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A new ACLU report says blacks are four times more likely than whites to get busted for pot possession in Vermont.

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A Shaftsbury man was charged with assaulting a state trooper after the cop didn’t return a high-five. Too slow!

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talked about the genesis of his artwork and the neardeath experience that changed his life. Stephen Huneck spent two months in a coma after suffering from adult respiratory distress syndrome brought on by a fall down some stairs. “The doctors were not hopeful, but with the help of his wife, Gwen, Stephen had a full recovery,” reads a bio on Dog Mountain’s website. “He had to relearn everything, from how to walk to how to sign his name.” The brush with death inspired Huneck to build the Dog Chapel, which he called “the largest artwork of my life and my most personal.” But he battled with depression, as well as financial issues, and took his life in January 2010. Condolences and tribute messages to Gwendolyn have been flooding Dog Mountain’s Facebook page. “I was never fortunate enough to meet you, and have always wanted to visit Dog Mountain,” one commenter wrote, “but I have several pieces of art that make me smile every day.” Another wrote, “If such a place as ‘Doggy Heaven’ exists, and we all believe it is true, I’m sure the gates are open to Gwen and Stephen.” A third person commented, “Please put a big Post-It note in the chapel for both of them from all of the souls that they have helped. Our thoughts are with you all.”

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The Chittenden Solid Waste District wants to ship our sludge to a small New York town to be treated and sold as fertilizer. No shit.

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Middlebury’s Ronan Howlett was felled in the National Spelling Bee semifinals by “parapsychical.” Probably the last time he’ll ever say that word. FACING FACTS COMPILED BY ANDY BROMAGE

1. “The $59 Million Question: Is Vermont Working Hard Enough to Give Other People’s Money Back?” by Ricka McNaughton. Vermont’s Unclaimed Property fund currently has $59 million, and state officials are stepping up efforts to return it. 2. “Finding Her Voice: Gretchen Parlato” by Dan Bolles. The jazz world is giddy over Gretchen Parlato, who plays the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival on June 8. 3. “A Tech-Savvy Monk Is Taking Mindfulness to the Masses” by Kathryn Flagg. One Vermonter is helping people find the balance between Zen meditation and modern techie distraction. 4. Fair Game: “Seller’s Remorse: Shumlin Bought a House — and a Whole Lot of Trouble” by Paul Heintz. Many questions remain in Gov. Peter Shumlin’s property deal with neighbor Jeremy Dodge. 5. Side Dishes: “International Eatery Opens on Burlington’s North Beach” by Alice Levitt. This summer you can buy Thai curries, falafel and more while lounging on North Beach.

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hen St. Johnsbury artist Stephen Huneck took his own life in 2010, his widow vowed to carry on his work at Dog Mountain, the hilltop sanctuary they created together. But sad news came Monday: Gwendolyn Ide Huneck died on Sunday, just a week shy of her 62nd birthday. A short message posted on a memorial Facebook page read, “Gwen never got over the loss of Stephen and missed him terribly every [day]” but offered few other details. Police have said they do not suspect foul play. The Hunecks lived on Dog Mountain. Stephen made his carved-wood sculptures and iconic prints, and the couple built the quirky and beloved Dog Chapel, where dog owners have been leaving pictures and Post-It note messages in honor of their departed companions. Since her husband’s suicide, Gwendolyn had carried on with his artistic legacy, managing the business of the gallery and ongoing sales of her husband’s unique artwork — and dog-centric books, including Sally Goes to the Beach and Sally Discovers Dog Mountain. As Pamela Polston noted on the Live Culture blog, Stephen Huneck was the subject of a 2009 Seven Days Stuck in Vermont video, in which the self-taught sculptor

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Gretchen Parlato just needs to get herself another drummer or tell him to play the brushes instead [“Finding Her Voice,” May 29]. His ticketyticketytickety loud rim strikes interfere horribly with her beautiful singing. James Dylan Rivis MONTPELIER

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Interesting piece about the good life in the land of Hans Christian Andersen [Last 7, “To Live the American Dream, Move to Denmark,” May 22]. However, before Bernie’s Kroner Kool-Aid gets passed around, it’s worth noting that Denmark has probably the most restrictive immigration, alien registration and naturalization laws on the planet. OK, maybe North Korea tops the list. To channel Milton Friedman, the point is: You can’t have a welfare state with open borders. J. Paul Giuliani MONTPELIER

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Nice piece on Vermont’s 251 Club [“Hit the Road,” May 22] and, of course, there have been many such articles about it over the years. It’s a great organization and I’m glad so many have participated, including Melanie Considine, who is attempting to complete all 251 (including Lewis) in 365 days! Kind of like trying to hike the entire Long Trail! But here’s something for someone to attempt: Visit not just all 251 towns, but every city/village/hamlet/settlement within a town, as well as all the unorganized gores plus Warner’s Grant. No idea off the top of my head what that total would be, but it’s staggering. And you better have your DeLorme or Jimapco atlas with you — forget GPS, since it

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I read with great interest Taylor Dobbs’ story about the changing demographics of the New North End of Burlington and how they impact the political climate of Wards 4 and 7 [“Burlington’s New North End Looks a Lot Different Than It Did 50 Years ago,” May 22]. As a person who has lived most of his life in this part of 12v-samsfurniture060513.indd 1 town, I wanted to add a word or two about how these changes have also impacted the culture of this area. I love walking through Hannaford or sitting in the local bagel shop meeting people of all cultures, countries and colors and hearing a variety of languages spoken. The greater diversity seen in our schools helps to raise the cultural understanding and competence of all students and staff. New citizens have brought us many gifts that we locals can learn from and celebrate. For a small city, Burlington is rich in cultural diversity, You never know who and we grow even more rich as people you might run into continue to move here and settle in with during Jazz Festival us. Many come for the same reasons our at the Square... own families did a few generations ago. We must never forget that, because our common interests bring us together. I’m excited by the demographic JEAN changes taking place in the city — speSTAPLETON 1/19/23-5/31/13 cifically, the northern part of it. I hope that new residents of all cultural backgrounds will find the rest of us to be good neighbors.

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[Re “Bike to the Future,” May 22]: The Burlington “Go for Gold” Walk-Bike Blueprint is not only an “aspirational” document, but a call to action, identifying areas we need to focus on to make our community more friendly for walking and biking. Clearly the biggest needs are for infrastructure improvements, although there are many opportunities to improve in other areas, too. It’s true that the blueprint does not have specific plans in it; our next step is coming up with action plans for addressing the identified opportunities and needs. The new city administration is already more vocally supportive of this effort than previous administrations. I am cautiously optimistic that this will actually translate into progress in the months and years to come. There are certainly many hopeful signs, including current projects in which there are opportunities for making real infrastructure improvements in the near future,

and intrinsically stupid. Is excessive pesticide use a problem? Well, work on that. Better a bit of pesticide use than a farm goes under. Do any of you hipster dudes actually understand soil nutrient cycles? Do any of you hipster dudes actually understand the mammalian reproductive process? Research is a tool. Use it.

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In the article “Bike to the Future” [May 22], concern for safety is expressed by bicyclists who ride between Burlington and Fort Ethan Allen due to the need to ride on Route 15, billed as “that highspeed stretch of roadway.” For the last 18 months or so, there has been an excellent alternative to cycling on Route 15 between the west entrance of St. Michael’s College and Fort Ethan Allen. Simply turn left at the light onto campus, follow the campus road to the back gate (via Canterbury Way on Google map), then turn left onto Johnson Ave., which becomes Hegeman Ave. Johnson Ave. used to dead end behind Dunkin’ Donuts, but the entrance to Camp Johnson was pushed to the west to allow Johnson Ave. to connect to Hegeman Ave. It’s a nice ride; should be a lot safer than fighting traffic on Route 15. MapMyRun says it’s .36 miles longer to go through campus, which is no more than a minute or two difference.

for both walking and biking. These include PlanBTV, the Railyard Enterprise Project, the Waterfront PIAP process, the North Avenue Corridor Study and discussions about a variety of other improvements around the city. Looking ahead, we also need to address some of the tougher infrastructure improvements we need, such as downtown and Shelburne Street. All of these will take continued attention and pressure from public officials and interested citizens to ensure progress. I encourage all interested people to get involved in the ongoing efforts above, and the Burlington Walk-Bike Council (burlingtonwalkbike.org). We meet in the basement of City Hall every fourth Thursday from 5:30 to 7 pm; our next meeting is June 27.

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see them running away. People aren’t suffering health impacts. Developers are investing in the redevelopment of downtown Winooski.” While the responses from activists are predictable, what remains unclear is which camp is winning the hearts and minds of Chittenden County residents. That’s a hugely important political question, given that the county makes up a quarter of the state’s population — and that Vermont’s most prominent politicians have lined up in favor of the F-35. “I don’t think the opposition is growing at all,” Cioffi contends. “They’ve got BEN COHEN and a couple other people stirring things up, but we don’t see their numbers growing.” To that, South Burlington real estate agent CHRISTOPHER HURD says, “Frank Cioffi is completely full of shit. It’s completely mainstream.”

IF THE AIR FORCE PICKS VERMONT TO HOST A SQUADRON OF F-35S, MORE PEOPLE WILL BE EXPOSED TO HIGH LEVELS OF NOISE THAN THE PENTAGON PREVIOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGED. As evidence, Hurd points to a rally he and fellow opponents held at Burlington’s Unitarian Universalist church last Thursday, which drew a capacity crowd of hundreds. Among those addressing the group was Rabbi JOSHUA CHASAN of Burlington’s Ohavi Zedek synagogue. “My sense is [opposition to the plane] is growing. I’m hearing from more and more people,” says Chasan, who first came out against the basing last fall along with several other area clergy members. “I think people are waking up to how unfair this whole process has been.” Even the Burlington Free Press is getting in on the action — in its own peculiar way. In last Friday’s paper, editorial page editor AKI SOGA beat the Freeps-ian drum for “transparency,” writing that “information must be made available” to the public before the Air Force makes its decision this fall — without specifying precisely what information the paper sought. On Tuesday, the Freeps cleared that up in its news pages. In what was ostensibly a news story, staff writer JOHN BRIGGS reported that the Freeps had sent Vermont’s

three-member congressional delegation, Gov. PETER SHUMLIN and Burlington Mayor MIRO WEINBERGER 13 questions related to the F-35 basing process. But rather than waiting for the pols to respond — or not — by the paper’s self-imposed June 12 deadline, it simply printed the questions verbatim. Briggs’ original web headline? “Free Press asks pointed questions about F-35 support.” In later versions, the paper humbly dropped the word “pointed.” Whether or not the delegation, governor and mayor respond to the Freeps’ questions, it’s pretty clear where they stand. Within hours of the release of Friday’s 2500-page tome, the delegation and governor released a joint statement reiterating their support and saying “there appear to be no fundamental changes in this updated report.” “What I’ve seen of it, there’s nothing that changes my mind,” Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-VT) said in a follow-up interview Tuesday. “It appears to me they’re being very fair and very open to everybody.” Referring to his house in McLean, Va., Leahy intimated that the Vermont Guard’s six minutes of daily take-off and landing time isn’t all that much. “I’m in Washington in a home in the flight path of [Reagan National Airport],” Leahy said. “I’d love to have it limited to five minutes and 20 seconds a day.” While Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT) did not respond to a request for comment, the third member of the delegation, Rep. PETER WELCH (D-VT) struck a more nuanced tone than Leahy about the new Air Force report. “It does affect more people, so I have empathy. I respect the fact that there are a lot of people who would be directly affected by the flight path,” Welch said, calling the decision “a trade-off ” between those who live near the base and those who depend on it for jobs. “I think it suggests a redoubling of efforts by the Air Guard to work with them on mitigation efforts.” Added Shumlin, “My opinion on the F-35 has not changed … All I can tell you is my support for the F-35 is based upon the thousands of jobs it creates.”

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Shumlin said Tuesday he wouldn’t comment on Dodge’s remarks, other than to say, “I’m looking forward to having a conversation with Jerry and his family.” Drip, drip, drip. Adding to the governor’s problems: Two of his political opponents — Reps. Kurt wright (R-Burlington) and PAtti Komline (R-Dorset) — plan to hold a Statehouse press conference Wednesday afternoon to outline a policy proposal they say will touch on the controversy. Meanwhile, Vermont Republican Party chairman JAcK linDley, who has thus far kept uncharacteristically quiet about it, said Monday, “His actions were wildly inappropriate and obviously show an ethical lapse and a lack of moral compass.” But for Shumlin to be in real political peril, he’d have to have a real political opponent waiting in the wings. So far, he doesn’t. His greatest threat — Scott, the wellknown and well-liked lite gov — reconfirmed Monday that he’s not interested in running for Vermont’s top job, saying, “At this point in time, there’s nothing I see that would open the door for me.” Former state senator rAnDy BrocK, a Swanton Republican who lost to Shumlin in 2012, has “made no decisions whatsoever about running for anything,” he says. “It’s far too early.” But he notes that during the campaign, “I did focus on the governor’s real-estate transactions, and this is one of the transactions I mentioned.” Given how Shumlin irked liberals during the last legislative session, could he expect a challenge from the left? “He certainly makes it very hard for us to stay out of the race, I will say that,” says Rep. chriS PeArSon (P-Burlington), who chairs the House Progressive Caucus. “But it’s hard for us to raise big amounts of money for a statewide effort. It really is.” And then there’s the question of which Prog would stand a chance. Sen. Anthony PollinA (P/D-Washington) came in second during the 2008 gubernatorial race, but even he concedes the challenge would be a fool’s errand. “People will forgive and forget,” Pollina says. “I don’t think this should inspire somebody to run for governor against an incumbent.” m

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has to do now is move ahead as quickly as possible and do whatever has to happen: Make a deal and move on.” Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, the top-ranking Republican in the state, agrees. “If new information arose, I certainly think it could leave Gov. Shumlin vulnerable in certain areas — but that’s a big ‘if,’” Scott says. “If nothing else happens and nothing new comes out, I think he weathers the storm.” Unfortunately for Shumlin, the situation remains pretty messy — and decidedly unresolved. Until he can change that, political rivals and reporters with no legislative session or election to cover will keep churning the waters. For those just joining us, here’s a quick recap of the spot Shummy’s in: Last fall, the gov cut a quickie land deal with an ex-con neighbor who was just days away from losing his property to a tax sale, thanks to a $17,000 tax bill he couldn’t pay. Last month the neighbor, Jeremy DoDge, told reporters he’d been fleeced, claiming he didn’t have the mental capacity to negotiate with the gov — especially without a lawyer representing him — and didn’t get a fair price. Shumlin, meanwhile, says he was doing Dodge a solid by letting his neighbor stay in his home for nine months and restoring the guy’s electricity. Once reporters came calling, he said he’d be happy to renegotiate with Dodge — and he’d even pay his neighbor’s attorney’s fees. So what’s next? As VTDigger’s AnDrew Stein reported Monday, both sides have “lawyered up.” Shumlin has engaged the services of former attorney general Jerome DiAmonD to represent him, while Dodge was scheduled to meet with Vermont Legal Aid as Seven Days went to press. Drip, drip, drip. Asked Tuesday how he hoped to resolve the matter, Dodge told Seven Days, “My goal is to get my property back and pay the governor back what he invested in it — and not a penny more.” Asked if he’d instead settle for a heftier payment than the $58,000 the gov promised for his 16 acres, Dodge said, “No, I would rather keep it for myself.” And if the gov doesn’t sell it back, would he sue? “Oh yeah,” Dodge said. “That would be one of the options that would be on the table.” Dodge added that while he used to consider Shumlin “an all-right guy,” he’s become upset with the governor’s frequent mentions of his criminal record in interviews with the press. “He’s bringing out all this slander against me and making me look like a bad guy,” Dodge said of the governor. “He isn’t perfect. He’s got skeletons in his closet somewhere, and I’m going to find them.”

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in the airline industry has also shaken up BtV commercial real estate baron Ernie Pomerleau, a member of the BTV strategic planning committee, identified the airport as the region’s “number-one economic stimulator.” Without it, Weinberger added at the press conference, Burlington would be “some backwater.” BTV f aces some unique problems, in cluding a crummy credit rating. Wall Street has lowered the airport’s investment grade to near junk-bond status, thanks largely to an ill-conceived parking garage project and the Burlington Telecom fiasco. And the survival of BTV’s Air National Guard base may depend on the Green Mountain Boys getting the go-ahead to fly bigger, noisier F-35 fighter jets. General, widespread turbulence in the airline industry has also shaken up BTV.

The number of scheduled flights declined 14 percent nationwide f rom 2007 to 2012 as airlines merged, increased their prices and ruthlessly economized in an effort to offset rising fuel costs and other expenses. During that period, BTV lost a discount carrier, AirTran, that was later absorbed by Southwest Airlines. The popular pur veyor of cheap fares serves the Burlington airport’s two top regional competitors: Albany, New York, and Manchester, New Hampshire. Despite years of wooing, BTV officials haven’t managed to coax Southwest to take up residence in northwest Vermont. But Richards and his supporters con tend that BTV’s prospects look brighter today than they did a couple of years ago. The airport’s finances have been stabilized,

Richards explained in a 75-minute inter view last week, and its inf rastructure has been upgraded. “We’ve achieved every financial goal we set f or ourselves,” Richards said in a conference room with a dramatic view of BTV’s runway. On a subsequent tour of the terminal, Richards explained that as a result of re financing $24 million in debt, the airport is saving $300,000 a year in interest. He showed off the terminal’s new $800,000 roof and a waiting area that’s being recon figured to provide more views of the Green Mountains. Then he moved on to the air port’s yoga room and its private space for nursing mothers. “These respond to what our customers want,” Richards said. Richards is also taking a tough stand on lease-renewal negotiations with airport vendors to wring as many dollars f rom them as he can. He estimated those efforts will produce an extra $350,000 per year. “There’s no deals for anyone. Everyone is treated f airly,” Richards proclaimed, adding that he pays f ull f reight when he flies out of BTV.

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day may come when Canadians find it economical to fly from their own country’s airports rather than schlepping to Burlington. The high fees Canada charges airlines have begun generating loud demands for a rollback. “We hope like hell nothing bad happens with the Canadian market,” Knodell confides. In addition, Vermonters who want to fly — not drive — to Boston can head to Plattsburgh. PBG offers daily service to Logan International; BTV lost that link five years ago. Despite what would seem to be high local demand for a BurlingtonLogan connection, “It’s not a profitable route for the airlines,” says Heather Kendrew, BTV’s director of maintenance, engineering and environmental compliance. “It’s too expensive for them to run because of the short distance.” Ever the BTV booster, Richards waves off his airport’s lack of service to Boston. Burlington’s airlines fly direct to lots of major cities, he pointed out. He also insisted he’s not craving a partnership with Southwest. Bringing the discount airline to BTV might hurt JetBlue or another existing airline, Richards said. “We shouldn’t dilute what we’ve got,” he said. One thing BTV’s got is the Vermont Air National Guard. Besides lending patriotic prestige to the airport, the Guard provides fire and rescue services worth $2 million a year. That’s a cost BTV would otherwise have to add to its $18.4 million annual budget, Richards said. The airport is already in effect subsidizing its commercial carriers by charging them landing fees far below the cost of maintaining the airfield, Richards said. Without the $6 million subsidy, the four airlines serving BTV — Delta, JetBlue, United and USAir — might pull out. Although that scenario seems unlikely in Burlington, it happened in a similar-sized city, Lake Havasu, Arizona. Six years ago, the airport lost its last remaining airline. The Air Guard is getting an even better deal than the civilian carriers. It pays BTV a grand total of $4000 a year for use of the runways for its F-16 fighters, Richards revealed. He said he’s aiming to renegotiate that fee in the coming year but won’t specify the amount he’s seeking. “I might ask for $5000,” Richards said jokingly. And what about the F-35, the supposed successor to the F-16 that Vermont’s political and business elite are desperate to land for BTV? Richards said he’d welcome the new military jet, but he doesn’t dismiss neighbors’ nervousness about the noise it would generate. Indeed, enhanced sensitivity to South Burlington’s concerns is another of the improvements Richards boasts of bringing to BTV’s operations. He said he consults regularly with South

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Jeff Munger, the current chair of the airport commission and a transportation policy specialist in the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders, says Richards “never uses the word ‘no’” when confronted with a challenge. Instead, Munger relates, “He finds a way to get it done.” Jane Knodell, a Progressive Burlington city councilor who serves on the strategic planning committee, describes Richards as “very empowering” in his dealings with the 42 workers directly employed by BTV. Ten of them took time to attend his appointment announcement. Richards brings an eclectic résumé to the job. He worked as a banker in Burlington prior to founding Spruce Mortgage, one of the biggest Vermontowned residential brokerages, which he continues to oversee as CEO. Richards is also a respected landlord — a description that often qualifies as an oxymoron. He’s served on the boards of the Lund Family Center, the Stern Center for Language and Learning and the Boys and Girls Club. “I really enjoy fundraising,” Richards said. He also knows how to fly. Richards was a student aviator in the early 1980s, piloting a four-seat Cessna in and out of BTV and the Rutland airport. “I wasn’t a good pilot,” he disclaimed. “I’ve got the attention span of an ant. My wife, Julie, is much better.” Richards has big plans for BTV. He and Ryan Betcher, recently hired as the airport’s first-ever marketing specialist, are crafting advertising campaigns aimed at reversing the recent drop in passengers. One campaign seeks to lure Canadians from Sherbrooke and Québec’s eastern townships, “an untapped market,” according to Richards. The other, a radio ad, advises local listeners they shouldn’t “drive to fly.” That’s a reference to outbound Vermonters who motor to the airports in Manchester, Albany — and, increasingly, across the lake to Plattsburgh International. Richards pooh-poohs PBG as a competitor, arguing that its limited low-cost service to Florida is “fine, as long as you don’t mind leaving at 3 a.m.” Fares on PBG carriers Allegiant and Spirit also aren’t as cheap as they appear; both airlines charge extra for carry-on luggage, for instance. But Plattsburgh is a shorter drive from Montréal than is Burlington, a geographic advantage PBG has highlighted by billing itself as “Montréal’s U.S. airport.” Indeed, Québec residents account for about 75 percent of passengers departing from Plattsburgh and 35 percent of BTV’s traffic. And departures from PBG climbed from fewer than 50,000 in 2008 to nearly 140,000 in 2011 — the most recent year for which statistics are available. Richards might downplay PBG’s competitive threat, but it’s clear Burlington officials worry about BTV’s attractiveness to Québécois. They also worry that the

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n the surf ace, the Vermont Health CO-OP seems like the kind of endeavor the state would embrace with open arms. Using federal funds from so-called “Obamacare,” the South Burlingtonbased nonprofit wants to offer a memberowned alternative to much-maligned corporate insurance companies. All of its profits would be reinvested to lower health-care costs and expand coverage. What’s not to like, especially in a state that goes gaga for co-ops? Plenty, according to the Department of Financial Regulation, which last month issued a blistering decision denying the CO-OP the license it needs to sell health insurance in Vermont. The CO-OP had already earned f ederal ap proval — and more than $33 million in start-up and solvency loans — f rom the U.S. Centers f or Medicare & Medicaid Services. But that wasn’t enough to sway state regulators, who listed the risk of insolvency and deep concerns about

Interest Research Group, tentatively agrees. “On the one hand, the idea of creat ing an insurance model that is memberowned is a great idea,” says Schilling. But on the other? “When we plan to transition to sin gle-payer health care in 2017, it almost f eels like the introduction of this new cooperative is betting against that,” he says. “While it has promise, I don’t think they are really on board with the larger goal that a lot of people in the state are trying to move forward.” The CO-OP model was proposed as an alternative to the “public option” that f ailed to make it into Obamacare. The public option would have set up a national-government-run health insur ance plan designed to compete with private insurers. When that was rejected, lawmakers instead built in a provision to fund the smaller-scale, member-ownedand-governed health CO-OPs — short f or Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans. Last winter’s fiscal cliff deal reduced that f unding, but not bef ore the f eds had already promised roughly $2 billion in loans to 24 cooperatives — in cluding Vermont’s. cooperative. Some longtime health care Those 24 CO-OPs are in various analysts say the CO-OP wouldn’t likely states of development, but so far 17 have drive down costs on the exchange and been awarded licenses by their respec would instead struggle to match the rates tive states to sell health insurance. of competitors Blue Cross Blue Shield of For now, the Vermont Health CO-OP Vermont and MVP. As Vermont plans for — under the leadership of Fleischer and a transition to single-payer health care CEO Christine Oliver — is lef t to map as early as 2017, observers question the its next step. Oliver has said repeat wisdom of launching a new insurance edly that her first and only goal right company when, in a few short years, the now is to convince DFR Commissioner state could do away with private insur - Susan Donegan to reopen the CO-OP’s ance altogether. application. “What really would be the function? Donegan, however, is holding f ast, Is it really needed, or is it just sort of saying she won’t be reopening the COgoing after a pot of money that the feds OP’s case. That leaves the group with were throwing our way?” says Dr. Deb two choices: appeal Donegan’s decision Richter, a Montpelier-based family phy- to the Vermont Supreme Court, or reapsician and longtime proponent of single- ply for licensure. But neither option re payer health care. alistically gives the CO-OP enough time “This is just one more insurance to obtain licensure and rate approval scheme as far as I’m concerned,” Richter bef ore the new health care exchange adds. “Not necessary, a lot of fuss, and a goes live next January. What’s more, waste of time and money.” Donegan has said the CO-OP would Falko Schilling, the consumer pro - have to look radically different in order tection advocate at the Vermont Public to merit reconsideration.

corporate governance among the top reasons for denying the license. DFR’s decision has, at least tempo rarily, derailed the CO-OP’s plans to sell health insurance to individuals and small groups on the new federally man dated health care exchange that kicks off on January 1. At a press conference last week, the CO-OP’s leaders expressed their disappointment. “Vermonters are getting shortchanged by not having this as an option,” said Mitchell Fleischer, the board president of the CO-OP, who is also CEO of private investment and insurance firm Fleischer Jacobs Group. The CO-OP had boasted it was building numerous innovations into its health care plans: eliminating barriers to mental health and substance-abuse services; offering one-on-one wellness coaching; and encouraging collaboration between pa tients and their doctors. But it’s not just regulators who are casting doubts on the fledgling

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That’s in large part because DFR uncovered what it called serious flaws in the CO-OP’s finances and corporate governance, as detailed in the 36-page decision issued on May 22. Hamilton Davis, a former lawmaker, journalist and health care regulator, says he was “blown away” when he read Donegan’s ruling. “I’ve been reading decisions like this since 1960, and that was a scorcher,” says Davis, who was chairman of the Vermont Hospital Data Council, a predecessor to the DFR. “I think it was a surprisingly strongly worded decision by the regulator. But [Donegan] made the case.” DFR’s actuarial analysis found that the CO-OP’s rates were, on average, 15 to 17 percent higher than those submitted by their competitors. Donegan concluded that the CO-OP plans would “consistently offer consumers fewer benefits than competitors for a similar price.” Extrapolating from that analysis, Donegan concluded that the CO-OP’s likely enrollment would be significantly lower than its target of 19,645 members. Based on these assumptions, Donegan decided the CO-OP was financially vulnerable. But the critique extended beyond the threat of insolvency. DR. DEb Donegan’s decision points out that, as board president, Fleischer is collecting a $126,000 annual salary; his counterparts at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont and MVP get $28,900 and $48,750, respectively. What’s more, Donegan deems illegal — and a significant conflict of interest — a contractual agreement between the CO-OP and Fleischer Jacobs Group, which would have acted as the CO-OP’s sales and marketing arm. The decision may have been more strongly worded than usual, says Donegan, but she believes consumers deserve no less. “Think back to what’s been going on with the economy since 2007 and 2008,” says Donegan. “One of the things that we know is that regulation for the sake of regulation is not useful, but regulation to prevent another crisis is very important … We are the first and last line as U.S. insurance regulators for not only solvency but also consumer protection.”

Oliver contends there are several factual inaccuracies in DFR’s report, and she and Fleischer are firing back in defense of their fledgling enterprise. Fleischer’s six-figure compensation is justified because he’s much more handson than a traditional board president, they say, and is tied up in the day-to-day work of the business. As for the risk of insolvency? Oliver and Fleischer say the rates used in DFR’s analysis were “placeholder” rates that would likely come down in coming months. Oliver argues the federal solvency loans would have shielded Vermont consumers and health care providers from any risk. Even if the CO-OP were to fail, she says, federal funds would serve as a backstop so consumers don’t end up on the hook for unpaid claims. “To say we were blindsided by this decision is an understatement,” Oliver said at last week’s press conference. At present, only two licensed insurers — Blue Cross and MVP — plan to market health insurance plans on the new health exchange. The state, meanwhile, hasn’t licensed a new health insurance provider in Vermont in more than 50 years — a result of Vermont’s small population and laws that strictly regulate insurR i C h T ER ance companies. Though Gov. Peter Shumlin has been supportive of the CO-OP model, his office is keeping its distance from the CO-OP dispute. “It’s very important that we ensure that the regulatory process is independent and not politically influenced,” says Robin Lunge, Shumlin’s director of health care reform. She later added by email, “The governor is supportive of the cooperative health insurance concept, but he leaves it to the regulatory process at the department to determine whether the CO-OP has met the strict standards of financial soundness required by Vermont law.” Without Shumlin’s office leaning on regulators, analysts like Davis suggest there’s little hope for the CO-OP to press forward without starting back at square one. Even then, Davis says, the CO-OP has a tough row to hoe. “It looks more and more to me that this CO-OP thing is … probably a complete long shot,” says Davis. m

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was allotted $10,000. But the Legislative Council — which staffs all Statehouse committees — can’t say what portion of their time goes to assist summer studies. Nor does the Agency of Administration keep track of the hours logged by state employ ees who respond to off-season requests for inf ormation, according to Secretary Jeb Spaulding. Asked whether summer studies are a useful exercise or a place to maroon con troversial bills, Senate Majority Leader Phil Baruth (D-Chittenden) answers, “Both.” On the plus side: A bill Baruth sponsored that would grant driving privi leges to migrant workers didn’t have the votes to pass in 2012, so it got kicked to a summer study committee. After that panel endorsed issuing IDs to workers here il legally, the bill reappeared in the 2013 legislative session. It passed both houses, and Gov. Peter Shumlin is scheduled to sign it on Wednesday, June 5. But Baruth has also witnessed bills banished to studies as a political tactic. He says lawmakers refer to the practice as “gut and study.” “In other words, you take a bill and then cut out anything of any import and you insert a study,” Baruth relates. Last year, a

hotly debated bill allowing childcare workers to unionize survived multiple gut-andstudy attempts on the Senate floor, Baruth says, before ultimately dying in conference committee. Former state senator Vince Illuzzi developed another saying about summer studies during his 32 years under Montpelier’s golden dome: “Studies are for losers.” “If you’re a legislator or lobbyist or administration official opposed to a particular idea, the graceful way to kill it is to send it to a study committee,” says Illuzzi, a Republican who represented Essex and Orleans counties. “Then the study, of course, never materializes into anything of significance.” But Illuzzi acknowledges there are legitimate summer study committees that aren’t designed to f ail. He remembers one in the summer of 1993, f ollowing the death of a mentally ill prison inmate at the hands of a correctional officer. That led to a series of ref orms, including limits on how long inmates could be kept in solitary confinement. “There was no time to tackle it during the session,” recalls Illuzzi, who now lobbies for the Vermont State Employees Association.

