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MAY 23-30, 2012 COMPILED BY CATHY RESMER & TYLER MACHADO

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That’s how much more tax revenue Vermont has collected since stepping up collections of some lesser-known taxes, according to the Associated Press. They include a sales tax on the toothbrushes dentists give to patients and a restaurant tax on meals served in nursing homes.

IN THE LONG RUN

Not too hot. Not too cold. This year’s Vermont City Marathon was just right. At least it looked that way from the sidelines. Way to go.

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Jay Peak CEO Bill Stenger bought another ski area last week: Burke Mountain Resort. That’s the financial equivalent of a double black diamond.

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1. Side Dishes: “Smoking!” by Alice Levitt. Bluebird Tavern announces plans to open a barbecue restaurant in its old location on Riverside Avenue. 2. “Snack Attack 2012” by Alice Levitt and Corin Hirsch. Our yearly guide to Vermont’s food trucks and snack bars returns with some new faces and old favorites. 3. “High and Dry: In Burlington, Boaters Wait Years for a Place to Park” by Kathryn Flagg. The most indemand property in Burlington? The slips and moorings on the harbor. 4. “It’s a Families Affair: The Genealogy of AG Candidates Bill Sorrell and T.J. Donovan” by Andy Bromage. The two Democratic candidates for attorney general are products of prominent Democratic families. 5. Fair Game: “Payback Time?” by Andy Bromage. State officials are due a five percent raise — but not all are taking it.

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Here’s something to sing about: The nearly monthlong lineup of the Green Mountain Opera Festival, which includes open rehearsals, master classes and two full-blown productions. Get a stunning preview of the vocal mastery at Sunday’s Opera Extravaganza: A Gala Performance, featuring librettos from La Bohéme, Don Pasquale and other opera gems. See calendar listing on page 51

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All jazz hands on deck! The Burlington Discover Jazz Festival is back, turning virtually every surface of the city into a stage for world-class sound. Who to see? We couldn’t even begin to tell you here ... but Asphalt Orchestra, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Dianne Reeves are all good places to start.

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Geography links the vastly varied works of BigTown Gallery’s current exhibit, “Artist Community: Rhode Island.” But look closely and you’ll be able to distinguish other common characteristics of this influential art scene. Up through June 10, the mixed-media show is the first in a series of group exhibitions exploring creative communities. See art spotlight on page 69

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Called a “banjo ninja in fighting form” by one critic, Phillip Roebuck’s big sound belies his oneman act. With a drum strapped to his back and a banjo in his hands, the rocker brings frenzied plucking and bluesy lyrics to Montpelier’s Positive Pie 2 on Saturday and Winooski’s Monkey House on Sunday.

FAIR GAME

It’s a … Candidate!

t’s a girl! It’s a boy! Actually, it’s too soon to say. As of press time, ANDY BROMAGE and his wife, ALISON MONCRIEF BROMAGE, were heading to the hospital to give birth to Baby Fair Game. We’re hoping that, whatever the gender, he or she will come out looking just like Poppa Fair Game: with a red beard, a reporter’s notebook and a banjo on his knee. While Andy relishes the joys of new parenthood, you’ll be stuck with me for a while. So send any tips, complaints or dirty diapers my way.

Jack Is Back

The winner of a heated Democratic primary between seven-term Attorney General BILL SORRELL and challenger T.J. DONOVAN, the Chittenden County state’s attorney, could face a million-dollar headache this fall. As the AP’s WILSON RING reported Monday, Republican businessman JACK MCMULLEN is also Mc-Mullin’ a run. Remember that guy? McMullen is probably best remembered for the drubbing he took from Tunbridge farmer FRED TUTTLE in the 1998 Republican ST primary to take on Democratic Sen. PATRICK 8v-isabean052312.indd R 1 JU 5/21/12 1:16 PM O F . The low point for McMullen came LEAHY N I JO .00 WEEK* when, pressed by Tuttle in a Vermont PER Public Radio debate, the Massachusetts transplant mispronounced a few Vermont towns and couldn’t identify the number of teats on a dairy cow. For the record, it’s four. I couldn’t McMullen tells Fair Game that, so long be happier as he can find a decent campaign manager, about he’ll jump in the race for attorney general. getting my He’s already collecting signatures to get on body back. the ballot. Here I am, “I think there’s a reason to have a conproud to say that not only test,” he says. “Evidently the Democrats did I lose the feel the same. The feeling on our side is, weight, I’ve BEFORE ‘Why should there be a freebie in the genbeen keeping eral election?’” it off, and I couldn’t be With McMullen, though, nothing’s ever happier with free. getting my The Burlington resident and managbody back, I AFTER dropped ing principal of the Massachusetts-based 38 lbs. and 4 Cambridge Meridian Group has a history of dress sizes! self-funding his runs for office. McMullen — Michelle loaned his own campaign $340,000 when he unsuccessfully challenged Leahy again LOSE in 2004. He raised another $390,000 from WEIG other sources that same year. & LOO HT K GREA FOR SU T McMullen says he’d likely pony up his MMER *Full program. Food/supplements extra. ! own cash if he ends up entering the race — and he’d also count on a little help from LOSE WEIGHT QUICKLY • DOCTOR RECOMMENDED VARIETY OF PROGRAMS • PRIVATE COACHING his friends. “I’ve always had a number of my busiEssex Junction • 878-4500 ness colleagues say, ‘If you run, we’ll back you,’” he says. 1 Marketplace (Off Suzie Wilson Rd.) Given his long-held desire to serve in weighlesscenters.com 12 FAIR GAME

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the U.S. Senate, how come he’s not taking on Sen. BERNIE SANDERS, as is Windsor resident JOHN MACGOVERN? “Those races are difficult. Vermont is a small state, and its citizenry seems to value the seniority of its senators,” he says. McMullen says he’d use the AG’s office to crack down on drug use and crime — not nuclear energy. He calls Sorrell’s appeal of a federal court decision allowing Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to remain open “a misdirection of effort.” “You only have so much you can do in that office. Why tilt at windmills?” he says. If he decides to jump in, McMullen better pull out his Vermont flash cards and study up. Asked if he’s learned about them cow teats, McMullen said he had: “Well, that’s ingrained in my mind. I’ve got four down pat.”

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In or out, McMullen won’t be getting the support of two prominent Republicans. Last week, Donovan the Dem locked up the support of Barre’s Republican mayor, THOM LAUZON. Two weeks before that, Rutland Mayor CHRIS LOURAS — also an R — came out for Donovan. So does Donovan think he’s running in the Republican primary or something? Spokesman JAY ELS says that, on the contrary, “The issues we’re talking about, that T.J. is bringing to the forefront, are ones Vermonters care about — and they’re not partisan.” Now that McMullen is considering jumping in, are Lauzon and Louras reconsidering? Doesn’t sound like it. “Was he the one who had the primary against Fred Tuttle?” Louras wondered when Fair Game asked him about McMullen. Scratch him off your list, Jack.

Louras says he’s sticking with Donovan no matter who gets in the race — and he doesn’t much care about party affiliation. After all, the former Republican state rep says, “The only ‘R’ I have next to my name right now is ‘Rutland.’” As for Lauzon? After a morning chasing lightning — there were at least three lightning-caused house fires in Barre — and a bomb threat at the high school, Lauzon said Tuesday that he, too, will back Donovan no matter who enters the race. “I have a lot of respect for Jack as a person, but I’ve not had the opportunity to work with him in the context of the skill set you need as attorney general — and I have had the opportunity to work with T.J. Donovan,” Lauzon says. How’s that one going over with fellow Rs? “It’s not a decision that is too popular among my Republican friends,” the Barre mayor says. “The thing is, what I’ve always told them is: I took an oath to be mayor and represent my city. I didn’t take an oath to be a Republican.” Lauzon points to another D he backed over an R: then-Democrat TOM SALMON when he challenged Republican RANDY BROCK for state auditor. Salmon has since switched teams. “I endorsed Tom Salmon, but I was the only one smart enough to know he was a Republican,” he jokes. Does bipartisan Thom see any further Dem endorsements on the horizon? Like, say, for Gov. PETER SHUMLIN? “I will confirm that I’ve had conversations with the governor’s staff,” Lauzon says. “They’ve asked about an endorsement, and I’m considering it. That’s not a knock against anyone.” Like, say, Brock, who’s now challenging Shumlin for governor? Lauzon says that in spite of the fact that — or maybe because — he campaigned hard for Shumlin’s 2010 opponent, former Lt. Gov. BRIAN DUBIE, the gov reached out to Lauzon immediately upon taking office. Literally. “His first day on the job he was having lunch in my home. I have a great relationship with the governor. I’m going to stop short of giving you an endorsement, but I respect what he’s done,” Lauzon says. “In my mind, you have to give me a reason to fire someone.” So hypothetically, if Lauzon were to endorse the gov, when would he hypothetically do it? Lauzon: “If there is one, I suspect it will come in the next couple of weeks.” (Dramatic pause.) “Followed by my resignation from the Republican Party.” (Loud cackling.)

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Since March, Senate stalwart Vince illuzzi (R-Essex/Orleans) has been running for … something. Back then, the Northeast Kingdom pol told Seven Days he was 75 percent sure he’d challenge Sorrell for attorney general, calling the incumbent “an absentee owner” of the office and criticizing Sorrell’s handling of the Vermont Yankee lawsuit. But when Salmon announced two weeks ago that he will not seek reelection as state auditor, Illuzzi shifted gears. “I’ve been talking with folks and certainly leaning strongly toward running for auditor,” he says. “It’s an open seat. It’s a challenging office that would certainly enable me to parlay my legislative experience into looking at how well the programs we’ve created and funded are working.” So what changed? Illuzzi says “the only issue” in the AG race is Sorrell’s record of losing three high-profile court cases defending three state laws: VY, campaign finance reform and a ban on prescription-drug data mining. “The problem is, the legislature passed the laws, which he was required to defend, and I voted for a couple of those,” Illuzzi says. Now that he’s honed in on a job to run for, Illuzzi just has to pick a party — or not. The longtime Republican says he’s thinking about running as an independent. “In order to succeed given the current makeup of the general assembly, I have found success lies in working with both parties equally,” the senator says. “I think if you asked most of my colleagues, they’d tell you I’ve done that effectively.” What does Vermont GOP chairman Jack lindley think of a possible Illuzzi defection? “Good luck!” he says. “He won’t get any help from Republicans.” Lindley warns Illuzzi that eschewing the GOP label would be “a big mistake.” “I would point out that not a single independent has been elected to statewide office,” Lindley says. “I just don’t think an independent can win statewide.” Tell that to Bernie Sanders! Of course, with President Barack OBama at the top of the ticket this fall — a recent Castleton State College poll had the prez leveling mitt rOmney 59 to 28 percent in Vermont — and the state GOP’s finances in the tank, what exactly can Lindley offer Illuzzi to party on with the Rs?

“It takes an unusual amount of effort to run statewide, and you’ve gotta have some volunteers,” Lindley says. “Maybe he’s figured out how to get volunteers.” Volunteers? One guy who won’t be donating anything to Illuzzi is dOug HOffer. The independent policy analyst has frequently contributed research and analysis to the Senate Economic Development Committee, which Illuzzi chairs — and the two have a strong working relationship. Problem is, Hoffer, who lost to Salmon in 2010, is already in the race for auditor. He’s hoping to pick up the endorsements of the Dems and the Progs. “Vince is a good guy, and I’ve done good work with him,” says Hoffer. “But I think I’m better qualified than him.” Illuzzi agrees with the whole “working together” thing — just not the “better qualified” thing. “Doug has provided some valuable information to the committee,” Illuzzi says. “I guess the big difference is, I’ve funded the programs, I’ve created the programs and I know what the goals are. I think I’m in a better position to assess how they’re performing and whether changes should be made.” Hoffer says that’s a stretch. “The auditor audits the entirety of state government,” he says. “So is Vince suggesting he created state government?” Hoffer believes Vermonters would be better served by a state auditor who focuses on, say, auditing — not simply holds down a government job. “I’m not a career politician. I’m a numbers guy,” Hoffer says. “If I had wanted to start a career in electoral politics, I would have started a long time ago.” Not that he has any problem with Illuzzi running or anything. “It’s not for me to judge what people’s motivations are,” Hoffer says, “but it is of some concern that some folks seem to be shopping instead of focusing on something they’re particularly interested in.” m

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So Long, “Sultana”:

Sen. Hinda Miller Stages Her Exit B y Pau l Hei nt z

Matthew Thorsen

t was clear from the first Jupiter reference that the Sultana Creative Spirit Awards would be a thoroughly Hinda Miller affair: part politics, part business and totally bizarre. “Everything happens for a reason,” Miller informed her audience last Thursday at Burlington’s Main Street Landing Film House. “So it’s not by accident that you find yourself here. Why? We don’t know, but it will be revealed.” After 10 years representing Chittenden County in the Vermont State Senate, the Burlington Democrat was celebrating her retirement from politics, which she dubbed her “retryment,” and the start of her “cycle of Sultana.” To mark the occasion, which doubled as a Senate Democratic fundraiser, she had invited a few of her closest friends — an assortment of Montpelier muckety-mucks and Burlington business leaders — to toast her fellow “Sultanas” and, of course, herself. In the audience were enough senators to overturn a veto, enough statewide officeholders to fill a ballot and enough lobbyists to defend a utility merger. But Miller made clear from the start that, on this night, she was in charge. “The clapping is going to be like, when I clap, you clap,” she instructed. “When I clap, you clap.” For the next 45 minutes, Miller flitted about the stage, arms flailing, as she doled out strings of pearls in deerskin pouches to some 30 “Sultana” awardees: her yoga instructors, fellow female senators, her grown son’s former martial arts teacher, and others she said made up “the local, creative, sustainable economy.” She called recipients up to the stage in groups, showered them with hugs and meandering anecdotes, and then shouted, “Out!” when she was done with them. It was a fitting valedictory for a senator known more for the Statehouse yoga sessions she led than for the legislation she sponsored. Her retirement party coincided with the release of a new self-published memoir, Pearls of a Sultana: What I’ve Learned About Business, Politics, and the Human Spirit, which traces Miller’s quixotic journey from her native Montréal to the height of the women’s sports-apparel business and beyond. Filled with numerology and Eastern mysticism, the tome alternates between autobiography of a free spirit and manifesto of an aspiring Sultana. What is a Sultana? “The concept of Sultana is very much a work in progress,” Miller writes. “I’m not looking to define it or invent it personally. It needs to be created through a process shared with many other people.” The term came to Miller as she traveled through Turkey last summer with her husband, Joel, and their two children. A tour guide jokingly referred to Miller as Sultana, alluding to the Ottoman queen mother of Suleiman the Magnificent. The nickname stuck, and an obsession was born. Miller devotes plenty of ink in her book to describing the nebulous notion, but it’s never quite clear what she’s talking about. Nor is it clear whether she herself knows. “Sultanas integrate their experiences with the power of love,” she writes. “They are luminous. Mosaics. Tapestries. Is it a club? A movement? A product line? Time will tell. And I, for one, look forward to finding out. Evasive? Not intentionally. We are at a moment of evolution, but no one knows exactly where we are beginning that process.”

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Miller is not one for straightforward answers. The day before her retirement party, she parried questions in an interview at her spacious DeForest Heights home with vague references to numbers and planets. Wearing a leopard-print suit with yellow Crocs, pearls and a gray Champlain College sweatshirt, Miller explained why she is stepping down from the Senate: “Because 10 is a magic number, and I’m a woman with cycles of development and I’ve been able to know the beginning and the end.” So the number 10 guided her decision? “I’m a student of the mysteries of Kabbalah,” she responded. “And I’ve been studying with my teacher and my yogi friends Kabbalah and numbers and symbols and days and planets. Planets, mostly. So five has a meaning.

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Five’s really good for communication. It’s ruled by Mercury. I called to ask that my interview be on Wednesday because Mercury — five is the best day for that. And Thursday is a beautiful day. It’s ruled by Jupiter. It’s lord of the planets. It’s wealth, health, and that’s when our Sultana awards are. And it’s a waxing moon, so we’re starting with new things.” Beyond her fixation with numbers and planets, Miller’s memoir tells the fascinating — if strange and selfindulgent — story of a woman who has found success after success in the worlds of business and politics. While working a summer job as a costume designer at the Lake Champlain Shakespeare Company in 1977, Miller and two friends set about solving a problem they encountered whenever they went jogging: “the discomfort and embarrassment of bouncing breasts.” Their elegant solution was the Jogbra,

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are active duty; two, like the Burlington Air Guard Station, house Air National Guard units. The U.S. Air Force won’t explain exactly how it compiled the short list for the F-35. But Kathleen White, who heads civic outreach for Air Combat Command, says the Air Force conducted site surveys and on-the-ground evaluation to weigh capacity, environmental factors, cost and “mission.” The final choice of “preferred” and “reasonable” sites — Burlington AGS among them — fell to the secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force chief of staff. Vermont’s congressional delegation has so far been supportive of the

bed down, though Sen. Patrick Leahy’s spokesman David Carle insists that Leahy’s office wasn’t actively angling for the F-35s. “The Air Force’s decision on basing the F-35 was made on the merits and the clear record of Vermont’s Air National Guard being … the best suited for this mission,” he says. Of the half dozen contenders, Burlington is the favored air-guard base, while Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah, leads the pack among activeduty bases. Both currently host F-16 operations, which White says would make the transition easier. Read: cost effective. Both also offer unique training opportunities. Hill provides access

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So Long, “Sultana” « p.15 path and I would go for right action and right speech and I would not speak up for myself,” she said. “Looking back with the skills I have now, I would speak up. I just didn’t have it in me.” Miller still doesn’t take kindly to questions about her business record. Though she says her central focus in the legislature has been to support “the local, creative, sustainable economy,” she writes at length about outsourcing Jogbra’s manufacturing to Puerto Rico and then China — disclosing that one Caribbean factory she settled on “was hot and stuffy and the bathrooms never worked.” The situation improved, she writes, after Jogbra provided the factory with business. Asked if there was a disconnect between her philosophy and her business decisions, Miller stood up and paced the room, saying, “The job was to get the job done. “They have very experienced factories, and if it wasn’t for me going there and tapping into those expertise, we would never have had the Jogbra,” she said, her voice rising. “So I don’t like those kind of judgments about what’s local. And when

I ran for mayor, someone asked, ‘Well, were those factories unionized?’ I didn’t even know what a union was. I didn’t know if they were unionized. I don’t like that. I don’t like being judged. And by their rules about what is correct, I don’t like it at all. I don’t like it. Did I tell you I don’t like it? I do not like it.” Miller has a reputation in the Statehouse as a staunch supporter of business interests, though perhaps not always an effective one. In interviews, several colleagues offered on-the-record praise for her eclectic blend of mysticism and politics. Off the record, they said she was largely irrelevant. In her memoir, Miller gives her own legislative history short shrift — though she highlights her support of state recognition for the Abenaki and naturopathic parity in health insurance. She seems more interested in spiritual anecdotes, such as an internal debate about whether to switch from Senate seat number nine to seat number 10 — noting a difference in energy and planetary alignment. The one legislative battle she describes at length: her failed attempt in April to resurrect physician-assistedsuicide legislation by attaching it in

“I certainly did not bully her,” he says. “I was trying to make the point that when you take a bill out of committee and you don’t have testimony on that bill, there are certain things you should be aware of that you aren’t. I don’t think she did her homework.” Miller said she’s looking forward to leaving the Senate behind her, saying that it stifled her “creative spirit.” She declined to predict what she’ll do next, but she indicated that Sultana could yet become a sort of consulting firm, making use of the skills of her fellow Sultanas. “This summer I’m really going to find out what is Sultana,” Miller said. “I can begin to answer more, ‘What are you going to do? What are you going to sell?’ It will all evolve, because there’s a heart to this Sultana that a lot of women will relate to. It’s not really about me. I’m just one Sultana.” Or, maybe, consultana? m

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committee to a bill banning the use of tanning beds by minors. At the time, she was putting the finishing touches on her memoir and decided the episode would fit neatly in her book. “I had a hole in Chapter 7 and somehow ‘Death With Dignity’ found me, and all of a sudden I was standing up there. Someone called me and said, ‘Will you attach this to the tanning bill?’ and I said, ‘Yes,’” she recalled. Miller tells the story in the present tense, quoting liberally from press accounts and an op-ed she wrote in the Burlington Free Press, in which she accuses Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington) of bullying her on the Senate floor when he questioned her about the legislation. Later in her memoir Miller writes that she is “grateful” to Sears for “teaching” her about bullying. “I had never known what it felt like to be bullied in my whole life until I experienced his bullying behavior,” she writes. “It did not feel good at all. So now I know how to speak about it and how to stand up consciously, with a proud, strong heart, rooted in my core belief.” Sears contests her interpretation of the incident.

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n Tuesday, June 5, the VERMONT will present COUNCIL its Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts to ARNIE MALINA, the retiring artistic director of the FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, and to visual artist ALTOON SULTAN. Named for a late philanthropist, the Cerf award is bestowed on individuals who “have made a sustained contribution to the arts and had an impact on Vermont’s cultural life,” according to the VAC. So you’d think the chosen individuals would be pretty much household names, right? Well, Malina, now 67, has been a cultural mover and shaker in Burlington for some 15 years. Over that time, he has brought a huge variety of performances to the Flynn — from popular Broadway musicals to experimental theater, from modern dance to exotic international acts — and has stood on stage to introduce most of them. Along with former executive director ANDREA ROGERS, Malina presided over a significant expansion of the Flynn, as well — growth that gave us the FLYNNSPACE, HOEHL and CHASE STUDIOS, and the AMY E. TARRANT GALLERY and their respective additional programming. If

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says she was “quite stunned” — and, of course, pleased — to receive the totally unexpected phone call from VAC director ALEX ALDRICH announcing her award. “Career-wise, things are really quiet right now,” she says, “so I’m amazed people even know who I am.” She’s modest. In fact, observant

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gallery-goers do know of Sultan’s pristine paintings — a body of work that includes sun-drenched, near photorealistic images of rural life in oil. More accurately, these paintings, largely from the 1990s, might be called rural still lifes, featuring hay bales, tools and structures. Sultan’s canvases are generally unpeopled, though she’s been known to allow a cow or two. Her visual meditations are somewhat rhapsodic — Sultan says she loves the Northeast Kingdom and hill farms — but not romanticized. She hasn’t shied away from the less picturesque aspects of agriculture: a mound of silage, for example, its plastic cover held down by tires. Over the ensuing decade, Sultan distilled her interests to close-up views of the farm: Her rich egg-tempera paintings of I a tangle of white hose or a pile of rusted milking stanchions are pure studies in form and composition. By the time of her exhibit at Stowe’s HELEN DAY ART CENTER in 2009, Sultan had dispensed with recognizability altogether; her subject matter hewed to details completely removed from context, and thus VERMONT ART COUNCIL

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letters from falling off the edge of the line and into the “water.” If too many letters fall, you run out of “lives,” and the game ends. To keep the pressure on in Survival mode, the letters fall with increasing speed the longer you play, forcing you to think more quickly. And, by the way, there’s a family-friendly filter that forces you to keep it clean. Finally, there’s a Custom Game creator, which lets you choose from a variety of options to devise your own game — part of the builder’s self-computing model. It’s a surprisingly deep feature, and it means that when you get hooked, you have only yourself to blame. Without a doubt, Swamp Talk is one of the most entertaining games I have played on my iPod. With a simple and intuitive design that keeps you striving for higher scores, this $2 app is a steal. M I C HA EL G A R R I S

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meaning. And so, in a painting titled simply “Black V,” we are left to observe a shape made by what look like black tubes attached to the side of a blue — what? Building? And is that the end of a drainpipe jutting into the picture plane at lower left? It doesn’t matter. Sultan, who turns 64 this year, has moved to complete abstraction in recent work, and in a surprising medium: textiles. Her hooked-wool “drawings,” as she calls them, find the artist play-

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called, in fact, Studio and Garden. It’s a way to follow her even when she seldom exhibits. And so Altoon Sultan is a less obvious — but utterly deserving — recipient of the Cerf Medal, for her exquisite accomplishments in visual art. When she accepts her award in Montpelier next week, that unusual name — it’s Syrian — will edge a little closer to “household” status. “I’m touched,” Sultan says, “that my adopted home has chosen to honor me.”

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According to the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security, “excessive yawning” and “clock watching” are indications that someone is a terrorist [News Quirks, April 25]. I can see the rationale for clock watching in that someone may be waiting for a bomb to go off, but I think that’s stretching it. And I don’t see at all where yawning would come into it. So if I watch late-night movies the night before going back to work, and almost miss the bus, that makes me a terrorist? I think when these things reach the point of being this absurd, it may be time to recall the words of a famous Vermonter in the ’50s, thensenator Ralph Flanders, who stood up to fellow senator Joe McCarthy and said: “Haven’t you had enough?” Brian Garen BURLINGTON

IT DOESN’T ADD UP

I hope readers realize two things from “Where Have All the Dollars Gone? A Tally of Your Taxes” [April 4] as presented in the graphics accompanying the article. First, the $377 — out of an example Vermonter’s $2600 federal tax bill — is for only the interest on U.S. debt, and it does not represent any payment of principal. Yes, nearly 15 percent of that $2600 is going toward interest on deficit spending. Although U.S. debt is structured slightly differently, this would be like paying only the interest on your mortgage or car loan but never actually reducing the loan’s outstanding balance. Second, the same page suggests what we could fund in Vermont if our federal taxes were redirected toward spending in this state instead of at a national level. This is the problem with our thinking today: We should not redirect our taxes

to other spending; we should redirect our taxes to pay off our debt while substantially reducing current spending. When the country’s borrowing is paid off and there are no longer interest payments or outstanding balances, then,

perhaps, we can dream about redirecting monies to activities closer to home. In one of the final conversations I had with my grandfather, he commented that he could not believe that the United States had become a debtor nation. I can

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The 2000 planned F-35 jets are estimated to be worth a total of $400 billion [“F-35 Fighter Jets in South Burlington? Air Force Idea Bombs and Soars,” May 16]. That is $200 million per jet. Burlington is said to be getting 24 jets, or $4.8 billion worth of jet hardware. Dividing $4.8 billion by the population of the whole of Vermont at 62,6431 people equals $7662 per person. Lockheed Martin is building the F-35. Robert J. Stevens, CEO of Lockheed Martin, had an annual salary package for 2011 worth more than $25 million. If he does eight-hour workdays

believe it. To paraphrase Robert Frost: Two paths diverged, and we as a country chose the easier one. Scott A. Sabol NORTHFIELD

women and children in other countries, that we, the U.S., have invaded. Do we want the excuse of jobs to cover that up, and to keep covering that up? Can we not invest and create thousands of other jobs in more positive and environmentally healthy ways? We are complicit in many aspects of our modern lives, but for Burlington to actively support this project is condoning the U.S.’ illegal military campaigns and the military industrial complex. For 25 years I have worked as a professor at St. Michael’s College. In that time, I have often had to stop class and wait for the noise from these jets to recede before continuing with class. I am the Artist (Poet) in Residence there and over the years I have written poems that relate my abhorrence of these jets. I have also had to stop playing with my 11-year-old son, Dan, and his friends in my back garden off North Avenue as the jets drowned out our voices. What message does supporting these jets send to young people — or indeed, to anyone? Greg Delanty

and has two weeks off work a year, that is more than $7662 an hour. Perhaps $7662 given to each person in Vermont would be a wise community-building idea, rather than spending it on items whose purpose is to drop or fire things with deadly effect at communities. Then $25 million should be put into, say, doing some nice things for people and the planet?

