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he debate over the proposed merger of Green Mountain Power and Central Vermont Public Service heated up last week. The Senate questioned the commissioner of the Department of Public Service about the deal, the governor voiced his support for it, and the AARP ramped up an ad campaign opposing its terms. Meanwhile, the Speaker of the House declined to take up the issue for fear of getting in the way of the Vermont Public Service Board, which is expected to rule on the merger this summer.

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Seven Days staff writer Paul Heintz covered the ongoing conversation in a post on Blurt, the Seven Days staff blog. Some quotes from his post:

“It’s ironic to me that [when] we talk about a merger that’s gonna save Vermonters $150 million in 10 years, that we quibble over whether or not we should be putting another $21 million into energy efficiency measures instead of sending out small checks to people we can’t find 12 years later.”

That’s how many “I Am Vermont Strong” license plates have been sold so far, according to the governor’s office. The state aims to sell 50,000 plates, which would raise $1 million for Tropical Storm Irene efforts.

After considering it for weeks, House Speaker Shap Smith finally decided not to join the crowded race for attorney general. More power to him — literally.

“I would say, first of all, that $21 million may not seem like a lot of money to someone who’s very wealthy, but to the average Vermont family, $21 million is not something we ‘quibble’ about.

Twenty-one million is something we should be very concerned about.”

– Rep. Oliver Olsen (R-Jamaica), in response to comments made by Gov. Shumlin.

– Gov. Peter Shumlin, speaking at a clean-energy summit in Burlington.

“It’s a fairly extensive campaign and we’re hearing from a lot of members. We know there’s been a couple hundred calls into [Shumlin’s] office, and this mailer hasn’t even hit yet.”

Turf battles are raging in the House and Senate over proposed electoral district changes. Why do we let the pols — who are totally conflicted — weigh in on this at all?

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Miro Weinberger was the toast of last week’s Burlington Business Association annual dinner. Enjoy it, and remember that “Here Comes the Sun” is a very short song.

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by Andy Bromage. We score President Barack Obama’s Vermont fundraiser speech — ending the Iraq War netted him some points, but rural broadband access received a tepid response.

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Kathryn Flagg could have saved a lot of paper [“Blow Hard,” March 14] simply by describing the repeated pattern of events surrounding ridgeline wind development. Her article could have read: “Corporations want more money and will destroy (‘develop’) nature in order to get it. People who love their homes and nature fight back (without any money) via a regulatory process stacked against them, and lose. The corporations tell lies (‘public relations’) and, with the assistance of the press, marginalize opponents as NIMBYs.” Thanks for perpetuating the problem, Kathryn.

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The nod to Melissa Jenkins came off as a little bit out of place [Facing Facts, March 28]. The catchy heading “Missing Mom” along with the frowny face really trivialized the grief the St. Johnsbury community must be feeling right now.

In my opinion, a dead mother in a local area deserves more than a bright yellow emoticon.

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ETSY OMISSIONS

Initially, I was thrilled and hopeful glimpsing the headline of your article “Etsy Earnings” in the April 4 issue. I have been a buyer on Etsy since January 2010 and opened my vintage clothing shop on February 1 of this year. While I felt the article did a thorough job of covering sellers in different areas of the state, as well as a variety of wares, I would have loved to see mention, in addition, of a few locals who have recently begun their Etsy pursuits. Those profiled have found success, which has taken them time, dedication and trial and error. To be sure, however, the fresh shops in a network as diverse and expansive as Etsy are the businesses that would have exponentially benefited from such exposure.

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[Re Blurt: “Breaking Dad,” March 23]: Did you really intend to describe a kid who chooses to get involved with crystal meth as “exceedingly bright”? Or was that an editing error?

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In last week’s Fair Game, Andy Bromage incorrectly included Katherine Betzer in his examination of state “communications” positions. Betzer serves as information and education specialist at the Agency of Human Resources, where she works on the AmeriCorps program. There is no public-relations component to her job.

homeless person.” There was absolutely no connection to the legislation.

I hope that Ms. Levine didn’t intentionally omit this part of the story to help support the pretense in her column. If this was a simple error, she should do what any self-respecting columnist would do: Correct that part of her column. Like they say in some newspaper rooms, “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!” As in Tucson, the story doesn’t always fit a template.

When you “Hope and Change” the facts, you become the bigot.

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My son and I had digestive and skin symptoms from chloramine for three long years before I figured out it was the chloramine in our tap water making us sick [Re “In Hot Water? Chloramine Controversy Bubbles Up in Grand Isle,” March 28]. We had horrible digestive cramps and red, burning, itchy skin.

We are fine now because we drink and cook with bottled spring water. We had to drastically change the way that we shower.

Grand Isle is very fortunate to learn about the health effects before chloramine goes into [its] water. I wish someone had warned me of the possible skin, digestive and respiratory problems chloramine can cause. michelle Anderson Greer, S.c.

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[Re “Agonizing Over Apple,” March 28]: The tragedy is that Mike Daisey takes away our attention from very real industries in serious need of reform in China: mining, textiles, etc. In comparison to almost any other Chinese company, Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) was a fairly bright place. Not perfect, but very much improving and setting a pace of reform in years rather than decades.

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I read with curiosity in the latest Poli Psy column [March 28] that since I am a Republican, I hate women, sex, and poor and hungry people, and I don’t want women to get health care. All untrue, but what did I expect? I was reading Seven Days.

I read to the end of the column only to find Ms. Levine committing her very own Gabby Gifford’s Tucson Shooting Tragedy moment. She recounted how Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis had “vigorously fought” a bill in the Texas state legislature which would “withhold Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood.” Davis’ offices were later firebombed. Levine’s between-the-lines implication was that it had been done by “some Republican tea-bagger” (a favorite term of hers) in retaliation for Davis’ vote.

I did what any self-respecting columnist should have done herself. I did a little research. I eventually found the entire story online. The firebombing had been committed by a “mentally ill,

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Levine responds: Scott Philip Roeder, who murdered Dr. George Tiller in 2009, had a history of schizophrenia.

He was also a fanatic antiabortion activist. Jared Lee Loughner, who shot Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was also described as mentally ill. The incident occurred right after Sarah Palin included Giffords on her famous “crosshairs” map and tweeted, “Don’t retreat, instead RELOAD.” Violently insane people often act out the ideologies of the political climates.

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30 Made in Vermont

Business: A Church Street craftsman looks to local manufacturing

A Ballet Evokes the Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child Lunafest; John Sayles at WRIF

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In a 1992 review, one critic wrote that David Mamet’s “Oleanna is likely to provoke more arguments than any play this year.” It’s 20 years later and, well, not much has changed.

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A sinking ship hardly seems like something to sing about, but Lyric Theatre Company’s Titanic: The Musical is right on point. Brimming with wit, wonder and, inevitably, tragedy, this sumptuous production doesn’t require red-and-blue glasses for its three-dimensional dramatics. Take that, James Cameron.

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y the time you read this, the Vermont Senate may have passed a resolution calling on Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the democracyeroding effects of Citizens United.

No doubt the Democrat-led House and Democratic Gov. PETER SHUMLIN will endorse the measure, too, sending a clear and powerful message to Washington that Vermont wants corporate money out of politics.

Well, sort of.

The 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United opened the door for corporations, unions and trade groups to spend unlimited sums — but only in support of or in opposition to a candidate, not directly to the individual running for office. Read: super PACs. The local momentum to overturn the ruling comes from Vermonters in 65 towns who voted in huge numbers in favor of a constitutional solution last month. As Sen. ANTHONY POLLINA (P/D-Washington) put it last week: “Vermonters are increasingly angry with 8v#2-obriens041112.indd 1 4/10/12 1:07 PM money in politics and the power of corporations to dictate policy and control our lives.”

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So far, super-PAC politics hasn’t been a factor in Vermont elections. But symbolically, the resolution is a big move. If Congress ever did send the states a constitutional amendment for ratification, a share of the credit would certainly go to Vermont — and to U.S. Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), who is sponsoring such an amendment.

Meanwhile, corporate influence in state elections is alive and well. Vermont still permits corporations and unions to donate directly to candidates — but with limits of $2000 per candidate, per election cycle.

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from corporations and unions. And here’s the rub: He’d request a roll-call vote so senators would have to go on the record for or against. Senate leaders, in turn, have blocked it from coming to the floor. Turns out politicians who raise big chunks of money from special interests don’t want to go there in an election year. Who would have guessed?

Galbraith doesn’t allege a quid pro quo between lawmakers and their corporate sponsors. But taking executive dough does create “the appearance of conflicting loyalties,” he says.

“A corporation isn’t giving money out of the goodness of its heart,” says Galbraith, who spent $45,000 of his own money to get elected in 2010 but took no PAC or business money.

CAMPAIGN FINANCE IS OBVIOUSLY NOT A MUST-PASS BILL FOR THIS LEGISLATURE. PAUL BUR NS

What would Vermont politicians lose by going cold turkey on corporate and union cash? For some pols, quite a lot.

Common Cause Vermont, an advocacy group that supports publicly funded elections, created a searchable database of 2010 campaign filings and found that 11 of the Senate’s 30 members received 40 percent or more of their campaign funds from businesses or political-action committees, which often receive funds from corporations and unions. For some senators, the totals raised were relatively small, while others raised and spent tens of thousands of dollars.

Ranked No. 2 for the percentage of dough from businesses and PACs is Senate President Pro Tem JOHN CAMPBELL (D-Windsor), who has more control over the Senate calendar than anyone. In 2010, Campbell raised 45 percent of his $9850 campaign funds, or $4450, from businesses. Anteing up to the powerful Senate leader were Coca-Cola of North America ($1000); First Wind Energy ($200), the Boston-based company that

built the Sheffield wind farm; Montpelier lobbying firms Downs Rachlin Martin ($400) and Morris & DeMag ($100); and a dozen other in- and out-of-state companies.

Common Cause director WALLY ROBERTS says that begs the question: “In this age of Occupy Wall Street and Citizens United, why would a good Vermont liberal pass up a chance to look good by facilitating the passage of a law that would curb corporate influence in Vermont elections?”

Campbell strenuously objects to the suggestion that he’s influenced by special-interest donors and says that Common Cause is out to get him, noting that Roberts erroneously accused him of failing to file fundraising reports several weeks back.

“It’s clear that these guys are trying to go after me because they see me as the reason why this bill didn’t go forward,” Campbell says, adding that the legislature is busy tackling health care, energy policy and Irene recovery. “If this guy has some evidence that I am somehow giving special treatment to corporations or better access, have him come forward.

Because it’s just not there.”

Campbell adds, “I don’t like asking individuals for money to support my campaigns when I know times are tough.

If I was running for higher office, I guarantee you, I could raise from individuals a hell of a lot more money.”

So what does Campbell think businesses and PACs want — or expect — for their money?

“I would say this is the way things have been done, and they just continue to do it,” he says. “I can give you a list of people who have never donated to my campaign at all who probably have had more access to this office than people who have donated. I’m not going to question the motivations of the corporations.”

Vermont has tried to enact stricter campaign-contribution limits in the past.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the most recent law in 2006, and subsequent attempts to pass a new one have failed. Former Republican governor JIM DOUGLAS twice vetoed campaign-financereform bills passed by Democrat-led legislatures, and each time the House fell a single vote short of overriding it.

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As long as voters can see who’s donating to candidates, she has said, citizens can make up their own minds about whether it presents a conflict. Sen. Ginny Lyons (D-Chittenden), the main mover of the anti-Citizens United resolution, tells Fair Game, “If corporations want to donate, they should be able to donate. I don’t believe we have a lot of authority to do a lot with corporations” in terms of regulation.

Others, such as Pollina, argue that corporate money creates a perception problem that undermines trust in elected officials.

“A lot of citizens believe contributions make a difference,” says Pollina, who took no money from businesses in 2010 and had the highest percentage of individual contributors of any winning senate candidate. “Even the fact that they believe that matters.”

But you have to wonder: If specialinterest money is such a nonfactor, why the resistance to giving it up? When it comes to corporate money in politics, the message from Montpelier to Washington sounds a little like “Do as we say, not as we do.”

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A “death with dignity” bill may have new life in Montpelier. In a surprise move Tuesday, the Senate Health and Welfare Committee found a way to advance right-to-die legislation that had looked to be dead. Using a procedural move, the committee attached a right-to-die provision to a bill regulating tanning salons. The amendment would make it legal for terminally ill Vermonters with fewer than six months to live to request a fatal dose of medication. The measure passed committee by a 3-2 vote.

Whether it survives to get a floor vote — as soon as Thursday — hinges on whether right-to-die is deemed germane to the tanning legislation.

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(D-Colchester) and 12 cosponsors proposed a ban on campaign robo calls. Rep. Chris Pearson (P-Burlington) was lead sponsor of a tripartisan bill that would have forced certain political committees — such as so-called 527 groups — to disclose their largest funders in radio and television advertising. Rep. Jason Lorber (D-Burlington) called for creating a searchable database of campaign donations to replace the paper filing system at the secretary of state’s office.

It appears none will move this year.

On the House side, leaders blame inaction on legislative redistricting, which they say left the House Government Operations Committee too little time to tackle campaign-reform bills.

“Campaign finance is obviously not a must-pass bill for this legislature,” says PauL burns, executive director of Vermont Public Interest Research Group. VPIRG actually supports Galbraith’s corporatecontribution ban, but not at the expense of the entire reform bill, which Burns says would reestablish “common-sense limits” on donations.

State Sen. VinCe iLLuzzi (R-Essex/ Orleans) says Common Cause’s analysis actually understates the issue because it doesn’t count money spent by PACs controlled by House and Senate leaders, which also raise money from businesses and interest groups. For instance, in 2010, the Senate Leadership Committee spent $31,386 on behalf of Democratic senate candidates. Not to be confused with Vermont Senate Victory, a PAC that spent $94,205 on behalf of Democratic hopefuls that year. Both committees listed the same person as the contact — Campbell’s senate aide.

Illuzzi himself ranks No. 3 on the Common Cause list of senators who’ve received the largest percentage of their campaign contributions from businesses and PACs; 51 percent of his $16,268 fundraising total came from those sources.

Illuzzi chalks up that kind of generosity to his post as chairman of the Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs Committee and insists, “It’s not going to influence my vote.”

“I’m pro-business anyway. I always have been,” Illuzzi says, before offering another motivation for his corporate supporters. “Maybe they just like me.”

What impact do corporate contributions have on lawmaking in Montpelier?

It depends on whom you ask.

Sen. Jeanette White (D-Windham), chair of the Government Operations Committee, has maintained that lawmakers don’t vote based on donations.

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ast week’s inauguration of Burlington’s new mayor Miro Weinberger signaled a changing of the guard at city hall. Though it may be months before Weinberger decides which department heads to retain and which to give the heave-ho, it’s clear the mayor is listening to a new crop of advisers.

In place of the old-school Progs and veterans of the city’s social service organizations is a cabal of mostly fortysomething professionals with advanced degrees and young children — many of whom, like Weinberger himself, moved to Burlington a decade or so ago to raise families.

The following is a far-from-comprehensive glance at

those who comprise Weinberger’s “kitchen cabinet” — an informal group of friends and advisers he has leaned on since the start of his campaign, and whose influence will surely be felt in city hall.

Missing are some key campaign hands such as Eric Miller, Jaafar Rizvi and Deb Lichtenfeld; politicians such as Council President Joan Shannon and Councilor Ed Adrian; and recent additions to the family, such as Progressive stalwart George Thabault and former state representative Carina Driscoll.

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Weinberger and Jessica Nordhaus first met while undergraduates at Yale. They worked together in one of the school’s residential colleges for “kind of a wacky woman,” as Nordhaus recalls. “We had a lot of fun. We really felt a kinship early on.”

The two parted ways after Nordhaus graduated — she was a couple of years ahead of Weinberger — and founded Horny Toad Activewear in Telluride, Colo. Five years later, Nordhaus sold the company and returned to her hometown of Albuquerque, N.M., where she wrote grants, taught English and started a family.

Raising three kids motivated Nordhaus and her husband, who grew up on the other side of Lake Champlain, to move to Burlington in 2005. When a new friend, Dawn Moskowitz, mentioned Weinberger’s name, Nordhaus asked herself, How many Miros are out there?

Years after the old friends reconnected, Weinberger talked Nordhaus, 43, into managing his mayoral campaign. Though she’d never worked for a political candidate, “I’d like to think we brought some wisdom and experience to it that is a little unconventional, nontraditional,” Nordhaus says.

She was one of Weinberger’s first mayoral appointments — Nordhaus holds a temporary human resources position for now, but could become part of a revamped mayor’s office.

Says Weinberger, “She knows how to put a team together and manage a group.”

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PAUL SISSON

Prior to Weinberger’s mayoral campaign, Paul Sisson had never volunteered for or donated to a political campaign.

“This was my first. I’d always voted, but I’d been more of a bystander,” he says.

He and the candidate were serving on the board of ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center when Sisson decided Weinberger was right for the job. So he cut two $500 checks, phoned potential supporters and agreed to chair the campaign’s budget team.

A retired senior manager of the accounting firm KPMG, Sisson has worked since 2004 as an independent financial consultant — mostly for subsidiaries of the Montréal-based Gaz Métro energy company. After cochairing Weinberger’s transition team, Sisson was tapped to serve as interim chief administrative officer — a job that entails no less than filling a million-dollar budget gap.

“As an auditor, we’re always looking at other people’s messes,” he jokes.

The 56-year-old native of the Philadelphia suburbs — both sides of his family hail from Vermont, where he moved after high school — first told Weinberger he’d be interested in the CAO position as they walked back to their cars from a meeting the day after the election.

Sisson says his skills complement Weinberger’s, and his apolitical nature is an asset.

“I think this office should be apolitical,” he says. “It’s a central administrative office running a city. We don’t need politics to get into the day-to-day.”

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STACY WEINBERGER

Certainly one of the mayor’s closest advisers is the woman he has been married to for the past 12 years: Stacy Weinberger.

The two met when Weinberger was visiting Washington, D.C., for a friend’s birthday party. Weinberger offered to take the friend’s daughter to school the next day and struck up a conversation with Stacy, a teacher at the school.

These days, Stacy Weinberger juggles three careers: codirector of the Bellwether School in Williston; mother to the Weinbergers’ 6-year-old daughter, Li Lin; and informal adviser to a certain local pol.

“I’m very lucky to be married to a woman who thinks politics are important, thinks public service is important,” Miro says.

Stacy says she serves as a sounding board for her husband, helping him step back from what she calls “the fever of the moment” in order to reflect on the bigger picture. The pace has been grueling at times, but worth it, she says.

“The 24-hour nature and intensity every day of the week was more than I thought it would be, but when we realized that’s what was needed, we adjusted as a family and made that work,” Stacy says. “Now it’s just 22 hours a day.”

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Ian Carleton is the rare Weinberger adviser who himself has held elected office. The 41-year-old attorney at Sheehey Furlong & Behm represented Ward 1 on the Burlington City Council and served as its president from 2004 to 2006. After that, he chaired the Vermont Democratic Party.

“He was one of the first friends I made upon moving to Burlington back in 2002,” Weinberger says of Carleton, who grew up in the Boston area and central Vermont.

Every winter, Weinberger, Carleton, Mike Kanarick and a few fellow fortysomething professionals spend a weekend hiking together in the Adirondacks — sometimes climbing Mount Marcy’s icy, 5344-foot summit.

Asked if it’s just a bunch of dudes drinking beers in the mountains, Carleton says, “It’s a bunch of respectable dudes with a whole bunch of kids together, so we don’t exactly take the risks we used to.”

Carleton was among the first friends Weinberger consulted about running last summer, and he served on the mayor’s transition team. But he expects his role as a mayoral adviser to diminish.

“Miro’s time is pretty precious right now,” he says. “I’m assuming it’s probably as hard to get a second with him now as it will ever be.”

— P.H.

CHUCK LIEF

Cleveland native Chuck Lief has authored cookbooks, opened restaurants — “one crashed and burned,” he says — and hired Weinberger out of graduate school to work at the Greyston Foundation in Yonkers, N.Y. The organization didn’t have an opening for the future mayor, but “I was impressed with his background, impressed with his passion for development work,” says Lief, a 61-year-old grandfather who has also run several companies. “So we kind of created a position to see what kind of fit it would be.”

The two set out on their own in 2002, moving to Vermont and founding the Hartland Group, a real estate development firm.

Weinberger credits Lief with introducing him to members of the many boards on which the elder partner has served, including the Intervale Center and the Vermont Community Loan Fund.

He played the same role during the campaign, hooking Weinberger up “with groups maybe other people weren’t connecting with,” the mayor says.

While Weinberger will retain his ownership stake in the Hartland Group, he is relinquishing most of his day-today responsibilities — and Lief says the company will most likely avoid new projects in Burlington.

“Frankly, we will look at anything else in Burlington really hard because I don’t want there to be a perception there’s any conflict [of interest],” Lief says. “I don’t want to put people in any awkward positions.”

— P.H.

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According to Mike Kanarick, Dawn Moskowitz “is the ultimate connector. She knows everyone.” Jessica Nordhaus puts it this way: “She’s like our Kevin Bacon. She’s the linchpin that brought our whole campaign team together.”

A New Jersey native, Moskowitz first met Weinberger a decade and a half ago when the two worked in the New York nonprofit world. They reconnected after Moskowitz moved to Burlington in 2003. Weinberger recruited her when he was the volunteer coordinator for Sen. Hinda Miller’s unsuccessful mayoral run in 2006.

When Weinberger began gearing up for his own run, Moskowitz recommended several mutual friends for the campaign team — including Nordhaus, who she said would “listen with a different ear than I might” to campaign decisions.

Moskowitz, 42, never held a full-time role on the campaign, nor does she have designs on city hall. Instead, the Voices for Vermont’s Children organizer expects to maintain a behind-the-scenes role advising Weinberger.

“I definitely think he trusts and values my perspective, especially around education issues — and really thinking in new ways about how the schools and city can work together,” she says.

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One of Weinberger’s first mayoral appointments was Mike Kanarick. Once a ubiquitous presence on the campaign trail, the New Jersey native is now the mayor’s assistant in city hall.

Kanarick, 43, brings “deep political experience” to the job, according to his new boss, though little of it was gained in Vermont. He rose through the political ranks in the Garden State and then Alabama, where he and his wife, Liz, moved after they both graduated from law school.

Kanarick wound up serving as chief spokesman to Alabama governor Don Siegelman, who was later convicted of corruption for events that took place in the governor’s office prior to Kanarick’s arrival. The case is currently on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court; Siegelman’s supporters say he was the victim of politically motivated meddling in the Justice Department by members of George W. Bush’s administration.

After leaving the governor’s office, Kanarick and his wife hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, raising $42,000 for a children’s organization and earning him the trail name “Moo” for his eating abilities.

“We were looking for one final pre-kids hurrah,” he says of his 2100-mile hike. Now they’ve got 7-year-old twins and a toddler.

Kanarick was executive director of an Alabama synagogue before he moved to Burlington in 2007 for the same position at Ohavi Zedek. In 2009, he became president of Jvillage Network, a Queen City company that builds websites for synagogues.

“These three career experiences — law, politics and the synagogue world — really prepared me well in terms of communication skills, negotiation skills and relationship skills,” he says.

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Along with Paul Sisson, Democratic Party up-and-comer Andrew Savage was co-chair of Weinberger’s transition team. An East Calais native who lives in Burlington, Savage was tapped to help find qualified candidates to serve in the new mayor’s cabinet.

Savage, 30, already has an established political resume and a Rolodex that should make that job easier.

He was Peter Welch’s aide in the Vermont Senate, then served as communications director and legislative director when Welch was elected to Congress. During the 2008 election, he took time off from Welch’s office to help out the Obama campaign in Utah and West Virginia.

Now employed at AllEarth Renewables, Savage says he had planned to sit out the four-way primary for mayor to “see what transpired.” But after a call from Weinberger seeking his support and advice, Savage jumped on board.

“I wrote him a note four hours later, sent him a small check and one thing led to another,” Savage says. “I found his explanation for why he was running very compelling.”

Weinberger heaps credit on Savage for having an “enormous” impact on the campaign. “All those press conferences pushing ideas out there, pushing plans out there, would not have happened without Andrew,” the mayor says.

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nurses, investigated 53 allegations of drug diversion by nurses. Of those, it disciplined 20, and criminally prosecuted 10. Thirty-two allegations of nurse drug diversion were unsubstantiated.

In the same year, the Vermont Board of Medical Practice, which regulates doctors, publicly listed 11 “board actions” against licensed physicians for a variety of alleged offenses, including unprofessional conduct, improper prescribing practices, patient abandonment and nonpayment of state taxes. Of those, only one doctor had his license revoked; another, who’d removed the wrong ovary

registered nurse put it, “With nurses, it’s not three strikes and you’re out... I think there’s a monetary component to it. Nurses don’t bring in revenue. Doctors do.”

Says another, “Nurses are a dime a dozen.”

But are drug-abusing nurses actually punished more harshly than drugabusing physicians — by their employers, their respective licensing boards and the criminal justice system?

“It’s a fair question, but it’s also tough to measure,” says Cindy Maguire, criminal division chief in the attorney

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ast January, the Vermont Board of Medical Practice disciplined Dr. Anne Johnston for illegally prescribing painkillers to feed her own drug habit. According to court records, the Fletcher Allen Health Care physician admitted that between April 2009 and March 2010 she wrote — and filled — prescriptions for nonexistent patients.

But Attorney General Bill Sorrell didn’t bring charges against her. In a press release, he said he made his “closecall decision” in part because Johnston had already referred herself to a substance-abuse treatment program specifically designed for medical professionals.

Sorrell also factored in her “specialized skill as a neonatologist — she is one of only five in the state — and her important contribution to the work at the neonatal unit at Fletcher Allen.”

Another mitigating factor, Sorrell added, was a meeting he had with Fletcher Allen staff, “each of whom stressed their strong support for Dr. Johnston.” Ultimately, she was allowed to continue practicing medicine under a “conditioned” license, which prohibits her from prescribing controlled substances.

This wasn’t Johnston’s first offense.

In 1998, she was similarly disciplined for illegally obtaining narcotics for personal use. That time, Johnston also avoided criminal prosecution.

Johnston’s story is striking, not just for its sad irony — her medical expertise is in treating opiate-dependent babies born to addicted mothers — but also because it differs markedly from other drug-diversion cases handled by the attorney general’s office in recent years, particularly those involving nurses. Since late 2006, the AG’s office has made a point of issuing press releases whenever it convicts a nurse of diverting or abusing prescription opiates. None received the same leniency as Johnston.

No local nurses were willing to speak on the record for this story. Privately, however, several observe that when members of their profession are accused of diverting drugs, they’re rarely afforded a second, or third, chance. Anecdotally, they report that nurses seem more likely to be fired, have their licenses suspended or revoked, and face criminal prosecution, even for a first offense.

In 2011, Vermont’s Office of Professional Regulation, which licenses

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In 2011, Vermont’s Office of Professional Regulation, which licenses nurses, investigated 53 allegations of drug diversion by nurses. Of those,

it disciplined 20, and criminally prosecuted 10. from a patient, retired from medicine.

The rest were either cleared by the board or allowed to continue practicing with conditional licenses. (The board does not reveal how many total investigations it conducted.)

Brooks McArthur, a Burlington attorney, says that at any given time he represents “from five to two dozen” Vermont nurses accused of drug diversion. He says it can take as long as two years to resolve such complaints before the nursing board. During that time, he adds, most nurses are not allowed to continue practicing in a health care setting.

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general’s office. According to Maguire, there are legitimate reasons why it may seem that more nurses than doctors get caught — and when they do, why they seem to face stiffer penalties.

To begin with, there are many more nurses than doctors in Vermont — about 16,800 RNs, 500 advanced-practice RNs, 2400 licensed practical nurses and 4700 licensed nursing assistants, compared to only 2000 regularly practicing physicians.

Another critical component in evaluating the criminal potential of a case, Maguire continues, is whether a patient was directly harmed by the illicit

behavior. It’s relatively easy for doctors to obtain prescription drugs because they have their own script-writing pads.

When nurses develop problems with opiates, it’s more common for them to steal drugs intended for patients.

That makes it easier for nurses to get caught. They’re typically the ones administering narcotics to patients, and thus are subject to a range of human and electronic monitoring, including drug-scanning procedures, audits and software that seek out aberrant behavior.

Consider the case of Susan Pierce, a registered nurse who was convicted in May 2003 of elder abuse and diverting drugs for her personal use. Pierce was caught stealing from the morphine pump of a dying patient.

“They were right there in my face,” Pierce said in a 2006 film about drug diversion in Vermont. “The temptation was too great.”

Pierce’s story was one of several in a documentary produced by the attorney general’s office, titled Drug Diversion in Vermont: When Healing Hands Harm.

The film was part of an aggressive campaign, launched in 2006 by the AG’s Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit, to crack down on prescription drug abuse and diversion in Vermont’s health care industry.

That was also the year that prescription opiates overtook heroin as the number-one reason Vermonters sought addiction treatment in state-funded programs. By 2008, Vermont had the second highest per-capita rate of admissions for prescription opiate addiction of any state.

Since then, Phil Ciotti has had his hands full. A state law enforcement officer with the Board of Medical Practice, Ciotti is one of only two investigators in the state charged with looking into complaints of professional misconduct by doctors.

Ciotti can’t say precisely how many of his cases in recent years have involved opiate diversion, as those cases fall under the larger umbrella of “prescribing issues,” which also includes complaints of under-prescribing. Still, he says, “I seem to be spending a lot of time on drug cases these days.” In fact, the last three public actions he handled all involved inappropriate prescribing practices by docs. Only one ended in a revoked license.

Ciotti says he exonerates far more physicians than he prosecutes, “but

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Are those societal values changing, at least in Vermont?

Burlington attorney McArthur thinks so. He says he’s observed a changing attitude by the nursing board toward nurses with addiction issues.

“Within the last couple of years they’ve been very willing to look at the mitigating factors and judge each nurse that’s diverting based on the totality of the circumstances,” he says. “Is this a first offense? Do they have a problem? Are they addressing the problem?”

That said, McArthur says it’s still an uphill — and costly — battle for nurses to regain their jobs and professional reputations, especially for those who are wrongly accused. Simply put, when pill counts come up short, nurses are often presumed guilty until they can prove themselves innocent.

Winters says he’s witnessed a number of success stories, especially among nurses for whom keeping their licenses was a major incentive for seeking addiction treatment.

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every profession has its share of people who get addicted to substances, and our profession certainly isn’t immune to it.”

Ciotti can’t say whether the system is more lenient with physicians than nurses, as he doesn’t investigate nurses.

The Board of Nursing is part of the secretary of state’s office, whereas the Board of Medical Practice is part of the Department of Health.

Conversely, Jeanine Carr, who chairs the state Board of Nursing, says she can’t make a fair comparison either because her board doesn’t deal with physicians.

Chris Winters, director of the office of professional regulation, which licenses nurses as well as a variety of other Vermont professionals, suggests that nurses and physicians with drug problems are treated equally.

Referring to the Board of Medical Practice, he says, “I think we share that philosophy of trying to preserve the practitioner as long as they can continue to get treatment and practice safely.”

Winters says his office is less likely to pursue criminal charges if a nurse comes forward to seek help and patients weren’t involved. In those cases, his office prefers to get nurses into treatment and bring them back to work under a conditional license with supervision.

Nationally, doctors and nurses fall victim to substance abuse problems at roughly the same rates as the general population, though nurses appear more likely to abuse opiates than other substances.

Karen McBride, Fletcher Allen’s director of pharmacy services, explains that the profile of the chemically dependent nurse is “not what you would expect.” According to medical literature on the subject, she says, they tend to have stressful jobs, are high academic achievers and have an average of 11 to 17 years of service before the onset of their addiction.

“These [nurses] tend to be very demanding of themselves, self-critical, and also tend to ignore tension and depression in their own lives,” says McBride.

“And that’s what ends them up on this path.”

McBride points out that Fletcher Allen isn’t just monitoring nurses, but anyone in the hospital who handles controlled substances, including pharmacists and anesthesiologists. Of the latter, she notes, about a dozen anesthesiologists die each year across the country from overdoses of Fentanyl, a powerful opiate. “So it’s not just a nursing issue.”

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s the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, MARION HECHT has always known that sometimes the most frightening things are those that go unsaid.

Hecht’s Hungarian mother and Czech father rarely talked about World War II when she was growing up. Their silence haunted Hecht, who as a child knew enough about the Holocaust to imagine the worst. “Nothing that happened to me could ever be as bad as what they didn’t talk about,” she says. “I remember coming to terms with having to ask my mother if she ever killed anybody.”

As an adult, Hecht, a former board member of the JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE, became active in the

international community for the children of Holocaust survivors known as the “Second Generation.” It was increasingly important to her to keep the conversation about the Holocaust alive — and not just within the Jewish community.

