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AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 05, 2012 COMPILED BY ANDY BROMAGE & TYLER MACHADO

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oy, Seven Days sure picked a helluva week to launch a new politics blog. From the get-go, Off Message was on it: the cliff-hanger primary for attorney general, Mitt Romney coming to Vermont in a motorcade that got stuck behind a tractor, Gov. Peter Shumlin kicking off his reelection campaign and Howard Dean discovering Twitter.

Off Message will serve as the new hub for breaking news and analysis from the campaign trail, the Statehouse and around Vermont. It replaces Blurt, the Seven Days

Romney Heads to VT for Debate Prep, Gets Stuck Behind Tractor En route to West Windsor for debate prep, Mitt Romney’s motorcade was waylaid by a farmer!

Burlington Council to Debate Pro-Legalization “Reeferendum” Marijuana advocates want the Burlington City Council to approve a non-binding November ballot question on legalizing pot.

Nothing says “Labor Day” in Vermont like free hot dogs and a rip-roaring tirade from Vermont’s very own Sen. Bernie Sanders.

staff blog, which is not seeking reelection in order to spend more time with its family.

As the name implies, Off Message will go beyond the campaign spin and press releases to bring you the politics and news stories that matter to Vermont. With a dash of our signature attitude, of course.

Not reading Off Message yet? You don’t know what you’re missing. Here’s a snapshot of the stuff we’ve posted just in the blog’s inaugural week. Read more at 7d.blogs. com/offmessage.

Pressed for Time, Shumlin Nixes AARP Debate Gov. Peter Shumlin is skipping the longstanding gubernatorial debate — but says it has nothing to do with his feud with the AARP over a utility merger.

Former Governor Howard Dean Is Now on Twitter — and He Loves The String Cheese Incident Funny things can be revealed when baby boomer pols start tweeting. Turns out former governor Howard Dean loves jam-band music.

The Scoreboard: This Week’s Winners and Losers In a new weekly web feature, Seven Days political columnist Paul Heintz analyzes who’s up and who’s down each week. Among the postprimary winners: TV stations that made bundles off political ads and Bill Sorrell’s assistant AGs, whose jobs are safe for now.

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Health officials confirmed two human infections of mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis in Addison and Rutland counties. What’s next, locusts?

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Someone made off with two roosterthemed oil paintings from an Arlington art gallery called Once Upon a Rooster. Fowl play.

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The Lake Monsters pitched the first nohitter in the team’s 19-year history last weekend. Way to wind up the season.

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1. “Are Burlington Restaurants Discriminating Against Québécois Customers?” by Kathryn Flagg. The story of mandatory tips for Québécois diners has attracted readers from across the U.S. and Canada.

2. “Animal-Cruelty Charges Dropped Against Chef; Humane Society Howls” by Andy Bromage. Animal-rights activists object to the outcome of an abuse case involving a former Burlington restaurant owner.

3. “The Schools of Tomorrow” by Kathryn Flagg. Vermont schools are envisioning the classroom of the future.

4. “Father to Be” by Ken Picard. A Burlington native is pursuing an increasingly rare career path: the Catholic priesthood.

5. “Is Armando Vilaseca the Man to Reform Public Education in Vermont?” by Ken Picard. The state’s top education job is moving into the governor’s cabinet.

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TEACH YOUR CHILDREN

Educator-author Tony Wagner, quoted last week in [“The Schools of Tomorrow,” August 29], says, “The world no longer cares about how much our kids know.

What the world cares about is what they can do with what they know.”

Bravo to Wagner for channeling the words of Booker T. Washington, who said a century ago: “The world cares very little about what a man knows; it is what a man is able to do that counts.”

Wagner also stated, “Our system of education is obsolete and needs reinventing.”

Here’s a thought: How about looking into the tried, true methods of Washington first? After all, the best new ideas oftentimes come out of past successes.

Yet many education experts are simply unaware of Washington’s methods — methods Washington himself credits learning under the tutelage of Gen. Samuel Armstrong, founder of Hampton University.

Perhaps this is so because many scholars and schools of education remain firmly wedded to the obsolete theories of John Dewey, reputedly the father of “progressive education.”

John Dewey happens to be buried at UVM. It would be fitting if Wagner, due to speak at UVM on September 27 at the Rowland Foundation’s second annual conference on school transformation, were

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to take the opportunity to bury Dewey’s theories alongside him.

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Court is president and founder of the Booker T. Washington Society.

HAIL TO HUNT’S

How many letters will the article [“Zoning Out,” August 15] engender? A lot, I hope.

I spent many of my most fun evenings at Hunt’s, listening to Zoot Wilson, Mark Spencer, Jimmy Ryan, Peter Riley, Tyrone Shaw — and Seven Days editor Pamela Polston, of course. Even saw quite a few national acts there.

The local music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s just seemed a lot more open and egalitarian back then — or maybe I’m just getting old? We used to drive to the now-defunct Brown Derby in Montpelier and a place in Fairlee on the shore of Lake Morey to bop to the Decentz.

I first set foot in Hunt’s before it was Hunt’s. In the mid-1970s I saw Jesse Winchester at the Opry [Hunt’s previous incarnation] in the first gig he played back in the U.S. after Jerry Ford granted him amnesty for avoiding the Vietnam War draft.

Gary Burton, Leon Russell, Edgar Winter — they had some great acts play there, and I was lucky enough to see many of them.

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Our August 15 story “Are Burlington Restaurants Discriminating Against Québécois Customers?” continues to generate letters to the editor. That’s because the story went viral across the U.S. and Canada. News outlets from Yahoo to Toronto’s Globe and Mail picked it up. Last week, a researcher at the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” contacted Seven Days reporter Kathryn Flagg.

The consensus: Not everyone tips 20 percent — or feels it is warranted for anything less than extraordinary service. If a restaurant opts to add an automatic gratuity, it should be applied to all customers, not discriminatorily. And the American tradition of tipping — to supplement a less-than-minimumwage job — seems justifiably odd to people from other countries. If restaurateurs expect them to understand and adopt it, they’d better explain it — in menus, on checks, maybe even face-to-face.

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I love this article [“When Irene Came,” August 22]! My family and I were also on higher ground and, like this author, found out at the last minute just how horrific the water really was and what an impact it was about to have on our family and friends.

The house of my father-in-law was two over from the River Street Bridge, and the flood ruined it beyond repair. But it was better off than the one across the street that went down the river, and the one next to it, from which my daughters and I helped to move furniture and personal belongings. This story is very well written, and I could feel my heart in my throat again as I read it. Thank you for sharing it with us! [Tropical Storm] Irene took a lot from our village, but it gave us a stronger sense of community, as well, so for that I am thankful. We have an amazing number of strong and loving people here who stick together whenever it really counts! linda J. Fuglestad

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I am writing in response to your Seven Daysies award for “Best Ethnic Restaurant (Non-Asian)” [“A Decade of Daysies,” August 15]. I note an absurd, inherent ethnocentrism in this awkward category; every restaurant serves food derived from an ethnic tradition of some sort. This

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[Re “Homeschooling Parents Cry Foul Over New Rules From the Department of Ed,” August 22]: It seems they should start removing the “Freedom and Unity” motto from the Vermont flag and replace it with: “We Control Your Lives, Freedoms, Beliefs and Ideals.”

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I’m just writing about the article highlighting the musical talent that used to reside in the now-abandoned building that sits on Main Street [“Zoning Out,” August 15].