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In “F-35 Fighter Jets in South Burlington? Air Force Idea Bombs and Soars” [May 16], Kevin J. Kelley wrote, “F-35 opponents characterized such testimony as ‘scare tactics.’” I find it interesting that he would use that quote in that context when, just a few paragraphs later, he quotes Juliet Buck saying, “Winooski is toast.” How is that not a scare tactic? I grew up in Winooski and still live there, near St. Mike’s. I do hear the jets in the evening powering up at the end of the runway. It’s a little annoying for a whole three to four minutes! Making silly statements like St. Mike’s will have to be bought out and torn down is ridiculous at best, and a bold-faced scare tactic at worst! I support the F-35s coming to BTV! Chris LaMothe WINOOSKI

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Why do we want jets, F-16s or F-35s, thundering over our heads on a daily basis here in beautiful, pastoral Burlington [“F-35 Fighter Jets in South Burlington? Air Force Idea Bombs and Soars,” May 16]? They are lethal killing machines that obscene amounts of money have been spent to purchase, maintain and fly. In recent years, such jets have played a major role in killing thousands of innocent men,

I am not sure if your reporters attended the same hearing that I did on Monday, May 14, re F-35s being “bedded down” in South Burlington [“F-35 Fighter Jets in South Burlington? Air Force Idea Bombs and Soars,” May 16]. The story says, “Leahy and Sanders offered only lukewarm and hedged endorsements last week in response to queries from Seven Days about whether they still view South Burlington as a suitable site for the new warplanes.” Weird: The joint Leahy-Sanders statement sounded like an endorsement to me. Sens. Sanders and Leahy, Rep. Peter Welch, Gov. Peter Shumlin, and others had representatives from their offices read statements declaring their unconditional support for the basing. In fact, while I don’t remember the exact wording, it was something to the effect of how having the F-35s based here would contribute to the high quality of life. The hearing was a joke. It was purportedly to review and gather public feedback about the Environmental Impact Statement, but instead focused on the economic impacts, not the environmental impacts, of the bed down. The hearing focused on businesses and government officials touting the economic benefits of having F-35s here. There was barely time for citizens to speak, and the hearing ended before everyone who had requested speaking time was able to be heard. Terry Zigmund WINOOSKI

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od willing, this will be my last time at the hospital.” Speaking to me from the shotgun seat was Genevieve Jones, a customer I was transporting back to her home in Derby Line. This is as far north as you can drive in Vermont without leaving the United States of America. The village — if I got my facts straight, always an iffy proposition — is actually north of the 45th parallel, the negotiated boundary between the U.S. and Canada. At some early date, a surveyor screwed up, and it was never corrected. I glanced over at Genevieve and saw an older woman who appeared to have faced life head on — with no nonsense, pretense or fakery. Her hair was an earthy, reddish-ginger blend, her only adornment a pair of simple silver, oval hoop earrings. She was from “the Kingdom,” no doubt — which means, in my book, as Vermont as you can get. As an immigrant to the Green Mountains, I hold a deep respect and affection for the rural Vermonters whose spirit remains at the core of this uniquely special place. “So Genevieve,” I began, changing the subject from whatever had brought her to the hospital in Burlington, “you still working up in Derby?” “Well, first off,” she replied with a smile, “you’re gonna have to switch to ‘Gen,’ because there ain’t anybody who calls me Genevieve, even at the hospital. And, no, I had to quit working a couple years ago on account of this kidney problem.” “What kinda work did you do?” “You want the short version or the long?” “Might as well hit me with the unabridged story, ’cause we got about two hours to Derby.”

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Gen chuckled and said, “Well, for years I was a waitress in Newport, but I left in the early ’60s for a better-paying job in Massachusetts. I worked down there for about six years, but I never really liked it. I just missed Vermont all the time. So I quit and came back to live with my brother, until I could get my own place. I’ll never forget — as soon as I hit John’s couch I got terribly sick for a week. I could barely stand on my feet!” “You must have been exhausted from the move,” I suggested. “Yeah, maybe, but I think I just weren’t used to the air up here anymore. That’ll do it, ya know.” “So what did you end up doing when you got better?”

me six months — had to drive to classes at night in Morrisville. And that was my last job, like I told ya, until I had to quit.” There’s a variety of paths to Derby, and I decided to take Route 100 through Stowe, all the way to Lowell and points north. When we reached Lowell, Gen perked up again. “Yup,” she said, “this is where I grew up with my younger sister and two older brothers. Our dad was a cattle dealer. He would go up to the weekly auctions in Newport.” “Any of your siblings still alive?” I asked. “Nope, I’m the last one left. My brother, John, died a few months ago. He shot himself in his bedroom.” “Oh, Lord — that’s horrible,” I said.

I could probably poInt out any farm, any buIldIng, any fIeld,

and Gen could tell me somethinG about it. “Went back to waitressing, this time at the East Side restaurant in Newport. This is when they were still downtown. They moved to the waterfront at some point, and I stayed on.” “And that’s been your work your whole life — waitressing?” “Nope, I didn’t say that,” she chided, with a twinkle in her blue eyes. “I left the East Side to work as the secretary to the local union — I think it was the tool and die makers. Then, when that dried up, I cared for a couple of old folks in the area — you know, under the table, like. That led to a full-time job at an old-age home in town, run by nuns. They had me doing everything. Eventually, the sisters encouraged me to get my LPN certification. It took

“Well, yeah — it was that. He’d been terrible sick and in pain for a couple years. I guess he just didn’t want to be a burden on his kids anymore.” Gen paused and seemed to wince. This memory was still achingly fresh. “Funny thing is, he called everyone in the family that morning. Now, of course, we realize he was saying good-bye.” “Did you ever have children?” “Not of my own, no, but I raised a boy and girl of one of my nieces. She had died in a drug overdose when they were still toddlers. So I’m kind of the only mother they’ve ever known. I’ve got a couple of beautiful grandkids now, too.” As an immense, weathered barn came up on the left, Gen said, “Oh my goodness

— this used to be the local dance hall. I guess it was a roller rink, too, at some point. Oh, I used to love dancing when I was a girl. It’s where I met my husband. That’s where he courted me.” “Has he passed away, too?” I asked. “Nope, Jim’s still alive. We divorced on June 19, 1969. He’s remarried and lives in New Jersey.” It wasn’t clear to me why Gen remembered the exact date of her divorce. It could be that the split from her husband had been a lifelong source of pain. On the other hand, it could represent the complete opposite: her joyous day of liberation. I believe that June 19 is celebrated in the African American community as Emancipation Day, so that would be appropriate. On a ridge outside the town of Irasburg, I noticed some creatures grazing in an enclosed area. I said, “Gen, do you see those critters up there? What the heck are they? Emus, maybe?” Gen began to laugh. “Emus? Gosh, no. Those are elk. I know this farm. They began raising elk a couple years ago. I guess there’s money in it. A few years ago, these same folks kept a moose. Well, not exactly kept it. More like the moose just liked it up there or some such. I guess Fish and Wildlife gave them all kinds of grief about it because you can’t keep a moose as a pet.” That’s when it dawned on me: I could probably point out any farm, any building, any field, and Gen could tell me something about it. We were in the Kingdom, and for Genevieve Jones, this land was in her blood. m “hackie” is a twice-monthly column that can also be read on sevendaysvt.com. to reach jernigan pontiac, email hackie@sevendaysvt.com.

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warning broadcasters to lower the volume but made no serious attempt at regulation, and industry efforts to self-police didn’t accomplish much either. Things got worse in the era of digital TV, with improved technology greatly increasing the range of discernible sound volume, better known as dynamic range. Eventually Congress stepped in, passing the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act in 2010. The law directed the FCC to set advertising loudness standards for broadcasters, cable operators and other video distributors. By December 13,

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2012, a commercial’s average sound level must be the same as the average loudness of the surrounding programming. The idea is that once you get the TV volume adjusted to a comfortable level, you won’t risk having your eardrums ruptured by a sales pitch. Human ingenuity being what it is, the new rule may not entirely solve the problem. Imagine a commercial skillfully interweaving tranquil footage of bunnies and butterflies with equal intervals of air-raidsiren-level noise. On average, the result is 100 percent FCC compliant. Improved TV technology works both ways, however. Check your owner’s manual to see if you have a function

called automatic gain control, audio compression or peak limiting. If you do, and you have the moxie to navigate through the Byzantine array of menus and options on the average TV, they’ll enable you to control the peak noise level. My assistants Una and Fierra discovered their five-year-old television had two of the aforementioned options, so there’s a decent chance yours might, too. That brings us to the related problem of loud movies. Increased dynamic range during regular programming was designed to enhance the vividness of the home-theater experience by reproducing the gamut of sounds you experience in real life. Unfortunately for your hearing, the approximation of real life favored by Hollywood tends to fixate on the whispers of the bedroom on the one hand and battling robots on the other. Action movies are particularly problematic. Audio researchers found that whereas a typical episode of the sitcom “Friends” had a nontaxing dynamic range of 6.6 “loudness units,” the 1999 film The Matrix had a range of 25 units. The eruption of noise during The Matrix’s action sequences is part of its charm, of course, but such extreme dynamic range pushes the limits of what even the most sophisticated home system can reproduce, making it virtually impossible to find a comfortable volume level. Once again, though, technology is your friend. The Dolby 5.1 system, for example, includes a “midnight mode” that

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compresses the dynamic range, lowering the sound peaks and raising the valleys to make a concussive soundtrack more listenable. But here’s the surprising part. Where the movie industry uses increased dynamic range to make more noise, the music industry uses dynamic range compression to do the same thing. Dynamic compression is a major weapon in what’s been called the “loudness war,” the steady increase in the volume of rock and pop music. Going back at least to Phil Spector’s “wall of sound,” music producers and engineers have always been trying to make their records sound bigger and more exciting than the competition’s, and one way of getting a song to jump off a jukebox is simply to make the recording itself louder. Because you can only turn the sound up so far before it becomes distorted, it eventually became standard practice to compress the dynamic range while cranking the gain until the song was uniformly loud — never mind the loss of sound quality. Since the mid-1980s, the average loudness of CDs has increased by a factor of 10, a trend if anything exacerbated by the shift to MP3 players. How better to make a track really pop in shuffle mode than to torque its effective volume? Thus the curious paradox: A century of technological progress has culminated in popular recordings with less dynamic range than an Edison phonograph cylinder of 1909.

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he city of New Orleans is steeped in musical tradition like no other. But here’s the funny thing about traditions in the Crescent City: They evolve. The Big Easy is famously the birthplace of jazz. But it’s also a hotbed of blues, R&B, funk, rock and hip-hop, among other genres and offshoots that can all trace their lineages as “America’s music.” Just as America is a cultural melting pot, each of those idioms influences the next. And while each style has its own distinct characteristics and attendant traditions, it is inextricably linked to the others. In that sense, the real New Orleans tradition is a music in constant flux. “Folks outside of New Orleans may not realize the extent to which our music has been modernized,” says DownBeat magazine’s New Orleans jazz critic, Jennifer Odell. “But incorporating elements borrowed from pop, hip-hop and R&B into brassband music, especially, is in itself a tradition.” The fresh, smiling face of that tradition — and, consequently, of the modernization of New Orleans music — is a brash, 26-yearold, Grammy-nominated trombone prodigy named Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty. His electric sound is rooted in second-line and brass-band traditions but is equally reliant on rock, funk, R&B and hip-hop. Accordingly, Andrews is the musical heir apparent to the New Orleans greats who include Louis Armstrong, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, the Marsalis family and more. And, like those giants before him, Andrews is challenging perceptions of what “New Orleans music” is all about. “He knows how to capitalize on the

me to understand the fundamentals of what I was doing. They wanted the kids there to sound like I was already sounding. They wanted me to catch up and learn theory and fundamentals.” Andrews refers to his education arc as learning “backward.” Most young American musicians learn music in school and then take it to the stage. Andrews did just the opposite, learning his craft on the streets and in New Orleans clubs before refining it in the classroom. But he cautions that formal training can come at a cost.

Odell agrees. “He went through all the phases of playing straight-ahead jazz and standards, traditional New Orleans jazz, contemporary brass-band music, and funk and R&B-laced jazz, all of which he handled flawlessly, before finding his voice and developing the music he’s touring today,” she says.

ogether, Backatown and For True make up an enigmatic and gleefully elastic whole that both embraces New Orleans traditions and actively seeks to update — even transcend — them. The albums bustle with sweltering funk grooves, fat-bottomed R&B strut, hip-hop swagger — and samples — heady jazz fusion and

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fiery brass-band bravado. And they juxtapose those styles with an array of other influences and melodies, from surf rock to Eastern European klezmer and gypsy music. The records also feature a marquee lineup of guest stars, particularly For True. That album includes contributions from Kid Rock, Jeff Beck, Warren Haynes, New Orleans soul diva Ledisi, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and Lenny Kravitz, among others. Kravitz, who invited Trombone Shorty on tour as part of his horn section, was instrumental in steering Andrews toward supafunkrock. Kravitz also serves as a model for Andrews’ own forays into singing. On Backatown and earlier, Andrews was a BRASS ATTACKS

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“Sometimes when you’re a natural musician, when you learn a bunch of stuff, you lose a certain depth of soul,” he says. “I don’t know what it is. You lose something that you had because you know more. The hardest thing for me is to keep what I had as a natural musician, but to make it better.” Andrews is quick to credit his time at NOCCA for his ability to do exactly that. “It allowed me to be more comfortable on my instrument and in any setting,” he continues. “Because being educated musically gives you a better tool to play with different types of musicians, to go into different genres and understand what’s going on. If I didn’t get that education, I wouldn’t be able to do that. I’d only be able to do one thing.”

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If For True and its roiling bitches’ brew of supafunkrock are any indication, Andrews still thinks that way. But before he could begin bending disparate sounds to his will to create the multifaceted style that has made him famous, Andrews needed to master the classics. An obvious phenom as a child, he learned completely by ear and was never taught music theory. Few players, especially those his age, could match his tone or technique. But Andrews couldn’t speak the language of music. So he enrolled at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, a secondary school that has produced some of the biggest names in jazz, including Terence Blanchard, the Marsalis brothers and Harry Connick Jr. “They weren’t worried about my playing,” Shorty says of his NOCCA instructors. “They knew I could play. But they wanted

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aised in the New Orleans neighborhood of Tremé, Andrews grew up immersed in the vibrant and varied sounds of his native city. The grandson of late R&B singer Jessie Hill, he was practically born with a trombone is his hands, and has been playing professionally since he was 6 years old. Before his arms were even long enough to fully extend the slide on his horn, Trombone Shorty was sharing stages with — and often upstaging — many of New Orleans’ great players. DownBeat’s Odell first encountered Andrews playing at a crawfish boil in the late 1990s while she was a critic covering New Orleans music for Rolling Stone. “I remember being blown away by the hype that preceded this little kid’s arrival as much as his obvious talent,” she says, and adds that Andrews lived up to those lofty expectations. “He had a stage presence even back then, even without a stage.” Shorty’s older brother, trumpeter and bandleader James Andrews, was instrumental to the child Troy’s musical development. “As a kid, my brother put me into different musical situations,” recalls Shorty. The elder Andrews took Troy under his wing, serving as a steadfast mentor. He exposed his little brother to as much music as possible, connecting him to Tremé greats such as Kermit Ruffins and Rebirth Brass

Band founders Keith and Philip Frazier, all of whom he frequently played with on second lines around New Orleans’ 6th Ward. James Andrews even took young Troy on the road with his own group, the New Birth Brass Band. And he coined that nickname when Troy was a toddler. Though Troy Andrews was playing with and learning from masters of New Orleans jazz, funk and brass-band music, he says he was never cognizant of any specific styles or genres. To him, it was all just music. “I didn’t really know what to call the music,” he says. “The genres didn’t really matter, because I thought it was all supposed to be one thing, which it should be. That’s the way I grew up, and that’s the way I thought it should be.”

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worldwide appeal of New Orleans music elements like a second line or trombone braggadocio,” says Odell, who adds that Andrews is “consistently expanding his audience by reaching way outside those bounds for new ideas.” Trombone Shorty’s latest ideas can be heard on For True, a bombastic album released last year that, along with his 2010 record, Backatown, has catapulted him to pop stardom and introduced the world to the concept of “supafunkrock.” “It’s just a musical gumbo,” says Andrews, explaining his genre in a recent phone interview from his home in New Orleans. It’s a home he rarely sees lately. His newfound success means extensive touring at clubs and festivals worldwide and frequent television appearances, including a recurring role on the HBO series “Treme.” On this day, Andrews says he is home for just a few hours before heading out again with his band, Orleans Avenue. That tour includes a stop at the Waterfront Park Tent in Burlington on Thursday, June 7, as part of the 2012 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. “I’m heavily influenced by the city of New Orleans,” Andrews continues. “I’m influenced by rock music, by hip-hop. So supafunkrock is high-energy, uptempo, fun party music. It’s like being at Mardi Gras year round. You get a little blues, a little R&B, a little hip-hop, a little jazz, a little funk, rock and roll.” He pauses and then adds, “It’s a direct influence of what we hear every day in New Orleans.”

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reluctant vocalist. But his smoky soul croon on For True suggests increased confidence and capability, and in fact resembles Kravitz’s signature wail. Produced by Galactic’s Ben Ellman — himself no stranger to genre-smashing shenanigans — Trombone Shorty’s latest records make savvy use of the studio as an instrument. The records’ lush, complex arrangements bloom with samples and overdubs, which Andrews and his bandmates ably re-create live, often repurposing parts for the instruments at their disposal during a show. Backing vocal harmonies on the record become horn lines on stage. A keyboard run might be adapted to guitar. “We’re conversing and filling up the songs playing different parts,” explains Andrews. “It may not be the same sound as the record, but the parts are there.” Odell notes that the band has figured out how to distill the albums’ many moving pieces live, and that they perform them “beautifully.” While Andrews’ two recordings share certain stylistic similarities, For True feels more refined and focused than its wily predecessor. Andrews claims he had no “clear vision” for the album, and that its greater cohesion is simply a result of his band learning to play together from so much time on the road. He explains that the band, many of whose members Andrews has been playing with since he was a child, gelled after Backatown was released, and they had to learn new arrangements to play the album live. The musicians gigged more than 200 shows together that year and developed a close musical affinity. “So when we went into the studio, we felt that much better and wanted to improve what we’d done on Backatown from a musical standpoint,” Andrews says. “I think when you play that much every day, you just get tighter. We went in feeling more confident and stronger, knowing what it’s like to really focus. And we were anxious to get back in because we’d learned so much since recording Backatown.” As progressive and provocative as Andrews’ recent records are, they are ultimately the product of the classic sounds that molded him, and a testament to the history of brass-band innovation in the Crescent City. Odell says the phenomenon began in the 1970s with the Hurricane Brass

Band, which morphed into the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, translating songs those musicians grew up hearing on the radio into a second-line brass-band setting. The practice continued with the next generation of brass bands and groups such as the Rebirth Brass Band, which recently celebrated its 29th anniversary and is renowned for borrowing elements of hip-hop,

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pop and R&B. The progression continues today with groups such as the Hot 8 Brass Band, the Stooges Brass Band — which once included a teenage Andrews as a member — and the Soul Rebels, whom Odell categorizes as pop. “In the lineage of New Orleans greats, Trombone Shorty fits seamlessly into the next generation’s position after the so-called ‘young lions’ of New Orleans jazz, guys who are around 50 now and who spent much of their careers outside the Crescent City: Wynton and Branford

Our foster families thank you. [Marsalis], Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison,” says Odell. “Like all of them, he both embraces his New Orleans roots and seeks constantly to evolve beyond them.” “Troy is a great representative of what the best New Orleans musicians have always been about,” says former Boston Globe jazz critic Bob Blumenthal. “He’s a great musician, and there is a lot of artistry in what he does.” Blumenthal, who has been covering jazz for innumerable publications since 1969 — and is the recipient of two Grammy awards for Best Album Notes — adds that Andrews understands the importance of music, not just as an artistic statement but as entertainment. “I think, going back to the early days in New Orleans, Armstrong and people like that, that’s really been a mark of New Orleans musicians: that they take the music seriously, but that they also saw it had great value to communicate with an audience and to provide transcendent

Shorty is often lumped in with the jazz idiom, even though that may be the least suitable label for his music. “Jazz is one of the only genres of music that people have refused to let grow,” Andrews says. “I’m a part of the New Orleans jazz community. But I don’t know that people really understand what that means. I was born 26 years ago, and so much has changed. Dance music, European music, funk music, rock music, metal music. All that was here before I got here. And all I’m doing is being influenced by it.” “This goes way back to the tension between jazz as popular music and jazz as an art form,” says Blumenthal. “People talk about it as ‘America’s music.’ To me, that’s what makes it American. I don’t think that the great music that was developed in this country was developed with a notion of ‘You have to treat us with gloves on because we’re so serious.’ There was always a blend, and it took a while for people to acknowledge

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that what was supposed to be ‘popular’ was also artistic. So we should be beyond that.” Adds Odell, “In a town where there’s an endless demand for good music in those classically New Orleans categories, it takes guts as well as skill to create something as new as [Andrews’] music sounds — and to have it catch on.” Brass balls aside, Trombone Shorty is really just doing what he’s always done. As a result, he’s emblematic of what may be the Big Easy’s greatest tradition: getting down and dirty. “Everyone in New Orleans is an entertainer,” Andrews says. “New Orleans musicians, the ones I’m influenced by, never forgot that jazz was dance music. In New Orleans, if the audience is not moving, then we’re not doing our jobs.”

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moments for people, and really lift them out of whatever their personal struggle might be,” Blumenthal says. “It’s all about the party here,” suggests Andrews. “It’s all about the party. We do take it very seriously. But we think that music is an escape not only for the musicians but for the audience. So smiling, having fun and bringing a good party vibe is always fun in my book.” That carefree approach isn’t always well received in certain corners, particularly among prickly jazz purists who can be reluctant to accept change. Especially when it comes in an aggressive, unapologetic musical package such as Trombone Shorty. That cynicism tends to increase when an artist achieves crossover success. “The typical approach is to draw a line between creative music and popular music,” says Blumenthal. “But I don’t think people in New Orleans look at it that way, honestly. I think that’s indicative of what molded [Andrews].” Further complicating matters is that pesky four-letter word itself: jazz. Because he wields two horns onstage — he’s also a tremendous trumpet player — Trombone

Mexican Evolution Activist Danilo Lopez speaks out for Vermont’s migrant farmworkers B y A ndy Br om a ge

working on a Charlotte dairy farm and taking English-language courses through the Vermont Migrant Education Program when he received bad news. A fellow migrant farmworker, José Obeth Santis Cruz, had been killed in a Vermont farming accident. Lopez took it on himself to collect money from the migrant community to help pay the cost of returning the young man’s body to his family in Chiapas, Mexico. That accident launched the Burlington-based immigrant advocacy group Migrant Justice/Justicia

numerous college classes and agriculture organizations. Friends who know him describe Lopez as intelligent, eloquent, self-effacing, shy and extremely hardworking. But at least one party looks upon him less favorably: the feds. Lopez is currently facing deportation after being arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol following a traffic stop in Middlesex last September. After a hearing at federal immigration court in Boston last month, Lopez secured a reprieve that will allow him to stay several months longer while

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Migrante, formerly called the Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project. Founded by activists Brendan O’Neill and Natalia Fajardo, Migrant Justice has quickly grown into an organized and effective advocacy group — thanks in no small part to Lopez, who has emerged as a natural leader and an effective spokesman. Lopez’s outspokenness — and a highly publicized brush with the law — has made him something of a cause célèbre among migrant farmworkers. He has earned invitations to testify at the Statehouse and to speak before

from Middlebury College and the University of Vermont; an interfaith religious leader; and dozens of friends. One even drew a parallel between Lopez and a famous 20th-century farmworker organizer. “Danilo closely resembles Cesar Chavez,” wrote Daniel B. Cohen, a 66-year-old educator who teaches English to migrant farmworkers in the Northeast Kingdom, in his letter. “He teaches people; he inspires people; he makes them aware of their own worth and dignity; and he does this without a trace of anger or negativity.” “He has become so well known for his community involvement that people he’s never met sometimes stop him on the street with words of congratulation or encouragement,” wrote Aaron Lackowski, a volunteer with Migrant Justice, on behalf of Lopez. “I recently joked with Danilo and some fellow volunteers that he could easily win 5 percent of the vote in the next Burlington mayoral race were he to run.” But whether all those letters will persuade the ICE attorney remains to be seen. Robert Appel, executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, says prosecutorial discretion is “rarely invoked” in cases such as Lopez’s. “It would be extraordinary if prosecutorial discretion is applied and he’s allowed to remain,” Appel says, and adds that it’s “more likely than not” that Lopez will be deported. File: taylor Dobbs

emonstrators marched on the Obama reelection headquarters in Burlington last week to protest a newly activated federal program aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants in Vermont. Leading the charge was a young man from Mexico shouting through a bullhorn. With a translator’s help, the former farmworker railed against Secure Communities, or S-Comm, the Obama administration’s program that he says is responsible for deporting thousands of undocumented immigrants whose cheap labor is propping up struggling farms in Vermont and across America. Next to him was a giant sign that read, “Immigration Report Card for Barack Obama” and gave the president Fs on all counts. “We don’t want the fields to be left without anybody working them, so nobody can have any milk, cheese, vegetables and ice cream,” the young Mexican man intoned. “What do we want: Do we want this program Secure Communities, or do we want milk?” “Leche!” the boisterous crowd yelled back. The young Mexican introduced himself to the crowd, but many of the Danilo Lopez activists and reporters in attendance already knew him well. “My name is Danilo Lopez,” he said. “You may have seen me in the newspaper.” Lopez has been popping up in the news a lot lately. Over the past year, the 22-year-old undocumented immigrant — one of an estimated 2000 Latinos laboring invisibly on Vermont’s farms — has become a prominent spokesman for the farmworker cause. Lopez’s journey from obscurity to standout activism is one of happenstance and determination. In short order, he and his allies have racked up several significant policy changes for migrant farmworkers. In December 2009, Lopez was

his lawyer appeals a part of the case. His freedom to stay in the U.S. now depends on a prosecuting attorney from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) granting Lopez “prosecutorial discretion” — a littleused form of leniency enacted by the Obama administration last August to clear a massive backlog of deportation cases. Before his last court hearing, Lopez asked for letters of support to bolster his case and received 35 within a few days. Letters came from state senators Philip Baruth (D-Chittenden) and Sara Kittell (D-Franklin); professors

ike that of many migrant workers, Danilo Lopez’s journey from Mexico to Vermont is at once familiar and remarkable. At 17, he set out alone from his hometown of Tapachula in the state of Chiapas for what was supposed to be a 14-day trip to Arizona. Lopez’s grandfather was a farmer who raised peanuts, coffee,

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Gov. Peter Shumlin to oppose S-Comm, which links local police departments to ICE immigration databases with the aim of identifying deportable aliens. Last August, Lopez and another farmworker hand-delivered the petitions to the governor on the capitol steps before a rally and press conference. “I knew there was a risk” in speaking out publicly, Lopez says, “but I don’t like to be hidden.” Just weeks later, on September 13, Lopez and another undocumented Mexican farmworker were detained by the feds after state police stopped a car in which they were passengers for speeding on I-89. Under questioning from the trooper, Lopez and Antonio-Meza Sandoval admitted they had crossed into the U.S. illegally. At the Middlesex police barracks, U.S. Border Patrol agents rum-

“The minute you talk about migrant workers and driver’s licenses in a post9/11 environment, a lot of people’s faces get this mask on them that has a lot to do with fear,” says state Sen. Baruth, who was an architect of the immigrant ID bill on the Senate Agriculture Committee. “But when Danilo would speak, you < m e n s r o o m v t. c o m > would see that mask start to fall away. 1 0 6 m a i n s t. 8 0 2 . 8 6 4 . 2 0 8 8 [Legislators] would say, ‘He’s a farmer, every bit as much as my constituents are farmers.’” 12v-mensroom060210.indd 1 6/14/11 With a soft-spoken demeanor and boyish face, Lopez hardly looks the part of a radical. And that, people who know him say, is what makes him an effective advocate. “He comports himself very well in situations that could be stressful,” says Appel of the Human Rights Commission. “He’s not in any way a hothead and doesn’t use extreme rhetoric. He’s just very down-toearth and is able to bring people together on the issues.” Lopez is slowly learning English, but most of his work is still conducted in Spanish — educating migrant farmworkers about their rights, writing newsletters and producing videos documenting the migrant experience in Vermont. In the process, Lopez and Migrant Justice are giving more immigrant workers the courage to speak out. “He is helping a lot of our compañeros come out of the shadows,” says David Santiago Bautista, a Mexican employed on an Addison County dairy farm; Bautista accompanied Lopez to the Statehouse to testify on the driver’s license bill. Speaking through a translator, Bautista says Danilo’s case shows that any farmworker is at risk of deportation. “But now that we’ve got Migrant Justice, we’re not afraid anymore,” he adds. Lopez says he’s not afraid, either — nor is he naïve. He knows the odds of being deported. If ICE sends him packing, Lopez says he’ll return to Mexico and, he hopes, enroll in a university. He’ll also continue to organize farmworkers, local businesses are hiring in he says — on the other side of the border the classifieds section and on— and perhaps even establish a Mexican line at sevendaysvt.com/jobs branch of Migrant Justice. m

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bled into the dirt parking lot in SUVs and took custody of the immigrants. This sparked a confrontation with supporters, several of whom were handcuffed and forcibly carted away for trying to block the agents’ exit route. That high-profile event put Lopez into deportation proceedings, but it also prompted Shumlin to order state police not to ask potential illegal immigrants for papers unless they were suspected of a crime — a policy change that places Vermont among the most immigrantfriendly states in America. Migrant Justice’s next victory came at the Statehouse this past session, when Lopez and other migrant workers helped win passage of a bill that puts Vermont on course to issue driver’s licenses to immigrants, regardless of their status. A committee will study the idea and report back to lawmakers in January about how — not whether — to grant Vermont IDs to immigrants.