That’s why last year she approached the GREATER STOWE INTERFAITH COALITION about including a Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust remembrance day, in its programming. This year’s event at the AKELEY MEMORIAL BUILDING features the New England Dance Ensemble’s original ballet A Child’s View of the Holocaust.

Barbara Mullen, artistic director of the New Hampshire-based ensemble and owner of Londonderry Dance

Academy, choreographed the work in 1990 at the suggestion of a local rabbi. Her dancers have performed it on tour every year since. Hundreds of audiences around the country have seen the show, which last year won Keene State College’s Charles Hildebrandt Holocaust Studies Award.

In creating the work, Mullen saw an opportunity to teach the lessons of the Holocaust. “History keeps repeating

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itself,” she says. “We still haven’t got the message yet.”

Born in Wales in 1945, Mullen has vivid memories of the aftermath of World War II. Food was still rationed, and she played hide-and-seek in air-raid shelters. “I had friends whose fathers

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ere’s a girls’ night out idea that beats catching the latest romantic comedy: Each year, Luna — yes, maker of the energy bar — presents a traveling festival of short films by and about women. At each stop, 15 percent of the proceeds go to the Breast Cancer Fund, 85 percent to a local nonprofit.

In Burlington this Friday, the lucky presenter of the showcase is Vermont Works for Women, whose mission involves training girls and women for trades. After a reception with finger food, music and raffles, attendees will see nine shorts from around the world, exploring femininity from various angles. On the grim side, there’s former supermodel Christy Turlington Burns’ documentary exposé “Every Mother Counts: Obstetric Fistula.”

Other film subjects — some truth,

some fiction — include an aging life model, a transgendered kid, a women’s rugby team, “Missed Connections” on Craigslist, and Iranian women navigating their culture’s gender roles.

VWW is also screening excerpts from a Vermont film, Mother Nature’s Child, which documents efforts around the country to get kids away from screens and back in the great outdoors. You can meet director CAMILLA ROCKWELL at the reception.

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f you came of age in the 1960s, you may remember Return of the Secaucus 7 (1979), a drama about a weekend reunion of former firebrands that prefigured The Big Chill. Its director, John Sayles, would go on to make many more progressively inflected films; his latest is Amigo, a historical drama about American imperialism in the Philippines.

On Friday, April 27, Sayles and his producer-partner, Maggie Renzi, will present Amigo in person at WHITE RIVER INDIE FILMS, an annual fest that lasts just one weekend. On Saturday, at MAIN STREET MUSEUM, the director — also a prolific screenwriter — will read from his latest novel, A Moment in the Sun. How did a small fest bag such a big guest? Sayles is “an old friend of one of our board members,” WRIF board member JOHN GRIESEMER told Seven Days back in January. Also on the schedule are films with local links, including DAN BUTLER’s “Pearl”; Hanover native John Daschbach’s Brief Reunion, filmed in Lyme, N.H.; and a preview of NORA JACOBSON’s collaborative documentary Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie.

WRIF has a new main venue this year — the TUPELO MUSIC HALL — and a new season.

Scheduled for June in previous years, so as not to conflict with performances of NORTHERN STAGE at the BRIGGS OPERA HOUSE, the fest can now take advantage of mud season — in Griesemer’s words, “much better movie-going weather.”

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In the surreal Canadian comedy of that name from Corey Adams and Alex Craig, it’s a monster conglomerate attempting to buy the soul of a talented teenage skater boy. BURLINGTON CITY ARTS presents a screening of the hard-tofind film this Friday at Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas to benefit redevelopment of the Burlington Skatepark.

ERIC FORD of BCA calls Machotaildrop a “brilliantly weird” film that he’s been “working for two years to bring ... to a theater.” Afterward, bring your board to Maglianero for deejayed indoor skating — helmets required!

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maybe only had one eye, or they shook because they had been near a bomb,” she says.

With A Child’s View, Mullen brings that era back to life onstage.

But how do you dance about the Holocaust? It’s more of a “silent dramatization” than a traditional ballet, Mullen explains. “There’s no vocalization, just beautiful movement,” she says.

every year at their ability to embody the soldiers. “Their stone-face expressions are so chilling,” she says. “They’re doing this with their friends that they have lunch with at school, and yet they’re willing to throw them into the gas chambers.”

It’s heavy stuff for kids, to be sure.

The show even includes a rape scene — soldiers do handstands over a writhing

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“What draws you into it are the expressions on the [dancers’] faces.”

In gesture and movement, the dancers, whose ages range from 7 to 18, enact a book burning and a Gestapo roundup.

They board a train to a concentration camp and enter the gas chambers.

For the youngest dancers, this is the first they’ve heard of the Holocaust.

“They are so wide-eyed, they just cannot believe that something like this would happen,” says Mullen. She has found herself explaining to them why someone would want to burn a book.

She makes comparisons kids can understand, such as calling Hitler “a bully.”

The older, taller dancers play the Gestapo. Mullen says she’s amazed

woman. Mullen says it’s subtle enough that young children don’t understand what’s going on.

The music is classical and contemporary — the show ends with Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” — and candles are the only props. Dancers use their bodies to create set pieces. “The soldiers make themselves into the train,” says Mullen.

“The people are on the train, gently moving from side to side.”

After more than two decades touring the performance, Mullen still cries every time she sees it.

“It’s amazing because, as a teacher and choreographer, I’ve changed so much in 20 years,” she says. “I’ve never changed this ballet. Not a step.”

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On May 1, Bolton cartoonist ALISON BECHDEL — creator of “Dykes to Watch Out For” — will release her long-awaited follow-up to the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home. Meanwhile, be on the alert this month for a fullscale profile of Bechdel in the New Yorker. The much-honored artist/writer also just received a lifetime achievement award from the Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing.

Bechdel’s new memoir is called Are You My Mother?,, like the classic kids picture book — but the resemblance ends there. Check out next week’s Seven Days to learn more.

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They live and breathe on “perfect is the enemy of the good” and take our time and attention away from [such disasters as] Indonesian coral-reef mining. There are a lot of really interesting people who have spent years in China and Africa who are much more deserving of Seven Days’ attention than Mike Daisey. And some of them are actually people of color who keep their facts straight.

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Revealing picture of Peter “the Porcupine” Galbraith, the smug grin of the ultrarich oil-ligarch he is, to lead off Seven Days’ interest piece titled “The Rogue Diplomat” [March 28].

Porcupine refers to the name of the Delaware-based holding company that Peter and his son Andrew set up to funnel the sweet oil deal Galbraith just happened to extract out of the Kurds. A few quills might do Montpelier some good, but Galbraith would perhaps do better as a rogue state senator in Delaware, where Peter Galbraith those extracted profits are laundered.

“Rogue Diplomat” comes close in that Galbraith’s push to turn Iraq into a tripartite state would have represented the greater destruction of the nation state of Iraq in favor of racist sectarian tribal autonomy that would only benefit those who carry out imperialists’ foreign policy directives along the British model of divide and conquer that Porcupine Galbraith represents.

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Thanks so much for the article “Spin Doctors” by Kathryn Flagg in the March 21 edition of Seven Days. It is refreshing to have the “spin doctors” shown for what they are and what they are trying to do. If anyone wants to understand what they are propagating, try going through the American, and Vermont’s, health care system like I once was obliged to do. I nearly succumbed to the experience. Like Mr. Potter going to Wise County, Va., to watch people being treated in animal stalls, this was my “epiphany.”

I was, however, miffed at one point in the article: the quote “we’re lab rats,” by Darcie Johnston. While I do not object to Johnston expressing her opinions in 3V-OGE041112.indd 1

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the article, just ending the story as “lab rats” was not an accurate description of our move toward reform. Vermont is no more experimental than the rest of the industrialized world, which already has these types of health care systems in place and, while not perfect, a record behind them to prove their worth. In fact, the first publicly funded health care system was established in 19th-century Germany by the Prussian autocrat and dictator Otto von Bismarck — hardly a liberal or a socialist.

What is so revolutionary and unique about Vermont, and thus more threatening to the spin doctors, is that we possess the courage to carry through our much-needed reform.

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For months, I have been organizing with my community members as part of Occupy Burlington. My weeks are filled with new people, difficult discussions and planning, planning, planning. Since October, I have bounded back and forth from ecstatic joy to heartbreaking disappointment, as is the case, I believe, with all struggles. The reason lies in this movement’s commitment to inclusivity and consensus.

It is because of this delicate and revolutionary way of making decisions that Kevin J. Kelley’s recent article falls so very short of the mark [“Occupy Burlington Considers Its Next Moves ... and a Presidential Protest,” March 28]. Kelley called this beautiful thing I have worked so hard on in the last six months “protracted haggling.” It’s obvious there is little understanding of our process. Remember that it is easier to judge someone when there has been no effort made to understand them.

For months, I have fought to clarify my actions to the community at large, and it has been hard. Kelley never announced his presence or his intentions when he showed up to our meeting.

One has to think that politicians and celebrities are given due notice in these situations. Unless, of course, Kelley is attempting to scratch up an unjust scandal. I hope there is at least an attempt at understanding what we are doing, so then the public can make their own judgments free from this bias through ignorance.

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a particular focus on Dadaism and these valises? That’s been the subject Surrealism; he has authored an award- of much discussion, points out the winning book on Duchamp. So you be- Hood’s essay announcing the acquisilieve it when he says of tion. “One hypothesis is that Duchamp was this “Boîte”: “I’ve been a Duchamp scholar for humorously commenting on his meager ar20 years, and this is the best one I’ve ever seen.” tistic output,” it reads.

“Unlike Pablo Picasso Taylor notes that and Henri Matisse, who all 300 valises are still extant, to scholars’ created a prodigious number of works of art, knowledge; though some are in private Duchamp had deliberately limited his artistic hands, most are in museums. “For an edition production.”

Taylor adds: “What of that size, you’d think he argued is that he they would be ubiquitous, but they’re not,” didn’t want to repeat himself, and claimed he says. that even great artists The Hood’s valise is only have four or five on view through August good ideas.”

26, after which it will M i c hae l R. Tayl or be put away until a Possibly the “Boîte” allowed Duchamp to display with softer and less damaging illumination can be cre- do something with his earlier work ated as part of an upcoming museum in a new way, posits Taylor, who pronounces the work “brilliant.” expansion.

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n the eyes of a Homeland Security agent today, a faux-leather suitcase packed with curious things might be an object of suspicion.

For Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), it was simply art. And it was a “portable museum” — à la traveling salesman — in which he could carry his life’s work.

Duchamp, who enjoyed challenging the conventions of the art world, made his first “Boîte-en-valise,” or “Box in a Valise,” in 1941. In it were miniature replicas, photographs and color reproductions of 80 of his works, including the once-scandalous urinal, titled “Fountain” (1917). The Frenchman, a hugely influential artist of the 20th century, spent years creating some 300 iterations of “Boîte-en-valise.”

The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has just acquired one of them.

Museum director Michael R. Taylor could not be more pleased. At the helm since last August, he came to the Hood from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which houses an enormous Duchamp collection. Taylor’s expertise is in modern and contemporary art, with

Duchamp’s “self-deprecating joke” allowed him “to proudly claim that his oeuvre was so small that he could fit it in a small suitcase.” The miniaturization of his works was consistent with Duchamp’s belief that no piece of art was sacred, and that “the idea behind an art object was more important than the object itself.”

That sensibility, and his use of replication and appropriation, set the artistic stage for future generations of artists.

“The Flux people loved the Box,” says Taylor, referring to a DIY, anticommercial movement in the 1960s. He points out that the Hood owns a “very large collection of Fluxus,” including so-called Fluxkits. These are boxes containing, for example, printed cards, games, ideas and miscellany. Speaking of boxes, it’s worth noting that one of Duchamp’s assistants for creating his “Boîte” editions was Joseph Cornell, now considered a pioneer of assemblage.

The Hood’s valise joins a previous Duchamp acquisition: an edition of “The White Box,” which “is filled with notes related to ‘The Large Glass,’ a painting [aka ‘The Bride Stripped Bare

by Her Bachelors, Even’] about nine feet tall, in Philadelphia,” says Taylor. In a collection of 70,000 items, Duchamp’s contributions are sure to stand out — even in miniature. m

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Dear cecil, on my drive into work today, the first workday back since the Daylight Saving time spring forward, I noticed a stark increase in roadkill, specifically raccoons. Has anyone else noticed this? my theory is, it has to do with more drivers on the street before sunrise because of the hour shift.

— matthew Bates, chicago

astronomer George Vernon Hudson came up with a more practical solution: changing the clocks. In the U.S., DST was first tried as a nationwide wartime conservation measure in 1918, then again in 1942 and finally became the norm in 1966. Subsequent congressional tinkering ultimately produced our current system of starting on the second Sunday in March and ending on the first Sunday in November.

Many animals are either nocturnal or crepuscular (i.e., active at twilight — and trust me, your date will be impressed when you work that word into

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a sentence). So it’s conceivable that an abrupt shift in traffic volume at dusk and dawn could affect the frequency of autoanimal encounters. A study of more than 21,000 crashes between car and deer (mostly moose and white-tails) in Finland found a very high peak in such accidents from 30 to 120 minutes after sunset, with a much smaller peak about half an hour before sunrise.

We also know that the times of year we time-shift for DST — spring and fall — align to an extent with roadkill peaks for some animals. For example, deer typically have two peak roadkill periods. One is in May and June, which I grant you is quite a bit after the DST shift.

But the other is in October and

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heel of Fortune” and “semiscientific” aren’t expressions you expect to see in the same sentence. However, I assume what you’re getting at is whether I win spousal arguments admitting of factual resolution. All I can say is: You’ve obviously never been married, sport.

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here are indications — but so far no proof — that the Daylight Saving Time (DST) change imperils the gentle creatures of the woodland. But some say Bambi, Thumper and Rocky aren’t the real concern.

The mammal more clearly in danger of getting turned into roadkill is you.

DST began as a joke. In a satirical piece published anonymously in 1784, Benjamin Franklin, then living in Paris, claimed to have recently discovered that the sun begins shining early each morning — roughly six hours, in fact, before he typically got out of bed. He then calculated the vast savings on candles that would accrue to his fellow Parisians if they all got up at sunrise, and proposed to encourage this practice by, among other things, firing off cannons at dawn.

Ever the cutup, that Ben. In 1895 the pioneering New Zealand naturalist and

early November, right around the change, and is much larger than the spring peak.

Coincidence? Hard to say.

Despite several large-scale multistate investigations, there’s no smoking gun tying DST to more (or fewer) animals killed on the roads.

DST’s effect on humans has been more carefully scrutinized, and a few researchers claim to have found evidence that the time change can be dangerous. The loss of an hour of sleep time in the spring is thought, not unreasonably, to be especially rough, leading to more accidents on the road and in the workplace. Conversely, some hypothesize that an extra hour of sleep in the fall should translate into a reduction in accidents.

You can find research supporting this premise. For example, a Canadian study of nearly 22,000 auto accidents around DST change days claimed that accidents increased by 8 percent immediately after the spring forward and decreased by 7 percent immediately after the fall backward. But that study looked at just two years.

A skeptic examining ten years’ worth of data from the same source found no important difference.

From what I can see, that’s the general rule with timechange research. For every study claiming to show DST kills, you can come up with another saying it’s harmless — in my book a pretty good indication the apparent patterns in the data are just a fluke.

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left to curb. The reason is simple: “It is dangerous to drive on the wrong side of the road to park against the flow of traffic,” he says.

Winooski City Councilor Sarah Robinson adds, “If you are parked in the wrong direction, it can be harder for approaching vehicles to see a parked car at night, since the rear reflectors aren’t visible.”

Burlington doesn’t have a local ordinance permitting left to curb, any more than Winooski does. So why doesn’t the larger sister city ticket for the offense?

In a summary of a survey on the issue she conducted earlier this year, former city councilor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak wrote, “While this practice is technically not allowed under Vermont law, the Burlington Police Department clearly has larger issues to prioritize in terms of other public safety issues.”

That’s not to say enforcement is unheard of in Burlington. “I know people who have gotten tickets in Burlington for left side to curb,” says Winooski City Manager Katherine Decarreau, or

“Deac,” as most people know her. But, she notes, Burlington tends to enforce the issue by complaint.

Deac, who has managed the city since 2009, isn’t sure when or why that parking-code enforcement became a higher priority for Winooski. She suspects that downtown redevelopment made it imperative for the city to keep parking spaces open for restaurant and shop patrons.

But Deac, who admits she has paid a ticket for left to curb herself, notes a simpler motive for enforcing the law — and her reasoning makes me feel guiltier about my parking experiment than a ticket ever could.

“Kids play in the streets in Winooski a lot,” she says. “So when you have people just sort of driving around and pulling into the other side of the street, which you’re not expecting, it can be really unsafe.” m Outraged, or merely curious, about something? send your burning question to wtf@sevendaysvt.com.

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hen I moved to Winooski last year, one of the first things my new neighbors warned me about was parking against the flow of traffic. It’s illegal in Winooski, they said, and you may get ticketed for it.

I had never given much thought to parking “left to curb,” as the cops call it, but, like most things parking-ticket related, this seemed, well, unfair. After all, people park that way in Burlington all the time. The cars along my daily commute to the South End are often parked nose to nose and rear to rear. So why does parking left to curb warrant a ticket in the Onion City?

Seven Days publisher Paula Routly was once stopped by a police officer for crossing the center line on North Street to drop off a fellow Seven Dayzer at her home. (She didn’t get a ticket, just a stern warning.) Could the city really be so

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strict about left to curb?

This column gave me an excuse to find out just how easy it is to get a ticket in this town. Turns out, harder than you’d think. With apologies to the Winooski Police Department, I spent a good deal of time last week parking against the flow of traffic — to no avail.

I left my car facing backward outside the Woolen Mill on West Canal Street while I hit the elliptical machine and sweated it out in the sauna. I parked the wrong way on Maple Street across from my house for a day, then moved the car onto nearby Weaver Street, left wheels to the curb. I left it there overnight — still no ticket.

One thing became clear immediately: Parking against the flow of traffic is kind of a bad idea. It’s hard to see if there are cars coming at you when you pull in and out, and maneuvering a parallel-parking job on the opposite side is disorienting.

Plus, crossing that center line just feels wrong.

It’s nice to know Winooski denizens look out for one another, though. On several occasions, people shouted to me from across the street, “They’ll ticket you for that here!” But they never did.

Technically, parking left to curb is illegal throughout Vermont. The state law reads, “Except as otherwise provided by local ordinance, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or, if there is no curb, within 12 inches of the edge of the roadway.”

The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles’ license manual has a simpler way of putting it: “Don’t cross the center line to park.”

Enforcement of that rule is nothing new in Winooski. Police Chief Steve McQueen has been with the city for 28 years and says he has always enforced

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VERMONTERS ON THE JOB

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ean Szilva has a seemingly gruesome job: teaching gross anatomy. But she loves it. The 61-year-old former family practitioner commutes on foot from Winooski to the University of Vermont, where, with three fellow instructors and a group of cadavers, she shows medical and physical-therapy students the nuts and bolts of the human body. She’s won many teaching awards for her innovative approach; among her hallmark techniques are videos, costumes and even dancing. Seven Days met with Szilva in her office to pick her brain.

handheld camera and me standing on the cadaver table. The students could go in there, throw the video in and watch me go through it. It was wonderful stuff.

The other thing I’d do with the undergrads was I’d have “Anatomy Week in Review.” On Friday afternoons I would get in a large classroom, and for two hours they could pepper me with questions. It was outrageously fun.

[With videos alone] you can learn the names of things and you can kind of picture where they are. But if you want your health care provider to have eyes on the ends of their fingers, they better have been there.

SD: How do you help students navigate the emotional experience?

JS: In our experience, there’ll be a group of [students] who are feeling really excited: Let me at it. We want [them] to remember that this is somebody’s daddy, grandmother, sister. And then there’ll be some who go, “I don’t know if I can do this,” and we say, “Yes, you can. This is what this person wanted you to do.” You’re only supposed to do this if you really, truly believe that there’s

something more to be gained, and we’re doing it in a very respectful manner. It’s the only way that I can do it.

We are so profoundly grateful to the people who donate their [bodies], and to their families, because if the families object, it’s not happening. When I donate, it’s gonna be a chance to teach one more class, because the cadavers really are the teachers. m

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SD: Do you still use those unorthodox teaching techniques?

JS: Yes. For more than 10 years now, I’ve been teaching medical students and physical-therapy students gross anatSEVEN DAYS: Can you tell me a little omy and neural science. Medical stuabout how you went from family dents sit an ungodly amount of time in practice to what you’re lecture; their brains just get doing now? filled to exploding. So about Name JEAN SZILVA: I guess every 15 minutes I try to do Jean Szilva [family practice] just got something ridiculous, like to be too much. You were dress up as a pirate [laughs].

Town starting to get much Or we’ll break into dance. more paperwork, the exFor the physical-therapy Burlington plosion of different prostudents, I’ve dressed up as Job viders, [and] you felt like a brain stem. Humor makes you were coping more people remember better.

Gross Anatomy with people’s access to SD: How does anatomy Professor health care than giving lab work, exactly? health care. I just got disJS: We either assist [stuenchanted with the practice of medicine. dents] with the dissection or we’ll go So I goofed around and did some other around and say, “OK, now that you’ve weird things. I did a little carpentry; I found it, talk to me about it. What’s it did a little financial advising. Champlain do? Why does it do that? What’s gonna College was advertising for a biology happen if it busts?” And it’s way fun, beinstructor [and I taught there]. I [also] cause you don’t know what you’re gonna taught some for Community College of find at each table. You have some people, Vermont, which was extremely reward- you walk up to that table and they’re ing. At least half of my students were dissecting better than I could. And some women who had started families very people, it looks like they dissected with early and now wanted a good job, and an egg beater. Some people aren’t meant so they’re going back to school and they to be surgeons. And that’s OK. had a lot of fears. It was a wonderful population to work with, because they SD: What do you love most about really had many, many more talents and your job? skills than they gave themselves credit JS: I love most when somebody doesn’t understand, and all of a sudden they go, for.

[Later] I started teaching this under- “Oh!” I live for that sound. I get such a graduate course at [UVM] in anatomy dopamine rush [laughs]. and physiology for nurses, dental hy- SD: What do you say to the folks gienists and all other kinds of allied who argue that cadavers should be health people. The anatomy lab involved phased out in favor of online video one cadaver for 200 students, and we dissections? made this work. I would videotape JS: Well, that would be cheaper, and my presentation. It would involve a that’s why schools are going that way.

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Mark Utter (in front) with Paul Schnabel, who will be playing Mark in the movie

Photos: Matthew Thorsen

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ark Utter sits at a computer keyboard with a broad, toothy grin, his eyes closed and head cocked slightly, as though he were listening to a muse whispering in his ear. After a long pause, he opens his eyes and, with slow, deliberate movements, pecks at the keys with a single, outstretched finger.

“I am really,” he types, misspelling and deleting the word “really” several times before getting it right, “happy to meet you.” His greeting is addressed to me, a visiting reporter.

It takes Utter nearly five minutes to type those seven words. Still, he presses on undeterred. His smile never fades, and occasionally he even chuckles or squeaks gleefully, despite his obvious difficulty in getting his hand to obey his will.

Utter can speak a few words but communicates much more effectively, and eloquently, using this alternative method known as facilitated communication — FC for short. Utter’s facilitator, Emily Anderson, sits patiently by his side, gently touching his elbow and occasionally offering him verbal encouragement.

Anderson is director of creative performance and cultural access at VSA Vermont, a nonprofit arts and educational organization for Vermonters with disabilities. For the last seven years, she’s been meeting with Utter about once a week for several hours of FC dialogue at her office in Winooski’s Woolen Mill.

Formally trained in FC, Anderson explains that she’s not directing Utter’s arm movements but simply “grounding” him.

What does it do for him when Anderson touches his elbow?

“It focuses my energy,” he types, slowly and rhythmically.

Mentally or physically?

“Both.”

For the next 90 minutes, we engage in more typed, slow-motion conversation (see sidebar). Though Utter hears and understands every word others say, Anderson still types her side of the conversation. She does this in part to maintain a record of their discussions.

Anderson’s typing serves another function: It puts her and Utter on equal footing. And equality is a rare commodity in a world that often doesn’t acknowledge the intelligence, or worth, of individuals who cannot communicate by the usual means.

In clinical terms, Utter, 47, would probably be diagnosed today as autistic, though neither Anderson nor Sheryl Vuley, Utter’s sister and legal coguardian, can say for sure what his original diagnosis as a child was. Many children born in the 1960s with similar neurological conditions were labeled mentally retarded. But anyone who reads Utter’s words today can recognize his keen intelligence and creativity, which for years remained hidden.

Indeed, Utter and Anderson’s recent weekly FC session isn’t just idle chitchat.

They’re discussing details of a 25-minute film that Utter wrote called “I Am in Here: A View of My Daily Life With Good Suggestions for Improvement From My Intelligent Mind.”

The screenplay, which took Utter more than five years to compose, explores what it’s like to be him on a typical day. Utter didn’t just write the script. He’s also doing much of its animation and will play himself — or one aspect of himself — when filming starts this summer. Assuming, that is, he and Anderson can pull together the $50,000 needed to bring Utter’s vision to the screen.

Raising such a large sum is daunting, but Utter’s project has garnered the interest and support of a variety of people in Vermont’s creative and business communities. Thus far, he’s received technical or financial help or both from, among others, actors Rusty DeWees and Paul Schnabel, documentary filmmaker Bess O’Brien of Kingdom County Productions, designer and builder Russ Bennett of NorthLand Design & Construction, and filmmaker

and educator Mary Arbuckle of Burlington College’s film department.

Lisa Schamberg, a retired Burlington High School teacher, and her husband, Pat Robins, who chairs the board of SymQuest, also agreed to make a significant financial contribution to “get the ball rolling.”

As Schamberg explains, “For somebody who’s not able to communicate in the traditional ways we’re used to, to be able to communicate that ... there is somebody in there — and a thoughtful and articulate person — it just felt important enough to us that we wanted to support it.”

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hy are so many people rallying to support Utter’s project?

“He’s a very charming man,” says Joyce Watts, Utter’s full-time assistant from the HowardCenter. She has worked with him for 13 years. “I just think so many people have been touched by him,” Watts continues. “He’s so optimistic and enthusiastic.

I’ve never seen him not enthusiastic.”

Asked if she can describe Utter’s mental capability, which remained largely

unknown until he started doing FC about 15 years ago, Watts says, “I have no way to measure that. I just know that, in some ways, he’s probably smarter than I am.”

On a recent weekday morning, Watts and I are seated in the lobby of the Palace 9 Cinemas in South Burlington, watching director Jim Heltz prepare to shoot a scene for the upcoming trailer for “I Am in Here.” Heltz, an award-winning filmmaker and co-owner of Green Mountain Video in Williston, has agreed to work on this project as his seventh collaboration with VSA Vermont’s Awareness Theater Company.

The trailer will be used in part to help raise funds for the film itself.

In this scene, Utter and his friend, played by 24-year-old Nicole Villemaire, approach the theater cashier to buy tickets for a movie. As Villemaire struggles to pronounce the film’s title, a group of teenagers behind them start snickering.

“No retards can see that movie. It’s, like, R rated!” whines a pretty but nasty “Bossy Kid,” played by 16-year-old Kayleigh

Saunders of South Burlington. The other teenagers laugh and point.

“Cut!” yells Heltz, then emerges from behind the camera and approaches the actors. “That was good, but Mark, you’re looking into the camera. And when Kayleigh starts talking, you need to turn around and look at her. Understand?”

Utter smiles and nods vigorously, his silent movements reminiscent of Harpo Marx.

Heltz tries a second take, but this time Villemaire flubs her line. On the third take, and five or six subsequent ones, Utter either forgets to turn around on cue or hops absurdly, like a bunny.

“Cut!” the director yells again, doing his best to conceal his evident frustration.

“Mark? I know you wrote the script, but you can’t act.”

All the actors laugh, including Utter, who seems unfazed by the plodding rate of progress.

Finally, after more than 15 takes, Utterly Mark

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An Interview With Mark Utter via Facilitated Communication SEVEN DAYS: Do you remember the first time you realized you wanted to express yourself but couldn’t?

MARK UTTER: I remember knowing I could think in a way that the people in my life assumed I could not.

SD: What are you like in your dreams?

MU: I can talk with everyone but I don’t use spoken words and they don’t either.

SD: What’s your favorite place to be?

MU: Currently it’s right next to Emily because there I have developed the voice I need to address the people who are working on this project with us.

SD: When you first started facilitated communication, what was the first thing you wanted to say, and to whom?

MU: I wanted to tell my story so I guess I was waiting for Emily to be ready to have another FC friendship.

SD: Have you ever been in love?

MU: Yes, I love life and feel there is much room for people to expand to allow it to fill the holes in their hearts.

EMILY ANDERSON: Do you think you will ever be in a relationship?

SD: If you could accomplish one thing by the end of your life that would make you feel happy, what would it be?

MU: I want to make sure that Emily is celebrated for believing in people who are different. I also hope that the barriers between people melt. I will assist that big goal with world tours of [this] movie and talks about communication.

SD: Anything else you want to say that I didn’t ask about?

MU: Folks, we need money to make this possible; please attend our fundraisers or donate to our Kickstarter campaign.

Emily Anderson and Mark Utter

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SD: What’s your favorite activity when you have nothing else to do?

MU: I like to wander around in my mind which is quite an elaborate place.

SD: You seem like such a happy person all the time, despite your disability. How do you stay so upbeat?

MU: First, I don’t think of myself as disabled, which gives me a stronger foundation than those who have fallen into that trap. I am happy because, like Abraham Lincoln, I know “You are only as happy as you allow yourself to be.”

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SD: Were you ever institutionalized or sent away from home?

MU: No, I have always lived with my mother who has been treating me like a little boy all these years.

I love her dearly.

EA: Is that OK? MU: Yes, my life was meant for other pursuits.

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SD: When you were growing up, how were you treated by your peers and classmates?

MU: I was treated with respect by the others who were different.

People who were normal were always happy with my outward presentation of jolliness.

SD: Do you typically remember your dreams at night?

MU: Yes.

MU: No.

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SD: What was that like?

MU: It was weird. They insisted I was stupid. It also gave me some freedom from normal life that many of you jabberers would have loved.

SD: Once you began FC, was your family surprised by all that was going on inside your head?

MU: I think it is hard for people to adjust their ways of thinking toward the ones in their care.

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He yells, “Cut! Print!”

Afterward, I ask Saunders, who’s as sweet in real life as she is insensitive in Utter’s screenplay, why she volunteered for this movie.

“It’s really moving, and it’s a different story than you normally hear,” she says.

Usually, Saunders says, the “mean kids” realize by the end of the story that they’re mean and make amends. “This is much more realistic.”

The cast and crew set up the next shot, in which Saunders’ character is confronted by “Exact Mark,” or Utter’s inner voice, played by Schnabel. As Utter describes Exact Mark in a voice-over, “He represents my mind, which does not get out much.”

Why did Schnabel agree to play Mark in the trailer?

“There’s so much merit there.

It’s so artistic,” Schnabel says of the screenplay. “And it’s this incredible opportunity for people to be let into this world that they know nothing about — or at least I knew nothing about.”

Pascal Cheng, the education and communication specialist at the HowardCenter who travels with Bissonnette and Thresher in the film. Before Anderson began working with Utter seven years ago, she worked with Bissonnette using FC. Controversy has shrouded this revolutionary mode of communication for years. On October 19, 1993, the PBS investigative series “Frontline” aired a story called “Prisoners of Silence,” which raised doubts about FC’s validity. Among other concerns, the exposé highlighted allegations of sexual abuse made by autistic people against their caregivers, most of which were later disproved.

Today, Cheng doesn’t dismiss the controversy surrounding FC, but he downplays its importance. A number of people who use this method of communication, he explains, were previously labeled as having significant mental disabilities and presumed to have no capacity whatso-

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tter’s project is reminiscent of another film about Vermonters with autism: the 2011 documentary Wretches & Jabberers, by Oscarnominated director Gerardine Wurzburg. In the title, “wretches” refers to people with limited speech, while “jabberers” refers to those who can speak freely. The movie follows Larry Bissonnette of Milton and Tracy Thresher of Barre as they visit Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. Along the way, they meet other individuals on the autism spectrum who communicate via FC. The film, which is alternately uplifting and heartbreaking, explores a common theme among autistics: how they lived for decades in silent desperation and loneliness until FC freed them from what one calls autism’s “death grip on our actions.”

Wretches includes a scene where Thresher meets with then-state-senator Phil Scott about proposed budget cuts to programs for Vermonters with disabilities.

