and state lawmaker kurt wright, has just one full-time staffer and last week put three part-time office workers on the payroll. tayt brooks, the former executive director of the Vermont Republican Party, earns $200 a week, according to campaign reports. angela Chagnon and linda Chagnon each got $150 on February 14, and Clarke reiner was paid $125. Wright campaign spokesman dave hartnett, who works for free, says the campaign was trying to use all volunteers, but as the March 6 election got closer, he says, “We realized we needed extra help.” Independent wanda hines has no paid staff. Reacting to Weinberger’s campaign payroll figures, Hines said, “Woooo! Must be nice, huh? Good for him if that’s what it takes. Our needs are different in this campaign. Mine are minimal.” Weinberger is also benefiting from the state Democratic Party, which is lending him and other local Ds use of its Battery Street office and assistance from the state party’s communications and field staffers, according to Jesse bragg, party executive director. If Weinberger can create privatesector positions like he does campaign jobs, Burlington’s economy might actually have the “fresh start” he’s promising. If he wins. m

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n a city that voted two and a half to one for the last Democratic governor — and five to one for the last Democratic president — Kurt Wright is attempting the improbable: to become the Republican mayor of one of America’s most liberal cities. But you won’t hear Wright utter the R word. It’s not on his website. It’s not in his advertisements. And it’s definitely not in his campaign slogan: “Citizenship, Not Partisanship.” A longtime member of the Burlington City Council — he’s been on and off since 1995 — Wright has earned endorsements from council colleagues of every political persuasion: Democrat David Hartnett, who manages his campaign; independent Sharon Bushor; and Progressive Vince Brennan. Also on the R’s side is former Democratic state representative Sandy Baird, who ran for mayor on the Green Party ticket. “Kurt operates on a local level, and so do I,” Baird says. “When an issue comes up that I’m concerned with, I find him to be open and respectful. He always listens and sometimes disagrees.” But in his other political job, representing Burlington’s more conservative New North End in the Vermont House of Representatives, Wright’s record is reliably Republican. Though he strays from party orthodoxy from time to time — with his “yea” for gay marriage, for example — Wright consistently votes with his caucus on issues relating to the state budget, taxes, labor, health care and the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.

“I don’t know much about his work in Montpelier, frankly,” Baird concedes. Unlike his Statehouse colleagues from Burlington, Wright has earned perfect or nearly perfect marks in four of the five legislative scorecards produced by the pro-business Vermont Chamber of Commerce. Many of the votes for which Wright earned credit from the chamber — in favor of former governor Jim Douglas’ veto of a Democratic budget, in favor of reducing the estate tax and against requiring Vermont Yankee to increase its decommissioning fund — split largely along party lines. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Wright has scored 25 percent or less in four of the five reports produced by Vermont Public Interest Research Group, while the rest of the Burlington delegation notched perfect or near-perfect scores. Wright earned mixed reviews, meanwhile, from Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, which released its first scorecard following the 2009-10 biennium. The liberal business group rated him at 50 percent. VBSR gave him credit for supporting gay marriage and bolstering the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund, while it dinged him for his VY decommissioning fund vote and for opposing legislation that would have required utilities to buy renewable power at higherthan-market rates. During last year’s legislative session, for which interest-group rankings are not yet available, Wright was one of 34 House members — of 150 — who opposed

the Democratic budget. He was one of 49 against creating a single-payer health care system in Vermont. Wright can be hard to pin down ideologically. Asked to name a single statewide or national political figure from his party with whom he identifies, Wright declines to answer, saying, “I differ with everybody on different things. “I’m a Republican that believes in the basic Republican philosophy but is an independent-minded Republican. In other words, I don’t stick with strictly party dogma. I do what I think is right,” he says. That approach has made Wright a thoughtful and deliberative legislator, according to his Statehouse colleagues. They say that while he may support his caucus’ position on big-ticket taxing and spending provisions, he’ll go against his party if he feels strongly enough about an issue. “I definitely disagree with him on stuff, but I’ve seen plenty of examples when he’s taken a principled stand and ignored his caucus’ position,” says Rep. Chris Pearson (P-Burlington). He points to Wright’s support of national popular vote legislation that Pearson sponsored, for which the Republican took “a fair amount of heat from his caucus,” Pearson says. Rep. Don Turner (R-Milton), who leads the Republican caucus, observes: “Just watching from my leadership position, he does ask a lot of good questions in committee. He understands how the process works. He understands how to get things done. I see him working across party lines, but he’s willing to carry our message with him to committee.” In the House Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, chairman Tony Klein (D-East Montpelier) says Wright is engaged, informed and independent. Wright is the only one of three Republicans on the committee who occasionally sides with Democrats and Progressives, Klein says. “When push comes to shove in my committee, I can go to Kurt Wright and I can deal with him on an issue, and he will make his decision based upon the issue, not the partisan piece,” he says. Though he has a lifetime score of 37 percent from the Vermont League of Conservation Voters, Wright received a 58 percent for the 2009-10 session and scored higher than all but five other House Republicans in the last two bienniums. “I’d say 58 percent from the League of Conservation Voters, for a Republican, is pretty frickin’ good,” Klein says.

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Wright wins the most bipartisan praise for his 2009 vote in favor of marriage equality. When Douglas vetoed a bill legalizing gay marriage, Wright voted with a slim two-thirds majority to override the veto. “I think it was brave of him to vote against his governor and support it,” says Rep. Kesha Ram (D-Burlington), a supporter of Wright’s Democratic mayoral opponent, Miro Weinberger. Not according to Burlington City Councilor Ed Adrian, the vice chairman of the city Democratic party and also a Weinberger supporter. Adrian claims Wright’s vote was simply a matter of political expediency. “He voted that way because that was how he needed to vote politically,” Adrian says. “I think for somebody who wants to be the mayor of certainly a left-leaning city, to vote otherwise would have been political suicide.” Adrian points to a letter Mayor Bob Kiss circulated in 2009 that was meant to send a pro-gay-marriage message from the Burlington City Council to the governor and the legislature. Most city councilors signed it — but not Wright. Wright says he declined to sign the letter because, as a state legislator, he saw no reason to send a letter to himself. Plus, he was still gathering input from constituents about how he should vote. “I listened to both sides, went to different people’s houses on both sides of the issue and listened and talked to them and went to public hearings and ultimately decided it was the right thing to do,” he explains. Though he was not in the legislature at the time, Wright says he did not favor the creation of civil unions in 1999. Since then, his views have shifted. “I didn’t and that’s part of the process of evolving,” he says. “I didn’t think it was the right thing at that time. Again, it’s the process of growing and changing.” That flexibility can leave Wright open to criticism. Last month, the state Democratic Party accused him of flip-flopping on a relatively routine budget adjustment act that would have provided funding for several Burlington priorities. When the bill first came up for a vote, Wright voted against it, but on final passage — a few hours after the party criticized the vote in a press release — he voted for it. “When he thought no one from Burlington was paying attention in Montpelier, he voted party-line Republican and against Burlington interests,” Democratic Party chairman Jake WRIGHT’S RECORD

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hen Capt. Richard Phillips of Underhill arrived home after his 2009 ordeal as the hostage of Somali pirates, the nation celebrated him. Now Phillips is receiving an additional honor vouchsafed to few: He’ll be portrayed on screen by Tom Hanks. The casting news has been floating around for nearly a year, but now filming of Captain Phillips, based on Phillips’ memoir, A Captain’s Duty, is due to start on Cape Cod. The casting call drew professional seamen, one of whom protested the screenplay’s inaccurate terminology (doors instead of hatchways — “There are no doors on a ship,” he noted). Catherine Keener, whom you may remember as the lady who devirginized Steve Carell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, will play Phillips’ wife. As for the film’s director, various sources say it’s Paul Greengrass, who helmed the last two Bourne films, though IMD still describes that as just a “rumor.” IMD also says to expect the film in 2013. No word on whether the film will shoot any scenes in Vermont.

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n Town Meeting Day, residents in Lowell and Eden will be asked whether they support making the abandoned asbestos mine on Belvidere Mountain a federal Superfund site. A “yes” vote could make available millions of government dollars to clean up the Vermont Asbestos Group property, a 1540acre site that has become an eyesore and environmental hazard since the mine shut down in 1993. But the designation also has the potential to create new uncertainties that may lead some residents of these Northeast Kingdom towns to opt for the devil they know over the devil they don’t. Among their worries: The Environmental Protection Agency hasn’t revealed any details about its cleanup plan for Belvidere. Nor has it said how much time, or money, the process might require. Some local residents are even worried that some of their driveways — paved with material from the mine — may be considered part of the pollution.

Complicating matters, a Middlesex developer is making noise about building a biomass energy plant on the old mine site. The Lamoille Economic Development Corporation says the site needs to be fully remediated before any redevelopment can take place — something only a Superfund designation, and the federal dollars to follow, could pay for. Eden resident Leslie White worries that voters could be seduced into voting for Superfund status by the promise of a biomass development that never materializes. She warns, “If we invite the EPA and

Superfund in, this could become a way bigger and more complicated thing than we need.” Superfund listing has strong support from state agencies and some Vermont entrepreneurs who argue that the only way to clean up or repurpose the mine site is with the federal dollars the Superfund program guarantees. But it’s been a tough sell in Lowell and Eden. White says the Superfund label connotes a public danger that could negatively affect property values and local businesses. It didn’t help that, four years ago, the

Vermont Department of Health released a report that inaccurately concluded the region was at higher risk of lung cancer because of asbestos exposure. Following publication of the health study, White says cabins at nearby Lake Eden — the “only kind of touristy thing in Eden” — received calls from prospective visitors who wanted to cancel their trips. Superfund listing, White says, is a “label that we don’t want.” “Superfund is not a perfect tool, and I totally get that,” says John Schmeltzer, an environmental analyst with the

Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. “The way things came down with the health study, I understand why the community was upset. The state as a whole had a credibility problem.” That in turn has fostered widespread skepticism among residents in the area. Many of them doubt the site is dangerous, despite a preliminary EPA site analysis from 2007 and 2008 that confirmed its eligibility for Superfund designation. State Rep. Mark Higley (R-Lowell) MinE yOuR Own buSinESS?

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cultural competency and institutional racism, if it’s there.” One person of color who says she resigned from the district because of its intolerant racial climate is Jeanine Bunzigiye. The Congolese native and Burlington High School graduate spent several years as a paraeducator and homeschool liaison for newly arrived African immigrants. Bunzigiye, who speaks French, Swahili and Lingala, says she often served as a translator for African immigrants who spoke little or no English. Yet, despite her linguistic abilities, Bunzigiye says her interpretations of parents’ words were often discounted, even belittled, by teachers and administrators as “her own opinion” and not necessarily reflective of the parents’ true sentiments. Bunzigiye says she was even criticized for doing “too much advocacy work” on behalf of African-born families. “I was translating exactly what the parents were saying to me … but [the administrator] didn’t want to hear what I was saying,” says Bunzigiye, who resigned and went to work for the Burlington Housing Authority. “That was my green light to say, ‘Bye-bye.’ I just didn’t feel respected or valued.” Bunzigiye says such experiences reflect those she had as a student and new American. She cites an incident that occurred shortly after her arrival at BHS, when she was given an assignment to write an essay about a film her class had seen. Bunzigiye recalls being so moved by the movie that she wrote five pages. “When I handed in my paper, the teacher said, ‘Jeanine, that is not your

work,’” she recalls. “I never cried so much.” Other staff of color who have worked with immigrant students point to similar incidents in which 8v-windjammer022212.indd faculty, staff or administrators openly displayed ignorance, insensitivity or patronizing behavior toward their foreignborn students. Lindsay Reid is an African American woman who grew up in Burkina Faso. Beginning in the fall of 2008, she worked at Burlington High School as an AmeriCorps volunteer assigned to nonnative English speakers. Reid says she was “shocked” by the insensitivity several faculty members showed toward recent immigrants. She recalls one teacher who routinely referred to them as “dumbasses,” and another who labeled a student “retarded” simply because he came from a nonliterate culture. “I told them that I don’t think this student is ‘retarded,’” Reid recalls. “If you don’t speak their language, you’re not qualified to make that assessment.” Another time, Reid recalls getting a phone call from a teacher about an African student who showed up in class wearing clothes that were very dirty and needed laundering. When Reid arrived in the classroom, many students were holding their noses and laughing. They weren’t alone. “The teacher was also laughing hysterically because her student smelled bad. And they acted like it was an emergency,” Reid recalls. “It was very embarrassing for the student and handled very poorly and very mean.”

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oes the Burlington School District have a race problem? Definitely, according to more than a half dozen current and former BSD employees who claim the district isn’t a very accommodating or inclusive place for people of color. They point to last week’s resignation of Trevor Christopher, coprincipal of the Integrated Arts Academy at H.O. Wheeler, as the latest example of a nonwhite person rumored to be leaving the district because of concerns about racial insensitivity and cultural incompetence. On February 13, BSD superintendent Jeanne Collins announced that Christopher was resigning his post effective June 30 and going on immediate medical leave due to injuries he sustained last fall. The press release offered no further explanations for Christopher’s departure, nor did it include a statement from the outgoing principal himself. In a subsequent interview, Collins said she was not aware of any other reasons for Christopher’s departure, noting that his resignation letter cited none. In an email, Christopher declined an interview request from Seven Days to explain whether he was leaving due to concerns about the district’s racial climate, except for one mysterious comment: “Where there is smoke, there is fire.” But others allege that of more than a dozen people of color who have been hired by the district in the last two years, at least six have either resigned or are considering resignations. “Everybody was excited to have a principal of color. And now they see another staff of color leaving,” notes Sara Martinez de Osaba, who claims she was “forced out” of the district due to her outspokenness about racial inequities. “So you wonder why kids don’t go into the education field. They’re getting the message loud and clear here in the Green Mountains.” The district’s attrition rate for faculty and staff of color could not be independently confirmed, in part because such data aren’t necessarily communicated to the district and are sometimes based on anecdotal information. Nevertheless, some who are working to create a more equitable work environment suggest there’s a problem. “The diversity and equity office has been increasingly concerned about what may or may not be patterns, but our data [have] not yet told us what we should be focused on,” says Dan Balón, the district’s director of diversity and equity. “But much of our efforts around recruitment and hiring are fruitless if we’re not similarly concerned about climate, which includes retention,

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some test plots where the state has tried to grow vegetative cover. The state actively manages the site as best it can, but without a massive cleanup effort — which would likely include cutting down and capping explains the prevailing attitude. “The the tailings piles in some way — it is catch people up in Lowell have lived with it for as catch can. 100 years,” he says of the mine. “It’s kind No one really knows how much it would of second nature to them.” cost to clean up Belvidere Mountain. The It doesn’t help that they’re faced with mine’s bankrupt owners have put the a classic catch-22: The EPA can’t clarify figure at around $60 million. In a 2010 its plans for the mine until the community report, the state DEC estimated the price — and state — agree to put in a formal ap- tag at $130 million to $200 million. plication to the program. Local residents guess the actual cost Nor is the biomass developer, Dexter could be higher — and worry that federal Lefavour, making any promises without a funds won’t be there to cover the promguaranteed cleanup timeline. ised 90 percent, even if the site does earn But David Hallquist, the CEO of Superfund status. Vermont Electric Cooperative and the Established in 1980 to address board president of the Lamoille Economic abandoned hazardous waste sites, the Development Corporation, which sup- Superfund program allows the EPA to ports Superfund status, stresses that clean up pollution and compel the responpotential future development hinges on sible parties — when they still exist — to cleaning up the mine. reimburse certain cleanup costs. When “The real question here is, ‘Do you those parties can’t be found, the EPA taps want this site to be cleaned up?’” says a special trust fund to finance the cleanup. Hallquist. “As it sits now, you can’t even go Currently, 13 sites in Vermont are listed on on site. Do you want to the Superfund registry. start the process?” Prior to 1995, funds The Belvidere came through a tax on Mountain mine began petroleum and chemioperating in the early cal products, but for 1900s and at one time almost two decades was the largest proSuperfund has had to ducer of chrysotile compete with other asbestos in the U.S. federal programs for Miners extracted the precious dollars. The asbestos ore from spending plan sent to open pits and sent it to Congress by the White factories where it was House this month made into brake pads, calls for reducing the floor and ceiling tiles, program’s funding and other products. by 6 percent — from J o h N S c hm E lt zE r , The leftover tailings $565 million to $532 V E r m o Nt D E pA r t m EN t — huge mounds of the million. o f EN V i r o N mEN tA l by-products of mining EPA spokesman Jim c oN S Er VAt i o N — grew up alongside Murphy acknowledges the mine. Today, resithe exact amount of dents describe those piles as small moun- annual funding can be hard to predict. In tains in their own right. the case of the asbestos mine, he says the The mine closed in 1993 amid grow- EPA would work incrementally as funding ing concern about asbestos’ links to lung allows. cancer and asbestosis. Now it’s the tailings The state has said it won’t pursue piles — 30 tons in all — that most worry Superfund listing without community state and federal environmental regula- support, which leaves the DEC waiting tors. Specifically, they don’t want asbestos on the results of the March 6 vote. If the eroding into downstream wetlands. towns give their approval, the state will The mine isn’t going to go away, says draft a letter to the EPA to set the process Schmeltzer, and the tailings piles will in motion. continue to erode — especially during “No matter how you slice it, the bottom the increasingly severe weather events line is … it is the only mechanism we experts predict the state will experience have,” Schmeltzer says of the Superfund in coming decades. He counts the region program. lucky that Tropical Storm Irene didn’t hit Some residents are coming around to as hard at Belvidere Mountain as it did in the idea. Lowell selectman Alden Warner other parts of the state. isn’t 100 percent sure that Superfund is “It’s a big site, and there’s no silver the right answer but says the mine will bullet or quick fix here,” Schmeltzer says. need to be dealt with eventually. There are a few efforts in place already to “If we don’t do something,” Warner deal with cleanup: berms and diversion says, “we’re going to just throw this probchannels to route away runoff, as well as lem into our grandchildren’s laps.” m

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Reid, who now does international development work for Tetra Tech ARD in Burlington, says that, prior to her AmeriCorps experience, she wanted to teach in Burlington schools. “But I quickly came to the conclusion that I wouldn’t be able to teach here under those circumstances,” she says. “I think it’s institutional. It’s unexamined biases and nobody is challenging those biases.” For her part, Collins says she doesn’t believe the district has an attrition problem that is specific to people of color. Nevertheless, she says the district has been “working really, really hard” over the last two years to “change the paradigm” on cultural competence. “I couldn’t possibly deny that somebody may have left because they did not feel welcome, or the job was not the right fit, or the district somewhere along the way let them down,” she says. But while some are critical of recent staff losses, Collins prefers to focus on the progress the district has made in the last two years. For example, the district now evaluates all candidates for faculty employment based on their cultural competence. As part of the screening process, all candidates must answer three essay questions on diversity; anyone who scores

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he epithet “one of the greatest comic novels in the history of literature” might bring to mind The Adventure’s of Huckleberry Finn; The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; or Don Quixote.. For University of Vermont classics professor M.D. USHER, however, that phrase describes The Golden Ass,, written by Lucius Apuleius in Latin around 150 AD. The story of a young man whose curiosity leads him to accidentally turn himself into a donkey, The Golden Ass is a ribald adventure tale full of sharp social commentary on second-century Roman life. It influenced storytelling from Boccaccio through Pinocchio and beyond. Literature students usually encounter the book in college, but Usher thought it entertaining and important enough to warrant a new adaptation that could engage “young readers of all ages.”

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Usher’s The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius cuts out much of the bawdiness of the original tale and turns the main character, whom Apuleius named after himself, into an 11-year-old boy named Prudentius. With cleverly allusive penand-ink illustrations by T. Motley and an easy chapter format, the book is a gift to the preadolescent set: great literature disguised as a rollicking tale. “A lot of adults could read this with profit,” Usher admits by phone from his Shoreham home, where he also operates the Works and Days Farm, “but everyone between the ages of 8 and 12 will love the ass jokes.” The classics department chair clarifies that “being an ass” meant the same in Roman times as it does now: “It’s the lowest being of the animal kingdom you could be transformed into.” Usher took his cue for the ass jokes from Apuleius, who often chose phrases in Latin — his third language, after Punic, his native North African tongue, and Greek — to pun on the sounds of a donkey braying. When Prudentius quips, “I’ve since

She began as a mysterious figure in white: white, anklelength parka, white boots and a puffy white hood cinched so tightly around her face that only her eyes and forehead (painted white) were visible. Now she’s a walking explosion of red. No, she’s not a crazy person, or an “abominable snowperson,” as one curious Seven Days reader suggested; it’s Burlington artist KATE DONNELLY. Since February 6, she has spent every weekday morning in her eye-catching whiteand-red costume, walking the sidewalks of Burlington’s South End. She calls the performance piece “Also There: A Performance for the Commuter.” Donnelly takes the same route every day, but her appearance has changed over time. The tiny flecks of red material that peeked out of her parka in the first week have grown. Every day, Donnelly pulls the shiny red stuff out farther. By the second week, it looked like she was adorned with poppies. Now, halfway through the third, the long red sashes cover her almost entirely. For commuters, the performance has been both intriguing and kind of freaky. Another reader writes in to say she spotted Donnelly on Pine Street. “[It was] a bit scary for the young kids waiting to cross to go down to

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Champlain Elementary. The crossing guard says she never talks or responds to his greetings.” For Donnelly, it’s all part of the show. “The figure, in a state of gradual metamorphosis, momentarily interrupts the attention of an audience who are engaged in a daily transition,” she writes on her blog, which can be found at alsothere. Kate Donnelly on her morning blogspot.com. “With the stroll. daily reappearance of the figure, the audience may witness the sight again and again, begin to notice it changing, perhaps even look for it. It may become part of their routine.” She adds, “We take comfort in titles, certainties, tangible outcomes ... I wish to remind the audience … to notice the anomalies and embrace adventure.” Donnelly wraps up the adventure this week, so catch her while you can. E DONNELLY

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value of The Golden Ass that Usher wanted to convey through his new adaptation. Apuleius’ novel is essentially a “story of redemption,” he declares. As a donkey, the hapless Prudentius is enslaved by a greedy millstone owner, forced by eunuch priests to haul a stone icon around for alms and dressed up as Pegasus in skits devised by an entrepreneur-turned-artist, among other adventures, before he can return to humanity. The story’s comedy “enhances it,” says Usher, “because along the way, you’ve seen all the misdemeanors and foibles of society, and you’re not above all that. You come out thinking, OK, I’ve suffered, learned my lesson and turned into something better — or at least turned into a human again. Which is enough, in my mind.”