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corn and bananas before falling prices and mounting debt forced him to sell the farm and move to the city. Lopez left his parents and two younger sisters to seek work in the U.S., specifically in Wisconsin. It took just four days for Lopez and his hired “coyote” to reach the borderlands, but then, Lopez says, they wandered for eight days in the desert. Once on the Arizona side, Lopez continues, he was kidnapped and held for ransom in a house crowded with other Mexican border crossers. His captors — Lopez refers to them as the “mafia” but never learned their identities — demanded $9000 for his release. It took Lopez almost two months to secure the funds from his family, who paid the kidnappers an extra $500 to drive Lopez safely to Florida, where Danilo had relatives. He spent a year in Tampa — working up to 18 hours a day picking tomatoes, cleaning stadiums and assembling Jacuzzis to pay back the ransom money — before his girlfriend’s uncle persuaded him to head north to Vermont. “He told me Vermont is really green; it’s a beautiful place,” Lopez says through a translator during an interview at the Migrant Justice office, where he now spends most of his days. “The work is really hard, but that’s OK.” He landed on a dairy farm in Charlotte, where he drove tractors, did other nonmilking work and sent most of his money back home to his family. Lopez did that for nine months, until he was injured on the job: He got too close to a bull, and the massive animal tossed him through the air “like I was Superman,” he says. “I couldn’t breathe,” recalls Lopez. “Instinctively, I jumped over a fence and fell into a big pile of manure.” He went 48 hours without medical treatment because he couldn’t get a ride to the hospital. Lopez’s next job, on a horse farm, afforded him more time to pursue activism with Migrant Justice. He collected signatures from scores of undocumented farmworkers calling on

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n a Middlebury grain-warehouseturned-workshop, pewtersmith Fred Danforth sets a loud, heavy, spinning lathe into action. The tool would be as much at home in a machine shop as it is here, in Danforth’s private workshop at Middlebury-based Danforth Pewter. When Danforth takes a steel tool to the pewter disk on the lathe, industry meets craft. Danforth, gray haired and boyishly cheerful, chooses a long steel rod with a wooden base from his wall of mostly handmade tools. “It’s one of my favorites,” he says. “I made this 35 years ago, and I still use it.” With the lathe spinning at nearly 2000 revolutions per minute, Danforth braces the steel tool against a fulcrum and begins to pass it over the pewter disk. The metal bends like smooth clay under the pressure of the tool, thinning and transforming over the small “chuck,” or steel mold, anchored on the turning lathe. “It’s just amazing what this metal can do,” Danforth says. Thirty-five years is a blink in the long history of pewtersmithing in the United States. Pewter was a colonial mainstay, the stuff of everyday housewares, but it faded from prominence after the Civil War as ceramics and glass became more affordable. By the 20th century, the industry was all but nonexistent, and “pewter” conjured up images of fusty antique teapots and tankards. Today, the eponymous company founded by husband-and-wife team Fred and Judi Danforth is slowly and quietly revitalizing the craft and consolidating what remains of the United States’ pewter industry. Since 1975, Middlebury-based Danforth Pewter has grown from a two-person operation into a bustling workshop with five brick-and-mortar retail locations — four of them in Vermont — and an online sales site. Sales grew 50 percent over the last 10 years, and the company is on track to grow another 5 percent this year. Those sales have been bolstered by two major acquisitions in the past three years: the first in 2009 of Shirley Pewter, a company in Williamsburg, Va., that

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the Danforths have redefined the pewter industry in the United States. specializes in colonial designs; and the second, this year, of WT Wilson, formerly based in Rhode Island. Danforth brought production of those lines under its own roof and now operates Shirley’s historic shop in Williamsburg, Va. The Middlebury workshop is so busy these days that Fred Danforth has been forced across the parking lot of its Seymour Street headquarters into a makeshift “R&D” workshop where he can design and experiment. There, at the spinning lathe, Danforth works quickly. Within moments, the pewter disk has been transformed into a small cup with a beaded edge. He polishes the gray metal — an alloy of tin, copper and antimony — with a tiny

scrap of sandpaper, and then moves to his workbench. He tips the cup upside down and stamps the Danforth mark — a lion rampart — on its base. The lion is a nod to the family history that Danforth Pewter has resurrected. Fred Danforth grew up with a vague understanding that his ancestors were colonial pewtersmiths, but he didn’t pay much attention to the lineage beyond noting a few pewter antiques on his parents’ mantel. To those in the know, however, the name Danforth is synonymous with classic American pewter. Thomas Danforth, one of Connecticut’s favorite sons and Fred’s great-great-great-greatgreat-grandfather, worked in pewter in

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also produces sleek housewares and abstract, nature-inspired jewelry. Judi Danforth, who designs all of the cast items, has trouble pinning down her aesthetic influences. “I try to keep true to knowing what I like,” she offers. Meanwhile, the Danforths remain enthusiastic about pewter. The metal has its limits — the low melting point means pewter items can’t be used on the stove top or in the oven — but it’s also easy to work. Pewter is soft enough to shape at room temperature, for instance. It’s also easy to reclaim, which means that the workshop generates virtually no waste; any trimmings left over from casting or spinning pewter are melted down and reused. But the Danforths realize that their generation of pewtersmiths is slowly exiting the business. The American Pewter Guild, which had about 25 members when the Danforths were starting out, is now defunct. The miniresurgence that pewter experienced among craftspeople in the 1960s and ’70s is now seeing its biggest proponents retire. And the Danforths, nearly 40 years into their own careers, don’t have too many bucket-list items they still want to make. “We’re close to making everything in the workshop that anyone could ever want,” says Fred Danforth — except, he adds with a laugh, catering to the “wizards and dragons” market. “That’s because I’m so stubborn,” says Judi, who turns up her nose at the popular fantasy figurines that customers sometimes request. Even so, the two have no intentions of putting away their tools any time soon. “It’s hard to imagine not making things,” says Fred Danforth. Plus, they’re bent on ensuring that pewter sticks around. Neither of the two Danforth daughters, Bay and Sadie, is currently involved in the company. But, even as they rekindled the power of the Danforth name in the pewter industry, Fred and Judi Danforth elevated their business beyond a simple family affair. They knew early on that their efforts were best directed at design and brought in managers to run the business, handle retail and grow the company. “We don’t want this business to go away,” Fred Danforth says. Kleppner, for one, isn’t worried. He looks at the growing demand for madein-America merchandise, coupled with the millennial generation’s enthusiasm for authentic, durable and handmade wares, and says that combination spells success for pewtersmiths. “The conditions are right,” Kleppner says. m

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Middlebury College in 1972 with a degree in religion, he had no ambitions of reviving the trade; he yearned to be a fine woodworker. Then he met Judi Whipple, an aspiring pewtersmith. He fell in love first with the artist and then with her craft, and in 1975, after apprenticing together in New Brunswick, Canada, the newlyweds set up shop in Woodstock, Vt. “We were babes in the wood. We didn’t know what we were doing,” Fred Danforth says. They learned fast. Today, Danforth Pewter produces a staggering number of items — from picture frames to earrings to dinnerware to Christmas ornaments. Part of the workshop is devoted to casting, the oldest and most traditional technique for working with pewter. Judi Danforth creates intricate models using a set of Italian carving tools. Those are then translated into rubber molds where molten pewter — which melts at just 500 degrees Fahrenheit — can be intricately shaped. A second type of pewter — “hollowware” — is shaped on the lathe, a process requiring mechanical knowhow. The method, which Danforth has just demonstrated, is part potter’s wheel, part machine shop. But even pewter casting, which permits mass production of a design, calls for an extraordinary amount of hands-on work. In the workshop adjacent to Danforth’s flagship store in Middlebury, about a dozen employees work on the manufacturing line. Every piece of cast pewter is sanded by hand before being polished in large tanks. Fred Danforth says the company’s pewtersmiths come from all sorts of backgrounds — “anywhere from a liberal arts education in religion to art school to people who have worked on cars.” Over the 38 years since they launched their business, the Danforths have redefined the pewter industry in the United States. One innovation: They’ve added enamel color to some of their designs, which was “sort of like going from Kansas to Oz,” suggests CEO Bram Kleppner. The company also updated the craft’s antiquated reputation by focusing on original designs with a modern look. The couple knew from the beginning that they didn’t want to replicate “Uncle Samuel’s tankard and Uncle John’s plate,” says Fred Danforth. “A long history of charlatans” has tried to pass off modern pewter as antique designs, he adds, and the Danforths didn’t seek to join them. While tankards and heavy pewter cups are still part of their line, the company

Singing Sensation The Green Mountain Opera Festival launches emerging artist Geoffrey Penar B y Am y L i lly courtesy of ambient photography

ow does a Vermonter become an opera singer? For baritone Geoffrey Penar, a Shelburne native who attended schools in Burlington before switching to St. Johnsbury Academy for high school, the vehicle was musical theater. Thanks to parents who met singing in musicals, Penar grew up listening to such recordings as The King and I, began performing with Lyric Theatre as a fifth grader, and was playing leads such as Jean Valjean (Les Misérables) and Captain von Trapp (The Sound of Music) by high school. All along, the idea of doing opera was taking root. Penar’s eighth-grade voice coach, Bill Reed of South Burlington, a veteran of Circle in the Square in New York City, “heard the quality of my sound and had me listening to [baritones] Thomas Hampson and Bryn Terfel,” says the young singer. And then there was his mother’s spontaneous observation, made in the car while New York’s Metropolitan Opera played on National Public Radio. “I was in the backseat imitating the voices — this was when I was 13 or 14, just after my voice changed,” Penar recalls, “and my mother said, ‘You know, you could probably do that as a job.’” Penar, now 23, is well on his way to turning that suggestion into a reality. Vermonters will have several chances to enjoy the homegrown baritone’s strikingly rich tone and energetic stage presence in June, at the Green Mountain Opera Festival. Penar, who spoke with Seven Days from Montréal, has just completed his first year at McGill University’s master’s program in opera performance. This summer, the GMOF has career-building plans for him. Now in its seventh year, the monthlong festival offers concerts, open rehearsals and two operas at venues around the Mad River Valley, in Barre and — starting this year — at the University of Vermont Recital Hall in Burlington. GMOF also hosts an Emerging Artists Program for promising young singers; Penar was one of a dozen chosen out of 400 who auditioned this year. Emerging artists benefit from master classes with internationally known professionals (these are also open to the public) and workshops on such practical matters as managing one’s career image using social media. At festival’s end, the

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young singers put on one opera and back up the professionals in another. This year they’ll perform Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, and a few will play the minor roles in GMOF’s major production, Puccini’s La Bohème. Artistic director Taras Kulish says the GMOF is often called “a baby Glimmerglass” — referring to the Cooperstown, N.Y., summer opera festival, with its competitive Young Artists Program. “They basically started off like us: small, in a rural area,” he points out. In fact, one of the professionals in the impressive cadre Kulish has gathered for the festival this year, soprano Mary Dunleavy, sang Violetta in Verdi’s La

Traviata at Glimmerglass three years ago. Dunleavy, who has also sung to critical acclaim at the Met and San Francisco operas, is taking on the role of Mimi in Bohème for the first time at GMOF. “It’s a big feather in your cap when you can say a big artist does a role like that for you first,” says Kulish. Penar is no less excited about the festival, especially Bohème. The perennial favorite appeals to young people, he says, because it’s about “these poor, young people who goof around, have sword fights — it’s kind of like hanging out with your friends.” Ironically, he’ll be singing two older characters: Benoit, the landlord who comes looking for rent from the four cash-poor young artists renting his garret;

and Alcindoro, the extravagant Musetta’s aging sugar daddy. “It’s hard for someone my age to play an old man,” Penar admits, “but it’s great to be a part of this production at all. There are so many good singers that I’ll take the old-guy parts!” Attendees of the GMOF’s annual gala dinner in March at the Round Barn in Waitsfield, during which Penar sang arias, duets and musical-theater pieces, know he won’t have trouble conveying a character. A performer with big gestures and amazingly elastic facial expressions, Penar clearly takes opera acting seriously — as does the opera world. “It’s definitely changed,” he observes, since the heyday of Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, when voice was all. Domingo is “all right” as an actor, Penar opines, but Pavarotti “sort of checked out, like, ‘OK, high-note time.’” Nowadays, stage presence is usually what makes the difference in an increasingly competitive world of young opera singers, he says. Penar attributes his own knack for acting partly to his musical-theater background, and he still keeps some Broadway tunes in his repertoire, as is expected these days of up-and-coming opera singers. In fact, he’s hoping to sing a Kiss Me, Kate tune at the GMOF’s Broadway Picnic at the Round Barn Farm. The concert, whose program is still undecided, is on the opposite end of the formality scale from the upcoming “Opera Extravaganza:3+ A Gala Concert” at UVM, cosponsored by the Lane Series, that includes a Champagne reception in the lobby, where the singers will mingle in full black-tie attire. Penar says he chose opera over musical theater, in the end, because “I really enjoy the intellectual side of it. When you get a new score, you have to translate it, and the rhythm of the music is often very mathematically complex.” And then there is the voice. Penar admits he’d love to sound like the Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky — even though “my teacher is like, ‘Don’t listen to that; nobody can sing like that,’” he says. But he’s working on it. m “Opera Extravaganza: A Gala Performance,” Green Mountain Opera Festival, Sunday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m., UVM Recital Hall, Burlington. $50. See the full calendar of events at greenmountainoperafestival.com.

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ew new Vermont restaurants have been more anticipated than Prohibition Pig. And no wonder, considering the recent history of its spot at 23 South Main Street in Waterbury. For nearly a decade, that address was home to the Alchemist Pub & Brewery. First came minor flooding last May; then, on August 28, Tropical Storm Irene deluged the first floor with waist-high, silty rapids. Alchemist owners John and Jen Kimmich toiled to repair their establishment, but, on November 18, the pair elected not to reopen. They’ve shifted their focus to manufacturing cans and kegs of popular Heady Topper and other beers at their Waterbury cannery. Enter Chad Rich, the former bar manager at Burlington’s Farmhouse Tap & Grill. The longtime North Carolina resident was just waiting for a space like the empty Alchemist in which to open

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his own restaurant, which he envisioned as an ode to Southern food. Drinks from an era when cocktails were viewed as medicinal potions would fill the wellstocked bar.

yet. But what I found on two visits was an excellent selection of clean-tasting ’que and other specialties that made the most of Southern traditions — using seasonal Vermont ingredients.

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After more than a month of construction delays, Prohibition Pig opened in March to much ballyhoo — and long waits that recalled those at the Alchemist. Nonetheless, one Seven Days staffer who visited for Vermont Restaurant Week called it the best restaurant in the state. I wouldn’t go that far — at least not LISTEN IN ON LOCAL FOODIES...

Prohibition Pig isn’t splashy about its use of local foods. Few farm names appear on its menu, but the resto is a member of the Vermont Fresh Network and, if you ask your server, you’ll get the full story. In the dining room, giant chalkboard images of the farm animals that appear on the menu remind customers where dinner came from.

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But not everything is meant to taste like Vermont. So relax, open up a bottle of Cheerwine — the bright-red cherry soda that suggests a Shirley Temple in a bottle — and order a skillet full of pankofried pimento cheese. The soft slurry of cheese, mayo and cherry peppers comes out of its fried coating in tangy, creamy strings so irresistible you won’t remember it’s not that good for you. A side of chile-pepper jam is fruity and sweet with just a hint of heat. Another appetizer unlikely to make any list of “superfoods” consists of local pork rinds that snap, crackle and pop like meaty Rice Krispies. Unlike those one might find at the local Kwik-E-Mart, these crisp, homemade snacks are coated in chile powder for a spicy, aromatic kick. I recently developed a short-term devotion to bagged, fried Indian snack PIGGING OUT

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Three years ago, Jason zulIanI and TIM banks moved their flourishing wine shop, DEDalus wInE, from a tiny spot on College Street to a quadruple-sized space on Battery Street. At the time, Zuliani told Seven Days, “We got really busy at the old

space and we were bursting at the seams. We wanted to bring in a lot of new products.” He could have been prophesying the future, because even that second space proved insufficient. “We’re kind of addicts, so we filled that space quickly,” says Zuliani with a shrug.

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debuted its hot dog cart, the noblE pIG. It’s currently located in front of Cloud 9’s kitchen at 142 Hegeman Avenue in Colchester’s Fort Ethan Allen. Owner saraH Moran says she’s scouting locations in the Burlington area for the Noble Pig to make the rounds. Executive chef Stone is using his Mad River-area connections to produce what may be a first: Vermont whey-fed pork hot dogs. Stone recently received a whole hog from Waitsfield’s von Trapp FarMsTEaD and mixed its meat with beef from boYDEn FarM for snappy, juicy, natural-casing franks. When the von Trapp pork runs out, Stone says, he’ll use meat from vErMonT FaMIlY FarMs. But pork is far from the only thing local at the Noble Pig. The Chicago dog features FlaCk FaMIlY FarM sauerkraut and homemade sweet-pickle relish with whole-grain mustard. The Bacon & Bleu is dressed with thick, sweet housemade bacon, cherry-pepper relish and creamy chunks of Bayley Hazen Blue from JaspEr HIll FarM. The tasso ham on the Pork & Beans hot dog is also homemade, as are the sesame- or poppy-seed-covered buns, which Stone says one of his cooks adapted from recipes for Mexican cemita dough. Though hot dogs are currently the main attraction, Stone says he hopes to branch out soon to making BLTs and banh mi sandwiches. For now, the Noble Pig serves Tuesdays through Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at its Colchester location. Check the cart’s Facebook page for updates on time, locations and offerings.

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is fro-yo that really tastes like fresh, tangy yogurt. “People ask about [a flavor called] ‘the original,’” says Gibson. “It’s not vanilla — it’s just yogurt flavor.” “It’s a very simple product,” adds Manske. “Very fresh ingredients. There are only five ingredients in a batch.” The 25 flavors pioneered by Go Berry include Nutella, green tea and a range of fresh, seasonal fruits and berries. Manske is also working on Vermontexclusive recipes that will

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But, good or bad, the appetizers wouldn’t matter if the barbecue weren’t worth lining up for. And most of it is, especially the smoked quarter-chicken. I chose a dark-meat portion, which turned out to be more like a third of a chicken in size. Don’t bother with the math; just believe me that the $15 dish will probably last you more than one meal. With the leg-and-thigh-plus, the chef achieved the near impossible — an admirable internal juiciness coupled with crispy skin. Oh, the skin. It’s rubbed

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Somehow I missed the day when the prohibition pig staff smoked ice cubes to emulate the taste of mescal. Somehow, too, I neglected to sample the Red Delicious, a Campari-and-applejack-based drink that draws sweetness and color from Cheerwine, the cherry-flavored soda of the South. There’s so much going on behind the bar here that it’s hard to absorb it all on a few visits. With a ballsy cocktail list, 24 taps and a cellar full of rare beers, prohibition pig is like an amusement park of alcohol, one to which you wish you had a season pass. Back when prohibition pig owner Chad Rich was the bar manager at the Farmhouse Tap & Grill, he built the beer program into something fierce. For his own venture, Rich coaxed friend Amaro Jeff Baumann (who used to manage American Flip Flatbread’s bar) back to Vermont from the thriving cocktail scene in portland, Ore., which couldn’t have been easy. Suffice it to say, when you order a beer here, chances are good that it will be sublime. Lawson’s Finest Liquids and Hill Farmstead anchor the tap list, along with Heady Topper (this is the only bar where you can get it on tap); uncommon brews from the likes of Hopfenstark and even Cantillon show up, too. The basement is stocked with more than 100 additional bottles from Belgium, Norway, Germany and other countries. Throw a stone inside the pig and it probably will hit a mug of laboriously chosen, carefully tended and gently poured beer. What Vermont already has in beer dharma, it can lack when it comes to cocktails. This is where the pig makes a difference: The cocktails are muscular, intense — masculine, even — yet have a playful edge. Served in lowball glasses, most seem like the love children of a 1940s hotel bar and an Italian caffè. The bar here has at least eight gins, seven bottles of rye and 18 kinds of bourbon — plus crème de violette, Amaro Averna, aquavit, punt e Mes and a handful of other aperitifs and digestifs. The bartenders combine these into intense libations layered with floral, herbal and bitter notes, and sometimes even with splashes of beer. I think the drinks might have been stronger when the pig first opened — I have fuzzy memories of an intense, bittersweet Negroni and a lemony Sidecar so strong I didn’t finish it. A few weeks later, though, the flavors had mellowed. The pinfall Marks — a rye-based drink with Chartreuse, the artichoke-based Italian liqueur Cynar, grapefruit juice and bitters — was as lovely to look at as it was easy to sip, with a curl of grapefruit peel on top and two perfect rocks inside. Even lighter on its feet was the Brewer’s Bramble, an astringent but airy blend of Campari, Caledonia Spirits elderberry honey cordial and 1809 Berliner Weisse. And, in a nod to the cocktails of old New England, the Amaro Flip blended Amaro, chocolate stout and bitters with an egg. A shave of nutmeg made it taste of late fall. If you wanted to wash it all down with a Cantillon Lou pepe Gueuze from Belgium, you could do that, too — such is the beer cellar here. Much as I love wine, I kind of forget about it at the pig. The bottle and glass lists are adventurous (for instance, Bonarda and picpoul de pinet are available by the glass), but the selection of cocktails and beers outdoes them enough to render even a committed wino momentarily unhinged. Sure, there are smoked wings, brisket and grits at prohibition pig. But you can’t leave here without having a drink. You just can’t.

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This week, Dedalus will move again, to an even larger, light-filled space in the new Waterfront Plaza at 180 Battery Street. The Dedalus crew will close the shop for three days this week to cart over its eclectic collection of small-batch and boutique wines, and reopen in the new space on Saturday. Zuliani and Banks plan to hire one or two new employees. “It will offer a whole new buying experience, and it will be easier for people to find

things,” says Banks. The extra space will also give the staff more leeway to pursue their tastes for “terroir-driven” and hard-to-find wines — for instance, “orange wines,” white wines that derive deep hues from increased skin contact during maceration. In addition to two walls of windows, the new shop features a not-sobrittle hardwood floor that “will resist if a bottle hits the ground,” says Zuliani. It happens.

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As if the short workweek weren’t sweet enough, foodies will have two more reasons to rejoice in coming days: Two new eateries are slated to open in or near Burlington this Thursday. In the plaza at 580 Shelburne Road, Vermont’s first and only CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL will take the corner spot, adjacent to Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Based in Denver, the 19-year-old fast-casual burrito chain has more than 1200 locations, all with the

same menu. Chipotle has garnered positive attention for buying humanely raised meat and working with family farms, but it has also courted controversy by refusing to sign a high-profile agreement designed to protect tomato growers and pickers from labor abuses. (McDonald’s and Taco Bell have signed the agreement, as have Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods Market). The Burlington location will be open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and has an outdoor patio. In Essex, ISTANBUL KEBAB HOUSE will also throw its doors open on Thursday, in the two-story space formerly occupied by the Hideaway. Owners VURAL and JACQUELINE OKTAY, as well as chef MEHMET

with rainbow microgreens and garlic mayo. It was a highbrow sandwich, but its flavors transported me back to postkindergarten meals of KFC’s Chicken Littles sliders, now long gone. Though the restaurant’s dessert selection is small, everything I tried was excellent. My favorite was the meltingly custardy bread pudding. The custard is maple flavored, a perfect fit for the sweet-potato-bread base. Blueberries serve as a fruity foil to the maple. The apple-cider doughnut holes crumbled with each sweet, flaky bite. Sure, the maple-caramel sauce on top is luscious. But you can take the dish a creamy, smoky step forward by getting it à la mode — with housemade maplebacon ice cream. The flourless chocolate cake was dense and rich, but a barnyardy wave of goat-cheese frosting distinguished it. That and chewy, candied chunks of beet on top. Though that cake sits on the menu alongside grits and brisket, it’s a Vermont dessert through and through. Likewise, while its flavors may originate south of the Mason-Dixon line, Prohibition Pig is a thoroughly Vermont restaurant. With Green Mountain ingredients and flavors, it’s slowly — but deliciously — helping to revitalize Waterbury.