After Thresher hits an emotional wall, as he struggles physically and mentally to engage with Scott, he says, via FC, “Yes, this is a great conversation, so try to ignore the man behind the curtain.”

Wretches & Jabberers had a profound impact on Utter, whose own life has many parallels to those of the men in the film.

Like Bissonnette, Utter learned FC from

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ever for sophisticated language, literacy or thought. As a result, skeptics often charged that the facilitator was directing the autistic’s arm movements, albeit subconsciously.

“The question was, who was doing the communicating?” Cheng explains.

“In our society, if you’re someone who doesn’t talk, there are a lot of assumptions about your intellectual capability.” Or lack thereof.

People with communication disabilities, such as Utter, want the same things as everyone else, Cheng continues, even when the obstacles to achieving them are weighty.

“The kind of life they want is no different than you or I [want]. The path they might take might be a little different,” he says. “As Larry Bissonnette says, ‘I’m more like you than not.’”

For Utter, a seminal moment of his life came in October 2010, when he and Anderson attended an international conference at the Hilton Hotel in Burlington that focused on expanding the potential of people with communicative disabilities.

The Making Communication Happen Worldwide conference kicked off with a premiere of Wretches & Jabberers.

Following that were several panel discussions, during which attendees from around the world communicated via FC. Large screens displayed their comments as they “spoke” to one another and the audience.

As Anderson recalls, the experience seemed to change Utter, who was on one of the panels.

“That just put so much wind into [Mark’s] sails,” Anderson remembers. “He used to look up to Larry and put him on a pedestal as so eloquent and so much bigger than him. And now he felt like a colleague.”

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than her brother, sits at the kitchen table while he stays quietly on the living-room couch watching television.

Vuley, who has helped care for Utter since she was a child, talks adoringly about her older brother and his weekly activities: Special Olympics, bowling, basketball practice, horseback riding, swimming. “Swimming!” Utter chimes in from the other room at the mention of the last pastime.

Utter received special education at Champlain Elementary School and, later, at Essex High School, from which he graduated in 1986 at age 21. Though Vuley and her mom taught Utter to read, it’s a bit of a mystery how he completed his education, as it would be another decade before anyone could communicate with him effectively using FC. Utter now works two days a week in the kitchen at Champlain College as a dishwasher. Vuley proudly shows off a certificate of appreciation he received recently from Sodexo for not missing a single day of work in 15 years.

Vuley and her mother are the only two members of the family who use FC with

Utter, though they don’t do so regularly.

How did Vuley communicate with her brother when they were kids?

“Sometimes it was hard to understand him because of his speech and everything,” Vuley says, “but as we grew up, it was much easier to understand Mark.”

According to Anderson, Utter acquired what little spoken language he has from his sister, who often read books aloud to him. His mother watched a lot of TV and classic movies, which Utter soaked up.

In fact, Anderson remembers an occasion when Utter was composing a scene from an earlier version of his screenplay.

Anderson immediately recognized the speech and called him out for plagiarizing another writer. It was Shakespeare.

Vuley expresses unqualified love for her brother and seems to dote on him — lately, she’s put in countless hours organizing a Calcutta-style fundraiser for his movie. Her protectiveness is strongly evident, too.

For example, Vuley points out that Utter can shower, shave, eat breakfast and make himself lunch. However, the family never lets him use the stove or walk the streets of Colchester by himself. As she puts it, “He’s never been exposed to stuff like that.

“You can ask him a question, and he’ll answer it,” Vuley adds. “Sometimes I wonder if he really understands it.”

If Utter is bitter that people underestimate his potential, including some who’ve known him for years, he doesn’t let it show.

“I have always lived with my mother who has been treating me like a little boy all these years,” he writes. “I love her dearly.”

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of children diagnosed with autism rose 78 percent in the last decade, with one in every 88 kids now believed to fall somewhere on the autism spectrum. While the underlying causes are unknown, one fact seems clear: We need to come to grips with accommodating the needs of people like Utter.

“Not so long ago,” he wrote recently in an FC conversation with Anderson, “people thought the most advanced way to deal with the dreadfully strange members of our society was to put them away. Now that Vermont has closed its institution, society is still adjusting to these wretches returning. The task at hand is for everyone to embrace our different ways of being human.” m

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he story of textile and clothing manufacturing in Vermont is, by many accounts, a downbeat affair: In a state where riverside mills once churned busily, and where an abundance of work drew immigrants from neighboring Québec, much has changed. Factories have shut down.

“Stitching” operations closed shop.

Instead of workers coming to Vermont, the state’s work headed overseas.

“You get lean and mean, and you just work doubly hard,” says Stacy Manosh, the fourth-generation owner of Johnson Woolen Mills.

Joel Howard, the owner of St. J’s Stitching in St. Johnsbury, puts it this way: “It’s a pretty sad state of affairs.”

Enter Matt Renna, a Burlington designer and craftsman who, if he has his way, intends to inject some new life into the Vermont manufacturing scene.

Yes, Renna says, clothing manufacturing in Vermont took a significant hit after its heyday. Then again, he was surprised to discover just how many small factories were still tucked away in the Green Mountain State, and he’s optimistic about their outlook.

“I think for anybody who’s managed to survive until now, it’s going to be better moving forward,” Renna says.

“It’s just a matter of figuring out how to operate. It’s not like it was before, but if they’re willing to adapt … you can definitely do it.”

And Renna means to assist: He’s looking to St. J’s Stitching to help him roll out the utilitarian-chic apparel and accessories line he’s now peddling at Queen City Dry Goods, his Burlington workshop and retail location.

Renna is 39 years old, with a mop of dark, curly hair. On an afternoon in his workshop, perched in a secondstory space above Church Street, he’s wearing a prototype denim work vest he hopes to develop for his new company.

The pockets are filled with pens and pencils and a handy pair of heavy shears.

His dogs, Otis and Rosie — “my retail assistants,” Renna calls them — collapse languidly on the ground beneath one of his six sewing machines.

The designer has occupied this space for more than a decade, long before Queen City Dry Goods debuted in August. In fact, Renna goes back about 15 years in Burlington, where he landed shortly after attending college in Madison, Wis. First he crafted custom shoes, a trade he taught himself (with a little help and advice from experts along the way) in the Champlain Leather workshop on Cherry Street.

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Then, six years later, he struck up a partnership with New Hampshirebased Appalachian Stitching Company, a manufacturer of leather goods that was looking for an in-house designer. The company primarily makes products on contract for other brands or companies, but with Renna it launched an eponymous line of footwear that he sold from his Church Street workshop. Renna specialized in product development — taking a two-dimensional design on paper and translating the concept into a 3-D prototype the factory could then replicate. He hopes to continue that kind of work as a consultant for people who have an idea for a product but may not know how to execute and manufacture it.

Last May, Renna struck out on his own, having decided to pour his energy and designs into his own company. The name — Queen City Dry Goods — is a nod both to its place of origin and to an old-fashioned kind of commerce.

“It just fits with the vibe that I’m going for,” Renna says. “It’s very

contemporary, but it looks to the way things used to be made, and the quality and the utility and just the feel of classic American materials.”

He hung out his shingle quietly last August, and expects to host his official launch in the coming weeks.

Renna produces many of his products on a limited scale in house — 15 new aprons for American Flatbread, for instance, or a small run of waxedcanvas bags — and eventually he’d like to scale up his production facility in Burlington. But he knew he’d need to enlist outside help if he wanted to grow the business quickly. He didn’t want to ship his work overseas, where language barriers and distance make overseeing production all but impossible. Even domestic production as far away as Los Angeles would have brought its own set of complications.

That’s why Renna landed at St. J’s Stitching, where, on a recent day, stitchers Fatima Mosher and Diane Desilets are piecing together the signature item in Renna’s new line: a

waxed-canvas men’s motorcycle-style jacket, utilitarian but with an urban edge.

The custom cut-and-sew factory — which produces everything from dog collars and leashes to fire-retardant garments for firefighters — has seen better days. It’s now housed in an old, run-down building on the outskirts of St. Johnsbury that used to be a mechanic’s garage.

When the company arrived, “the inside was in even worse shape than the outside,” owner Howard says, “and you’ve seen the outside.”

Sure enough, the building looks all but uninhabitable from the muddy parking lot, but Howard has made improvements within. Now bright lights illuminate the main production room, where about a half-dozen employees are busy at work on sewing machines.

The move occurred when the company downsized from a 14,000-square-foot facility where, as recently as 2008, Howard employed 80 people. Rent went up, contracts dried

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up, and the economy took a tumble. for pennies,” Manosh says. She says When a big contract did come along, that, whenever possible, she buys raw Howard had trouble scaling up quickly materials that are made in America — to get the work done. “Home stitching” or, better yet, in New England. It’s a experience, as Howard calls it, helps priority for the company, even if it costs a little when it comes to training new more in the long run. employees, but industrial sewing is still “I just need a whole bunch of a different ball game, and it can take customers that feel that way, too,” about three months for a new employee Manosh says. to get up to speed.

There is a good-news story here, But St. J’s is holding on. The company even if it’s a small-scale one: Howard now employs about a dozen workers. has some customers who have brought Supervisor Cindy Smith their business back bounces between the from overseas, having sewing room, where she grown frustrated with assists a stitcher who the quality or process has a question, and the of manufacturing so far makeshift “warehouse,” away. For other small which is really just a producers, the logistics of few towering industrial manufacturing overseas shelves stacked high with don’t make sense in boxes. the first place. Fuel is “We all wear different expensive, language hats now,” Howard says. barriers complicate “There was a time when communication, and, we didn’t, but when we’re when an order arrives in small like this, you’ve got the U.S., what you see is to do everything.” often what you get.

Howard has worked Renna, for one, likes in the garment industry knowing that he can jump in Vermont for more than in his car and, an hour and four decades. Initially a half later, see for himself a machinist, he got his what St. J’s is stitching up. start repairing sewing He’s got big plans for J oEl HowArD machines. Soon he was Queen City Dry Goods. managing 600 of Eventually he’d them. Of the seven like to roll out a sewing factories footwear line. In where he worked the near future, he’ll in Bennington, he add more clothing says, “one by one, to his shop, such as out of business they button-down shirts went.” But Howard and some women’s wasn’t giving up apparel. on the industry; he So far, though started St. J’s about Renna’s done no five years ago. advertising and “I enjoy making keeps only a sparse products that … blog, he’s been we can be proud pleased by the of,” Howard says. reception his new “You take the raw work has found. He material, like a roll thinks the business of fabric, and within is emerging at the a couple of hours you’ve got something right time, when the consumer zeitgeist that people need.” is primed for handmade or locally made Still, he says there’s no point in products that are durable, authentic and competing with overseas markets, crafted with care. which have gobbled up most of the “In general, people are really out of manufacturing that used to take place in touch with how their things are made, the United States. Manosh, of Johnson because it’s made overseas,” Renna says.

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ame as novels and movies, poems have plots: Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl again. But now and then, we need a new plot, and in Sydney Lea’s ninth collection of poems, we get a good one. Nearly every poem in Young of the Year has the same story line: Man meets old age. Man is momentarily horrified.

Man blesses the world.

Sydney Lea is Vermont’s recently named poet laureate. His collection shows impeccable timing, now that baby boomers are finally mature enough to start feeling their mortality. Lea, who will turn 70 later this year, forces himself to look ahead without flinching.

In “Stump’s Hernia,” he describes the apparently pitiable life, with decrepit truck and rudely prominent abdominal hernia, of his garbage man, wondering how such a person can still be happy.

“We need to account for the man without some rhapsody / on the Happy Poor, which we know would be wrong.” And yet Stump is happy. He grins; his ruptured belly dances; he does a difficult job without complaint. He seems to love his life, and Lea makes us glad of it.

“Rodney Fallen” gives a glimpse of another hired hand. An old man delivering firewood slips on the ice, clunks his head and lies still as the poet looks on in shock. Is he dead? But “Then the blue eyes blinked, he looked at me and smiled

…So if when you talk of the young you grow lyric, you’ve never known a child or never been one. It takes a lifetime, it seems, to have a heart, to make certain things add up.

And add them up he does. In “Another Breakup,” the poet, in a Chinese restaurant, rehashes his failed relationships with women, searching for redemption among the bitter ruins.

“He wants a hopeful metaphor / like some gorgeous thing burst out / of a springtime chrysalis.” On cue, redemption arrives, on a little plate along with the check. “Cracking the cookie’s carapace, he unfolds and reads the fortune: / A man should turn to serener thoughts at the end of a muddy season.”

A small hare’s stride displays itself in snowdust up on this knob that we call The Lookout. Young of the year.

I whisper the term our old folks use to name a prior spring’s wild things — or the year itself, young year.

New grandfather now, have I a right to the phrase? I speak it no matter.

To me its assonance appeals; its heft of optimism and forward-looking correct a mood. It’s a counter-cry to my vain appeals to some power unseen that it remake me into a youthful man, that it change this world. I scrutinize a certain mountain’s western flank, ravines turned to fat white rivers in winter. I likewise scrutinize me in relation to mountain. I used to charge her up and down in a slim few hours. Today I wonder if I’ll climb there again, my strength and stamina less than once they were. What isn’t? The mountain. The mountain’s a wonder.

With inner eyes I see its trees, knee-high, at 4,000 feet.

Above them I step onto aprons of stone at her summit. I’d never have dreamed how much I’d love it, knowing that child. In youth the thought would have turned me to stone.

On The Lookout’s granite, a wisp — unidentifiable, blooded — of fur.

So many hundreds and thousands of victims in a cruel season. Behind the mountain an airplane roaring to put me in mind of bombers searching out victims, yet in time it may even be that I’ll prefer to see her from here, not here from her. I mean the mountain.

Wonders never cease, it’s rightly said.

The inner eyes go back and forth from baby to mountain, where even now in January the hardwoods’ fraught tight buds display their purple, enduring signal of spring. Which will come. Which has never failed to come.

Already the girl and I have developed private signals: I can waggle my tongue before her, or flutter my fingers, and make her smile.

I can lie back humming in uncanny peace, child on my chest, and I can remember how I held her father. But I think I hold her better. Peace: perhaps it’s for this one exchanges his further dreams. And perhaps I know what’s worth the knowing here on earth, among its weather-decked hills, its beasts and birds in their ceaseless cycles, migrations. Of course the glorious earth will take me back, of course the young-year hare give profligate birth.

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I’m saying they, You’ll understand, as I try to skate over shame It seems to have taken me all those years to name.

Again and again, the laureate smacks up against human loss and regret; instinctively he looks to nature for healing, not limiting himself to smelling the pretty flowers. “Manure: An Address on Older Age” was inspired by nature’s excremental bounty, starting with a vision of the Four Brothers Islands in Lake Champlain, a boyhood haunt now encrusted in cormorant guano. The poem ends with a bang, as the poet, annoyed by a flock of Canada geese fouling the shores of his pond, fires a shotgun over their heads to scare them away. Even as he banishes them, he relishes their glory:

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ick Norcross leans back in his office chair, arms crossed over his generous belly. His eyes twinkle as he surveys the array of music memorabilia and Vermont ephemera filling the Burlington waterfront apartment he’s called home for 26 years. “Man, I’m going out of here feet first. Can you imagine?” he says with a chuckle.

You certainly can’t imagine having to cart all this stuff — this history — out

of here. Norcross, 67, a singer-guitarist and leader of the Western swing band Rick & the Ramblers, has been collecting for decades. Many, though not all, of his finds are music related — including a 1957 Flxible Starliner, which has been his band’s tour bus for some dozen years.

Normally parked outside on Battery Street, it’s currently in the shop for repairs. More on that later.

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Columbia Records gave to country and rockabilly singer Johnny Horton in the 1950s. Each award — a golden guitar relief mounted on a dark, wooden plaque with a little gold record in place of the instrument’s sound hole — commemorates 250,000 sales of Horton’s hit singles “Sink the Bismarck” and “North To Alaska.”

Norcross pushes himself up out of his chair and walks across the room to point out another of Horton’s awards, the gold record that was presented to the singer on the stage of the country-music show “Louisiana Hayride.” It acknowledged 2 million sales of Horton’s 1959 single “The Battle of New Orleans.”

Norcross says he bought it on eBay for $100. “It shoulda been in the Hall of Fame, for sure,” he adds.

Instead, Norcross explains, the award ended up in a small-time country-music museum in Many, La., along with many of Horton’s possessions. After Norcross purchased it, the museum’s owner offered him the rest of his Horton stash.

He was ready to get out of the business.

So what does a one-of-a-kind collection of country-music history cost?

About $700.

Norcross easily turns a conversation into a tour of his apartment, and he’s a gregarious guide. Nearby are several framed promotional posters for movies starring country singer and actor Gene Autry.

Each of the posters promoted an Autry flick featuring a singer and actress named Mary Lee. She was Norcross’ mother’s best friend when their families lived next door to each other at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester during the 1940s.

Just past the posters is a Southwestern-style carpet that belonged to the ex-wife of country-music legend Hank Williams. Norcross owns two of her carpets. Not surprisingly, there’s a side story about how they were chosen by Burlington resident Maggie Sherman’s father, who was once Mrs. Williams’ decorator.

In the aptly named Steamer Room is Williams’ other carpet, a vintage woodframe bed and a cache of memorabilia related to the famous Vermont steamship the Ticonderoga, which Norcross calls the Ti. Over his bed hangs a wooden model of the ship. Nearby is a photo of its final voyage on Lake Champlain in 1954. Norcross and his parents were all

part of the crowd on deck, looking out at the photographer on shore.

Then Norcross drops this detail: He acquired his knack for collecting — and possibly storytelling — during the time he lived with his mother in the Shelburne Museum.

From many men, this flurry of dropped names and incredible stories accompanying the display of a lifetime’s worth of collectibles could come off as boasting. But Norcross, with his white handlebar mustache and Northeast Kingdom accent, makes every tale of connection to the talented and famous feel as honest and natural as mud season.

There’s an earnestness to him, and a genuine reverence for history.

The wonderment is contagious — just ask Stephen Russell Payne. A physician and instructor at the University of Vermont Medical School, he’s also a fic-

Norcross makes every tale of connection to the talented and famous feel

as honest and natural as mud season. tion and nonfiction writer and is working on a biography of Norcross. “I’ve written a lot of nonfiction, and this is by far the most fascinating person I’ve ever met,” Payne says during a later conversation. He says he’s spent “hundreds of hours” with his subject to research the book. “Rick is just an iconic Northeast Kingdom-ite who really went out in the world and brought the best of the world back with him.”

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orcross left the Kingdom after he graduated from Hardwick Academy in 1963. He was a folk singer back then, and in 1965, after a few years of college in Florida, he ended up working the folk circuit in England — around the same time as “some guy named Paul Simon.”

As Norcross remembers well, that was the year Bob Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival. Suddenly, folk wasn’t so cool anymore.

Norcross returned to Florida and college, and by 1969 he was a music writer and photographer for the Tampa Bay Times. For the next five years, he covered every major rock-and-roll act, from Elvis Presley to Dylan to Led Zeppelin to Janis Joplin. Norcross still has “thousands of negatives” in his collection, he says; dozens of his black-andwhite prints of rock legends plaster the entryway to his apartment.

After Norcross left the Times, he spent the next 20 years as a professional songwriter, musician and entrepreneur, splitting his time between Vermont summers and Florida winters. Along the way, he created the Green Mountain Chew Chew Food and Music Festival in Burlington. By 1994, the business was such a success that Norcross became a full-time Vemonter for the first time in three decades.

The bus was pimped out decades ago with such kingly customizations as two zones for heat and air conditioning, a hot shower, a galley kitchen and bar, and a 10kW generator that powers the Ramblers at outdoor gigs during the summers. But Vermont winters have taken their toll.

“I got to the point last summer where I was just sick looking at it,” Norcross says. “The body’s going to hell.”

The cost of repairs is beyond what he can handle, so he’s started a fundraising campaign on his website and through a mailing to friends and fans. This homegrown version of Kickstarter is called “Preserve the Pickle.”

The goal is to get the bus back in fighting shape and on the road this summer for Norcross’ 50th anniversary in the music business. So far, the campaign is going better than expected.

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Though he’s only halfway toward the $15,000 goal, Norcross believes he may be able to show off a renovated Pickle within a few months.

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“There’s only a few of these Flxible Starliners left in the world,” Payne observes. “They didn’t make very many …

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After a couple of rainy, debt-inducing summers, the Chew Chew came to an end in 2009. These days, Norcross mainly plays gigs with his Ramblers.

Each summer, he partners with local corporate sponsors and takes the band on a tour of Vermont state parks and festivals. The sponsors cover costs so that anyone can come out to listen and dance, even if they can’t pay for a ticket.

This year, things are a little different: Norcross’ beloved tour bus — the crown jewel of his collection — has fallen on hard times. Known to Ramblers fans as the Pickle, the green-and-white Flxible Starliner is a now-rare model of touring bus that was once the choice coach of legendary musicians such as Buck Owens, B.B. King and Merle Haggard.

Norcross purchased his Starliner in 1998 for $13,000, and it has served as a trusty transport for him and the Ramblers — until now.

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never downed a pint inside the Thrush Tavern, the well-worn pub a block from the Statehouse in Montpelier, but I’ve heard it was long a smoky, dark epicenter of legislative banter. After the Thrush closed in 2008, those who mourned its passing would have to wait four years for something to take its place.

Athene Cua first noticed the space was for rent last fall when she was walking down State Street with her daughter.

A geologist by training, Cua had been a full-time mom for eight years but never let go of her dream to own a restaurant.

The idea had germinated while she worked in a Montpelier frame shop, but she put it on the back burner when she became pregnant with the first of her two children.

When she checked out the weathered brick structure that once housed the Thrush, Cua’s dream was rekindled.

She eventually leased the space and put in motion her plans for a casual, kidfriendly eatery. Then she found chef Jon Beresford, who had just returned to Vermont from cheffing in Idaho and Utah. “He kind of fell in my lap,” says Cua. She was thrilled that Beresford was willing to take on more than chef duties — he is also a woodworker — to help with renovations at 107 State Street.

Together they painted the rooms in jewel tones and added maps and artdeco travel posters to the walls. The pair installed an open kitchen overlooking one of the two dining rooms and fit a compact bar into the other. Meanwhile, Beresford planned a menu of eclectic comfort food. On March 9, Clean Slate Café officially opened its doors, its name reflecting Cua’s new career tack and the reborn space.

The name may suggest a spare aesthetic — the resto’s logo features an empty whiteboard — but that’s misleading. Clean Slate’s space is richly hued, and the menu is just as kaleidoscopic, featuring vivid samples of Indian, Mexican, Scandinavian and Cajun cuisine. The service is ambitious, too; Clean Slate offers meals from morning to night.

Cua plans to add a late-night menu soon.

I hope the crew doesn’t burn out,

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because there’s a lot to love about Clean Slate, despite a few early misfires. The prices are easy to take — a hulking pot pie goes for about $7; a pint of Fiddlehead is $5 — and much of the fare overdelivers.

The warm waitstaff and colored walls lend the place good juju. I’m puzzled it wasn’t busier during my three visits; I don’t think I spied a single legislator, though it may have been my timing.

Clean Slate hits its stride at breakfast time, when the gold-painted main dining room is awash in light and the excellent coffee flows copiously (a waitress tops it off as soon as the meniscus hits mid-mug). The morning menu is varied, with traditional plates of bacon and eggs ($5.99) offered alongside fruit-filled crêpes ($5.99) and potato pancakes with smoked salmon ($8.99).

The last dish features generous curls of fish draped across a delicate, gently fried potato mash, sprinkled with salty capers and minced red onion. Loading each bite with dill-accented cream cheese, as I did, made for sharp, cooling and creamy mouthfuls. It was breakfast bliss.

Another standout of the opposite character — sweet — was impossible to resist: banana-bread French toast, served with a wobbly mound of maple custard ($6.99). The six pieces of sweet, nutty bread were only lightly battered before being fried, and the velvety maple custard was sumptuous. It combined the butter and syrup I would normally slather on French toast, sexing up each bite with drippy maple curds.

At lunchtime, volume rules. Each day at Clean Slate brings a new soup, quiche and pot pie. On the day I visited, the pot pie ($6.99) contained lamb curry. Large enough to fill a broad pasta bowl, it was topped with an exuberantly flaky puff pastry. One bite sufficed to reveal that someone in the kitchen loves heat: The sauce that drenched the moist lamb would probably challenge some sensitive Vermont palates. The generous side salad could have been a main course; its super-fresh baby greens were kissed with a delicious, well-balanced cider vinaigrette.

If the Thrush was known for its burgers, Clean Slate ups the ante in

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Farther south, in Woodstock, residents can look forward to a pizza revolution of their own. staCEy vElarDI, owner of the DaIly GrInD CaFé, will open PI BrICk ovEn trattorIa as soon as Memorial Day.

menu, as will an arugulatopped pizza. Good raw materials are essential to a great pie, and Velardi plans to use imported San Marzano tomatoes in her sauce, as well as house-grated, longaged cheeses. The giant brick oven arrived last week via crane through the restaurant’s picture window.

Already the owner of a bakery, Velardi never has desserts far from her mind.

Pi will feature homemade gelato, as well as “Italian pastries and other delicacies,” says the owner. All without a trip to New Haven.

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happy. It’s expanding into the space next door, where the owners will open a restaurant within a few months.

The 30-seat dining room, in the space recently vacated

by Miller Sports, will be connected to the bar by a pair of doorways. But it will feel distinctly different from the taproom, according to co-owner sCott kErnEr. New wood floors and a modern industrial vibe are likely.

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He can spread out and have more creative freedom.”

The chef is excited, too.

“It’s exactly what I’ve always wanted,” says Bilodeau, who for two years has created his imaginative plates using only an induction burner, a panini press, a toaster oven and a Crock-Pot. Though the menu is still nascent, Kerner says he is “stoked” about it, adding that the extra space will allow Three Penny to host more pairing dinners and other beer-related events.

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On the beverage side, the tap number will stay steady at 24, but the owners will expand their bottle list to include some of the Japanese Restaurant “bigger bottles” they had before last year’s devastating 112 Lake Street spring flood. (The extra Burlington space has another benefit in flood-prone Montpelier: Now Three Penny staff will be able to pull some of their from 11 am mechanical systems out of the basement.)

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“We’re shooting for a thin-crust Napoletana pizza,” says Velardi. Her greatest inspirations, she notes, are the brick-oven pies at Sally’s Apizza and Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Ct. Velardi says white-clam pies like those served in New Haven are sure to grace the

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The wait is over for food in the Plainfield space once home to the legendary River Run. Shuttered since last April, the spot is jumping once again thanks to some familiar faces. PosItIvE PIE owner Carlo rovEtto, whose restaurant has long occupied half of the building, has expanded it to fill the remainder. The new, double-size eatery opened on Saturday night as PosItIvE PIE taP & GrIll. The original Positive Pie space remains relatively unchanged and will now operate primarily as an express take-out counter. The big attractions are reserved for the other side, says general manager Max BIrnBauM. The dine-in area includes a full bar with 20 rotating craft beers on tap. The opening roster included traPP GolDEn HEllEs laGEr, trout rIvEr BrEwInG’s Boneyard Barley Wine and two different beers from HIll FarMstEaD BrEwEry. Also on tap are rookIE’s root BEEr and aqua vItEa kombucha. A creative cocktail list will debut by next week.

Along with the space, the menu has expanded from the pizza-and-wings selection of old. Now the focus is squarely on handcrafted dishes made from Vermont products. Diners can start with a plate of slow-roasted roots, including beets, baby carrots and fennel, paired with vErMont ButtEr & CHEEsE CrEaMEry chèvre, mint and olive-oregano vinaigrette.

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embodied in the warming, fragrant red-curry clam chowder ($5 for a bowl), which was both light and rich. The soup was laden with plump clams and soft cubes of potato; coconut milk and herbs washed over my tongue like creamed ocean.

Given the triumphs of breakfast and lunch, I was eager to try dinner. That menu is divided into small and large plates, and some of the former are big enough for a main course. The finger-lickin’ Maine lobster fritters ($13.99) were almost effervescent — misshapen, golden-fried orbs of lobster meat, minced scallions and corn kernels that were

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For now, the owners can afford to be patient. Kerner says that, almost from the time Three Penny opened in 2009, they’ve been looking to expand. “It’s the next perfect step for us,” he says. “I’m giddy about it.”

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the baby-back pork ribs ($17.99) were fall-off-the-bone tender, they arrived lukewarm and overly slathered with a tangy cranberry barbecue sauce. The dish’s heaviness was offset, however, by a cooling, scrumptious coleslaw laced with tiny, sweet bits of fennel, or perhaps chicory.

At $24.99, braised lamb shanks are the priciest dish on the menu. While ours was flavorful and, again, the portion generous, the flesh was a touch dry. It also was delivered lukewarm, and I had to send it back for a hit of fire. The whiteand-sweet potato gratin that shared the plate couldn’t save the dish: Firm and slightly undercooked, the slices didn’t meld together.

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Perhaps I was too excited for the mole turkey and dumplings ($10). I will travel far for a good mole (even to Oaxaca), but, though the meat in Clean Slate’s version was fresh and moist — and the portion tremendous — the dish was overwrought. After a few bites, we wanted to repurpose the tangle of meat and spice: load it on flatbread, top it with queso fresco, or marry it with something else that might cool it down or absorb its oil. The sauce lacked delicacy.

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s a cheese scientist, Paul Kindstedt is disappointed in Homer. The Odyssey includes one of history’s first detailed descriptions of rennet-assisted cheesemaking, in the sequence where Odysseus and his men steal cheese from Polyphemus the Cyclops. But the specifics are a little spare for Kindstedt’s tastes.

“Sometimes [Homer] leaves out important parts. He’s a poet — he didn’t need to get all the details,” says Kindstedt, a University of Vermont foodscience professor and codirector of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese. He regrets that Homer’s narrator didn’t note whether the Cyclops added salt to his cheeses and took no pains to describe the cooking process. Still, Kindstedt believes that, whoever Homer really was, he had first-hand knowledge of cheesemaking processes in either coastal Asia Minor or Sicily. The poet provides enough information for Kindstedt to conclude that the cheese Odysseus and his men ventured into the cave to steal was probably an ancestor to modern Pecorino Bagnolese or Caprino d’Aspromonte.

That’s just one of the nuggets that obsessed Kindstedt in the nearly 10 years he spent researching the social, religious and medical history of cheese from prehistory to today. The result is his new book, Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilization,, released by Vermont publisher Chelsea Green.

The process began in 2003, says Kindstedt, while he was at work on his previous book, the definitive American Farmstead Cheese: The Complete Guide to Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses.

Seeking some historical context for modern artisan cheesemaking, the author decided to write a chapter or two about the origins of cheese. He soon realized that all-consuming project would be a book in itself.

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after 7000 B.C., when pottery was an exciting technological advance and humans were just starting to keep and milk cattle. Neolithic man, however, was lactose intolerant. Adults only began producing the lactase necessary to digest dairy around 5500 B.C. How does Kindstedt know this?

Genetic analysis. “All this new information is rolling out in the ar-

chaeological realm.

Archaeogenetics, archaeobotany, archaeochemistry…”

Kindstedt says. “The timing for writing this book has been just magnificent.” As he began researching, he says, “new revelations had just come out to fill in a lot of the blanks of the historical and prehistorical record.” And revelations are still coming: “By the time you finish reading the book, there will be new information to incorporate,” says Kindstedt, who is planning a second edition loaded with

fresh data. “That’s exciting. My work isn’t done.”

Despite all the facts Kindstedt was able to dig up, it was important to him not to produce a cheese trivia book, he notes. He wanted to weave the stories into a history that spanned the period from the birth of agriculture and the Fertile Crescent to the modern rebirth of artisan cheesemaking.

Kindstedt was surprised to find that one of the dominant recurring themes in his story was religion — or “the intertwining of religious expression with cheese history from start to finish,” says the author, himself a practicing Christian.

Cheese has “always been intertwined with spiritual features of the place and time,” he notes.

Kindstedt begins nearly every chapter in the book with a Bible verse focused on cheese.

Most important is one from Job, begging God to pity him: “Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? … Why then did you bring me out of the womb?” This description of human conception as curdling cheese wasn’t just a metaphor; it was ancient science.

Aristotle’s theory of the beginning of life advanced the same notion of semen coagulating menstrual blood into a fetus — comparing it to rennet, cardoon or fig sap. Think about that the next time you cut some cheddar.

But curds were also important in many religions outside the Judeo-Christian world. Says Kindstedt in Cheese and Culture, “According to the Roman writer Pliny, Zoroaster subsisted on cheese for twenty years in the Persian desert as he sought spiritual enlightenment.” Cheese was an important bloodless offering in the Greek tradition. High-maintenance priestesses of Athena were only allowed

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For only center denow, Kindstedt voted to that subject. can only rely on Its courses of study the description of include beginning and a Turkish colleague advanced certificate he met at a meeting programs in cheein Sicily last fall. “It’s semaking. Milk and powerful,” he says. cheese chemistry and “[Ancient near-Eastfood safety are major ern cheeses] tend to components of the be very strong flavors, curriculum, but so is very foreign, that most sensory evaluation — of us would not be actaught by Monserrat customed to.”