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anthropologists digesting their research and fi eldwork through verse. But Kusserow’s work is more than simply a creative adjunct to her academic pursuits. Indeed, the amorphous term “ethnographic poetry” may be a slight misnomer here. Refuge is unabashedly autobiographical, and Kusserow’s lif e, though consumed by research and fi eldwork, is not entirely defi ned by them. She is also a mother, a wife, a professor, a daughter and a Vermonter. All of these roles play a part in the book. Refuge opens with the poem “Skull Trees, South Sudan”:

don’t exist, or shouldn’t be spoken of , or that we shouldn’t do something to help, but Kusserow’s poetry seems more like a call to action than a work of art. Yet, while using a preconceived agenda f or artistic inspiration is itself dubious, the result is a necessarily anemic call to action, because poetry simply isn’t the best container f or ethnography. Many poems in the book (e.g., “Milk” and “The Hunger Sutras”) literally meander on the page, weaving across it just as one might when lost and wandering. Though in most cases such erratic indentation would be hard to swallow, there is room f or justifi cation in this book, so f ocused as it is on travel, searching and being lost. Arok Deng, hiding from the Arabs in the branches of a tree, Even so, the more successful poems in two weeks surviving on leaves, Refuge take place in Vermont. “Borders,” legs numb, mouth dry. f or instance, o˜ ers the remarkable image When the mosquitoes swarmed of war superseding the constraints of space and the bodies settled limp as petals under the trees, and time. The poem is addressed to the he shinnied down, scooping out a mud pit with his hands speaker’s husband, who calls f rom Af rica sliding into it like a snake, e now have access, into say he will drive over the Ugandan his whole body covered except his mouth. creasingly, to more and border, despite her begging. Their daughmore cultures across the ter overhears the conversation and later, globe, and the result is frustrated, punches her brother, who, later that restlessness has gone global,” writes It is this eerie image — of a boy carving the book: Many of the poems whose acstill, kicks their old dog. “And it happens Pico Iyer in The Open Road: The Global out and sliding into a “glove of mud” — that tions take place abroad are carried more by again, / whereby war, however diluted, Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. This sets Kusserow’s stage. “What did he know subject matter than by attention to f orm. however transf ormed, / however many quote begins Adrie of the rest of South Sudan,” she asks in the In other words, these poems tend to have times removed, has spread…” Kusserow’s new book second stanza (without a question mark). guts but lack a skeleton. When the boy kicks the dog, and the of poetry, Refuge, and dog pees all over the house before retiring aptly so. That’s not to the couch, the speaker wonders if “it only because the collection thrives on that will end here, with this dog / … / for now, … South Sudan, pockmarked with bombs, very access to multiple cultures, or benoble keeper of the fl ame.” This poem sucskull trees with their necklaces of bones, cause a few poems therein discuss Tibetan ceeds in its discussion of the complex web packs of bony Lost Boys Buddhism, but because Refuge is itself a of relationships and circumstances that roving like hyenas toward Ethiopia… restless book. drive us in an endless circle of su˜ ering, But let me back up: It would be nearly across time and space and generations. impossible to discuss Kusserow’s poetic But it succeeds in a way that “Skull Trees, work without a bit of background on her The images in this poem are haunting And the guts themselves o˜ er little South Sudan” does not because it takes humanitarian e˜ orts. A prof essor of anand evocative, but one does get lost in substance beyond shock value. Take, f or this complexity, places it in one distinct thropology at Saint Michael’s College in their meander. As the poem continues, its instance, “Attiak Refugee Camp, Northern setting and stays there, thus establishing a Colchester, Kusserow is a strong proposetting becomes increasingly di˝ cult to Uganda,” which o˜ ers the image of fi rm foundation on which to make a larger nent of community-engaged learning. She determine. drunken men in a village, contrasted with point. Moreover, the kernel of the poem’s encourages her students to participate in “Of course,” Kusserow continues, “they their overworked wives. “For the fi rst time confl ict is concealed in the phone line, and service work, and she leads by example. [the Lost Boys] were / tempted to lie down in years…,” the poem concludes, “women only hinted at. The insight f eels genuine Her most recent e˜ orts have taken her to for a moment / under the lone tree, with its in the camp report wif e beating has and unforced; the poem exists for its own South Sudan, where she works with the barely shade…” This is where the poem loses declined.” sake. second wave of what the book calls “lost track. Is this “lone tree” the same one from The problem is that we expect poetry In Refuge, Kusserow contemplates boys (and girls) … that fl ed their homes the beginning? It can’t be, because in the fi rst to surprise us in some way, either structur- Christianity, God, Buddhism, India, her seeking refuge from the second Sudanese stanza we are presented with multiple trees, ally or emotionally — the latter e˜ ect often mother’s Alzheimer’s and more. For a civil war.” not a lone one. Plus, we clearly move away arising from a subtle emotional insight the book of only 80 pages, it has a vast scope It may come as no surprise that at the from that fi rst setting in the second stanza. reader has not previously had. Failing at — perhaps to a fault; one could argue that core of Kusserow’s poetry is her work as an But the new tree is assigned the defi nite structural revelation, these poems of ten it attempts to encompass too much and anthropologist. Refuge is her second book article, as if it has already been introduced. poke at our emotions with images of atroc- lacks an adequate f ramework to support of what she calls “ethnographic poetry,” Has it? Does this image precede the fi rst ity, which is quite di˜ erent from epiphany. the diversity. This could be o˜ -putting for which is, more or less, a f ancy term f or one? Is Arok in this tree, in a nearby tree, in Not that these third-world calamities

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the mud, or somewhere else entirely? No matter where and when we are, the question really is, how did we get here? Perhaps the point of the poem is to make the reader feel as lost as these boys. That would be a remarkable way to begin a book so preoccupied with wandering. But as the reader continues, it’s hard to shake the impression that the poem is just unnecessarily convoluted. In the end, it is not the individual moments that clog up “Skull Trees” but the transitions between them. It’s almost as if the gravity of the images is meant to replace coherent syntax. These disjunctions occur throughout

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Steps began as a book, in 1915, which legendary British director Alfred Hitchcock adapted for film in 1935. Two years later, it was made into a radio play. Eventually, in 2007, Steps went onstage, with Patrick Barlow’s adaptation, in London and New York. The Broadway production was full of “the typical glitz and glam,” says Alicea. “The original almost felt like a magic show with low-tech and high-tech.” But Broadway “has the resources to make this work,” Alicea continues. Her thinking was, “What if we take this big show that has all this action, and [the directors] get nothing?” she says. “For me, this is what a director goes through — most don’t have the budget of Broadway, so there are things to overcome. I handed it to them and said, ‘Figure out how to solve this problem.’” In other words, expect almost no tech from the VSC’s tripartite staging, but a ton of creativity. And therein lies even more fun, as much for the directors and actors as for the audience. Adding to the hilarity — and the challenge — is the fact that two of the four actors in each section, whom the directors call “clowns,” play upward of 150 parts, at times juggling several simultaneously. Just imagine taking on a role that requires you to play men, women, children and the occasional inanimate object. Oh, and believably pull off a German, Scottish and English accent. Sounds exhausting and exhilarating in equal measures. The leading male role, of course, is Richard Hannay. The leading lady plays Annabella Smith and, in a nondivided production, also Pamela.

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Chances are, if you live in the Burlington area, you’ve seen BEN ALESHIRE doing stuff around town: typing up poems to order at the farmers market, showing his art at the BCA CENTER, playing trumpet with VERMONT JOY PARADE, perhaps even wearing a smoking jacket. But have you ever seen him interviewing Jared Leto? ˜ at’s one of the more surreal occurrences in Vermont Joy Parade: ˜ e Clock Tick and the Heartbeat, a documentary about the Burlington-based band’s European tour in late 2011. Directed by VIVIAN STROSBERG, it premieres on ˜ ursday at MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS as part of the BURLINGTON DISCOVER JAZZ FEST. Early in the fi lm, the fi ve band members on the tour get unexpected news in Berlin. Leto, best known as the ’90s heartthrob of Claire Danes on “My So-Called Life,” has seen them at a fl ea market and wants them to open for his band, ˜ irty Seconds to Mars, in Frankfurt. After a brief dispute about the pronunciation of his name (for the record, it’s Leh-to, not Lee-to), they agree. It’s a strange pairing, to say the least. Judging by the concert footage, Leto’s goth-rock band boasts a vast following of European teenage girls, while VJP generally performs for a smaller and, shall we say, more self-aware crowd. But the movie star makes no bones about his admiration for the eclectic “suspender fusion” band, who end up following him to another stadium show in Antwerp. While it may be a stretch to call the movie “part Spinal Tap” (as its PR asserts), it does offer amusing moments of band and inter-band sociology, as well as plenty of footage of VJP performing songs from their sophomore album, New Anthem. You can catch a live show after the premiere. Vermont-made music doc A Band Called Death made a splash at South by Southwest, but it won’t hit Vermont theaters till July. For now, you can see it on iTunes — or at two screenings at the upcoming LAKE PLACID FILM FORUM. Besides Death, the weekend fest, which starts next ˜ ursday, will host the annual Sleepless in Lake Placid student fi lmmaking competition, the North Country Shorts Showcase and seven narrative and documentary features. Among them are the Dennis Quaid-Zac Efron farm drama At Any Price and two docs devoted to climbing culture: ˜ e Summit , about the 2008 disaster on K2; and ˜ e Mountains Will Wait for You, about the fi rst woman to summit all 46 Adirondack high peaks. ˜ e LPFF, which has used Lake Placid’s historic downtown PALACE THEATRE as a venue, has been fostering a dialogue on the role of movie theaters in the digital era. On Saturday, June 15, at 10 a.m., distinguished guest Ira Deutchman — founder of Fine Line Features and producer of Matewan, Swimming to Cambodia and many other indies — will address those issues at an informal discussion called “Coffee and Conversation.” Speaking of student fi lm contests,BURLINGTON COLLEGE students DEWOLFE MORROW and JOE MULHERIN won multiple prizes for their short fi lm “One Day” at the just-

completed Cannes Film Festival. No, they weren’t in competition with the world’s top fi lmmakers, but with other participants in a fi lm program called Creative Minds in Cannes. Congrats to them! You can watch the fi lm at vimeo.com. A group of young women declare that if they can’t fi nd husbands, they’ll commit suicide. ˜ e women are Kurds in remote Iranian territory, and their plight is no joke in About 111 Girls, a fi lm from Iraq that will be screened on Sunday as part of the VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’s Global Roots series. Nahid Ghobadi’s 2012 debut follows the sometimes-comic misadventures of a bureaucrat as he strives to fi nd the women in question and address their problem. Are employee-owned businesses the way of the future? A documentary called Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work makes the affi rmative case. Several Vermont worker-owned cooperatives have teamed up to present a free screening of it at the Roxy next Wednesday, followed by a speakers’ panel and Q&A. New York fi lmmaker Art Jones reports that his documentary ˜ e Blood in ˜ is Town, about a record-breaking blood drive in Rutland, is now inspiring communitybuilding efforts across the Atlantic. It had its European premiere last Sunday, June 2, in Breda, the Netherlands, under the auspices of women’s service organization Soroptimist International. ˜ e doc, which offers Rutland’s annual Gift-of-Life Marathon as a blueprint for grassroots action, has already been screened at May’s National Brownfi elds Conference in Atlanta and in economically struggling towns and small cities around the U.S. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

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readers who expect subtle and sustained meditation in a poetry collection. On the other hand, one could also contend that Kusserow’s intended meditation is of vastness, restlessness and having no structure. Put differently: In many ways, Refuge meditates on its own faults. Kusserow nudges the reader toward this view in “The Unraveling Strangeness,” whose feverish speaker ultimately lands “with a thump, / into the great American refugee hive to begin / this frantic human work, perpetual manic revival, / stretching your way through the half-light / of this vast unraveling strangeness.”

Refuge leaves room for interpretation. Some readers may come away wishing that Kusserow had better attended to formal constraints; others may find that restlessness is its own justification. As in “Borders,” so continues the conflict.m

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fast and we’re pulling things together ourselves. I like taking risks.” Taking them with her are leading lady and man aliCe Corvo and JaSon P. lorber, and her clowns, tim wagoner and ryan howlanD. Carleton will pass the figurative ball to a former student, recent UVM grad Friedman. He assisted Alicea when she directed a section of last year’s Bake Off and has worked a number of behind-thescenes jobs at VSC since, but Steps is his postcollege directorial debut. Friedman, 23, says he doesn’t really think about the age difference between him and his fellow directors, but he’s respectful of their long experience and seems thrilled to be working with them. Well, with them mostly in devising segues from one section to the next. (A full rehearsal with all three sections doesn’t take place until this Thursday.) At the end of section one, Hannay “falls off a bridge into my section,” Friedman says. Much of the action ensues in the middle third, and Al icEA he gets to devise inventive escape scenes — which he’s reluctant to reveal. Joining Friedman in these escapades are leads PatriCK Clow and Silvia SworD, and clowns orion laySleePer and Jenny gunDy. How will this all turn out? Audiences can find out next week. At least there’s one thing we can be sure of: Alfred Hitchcock will not be making a surreptitious appearance.m

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who took the first, middle and last sections, respectively — reportedly with no disagreement. At auditions for the roles in Steps, though, “All three really wanted the same leading man and leading woman,” Alicea says, “so we had to figure out who would be best for each section of the play. Cathy got her first choice on leading roles because of the romance.” Hurst is a seasoned director, a faculty member of the St. Michael’s College theater department. At the college, she works primarily with student thespians, but she’s also the principal director of an opera company in Los Angeles. Hurst, who is new to VSC, says she was interested in the resolution of the pushpull chemistry between Richard and Pamela. “I love directing that sort of thing,” she says. “I like criS tiNA the humor of it, and I’m a romantic at heart.” In the lovers’ roles Hurst has cast JuStin rowe and Kit riverS (both of whom happen to be standup comics). SebaStian ryDer and John van luling are her “clowns.” At the opposite end of The 39 Steps — the beginning — Carleton is “loving the fact that I have to make clear the story,” she says. “My responsibility is the concept of the piece and the motivation.” Carleton, a longtime faculty member in the University of Vermont theater department and a veteran actor and director, says she saw the play on Broadway and loved it. She’s enthused about the opportunity to face Steps sans bells and whistles. “You have to convey everything with facial expressions and gestures,” Carleton says. “It’s exciting because it’s

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a mouthpiece, a battery, some electronics, a filament-type heater and a disposable cartridge containing a mix of nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerin and flavorings. When the electronics detect that the smoker has taken a drag, they switch on the heating element, warming air that’s then pulled through the cartridge, vaporizing some of the nicotine mix for easy inhaling. Many e-cigarettes are designed to mimic the tobacco kind, often with a colored LED tip that glows when the user inhales. However, other less literal-minded formats abound. For those who like wearing tweed and driving cranky British automobiles, an e-pipe version is available. These things clearly have their advantages. The absence of combustion means no combustion byproducts — including tars, carbon monoxide and other noxious chemicals — and also no risk of fires and burns. Those in the user’s vicinity don’t choke on tobacco smoke, although if you sit too close you can still get a snootful of secondhand vapor. Relatively little research has been done on e-cigarettes since their appearance on the market roughly six years ago. However, while it would be foolish to say they’re harmless, studies so far suggest they’re orders of magnitude safer than conventional cigarettes. In investigating e-cigs, the FDA has focused on two types of chemicals: tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs), which are carcinogenic, and diethylene

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glycol (DEG), a plain old poison. E-cigarettes were found to provide a 500- to 1400-fold reduction in TSNAs compared to traditional cigarettes, and DEG was found in only one cartridge tested. Of 16 studies reviewed in 2010, none found more than trace amounts of the carcinogens typical of tobacco smoke in either the nicotine solution or the vapor thereof. Nonetheless, since there’s no minimum safe level of a carcinogen, the FDA still warns against e-cigarettes. Although you’re not sucking in smoke with e-cigs, you are inhaling vapor, which can be problematic. One study I came across reported that vaping for just five minutes made breathing more difficult. The propylene glycol in the nicotine solution can cause respiratory inflammation and increase asthma risk. A test of 35 nicotine refills

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in various flavors found several were toxic to human cells, primarily due to the flavorings. Another study found that because of contamination by the heating filament, some vapor contained tiny particles of silica and metals such as tin, nickel, and chromium. Nine of eleven elements found in e-cigarette vapor were at an equal or higher concentration than that found in conventional cigarette smoke, with what fell implications no one knows. The main thing, though, is that e-cigarettes can help reduce or eliminate smoking, even among those not trying to quit. Researchers in Italy furnished a group of volunteer smokers with

e-cigarettes, excluding anyone who was consciously trying to stop smoking and providing no encouragement to do so. Despite this, 22 of 27 participants had reduced their consumption of conventional cigarettes by at least 50 percent after six months, and nine had quit altogether. Other studies have found that despite delivering minimal nicotine, e-cigarettes satisfy regular smokers and significantly reduce the craving to smoke. Compared to things like nicotine patches, e-cigarettes may make it easier to stop smoking because they preserve the ritual of holding a cigarette, taking a puff and exhaling visible fumes. E-cigarette users we’ve talked to unanimously report the product is a passable substitute for the real thing, although some say they still smoke an occasional cigarette when under peer pressure. Overall, notwithstanding my instinct that all change is for the worse, the evidence to date strongly suggests e-cigarettes beat smoking, which kills 443,000 Americans annually and is notoriously hard to stop doing — among people who try to quit on their own, 80 percent relapse within a month. Longterm research on health impacts is needed, and no doubt breaking the nicotine habit altogether is preferable to vaping. But e-cigarettes look like a good plan B.

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graduates from Colchester High School next week. “That’s kind of a dark Humpty Dumpty,” Neari observes. “His face reminds me of the monster in Little Shop of Horrors.” Lucy, whose parents are friends of Laberge’s, agrees that her Humpty does have a “semi-sinister” expression. “I wanted to make him look animated,” the young artist explains, “but the smile lines had to have shadows, and that’s what gives him that look.” Humpty measures 15 feet in circumference. It wasn’t easy hoisting him into place by hand from the back of a delivery truck, Neari notes. Although he’s been coated with varnish, Humpty won’t be able to withstand a protracted stay on the roof, Laberge says. She figures he’ll have to come down at the end of this month — not in a great fall, Laberge hopes, but the same way he got up there. Hence the need for adoption. “I am willing to give Humpty Dumpty to a good home,” Laberge reveals.

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nyone want to adopt a gigantic Humpty Dumpty? Dude’s roly-poly fun, even if he is a bit fragile. We’re talking about the Humpty Dumpty sitting on a roof at the eastern edge of Fort Ethan Allen, right before the intersection with Susie Wilson Road. If you’ve noticed the nursery rhyme character’s Colchester gig, you’re probably thinking, “WTF?” That is indeed the reaction of some customers of New Horizons, the embroidery and screen-printing shop atop which the papier-mâché-and-foam Humpty squats. Anthony Neari, the store’s owner, says customers’ confusion arises in part from the unclear connection between the eggman and embroidery. There isn’t any, Neari tells them. Humpty Dumpty is perched there solely because the building’s owner, William Parkinson, agreed to host the installation. And he and Neari are both big fans of this

particular guerrilla artwork. “I think it’s pretty fantastic,” Parkinson enthuses. “It sure does inspire conversation,” Neari adds, “which is just what the artist wanted.” Humpty’s creator is Ann Laberge, a zesty 66-year-old who lives in a nearby condo. Her aim, she says, is simply to delight passersby. “I just want to give people a moment,” Laberge says, and explains that she worked for 10 years as a nurse for dementia patients, “who only get a moment” of lucidity at a time. With Humpty Dumpty, she likewise seeks to engender “moments out of the ordinary — moments of surprise, of little pleasures.” Vermont’s version of Banksy achieved the same results with two earlier public displays of wit and whimsy. A couple of years ago, Laberge erected a 430-foot-long cable clothesline 50 feet above a section of the Fort Ethan Allen green across Dalton Avenue from her home. She draped it with XXXL garments that might have been made by the Jolly Green Giant’s tailor, except they were actually Laberge’s work — over the course of many months, she notes. Laberge, who studied industrial design at the Massachusetts College of Art, has also painted actual grapevines yellow and suspended them from a high window in the stone water tower close to where Humpty currently sits. Yes, they’re meant to be Rapunzel’s braids. Why the predilection for children’s tales? The Bridport-born artist says she just delights in entertaining little kids. In response to Rapunzel, “Their faces just lit up,” she says. “I love it when that happens.” Laberge may be a guerrilla artist, but she doesn’t act on impulse. She’s been planning to make Humpty ever since her collaborator, Lucy Stein, was 10 years old. Lucy, who painted the egg’s face,

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en & Jerry’s holds a f ederal trademark on the shape of the fish-shaped f udge pieces in Phish Food ice cream — thanks to Peter B. Kunin. Before it was sold to Unilever, Vermont’s Finest relied on Kunin to protect its quirky brand f rom imitators. Kunin, 50, is one of Vermont’s most seasoned intellectual property lawyers. The 20-year veteran is part of an intel lectual property practice group within Burlington firm Downs Rachlin Martin devoted to trademark, copyright and patent claims. In addition to Ben & Jerry’s, Kunin Name has registered Peter B. Kunin trademarks f or comTow N mando underBurlington wear, Black Diamond Job Equipment outdoor gear, Intellectual Harpoon property attorney Brewery beer and Against the Grain Gourmet gluten-free pizza. A Burlington native — and son of Madeleine Kunin, Vermont’s first female governor — Peter Kunin has made a career out of def ending companies from getting ripped off by copycats and, as he puts it, “helping them stay out of trouble.” His first intellectual property client was IBM. In 1993, Big Blue needed a lawyer to negotiate a complex agree ment to use another firm’s technology f or a microprocessor. Kunin negotiated through the night and by morning had a deal — a success that would lead to an 18-month stint doing legal work f or IBM. Today, Kunin represents a range of clients big and small, f rom alcoholicbeverage giant Diageo — makers of Tanqueray, Guinness and other liba tions — to Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery. Kunin has closely followed the series of Vermont-related trademark disputes in the news lately, chief among them the claims filed by Magic Hat Brewing Company and Vermont Hard Cider Company (maker of Woodchuck). Seven Days caught up with him f or a trade mark tutorial in his firm’s conference room last week.

SEVEN DAYS: What’s the difference between trademark infringement and copyright infringement? PETER B. KUNIN: Trademark is a brand name. It identifies a product or service, whether that be a slogan, a name or a design element, like the Nike swoosh. Copyright protects creative works — novels, movies, music, sof tware, paint ings, sculpture, choreography and lots of other types of expressive works. SD: magic Hat recently filed a trademark-infringement claim against a Kentucky brewery, claiming it ripped off the #9 logo. Do they have a case? PK: The test of trademark infringement is likelihood of conf usion — whether consumers are going to believe that [West Sixth Brewing’s] 6 actually is made by Magic Hat, endorsed by Magic Hat. It’s a tough call. One f actor Magic Hat has in its f avor is their #9 is really well recognized, and that’s a very im portant factor — how famous that brand name is. SD: Does the fact that it’s 6 make a difference? If it was 5 or 3 would magic Hat’s case be weaker? PK: The fact that 6 is an upside-down 9 is a factor. Some beer drinkers are going to just run into the convenience store

and grab the beer. You could imagine a situation where someone sees that and just quickly grabs it, and it’s not until they get home that they realize that it’s #6 and not #9. SD: With the recent Woodchuck cider claim, the business being accused of trademark infringement, Woodchuck coffee Roasters, is not producing the same product. one is hard cider, the other is coffee beans. Presumably they wouldn’t be next to each other on the supermarket shelf. Is that case a different animal from magic Hat’s? PK: It is. The question you have to ask yourself in this Woodchuck case is, is it likely that a hard-cider company is going to expand into coffee, such that people who see the Woodchuck coffee will say, “Wow, I’ll try this because I know Woodchuck cider and I betcha this is from the Woodchuck [Hard] Cider company, so I’ll try it?” I think in that case, Woodchuck Cider has a bit of an uphill battle. They might be able to prove it because the images are strikingly similar. SD: What about Bo muller-moore, the montpelier “Eat more Kale” artist whom fast-food chain chick-fil-A accused of infringing on its slogan “Eat mor chikin”?

PK: From my perspective, Chick-fil-A — they’ve got no claim at all. Nobody is going to think that a fast-food company is associated with an organic socialmovement artist in Vermont. That, to me, is an example of trademark bullying. And I think what’s interesting about the case is, Chick-fil-A has never actually sued [Muller-Moore], because they’d lose. [The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office gave Muller-Moore a “prelimi nary no” ruling this past April.] SD: Vermont’s newly signed patenttroll law — which you testified in support of — is the first of its kind. What’s a patent troll? PK: A patent troll is an entity that uses its patent in an extortionate manner to try to extract a license fee from a company. They send a letter demanding a patentlicense f ee and in very simple terms laying out the alleged patent inf ringe ment with no detail at all. License f ees can sometimes be $15,000 or $20,000. Now, that’s a lot of money, but it’s a lot less than fighting the patent-infringement claim, which can cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions. SD: So what does the new law do? PK: It enables a Vermont company to recover its legal fees and damages if it’s been threatened or sued in bad faith — in other words, without an adequate legal basis. Under existing f ederal law, you’d have to def end that to the conclusion and get a successf ul [ruling]. What this does is, earlier in the process, it gives the Vermont company a chance to counter claim, or countersue. SD: Do you hold any patents? PK: I do not. SD: If you were going to patent something, what would it be? PK: My son has always wanted to get a patent on antibacterial soap. SD: If someone were going to make a t V show about this law firm, which actor would play you? PK: I’d pref er George Clooney, but I’d get stuck with Billy Crystal. m

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ere’s how I landed the seediest assignment of my journalism career — and wound up naked on a massage table in Williston, turning down sex from a Korean woman in a pink thong.

and buzzers to screen customers; windows covered with bars, boards or curtains. The workers were all Asian women who claimed to work seven days a week and live on the premises. Though the women’s names were obviously pseudonyms, I’ve changed them all to protect their privacy. To find evidence of prostitution, all I did was walk in the door at each place and ask for a massage. It took me less than a week and cost about $500, including tips.

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Suzy was a short, stocky woman who looked to be around 40. She requested $80 upf ront. When I handed her the cash, she left the room briefly, then returned and told me to undress and get on the table face down. When I asked for a receipt, she smiled and shook her head. Then she covered me with a towel f rom my waist down and began working my neck and shoulders. Suzy, who said she was Korean, spoke broken English and was selective about which questions she answered, perhaps because she didn’t understand them. When I asked which days she works — in case I wanted to come back — she said, “Every day.” “What time?” “All day,” she said. A half hour into the massage, when I was starting to think I’d misjudged the place, Suzy yanked off the towel and tossed it on the floor, leaving me totally naked. She then climbed on the table, positioned her knees against my inner thighs, nudged my legs wide open and began massaging my lower ass. Feeling extremely vulnerable, I squirmed, then realized that the music playing was “Speak Softly Love,” aka the love theme to The Godfather. Near the end of the hour, she said, “Turn over.” When I did, she turned around and immediately grabbed my penis by the shank and started to massage it, too. I was startled but not surprised. I pulled away, shook my head and said, “No, that’s OK. I’m married.” She apologized but remained otherwise stoic. She then grabbed a hot towel, wiped my f ront clean, then helped me dress, kneeling to put on my socks and shoes. On the way out, Suzy offered me hard candies from a bowl. I handed her a $20 bill, which she stuffed in her bra. I hurried out of the dark and claustrophobic space, which felt more like a prison — or a tomb. Several days later, I called the building’s owner, Sam Bloomberg, to find out who owns River Spa. He identified the owner as Sin Grzelecki, an Asian woman who “doesn’t understand much English.” That’s the same name listed in the Vermont Secretary of State’s corporation database. But Bloomberg had no contact information for Grzelecki other than the spa’s business number. A Google search turned up only one person by that name in the United At 200 Battery Street in Burlington, River Spa seems out States, in New Market, Md., with no phone number. of place in the historic waterfront neighborhood it shares Bef ore Grzelecki, Bloomberg rented his space to with an art gallery, marketing agency, architectural firm, another massage operation — Eunhwa Spa, then owned hair salon and law offices. The building’s doors and win- by Inson Everitt. The place shut down af ter November dows are completely shrouded. Only the neon “OPEN” 6, 2009, when John Green, a 49-year-old homeless jani sign, which glows at all hours, hints at any life inside. tor, tried to f orce a f emale masseuse to give him a blow The white metal door in the lobby sports bumper stick- job. When she refused, he allegedly slapped her around, ers f rom the Vermont Police Association and Vermont grabbed her by the throat and tried to f orce her mouth Troopers Association, one of which reads, “Troopers are open. He then allegedly threatened to kill her if she didn’t your best protection.” comply. Burlington police responded to the assault. The next door was locked. “Suzy,” my masseuse, buzzed At Green’s arraignment, Chittenden County State’s me in and asked if I wanted a massage, then offered me a Attorney T.J. Donovan raised concerns that the victim, shower. According to Rubmaps, many Asian massage par- a Korean national, may have been a human trafficking lors offer table showers, where the women lather clients victim who was f orced into prostitution, a claim Everitt up, rinse them down and towel them dry. I declined. later denied. Green later confessed to paying for sex there, Suzy appeared to be alone, though I suspected she but Donovan had to dismiss the case because past spa wasn’t. I f ollowed her through the dimly lit spa, which employees either refused to cooperate or simply vanished. had zero natural lighting, into a large, carpeted room with Green later confessed to an unrelated aggravated-assault a swinging half -door. The place lacked the gritty, urban charge. f eel I’d come to expect f rom the nine Rubmaps reviews, At the time, Everitt ran another Asian massage parlor all which described hand jobs and various other sex acts. in Chittenden County: Seiwa Spa in Essex Junction. My In the room were white robes, fresh towels, tea candles next stop. burning on end tables — even a poster of the human skeletal-muscular system. But no cash register or computer. Classical guitar music was playing softly.