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that reminded me of a well-prepared eel. Sweet-and-sour blueberry barbecue sauce struck a good balance with the fish, as did buttery collard greens. But the star of the dish was a pile of grits flavored with lemon zest and thyme, for a comforting taste that evoked summers of lying out in the southern sun. In recent weeks at Prohibition Pig, fried-chicken sandwiches have been specials on many nights, with different toppings each time. The sammie was simple the evening I tried it. Just the thickest Misty Knoll Farms chicken breast I’d ever seen, fried in a flavorful breadcrumb mix, then piled on a sweet, egg-washed sweet-potato bun

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grind. It’s flavored with an unobtrusive gust of smoke and mildly spicy peppers. The storied vinegar-based sauce was tangy but not quite enough so for my taste. I relied on a splash of the smoky, acidic, tomato-based bacon-barbecue sauce on the side to add more layers of flavor. No such addition was necessary when I ordered the smoked seared fish — the fresh catch varies with the market, but on my visit it was Arctic char. Not usually one of my favorites, this pink-fleshed fish lacked the oily quality that I object to in its cousin, salmon. Still, the meat was fatty enough to stand up to smoking, with tender, moist flesh and slippery skin

KURTLU, plan to source most of their produce from local farms and grow some of their own. The menu will be heavy on slow-roasted meats, kebabs, Turkish flatbreads called lahmacun, stews served in earthenware pots and gözleme, or Turkish crêpes. Turkish coffee, wines and desserts such as baklava and kadaif — baked shredded wheat stuffed with walnuts — round out the offerings. Istanbul Kebab House will be open for lunch and dinner daily.

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with a spice mix that crackles and crumbles off in a lightly charred heap, leaving behind its earthy flavors. Like all the barbecue entrées, the chicken comes piled with several sweet, crispy hush puppies. They’re also available as an appetizer, and it’s clear why. The cornmeal fritters are like fun-to-eat chicken fingers without the chicken. I found them a tad too dense and dry, but any of the several sauces placed at the center of each table could easily lubricate the dough. Most entrées also come with a choice of two sides. I was especially fond of the pink, vinegary cabbage-and-carrot slaw. Sprigs of cilantro make it extra refreshing. The Brussels sprouts, another option, may convert diners who think they don’t like the mini-cabbages. They’re tender inside and caramelized to a delicate sweetness outside. As for the crisp, salty fries, they’re even better than they were at the Alchemist. The chopped pork has a long history: Rich got his sauce recipe from the father of a college roommate whose family had farmed hogs in eastern North Carolina since King George I of England granted them the land. Written on a yellowing sheet of paper, the recipe has been in Rich’s possession since 1991, and now he’s put it to effective use. Note that Prohibition Pig serves chopped pork, which doesn’t come off in big ribbons of pulled muscle. Instead, the meat is first cooked, then hacked into tiny pieces almost resembling a coarse

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Besides 11 varieties of local hops, offset by adjusting the time of seed-cone the four beers are also flavored with harvest. 300 pounds of malted grains grown Darby has a theory, though, about in Vermont — rye, spelt and oats from why Vermont-grown hops are milder Butterworks Farm in Westfield, and the in aroma and flavor: She thinks it might six-row barley from Nick Cowles of be the plant’s adaptation to the Shelburne Orchards. Darby harsh climate. “Plants picked up the grains this respond to windy spring, drove them conditions, the ones down to Valley Malt our hops have, by in Hadley, Mass., building stronger for malting, then cell walls,” she dropped them off says. Hence at VPB. “We’re brewers may very excited to be eventually need to her research guinea develop alternate pig,” says Polewacyk. methods of flavor The experimental extraction. beers are a When Polewacyk continuation of the mentions the hops’ spirit and vision of VPB pallid scent, Darby nods founder Greg Noonan, and looks thoughtful. a pioneer in both Each challenge — home and commercial such as the downy craft brewing. Noonan mildew that’s currently passed away in 2009, attacking the plot — and Polewacyk and forces her and the UVM VPB brewer Russ team to find solutions, FitzPatrick began the and thus strengthens experimental beer their end game. Of the series last year. They 19 varieties planted (and a few guest on the test plot, she brewers) have had a says, the most resilient rollicking time using ones so far seem to be their brewery as a lab, Nugget, Cluster and brewing with almond Galena. “The Cascade milk, passionfruit, did OK,” Darby adds, snow, watermelon, but the Fuggle and the coconut and chiles, Perle did not. among others. They’ve Darby is committed also thrown in Honey to perfecting local StEVE Nut Cheerios, and hops, and rejects the PolEwAcYk once brewed a wheat suggestion that local beer with some brewers would use blueberry muffins baked by a staffer. them only because they’re local. “We Each batch yields about 15 gallons — don’t want [our hops] to be second best,” roughly a keg — and customers are she says. “The only hops that are going given a “beer score card” on which to to be successful in Vermont are the ones record their sensory impressions. that brewers use.” m The local beers presented their own challenges. “One of the things we’ve noticed is that, with Vermont grains, there’s a lot more protein,” says Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College Street, Burlington, FitzPatrick. And the local hops are less 865-0500. vermontbrewery.com aromatic, which he thinks could be

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Summer Book Sale: Lovers of the written word find paperback or hardcover companions, as well as well-sorted, reasonably priced CDs and VHS tapes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 598-0351.

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Measuring What Matters Conference: State policy makers, researchers, nonprofit leaders and the public explore Vermont’s Genuine Progress Indicator, a measurement system aimed at developing the state’s sustainable well-being. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $40 includes lunch. Info, 496-5500.

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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.

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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.

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

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Burmese Film Festival: The Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program screens Moving to Mars, a documentary about two Burmese families who make their new homes in the U.K. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 338-4627. ‘The Decameron’: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1971 comedy adapts nine stories from Giovanni Boccaccio’s medieval allegory. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘The Human Resources Manager’: Eran Riklis’ 2010 Israeli tragicomedy focuses on a head of HR who rediscovers his humanity while dealing with a public-relations crisis. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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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, 8:1510:15 p.m. $5. Info, 138-4959. Sacred Circle Dancing: No experience and no partners are necessary for these ancient and modern movement patterns set to gentle, slow, international music. Suitable for all adults, including seniors. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; bring water. Info, 978-424-1482.

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Getting Started With Homeschooling: Parents considering out-of-classroom options for their children’s education learn about how to make it work. Pacem School & Homeschool

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ver heard the expression “from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo”? Well, the latter city really exists — it’s in Michigan — and one of its best exports, Americana roots duo Red Tail Ring, tours Vermont in early June. In Northfield on Sunday — and Shelburne and Winooski on June 8 — Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp recall the dusty corners of old-time Appalachia in haunting harmonies. The “musical historians,” as one reviewer dubbed them, reinterpret weathered murder ballads, love songs and dance tunes — as well as draw from long-gone tragedies, such as the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871, in throwback originals.

Barre Farmers Market: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods in the center of the town. Barre City Hall Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, barrefarmersmarket@gmail.com. Champlain Islands Farmers Market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 372- 3291. ECOS Project Ice Cream Social: Dessert motivates folks to chart a vision for the future of Chittenden County. Municipal Offices, Shelburne, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4490.

Red Tail Ring Sunday, June 3, at Green Mountain Girls Farm in Northfield. $5-15 for farm tours and picnic, 4 to 6:30 p.m.; $7-10 donation for concert, 7 p.m. Info, 505-9840. redtailring.com

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An Evening of Yoga: Vermonters affected by Tropical Storm Irene blow off steam in a stressrelieving exercise for beginners. Memorial Hall, Wilmington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 249-3628. Marna’s Weekly Guided Meditation: Universal energies help seekers of enlightenment find peace, bliss and joy. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11. Info, 238-7908. Vaccines: Safe & Effective? Part I: Classical homeopath Charlotte Gilruth shares the rarely publicized risks of vaccines, along with alternative ways to build immunity, in a slide show and discussion. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop.

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JUN. 2 & 3 | DANCE Pointe of Departure In a 1789 painting by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, a stern old woman berates a sobbing maiden in a barn as her lover tears out the door. A roll in the hay gone wrong? Perhaps, but the scene so delighted 18th-century choreographer Jean Dauberval that he transformed it into a fairy tale-esque ballet, La Fille Mal Gardée. Now one of the oldest ballets still in the modern repertoire, the country comedy is studded with colorful characters, light-footed animals and a maypole dance. Moving Light Dance’s troupe of 96 central Vermont students and company members prove, once again, that true love conquers all in a weekend production.

‘La Fille Mal Gardée’ Saturday, June 2, 7 p.m., and Sunday, June 3, 2 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $10-15. Info, 476-8188. barreoperahouse.org

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The 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition established Ang Li as one of the world’s top 30 pianists. Had the contest distinguished how many of those elite few were under the age of 30, she could well have been the only one standing. The young virtuoso did get an early start: She debuted at the Beijing Concert Hall at the tender age of 6. She’s since played the world’s biggest stages — from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center — and, just two days after a stream of concerts in Hong Kong, Li begins her tour of the U.S. in Plainfield. Expect a perfect score of poetry and passion.

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Friday, June 1, 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, June 2, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, June 3, 7 a.m.4 p.m., at various locations in Brattleboro. Various prices; most events are free. Info, 258-9177. strollingoftheheifers.com courtesy of Jason Henske

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Watch out, running bulls of Pamplona. Vermont’s strolling heifers hoof it down Brattleboro’s Main Street in an agricultural affair that’s equally — and udderly — entertaining. Folks connect with farmers and food producers in the three-day bovine bash, beginning Friday night with a gallery walk and street festival. Up to 100 cute, flowercrowned calves lead tractors, floats and fellow farm animals in Saturday’s Strolling of the Heifers Parade at 10 a.m. Immediately after, the Live Green Expo hosts a celebrity milking contest, goat Olympics, aerial trapeze artistry and much more. Come Sunday, moovers and shakers get around in cycling and farm tours.

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BaBy Time: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659. Chess CluB: King defenders practice castling and various opening gambits with volunteer Robert Nichols. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. enosBurg PlaygrouP: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. FairField PlaygrouP: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. 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. Kids in The KiTChen: Sandwich makers master the art of “veggie pinwheels” — vegetable wraps sliced and displaced like sushi. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 3:304:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. read To a dog: Bookworms share words with Rainbow, a friendly Newfoundland and registered therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister for a 15-minute time slot. Info, 849-2420.

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BurlingTon ensemBle: Cellist Ben Capps performs works by Bach, Britten and Vermont composer Evan Premo in a solo program. Partial proceeds benefit Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 598-9520. sPring ConCerT: Preschoolers through eighth graders pipe up in the school gymnasium. Central Vermont Catholic School, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-5015. Valley nighT: Middlebury folk-rockers Alpenglow grace the lounge. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 496-8994.

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(Indoor Recreation of Orleans County), Derby, 7:30 a.m. $10-500. Info, 334-8511. Wednesday nighT World ChamPionshiPs: Fast riders vie for bragging rights in town-line sprints. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an adult; riders under 18 need signed parental permission; helmets required. Info, 229-9409.

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sTePhen Kiernan: The award-winning journalist and author of Authentic Patriotism reports on “The Pleasures of Story Hunting.” Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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CommuniTy CaPsTone ProjeCTs: Seniors in the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts share their self-designed artistic projects, intended to meet a community need. Auditorium, Essex High School, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7121. WillisTon hisTory road shoW: Williston students display and discuss the Williston Historical Society’s collection of local artifacts, and the History Channel’s Ethan Merrill appraises community objects. Old Brick Church, Williston, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation per appraisal supports Williston school and historical society collaborations. Info, 578-7512.

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WildliFe TraCKs & signs: Folks of all ages follow evidence of animals on a springtime romp along the Winooski River with EarthWalk Vermont’s Angella Gibbons. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 4263581, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com.

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mounTain BiKe ride: Onion River Sports staff bring intermediate to advanced riders to different area trails each week. Carpooling is an option; call ahead for details. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an adult; riders under 18 need signed parental permission; helmets required. Info, 229-9409. Tour de Kingdom: Recreational and competitive cyclists cover miles of scenic paths by the lake and in the hills of the Northeast Kingdom, northern New Hampshire and Québec. IROC

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TeCh @ ruTland meeT-uP: Vermont investors, technology experts and economic-development organizations come together to network and further their ventures. Café Terra, Rutland, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 522-0858, andrew@ vermonttechnologies.com.

‘The BlaCK PoWer mixTaPe 1967-1975’: Göran Olsson’s 2011 documentary combines music, startling 16mm footage and contemporary audio interviews with activists, musicians and scholars. Proceeds help send local activists to the Socialism 2012 conference in Chicago. Integrated Arts Academy, H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 490-3875.

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An EvEning With RosiE schAAp: The New York Times Drink columnist reads from the Vermont-based chapter of her forthcoming memoir, Drinking With Men, and discusses cocktails, spirits, brews and bar culture. Q&A session follows; sap beer is on tap for tastings. Fiddlehead Brewing Company, Shelburne, 7-9 p.m. $125. Info, 388-4964. cooking With BEER: Tasty brews go beyond the bottle in dishes such as spice-rubbed beercan chicken, beer-steamed mussels, porterbraised short ribs, chocolate stout cake and raspberry-lambic float. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. FlEtchER AllEn FARmERs mARkEt: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. McClure Entrance, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-0797, tanya.mcdonald@vtmednet.org. nEW noRth End FARmERs mARkEt: Eaters stroll through an array of offerings, from sweet treats to farm-grown goods. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8072, newnorthendmarket@hotmail.com. thE pEnnyWisE pAntRy: On a tour of the store, shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. WAtERBuRy FARmERs mARkEt: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 522-5965, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com.

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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.

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thuRsdAy night nAtionAls: Bikers set the pace for a weekly ride along ever-changing routes. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an adult; riders under 18 need signed parental permission; helmets required. Info, 229-9409. touR dE kingdom: See WED.30, 7:30 a.m.

talks

ivAn mcBEth: A member of the Green Mountain Druid Order speaks on “2012: A Druid’s Perspective.” Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $8-10; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain. coop.

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‘thE nApolEon 2012’: Green Candle Theatre Company chronicles the life and times of Napoléon Bonaparte in a slightly historical, and wildly imaginative, comedy. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-20; rated PG-13. Info, 863-5966.

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opEn stAgE/poEtRy night: Readers, writers, singers and ranters pipe up in a constructive and positive environment. Thomas J. Braga is the featured performer. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-3149872, rotagallery@gmail.com.

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plAnt & sEEd dRop, sWAp & sAlE: Houseplant cuttings, annuals, perennials, seeds, mulch, soil and garden tools attract homegrown horticulturalists. St. Johnsbury Food Co-op, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-9498, info@ stjfoodcoop.com.

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AnnuAl plAnt, Book & BAkE sAlE: Three floors of old and nearly new tomes benefit the library’s summer reading program and Mango Languages online learning program. Locally grown plants and baked goods for sale on Saturday. Essex Free Library, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0313. BuRlington tAg sAlE: Folks browse infant, toddler and maternity clothing, high chairs, and other baby items both new and used. Proceeds benefit Care Net. St. Joseph’s Parish Hall, Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8545.

FiRst FRidAy: Downtown shops and art galleries stay open late. Various locations, Brandon, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info, 247-6401.

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An EvEning oF thE ARts: The Adirondack Dance Company exhibits grace and grandeur in a performance of Beauty and the Beast, followed by contemporary-dance works with special guests. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $8-10. Info, 518-335-7385. 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. ‘cElEBRAtion oF dAncE: 10th-AnnivERsARystylE’: Ballet, jazz, modern and more storm the stage at this best-of dance extravaganza from the Vermont Ballet Theater School. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10-18. Info, 878-2941.

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AntiquEs Auction: Auctioneer Tom Broughton takes bids on furniture, rugs, prints, clocks, snowshoes and more. Proceeds benefit the Henry Sheldon Museum. Glen Dale Farm, Cornwall, preview, 4:30 p.m.; auction, 6 p.m. Info, 388-2117.

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BElloWs FAlls FARmERs mARkEt: Music enlivens a fresh-food marketplace with produce, meats, crafts and ever-changing weekly workshops. Waypoint Center, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2018. chElsEA FARmERs mARkEt: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987, chelseacommunitymarket@gmail.com. FivE coRnERs FARmERs mARkEt: From natural meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an open-air exchange. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@ gmail.com. hARdWick FARmERs mARkEt: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with fresh produce and handcrafted goods. Granite Street, Hardwick, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5332337, hardwickfarmersmarket@gmail.com. FRI.01

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BuRlington concERt BAnd REhEARsAl: Community players practice pop, light classical and Broadway favorites for the summer season. Music Room, Winooski High School, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 598-1830. BuRlington EnsEmBlE: Cellist Ben Capps performs works by Bach, Britten and Vermont composer Evan Premo in a solo program. Partial proceeds benefit CERV. United Church, Northfield, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 598-9520.

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FuEl-sAvings solutions & oppoRtunitiEs: Eco-friendly folks learn how to save money on gas and reduce air pollution. Xtreme Fuel Treatment Training Center, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-0170. homE-Buying sEminAR: Property virgin? Prospective buyers learn the ins and outs of the process from mortgage and real-estate professionals. Light dinner provided. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; RSVP required. Info, 865-1020, ext. 36. insuRAncE WoRkshop: Current and prospective homeowners make sure their home is properly covered under an insurance policy. Champlain Housing Trust, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-7342.

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summER Book sAlE: See WED.30, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. tAg sAlE: Bargain hunters eye clothing, toys, books, linens, household goods and miscellaneous items. Calvary Episcopal Church, Jericho, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 899-2326.

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city hAll pARk lunchtimE pERFoRmAncEs: The Michael Chorney Duo let loose acoustic guitar and hushed vocals by the fountain. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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BDJF: Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio @ Flynn MainStage BDJF: Asphalt Orchestra @ FlynnSpace “the napoleon 2012” (6/1-2, 6/7-9) @ Off Center for the Dramatic Arts BDJF: Stefon Harris, Nicholas Payton, & David Sánchez in Ninety Miles @ Flynn MainStage BDJF: Jonathan Batiste Quitet @ FlynnSpace Flynn Show Choirs (6/2-3) @ Main Street Landing Black Box Theater Barre Beatdown @ Barre Municipal Auditorium, Barre ME2/orchestra @ UVM Recital Hall BDJF: Bonnie Raitt with Marc Cohn @ Flynn MainStage BDJF: Tim Berne/Snakeoil @ FlynnSpace Opera Extravaganza @ UVM Recital Hall BDJF: Craig Taborn @ FlynnSpace BDJF: Vijay Iyer @ FlynnSpace Hawthorne Heights @ The Rusty Nail, Stowe BDJF: Donny McCaslin Group @ FlynnSpace BDJF: Chicha Libre @ Nectar’s BDJF: Bayou Tent: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue/Terrance Simien & Zydeco Exp. @ Waterfront Park Tent BDJF: Mary Halvorson Quintet @ FlynnSpace BDJF: Moon Hooch @ Signal Kitchen BDJF: Dixieland Cruise with The Onion River Jazz Band @ Lake Champlain Ferry at King Street Dock BDJF: Christian McBride & Inside Straight, also, Vermont All State Jazz Ensemble @ Flynn MainStage BDJF: Marco Benevento: A Live Recording Event @ Signal Kitchen BDJF: World Tent: Jimmy Cliff/Toussaint the Liberator with Amandla @ Waterfront Park Tent BDJF: Dianne Reeves @ Flynn MainStage Preservation Burlington’s Homes Tour @ Various Burlington Locations “Gabriello and Friends” @ Christ the King School Burlington Civic Symphony @ UVM Recital Hall BDJF: Lee Konitz Quartet and Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Nonet @ FlynnSpace Gail Archer @ Cathedral Church of St. Paul John Jasperse Company: “Fort Blossom (revisited)” (2000/2012) (6/14-15) @ FlynnSpace The Solo Workshop: “Magnetic Personalities” @ FlynnSpace Immortal Technique @ Rusty Nail, Stowe dug Nap: “Napshots of the Suburbs” (6/21-22) @ FlynnSpace A Benefit Film for Vermont Ballet Theater and School: “First Position” @ Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas Stand Up Showcase @ FlynnSpace Burlington Wine & Food Festival @ Waterfront Park Essex Children’s Choir @ Shelburne Farms Breeding Barn VT Artists’ Space Grant Work-In-Progress: Carol Caldwell-Edmonds: “The Guinevere Project” @ FlynnSpace Will Patton Ensemble @ Grand Isle Lake House, Grand Isle “Dear Pina,” (6/25-30) @ The Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms Vermont Symphony Orchestra Summer Festival Tour @ Sugarbush Resort, Warren Lez Zeppelin @ The Rusty Nail, Stowe Vermont Symphony Orchestra Summer Festival Tour @ Jay Peak Resort, Jay

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jazz evergreens. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25-46. Info, 863-5966. LudLow Farmers market: Merchants divide Frost and Fire: Peter MacFarlane, Viveka a wealth of locally farmed products, artisanal Fox, Hollis Easter and Aaron Marcus execute eats and unique crafts. Okemo Mountain traditional Celtic and New England music. School, Ludlow, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 734-3829, Community Church, Ripton, 7 p.m. $10. Info, lfmkt@tds.net. 388-1634 or 388-1062 . Lyndon Farmers market: More than 20 green mountain opera FestivaL open vendors proffer a rotation of fresh veggies, rehearsaL: Singers fine-tune their craft bemeats, cheeses and more. Bandstand Park, fore a production of La Bohéme. Valley House, Lyndonville, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, lyndonfarmersSugarbush Resort, Warren, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, market@gmail.com. 496-7722. greenFieLd piano assoCiates: “Musical health & fitness Moods: Poetry, Fire and Humor” includes works avoid FaLLs with improved stabiLity: A ranging from the deeply lyrical to the zany by personal trainer demonstrates daily practices Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Mendelssohn and othfor seniors concerned about their balance. ers. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Pines Senior Living Community, South Donations accepted for the GPA Scholarship Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477. Fund. Info, 864-0471. tai Chi For arthritis: Lindsey buCkingham: The AmeriCorps members from the Fleetwood Mac legend — often Champlain Valley Agency on emulated by Bill Hader Aging lead gentle, controlled on “Saturday Night Live” movements that can help — offers distinctive guitar alleviate stress, tension and picking in an intimate solo joint pain. Winooski Senior show. Lebanon Opera House, Center, 10-11 a.m. Donations N.H., 8 p.m. $49-62. Info, accepted. Info, 865-0360. 603-448-0400. Zumba CLass: Movers and Long traiL Live: Heloise & Y shakers party themselves into the Savoir Faire, Underground OF LI N shape with Latin-based dance System Afrobeat, Soul DS EY B U C KI N G H A M moves. The Flashbulb Institute, Understated featuring Mavis “Swan” Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $12 suggested donaPoole, the Lynguistic Civilians featuring tion. Info, 646-577-7985. the Dan Ryan Express, Sparkplug, the Zack duPont Band, Dwight & Nicole, Jenni Johnson, and DJ Disco Phantom take command of kids open-air stages. Church Street Marketplace, enosburg FaLLs story hour: Young ones Burlington, 7:30-midnight. Free. Info, 863-5966. show up for fables and occasional field trips. possumhaw: The Vermont group presents Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, original folk and bluegrass at the legend933-2328. ary Palmer Street Coffeehouse. Unitarian montgomery tumbLe time: PhysicalUniversalist Fellowship, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 fitness activities help build strong muscles. p.m.-midnight. $10. Info, 518-561-6920. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. simone dinnerstein: A masterful pianist Free. Info, 527-5426. pays her respects in an all-Bach memorial swanton pLaygroup: Kids and caregivers concert for Harry B. Watton. A reception folsqueeze in quality time over imaginative play lows. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Donations accepted. Info, 728-6464. Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. spring beneFit ConCert: Worldrenowned tenor Jon Garrison music headlines a concert of “Songs ‘500 years oF musiC For of Whimsy and Devotion.” guitar’: Peter Griggs Proceeds support stuspans the ages with clasdent scholarships to the sical guitar music from the Warebrook Summer Institute Renaissance to today. Church for the Advancement of of the Wildwood, Chittenden, Modern Music. United 7-8 p.m. $10 suggested donaChurch of Newport, 7:30 p.m. tion. Info, 483-2909. $15 suggested donation. Info, aFriCan djembe Lessons: 754-6335. Y Beat keepers practice djembe OF PE TE and doundoun rhythms with RG seminars RI G G S Chimie Bangoura. Rainbow Institute, graZing sChooL & watering system Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 377-9721, chimdesign: Participants learn about grazing ieband@gmail.com. basics, fencing infrastructure, designing and aFter the rodeo: Listeners saddle up for installing a pasture watering system, pasture three-part harmonies drawing on blues, blueparasite management, and more in a hands-on grass, jazz and cowboy-folk traditions. Lincoln workshop. Knoll Farm, Fayston, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6-8 p.m. Free; wine $20; preregister. Info, 496-5690 or 656-0858, and cheese plates available. Info, 388-7368. jcolby@uvm.edu. asphaLt orChestra: Twelve all-star players make up this brass marching band from sport Brooklyn. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 10 p.m. $15. saLute miLitary goLF assoCiation goLF Info, 863-5966. tournament: Players hit the green to raise burLington ensembLe: See THU.31, partial funds for a nonprofit whose mission is to proproceeds benefit Prevent Child Abuse Vermont. vide rehabilitative golf experiences for combatUnitarian Church, Montpelier. wounded veterans. Enosburg Falls Country béLa FLeCk and the marCus roberts trio: Club, 10 a.m. $260 per team. Info, 734-6175. A top-notch banjoist and pianist pair up on tour de kingdom: See WED.30, 7:30 a.m. original compositions, as well as ragtime and FRI.01

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‘Moon over Buffalo’: Ken Ludwig’s comedy, presented by the Brandon Town Players, provides an inside look at the backstage misadventures of a traveling theater troupe. Brandon Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $13-15. Info, 558-5653. SpielpalaSt CaBaret: Get dolled up for an evening of vaudeville and vintage burlesque with dancing ladies, a troupe of satirists and a saucy house orchestra. Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, Plainfield, 8 p.m. $25-28; for mature audiences only. Info, 454-8311. ‘the napoleon 2012’: See THU.31, 8 p.m.

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oCCupy Central verMont General aSSeMBly: Citizen activists incite the change they want to see in the world. Visit occupycentralvt.org for location. Montpelier, 3-5 p.m. Free.

agriculture

annual plant Sale: Central Vermont Extension Master Gardeners share their perennials, annuals, small shrubs and growing wisdom. Shaw’s Supermarket, Berlin, 8-10 a.m. Free. Info, 222-8930. annual underhill plant Sale: Growers find a great selection of reasonably priced plants. Arrive early to donate or preview the goods. Proceeds support the work of the Underhill Conservation Commission. Town Hall, Underhill, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 899-2974. BurlinGton Garden CluB’S annual plant Sale & Silent auCtion: Green thumbs gather to share growing tips and purchase plants and related garden items. Bake and tag sales run simultaneously. Vermont Garden Park, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4435. plant & Seed drop, Swap & Sale: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

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CoMMunity Silent/live auCtion, BarBeCue & kidS fun fair: Folks bid on elec- 16t-shoplocal-guy.indd 1 tronics, furniture, baseball tickets, restaurant gift certificates and more at a cookout with a bouncy house and face painting for the little ones. Trinity Baptist School, Williston, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 879-9008. kite flierS MeetinG: Common interests soar as fans of tethered aircrafts meet like-minded peers. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-0030. Montpelier faShion Show: Local buskers soundtrack a Capital City catwalk featuring more than 75 models representing downtown Open Daily 10-5 businesses and Vermont designers. State St., Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, (802) 475-2022 279-5762. ride for the hoMeleSS: Supporters of the Burlington Emergency Shelter participate 4472 Basin Harbor Rd in a kids rodeo or 30-mile bike loop at 9:30 Vergennes, VT a.m.; 90-mile motorcycle ride at 10 a.m.; or 10-mile bike loop at 11 a.m. Bikers begin at the 8h-LCMM053012.indd 1 Champlain Valley Exposition; motorcyclists at Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $30 for riders; $15 for passengers; includes barbecue and T-shirt. Info, 862-9879. walk for aniMalS: Two- and four-legged friends raise funds for the Central Vermont Humane Society on a 3.1-mile stroll. Wellbehaved, leashed dogs are welcome. Montpelier Recreation Field, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $25 minimum pledge. Info, 476-3811, ext. 110.