Almena-Aliste, whose After all, the expert expertise lies in tasting points out, cheesecheese, yogurt, coffee making is simply and chocolate. controlled rotting.

As a scientist, Bacterial developKindstedt admits he’s ments caused by parPAul K iND S tE D t more interested in ticular environmental why and how cheese is circumstances, such as made than how it tastes. “It’s exhausting the hot Anatolian sun, can create a taste to become encyclopedic when it comes wholly unfamiliar to Vermonters accusto cheese,” he says. “To experience all tomed to a cold-weather, cave-aged curd. those cheeses and speak with authority That artisan model is where cheese — I can’t do that.” is headed in the future, at least in the Yet. Kindstedt is always expanding Green Mountains, says Kindstedt. “We his knowledge base; right now, he’s es- can’t sell the lowest-price cheese ... in pecially eager to head to Turkey to taste the country,” he explains. “The survival some of its native cheeses. In Cheese and of cheese in Vermont will depend on

It’s exhaustIng to become encyclopedIc when it comes to cheese.

not producing the lowest-cost cheese but cheese that can command the price.

Value-added cheese that can be sold at a higher price to make it economically feasible.”

Kindstedt names Cabot Creamery as a model of how he hopes growth in Vermont cheese production will look in the next century. He admires the company’s connection with farmers and smaller cheesemakers and is particularly impressed with the partnership between Cabot and the Cellars at Jasper Hill in Greensboro. As many cheese heads know, that collaboration, which began in 2003, resulted in the revived popularity of ultranutty and tangy clothbound cheddar.

“Now we have a whole new category that didn’t exist 15 years ago,” says Kindstedt.

But, as any good historian will tell you, to know our future, we must first know our past. For his next project, Kindstedt has plans to examine a cheese chronology closer to home. He and fellow UVM faculty members recently wrote a grant proposal for a multidisciplinary study of the history and sociology of Vermont cheese.

Local cheese history may not feature many Cyclops encounters, but it’s alive — and edible — around us. Vermonters still slice into Crowley Cheese, which began manufacturing in 1824. Grafton Village Cheese Company and Cabot Creamery also date to the 19th century.

“I would love to write a book on what happened,” Kindstedt says. And we would love to read it. m

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to eat imported, aged cheese — the fresh stuff just wouldn’t do. Long before that, the Hittites used cheese in celebratory rituals.

Kindstedt tells Seven Days he’s even noticed a strong spiritual component in modern alternative agriculture. And, as a major figure on the front lines of the movement, he should know.

In 1986, when he arrived at UVM fresh from earning his PhD in food science at Cornell, Kindstedt’s focus was on making large-scale “commodity” cheesemaking more efficient. That began to change in 1988, when officials at what’s now known as the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets asked him to teach a three-day workshop for new farmstead cheesemakers.

At first, says Kindstedt, he “really felt threatened” by grassroots cheesemaking, balking at the lack of oversight and the idea of selling a product made from raw milk. “At that time, this eclectic group of artisan cheesemakers [was] really looked down upon with fear and arrogant, condescending attitudes among academics,” he says. “They were doing things in a very different way from the train of progress in American cheesemaking.”

What changed Kindstedt’s attitude was getting to know the personalities behind the cheese. Far from reckless flakes, the scientist says, he found the cheesemakers to be “really sharp folks who want to do a good job.”

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INTRO TO UVM’S FARMER TRAINING PROGRAM: Program coordinator and farm manager Laura Williams and program director Susie Walsh Daloz recap the successful first year of a program for aspiring farmers and food-systems advocates. Time permitting, a tour of the farm plots follows. UVM Horticultural Research Center, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10-20; preregister. Info, 864-3073, info@ friendsofthehortfarm.org.

business

COMMUNITY ENTREPRENEURS PROGRAM: Survivors of domestic violence explore the challenges and rewards of self-employment and envision a business concept in this workshop held by the Center for Women & Enterprise. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-1302.

comedy

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

community

OPEN ROTA MEETING: Neighbors keep tabs on the gallery’s latest happenings. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. Free. Info, 518-314-9872.

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TROPICAL STORM IRENE SUPPORT GROUP: Residents build community while sharing stories, learning coping methods and supporting neighbors.

Northfield Senior Center, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 279-8246.

WINOOSKI COALITION FOR A SAFE AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITY: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by planning community events, sharing resources, networking and more.

O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 655-1392, ext.10.

conferences

COLBY MILITARY WRITERS’ SYMPOSIUM: In presentations and a panel discussion, four authors weigh in on “Afghanistan and America’s Endless War on Terrorism.” Norwich University, Northfield, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $150; see norwich.edu/colby for details.

Info, 485-2451.

VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE: A gathering for parents and professionals caring for children with special needs focuses on creating a culture of belonging through workshops, exhibits and the Vermont premiere of Who Cares About Kelsey? Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $50-90. Info, 876-5315, ext. 225.

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Needleworkers stitch and scope out the sewing projects of their peers. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255.

KNIT NIGHT: Crafty needleworkers (crocheters, too) share their talents and company as they spin yarn.

Phoenix Books, Essex, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

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MAKE STUFF!: Defunct bicycle parts become works of art and jewelry that will be sold to raise funds and awareness for Bike Recycle Vermont. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

Monday, April 16, 7 p.m., at Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy. $30-68. Info, 748-2600. catamountarts.org/kcpbuddyguy.php

dance

GUIDED ARGENTINE TANGO PRÁCTICA: Buenos Aires-born movements find a place on a sprung floor. Elizabeth Seyler is on hand to answer questions. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8:15-10:15 p.m. $5. Info, 138-4959.

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‘PLAY AGAIN’ DISCUSSION GROUP: A week after a screening of Tonje Hessen Schei’s documentary about the importance of nature in childhood, folks brainstorm ways to strike a balance between the natural and virtual worlds. Orchard Valley Waldorf School, East Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 456-7400.

SILENT AUCTION & WINE TASTING: Folks raise funds for an artist-in-residence at the King Street Center while remembering Laura Kate Winterbottom, an artist and teacher who was a victim of sexual violence. Magnolia Breakfast & Lunch Bistro, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $35; preregister. Info, 862-6736, rsvp@kingstreetcenter.org.

film

‘GIRLS ROCK!’: Arne Johnson and Shane King’s inspiring 2007 documentary looks at how rock-androll camp transforms the lives of young girls. Food, drinks and information about Girls Rock Vermont augment the screening. Lafayette Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-0409.

‘HELL AND BACK AGAIN’: Danfung Dennis’ 2011 documentary looks at the conflict in Afghanistan to understand the true cause and effect of war.

Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

‘JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE’: Bob Hercules’ 2012 documentary charts the history of this cutting-edge ballet company. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 748-2600.

‘NORWEGIAN WOOD’: Devastated by the loss of a friend, a man pursues relationships with two drastically different women in Anh Hung Tran’s 2010 drama, set in late-1960s Tokyo. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘PARIAH’: A Brooklyn teen struggles to come to terms with her sexuality in Dee Rees’ 2011 drama.

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Pavel Haas, a Czech composer murdered at Auschwitz at age 45, never got to hear his third string quartet performed. Nearly 60 years after his death, Prague’s Pavel Haas Quartet formed, swiftly becoming his most driven champions with their Gramophone Award-winning first album.

These days, the acclaimed ensemble has broadened its repertoire to pay tribute to classical music’s other founding fathers. Technically polished but emotionally raw and untamed, they perform Tchaikovsky’s Quartet no. 1 in D Major, op. 11, Shostakovich’s Quartet no. 7, op. 108, and Schubert’s Death and the Maiden at a Middlebury stop this Friday.

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Buddy Guy stands as the bridge between Chicago bluesmen like Muddy Waters and the blues rockers that followed, such as Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. But there’s nothing middle-of-the-road about this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Even at 75, his staggering showmanship is a study in extremes. From sweet, murmured vocals to impassioned refrains and speedy guitar riffs, it’s clear why Rolling Stone ranked him as No. 30 in its list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Want Living Proof?

(That’s the title of his latest album.) Get it, both literally and figuratively, at a St. J. concert.

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‘TITANIC: THE MUSICAL’ Thursday, April 12, and Friday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 14, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, April 15, 2 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $21-33. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

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Normally, kicking a soccer ball or dribbling a basketball would be expressly off limits in any museum setting.

But the posed activities are part of ECHO’s newest exhibit, and we doubt the participants will cause too much damage. They are cadavers, after all. More than 200 actual human specimens — organs and full bodies preserved by plastination — are on display in “Our Body: The Universe Within,” a traveling science exhibit that goes under the skin, literally, to explore the functions of the human systems. Both artful and educational, the lifelike anatomical examples contextualize the human experience for visitors of all ages. ECHO’s newly expanded exhibit space hosts this unique body of work.

Saturday, April 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Revision Lake Side Pavilion, ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington. On display daily through September 3. $6-22.50; free for kids under 3. Info, 877-324-6386. echovermont.org/ourbody

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Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

‘Pina’: Wim Wenders’ visually thrilling documentary pays tribute to German dancer/choreographer Pina Bausch. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

‘The alzheimer’s ProjecT’: Panel discussions augment three episodes of the groundbreaking HBO series. John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, UVM, Burlington, 1:30-3:30 p.m., 3:30-5:30 p.m., 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 203-530-7272.

‘The elePhanT man’: A kindly doctor comes to the aid of a disfigured man making a living in the circus in David Lynch’s 1980 drama, based on a true story.

Roger H. Perry Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, 5:45-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2700.

‘Who cares abouT Kelsey?’: Dan Habib’s documentary about the transformation of a “problem student” meets its Vermont premiere. A Q&A session follows. Adirondack Room, Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-1130.

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mindful eaTing: Participants explore the connection between mood and food at a meal-planning workshop with lots of samples. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. $6-8; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop.

health & fitness

discovering your inner sTabiliTy: Can’t find your core? Instructor Robert Rex integrates Kundalini yoga, tai chi, Rolfing Movement Integration and more in exercises designed to stabilize the spine, strengthen muscles and maintain flexibility. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:306:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

kids

baby Time: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659. chess club: King defenders practice castling and various opening gambits with volunteer Robert Nichols. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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April 14 & May 5

enosburg PlaygrouP: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. fairfield PlaygrouP: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time.

Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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highgaTe sTory hour: Good listeners giggle and wiggle to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. hogWarTs reading socieTy: Potterheads and others fascinated by the fantasy genre discuss Veronica Roth’s Divergent. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

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Kids in The KiTchen: Veggies, pasta and homemade dressing come together in kid-created tortellini salad. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

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middlebury babies & Toddlers sTory hour: Children develop early-literacy skills through stories, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. monTgomery sTory hour: Good listeners are rewarded with an earful of tales and a mouthful of snacks. Montgomery Town Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 527-5426.

Pajama sTory Time: Evening tales send kiddos off to bed. Berkshire Elementary School, 6-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 527-5426.

Preschool discovery Program: Three- to 5-year-olds take to the outdoors while learning about the salamander’s cycle. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5. Info, 229-6206. read To a dog: Bookworms share words with Rainbow, a friendly Newfoundland and registered therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3:305:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a 15-minute time slot.

Info, 849-2420.

language

iTalian conversaTion grouP: Parla Italiano?

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

music

music 101: WorKshoPs & café: Burlington Ensemble tune up in a new series of open rehearsals. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, snacks and socializing, 6 p.m.; music, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 598-9520, michael.dabroski@gmail. com. sTudenT Performance reciTal: Music scholars perform on their various instruments. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. valley nighT: The Holter family grace the lounge with pop, rock and funk favorites. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.

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candace Page: The Burlington Free Press writer reports on covering major Vermont stories, such as the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918. ‘from vermonT To mexico: solidariTy WiThouT borders’: UE regional president Peter Knowlton and Migrant Justice’s Danilo Lopez and Natalia Fajardo explore the conditions and connections that have led to approximately 1500 migrant farmworkers in Vermont. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8000. miro Weinberger: Burlington’s new mayor speaks at the Old North End Arts & Business Network meeting. Vermont Green Offices, Burlington, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-7528.

PlanbTv sPeaKer series: Consultants from the Town Planning & Urban Design Collaborative discuss ordinance changes and form-based codes. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7193. suzanne blier: The Harvard professor discusses “The Role of Diplomacy in Ancient Yoruba Sculpture From Ife,” in conjunction with the museum’s “Environment and Object: Recent African Art” exhibit. Room 100, Axinn Center, Starr Library, Middlebury College, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. vermonT’s energy fuTure: Vermont Department of Public Service Commissioner Elizabeth Miller and Vermont state Rep. Tony Klein discuss the tough task of getting Vermont to 90 percent renewable energy by 2050. North Lounge, Billings Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389.

theater

‘aPPeTiTe’: The audience sits onstage for this student-created original play about society’s obsession with technology. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 654-2536, appetitesmc@gmail.com. ‘chicago’: Northern Stage seeks to “razzle dazzle ‘em” with this Prohibition-era musical about a vaudeville-chorus-girl-turned-murderess. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $3168. Info, 296-7000.

words

booK discussion: Page turners exchange ideas about America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries.

Grafton Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 843-2404. booK discussion series: neW england uncovered: Readers find more to our region than meets the eye in Grace Metalious’ Peyton Place.

South Hero Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209. donald h. WicKman: The historian and author of A Very Fine Appearance: The Vermont Civil War Photographs of George Houghton discusses his subject. Greater Hartford United Church of Christ, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 295-2123. f.d. reeve: Recitations from his new novella Nathaniel Purple illustrate the intersection of poetry and prose. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291. george saunders: The author, Syracuse University English professor, and recipient of both a Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowship reads his words aloud. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1251.

Playing WiTh TanKas: Participants craft five-line poems in the Japanese tradition. College Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 4 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

PoemciTy 2012: Montpelier celebrates National Poetry Month with a text exhibit throughout downtown. Visit kellogghubbard.org/poemcity.html for daily activity schedule. Various downtown locations, Montpelier, all day. Free. Info, 223-3338. reading & discussion: farms & gardens series: Bibliophiles react to stories about tending and growing, such as this month’s Here and Nowhere Else: Late Season of a Farm and Its Family

by Jane Brox. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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lunch and learn: Charlie Nardozzi offers trimming techniques to improve the health of a garden in “Pruning Basics.” Gardener’s Supply, Williston, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.

bazaars

rummage sale: Thrifty shoppers thumb through secondhand goods. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6515.

business

marKeTing WorKshoP series: Kacey Freel Boone, web analyst at Burton Snowboards and director of Queen City Craft Bazaar, underlines why web analytics matter for a small business. North End Studio B, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $5; free for Old North End Arts & Business Network members. Info, 864-7528. masTermind grouP meeTing: Big dreamers build a supportive network as they try to realize business goals in an encouraging environment. Best Western Waterbury-Stowe, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7822. vermonT consulTanTs neTWorK meeTing: Business Performance Solutions’ Terry Stone speaks at a networking forum. Network Performance, South Burlington, 8 a.m. Free for first-time guests. Info, 373-8379.

community

neighborhood Planning assembly: Residents of Ward 6 attend a panel discussion about Burlington’s rising crime rate. Cafeteria, Edmunds Elementary School, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 399-2240, neil@neemploymentlaw.com. remembering irene: Storm survivors share their stories over coffee, tea and cookies. Kids get their

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conferences

VirTual impacT Film SerieS: Moviegoers screen Steven Lisberger’s 1982 sci-fi adventure TRON as part of a sequence exploring the history and use of computer graphics in cinema. BCA Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-7166.

colby miliTary WriTerS’ SympoSium: See WED.11, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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‘The Face oF The Game: Women’S hockey in norTh america’: Puck it: Hockey scholars, writers, players and fans convene for a half-day symposium in celebration of the 2012 IIHF Women’s World Championships. Room 338, Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 656-1096, marylou.shea@uvm.edu.

games

VermonT TraVel induSTry conFerence: Hospitality industry professionals cultivate contacts and learn how to boost their businesses through workshops and a trade show. Killington Grand Resort Hotel, 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. $50-275. Info, 865-5202.

crafts

eVery Woman’S craFT connecTion: Inventive females work on artful projects at a biweekly meet-up. Essex Alliance Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 879-5176.

education

School open houSe: Prospective seventh through 12th graders and their parents get to know the Compass community through school tours, a homemade dinner and a presentation by director Rick Gordon on 21st-century learning. The Compass School, Westminster, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 463-2517.

WindoWS on WaldorF: Adults catch up on the student curriculum and take a look at class projects. Orchard Valley Waldorf School, East Montpelier, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 456-7400.

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Feminine SpiriT oF The liVinG earTh: A new women’s learning group embarks on a metaphysical exploration through meditation, oneness and more. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m.

Donations accepted; call ahead. Info, 671-4569.

fairs & festivals

Ghana*haiTi FeSTiVal: Two weeks of workshops, open classes, and rehearsals in Haitian and Ghanian dance, drum and song culminate in a concert finale.

Takes place at St. Michael’s College, Colchester, and Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-5:50 p.m.

Various prices. Info, 654-2896.

film

‘pariah’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m. ‘pina’: See WED.11, 5:30 p.m.

‘The ciTy dark’: Do we need stars? That’s the question at the heart of Ian Cheney’s 2011 documentary, the story of light production. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

Wine dinner: Rí Rá and Hook & Ladder Winery cohost a four-course dinner and silent auction benefiting the Make-a-Wish Vermont chapter. The Whiskey Room at Rí Rá, Burlington, 6 p.m. $50. Info, 864-9393, mjsleeperlyman@vermont.wish.org.

cheSS Group: Novice and expert players compete against real humans, not computers. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $2.

Info, 324-1143.

health & fitness

FiTneSS hoopinG: Hula Hoopers wiggle their hips in a cardio workout aimed at improving coordination, balance and stamina. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 223-2921.

The medicine cheST knoWn aS The beehiVe: Catch the buzz about the health and medicinal benefits of raw honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom from apitherapist Reyah Carlson.

Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@ hungermountain.coop.

sponsors:

Gifford Medical Center, Granite Industries of Vermont and Hackett, Valine & MacDonald

Tickets at 802-476-8188 or www.barreoperahouse.org.

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Wednesday evenings for 10 weeks Beginning Wednesday, April 18, 6-7 PM Acupuncture & Qigong Health Center 167 Pearl St., Essex Junction www.completechinesemedicine.com

kids

early-liTeracy STory Time: Weekly themes educate preschoolers and younger children on basic reading concepts. Westford Public Library, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-5639, westford_pl@vals.state.vt.us.

Franklin STory hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m.

Free. Info, 527-5426.

Taught by Arthur Makaris, who has been practicing Qigong for over 30 years.

Arthur is a licensed Acupuncturist and master of Chinese martial art.

middlebury preSchoolerS STory hour: Tiny ones become strong readers through activities with tales, songs and rhymes. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. muSic WiTh raphael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves to traditional and original folk music. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Northern Dipper Qigong will focus on: • Essence, Breath and Mind • Physical and Energetic Alignment • Opening Qi • Gathering Qi

preSchool diScoVery proGram: See WED.11, 10-11:30 a.m.

Science maGic: Kid chemists in grades 3 and up use simple household materials in fantastical tricks. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

STroller STrollinG: Young families roll along the recreation path together. Community Park, Fairfax, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 782-6332.

Qigong Class

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To Register Call 879-7999

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music

bach nachT: Violinist Benjamin Shute explores the background of each piece in a solo concert of partitas and sonatas. New City Galerie, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 355-5440. conSciouS rooTS: Northern Vermont’s roots-reggae band mixes together Afro-beat rhythms, ska, jazz and rock. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476. kimberly leclaire, ian aTer, SnoWy lajoi, jeFF cochran & adam d.: Regional artists deliver folk music, poetry and more at an all-ages show.

ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-5. Info, 518-586-2182.

STudenT perFormance reciTal: See WED.11, 1-2 p.m.

The uniVerSiTy oF VermonT jazz enSemble: Alex Stewart directs the group in works by Ellington, Monk, Gillespie and more. The Woodstock Union High School Jazz Sextet opens. Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 603-448-0400.

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‘riSe oF The planeT oF The apeS’: Chimps stage an uprising in Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 sci-fi action drama, presented as part of National Library Week.

Rutland Free Library, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

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‘GaSland’: Josh Fox’s 2010 documentary explores new oil-drilling practices that may position America as an energy superpower — even while people residing near drilled towns can light their drinking water on fire. Vermont Workers’ Center, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 919-819-3875.

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‘born inTo broThelS’: Adjunct professor Allison Cleary introduces this 2005 Oscar-winning documentary about the children of prostitutes who work in Kolkata’s red-light district. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m.

Donations accepted for the MOVE service trip to Kolkata. Info, 654-2536.

“Visually riveting!”

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Tax aSSiSTance: Tax counselors straighten up financial affairs for low- and middle-income taxpayers, with special attention to those 60 and over. Call ahead for an appointment. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

Sunday, April 15, 2 pm Barre Opera House

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seminars

Keys to Credit: A class clears up the confusing world of credit. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

talks

Frances Fox Pivin: The author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America contextualizes the Occupy Movement with lessons from history. Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Howard Coffin: In “Vermont and the Civil War,” the historian and author offers a very local history.

Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 476-5965.

Scott Fried: The HIV/AIDS activist shares his own story of contracting HIV at age 24. Silver Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 860-575-1500.

Will Eisner Spring Lecture: Poet, essayist, translator and cultural critic Lewis Hyde speaks about “Exploring the Public Life of the Imagination.”

Room 008, Kemeny Hall. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 295-3319.

theater

‘APPetite’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m.

‘Chicago’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m.

‘The Imaginary Invalid’: Based on the ensemble work by Jacques Lecoq, this new production examines the tragedy of Molière’s last hours. Wright Memorial Theater, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-12.

Info, 443-6433.

‘Titanic: The Musical’: “The ship of dreams” leaves port for a tragic ending in Lyric Theatre Company’s opulent production, complete with a sinking, threestory set. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $21-33. Info, 863-5966.

words

A Mud Moth: Storytellers share true (mis)adventures on the theme of “Muddy Waters and Slippery Slopes” at this Phantom Theater event. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 496-8994.

community

Social Gathering, Potluck & Discussion: Vermonters evaluate new models of sustainable community — with regard to cooperative agriculture, permaculture and resilience — with featured guest Chris Roth, editor of Communities magazine.

Four Corners Schoolhouse, East Montpelier, 6-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted; bring a dish to share. Info, 454-7303.

Everything that happens before the concert is what determines how an orchestra sounds on stage. That’s why it’s cool to catch a behind-the-scenes glimpse of VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA during a rehearsal-setting open house. You can learn about the organization’s rich history — and concertizing alumni — while observing the young players prepare their spring repertoire. Anyone interested in auditioning — provided they’re between third and eighth grade — can get the inside scoop on the process.

Stick around for a Q&A with light refreshments after.

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Poetry Jam: Live jazz music punctuates literary expressions by faculty and students. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

FRI.13 bazaars

Richmond Rummage Sale: Bargain hunters eye community donations. Richmond Congregational Church, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2053.

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comedy

Bob Marley: New England’s comedy king is a favorite on the late-night television circuit. Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $25.55. Info, 603-448-0400.

‘The Summer of Walter Hacks’: Waterbury Center dairy farmer George Woodard’s black-andwhite coming-of-age film captures Vermont in the 1950s. Blue Mountain Union School, Wells River, 7:30-9:45 p.m. $5 suggested donation benefits the Vermont Farmer Disaster Relief Fund. Info, 584-4077.

food & drink

In the Seasonal Market Kitchen: Chef Michael Benoit uses local produce in dishes such as braised Swiss chard and artichokes with vinaigrette fin d’herbes and spicy cucumber and watercress soup with avocado-cucumber salsa. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 8632569, ext. 1.

VYOA OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, April 15, ElleyLong Music Center at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 655-5030, vyo.org

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conferences

Vermont Travel Industry Conference: See THU.12, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

dance

Ballroom Lesson & Dance Social: Singles and couples of all levels of experience take a twirl.

Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; open dancing, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.

Queen City Contra Dance: Adina Gordon calls the steps to live music by Alden Robinson and Eric Eid-Reiner. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 8 p.m. Beginner’s session at 7:45 p.m. $8; free for kids under 12. Info, 371-9492 or 343-7165.

Queen City Tango Milonga: Warm-ups and skill building for all levels lead into open dancing in the Argentine tradition. No partner needed; wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, 7-10:30 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.

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‘Machotaildrop’: A wannabe pro skater discovers the dark truth about the world’s biggest skateboard company in Corey Adams and Alex Craig’s surreal farce. Partial proceeds benefit the Burlington Skatepark redevelopment project. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. A skate session follows at Maglianero, with a cash bar and music by DJ Disco Phantom. $10. Info, 865-7166.

‘The Salt of Life’: A 60-year-old retiree decides to take on a mistress — to hilarious results — in Gianni Di Gregorio’s 2011 comedy. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

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Carol Johnson Collins: The poet shares expressions about Vermont farms and people to musical accompaniment. College Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

LunaFest: Short films by, for and about women — chosen for their stories of reflection, home and humor — support Vermont Works for Women and the Breast Cancer Fund. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, reception, 6:30 p.m.; screenings, 8 p.m. $15-30. Info, 655-8900, info@vtworksforwomen.org.

Telluride MountainFilm Festival: Adventure hounds get carried away in award-winning films celebrating mountain culture, outdoor sports, sustainable living and the environment. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

Behind the Curtain

Book Discussion Group: Voracious readers voice their opinions about T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth. Fairfax Community Library, Fairfax, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 849-2420.

PoemCity 2012: See WED.11, all day.

happy tour to celebrate pursuit of happiness day: Patriots say “cheers” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday at this affair hosted by Gross National Happiness USA. American Flatbread — Burlington Hearth, 5 p.m. Cost of food and drink; space is limited; preregister. Info, 656-2996.

PARENTS PICK

Alice Davidson Outwater: The author of 82 Remsen Street: Coming of Age in Brooklyn Heights Circa 1930-1940 discusses her childhood. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

George Saunders: See WED.11, North Lounge.

Billings Hall, UVM, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3056.

and live auction with dinner and dessert. Proceeds benefit the Champlain Valley Christian School.

American Legion Post 27, Middlebury, 6 p.m. $10-12.

Info, 877-6758.

Benefit Auction: Good-natured bidding battles ensue at an “outdoor adventure”-themed silent

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fairs & festivals

Ghana*Haiti Festival: See THU.12, 6-8 p.m.

film

‘A Separation’: A contemporary Iranian couple seeks divorce in Asghar Farhadi’s sad, funny 2011 drama, which took home the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

Fly Fishing Film Tour: Go fish: Shorts made by independent filmmakers showcase the sport across the globe. Proceeds benefit the New Haven River Anglers Association. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, product showcase, 6:15 p.m.; films, 7:30 p.m. $15.

Info, 382-9222.

Italian Dinner: A pasta party in support of the eighth-grade class trip includes homemade lasagna, meatballs, bread, salad and dessert — plus live music and raffles. Westford School, 6-8 p.m. $4-6; $25 family maximum. Info, 878-5804.

health & fitness

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.

Gentle Yoga: Seniors participate in a mostly seated program presented by Champlain Valley Agency on Aging’s AmeriCorps member Jen Manosh.

Huntington Public Library, 1-2 p.m. Donations accepted; preregister. Info, 865-0360, ext. 1058, jmanosh@cvaa.org.

Tai Chi for Arthritis: AmeriCorps members from the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging lead gentle, controlled movements that can help alleviate stress, tension and joint pain. School Street Manor, Milton, 2-2:45 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-0360.

kids

Comics Club: Doodlers, writers and readers alike have fun with the funnies. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Community Playgroup: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 527-5426.

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

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

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Musical Story Time: Three- to 5-year-olds develop early-literacy skills through books, songs and rhymes. Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 879-0313.

Parents & Picture Books: Students from the Addison County Parent Child Center page through their own recently released stories. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

Swanton Playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

‘The Wizard of Oz’: Follow the yellow-brick road with a cast and crew of more than 60 fifth through eighth graders. Hinesburg Community School, 7 p.m. $4-6. Info, 482-2106.

music

‘The Imaginary Invalid’: See THU.12, 8 p.m.

‘Titanic: The Musical’: See THU.12, 7:30 p.m.

‘Vermont Writers ... in Play’: Peter Marsh adapted Yvonne Daley’s book Vermont Writers: A State of Mind for this Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre production about why the Green Mountain State speaks to scribes. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 775-0903.

words

Book Discussion: Masters of the Short Story: Bibliophiles discover the origins of this art form by conversing about Ann Beattie’s Park City. Springfield Town Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 885-3108.

Brown Bag Lunch: PoemCity 2012: Writers share their work in small groups at the lunch hour.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas: A Scottish fiddler and American cellist execute explosively energetic Celtic music. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $21.50-32. Info, 728-6464.

Helene Lang: The living-history performer channels mystery maven Agatha Christie in a talk about her life in England. Memorial Building, Hardwick, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5948.

Counterpoint: Nathaniel G. Lew directs the ensemble in “Songs of Ecstasy,” sacred choruses from five centuries. St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $5-20. Info, 540-1784.

Open-Mic Fireside Tolkien Readings: Hobbits, elves and humans recite favorite passages from The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.

John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, UVM, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0839.

Mouthbreather, the Fire, the Heard, As We Were: Regional artists deliver grunge and hardcore rock at an all-ages show. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-10 p.m. $3-5. Info, 518-586-2182.

Pavel Haas Quartet: Catch string fever as the risk-taking ensemble takes on Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet no. 1 in D Major; Shostakovich’s String Quartet no. 7 in F-sharp Minor, op. 108; and Schubert’s Death and the Maiden. See calendar spotlight. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

VYO Chorus & Concert Chorale: “Dance of Spring” includes choral settings of poetry and soaring compositions. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $7-12. Info, 863-5966.

PoemCity 2012: See WED.11, all day.

SAT.14 activism

99% Spring: Beating the Drums of Peace: Participants don thinking caps for a daylong brainstorm about the future of the Occupy Movement.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 518-3149872, shemogua@juno.com.

art

Saturday Art Sampler: Adults and teens grout and set glass and ceramic tiles to make masterful mosaic trivets. Davis Studio Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24; preregister. Info, 425-2700.

seminars

Antique & Artisan Sale: More than 25 dealers display quality items. Proceeds benefit the class of 2014. Blue Mountain Union School, Wells River, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 757-2711, ext.

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Community Advocacy Training: In a workshop hosted by the Clarina Howard Nichols Center, folks learn more about sexual violence and how to help stop it. Community College of Vermont, Morrisville, 6-9 p.m. $25 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 888-2584, knelson@clarina.org.

Intro to ‘Discover Your Path’ Workshop: Folks attend a casual preview of — and meet the “cast of characters” behind — Saturday’s workshop, in which participants will learn to access their empowered inner selves. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3246.

Bill Schubart: The author and VPR commentator analyzes “The Vermont Economy and Tax Structure Myths and Realities.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

theater

‘APPetite’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m.

‘Chicago’: See WED.11, 7 p.m.

‘Oleanna’: Steel Cut Theatre presents one of David Mamet’s most controversial works, about a power struggle between a student and professor. Hoehl Studio Lab, Flynn Center, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-15.

Info, 654-7411.

Rummage Sale: See THU.12, 9-11 a.m.

Spring Craft Fair: More than 60 regional artisans and crafters display and sell their wares. University Mall, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

Used Book Sale: Secondhand tomes prove twice as nice. South Burlington Community Library, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

community

Remembering Irene: Storm survivors share their stories over food and music. Kids get their own activity table. Town Hall, Woodford, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 379-3929.

conferences

2012 Earth Spirit Conference: Local and international presenters investigate crop-circle formations from around the world. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. $75 for Saturday; free on Sunday. Info, 922-7507.

Tolkien Conference: A Middle-earth Bestiary: Scholars and fans of the Lord of the Rings discuss the fantastical creatures and monsters of the book’s fictional setting. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0839.

‘Love Lock Down’: Five intertwining testimonies unfold as characters are charged for crimes committed in the name of love in Champlain College Dance Crew’s 22-piece production. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 2:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. Donations accepted for the American Heart Association. Info, 651-5960.

Mad Pie Hoedown: Square dancers move to oldtime tunes by Her Majesty’s Streak o’ Lean and calling by Jennifer Steckler. A pie auction raises funds for the 2012 Village-Building Convergence. Plainfield Community Center, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 276-3839, jennifer@twinpondretreat.com.

Norwich Contra Dance: Tunes by Northern Spy fuel a traditional social dance led by David Millstone.

