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Hot Stuff Want to spice things up? Sample fiery flavors at the Vermont Chili Festival. At last year’s event, more than 5000 foodies flooded the streets of downtown Middlebury to spoon up dozens of samples of the onepot meal. Restaurants, caterers and home cooks from all over the state prepare different varieties to satisfy taste buds and vie for first place in their respective categories. See calendar listing on page 56

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year ago this week, voters in more than 65 Vermont municipalities rose up on Town Meeting Day to demand an end to corporate money in politics. A month later, the Vermont legislature followed suit, becoming the third in the country to condemn the Supreme Court’s devastating Citizens United ruling. So how’s Vermont’s battle against corporate money in politics going today? Not so hot. That’s because the Senate panel charged with overhauling the state’s campaign-finance laws is on the verge of increasing the amount of money individuals, corporations and unions can give to statewide political candidates, PACs and parties. Now one longtime crusader for campaign-finance reform says he’d rather see the bill scuttled than approved. “There’s no question that what the committee is currently considering would be far worse than doing nothing at all,” says PAUL BURNS, executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. “This is not reform. This is opening the floodgates to more money in politics.” That wasn’t always the plan. Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out Vermont’s strictest-in-thenation campaign finance law in 2006, leftleaning legislators have been searching for the Goldilocks of contribution limits: low enough to reduce the flow of money in politics but high enough to withstand legal scrutiny. Former governor JIM DOUGLAS vetoed two attempts, while a third languished in the Senate last session. But after the emergence of super PACs in Vermont last summer, campaignfinance reformers thought this was their year. They rallied behind legislation introduced in February by Sen. JEANETTE WHITE (D-Windham) that would have lowered contribution limits, increased the frequency of disclosure and required super PACs’ biggest donors to identify themselves in ads. White’s bill would have capped individual, corporate and union contributions — which are currently $2000 across the board — at $500 apiece for House candidates, $1000 for Senate candidates and $2000 for statewide candidates. It also would have created a new aggregate limit for donors, barring any individual from giving more than $20,000 total per election cycle. Then the sausage-making began. Last week, the Senate Committee on Government Operations, which is chaired

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by White, amended her bill to drastically increase those and other contribution limits. On Wednesday, they settled on a fivefold increase for statewide candidates, allowing them to collect $10,000 checks from each donor. But after Sen. ANTHONY POLLINA (P/D-Washington) protested, on Thursday, the committee scaled that back to $5000. “There’s no reason why anybody should give $10,000 to a political campaign,” Pollina argued to his fellow committee members. Despite Pollina’s efforts, by the time the committee broke for a weeklong Town Meeting Day recess, it had upped just about every contribution limit under consideration.

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If White’s bill is signed into law, Vermont gubernatorial candidates, political-action committees and parties will all be able to raise way more money than they can today. So what on earth is White doing? The Putney Dem says she was persuaded by conversations with two former statewide candidates who argued that it was impossible for those abiding by current limits to keep up with super PACs. Unlike traditional political-action committees, which are subject to contribution and expenditure limits, super PACs can raise and spend as much as they like on political activities — so long as they don’t directly coordinate with the campaigns they back. “[The former candidates] said two campaigns ago the limits we had originally proposed would not have seemed outrageously low, but that was before the world of super PACs,” White explains. “I understand that we don’t want to get in an arms race of spending money, but on the other hand, that’s the reality of running a campaign now.” Which former statewide candidates changed White’s mind? She would identify only one: Democratic Gov. PETER SHUMLIN.

Reached on Friday, Shumlin said he’s had just one “30-second” conversation with White about the bill after an unrelated meeting. “I said my only feeling is that with these super PACs, our current law makes it really tough for candidates to play by the rules,” he recalled. “She told me what she was doing. I said that was great. And she walked out the door.” Shumlin said he doesn’t have any particular numbers in mind but generally feels that candidates like him should be able to raise more. “When someone can go out and spend a million dollars and another candidate is sitting there playing by the rules, it just creates an unlevel playing field,” he said, presumably referring to Burlington’s LENORE BROUGHTON, who donated a cool million to the conservative Vermonters First super PAC last year. Wait a second. Isn’t that coming from a guy who easily raised more than $1.2 million himself last year in an uncompetitive reelection race against an underfunded opponent? “Yes, as an incumbent. And it’s obviously much easier for incumbents to raise money than challengers, but I was really thinking back to the Dubie-Shumlin race two years ago,” the gov said, recalling his close contest in 2010 against former Republican lieutenant governor BRIAN DUBIE. “In that case, had the super PACs been doing what they were doing just two years later, either one of us could be dead meat.” But that’s exactly the point. Shumlin’s an incumbent — and incumbents have no problem convincing wealthy individuals and powerful companies to donate the maximum amount allowed by law. Last year, hundreds of Shumlin’s top donors maxed out at $2000 a pop. Next year, if White’s bill passes as currently drafted, many of those same folks will be writing $5000 checks to Shumlin’s campaign. And you can kiss the thought of a competitive election good-bye. But if the legislature continues to place onerous restrictions on candidates trying to play by the rules, won’t they just go out and form their own super PACs and spend as much as they damn well please? That’s essentially the argument the Vermont Democratic Party and other top Dems have been making throughout this debate: Give me the rules I want, or I won’t play by them. But it’s naïve to think they’ll forswear super PACs even if they get what they want. Last week, Vermonters First bought its first TV ads slamming Dems since last November’s election. That’s Broughton

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President Pro Tem John (D-Windsor), who opposed the Galbraith amendment last year, says there’s really no need. After all, he argues, many of the so-called corporations that donate to Vermont candidates are really just local businesses. “These are your neighbors,” he says. That may be true in some cases, but not for many of Campbell’s supporters. Unless Pfizer, Corrections Corporation of America, Philip Morris and Zeneca Services — all of whom donated to the pro tem’s campaign last year — recently moved to Quechee. Nor is it true for Shumlin, unless donors Hewlett-Packard, Iberdrola Renewables, Verizon and Anheuser Busch — all of whom have business with or pending legislation before the state — moved to Putney, where Shummy can see New Hampshire from his farm. Does the gov, who raised close to a quarter of a million dollars from corporate interests last year, support banning, um, corporate contributions? “I haven’t given the proposal enough thought,” he says. I bet. “We’ll see what the legislature does,” he adds. Indeed. And that’s the thing. The legislature won’t do anything about banning corporate contributions, so Shummy doesn’t have to sweat it. If anything, they’ll pass White’s bill and increase corporate contribution limits. That’s because when it comes to campaign-finance rules — not to mention redistricting — politicians care about one thing: protecting their own political careers. Who cares that 65 Vermont towns and cities called for an end to corporate money in politics just last year? And who cares that 26 senators and 92 House members did the same? If you’re waiting for those same legislators to do more than talk the talk, you’ll be waiting a long time. m

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signaling she’s willing to pony up more despite losing big last year. And you can bet your bottom dollar that Shumlin’s political advisers and the Vermont Democratic Party are watching — and will be ready to respond in kind. Unlike last year, when the Democratic counterpart to Vermonters First struggled to gain traction, I guarantee you that the Dems will have a plan to take full advantage of that Citizens United ruling they supposedly despise. Just ask Shumlin — as Vermont reporters did throughout last year’s campaign — whether he wants left-leaning super PACs to skip supporting his reelection efforts. He won’t say yes. Beyond the question of contribution limits, there’s a more fundamental one: Why does a state that is ostensibly so opposed to corporate money in politics still allow corporations to donate directly to political candidates? Yes, I know the Supreme Court says companies can dump as much as they like into super PACs. But the court has repeatedly and recently upheld states’ rights to ban direct contributions to candidates. Twenty-three states have such laws on the books, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. For that matter, so does the federal government. But not pure-as-fresh-snow-on-Camel’s-Hump Vermont. Sen. Peter Galbraith (D-Windham) tried to change that last year with an amendment to a previous campaign-finance bill, but to no avail. When he threatened to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor to ban direct corporate contributions, leadership balked and killed the entire campaign-finance measure instead. This year, Galbraith’s trying to talk the Government Operations Committee into grafting his proposal onto White’s bill. But don’t hold your breath. “I’m not sure there’s support on the committee for it,” White says. Pointing to last year’s 26-3 Senate vote condemning Citizens United, Galbraith quips, “The Vermont Senate wants to get corporate money out of politics, but hey, please don’t take away my contribution.” “We think of ourselves as a clean-government state, and here we are allowing something that has been banned for a century on the federal level and is banned even in a state like Texas,” Galbraith says. “How can it be that Vermont has lower standards than Texas? To me, that’s really unthinkable.” So why won’t Vermont eliminate corporate contributions?

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ermont is one of 31 states that allow men who have fathered children through rape to petition the court for visitation rights or custody of their offspring. Convicted or not, they have the same rights as any other biological father — a fact that can force victims to face their attackers in court custody battles or to raise their children in partnership with them. In 2007, the Vermont Supreme Court faced this scenario when convicted rapist Robert LeClair sought to “establish parentage of, and rights and responsibilities for” a child conceived during a statutory rape of a minor. At the time of the rape, the victim was 15 and LeClair was 37. The victim’s mother filed

a motion to dismiss LeClair’s action, which the family court granted. But the Vermont Supreme Court later overturned that ruling stating the family court “erred in dismissing the action before a factual record was developed” and that state law grants any person claiming to be the natural father of a child the right to pursue a parentage claim — regardless of whether that child was the result of a sexual assault. Eventually, the plaintiff dropped the case. However, the court proceedings took a huge financial and emotional toll on the family of the victim. Two bills recently introduced in the legislature — S.49 and H.88 — would prohibit rapists from obtaining visitation or

custody rights to their rape-conceived children. “My hope is that this bill will allow Vermonters who have already been through the trauma of a sexual assault to be able to have the space and freedom to heal from their experience, while also being able to keep a child conceived through the assault without the anxiety of facing their assailant in court,” says Rep. Kesha Ram (D-Burlington), a cosponsor of H.88. Sarah Kenney, associate director of public policy at the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, says that when a rapist is awarded visitation rights, the victim is tied to her attacker for a lifetime. Women in these situations may never overcome the trauma

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rapes are perpetrated by someone who is known to the victim, such as a spouse, boyfriend or a date. Proving the child was a result of the sexual assault and not a consensual act could pose difficulties. â€œIâ€™m not sure â€˜clear and convincing evidenceâ€™ is enough to take away the childâ€™s right to having a relationship with his father,â€? Flory says. â€œHow hard is it going to be to prove that the child was a result of that assault, and not as a result of a consensual act that happened a week prior?â€? Flory also notes that courts already have the ability to place conditions on parent-child contact â€” requiring visitations to be supervised, for example â€” if the court feels the parent in question is a danger to the child in any way. Supporters of the bill argue that requiring a criminal conviction would seriously weaken the legislation. Decades of research have shown that rape is a drastically underreported crime. Even when a sexual assault is reported to the police, it rarely results in a conviction. According to End Violence Against Women International, for every 100 forcible rapes committed in the United States, approximately five to 20 are reported, 0.4 to 5.4 are prosecuted and only 0.2 to 5.2 result in a conviction. â€œWe donâ€™t want to limit the law to only those cases that result in conviction, since that would exclude the vast majority of victims of sexual assault from the protections contemplated in the bill,â€? says Kenney. She also argues that the â€œclear and convincing evidenceâ€? clause poses a significant legal hurdle: Victims would have to prove a rape occurred and that the child was conceived as a result of it, providing physical evidence, genetic tests or witness testimony. H.88 has 44 cosponsors, but itâ€™s unclear whether the bill will emerge from the House Judiciary Committee before the legislatureâ€™s March 15 crossover deadline. Kenney is optimistic that the bill will pass next year â€” the second year of the legislative biennium â€” if it stalls out this session. m

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will continue filing motions for custody â€œjust to drag the victims back into court, to add to their financial burdens and to make it really clear that theyâ€™re in charge.â€? In addition, rapists can use custody proceedings as a weapon against their victims. A rapist can ask his victim to give up her legal rights to a criminal trial in exchange for a waiver of his parental rights to the victimâ€™s child. This predicament presents women with a difficult decision: Do they protect society or do they protect their child? Adoption is no easier. Under current state law, a rape victim who decides to place her child for adoption must notify her attacker and gain his consent. The similarly worded House and Senate bills would allow a family court judge to award permanent sole parental rights and responsibilities to the survivor of rape, if she can provide â€œclear and convincing evidence that the child was conceived as a result of a sexual assault.â€? The rapist is then barred from petitioning the court for custody or visitation rights. The legislation would strip rapists of some parental rights, but not of all the responsibilities; they could still be on the hook to pay child support. â€œWe wanted to ensure there was a provision that allowed the victim to maintain sole custody while also having the option of receiving child support,â€? says Ram. â€œThis would not have been possible with fully terminating the assailantâ€™s rights.â€? Because a criminal conviction of rape would not be required for a court to award sole custody to a survivor, opponents of the bills worry that innocent men could lose visitation rights to their children. Others worry the legislation could negatively impact the children involved. Sen. Peg Flory (R-Rutland), an attorney who specializes in family law, understands and supports the intent behind the bill. But she questions its â€œclear and convincing evidenceâ€? clause, which is a lesser standard than a criminal conviction. She points out that most

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hen deer in Pennsylvania tested positive for chronic wasting disease last October, Vermont officials sounded the alarm. The Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife issued a press release warning that the spread of CWD, a relative of mad cow disease, poses “the biggest threat to North America’s deer hunting culture and tradition. “Therefore, the Fish & Wildlife Department is taking measures to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases to the state’s deer herd,” the press release continued. Vermont has indeed taken some steps to ward off an outbreak of CWD, a fatal neurological disease with no known cure. But information obtained by Seven Days raises serious questions about one crucial aspect of the state’s prevention efforts. For two years, the Department of Fish & Wildlife has allowed a licensed captive-hunting facility in Fairlee to maintain, without proper documentation, a herd of exotic wild animals susceptible to CWD. Nonnative animals have escaped from the preserve into the wild, and state officials say the hunting park’s owners have failed to send samples from killed animals to a lab for testing, as required by state regulations. Since it first appeared in Colorado and Wyoming three decades ago, CWD has migrated steadily east and north into 21 states and two Canadian provinces. Along the way, it has decimated native deer populations and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars for diseasecontrol programs that have struggled to contain it. One common thread links almost all of the outbreaks: They can be traced to captive-hunting facilities, where sportsmen pay thousands of dollars to shoot exotic animals such as bison and wild boar inside fenced enclosures. Captive facilities — whether for hunting or livestock — are known as CWD incubators because animals are imported from all over and live together in crowded conditions, where the disease spreads easily.

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almost identical herd of animals roaming just a few miles away at another captive-hunting facility in Fairlee. The Department of Fish & Wildlife says a facility named Hunt the Ridge operated an illegal captive-hunting park that also charged visitors up to $6000 to shoot exotic wild animals. The park’s owners have pleaded not guilty to running an unlicensed hunting park. “The underlying problem is a lack of inventory,” says Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Patrick Berry. “You don’t know where the animals came from. You don’t how many there are.” But Fish & Wildlife officials admit they have no idea what dwells behind Wild Hill Preserve’s 8-foot-high hogwire fence, either. Under regulations adopted in 2009, Vermont’s last remaining legal captive-hunting operation must submit an annual report documenting every animal that came into and went out of the facility. Wild Hill’s 2011 report was filed two weeks ago — more than a year late — when Seven Days began asking state officials questions about it. The report did not include a herd inventory. Despite that omission — a violation of its state permit — Fish & Wildlife relicensed the facility in January 2012 for another year. Wild Hill has provided the state with a list of animals killed on hunts in 2011. From September to December of that year, hunters from as far away as Eagan, Minn., and Boca Raton, Fla., shot 140 exotic animals on the West Fairlee property. On the report, each kill is matched with a hunter’s name and phone number, though state officials redacted that information with black marker. Nothing in the report indicates the origins of the animals — except that the park imported 125 wild boars from a facility in Brigham, Québec, on three separate dates in the fall of 2011. Commissioner Berry says it’s possible some of the animals were born on-site but adds, “We don’t know, which I will admit is not good.”

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With that in mind, Vermont outlawed captive hunting in 2009. But two existing hunting parks were grandfathered in. One of them was Big Rack Ridge, the home of Pete the Moose, a celebrity cervid who developed a cult following when Fish & Wildlife officials sentenced him to death over concerns about CWD. That facility remains operational but has since closed to captive hunts, according to the Department of Fish & Wildlife. State wildlife officials last year oversaw the destruction of native whiletail deer and moose that were living among the park’s imported elk. The other captive-hunting facility is not as well known but might actually pose a bigger threat to the state’s deer population. Wild Hill Preserve, set on 1000 wooded acres in Fairlee, has been luring visitors since 1960 with guided

hunts for elk, Spanish goats, Mouflon rams and other exotic game for up to $6000 a pop. Wild Hill’s owner is Bill Richter, a lifelong hunter and trapper who was a bush pilot in Alaska and the Amazon in the 1960s. “He developed Wild Hill especially for the sportsman who expects something more from his hunt,” the preserve’s website reads. “By traveling a relatively short distance from home, a hunter can leave everyday cares behind and coexist with nature, testing his skills against his game in a true wilderness setting.” Plastered on the website are snapshots of Wild Hill’s rustic lodge and camouflaged hunters posing with their trophies: slain elk, red stags, wild boar and bison. In January, undercover state game wardens posing as hunters found an

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Escapes are another problem. State game warden Mark Schichtle says reports of escaped animals from captive facilities in and around Fairlee have become so commonplace that he stopped recording them. However, four escapes were significant enough that Schichtle made detailed notes. In one such instance, a Bradford homeowner reported spotting three nonnative fallow deer to game wardens in 2011. Schichtle was able to locate and kill one of them, but the other two got away. Schichtle said Richter indicated he was not interested in retrieving the es-

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Perhaps most troubling, Wild Hill Preserve is supposed to remove the brain stem or lymph nodes from each animal shot and ship a sample to a state-contracted lab in Wisconsin that tests for CWD. The lab typically notifies state officials when they receive a shipment, though Darling says they haven’t received a single test result for 2012. “We don’t know where the specimens are at this point in time,” Darling says. “I suspect the specimens remain at [Wild Hill Preserve].” Richter and his wife, Marlene, did not reply to numerous phone messages. Contacted for an interview by email, they simply replied: “Sorry, we’re on vacation right now.” An outbreak of CWD could be devastating for Vermont, where deer hunting generates an estimated $100 million each year from hunters purchasing food, lodging and gasoline. The state’s plan for eradicating CWD, should it be detected in the wild, calls for killing thousands of deer within a 300-square-mile area. It would involve enlisting local hunters, private contractors — even aerial gunners using infrared technology — to “depopulate” wild deer herds. New York State killed and tested 6000 wild deer within a “containment zone” after CWD was detected in a captive deer herd in 2005. That grisly proposition is also an expensive one. Combating CWD costs taxpayers millions of dollars in states that have it. Wisconsin has spent more than $35 million since 2002 to control the disease. While there’s no known link between CWD and humans, health agencies recommend that people not eat meat from infected animals.

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In Mayor Weinberger’s Hometown, Hartland Voters Approve GunControl Resolution

Gun control might be a non-starter under Montpelier’s golden dome this year, but that’s didn’t stop voters in a half dozen Upper Valley towns from weighing in on the issue on Town Meeting Day. Six towns considered resolutions instructing federal and state lawmakers to pass a host of gun-control measures, including a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammo clips. Voters in Hartland approved

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the proposition Tuesday morning following a tense but mostly civil town meeting. Hartland native son Miro Weinberger, Burlington’s mayor, is one of the few Vermont politicians who has come out for stricter gun laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre. And in Hartland on Tuesday, his parents — Michael and Ethel Weinberger — spoke out in support of the resolution. “I really think, at this point, it is up to the people of the U.S. to say that something needs to happen. We have been silent for so long,” said Ethel Weinberger. “We don’t know whether this is going to work. We don’t know if this is going to have any effect. But it behooves us to try.” — KAT H RYN FL AGG

Wildflower Inn Up for Family-Friendly Award — Lawsuit and All The Vermont inn that made headlines for refusing to host a same-sex wedding reception is campaigning for a new title. The Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville is vying for the “readers’ choice” award for favorite New England family resort on About.com, a resource website. So far, it’s winning: As of this week, it was 14 points ahead of the other four nominees in the polls. Asked whether the inn’s family-friendly reputation extends to same-sex families, owner Jim O’Reilly says, “Oh, absolutely. The thing that came out about the wedding thing has nothing to do with our families that visit with us, whether they’re same sex or heterosexual. We treat them all, everybody, the same.”

“The wedding thing” refers to the lawsuit that lesbian couple Ming and Kate Linsley brought against the Wildflower Inn after the owners refused to host the couple’s same-sex wedding reception in 2010. Under a settlement reached last August, the Wildflower Inn agreed to pay the Vermont Human Rights Commission a $10,000 civil penalty and donate $20,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the couple. The inn’s owners also said they would no longer host weddings or receptions at the Lyndonville getaway. Last fall, inn owners Jim and Mary O’Reilly cropped up again in the news when they appeared in a television ad in Maine opposing same-sex marriage. Kim Knox Beckius, the About.com writer who profiled the inn, writes of her family’s 2004 visit: “If my two-year-old could design a B&B — and she does believe she controls the universe — she would conjure up just such a place, where sheep ‘baa’ hello, cows ‘moo’ goodnight, a toy- and book-filled playroom boasts spectacular mountain views and Mommy and Daddy feel so relaxed that they don’t fret when you only eat the chocolate chips on your teddy bear pancakes.” Here’s hoping “Mommy and Mommy” feel just as comfortable. — K ATH RY N F L A G G

House Agriculture Committee Passes GMO Labeling Bill The House Agriculture Committee last week voted 8-3 to approve a GMO labeling bill that would make Vermont the first state to require food manufacturers to mark products that contain genetically modified ingredients. GMO labeling has broad support among the public and state lawmakers — a third of whom are sponsoring one of two bills this year — but the legislation faces an uphill climb. Lobbying from the biotech industry and the threat of a lawsuit could hinder the House bill’s chances moving forward. House Agriculture Committee chair Rep. Carolyn Partridge (D-Windham) says her committee passed an “excellent” bill. “I think it’s ultimately defensible when and if it goes to court.” — K ATH RY N F L A G G

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Local opponents of the F-35 are gearing up their campaign by petitioning to cut off of construction funds for Burlington International Airport if it agrees to host the fighter jets. On Town Meeting Day, activists began gathering signatures in support of a 2014 ballot initiative stating that “no more than one dollar may be spent for construction, equipment and improvement” at the airport in the event F-35s are based there. Bristol attorney Jim Dumont, representing the plane’s opponents, argues that Burlington voters have the power to slash the airport’s budget under state law. Dumont says that because Jim Dumont the roar of F-35 engines could devalue nearby property values, Burlington — as the airport’s owner — faces “enormous potential liability” from damage claims by homeowners. “The problems with Burlington Telecom are child’s play” compared to potential losses due to F-35 noise, he said. Burlington City Attorney Eileen Blackwood says Dumont has it wrong. “Burlington’s city charter trumps the general state law on this issue,” she said, and the city council has sole budget-writing powers.

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With the stakes so high, why has the state of Vermont cut Wild Hill Preserve so much slack? “That’s a perfectly fair question,” says Commissioner Berry. “Frankly, if there are folks who think we should have moved this along more quickly, you could make an argument that they’re right.” In Wild Hill’s defense, Berry says the preserve has existed for decades with

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no government regulation and was suddenly hit with a host of new rules two years ago. “In the rural parts of the state, people do what they want to do. Which is kind of endearing in some ways, that Vermont — one of the oldest settled states in the country — is still the Wild West,” Berry says. “But I think that’s why it’s harder to get people to come into compliance with newer regulations when they’ve been doing something in a certain way out in the hinterlands, where they feel they’re not bothering anybody.” The goal with Wild Hill has been “voluntary compliance,” Berry says, and the way to get it is to develop a

constructive relationship with the owners. More carrot than stick, in other words. That approach worked with Big Rack Ridge owner Doug Nelson, Berry adds, who voluntarily destroyed native deer and moose trapped inside his fenced property. “I spent a lot of time kicking dirt outside the fence of that facility, just talking about what we were going to do,” Berry says. “We’ve made huge progress in the past couple of years.” But the state’s patience with Wild Hill may finally be reaching its limit. The preserve’s permit wasn’t renewed for 2013 and won’t be until it files complete reports not just for 2011 but also 2012, Berry says. In addition, Wild Hill is currently under criminal investigation, though Berry won’t say why. Major Dennis Reinhardt of Fish & Wildlife’s enforcement division says information gathered from Hunt the Ridge — the unlicensed captivehunting facility — implicated Wild Hill in a potential criminal violation, though he would not elaborate. Vermont has taken several steps to keep chronic wasting disease at bay, such as prohibiting importation of whole-deer carcasses from states with CWD, imposing Wild boar bans on feeding and baiting free-range deer, and warning hunters against using products containing deer urine — a prime conduit for the disease — that come from captive deer facilities. The state also tests deer every hunting season — it took brain-stem samples from 3136 deer in 2009 — and hasn’t gotten a positive result yet. Yet state wildlife officials say it’s only a matter of time before CWD shows up in Vermont. A 2011 plan for managing an outbreak estimates the arrival date at “a few decades,” given the way the disease moves over land in native deer herds. Once the disease infects 2 percent of a local deer population, the reports states, it’s “virtually impossible” to eliminate. m 2V-SkiRack030613.indd 1

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t would have been nice to interview JAIME LAREDO in person for a piece about the VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor and world-class violinist, but the man’s schedule is insane. “It is insane,” Laredo agrees with a hearty laugh in a call from San Francisco, where he has just arrived with his wife, cellist SHARON ROBINSON, to play a concert with the Kalichstein-LaredoRobinson Trio. Though based in Guilford, Vt. — the place he calls home — Laredo scheduled the phone interview a few days earlier from the couple’s other house in Cleveland, Ohio, where he and Robinson teach at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Meanwhile, the 71-year-old is also in the midst of his 39th (and final) season as artistic director of the 92nd Street Y’s chamber concert series in New York. And he is planning his 20th season as artistic director-conductor of the New York String Orchestra, a year-end seminar for rising twentysomething musicians that culminates in performances at Carnegie Hall under Laredo’s baton. Then there is his ongoing schedule of guest-conductor appearances with orchestras around the country, duo performances with Robinson and KLR concerts that take the trio around the globe from their base in Washington, D.C., where they are the chamber ensemble-in-residence at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Amid all this activity, Laredo will return to Vermont to perform in the VSO’s Masterworks 4 concerts this weekend, conducted by Vinay Parameswaran. The program features concertos for two violins by J.S. Bach, Philip Glass and DAVID LUDWIG; the last work, by the VSO’s new-music adviser, was specifically commissioned for the project. On violin will be Laredo and Jennifer Koh, his former student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he taught for 35 years. Vermonters often see Laredo from the back, dressed in one of his signature black, mandarin-collared shirts, baton in hand. This weekend’s concert series offers an opportunity to see him in two other roles, for which he is perhaps better known outside

Vermont: musician and mentor. It seemed like a good occasion to ask the performer and teacher about his views on conducting. Laredo has been playing professionally for 60 years. In that time, he soloed works by Igor Stravinsky and Samuel Barber under those composers’ own batons, and played viola for 15 years in a quartet with violinist Isaac Stern, pianist Emanuel Ax and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, among other feats. (Back when he trained at Curtis, Laredo explains, all violin students were required to learn viola.) Born in Bolivia to a family with no other musicians, Laredo showed so much promise by age 6 that his violin teacher urged the family to move to Europe or America, he recalls. Laredo’s father chose San Francisco, where he had grown up. Five years later, the 11-year-old musician made his professional debut with the San Francisco Symphony. After Laredo won the 1959 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium international violin competition at age 17, his elated home country named a soccer stadium after him and printed a Jaime Laredo stamp. “I became a national hero, I think, because the country had only been known for revolutions and turmoil before that,” Laredo jokes with characteristic modesty. Over his long teaching career — after Curtis, he taught at the Indiana University School of Music for seven years until he started at Cleveland last fall — Laredo has become a kind of hero to many of his students, too. The Masterworks 4 concerts are a testament to that. Though the program ends with Mozart’s 40th symphony, it contains three of the four double concertos Koh put together for a project named Two x Four — that is, four concertos for two violins. (The fourth is another commission by composer Anna Clyne.) Koh, 36, initiated the project to celebrate the teacher-student relationship, and Laredo’s mentorship in particular. “He’s one of the greatest, most generous human beings, I would say — and in

the world of music, he’s one of the most beloved of musicians,” Koh says unreservedly in a phone interview from New York. When Koh was 14 and playing in Detroit, Isaac Stern asked to hear her play and immediately recommended she study with Laredo. Why? “It had a lot to do with Jaime’s reputation and how his colleagues really love him,” she replies. Like many of Laredo’s former students, including the innovative Hilary Hahn, MacArthur fellowship winner Leila Josefowicz and Vermont’s own SOOVIN KIM (who founded the LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL), Koh has achieved a certain level of stardom. When asked about his protégés, however, Laredo says he dislikes the word. “I prefer to think of them as people I have played with,” he says. That tendency to treat budding virtuosos as equals helps explain why he’s so beloved. Laredo’s style with his students “wasn’t a matter of breaking them down and building them up again,” says Koh — an approach common among conservatory faculty. Then, as now, “he leaves space for other people, for a conversation to take place, musically speaking.” When Laredo did see room for improvement in Koh’s playing, she adds, “He would say, ‘Maybe this section isn’t holding together, so why don’t you think about it?’” Koh says the “conversation” that will happen at the VSO concerts between herself and Laredo is partly generational. “Jaime is an old-school player: He sounds so warm. But I play Bach, for example, much leaner than he does,” she says. “It really does make the pieces more compelling.” Though the connection will be less visible onstage, Laredo also mentored David Ludwig, who wrote the third double concerto on the program, “Seasons Lost,” specifically for the two violinists. Ludwig, 40, teaches composition at Curtis — where, like Laredo, he also studied — and appreciates the older pedagogue’s mentoring skills from a different perspective. “What we do in classical music is so personal that the teaching of it has to be done with great care. You’re dealing with these young people’s futures,