I was just wondering if they ever plan on opening the building again? It could serve as so many things with its central location in the heart of Burlington. I know at one time it was Sh-Na-Na’s, as well. It would make an excellent, classy club, but it could also serve as many other things, as well.

category is based on an assumption that all cuisine not derived from a Western European culture belongs in the “other” category. This is shameful, but equally shameful is your choice of winner. The category uses parentheses to note that Asian-based cuisines will not be included, yet the winner is Farah’s, which serves Persian food. On what continent do you assume Persian food originated? Almost every restaurant you chose for an award would fit into the “Best Ethnic Food (NonAsian)” category. Farah’s, however, falls under the immense swath of this world’s largest continent. Perhaps you meant nonSoutheast Asian? How very ignorant.

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JOBS JUSTICE ENVIRONMENT

Proposed referendum: “Shall the people of Burlington support the legalization, regulation and taxation of all cannabis and hemp products?”

The time is now for Vermonters to step up. Seventy-five years of this failed prohibition policy is enough. Change will only happen if we rally at City Hall and strongly urge that the Burlington city council vote “yes” to place a legalization, regulation and taxation referendum on our upcoming Nov. 6 ballot. If successful, we will join with the states of Colorado, Oregon and Washington, which also have statewide referenda on their Nov. 6 ballots. Current polls show these initiatives winning by 60 percent.

America’s ruling 1 percent, represented by big pharma, big alcohol and the prisonindustrial complex, among others, are the profiteering force using the blatantly racist “war on drugs” to maintain this self-enriching, discriminatory policy. That’s why the major African American and Latino organizations are endorsing the various legalization referenda as a way to end the gulag-style mass incarceration of black and brown men.

Even the Denver County Republican Assembly is backing the Colorado initiative.

Ending prohibition will mean the creation of thousands of new jobs in research, farming, manufacturing and retail. It will mean millions in new revenue from the cessation of prosecution and imprisonment to generating taxes for our community needs instead of financing murderous drug cartels. It will mean regulating the conditions under which drugs are grown and distributed, unlike the easy access our children now have. It will mean transitioning to a renewable and sustainable source of food, fuel and product material instead of relying on oil-based, climate-damaging nonrenewables.

We are not asking the Burlington city council to vote for legalization. We are strongly urging that they support participatory democracy and allow the people of Burlington to decide whether or not to end prohibition. We believe, if given the choice, the people of our city will join with the people of Colorado, Oregon and Washington in sending a message of jobs, justice and the environment. Please join us.

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Pearce served as deputy treasurer for seven years before Shumlin appointed her to replace JEB SPAULDING. But she has never before run for public office, and it shows.

While Pearce gamely hit the parade circuit this summer and popped up here and there at Democratic gatherings, she still comes off as the behind-the-scenes bureaucrat she has been all her life.

Wilton, on the other hand, is politically attuned and quick with a quip. The Rutland City treasurer argues she’s got the chops to run the state treasurer’s office and says she understands municipal needs better than the incumbent. She may not be known outside of RutVegas — where she won a senate seat in 2004 and served one term — but she’s got something Pearce doesn’t: a geographic base.

“Mine is a Vermont-style campaign,” Wilton says, arguing that, unlike her opponent, she’s “a native Vermonter” relying upon volunteer campaign support and in-state contributions. “I am a retail campaigner. I have no problem getting in front of a crowd and pressing the flesh, and I do so successfully.”

Schramm, the Progressive, concedes he doesn’t have much chance of winning. He’s running, in part, to win the 5 percent of the vote necessary to retain major-party status for the Progs.

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Wilton doesn’t have the paid staff Pearce does, but she actually raised more money than the incumbent in the month before the last filing deadline in August: $18,664 to Pearce’s $11,540. Throughout the campaign, though, Pearce has outraised Wilton, $95,486 to $34,634 — and you can bet she’ll tap the deep-pocketed Democratic donor network to come out on top in September’s filing.

Soon after Democratic attorney general candidate T.J. DONOVAN conceded last week, Pearce raided his campaign for staffers. She hired Emerson, who ran Donovan’s campaign, and she brought on Donovan’s finance director DYLAN GIAMBATISTA, to serve as communications director. They’ll join political director RALPH MONTEFUSCO, fundraiser JAKE BRENNAN and a slew of other campaign consultants.

Those staffers seem to have settled on a message: In Giambatista’s first press release as campaign flack, he used the word “professional” three times to describe what the treasurer’s office needs — and what Pearce personifies.

Her opponent, they argue, is a political gadfly who is not up for the job.

“You have one candidate with 35 years of experience, and you have someone who’s bounced around with finance, but she also had a legislative career for one term before she was booted out,” Emerson says. “You know, Beth has never run for an office in the legislature.

She is solely focused on this job and solely committed to this job.”

Wilton takes issue with that characterization, pointing to her real-world experience working for Key Bank and the Vermont Small Business Development Center.

“I can’t see that Beth has ever worked in the private sector. I have,” she says.

“I don’t know that my opponent really understands the challenges facing small businesses because she’s worked in government her entire life.”

Now that’s not very professional.

Labor Pains

Sen. BERNIE SANDERS’ Labor Day rally and barbecue Monday in Battery Park was all about the people’s senator. Labor leader after labor leader kissed the senator’s ring, telling a crowd of a couple hundred that Ol’ Bernardo is the best dang worker’s champion in the whole U.S. Senate.

But there was another belle at the ball. And he was — gasp — a Republican!

Sporting a blue Professional Fire Fighters of Vermont baseball cap, Sen. VINCE ILLUZZI (R-Essex/Orleans) flitted about the sun-soaked rally alongside friends and allies in the labor movement. For a while, the candidate for state auditor parked himself next to PFFV president MATT VINCI, whose union was the first to publicly back the senator’s candidacy back in June.

“He’s always stood up for organized labor, working families, in the Senate,” Vinci explained. “It’s loyalty. That’s what it is. Don’t say no to someone who said yes to you.”

The Vermont State Employees Association, the Vermont State Troopers and the Teamsters Local 597 have all endorsed Illuzzi.

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A GEOGRAPHIC BASE.

That doesn’t sit well with DOUG a Democrat and Progressive who’s taking a second shot at the state auditor’s post this November. Two years ago, when he ran against incumbent TOM SALMON, Hoffer garnered endorsements from the VSEA, the Vermont-National Education Association and the Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. This time, he’s getting shut out.

“Vince has a lot of history with them, but I was their candidate two years ago.

I’m still the same guy. Still the same principles,” Hoffer said at the rally, decked out in a white fedora. “I need to remind them that I’ve been an ally for years.”

Hoffer plans to ask the VSEA to reconsider its decision this weekend at the union’s annual meeting in Rutland. He’s hoping it and other unions will consider co-endorsing his candidacy.

“There’s no question Doug has a lot of support in the union. We’ve supported him in the past,” says VSEA legislative coordinator CONOR CASEY. “But almost every major piece of legislation we’ve passed, Vince has had his hand in it.”

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As Sanders’ rally wound down — after the free food was depleted and the speeches were over — Communications Workers of America Local 1400 president Don TremenTozzi walked over to introduce himself, saying he wanted to acquaint this reporter with a few political candidates.

Among them? Illuzzi, who will soon receive his union’s endorsement, Trementozzi said.

“Vince has got a long track record with us,” he said, adding that he doesn’t care what party a candidate hails from.

“I’m a firm believer that we don’t just take our members’ money and support Democrats.”