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learned the truth about the word ASSUME: it only makes an ASS out of U and ME,” he’s adhering to the spirit, if not the letter, of the original. Making Greek and Roman classics accessible to young minds is a hobby for Usher, whose own three sons are older — his youngest is 16. He wrote two picture books, Diogenes and Wise Guy: The

Life and Philosophy of Socrates, to help children understand those giants of Western philosophy. Usher can also do serious and adult; he has written an opera libretto in Latin, Voces Vergilianae, for which a Portland, Ore., composer wrote the music, and is currently collaborating with that composer on another opera, about the emperor Nero. But Usher finds comedy to be a perfect teaching tool. “I think the comic approach tends to be more honest, [and] there’s something about that that kids like,” he says. “It helps them to feel safe to laugh about serious things like sexuality.” But it wasn’t just the entertainment

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the next few references, she drops the word entirely. Winfield tells the same stories in every performance, but she has never written them down. “I write the stories in my head,” she says. “My work doesn’t ever live on paper.” She grew up in the Burlington area but never names her school. Winfield says she’s still angry about the way her learning disability was handled, but she’s not bitter, and neither is “In Search of Air.” Her family was loving and supportive, she says, but also at a loss. And when Winfield was 17, her mom was diagnosed with cancer. In the show, this is when Winfield wraps her own tiny body in the billowing tulle. On stage, Winfield recalls seething with anger on

graduation day after her mother died, realizing she had made it through high school without learning anything. She remembers looking down at her diploma and thinking, I cannot actually read what this says. Her turning point came when she enrolled at Landmark College, a school in Putney for students with learning disabilities; there, her whole world opened up. “My learning wasn’t restrained to a chair or a textbook,” Winfield says. “I got to lie on the floor as we discussed things.” It wasn’t just movement that helped. “Part of it was that there wasn’t shame,” she says. “That’s where learning happens, when we’re not afraid.” It wasn’t all smooth sailing from there. It took Winfield many tries at many different colleges to earn her BA. “Being dyslexic is still my hardest thing,” she says. “It’s still what I cry about most.” Still, she persisted, and recently earned her MFA from Goddard. These days, education is a crucial part of Winfield’s life. In addition to teaching dance classes at the FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Winfield is involved with the Flynn’s professional development program “Words Come Alive,” which takes her to schools around the state, working with teachers to integrate dance and movement into their academic curricula. Winfield dreams of taking “In Search of Air” on tour, so her story can reach others who may be feeling as she once did. She wants to remind them, “We are bigger than our words,” she says. “If it hadn’t been for art and my family, I can’t imagine what would have happened.”

“In Search of Air,” created by Lida Winfield and codirected by Matt Wohl, at Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier. Thursday through Saturday, February 23 through 25, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, February 26, at 2 p.m. $15-20. lostnationtheater. org lidawinfield.com Winfield will also perform the piece at the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, on Sunday, February 26, during the reception for “Engage,” 4-6 p.m.

TRYING OUT It may be true that “All the world’s a stage,” as Jacques intones in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. But it’s also true that most actual stages require auditions. In Randolph next month, the VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF THEATRE AND THEATRE ARTISTS is offering dozens of them. Upward of

75 aspiring actors can be scheduled during the annual, daylong event. For its silver anniversary, points out codirector RONNI LOPEZ, VATTA has a brand-new location: the CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS. After holding court at St. Michael’s College for many years, Lopez hopes the central location will make the event more convenient for participants from southern Vermont. Thespians who apply will be required to

present two monologues, plus “16 bars of a song if you want to sing,” says Lopez, before a panel of theater professionals. The panel then gives its evaluation. With any luck, the actor walks away with the promise of a paying gig in a show. There’s a parallel interview process for nonactor theater peeps, such as lighting and design technicians, who have the same goal of finding work. Lopez concedes that attendance at the VATTA event has declined a bit in recent years — last year, just 30-odd folks showed up. Why? “I don’t know,” she admits. “We’ve had pretty consistent producers.” Lopez, who codirects VATTA with actor G. RICHARD AMES, acknowledges that small theater groups around the state may simply not have the time to commit beyond their own

organizations. “I understand how people feel about driving to these things,” she says of the audition-andinterview event. Still, for individuals looking to break into show biz, or build on current careers, VATTA offers a stage and a chance to act out. PA M EL A P O L S T O N

VATTA STATEWIDE AUDITIONS & INTERVIEWS EVENT Saturday, March 3, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph. To apply, call 355-4015, email vatta@theatrevermont.com or visit theatrevermont.com and click on “vatta 2012.”

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Dear cecil, With the population of the United States growing ever more obese and oil becoming scarcer, I wonder if the government has started taking into account the energy its population is storing in body fat. Hypothetically, how much would this add to the nation’s energy reserves? John Prokos, Kathmandu

you could magically liposuction out all of that 4.6 billion pounds of extra fat, it would make a cube 150 feet on a side of quivering yellow … OK, not the best visual. But consider: • If Americans’ excess body fat could be converted into something suitable for the solid rocket boosters of the now-retired space shuttle, it could have powered all 135 launches, with enough left for a few more missions after that. • You could deep fry more than 83 billion large orders of McDonald’s fries in it. • Alternatively, come Thanksgiving, you could deep fry about 25 million turkeys simultaneously, and who wouldn’t love to do that? However, let’s be realistic.

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Would excess U.S. body fat, if harvested in a caring and noninvasive manner from free-range livestock, add significantly to the nation’s energy reserves? It’s at this point that one national crisis collides with another: The answer, sadly, is no. Those four trillion BTUs would satisfy the country’s staggering energy appetite for just 53 minutes. Which I guess shows that while we love our French fries and whatnot, we love our SUVs a lot more. Why is prostitution called “the oldest profession”? Under both of the definitions of profession I know, there’s no chance prostitution could be the oldest, these being (1) “an occupation requiring extensive education in science or the liberal arts” and (2) “a way of making a living.” Since I know of no university programs in Prostitution: Theory and Practice or Hustling 101, I’ve discounted the first

definition. Under the second, prostitution is certainly a profession, but I can’t see how it could be the oldest. I have always assumed the oldest way of making a living, older than H. sapiens itself, was hunting and gathering. Is humanity actually descended from a race of hookers, or is there a nonreligious definition of profession I’m missing? Boris Boris, relax. It’s a joke. One might have guessed this, but for the details I turned to Barry Popik, chairman of the Straight Dope philology department. He responded with a new post to his word origins blog, at barrypopik. com. Based on this, we construct the following account: • The originator of the notion of prostitution as the oldest profession was Rudyard Kipling. His 1888 short story “On the City Wall” begins: “Lalun is a member of the

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ohn, you know I admire outside-the-box thinking, and this is about as out there as it gets. We’ll ignore the queasy question of how you’d go about mining this unexploited resource and instead focus on just how much there is. Answer: a lot. According to a much-quoted 2009 press briefing from the Centers for Disease Control, American adults collectively are hauling around at least 4.6 billion extra pounds of fat. That’s the equivalent of four trillion BTUs of energy — an impressive number, but what does it mean in practical terms? The following may give a sense. The same amount of energy would be contained in: • 700,000 barrels of crude oil, or • 35 million gallons of gasoline, or • nearly 15 freight trains loaded with coal. (I’m telling you, my assistant Una went nuts with the spreadsheet on this.) Still not grasping the magnitude of the thing? Let’s try this. If

most ancient profession in the world… In the West, people say rude things of Lalun’s profession and write lectures about it and distribute the lectures to young persons in order that Morality may be preserved.” Lalun is, of course, a hooker. • Kipling, as is the wont of authors, wasn’t offering a learned insight into the labor markets of antiquity but rather making a quip. • It was, however, a quip with legs. Previously the oldest profession was generally considered to be farming. For example, Popik notes, in 1883 the Grand Forks (North Dakota) Herald proclaimed, “In fact, agriculture is the first and best as well as the oldest profession.” This is defensibly true but hardly a remark to draw appreciative chuckles when told over cigars at the club. Once Kipling had nominated prostitution for the honor, it immediately chased agriculture from the field and inspired numerous droll variations. For example, in 1922 theater critic Alexander Woollcott recounted a joke about an actor and a streetwalker with the punch line “The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.” Ronald Reagan, in more recent times, declared politics to be the second oldest profession. After the grins fade, Boris, you’re welcome to argue that really agriculture is the oldest profession. However, if you think facts are going to trump entertainment value — well, good luck with that.

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and ran like a sprinter up a driveway two houses farther up the street. The choreography had all the hallmarks of what we cabbies call a “runner.” I wasn’t shocked — I was merely surprised. To truly stun me, she would have had to extract a Glock from her purse and do the highwayman thing. But it was, as I said, surprising. She seemed to be a nice person, and we had had such a chummy chat. If she didn’t come back with the money — the scenario I fully anticipated — I’d leave it to karma to sort it out. No way was I abandoning the warm vehicle to hunt her down; I’d sooner eat the eight bucks. I waited about five minutes — futilely,

hair appeared faultless, with perfect black bangs. Her 3 a.m. beauty was, anomalously, fresh faced. “Sure thing,” I said. “You know, you’ve got a great accent. Is it, like, Eastern European?” I know it’s forward to bring up ethnic origins with a stranger, but — as with traffic rules — the rules of etiquette grow fluid in the wee hours. Or maybe that’s just me rationalizing my boorish behavior. In any event, the woman didn’t appear to take affront. “Have you heard of Moldova?” she asked. “I believe I have. Is that one of the republics that gained independence in the

The rules of eTiqueTTe grow fluid in The wee hours. as I expected. Just as I shifted back into drive, a woman approached my cab from a house across the street. I lowered my window, and she asked, “Are you here for me?” This is an interesting question, metaphysical in its implications. One may assume she meant, “Are you the cab I called?” But I chose to understand the query in its more expansive sense, and — cosmically speaking — I was there for her. And that’s how I came to answer: “Yes, I am here for you. Jump right in.” (And shake a leg, honey, before your actual cab shows up.) “I need to get to Farrell Street, behind Shaw’s,” my new customer instructed me as she settled into the shotgun seat. I couldn’t precisely place her accent, but it was European and charming. Despite the late hour, the woman’s makeup and

fall of the Soviet Union? It’s a little tiny country — do I have that right?” The woman chuckled and said, “Yes, it is a small country, maybe the size of Maryland. It’s located between Romania and the Ukraine.” I could tell from her patient tone that this was a geography lesson she was often called on to deliver. “That’s where I’m from. I moved here three years ago, when I was 20.” “Are you working in town?” “Yes, I do the insurance billing for a medical practice. It’s a good job, but I’d like to go to graduate school and get an advanced degree.” “Well, good for you. Are most of your people still living in Moldova? You ever get back?” The woman sighed and said, “All of my relatives are still in Moldova. We do Skype quite a bit, but, you know, it’s not

the same.” “Yeah, I know what you mean. Skyping is great, but it’s not like actually being with someone, you know — in person.” “It is not an easy situation,” the woman volunteered. “I am an only child, and also the only grandchild and niece in my family. It’s really hard for all of us, me being in America.” Her opening up in this way I recognized as another facet of the wee-hour taxi ride. As the night marches inexorably toward a new day, the normal boundaries between strangers begin to melt away. This is when — if the stars are aligned — the taxicab becomes a bubble, a safety zone that facilitates a sometimes startling degree of heart-to-heart communication. It’s not something I instigate, but I respect it when it occurs. I consider it part and parcel of being a night cabbie. Under the spell of the bubble, I reflected on the immigrant’s odyssey undertaken by this young woman — an arduous journey perhaps as old as humankind. To pack up all the possessions you can carry and leave everyone and everything you know and love — all this on the far-fromcertain hope of a brighter future. Our community is graced with many such courageous people, and I bow down to each and every one of them. When she passed me the fare, I let slip the words, “Hey, thanks for paying me.” She looked up quizzically, saying, “Why wouldn’t I?” I chuckled and said, “Don’t ask.” m

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was driving back into town, passing UVM’s Davis Center, when I spotted a girl standing near the curb on the opposite side of Main Street. She was speaking on — or she might have been just checking — her cellphone. It was early February, 3:00 in the morning, and the air was cold, the wind gusty. I tapped the brakes and made long-distance eye contact. Sure enough, she flagged me for a ride, and I came to a stop, switching on my four-ways. (This four-lane, nonshouldered stretch along the campus is not the safest place to pull such a maneuver, but the late hour allowed for it. Somewhat different rules apply at this time of night, as the police and we cabbies know.) The girl ran across the street and jumped into the backseat. “How’d you know I needed a cab?” she asked, breathing hard. “Lucky guess,” I said. The truth is that years of hacking have given me a sixth sense about pedestrians. In my book, every one of them is a potential fare; any cabbie worth his salt is constantly on the lookout. I asked, “Where can I take you?” “Buell Street, please. I don’t have any money on me, but my roommate is up, and I’ll get it from her when we get there.” On the ride over, we chatted about her college career. She was a senior and didn’t know what her future held postgraduation. I said, “Hey, you’ve been going to school since you were, like, what — 6 years old? It’s not the worst thing to take a break for a year or so and just work a random job and enjoy life. You’re entitled, sister.” My customer laughed, and we continued the amiable banter until we pulled up to her place on Buell. Assuring me she’d “be right out,” she bounded out of the taxi

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ost Americans today see no country as a more menacing “other” than Islamist Iran. And this inability to look beyond cartoonish concepts of an “axis of evil” could well lead to another U.S. war of aggression in the Middle East. A show of contemporary photographs from Iran at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art is therefore not just timely — it’s urgent. The diverse, surprising set of works by 20 photographers acts as an antidote to ignorance, presenting an alternative to the facile or anachronistic images transmitted by the American media. “In the United States we are given the impression of Iran as a faraway place with no color, where people walk hunched over by oppression,” says Vermont Public Radio journalist Steve Zind. A Vermonter with family roots in Iran, Zind has traveled there several times as both a reporter and a descendant of an 18th-century ruler of the land then known as Persia. He says his visits have revealed a reality quite different from the stereotype. Farzaneh Milani, a professor of Persian and women’s studies at the University of Virginia, notes that Americans associate Iran not just with repression but with violence. “When they look at Iran, Americans still see the hostage crisis,” she says, referring to the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran’s capital city, by militants who seized 52 Americans and held them captive for more than a year. That prophetic outburst of Islamist rage was inspired by the overthrow 10 months earlier of the shah of Iran’s U.S.-supported dictatorial dynasty. Many of the 50 or so images that compose “Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran” address “issues that also concern us in the West: family, identity, aging and death,” observes Fleming curator Aimee Marcereau DeGalan. In addition to focusing on universal themes, the mostly nonpolitical show situates the Iranian art scene in an international context. The expressionist use of the camera by many of the photographers, and the challenging styles that some of them have developed, suggests that this work would fit familiarly in galleries in New York, London and other Western art capitals. Despite the government’s attempts to shield Iranian society from European and American influences, Iranians “know what’s going on in the world,” Zind points out. The technically illegal TV satellite dishes clamped to roofs around the country stand as totems of a global culture, Zind suggests. Iranian

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artists also have ready access to hip imagery and heady artistic debates via the internet, he adds. “I think a renaissance is happening in Iran,” declares Milani, whom Zind regards as a perceptive observer of Iranian culture. “We can see now the pursuit of elegance and beauty, along with bridge building to the rest of the world.” A suite of four photos by Ebrahim Khadem Bayat offers evidence in

support of Milani’s contention that more and more Iranians are creating art for art’s sake. Bayat is represented by artsy black-and-white compositions that call to mind the work of the pictorialists, a group of early-20th-century photographers gathered around Alfred Stieglitz in New York. The link to the pictorialists’ exploration of photography’s aesthetic properties is manifest in Bayat’s shots of a chair draped in gossamer and

of a smoky stream rushing past a rock on which five apples have been arranged. “Persian Visions” includes whimsical works, as well. In the series “Child’s View,” by Shahrokh Jaˇfari, a playground slide, street scenes and domestic interiors are all photographed from ground level, giving everyday objects and figures a towering presence. Near the museum’s entrance, a video by Shahram Entekhabi records his young daughter’s

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and are depicted in religiously devout and in secular consumer societies. “More than the expropriation of oil and other resources,” Zind comments, “it’s the cultural influence of the West that Iran has found so problematic.” Ever since the arrival of British and French colonizers in the 17th century, Persia/ Iran has had to respond to imported values and ways of living that contradict the indigenous understanding of proper behavior. Rejection and acceptance have alternated at various times in history. The Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini can thus be more accurately understood as a nationalist

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innocence and enthusiasm as she sits in a McDonald’s in Berlin wearing a black chador and downing a Happy Meal. It’s a case of East eats West. The covering of female heads and bodies demanded by traditional Islam is a recurrent subject of this touring show. But it’s addressed from an almost exclusively male perspective. Only one of the photographers is a woman. Head scarves are depicted from all sorts of angles, resulting in a wide variety of visual effects, as well as subtle commentaries on sexual politics in today’s Iran. Right at the outset of the show, which was organized by the

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Tehran Museum of than as a religious upMore than the Contemporary Art, welling, Zind suggests. expropriation Kourosh Adim conThe familiarity fronts visitors with a of family life awaits of oil and other picture of a modestly viewers of a set of resources, veiled woman who posed color photos nonetheless manages by Shahriar Tavakoli. to look sultry. The right In one, a gray-haired half of her pouty exman snoozes on a sofa. pression is covered by It could be a Sundayfabric that accentuates afternoon scene in a rather than conceals Vermont home, except her allure. perhaps for the gold Bayat, who stagetassels that decorate manages objects and the sofa. Tavakoli S teve Zind nature scenes, is also includes himself, his represented by a photo brother and parents of a woman whose face is completely in another cheery domestic tableau. shrouded, with the folds in her fabric It’s snack time. Everyone is seated on suggesting the shape of a gas mask. the floor, with a mirror propped behind A few photos juxtapose street shots of them against an inky backdrop. cloaked Iranian women with advertising “Persian Visions” abounds in images posters featuring much-larger-than-life that are at once ordinary and exotic. Gary faces of toothy Western women. The con- Hallman, the now-retired University of trast is clearly meant to be jarring. It also Minnesota art professor who orchesprovokes the viewer to wonder about the trated the show on the U.S. end, frames ways in which women present themselves

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What we now refer to as the Middle East used to be called the “Near East,” according to Vermont collector J. Brooks Buxton, who lived in the region for many years as an oil-company executive. As it happens, his contributions to the Fleming Museum of Art this winter and spring do help to bring that part of the world a bit nearer, at least in the imaginations of viewers. While “Persian Visions” — a touring selection of contemporary Iranian photographs — is the main act, two smaller exhibits featuring treasured items from Buxton’s collection give it historical heft. “I originally conceived of Brooks’ material all in one space,” says Fleming curator Aimee Marcereau DeGalan. “But then I started thinking, What a great counterpoint to the contemporary work — these early photos by Western photographers.” Accordingly, “Imagining the Islamic World” is displayed in the East Gallery with the more recent “visions.” Most of Buxton’s 22 sensuous albumen prints are from the late 19th century. It was a time when travel photography was relatively new — as was the medium itself. Just as vacationers and photojournalists still do, the curious and intrepid explorers of the day recorded buildings, people and pastimes in the Near East, and brought the exotic images back home. As such, the images reflect what the visitors — not necessarily the natives — found interesting. “Some might consider the [photos] rather static, but I thought they were accurate indicators of Western intrusion into North Africa and the Near East,” says Buxton, a seventhgeneration Vermonter and class of ’56 UVM grad who began collecting photographs from the region in the early 1970s. The Holy Land and antiquities were the two main inspirations — and subjects — for 19th-century documentarians, he explains. Once they got there, though, many photographers became fascinated with Islamic culture, capturing the expanse of ancient ruins, medieval citadels and thencurrent cityscapes, as well as the citizenry and ubiquitous sand dunes. “In the late Victorian period, there was a great revival of interest in the Middle East,” Buxton explains. “These photographers shifted their focus from Christian or biblical interest to the Islamic.” Some of Buxton’s photographs reflect his own attraction to the farreaching Greek and Roman civilizations, manifested here in images of architectural ruins that express their “monumentality,” he says. “When you see these temples in person, they’re immense,” Buxton marvels. “I felt that the photographers captured not only the aesthetic qualities but the engineering skills. Of course, [the builders] had slave labor,” he adds. “But nevertheless they also had vision.” Case in point: the second-century temple of Bacchus at Baalbek in Lebanon, depicted in one of the photos here by Félix Bonfils. Buxton is also interested in depictions of everyday life, and, indeed, these shots literally abound in human interest: a groomsman, clad in a billowing white robe, with his magnificent Arabian steed; a group of soldiers in Cairo; pairs of men, also in Cairo, playing backgammon; and a formal portrait of a well-to-do Persian family. This last image depicts “the essence of the late-19th-century landed family,” says Buxton. The

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it with the aim of eliciting a kumbaya response. “This exhibit builds a bridge between Iran and the United States as it leads viewers to become aware of other ways of being and seeing,” Hallman writes in a wall text welcoming visitors.

espite the shared concerns that this show highlights, some aspects of Iran remain enigmatic; many of the images seem to communicate in a code that an American audience cannot decipher. Reza Ramazani, a professor of economics at St. Michael’s College, affirms that “there’s a code we Iranians use in making art.” A reader or viewer steeped in the country’s history, culture and current circumstances will apprehend a poem or a painting differently than will an outsider, he suggests. What’s a Vermonter to make, for example, of “Their Hands Are in Pain,” a pair of photos by Saeed Sadeghi? Why is a man in one image standing in a field and pressing a tattered, fingerless glove to his face? And who’s that black-shrouded woman in Sadeghi’s other photo? Why is she holding up a snapshot of a man, and is that an iron railing in front of her? There’s mystery, too, in the pair of still photos hung above a pair of video screens that show a man in a Western sports coat walking back and forth at Persepolis, an ancient Persian site. Sadegh Tirafkan’s

camera tracks the walker as the microphone records the crunch, crunch, crunch of strides on gravel. In the photos, also by Tirafkan, two men and a woman stand before Persepolis’ ruins, facing the camera in one shot and with their backs turned in the other. The artist is contrasting contemporary Iranians and their classical heritage. But to what end? The point isn’t sharply made. This video-photo combo also serves to highlight Zind’s suggestion that the show should have been called “Iranian Visions” rather than “Persian Visions.” It’s not about long-ago Persia, the VPR reporter notes; it’s about here-and-now Iran. Other photographers chosen for the show also appear to be speaking in a visual language that requires translation for an American audience. It doesn’t help that crucial bits of background information are not posted alongside many of the images, instead remaining confined to a catalog that many Fleming visitors are likely to pass up. Hallman, the show’s American organizer, has little to say about the censorship that helps account for some of the cryptic imagery. Ramazani is more helpful in that respect: “There’s a red line that Iranian artists find impossible to define or to describe where it is,” he explains. “But they implicitly know when they’ve reached it.” Milani at the University of Virginia notes that, under a repressive regime

such as that of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “There’s two kinds of censorship: from above and from within.” Iranian artists create under constraints imposed by puritanical authorities as well as by their own desire to avoid imprisonment — or worse.

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an antidote to ignorance. This is not to say, however, that “Persian Visions” avoids explicitly disturbing images. Photojournalists Kaveh Golestan and Mohammad Farnood both focus on the hellish nature of war — any and all wars. In their photos, the absence of accompanying explanatory texts helps drive the point home. Viewers don’t know specifically what they’re seeing; they just know it’s a gruesome consequence of organized violence. Farnood’s “Survival” presents a closeup of a man with a white head bandage whose face is streaked with dirt — or maybe oil. The orange shirt he’s wearing has a woven pattern of black slashes similar to the random smudges on his cheeks and chin. “Myth of War” shows a platoon of mujahedin wearing red headbands and brandishing rifles, their fierce expressions turned away from the camera. Close scrutiny of Golestan’s four small

photos might cause the onlooker to gasp in revulsion. A wash the color of dried blood has been brushed across these scenes, making it difficult at first to notice bodies lying on stretchers. In one image, a man averts his gaze from a corpse and covers his mouth and nose with a scarf. In another, a samaritan crouches to place a chunk of ice on the lips of a figure that does not appear responsive. Most horrific of all is Golestan’s shot of a kneeling woman propping up the body of her headless baby as though the child were about to take a first step. A final twist of distress comes with the news, not provided in the show, that Golestan was killed by a landmine in Iraq in 2003 while working for the BBC. Golestan’s photos would most appropriately have been hung alongside Farnood’s at the conclusion of “Persian Visions.” That way, Vermont visitors would have been more likely to come away with a message similar to the one articulated by Milani in a telephone interview: “A war with Iran would be a catastrophe. It may happen that a show like this will help avert that catastrophe.” m “Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran,” through May 20 at Fleming Museum of Art, UVM, Burlington. Info, 656-0750. uvm.edu/~fleming Visit the museum website for events related to this exhibit, which begin March 14.