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absolutely,” Ludwig comments by “orchestra players look on me as an phone from Philadelphia. “Jaime has equal, someone who doesn’t just tell always been thinking about that. He’s them what to do but can do it.” legendary in the field for being so gener“Jaime is a mensch. He’s a complete Using Professional Products ous and positive and enthusiastic.” and total mensch,” affirms Hilary HatcH, from your Favorite Lines: Ludwig introduced himself to Laredo a VSO violinist for the past 30 years. as a 20-year-old Curtis student, aware Hatch, who has also played with a SkinCeuticals • Tata Harper Darphin • Jurlique • Murad that the famed violinist already knew number of regional orchestras in Maine, his family. (The composer’s grandfather, Massachusetts and Connecticut, adds, Available at: Rudolf Serkin, a pianist who cofounded “He’s the only conductor I’ve ever had the Marlboro Music Festival, was direc- who, just before every concert, says, tor of Curtis when Laredo began study- ‘Have fun!’” ing there.) The Leicester-based violinist recalls But, says the composer, “his mentor- that when Laredo was first hired in ship really came with the [VSO] orches- 1999 — he was handpicked by thentra” — a relationship that began 10 years CEO Tom Philion — VSO members were Corner of Main & Battery Streets, Jacob and Kristin Albee ago, when Laredo and the VSO secured a bit upset. While they had collectively Burlington, VT • 802-861-7500 JacobAlbee.com . 802-540-0401 a Meet the Composer grant for Ludwig’s voted for Laredo’s predecessor, Kate www.mirrormirrorvt.com 41 Maple Street, Burlington, VT Tamarkin, after a year three-year residency. Studio Hours BY APPOINTMENT ONLY During that time, the of guest-conductor appearances, Hatch orchestra helped comsays, “we were premission a string of sented with Jaime, and works from Ludwig, 8V-JacobAlbee030613.indd 1 3/4/13 8v-MirrorMirror030613.indd 11:19 AM 1 3/4/13 we didn’t like that.” which often led to other commissions. But since then, she When the residency notes, “the quality of came to an end, Laredo the orchestra and its performance level kept the composer on have just increased as new-music adviser — a position Ludwig dramatically.” Laredo says he took calls “very rare” among the job partly because orchestras. “He’s one of A falafel patty on of what he had identithe great champions of fied during a single contemporary music,” garlic Tandori Nan J E NN IfE r Koh guest-conductor apLudwig adds. “Young bread with Tzatiki pearance as the VSO’s composers need advosauce topped with “unique atmosphere. It’s like a family. I cates like him.” So how does conducting fit into don’t see that in any other professional sliced tomato, fresh this musician and mentor’s busy life? orchestra,” he avers. mint sauce, fetta Today, that warmth may be due as Though he never trained as a conductor, Laredo says he learned from a number much to Laredo as to anything else. As cheese, carrot curls of great musician-conductors simply by Ludwig puts it, “Orchestras reflect like and cucumber sticks. soloing under them, including George mirrors their management and musical Szell, who was also an accomplished direction. This orchestra — you know, big surprise! — is positive. They come to oboist, violinist and pianist. Since he began conducting in 1975 play for Jaime. He gets incredible devo$5 DRINK SPECIALS with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra — tion from these guys.” m Wednesday & Thursday Only a gig that lasted 25 years; the man apparHouse Margarita • Hurricane ently does nothing short-term — Laredo Magnum 44 • Smirnoff Hunter has approached the art in the same spirit Long Island Iced Tea Vermont Symphony Orchestra of collaboration as he does teaching. “I Masterworks 4, featuring violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh. Friday, don’t think of myself in any kind of dicMarch 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bellows Falls tatorial way,” he reflects. “Conducting 161 CHURCH STREET • 881-0642 Opera House; Saturday, March 9, at 8 p.m. is like leading a very large quartet. Very SKYBURGERSVT.COM at Flynn Mainstage, Burlington; Sunday, often, we’ll ask players, ‘How would you March 10, at 3 p.m. at Paramount Theatre, FACEBOOK.COM/SKYBURGERSVT like to do this passage?’” Rutland. $16-59; $9 students. flynntix.org And as a performer, he points out,

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The talk began simply, with the “why” of Bechdel’s career. She grew up in Pennsylvania with parents who operated a funeral home (aka “fun home”) “in a house full of antiques, where there were secrets, and appearances were important,” she said. Appearances were so important, she told her audience, that as she grew older she increasingly noticed what she called “slippage” between the harmonious picture her family projected to outsiders and what was really going on away from public view. So important that her closeted gay father met his end — accidentally or on purpose — by stepping in front of an oncoming truck. Even as Bechdel could see the power of comics to tell these ironic, personal stories, she said, it took her a while to develop her own voice. “There’s an old saying that comics are for people who are mediocre writers and mediocre artists. In my case, those things are pretty much true,” the cartoonist said, as the screen showed a rejection letter from a graduate arts program that she noted was “one of several.” As Bechdel spoke, another rejection letter appeared on the screen behind her,

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this one from a literary magazine. “I decided that if the art wasn’t working, I would try the writing … but no.” That’s when, Bechdel said, she realized she could put the two art forms together to illustrate the tension between what she thought her life was “supposed” to be like and what it really was like. Next, the cartoonist moved on to the “how” of her work, reading chapters

from both books and walking the audience through the painstaking process she used to create them. Even Bechdel’s most ardent admirers may not know that she often takes snapshots of herself to use as the basis of her drawings. For Are You My Mother?, this meant dressing up as her mother and setting a camera on a timer to take aerial shots from the loft in her house in Bolton. Bechdel showed a series of those

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on’t tell anybody I showed you this,” alison BechDel told her fans packed into the St. Michael’s College Mccarthy arts center last Tuesday night. She stood in front of a screen showing a slide from her beloved late comic strip, “Dykes to Watch Out For,” depicting a graphic bedroom scene. Since this is Bechdel, whose “Dykes” strip ran in feminist and alternative newspapers (including Seven Days) for 25 years, the scene involved two women, and one of them was wearing what we might call, in polite company, a marital aid. Bechdel’s audience roared. Bechdel, 52, was at St. Mike’s to give a presentation aptly titled “The Illustrated Life of Alison Bechdel.” She had started the evening by declaring her intention to talk about “how I got from writing a comic book about a bunch of lesbians to writing about my family.” But what followed was actually much richer. It was an in-depth tour of the writer’s insight and processes from childhood through the overwhelming success of the “Dykes” series and two fantastically well-received graphic memoirs about her family: the New York Times best-seller Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006 and Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama in 2012.

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ore good news for A Band Called Death, the little Vermont-made rockumentary that could. Drafthouse Films has announced plans to distribute the doc from directors Jeff howlett and Mark covino,

which will screen at SXSW next week. A summer theatrical release is planned, so we hope to see the flick on local screens. The success of Death reminds us that rock and roll is a perfect setting for

underdog stories. Next Tuesday at nectar’s, Burlington director DaviD Metzger will premiere his fictional take on the theme of talent struggling to be heard, a narrative feature called American Vinyl set in the Burlington music scene. Metzger, a 2005 graduate of Burlington College’s film program, says his love of local live music inspired the film. “Most films about musicians are from the point of view of the wide-eyed up-and-comer … or the has-been seeking redemption,” he writes in an email. “I wanted to make a movie about a middle-aged woman who is just starting ... going into that local bar and getting on that stage hoping that someone will enjoy her music.” That tentative singer-songwriter is played by local chanteuse taryn noelle, who based the character on one she’s been developing for a stage musical. John J. kross is a charismatic singer-comedian who asks her to join his tour, and natalie Miller of spark arts plays his acerbic bandmate,

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who isn’t so sure about the newcomer’s potential. Interspersed interviews with local musicians, including Brett hughes and Justin levinson, underline universal aspects of the story. Metzger shot American Vinyl in 18 days last summer on his Canon T3i — much of it at Nectar’s and Metronome. Washes of color from the stage lights create a dreamlike atmosphere, familiar to all those who’ve worshipped at the temple of local music — or tried their luck on stage. Miss

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photos, and the audience laughed and applauded every one. Then again, her audiences — this one composed of college students and community members of all ages — would likely dote on anything she had to say. Bechdel has a strong following, and, in particular, many gay and lesbian individuals are grateful to her for giving their lives visibility and recognition through her characters. “I remember feeling so lucky to find those little half-sized comic books. As I was coming out as a lesbian, I found so much hope in Alison’s characters,” said

Alison Bechdel’s latest book is Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 304 pages. $22 hardcover. It was recently nominated for an LA Book Prize in the graphic novel/comics category; winners will be announced on April 19. dykestowatchoutfor.com/blog

A Band Called Death trailer: youtube. com/watch?v=R5Pf3MlUo7c. American Vinyl premiere screening. Tuesday, March 12, doors at 7 p.m. at Nectar’s in Burlington. Free.

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Vermont International Film Festival Showcase. Saturday, March 9: Chasing Ice (1 p.m.), Green (3 p.m.). Sunday, March 10: Detropia (1 p.m.); Where Do We Go Now? (3 p.m.). All at the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, Burlington. $5-10 per film.

Artist and activist Max Liboiron builds interactive art installations out of trash. Liboirin then invites participants to interact with the installation according to one or two rules of exchange, and she documents their choices, using participants’ actions as data to argue that sustainable, noncapitalist economies are not only possible, but already latent in everyday decisions.

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Cute, or über-cute? Royalton couple MYRA and JIM HUDSON used their natural resources — kids and ponies — to make a feature-length Western with a cast composed entirely of youngsters. Watch the trailer for Pasghetti Western on YouTube.

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Calling all comics fans: The makers of Cartoon College, a documentary about the CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES in White River Junction, hope to screen their film at MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS on April 6. But first they need to sell enough tickets via Tugg. com. Tix will go on sale March 8 for the effort to bring the film — and a Q&A with cartoonists such as JAMES STURM — to the Queen City.

director of the Center for Women and Gender at St. Mike’s, when she introduced Bechdel. “I felt they understood what was going on. They reassured me that I was not alone, and that I could really live the life I wanted to live.” The mood during Bechdel’s talk ranged from earnest to jokey. JOANNA BEALL, who teaches creative writing at Burlington College, asked Bechdel during a Q&A after her talk why she always used reality as the basis for her work. “To piss off my mother,” Bechdel quipped, to more laughter and applause. “It’s something inherent in my identity that telling these true stories has felt important. But it’s very difficult,” she continued. “My family is not psyched about all this. I don’t recommend it … unless you’re trying to piss off your family. Then it works really well.”

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“It’s sort of a stereotype that people with disabilities bowl a lot,” says EMILY ANDERSON, director of creative performance and cultural access at VSA VERMONT. “Mark says, ‘We’re moving beyond the ‘R’ word, but we’re not giving up bowling! A lot of joy takes place under the auspices of this much-joked-about institution.’” “Mark” is MARK UTTER, and his comments resulted from Supported Typing, a facilitated-communication technique in which Anderson is trained that enables 48-year-old Utter, who has a form of autism and is nonverbal, to express himself. (The “R” word? Guess.) Now Utter, who began typing in his early thirties, has written a screenplay for a 30-minute film about what it’s like to be him. “I Am in Here” will premiere on March 16 at the Main Street Landing Film House, followed by a “talk-back” with Utter. But first, there is bowling. That is, a bowl-a-thon fundraiser this Sunday at Champlain Lanes in Shelburne; proceeds will help Utter take his show on tour to film fests and communication conferences. The fundraiser was MIKE LONGE’s idea, says Anderson. The Champlain Lanes owner knows Utter — who bowls twice a week and shot a scene in his movie there — and was inspired by his story, Anderson explains. To participate, players must raise $100 each. “If they raise $250, they get a T-shirt,” Anderson adds. Individuals can show up at the bowling alley, but for teams of four that want to reserve a lane, it will be easier if they do it ahead of time, she suggests. The bowl-a-thon is one of several smaller fundraisers for Utter’s project. Anderson says some $35,000 have been raised toward a target budget of 50 grand. That’s a lot of bowling. Of course, Anderson points out, “people can also just go to our VSA website” and donate. If creating “I Am in Here” is sweet for Utter, it is as well for Anderson. She’s worked with Utter for a long time and is responsible for bringing him out of his silence. “About 15 years ago, when Mark was in a class and couldn’t contribute to a play we were writing, I asked him if he wanted to try writing (typing), and he said yes,” she recalls. “He wrote really sweet lines for a play that my theater company still performs to this day.” (Anderson is director of AWARENESS THEATER COMPANY, which works with people with disabilities.) As for the film, which Anderson produced and codirected with JIM HELTZ of GREEN MOUNTAIN VIDEO, it has a cast of 63, including Vermont actors PAUL SCHNABEL and RUSTY DEWEES. “We saw it yesterday,” Anderson says. “I think it’s a beautiful piece of work.” With a day-in-the-life structure, the movie “uses humor to highlight the contrast between people’s perceptions of Mark and the intelligent man trapped inside,” she says.

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Dear Cecil, Whenever there’s a really bad storm, environmentalists on the left and apocalypse enthusiasts on the right act as though it’s self-evident that hurricanes and other storms are becoming more frequent and intense. Environmentalists cite global warming, while apocalypse enthusiasts blame sinners for incurring God’s wrath. But I never see any statistics showing the hurricane situation is actually, quantifiably getting worse. Does anyone have solid facts on this? Are there more (and worse) hurricanes than in the past? Geoffrey Card

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et me declare my bias, Geoff. Do I personally think the wacky weather lately is a sign of climate change? Hell, yes. Do we have ironclad scientific proof that hurricanes, the most spectacular weather disaster, are getting worse? No, we don’t. At first glance, hurricane frequency seems to be on the upswing. Notwithstanding yearto-year fluctuations, the trend from 1878 to 2008 shows the average annual total of hurricanes increasing from seven to 12. Aha, you say, proof of global warming! However, closer analysis suggests the rise can mostly be explained by improved weather observation — in the old days storms in remote parts of the globe just weren’t reported. When

engine, drawing its energy from warm ocean water. The warmer the water, the more powerful you’d expect hurricanes fed from it to be. Sure enough, changes in SST in the North Atlantic during the 20th century track reasonably closely with regional hurricane intensity. From 1950 to the mid1970s, when ocean waters cooled, possibly because of a buildup in atmospheric pollution, hurricane severity declined. From the mid-’70s onward, ocean surface temperatures went back up and hurricanes got worse. Or so some claim. Skeptics, however, contend that what looks like a jump in hurricane severity over the past 40 years is the result in part of underestimating storm intensity in the ’70s and ’80s. This illustrates the larger problem: Practically everything

to dopes putting themselves in harm’s way, by doing things like building houses in flood zones. Once you account for population growth and suburban sprawl and whatnot, a good deal of the apparent increase in losses goes away. A 2011 meta-study looked at 22 recent analyses of loss trends following natural disasters and found that (a) in only eight studies did the researchers conclude there’d been an actual climate-driven increase in losses (that is, not due to there being more victims with more to lose); and (b) any of the eight could have reached the opposite conclusion had certain assumptions and omissions been corrected. But you know what? I’d just as soon keep mum about that. There’s a long list of scholarly studies showing human activity is almost certainly affecting the climate. So far they’ve had no noticeable impact on the knownothing element, whose idea of a smoking gun evidently is having the ocean lapping at their doorsteps. Hurricane Sandy, by scaring the daylights out of the New York media people who set the national agenda, has at last gotten the climate-change conversation off the dime. Can we legitimately blame that disaster on global warming? No, but I’m not going to object if a lot of people do.

Is there something you need to get straight? Cecil Adams can deliver the Straight Dope on any topic. Write Cecil Adams at the Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago, IL 60611, or cecil@chireader.com.

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short-lived hurricanes (lasting two days or less) are filtered from the historical results, and missed hurricanes from earlier years are estimated and added in, the long-term average is essentially unchanged. What has risen sharply, according to some scientists, is hurricane severity. They say the average annual number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes, which together cause nearly half of all hurricane damage, has more than doubled since the early 1970s. That’s a big deal because — and here’s something few people realize — climate-change models suggest the number of hurricanes will, if anything, decline. What will rise is the intensity of the ones we get. Why? An important factor in hurricane strength is fluctuations in sea surface temperature, or SST. A hurricane is a giant heat

we can say about hurricanes is in dispute. A major stumbling block is lousy data. In contrast to tree rings, sediment layers and other reliable climate-change markers, information about hurricanes sucks. Observation via aircraft didn’t begin until the 1940s. Satellite surveillance started in the 1960s but initially offered only limited information; solid estimates of hurricane wind speeds didn’t become available until 1989. Result: We lack enough reliable, long-term global hurricane data to draw any firm conclusions. We do have decent long-term data for North Atlantic hurricanes, but they represent only a fraction of the world total and are subject to a decades-long natural cycle that at the moment is on the rise. All that having been taken into account, even some doubters acknowledge that recent increases in storm severity may be partly attributable to humancaused global warming. But the confidence in such claims is low. Wait a second, you say. What about that widely publicized report last fall from the insurance company Munich Re saying storm-damage claims in North America have quintupled over the past three decades, with a trillion dollars in losses and 30,000 dead? Turns out much of that was due not to climate change but

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The Shield Indians are supposed to have this great balance, right? Well, I sure didn’t.” “So I wondered about this — on the reservation, are hunting and fishing still a big part of people’s lives?” “Yeah, it is for some folks, but not me. My dad tried to get me into it, but I never would hunt with him. One time he did convince me to go out fishing. He set me up on the lakeshore, and I put some worms on the hook and gave it a go. The next thing I know, a huge black eel leaps out of the water and around my neck. I was scream-

were constantly coming over to the house. She didn’t have a moment of peace. That’s why I never really pursued that way of life.” “Don’t the healers have, like, protection to take care of themselves?” “Oh, sure, we have this,” he said, pulling a necklace out from beneath his shirt. It was a leather strand with a small pouch on the end. “Anyway, this healing power is something from birth. It’s known as the ‘shield.’ From when I was little, the elders would say they saw it in me, that I had the shield.”

The ride To hogansburg would Take more Than Two hours, and I had a feelIng Ronald would have nothIng but fascInatIng stoRIes to tell. ing, scared out of my mind! My father yanked it off, and I told him, ‘Well, pops — that’s it for fishing.’ Luckily, my sister was a real outdoors girl, so he could always do that stuff with her.” “That’s a great story,” I said, at the same time wondering how true it could be. Can an eel really do that? Who cares? I decided. “So could I ask you another question about life on the reservation? Do you mind?” “Be my guest,” he replied. “Are there still traditional healers? You know, what the white people would call ‘medicine men’?” “Oh, sure,” Ronald said, “there are still healers.” He paused for a moment, then added off-handedly, “Yeah, I’m one.” “Really?” I said. “How does that work? I mean, were you taught by an elder?” “It was my grandmother. She was known as a great healer. She could cure any ailment — physical, emotional, spiritual, it made no difference. And that was the problem. Folks

“So you’ve never used this ability, this power?” “Very rarely. Once I was working for this white man off the reservation. I was out at his house for some reason. His young son was crying and crying, and the man’s wife said, ‘Don’t bother with him. He’s a sissy. It’s just an earache.’ I felt bad for the kid and asked if she wouldn’t mind if I healed him. She said OK, and I came back later that day with some skunk oil, which I heated and applied. The kid was fine in a matter of minutes. “The next day we were doing some construction work at the kid’s school, and he saw me and got very excited and ran up to me yelling to his classmates, ‘That’s my Indian! That’s my Indian! He cured me.’ I thought that was kind of funny, but I just don’t like the whole business.” We gabbed our way clear across upstate New York — west on Route 11 all the way, until we turned onto 37 for the final leg.

And the talk was not just about Indian matters. As we crossed onto Mohawk land, Ron pointed out various houses and landmarks. He seemed to be intimately familiar with every road, every field, every building. As we had grown quite at ease with each other, I jested, “So Ron — what kind of Indian are you, anyway? You don’t fish, you don’t hunt.” Dialing up his formidable deadpan, he said, “I hunt pussy.” I turned to sneak another gander at this 74-year-old man and thought, That’s kind of crude, but I’d bet he does just fine with the ladies. Though no outdoorsman, he was still quite masculine, with charm to spare. “Like at church, I have my eye on this one woman, this beautiful, widowed Latin lady. There’s something about her. She has this wiggle in her walk.” He shot me a smile, raising his eyebrows. “Anyway, it’s going to happen. I just know it.” The strains of “Always on My Mind” came drifting from the radio, and Ronald said, “Turn it up, man — that’s Willie. I love this song.” I did, and he began to sing along. His voice was sonorous and soulful, like an old country crooner. I told him so, and he said, “I just love that country music. Always have.” “So getting back to this Latina widow,” I said. “She sounds terrific. What’s her name?” My customer laughed and said, “Don’t you worry about her name.” “Ronald — come on, brother. It’s not like I’m gonna go after her.” He winked at me and said, “Every story needs a mystery.” hackie is a twice-monthly column that can also be read on sevendaysvt.com.

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he fare was to Hogansburg, New York, the main town of the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation. The Mohawk Indian name for the reservation is Akwesasne. I’m honestly unsure whether it’s insensitive to employ the term “Indian” as opposed to “Native American.” The native people I’ve run into through the years seemed comfortable referring to their heritage as “Indian,” so there’s one indicator. And the customer, Ronald Deseronto, whom I was driving on this brisk winter afternoon immediately identified himself as a “full-blooded Mohawk Indian,” so I’m going with that. Ronald’s Indian pedigree was evident in his appearance. His eyes were dark and wide set on a broad face with high cheekbones. Despite his age, his hair and eyebrows — undyed, to my eyes — were sheer black. Observing his weathered skin, all I could think of was a fading sunset. He had just been released from Fletcher Allen. It could have been heart; it could have been kidneys. I didn’t ask, and he didn’t tell. But he was 74 years old and talky, which pleased me to no end; the ride to Hogansburg would take more than two hours, and I had a feeling Ronald would have nothing but fascinating stories to tell. As we made our way beyond the Burlington environs, I said, “I grew up in New York City, and there was one Mohawk Indian kid I remember from the neighborhood. His name was Rainbow, or at least that’s what everybody knew him as. I recall him telling me that his dad worked on the ‘high steel,’ building the skyscrapers in Manhattan.” “Oh, yeah, I did that, too,” Ronald said. “You did? In New York City?” “No, never down there, but I walked the high steel in cities all over New England. Not for too long, though. I hated it. Us

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urlington Mayor Miro Weinberger marked the anniversary of his election last Saturday with a public display that suggests he’s getting comfortable in the job. Wearing a gold lamé shirt, silver boots and a flouncy, feathered hat, the sometimes tongue-tied Weinberger waved and swayed as he led the raucous annual Mardi Gras parade through downtown. Hizzoner will never match the flamboyant populism of a showman politician such as former New York City mayor Ed Koch, who died last month. But Weinberger did bust a move on Main Street. Burlington voters appear to increasingly accept their “fresh start” mayor, too. Even his partisan opponents concede that Weinberger’s popularity rating may have climbed past the 58 percent mark he achieved on Town Meeting Day 2012. That a whopping 72 percent of voters agreed to increase their own taxes last November by approving Weinberger’s “fiscal stability bond” cannot be entirely attributed to the “Obama effect.” More recently, both Progressive and independent candidates have sought Weinberger’s endorsement in city council elections. Burlington’s tiny Republican coterie likewise finds little to fault in Year One of Weinberger’s three-year tenure. As for the lovestruck local business community, the mayor’s honeymoon period may never come to an end. “The people of Burlington should be very proud of their mayor,” gushes Tom Torti, head of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce. “He’s done everything he could reasonably be expected to do.” Not surprisingly, the Republican whom Weinberger trounced in last year’s Democratic landslide offers a less giddy appraisal. “His popularity stands somewhat as a contrast to the unpopularity of Bob Kiss,” suggests Kurt Wright, referring to Burlington’s previous mayor, who declined to run for reelection, ending a long streak of Progressive leadership in Burlington. Rachel Siegel, a Ward 3 Progressive city councilor, has a similar view. “People were mad at the Progressive Party and glad to have someone else” in office, she says. The Kiss administration was roundly criticized for mismanaging Burlington Telecom as the result of “borrowing” nearly $17 million from the general fund and failing to pay it back in accordance with its state operating license.

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Weinberger’s first year in office could be characterized as long on progress and short on product. The mayor has grappled with intangibles, such as the city’s balance sheet, and he’s brought together disparate interest groups to seek common ground on contentious issues, such as the Champlain Parkway and downtown and waterfront development. But there’s been little physical change in the city since he became mayor last April, even though Weinberger has held press events touting public-works projects while encouraging downtown residential development. The new mayor is, after all, an experienced housing developer. He and his private-sector partners are building the 25-unit condo complex on North Avenue — one of only a couple of residential construction projects under way in Burlington. At the city hall sit-down, Weinberger reiterated his commitment to facilitating in-fill housing. “We’ve seen downtown revitalization occur across the country in the last 20 years, with more and more people choosing to live in downtowns, but that hasn’t happened in Burlington,” he says. “That has to change.” The mayor says he will soon commission an independent study of Burlington’s housing supply and demand in comparison to those of similar cities. It’s an enigma, he observes, that local nonprofit organizations have been “pioneering” the affordable-housing movement and yet housing in Burlington remains among the least affordable in New England. Weinberger says he will soon turn his attention to downtown development sites such as the “superblock” on which Memorial Auditorium sits. First, though, the administration’s gaze is fixed on the waterfront. Projects will start to take shape there within the next few months, the mayor says, pointing MAYO R MIR O W EIN B ER G ER to construction of a $1 million skate park, $2.5 million worth of repairs to the bike path between Perkins Pier and the Urban Reserve, and $3 million in infrastructure upgrades near the tween revenues and expendi- Moran Plant. tures in the pension system for Also in the pipeline: repairs and beautification initiacity employees. Retirement tives at 30 sites around the city, financed through the $1 obligations are only 70 percent million Penny for Parks fund. The city is moving steadily funded at present. Federal law toward construction of the long-stalled Champlain does not permit so steep a Parkway, the mayor maintains, estimating that bulldozers shortfall in a private-sector will start clearing its route through the South End some pension system. And there’s time next year — or maybe in 2015. no easy way to solve this All these initiatives were “almost at a dead stop” when complex financing prob- he took office, Weinberger points out. lem, as Sisson made clear The Moran Plant, meanwhile, looms as perhaps at a January briefing. He the most visible challenge confronting the city’s first also noted that wresting Democratic administration in 31 years. Its Progressive concessions from city

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Weinberger’s top priority is shoring up the city’s finances, and in that subject he gives himself a good grade. In an interview last week, the mayor noted the $9 million fiscal stability bond will partially refinance BT’s unauthorized debt to the city. Burlington International Airport’s shaky finances have also been steadied by attenuating the payback period for $12 million in loans related to BTV’s garage-expansion project. Little-publicized deficits in the city’s water and sewer accounts have been eliminated as well, Weinberger says, observing that Moody’s identified this combined $2.7 million shortfall as a reason for lowering Burlington’s bond rating from A3 to Baa3 — the edge of the investment junkyard. Moody’s move last June did serious damage to Burlington’s image, both on Wall Street and in the city’s own mirror. “It’s beneath us” to be rated so negatively, Weinberger said last year, lamenting that best-of-everything Burlington was beginning to be seen as a New England equivalent of “some dying Rust Belt city.” The downgrade is also whacking taxpayers in their wallets by pushing up the interest rates the city has to pay on its debts. Last week, a confident Weinberger said he expects Moody’s to “give a sign of improvement” when it updates its rating of the city’s creditworthiness within the next few weeks. The rookie mayor, who had no previous experience in running a public enterprise, is keen to be seen as an attentive fiscal steward. He notes that his upcoming budget, which is due in June, does not ask for any property-tax increases. Most Progs and Republicans agree the Weinberger administration has restored some order to the city’s books. Paul Sisson, the interim chief administrative officer, gets a lot of the credit for that. Torti calls Sisson, who worked 26 years for accounting mega-firm KPMG, “monumentally competent.” Ward 2 Progressive councilor Max Tracy says the municipal mon- Weinberger’s swearing-in ceremony, April 2012 eyman with the natty threads has done “great work.” But Sisson will not become the

permanent CAO when his interim appointment expires in June, Weinberger says. The mayor praises Sisson’s work but says he wants a CAO with a strong background in municipal finance — and Sisson doesn’t have that kind of experience. Can he clean up the Burlington Telecom mess? Vince Brennan, another Prog councilor, says he’s pleasantly surprised by the Weinberger administration’s handling of BT, noting that the new mayor didn’t “cut and run” by offloading the essentially bankrupt city-owned utility at a fire-sale price. But there’s still no solution in sight for BT. Weinberger can’t negotiate a deal with any prospective partner until Citibank’s $33 million federal suit against BT is settled inside or outside of court. A second round of city-Citi talks is scheduled for next week. BT’s $17 million debt overhang also remains a problem despite the offset provided by the $9 million fiscal stability bond in conjunction with an $8 million surplus Burlington accrued during Kiss’ tenure. The city now has the money to compensate for an eventual write-off of the debt owed by BT, Weinberger says. Though he adds there’s still a chance that at least a portion of the $16.9 million will be paid back to the city’s general fund. On another key financial matter, Weinberger has made no progress toward righting the imbalance be-

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Weinberger’s vox-pop sessions have done a lot to market his man-of-the-people brand. Pulling out his iPhone at the bagel shop, the Yalie from Hartland offers to take Allen’s picture to accompany a tweet the mayor says he wants to send as an appeal for Meals on Wheels volunteers. The stilldark-haired 43-year-old also asks Allen’s breakfast companion, Cookie Manning, to list her complaints about the city she’s occupied for the last 59 years. “It’s changed so much,” Manning muses. “All the building on Battery Street. Worries about walking around.” Loyal Ploof, a Ward 4 council candidate, stops by the mayor’s table to complain about a city official. “She’s a piece of garbage,” spews Ploof, who’s wearing a “Ron Paul Restore America” baseball cap. As many as 10 locals used to come to the bagel shop to schmooze in the run-up to the vote last November on the fiscal stability bond, Weinberger recalls. Today, only five pause to chat with the mayor, who shows up 15 minutes late for his advertised 8 a.m. appearance. “It’s important to have a regular presence in the New North End,” Weinberger says. “There’s an unnecessary polarization between the northern and southern parts of the city.” The New North End’s city council wards were also the only two that Weinberger lost in the mayor’s race. Allen, the gregarious septuagenarian,

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predecessors were stymied for decades in efforts to rehab and repurpose the derelict hulk that squats on prime lakefront land. Weinberger says he “made the right decision” last year in scrapping the proposal for an ice-climbing wall inside Moran, but the city doesn’t have a new plan for the plant. Prog councilor Brennan says Weinberger actually made the wrong decision on Moran; he says the reconstruction could have moved forward without a specified use. “We could’ve broken ground on Moran,” Brennan suggests. “The [tax increment financing] money for it is in place. It wouldn’t be a problem in finding something to occupy it. I mean, Miro’s a developer, isn’t he?” Reid Allen, a seventysomething organizer for the Meals on Wheels program, proposed an alternative move on Moran during last week’s installment of “Mornings with Miro,” a weekly coffee klatch the mayor holds at the Bagel Café & Deli on North Avenue. “Tear it down,” Allen advises. “I hear you,” the mayor replies. “That’s on the table. It’s a complicated decision. So much money has been spent on it already.”

