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Kurt Wright is a Republican, but he doesn’t like to mention it in Burlington [“Wright’s Record: How Burlington’s Favorite Republican Votes in Montpelier,” February 22]. Here in Burlington, Kurt is a Republican undercover. And he’s a politician through and through, perhaps even a career politician. As Paul Heintz’s informative article reveals, Wright votes the Republican party line with occasional exceptions that can generally be explained in a single word: politics. Though the Wright campaign attempts to brand their candidate
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thought that came to my mind was the family who lost their 7-year-old girl from a fatal flu shot reaction just this past December. They were one of three families that lost their child to vaccination reactions in 2011 in Vermont, with countless others dealing with injuries of many kinds. Messages like this are inconsiderate and mock the deep pain these families are going through. They don’t need it rubbed in. I ask that there be more consciousness of the messages being expressed in Seven Days. Saveria Boyer
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What Would It Take to Develop BTV’s Waterfront Rail Yard?
REVIEWS
Progressive Council Candidates Fight to Defend Their Turf
Justin Levinson and the Valcours, This Side of Me, This Side of You; Tim Berry, More Songs About Devils & Dreams “Environment and Object: Recent African Art”
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No Tiff on TIF — Kiss, Community Leaders Say It’s a Win-Win for Downtown Burlington
A Separation; Wanderlust
26 Battle for Burlington Politics: Who will lead the
ARTS NEWS
28 A Former Mayor’s New Direction Politics: Peter Clavelle
20 Full Press
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BY AMY LILLY
On the public uses and abuses of emotion BY JUDITH LEVINE
25 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot We just had to ask… BY KEN PICARD
37 Side Dishes Food news
Short Takes on Film
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Vermont Painters Take New York in Simultaneous Exhibits
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79 Mistress Maeve BY MISTRESS MAEVE
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34 The Descendants
Book review: Washed in the Blood by Lisa Alther
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The New Frontier Loaded with era-specific slang and obscure pop-culture references, Eric Overmyer’s On the Verge; or the Geography of yearning takes audiences on a surreal safari through the space-time continuum. Presented by the SUNY Plattsburgh Department of Theatre, the colorful adventure story follows three steadfast female explorers as they unwittingly time travel from the Victorian era through the 1950s.
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Whether he’s playing Bach at a dive bar or Led Zeppelin with a classical band, Matt Haimovitz is trailblazing the music scene with what NPR calls his “wayward cello.” Equally at home in punk-rock clubs and among symphony orchestras, the adventurous artist hits the brakes for a solo concert with the UVM Lane Series.
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Bead catchers and throwers alike all float on OK at the 17th annual Magic Hat Mardi Gras Parade in Burlington this Saturday. Arrive early for a prime spot on the Main Street sidelines, catching lively tunes and circus acts before the big hurrah: 32 outlandish floats, including one manned by the crew at Seven Days, heading toward the waterfront. Baubles and beer koozies are comin’ atcha.
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According to his Facebook profile, this is Kris Shaw’s favorite quotation: “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” Maybe that’s why he does standup for a living. Whatever the reason, the comedian delivers his unique brand of dreadlocked deadpan at the Monkey House on Friday, where topics may range from the misadventures of MapQuest to low-rider jeans.
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The late Pina Bausch made her mark with wildly theatrical choreography; once, she even had the stage buried in soil. Wim Winders’ Pina relocates her Tanztheater Wuppertal ensemble to cliff tops, rivers and bustling streets in a thrilling 3-D masterpiece that, at a special Majestic 10 screening, supports Vermont choreographer Hannah Dennison’s own homage to the legendary German dancer: Dear Pina, to be performed at Shelburne Farms in June.
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In expressive wall hangings, found-object sculpture and searing photography, artists react to urban, natural and economic conditions in contemporary Africa in “Environment and Object: Recent African Art,” at the Middlebury College Museum of Art through April 22. The media may be varied, but one thing’s for sure: “All decisively reject romanticized perceptions of Africa,” notes co-curator Lisa Aronsen.
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What Is Bruce Lisman Up To?
ou can hardly turn on local radio these days without hearing one of those ads from Campaign for Vermont, the supposedly apolitical “policy campaign” launched by Shelburne resident and exWall Street bigwig BRUCE LISMAN. Campaign for Vermont, which calls itself a nonpartisan coalition advocating for a more prosperous state, has been saturating local radio stations with ads — usually narrated by Lisman — that advocate holding the line on property taxes and criticize Gov. PETER SHUMLIN’s plans for establishing a statewide, universal health care program. Now one of those ads is the subject of a complaint alleging violations of Vermont’s election laws. Last week, the Vermont Democratic Party asked Attorney General WILLIAM SORRELL, a Democrat, to investigate a Campaign for Vermont ad that criticized Shumlin’s position on education funding. Democratic Party chairman JAKE PERKINSON claims the ad — with a voiceover from state Rep. OLIVER OLSEN (R-Jamaica) — was a “clear attempt to influence the outcome” of the 2012 governor’s race and crossed the line from issue advocacy into electioneering. If Sorrell agrees, Campaign for Vermont would be in violation of state campaignfinance laws that prohibit spending more than $500 on political advertising without registering as a political action committee. Perkinson admits to not knowing how much Campaign for Vermont has actually spent on advertising; as a registered 501(c)4 nonprofit, the group can raise and spend unlimited sums without having to identify or itemize its funding sources. One of Campaign for Vermont’s core messages is about government transparency — how there’s not enough of it. In a brief phone interview last week, Lisman said the campaign believes the government should offer “remarkable transparency on how the money is spent and where it’s spent.” But when it comes to Campaign for Vermont’s own finances, Lisman is only willing to divulge so much. Established last fall, the group hasn’t yet had to file a 990 tax form reporting the totals it has raised and spent. Lisman told Fair Game that he is the sole contributor to the campaign, but he wouldn’t discuss how much money he’s
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put into it or how much has been spent. Asked if he would make that information public, Lisman replied, “I’m not sure yet. Eventually. We believe in transparency, so, eventually, sure.” In the meantime, one of the only glimpses into the scope of Lisman’s activities comes from the “public files” at local radio stations where Campaign for Vermont has been running issue ads continuously since December. All together, the campaign has spent at least $41,790 on radio ads since December — and that’s just at the stations we know about.
CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT HAS SPENT AT LEAST $41,790 ON RADIO ADS SINCE DECEMBER.
At talk station WVMT-AM 620 in Colchester — which carries right-wing talkers DENNIS MILLER, RUSH LIMBAUGH and LAURA INGRAHAM — general manager PAUL GOLDMAN says Campaign for Vermont has become one of the station’s biggest advertisers. The campaign has paid $14,760 to run ads up to 10 times daily over the past three months, he says. At the Radio Vermont Group in Waterbury — which owns WDEV-FM 96.1 and WDEV-AM 550 — Lisman’s group has spent $12,240 to air its ads once an hour between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. virtually every day since November 28. That’s comparable to a major commercial advertiser, says ERIC MICHAELS, the station’s vice president and general manager. It’s not uncommon for advocacy groups to buy up huge blocks of airtime in the days or weeks ahead of a controversial vote, such as same-sex marriage
or Vermont Yankee, Michaels says. What’s different about Campaign for Vermont, he says, is how sustained it is, stretching uninterrupted over a period of months. Campaign for Vermont is also airing on three stations in Barre owned by the Nassau Broadcasting Partners — Frank 107.1 FM, Froggy 100.9 FM and WSNO News Talk 1450 AM — where it has bought $14,790 worth of advertising in the past five weeks, according to general manager JOHN GALES. So, is Bruce Lisman the Vermont version of Newt Gingrich’s sugar daddy SHELDON ADELSON, a wealthy businessman seeking to influence the political process with his personal fortune? Vermont Democrats might like you to think so. Talking to reporters at a statehouse press conference last week, Perkinson prefaced his remarks by saying “our Democracy is being assaulted by the influx of gross amounts of money from corporations, private organizations and individuals.” What Dems may really worry about is Lisman putting his bank account behind a run for office. Called a “business icon” by Vermont Business Magazine, Lisman retired as chairman of JP Morgan’s global equity division in February 2009, after a 24-year career on Wall Street at Bear Stearns. No matter how many times he insists he’s not running, some Vermont politicos remain convinced that Lisman is using Campaign for Vermont as a launching pad to run for governor, Congress or Senate in the fall election. At the Democrats’ press conference, Vermont Public Radio reporter JOHN DILLON asked Perkinson what he makes of Campaign for Vermont — and whether he thinks it’s a “stalking horse” for a political campaign. “I don’t know what else it could be, but I have no personal knowledge about what the intentions of Campaign for Vermont are,” Perkinson answered. “But in my political experience, I find it hard to believe that it’s anything other than, as you say, a stalking horse, or perhaps the preliminary entree of a particular candidate to run for some office in Vermont.” Perkinson isn’t the only one wondering what Lisman is up to — or checking up on his activities. Goldman says someone called WVMT-AM on behalf of the Shumlin campaign two weeks ago, seeking the same information Fair Game did
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about Campaign for Vermont’s ad buys. “They were ascertaining if this was political, and I had to give them the information of the expenditures and that sort of stuff,” Goldman says. “My answer to them was, ‘I hope you match.’” Meaning: He hopes the Shumlin campaign spends at least as much. Shumlin is expected to run for a second term, but hasn’t formally announced his plans yet. Lisman, a native Vermonter who grew up in Burlington, insists his group isn’t political — it doesn’t plan to endorse candidates — and is focused on uniting Vermonters around common solutions. Lisman believes the campaign’s ads are on safe legal ground but says, “If we made a mistake, we’ll fix it.” Responding to the Democrats’ complaint, Lisman says, “Maybe they don’t like the idea that we’re offering up alternative ideas, but also poking holes in their ideas. They don’t like the idea of Campaign for Vermont opening up the hood and finding a bunch of lemons.” If Lisman is really not running for office, then what is he up to? Here’s a theory: He wants to be a player and has figured out a way to buy his way into the conversation. It remains to be seen whether Campaign for Vermont will translate its substantial investment in paid media into an actual peoplepowered, grassroots campaign that can move policy in Montpelier, or continue to be a political vanity project for its founder and benefactor.
Coincidentally, state Sen. hinDa (D-Chittenden) confirmed to the Vermont Press Bureau last week that she will not seek reelection this year, leaving an open seat in Chittenden County. Could Zuckerman step up to run this year? Anything’s possible. But we wouldn’t bet the farm on it.
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No wonder the Burlington Free Press needs an online paywall. With retired Gannett CEO craig DuboW due to collect a $5.9 million cash payment in April — part of a $37.1 million golden parachute, er, retirement package — the paper’s parent company is in need of some serious cash. Eighty Gannett papers are set to go behind a paywall by the end of the year, the company announced last week. Locally, Freeps publisher Jim Fogler wrote about the change in a front-page article last week. Starting in June, Vermont’s largest newspaper will offer five to 15 articles a month online at no charge. After that, readers will need a subscription. In a money saving move, Fogler also revealed that the Free Press is ditching its broadsheet format and going to a “tall” tabloid size of 15 inches high and 11 inches wide. Like the British tabloids News of the World and the Sun, but without the phone-hacking scandals. And with “Vermont Beauty” nature photos in place of half-naked celebrity beauties. The new print Freeps will have color on every page and focus on “in-depth narrative reporting,” Fogler said. Hmm. A Burlington tabloid with color on every page that specializes in in-depth narrative reporting. Why does that sound so familiar? Behind the switch is a $2.4 million rebuild of the daily’s printing press. Meanwhile, as reported by Seven Days staff writer Paul heintZ last week, Free Press employees are again being forced to take weeklong, unpaid furloughs, as they did last year. On the upside, though, Gannett has purchased iPhones for 18 Free Press staff reporters. Which is nice. Because nothing passes the time on unpaid days off like a few games of “Angry Birds.” m
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Spotted at the statehouse last week: former Burlington lawmaker DaviD Zuckerman, yukking it up with state rep and Burlington mayoral hopeful kurt Wright outside the governor’s ceremonial office. Zuckerman, who retired in 2010 to focus full time on his organic farm in Hinesburg, said he was returning home after delivering a load of meat to Windsor County and figured he’d swing by his old haunt. While chatting, he confessed he’s considering a return to public life. The ponytailed Progressive said he might run for lieutenant governor or state Senate. If he did, Zuckerman says he would pursue a “fusion” candidacy cross-endorsed by Democrats and Progressives. But unlike state Sen. tim ashe, who wears a “D/P” label, Zuckerman says he’d run as a “P/D” to reflect his core loyalty to the Progs.
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What Would It Take to Develop BTV’s Waterfront Rail Yard?
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ermont Rail System occupies prime real estate in downtown Burlington. The commercial freight yard is perched on Lake Champlain’s edge, with a commanding view of the waterfront and the Adirondacks. It’s also just due west of Burlington’s vibrant Pine Street corridor. Killer location. A view to die for. Proximity to a growing economic powerhouse. Those are the factors motivating politicians, city officials and some neighboring business owners to turn up the heat on a long-simmering conversation in Burlington planning: Can and should the city pursue the costly and complicated relocation of its waterfront rail yard? Absolutely, say some, such as Burlington attorney and longtime waterfront activist Rick Sharp. “It’s a big piece of wasted space at this point,” he says. Not so fast, argue representatives of VRS. The company operates its second busiest rail yard in the state at the Burlington location. Every day, multiple trains — carrying freight such as road salt, heating fuel and construction materials — lumber into the yard amid the dull roar of engines and heavy machinery. As the northern terminus for the rail system, which operates 350 miles of track, the waterfront is an important hub for freight in Chittenden County and areas north. But, when asked if the 9-acre rail yard, sited on land leased from the state, could ever relocate, VRS president David Wilson concedes a maybe. “Anything can be done with money,” he says. “I have no problem with relocating from this waterfront; however, I need another location to do our business that is not going to upset my customers. That’s what it boils down to.” Wilson could envision a partial relocation: keeping some of the rail yard’s services in the vicinity and moving the switchyard elsewhere. “There’s been talk of baseball stadiums, restaurants, hotels,” he says. “That’s all fine, and that’s all stuff that’s going to generate revenue, but somebody needs to figure out what to do with us.” Wilson’s implication is that a relocation plan isn’t going to come from the rail yard itself.
It may not need to: The area has already been the focus of a handful of studies, most recently a 2010 analysis by the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission called the Waterfront South Access Project. That particular study focused on improving transportation links to the area. More to the point, another CCRPC study in 2000 examined the possibility of relocating the yards, investigating potential locations in Williston, Shelburne, the airport industrial park and elsewhere. Cost estimates at that time ranged from $37 to $51 million. In the past year, the rail yard cropped up in Plan BTV discussions, though Burlington city comprehensive planner Sandrine Thibault says it is too soon to say how that land might be re-envisioned. During Plan BTV design sessions this winter, residents suggested the rail yard might be used for a small-business
incubator space or a bus hub. Others raised concerns — as yet unanswered — about whether the property would be classified as a brownfield, meaning developed, polluted and abandoned, and need cleaning up prior to redevelopment. Some riffed on the success of the Pine Street corridor to propose construction of more “work/live” residential units. “There’s certainly great potential for that sort of development there,” says Thibault, though it’s too early to know what the city will prioritize. And, once priorities are in place, any plans are contingent on the rail yard. “It’s really all depending on Would the rail yard actually relocate?” says Thibault. “If they do, great; it opens up that land and those opportunities. If they don’t, there’s not much that can be done.” Another factor might complicate future development: Neighboring property owners such as Adams Real
Properties, which owns the Independent Block on South Champlain Street (housing, among other things, Seven Days), say that the rail yard’s vicinity is a maze of property lines, fuzzy easements and unclear leases. Neighbors aren’t entirely sure where the railroad’s property ends and city property begins. This leaves some Burlingtonians focusing on what are widely considered more attainable waterfront goals. Among them is Sharp, who was one of the leading activists blocking private development in favor of the Waterfront Park in the 1980s. He did so using the argument that this section of the waterfront was subject to the public trust doctrine, meaning the government had an obligation to preserve the space for public use. Condos on the lake’s edge were out, and the park was in. Now, Sharp would like to see the city redevelop land occupied by a large
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industrial building south of the ECHO with trespassing. Several of the tanks Lake Aquarium and Science Center that that hold calcium chloride — which services the Lake Champlain ferry. He Vermont maintenance crews use in the believes that also falls under the public summer to control dust on dirt roads — trust doctrine. are covered with graffiti. Come warmer That’s a similar priority to the weather, though, the tanks will get a one espoused by candidates in the fresh coat of paint. mayoral race. Democratic candidate On a typical Monday morning, the Miro Weinberger and Republican Kurt yard is bustling. Michaels, a slight Wright have both spoken of building a woman, picks her way across the top-notch marina. Weinberger imagines railroad tracks in high-heeled boots. expanding the boardwalk and public She has tagged along with Perry Martel, space, adding shops and building boat who oversees freight, claims and audits slips — the kind of amenities, he says, for the yard, for a quick tour. that would add up to a bustling marina They pass the tankers parked near the and a four-season waterfront. southern end of Battery Street, which Weinberger has also, in his economic- carried clay slurry from Georgia to development Vermont by rail. The plan, proposed clay will proceed by investigating the truck to the Sheldonrelocation of the rail based RockTenn yards — but he says, company, a producer hedging, that this is of packaging and chip a much longer-term board. prospect. A few tracks over, “You’ve got a long rows of black use there that’s tankers cart heating not just going to oil, kerosene and two disappear overnight,” kinds of diesel into Weinberger says. the yard. There’s a “You’ve got to make cavernous — and a pretty significant slightly dilapidatedDAVID WIlSoN, investment. It’s not looking — shed VE rmoN t rAIl SYStEm clear that in this era containing a small of limited financial mountain of road resources [that’s going to happen].” salt. At the southern end of the yard, As for Sharp, he says that, to his an operator maneuvers train cars knowledge, the rail yard isn’t subject through the switchyard, compiling the to the public trust doctrine, and southbound contingent of cars destined development at the location wouldn’t for Middlebury later in the afternoon. block any existing views. That suggests Martel points out the swath of land to him that the location might be perfect between the tracks where, in the wake for residential or hotel construction. of Tropical Storm Irene, VRS loaded Setting aside the long-term vision of 130,000 tons of rock onto cars sent hotels or condos, some business owners south to help rebuild Route 107. in the area are left wondering about After this rapid-fire tour of the the aesthetic blemish that the rail yard operation, Michaels says, “There’s a lot leaves on its neighborhood. of infrastructure here. When people talk Nigel Mucklow is the co-owner of about wanting to relocate the rail yard, New England Floor Covering and, with well, it’s not an easy thing to move.” Brian Shea, of a four-building complex Even proponents of relocating or at the dead end of South Champlain. redeveloping the yard are quick to note Though the complex’s primary entrance that it serves an important purpose. But faces Pine Street, Mucklow complains Mucklow wonders if there is a solution that the western side of the place doesn’t that would preserve the freight industry show well to prospective tenants. It’s while at the same time improving a hop, skip and a jump from the rail downtown Burlington. yard, and that end of South Champlain “Just take major cities anywhere Street, Mucklow says, is a mess — “like in the world,” Mucklow says. He cites some third-world country,” he suggests, Chicago and Toronto. Closer to home: comparing it to Bhopal, India. The yard Plattsburgh, which in 2009 opened is home to piles of rocks and rusted parts, a waterfront park after undertaking and Mucklow says the rail yard attracts a major effort to relocate its own shifty trespassers. At the very least, he waterfront rail yard. would like to see the site cleaned up. “All those railroad yards have been Down in the yards, VRS CFO Mary moved … outside of town,” Mucklow Anne Michaels admits there’s a problem says. “That land becomes valuable.” m
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Elijah Bergman, Gene’s son and the vice chair of the Burlington Progressive Party, says his party’s decision not to field a mayoral candidate has enabled it to focus its voter turnout machine on the two Old North End contests. The Progs don’t have much money, but they’re running data-driven campaigns in both wards, a skill the younger Bergman says he picked up while working for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Paul Hodes in New Hampshire two years ago. For their part, Burlington Dems appear just as determined to sweep to victory in the Old North End. Smelling an opportunity to polish off
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Weinberger denies that’s the reason for his neutrality; he notes he’s steering clear of all council races to concentrate solely on his own election prospects. Two independents viewed as longshots are also running in Ward 3: Franco Salese IV, the alpine ski coach at Burlington High School, and Ron Ruloff, who says he lives in a truck. On the issues, the candidates aren’t far apart. In both wards, the Dem and Prog hopefuls all support a school tax increase that amounts to 9.1 percent. The candidates are trying to reassure Old North End homeowners that they won’t feel the financial pinch because many
departments of city government. Rather than being picked by city councilors in accordance with party affiliation, Siegel says that each of the city’s seven neighborhood planning assemblies should choose one member of each commission to ensure “direct accountability to neighbors.” Another shared theme for Progs and Dems in this election? A stated desire to end the political bickering that has defined their relationship for years. At a candidates’ forum earlier this month, Elijah Bergman read a statement on behalf of Tracy, who was not there, that said, “We cannot continue the highly partisan behavior that has
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urlington Progressives aren’t running a candidate for mayor this year, instead betting everything on protecting and recapturing ground in a former stronghold: the city’s Old North End. Queen City Progressives have occupied the mayor’s office for 29 of the past 31 years, but opted to sit this election out. Voter anger over the Burlington Telecom scandal has caused their man in city hall — Prog Mayor Bob Kiss — to avoid a reelection fight he almost certainly would have lost. Defeats in two Old North End city council races — in Wards 2 and 3 — on
March 6 would leave Progressives with Vince Brennan (P-3) as their sole representative on a 14-member council that was once half theirs. For 30 consecutive years, Progressives or their allies have held the other Ward 3 council seat — the one that’s up for grabs on Tuesday. It’s being vacated by Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, who is moving to Winooski. Rachel Siegel, 41, is running as the Progs’ designated heir, describing herself as a women’s rights and antiracism activist. The open Ward 2 council seat has been occupied by Democrat Dave Berezniak for the past four years. He’s not seeking another term, however, and Progressive candidate Max Tracy, a 25-year-old University of Vermont admissions counselor and union organizer, is working to unite the neighborhood’s mix of student and immigrant renters and workingclass homeowners behind his campaign. In 2010, Tracy came within 15 votes of winning the council race in a ward that spawned Prog patriarchs Terry Bouricius and Gene Bergman.
the Progs, they’ve nominated a pair of articulate candidates: Sean Hurley, a 28-year-old software entrepreneur, to run against Siegel in Ward 3; and Phil Hammerslough, a 68-year-old cycling advocate and employment training specialist for visually impaired Vermonters, who’s in a race against Tracy in Ward 2. The Dems’ determination fails to obscure some political disarray. Hammerslough was a late entry into the Ward 2 race after the party’s original candidate had to withdraw because his job was federally funded; the Hatch Act prevents anyone in such circumstances from running for office. In addition, state Sen. Tim Ashe, who ran unsuccessfully as a ProgressiveDemocrat fusion candidate for mayor, is backing the Progressive candidates in both wards. Tellingly too, Democratic mayoral candidate Miro Weinberger hasn’t endorsed either of his party’s candidates in the Old North End — perhaps because he doesn’t want to alienate two potential Prog city councilors.
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of them are eligible for state-financed school tax breaks. “All of us overwhelmingly want the same things for Ward 3,” Democrat Hurley says in an interview at Nunyuns Bakery & Café on North Champlain Street. “We want people to feel safe in the neighborhood and to have good schools and ample affordable housing.” Siegel sounds the same chord of harmony. “Sean and I share a lot of values,” she says over coffee at Muddy Waters. “We see eye to eye on many issues.” Siegel is campaigning partly on an idea that may seem obscure yet might be the most achievable of any tossed out in the two races. She wants to change the appointment process for city commissions — the citizen panels that oversee the
marked the city council in recent years.” Striking a similar tone, Hurley suggested he didn’t agree with all of the positions taken by outgoing Councilor Mulvaney-Stanak, but declined to offer specifics. And Salese, scion of the Junior’s Pizza business, presents himself as an independent everyone can support, saying his platform is “a blend of the three major parties.’” So how do the respective candidates try to differentiate themselves? By subtly highlighting distinctions in style and substance. Hurley, for example, says he’ll be a “tireless advocate” for Ward 3 constituents. He also depicts himself as the prospective councilor best able to represent the ward in “a period of change
Got A NEWS tIP? news@sevendaysvt.com at city hall.” Translation: The unmarried Hurley could devote himself to council duties more unstintingly than Siegel, who has two children, ages 5 and 8, and two part-time jobs. She also serves as a volunteer for several socialchange groups. Asked to respond to Hurley’s implied criticisms, Siegel says her two gigs — as a dance teacher at the YMCA and as a patient-care instructor at UVM’s College of Medicine — consume a combined average of 10 hours per week. In a jab at Hurley, she adds, “I’d think someone running a new company might have to work 80 hours a week” — a reference to Hearforward, the social media software firm her opponent launched in 2010. Siegel, who has lived in Burlington since age 3, also cites her “longevity in the ward” as an important asset. Hurley moved to Burlington three years ago.
Hammerslough also raises the possibility that Tracy, like previous Ward 2 councilor Jane Knodell, may have to recuse himself from votes concerning UVM that can be particularly important in a neighborhood with a high concentration of students. (Knodell, now the university’s provost, was an economics professor at UVM while she served on the city council.) Interviewed at New Moon Café on Cherry Street, Tracy calls the spectre of recusal “an unfair myth and a scare tactic put out by the Democrats.” He says he’s been assured by Gene Bergman, an assistant city attorney, that his work in the UVM admissions office won’t require him to refrain from voting on university-related issues. Tracy further comments, “I haven’t heard many specifics from Phil on affordable housing, immigrants, children’s programs, and low- and moderate-income issues.”
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To what extent Progressives will be weighed down by the Bob Kiss albatross is still unknown. Siegel and Tracy both acknowledge hearing complaints from some voters about their membership in the mayor’s party. “The Progressives’ legacy has been tarnished,” Tracy acknowledges. “But it’s a very strong legacy in many ways, and I’m not ashamed to be a Progressive.” Siegel adds, “The Progressives have done some amazing things for Burlington.” As she knocks on Ward 3 doors, Siegel finds that “some people are outright hostile to me as a representative of Kiss. My hope, though, is that voters are sophisticated enough to know I’m not him.” If she and Tracy do win, there’ll be a trio of Progs on the Burlington City Council — not enough to drive the agenda, but enough for what has been America’s most successful third party to at least remain a player in the city of its birth. m
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In the Ward 2 race, Tracy says he’ll be able to “stand up to the bullies” on the city council, while Hammerslough describes himself as a candidate who’s “not dogmatic” and thus “good at working with a variety of people.” Tracy translation: Some of the Dems, who may soon constitute a council majority, act arrogantly toward those with views different than their own. Decoding Hammerslough: The Progs can be insufferably politically correct; plus, a 68-year-old has more wisdom than a 25-year-old. So far, the Ward 2 rivals have thrown more punches at each other than have their Ward 3 counterparts. “We need to clean house. We need new leadership,” Hammerslough declares during a breakfast conversation at Panadero Bakery on North Winooski Avenue. (Hammerslough does disclose, however, that he ran with Progressive backing for a state legislature seat from Essex Junction in the mid-’90s.)