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patriarch is wearing a coat of mail, he points out, perhaps indicating that he’d served in the military. The extended family apparently includes a mullah or two. It was traditional, Buxton says, for wealthy families to have their own mullahs — one for religious and one for academic education. He notes that early photographers in the Middle East faced significant technical challenges, not the least of which was keeping their plates dust free in this arid land. “There was also a bureaucratic gendarmerie,” Buxton notes. “The Ottoman red tape — they were notorious for that. The photographers had to get permission to shoot everything.” In recent years, Buxton has stepped back from collecting photographs of the era, and area, as the historical images have become “hideously expensive,” as he puts it. “The industry has changed with the developments of museums in the East,” he notes. “What used to be three or four thousand dollars is now more like tens of thousands. [The photographs are] now more in the league of institutions.” With the rise of nation-states, Buxton adds, has come national pride; museums naturally want to collect their own histories — including reclaiming artifacts from abroad.

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“Some people think these photographs were exploitative,” Buxton says, “but I don’t think so.” The early photographers, he suggests, were simply “as intrigued as I was” by what they saw. A separate exhibit in the Fleming’s Wolcott Gallery, “A Discerning Eye,” displays a broader swath of Buxton’s collections, from ancient Egyptian artifacts to 19th-century European and American paintings. Some 20thcentury Vermont pieces show up, too, such as a 1970 lithograph titled “Japanese Three” by Buxton’s friend and retired UVM printmaker Bill Davison. In a hardbound catalog for this exhibit, Fleming director Janie Cohen notes that the works are selections from “a larger collection that Brooks has built over a period of five decades, and which, with extraordinary generosity, he has promised to the Fleming Museum.” It is a munificent gift indeed. One wall of this cozy, salon-like gallery displays small paintings whose collection preceded — and inspired — Buxton’s attraction to early photographs, he says. These works on paper, mostly watercolors, are by European and American artists whose Eastern interests preceded Buxton’s by a century or more. From the 1839 lithographs of Scottish artist David Roberts to Charles Sarka’s 1902 watercolor “The Pyramids From the Citadelle” to Henri Matisse’s 1926 “Reclining Odalisque,” the works depict a romantic allure that has been harshly eclipsed by images of war.

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Parker puts it. “So it just sort of sat for a while.” During that time, Farrar recruited Jim James, who had visited the archives and met Nora Guthrie, Woody’s youngest daughter and de facto guardian of all things Woody. She had played some of Farrar and Parker’s tracks for James. Upon hearing them, he suggested inviting Will Johnson — another friend of Parker’s and a member of Monsters of Folk. That side project also includes James — credited as Yim Yames, as he is on New Multitudes. “I’ve joked that [the album] started in 2006 and finished in 2010,” says Parker. “But it was probably about two and a half weeks of recording in total.” Much of New Multitudes was tracked

live in Brooklyn at the studio of onetime Vermont resident Mark Spencer, who also plays guitar for the project. Burlington’s Creston Lea, who plays bass in Parker’s band Cloud Woody Guthrie Badge, also appears on a few tracks. Parker notes that most songs were cut in Avenue, volumes one and two, by Billy two or three takes, vocals were generally recorded live, and there Bragg and Wilco, Multitudes is generally spare and straightforward. Most songs were few overdubs. “We intentionally had a bit of center around traditional rock instruWoody’s vibe: not to put on airs or make mentation and feature little in the way of ornate arrangements. it something it’s not,” Parker says. Though not entirely justified — or The album reflects that relaxed fair — comparisons to the Mermaid approach. Unlike its highly produced Avenue sessions are inevitable. For one, Guthrie-related predecessors, Mermaid

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was reading this Woody Guthrie biography a few days ago and came across this part where a woman says, ‘Woody hated imitators and people who didn’t do their own thing.’” Anders Parker is seated in a booth at a Burlington café on a recent Friday afternoon chatting about his latest project, a tribute to the legendary American folk singer. As the lanky songwriter sips a coffee drink, the froth dangles from his mustache above a long, unkempt beard. “My only strategy was not to think about what I was doing, let it be instinctual. And I’m glad I did,” Parker continues. “So the only thing, really, was to try to make it not sound like Woody.” If he had lived to see it, July 14, 2012, would be Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday. The months leading up to that anniversary promise to be filled with all manner of tributes celebrating the life and art of the folkie icon. Among those is New Multitudes, which will be released on Rounder Records on Tuesday, February 28. The album features 12 previously unrecorded songs taken from the Woody Guthrie Archives and set to original music by Son Volt’s Jay Farrar, Centro-matic’s Will Johnson, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Burlington’s Anders Parker. Parker says the project was originally meant to be a Gob Iron record — his own folk-based side project with Farrar. In 2006, when the two were in New York City doing a press junket for that band’s debut record, Death Songs for the Living, Farrar and Parker visited the Woody Guthrie Archives to begin researching the project. He says they spent hours poring over boxes upon boxes crammed with material Guthrie left behind. “Pretty much everything is original,” Parker says. “So you’re sitting there going through his typed or handwritten [lyrics], or notes, diaries. It was incredible.” Parker and Farrar wrote and recorded a few tracks separately, then convened the next year to record together. But the project ended up shelved due to “schedules and tours and life and whatever,” as

On “VD City,” for example, Johnson sings over a driving rock beat and distorted guitars, “Your eye is too testered to see here / Worse than lepers your skin run with sores / Every window stands full of lost faces / Human wrecks pile the steps and the doors.” Not exactly “This Land Is Your Land,” eh? “The breadth is wider than I thought,” says Parker of Guthrie’s writings. “There are darker subjects, writing about addiction and prostitution and venereal disease. And there are the sappy love songs. Some kind of gangster tunes. In that way, he was a real folk musician. He wrote about everything.” Guthrie’s importance to the canon of American folk songwriting can’t be overstated — though critics will undoubtedly try in the months to come. “Pete Townshend had a funny line,” says Parker. “Someone once asked him how Dylan affected him. And he said, ‘That’s like asking how I was affected by being born.’” Townshend wasn’t far off the mark. Any musicologist will tell you that most branches of modern American songwriting eventually connect with Woody Guthrie. “You don’t have to go back very far to get to Guthrie,” Parker says. “You get to Bob Dylan and you find Guthrie. Even if you don’t know who he is, you listen to people who are influenced by him by one or two degrees of separation. He’s one of the sources of the language.”

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from my classmates — with the mix of ’80s hits and Lady Gaga on the stereo, and the impressive behind of Bluto leading it all — it’s a blast. On the comfortable-to-kill-yourself scale, Artemis’ Afterburn lands closer to CrossFit than to Curves, but the comfy couches and raspberry-colored carpet soften the hard edges of the gym. Says Sowers: “We want this to be an intimate place.” I’m soon to discover a greater degree of intimacy at HammerFit’s Strip Hop, but before I brave that, it’s off to Nia. Burlington’s South End Studio began offering the mashup of yoga, dance and martial arts on a daily basis this year. “There’s something deeper about a Nia class — it asks a little bit more of you than a traditional exercise class,” says Sabrina Gibson, who opened the

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I feel awkward at everything, except perhaps the part where we’re standing on the chair. (“Don’t worry about breaking the chair; these can hold a 350-pound man,” assures Justine.) Or the part where we use that old rubric to choose our stripper names: combining your first pet with your first street. Justine, amazingly and perfectly, is Raven Cherry. I’m Shandy Red Fox. And I’m nowhere near ready for Montréal at midnight. But heading back out into the humdrum atmosphere of Chittenden County in mid-afternoon, knowing that my “goods” have gotten a good workout, everything suddenly seems a lot less routine.

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With exceptions such, as a scene where Lemon’s British-born mother (Tara Lee Downs) tells her daughter the story of how she and Lemon’s American-born father (Joshua Neilson) met, the central events transpire over the summer when Lemon was 11 years old. That was the summer when Lemon’s American “Aunt” Dan (Bridget Butler) — actually an old friend of Lemon’s father — spent time with them in the countryside. Aunt Dan, the story goes, introduced Lemon’s parents when all three were at Oxford. Over the course of that fateful season, Lemon is an audience for Aunt Dan’s stories of her (mis)adventurous life, which introduce the impressionable lass to a diverse cast of characters — a scholar, a floozy, at least one lothario. Why Aunt Dan has singled out Lemon for this attention is unclear, but she holds nothing back. It’s like a slumber-party-game version of My Dinner With André.. The impression these tales make on the girl is profound, especially the ambiguous moral hues in which they paint Aunt Dan. Lemon says little during these sessions, which adds an air of self-indulgence

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ou’d have to be the president of Iran, or someone with a similarly fanciful sense of world history, to question whether the Holocaust happened. But what if you accepted this unfathomable tragedy as fact but didn’t find it so unfathomable — or even so unusual in the broader scheme of things? What’s more, what if you appreciated the logic at the core of this infamous genocide — and said so? You might find yourself on the defensive in polite conversation, and rightly so. Such would be the fate of Lemon, one of the title characters in Wallace Shawn’s 1985 play Aunt Dan & Lemon, if she ever left her flat to interact with the wider world. Because Lemon doesn’t get out much — owing to an undefined illness that finds her lounging about in pajamas all day and subsisting on fruit and vegetable juices — she has much to tell us, the audience. Her tale is a mixture of reflections on Nazism and recollections of her youth, in particular those passages in which her Aunt Dan was most present. In Aunt Dan & Lemon now running at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington and produced by Small Potatoes Theater Company, director Pamela Formica’s cast members wring dynamic portrayals from a script that’s sometimes lopsided with polemical monologues and windy musings — Shawn’s signatures as a dramatist. (See the 1990 monologue The Fever and its 2004 s creen version starring Vanessa Redgrave.) Strong individual performances by the actors in the title roles keep the blood pumping in this wordy, heady bit of theatrical business. Lemon (Emer Pond Feeney) narrates and frames the play, which takes place in the present. The bulk of the scenes, however, are retrospective — set in England during the Vietnam War era of the early 1970s.

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rant directed at his stateside peers who would presume to know how hard his job is. Other performances are mixed, the characters less developed. As the somewhat tragic vixen Mindy, Genevra MacPhail is mostly come-hither looks and lavender leggings, and her part calls for little else. As her suitor, Raimondo, Ben Ash works his “Latin lover” shtick to such great comic effect that, after a while, he seems out of place in this play. At the opposite extreme, Sebastian Cliff plays his incidental characters, Andy and Marty, with almost no affect at all. The most fully realized performance in Aunt Dan & Lemon just might be the director’s. Formica has taken a play with relatively explicit messages and Big Ideas — another hallmark of Shawn’s work — and found ways to keep them hidden for stretches. The author’s repetition for emphasis and tendency toward overstatement challenge the actors to embody rather than enunciate themes — to show, not tell. That the lead actors are as successful as they are, and that Aunt Dan & Lemon moves as fluidly as it does, testifies to Formica’s skill. What’s more, despite the occasional word barrages, which can impede the drama’s flow, this show strikes a fairly unified tone — somewhere between Bertolt Brecht and Harold Pinter. Shawn’s name has been linked with those two eminent playwrights before. This time, he has Small Potatoes to thank for it. m

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do this ... Nothing can make me” is what she thinks immediately before obliging him. The novel works by accumulation, building a family portrait through linked, or at least similar, moments in relatives’ lives. In this, it’s a little like one of Huddle’s New Yorker poems, a villanelle called “Roanoke Pastorale,” which stretches the strict form by introducing small changes in each repeated line to create a nuanced whole. The problem with the form of the novel, however, is that it raises expectations of a story that develops toward a conclusion. By coincidence, this reviewer was simultaneously reading Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, a novel so compellingly told that it’s hard to put down. Nothing Can Make Me Do This did not gain by comparison. Huddle’s novel develops only in depth of character analysis, so that from vignette to vignette — some chapters were initially published separately in magazines — the question for the reader becomes merely What kind of sexual revelation will this character have? There’s danger in titling such a book as Huddle does; one may very well groan, “Nothing can make me do this,” each time one goes to pick it up. What is admirable about the work is Huddle’s range of voices, which run the gamut from first and third person to visually distinct narrative forms, such as a typed exchange between two people passing a keyboard between them. By far the most entertaining voice is that of Bill,

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Arthur Flour. “Our stuff, it’s like New York [dumplings] but better, because we use all natural stuff,” he says with pride. Karpov also notes that he manufactures his homestyle varenicki entirely by hand. Appropriately, the pillowy pastries, sold in batches of about 10, are labeled “bites of joy.” The affection with which they’re made is obvious at first bite. While many frozen dumplings tear or disintegrate when boiled, Karpov’s stay sturdy and have a comforting taste of home. The mashed potatoes inside the mushroompotato-onion variety are creamy, with just a hint of earthy mushroom flavor and sweet onion. Karpov coarsely grinds the lean beef in the meat varenicki himself from steaks purchased at Frenchy’s. The dumplings are well seasoned and have pleasingly chewy edges. Burlingtonians will soon be able to buy Karpov’s treats — though not the dumplings at this point — at City Market, which will begin carrying Natalia’s Market rugelach later this month. Shoppers may also find mini cheesecakes and fruit tarts there, says Karpov. Those Ashkenazi pastries, like the market itself, are Karpov’s tribute to his Jewish wife, Natalya Karpova. She’s too busy with her own job as a hairdresser at Clip for Men on Burlington’s Main Street to work at Natalia’s. Still, Karpov says with a smile, “It’s [my] wife’s store.” His hours are even longer than hers. Karpov, 66, works from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week, as he has since he opened Natalia’s in 2007. The couple came to Vermont as refugees 15 years before that, for reasons Karpov prefers not to specify. After their arrival, Karpova soon earned her chair at the

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a little bit interesting,” Karpov says of such offerings at Natalia’s. “I don’t make advertisement, because this product has to be eaten by [people] who knows what [it] means.” Many of those in-the-know customers are Polish or Czech. Others are Russians Karpov met before his life got too crazy for socializing, he says, though he refuses to charge his compatriots. Plenty of Americans ask for the delicacies, too, he adds, eager to learn about foods from another culture. Once they’re hooked, Karpov says, many of those customers come in at least once a week to pick up his frozen varenicki; his red-beet borscht bolstered with beef; and his pastries, including flaky, spicy cinnamon rolls and the gloriously chewy, raisin-stuffed chocolate and cinnamon rugelach. Other dishes need to be ordered in advance, such as the Olivier salad,

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hen the crew behind Crop Bistro & Brewery began revamping the space in Stowe where the Shed Restaurant & Brewery had reigned for 45 years, they trod carefully. After all, the Shed was a beloved local hangout with its own mythos, where the food seemed almost immaterial to the scene and the ever-flowing beer. So as restaurateur and chef Steve Schimoler (co-owner of Waterbury’s now-closed Mist Grill) began gutting the place after the Shed closed last fall, he was careful to preserve the pub’s feel. The Crop gang scrubbed and tore away decades of funk and smoke and spilled beer, but kept the bar, the layout and the cozy, woodsy feel. In the spacious dining rooms on the other side of the building, Schimoler went whole hog with the renovation, decking out the main bistro room with an elegant, circular bar adorned with gnarled cedar boughs. With its warmtoned walls and floors, Peter Miller photographs, and humongous stone fireplace, the space is drop-dead gorgeous. As his culinary ace in the hole, Schimoler partnered with Tom Bivins, former executive chef at the New England Culinary Institute. After stints at the Inn at Shelburne Farms and Warren’s Pitcher Inn (which he opened), Bivins had been at the school for eight years, cementing his reputation as an inventive chef and champion of local — particularly wildcrafted — foods. Just a few months ago, he won the Chef of the Year award from the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. A high-profile chef, a high-profile spot and a stunning new dining room. So is the food immaterial to the scene at Crop Bistro? No, but it’s still finding its footing. Key to understanding this work in progress, perhaps, is noting that the restaurant’s concept was imported from Crop Bistro & Bar in Cleveland. Schimoler founded that establishment five years ago as both a farm-to-table eatery and a food lab, in many ways an extension of his work as a food scientist and researcher for Cabot Creamery and Nestlé. In Ohio, Crop has earned a reputation as an innovative, playful spot where the kitchen marries fresh

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produce with modern culinary gear such as vacuum tumblers. Its name has become something of a brand, adorning many dish names (Crop Cobb, Crop Burger, Crop Pops) on the Vermont menus, which can be a tad confusing. There’s a bistro menu and a pub menu, but they refer to times of day rather than places. Whether patrons sit in the pub or the main dining room, they can order from the same lunch and dinner menus, the same wine, beer and creative cocktail lists. Some of the starters come straight from the Ohio menu — for instance, deviled eggs dusted with chili powder ($4

for four), two of which are topped with bits of crispy, salty bacon. The Cherry Bomb ($7), a plate of two Roma tomatoes stuffed with chorizo sausage and Jack cheese, wrapped in wonton shells and deep fried, comes off as a midwestern snack — gut sticking and kind of greasy. Cleveland diners reportedly have gone wild for Crop Pops, the warm, savory popcorn drizzled with various sauces. A $4 bowl of popcorn with balsamic

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and slathered with a scrumptious grain mustard; in the pub, I could be more forgiving of its slight dryness. (The fries that came with both sandwiches were long, fingerlike, moist and fresh.) Each night brings a weekly special here, and I looked forward to the braised short ribs offered on Wednesdays. However, when I visited, the ribs were replaced by tenderloin. I opted instead for a Crop Burger, a wide, flat patty delivered on a glossy, almost-blackened bun. Though the burger came medium-rare as requested, the meat lacked a depth of flavor, a flaw that even melted cheddar, tangy ketchup and mustard, grilled red onion, and two crisscrossed slices of maple-cured bacon could not disguise. To be fair, I was much more interested in the small-plates list and didn’t delve too deeply into the entrée menu, which includes dishes such as scallops with “chorizo dust” and grilled skirt steak in a ginger and porter sauce. I expect that, in Bivins’ hands, the truffled mushroom and barley risotto is an earthy delight. But we were definitely thrilled with a warm salad of succulent lobster chunks

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vinegar, wilted arugula and sun-dried tomatoes is a sweet-salty and inventive snack, albeit a little soggy and best ordered alone as bar food rather than as an appetizer — it’s filling. Other appetizers (and main dishes) mimic their Cleveland cousins with rustic twists. For instance, in Ohio, braised pork belly is served over a malt waffle; in Stowe, the cubes of luscious meat are crisped on one side and served over a delicious tangle of cider-braised cabbage ($10). It’s almost a meal in itself. Other appetizers are less well balanced or muted in flavor. A cheddarand-ale soup had the cheering color of golden sunshine but was on the thin side, both in consistency and taste. Also disappointing was a plate of broiled Blue Point oysters ($12 for six). Instead of having blistered flesh, these were only slightly warmed before being bathed in what tasted like a roux; the toothpickthin radishes scattered across the top accentuated the textural discordance. From the start, the owners have been clear that Crop is not trying to be a “white tablecloth” restaurant. Still, the more I ate here, the more I picked up on a kind of dissonance. Perhaps those Ohio-born dishes are out of place in Vermont, or perhaps the kitchen is still working things out, or perhaps the two separate dining spaces have brought about a similar fjord in the menu. It can be unfair to pin a dish’s success on its surroundings, but I found myself happier eating most of Crop’s fare in the pub, where it felt more at home. Take the Raclette ($10): a double-fist-size castiron pan layered with soft, steamed potatoes and oozing raclette cheese (from Spring Brook Farm) and laced with minced, piquant cornichons and red onions. With a pint of beer in the other hand, this was the perfect unfussy, filling après-ski snack. In the more majestic dining room, it seemed unanchored and dwarfed by its surroundings. Same with the po’boy, stuffed with light-as-a-feather fried, crunchy oysters and drizzled with tangy, messy remoulade slaw. In the pub, the sandwich was a finger-licking snack. Set down in the dining room, it looked underdressed for the ball. So did the Poulet Confit sandwich, filled with shredded chicken

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agriculture Grow Your Own Mushrooms: Eric Swanson of Vermush leads an examination of the fungus among us as he teaches folks to culture and grow mycelia into fungi. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 2238004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

art The National Gallery: ‘Leonardo Live’: Theatergoers take a cinematic walk-through tour of the UK art gallery’s sold-out exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan.” Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 748-2600.

comedy Improv Night: Fun-loving participants play “Whose Line Is It Anyway”-style games in an encouraging environment. Spark Arts, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 373-4703.

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Snowflake Festival: Two weeks of familyfriendly diversions include sleigh rides, a torchlight parade, skating, snowmobile races, a chowder fest and more. Main Street, Lyndonville, 10:30 a.m.7:45 p.m. Free; visit lyndonvermont.com for full schedule. Info, 626-9696.

film ‘Das Experiment’: Based on a real-life study, Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2001 thriller follows the power play between 20 males stationed as “prisoners” and “guards.” Roger H. Perry Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, 5:45-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2700. ‘Drive’: Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stunt driver by day and a getaway-chauffeur for criminals by night in Nicolas Winding Refn’s stylish 2011 thriller. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘War Horse’: When his beloved steed is sold to the army, a young man enlists to serve in World War I in Steven Spielberg’s 2011 drama. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

Burlington Finance Summit: The city’s financial strengths and weaknesses are addressed in talks and presentations. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-3966, ext. 16.

‘Weekend’: What was intended to be a one-night stand between two guys turns out to be a longerlasting connection that speaks to the struggle for the life fully lived in Andrew Haigh’s 2011 drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

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Group Information Session: Prospective students and their families scope out the school through presentations and campus tours. St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 10:45 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-762-8000.

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Information Session: Would-be teachers, principals and school leaders take a lesson on the Upper Valley Educators Institute’s certification programs. Upper Valledy Educators Institute, Lebanon, N.H., 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-678-4888.

etc. Open House: A short presentation introduces visitors to the programs and new facilities of this organization working toward economic, social and racial justice. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 8622771, ext. 732.

fairs & festivals Montréal en Lumiére: Theater, circus arts, classical music, dance and puppetry collide in La Belle Ville’s annual winter festival. Various locations, Montréal, 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Various prices; visit montrealenlumiere.com for full schedule and details. Info, 514-288-9955.

Growing Stronger: Seniors increase their muscle power in training exercises for balance, flexibility and fortitude. Senior Citizen Center, Colchester, 1 p.m. Donations accepted; preregister. Info, 865-0360. Natural Remedies to Reduce Depression: Stephen Brandon looks at the role of vitamins, hormones, toxicity and stress to identify the causes of this disorder, which antidepressants do not address. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. Tung Tai Chi Chuan: Madeleine Piat-Landolt offers instruction in the principles and practice of this civil and martial art, with emphasis on its benefits to well-being. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 453-3690.

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‘M. Butterfly’ Wednesday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, February 23, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Friday, February 24, and Saturday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, February 26, 5 p.m.; Tuesday, February 28, and Wednesday, February 29, 7:30 p.m., at Briggs Opera House in White River Junction. View website for future dates through March 4. $1560. Info, 296-7000. northernstage.org

Pointe of No Return We’d understand if Suzanne Farrell feels a sense of déjà vu as she leads her dancers through an all-George Balanchine program. Once herself a ballerina and muse for the late, great Russian-born choreographer, she now continues his legacy from the other side of the barre. As artistic director of the Suzanne Farrell Company, she tours Balanchine’s ballets, many of which haven’t graced stages in nearly 40 years. But this is more than a trip down memory lane. With a reputation for subtle glamour and thoughtful detail, the troupe has been known to produce performances that, as the Washington Post writes, “can throw everything you know about ballet into disarray.”