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flashes Weinberger a thumbs-up at the Bagel Café. “I like what you’re doing,” he tells the mayor. “You’re very visible.” Why doesn’t the mayor, a Hill Section homeowner, do a similar hangout in the Old North End? wonders Councilor Tracy, suggesting, “He needs to recognize there’s a lot of folks living on low and moderate incomes who need help.” Old North End councilor Siegel is more forgiving. She doesn’t feel the mayor is ignoring her neighborhood any more than all of Burlington’s other neighborhoods. “He’s not focusing on that level,” Siegel says. “He’s paying more attention to citywide stuff.” Although Weinberger can seem awkward when pressing the flesh, he’s not camera shy. Mayoral aide Mike Kanarick gathers the media for frequent public appearances and press conferences, even when Weinberger doesn’t have anything of substance to say. That effort, combined with considerable tweeting and other social-media strategies, has resulted in a public profile far more prominent than that of Kiss, the hermit mayor, who did not respond to a phone message requesting comment on his successor’s record. How does Weinberger describe what it’s like to reign over the Queen City? “It’s the most demanding job I’ve ever had,” he says. “Intellectually it’s very challenging, which I like.” What’s the best part of being mayor? “Being able to respond to people when they ask for help.” That can be an 80-hour-a-week gig, Weinberger acknowledges, noting there

are days when he works until midnight and is back at it by 6 the next morning. Despite the grueling schedule, he makes a point of dining with his wife and daughter three times a week and tries to ski with his family at Bolton Valley on one day of the weekend. Burlington First Lady Stacy Weinberger says she quit her job as codirector of the private Bellwether School in Williston in order to be “a stay-at-home mom.” The couple’s 7-year-old daughter, Li Lin, was a student there — until she switched to the public H.O. Wheeler Integrated Arts Academy in the Old North End. Stacy Weinberger says her role demands “spontaneity” in order to accommodate sudden schedule shifts. The mayor himself observes that such lurches can be disorienting. One day last month, for example, he attended a memorial service for the Burlington School District’s diversity czar Daniello Balòn, who was a year younger than Weinberger when he died of a heart attack. The next morning, Weinberger was taking part in the noisy and joyous Penguin Plunge.

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Weinberger presides over one of the most liberal enclaves in the United States — the city where the country’s most successful third party was born 30 years ago. But Weinberger is no liberal, Prog councilor Siegel says. “He’s a centrist,” she declares. The mayor doesn’t measure up on the “economic, social and environmental justice” issues the Progressive Party holds dearest, Siegel says. She cites, for example,

Weinberger’s support for basing the F-35 fighter bomber at the city-owned airport. “It’s an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. And it’s going to make some poor people’s homes unlivable,” the outspoken Prog predicts. Brennan, Siegel’s Ward 3 seatmate, complains that Weinberger has been wimpy on gun control. “It’s pathetic that we’re dominated by one party in the city council, the Vermont House and Senate and the governor’s office, and we can’t get legislation on guns,” chides Brennan, who was recently threatened with a handgun in a road-rage incident on the Burlington Beltline. “The mayor could have used his office to get this done,” the Prog councilor adds, referring to follow-up action on a recent city council resolution calling for a Burlington ban on assault rifles and highcapacity ammo clips. Weinberger has expressed support for that move on the council’s part, but Brennan says the mayor hasn’t pressed the issue by demanding, for example, that the council’s public-safety committee take the next step toward making the assault-rifle ban a reality. Tracy, a 26-year-old champion of marijuana legalization, notes that Weinberger remained silent on that issue, even after 70 percent of city voters said yes in November to a nonbinding referendum to regulate and tax pot sales. And Siegel says she’s disappointed by the mayor’s unwillingness to encourage an independent review of Burlington police conduct following the rubber-round shooting of protesters last summer.

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The Progs and other exponents of an effective instrument. It means that working-class concerns are also dis- Burlington taxpayers “will be paying more pleased that Weinberger didn’t object up front with the potential of paying less to exempting Skinny Pancake outlets at down the road,” Ashe observes. “We’ll see the airport from the city’s livable-wage how that works out.” ordinance. Independent City Councilor Karen “There are lots of folks who are strug- Paul (Ward 6), a finance maven, agrees gling to find jobs that pay a livable wage, that judgments should be withheld at affordable and safe housing, health care, least until June, when Weinberger presand this mayor has demonstrated that ents a city budget that’s entirely of his his top priorities are waterfront develop- own making. Paul does say, however, that ment,” says James Haslam, director of Weinberger is off to a strong start, citing the Vermont Workers’ Center on North his appointment of Gene Richards as Winooski Avenue. That “isn’t surprising,” interim airport director. Paul, the cochair Haslam adds, “because he’s a developer, of the mayor’s Airport Strategic Planning so developers are well represented in the Committee, says she’s confident BTV will administration.” fly right with Richards at the controls. Weinberger says in the city hall interBut Paul sides with the Progs in view that he’s “committed to strengthen- criticizing Weinberger’s refusal to affirm ing enforcement” of the livable-wage unequivocally that the Moran Plant will ordinance. “It’s going to be substantially remain publicly owned. The mayor’s strengthened,” the mayor promises. stated unwillingness to have his “hands He appears to have hired staffers tied” by a Prog-backed resolution urging capable of helping him achieve this and such a commitment temporarily soured other objectives. Almost everyone inter- relations between Weinberger and the viewed for this story has good things to four-member leftist minority on the 14say about the quality of the mayor’s top ap- person council. pointees: Peter Owens The Progs and the at the Community top Dem are now back and Economic to talking regularly, Development Office, Tracy reports. And Eileen Blackwood as Weinberger, for his city attorney, Rubi part, sees a more colSimon at the Fletcher legial process between Free Library and Jesse city hall and the city Bridges as director of council in comparison Parks and Recreation. to the “divisions and But Blackwood was acrimony” of previous brought on only after years. Weinberger flubbed But with the his first attempt at fillDemocratic mayor so tom torti ing the city’s top legal secure in his politiposition: He sailed cal ascendancy, Kurt into gale-force headwinds when he tried Wright sees reason to worry about oneto hire his buddy, Democratic operative party domination. “Burlington is known as Ian Carleton, as city attorney for $7000 a place where political issues are discussed more than the city’s pay scale indicated. freely and with passion,” Wright says. The justification? Carleton boasted that “I want to make sure that kind of debate he got his degree at Yale Law School. isn’t stifled,” he adds, citing Weinberger’s The mayor subsequently apologized, smackdown of Ward 7 Republican Paul and Carleton withdrew his name from Decelles for casting the lone council vote consideration. against his fiscal stability bond. Democratic/Progressive State Senator Siegel offers the same cautionary Tim Ashe, who narrowly lost the Dem note, saying she’s struck by how often the mayoral nomination to Weinberger council’s seven Dems vote as a bloc. “I’m in 2011, says he’s most impressed by not opposed to the Democrats; I’m not Weinberger’s selection of Bridges. “I opposed to Miro; I’m not opposed to most particularly commend him for taking a of the things on his agenda,” Siegel insists. chance on a relatively young parks direc- “But I am opposed to a situation where tor,” Ashe, 36, says in regard to the 31-year- one party can get a rubber stamp for whatold Bridges. “Bringing in a new generation ever it wants. isn’t something that happens often in “We need more democracy,” she says, municipal government.” “not less.” m Ashe believes it’s too soon to render a verdict on Weinberger’s work as mayor. (Disclosure: Tim Ashe is the domestic He does caution against the assumption partner of Seven Days publisher and cothat the fiscal stability bond will prove editor Paula Routly.)

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he latest artsy spot in Burlington’s South End has a brick-wall background, exposed overhead pipes and spotlights illuminating swoopy curves of metal. It’s pleasing to the eyes — but it’s meant for the legs, the lungs and the lifestyle. In fact, the half dozen pieces on display are specifically designed to ride right out of the showroom, to make you feel happy and graceful and good, and to last your entire life. Welcome to Budnitz Bicycles, undoubtedly the hippest bike shop ever to hit Burlington. It’s located within JDK Design — principal Michael Jager is an avid cyclist — on the former site of an indoor skate ramp, next to JDK’s equally hip coffee shop, Maglianero. Budnitz Bicycles is the brainchild of Paul Budnitz, artist and founder of the online store Kidrobot. The retailer of high-end, titanium-and-steel urban bikes aims to change the way the Queen City — and the world — feels about wheels. “Bicycling can be beautiful and elegant,” says Budnitz, clad all in black and perched on a stool in his spanking-new space as he discusses changing the image

of bicycles. “They’re beautiful design objects; they’re beautiful mechanically, immaculate.” Budnitz knows a thing or two about design: Several of his Kidrobot toys are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and he has a deep background in photography,

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filmmaking and even video-game creation for Commodore 64s. But how’d a guy who has been a devotee of New York and Amsterdam, among other large cities, pick Burlington as the home for his international, artsy bicycle company? Finding a commercial space an arm’s length from Maglianero and a few pedals

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from the city’s bike path didn’t hurt. But really, it was Burlington’s people, rather than beans or biking amenities, Budnitz says, that helped him park his wheels here (though he funded the company in Boulder, Colo., in 2010). “There are a lot of hardworking people who deeply care about the community; that’s for us, personally,” he says. One of those individuals was JDK’s Jager, whom Budnitz met by chance while visiting Burlington. Another was Chapin Spencer, of biking advocacy group Local Motion; when he got wind of potential relocation interest from Budnitz Bicycles, he checked in every few days with offers of help. “It’s really his fault that I’m here, in some ways,” Budnitz says of Spencer with a laugh. For his part, Spencer says the real draw for companies such as Budnitz is Burlington’s “growing vibrancy that has the potential to take our local outdoor industry to the next level.” As Spencer pointed out on Maglianero’s blog, walking and biking generate $82.7 million in annual economic activity and support more than 1400 jobs. Budnitz Bicycles is currently a threeman operation, with fifth-generation painter and sculptor John Young — whom Budnitz met at a meditation retreat in Boulder, Colo. — handling much of the design, sales and media relations. Mechanic Hunt Manley was hired from Burlington’s Old Spokes Home to handbuild the bikes (the titanium frames are welded in Taiwan). A Budnitz bike is a wonder of good design: Model No. 1, for example, has a cantilevered titanium frame that never rusts or scratches, and a clean belt instead of a greasy chain. It weighs less than 20 pounds.

hough custom bikes are hardly a new phenomenon, their growing presence in Vermont offers a new spin on alternatives to driving. Budnitz’s works of art aren’t the only options, especially for athletes with a need for speed. Over on North Winooski Avenue, Joshua Saxe recently launched Burlington’s second, and even smaller, start-up bicycle enterprise — Flahute Bikes, an online seller of custom cycles. The Montpelierraised rider, a University of Vermont graduate and Skirack technician, operates Flahute solo from his home. Well, sort of solo: Saxe works with a team of Taiwanese manufacturers to create carbon-fiber bikes that are primarily designed for athletes

competing in road, time-trial, cyclocross and mountain biking. “Many custom companies focus on aesthetics and comfort,” Saxe says. “While we take that into account, we also include aerodynamics, based on the rider’s goals and abilities. It’s like an awesome, speedy carbon puzzle.” Five years ago, Saxe built a bike from recycled parts to get it to work faster. When the racing bug bit him, he found he couldn’t afford a fancy racing bike. “So I started putting designs together for a high-end and affordable carbon bike,” says Saxe, who adds that he’s

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been inspired by bike companies such as Budnitz and Toronto’s Cervélo — “not their graphics but their geometrics,” he clarifies. Saxe customizes Flahute’s graphics and colors, along with fit, for each rider. Having studied science at UVM, he knows enough about geometry to envision frames to suit each type of cyclist. Sleek, slick and aerodynamic, a Flahute bike is built for racing — not so much for tooling around the city. “It rides like the wind,” local cyclist Paul Markowitz says of his custom Flahute rig. Though Saxe says he’d love to have his own storefront someday, right now Flahute is a web business only; word of mouth and social media are his primary marketing tools. The unusual name helps: As Saxe explains, “flahute” was what post-World War II French journalists called their Belgian neighbors who had the grit to keep cycling amid the chaos.

Saxe’s sportsman’s view of cycling is a far cry from that of Budnitz, who says he practices the opposite of racing. “My whole thing is going really slow on a really fast bike,” Budnitz says. “I love to take my time — I’ve discovered I get all the exercise I need just integrating this into my lifestyle. You should see me on a mountain bike — I don’t last too long.” The two shop owners do share an affinity for a city whose favorite mode of transportation has shifted, over time, from boats to trains to cars to bikes. “Burlington seems to be the hub of where things are going right now,” Budnitz says. “It’s really bringing more riders into the sport. It’s a time for big changes in cycling — things are either going to fall apart or they’re going to grow, and Burlington has taken it as a time to grow.” Custom bikes don’t come cheap, of course. Saxe says he has worked hard to keep his operations cost-effective for riders. “My goal is to be able to sell a pretty nice bike for under $3000,” he says. Over at Budnitz, which was modeled in part after the luxury car industry and sells internationally, bikes start at $5500. “Some people say, ‘That’s a lot of money for a bicycle,’” their designer says. “And I say, ‘It’s not a lot of money for a car. It’s going to last longer, it’s going to reduce your medical bills and you’re going to be happy with it.’” Online testimonials from Sydney, Osaka, London and Denver, among other cities worldwide, attest to the happiness part; riders gush about the comfort, the quiet, the performance, the style and the flawlessness of Budnitz Bicycles. One calls the Budnitz the “Ferrari of bikes”; another, “the most incredible bike in the world.” Budnitz points out that his bicycles are made to last forever. His team also sells a lightweight lock that, with a key, locks down every bolt on the two-wheeler. What if you forget to bolt down your Budnitz? “If it’s stolen, we’ll help you get a new one,” says Budnitz, alluding to his company’s 20 percent discount on a replacement ride. “The idea is, you own one of our bikes for the rest of your life.” m

Brush With Death Defying the odds, a Charlotte backcountry skier survives a Rocky Mountain avalanche B Y KEN PicA rD phoTos CoURTEsy oF MARy bRUsh

he last image seared into Charlie Brush’s mind, right before a 500-foot-wide wall of snow buried him alive, was that of a fellow skier’s orange pants as she yelled, “Stop!” Then his world went dark. If his rescuers had taken another two or three minutes to find him and dig him out, Brush likely wouldn’t have returned to tell his story. To what does he credit his miraculous survival? “Dead-stupid luck,” he says — and some well-timed “nagging” by his wife, Mary. Last month the Brushes, who live in Charlotte and run a propertymanagement company in South Burlington, were on the last day of a three-day backcountry ski trip in Golden, B.C. The couple was snowcat, or off-trail, skiing in Chatter Creek, a 92-square-mile area northwest of Calgary that boasts some of the best powder in North America. Both Brushes are accomplished skiers. Charlie, who grew up in San Mateo, Calif., graduated from Middlebury College in 1969 and spent four years coaching the school’s alpine ski team. Mary was a top-ranked skier at the University of Vermont. In the 1970s she made the U.S. National Team, with three top-10 World Cup finishes, and competed in the ’76 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Earlier this winter, Chatter Creek received a heavy dumping of snow. According to Dale McKnight, who owns the cat operation the Brushes were using, avalanche conditions were “generally good that day” — at least in areas that had already been skied. However, the spot where the Brushes and 10 other skiers were dropped off on that fateful morning — a short, steep basin called a fish bowl — had not been skied all season. After two days of poor visibility, the Brushes were relieved when the weather finally cleared enough for them to ski above the tree line. While in the trees, the skiers had been warned not to strap their poles to their wrists. Should one

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snag a branch, it could easily dislocate a shoulder. But that warning also had a drawback: A day earlier, a member of their group had lost a pole in deep powder and cost the group considerable time looking for it. Now that the skiers were in open terrain, Mary repeatedly reminded Charlie to strap on his poles — warnings that, Charlie now admits, he usually ignored. On the second run of the day, the Brushes and other skiers waited to ski into the fish bowl to a cat waiting a half mile below. Their guide went first, and two skiers from Calgary schussed down

next, followed by Mary. When she was about 10 turns into her run, Charlie followed her down the mountain. About halfway down the slope, Charlie remembers hearing a woman named Mary Allen above him shout, “Stop!” At first he ignored her. But when she shouted again, he pulled up, glanced over his left shoulder and spotted her orange ski pants — and a wall of snow barreling toward him. “The next thing I know, I’m face down in the snow,” Charlie recalls. He never heard the avalanche crack or the rumble of sliding debris. Charlie says it took him a couple of

seconds to realize what was happening. “It wasn’t a big tumble,” he says. “It was just pushing me forward.” As the snow deepened around him, Charlie extended his right arm to try to maintain an air vent to the surface. Suddenly, he stopped moving — while snow continued to pile up over his head, blocking out the daylight. As the snow settled, it hardened rapidly and entombed Charlie’s body. He distinctly remembers feeling a heavy pressure on his chest. His mouth was filled with snow, and his breathing got labored as he struggled unsuccessfully to free his arms and legs.

Her intuition was well founded: When the rescuers cleared snow from Charlie’s face, they discovered him blue and not breathing. Someone in the group opened his mouth, cleared out the snow and blew a few quick breaths into his lungs. As others freed his neck and

Kelly Brush, a top-ranked ski racer at Middlebury College, was competing in the women’s giant slalom at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, Mass. Coming over a knoll, she caught an edge, tumbled off the trail and crashed into a lift tower.

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lung. She spent 10 days in intensive care and another three months in rehab, and was left paralyzed from the waist down. But Kelly, a lifelong athlete, refused to give up competitive sports. After a lengthy recovery, she returned to the slopes, this time on a monoski specially designed for skiers with paralysis. In 2011, she won the women’s handcycle division of the Boston Marathon. And in December 2012, Kelly Brush Davisson — she was married last August — was selected as one of 10 Athletes Who Care and profiled in Sports Illustrated. Since her 2006 accident, the Kelly Brush Foundation, founded by her parents, has raised more than $1 million to support its two-pronged mission: to purchase adaptive gear for paralyzed athletes and to improve safety conditions at ski races around the country.

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his wasn’t the Brush family’s first near-fatal ski accident. On February 18, 2006, nearly seven years to the day before Charlie’s “event,” as he calls it, the couple’s daughter, Kelly, almost died on the side of a mountain.

Charlie, who was on the sidelines at the time, was among the first to reach his daughter. Her helmet was shattered, her face bloodied, and she was slipping in and out of consciousness. “I could tell right away that something was really wrong,” Charlie recalls. As he lay beside her in the snow, Kelly closed her eyes. He yelled at her to open them and keep breathing. “I was telling her, ‘Don’t you die on me!’” Kelly suffered a fractured neck and spine, four broken ribs and a collapsed

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shoulders — the snow, now almost rocklike, had to be chipped away bit by bit — someone put an oxygen mask over his face to continue the rescue breathing. “And then,” Mary says with a smile, “Charlie opened his eyes.”

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our weeks ago, Charlie Brush walked away from Chatter Creek under his own power. (According to the resort’s owner, his was the first serious accident there in 13 years.) He had badly wrenched a calf muscle in the fall and suffered minor cuts and bruises to his ribs and face — the last, he suspects, from someone who accidentally nicked his face with a shovel while digging him out — but no other injuries. Less than a month after defying what Charlie calls “1000-to-one odds,” he and Mary returned to the slopes — in Stowe, far from any avalanche hazards. Today, Charlie is far from blasé about his near-death experience. As he learned afterward, just another few minutes under the snow would have resulted in permanent brain damage, then in cardiac arrest. “When you escape one of these things, your first instinct is euphoria. You don’t go into the ‘Holy shit, I just about died!’ thing,” he says. “You’re just happy that you got out. I knew I just won the biggest game of my life.” And, in light of his daughter’s far more serious accident, Charlie tries to keep his own near miss in perspective. “If I got through that one,” he says, “being buried in the snow wasn’t that big a deal.” m

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“I said to myself, OK, this is how it ends,” Charlie recalls. “And then I passed out.” Mary, who estimates that she was only 40 yards downhill, couldn’t see her husband from where she was standing — a berm above her blocked her view. But she knew immediately that Charlie hadn’t skied out of the avalanche. At first, the rest of the party assumed everyone had escaped the slide and was accounted for; in fact, someone in the group began snapping photos. Then Mary started yelling that Charlie must still be under the snow somewhere. Allen, who was just uphill from Charlie and had only been buried to her knees, quickly freed herself and switched her avalanche transponder, which all the skiers wore, to search mode. The others did the same. Within seconds, Mary recalls, Allen was “calling out numbers” — the distance, in meters, from Charlie’s beacon signal. Mary remembers hearing her shout, “1.7 meters!” The rest of the group scrambled as fast as they could to find Charlie, who had now been under several feet of snow for almost five minutes. “I was just thinking about what he was going through under there,” Mary says now. “He was suffocating ... but I knew he was right there, just under the snow. They just had to get him out.” Bob Bristow, a friend of the Brushes from Shelburne, was the one who spotted the tip of Charlie’s ski pole peeking above the surface. Bristow grabbed the pole and pulled. Miraculously, it was attached to Charlie’s wrist. This was the only run in three days on which Charlie had heeded his wife’s advice to use his pole straps. That decision, he now acknowledges, probably saved his life. As precious seconds ticked away, four members of the team dug as quickly as they could with shovels and gloved hands. Mary, who was slower to reach the scene, could only listen as others shouted out their progress. “At one point I decided not to go any closer,” she admits. “I got this really freaky feeling that I didn’t want to see him when they first found him.”

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Meeting Day in 2007. Rather than decrying national political leadership, Vermonters gave Barack Obama an overwhelming endorsement for the presidency in both 2008 and 2012. “I’ll tell you my favorite joke: The loneliest person in America on the day after Obama’s election in 2008 was a Vermont secessionist,” says Rob Williams, who cofounded the Commons. All this leaves one looming question facing a new anthology out this week from Vermont Independence Press called Most Likely to Secede: What the Vermont Independence Movement Can Teach Us about Reclaiming Community and Creating

how Vermont could become a more democratic, self-sustaining society. It’s on that latter objective that the book’s success and appeal are likely to hinge. But front and center — and not just in the book’s clever title — is the issue of Vermont’s recent history, in which a small band of Vermonters pushed hard for a clean break with the union. “It represents a seven-year moment in the history of Vermont and the history of the United States, that really will prove, looking back, to be a pivotal time period for the United States,” Williams says. He goes on to cite what he sees as the growth of a “security state” and an economy and

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ermont Commons introduced its 12-page, tabloid-style newspaper at the Warren Fourth of July parade in 2005. The Commons staff organized a float dedicated to Vermont independence and distributed its pilot publication among the crowd. “People didn’t know what to make of it,” Williams admits, but he says that Vermonters, regardless of their politics, are always game for a good conversation. The Vermont secessionist movement

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United States struck many Vermonters as worth considering. But today? “I think that the Vermont secessionist movement is over. Has been for a long time,” says Frank Bryan, a professor of political science at the University of Vermont. No longer are Vermonters rallying for Bush’s impeachment, a prospect 37 Vermont towns supported on Town

electoral system turned over to Wall Street as symptoms of the United States’ transformation into an empire too large to function properly.

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hen Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence debuted in the summer of 2005, the homegrown newspaper devoted to exploring Vermont secession had, at the very least, a curious audience. In the age of George W. Bush’s presidency, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act, the idea of breaking free from the

a Human-Scale Vision for the 21st Century. Is Vermont’s secessionist movement still relevant? The book, edited by Williams and Ron Miller and distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing, collects more than 40 pieces that appeared in the Commons between 2005 and 2011. While the newspaper’s mission has long been exploring the possibility of Vermont’s nonviolent separation from the United States, these collected essays and articles range from political manifestos to straightforward essays about community-supported agriculture, local currency and the threat of peak oil. There’s lofty talk of secession here, of course — “Long live the UNtied States,” writes Williams in one selection from 2008 — but also practical explorations of

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Williams believes the newspaper has plenty to be proud of, as he looks back on the nearly eight years of that conversation that played out in Vermont Commons and is now encapsulated in Most Likely to Secede. “We were using the phrase ‘peak oil’ back in 2005, 2006, when no one was really talking about it yet,” he says. Williams thinks the newspaper was ahead of the curve on coverage that now, looking back, strikes him as prescient: energy dependence, currency and banking, local foods.