Bring potluck finger foods and clean, soft-soled shoes. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 16; by donation for seniors. Info, 785-4607, rbarrows@cs.dartmouth.edu.

Open Marley Nights: Local dancers take the floor at an informal sharing of in-progress pieces.

Chase Dance Studio, Flynn Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15 choreographer fee; donations accepted from observers. Info, 863-5966, openmarley@flynncenter. org.

Student Choreography Showcase: Advanced scholars unveil their own b-boy, hip-hop, jazz, pointe or modern dance expressions. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 229-4676.

education

Goddard Visiting Day: Prospective students for the low-residency BA in Individualized Studies and BFA in Creative Writing programs meet with faculty members, admission counselors and current students. Goddard College, Plainfield, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 454-8311, erin.johnson@ goddard.edu.

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Burlington Dismas House Dinner & Auction: Basketball Junkie author Chris Herren, a former professional basketball player sidetracked by drug addiction, delivers the keynote speech. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, social hour and silent auction, 4:30 p.m.; dinner and live auction, 5:30 p.m. $45 donation; preregister. Info, 658-0381, info@dismasofvermont. org.

Donate Life Vermont’s #SocialSaves2 Tweetup: Twitter users translate virtual friendships into physical ones while supporting organ and tissue donation. The Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-256-7811.

‘Our Body: The Universe Within’ Exhibit Opening: A milestone exhibit of actual human specimens and organs explores the musculoskeletal, head and nervous, cardiovascular, urinary and reproductive, digestive, and respiratory systems.

On display through September 3. See calendar spotlight. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $6-22.50; free for kids under 3. Info, 877-324-6386.

Volunteer Orientation: New recruits learn about the open job responsibilities, ranging from guiding tours to bookkeeping, at this nonprofit museum. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 877-3406, rokeby@comcast.net.

film

‘A Film Unfinished’: Yael Hersonski’s eye-opening 2010 documentary looks at a long-missing reel of footage for a Nazi-made film about the Warsaw Ghetto. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-3168.

‘A Separation’: See FRI.13, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Shame’: A visit from his sister disrupts the life of a 30-year-old sex addict in Steve McQueen’s NC17-rated drama. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘The Salt of Life’: See FRI.13, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

food & drink

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

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

Norwich Winter Farmers Market: Neighbors discover cold-weather riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 384-7447, manager@norwichfarmersmarket.org.

Roast Turkey Supper: Thanksgiving-style foods — including the bird, mashed potatoes, stuffing, veggies and cranberry sauce — hit the spot. United Methodist Church, Vergennes, 5-6:30 p.m. $4-8; take-out available. Info, 877-3150.

Waterbury Winter Farmers Market: Cultivators and their customers swap edible inspirations. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 279-4371, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com.

games

Vermont State Scholastic Chess Championships: Checkmate! Vermont students, from kindergartners to high school seniors, compete in the mind sport in a USCF tournament. Berlin Elementary School, registration, 8:30 a.m.; games, 10 a.m. $12-20. Info, 223-1948, mike@vtchess.info.

health & fitness

Thai Massage for Couples: Massage therapist Sue Mahany leads a floor session aimed at reducing neck and back pain through stretching and relief of muscular tension. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

kids

4-H Vet Science II: UVM Pre-Vet Club members organize hands-on activities for teens ages 13 and up who have already completed Vet Science I. Jeffords 120, UVM, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. $10; preregister.

Info, 656-5429, rosemarie.garritano@uvm.edu.

Collage Poems: Handmade art inspires expressive stanzas in this workshop led by Montpelier’s Michelle Singer. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Cupcake Creations: Frosting fanatics sweeten the afternoon with sugar, spice and everything nice. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $17; preregister. Info, 864-0123.

Franklin Playgroup: Toddlers and their adult companions meet peers for tales and sing-alongs.

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‘The Godmother’ & ‘Queen of the Silent Scream’: Faculty members of Richford and Enosburg high schools show their school spirit while presenting staged skits. Enosburg Opera House, 7 p.m. $3-5. Info, 933-6171.

Richmond Rummage Sale: See FRI.13, 9:30 a.m.-noon.

Hardwick Contra Dance: A potluck supper precedes high stepping in the traditional New England style. Michael Travis calls the moves. Cafeteria.

Hazen Union School, Hardwick, potluck, 5:30 p.m.; dance, 6:30 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 472-5584.

A Festival of Cultures: Cultural diversity in the community takes center stage in an afternoon of music, dance, performance and food from around the globe. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations accepted for the Sarah Holbook Community Center. Info, 862-6342.

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Brown Bag Series: Speaker Gay Gaston discusses garden-club activities in central Vermont over lunch. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, noon. Donations accepted. Info, 728-9878.

Barre Rummage Sale: Savvy shoppers sift through a variety of donated goods. First Universalist Church, Barre, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 479-0114.

‘Come With Me and Breakthrough’: Vermont Youth Dancers’ original, full-length performance sets a teen’s high school experience to contemporary music and dance, from jazz to lyrical to hip-hop choreography. Mount Mansfield Union High School, Jericho, 6:30 p.m. $4. Info, 448-0893.

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bazaars

African Juba Dance Class: Experienced native dancer Chimie Bangoura demonstrates authentic Guinean moves for getting in shape. Shelburne Health & Fitness, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. $12. Info, 3779721, chimieband@gmail.com.

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Vassily Primakov: Noted for his interpretations of Romantic and post-Romantic composers, the award-winning Russian pianist keys up works by Chopin, Schubert, Schumann and William Bland.

UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455.

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Franklin Central School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Franklin Tumble Time: Athletic types stretch their legs in an empty gym. Franklin Central School, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Jake the Snake: Naturalist, author and former zoo and museum curator Stephen Amos organizes a reptilian romp, including an encounter with a full-grown boa constrictor. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Month of the Young Child & Big Rig Family Fun Event: Kids from Franklin and Grand Isle counties come together to play and create. Missisquoi Valley Union Middle & High School, Swanton, 9 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 527-5426, fgibbfdirectservice@ gmail.com.

North Hero Tumble Time: Kiddos hit up exercise stations around the gym. North Hero Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Saturday Stories: Weekend readers tune in for a page-turning good time. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.

Spanish-Language Community Breakfast: Early risers pick up conversational español at this early-education meetup aimed at elementary students and their friends and parents. Students from Middlebury College’s Spanish department aid the learning through games and wordplay. 94 Main Street, Middlebury, 8:30-10 a.m. Free. Info, 382-9325 or 989-5200.

‘The Wizard of Oz’: See FRI.13, 1 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Tom Joyce: Sleights-of-hand from this children’s musician awe and amaze. Gym, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 782-6332.

music

Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys: The band embarks on its anniversary tour, and bluegrass bliss ensues. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261.

Battle of the Bands Finals: Three local music groups compete for rock stardom. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 443-6433.

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Counterpoint: See FRI.13, Chandler Music Hall, Randolph. Info, 728-6464.

Green Mountain Youth Symphony: More than 100 young musicians offer selections from Titanic, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, and music by Brahms, Haydn and Mendelssohn. Barre Opera House, 3 p.m. $5 suggested donation; free for students and seniors. Info, 476-8188.

Play Piano Now: Introductory Session: Key players learn about Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed method for learning the 88 keys. Westwood Drive, Montpelier, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 595-1220.

Pseudo Slang: Wombaticus Rex open for the Chicago hip-hop, jazz and soul outfit. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 496-8994.

Social Band: Amity Baker directs the lively Burlington choral group in “Through Open Window: Songs of Fresh Visions and Other Worlds.” Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 658-8488.

Spring Choral Concert: The Middlebury College Choir and Women’s Glee Club take turns onstage. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

The Michele Fay Band: The acoustic quartet produces folk, swing and bluegrass grooves. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-6863.

Truth Be Told, Tides Will Turn, North of Nothing, Long Cat: Regional artists deliver pop-punk, alt-rock, metal and hardcore rock at an all-ages show. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-10 p.m. $3-5. Info, 518-586-2182.

Vermont Fiddle Orchestra: Vermont violinist David Gusakov guest solos in jazz and swing arrangements. The Sap Run Fiddlers open. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $12-15; free for ages 12 and under with an adult. Info, 877-343-3531, info@vtfiddleorchestra.org.

outdoors

Leaping Lambs & Shear Delights: Fleece lovers have fun with fiber as they visit new lambs, watch sheep get a haircut, and learn to spin and felt. Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $5-12. Info, 985-8686.

seminars

Community Advocacy Training: See FRI.13, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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.

Final Cut Pro Open Lab: Beginning, intermediate and advanced film editors complete three tracks of exercises as a VCAM staff member lends a hand.

Preregister. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 651-9692.

Genealogy Workshop: Tom Devarney offers tips on overcoming the “brick wall” of missing parents in ancestry sleuthing. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 238-5934.

Intro to Excel: Students get savvy about electronic spreadsheets. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

Intro to Listen Up! Vermont: E-reader owners learn how to start downloading books from a lending library to their devices. Fairfax Community Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

Puppy Workshop: New pooches and their people “sit” and stay” for a fun, interactive class on basic commands with Gold Star Dog Training’s Deb Helfrich. Walker’s Farm, Home & Tack, St. Albans, 9-11 a.m. $25 suggested donation for the Franklin County Humane Society; preregister. Info, 849-2363, deb@goldstardog.com.

sport

Otter Creek Mud Run: A family-friendly 5K and Tot Trot welcome mud season and support Otter Creek Child Center. Otter Creek Child Center, Middlebury, 8:30 a.m. $8-30. Info, 388-9688.

Roller Derby: Last Chance Bout: The Green Mountain Derby Dames close the season with a doubleheader. The Black Ice Brawlers take on Granite State Roller Derby at 4:30 p.m., and Grade A Fancy face off against Pioneer Valley Roller Derby at 7 p.m. Robert E. Miller Expo Centre, Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Junction. $6-16. Info, 318-1751.

theater

‘APPetite’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m.

‘Chicago’: See WED.11, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Circus, Circus & More Circus’: Aerial acts, acrobatics, comedy and clowns mesmerize audiences of all ages. Rouses Point Recreation Center, N.Y., 3 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 800-528-6577.

‘Oleanna’: See FRI.13, 8 p.m.

‘The Imaginary Invalid’: See THU.12, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Catamount Arts Center: See above listing, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-23. Info, 748-2600.

The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Lake Placid Center for the Arts: Natalie Dessay stars in a broadcast screening of Verdi’s La Traviata.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1 p.m. $12-18.

Info, 518-523-2512.

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

The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Palace 9: See above listing, Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 12:55 p.m. $18-24. Info, 660-9300.

The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Town Hall Theater: See above listing, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

‘Titanic: The Musical’: See THU.12, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Vermont Has Talent: Singers, dancers, musicians, gymnasts and jugglers ages 5 to 24 take the

stage in a benefit for the Miss Vermont Scholarship Fund. Recital Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. $5-15. Info, 310-8810, marycatherinejones@ mac.com.

‘Vermont Writers .. in Play’: See FRI.13, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

words

‘Beatrix Potter Revisited’: From penning great American stories to raising sheep, the life of the Peter Rabbit author is revived by Helene Lang in this living-history presentation. Lanpher Memorial Library, Hyde Park, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 888-4628.

‘Boom and Bust: Part 1’: Local actors deliver a dramatic reading of Tom Blachly’s play documenting the Jazz Age, the 1929 stock-market crash and the coming of the New Deal. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3955.

PoemCity 2012: See WED.11, all day.

SUN.15 activism

General Assembly: Supporters of the Occupy Movement network, do business and share food.

City Hall Park, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 861-2316, occupyburlington@gmail. com.

agriculture

Garden Lecture Series: Marijke Niles reveals simple steps to creating “black gold” in “Compost Happens.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, 2-3 p.m. $10. Info, 388-2117.

Growing Fruit in the Northeast Kingdom: Walden Heights Nursery & Orchard’s Todd Parlo covers organic, sustainable methods for nurturing blueberries, apples, pears, raspberries, grapes and more. Craftsbury Public Library, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 586-9683, craftsburylibrary@gmail.com.

Spring Pruning Workshop: Tree caretaker Zach Leonard doles out trimming tips, with special attention to fruit-bearing plants. Elmore Roots Nursery, Wolcott, 1-3 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 888-3305, fruitpal@elmoreroots.com.

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School Open House: Music lovers listen in on group jams at a snack potluck. Summit School, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 917-1186.

Springle-ring Shire Festival: Hobbit enthusiasts circle ’round and spring in the air at a lively, Tolkien-esque dance to folk music. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0839.

film

‘A Separation’: See FRI.13, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

‘Marcel Proust’s Time Regained’: On his deathbed, the writer’s memories recall his final volume of In Search of Lost Time in Raoul Ruiz’s ambitious and artful 1999 undertaking. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘The Lavender Hill Mob’: Film critic Rick Winston introduces Charles Crichton’s 1951 crime comedy chronicling a gold-smuggling heist. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7 p.m. $5-8; cash bar. Info, 4310204, outreach@chandler-arts.org.

‘The Salt of Life’: See FRI.13, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

food & drink

Flavors of the Valley: More than 50 farms, restaurants and nonprofits present local foods at the Upper Valley’s premier tasting event, and attendees eat it up. Hartford High School, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $8; free for children 6 and under; $25 maximum per family. Info, 291-9100, ext. 114.

Pancake Breakfast: Batter up! Stacks of flapjacks start the day. Grace United Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 8:30 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-8071.

health & fitness

Laughter Yoga: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon. $10 suggested donation; preregistration by email no later than three hours before the class is appreciated.

Info, 888-480-3772, contact@essasky.com.

Sixth-Grade Auction: Bidders score gently used items at a school fundraiser with plenty of refreshments. Richford Elementary School, viewing begins at 11 a.m.; auction, noon. Free. Info, 524-9771, ext.

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Preparation for Impact: Cameron Jersey leads a yoga class for all skill levels. Partial proceeds benefit the American Heart Association. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 518-314-9872.

conferences

2012 Earth Spirit Conference: See SAT.14, 10 a.m.-noon.

Qi-ercises: Jeff Cochran hosts a session of breathing-in-motion exercises. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. Donations accepted.

Info, 518-314-9872.

crafts

kids

Make Your Own Journal: Pen-and-paper scribblers create a notebook from ephemera with Susan Luce. Vintage Inspired, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, 578-8304, info@vintageinspired. net.

dance

‘A Child’s View of the Holocaust’: Youth members of the New England Dance Ensemble perform this powerful drama ballet about the atrocities of World War II. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 734-2892, mchdj@ mac.com.

‘Come With Me and Breakthrough’: See SAT.14, 1:30 p.m.

Contact Improvisation: Points of physical contact are the starting line for spur-of-the-moment movements. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier. $5-10 for 10 a.m.-11 a.m. class (includes jam); $3-5 for 11 a.m.-noon jam only. Info, 318-3927.

Singing Frogs & Silent Salamanders: Nature lovers troll the peeper pond, identifying the noisemakers behind each croak, quack and trill. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-3 p.m. $10-12 per adult/child pair; $4-5 for each additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

language

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

music

Annie Bogert: The Middlebury senior sings and plays piano in a recital. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-3168.

Ariel Quartet: The oft-awarded, Israeli-born ensemble interprets the masterworks. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 3 p.m. $10-15. Info, 775-0903.

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film

Green Mountain Youth Symphony: The Senior Orchestra performs jointly with two orchestras of young musicians based at the Upper Valley Music Center. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 3 p.m. $5 suggested donation; free for students and seniors. Info, 603-448-0400.

‘Earth Evocation’: Film buffs screen Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio’s 2009 Finnish documentary. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

ScrapArtsMusic: Canadian musicians retrofit industrial castoffs into musical instruments in a melodic feat of recycling. Barre Opera House, 2 p.m. $10-34. Info, 476-8188.

Spring Choral Concert: The College Choir and Women’s Glee club present works by Benjamin Britten, Maurice Ravel, Dominick Argento, Claudio Monteverdi and Volodimir Stetsenko. Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

Sunday Jazz: Traveling bluesman Charlie Hilbert performs on the guitar and harmonica. Brandon Music, 7 p.m. $15-18. Info, 465-4071.

University Concert Band: Students jam out under the direction of D. Thomas Toner. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

sport

Women’s Pickup Soccer: Ladies of all ages and abilities break a sweat while passing around the spherical polyhedron. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, 862-5091.

talks

Jim Cooke: In “Cranky Yankees: All Together, Now!,” the living-history performer portrays New England characters such as Calvin Coolidge, Ethan Allen and John Quincy Adams. Martin Memorial Hall, Ascutney, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 263-5626.

theater

‘Chicago’: See WED.11, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Circus, Circus & More Circus’: See SAT.14, 2 p.m. & 4:30 p.m.

‘Sacred Dances of Tibet’: The Gaden Tsawa Monks raise awareness about Tibetan Buddhism and culture by sharing ancient and sacred rituals.

Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 3 p.m. $16.50; $55 per family of four. Info, 863-5966.

The Metropolitan Opera: HD Live: Spaulding Auditorium: See SAT.14, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-29.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘Titanic: The Musical’: See THU.12, 2 p.m.

words

Ask an Editor: In a Q&A, April Ossmann discusses the nuts and bolts of getting published. Montpelier City Hall, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

‘Boom and Bust: Part 2’: See SAT.14.

Helene Lang: See FRI.13, Groton Free Public Library, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 866-5366.

PoemCity 2012: See WED.11, all day.

business

Marketing Workshop Series: Sarah Spencer of Got Clicks? talks about “Facebookin’ for Bucks.” North End Studio A, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $5; free for Old North End Arts & Business Network members.

Info, 864-7528.

community

Battle of the Campus Chefs: Attendees judge eight chef-and-student teams on appetizers, salads or desserts, based on use of local ingredients, originality, taste and more. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-630-5959.

games

Chess Club: Players of all ages shuffle around royalty and their underlings on a checkered board.

An experienced instructor leads the group. Fairfax Community Library, 2:45-4:15 p.m. Free; bring your own chess set if possible. Info, 849-2420.

health & fitness

Aura-Clearing Clinic: Call to reserve a 15-minute energy-field-healing session. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090.

Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.13, 10 a.m.

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

Secrets of Our Cycle: VCIH graduate Abigail Houghton explores plants that support fertility. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 2247100, info@vtherbcenter.org.

kids

Crafty Afternoon: Nimble fingers turn dyed eggshell fragments and glue into beautiful mosaics.

Fairfax Community Library, 2:45-3:45 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

Early-Literacy Workshop: Parents of preschoolers learn about developing their children’s reading skills at a three-week series including dinner, childcare and free books. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

Ilsley Detectives Club: Fifth and sixth graders craft their own whodunit stories after learning about Sherlock Holmes with Middlebury College student Fanny Zhao. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 388-4097.

Isle La Motte Playgroup: Stories and crafts make for creative play. Yes, there will be snacks. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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

Music With Raphael: See THU.12, 10:45 a.m.

Stories With Megan: Preschoolers ages 2 to 5 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes with Megan Butterfield. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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

language

Spanish Language Group: Hispanoparlantes share poems and short news items en español.

Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 6-8 p.m. Info, 476-7550.

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.

Ryu Goto: A violin sensation solos at a benefit for ALS research at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth Medical School. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. $35-90. Info, 603-448-0400.

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

seminars

Computer Help: Technology snafu? Walk-ins receive assistance on basic internet issues, troubleshooting and operating questions. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2366.

Spend Smart: Those who struggle to save learn savvy skills for managing money. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

talks

Douglas Anderson: Town Hall Theater’s executive director recaps the rebirth of the local landmark. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

words

Book Discussion: 20th-Century Presidents, Post-WWII: Avid readers engage in a dialogue about presidents who loom larger than life, focusing on Garry Willis’ Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man. Barton Public Library, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 525-6524.

Gastronomy Book Discussion: Readers learn about a culture through its food, gobbling up Diana Abu-Jaber’s mouthwatering novel Crescent.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6 p.m. Free.

Info, 879-7576.

Geof Hewitt: The poet and educator asks, “Who Was Robert Frost and Who Are We?” in a reading and group discussion. Auditorium, Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 9:45 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Marjorie Cady Memorial Writers Group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@comcast. net.

PoemCity 2012: See WED.11, all day.

Shape & Share Life Stories: Prompts trigger true tales, which are crafted into compelling narratives and read aloud. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

TUE.17 activism

Global Day of Action Against Military Spending: On Tax Day, the Peace & Justice Center organizes a protest of taxpayer money spent on war.

Burlington Post Office, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 8632345, ext. 8, program@pjcvt.org.

education

environment

Go Solar: Open Informational Session: Folks learn about alternative energy solutions in a Q&A with SunCommon. Community Room. Shaw’s Supermarket, South Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 371-7948.

etc.

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes Annual Celebration: Members honor Kaitlin LeRoux, the 2011 Vermont State Youth of the Year, review past successes and look at the excitement yet to come. Dessert buffet provided by 3 Squares Café. Vergennes Opera House, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 877-6344, bgcvergennes@comcast.net.

fairs & festivals

Ghana*Haiti Festival: See THU.12, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

film

‘A Separation’: See FRI.13, 7:30 p.m.

‘His Girl Friday’: Cary Grant plays a newspaper editor bent on ruining his ex-wife’s wedding plans so she has time to write one last big story in Howard Hawks’ 1940 rom-com. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 748-2600.

‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’: Two men form an unlikely partnership as they pursue hidden gold in Sergio Leone’s 1966 western, starring Clint Eastwood. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 540-3018.

‘The Salt of Life’: See FRI.13, 5:30 p.m.

health & fitness

Community Medical School: Terry Rabinowitz, professor of psychiatry and family medicine, lectures on “At Wit’s End: Recognizing and Dealing With Depression and Stress.” Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2886.

Laughter Yoga: See SUN.15, Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free.

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

kids

CHOMP: Choosing Healthy Options & Meal Planning: Kids and parents engage in hands-on cooking activities. South Hero Congregational Church, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 5275426, fgibbfdirectservice@gmail.com.

Cooking & Booking: Librarians and New England Culinary Institute students bring together the plate and the page. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338.

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

Fairfax Story Hour: Good listeners are rewarded with a variety of fairy tales, crafts and activities.

Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 527-5246.

Hand in Hand: The Middlebury youth group organizes volunteer projects to benefit the environment and the community. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

Highgate Story Hour: See WED.11, 10-11 a.m.

Kids in the Kitchen: Dog lovers whip up pupfriendly cookies — and some human snacks, too.

Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

Magic: The Gathering: Gaming guru Elliot Gowen organizes wizard battles through this popular

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Tropical Storm Irene Support Group: Recovery workers gain peer support as they process their emotions and develop coping skills.

Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 855-767-8800.

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Buddy Guy: Rolling Stone named the electrifying blues man one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. See calendar spotlight. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7 p.m. $30-68. Info, 748-2600.

preschool and nursery programs. Child’s Garden, East Montpelier, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 456-7400.

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‘Unmistaken Child’: A young monk seeks his master’s reincarnation in Nati Baratz’s moving 2008 documentary about relationships from this life to the next. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

Amaryllis: Vermont’s Early Voice: Susanne Peck directs “Lady When I Behold,” a concert of early music vocal ensembles from William Byrd, Orlande de Lassus, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and others. St. Stephen’s on the Green Episcopal Church, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 453-3513.

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Jane Austen in Vermont: UVM professor Eric Lindstrom discusses “How to Love Sanditon,” the novelist’s last and unfinished work. Hauke Campus Center, Champlain College, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 343-2294, jasnavermont@gmail.com.

‘The Salt of Life’: See FRI.13, 5:30 p.m.

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‘A Separation’: See FRI.13, 7:30 p.m.

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trading-card game. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

Music With Robert: Music lovers of all ages engage in sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Preschool Story Hour: Stories, rhymes and songs help children become strong readers. Sarah Partridge Community Library, East Middlebury, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

Richford Playgroup: Rug rats let their hair down for tales and activities. Cornerstone Bridges to Life Community Center, Richford, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426, fgibbfdirectservice@gmail.com.

Science & Stories: Kids have aha! moments regarding the planet on Earth Day. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

South Hero Playgroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

St. Albans Playgroup: Creative activities and storytelling engage the mind. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Story Hour: Picture books and crafts catch the attention of 3- to 5-year-olds. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Book Discussion Series: China’s Transformation: Bookworms consider how the country’s growth has affected its people, culture and environment, using Rob Gifford’s China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power as reference. Walden Community Library, West Danville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 563-2630.

John Chamberlain: The 1980 St. Mike’s grad recites his poetry at the college’s annual alumni reading. Pomerleau Alumni Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

Neil Shepard, Karin Gottshall & Susan Thomas: Three established Vermont poets read aloud and sign their books. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

PoemCity 2012: See WED.11, all day.

Roger Bonair-Agard: This award-winning performance poet reads aloud. Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 454-8311.

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Bassnectar: The electronic music and dubstep artist spans the musical spectrum. VibeSquaD open.

Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 7 p.m. $37.5040.75. Info, 863-5966.

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World Book Night: Local volunteers prepare for a national campaign on April 23, in which they’ll join peers in giving away half a million free books.

Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

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Toddler Art Tuesdays: Wee ones dress for mess and develop their artistic sensibilities in weekly play time. Parents and caregivers attend; snacks and outdoor activities follow. Center School Learning Community, Plainfield, 9:30-11 a.m. $10.

Info, 454-1947.

Pause Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Levity Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 864-5088.

Heliand Consort: Woodwind trios take listeners from the baroque through modern periods with works by Georg Philipp Telemann, Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Holst and Malcolm Arnold. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0471.

University Symphony Orchestra: The ensemble plays up its latest projects, under the direction of Yutaka Kono. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

seminars

AARP Safe Driver Course: Motor vehicle operators ages 50 and up take a quick trip to the classroom — with no tests and no grades! — for a how-to refresher. Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans, 4:30 p.m. $12-14; preregister. Info, 483-6335.

Buddhism Series: Buddhism in a Nutshell author Amy Miller helps participants cultivate a rich spiritual practice through mindful living. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Horse Sense Demonstration: Certified equine guided educator Lucinda Newman explores human leadership and social dynamics by identifying parallels in horse communication. Horses and Pathfinders Center, Moretown, 5-6:30 p.m. $10; free for Hunger Mountain Co-op members; preregister.

Info, 223-1903, lucinda@horsesandpathfinders.com.

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William McKone: The historian, author and reenactor rewinds to the days when Vermont entered the Civil War. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. A living-history presentation precedes the talk from 1 to 5 p.m. in the center of campus. Free. Info, 635-1251, samuel.skelding@jsc. edu.

Reb Moshe Waldoks: For the annual Rabbi Max B. Wall Lecture, this spiritual leader, storyteller and standup comedian presents “The Art of Dialogue: The Jewish-Tibetan Buddhist Encounter.” Hoehl Welcome Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

business

Mindful Success Circle Networking Group: Service professionals and small-business owners strive to make a difference in their communities.

Thirty minutes of optional seated meditation precede an hourlong meeting and one-on-one connection time with peers. Shambhala Meditation Center, Montpelier, 10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 225-5960.

Spring Business Fair: Workshops, networking and presentations help biz kids grow or start successful Vermont ventures. Burlington City Hall, 2-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7187.

comedy

Improv Night: See WED.11, 8-10 p.m.

community

Be the Change for a Healthier Milton: Community members discuss substance use and abuse in a solution-focused town meeting. Dinner and child care provided. Milton Public Library, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, 893-1009.

Community Dinner: Diners get to know their neighbors at a fun, low-key meal hosted by the Winooski Coalition for a Safe and Peaceful Community. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; bring a potluck dish to share. Info, 655-4565.

Open ROTA Meeting: See WED.11, 8 p.m.

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Make Stuff!: See WED.11, 6-9 p.m.

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Guided Argentine Tango Práctica: See WED.11, 8:15-10:15 p.m.

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Discover Waldorf Early Education: Children play while adults hear about the objectives of the preschool and nursery programs. Orchard Valley Waldorf School, East Montpelier, 4-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 456-7400.

Co-op Solar Info Session: Energy-conscious Vermonters learn about installing and using solar water heating for the home — as well as the federal and state incentives to do so. Charlotte Community Library, 7-8 p.m. Info, 860-4090, info@ecvt.net.

Prindle Wissler 100th Birthday Hoopla: Community members celebrate the life of the late local artist with birthday cake, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Wissler’s work will be on display. Partial proceeds benefit the visual-arts program at Mary Hogan School. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 4:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 382-9222.

Turkish Cultural Day: Speeches, presentations, artifacts, food, music and a whirling dervish performance bring together community members and elected officials. Cedar Creek Room, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 315-395-1143.

film

‘A Separation’: See FRI.13, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang’: Wrongly implicated in a diner robbery, a World War I vet finds himself trapped in a life of crime in Mervyn LeRoy’s 1932 drama. Roger H. Perry Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, 5:45-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2700.

‘Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance’: See WED.11, 7 p.m.

‘The Salt of Life’: See FRI.13, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.

‘The Woman in Black’: Harry Potter — er, Daniel Radcliffe — plays a young lawyer who happens upon a house of horrors in James Watkins’ chilling thriller. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘Transparent Radiation’: Hillary Archer’s documentary explores common misconceptions about nuclear energy. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 238-4927.

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Beating the Sugar Blues: Got a sweet tooth?

Learn about rice syrup, raw honey and other sweeteners and their importance to our health. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org.

health & fitness

Back Pain & the Alexander Technique: People with chronic pain learn to reduce extraneous effort and strain with Sami Pincus. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

kids

Baby Time: See WED.11, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Chess Club: See WED.11, 5:30 p.m.

Enosburg Playgroup: See WED.11, 10-11:30 a.m.

Fairfield Playgroup: See WED.11, 10-11:30 a.m.

Family Scavenger Hunt Hike: Pull on your mud boots! Walkers investigate the wooded trails. Meet in the parking lot. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426, fgibbfdirectservice@gmail.com.

Highgate Story Hour: See WED.11, 11:15 a.m.12:15 p.m.

Leda Schubert: The Vermont author shares her most recent picture book Reading to Peanut. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 11 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 985-3999, flyingpigevents@gmail.com.

Middlebury Babies & Toddlers Story Hour: See WED.11, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

Moving & Grooving With Christine: See WED.11, 11-11:30 a.m.

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ME2/orchestra: A classical music ensemble composed of individuals with mental-health issues and the people who support them presents works by Beethoven and Schubert. A reception follows. North

End Studios, Burlington, 8 p.m. Donations accepted.

Info, 863-6713.

Middlebury Wind Ensemble: Jerry Shedd conducts the instrumental group. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

seminars

Home-Sharing Orientation: Attendees learn more about the agency that matches elders and people with disabilities with others seeking affordable housing or caregiving opportunities.

HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, noon-12:30 p.m. & 5:30-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625, home@sover.net.

Keys to Credit: See THU.12, 6-8 p.m.

talks

Adam Boyce: In “The Old Country Fiddler: Charles Ross Taggart, Vermont’s Traveling Entertainer,” the speaker intersperses stories of the performer’s life and career with live fiddling and humorous sketches. Gilbert Hart Library, Wallingford, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 446-3366.

Douglas Brooks: The writer and researcher recalls his days spent as “An Apprentice Boat Builder in Japan.” South Hero Community Library, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 372-6209.

John McClaughry: The founder of the Ethan Allen Institute delivers “Thomas Jefferson’s Timeless Message to America and the World.” University Amphitheatre. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 695-1448.

Mark Greenberg: In “Kitchen Tunks and Parlor Songs,” the musician and educator offers an illustrated presentation about the state’s music history.

Bradford Academy, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4423.

Tom Jiamachello: The Vintage Inspired vendor discusses the remarkable work of late Vermonter David Gil and his Bennington Potters studio.

Vintage Inspired, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 578-8304, mary@vintageinspired.net.

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‘APPetite’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m.

‘As You Like It’: Lovers, disguises and misunderstandings abound in Jason Jacobs’ new adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, presented by Vermont Stage Company. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-32.50. Info, 863-5966.

‘Chicago’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m.

‘Spring Awakening’: JSC professors Russ Longtin and Bethany Plissey direct this gutsy rock musical about teenage sexuality. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 10 a.m. $5; free for the JSC community. Info, 635-1476.

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Book Discussion: Readers analyze The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler, a collection of short stories that explores human thought and behavior.

Hartland Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2473.

Book Discussion: Masters of the Short Story: Bibliophiles discover the origins of this art form by conversing about Ann Beattie’s Park City.

South Burlington Community Library, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 652-7076.

PoemCity 2012: See WED.11, all day.

Poetry Reading: New Hampshire poet laureate Walter Butts reads from his body of work. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Richard Watts: The UVM research professor gives all the gritty details in a discussion about his book, Public Meltdown: The Story of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878. m

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ACTING FOR FILM & TELEVISION: Cost: $160/class, Wed., 6:30-9:30. Location: Venue TBA, Waterbury. Info: Dawn Kearon, 498-5051, ruby_to@yahoo. com, waterhouseactingstudio.com.