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adaMant BlaCkfly feStival: Don’t bug out—get revenge! A town parade, live music, food and family fun “honor” pesky insect pests. Adamant Co-op, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 223-1772. BurlinGton diSCover jazz feStival: See FRI.01, 5 p.m.-midnight. feStival of fidoS: A costumed puppy parade kicks off a 5K walk/run, doggie drag race, live music, agility course demos, a K9 demo and other canine fun. Proceeds support the Addison County Humane Society. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $4-8. Info, 475-2311. pSyChiC fair: Folks follow their intuition and receive divine guidance through readings, chakra cleansings, aromatherapy workshops and more. Nature’s Mysteries Books & Beyond, Lyndonville, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 626-8466. StrollinG of the heiferS: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. verMont dairy feStival: See THU.31, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.

food & drink

BriStol farMerS Market: Weekly music and kids activities add to the edible wares of local food and craft vendors. Town Green, Bristol, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 453-6796, bristolfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

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Capital City Contra danCe: Folks in softsoled shoes practice their stepping to calling by Bill Olson and tunes by Ti’ Acadie. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 744-6163. ‘CeleBration of danCe: 10th anniverSaryStyle’: See FRI.01, 1:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. ‘la fille Mal Gardée’: Two lovers have parental obstacles to overcome in this uplifting ballet presented by Moving Light Dance. See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 476-8188. lake plaCid SChool of Ballet reCital: Sixty-plus students showcase a culmination of their recent work in a two-act program. Lake

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Co-op Solar info Booth: Eco-friendly folks learn about a solar hot-water program and sign up for free solar-site assessments of their home or business. Part of the Shelburne Farmers Market. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4090. rozalia projeCt: Marine deBriS Cleanup: Volunteers pull on their gloves, pick up trash and collect data to further the understanding of water pollution in Vermont. Knight Point State Park, North Hero, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 651-1885, leclair.patty@gmail.com.

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annual plant, Book & Bake Sale: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. BurlinGton taG Sale: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Craft/vendor fair & lawn Sale: Shoppers scout out special items and good eats at a benefit for Dragonheart Vermont’s dragonboat breast-cancer survivor team, which has won a bid to the World Club Crew Championships in Hong Kong. 634 Rte. 2, South Hero, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 777-9406. SuMMer Book Sale: See WED.30, 10 a.m.5:30 p.m. taG Sale: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 3105172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. Capital City Farmers Market: Fresh produce, pasteurized milk, kombucha, artisan cheeses, local meats and more lure local buyers throughout the growing season. Live music and demos accent each week’s offerings. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@montpelierfarmersmarket. com. Champlain Islands Farmers Market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Joseph Church Hall, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 372- 3291. Montpelier Fashion Show Afterparty: Rebel Intuitive Perfumes and Kismet “pair” food and perfumes by presenting small bites and cocktails highlighting the experience of aroma. Kismet, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 522-8155, rebelintuitive@gmail.com. Mount Tom Farmers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 763-2070, foxxfarm@aol.com. Northwest Farmers Market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821. Norwich Farmers Market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447, manager@norwichfarmersmarket.org. Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, mushrooms, fresh-cut flowers, sweet baked goods, and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813. Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables at a presentation of the season’s best. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472, shelburnefarmersmarket@sbpavt.org. Trek to Taste: Walking routes lead to farmfresh treats, arts and crafts, trail games, and live animals. Top it off with local ice cream and tunes by Billy Wylder. Forest Center. MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 436-4067. Waitsfield Farmers Market: Local bands enliven an outdoor outlet for homegrown herbs, flowers and fruits, and handmade breads, cheeses and syrups. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734.

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Leona Grearson Bizzozero: The Vermont author signs copies of her children’s book The Unicorn With No Horn. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 888-361-9473.

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‘500 Years of Music for Guitar’: See FRI.01, Perkinsville Community Church. Info, 263-9539. Big Joe Burrell Day: The Stooges Brass Band, Alex Alvear & Mango Blue, and Afri-VT give a nod to the late godfather of Vermont’s jazz scene. Burlington City Hall Park, noon. Free. Info, 863-5966. Burlington Ensemble: See THU.31, partial proceeds benefit Hunger Free Vermont. Mount Mansfield Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Jericho.

Feast of Singing 2012: Peter and Mary Alice Amidon and Kim and Reggie Harris lead singers of all ages in songs old and new, sacred and secular. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 9 a.m. $50; preregister. Info, 234-9671. Flynn Adult Show Choir & Teen Show Choir Select: Singers gleek out in song-anddance routines to Broadway and pop favorites. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 863-5966. Green Mountain Opera Festival Master Class: Maestro Leonardo Vordoni trains voices. Valley House, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 7-10

Ninety Miles: Stefon Harris, Nicholas Payton and David Sánchez explore the ear-catching polyrhythms of Cuba. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-37. Info, 863-5966. PossumHaw: The Vermont group brings original acoustic to the Adirondacks. Recovery Lounge, Upper Jay Art Center, 8-10 p.m. $10. Info, 518-946-8315. Ray Bonneville & Louise Taylor: Two singer-songwriters team up for folk refrains after a limited open-mic set. Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $3-9. Info, 388-9782. Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra: Harpist Anna Reinersman and flutist Karen

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Barre Beatdown: Team Asylum’s Tim Deiturriaga and local fighter Mike Berby face off in a mixed-martial-arts throwdown. Barre Municipal Auditorium, 7 p.m. $27. Info, 863-5966. Green Mountain Kids Run for Fun: Rain or shine, a 5K walk/run makes fitness fun. Green Mountain Kids, Morrisville, registration, 8-8:45 a.m.; run, 9 a.m. $5-20. Info, 888-0869. Introductory Bicycle Ride for New Riders: Cyclists-in-training set a leisurely pace after learning the rules of the road. Dorset Park, South Burlington, 10 a.m. Free; helmets required. Info, 399-2352. Tour de Kingdom: See WED.30, 7:30 a.m.

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seminars

‘Moon Over Buffalo’: See FRI.01, 7:30 p.m. Spielpalast Cabaret: See FRI.01, Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $25-30; for mature audiences only. Info, 496-8994. ‘the napoleon 2012’: See THU.31, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

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A Chance for Chase: Music and food from local restaurants enliven a lakeside barbecue benefiting a toddler recently diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. Kids activities include a tie-dye station, face painting and petting zoo. Mountain Meadows Lodge, Killington, 2 p.m. $25 suggested donation per family. Info, 683-5135. American Red Cross Blood Drive: Generous Vermonters part with a pint. Walk in, or schedule an appointment. Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5125, info@templesinaivt.org. Meet Attorney General Bill Sorrell: Supporters express their appreciation for Sorrell’s environmental work and hear out his visions for the state at a meet-and-greet with snacks. Jericho Community Center, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 899-2088, naturemyth@aol.com.

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p.m. Free. Info, 496-7722. Jazz on the Marketplace: Project Organ Trio and Afinque take outdoor stages during the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 5 p.m. & 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 863-7992. Jonathan Batiste Quintet: A piano man and humanitarian heads up the band with a fusion of New Orleans and world rhythms. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 10 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966. ME2/orchestra: Music director Ronald Braunstein leads the 30-member ensemble in “Music for Mental Health,” works of Telemann, Beethoven and Schubert highlighted by some of Vermont’s professional string players. Reception follows. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 238-8369.

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Playgroups tend to be mom-centric, but the fact is … dads are No. 1 in a program called FATHERS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER, aka FACT. And that’s a big deal, says coordinator Josh Edelbaum, emphasizing the FATHERS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: Sessions importance of responsible held weekly on Tuesdays at the VNA’s Janet S. dads working on family Munt Family Room, 20 Allen Street, Burlington, relationships. The weekly dad 5-7:30 p.m. Info, 860-4420, vnacares.org. gatherings include playtime for the kids, family-style dinner and discussions on parenting topics such as discipline or sleep. “It’s exciting,” says Edelbaum of growing interest. “As more men are present, more men are comfortable coming.” Dads and grandfathers who attend FACT groups are learning about “Family Play” sessions at the Family Room, as well as a new grant-funded responsible-parenting course for dads. FACT has been around for 20 years, but these eight-week sessions started last fall, coinciding with a first-ever Vermont Responsible Fatherhood Conference in Montpelier. Edelbaum hopes it signals a growing trend: dads stepping up and getting their due.

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and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

Open Media Workshop: Professional or novice film editors learn about various programs for mixing and enhancing all of their video assets into a single project. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Access Orientation: Video-production hounds get an overview of the facilities, policies

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: See FRI.01, 1 p.m.-midnight. Strolling of the Heifers: See FRI.01, 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Vermont Dairy Festival: See THU.31, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

food & drink

Community Breakfast: Early birds rise and shine for a neighborly meal. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 9-11 a.m. $3-6. Info, 878-0700. Ice Cream Sundays: Who needs the ice cream man? Visitors churn their own flavors while learning about the scientific and historical aspects of the tradition. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

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find select events on twitter @7dayscalendar Pancake Breakfast: The NorShaft Lions Club serves up stacks of flapjacks, as well as bacon, sausages, maple syrup and more. Proceeds support the club’s community sight and hearing programs. Shaftsbury Elementary School, 8-11:30 a.m. $6; free for kids under 8. Info, 442-4373. Stowe Farmers Market: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734, info@stowevtfarmersmarket.com. Winooski Farmers Market: Area growers and bakers offer “more than just wild leeks.” On the green. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, winooskimarket@gmail.com.

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Early-Morning Bird Walk: An ramble through the woods rewards a.m. risers with glimpses of feathered chirpers ... and coffee. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7-8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont.org.

seminars

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. Pet Food Warehouse, South Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Donations accepted for a local dog-related nonprofit; preregister. Info, 849-2363, deb@goldstardog.com.

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Onion River Sports Cliffhanger Uphill Sprint Race: Runners and cyclists take on an uphill challenge in heats of four racers. Cliff and Corse streets, Montpelier, 5-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 229-9409. Rouses Rouser Bicycle Ride: Helmet heads embark on a 50-mile loop over the Rouses Point Bridge, or a 60-mile ride circling Isle La Motte. Grand Isle Ferry Dock, 9:15 a.m. Free; bring money for the ferry. Info, 899-2908. Tour de Kingdom: See WED.30, 7:30 a.m.

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‘Moon Over Buffalo’: See FRI.01, 2 p.m.

agriculture

Plant & Seed Drop, Swap & Sale: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

fairs & festivals

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: See FRI.01, noon-midnight.

‘Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’: A poor, pregnant, overweight and illiterate Harlem teen is sent to an alternative

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Aura-Clearing Clinic: Call to reserve a 15-minute energyfield-healing session. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090. Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.01, 10 a.m. Herbal Consultations: Folks explore the art of “green” health care at a personalized, confidential clinic with faculty and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700, info@ vtherbcenter.org.

kids

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. Music With Raphael: See THU.31, 10:45 a.m. Musical Mondays With Jannie Bannannie: A specialized half hour of music is aimed at children under 6 with speech delays. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 1-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 310-1861. Play Time Playgroup: Children under 6 with developmental delays or Down syndrome gather with peers, as well as visiting specialists from a variety of fields. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 310-1861. Stories With Megan: Preschoolers expand their imaginations through dream-themed tales, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Craig Taborn: The artist with a penchant for improv delivers an evening of solo piano. FlynnSpace, Burlington, improv workshop, 4 p.m.; meet the artists session, 5:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. Green Mountain Opera Festival Open Rehearsal: Singers fine-tune their craft before a production of Don Pasquale. Valley House, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7722. Jazz on the Marketplace: Local school bands, the Bryson Barnes Group, Return to Sender and the Queen City Hot Club take outdoor stages during the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, noon-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-7992. 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. Salon Concert: Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie and pianist Donna Loewy of the New Music on the Point program of Point CounterPoint summer camp offer jazz and other 20th-century repertoire. Brandon Music, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 465-4071. Sambatucada! Open Rehearsal: New players are welcome to pitch in as Burlington’s

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The Shamanic, Magical & Herbal Roots of European Traditional Medicine: European herbalist Julia Graves describes holistic practices and stories gleaned from training with an 85-year-old naturopathic doctor. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $15-20; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

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ORS Cyclocross Cruise: Riders rise and descend on a network of dirt roads. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an adult; riders under 18 need signed parental permission; helmets required. Info, 229-9409.

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Marjorie Cady Memorial Writers Group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@comcast.net. Shared Moments Open Mic: Recille Hamrell organizes an evening of spontaneously told true tales about pivotal life events. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 863-1754.

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Plant & Seed Drop, Swap & Sale: See FRI.01, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

community

Tropical Storm Irene Story Circle: Storm survivors share their experiences and help create an oral history for their town. Grafton Public Library, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 251-5631.

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Tropical Storm Irene Stress-Buster Bowling Series: Deerfield Valley folks affected by the flooding blow off steam. North Star Bowl, Wilmington, 1-2:30 p.m. $4.95 includes bowling and shoes; mini golf is free. Info, 249-3628. Vermont Arts Council Annual Meeting & Award Ceremony: Arnie Malina and Altoon Sultan receive Walter Cerf Medals for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, and artist Lida Winfield presents a grantee showcase. Reception follows. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3293.

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Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: See FRI.01, noon-midnight.

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ECOS Project Ice Cream Social: See WED.30, Milton Public Library, 6 p.m. Early Season Salads: Home cooks show off the flavors of spring in creative dishes involving fennel, roasted beets, ricotta, boiled farm eggs and more. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

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Afro-Brazilian street percussion band sharpens its tunes. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017. 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, 6:15-9:15 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0398.

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A Cappella Showcase: Stay Tuned, Zazzle, High Voltage, the Honeymooners, the North Country Chordsmen and many other vocal groups harmonize. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 3 p.m. $5-10. Info, 603-448-0400. Ang Li: A rising star of classical piano takes a seat at the hammers and strings. See calendar spotlight. Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, Plainfield, 3:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 454-8311. Bonnie Raitt: Soul singer Marc Cohn opens for this Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Flynn MainStage, Burlington. Burlington Ensemble: See THU.31, partial proceeds benefit the South End Arts and Business Association. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 598-9520. Flynn’s Child & Teen Show Choirs: Singers gleek out in song-and-dance routines to Broadway and pop favorites. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. & 6 p.m. $10-15. Info, 863-5966. Jazz on the Marketplace: The UVM Jazz Ensemble with Ray Vega, 12 Percent, Trio Subtonic, and Bob Wagner and the Blue Grit with Ray Paczkowski, Russ Lawton and Wu Sef take outdoor stages during the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-7992. Mark LeGrand & Sarah Munro: The musicians deliver rich vocal harmonies in the style of John Prine and Bonnie Raitt on the porch. Waterbury Station, Green Mountain Coffee Visitor Center & Café, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 882-2700. Northeast Fiddlers Association: Stringed-instrument players gather for a monthly jam. Canadian Club, Barre Town, noon5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 728-5188. Onion River Chorus: “Where Everything Is Music” features contemporary a cappella choral works by Toby Tenenbaum and Don Jamison, as well as shape-note traditions. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $8-12 suggested donation; $25 suggested donation per family. Info, 476-4300. Opera Extravaganza: A Gala Performance: World-class singers of the Green Mountain Opera Festival unleash arias, duets and ensembles from La Bohème, Don Pasquale, La Traviata and The Pearl Fishers. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $50. Info, 656-4455. Red Tail Ring: American roots duo Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp interpret Appalachian ballads and dance tunes, and offer

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Meditation & Spiritual Tools for Intuitive Living, Soul Purpose & Spiritual Healing: Practitioners communicate with their higher selves through aura, chakra and energy activities. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 671-4569.

original compositions. See calendar spotlight. Green Mountain Girls Farm, Northfield, 7 p.m. $5-15 for farm tours and picnic, 4-6:30 p.m.; $7-10 donation for concert, farm-fresh picnic and tours, 4-6:30 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m. Info, 505-9840. Rossi Festival Singers & Burlington Jewish Community Choir: Bruce Chalmer conducts “Open My Lips: A Concert of Sacred Music From 1600 to Today.” Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 4 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 860-6671. Sunday Jazz: Judi Silvano’s Indigo Moods Quartet offer jazz songs. Brandon Music, 7 p.m. $15-18; $25 includes dinner (preregister). Info, 465-4071. Tim Berne & Snakeoil: The stellar saxophonist at the forefront of this ensemble was named an “Essential NYC Jazz Icon” by y of Time Out New York. FlynnSpace, Br an don Burlington, 6 p.m. $25. Info, Mu sic 863-5966. Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra: See SAT.02, Chandler Music Hall, Randolph.

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IntroductIon to MedItatIon: Instructor Sherry Rhynard shares handouts and tips for managing stress and improving health and inner peace. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop. ProactIve HealtH SerIeS: underStandIng Frozen SHoulder: Chiropractic physician Gregory Giasson explores a common, progressive and painful loss of shoulder and limb motion. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. 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. taI cHI For artHrItIS: See FRI.01, Westford Library, 2-3 p.m. WoMen & gIrlS zuMba claSS: Fast-paced rhythms fuel a Latin-inspired dance-fitness party led by Casey Clark. Chabad of Vermont, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $7. Info, 658-5770.

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WIld edIble & MedIcInal Plant Walk: Participants ID flora while learning about principles of sustainable wild harvesting and ways of offering gratitude to the plants. Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury, 6-7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 456-8122.

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buddHISM In a nutSHell: Amy Miller serves up a comprehensive overview of the Tibetan Buddhist path in bite-size modules, combining meditation, lively discussion and practical exercises. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136. creatIng a FInancIal Future: Spenders and savers learn to build wealth over a lifetime. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114. SPend SMart: Those who struggle to save learn savvy skills for managing money. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 114.

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cyclIng 101: Pedal pushers get out of the gym and onto the road on a relaxed spin with Linda Freeman. Call ahead for starting location. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free; riders under 15 must be accompanied by an adult; riders under 18 need signed parental permission; helmets required. Info, 229-9409.

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cHarlIe nardozzI: The author of Northeast Fruit and Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow and Eat the Best Edibles for Northeast Gardens inspires gardeners with green-thumb wisdom. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.

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FaIrFIeld PlaygrouP: See WED.30, 10-11:30 a.m. PajaMa Story tIMe: Kids up to age 6 wear their jammies for evening tales. Arvin A. Brown Library, Richford, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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donny MccaSlIn grouP: Soaring saxophone highlights post-bop, funk, ballads and more. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Meet the artist session, 5:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. jazz on tHe MarketPlace: Local school bands, Emily Day with the Shane Hardiman Trio, John Rivers and Geza Carr, and the Brian McCarthy Quartet take outdoor stages during the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, noon-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-7992.

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ann tHoMaS: In conjunction with the 250th anniversary year of the founding of Hinesburg, the local historian discusses the mills at Mechanicsville. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878. ray Pealer: In “Smart Meters and You,” the speaker discusses reports of health problems, billing errors and security concerns. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 4263581, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com.

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donald H. WIckMan: The historian and author of A Very Fine Appearance: The Vermont Civil War Photographs of George Houghton discusses his subject. Milton Historical Society, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598. ebook InForMatIonal SeSSIon: People considering going paperless learn about the library’s downloading resources. Fairfax Community Library, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 8492420. m

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antI-InFlaMMatory dIet: Folks support their digestive health by sampling recipes, herbs, probiotics and more with herbalist and holistic health coach Marie Frohlich. City Market, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. HealtH care 101: PatIent-drIven HealtH care In tHe era oF HealtH care reForM: A lively workshop offers a different perspective of our changing health care landscape, and knowledgeable speakers contribute to a panel discussion. Room 102, Aiken Center, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-5442. Marna’S Weekly guIded MedItatIon: See WED.30, 5:30-7 p.m.

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caStleton SuMMer concertS: The Jonathan Newell Band make a scene on the green. Old Chapel Green, Castleton, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 468-1206. green MountaIn oPera FeStIval oPen reHearSal: See FRI.01, 7-10 p.m. jack Quartet: New Music on the Point’s quartet-in-residence performs a program of recent works by Kathryn Alexander and Laura Schwendinger. Brandon Music, Brandon, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 247-8467. jazz on tHe MarketPlace: Local school bands, Rubberbelly, the Raphael Groten Y OF Quartet, Eight 02 and Flynn Arts HE NR ensembles take outdoor stages IK O LUN D during the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 12-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-7992. MIlton coMMunIty band reHearSalS: Concert-band musicians are invited to listen

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or join in as the ensemble tunes up for summer concerts. Band Room, Milton Elementary School, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398. SyrInx: An a cappella ensemble offers Congolese-style choral works and more in “Missa Luba and New Prayers From the Ark.” St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0471. vIjay Iyer: The Grammy-nominated composerpianist serves up solo work influenced by jazz giants, as well as funk, hip-hop, dub and electronica. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Meet the artist session, 5:30 p.m., FlynnSpace. $25. Info, 863-5966.

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BEGINNER’S YOGA SERIES WITH JOHN MCCONNELL: Jun. 6-27, 6-7 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Location: Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 8649642, evolutionvt.com. Always wondered about the benefits of yoga? It’s time to stop wondering and start reaping. A new Beginner’s Yoga Series starts June 6. Lighthearted and low stress, this four-week series is the perfect intro into a practice that could change your life forever. Start your summer off right with yoga.

exercise NIA W/ REBECCA: Tue. & Thu., 8:30 a.m. Cost: $13/drop-in. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Rebecca Boedges, 922-2400, rboedges@hotmail.com, niaburlington.com. Looking for a new way to look and feel great? Nia offers fitness for the body, mind and spirit. Combining dance, martial arts and the healing arts, Nia is a blend of mindful movement with cardiovascular training. Try a class today to change your body and life!

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wild Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk, Tue., Jun. 5, 6-7:30 p.m. Sliding scale: free to $10. Preregistration appreciated. Wild Edibles Intensive 2012: Spring/Summer term: 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.

kids INSPIRING SUMMER CAMPS!: Cost: $300/wk., $150/teen wk. 1/2 day. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@ yahoo.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com. Session 1: June 18-22, Art & French (full). Session 2: July 19-13, Art & Science. Session 3: July 23-27, Art, Nature & Animals. Session 4: August 6-10, Art & Space Galaxy. Session 5: Teen Week, August 13-17, Art & French. Session 6: August 20-24, Art & French.

ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Cost: $175/10 1-hr. classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Spanish classes starting in June. Our fifth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Specializing in lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. FRENCH CLASSES THIS SUMMER!: 6-wk. term, begins Jun. 11 & continues through Jul. 19; classes held 6-7:30 p.m.; immersion session Jun. 11-21, 16 hrs. in 8 sessions, 8-10 a.m. Cost: $135/6-wk. class. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 302-304 Dupont Bldg., 123 Ethan Allen Ave. , Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 4970420, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, aflcr.org/classes. shtml. Alliance Francaise Summer French Classes for Adults. Short refresh-and-review term designed to secure new skills, as a warm-up for your next level or to get you ready for a vacation in France, Quebec, Guadalupe! Six weeks, just $135. Also: special twoweek immersion for beginners. Full details and easy sign-up online.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tue., Jun. 5, 6:45 p.m. Try out this class for $10. This fee can be applied toward our 3-mo. membership special rate for $190 (incl. unlimited classes 7 days/ wk.). Children’s classes begin on Sat., Jun. 2, 9 a.m. (ages 5-6) & 9:45 a.m. (ages 7-12). Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. The 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. MARTIAL ARTS

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BEGINNER SWING DANCE LESSONS: Jun. 6-20, 6:307:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $30/3-wk. series. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Terry Bouricius, 8648382, terrybour@gmail.com, vermontswings.com. A short three-week series of beginner dance lessons is being offered by Burlington’s premier swing dance teacher, Terry Bouricius. Terry has taught thousands of

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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CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: Jul. 9-Aug. 13, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $210/person, $189/BCA member. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington. An introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and

DROP IN: LIFE DRAWING FOR ADULTS: Jul. 9-Aug. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $8/session, $7/ BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. This dropin class is open to all levels and facilitated by a BCA staff member and professional model. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary. Ages 16+. Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free!

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, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

Dance & Fitness Studio, 18 Langdon St.,, Montpelier. AllTogetherNow, 170 Cherry Tree Hill Rd., E. Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 9994255, spaton55@gmail. com. Burlington! Beginners’ Taiko starts Tuesday, June 12; kids, 4:30 p.m., $60/six weeks; adults, 5:30 p.m., $72/ six weeks. Advanced classes start Monday, June 11, 5:30 and 7 p.m. Cuban Bata and house-call classes by request. New Haven Town Hall Taiko, Wednesdays, three weeks, starts May 9, 6 p.m. Adults, $36, kids, $30, $48 for parent/ child. Montpelier Haitian drumming starts June 14, East Montpelier, Thursdays! Cuban congas starts June 14, 5:30, $45/three weeks. Djembe starts May 17, 5:30 pm, $45/ three weeks. Taiko starts June 14, 7 p.m., $45/three weeks. Friday women’s Haitian drumming starts June 15, 5 p.m., $45/three weeks.

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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.

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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.

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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: 6604072, Julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian JiuJitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

massage ADVANCED GERIATRIC MASSAGE: Fri., Jun. 15, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Sat. & Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $375/course, $350 before Jun. 1. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 658-7715, touchvt@gmail. com, touchstonehealingarts. com. Prerequisite: level 1 (17 CE hours). Two days are spent in a nursing home or assisted living facility working with elderly volunteers. Review of medical terminology and symptoms and how to select approaches. Cautions in positioning of challenged clients. In-depth information on most common age-related health problems and specific massage approaches. EXPLORATION OF MOVEMENT 14 CEU: Jul. 28-29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245/14 CEUs ($225 if paid by Jul. 16; call about risk-free introductory fee). Location: Touchstone Healing Arts , Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail. com, ortho-bionomy.org/

SOBI/DianneSwafford. Using Ortho-Bionomy, participants will learn to recognize and palpate patterns of joint and muscle movement in order to facilitate tension release and increase range of motion. These techniques help relieve tension in those stuck places in our body that keep our bodies from moving well (i.e., shoulder blades or pelvis that won’t move when someone is walking). GERIATRIC MASSAGE 1-17 CE HRS: Fri., Jun. 8, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Sat. & Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $375/course, $350 before May 25. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 658-7715, touchvt@gmail.com, touchstonehealingarts.com. By helping participants to gain insight into meaningful work with the elderly, the therapist who likes to work with seniors is put on the path to a massage career that is emotionally satisfying without being physically draining. Includes aspects of aging assessments, cautions, contraindications,

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

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photography One-On-One PhOtOgraPhy: Location: Linda Rock Photography, 48 Laurel Dr., Essex Jct. Info: Linda Rock Photography, Linda Rock, 2389540, lrphotography@comcast.net, lindarockphotography.com. Digital photography, one-on-one 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.

reiki animal reiki fOr PractitiOners: Jun. 9, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $125/5-hr. class. Location: The Hooved Animal Sanctuary , Chelsea. Info: HeartSong Reiki, Kelly McDermott-Burns, 7468834, kelly@heartsongreiki. com, heartsongreiki.com. Prerequisite: Reiki level II. We will discuss ethics and protocol, as well as learn techniques using jumon and mantras for creating healing space for the animals. Reiju will be offered to each student plus practice time with animals. Includes manual and certificate of completion.