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hen developer Melinda Moulton and her business partner, Lisa Steele, started their work in the early 1980s, the Burlington waterfront was, as Moulton put it, “an oasis of neglect:” abandoned buildings, barbed wire, rusting fuel tanks and a filthy electric plant that would soon be mothballed. Access to the lake was “limited at best,” and no parents would let their kids play down there. Today, Moulton is CEO of Main Street Landing. The 250,000 squarefoot waterfront development includes a performing arts center, five art galleries, a health club, day-care center, two restaurants, bike and pedestrian amenities, and new parkland. Main Street Landing contributes about $8 million annually in property taxes and other city revenues. None of that private development would have occurred, Moulton insisted, were it not for the creation of a tax increment financing (TIF) district to redevelop Burlington’s waterfront. A unique financial tool, the TIF enabled the city to clean up the area and build such major public improvements as the bike path, boathouse, fishing pier and sewage treatment plant. On Friday, Moulton was one of several community and business leaders who joined Mayor Bob Kiss to encourage Burlingtonians to vote “yes” on the creation of a new TIF for downtown. This one would allow the city to borrow up to $10 million for public infrastructure improvements, encouraging private investments in areas where they wouldn’t otherwise occur. Kiss, who is not running for reelection, held his press conference against the backdrop of one of the biggest eyesores in downtown: the crumbling parking lot adjacent to the now-defunct Midtown Motel, best known for its sexual trysts, drug deals and brief stays for people down on their luck. For years, city officials and developers have talked about redeveloping this so-called “super block,” often characterized as the gateway into downtown. But private investors have been wary
of building there, in large part because of the massive investment needed to clean up the site and add public amenities such as new parking, water and sewer lines, and public transportation infrastructure. “It’s time, really, to stop talking … and actually do them,” said Tom Torti, president of the Lake Champlain Regional
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Chamber of Commerce. “Let’s put our money where our values are and start moving forward with this project.” A TIF allows a municipality to borrow money on the promise of future tax revenues. For a limited time, the state forgoes its share of the property taxes collected on new developments in the TIF district — retail shops, office spaces, condominiums, etc. — so the city can use the money to pay down the debt incurred from building those improvements. Once it’s paid off, property taxes are split between the city’s general fund and the state’s education fund. As a financing tool, the TIF enables large-scale investment in future development. In the 1990s, the waterfront TIF grew the grand list from about $43 million to $123 million. Kiss noted that a “yes” vote on ballot item 5 doesn’t incur any debt for the city, nor does it raise anyone’s taxes. The TIF simply allows the city to participate in the financial program — its last chance for the foreseeable future, unless the legislature changes the law. Any potential projects would still have to be vetted by
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the Vermont Economic Progress Council and approved by Burlington voters and/or their city council. Are TIFs controversial? Sometimes. In January, State Auditor Tom Salmon announced that an audit had revealed problems with a Milton TIF created back in 1998. Salmon determined that its administration was “flawed,” which resulted in a back tax bill of $3 million. It’s unclear whether Milton will have to pay the money back. City Council President Bill Keogh noted there was “some difference” of opinion between city council and the mayor on the timing of the proposed Burlington TIF; some thought it would be prudent to wait for the results of an audit currently under way on the
city’s last TIF. Nevertheless, Keogh said he knows of no councilors who oppose this TIF, nor any organized opposition from residents. Keogh has also asked Salmon for an expedited ruling on the pending audit; the results are unlikely to arrive before next week’s election. Nearly everyone who spoke at the press conference emphasized that the TIF would enable the city to grow its tax base and avoid driving development into Vermont’s countryside. Yves Bradley, a commercial real estate agent who also serves on the Burlington Planning Commission, noted that the TIF is a nonpartisan issue that encourages smart growth. He said the system in place makes it much easier to build on undeveloped land than to take an urban “embarrassment” like the Midtown Motel and say, “‘OK, what are we going to do with this?’” TIF support didn’t just come from business leaders and politicians, but also lowincome and affordable-housing advocates. Charlie Giannoni, a low-income Burlington resident and member of Ward 2 and 3 neighborhood planning assemblies, said he “strongly supports” this vote as a way to encourage more affordable housing downtown. As he put it, “I’d rather see these development dollars used for this purpose than coming out of the regular pot of money from taxpayers.” If voters shoot down the TIF next Tuesday, it won’t be as a result of any organized opposition, but because of one of two reasons: either they don’t understand how it works, or they assume that anything that pairs Mayor Kiss and “debt” is a bad idea.
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here’s still a week to go in the Burlington mayoral race, and Democrat Miro Weinberger has already broken all previous fundraising records. Since the start of the campaign last September, Weinberger has raised more than $118,000 and spent just shy of $100,000. That blows away the previous fundraising record set in 2006 when Democratic nominee Hinda Miller raised $60,000 in her unsuccessful race for mayor. Nearly half of Weinberger’s expenditures were doled out during a heated, fourway race for the Democratic nomination last fall. In the general election, he has spent just more than $51,000. That figure is closer to the $40,000 his Republican rival, Kurt Wright, has spent, out of $48,000 raised. Wright did not face a primary opponent. Wanda Hines, an independent, raised just $2260 and spent $767.
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own in works she calls “provisional icons for the contemporary world.” Weaver’s drawings are deceptively simple, but the lines are confident and expressive. With minimal marks, she renders facial features, hair, breasts; she ignores the limitations of human anatomy, the relative sizes of body parts. Yet her stylized figures convey movement and attitude, even sensuality. In a drawing of a nude female, for example, the figure’s body leans forward at a right angle to her extended leg; at the end of that leg, the foot is bent upward, the toes curled forward — unhindered by the presence of bone. One long, rubbery arm swoops forward, the spindly fingers on its hand crossing like a pretzel. Think Olive Oyl practicing bhakti. That image, titled “Noa Noa,” is one of three limitededition screen prints that Weaver is currently selling to help fund an impending journey to India. The trip is not just for sight-seeing; she plans to work as a volunteer photographer for DakshinaChitra, a nonprofit in the state of Tamil Nadu that supports indigenous folk arts and crafts. “It’s like the Shelburne Museum of South India,” she suggests. Over her five-month sojourn, Weaver will also travel and do research to inform her own work — and feed her evident hunger for knowledge. She’ll photograph Hindu temple sculptures, interview folk
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opeye, the cartoon sailor who achieves super-human strength when he downs a can of spinach, first made his appearance in American newspaper funny pages in 1929. Hindu devotional art emerged in India many centuries before that. Most of us would not discern any connection between the two, but GRACE WEAVER does. And you can see its indelible presence in her own artwork. Weaver, 22, graduated from the University of Vermont last year with a degree in studio art. This month, she’s been ensconced on the fourth floor of the BCA CENTER in Burlington as artist-in-residence in a program BCA calls ArtLab, making one picture after another. All of them feature line drawings of figures on white paper, some smudged with charcoal or washed in gray. They are cartoony and amusing, but also slightly unsettling: The figures’ fingers and toes bend and curl and intertwine in anatomically impossible ways — recalling, yes, the movements in Hindu dance. And, like that art form, these images are graceful and disciplined. “What struck me looking at Hindu bronzes for the first time,” Weaver says, “was, I didn’t know the religious significance, but the body language was so evocative to me.” She has parlayed this fascination into an artistic language all her
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artisans and generally immerse herself in Indian figurative-art traditions. Curiously, this Burlington-born-and-raised young woman says she recognizes herself in medieval Indian artwork. “It’s exciting to me to communicate across time,” she says of her 21st-century devotions. Longtime readers of the New York Times might also find reminders in Weaver’s work of the black-and-white caricatures of Al Hirschfeld. For many years his weekly installment was something to look forward to: brilliant, spot-on expressions using strong lines and swirls of ink, and wry humor. Weaver is calling her project “Speaking Through the Body of God.” Her fundraising campaign has the more secular name of “100x100,” referring to the number of 11-by-14-inch prints she hopes to sell, and their price: $100 each. BCA curator CHRIS THOMPSON says he selects artists “on the verge of breaking out” for the ArtLab residences. Weaver’s month in the fourth-floor studio “fit between her graduation and her leaving [for India],” he notes. “The thought process behind her work is very vigorous; she’s really taking
chances when she’s here. “I like this cartoon direction, but there’s this beautiful line,” Thompson continues. “And there’s also something disturbing and uncanny that she captures. I really like how she’s used her time.” That time is waning. Weaver will host a closing reception in the studio next week and leave for India shortly thereafter. As she researches, photographs, draws and writes, she’ll maintain a website chronicling her experiences. Of her artistic direction, she says, “I guess I benefited from some kind of beginner’s luck; I took an art history class that really influenced me. Going to India,” she muses, “will be the challenge, to see if my interest goes beyond that.” Either way, it will be an adventure, and this red-haired, blue-eyed Vermonter may well leave a mark even Shiva could admire.
Grace Weaver’s closing reception is Friday, March 9, 5-8 p.m. at the BCA Center, fourth-floor studio. More info about her fundraising project at 100x100project. blogspot.com.
FULL PRESS Arts advocate RIC KASINI KADOUR is calling all Vermont small presses and ’zine makers. Also graphic novelists, comic illustrators, book artists and other content creators for indie and handmade publications. The occasion: the inaugural Vermont Small Press & Comic Fair, a one-day event scheduled for March 24 in Winooski that’s intended to give everyone, participants and the public alike, a sense of how large the state’s alt-publishing scene is. “It’s really just this explosion of small, organic culture,” Kadour enthuses. His perspective has the virtue of distance: He splits his time between Montréal, where he owns an art gallery, and Vermont, where he runs KASINI HOUSE — a self-described “dynamic creative enterprise” with its own small press, Kasini House Books, that publishes both the VERMONT ART GUIDE and ART MAP BURLINGTON. Vermont has “20 or so” small publishers, according to Kadour. Meanwhile, he and the fair’s cohost, longtime comics-world insider GREGORY C GIORDANO of Burlington, “know all these folks who are just
squirreled away in the hills,” from sci-fi comics creators to “über-serious poets.” Some of their work can be seen on dedicated shelves in independent bookstores, such as BEAR POND BOOKS in Montpelier and CROW BOOKSHOP in Burlington, but many aren’t yet connected to small presses. In all, Kadour hopes the fair brings together 40 interested parties, both to network with each other and to sell “some really interesting things” to the public. Kadour got the idea for the fair from Montréal’s now 10-yearold Expozine, a similar annual event of which Kasini House became a sponsor five years ago. The Vermont Small Press & Comic Fair, he says, “comes from seeing how successful Expozine was
in supporting and organizing the culture that was already there.” One note on the fair’s venue, the Winooski Welcome Center and Gallery: It doesn’t yet exist. Another project of Kadour’s, the welcome center — to be located in the same first-level space on the roundabout where Kasini House hosted the Winooski Holiday Pop-Up Art Market — is in its final stages, he promises, and will include a shop and an art gallery. By fair time, he says, the gallery will exhibit a large installation by Grand Isle artist RIKI MOSS called, fittingly, “The Paper Forest.” AMY LILLY THE VERMONT SMALL PRESS & COMIC FAIR Winooski Welcome Center and Gallery, on the roundabout, Saturday, March 24, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. To exhibit or otherwise be involved, contact Ric Kasini Kadour at info@kasinihouse.com.
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Last Thursday, about 20 people showed up at the BCA Center for the second organizational meeting of the Burlington Film SoCiety. The form the group will take is still in question, but one thing isn’t: There are people in and around the Queen city who want more opportunities to see and talk about off-the-beatentrack films. Last year, film scholar BArry Snyder recruited some of his fellow cinephiles to catch showings of the tree oF liFe and melAnCholiA; the lively resulting discussions gave him the impetus to start a film society. At the meeting, Snyder encouraged attendees to see Wim Wenders’ PinA in 3-d when it plays at the mAjeStiC 10, starting with a benefit screening this Thursday. eriC Ford, BcA’s communication director, unveiled the new BFS Facebook page, website and Twitter feed. The film fans sketched out plans to meet at local theaters when art movies open in Burlington — then discuss them over beer or wine. Some asked if the BFS would organize its own screenings. That’s when mAriAh riggS, director of the mAin Street lAnding PerForming ArtS Center, offered her expertise; she’s been running a big-screen series called Movies at Main Street Landing, with Tuesday-night offerings ranging from family films to dark classics such as PSyCho and meAn StreetS. The free screenings have been well attended, said Riggs, who used to program film series in the thriving cambridge, Mass., scene. Other attendees noted that, on the other side of town, the eSSex
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TEAM KALE Everybody loves a David-and-Goliath story. At least, that’s what Burlington filmmaker and playwright JAMES LANTZ and folk artist and “Eat More Kale” guy BO MULLER-MOORE are banking on. The two have teamed up to produce a documentary about Muller-Moore’s battle with the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A. The corporation claims that the Montpelier artist’s logo, which he has printed on T-shirts and bumper stickers for more than a decade, is confusingly close to the corporation’s own marketing slogan, “Eat mor chikin.” As of Tuesday morning, Lantz and Muller-Moore had raised just shy of $13,000 — their goal is $75,000 to produce the film, A DEFIANT DUDE — on Kickstarter, the über-popular online fundraising site (which,
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nly a few Vermont artists are invited to display their work at high-end Manhattan galleries. So it’s noteworthy that two painters — one from Burlington, the other a part-time resident of Middletown Springs — now have shows running simultaneously at prestigious venues in Midtown and Chelsea. VALERIE HIRD’s “The Fifth Day” is hanging at the Nohra Haime Gallery on Fifth Avenue through March 10. JANET FISH is showing a dozen works at the DC Moore Gallery on West 22nd Street through March 17. The two spaces typify the art precincts in which they’re located. Nohra Haime has an air of established elegance accentuated by Persian rugs, while DC Moore has the white-box, minimalist look shared by most galleries in a neighborhood that a decade ago emerged as the art world’s capital of hipness. Fish’s show dominates the Chelsea gallery, although she does have some august company in an adjoining room: visionary watercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), who was the subject of a retrospective last year at the Whitney Museum of American Art. What the two galleries have in common are the prices they charge for the works on their walls. One of Fish’s pieces is selling
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nothing less than the visual articulation of “a new mythology” that combines symbols and artistic expressions of Eastern and Western civilizations. The desert palette of hot pinks and sandy browns mainly used in executing these works can be traced to the many years Hird spent traveling through the Middle East and central Asia in the company of nomads. Vermont is a long way from Uzbekistan, which Hird recently visited, but the classic silhouette of the Green Mountains makes an unmistakable appearance in many of her paintings at Nohra Haime. The artist is unfazed when that association is
according to Talking Points Memo, is poised to distribute more money this year than the National Endowment for the Arts). The only drawback to Kickstarter? If Lantz and Muller-Moore fail to reach their goal by 8 p.m. on March 25, they get nothing. But the two are going ahead with filming now. They aim to have the doc ready by September so they can submit it to the Sundance Film Festival, says Muller-Moore. It’s an ambitious goal, but not completely farfetched. Muller-Moore’s story attracted national attention last fall. When Gov. PETER SHUMLIN announced the formation of a legal fund called Team Kale — and uttered the words “Don’t mess with kale!” — the video went viral in Vermont. And MullerMoore, with his folksy expressions and hippie look, has unlikely star power. “I’m an only child and I’m an Aries and I’m not particularly bashful,” he says. “In some way or another, I’ve been building toward this.” Since receiving the “cease and desist” letter from Chick-fil-A last November, Muller-Moore says his life “has been a 90-day roller coaster.” The Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, he recalls, his website got 350 hits — “a pretty big day,” he says. Then the Associated Press picked up his story. The following day, his site got 37,000 hits. According to Muller-Moore, the fast-food company “hasn’t backed down an iota. Not a lick.” But neither has he; He’s continuing to print T-shirts and give out free bumper stickers.
suggested to her. “It would be surprising if there weren’t some trace of Vermont in my work,” says Hird, who’s lived in the state since 1979. “The Green Mountains are pretty much hardwired into my consciousness.”
“Valerie Hird: The Fifth Day,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York City. Through March 10. nohrahaimegallery.com “Janet Fish: Recent Paintings,” DC Moore Gallery, New York City. Through March 17. dcmooregallery.com
So far, Lantz has filmed Muller-Moore “flapping his jaw,” as the Kale Guy puts it, in his Montpelier studio, hanging with old farmers at the Champlain Valley Expo and furtively sipping on a soda in an Alabama Chick-fil-A. Muller-Moore says he’s been thrilled to get support from “hardworking Vermonters, not necessarily liberal or left-leaning.” An 80-year-old man recently recognized him as the Kale Guy, he says, and told him, “If you lose this fight, I’m giving up on what it means to be American.” What if Muller-Moore does lose? The film, he and Lantz agree, will still tell a good story. “If they beat me, we’ll document every bit of it and you will see a really bummed artist at the end of it,” he says. “But I won’t have gone down quietly.” Still, losing his “Eat More Kale” logo would be a blow. “I’d be lying if I didn’t say these T-shirts are a part of my identity now,” he says. But Muller-Moore doesn’t let the thought get him down. “Life’s been a trip so far,” he says. “There’d probably be something else good around the corner.” MEGAN JAMES A DEFIANT DUDE A film-in-progress by James Lantz, produced by Bo Muller-Moore. Donate to the Kickstarter campaign by March 25: kickstarter.com/projects/1674889308/adefiant-dude. Sign the petition: change.org/petitions/ chick-fil-a-stop-bullying-small-business-owners.
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costs: (1) The drug companies potentially could forego billions of dollars in lost sales; (2) the amount individual consumers could save is relatively trifling; and (3) there’s a remote but nonzero chance somebody relying on defunct drugs could die. This last belief is based partly on a 1963 study claiming expired tetracycline had caused kidney damage. But that contention has been questioned, and in any case the problematic formulation of tetracycline is no longer made. The FDA started requiring drug companies to place expiration dates on drugs in
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1978 on the reasonable grounds that people shouldn’t be using medicine so old it was no longer safe or effective. What the FDA didn’t do was set expiration dates, leaving that up to manufacturers. In 1985 the U.S. Pharmacopeia, a not-forprofit standards-setting body, began urging that medicines not sold in the manufacturer’s original container (that is, most medicines dispensed by pharmacists) have a one-year expiration date. The theory was that pharmacy pill bottles left in the notoriously hostile environment of your medicine cabinet (or, to be fair, a hot glove compartment) were less likely to prevent their contents from going bad. But the truth is, your meds
will probably keep just fine. In the mid-’80s the FDA started testing drugs as part of the U.S. military’s Shelf Life Extension Program — the Pentagon then had a $1 billion stockpile of drugs it didn’t feel like throwing out. As reported in that Wall Street Journal article in 2000, around 90 percent of the drugs were safe and effective well after they’d nominally expired. To be sure, some drugs deteriorate faster than others. For example, epinephrine, used to treat cardiac arrest, steadily loses its potency over time. Liquid drugs and suspensions are less stable than solids. Medications custom-prepared by your local pharmacy are likely to have a short shelf life. But even then it’s not like drugs go bad at the stroke of midnight. An update on the Shelf Life program published in 2009 established that 88 percent of tested medications worked fine more than five years past their expiration date, which admittedly just confirmed previous research. The more pertinent finding from a practical standpoint was this: one year post-expiration, every drug tested was still OK. Word has been gradually filtering out. In the January 2012 Consumer Reports, the magazine’s chief medical adviser, Marvin Lipman, writes, “Except for tetracycline” — and as we’ve seen, even that’s dubious — “expired drugs generally don’t appear to cause harm. But they do become less potent. In particular, throw out any drug more than a year past its
expiration date [my emphasis].” But let’s face it, not everybody reads Consumer Reports. And some drugs are good for much longer. What’s needed is a systematic revamping of drugexpiration labeling so the dates reflect the actual length of time, based on tests, that particular medicines retain their potency. The savings could be huge. From 1993 to 1998 the military spent $4 million testing expired medicines and saved $263 million. A follow-up study found that for every dollar spent on the Shelf Life program from 2006 to 2010, $10 to $20 was saved. In 2010, Americans spent $307 billion on 4 billion prescriptions, nearly double what they’d laid out 10 years earlier. In one survey, only 2 percent of respondents said they used all their medication before it expired. (And more than a third flushed expired medications down the toilet, wreaking who knows what environmental havoc.) Even a small extension of expiration dates could save billions. As we’ve seen, however, neither the drug industry nor consumers have much incentive to demand change. Some outside crusader, maybe? Not likely. Suppose you announce you’re campaigning for office on a platform of prodding the pharmaceutical industry to push back expiration dates. Next day, guaranteed, there’ll be billboards all over town saying “MY OPPONENT WANTS TO SELL YOU STALE DRUGS.”
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Dear cecil, Is consuming expired prescription medicines really all that dangerous? Some friends of mine insist taking pills beyond the printed expiration date is flirting with death, while another claims expiration dates on labels are BS, there solely to prompt us to order refills and spend more money. I once treated a nasty headache with the only thing I had on hand, some Vicodin that was about a year out of date. my headache went away, and I was no worse for wear. As time passes, are the pills in their little plastic bottles chemically restructuring themselves into poisons, or is there nothing to fear? Neil, Indiana
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emember the Fertility Olympics at the first Republican primary debate? First off the block was Rick Santorum. He’d served Pennsylvania in the Senate for 12 years; he could balance budgets and cut spending, he said. And he and Karen had seven children. Michele Bachmann sprinted up beside him. She was a businesswoman, a wife of 33 years, and the mother of five children and 23 “beautiful” foster children. By the time the camera moved to Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, politics and experience were an afterthought. Romney said he was the father of five, grandfather of 16. Pawlenty was a husband, father of two (needless to say, beautiful) daughters and — this surely distinguished him from the field — “a neighbor.” Neither mentioned he’d been a governor. Herman Cain was “not a politician” — but he was the father of two and grandfather of three. Ron Paul said nothing of his five children and 18 grandchildren, but pointed out that as an OB/GYN he’d delivered more than 4000 babies. Only Newt Gingrich declined to mention his reproductive accomplishments. This head count was code for the candidates’ “pro-family” — that is, antiabortion — credentials. The ritual is de rigueur since Sarah Palin brandished her five children, including a late-life Down-syndrome baby and a pregnant unmarried daughter, not only as proof of her inviolable commitment to procreation but also as qualifications for office. So Pawlenty, obviously ball-less, dropped out of the race first. Cain’s nonprocreative activities sidelined him. All those foster children did Bachmann no good. After all, what kind of woman lets someone else bear her kids while she gallivants about for decades, unpregnant? And the two frontrunners, spawnwise, are neck and neck for the 2012 nomination. From those first minutes of the primary season, it has become ever clearer: It is not enough to be antiabortion. A successful Republican candidate must also be pro-natal. He must endorse the logic of radical antiabortion politics to its absurd end: Every reproductive cell is a potential human life, and therefore deserves protection and preservation. Every baby that can be born must be born. That’s Catholic doctrine, which until
now has not been shared by most evangelical Protestants. In 2010, two surveys found that nine out of 10 evangelical leaders approved the use of artificial birth control. No longer. To win over the GOP base, every candidate must drink the Clorox of reproductive-political purity: antiabortion, pro-baby. What they didn’t bargain for is that Clorox is lethal. For 40 years, the antiabortion movement has ridden a brilliant strategy of wrenching the focus of the debate from the pregnant woman to the unborn child. The dead fetuses in jars, the Precious Feet, the 1984
This month that narrative slammed into a wall. President Obama announced the rule — part of the 2011 Affordable Care Act — that church-owned institutions must provide insurance coverage for free contraceptive services for women. The Catholic bishops and their Republican pals went berserk. But most people did not: Six in 10 favor the mandate, including the same percentage of Catholics. Two of three women do. Asked to specify the ideal number of children for a family, Americans overwhelmingly answer “two,” according to a Pew Research Center survey, and that’s been true since the 1970s. Among women at the
We can thank the Catholic Church for restoring women to the center of reproductive politics.
film The Silent Scream, claiming to offer scientific proof that fetuses feel pain — with each additional image, the persona of the beloved, assailed proto-baby has gained heft and emotional power. It passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act; it raised the outcry against the use of fertilized embryos in stem-cell research. Most recently, it is pushing “personhood” amendments through state legislatures that would confer full constitutional rights from the moment of conception. And the story of the unborn child has moved more and more Americans. Just slightly more than half now approve of abortion in all or most cases, down from solid majorities in the 1980s.
end of their reproductive years — ages 40 to 44 in 2006 — 43 percent had two kids, 22 percent had one, and 22 percent three, the survey found. Only 4 percent of American women matched the GOP candidates’ birthrate, with five or more children. Those small families say one thing: American women — indeed, almost every single one of them, including Catholics — use artificial birth control at some time during their reproductive lives. But the response to the ChurchObama standoff suggests something else, too: Opposing abortion is not the same as wanting babies. In fact, for the vast majority of people in the world, contraception isn’t about
babies at all — except those to be prevented. Eggs and zygotes are not unborn children. They are parts of a woman’s body; using an IUD is as much like killing as pulling a tooth is. Even if a recent Gallup poll is accurate in its indication that 51 percent of Americans believe abortion is immoral, only 8 percent think contraception is. Sure, many people choose not to make more children in order to be better parents to the ones they already have. But, when popping the Pill, women are not doing “family planning.” They are living their reproductive freedom — a freedom that, nearly 100 years after Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic, they take for granted. Feminists have long understood that contraception and abortion are about the same thing: women’s control over their own destinies. Now the secret is out: Conservatives understand the same thing, and they don’t like it. But it’s too late to change the conversation, at least before November 6. I can hear them slapping their foreheads at Right to Life headquarters. Darn! Why didn’t we make a movie of a fertilized egg screaming in anguish as a giant IUD prevents it from attaching to the uterine lining? This fight is depressing. I mean, why are we still having it? But it is not a distraction from the “real” issues of the economy. Decades of data show that being able to prevent or end a pregnancy, or to time the spacing of wanted births, not only enhances women’s health; it also improves their chances of gaining education, economic independence and power. Increasingly, international covenants recognize access to contraception as a human right for women and adolescents, underwritten by the rights to equality, bodily autonomy and health. Birth control is no side issue. So we can thank the Catholic Church, which excludes women from everything, for restoring women to the center of reproductive politics — and, indirectly, for exposing Republican misogyny to the Klieg lights of election-year politics. Both the women and the misogyny are where they should be. m
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the Moonlight Lady’s owner, Mike Shea, initially sounded skeptical when I called, on Donegan’s behalf, to inquire about the bosomy brunette’s current whereabouts. “What, he wants to know the woman’s address?” Lauritzen asked dubiously. But, after I assured her that my interest was nautical and not naughty in nature, Lauritzen gave up the goods on the Moonlight Lady’s forward lass. The mermaid figurehead, as such carvings on the prows of ships are called, was part of the vessel’s original equipment when Shea bought it in 2007 from its designer, builder and original captain, Merritt Walter, who also made the mermaid by hand. Walter, 74, is now retired and lives on the St. Johns River just south of Jacksonville, Fla.