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It all started on May 7 when FBI agents and local police raided two Asian massage parlors in Bennington. According to police affidavits, federal authorities had been investigating allegations of suspected prostitution and human trafficking at the two “spas” — the Green and the Cozy — for almost two years. Their actions were prompted by reviews posted on an adult website, USASexGuide.info, as well as “rumors ... circulated around town that a happy ending could happen at that location,” according to the affadavit. A “happy ending” is code for a hand job. According to the FBI, Cozy Spa’s owner, Young Shin, has a history of prostitution in Kentucky, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Texas. Another “person of interest” is Inson Everitt, who police say is also connected to both spas and has her own rap sheet of prostitution-related arrests. Everitt has not been questioned by police, but Bennington Detective David Rowland said that “we know where to get a hold of her if we need to.” In the Bennington raids, police seized computers, cellphones, business records and several thousand dollars in cash but made no arrests and filed no criminal charges. Rowland said police are now processing all the evidence. It’s still unclear whether the women, all of whom are Asian, worked there willingly or were victims of forced prostitu tion — aka human trafficking. While such establishments regularly escape police scrutiny, Rubmaps.com, an adult-entertainment website, has known about them, and others around Vermont, f or years. Rubmaps — whose slogan is “Find your happy ending!” — bills itself as a nationwide guide to “erotic” massage parlors and other services one may procure there. For a $14.99 premium monthly membership, Rubmaps users can see online reviews, one- to five-star ratings and, presumably, read or write firsthand accounts about massages and sexual favors, including how much they cost. The reviews include names and details about the women — including height, ethnicity, hair and eye color, breast and ass size — as well as a checklist of what the women did or allowed, such as “ass play,” “breast play,” “hand job,” “blow job,” “finger the pussy,” “lick the pussy” and “FS.” Rubmaps’ glossary noted that FS is short for “full service,” or a blow job plus sex. In all, Rubmaps offers reviews and write-ups dating back to 2011 of 10 “rub-and-tug” joints in the state — six of which are in Chittenden County. Two of those have had connections to Everitt, of Bennington-bust fame. Last week, I went to see whether Rubmaps users were talking shit or telling it like it was. From the start, I made it clear to my editors — and, more importantly, my wif e — that I wouldn’t solicit or accept sexual f avors. But as I discovered at three of the four spas I visited, it wasn’t necessary to ask, hint, flash a fifty or even nod suggestively toward my crotch. It was just assumed that my massage would close with the proverbial happy ending, like a fortune cookie at the end of the meal. And when I turned it down — evidently a rare occurrence in these places — it caused confusion, embarrassment and, judging from the looks on the women’s faces, fear. The working conditions I witnessed, or which female employees described to me, were consistent with what law-enf orcement of f icers say characterize businesses engaged in f orced prostitution. In f act, many of the red flags for sex trafficking outlined in the Bennington police affidavits were also evident at three Chittenden County establishments: no apparent cash registers or documentation of transactions; all-male clientele; an abundant use of surveillance cameras, locked doors

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Bennington spas have known ties to Flushing.) The timing of Rose’s arrival was consistent with the Rubmaps reviews about her, which began to appear in June 2011. In f act, At 39 Park Street in Essex Junction, Seiwa Spa hides in four of the seven reviews for Seiwa mention Rose and her plain sight. Located upstairs f rom Five Corners Variety happy endings. liquor store and Rocky’s N.Y. Pizza, it has a large, blue sign Despite having been in Essex Junction f or two years, that depicts a palm tree, beach and full moon. The place Rose seemed to know virtually nothing about the area has three entrances. A Rubmaps user recommended the except that there’s a Macy’s in the mall, where she buys covered stairwell off the rear parking lot. makeup. She’d been to Burlington but didn’t know the I headed upstairs one weekday af ternoon, as couples name of the “big lake.” When I asked if she ever sees sat outside eating slices and creemees, and backpackfemale clients, she said no. One comes in maybe once or laden kids cut across the parking lot on the way home twice a year, she noted, but they never return. from school. “So, Rose. Where do you live?” I asked. “Rose,” a smiley and affectionate Korean woman, un“Here,” she said. bolted the door, which sports the same police stickers as “In Essex Junction?” River Spa. She hugged me, removed my shoes, handed me “No, here,” she clarified. slippers and led me inside. Before we reached the massage “In this place?” She nodded matter-of-factly, then conroom, she requested $80, then stuffed the cash in a drawer tinued kneading my shoulders. She said I could come back — no register or computer used, either. and see her anytime, as she works seven days a week, 9:30 When I declined her shower offer, she told me to get a.m. to 10:30 p.m. undressed. Since there was no towel or sheet in the room, With seven minutes left in the hour, Rose told me to I donned a thin cotton robe and lay face down. When Rose flip over, then immediately gripped my penis and began returned, she giggled and removed it, then slapped my to rub it. When I shook my head and said, “No, that’s butt and complimented me on my body. Solo saxophone OK,” a range of emotions washed across her face, from music created a bizarre ambiance, especially later, when conf usion to embarrassment to f ear. She apologized a slow, sultry version of “Hava Nagila” suddenly turned profusely. upbeat and Klezmer-paced. I, too, apologized and felt terrible, reassuring her many Rose, who was very chatty, told me she’s 31. I would times that I wasn’t a cop. She relaxed a bit but seemed have guessed much older. She claimed she’d been in the chastened and unsure what to do next except help me United States f or eight and a half years and moved to dress. When I explained that I’m married, she said, “You Vermont two years ago from Flushing, N.Y. (Owners of the good husband.”

Unsure whether anyone was listening, I whispered, “They pay you well?” She shook her head silently. “Just tips?” She nodded. Only later did I learn from anti-trafficking experts that many women in Asian massage parlors only get paid in gratuities. I handed Rose all the cash I had in my pocket, about $30, and left. I have no way to confirm whether anything Rose said is true. For all I know, she receives a livable wage, with f ull health benefits and four weeks paid vacation. But when I called the building’s owner, Bob Sophia, to find out who owns Seiwa Spa — the registered agent listed on the Secretary of State’s website, Rance Champion, had no phone listing in Vermont — Sophia wanted nothing to do with me and didn’t return follow-up phone calls. Downstairs, the kid slinging slices at Rocky’s didn’t know a thing about Seiwa except, “No women go in there, that’s for sure.” Ditto the scruffy twentysomething cashier at the convenience store. In the one year he’s worked there, he said, the place always seemed to be open. I described Rose and asked if he’d ever seen her. “Nope,” he said. As I drove away, I spotted a lone desk chair facing west on the roof of the building.

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Such establishments aren’t new to Vermont. In July 2004, the Essex and Williston police departments, along with the FBI and U.S. immigration agents, raided three Asian brothels disguised as massage parlors, including

Of the three spas Vermont police raided in 2004, un - she’d lived for 10 years. I asked if she was more a city girl documented sex workers were found in only two. One was or country girl. “City girl,” she said, giggling. Tokyo Health Spa, which is now closed. The other was I asked if she had a boyfriend back in New York City. Harmony Health Spa in Williston. That was my next and “No, you my boyfriend,” she said with a flirty smile. last stop. Candy’s massage was athletic and rigorous. She sat on my ass, stretched my legs in all directions and deliberately pressed her breasts against my head sev eral times. As a new employee, she said she’d work Tall hedges off Williston Road conceal Harmony Health seven days a week, from 10 a.m. until 11 p.m. for about Spa, located in a shabby, windowless, one-story storefront a month before she gets a day off. She also claimed to near Taft Corners. Its corporate status is “terminated,” ac- live on site. As I lay on my stomach with my arms draped over the cording to the Secretary of State’s office, but the massage sides of the table, Candy lif ted my hands and planted parlor is still open for business. them firmly on her thighs. Next, she asked if I wanted Out f ront, a huge roadside sign displays the hours of to see her breasts. When I smiled but said nothing, she operation as well as a red digital clock that tells the time. There’s even a handicap-accessible ramp. On the day I vis- removed her top and bra, then pulled down her pants. She fingered her pink thong seductively and began ited, the only car outside was a white Lexus with Florida pulling it lower, asking if I wanted to see more. I knew plates. Inside the f ront vestibule, an older Asian woman un - exactly what she was offering, and it sure as hell wasn’t locked an inner door and waved me inside. I told her I was foot reflexology. When I declined, she asked, “You shy guy?” then gripped my penis firmly with one hand and looking for “Chi-Chi.” Rubmaps has seven reviews about her dating from January 2012, all of them positive and full made it clear that everything was on the table, includ ing her, if I wanted it. I turned her down. of happy endings. A few days later, Tom Booska, who owns the building, confirmed by phone that Harmony’s owner is a woman named Nam Son Yim. When I asked for her contact info, he said, “Well, if you call there, they’re going to refer you to me because of the language barrier. Not that I’m fluent in Korean at all.” When I mentioned the Bennington spa raids, Booska said he was aware of the human trafficking allegations there but insisted nothing of the sort was happening at Harmony. How could he be so sure? “I’m very careful to make sure that I have only U.S. citizens in this building,” Booska said, adding that he checks the I-9 immigration forms of all the women working there to ensure they’re legit. Any reason, I asked, to suspect prostitution? “I’m sure there’s not,” he said. “The Williston Police Department and U.S. immigration check in from time to time. There’s nothing going on there that shouldn’t be.” Several hours later, I got a phone call from a Vermont Rubmaps user I’d interviewed in person previously. He agreed to talk to Seven Days on the condition his real name “I’m Chi-Chi,” she said suspiciously. “Who told you not be used in this story. Chi-Chi?” “Adam” said that he’d just returned from Harmony “A friend,” I said vaguely. Spa, which he’d never visited before. He paid $80 cash Chi-Chi, who behaved more like a madam — in Asian massage parlors, they’re sometimes called mamasans — f or a one-hour massage. He said his masseuse was Asian but he didn’t catch her name. She didn’t sound led me by a surveillance camera and down a long narrow like either of the two women I encountered there, hall, past a man taking a shower, into a dimly lit but clean but his description of the spa’s interior, as well as the and well-kept room. nature of the transaction, were consistent with my own Chi-Chi yelled something down the hall in Korean experience. and a tall, thin and busty Asian woman named “Candy” Adam said his masseuse kept him covered under a walked in, wearing black spandex pants, a lacey pink skirt and a tight, low-cut blouse. She hugged me affectionately blanket while she walked on his back. Then, toward the and asked for $80. I forked over the cash, and she briefly end of the massage, she tickled his legs and belly lightly. “That’s when she flopped me over and got rid of the left the room. blanket altogether,” Adam said. “I didn’t even have to ask. I undressed and laid f ace down on the table. Candy She just went to town.” returned with Chi-Chi, who patted me on the rump and By “went to town,” he clarified that she began giving whispered in my ear, “She take care of you, you take care him a hand job. of her, OK?” “She asked me, ‘You appreciate me? You know what I Candy drew the half-curtain in the doorway closed, mean?’” he added. “I said I did.” dimmed the lights f urther, then got down to business. Af ter Adam ejaculated, he said he got dressed and She was very f riendly and talkative, originally f rom a handed her $40. She begged for another $20, and got it. town outside of Seoul, South Korea. She said she’d just arrived in Vermont a day earlier from Manhattan, where Another “happy” ending — at least for him. m

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the Tokyo Health Spa in Essex Junction. In all, eight women were taken into custody, including three who admitted to performing sex for money. All were briefly detained, then released and ordered to appear in immi gration court in Boston. None ever showed up. Lieutenant Rick Garey of the Essex PD, who participated in that investigation, explained in October 2010 to Vermont’s then-newly formed human trafficking task force how police botched that investigation by mistaking trafficking victims for prostitutes. “Our witnesses floated into the wind,” he said, “and our investigation ground to a halt.” There are more than 4000 brothels in the U.S. that are disguising themselves as legitimate spas and massage parlors, according to the Polaris Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group, Many advertise openly in magazines and newspapers — some have run ads in Seven Days — as well as in phone directories and online forums such as Craigslist and Backpage.com. According to the Polaris Project, they operate pretty much the same way everywhere. Typically, the custom ers, or “Johns,” pay a “house fee” of $60 to $90 — all but one in Chittenden County charged $80 — for one hour of service. Clients are expected to bring additional cash for the women, but the tips can be varied and unpredictable. In many cases, the women have been smuggled into the United States illegally and are forced to repay the cost of their passage by working as prostitutes. Once here, the women, who are predominantly Asian, are expected to work f rom 10 a.m. to 2 a.m., seven days a week. It’s not uncommon for one woman to service six to 10 men a day. Surveillance cameras are used not only to keep an eye on the customers but also on the women, to prevent them from fleeing. “In general, f ake massage businesses control women through many means, including psychological abuse, threats, document confiscation, isolation, debt bondage or capitalizing on language barriers or the unf amiliarity of the women to their immediate surroundings,” Polaris explains in a detailed fact sheet about fake massage par lors. “Physical abuse and violence may also be present. However, relative to other sex trafficking networks, it is less frequently used as a method of control.” Just last week, Vermont’s anti-trafficking task force completed the protocols for a new, rapid-response support system that can offer such victims safe haven, food, shelter and medical care. However, the experts say that it’s often hard to get the women to leave their places of employ. After police raided the Bennington spas last month, none of the workers accepted their safe-haven offers. The affidavits were “a real interesting challenge to write,” admitted Bennington Det. Rowland, “because in one respect, you could be looking at prostitution, but at the other end you’re potentially looking at them as victims.” None of the six Asian massage parlors in Chittenden County is currently under investigation, according to the Burlington PD, Essex PD, Williston PD and the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations. CUSI Director Dennis Duffy said his staff is just “too slammed” to have much free time for “proactive stuff.” For its part, the FBI won’t comment on whether it has active investigations, but Duffy said he assumes the feds would have alerted him if they had anything under way in Chittenden County. Neither Duffy nor other police officers contacted for this story seemed aware of the existence of Rubmaps or its contents.

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not move out of the Old North End into a “better” school district, or at least send her older child, now a seventh grader at Edmunds Middle School, to a private institution. Kervick’s younger child is currently enrolled at the IAA. And she notices that the parents of some of her daughter’s playmates have chosen that school over an other closer to their homes. “It used to be a hidden treasure,” Kervick says of Wheeler. “I guess the secret’s out. Some parents who might have sent their kids to, say, the Waldorf School are coming here f or the arts curriculum — and in a public school setting.” The magnet concept represents the opposite of the thinking that inspired proposals to close Barnes and pos sibly Wheeler a decade ago. Because of the two schools’ exceptionally high poverty rates and low academic achievement, some Burlington educators, including thenSuperintendent Lyman Amsden, reasoned that Old North End students would fare better if integrated into the city’s other schools. The opposing view was that socioeconomic integra tion could result not f rom sending Old North End chil dren elsewhere, but f rom enticing middle-class f amilies f rom outside the area to entrust their kids’ education to teachers and staff at a reincarnated Wheeler and transSustainability Academy students play in the cafeteria after lunch f ormed Barnes. The Burlington school board decided that an emphasis on sustainability and the arts would be potential draws for progressive-minded parents of means. en years ago, Burlington education officials were Minority students represent close to a majority at both Proponents of the magnet model maintained that local considering shutting down H.O. Wheeler and the sustainability and arts schools. And race relations students, too, would benefit from innovative pedagogy Lawrence Barnes, the Old North End’s two ele - appear mostly harmonious at both, although there were that used the arts and environmental education as tools mentary schools. Both were failing, demoralized tensions as enrollment started to shif t to include more for teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. institutions with declining enrollments and the lowest white students f rom outside the area and as the schools It took a few years for the concept to gel into encouragtest scores among the city’s six primary schools. underwent a radical transition in their curricula. ing outcomes at Vermont’s first — and still only — magnet Today, there’s a waiting list for the kindergarten class Moreover, standardized tests administered at elemen- schools. Both schools went through traumatic turnovers at both Barnes and Wheeler. Growing numbers of middle- tary schools under the New England Common Assessment of principals, cueing concerns that the new institutions class families from outside the Old North End are being Program (NECAP) show an upward trajectory in reading were lacking a clear sense of direction and purpose. But pulled toward what are now the city’s two magnet schools. and math results at both the Sustainability Academy and now stable, effective leadership is making a big difference They’re attracted by the specialized f ocus each adopted the IAA. The percentage of students scoring at the two at both the academies. five years ago in response to an outcry against the looming highest levels has jumped by about 20 percentage points Victor Prussack, magnet schools coordinator f or the loss of twin cornerstones of neighborhood identity. The at each school over the past five years, while the propor- Burlington School District, says he’s learned f rom his transf ormation has not been unif ormly smooth, but the tion with the lowest scores is much smaller now than in teaching experience in California and New York City that quality of education at the two schools has demonstrably the premagnet era. Attendance rates have also climbed. “the strength of a principal is what most determines a improved, according to test results and the testimony of Vandalism has ceased. school’s climate.” parents, teachers, administrators and students themselves. Recent visits to both schools show them to be orderly, Faculty and parents seem generally to agree that the Barnes and Wheeler, which were renamed the friendly settings where children seem glad to be. current principals of the two academies demonstrate Sustainability Academy and the Integrated Arts Academy, It wasn’t always this way. A f ew years ago, Colby strong leadership by maintaining consistent presence respectively, now shine as success stories — in contrast to Kervick recalls, friends and colleagues would tell her, “I in the halls, classrooms and lunchrooms and by greet the discordant, racially fraught narrative that has spun out can’t believe you’re sending your child to Wheeler.” ing every student by name — and with a smile. “They’re at Burlington High School this past academic year. There, An education professor at the University of Vermont, not just good educators; they’re both big morale boost some Af rican immigrant students have staged protests Kervick says she argued in response that the school was ers,” Prussack says of IAA principal Bobby Riley and in response to perceived instances of discrimination, not as bad as its reputation and that the neighborhood was Sustainability Academy principal Brian Williams. prompting anguished discussions about race in a school not nearly as dangerous as many outsiders imagined. Still, The former Wheeler School shuffled through three district that is now 30 percent nonwhite. the skeptics had trouble understanding why Kervick did principals in four years. It’s now led by Burlington native

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Magnet Schools « p.33 To Damber Bhandari, the IAA is “a safe place.” That quality stands out to the Bhutanese immigrant who lived in a refugee camp in Nepal for several years before coming to Burlington. Bhandari says the older of her two daughters attending the arts academy wants to be a doctor, “but first she has to learn some better English.” Khin Lwin, a refugee from Burma who lived for several years in Thailand, says her three children at the Sustainability Academy especially enjoy their frequent field trips. “Shelburne Farms — that’s a place they like a lot. Also [North] Beach — for learning to swim,” she says. Williams tells the sustainability school’s students at a recent assembly that a multicultural gathering such as theirs would once have been described as a “melting pot.” But that’s not really how diversity in skin color, dress and language should be seen, he continues. “It’s more a mosaic.” Unsurprisingly, neither of the magnet schools has completely transcended the boundaries that keep many Americans separated by differences of race or class. “Look out at the PTO meetings, and there’s just this sea of white faces,” Riley says in regard to the arts academy’s parent teacher organization. “How do we reach out more effectively? It’s still not clear.” The same palette appears when the Sustainability Academy’s PTO convenes, notes Helen Rock, who works at Seventh Generation and sends her two children to the school. “People do go out of their way to be inclusive,” Rock says, “but we haven’t succeeded in getting parents of color involved. It’s frustrating.” The academies host tea parties for various groups of parents on a regular basis, as part of their principals’ efforts to engender a sense of belonging in all the members of their school communities. “That’s pretty successful,” Riley says. “It can be a starting point, anyway.” The faculty of both schools is almost entirely white. “We’ve had better success with the after-school program and paraeducators” in recruiting nonwhites, says Anne Tewksbury-Frye, who helps shape the sustainability curriculum at the former Barnes. More broadly, though, the magnet schools, like all schools in Burlington, have yet to answer a question posed by Prussack: “How do we get the demographics of the adults here to reflect the students’?” Class differences, even more than race, generate friction among some students and parents, Riley notes. The gap between richer and poorer has a geographical element, he says. Riley offers the example of the IAA’s Halloween party, which has prompted some parents from outside the Old North End to complain about the loud music played and the junk food served.

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urlington parents can now choose where to send their children to elementary school, but do they know what education those children will receive? Parents may be puzzled by what, exactly, is on offer at the Sustainability Academy, its administrators acknowledge. The arts curriculum at the former Wheeler, by contrast, proved an instant hit. Tewksbury-Frye observes that the “very vibrant arts community in Burlington” has served as something of an extended faculty for the IAA. Classroom teachers in the centuryold brick building on Archibald Street are able to work with local arts specialists who offer joint instruction in music, dance, theater and visual art, Prussack says. Burlington City Arts offers hands-on learning opportunities to the school’s students, while the Vermont Arts Council assigns professional dancers, musicians and storytellers to residencies at the academy. How do the arts get integrated in the classroom? Aurie Thibault, a fourth-grade teacher, says he recently used the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneering abstractionist, to enhance math lessons for his students. “We studied Kandinsky’s work and looked to see all the different kinds of angles in it,” Thibault relates. His students then tried their own hands at making similar paintings. It’s a bit harder for Prussack, who recruits at preschools on behalf of both magnet schools, to convey the sustainability concept to parents considering sending their children to one academy or the other. Because the former Barnes is the first public elementary school in the United States to focus on such a curriculum, the school’s staff has had no template to guide its approach to learning. “Sustainability is usually seen as environmentalism,” notes Becky Rabin, who worked at the school as a math specialist for seven years as Barnes transitioned into the Sustainability Academy. Her daughter, Cora, is now a student there. “Sustainability means more than that,” she adds, “but it’s not always easy to explain.” The Sustainability Academy has long had a close relationship with Shelburne Farms, which assigns the equivalent of a full-time staffer to work there. Students tend a vegetable garden alongside the school building, and they regularly visit the animals at the Farms. That’s part of the “place-based” method of teaching that Williams favors for the school. There’s a sense of urgency implicit in the effort to develop a sustainability curriculum. “When I was a child, the future of the world seemed pretty bright,” recalls Williams, a 1986 graduate of Middlebury

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Prussack believes that so far the magnet schools owe their successes primarily to a shift in the outlooks of teachers and administrators. “We have high expectations for all our students,” he says. “Previously, there were low expectations for Wheeler and Barnes students. You get what you expect.” Some students at the magnet schools have high needs, as well. Noting the large number of children of refugees enrolled at the academies, Williams says, “It’s almost impossible to grasp the complexities of the difficulties presented by some of our students. They’ve experienced multiple traumas.” The percentage of students enrolled in specialeducation classes at the academies is actually lower than the district-wide average. But, Prussack notes, RilEY “We have some extreme special needs.” About a dozen children attending the Sustainability Academy are homeless, for example. Overall, it’s a good place to be a student, says Kaltoumaa Bulle, a Somali Bantu who’s enrolled in the fourth grade but has the poise of a mature high school student. With her first-grade nephew, Abdullahi, seated on her lap in the school’s lobby, Kaltoumaa relates what she most likes about the Sustainability Academy: “The garden, my friends, learning how to be global citizens,” she says. Asked if there’s anything she doesn’t like about the school, Kaltoumaa pauses for a few seconds and then replies, “Yes, I think the garden should be bigger.” m

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usty DeWees thought he might have to stop the show. The comedian, known throughout Vermont as the muscle-flexing, thong-shilling, redneck Logger, was half way through an hourlong standup set f or 90 inmates at the Caledonia County Work Camp last week when he accidentally sparked a near riot. DeWees had already perf ormed two shows that day at the adjacent Northeast Regional Correctional Facility, the final stop on a 14-show tour this spring that took him to all seven of the state’s jails. Throughout the day, his act had gotten increasingly rowdier, his jokes raunchier — and the inmates were lapping it up. The all-male group of mostly non violent offenders seemed especially to love it when the Logger singled out and teased guys in the audience. They were worked up to a frenzy by the time DeWees, who’d been singing a Joe Diffie tune and strumming his guitar, inter rupted his song, shot up from his chair, pointed to a guy in the crowd and said, “Shit, I thought that dude was a bitch!” The dude in question was not amused. Hollow-chested, with long, silver hair, the guy looked like Charles Manson. He sat low in his chair, his chin resting on one hand, and he didn’t crack a smile. The rest of the guys lost it. “Oh, shit!” one of them said, leaping up f rom his chair and shaking his hands as if he’d burned them. Others looked around anxiously, laughing and shouting as the tension skyrocketed. Instantly, DeWees shi f ted into damage-control mode. “I meant no disrespect,” he shouted over the uproar, leaving the stage area to step into the crowd. “I’m not gonna apologize, ’cause I wouldn’t have fuckin’ said it if I didn’t mean it.” The guy he’d nearly called a bitch just sat there, expressionless, staring straight at DeWees. The crowd teetered closer to the edge of chaos. DeWees shif ted tactics again. “Come on, he’s the coolest-looking f ucking guy I ever saw,” he said. “And if he’s No. 1, that guy’s No. 2.” DeWees pointed to a man with a full, ruddy beard and buggy eyes. The crowd exploded again. But this time, No. 2 smiled.

worn-in jeans and a pair of hiking boots, laces untied. On the way to St. Johnsbury, we made a pit stop at Marty’s First Stop in Danville so DeWees could buy a packet of Tiny Size Chiclets. “You can only get them at Marty’s,” he enthused, dumping what appeared to be the entire pack into his mouth at once. We arrived at the Northeastern Correctional Complex about an hour before his first show was scheduled. The prison and the adjacent work camp house about 220 inmates, most of them Vermonters, with a few New York City guys incarcerated for gang-related crimes thrown into the mix. Superintendent Al Cormier and coordinator of volunteer services Chris Cadorette welcomed us at the door, searched our bags and locked up our phones, wallets and keys in a small closet beneath a colorful Vermont landscape

ME2/orchestra and a North Carolina traveling choir performed there recently, but shows like that are uncommon. “It’s hard to find people who want to come in here,” Cadorette said. Still, it can be invaluable for the inmates when they do. “Just because these guys did something wrong doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be human,” he said. After dangling meditatively on a pullup bar for a while, DeWees changed into his Logger costume — the same thing he’s worn for the last 17 years of his act: a denim shirt with the sleeves torn off, shredded jeans and duct-taped boots that look like they’ve been through a war. Then he sat down and waited for the audience to arrive. “You never know if it’s going to work,” he said. “These guys might not think it’s funny.”

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painting. On his extremely unscientific “jailiness” rating scale — in which A is the most jail-y (Rutland) and F is the least (Windsor) — DeWees gave this prison a B-minus. Cadorette and corrections officer Ed Czuchrey led us into a small rec room half filled with 60 folding chairs. The place was bleak. Fluorescent lights buzzed over a blue concrete floor, white concrete walls, a bunch of gym equipment in the back and four small, square windows looking out on a hall. A live standup performance is a rare treat for the inmates, whose entertainment usually includes watching TV and shooting hoops in the gym, Czuchrey said. “This is the kind of place where a $5 rec prize can cause a fight, and a pack of ramen noodles is a big deal,” he added. Most of the volunteers with whom Cadorette works come to the prison to host Alcoholics Anonymous or other educational workshops. Burlington’s

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n the day he performed in St. Johnsbury, I met DeWees beforehand at his immaculate house in Elmore, which is perched on a ridge with a breathtaking view. He gave a full tour of the place — including the sapbucket sink in his indoor outhouse — and introduced his cat, Scarlet. He wore a thin, burnt-orange athletic jacket, half unzipped with nothing underneath,

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inutes later, after Cadorette announced the show on a loudspeaker, the men streamed in and quietly took their seats. A bald, middle-aged man from Lowell sat in the front row and sang along as DeWees, down on one knee with a guitar on the other, warmed up with Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.” DeWees opened his show by taking a long, dramatic swig of water from a gallon-size maple-syrup jug. His first big joke that day was about meeting a girl in the parking lot, a big Logger fan, who asks him to visit her grandma, also a fan. The punch line? “I’ve got anal glaucoma. That means: I can’t see my ass doing that!” The guys loved it. From there, DeWees joked about prostate exams; multihour Viagra boners; Gov. Shumlin’s appetite for the ladies and cheap real estate; moose crossings; and the grooming habits of “health-food women.” DeWees doesn’t normally drop F-bombs in his shows, but here in the prison he let them fly. The occasional punch line was lost when garbled announcements came in

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DeWees returned to his guitar, but the energy in the room was still electric. He cut his song short again, pulled a brand-new Logger baseball cap from his duffle bag and handed it to the Charles Manson lookalike, who finally grinned. One of the corrections officers whispered to another, “Make sure he gets an inventory slip for that,” and the show went on. This was DeWees’ third Vermont prisons tour since 1999. Why does the 52-year-old performer keep doing it? Three reasons: He believes everyone deserves to laugh; he says the experience feeds his creativity; and he knows, ultimately, it’s good for business. “These folks are in there paying their dues. They’re trying to better themselves, get out of there,” DeWees said in a phone call a couple of weeks before the St. Johnsbury show. “To say, ‘They did wrong, let’s keep things that are bright and happy away from them,’ that’s the opposite of the point.” At the end of each prison show, DeWees plugs his annual holiday variety show. “If you’re out,” he tells the audience, come. If they’re not, he asks them to tell their families about it. After a recent jail show, DeWees said, he got four Facebook messages from inmates’ wives telling him how much their husbands loved it. Even in jail, he’s building his fan base. And, DeWees added, it’s just plain fun. At the all-female Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility this spring, he ditched most of his prepared material and spent the hour flirting, shooting the shit and letting the inmates touch his muscles. “I was lucky to get out of there alive,” he said. “In a good way.”

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Jailhouse Raunch « p.41 over the loudspeaker, or when Cadorette unlocked the door to let in medical staff, but DeWees usually recovered. And from time to time he put his foot in his mouth — perhaps on purpose. After a joke about gay marriage, DeWees said, “I’m not antigay. I am pro anything you want to fuck.” Then he paused for a moment, realizing the implications of what he’d just said to a bunch of inmates. “Well, not anything!” he said to raucous laughter. When he performs at high schools or speaks at graduations, DeWees often gets motivational, talking about his substance-free lifestyle and stressing the importance of staying out of debt. “Treat everyone the same, especially old people,” he usually advises. And when it comes to success, he likes to say, “It’s not talent; it’s will and discipline.” In the prison, DeWees addressed similar themes in the last 15 minutes of each show, telling the guys about his personal journey — how he grew up in Stowe before it was fancy, how his dad was a Greyhound bus driver, how in his twenties he pumped gas and performed in plays in Burlington, and how he turned down what could have been a lucrative UPS job to move to New York City and try acting. “I knew if I sat in that seat, I’d be a UPS driver now — it’s not a bad thing, but it’s not in my heart,” he told the inmates, who listened intently. “If you’ve got the love in your heart, you don’t have to be good at anything. I’m a perfect example: I can’t play this [guitar] for shit! Do you care? No.”

another job as a dorm parent at Lyndon Institute. The prison work, he said, “is one of those jobs that you never thought you’d end up in.” Czuchrey agreed. “It’s not for everybody,” he said. “Being a CO [corrections officer] was the only way I could make enough money to support my family.” But the job can be stressful and intense, he added. “Like this room,” Czuchrey said, gesturing at the concrete walls and fluorescent lights. “This room is a microcosm [of prison work] — it’s all hard, it all echoes, it’s all louder in here.” DeWees’ final show that night — where he nearly incited the riot — took place in a huge rec room that looked more public high school than prison, complete with foosball table, flatscreen TV and prisoner-made artwork. “There’s an unbelievable amount of talent in here,” said Cadorette, indicating the paintings. For the third time that night, DeWees led with the anal glaucoma joke, and it killed. After nearly eight hours with no food, his energy actually seemed to be rising. This time, he even landed a talking-frog joke, which had fallen somewhat flat with the other two audiences. He told a mildly offensive joke about accidentally hitting a deaf kid with his car, and a young guy from Bennington went crazy, rocking back and forth in his seat, wiping away tears. At one point, DeWees put his foot up on another baby-faced inmate’s chair. “You don’t know anything about prostate exams,” he declared. “Let me tell you, fuzzcock.” While the guys lost their shit for the thousandth time that night, Cadorette leaned over and whispered, “I think he just gave that guy a new nickname.” DeWees wrapped up his prison tour with a rendition of the Merle Haggard tune he considers his theme song, “Ramblin’ Fever”:

For the third time that night, deWees led With the anal glaucoma joke, and it killed.

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n the downtime after the first show, we grabbed dinner at the prison cafeteria — mystery-meat Bolognese, a few lettuce leaves with ranch dressing, a thick slice of garlic bread (baked in house and surprisingly delicious) and a scoop of rainbow sherbet. DeWees doesn’t eat before performances, but he chatted with the officers while they did. He asked them about some of the inmates he’d interacted with during the last show. That guy he’d jokingly described as probably having 17 kids? “He’s been here since I started in 1994,” superintendent Cormier said, and added that the guy’s son is now incarcerated in the facility, too. The officers talked fondly about the inmates, and it was no wonder. “I’m here almost as much as I am with my family,” Cadorette said. Cadorette, 30, has worked at the correctional facility for seven years. He has

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e’re running out of f ood.” That was the word at 7 p.m. last Friday from Felix Wai, one half of the ArtsRiot team and an organizer of the South End Truck Stop. Wai’s looming problem was both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, what is a food-truck event without any, well, f ood? But on the bright side, the night’s crush of hungry diners was a ringing endorsement of the fl edgling event, then in its second week (the fi rst

one was f orced inside by rain). Clearly, Burlington-area foodies were willing to turn out in droves to knock back tipples, chow down on tacos and meet up over smoked meat. In f act, the parking lot behind Speeder & Earl’s Co˛ ee Roastery on Pine Street was packed to the gills. Here, every Friday evening from 4:30 to 9 p.m. throughout the summer, Burlingtonians will fi nd their very own f ood-truck bazaar — with barbecue, burgers and beer galore.