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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The Suzanne Farrell Ballet Friday, February 24, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $25-50. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org Sunday, February 26, 7 p.m., at Lyndon Institute. $22-54. Info, 748-2600. catamountarts.org

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The Winter Is a Drag Ball has come and gone, but the cross-dressing continues in White River Junction — onstage, that is. It’s a surprisingly common theme in theater — just look at the works of William Shakespeare — but David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly weaves the concept into a love story more sordid than most, involving the 20-year romance between a French diplomat and a Chinese opera star who only seems to be the perfect woman. Inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and a real-life relationship that made international headlines, this tale of espionage, false pretenses and betrayal plays out, courtesy of Northern Stage.

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ery little is definitively known about gravelly voiced guitarist Leon Redbone — from his age to his birthplace to his real name. Since emerging into the music scene in the 1970s, the famously evasive performer has piqued curiosity with his mysterious faux persona. Here’s what we do know: Redbone perpetually wears a Panama hat, bow tie and dark sunglasses. He’s appeared on episodes of “Saturday Night Live,” been rendered in cartoon character in “The Far Side” and joined Zooey Deschanel in a killer duet of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” for the end credits of Elf. And his fingerpicking-good renditions of lesser-known, prewar jazz, ragtime and blues gems are reason enough to catch up with him in Randolph this week. COURTESY OF PATRICIA DE GOROSTARZU

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Saturday, February 25, 7 p.m., at Bread & Butter Farm in Shelburne. $10; limited to 50 people; buy tickets in advance. Info, 9859200. breadandbutterfarm.com

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Seth Glier has one of those “gorgeously androgynous voices that make you want to sleep with their owners regardless of your gender or sexual preference,” writes Atlanta Music Guide. We’re not sure we’d jump into bed with him so soon, but there is something alluring about the Massachusetts native’s falsetto, which he shows off in piano-pop songs on The Next Right Thing. Nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, in the most recent Grammy Awards, Glier’s sophomore effort kicks off with an easy blues vibe. Mostly, though, it’s his songwriting chops, which critics can’t stop comparing to Billy Joel’s, that make it worth connecting with Glier at the intimate Silo Sessions concert series. Local songwriter Maryse Smith opens.

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of his country’s people. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-48. Info, 863-5966.

Bird Er: Kids discover how VINS rehabilitates hundreds of wild birds each year, and meet some of the nonreleasable winged wonders. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $9-11; free for kids ages 3 and under. Info, 359-5000, ext. 223.

vallEy nighT: The Starline Rhythm Boys grace the lounge with high-energy honky-tonk. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.

ChEss CluB: King defenders practice castling and various opening gambits with volunteer Robert Nichols. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

ThE naTurE oF FEBruary: On easy to moderately difficult excursions, a naturalist points out the survival skills of the forest’s animals and plants. Mad River Glen Ski Area, Fayston, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $15-25; $65 per family of four. Info, 496-3551, ext. 117.

EnosBurg PlaygrouP: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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seminars sPEnd smarT: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

highgaTE sTory hour: Good listeners giggle and wiggle to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

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.

Kids in ThE KiTChEn: Budding foodies take a behind-the-scenes tour of the store, tasting along the way. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3:304:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. lET’s lEarn JaPanEsE!: Little linguists get a fun intro to the language and culture of the Land of the Rising Sun with Middlebury College student Jerry Romero. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. lighTs, CamEra, aCTion!: Budding videographers sharpen their production skills in a four-day youth filmmaking camp. Community Meeting Room, third floor, Middlebury Community Television, 9-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 3884097, sarah.lawton@ilsleypubliclibrary.org. monTgomEry PlaygrouP: Little ones exercise their bodies and their minds in the company of adult caregivers. Montgomery Town Library, 9:3011 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

PrEsChool sTory TimE: Tots ages 3 to 5 read picture books, play with puppets and do math activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

language 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 ConCErT sEriEs: Continuing a series of winter entertainment begun in 1923, the Barn Band offer acoustic Americana-folk melodies and three-part harmonies. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-322-5616, aclarkson@leg.state.vt.us. hugh masEKEla: Triumphant trumpeting by this South African superstar celebrates the endurance

FaCulTy PanEl PrEsEnTaTion: Professors Jeffrey Ayres (political science), George Dameron (history), John O’Meara (physics) and Jeffrey Trumbower (religious studies) expound upon the notion of the 2012 apocalypse. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. lz grandErson: In “Dare You to Move,” the openly gay sports journalist recounts his journey from poverty, physical abuse and gang culture. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. maEvE Kim: The well-traveled birder shares photos and lively stories from her adventures, as well as tips for spotting feathers in flight. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

business vBsr nETWorKing gET-TogEThEr: Attendees learn about what’s hot in marketing for 2012 at a Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility networking function. hmc2 agency, Richmond, 5:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347, ritab@vbsr.org.

community CirC TasK ForCE mEETing: The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Metropolitan Planning Organization hosts a public meeting to address transportation, safety, livabil• CHARMS • FINDINGS • BOOKS • GIFT CERTIFICATES ity and economic development in the region. Town 12V-Chandler021512.pdf 1 2/14/12 7:52 AM Hall, Williston, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4071, ext. 15, mboomhower@ccrpcvt.org. CommuniTy Forum: Todd Bailey moderates a panel about the local option taxes on the Montpelier ballot for Town Meeting Day. Speakers are Ken Jones, Bill Fraser, Bob Gross and Rob Kasow. Capitol Plaza, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604, director@montpelieralive.org. CommuniTy Forum: Citizens focus on the way we finance and conduct federal campaigns in a discussion of a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution on the March 6 ballot. Rick Hubbard moderates the discussion; speakers include Ginny Lyons, Bill Schubart, Robin Lloyd and many more. South Burlington City Hall, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3905.

dance ‘in sEarCh oF air: groWing uP dyslExiC’: Storytelling and choreography intersect as dancer Lida Winfield reflects on growing up with a learning disability. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 229-0492.

PrEsEnTing ThE draFT WinoosKi rivEr Basin Plan: Listeners offer feedback on the agency’s work developing strategies to improve or enhance water resources in Basin 8 of the Winooski River Watershed. Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-2339.

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susan ross grimaldi: The traveler shares two short documentary films about her journeys through China and Mongolia. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com.

amEriCan CanCEr soCiETy’s dETErminaTion Program inFo sEssion: Athletes participating in the KeyBank Vermont City Marathon & Relay learn about raising funds for the fight against cancer. On Track Health & Fitness, Burlington, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 872-6307, alexandra. larrow@cancer.org.

theater ‘m. BuTTErFly’: Based on Puccini’s opera and real events, David Henry Hwang’s 1988 play is a tangled web of mystery and romance. See calendar spotlight. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $15-60. Info, 296-7000.

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taxpayers, with special attention to those 60 and over. Call ahead for an appointment. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

fairs & festivals Montréal en Lumiére: See WED.22, 11:30 a.m.-midnight. Snowflake Festival: See WED.22, 12:30-8 p.m.

film ‘Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey’: From his early days fashioning puppets from his father’s jackets to his golden gig at Jim Henson’s studio, Constance Marks and Philip Shane’s documentary looks at puppeteer Kevin Clash’s storied career. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 748-2600. Burlington Film Society Organizational Meeting: Cinemaddicts contribute programming ideas to this group-in-progress. BCA Center, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. ‘Drive’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m. Eyewash: Experimental Film & Video: Brooklyn’s Peter Burr, founder of animation project Cartune Xprez, offers a curated program of shorts. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘Going to School’: Richard Cohen’s documentary provides a glimpse of the daily experiences of students receiving special-education services. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m=. Free. Info, 443-5013. ‘The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film’: Filmmaker Michael Sheridan screens and discusses excerpts of 10 short documentaries focusing on social and economic-development issues through the eyes of Afghans themselves. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3872.

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‘The Mill and the Cross’: Lech Majewski’s 2011 historical drama chronicles the making of Pieter Bruegel’s controversial painting “The Way to Calvary.” Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

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. Read to a Dog: Bookworms share lines with Rainbow, a friendly Newfoundland and registered therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3:305:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a 15-minute time slot. Info, 849-2420. Teen Advisory Board: Middle and high schoolers have a say in program planning and the teen collection. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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The Nature of February: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

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.

Group Information Session: See WED.22, 10:45 a.m.

Book Discussion Series: ‘Futures: Utopia and Apocalypse’: Readers explore 19th- and 20th-century visions of the future, focusing on Lois Lowry’s The Giver. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3183.

Snowflake Festival: See WED.22, 12:30-2 p.m.

politics A Conversation on the Arts With Mayoral Candidates: Burlington voters discuss the state of the arts with Wanda Hines, Miro Weinberger and Kurt Wright. FlynnSpace, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 652-4505 or 859-9222.

seminars Emergency Preparedness Workshop: Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration reviews Montpelier’s in-place measures to prevent disasters large and small. Montpelier City Hall, 8:30-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 828-2033, george.walker@state.vt.us. Intro to Listen Up! Vermont: E-reader owners learn how to start downloading books from a lending library to their devices. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. Keys to Credit: A class clears up the confusing world of credit. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

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Bird ER: See WED.22, 11 a.m. 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. 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. Leda Schubert: The Plainfield writer and children’s-book author reads to kids at 5:30 p.m. and gives a lecture on “The Art of the Picture Book” at 6:30 p.m. after a potluck dinner. Beth Jacob Synagogue, Montpelier. $5. Info, 279-7518. Lights, Camera, Action!: See WED.22, 9-11 a.m.

Mad Robin Contra Dance: Pete Sutherland, Oliver Scanlon and Brian Perkins supply the tunes for a traditional New England social dance. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $8; wear clean, soft-soled shoes. Info, 503-1251.

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‘M. Butterfly’: See WED.22, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘In Search of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic’: See THU.23, 7:30 p.m.

The Suzanne Farrell Ballet: A famous ballerina’s troupe pays homage to Russian choreographer George Balanchine by revisiting four of his works from 1947 to 1967. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25-50. Info, 863-5966.

‘Weekend’: See WED.22, 5:30 p.m.

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

‘Hairspray’: A plus-size girl with plus-size hair sparks a revolution in this bubbly Broadway hit musical, presented by the Dartmouth Theater Department. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-19. Info, 603-646-2422.

treat a rare disorder. VFW Post, Hyde Park, 8 p.m.midnight. $10. Info, 279-6123.

‘The Beaux’ Strategem’: Love, money and marriage are at odds in this UVM Theatre comedy adapted from the George Farquhar original. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $7-18. Info, 656-2094.

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.

Active Against Cancer: Author, athlete and cancer survivor Nancy Brennan lists the benefits of exercise during recovery. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 2238004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

Small Potatoes Theater Company. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 9224996, emer.feeney@gmail.com.

Christine Latulippe: Norwich University’s assistant professor of mathematics sums up assessment practices for students of all ages in “This Is a Test ... This Is Only a Test: The As, Bs, and Cs of Assessment in Mathematics.” Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Lunch & Learn: Stan Greenberg, a musician and activist blind from birth, speaks on “Disability: History, Societal Challenges and the Law.” Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Donations accepted. Info, 863-4214, jhersh@burlingtontelecom.net. Todd Lecture Series: Kevin Bennet, chairman of the division of engineering at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic, delivers a lecture. Dole Auditorium, Norwich University, Northfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2633, toddlectureseries@norwich.edu.

theater ‘3 Girls x 3: An Evening of One-Acts’: Three women take the directorial reins with plays celebrating the feminine and human spirit: “Chamber Music,” “Sirens” and “The Great Nebula in Orion.” Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 583-1674. ‘Aunt Dan and Lemon’: A reclusive woman recalls an eccentric family friend from her childhood in this play by Wallace Shawn, presented by

Jennifer McMahon: Montpelier’s writer of chilling tales and cliff-hangers excerpts her latest suspense novel, Don’t Breathe a Word. Blinking Light Gallery, Plainfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 475-1275. Poetry Night: Readers, writers, singers and ranters make use of the open stage. The ROTA Studio and Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-586-2182, rotagallery@gmail.com. Through the Wardrobe: Rev. Alex Cameron leads a seven-week exploration of belief, salvation and personal growth focusing on C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. Room 111, Lafayette Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 448-0405. Vermont Distinguished Writers Series: Mary Holland, award-winning author of Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide and MonthBy-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods and Marshes of New England, shares her personal collection of natural-history artifacts. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790.

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Arts Advocacy Day: The Vermont Arts Council and art lovers from around the state network, learn and speak in support of the discipline. Vermont Statehouse and Pavilion Auditorium, Montpelier, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3293.

community Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community: Queen City residents make a positive impact as they address substance-use and -abuse issues. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 324-3867.

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. Benefit Fundraiser: DJ In the Mix spins tunes for a dance, silent auction and raffle supporting a community member’s travel expenses to Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic, the only place that can

fairs & festivals Montréal en Lumiére: See WED.22, 11:30 a.m.-midnight.

film ‘A Dangerous Method’: David Cronenberg’s thrilling biopic of the early days of psychoanalysis portrays Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and their involvement with a Russian woman being treated for hysteria. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘Norwegian Wood’: Devastated by the loss of a friend, a man pursues relationships with two drastically different women in Anh Hung Tran’s 2010 drama, based on Haruki Murakami’s 1987 novel. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink Lenten Fish Dinner: Families dine on food from the sea at this fundraiser for Central Vermont Catholic School. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier, 5-6:30 p.m. $6-10; $29 per family of four; free for kids under 4. Info, 793-4276, pte1218@ aol.com. Pharma-Foodie: Don’t stress-eat; eat your stress away with a pharmacy of foods proven to increase energy levels, promote overall good health and improve how your body handles pressure. On the menu: beef tagine with stewed fruit and chickpeas, whole-wheat couscous with fresh herbs and lemon zest, and more. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

health & fitness Aroma Reiki Yoga: Essential oils set the mood for a relaxing, healing practice with Anne Cameron and Alyssa Brown. The Healer Within You, Williston, 7-8:30 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 318-5199. The Alexander Technique: Instructor Katie Black shares a method to remedy postural habits and natural coordination in order to improve wellbeing and relieve chronic pain. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $3-5; preregister; bring a blanket or mat and a mug. Info, 2238004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

kids Bird ER: See WED.22, 11 a.m. Children’s Story Hour: Read-aloud works give young ones an appreciation of the written word. Bradford Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 2224536, bradfordpubliclibrary@gmail.com. Community Playgroup: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room,

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Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Drop-In Story tIme: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers enjoy stories from picture books accompanied by finger plays and action rhymes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956, brownell_library@yahoo.com. 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. lego Fun & gameS: Budding architects in grades K and up piece together snazzy structures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. lIgHtS, Camera, aCtIon!: See WED.22, 9-11 a.m. montgomery tumble tIme: Physical-fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. 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. ‘tHe SmurFS’: A malicious wizard chases the itty-bitty blue people out of their enchanted village and straight into New York City in this 2011 animated adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. tHrougH tHe eyeS oF raptorS: See WED.22, 2 p.m. toDDler early-lIteraCy Story tIme: Words jump off the page in a reading practice complete with rhymes, songs and crafts. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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JoHn HollanD: This Boston-folkster-turnedbluesman doles out original poetry and songs. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.

tHe nature oF February: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

lISSa SCHneCkenburger & kellen Zakula: This folk concert combines old-school fiddle and banjo music with sprightly New England dance tunes. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261.

HeatHer ForCIer: Armchair travelers follow along the native Vermonter’s journeys via a photographic presentation portraying far-flung birds, animals and scenery. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-6206.

one-year annIverSary ConCert: Cutthroat Logic and others perform at the gallery’s first birthday celebration. The ROTA Studio and Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-5. Info, 518-563-0409.

JeFF Domoto: Vermont Youth Orchestra Association’s musical director offers “A ‘Behindthe-Scenes’ Look at the Role of the Conductor.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

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rougH FranCIS: James Kochalka opens for Burlington’s punk rockers; DJ Disco Phantom spins between sets and after the show. BCA Center, Burlington, 8 p.m.-midnight. $6; free for BCA members. Cash bar for ages 21 and up. Info, 865-7166. St. mICHael’S College CHorale: Piero Bonamico conducts singers in Peter Schindler’s Missa in Jazz. Organist Susan Summerfield, saxophonist Brian McCarthy and percussionist Dan Ryan provide accompaniment. Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. SuZanne vega: The contemporary folkster reimagines her earlier work in a poetically stripped-down style. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $45. Info, 760-4634. tHe SCHool oF roCk anD roll ConCert: After a weeklong intensive on the finer points of playing in a rock band, young musicians take the stage to show what they’ve learned. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 382-9222.

wInter evenIngS Speaker SerIeS: Linda Fowler, a Dartmouth College professor of government, and Jack Beatty, senior editor at the Atlantic, analyze the American political scene in “Election 2012.” Tunbridge Public Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 889-9404.

theater ‘3 gIrlS x 3: an evenIng oF one-aCtS’: See THU.23, 7:30 p.m. ‘almoSt, maIne’: As the northern lights are at play, residents of a remote town find themselves slipping in and out of love in this midwinter night’s dream presented by Pendragon Theatre. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $14-16. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘aunt Dan anD lemon’: See THU.23, 8 p.m. ‘HaIrSpray’: See THU.23, 8 p.m.

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dance aFrICan Juba DanCe ClaSS: Experienced native dancer Chimie Bangoura demonstrates authentic Guinean moves for getting in shape. Shelburne Health & Fitness, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. $12. Info, 377-9721, chimieband@gmail.com. ballroom leSSon & DanCe SoCIal: See FRI.24, 7-10 p.m. ‘CHItrangaDa: DanCe oF tHe warrIor prInCeSS’: Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s adaptation of this dramatic Indian dance, now presented by highly trained local dancers, includes verse, music and stunning traditional costumes. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation to support a SMC student service trip to India. Info, 654-2536. HopStop: How are DanCeS maDe?: Dartmouth Dance Theater Ensemble members offer insight into the creative and choreographic processes in an interactive family workshop. Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2010.

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‘In Search of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic’: See THU.23, 7:30 p.m. Norwich Contra Dance: Ruth Sylvester calls the steps for a social dance. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 16; by donation for seniors. Info, 7854607, rbarrows@cs.dartmouth.edu.

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. Birthday Party: Party animals celebrate the anniversary of the shelter at an open house with cupcakes, raffles, face painting and more. Central Vermont Humane Society, East Montpelier, 10 a.m.3 p.m. Donations accepted; call for CVHS’ birthday wish list. Info, 476-3811. Burlington Home Show: Michael Payne, original host and interior designer of HGTV’s “Designing for the Sexes,” makes an appearance at this gathering of builders, remodelers and local businesses. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. $7; free for kids under 13 with an adult. Info, 800-237-6024. Garry Simpson Celebration: Friends and family honor the founder of the Friends of the Vergennes Opera House by sharing stories about his life as a television writer and director. Vergennes Opera House, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 415-379-3965.

fairs & festivals Montréal en Lumiére: See WED.22, 10 a.m.-midnight. Snowflake Festival: See WED.22, 12:30 p.m.-midnight.

film ‘A Dangerous Method’: See FRI.24, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘Norwegian Wood’: See FRI.24, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

food & drink Middlebury Winter Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. American Flatbread, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-0178, middleburyfm@ yahoo.com.

kids Bird ER: See WED.22, 11 a.m. Drop-In Family Ski & Snowshoe Program: Weather permitting, kids and adults get some

Kids Crafts: Artistic types decorate wooden boxes. Creative Habitat, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $3. Info, 862-0646. Owl Festival: Visitors have a hoot unraveling the mysterious of this bird of prey through hands-on activities and exciting games. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 1-4 p.m. Regular admission, $9-11; free for kids ages 3 and under. Info, 359-5000, ext. 223.

outdoors Evening Sleigh Rides: Pat Palmer of Thornapple Farm and a team of Percheron draft horses lead a celestial ride under the winter sky, weather permitting. Shelburne Farms, rides depart at 6, 6:45 and 7:30 p.m. $7-15; free for kids under 3; preregister. Info, 985-8686. Owl Prowl: Wilderness explorers let loose a string of owl calls on a woodland hike. Shelburne Farms, 7-9 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 985-8686. 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.

Through the Eyes of Raptors: See WED.22, 2 p.m.

The Nature of February: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

Vacation Blizzard: If you want something done, you’ve got to do it yourself. Youngsters create their own snowstorm, bury a moose in paper snowflakes, launch mini-snowballs with a catapult and listen to wintry tales. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

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Barika Ensemble: Marimbist Jane Boxall and kora player Youssoupha Sidibe open for this highenergy Afrobeat septet. Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, meg.hammond@goddard.edu. Blackberry Smoke: These Atlanta-based rockers have shared the stage with the likes of ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $32. Info, 760-4634. Curtis on Tour: Roberto Díaz, violinist and president of the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music, guitar faculty member Jason Vieaux and two Curtis students perform works by Niccolò Paganini, Zhou Tian, Zoltán Kodály and Ástor Piazzolla. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $21-25. Info, 863-5966. Dancing With Rachel: A Benefit for Cancer Victims: Nearly a dozen musicians play original works and the music of late Vermont singersongwriter Rachel Bissex to support CancerCare. Performers include Emma Sky, Joshua Glass, Rebecca Padula, Rik Palieri, the Beerworth Sisters and more. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-20 suggested donation. Info, 310-0895 or 462-7519. Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra: Anthony Princiotti conducts the Hop ensemble in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto and Nielsen’s The Inextinguishable. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-29. Info, 603-646-2422. Leon Redbone: The acoustic guitarist shares his love for flapper-era radio ditties, World War II folk-jazz and Depression-era ragtime. See calendar spotlight. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-32. Info, 728-6464. Seth Glier: Maryse Smith opens for the Grammynominated folk-rock phenom as part of the Silo Sessions concert series. See calendar spotlight. Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, 7 p.m. $10; buy tickets in advance. Info, 985-9200. Tenores de Aterúe: These “singers from elsewhere” (the Sardinian translation of the band’s

Mayoral Candidate Forum: Wanda Hines, Miro Weinberger and Kurt Wright weigh in on local food and local economies at a public event showcasing the Intervale Center, Friends of Burlington Gardens and Burlington School Food. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3609.

‘A Workshop in Risking the Growthful’: Transformational life coach Sandra Lucas explores inner barriers through Gestalt experiments with imagery, metaphor, poetry, visualization and dialogue. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 1-2:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com. Community Herbalism Class: Jade Mountain Wellness’ Brendan Kelly offers a classical Chinese medical perspectives on causes of pain and how to treat it with western herbs. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 1-4 p.m. $15-18; preregister. Info, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org. Genealogy Workshop: Folks of French Canadian descent learn about earning Champlain and Filles du Roi pins with speaker Sheila Morris. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 238-5934. Intro to Excel: Students get savvy about electronic spreadsheets. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

sport Magical Middstery Tour: The Middlebury College figure skaters show off their blade running at the annual Winter Carnival Ice Show. Kenyon Arena, Middlebury College, 7:30-9 p.m. $6. Info, 443-2441. Maple Onion 15K Freestyle Ski Race: Skiers slide through lush woods and open meadows before lunch. Proceeds benefit the Onion River Nordic Ski Club junior ski programs. Morse Farm Ski Touring Center, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $520. Info, 229-9409, events@onionriver.com.

theater ‘3 Girls x 3: An Evening of One-Acts’: See THU.23, 7:30 p.m. ‘Almost, Maine’: See FRI.24, 7:30 p.m. ‘Aunt Dan and Lemon’: See THU.23, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. ‘Hairspray’: See THU.23, 8 p.m.

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‘The Beaux’ Strategem’: See THU.23, 7:30 p.m. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Catamount Arts Center: Angela Meade stars in

The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Palace 9: See above listing, Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 12:55 p.m. $18-24. Info, 660-9300. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Town Hall Theater: See above listing, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

words Writing Workshop: Games inspire wordsmiths to pen prose, a play, song lyrics and more. Bring your own work to share. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9677, ext. 1.