went on to deep-sea-diving school, then became a salvage diving officer. After leaving the service, Walter was hired by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where he served as the agency’s chief of ship construction. After 20 years of building boats for NOAA, Walter launched his own company building passenger schooners, owning as many as eight at a time. Though Walter designed and built scores of ships in his long career, the Bonny Blue was clearly a labor of love. He trimmed out her interior with wood paneling made from walnut trees cut on his farm in Kentucky. The ship, which Shea renamed the Midnight Lady, still features all of Walter’s original woodwork. Today, it runs one- to sixnight cruises on Lake Champlain, venturing as far north as Montréal. “That Bonny Blue was the best, most enjoyable operation, with passengers enjoying it more than any other vessel I have ever had anything to do with,” Walter recalls wistfully. “I’d still be doing it today if I weren’t getting so old.” Why the mermaid? “Dock appeal,” Walter explains. Nothing like a topless woman on the front of a boat to draw the attention of passersby. The Bonny Blue mermaid wasn’t Walter’s first or only one. He created his
first in the early 1960s. One day, he had her on his workbench when his mother stopped in for a visit. “She says, ‘Merritt! Those breasts are way too big! You have to reduce the size!’” he recalls. “I thought about it, and she was right. I guess I got a bit carried away.” Walter confesses that not all his mermaids were as eye-catching as the Bonny Blue’s. He practically shudders at the memory of one he made for the American Rover, a 150-passenger schooner. “That turned out as about the ugliest doggone woman you ever seen,” he says. “Looked like a Neanderthal.” The Bonny Blue’s mermaid was actually crafted from fiberglas — not wood, as are most figureheads — with her hair made of unbraided nylon line. Each strand was soaked in resin and had to be individually positioned on the mermaid’s body before being painted by hand. When reached by phone last week, Walter was surprised and saddened to learn that his favorite mermaid was missing. I conveyed the news I’d heard from Lauritzen: Most of the mermaid’s body and tail were “lost at sea” during Tropical Storm Irene. Only her face survived. Walter sounded almost eager to reconnect with his old flame. “If you talk to Mike, tell him to send the head on down here, and I’ll remake the body for him,” he offered. Later, Shea agreed to do just that. Venture down to the waterfront these days, and you can almost hear the Lone Sailor’s bronze heart beating again. m
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his month, a reader wrote in to ask what happened to the mermaid that once adorned the bow of the Moonlight Lady, the Lake Champlain cruise ship that’s moored beside the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center. Apparently, the curvaceous carving hasn’t been seen in months. “All season long she plied by here through the sunlit and moonlit waters of Lake Champlain, a more lovelier adorned bowsprit never was, with rope braided hair and iridescent tail,” wrote Roger Donegan of Hinesburg. “Now, yonder hull has just a bowsprit, empty of her figurine lines and devoid of our shared equanimity over this watery place…” Donegan’s letter was signed “the Lone Sailor,” a reference to the statue of a Navy seaman who stands watch on Burlington’s waterfront, not far from the Moonlight Lady’s slip. Gwendy Lauritzen, who works for
As Walter explained, the eight-cabin vessel, which sleeps 16 and seats as many as 30, was originally christened the Bonny Blue. Designed and built to resemble a 1920s passenger and freight steamer, it spent five year sailing the Dismal Swamp Canal and Pasquotank River between Chesapeake, Va., and Elizabeth City, N.C. The Bonny Blue was the last commercial vessel to sail the Dismal Swamp Canal when its passenger runs finally ceased in July 2007.
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ith public confidence in city hall at an all-time low and the long-reigning Progressive Party bowing out, Burlington voters might have expected the race for mayor to generate a vigorous ideological debate. It hasn’t. Peculiarly, the two candidates who appear neck and neck as they sprint toward the finish line freely admit that their visions for the city are pretty much the same. And so the increasingly bitter campaign between them — the most expensive in Burlington’s history — has focused not on substantive policy disputes but surface distinctions: biography, partisan affiliation, geography and, perhaps most significantly, identity politics. “There are not major differences in regard to policy,” says Kurt Wright, a city councilor, state representative and Republican candidate for mayor. “Really, then, it boils down to who do you think is ready to lead the city if we have fairly similar positions.” Miro Weinberger — a developer, airport commissioner and the Democratic nominee — agrees. While Wright portrays himself as the steady hand of experience, Weinberger wants to be viewed as a new voice with a different skill set. “I think the reason you’re seeing some similar positions is that I think there’s some broad consensus in these areas and I think that consensus has existed for some time,” Weinberger says. “But we haven’t seen much progress on them in years.” The only candidate to pull away from the pack is independent Wanda Hines, who heads the city’s Social Equity Investment Project and used to run the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. But what differentiates her from the others is a puzzling acceptance of the status quo, a hazy grasp of policy and an inability to marshal a credible campaign. And so, even before the polls close on Tuesday, March 6, the die has been cast. The next mayor of Burlington will be a business-friendly moderate focused on restoring the city’s finances, developing the downtown and the waterfront, holding the line on school and municipal taxes, and increasing Burlington’s housing stock. The only question is: Which one will it be?
A Dearth of Ideas There has been just one bold idea proposed in the course of the six-month race and, oddly, it came at the start: Outlining his financial plan last October, Wright floated the trial balloon of selling the Burlington Electric Department in order to shore up the city’s finances. The balloon sank, and Wright has been
walking back the proposal ever since, saying he would only proceed if the city’s deteriorating finances required it and voters approved. The episode speaks volumes about both major candidates and the unease many voters feel toward them. Wright’s critics see the proposal as evidence that rather than govern as a nonideological technocrat, as he says he will, once in office Wright would privatize Burlington’s public assets one by one. Weinberger’s critics, meanwhile, say the Democrat’s failure to take a decisive
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stance against the proposal speaks to the perception that he is a milquetoast candidate with no core convictions and an inability to differentiate himself from Wright. “I was really the only Democrat who said I think it’s irresponsible to take this fully off the table given that we face serious financial challenges. Everything needs to be on the table given those challenges,” Weinberger says. “The only bold initiative Kurt has put out there is selling BED, whereas I’ve said selling BED would only be ‘Plan Z’ if all other plans failed.”
But Plenty of Debate The substantive policy differences between Wright and Weinberger are few. Both oppose the school district’s proposed 9.1 percent budget increase. Both oppose Mayor Bob Kiss’ effort to raise municipal
taxes by two cents, though both concede they might, in the end, go back to voters to ask for just that. Both believe they can address the city’s budget shortfall without cutting public safety services. And both say their top priority would be to develop the city’s downtown and the waterfront, while rolling back an ordinance requiring half of every new downtown building to serve a commercial purpose. “There’s been a lot of rhetoric without too much specifics, with respect to improving the city’s overall situation,” says City Council President Bill Keogh, a Democrat and a Weinberger supporter. “It appears to me the candidates are telling the constituents really mostly what they want to hear. They’ve avoided controversy.” Instead of debating actual
ideas, the candidates have instead bickered about who has more of them. Weinberger has particularly excelled at the exercise. Like clockwork, he holds a press conference every week or so to announce a new plan to address a particular dilemma. He assembles a group of knowledgeable professionals to stand beside him as he unveils another set of bullet points, which tend to be a medley of the obvious, the unachievable and the already under way. He then posts the plans on his website and refers to them ad nauseam. Point two of his financial plan? “Weinberger would bring a new generation of civic leadership and thinking into city hall and charge his administration with working smarter and more efficiently.” How? By “addressing 10 percent of the problem through innovation and savings.” Bam!
Anyone But Kiss To listen to their stump speeches, you might get the impression that both Weinberger and Wright are running against a guy named Bob Kiss. In a way, you’d be right. A two-term Progressive mayor, Kiss is stepping down after a rocky tenure during which financial missteps led to a two-notch drop in Burlington’s credit rating. The battle over who will replace him has centered on which of the candidates is more likely to repeat his failures. Weinberger has repeatedly characterized Wright, who served as city council president for a portion of Kiss’ tenure, as a handmaiden to the mayor. Citing votes taken by the city’s finance board, on which both Wright and Kiss served, Weinberger claims that the two voted in lockstep 473 out of 474 times. Wright argues that the numbers are meaningless — that nearly every vote of the finance board is unanimous and that most pertain to routine matters.
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Wright’s is a political career of winning and losing — but nearly always running. As his Democratic opponent is quick to point out, this is Wright’s 15th race in 18 years. It is his third run for mayor of Burlington and, he claims, his last. “If I lose this, this is my last chance — my last race for mayor,” he says on a recent weekday morning over a breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon and home fries. Sitting at the Handy’s Lunch counter, Wright recalls the first time he got involved in Burlington politics. It was 1992 and a Republican, Peter Brownell, was planning to challenge the Progressive incumbent, Peter Clavelle, in the next year’s mayoral election. “I was one of the volunteers who did a ton of stuff, from writing letters to helping organize events to, I think, doing my own radio ad,” he says. Brownell won, becoming the only Republican or Democrat to control city hall in the past 30 years. Wright was inspired and decided to challenge a 20year incumbent state representative for a seat representing the New North End. Wright lost by five votes, but the next year he earned a seat on the Burlington City Council and his political career was launched. Despite his lengthy career in public
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In his economic development plan, Weinberger says he will “unleash the potential of the west side of Pine Street.” How? By “building the proposed Champlain Parkway.” Gee, that was easy! The notion that Weinberger is the “ideas guy” has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ever since the Burlington Free Press dubbed him “the man with the plans” in an early February editorial, the candidate has taken every opportunity to trot out the badge in public forums, saying with an aw-shucks grin, “You called me the man with the plan, and it’s true!”
“The finance board votes that Miro talks about [are] really an attempt to try to fool people,” Wright said at a debate sponsored by Seven Days. “People know that I have been critical of Bob Kiss, I ran against Bob Kiss, I almost beat Bob Kiss. So it’s not going to work to try to fool people that I am a disciple of Bob Kiss.” Wright’s campaign, meanwhile, argues that Weinberger’s lack of experience in the public realm augurs poorly for his ability to restore the city’s financial health. They say Weinberger reminds them of a certain little-known state legislator who came from out of the blue to win city hall in 2006. “I’ve heard a lot of folks make the association between Miro and Bob Kiss,” says City Councilor Paul Decelles, a Republican who supports Wright. “Six years ago, Bob was known by one neighborhood, and when the rest of the city met him he seemed like a great guy. Folks are apprehensive this time that they don’t know enough about [Weinberger].”
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office, Wright doesn’t exactly give the impression that he stays up late pondering the policy problems of the world. His legislative record appears to be guided by political expediency rather than core conviction. And his concrete accomplishments in the legislature are few and far between: one of the only Wright-authored bills to be signed into law lets bar patrons purchase two drinks at a time. The issue that appears to animate him the most is Burlington’s bike path. Wright feeds off the backslapping, horse trading and glad-handing of electoral politics. He is quick to hop up from the counter at Handy’s to buttonhole a departing customer, lest he miss out on a single vote. When his campaign manager, Democratic City Councilor Dave Hartnett, shows up and takes a seat at the counter, it doesn’t take long for the two to get going about Jimmy and Bobby and Frankie and all the guys they used to hang around with back in the day. The two met when Hartnett worked a delivery route for Groff ’s Potato Chips and Wright managed Kerry’s Kwik Stop, a convenience store on St. Paul Street. “We just started talking politics, baseball, Burlington,” Hartnett recalls. “There was a group of friends that kind of hung together.” It’s this sort of blue-collar shtick that has been the bread and butter of Wright’s campaign, which gives off the impression that it’s just a couple of good old boys trying to do right by the city they love. Never mind the fact that the outfit is largly funded by $1000 checks from a veritable
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Ironically, the candidate most likely to follow Kiss’ lead is the one that neither Wright nor Weinberger talks about: Wanda Hines. A longtime Kiss ally — when she ran the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, Kiss was head of the organization that oversees it — Hines has displayed remarkable loyalty to her boss at city hall and obliviousness to his failings. “We know that Burlington Telecom was a big ... that wasn’t okay,” Hines said at a Burlington Free Press debate. “And so I’m not going to, I don’t know that for sure. I’m not going to sit here and say that I don’t trust anything that comes out of city hall because what’s going on at city hall, although it’s happening under Bob Kiss’ administration, I can’t speak for the finance team.”
who’s who of wealthy Republican donors, real estate magnates and developers. “People know I’m a blue-collar person that managed a small business, that’s had a lot of different jobs, that’s moved up the political ladder in Burlington,” Wright says. “I struggle to pay my taxes just like they do. I’m middle class.” Implicit in Wright’s pitch is that while he is a man of the people, Weinberger — a Yale- and Harvard-educated man of means from the Upper Valley — is not. While Hartnett is quick to deny that the campaign is engaging in class warfare, he can’t help but to point out a distinct otherness he perceives in Weinberger. “The other main rival in this campaign, you could argue, really doesn’t know Burlington, has no real ties or connections to Burlington,” Hartnett says. “I know he’s lived here four or five years, but I’ve never seen him at a city council meeting before he decided to run… He was just never involved. So it’s not class warfare. It’s more knowing people and knowing Burlington. I think that’s where the blue-collar thing comes in.” No matter that Weinberger has lived in Burlington for a decade and, like Wright, was born and raised in Vermont.
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Whither the Progs? The other place “the blue-collar thing comes in” is in the Old North End, the heart of Burlington’s working-class community and a longtime stronghold of the city’s Progressive Party. Since 1981, when independent Bernie Sanders won a narrow, four-way contest for mayor, Old North Enders have consistently provided a crucial boost for progressive-oriented candidates. Without a Progressive on the ballet this year, their votes are decidedly up for grabs. A longtime resident of the Old North End herself, Hines has focused her campaign on turning out friends and neighbors — and registering new voters. Weinberger, too, has reached out to the neighborhoods, earning an endorsement this week from the Somali Bantu community. But according to four longtime Progressive Party stalwarts — none of whom was willing to speak on the record — a surprising number are leaning toward the Republican in the race. They say Weinberger’s inability to connect with working-class Burlingtonians, his lessthan-full-throated support for BED and his opposition to the school budget have turned off Progressive voters. “I think [Wright] definitely has a better hand than the Republicans have ever had in the Old North End,” says City Councilor Vince Brennan, the only elected Progressive to publicly endorse Wright. “I think we feel he has been around a while and is a proven leader.”
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eter Clavelle was about 5 years old when he asked his mother, “What can I be when I grow up?” Eleanor Clavelle remembers. She replied, “You can be whatever you want to be.” As it turned out, Clavelle became city manager of his native Winooski in the 1970s and was appointed in 1983 by thenmayor Bernie Sanders as the first director of Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office. The prematurely bald and round-faced French Canadian known as “Moon” went on to become the longestserving mayor in Burlington’s history, winning seven of eight elections and holding the office for a total of 14 years. Now, at age 62, Clavelle has moved to Albania. He has a five-year contract to oversee a local governance project in the eastern European country. Albania is about the same size as Vermont, but has a population that is five times larger. Eleanor Clavelle says she’s proud of what the second oldest of her five children has achieved. “He was always the biggest risk taker of the bunch,” she notes. Moving to Albania may not entail much of a physical risk — except, Peter Clavelle notes, from the “crazy drivers” — but it’s an adventure most Social Securityeligible Vermonters would be unlikely to contemplate. Language may be the biggest challenge. Albanian is a blend of two dialects, Gheg and Tosk, “but with a bigger influence of Tosk as compared to the Gheg,” according to Wikipedia. “People our age are keying for transitions,” says Clavelle’s wife, Betsy Ferries, 64. “For some, that means a warmer climate. In my own life, I’ve gained a lot of richness from living in other countries.” In separate interviews, Clavelle and Ferries each identified as a transformative experience the two years they spent on the Caribbean island of Grenada in the mid-’90s. It persuaded them to commit to overseas development work once their children were grown and Vermont politics was no longer at the center of their lives. Burlington voters decided “it was time for me to take a sabbatical,” Clavelle says of the outcome of the 1993 election, won by Republican Peter Brownell, that left him unexpectedly jobless. The ex-mayor found work as a project manager in Grenada through Associates in Rural Development (ARD), a Burlington-based international consulting firm. Clavelle had already begun giving concrete expression to the internationalist interests that he says he inherited from his mother. “She was always very fond of geography,” Clavelle says, adding, “She encouraged us to explore.” As mayor, he played a key role in establishing or sustaining Burlington’s relations with such far-flung cities as Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua, Yaroslavl in Russia, Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Arad in Israel itself. It was through ARD, founded in 1977 by Vermonter George Burrill, that Clavelle was tapped to work in Albania under a contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Since 2007, ARD has been a subsidiary of Californiabased Tetra Tech, a global services
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IN DOWNTOWN TIRANA SO AS TO LIVE AMONG ALBANIANS. corporation with 13,000 employees and annual revenues in excess of $2.5 billion. Clavelle has been an ARD employee since leaving the mayor’s office in 2006, working for part of that time in sketchy settings such as Afghanistan and South Sudan. Conditions there were “challenging,” Clavelle says, but the work was “fascinating.” He has also held consultant posts in Gaza, Jordan and Uganda. Ferries says veteran U.S. foreign-service workers describe Albania, in contrast, as “about as easy as it gets in the international-development field.” Tirana, Albania’s capital, is a pleasant, walkable city with leafy streets and numerous cafés, Clavelle says via Skype. He’s negotiating a lease on a high-rise apartment in downtown Tirana so as to live among Albanians rather than in an expatriate enclave. A short distance from both Greece and Italy, Tirana is becoming a cosmopolitan center where English is widely spoken, Clavelle notes. Although most of its citizens are Muslim, Albania is a secular country and “the most proAmerican place I’ve ever been to,” the world traveler adds. It was not always thus. During the 40year communist era that ended in 1990, dictator Enver Hoxha isolated the country not only from the rest of Europe, but from the Soviet empire as well. Albania earned notoriety — and locked itself into poverty and ideological zealotry — as a close ally of China until the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Not long after the collapse of communism, and years before Bernie Madoff’s swindles were exposed, a national Ponzi scheme caused Albania’s economy to crumble. The country’s turnaround has been startling, observes Clavelle, who first visited in 1996 to inaugurate a program twinning Lake Champlain with Lake Ohrid, which straddles Albania and Macedonia. Today, Ferries points out that Albania is best known internationally as
the birthplace of Mother Teresa and, in the U.S., as the ancestral home of both John Belushi, a “Saturday Night Live” comedian who died of a drug overdose, and Ferid Murad, the inventor of Viagra. The country’s unspoiled Adriatic coast has also become a down-market hipster version of the Riviera. Albania has some serious social problems, including sex trafficking of young women, often from the country’s Roma minority. Ferries says she hopes to find work, either as a volunteer or paid employee, with an organization combating sexual enslavement. A teacher and counselor in the Essex schools for many years, Ferries worked most recently as director of Mercy Connections, a Burlington charitable organization associated with the Sisters of Mercy. Interviewed in the kitchen of her home on South Union Street, Ferries confesses that it isn’t easy to leave Burlington behind. Three of the couple’s four children — Luke, 27; Will, 23; and Awil, 20 — live in the Queen City, while Jae, 24, works for an international development company in San Francisco. Ferries and Clavelle are the legal guardians of Awil, a refugee from Somalia who’s set to graduate in June from Burlington High School. Because they’re selling their house, Ferries must find an adoptive home for the couple’s 12-year-old terrier, Freddie, who still bounces excitedly when she tosses him a toy. It’s easy now to stay in touch via the internet, Ferries notes — unlike the difficulty of international communication “back in the day.” Email and internet phone calls are not, however, a sufficient substitute for physical proximity, Ferries continues, saying, “There’s no way I’ll let more than six months pass without seeing my kids, either here or there.” When she and Clavelle do return to Burlington, they’ll find it governed by a mayor who, for the first time in 31 years, does not have close ties to the Progressives. Clavelle, a Prog who became a Democrat prior to his unsuccessful race for governor in 2004, says he left Burlington with “mixed emotions,” including concern for his eightysomething parents who still live in Winooski. He expresses pride and confidence in the prosperity and “dynamism” of a city that remains “a very comfortable place to live.” Burlington will overcome its current difficulties, Clavelle predicts, noting that when he was mayor he grappled with budget problems that sometimes seemed unsolvable. “Oh, my God,” he recalls saying on occasion. “How are we ever going to balance the books?” Current Mayor Bob Kiss “gets a bad rap in some ways,” Clavelle asserts. While acknowledging the “daunting” challenges posed by all-but-officially-bankrupt Burlington Telecom, the ex-mayor cites Kiss’ record of avoiding an increase in property taxes and carrying out extensive repairs of the city’s streets and sidewalks. So does he miss starring as king of the Queen City? “Not really,” Clavelle responds. “I had a great run and now I’m working on a new chapter of my life.”
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But Sen. Tim Ashe (D/P-Chittenden), who narrowly lost the Democratic mayoral nomination to Weinberger, cautions that the influence of Progressive leadership on rank-and-file voters is limited. “If by that we mean the most hardcore, partisan Progressives, the fact that only 30 or 40 attended the Progressive caucus suggests that it is unlikely to be the critical lynchpin to victory,” he says. Ashe has endorsed Weinberger.
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noon canvassing King and Maple streets with a college-age intern and a reporter in tow. Nearly every time he knocked on a door, a similar scenario played out: “I’m Miro,” he says, looking expectantly at the resident who comes to the door, hoping for a glimmer of recognition. “Weinberger,” he adds. “I’m running for mayor,” he says, looking away, his voice trailing off. Sometimes Weinberger’s obvious discomfort prompts the prospective voter to take the initiative and start a conversation. If not, he continues: “Are you following the mayor’s race?” Weinberger asks. “If you have any questions, I’m happy to answer them.” The interactions bring to mind the moment in 1979 when Teddy Kennedy, asked why he wanted to be president, couldn’t quite answer the question. You get the sense from Weinberger that he really does want to be mayor, but he’s not entirely sure why — and he really can’t stand making the hard sell. Eventually, Weinberger and the intern come upon a handful of UVM and Champlain College students who appear marginally interested in listening to the candidate — or, at least are a little more polite. Weinberger registers a number of them and even manages to articulate his vision to one: He wants to grow business,
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In contrast to the outsider image he has cultivated, Weinberger is a longtime behind-thescenes operative who helped the Democratic Party take over the Vermont Senate in 1996 and the Vermont House in 2004. In his first outing as a candidate, Weinberger has run an almost comically professional campaign. He has three fulltime staffers, a cadre of Burlington’s young professional class advising him, a state party pouring resources into the race, and a governor and congressional delegation raising money and campaigning beside him. Weinberger has crushed previous fundraising records, collecting $110,000
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For a Republican like Wright to win in such an overwhelmingly left-of-center city, he will have to turn out the vote in Burlington’s traditional pocket of conservatism: the suburban neighborhoods of the New North End. Decelles, the Republican city councilor who is running for reelection in Ward 7, believes turnout will be “astronomical,” owing to two heavily contested city council races. Even more compelling is the proposed school budget increase, which he predicts will motivate fiscally conservative voters who tend to support Wright. “I would almost wager that the school budget in Ward 7 will go down almost two-to-one. It’s going to go down in Ward 4, as well,” he says. “Money questions always do out here.” Others say the New North End is moving beyond the old naysayer stereotype. “I think particularly in the southern end of the ward where I live, you’re seeing some changing demographics with new residents, younger families,” says Tom Ayres, a Democrat who is running for Decelles’ seat. “I think that runs counter to the perception of the New North End being a very settled community of longtime residents.” Bryan Aubin, a Democrat who is running for a council seat on the other side of North Avenue, says he is seeing a surprising amount of support for Weinberger. “There’s definitely a lot of support for Kurt, but I have found some support for Miro,” he says. “Honestly, from my perspective, it feels a bit 50-50.”
— nearly as much as the entire mayoral field combined in the 2009 race. And yet the candidate himself suffers from a crippling inability to interact with voters. Weinberger is unfairly criticized for failing to connect with the working class. The reality is that he simply can’t connect with anybody, aside from his core supporters. At debates, his answers are consistently on-message — you will never hear him respond without mentioning that he will bring “a fresh start” to Burlington — but his delivery is halting, awkward and defensive. The Burlington Free Press called him “the diligent student” in an editorial, but one observer, criticizing Weinberger’s depth of knowledge of city affairs, said, “He’s the guy who memorized the Cliff’s Notes, but never read the novel.” Weinberger spent a recent rainy after-
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support the creative economy and make Burlington more livable, he says. When he returns to a previously visited Champlain College apartment to drop off an absentee ballot, Weinberger is cornered by a pajama-wearing New Jerseyan, whose room is distinguished by a stolen street sign, a beer pong table, a case of mac ’n’ cheese and a three-foot bong. “My roommate and I were wondering: What’s your stance on medical marijuana?” the student asks, suppressing a grin. “I’m supportive of having a dispensary here in Burlington,” Weinberger responds, palpably uncomfortable. “Beyond that, I haven’t taken a position.” “I’m open to the arguments,” he says, his voice trailing off, looking for the exit.