The event’s organizers had hoped the idea would catch on, but they weren’t expecting the crowd of hundreds that met them on May 31. “We thought there’d be a little bit of a slow burn,” said the tall and lanky Wai, clutching a walkie-talkie at his side. “I didn’t think we’d reach 500 people until the sixth week.” As the evening wore down, security sta ff ers working the entrances were putting the night’s cumulative estimate even higher — somewhere

around 1000 or 1100 people, one doorman guessed. But the volume of diners, coupled with the presence of only three vendors that evening, meant17 waits were long and f ood was going f ast. Already, waits at Muchacho Taco, Southern Smoke and the Burger Barn were exceeding 40 minutes. “Which is unacceptable,” Wai conceded. He was distracted; even as he fi elded questions f rom other vendors and well wishes f rom f riends and admirers, Wai was orchestrating a spur-of-the-moment Hannaf ord run. Southern Smoke and Muchacho Taco were perilously close to running out of f ood, and long lines of diners still stood waiting. Wai’s plan? Bring in hot dogs and sausages and sell them f or $1 or $2 a pop. It wasn’t gourmet, but at least no one would go hungry. More than eight months pregnant, I’d come prepared to eat for two — and dragged my husband, Colin, along to help. We jumped in line at Muchacho Taco at around 6:15. Little did I know it, but we were about to make the biggest mistake of our night: We opted out of ordering a f ull dinner and decided to split a small taco instead. I hadn’t yet been clued in to the diminishing supplies at the other f ood trucks and was still daydreaming about sampling wares f rom each vendor. (Providing such opportunities to graze, Wai said, is the Truck Stop’s ultimate goal.) With temperatures surpassing 90 degrees that afternoon, it was sweltering inside the food trucks camped out in the courtyard. “My poor husband’s about to pass out,” joked Laura Miller, hanging out of the order window at Muchacho Taco. Sure enough, a sheen of sweat

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For most of the spring, chef BrIan GarvIson has had his hands full as part of the team opening GrIffIn’s PuBlIck HousE in Rutland. With that gastropub now in its soft-opening stage, Garvison is turning his attention back to another passion — vErmont unDErGrounD suPPEr cluB. On June 28, the chef will hold the next of these under-the-radar, hourslong meals “someplace in north-central Vermont,” says Garvison, who announces each supper’s location and menu less than 24 hours ahead of time. The first event — at a private home in Quechee more than a year ago — was such a success that it spawned a string of dinners in Bethel, Woodstock and Windsor. Garvison, who also works as a personal chef, grew up in Oregon and attended the Western Culinary Institute there. It was Portland’s underground dinners, “sometimes in cemeteries, sometimes in abandoned warehouses,” that inspired him to create his own supper club after he moved to Vermont. Potential guests can register via Garvison’s Facebook page for the 10-course dinners, which cost between $150 and $220 per head. “It sounds steep, but it’s all the wine you can drink, all of the food you can eat,” Garvison says. That food has included short-rib poutine, sousvide Coho salmon with nitrogen-dipped fig powder and braised morels stuffed with fiddleheads and chèvre purée. “It’s often the kind of food that only foodies or the people who want to explore like; things you

can’t usually serve or sell because of the bottom line,” Garvison says. He often taps local providers such as Rutland’s HatHaway farm and Cambridge’s BoyDEn farm for ingredients. While the underground dinners are sporadic, Garvison’s food may not always be so fleeting. The chef has his sights on a brick-and-mortar restaurant, possibly near Middlebury or Charlotte. “I really want to open something up and have it become a destination,” Garvison says. For now, though, fans of his cooking will have to watch his Facebook page for the next when and where.

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For $2, we chose a peppermint tea; Grant filled a cup with ice from a cooler and topped it off with the cold, minty beverage. The taste was just right: strong but not overbearingly herbal, and refreshingly crisp. Fortified, we pressed onward. By this point in the evening, the lines had grown depressingly long. All but one item was crossed out on the menu at Southern Smoke, so Colin gamely camped out in the line for the Jeffersonville-based Burger Barn. I took a stroll around the premises. Hunger pangs aside, I couldn’t help appreciating the festive scene, packed with twentysomethings and young families. The place was thick with kids and women trotting out their summer sundresses. The old-timey Burlington Bread Boys were strumming away on matthew thOrsen

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food cart he plans to tow behind the Jag for future truck-stop events. He’ll be dishing up pincho, a popular Puerto Rican street snack. Typically made with pork or chicken, his pincho is slathered in a spicy marinade and slow-cooked on a barbecue. “It’s basically meat on a stick,” Anderson said. “It’s everywhere in Puerto Rico.” Sadly, there was no pincho to be had on this particular evening. The cold drinks were a hot commodity, though. Anderson and Grant had daydreamed about taking orders from the front seat of the Jag and serving from the back. They opted instead to set up a small table alongside the sleek, black car when, Grant said, they realized their first plan was the “stickier” of the two.

a mandolin, guitar and kazoo in one corner of the courtyard. “We live in Burlington. We’re boys,” explained mandolin player Chris Cartier when pressed about the group’s name. “And we love to make dough,” chimed in Max Krieger, the group’s singer and kazoo man. Of course, hunger takes the sparkle off festivity. Courtney Butler said she had waited in line at one food truck for half an hour, only to leave emptyhanded when the vendor ran out of food. Her friend Meghan Mason, up from Middlebury for the Truck Stop and the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival,

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from KlIngEr’s BrEaD Company in Burlington. Lulu’s will be open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., through the end of October. When they aren’t in Montpelier, Falardeau and her crew will travel across New England to feed the hungry hoards at fairs and festivals, including the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival and Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival in Burlington.

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their spirits weren’t at all diminished by the hourlong wait at the Burger Barn. “It’s such a good atmosphere,” said a chipper McGovern. “How could you let it get you down?” Wai, and the food-truck vendors, are hoping that kind of excitement will keep diners coming back weekly to the Truck Stop. Wai promised more vendors — double the trucks next week, in fact — and shorter wait times in the future. “We’re only going to get better and quicker,” Stefan vowed. m

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said, looking deeply apologetic. “Pass it back.” We settled for a cheeseburger (which ended up being disappointingly dry — not that that kept us from devouring every bite). We talked to two friends, Maura McGovern and Katherine Monterosso, who were chomping at the bit to try the burgers; they’d read Alice Levitt’s review of the Jeffersonville burger biz in this paper and had high expectations. Will McGovern and Monterosso be back? Probably, they said. Somehow,

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After a tasting at Dedalus Wine in Burlington — and a signing of her book Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally — Feiring and about 20 others headed to Pistou for a dinner that included salmon tartare laced with dill and pork-belly confit with celeriac purée. Guests were handed glasses of a crisp Friuli sparkling wine, Furlani Naturale Brut Nature, as chef Max MacKinnon and his staff set out platters of glistening scallop crudo with

orange slices and fans of fennel. At two long tables, the wines poured with each course came from locales as diverse as Austria (Meinklang) and Barnard, Vt. (la garagista), but each shared a distinctive “taste of place” that ignited conversations late into the night. Many of the wines came from Artisanal’s portfolio. Flores founded the distribution company six years ago to sell the small-batch Italian, French and Austrian wines he had adored since college and during his time working in the Manhattan wine industry. “I just figured that if I loved these and I’m passionate about it, I can sell them,” Flores says. The 34 wines with which he began his business included a few foodfriendly Austrian bottles — then virtually unknown within Vermont’s borders. One of the first places Flores approached was Norwich Wines and Spirits, which Peter Rutledge has owned since 1996. He became Artisanal’s first customer. “[Flores] was offering [wines] that no one else was selling, really unusual stuff,” Rutledge recalls in a recent phone conversation. Warren’s Pitcher Inn, Burlington’s Dedalus Wine and Woodstock’s Osteria Pane e Salute — which is co-owned by Deirdre Heekin of la garagista — also became early customers. Flores’ enthusiasm for Austrian wines such as Zweigelt and Grüner Veltliner eventually caught on, and they began appearing on wine lists and shelves across the state. “My inventory has become ridiculously biased toward Austrian wines,” Rutledge says. Those wines were not and are not easy sells. “I’ve learned to tell people, ‘When you hear Austrian, think northern Italian,’” Rutledge advises. Jason Zuliani, who co-owns Dedalus Wine with Tim Banks, agrees that selling wines he and his staff are passionate about — such as Beaujolais made by diehard natural wine producers — requires constant marketing juju. “Sometimes, people are not willing to move out of their comfort zone because

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that’s necessary — but he does advocate for spending a bit more on a first foray into an unfamiliar varietal “to stick your toes in the water.” Once a drinker knows what a “fantastic” version of, say, Grüner Veltliner tastes like, he or she can seek out less expensive versions. “A lot of people form bad misconceptions of a particular kind of wine because they go out and buy a $10 bottle,” Rutledge says. Dining out with friends is another opportunity to try new wines, suggests Zuliani, who became a partner in Pistou earlier this spring and uses the restaurant as a wine lab of sorts. “If you go out, order a few bottles [of something unfamiliar] and spread the cost of the wines over a few people, then people can enjoy different wines without killing themselves.” Since Zuliani and his wife, Emilie Paquette, came on board, most of Pistou’s walls have been covered with chalkboard paint and an eclectic, Old Worldheavy, ever-changing wine list. “Instead of having to worry about a broad retail floRE S selection, I said, ‘Hey, I can kind of obsess,’” Zuliani observes of his work at the restaurant. His obsessions have ranged from Burgundy to “artisanally produced Loire wine to weird orange wine.” This adventurous attitude among restaurateurs and retailers has helped draw increasing numbers of Austrian, French and Italian winemakers to Vermont. But it certainly doesn’t hurt that Vermont is a pretty place with food to match. “I think, to a person, they [the winemakers] love it here,” Flores says. He’s hosted a few winemakers who have made multiple trips to Vermont from Europe. “The first time they come here, they’re pleasantly surprised, and they discover this real kinship with Vermont — whether it’s the natural, organic, local thing or the food, which is honest and beautiful.” Wine writer Feiring confirms the sense of discovery. “Well, it’s no hardship to visit — it’s beautiful!” she emails a few days after her trip to Vermont. “And it’s gratifying to see the wine awareness [there] explode.” m

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they’ve been burnt,” Zuliani says, referring to buyers’ initial forays into unfamiliar wine territory. “Still, we’re always hoping we can sell something new. It’s still a hard sell, and we work at it all of the time.” The process goes both ways. Enterprising wine-shop owners such as Zuliani and Rutledge sometimes contact their distributors — including Flores, Drew Robinson of Vermont Wine Merchants and Lisa Strausser of g.housen — to tell them about wines they’d like to see imported into the state, or that their “wine sleuth” customers are requesting. Flores calls such wines the “crazy little things” that he and other distributors try and track down. Those recently included wines from Sicilian natural wine producer Frank Cornelissen — including his flagship wine, Magma — which took Strausser two years to bring into the state. “It can be costly, and a risk,” Zuliani says, as the wines appeal to a small group R AfAEl of people and are not guaranteed to sell. “These aren’t wines that are necessarily flying out by the pallet.” For Rutledge, this back-and-forth dialogue is worth the effort. He loves guiding customers away from “generic, mass-produced wines.” Though he religiously maintains a stock of $10-andunder wines, it generally consists of bottles that are decidedly off the beaten path. “A lot of lower-end wine is made to fit a profile,” Rutledge says. “A company might say, ‘Malbec is flying off the shelves. So what we really need is a deep, dark $8 Malbec.’ And the wine appears, and there are 5000 cases of it,” he continues. “It’s been created to fit that niche, which is really the opposite of how it should happen. “What should happen is, a wine is made from the place, in the vineyard, rather than what gets chosen by the tasting panel of a large brand,” Rutledge asserts. Who can afford to drink so adventurously, or to drop $30 on bottles night after night? Rutledge doesn’t think

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LIFE-DRAWING CLASS : Live models inspire studies of line work and shading. Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester, 6-9 p.m. $15. Info, 875-1018.

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JOLLY GOOD GARDENS: Downton Abbey fans feast their eyes on noteworthy English estates in a presentation by fellow devotees Kevin and Susann Williams. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295. JUSTIN MORRILL HOMESTEAD TOUR: Folks explore grounds featuring a Gothic Revival historic house, formal gardens, interpretive exhibits and walking trails. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $5. Info, 765-4484.

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CENTRAL VERMONT HIGH SCHOOL INITIATIVE OPEN HOUSE : Potential students and their parents learn about academic, artistic and outdoor programs, as well as service-learning opportunities. Stokes Building, Goddard College, Plainfi eld, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 322-4408, info. cvhsi@gmail.com.

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AMY SEIDL : ° e author of Finding Higher Ground weighs in on climate change and global warming as related to local communities.

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What happens when two male actors play eight di˜ erent characters of both sexes, and time periods and locations switch up on the fl y? A well-orchestrated mix of murder, mayhem and madcap adventures in Charles Ludlam’s acclaimed play The Mystery of Irma Vep . Elements of satire, Gothic melodrama, classical literature and theatrical masterpieces are blended together into a hilarious whodunit. In this Lost Nation Theater production, Eric Love and Chris Scheer bring men, women and monsters to life via a lightning-fast plotline that takes them from a stately English manor to Egyptian tombs and back again.

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Ever wonder about the stories behind some of the Queen City’s most impressive domiciles? The self -guided Preservation Burlington Homes Tour gives history bu˜ s and curious community members the opportunity to visit seven eye-catching abodes. Among this eclectic group are examples of past and present construction, including Queen Anne architecture and a bungalow built in the Arts and Craf ts style. Attendees view fi nely decorated interiors and inspiring landscapes and gardens. Made Inn Vermont bed and breakfast serves as the home base for participants, o˜ ering refreshments, a reception and access to a painstakingly preserved structure.

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BURLINGTON DISCOVER JAZZ FESTIVAL: World-class musicians pack Queen City venues for the 30th year in celebration of the genre. Various downtown locations, Burlington, noonmidnight. Prices vary; see discoverjazz.com for details. Info, 863-7992 or 863-5966.

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IMPROV NIGHT : Fun-loving participants play “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”-style games in an encouraging environment. Spark Arts, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $7 suggested donation. Info, 373-4703.

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Crystal Meditation: Marna Ehrech leads a weekly experiential session. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11 suggested donation. Info, 238-7908. Meditation, Healing & reading: Local meFinancial compensation of up to $375 is provided. We will provide dium Michele Nappi helps attendees focus on you with ovulation detection kits to aid timing your conception aligning body, mind and spirit. Moonlight Gifts, Milton, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations; preregister. If you are interested please call Info, 893-9966. 802-656-0309 for more information. r.i.P.P.e.d.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 12v-DeptOBGYN020112.indd 1 1/11/12 11:35 AM 578-9243. self-Care solutions for neCk and Jaw Pain: Certified Rolfer Robert Rex leads stretching and bodywork modified for managing the conditions. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

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Create Critters for tHe Bulletin Board: Budding artists in grades 1 through 5 make collage-art animals to jazz up the library’s summer-program announcements. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. enosBurg PlaygrouP: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing and other activities. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. fairfield PlaygrouP: Youngsters find entertainment in creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Marilyn weBB neagley: Kiddos ages 3 to 7 and their parents join the local author to celebrate the release of her new book, Loosie B. Goosie. Shelburne Farms, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8686. riCHford PaJaMa story tiMe: Little ones up to age 6 wear their jammies for evening tales. Arvin A. Brown Library, Richford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. st. alBans PlaygrouP: Creative activities and storytelling engage young minds. NCSS Family Center, St. Albans, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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Burlington disCover Jazz festival: iMProvisation worksHoP: Esteemed educator and saxophonist George Garzone of the Fringe demonstrates his unique approach to off-the-cuff music. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966. Burlington disCover Jazz festival: Jazz on tHe MarketPlaCe: High-school bands from around the state give outdoor performances. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, noon-6:30 p.m. Free; see discoverjazz.com for details. Info, 863-7992. Burlington disCover Jazz festival: Meet tHe artist session: tHe fringe: BDJF critic-in-residence Bob Blumenthal moderates a Q&A with the Boston-based group. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.

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sport

CataMount Mountain Bike series: Riders of all ages and abilities spin their wheels on 2.5K to 20K races in the country’s oldest, largest and longest-running training series. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6 p.m. $4-10; free for children under 6 in unscored races. Info, 879-6001. green Mountain taBle tennis CluB: Pingpong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 7-10 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913. tour de kingdoM: Cyclists cover territory and gain elevation on 25- to 100-mile routes amid mountains and lakes. Indoor Recreation of Orleans County, Derby, 7:30 a.m. $25-200; preregister; see tourdekingdom.org for details. Info, 334-8511.

talks

david BligHt: The Yale professor and acclaimed author of Race and Reunion presents “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.” Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

words

Burlington writers worksHoP Meeting: Members read and respond to the poetry and prose of fellow wordsmiths. Participants must join the group to have their work reviewed. Halflounge, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com. Info, 383-8104. diane swan: The local poet shares stanzas from The Other Wish, then discusses her creative process. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. gary furlong: As part of a nationwide pictorial history series on small towns, the local author signs Images of America: Milton. Milton Historical Museum, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598.

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introduCtion to art History: Referencing the museum’s collection, SUNY Plattsburgh professor Christopher Fasolino teaches visual arts through the ages. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, noon-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister;

limited space. Info, 518-564-2498, sbell008@ plattsburgh.edu.

conferences

aMeriCan soCiety of dowsers national Convention: See WED.05, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.

crafts

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

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Burlington Business assoCiation waterfront ‘faM’iliarization tour: Area professionals share breakfast, then board the Northern Lights cruise ship for sightseeing and networking. King Street Ferry Dock, Burlington, 7:30-9 a.m. $15; free for members. Info, 8631175, jmclaughlin@bbavt.org. Justin Morrill HoMestead tour: See WED.05, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. oPen House witH saraH lawton: Locals stop by to bid farewell to the youth librarian, who will be leaving Vermont’s bookshelves behind for new adventures. Young Adult Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. tHe Barnstand ColleCtive: This creative twist on traditional farm stands features local produce and food products alongside upcycled, vintage furniture, handmade clothing and more from participating small businesses. The Barnstand Collective, Marshfield, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090. veeries in tHe vineyard: Vintners, pizza makers and birders unite for an evening of fine wine, good eats and avian adventures. Huntington River Winery, 5-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 434-2167.

fairs & festivals

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Burlington disCover Jazz festival: ‘verMont Joy Parade: tHe CloCk tiCk and tHe HeartBeat’: Vivian Strosberg premieres her documentary about the seven-piece ensemble known for rambunctious, soulful tunes. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 863-7992. ‘if i were you’: See WED.05, 5:30 p.m. ‘stoker’: See WED.05, 7:30 p.m. ‘swan lake’ live in Hd: A broadcast production of the famed ballet featuring Russia’s top dancers at the iconic Mariinsky Theatre comes to the big screen. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $15. Info, 864-5610.

food & drink

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. 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, 279-4371, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com. ‘wHole grains and HuManity: CoMPanions froM atlantis to tHe Present’: Nutritional culinary specialist Louise Frazier considers humans’ relationship with the food source over thousands of years. Hunger

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games

Open Bridge game: Players of varying experience levels put their strategy skills to use in this popular card game. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3373.

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BurlingTOn diScOver jazz FeSTival: helen Sung QuarTeT: The award-winning pianist leads an imaginative performance of improvisation and interplay. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. BurlingTOn diScOver jazz FeSTival: meeT The arTiST SeSSiOn: helen Sung: BDJF critic-in-residence Bob Blumenthal moderates a Q&A session with the pianist and composer. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966. BurlingTOn diScOver jazz FeSTival: waTerFrOnT BayOu TenT: The best of the Big Easy heads north when the Soul Rebels and Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk deliver grooves inspired by the big-brass sounds of New Orleans. Burlington waterfront, 6 p.m. $25-30. Info, 863-5966.

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aFTer-SchOOl camera cluB: Cinema lovers in grades 6 through 10 learn how to shoot and edit footage with community trainer Meghan O’Rourke. Channel 17 Studios, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-3966, ext. 16. alBurgh playgrOup: Tots form friendships over music and movement. Alburgh Family Center of NCSS, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. mOnTgOmery inFanT/TOddler playgrOup: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. muSic wiTh derek: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918. muSic wiTh mr. chriS: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains kids and parents alike. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. pajama STOry Time wiTh SucceSS By Six: Good listeners up to age 6 bundle up in their favorite PJs for bedtime tales and crafts. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. wii-TaSTic!: Visual learners test out the videogame console. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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‘cOunTry @ hOme’: Driven by the art award-winning lead vocalist, mOnTpelier arT walk: the Shana Stack Band vermOnT hiSTOry performs a highmuSeum: Participants energy show. Half of discover a visual all proceeds benefit the dialogue about the local organization David’s state, including the House. Lebanon Opera • sturdy award-winning exhibit House, 7 p.m. Donations. any complete frame “Freedom and Unity: • inclinable Info, 603-448-0400. job with this ad. One Ideal, Many Stories.” • handy tray for storing paints rOOTS On The river Vermont History Museum, FeSTival: Four days of hard& brushes Montpelier, 4-7 p.m. Free. hitting music include appearRT • holds canvas up to 49" Info, 828-2180. ES ances by the Cold River Ranters, exp. 6/15/13 YO FL EBA the Milkhouse Heaters, Dave Alvin, NON community OP ER A H O U SE the Steel Wheels, Mary Gauthier and duxBury 250Th anniverSary others. Various locations, Bellows Falls, 7 p.m. celeBraTiOn: Ann and James Harvey, the $20-99. Info, 463-9595. Barre-Tones and the Will Evans Band entertain ShelBurne vineyard FirST ThurSdayS revelers, who kick off this months-long fête with cOncerT: Hard Scrabble entertain wine-anda silent auction, commemorative postal stamp 194 College Street, Burlington pizza lovers with a blend of bluegrass, blues and and potluck dinner. Crossett Brook Middle 864.5475 • boutiliers.com acoustic covers. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 School, Duxbury, 3-8:30 p.m. Free; bring a dish p.m. Free; donations and food proceeds benefit M-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5 to share. Info, 244-6828. COTS. Info, 985-8222. waTerBury 250Th anniverSary celeBraTiOn: Locals gather for a two-day sport birthday bash featuring a picnic in the park, TOur de kingdOm: See WED.05, 7:30 a.m. 12v-Boutiliers052213.indd 1 5/21/13 10:49 AM storytelling, a cake-and-ice-cream social, guided walking tours and more. Rusty Parker Memorial talks Park, Waterbury, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, SOlar hOT-waTer Seminar: Representatives 585-4913. from the nonprofit Energy Co-op of Vermont share logistical details and available incenconferences tives for their Co-op Solar program, which runs american SOcieTy OF dOwSerS naTiOnal through June. Huntington Public Library, 7-8 cOnvenTiOn: See WED.05, 8:45 a.m.-5 p.m. p.m. Free; see co-opsolar.net for details. Info, vermOnT emplOyee OwnerShip 395-1388. cOnFerence: Loren Rodgers, executive director of the National Center for Employee Ownership, theater keynotes this daylong conference, which Saturday Story Time Every Saturday at 11am ‘eugene Onegin’: Suzanne Kantorski-Merrill explores all aspects of the business model. stars as Tatiana in this Opera Company of Champlain College, Burlington, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. June Middlebury production of Tchaikovsky’s famed $125-160; $35 for preconference dinner. Info, opera about unrequited romance and tragedy. THU 6 ADRIE KUSSEROW: REFUGE 321-8362, info@veoc.org. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $50-55. 7 pm ETHNOGRAPHIC POETRY probing Info, 382-9222. culture and globalization with dance ‘The mySTery OF irma vep’: Eric Love and poems about Sudanese refugees, BallrOOm & laTin dancing: Samir Elabd Chris Scheer portray men, women and monsters especially the “Lost Boys of Sudan.” leads an evening of choreographed steps for in a production of Charles Ludlam’s gendersingles and couples. No partner or experience WED 12 MATTHEW WOLPE: REINVENTING bending, whodunit comedy that travels from required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introduc7 pm THE CHICKEN COOP an English estate to Egypt and back again. tory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, See calendar spotlight. Montpelier City Hall THU 13 NANCY MEANS WRIGHT: BROKEN 862-2269. Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492. 7 pm STRINGS FreedOm Friday dance jam: This alternative ‘waiTing FOr angelS’: In Stephen Goldberg to the club scene involves a conscious moveTHU 20 STEPHEN RUSSELL PAYNE & and Allan Nichols’ cerebral work, performers ment practice led by curiosity, creativity and 7 pm RICK NORCROSS: Riding My Guitar: explore the space between being and nothinspired music. North End Studio A, Burlington, ingness. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, The Rick Norcross Story 8-10:30 p.m. $10. Info, 863-6713. Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 540-0773. Queen ciTy TangO milOnga: No partner is TUE 25 PHOENIX BOOKS BURLINGTON 5:30 pm READING GROUP required for welcoming the weekend in the words Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled adrie kuSSerOw: The St. Michael’s College WED 26 LINDA MALONEY: THE CAPTAIN shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, introducprofessor of cultural anthropology shares eth7 pm FROM CONNECTICUT tory session, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. $7. nographic poetry from her latest book, Refuge. Info, 877-6648. THU 27 JODY WILLIAMS: A VERMONT GIRL’S A discussion follows. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7pm WINDING PATH TO THE NOBEL 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. etc. PEACE PRIZE Farmer pOeTS nighT: Local food producers cOncerT & Film Screening: Musical and recite their favorite verses and read original July cinematic performances highlight the creativity work. Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free of students in Essex High School’s Academy of to attend; donations accepted. Info, 388-2117. ROCK & ROLL BOOK TOUR: CHRIS MON 8 Visual and Performing Arts program. Barnes & 7 pm BOHJALIAN & STEPHEN KIERNAN kaThryn guare: In a multimedia presentaNoble, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Free; a Two amazing authors! Two extraordinary tion, the Vermont author discusses influenpercentage of daylong store purchases benefits new books! One great event! Celebrate The tial themes in her suspense novel Deceptive Essex High School AVPA. Info, 864-8001. Light in the Ruins and The Curiosity Cadence: The Virtuosic Spy. Kellogg-Hubbard green elephanT Sale: A “Bargains and OFFSITE at the Fletcher Free Library. Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Brews” preview sale kicks off this three-day event featuring furniture, rugs, jewelry, office supplies and more. Proceeds benefit LPCA June programming. Front Annex Building. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 5-7 p.m. $15 for THU 27 DISCOVERIES IN WINE: DISCOVER RIOJA preview sale; free to attend otherwise. Info, 6:30 pm Registration required. Call 872-7111 for info. agriculture 518-523-2512. 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dungeons & dragons : Imaginative XP earners in grades 6 and up exercise their problemsolving skills in battles and adventures. film Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. ‘w illiston r evisited: a CoMMunity Info, 878-6956. portrait’ : Williston filmmaker James Heltz enos Burg Falls story Hour : Young ones premieres his documentary about the town’s show up for fables and finger crafts. Enosburg monumental changes over the past 20 years. Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Auditorium, Williston Central School, dessert potluck, 6:30 p.m.; screening, 7:30 p.m. Free; isle l a Motte playgroup : Stories and crafts bring dessert to share. Info, 872-7000. make for creative play. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. food & drink songs & stories w it H Matt Hew : Musician Brandon Musi C CaFé supper Clu B: Diners Matthew Witten helps kids start the day with feast on a three-course meal in a pleasant tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, atmosphere. Brandon Music Café, 5-9 p.m. Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, $16.50; preregister; BYOB. Info, 465-4071. 878-6956. Butter Milk dinner : Chef Doug spanis H Musi Cal kids: Mack prepares recipes from Burlington : Amigos ages the Animal Farm Buttermilk 1 through 5 learn Latin Cookbook by Vermont American songs and games author and famed with native Argentinian butter purveyor Diane Constancia Gómez. St. Clair. Inn at Baldwin Fletcher Free Library, Creek, Bristol, 6:45 p.m. Burlington, 10:30-11:15 $30; $50 includes dinner a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. and book. Info, 453-2432. spanis H Musi Cal kids: CHelsea Far Mers essex Jun Ction : See Market : A long-standing above listing. For kids in town-green tradition supgrades K and up. Brownell plies shoppers with eggs, RT Library, Essex Junction, 3:30ES YO cheese, vegetables and fine 4:15 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. FG AR E crafts. North Common, Chelsea, TH M swanton playgroup : Kids CC O N NE LL 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987, chelseaand caregivers squeeze in quality time communitymarket@gmail.com. over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Five Corners Far Mers Market : From natuEpiscopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. ral meats to breads and wines, farmers share Info, 527-5426. the bounty of the growing season at an opent een Movie : When two teenagers fall in air exchange. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, love, they get entangled in the dark secrets of 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmartheir small town in 2013’s Beautiful Creatures. ket@gmail.com. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30kava nigHt : Folks sip nonalcoholic cocktails 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. made with this relaxing, herbal tonic. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 223-0043. music steak dinner : Bring on the beef! Carnivores audrey Bernstein : Accompanied by bassist complement neighborly conversation with this Joe Capps, guitarist Julian Chobot and drumhearty fare. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 6-7 p.m. mer Nick Aloi, the jazz singer performs songs $10. Info, 878-0700. from her debut album, Audrey Bernstein Loves Blue. Salaam and the Men’s Store, Burlington, health & fitness 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 249-4574. ‘a Course in Mira Cles’ Meet-up : Attendees Bow tH ayer : An intimate concert of soulful learn principles that help foster an intuitive, Americana tunes showcases the singer-songholistic lifestyle. Bring a journal. Rainbow writer’s vocal, banjo and guitar skills. ArtisTree Institute, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $10 suggested Community Arts Center & Gallery, Woodstock, donation. Info, 671-4569. 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3500. a w eekend w it H dr. vasant l ad : The direcBurlington dis Cover Jazz Festival: tor of New Mexico’s Ayurvedic Institute leads dixieland Cruise : Drawing on more than CO

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three sessions based on the ancient healing principles of individual body types, or “doshas.” Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $45-158. Info, 872-8898. avoid Falls w it H iMproved sta Bility : A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477. Forza: tH e saMurai sword w orkout : See THU.06, 9-10 a.m. Healt Hy Ho Me & Body : Eco-minded folks learn ways to create a greener living space and reduce their exposure to toxic chemicals. New England Center for CranioSacral Therapy, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 578-9451, dhtomlinson@yahoo.com. yoga Mountain Center Free Class day : Attendees align breathe and body with complementary classes, therapeutic bodywork and massage. Yoga Mountain Center, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 223-5302, yogamountaincenter.com.