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Expressive Art Using Mixed Media: Susan Green facilitates an exploratory creative experience. Beth Jacob Synagogue, Montpelier, 2-4 p.m. $15. Info, 279-7518. The National Gallery: ‘Leonardo Live’: See WED.22, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 382-9222.

bazaars Antiques Market: Treasure hunters find bargains among collections of old furniture, art, books and more, supplied by up to 20 dealers from the New England area. Elks Club, Montpelier. $5 for early buyers (7:30 a.m.); $2 for the general public (9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.). Info, 751-6138.

dance English Country Dancing: Social dancers tread gently and gracefully to calling by Chris Levey and music by Trip to Norwich. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 3-6 p.m. $4-8; wear soft-soled shoes. Info, 785-4121. ‘In Search of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic’: See THU.23, 2 p.m. Israeli Folk Dancing: Movers bring clean, soft-soled shoes and learn traditional circle or line dances. Partners not required. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:25-9:30 p.m. $2; free to first-timers. Info, 888-5706, portico@stowevt.net. The Suzanne Farrell Ballet: See FRI.24, Lyndon Institute, 7 p.m. $22-54. Info, 748-2600.

etc. Academy Awards Party: Faux paparazzi and a limo ride set the mood for this large-scale screening of the 84th Oscars. Revolution, White River Junction, 7-11 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 295-6487. Burlington Home Show: See SAT.25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oscar Night: Movie buffs throw their bets into a prize pool while watching the Academy Awards projected in the lounge. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994. Out for the Oscars Red Carpet Gayla: Outright Vermont hosts the “gay Super Bowl,” a screening of the Academy Awards complete with movie-themed costumes, hors d’ouevres, a cash bar, games, prizes and popcorn. Red Square, Burlington, 6-11 p.m. $20; $35 per couple; $10 absentee benefit ballot; for ages 21 and up only. Info, 865-9677.

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‘M. Butterfly’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Loew Auditorium: See above listing, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-29.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

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Woodstock Winter Farmers Market: Eggs, produce, meats, jams and more are readily available thanks to local farmers and crafters. Masonic Hall, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 763-2476.

Kids Cooking Class: Epicures ages 8 and older whip up dinner-table-worthy nachos, Tuscan soup and pasta primavera with Adele Dienno. Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

a broadcast screening of Verdi’s Ernani. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-23. Info, 748-2600.

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‘The African Queen’: A missionary (Katharine Hepburn) ropes a hard-nosed steamboat captain (Humphrey Bogart) into the British war effort, and an unlikely love story unfolds in the process in John Huston’s 1951 adventure film. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $4-6. Info, 775-0903.

Fairfax Tumble Time: Tots have free rein over the open gym. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

name) offer a cappella quartet traditions from the Mediterranean. Christ Church Presbyterian, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, 919-866-8822, tenoresdeaterue@gmail.com.

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‘Of Gods and Men’: Trappist monks residing in Algeria face a tough decision brought on by terrorism in Xavier Beauvois’s 2010 historical drama. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

fresh air and exercise. Hot chocolate and art activities also provided. Schmanska Park, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Cost of rentals. Info, 864-0123.

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Snowflake Festival: See WED.22, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

film ‘A Dangerous Method’: See FRI.24, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. ‘Norwegian Wood’: See FRI.24, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. ‘The White Ribbon’: Michael Haneke’s chilling Palme d’Or winner follows a series of strange events in a small German village on the eve of the First World War. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘Warning: Border Under Construction’: Glen Elder and Gates Gooding’s documentary looks at the changing nature of the U.S.-Canadian boundary. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-7222.

food & drink Sunday Breakfast: Early birds get the bacon, eggs, biscuits and sausage gravy first. Proceeds benefit veterans, their families and local charities. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 9 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 518-643-4580. Winter Angst Management: Cook off the February blahs with instructor Jessica Bongard. On the menu: the Piping Pepper, chicken Kiev, dark-chocolate banana bites and spiced milk tea. The Plumpest Peach, Jericho, 5-8:30 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 858-4213.

games Burlington-Area Scrabble Club: Tripleletter-square seekers spell out winning words. New players welcome. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7558.

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Discovering Your Inner Stability: Can’t find your core? Instructor Robert Rex integrates Kundalini yoga, tai chi, Rolfing Movement Integration and more in exercises designed to stabilize spines, strengthen muscles and maintain flexibility. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. 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. North End Studios, Burlington, 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.

kids Montgomery Playgroup: Infants to 2-yearolds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Vacation Blizzard: See SAT.25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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language Dimanches: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

music Dartmouth Chamber Singers: Robert Duff conducts this Hop ensemble in Vivaldi’s Gloria RV 588. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $5-18. Info, 603-646-2422. Faculty Scholarship Recital: Faculty performers pool their talents in classical-music, jazz and dance solos and ensembles. Proceeds benefit the David Yandell Fund. UVM Recital Hall,

Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 656-7776.

perform. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 863-5966.

graders, 1-4 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 522-6877, upperevents@chandler-arts.org.

Jamie Masefield & Doug Perkins: Bluegrass and jazz stylings come to the gallery. Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 458-0098.

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Let’s Learn Japanese!: See WED.22, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Book-Launch Party: Eager readers listen to local author Tovar Cerulli’s journey from vegan to hunter, as portrayed in The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 249-7071.

May’s Monday Music & Movement: Energetic children lace up their dancing shoes for a fun class with May Podushnick. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

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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.

The National Gallery: ‘Leonardo Live’: See WED.22, 7 p.m.

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.

Pacifica Quartet: The 2009 Grammy Award winners for Best Chamber Music Performance focus on classical creations by Beethoven. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $11-32. Info, 728-6464.

outdoors Sleigh Rides: See SAT.25, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The Nature of February: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

sport Festival of Fly Fishing: Anglers and amateurs engage in casting and fly-tying demos in seminars with local fishing guides. Continental Connection Hangar Building, South Burlington, 10 a.m. Donations accepted for the Green Mountain Conservation Camp Scholarship Fund. Info, 9995024, festivalflies@yahoo.com. Hope on the Slopes: Skiers and riders compete for prizes in the Vertical Feet Challenge to support the American Cancer Society. Jay Peak Resort, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. $30 registration fee; donations and fundraising encouraged. Info, 872-6304. Magical Middstery Tour: See SAT.25, 2-3:30 p.m. Skiing & Riding for Vermont Military Families: All active, full-time Vermont military personnel, guard or reserve members and their families receive complimentary lift tickets. Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 a.m. Free; military members must show their ID and declare family members at a guest-services desk. Info, 253-3000. Snowman Scramble: A 12K race for individuals, 12K relay for four-person teams and family team snowman relay precede a barbecue and snowshoeing. Proceeds support Child and Family Services. Strafford Nordic Center, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $35; $75 per relay team. Info, 603-298-8237. Stowe Derby: International competitors and recreational skiers race from Mount Mansfield to Stowe village in one of the country’s oldest combination skiing events. Park at Stowe High School; buses will shuttle to Mount Mansfield Base Lodge. Stowe Mountain Resort, 8:30 a.m. $30-85 registration; see stowederby.com for details. Info, 253-7704, ext. 22, 253-9216 or stowederby@teammmsc.org. 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.

theater ‘Almost, Maine’: See FRI.24, 2 p.m. Auditions for ‘The Mousetrap’: Director Martin Bones seeks three women and five men for this eccentric Agatha Christie murder mystery, to be produced by the Marble Valley Players in May. Town Hall, West Rutland, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 353-5932. ‘Hairspray’: See THU.23, 2 p.m. ‘M. Butterfly’: See WED.22, 5 p.m. ‘The Beaux’ Strategem’: See THU.23, 2 p.m. The Metropolitan Opera: HD Live: Spaulding Auditorium: See WED.25, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-29.50. Info, 603-646-2422. Vermont Artists With Disabilities Showcase: In conjunction with the opening reception of the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery’s “Engage” exhibit, dancer Lida Winfield, poet Eli Clare, pianist Michael Arnowitt, storyteller René Pellerin and VSA Vermont’s Awareness Theater Company

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etc. American Cancer Society’s DetermiNation Program Info Session: See THU.23, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Tax Assistance: See THU.23, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

fairs & festivals Snowflake Festival: See WED.22, 12:30-4 p.m.

film ‘A Dangerous Method’: See FRI.24, 7:30 p.m. Ciné Salon: As part of a series celebrating the Midnight Sun Film Festival, cinephiles screen the third part of Peter von Bagh’s Sodankylä Forever. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120. ‘Home Across Lands’: John Lavall’s 2009 documentary follows a group of newly arrived refugees as they strive to become self-reliant, invested participants in their new home in Rhode Island. A panel discussion with former refugees now settled in Vermont follows. North End Studio B, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 338-4633. ‘Norwegian Wood’: See FRI.24, 7:30 p.m.

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 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. 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. Ilsley Detectives Club: Fifth and sixth graders craft their own whodunit stories after learning about Sherlock Holmes with Middlebury College student Fanny Zhao. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 388-4097. Kids Vacation Workshop: Imaginative kiddos learn how to morph into an onstage character with the Chelsea Funnery. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, session for kindergartners through second graders, 9 a.m.-noon; session for third through sixth

Music With Raphael: See THU.23, 10:45 a.m.

Vacation Blizzard: See SAT.25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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. The Champlain Echoes: New singers are invited to chime in on four-part harmonies with a women’s a cappella chorus at weekly open rehearsals. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 6:159:15 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0398.

seminars Computer Help: Technology snafu? Walk-ins receive assistance on basic internet issues, troubleshooting and operating questions. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2366. Internet Essentials: Master the art of the worldwide web by picking up tips and tricks for Google, Internet Explorer and library databases. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

talks Are Corporations People? Citizens Respond to Citizens United: Paul Olsen moderates panelists John Bonifaz, Jerry Greenfield, Anthony Iarrapino and Virginia Lyons in a discussion about the Supreme Court ruling. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Christopher Parker: The executive director of Vermont Rail Action Network tracks the current state of Vermont’s railroads and looks ahead to their prospects. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Michael Moser: The research project specialist for the University of Vermont’s Center for Rural Studies looks ahead in “Where Are We Going? A Review of State-to-State Migration Trends in the U.S.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

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. Shape & Share Life Stories: Prompts trigger true tales, which are crafted into compelling narratives and read aloud. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. The Vermont Book Shop Author Series: Over cookies and milk, children’s author Phoebe Stone reads aloud, answers audience questions and signs copies of her books. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.

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agriculture Burlington Garden Club Meeting: Kerry Mendez highlights “Extremely Low-Maintenance, Gorgeous Perennials” at a gathering of gardeners. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6764.

art The National Gallery: ‘Leonardo Live’: See SUN.26, 11 a.m.

business Mindful Success Circle Networking Group: Service professionals and small-business owners strive to make a difference in their communities. Thirty minutes of optional seated meditation precede an hourlong meeting and one-on-one connection time with peers. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:45-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 225-5960.

etc. Community Bike Shop Night: See THU.23, 6-8 p.m.

fairs & festivals Snowflake Festival: See WED.22, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

film ‘A Dangerous Method’: See FRI.24, 7:30 p.m. ‘Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey’: See THU.23, 7 p.m. ‘National Velvet’: A jaded ex-jockey helps a 12-year-old girl (played by a very young Elizabeth Taylor) train her horse for England’s Grand National Sweepstakes in this 1944 drama based on the novel by Enid Bagnold. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018. ‘Norwegian Wood’: See FRI.24, 7:30 p.m.

food & drink Charity Dinner: Diners down steak-house fare. Ten percent of all sales benefits Burlington Emergency Shelter. The Scuffer Steak & Ale House, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 862-9879.

The Pennywise Pantry: On a tour of the store, shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

Laughter Yoga: See SUN.26, Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. 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.

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. Ellie’s Preschool Party: Singer, actor and children’s entertainer Ellie Tetrick amuses the 6 and under set with bubbles, parachutes and musical instruments. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. Kids Vacation Workshop: Kids become clowns while learning about physical theater and miming with the Chelsea Funnery. Chandler Gallery, Randolp, session for kindergartners through second graders, 9 a.m.-noon; session for third through sixth graders, 1-4 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 5226877, upperevents@chandler-arts.org. 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. 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. Vacation Blizzard: See SAT.25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Where’s the Snow Bird?: Three- to 10-year-olds investigate the winter landscape for evidence of friendly fliers. Crafts follow. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $10-15 per adult/child pair; preregister. Info, 434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont.org.

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The National Gallery: ‘Leonardo Live’: See WED.22, 7 p.m.

comedy Improv Night: See WED.22, 8-10 p.m.

fairs & festivals Snowflake Festival: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

film ‘A Dangerous Method’: See FRI.24, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘Learning With the Land’: This 40-minute documentary introduces audiences to Vermont’s Walden Project, the Willowell Foundation’s outdoor public high school program where class discussions take place around a fire. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5013. ‘Norwegian Wood’: See FRI.24, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘XXY’: An intersex teen deals with an unusual medical condition in Lucía Puenzo’s 2007 drama. Roger H. Perry Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, 5:45-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2700.

health & fitness Growing Stronger: See WED.22, 1 p.m. Tung Tai Chi Chuan: See WED.22, 5:30-7 p.m.

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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Chess Club: See WED.22, 5:30 p.m.

Celtic Crossroads: World-class musicians re-create fiery Irish traditions. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $36. Info, 760-4634. Fundamentals of Four-Part A Cappella Singing: Forget instruments; vocalists join forces in barbershop quartets led by William Verity. North Country Alliance Church, Plattsburgh, N.Y. 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 518-593-3686.

seminars Lessons Learned: Five Investing Principles for Today & Beyond: An informational workshop takes the emotions out of investing and keeps savers focused on their long-term goals. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:307 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790.

talks Patrick Standen: The philosophy professor offers his own take in “A Brief History of Disability.” Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. Free. Info, 654-2536.

theater ‘Love Never Dies’: In a fully staged, prerecorded broadcast performance, Australia’s Regent Theatre presents Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mesmerizing follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $18. Info, 660-9300. ‘M. Butterfly’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

Baby Time: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Enosburg Playgroup: See WED.22, 10-11:30 a.m. Fairfield Playgroup: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Kids Vacation Workshop: Kindergartners through second graders act out their dreams and create paintings in a session with the Arts Bus. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 1-4 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, 522-6877, upperevents@chandler-arts. org. Leap Day Celebration: Little ones pen letters to the future on this special “bonus day.” Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Leap Year Celebration: Ben T. Matchstick offers a once-in-four-years show packed with harmonicas, sing-alongs and jumping games. Greensboro Free Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 533-2531. Let’s Learn Japanese!: See WED.22, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Make Snowflakes!: Crafty kiddos ages 5 and up snip one-of-a-kind ice crystals from paper. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 865-7216. Middlebury Babies & Toddlers Story Hour: Children develop early-literacy skills through stories, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’: A workaholic’s life is turned upside down when he acquires six penguins in Mark Waters’ 2011 family comedy.

School Vacation Fun: Museum exhibits, crafts and games teach youngsters about Abenaki culture. Snacks provided. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 12:30-4 p.m. $8. Info, 828-2180. Vacation Blizzard: See SAT.25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

music Faculty Recital: Baritone David Neiweem and pianist David Feurzeig set poetry in four languages to music by Purcell, Schubert, Fauré, Debussy and Liszt, among others. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. Farmers Night Concert Series: Continuing a series of winter entertainment begun in 1923, Michéle and Fabio Choiniére offer traditional and original “French-Vermont” songs. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800322-5616, aclarkson@leg.state.vt.us. The Tartan Terrors: An internationally recognized troupe offers rollicking piping, comedy and dance in the Celtic tradition. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $16. Info, 518-523-2512. Valley Night: Mark LaVoie graces the lounge with blues harmonica. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.

seminars Budgeting to Maintain Your Creditworthiness: Freaked out by finances? Spenders and savers set realistic goals for prioritizing bills, paying down debt and increasing wealth. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790.

sport Night Riders: See WED.22, 4:30-8 p.m.

talks Colman McCarthy: The director of Washington, DC’s, Center for Teaching Peace presents “The Case for Nonviolence.” Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Skip Schiel: Highlighting visits to the shepherds’ fields and a refugee camp, the photographer takes audiences on a tour of Bethlehem, Burlington’s Palestinian sister city. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-9864.

theater ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’: The American Place Theatre’s Literature to Life program presents this one-woman adaptation of Harriet Jacobs’ 1861 narrative. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. $5; free for the JSC community. Info, 635-1476. ‘M. Butterfly’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

words Dine & Discuss: Spanish or European cuisine accompanies book-group chatter about Paul Coelho’s The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Painted Word Poetry Series: A series highlighting established and emerging New England poets features Evie Shockley. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0750. m

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Women’s Winter Wellness Series: Latininspired dance-fitness moves are set to sizzling international music in this Zumba demo with Lisa Guerrero. Women’s Source for Sports, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3233.

Table Talk Tuesday: Participants share personal memories and more at a storytelling circle hosted by StoryMatters. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095, lar17g@ myfairpoint.net.

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Bingo: Number noters ages 9 and up try to fashion a five-letter find. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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National Pancake Day: Diners score a short stack of buttermilk flapjacks on the, er, house. IHOP, South Burlington, 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Donations accepted for the Vermont Children’s Hospital. Info, 658-3303.

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Tuesday Night at the Movies: Cinephiles screen film gems, sleepers and festival favorites. This month’s selection: The Wages of Fear, HenriGeorges Clouzot’s 1953 thriller. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $8. Info, 496-8994.

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art ART CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Full descriptions of 200 classes online at cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. Drawing for Beginners, starts March 13. Drawing is all about seeing. Using graphite, Lydia will lead everyone in exploring the fundamentals of drawing. Class covers perspective, contour, shading and composition. Dragonfly Tile, March 7 and 14. Use Japanese river stones, recycled stained glass, etc. Create 8-inch tile that sparkles in any setting. Instructor: Charlotte Albers. Mosaic Garden Birdbath, March 21 and 28. Add a functional and beautiful focal point to your garden.

CLAY: INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED WHEEL: Mar. 29May. 17, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Weekly on Thu. Cost: $260/person, $234/BCA members. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag, glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Wheel Room, 250 Main St., Burlington. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, decorative and glazing methods. Class size will be kept small to provide individual attention to personal development. Students should be proficient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls.

PHOTO: INTRO BLACK & WHITE: Mar. 14-May. 2, 6:308:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $195/person, $175.50/BCA member. Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. Explore the analog darkroom! Learn how to properly expose blackand-white film, process film into negatives, and make prints from those negatives. Cost includes a darkroom membership for outside-of-class printing and processing. Bring a manual 35mm film camera to the first class. PHOTO: INTRO TO FILM/ DIGITAL SLR: Mar. 21-Apr. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $145/ person, $130.50/BCA members. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Explore the manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds and exposure, and learn the basics of composition, lens choices and film types/ sensitivity. Bring an empty manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera and owner’s manual to class.

clay CLAY SESSIONS START SOON: Mar. 5-Apr. 19, Weekly on Thu. Cost: $195/7 3-hr. classes. Location: Montpelier Mud, 961 Rte 2, Middlesex. Info: Montpelier Mud, 224-7000, info@montpeliermud.com, montpeliermud.com. Adults, teens and older kids enter the magical world of clay to beat the winter blues in our next session of classes. Make mud season really, really muddy! Let your imagination soar with us

communication BITE-SIZE WORKSHOPS: Schedule and other registration info can be found 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 stand in the way of your goals. This precision coaching is perfect for both individuals and groups of employees and is guaranteed to help you find a new way of working.

dance DANCE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Full descriptions of 200 classes online at cvuweb. cvuhs.org/access. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. Swing and Jitterbug Thursdays, starts March 8. All learn with this easy step-bystep approach. From big band to rock and roll, this six-count east-coast swing and jitterbug style is the place to start. Pairs encouraged, singles welcome. Ballroom Dancing Thursdays, starts March 8. Come learn the basics of the waltz, rumba, fox-trot, merengue and tango. Senior discount 65+. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, 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. $13/person for 1-hr. class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4week 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! Beginning 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. MODERN DANCE: Weekly: Wed., 5:15-6:45pm. Cost: $15/Single class. Location: Burlington Dances Studio, upstairs in the Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. Burlington Dances studio aims to provide classes for rewarding

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 weeks. Morning Taiko by appointment, Saturdays, 9-10:45 a.m., $45/3-wk. term Cuban Bata, & house-call classes by request. Montpelier Thursdays! Voudou drums start February 16 and March 22, 1:30-2:30 p.m., $45/3wk. term. East Montpelier Thursdays! Djembe starts March 22, 5:30 p.m., $45/3wk. term. Cuban congas start February 9 and April 19, $45/3wk. term. Taiko starts March 22, 7 p.m., $45/3-wk. term.

empowerment DEVELOPING YOUR HIGH SENSE PERCEPTION: Mar. 3-4, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $75/ person, incl. lunches & snacks. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. Develop your clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience, and learn how to access the Akashic records. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Limited to 10 students.

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CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: Mar. 22-May. 10, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $220/person, $198/BCA members. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag, glazes and firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio,

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.

PRINT: SILKSCREEN CLOTHING: Mar. 27-May, 1, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $180/ person, $162/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Students will learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use a silkscreen exposure unit, and how to mix and print images using water-based inks.

SILLY SOCK CREATURES!: Feb. 29, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $14/2-hr. hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal Street, Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, Purple Shutter Herbs, 865-4372, info@ purpleshutter.com, purpleshutterherbs.com. Come make lovable sock critters under the guidance of Melanie, Jeremy and Elena Brotz. Learn to use colorful orphaned socks, vintage buttons, wool fiber, colorful yarns and other fabric scraps to create your own whimsical creature. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own.

modern dance experience with dance phrases which explore movement with ease and specificity while still challenging the dancer’s technical strength. Marly Schneider will teach an intermediate to advanced technique class which incorporates Laban based improvisation and choreographic experimentation. Try a class!

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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. 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.

PRINT: PAINTING & DRAWING: Mar. 22-Apr. 26, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $185/ person, $167/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Techniques such as etching, linoleum cuts, silkscreening and more will be taught. Students will also learn how to layer and apply inks, how to incorporate painting and drawing techniques, and how to use the printing press. Students can expect to leave with a unique body of work.

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INTRO TO SHAKER TABLE: 5 weeks, Mondays, 6-9 p.m., 2/27-3/26. Cost: $200/course (member discounts and material fees not incl.). Location: The Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: The Shelburne Art Center, Renee Lauzon, 985-3648, info@ shelburneartcenter.org, shelburneartcenter.org. This class is directed toward students who are eager to become acquainted with a woodshop environment, familiarize themselves with building plans and enhance their joinery skills. Students will begin with rough lumber to complete a hallway table Shaker-style. No prior experience is necessary.

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DESIGN: ADOBE INDESIGN: Mar. 26-Apr. 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $185/ person, $166.50/BCA members. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign, a program used for magazine and book layout, for designing text, and for preparing digital and print publications. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and will create projects suited to their own interests. Bring a Mac-compatible flash drive to the first class.

PHOTO: PORTRAIT: Mar. 22-Apr. 12, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $125/person, $112.50/ BCA members. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Prerequisite: Intro SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Improve your portrait-taking skills in this hands-on class. Camera techniques, composition, the use of studio and natural light, and more will be covered. Bring your camera and memory card to the first class.