Would he consider co-endorsing Hoffer?

“I don’t know Doug,” Trementozzi said. “He might have some labor history.

I have to say right off the bat it’s going to be tough to think about endorsing anybody else but Vince.”

As for Sanders, he didn’t appear to share labor’s love for Illuzzi — at least on camera. When a paparazzi photographer tried to snap a picture of Sanders communing with Illuzzi and Vinci, a very agitated senator tried — unsuccessfully — to get out of the shot.

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also took home some prizes — but not likely the ones he was hoping for. Sanders tied for third as the “least eloquent” member of the Senate and came in first for “fashion victim.”

Washingtonian helpfully noted that Sanders is “a three-time winner” of the latter award.

Come on, Bernie. Would it kill ya to get a new suit?

Waylaid Motorcade

We all know President Obama is heading south this week, to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Meanwhile, former governor miTT romney is taking up residence in, of all places, West Windsor, Vermont. The Republican nominee is hunkering down at the 143-acre, $3.9 million vacation home of his former lieutenant governor, kerry heaLey, as he practices for this fall’s presidential debates.

While the Green Mountain State may be a good place to find seclusion, it ain’t that accommodating when it comes to presidential-candidate motorcades. As kaSie hunT of the Associated Press reported Tuesday morning en route to West Reading: “At one point, the motorcade came upon [a] tractor, slowing it to a stop before the tractor got out of the way.”

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As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. PaTrick Leahy may be best known for his influence on the nation’s courts. But a new Foreign Policy magazine ranking of the 50 most powerful Democrats on international affairs places Vermont’s senior senator near the top of that list, as well.

Noting that Leahy “essentially controls the U.S. foreign aid budget” as chairman of a key Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Leahy placed number 18 on the list, beating out all but two fellow members of Congress. FP singles out the senator’s 1997 “Leahy Law,” which prohibits funding to foreign militaries that commit human-rights violations, and his fight to cut aid to allies, such as Egypt and Pakistan, whose commitment to democracy — or to the U.S. itself — is lukewarm.

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y every measure, the Georgia Mountain Community Wind project is more “locavore” than other wind f arms cropping up on ridgelines across Vermont.

Unlike projects in She˜ eld and Deerfi eld, the Georgia Mountain owners are Green Mountain entrepreneurs: David Blittersdorf, a Vermont native who started successf ul alternative energy companies in Hinesburg and Williston, has teamed up with the Harrison family of Georgia, who own a concrete business and 25,000-tap maple sugaring operation. Burlington-based Merchants Bank is fi nancing the project on land owned by the Harrisons, and all the power produced will be sold to municipally owned Burlington Electric Department.

The scale is smaller than other wind f arms, too — only f our turbines on the twin peaks that span the Georgia-Milton town line, compared to 21 at Kingdom Community Wind in Lowell and 16 in She˜ eld. From the summit of Georgia Mountain, the 65 400-f oot turbines in New York’s Noble Altona Windpark look like matchsticks on the horizon.

But the f act that it’s homegrown hasn’t insulated the Georgia Mountain project f rom the type of division and confl ict embroiling other wind developments around the state.

Neighboring property owners have complained about the constant rumble of trucks and explosions that have sent golf-ball-size “fl yrock” onto their adjoining properties. Neighbors allege that one Saturday morning, work at the mountain started at 6:15 a.m. — 45 minutes earlier than the permit allows.

Georgia Mountain Community Wind has admitted to making mistakes, including blasting on Bennington Battle Day —˝a state holiday —˝which is prohibited under its state permit.

“We messed up,” said Martha Staskus, a project manager at GMCW and vice president of Waterbury-based Northeast Wind —˝one of almost two dozen local companies hired to work on the project.

But Staskus insisted the project developers are trying to be good neighbors.

For instance, she said abutting property owners have been notifi ed at 8 a.m. on days when blasting would occur.

The developers are hustling to get the project online by December 31 to take advantage of up to $8 million in federal stimulus grants that are set to expire. Blittersdorf suspects that neighbors are trying to stall progress, knowing f ull well the project is happening within a tight time frame.

“They know we have a deadline that could kill us,” he said. “Basically, it could bankrupt me.”

Tensions boiled over last month when GMCW slapped Dan FitzGerald, a f ormer Milton selectman, and his elderly mother, Jane FitzGerald, with an injunction and temporary restraining order for interfering with construction.

FitzGerald’s mother owns 260 acres adjacent to the construction, a portion of which falls within the project’s 1000foot blast zone. Dan FitzGerald refused to leave the area during a scheduled blast day, saying it would infringe on his family’s property rights.

GMCW called police to secure the blast zone, and a technician had to camp out overnight on the mountain because an explosive charge had been set but not detonated.

The next day, when FitzGerald and his sons returned to the property line, local law enf orcement served him with the restraining order.

Staskus said the legal actions were a “last resort” to ensure public saf ety and to keep the project on schedule. On August 23, the developer issued a press release saying that preliminary blasting had been completed and both the injunction and restraining order against the FitzGeralds had been dropped.

The f ollowing day, the Vermont Public Service Board issued an order directing the developer to stop blasting in light of neighbors’ concerns. But neighbors complained that the action was too little too late; they had complained to the PSB seven weeks earlier — on July 3 — and only after blasting was complete did state regulators intervene.

“It leaves a really bad taste in your mouth,” said Melodie McLane, who lives nearby on Georgia Mountain Road.

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Blittersdorf, who founded NRG Systems in Hinesburg and now runs At the base of the mountain, brothers Kenneth and George AllEarth Renewables in Williston. “I Wimble were milking their herd of understand their passion for doing this, but at the same time it’s not legal. organic dairy cows. Sunlight filtered in through the barn door while cows It’s not right, and the public good is not being served.” rustled in their berths. Kenneth Wimble set down his milking Responding to Milton neighkit and shrugged when asked bors who have called him a “bully,” Blittersdorf said, about the wind project.

Though both are “I’ve become a lightening rod for Annette listed among the neighbors who Smith and Lukas complained of Snelling,” referring blasting to the to the leaders of the anti-big-wind groups PSB, Kenneth Wimble Vermonters for a Clean said there’s not much use in dwelling on the Environment and project. He might not Energize Vermont, recare for it, but he knows spectively. Blittersdorf it’s going in. has known both for The Wimbles are years but says he struggling to sell the “totally” disagrees 250-acre farm on which with their vision of their family has worked Vermont’s energy for three generations. future.

They’re not selling be“We import over 90 cause of the wind projpercent of our energy,” ect; rather, after 36 years he said, “and we have to of dairy farming, they’re do something different.” ready to retire. But they Aside from a few DAVID haven’t found a buyer, vocal opponents, BLIT TE RSDORF and so far a few serious FitzGerald and others contenders have backed said they don’t think off after learning of the residents in Milton and wind development.