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And he remains bullish on the outlook for Vermont Commons, though the newspaper was never a big enterprise. At its height, it could pay the editor and designer and break even, running on a $50,000 annual budget. Peak circulation was 12,000 copies, distributed at 350 locations around the state. But the newspaper took, as Williams put it, “a real hammering” in recent years. Tropical Storm Irene wiped out much of its small advertising base, and the editors decided to publish exclusively online. They hope to revive the print edition in the future, and a few months ago they made the transition to a membersupported cooperative model. Meanwhile, a few young Vermonters are finding themselves drawn to Vermont Commons, even if they don’t identify as secessionists. Among them is Dylan Kelley, a 26-year-old writer, photographer and board member for the publication. He believes the conversations fostered in the (now virtual) pages of the Commons are “more relevant now than ever,” even for those readers — Kelley counts

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largely attributes to Obama’s election and reelection. “There was much more clarity around the conversation when the Bush administration was running the show,” says Williams. “Let’s be honest. Bush and Cheney, for all of their faults, were pretty clear about what they wanted. Obama’s great genius has been to preserve the imperial status quo while talking like a progressive.” But it’s not just national politics that Vermont’s band of secessionists will have to contend with in years to come. After Naylor’s death, Williams says, Vermont secessionists have another question to ponder. “With his passing, the question remains, ‘Will new people step up?’” Julie Buck, who cut her teeth at Vermont Commons writing about the F-35 beddown in South Burlington, isn’t worried. “Thomas was a huge figure in this movement: inspiring, tenacious and fearless,” she writes in an email. “Most importantly, he was right. So the movement goes on.”

himself among them — who shirk the secessionist label. “Do you want to buy a tomato that was shipped halfway around the world … or do you want to buy a tomato from your neighbor, who you know?” he says. The Commons ethos, Kelley continues, “speaks to that independent nature that Vermonters have. Vermonters are really, really happy to conduct their own affairs in the way that they see fit.” Bryan agrees. Even as he declares the secessionist movement “over,” he says that Vermont Commons has plenty to teach Vermonters. (Bryan’s essay “Vermont’s Genetic Code: Toward a Decentralist Manifesto,” ran in Vermont Commons in 2006 and 2010, and appears in the new book.) Bryan still calls himself part of the “Vermont independence” movement, but draws a distinction between the political trappings and logistics of seceding and the exercise of imagining a more self-sufficient Vermont. Vermont Commons’ contribution to the conversation, Bryan says, has been fostering an “intellectual cadre of some pretty smart, courageous and futuristic people” — some previously on the political left, others on the political right — who “now agree that human-scale democracy on a local level is better than the federal level.” He hopes that Most Likely to Secede will advance that thought experiment. “The argument that small is beautiful and better, and that democracy is only possible in small places — that transcends time,” Bryan says. And if any part of the United States can achieve a greater level of independence and self-sufficiency, Bryan believes, it’s Vermont. “I think we’re smarter and work harder and [are] more democratic,” he says. “If you just give us the dough and say, ‘You do it,’ we’d do a better job of it.” m

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had begun years earlier, and its inspiration — the first Vermont Republic — was older still. For nearly 14 years between 1777 and 1791, Vermont existed as an independent commonwealth. Vermonters took part in the American Revolution, but they also produced their own currency (Vermont coppers, minted in East Rupert), operated a postal system and organized their own militia. Believers in the Second Vermont Republic, as the new wave of secessionists was known, envisioned a rebirth of that independent nation-state. Leading the charge was Thomas Naylor, the charismatic — and controversial — father of the SVR; Naylor died last December at 76, and Most Likely to Secede is dedicated to him. A retired Duke University economics professor, Naylor began writing about “downsizing” the United States as early as 1990, but it was in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, that he found an audience. He devoted the last 10 years of his life to promoting Vermont’s secession tirelessly, pumping out hand-addressed flyers and masterminding street theater. The antics drew headlines and followers — and not a few enemies. “Thomas was irascible. He was stubborn. There was a year when he and I didn’t talk to each other,” Williams says. But he was also “indefatigable” — “a lion, if you will.” Naylor, and the group he championed, suffered a tough blow after critics pointed out SVR’s loose ties to the League of the South, a neoconfederate secessionist group with white-supremacist undertones. Naylor lashed out at critics, and the secessionists found themselves, as Williams recalls, “dragged up and down the Vermont blogosphere.” “A bunch of folks began to intimate that if you were a Vermont secessionist, you were a racist,” says Bryan, who feels the SVR caught a bad rap simply by appearing on national lists of secessionist groups — some of which did indeed invoke values of white supremacy. Whether because of the bad press or the shifting political tenor of the country, interest in the secessionist movement gradually waned. Bryan says there weren’t enough people willing to do the hard work

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Wish List Book review: The Other Wish by Diane Swan B Y J U LIA S H IP L E Y

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ishes are those fanciful things we have as children (à la Disney’s “When You Wish Upon a Star...”). Wishes often contradict reason: When we grow up, we call them goals. Or intentions, or mission statements, or objectives. Mate the youthful “wish list” with the grown-up “to-do” list, and voilà: We have the “bucket list.” The mushy mix of desires triggered by celebrations such as New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day can leave some of us clutching tattered lists, eyeing stagnant resolutions and nursing our sweet-and-sour hearts. Humans — what big dream bags we are! Yet in that ceaseless wishing lies some of our shared humanity. For Diane Swan, author of The Other Wish, therein lies poetry. Swan’s first full-length collection fulfills the need for a comprehensive gathering of her work; nearly half of the book’s 73 poems have previously appeared in publications ranging from Alaska Quarterly Review to Yankee Magazine, as well as in Swan’s chapbook, Jewelweed, published in 1994 by State Street Press. The Barre resident is a member of the Wayside Poets, a quartet who critique each other’s work. Swan’s poems have the intimacy of a diary, the dignity of an actual swan and the diction of a canny novelist. “Am I the only one / who thought the fox was hunting?” begins the collection’s first poem, “Foxhunt,” based on a painting by Winslow Homer. Swan explores innocence and experience as the viewer of the painting comes to realize that the fox is actually not hunting but hunted, hampered by deep snow and menaced from above: “When the museum guide points out / in the upper right-hand corner a cloud / of crows, black feathered headdress / of a God, stiletto beaks aimed/ earthward toward the animal…” This is not the last time the crows will appear as counterpoint to a wish. Issues of hunter and hunted, menace and blessing recur as the birds roil up in Swan’s other poems. In “Crows,” their “black cries” echo a prayer chain for a terminally ill young man. “Are these our voices then, gathering /… hoarse from pleading?” the speaker asks. But the crows’ voices aren’t pleading: They are “vagrant, criminal, / Hollering No!” In “Anthony’s Diner,” the speaker must recognize her own complicity when confronted with “that black teepee of crows / I saw on the road… / all business, sharing / this beautiful, violent day.” In “Like Magic,” the crows themselves do not appear, but there’s an echo of their “stiletto beaks” from “Foxhunt” in the description of a father arriving home from work, “knives / bristling from his belt — obscenities / to hone on my mother’s leather silence.” Swan’s crows suggest nature’s otherness. If humans are big wish bags, satchels of desire, the crows seem to act simply and directly, without premeditation or dependence on intermediary forces. They do not wish; they just are. The speaker in Swan’s poems sometimes moves toward the crows, sometimes stands still observing, perhaps fearing that otherness. Do the birds evoke the inevitability of death? Perhaps, but that seems too simplistic and reductive for the complexity expressed in the poem “Invitation,” in which Swan writes, “My husband is worried / that I will leave the party / and follow the house-sized

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“FOXHUNT” A Painting by Winslow Homer Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Am I the only one who thought the fox was hunting? No boiling pack of hounds, no urgent horses, no gentlemen propped up in shiny boots. It was a loneliness so lovely, a single russet head against the snow, black ears alert toward the horizon, long pull of fur and white-tipped plume, front paw lifted like a silent question. When the museum guide points out in the upper right-hand corner a cloud of crows, black feathered headdress of a God, stiletto beaks aimed earthward toward the animal, I see the fox is trapped, stranded in the frozen ruts, a branch of scarlet berries embroidered on the velvet cold forecasting blood. And I can never have it back, the fox on the trail of something sweet, a happiness, the silence swimming from that lifted paw, the prey I don’t imagine, safely missing. Diane Swan

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/ crow into the woods.” Rather than making a decision, the speaker lingers halfway between the party and the bird, where she can perceive “no sound / but the small black bones / of words stringing themselves / on sentences, / lives linking lives.” As the speaker stands there wanting (wishing for) the oncoming darkness (maybe of evening, maybe of the crow, maybe of distance, maybe of home), she describes “feeling myself drawn — / a forked stick / toward a deep uncovered well.” As the wishes throughout this collection mount, they, like the conversations in “Invitation,” are “strung together” with Swan’s exact and grown-up language. Among them are the wish “to return to the place / before we had souls, before we were / a twinkle in his Irish eye” (“Like Magic”); the wish to rise up, “like in the spring bloodroot, jewelweed / and trillium — saying here we go again” (“Jewelweed”); and, paradoxically, the wish “to stay deep under, / to live without light / like the deepest blind fish” (“The Other Wish”). Finally, there is the fundamental human desire to have the unhaveable, as when the speaker in “Foxhunt” wants to have only her first impression, her uninterrupted innocence, the image of Homer’s fox setting out “on the trail of something sweet, a happiness, / the silence swimming from that lifted paw, / the prey I don’t imagine, safely missing.” Again and again, Swan thematizes a wishful thinking that seems to defy or negate lived experiences. Perhaps another word for what lines like those in “Foxhunt” enact is prayer — asking for assistance in achieving the impossible. Novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz once said, “When someone wants something so fiercely — they should just get it.” That might be more magical than logical thinking, but readers in search of a mature, enchanting voice and devotees of Swan’s elegantly crafted poems will get exactly what they want in The Other Wish. m

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hef Levi Carter spent his childhood being shuttled among family members in Vermont and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. A similarly varied experience characterizes his culinary career, which began at the Vermont Pub & Brewery and took him to the New England Culinary Institute for a degree, then to A Single Pebble. Later, Carter returned to all-American spots such as Shelburne Steakhouse and the Clover House. His work at the new Lighthouse Restaurant and Lounge in Colchester reflects the diversity of his path: There Carter prepares seafood and Asian cuisines, steaks and down-home comfort food. To say that there’s something for everyone on the menu is an understatement. And offering something for everyone is clearly the goal of the new restaurant that’s taken over the former T Bones space adjacent to the Colchester Hampton Inn. It has plenty of seats to be filled: 180 currently, and more than 200 in the summer when an outdoor deck opens. That’s far more than Carter and the Lighthouse’s owner, Doug Simms, could serve at the Clover House, which they left for the larger space at the end of 2012. So far, the popular team appears to be succeeding at keeping the space hopping. On a recent Saturday night, the restaurant was full of jovial diners rocking out to the sounds of lounge act Rick Guest. The following Tuesday was also busy, with lines of people making their way through the 60-item salad bar. It could almost have been a flashback to the 1980s, pre-T Bones, when another restaurant called the Lighthouse thrived in the venue. Welcome as they are, crowds can also pose difficulties for new restaurants, and the Lighthouse hasn’t escaped the almost inevitable. A month and a half after its opening, I encountered some rough waves. On my first visit, it took 20 minutes for a waitress to ask for my drink order. Much

of the food tended toward the overcooked. But, like the dove that returned to Noah as he approached the shore, plenty of better omens promised that the Lighthouse can become what its staff envisions. All entrées come with a choice of soup or salad bar, which explains the sometimes-startling prices. Figure in a crock of soup ($6 à la carte) or a trip to the salad bar ($7), and that $18 meatloaf is actually only $11 or $12. Though I knew those enhanced entrées would fill me up fast, I was still enticed to try the garlic-chicken-and-greenchile nachos. The nearly six-inch-high construction looked forbidding, but, once dismantled, the pile of warm tortilla chips proved to be nicely covered with cheddar, pico de gallo, jalapeños and olives. The sour cream mentioned on the menu was missing but not missed. I was too busy enjoying the garlic marinade flavoring the cubes of chicken, combined with tangy green chiles. Though the nachos were full of character, the salad bar largely lacked it. I was impressed by Carter’s homemade dressings (including a beautifully balanced honey-chile vinaigrette) during his brief tenure at Shelburne Steakhouse. At the Lighthouse, some homemade dressings were offered, but others came from big-brand Ken’s Foods. Most toppings, similarly, were out-of-the-box bacon bits, Chinese noodles and the like. Though the greens on the bar were fresh, many other veggies were less so. Even homemade salads, such as a bland peanut-noodle dish, appeared tired and included poorly chopped ingredients. One scallion in the aforementioned salad was three inches long. Soups were a better choice. Dark, beefy French onion benefited from a crackling crust of three cheeses and plenty of bread to soak up the broth. Cheddar-ale was SAILING HOME

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Orfan has begun slowly introducing dishes that will become standards at Rustic Roots. Last weekend, a homemade lox scramble was a popular brunch special. House Canadian bacon and maple-coffee sausages, made with vErmont CoFFEE Company dark roast and local syrup, have also been hits, he says. Orfan hopes soon to get a smoker so he can make his own pastrami for sandwiches served on house focaccia. The crêpes that originally defined the Lemon Peel are still available, but Orfan says his current emphasis is on homemade baked goods such as sticky buns, coffee cake and quiche. Also new are occasional evening meals. Monthly prix-fixe dinners began with a Valentine’s Day meal that quickly sold out. A March dinner has yet to be scheduled, but Orfan has already written a late-winter-themed menu featuring three courses. Dishes include greens and root

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made with a combination of Switchback Brewing Company ale and Cabot extrasharp cheddar. Insufficiently blended onions messed with the creamy texture but drove home the fact that the comforting soup was indeed homemade. I’d heard a lot of buzz about the Hot Buttered Lobster Risotto, so it was a clear March Special choice for my first trip to the Lighthouse. 1 large 18’’ 1-topping pizza, Unless you’re at a Cipriani, restaurant 1 dozen wings risotto can be an iffy proposition. Even & 2-liter Coke product more so at a steakhouse in Colchester, Vt. But Carter acquitted himself with style. Plus tax. Pick-up or delivery only. Expires 3/11/13. The rice had just enough al dente bite, and a bit of mascarpone made it extra creamy, if 973 Roosevelt Highway a little less nutty than a straight Parmesan Colchester • 655-5550 version. But, hey, it was filled with chunks www.threebrotherspizzavt.com of lobster. Who could complain? A good-size lobster tail rested on top of the rice dish, too. Poached in beurre 12v-ThreeBros022712.indd 1 2/22/13 12:41 PM blanc, the shellfish was cooked perfectly. A lemon on the side added a bit of acid, but I wish the dish had already contained that element, besides a smattering of cherry tomatoes surrounding the rice. I felt the same way about the bland Béarnaise sauce that I ordered on the side with my chateau bistro steak. That was missing not only acid but the tarragon needed to distinguish it from a Hollandaise. I selected the make-your-own dinner option, which includes a choice of protein and side, along with a trip to the salad bar and the vegetable of the day. All sauces and enhancements are an extra $2. It’s a fun system, but that night, the results disappointed. The chateau bistro, better known as a shoulder tender, is an underutilized cut — the teres major muscle in the shoulder, as tender as filet mignon but significantly less expensive. Not only was my steak cooked beyond my requested medium-rare, it would have been overcooked for medium-well. The crusty outside was more burnt than If you do this... 12v-lakeViewHouse022013.indd 1 2/18/13 4:06 PMpleasantly charred. Green beans and carrot sticks were also cooked within an inch of their lives. But the dried-out macaroni and cheese was the saddest part. The cavatappi was supposed to have been baked with a sauce of 2-year-old Grafton Village cheddar but appeared to have absorbed it. The only trace of flavor or moisture was in the oasis of buttery Ritz-cracker topping. On my next visit, I was hoping to have barbecue beef ribs, but our server told us You need this. the chef had nixed them when he couldn’t find sufficiently meaty specimens. Respect for not serving a product that wasn’t up to par. I elected to try another barbecue dish instead, the bone-in pork chop. My server asked how I wanted it cooked, and I requested “just past pink.” The result ushford was closer to “just before incineration.” amily hiropractic Once again, the outside was blackened, the 100 Dorset Street, Suite 21 • 860-3336 inside long minutes past pink. Luckily, the www.rushfordchiropractic.com chop’s dried-cherry-bourbon demi-glâce

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Two good-size slices of tuna were perfectly pink inside and enticingly seared in a sesame crust. The fish was sandwiched between piles of perfectly cooked, aromatic jasmine rice and chewy, sesame-dressed wakame. Drizzles of sweet soy-ginger glaze and creamy wasabi aioli enhanced the already spot-on flavors. Served in an Asian-style spoon, a few slices of pickled ginger added a little more flair, though the ball of wasabi was too claylike to use. Despite the emphasis on steak and seafood at the Lighthouse, I was impressed to find a couple of good options for

vegetarians who don’t want to be stuck with the salad bar. My friend’s order of portobello-mushroom ravioli was a little soft for my taste, but its indulgent Marsala wine sauce and zigzags of sweet-andsour balsamic reduction were delicious, especially when they soaked into the spinach and tiny mushrooms served with the pasta. Rather than try several big desserts, we sampled three mini ones as part of a special chocolate trio. Our only choice that appeared on the regular menu, the homemade Chambord chocolate mousse, was a bit of a disappointment. While chocolatey, it was distinctly grainy in texture. A buttercream-filled ring of red velvet cake and another round of white, milk and dark chocolate mousses — both supplied by Annie’s Bakery of Sodexo — were just as flavorful, but smoother and easier to eat. At this point in the Lighthouse’s life, most of the problems I experienced could easily be chalked up to growing pains. As Carter gets more accustomed to managing a kitchen of this size, he’ll be better able to ensure that everything leaving it is up to his standards. I’ve enjoyed enough of Carter’s food at other restaurants to be confident in his skills and hopeful that homemade foods will soon replace the Sodexo-supplied dressings and desserts. Whether he’s drawing dinner inspirations from the islands or the mountains, this chef’s home cooking is a constant I can stand behind. m

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eating wheat could cure schizophrenia,” she says. Miller concedes that 3 to 5 percent of schizophrenic patients “may do better” on a wheat-free diet, but the suggestion that wheat could exacerbate the disease incensed her. “That’s the moment I said, ‘OK, not only is this guy giving nutrition information that’s erroneous, but I find it profoundly troubling,’” Jones says. Inviting Jones serves a clear purpose for the NGGA, says Heather Darby, a University of Vermont agronomy professor. “It [the gluten-free trend] definitely impacts small-scale food systems,” she says. “The growers and bakers need more information on how to talk to their customers about it, so that people aren’t afraid to eat wheat.” “I get emails from people who have concerns [about wheat], and I don’t really know how to answer them,” says farmer Ben Gleason, who has been growing wheat in Bridport for 31 years. “I did see a short interview with [Davis] where he talked about how wheat is addictive. I don’t really think it seems like that.” Gleason says the last few months have brought sagging sales, as well as a wetter climate that spurs lower yields. But he can’t trace slow business directly to customers giving up wheat. He still sells much of his 60 or so tons of Gleason Grains flour to local co-ops and to Red Hen Baking Company in Middlesex. For his part, Randy George of Red Hen noticed a bump in customers inquiring about gluten-free products three years ago. Within the last 18 months, though, he says the trend has reached the level of a “craze or a frenzy.” “I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for people who have celiac. It’s not a fun thing,” George says, referring to the genetic autoimmune digestive disorder aggravated by gluten.

The Trouble With Wheat A Could the gluten-free trend endanger Vermont’s local grains movement? few years ago, a Wisconsin cardiologist named Dr. William Davis began asking his prediabetic and diabetic patients to give up wheat. His theory: Foods made with wheat flour can cause blood sugar to spike. After some of those patients underwent health transformations — dramatic weight loss and the disappearance of chronic conditions, for instance — Davis decided to write a book, Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health, about what he judged to be the physiological evils of wheat consumption. Calling the grain “an incredibly destructive monster” on his website, Davis posits that it can cause or aggravate ailments ranging from arthritis to schizophrenia. Davis’ book sold millions of copies and became a New York Times best seller; the doctor appeared on CBS News and “The Dr. Oz Show,” and he followed up with a best-selling cookbook. Yet the claims that modern wheat is both addictive and debilitating have met skepticism from retailers, bakers, grain growers and some nutritionists — one of whom will speak in Vermont next week.

“It doesn’t pass scientific muster,” says Julie Miller Jones, a nutrition professor at the University of Minnesota and a vocal opponent of Davis’ assertions that wheatbased cakes, breads, crackers and pastries are making us sick and obese. Jones should meet a receptive audience when she delivers a keynote speech on March 14 at the annual conference of the Northern Grain Growers Association in Essex — an appearance funded in part by King Arthur Flour. Vermont wheat growers aren’t many in number, and they already face challenges such as a moist, cold climate; not-quite-ideal soil; and a dearth of local mills. Now, the growing gluten-free market adds another layer of complication to their jobs. In Vermont, Jones will talk about how wheat “never was and has not become addictive,” as well as about the general principles of gluten intolerance and allergies. Since reading Wheat Belly, she has been on something of her own crusade to counter what she sees as the misguided and potentially harmful information Davis brokers. “When I got to the chapter on schizophrenia, I was so angry that someone would say to a family that not

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on people’s tendencies to come to quick “maximum of 7 percent” of Americans conclusions based on those kinds of have a true gluten intolerance, yet millions thoughts.” more are pursuing gluten-free diets as the Catherine L. McIsaac, the manager of “diet du jour.” clinical nutrition at Fletcher Allen Health Jones has seen dietary fads come and Care, says she has no doubt that incidence go; she’s been in the field since the 1970s of both celiac disease and gluten insensi- — when, ironically, she asked some of tivity has risen in recent years — partly as her students to develop products for the a result of better screening. gluten intolerant. “Then, we thought the “I certainly don’t think wheat is the incidence was one in every 2500 or 3000 source of all evil, but there are some people,” she says. people who, if they avoid wheat, they feel Since then, Jones’ area of specialty has better,” she observes. “The part that’s dif- been carbs and grains. Though she says ficult to tease out is it’s clear the incidence if it’s truly the wheat, of celiac disease has if that’s what they’re increased in the last 50 focusing on. If they’re years, she is rankled by avoiding wheat, they’re some of Davis’ bolder usually focusing on assertions. For instance, higher-quality foods the author maintains altogether.” that gliadin (a protein While the wheatin wheat) is a product free trend has of genetic engineering, posed challenges to akin to an opiate, that Vermont’s traditional makes wheat so addicbakers and grain tive consumers eat 440 growers, it has also more calories a day than created new business they might otherwise. opportunities — for Like George, gluten-free bakeries. Jones dismisses the McIsaac says Fletcher “Frankenwheat” claim. Allen now sources “There is no genetimore baked goods from cally engineered wheat HE AtHEr DArb Y, U Ni VErS itY Essex Junction’s West sold anywhere on this of VE rmoN t Meadow Farm Bakery. planet,” she says. Other small busiThough Jones “can’t nesses, such as South address his motives,” Barre’s Vermont Gluten Free Bakery, she observes that Davis has skillfully have sprouted and flourished as more tapped into the penchant for trendy diets. Vermonters give up gluten. “The diet-book market is incredibly lucraMother and daughter Jean and Joye tive. This is just another low-carb diet,” Mudgett started Vermont Gluten Free she says, and it troubles her. Bakery in 2008, after the former, at age “The 25 percent of women who are 61, was told she had celiac disease. When cutting out bread and cereal is problemshe gave up wheat, “It was like a light atic,” Jones adds, because they may not be went on: This is what it is to feel good. I getting their daily dose of fiber. had never felt so good,” says Mudgett, How far will the wheat-free trend go? a lifelong home baker who’d endured Red Hen’s George thinks bakers may be decades of cramps and malaise. Yet seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. “I another misery awaited her — the state think some people are starting to question of gluten-free foods. “Everything I tried this a little bit, whether it really makes was worse than cardboard. It was awful,” sense to discard a food that people have she recalls. been eating for 10,000 years,” he says. Gradually, Mudgett finessed more Can Vermont’s local wheat-growing palatable gluten-free breads and pastries, movement weather some defections? using her family as guinea pigs. She and Grower Gleason seems mellow about the her daughter perfected a substitute flour kerfuffle. “Your customers kind of come using rice, tapioca and cornstarch. Word and go,” he says. “Businesses go out of spread about their products. Samples business, and you always have to keep the pair dropped off at City Market and pursuing new markets.” m Healthy Living Market and Café were immediately snapped up, and a business was born. “It just took off,” Joye Mudgett says. “Returning to Our Roots,” the Ninth “There was a great need.’ Annual Grain Growers Conference. Nutritionist Jones takes issue with that Thursday, March 14, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at word “need,” even as she acknowledges the Essex Resort & Spa. $40-45. Register that at least 1 percent of Americans suffer online at uvm.edu/extension/agriculture/. from celiac disease. She points out that a

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WINOOSKI COALITION FOR A SAFE AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITY: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by weighing in on public-health and civic-engagement initiatives. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4565.

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EVENING KNITTING CIRCLE:Needleworkers pull up a chair and get loopy with fellow crafters over dessert. Shelburne Farms, 7-9 p.m. $5; preregister. Info, 985-8686. MAKE STUFF!: Defunct bicycle parts become works of art and jewelry that will be sold to raise funds and awareness. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

WEST-COAST SWING-DANCE LESSONS:Dancers learn this freestyle form to blues, pop and funk tunes. No partner required. Shelburne Town Hall, noon-1 p.m. $10. Middlebury Fitness, 2:45-3:45 p.m. & 7:05-8:05 p.m. $5-12. Info, 558-1870.

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DINNER & A MOVIE: Neighbors beat the winter blues with summertime cuisine and a screening of Rick Sebak’s ode to the great American road trip, Unusual Buildings and Other Roadside Stuff. Milton Historical Society, 6-9 p.m. Free; bring a dish to share. Info, 363-2598.

MEXICAN SLOW FOOD: Half Pint Farm’s Mara Welton shares family recipes for traditional soup posole and homemade tortillas. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop.

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BURLINGTON GO CLUB: Folks gather weekly to play this deceptively simple, highly strategic Asian board game. Uncommon Grounds, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free; bring a set if you have one. Info, 860-9587, dfelcan@yahoo.com.

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GUIDED MEDITATION: Marna Ehriech guides an explorative weekly practice. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11 suggested donation. Info, 238-7908. ROBERT REX: The certified Rolfer leads stretching and bodywork modified for sciatica pain. Loose, comfortable clothing and yoga mat recommended. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. THE HEART OF THE MATTER: PERSPECTIVES & STRATEGIES FOR TREATING ANXIETY: Acupuncturist Sarah VanHoy explains how elements of traditional Chinese medicine, brain science and medical anthropology can facilitate healing. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100. ‘80S WORKOUT WEDNESDAYS: Break out the spandex and sweat bands, and get moving to aerobic workout videos led by Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8-10 a.m. $2. Info, 496-8994.

BILL CARMICHAEL Saturday, March 9, 7:30 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. $17. Info, 382-9222. townhalltheater.org

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ENOSBURG PLAYGROUP: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing and other activities. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. FAIRFIELD PLAYGROUP:Youngstersfind entertainment in creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. HIGHGATE STORY HOUR: Gigglers and wigglers listen to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. MAY’S WORLD MUSIC & MOVEMENT:Energetic children lace up their dancing shoes for a fun class with May Poduschnick. Ilsley Public

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at the 2010 Independent Music Awards, the group continued to gain momentum with compelling songwriting, acoustic instrumentation and rousing live shows. The Steel Wheels bring this powerful blend of energy and talent to the stage in Vermont.

THE STEEL WHEELS Sunday, March 10, 7:30 p.m, at Tunbridge Town Hall. $15-20. Info, 431-3433. mtnfolk.org

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Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley sits in the shadow of the famed Blue Ridge Mountains, a landscape associated with natural beauty and banjo picking. It is also the place that the Steel Wheels band call home. In four-part harmonies anchored by Trent Wagler’s distinct tenor, these rising stars of bluegrass channel elements of blues and rock into the regional genre. After their first album, Red Wing, earned five nominations and one win

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Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Moving & Grooving With Christine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Richford Pajama Story Time: Kids up to age 6 wear their jammies for evening tales. Arvin A. Brown Library, Richford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. St. Albans Playgroup: Creative activities and storytelling engage young minds. NCSS Family Center, St. Albans, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Story Time & Playgroup: Read-aloud tales pave the way for themed art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. Youth Media Lab: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with local television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:304:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097.

seminars

Herbal First-Aid Salves For (Im)migrant Justice: Herbalist Dana Woodruff teaches participants how to make natural ointments to take home and send to the humanitarian organization No More Deaths/No Más Muertes. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202, info@ hungermountain.coop. Spend Smart Series: This practical introduction to money management focuses on personalized financial goals. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

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Burlington Writers Workshop Meeting: Members read and respond to the poetry and prose of fellow wordsmiths. Participants must join the group to have their work reviewed. Halflounge, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com. Info, 383-8104. Chris Bohjalian: The acclaimed novelist discusses how his Armenian heritage and the country’s genocide influenced his book The Sandcastle Girls. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. Cynthia Huntington: Explorations of illness, addiction and abuse in selected readings from Heavenly Bodies reflect the poet’s gift for introspection. Bradford Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

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Rail Yard Enterprise Project Public Meeting: Locals voice opinions about proposed developments for Vermont Railway’s Burlington rail yard and other areas of the waterfront. Burlington City Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1794.

crafts

Women’s Craft Group: Inventive females work on artful projects at a biweekly meetup. Essex Alliance Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 238-2291.

dance

Dartmouth Dance Ensemble: John Heginbotham directs students in original works accompanied by live music from Dartmouth musicians. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-14. Info, 603-646-2422. Roman Baca With Exit 12 Dance Company: After returning from Iraq, the U.S. Marine cofounded this New York City-based company to educate audiences about war through choreography. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1251.

education

Upper Valley Educators Institute Information Session: Potential teachers and principals gain valuable knowledge about the nonprofit’s educator-preparation program. Upper Valledy Educators Institute, Lebanon, N.H., 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 603-678-4888.

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‘An Affair of the Heart’: See WED.06, 5:30 p.m. Community Cinema Film Series: Solar Mamas features India’s Barefoot College, where women receive solar-energy-engineer training to bring electricity to their communities. A discussion follows. Media Room 207, Community Center, Goddard College, Plainfield, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 454-8311. ‘MAKERS: Women Who Make America’: AOL and PBS collaborated to profile powerful females whose actions have shaped our society over the past 50 years. A panel discussion follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘Not Fade Away’: See WED.06, 5:30 p.m. PaleyFest: ‘The Walking Dead’: This live broadcast features a Q&A with the popular cable show’s cast and producers, as well as previously unreleased clips and behind-the-scenes footage. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 864-5610. ‘Saving Lincoln’: Using Civil War photographs as a visual narrative, Salvador Litvak’s bigographical film tells the story of the 16th president’s relationship with his friend and bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. Tournées French Film Festival: This celebration of francophone cinema features Welcome, Philippe Lioret’s drama about illegal immigrants in France. French with English subtitles. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St.

Hand In Hand Bake Sale: Sweet treats support the nonprofit H.O.P.E.’s Birthday Box project, which provides party supplies to low-income families. Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 3-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

health & fitness

Above the City Meditation Night: Attendees attune their bodies and minds breath by breath. Comfortable clothing and personal cushions recommended. October Tea Room, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 651-1054. Fluid Yoga: Early risers focus on arm balances, proper alignment and creative sequencing based on vinyasa principles. A guided meditation follows. SEABA Center, Burlington, 7-8 a.m. $5 suggested donation; see pascucciyoga.com for details. Info, 859-9222. Internal Alchemy: Acupuncturist Joseph Rothstein demonstrates how to use breath, intention and movement to cultivate spiritual and self-awareness. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop.

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Alburgh Playgroup: Tots form friendships over music and movement. Alburgh Family Center of NCSS, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Brandon Youth Theater Auditions: This offshoot of the Brandon Town Players holds tryouts for its June production of Live a Little at the Hollywood Hoedown. Open to students in grades 4 to 8 accompanied by a parent. Neshobe School, Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-5420, denniswmarden@gmail.com . Family Game Night: Kiddos ages 3 to 10 who know their colors and numbers play interactive versions of bingo and other popular pastimes. Center Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. Family-Night Dinner: Kids and their caregivers fill up on bowls of Peggy’s Famous Chili. King Street Center, Burlington, 5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6736. Food For Thought Library Volunteers: Pizza fuels teen discussion of books and library projects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Franklin Story Hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 1010:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Middlebury Preschool Story Time: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4369. Montgomery Infant/Toddler Playgroup: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Music with Raphael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk music. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918. Pajama Story Time: Little kids rock nightgowns and flannels as special guests read from books. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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Lunch & Learn Series: Gardening Like the First People: Store manager Mike Ather leads an interactive discussion about growing food as our ancestors did. Gardener’s Supply: Williston Garden Center & Outlet, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. Spring Gardening Series: Gardening Start Up & Weeds: Master gardener Kelly Wakefield shares her expertise for beginning

The Irish Comedy Tour: Standups with roots from the land of leprechauns and Guinness channel the raucous humor of hooligans. For mature audiences only. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $25 plus tax. Info, 775-0903.

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Antonia Losano: In "Victoria’s Secrets," the Middlebury College professor reveals the darker side of the Victorian era’s propriety. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Debby Bergh: Albatrosses abound in the birder’s illustrated leture about her travels to Midway Atoll, the world’s largest seabirdbreeding site. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Jay Parini: The author references his own work in "Truth or Dare: Writing Historical Fiction," which explores the genre’s evolution. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

‘Race’: Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill directs a Northern Stage and Capital Repertory Theatre coproduction of David Mamet’s provocative tale of sex, guilt and cultural taboos. Contains sexually explicit language and adult situations. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $15-60. Info, 296-7000.

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College Night: Current students take advantage of their flexible schedules and Vermont’s ski-and-snowboard opportunities. Bolton Valley Resort, noon-8 p.m. $19 lift tickets with valid school ID. Info, 434-6804. Green Mountain Table Tennis Club: Pingpong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 7-10 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913. 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. Trapp Nordic Cup 2012-13: Race against the clock in this weekly nordic 5K skate and/ or timed trial at the home of the first crosscountry ski center in the U.S. Trapp Family Lodge Nordic Center, Stowe, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $8 plus trail pass; see trappfamily.com for specific prices. Info, 253-5719.