One of the greater distinctions between Weinberger’s and Wright’s campaigns is the extent to which the two have relied on their respective political parties for support. In Weinberger’s case, it is evident that the state Democratic Party is all in — and for good reason. As Vermont has turned bluer and bluer, the party has claimed nearly every significant political office in the state. One of the last golden rings eluding it is Burlington City Hall. “Burlington was a Democratic city for a very long time, and it’s been a very long time since we’ve had a Democratic mayor,” says party chairman Jake Perkinson. “So I think it makes a lot of sense for the party to advocate for a Democratic candidate in Burlington.” The arrangement between the party and the candidate is fairly typical. The party has financed mailers, leant the expertise of its staff, contributed opposition research and housed the campaign’s headquarters. In total, it has given $6500 in concrete, in-kind contributions, though its overall impact on the campaign — factoring in staff time — is undoubtedly far greater. The Wright campaign and newly elected Vermont GOP chairman Jack Lindley think the coordination is inappropriate for a local election. “It’s highly unusual that a state party would be involved in municipal politics. Heretofore, I don’t think that’s really
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A Tech Superstar If there’s one crowd that does appear to venerate Weinberger, it’s Burlington’s vibrant and growing technological and creative community. “Who Miro is as a person, how he communicates, his own use and adoption of technology — all these things resonate with people in our industry,” says Ted Adler, founder and president of Union Street Media. Weinberger’s campaign has a ubiquitous presence on social media platforms. A local web marketer, Nate Orshan, posted a music video called “Let’s Go Miro” on YouTube, and it has since been viewed more than 900 times. Burlington’s Thread Magazine,, which caters to the techie crowd, splashed a GQ-esque shot of a sweater-clad Weinberger on its cover, accompanied by a hagiographic treatise that recalls the worshipful coverage of Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. “I think a lot of the people in the tech community respond well to a younger, more modern entrepreneur. The fact that he has some education too is also an attractive feature,” Orshan says. “Kurt is a really nice guy, a super guy. On the other hand, he does not look like that younger, more youthful, techie demographic.” To many in Burlington’s creative class and the city’s southern, more reliably Democratic wards, Weinberger’s education and pedigree is an asset, not a drawback. “People say he doesn’t have the experience that needs to be brought to city hall to do the mayor’s work, but certainly he’s a pretty bright guy and I think he’d be a pretty quick study,” says Democratic City Councilor Norm
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happened,” Lindley says. “But when you’re a shark like the Democrats and you bite at everything, that’s the way it is.” Wright claims that he has distanced his campaign entirely from the state Republican Party apparatus. And yet, the guy who sits in the corner office of Wright’s Courthouse Plaza campaign headquarters is the party’s former, two-time executive director, Tayt Brooks. Wright and Hartnett alternately describe Brooks as “just a friend,” “the office manager,” and “somebody who handles the phones and computers.” But in reality, Brooks, a paid staffer since December, appears to be running the show. Weinberger’s campaign has worked hard, too, to maintain the illusion that it’s acting independently. But there is no real distinction between the campaign and the Democratic Party in the Battery Street office they share. The party communication director’s desk is 10 feet away from that of Weinberger’s spokesperson, Mike Kanarick. And despite the good cop/ bad cop game they play — with the party serving as attack dog and the Weinberger campaign staying positive — the two entities are essentially one and the same. When the party sent out a ham-fisted press release last week accusing Wright of “borrowing” language from a Washington State Republican in a “partisan” manner, the Weinberger campaign did not return calls for comment. Asked the next day whether he had seen the hit before it was released, Kanarick said, “Yes, I did.” Asked whether he had approved it, Kanarick said, “It’s not our place to approve or not. The party plays a role in
IN HIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN, WEINBERGER SAYS HE WILL “UNLEASH THE POTENTIAL OF THE WEST SIDE OF PINE STREET.”
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helping the public understand who Kurt Wright is.”
What It Takes to Win Turning out the New North End won’t guarantee Wright a win. He’ll also have to make inroads in the Old North End and cut into Weinberger’s base in the city’s southern wards. For Weinberger to emerge victorious, he’ll have to unite the disparate factions of the Democratic base and rally a sizable portion of the Progressive vote to his side. Both will have to ensure that Hines fails to cut into their margins enough to prompt a runoff, which would be triggered if no candidate wins 40 percent of the vote. It’s still unclear whether Weinberger has won over the supporters of his adversaries in the Democratic caucus. His former opponents — Ashe, City Councilor Bram Kranichfeld and Rep. Jason Lorber (D-Burlington) — have all declared themselves pro-Miro, but none of the three have taken an active role in campaigning for him. “I think [Weinberger] has done a good job reaching out to everyone in the party,” Kranichfeld says. Ashe is a little more reserved in his assessment. “I think there are many people who supported me who are strongly behind Miro, and there are probably, I’m guessing, there are some who are still trying to make up their minds,” Ashe says. “Miro and I do not agree on everything and we are very different stylistically and personality-wise, but when it comes down to it, he has progressive Democratic values. The question will be: Is he able to communicate that effectively?” At a Weinberger rally and fundraiser last week at the historically blue-collar Saint John’s Club, Democratic officeholders, donors and volunteers came together to demonstrate their support for the party’s standard bearer. The highlight of the program came when T.J. Donovan — the Chittenden County State’s Attorney and a former Kranichfeld supporter — gave a speech exhorting his fellow partymembers to bury the hatchet and come together. “We’re Democrats and Democrats debate, Democrats argue, Democrats fight… But when we’re done fighting, we come together,” Donavan shouted. “That’s loyalty. Loyalty to each other, loyalty to this town, loyalty to the Democratic Party. It’s time to show our loyalty to our nominee, Miro.” Surrounded by adoring supporters sipping glasses of wine and beer, Weinberger gave his strongest, most self-confident speech in weeks. Orshan was summoned to the front of the room, where he strummed “Let’s Go Miro” on his guitar. The audience sang along to the chorus and clapped their hands over their heads. Unity was at hand, at least in this room. Tim Ashe is the domestic partner of Seven Days publisher and coeditor Paula Routly.
Feedback « p.7 [Re “Frack, No: Vermont Looks North to Québec as It Considers a Ban on Natural-Gas Drilling,” February 8]: I vote “No Fracking in Vermont!” Ditto for our close neighbor to the north, Québec. The reason for this position is simply because further “studying” will never be conclusive. This is due to what is known as the Halliburton Loophole in the Clean Water Act of 1973 because it was widely perceived to have come about as a result of the efforts of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force. Cheney was the former CEO of Halliburton. Essentially, Congress amended the Clean Water Act to exempt those using Halliburton technology to fracture the earth to extract gas. Effectively, gas companies can inject chemicals and substances into the ground where our drinking water is without telling the EPA or anyone else what those substances are and how they will affect us and for how long. So, “further study” will never be able to predict the impact — maybe only the possible results of past practices. Even those results are easily denied by the gas companies. “Further study” will, however, give gas company lobbyists further opportunity to work on our governmental leadership while waiting for a more opportune time to seek approval for “testing” and outright fracking.
issues. While we may not always get things right, and it may take a while to change paradigms in both the school and larger community, Burlington teachers and staff care deeply about issues of race and equity and are committed to improving the education of our students. Specifically, we have revised our hiring and recruitment procedures to ensure all staff hired are culturally competent and to increase racial/ethnic diversity among our faculty. Professional development focuses on cultural competence. A board-appointed task force researched best practices in diversity and equity with recommendations for a strategic plan to be in place by October, 2012. A new board committee is specifically charged to focus on diversity and equity issues in the district. Our diversity office is developing an annual report card highlighting data. We are revising our harassment policy. The issues of race, diversity and equity are part of our everyday lives. In my time in Burlington schools, the awareness and focus on these issues has been constant; now we are turning up the heat. Progress requires a steady focus while consistently and unabashedly putting one foot in front of the other. I appreciate the commitment of the Burlington faculty, administration and community in working on these issues. Our vision is clear: to ensure our school community is welcoming, just and safe for all students and families.
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Ken Picard’s article last week certainly disclosed views and past experiences of some former school district employees [“Did Race Play a Role in the Recent Departure of a Burlington Principal?” February 22]. But it did not shed light on our successful current work on diversity
[“Can a Tax Hike Save Montpelier from a Capital Crisis?” February 15] stated that Montpelier has approximately 8000 residents with 20,000 daily visitors. That would suggest that the visitors make up 71 percent of the public daily. That would also suggest that 71 percent of the tax revenue would be generated by the visitors. That’s a very good return for the full-time residents. However, the real problem is the inability to deal with the economic realities of liberal policies that can never say no. Government either has to make realistic cuts in spending or the taxpayer has to agree to allow the government to make direct withdrawals from their accounts that will enable local government to continue to spend ad nauseam. If you had an unbiased auditor’s professional report, they would almost certainly find between 7 and 10 percent waste and abuse in every government program.
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Kathryn Flagg responds: The letter writer brings up an important point about hydraulic fracturing: The practice is extremely unregulated. The so-called Halliburton Loophole was tucked into the 2005 Bush/Cheney version of the Energy Policy Act, exempting fracking from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Specifically, the loophole exempts companies from disclosing what’s in the fluids they use to frack. Different states have gone on to regulate the issue in various ways, and now some require companies to disclose what’s in their fluids, with wiggle room for preserving trade secrets. While efforts have been made at closing the Halliburton Loophole — most recently the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act, or FRAC — none have been successful so far.
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s it possible to embark on a worldclass skiing adventure right out our back doors here in Vermont? Last February, a crew of backcountry skiers from the Burlington, Stowe and Mad River Valley regions intended to find out. We were lucky enough to be there among them. Motivated by the abundant snowpack in the mountains last season, skier Dan Smith of Burlington (a mayoral candidate in 2009) couldn’t get the idea of a three-day, descentfilled backcountry ski tour out of his head. The tour would take us from a
friend’s home in Bolton, to another’s near Moscow, and then to the Smith family’s cabin in Underhill — before skiing over Mansfield and back to Moscow again. Our friend Mike Welch of Moscow put things in perspective a few days before setting off: “Why head to British Columbia when we’ve got some of the best snow in the country right here?” That Canadian province offers some of the world’s best hut-to-hut skiing opportunities. No doubt about it, last year’s ski season was one for the record books
— one that Vermont snow lovers, at least until last weekend’s snowstorm, have looked back on wistfully. Our group of skiers included Smith and his fiancée, Lindsay Peet, and nearly 10 other friends, male and female. After skiing away from Scott Fleckenstein’s Bolton home on day one, we proceeded to climb — using climbing skins — and then enjoyed five powder-coated descents through and north of the backcountry near Bolton Mountain. Just before dark we arrived at the Moscow home of Welch and his wife,
Sarah Nestor, who would host us that night. We were tired and eager to eat, hydrate and get a good night’s sleep. Several local friends dropped in for dinner and the camaraderie. A light snow was falling outside. Kevin Thompson of Waterbury exclaimed that he couldn’t wait to get up the next morning. It was unclear whether he was more excited about the skiing to come or the delicious breakfast that awaited us. On day two, we crossed to the west side of the Green Mountain Divide and logged five more memorable
runs. We spent the day skiing under the canopy of the hardwood forest, climbing through ice-riddled stream gullies, discovering rocky caverns and occasionally stopping to share food or enjoy the view. The route combined terrain that some of us knew well with a few areas that none of us had yet explored. We spotted partridge, snowshoe hare and moose tracks. As darkness fell, we arrived to fresh snow on the porch of our cozy Underhill cabin. And once again, we were hungry. More friends joined us for dinner here, and then we prepared for an early start to our third and final day of the tour.
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The forecast called for snow, sleet and high winds, and a possible changeover to rain the next morning — exciting conditions for crossing the summit of Mt. Mansfield. By late morning, we were descending the mountain atop a fresh coat of sleetinfused powder, via the historic ski trails of the Ranch Valley near Stowe. The skiing was fast and fun. Only one more climb remained before our final stop back in Moscow. “I have never worked so hard for skiing in my life, or enjoyed it so much,” reminisces Nestor now. “It was definitely the most interesting, challenging and rewarding weekend of skiing I’ve ever had, in New England or anywhere else.” Adds Maggie McDonald of Stowe, “It was also pretty awesome to share the skiing with such a dynamic group of friends — even if Dan and Mike tried to steal all the fresh lines.” Will the snow gods bless us with enough snow to pull off another, even longer, tour this season? Last weekend’s abundant snowfall in the mountains was a very good sign. Let’s hope it keeps up. m
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The novel is a hefty, research-driven historical saga like the ones James A. Michener used to write: Divided into three sections, with three blood-related casts of characters, it spans nearly 400 years. In the first section, set in 1567, we follow the young Spaniard Diego Martin as he leaves his native Galicia for a trip to the New World — a voyage that brings him more harrowing trials than riches. In the second section, set a few decades before the Civil War, our protagonist is a young Quaker who comes south to educate the folk of poverty-ridden Couchtown, Va. He ends up adopting the cause of the mixed-race Martin clan as they fight the U.S. government’s relocation plans for native Americans. In the novel’s last section, which spans 1909 to 1930, we watch Diego Martin’s distant descendants grapple with Jim Crow laws and state-sanctioned eugenics that aim to eliminate any evidence of racial blending in early America. Here, the many ironies of the
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more lyricism and psychological depth may find themselves pulled in by the fast-paced narrative anyway. In this way, Washed in the Blood recalls Alther’s most popular novel, Kinflicks, which was less a character study than a breakneck tour of a crazy American decade: In a few years, its malleable heroine transforms from a Southern debutante to a hardcore intellectual to a radical lesbian to a rural housewife. Similarly, the central characters of Washed in the Blood often seem more acted upon by history and circumstance than acting. Their shortsightedness is never more frustrating than at the novel’s end, where the story takes a soap-opera turn that is almost, but not quite, justified by Alther’s themes of forged ancestry and self-deception. Here it becomes clear that Alther has no uplifting moral to draw from the saga of the Melungeons, whose survival depended, to a large extent, on forgetting or obscuring who they really were. (The word “Melungeon” never appears in this book.) As a result, by the time Southerners started proudly reclaiming their Melungeon ancestry, like Alther in Kinfolks, there wasn’t much left to reclaim. While it doesn’t build to the triumphant denouement typical of immigrant stories, the history Alther imagined for one Melungeon family drives home her point that race in America has never been a simple matter of black and white. m
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Melungeons’ history bear fruit because the reader knows the true pedigree of the characters — some classified as colored; others, like Alther’s grandmother, boasting of their colonial roots at the country club — better than they do themselves. Little do the modern-day Martins know that their handed-down female name “Galicia” refers to a part of Spain — or that, in addition to being African, English and Cherokee, they are Jewish. Indeed, these ironies are more interesting than the characters themselves. In each section, Alther has made her focal figures naïfs whose eyes are gradually opened to human cruelty and social injustice, and this rather pedantic blueprint robs them of individuality. (Her players also share a tendency to fall wildly in star-crossed love.) The only character who really stands out is Don Sebastian de Silva, a would-be conquistador with a dark past who takes Diego under his wing in the first section. Where Alther excels is in fleshing out her historical settings: what people ate in these eras, what they wore, how they endured the rigors of nature and established the comforts of home. Those comforts come across with special vividness. When Diego eventually escapes from the brutal, authoritarian world of the conquistadors and adopts the comparatively laid-back lifestyle of the natives, it’s hard not to breathe a sigh of relief (even while thinking, inevitably, of Dances With Wolves). And the 19thcentury Martin homestead is so lovingly depicted that the reader feels its loss. The novel’s prose tends to the pedestrian — “Now he was the center of her world. If she was not with him, she was thinking about him,” Alther writes about a girl in love — but it ticks along at a good rate. Readers who yearn for
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t’s 8:30 a.m., and Seth Giffin is already in the kitchen at Sukho Thai Restaurant in Essex, preparing for dinner. He has to start early if he’s going to extract the full flavors of galangal, kaffir lime and lemongrass in his curries and soups, such as his uncommonly complex, coconut-rich tom kha. “I make sure I can smell those herbs in my soup,” he says. “If I can’t smell it, I know it’s not done.” Giffin, 32, knows it takes time to make meals worthy of an elite palate. As a teen in his native Montpelier, Giffin worked as a dishwasher at Royal Orchid Restaurant; he left high school three months early to travel to Thailand with one of his colleagues. Later, while studying at the Culinary Institute of America, he returned to Thailand and spent his externship cooking at the famous Pae Krung Kao, owned by the father of Royal Orchid coowner Claire Jilandharn. The then80-year-old architect’s goal was to serve food like his grandmother had made a century earlier. His customers included celebrities such as Thailand’s crown princess. When he opened Sukho Thai last month, Giffin had a goal that was no less ambitious — or personal. With the help of his wife, Look-Pla, and her parents, the young chef is trying to bring authentic tastes of Thailand to Vermont. And he’s not the only one. Sukho Thai occupies the space filled until recently by Tiny Thai Restaurant, whose owners, Paul and Pui Ciosek, have downsized their real estate but not their plans. At their remaining Winooski location, the Cioseks are competing with Giffin to make the best, most down-toearth Thai food in the state. That may be a loss for the two couples — Giffin says relations are chilly between the former friends — but it’s a gain for local diners. Tiny Thai has just launched a new menu catering to both Thai natives and Americans who have eaten the real deal in Asia. On it, those offerings come with a no-nonsense warning: “Be aware that some of these dishes are very spicy and are aimed towards those who are Thai
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or have lived in Thailand. No alterations, substitutions or returns.” Looking to please all potential customers, the Cioseks have also added a vegan bill of fare, new desserts and designations for their gluten-free dishes. “Pretty much, my wife and I decided we had dishes we wanted to have — things I remember from Thailand, when the trucks are rolling by and sweat’s rolling down your face,” says Paul
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Ciosek. A computer programmer who spent his early years in St. George, Ciosek worked in Thailand for four years. He says he became so enraptured with the street-food culture that vendors would occasionally let him make a few dishes on their carts, still wearing his suit and tie from work. “I learned a lot that way, just by trying things,” he says. One dish reminiscent of street fare is krapow gai kai dow. The mound of ground chicken is flavored with garlic, basil and a liberal portion of fresh chile. An over-easy egg with a crusty exterior adds a creamy sauce when broken on top. The chef plates this with matchstick-thin carrot strips that spell out the words “Tiny Thai” and a “rose” made of carefully layered petals of fresh tomato and spinach for leaves. Ciosek encourages diners to eat the dish with a spoon, a Western innovation introduced to Siam by King Mongkut, the royal depicted in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and II. Krapow gai kai dow is also available at Sukho Thai, but it tastes wildly different there, just as dishes in Thailand vary from region to region. For starters, Giffin fries and seasons the basil leaves for a cri spy texture and an even more vivid flavor. Chunky slices of onion and green beans make the dish more like a warm salad than Tiny Thai’s, which suggests ethnic sloppy joes. In Giffin’s version, large slices of Thai bird’s-eye chiles add heat, but it’s calmed by musky fish sauce, vinegar and a hint of palm sugar. This balance of flavors is key to a successful Thai dining experience, says Giffin. In upcoming weeks, he’ll roll out a new menu, to include many of the authentic dishes he now serves only as specials. With it, he’ll introduce a DIY approach to flavoring dishes common in the old country. “The plan is, on each table, there’s gonna be a jar of fish sauce, sugar, chile and vinegar,” he says. “That’s just how you eat in Thailand — you’re THAI MATCH
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specialties. The restaurant’s menu changes every three weeks, and Podhaizer says she’ll plan upcoming menus around the growing cycles of her crops. This summer, diners can expect a Middle Eastern menu featuring uncommon eggplants from the farm, including the tiny Turkish orange, and black garbanzo beans. An Asian menu will showcase yard-long beans, shiso and lemongrass, and epazote will appear on a Mexican bill of fare. With greenhouse space on the farm, Podhaizer says she’ll cultivate some more conventional veggies yearround, including her own salad greens. She hopes Salt can save money by growing much of its own grub. What it won’t be skimping on is taste. — A. L.
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Like many spirits, whiskey is having a moment. This month, for instance, Wine Spectator magazine turned over its cover to a tasting of American whiskeys. Now Burlington will gain its very own whiskey bar when the folks at RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB throw open the doors to the adjacent WHISKEY ROOM AT RÍ RÁ this week. Behind the bar will be upwards of 100 bottles of whiskey, some of them rare and tracked down via special order, according to manager MATT MESSENGER. The 44-seat space will also feature a full bar and craft cocktail list, high-end draft beers and sparkling wines, and at least 15 other wines not available next door. Patrons can order from Rí Rá’s pub menu or from a special selection of small plates that will include local meat and cheese boards, says Messenger. Messenger says the Whiskey Room’s vibe will be “loungier and a bit more relaxed” than that of the pub, through which it may be accessed. The new space also has its own entrance at 131 College Street, inside the old Chittenden County Trust Company. Though Messenger won’t pinpoint a date, he says the bar could see its soft opening as early as this weekend.
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responsible for adjusting it yourself.” The four condiments reflect the four fundamental tastes of Thai food: bitter, sweet, spicy and sour. Overall, Sukho Thai’s new specialties are a hit, as are Giffin’s rejiggered versions of dishes served when the restaurant was Tiny Thai. On 7 Nights, reviewers have been overwhelmingly positive, but Giffin says not all former Tiny Thai regulars have been as charitable. He describes a handful of customers who complain that the food is “wrong.” Giffin takes heart from the characteristically Zen attitude of his consultant and mentor, Steve Bogart, former chef-owner of A Single Pebble. “‘Some people are gonna have real issues with it, and some people will appreciate it,’” Giffin recalls Bogart telling him. The younger chef adds, “When you change things, people are gonna have problems. We’ve kind of passed that point. I think people are recognizing the food a lot more for being better.” Even simple dishes have seen dramatic changes at Sukho Thai. Going by its menu description, moo ping, a skewered pork appetizer, may sound similar to the lean, satay-like dish at Tiny Thai. However, at the newer restaurant, the chunks of juicy, slightly fatty tenderloin are coated in a slick of coconut-flavored lacquer that chars at its peaks on the grill. The result tastes like it came straight from a Bangkok night market. That may be thanks to Giffin’s mother-in-law, Onun Chansook. She makes or oversees the creation of all the appetizers at Sukho Thai, including puff pastry filled with curry-flavored potatoes and chicken; and tod mun gai, fried chicken patties redolent of lemongrass, dressed in a lime-flavored salsa of mango, cucumber, cilantro and onion. Chai Nat was chef-owner of restaurants in both Bangkok and her native Chanat
left 1000 years ago. So does another dish that starts with a rich, almost creamy duck broth in a bowl of skinny wheat ba mee noodles. The sweet red cha siu pork that fills the bowl makes that soup’s Chinese heritage obvious. Other Thai tastes come from the nation’s west — namely, curry imported by Indians. It flavors a coconut-imbued duck stew, but also Giffin’s surprisingly complex khao pat sapparot, a fried-rice dish dotted with pineapple, cashews and tofu. The fusion is strikingly similar to the Indonesian fried rice called nasi goreng.
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along with pork rinds and hard-boiled eggs, ready to be slathered with the dip of the day. The pork dip is textural and full of sweet tamarind flavor, while an eggplant dip suggests Thai baba ghanoush, with a punch of lime and bird’s-eye chile. “We’re very excited!” Pui Ciosek says of the impending arrival of fresh ingredients. Diners may be, too. Thanks to the two restaurants, they’re finally tasting what workers in Thai kitchens have enjoyed for years. And that’s exactly Giffin’s goal. “I always wanted to have a place where Thai people come and like the food. Growing up in Thai restaurants my whole life, nobody’s eating the stuff off the menu,” he says. “We should be serving the same stuff we eat. We shouldn’t be serving stuff that we don’t eat.” Pui Ciosek has similar feelings about her new menu. “You don’t find [this food] in fine restaurants,” she says. “It’s street food — very common. It’s comfort food.” Now Vermonters can enjoy twice the comfort — and the spice. m
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In dishes with ancient roots, such as the moo palo (which is also prepared masterfully at Tiny Thai), Giffin replaces bird’s-eye chiles with native white pepper. He explains that the red peppers many diners associate with Thai cuisine were actually introduced in the 1600s by Spanish explorers. Thai cooks found them ideal for covering up rancid meat pre-refrigeration, as well as a perfect match for classic native flavors. Giffin gets many of his hard-to-find ingredients from Boston, including five different types of soy sauce and the palm sugar he uses instead of cane sugar. Others come from Thai Phat Market in Burlington. Over at Tiny Thai, trying to up the ante against their new competition, the owners are looking even closer to home for their ingredients — to local farms. This summer, says Pui Ciosek, “We’re making a point to grow fresh vegetables when it’s available around here.” On March 2, she’ll meet with the Burlington Intervale Center’s New Farms for New Americans to discuss a plan for growing season. A former Tiny Thai employee owns Sol Fresh Farm in Hinesburg, which also will provide produce, including local lemongrass. The change should produce an even better version of Tiny Thai’s already fun dip dish nam prik. Raw broccoli, green beans and cucumbers are served sliced,
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with friends, attended private and industry tastings, and began amassing his own cellar. He developed a deep love for wine from Italy and Germany, as well as for beer. As a founding member of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese, he’s an old hand at pairing cheese with beer and wine. “One of the things I appreciate about beer is its carbonation,” Roberts said. “It cuts through fat and raises your ability to taste things.” He had a good sense of how the bottles in NECI’s cellar would taste; the challenge was to choose those available in sufficient quantities to sate more than 50 diners.
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qualities. The honey-colored, hoppy ale practically vibrated in the glass, and its effervescence zinged up the cheese. “Your wine and my beer have something in common,” said Kerner cryptically. Finally, a light-as-air white-chocolate soufflé came nestled against a tiny beignet and a smear of dark chocolate. Roberts’ pairing, a pale-gold dessert wine, tasted of honey and cooked apples and was an elegant foil for the soufflé. Kerner’s muscular stout emphasized the dark-chocolate notes. Soon the chefs appeared in full white regalia, and their menus revealed the extent of their skills. For the oyster, said O’Donnell, “We took a hollandaise sauce and folded in a meringue, and toasted it.” He combined this with a fish velouté alongside the tapioca pearls. The salmon was sauced with a wasabi sabayon
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At NECI on Main on the night of the event, the basement bar was covered with trays of tiny glasses, each filled with one-ounce pours. Upstairs, 54 people took their seats around several tables and received scorecards on which to mark their preferences. “We eat with our eyes. We eat with our labels, and we make assumptions,” Roberts told them. Like him and Kerner, the diners didn’t know much about the food besides what they saw on the menu: oysters, salmon, lamb… “Lamb?” asked Kerner incredulously. Yes, the chefs had changed the meat course at the last minute — an unanticipated switch in a meal that also included a few mischievously thrown curveballs. Soon trays of dark beer circulated, as did flutes of sparkling wine. Then came small, white cups filled with a sunshine-gold liquid dusted with caramelized sugar. The sauce resembled cappuccino or crème brûlée, softly sweet, spicy and luscious. Lurking inside was a single plump oyster whose briny liquor mingled with the sugars and tiny, iridescent orbs — tapioca pearls, it turned out. The sparkling wine accented the dish’s sweetness; on the beer side, that sweetness softened the bitterness of what seemed to be an aggressive stout. The next course was salmon, so some diners were surprised to see glasses of red wine arrive alongside a strawcolored brew. “People who only drink white wine with fish? Well, I’m not one of them,” quipped Roberts. The tables fell silent as people chewed, sipped, then chewed and sipped again from the opposite glass, concentrating on what was going on in their mouths. The red — a juicy, velvety number — gracefully matched the salmon, which had molasses lacquering its side and a mysterious, spicy-sweet foam across the top. Though the wine flirted with overpowering the dish, in the end it heightened the sweetness and muted the spice. The beer’s sour, almost vinegar-like flavors mellowed against the fish. One of the charges of the NECI chefs was to construct an intermezzo, or palate cleanser, using one beer and one wine. A ruby-colored shot arrived in a glass, along with a tiny square bowl filled with diced pear, frisée salad and an almost-clear liquid. The shot tasted of a summer orchard, and where was the wine? Possibly in the pear dish; it was so subtle it was hard to tell. Then out came the lamb: three pinkish slices of loin layered on a garlicky polenta cake and resting in a puddle of reduced lamb broth alongside tender baby carrots and green beans.