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ART AND POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Dates and times vary. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. Info: Middlebury Studio School, Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@ aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org. Adult Classes: Drawing the Head, March 8-29, Silver Jewelry, March 8-29, Watercolors, March 13-April 3, Origami, March 17-April 7, Oils, March 21-April 18; Pottery: Decal Workshop, March 3 and 4, Monday Night Wheel, March 12-April 9; Children’s Classes: wheel, hand building, multi-age wheel, teen wheel, Paint It, March 19-April 16, Animation, March 17-April 15.

incl.). Location: The Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: The Shelburne Art Center, Renee Lauzon, 985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter.org, shelburneartcenter. org. In this one-day workshop students will be using alternative ceramic techniques to explore some nontraditional approaches to finishing work. Some of the topics covered will include under-glaze crayons and pencils. We will also be creating a sculptural effect called cold finishing. Please bring work in various stages of finish.

250 Main St., Wheel Room, Burlington. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Students must be proficient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls.

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side bending and rotation) and how you can use them to reduce or eliminate pain in your back. For registration or further information, please visit website.

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LEVEL III WORKSHOP W/ CHRISTINE HOLT: Feb. 25-Mar. 24, 12:30-3 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $25/person. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. With courage and a lighthearted attitude, we will approach advanced asana variations, working toward the full poses with support along the way from props, friends and faith (I think I can, I think I CAN!). Preregistration strongly recommended.

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exercise BELLY DANCE AND TANGOFLOW!: Belly Dance with Gail McKenzie, weekly: Tues., 6:45-8 p.m. $14/session. TangoFlow! with Cathy Salmons, weekly: Wed., 7-8 p.m. $12/session. Location: Natural Bodies Pilate, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates. com, NaturalBodiesPilates. com. Modern Egyptian Belly Dance! Experience the movement, music, and tradition of Modern Egyptian belly dance, along with contemporary interpretations of this ancient dance form. TangoFlow! Explore the energy, sensuality and passion of Argentine Tango… while getting a great whole-body workout! Rhythmic, expressive, sweaty — No partner needed, bare feet, and fun!

feldenkrais HEALTHY BACK FELDENKRAIS WORKSHOP: Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m. Cost: $20/workshop. Location: 845 East St., Huntington. Info: 735-3770. Uwe will teach a series of Awareness Through Movement noon lessons that will relieve stress and strain in your back. In this workshop you will learn the basic movements of the spine (flexion, extension,

FORZA-SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Mar. 8-Apr. 26, 6-7 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $80/8 classes. Location: Perkins Fitness Consulting & Personal Training, 3060 Williston Road, South Burlington. Info: Stephanie Shohet, 578-9243, forzavt@ gmail.com, forzavt.com. Forza is a unique, empowering, fullbody workout, allowing you to burn calories, build muscles, and cultivate focus and selfesteem while using a wooden sword to practice the striking movements of the samurai. No martial arts experience necessary, Forza is safe for any fitness level. Beginners welcome! Info, forzavt.com.

games GAMES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Full descriptions of 200 classes online at cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. Cribbage Fun Wednesday, March 7 and 14. For beginners and those returning to the game. Bring a board. Cribbage Tournament! March 28. Join the fun for a one night team cribbage tournament to benefit the Access Scholarship Fund. Two teams will receive prizes. Bring boards and cards. Mah Jongg-American Style Play, March 14, 21, 28. No experience necessary.

gardening GROWING HERBS INDOORS: Feb. 23, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Location: Gardener’s Supply Company , 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 658-2433. Enjoy fresh herbs year-round, we’ll show you how easy it can be. Instructed by Karen Winter. SOIL BASICS: WHAT YOU MUST KNOW TO START A GARDEN: Mar. 1, noon-12:45 p.m. Location: Gardener’s Supply Company, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 658-2433. Feed the soil not the plant is the basics of good gardening. Find

out how to with soil expert Mike Ather. Instructed by Mike Ather.

herbs HONORING HERBAL TRADITIONS 2012: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., one Saturday monthly for 8 months. Cost: $850/8-mo. course. Location: Horsetail Herbs, 134 Manley Rd, Milton. Info: Horsetail Herbs, Kelley Robie, 893-0521, htherbs@ comcast.net, Horsetailherbs. org. Herbal Apprenticeship program held on a horse farm. Covers herbal therapies, nutritional support, diet, detox, body systems, medicine making, plant identification, tea tasting, plant spirit medicine and animal communication, wild foods, field trips, iridology, and women’s, children’s, men’s and animals’ health! Textbook/ United Plant Saver membership included. VSAC nondegree grants available. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: 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 FRENCH CLASSES THIS SPRING!: 7 courses, 11-wk. term, begins Mar. 5 & continues through May 24 (note: no classes Apr. 23-29). Classes meet 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $225/11-wk. 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, 497-0420, michelineatremblay@gmail.com, aflcr. org/classes.shtml. Beginner? Restarter? Still need some grammar? Ready to jump into topic-driven conversation? Looking for some “vacation French”? There’s a class for your level! Excellent instruction with experienced native speakers. 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 highquality, 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.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:45 p.m. 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. We offer adult classes 7 days a week. 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 CLASSES: Feb. 21-Mar. 13, 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $65/4 consecutive Tue., uniform incl. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Spring intro for new and returning adult learners. Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others and confidence in oneself. Vermont Aikido invites you to explore this graceful martial art in a safe, supportive environment. 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.

massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: Weekly on Mon., Tue. Cost: $5,000/500-hr.

program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 2888160, 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. 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.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appointment. 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.

movement THE ART OF MOTION: Total Body Connectivity, weekly, Sat., 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Cost: $15/single class. Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Lucille@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.com. Release accumulated tension from bodily misalignment and move freely with strength, endurance and enjoyment! Practice of Laban, Bartenieff Fundamentals, ballet and the

Delsarte System of Expression promotes healthy movement for personal development and whole-life wellness, and sparks the simple enjoyment of how we are meant to move, from the center.

photography EXPOSURE: Feb. 25, 4:307:30 p.m. Cost: $25/3-hr. class. Location: Darkroom Gallery, 12 Main St., at the five corners. , Essex Junction. Info: Darkroom Gallery, Ken Signorello, 238-2647, ken@darkroomgallery.com, meetup.com/DarkroomGallery/ events/49770952. Get your camera off auto. Learn how to look at a scene the way your camera does and get the exposure you want. Learn how to use exposure controls as creative tools. This is a 3-hr. class with in-class exercises. Preregister at meetup.com/DarkroomGallery/ events/49770952/ or call 777-FOTO.

pilates EVERY BODY LOVES PILATES!: The Cadillac lets you use resistance springs & straps for a great workout w/o 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!

psychic BASIC PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT: March 15 to May 10, 10 Thursdays, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Cost: $175/10 classes. Location: Bernice Kelman, 12 Kelley Road, Underhill. Info: Bernice Kelman, 899-3542, kelman.b@ juno.com. Basic Psychic Development Class with Bernice Kelman. Everyone is born with natural psychic abilities. There is nothing supernatural about these abilities. All children are naturally psychic. We were psychic when we were children. However, our culture teaches us to shut off these abilities. You can learn simple and easy ways to tap into your own hidden abilities, to become as little children and play as naturally as you did then, to use your inborn talents to make your life healthier, happier, more loving and more fun. Space is limited. Reserve now! Info, contact Bernice Kelman at 899-3542 or e-mail kelman.b@juno.com.

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religion JoIn RabbI Joshua Chasan: Monday, March 5, 19, April 2, 7:30-8:45 p.m. and Sunday, March 25, 11:30-1:30 p.m. Location: Ohavi Zedek Synagoue, 188 N. Prospect Street, Burlington. Info: Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Tari, 8640218, tari@ohavizedek.com, ohavizedek.org. Join Rabbi Joshua chasan for a discussion of the book ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the ancient city Ignited the Modern World’ by James carroll. The class will include a showing of the documentary ‘constantine’s sword.’ carroll will be speaking at Ohavi

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. yang-styLE taI ChI: New 9-week 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: 3186238. 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

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womEn In tRansItIon: LEttIng & moVIng FoRwaRD: an IntERaCtIVE woRKshop FoR womEn 40+ w/ maRty gaRREtt: Mar. 11-25, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Weekly on Sun. Cost: $99/ person. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: Marty, 8653213, coachmarty@yahoo.com, martygarrett.com. Midlife is a precious time, filled with challenges and possibilities. During this workshop you will learn to navigate your own transition, in the company of like-minded women. You will leave with the knowledge for moving forward.

yoga 6:30 a.m. KunDaLInI yoga: Weekly: Tue. & Thu., 6:30-7:45 a.m. Cost: $14/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

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or the last several years, Vermont songwriter Anaïs Mitchell has been consumed with her critically acclaimed “folk rock opera,” Hadestown. Her masterful retelling of the Orpheus myth culminated in a star-studded studio album that featured the likes of Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, recent Grammy winner Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and drew wide-ranging, international praise. Now Mitchell is back with a new project, Young Man in America, released on her new label, Wilderland Records — her previous efforts were all on DiFranco’s Righteous Babe imprint. Though a comparatively more traditional “album,” and far smaller in scope, the record is an equally compelling artistic work. Through a variety of characters — including the titular young man — Mitchell delves into themes of obsession and ambition, success and failure, and the unseen costs of each. Reuniting with Hadestown producer Todd Sickafoose, the project boasts an impressive roster of talent, including the Punch Brothers’ Chris Thile, songwriter Rachel Ries, and a slew of highly regarded jazz and rock players from New York City. Her old friend and producer Michael Chorney lends a hand, as well. Seven Days spoke with Mitchell by phone from London — while she was eating shepherd’s pie — in advance of her show at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge this Friday, February 24, with songwriter Rachel Ries.

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SEVEN DAYS: You’ve been immersed in Hadestown for years now. What was it like to dig into something so removed from that project? ANAÏS MITCHELL: There are some ways that this album rode on the heels of Hadestown. One was that Todd [Sickafoose] was the producer of this record and Hadestown. I’ve developed a sort of vocabulary with him. So in that sense this record almost felt easy. There are also a lot of characters and “story” songs on this album. So it’s not a complete 180 from the opera. SD: It is more of a traditional album, though. AM: It’s more intimate, definitely, in terms of the number of people involved. And a lot of the songs feel more intimate and life-size, rather than this sort of larger-than-life, mythological stuff. SD: It’s not a rock opera, but there is thematic consistency. Where did the general concept of the record come from? AM: I don’t think it was a grand plan. The songs came along and sort of seemed to link arms at a certain point. For me there are two really important characters or themes on the record. One, of course, is this Young Man in America guy, a really youthful, hungry and reckless character who is sort of so free that he doesn’t have anyone to answer to and is calling out for a mother or father or some sort of direction, guidance. And then there’s a sort of older character. My dad is an important figure on this record, and it’s his face on the cover. And one of the tunes [“Shepherd”] is a song version of a story he wrote when he was about my age from a book called The Souls of Lambs. The character in that story is a shepherd whose wife dies in childbirth as a result of his fixation on bring-

ing in the harvest before the rains come. I read that at a young age, and it’s always struck me as such a sad story. It’s about the things that we are relentlessly pursuing and then the rich, beautiful things that we plow under in our pursuit. He’s similar to the young man, but in a more mature way, if that makes sense. SD: You’ve said the recent economic collapse was an inspiration. How so? AM: Watching the footage of families losing their homes and seeing their furniture out in the streets, I had this idea of our country as a wild place, a frontier place. You don’t know if anyone has your back, or if you can afford your medicine. You don’t feel taken care of and it’s every man for himself. “Wilderland” came out of that idea. And this Young Man character, that was the world he inhabited. He gets really high and low. It can be exhilarating to be alone in the world. But there’s an emptiness that also sets in. SD: I feel like I know that guy. Being that you aren’t a young man, how were you able to get into his headspace and write from his perspective? AM: He kind of announced himself. The first stanza of the song came when I was driving, and I loved it. It was like he leapt out of his mother’s womb and is hungry and thirsty. And I thought, Oh my God. This song is going to take, like, 18 verses. But he kind of put the wind in my sails a little bit. But I identify with him, too. I’m not a man, obviously. But I have my own anxiety and ambition, and feelings of misplaced-ness sometimes. So he was sort of an avatar of me, in a way. SD: Is he based on anyone in particular? AM: Yeah. [Laughs] There are a few guys … but I’ll never tell.

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Anaïs Mitchell plays the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington this Friday, February 24, at 7:30 p.m. $15/17. AA. Rachel Ries opens. To hear a track from Young Man in America, check out the story at 7dvt.com. For more from this interview, log on to the Seven Days staff blog, Blurt, at 7d.blogs.com/blurt.

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Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. MonkEy housE: Freebass with Pete Kowler and snakefoot (EDm), 9 p.m., Free. nECtar's: soule monde (organ groove), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. onE PEPPEr griLL: Open mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free. on taP bar & griLL: Leno & Young (rock), 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Robin Reid (folk), 6 p.m., Free. Derek Burkins (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Face One (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. rED squarE: Wild man Blues, 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. thE skinny PanCakE: Wednesday Night Fun-Waiser with Joshua Panda (soul), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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City LiMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. on thE risE bakEry: Open Bluegrass session, 8 p.m., Free.

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bEE's knEEs: Paul cataldo (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. bLaCk CaP CoFFEE: John and stef (folk), 3 p.m., Free. Moog's: Big John (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

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MonoPoLE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. oLivE riDLEy's: completely stranded (improv comedy), 7:30 p.m., Free.

highEr grounD baLLrooM: Zoso (Led Zeppelin tribute), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. AA. highEr grounD shoWCasE LoungE: sister sparrow and the Dirty Birds (neo-soul), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA.

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

thE skinny PanCakE: Phineas Gage (bluegrass), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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MonoPoLE: sinecure (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Julie Winn (singer-songwriter), 9:30 p.m., Free.

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MonoPoLE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free.

MonkEy housE: The Phantom suns, Vetica, Workingman's Army, Fuck the Bullshit (rock), 9 p.m., $5. nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Dopapod, the mantras (funk), 9:30 p.m., $10. 18+.

1/2 LoungE: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, Greg Alexander (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Electroshock with selector Dubee & Liam Havard (dubstep), 10 p.m., Free.

raDio bEan: Jazz sessions, 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. The unbearable Light cabaret (eclectic), 10 p.m., $3. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3.

Franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

rí rá irish Pub: Longford Row (irish), 8 p.m., Free.

vEnuE: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.

o'briEn's irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

CLub MEtronoME: mushpost Presents Blockhead (EDm), 9 p.m., $12/15. 18+.

ParkEr PiE Co.: Paul cataldo (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free.

LEvity CaFé: Open mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free.

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on taP bar & griLL: High mileage (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

rED squarE: Old soul (r& b), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

bagitos: Art Herttua (jazz), 6 p.m., Donations. grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

oLivE riDLEy's: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free.

sLiDE brook LoDgE & tavErn: White Zin (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

tabu CaFé & nightCLub: Karaoke Night with sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

tuPELo MusiC haLL: John mayall (blues), 8 p.m., $40. AA.

thEraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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on thE risE bakEry: Open irish session, 8 p.m., Free. tWo brothErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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too, check out a track from the band’s forthcoming EP at phantomsuns.bandcamp. com — it’s awesome. Then, find a torn flannel shirt, borrow mom’s car and get thee to the Monkey. VETICA and WORKINGMAN’S ARMY round out the bill. Going for the new-localband hat trick, sax player DAN LIPTAK unveils his latest venture, WILD MAN BLUES, this Wednesday, February 22, at Red Square. Liptak writes that the band — which includes local jazz vets TOM MORSE, GREG EVANS, COREY BEARD, DON EINHORN and JANE ANDREA — is an original Dixieland band that mixes in swing blues and second-line music. And just in time for Mardi Gras!

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and BRITTANY HAAS of CROOKED STILL. If groovy fiddle music steeped in Appalachian

grit is your jam, I strongly recommend it. Once upon a time, there was a band called the FORMAT, who traded in shamelessly hooky pop songs you’d practically have to be comatose not to like. But then, as bands do, they broke up. In their wake, a new group arose called FUN., featuring one of the main dudes from the Format. To the delight of Format fans, they released a debut record and … well, it kind of sucked. Yeah, it was similar, at least on the surface. The hooks were mostly there, the melodies catchy. But something was off. It was like when your mom tried to pass off store-brand chocolatesandwich cookies as Oreos in your lunch box. Sure, it was

sugary and chocolate-ish. But you could tell right away you’d been duped. Flash to 2012. Fun. is back with a new record, Some Nights. And guess what? It’s not gonna please Format fans, either. Or, as a coworker put it: “It’s like if the Format did the soundtrack to the Lion King.” Ouch. I mean, yeah, totally. But ouch. Anyway, I’m officially calling on Format fans to “occupy” the Higher Ground Ballroom when Fun. play on Wednesday, February 29, and not leave until they promise to start writing good songs again. Or reformat.

favor and get there in time to catch local indie-spacerock openers ERRANDS. You’re welcome. Last but not least, if you didn’t get enough ANDERS PARKER in the WOODY GUTHRIE story on page 30, his band CLOUD BADGE will be at the Monkey House this Saturday, February 25. BTW, Parker says the debut CB record is done, and he hopes to release it “sometime this year.” Fingers crossed.

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BAGITOS: Girls Gone Folking Wild (folk), 6 p.m., Donations. THE BLACK DOOR: Satta Sounds (reggae), 9:30 p.m., $5. CHARLIE O'S: Funkwagon (funk), 10 p.m., Free. GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. PURPLE MOON PUB: Bill Buyer (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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MONOPOLE: Professor Chaos (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Trench Town Oddities (rock), 9 p.m., NA. THERAPY: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Tan Vampires, the Lucid (indie), 9 p.m., $5.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Tommy & the Tricksters (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Pulse Prophets, Big Mean Sound Machine (reggae), 9 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Jimmy Ruin (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Lendway (indie), 8 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Stavros (house), 10 p.m., $5.

51 MAIN: Jazz Jam, 7 p.m., Free. Justin Levinson Trio (rock), 10 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Stone Cold Roosters (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Donations. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Jam Man (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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BEE'S KNEES: Last October (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. BLACK CAP COFFEE: John (folk), 3 p.m., Free. THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: The Hamiltones (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Punch Brothers, Aoife O'Donovan (bluegrass), 8 p.m., $18/20. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: YACHT, Errands, Bobby Birdman (indie), 8:30 p.m., $12. AA. JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LEVITY CAFÉ: Comedy Fundraiser (Standup), 7:30 p.m. $10, Comedy Fundraiser (Standup), 9:30 p.m. $10.

MATTERHORN: Eames Brothers Band with Gabe Jarrett (mountain blues), 9 p.m., $5. SAT.25

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of psychedelia that has drawn apt comparisons to both the Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3. But the band’s murky sonic stew is seasoned with a winking punk apathy that elevates their sound above mere retro garage-rock nostalgia. Touring in support of a new album, Better Luck Next Life, Royal Baths play the Monkey House in Winooski this Monday, February 27. GLOAMING open.

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RUSTY NAIL: Sly Chi (r& b), 9 p.m., $5.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Justin Levinson (rock), 7 p.m., Free. Flashback with DJ Rob Douglas (retro dance), 10 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Donations. Secret Heliotropes (rock), 8 p.m., Free. Sunday Face (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Citizen Bare (alt-country), 10:30 p.m., Free. Fridge & the Spins (rock), 1 a.m., Free.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Ryan Hanson Band (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Justice (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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Through the late 1980s and early ’90s, hardcore and punk rock adopted a sensitive side: emo. Washington, DC’s Rites of Spring opened the floodgates, and emo eventually bloomed into a commercial success. The music industry capitalized on this untapped genre and swept its original intent under Hot Topic’s rug. Burlington’s Spirit Animal are here to keep it real. Closer stylistically to those early punk pioneers than to the current generation of chart climbers, Spirit Animal have emerged as a newly refined beast. Their new five-song, selftitled EP is quick and concise and drives with passion. The compositions here are tight and catchy. Although at times teetering on the line of mainstream, the band doesn’t cross it. Spirit Animal have traded in the raw breakdowns of their first release, Pizza Party, for a more focused sound. It seems a natural evolution. The opening song, “Wind,” begins much differently than fans might expect; forceful vocals immediately announce a new chapter for Spirit. But as the song progresses,

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With a title like The Believer, you’d think Ryan Fauber’s debut studio album would be a tad brighter. Instead we find raw, unpolished folk music. In his lisping, raspy voice, the Burlingtonbased songwriter sings about the darkest plights of struggling America. The album pays homage to traditional American song forms through chord progressions and rhyme schemes, but addresses a modern niche with uncomfortable specificity. The first track, “Any Day,” comes in slowly with a steady acoustic guitar. It’s a bittersweet ballad of hope that drags on for nearly six minutes. “Confusion,” however, goes straight to the business of killing puppies, assaulting ladies and desecrating childhood. At this point, it’s too late to yell, “Earmuffs!” And, thematically, Fauber’s indelicate pathos becomes even more overt as the album spins on with “Ballad of Grant Seely.” Fauber attacks with a crudely played guitar and brutally declarative lyrics. This story-song goes step by step through the alcoholic demise of a formerly successful family man. The zeal with which this tunesmith “tells it like it is” for modern America would make Utah Phillips proud. Fauber’s style is relatively consistent throughout. “It’s a Chore” features the same acoustic strumming, predictably rhymed lyrics and Fauber’s unique voice rasping his words with conviction. But “The King,” less coarse and more endearing, stands out. It conjures the image of an elderly Johnny Cash relating sorrow through his cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt.” “Dope Child” staggers along dismally with extremely dark imagery and

characteristically emotive guitar melodies ground it back to the band’s familiar style. The members of Spirit Animal are childhood friends — and two of them siblings — which suggests a comfortable chemistry. Drummer Dan Smith stamps this outing with confidence and dexterity. Rhythm guitar player John Flanagan (ex-In Memory of Pluto) gives the EP an overall rounded feel, while lead guitar player Bill Jandl peppers it with tasteful melodies. Vocal duties are shared between him and Zach Jandl. The brotherly duo — who played in IMOP with Flanagan — meld together strongly with equally bold deliveries. The EP’s production is to be applauded, as well. Vocals, although considerably affected, blend seamlessly over animated guitars. The bass and drums form a tight, relentless machine throughout.

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symbolism. Fauber’s lines convey the suffering of a protagonist “burning from the scratches / from the mosquitoes that are always hungry.” Antiquated symbols — prison chains and lanternlit graveyards — set up this song like a cowboy’s dirge. Unfortunately, Fauber’s attempts to weave more relatively modern metaphors into his spooky tale are comparatively clumsy and ultimately fall flat. Though the repetitive form and rhyme might be Dylan-esque, the song lacks dynamic range or soulful flourish. The Believer resolves optimistically with the unexpected voice of Burlington singer Samara Lark on “More Than Gold.” Her voice is warm and comforting, like a mother’s unconditional love. “More Than Gold” is wholesome, à la Judy Garland, and Lark sings with a similar style. While “Dope Child” professes that “pain will keep you honest,” “More Than Gold” affirms “I love you,” again and again. Ryan Fauber plays Radio Bean this Friday, February 24, with his band, Sunday Face.

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Monkey House: Anders Parker Cloud Badge, Best Western (rock), 9 p.m., $8.

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

Nectar's: Neil Howl (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Sonic Spank, DVS, the Bounce Lab (live electronica), 9 p.m., $5.

northern

On Tap Bar & Grill: Sideshow Bob (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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

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

Radio Bean: Oogee Wawa (rock), 12:30 a.m., Free. The Matchsticks (folk), 6:30 p.m., Free. Erin Powers (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Patrick Lehman and the Preachers (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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1/2 Lounge: Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. Scott Mangan & Guests (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

Red Square: Derek Astles (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Dave Keller Band (blues), 8 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5.

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. Higher Ground Ballroom: Fun., Sleeper Agent (pop), 8 p.m., $17/20. AA.

Red Square Blue Room: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., Free. Rí Rá Irish Pub: The Complaints (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Funkwagon, the Lynguistic Civilians (hip-hop, funk), 8 p.m., $8/10. AA.