25 years together, the Onion River Jazz Band performs New Orleans-style jazz. King Street Ferry Dock, Burlington, 7 p.m. $24; cost of food and drinks; preregister. Info, 863-5966. Burlington dis Cover Jazz Festival: elaine elias : Musical worlds collide when the acclaimed singer and pianist combines her Brazilian roots with the best of New York City’s jazz scene. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-45. Info, 863-5966. Burlington dis Cover Jazz Festival: wptz Blo Ck party: z ili Misik : Retracing the roots of African and Haitian music through rhythm, this all-female, seven-piece ensemble blends genres in a family-friendly performance. Upper Block, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-7992. green Mountain Monteverdi ense MBle oF ver Mont : In “Double Takes,” the group performs works by pairs of composers who interpreted the same piece of Baroque choral music. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $20 suggested donation. Info, 223-0687. peter Jonat Han olson : The local pianist performs pieces from Suite for the Green Mountains, among other original works. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. r oots on t He r iver Festival : See THU.06, noon. tH e BoB MaCkenzie Blues Band : Listeners lend their ears to lighthearted American roots music that includes blues classics, jump, swing and R&B. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6-8 p.m. Free; wine and cheese plates available. Info, 388-7368. tH e l uCe t rio : Saxophonist Jon De Lucia, guitarist Ryan Ferreira and bassist Chris Tordini interpret music of the Baroque era with chamber jazz. Brandon Music Café, 7 p.m. $15; $30 includes dinner package; preregister; BYOB. Info, 465-4071.

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spring Migration Bird w alks : Avian enthusiasts explore habitat hot spots in search of warblers, waterfowl and more. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 a.m. $10; free for members. Info, 229-6206.

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plant swap : Green thumbs exchange perennials, vegetables, flowers and herbs to beautify their homes and gardens. East Hardwick Grange, drop off, 10:30-11:30 a.m.; swap, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6336, swapsisters@ gmail.com. w orkday at t He Far M: Locals lend a hand to the land and help plant, water, weed and mulch. St. Johnsbury Community Farm, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 748-9498.

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Col CHester 250t H anniversary Cele Bration : Residents honor their town with the Colchester Causeway fun run, followed by a barbecue, pony rides, lawn games, live music, a boat parade and more. Bayside Park, Malletts Bay, Colchester, 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Free to attend; $2 for barbecue. Info, 777-8507, colchester250@ gmail.com. Milton’s Histori C 250t H Birt Hday : Friends and neighbors celebrate with a time capsule, an antique car parade, a reenactment of the town charter signing, unique memorabilia and live music. Milton High School, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 893-4077. pasta dinner, silent auCtion & dan Ce: A meal of carbs fuels diners for bidding and dancing to live music by West Bolton’s Dewey Drive Band. Proceeds benefit Camel’s Hump Middle School Odyssey of the Mind teams. Ski Lodge, Cochran’s Ski Area, Richmond, dinner, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; auction and dance, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $4-10. Info, 355-5830. w ater Bury 250t H anniversary Cele Bration : See FRI.07, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

conferences

aMeri Can soCiety o F dowsers national Convention : See WED.05, 8:45 a.m.-5 p.m.

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green Mountain w ood Carvers ‘Carvein’: Whittlers of ages and abilities are welcome at the monthly meeting. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2167.

2013 speCial oly MpiCs ver Mont suMMer gaMes: Athletes from across the state compete in aquatics, track and field, bocce, and softball. Additional events include the Healthy Athletes program and the Law Enforcement Torch Run. University of Vermont, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5222. t our de kingdo M: See WED.05, 7:30 a.m.

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‘eugene onegin’ : See THU.06, 8 p.m. national tH eatre o F l ondon l ive: A broadcast production of James Graham’s acclaimed play This House portrays various manifestations of Great Britain’s political turbulence in 1974. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $10-16. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘tH e Mystery o F ir Ma vep’: See THU.06, 8 p.m. ‘w aiting For angels’ : See THU.06, 8 p.m.

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w riter’s salon : Award-winning poet Sue Roupp helps wordsmiths lend their pens to creative writing exercises and story development. The Writers’ Barn, Shelburne, 6-7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 985-3091.

swing dan Ce: Quick-footed participants get moving in different styles, including the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 8:30-11 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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Queen City’s intriguing history and architecture. Proceeds benefit Preservation Burlington. Meet on Church Street. Burlington City Hall, 11 a.m. $10; $5 for Preservation Burlington members and students. Info, 522-8259, info@preservationburlington.org. Green elephant Sale: See FRI.07, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Indoor lawn Sale: See FRI.07, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. JuStIn MorrIll hoMeStead tour: See WED.05, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. preServatIon BurlInGton hoMeS tour: Architecture buffs take a self-guided tour of historic structures, stylish interiors, and inspiring landscapes and gardens. Proceeds benefit Preservation Burlington. See calendar spotlight. Made Inn Vermont, Burlington, noon4 p.m. $20; see preservationburlington.org for details. Info, 863-5966. ‘retreat froM Canada’: In honor of Ethan Allen’s 275th birthday, Revolutionary War reenactors recreate a 1776 encampment of colonial militia. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $3-5; free for children under 6. Info, 865-4556. the BarnStand ColleCtIve: See THU.06, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. varIety Show: Music and dance performances benefit Huntington’s nonprofit animalrescue organization, Save Our Strays. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 891-6496. verMont State StaMp Show: These sticky collectibles take center stage at this event hosted by the Chittenden County Stamp Club and the Vermont Philatelic Society. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, gestus@vermontps.org.

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BurlInGton dISCover Jazz feStIval: See WED.05, 1-midnight. StrollInG of the heIferS: See FRI.07, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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a weekend wIth dr. vaSant lad: See FRI.07, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. & 3-6 p.m. fIt CaMp: Folks get a weekend workout with a run and circuit training. Meet at the skate park. Burlington waterfront, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 774-563-8273. r.I.p.p.e.d.: See WED.05. North End Studio B, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. Sunday SpIrItual healInG MedItatIon: A supportive environment helps participants access intuition, empowerment and self-healing tools. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.noon. Suggested $15 donation. Info, 671-4569.

kids

artS & CraftS workShop: Little ones tap into their imaginations and create paper fish flags. Shelburne Craft School, 10-11:30 a.m. $1012. Info, 985-3648. franklIn playGroup: Toddlers and their adult companions meet peers for tales and sing-alongs. Franklin Central School, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. franklIn tuMBle tIMe: Snacks power free play in the gymnasium. Franklin Central School, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Saturday Story tIMe: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. StorytIMe In Barre: a CeleBratIon of ChIldren’S lIterature & BookS: draMatIC StorytellInG: ‘what IS that In My neSt?’: Kiddos ages 5 through 13 celebrate Hans Christian Andersen’s 200th birthday with a workshop and performance based on The Ugly Duckling. Barre Opera House, workshop, 10–11:30 a.m.; performance, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 476-8188 . teen ManGa CluB: Readers ages 11 through 19 share their love of the Japanese comics and watch anime. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. waterBury kIdS feSt 2013: Youngsters live it up with live music, dancing, a bike rodeo, a story walk, and arts and crafts. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 244-1357. wInooSkI faMIly fun day: Face painting, a giant mural, open-gym activities and a bikeriding workshop entertain kids and parents alike at this neighborly event. Car-seat checks available. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6410.

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2013 spECial olyMpiCs vErMont suMMEr gaMEs: See FRI.07, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. ChaMp ridE: Riders pedal along scenic routes of 17, 32, 67 or 100 miles to support Vermont CARES’ work with HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Prizes and a picnic follow from noon to 2 p.m. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 6:30 a.m. $75 or $35 plus $100 in funds raised. Info, 800-6492437 or 863-2437. tour dE kingdoM: See WED.05, 7:30 a.m. WoMEn’s ridE sEriEs: Led by members of the Green Mountain Bicycle Club, ladies pedal a 20-mile round-trip route to Essex, N.Y., via the Charlotte ferry. Helmet required. Former Morgan Horse Museum, Bostwick Road, Shelburne, 8:45 a.m. Cost of ferry ride. Info, 343-2141 or 363-7439, charlene@localmotion. org.

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‘EugEnE onEgin’: See THU.06, 8 p.m. ‘thE MystEry oF irMa vEp’: See THU.06, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. ‘Waiting For angEls’: See THU.06, 8 p.m. ‘Wizard oF oz’ auditions: Folks follow the Yellow Brick Road to try out for the Pentangle Players’ October production. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3981, pentangleoz@valley.net.

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ChittEndEn County 250th annivErsary Birthday party: Local historical societies mark the special occasion with a display of original town charters, vintage maps, an appearance by Benning Wentworth and birthday cake. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7334.

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Bird-Monitoring Walk: Experienced birders take folks on a morning jaunt in search of various species in their natural habitats. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-9 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068. BranCh out Burlington! trEE Walk: Arborist Warren Spinner and forester Matt Leonard lead a leisurely stroll down neighborhood streets, identifying native trees along the way. Mater Christi School, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 862-8245 or 656-5440 . spring ForEst Walk: Franklin-Grand Isle County forester Nancy Patch leads an educational woodland stroll. Meet at Sheldon School parking area. Sheldon Community Forest, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 933-2363. stErling toWn ForEst harvEst tour: Nature lovers visit an active logging job affiliated with the Foresters for the Birds Project, which aims to improve habitats for songbird species. Meet at home, then walk to site. Private home, Stowe, 9 a.m.-noon. Donations. Info, 253-2705. stoWE pinnaClE-Mount hungEr loop hikE: Participants keep the pace on 7 miles of moderate-to-difficult terrain with a 1400-foot elevation gain amid some of Vermont’s most picturesque landscape. Contact trip leader for details. Stowe Pinnacle, Mount Hunger, Stowe, 9 a.m. Free. Info, dsmith.vt.us@gmail.com. vErMont days: Folks take advantage of open access to fishing spots, historic sites, state parks and museums. Various locations statewide, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-837-6668, vermontday.com.

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fairs & festivals

Burlin Gton diSCover Jazz f eStival : See WED.05, 12:30-midnight. h artland f ar M f eSt : Locavores pay tribute to area farmers and food producers with live music, local food, kids activities, horse and wagon rides and farm-skill demonstrations. Hartland Public Library, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 295-8563 or 436-7017. Strollin G of the h eifer S: See FRI.07, 7 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Glo Bal r oot S f il M Serie S: In Nahid Ghobadi and Bijan Zamanpira’s 2012 drama About 111 Girls, young women plan a mass suicide to protest their societal roles. Persian and Kurdish with English subtitles. North End Studios, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 310-6423. Storyti Me in Barre: a Cele Bration of Children’ S l iterature & Book S: ‘new SieS’: Inspired by the Tony Award-winning musical, this Walt Disney film portrays the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. A discussion and exhibit of Lewis Hine’s child-labor photographs follow. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 476-5600 .

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adaptive international f olk dan Cin G: Creative movers of all ages, abilities and mobility learn international routines. Walkers and wheelchairs are accommodated. North End Studio A, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. $5; free for assistants. Info, 863-6713.

food & drink

l aCto- f er Mented Soda S: Jason Frishman of FolkFoods teaches foodies to make fun, fizzy beverages using a “ginger bug” culture, lemons, berries and more. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700.

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avoid f all S w ith iMproved Sta Bility : See FRI.07, 10 a.m. f orza: t he Sa Murai Sword w orkout : See THU.06, 6-7 p.m. h er Bal Con Sultation S: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister at info@vtherbcenter.org. Info, 861-9757. r .i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.05, 7-8 p.m.

kids

ali Ce in noodleland : Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Joyful noi Se l au Ghter Clu B: Robin Cornell and Charlotte Gilruth lead playful exercises for ages 8 and up that focus on moving, breathing and giggling. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3427 or 223-1607. MuSiC w ith peter : Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:45 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918. Storie S w ith Me Gan : Little ones expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. t een advi Sory Board : Teens gather to plan library programs. Yes, there will be snacks. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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r eCorder- playin G 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.

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BaSiC CoMputer Skill S: Community members enter the high-tech age and gain valuable knowledge. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3403.

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‘Bird Cat Cher in h ell’ : Utilizing several original performers, Bread and Puppet Theater adapts its 1971 Vietnam War production to present-day politics, including drone warfare. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 454-8311. ‘t he My Stery of ir Ma vep’: See THU.06, 7 p.m.

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Burlin Gton diSCover Jazz f eStival: Gre G t ardy Quartet : With a sound that ranges from modern to lyrical waltzes to neo-bop, the seminars saxophonist and clarinetist fronts the inventive t ra Ckin G w ork Shop : UVM instructor and foursome. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 6 p.m. tracking expert Mike Kessler demonstrates $25. Info, 863-5966. how to identify signs of animal life and their Burlin Gton diSCover Jazz f eStival: Jazz meaning for specific habitats. Birds of Vermont l aB: ‘Shylo Ck Sin GS the Blue S’: Dennis Museum, Huntington, 1-4 p.m. $10-15; preregisWillmott, Kym Asam, Jeff Salisbury, Tom ter. Info, 434-2167. Buckley and Burlington theater veteran Dennis McSorely perform the Shakespearean-inspired sport concept album. BCA Center, Burlington, 2 p.m. 2013 SpeCial oly MpiCS ver Mont Su MMer Free. Info, 863-7992. GaMeS: See FRI.07, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Burlin Gton diSCover Jazz f eStival: Meet Bike kin GSland Bay : The Green Mountain the arti St Se SSion: Gre G t ardy : BDJF Club leads a 20-mile excursion through piccritic-in-residence Bob Blumenthal moderturesque scenery. Contact leader for details. ates a Q&A session with the saxophonist and Kingsland Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh, 9 a.m. clarinetist. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Free; preregister. Info, 999-7839, kelleymchrisInfo, 863-5966. tie@gmail.com. Burlin Gton diSCover Jazz f eStival: Cha Mp r un : Scenic 5K and 10K routes along pon Cho San Chez & hi S l atin Band Mt. Philo Road make for friendly competition. f eaturin G r ay veGa: The renowned trumPost-race festivities include healthy fare, live peter joins the Grammy Award-winning singer entertainment and the Lake Monsters mascot, and his group for a collision of Latin jazz, swing, Champ. Proceeds benefit school programs. bebop and salsa. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, Personal, reusable water bottles encouraged. 8 p.m. $15-45. Info, 863-5966. Charlotte Central School, 8:30 a.m. $15-20; $65 Burlin Gton diSCover Jazz f eStival: per family of 4; preregister. Info, 425-5630. South Burlin Gton Co MMunity Choru S: r eMeMBran Ce r un/ w alk : Folks honor the Piero Bonamico conducts more than 50 memory of Sigrid Bronner, Trace Santos-Barber ensemble members in a performance of Peter and Chris Ludington and raise money for Schindler’s adventurous piece Missa in Jazz. student scholarships in their names. Peoples First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, Academy, Morrisville, registration, 7:30-9 a.m.; 4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-7992. mile run, 9:15 a.m.; 5K, 9:30 a.m. $7-30; Gra Ce Cloutier & r eBeCCa r in Gle : free for children under 6. Info, In “Journey Through life,” the 279-0677, remembrancerunvt@ harpist and Metropolitan Opera gmail.com. soprano perform works by “t he Bi GGeSt l oSer” Schubert, Benjamin r un w alk Serie S: Britten, Hugo Wolf Athletes of all ages and and Gesang Weylas. abilities join Dan and Grounds open for Jackie Evans, former conpicnics at 5:30 p.m. testants of the hit NBC All Souls Interfaith series, to promote physiGathering, Shelburne, cal fitness with a kids fun 7 p.m. $10-20. Info, run, 5K and half marathon. 863-5966. Plattsburgh City Hall, N.Y., Green Mountain opera 5K, 8 a.m.; half marathon, RT f eStival: eMer Gin G ES 8:10 a.m.; fun run, 11:30 a.m. YO arti St S Con Cert : Members FL IZ A $10-70. Info, 708-612-8516. MAR of the GMOF program perform an IE M AZ ZU C CO t our de kin Gdo M: See WED.05, 7:30 operatic repertoire. Community Church, a.m. Stowe, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7722. ver Mont State t iMe t rial Montpelier Cha MBer or CheStra : Cha Mpion Ship S: Riders in amateur, profesMontpelier High School students culminate sional, masters and junior categories spin their their Life Map Project with local senior citizens wheels on a 40K course. Live music and local in “Electric,” featuring electric violinist Tracy eats follow. Windridge Tennis Camp, Roxbury, Silverman. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 4 registration, 8:30 a.m.; ride, 10:30 a.m. $20-25. p.m. $10-15. Info, 728-6464. Info, 229-9409, events@onionriver.com. MuSiC on the por Ch : The Eames Brothers w oMen’S piCkup So CCer : Quick-footed give an informal concert of original, acoustic ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while blues. Waterbury Station, Green Mountain stringing together passes and making runs for Coffee Visitor Center & Café, Waterbury, 1-3 p.m. the goal. Rain location, Miller Community and Free; nonperishable food items accepted. Info, Recreation Center. Starr Farm Athletic Field, 882-2700. Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and pine l eaf Boy S: Southern Louisiana’s Cajun up. Info, 864-0123. and Creole tunes hit the Green Mountains when U

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iCe Crea M Sunday : Dessert comes first when visitors make and sample hand-cranked ice cream, then learn about the science and history of this sweet treat. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355. r aw-Milk Mozzarella : Lindsay Harris of Hinesburg’s Family Cow Farmstand teaches fromage lovers how to make this versatile cheese in their own kitchens. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700. South Burlin Gton f ar Mer S Market : Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. Kids ages 5 through 12 join the foodie fun with the “Power of Produce” Club. South Burlington High School, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, sbfm.manager@gmail.com. Stowe f ar Mer S 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.

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Shared MoMentS open Mic: Recille Hamrell hosts an evening of spontaneously told true tales about pivotal life events. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-1754.

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Swing-dance practice SeSSion: Quickfooted participants get moving in different styles, such as the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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Fran weinbaUM: The spiritual life coach and member of the international organization Radical Joy for Hard Times discusses its efforts to restore meaning to damaged landscapes. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 249-7377.

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potbellied pig & pig StorieS: Animal lovers of all ages enjoy quality swine time with this lovable pet while learning about the species. Themed reading themed material rounds out the fun. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:1511 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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gUided partner thai bodywork: Lori Flower of Sattva Yoga leads basic techniques that create relaxation and personal connection. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $810; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. keeping yoUr heart healthy: Greg Giasson of Alternative Roots Wellness Center discusses the causes of heart disease, then presents diet and exercise plans that benefit the bloodpumping organ. City Market, Burlington, 5:306:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700. yoga For SeniorS: Library director Penny Pillsbury leads a brief routine that can be committed to memory and practiced daily. Loose, comfortable clothing and yoga mat required. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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child wellneSS SeSSionS: Body-mind specialist Courtney Anderson offers “tune-ups” for kids ages 5 through 18. Ascent Wellness Center, Burlington Natural Health Center, Burlington, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 518-5289958, info@ascentwellness.com. creative tUeSdayS: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. richFord playgroUp: Rug rats gather for tales and activities. Cornerstone Bridges to Life Community Center, Richford, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Story tiMe with corey: Read-aloud tales and crafts led by store employee Corey Bushey expand the imaginations of young minds.

Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. StorytiMe in the neStlingS nook: Little ones gather for stories about birds and more. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10:3011:15 a.m. Free with admission; $3-6.

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ben & Jerry’S concertS on the green: edward Sharpe and the Magnetic ZeroS with reign wolF: The folk-rock ensemble fills the stage with its 12 members, who bring equal parts talent and energy to an uplifting performance. Shelburne Museum, gates open, 5:30 p.m.; show, 6:30 p.m. $39-43; free for children 12 and under. Info, 652-0777. caStleton SUMMer concertS: The Panhandlers Steel Band get listeners moving and grooving to Caribbean rhythms. Pavilion, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6039. green MoUntain opera FeStival: MaSterclaSS SerieS: Maestro Anthony Walker of the Washington Concert Opera shares his expertise with members of the GMOF emerging artist program, who work on an operatic repertoire. The Schoolhouse, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 2-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7722, info@greenmountainoperafestival.com. waterbUry coMMUnity band: The local ensemble fills the air with spirited marches and concert-band selections. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2137, info@waterburycommunityband.org.

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bUg walk: Insect lovers grab a net and take a stroll in search of interesting invertebrates. North Branch Nature Center, 3:30-5 p.m. $3-5. Info, 229-6206.

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baSic introdUction to caMera USe: Locals learn the basics of community media production using video cameras. Channel 17 Studios, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 862-3966, ext. 16, morourke@cctv.org.

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cataMoUnt trail rUnning SerieS: Runners of all ages and abilities break a sweat in this weekly 5K race. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6-8 p.m. $3-8; free for children 8 and under. Info, 879-6001. cycling 101: Linda Freeman of Onion River Sports leads a training ride aimed at building confidence, strength, endurance and a sense of community. Montpelier High School, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409 or 223-6161, ext. 719.

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barry MccaFFrey: The retired Army general and current president of the Virginia-based consulting firm BR McCaffrey Associates presents “Leadership of Complex Organizations.” Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2633. rUSS kelty: The health care consultant outlines ways to navigate upcoming changes in the health-insurance marketplace. A Q&A follows. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

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‘the bake oFF’: A trio of directors — each with a separate cast — dissect Patrick Barlow ‘s zany whodunit The 39 Steps into three different parts. A Q&A follows. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24.30-32.50. Info, 863-5966. ‘wiZard oF oZ’ aUditionS: See SAT.08, 4-7 p.m.

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Cady/Potter Writers CirCle: Literary enthusiasts improve their craft through assignments, journal exercises, reading, sharing and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 349-6970.

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homeshare vermont informational session: Those interested in homesharing and/or caregiving programs meet with staff to learn more. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

mouthful of snacks. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. st. albans PlaygrouP: See WED.05, 9-10:30 a.m.

Community Cinema film series: Macky Alston’s 2012 documentary Love Free or Die features openly gay New Hampshire bishop Gene Robinson and his quest for LGBT rights in church and state. A panel discussion follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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City hall Park lunChtime PerformanCes: See WED.05, noon. green mountain oPera festival: oPen rehearsal: Members of the GMOF emerging artist program take the stage in preparation for Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The Schoolhouse, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 4967722, info@greenmountainoperafestival.com.

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Jean guenther: Drawing on nearly 40 years of experience, the founder of the Vermont Center for Psychosynthesis introduces attendees to this unique healing process, which integrates all aspects of the self. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 598-6014. riane eisler & nanCy folbre: As part of the National Ecological Economics Conference, the authors present “Building Our Economy: Moving Past Rhetoric to a Just and Sustainable Future.” Room 235, Marsh Life Science Building, UVM, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-2943.

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burlington Writers WorkshoP meeting: See WED.05, 6:30-7:30 p.m. mark Pendergrast: The author discusses the revised third edition of his book, For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. mattheW WolPe: Safe, sanitary and eyecatching poultry palaces are the topic of discussion by the coauthor of Reinventing the Chicken Coop. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Info, 448-3350. ProvoCative reads: Bookworms share titillating titles. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. ‘Writing on the bones’: Lit lovers gather to read and recite their favorite poems. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1607. m

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middlebury farmers market: See SAT.08, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. sourdough bread: Heike Meyer of Bee Sting Bakery presents ways to create naturally leavened loaves using a fermented culture. Attendees take a starter home. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700. sun to Cheese tours: Fromage lovers go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmhouse cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 2-4 p.m. $15; preregister; includes a block of cheese. Info, 985-8686. Williston farmers market: See WED.05, 4-7 p.m.

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acting BEGINNERS MEISNER TECHNIQUE: Stand up for yourself; be who you really are; lose self-consciousness! ˜ e course is based on the Meisner Technique as taught at the Neighborhood Playhouse, considered one of the fi nest acting schools in the U.S. Instructor Carole Zucker studied at the Playhouse and HB Studios in NYC. Register now! Jun. 22, 23, 29 & 30, noon-5 p.m. Cost: $225/person. Location: ˜ e Off Center for Dramatic Arts, 294 N. Winooski Ave. #116C, Burlington. 425-4936, info@actingworkshops.info, actingworkshops. info.

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DROP IN: ARTIST MARKET KID ZONE: Families are invited to create during the Burlington Famers Market. Have a blast together making art in the park: painting, drawing, printmaking and more! Donations support BCA’s education scholarships for youth and adults. Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided; no registration necessary. KID ZONE is weather dependent. All ages. Jul. 13-Aug. 17, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., weekly on Sat. Cost: $5/child; $4/BCA members. Location: BCA Artist Market, City Hall Park, Burlington. DROP IN: LIFE DRAWING: ˜ is drop-in life drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by local painter Glynnis Fawkes. Spend the evening with other artists, drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary. Ages 16 and up. Jul. 8-Aug. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m., weekly on Mon. Cost: $8/participant; $7/BCA members. Purchase a drop-in card and get the 6th visit for free. Location: BCA Center painting studio, 135 Church St., 3rd fl oor, Burlington.

WHEEL THROWING THURSDAYS: ˜ is six-week class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. No previous experience needed! Ages: 16 and up. Jul. 11Aug. 22, 6-8:30 p.m., weekly on ˜ u. Cost: $230/person; $207/ BCA members. Incl. your 1st bag of clay! Extra clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag. Glazes & fi rings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, wheel room, 250 Main St., Burlington.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: 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

TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Taiko in Burlington! Tues. Taiko adult classes begin Jun. 18, Sept. 10, Oct. 22 & Dec. 3, 5:30-6:20 p.m. $72/6 wks. Kids classes begin the same dates, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6 wks. Conga and Djembe Fri. classes start Jun. 14, Jul. 12 & Aug. 2, 5 p.m. & 6 p.m. $15/class. Montpelier Conga classes start Jun. 20 & Jul. 18, 9:30-10:30 a.m. $60/4 wks. Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington. Stuart Paton, 9994255, spaton55@gmail.com.

gardening GROW IT! COMMUNITY & SCHOOL GARDEN WORKSHOP: Learn strategies to boost garden programs and support growth, share ideas and celebrate this growing movement. ˜ e workshop includes building strong leadership teams, engaging the community and hands-on garden learning. Part of statewide series. Register online or call. Tue., Jun. 12, 3:30-8 p.m. Cost: $30/person, incl. dinner, sliding scale avail. Location: Miller Recreation Center, 130 Gosse Ct., New North End, Burlington. 8614769, vcgn.org.

healing arts TOUCH, CARING, & CANCER: Hands-on workshop for cancer patients and their caregivers. Learn safe, clinically-proven techniques to relieve pain, offer comfort, reduce anxiety, diminish nausea, and more. Instruction in simple massage, acupressure, and aromatherapy, as well as safety precautions. Presented by Empowering Partners, Janet Kahn, PhD, LMT and Catherine Cerulli, MEd. See empowering-partners.abmp. com. Sat., Jun. 22, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.. Cost: $85/individual, $145/ pair. Incl. instructional DVD. Preregistration req. by Jun. 14. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Empowering Partners, Catherine Cerulli, 249-7071, cjcerulli@gmail. com.

helen day art center PLEIN AIR PAINTING: Borrowing from the French tradition of plein air painting, this class will introduce participants to the use of acrylics outside of the studio to capture the essence of the landscape. ˜ e Stowe Recreation Path will set the scene for an invigorating open air work session. Instructor: Alyssa DeLaBruere. Jun. 8, 9-noon. Cost: $80. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com. BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION: THE ADMIRABLE IRIS: Use fundamental graphite techniques to create a careful drawing of the magnifi cent iris. Using pencils of differing width and hardness, and with careful attention to creating values, the day will be spent creating an iris portrait. Bring your favorite iris bloom to study and draw. Instructor: Susan Bull Riley. Jun. 20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $120. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday. com.

herbs JULIA GRAVES HERBAL INTENSIVES: Julia Graves, visiting from France, is an herbalist, bodyworker, fl ower-essence practitioner, psychotherapist and author of ˜ e Language of Plants.

Julia will be leading four herbal intensives at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in June. Preregistration is required. For detailed class descriptions, visit vtherbcenter.org. ˜ e Herbal Vehicle: Best Delivery Methods for Optimal Effects: Jun. 17, 2-5 p.m., $30-35; Musculo-skeletal Herbs: Jun. 23, 9-11:30 a.m., $25-30; Head Trauma and Herbs: Jun. 23, 2-4:30 p.m., $25-30; ˜ e Language of Plants Herb Walk: Opening Our Eyes to Nature: Jun. 24, 3-6 p.m., $3035., Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org. WHOLE HUMAN WELLNESS: We’ve distilled the best of our herbal training into a jampacked class led by our experienced faculty. ˜ is short course will prepare you to support your friends’ and family’s health using whole plants and whole foods. Feel confi dent and empowered to begin using herbal remedies in your daily life! 2nd & 4th Mon., 4:30-7:30 p.m., Jul. 8-Dec. 9. No class for the mo. of Aug. or on Nov. 25. Cost: $300/person; $40 deposit; preregistration required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org.

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LANDSCAPE PAINTING: Transform a favorite landscape image into a realistic, multilayered oil painting that employs the classical Renaissance techniques of master painters. ˜ e core principles taught

WHEEL THROWING MONDAYS: ˜ is six-week class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. No previous experience needed! Ages 16 and up. Jul. 8-Aug. 12, 6-8:30 p.m., weekly on Mon. Cost: $230/person; $207/BCA members. Incl. your 1st bag of clay! Extra clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag. Glazes & fi rings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, wheel room, 250 Main St., Burlington.

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ETCHING: Discover the ancient printing technique of etching, for artists who love to draw and want to make highly detailed prints. No experience needed. Over 25 hours per week of open studio time also included for producing prints; students may not use acid baths outside of class time. Ages 16 and up. Jul. 8-Aug. 12, 6-8:30 p.m., weekly on Mon. Cost: $200/person; $180/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

SILKSCREENING: Torrey Valyou, local silkscreener/owner of New Duds, will show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fi ne art & more! Learn a variety of techniques for printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. No experience necessary. Cost includes over 25 hours/week of open studio hours. Ages 16 and up. Jul. 11-Aug. 15, 6-8:30 p.m., weekly on ˜ u. Cost: $210/ person; $189/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance fl oor! ˜ ere is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online.

PHOTO: INTRO TO FILM/DIGITAL SLR: Explore the basic workings of the manual 35mm fi lm or digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter speeds and exposure, and learn the basics of composition, lens choices and fi lm types/sensitivity. No experience necessary. Jul. 10-Aug. 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m., weekly on Wed. Cost: $160/ person; $144/BCA members. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington.

class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

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in this class will benefi t any painting style, subject matter or discipline. See instructor Sheel Gardner Anand’s own work at sheel.net. Bring your own painting supplies. Ages 16 and up. Jul. 16-Aug. 20, 6-8:30 p.m., weekly on Tue. Cost: $160/person; $144/BCA members. Location: BCA Center painting studio, 135 Church St., 3rd fl oor, Burlington.

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Wisdom of the herbs school: Wild edible & Medicinal Plant and Nature Walk, Mon., Jun. 3, 6-7:30 p.m. sliding scale $10-0. Please preregister and give us your phone number. eat on the Wild side, Tue., Jun. 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Harvest, prepare and eat wild edibles! Preregister. $25. children welcome and free. 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. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com.

language ANNoUNciNG sPANish clAsses: Join us for adult spanish classes this summer. Our sixth year. learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. lesson packages for travelers. also lessons for young children; they love it! see our website or contact us for details. Beginning wk. of Jun. 24 for 10 wks., Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. sUmmer fUN eN frANcAis: send the Kids to French camp! each camp runs for 6 mornings, Monday-saturday, 9 a.m.-noon. “French around the World” (ages 11-14) celebrates world cultures and French as a global language. art and music emphasized; June 24-29. “Ratatouille” (ages 8-10) is inspired by the charming animated film about the rat who wants to be a chef. Variety of activities, with a focus on cooking; July 15-20. Cost: $160/ per camper. Financial need? Ask about scholarships. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. 4970420, aflcr.org/classes.shtml.

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Aikido: This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and relieve stress. classes for adults, teens and children. We also offer morning classes for new students. study with Benjamin Pincus sensei, 6thdegree black belt and Vermont’s only fully certified aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. Adult introductory classes begin on Tue., Jun. 4, 5:30 p.m. Introductory 3-mo. special incl. 1 free mo. & uniform., Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org.