Lisa MacFarlane: Early photographs of Native Americans illustrate the University of New Hampshire professor’s discussion of how stereotypical images contributed to cultural strife. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Lorilee Schoenbeck: The naturopath details Vermont’s efforts to reform health care in "Bringing Complementary and Alternative Medicine to the Mainstream." Media Room 207, Community Center, Goddard College, Plainfield, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 454-8311. Neri Oxman: In "The New Eco-Activism," the MIT professor discusses how nature informs her research, digital design and artistic sensibility. Dole Auditorium, Norwich University, Northfield, 6 p.m. Info, 485-2882. Paul Monod: How has the British monarchy survived the last 175 years? The Middlebury College history professor follows the royal family from Victoria to Elizabeth II for answers. Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184. Rosemary Gladstar: The acclaimed herbalist and author recounts the history of medicinal plant use in America, as well as its role in health care today. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. Sam Guarnaccia & Cami Davis: The composer and visual artist, respectively, explore artistic expression as a vehicle for individual and societal change. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-0322 or 985-3819. Wild Neighbors Lecture Series: Animaltracking expert Sue Morse details how global climate change affects regional ecosystems and the critters that call them home. Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 860-0190.

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Wii-tastic!: Visual learners test out the videogame console. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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Basic Concepts in Landscape Design Silvia Jope & Forrest White A step-by-step approach to planning your garden and landscape. Learn the fundamentals of design and planning, for gardeners of all skill levels.

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, 862-1677 or 863-3305.

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Water Gardening Dave Hamlen Whether you already have a pond and want to spruce it up or want to create a new water feature of your own, Dave covers the basics and how to get started.

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Garden Plants with Medicinal Interests Heather Irvine Many plants do more then just beautify a landscape. Learn about the medicinal properties of a wide variety of plants with Heather, of Giving Tree Botanicals. To register, call 660-3505, or sign up in store. Pre-registration and pre-payment required. Classes are $10.00 per person. See www.GardenersSupplyStore.com for program details. 4+2 Plan is for Gardener’s Club members. Seminars are held at Gardener’s in Burlington.

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‘americana @ Home’: The Buskers and Sweetgrass bring traditional street sounds and bluegrass to a celebration of regional music. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 603-448-0400. marcia Ball: Sonny Landreth, Cindy Cashdollar and Terrance Simien back the pianist and vocalist in "Toast of the Coast," which showcases New Orleans-style blues. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966 . music in tHe loft concert series: Pianist Joshua Glass and violinist Emma Sky mix improvisation into a performance of alt-rock tunes. Ten percent of proceeds support the Vermont Foodbank. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; wine available by the glass; ID required. Info, 985-8222. noontime concert series: Guitaristcomposer David Kraus enlivens the lunch hour with favorites from his repertoire. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6515.

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Parental WorksHoP: transitioning YoutH WitH sPecial needs to adultHood: Vermont Family Network hosts an informative session covering self-advocacy tips, guardianship, transfer of rights and more. Health Care & Rehabilitation Services, Springfield, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 353-3277. sPend smart series: See WED.06, 10 a.m.-noon.

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tele tHursdaYs: Eastern Mountain Sports hosts weekly free-heel skiing under the lights for all skill levels. Lessons start at 6 p.m. Bolton Valley Resort, 5:30-8 p.m. $40 includes lesson and equipment; lift ticket required; preregister at emsexploration.com. Info, 864-0473.

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david BreasHears: In "Rivers of Ice," the filmmaker, mountaineer and director of the nonprofit GlacierWorks gives an illustrated lecture on vanishing Himalayan glaciers. See calendar spotlight. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5324. Paul B. Jaskot: The DePaul University professor presents "Richter, Tübke and the Auschwitz Trials: The Nazi Perpetrator Seen From Both Sides of the Iron Curtain." Room 104, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. sister Helen PreJean: The death-penalty opponent and author of Dead Man Walking details her activism efforts. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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West Rutland Town Hall, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 775-1015. ‘race’: See WED.06, 7:30 p.m. ‘red deatH’: The SUNY Plattsburgh Department of Theatre presents acclaimed playwright Lisa D’Amour’s thriller inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s Masque of the Red Death. Hartman Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30-10 p.m. $2-10. Info, 518-564-2243. ‘tHe cHosen’: Theatre Kavanah’s production of Chaim Potok’s award-winning novel portrays two distinct Jewish communities during World War II. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, preperformance talk, 7 p.m.; show, 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 388-1436. ‘tHe dining room’: Peter Marsh directs this Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre production of A.R. Gurney’s play, which spans time periods with interrelated scenes of upper-middle-class families sitting at the same table. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 775-0903.

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Book discussion series: memoraBle memoirs: Poet Sherry Olson facilitates conversation about Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. cassie Horner: As part of Women’s History Month, the local journalist and publisher discusses her book Lucy E. Road to Victory. Waterbury Senior Center, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

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cHuck ross: Vermont’s secretary of agriculture outlines post-Tropical Storm Irene rebuilding efforts, after which farmers take the floor with questions and concerns. Morristown Town Offices, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 272-0822 .

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off tHe Wall: informal discussions aBout art: Middlebury College professor Pieter Broucke discusses the recently acquired drawing of the Acropolis’ Propylaea by famed architect Louis Kahn. A light lunch follows. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 12:15-2 p.m. Donations. Info, 443-3168. ‘We Won’t last’: Local artists present a fivepart, multimedia performance/exhibition of photography, sculpture, movement, poetry and rants. Local 64, Montpelier, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free; preregister at eventbrite.com; limited space. Info, 595-0605.

business

Peak PitcH: At this unique networking event, entrepreneurs pair up with investors on the chairlift and deliver an "elevator pitch" on the way up the mountain. Gatehouse Lodge, Lincoln Peak, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; preregister at eventbrite.com. Info, 923-1501.

comedy

caPital comedY connection: Local jokesters step up to the open mic and perform brief material in a supportive atmosphere. American Legion Post 03, Montpelier, 7:30-10 p.m. Donations. Info, 229-9043.

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BaLLROOm LessOn & dance sOciaL: Singles and couples of all experience levels take a twirl. Lesson 7-8 p.m.; open dancing 8-10 p.m. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. mapLe sugaR squaRe & ROund dance festivaL: Callers from the U.S. and Canada lead various dances that complement workshops and a sugar-on-snow party. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $17.50-75; free for spectators; see lakechamplainsquares.org for details. Info, 9852012 or 518-852-2527. queen city tangO miLOnga: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, introductory session, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.

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avOid faLLs With impROved staBiLity: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.

enOsBuRg faLLs stORy hOuR: Young ones show up for fables and finger crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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aLexandeR schimpf: With equal parts charm and charisma, this award-winning pianist performs selections from Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy and others. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 863-5966. escheR stRing quaRtet: The esteemed foursome performs works by Beethoven, Britten and Mendelssohn. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. ‘ORkestRiska’s BOx’ aLBum ReLease cOnceRt & peRfORmance: Percussionist Jane Boxall joins Randal Pierce in a performance of his original score for Trish Denton’s multimedia production. ArtsRiot Gallery, Burlington, 8-2 a.m. Donations. Info, 401-743-3542. patty LaRkin: The singer-songwriter and guitarist brings her innovative urban-folk to the After Dark Music Series. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8-10 p.m. $20-22. Info, 388-0216. FRI.08

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aLL-yOu-can-eat fish fRy: Locals 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. BLue staR mOtheRs nachO night: Plates of tortilla chips loaded with melted cheese and all the fixings fuel diners for dancing to the live music that follows. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 878-0700. Lenten fish dinneR: Neighbors gather for a shared meal of seafood, soup, salad and dessert. Children’s menu available. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier, 5-6:30 p.m. $6-10; free for ages 3 and under. Info, 793-4276.

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‘BaRBaRa’: Christian Petzold’s drama stars Nina Hoss as a Berlin doctor banished to the countryside after seeking an exit visa out of East Germany in the 1980s. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600 . ‘Beasts Of the sOutheRn WiLd’: Six-year-old phenom Quvenzhané Wallis portrays a precocious young girl, Hush Puppy, in Benh Zeitlin’s drama about a dilapidated bayou community. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. ‘mysteRy at hathORne schOOL’: Rose Curran’s short film features local actors and a collaboration between the Ilsley Public Library and Middlebury Community Television. Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 623-6324, rkcstudios@yahoo.com.

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faiRfax cOmmunity pLaygROup: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. high schOOL BOOk Lust cLuB: Bookworms dish on reads they love — and ones they love to loathe. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. isLe La mOtte pLaygROup: Stories and crafts make for creative play. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. magic: the gatheRing: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or "planeswalkers," fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free; for grades 6 and up. Info, 878-6956. mOntgOmeRy tumBLe time: Physical fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. sOngs & stORies With mattheW: Musician Matthew Witten helps kids start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. spanish musicaL kids: Amigos ages 1 to 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. sWantOn pLaygROup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. teen mOvie: Batman must resurface to take on a new evil that threatens Gotham City in 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 8v-OldSpokes022713.indd 878-6956. ‘the pROduceRs’: Very Merry Theatre teens present Mel Brooks’ zany musical masterpiece. Language not appropriate for young children. Waterfront Theatre, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation; limited seating. Info, 355-1461. tOddLeR time: Little ones build literacy skills with stories, songs, rhymes and crafts. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; for kids ages 1 to 3. Info, 878-4918. WRite On!: Budding wordsmiths ages 6 to 10 brainstorm ideas and spin a story or two. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

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‘Belles’ audiTions: See THU.07, 7 p.m. daRTmouTh idol Finals: Student vocal finalists perform with a live band under the musical direction of Walt Cunningham. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-19. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘my CounTRy is The woRld and The woRld is my sTage: The TRue sToRy oF gaRRy daVis’: Arthur Kanegis directs this one-man biographical play about the renowned politicaltheater figure, which stars Davis himself, now in his 90s. Performances will be filmed for a documentary; attendance constitutes agreement to be shown on camera. Sign in, 6:30 p.m.; show, 7 p.m. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington. $5 suggested donation. Info, 7357912, mosaicmond@gmail.com. ‘“ouR Town” oF woodChuCk, VeRmonT’: Woodchuck Theatre Company presents George Woodard’s lighthearted play about smalltown life from days of old. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 800-611-6045. ‘RaCe’: See WED.06, 7 p.m. ‘Red deaTh’: See THU.07, 7:30-10 p.m. ‘The dining Room’: See THU.07, 7:30 p.m.

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ColoR TheoRy woRkshop: Using paint, oil pastels and colored paper, Lydia Littwin leads a hands-on exploration of the science behind different hues. Davis Studio, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. $24 includes materials. Info, 425-2700. ukRainian egg demo: Theresa Somerset demonstrates the elaborate art of pysanka. Art on Main, Bristol, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4032.

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BeCause CRaFT show: More than 100 socially conscious craftspeople donate at least half of their profits to a charity of their choice at this unique vendor fair. Ross Sports Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $3; admission benefits the Vermont Foodbank. free for children under 12. Info, info@becausecraftshow.com.

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‘$elleBRiTy’: Renowned rock-and-roll photographer Kevin Mazur examines pop culture’s obsession with celebrities in his 2012 documentary. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 5 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634. ‘BaRBaRa’: See FRI.08, 7:30 p.m. ‘BeasTs oF The souTheRn wild’: See FRI.08, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. BesT oF 2012 VeRmonT inTeRnaTional Film FesTiVal showCase: Over the course of two days, cinema buffs screen the documentaries Chasing Ice, Green and Detropia, as well as the comedy Where Do We Go Now? ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. & 3 p.m. $510; see vtiff.org for details. Info, 660-2600 . ‘nosTalgia FoR The lighT’: Natural beauty and political violence both figure prominently in Pedro Guzman’s documentary about South America’s Atacama Desert. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. woodsToCk Film seRies: In Asghar Farhadi’s drama A Separation, an Iranian couple must choose between leaving the country with their daughter or staying to care for an ill parent. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-2355.

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VeRmonT BalleT TheaTeR & sChool audiTions: Ballet dancers bring pointe shoes and pliés to tryouts for upcoming programs. Vermont Ballet Theater and School, Essex, ages 8 and 9, 1:30-2:30 p.m.; ages 10 to 12, 2:45-4 p.m.; ages 13 and up, 4:15-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-2941 .

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Tanya lee sTone: The celebrated author discusses her books Courage Has No Color and Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

dinneR wiTh RiCk yaRosh: The retired U.S. Army sergeant shares his story of recovery and renewed hope after sustaining severe facial burns. Proceeds benefit Operation Comfort. Chow! Bella, St. Albans, 6 p.m. $50 includes dinner; preregister; limited seating. Info, 309-9539 or 999-2004. naTuRalisT JouRneys seRies: Photographer Annie Tiberio Cameron references her images of Tanzania in an illustrated lecture about the country. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

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Todd oliVeR & FRiends: dogs gone wild!: The comedian/ventriloquist and his canine sidekicks perform a dynamic act that leaves audience members howling with laughter. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $35-45. Info, 760-4634.

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CoRned BeeF & CaBBage suppeR: Neighbors get into the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day with this traditional Irish feast. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $4-8; call for takeout. Info, 877-3150. middleBuRy winTeR FaRmeRs maRkeT: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 247-4699, gildrienfarm@gmail.com. noRwiCh winTeR FaRmeRs maRkeT: Farmers offer produce, meats and maple syrup, which complement homemade baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. oRganiC-ChoColaTe TasTing: Foodies sample a new line of confections and learn the six steps involved in evaluating flavor profiles. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store, Burlington, 1 p.m. & 3 p.m. Free. Info, 264-2146. panCake BReakFasT: Neighbors catch up over plates of flapjacks, eggs, bacon and sausage. Proceeds benefit CVU student Ryan Bogue’s school trip to China. Shelburne United Methodist Church, 8-11:30 a.m. $8; $25 per family. Info, 985-3981. RuTland winTeR FaRmeRs maRkeT: More than 50 vendors sell local produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at this indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 779-1485.

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Sugar on Snow Party: Folks sample this traditional maple-syrup treat and watch sap boil down into Vermont’s liquid gold. Palmer’s Sugarhouse, Shelburne, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5054. Vermont Chili Festival: Bring the heat! Professional chefs and amateurs alike celebrate fiery flavors with different varieties of this one-pot meal. Various downtown locations, Middlebury, 1:30 p.m. $5. Info, 377-3557. Waterbury Winter Farmers Market: Locally grown, seasonal produce joins handmade products at this arts and agriculture gathering. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 279-4371.

of the maple-syrup season. Proceeds benefit area charities. Branon Family Maple Orchards, Fairfield, Dinner, 5:30-7 p.m.; music, 7-10 p.m. $15-35 for dinner and music; $10-25 music only; cash bar. Info, 827-3130. Senayit: The singer-songwriter’s life experiences and travels inform her soulful, funky tunes. Plainfield Community Center, 7-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 371-7239. The Dave Keller Band: Vermont’s awardwinning blues artist leads a performance of originals and covers. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $3-8. Info, 388-6863. Vermont Symphony Orchestra Masterworks 4: Flynn MainStage, Burlington, discussion, 7 p.m.; concert, 8 p.m. $16-59. Info, 863-5966.

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Montpelier Antiques Market: Lovers of all things yesteryear peruse offerings of furniture, art, toys, books, photos and ephemera from the New England area. Elks Club, Montpelier, 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138.

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Introduction to Tai Chi Chuan: Madeleine Piat-Landolt presents the basic principles, philosophy and forms of this ancient martial art that promotes well-being. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $25. Info, 453-3690.

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Brandon Youth Theater Auditions: See THU.07, 10 a.m. Franklin Playgroup: Toddlers and their adult companions meet peers for tales and sing-alongs. Franklin Central School, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Franklin Tumble Time: Snacks power free play in the gymnasium. Franklin Central School, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Open Tot Gym & Infant/Parent Playtime: Tykes work up an appetite for snacks with feats of athleticism. Gymnasium, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Pregnancy & Baby Expo: Parents and expectant mothers learn about local resources, services and products that help foster healthy families. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 10 a.m.4 p.m. $5. Info, 363-95297, eronsnycoflove@ yahoo.com. S.S. Taylor: The author signs and discusses her book, The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man’s Canyon, about the adventurous children of a deceased explorer. Phoenix Books Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Saturday Story Time: Families celebrate the written word with imaginative tales read aloud. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Swanton Tumble Time: Vivacious youngsters monkey around in an open gym. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. ‘The Producers’: See FRI.08, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

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Adamant Winter Music Series: The Starline Rhythm Boys play an acoustic show of energized country and honky-tonk tunes. Adamant Community Club, Potluck, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m. $10-15; bring a dish to share. Info, 456-7054. De Temps Antan: Éric Beaudry, André Brunet and Pierre-Luc Dupuis perform spirited Québécois music with a variety of traditional instruments. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $25-30. Info, 728-6464. Karan Casey & John Doyle: One of Ireland’s most esteemed vocalists reunites with the master guitarist in a fitting prelude to St. Patrick’s Day. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $28-30. Info, 457-3981. ‘Sap-Run Boogie’: The Nobby Reed Project provide live entertainment at this celebration

Winter Trail Day: Participants cure cabin fever with cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and sledding, then warm up with hot cocoa and chili. Personal equipment required. Dreaming Mountain, Johnson, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $10; free for children under 12; preregister. Info, 635-9078, info@dreamingmountain.com.

seminars

Fuel-Savings Solutions & Opportunities: Eco-friendly folks learn how to save money on gas and reduce air pollution. Xtreme Fuel Treatment Training Center, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 324-0170. Genealogy Workshop: Janet Allard demonstrates how to access millions of Québécois marriage records with the Drouin and Loiselle indexing systems on microfiche. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 238-5934. Introduction to Digital Video Editing: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the editing software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692.

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Bolton After Dark: After the sun goes down, skiers and snowboarders explore Vermont’s most extensive night-skiing terrain and watch movies from Meathead Films. Bolton Valley Resort, 4-8 p.m. $19 lift tickets; $2 refreshments. Info, 434-6804. U.S. Airbag Winter-Demo Tour: See FRI.08, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. WinterBike!: Experienced cold-weather riders and newcomers alike pedal along snowy trails on bicycles equipped with extra-wide tires. Kingdom Trails Nordic Center, East Burke, 8 a.m. Donations. Info, 626-0737.

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Erica Rock: At the Chittenden County Dowsers meeting, the spiritual teacher shares her knowledge of Andaras crystals and how they enhance meditation. Shelburne Town Offices, 10:30 a.m. noon. $5; free for members. Info, 489-5953.

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Bill Carmichael: Jay Kerr joins the former Broadway star in an evening of Richard Rodgers’ songs from The Sound of Music, Oklahoma! and others. See calendar spotlight. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $17; cash bar . Info, 382-9222. ‘Race’: See WED.06, 7:30 p.m. ‘Red Death’: See THU.07, 7:30-10 p.m. ‘The Chosen’: See THU.07, Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 802-482-5282. ‘The Dining Room’: See THU.07, 7:30 p.m.

‘Angel Therapy Handbook’ Discussion Group: Cornelia Ward outlines spiritual healing and psychic reading skills, as presented in Doreen Virtue’s book. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060. Jamaica Kincaid: The renowned author discusses her new novel See Now Then, which is set in Vermont. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

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‘I Am In Here’ Bowl-a-thon: Folks topple bowling pins for prizes at this fundraiser for Mark Utter and Emily Anderson’s documentary about the former’s life-changing use of supported typing. Champlain Lanes Family Fun Center, Shelburne, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.; arrive half an hour early to register for event. $100 in donations; preregister. Info, 655-4606.

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Great Vibrations Party: Motorcycle riders celebrate the coming of spring with cycle-delic flair that includes tie-dye, dancing, Mexican fare and more. Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-394-4402.

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‘Barbara’: See FRI.08, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’: See FRI.08, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Best of 2012 Vermont International Film Festival Showcase: See SAT.09, 1 p.m. & 3 p.m.

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Beat the Winter Blues Fest: Live entertainment lifts attendees’ spirits as they toast the changing seasons with beer, wine and light fare. Proceeds benefit Dinners With Love, which provides meals to hospice patients and their families. Italian American Club, Rutland, 4-7 p.m. $20. Info, 777-5683. Sugar on Snow Party: See SAT.09, noon-4 p.m.

health & fitness

Light Body Spiritual Meditation Group: Cynthia Warwick Seiler facilitates sessions designed to attune the mind, body and soul. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m. Donations. Info, 671-4569. Thrive Center of the Green Mountains: Yoga Sampler: Jessica Lucas leads guided stretching and breathing exercises to improve strength and flexibility. Warm clothes, mat and blanket required. Gymnasium, Wallingford Elementary School, noon-2 p.m. $10-20; preregister. Info, 446-2499.

kids

Brandon Youth Theater Auditions: See THU.07, 1 p.m. ‘The Producers’: See FRI.08, 6 p.m.

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French Conversation Group: Dimanches: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

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Bethany Early Music Players: "Drive the Cold Away" features a song-and-dance program of tenor, recorder and oboe selections from the late renaissance and baroque eras. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2424, ext. 224. James McMurtry: The renowned singersongwriter known for his compelling lyrics performs folk-rock tunes. Foeger Ballroom, Jay Peak Resort, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 748-2600. Jazz Brunch: Guitarist Art Herttua plays tunes ranging from bebop to the Beatles in a casual atmosphere. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569. Robert Blais & Diane Huling: The acclaimed cellist and pianist join forces to perform selections from Schubert, Piazzolla and others. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 3 p.m. $5-20 suggested donation. Info, 221-4697. The Steel Wheels: Trent Wagler’s soaring vocals lead this quartet of rising bluegrass stars in four-part harmonies backed by skilled acoustic instrumentation. See calendar spotlight. Tunbridge Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 431-3433. Vermont Symphony Orchestra: See FRI.08, $9-30. Info, 775-0903.

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Adult Pickup Dodgeball: Participants heave rubber-coated foam balls at opposing team members during weekly games. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $5; for ages 15 and up; players under age 18 need parental permission. Info, 578-6081. Green Mountain Curling Club: Players of all abilities sweep the ice every Sunday throughout the season. No special equipment is needed. Green Mountain Arena, Morrisville, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $12 per game with membership; $16 per game otherwise. Info, 399-2816. U.S. Airbag Winter-Demo Tour: See FRI.08, 9 a.m. Women’s Pickup Soccer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.

theater

‘My Country is the World and the World is My Stage: The True Story of Garry Davis’: See FRI.08, performance in French. Sign in, 1:30 p.m.; show, 2 p.m. ‘Race’: See WED.06, 5 p.m. ‘Red Death’: See THU.07, 2-5 p.m. ‘The Chosen’: See THU.07, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 2 p.m. $15-18. Info, 864-0218.

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Get the Dirt GarDeninG SerieS: VeGetable GarDeninG: UVM Extension master gardener Kelly Wakefield outlines all the necessary components for growing produce without pesticides. Barlow Street Community Center, St. Albans, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-13; preregister at stalbansrec.com. Info, 524-1500, ext. 266.

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reaDinG With FroSty & FrienDS therapy DoGS: Animal lovers bring a book and read to canines who comfort. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for 10-minute individual sessions. Info, 878-4918. ‘roe V. WaDe’ at 40: Members of the Vermont Women’s Health Center commemorate the women’s-rights movement with a panel discussion and oral history project. Burlington College, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 384-0067.

film

‘barbara’: See FRI.08, 7:30 p.m. ‘beaStS oF the Southern WilD’: See FRI.08, 7:30 p.m. ‘DeSert FloWer’: Sherry Hormann’s awardwinning documentary follows Somalian supermodel and UN spokeswoman Liya Kebede in her efforts to stop female genital mutilation. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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music

reCorDer-playinG Group: Musicians produce early folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic. net. SambatuCaDa! open rehearSal: New players are welcome to pitch in as Burlington’s samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

seminars

baSiC Computer SkillS: Community members enter the high-tech age and gain valuable knowledge. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3403. keyS to CreDit: Money-unwise? Learn the basics of the important, but often confusing, world of credit, including how it is established and improved. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

sport

aDult DoDGeball: Grown-ups hit the court in weekly games and take aim with brightly colored foam balls. Orchard School, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5. Info, 598-8539.

words

bioGraphy aS hiStory SerieS: 19thCentury ruSSian noVeliStS: UVM professor Denise Youngblood discusses the influential works of Leo Tolstoy. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. DaViD mCGlynn: In "Flirting With Disaster: Turning Life Into Memoir," the writer shares excerpts from his book A Door in the Ocean. Champlain Valley Hall Commons, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. Free. Info, 518-565-0145. ‘Feminine myStique’ DiSCuSSion: Barbara Mieder facilitates conversation about Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking 1963 book and its influence on the feminist movement. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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miDDlebury GarDen Club meetinG: Horticulture enthusiasts join landscape designer Judith Irven, who outlines ways to grow herbs, vegetables and plants in all four seasons. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-8268.

business

rutlanD reGion Chamber oF CommerCe buSineSS ShoW: Area professionals network while perusing exhibits of home services and products, health care, restaurants, retailers and more. Holiday Inn, Rutland, 4-7:30 p.m. $3. Info, 773-2747.

community

John VarriCChione: The Vermont Italian Club’s president presents a narrated slide show of Burlington’s Little Italy neighborhood, which existed prior to the urban renewal of the 1960s. Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5961.

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Swing Dance Practice SeSSion: See SAT.09, Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

film

‘BarBara’: See FRI.08, 7:30 p.m. ‘BeaStS of the Southern wilD’: See FRI.08, 7:30 p.m. community cinema film SerieS: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s documentary Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Super Heroines examines female representation in society. A discussion follows. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966. ‘nicky’S family’: Matej Minac’s award-winning documentary tells the story of Englishman Nicholas Winton, who coordinated the rescue of more than 650 Czech and Slovak children just before World War II. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. ‘reviving oPhelia’: A screening of Bobby Roth’s drama about violent adolescent relationships prompts a discussion over a shared meal. Teens admitted with parents. Mount Abraham Union High School, Bristol, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Donations; preregister for childcare. Info, 349-3059. ‘the PhilaDelPhia Story’: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart star in George Cukor’s 1940 romantic comedy. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 540-3018 .

food & drink

‘eat here: cultivating community fooD connectionS’: Area residents mingle over locally grown snacks before sharing presentations, discussions and action plans related to NEK regional food system initiatives. St. Johnsbury House, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 748-9498, info@stjalfa.org.

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french converSation grouP: Beginnerto-intermediate French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. PauSe-café french converSation: Francophiles of all levels speak the country’s language at a drop-in conversation. Mr. Crêpe, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

music

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PreSchool Story hour: Three- to 5-yearolds keep their hands busy with crafts at tale time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. richforD PlaygrouP: Rug rats let their hair down for tales and activities. Cornerstone Bridges to Life Community Center, Richford, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Science & StorieS: maPle Sugaring: How does syrup get from maple trees onto pancakes? Little ones learn about collecting and boiling sap, then sample various grades. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386. ‘Stone SouP’ Story time: Youngsters fill their imaginations with this inspiring tale and their bellies with bowls of broth and veggies. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Story time for 3- to 5-year-olDS: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and picture books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Story time for BaBieS & toDDlerS: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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cady/PotteR WRiteRs ciRcle: Literary enthusiasts improve their craft through "homework" assignments, journaling exercises, reading, sharing and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 349-6970.

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community

meNtoRiNg BRoWN Bag discussioN: Those who serve as "big buddies" in the King Street Center’s program share ideas about their roles over lunch. King Street Center, Burlington, noon-1:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-6736.

crafts

gReeN mouNtaiN chaPteR of the emBRoideReRs’ guild of ameRica: Guest teacher Marion Scoular leads needle-andthread enthusiasts in blackwork embroidery projects. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255. make stuff!: See WED.06, 6-9 p.m.

dance

lida WiNfield: The dancer, storyteller and spoken-word artist performs In Search of Air, then leads a workshop about her creative process. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1251.

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BuRliNgtoN go cluB: See WED.06, 7-9 p.m.

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guided meditatioN: See WED.06, 5:30-7 p.m. ‘80s WoRkout WedNesdays: See WED.06, 8-10 a.m.

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asPiRiNg NatuRalists teeN PRogRam: Outdoorsy adolescents observe changes in the landscape and learn primitive skills, such as fire by friction, carving, foraging and animal tracking. Shelburne Farms, 4:30-7 p.m. $10-15; preregister; for ages 14 to 17. Info, 985-0327, mburke@shelburnefarms.org. BaBytime PlaygRouP: 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. eNosBuRg PlaygRouP: See WED.06, 10-11:30 a.m. faiRfield PlaygRouP: See WED.06, 10-11:30 a.m. highgate stoRy houR: See WED.06, 11:15 a.m. may’s WoRld music & movemeNt: See WED.06, 10:30-11:15 a.m. moNtgomeRy stoRy houR: Good listeners are rewarded with an earful of tales and a mouthful of snacks. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. moviNg & gRooviNg With chRistiNe: See WED.06, 11-11:30 a.m. NeWt Night: Amphibian enthusiasts ages 5 and up learn about Vermont’s native critters with a hands-on presentation from Montpelier’s North Branch Nature Center. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 872-7111. Pajama stoRy time: Evening tales send kiddos off to bed. Berkshire Elementary School, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Read to a dog: Bookworms share words with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420. st. alBaNs PlaygRouP: See WED.06, 9-10:30 a.m. stoRy time & PlaygRouP: See WED.06, 1011:30 a.m. stoRy time foR 3- to 5-yeaR-olds: See TUE.12, 10-10:45 a.m. studeNt matiNee seRies: ‘haNgiN’ With the giaNts’: The Metta Quintet perform a multimedia show that introduces the music of Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and others to children. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. $8; for grades K to 4. Info, 863-5966. studeNt matiNee seRies: ‘she said/she says’: The achievements of female jazz musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday are realized in a multimedia program by the Metta Quintet. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, noon. $8; for grades 5 to 12. Info, 863-5966. youth media laB: See WED.06, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

music

maRch musical madNess: leiPzig QuaRtet: Germany’s renowned foursome plays Beethoven’s early, middle and late string quartets. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, preperformance lecture, 7 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $35. Info, 863-5966 . PhaNtom diNNeR seRies: the stRay BiRds: Guests at this alternative dinner party are graced with the folk trio’s captivating songwriting and three-part harmonies. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 919-489-4824. thomas Read & david feuRzeig: The UVM professor and his successor perform arrangements for the violin and piano by Mozart, Arvo Pärt and Charles Ives. 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

politics

eaRly childhood day at the legislatuRe: Keynoter Lisbeth B. Schor of Harvard University joins educators, parents, policymakers and legislators to address the

theme "How Are Vermont’s Young Children?" Vermont Statehouse and Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $30 includes breakfast and lunch; financial assistance available; see vermontearlychildhoodalliance.org for details. Info, 272-0795.

seminars

sPeNd smaRt seRies: See WED.06, 6-8 p.m.