The Skinny Pancake: Groove Shoes (funk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Bagitos: Irish Session, 2 p.m., Free. Nancy Smith and Friends (folk), 6 p.m., Donations. The Black Door: KuFui (rock), 9 p.m., $5. Castlerock Pub: Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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The Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room: The Move It Move It (Afro-pop), 10 p.m., Free.

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

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Bee's Knees: Steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., Donations. Open Mic, 7:30 p.m., Free. Black Cap Coffee: Joel Meeks (country), 2:30 p.m., Donations. Matterhorn: 2U (U2 tribute), 9 p.m., $7. Moog's: Wade Yacovone Wade (blues), 9 p.m., Free. Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Roadside Tavern: DJ Diego (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. Rusty Nail: Last Kid Picked (rock), 10 p.m., $10.

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Monopole: Capital Zen (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Olive Ridley's: Ten Year Vamp (rock), 10 p.m., NA.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. Nectar's: Soule Monde (organ groove), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ONE Pepper Grill: Open Mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free. On Tap Bar & Grill: Mitch & Friends (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Leap Year Extravaganza, 6 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Yousay Placate (jazz), 11 p.m., $3. Red Square: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Zack duPont Band (indie folk), 7 p.m., Free.

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51 Main: Mogani (Latin jazz), 9 p.m., Free.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Tabu Café & Nightclub: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.

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Monkey House: Fake Hooker, Beef (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

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The Skinny Pancake: The Summit School presents Brttany Haas and Lauren Rioux, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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Bee's Knees: John Smythe (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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Monty's Old Brick Tavern: George Voland Jazz: Don Schabner Dan Skea, 4:30 p.m., Free.

Olive Ridley's: Open Mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

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

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Radio Bean: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free. Old Time Sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. Randal Pierce (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Niall Hamilton (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. The Summit of Thieves (rock), 8 p.m., Free. Other Cities (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Peachy Widow (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Red Square: Outright Oscars Party, 6 p.m., Free.

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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.

northern

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

Monkey House: AM & MSR Presents: Royal Baths, Gloaming (garage psych), 9:30 p.m., $5. 18+.

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Nectar's: Metal Monday: Musical Manslaughter, Homeland Security, Underneath the Scabby Sheets, Filthy Minutes of Fame (metal), 9 p.m., $5.

1/2 Lounge: Sofa Kings with DJs J Dante & Jordan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: Bass Culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (dubstep), 9 p.m., Free.

burlington area

Backspace Gallery: DJ Steve 14th Anniversary Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Tom Cleary Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Monkey House: Joe Redding, John Smyth, Nick Losito, Jared Agnello (singer-songwriters), 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., $5. 18+. On Tap Bar & Grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6 p.m., Free. The Woedoggies (country), 8 p.m., Free. Greg Evans Trio (jazz), 9 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. Red Square: Upsetta International with Super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free. Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

central

Bagitos: Karl Miller (jazz), 6 p.m., Donations. Charlie O's: Karaoke, 10 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. Blues Jam, 6 p.m., Donations. Gusto's: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. The Skinny Pancake: Wednesday Night Fun-Waiser with Jay Ekis (country), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

champlain valley

City Limits: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. On the Rise Bakery: Joshua Glass (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Donations.

northern

Moog's: Rudy Dauth (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

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t would be easy, artist Marcy Hermansader says, for people to mistake a retrospective of her work for a group show — so diverse is her style. On a recent visit to her Putney studio, an observer finds four different series: drawings that billow out around vintage postcards of woodland scenes; photographs of Hermansader’s aging father sliced into strips and woven together with the security-patterned insides of envelopes; drawings of Iraqi women in mourning laid into shingle-like paper constructions; and abstract collages of blackness. The common thread is this: In Hermansader’s work, the intimate becomes universal. In a group show called “Natural Wonders,” currently at Rochester’s BigTown Gallery, her abstract mixedmedia works from the 1980s depict a vast, mystical landscape within the human body. In her more recent black-on-black collages, that sense of vastness reaches cosmic proportions — looking at once celestial and cellular. Hermansader, 60, graduated with a degree in sculpture and film from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1973. At the suggestion of a professor who had inspired her — and who said it would toughen her up — she spent two years working as a horse groomer at racetracks in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Then she moved to Vermont to pursue life as an artist. Since then, Hermansader has created drawings, sculptural pieces and mixedmedia works, but it’s difficult to pin a label on exactly what she makes. And she’s OK with that. “I create a scene for the solitude of the viewer,” she wrote in a catalog of her work in 1985. “I try to create images to stir things up, for them to know what they can know from within themselves.” Hermansader’s subjects dictate her style, and they’re usually deeply personal. Take, for example, the series of woven photos of her dad. In the early 2000s, Hermansader and her life partner, Jonathan Flaccus, suddenly became responsible for four elderly relatives. Three had advanced dementia, one of whom was her father. “I was unable to concentrate,” she says. “I really couldn’t work.” During that time, Hermansader had her father’s mail forwarded to her Putney home (he was living in Connecticut). Every day she dreaded opening the letters, most of which related to his health and care. “I knew that any envelope could potentially sabotage my day,” she recalls. Then one day, while opening a letter, she noticed the security pattern on the inside of the envelope. She looked inside another envelope and found a slightly different pattern. Then she noticed another, and

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another. “There was a glimmer of hope,” she says. Hermansader began slicing the patterned interiors into thin strips and weaving them into photographs Flaccus took of her father. As she wove, her dad’s face became stretched out, creating a distorted sense of time and identity. Hermansader found the process satisfying, both artistically and emotionally. “Now I had this tangible product that showed the work that I was doing,” she says. “It really saved my life.” Not that she saw her dad’s decline as a “horrible, depressing thing,” she says. He wasn’t in pain, and he often seemed to be happy. “It didn’t matter that he didn’t know who I was,” she says with a sage smile. “He liked me.” John Hermansader was also an artist, an abstract expressionist who spent a good deal of his career designing albums for Blue Note Records.

During the final years of his life, while his daughter wove patterns with images of his face, he continued to draw — on the theme of love. He died in 2005. “It’s a strange thing when a living person is your subject, and they die,” says Hermansader. Mourning her dad and desperate for another project — “I hate not doing any work,” she says — she began a simple daily exercise: drawing from photos in the newspaper. It was the year of Hurricane Katrina, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were raging. “Being in a state of grief,” she says. “I was drawn to those images.” In one piece, called “Deep Breath,” two small drawings of Iraqi women — Hermansader recalls they were photographed identifying family members at a morgue — are laid into a surface of torn bits of white and ivory paper, which look like weathered shingles or angel feathers.

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The women’s faces are twisted in agony, but the paper around them is “protective, mending,” says Hermansader. Still, the subject matter wore on her emotionally. “I felt like I was seeing black,” she says. So she transitioned into her next phase of work, diving head first into the cosmos with her abstract darkness collages. Only trouble was, Hermansader works at night. She found it difficult to sleep with these black landscapes on her mind. So Hermansader created a new, more meditative exploration of darkness. Her most recent works are giant wheels of tightly rolled black paper, the largest three feet across and a couple of inches thick. Some are dotted with flecks of white. Others are interspersed with dark blue or purple paper. Gazing into the rounds, which look like oversize, sometimes warped, vinyl records, you can almost feel them spinning, as slowly and steadily as the Earth. At BigTown, Hermansader’s work is equally mesmerizing. It’s from a period during which she was recovering from a near-paralyzing auto-immune illness. As she explains it, “My immune system was attacking my nerves.” The numbness began in her hands and feet and gradually moved toward her core. It was four months before doctors finally made a diagnosis. At first, she says, “They thought it was psychosomatic.” But Hermansader persisted and did what any visual artist would do: She drew pictures of what she was feeling and presented them to her doctors. It’s hard not to imagine Hermansader hauling the vibrantly colored, mixed-media works displayed at BigTown into the doctor’s office — though that isn’t possible, since she made these pieces, with pencil, acrylic, foils, fabrics, thread and sequins, after her diagnosis. They aren’t about illness so much as healing, she says. The pictures are populated with brightpink ribbons of vein-like road; green and blue beads arranged atop one another like vertebrae; and black orbs filled with spidery, nerve-like shapes. In some, black paper is torn off to reveal a raw redness. In others, pinholes expose tiny flecks of gold beneath the black paper, flashing under the gallery lights like firing neurons. Hermansader’s works could easily be scenes from another planet. Except that they’re just so human. Look at them long enough, and you might feel a tingling in your fingers and toes. “Natural Wonders,” a group show featuring work by Marcy Hermansader, John Udvardy and Anda Dubinskis, at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Through March 19. bigtowngallery.com

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Bryn Mayr: Abstract paintings, skyway; adaM deVarney: Drawings and mixed-media work, gates 1-8; gillian Klein: oil paintings, escalator. Through February 29 at burlington Airport in south burlington. info, 865-7166. Chad Fay: surrealist paintings by the new York City tattoo artist; Kelly holt: "light Metal Drummer," mixed-media works on aluminum and paper. Through March 1 at the Daily planet in burlington. info, 338-8647. 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. dawn o’Connell: "Camera Raw," portraiture and street photography. Through March 3 at uncommon grounds in burlington. info, 999-4572. dJango hulphers: “Americons,” collages. Through February 29 at north end studio A in burlington. info, 863-6713. doug hoppes: "landscapes with a Twist," paintings. Through March 31 at seAbA Center in burlington. info, 859-9222. 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); 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 artists: work by Annemie Curlin, Charlie hunter, Carolyn enz hack, leah Van Rees, Judy laliberte, Jeff Clarke, steven Chase, Melvin harris and Axel stohlberg. Through February 29 at Maltex building in burlington. info, 865-7166. ‘Fluid dynaMiCs’: sculpture by homer wells, ethan bond-watts and Chris Cleary. Through February 25 at Flynndog in burlington. info, 863-0093. ‘hearts aFlaMe’: Artists respond to Valentine’s Day. Through February 29 at Rose street Co-op gallery in burlington. info, 540-0376.

‘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. info, 863-6458.

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.

Jason Boyd: Abstract acrylic paintings. Through March 31 at Vintage Jewelers in burlington. info, 862-2233. Jessie lee Fowler: paintings by the tattoo artist and friends. Through February 29 at Muddy waters in burlington. info, 658-0466.

reCeptions 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. Reception: saturday, February 25, 4-7 p.m. info, 279-4239.

‘engage’: work in a variety of media by 35 Vermont artists with disabilities, including Robert Mcbride, Margaret Kannenstine, beth barndt, steve Chase, lyna lou nordstrum and Robert gold; presented by VsA Vermont. February 26 through April 29 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. Reception: performances by dancer lida winfield, poet eli Clare, pianist Michael Arnowitt and storyteller Rene

Jude Bond & MiChelle saFFran: "Yours Till niagara Falls: brides and grooms and honeymoons," photographs. Through February 29 at Vintage inspired in burlington. info, 488-5766. Justin hoeKstra: "somebody Told You wrong," acrylics on canvas by the uVM senior. Through February 29 at the gallery at Main street landing in burlington. info, 540-3018. 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. linda Maney & Missy storrow: "Two Colorful," abstract paintings. Through February 29 at Mirabelles in burlington. info, 458-8056. MarK Boedges & Jerry geier: new paintings by boedges; sculpture and drums by geier. Through March 31 at Mark boedges Fine Art gallery in burlington. info, 735-7317. Martha loVing orgain: "generative Art," painted veils, prints and star-chart talisman weavings. Through February 29 at shelburne inn. info, 434-865-5330. Mary hill: paintings. Curated by seAbA. Through February 24 at speeder & earl’s (pine street) in burlington. info, 658-6016. Mary proVenzano & Jenny Burton: paintings and prints by provenzano; paintings and photo collages by burton. Through February 29 at speaking Volumes in burlington. info, 540-0107.

‘earth rhythMs’: Recent works by Marilyn Allen, Casey blanchard, bryce leVan Cushing and Richard weis. February 25 through March 31 at Vermont institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Reception: saturday, February 25, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 875-1018. Jon BlaCK: Forged-copper structures inspired by human veins. February 27 through March 2 at Colburn gallery in burlington. Donning the veins, the artist performs at a reception: wednesday, February 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m. info, 508-479-6695, ColleCtiVe art show: eating-disorder-themed work by members of the uVM art collective Active Minds. February 27 through March 10 at livak Room, Davis Center, uVM, in burlington. Reception: Tuesday, February 28, 6-8 p.m. info, 730-4234.

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Melinda Morrison: paintings. Through February 24 at scarlet galleries in burlington. info, 497-1010.

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noah liManeK & Jonas powell: "graphic," still-life paintings by 18-year-old limanek; "legal graffiti," subway-style art by 16-year-old powell. Through February 29 at Davis studio gallery in 8v-lamante020812.indd 1 burlington. info, 425-2700. northern VerMont artist assoCiation: work in a variety of media by local artists. A silent auction benefits the library’s children’s section, which was recently damaged by a burst water pipe. Through February 25 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; ‘a disCerning eye’: selections from the J. brooks buxton Collection. Through May 20 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750.

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phil herBison: "Child’s play 2," artwork created from discarded materials. Through February 29 at Artspace 106 at the Men’s Room in burlington. info, 864-2088. ‘reVerie’: landscape, seascape, still-life and architecture paintings by artists who paint in Cape Ann, Mass., and Vermont. Through April 7 at lille Fine Art salon in burlington. info, 617-894-4673. riCK Jasany & KeVin Morin: photography. Through March 31 at union station in burlington. info, 864-1557. sarah ryan & Creston lea: lea’s hand-built guitars painted by Ryan. Through March 2 at living/ learning Center, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-4211.

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‘oCCupy loVe’: work in a variety of media by local artists. Through February 29 at the Firefly Collective in burlington. info, 279-1624.

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JaMes Vogler: oil-and-wax paintings. Through February 29 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001.

‘leonardo liVe’: A satellitedelivered hD presentation of london’s national gallery exhibition “leonardo da Vinci: painter at the Court of Milan,” which features the largest-ever collection of da Vinci’s work. sunday, February 26, 7 p.m.; Tuesday, February 28, 11 a.m., Town hall Theater, Middlebury. info, 382-9222.

‘ConneCted to VerMont’: Two- and three-dimensional work by Vermont studio Center executive director george pearlman, whitewater gallery owner James Teuscher, Torin porter, glenn goldberg and Joel Fisher, among other artists. Through March 31 at green + blue gallery in hardwick. Reception: saturday, February 25, 5-7:30 p.m. info, 730-5331.

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isaaC wasuCK: "The Figure of it is," paintings. Through February 28 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. info, 660-9005.

dr. sKetChy’s anti-art sChool: Artists age 16 and up bring sketchbooks and pencils to a cabaret-style life-drawing session. This month, an elvis tribute artist poses and performs. wednesday, February 29, 8-10:30 p.m., American legion, white River Junction.

‘MonoChroMatiC’: black-and-white photography. February 23 through March 16 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. Reception: sunday, February 26, 3-5 p.m. info, 777-3686.

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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. Sienna Fontaine & Quinn Delahunty: Paintings by the Vermont artists. Through February 29 at Nectar’s in Burlington. Info, 658-4771. ‘Spiritus: Celebrating Spirit in Art’: Work by Martha Loving, Tracy Burhans and Kate Longmaid. Through February 29 at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne. Info, 985-3819. Suzanne Dollois: "Assembled Landscapes," photographic collages. Through February 28 at Brickels Gallery in Burlington. Info, 825-8214. ‘The Cute Show’: Quirky adorableness, with a hint of satire, in a variety of media. Through February 25 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. ‘Three for Two’: Collage by John Moses, paintings and drawings by Lee Parsons, and illustrations by Megan Elisha H. Tong. Through February 29 at Computers for Change in Burlington. Info, 279-1623. Tony Shull: Small paintings by the muralist. Through February 29 at Salaam in Burlington. Info, 658-8822. 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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‘Art of the Chair: Process and Possibility’: Two- and three-dimensional works by 20 Vermont artists exploring the history, personalization and personification of the seat. Through March 6 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 431-0204. Bill Ramage: A centripetal drawing. Through March 2 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Info, 287-8398.

Hideichi Oshiro: "Art and Breath: The Life Work of Hideichi Oshiro," work by the 101-year-old Japanese artist who recently donated his life’s work to Goddard. Through March 8 at Goddard College in Plainfield. Info, 322-1601.

Janet Wormser: Paintings. Through February 28 at Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-3293.

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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.

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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.

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

Justin Hoekstra It’s no accident that each of the abstract paintings in Justin Hoekstra’s solo show at Burlington’s Gallery at Main Street Landing is a 5-foot-9 square — that’s the height of Hoekstra himself. It’s the first tip that the University of

Vermont senior’s work is more personal than it appears at first glance. He undertook the series, called “Somebody Told You Wrong,” with one goal: to explore large-format abstraction and “its re-emergence as a field of critical and artistic inquiry despite being renounced as a dead end several times over,” he told Art Map Burlington. With bold colors, expressive lines and intriguing layering, Hoekstra creates images as defiant as the title of his show. Through February 29. Pictured: “C’mon Do the Flumple.”

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.

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

Laurel Fulton: "Pigments and Volumes," expressionistic skyscapes in giclée prints. Through February 29 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com.

Nancy Silliman & Redel Frometa: "In Our Midst," paintings and mixed-media works that explore themes of home, childhood and love. Through April 14 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616.

Nancy Smith: Portraits. Through March 10 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 225-6489. ‘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. Nicholas Hecht: New paintings. Through February 24 at Plainfield Community Center. Info, 272-0200.

Peter Batchelder: "Barns: Essence of an American Icon," oil paintings. Through March 14 at DaVallia Art & Accents in Chester. Info, 875-1203. 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.

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Juried arTiST MeMberShiP: The Chaffee Art Center in Rutland is accepting submissions for juried artist membership. Deadline: March 20. Info, info@chaffeeartcenter.org, 775-0356. chaMPLain VaLLey PhoTo SLaM: Calling photographers of all ages. Students, amateurs, pros and photography addicts in the Champlain Valley, we want to see your shots. Deadline: April 25. Info, darkroomgallery. com/slam. SubMiT To reaching ouT! LGBTQQA and 22 years old or younger? Outright Vermont’s zine wants your art, stories, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drawings, photography, rants, thoughts, recipes and articles. Info, dawn@outrightvt.org. oPen caLL To arTiSTS: Open call to artists and writers for 21st annual Exposed Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Deadline: March 19. Info, helenday.com/exposed. creaTiVe coMPeTiTion_004: Presented by the Root Gallery. $8 entry fee. People’s

choice vote; winner takes all (compounded entry money). Limit one piece, any size, media or subject. Friday, March 2, 6-10 p.m. Vote for your favorite piece until awards ceremony at 8:30 p.m. Location: RLPhoto, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. Info, publicartschool@gmail.com. SweeT! This sumptuous multimedia SPA show pays homage to beautiful sweets — hard candies, chocolates, cakes, pies and gumballs — and the people who make and enjoy these treats. Info, studioplacearts. com. Deadline: March 9. Show dates: April 17 through May 26. The PaSTeLiSTS: Bryan Memorial Gallery announces a call to pastel artists for its summer exhibit, “The Pastelists.” Deadline: May 11. Info, bryangallery.org/ call_to_artists.html. Land & LighT & waTer & air: Bryan Memorial Gallery announces a call to artists for its flagship juried landscape exhibition. Deadline: March 9. Prizes. Info, bryangallery.org/ call_to_artists.html. The arT of creaTiVe aging: Exhibit in central Vermont featuring visual artists 70+ years old. Digital submissions of three works for jury

review due by March 16 to mharmon@cvcoa.org, or call 476-2681. fiber arT, crafT & bakerS bazaar: Vendor space is $20. Bring a table to this one! Saturday, March 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Montpelier City Hall. For vendor info and registration, call 431-3540. 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.

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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.

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‘VerMonT’S working LandScaPe’: Paintings by Heidi Broner, mixed-media works by Kathleen Kolb and photographs by Leslie Bartlett. Through March 2 at Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

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

kerry o. furLani: "Words to Stone," letter carvings. Through February 29 at Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury. Info, 855-7501.

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riTa fuchSberg: “Rock-a-bye Baby 2012,” works in colored pencil. Through March 11 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097.

The Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.

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.

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STudenT arT Show: Work by area students. Through February 29 at Brandon Artists’ Guild. Info, 247-4956. ‘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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‘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. Through April 1 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. daVid SMiTh: Paintings of the Vermont landscape. Through March 11 at Claire’s Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

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‘2012: woMen in The arTS’: Work by 11 Vermont women artists marking the 25th anniversary of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Through March 17 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0903.

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‘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.

‘inViSibLe odySSeyS’: Autobiographical dioramas by undocumented migrant workers telling the story of their journeys from Mexico to Vermont; includes text in Spanish and English. Through April 28 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

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‘Sound Proof: The PhoTograPhy of MaTThew 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. Info, 865-1140.

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LATE-WINTER SHOW: Abstract work by Karen Day-Vath, Tinka Theresa Martell and Longina Smolinski. Through April 30 at Chow! Bella in St. Albans. Info, 524-1405.

DONNA UNDERWOOD OWENS: "Vermont’s Magical Animal Kingdom," photographs. February 27 through March 30 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 279-4239.

PAULA BRADLEY: "From Color and Light," pastels. Through February 29 at Island Arts South Hero Gallery. Info, 372-5049.

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.

REBECCA WEISMAN: "My Human Being," a nearly three-hour performance video that premiered in 2010 as an outdoor installation at Goddard College. Through March 10 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

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. Info, 933-6403.

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‘IN CELEBRATION OF WINTER’: Work by Elisabeth Wooden, Sheel Anand, Bob Aiken, Lisa Angell, Gary Eckhart, Hunter Eddy, Orah Moore, Frank Califano and Robert Huntoon. Through March 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653.

JEANNE CARBONETTI: Still-life and landscape paintings. Through March 12 at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury. Info, 875-3763. JULIA SHIRAR: "People in Places," paintings and drawings. Through March 11 at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson. Info, 510-435-7377.

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GABRIEL TEMPESTA: Works in milk paint and charcoal. Through March 14 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.

JEAN CHEROUNY: "Source of Empathy," recent paintings. Through May 20 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Info, 388-0320.

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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.

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‘Connected to Vermont’ The artists showing at

Hardwick’s Green + Blue Gallery — yes, it has relocated from Stowe — through March 31 don’t just have ties to the Green Mountain State; they have ties to each other. A hulking found-industrial-object sculpture is courtesy of blacksmith James Teuscher, who owns East Hardwick’s Whitewater Gallery, where he’s shown the fantastical steel work of Glover artist Torin Porter. Paintings on view come from George Pearlman, the executive director of Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, and New Yorker Glenn Goldberg, a regular VSC visiting artist. In a review of

KATHLEEN KOLB: "Snow Light," oil paintings. Through April 30 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

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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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‘LANDSCAPE IN 3 VOICES’: Works in watercolor and oil by Terry Boyle, Barbara Greene and Tim Hendel. Through March 18 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

a previous show of Goldberg’s and-flower paintings and blown-glass sculptures — “the effect is disciplined and pixilated, like a spring picnic with a shaman.” Pictured: “Nautilus” by Torin Porter.

‘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. RICHMOND HOOKERS SHOW: Hooked rugs. Through March 31 at Jericho Center Town Hall. Info, 899-2974. RYAN LIBRE: "Visions of Kamui Mintara," photographs of Japan’s Daisetsuzan national park. Through March 31 at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common. Info, 586-7711. ‘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. WILSON ‘SNOWFLAKE’ BENTLEY: Original photos salvaged from an old farmhouse in Bolton, on display for the first time. Through April 1 at Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. Info, 595-5925.

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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.