Georgia are paying much attention to the Its construction sounds like a low Georgia Mountain project. FitzGerald rumble from the Wimbles’ farm on rustled up around 350 signatures for a Georgia Mountain Road. On the other petition to oppose the project two years side of the mountain, though, Tom Hall ago, but in the process realized many has a front-row seat to the develop- neighbors weren’t even aware the dement. His home on Ted Road is located velopment had been proposed. directly across from the gate to the wind With turbine parts set to arrive by project access road. Hall said he once early October, FitzGerald and others are counted 15 trucks go past in 14 minutes. waiting to see what, if any, reaction the From his front door, he can clearly hear towers themselves will elicit once conthe beeps of heavy trucks backing up struction is complete. and the screeching, squealing noise of “For some reason … that project grinding rocks. seems to have flown under the radar. I “It sucks,” said Hall, who has lived think people in the area are probably here for 30 years after moving away going to be very, very surprised when from Connecticut to escape “the hustle they start seeing these things go up,” and bustle.” He fought the project un- said Snelling of the group Energize successfully for four years before the Vermont. “Chittenden County seems to PSB and believes the developers are have ignored the wind issue, but with building the wind farm “for a few dol- this project they’re going to get a lot of lars in their own pocket.” firsthand experience with it.”

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your dad’s reputation.’ And he says, ‘That’s not fair. You don’t know me, and you don’t know us.’”

Jesse Jacobs, who runs the business day to day from a second-floor office at 70 Main Street, is well aware of the negative reactions his f amily’s name engenders. Jeff Jacobs is the landlord who years ago tried to put a McDonald’s — and a three-story fryer vent — in a historic downtown building. He f orced Capitol Grounds to move from its long time location to a less-than-ideal one by raising the rent $500 for a basement the coffee shop couldn’t use. More recently, some in Montpelier blamed Jeff Jacobs for the demise of Langdon Street Café, a popular meeting spot for artists and musicians housed in a building he owned. divided the vacant 2400-square-f oot But Jesse Jacobs asserts that, like space in half.

The clincher was Jesse Jacobs’ offer everyone else, members of his f amily of an interest-free loan to help Leventhal were adversely affected by the economic downturn that paralyzed new business build the studio. She used the money to create what she describes as a “stun - and discouraged banks f rom lending ningly beautiful” fitness studio with money. “A lot of spaces went vacant at bamboo flooring, sandblasted brick the same time the economy fell apart. So walls, a shower and changing room, and all of a sudden, we had a lot of spaces,” he recalls. “In the last five years, the enall the strength-training equipment she needs for her signature “intense” fitness vironment has been stagnant in down town Montpelier. It’s partly a result of classes.

“Jesse Jacobs scooped tough lending practices.”

Jacobs says he hasn’t lowered rents me up, and he has been but was able to attract new tenants by the most pleasant person offering “incentive packages.” to work with,” says For the owners of Asiana House, Leventhal, who has five years to pay back the loan. Without that, a sushi restaurant that will open in November in the f ormer Chittenden she says, “I never would have been able Bank building, Jacobs offered to help to do it. He’s really taking a step out on customize the space that has been vacant the line for me.” f or six years. “Banks being so tough in Like others in the community, though, Leventhal was initially put off terms of lending, we figured it would be really difficult to get the money together by the Jacobs name. “I got afraid of his to build out the f ront of the house and reputation probably six months ago. I kitchen,” he says. told Jesse, ‘I’m not comf ortable with

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Many cited Jacobs’ high rents and complex leases for holding back capitalcity commerce. Last January, some artists protested by papering over the windows of empty storef ronts with drawings of lively café scenes — visualizing, ostensibly, what could be there instead.

“People were always puzzled that he hadn’t chosen to rent them,” says Montpelier Mayor John Hollar, who noted that demand wasn’t the issue. “It has been a vexing problem.”

But in the last f ew months, at least seven new businesses have signed leases to rent Jacobs properties. Between now and the holidays, downtown will welcome a new sushi bar, fitness studio, chocolate shop and art gallery. To Hollar, the development is a huge relief.

“There was never consensus as to how to approach this,” the mayor says, “so for me it’s wonderful that the prob lem solved itself by the landowner let ting the market work.”

So what happened?

By all accounts, credit goes to Jesse Jacobs, the 28-year-old son and business partner of Jeff Jacobs at the family’s real estate company, Montpelier Property Management. Rather than lowering rents by a significant amount, Jesse Jacobs lured new business with flexible leases, interestfree loans and help secur ing building permits.

Amy Leventhal will soon move her fitness business, Studio Zenith, into the Jacobs-owned property at 50 Main Street. Across from Montpelier city hall, the prominent space had been vacant for three years. Leventhal initially worried it wouldn’t work for her, but to address her concerns, Jacobs rewrote the lease agreement four times in five months and

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properties: a shared workspace called Local 64 that will expand into bigger digs at 5 State Street.

Sarah Jarvis, a former Montpelier city councilor and board member of Montpelier Alive, believes some in the community have lost sight of how much the Jacobs family has contributed to Montpelier over the last 35 years, from saving historic buildings to creating rental units.

“People like to have a scapegoat; he was put in that role,” she says of Jeff Jacobs. “Whether or not it’s an earned reputation, he’s been trying to swim upstream in terms of how people have treated his family.”

With the new businesses coming online, she remarks, “It feels like a brand-new day in Montpelier, honestly.”

If there has been a shift, Jesse Jacobs attributes it to “more of a shift in peo ple’s perceptions than a shift in goals for us and our family.

“The vitality of Montpelier is entirely integral to our success,” he says, “and we work very hard to make it as successful as possible.” m

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None of the Jacobs’ new tenants would discuss the terms of their leases, and many were reluctant to say much about their experiences with the land lords. Jane Delia, who with her husband, Wally, is opening a chocolate shop called the Cocoa Bean at 40 State Street, called Jesse Jacobs “overwhelmingly positive and very helpful.” Theo Kennedy, who plans to open a gelato shop, Chill, next door in late September, says the land lord has been “very supportive.”

Last winter, Goddard College president Barbara Vacarr met with the Jacobs family while she was in Florida — Jeff Jacobs and his wife, Jody, spend a portion of each year there — to brain storm ways to reintegrate the college with the city as Goddard celebrates its 150th anniversary.

The elder Jacobs is a Goddard alum, notes Vacarr. “He clearly has respect for Goddard, and for downtown.” The result: a Goddard-curated art gallery at 54 Main Street. A forthcoming exhibi tion of photographs there will illustrate the college’s anniversary.

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“I won’t say it’s impossible, but I will say it’s incredibly challenging,” remarks Erik Hoekstra, a f ounder of the Vermont Green Building Network and development manager f or Redstone. “There are a lot of developers in Chittenden County who won’t even consider building in Burlington.”

Peter Owens, the new head of Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office, aims to change those negative perceptions of the Queen City.

Housing advocates are hopeful that Mayor Miro Weinberger and his fiftysomething development lieutenant can crack a culture of “no!” that has stymied many commercial and residential projects in Burlington.

In contrast to their predecessors, Bob Kiss and Larry Kupf erman, Weinberger and Owens both have extensive experi ence with the politics of development.

The mayor, a nonactive partner in a firm f ocused on building mixed-income housing, won election as a proponent of downtown development. He has sup port on that issue f rom key Progressives, such as CEDO housing chief Brian Pine and f ormer CEDO boss Michael Monte, who say Weinberger made a smart call by assigning Owens to head an office emblematic of Burlington’s emergence as a dynamic place to live and work.

A 1980 Middlebury College grad, Owens holds a PhD in environmental planning and urban design from the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked as a development specialist for private firms and nonprofits in California and, more recently, in the Upper Valley.

He was senior planner for the Presidio Trust, which oversaw the conversion of a military base near the Golden Gate Bridge into a multipurpose neighborhood inte grated into the texture of San Francisco.

Owens is an entrepreneur, as well. He helped his brother outfit a 40-year-old fire truck as an organic pizza prep and deliv ery unit.