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college Night: See WED.06, noon-8 p.m. gReeN mouNtaiN taBle teNNis cluB: See WED.06, 7-10 p.m.

talks

chRistal BRoWN: In "The Opulence of Integrity," the choreographer discusses and demonstrates her creative process. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. f. gRegoRy gause iii: The UVM professor examines Middle Eastern political reform and upheaval in "Has the Arab Spring Become an Islamist Winter?" Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. matt kolaN & maRgaRet BuRke: The naturalist and outdoor educator, respectively, explore the positive impact of nature-based learning programs. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-0322 or 985-3819.

theater

‘4000 miles’: Michael Dove directs Vermont Stage Company’s production of Amy Herzog’s acclaimed play about a young man who bonds with his grandmother after he bikes across the country. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24.30-32.50. Info, 863-5966. ‘Race’: See WED.06, 7:30 p.m.

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Paleyfest: ‘the Big BaNg theoRy’: This live broadcast features a Q&A with the popular sitcom’s cast and producers, as well as previously unreleased clips and behind-the-scenes footage. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 10 p.m. $15. Info, 864-5610.

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PAINTING: WATERCOLOR: Apr. 10-May 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $176/ BCA members; $195/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students paint on watercolor paper and gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade. Class may move outdoors to paint en plein air on nice days! Instructor: Marc Nadel. PHOTO: INTRO B&W DARKROOM: Mar. 25-May 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $193.50/ BCA members; $215/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Community Darkroom, Burlington. 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 and all materials. Bring a manual 35mm film camera to the first class. No experience necessary. Instructor: Rebecca Babbitt. PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Mar. 28-May 16, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost:

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! DSANTOS VT SALSA: Mon. evenings: beginner class 7-8 p.m., intermediate 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@ hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com. Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Lessons also avail. in St. Albans. 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.

LEARNING THE ART OF DREAMING: Mar. 17, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Classes will be held every other Sunday until complete. Cost: $250/five classes; early registration $200. Location: Studio 108 Fitness, 1056 Mountain Rd., Stowe. Gathering of Butterflies Productions, Anthony Pauly Jr, 324-5769, anthony.pauly_jr@yahoo.com, gatheringofbutterflies.com. Dream symbolism and interpretation. Techniques to help remember dreams and to have more lucid dreams. Strategies to help those struggling with nightmares and repetitive dreams. Meditation techniques to put dreams to a positive use. Demonstration of ceremony to help facilitate sacred dreaming space. Register online by March 8 for reduced price.

drumming TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington. Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@ gmail.com. Tuesday Taiko adult classes begin April 30, 5:30-6:20 p.m. $72/6 weeks. Kids classes begin the same date, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6 weeks. Conga and Djembe classes also avail. Call for locations.

empowerment INTRODUCTION TO JUNGIAN PERSONALITY TYPE: Mar. 23, 10 a.m.-noon Cost: $45/person. Location: The Jungian Center, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. 2447909. Learn the basics of the Myers-Briggs Type Instrument in this workshop that expands the framework of personality type to provide a powerful tool for coaching, counseling and personal development. Led by Mark Hunziger, teacher and author. LIFE PURPOSE: IDENTIFYING YOURS AND TAKING ACTION: Mar. 16, 9-11 a.m. Cost: $35/ person. Location: The Jungian Center, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. 244-7909. Develop a clear Life

WEST COAST SWING: Cost: $12. Location: Middlebury Fitness, 175 Wilson Rd., Middlebury/Shelburne Town Hall. 558-1870, karencdance@comcast.net, vermontwestcoastswing. net. West Coast Swing is a freestyle form of dance. A smooth linear motion with a casual frame makes West Coast Swing unique and fun! It’s not ballroom a modern swing. No partner required, and beginners are welcome! Music is blues, pop, rock and funky, cool tunes. Visit website for schedule. EMPOWERMENT

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PHOTO: ADOBE LIGHTROOM 4: Mar. 27-May 1, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $225/BCA members; $250/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW riles, organization, fine-tuning

VIDEO: DIGITAL FILMMAKING: Mar. 25-Apr. 29, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $225/ BCA members; $250/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Filmmaking is a cross-discipline art form involving aspects of photography, writing, composition, audio design, motion graphics and video and sound editing, and this course will touch on all disciplines. Access to a digital video camera is a plus but not required. This course is taught in partnership with Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM) in the South End of Burlington (vermontcam.org). Instructor: Bill Simmon.

PAINTING: REALISM: Mar. 28May 16, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $176/BCA members; $195/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Do you want your paintings to be so real they pop off the canvas? Classically trained realist painter Sheel Gardner Anand will present to artists of all levels a simple and logical approach to oil painting from life and photos. Learn the foundation to create a believable three-dimensional illusion on a two-dimensional surface. Beginners welcome.

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USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROMOTE YOUR ARTWORK: Mar. 20, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $13/BCA members; $15/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 2nd floor, Burlington. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Etsy, Blogs and more! Social media is an easy, and often free, way to promote yourself as an artist. Join BCA’s marketing director, Eric Ford, and local business owner Torrey Valyou of New Duds Silkscreen Company for an introduction to the social media world.

CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: Apr. 11-May 30, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $216/BCA members; $240/nonmembers. Clay sold separately at $20 per 25-lb. bag, glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. In this class, designed for those with some wheel experience, students will learn individualized tips for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, beginning to intermediate trimming, and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Students must be proficient in centering and throwing. Over 30 hours per week of open studio time included.

DESIGN: ADOBE INDESIGN CS6: Mar. 26-Apr. 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $184.50/BCA members; $205/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign, a program used for magazine and book layout, for designing text and for preparing digital and print publications. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and will create projects suited to their own interests. This class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. Bring a Mac-compatible flash drive to the first class. No experience necessary. Instructor: Diana Gonsalves.

PAINTING: ABSTRACT: Weekly on Tue., Apr. 9-May 21, 6:30-9 p.m. No class Apr. 23. Cost: $162/ BCA members; $180/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Students will be guided to explore the many exciting possibilities of abstract painting. Using the paint of their choice, students will be encouraged to experiment and try adding other mixed media as well. Bring in some ideas or reference materials to use as a starting place. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Instructor: Lisa Jones.

$247.50/BCA members; $275/ nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Community Darkroom, Burlington. Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Guided sessions to help you improve your printing and film processing techniques and discussion of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside-of-class printing and processing. Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience. Instructor: Mary Zompetti.

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CLAY: INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WHEEL: Apr. 11-May 30, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Weekly on Thu. Cost: $252/BCA members; $280/nonmembers. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Local pottery artist Jeremy Ayers will help you refine your wheelwork in this morning class for intermediate and advanced potters. The class can be tailored to students continuing from Intermediate Wheel, or for new students. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, decorative and glazing methods. Students should be proficient in centering and throwing. Over 30 hours per week of open studio space time included.

PHOTO: DIGITAL WORKFLOW: Mar. 28-Apr. 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $184.50/ BCA members; $205/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn how to manage your digital files, edit your photographs and print. Uploading images into Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop editing tools such as color and white balance correction, layers, masks, sections, retouching will be covered, as well as color-managed printing on our large format Epson printer. No experience required.

nonmembers. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Wow your friends with your personally designed T-shirts! Local silkscreen legend, Torrey Valyou, co-owner of New Duds, will show you how to design and print T-shirts just like a professional. Learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using handdrawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Cost includes over 25 hours per week of open studio hours. No experience necessary! Some materials are included.

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TAI CHI/QI GONG BODYWORK: Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, Inc., 100 Church St, Burlington. Tai Chi Institute, Inc., Robert Boyd, 363-6890, baotakfai@gmail.com, ipfamilytaichi.org. Personalized training in the Asian arts of movement and energy cultivation. Emphasis on flexibility and core strength building using active and meditative tai chi and qi gong. Master Bob Boyd, 45-year martial arts teacher with 30 years of concentration in tai chi and qi gong. ipfamilytaichi.org. 363-6890.

12:30-3 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $216/BCA members; $240/nonmembers. Clay sold separately at $20 per 25-lb. bag, glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This new eight-week class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Learn basic throwing and forming techniques while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Learn various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No previous experience needed! Class includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice.

tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on our Epson 3880 printer will all be covered. Bring a Mac-compatible portable flash or hard drive with your images to the first class. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Instructor: Dan Lovell.

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energy INTRO TO ESOTERIC HEALING: Mar. 23 & 24 & Apr. 20 & 21, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost: $390/24 hrs. of class time. Location: Rose home, Enosburgh. Partners in Wholeness, Claudia Rose, 9336107, claudiarosevt@gmail.com, claudiarose.abmp.com. Learn to facilitate physical vitality and health in yourself and others through the practice of Esoteric Healing, an energy medicine modality. Experience the energy of your aura, learn physical and energetic anatomy, alignment with higher energies and meditation in an interactive format.

CONSCIOUS PROSPERITY: JUNG ON MONEY: Mar. 21-Apr. 18, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: The Jungian Center, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. 244-7909. Have any money worries? Does a “money complex” stymie your life? Learn how to enrich your life, literally and figuratively, in this course that brings a Jungian perspective to bear on the monetary side of life. Led by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

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SHAKESPEARE WORKOUT WITH VERMONT SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: Adults & teens 14+: Sun., Mar. 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Limit: 14. Cost: $95/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. 652-4500, flynnarts.org. A fun and rigorous full-day workout where you’ll learn how to approach the language, poetry and physicality of Shakespeare and transform the text into action by deciphering clues and cues Shakespeare left in the text. Returning students very welcome, but experience not necessary! Lunch break midday.

gardening BASIC CONCEPTS IN LANDSCAPE DESIGN: Mar. 9, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. 660-3505. A stepby-step approach to planning your garden and landscape. Learn the fundamentals of design and planning in this seminar for gardeners of all skill levels. MOODS IN THE LANDSCAPE: Apr. 3-24, 1:30-3 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $40/. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com. This lecture series and field walk shall take a critical look at the landscape and the moods that can be attributed to flora, site and season. The natural and designed landscape shall be discussed and viewed through images produced over a 50-year period. Emphasis on the natural landscape and selective subtraction will be the thesis. WATER GARDENING: Mar. 16, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. 660-3505. Whether you already have a pond and want to spruce it up or want to create a new water feature of your own, Dave covers the basics and how-tos of getting started.

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STUDY: Adults & teens: Thu., 3:32:51 PM 1x1-FlynnPerfArts093009.indd 1 9/28/09 Mar. 7-Apr. 11, 5:45-7:15 p.m. Cost: $110/6-wk. course. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. 652-4500, flynnarts.org. Work on paired scenes from a variety of genres, examining the depth of possibility within text, story and character. Develop self-awareness, learn how to playfully experiment and hone techniques for approaching a script. All experience levels welcome. Instructor: Kathryn Blume.

health NUTRITION TELECLASSES: Mar. 7-28, 12-1 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $15/per class or $50 for all four. Location: Via Conference Call, from your home or office, Your own home town. Transformation One, Morella Devost, 735-1348, mdevost@ transformationone.com, transformationone.com. Four onehour teleclasses on nutrition: sugar and carb addiction, fats

that heal fats that kill, detoxification, and eat-this-not-that. Recipes, easy tips and tools for health are included. Facilitated via conference call so you can be anywhere. SPRING CLEANSE AND DETOX CLASS: Apr. 1-May 6, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $160/5 classes + materials. Location: Eastern View Integrative Medicine, 185 Tilley Drive, South Burlington. Inner Health Resources, Bryn Perkins, 735-1766, Bryn@ InnerHealthResources.com, InnerHealthResources.com. Move into summer with new, more empowered eating habits. We focus on nutrient-rich foods, smoothies and juices. Tailored to your needs, this class is inspiring, supportive and rewarding. You’ll want to take before-and-after photos! Free guide for first time cleansers at innerhealthresources.com. Taught by Bryn Perkins, PA, CBS. TRANSGENDER HEALTH: Mar. 13, 6-9 p.m. $35 for VCIH members; $40 for nonmembers; preregistration required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 250 Main Street, suite 302, Montpelier. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. org. With Jacoby Ballard and Dori Midnight. Explore the use of herbs, nutrition and vitamins to support transgender health. Tailored to the needs and interests of participants, this workshop will cover surgery preparation and recovery, addressing the side effects of hormones and supporting a person’s mental health in a transphobic world. WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER: Apr. 6-Apr. 14, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Cost: $865/$250 deposit; tuition includes texts & instruction materials. Preregistration required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter. org, vtherbcenter.org. Taught by Peter Muckerman, WEMT. This 76-hour course offers nationally recognized Wilderness First Responder and adult CPR certificates. It trains “everyday people” to be medics when the need arises to engage emergencies with competence, courage and confidence, whether at home, at work or in the wilderness.

helen day art center INTUITIVE PAINTING: Mar. 31, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $50/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. 253-8358, education@ helenday.com, helenday.com. A creative painting adventure focused on the spirit of play and discovery. This will be a time to connect with your creative self and intuitively express yourself through gesture and colors. Working with gouache and acrylic paint, students will be lead through a spontaneous process of discovery and experimentation. No prior painting experience is required.

RUSTIC FURNITURE MAKING: Mar. 14-Apr. 11, 9 a.m.-noon, Weekly on Thu. Cost: $150/ person, plus material fee of $50. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. 253-8358, education@ helenday.com, helenday.com. Learn basic wood working, joinery and finish techniques to produce a unique piece of rustic log furniture that you can take home. Students will use basic hand tools, including hand saws, electric drills and sanders. The course will cover sustainable harvesting of logs, drying, moisture content, project design, stock selection layout, joinery, seat weaving and finish.

herbs INTERMEDIATE HERBAL PROGRAM: May 5-Sep. 29, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., 2 Sun. monthly. Cost: $1,200/person; incl. all books & supplies. Location: Horsetail Herbs/Kelley Robie, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Horsetail Herbs, Kelley Robie, 893-0521, htherbs@comcast. net, horsetailherbs.org. Ten days through summer, formulating, harvesting, & preparing plants for medicinal use. Will focus on supporting body systems with our formulations. Projects will include advanced tinctures, tonics, salves, soaps, glycerites, creams, butters, capsules, oils, flower essences, syrups, aromatherapy, liniments, incense, chocolate and more. VSAC grant opportunities. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Winter Ecology Walk w/ George Lisi, Sun., Mar. 3, 2-3:30 p.m., call to preregister, sliding scale $0-10. Open house, Sat., Mar. 23, 1-3 p.m. at the Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Now accepting applications for Wisdom Eight-Month Certification Program, Apr. 20-21, May 18-19, Jun. 15-16, Jul. 13-14, Aug. 10-11, Sep. 7-8, Oct. 5-6 & Nov. 2-3. Tuition: $1750; nonrefundable deposit: $250; payment plan: $187.50/mo. Applications for Wild Edibles spring term: Apr. 28, May 26, Jun. 23. Tuition: $300. VSAC nondegree grants avail. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.

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language ABSOLUEMENT! FRENCH/ ART CLASSES/CAMPS CHEZ WINGSPAN: Preschool FRART! starts Fri., Mar. 15. Spring session Adult Group French, Adv. Beg. & Int., starts Apr. 11. Youth Spring Break African Art/ Language Vaca Camp: Apr. 2226. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St, 3rd Fl, Burlington. wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@yahoo.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com. French, art and more for preschoolers, youth and adults in a beautiful atelier! Through multiple learning modalities, you will cultivate confidence in a supportive, fun, beautiful space. Madame Maggie is a fluent French speaker, is an encouraging and patient instructor and has lived/worked in Paris, France, and Yaounde, Cameroon. Allons-y! ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Beginning wk. of Apr. 9-11 for 10 wks. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Join us for adult Spanish classes this spring. Our sixth 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. Also lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tue., Mar. 5 at 5:30 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. 951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and relieve stress. Classes for adults, teens and children. We also offer morning classes for new students. Study with Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 6th degree black belt and Vermont’s only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. AIKIDO CLASSES: 4-wk. Intro Class for Women starts Mar. 14. To register, email aikidointroclass@gmail.com. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself.

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. 660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj. com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. 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: $5000/500-hr. program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. 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. EXPLORATION OF MOVEMENT: Mar. 16-17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245 ($225 if paid by Mar. 4; call about risk-free introductory fee). Location: Touchstone Healing Arts , Burlington. Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com, http://ortho-bionomy.org/SOBI/ DianneSwafford. Using ortho-bionomy, participants will learn to recognize and palpate patterns of joint and muscle movement in order to facilitate tension release and increase range of motion. These techniques help relieve tension in those stuck places in our body that keep our bodies from moving well (i.e., shoulder blades or pelvis that won’t move when someone is walking).

meditation INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: Sat., Mar. 23, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $30/half-day workshop, limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Vermont Zen Center, 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext.net, vermontzen.org. This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction avail. Sun., 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. The Shambhala Cafe meets the 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house occurs every 3rd Fri. of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. 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.

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EVOLUTION YOGA: $14/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. Evolution Yoga offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and prenatal, community classes, and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Breast Cancer Survivor and Alignment classes. Certified teachers, massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose.

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TWO WORKSHOPS: INTRO & HEALER: Mar. 8-9, 7-5:30 p.m. Cost: $35/2-hr. intro & $100 for full day. Location: Shamanâ€™s Flame Stowe Facility, 78 Cady Hill Road, Stowe. Shamanâ€™s Flame, Peter Clark & Sarah Finlay, 253-7846, peterclark13@ gmail.com, shamansflame. com. Introduction to Shamanic Journeying, March 8, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Connect to a deeper, expanded foundational universal intelligence through your spirit helper. Advanced workshop: The Healer Within, March 9, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Work in nonordinary reality to accelerate personal wholeness, health on all levels and empowered living.

TUNG TAI CHI CHUAN: Introductory Seminar: Sat., Mar. 9, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $25. Ongoing All Levels Class I: Wed., 5:15-6:45 p.m. Cost: $15/ class or $50/mo. Venue for this seminar & classes: McClure Center, 241 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Ongoing All Levels Class II: Mon., 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $15/class or $50/mo. Venue: Burnham Town Hall, River Rd., Lincoln. 453-3690, whitecloudarts@gmail.com, whitecloudarts.org. All levels welcome to learn the guiding principles, philosophy, and fundamental forms of this authentic Yang syle practice passed traditionally through four genertions of the Tung lineage. Cultivated as both civil and martial art, one may harmoniously align body/ mind/spirit while renewing vial life force with great benefit to well being.

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& Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. 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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hat art can inspire dramatic social or political change is a romantic idea, if sometimes a specious one. But for some, such as Irish folk singer Tommy Sands, the power of music to affect change is ironclad.

“I think everything changes things,” he says in a recent phone interview from his home in Northern Ireland. “A word can change things. A nod of the head can change things, in a small way.” Sands, 67, is an internationally renowned songwriter, celebrated for his poignant and often heart-wrenching observations on the violent struggles in his native Ireland. Sing Out! magazine proclaimed him “the most powerful songwriter in Ireland, if not the world.” Sands has been called the Emerald Isle’s version of Pete Seeger, whom he counts as a close friend — Sands performed at Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden in 2009, a show that also featured Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez and Emmylou Harris, among others.

Sands has built a career on the belief that music can heal and enlighten. But his is no wishy-washy, new-age philosophy. Born in County Down in Northern Ireland, he grew up during the height of the Troubles, the bloody feud between Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists that has ravaged Northern Ireland and much of the British Isles since the 1960s. He has seen firsthand both the horrors of civil war and the transformative powers of music. Sands, who will perform at the McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael’s College on Tuesday, March 12, with his son, Fionán Sands, was raised in a small farmhouse surrounded by a musical family. He says his first memories are of evening jam sessions hosted by his parents, to which family friends, Protestants and Catholic alike, would sit in. “Even though there were times when those people wouldn’t have come together, whenever the music was played, they’d come,” he says. That music was the unifying factor was not lost on him. “I thought that music could somehow connect all the secret and sacred things within us without our knowing or understanding,” Sands says. “It’s something that crosses barriers.” That idea has informed every aspect of his 30-plus-year career. After a Catholic friend was killed by republican paramilitary soldiers as retaliation for the murder of a Protestant man in 1974, Sands wrote what became his best-known song, “There Were Roses.” That song was an anthem of sorts at demonstrations in the weeks leading up to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, a peace treaty between Northern Ireland’s warring factions. The impact of Sands’ work has been felt across the pond as well. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Nevada for his work teaching juvenile delinquents in Reno to write songs about their lives. Working with a family-court justice, Frances Doherty, Sands developed a program in which teenage detainees were able to submit their songs as pleas

to avoid being sent to prison as adults. “Words on their own can reach the ends of the Earth,” says Sands. “But sometimes on the wings of a song, words can soar higher and reach further inside to express pain, hurt or even hope.” Sands says he worked with upwards of 70 juvenile inmates during his time in Reno, and that the program continues today. He still performs one of the songs written by an inmate, “Danielle’s Song,” which his daughter, Moya Sands, is recording for an upcoming album. Sands pauses, then quotes from it. “I was born in Stanford on the Bay. It seems so long now, so far away,” he recites, his Irish lilt lending a sing-song quality to the words. “There were pretty flowers all around. They grew up, but I grew down. Will you hear me? Will you hear me?” Back home, he says the political climate in Northern Ireland, while still tense, has stabilized since the Good Friday treaty. Sands cautions that, though the violence has ebbed, there is still a long way to go. “We’re still very much in the peace process,” he explains. “There is a lot still to be sorted out and a lot of work to do.” To that end, Sands hosts an annual seminar in Ireland, which he founded with Pete Seeger, called the Music of Healing, that brings members of opposing paramilitary groups together through music. “We have people who normally wouldn’t talk to each other — they would shoot each other,” he says. That includes Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson, who attended Music for Healing in 2008. Bitter enemies, the two refused to shake hands at the seminar, Sands says. But during a rendition of Seeger’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” performed by Seeger’s grandson, Tao RodriguezSeeger, Sands says a curious thing happened. “Suddenly I realized both [Adams and Donaldson] were singing the song,” he recalls Sands. “People said afterwards, ‘Well, if they can sing a song together, it

doesn’t matter if they don’t shake hands.’ It was a very moving moment.” As the political tone in Northern Ireland has shifted, so too has the focus of Sands’ own writing, from the burgeoning peace process at home to larger questions of why we fight. Sands is currently working on a new record. One song from that forthcoming album is a response to Bob Dylan’s famous antiwar song “Blowin’ in the Wind.” “There was a time when we just said, ‘War. Why does it happen?’” he says. “But I think there is an answer. “All of these wars are worked out for reasons that have nothing to do with democracy and nothing to do with liberation,” he continues. “Profits and expansion are often the case.” He then quotes a lyric from the song. “How many times must the cannonball fly, before it’s forever banned?’ It will fly just as long as there’s fortunes to be made by the wheelers and dealers of arms.” Hopeless as that may sound, Sands suggests the progress in Northern Ireland should be looked upon as a positive sign that peace is possible, even between those with centuries-old grudges. “We were told it was impossible, that Northern Ireland has a problem for every solution,” he says. “Now maybe we have solutions for problems beyond our own shores, or at least some encouragement.” He adds that, sometimes, the solutions to great problems can lie in humble ideas, or even something as simple as a song. “I think very often, while we spend time looking for the big answer, we forget there are many small answers, which, in themselves, make up the only answer that is often available,” Sands says. m Tommy Sands performs with Fionán Sands, the McFadden Academy of Irish Dance, and Tim Whiteford and Marie Claire Johnson at the McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester on Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m. $20 suggested donation. For reservations, email mrksustc@together.net.

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the film to theaters nationally and to Video on Demand this summer. You think there might be a few extra sets of eyeballs trained on RF and Death when they perform at SXSW? Me, too. Secondly, Rough Francis’ new record, Maximum Soul Power — smartly released just prior to SXSW — is, in serious music critic parlance, the tits. Since Hackney works as a designer for Seven Days, I’ll recuse myself from a legitimate review — though we’ll have one in the weeks to come, just not by me. But I will say this: Maximum Soul Power is the sonic equivalent of yelling goat videos. So to all of our VT representatives at SXSW, best of luck in Austin. And to anyone heading down as a civilian, know that I’m insanely jealous and expect a full report upon your return — looking at you, NICK MAVODONES. In the meantime, have a Lone Star for me.

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songwriter JAY NASH now calls Vermont home. Well, he does. And at SXSW next week he’ll release his new record, Letters From the Lost, which he recorded at his home studio. Having spent a little time with the album over the weekend, I can tell you that it’s the sonic equivalent of “Harlem Shake” videos. Kidding. It’s actually a pretty stirring record that, while more slickly produced, would sit well alongside some of Parker’s old VARNALINE records. Every year a few bands catch fire after SXSW. For example, the LUMINEERS last year, who blew up nationally, post-SXSW hype, and somehow ended up at the Grammys. Were I a betting man, I might consider laying odds on ROUGH FRANCIS emerging from this year’s festival and garnering widespread attention. Do I think we’ll be seeing BOBBY HACKNEY howling during one of those weird live mashups alongside MAROON 5 at the Grammys next year? I sincerely hope not. But there’s reason to think the national spotlight may increasingly shine on the sons of DEATH. For starters, the documentary film about protopunk band Death, A Band Called Death, directed by VT expats JEFF HOWLETT and MARK COVINO, is screening during the film portion of SXSW. That flick, already a burgeoning festival favorite, was just picked up by Austin’s Drafthouse Films, a highly regarded distribution company that will push

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When next we meet, the annual shitstorm, er, festival that is the music week at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, will be well under way. For the unfamiliar … actually, you should probably stop reading this column right now if you don’t know what SXSW is. It’s the single largest live music event on the planet. If you’re not at least peripherally familiar with it, bone up and come back next week. For the rest of you, the coming week will likely go a long way toward informing what you’ll be listening to for the rest of 2013. Media outlets from giants such Pitchfork, Spin and the New York Times to small-town alt-weeklies — ahem — send correspondents to report back on their findings. And not just that Lone Star beer is specifically brewed to possess anti-hangover chemicals that activate when mixed with breakfast tacos. Like, music and stuff. (And yes, I made up the Lone Star thing. Though how else to explain the phenomenon, I’m still not sure. Works like a charm.) Anyway, this year I’m sitting out SXSW because … well, because it seemed like a good idea a few months ago. However, seeing that it’s 80 degrees and sunny in Austin right now, I’m beginning to seriously regret that decision. Fortunately, Vermont will be well represented at SXSW. And that means you’ve got extra reason to keep tabs on what’s happening in Austin next week. (I know what you’re probably saying right now. “So wouldn’t it make more sense for a Vermont-based music journalist to attend this year than last year when there was almost no VT presence at SXSW and you spent all your time blogging about breakfast tacos and knife throwing?” Shut up, you.) Heading the list of locals at SXSW is ANDERS PARKER, who has a few showcases lined up with songwriter KENDALL MEADE. Parker and Meade recently released a sublime duet album, Wild Chorus, that’s been picking up some positive scribblings from reviewers at outlets such as No Depression, American Songwriter and NYLON, the last of which called the album “The sonic equivalent of cute kitten videos.” I’m not entirely certain what that means, but OK. Betcha didn’t know that Americana

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CLUB METRONOME: Tim Brick (country), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. HALFLOUNGE: Scott Mangan (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with Morgan, 10 p.m., Free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. The Hornitz (funk), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Chad Hollister (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Jacob Green (gypsy folk), 6 p.m., Free. Talking Lake (Americana), 7 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Punk Rock Night, 11 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. SKINNY PANCAKE: Josh Panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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BAGITOS: Acoustic Blues Jam with the Usual Suspects, 6 p.m., Free. THE PINES: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. PURPLE MOON PUB: Pappy Hour (old time), 7 p.m., Free. WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

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CITY LIMITS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Blues Session, 8 p.m., Free.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nobby Reed (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Dave Fugel & Julian Chobot (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Trio with Geza Carr & Anthony Santor (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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RED SQUARE: Shady Alley Duo (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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BEE'S KNEES: Cities on the Moon (rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations. THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., Free. MOOG'S PLACE: The Hubcats (blues), 8 p.m., Free.

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MONOPOLE: The Snacks (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Gary Peacock (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., Free.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: ADK Jazz Orchestra, 8 p.m., Free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Slickbitch (rock), 8 p.m.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke, 8 p.m., Free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Gang of Thieves, Funkwagon, Seamus the Great (rock, funk), 9 p.m., $5. DOBRÁ TEA: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., Free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HALFLOUNGE: Nikolai (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. The Harder They Come (electro), 10:30 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Moufy, A Million Wordz, Ashy Nuxx, MasterMind Ent., Suncooked (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $15/17. AA. LEVITY : Standup Comedy Open Mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Hot Wax with Justcaus & Penn West (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. MUDDY WATERS: Jamie Masefield, Doug Perkins & Tyler Bolles (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

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O'BRIEN'S IRISH PUB: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

BEE'S KNEES: Max Weaver (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

MOOG'S PLACE: Nick DeNoia (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Bumperstiltskin, TallGrass GetDown (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

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SHELBURNE VINEYARD: Joshua Glass and Emma Sky (singer-songwriters), 6 p.m., Free. SKINNY PANCAKE: Jeremy Harple (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation. VENUE: Thirsty Thursdays, 7 p.m., Free.