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Vermicomposting: Participants learn about maintaining a bin of squirmy invertebrates for future use in gardening with Melissa Jordan of Wormpost Vermont. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 2238004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.
‘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.
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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Wastewater Bond Public Meeting: Property owners learn about the voluntary 2012 Waitsfield Community Wastewater Loan Program. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994.
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‘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, 1:30 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, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.
Energy Healing: Guided meditation with instructor Shelly Blodgett precedes some energyconnection exercises. Bradford Public Library, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536, bradfordpubliclibrary@gmail.com. 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. 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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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. 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. 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. 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.
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Magic Hat Mardi Gras Parade Saturday, March 3, noon to 5 p.m., at various downtown locations in Burlington. Grand Parade at 3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5202. magichat.net/mardigras
The Wonder Year Independently, the members of SFJAZZ Collective are paving the way for the future of jazz. Put ’em together, and you have an all-star ensemble worthy of taking on the works of a modern jazz master. This year’s octet is “truly a jazz festival’s worth of names,” writes the Boston Globe — and, indeed, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival copresents the Flynn gig, no doubt to whet our appetites for the fest’s June arrival. Antonio Hart, Mark Turner, Avishai Cohen, Robin Eubanks, Stefon Harris, Edward Simon, Matt Penman and Eric Harland put their own ventures on hold to perform masterful new arrangements of the classic pop songs of none other than Stevie Wonder on Friday.
SFJAZZ Collective Friday, March 2, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-40. Free open sound check and Q&A, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org Courtesy of the flynn center
‘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.
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Big Easy street: That’s where we’re gonna be this Saturday, when the 17th annual Magic Hat Mardi Gras Parade rolls through town. Thirtytwo wildly festooned floats proceed toward the waterfront by way of Main Street, thousands of revelers lining the avenue. It all begins at noon with street-style entertainment from Sambatucada!, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, FunkWagon and the Primate Fiasco. Dress in your Mardi Gras best for the King and Queen Costume Contest, and stick around after the 3 p.m. procession for a 90-minute solo set of “gospel ninja soul” by Zach Deputy. Proceeds support HOPE Works, a nonprofit dedicated to ending sexual violence, so go ahead — get bead-dazzled.
Leap Year Celebration: Ben T. Matchstick offers a once-in-four-years show packed with harmonicas, sing-alongs and jumping games.
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SPRING IN STYLE Saturday, March 3, 2 to 5 p.m., at Robert G. Bliss Sr. Memorial Auditorium, top level of St. Albans Historical Museum. $15-25. Info, 393-0716.
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Tuxedos may be de rigueur for chamber orchestras, but few wearers ooze so much style that they’ve landed in the pages of Vogue. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester are just such an ensemble, from their immaculate black-tie dress to vintage haircuts. But the debonair demeanor is only the tip of the iceberg; in concert, the acclaimed baritone and his 12-piece band take listeners to one of the swankiest times in history: 1920s and ’30s Berlin. Weimar Republic cabaret songs — from waltzes and foxtrots to paso dobles and ballads — become fashionable once more through impeccable musicianship and crooning that’s equal parts nostalgic and ultra-modern.
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Greensboro Free Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 533-2531. 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. 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. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. 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: 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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‘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’: Based on Puccini’s opera and real events, David Henry Hwang’s 1988 play is a tangled web of mystery and romance. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $15-60. Info, 296-7000.
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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.
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LuncH and Learn: Speaker Mike Ather explains why you should “feed the soil, not the plant” in an introduction to gardening. Gardener’s Supply, Williston, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.
business
MasterMind group Meeting: Big dreamers build a supportive network as they try to realize business goals in an encouraging environment. Best Western Waterbury-Stowe, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7822.
community
tHursday nigHt potLucks: My precious! Twenty- and thirtysomethings discuss the spiritual and ethical implications of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy at an evening organized by Burlington’s First United Methodist Church and Ascension Lutheran Church. 25 Buell St., Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free; bring a dish to share. Info, 881-3768, rachelstampul@gmail.com. tropicaL storM irene support group: Waterbury residents build community while sharing stories, learning coping methods and supporting neighbors. St. Leo’s Hall, Waterbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 855-767-8800.
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Community Bike Shop night: Steadfast cyclists keep their rides spinning and safe for year-round pedaling. FreeRide Bike Co-op, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 552-3521. tax aSSiStanCe: Tax counselors straighten up financial affairs for low- and middle-income 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.
film
‘a DangerouS methoD’: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m. ‘LittLe houSe in the Big houSe’: This documentary from Tiffany Rhynard and Kim Brittenham’s production company, Sisters Unite, goes inside Vermont’s women’s prison as inmates in a trade program learn to build a modular home from start to finish. Axinn Center at Starr Library, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. ‘norwegian wooD’: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m. ‘pina’: Wim Wenders’ visually thrilling documentary tribute to dancer/choreographer Pina Bausch plays in 3-D. Proceeds benefit Vermont choreographer Hannah Dennison’s large-scale tribute to Bausch, to be presented at Shelburne Farms in June. Majestic 10, Williston, 6:30 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966. ‘SmaLL Farm riSing’ BeneFit: Local food accompanies a screening of this documentary exploring the resurgence of small-scale agriculture through three farms in the Champlain Valley and Adirondack Mountains. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 5 p.m. $12-18; free for kids under 5. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘the Corporation’: Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott’s award-winning 2003 documentary includes interviews with corporate insiders and critics to chronicle the rise of dominant institutions. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994. ‘tinker taiLor SoLDier Spy’: Gary Oldman plays a newly retired British intelligence agent brought back in to identify a mole in Tomas Alfredson’s mystery thriller, set during the Cold War. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
food & drink
games
CheSS group: Novice and expert players compete against real humans, not computers. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $2. Info, 324-1143.
introDuCtory Qigong workShop: Folks in comfortable clothes explore this Chinese healing art known to enhance breathing, balance and range of motion through gentle — but powerful — exercises. RehabGYM, Colchester, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 345-3595.
kids
FanCy nanCy tea party: Wee ones in spiffy wear lift their pinkies for a midmorning snack with extra-fancy crafts. Fairfax Community Library, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.
Lego CLuB: Kids ages 5 and up piece together creations out of plastic bricks and building supplies.
pajama Story time: Little kids rock nightgowns and flannels as special guests read from books. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
nationaL theatre oF LonDon LiVe: paLaCe 9: See above listing, Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $18. Info, 660-9300.
SChooL VaCation Fun: Museum exhibits, crafts and games teach youngsters about the Revolutionary War. Snacks provided. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 12:30-4 p.m. $8. Info, 828-2180. ‘Star warS’ CLuB: May the Force be with fans as they partake in Lego and art projects, movie screenings, and trivia. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. VaCation BLizzarD: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
language
pLauDerStunDe: Conversationalists with a basic knowledge of the German language put their skills to use over lunch. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, noon. Free; cost of food. Info, 862-3100 or 863-3305.
music
‘on the Verge; or, the geography oF yearning’: Three female explorers from the 1890s travel through a foreign land called Terra Incognita — and discover it’s a portal to a future century in America — in this frolic from the SUNY Plattsburgh Department of Theatre. Hartman Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $2-10. Info, 518-564-2243.
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BurLington SongwriterS: Lyricists share and critique original works. Heineberg Community & Senior Center, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 859-1822.
Book & Bake SaLe: Vermonters take their pick from tomes and treats. Grace United Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-8071.
muSiC in the LoFt ConCert SerieS: Aya Inoue and Matt Harpster back original songwriting with solid vocals and guitar. Ten percent of proceeds support the Vermont Community Foundation’s Farm Disaster Relief Fund. Shelburne Vineyard, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; wine available by the glass (proper ID required). Info, 985-8222.
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sport
teLe thurSDayS: It’s all downhill as folks try out free-heel skiing with the crew from Eastern Mountain Sports. Bolton Valley Resort, 5-8 p.m. Regular lift-ticket prices apply; reservations suggested to reserve demo equipment. Info, 877-926-5866.
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engLiSh Country DanCe: Those keen on Jane Austen’s favorite pastime make rural rounds to music by Amy Engelsberg, Sarah Babbit Spaeth and Corey Walters. All dances are taught. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $5-8; $1 extra for first half hour for experienced dancers; bring finger food to share. Info, 879-7618, mdkent@comcast.net.
pieter BrouCke: The professor of the history of art and architecture contextualizes the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s 2010 acquisition of a portrait of the late Roman empress Tranquillina. Room 125, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
fairs & festivals
VinCent e. Feeney: For the annual Norbert A. Kuntz Memorial Lecture, the author of Finnegans, Slaters and Stonepeggers: A History of the Irish in Vermont speaks on “Shamrocks in the Green Mountains: Irish Immigration in 19th-Century Vermont.” McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.
‘2B: the era oF FLeSh iS oVer’: Bruce Duncan of Terasem Media and Films screens this sci-fi film exploring robot rights and machine consciousness. Discussion follows. Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 875-1018, info@vtica.org.
george Dameron: The history professor gives the skinny on “Feeding the Medieval Italian CityState: Grain and Political Legitimacy in Tuscan Communities, 1200 to 1350.” Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. Free. Info, 654-2536.
theater
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, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 353-5932. ‘m. ButterFLy’: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m. nationaL theatre oF LonDon LiVe: Catamount artS Center: Comedic chaos
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.
SnowFLake FeStiVaL: See WED.29, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
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‘FoLD CrumpLe CruSh: the art oF eL anatSui’: Susan Vogel’s 2010 documentary offers a vivid portrait of the artist known for his found-art creations. Room 232, Axinn Center at Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. ‘harry potter anD the SorCerer’S Stone’: An 11-year-old with a lightning-shaped scar is whisked away from his Muggle upbringing and introduced to the wizarding world in the first film installment of J.K. Rowling’s magical series. Come dressed as
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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.
nationaL theatre oF LonDon LiVe: Loew auDitorium: See above listing, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-23. Info, 603-646-2422.
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earLy-LiteraCy Story time: Weekly themes educate preschoolers and younger children on basic reading concepts. Westford Public Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639, westford_pl@vals.state. vt.us.
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.
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miDDLeBury preSChooLerS Story hour: Tiny ones become strong readers through activities with tales, songs and rhymes. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.
runs rampant as two sets of twins separated at birth wander the same city, leaving a wake of mistaken identities, in a broadcast production of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-23. Info, 748-2600.
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food & drink
All-You-CAn-EAt Fish FrY: Diners fill up on fried or baked haddock, French fries, coleslaw, and dessert. St. Ambrose Parish, Bristol, 5-7 p.m. $5-12; $35 for family of five. Info, 453-2488. lA CrèmE dE lA CrèmE: The Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region hosts a soirée of French wines and Vermont artisan cheeses, with words by Jeffrey Roberts. Atrium Lobby, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $18-22. Info, 660-8517. 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. strEss-Busting rECipEs: Eaters pay attention to foods that support energy levels and reduce anxiety as they make Serenity Smoothies and taste calming teas and treats with health coach Marie Frohlich. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. $6-8; preregister. Info, 2238004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.
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EnosBurg FAlls storY hour: Young ones show up for fables and occasional field trips. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 933-2328.
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time, crafts and cake celebrate the famous children’s-book author, as well as Read Across America Day. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Kids in thE KitChEn: Budding bakers flip out as they make a pineapple upside-down cake from scratch. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3:304:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. middlE sChool BooK group: Page turners chat about favorite works of lit. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ‘puss in Boots’: Magic beans, Humpty Dumpty and other fairy-tale staples pop up in this animated adventure starring a sword-fighting kitty. Kids under 9 must be accompanied by an adult. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-19. Info, 603-646-2422. mAtt hAimoVitz: The solo classical cellist goes “Bach and Beyond.” UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, preperformance talk, 6:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455. miChAEl Arnowitt: The pianist keys up an all-Bach program, including Partitas 1, 2, 3 and 5, and selections from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $5-20. Info, 229-0984. sFJAzz CollECtiVE: A band of accomplished jazz musicians explores the music of Stevie Wonder. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966. sEVEn storiEs: Johnson State College alumni rock out with covers and originals. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. $5; free for the JSC community. Info, 635-1476. stEVEn osBornE: In an all-Ravel program, the acclaimed pianist performs Gaspard de la Nuit and more. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-25. Info, 443-6433. wEston BEssEttE QuArtEt: Bristol native Helen Weston fronts this foursome, which specializes in mid-20th-century jazz and blues, plus selections from the Great American Songbook. Byers Studio, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 382-9222.
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pEAK snowshoE ChAllEngE: No wonder it’s called the East’s most challenging snowshoe event: Entrants choose between Saturday’s full marathon, half marathon and 6.5-mile fun run. Um, or the grueling 100-miler, which starts Friday. Amee Farm, Pittsfield, 8 a.m. $60-225 depending on race; preregister. Info, 989-3982, pittsfieldultra@yahoo.com.
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Brown BAg sEriEs: Regina Beidler moderates a round-table discussion, “Know Your Farmer.” Chandler Gallery, Randolph, noon. Donations accepted; bring your own lunch. Info, 728-9878. oFF thE wAll: inFormAl disCussions ABout Art: Professor of art history Glenn Andres offers “Middlebury Deconstruction: Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer’s Design for the Center for the Arts” on a walking tour of the Mahaney Center. Conversation continues over lunch. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 12:15 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 443-6433. williAm tortolAno: The St. Michael’s College professor emeritus speaks in praise of “The King of Instruments: The Pipe Organ (Two Hands and Two Feet).” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.
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rEAding BlizzArd KiCKoFF CElEBrAtion: Kids sign up for a program in which the number of books read increases the height of paper snowfall in the library. Hot cocoa and other activities augment the affair. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.
‘dEAd mAn’s CEll phonE’: The Dartmouth College theater department presents a student production of Sarah Ruhl’s play about technology and interpersonal ties. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $2. Info, 603-646-2422.
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CoopEr & lAVoiE: Guitarist Bob Recupero and harmonica man Mark LaVoie pull off toe-tapping blues and folk-rock. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; wine priced by the glass; bring a picnic or buy a cheese plate. Info, 388-7368. ‘dArtmouth idol’: Live bands back student superstars as they compete for the top vocal act. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center,
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‘on thE VErgE; or, thE gEogrAphY oF YEArning’: See THU.01, 7:30 p.m. ottEr nonsEnsE plAYErs: Middlebury College’s comedy troupe supplies spur-of-the-moment wit. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $6-12. Info, 382-9222. ‘sAVE mE A plACE At ForEst lAwn’ & ‘lEmonAdE’: As part of a monthlong series of events highlighting the work of the state’s female artists, Ilene Blackman and Sandra Gartner direct
Vermont Actors Repertory Theatre members in these two one-act plays. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 775-0903. ‘thE rEturn oF CrAzY ChAsE’: Allen Church’s one-man presentation brings to life one of the state’s most fascinating historical characters, a cross-dressing, piano-tuning fiddler and entertainer. Esther Mesh Room, Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $15-18; cash bar. Info, 728-6464.
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noBodiEs oF ComEdY: Hip and hilarious jokesters Phil Hanley, Tim Krompier and Mark Viera make a name for themselves. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $16-18. Info, 518-523-2512.
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.02, 7-10 p.m. CApitAl CitY ContrA dAnCE: Steppers move their feet to tunes by Pete Sutherland, Max Newman and Stuart Kenney, and calling by Rachel Nevitt. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 744-6163.
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northwEstErn VErmont modEl rAilroAd AssoCiAtion’s VErmont rAils show: Choochoo enthusiasts follow tracks to operating layouts, exhibits, vendors and a railroad clown. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $1-5; free for kids under 6; $5 per family with active military ID. Info, 878-1135. ru12? CommunitY CEntEr FAmilY progrAmming & EVEnts Forum: Folks chime in on the social, supportive and educational gatherings they’d like to see the LGBTQ hub host this year. Childcare and light refreshments provided. Vermont CARES, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-7812, jean@ru12.org. spring in stYlE: The latest fashions designed and made in Vermont hit the runway, and Snow Farm Vineyard provides the wine. Proceeds benefit Franklin County Business & Professional Women’s scholarship fund. See calendar spotlight. Robert G. Bliss Sr. Memorial Auditorium, St. Albans, 2-5 p.m. $15-25. Info, 393-0716.
fairs & festivals
mAgiC hAt mArdi grAs pArAdE: Bead catchers snag booty and boogie to music from festive floats. The party begins at noon on Church Street; the parade takes off at 3 p.m. on Main Street. See calendar spotlight. Proceeds benefit HOPE Works. Various downtown locations, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5202. snowFlAKE FEstiVAl: See WED.29, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.
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‘tABloid’: Errol Morris’ 2010 documentary tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a beauty queen who is accused of abducting the young Morman man with whom she falls in love. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. woodstoCK Film FEstiVAl: wintEr sEriEs: A professor journeys home to see his dying mother, a former beauty queen, in Paolo Virzì’s Italian
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food & drink
Burlington Winter Farmers Market: More than 50 local farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts, and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org.
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Burke Mountain Sled Dog Dash: Sprint-racing teams compete in this family-oriented event. Children have the opportunity to participate in the one-dog event. Kingdom Trails, East Burke, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $5-70 registration; free to watch. Info, 626-7300, info@sleddogdash.com. Sap Season Nature Walk: Naturalist George Lisi points out saw-whet owls, red-winged blackbirds and other signs of the coming spring. Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury, 3:30-5 p.m. Sliding-scale donations up to $20; preregister. Info, 456-8122, 456-1252, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.
Sugar-on-Snow Party: Hardened maple-syrup edibles usher in spring. Palmer’s Sugarhouse, Shelburne, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5054.
The Art & Science of Tracking: Sleuths observe signs of bird and animal life on this moderately difficult educational excursion. Mad River Glen Ski Area, Fayston, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $1525; $65 per family of four. Info, 496-3551, ext. 117.
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Computer Basics: An Event for Individuals With Disabilities: Participants receive basic technology tutelage, including how to print, create shortcuts, and navigate the keyboard and mouse. Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 524-5197, arcnwvt@gmail.com.
Preventing Injury Through a Better Understanding of Your Fascia: Boardcertified structural integrator Irvin Eisenberg speaks about the connective tissue that permeates the whole body. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 2238004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.
kids
North Hero Tumble Time: Kiddos hit up exercise stations around the gym. North Hero Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Vacation Blizzard: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Essence of Joy: Anthony Thomas Leach conducts the Penn State vocal ensemble in African American spirituals and gospel music. The Grace Church Choir, Castleton State College Collegiate Chorale, House Blend and Mill River Senior Chorus join in. Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 775-4301.
Michael Arnowitt: See FRI.02, Richmond Free Library.
Hope on the Slopes: Skiers and riders compete for prizes in the Vertical Feet Challenge to support the American Cancer Society. Bolton Valley Resort, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $30 registration fee; donations and fundraising encouraged. Info, 872-6304. Peak Snowshoe Challenge: See FRI.02, 8 a.m.
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Willard Sterne Randall: The author of Ethan Allen: His Life and Times offers a comprehensive portrait of the historical figure and his Green Mountain Boys. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.
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.
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Dartmouth Wind Symphony: In “Organ-ized,” Matthew M. Marsit conducts the Hop ensemble in works by Grainger, Maslanka and Wood. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $5-20. Info, 603-646-2422. Diana Fanning: A piano program features beautiful and unusual works by Haydn, Brahms, Debussy, Berg and Barber. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 3 p.m. $5-20. Info, 244-7638, catherineborr@ comcast.net. Essence of Joy: Anthony Thomas Leach conducts the Penn State vocal ensemble in sacred and secular music from African and African American traditions. The concert celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Essex Children’s Choir. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 3 p.m. $7-10. Info, 879-5360. Northeast Fiddlers Association: Stringedinstrument players gather for a monthly jam. Moose Club, Williamstown, noon-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 728-5188. Roxanne Vought & Annemieke Spoelstra: See SAT.03, Congregational Church, Charlotte, 3 p.m. The Air Force Band of Liberty’s New England Winds: See SAT.03, Community Church, Stowe, 3 p.m.
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General Assembly: Supporters of the Occupy Movement network, do business and share food. First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 861-2316, occupyburlington@gmail.com.
Wendy McIsaac & Andrea Beaton: Cape Breton’s fine fiddlers grace the stage with dancehall-esque drive and swing. Esther Mesh Room, Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $17-20. Info, 728-6464.
dance
International Folk Dancing: Louise Brill and Larry Gordon organize people into choreographed patterns from around the world. No partner necessary. Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, 3-6 p.m. $6 donation. Info, 540-1020, dance@together.net.
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Burke Mountain Sled Dog Dash: See SAT.03, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Family Snowshoe Adventure: Crunch across easy terrain while examining the flora and fauna of the slopes. 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.
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VCAM Access Orientation: Video-production hounds get an overview of facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.
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Intermediate Excel: Students get savvy about electronic spreadsheets by creating a loan-payment schedule. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.
Marko the Magician: Card, coin and rope trickery collide with audience participation in this sleight-of-hand spectacle for adults. Esther Mesh Room, Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $11-13; cash bar. Info, 728-6464.
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Katie Dunleavy: The lyric soprano sings her way through her senior recital. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
Genealogy Workshop: Professional genealogist, archivist and author Scott Andrew Bartley covers research challenges, techniques and sources in “New Strategies for Researching Vermont Families.” Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 238-5934.
‘M. Butterfly’: See WED.29, 7:30 p.m.
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Christopher Bakriges Trio: Spontaneity plays a strong role in fresh arrangements of jazz standards and fusions with other genres. WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room, Bristol, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 453-3188.
Final Cut Pro Open Lab: Beginning, intermediate and advanced film editors complete three tracks of exercises as a VCAM staff member lends a hand. Preregister. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.
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.
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Tire Fire, Marco Polio, T.F.O. & Eyeball Planet: Regional bands offer grunge, folk-punk, noise rock and “fingerless guitar strumming” — whatever that means — at an all-ages show. The ROTA Studio and Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-10 p.m. $3-5. Info, 518-314-9872, rotagallery@gmail. com.
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including alternatives to the current economic system. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. $5; donations accepted. Info, 861-2316.
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Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships: The world’s top riders — including Vermont superstars Louie Vito, Hannah Teter and Kelly Clark — hit the snow at the 30th anniversary of this competition. Stratton Mountain Ski Resort, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to watch. Info, 800-881-3138.
Stories With Megan: Preschoolers ages 2 to 5 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes with Megan Butterfield. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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Vacation Blizzard: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
‘Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn’ & ‘Lemonade’: See FRI.02, 2 p.m.
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Writing for Fun: Middle schoolers get the creative juices flowing by penning short stories, memoirs and poems. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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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. The Air Force Band of Liberty’s New England Winds: See SAT.03, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier.
Tropical Storm Irene Support Group: Recovery workers gain peer support as they process their emotions and develop coping skills. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 855-767-8800.
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.
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Tech Drivers III: Entrepreneurs get a leg up on applying for and winning competitive federal research and development program funds at a daylong conference with speakers Jim Greenwood and Jesse Erlich. Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. $75. Info, 728-1732.
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Music With Raphael: See THU.01, 10:45 a.m.
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.
‘On the Verge; Or, The Geography of Yearning’: See THU.01, 2 p.m.
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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.
Hope on the Slopes: See SAT.03, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
‘M. Butterfly’: See WED.29, 5 p.m.
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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.
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.
‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’: See FRI.02, 2 p.m.
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Childcare Regulation Review Community Forum: Parents, providers and community members weigh in on the Child Development Division’s childcare licensing regulations, which are currently being revised. Mary Johnson Children’s Center, Middlebury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2853. Tax Assistance: See THU.01, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Chess Club: Players of all ages 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.
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Community Herbalism Class: Participants discover the healing power in their thumbs as Larken Bunce shares self-massage techniques for headaches, digestive problems, colds, anxiety, fatigue and more in a workshop on acupressure. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org. 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. Skype/Email for Seniors: Girl scout Elizabeth DeLuca simplifies methods of computer communication. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free; some laptops available, or bring your own. Info, 878-4918. Spend Smart: Those who struggle to save learn savvy skills for managing money. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.
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Aura-Clearing Clinic: Call to reserve a 15-minute energy-field-healing session. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090.
Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships: See SUN.04, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Foot Reflexology for Health: Toes soak in an aromatherapy foot bath while folks learn about reflex points and self-care with reflexologist Alicia Feltus. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:306:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.
Zach Clements: The author explores why personal responsibility and old values still matter. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.
Herbal Clinic: Folks explore the art of “green” health care at a personalized, confidential consultation with faculty and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700.
National Theatre of London Live: Catamount Arts Center: See THU.01, 7 p.m.
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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.
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‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’: Nicholas Meyer’s 1982 sci-fi adventure flick catches up with admiral James T. Kirk in the throes of a midlife crisis — until he’s called on to take down an old enemy. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 540-3018.
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Steps to Wellness: Cancer survivors attend diverse seminars about nutrition, stress management, acupuncture and more in conjunction with a medically based rehabilitation program. Fletcher Allen Health Care Cardiology Building, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2176.