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Aikido clAsses: aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and

confidence in oneself. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. kArAte & self-defeNse: Traditional Karate and selfdefense for children 5 and up and adults. Benefits include improved fitness, health and attitude. classes are taught by 5th-degree and 4th-degree certified black belt instructors with a combined 70 years of experience! classes are fantastic exercise with the added benefit of learning self-defense skills. Location: Green Mountain Dojo Kyokushin Karate & Japanese Cultural Arts Center, 158 South Main St., Waterbury. Green Mountain Dojo Kyokushin Karate & Japanese Cultural Arts Center, Toni Flynn, 595-9719, greenmountaindojo@gmail.com, greenmountaindojo.com. VermoNt brAZiliAN JiUJitsU: classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. accept no imitations. learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, cBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under carlson Gracie sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! a 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro state champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj. com.

massage isometrics: 14 ceUs: In this class, isometric and isotonic techniques for working with inefficient muscular tension patterns as well as underdeveloped muscle tone are presented and practiced. Through the use of these techniques, self-correcting reflexes are stimulated and habitual holding patterns can be released. Participants will learn how to use these techniques to promote change from rigid physical patterns to greater mobility. Jun. 29-30, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245/2 days; $225 when deposit of $50 is received by Jun. 10; ask about the introductory riskfree fee. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com.

meditation iNtrodUctioN to ZeN: This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen

Buddhism. Preregistration required. call for more info or register online. Sat., Jun. 15, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $30/ half-day workshop, limitedtime price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Vermont Zen Center, 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext. net, vermontzen.org. leArN to meditAte: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington shambhala center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. The Shambhala Cafe meets 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An Open House occurs 3rd Fri. of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing., Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. ZeN reNoVAtioN: spring cleaning for your mind! Become environ/mentally sound-inside & out. Get Zen! Weekly Meditation Classes, Wed., 7 p.m. $10/person. Free Sunday Bruch, 11:30 a.m.., Location: New North End, Burlington. Barry, 343-7265, barry@zenrenovation.com.

music the bill reed mUsicAl theAtre sUmmer iNteNsiVe: Join Bill Reed and world-class faculty from NYc’s circle in the square Theatre school for a weeklong program focusing on acting technique, working on different voice qualities, anatomy of the vocal mechanism and vocal technique, style and musicality, physical expression, dancing for the stage, as well as college and professional audition prep. The week culminates in a student performance. Jun. 23-29., Location: Spotlight on Dance, 50 San Remo Drive, S. Burlington. 862-7326, admin@theatricalsinger.com, billreedvoicestudio. com/the-studio/workshops/ summer-intensive.html.

pilates booty bArre ANd PilAtes: Get trim and fit with the hottest new barre workout. arms, thighs and booty get a run for their money. Booty Barre will shrink your body! Pilates Mat classes will tone, stretch and make you feel fantastic! Featuring magic circles, big balls and small balls, rollers, weights and elastic bands. Booty Barre: Mon. 5:30 p.m., Wed. 12:30 p.m., Sat. 9:30 a.m. Pilates: Mon. 6:30 p.m., Tue. 9:30 p.m., Thu. 5:30 p.m., Fri. 12:30 p.m. Cost: $15/class. Location: Absolute Pilates, 3060

of edge-of-your-seat fiction writing through a series of fun writing prompts. Participants develop their own short stories as they uncover the secrets of locked room puzzles, detectives, police procedurals, cozy parlor and hard-boiled mystery writing. Jun. 17-21, 1:30-3 p.m.. Cost: $85/5 afternoons. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, the Writers’ Barn, 9853091, lin@windridgebooksofvt. com, windridgebooksofvt.com. mYThologY, graphic novel STYle: Middle school students join elizabeth llewellyn to learn more about mythology and the different types of myths as they write and illustrate their own stories, graphic-novel style. The hero’s journey, quest myths and creation myths await your capes, crowns and imaginative super powers. Jun. 24-28, 10-11:30 p.m.. Cost: $85/5 mornings. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, the Writers’ Barn, 985-3091, llin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com.

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hoT Yoga BurlingTon: Hot Yoga Burlington offers creative, vinyasa-style yoga featuring practice in the Barkan Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Try something different! Go to our website for 10 reasons to practice hot yoga in the summer. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $14. 1-hr. classes on Mon. at 5:30 p.m.; Fri.: 5 p.m.; Sat.: 10:30 a.m.., Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave., Old North End, Burlington. 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Yoga rooTS: Test Test Flexible, inflexible, an athlete, expecting a baby, stressed, recovering from an injury or illness? Yoga Roots has something for you! Our aim is to welcome, nurture and inspire. a peaceful studio offering: Prenatal, Vinyasa Flow, Heated Vinyasa Flow, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Therapeutic Restorative, Gentle, Kundalini, anusara, Tai chi, Qigong & Meditation! Upcoming: Self Compassion series begins Jun. 5, The Art of Reiving Spiritual Guidance w/ Kate Lanxner begins Jun. 29., Location: Yoga Roots, 6221 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne Business Park, Shelburne. 9850090, yogarootsvt.com.

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Yang-STYle Tai chi: The slow movements of Tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo., Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. 735-5465.

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Spoken WordS: TeenagerS Slam: Unleash the powerful images, metaphors and rhythms of spoken word poetry with local slam artist lizzy Fox. students write, revise and share work aloud, with focus on place, identity and personal story. equal time is spent on writing and performance, culminating with a final slam at the Writers’ Barn. 5 Fri., 3-5 p.m., Jun. 21 & 28 & Jul. 5, 19 & 26. Cost: $100/5 wks. of 2-hr. workshops. Location: The Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Lin Stone, 985-3091, lin@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com.

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p.m., weekly on Monday. Cost: $84/7-wk. semester. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St., 3rd floor, Montpelier. Ellie Hayes, 456-1983, grhayes1956@comcast.net.

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

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SEVEN DAYS: Dumpstaphunk seems like a descriptive name. Was it meant to be a defi nition of your music? IVAN NEVILLE: I wouldn’t go so f ar as to say that, exactly. But everything we do, whether it veers into a little more rock, or a little more soul, a little more blues, it’s all got some elements of funk in it. We try to express a lot of what we’re infl uenced by. And that’s a lot of di˛ erent stu˛ . But it all ends up somehow with some funk on it.˝ SD: I look at the name and picture you picking through the trash, snagging discarded bits of this and that. IN: That’s a great analogy. Absolutely. SD: ° e new record is great, and features some interesting guests, like Trombone Shorty, Flea and even Ani DiFranco. How did that project come together? IN: We just went into the studio whenever we were all around, a couple of days here, a couple there. It was probably about a month in the studio all together. But it was over a period of time. We had a few ideas bef orehand, and there were some other ideas that developed in the studio. We

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ew Orleans’ Dumpstaphunk are an all-star band of sorts, f eaturing a f unkdafi ed gumbo of ace Crescent City players, including drummer Nikki Glaspie (Jay-Z, Beyoncé) and the two-pronged, low-end thump of bassists Tony Hall (Dave Matthews) and Nick Daniels III (Neville Brothers, Cyril Neville). It also boasts a pair of Nevilles, guitarist Ian and keyboardist Ivan — the sons of Art and Aaron Neville, respectively. Celebrating their 10th anniversary and with a new album, Dirty Word, due out in July, Dumpstaphunk is touring the country this summer. That includes a stop at the Waterf ont Bayou Tent on Thursday, June 6, as part of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. In advance of that show, Seven Days chatted with Dumpstaphunk founder Ivan Neville by phone f rom New Orleans. We asked him about his band’s new record, his unlikely stint with a certain pop band and what it was like growing up Neville.

SD: I would imagine we’ll be hearing from the next generation of Nevilles fairly soon… IN: Oh, there’s a lot of them. My nephew, my little cousin. I’ve got a little brother doing some stu˛ . But we’ll see what happens. They’re defi nitely coming down the pipeline. SD: Most people probably don’t know that you briefl y fronted the Spin Doctors. IN: Oh, man. It’s not one of the things I really like to point out. [Laughs] It was something that just happened and it pops up f rom time to time. But it wasn’t a big deal. I was playing with the Spin Doctors and Chris Barron injured his vocal cords. So we had to fi nish up two or three shows, tops. That story is exaggerated a little. But it was fun playing with those guys.

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were just doin’ what we do. You go into the studio and it just does its own thing once you’re there. SD: Do you approach the studio differently than you do your live show? IN: We never try to duplicate either or. And we played live in the studio as a band. So right there, you’re getting some of that live vibe, playing music all together. But the di˛ erence between live and the studio is that when you’re playing live, you’re getting another energy. You’re getting help, inspiration from people who are listening. And in return you put something else out there. In the studio it’s just you, the instruments and whatever powers that be …

whether it’s energy or whatever you like to call it. SD: You come from a famously musical family. Was there ever any thought about you becoming something other than a musician? IN: Not really. I kinda knew. Early on, as a young kid, I liked sports a lot, playing football. But when I was about 15, I started playing piano, and pretty soon after that I knew that’s what I was gonna do. SD: So you were never like, “Maybe I’ll be an accountant?”˛ IN: [Laughs] Not anything like that, ever. But that’s not a bad thing to know.

SD: So playing with the Rolling Stones and touring with Keith Richards was maybe a bit more exciting? IN: It was an absolute blast. I played with them on a record or two. It was fun. And I made a couple of records with Keith. Those guys know how to do what they do, you know? It was a thrill. SD: You play a bunch of instruments, and you’re a songwriter and bandleader. Is there one thing you enjoy doing more than the others? IN: Well, one thing about Dumpstaphunk is that we take turns leading. We take turns driving, so to speak. That’s the beautif ul thing about this band. I do enjoy playing a little rhythm guitar now and then. But I enjoy listening. That’s the most f un thing to me, listening to them. And that determines what I’m going to play anyway. So that’s probably my favorite thing.

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Anyway, the Saturn PeoPle’S Sound ColleCtive’s set at the FlynnSpace on Tuesday was simply transcendent, not merely a local highlight, but a festival topper, period. And that just about brings us up to date. So, with the BDJF’s opening act in the books, let’s take a look at some potential highlights in the second half, shall we? The big ticket on Thursday, June 6, is obviously dumPStaPhunk and the Soul reBelS at Waterfront Park — see the interview with Dumpstaphunk founder ivan neville on page 66. But there are a few good low-ticket — and no-ticket — shows on the books that night, too. I’d say porn-prog mavens JaPhy ryder at Halvorson’s should be a scorcher, as should local soul man JoSh Panda at Red Square. As for more straight-ahead jazz, Shane hardiman’s beefed-up “supertrio” at Radio Bean is highly recommended. Actually, his weekly Thursday residency at the Bean comes recommended regardless. Friday’s underground highlight has got to be keyboardist marCo Benevento playing a solo piano set at Radio Bean.

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Jeez, you people are slipping. After last week’s — admittedly mostly tongue-incheek — admission that I was having a hard time getting worked up for the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival this year, I expected the usual flood of emails from prickly jazz heads accusing me of anti-hepcat bias. But my inbox remained eerily quiet, suggesting you’ve either stopped reading this column (uhoh) or, perhaps worse, you were feeling the same way. Whatever the case, I’m happy to report I’m rounding into mid-festival form. After a weekend of bopping, bebopping and post-bopping in and out of various concert halls and clubs — with a brief detour to keep tabs on the Stanley Cup Playoffs. (Go BROOOONS!) — I’m getting my groove back. And judging from the crowds crawling all over downtown Burlington, you are, too. Friday’s block party was, as usual, a great night to be out and about. Though I could have handled a little more in the way of actual jazz on the marketplace stages and maybe a smidge less on the funk, reggae and funk-reggae — and reggae-funk — end of the spectrum, there is always an undeniable energy in the air on the fest’s opening night. Which reminds me… Hey, people in charge of Burlington’s comically uptight liquor laws: Would it kill you to allow one or two nights

per year when adults are allowed to do adult things in public? I’m not saying we need to turn Church Street into Bourbon Street — though I’m not not saying that. But wouldn’t a beer garden or two in view of the Church Street stages be a nice — and, frankly, obvious — addition to the evening’s festivities? Especially since said festivities are sponsored by a friggin’ beer company. It seems to work out OK at every other major jazz festival on the planet. Just a thought. Where was I? Oh, right. Jazz. Another highlight of the weekend was catching local all-female all-star band Steady Betty (formerly Panty town) at American Flatbread. And, yes, I realize the irony in wanting more jazz at the block party and then claiming a rocksteady band as a high point of the weekend. I think that actually says more about how good Steady Betty are than it is a critique of any jazz I saw. They are quickly rising among the ranks of my favorite local acts. For my next trick, I’m going to review a show I haven’t actually seen yet, since it falls on the night after I write this column. This is called “futureviewing,” folks, and it’s high-level music-crit stuff. Don’t try it at home.

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JP's Pub: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., free. lEunig's bistro & cAFé: patricia Julien project (jazz), noon, free. Anthony santor Trio (jazz), 3 p.m., free. Trio Gusto & mike martin (jazz), 6 p.m., free. mAnHAttAn PizzA & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free. monkEy HousE: Al moore Blues Band, Violette ultraviolet, 8:30 p.m., $5. 18+. nEctAr's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., free. Orgone, ruby Velle & soulphonics (funk), 9 p.m., $10/12.

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brEAkWAtEr cAFé: shakedown (rock), 6 p.m., free.

FrAnny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

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rED squArE: Japhy ryder (prog rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

skinny PAncAkE: Josh panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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skinny PAncAkE: michael-Louis smith Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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cHArliE o's: Open Blues Jam with Blue fox, 10 p.m., free.

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signAl kitcHEn: Hess is more (indie), 10 p.m., $12/15. 18+.

bAgitos: colin mccaffrey (folk), 6 p.m., Donations.

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Sun 6/2 Anna Pardenik Sun 6/9 Mike Martin duo (brunch shows start at 11am)

rí rá irisH Pub: something With strings (bluegrass), 8 p.m., free.

rADio bEAn: free Jazz Lunch: Appalled Eagles, noon, free. Tom cleary (jazz piano), 4:20 p.m., free. myra flynn & paul Boffo (blues, jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Dan ryan Express (jazz), 9 p.m., free. rob Duguay's songevity Trio (jazz), 11 p.m., free.

bAgitos: Bruce Jones (folk), 6 p.m., free. grEEn mountAin tAvErn: Open mic, 9 p.m., free. Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free. WHAmmy bAr: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., free.

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city limits: Karaoke with Let it rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., free. on tHE risE bAkEry: Open Blues session, 8 p.m., free. tWo brotHErs tAvErn: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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bEE's knEEs: fred Brauer (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations. tHE Hub PizzEriA & Pub: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. moog's PlAcE: Danny ricky cole (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. PArkEr PiE co.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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AkE's PlAcE: Eight 02 (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. AmEricAn FlAtbrEAD — burlington HEArtH: N'goni Dub project (world music), 5:30 p.m., free. club mEtronomE: Afinque (salsa dura), 9 p.m., $8.

tHE DAily PlAnEt: Jim stout (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., free. Dino's PizzA: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Dobrá tEA: robert resnik (folk), 7 p.m., free. Bob and martha (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free.

grEEn mountAin tAvErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. tuPElo music HAll: Open mic with the Break maids, 7 p.m., free.

champlain valley

city limits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. on tHE risE bAkEry: songwriters in the round with Derek Burkins, Dan Johnson (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., free. tWo brotHErs tAvErn: Honeywell & patience (rock), 7 p.m., $3.

northern

bEE's knEEs: TJs Jazz, 7:30 p.m., Donations. tHE Hub PizzEriA & Pub: Dinner Jazz with fabian rainville, 6:30 p.m., free. Open mic, 9 p.m., free. moog's PlAcE: Open mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

FinnigAn's Pub: The soul mints (funk), 10 p.m., free.

PArkEr PiE co.: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

FrAnny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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HAlFloungE: Half & Half comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free. The Harder They come (EDm), 10:30 p.m., free. HAlvorson's uPstrEEt cAFé: Japhy ryder (prog rock), 7 p.m., NA. lEunig's bistro & cAFé: Lila mae & the cartwheels (jazz), noon, free. Dan Liptak (jazz), 3 p.m., free. cody sargent Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., free. mAnHAttAn PizzA & Pub: Hot Waxxx with Justcaus & pen West (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free. mArriott HArbor loungE: Tiffany pfeiffer Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. monkEy HousE: Joe redding, Laura Heaberlin, Taylor smith, ryan fauber (singer-songwriters), 9 p.m., $5. nEctAr's: rob Duguay's songevity Trio (jazz), 5 p.m., free. Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. Nigel Hall, the NEKtones (soul), 9:30 p.m., $7/10. 18+. o'briEn's irisH Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free. on tAP bAr & grill: Nobby reed (blues), 7 p.m., free. rADio bEAn: Dan ryan Versus the saxophones (jazz), noon, free. Bob Gagnon & Nick Warner Duo (jazz), 2:30 p.m., free. ian Kovac, Andy Allen, peter Krag (jazz), 4 p.m., free. Dave fugel & friends (jazz), 6 p.m., free. francesca Blanchard (french chanson), 7:30 p.m., free. shane Hardiman super Trio with Geza carr, rob morse & Anthony santor (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squArE: Josh panda Band (rock), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. rED squArE bluE room: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., free.

monoPolE DoWnstAirs: Gary peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., free. tHErAPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., free.

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AmEricAn FlAtbrEAD — burlington HEArtH: parker shper Group (jazz), 5:30 p.m., free. Anthony santor Trio (jazz), 9:30 p.m., free. bAckstAgE Pub: Trivia with the General, 6 p.m., free. Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free. brEAkWAtEr cAFé: sideshow Bob (rock), 6 p.m., free. club mEtronomE: No Diggity: return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. tHE DAily PlAnEt: Lambo Law (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Dobrá tEA: udu Voodoo (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., free. FArmHousE tAP & grill: Left Ear Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. HAlFloungE: steady Betty (rocksteady), 8 p.m., free. 2K Deep presents: Good Times (EDm), 10:30 p.m., free. HAlvorson's uPstrEEt cAFé: funkwagon (funk), 7 p.m., NA. HigHEr grounD sHoWcAsE loungE: first friday, Antara, DJ phantom, DJ Veena (folk, dance), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+. HotEl vErmont: Alex stewart Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. fri.07

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BiteTorrent is to go the Waterfront early and then sneak up the hill for Gretchen’s late set. Sweet, sweet Gretchen… If you get shut out of the FlynnSpace, I’d point you to Nectar’s, where BARIKA will be throwing down some serious n’goni grooves. You could also drop by the newly minted Hotel Vermont for an evening with sax monster BRIAN MCCARTHY, who recently released one of the best local jazz albums in years, This Just In. The closing Sunday of jazz fest is always a pretty low-key day as strungout hepcats emerge from a 10-day jazz bender. So how about a gypsy-jazz brunch at the Bean with the BOHEMIAN BLUES QUARTET to take the edge off ? Or, for later risers, maybe get a look at Honky Tonky Tuesday offshoot BELLE PINES, a collaboration between BRETT HUGHES and LESLEY GRANT, who are playing an afternoon set at Flatbread. Later in the day, I’d recommend the neobop stylings of the GREG TARDY QUARTET at FlynnSpace, since the next time they come around they’ll probably be headlining the MainStage. Or, if you’re feeling jazzed out, dig on the

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And if you’ve caught any of his previous gigs there, you probably already know he’s worth squeezing into the Bean’s cozy confines to see. I’d suggest showing up early, catching MICHAEL CHORNEY’s revived avant-garde jazz outfit ORCHID and camping out for the night. Or you could chill at Flatbread and catch up with our old pal PARKER SHPER, who comes back to the festival from Montréal every year to remind us that he’s one of the more innovative and talented young jazz musicians to ever call Vermont home. Also, it’s worth pointing out that local blues man SETH YACOVONE has reconstituted the SETH YACOVONE BAND. You can check ’em out at Nectar’s, opening for funksters — and, presumably, fans of the underrated hip-hop spoof Fear of a Black Hat — BOOTYJUICE. I’m not going to lie, Saturday is going to prove problematic, as two of the fest’s marquee shows line up against one another, with reggae superstar BARRINGTON LEVY at the Waterfront Tent and last week’s cover girl, GRETCHEN PARLATO, at the FlynnSpace. Fortunately, Parlato is playing two shows. My plan

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CLUB DATES

JP'S PUB: Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dayve Huckett (jazz), noon, Free. Timothy James Blues & Beyond (blues), 3 p.m., Free. Paul Asbell, Clyde Stats and Chris Peterman (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Will Patton and Clyde Stats (gypsy jazz), 9 p.m., Free. LIFT: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Ramblin' Dan Stevens (folk), 9:30 p.m., Free. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Maple Jam (a cappella), 7:30 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Something With Strings, the Joint Chiefs (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. MR. CRÊPE: Art Herttua (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: Happy Ending Fridays with Jay Burwick (solo acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Seth Yacovone Band, Bootyjuice (blues, funk), 9 p.m., $5. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Loose Association (folk), 5 p.m., Free. Phil Abair (rock), 9 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Kid's Music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick, 11 a.m., Free. Free Jazz Lunch: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), noon, Free. David Schnug Trio (jazz), 2:30 p.m., Free. Julian Chobot (jazz), 5:30 p.m., Free. Orchid (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 9 p.m., $3. Marco Benevento (piano), 11:30 p.m., $15/20. 18+.

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RED SQUARE: Anna Pardenik & Duke Aeroplane (old-time jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Sparkplug (funk), 8 p.m., $5. DJ 6/4/13 10:41 AMCraig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Mixx (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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SKINNY PANCAKE: Russ Flynn Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. SPLASH AT THE BOATHOUSE: Modern Nature (rock), 5:30 p.m., Free. VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Downtown Sextet (jazz), 10 p.m., Free.

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BAGITOS: Peter Mayhew (folk), 6 p.m., Donations.

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SIGNAL KITCHEN: Lee Fields & the Expressions (soul), 10 p.m., $22/25.

CHARLIE O'S: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 10 p.m., Free.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. POSITIVE PIE: Jake & Sam Whitesell (jazz), 11 p.m., Free. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Soulstice (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. WHAMMY BAR: The Midnight Spooners (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

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CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

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ON THE RISE BAKERY: Live Music, 8 p.m., Donations.

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Rehab Roadhouse (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

SUN.09 // THE MOUNTAIN GOATS [INDIE FOLK]

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John Darnielle to their full-band output of more polished material — 2012’s Transcendental Youth being the latest — the Mountain Goats stand at the vanguard of throught-provoking, literate songwriting. Catch them this Sunday, June 9, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington with the BAPTIST GENERALS.

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BEE'S KNEES: Malicious Brothers (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

JP'S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., Free.

RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Rob Duguay's Songevity Trio (jazz), noon, Free. Anthony Santor Trio (jazz), 3 p.m., Free. Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Gregory Douglass with Monique Citro and Joshua Glass (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Ramblin' Dan Stevens (folk), 9:30 p.m., Free.

MOOG'S PLACE: The Aerolites (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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51 MAIN: Diallo House Quartet (funk, jazz), 8 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Patrick Lehman, 7 p.m., Free. Sneezeguard (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

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MONOPOLE: High Peaks (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: The Trio (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

BEE'S KNEES: Steve Morabito (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

NAKED TURTLE: Justice (rock), 10 p.m., NA.

MONKEY HOUSE: Kevin Anglin (standup), 8:30 p.m., $5.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

PALMER STREET COFFEEHOUSE: Sky Blue Boys (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., $10.

NECTAR'S: The Bredice, Mayette & Romeo Trio (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. The High Breaks (surf rock), 7 p.m., Free. Barika, Sparkplug (world music), 9 p.m., $7.

MOOG'S PLACE: Jason Wedlock and Friends (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

THERAPY: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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AMERICAN FLATBREAD — BURLINGTON HEARTH: Anna Pardenik & Duke Aeroplane (old-time jazz), 5:30 p.m., Free. Left Ear Trio (jazz), 9:30 p.m., Free. BACKSTAGE PUB: The Party Crashers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Quadra (rock), 6 p.m., Free. CHURCH & MAIN RESTAURANT: Night Vision (EDM), 9 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. THE DAILY PLANET: Hot Pickin' Party (Americana), 7 p.m., Free. FINNIGAN'S PUB: Canopy (rock), 10 p.m., Free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HALFLOUNGE: Eastern Mountain Time (acoustic), 3 p.m., Free. Myra Flynn (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Deer Tick, Whale Oil (indie), 8:30 p.m., $15/17. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: American Royalty, Heloise & the Savoir Faire (electro-rock), 8 p.m., $8/10. AA. HOTEL VERMONT: Brian McCarthy Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Conniption Fits (rock), 9 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Vincent Hammer (classical guitar), 10 a.m. Free Jazz Lunch, noon, Free. Potbelly (groove), 2 p.m., Free. James Harvey (solo piano), 4 p.m., Free. The Luce Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Andric Severance Duo (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Michelle Sarah (soul), 9:30 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: Zack duPont (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Dynasty Electric (funk), 8 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (mash up), 11 p.m., $5.

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MONOPOLE: Shameless Strangers (rock), 10 p.m., Free. NAKED TURTLE: Eat Sleep Funk (funk), 10 p.m., Free.

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AMERICAN FLATBREAD — BURLINGTON HEARTH: Belle Pines (country), 1:30 p.m., Free. BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Cooper & Lavoie (blues), 2 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Stavros (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

CLUB METRONOME: Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkin (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., $12/15. 18+.

RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Mike Martin & Charlie McFadden (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: The Groove Junkies (funk), 10 p.m., Free. SKINNY PANCAKE: Pale Cowboys (folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Bessette Quartet (jazz), 10 p.m., Free.

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BAGITOS: Irish Sessions, 2 p.m., Free. Sean Casey (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Donations. CHARLIE O'S: Township (rock), 10 p.m., Free. TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Club 188 at Tupelo Music Hall (dance party), 10 p.m., Free.

FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Jaw Gems (psych), 7 p.m., Free. HALFLOUNGE: Building Blox (EDM), 10 p.m., Free. DJ Disco Phantom (house), 10:30 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Mountain Goats, the Baptist Generals (indie folk), 8 p.m., $18. AA. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Jenni Johnson & the Jazz Junketeers (jazz), noon, Free. Lewis Franco & the MIssing Cats (swing), 3 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Lovely Bad Things (rock), 8:30 p.m., $8. 18+. SUN.09

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On her debut album, Audrey Bernstein Loves Blue, local jazz singer Audrey Bernstein delves into the songbook of popular American jazz and regales us with a few of her favorite things. Though she doesn’t break new ground, Bernstein’s treatment of tunes by great composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Cy Coleman is an amiable listen and adds a welcome new voice in Vermont jazz. Bernstein doesn’t so much reinterpret this collection of semistandards as much as she uses guile and sly charm to personalize them. Her take on beloved classics such as “Fever,” “Blue Skies” and “The Best Is Yet to Come” don’t typically stray too far from versions popularized by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan. But her soft, breathy tone and clean, playful

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front woman Heloise Williams (exviperHouse) and her husband James Bellizia, the album is a comparatively lean affair, relying more heavily on stylish electronic production — it’s been charting at online EDM hub Beatport — than previous full-band disco-punk stylings. The result is an album that casts Williams in a newly synthetic but nonetheless neon-hued light, yet retains the wild charm that longtime fans have come to associate with the local dancerock diva. Given the continuing encroachment of EDM on modern pop music, Williams’ beat-centric turn isn’t exactly a surprise, though it may find her more in league with the likes of Jessie Ware or Katy B — or even recent Rihanna — than Blondie. What is surprising is the album’s lyrical depth and darkness. Somewhat by design, dance music is rarely the domain of soul-searching expression. But Williams’ latest suggests there is room on the dance floor for both extroverted ass-shaking and heavy-hearted introspection. Indeed, Diamond Dust plays like a sort of personal catharsis, contrasting Williams’ outward persona as the irrepressible life of the party with distinctly shadowy and emotionally exposed musings on love, life and death. That vulnerability imparts

flirtatious form as she winkingly invites us “happy people” to drink up. If there is a criticism to be made of the record, it’s that Bernstein doesn’t seem particularly concerned with injecting any new ideas into these decades-old classics. She plays it all fairly straight. However, that criticism is offset by the fact that she is so comfortable within those preordained parameters. Because of Bernstein’s considerable talent and allure, it’s enough for her to simply give these old chestnuts voice anew. Audrey Bernstein plays the Salaam clothing boutique on Church Street in Burlington this Friday, June 7. Audrey Bernstein Loves Blue is available at iTunes.

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In 2008, Heloise and the Savoir Faire unleashed their debut record, Trash, Rats & Microphones. That album, released on Elijah Wood’s label, Simian Records, received a warm critical reception and helped push the Burlington and NYC-based band into the national consciousness, perhaps owing in part to the appearance of Deborah Harry. The former Blondie lead singer guested on a few tracks, has been cited as an obvious influence and is likely the band’s most famous fan — though listeners in the Shire may beg to differ with that last sentiment. Five years later, Heloise and Co. are back with a new record, Diamond Dust. Like the band itself, which is now essentially

phrasing lend the material a seductive intimacy. Adding to that smoky, late-night lounge appeal is Bernstein’s backing band. The singer tapped some of Vermont’s best jazz talent to surround herself with a gently billowing tapestry of smooth sounds. Pianist Dan Skea complements Bernstein’s delicate delivery with subtle accents. Ditto guitarist Joe Capps. The rhythm combo of bassist John Rivers and Caleb Bronz is predictably excellent. And trumpeter Ray Vega proves a worthy melodic foil for Bernstein, matching her teasing croon with quiet, tastefully stylish sound. As impressive as the band’s collective performance is, Bernstein rightly remains the focal point. She is solid throughout the record. And in certain moments, her performance borders on sublime. For example, her cooing interpretation of the Gershwins’ “A Foggy Day” is a standout in which she displays impressive control and emotive nuance. The same is true of Matt Dennis and Earl Brent’s “Angel Eyes.” Here, Bernstein’s playfulness is in full,

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Nectar's: mi Yard Reggae night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. ON tap Bar & Grill: mitch Terriciano (acoustic), 11 a.m., Free.

edward sharpe aNd the maGNetic zerOs rose to national fame in 2009 on the back of their ubiquitous single, “Home.” With

their knack for sticky, sing-along hooks, they inspired the zealous, pseudo-religious fervor previously reserved for bands such as the Polyphonic Spree. The band’s 2012 record, Here, delivers still more gleeful pop praise-singing that’s more than just preaching to the choir. This Tuesday, June 11, the band kicks off the 2013 Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on the Green Series at the Shelburne Museum. reiGNwOlf open. cOuRTEsY OF EDWARD sHARpE AnD THE mAGnETic ZEROs

radiO BeaN: Rev. Ben Donovan (gospel), 10 a.m., Free. Bohemian Blues Quartet (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free. The mysterious peter Krag & Friends (jazz), 2 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (parisian jazz), 5 p.m., Free. mike Gamble (avant garde), 7:30 p.m., Free. Left Ear Trio (jazz), 9 p.m., Free. Bootyjuice (funk), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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red square: The slipper Kings (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Robbie J (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. rí rá irish puB: miles & murphy (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free.

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skiNNy paNcake: Ed & neil pearlman (folk), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. VermONt puB & Brewery: The sam Armstrong Trio (jazz), 2 p.m., Free.

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BaGitOs: Eric Friedman (acoustic), 11 a.m., Donations. skiNNy paNcake: Ameranouche (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

northern

Bee's kNees: David Langevin (piano), 10 a.m., Donations. matterhOrN: chris Tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free. sweet cruNch Bake shOp: Don Tobey and mary collins (acoustic), 10:30 a.m., Free.