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BAGITOS: Colin McCaffrey & Katie Trautz (folk), 6 p.m., Donations. CHARLIE O'S: Open Blues Jam with Blue Fox, 10 p.m., Free. GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. PURPLE MOON PUB: Open Mic with Bruce Jones, 8 p.m., Free. TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.

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51 MAIN: David Bain (piano), 8 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Trivia with Made In the Shade Entertainment, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke with Steve, 9 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. HALFLOUNGE: Joshua Glass (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Bonjour-Hi (moombahton), 10:30 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Vermont Comedy Divas: Josie Leavitt, Tracie Spencer, Autumn Engroff Spencer, Carmen Lagala (standup), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. 18+. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Ra Ra Riot, Pacific Air (indie), 7:30 p.m., $15/17. AA. JP'S PUB: Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LEVITY : Rohit Kohli, Will Betts, Chad Cosby, Jason Lorber, Mike Thomas (standup), 9 p.m., $8.

LIFT: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. MR. CRÊPE: Art Herttua (jazz), 6:30 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Grippo Funk Band, 9 p.m., $5. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno & Young (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., Free. A House on Fire (rock), 9 p.m., Free. PARK PLACE TAVERN: Big Boots Deville (rock), 8:30 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Free. Kid's Music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick, 10:30 a.m., Free. Mike Quinones (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Builder of the House (indie folk), 10 p.m., Free. AstroCat (astro-punk), 11:30 p.m., Free.Humananimal (avant garde), 1 a.m. RED SQUARE: Dan & the Wildfire (roots-rock), 5 p.m., Free. Ghost of Vigoda (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free. SKINNY PANCAKE: Andrea Szirbik (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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BAGITOS: The Barn Band (folk), 6 p.m., Donations. CHARLIE O'S: Dave Keller Band (blues), 10 p.m., Free. ESPRESSO BUENO: Extempo (storytelling), 8 p.m., $5. GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. POSITIVE PIE: Jake Whitesell Quartet, 8 p.m., Free. PURPLE MOON PUB: Moonschein (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free. TUPELO MUSIC HALL: James McMurtry, Bow Thayer (Americana), 8 p.m., $25. FRI.08

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performances in the U.S. are extremely rare, so her upcoming date with local West African groove sharks BARIKA is really something special. Speaking of Barika, I’m told a new record, Rise, is in the works and slated for a May release. Topping their 2011 debut, Remember, is a tall order — that was one of the finest local albums in recent memory. But based on the last few times I’ve seen the band live, I can vouch for the notion that they’ve become an increasingly tight ensemble. I’m guessing that cohesion will translate well to the studio. Speaking of bands working on new records, Middlebury’s ALPENGLOW, the surprise belle of the ball at last year’s Waking Windows festival, report that recording for their highly anticipated debut is just now wrapping up. Following mixing and mastering, the album is headed for a mid-May release. Fortunately, they’ve been keeping fans sated by releasing videos from various recording sessions and offering a glimpse of what we can expect when that album finally drops — which is to say, indie-folk awesomeness.

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on Wednesday, March 13. The show is part of the mysterious Phantom Music Series, which, in addition to occasional bigger-ticket hoedowns like this one, typically promotes concerts in unusual locations — barns, house concerts, etc. — often in tandem with a foodie series, the Phantom Dinner Series. For ticket info, check out phantommusicseries. com. m

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51 MAIN: Middlebury Bobolinks (a cappella), 6 p.m., Free. Patrick Lehman (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: The Slipper Kings (rock), 8 p.m., Donations. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: The Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6 p.m., $3. Mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

BEE'S KNEES: Sara Syms (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. MATTERHORN: The Equalites (ska), 9 p.m., $5. MOOG'S PLACE: Tritium Well (rock), 9 p.m., Free. PARKER PIE CO.: Celtic Acoustic Session, 6 p.m., Free. RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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MONOPOLE: Steropticon (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Phil Abair Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free. THERAPY: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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CHURCH & MAIN RESTAURANT: Night Vision (EDM), 9 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: The Spring Standards (indie pop), 6 p.m., $7. Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

PURPLE MOON PUB: Thompson Gunner (altcountry), 8 p.m., Free.

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THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Funkwagon (funk), 10 p.m., Free.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Justice (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

BAGITOS: Sunday Brunch: Eric Friedman (jazz), 11 a.m., Free.

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northern

TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce Spring Celebration, 7 p.m., NA. Club 188 at Tupelo Music Hall (dance party), 10 p.m., $8.

champlain valley

AMERICAN FLATBREAD: Bessette Quartet (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. BAR ANTIDOTE: Hot Neon Magic (’80s New Wave), 9 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: The RetroFit (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

northern

BEE'S KNEES: Steve Morabito (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. CHOW! BELLA: The Best Little Border Band (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. MATTERHORN: Wolfpack (rock), 9 p.m., $5. MOOG'S PLACE: Waltzing Griselda (fundraiser), 8 p.m., Free. MUSIC BOX: Richard Ruane and Beth Duquette (folk), 7 p.m., NA.

MONOPOLE: Timbre Coup (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

burlington area

CLUB METRONOME: Sneezeguard (rock), 9 p.m., $5/7/10. 18+. HALFLOUNGE: B-Sides with DJ Sleezy D (deep house), 7 p.m., Free. Building Blox (EDM), 10 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Drive By Truckers, the Whigs (rock), 8:30 p.m., $20/23. AA. NECTAR'S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Brunch with Mitch Terricciano (acoustic), 11 a.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free. Saloon Sessions with Brett Hughes (country), 2 p.m., Free. Sister Mary (folk), 4 p.m., Free. Keiti Botula (folk rock), 5:30 p.m., Free. Gary Beckwith (folk rock), 7 p.m., Free. Dark Green Folk (folk rock), 8:30 p.m., Free. Cariad Harmon (singersongwriter), 9:30 p.m., Free. The Big One (hillbilly pop), 11 p.m., Free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: The Ryans (Irish), 5 p.m., Free.

central

SKINNY PANCAKE: Sara Syms (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

MATTERHORN: Chris Tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

CLUB METRONOME: This Old Ghost, Charles Keith Sztyk, Alpenglow, 80 Proof Hum (indie), 8 p.m., $6. HALFLOUNGE: Family Night Open Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Soulfly, Incite, Lody Kong, Half Past Human (metal), 7:30 p.m., $20. AA. NECTAR'S: Metal Monday: Savage Hen, Kairos, Mac Swan and Black Holly, Zentauri (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: West (experimental jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free. TUE.12

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— the alias of Aussie-born songwriter Johanna Cranitch — has garnered

lofty comparisons to the likes of St. Vincent and Kate Bush, among others. Owing to luxuriously ornate piano arrangements and a knack for bright yet deceptively heart-wrenching songwriting, we’re inclined to concur. She plays the Monkey House in Winooski on Tuesday, March 12, with CLEMENTINE & THE GALAXY and DYNASTY ELECTRIC.

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. COURTESY OF JOHANNA AND THE DUSTY FLOOR

HALFLOUNGE: DJ Disco Phantom (house), 7:30 p.m., Free. Sass & Sequin (mashup), 10 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The ONE Fashion Event (fashion show), 8 p.m., $27/32. AA. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., Free.

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BAGITOS: Irish Sessions, 2 p.m., Free. The Neptunes (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

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CHARLIE O'S: Cameo Harlot, L.Dora (rock), 10 p.m., Free. CIDER HOUSE BBQ AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., Free. POSITIVE PIE 2: A Fly Allusion (funk), 10 p.m., $5.

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On her latest record, Wyoming Territory, Vermont’s Kristina Stykos continues her ascent as one of the state’s premier Americana songwriters. A road-weary work filled with laments on life, love and longing, Stykos’ fifth album plays like a local answer to Lucinda Williams’ own fifth release, her seminal 1998 Grammy-winning record, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Just to be clear, Stykos is no Lucinda Williams. But there are rather striking parallels to be drawn between both songwriters’ fifth albums. Both are rooted in dusty, straightforward country-rock. Both center on themes of time and place as keys to identity. And, perhaps most overtly, both contain songs called “Jackson” that serve as album centerpieces. Stykos’ Jackson is in Wyoming,

which was her muse for this record. And unlike Williams, who was leaving Jackson, Miss. — and wasn’t going to cry about it, wink, wink — Stykos’ Jackson represents the ultimate destination, something like a great western promised land where she’ll be made whole again. Or, as she sings in her raspy alto, “My heart’s a mansion just for me. / Until we meet in Jackson.” Much as Williams enlisted a star-studded cast for Car Wheels — Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, etc. — Stykos has surrounded herself with a veritable all-star ensemble of Vermont talent on Wyoming Territory. Longtime collaborator Bow Thayer turns up on bass guitar throughout. Ace fiddler Patrick Ross lends his soaring chops to several cuts, as does keyboardist Chas Eller. Jeff Berlin turns in some fine performances on drums. And Vermont

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University of York and a doctorate of musical arts and literature from the University of Illinois. Boxall currently performs with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, among numerous other ensembles. Mallets represents a fascinating, 44-minute exposition of compositional and technical experimentation that stretches the boundaries of what most might think of when considering the marimba. Aside from the opening piece, “Sambai,” written by Boxall, the album features works by an array of 20th-century composers ranging from Belgian virtuoso Ludwig Albert to Frank Zappa — yes, really. These highlight the versatility of the marimba as well as Boxall’s own fearless curiosity and expert ability. As the album’s title implies, Boxall performs with varying numbers of mallets, from none on “Sambai” — she uses her knuckles and fingers — to eight on the closing track, “Marimba Moods II,” by Albert, who is credited with

pioneering the eight-mallet technique. Regardless of how many mallets she wields, Boxall’s own technique is immaculate. And the multilayered depth of the sounds and patterns she sculpts is marvelous, whether recreating the playful genius of Zappa’s “The Black Page”or the progressive electronica of John Psathas’ heady “One Study One Summary,” or playing it comparatively straight, as on Thomas Pitfield’s “Sonata for Xylophone.” Zero to Eight Mallets succeeds as an academic pursuit as Boxall displays the myriad ways in which the marimba can be deployed. But it is an equally potent listen for the layperson, who may not fully understand exactly what they are hearing but will no doubt find its mysteries just as absorbing and satisfying. Zero to Eight Mallets by Jane Boxall is available at janeboxall.com. Jane Boxall performs at the ArtsRiot Studio in Burlington this Friday, March 8, as part of the Orkestriska’s Box duo with Randal Pierce.

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quartet and finds the group moving from string-laden chamber pop into decidedly more energetic, and electronic, dance music. The band plays the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge this Friday, March 8, with PACIFIC AIR. And if you missed it, tune in to the most recent episode of Seven Days’ music podcast, Tour Date with DJ Llu, in which Llu chats with RRR bassist Matt Santos (7d.blogs.com/tour_date). MON.11

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RUBEN JAMES: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Dominique Dodge (Celtic), 5 p.m., Free.

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FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: Open Mic, 6 p.m., Free.

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CHARLIE O'S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

SKINNY PANCAKE: Josh Panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Stephen Callahan Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Project Organ Trio (organ groove), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3.

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burlington area

CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set with Cats Under the Stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

RED SQUARE: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Frank Grymes (EDM), 11 p.m., Free.

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OLDE NORTHENDER: Abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

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RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: The Ryans (Irish), 5 p.m., Free.

NECTAR'S: "American Vinyl" premiere (film), 7 p.m., Free. Vasudo, Project Organ Trio (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

CHARLIE O'S: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Johanna and the Dusty Floor, Clementine & the Galaxy, Dynasty Electric (indie), 8:30 p.m., $7.

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PURPLE MOON PUB: Lake Superior (garage blues), 7 p.m., Free. WHAMMY BAR: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Free.

champlain valley TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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MOOG'S PLACE: Open Mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

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HALFLOUNGE: Scott Mangan (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with Morgan, 10 p.m., Free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. Serotheft, the Edd, Casio Bastard (live EDM), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Pine Street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Irish Sessions, 7 p.m., Free. 9 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz). RED SQUARE:The Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m.,

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BAGITOS: Acoustic Blues Jam with the Usual Suspects, 6 p.m., Free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 9 p.m., Free.

northern

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. MOOG'S PLACE: John Daly (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

THE PINES: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

PURPLE MOON PUB: Pappy Hour (old time), 7 p.m., Free.

regional

SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN: Ray and Russ (organ groove), 9 p.m., Free. TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Mix and Mingle in the Upper Valley (speed dating), 6:30 p.m., NA.

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CITY LIMITS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

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magine watching van Gogh as he attacks the canvas. Or Matisse, his scissors careening through bright paper. Or shirtless Picasso, splashing Prussian blue on canvas. Their time is long gone, but there are still opportunities to observe artists in the act of creation. Glen Coburn Hutcheson is offering just that in his brand-new Storefront Studio Gallery in downtown Montpelier.

Hutcheson doesn’t just want to make art, he says; he wants to instigate conversations. And one of his best conversation starters could be a life-size drawing of you. With your permission, of course. Fat chunk of graphite in hand, Hutcheson will rigorously sketch as you wander the studio looking at his paintings. He may tell you how he makes gouache out of cornstarch and pigment, or how he builds sculptures using cardboard, metal, pigment and wood. Whether or not he’s drawing, Hutcheson warmly invites visitors to look at and have an exchange about art. That’s what his newly opened studio on Barre Street is all about. “The gallery is a space where I can share my practice with the community in a direct, daily way,” Hutcheson says. “I hope it will be good for the neighborhood and town as well as for me.” The 500-square-foot gallery, just a block from the Drawing Board art store and the Savoy Theater, is a brick building with two red exterior lights and a striped awning. The glass entry, with tall front windows displaying Hutcheson’s work on easels, is inviting. Inside, the L-shaped, white-walled space is a fitting backdrop for a broad selection of Hutcheson’s paintings and drawings. On one wall hangs a large print of his peace banner, titled “We Demand Peace.” Fashioned after a 1950 Soviet political poster by Victor Koretsky, Hutcheson’s version boldly displays a muscular, largeboned woman in an apron holding a broom and slamming her fist on a table. Sitting around the table are tiny businessmen in suits discussing war. It is a striking, colorful statement. A copy of the 6-by-3.5foot poster is printed on tough vinyl and sells for $70. Hutcheson makes use of his poster every Friday at noon, when he and other peace activists rally in front of the Montpelier post office.

PEOPLE WALKING IN OFF THE STREET WHILE I’M WORKING

WILL CHANGE WHAT I’M DOING.

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The studio also displays several lush pastels. One, titled “Fidgeting Head,” depicts a bishop in a tall mitre hat looking over his shoulder in apparent surprise. He looks like a figure in a Rembrandt painting, which is exactly where Hutcheson found the inspiration for the image. Another small pastel, “Who Wants War,” shows a sweet, forlorn-looking fellow with a big pink thought bubble emerging from his head — his thought being the title of the piece. In two currently hanging oil paintings, Hutcheson explores his adolescence in Massachusetts. In the 20-by-32-inch “Pond Student,” a naked young boy squats at the edge of a pond playing with a stick. With his dark-brown skin and long black hair, surrounded by a dense green forest, the child could be part of an indigenous population living in the wild. “Big Pine,” an oil of the same size, recalls the era when the U.S. Northeast was forested with huge white pines and nut trees. In this painting, three naked children sit high up in one of those pines, looking out over hundreds of miles of thick forest and distant blue mountains.

With his favorite medium, the graphite stick, Hutcheson dashes off his portraits of people — family, friends and strangers. One is of his sister — the 24-by-18-inch “MLH” — and is reminiscent of Mary Cassatt’s depiction of women: strong, beautiful and calm. The serene sketch suggests this subject is someone the artist cares about. But every one of Hutcheson’s portraits manages to convey his joy in creating them. Hutcheson, 34, left New York City three years ago after obtaining his MFA from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. He moved to Montpelier and used up his savings to pay six months’ advance rent on the studio. Before his lease expires in July, Hutcheson says, he’ll decide if this artistin-residence experiment should continue. To support his dream, he’s been working 35 hours a week at the Skinny Pancake. After work, he walks the few blocks to his studio/gallery and gets back to making art and interacting with whoever comes through the door. The gallery is open to the public on weekdays

from 3 to 6 p.m. Evenings and weekends are saved for creating. Most of the works in the gallery are for sale. In addition to showing his work, Hutcheson says, he’d like to give occasional slide presentations on art theory and history. “I’ve amassed so many images from museums and galleries that I’d love to share,” he explains. “I might even host others who’d like to give a lunchtime talk in my gallery space.” Another possibility, he says, is to teach art classes, particularly life drawing. He has just one overarching goal: “to interact with people, centered on the visual arts. “People walking in off the street while I’m working will change what I’m doing,” Hutcheson adds. “I look forward to seeing how it will go. I like random acts, and I’m prepared to go with them.” Storefront Studio Gallery, 6 Barre Street, Montpelier. Open Monday through Friday, 3 to 6 p.m., and for First Friday Art Walks. Hutcheson keeps a blog at drawpaintsculpt. blogspot.com. Info, glen@gchfineart.com.

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Call to artists 2013 Photo Slam Darkroom Gallery is calling photographers of all ages, students, amateurs and pros for the 2013 Champlain Valley Photo Slam. Deadline: April 24. darkroomgallery.com/ex42/ Logo Design Contest! Remember the painted bears on Church Street last year? Design the logo for this summer’s art installation! Deadline: March 22. More info, artsriot.com. O’Brien Community Center The O’Brien Community Center in Winooski is accepting applications for exhibits in our new gallery space! Please contact vista@winooskivt.org for more information and an application. Art of Creative Aging Juried exhibit featuring recent work of older (70+) visual artists living in central Vermont. Send digital submissions to mharmon@cvcoa.org by March 30. Info, 476-2681. It Came from Space! The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery is launching a Satellite Arts space, and we need your “spaced out” work for a 50/50 fundraising art exhibit. Think spacemen, planets, rockets and asteroids! Deadline March 15, more details at spacegalleryvt.com/ call-to-artists NCG Presents Ecologies! New City Galerie is accepting submissions for its April show centered around environmental and ecological education and justice. Deadline: March 18. Submit via email: newcity galerie@gmail.com.

Trick of the Eye Exhibit Calling for submissions: Optical illusions conjured by a variety of processes, from studio setups to spontaneously captured works, that inspire the question, “How did they do that?” Deadline: April 3. Juror: Benjamin Von Wong. More info at submissions@darkroomgallery.com. darkroomgallery.com/ex41. SEEKING YOGA-INSPIRED ART: The Burlington Yoga Conference is seeking yogainspired artwork to hang at the conference on May 4 and 5 in the UVM Davis Center. Deadline: April 20. Please contact ben@empvt.com to submit. CHANDLER ANNUAL AREA ARTISTS SHOW: Orange, Washington and Windsor County artists are invited to submit one sample of their work. Drop-off: April 7 and 8. Opening: April 13. Info, chandler-arts.org. ‘THE WORLD AROUND US’: Photographers 18 and under are invited to submit photos for a contest. First-, second- and third-place cash prizes will be awarded in three categories: people, animals and nature. Deadline: March 15. Call Camilla, 988-4300, or Emily, 988-4741, for info. Rules and applications at woodenhorsearts.com/ photofun/index.shtml.

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Abby Keller: Paintings by the local artist. Through March 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438.

'Build a Satellite': A prop-making party provides paint, papier-mâché and other materials in advance of launching a new artists-studio space. Through March 16 at Backspace Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512.

'Print and Process': Sheri Hancock-Tomek demonstrates solarplate printing. Wednesday, March 6, 11 a.m.-noon, Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Winter Artists' Town Meeting: Local artists, artisans and growers meet to discuss their work and share a potluck meal. Thursday, March 7, 6-8 p.m., Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018. 'Click! A Photographer's View of Vermont': The gallery's first-ever photography exhibit features painterly images in black-and-white and color by 75 juried artists. Through March 31 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Talk: At a roundtable, the exhibiting photographers discuss their work. Sunday, March 10, 1-3 p.m. Info, 644-5100. Marc Awodey: Gallery talk about Awodey's work by exhibit curator Mark Waskow. Tuesday, March 12, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1119. 'Artists Talk Color': Painter Richard Weis, a featured artist in the current exhibition, leads a discussion about the way artists acquire and develop the use of color in their work. Thursday, March 7, 7-8:30 p.m., Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

Creative Competition #17: Artworks submitted by local artists in a variety of media are up for viewers' choice award and for sale. Through March 31 at RL Photo in Burlington. Info, publicartschool@ gmail.com. Diane G. Bell: "Watercolors Through the Year," impressionistic landscapes by the Weston painter. Through April 28 at Magnolia Breakfast & Lunch Bistro in Burlington. Dok Wright: "Crescendo," large-scale images by the Burlington photographer. March 8 through April 5 at Burlington College. Info, 923-2335. Emerging Artists Show: This group exhibit features works in a variety of media by 14 local artists. Through March 30 at Davis Studio in Burlington. Eric Fitzgerald: Art Affair by Shearer presents landscape photography by the Vermont artist. Through March 31 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Info, 658-1111. Gabrielle Tsounis: "Tzigane," oil and acrylic paintings inspired by the artist's world travels. Through April 1 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233.

'Painting Ordinary People': James Maroney, former head of American paintings at Sotheby's and Christie's, illustrates genre painting, the portrayal of people in everyday activities, from 1740 through the 20th century. Wednesday, March 13, 7-8 p.m., Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury. Info, 388-4095. 'Praxis: Using Art to Model Sustainable Economies': Artist and activist Max Liboiron builds installations out of trash and invites participants to interact with them according to rules of exchange. Wednesday, March 13, 6-8 p.m., Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. Dave Sellers: "Fundamentals of Design," an exhibit by the eclectic Warren architect. Through March 31 at ArtsRiot Gallery in Burlington. Talk: "Jazz & Design," The architect and the pianist riff on improvisation. Saturday, March 9, 6-9 p.m. Info, 203-788-0909. BeCAUSE Craft Show: More than 100 artists and crafters donate proceeds from sales of their work to nonprofit organizations. Saturday, March 9, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Ross Sports Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester. Info, becausecraft show.com.

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Kathy Black: "Reconciling the Map," paintings that incorporate newspaper clippings, weather patterns, maps and views of the night sky. Through March 9 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Reception: Thursday, March 7, 3-5 p.m.

'Lost and Found': A group photography exhibit, curated by Davy Rothbart of "This American Life" and Found magazine, explores that which has been lost, rediscovered, and forgotten. March 7 through 31 at Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Reception: Sunday, March 10, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Info, 777-3686.

Jan Tichy: “Installation No. 6 (tubes),” an artwork of sculpture and light that references urban landscape, architecture and human activity as light pulses, crawls and glows through paper tubes. March 8 through April 14 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Reception: Friday, March 8, 6-8 p.m. Info, 253-8358. Mary Ann Duffy Godin: "Birds, Blooms and Vintage," watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. Through April 17 at Bent Northrop Memorial Library in Fairfield. Reception: Sunday, March 10, 2-3 p.m. Info, 827-3945. 'Mold Makers': A group show of artwork made from and relating to the mold-making process, Main Floor Gallery; Norwich University Students: Five years of lo-fi works, Second Floor Gallery; and Theodore Ceraldi: "Hidden," paintings and sculpture, Third Floor Gallery. Through April 6 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Reception: Friday, March 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 479-7069.

Micki Colbeck: "Underwater," large oil paintings by the Vermont artist that reflect the blue planet's liquid in its many guises. Through April 29 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Reception: Thursday, March 7, 5-7 p.m. Adrien 'Yellow' Patenaude: "Yellow Vistas," landscape paintings by the Newport painter. March 7 through April 14 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Reception: Sunday, March 10, 1-4 p.m. Info, 899-3211. 'Emerging Artists': Works in a variety of media by 11 art students at Mt. Abe Union High School. Through March 26 at Art on Main in Bristol. Reception: Friday, March 8, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Trevor Sullivan: Vermontinspired paintings on old windows. Through April 30 at Fiddlehead Brewing Company in Shelburne. Reception: Wednesday, March 6, 5-8 p.m. Info, 508-523-7476.

Pete Sutherland: The wellknown Vermont folk musician is earning a second reputation for his cut-paper artworks, on display here in a number of colorful collages.Through March 29 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol.

Galen Cheney: "Via della Spada," oil and enamel on three panels, Escalator; Kevin Ruelle: Vintage-looking Vermont posters, Gates 1-8; and Tod Gunter: Aviation-themed illustrations, Skyway. Through April 30 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Gregg Blasdel: "Bounty," a cast-plaster sculptural installation by the recipient of the 10th annual Barbara Smail Award. Through March 13 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7165. Group Exhibit: Photography by Jacques Burke and Kristen Watson; paintings by Marie LaPre Grabon and Leslie McCool; mixed-media work by Maria Anghelache and Alan Arnold; collage work by Elizabeth Nelson and Erika Lawlor Schmidt; and sculpture by Janet Van Fleet. Through April 30 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Group Show: Works by Marc Awodey, Carolyn Enz Hack, Paige Berg Rizvi, Ruth Hamilton, Will Patlove, Che Schreiner and W. David Powell. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31 at the Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. Hal Mayforth: "Subversive in His Own Little Way," watercolors, abstract acrylics, word paintings, grid paintings and humorous paintings that originated in the artist's sketchbooks. Through May 11 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4510.

'High Trash': Artworks from 18 contemporary artists using discarded materials address themes of waste, environment and consumerism in the age of climate change. Through May 24 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. Jill Madden: "Northern Landscapes," oil paintings inspired by the local woods, water, snow and mountains. Through April 27 at Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Info, 862-1001. Johanne Durocher Yordan: "Contemplation," acrylic paintings that represent change and evolution in the artist's life. Through March 30 at Studio 266 in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. Johanne Durocher Yordan: Dreamy abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. Judith Tuttle & Robert Huntoon: "Waterscapes," pastel and oil paintings, respectively, by the Vermont artists. Through May 30 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222. Karol Kawiaka: Contemporary abstracted paintings. Through March 29 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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Catherine Hall: "Recycled/Reborn," an exhibit of mixed-media works by the Burlington artist. Through March 31 at Vintage Inspired in Burlington. Info, 355-5418.

Essex Art League Meeting: Members gather for business and social time, plus a presentation by a guest artist. Thursday, March 7, 9-11 a.m., First Congregational Church in Essex Junction.

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Amber DeVoss: "The Tempest Collection," brilliantly colored abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

'Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art': Over a light lunch, Peter Broucke talks about the museum's recently acquired pastel, "Propylaea," by architect Louise Kahn and the effect of his 1951 visit to Greece on his work. Friday, March 8, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007.

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17th Annual Creative ReUse Showcase: Area high school students show what clever artwork can be fashioned from trash in this yearly exhibit, in conjunction with the Chittenden Solid Waste District. Through March 28 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Info, 863-6458.

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limit 1 per artist. No rules, any size/media/subject. Entries accepted Wednesday through first Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception on first Fridays, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. People’s choice winner gets cash prize. Exhibit up for month. Location: Root Gallery at RL Photo, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. For info, call 540-3081 or email publicartschool@gmail.com.

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'Large Works': Artworks that measure at least three feet in one direction. Through April 20 at Soda Plant in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. 'Light Snow': Metal sculpture by Bruce R. MacDonald, woodcuts by George Peterson and kinetic, floating clouds by Gordon Auchincloss. Through March 31 at Havoc Gallery in Burlington. Info, 800-639-1868. Liza Cowan: "Saki: Pug for Fun," photographs of the artist's dogs. Through March 31 at Artspace 106 at the Men's Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088. Mark Boedges: An exhibit of new winter landscape paintings by the Vermont artist also includes scenes of other seasons. Through March 31 at Mark Boedges Fine Art Gallery in Burlington. Info, 735-7317. Nicholas Taylor: "Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Intimate Portrait," photographs of the artist at 19 taken by his friend and fellow frequenter of Manhattan's famed Mudd Club. The exhibit is on loan from Niagara University's Castellani Art Museum. Through March 30 at Bailey/Howe Library, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-3294. 'Oceanic Art and the Performance of Life': Intricately crafted objects, including masks, textiles and weaponry, from indigenous cultures of the Pacific Islands. Through May 24 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. 'Seat's Taken': An exhibition that aims to examine human interaction, question the way we navigate the world, and challenge our reactions to the unfamiliar, uncomfortable and different. Through April 6 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. 'Shadows: An Exhibition of Tattoos': Paintings and screen-prints by regional and Vermont tattoo artists. Through March 20 at JDK Gallery in Burlington. Info, 864-5884. 'Stormy Weather': Heavy skies and ominous storms inspired the artworks in this group exhibit in multiple media. Through March 30 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. Wendy James: Photographic illusions and vivid paintings by the local artist. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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he can wow us with a paintbrush, as well. Through April 14, the gallery of Montréal en Lumière presents a Canadian premiere: an

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artwork that croons. Bennett’s visual talent is on view at the Galerie of the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan. Pictured: “Jazz

'20-30/2D-3D': Work in a variety of media by 20- to 30-year-old Vermont artists. Juried by cartoonist James Sturm and printmaker Rachel Gross. Through March 13 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 728-9878.

Cherie Staples & Marilyn Wingersky: The sisters, members of the Art Resource Association, exhibit photographs and watercolors, respectively. Through April 6 at City Center in Montpelier.

Fiona Sullivan: "Shades of Pussy," watercolor paintings of flowers. Through March 30 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043. Gallery Members Show: A group exhibit featuring works small and large, in a variety of media, by 35 regional artists. Through March 30 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

'How People Make Things': In a hands-on exhibit inspired by "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," visitors can make objects using four manufacturing processes: molding, cutting, deforming and assembly. Lab coats and safety glasses available! Through June 2 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200. 'In the Eye of the Beholder': Paintings by three Vermont artists — Anne Unangst, Marcia Hill and Cindy Griffith — interpreting the same landscapes. Through March 31 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 229-4326. 'Intertwined': Innovative fiber works by Marsha Chase, Pamela Druhen, Elizabeth Fram, Christine Fries, Marilyn Gillis, Rae Harrell, Karen Henderson and Eve Jacobs Carnahan. Through March 9 at Festival Gallery in Waitsfield. Info, 496-6682. Joan Hoffmann: "American Wilderness and Habitats," oils and watercolors by the Royalton artist. Through March 22 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404.