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Fairfax Story Hour: Good listeners are rewarded with a variety of fairy tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5246. Frosty & Friends Therapy Dogs: Young readers share their favorite texts with friendly pooches. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:304:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. Grand Isle Pajama Story Time: Listeners show up with blankets for bedtime tales. Grand Isle Free Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Hand in Hand: The Middlebury youth group organizes volunteer projects to benefit the environment and the community. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Newt Night: Fledgling naturalists learn about Vermont’s Amphibian Monitoring Program through a slide-show presentation with live specimens. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6:30 p.m. Free; space is limited; preregister. Info, 872-7111, rachel@phoenixbooks.biz. Preschool Story Hour: Stories, rhymes and songs help children become strong readers. Sarah Partridge Community Library, East Middlebury, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Science & Stories: Kids have aha! moments regarding the history of belugas in the Lake Champlain Basin. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. South Hero Playgroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. St. Albans Playgroup: Creative activities and storytelling engage the mind. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Story Hour: Picture books and crafts catch the attention of 3- to 5-year-olds. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
language
Pause Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Levity Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.
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Celtic Night: ‘Journey of Hope’: Irish voices sing out against a thundering backdrop of step dancing and fiddling. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $28.50-38.50. Info, 775-0903. Kevin Lawrence & Paul Orgel: Two professional musicians trace the development of the sonata for violin and piano in three works by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester: This debonair ensemble toasts the extravagant style of 1920s and ’30s Berlin symphonies. See calendar spotlight. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-53. Info, 603-646-2422. Rothrock Residency With David Darling: Over the course of five days, the cellist extraordinaire takes part in music, meditation and yoga classes; open music jams; a presentation on music and the environment; music and dance improvisations; and an intimate evening concert. Middlebury College, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; see middlebury.edu/arts for details. Info, 443-6433. The Air Force Band of Liberty’s New England Winds: See SAT.03, Grace Congregational Church, Rutland.
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Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships: See SUN.04, 8 a.m.-4:15 p.m.
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Sylvia Nonnyanga-Tamusuza: The associate professor of music at Uganda’s Makerere University delivers two speeches: “Female-men, Male-women and Others: Constructing and Negotiating Gender Among the Baganda of Uganda” and “Dance as Music Not Heard, But Seen, and Music as Audio Dance: Theorizing Baakisimba Dance From Uganda.” Room 216, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.
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Auditions for ‘Avenue Q’: The Valley Players Theater seeks actors for this award-winning, “Sesame Street”-style musical about a recent college grad searching for his life’s purpose. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 318-0504. Auditions for ‘Mud Season Variety Show’: Local talent try out for an annual community production. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7-9 p.m. Free; schedule an audition time in advance. Info, 431-0204, outreach@chandler-arts.org.
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Building a Better IEP: Parents of children with special needs review and discuss individualized education programs, tips for successful school meetings and special-education evaluations. Conference Room B, Rutland Regional Medical Center, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 3533277, nancy.richards@vtfn.org.
Vacation Blizzard: See WED.29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
National Theatre of London Live: Loew Auditorium: See THU.01, 7 p.m.
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Vermont ItalIan Club: Members gather historical information and photos of Burlington’s displaced Little Italy neighborhood, which they plan to incorporate into four interpretive signs throughout the area in which it stood. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5961.
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DInner & a moVIe: Potluck participants anticipate the summer with amusement-park-themed food and a screening of Carousels, Coasters and Crowds of Crazy People. Milton Historical Society, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598, abtempleton2@ comcast.net. ‘the artIst’: A silent-movie star and a dancer face the arrival of talkies in Michel Hazanavicius’ black-and-white, and mostly silent, love letter to 1920s Hollywood, which just nabbed the Oscar for Best Picture. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
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GrowInG stronGer: See WED.29, 1 p.m. natural solutIons for fIbromyalGIa: Stephen Brandon introduces possible treatments for this common syndrome associated with body-wide pain and fatigue. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. tunG taI ChI Chuan: See WED.29, 5:30-7 p.m.
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enosburG PlayGrouP: See WED.29, 10-11:30 a.m. faIrfIelD PlayGrouP: See WED.29, 10-11:30 a.m. 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. hoGwarts reaDInG soCIety: Potterheads and others fascinated by the fantasy genre discuss Polly Shulman’s The Grimm Legacy. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.
leGo Club: Children connect colorful blocks to create masterful structures of their own design. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-3:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. mIDDle sChool booK GrouP: Passionate readers recount their favorite works. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
Pajama story tIme: Kids up to age 6 wear their jammies for evening tales. Arvin A. Brown Library, Richford, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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t.h. breen: In “The Revolutionary Achievements of the American People,” this Northwestern University professor looks at the strong foundations laid for a civil society during a time of political turmoil. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
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auDItIons for ‘muD season VarIety show’: See TUE.06, 5-7:30 p.m. ‘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 p.m. $18. Info, 660-9300. ‘shIrley ValentIne’: A faraway vacation gives one middle-aged housewife the kick-start her suburban life needs in this Vermont Stage Company productions. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-32.50. Info, 863-5966.
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amy seIDl: The author of Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming considers our role as planetary stewards. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. booK-to-fIlm serIes: Readers discuss Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm before screening its film adaptation. Montgomery Town Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 326-3113. ChrIstoPher bohjalIan: In “The Door That Led to The Night Strangers: A Novel Born in a Basement,” the best-selling Vermont novelist talks about the inspiration for his latest novel. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. howarD franK mosher: The Northeast Kingdom author focuses on his latest work of nonfiction, The Great Northern Express: A Writer’s Journey Home, at a book discussion and audience Q&A. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061. m
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Valley nIGht: Donn & Jenn grace the lounge with jazz- and folk-inspired tunes. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 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.
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. CLAY: INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED WHEEL: Mar. 29-May 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. Info:. 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, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $195/ person, $175.50/BCA member. Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. Info:. Explore the analog darkroom! Learn how to properly expose black-and-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 Wed. Cost: $145/ person, $130.50/BCA members. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Info:. 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. 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. Info:. 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. PRINT: PAINTING & DRAWING: Mar. 22-Apr. 26, 6-8:30 p.m.,
childbirth PERSONAL FITNESS INSTRUCTION: Cost: $25/1-hr. consultation & 1-hr. fitness session. Location: in your home, Burlington area. Info: Mama Gostosa, Bridget Gosselin, 377-0393, bridget@mamagostosa.com, mamagostosa.com. Prenatal, postpartum, personalized. Enjoy the benefits of maternal exercise at your convenience and in the comfort of your home. Free consultation with the purchase of your first $25 session. Please visit mamagostosa.com to sign up.
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-by-step 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
SHAKTI DANCE W/ SILA ROOD: Weekly: Thu., 6:457:45 p.m. Cost: $12/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. Explore the mansion of creation in your hips with belly dance, Brazilian and salsa steps. Train your hips to have an unlimited axis of movement, and harness the power that simmers at our base and explodes into dance. Practice the dances enjoyed by woman from many cultures over the ages.
education TURNING EDUCATION ON ITS HEAD: Mar. 9, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $10/class. Location: Contois Auditorium , Church St., Burlington. Info: LCWS, Lake Champlain Waldorf School , 9852827, PGraham@lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org, lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org. Kids are smart, just not always (or only) in the ways that can be measured by schools and tests. How can we foster a child’s own special brand of intelligence? How can we help them become creative problem solvers who can face world challenges? Sponsored by the Lake Champlain Waldorf School, this conference looks at those questions and offers fresh answers. Dr. Douglas Gerwin, a noted expert on education and adolescence, will share insights from recent brain research that sheds new light on how our children learn. Workshops expand on the theme of different kinds of intelligence, from experiential learning to social and emotional intelligence.
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.
YOGA 4 CLASSROOMS: Mar. 10, 12:30-6 p.m. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, yoga4classrooms.com. Are you interested in promoting positive, peaceful learning environments though yoga and mindfulness education? Open to teachers, administrators, school counselors and others seeking to bring simple yoga and mindfulness techniques into the classroom for more peaceful, productive classes. No yoga experience is required.
exercise BELLY DANCE & TANGOFLOW!: Belly Dance w/ Gail McKenzie, weekly, Tue., 6:45-8 p.m, $14/ session. TangoFlow! w/ Cathy Salmons, weekly, Wed., 7-8 p.m, $12/session. Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, 8633369, info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances.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!
fitness 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, full-body 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 GARDENING
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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. Info:. 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
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. Info:. Techniques such as sawing, hammering, soldering and etching will be utilized to create a bronze belt buckle of your own design.
PAINTING: WATERCOLOR: Apr. 4-May 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $185/ person, $166.50/BCA member. Location: BCA Center, 3rd floor, Burlington. Info:. Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students will paint on watercolor paper and gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade.
LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4-wk. 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.
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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, 250 Main St., Wheel Room, Burlington. Info:. 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.
DROP-IN: PAINTING: Apr. 5-May 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $10/session, $9/session for BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 3rd floor, Burlington. Info:. This class is open to all levels. Come paint from a still life or bring something that you are working on. Experimentation is encouraged. No registration necessary. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Please bring your own painting materials.
PRINT: SILKSCREEN CLOTHING: Mar. 27-May 1, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tues. Cost: $180/ person, $162/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info:. 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.
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JERICHO PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL: Cost: $35/workshop. Location: Community Center, Jericho. Info: 893-4447, janesmorgan@ comcast.net. Winter Landscape Watercolor with Lisa Forster Beach, March 10, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Painting the Winter Landscape With Pastels with Gene RybickiJudkins, March 17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Collage with Beth Barndt, April 14, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Painting the Landscape in Oils, no drawing skills required, with Jane Morgan, April 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Painting Spring With Watercolors with Kathleen Berry Bergeron, April 28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
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DESIGN: GRAPHIC BASICS: Mar. 13-May 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $205/person, $194.75 BCA member. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Info:. 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.
Weekly on Thu. Cost: $185/ person, $167/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info:. 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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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, multiage wheel, teen wheel, Paint It, March 19-April 16, Animation, March 17-April 15.
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classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $13.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS. GAMES
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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 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. SUCCESSION PLANTING: Mar. 8, noon-12:45 p.m. Location: Gardener’s Supply Company, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 658-2433. Learn how to plan your plantings to get the most of your space and time with Charlie Nardozzi.
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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: Sap Season Nature Walk w/ George Lisi, Sat., Mar. 3, 3:30-5 p.m., sliding scale $20 to $0. Pre-registeration req. 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.
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CREATIVE GLASSBLOWING CLASS AT AO GLASS STUDIO!: Individual classes call for details. Cost: $180/2-hr. class. Location: AO Glass Studio, 416 Pine St., behind Speeder & Earl’s, Burlington. Info: 540-0223, info@aoglass.com, aoglass.com. Experience the heat and fluidity of glass with one of our professional glassblowers. We guide you through making five glass objects that you can take home. Bring your sunglasses and your desire to try something new in our friendly, warm glass studio. Also open to events and group demonstrations.
RAWDACIOUS LIVING: RAW FOODS: Mar. 1, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $50/class. Location: The Healer Within You, 528 Essex Rd., suite 205, Williston. Info: Rawdacious Living, Alyssa Brown MSW, 603988-1913, alyssa@rawdaciousliving.com, rawdaciousliving.com. Rawdacious Living offers raw food classes, counseling, coaching, prepared foods and personal chefing. Raw foods have been known to eliminate illness and energize the body. Alyssa Brown, MSW, is a certified raw food chef offering information that you can use to elevate your life. Next class offered: Energetic Entrees, March 1.
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HONORING HERBAL TRADITIONS 2012: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 1 Sat. monthly for 8 mos. 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,
KNITTING CLASSES: Classes starting in March (daytime & evening). Location: The Knitting Circle, 23 Orchard Terr., Essex Jct. Info: 238-0106, thetravelingknitter@gmail.com. Learn to knit in a comfortable, helpful setting where you can purchase yarn and supplies. All ages and skill levels welcome!
language ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Beginning week of Apr. 2 for 10 wks. Cost: $175/10
1-hr. classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Spanish classes starting in April. Our fifth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Specializing in lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. 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.
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. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 6604072, Julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: Weekly on Mon., Tue. Cost: $5,000/500-hr. program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon. net, elementsofhealing.net. This program teaches two forms of massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB-assigned school. 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 DREAM YOGA RETREAT: Apr. 13-15, 7-5 p.m. Cost: $125/
weekend. Location: Shelburne Old Town Hall, 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. Info: Rime Shedrub Ling Vermont, 6840452, VermontRSL@gmail. com, rslvermont.org/Calendar. html. Meditation master Younge Khachab Rinpoche will teach the Tibetan Buddhist methods of Dream Yoga during this weekend retreat. Dream Yoga is the practice of meditation while in the sleep state. Anyone with an interest in Buddhism, beginner or advanced, is welcome and will benefit from these rare and precious instructions. 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.
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
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psychic BASIC PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT: Mar. 15-May 10, 10 Thursdays, 7-10 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.
religion JOIN RABBI JOSHUA CHASAN: Mon., Mar. 5, 19, Apr. 2, 7:30-8:45 p.m., & Sun., Mar. 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 Zedek Synagogue on April 26 at 7:30 p.m.
spirituality JUNG & NATIVE WISDOM TRADITIONS: Mar. 22-Apr. 12, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $60/course. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. Explore, in a reading/discussion format, the many parallels between Jung’s analytical psychology and Native American wisdom in this course that draws on the writings of Jung and Native authors. Led by Sue Mehrtens. ORIGINAL CHRISTIANITY: Mar. 21-Apr. 11, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $60/course. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 2447909. Was Jesus really a figure in history or a mythic figure? Did Paul write all the epistles ascribed to him? What was the role of the Goddess in the original form of Christianity? This course considers these and other provocative questions to paint a portrait of the earliest version of the Christian faith. Led by Sue Mehrtens.
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Mindful Anxiety Reduction: Mar. 13-Apr. 10, 5:30-7 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $150/5wk. class. Location: Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 312, Burlington. Info: Luanne Sberna LCMHC LADC Sam Standard, PhD, 863-9775, Luannesberna@aol. com. Develop the skills to reduce anxiety in mind and body in this Mindfulness-Based anxietyReduction class. In a safe, supportive environment, you will learn mindfulness-based stress reduction, cognitive therapy and gentle movement techniques. The instructors are licensed mental health practitioners with over 45 years’ combined experience. call or email to preregister.
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.
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Classes, Fine Art, Faux Finishes, Murals Maggie Standley 233.7676 wingspanpaintingstudio.com Arts-infused, interdisciplinary, inspiring classes, camps and workshops for kids, teens and adults. Visit the classes section at wingspanpaintingstudio.com for more details. Sliding scale available, all abilities welcome. Let your imagination soar!
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lAughing RiveR yogA: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. classes, sliding scale $5-15. Cost: $13/class; $110/10 classes; $130/unlimited monthly. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com. Our essence is unconditional love. explore for yourself with yoga classes, workshops and retreats taught by experienced and compassionate instructors in a variety of styles, including Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vinyasa, Yoga Trance Dance, Yin, Restorative, meditation and more. all bodies and abilities welcome.
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diAlecticAl BehAvioR theRApy SkillS gRoup with AdRienne SluSky: Mon., drop-in, 6-7:30 p.m. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington.
6:45 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 the serpent spine, strengthen the core, and teach
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Info:. spring offerings: Kids: Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-noon, March 13-april 17, Bonjour! Preschool FRaRT! (French/art). Thursdays, 3:30-5:30, March 15-aPril 19, after school superhero adventure. spring Break camp: The Marvelous & Magical in Fiction & art! adults: Tuesdays, 6:45-8:15 p.m., april 3-June 5, Beginning French. Tuesdays, 5-6:30 p.m., april 3-June 5, Intermediate French. Thursdays, 9-11:30 a.m., March 29-May 17, Painting/creativity in Oils & acrylics.
evolution yogA: $14/class, $130/class card. $5-$10 community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 8649642, yoga@evolutionvt.com, evolutionvt.com. evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner to advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, anusara-inspired, Kripalu and Iyengar yoga. Babies/ kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre-/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/evoblog.
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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.
the body to move and undulate naturally, in its animal form. Build heat and awareness, push through the blockages in our energy that cause pain and stagnation, and give love to those places in our body that we so often neglect.
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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: 318-6238. Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease in blood pressure and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Janet Makaris, instructor.
Info: 658-9440, vtcyt.com. DBT teaches new skills or behaviors that can be applied to current stressors to ultimately bring us the quality of life and/or peace of mind we deserve. The philosophy behind this group is that mindfulness practice is an essential DBT component that enables us to fully utilize newly learned skills. Ongoing drop-in group.
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A Rolling Stone Allen Stone talks soul, church and keeping up appearances BY D AN BO L L E S
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SD: You’ve spoken about the ability of soul music to address deeper societal issues and to transcend just being “baby-making music.” You seem to make a point of doing that with your own material. AS: The soul music that really got me moving was, like, What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye. I really love music with depth and purpose. Sexy R&B definitely has its place. But especially R&B nowadays has too much emphasis on ass shakin’ [rather]than culture shakin’. I feel like if you have a mic and people who listen to you, you should say something and offer a little bit of nourishment. I sing love songs and I want to have a good time with people. But I also want to leave them with something they can chew on. Something that can nourish their spirits beyond, “Oh, I went to an Allen Stone concert and I got drunk and shook my ass a little bit.”
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SEVEN DAYS: Classic R&B and soul have experienced something of a renaissance in recent years with a number of new artists mining that sound for original material. How do you account for the renewed interest? ALLEN STONE: I don’t know. Part of it might be the resurgence of vinyl, which is definitely coming back. It’s getting back to the roots of real music. But R&B music and traditional soul music was never really lost. And there was a pretty big light shone on it when Amy Winehouse came out [with Back to Black Black]. America sort of turned their ears to soul music again, in my opinion. But I don’t know. I think people just want good music, and when it comes out they attach to it.
SD: You’re the son of a preacher. How important was growing up singing in church to what you do now? AS: It was vital. I wouldn’t have been singing growing up if my mom and dad weren’t singing in the church. It helped me find a love and passion for mu-
sic. Granted, the music that was being played in my church growing up was awful. It was, like, crappy Southern gospel hymns and limited resources as far as musicians go. So I definitely didn’t get my chops in the church. It didn’t teach me how to do what I do now. But the singing part of church was really the only part of church I enjoyed or could stand. So I gravitated toward that and learned to get lost in a song. That’s where I learned how to feel music. SD: People have made some interesting comparisons of your music to other artists, including, of all people, Justin Timberlake. How do you feel about that one? AS: [Laughs] Well, Justin Timberlake’s a sexy motherfucker, man. I mean, he’s one of the most talented artists to come out of the industry in the last 30 years. He’s brilliant. So getting compared to someone like that is awesome. I don’t know. When people say, “Oh, somebody sounds like this,” even when I do it, it only goes so far. It’s just an attempt at communication, to describe or categorize. But until you really pick up that record, you can’t fully understand what it means. Everybody has their own frame of reference based on what they’ve experienced. So whoever compared me to Justin Timberlake, maybe that’s all they’ve heard in soul music. I would say more like Donny Hathaway, that old soul music. But JT is incredible. If someone wants to flatter me by saying I sound like him, that’s great. SD: There’s no delicate way to say this, but you don’t really look the part of a classic soul crooner. Do you find you have to overcome people’s misperceptions of you based on your appearance? AS: [Laughs] For sure. When I was first starting out, we’d go around to labels and I showed up looking like a Northwest hippie and they were, like, What’s going on? It’s the industry, which is bullshit. That’s why it keeps turning out the same pop, cupcake, cookie-cutter artists. They have a model of what they think works, and they’re trying to keep the lights on. I think it’s sad. It stunts a lot of incredible artists. I doubt we’d have Elton John or Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles if that same model was in place 40 years ago. But it is what it is. We’re visual creatures. But, yeah. I’m not black. I don’t have a short crew cut and I don’t wear a suit. That’s naturally what a soul crooner looks like, but that’s not me. But there are people out there who genuinely care about the craft of music and know that it’s about what it sounds like and not what it looks like. So hopefully I’ll be able to pave out that lane where people think, Yeah, he looks a little off-putting. But he works hard and sings hard and comes out to entertain every night.
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Last week, I led with a riff about local comedians tearing up the Funniest Comic in New England Contest at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. To refresh your memories, Vermont comics killed it in the competition’s opening rounds. We advanced five local comedians to the preliminaries. Plus, two other comics with strong VT ties were among those original 20 contestants — out of a field of 200 who auditioned. Three local comedians, ryan kriger, nathan hartswick and tony bates, and VT expat maya manion made the semifinal round, held this past weekend. Unfortunately, none of our local funny people made it to the finals. Though in a recent email, Hartswick writes that the winner, Rhode Island’s craig boudria, was deserving of the crown. While it’s a bit of a bummer not to see our local favorites in the finals, the mere fact that so many VT comics not only made the competition — a feat in itself — but made such a strong collective showing is impressive. It speaks volumes about the increasing quality and quantity of standup comedy in Vermont. SoUnDbITeS
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back before, of all things, participating in a Mardi Gras parade sponsored by a beer company in Vermont in early March? Thanks a lot, puritans.) But those are minor complaints that wither when compared to the overall positive impact of the parade. So … yeah. There’s not much to say about the Magic Hat Mardi Gras Parade that either hasn’t been said before or isn’t considered locally common knowledge. After 17 years, you know what to expect — the (sorta) unexpected. You know it will be crowded and frenzied and fun. You know it supports a good cause. You know parking will be a pain in the ass. You know there will be
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The big story on the local entertainment front this week is undoubtedly the annual Magic Hat Mardi Gras Parade, set to kick off this Saturday, March 3, in downtown Burlington. The parade, now in its 17th year, has become one of the Queen City’s signature events. Every year, thousands of revelers jam our streets to cheer on the succession of floats, jostle for cheap plastic beads and moon pies, and, of course, get hammered at one of the innumerable Mardi Gras parties happening at venues all over town. [Note from our legal team: Please drink responsibly.] In short, it’s kind of a big deal. As such, the parade gets love in this column every year. And why not? It’s for a great cause — HOPE Works, formerly called the Women’s Rape Crisis Center. It delivers a much-needed infusion of late-winter cash into our downtown economy. And, generally speaking, it’s a good time. But, as I’m now entering my fifth year of penning this little corner of the paper — and that following several years in the employ of our local beer barons — I fear I’ve run out of things to say about Mardi Gras. Sure, I could mention that sambatucada! will warm up the crowd with pre-parade sets on Church Street in front of City Hall. But you probably already knew that, since the local Afro-Latin percussion ensemble does it every year — with good reason: They’re great. I could point you to the Marketplace top block where local wagon o’ funk, Funkwagon, will get their groove on in the early afternoon. They’re certainly worth your time and put on
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1/2 Lounge: Scott Mangan & Guests (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. Higher Ground Ballroom: fun., Sleeper Agent (pop), 8 p.m., $17/20. AA. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Funkwagon, the Lynguistic Civilians (hip-hop, funk), 8 p.m., $8/10. AA. Leunig's Bistro & Café: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., Free. 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.
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The Skinny Pancake: Wednesday Night Fun-Waiser with Joshua Panda (soul), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.
great way to kick off the 2012 Magic Hat Mardi Gras weekend, which midnite do this Friday, March 2, at the Higher Ground Ballroom. Barika open.
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The Skinny Pancake: Wednesday Night Fun-Waiser with Jay Ekis (country), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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51 Main: Jazz Fest: Chris Bakriges Trio, 8 p.m., Free.
City Limits: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. On the Rise Bakery: Joshua Glass (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Donations.
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Moog's: Rudy Dauth (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.
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1/2 Lounge: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, Aaron Flinn (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Hoptronica M3 (dubstep), 10 p.m., Free. Club Metronome: Muspost Mardi Gras: Mux Mool, Shigeto, Thelonius X the Orator (bass music), 9 p.m., $5.
Parker Pie Co.: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7:30 p.m., Free.
Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
DJ Mini (house), 9 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free.
Higher Ground Ballroom: moe., (rock), 9 p.m., Sold Out.
Rí Rá Irish Pub: Longford Row (Irish), 8 p.m., Free.
Levity Café: Open Mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free.
Venue: Karaoke with Steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free.
Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
Monkey House: Toy Soldiers, Bob Degree and the Bluegrass Storm, Concrete Rivals (indie), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.
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Monopole: Charley Orlando (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
Nectar's: Trivia Mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Conscious Thursdays: Workingman's Army, Tommy Alexander, One Over Zero (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
The Black Door: Dare 2 Be Square (old-time), 6 p.m., $5.
Monopole Downstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free.
O'Brien's Irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free. ONE Pepper Grill: The Ryan Hanson Band (rock), 8 p.m., Free. On Tap Bar & Grill: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 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.
Charlie O's: Bingo for VT Foodbank, 9 p.m., Free. Green Mountain Tavern: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. Purple Moon Pub: Jason Fulton CD release (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free.
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51 Main: Jazz Fest: Yuki Takeda & Friends, 8 p.m., Free.
Olive Ridley's: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free. Tabu Café & Nightclub: Karaoke Night with Sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free. Therapy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYCE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.
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Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Teitur, Marit Larsen (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., $12. AA. JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. Levity Café: Friday Night Comedy (standup), 8 p.m. & 10 p.m., $8. Lift: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Fat Friday with Sneezeguard (rock), 11 p.m., Free. Monkey House: Kris Shaw, Nathan Hartswick (standup), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. Nectar's: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Grippo Funk Band, 9 p.m., $5. On Tap Bar & Grill: Paydirt (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., Free. Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
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Two Brothers Tavern: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
1/2 Lounge: John Creech (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Bonjour-Hi (house), 10 p.m., Free.
Radio Bean: Wren & Mary (folk), 7:30 p.m., Free. Hickory Strings (folk), 9 p.m., Free. Torpedo Rodeo (surf-punk), 10 p.m., Free. Otis Grove (rock), 11:30 p.m., $3.
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Backstage Pub: Karaoke with Steve, 9 p.m., Free.
Red Square: The Beerworth Sisters (folk), 5 p.m., Free. Toy Soldiers (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.
On the Rise Bakery: ITR @ OTR with Derek Burkins (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., Donations.
Red Square: Old Soul (soul), 6 p.m., Free. DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Free. Hoptronica M3: DJs Dakota & A-Dog (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
Bee's Knees: The Butterbeans (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
Red Square Blue Room: Hoptronica M3: Justin REM, CRE8, Chris Pattison, Luis Calderin, Jakkeis & Ordan with
Moog's: Joel Meeks (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.
Cosmic Bakery & Café: Carol Ann Jones (country), 6 p.m., $5 donation.
Club Metronome: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. Higher Ground Ballroom: Midnite, Barika (reggae), 8 p.m., $15/17. AA.
Red Square Blue Room: DJ Robbie J (house), 9 p.m., $5.