“My experience working in both the public and private sectors will be really helpful in this job,” Owens says in an interview at Burlington City Hall.

He’s also got a history here. Owens was involved in waterfront, transportation and housing initiatives in the 1980s, during the tenure of then-mayor Bernie Sanders. He carried out some of the early planning for Waterfront Park, along with the design for a small green space on North Street.

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Owens says 25 years later. “It’s great to be back in this city. It’s a real privilege to have been asked by Mayor Weinberger to head up CEDO.” The two didn’t know one another until mutual colleagues referred the planner to the mayor-elect earlier this year.

Now the pair plan to work closely to achieve their shared vision of a more urbanized Queen City. Weinberger and Owens are going to have to bulldoze bu reaucratic and NIMBY-ish obstacles that have earned Burlington a reputation as a hell for developers.

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CEDO has no direct ability to slice through bureaucratic blockages. It neither issues nor implements regula tions. Instead, the of f ice serves as a multif aceted community-building and economic-promotion entity with the

primary mission today of “leading the mayor’s agenda f or downtown and wa terf ront development,” as Owens puts it. CEDO also hatches initiatives in response to the housing needs of lowand moderate-income Burlingtonians, Owens adds.

Balancing the sometimes-conflicting demands of the mayor, the city council, the various citizen commissions and private business interests — along with political activists — is the most difficult aspect of the CEDO director’s job, Monte says, and could prove challenging for Owens, who’ll draw a $90,000 salary.

The city’s planning and zoning office, along with the Department of Public Works, are viewed by some housing spon sors as finicky and inflexible. But they’re not considered the only potential impedi ments to development. In f act, planning and zoning director David White gets props f rom many development advocates f or his work on Plan BTV, a yearlong public process — and now a draf t docu ment — charting the f uture of downtown and waterfront development.

Pine, the point man in CEDO’s hous ing division, highlights another obstacle: In Burlington, a single resident can use the city’s appeals process to delay or kill a project that enjoys broad support.

Pine, who has worked at CEDO f or nearly 16 years, has a positive view of Owens’ ability to shift the balance of power on development issues — even though Pine was passed over by Weinberger when the mayor chose a new CEDO director.

“I definitely think we’ll see housing built downtown in the next couple of years,” Pine declares.

Hoekstra adds, “I’m optimistic we can shift the culture at least a bit.”

Although he can’t quantify it, Hoekstra predicts that Weinberger and Owens “will get a helluva lot more done than Bob Kiss did.”

Owens, a fluid conversationalist, says he understands what he’s up against and doesn’t imagine that radical change is im minent. “I believe in small ball — in getting scratch hits, reaching base and then moving the runners around,” he analogizes. “With each increment, you get better.”

Drawing on his memory of the energy that animated Sandersera Burlington, Owens remarks that “CEDO at its best was very entrepreneurial.” He points to the development of City Market and the con struction of downtown parking garages as examples of moneymaking moves closely in sync with CEDO’s social and economic mission.

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The even-longer-stalled Champlain It’s a national chop that many other Parkway — which Owens worked on, too, municipalities have been able to withstand when it was still the Southern Connector by substituting local funds for federal dol— also stands as a testament to govern- lars. Burlington will seek to do the same mental dysfunction, the new CEDO direc- — probably by imposing new and higher tor adds. But he expects progress to be development fees, Owens suggests. A tax made on both projects by year’s end. increase targeted to facilitate economic The rest of Owens’ development development is another, slimmer possibilchecklist is drawn from Plan BTV. He ity, Pine adds. wants to turn the Burlington Town Center Job anxieties could cause a relapse of shopping mall “inside-out” so that Cherry the morale deflation that Owens has also Street becomes a storefront-lined pas- been trying to remedy in his two months in sageway to the waterfront rather than an office. It was a sad-sack scene he inherited. off-putting row of brutalist institutional “The staff here has been beat up on buildings and a parking for years — mostly for garage that’s “in tough problems they didn’t shape.” He envisions a cause,” Owens says in staircase or funicular conregard to the malaise that necting Cherry Street to a enveloped city hall as redeveloped Moran Plant. the Burlington Telecom The Weinberger addebacle drained away ministration has already enthusiasm.

Today, produced a plan to rebuild however, CEDO-ites are the most heavily used sec“happy there’s energy and tion of the waterfront bike ambition here again.” path, Owens notes. And Game playing has attention is now turning helped, as well. Once a to the refurbishment of week for half an hour, City Hall Park, which, he workers break into teams suggests, can be financed for sign-language spelling PE tE r oWEN S through a combination of bees, relay races involvpublic and private funding office equipment and ing. On that front, Owens hopes to draw other such “silo-busting” exercises. These on the experience of fellow Middlebury “CEDO Olympics” are being organized alum Adrian Benepe, who won valedic- in part by Marcy Krumbine, the recently tory salutes for his success in greening appointed assistant director for comup New York City as parks director in the munity development. She is among the Bloomberg administration. “new people with new ideas” who, Pine If Owens’ achievements do fall short points out, will be replacing two recently of his ambitions, it won’t be because departed staffers. he slacked. “The guy works incredibly Krumbine, who responded to an adhard,” Pine observes. “He sends emails vertisement for the CEDO post she now at, like, 2 a.m.” holds, offers assurance that Burlington’s For at least part of the night, Owens development challenges are not unique. sleeps on a futon in a friend’s house on She arrived here from the planning office Brookes Avenue, where he has estab- in southwest Florida that includes the lished official city residence. His wife, affluent city of Naples. It’s almost imposurban planner Carolyn Radisch, and the sible to build badly needed affordable couple’s two high-school-age children housing there, Krumbine says. live in Hanover, N.H., and spend time Vermont, she says, is “on the totally together on weekends — either here or opposite end of the political spectrum” there. It’s a viable, if not ideal, arrange- from Florida. In the Burlington area, for ment, Owens says. example, “it’s clear that there’s a lot of Living apart from his family and facili- concern for people’s well-being. That’s tating urban development aren’t his only why I came here. That’s why this is a good challenges. The CEDO chief is striving to place to be.” m

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“We’re just hoping to put people in a good mood on their way down there,” says comedian NATHAN HARTSWICK. NATALIE Hartswick and his wif e, MILLER, a f ellow comedian and a board member of the SOUTH END ARTS AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, are the f ounders of Spark Arts, a theater and f per ormance-art studio based in Burlington that specializes in standup and improv comedy. The duo was tasked with augmenting the performance angle of Art Hop for its 20th anniversary. One idea: jokesters on wheels.

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Hartswick says each bus will have one or two local comedians, drawn from a roster including Jason Lorber, KyLe GaGnon and Josh starr, and “maybe one with a ukulele.” Riders can expect a variety of performances, from straight standup and improv to game playing and a “hyperbolized tour of Burlington.”

The mobile comics are part of a larger attempt by SEABA to increase

the visibility of performance art at the Art Hop through pop-up-style performances. Spark Arts also will host a pair of comedy shows on Friday, September 7, and Saturday, September 8, in a former Jazzercise studio at 257 Pine Street, repurposed as the Pop Up Comedy Club.

“The Jazzercise logo is still on the wall,” Hartswick says. “We’re joking about doing Jazzercise routines.”

Barring impromptu exercise bits, the early set both nights will be a “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”-type improvcomedy show by the Spark Arts crew.

The later shows will feature traditional standup comedy from comics including Kit rivers, Josie Leavitt, CoLin ryan, Carmen LaGaLa and others.