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tarOt fOr life: Jun. 7-Jul. 12, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $150/6-week workshop. Location: The Firefly Collective, 200 Main St., Burlington. Info: Tarot Insights, Sherri Glebus, 2246756, sglebus@gmail.com, tarotinsights.vpweb.com. This 6-week workshop of one 2-hour session per week will guide participants through learning the basics of the deck, how to use it for readings for oneself and others, developing intuition, and using Tarot for personal and spiritual development.

lightheart sanctuary classes: Location: Lightheart Sanctuary, 236 Wild Apple Rd., New Haven. Info: Lightheart, Maureen Short, 453-4433, Maureen@ gmavt.net, Lightheart.net. May 26: Fairy day: for kids to celebrate Nature spirits, make fairy houses, elf doors. May 29: sacred circle in the sanctuary: Walk the labyrinth, meditate, pray, sing, chant, tone with crystal singing Bowls. June 5: Venus Transit Download celebration! June 12: sacred circle at Rainbow Institute, 19 church st., suite 8.

tai chi hwa yu tai chi, mOntPelier: Jun. 11-Jul. 23, 5-6 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $72/7-wk. semester. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St, 3rd floor, Montpelier. Info: Ellie Hayes, 456-1983, grhayes1956@ comcast.net. Hwa Yu Tai chi summer semester, open to beginners and continuing students alike. enjoy a convivial atmosphere while improving balance and coordination; know the deep satisfaction of fluid and organic movement. Instructor ellie Hayes has been teaching since 1974. snake-style tai chi chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

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writing writing what yOu knOw: Jun. 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $30/class. Location: the Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Lin Stone, 985-3091, lin@windridgepublishing.com. The first writing principle is to “Write what you know,” and instructor Bill Mares knows quite a bit. In his 13 published books (“Fishing with Presidents,” “Brewing change, Behind the Bean at Green Mountain coffee Roasters,” etc.), as in this class, Mares shows how to put your experience between book covers.

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yOga VermOnt: Jun. 4-Sep. 2. Cost: $300/summer pass. Location: Yoga Vermont, 113 Church St., Burlington. Info: Yoga Vermont, Kathy McNames, 238-0594, kathy@ yogavermont.com, yogavermont.com. summer schedule June 4 through september 2. Unlimited summer pass: $300.

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yang-style tai chi: New 8-wk. beginners class session began 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,

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aPartment furniture: Jul. 25-Aug. 29, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $290/6-wk., 3-hr. class, incl. materials, member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: The Shelburne Craft School, Sage Tucker-Ketcham, 985-3648, info@theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org. Your apartment may not be the biggest or most functional in town, but you take pride in making it your own. This course will help you personalize your space with an introduction to furniture making, focusing on material frugality and practical design. Build a modular coffee table, desk or shelf.

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formation. Pianist and cofounder Andy Ellenberger began playing at age 8 and went on to join the Lehigh University marching band in Bethlehem, Pa. Trumpeter Dick Toof cut his musical teeth with Vermonter Sterling Weed’s famed Imperial Orchestra. Banjo player Paul Gittelsohn was a street musician in San Francisco who developed a vocal style akin to jazz legend Fats Waller. And Stanziola, whom Hall says traded his violin for a clarinet in order to “get the gals goin’,” played for vaudeville orchestras in the 1940s, as well as in military bands. “Collectively, we’ve been playing music for 180 years,” he notes. Former members of the band include Jazz Mandolin Project’s Jamie Masefield and original trumpet player Craig Johnson. The ORJB has performed all over New England, from Higher Ground for the hometown crowd to the Worces-

youngsters being exposed to this music and loving it,” he says. “And the reason they love it is the two-beat style, which is also the rock style.” “As a drummer, Tony would know that.” Thomas observes. The radio host likewise doesn’t see the genre slipping out of favor. He cites current New Orleans bands Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses and Tuba Skinny, who have busked on Church Street and performed at the Radio Bean in Burlington, as examples of the genre’s continuation. “What I saw with Tuba Skinny was a young crowd just loving it,” Thomas says. “Their music was really up, it was really passionate, and it was really personal. It’s hard to get that sometimes, but Dixieland lends itself to that kind of energy.” David Beckett, another renowned local jazz DJ (at WWPV), has been involved with the jazz fest since its inception and serves, with Thomas, on its

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n Friday, June 8, a septet of sharp-dressed jazzbos will climb aboard the Lake Champlain ferry with their clarinets, sousaphones and other traditional jazz instruments to play a show more often associated with French Quarter balconies and gumbo than Vermont and maple syrup. Collectively known as the Onion River Jazz Band, the players have hosted the annual — and always sold-out — Dixieland jazz cruise as part of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival since 1984. “It’s the closest you can get to New Orleans in terms of being out on the water with a great band and a good crowd of people,” says Vermont Public Radio jazz host George Thomas. The ORJB cast appearing at this year’s festivities will differ from that of previous years. Enormously talented clarinetist Tommy Stanziola died last year at age 89. And the sousaphone and bass player, Glendon Ingalls, will be absent because of a teaching commitment. But the band will surely still deliver traditional, or “trad,” jazz in all its glory.

Drummer Tony Hall explains that New Orleans trad jazz harkens back to the years between 1899 and 1945 and comprises jazz, ragtime, Dixieland, stride piano, boogie-woogie and swing. Luminaries such as Bix Biederbecke, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton help define the genre’s sound. Hall and his band began after the Rev. Martin Copenhaver at the First Congregational Church in Burlington asked him to assemble some musicians for a jazz worship service. “After my jaw dropped, I called up the guys,” remembers Hall. “We’ve been doing it now for 28 years.” Hall, who playfully considers himself “from the South,” hails from Bennington. His drumming career began with pots and pans and a pair of chopsticks his parents had brought home from an excursion to Yonkers, N.Y. He eventually graduated to playing gigs in high school with Rex Stewart, a trumpeter from Duke Ellington’s band. Other ORJB members were equally well versed in music before the band’s

ter Centrum, where they played for 12,500 people. The band even provided a soundtrack for the Shining-esque ballroom scene of a Middlebury film student’s senior project. Hall says the band never had much desire to travel beyond the Northeast. “We live in an area that people are clamoring to play in,” he says. “And who knew the hotbed of jazz is in Burlington, Vt.?” The band members speculate that they stand out for their attention to compositional detail and ability to appeal to both casual fans and aficionados. “We like ‘The Saints’ and we like ‘Saint Louis Blues’ and ‘Tiger Rag’ as well as anybody else,” says Hall. “But the esoteric songs are ones that most bands really don’t want to touch because they take a lot of time to develop.” To play trad jazz tunes convincingly, he says, requires a serious study of the polyphony and soloing heard in the likes of Kid Ory’s Sunshine Orchestra or King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. As these musicians get older — and as newer, more experimental genres appear each year at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival — Hall welcomes the changes and remains confident that the steady beat of trad jazz will go on. “We’re astonished when we see

advisory board. Beckett says the ORJB defines the festival’s spirit. “The whole thing was dreamt up by local jazz musicians and local jazz nuts,” he says. “By ‘discover jazz,’ the founders of the festival meant for people to discover the fabulous musicians already playing in and around Burlington. They also meant for people who don’t think of themselves as jazz fans to discover how wonderful the music is by hearing it live.” Thomas also admires the 10-day event’s diversity of “really accessible stuff that ends up on Church Street” and “very current stuff in the FlynnSpace,” though he admits he’s partial to the New Orleans-style sound supplied by the ORJB. “If people want to feel good about life and themselves,” Thomas says, “they’re one of the bands to dance to and hang out with.” Hall says he owes the continuing interest in trad jazz and the longevity of his band to its players’ unity around a common love. “We’re seven people, seven voices,” he says, “but we’re only one song.” The Dixieland Cruise with the Onion River Jazz Band departs from the King Street Ferry Dock in Burlington on Friday, June 8, at 7 p.m. $24. discoverjazz.com, flynntix.org

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Saturday. They’re one of the most popular brass bands in New Orleans and, once upon a time, featured the aforementioned Trombone Shorty when he was actually still short. He was a teenager at the time. The highlights on Sunday, June 3, include the next installment of Mildred Moody’s Full Moon Masquerade, with local ursine funksters Bearquarium headlining. Meanwhile, over at Radio Bean, local gingerbearded guitar beast BoB wagner and lendway’s matt Hagen round out the weekend with the experimental guitar explorations they call “BRAin ScApEs.” Heady. The Farmhouse Tap & Grill has a few good shows for jazz fest this year, including Gabe Jarrett’s own trio on Monday, June 4. But the belle of the ball that night is amy wineHouse. The late neo-soul singer gets the local all-star tribute treatment at Nectar’s, courtesy of the motown monday crew, which features members of craig mitcHell & motor city, kat wrigHt & tHe indomitaBle soul Band, Barika,

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adventuresome jazz-funk fun. Flatbread would also be a good place to find yourself the following evening, Saturday, June 2, for an early set from suspenderfusion scofflaws the vermont Joy Parade (fresh outta the clink: a few members were arrested recently at a houseparty gig in upstate New York), followed by the always impressive Parker sHPer trio. If you want to ease into the jazzy shenanigans, I’d suggest checking out Saturday’s afternoon showcase at Club Metronome, which features Boston-based blues-metal act deatH Pesos, and locals sPirit animal and the Pilgrims. It could well be the hardestrockin’ jazz-fest show since the Jazz guys were banned from playing the festival, ever again, following an epically loud Church Street set some years ago. Ah, memories! Also of non-jazzoriented note on Saturday: Hip-hop crew the lynguistic civilians celebrate their 100th show at the Vermont Pub & Brewery. Now, if you’re really ready to jazzercise, er, dance, I recommend the stooges Brass Band at Red Square on

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I give up. I’ve been writing this column for just more than five years. And every year during the Burlington discover Jazz Festival, space in these oft-snarky pages is traditionally reserved as a “jazz-free zone,” a refuge for the huddled jazzaverse masses who seek an alternative to the bop, post-bop and mmm-bop fare on offer from our beloved jazz fest. (Bet you weren’t expecting a Hanson reference there, right? Me neither.) Why? Mostly because I’m a cheeky bastard and enjoy pushing your buttons. And we do a lot of BDJF coverage in other realms of the paper — such as this week’s cover story on tromBone sHorty, for example. But also, and more importantly, because even amid the swingin’ splendor of these 10 days in June, plenty of nonjazzy happenings around the state are worth attention. (Readers may point out that many of them are happening under the umbrella of the jazz fest itself. Whatever. Lighten the fuck up, hepcats.) The fest has indeed become nearly ubiquitous. And each year, it’s become harder to divine news from outside the parameters of the

BDJF. My dad once told me — or maybe it was a line from a clint eastwood flick — that it’s important for a man to know when he’s beaten, and there is no shame in meeting your match as long as you gave it your all. So after four years, I’m officially retiring the jazz-free gimmick and opening Soundbites to BDJF coverage. (BDJF organizers, please make that check out to dan Bolles, B-O-L-L-E-S.) I’m not abandoning music outside the fest, mind you. Rather, my aim is to point out some of the local and off-thebeaten-path options for you to, ahem, discover — you’ll find no Bonnie raitt musings here. So with that in mind, let’s dig in, shall we? It all starts this Friday, June 1. Among my favorite BDJF haunts is American Flatbread. OK, it’s personal favorite haunt, period. But jazz fest is about the only time of year the joint hosts live music, and it does so nearly every night of the festival in the alley outside. The highlight at the Burlington Hearth on Friday is local fusion trio vorcza. Composed of bassist roB morse, keyboardist ray Paczkowski and drummer gaBe Jarrett — son of legendary jazz pianist keitH Jarrett — Vorcza are always a good bet for some

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1/2 Lounge: Scott Mangan & guests (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. Club Metronome: Strictly Vinyl with DJs Big Dog and Oh J Freshhh (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

central

Levity Café: Open Mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Brown's Market Bistro: Don and Jenn (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

Big Picture Theater & Café: Alpenglow (indie), 8 p.m., $5.

Nectar's: Trivia Mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Bluegrass Thursday: Something With Strings, 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: ’90s Night, 9:30 p.m., Free. Guitar Jazz with Fabian, 9:30 p.m., Free. Moog's: Bob Young (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

O'Brien's Irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Parker Pie Co.: Garth Hedges (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free.

Farmhouse Tap & Grill: Anthony Santor Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Collette & the Mudcats (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

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

Halvorson's Upstreet Café: Project Organ Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

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Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: First Friday with DJ Precious, DJ Llu, L.Dora (house), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

Matterhorn: Dr. Yes & the No Nos (jam), 9 p.m., $5.

JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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

Gusto's: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

northern

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. Monkey House: The Wards, From Mercury, Astrocat (punk), 9 p.m., $5.

Bee's Knees: D. Davis (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Moog's: Sam Averbuck (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

regional

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: Family Night Band (jam), 7 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Red Square Blue Room: DJ Cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Mind the Gap, Radio Underground, Jonah Salzman (indie pop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

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

ONE Pepper Grill: Open Mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free.

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Venue: Karaoke with Steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free.

1/2 Lounge: Burgundy Thursday with Joe Adler, Herego (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. The Harder They Come with DJs Darcie, Chris Pattison and guests (dubstep), 10 p.m., Free.

Green Mountain Tavern: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Leno & Young (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Herego, 7 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Studio Chicken Trio, 11 p.m., Free. Red Square: Driftwood (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. The Skinny Pancake: Pandagrass (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5 donation. T Bones Restaurant and Bar: Chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

burlington area

Club Metronome: Cats Under the Stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 9 p.m., $5. Dobrá Tea: Grup Anwar (Arabic), 6:30 p.m., Free. Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

Rí Rá Irish Pub: Left Ear Trio (funk-jazz), 8 p.m., Free.

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51 Main: Children of the Corn, 8 p.m., Free. City Limits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's Knees: Other Cities (folk rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

9 p.m., Free. Banana Winds Café & Pub: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 7:30 p.m., Free.

Monopole Downstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. Olive Ridley's: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Parker Shper Quartet (jazz), 12 p.m., Free. Audrey Bernstein & the Jazzers (jazz), 3 p.m., Free. Mint Julep with Jane Andre (jazz), 5:30 p.m., Free. Jenni Johnson (jazz), 9 p.m., Free.

Tabu Café & Nightclub: Karaoke Night with Sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free. Therapy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYCE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.

Levity Café: Friday Night Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., $8. Friday Night Comedy (standup), 10 p.m., $8.

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Lift: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3.

1/2 Lounge: John Creech (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Bonjour-Hi! (moombahton), 10 p.m., Free.

Marriott Harbor Lounge: Wild Man Blues (blues), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Ake's Place: Downtown Sextet (jazz), 5 p.m., Free.

Monkey House: Township, the Concrete Rivals (rock), 9 p.m., $8.

American Flatbread — Burlington Hearth: Left Ear Trio (jazz), 5:30 p.m., Free. Vorcza (jazz-fusion), 9:30 p.m., Free. Backstage Pub: Justice (rock),

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On Tap Bar & Grill: Loose Association (rock), 5 p.m., Free. High Rollers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Radio Bean: Free Jazz Lunch (jazz), 12 p.m., Free. Bob Gagnon (jazz), 4:20 p.m., Free. L'esprit D'escalier Theatre and the Camera Obscura, 6 p.m., Free. Storm Cats (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Tiffany Pfeiffer (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Michelle Sarah & the Tonics (jazz), 9:30 p.m., Free. Parker Shper (jazz), 11 p.m., Free. Red Square: Jake Whitesell Band (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Soul Understated feat. Mavis “Swan” Poole (soul), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. Red Square Blue Room: DJ Frank Grymes & The Human Canvas (EDM), 9 p.m., $5. Ruben James: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. Rí Rá Irish Pub: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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The Skinny Pancake: Sunyata (jazz), 9 p.m., $5 donation. Venue: Bluewater (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

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Nectar's: Whale Music Collective (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. JazzFest Kickoff: Grippo Funk Band (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

spaced-out surf rockers Man or Astro-Man? — crammed into H.G. Wells’ time machine and left here for our listening, and dancing, pleasure … or something. Whatever the case, catch them this Wednesday, June 6, when they appear at Nectar’s as part of the 2012 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. The Vermont Joy Parade open.

Vermont Pub & Brewery: Jazz Jackrabbit Project (jazz), 10 p.m., Free.

central

Tupelo Music Hall: Leon Redbone (blues), 8 p.m., $30.

champlain valley

51 Main: Joshua Glass (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., Free. City Limits: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's Knees: Malicious Brothers (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Parker Pie Co.: Puppet Cabaret, 8 p.m., Free.

regional

Monopole: Derrick Hackett with Barley Soup (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Naked Turtle: Party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., NA. Therapy: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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1/2 Lounge: The Beerworth Sisters (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Space Echo with DJ Jahson (house), 10 p.m., Free. American Flatbread — Burlington Hearth: Vermont Joy Parade (suspender fusion), 5:30 p.m., Free. Backstage Pub: Barbie & Bones (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Banana Winds Café & Pub: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free. Club Metronome: Spirit Animal, Death Pesos, the Pilgrims (rock), 3 p.m., $7. Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. Farmhouse Tap & Grill: Michael Louis Smith Group (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. FlynnSpace: Jonathan Batiste (jazz), 10 p.m., $20. AA. Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. Halvorson's Upstreet Café: The Funkleberries feat. Cam Cross (funk), 7 p.m., Free. JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. Leunig's Bistro & Café: Lila Webb and the Cartwheels (jazz), 11 a.m., Free. Blue Gardenias (jazz), 2:30 p.m., Free. Cody Sargent & Friends (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Gua Gua (psychotropical), 9 p.m., Free. Levity Café: Saturday Night Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., $8. Marriott Harbor Lounge: The Trio (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Charlie O's: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 10 p.m., Free.

Monkey House: Thunders, Blue Button, RSO (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

Green Mountain Tavern: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

Nectar's: Otis Grove (rock), 6 p.m., Free. Craig Mitchell & Motor City, Bob Wagner & Wu Sef (soul), 9 p.m., $7.

The Reservoir Restaurant & Tap Room: DJ Slim Pknz All Request Dance Party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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The accolades continue rolling in for DAVE KELLER and his CD, Where I’m Coming From. The local bluesman’s latest album recently checked in at No.2 on Sirius/ XM’s Bluesville, the most popular blues radio show on the planet. Congrats, Dave. Local rock series Northern Exposure gets under way again at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge on Wednesday, June 6. The first installment of the series features central Vermont jam band FLOWTING BRIDGE, Bristol’s alt-country outfit CASH IS KING, Randolph-based acoustic rock group NOVEMBER GUEST and electro-acoustic trio ZEPHRUS. Tha VT Union’s MC B-FREE hits the stage at Club Metronome on Wednesday, June 6, with a live backing band, the ICE COAST BAND, featuring members of the GRIPPO FUNK BAND and PULSE PROPHETS, as well as DJ A-DOG. Also on the bill is LEARIC from the AZTEXT. Word.

Last but not least, the new Seven Days podcast, Tour Date, hosted by DJ LLU, premiers on Wednesday, May 30. You can check it out on our website. The gist is that Llu will sit down and chat with touring musicians as they swing through Burlington. The debut episode features STEVE MARTIN’s backing band, the STEEP CANYON RANGERS, who performed at the Flynn MainStage last week. It was supposed to also feature Martin, who unfortunately backed out at the last minute, making that two times in as many weeks that he left 7D hanging. If you may have noted in a recent issue, my interview with him also fell through, leaving me no choice but to find answers to my questions from lines of his movie The Jerk. (“Jerking Around,” May 16.) And, no, I didn’t get fired — or sued — for that. Anyway, Martin or no, Llu’s podcast is very entertaining. Check it out, and stay tuned every week for new episodes.

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marred by a particularly inebriated quartet in the audience who seemed to believe they were on the wrong side of the stage and harassed each comic who performed. Look, I get that heckling comes with the turf in comedy. And in some, albeit incredibly rare, instances, it can even be funny. But more often than not, heckling is distracting for both the audience and the performer. We pay to hear the comics, not you, hotshot. Luckily, we have comedians like ALEX NIEF. Eschewing his planned set entirely, he pulled a stool over in front of said hecklers and proceeded to spend the next 10 minutes masterfully humiliating them with his razor wit. It was easily the most entertaining

set of the evening, and serves as a cautionary tale for jerks who think they’re as funny as the folks on stage. You’re not. And sometimes, real comedians will prove it to you.

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Bearquarium and several others. Scheduled to appear in the Winehouse role are vocalists EMILY DAY, Mitchell and JUSTIN PANIGUTTI, to name a few. Speaking of Day, you can check her out at the Marriott Harbor Lounge on Wednesday, June 6, backed by pianist SHANE HARDIMAN. Full disclosure, I’ve known Day since high school, and she’s a friend. But she’s also a sublime jazz vocalist. And she’s moving soon, so catch her while you can. Trust me.

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disparate as Bjork and Charles Mingus, and you get what the New York Times dubbed “part parade spectacle, part half-time show and part cutting-edge contemporary music concert.” On Friday, June 1, the Asphalt Orchestra march through the FlynnSpace — perhaps literally — as part of the 2012 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. SAT.02

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RADIO BEAN: Bill Burrell (jazz), 10:30 a.m., Free. "Free Jazz" Lunch, 12 p.m., Free. Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., Free. Studio Chicken Trio (jazz), 5 p.m. Ben Cosgrove (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. The Ira Friedman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Flint Blade (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Harry J. Anslinger (bebop), 9 p.m., Free. Vorcza (jazz-fusion), 10:30 p.m., Free. Vermont Jazz Super Jam, 12:30 a.m., Free.

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CHARLIE O'S: Bad Dog, Dino Bravo (rock), 10 p.m., Free. CORK WINE BAR: Cal and Carrie (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. POSITIVE PIE 2: Township, Phillip Roebuck (rock), 10:30 p.m., $5.

champlain valley 51 MAIN: Great Brook Blues Band, 9 p.m., Free.

CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

northern

BEE'S KNEES: Z-Jaz (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. PARKER PIE CO.: Blue Fox and the Rockin' Daddies (blues), 8 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.

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MONOPOLE: Capital Zen (rock), 10 p.m., Free. NAKED TURTLE: Party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., NA. TABU CAFÉ & NIGHTCLUB: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.

unknown : Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck, Cask Mouse (Americana), 8 p.m., $15.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Songwriters Series with Colon Lenox (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Building Blox with Y-DNA & Legotronix (house), 10 p.m., Free. AMERICAN FLATBREAD — BURLINGTON HEARTH: Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers (blues), 5:30 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Mildred Moody's Full Moon Masquerade with Bearquarium, the Human Canvas (Afro-funk), 9 p.m., $5.

FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Jake Whitesell Quartet (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. HALVORSON'S UPSTREET CAFÉ: Frank Gerdeman and Friends (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Los Straightjackets, Eilen Jewell (rock, surf), 8:30 p.m., $15. AA. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Chris Peterman and The Russian Quartet (jazz), 10 a.m., Free. Ellen Powell & Friends (jazz), 3 p.m., Free. Gabe Jarrett Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Phillip Roebuck, Yankee Cockfit (folk punk), 8:30 p.m., $5. NECTAR'S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Buddy Dubay & the Minor Key (rock), 2:30 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Queen City Hot Clubs (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free. Old Time Sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. “Free Jazz” Lunch, 12 p.m., Free. The Samara Lark Jazz Outfit, 4 p.m., Free. Randal Pierce (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Tango Sessions, 7 p.m., Free. Trio Subtonic (jazz, funk), 9:30 p.m., Free. Bob Wagner & Matt Hagen: BRAinS cApEs (experimental), 11 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: Seth Eames & Miriam Bernardo (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Special Guest DJ, 10 p.m., Free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Left Ear Trio (funk-jazz), 5 p.m., Free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Matt Graham Quartet (jazz), 8 p.m., $5 donation.

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(Swale) and James Belizia (PoolooP) on guitar, Rebekah Whitehurst (Cave Bees) 5/28/12 11:12 AM on bass, and drummer Frank Zamiello 16t-Girlington053012.indd 1 (the Vacant Lots) Blue Button is one of those Burlington “supergroups.” The 11 tracks that compose Love Angry are straightforward, 1970s-style punk rock in both lyrical content and sound. It would not be farfetched to compare Blue Button with many of the New York City bands that immortalized Coming to Burlington area on weekdays the famed rock club CBGB. for work or school? Stay at our convenient, The ABAB rhymes on Love Angry spacious, clean, quiet & safe upscale hostel! are simple, even predictable, but work well in the context of this band and / night this album. Undemanding and honest, Lower Main Street, Burlington Cooley’s lyrics reflect youth so well www.theburlingtonhostel.com that you can’t quite shrug them off as lazy (“I wanna make you mine / I could make you laugh, you can make me cry / 5/11/12 12:08 PM Make you wanna die / Make you wanna16t-BurlingtonHostel051612.indd 1 sigh”). This angst, when combined with EXCULUSIVE DEALER OF the sing-along choruses on tracks such as “Hit” and “Destroying Everything They See,” gives the impression that Blue Button’s main goal is to play solid Sign Up to WIN rock songs that are forceful and simple A $200 PRIZE enough to stick. While Cooley’s heartbroken lyrics and pissed-off vocal performances are central to most of the songs, the most Only $1.7 impressive elements of Love Angry are single dutc5 for a the rowdy guitar solos and classically h!! punk-y drums. Mellow tracks here and there, such as “Woke Up,” nicely balance the more rockin’ jams. But Blue Button truly shine when they get up in your face and don’t apologize. As the title suggests, Love Angry is dedicated to raw emotions — the ones that people nearly kill themselves trying to mask after their adolescent years. Blue Button don’t seem to care excuding vapes and tobacco about being respectable, mature adults — curse words litter this record. And if that’s not punk as fuck, I don’t know what is. Blue Button play the Monkey House in Winooski on Saturday, June 2. “The tobacco shop with the hippie flavor” SEVENDAYSVT.COM

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inspire fist-pumping and singing along. “I Still Believe,” cowritten by Will Rutkowski of Unrestrained, hardly clears one minute, but it introduces the EP with ferocity and old-school hardcore values. Drummer Bruce Fitzgerald hastily fires in, setting the tone and driving the song. His playing is reminiscent of early Warzone. The song is a good ol’ hardcore ode to betrayal, and singer Mikey X shouts, “We know our convictions, and we’re not changing our minds.” Mikey X is on the mic with a mission. He is obviously feeding on the vocal styles that originated with such NYC hardcore bands as Judge and Youth of Today. Although not straightedgers, No Submission are tuned into the same frequency as those innovators. On “Dear Fred Phelps,” Mikey X bemoans the suppression of human rights through religion. Considering that the eight-song EP just breaks eight minutes, it’s remarkable that No Submission manage to convey

meaningful political and social objectives amid the musical chaos. “Counter Recruitment” offers the EP’s first breakdown, a nourishing hardcore staple, and rounds the record into danceable fury. Bassist Matt Kimball picks his way through with effortless abrasion. His mid-range, enhanced tone is loaded with grit. Guitarist Justin Gonyea delivers a solid backdrop throughout. With a full wall of tone, he pushes the project into a burly, palm-muted assault. “SS Trash” offers the reminder that Nazi skinheads always have been, still are, and always will be unwelcome in the hardcore scene. Mikey X insists, “Get out, get out, get out, Nazi scum.” This type of song never gets old. “Shit Out of Luck” starts off with a humorous but grim proclamation from Mikey X, who howls, “I’m fucking losing my shit.” The song exemplifies the aggressive but positive personal venting for which hardcore is known. Armed with all the essential ingredients, it prevails with a classic formula. No Submission are not trying to create anything new here. Although at times they fall short in earnest delivery, it seems the band’s main objective — and it’s an important one — is keeping hardcore alive and well. In that respect, No Submission prosper with a vengeance. No Submission is available on 7-inch vinyl at getstokedrecords.com, or as a digital download at nosubmission. bandcamp.com.