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halflOuNGe: B-sides with DJ sleezy D (deep house), 7 p.m., Free. Family night Open Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free. maNhattaN pizza & puB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. mONkey hOuse: Am & msR

Nectar's: metal monday: ATLATL, stone Bullet, Quantum mechanic, Hope Lies Within, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ON tap Bar & Grill: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. radiO BeaN: Balkanishka (Eastern European folk), 5:30 p.m., Free. West (experimental jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Open mic, 9 p.m., Free. red square: The Bumping Jones (jam), 7 p.m., Free. mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., Free. ruBeN James: Why not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. VermONt puB & Brewery: Trivia night, 8 p.m., Free.

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charlie O's: Trivia night, 8 p.m., Free.

northern

mOOG's place: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

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Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free.

cluB metrONOme: Dead set with cats under the stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

champlain valley

Nectar's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. mike Dillon Band (funk), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

burlington area

halflOuNGe: Funkwagon's Tequila project (funk), 10 p.m., Free.

charlie O's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

twO BrOthers taVerN: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

northern

mONty's Old Brick taVerN: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free.

Bee's kNees: B Flat & Her Hot Bunz (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Nectar's: Gubbuldis (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Free. purple Drank (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

mOOG's place: Open mic/Jam night, 8:30 p.m., Free. shane Brody (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Olde NOrtheNder: Abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. ON tap Bar & Grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. radiO BeaN: stephen callahan Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Linda Bassick (Americana), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk sessions, 10 p.m., $3. ramuNtO's Brick OVeN pizza: Trivia night, 7 p.m., Free. red square: mike pedersen Band (rock), 7 p.m., Free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

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presents: merchandise, milk music (indie rock), 9 p.m., $10.

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Breakwater café: House Rockers (rock), 6 p.m., Free. fraNNy O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. halflOuNGe: scott mangan (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. Jp's puB: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free.

ON tap Bar & Grill: Leno & Young (acoustic rock), 7:30 p.m., Free. radiO BeaN: deturtle (jazz), 5:30 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. red square: Joe moore Trio (blues), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. siGNal kitcheN: !!!, sinkane (post-hardcore, funk), 8:30 p.m., $15. 18+. skiNNy paNcake: Josh panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

central

BaGitOs: Zachary King (folk), 6 p.m., Donations.

champlain valley

city limits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. ON the rise Bakery: Open Bluegrass session, 8 p.m., Donations. twO BrOthers taVerN: Trivia night, 7 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee's kNees: Jen corkins (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free. the huB pizzeria & puB: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. mOOG's place: sam & sage (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free. parker pie cO.: Trivia night, 7 p.m., Free.

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GreeN mOuNtaiN taVerN: Open mic, 9 p.m., Free. Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. whammy Bar: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

maNhattaN pizza & puB:

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 8PM

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BEE’S knEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889 BLaCk CaP CoffEE, 144 Main St., Stowe, 253-2123 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 CoUnTrY PanTrY DinEr, 951 Main St., Fairfax, 849-0599 CroP BiSTro & BrEWErY, 1859 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4304 grEY fox inn, 990 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8921 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 PLaCE, 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

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BagiTo’S, 28 Main St., Montpelier, 229-9212 Big PiCTUrE ThEaTEr & Café, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994 BrEaking groUnDS, 245 Main St., Bethel, 392-4222 ThE CEnTEr BakErY & CafE, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500 CharLiE o’S, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820 CiDEr hoUSE BBq anD PUB, 1675 Rte.2, Waterbury, 244-8400 CLEan SLaTE Café, 107 State St., Montpelier, 225-6166 Cork WinE Bar, 1 Stowe St., Waterbury, 882-8227 ESPrESSo BUEno, 136 Main St., Barre, 479-0896 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 LoCaLfoLk SmokEhoUSE, 9 Rt. 7, Waitsfield, 496-5623 mULLigan’S iriSh PUB, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545 nUTTY STEPh’S, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090 oUTBaCk Pizza + nighTCLUB, 64 Pond St., Ludlow, 228-6688 PiCkLE BarrEL nighTCLUB, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035 ThE PinES, 1 Maple St., Chelsea, 658-3344 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 rED hEn BakErY + Café, 961 US Route 2, Middlesex, 223-5200 ThE rESErVoir rESTaUranT & TaP room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827 SLiDE Brook LoDgE & TaVErn, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202 TUPELo mUSiC haLL, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 698-8341 WhammY Bar, 31 W. County Rd., Calais, 229-4329

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Watery Wonder Gail Salzman, BCA Center

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ater is the theme but not the medium of Gail Salzman’s sensual solo show of abstract paintings currently at the BCA Center. The veteran Vermont artist is here conducting a “metaphorical investigation of water’s seen and unseen infl uence on our lives,” according to a wall text introducing her show “Soundings.” Most of the 10 large-scale and three dozen smaller works can readily be read as inspired by the pond outside Salzman’s Fairfi eld studio and by the Maine seashore, where she paints each June. But the aquatic allusions are conveyed not through gauzy watercolors but by means of what she calls the “juiciness” of oil paint. Creamy swabs and streaks have been poured, dripped and sponged onto aluminum panels in the big paintings. Similar e˛ ects are achieved on wood in the “Palette” series of smaller pieces. Salzman gave these similarly sized works that collective title, she inf orms gallery visitors in a cellphone commentary, because they are the fi nessed products of leftover paint wiped from her palette after a day’s work in the studio. Salzman perf orms a f ew neat f eats at BCA. For one, her layers of oil paint are made to appear translucent despite their frequently thick application. She also has a knack for combining colors harmoniously, even when some of her juxtapositions — brown and blue, f or example — could appear odd and o˛ -putting rather than cannily complementary. The ochers and umber used in several pieces shouldn’t prompt associations with water, yet they do. Given the watery premise of the show, Salzman’s dark passages can be seen as strands of seaweed or globs of algae fl oating in shadows. Most impressive of all, no two paintings look alike. Viewers are comf ortably transported f rom one work to the next, but there’s no sense of repetition in “Soundings.” Each painting has something new and di˛ erent to say. And, at least for this visitor, one of the pieces had an auditory dimension. Perhaps others will experience a moment of synesthesia and find themselves actually hearing the crack of thunder that an arcing swipe of orange lets loose in “Sudden Rain.” The show is called “Soundings,”

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“Pallette #2”

SALZMAN MAKES AN IMPERMEABLE SURFACE, ALUMINUM, LOOK LIKE IT’S BEEN MARINATED IN A MIX OF PIGMENTS. af ter all. While Salzman tells us she chose that title to refer to measurements of water’s depth, she probably won’t mind if it takes on a broader meaning for viewers. In one of her cellphone monologues Salzman speaks of “immersion” in the paintings. She comes close to achieving

that literally in “Fount,” which appears to have been composed underwater — maybe in a submersible, maybe by the artist morphing into a mermaid. This e˛ ervescent piece calls to mind the line from the Talking Heads song “Once in a Lifetime”: “Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean.”

White bubbles fl oat upward against a deep blue background in “Fount,” trailing tendrils that make them look like sperm swimming against gravity. In keeping with the subject matter that inspired the works in this show, nearly all of Salzman’s shapes are amorphously organic, with little evidence of how they came to be created. In “Soundings,” geometric f orms are about as uncommon as brushstrokes. They do appear here and there, but the painter’s process, like her product, is more mysterious than familiar. Some viewers may be reminded f o Helen Frankenthaler’s soaking technique — the allusion being a testament to Salzman’s technical wizardry rather than a suggestion that her paint handling is imitative. Frankenthaler saturated canvas, a permeable material, while the Vermont artist makes an impermeable surf ace, aluminum, look like it’s been marinated in a mix of pigments. Representation makes only a fl eeting appearance in “Soundings,” and even then it may be more in the eye of a viewer than in the intention of the artist. In “#8” of the palette series hung in BCA’s f ront room, a head and torso can be seen inside a circle that might be a magnifying glass. And could that partly obscured circle in the upper left corner of the same piece be an eclipsed moon? Almost every piece on display has its allure, but the real show stopper is a simply composed panel in the palette series referred to only as “#2.” It’s as arresting as any of the celebrations of color that spill onto the frames of paintings by contemporary British artist Howard Hodgkin, who composes with a fl air that Salzman shares. Five vertical bands stand side by side in “#2,” each nudging or merging into its neighbor. The left-to-right color progression — from bright to somber to mournf ul to vibrant, to a stripey combination of the latter two tones — is captivating. But what appeals most powerfully is the “juiciness” of the paint. It’s so luscious you’ll want to lick it. K EV I N J . K EL L EY

Gail Salzman, paintings at the BCA Center, Burlington. ˜ rough July 6. burlingtoncityarts.org

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Clay studio. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 860-7474.

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blAke lArsen: Abstract expressionist acrylic paintings. June 7 through 28 at brickels gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-7 p.m. info, 825-8214.

'ChAmplAin vAlley photo slAm': photography by local artists of all ages and abilities. organized for the third year by Darkroom gallery. Through June 23 at ArtsRiot gallery in burlington. info, 777-3686.

'We Are fAmily': photographers capture intimate and kooky moments with their kin. Through June 23 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 777-3686.

lori hinriChsen: "The Conversation got lively,” abstract drawings and collages. Through June 30 at the green bean Art gallery at Capitol grounds in Montpelier. Reception: Friday, June 7, 4-7 p.m. info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com.

'Art's Alive Juried exhibition': work by Vermont artists is displayed in the 27th annual Art's Alive Festival of Fine Art. Through June 29 at union station in burlington. info, 660-9005.

diCk & nAnCy Weis: "parallels," recent acrylic and encaustic paintings by the husband and wife artists. Through June 25 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. info, 985-3848. gAil sAlzmAn: "soundings," abstract oil paintings that offer a metaphorical investigation into water’s seen and unseen influences on our lives; dAn trAnberg: "imperial Material," paintings that incorporate yarn, glitter and Roll-A-Tex to emphasize materiality above all else. Through July 6 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166. 'glAss Are us': graal glasswork and sculpture, all hand blown and sculpted in the pine street workshop. Through september 27 at Ao! glass in burlington. info, 488-4455. group shoW: works by Marc Awodey, Carolyn enz hack, paige berg Rizvi, Ruth hamilton, will patlove, Che schreiner, David powell and ethan Azarian. Curated by seAbA. Through June 30 at the innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, 859-9222. 'integrAted Art ACAdemy: Art ConneCts': Artwork by elementary students who participated in a new artist-in residence program involving resident artists from bCA and VsA Vermont. Through June 11 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166. JessA gilbert: "Connections," paintings that investigate movement and action, skyway and escalator; gAAl shepherd: oil paintings, gates 1-8. Curated by bCA. Through July 6 at burlington Airport in south burlington. info, 532-6533. JohAnne duroCher yordAn: Art Affair by shearer presents paintings and mixed-media works by the Vermont artist. Through June 30 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. info, 658-1111.

kim bombArd: still-life paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 27 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001.

molly bosley: "A Thousand pieces gone," a 2011 collection of papercuts incorporating found photographs. June 7 through August 1 at healthy living Market and Café in south burlington. info, 863-2569.

nini CrAne: paintings of Vermont landscapes, lake Champlain, flowers and nature. Through June 30 at Magnolia breakfast & lunch bistro in burlington. info, 862-7446. buRlingTon-AReA shows

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'fly: A group shoW': Artists from Vermont and beyond interpreted the word "fly" on 6-by-6-inch wood panels. Through July 15 at penny Cluse Café in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 6-8 p.m. info, 872-3753. 'tell us A tAle': Artwork inspired by children’s literature, plus original paintings and drawings made for publication of contemporary children’s books by Vermont authors, First and second Floor galleries; 'there's no plACe like home': Artist books and fine bindings presented by the book Arts guild of Vermont, Third Floor gallery. Through July 6 at studio place Arts in barre. Reception: Thursday, June 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 479-7069. ClAy shoW: work by studio members, students and staff who have experimented with surface-decoration techniques such as sgrafitto, image transfer, slip, oxide, carving and additive and subtractive texture. Through June 30 at burlington City Arts print &

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'Art eduCAtors unite! CreAtion & CollAborAtion': An exhibition of work by 11 Vermont public-school art educators who meet twice a month to support one another in the pursuit of their own art making. June 7 through July 31 at Flynndog in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-9 p.m. info, 863-0093. vermont WAterColor soCiety AnnuAl spring Juried AWArds shoW: paintings by member artists. June 7 through 30 at seAbA Center in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 859-9222. 'trACes': Mark waskow and Jean Cherouny present an exhibit inspired by performance artists who create a "trace," something that is directly or indirectly related to the performance that will survive the performance. Curated by seAbA. June 7 through August 30 at VCAM studio in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 651-9692.

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Jeff bruno: "These Are ghosts," paintings in a variety of media and seemingly disparate styles. June 7 through 29 at backspace gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-9 p.m. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

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'ArtistiC insights': The inaugural exhibition of s.p.A.C.e.'s new artist membership program. June 7 through August 17 at soda plant in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-9 p.m. info, 8v-quecheeballoon060513.indd 1 spacegalleryvt.com.

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meghAn rAymond: "Crystals & Fog," encaustic paintings that incorporate utilitarian objects such as string and safety pins. June 7 through 29 at studio 266 in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 266studios@gmail.com. the Art bArn exhibit: paintings and crafts by susan larkin, ginger Johnson and Valerie ugro. June 9 through 12 at Fisk Farm Art Center in isle la Motte. Reception: sunday, June 9, 4-7 p.m. info, 928-3081. ChArles movAlli: "in every Musician..." paintings inspired by well-known operas. June 9 through August 4 at green Mountain Fine Art gallery in stowe. Reception: Movalli discusses the challenges of translating music into a visual work of art, sunday, June 9, 2-4 p.m. info, 253-1818. ClArk russell: “Mixed Media,” high-relief collages and abstracts created from salvaged scrap metals. June 7 through August 24 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. Reception: Russell performs with Tom lawson as the improvisational soundcollage duo ReCon, Friday, June 7, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 652-4500.

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peter kAtz: Drawings by the Jeffersonville artist. Through June 30 at Red square in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 318-2438.

'found!': Vintage photos, forgotten paintings, a Kupfer Bibel and other oddities the Dostie brothers have found while searching for vintage frames. June 7 through 30 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 660-9005.

elvirA tripp: "Angles," artwork inspired by origami figures and kaleidoscope-like images. June 7 through 29 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-9 p.m. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

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'no hAnds': work by the students and instructors of a four-month printmaking class at iskra print Collective. Through July 31 at JDK gallery in burlington. info, iskraprint.com.

CAsey brinkmAn & hArrison homes: "Cosmic Atmosphere," works in spray paint and acrylic by the teen artists. June 7 through 28 at Davis studio gallery in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 425-2700.

hAley bishop: work by the 2012 winner of the brewery’s labels for libation contest. June 7 through July 31 at Magic hat brewing Company in south burlington. Reception: A portion of sales of Art hop Ale, with bishop's label, will benefit seAbA, Friday, June 7, 6-8 p.m. info, 658-2739.

molly bosley: "Remember, sebastian," scherenschnitte, or scissor-cut, constructions inspired by the artist's dreams. Through June 30 at Vintage inspired in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 355-5418.

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'lArger thAn life: Quilts by veldA neWmAn': Contemporary fiber art; 'trAilblAzers: horsepoWered vehiCles': An exhibit that explores connections between 19th-century carriages and today’s automotive culture; 'ogden pleissner, lAndsCApe pAinter': watercolor sketches and finished paintings. Through october 31 at shelburne Museum. info, 985-3346.

peter miller: "A lifetime of Vermont people," more than 60 years of imagery by the Vermont photographer, exhibited in anticipation of his forthcoming book of the same name. Through June 30 at Frog hollow in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 863-6458.

'print — ColleCt': prints from new York Fine print Fair founder Jeannot barr's stock, as well as from member artists private collections. June 7 through 30 at Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction. Reception: Four prints are raffled. Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 295-5901.

nAnCy stone & melindA White-bronson: "Drawn to Music," translucent accordion books and layered watercolor paintings of musicians by stone; bronze work, a wood carving and a hand-stitched landscape quilt by whitebronson. June 7 through August 31 at the Cathedral Church of st. paul in burlington. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 860-7183.

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kAtrA kindAr: "les bicyclettes de paris," paintings. Through June 6 at Village wine and Coffee in shelburne. info, 985-1014.

JuliAn CArdinAl: The painter and former scarlet galleries owner hosts a wine-andcheese opening in his studio to showcase his most recent work. At Julian Cardinal Fine Art in burlington. Reception: saturday, June 8, 7-9 p.m. info, 508-237-0651.

Jill mAdden & mAriellA bisson: Mixed-media depictions of natural scenes by bisson; paintings by Madden. Through June 30 at upstairs at west branch in stowe. Reception: saturday, June 8, 4-6 p.m. info, 253-8943.

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contemporaries. Through December 20 at s ullivan Museum & h istory Center, n orwich u niversity, in n orthfield. info, 485-2183.

'Resto Rative Justice: t he aRt of Making aMends' : Artwork by participants in restorativejustice panels. Through July 31 at Metropolitan gallery, burlington City h all. info, 865-7166.

'unRaveling and t uRning: a cli Mate change aRt exhibit' : w ork that addresses changing behaviors and transforming systems, explores the nature of loss and the root causes of climate change, and reimagines our collective future. Through June 30 at goddard Art gallery in Montpelier. info, 598-4819.

Robe Rt Waldo bRunelle J R.: Acrylic paintings of cityscapes, blue-collar culture and gumball machines. Through June 30 at Vintage Jewelers in burlington. info, 862-2233.

Walt h azelton & bRuce Ma Rshall : "generous s pirits," pottery, basketry and furniture by h azelton; found-object sculptures and paintings by Marshall. Through June 15 at n uance gallery in w indsor. info, 674-9616.

suMMeR sho W: paintings by ed epstein, Mike s trauss, n ancy Tomzcak, Chelsea piazza and l in w arren; photographs by Jim Moore; sumi-ink work by Aya itagaki; and collage work by Arthur penfield Tremblay. Curated by bCA. Through August 31 at Maltex building in burlington. info, 865-7166.

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susan abbott : "Vermont Journal: s mall paintings from Four s easons," plein-air work by the Vermont artist. Through August 31 at s helburne Vineyard. info, 985-8222.

anne cady : "Twenty Years," 20 new oil paintings exhibited in celebration of the artist's two decades of portraying the Vermont countryside. Through June 30 at edgewater gallery in Middlebury. info, 458-0098.

suzanne dollois : photographic work by the Vermont artist. Curated by se AbA. June 7 through August 30 at pine s treet Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614.

caRving studio Me MbeRs' sho W: Members of the nonprofit arts-education center show their works in this annual exhibit. Through June 30 at Carving s tudio and s culpture Center in w est Rutland. info, 438-2097.

t essa h ol Mes: paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by se AbA. June 7 through August 30 at s peeder & earl's (pine s treet) in burlington. info, 658-6016.

chaffee invitational : Jewelry, paintings, origami, photography and sculpture by six new juried artists: Mary Alcantara, ian Creitz, o ri goldberg, Jane Ann Kantor, Morgan h aynes and l isa May. Through June 29 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. info, 775-0356.

t odd R. l ock Wood : "o ne Degree of s eparation," black-and-white photographic portraits, 1975-2012. Through July 15 at Freeman h all Conference Room, Champlain College, in burlington. info, 860-2733. tR ine Wilson : photographs of flowers by the Vermont artist. Through July 31 at April Cornell in burlington. info, 355-4834.

'discove Ring coMMunity: sho Wcase of student Wo Rk': Documentary films, photography, audio “vox pops” and oral-history interviews produced by students during classes and after-school programs. Through June 8 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. info, 388-4964.

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bill Ja Mes: w ork by the artist who painted people and places in the w oodstock area 50 years ago. Through June 15 at ArtisTree Community Arts Center & gallery in w oodstock. info, 457-3500.

eRnest h aas : "Vanished Vessels Made Visible," historical nautical paintings by the s outh burlington artist. Through August 18 at l ake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. info, ernesthaas@comcast.net.

cindy gRiffith : "s easons in Transition," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 30 at Red h en bakery & Café in Middlesex. info, 229-4326.

fR an bull : "s ound & Color," opera portraits on paper inspired by Japanese wood-block prints of Kabuki actors, illustrating the duality of performers in their roles. Through July 6 at Jackson gallery, Town h all Theater, in Middlebury. info, 382-9222.

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cynthia cRaWfo Rd: "Close To h ome: u pper Valley inspirations, a Journey Through n ature’s w onders," wildlife photos and paintings. Through June 30 at Vins n ature Center in Quechee. info, 359-5001. glen cobu Rn h utcheson : paintings, drawings and sculpture by the Montpelier artist. Visitors are invited to drop by Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m., and be the subject of a "talking portrait," a life-size pencil drawing. Through July 31 at s torefront s tudio gallery in Montpelier. info, 839-5349. glo Ria king Me RRitt : "Changing gears," large-scale digital paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 23 at the great h all in s pringfield. info, 258-3992. guest aRtist sho W: w ork by ceramic sculptor s ande French-s tockwell, kinetic sculptor patty s grecci and jeweler l ochlin s mith. Through June 30 at Collective — the Art of Craft in w oodstock. info, 457-1298. h aRRiet Wood : "inner Doors," abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 27 at Vermont s upreme Court l obby in Montpelier. info, harrietpwood@gmail.com. John h enRy h opkins : Drawing books the Vermont bishop produced with his son in the 1840s. Through June 30 at Vermont h istory Center in barre. info, 828-2180. MaReva Milla Rc: "expressions," abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 7 at Festival gallery in w aitsfield. info, 496-6682.

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MaRk good Win : Abstract works that incorporate folds, scores and mark making. Through June 30 at s potlight gallery in Montpelier. info, 828-5422. 'Maste RWoRks' : s culpture and prints by Vermont artist h ugh Townley exhibited alongside a portion of his personal collection, including works by eugene Atget, h arry Callahan, s alvador Dalí, Jean

Lori Hinrichsen In her artist statement, Lori Hinrichsen says she

uses imagery to “subtly suggest stories.” The Montpelier printmaker and photographer uses gesture and color to create a sense of frivolity in the abstract works that make up her show “The Conversation Got Lively,” which is at Capitol Grounds’ Green Bean Visual Art Gallery in Montpelier through June 30. Hinrichsen says the inspiration for these sunny pieces includes long summer days, fireflies, swimming holes and picnics. The pictured work is untitled.

Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Aaron s iskind, h .C. w estermann and o ssip Zadkine. Through July 28 at bigTown gallery in Rochester. info, 767-9670. 'playing With t iMe': An exhibit that incorporates high-speed photography, time-lapse videos and animation to explore science and the everchanging world. Through s eptember 8 at Montshire Museum of s cience in n orwich. info, 649-2200. Robe Rt h itzig : "h ard l ine, s oft Color," painted wood sculptures by the Vermont artist. Through June 28 at governor's o ffice gallery in Montpelier. info, 828-0749. 'spRing gaRden and Woods' : Member artists exhibit their garden-inspired artwork, plus birdbaths, bird houses, garden sculptures, woodwork and more. Through June 30 at blinking l ight gallery in plainfield. info, 454-0141.

'suspended Wo Rlds' : An exhibit celebrating Curtains w ithout borders, Vermont’s paintedtheater-curtain project, featuring a restored east Randolph curtain and photographs of several others from around the state. Through July 7 at Chandler gallery in Randolph. info, 728-9878. 't he Myste Rious Mind' : w orks by Fran bull, n ina benedetto, Joan Curtis, Thomas Mcgraw and Mareva Millarc. Through June 23 at Vermont institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. info, 875-1018. 't hese h ono Red dead: pRivate and national coMMeMoRation' : An exhibit that tells the stories of n orwich alumni from both sides of the Civil w ar, focusing on the military draft, prisons and mourning rituals; 'useful and elegant acco Mplish Ments' : l andscape drawings by 19th-century n orwich u niversity alumni and their

Mp l andis : "Train and Creek," mixed-media works created in Middlebury and rare n ew england monoprints. Through June 6 at ZoneThree gallery in Middlebury. info, 989-9992. 'natu Re tR ansfo RMed: edWaRd buRtynsky’s veRMont Qua RRy photog Raphs in context' : iconic photographs exhibited within the context of the geological and social history of the area, including the italian immigrant stoneworkers in the granite quarries near barre. Through June 9 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. info, 443-3168. patty sgRecci & l yn duMoulin : "n ature Reflected ... w ater, l ine and Form," kinetic sculptures by s grecci, watercolor landscapes by DuMoulin. Through July 2 at brandon Artists guild. info, 247-4956. Ruth h aMilton : "A s ense of place," wildlife and landscape paintings by the poultney artist. Through June 8 at brandon Music. info, 465-4071.

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'aRt on the Refuge' : paintings and photographs of the refuge's natural landscape. Through July 20 at Missisquoi n ational w ildlife Refuge in s wanton. info, 933-6677. caRolyn guest : "s pringtime in the Kingdom, Cut with s heep s hears," two- and three-dimensonal paper cutouts depicting local wildflowers, barns and domestic animals. Through June 13 at n ortheast Kingdom Artisans guild backroom gallery in s t. Johnsbury. info, 748-0158. 'confluence' : Artwork by gretchen Alexander, n ed s wanberg and s acha pealer, colleagues at the Vermont Agency of n atural Resources Rivers

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Program who have documented their interactions with the natural world over the last few years in a shared journal. Through June 16 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. Debi Gobin: Landscape paintings in oil on canvas. Through June 17 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366. 'Draw the Line anD Make Your Point: the PenciL anD the 21st centurY': A visual history of the invention and evolution of the pencil, including a display about a pencil artist, unlikely objects made from pencils, an interactive pencil launcher and a smattering of pencils from around the world. Through December 1 at the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. Info, 626-4409. heLen shuLMan & karen Petersen: "Love Songs," abstract works on panel by Shulman; "Spirit Into Form," cast-bronze sculptures by Petersen. Through June 22 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943. Janet worMser: Landscape and portrait paintings. Through July 5 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261. John brickeLs & aaron stein: "Cars 'r Art," contemporary automotive sculptures by the Vermont artists. Through July 14 at White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. Info, 563-2037.

northern VerMont artist association: Work by 90 member artists exhibited in the 83rd annual juried spring show. Through July 5 at Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-8183. sachiko YoshiDa ZahLer: "Back to Back," drawings and watercolors. Through June 29 at Dylan's Café in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-6755. 'saLLY DiscoVers new York': Artwork from the new e-book “Sally Discovers New York,” inspired by the work of the late Stephen Huneck. Through June 9 at Stephen Huneck Gallery and Dog Chapel in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-2700.

first friDaY art waLk: Galleries, shops and other venues around downtown stay open late to welcome pedestrian art viewers. Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m., various downtown locations, Burlington. Info, 264-4839.

trine wiLson: Floral photographs by the Vermont artist. Through September 30 at Jeff's Maine Seafood in St. Albans. Info, 355-4834. 'Visions of a hoMetown': The Milton Artists' Guild's traveling exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the town's founding and the 25th anniversary of the guild. Through June 30 at Milton Town Offices.

‘teLL us a taLe’: Children participate in an art activity. At 4 p.m. Janet C. Daniels gives a presentation called “Fairy Tales — A Constant Magic.” Saturday, June 8, 1-5 p.m. Info, 479-7069.

‘Print — coLLect’: Jeannot Barr appraises your prints and gives a talk, at 4 p.m., called “Building a Print Collection.” Saturday, June 8, 1-5 p.m. Info, 295-5901. ‘eDwarD hoPPer in VerMont’: The legendary painter’s Vermont watercolors on loan from institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Neuberger Museum of Art at SuNY Purchase, as well as from private collections around the country, exhibited together for the first time. Through August 11 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Bonnie Tocher Clause, author of the book Edward Hopper in Vermont, which was the catalyst for the exhibit, gives an illustrated lecture, Friday, June 7, 4 p.m. Info, 443-3168. Green Mountain ruG schooL: Students and teachers display their rugs and hooked pieces in this annual exhibit. Friday, June 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Judd Gym, Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center. Info, 272-1011. MontPeLier art waLk: More than 20 shops, galleries and other venues host art exhibits and other displays, and fashionistas stroll the catwalk in the 9th annual Montpelier Fashion Show. Friday, June 7, 4-8 p.m., various downtown locations, Montpelier.

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‘rebeLs, rioters anD PaPer towns’: An ongoing historical exhibit opens alongside several local 250th Anniversary Committees’ historical exhibits, including town charters and old maps. Ethan Allen Biographer Willard Sterne Randall gives a presentation, and a birthday cake is served. Sunday, June 9, 3-5 p.m., Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington. Info, info@ ethanallenhomestead.org. ‘froM DairY to DoorsteP: MiLk DeLiVerY in new enGLanD’: An exhibit that chronicles more than 200 years of dairy history, featuring historic photographs, advertisements, ephemera and artifacts. Through August 4 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Executive director Bill Brooks gives a gallery talk, Wednesday, June 5, noon. Info, 388-2117.

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‘chiLDren on strike’: Photographs of children at work by Lewis Hine, who was instrumental in changing u.S. child labor laws in the early

20th century. Sunday, June 9, 4-6 p.m., Old Labor Hall, Barre. Info, 479-5600.

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Life-DrawinG session: Artists practice their painting and drawing techniques with a live model. Reservations encouraged. Wednesday, June 5, 6-9 p.m.; Sunday, June 9, 2-5 p.m.; Wednesday, June 12, 6-9 p.m., Black Horse Fine Art Supply, Burlington. Info, 860-4972.

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Life DrawinG for artists: Artists 18 and older bring their own materials and sketch, draw and paint from a live model. Wednesday, June 5, 6-9 p.m.; Wednesday, June 12, 6-9 p.m., Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester. Info, 875-1018.

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essex art LeaGue MeetinG: Members gather for business and social time, plus a presentation by a guest artist. Thursday, June 6, 9-11 a.m., First Congregational Church, Essex Junction.

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'traVeLs with aLDen': The gallery celebrates what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder, Alden Bryan, with an exhibition of his plein-air works painted in 26 countries over 60 years. Through September 2 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

Matt chaneY: Pastel works on paper. Through July 28 at Bee's Knees in Morrisville. Info, 888-4662.

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Pat Musick: “Our Fragile Home,” a series of sculptures and works on paper inspired by the words that astronauts from different nations have used to describe the earth as seen from outer space. Through July 14 at Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Info, 362-1405. ‘PrinteMPs: Visions of sPring’: More than 150 new works inspired by the emerging beauty of the season. Through June 30 at Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester. Info, 362-1405.

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c. stuart White Jr.: Hand-drawn architectural drawings by the architect who designed AVA's 2007 renovation; DraWing inVitational: Works by 15 member artists; 'DraWn together: 40 hours — 40 Years!': Works by participants in a nine-month drawing class. Through June 7 at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117. Dale chihulY: "Mille Fiori," an exhibition of glass sculptures specifically designed for the museum’s interior architecture. June 8 through October 20 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000.

nancie Battaglia: "inPRINT … From Published Work …" photography. Through June 22 at Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y. Info, 518-523-2512. 'Peru: kingDoMs of the sun anD the Moon — iDentities anD conquest in the ancient, colonial anD MoDern eras': A collection of pre-Columbian treasures and masterpieces, many of which have never been seen outside Peru. Through June 16 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-1600. 'the lester circus ii': New artwork by Ashley, Amanda and Courtney Lester, plus work by Kate Bisseau and Elliot Gavin Daughtery. Through June 7 at ROTA Gallery in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info, rotagallery@gmail.com. 'the WoMen of shin hanga: the JuDith anD JosePh Barker collection of JaPanese Prints': Nearly 100 prints showcasing two centuries of Japanese print designers' engagement with female subjects. Through July 28 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2095. 'threaDs: quilt shoW': Quilters from the region show their work. Through June 11 at North Country Cultural Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info, 518-563-1604.