Join acclaimed acting teacher Richard Waterhouse for an insightful weekly class utilizing scenes from film and television. Learn to focus your acting for the camera, deepen your connection to the other actor and incorporate your life into your work. Class runs Wednesday nights, April through June 2012.

FINDING YOUR MISSION IN LIFE: Weekley on Wed., May 2-23, 7-9 p.m., + an individual session. Cost: $120/ course. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

Discover the unique way you are meant to make a difference in the world and open your life to joy, meaning and wonder. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author, with a personal reading by a member of the Life Mission Institute team.

SCENE STUDY CLASS FOR ADULT MEN AND WOMEN: Apr. 30-May 24, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $160/series.

Location: The Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., Suite 250, Burlington. Info: 448-0086, info@ girlsniteoutvt.com, girlsniteoutvt.com.

Team-taught by local artists Jennifer Warwick and Kelly Kendall. You’ll explore acting techniques and hone your performance skills in this fun workshop.

In addition to an overview of classic and contemporary acting methods, your creative work will be enhanced by weekly scene coaching, acting exercises, voice production and body work.

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HOME-MOZZARELLA-MAKING CLINIC: Apr. 28, 1-2:30 p.m. Cost: $35/person.

Location: Inspired Yoga, 1077 Rte. 242, Jay. Info: 323-7911, jaywestfieldyoga. com. Learn the step-by-step process of crafting your own mozzarella cheese with cheese enthusiast Liz Teuber.

When we’re done, you’ll have an opportunity to sample the fruit of your labor along with some fresh flavors of the season. Clinic limited to 15 participants; enroll soon to ensure your spot.

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TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington.

Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, 18 Langdon St., Montpelier.

AllTogetherNow, 170 Cherry Tree Hill Rd., E. Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com.

Burlington! Beginners’ Taiko starts Tuesday, April 24; kids, 4:30 p.m., $60/6 weeks; adults, 5:30 p.m., $72/6 weeks.

Advanced classes start Monday, April 23, 5:30 and 7 p.m. Cuban Bata and house-call classes by request. East Montpelier Thursdays! Cuban congas start April 19, $45/3 weeks.

empowerment DISCOVER YOUR PATH: Apr. 14, 1-4:30 p.m. Cost: $40/3.5 hrs. of fun. Location: Bethany Church/Chapel (labyrinth room), 115 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Joanne Hardy, 223-3246, joannehardy789@msn.com. Honoring your unique Self, discover your path to success and happiness in this informative and playful workshop. Here you will be offered tools and insights to create new habits that empower you to access the freedom and happiness inherent within.

Four dynamic presenters offer their unique gifts for your transformation.

THE POWER & USES OF SOUND: May 5-6, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $75/incl. lunch & snacks both days. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

Learn how to use sound, both vocal and instrumental, to heal yourself, improve your learning ability and enrich your life in this hands-on workshop. Participants will receive sound-making devices and a specially formulated CD. No musical ability or training is necessary. Led by Sue Mehrtens.

Edible/medicinal plants, organic gardening; nature arts, crafts & games; field trips for insects (dragonfliles!) & swimming.

Teen to Adult Adventures: Half-or full-day field trips.

YOGA FOR VERMONT CITY Edible / medicinal plants home study.

MARATHONERS W/ ERIKA NESTOR: Programs & presentations.

Apr. 23-May 28, 5:45-7:15 p.m., Weekly Gift certificates for Special Occasions. on Mon. Cost: $99/6-wk. series.

Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn Contact: Naturalist Laurie DiCesare St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, yoga@ 893-1845 or NatureHaven8@Hughes.net evolutionvt.com, evolutionvt.com. This yoga class will be designed around the schedule of runners preparing for the Vermont City Marathon. Classes will be 16t-NatureHaven041112.indd 1 4/6/12 3:10 PM offered on Monday after the runners’ long runs over the weekend. Join us to replenish your body and build strength for the challenge of the marathon.

exercise TANGOFLOW! W/ CATHY SALMONS: Weekly, Wed., 7-8 p.m. Cost: $12/ class (monthly rates: $10/class).

Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington.

Info: Burlington Dances, 863-3369, info@BurlingtonDances.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Explore the energy, sensuality and passion of Argentine tango while getting a great whole-body workout! Rhythmic, expressive, sweaty. TangoFlow! dancers experience the grace and beauty that define the art of Tango, to tone and condition, giving you a tango dancer’s body, whether you dance tango or not!

No partner needed!

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RUNNING W/ MIND OF MEDITATION: Apr. 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $40/7-hour class($25 discounted). Location: Karme Choling: Shambhala Meditation Center, 369 Patneaude Lane, Barnet. Info: Karme Choling: Shambhala Meditation Center, Scott Robbins, 633-2384, srobbins@karmecholing.org, karmecholing. org. Join us for an extraordinary day of exploration in beautiful rural Vermont and discover a deeper experience of peace through meditation and running.

The program will include meditation instruction and practice, stretches specifically for runners, group discussion, and a contemplative group run. Open to runners and walkers of all levels.

WOMEN’S BEGINNER WALK OR RUN: May 2-Jul. 25, 5:45-7 p.m. Cost: $45/ program if registered online by 4/25.

Location: Williston Central School, 195 Central School Dr., Williston. Info: Michele Morris, 598-5265, michele@ firststridesvermont.com, firststridesvermont.com. First Strides is a proven, fun 12-week program that uses encouragement and training to improve the fitness, self-esteem and support network of women of all ages and abilities. Walkers and beginning runners welcome. This program is self-paced. It doesn’t matter where you start, it only matters that you start!

gardening 2-DAY OUTDOOR DRY STONE WALL WORKSHOP: May 19-20, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $300/person. Limited space, rain or shine. Location: Dutton Farm House, Dummerston. Info: Zon Eastes, 380-9550, zon.eastes@thestonetrust. org, thestonetrust.org. The Stone Trust offers workshops in the time-honored craft of building a dry stone wall.

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BELLY DANCE & TANGOFLOW!: Weekly: Tue., 6:45-8 p.m., Wed., 7-8 p.m. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill Street, suite 372, Burlington.

Info: Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Experience the movement, music and tradition of modern Egyptian belly dance, along with contemporary interpretations of this ancient dance form with Gail McKenzie. Try TangoFlow! with Cathy Salmons. Explore the energy, sensuality and passion of Argentine Tango while getting a great whole-body workout!

Rhythmic, expressive and fun! No partner needed.

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Day Camp: June to August $30 per day; $125 per week 8am-5pm weekdays Ages 6-9 or 10-13

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BODYWORK FOR COUPLES: Apr. 21, 3-7 p.m., Every 2 weeks on Sat. Cost: $60/4-hr. class. Location: Life in Motion, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington.

Info: South End Thai Massage, Sue Mahany, 752-6342, suemahany@gmail. com, facebook.com/pages/South-EndThai-Massage/268575496549313.

Learn a bodywork routine that increases flexibility in the hips and shoulders and reduces tension in the back. Great for couples, friends and athletic partners, Thai massage is done on a mat while both partners wear loose-fitting clothes. Come and learn to share the gift of your hands!

ACCESS CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access. Authentic Thai Food, May 17, $35. Vietnamese Specials, May 15, $35.

Gelato, Sorbet, Italian Ice, May 14, $25.

Learn a basic custard and create fruitbased “Italian ice cream.” Fresh Berry Pie!, May 9, $25. Prepare a guaranteed crust and fill with juicy sweet berries.

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SHAKTI DANCE W/ SILA ROOD: Weekly: Mon., 6:45-7:45 p.m. Cost: $12/single class. Location: Burlington Dances Studio, upstairs in the Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 8633369, Info@BurlingtonDances.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Explore the mansion of creation in your hips with belly dance, yoga, Brazilian, hip-hop and salsa steps. Harness the power that simmers at your base and explodes into dance with an unlimited axis of movement. Practice the dances enjoyed by women from many cultures over the ages: Shakti Dance!

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WATERCOLOR ON CANVAS: Apr. 21-May 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $175/6-hr. workshop. Location: Jackie Mangione Studio, 266 Pine St., 2nd floor, Burlington. Info: Self, Jackie Mangione, 598-1504, jackiepaints@ comcast.net, jackiemangione.com.

Learn canvas preparation techniques for watercolor with artist Jackie Mangione. One-day workshop open to teens and adults. Using subject matter that interests you, we will explore creative techniques to apply to our canvas.

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LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Lessons also avail. in St. Albans. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@ firststepdance.com, FirstStepDance. com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance!

Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary.

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JERICHO PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL: Cost: $35/workshop. Location: Community Center, Jericho. Info: 893-4447, janesmorgan@comcast.net. Collage with Beth Barndt, April 14, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Painting the Landscape in Oils, no drawing skills required, with Jane Morgan, April 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Painting Spring With Watercolors with Kathleen Berry Bergeron, April 28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

ADOBE WORKSHOPS: May 9. Cost: $20/full day, $10/half day for AIGA members. $100/full day, $70/half day for nonmembers. Free if you become an AIGA member. Location: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in the Film House, 1 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 496-2326. AIGA Vermont presents Adobe Muse Workshop, 9 a.m.-noon.

Create a website in just a day as easily as you create layouts for print. Adobe Sneak Peek Workshop, 1-4 p.m. Be on the first to hear about what exciting things Adobe has coming our way.

Register now at vermont.aiga.org.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 7:15 p.m. $13/person for 1-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!

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Instructors, certified with the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain, guide participants in the hands-on skills that can be used on all types of stone, and in a variety of landscape applications. Instructors: Chris Tanguay, Yarmouth, Maine, Master Craftsman, DSWA certified; Matthew Carter, Topsham, Maine, Advanced Craftsman, DSWA certified.

PRUNING BASICS: Apr. 12, noon12:45 p.m. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 658-2433. Learn the proper techniques for effective pruning and improve the health of your garden. Instructed by Charlie Nardozzi. Free to attend.

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WATER GARDENING BASICS: Apr. 19, noon-12:45 p.m. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 658-2433.

Whether it’s a water bowl, small feature or pond, Dave walks us through the basics of water gardening. Free to attend. Instructed

by Dave Hamelin.

WORKING W/ FLAT STONE: 1st Sat. & 3rd Sun., Apr.-Jun. Cost: $200/ course. Location: Jeffersonville Quarry, Jeffersonville. Info: 6445014, jeffersonvillequarry@yahoo. com. Jeffersonville Quarry will be offering classes on how to work with flat stone. The instructor, Tim Aiken, has a degree in landscape design and environmental science and 20 years of experience in drylaying flat stone for walls, patios, stairs. Class size limited. Call today.

glass CREATIVE GLASSBLOWING CLASS AT AO GLASS STUDIO!: Individual classes call for details. Cost: $180/2-hr. class. Location: AO Glass Studio, 416 Pine St., behind Speeder & Earl’s, Burlington. Info: 540-0223, info@aoglass.com, aoglass.com. Experience the heat and fluidity of glass with one of our professional glassblowers. We guide you through making five glass objects that you can take home. Bring your sunglasses and your desire to try something new in our friendly, warm glass studio.

Also open to events and group demonstrations.

healing HOLISTIC PATIENT CARE: Jun. 2-3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $250/ workshop. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 288-8160, scott@elementsofhealing.net, elementsofhealing.net. This two-day workshop is for nurses and other health care practitioners. It will introduce a variety of assessment and treatment strategies rooted in Chinese medicine. It will include

pulse and abdominal assessement as well as massage techniques that can easily be integrated into any modality of practice.

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253-8358 education@helenday.com helenday.com UNDERSTANDING TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY ART W/ SUZY SPENCE: May 2, 16, 30 & Jun. 13, 10-11:30 a.m. Cost: $40/series, $12/lecture. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. How are minimalism, abstract expressionism and pop movements still important to painters today? How have feminism, race and cultural identity changed the very shape and nature of art? How does recent photography parallel painting?

These will be the topics discussed in this four-week lecture series. You may sign up for the entire series or for individual lectures.

STILL-LIFE OIL PAINTING W/ EVELYN MCFARLANE: May 3-31, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $165/course. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Using a method to facilitate drawing objects of various colors and forms, you will learn how to paint a still life. Students will learn basic concepts of mixing and applying color, effective painting of light and shadow, and refining of edges and form, to create vivid and lively works. Each student can expect to complete a large still life as well as a series of smaller color sketches.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY II W/ PAUL ROGERS: May 1-29, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Weekly on Tue. Cost: $150/course. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Participants will learn how to manage and edit digital photos using Adobe software, discuss photo aesthetics, and be given weekly assignments. Digital basics will be reviewed. Class will do short outdoor photo sessions when possible. Students must have their own DSLR or small digital camera with manual adjustments.

herbs HERBAL STRESS-LESS W/ LAURA: Apr. 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $20/2hr. hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 W. Canal

St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, Purple Shutter Herbs, 8654372, info@purpleshutter.com, purpleshutterherbs.com. Together, we’ll explore ways to handle stress effectively. Using a handful of herbs and essential oils that work specifically to calm, relax and fortify, you’ll create your own first-rate “rescue kit,” which will include calming herbal tea, a de-stressing footbath blend and a quick roll-on tension tamer.

HERBS FROM THE GROUND UP: Apr. 30-Oct. 15, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $850/5-mo. apprenticeship.

Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Wood Rd., Middlesex. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Lisa Mase, 224-7100, lisa@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org. Herbs From the Ground Up is a unique herbal apprenticeship with Larken Bunce through Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. Learn herb gardening for herbal apothecaries; garden design, soil amendment, seed starting, planting, plant uses; best practices for harvesting, drying, medicine making and seed saving; how to grow and use Asian medicinal species.

LOTION & BODACIOUS BODY BUTTER: Apr. 17, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $20/2-hr. hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 W. Canal St., Winooski.

Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, Purple Shutter Herbs, 865-4372, info@ purpleshutter.com, purpleshutterherbs.com. To keep your skin looking radiant, we’ll be making two luxurious lotions, all skin types, using essential oils creating heavenly scents. Then a soft and hard body butter to protect and moisturize your skin. With Kelley, discover your inner beauty as we teach you to care for your outer beauty.

THE ARMCHAIR PLANT WALK: Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $15/2-hr. info-filled workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 W. Canal St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, Purple shutter Herbs, 8654372, info@purpleshutter.com, purpleshutterherbs.com. Prepare for what’s coming! This class, we’ll be indoors using pressed plants, photos, dried plant material, tinctures and teas to learn about the plants we are likely to find in early spring. Topics covered will include where and when to look for plants, harvesting guidelines, preparation and preservation, and recipes.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wisdom of the Herbs 2012: Apr. 21-22, May 19-20, Jun. 16-17, Jul. 14-15, Aug. 11-12, Sep. 8-9, Oct. 6-7 & Nov. 3-4, 2012. Wild Edibles Intensive 2012: Spring/Summer term: May 27, Jun. 24 & Jul. 22, 2012. Summer/Fall term: Aug. 19, Sep. 16 & Oct. 14, 2012. VSAC nondegree grants avail. to qualifying applicants. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

language ASI APRENDEMOS ESPANOL: Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.

com, spanishwaterburycenter. com. Broaden your horizons, connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Our fifth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private instruction, student tutoring, AP. See our website for complete information or contact us for details.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes meet on Tue. & Thu. at 6:45 p.m.

Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington.

Info: 951-8900, burlingtonaikido. org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. We offer adult classes seven days a week. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers ages 7-17. We also offer classes for children ages 5-6. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome.

AIKIDO CLASSES: Cost: $65/4 consecutive Tue., uniform incl.

Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org.

Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others and confidence in oneself. Vermont Aikido invites you to explore this graceful martial art in a safe, supportive environment.

MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CENTER: Please visit website for schedule. Location: Martial Way Self Defense Center, 3 locations, Colchester, Milton, St. Albans. Info: 893-8893, martialwayvt.com.

Beginners will find a comfortable and welcoming environment, a courteous staff, and a nontraditional approach that values the beginning student as the most important member of the school.

Experienced martial artists will be impressed by our instructors’ knowledge and humility, our realistic approach, and our straightforward and fair tuition and billing policies. We are dedicated to helping every member achieve his or her highest potential in the martial arts. Kempo, Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Wing Chun, Arnis, Thinksafe Self-Defense.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m.

1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj. com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment.

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

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

Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, elementsofhealing.net. This program teaches two forms of massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available.

NCBTMB-assigned school.

FOCUS ON THE SPINE: May 12-13, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245/14 CEUs ($225 if paid by Apr. 23; call about introductory risk-free fee offer).

Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail. com. In this class we will use Ortho-bionomy to explore a simple and natural means of working with neuromuscular tension (and pain) patterns that is gentle, effective and transformative. We access the innate, self-corrective reflexes, achieving pain relief and structural balance. We will focus on specific techniques for facilitating release in the neck, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and pelvis.

meditation DREAM YOGA RETREAT: Apr. 13-15, 7-5 p.m. Cost: $125/wknd.

Location: Shelburne Old Town Hall, 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne.

Info: Younge Drodul Ling, 6840452, VermontRSL@gmail.com, youngedrodulling.org. Meditation master Younge Khachab Rinpoche will teach the Tibetan Buddhist methods of Dream Yoga during this weekend retreat. Dream Yoga is the practice of meditation while in the sleep state. Anyone with an interest in Buddhism, beginner or advanced, is welcome and will benefit from these rare and precious instructions.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Sat. of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An Open House occurs every third Fri. evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart.

By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

MEDITATION: TOOLS FOR LIVING: Apr. 14, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $50/5.5-hour class ($40 discounted). Location: Karme Choling: Shambhala Meditation Center, 369 Patneaude Lane, Barnet.

Info: Karme Choling: Shambhala Meditation Center, Nicholas EdenWalker, 633-2384, reception@ karmecholing.org, karmecholing. org. Learn mindfulness meditation, a simple technique for training the mind’s alertness and presence to bring flexibility and poise into daily

life situations. Whether dealing with distractedness, busyness, information overload or other stressful situations, mindfulness allows us to appreciate the challenges of life and respond with confidence.

photography ONE-ON-ONE PHOTOGRAPHY: Location: Linda Rock Photography, 48 Laurel Dr., Essex Jct. Info: Linda Rock Photography, Linda Rock, 238-9540, lrphotography@comcast.net, lindarockphotography. com. Digital photography, one-onone private classes of your choice: beginner digital photography, intermediate photography, digital workflow, lighting techniques, set up your photo business, portrait posing, Photoshop and more. $69/ half day, $125/full day.

SPRING IN VT PHOTO WORKSHOP: May 18, 2 p.m., through May 21, noon. Cost: $495/person. Location: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, central Vermont. Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops , Kurt Budliger, 2234022, info@kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops.com. Spring in Vermont is one of the most magical times to be outdoors exploring the landscape with a camera. During this three-day, intensive photography workshop we’ll explore and photograph some of the most stunning Vermont landscapes as they burst with spring color.

pilates HERMINE LOVES PILATES MAT!: Hermine Loves Teaching Pilates Mat Class weekly Mon., 11 a.m., Wed., 4:15 p.m., Sat., 9:45 a.m.

Cost: $13/$13/drop-in. Better rates on your class card. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates. com. For a strong and beautifully relaxed body, mind and spirit, join Hermine’s Mat classes in a calm and professional studio. In addition to strength and flexibility Pilates mat exercise relieves stress, promotes whole body health, restores awareness, and results in a general sense of well-being. Private sessions available by appointment.

psychology CREATING A LIFE: THE PATH OF INDIVIDUATION: Apr. 19-Jun. 7, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $90/series. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: 244-7909.

Discover your unique spiritual path via a variety of hands-on activities and exercises set in the context of the individuation process as Jung defined it. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

self-help CLEARING EMOTIONAL PATTERNS: Apr. 21-May 5, 9-11:15 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $60/2-hr. class, 3 consecutive Saturdays. Location: Psychological Services, 6 Hillcrest Rd., Essex Jct. Info: Esther Palmer, 878-1588, esther@circleofsage. com, circleofsage.com. Explore emotional centers of the brain: connections among body, mind, emotions; identify limiting beliefs/ emotional patterns; use essential oils, cognitive messages and visualization to release old emotional patterns and reframe “lessons.”

Experiential class with opportunities to practice in between classes,

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shamanism Walking the Path of the Shaman: Weekly individual or group sessions as requested.

Location: Shaman’s Flame Offices, Stowe and Woodbury. Info: Shaman’s Flame, Sarah Finlay & Peter Clark, 253-7846, peterclark13@gmail.com, shamansflame.com. connect to a more expanded level of consciousness and engage the elemental intelligence of the universe. In group or individual sessions, learn the techniques of shamanic active meditation, called journeying. Work toward healing many emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of yourself, as well as gaining insight into your life path.

stress reduction the effeCtS of tRaUma & StReSS on BoDY, minD & SPiRit: May 4, 7 p.m. Cost: $15/ class. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. learn a series of valuable tools for healing the effects of trauma and stress in a playful format that provides time for self-inquiry with careful instruction. Taught by Julie Teetsov, PhD, life coach, yoga teacher and analytical chemist, visiting us from New Zealand.

tai chi Snake-StYle tai Chi ChUan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

Classes, Fine Art, Faux Finishes, Murals Maggie Standley 233.7676 wingspanpaintingstudio.com Arts-infused, interdisciplinary, inspiring classes, camps and workshops for kids, teens and adults. Visit the classes section at wingspanpaintingstudio.com for more details. Sliding scale available, all abilities welcome.

Let your imagination soar! skills to focus on our goals and claim the life we desire.

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evolUtion Yoga: $14/class, $130/class card. $5-$10 community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 864-9642, yoga@evolutionvt. com, evolutionvt.com. evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner to advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, anusara-inspired, Kripalu and Iyengar yoga. Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre-/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog. gentle Yoga & BeginneR ClaSSeS: Mon., 7:30 p.m.; Wed., 7:30 p.m.; Thu., 9 a.m. Cost: $12/ drop-in rate, 10-class cards, mo. passes avail. Location: Yoga Vermont, 113 Church St., Downtown Burlington. Info: 2380594, kathy@yogavermont.com, yogavermont.com. Yoga Vermont offers ongoing Gentle Yoga classes. These classes are suitable for beginning students as well as advanced practitioners looking for a relaxing, nourishing practice. Our studio is quiet and clean. We have props or you can bring your own.

The last Thursday of each month is Restorative Yoga. laUghing RiveR Yoga: Yoga classes 7 days a week. Cost: $13/ class; $110/10 classes; $130/ unlimited monthly, Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. classes by donation, $5-15.

Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington.

Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com. We offer yoga classes, workshops and retreats taught by experienced and compassionate instructors in a variety of styles, including Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vinyasa, Yoga Trance Dance, Yin, Restorative and more. study with amazing guest teachers including prana expert Will Duprey from Miami on april 15 and Jessica Jollie on april 30.

PRenatal vinYaSa Yoga teaCheR tRaining: Location: Inspired Yoga, 1077 Rte. 242, Jay. Info: 323-7911, jaywestfieldyoga. com. June 22-24: a three-day intensive Thai yoga massage course with Mukti Buck, the founding director of the Vedic conservatory.

July 28-august 16: a Vsacapproved 200-hour yoga teacher training with Danielle VardakasDusko of Honest Yoga. september 19-23: Prenatal vinyasa yoga teacher training and retreat. Forty continuing education hours.

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kiDS CamPS: SPRing BReak & SUmmeR SeSSionS: Spring break: Apr. 23-27, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., after care avail., $300, ages 6-13. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: 233-7676, wingspanpaintingstudio.com. The Marvelous & Magical in Fiction & art! enter a world of stories and visual art, creating characters and skits. Inspiration will be taken from comics, fairy tales and surrealist art. lunch/ games outdoors weather permitting! Three summer sessions available: art & French Week, art & science Week, art & Nature Week.

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Unveiling the life YoU Want, USing YoUR oWn inneR ReSoURCeS W/ SPeCial gUeSt Pam ClaRk: Apr. 21-May 5, 10-11:30 a.m. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcyt. com. each of us has inner wisdom that is within our reach, to guide us through all of life’s decisions.

This series of three workshops is designed to help participants access and use one’s own internal navigation system: developing

living YoUR Whole life, a WoRkShoP foR Women: Apr. 21, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $65/incl. workshop materials.

Location: Women Writing for (a) Change Studio, Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Anthe Demeter Athas, 865-4416. Take time to step away from the world and reflect, explore and refresh your vision of and for yourself through guided writing activities, personal exploration time, drawing and collage. space is limited to 12 participants.

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taming the inneR CRitiC: WoRking W/ the JUDging minD W/ iSaBeall logan: Apr. 17-May 29, 5-6:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $95/6-wk. series. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcyt.com. Often the first step on the path to healing, balance and growth is making peace with our own inner critic. This workshop will use presentations, meditation, readings, journaling and discussion to foster the natural self-compassion waiting to be discovered in each of us.

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Yang-StYle tai Chi: New 8-wk. beginners class session begins Apr. 25, 5:30 p.m. $125. Cost: $16/ class. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Turn right into driveway immed. after the railroad tracks. Located in the old Magic Hat Brewery building. Info: 318-6238. Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease in blood pressure and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Janet Makaris, instructor.

gUeSt Roz gRoSSman: Apr. 16Jun. 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $180/course. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, So. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcyt.com. In this eight-week program, participants will learn mindfulness meditation practices that have been known to reduce stress and anxiety and promote health and wellness. The program includes guided instruction in a body scan, mindfulness meditation and gentle yoga. Participants are asked to practice at home with guided cDs.

music SEVEN DAYS: When and how did you first experience hip-hop?

SIGNMARK: When I was a teenager, I translated many different songs to sign language, like Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, AC/DC, NKOTB, etc. The first time I saw Coolio, Run DMC, the Fugees and MC Hammer, I started to read their lyrics and watch their music videos. They took my heart, and I started learning more about hip-hop (music, lyrics, art, clothes, etc.). I realized that I could make songs about equal rights, and that hip-hop would be a perfect channel for me to share my experience and life. So I started translating different hip-hop songs to sign language. Then I started writing my own songs.

SD: Is there much of a hip-hop scene in Finland?

The hip-hop scene in Finland is bigger than before. There are more hip-hop

SD: What was the initial reception to you as an artist? Was there suspicion from other rappers, or more than there would normally be for a new rapper? Did you have to prove yourself?

It was 50/50, for both the hearing and deaf communities. In the hearing community, some people are so interested that sign language came to the music world. It’s a new, fresh and great experience. Some people still think that deaf is always deaf, and music is for ears. They forget eyes, sense of touch, etc. Also, for some hearing people this thing is too much for them: deaf guy, sign language, hip-hop.

Some deaf people are so happy to have a new role model. They can use my name to show their hearing friends and family that they can do anything.

Others are excited to go to a nightclub and see an artist who is a deaf.

Some deaf people think that music is still just for hearing people. I think that it’s because of their experience: “You are deaf, you can’t play music!”

SD: You use a lot of very low frequencies in your beats and production. Is that because you can actually hear, or perhaps feel, notes and beats that low?

Yep, I have to feel all those beats on stage so I can count rhythms. All those kicks and vibrations are the most important things for me! I can’t live without it. I can hear some voices, but don’t know if it is a man or woman. Or is it piano or guitar? If someone screams my name I might hear it, but I don’t know where that voice came from.

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songs in radio and more hip-hop artists in festivals. Finnish people are really more interested in hip-hop music now than before, but still it’s not as big as rock, pop or heavy metal.

SD: Do you write with a particular flow or rhythmic cadence in mind? If so, how does the MC know if he’s using the correct flow?

First, I write a story about the song. Then Brandon [the MC] writes lyrics about it, including flows. After that I make lyrics for sign language and “arrange” flows to sign language (not voice). So if someone doesn’t know sign language, they might miss my flow.

SD: When did you adopt the viewpoint that deafness isn’t a handicap but a linguistic minority?

When I studied at university. It was the first time I really asked, Who am I? What are my needs? What things could make me better? Also, I started comparing my deafness to other disabilities like blindness, people in wheelchairs, etc.

SD: Are there other genres of music you can experience in the way you experience hip-hop?

When you know what music feels like, you can do anything with it.

SD: If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing?

Ice-hockey player. Go, Finland, go!

SD: What is the biggest misconception that hearing people have about the deaf?

That deaf people are disabled. I don’t feel that I’m disabled. I have my own interpreter, because hearing people don’t know sign language. But if we all knew sign language, I wouldn’t need one.

SD: Who are some artists you idolize?

I don’t have one artist whom I idolize.

I like so many, because they are doing their own way. If I have to choose one right now, I’d say Eminem.

SD: What is the strangest, or perhaps funniest, thing that has happened to you on tour?

We had a live show in Ethiopia, far away from the city. When we got there with computers and electric things, we discovered there was no power in the building! Oh, well. It’s lucky we were in Africa, where there are a lot of drums.

Signmark plays the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington this Saturday, April 14, at 8 p.m. $15/20. AA.

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Speaking of bands I’m quickly developing crushes on, have you caught sheLLy shredder yet? Well, you should. I popped by the band’s recent live-recording gig at Signal Kitchen, which confirmed what I thought the first time I saw them: They’re really friggin’ good.

But that’s not even the point.

They play straight-up altcountry. That wouldn’t be noteworthy if this were, say, 2002, which is the last time the genre was cool. But in a scene seemingly obsessed with über-hip experimental pop and indie chicanery, there’s something refreshing about a band whose music is so unabashedly un-hip. And I mean that as a compliment.

Check them out at the Monkey House this Friday, April 13, opening for sLeepy sun. (See the spotlight on page 56.)

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that literally. There were beanbags all over the floor for folks to crash on. Why, I wondered, is my heart full of holes?

Then, a breakthrough. I came home to find an email from the Lumineers. They were coming to Burlington.

They wanted to see me. And they had a gift: their thenunreleased self-titled debut.

My heart soared.

The album evoked the same giddiness I felt live, but added depth I hadn’t caught before, with playfully poetic lyrics and subtly intricate arrangements that held my attention on (many) repeated plays. In other words, it was everything I’m looking for.

Now, it’s way too early to say if this relationship has staying power. But there’s reason for excitement, and I want you to meet them.

Introducing someone new to your friends is always a little nerve-racking, but I think you’ll really like them. So whaddya say — the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge this Tuesday, April 17?

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it’s not impossible.

Last fall, I fell madly and instantly in love. It was a crisp October night in New York City. I was at a sparsely attended show at the Mercury Lounge, having come to see some band whose name I can’t even remember now. On my way out the door after that band’s set, I heard the sweet, bowed strains of a cello and turned my head.

Onstage, a young, disheveled quartet caught my eye. As they launched into their first song, a rambunctiously rootsy and catchy little pop number, they caught my ears.

And then my heart. And I developed a crush on the Lumineers.

For the next hour it was as though the rest of the world had melted away. Looking back, it reminds me of the first time I heard the Avett Brothers, who aren’t a bad stylistic corollary. Except that when I first heard those guys, they had a catalog of records through which I could get to know them better and subsequently “friend zone” them. Not so the Lumineers. At the end of the night, breathless and flushed, I left without so much as a phone number, let alone a CD, because they didn’t have one yet.

I’m not proud, but I spent the next couple of months stalking them online — yeah, like you’ve never done it. My search was fruitless, save for a Facebook page and a barebones website with vague allusions to a forthcoming debut album. Was this a onenight stand? I worried. How could they do this to me?

Our paths crossed again in Austin, Texas, where we met for some afternoon delight in the form of a daytime showcase at SXSW. And again, as quickly as the Lumineers entered my life, they exited without a word as I slept. I mean

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Do you believe in love at first sight?

I fall in love all the time.

On your average weekend night about town, I fall head over heels with some 23 comely Girlington lasses.

Funny thing is, I usually don’t even talk to them. I simply enjoy the crush from afar, imagining what she might be like based on the way she flicks her hair or laughs or shoots pool. More often than not, approaching the object of one’s fantastical affections shatters the allure.

Maybe she has a lazy eye you didn’t notice across the bar. Or maybe she talks like a Valley Girl. Maybe her perfume is too strong. Maybe she’s a closet racist. (Those have all actually happened to me. I call them “Seinfeld” moments.) It’s almost always something. Until that one wondrous time when it isn’t.

I’m kind of the same way with music: I fall in and out of love with bands constantly and freely admit to being a music slut. Buy me a drink, whisper sweet, jangly guitar nothings into my ear, and I’m yours for the night. But fair warning: I’ll probably kick you out in the morning.

I’m easily seduced but harder to pin down. I can count on one or two hands the bands and artists I truly, deeply love. And there have been times when we’ve separated — take Wilco, for example, between the second half of A Ghost Is Born and … well, I guess I’m still waiting.