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City Limits: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. Good Times Café: Stephen Bennett (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., $15. On the Rise Bakery: Zephyr (rock), 8 p.m., Donations. Two Brothers Tavern: Sound Wave Entertainment (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
Ruben James: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. Rí Rá Irish Pub: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
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UNDbites vocalist DIANNE REEVES will headline the Flynn MainStage on June 9. The four-time Grammy Award winner is considered among the finest jazz vocalists in the world and most recently toured as part of a tribute to NINA SIMONE called “Sing the Truth,” also featuring LIZZ WRIGHT and ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO. If waiting until June to unleash your jazz hands has you feeling antsy, fret not. 51 Main in Middlebury is debuting its own mini jazz fest this week. The weeklong festival features jazzy offerings every night, including the CHRIS BAKRIGES TRIO on Wednesday, February 29; YUKI TAKEDA & FRIENDS on Thursday, March 1; 17-piece Middlebury College’s SOUND INVESTMENT JAZZ ENSEMBLEon Friday, March 2; and world guitar master RAPHAEL GROTON on Saturday, March 3. Last but not least, it’s become something of a tradition in this column to announce when notable local musicians make babies. Plus, it helps us keep tabs on who’s gonna be in Burlington’s best new bands in 2030. But this birth
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BEE'S KNEES: Malicious Brothers (eclectic), 7:30 p.m., Donations. MATTERHORN: Funk Collection with Cam Cross (funk), 9 p.m., $5. MOOG'S: Sweet and Lowdown (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
RUSTY NAIL: Pulse Prophets (reggae), 9 p.m., $5.
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1/2 LOUNGE: DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic), 3 p.m., Free. Toy Soldiers (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free. Jahson & Guests (house), 10 p.m., Free. BACKSTAGE PUB: Smokin' Gun (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 SHOWCASE LOUNGE: First Friday (On Saturday) with DJs Precious & Llu, Doll Fight! (house, punk), 8 p.m., $5/10. AA. JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Hello Shark, Tiger Saw, Guy Capecelatro III, Paper Castles (indie), 9 p.m., $5. NECTAR'S: Mardi Gras 2012: Turkuaz, the Macrotones, the Hornitz, Dr. Westchesterson, Ulabulu, the Move It Move It, Jack Grace Band (rock, reggae, funk), 12 p.m., $5. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., Free. Toy Soldiers (indie), 5 p.m., Free. Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Herego (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Justin Levinson & the Valcours (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Lava Moss (rock), 11 p.m., Free.Dino Bravo (rock), 12:30 a.m., Free. RED SQUARE: Mardi Gras: DJ A-Dog, Barika, DJ CRE8, Joshua Glass Band, DJ Chad Mira, 9 a.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5.
RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: Mardi Gras: DJ Mixx, DJ Craig Mitchell, DJ mario marcic, DJ Tricky Pat, DJ Frank Grymes & the Human Canvas (house), 12 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Trench Town Oddities (rock), 11 a.m., Free. The Bi-Polar Bears (rock), 4 p.m., Free. The Groove Junkies (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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BAGITOS: Irish Session, 2 p.m., Free. THE BLACK DOOR: Hot Neon Magic (’80s New Wave), 9:30 p.m., $5. CASTLEROCK PUB: The Grift (rock), 9 p.m., Free. CHARLIE O'S: Horseshoe Lounge Playboys (bluegrass), 10 p.m., Free. CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., Free. CORK WINE BAR: Seth Eames (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. PURPLE MOON PUB: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., Free. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Bumpin' Uglies (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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“Kitchen Light Lament (Colorado)” follows and bristles with a sort of resigned down-home allure. “Slow Night” imparts a sinewy, late-night blues feel that wouldn’t seem out of place on a record of Tom Waits outtakes from the mid-1970s. “The Places That You’ve Never Been” teases a bossa nova groove but retains an unworldly roots appeal. The album ends on a bright note with the jaunty, hot-house-tinged “Waking Up to Dreaming Again.” Berry and his cohorts gleefully trade solos until the song, and the record, come to a punchy, celebratory close. Tim Berry sits in as part of the ongoing Songwriters in the Round series this Thursday, March 1, at On the Rise Bakery in Richmond.
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If Justin Levinson’s name has become synonymous with easy listening and Elton John covers, that’s over now. On his latest record, This Side of Me, This Side of You, he goes beyond pianopounding crooner and breaks out of the generic indie-Americana from 2009’s Predetermined Fate. Levinson delivers a breakup album tour de force that runs the gamut from heartache serenades to funky, post-love anthems. With a full band and featured musicians, Levinson has developed a variation and dynamic that he lacked on his previous albums. Leading with a moody piano-centric ballad, “Water Wears the Rock,” This Side starts slow but picks up quickly. “You Became a Ghost” is an indie-pop gem not unlike Owl City’s “Fireflies” or Death Cab for Cutie, circa “Crooked Teeth.” Unlike Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard, who ties personal stories to generation-defining images, Levinson crafts smaller metaphors for his stories within songs. Sonically, the record showcases a complex range. “Love You Goodbye” is bipolar, with highs and lows stretching from frustrated emo-core shouting to placid, lulling refrains. Syncopated drumbeats, courtesy of Simon Plimpton, fall perfectly with Sean Witters’ glitchy guitar layers between subtle refrains. Snide humor and breakup bitterness go together like dark chocolate and red wine in “Bar Scene” and “I’ll Be OK.” Both songs are deliciously vaudevillian,
à la the Dresden Dolls. Still, the record’s tastiest bits are served by a brass section that makes several spicy cameos. Samples on “Bar Scene” recall “Undone — the Sweater Song” from Weezer’s Blue Album. But instead of becoming emo-undone, Levinson has cabaretstyle fun. He falls a bit short, though, on the whiny ballad “Million Tears” (even if it is perfectly titled). Where Levinson’s falsetto adds a unique and quirky quality to much of the album, here it drags on inarticulately. Every album is entitled to a stinker, and for This Side, this is it. Nine out of 10 ain’t bad. Though thematically about love gone wrong, This Side of Me, This Side of You is a fun listen. Levinson strikes a balance among sentimentality, wit and humor that would give Ben Folds a run for his money. Each song offers its own distinct color and resonates with the professional musicianship of the Valcours. Justin Levinson and the Valcours play Radio Bean in Burlington on Saturday, March 3.
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City Limits: city Limits mardi Gras party, 9 p.m., Free. Good times Café: stephen Bennett (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., $15. two Brothers tavern: 3 sheets 2 the Wind (rock), 10 p.m., $3.
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Bee's Knees: Z-Jaz (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. matterhorn: Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5. mooG's: The Hamiltones (rock), 9 p.m., Free. 16t-GoodNewsGarage022912.indd 1
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rimroCKs mountain tavern: DJ two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. roadside tavern: DJ Diego (top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
St. Patty Specials! Corn beef and cabbage dinner $16
rusty naiL: Zach Deputy Band (rock), 10 p.m., $12/15. 18+.
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monoPoLe: maaze (rock), 10 p.m., Free. taBu Café & niGhtCLuB: all Night Dance party with DJ toxic (top 40), 5 p.m., Free.
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Bee's Knees: David Langevin (piano), 11 a.m., Donations.
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1/2 LounGe: Family Night Open Jam, 10 p.m., Free. neCtar's: metal monday: atlatl, mythology, musical manslaughter (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on taP Bar & GriLL: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. radio Bean: 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.
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Show Us Your Hits Mardi Gras weekend in Burlington can be overwhelming.
Especially on parade day, the entire city seems to become an enormous, rollicking party. The best
strategy for dealing with the mayhem is to find a good location, ideally with a view of the parade, and stay put. Your best bet this year may just be Nectar’s. This Saturday, March 3, the iconic Main Street nightclub has live music all day long. The mishmash of styles, from honky-tonk to hip-hop, includes turKuaz (pictured), the maCrotones, the hornitz, dr. westChesterson, uLaBaLu, the move it move it and the JaCK GraCe Band.
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1/2 LounGe: sofa Kings with DJs J Dante & Jordan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. CLuB metronome: Bass culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (dubstep), 9 p.m., Free. hiGher Ground BaLLroom: Young the Giant, Grouplove (rock), 8 p.m., sold Out. LeuniG's Bistro & Café: Ellen powell (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. monty's oLd BriCK tavern: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free. on taP Bar & GriLL: trivia with top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. radio Bean: stephen callahan and mike piche (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Jessica smucker with Joe adler (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., Free. The Wind Woods (folk), 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.
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CharLie o's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.
two Brothers tavern: trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
mooG's: Open mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.
radio Bean: Heather pierson (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. sage mayhew & the mayhew Brothers (reggae/hip-hop), 7 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. mushpost social club (downtempo), 11 p.m., Free. red square: Vorcza (jazz-fusion), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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the BLaCK door: swing Night, 8 p.m., $5.
CLuB metronome: allen stone, tommy & the High pilots, Zack dupont (soul), 9 p.m., $7/10. 18+.
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franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. LeuniG's Bistro & Café: cody sargent trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. manhattan Pizza & PuB: Open mic with andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. neCtar's: The Edd, Flabberghaster (live electronica), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. one PePPer GriLL: Open mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free. on taP Bar & GriLL: cooper & Lavoie (blues), 7 p.m., Free.
BaGitos: acoustic Blues Jam, 6 p.m., Free.
Gusto's: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.
City Limits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. on the rise BaKery: Open Blues session, 8 p.m., Donations.
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n African farmer in a dirty yellow shirt is clutching a machete as he strides toward us — and he does not look happy. Behind him, oil-drenched fields are aflame in a hellfire scene of smoke billowing above a blackened moonscape. “Oil Spill Near Farm Land Ogoni,” by former Associated Press photographer George Osodi, might be the signature image of an exhibit of contemporary African artwork now on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. This isn’t so much an art show as it is a visual outburst of rage and despair. What confronts us in “Environment and Object: Recent African Art” is the inverse of Africa as conceived in the Western, romantic imagination. Instead of gazelles bounding across the savannah, we’re given squalid streets and abandoned railyards. Snow-capped Kilimanjaro doesn’t make an appearance here, but there is a trash mountain about to be explored by a teenage scavenger. About half of the 50 sculptures, wall hangings, photographs and paintings depict extreme degradation of Africans and their surroundings. The creators of these pieces serve up their subjects raw, although there’s still beauty of sorts to be found in the suppurating wounds. The rest of the works make inventive reuse of what are generically termed “found objects” but which here can more accurately be referred to as garbage. A couple of the artists even manage to respond whimsically or with mordant humor to their environment’s ubiquitous detritus. Osodi’s oddly elegant compositions of exploding oil wells are among several works by Nigerian artists that focus on the destruction of the Niger River Delta by Shell, BP and other conglomerates. Yinka Shonibare, for example, places discs of colorful traditional textiles on a wall-size expanse of canvas that’s spattered with a glob of black acrylic paint. Jerry Buhari also uses black acrylic to suggest an oil spill. His “In the Pipeline” could pass for an abstractexpressionist painting if it weren’t for its title and the context of the show. Corrupt or inept governments are complicit in this rape, as Barthélémy Toguo, from Cameroon, makes clear in a his lifesize, staged photographs. “Afrika Oil?” shows a man, head back and guzzling from a plastic bottle, wedged inside a white barrel on which “Afrika Oil?” has been painted
in red. In “Stupid African President 2,” a figure wears a white jumpsuit festooned with red telephone cord as he balances a chainsaw on his bald head. Another stupid president, dapper in a bespoke pin-striped suit, stands at a microphone in front of a map of Africa in “Stupid African President 1.” This one is no clown; he means business.
Congolese artist Chéri Samba, who works in the “popular painting” tradition, provides a much-needed light touch in “Lutte contre les moustiques.” There’s nothing funny about the subject — efforts to eradicate malaria — but Samba still manages to make viewers smile with his cartoonish painting of a
as an international art star, contributes the most conventionally beautiful piece in the show, “Some Still Come Back.” It’s made of unconventional material — hundreds of beer-bottle caps strung together with copper wire — and forms a multicolored metallic tapestry that seems to undulate on the museum’s wall. That’s
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“Oil Spill Near Farm Land Ogoni” by George Osodi
The single most shocking piece in a decidedly unsubtle show is “Teasing Suicide” by Sokari Douglas Camp, one of Africa’s best-known female artists. She’s welded a stand-alone steel sculpture of a woman with a Kalashnikov rifle stuck in her mouth. The figure’s head, neck and shoulders are spray-painted bright pink, as if she’s already pulled the trigger. Camp is depicting a member of an armed group that’s fighting the oil companies in the Niger Delta. The militants are demanding a fair local share of the national wealth that’s been plundered by government officials. Is the artist suggesting that her subject is a martyr sacrificing herself for the cause? Or is Camp implying that the resistance movement is selfdestructive? Maybe it’s both.
man with a slingshot and a woman with a bow and arrow (and electrified dreadlocks) taking aim at mosquitoes on their bedroom walls. “Cherie,” the crouching man instructs the woman, “you kill those on the right while I battle the leftists.” The grimacing archer replies, “I’m doing it, my love. I’ve already killed two, but they seem to resuscitate themselves.” Brilliant in their simple shape-shifts are the masks that Romuald Hazoumé has fashioned from discarded plastic gasoline cans and cellphones. They’re immediately identifiable as African in their artistic lineage, even though the Beninois artist relies on cast-off items manufactured in the West. El Anatsui, a Ghanaian who’s emerged
not all: Anatsui has made the piece resemble traditional kente cloth. Nnenna Okore has achieved something similar by knotting white plastic bags into a net-like hanging. There’s defiance behind the beauty of both these works, because, as Anatsui says, they repurpose objects “the environment has thrown up.” Rather than responding passively to an enveloping ugliness, African artists are twisting it into works of political anger and aesthetic splendor. K EV I N J . K EL L EY
“Environment and Object: Recent African Art,” Middlebury College Museum of Art. Through April 22. museum.middlebury.edu
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Mary Mead & Bert yarBorough: work by the colby-sawyer college printmakers. Through March 31 at Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction. Reception: Friday, March 2, 6-8 p.m. Info, 295-5901.
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. ColleCtive art Show: eating-disorder-themed work by members of the UvM art collective Active Minds. Through March 10 at livak Room, Davis center, UvM in Burlington. Info, 730-4234. 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. doug hoppeS: “landscapes with a Twist,” paintings. Through March 31 at seABA center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. ‘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. Through April 29 at Amy e. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn center in Burlington. Info, 655-7772. evie lovett: “Backstage at the Rainbow cattle co.,” photographs documenting the drag queens at a Dummerston gay bar; in collaboration with the vermont Folklife center. Through March 31 at BcA center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. JaSon Boyd: Abstract acrylic paintings. Through March 31 at vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233. Jordan douglaS & axel StohlBerg: “(Re) memberings,” hand-tinted, re-imagined historical photos by Douglas; “little stories,” found-object assemblages by stohlberg. March 2 through 31 at vintage Inspired in Burlington. Info, 488-5766. 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.
roBert waldo Brunelle: “spilling the Beans: The Dropped Food series,” acrylic paintings. March 2 through 31 at Red square in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-8 p.m. Info, 318-2438. Sharyn layField: “A Month of sundays,” acrylic abstractions exploring color and organic structure. March 1 through 31 at Block Gallery in winooski. Reception: sunday, March 4, 2-4 p.m. Info, 373-5150. roger ColeMan: “that was so 19 seconds ago,” new paintings. March 2 through April 29 at Flynndog in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 6-8 p.m. Info, 863-0093. Jon BlaCK: Forged copper structures inspired by human veins. Through March 2 at colburn Gallery in Burlington. Reception: donning the veins, the artist performs, wednesday, February 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Info, 508-479-6695.
‘MonoChroMatiC’: Black-and-white photography. Through March 16 at Darkroom Gallery in essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.
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. 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.
Student exhiBition: paintings, photography and mixed-media works by Burlington college students. March 1 through April 1 at Muddy waters in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5:30-7 p.m. Info, 862-9616. SaleM art worKS: sculpture, paintings, photography and other works by members of the salem, nY, art park and residency. Through March 8 at RoTA Gallery in plattsburgh. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-10 p.m. Info, 518-314-9872. ‘reCyCle/reuSe ShowCaSe’: Artwork made by chittenden county high school students from materials that would usually be considered trash. March 2 through 27 at Frog hollow in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-8 p.m.
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. 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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Mr. MaSterpieCe: “The naughty naked nude show,” figurative drawings and semi-abstract acrylic paintings. March 2 through 31 at Artspace 106 at the Men’s Room in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-8 p.m. Info, 864-2088.
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hideiChi oShiro: “Art and Breath: The life work of hideichi oshiro,” work recently donated to Goddard college by the 101-year-old Japanese artist. Through March 8 at Goddard college in plainfield. Info, 322-1601. 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. Jody StahlMan: “Dogs, penguins, a pig and a Frog,” paintings. March 1 through April 30 at the shoe horn at onion River in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com.
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JuStin landerS: “Disposable landscapes,” paintings made of cheap materials that are intended to be purchased, viewed for a short while and then disposed of or re-gifted. March 2 through 25 at Brickels Gallery in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-8 p.m. Info, 825-8214.
adaM devarney: “And Then the weather changed,” more than 50 original paintings and collages influenced by comics, skateboarding, urban culture and printed material predating the 1980s. March 2 through 31 at s.p.A.c.e. Gallery in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-10 p.m. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.
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‘JeZeBelS and valiant QueenS and thoSe that Fall in Between’: work in a variety of media by members of the collective we Art women (through March 31); iShana ingerMan: “Un-Masking: The Truth,” masks (through March 25). At Fletcher Free library in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 4-6 p.m. Info, 865-7211.
‘eye oF the Beholder: one SCene, three artiStS’ viSionS’: pastel works by Marcia hill, Anne Unangst and cindy Griffith. March 1 through May 31 at shelburne vineyard in shelburne. Reception: sunday, March 4, 2-5 p.m. Info, 985-8222.
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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.
MiChael alBert: “cerealism,” collage posters made from recycled cereal and food product packaging. March 2 through 30 at Jackie Mangione studio in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-7 p.m. Info, 598-1504.
riCK JaSany & Kevin Morin: photography. Through March 31 at Union station in Burlington. Reception: Friday, March 2, 5-8 p.m. Info, 864-1557.
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Laura DeCapua & Geoff Hansen: “our Town: A snapshot of Tunbridge Residents in 2011,” environmental portraits. Through March 10 at Tunbridge public library in Tunbridge village. Info, 889-9404. 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.
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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. roBin LaHue: oil and mixed-media works that explore our relationships with trees and buildings. March 1 through 31 at o’Maddi’s Deli & café in northfield. Info, 485-7770. sienna fontaine: “Born in vermont,” watercolors of flora and fauna. March 3 through 31 at capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com.
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call To arTiSTS Seeking arTiSTS for Show: Vermont Fine Arts Festival seeks vendor. May 25 through 28. Info, vtartisanfestival.com. PhoToSlaM call for enTrieS: Wanted: students, pros, amateurs and photo fanatics for our 3rd annual PhotoSlam. At least one photo from each entrant will be printed and hung in gallery show. All ages. Deadline: March 25. Exhibit May 4 through 26. PHOTOSTOP Gallery, White River Junction. Visit photostopvt.com for entry form and details or call 698-0320. we deliVer! An unparalleled exhibit of mail and stamp art celebrates the South End Arts District and benefits SEABA. Art must be postmarked by April 27 and addressed to SEABA, 404 Pine St., Burlington, VT 05401. Send jpg files, indicating your name, also by April 27, to Marie, greenbus@sover.net, and Bren, bren@flynndog.net for inclusion on the SEABA website. Info, seaba.com/sead/. 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.
‘SToryTiMe’: Work in a variety of media exploring the human impulse to construct narratives; ‘neVer forgeT’: Work examining the creative journey of women. March 6 through April 7 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.
‘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.
‘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. ‘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.
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. call To PhoTograPherS: “Night Light,” a photography exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery. Deadline: midnight, March 21. Juror: Linda Rutenberg. Info, DarkroomGallery.com/ex27.
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‘in The TreeS’: Work by Missy Dunaway, Ellen Granter, Nissa Kauppila, Genise Park, Julia Purinton, Peter Roux, Cameron Schmitz and Gary Starr. March 6 through May 9 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. ‘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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‘connecTed To VerMonT’: Two- and threedimensional 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. Info, 730-5331. daVid SMiTh: Paintings of the Vermont landscape. Through March 11 at Claire’s Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.
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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. Gabriel TempesTa: Works in milk paint and charcoal. Through March 14 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.
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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. raVen sChwan-noble: “The Nature of Grand Isle County,” photographs. Through March 30 at Island Arts South Hero Gallery in South Hero. Info, 489-4023. 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. riChmonD hookers show: Hooked rugs. Through March 31 at Jericho Center Town Hall. Info, 899-2974. ryan libre: “Kamui Mintara, Playground of the Gods” photographs of Japan’s Daisetsuzan National Park. Through March 31 at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common. Info, 586-7711. sarah harT mUnro: Collaged, textured paintings and abstract expressionist work. March 3 through April 21 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158. ‘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 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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talks & events First Friday art Walk: More than 30 galleries and other venues around downtown stay open late to welcome pedestrian art viewers. Friday, March 2, 5-8 p.m., various downtown locations, Burlington. Info, 264-4839. 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. ‘creative competition’: Artists bring a work of any size and medium and face off in the Root Gallery and Public Art School’s people’s-choice competition. $8 entry fee; winner takes all. Friday, March 2, 6-10 p.m., RLPhoto Studio, Burlington. Info, 540-3081.
‘Fold, crumple crush: the art oF el anatsui’: Susan Vogel’s film follows the acclaimed artist, who creates wall hangings from recycled bottle tops at his studio in Ghana, in the U.S. and at the Venice Biennale. Friday, March 2, 4:30 p.m., Axinn Center at Starr Library, Middlebury College. Info, 443-6433. ‘middlebury deconstruction: hardy holzman pFeiFFer’s design For the center For the arts’: Art history professor Glenn Andres leads a walking tour of the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Lunch is provided. Friday, March 2, 12:15 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-6433. ‘empress Furia tranquillina and the dynamics oF late roman portraiture’: Pieter Broucke discusses the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s 2010
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acquisition, a portrait of the wife of Gordian III, who ruled Rome from 238–244 C.E. Thursday, March 1, 4:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Info, 443-6433. salon evening: Enjoy artwork and a glass of wine. Thursday, March 1, 5-9 p.m. at Little Fine Art Salon in Burlington. Info, 617-894-4673. ‘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. Train collectors and experts discuss their respective lifetimes of experience as railroad aficionados: Sunday, March 4, 2 p.m. Info, 644-5100.
him as a “degenerate” artist. Through May 13 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000. ‘native american art at dartmouth: highlights From the hood museum oF art’: More than 100 historical and contemporary works, many on view for the first time, make up an exhibit that explores continuity and change within North American indigenous cultures. Through March 11 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808. m
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(Leila Hatami) are an educated, middle-class couple who’ve been married for 14 years. As the movie opens, they face the camera and address an unseen divorce court judge. Simin wants to leave the country to give their 11-year-old daughter, Termeh (the director’s daughter, Sarina Farhadi), a chance for a better life. Nader feels a duty to stay and care for his Alzheimer’s-stricken father. He’s willing to grant Simin’s petition, so long as she doesn’t take Termeh with her. The judge tells them to go home, saying theirs is “a little problem.” There’s a little problem with the picture’s premise, too, and I haven’t seen another review that’s mentioned it: The viewer is never given a reason why the family can’t just leave the country and bring Nader’s father along. We’re informed that the husband originally planned to emigrate and are never led to believe the couple couldn’t afford to include his father in their travel plans. We see him being driven all over the city. Surely he could sit on a plane every bit as easily. After the hearing, Simin moves in with her mother, forcing her husband to hire a daytime caregiver. Razieh (Sareh Bayat) is poor, devout and pregnant, though she never shares this last fact with her new employer. Much of the story hinges on whether Nader has somehow figured it out by the time he
scenes from a marriage Farhadi’s Oscar-winning drama portrays an Iranian couple pulled apart by debatably insurmountable forces.
fires Razieh for leaving the old man tied to his bed so she can sneak out to do personal errands. That sets in motion a tragic chain of events that leaves Nader facing a charge of murder. The balance of the picture is devoted to his attempts to clear himself. Nader is as concerned about demonstrating his innocence to his daughter as to the magistrate, and the script does offer a frequently compelling portrait of human frailty as the girl grows increasingly wise to her father’s secrets and white lies. In the final act, though, the filmmaker compromises his creation by resorting to a twist completely out of left field. Movie-critic law prohibits me from saying more, except that it’s a borderline cheap trick. And that’s not the movie’s only flaw. It’s impossible to imagine Nader and Simin as anything but adversaries. Their characters
are written in a way that doesn’t give the slightest hint of warmth or fondness between them, and that’s a serious slip if the audience is expected to see the disintegration of their marriage as tragic. What A Separation does splendidly, however, is provide a rare glimpse of everyday life in Iran. The film is filled with illuminating details, such as the Islamic advice line Razieh calls to find out whether changing the old man’s soiled pants will “count as a sin.” And the imperturbable magistrate — a one-man justice system — deserves a picture all his own. The movie is a singular mix of the foreign and the familiar, but is it the best 2011 film in the whole world? A 95? I can’t say that I concur with my colleagues on that score. R i c k Ki s ona k
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ome movies make you laugh and cry, some movies make you squirm, and some movies are so half-assed they can’t arouse you to feel a thing. Wanderlust is in that last category. As a comedy, it’s less dumb than anything Adam Sandler’s done recently. It employs the considerable talents of several former members of comedy troupe the State, including director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer). It’s full of pleasant “Hey, I recognize that guy! He’s funny!” moments. Yet Wanderlust never gets off the ground. Its only laugh-out-loud highlight is a scene in which star Paul Rudd appears to be improvising. The whole enterprise feels like a sketch for a hilarious movie that someone scrawled on a cocktail napkin 10 years ago and never bothered to flesh out. Or like an overlong reunion at an artsy high school where a bunch of people entertain each other with gags that aren’t as clever as they think. Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play married couple George and Linda, who are doing their best to live the upscale American
dream in Manhattan. When he loses his job, and she fails in her bid to sell a depressing documentary to HBO, they’re forced to sell their “micro-loft” and leave the city. George’s porta-potty tycoon brother (Ken Marino) invites the couple to join his family in their Atlanta McMansion. But that version of the upscale American dream, with flatscreen TVs blaring from every available surface, quickly becomes unbearable. When George and Linda stumble upon a rural community full of stoned, happy-go-lucky hippies, they decide to give turning on, tuning in and dropping out a try. It can’t be worse than the lifestyles they’ve already sampled. So the film introduces us to a collection of wacky counterculture characters, including the commune’s addled, rambling founder (Alan Alda), a beatifically weird matriarch who keeps her uterus in a jar (Kerri Kenney) and a flower child eager to practice free love with George (Malin Akerman). Justin Theroux does an amusing turn as the petulant group leader, who has Klingon hair, a faint surfer accent and designs on Linda. Though he inevitably evolves into some-
farts and crafts Rudd and Aniston explore the habits of the counterculture in this mild-mannered, R-rated comedy.
thing of a villain, he’s hampered in his plotting by his apparent ignorance of anything that’s happened in the outside world since 1990 — a funny idea but, like so many in the film, an underdeveloped one. Likewise, Rudd and Aniston are never convincing enough as a couple to make us care about George and Linda’s marital problems, around which the plot ostensibly revolves. He’s charming, as always; she’s wellgroomed and well-tanned, as always. But they don’t connect.