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'it WoulD Make a heart of stone Melt: sickness, inJurY anD MeDicine at fort ticonDeroga': An overview of 18th-century

medical practices, diseases and the treatment of wounds for the armies that fought in America during the French and Indian War and American Revolution. Through October 31 at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. Info, 518-585-2821.

‘FLY’ It’s possible to say plenty with just one word. For the third time in five

years, Burlington’s Penny Cluse Café has invited artists to interpret a single word on a 6-by-6-inch wood panel. In 2009, the word was “water”; in 2012, it was “run.” This year, more than 100 artists, most of them Vermonters, have played with variety of media to meditate on the word “fly.” In the call to artists, organizers gave participants this lyrical

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CALL FOR PHOTOS: “City,” uptown, downtown, urban spaces, public places and the life that inhabits them.

OPEN GROUP SHOW AT “CREATIVE COMP” First Friday of every month. $8 entry fee; limit one per artist. No rules; any size/ media/subject. Entries accepted Wednesday through first Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception on first Fridays, 6-9 p.m. People’s choice winner gets cash prize. Exhibit up for the month. Location: Root Gallery at RL Photo, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. For info, call 540-3081 or email publicartschool@gmail.com.

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APRON CONCEPTS: The Catamount Fiberistas are curating an exhibit on personal responses to the concept of an apron. Seeking art of any media including oil, acrylic, watercolor, photograph,

WALL TO CANVAS: Wall to Canvas is seeking 12 streetstyle artists who use wheat pasting, stencils, collage, spray painting, markers and the like to create unique pieces of art for a live-art competition at the Magic Hat Artifactory on Saturday, August 24. Cash prize and live auction. Deadline: July 31. 18 or older. Application at magichat.net/ walltocanvas.

SEEKING ART: “Celebrate Colchester 250th Art Show”: October 1 through 31. Applications due September 15. Any media welcome except photography. All work should connect to Colchester in some way — historical, visual, symbolic. Non-juried. Email fallyn2@comcast. net for application and instructions.

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WALL TO CANVAS: Wall to Canvas is seeking 12 street-style artists who use wheat pasting, stencils, collage, spray painting, markers and the like to create unique pieces of art for a live art competition at the Magic Hat Artifactory on Saturday, August 24. Cash prize and live auction. Deadline: July 31. Must be 18 or older. Application at magichat.net/ walltocanvas.

MAGIC LANTERN ART FILM FESTIVAL: Helen Day Art Center is accepting submissions for film festival. Videos should not have age restrictions; five-minute maximum play time; audioless. Deadline: June 21. Info, helenday.com/film-festival.

SEEKING QUILT ARTISTS: “Celebrate Colchester 250th Quilt Show”: August 3 through 31. Applications due by July 15. All work should relate to history, architecture, scenery of Colchester in some way. Non-juried. Email fallyn2@ comcast.net for application and instructions.

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CALL FOR PORTFOLIOS: On the eve of its 17th birthday, Quebec’s Festiv’Art is asking visual artists and craftspersons to send in their portfolios. Registration form on festivart.org.

DESIGN-BASED FILM SERIES: Request for proposal: Create name and logo for film series in Burlington. Please refer to online classified ad in Seven Days for details. Deadline: June 7.

Deadline: June 26. Juror: Stephen Perloff. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex45.

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‘ARITISTIC INSIGHTS’: Become a member of the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery and show your work at the Soda Plant for the inaugural members exhibit, “Artistic Insights.” Then gain free entry to the gallery’s large Art Hop exhibit, “Represent!” Many other benefits included. Deadline: June 28. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.

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fabric, print, poem, written reflection or mixed media. Artwork should be apron-size or smaller, but try us with any other proposal. Send images, along with description, title, date and dimension, to fiberarts@catamountarts.org. Deadline: September 1.

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ou know a movie hasn’t done the trick when the most entertaining on-camera moment featuring two of its stars isn’t even part of it. Such is the case with Now You See Me , Hollywood’s second magical misfi re in two months. (Remember The Incredible Burt Wonderstone? I didn’t think so.) Forget the trailer f or Louis Leterrier’s (The Transporter) latest; f or a hint of the grade of moviegoing merriment awaiting you, check out the interview Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman gave a FOX a° liate by satellite on May 23. It’s at vanityfair.com/ online/oscars/2013/05/morgan-freemaninterview. I’ll wait while you watch. Have you ever witnessed anything quite as refreshing? Actors are always so enthusiastic in these situations. It’s part of the act. Each new project is the high point of the perf ormer’s career. Until they reappear to push the next one — then that’s a giant leap forward for humankind. How great is it that Freeman — clearly tired of hyping a fi lm certain to prove a footnote to his career — drops the pretense and bags a few Zs while Caine prattles on like a windup toy? Whatever else may be said about the instantly viral video, this is indisputable: It’s way more f un than anything in the movie.

(You can tell I’m putting o˛ reviewing it, right? Just thinking about it is painf ul. I know how Freeman feels.) My favorite part of the clip is the moment when the local anchor pulls a Ron Burgundy and asks the screen icon the secret of being a great narrator. In perhaps the planet’s most recognizable, mellifl uous tones, Freeman replies, “It helps to be a good reader. Having a clear voice, that’s all.” The look on the host’s face is as priceless as it is clueless. Well, it can’t be put o˛ forever. This slice of big-screen baloney isn’t going to review itself. (Now that would be a trick I’d pay to see. Or, in this case, pay somebody to perf orm.) Though — hang on — I just remembered something else, something a bit mind-blowing about the production. Get this: Leterrier directed the 2010 fi lm Clash of the Titans . Boaz Yakin, who cowrote Now You See Me, directed the 2000 fi lm Remember the Titans ! Pretty f reaky, huh? I wonder whether I’d fi nd references to other movies concerning titans if I researched the fi lmographies of the cast and crew on the Internet Movie Database. Something bound to prove more exciting than reviewing the movie, much less watching it. OK, here you go: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher star

HOCUS FOCUS Leterrier sets up a promising premise about rock-star magicians and then promptly makes it disappear.

as members of an ensemble called the Four Horsemen, who are f amous f or pulling remote-control bank heists onstage and showering their audience with the ill-gotten gains. Mark Ru˛ alo plays the grumpy, rumpled FBI agent assigned to the case. The characters played by Caine and Freeman are the casting equivalent of misdirection, adding nothing to the story, which has more holes than all the magic in the world can make disappear. The fi lm is riddled with fl aws, but the biggest problem is the premise. The whole sleight-of-hand-artists-as-Robin-Hoodstyle-rock-stars thing is an illusion. The four are a bore. After a fl ashy opening, the story downshifts into a disappointingly routine bit

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After Earth ★★

HOME, OBSOLETE HOME Jaden Smith psychs himself up to survive an Earth that has said good riddance to humanity.

suppressing it, which makes him humanity’s new messiah. All this is merely backstory to what happens when dad and son crash-land on a strange and forbidding planet — yup, you got it. With Cypher incapacitated by a wound, the kid must brave the posthuman wasteland of Earth to obtain a rescue beacon, while evading an alien that came along for the ride. What follows is a series of episodic, video-game-style adventures. Kitai grapples

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arth’s climate is screwed, folks like Bill McKibben tell us. If we fl atlined our carbon emissions this instant, we’d still have a dark and uncertain future. But Hollywood doesn’t do dark and uncertain. This sci-fi adventure from the minds of mega-star Will Smith and writer-director M. Night Shyamalan proposes a simple, elegant alternative: So we screwed our planet. Let’s fi nd another one! This endearingly dumb premise is the most interesting aspect of Af ter Earth, and it occupies about 10 seconds of screen time as part of an unwieldy clump of opening exposition. This movie, you see, is not about Earth or the fate of humanity. It’s about a boy becoming a man in the most hackneyed way possible, and about a movie star’s 14-year-old son becoming a box-o° ce draw in his own right. At least, that’s what Will Smith seems to hope for his o˛ spring, Jaden, who gets most of the screen time in this f amily endeavor. The younger Smith plays Kitai Raige, a kid living in the shadow of his famous father. His dad is Cypher Raige (wish I were kidding), the awesomest guy in the remains of human civilization. It’s been a millennium since we ditched Earth, see, and our new home is inhabited by alien monsters who apparently didn’t feel like just giving us their planet to screw up, too. They detect us by smelling our fear, and General Raige has a Jedi-style mind trick for

of cops and robbers. The Horsemen stay one smoke-and-mirrors step ahead of the man until the fi nal act reaches up its sleeve and pulls out a big twist that’s supposed to take us by surprise — but, instead, just takes us for idiots. That’s not to mention that CGI e˛ ects sort of suck the wonder out of on-screen sorcery. Call them prestidigitals. The movie sucks so much, though, that in the end it doesn’t really matter. Before opening weekend, you might’ve had reason to believe Now You See Me would prove the project to break Hollywood’s magician-movie curse. Now — to say the least — you don’t.

with killing night frosts and mutated CGI animals, guided by the humorless instructions of his drill-sergeant-slash-f ather. Does the boy discover remnants of human civilization and pause to refl ect on where his ancestors went wrong? Is there, at least, a twist? Nope. It’s not that kind of movie. In interviews, Shyamalan has boasted of f orbidding Will Smith to use his f amous charm. Perhaps he should have helped the actor fi nd something to replace it, because

Smith comes o˛ as the world’s most dour motivational speaker in this one-note performance. Jaden Smith, still an obviously unseasoned perf ormer, can’t fi ll the charisma void. It doesn’t help that both have been given George Lucas-style stilted dialogue to speak in a bizarre, fl uctuating, futuristic accent. If you f ound the postapocalyptic segments of Cloud Atlas hard to watch without cracking up, you may not make it through After Earth. This coming-of -age tale could still appeal to kids old enough to handle the PG-13 violence; the adventures are colorf ul, and Shyamalan succeeds in scaring us with deft editing of the aliens. A more confi dent, nuanced young actor might have made Kitai’s problems genuinely compelling. For adults, the movie’s only real saving grace is that, ironically, abandoned Earth looks like a great place to take a vacation. Filmed by Peter Suschitzky, who regularly works with David Cronenberg, it’s all lush, verdant f orests and misty vistas, enhanced with digital waterfalls and volcanoes. A few shots are downright magical. Clearly, the planet has been getting along better without us. It’s not often that a movie makes you think, Good riddance to humanity, but it’s hard to watch the credits roll on this bloated, misconceived project with any other reaction. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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new in theaters FRANcES HA: writer-director noah baumbach and his Greenberg star, greta gerwig, reteam for this black-and-white comic tale of a rootless hipster that is drawing comparisons with early woody allen. with adam driver of “girls” and Mickey Sumner. (85 min, R. Savoy) tHE iNtERNSHip: Vince Vaughn and Owen wilson play two tech-illiterate gen Xers competing for a coveted job at a certain prominent company in this comedy that might as well have been subtitled “all hail our google overlords!” with Rose byrne and John goodman. Shawn (Real Steel) levy directed. (119 min, Pg-13, bijou, Essex, capitol, Majestic, Marquis, Roxy, Palace, Stowe, welden) tHE pURgE: In this rather unlikely futuristic thriller, the u.S. government “fights crime” by giving bad guys 12 hours to do their worst scotfree, and one law-abiding family must fight the onslaught with no help from the cops. with lena headey, Ethan hawke and Edwin hodge. James deMonaco directed. (85 min, R, Essex, Majestic)

AFtER EARtHH1/2: writer-director M. night Shyamalan teams up with dynamic duo will and Jaden Smith for this sci-fi adventure about a father and son stranded on Earth 1000 years after humans abandoned it, as we keep doing in movies for some reason. with Isabelle fuhrman and Sophie Okonedo. (100 min, Pg-13)

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tHE HANgoVER pARt iii 1/2H bradley cooper, Ed helms and Zach galifianakis become the wolfpack once more for yet another night of weirdness — no weddings required. with Melissa Mccarthy, heather graham and Ken Jeong. todd Phillips directed. (100 min, R) iRoN mAN 3HHH: Millionaire tony Stark faces a formidable new terrorist enemy in the latest entry in the Marvel superhero saga. Shane (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) black directed. with Robert downey Jr., gwyneth Paltrow, guy Pearce, Rebecca hall and ben Kingsley. (135 min, Pg-13) koN-tikiHHH: This norwegian adventure film dramatizes the true story of scientist Thor heyerdahl’s 5000-mile voyage by raft in 1947. Pål Sverre hagen and anders baasmo christiansen star. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg directed. (119 min, Pg-13) mUDHHHH Jeff (Take Shelter) nichols directed this drama set in Mississippi about two young boys who meet a fugitive and become involved in his romance. Matthew Mcconaughey, Reese witherspoon, tye Sheridan and Jacob lofland star. (130 min, Pg-13) NoW YoU SEE mEH: People love magic and people love caper flicks, so hollywood combined them. Jesse Eisenberg, Isla fisher and Morgan freeman are part of a team of illusionists who turn their performances into heists. Mark Ruffalo and Michael caine also star. louis (Clash of the Titans) leterrier directed. (116 min, Pg-13) pAiN & gAiNHH1/2 In the latest glistening, overwrought action-comedy opus from director Michael bay, dwayne Johnson and Mark wahlberg play florida bodybuilders who get involved in crime and find out it doesn’t pay. Then, one can only assume, they crack wise and kick numerous asses. with Rebel wilson and anthony Mackie. (129 min, R)

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EpicHH1/2 a teenager finds herself fighting a good-versus-evil battle in a fantastical world surprisingly close to home in what looks like the animated family version of Avatar. with the voices of colin farrell, Josh hutcherson and beyoncé Knowles. chris (Ice Age) wedge directed. (103 min, Pg)

tHE gREAt gAtSBYHHH Ever wanted to see f. Scott’s fitzgerald’s classic novel of the Jazz age reimagined … as a music video? leonardo dicaprio plays the long Island millionaire who may not be all he appears in this loud-and-sparkly, 3-d adaptation from director baz luhrmann. tobey Maguire and carey Mulligan also star. (142 min, Pg-13)

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

wednesday 5 — thursday 6 Epic 5, 7. The Great Gatsby 7:30. Star trek into Darkness 5. friday 7 — thursday 13 Epic Fri: 5. Sat: 1, 5. Sun: 1. Mon and Tue: 5. The Great Gatsby Fri: 7. Sun to Tue: 7. mud Fri: 5:15, 7:45. Sat: 7:45. Sun: 1, 5:15, 7:45. Mon and Tue: 5:15, 7:45.

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wednesday 5 — thursday 6 After Earth 4, 6:50. Epic 6:40. Epic in 3D 4. Fast & Furious 6 4, 7. The hangover part iii 4, 7:10. Star trek into Darkness 8:30.

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friday 7 — thursday 13 After Earth Fri: 4, 6:40, 9:15. Sat: 1:10, 4, 6:40, 9:15. Sun: 1:10, 4, 6:40. Mon to Thu: 4, 6:40. Epic 4. Epic in 3D Sat and Sun: 1. Fast & Furious 6 Fri: For more information and scheduling, 4, 6:50, 9:15. Sat: 1:20, leave your name, phone number, 4, 6:50, 9:15. Sun: 1:20, and a good time to call back. 4, 6:50. Mon to Thu: 4, 6:50. The hangover Call 656-0013 or email part iii Fri and Sat: VaccineTestingCenter@uvm.edu 7:10, 9:15. Sun to Thu: 7:10. *The internship Fri: 4, 7, 9:15. Sat: 1:30, 4, 7, 9:15. Sun: 1:30, 4, 6v-uvm-med32713.indd 1 3/20/13 3:35 PM7. Mon to Thu: 4, 7.

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93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 5 — thursday 6 Epic 6:30. The Great Gatsby 9. The hangover part iii 6:20, 9:10. iron man 3 6:15. iron man 3 3D 9:15. Now You See me 6:30, 9:10. Star trek into Darkness 9:15. Star trek into Darkness 3D 6:25. friday 7 — thursday 13 Epic 3D Sat to Sun: 1, 3:30. The Great Gatsby Fri: 6:10, 9:10. Sat to Sun: 12:45, 6:10, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 6:10, 9:10. The hangover part iii Fri: 9:10. Sat to Sun: 3:45, 9:10. Mon to Thu:

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9:10. *The internship Fri: 6:30, 9:10. Sat to Sun: 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9:10. iron man 3 Fri: 6:15. Sat to Sun: 12:30, 6:15. Mon to Thu: 6:15. Now You See me Fri: 6:30, 9:10. Sat to Sun: 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9:10. Star trek into Darkness Fri: 9:10. Sat to Sun: 3:30, 9:10. Star trek into Darkness 3D 6:20. This is the End Wed: 6:30, 9:10.

4:40. 7:10, 9:35. Epic 12:10, 2:30. Epic in 3D 1, 3:30, 6:10, 8:30. Fast & Furious 6 1:10, 3:10, 4, 6:50, 8:40, 9:40. The Great Gatsby 3:20, 9:30. The Great Gatsby 3D 12:30, 9:25. The hangover part iii 12:50, 2, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:45. iron man 3 12:20, 9:40. iron man 3 3D 3:40, 6:35. Now You See me 1:30, 4:20, 7, 9:40. Star trek into Darkness 4:50, 8. Star trek into Darkness 3D 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35.

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friday 7 — thursday 13 After Earth 12, 2:20, 4:40. 7:10, 9:35. Epic 11:50, 3:20, 9:20. Epic in 3D 1, 6:10. Fast & Furious 6 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25. The Great Gatsby 12:20, 3:10, 6:20. The Great Gatsby 3D 8:30. The hangover part iii 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40. *The internship 1:10, 4, 7, 9:40. iron man 3 12:30, 6:30. iron man 3 3D 3:40, 9:30. Now You See me 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35. *The purge 2, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45. Star trek into Darkness 3:30, 9:25. Star trek into Darkness 3D 12:40, 6:40.

21 Essex Way, #300, Essex, 879-6543, essexcinemas.com

wednesday 5 — thursday 6 After Earth 12, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9. Epic 4:50. Epic in 3D 12:10, 2:30, 7:10. Fast & Furious 6 12:15, 1:15, 3:10, 4, 6, 7, 8:45, 9:40. The Great Gatsby 3:20, 9. The hangover part iii 12:30, 1, 2:45, 3:15, 5, 5:30, 7:15, 7:45, 9:30. *The internship Thu: 10. iron man 3 3:10, 8:45. iron man 3 3D 12:20, 6. Now You See me 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25. *The purge Thu: 10. Star trek into Darkness 12:35, 6:15. Star trek into Darkness 3D 1, 4, 7, 9:45. friday 7 — thursday 13 After Earth 12, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9. Epic 4:50, 9:25. Epic in 3D 12:10, 2:30, 7:10. Fast & Furious 6 12:10, 1:15, 4:10, 6, 7, 9:40. The Great Gatsby 2:55, 8:45. The hangover part iii 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30. *The internship 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15. iron man 3 3:10, 8:45. iron man 3 3D 12:20, 6. Now You See me 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25. *The purge 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30. Star trek into Darkness 1:20, 6:50. Star trek into Darkness 3D 4, 9:35.

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

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mArQuiS thEAtrE

Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841

wednesday 5 — thursday 6 Epic 5:30. Star trek into Darkness 3D 7:30 The hangover part iii 5:30, 7:30. Now You See me 7:30. friday 7 — thursday 13 Full schedule not available at press time.

mErrill’S roXY ciNEmA 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

wednesday 5 — thursday 6 After Earth Wed: 1:10, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:30. Fast & Furious 6 Wed: 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:25. The Great Gatsby Wed: 1, 7:10, 9:10. The hangover part iii Wed: 1, 3, 5, 9:50. mud Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 6:50. Now You See me Wed: 1:40, 4:30, 7, 9:35. Star trek into Darkness Wed: 3:50, 6:30, 9:20.

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friday 7 — thursday 13 After Earth 1:20, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:40. The Great Gatsby 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20. The *The internship 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40. mud 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30. Now You See me 1:50, 4:30, 7, 9:35. Star trek into Darkness 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25.

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

wednesday 5 — thursday 6 After Earth Wed: 12:35, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25. Epic Wed: 12:45, 3. Epic in 3D Wed: 1:20, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30. Fast & Furious 6 Wed: 1:00, 4, 6:50, 9:30. The Great Gatsby Wed: 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20. The hangover part iii Wed: 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:35. iron man 3 Wed: 12:50, 3:40, 6:45, 9:15. Now You See me Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:30. Star trek into Darkness Wed: 6:40, 9:25. Star trek into Darkness 3D Wed: 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10. *Swan lake mariinsky live Thu: 6:30. friday 7 — thursday 13 After Earth 12:35, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25. Epic 12:30, 2:50. Epic in 3D 1:20, 3:50, 6:00, 8:20. Fast & Furious 6 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25. The Great Gatsby 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20. The hangover part iii 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:35. *The internship 1, 4, 6:50, 9:30. iron man 3 6:10, 9. Now You See me 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:30. Star trek into Darkness 3D 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10.

pArAmouNt twiN ciNEmA

241 North Main St., Barre, 479-9621, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 5 — thursday 6 After Earth 6:20, 9:05. Fast & Furious 6 6:15, 9:15. friday 7 — thursday 13 After Earth Fri: 6:20, 9:05. Sat to Sun: 12:30, 3:10, 6:20, 9:05. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9:05. Fast & Furious 6 Fri: 6:15, 9:15. Sat to Sun: 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15. Mon to Thu: 6:15, 9:15.

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429 Swanton Rd, Saint Albans, 524-7725, stalbansdrivein.com

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thE SAVoY thEAtEr

26 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0509, savoytheater.com

wednesday 5 — thursday 6 kon-tiki 6:30, 8:45. mud 6, 8:30. friday 7 — thursday 13 Frances ha Fri: 6, 8. Sat and Sun: 1, 3:30, 6, 8. Mon: 6, 8. Tue: 6. Wed to Thu: 6, 8. *Just Do it. A tale of modern Day outlaws Tue: 8. kon-tiki Fri: 6:30, 8:30. Sat and Sun: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:30. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 8:30.

StowE ciNEmA 3 plEX Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2534678. stowecinema.com

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Fast & Furious 6 7. The hangover part iii 7. Star trek into Darkness 7. friday 7 — thursday 13 Fast & Furious 6 Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:15. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. The hangover part iii Fri: 7, 9:10. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:10. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. *The internship Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:15. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7.

SuNSEt DriVEiN thEAtrE

155 Porters Point Road, just off Rte. 127, Colchester, 8621800. sunsetdrivein.com

Epic 8:50 followed by Star trek into Darkness 11:10. Fast & Furious 6 8:50 followed by iron man 3 11:15. The hangover part iii 8:50 followed by The Great Gatsby 11:10. After Earth 8:50 followed by pain & Gain 11:15.

wElDEN thEAtrE

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A GooD DAY to DiE HARDH1/2 John McClane (Bruce Willis) finds out his son (Jai Courtney) is working for the CIA in Russia and decides to retire, take in some sights and leave the action stunts to the next generation. No, that’s actually not what happens in the fifth Die Hard movie. With Mary Elizabeth Winstead. John Moore directed. (97 min, R) iDENtitY tHiEFHH Jason Bateman vs. Melissa McCarthy? Our money’s on the lady with the smart mouth. In this comedy from director Seth Gordon, he’s the mild-mannered victim of identity theft; she’s the con artist. With John Cho and Amanda Peet. (111 min, R) WARm BoDiESHHH Vampire romance, OK. But zombie romance? Nicholas Hoult plays an undead teen who falls in love with a living one (Teresa Palmer), and, thank God, this is sort of a comedy. With John Malkovich and Rob Corddry. Jonathan Levine directed. (97 min, PG-13)

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Federal agents tracking a man who claimed he was selling 700,000 stolen identities identified Nathaniel Troy Maye, 44, as their suspect after a witness informed them he received a flash drive containing 50 identities from a man named “Maye” during dinner at a Morton’s steak house. Using data on the flash drive, agents found a profile for “TROYMAYE” on Instagram social media website, where Maye had posted “a photo of a steak and macaroni and cheese meal” at Morton’s at the time the witness said Maye gave him the flash drive. (South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Rogue Vehicle of the Week A newspaper carrier was run over three times in Trois-Rivieres, Québec, by her own car. The woman routinely jumps in and out her car as she makes her rounds, but when she accidentally put the transmission in “reverse” instead of “park,” the open door knocked her to the ground as the car backed up. While trying to get up and reach for the gearshift, she slipped and was run over a second time. The same thing happened a third time, but her distress cries brought rescuers, who pulled her to safety. The car gained speed as it continued moving in a widening

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During the opening weekend of Iron Man 3, a man walked into a theater in Jefferson City, Mo., in full tactical gear and carrying what looked like a modified M-4 rifle and a 9 mm handgun. When police responded to emergency calls, theater manager Bob Wilkins explained the man was an actor taking part in a publicity stunt. He said he was aware of recent shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., insisting his “numberone priority” is “the safety and security of our guests,” but added, “my job is to entertain people.” (Columbia’s KMIZ-TV)

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Intending to promote a charity that donates soccer balls to developing countries, Richard Swanson, 42, set out from Seattle trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup. He’d gone only 260 miles when a pickup truck hit and killed him just outside Lincoln City, Ore. (Associated Press)

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Officials investigating a house fire in Santa Rosa, Calif., blamed the blaze, which burned a hole through a wall’s cedar siding, on sunlight reflecting off a dog’s shiny water bowl. After the fire was extinguished, Bennett Valley Fire Department engineer Rene Torres returned the nine-inch steel water bowl to its original position and noticed it concentrated light on the area that was charred. “It really could have burned that house down,” he said. (Santa Rosa’s Press Democrat). Hoping to economize on trash collection, the city of Venice, Fla., began testing solar-powered trash cans that can hold five times the trash a regular can can and provide “energy to compact the trash inside,” Public Works director John Veneziano said, noting the new bins need emptying less often, saving staff and travel costs. “If we went with these cans on a widespread basis, you could potentially cut down on that work effort by up to 80 percent.” The solar-powered cans, which cost more than $4000 each, also use a Wi-Fi signal to notify workers when they’re full and need emptying. (Sarasota’s WSSB-TV)

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tauRus (April 20-May 20): I hope that in

recent weeks you’ve made yourself a master of sticky and intricate details. I trust you’ve been working harder and smarter than you have in a long time. Have you, taurus? Have you been grunting and sweating a lot, exerting yourself in behalf of good causes? Please tell me you have. And please say you’re willing to continue for a while longer. The way I see it, your demanding tasks aren’t quite finished. In fact, the full reward for your efforts may not become available unless you keep pushing beyond the point that you consider to be your fair share.

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How free do you want to be, Gemini? A tiny bit free, hemmed in by comfortable complications that require you to rely on white lies? Or would you rather be moderately free in ways that aren’t too demanding — politely, sensibly free? Maybe you feel brave and strong enough to flirt with a breathtaking version of liberation — a pure, naked freedom that brings you close to the edge of wild abandon and asks you to exercise more responsibility than you’re used to. I’m not telling you which kind you should opt for, but I am suggesting that it’s best if you do make a conscious choice.

aRies

leo (July 23-Aug. 22): The following slogan

captures the spirit I bring to composing my horoscopes: “I live in the future so that you don’t have to.” but right now this slogan doesn’t apply to you. from what I can tell, you are currently visiting the future as much as I do. Here’s what I wonder, though: Are you time-traveling simply to run away from the dilemmas that face you in the present? or are you taking advantage of your jaunts to acquire revelations that will help you solve those dilemmas once you return?

ViRgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): you know that

there are different kinds of stress, right? some varieties wear you out and demoralize you, while other kinds of stress excite and

liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): studies show that people spend 87 percent of their time inside buildings and 6 percent in enclosed vehicles. In other words, they are roaming around outside enjoying the wind and sky and weather for only 7 percent of their lives. I think you’re going to have to do better than that in the coming week, Libra. to ensure your mental hygiene stays robust, you should try to expose yourself to the natural elements at least 9 percent of the time. If you manage to hike that rate up to 10 percent or higher, you stand a good chance of achieving a spiritual epiphany that will fuel you for months. scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): resurrection

is the scorpionic specialty. better than any other sign of the zodiac, you can summon the power to be reborn. It is your birthright to reanimate dreams and feelings and experiences that have expired, and make them live again in new forms. your sacred totem is the mythical phoenix, which burns itself in a fire of its own creation and then regenerates itself from the ashes. now here’s the big news headline, scorpio: I have rarely seen you in possession of more skill to perform these rites than you have right now.

sagittaRius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): octavio Paz spoke to a lover in his poem “Counterparts”: “In my body you search the mountain for the sun buried in its forest. In your body I search for the boat adrift in the middle of the night.” What have you searched for in the bodies of your lovers, sagittarius? What mysteries and riddles have you explored while immersed in their depths? How has making love helped you to better understand the meaning of life? I invite you to ruminate on these uncanny joys. remember the breakthroughs that have come your way thanks to sex. exult in the spiritual education you have received through your dealings with lust and sensuality. And then go out and stir up some fresh epiphanies.

caPRicoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do you know what minced oaths are? They’re rarely used anymore. If you went back a hundred years, though, you’d hear them regularly. They were sanitized swear words, basically; peculiar exclamations that would allow people the emotional release of profanities without causing a ruckus among those who were listening. “bejabbers!” was one. so were “thunderation! and “dad-blast!” and “consarn!” Here’s one of my favorite minced oaths: “by st. boogar and the saints at the backside door of purgatory!” I bring this up, Capricorn, because I suspect it’ll be a minced oath kind of week for you. What I mean is: you’ll have every right to get riled up, and you should express your feelings, but not in ways that create problems for you. aQuaRius (Jan. 20-feb. 18): There’s only

one correct way to spell the english word “beauty.” but that wasn’t true centuries ago. before the advent of the printing press, orthographic anarchy prevailed for many words. some of beauty’s variations included bewte, beaute, beuaute, bealte, buute, bewtee, and beaultye. I bring this up, Aquarius, because I think it would be fun and healthy for you to take a respite from having to slavishly obey standardized rules. I’m talking about not just those that apply to spelling, but others, too. see what you can get away with.

Pisces

(feb. 19-March 20): In the last chapter of fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The brothers Karamazov, the lead character says the following: “There is nothing nobler, stronger, healthier, and more helpful in life than a good remembrance, particularly a remembrance from childhood. A beautiful, holy memory preserved from childhood can be the single most important thing in our development.” I bring this up, Pisces, so as to get you in the right frame of mind for this week’s featured activity: remembrance. one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to reminisce about the old days and the old ways. to do so will enhance your physical health and purify your emotional hygiene.

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the Communist government of east Germany built the berlin Wall. It was a thick concrete barrier designed to prevent the oppressed citizens of east berlin from escaping to freedom in West berlin. The barrier was eventually policed by armed guards. traffic between the two berlins became virtually impossible for the next 28 years. Then a miracle occurred: east German authorities relinquished their stranglehold. They tentatively allowed east berliners to travel to West berlin. soon the Mauerspechte, or “wall woodpeckers,” showed up. Armed with hammers and chisels, these people began chipping away at the Wall. two years later, most of it had been demolished. I hereby assign you to be a wall woodpecker in your own sphere, Cancer. The time is right to demolish a barricade. It may take a while, but you’re ready to start.

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