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central

Vermont Pub & brewery: sam Armstrong Quartet (jazz), 2 p.m., Free. The Funkleberries (funk), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

bee's Knees: Andriana chobot (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. sweet CrunCh baKe shoP: Guitar George (acoustic), 10 a.m., Free.

mon.04

burlington area

1/2 Lounge: Family night Open Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free. CLub metronome: metal monday: Kairos, Eye Decide, savage Hen (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. Farmhouse taP & griLL: Gabe Jarrett Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. haLVorson's uPstreet CaFé: Queen city Bossa (bossa nova), 7 p.m., Free. Leunig's bistro & CaFé: Gabe Jarrett Trio (jazz), 12 p.m., Free. paul Asbell & clyde stats (jazz), 4 p.m., Free. Trio subtonic (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. monKey house: Wyndorf and Bright, John smyth (folk), 7 p.m., $3. 18+. neCtar's: matt Graham Quartet (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. cody sargent Group (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Amy Winehouse Tribute with the motown monday crew (r&b), 9 p.m., $7. on taP bar & griLL: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

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radio bean: "Free Jazz" Lunch, 12 p.m., Free. Dawna Hammers (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. red square: Give it up! (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. industry night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. ruben James: Why not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

bagitos: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

1/2 Lounge: medeski, martin, scofield and Wood: Tribute, 7 p.m., Free. medeski, martin, scofield & Wood Tribute (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. sofa + Kings with JJ Dante & Jordan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. aKe's PLaCe: cats under the stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 8 p.m., Free. dobrá tea: Grup Anwar (Arabic), 6:30 p.m., Free. haLVorson's uPstreet CaFé: The storm cats (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Leunig's bistro & CaFé: Will patton & Friends (jazz), 12 p.m., Free. cody sargent & Friends (jazz), 4 p.m., Free. Bob Wagner & Friends (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. monKey house: Anecdote: The Ones That Got Away (storytelling), 7:30 p.m., Free (18+). monty's oLd briCK taVern: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free. neCtar's: Bridge (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. intergalactic Taxi (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. clint Bierman & the necessary means, Ray & Russ (funk), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. Afinque, sunyata, DsantosVT, Jah Red, special guests (salsa), 9 p.m., $5. on taP bar & griLL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. radio bean: "Free Jazz" Lunch, 12 p.m., Free. Kath Bloom (jazz), 3:30 p.m., Free. miriam Bernardo & sara Grace (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6 p.m., Free. Jane Boxall (marimba), 8 p.m., Free. The Wee Folkestra (folk), 9 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. red square: Wild man Blues (blues), 7 p.m., Free. upsetta international with super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

SUN.03 // LoS StrAitjAckEtS [rock, SUrf]

Go Crazy Take a pinch of ramblin’ rockabilly twang, a peck of garage snarl, drench it in some Dick Dale surf bravado and then slap a Mexican wrestling mask on it and you’ve pretty much got Los straitJaCKets. Over two decades

and more than a dozen records, the Nashville-based quartet have become cult heroes, both for their wily instrumental charms and, presumably, their affinity for lucha libre and bad Spanish accents. This Sunday, June 3, Los Straitjackets go loco at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge. eiLen JeweLL opens. the sKinny PanCaKe: Tiffany pfeiffer (neo-soul), 7 p.m., Free. t bones restaurant and bar: Trivia with General Knowledge, 7 p.m., Free.

central

CharLie o's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

two brothers taVern: Trivia night, 7 p.m., Free. monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

northern

bee's Knees: phineas Gage (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations. moog's: Open mic/Jam night, 8:30 p.m., Free. rusty naiL: Hawthorne Heights, Life on Repeat, Fail safe, Forever came calling, super prime, Bombardier to pilot (pop-punk), 7 p.m., $10/12. AA.

red square bLue room: DJ Baron (house), 11 p.m., Free.

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4 p.m., Free. cody sargent & Friends (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

red square bLue room: DJ mixx (EDm), 11 p.m., Free.

manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

t bones restaurant and bar: chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

central

aKe's PLaCe: Eight 02 (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

marriott harbor Lounge: The Low Down Trio (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. The shane Hardiman Trio feat. Emily Day (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.

ameriCan FLatbread — burLington hearth: Tiffany pfeiffer & The Discarnate Band (neo-soul), 5:30 p.m., Free.

monKey house: River Whyless, seth Gallant (folk), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. River Whyless, seth Gallant (indie folk), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

Farmhouse inn at robinson Farm: myra Flynn Trio (neosoul), 7 p.m., Free.

CLub metronome: mc B-Free & the ice coast band, Blacastan, Learic, DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $7.

neCtar's: chicha Libre, Vermont Joy parade (world music, suspender fusion), 9 p.m., $12/15. 18+.

burlington area

1/2 Lounge: Joshua Glass (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. soundclash 6: craig mitchell vs. Fattie B (DJ battle), 10 p.m., Free.

Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. haLVorson's uPstreet CaFé: The Gordon stone Band (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

one PePPer griLL: Open mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free. on taP bar & griLL: Karaoke, 7 p.m., Free.

higher ground showCase Lounge: northern Exposure: Zephrus, november Guest, cash is King, Flowting Bridge (rock), 8:30 p.m., $6. AA.

radio bean: “Free Jazz” Lunch, 12 p.m., Free. Lila Webb & the cartwheels, 6 p.m., Free.Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. mushpost social club (downtempo), 11 p.m., Free.

Leunig's bistro & CaFé: Gabe Jarrett Trio (jazz), 12 p.m., Free. Ellen powell & Friends (jazz),

red square: Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free.

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.

northern

bee's Knees: John smythe (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

regional

monoPoLe: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free. m

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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. bLAck cAP coffEE, 144 Main St., Stowe, 253-2123. thE bLuE AcorN, 84 N. Main St., St. Albans, 527-0699. thE brEWSki, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. broWN’S mArkEt biStro, 1618 Scott Highway, Groton, 584-4124. choW! bELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. cLAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053. coSmic bAkErY & cAfé, 30 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0800. croP biStro & brEWErY, 1859 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4304. 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. Albwans, 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, 626-7394. WAtErShED tAVErN, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100. YE oLDE ENgLAND iNNE, 443 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-5320.

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. thErAPY, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-561-2041.

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51 mAiN, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209. bAr ANtiDotE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555. brick box, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570. thE briStoL bAkErY, 16 Main St., Bristol, 453-3280. cAroL’S huNgrY miND cAfé, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101. citY LimitS, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. cLEm’S cAfé 101 Merchant’s Row, Rutland, 775-3337. 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, 434-7787.

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ArVAD’S griLL & Pub, 3 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-8973. big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. thE bLAck Door, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 225-6479. 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. ciDEr houSE bbq AND Pub, 1675 Rte.2, Waterbury, 244-8400. 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. hoStEL tEVErE, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222. kiSmEt, 52 State St., Montpelier, 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. thE PizzA StoNE, 291 Pleasant St., Chester, 875-2121. 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.

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, 388-0002.

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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., 879-0752. 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. DobrÁ tEA, 80 Chruch St., Burlington, 951-2424. DoubLEtrEE hotEL, 1117 Wiliston Rd., Burlington, 658-0250. frANNY o’S, 733 Queen City Park Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. 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. Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. mAgLiANEro cAfé, 47 Maple St., Burlington, 861-3155. 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. oNE PEPPEr griLL, 260 North St., Burlington, 658-8800. 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 SkiNNY PANcAkE, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188. t.boNES rESturANt AND bAr, 38 Lower Mountain Dr., Colchester, 654-8008.

thrEE NEEDS, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 658-0889. VENuE, 127 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067. thE VErmoNt Pub & brEWErY, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.

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he words of restaurateur Alice Waters, owner of California’s organic mecca Chez Panisse, are emblazoned on a chalkboard-painted door inside Burlington’s New City Galerie: “Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality. We can be complete only when we are giving something away.” The quote serves as a guiding principle for Joseph and Katie Pensak, who opened the gallery last year under the auspices of their brand-new church, Redeemer Presbyterian of Burlington. The couple relocated last summer from Connecticut, where Joseph was campus minister for the Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Connecticut. While Waters’ quote evokes Christian ideas of charity, this gallery is not a churchy place, so don’t expect religious artwork or proselytizing. “The church is way, way in the background,” says Joseph Pensak. “There are no shackles on the art because of it.” The Pensaks are artists themselves — he’s a musician; she’s a graphic designer — and have long believed that religious institutions should play a role in artistic communities. “There’s this long tradition of the church as patron to the arts,” Pensak says. “What happened to that? We want to bring it back.” The sunny rooms of New City Galerie are tucked above Akes’ Place on Church Street. On a recent afternoon, they are filled with Burlington potter Bech Evans’ sensuous earthenware teapots and cups; Erik Rehman’s clay sculptures, including a stick-mounted head lopped to reveal a dense city block instead of a brain, and a small, vulnerable figure curled in fetal position; and Amherst artist W.R. Cooley’s haunting, black-and-white images of snow on asphalt in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Pensak envisions the gallery as a cooperative art space. “We want to be something that artists in Burlington own,” he says. So far, the core group of

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Joseph Pensak, Emily Henry, Jean Luc Dushime and Bech Evans

local artists involved includes Evans, Rehman, photographer Rachel Styers, jeweler Emily Henry, St. Michael’s College environmental science professor Anjanette DeCarlo and Burlington photographer Jean Luc Dushime.

But New City isn’t just about visual arts. “The vision for the space is art, music, film and lectures,” says Pensak, and notes that he’s especially interested in providing a venue for artists from Burlington’s refugee community. He and Dushime are hosting a June 5 event with local hip-hop act A2VT (Africa to Vermont), which is made up of three young men from Tanzania, Somalia and Congo. Pensak kicked off the gallery’s grand opening last December with a concert by St. Michael’s music professor and Americana/blues guitarist Bill Ellis. “We started with music, because

that’s what I do,” says Pensak, who cofounded Bifrost Arts, an ecumenical sacred-music organization and record label, several years ago. In February, New City hosted Americana musician Tim Eriksen, who composed the music for the film Cold Mountain. Last month, the gallery welcomed Philadelphia jazz artist Joshua Stamper. Pensak is always looking for opportunities to link a performance with works in other media. The night Stamper performed, for instance, the musician’s brother, Ben, screened his silent films. W.R. Cooley — of the snowon-asphalt photographs — did the cover art for Stamper’s album. At New City’s recent Africa Night, Rwanda-born Dushime showed his photographic portraits of local African women, DeCarlo screened her documentary about the frankincense trade in Somaliland and Brooklyn-based Ethiopian artist Ezra Wube showed his animated film made entirely from oil paintings. Pensak’s mixed-media approach to the gallery is all part of the master plan. “We want to connect emerging artists with emerging patrons,” says Pensak. “We don’t want this place to be intimidating for families.” To that end, he’s outfitted a kids’ room in the back of the gallery with an extra-low table, tiny chairs and art supplies. All told, the bright, airy gallery, which takes up the entire second floor of the Akes’ Place building, has two exhibit rooms, the kids’ room, a moviescreening area, an office and a storage room. It’s a lot more space than Pensak’s church normally could have afforded, he says, but the landlord loved what the couple envisioned and gave them a special deal. “It’s just grace,” says Pensak of the opportunity to get the gallery off the ground. “It’s pure grace.”

New City Galerie, 132 Church St., Burlington. Info, 735-2542, newcitygalerie.org.

Art ShowS

ongoing

receptions

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‘hooked on the islAnds’: Fiber artworks, including traditionally hooked rugs with modern designs, by members of the local textile group Fiber bees. Through July 31 at island Arts south hero gallery. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5–7 p.m. info, 372-5049.

Art's Alive Juried exhibition: work by Vermont artists. June 1 through 30 at union station in burlington. info, 660-9005. bech evAns & erik rehmAn: "Vessels and semblances," new works in clay. Through May 31 at new City galerie in burlington. info, 735-2542. briAn collier: "The Collier Classification system for Very small objects," a participatory exhibit of things big enough to be seen by the naked eye but no larger than 8 by 8 by 20 millimeters. Through october 15 at Durick library, st. Michael's College, in Colchester. info, 654-2536. ccv spring student Art show: Drawings, paintings, prints, digital photography and graphic design. Through May 31 at Community College of Vermont in winooski. info, 654-0513. chAmplAin vAlley photo slAm: work by photographers of all ages competing for awards. Through June 3 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686. 'curtAins without borders': large photographs of Vermont's painted theatrical scenery created between 1900 and 1940, plus one 1930s curtain from beecher Falls, Vt. Through July 28 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4510.

tAlks & events ‘bicycles At work’: local businesses show off their bike trailers and cargo bikes at a celebration of bike Recycle Vermont’s new trailer. Friday, June 1, 5–8pM at pine street studios in burlington. info, 264-9687. first fridAy Art wAlk: More than 30 galleries and other venues around downtown stay open late to welcome pedestrian art viewers. Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m., various downtown locations, burlington. info, 264-4839.

dAvid mAgnAnelli & briAn eckert: Drawings by Magnanelli and photographs by eckert, friends and reciprocal art influences for more than 10 years. Through May 31 at uncommon grounds in burlington. info, 865-6227.

'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.

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shAwnA cross: Abstract oil paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 30 at Vintage inspired in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. info, 488-5766. Anne cAdy: "into the hills, high Flying," paintings of the Vermont landscape. June 1 through August 31 at shelburne Vineyard. Reception: sunday, June 3, 2-5 p.m. info, 985-8222. 'wAlter dorwin teAgue: his life, work And influence': Creations and artifacts from the man who designed numerous Kodak cameras, the bluebird radio, steuben glassware and many other iconic objects. June 1 through August 31 at Madsonian Museum of industrial Design in waitsfield. Reception: Allison Teague, the designer's granddaughter, speaks and western washington university professor Jason

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Zelde grimm: "Animals with Things living in Their stomachs," slightly macabre pen-and-ink drawings. June 1 through July 31 at speaking Volumes in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-7 p.m. info, 540-0107. 'from vermont's forests': Furniture made from local lumber by 18 members of the guild of Vermont Furniture Makers. Through June 30 at Frog hollow in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. info, 863-6458. henry swAyZe: "Celebrating nature All Around us," photographs of natural Vermont. June 1 through August 11 at Tunbridge public library. Reception: Friday, June 1, 7-9 p.m. info, 889-9404. 'breAd And puppet theAter: An emergent mosAic': photographs of the theater's work from 2004-11 by long-time puppeteer Mark Dannenhauer. June 1 through July 15 at plainfield Community Center. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-7 p.m. info, 371-7239. emily hoffmAn: "ostara," artwork that celebrates the springtime goddess of pre-Christian germanic tribes. June 1 through 30 at The gallery at Main street landing in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 6-8 p.m. info, 735-2906.

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cArl rubino: "Reflections of a Dream state," photographic interpretations of 12v-review.indd 1 the shape-shifting nature of dreams. Through July 31 at brickels gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. info, 825-8214.

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hAZel hAll rochester: "looking back: hardwick in the 1950s," paintings by the late Vermont artist. June 3 through July 8 at white water gallery in east hardwick. Reception: sunday, June 3, 4-7 p.m. info, 563-2037.

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steve hAmlin: naturethemed watercolor prints. Through July 28 at Vins nature Center in Quechee. Reception: Friday, June 1, 4-6 p.m. info, 359-5000. chip troiAno: "new Zealand landscapes," photographs taken during the artist's 2010 travels. June 1 to July 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men's Room in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 6-8 p.m. info 864-2088. 'the sodA plAnt showcAse': work by the artists who occupy the former ginger ale factory. June 1 through 30 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-9 p.m. info, spacegalleryvt.com. '266: brAnd thAt building': work by the one-time nabisco bakery's new artist tenants. June 1 through 30 at 266 studios in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. info, 578-2512.

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frAnk woods: Abstract representations of the kimono. June 1-30 at Quench Artspace in waitsfield. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. info, 598-4819.

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stephAnie holmAn thwAites: "Collecting light," nature paintings in oil, acrylic and mixed media. Through June 30 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-7 p.m. info, 660-9005.

iAn costello: "sprawl," oil paintings of Manhattaninspired crumbling tenement buildings and crooked sidewalks. June 1 through 30 at north end studio A in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-7 p.m. info, 863-6713.

'cooperAtives build A better north country': Artwork by community members. Through June 7 at north Country Food Co-op in plattsburgh, n.Y. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-7 p.m. info, 518-314-9872.

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duncAn mckee: "A sylvan suite and other Recent works," paintings celebrating the beauty and grace of trees. Through May 31 at north end studio A in burlington. info, 863-6713.

'lAke studies: contemporAry Art': work by painters Janet Fredericks, Catherine hall and nancy stone, sculptors Chris Cleary and Kate pond, fiber artist Marilyn gillis and installation artist Jane horner. Through July 29 at lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Reception: Thursday, May 31, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 475-2022.

cArol mAcdonAld: "The Thread," a mid-career retrospective of the Vermont artist who has worked in many media but is best known as a printmaker. Through August 31 at VCAM studio in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 859-9222.

'A dAy At common ground center': Color photographs of the starksboro family camp. June 1 through 29 at Jackie Mangione studio in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. info, 598-1504.

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dug nAp: “dug nap’s stuff,” paintings and an “art bed,” which the artist slides under an easel so he can paint in comfort. he’ll hang out on the bed throughout the month, working on an upcoming performance-art piece. Through May 31 at Frog hollow in burlington. info, 863-6458.

2012 summer members' exhibit & 'doodle 4 google' finAlists: work by members as well as Vermont finalists in this year's google student-art contest. Through July 7 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Reception: John lyons performs, saturday, June 2, 4-7 p.m. info, 775-0356.

Joe Johns: large figurative drawings and mechanical artist books; the Artist collAborAtive: work by 10 northern Vermont publicschool art teachers. June 1 through 30 at seAbA Center in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 859-9222.

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'Artists for AnimAls': Animal-themed artwork in a variety of media. proceeds benefit the north Country spCA’s capital campaign to build a new shelter. June 1 through 16 at lake placid Center for the Arts, n.Y. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-7 p.m. info, 518-523-2512.

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‘creAtive competition’: Artists bring a work of any size and medium and face off in a people’s-choice competition. $8 entry fee; winner takes all. Friday, June 1, 6-10 p.m., The Root gallery at Rlphoto, burlington. info, 540-3081.

lindA mAney & missy storrow: "Textural Abstracts," acrylic, watercolor, oil, collage and mixed-media work. Through June 2 at Capitol grounds in Montpelier. Reception: saturday, June 2, 4-6 p.m. info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com

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Fred G. Hill: "Pictures & Words," photographs and scanned documents by the Burlington photographer. June 1 through 30 at Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. Galen Chaney: "Street Level," large, abstract paintings inspired by Aramaic script and urban graffiti. Through June 23 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Gregory Forber: Drawings inspired by climbers. Through July 2 at Petra Cliffs in Burlington. Info, 657-3872. Jacob Martin: Work by the digital illustrator. Through May 31 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107. John Wolff: Work by the South Burlington artist. June 1 through 30 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. Kadie Salfi: "Apex Predator: Body Parts," pop-artinfluenced graphics depicting animals targeted for their body parts. Through June 23 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Kathy Hart: Paintings and pastels; Gabriel Tempesta: Milk paint on board; Adria Lazur: Vertical landscapes on canvas. Through May 31 at The Daily Planet in Burlington. Info, 862-9647. Kimberlee Forney: Art Affair by Shearer presents paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 30 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Info, 658-1111.

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Lorraine Manley: Landscapes in acrylic. Through May 31 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166. Lynn Rupe: "Disaster Detritus," acrylic paintings. June 1 through July 31 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166.

'May Day: The Workers Are Revolting!': Artwork by bar employees. Through May 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. Mr. Masterpiece: "The Naughty Naked Nude Show," figurative drawings and semiabstract acrylic paintings. Through May 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men's Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088. Perry Bartles: Abstract oil paintings, Gates 1-8; Jim Westphalen: Vermont landscape color photographs, Skyway; Elizabeth Nelson: "Interstate Rocks February and March," acrylic on cotton canvas diptych, Escalator. June 1 through 30 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Peter Weyrauch: "Rodz," black-and-white photographs, Gates 1-8; Julia Purinton: Oil paintings, Skyway; Gillian Klein: Oil painting, Escalator. Through May 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Rachel Laundon & Lizzie Post: "Fur & Fins," dog and fish sculptures by Laundon; "Goin' Back Home," New Orleans-themed artwork by Post. Through May 31 at The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Info, 734-7344. Riki Moss: "The Paper Forest," an installation of curious life-forms. Through June 12 at Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery. 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. 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.

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of David Maille’s landscape oil paintings, you’ll swear you can hear the waves lapping against the hull of a boat and the wind picking up behind the hills. The Vermont artist creates evocative scenes of solitary moments out on the lake or deep in the forest. This spring, he’s showing recent works on wood panels at New Haven’s Tourterelle Restaurant, a venue with a transportive quality of its own. Lose yourself in the art and ambiance through June 23. The painting shown here is untitled.

'Snow Mobiles: Sleighs to Sleds': Early, experimental snowmobiles, machines from the '60s and '70s, and today’s high-powered racing sleds, as well as horse-drawn sleighs; 'Man-Made Quilts: Civil War to the Present': Quilts made by men; Elizabeth Berdann: "Deep End," miniature watercolor portraits on pre-ban and prehistoric mammoth ivory. Through October 28 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. Spring Exhibit: Work by Joan Hoffman, Lynda McIntyre, Johanne Durocher Yordan, Anne Cummings, Kit Donnelly, Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, Don Dickson and Kari Meyer. Through May 31 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Spring Show: Work by Chinese-calligraphy and watercolor artist Lucia Chiu, nature photographer Carol Sullivan and photo-montage artist Carol Truesdell. Through July 15 at The Gallery at Phoenix Books in Essex Junction. Info, 872-7111. Summer Show: Work by Joan Hoffman, Lynda McIntyre, Johanne Durocher Yordan, Anne Cummings, Kit Donnelly, Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, Don Dickson, Kari Meyer and Gaal Shepherd. June

1 through September 30 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Tabbatha Henry & Sage Tucker-Ketcham: "TWO/Tabbatha Henry and Sage Tucker-Ketcham: Two Artists, Two Locations, Two Mediums," largeformat ceramic work and paintings; smaller work by both artists concurrently exhibited at Shelburne's Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery through June 5. Through June 30 at Select Design in Burlington. Info, 985-3848. 'The 3rd Floor Show': New work by artists who occupy one floor of Burlington's Howard Space Center: Julie Davis, Sharon Webster, Linda Jones, Maggie Standley, Paige Berg Rizvi, Maea Brandt, Maggie Sherman and Wylie Sofia Garcia. Through July 29 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, bren@flynndog.net. 'The Road Less Traveled': Artwork by Rock Point School students. Through May 31 at Rose Street Co-op Gallery in Burlington. Info, 863-1104. Ward Joyce: Oil paintings exploring the forms of the city and the architecture of the human body. Through May 31 at Salaam in Burlington. Info, 658-8822.

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'We Deliver!': Mail and stamp art that has made it through the postal service to SEABA. Through May 31 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

John briCkels & WenDy JAmes: Clay creations by Brickels and paintings and photography by James. Through May 31 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

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kAlly pAJAlA: Contemporary quilts and wall hangings. Through June 6 at DaVallia Art & Accents in Chester. Info, 875-1203.

AreA Artists shoW: "Beyond Landscapes," work in a variety of media. Through June 10 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 431-0204. 'Art-Ability': Work by Vermont artists with disabilities Larry Bissonnette, Ella Skye Mac Donald and Ann Lynch. Through May 31 at Big Picture Theater & Café in Waitsfield. Info, 496-8994. 'Artist Community: rhoDe islAnD': Work by Dale Chihuly, Bunny Harvey and John Udvardy, among others, in the first in a series of mixedmedia group exhibitions examining the extended network of relationships that define creative communities. Through June 10 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670. DeAnnA meADoW: "Nine Generations," black-andwhite photographs documenting the Fitch family farm and homestead in Cornish, N.H. Through June 16 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616. eD epstein: New paintings. Through June 28 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. hAnnAh lAnsburgh & ben peberDy: "New!™" collage work. Through June 6 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776. JeAnne CArbonetti: "The Power of Beauty: Introducing the Paradise Suite," watercolors. Through June 17 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018. JeneAne lunn: Pastels depicting Italy and Vermont. Through July 9 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676.

kAthrenA rAvenhorst-ADAms: "Spring Bloom," watercolors, oil paintings and pastels. Through June 30 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-1275.

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rAChel gross: Prints and works on paper. Through May 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901. 'sC-eye-nCe': A science and visual-arts fusion; niCholAs heilig: "Live Art," black-and-white illustrations; kArolinA kAWiAkA: Digital topographies. June 5 through July 7 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. seth butler: "Tattered," a photo essay investigating the display, misuse, commodification, desecration and identity of the American flag in the context of the U.S. Flag Code. June 1 through July 10 at Seminary Art Center in Waterbury Center. Info, 279-4239. susAn bull riley: "Closely Observed," watercolors of flowers and birds. Through May 31 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 540-679-0033.

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susAn smerekA & JoDi WhAlen: "Repair," an installation of 1700 weathered clothespins and more than 100 chine-collé collages, by Smereka; abstract landscapes by Whalen, who uses her grandfather’s antique French paintbrushes. Through May 31 at Quench Artspace in Waitsfield. Info, 496-9138. CENTRAL VT ART SHOWS

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Re Count and Re Connect Re Count and Re Connect features Vermont artists Kim Goertner Darling, Sabrina B. Fadial, Diana Gonsalves, Susan Sawyer, and Sumru Tekin. Open to the public through July 6th. Opening reception, 4-6pm, VCFA

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'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. Thesis exhibiTion: original artwork by graduating cartoon studies students. Through June 16 at center for cartoon studies in white River Junction. Info, 295-3319. '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. upper Valley phoToslam 2012: More than 180 photos by photographers of all ages and experience levels. Through June 1 at phoTosTop in white River Junction. Info, 698-0320. 'VinTaGe VermonT': vermont photographs developed from antique glass-plate negatives dating between 1890 and 1920. Through June 16 at Festival Gallery in waitsfield. Info, 496-6682. yVonne sTraus: playful paintings of nature and animal scenes. Through June 15 at Kellogghubbard library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338.

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daVid Carlson & phoebe sTone: "lost & Found: Recent and Rescued photographs," new color shots paired with prints from black-andwhite negatives by carlson; pastels and oil paintings by stone. Through May 31 at carol's hungry Mind café in Middlebury. Info, 388-7050. daVid maille: landscapes rendered in oil and gilding on wood panels. Through June 23 at Tourterelle Restaurant in new haven. Info, 453-6309. doCumenTary showCase: More than 100 documentary works in film, photography, books and audio recordings produced in the last nine months by vermont students, at-risk populations and adults with disabilities. Through June 2 at vermont Folklife center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. 'here's lookinG aT you': self-portraits by artists and community members. Through June 29 at walkover Gallery & concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. Jill madden: landscape paintings examining moments of solitude. Through May 31 at edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. klara CaliTri: "Flower power," paintings and pastels. Through July 1 at Brandon Artists' Guild. Info, 247-4956. nanCy & riChard weis: "shared visions," nancy's encaustic collages and Richard's abstract paintings. Through June 24 at Jackson Gallery, Town hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 388-1436.