Hartswick also hints at a “top secret” pop-up performance that he says Miller may or may not be curating on Friday, “possibly” in the soda PLant parking lot.

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“There’s something going on at seven, and maybe again at nine, in that area,” Hartswick says coyly. “I won’t tell you what it is. But you might want to be there.” m seaba.com, sparkartsvt.com, artsriot.com

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As the shows get under way in New York this Thursday, September 6, most of commando’s own spring 2013 line has already been sold. This year, O’Brien is attending Fashion Week as a new CFDA member and can’t wait to go to what she calls the shows’ “feeding frenzy of inspiration.” Commando has new developments of its own, including reversible women’s swimwear and, still in the works, a men’s underwear line.

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“Our stuff is — what would we say — bawdy or filthy?” DiMascio says. “We often call ourselves ‘filthy feminists.’”

She says influences on her and Albeck’s writing include “The Catherine Tate Show,” “Mr. Show,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and the sketches of Dave Chappelle and Carol Burnett.

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Absolutely. Cool? That, too.

Nonetheless, Quinn, I agree with you. We must consider the ramifications if this deranged plan actually works.

The prize here consists of the so-called platinum-group metals, which besides platinum include osmium, iridium, palladium, ruthenium and rhodium, and are relatively abundant in some asteroids.

A choice specimen might have 8750 times the platinum concentration found in the Earth’s crust, 48,000 times the rhodium and 660,000 times the iridium. With all three metals currently selling for more than $1000 an ounce, a near-Earth

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asteroid, or NEA, 1 kilometer in diameter could yield more than $5 trillion in precious metals.

Recalling how New World gold distorted the Spanish economy, I suspect a flood like that would crash the precious-metals markets, wreaking who knows what financial havoc. But one problem at a time.

The first thing the Planetary Resources moguls plan to do is launch a dozen or so space telescopes to hunt out promising NEAs, particularly those whose orbits are within about 1.6 million miles of Earth. (So we’re clear, these aren’t rocks in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which are much farther away.)

Currently we know of more than 9000 NEAs, 848 of which are 1 kilometer across or larger.

the asteroid into Earth and taking out Tulsa. The 1908 Tunguska meteorite explosion over Siberia, thought to have involved a rock 100 meters in diameter, flattened 80 million trees over 830 square miles.

Best bet: parking the asteroid in fixed orbit on the far side of the moon.

Then there’s waste disposal.

While precious metals are more plentiful on asteroids than on Earth, we’re still talking parts per million, meaning you’ll wind up with a monstrous quantity of tailings. You can’t let the stuff just float there, so you’ll want to bag it up and send it spiraling down to the lunar surface.

Sierra Club types will object that this will mar the scenic beauty of the Mare Tranquillitatis. What’s worse is the potential for screwups or terrorism. If accidentally or otherwise a bag of tailings wound up in Earth’s orbit and ruptured, the resultant spill could lead to a chain reaction of colliding debris — a scenario known as the Kessler syndrome — leaving Earth surrounded by an impassable shell of space junk. One shudders to imagine the Superfund required to clean up that.

Not saying all these concerns couldn’t be addressed. But the Planetary Resources people better reserve a good chunk of their budget for lawyers, insurance, crisis management and PR.

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hat? Oh, sorry, Quinn, I was daydreaming. I was in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella in the late 1400s. In walks this plucky adventurer with a crazy but cool scheme to reach India by sailing off the edge of the world.

Isabella listens, then interrupts.

“Chris,” she says, “I like your plan. Who knows, it might even work. But it’ll never pass environmental review.”

Let’s talk about asteroid mining. You’re asking because of the April announcement that a group of wealthy entrepreneurs has founded a firm called Planetary Resources, which wants to send space robots to nearby asteroids and strip-mine them for precious metals. Backers include Google CEO Larry Page, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis, and many other wheels in business and high tech — the monarchs of our age. Is the idea crazy?

Once enough likely asteroids are found, probes will be sent out to assay them for mineral potential, followed by robot miners to work the claims.

From here on out, things start to get challenging. Mining an asteroid is going to involve cutting, drilling, boring or melting frozen rock. (Given an NEA’s minute size and low gravity, blasting is out.)

Then you have to refine the ore, which generally means pulverizing it and extracting the desired metal with chemicals.

These are resource-intensive, high-maintenance industrial processes that would have to be conducted by remote control at a distance of 1.6 million miles.

Even if you’re a high-tech genius, good luck.

Mindful of the difficulties, some enthusiasts propose capturing asteroids and dragging them nearer Earth, possibly allowing humans to go up and assist with mining. One idea is using a solar-electric space tug to approach a small asteroid, deploy a fiber bag to capture it and tow it home.

Not easy, but we’ll let the billionaires sweat the details.

I’m also not going to worry about messing up the orbits of Earth or the moon. Under the most optimistic scenario, the asteroids we’d be shipping might be a few hundred meters in diameter. A rock big enough to cause Earth to wobble would need to be a thousand times as large.

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“I would like nothing better,” I replied.

“Bring ’em on, Sal.” “OK, a guy in North Hyde Park dug a series of ponds, which he stocked with trout. Folks would pay to come fish — like ‘fishing for dummies,’ I guess. Anyway, there was a stream that fed the ponds, and upstream a couple of beavers were constantly building dams that would occasionally flood some town roads. So the

close for comfort. The Ford driver goes ballistic, total road rage — tailgating, flashing his lights, honking. The couple were understandably terrified, but the guy wouldn’t give it up. Finally, the wife says, ‘Let’s pull over and take our medicine. Maybe the guy will calm down.’

“So they ease onto the shoulder, and the Ford pulls over, like, 25 feet behind.

The Ford guy leaps out of his truck and charges toward the couple. But in his rage, he’s forgotten to shift into park, so his own truck runs him over, busting both of his legs before ramming into the couple’s car.

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town fathers first tried to kill the beavers, which ain’t that easy, apparently. Then they tried dynamiting the dams, which worked, but you know — busy as a beaver, right? The critters rebuilt the dam in, like, a week.

“So the men somehow got a backhoe up there and went at it. They were making progress until the whole hillside collapsed, sending a torrent of water downstream, which completely flooded the guy’s trout ponds. I attended a settlement meeting where he had video footage of the deluge devastating his fish. It was like a tsunami!

Man, the town was screwed.”

“That’s a good story, Sal.” “You bet it is. How about this one? On Route 4, the four-lane stretch between Rutland and Castleton, a couple passes a jacked-up Ford moving a little slow, and apparently pulls back into the right lane too

“That is hilarious,” I said. “A lotta good action and a terrific crescendo.”

“Then there was this couple driving to work at dawn on 91 between Barton and Newport. The radio’s playing quietly, and the wife’s driving while hubby is dozing next to her. Well, the wife dozes off, and their vehicle — a Jeep Wrangler, if memory serves — glances off one guardrail, careens across the highway and smashes into the other. The wife isn’t wearing her seat belt and is ejected from the car, which is still heading down the road. At this point, the husband wakes up and looks over to see no wife in the driver’s seat!”

“Holy crap!” I exclaimed, totally into the story. “What happened next?”

“The Jeep flew off the highway into the rocks, and they both eventually died of their injuries.”

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was passing through Richmond on a clear summer morning, en route to a Jonesville pickup. Motoring along, I recalled that Jonesville is not technically a town in its own right but a part of Richmond. Don’t quote me on this, though — I could have it wrong, and I wouldn’t want to rile up the proud Jonesvillians.