For a lasting relationship with a band, I need that spark at the outset. But then I need substance and nuance: surprised by a line I didn’t catch until the 100th time I listened to it; mystified by a song I thought I understood.

And I still need to find it as sexy as I did the first time we met. That’s asking a lot, but

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1/2 LoungE: scott mangan & Guests (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., Free. scott mangan & chris Kasper (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., Free.

Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free.

CLub MEtronoME: The Knarley Party Tour: Da Boy Bake, the Knarley movement, 2K Deep (hip-hop, dubstep), 9 p.m., $8/10. 18+.

Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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LEunig's bistro & CaFé: Juliet mcVicker, John Rivers, Dan skea (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

MonkEy housE: Nervous but Excited (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., $5. 18+.

Nuda Veritas, Glass sky (experimental pop), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. nECtar's: Bounce Lab (live electronica), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. onE PEPPEr griLL: Open mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free. on taP bar & griLL: Pine street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Jack chicago (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. rED squarE: starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. thE skinny PanCakE: Pandagrass (bluegrass), 6 p.m., $5 donation. t bonEs rEstaurant anD bar: carol Ann Jones & Gary spaulding

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(country), 7:30 p.m., Free. chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

central

bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. thE bLaCk Door: comedy Open mic with B.O.B. (standup), 8 p.m., $5. comedy Open mic with B.O.B., 9:30 p.m., $5. gusto's: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

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

northern

bEE's knEEs: Audrey Bernstein & the Young Jazzers (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. thE hub PizzEria & Pub: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

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

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MonoPoLE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LoungE: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, Quiet Lion (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Dan (reggae), 10 p.m., Free.

CLub MEtronoME: 2K Deep presents Revolvr, the 2K Deep crew, Rekkon, Palmtrixx (dubstep), 9 p.m., $8/10. 18+.

Franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. highEr grounD baLLrooM: cannibal corpse, Exhumed, Abysmal Dawn, Arkaik (metal), 7:30 p.m., $18/20. AA. LEvity CaFé: Open mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free.

MonkEy housE: Dino Bravo, Lobot, PooLoop (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

MuDDy WatErs: Dan Blakeslee (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Donations. nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

Funkwagon, super Frog (funk), 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+. o'briEn's irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free. on taP bar & griLL: Jive Attic (rock), 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Jazz sessions, 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squarE: The Amida Bourbon Project (folk rock), 7 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free. rí rá irish Pub: Rehab Roadhouse (rock), 8 p.m., Free. Patrick Lehman Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free. vEnuE: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.

central

bagitos: Big Hat, Not cattle (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free. grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

51 Main: Nick marshall (rock), 8 p.m., Free. on thE risE bakEry: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. tWo brothErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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bEE's knEEs: Lesley Grant and stepstone (alt-country), 7:30 p.m., Donations. thE hub PizzEria & Pub: Dinner Jazz with Fabian, 7 p.m., Free.

Moog's: shrimp (blues), 8:30 p.m., Free.

ParkEr PiE Co.: Ricky Golden (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free. riMroCks Mountain tavErn: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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MonoPoLE: Doom and Friends (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MonoPoLE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. oLivE riDLEy's: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free. tabu CaFé & nightCLub: Karaoke Night with sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

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Not to be outdone, our basslovin’ pals from Mushpost have another installment of their Booty Bakery series on deck for this Sunday, April 15, at Metronome.

The headliners include DISTAL — a progressiveminded producer and DJ who eschews conventional ideas of genre and BPM in favor of a more emotional approach to sound — and CONSTRUCT, one of Canada’s premier dubstep DJs and the founder of the blog J’aime Le Dubstep and a podcast of the same name.

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EDM fans are in for a good week. The industrious cats from 2K Deep welcome electro-house sensation REVOLVR to Club Metronome on Thursday, April 12. The DJ’s original productions have been played in clubs all over the globe by the likes of PORTER ROBINSON and STEVE AOKI, among other heavyweights.

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If downtown Burlington sounds like a herd of stampeding cows this Saturday, April 14, fret not.

It’s just the World’s Largest Cowbell Ensemble, led by JON FISHMAN, marching down Church Street. Rumor has it

that JIMMY FALLON, who was in the famous “more cowbell” SNL skit from which the idea was derived, may make an appearance. I can’t confirm that. I can, however, confirm how badly I want CHRISTOPHER WALKEN to show

up, too. (“I got a feva …”) The march is a benefit for PHISH’s WaterWheel Foundation, as well as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of Ben & Jerry’s PHISH Food ice cream.

Last but not least, stay strong, Mom. I love you.

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Once again, this week’s totally self-indulgent column segment, in which I share a random sampling of what was on my iPod, turntable, CD player, 8-track player, etc., this week.

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

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1/2 LOUNGE: Justin Levinson (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free.

2K Deep presents Good Times (house), 10 p.m., Free.

AMERICAN FLATBREAD — BURLINGTON HEARTH: Happy Hour for Pursuit of Happiness Day, 5 p.m., Free.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Mitch & Friends (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free.

Nightrain (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Linda Bassick & Kirk Flanagan Duo (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Matt Townsend (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

Jeff Beam (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Knox (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Second Sleep (rock), 11:30 p.m., Free. Mickey Western (folk rock), 1 a.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Steve Hartmann (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free.

Son Bully (rock), 8 p.m., $5.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Steve, 9 p.m., Free.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.

BANANA WINDS CAFÉ & PUB: Red Stellar & the Workin' Man Band (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

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NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

VENUE: Hot Neon Magic (’80s New Wave), 9 p.m., $5.

central

TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks (folk jazz), 8 p.m., $35. AA.

champlain valley

CITY LIMITS: The Hitmen (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Michele Fay Band (folk), 8 p.m., Donations.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Happy Hour with the Benoits (rock), 4:30 p.m., Free. DJ Jam Man (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

BEE'S KNEES: Open Acoustic Jam, 3 p.m., Free. Stephen Morabito and Friends (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 9 p.m., Free.

MOOG'S: Moog's Anniversary with Sweet 'n' Lowdown, the Hamiltones, Eames Brothers Band (blues, rock), 9 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, Scotty Don't, Avon Junkies (ska-punk), 8 p.m., $18/22. AA.

BAGITOS: Theo Exploration & Tiger Swami, 6 p.m., Free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Celtic Acoustic Session, 6 p.m., Free.

THE BLACK DOOR: Four Shillings Short (folk, Celtic), 9:30 p.m., $5.

JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

CHARLIE O'S: Red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 10 p.m., Free.

RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

LEVITY CAFÉ: Friday Night Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., $8.

Friday Night Comedy (standup), 10 p.m., $8.

FRESH TRACKS FARM VINEYARD & WINERY: The John Parry Experience (folk), 5 p.m., Free.

LIFT: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

MONOPOLE: Is (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MONKEY HOUSE: AM Presents: Sleepy Sun, White Hills, Shelly Shredder (psych-rock), 9 p.m., $8.

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: DJ Slim Pknz All Request Dance Party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

THERAPY: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

RUSTY NAIL: A Fly Allusion, Bossman (reggae, funk), 9:30 p.m., $5.

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Ten seconds later, something atonal (“BWUEERR”) drops into the mix out of nowhere. Clearly, this is not a folk album. The finger picking speeds up and the song abruptly ends. It’s anyone’s guess what comes next.

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The album’s opening track, “Hollywoodland,” is a Weezer-ly, melancholy, 6/8 acoustic ballad that explodes into the following cut, “Theatrics,” a sparkling pop gem buffed by staccato distortion bursts and polished with slide trombone.

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The underwater sensation becomes impossible to ignore. You are immersed, drowning, and panic beats on your eardrums. You heard once that drowning is one of the most peaceful ways to die, but this is unpleasant. You want to listen to something else.

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In the modern world, you really have to want not to be found. Most bands, of course, desperately want to

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“Systematic Junk” is slippery like the Eels used to be.

That’s not to say tulip/tsuanmi sounds dated. In fact, as indie rock increasingly tries to out-quirk itself, the band’s gleeful pop bombast and cheekiness is refreshing. This is unapologetic pop rock, played with heart, urgency and irreverence. And, yes, it’s quite a find, with or without Google’s help. tulip/tsunami by thePROPER is available at theproper.bandcamp.com.

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CLUB DATES

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burlington area

1/2 Lounge: Jenke Records Presents: Austin Sirch, Joe Redding & Friends (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., Free.

Banana Winds Café & Pub: Karaoke, 8 p.m., Free.

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

burlington area

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

wed.18 // The Trews [rock]

JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: World's Largest Cowbell Ensemble Afterparty: Junta Listening Party, 5 p.m., Free. Rick Redington (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Craig Mitchell and Motor City, Endangered Species (r&b), 9 p.m., $5.

On Tap Bar & Grill: The Hitmen (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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Radio Bean: Flightless Buttress (instrumental), 5 p.m., Free. Timothy Novak (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Four Shillings Short (folk, Celtic), 7 p.m., Free. The Big Lonesome (altcountry), 9 p.m., Free. Mighty Tiny (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Daniel Oullette and the Shobjin (electro-pop), 11:30 p.m., Free. Lucid Lion (indie), 1 a.m., Free.

Red Square: Ellen Powell (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. The Stone Revival Band (jam), 8 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5.

Rí Rá Irish Pub: The Blame (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

The Skinny Pancake: The Woedoggies (country), 8 p.m., $5 donation.

T Bones Restaurant and Bar: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.

central

Bagitos: Irish Session, 2 p.m., Free. Blue Fox (blues), 6 p.m., Donations.

Big Picture Theater & Café: Pseudo Slang, Wombaticus Rex (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $5.

The Black Door: New Nile Orchestra (Afro-pop), 9:30 p.m., $5.

Cork Wine Bar: Anthony Santor (jazz), 8 p.m., Free.

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Positive Pie 2: Mr. Yee & Tank (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $4.

Tupelo Music Hall: Cheryl Wheeler (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $30. AA.

Bee's Knees: Flightless Buttress (instrumental), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

WED.18

Higher Ground Ballroom: Alabama Shakes, Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires (soul, garage rock), 8 p.m., $14.AA.

Monkey House: AM Presents: Adam & the Amethysts, Parmaga, Wren & Mary (indie), 9 p.m., $7. 18+.

northern

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

Club Metronome: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

Levity Café: Saturday Night Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., $8.

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

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Mud City Ramblers (bluegrass), 9 p.m., Free.

Backstage Pub: Smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Signmark (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $15/20. AA.

champlain valley

Exchange Rate Now that the Canadian and U.S. dollars have essentially the same value, perhaps

it’s time we look at other things we have in common with our adorably polite neighbors to the north. Like hard rock.

Traditionally, Canadian bands have rocked about half as hard as their American counterparts. But as Nova Scotia’s the Trews would tell you, that’s no longer the case. The five-time JUNO Award nominees’ bruising guitar assault has

landed them on stage with some of hard rock’s heaviest hitters, including Guns N’ Roses and Kiss. This Wednesday, April 18, at Club Metronome, they’ll share the stage with one of Vermont’s rowdiest, Spit Jack.

champlain valley

Legotronix (dubstep), 10 p.m., Free.

Good Times Café: Paul Asbell (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., $15.

Club Metronome: Mushpost presents Booty Bakery with Distal, and Construct, Rekkon, Thelonius X, Jake Davis and Goretek!, the Assassin (bass music), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

City Limits: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

Two Brothers Tavern: Neutral Ground (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

northern

Bee's Knees: McBride & Lussen (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

Matterhorn: Mud City Ramblers (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5.

Moog's: Whiskey Bullet (country), 9 p.m., Free.

Parker Pie Co.: Mud Season Groove with Tritium Well (world rock), 6 p.m., Free.

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

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

regional

Monopole: Mr. Breakfast (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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

SUN.15

burlington area

1/2 Lounge: Songwriter's Series (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free.

Building Blox with DJs Y-DNA &

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Ellis Paul, Peyton Tochterman (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., $15. AA. Monkey House: The Summit of Thieves, Jake Machell, the Sails (rock), 8:30 p.m., $5. 18+.

Monty's Old Brick Tavern: George Voland JAZZ: Dawna Hammers and Dan Skea, 4:30 p.m., Free.

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

Radio Bean: Robin Reid (folk), 11 a.m., Free. Old Time Sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (gypsy jazz), 5 p.m., Free.

The Underscore Orkestra (gypsy jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. When Particles Collide (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Lit on the Flesh (rock), 11:30 p.m., Free.

central

Bagitos: Ben Carr (jazz), 11 a.m., Donations.

northern

Bee's Knees: David Langevin (piano), 11 a.m., Donations. The Big Lonesome (alt-country), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Sweet Crunch Bake Shop: John and Julia Compagna (acoustic rock), 10:30 a.m., Free.

MON.16

Higher Ground Ballroom: Bassnectar Afterparty with Minnesota (EDM), 11:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

1/2 Lounge: Sofa Kings (hiphop), 10 p.m., Free. Family Night Open Jam, 10 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: The Lumineers, Kopecky Family Band (acoustic rock, pop), 8:30 p.m., $8/10. AA.

burlington area Club Metronome: Psychedelphia and special guests (psych-rock), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

Nectar's: Metal Monday: Trapper Keeper, Knights of Crinitus, Victim of Metal, Cameo Harlot (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5.

18+.

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

Radio Bean: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

Red Square: Industry Night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

Ruben James: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

central

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

northern

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

TUE.17

burlington area

Club Metronome: Tableek & Dirty Durdie (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Monkey House: Upsetta International with Jon Demus and Selector Dubee (dancehall), 9 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: The Trews, Spit Jack (rock), 8 p.m., $6/8.

18+.

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Paul Asbell, Clyde Stats, Chris Peterman (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

ONE Pepper Grill: Open Mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Paydirt (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Downtown Canada, 6:30 p.m., Free. Mushpost Social Club (downtempo), 11 p.m., Free.

Red Square: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Wild Man Blues (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

The Skinny Pancake: Pandagrass (bluegrass), 6 p.m., $5 donation.

Monty's Old Brick Tavern: Open Mic, 6 p.m., Free.

T Bones Restaurant and Bar: Carol Ann Jones & Gary Spaulding (country), 7:30 p.m., Free. Chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Brown Gold (Ween tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

central

On Tap Bar & Grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Stephen Callahan and Mike Piche (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Max Garcia Conover & Chris Morris (indie folk), 8 p.m., Free.

Elijah Ocean (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3.

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

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

central

Bagitos: Karl Miller (jazz), 6 p.m., Free.

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

Bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the Usual Suspects, 6 p.m., Free. The Usual Suspects (blues), 6 p.m., Donations.

Gusto's: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

Tupelo Music Hall: Interplay Jazz Jam, 7 p.m., $10. AA.

champlain valley

51 Main: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., Free.

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

northern

Bee's Knees: Danny Ricky Cole (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Moog's: Last October (folk), 8:30 p.m., Free.

regional

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

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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. thE bLuE AcorN, 84 N. Main St., St. Albans, 527-0699. thE brEWSki, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. choW! bELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. cLAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053. thE hub PizzEriA & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626. thE LittLE cAbArEt, 34 Main St., Derby, 293-9000. mAttErhorN, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. thE mEEtiNghouSE, 4323 Rt. 1085, Smugglers’ Notch, 644-8851. moog’S, Portland St., Morrisville, 851-8225. muSic box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533. oVErtimE SALooN, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357.

PArkEr PiE co., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366.

PhAt kAtS tAVErN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064.

PiEcASSo, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411. rimrockS mouNtAiN tAVErN, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593. roADSiDE tAVErN, 216 Rt. 7, Milton, 660-8274. ruStY NAiL bAr & griLLE, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245.

ShootErS SALooN, 30 Kingman St., St. Albans, 527-3777.

SNoW ShoE LoDgE & Pub, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456.

SWEEt cruNch bAkEShoP, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 888-4887. tAmArAck griLL At burkE mouNtAiN, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., E. Burke, 6267394.

WAtErShED tAVErN, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100.

YE oLDE ENgLAND iNNE, 443 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2535320.

regional

giLLigAN’S gEtAWAY, 7160 State Rt. 9, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-8050. moNoPoLE, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222.

NAkED turtLE, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200. oLiVE riDLEY’S, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200. tAbu cAfé & NightcLub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-0666.

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ArVAD’S griLL & Pub, 3 S. Main St., Waterbury, 2448973. big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. thE bLAck Door, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 223-7070. brEAkiNg grouNDS, 245 Main St., Bethel, 392-4222. thE cENtEr bAkErY & cAfE, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500. cAStLErock Pub, 1840 Sugarbush Rd., Warren, 583-6594. chArLiE o’S, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. cJ’S At thAN WhEELErS, 6 S. Main St., White River Jct., 280-1810. cork WiNE bAr, 1 Stowe St., Waterbury, 882-8227. grEEN mouNtAiN tAVErN, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935. guSto’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. hEN of thE WooD At thE griStmiLL, 92 Stowe St., Waterbury, 244-7300. hoStEL tEVErE, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222. kiSmEt, 52 State St. 223-8646. kNottY ShAmrock, 21 East St., Northfield, 485-4857.

LocAL foLk SmokEhouSE, 9 Rt. 7, Waitsfield, 496-5623. mAiN StrEEt griLL & bAr, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. muLLigAN’S iriSh Pub, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545.

NuttY StEPh’S, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090.

PickLE bArrEL NightcLub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035.

PoSitiVE PiE 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453.

PurPLE mooN Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. thE rESErVoir rEStAurANt & tAP room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827.

SLiDE brook LoDgE & tAVErN, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202.

South StAtioN rEStAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1736. tuPELo muSic hALL, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 698-8341.

WhitE rock PizzA & Pub, 848 Rt. 14, Woodbury, 225-5915.

DAN’S PLAcE, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. gooD timES cAfé, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. oN thE riSE bAkErY, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 4347787.

South StAtioN rESAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1730.

StArrY Night cAfé, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. tWo brothErS tAVErN, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 3880002.

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1/2 LouNgE, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012.

242 mAiN St., Burlington, 862-2244.

AmEricAN fLAtbrEAD, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999.

AuguSt firSt, 149 S. Champlain St., Burlington, 540-0060. bAckStAgE Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494. bANANA WiNDS cAfé & Pub, 1 Market Pl., Essex Jct., 8790752. thE bLock gALLErY, 1 E. Allen St., Winooski, 373-5150. brEAkWAtEr cAfé, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276. brENNAN’S Pub & biStro, UVM Davis Center, 590 Main St., Burlington, 656-1204. citY SPortS griLLE, 215 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 655-2720. cLub mEtroNomE, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. frANNY o’S, 733 Queen City Park Rd., Burlington, 8632909. hALVorSoN’S uPStrEEt cAfé, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278. highEr grouND, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777.

JP’S Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389.

LEuNig’S biStro & cAfé, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759.

LEVitY cAfé, 9 Center St., Burlington, 318-4888.

Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. thE LiViNg room, 794 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester. mANhAttAN PizzA & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 864-6776. mArriott hArbor LouNgE, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 854-4700. moNkEY houSE, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563. moNtY’S oLD brick tAVErN, 7921 Williston Rd., Williston, 316-4262. muDDY WAtErS, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466.

NEctAr’S, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771.

NEW mooN cAfé, 150 Cherry St., Burlington, 383-1505. o’briEN’S iriSh Pub, 348 Main St., Winooski, 338-4678. oDD fELLoWS hALL, 1416 North Ave., Burlington, 862-3209. oN tAP bAr & griLL, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309. oScAr’S biStro & bAr, 190 Boxwood Dr., Williston, 878-7082.

PArk PLAcE tAVErN, 38 Park St., Essex Jct. 878-3015. rADio bEAN, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346. rASPutiN’S, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324. rED SquArE, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. rEguLAr VEtErANS ASSociAtioN, 84 Weaver St., Winooski, 655-9899. rÍ rá iriSh Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401. rozzi’S LAkEShorE tAVErN, 1022 W. Lakeshore Dr., Colchester, 863-2342. rubEN JAmES, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. thE ScuffEr StEAk & ALE houSE, 148 Church St., Burlington, 864-9451.

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VENuE, 127 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067. thE VErmoNt Pub & brEWErY, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.

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“Every Which Way” by Jill Abilock Right: “He chirps before fire”

by Maryann Riker

Paper Trail “Shaping Pages” at S.P.A.C.E Gallery

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ownloadable books may be au courant, but one thing that will never go digital is handmade book art. Well, perhaps we should never say never.

The key word here, though, is “handmade,” and that’s exactly the DIY aesthetic on display at Burlington’s S.P.A.C.E. Gallery this month. The exhibit’s very title supports this ethos: “Shaping Pages.”

The show, which opened last Friday, consists of 21 creations by members of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont. None of the works is an actual book, of course.

Among the techniques in evidence here are repurposing book pages in sculptural constructions; making “pages” out of something else, such as cloth; referencing the concept of books in a mixedmedia facsimile; and using printed text within a wholly un-book-like artwork.

Some pieces in the exhibit seem to qualify as “book” art only because they are constructed from paper. But then, who said there were rules?

Even paper is not a constant. One of the cleverest pieces in the show is Marcia Vogler’s “Dream Burger,” a hamburger — adorned with tomato, lettuce and cheese on a sesame-seeded bun — made completely from neatly stitched fabrics in the colors and shapes of its ingredients. Each of these is a “page” in this burger-volume.

Affixed to the pages in a typewriter font is text such as “dream burger / expand my mind / not my thighs.”

In the category of not-at-all-book-like is Nikki King’s “Nest.” The titular item perches atop an 11-inch-high, platformlike structure that stands on three spindly, copper-wire legs. Two birds — presumably proud parents — made of blue felt stand watch over four eggs in the nest, which are collaged with narrow strips of paper handprinted with text. A poem

SOME PIECES IN THE EXHIBIT SEEM TO QUALIFY AS “BOOK” ART ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSTRUCTED FROM PAPER.

BUT THEN, WHO SAID THERE WERE RULES?

“Nest” by Nikki King

written on an oversize tag at the foot of the structure concludes with “…Here, we are one. / We are whole.” King’s work is graceful, intricate and pretty, though the thin legs of her structure and the precariousness of the nest belie the sense of safety implied in the poem.

Jill Abilock’s spare, contemporary construction “Every Which Way” could not be more different in style. And it’s hard to explain. It resembles a book set upright, balanced on the two covers and an extended concertina fold at the back.

However, this “book” has only three 12-by-6.5-inch pages, spaced nearly three inches apart. This sturdy architecture allows the viewer to look into the square cut out of the front cover and through the cutout shapes on each successive page. These have been enhanced with thin strips and squares of paper in candy colors; the effect is somewhat like looking through a stained-glass window fashioned after a Mondrian painting.

“Aging Is Not Easy,” by Dorsey Hogg, takes an actual book — a science-y tome about things that can go wrong with a body — extends its spine accordion style and creates a selfsupporting geometry from its colorful pages. These are cut into equal-sized horizontal strips that are then meticulously folded. There’s a grim humor to this 10-by-40-by-7-inch piece: A viewer who looks closely inside its 3-D matrix will find mentions of arthritis, diabetes and other anatomical indignities. By reducing them to unreadable snippets, Hogg lets us know what she thinks about aging.

Context aside, it’s a mantel-worthy sculpture.

If there were a Funny Award in this exhibit, it would have

to go to “Little Known Facts About Crap,” by Elissa Campbell. Inside the covers of this small book are tiny paper “pages” the shape and color of turds. On these Campbell has written nonsensical “facts,” such as “Holy crap can be repaired with duct tape.” With an apt self-deprecation that many legitimate authors ought to display, she concludes, “The contents of this book: total crap.”

Several horizontal, stand-alone pieces made of thick, accordionfolded paper are included in the show. It’s a deceptively simple technique, but the artists have turned each panel of the folds into small and elegant paintings. Most striking is Cynthia Weiss’ “Ode to the Sun God,” featuring tall egrets with thick, Cleopatra-style eye markings.

Of course, they are walking like Egyptians.

The largest work in the exhibit is a wall hanging titled “Order Into Chaos” with seven columns and seven rows of stacked, 8.5-by-5.5-inch pieces of paper — in other words, 49 stacks, each affixed to a forest-green backdrop.

Imagine a quilt composed of neatly piled papers, and you get the idea. The individual sheets are small artworks by Nancy Stone; included in the piece is a poem by Kathy Willard. Right beside this is the show’s smallest and therefore cutest work, “He chirps before fire,” by Maryann Riker. The piece is a miniature “house” whose walls open like some kind of 3-D puzzle. And, rather than teeny furniture, its rooms contain shiny faux baubles.

Last year’s “Paper in 3-D” exhibit at the Shelburne Museum set a high bar for mind-blowing constructions that “Shaping Pages” does not reach. Still, the Book Arts Guild of Vermont holds its own with impressive skill, creativity and devotion to a versatile, if fragile, art form.

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“Shaping Pages,” works by the Book Arts Guild of Vermont, S.P.A.C.E Gallery, Burlington. Through April 28. spacegalleryvt.com

Art ShowS

ongoing burlington area

AmAndA VellA: "what happens," paintings.

Through April 30 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. info, 660-9005.

April exhibit: work by Joan hoffman, lynda Mcintyre, Johanne Durocher Yordan, Anne Cummings, Kit Donnelly, Athena petra Tasiopoulos, Don Dickson and Kari Meyer. Through April 30 at Maltex building in burlington. info, 865-7166. beth peArson: Abstractions in oil, mixed media and printmaking. Through April 28 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001.

tAlKs & eVents dr. sKetChy's Anti-Art sChool: Artists age 16 and up bring sketchbooks and pencils to a cabaret-style lifedrawing session. This month's theme: "Roller Derby Rage: Twin City Riot vs. upper Valley Vixens." singer-songwriter Robert barton performs. wednesday, April 11, 7-10:30 p.m., American legion, white River Junction.

Cots Kids show: Artwork created by children staying in CoTs family shelters. Through April 30 at barnes & noble in south burlington. info, 864-8001.

prindle wissler: "The prindle wissler 100th birthday hoopla" features cake, hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar; some proceeds benefit Mary hogan school's visual art program. wednesday, April 18, 4:30-7 p.m., Jackson gallery, Town hall Theater, Middlebury.

CArol mACdonAld & eriK rehmAn: "Transcendence: Mooring the storm," artwork inspired by interviews with survivors of sexual violence, presented in collaboration with the women's Rape Crisis Center. Through May 10 at livak Room, Davis Center, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-3131.

gAreCht brunner: work by the student ceramicist on the theme of dichotomy. Friday, April 13, 6-8 p.m., Feick Fine Arts Center, green Mountain College, poultney. info, 287-8398.

dAwn o'Connell: "Facing Faces," portraiture and street photography by the burlington artist.

Through May 1 at nectar's in burlington. info, 658-4771.

JessiCA ferrArA: The senior art student gives a presentation on her multimedia work. Thursday, April 12, 6 p.m., surdam gallery, green Mountain College, poultney. info, 287-8398.

bob Klein: “portraits of Conservation,” photographs by the director of the nature Conservancy Vermont Chapter. Through April 28 at Davis Center, uVM in burlington.

'engAge': work in a variety of media by 35 Vermont artists with disabilities, including Robert Mcbride, Margaret Kannenstine, beth barndt, steve Chase, lyna lou nordstrum and Robert gold; presented by VsA Vermont. Through April 29 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 655-7772. erin pAul: "Dream bait," paintings inspired by archetypal patterns, symbolism and dreams.

Through April 30 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438. 'eye of the beholder: one sCene, three Artists' Visions': pastel works by Marcia hill, Anne unangst and Cindy griffith. Through May 31 at shelburne Vineyard. info, 985-8222.

hing Kur: black-and-white photography. Through May 27 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614.

JuliA stiles: "Visual passages Through the new Testament," paintings in ink with watercolor washes. Through April 27 at All souls interfaith gathering in shelburne. info, 985-3819.

Amy thompson AVishAi: "within These walls: educating girls in Rural Morocco," photographs by the former New York Times and Valley News photographer. Through April 29 at phoTosTop in white River Junction. Reception: The artist is joined by Dartmouth Arabic professors Diana Abouali and Jamila Chahboun in a panel discussion. Friday, April 13, 5-8 p.m. info, 698-0320. ishAnA ingermAn: “unMasking: The Truth,” ceramic and fiber masks. Through May 1 at Fletcher Free library in burlington. Reception: The artist reads poems that correspond with each mask, sunday, April 15, 2-4 p.m. info, 651-7043 John briCKels & wendy JAmes: Clay creations by brickels and paintings and photography by James.

15th AnniVersAry show: work by former and current members of the Rose street Artists' Co-op. April 13 through May 12 at Rose street Co-op gallery in burlington.

Reception: Friday, April 13, 5-7 p.m. info, 735-4751.

Ap studio Art show: work by six students enrolled in Mount Abraham union high school's Ap studio art program. Through April 27 at walkover gallery & Concert Room in bristol. Reception: Friday, April 13, 4-6 p.m. info, 453-7011.

5th AnnuAl Community show: work in a variety of media by community members of all ages. Through May 19 at Art on Main in bristol.

Reception: Friday, April 13, 5-7 p.m. info, 453-4032.

CAleb stone: watercolor and oil paintings. Through April 13 at galleria Fine Arte in stowe. Reception: Friday, April 13, 5-7 p.m. info, 253-7696.

lorrAine mAnley: landscapes in acrylic. Through May 31 at Metropolitan gallery, burlington City hall i. info, 865-7166.

KAte longmAid: "sweet surrender," contemporary still lifes. Through April 30 at Mirabelles in burlington. info, 658-3074.

lynA lou nordstrom: "A life in printmaking," a mini retrospective of monotypes and other prints.

Through May 27 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 651-9692.

leAh wittenberg: "A Meter's eye View," cartoons featuring anthropomorphized parking meters expressing their views on politics and culture. Through April 14 at the skinny pancake in burlington. info, 864-3556. leigh Ann rooney & hilAry glAss: "ethereal Terra," paintings and photography by Rooney; etchings and illustrations by glass, on the first floor; robert brunelle Jr.: "Cold snap," paintings, on the second floor. Through April 27 at Community College of Vermont in winooski. info, 654-0513.

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Reception: Friday, April 13, 5-7 p.m. info, 603-448-3117.

KAren dAwson: brightly colored, semiabstract paintings. Through April 30 at people's united bank in burlington. info, 865-1208.

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KAdie sAlfi: "Apex predator: body parts," pop-artinfluenced graphics depicting animals targeted for their body parts; CAsey reAs: "process," prints, animations, architectural wall fabrics, relief sculpture and interactive works all derived from variations on the same software algorithm (through April 28). Through June 23 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166.

'Clothing optionAl': Figurative paintings by John lawrence hoag, Cameron schmitz, David smith and

hArry bernArd: Monotypes and monoprints. Through April 30 at Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction. Reception: Friday, April 13, 6-8 p.m. info, 295-5901.

frAnKlin County student Art show: work in a variety of media by area students. Through April 15 at Collins-perley sports Complex in st. Albans. Reception: wednesday, April 11, 4:30-6 p.m. info, 527-0565, ext. 2215.

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Reception: Friday, April 13, 5-7 p.m. info, 603-646-2808.

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Reception: Monday, April 16, 3-5 p.m. info, 828-0749.

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frAnCes CAnnon: block prints, silkscreens, sketches and ink paintings depicting everything from anthropomorphized creatures to houses on stilt legs. Through May 1 at Muddy waters in burlington. info, 503-984-7075.

CArolyn enz hACK: The artist, who has been creating fine art, as well as scenery for the theater, since 1983, gives a slideshow presentation. Friday, April 13, 6 p.m., seminary Art Center, waterbury Center. info, 279-4239.

Frank woods. Through May 1 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. Reception: Friday, April 13, 6-8 p.m. info, 985-3848.

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Nick Earl & JustiN HoEkstra: "Hard 'n Gentle," abstract paintings by Hoekstra, sculptures exploring the discrepancy between organic and synthetic materials by Earl. Through April 20 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

NicolE MariE MaNdEvillE & susaN Nova stalEy: "Dustings: A Collection of Works," paintings. Through April 29 at the Firefly Collective in Burlington. Info, 735-7371.

NiNi craNE: Mixed-media, watercolor, acrylic and pastel paintings and giclée prints. Through April 30 at Magnolia Breakfast & Lunch Bistro in Burlington.

Info, 862-7446.

'PErsiaN visioNs': Contemporary photography from Iran; 'iMagiNiNg tHE islaMic World': Late 19th- and early 20th-century travel photography; 'a discErNiNg EyE': Selections from the J. Brooks Buxton Collection. Through May 20 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

PEtEr WEyraucH: "Rodz," black-and-white photographs, Gates 1-8; Julia PuriNtoN: Oil paintings, Skyway; gilliaN klEiN: Oil painting, Escalator. Through April 30 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

PHoto club ExHibitioN: Photographs representing several darkroom processes and techniques.