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or years I’ve maintained that there’s something uniquely topsyturvy and perverse about the way the movie industry processes talent. The career of Tom Hardy, one of the stars of This Means War, illustrates the paradox perfectly. So often a performer comes to the attention of Hollywood by doing exceptional work in modestly budgeted or independent productions. Hardy distinguished himself in pictures such as Layer Cake (2004) and RocknRolla (2008). In Bronson (2008), he was brilliant. He hit it out of the park. And that’s the thing: Tinseltown uses this level of the business as the equivalent of a farm team. But here’s the upside-down part: The reward for having enough talent to make it to the big leagues is, more often than not, big bucks and an opportunity to star in movies that have absolutely zero use for brilliance. It’s like getting recruited by the Yankees and then being paid to play tiddlywinks. Something that would no doubt prove more entertaining to watch than anything Hardy or costar Chris Pine is asked to do in this spectacularly razzworthy misfire of

a romantic comedy. You’re not going to believe how moronic, misguided and just plain pervy this picture is. Get this: Tuck (Hardy) and FDR (Pine) are CIA agents who work out of the agency’s field office in Los Angeles. The partners in international crime fighting have been grounded for blowing up too many people in what was supposed to be a covert op in Hong Kong. This means they have plenty of taxpayersubsidized time to sit at their facing desks and shoot the breeze. Incredibly, these conversations lead to Pine suggesting that Hardy try looking for love through an online dating service. Enter Reese Witherspoon as Lauren, a product tester for a consumer publication. Coincidentally, she’s looking for love, too, and her best friend, a bawdy stay-at-home mom played by Chelsea Handler, signs her up with the same online matchmaker. Since the two buds are virtually inseparable, FDR is not far away when Tuck goes on his inevitable first date with Lauren. At its conclusion, she bumps into and falls for his friend, too, thereby raising the age-old rom-com question: What’s a young woman to do when

undercover agents Hardy and Pine play spies who take advantage of their access to CIA surveillance equipment to take advantage of an unsuspecting Witherspoon in this rom-com misfire from McG.

she’s equally attracted to two men? What the movie’s really about, unfortunately, is what two spies do when they’re in love with the same woman, and it’s not pretty. They don’t tell her they’re friends. They bug her home. They eavesdrop on her postdate analysis with Handler. They divert millions of dollars’ worth of sophisticated surveillance equipment to monitor her movement 24/7, even assigning other agents to watch her when they can’t. Eww. I felt queasy during a scene where one of these other agents hands Hardy a video they’ve recorded of Witherspoon having sex with Pine the previous night. Correct me if I’m off base here, but doesn’t this sort of thing cross a fairly significant line?

I’m not sure what director McG (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle) thought was hilarious about hunky spooks violating the privacy of an unsuspecting woman as part of a cretinous contest to win her heart. I certainly can’t imagine what’s supposed to qualify as romance in any of this, unless you count the beyond-bromance banter between Tuck and FDR (and what’s with the names?). I lost count of the times each operative says, “I love you, man” to the other. So what kind of romantic comedy does that leave us? The kind that succeeds in reducing an actor as brilliant as Hardy to playing a boneheaded peeping Tom. m R i c k K i so nak

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ot all children’s classics can survive Disney-style adaptation, and for those that can’t, there’s Japan’s Studio Ghibli. The handdrawn animations of Hayao Miyazaki and his team are slower and more meditative and introverted than the average American kids flick, but also harder to forget. In past years, Ghibli’s films have alternated between fantasies based on elements of Japanese folklore (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away) and adaptations of Englishlanguage books (Howl’s Moving Castle). The Secret World of Arrietty is based on Mary Norton’s 1952 novel The Borrowers, about a family of 4-inch-tall people who live clandestinely beneath the floorboards of a country house. What a cute premise, right? But anyone who read the Borrowers series as a child knows that, for all her croon-worthy descriptions of tiny household implements, Norton is more concerned with the many forces that menace mouse-size people with extermination. Young Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler), the heir to the Clock family, lives an existence almost as constrained as Anne Frank’s in the attic. So precarious is her hidden race’s survival that her stoic father, Pod (Will Arnett), and her hysteria-prone mother, Homily (Amy Poehler), are the only other Borrowers she’s known.

The Ghibli adaptation, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and cowritten by Miyazaki, appeals directly to kids’ fantasies about living in secret spaces authority figures can’t access (as did Martin Scorsese’s Hugo). The Borrowers’ home, full of repurposed human objects such as trompe l’oeil “windows” (actually postcards), is rendered in loving detail, as are the circuitous paths leading there from the danger zones of human habitation. The animators make the family’s lair a glowing, jade-green space almost as lush as the house’s garden; you may want to live there, but the film doesn’t gloss over the story’s darker aspects. Even human beings who seem friendly — like the young invalid Shawn (David Henrie), who spots and befriends Arrietty — could carelessly alert those who aren’t so sympathetic, like Hara (Carol Burnett), the irascible housekeeper who wants the Borrowers smoked out. For the Borrowers, every foray into the big world is tinged with danger, though the film tends to convey this with hints rather than fights and pursuits. For instance, after the impetuous Arrietty — who’s been eager to do her own first “borrowing” — joins her father on an expedition that goes poorly, father and daughter make a pact not to frighten Homily by telling her the truth. No words pass between them, but as they exchange

small wonder The heroine faces down a hungry house cat in this Japanese adaptation of Mary Norton’s novel.

glances, we see Arrietty growing into an adult role before our eyes. Such moments may be too subtle for some young viewers, who will notice that the film lacks extended action scenes, a malicious villain and a traditional climax. While various external threats pop up, the central conflict is an internal one between Arrietty’s brash will to persevere and Shawn’s resigned acceptance of his condition. In short, some kids will find the film slow. But anyone who loves miniatures and games of perspective will enjoy exploring its world, where leaves become umbrellas and a stickpin is a sword. (When Arrietty first lifts the

pin, clever sound design — clanks and echoes — indicates its heft.) Arrietty has an elegiac mood, like a more wan and sedate Toy Story; it celebrates the tiny phantoms that children’s imaginations invent, and acknowledges that they fade with time. Yet the underlying conflicts of such coming-of-age fantasies — eagerness to leave home versus fear of the wide world; hope and energy balanced against despair — don’t lose their relevance, no matter how big you get. m Mar g o t Harr i s on

moViE clipS Channel 15 Act oF VAloR: Real Navy SEALS participated in this action adventure about American forces engaged in covert antiterrorism missions, and the Navy reportedly had a final cut. With Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano. Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy directed. (111 min, R. Majestic, Palace, Paramount) GoNE: Amanda Seyfried plays a young woman convinced that her sister’s disappearance is the work of a serial killer from whom she herself escaped in this thriller from director Heitor Dahlia. With Jennifer Carpenter and Wes Bentley. (95 min, PG-13. Majestic, Palace) piNA: Director Wim (Wings of Desire) Wenders pays tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch with this acclaimed documentary featuring classic dance performance clips and interviews. (106 min, PG. Savoy) tYlER pERRY’S GooD DEEDS: This time around, writer-director Perry also plays the romantic lead in his dramedy, as a businessman who finds his life being transformed by a cleaning woman. With Gabrielle Union and Thandie Newton as the most model-esque cleaning lady in cinema. (111 min, PG-13. Essex) WANDERlUSt: A downsized Manhattan couple (Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd) happen on “an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things” in this comedy. Sounds like the standard Flatlanders-coming-to-Vermont story to us. With Justin Theroux and Malin Akerman. David (Role Models) Wain directed. (98 min, R. Majestic, Paramount)

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tHE iRoN lADYHHH Oscar alert! Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s only female prime minister, in this biopic from director Phyllida (Mamma Mia!) Lloyd. With Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher. (105 min, PG-13. Palace)

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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. Palace) 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. Big Picture)

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aries (March 21-april 19): i invite you to identify all the things in your life that you really don’t need any more: gadgets that have become outdated, clothes that no longer feel like you, once-exciting music and books and artworks that no longer mean what they once did. Don’t stop there. Pinpoint the people who have let you down, the places that lower your vitality and the activities that have become boring or artificial. Finally, aries, figure out the traditions that no longer move you, the behavior patterns that no longer serve you and the compulsive thoughts that have a freaky life of their own. got all that? Dump at least some of them. taurus (april 20-May 20): if you’re a woman, you could go to the perfume section of the department store and buy fragrances that would cause you to smell like Jennifer lopez, britney spears, eva longoria or Paris Hilton. if you’re a man, an hour from now you could be beaming an aroma that makes you resemble a celebrity like antonio banderas, Usher, David beckham or Keith Urban. you could even mix and match, wearing the eva longoria scent on your manly body or Usher on your female form. but i don’t recommend that you do any of the above. More than ever before you need to be yourself, your whole self and nothing but yourself. trying to act like or be like anyone else should be a taboo of the first degree.

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(June 21-July 22): When actor ashton Kutcher is working on the set of his tV show Two and a Half Men, he enjoys spacious digs. His trailer is two stories high and has two bathrooms as well as a full kitchen. seven 60-inch tVs are available for his viewing pleasure. as you embark on your journey to the far side of reality, Cancerian, it might

leo (July 23-aug. 22): Veterans of war who’ve been wounded by shrapnel often find that years later, some of the metal fragments eventually migrate to the surface and pop out of their skin. The moral of the story: The body may take a long time to purify itself of toxins. The same is true about your psyche. it might not be able to easily and quickly get rid of the poisons it has absorbed, but you should never give up hoping it will find a way. Judging by the astrological omens, i think you are very close to such a climactic cleansing and catharsis, leo. Virgo

(aug. 23-sept. 22): Distilled water is a poor conductor of electricity. For H2o to have electroconductivity, it must contain impurities in the form of dissolved salts. i see a timely lesson in this for you, Virgo. if you focus too hard on being utterly clean and clear, some of life’s rather chaotic but fertile and invigorating energy may not be able to flow through you. That’s why i suggest you experiment with being at least a little impure and imperfect. Don’t just tolerate the messiness. learn from it; thrive on it; even exult in it.

libra (sept. 23-oct. 22): according to my reading of the astrological omens, you are neither in a red-alert situation nor are you headed for one. a pink alert may be in effect, however. Thankfully, there’s no danger or emergency in the works. shouting and bolting and leaping won’t be necessary. rather, you may simply be called upon to come up with unexpected responses to unpredicted circumstances. Unscripted plot twists could prompt you to take actions you haven’t rehearsed. it actually might be kind of fun as long as you play with the perspective shakespeare articulated in As You Like It: “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” scorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): “Dear rob: For months i’ve had a recurring dream in which

freely.’ — scorpio Devotee.” Dear Devotee: you have provided all of your fellow scorpios with an excellent teaching story for the upcoming weeks. Thank you!

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Gawker.com notes that American politician John McCain tends to repeat himself — a lot. Researchers discovered that he has told the same joke at least 27 times in five years. (And it’s such a feeble joke, it’s not worth retelling.) In the coming week, Pisces, please please please avoid any behavior that resembles this repetitive, habit-bound laziness. You simply cannot afford to be imitating who you used to be and what you used to do. As much as possible, reinvent yourself from scratch — and have maximum fun doing it.

sagittarius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): For millions of years, black kite raptors made their nests with leaves, twigs, grass, mud, fur and feathers. in recent centuries they have also borrowed materials from humans, like cloth, string and paper. and in the last few decades, a new element has become quite popular. eighty-two percent of all black kite nest-builders now use white plastic as decoration. i suggest you take inspiration from these adaptable creatures, sagittarius. it’s an excellent time for you to add some wrinkles to the way you shape your home base. Departing from tradition could add significantly to your levels of domestic bliss. caPricorN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are many examples of highly accomplished people whose early education was problematic. Thomas edison’s first teacher called him “addled,” and thereafter he was homeschooled by his mother. Winston Churchill did so poorly in school he was punished. benjamin Franklin had just two years of formal education. as for einstein, he told his biographer, “My parents were worried because i started to talk comparatively late, and they consulted a doctor because of it.” What all these people had in common, however, is that they became brilliant at educating themselves according to their own specific needs and timetable. speaking of which: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you Capricorns to plot and design the contours of your future learning.

aQuarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): nigeria has i own a pet snake. Here’s the problem: The only cage i have to keep the snake in is sadly inadequate. it has widely spaced bars that the snake just slips right through. in the dream i am constantly struggling to keep the snake in its cage, which is exhausting, since it’s impossible. Just this morning, after having the dream for the billionth time, i Finally asked myself, what’s so terrible about letting the snake out of its cage? so i gratefully wrote myself this permission note: ‘it is hereby allowed and perfectly acceptable to let my dreamsnake out of its cage to wander

abundant deposits of petroleum. since 1974, oil companies have paid the country billions of dollars for the privilege of extracting its treasure. and yet the majority of nigerians, over 70 percent, live on less than a dollar a day. Where does the money go? That’s a long story, with the word “corruption” at its heart. now let me ask you, aquarius: is there a gap between the valuable things you have to offer and the rewards you receive for them? are you being properly compensated for your natural riches? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to address this issue.

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gemiNi (May 21-June 20): “i try to take one day at a time,” says ashleigh brilliant, “but sometimes several days attack me all at once.” i think you may soon be able to say words to that effect, gemini — and that’s a good thing. life will seem more concentrated and meaningful than usual. events will flow faster and your awareness will be extra intense. as a result, you should have exceptional power to unleash transformations that could create ripples lasting for months. Would you like each day to be the equivalent of nine days? or would four be enough for you?

be tempting for you to try to match that level of comfort. but what’s more important than material luxury will be psychological and spiritual aids that help keep you attuned to your deepest understandings about life. be sure you’re well stocked with influences that keep your imagination vital and upbeat. Favorite symbols? Uplifting books? Photos of mentors? Magic objects?

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When police pulled over Walter Upshaw, 32, for failing to come to a complete stop before entering a roadway in Orlando, Fla., Upshaw apologized to Officer Shawn Overfield and explained, “My gun is digging in my hip.” Overfield found the loaded .380-caliber pistol, which Upshaw, as a convicted felon on probation, is prohibited from carrying. (Orlando Sentinel) A gunman, identified as Mostafa Kamel Hendi, 25, demanded cash at the We Buy Gold store in Hendersonville, N.C., but when he stepped behind the counter to get the money, clerk Derek Mothershead knocked him unconscious with a left hook and grabbed the weapon, which turned out to be a pellet gun. Mothershead called the police and, when Hendi came to, handed him a roll of paper towels, sprayed the floor with cleaner and made him clean up his own blood. (Greenville, S.C.’s WYFF-TV)

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Police in Palm Bay, Fla., said Earl Persell, 56, attacked his live-in girlfriend during a heated argument over musical performers Ike and Tina Turner. (Melbourne’s Florida Today) Authorities charged Marvin Potter, 60, with murdering a couple in Mountain City, Tenn., because they deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook. (Associated Press)

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Oklahoma State Sen. Ralph Shortey introduced a bill that would prohibit the manufacture or sale of any food in which aborted fetuses were used to develop any of the ingredients. Shortey admitted that he knows of no company that uses human fetuses in food research but said he drafted his measure based on “suggestions” he read on the internet. (Associated Press) Protesting a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell attached an amendment requiring men to have a rectal exam before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication. The Republicancontrolled senate passed the mandatory ultrasound measure but rejected Howell’s amendment by a vote of 21 to 19. (Huffington Post)

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Accused of stabbing a bartender in LaCrosse, Wis., Anquin St. Junious, 32, later suffered a beating that hospitalized him. While St. Junious sat motionless in a wheelchair, his attorney asked Circuit Judge Scott Horne to release his client from jail because he can’t move his arms, can’t walk for more than 15 seconds and has a hole in his throat that is susceptible to infection if he remains in custody. Contradicting the claim was surveillance video showing St. Junious doing pushups in his jail cell. The judge refused to release St. Junious and promptly doubled his bond. (LaCrosse Tribune)

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After prison psychologist Laurie Ann Martinez, 36, reported that a stranger beat, robbed and raped her at home in Sacramento, Calif., police investigators spent hundreds of hours on the case before concluding that Martinez faked the crime. Authorities said she split her own lip with a pin, scraped her knuckles with sandpaper, had a friend punch her in the face and even wet her pants to make it appear that she’d been knocked unconscious. Martinez, her friend and two coworkers eventually admitted the whole episode was a setup aimed at convincing Martinez’s husband that the couple needed to move to a safer neighborhood. Instead, they filed for divorce six weeks after the incident. “If all you wanted to do is move,” police Sgt. Andrew Pettit said, “there’s other ways than staging a burglary and rape.” (Associated Press)

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Police who arrested Evelyn Marie Fuller, 49, for robbing a bank in Waynesburg, Pa., reported she confessed to the crime and “stated she wanted to use the money to pay for dentures she was unable to get through welfare until next year.” (Associated Press)

Police investigating a cross burning in the driveway of a mixed-race couple in Panama City, Fla., assumed it was a hate crime. Two days later, the wife, Donna Williams, who is white, said she found handwritten notes taped to the front and side doors, warning her “that I better not leave that nigger.” It was signed “KKK.” Wondering, “When did the KKK start supporting black and white interracial marriages,” she noticed the handwriting was similar to her husband’s. When police questioned LB Williams, 50, he admitted setting the fire and writing the note, hoping to frighten her so she wouldn’t divorce him. (Panama City’s News-Herald)

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Outdoor Gear X girl Outdoor Gear X, bottom level, ski department, cute girl with short hair: what’s your name? When: Saturday, February 18, 2012. Where: Outdoor Gear Exchange. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909958 Kitten Have you been into the catnip? Your affections come and go with every flick of your tail. You bat my heart around like a ball on a string, I’m all clawed up. I am fearful to be around you, but when I see you I just want to pick you up and pet your neck and rub your belly. When: Saturday, February 18, 2012. Where: Everywhere. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909956 Fun Sized Joanne Hannafords, North Ave. You: in scrubs with beautiful green eyes and dark curls. I helped you reach the rice chips on the top shelf, said you were short, and smiled from ear-to-ear. You told me the correct term was fun-sized. You are stunning and smart and if I enjoyed those three minutes of conversation, imagine what a dinner together could be. When: Friday, February 17, 2012. Where: North Ave NNE. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909955

standard poodles. I could listen to your South Boston accent all day and night. You certainly have the skin I want to touch, the hand I want to hold and the face I want to wake up to every morning. How about a date? How about forever? When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Where: Williamstown, VT. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909947

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instructing how to use juicers. I got flustered when you handed me a paper cup of “pulp” from the juicer. I think you’re very cute, plus I’ve been meaning to buy some crazy kitchen gadgets...maybe I could get a one-onone lesson? When: Sunday, February 12, 2012. Where: Williams-Sonoma in the Burlington Town Center. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909942 You’ve been i-spyed...be my valentine? Maybe we should push pause, grab the kids and head up to the coast of Maine (or Cook Islands). I’ll grab the 90+. Grab your green shorts and meet me on the golf course. When: Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Where: Ake’s Place. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909941 Joe the Architecht We met out back at the Three Needs under the full moon. I may have made a premature proposal. I really enjoyed the brief moment we spent chatting. Maybe we can do it again over drinks or coffee sometime? When: Monday, February 6, 2012. Where: Three Needs. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909940 Beauty in the green hat See you around often and every time want to say hi. Would love to at least know your name. You have an amazing smile. We caught each other’s eye at the drag ball. You had a cute green frog/maybe a lizard hat on, had a pink tongue sticking out and you were playing with the eyes. Seen you at the Block too. Would love to meet you. When: Saturday, February 11, 2012. Where: Winter is a drag ball. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909938

Missing my favorite Persian It’s odd that I said you think you’re better than everyone. Because you don’t. But I think you’re the BEST. Because you are. I’ll run millions of marathons and do ALL of the down dogs to try and keep up with you. Because you’re my favorite Persian and my best friend. I’m sorry buddy. When: Thursday, February 9, 2012. Where: Nectar’s. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909932

Cleaning Yogini with Broken Toe We were both locked out of the studio. You were going in to clean the room, I had forgotten my jacket. I never asked for your name, or how you broke your toe. Lets catch a class together sometime, then rehydrate afterward. When: Thursday, February 9, 2012. Where: Bikram Yoga, Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909931

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mistress maeve Dear Mistress,

I’ve been seeing my current boyfriend for over a year, and I’m incredibly happy. Here’s the thing: I’m much kinkier than I’ve let on, and I’m starting to become antsy for some spicier sex. I know he enjoys dirty talk and would love nothing more than to come home and see me in slinky lingerie (or just naked) waiting for him. The problem is that I’m too nervous to ever do something like that. I’ve never had this problem with any previous lovers but I never committed to any of my previous lovers, either. They were all flings, so I didn’t care and I just let loose. I’ve somehow convinced myself that he won’t know how to react to my kinky advances, or he’ll think I’m being silly. I feel like I’ve lost the fierce sexual prowess I once had (and really enjoyed having).

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Dear In a Rut,

In a Rut

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It’s time to kiss your internal Madonna-whore complex good-bye. You’ve bought into the Freudian psychological complex that women can be either saintly or slutty, never both — and it’s making you incredibly unhappy. You are worried that if you reveal your kinky side, your boyfriend will reject you as long-term-relationship material because you’re more “whore” than “Madonna,” even though you say he enjoys dirty talk and lingerie. As I see it, you’re the only one getting in the way of what you want. You don’t have to surprise him with crotchless panties and a sex swing all at once — start with a conversation. In an intimate moment, tell him that you’ve been fantasizing about wearing something sexy for him and showing him how naughty you can be. See how he reacts. I’m willing to bet that he’ll be all for it — but if he’s not, perhaps it’s time to trade him in for a kinkier model.

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DOMINIC BARONE Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the Meat Buyer and Lead Meat Cutter in a very special meat department: we utilize whole locally raised Vermont animals. I grew up in Saint George, VT, and started working at Healthy Living in November of 2009. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve fallen in love with the butcher business and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine a better job for myself. Between the people I work with and the tasks that are part of my job, I get out of bed psyched for work every day. Outside of work my first passion is cooking and exploring new foods and flavors. At work, one of my favorite products to work with is our linecaught halibut. Line-caught fishing has minimal environmental impact, using hooks on a line rather than huge trawling nets weighted with chains that tear up miles of seabed. Our halibut comes to us absolutely freshâ&#x20AC;Ś Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of MY favorite ways to use it!

DOMINICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SIGNATURE FISH TACOS WITH â&#x20AC;&#x153;NAUGHTY SALSAâ&#x20AC;? FOR THE FISH 1 lb halibut filet Juice of 1/4 lime Kosher salt & fresh cracked black pepper Vegetable oil Season the fish well on both sides. Heat a heavy bottomed sautĂŠ pan over high heat and add the oil. Place the fish into the hot oil and cook for 2-3 minutes or until the fish is cooked half of the way through. Flip the fish gently with a spatula, squeeze the lime over the top and gently cook the fish the rest of the way through.

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lb bay scallops ripe mango cut into 1/2 inch cubes ripe avocados cut into 1/2 inch cubes jalapeĂąo diced (seeds removed for less heat) Cilantro Juice of two lemons 2 Tbsp olive oil Kosher salt & fresh cracked black pepper

In a mixing bowl, combine the scallops, mango, avocado, jalapeĂąo and cilantro and mix. Add half the lemon juice and mix. You

will see the proteins of the scallops turn from pink to white; if after 2 minutes not all scallops are white add more lemon juice. Add the olive oil and season the mixture to taste with salt and pepper. TO FINISH THE TACOS 8-10 corn tortillas Siracha (optional) Heat tortillas in the oven or on your grill. Fill each one with some of the cooked halibut and a scoop of naughty salsa! Top with a drizzle of Siracha for a kick! Enjoyâ&#x20AC;Ś

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