Sal was a retired insurance adjuster going to the hospital for outpatient hernia surgery. Later that afternoon, if all went according to plan, he would buzz me for the ride home.

My taxi work can be divided into various categories and subcategories, and this fare fell into the niche of “folks who normally drive but are scheduled for a procedure that precludes getting behind a wheel postsurgery.” I’m like an ornithologist when it comes to my various subspecies of customer. This one we could identify as Taxillus fletcherallena.

Sal resided on an exceptionally steep dirt road running north off Route 2. I had never taken it before, nor was I sure I’d even noticed it. The few homes I passed were relatively new; a road such as this would never have been developed before the advent of reliable four-wheel-drive vehicles. Sal’s home was up a long driveway, and he was waiting outside when I pulled up to his house.

“Nice place you got here,” I said as he got comfortable in the front seat.

“Thanks,” he said. “Yup, I built it myself in the ’80s.”

“So you were an experienced construction guy?”

“Not really. I just used a handyman’s encyclopedia I got hold of.”

“That’s amazing,” I said. “I built a desk once, and that didn’t come out all that great, even with a shop teacher supervising my every move.”

“Oh, jeez — that kinda takes the wind out of that story, wouldn’t you say?”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right about that.

Anyway, how about one more?”

“Absolutely, brother — hit me.”

“All right, I’ve saved the best for last.

Toward the end of my career, I was managing a bunch of other adjusters. This one adjuster — LL, we called him — was a sad sack. Things just never went right for the poor guy. So we had a claim by this guy in Stowe we wrote home insurance for. He had rented a storage unit that apparently got flooded and wrecked most of his stuff. Well, home insurance doesn’t cover rental units, so we knew he was going to be denied, but he was a good customer and wanted somebody to come look at the damage.

“So I send LL to meet with the guy at his storage unit at 1 p.m. that day. It shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes, because, as I said, the claim isn’t covered under his policy. It’s getting late in the afternoon, and nobody’s heard hide nor hair from LL. Finally, at close to five, I get a call from him.

‘I was standing in the storage unit with the policy holder, and when I affirmed that we weren’t going to cover, he stormed out and slammed the metal garage door behind him.

There’s no light in here, and I’m locked in. “‘LL,’ I say to him, trying to suppress a laugh, ‘Why’d you wait so long to call?’

“He says, ‘Well, I knew I’d never hear the end of it from all the guys.’ That cracked me up, because — you know what? — he was exactly right. He never did hear the end of it.”

When we arrived at the hospital, Sal said, “Some folks think insurance adjusting is a dull job, but I guess you can tell I miss it.

It’s a career where you meet tons of people and get all kinds of great stories.”

I smiled and said, “Tell me about it.” m

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While you’re there: Dive deeper into the medium at Rooftop Pottery, where Harold Kaplan will demonstrate throwing large objects on the wheel.

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Phoenix Fast Fire Wood Kiln, Pine Street Studios, 339 Pine Street, Friday, 5-10 p.m.

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Hopapalooza, Featuring Cameo Harlot, Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band, Suzanne Friedman, Trapper Keeper and Funkwagon. In the SEABA tent behind the Maltex Building, Friday, 7-10 p.m.

Get buzzed. Switchback brewers don’t just make Daysie Award-winning beer; some of them make art. Browse Sean Reen’ Reen’s s photography and Dan Tomaino’ Tomaino’s s paintings paintingswhile while sampling new brews.

Brewery Tours & Beer Tastings, Switchback Brewing Company, 160 Flynn Avenue, Friday, 6-9 p.m.; Saturday, Saturday, noon-4 noon-4 p.m. p.m.

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ReSOURCE Reuse Carnival, ReStore, 266 Pine Street; ReBuild, 339 Pine Street, Friday, 5:30-9 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

While you’re there: Explore Abby Manock’s multimedia creations and Shawn Gulla’s sculptures in metal, wood and concrete at Studio 266, the newest artist workspace on the block.

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One man’s trash is another man’s … carnival. ReSOURCE uses reclaimed building materials and other salvaged stuff to create a bottle-ring toss, a cornhole set and much more.

While you’re there: Boogie with the samba street band Sambatucada at eight space art studios.

˜ e Art of Henna, Ancient Arts Studio, 4 Howard Street, Friday, 5-10 p.m.; Saturday, 4-9 p.m.

Overwhelmed by the South End Art Hop? Find your groove and go with the fl ow … chart hen artist Melanie Putz Brotz hatched the idea for the South End Art Hop back in 1991, Burlington had a dearth of venues in which to show experimental artwork. But she saw potential in the funky South End neighborhood. ˜ e fi rst Art Hop, which Brotz organized with local artists Jon Roberts and Ellen Lake, featured about 40 artists showing their work at 30 venues.

Two decades later, the art festival has grown exponentially. ˜ is year, more than 600 artists are exhibiting, and the South End will come alive for the weekend with live music, artist demonstrations, food vendors and standup comedy. Art lovers can be forgiven for feeling a little overwhelmed.

So in honor of Art Hop’s 20th anniversary, we put together a handy game board catered to four different kinds of Art Hoppers: families, foodies, thrill seekers and forward thinkers. Pick your path and start planning your Hop. And don’t forget, CCTA is offering free transportation on the Pine Street Route on Saturday from 6:15 a.m. to 6:40 p.m.

Arts Riot and Spark Arts are sponsoring another free shuttle — this one with live comedy on board! — Friday and Saturday, from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Happy hopping!

Get adorned. Years ago, Rebecca Freedner taught herself to prepare natural Indian henna paste and apply it in intricate patterns on hands, feet and even pregnant bellies. Watch her steady hand in action.

Envision a bicyclepowered future.

Maglianero Café, the offi cial café of the Vermont International Film Festival, is showing previews of VTIFF fi lms and bicycle-themed shorts continuously throughout the weekend.

Short Film Series, Maglianero Café, 47 Maple Street. Friday, 5-9 pm. and Saturday, 10 a.m. -4 p.m., every hour.

While you’re there: View Gerrit Gollner’s work, inspired by the Exquisite Corpse story that emerged from a Maglianero typewriter station over the last few weeks.

Meet the makers. You’ve probably heard about Arduino, the dirt-cheap, open-source microcontroller that allows just about anybody to be an inventor.

Get your hands on one and let the Vermont Makers — a community of local tech geeks, artists, farmers and other inventors — get you started.

Get Your Arduino On! SEABA Art Park, in front of Great Harvest Bread Company, 382 Pine Street, Friday, 7-9 p.m.

Drool a little. As Lake Champlain Chocolates’ resident sculptress, Emily McCracken has designed edible masterpieces for stars such as Wynton Marsalis and Grace Potter.

Tour the factory, and watch McCracken make art from molten chocolate.

Bang a drum. You’ve probably heard them around town, pounding out propulsive rhythms on their booming drums. Try the technique for yourself in a free workshop.

Burlington Taiko Japanese Drums & Lion Dance, 280 Flynn Avenue, Suite 3-G, Saturday, 9-11:30 a.m.

While you’re there: Head over to RL Photo to catch the 20th-anniversary retrospective Art Hop juried show, featuring new and old works by previous winners.

Oh, and there’s mini golf out front.

Chocolate Sculpture Demo, Lake Champlain Chocolates, 750 Pine Street, Saturday,

While you’re there: Check out the big steampunk fi sh sculpture Chris Cleary made from copper pipes at FlynnDog’s Lake Champlain-inspired exhibit.