April 17 through 26 at Alliot Student Center, St. Michael's College in Colchester. Info, 654-2000.

PokEr Hill arts ExHibit: Artwork by kids participating in the after school art program in Underhill. Through May 18 at the Gallery at Phoenix Books in Essex Junction. Info, 872-7111. ricHard broWN: "April Showers: Images of Tasha Tudor," work by the photographer who spent 10 years documenting the early-19th-century lifestyle of the celebrated illustrator. Through April 30 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Info, 865-6458. riki Moss: "The Paper Forest," an installation of curious lifeforms. Through June 12 at Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery in Winooski. robErt Waldo bruNEllE Jr.: "The House in Chester," acrylic paintings. Through April 27 at the Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Info, 899-1106.

rogEr colEMaN: "that was so 19 seconds ago," new paintings. Through April 28 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 863-0093. sara katz: Industrial landscapes in oil, often depicted as if seen through the windows of a passing car. Through May 31 at Vintage Inspired in Burlington. Info, 355-5418. saraH busH: "We're Not Made of Metal," interactive sheet-metal sculptures that explore the societal movement toward mechanical ways

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robiN katrick: Photographs of Haiti. Through April 30 at North End Studio A in Burlington. Info, 863-6713.

of being. Through April 28 at Backspace Gallery in Burlington. sHaHraM ENtEkHabi: Happy Meal, a film featuring a young Muslim girl eating a McDonald's Happy Meal, in the New Media Niche (through August 26); 'Up in Smoke': Smoke-related works from the museum's permanent collection (through June 3). At Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington.

Info, 656-0750. 'sHaPiNg PagEs': Work by members of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont. Through April 28 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 315-272-9036. 'sPoNtaNEous': Photographs from around the world depicting the joy, humor and pathos of spontaneity. Through April 15 at Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

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Teresa Davis: "Mermaids and other sisters of the sea," new work. Through April 30 at Davis studio Gallery in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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'arT is LiTeracy of The souL': Artwork by area students. Through April 15 at chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 431-0204.

BarB LeBer: "Black, white and color," acrylic paintings; cheryL Dick: "Birmingham and Beyond," pastels and oils. Through April 23 at Kellogg-hubbard library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338. eD epsTein: "stories," new paintings. Through April 30 at central vermont Medical center in Barre. Info, 223-7158.

GLen coBurn huTcheson: "heads," drawings and pastels. Through April 29 at capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com.

'Green MounTain WaTercoLor exhiBiTion': work by James Gardner, peter Jeziorski, peter huntoon, Barbara pafume, Robert o’Brien, Robert sydorowich and Gary eckhart. Through May 4 at valley Art Foundation Festival Gallery in waitsfield.

Info, 496-6682. hannah LansBurGh & Ben peBerDy: "new!™" collage work. Through June 6 at Main street Museum in white River Junction. Info, 356-2776. heaTher riTchie: Acrylic paintings of ethereal landscapes. Through April 20 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043. inauGuraL exhiBiTion: paintings by Galen chaney and Alison Goodwin and collaged drawings

by Brian Zeigler. Through April 21 at Quench Artspace in waitsfield. Info, 496-9138.

JoDy sTahLMan: "Dogs, penguins, a pig and a Frog," paintings. Through April 30 at the shoe horn at onion River in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@ yahoo.com.

Marcia coWLes BushneLL: "Against Forgetting," paintings focused on the civilian consequences of war, and poetry by writers who have experienced dispossession. Through April 27 at vermont law school in south Royalton. Info, mmcbushnell@ gmail.com. nancy siLLiMan & reDeL froMeTa: "In our Midst," paintings and mixed-media works that explore themes of home, childhood and love.

Through April 14 at nuance Gallery in windsor. Info, 674-9616. nancy TapLin: Abstract paintings. Through April 29 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670. 'neW enGLanD BroaDsiDes': poetry broadsides created by new england presses, organized by Montpelier imprint chickadee chaps and Broads as part of poemcity2012. Through April 30 at Kellogghubbard library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338. susan BuLL riLey: "closely observed," watercolors of flowers and birds. Through May 31 at Montpelier city hall. Info, 540-679-0033. 'sWeeT!': works in a variety of media make up this sugary feast for the eyes; 'The Teeny Tiny': Foursquare-inch works and other silent auction items to benefit spA programs; haL MayforTh: "My sketchbook Made Me Do It." April 17 through May 26 at studio place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

'The hisTory of GoDDarD coLLeGe: an era of GroWTh, expansion anD TransiTions, 1969-1979': photographs, films and archival documents focused on the radical, innovative programs created at Goddard in the '70s. Through June 20 at eliot D. pratt library, Goddard college in plainfield. Info, 454-8311.

'ToL’ko po russky, pozhaLuisTa (russian onLy, pLease)': Russian school photographs, slavic festival costumes and Russian Imperial badges make up this exhibit chronicling the history of norwich's Russian school, which operated from 1968 to 2000. Through september 2 at sullivan Museum & history center, norwich University in northfield. Info, 485-2183.

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aDk coasT arTWays proJecT: seeking original artworks on theme of “set sail.” winner receives region-wide recognition through reproductions of their work on mass transit, airports and merchandise. Deadline: May 7.

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chaMpLain vaLLey phoTo sLaM: calling photographers of all ages. students, amateurs, pros and photography addicts in the champlain valley, we want to see your shots. Deadline: April 25. Info, darkroomgallery. com/slam.

The pasTeLisTs: Bryan Memorial Gallery announces a call to pastel artists for its summer exhibit, “The pastelists.” Deadline: May 11. Info, bryangallery.org/ call_to_artists.html.

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s-eye-nce: A science/visual arts fusion. Many visuals come out of scientific inquiry. explore the evolution and discoveries of science, including existing and emerging sciences and fantastical takes on science. June 5 through July 7. Deadline: April 20. Info, studioplacearts.com.

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“Post GiG: the Art of the ContemPorAry musiC Poster”: A traveling exhibit featuring more than 100 original music posters. April 15 through 21 at vermont college of Fine Arts in Montpelier. Info, 828-8896.

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'Bone struCtures': Artwork informed by the human body. Through April 21 at chaffee Art center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

'Color PhotoGrAPhy': work by Middlebury art students. Through April 12 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury college. Info, 443-3168. 'environment And oBjeCt in reCent AfriCAn Art': Artworks made of found objects and used materials reflecting the environment’s impact on contemporary African life. Through April 22 at Middlebury college Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. 'in the trees': work by Missy Dunaway, ellen Granter, nissa Kauppila, Genise park, Julia purinton, peter Roux, cameron schmitz and Gary starr. Through May 9 at edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. 'intAGlio': work by students who have explored both old techniques and contemporary approaches such as solar plates, etching, drypoint and aquatint. April 14 through 19 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury college. Info, 443-3168. 'invisiBle odysseys': Autobiographical dioramas by undocumented migrant workers telling the story of their journeys from Mexico to vermont; includes text in spanish and english.

Through April 28 at vermont Folklife center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. lAurel BACh: "landscapes of vermont," oil and watercolor paintings. Through April 14 at carpenter-carse library in hinesburg. Info, 482-2878.

Prindle Wissler: "The 'no Apologies' Retrospective," work by the beloved Middlebury artist who died last year, presented in celebration of what would have been her 100th birthday.

Through April 30 at Jackson Gallery, Town hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 388-1436. 'shArd villA And its PeoPle': An exhibit exploring the history of the salisbury victorian-era house, which now serves as a residential-care home. Through April 12 at sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117.

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AliCe dunn: "My Favorite Things," oil and acrylic paintings. Through April 30 at Island Arts south hero Gallery. Info, 489-4023.

APril Artists: work by watercolorist Jeanne Backhaus, woodturner Toby Fulwiler and painter henry Trask Reilly. Through April 30 at Artist in Residence cooperative Gallery in enosburg Falls.

Info, 933-6403.

ChiP troiAno: photos of Bhutan and of the tribal people in the northwest corner of vietnam.

Through April 27 at parker pie co. in west Glover.

Info, 525-3366. dAvid smith: landscape paintings. Through May 31 at peacham library. Info, 592-3216. ellA skye mAC donAld: "ella's world," artwork by the stowe second grader with autism. Through April 30 at Townsend Gallery at Black cap coffee in stowe. Info, 279-4239. jAnet Wormser: paintings that explore abstraction in nature through pattern, ornament and color. Through May 13 at claire's Restaurant & Bar in hardwick. Info, 472-7053. jeAn Cherouny: "source of empathy," recent paintings. Through May 20 at Dibden center for the Arts, Johnson state college. Info, 388-0320.

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Kathleen Kolb: "Snow Light," oil paintings.

Through April 30 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. late-Winter ShoW: Abstract work by Karen Day-Vath, Tinka Theresa Martell and Longina Smolinski. Through April 30 at Chow! Bella in St. Albans. Info, 524-1405. liz DittricK: "Harm and Healing: Vulnerable Sequences," an MFA thesis exhibition. Through April 20 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

Mary hill: "Banners & Paintings," recent work by the Vermont artist. Through April 25 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

Merrill DenSMore & JaMeS nace: Paintings by the GRACE artists. Through May 13 at Bee's Knees in Morrisville. Info, 586-8078.

Michael StrauSS: "Letting Go," acrylic paintings.

Through April 29 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

MilDreD beltré: New mixed-media works on paper. Through April 27 at Vermont Studio Center Gallery II in Johnson. Info, 635-2727.

'Mixing it up': Work by new gallery artists Laura Schiff Bean, Marc Civiterese, Clark Derbes, Anna Dibble, Sarah Horne, Mallory Lake, Lori Lorion and Jessie Pollock. Through June 20 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

Sarah hart Munro: Collaged, textured paintings and abstract expressionist work. Through April 21 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158.

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s there a director working today who’s a greater shape-shifter than Lasse Hallström? When you buy a ticket to a movie made by, say, Quentin Tarantino, Tyler Perry, Wes Anderson or Michael Bay, you know what to expect — for better or worse. The accomplished Swedish filmmaker, on the other hand, can’t really be said to have a signature style. He just has style.

He’s brought that style to projects as diverse in theme, look and tone as What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules, Casanova, The Hoax and Chocolat. It saturates every frame of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a picture in perhaps the most improbable of genres — the Middle East-based romantic comedy. That’s right: Hallström has managed to make a feel-good movie with terrorists.

The idea is that there’s this billionaire sheikh who’s crazy about fly-fishing, played by the charismatic Egyptian actor Amr Waked. In his travels, the sheikh has fallen in love with the sport and sees no reason why citizens of his war-torn country shouldn’t have an opportunity to get in on the fun.

Ewan McGregor sees plenty of reasons.

He stars as a tweedy fisheries expert named

Alfred Jones. Emily Blunt is Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, the sheikh’s London rep. When she attempts to enlist Alfred’s help in bringing fly-fishing to the desert, she’s met not just with resistance but with outright mockery.

It’s the desert. Duh. One of the clever things Hallström and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) do here is chip away, fact by surprising fact, at McGregor’s — and the viewer’s — assumptions. The Yemeni climate turns out to be more accommodating than the scientist realized, comparable to parts of California where salmon thrive. We learn that work has already begun on a cutting-edge dam capable of transforming a river in the middle of a wasteland into a series of waterways simulating the species’ natural habitat. Given that money is no object, McGregor’s character comes to embrace the quixotic project as a not-so-impossible dream. All they need is 10,000 fish and a way to get them from England to the Arabian peninsula.

That’s where the British government comes in. The script is adapted from Paul Torday’s 2007 novel of the same name, a political satire that was a hit in the UK. When

a British-led operation in Afghanistan goes terribly wrong and threatens to become a PR nightmare (can you say “ripped from the headlines”?), the prime minister’s press secretary makes it her mission to divert the world’s attention with a heartwarming headline. Kristin Scott Thomas plays the hardcharging Patricia Maxwell, who gets wind of the salmon plan and seizes on it as a symbol of improved Anglo-Arab relations. Because she wants her photo op, she wants the sheikh to get his fish.

But will the boy get the girl? And, more importantly, will we care? McGregor and Blunt are winning as the mismatched pair with more than a few obstacles between them and true love. He’s in a rut of a marriage, and she’s dating a soldier who’s MIA. Such things have been known to work themselves out in 111 minutes, however. And, of course, further questions remain: Will the

salmon adapt to their new home or wind up dead in the water? Will mistrustful insurgents get to the sheikh before he can realize his vision?

Fortunately for anybody eager for a bigscreen break from vampires, superheroes and anything involving found footage, Hallström has realized his. Which, in this case, was to make a movie like they used to. This is an endearingly old-school exercise refreshingly devoid of angst or irony. The mood is a playful combination of the comic and the whimsical, the camerawork is spectacular, the dialogue is effortlessly fine, and there isn’t a performance that’s less than a pleasure to watch. The latest addition to one of the cinema’s most offbeat bodies of work is a fish-out-of-water story I strongly recommend you catch. m R i c k Ki s ona k

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t’s fashionable in certain circles these days to decry Judd Apatow and his various comedy protégés as a bunch of overhyped, over-grown adolescents.

American Reunion, the eighth entry in the American Pie franchise (four went straight to DVD), could make you rethink that opinion.

Next to this listless effort, Superbad and Bridesmaids look like the Shakespeare and Molière of R-rated comedy. Even The Hangover Part II suddenly seems a lot fresher.

Though American Reunion writer-directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg were responsible for the (also funnier) Harold and Kumar movies, they don’t seem to have figured out any new tricks to teach this material.

The American Pie saga began in 1999 as a classic American tale of lusty lads eager to shed their virginity before high school graduation. Sweet-faced, unstudly protagonist Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) eventually got hitched to band geek Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) in American Wedding. Now in their thirties and encumbered with spawn, the couple has graduated to incarnating a whole new set of clichés. Their sex life is dead, and when they return home for the tit-

ular high school reunion (their 13th, bizarrely), Jim finds himself gazing lasciviously at the teen (Ali Cobrin) whom he babysat when she was in rompers.

The problem is, male early-midlife-crisis humor has been done to death in comedies of the past few years, from Hall Pass to The Change-Up to The Hangover. So each member of the American Pie gang slips into a wellworn role: Jim is the nice guy who just needs to work out a few kinks in his marriage; Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is the whipped one seeking bro therapy; Oz (Chris Klein) is the playboy with a flashy but shallow lifestyle; and Stifler (Seann William Scott) is the extreme arrested-development case. What American Reunion needs is an actor daring and shameless enough to turn one of these stock roles into something unforgettable. But Scott, the least bland of the bunch, is still no Zach Galifianakis.

What the film does offer fans of the franchise is a nostalgia-soaked reunion of its original players (most of whom, it must be said, probably didn’t have other compelling screen commitments). The audience at my screening got an audible kick out of the ap-

age before booty Levy and Coolidge out-act their offspring in the eighth American Pie film.

pearance of Shannon Elizabeth and other near-forgotten millennial icons, and it responded happily to call-outs to gags from the first movie. Yes, the coming together of Jim’s dad (Eugene Levy), now widowed, and Stifler’s mom (Jennifer Coolidge), the original movie MILF, is a thing of beauty. But that’s only because “bland” is not in these two crusty comedians’ vocabulary.

The big set pieces in American Reunion don’t flow from character motivations; they’re ancient fixtures of the sex-farce genre. (The film gets major mileage out of the teenager’s attempts to coax and muscle Jim into adultery; would an 18-year-old Katy

Perry look-alike really go all spring-break for this guy?) Each gag unfolds in a way determined by dozens of raunch fests before it.

But the whole point of comedy — as we understand it — is to break rules and defy expectations now and then. Maybe in the inevitable next episode, American Retirement, the incongruity between the actors’ lighthearted adolescent shenanigans and their chronological ages will finally be extreme enough to yield some absurdist laughs. Or maybe this installment is “Bye-bye,” at last. m Marg o t H arri so n

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(95 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace) octoBER BABY: After learning she was adopted after a failed abortion, college frosh Hannah (Rachel Hendrix) tries to make sense of her past in this pro-life film by Andrew and Jon Erwin. (107 min, PG-13. Essex) tHE RAiD: REDEmptioN: The action is reputedly nonstop in this Indonesian martialarts movie about a cop raiding an apartment building in search of a ganglord, from director Gareth Evans. Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Doni Alamsyah star. (101 min, R. Roxy) tHE tHREE StooGES: Directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly enter the realm of family comedy with this update in which classic slapstickers Moe, Larry and Curly, ripped free of historical context, end up on a reality show. Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos play the trio. (92 min, PG. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Sunset, Welden)

21 JUmp StREEtHHHH Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play puerile police officers who go back to school (literally) for an undercover operation in this comedy based on the TV series that launched Johnny Depp back in the day. With Ice Cube. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs) directed.

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tHE HUNGER GAmESHHHH A teenager (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to replace her sister in a televised gladiatorial combat to the death in this adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young-adult novel, set in a dystopian future. With Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci. Gary Ross directed. (142 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) JEFF, WHo liVES At HomEHH Jason Segel plays a dude who lives happily in his mom’s basement until an errand gets him off the couch in this comedy from Mark and Jay Duplass (Cyrus), chroniclers of the slacker lifestyle par excellence. Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon and Judy Greer also star. (83 min, R. Roxy; ends 4/12) miRRoR, miRRoRHHH Get ready for an onslaught of Snow White movies! In this one, which takes a comedy route, Julia Roberts plays the queen eager to ensure she is fairest of them all. With Lily Collins as Snow and Armie Hammer as her prince, plus Sean Bean and Nathan Lane. Tarsem (Immortals) Singh directed. (106 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe)

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FRiENDS WitH KiDSHHH1/2 Does child rearing get easier when it’s shared by two best friends who aren’t lovers? A platonic couple decides to find out in this comedy from actress Jennifer Westfeldt, making her directorial debut. Jon Hamm, Adam Scott and Kristen Wiig also star.

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DR. SEUSS’ tHE loRAXHH1/2 Dr. Seuss’ contribution to eco-consciousness becomes a computer animation in which a boy in a sterile suburb (voiced by Zac Efron) takes up the cause of the trees to impress a girl (Taylor Swift).

With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito voicing the Lorax, whom you may have noticed recently selling cars on TV. Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda directed. (94 min, PG. Big Picture, Bijou, Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis, Palace)

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cHRoNiclEHHH Undeserving teens acquire superpowers and film themselves using them and — surprise! — abusing them in this found-footage film from first-time director Josh Trank. With Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell and Michael Kelly. (86 min, PG-13. Sunset; ends 4/15)

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Joseph (Peter Mullan), an unemployed widower in the north of England, has anger issues, all right. In the film’s first scene, he goes ballistic (I think it was over sports scores, but I’m not sure) and kicks his dog to death. And this isn’t a dog he hates or didn’t want to keep feeding. It’s a dog he later refers to, with palpable regret, as “my buddy.”

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Police searching for a stolen iPad used the tablet’s GPS to track it to an apartment in San Jose, Calif. The officers didn’t have a search warrant, but when they asked permission to enter the apartment, the occupants obliged.

“They probably thought if they didn’t, we’d suspect something,” Santa Clara County Assistant District Attorney David Tomkins suggested. Once inside, the officers found 780 pounds of crystal meth, worth about $35 million. “I told my dad about the bust,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said, “and he said, ‘They have $35 million, and they can’t go out and buy an iPad?’” (San Jose Mercury News)

sent about three words,” Miller said. “Next thing you know, it was the water.” (South Bend’s WBND-TV)

Low People in High Places

While serving as mayor of Hawthorne, Calif., Larry Guidi also worked as a warehouse operations manager for the Hawthorne School District. He was fired after a security camera recorded him loading a commercial food mixer into his pickup truck. He pleaded guilty to stealing the mixer, explaining that he took it so he could make dough for his home pizza oven. (Associated Press) Anwar El-Balkimy, an ultra-conservative Islamist member of the Egyptian parliament, told reporters from his hospital bed that masked gunmen robbed and beat him on a desert highway. Later, however, the employees of a plastic-surgery clinic in Giza said that El-Balkimy was covering his face in

When a single-engine Cessna 182 strayed into the same Los Angeles airspace as a Marine helicopter carrying President Obama, the North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled two Air Force fighter jets to intercept the aircraft REAL in the no-fly zone and direct it to land at Long Beach Airport. Federal agents who ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19) questioned the pilot determined that he presented ome people misunderstand no security threat, but they the do-it-now fervor of the also found 40 pounds of Aries tribe, thinking it must marijuana aboard the plane inevitably lead to carelessness. and turned him over to Long Please prove them wrong in the Beach police. (Associated coming weeks. Launch into the interPress) esting new possibilities with all your Police arrested a 17-yearexuberance unfurled. Refuse to allow old boy they said tried to the natural energy to get hemmed in burglarize a home in Belfast, by theories and concepts. But also be Northern Ireland, after a sure not to mistake rash impatience patrol spotted the juvenile at for intuitive guidance. Consider the the front door struggling to likelihood that your original vision of free his hand from the flap the future might need to be tinkered of a mail slot. He became with a bit as you translate it into the stuck while trying to reach concrete details. through the slot to unlock

bandages to hide plastic surgery. El-Balkimy admitted he’d gotten a nose job and resigned from both the Salafist Nour Party and parliament. (USA Today)

High People in High Places

When sheriff’s deputies went to a home in Dickson County, Tenn., to notify Danielle Elks, the wife of Charlie Daniels band keyboardist Joel “Taz” Digregorio, that her husband had died in a car crash, they found the back door open and entered.

They found what they suspected was marijuana on the kitchen table, as well as rolling papers. They also noted there was a sticker for the Governor’s Marijuana Eradication Task Force. Elks is the director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Commission, whose mission includes the eradication of marijuana. The deputies neither investigated nor arrested anyone. (Nashville’s WSMV-TV)

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While driving a $160,000 armored Chevy Suburban specifically designed to thwart high-velocity gunfire, fragmentation grenades and land mines, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata, 32, was ambushed in central Mexico by drug-cartel gunmen. When they forced the vehicle off the road and surrounded it, Zapata confidently put the allegedly invulnerable vehicle in park. That’s when the door locks popped open, thanks to a consumerfriendly automatic setting installed in the vehicle. Assailants were then able to wrestle open the door enough for one to spray gunfire into the interior. U.S. officials acknowledged that “hundreds, if not thousands, of other U.S. government vehicles all over the world” might have the same vulnerability.

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of our pagan forbears imagined they had a duty to assist with nature’s revival every spring by performing fertility rituals. And wouldn’t it be fun if it were even slightly true that you could help the crops germinate and bloom by making sweet love in the fields? At the very least, carrying out such a ceremony might stimulate your own personal creativity. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slip away to a secluded outdoor spot, either by yourself or with a romantic companion. On a piece of paper, write down a project you’d like to make thrive in the coming months.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you? It feels weird for a short time, but leaves no lasting damage. I’m expecting that you will experience a form of that phenomenon sometime soon. Metaphorically speaking, the wind will get knocked out of you. But wait — before you jump to conclusions and curse me out for predicting this, listen to the rest of my message. The wind that will get knocked out of you will be a wind that needed to be knocked out — a wind that was causing confusion in your gut-level intuition. In other words, you’ll be lucky to get that wind knocked out of you. You’ll feel much better afterward, and you will see things more clearly.

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a person that turns the crank handle,” said Franz Kafka. At least that should be the case, I would add. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that a lot of people let other, lesser things turn the crank handle — like the compulsive yearning for money, power and love, for example. I challenge you to check in with yourself sometime soon and determine what exactly has been turning your crank handle. If it ain’t eternity, or whatever serves as eternity in your world view, get yourself adjusted. In the coming months, it’s crucial that you’re running on the cleanest, purest fuel.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We all know that spiders are talented little creatures. Spiders’ silk is as strong as steel, and their precisely geometric webs are engineering marvels. But even though they have admirable qualities I admire, I don’t expect to have an intimate connection with a spider any time soon. A similar situation is at work in the human realm. I know certain people who are amazing creators and leaders but don’t have the personal integrity or relationship skills that would make them trustworthy enough to seek out as close allies. Their beauty is best appreciated from afar. Consider the possibility that the ideas I’m articulating here would be good for you to meditate on right now, Aquarius.

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were then called “witch doctors” as “my professional colleagues.” In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I encourage you to be inspired by Livingstone as you expand your notion of who your allies are. For example, consider people to be your colleagues if they simply try to influence the world in the same ways you do, even if they work in different jobs or spheres. What might be your version of Livingstone’s witch doctors? Go outside of your usual network as you scout around for confederates who might connect you to exotic new perspectives and resources you never imagined you could use.

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Once upon a time, I fell in love with a brilliant businesswoman named Loreen. I pursued her with all my wiles, hoping to win her amorous affection. After playing hard to get for two months, she shocked me with a brazen invitation: Would I like to accompany her on a whirlwind vacation to Paris? “I think I can swing it,” I told her. But there was a problem: I was flat broke. What to do? I decided to raise the funds by selling off a precious heirloom from childhood, my collection of 6000 vintage baseball cards. Maybe this story will inspire you to do something comparable, Capricorn: Sacrifice an outmoded attachment or juvenile treasure or youthful fantasy so as to empower the future of love.

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Jacob Jock got kicked off a jury in a civil trial in Sarasota, Fla., after sending a Facebook friend request to one of the defendants within 20 minutes of being instructed by the judge not to contact anyone connected with the case. “I didn’t think it was a big deal,” Jock said, explaining that he sent the friend request while he was in the jury pool. “I didn’t think I would get picked for the jury.” But he was, and defendant Violette Milerman informed her attorney, who told the judge. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is a possibility that a pot of gold sits at the end of the rainbow. The likelihood is small, true, but it’s not zero. On the other hand, the rainbow is definitely here and available for you to enjoy. Of course, you would have to do some more work on yourself in order to gather in the fullness of that enjoyment.

Here’s the potential problem: You may be under the impression that the rainbow is less valuable than the pot of gold. So let me ask you: What if the rainbow’s the real prize?

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He told me quite candidly, “My secret is that I’m not a good father; I’m very neglectful.”

I offer up this story as a way to encourage you, at this juncture in your development, to favor quality over quantity.

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Let’s have some fun Hello. I am searching for mutually enjoyable NSA adult fun. I am a very oral person and like just about anything that doesn’t involve pain. BONZE1970, 41 Adventurous Fit 30-year-old professional looking to spice things up. Open to discreet encounters and exploring whatever. Wanderlust1, 31, l Looking for excitement Outgoing personality, young at heart, mind and body. Looking for risky, fun and exciting encounters. I’m excited!

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easygoing, respectful guy who can be a passionate lover, or dirty rough freak, in the sheets. Either way, I usually get mine and always make sure you get yours. tattoos_n_ass, 20, l let’s just have fun Let’s try something new! Let’s go have fun. superjoe445, 40 looking for something new Just got out of a long five-year relationship. Both new it wasnt right. Looking to see what people got out there. Makes my mind wander. New to it so up for anything, but not a LTR. missu2, 27 Please be Real Married explorer seeking secret adventures. Clean and healthy DDF hoping there really are girls that wanna have fun! In person or chat, I’m ready and available to pursue your fantasies. Ready2go, 48 Sinister urges Seeking a pet, a slave, a slut. One who can receive the dark urges that I crave to expel, one who will willingly and eagerly gives over to the void. I am dominant, but I don’t want to have to explain everything. You should be actively submissive, compliant with purpose. I will reward your submission with pleasure. Lavish, filthy decadence. unrepentant, 34 Zen Sex Looking for a woman who wants to discover all of the ways the senses can create great sex. zen247, 59 Four orgasms + 4 u Free and looking to give as much hot sexual pleasure as you deserve.

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Looking to be very feminine-want to help? Chat, pics, maybe a date-see how it goes. Smooth, lean, feminine-muscled body. Want lessons to pass as feminine girl-to be sexy, touch, kiss, flirt, lap dance...maybe more. Looking for clean, fit GG, couple (MF/FF), extra passable CD to help/teach me. Also play sexy truth/ dare. Clean, no drugs/smoking/diseases, nothing illegal. Extreme descretion given and expected. Shoshanna, 55, l COUPLE FOR COUPLE Clean, happy couple 40 and 50s looking for same. New to this, looking for fun, happiness, sex. We are curious, email if you are a couple that is happy with your current relationship and just want a little spice. Get in touch with us. Summer is coming and we have a boat on Lake Champlain and would love to have a summer to remember 8-). lauraed, 40 Lookn For Friends We would love to find couples close to our age who are good looking and like to dance and sing karaoke. We love to show off for people. We are an early 30’s couple. She is tall, shy and sexy with a great body. He is tattooed, fine and the life of the party. We love being sexy for people. looknaround11, 32, l Insatiable appetites for sex!!!

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That stupid checkout line I don’t know why I can’t even man up and ask your name. It drives me nuts. Happy Easter. When: Sunday, April 8, 2012. Where: ....

You: Woman. Me: Man. #910087 college in northeast kingdom I see your hardwood daily. You’re always working and the vest is sexy.

You’re always turning the lathe, and I’m wondering, when will you turn me...on? Let’s meet for a ginger beer.

Good trade, picea. When: Saturday, March 10, 2012. Where: School.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #910086 Guy outside of Eyes of the World I was in running gear, black sweatshirt, black pants. You came around the corner almost in front of Eyes of the World on Battery Street. You were tall, dark hair, maybe a black jacket. Two Thursdays ago, I think it was March 29th, maybe around noon. Just wondering if you live around here and would possibly like to meet sometime? When: Thursday, March 29, 2012. Where: Battery Street EOTW. You: Man. Me: Woman. #910085

Tattooed Beauty You came into my restaurant the other night with an older couple, maybe your grandparents? I delivered you your vegetarian dish and complimented you on your selection. I didn’t know what else to say. You are beautiful and I would love to take you out to dinner sometime. When: Monday, April 2, 2012. Where: The Windjammer.

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Dorset street Hannaford To the young woman who told me my infant daughter was “truly precious”: I am sorry. I wished to return the sentiment of yourself. But I was afraid it would be misconstrued as implying you were diminutive or quaint, which would not have been my intent. Rather it was a reflection on your quality of charater as rare or priceless. When: Monday, April 2, 2012. Where: Checkout.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #910074 Colorado Traveler/water drinker Had lots of fun chatting with you the other night about bad and/or funny blind dates. I wanted to exchange numbers before you left. I’m in a messy relationship right now. But was wondering if we could be friends and grab a drink and chat some more. You might be moving soon to No Cal. Drop me an email. When: Saturday, March 31, 2012. Where: A bar downtown.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #910073 Seeing you again made my day I have to apologize for not giving your friend my number for you. I’m not available romantically, but I am very interested in meeting you and discovering who you are. My interest is peaked. My fear is that you won’t return. Now that we know each other’s names, let’s properly introduce ourselves. When: Saturday, March 31, 2012. Where: At your assigned table.

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Honky Tonk Corner Bar Brunette I was seated at the end of the bar at the opening between the two rooms staring at you as you ordered your drink. Red wine, I believe. I just got to say, wow. Wow. When: Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Where: Radio Bean.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #910065 it took one pinch This weekend will only mark three months, but it’s forever that I’m excited for! With every sunrise I’m anxious for our new adventure. Without fail, every time I open my eyes, I get weak and fall in love with you all over again. I ask how I got so lucky; you reply you pinched

mistress maeve Dear Mistress,

I met a guy online, and he seems really cool. We exchanged a few emails, and he asked me out. I was excited until I received his latest note. He picked a bar I would normally consider a great date choice, but then he wrote, “I like to take my first dates there.” A comment like that makes me feel like I’m just one in a long line of first dates. In an ideal world, a guy would choose a place that he thought I might like based upon our correspondence, but he’s obviously not willing to put in that much effort. I’m so miffed about it that not only am I writing to you for advice, but I’m also considering canceling the date. What do you think?

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Dear P.O.T.H.,

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Unfortunately, it can be hard to keep your head above water in the dating pool, and it sounds like your guy is in danger of drowning. If he’s been in the online dating scene for a while, he probably feels like the Grand Marshal of the Lackluster Date Parade, and he’s become lazy and formulaic when it comes to planning his dates. If meeting all of his potential mates at the same bar is a matter of convenience for him (perhaps the spot is close to where he works), that’s fine. But he never should have told you that — tacky!

You could cancel the date, but since you found him interesting enough to want to meet, I don’t think you should ditch him just yet. Instead of meeting him at his go-to spot, I suggest you throw a wrench into his usual first-date plans. Write him back and suggest that you meet someplace else.

You can even say something like, “Wow, sounds like you go to that bar a lot! Why don’t we try something new?” Be thoughtful with your ideas: If he likes beer, suggest you meet up at a local brewery to try the new spring concoction; if he likes golf, entice him to join you at the driving range. If he’s willing to change up his routine and meet you on your terms, he might be a keeper. If not, it might be time to move on to a guy who has a little more tact.

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