Wanderlust’s problems boil down to the fact that Hollywood has been doing comedies about uptight folks leaving the rat race to join the hippies since there have been hippies, and this one adds nothing to the genre (except, perhaps, cussing and geriatric nudity). It has its moments, but you’ll find more laughs in five minutes of an average “30 Rock” episode than you will here. Marg o t Harr is on
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superpowers and film themselves using them and — surprise! — abusing them in this found-footage film from first-time director Josh Trank. With Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell and Michael Kelly. (86 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Majestic) 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. Capitol, Palace)
pRoJEct X: This week in fake-found-footage movies, a teen party gets seriously out of control. Todd Phillips produced, perhaps hoping moviegoers would come expecting a real-life version of his The Hangover. With Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown and Thomas Mann. Nima Nourizadeh directed. (88 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy)
GHoSt RiDER: SpiRit oF VENGEANcEH1/2 Nicolas Cage returns as the flaming undead biker, who finds himself protecting a young boy in the sequel to the campy hit based on a comic. With Fergus Riordan, Idris Elba and Ciarán Hinds as Old Scratch. Over-the-top-action meisters Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor directed. (96 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol [3-D], Essex, Majestic [3-D], Palace, Welden)
A SEpARAtioNHHH1/2 An Iranian couple seeks a divorce, unleashing a chain of unfortunate events, in this winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar from director Asghar Farhadi. Starring Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami and Sareh Bayat. (123 min, PG-13. Roxy)
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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, Roxy, Stowe) JoURNEY 2: tHE mYStERioUS iSlANDHH Brendan Fraser didn’t return for this sequel to the family adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth. This time around, a teen (Josh Hutcherson) and his stepdad (Dwayne Johnson) explore an uncharted island that’s sending a distress signal. With Vanessa Hudgens and Vermont’s own Luis Guzman. Brad Peyton directed. (94 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Palace, Stowe, Welden) mY WEEK WitH mARilYNHHH Michelle Williams plays a fraying Marilyn Monroe in a drama about the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956. With Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier. Simon Curtis directed. (96 min, R. Roxy)
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tHE ARtiStHHH1/2 A silent film star (Jean Dujardin) struggles to adapt to the advent of talkies in this award-winning old-movie homage from writer-director Michel Hazanavicius, which is itself black and white and almost entirely silent. With Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell and a cute dog. (100 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Savoy, Stowe)
HUGoHHHH Martin Scorsese changed pace to direct this fantastical family tale of a mysterious boy who lives in the walls of a Paris train station, based on Brian Selznick’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. With Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen and Chloe Moretz. (127 min, PG. Big Picture, Capitol [3-D], Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Palace)
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wednesday 29 — thursday 1 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 1:30, 6:30 & 9 (3-D). This means War 1:30, 6:30, 9. Journey 2: The mysterious Island 1:30 (3-D), 6:30, 9. Safe House 1:30, 6:30, 9. The Vow 1:30, 6:30, 9. friday 2 — thursday 8 *Project X 1:30 (Fri-Tue only), 6:30, 9. Wanderlust 1:30 (FriTue only), 6:30. Journey 2: The mysterious Island 1:30 (Fri-Tue only). Safe House 9. The Vow 1:30 (Fri-Tue only), 6:30, 9. Hugo (3-D) 1:30 (Fri-Tue only), 6:30, 9. The Descendants 6:30, 9.
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wednesday 29 — thursday 1 Act of Valor 10:15 a.m, 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40. Gone 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30. tyler Perry’s Good Deeds 11 a.m., 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15. Wanderlust 10:25 a.m., 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (3-D) 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50. The Secret World of Arrietty 11:30 a.m., 1:45, 4, 6:15, 8:30. This means War 10:25 a.m., 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15. Journey 2: The mysterious Island (3-D) 1:30, 6:45. Safe House 12:45, 3:15, 9:30. Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom menace in 3-D 3:50, 9. The Vow 10:15 a.m., 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:20, 9:45. Hugo (3-D) 10:45 a.m. friday 2 — thursday 8 ***Back to the Future Thu: 8. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax Fri-Tue: 10:30 a.m. (3-D), 11:25 a.m., 12:40 (3-D), 2:10, 3 (3-D), 5:10 (3-D), 7 (Fri only), 7:20 (3-D), 9:30 (3-D). Wed & Thu: 12:40 (3-D), 2:10, 3 (3-D), 5:10 (3-D), 7:20 (3-D), 9:30 (3-D). *Project X 1:35, 3:40, 5:45, 7:50, 9:55. Act of Valor 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40. Gone 1:15, 3:30, 7:05, 9:45. tyler Perry’s Good Deeds 12, 4:35, 7 (Sun-Thu only). Wanderlust 10:25 a.m. (Fri-Tue only), 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 6 (Sat only; 21+), 7:25, 9:40. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (3-D) 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50. The Secret World of Arrietty 10 a.m. (Fri-Tue only), 12:10, 2:20, 7:10. This means War 2:25, 9:25. Journey 2: The mysterious Island (3-D) 12, 7:10 (except Thu). Safe House 9:20. Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom menace in 3-D 4:20, 9:20 (except Thu). The Vow 10:15 a.m. (Fri-Tue only), 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:20, 9:45. Hugo (3-D) 10:10 a.m. (Fri-Tue only), 4:30. ***See website for details.
movies Vengeance (3-D) 12:25, 2:45, 7:40, 9:50. This means War 11:50 a.m., 2, 7:10, 9:30. The Vow 12:45, 3:10, 6:45, 9:20. Journey 2: The mysterious Island (3-D) 12:25, 2:45, 6:20. Safe House 12, 2:20, 7, 9:25. Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom menace in 3-D 12:20, 3:15, 6:55. Big miracle 11:45 a.m. chronicle 4:20, 8:45. The Woman in Black 5, 9:40. Hugo (3-D) 4:15. friday 2 — thursday 8 *Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 12:10 (3-D), 12:45, 2:20 (3-D), 2:50, 4:30 (3-D), 5, 6:45 (3-D), 8:50 (3-D). *Project X 12:30, 2:35, 4:45, 7:30, 9:35. Pina (3-D) 2:10, 6:35, 9. The Artist 1, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15. Act of Valor 12:45, 3:10, 7:10, 9:30. Gone 7:05. Wanderlust 12, 9:30. The Secret World of Arrietty 12, 4:25. Ghost Rider: Spirit
friday 2 — thursday 8 *Project X 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:20, 9:30. *A Separation 1:25, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10. The oscar-Winning Short Films 2012 Animation: 1:30, 4:50. Live-action: 2:55. Safe House 7, 9:25. The Artist 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:15. tinker tailor Soldier Spy 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:20. The Iron Lady 2, 6. my Week With marilyn 4, 8. Pay-and-stay pricing for screenings of My Week With Marilyn and The Iron Lady.
6:30 (except Wed). Journey 2: The mysterious Island 2:20. Safe House 12:50, 8:50. The Vow 1:10, 3:40, 6:35, 9:05 (except Wed). The Artist 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9. The Iron Lady 12, 4:30, 7, 9:25. The Descendants 3:50, 6:20. Hugo 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1, 8:45. Beginners 4:35, 6:55. ***See website for details.
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wednesday 29 — thursday 1 Act of Valor 1:30, 6:30, 9. Wanderlust 1:30, 6:30, 9. friday 2 — thursday 8 *Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (3-D) 1:30 (Fri-Tue only), 6:30, 8:45. Act of Valor 1:30 (Fri-Tue only), 6:30, 9.
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wednesday 29 — thursday 1 Pina 6, 8. The Artist 6:30, 8:30. friday 2 — thursday 8 Albert Nobbs 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6, 8 (except Thu). The Artist 1 & 3:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 8:30.
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wednesday 29 — thursday 1 This means War 7. Journey 2: The mysterious Island 7. The Vow 7.
friday 2 — thursday 8 ***Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies Wed: 7:30. *Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:10. *Project X 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30. Act of Valor 1:20, 3:55, 6:50, 9:15. Gone 9:20. The Secret World of Arrietty 12:05, 2:25. This means War 3:30,
friday 2 — thursday 8 *Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 2, 4, 7, 8:45. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 4, 9. Journey 2: The mysterious Island 2. Safe House 4, 7. The Vow 2, 7, 9.
friday 2 — thursday 8 The Artist 2:30 & 4:30 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9:10 (Fri & Sat only). This means War 2:30 & 4:30 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9:10 (Fri & Sat only). The Iron Lady 2:30 & 4:30 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9:10 (Fri & Sat only).
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negotiations, Jedi mind tricks and stuff back in theaters. With Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Liam Neeson. (139 min, PG. Essex, Majestic) THIS MEANS WAR 1/2★ The “world’s most deadly CIA operatives” turn their weapons against each other when they fancy the same woman in this very silly-sounding adventure comedy from director McG. Starring Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon. (98 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Welden) TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY★★★★ Gary Oldman plays a British intelligence agent seeking a mole during the Cold War in this adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel from director Tomas (Let the Right One In) Alfredsson. With Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy and lots of other British thespians. (127 min, R. Roxy) 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) THE VOW★★1/2 Amnesia comes between newlyweds Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum in this sudser inspired by a true story. With Sam Neill, Scott Speedman and Jessica Lange. Michael Sucsy (HBO’s Grey Gardens) directed. (104 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Welden) WANDERLUST★★ A downsized Manhattan couple (Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd) happen on “an idyllic community populated by colorful
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f you think ultra-cheap DIY filmmaking started with the digital age and YouTube, or even with VHS, you’re wrong. Back in the 1970s and early ’80s, in a low-rent, crime-ridden New York that no longer exists, a bunch of young people grabbed Super 8 and 16-millimeter cameras and started filming their neighborhoods and friends. Many of them were also musicians and artists, and icons of the scene such as Debbie Harry and Lydia Lunch appeared in their films. Some of them called it the “No Wave” movement. First-time feature director Celine Danhier explores the scene with clips from the films and interviews with the participants, who include (at least tangentially) such famous figures as Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi, Thurston Moore and John Waters.
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(March 21-april 19): at one point in his book The Divine Comedy, the italian poet Dante is traveling through purgatory on his way to paradise. american poet t.s. eliot describes the scene: “The people there were inside the flames expurgating their errors and sins. and there was one incident when Dante was talking to an unknown woman in her flame. as she answered Dante’s questions, she had to step out of her flame to talk to him, until at last she was compelled to say to Dante, ‘Would you please hurry up with your questions so i can get on with my burning?’” i bring this to your attention, aries, because i love the way you’ve been expurgating your own errors and sins lately. Don’t let anything interfere with your brilliant work. Keep burning ’til you’re done. (source: “a new type of intellectual: Contemplative Withdrawal and Four Quartets,” by Kenneth P. Kramer.)
taUrUs (april 20-May 20): if you’ve been
leo
(July 23-aug. 22): LA Weekly praised the music of drone-noise band barn owl. its review said that the listening experience is “akin to placing your ear against the Dalai lama’s stomach and catching the sound of his reincarnation juices flowing.” That sounds a bit like what’s ahead for you in the coming week, leo: getting the lowdown on the inner workings of a benevolent source . . . tuning in to the rest of the story that lies behind a seemingly simple, happy tale . . . gathering up revelations about the subterranean currents that are always going on beneath the surface of the good life. it’s ultimately all positive, although a bit complicated.
Virgo
(aug. 23-sept. 22): in the coming days, you could do a lot to develop a better relationship with darkness. and no, i don’t mean that you should do bad things and seek out negativity and be fascinated with evil. When i use that word “darkness,” i’m referring to confusing mysteries and your own unconscious patterns and the secrets you hide from yourself. i mean the difficult memories and the parts of the world that seem inhospitable to you and the sweet dreams that have lost their way. see what you can do to understand this stuff better, Virgo. open yourself to the redemptive teachings it has for you.
Pisces
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You should be like a rooster, Pisces: dispensing wake-up calls on a regular basis. You should be nudging people to shed their torpor and shake themselves out of their stupor. What’s your personal version of “Cockadoodledoo!”? It shouldn’t be something generic like “Open your eyes!” or “Stop making excuses!” Come up with attention-grabbing exclamations or signature phrases that no intelligent person can possibly ignore or feel defensive about. For example: “Let’s leap into the vortex and scramble our trances!”
sagittariUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are times in your life when you do a lot of exploring in the outer world, and other times when your pioneering probes are directed primarily inward. in my astrological opinion, you’re currently more suited for the latter kind of research. if you agree with me, here’s one tack you might want to take: take an inventory of all your inner voices, noticing both the content of what they say and the tone with which they say it. some of them may be chatty and others shy; some blaring and others seductive; some nagging and needy and others calm and insightful. Welcome all the voices in your head into the spotlight of your alert attention. ask them to step forward and reveal their agendas. caPricorN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The oxford
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issues to be supremely honorable reasons for you to whine in the coming week. you also have cosmic permission to complain vociferously about the following: injustices perpetrated by small-minded people; short-sighted thinking that ignores the big picture; and greedy self-interest that disdains the future. on the other hand, you don’t have clearance to whine about crying babies, rude clerks or traffic jams.
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Police arrested convicted cockfighter Danny Pham, 36, for violating his parole after he showed up at the post office in Lake Worth, Fla., to claim a live rooster delivered through the mail. Pham insisted the bird in the box was “not his chicken” and that he was “picking it up for a friend.” Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies found 89 roosters in cages in Pham’s backyard. (Palm Beach Post) A gunman entered a London bank and ordered the teller to put 700,000 pounds ($1.1 million) in a bag. Only instead of giving the cashier the bag, the robber held onto it and handed him his gun. He quickly realized his mistake, but before he could grab it back, the teller had time to activate the bank’s security shutters, locking out the suspect and leaving him emptyhanded, except for a bank worker’s bicycle, which he stole for his escape. (Britain’s Telegraph)
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A helium-filled balloon, probably a Valentine’s gift, knocked out power to 15,099 Southern California Edison customers. Edison official David Song said metallic balloons often cause power outages by shorting out lines and transformers, but in this case it shut down an entire substation in Fontana. Song said balloons cause the most outages around Valentine’s Day and June school graduations. (Associated Press)
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Zen Sex Looking for a woman who wants to discover all of the ways the senses can create great sex. zen247, 59 It is what it is Well, I don’t know what to expect outta this. I’m looking for whatever comes. I’d like a girlfriend I can bring home to mom but until I find her I’m pretty much down for most anything. Would do NSA one nighter, join a couple, a group, or go out for drinks and see what happens. “It is what it is.” Justlookin, 29 Four orgasms + 4 u Free and looking to give as much hot sexual pleasure as you deserve. I belive in pleasing whom I’m in bed with, and making sure she has at least three to four orgasms. I love small/average women, no big ones please! Willing to try new things. Love young women too. Willing to travel or you can travel. If yah want a good lickin’ I’ll lap yah all night long. harleyboy1340, 41, l Adveturous guy, sub-curious Looking to take a long walk on the wild side, and see if I want to stay there! simply4fun, 46 Primal Exploration I am a laid-back musician looking for a strong, smart, interesting, drugfriendly woman to explore the wilder side of sexuality. primalfire, 22 just some fun I am just looking for no-strings fun. I can be discreet. I cannot host for personal reasons, but anyway if you want to know more let me know. 116979, 27 Crazy Fun! If you are looking for someone to have fun with then get at me. I’m down for anything, especially just having fun too! LittleSTUD802, 21
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FROM HER ONLINE PROFILE: What sex toy/piece of BDSM equipment is your favorite and why? Gotta say, need help in this dept. Suggestions appreciated! just needing a little more sex I am a regular guy in a commited relationship in need of some good ole fashion no strings sex. Nothing else. I am clean, discreet and very respectful. Would really like to find a daytime fuck buddy. Please, serious responses only. I am tall, dark and handsome, a few extra pounds but it does not slow me down. 1horneydude, 44 Got Hormones? Wanted: 40- to 70-year-old erotically challenged lady with hormones to share for an always-eager 60-year- old male suffering from ASS (apathetic spouse syndrome). No strings or rings, just good naughty fun. Looks? I’m not picky if you’re not, but a sense of humor, eager equipment and discretion are mandatory. Oh and big guns? Always appreciated. Churge1, 60, % New Playmate Interested in finding a mature woman to enjoy mutual pleasure. I am a very uninhibited and attentive lover. I am somewhat dominant, but not into pain for either party. lookingforsum, 48 Play with your kitty Straight SWM wanting more play partners. Open to wide range of ages, ethnic backgrounds or cultural differences. Weight is not important as long as you are healthy. Sensual, consensual, safe and disease-free FWB women wanted. SteveW420, 48, l Loooking... Generally I go for the reserved type with a secret wild side. Someone who enjoys going out for good food and wine in order to set the mood for mutual exploration and primal delights later. Not into the FWB thing. It can be
Lookn For Friends We would love to find couples close to our age who are good looking and like to dance and sing karaoke. We love to show off for people. We are an early 30’s couple. She is tall, shy and sexy with a great body. He is tattooed, fine and the life of the party. We love being sexy for people. looknaround11, 32, l want to DP me? My boyfriend and I wanna find a chill, hot guy that’s fun and confident. I’m new to this, so if you got the goods let us know. sexycouple420, 26, l Insatiable appetites for sex!!! Interesting professional couple (male, 40 yo, and female, 42 yo) searching for no-strings fun! We both have experience with groups and couples, all combinations, although experience is not a must! We require open and easy and willing participants! Must love toys! 802lvnthedream, 42 Massage, Connection, Comfort, Kissing, Orgasms Massage explores pleasure with or without stepping into the sexual. We’d like to massage a woman, man or couple at your level of comfort. Softness of skin, the bliss of massage. We offer non-sexual, sensual massages, or ones that progress to orgasmic bliss. Four-hand massage is an amazingly sensuous path to sensual bliss, or all the way to orgasm. Lascivious, 57, l
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A smile of rare spectacularity You were the friendly clerk with a pink streak in her hair and a smile in her eyes that must go a long way toward making the world a better place. My friend and I came and you (rightly) suggested that he needed a coat because of the cold. A cup of tea and gently accented, freeranging conversation sometime? When: Saturday, February 25, 2012. Where: Mobil station across from Onion River. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909976 When Pandas Attack You: panda. Us: your kitchen. Doing what: drinking a bottle of wine and talking the night away. Meaning: I love you entirely, thoroughly and consistently. I’m looking forward to a life full of adventure together! xoxo MWA! =) When: Friday, February 24, 2012. Where: Panda’s Kitchen. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909975 North Beach You were eating lunch alone in your truck. Would you like company sometime? When: Thursday, February 9, 2012. Where: North Beach. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909974 Hay ME!!!! It’s ME... Do you like pina colada’s, and getting caught in the rain? If you’re not into yoga, if you have half a brain, if you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, I’m the love that you’ve looked for, write to me and escape! When: Friday, February 24, 2012. Where: On a porch with the wind blowing my hair all over. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909973
February 23, 2012. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909969 Hunger mountain man here! Hey. Tried sending you an email after having seen your ISpy one week late! Hope it’s not too late and this makes it to you! I’m interested and wish I’d made it to Stowe that night but the bartender made it sound like you girls weren’t there :(. Try me again! Would love to take you out! When: Thursday, February 9, 2012. Where: Mount Hunger. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909968
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old navy register saturday night Couldn’t help notice your beautiful smile and nice attitude about life. If you’d like to hook up and have some fun then hit me back ;o). When: Sunday, February 19, 2012. Where: Old Navy. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909962 3 Beatiful ladies at KKD You were making a “documentary,” though I think you were just trying to avoid The Hangover 3 by carrying a camcorder around. You three made me smile after a long, dreadful day at work. I owe you all a round. Thanks! When: Sunday, February 19, 2012. Where: Kountry Kart Deli. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909961 Hey Silly You If you come to visit me, the first thing I would do would be to forgive us both. The second thing I would do would be to bring you home with me, as we slip into bed like a pair of wounded saints. When: Thursday, March 8, 2012. Where: Where we are. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909960 100% Positive I’ve loved you since I first set eyes on you, so graceful in the February snow in spite of being bundled from head to toe. We have been through so much in four years, but I feel that we are stronger and closer than ever now. Besides...you’re wicked hot. ;-) When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Where: Huntington/Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909959 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
IT Phone Hero PAUL! You saved my paper! Thank you so much! I’m still going with plan B... except now I will raise my glass to you instead of drinking myself to sleep! Cheers. When: Wednesday, February 15, 2012. Where: Over the phone. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909950
Beautiful Man It’s your turn. I see you every day and fall more in love with you. If you’re wondering if this is for you, it is! Forever is going to be wonderful with a beautiful man like you. Love you Bunny! When: Wednesday, February 15, 2012. Where: Every time I open my eyes. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909946
Your guide to love and lust...
mistress maeve Dear Readers,
Whether it’s because of your New Year’s resolutions to date more or simply the snuggle-cravings Vermont winters induce, I get a slew of letters this time of year asking about online dating. Rather than print weeks’ worth of digital dating dilemmas, I’m offering you a roundup of the most common pitfalls to avoid when wooing on the World Wide Web: Turn That Frown Upside-down: When creating your online dating profile, remember that a positive attitude is sexy. Avoid talking about the ex who broke your heart or how you don’t think online dating will ever work for you — no one wants to date a Negative Nelly. Focus on the good stuff: How would your best friends describe you? What are the accomplishments you’re most proud of? Remember, like attracts like; to land a healthy relationship, present the healthiest side of you. Say Cheese: Ladies and gentlemen, stop taking photos of yourselves in bathroom mirrors with your cellphones. Let’s class things up a bit, okay? If you don’t have any date-worthy photos, ask a friend to snap a few of your good side. And, please, only post recent photos — you might think you look the same as you did ten years ago, but your date may not agree.
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Less Is More: A common mistake among online daters is exchanging too many emails before meeting face-to-face. Correspond a few times, exchange witticisms and make sure you’re compatible enough for a first date. Do not send epic emails back and forth for weeks, relating intimate details of your lives before meeting in person. Overcorresponding creates a false sense of intimacy and can lead to at least one dater getting his or her hopes up. You simply cannot assess chemistry until you’re in the same room.
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Kitten Have you been into the catnip? Your affections come and go with every flick of your tail. You bat my heart Chickens and wood FTW around like a ball on a string, I’m all clawed up. I am fearful to be around You: hoodie, camo hat and jeans 1x3-cbhb-personals-alt.indd 1 6/14/10 2:39:13 PM you, but when I see you I just want and all worn so well. love spending Summer in VT to pick you up and pet your neck time with you and can only hope Our summer of fun was an absolute and rub your belly. When: Saturday, that we can chat more about your success. From dance parties in top hats February 18, 2012. Where: Everywhere. chickens and our mutual love for to summer camp in the Berkshires. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909956 wood. When: Saturday, February Trifecta united in The Kingdom on The 18, 2012. Where: Dinner, dancing. Land. Our love has seen many miles Fun Size Joanne You: Man. Me: Woman. #909967 and will continue to travel down The Hannafords, North Ave. You: in scrubs Path. Bring your retainers and quinoa Dark-skinned beauty at Monkey with beautiful green eyes and dark we still have to save the world. When: curls. I helped you reach the rice chips You were near the entrance at the Friday, February 24, 2012. Where: On on the top shelf, said you were short, bar during the comedy battle. We the corner of love and Burlington. and smiled from ear-to-ear. You told exchanged ‘hellos’ before I had to leave You: Man. Me: Woman. #909972 me the correct term was fun-sized. with the band I was working with. You You are stunning and smart and if were gone when I got back. Gimme Snowflake Bently Charlie O’s I enjoyed those three minutes of a shot? When: Sunday, February You are as unique and beautiful as conversation, imagine what a dinner 19, 2012. Where: Monkey House. each of those delicious snowflakes I together could be. When: Friday, You: Woman. Me: Man. #909965 ate from your hair. How do your lips February 17, 2012. Where: North Ave taste? I’d love to get to know you. The in-between places... NNE. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909955 Bring your antique mac...show me Whether Boston or Maine, the EA or your work. Human connnection is Striking dreadlocks “good trail, even in OUR car for 5 minutes... what matters. I need to know if what morning” Rutvegas! our relationship seems to exist in the I felt was real. Call or text if you still You: striking appearance, said “good in-between places. We just have to have my number. When: Tuesday, morning” before you sported your long keep finding the in-between places February 21, 2012. Where: Charlie O’s. dreadlocks from beneath your coat. together - those beautiful, remote You: Woman. Me: Man. #909971 Me: white sunglasses and funky hat. places are where we will keep finding Said “good morning” back while rushing each other...some of them are only Tavern in Jeff to an appointment by Pyramid Center found in our hearts. I love you, Boo. I spy the woman in a pink Isis hat driving in Rutvegas! Are you new in town? When: Monday, February 20, 2012. a Forester at the tavern in Jeff. We An artist? Single? When: Tuesday, Where: On the trail with me. You: briefly made eye contact on 2/23...are February 14, 2012. Where: By Pyramid Man. Me: Woman. #909964 you taken? When: Thursday, February Center Merchants Row in Rutland. 23, 2012. Where: The Tavern in Jeff. Hagrid and Olive’s mom You: Man. Me: Woman. #909954 You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909970 After we talked at Starr Farm a Drag ball every day! couple of weeks ago, we waved as you You have a pretty name You: beautiful ladies at Nunyuns crossed the bike path. Can we have It was great to meet you not “kind brunch...will now receive cat facts every another play date? When: Monday, of.” I only said that since we have day until next year’s drag ball. Thanks February 6, 2012. Where: Dog park. been chatting for awhile now. May for a great time. When: Saturday, You: Woman. Me: Man. #909963 I buy you a drink? When: Thursday,
February 11, 2012. Where: Drag ball. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909951
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