'Take me To The fair: an addison CounTy TradiTion': photographs of the 2011 fair by Mark starr, plus 19th- and early-20th-century fair posters, ribbons, photographs and other ephemera from the sheldon collection. Through

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allie murray: historic photographs of early Mechanicsville and hinesburg, printed from glass negatives by Tyler Dawson. Through June 11 at carpenter-carse library in hinesburg. Info, 482-2878.

sTephen beaTTie: "There's something in the water," photographs. June 1 through July 31 at Gallery 160 in Richmond. Info, 434-6434.

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25Th anniVersary members show: work in a variety of media by members of the nonprofit arts-education organization. Through July 1 at carving studio and sculpture center in west Rutland. Info, 438-2097.

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'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. PERMANENT COLLECTION EXHIBIT: Work by Gayleen Aiken, Curtis Tatro, Mary Paquette, Huddee Herrick, Stanley Mercile, Emile Arsenault and Phyllis Putvain. Through July 10 at GRACE in Hardwick. Info, 472-6857. ROGER MURPHY: "Realizing Cambodia," photographs from a recent trip to the southeast Asian country with a group of American high school students. June 1 through 30 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 279-4239. SHANLEY TRIGGS: "Vermont As I See It," watercolors (through June 8); HARRIET WOOD: "OCCUPY Space," abstract paintings by the antiwar artist (through May 25). At River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

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CAROL & FRANK HOCHREITER: "Nature and Architecture," photographs and paintings of the environment, plus work by 50 other member artists. Through June 26 at Adirondack Art Association Gallery in Essex, N.Y. Info, 518-963-8309.

Vermont Doodle 4 Google 2012 Finalists Everybody loves a Google Doodle. What could be better than discovering on some

unremarkable day that the primary-colored letters of your favorite search-engine homepage have transformed into a Moog synthesizer or the sculptures of Constantin Brancusi? Every year, Google asks kids to create their own doodles in the Doodle 4 Google competition. This year’s theme was “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…” The creations of Vermont’s finalists, who were judged by celebrities including Katy Perry and Jordin Sparks, are at Rutland’s Chaffee Art Center through July 7. Pictured: Milton Elementary School fourth grader Kaziah Vaughn’s winning doodle. November 10 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117.

'WHAT'S HATCHING IN BRANDON?': Artistenhanced roosters, hens and other barnyard fowl fill the gallery and appear in various downtown locations as part of the annual town-wide art project. Through September 30 at Brandon Artists' Guild. Info, 247-4956.

ANCI SLOVAK: "Celebrating Anci," a retrospective featuring paintings, drawings and collages spanning four decades. Through June 8 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. BEN BARNES: "Lesser Landmarks of Vermont," paintings. Through June 8 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158. DAVID SMITH: Landscape paintings. Through May 31 at Peacham Library. Info, 592-3216.

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LIBBY HILLHOUSE: "Parallels," photographic portraits of area residents. June 1 through 30 at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-2600. LOCAL ARTIST SHOW: Work by Meta Strick, Tinka Theresa Martell and Jill Snapp. Through June 7 at Village Frame Shoppe & Gallery in St. Albans. Info, 524-3699. MAGGIE NEALE: Abstract oil paintings. Through June 11 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3041. MAY FEATURED ARTISTS: Photo work by Eugene Garron and Suzanne Dollois, wooden bowls by Michael Fitzgerald and mixed-media work by Nancy Hayden. Through May 31 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.

emerging artists to submit images of original, recent work for jury by June 30. All disciplines welcome. Download prospectus and application at larac.org or call 518-798-1144, ext. 2.

CALL TO PHOTOGRAPHERS: For submissions to “Among Trees,” a photography exhibit. Deadline: July 7, midnight. Juror: Beth Moon. Darkroom Gallery. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex31.

RED SQUARE NEEDS ART! Artists needed for monthlong exhibits at a busy establishment on Church St. in Burlington. All mediums considered. Please contact Diane at creativegen iuses@burlingtontelecom.net.

WALL TO CANVAS: Seeking street-style artists who use wheat pasting, stencils, collage, spray-painting, markers and the like to create unique pieces of art for a creative live-art competition for cash prizes, at the Magic Hat Artifactory on Saturday, August 25. Must be 21+ to apply. Deadline: July 20. Submission forms at magichat. net/walltocanvas.

WINOOSKI POP-UP GALLERIES: Kasini House seeks artists to participate in a unique project in downtown Winooski this summer. Info, winooskiwelcomecenter.com.

'STAR WARS: IDENTITIES: THE EXHIBITION': An interactive investigation into the science of identity through Star Wars props, costumes, models and artwork from the Lucasfilm Archives. Through September 16 at Montréal Science Centre. Info, 514-496-4724. TOM WESSELMANN: "Beyond Pop Art," a retrospective of the American artist famous from the early 1960s for his Great American Nudes and Still Lifes. Through October 7 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000. TORIN PORTER: "Out of This World," work by the Vermont sculptor; LOU HICKS: Contemporary landscapes; KAROLINA KAWIAKA: 2-D and 3-D drawings. Through June 15 at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117.

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JIM THOMPSON: Kites painted with a menagerie of animals and the occasional human. Through May 31 at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 279-4239.

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'FANTASTIC DREAMS: SEARCHING FOR THE ART OF BAZINGA': Medieval-style, anime and still-life drawings by local teenage artists Tyler Minck, Lucas Hughes, Keven Archer and Anthony Jenson. Through June 8 at ROTA Gallery in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info, 518-314-9872.

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he cast of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel features so many superstars of British cinema that I felt like I was watching a sort of geriatric version of The Avengers. Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and their costars do, in fact, save the day. Their first-rate performances rescue this film from hopeless sentimentality. Adapted from Deborah Moggach’s novel These Foolish Things and directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), this is the story of seven retirees who leave England to spend their golden years in India. For all but one, the attraction is financial. Each has read the titular hotel’s ads and, believing their promise of luxury accommodations “for the elderly and beautiful,” decided to make it their new home. In that premise somewhere, I sense, is a pithy comment on the phenomenon of outsourcing, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what it is. At any rate, the establishment doesn’t quite keep the promises of its marketing campaign. It’s crumbling before the newcomers’ eyes, the phones don’t work, and some rooms lack extravagances such as

doors. The owner is a cluelessly enthusiastic young man named Sonny Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel). At one point, he alludes to his vision for outsourcing old age, but I’m still not clear on what that means. Maybe it wasn’t absolutely crucial to shoehorn an outsourcing gag into the movie simply because it’s set in Jaipur. Some of Sonny’s guests respond better than others to the reality of their new situation, and their reactions offer insights into their sharply contrasting sensibilities. Evelyn Greenslade (Dench) is a recently widowed woman forced to sell her London home to get out of the hole her husband left her in. She’s open to the possibility of a fresh start and, one senses, of a more trustworthy life partner. Douglas and Jean Ainslie (Nighy and Penelope Wilton) are a breakup waiting to happen. He falls in love with the country, disappearing each morning to explore nearby temples all day. She refuses to venture outside the hotel and considers it a personal victory when she convinces the management to add spice-free meat to the menu.

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he most memorable character in Men in Black III is a wistful, blueeyed alien named Griffin (Michael Stuhlbarg) who dresses like a homeless man and is afflicted with the gift of seeing not just the future, but all possible futures. When he isn’t fixating on bizarre details that offer clues to which “time line” he currently occupies, he’s rapturously contemplating an eventuality and declaring it his “favorite moment in the universe.” In short, Griffin behaves like a popculture geek who has seen so many cookiecutter entertainments like the Men in Black movies that he struggles to tell them apart. (Cinephiles who flip to the THIS network and play “Name That Movie” may find themselves acting like him, too.) The difference between Griffin and many veteran moviegoers is that he’s still childishly excited about it all. When Amblin Entertainment and director Barry Sonnenfeld made this belated third entry in the MiB scifi action-comedy franchise, that’s exactly the nonjaded reaction they hoped to elicit from the American public. They knew this particular “timeline” wouldn’t offer much we hadn’t seen before. But, to their credit, they

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Jean is a free spirit next to Smith’s Muriel Donnelly, however. The group’s token racist, Muriel has crossed the ocean to avail herself of affordable hip-replacement surgery but is none too happy to place her well-being in the hands of foreigners. Screenwriter Ol Parker has an unfortunate fondness for movie clichés, so Muriel is also a personal metamorphosis waiting to happen, one that even an actor of Smith’s caliber is at a loss to bring off convincingly. When it comes, the reversal is so abrupt that she seems to have received a personality replacement instead. Tom Wilkinson’s Graham Dashwood is a far more credible and affecting creation. A former High Court judge who grew up in India, he has returned in the hope of reconnecting with the man he loved 40 years earlier. Second-tier characters Madge Hardcastle (Celia Imrie) and Norman Cousins (Ronald Pickup) have fine moments, too,

though they’re in many respects male and female versions of the same person. Both play seniors on the prowl, and between them Parker serves up way more Viagra jokes than one movie needs. Instances of boilerplate plotting, by-thenumbers character development and bumper-sticker life lessons are more than balanced, believe it or not, by the cast’s brilliant portrayals. They bring these people and their problems to vivid life, and it’s a pleasure to spend a couple of hours in their company. It doesn’t hurt, either, that we spend them in Rajasthan, where the film was shot. Madden communicates his fondness for the place’s sun-dappled bustle and color. A vastly human, often humorous meditation on final acts, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has its shortcomings but proves a desirable destination despite them. RICK KISONAK

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still managed to make the experience fairly enjoyable. Men in Black III returns to characterbased comedy from the gimmicky excesses of the 2002 installment. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are back as Agents J and K, respectively, who police New York’s illegal aliens — the kind with tentacles. Jemaine Clement, of “The Flight of the Conchords,” sinks yellow teeth into the role of extraterrestrial villain Boris the Animal (“Just Boris!” he growls irascibly), who uses time travel to bump off K in 1969 and rewrite history. To resurrect his partner — and, yes, save the Earth — J takes a jaunt back to the past, where he finds the younger K (Josh Brolin) James-Bonding it up on Barbarella-style sets. This is just as silly as it sounds, but the comic chemistry goes a long way. As always, Jones is the laconic foil to Smith’s motormouth, and Brolin pulls off such an uncanny, gimlet-eyed impersonation that he sometimes gets laughs just by staring. While you’re unlikely to find your new “favorite moment in the universe” in MiB III, there are worse ways to enjoy industrialstrength air conditioning.

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hen again, you could go for something less familiar. How about a darkly comic thriller where the hapless hero (Aksel Hennie) is so desperate to escape from a special-opstrained sociopath that he leaps headfirst into an outhouse toilet? Morten Tyldum’s film Headhunters — starting Friday at the Savoy Theater — was a hit in its native Norway. It’s easy to see why: Based on a popular mystery novel, it plays like a stylistic hybrid of Stieg Larsson, the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino. Hennie is Roger Brown, a diminutive, Napoleon-complex-afflicted businessman who seeks to secure the affections of his supermodel-esque wife (Synnøve Macody Lund)

by supplementing his income with art theft. But Roger pushes his luck when he pinches a Rubens from Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (of “Game of Thrones”), a sleekly sinister alpha male with amorous designs on his beloved. Soon he’s in trouble that involves the copious spillage of blood and other bodily fluids. Not all the ensuing mayhem is logical (I dare anyone to make sense of the villain’s convoluted plan), but it’s still a colorful, breakneck ride. An American remake is already in the works, possibly with Mark Wahlberg in the lead. Do yourself a favor and see it with the deliciously weaselly Hennie instead. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

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A witness told police responding to a report of shots fired in North Charleston, S.C., that a man with a gun had gone into a house, but when officers questioned the occupant, she insisted no one else was there but her children. The officers asked the children if that was true, and they said no, that two men were in a back room watching television. Officers found Nathaniel Whack and Pierre Pete, as well as partially smoked joints, three loaded handguns, two semiautomatic weapons and a revolver. According to the police report, during a strip search, a spent .38 shell casing fell out of Whack’s anus and was logged into evidence. (Charleston’s WCIV-TV) Police arrested Keithan Manuel, 18, in Wilmer, Texas, for trying to rob an officer inside the police station. Police Chief Victor Kemp said Manuel pointed a towel-covered hand at the dispatch officer and demanded, “Give me all your money.” He then asked if there were any warrants against him and added, “You do know I have a gun?” After the dispatcher summoned officers, who found no weapon, Manuel insisted he’d been joking. “Man, I play like that all the time,” he said. “I didn’t think she would take it seriously.” Kemp commented, “You hear of those World’s Dumbest Criminals every once in a while, but you never think it’s going to happen in your city.” (Dallas-Fort Worth’s KTVT-TV)

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During a nine-hour layover in Nashville, Tenn., Greyhound bus passenger William Todd, 24, committed at least 11 felonies, according to police. He started by breaking into a business, stealing weapons, and then shooting up the business and setting it on fire. Next, he robbed four people leaving a local bar, Tased one and pistolwhipped another. Five minutes later, he carjacked a taxi at gunpoint and used stolen credit cards to buy food and $199 worth of items at a Wal-Mart. At 6 a.m., he entered a hotel, broke into a law office there, ransacked it and defecated on a desk, smearing feces on some framed law degrees. Then he knocked on several hotel room doors, pretending to be a female housekeeper, and robbed one couple of $600, crying the whole time. He shaved his head, returned to the stolen cab but crashed it into a parking garage. He hailed another cab and ordered the driver at knifepoint to take him to Opryland. At noon, police found Todd hiding in a water-cooling vat on top of Opryland, submerged up to his nose. (Nashville’s WSMV-TV)

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When a medical condition forced Kim Thompson to leave her job on a disability pension, the New Jersey resident was able to get her $91,000 federal student loans canceled. The debt was reported to the Internal Revenue Service as taxable Cancellation of Debt Income, resulting in her owing $26,000 to the IRS and $5000 to the state of New Jersey. (ABC News)

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Britain’s Trish Vickers, who lost her eyesight seven years ago, had written 26 pages of a novel, using rubber bands to guide her ballpoint pen, when she asked her son to read them. The pages were blank because the pen had run out of ink. They called police in Dorset, and a forensic team shined a crime light on the indentations on the paper to read what Vickers had written. “Fortunately,” police official Kerry Savage said, “apart from one line, we managed to retrieve the whole lot.” (BBC News)

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The longest anyone can tolerate the world’s quietest place is 45 minutes, according to Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis, Minn. Its anechoic chamber is 99.99 percent sound absorbent, thanks to 3.3-foot-thick fiberglass acoustic wedges, double walls of insulated glass and foot-thick concrete. “It’s used for formal product testing, for research into the sound of different things: heart valves, the sound of the display of a cellphone, the sound of a switch on a car dashboard,” said company founder and president Steven Orfield, who can last 30 minutes in the chamber. “The quieter the room, the more things you’ll hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly. In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.” (Britain’s Daily Mail) A woman who became concerned after hearing moaning and yelling coming from a neighbor’s apartment in Victoria, British Columbia, around 5 a.m. called police, who had to knock several times before the man responded. “When questioned about the amount of noise he was making,” Deputy Chief John Ducker wrote in the police operations log, “the man explained that he had been essentially (in his own, different words) on the toilet having his morning constitutional, but he was done now.” The man promised to be quieter in the future. (Victoria Times Colonist)

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suspect that in the coming week you will have an unusual aptitude for hybridization. you could do folk dancing and hip-hop moves simultaneously. it will make sense for you to do the cha-cha as you disco and vice versa. you’ll have a knack for bringing the spirit of belly dance into the tango, and for break-dancing while you do the hokey-pokey.

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tell me i’d invented the sounds they called soul,” said musician ray Charles, “but i can’t take any credit. soul is just the way black folk sing when they leave themselves alone.” i urge you to experiment with this idea, Cancerian. in my astrological opinion, you need to whip up a fresh, hot delivery of raw soul. one of the best ways to do that might be to leave yourself alone. in other words, don’t badger yourself. Don’t pick your scabs and second-guess your enthusiasms and argue yourself into a knot. Create a nice big space for your original self to play in.

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(July 23-aug. 22): “Where’s the most convenient place to discover a new species?” asks The Second Book of General Ignorance. What do you think the answer is, leo? The amazon rainforest? The high mountainous forests of new guinea? northwest siberia? none of the above. in fact, your best chance of finding a previously unidentified life-form is in your own garden. There are hundreds of thousands of species that science still has no knowledge of, and quite a few of them are near you. a similar principle currently holds true for your life in general. it will be close to home that you are most likely to connect with fascinating exotica, unknown influences and far-out adventures.

(sept. 23-oct. 22): a solar eclipse happens when the moon passes in front of the sun and blocks much of its light from reaching our eyes. on a personal level, the metaphorical equivalent is when something obstructs our ability to see what nourishes us. For example, let’s say you’re in the habit of enviously comparing your own situation to that of a person you imagine is better off than you. This may blind you to some of your actual blessings, and diminish your ability to take full advantage of your own talents. i bring this up, libra, because you’re in an especially favorable time to detect any way you might be under the spell of an eclipse — and then take dramatic steps to get out from under it.

scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): some secrets will dribble out. other secrets will spill forth. still others may shoot out and explode like fireworks. you won’t be bored by this week’s revelations, scorpio. People’s camouflage may be exposed, hidden agendas could be revealed and not-quite-innocent deceits might be uncovered. so that’s the weird news. Here’s the good news: if you maintain a high level of integrity and treat the brouhaha as good entertainment, you’re likely to capitalize on the uproar. and that’s your specialty, right? sagittaRius

(nov. 22-Dec. 21): if you go to a psychotherapist, she may coax you to tell stories about what went wrong in your childhood. seek a chiropractor’s opinion, and he might inform you that most of your problems have to do with your spine. Consult a

caPRicoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The state of Kansas has a law that seems more confusing than helpful. it says the following: “When two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall come to a full stop and neither shall start up again until the other has gone.” From what i can tell, Capricorn, a similar situation has cropped up in your life. two parties are in a stalemate, each waiting for the other to make the first move. at this rate, nothing will ever happen. May i suggest that you take the initiative? aQuaRius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): should you

get down on your knees and beg for love and recognition? no! should you give yourself away without seeking much in return? Don’t do that, either. should you try to please everyone in an attempt to be popular? Definitely not. should you dilute your truth so as not to cause a ruckus? i hope not. so then what am i suggesting you should do? ask the following question about every possibility that comes before you: “Will this help me to master myself, deepen my commitment to what i want most and gain more freedom?”

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readers try to bribe me. “i’ll give you $1000,” said a recent email from a Virgo woman, “if you will write a sequence of horoscopes that predict i’ll get the dream job i’m aiming for, which will in turn make me so attractive to the guy i’m pursuing that he will beg to worship me.” My first impulse was to reply, “That’s all you’re willing to pay for a prophecy of two events that will supercharge your happiness and change your life?” but in the end, as always, i flatly turned her down. The truth is, i report on the music of the heavenly spheres, but i don’t write the music myself. still, i sort of admire this woman’s feisty resolve to manipulate the fates, and i urge you to borrow some of her ferocity in the coming week.

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feeling a warm fuzzy feeling in your money chakra? i hope so. The cosmos recently authorized you to receive a fresh flow of what we might call financial kundalini. your insight into money matters should be increasing, as well as your ability to attract the information and influences you need to refine your relationship with prosperity. it may even be the case that higher levels of economic luck are operating in your vicinity. i’m not saying you will strike it rich, but you could definitely strike it richer.

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Can you keep up? Curvy, multi orgasmic, kinky and loves 1x1c-mediaimpact030310.indd 1 3/1/10 to play for hours. I am looking for 1:15:57 PM someone who, if we hit it off, can meet and play on a regular basis. This will be a sexual relationship, but a “relationship” nonetheless. I am not looking for a one-night stand, I am looking for a sexual playmate. thewholepackage, 23 Curious, Bondage, Willing I’m a college freshman with a BDSM curiosity, with no opportunity to explore. I’m looking for a friendship where we can explore safely and freely. Sorry but no anal. Want to know anything else? Feel free to message me. CuriousKit, 19

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Want to Make you Glow I want a woman who loves to play and be played with. I want to watch my man take you the way he takes me: properly. I want you to watch me surrender and inspire you to join me in creating more pleasure we can possibly imagine. happylovers, 46, l sexy, naked, sun, sports, hot tubs Looking for some summertime playmates! Love going to Bolton Falls. mashelle29, 30, l MUCH-TO-LUV REDHEAD Okay, I am sooo new to this! If you are out there, hope you find me! I am new to the BDSM scene, let’s say books “aroused” my curiosity, and I think it’s what’s been missing from my life, I just need to find the right teacher! I’m a full figured-gal, not your thing, don’t respond! (Also, no married or cheaters!). much2luv, 39

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wanna bust some ass in town for a few days and just looking to have a bit of fun. homestar, 34 Simple Boy I’m just an aspiring college freshman looking for a one- night stand so he can loose his virginity. No drinks, no drugs, just safe sex. I have a skirt/ panty fetish. Collegevirgin333, 19 Lookin’ for fun times! Douglas here. I’m recently seperated and I’m out lookin’ for a good time. douglasinvt, 35, l open, ready, clean Ready for new adventures. Altonman, 59 Professional gone wild! I’m a discreet professional who has an insatiable appetite for one desiring woman. I am pretty much open to every and anything in the bedroom and looking to explore my sexuality more. More than anything I enjoy oral, giving rather than receiving. Perhaps I can come across that one person who doesn’t mind me pleasuring them to an unimaginable degree. Willingly1, 27 Let’s have fun! Hit me up and we will talk. How’s that sound? Fivedeathpunch, 21, l free for love Lookin’ for some friends with benefits. jackhammer, 24 Foreplay, fucking, fun Being familiar with the large volume of sexual terminology used to describe the sex act does not demonstrate experience. I am experienced and have been active for quite some time and have enjoyed every bit of it. Willing to try anything once. Must be D/D free. Send an email, and a pic if you feel like opening a dialogue. boundpleasure, 30 Fun with kinky couple Looking for discreet encounters with sexy, open-minded people. Open

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and would love to entertain another couple with a sunset boat cruise and end the evening in our bed! Kalvinb, 40 New to Vermont, want fun! We’re a fun couple that just moved to Vermont. We’re looking for some new friends to play with. She is 40, Asian, sexy, petite, 5’4”, 110 lbs. He is 44, athletic, slender, 5’10,” 160 lbs. We’re both well educated and active. We’re into full swap or anything up to that. She is a little bi and likes women too. bandsinvt, 41, l looking for a good time 30m, 24f looking for a good time. One-time thing. Must be clean. Come hang out and see what happens. 4:20 friendly. meandu, 30 cinnabon Couple (man and man) seeking women for discreet casual encounter; really just want to try something exciting and new. twizzlers, 23, l Hypersexual Couple needs the same We are a committed couple (Burlington area). We are new to this and seeking another couple to learn from/with. We are both attractive, well groomed, clean, fun/adventurous. Seeking a couple for sexual adventures/erotic fun. Ages 35-50, M/F couple, clean, well groomed and DD free. Please share fantasies, we will as well. All couples, including those with ethnic background, are welcome. Jonsgirl, 44

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Oakledge Monday 5/28 You are the fit brunette who was playing with her dog in the water. For a minute it looked like he was going to chase the ducks and not come back. I was the guy throwing the ball for the black lab. I wanted to say hi but it seemed a little awkward. When: Monday, May 28, 2012. Where: Oakledge park. You: Woman. Me: Man. #910231 Dunkin Donuts (Pearl St.) Marathon Morning Me = green dress (with bearded friend in tow.) You = tall, wearing shorts and chacos. We crammed into DD on marathon morning and picked the slow line; we laughed over it. I was too excited about the marathon (and my new cow bell) to catch your name...but would love to know it. When: Sunday, May 27, 2012. Where: Dunkin’ Donuts. You: Man. Me: Woman. #910230 Becky at ICF Besides being gorgeous, hilarious and kind, you can ride a tractor like a beast. What more could one ask for? As if I didn’t have incentive enough to eat vegetables already... When: Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Where: ICF. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #910229 Solo Tacos I was waiting to order. You walked in and brightened an otherwise predictable evening— though I didn’t let on. We chatted a bit, then retired to our respective window seats and ate alone. I spent the night with Neil Young stuck in my head: “It’s these expressions I never give/that keep me searching for heart of gold/and I’m getting old.” When: Friday, May 25, 2012. Where: Mad Taco, Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #910228

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Dear Mistress,

Recently during sex, my husband began biting and sucking on my neck. I discovered it was a huge turn-on for me, the harder the better. The sex was fantastic, but it left me with the bruises to prove it! Trying to cover up hickeys may have been an adolescent rite of passage, but it’s not something I’m eager to explain to the boss or the kids. It’s getting too hot for turtlenecks, and I’m afraid I’ll have to give up this new pleasure if I can’t figure out a way to enjoy it discreetly. Is there any hope?

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A Marked Woman

I agree — while hickeys were a badass sign of teenage rebellion, they’re not as cool on adults with jobs and families. Many internet sources claim to have the remedy for your ravaged capillaries, suggesting everything from applying toothpaste to the bruise to rubbing it out with a coin. However, as we all know, nothing but time — and some concealer and a neckerchief — can help a hickey. That said, you don’t have to give up your new turn-on completely. Think about what you liked about receiving the hickey. Was it the pleasure mixed with pain? Was it the feeling of being dominated by your partner? Did it feel dangerous to be marked? Figure out which feeling you’re lusting after and adapt your play to include a less conspicuous way to achieve it. In the meantime, your husband can still drive you into ecstasy with biting and sucking — just not on your neck or any other body part that your coworkers and kids might see. The next time you’re having sex, ask your hubby to mark you on the chest, torso or inner thigh — you will likely find the sensation just as scrumptious.

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Today’s your special day Today you are one step farther away from being a tiny baby and one step closer to being an old man. Happy birthday, buddy! Tonight, the Poon’s on me. When: Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Where: ORS. You: Man. Me: Woman. #910218

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Oakledge stud You: breathtaking. Always reading alone on the bench sunning that perfect body. It’s the second consecutive summer I see you there, and every time you nearly knock me off my bike. Would love to give you some company sometime. When: Saturday, May 19, 2012. Where: Oakledge Park. You: Man. Me: Man. #910214

Re: Summer 2010 Half the lesbians in VT can relate and I bet H. is a common factor. That’s not inner beauty, just the well- rehearsed script of an angry woman. Take care of yourself and move on. When: Monday, May 21, 2012. Where: faded out. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #910211

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I had a dream Your kiss, soft, wanting, invited, your tongue, exploring, intense, teasing. Your touch, warm, seductive, strong. Your desire, Throbbing, unabated, matching my own. I was on top, confident, wanting, wet. You were enjoying, Indulging, hard. I woke up giggling, wet, wanting, enchanted. Your laughter was infectious, Your manhood, satisfying. My face, smiling. The bed, now wet. How did you sleep? When: Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Where: in bed. You: Man. Me: Woman. #910220

“tuning fork on liquid horizon” Portuguese roll and Campbell’s soup kid, with not just one or two Judo lessons. I’d like to believe you volunteered to have the wind knocked out of you. Seventh-grade science class rotating through the lamproom atop the Sheffield Island lighthouse. Have you really seen this? Anyway, thank you for signing the permission slip. There was mats and a Sensei. When: Monday, May 21, 2012. Where: in my eidetic memory. You: Woman. Me: Man. #910216

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