John Snell: “Still Learning to See,” work by the lifelong photographer. Through March 15 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, 371-4375. Joyce Hayden & Nance Silliman: "Resiliency," assemblage boxes, collages and paintings by Hayden; paintings and mixed-media work by Silliman. Through April 13 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616. 'Legendary Landscapes': Works by Union Elementary School second graders inspired by Chinese landscape paintings. Through March 31 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 229-9416. 'Light & Space': Work by printmakers Sabra Field and Dan O’Donnell, fiber artist Karen Madden, and sculptor Pat Musick. Through May 10 at the Great Hall in Springfield. Info, 885-3061. Lit Tyler: "Memories of an Unconscious Nothing," artwork by VTC's director of institutional research. Through May 31 at Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center. Info, 728-1237. Nathan Vaughan: "Glass Cat Presents," digital prints of album covers for fictitious bands the artist dreamed up. Through March 29 at Local 64 in Montpelier. Info, 595-0605.

Sanam Erfani: "Liberata," photography and mixed-media works expressing life's inspirations. Through March 31 at Green Bean Visual Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com. 'Survival Soup': Collage, painting and mixedmedia work by Randolph artists Travis Dunning, Matthew Riley and Seth Tracy, and White River Junction artist Ben Peberdy. Through April 5 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776. 'The Mysterious Mind': Paintings and sculptures by Nina Benedetto, Joan Curtis, Thomas McGraw, Mareva Millarc and Fran Bull that aim to reflect the subconscious through the insights of Jungian psychology. Through March 24 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018. Two Rivers Printmaking Faculty Show: Masterful prints by more than a dozen member and nonmember instructors. Through April 30 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

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Glen Coburn Hutcheson: Paintings, drawings and sculpture by the Montpelier artist. Visitors are invited to drop by Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m., and be the subject of a "talking portrait," a life-size pencil drawing. Through July 31 at Storefront Studio Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 839-5349.

'Hey, They Can Really Draw a Line': A group exhibit of works curated from Mark Waskow's Waskowmium that examine line quality. Through March 30 at ORCA Media in Montpelier. Info, 223-0432.

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Drew Peberdy: "Cheap Thrills," artwork that explores why directors make bad movies. Through March 13 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776.

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Barbara Leber: "Seasons of the Year," acrylic paintings on board with the theme of color and light. Through March 30 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676.

evocative selection of watercolors, paintings and sketches by the songster — signed with his real name, Anthony Benedetto. Imagine

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Willow Bascom: Colorful illustrations of animals, curated by SEABA. Through May 31 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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‘CLICK! A Photographer’s View of Vermont’ Jeffersonville’s Bryan Memorial

Gallery is known for its luscious displays of landscape painting. Now, in a break with tradition, the venue is showing photography for the first time. Instructed to “capture Vermont,” these 34 photographers did just that, and the resulting exhibit of more than 70 works presents the faces, places and moments that make up the Green Mountain State — including some wild ones. “CLICK!” is on view through March 31. Pictured: “Stretching” by Roger Irwin.

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'UsefUl and elegant accomplishments': Landscape drawings by 19th-century Norwich University alumni and their contemporaries, many of whom were involved in the Civil War; '1861-1862: toward a higher moral pUrpose': An exhibition exploring the experiences of Norwich University alumni who fought in the Civil War. Through June 30 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183. wendy hackett-morgan: "Animals Art Figures, Too," mixed-media works that explore the human mind's ability to see images in everything. Through April 26 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338.

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carolyn shattUck: Works created by layering individual monoprint plates over one another to create subtle environments of color, pattern and line. Through April 1 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.

Call 802-847-2193 or fax 802-847-4187 or email vlc@uvm.edu.

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castleton facUlty show: Works in a variety of media by 13 college art faculty. Through May 11 at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. Info, 468-1266.

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fUll hoUse: This annual exhibit showcases the colorful works of artists Richard Weis, Brian Sylvester, Johanne Durocher Yordan and Katherine Langlands. Through March 23 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. libby hillhoUse: "Parallels," photographic portraits paired with text drawn from interviews with Vermonters living below the poverty line. Through March 30 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. 'linear thinking: sol lewitt, modern, postmodern and contemporary art from the collection': A LeWitt drawing installed by students; 'natUre transformed: edward bUrtynsky’s Vermont QUarry photographs in context': Iconic photographs exhibited within the context of the geological and social history of the area, including the Italian immigrant stoneworkers in the granite quarries near Barre (through April 22). Through May 5 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. marc awodey: "Painting IS the Object," a selection of figurative paintings by, and in tribute to, the late artist and Seven Days art critic. Through April 5 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1266.

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members' show: "Vermont Scapes," works in a variety of media that reflect the beauty of Vermont. Through April 30 at Brandon Artists Guild. Info, 247-4956. stU hall & caleb foster: "Snapping Snowflakes," images of the frozen stuff by two local photographers following in the footsteps of Snowflake Bentley. Through April 30 at Mt. Mansfield Community Television in Richmond. Info, 434-2550. 'the blUe swans: seVen women artists': Works in a variety of media by local artists Klara Calitri, Linda Hampton Smith, Molly Hawley, Patty LeBon Herb, Phoebe Stone, Sarah Wesson and Yinglei Zhang. Through March 31 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 388-1436. 'treasUres from the sheldon': A new curation of 19th-century objects, art and ephemera from the museum's permanent collection. March 9 through April 22 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117.

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Bianca Perren: "The Center for Circumpolar Studies: Arctic Views," plein-air paintings and prints by the artist/scientist who studies the changes in Arctic landscapes as a result of climate change, pollution and human land use; Lisa Forster Beach: "Cultural Energy," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 25 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261. chris stearns & GaLen cheney: Art photographs and colorful abstract paintings, respectively, in the Upstairs Gallery. Through March 31 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

christina Z. anderson: Snowflake Bentley’s images printed with the mordançage process by the Montana State University, Bozeman, professor. Through March 15 at the Old Red Mill in Jericho. Info, 899-2335. cLark derBes: "Prehistoric Art of the Future — Today!" Two- and three-dimensional geometricpainted works by the Burlington artist, including a wall collaboratively painted with JSC students. March 14 through April 13 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. 'conversations in cLoth': Quilted works by June Bugbee and friends. Through April 30 at Jericho Center Town Hall. Info, 899-2974.

'Grace: Past and Present': A group exhibit of artists represented by the community-arts organization. Through April 25 at GRACE in Hardwick. Info, 472-6857. keLLy hoLt: "I Walk the Line," mixed-media paintings. Through April 30 at Green Goddess Café in Stowe. Info, 253-5255. Lydia corrow & Mathew Purdue: "Summer of Change," interpretations of landscape by the Vermont artists. Through April 22 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158.

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PaM turner: Paintings in acrylic and mixed media. Through April 1 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.

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sandra ershow: Watercolors and pastels by the Waterbury artist. Through March 15 at Copley Woodlands in Stowe. Info, 253-7200.

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clean out that dreaded junk drawer, basement or garage? Make some art! The 17th annual State Craft Center and the Chittenden Solid Waste District, shows how to do it. Local high school students were challenged to create artwork out of trash and recyclables, in the spirit of CSWD’s motto, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reimagine.” From quirky creatures constructed from bolts to a table made with corks, the exhibit gives new life to items assumed to be useless. With plenty of creative pluck, these young artists redefine the terms of “waste.” Pictured: Best-in-Show winner “Put a Cork On It,” a table made from wine corks, PVC pipe and old Christmas-tree stands, by Sarah Ferry and Alex Groen of South Burlington High School.

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'source: GuiLd oF verMont Furniture Makers': An exhibition of fine furniture by Vermont craftspeople with a focus on the source of all the elements that collaborate to make the final piece; GaLen cheney: Colorful, large-scale, abstract paintings that evoke urban graffiti, architecture and the organic (through February 24). Through April 14 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. stePhen huneck: "Pure Love," canine-centric prints by the late Vermont artist. The exhibit is the arts center's first in a collaborative series with Huneck's Dog Chapel and Stephen Huneck Gallery. Through March 7 at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-2600.

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Jeanette Fournier: Realist bird-focused watercolors by the New Hampshire artist. Through March 31 at VINS Nature Center in Quechee. Info, 359-5000.

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art LaB exhiBition: Work by adults with special needs who meet weekly for art classes at AVA Gallery and Art Center. Through May 31 at Courtyard by Marriott in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117. 'crossinG cuLtures': A survey of Australia's contemporary indigenous art movement from the 1970s to the present drawn from one of the world's largest collections of aboriginal art. Through March 10 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2095.

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Jean-Jacques duvaL: Paintings, stained-glass sculpture and preliminary drawings for large stained-glass windows installed in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Through March 24 at Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum in Plattsburgh. Info, 518-564-2474. 'Peru: kinGdoMs oF the sun and the Moon — identities and conquest in the ancient, coLoniaL and Modern eras': A collection of pre-Columbian treasures and masterpieces, many of which have never been seen outside Peru. Through June 16 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-1600.

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nce upon a time, when Hollywood couldn’t come up with good ideas for movies, it resorted to sequels and remakes. OK, it still does. But recently the entertainment industry has discovered an almost limitless and largely untapped source of ideas it doesn’t need to come up with itself to make big bucks: the fairy tale. In just a couple of years, the phenomenon has cast its spell on both the small and big screens, with shows such as “Once Upon a Time” and “Grimm” working their magic on television audiences, while moviegoers shell out for tweaked takes on childhood staples such as Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and two — count ’em, two — variations on the tale of Snow White. What’s next? Two more versions of Snow White, a Cinderella starring Cate Blanchett and more reimaginings of Pinocchio than you can shake a stick at? No sign of a fairy-tale ending to this trend anytime soon. And so to that trend’s latest contribution to the culture, Bryan Singer’s $200 million 3D Jack the Giant Slayer. Speaking of clas-

sic stories, Singer’s a prime example of the filmmaker whose indie success (Public Access, The Usual Suspects) was rewarded with the opportunity to get rich making less significant mainstream fare (X-Men, Superman Returns). This is his least significant effort to date. Chalk up another one for the system. Beyond the involvement of a farm boy named Jack (Nicholas Hoult), giants, magic beans and mutant vegetation, the story has virtually zero connection to either “Jack and the Beanstalk” or “Jack the Giant Killer.” The production’s four screenwriters (never a good sign) merely appropriate the familiar fables as a starting point for their attempt at the year’s first spectacle-heavy tent-pole picture. To make a way too long (115-minute) story short: Jack’s adventure begins when he ventures into town to sell not a cow but a horse and trades it for the legendary legumes to a monk on urgent business for which a Guernsey won’t do. Along the way, Jack bumps into Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), and they fall in love and wind up one rainy night improbably alone in Jack’s leaky hovel. At

JACK AND THE BEAN COUNTERS Singer’s $300 million bomb may well be among the biggest in movie history.

that point, wouldn’t you know it, one of those beans gets wet and explodes into a tower of twisting tendrils, which lifts the place, with Isabelle inside, above the clouds to a land occupied by Homo sapiens-hating giants. The king (Ian McShane) rounds up a royal posse that includes Isabelle’s scheming fiancé (Stanley Tucci, doing his best to spin a one-joke role into comedy gold), the head of the elite guard (Ewan McGregor, channeling Russell Crowe) and, naturally, Jack. Rescuing the princess is complicated by all those computer-generated giants and their appetite for human destruction. The blood of many an Englishman is spilled in the process, which is deafening, gruesome and probably too violent for the usual family-film crowd. The damsel-in-distress plot is pure boilerplate, so the picture stands or falls on the merits of its CGI, and all I can say is that

$200 million sure doesn’t buy what it used to. The stars of the show in particular are a big disappointment. The film was originally slated for release last June, but Singer convinced Warner Bros. he needed more time to get the giants right. Guess what: He needed even more. Talk about fee fi ho-hum. These giants are clunky and cartoony, a colossal bore. One can’t help but wonder what someone like Guillermo del Toro might’ve done with those millions. And whether things might have turned out differently had the filmmakers strayed less from the original story. With marketing costs, the tab for this 3-D dud tops $300 million. So it’s safe to say that, while the fabled goose never makes an appearance, one hell of an egg got laid. RICK KISONAK

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arly in 1968, the Soviet nuclear submarine K-129 suddenly went silent during a routine patrol. Not long after, the U.S. discovered its wreck in the Pacific Ocean. Given the possibility of sensitive intel on board, the CIA organized a complicated salvage operation, the results of which remain classified to this day. It’s a real-life Cold War mystery that might have yielded a film at least as absorbing as Argo — a documentary, say, that explored all the conflicting theories about the sub’s demise, with plausible reenactments to bring them to life. Writer-director Todd Robinson, despite his background in documentary filmmaking, has taken a different approach. In Phantom, which calls itself “inspired by” true events, he dramatizes a modified version of the theory presented by Kenneth Sewell in his 2005 book Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine’s Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. — namely, that K-129 had a clandestine, potentially apocalyptic mission. Setting his film almost entirely inside the submarine, with a solid cast of Americans pretending to be Russians, Robinson imagines how and why the crew might have

flubbed that mission. Again, it’s an idea with potential. But Robinson flubs his own mission by creating a drama so creaky, hokey and poorly paced that it sinks long before the sub does. Trouble signs are already apparent in the cliché-ridden first scene, where a weatherbeaten Soviet Navy captain (Ed Harris) who has a Dark Secret and is on the Brink of Retirement receives One Last Assignment from his superior (Lance Henriksen). Not one line of their dialogue feels spontaneous (sample: “Greatness casts a long shadow”). The scripting remains stodgy as Harris boards the sub with his loyal executive officer (William Fichtner) and a mysterious fellow along for the ride (David Duchovny), whom they immediately peg as KGB. The ancient diesel submarine is a wonderful setting — dirty, detailed and convincingly claustrophobic. It’s fun just to hear the lingo and watch the sailors go about their tasks, but not so fun when the captain’s Dark Secret starts giving him cheesy, strobing flashbacks. (They’re supposed to suggest PTSD and brain trauma but actually evoke “CSI.”) Harris is more than up to the challenge of playing a damaged-yet-competent

SUBPAR The submarine is the real star of Robinson’s lackluster drama.

man of honor. But when the captain finally unveils his past in a long monologue, he chooses such a ludicrous moment for introspection — right after the villain reveals his master-plan and skedaddles away to implement it — that the viewer can only gape at the director’s misjudgment. Putting the brakes on the action for a soliloquy may work in Shakespeare, and on “Deadwood,” but Robinson doesn’t have the brilliant text to justify that sort of theatrical pacing. All the characters have the most predictable conflicts imaginable, and when Duchovny’s KGB man reveals his own personal secret, it elicits not an “aha!” but a groan. Of course, it doesn’t help that the actor mainly brings Phantom his patented California deadpan and his known association with a TV show that featured bizarre dis-

appearances. While Harris, Fichtner and Johnathon Schaech (as the sub’s political officer) do a reasonable job of impersonating Soviets without the distraction of fake accents, Duchovny barely attempts to sell his character’s motivations. That’s unfortunate, since he’s the sole representative of a rogue, über-paranoid KGB faction whose psychotic plotting drives the film’s action. Phantom is a valiant attempt to show the Cold War from the other side, and submarine and navy buffs may have reason to enjoy it. For the rest of us, though, it’s like watching fine actors do dinner theater in a tin-can diner, with the watery ending always too far away. MARGOT HARRISON

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21 AND oVERH1/2 The writers of The Hangover, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, attempt to rekindle the magic of inebriation comedy with their directorial debut about a kid whose big medical school exam happens to fall the day after he celebrates his 21st birthday. With Miles Teller, Justin Chon and Jonathan Keltz. (93 min, R) AmoURHHHHH Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an elderly man struggling to care for his beloved wife (Emmanuelle Riva) as she experiences dementia in this Oscar-nominated drama from director Michael (Caché) Haneke. With Isabelle Huppert. See review, this issue. (127 min, PG-13.) ARGoHHH Ben Affleck plays a covert agent who uses a daring deception to try to rescue Americans trapped in Iran during the hostage crisis in this drama based on actual events. With John Goodman, Alan Arkin and Bryan Cranston. Affleck directed. (120 min, R)

DARK SKiESH1/2 A suburban family faces an invasion by mysterious and sinister forces — aliens? ghosts? reality-show producers? The trailer didn’t specify — in this thriller starring Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton and Dakota Goyo. Scott (Priest, Legion) Stewart directed. (95 min, PG-13)

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tHE lASt EXoRciSm pARt iiHH The foundfootage possession flick fails to live up to its title by spawning this sequel, in which Nell (Ashley Bell), former residence of the devil, attempts to start a new life. With Julia Garner and Spencer Treat Clark. Ed (Small Town Murder Songs) Gass-Donnelly directed. (95 min, PG-13) liFE oF piHHHH Ang Lee directed this adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel about a zookeeper’s son who finds himself adrift in a boat with an assortment of hungry animals. Starring Adil Hussain, Irrfan Khan and Suraj Sharma. (126 min, PG)

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JAcK tHE GiANt SlAYERH1/2 Once upon a time, a studio set out to make yet another fairy-tale retelling but didn’t like its namby-pamby original title, “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Nicholas Hoult plays Jack, sure to be one badass user of magic beans. With Ewan McGregor and Stanley Tucci. Bryan (Valkyrie) Singer directed. (114 min, PG-13)

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tHE impoSSiBlEHHH The true story of a vacationing family’s ordeal during and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsumani inspired this disaster drama from J.A. (The Orphanage) Bayona. Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland star. (114 min, PG-13)

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iDENtitY tHiEFHH Jason Bateman vs. Melissa McCarthy? Our money’s on the lady with the smart mouth. In this comedy from director Seth (Horrible Bosses) Gordon, he’s the mild-mannered victim of identity theft; she’s the con artist. With John Cho and Amanda Peet. (111 min, R)

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A GooD DAY to DiE HARDH1/2 John McClane (Bruce Willis) finds out his son (Jai Courtney) is working for the CIA in Russia and decides to retire, take in some sights and leave the action stunts to the next generation. No, that’s actually not what happens in the fifth Die Hard movie. With Mary Elizabeth Winstead. John (Max Payne) Moore directed. (97 min, R)

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48 Carroll Rd. (off Rte. 100), Waitsfield, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info

wednesday 6 — thursday 7 escape from planet earth 1, 5. warm Bodies 1, 5. Zero dark Thirty 7:30. friday 8 — thursday 14 chasing ice 3. identity Thief Fri to Sun: 1, 5, 7. Mon to Wed: 5, 7. *oz The Great and powerful Fri to Sun: 1, 5, 7. Mon to Thu: 5, 7.

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wednesday 6 — thursday 7 21 and over 4, 7. escape from planet earth 3:40. a Good day to die hard 6:40. identity Thief 3:50, 6:50. Jack the Giant slayer 6:30. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 3:30. friday 8 — thursday 14 21 and over Fri: 4, 6:50, 9. Sat: 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9. Sun: 1:30, 4, 6:50. Mon to Thu: 6:50. identity Thief Fri: 3:50, 7, 9. Sat: 1:20, 3:50, 7, 9. Sun: 1:20, 3:50, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. Jack the Giant slayer Fri: 6:30. Sat and Sun: 1, 6:30. Mon to Thu: 6:30. Jack the Giant slayer 3d Fri and Sat: 3:30, 8:30. Sun: 3:30. *oz The Great and powerful Fri: 6:40. Sat: 3:40, 9. Sun: 3:40. *oz The Great and powerful in 3d Fri: 3:40, 9. Sat and Sun: 1:10, 6:40. Mon to Thu: 6:40.

capitol showplace 93 State St., Montpelier, 2290343, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 6 — thursday 7 21 and over 6:25, 9. django unchained 9. escape from planet earth 6:30. The last exorcism part ii 6:30, 9. safe haven 6:25, 9. silver linings playbook 6:20, 9. friday 8 — thursday 14 21 and over Fri: 6:25, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:35, 3:15, 6:25, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:25, 9. *dead man down Fri: 6:20, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9. escape from planet earth Fri: 6:30. Sat and Sun: 12:25, 3, 6:30. Mon to Thu: 6:30. The last exorcism part ii 9. *oz The Great and powerful in 3d Fri: 6:10, 9:10. Sat and Sun: 12:15, 3:15, 6:10, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 6:10, 9:10. silver linings playbook Fri: 6:20, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9.

esseX cinemas & t-reX theater 21 Essex Way, #300, Essex, 879-6543, essexcinemas.com

wednesday 6 — thursday 7 21 and over 1, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20. argo 12, 7:05. dark skies 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25. escape from planet earth 4:35. escape from planet earth 3d 12:25, 2:30, 6:40, 8:45. a Good day to die hard 2:35, 4:50, 9:40. identity Thief 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10. The last exorcism part ii 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30. safe haven 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10. silver linings playbook 1:15, 3:50, 6:25, 9. snitch 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10. friday 8 — thursday 14 21 and over 1, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20. argo 12:40. dark skies 4:55, 9:10. *dead man down 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9. escape from planet earth 3d 12:45, 2:50, 7:05. identity Thief 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10. The last exorcism part ii 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30. *oz The Great and powerful 12:30, 3:15, 6, 8:45. *oz The Great and powerful in 3d 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35. safe haven 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10. silver linings playbook 1:15, 3:50, 6:25, 9.

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wednesday 6 — thursday 7 21 and over 7. identity Thief 7. Jack the Giant slayer 7.

190 Boxwood St. (Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners), Williston, 878-2010, majestic10.com

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wednesday 6 — thursday 7 21 and over 12:20, 2:30, 4:35, 7:20, 9:40. escape from planet earth 11:50 a.m., 3:50. escape from planet earth 3d 1:40, 6:10, 8:30. a Good day to die hard 12, 2:20, 7:05, 9:30. identity Thief 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25. Jack the Giant slayer 4:40, 8:50. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 1, 4, 6:50, 9:35. monsters, inc. 3d 11:40 a.m. safe haven 1:10, 3:45, 6:20, 9:20. silver linings playbook 12:50, 3:30, 6:40, 9:15. snitch 1:50, 4:20, 7, 9:35.

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222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

wednesday 6 — thursday 7 amour 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05. argo 1:25, 4, 6:50, 9:10. django unchained 3:20, 8:40. The impossible 1, 6:25. lincoln 1:05, 4:10, 7:10. Quartet 1:20, 3:30, 6:20, 8:30. silver linings playbook 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15. friday 8 — thursday 14 amour 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05. argo 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10. django unchained 8:50. lincoln 130, 6. *oz the Great and powerful 1, 4, 6:40, 9:20. Quartet 1:20, 3:30, 6:20, 8:30. silver linings playbook 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:40.

palace 9 cinemas 10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com

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21 and over 1:40, 4:10, 6:55, 9:20. argo 1, 3:40, 6:30, 9. escape from planet earth Wed: 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 6:45. Thu: 12:45, 2:45, 4:45. a Good day to die hard 8:45. identity Thief 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:10. Jack the Giant slayer 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15. The last exorcism part ii 1:45, 4:15, 7, 9:15. ***The metropolitan opera: rigoletto encore Wed: 6:30. ***paleyFest featuring The walking dead Thu: 8. phantom 1:30, 3:55, 6:50, 9:05. safe haven 12:50, 3:30, 6:25. silver linings playbook Wed: 12:55, 3:35, 9:10. Thu: 12:55, 3:35, 6:35, 9:10. friday 8 — thursday 14 21 and over Fri to Tue: 1:40, 4:10, 6:55, 9:20. argo 1:05, 3:40, 6:30, 9. *dead man down 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20. escape from planet earth 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 7. identity Thief 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10 (except Wed). Jack the Giant slayer 1:15, 4, 6:40, 9:15. The last exorcism part ii 9. *oz the Great and powerful 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15. ***paleyFest featuring The Big Bang Theory Wed: 10. safe haven Fri to Tue: 12:50, 3:30, 6:25, 8:50. silver linings playbook 12:55, 3:35, 6:35, 9:10. ***See website for details.

wednesday 6 — thursday 14 identity Thief 1 & 3:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 12:40 & 3:30, 6:25, 9.

friday 8 — thursday 14 Jack the Giant slayer Fri: 7, 9:10. Sat: 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:10. Sun: 2:30, 4:40, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. silver linings playbook Fri: 7, 9:10. Sat: 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:10. Sun: 2:30, 4:40, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. warm Bodies Fri: 7, 9:10. Sat: 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:10. Sun: 2:30, 4:40, 7. Mon to Thu: 7.

the savoy theater

welden theatre

paramount twin cinema 241 North Main St., Barre, 4799621, fgbtheaters.com

26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290509, savoytheater.com

wednesday 6 — thursday 7 amour 6, 8:15. Quartet 6:30, 8:30. friday 8 — thursday 14 happy people: a year in the taiga Fri: 6, 8. Sat and Sun: 1, 3:30, 6, 8. Mon to Thu: 6, 8. Quartet Fri: 6:30, 8:30. Sat and Sun: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:30. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 8:30.

104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 5277888, weldentheatre3.com

wednesday 6 — thursday 7 escape from planet earth 2:15. a Good day to die hard 4:15, 9:15. identity Thief 2:05, 7:05. Jack the Giant slayer 2, 7. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 4:15, 9:15. The last exorcism part ii 4:15, 7:15, 9:15. Full schedule not available at press time.

stowe cinema 3 pleX Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2534678. stowecinema.com

wednesday 6 — thursday 7 identity Thief 7. Jack the Giant slayer 7. silver linings playbook 7.

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taURUs (april 20-May 20): Do you have a

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“Telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen,” says musician and businessman Derek Sivers. Numerous studies demonstrate that when you talk about your great new idea before you actually do it, your brain chemistry does an unexpected thing. It gives you the feeling that you have already accomplished the great new idea — thereby sapping your willpower to make the effort necessary to accomplish it! The moral of the story: Don’t brag about what you’re going to do someday. Don’t entertain people at parties with your fabulous plans. Shut up and get to work. This is especially important advice for you right now.

gemiNi (May 21-June 20): The following request for advice appeared on reddit.com: “My identical twin is stuck in an alternate dimension and she can only communicate with me by appearing as my own reflection in mirrors and windows. How can i tell her i don’t like what she’s done to her hair?” This question is a variant of a type of dilemma that many of you geminis are experiencing right now, so i’ll respond to it here. i’m happy to say that you will soon get an unprecedented chance to commune directly with your alter egos. your evil twin will be more available than usual to engage in meaningful dialogue. so will your doppelganger, your shadow, your mirror self and your stuntperson. caNceR (June 21-July 22): Usually i advise

Cancerians to draw up precise borders and maintain clear boundaries. as a Crab myself, i know how important it is for our well-being that we neither leak our life force all over everything nor allow others to leak their life force all over us. We thrive on making definitive choices and strong commitments. We get into trouble when we’re wishy-washy about what we want. oK. Having said all that fatherly stuff, i now want to grant you a partial and temporary license to get a little wild and fuzzy. Don’t overdo it, of course, but explore the smart fun you can have by breaking some of your own rules and transgressing some of the usual limits.

leo

(July 23-aug. 22): in the course of formulating his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin read many books. He developed a rather ruthless approach to getting what he

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(aug. 23-sept. 22): Here’s a passage from Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations: “it was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Judging from the astrological omens, Virgo, i suspect your life may be like that in the coming days. The emotional tone could be sharply mixed, with high contrasts between vivid sensations. The nature of your opportunities may seem warm and bright one moment, cool and dark the next. if you regard this as interesting rather than difficult, it won’t be a problem, but rather an adventure.

liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): “i worked as a hair stylist in Chicago’s gold Coast for 20 years with some of the most gorgeous women and men in the world,” writes sculptor rich Thomson. “once i asked a photographer who shot for the big magazines how he picked out the very best models from among all these great-looking people. His response: ‘Flaws. our flaws are what make us interesting, special, and exotic. They define us.’” My challenge to you, libra, is to meditate on how your supposed imperfections and oddities are essential to your unique beauty. it’s a perfect moment to celebrate — and make good use of — your idiosyncrasies. scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): The genius of

leonardo da Vinci was in part fueled by his buoyant curiosity. in his work as an artist, musician, inventor, engineer and writer, he drew inspiration from pretty much everything. He’s your role model for the coming week, scorpio. Just assume that you will find useful cues and clues wherever you go. act as if the world is full of teachers who have revelations and guidance specifically meant for you. Here’s some advice from da Vinci himself: “it should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas.”

sagittaRiUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): ready for a reality check? it’s time to assess how well you know the fundamental facts about where you are located. so let me ask you: Do you know which direction north is? Where does the water you drink come from? What phase of the moon is it today? What was the indigenous culture that once lived where you live now? Where is the power plant that generates the electricity you use? Can you name any constellations that are currently in the night sky? What species of trees do you see every day? Use these questions as a starting point as you deepen your connection with your specific neighborhood on planet earth. get yourself grounded! caPRicoRN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There’s a writer i know whose work is brilliant. Her ideas are fascinating. she’s a champion of political issues i hold dear. she’s well read and smarter than me. yet her speech is careless and sloppy. she rambles and interrupts herself. she says “uh,” “you know” and “i mean” so frequently that i find it hard to listen, even when she’s saying things i admire. i considered telling her about this, but decided against it. she’s an acquaintance, not a friend. instead, i resolved to clean up my own speech — to make sure i don’t do anything close to what she does. This is a strategy i suggest for you, Capricorn: identify interesting people who are not fully living up to their potential, and change yourself in the exact ways you wish they would change. aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The german

word Verschlimmbesserung refers to an attempted improvement that actually makes things worse. be on guard against this, aquarius. i fear that as you tinker, you may try too hard. i’m worried you’ll be led astray by neurotic perfectionism. to make sure that your enhancements and enrichments will indeed be successful, keep these guidelines in mind: 1. Think about how to make things work better, not how to make things look better. 2. be humble and relaxed. Don’t worry about saving face, and don’t overwork yourself. 3. Forget about short-term fixes; serve longrange goals.

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