While you’re there: Pop into Draker Labs to see “Landscape Alternatives,” large-format prints by Vermont members of the American Society of Media Photographers.

Nibble internationally. You’ll be ready to nosh after all those beer samples. Get your fi x with snacks — and photography — from around the globe.

Cast a vote. Magic Hat asked local artists to create a label design for a 2013 limited-edition Art Hop Ale. See how the fi nalists stack up and vote for your fave.

Taste the World, Volunteers for Peace, 7 Kilburn Street, Friday, 5-10 p.m.

Labels for Libations, SEABA tent, 431 Pine Street, #G14, voting open Friday, 5-10 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

Seven Days Strut, SEABA tent, 431 Pine Street, Saturday, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.

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While you’re there: Explore Will Laker’s fused glass, Brooke Monte’s oil paintings and much more artwork at Evolution Physical ° erapy & Yoga .

Go high fashion. More than 20 local clothing designers work the catwalk to the tunes of DJ Frank Grymes. When you’ve had your fashion fi fill,ll, belly up to the food vendors in the parking lot.

Watch the (naked) magic happen. It’s not often you get to watch a painter in the midst of his or her creative process. Now’s your chance: Nicholas Heilig puts brush to canvas, and the Human Canvas puts brush to bare skin.

While you’re there: Compare the stained-glass styles of three different artists — Lawrence Ribbecke, Karen Dawson and Yorini Undyantara (a dental technician who specializes in tooth tattoos) — at Lawrence Ribbecke Studio.

Who’s Got Your Your Digital Booty? Laboratory B, 187 South Winooski Avenue, Friday and Saturday, 5-10 p.m.

While you’re there: Stroll the Soda Plant hallways, which are fi lled with local art in 20 mediums — everything from paintings and collage to video, metal and wood.

While you’re there: Pop over to Das Bierhaus for Stephen Beattie’s landscape photography, Mathew Pardue’s oil paintings and Nicholas Heilig’s ink drawings.

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While you’re there: Let Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s sideshow banners and Alan Alejo’s gel-cap art at Toni-Lee Sangastiano Studio transport you to another time and place.

Get informed. Th ° eehackers hackersatat Burlington’ s Laboratory B love Burlington’s technology — with a healthy dose of skepticism. Th ° ey eypresent presentan an interactive exhibition examining the ways in which our personal information leaks from our electronic devices. Let them help you “warp your digital trail.”

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While you’re there: Catch the oil and acrylic paintings of Vermont Studio Center’s Beth Netelkos at Signal Kitchen.

Stick around until 6 p.m. when tooth ache. kick off the night.

Space Rocks! With Heloise and DJ Disco Phantom, ° e Backspace Gallery, 266 Pine Street, Saturday, 8-11 p.m.

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Dance. ° ere are lots of dance parties in the South End on Saturday night. ° is one has light shows. Heloise Williams and DJ Disco Phantom get the gallery bumping with dancers and performance art.

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ntonio Cepeda-Benito is a scientist by training, not a politician. But the University of Vermont’s new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences takes a diplomatic tone when asked what it’s like to go from working at Texas A&M University, one of the most politically conservative public universities in the country, to one of the most liberal.

“Let’s put it this way,” says Cepeda-Benito, choosing his words caref ully. “My wif e and I were ready f or a change of air in that regard.”

Cepeda-Benito, who arrived on the UVM campus in mid-July, spent the last 18 years at Texas A&M, most recently as dean of f aculties, associate provost and professor of psychology. Understandably, he’s reluctant to burn any bridges with his former Aggie colleagues, who, he insists, “treated us really well.”

Still, Cepeda-Benito may have gotten out of College Station, Texas, at just the right time. Last year, A&M became the focus of a controversial plan by Republican Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an Austin-based, right-wing think tank, to overhaul that state’s higher-education system. The plan includes a push to hire more non-tenure-track faculty, create a new accreditation process and separate research from teaching. Critics charged that the e˜ ort, unpopular among many A&M faculty, is undermining one of the premier research universities in the country.

Cepeda-Benito, a respected researcher and scholar who has published more than 50 articles on psychology and pharmacology in peer-reviewed journals, comes to UVM during a time of its own transition. The administration has decided that the student population is fi nally big enough and doesn’t need to grow. The goal now is to boost UVM’s prestige and fi nancial resources by building its reputation as a premier small research university.

It makes sense that UVM would hire someone steeped in research to head its largest college. With 5500 students and nearly 340 faculty members across 21 departments, the College of Arts and Sciences encompasses a vast array of academic disciplines ranging from anthropology to women’s studies.

Though Cepeda-Benito admits he is still getting to know all the f aculty and sta˜ , he says it’s ref reshing to arrive on a campus that is f ocused on becoming a research-intensive institution while remaining equally committed to its teaching mission.

“It’s di˛ cult to do both things and do them well,” Cepeda-Benito says. “Here, I can tell you that the faculty are really invested in providing a good education.

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And they get really upset if anything gets in the way of that.”

When it comes to the topic of his own research, Cepeda-Benito brings an unusual background to his new position. While he won’t disparage his previous employer, he is adept at talking a di˜ erent kind of “smack” — heroin addiction. Cepeda-Benito is known f or his work on the behavioral and neurological impacts of exposure to opiates, nicotine and cocaine. His research into addictive behaviors led him to develop a clinical scale scale ffor measuringf ood foodcravings, cravings,which whichis is or measuring now used to treat treatpeople peoplewith withobesity obesityand and eating disorders.

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Cepeda-Benito says he fi rst got involved in this line of scientifi c inquiry “a little by happenstance.”

While still an undergraduate psychology student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he became enamored of the empirical method: proposing hypotheses, gathering data and drawing conclusions.

“I“Igot inpart, part,bebegot into into addiction, in cause I was was interested interestedininpursuing pursuing a career asasa scientist a scientist within within psychology,” drug psychology,” he he says, “and drug addiction fi fittthat thatmold.” mold.”

When When Cepeda-Benito, now 50, came to the theUnited UnitedStates States from nativeSpain Spainatatthe the f rom his native age of 20, he hespoke spokealmost almost of 20, no English. He Hegrew grewupup in the historic historiccity city of of Salamanca, known for attracting thousands of of ininternational students each year. Among them themwas was his ffuture wife, Lisa,anan uture wi f e, Lisa, American exchange student from Wisconsin who was enrolled at Bennington College and had come come to toSalamanca Salamanca to improve her Spanish.

After Afterthe thecouple couplemoved movedtoto the United States, CepedaBenito took whatever whatever

odd jobs he could find: cutting grass, fixing roofs, painting houses and bussing tables. Once his English had sufficiently improved, he took the TOEFL — Test of English as a Foreign Language — and, to his surprise, passed.

He got his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, then completed his master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology at Purdue University In 1993, while still working on his PhD, CepedaBenito became a U.S. citizen. The following year, he landed a job as an assistant professor of psychology at A&M. In College Station, Cepeda-Benito worked with the probation arm of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which often referred to his assessment and treatment offenders who had been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. All of his clients were Mexican, he recalls, and most were undocumented workers whose families still lived in Mexico. Invariably, Cepeda-Benito ran the group sessions because he was the only PhD-level clinical psychologist in town who spoke Spanish.

“Basically, it was an advantage for me, not just my language but my ability to understand their culture, how they think and perceive the world,” Cepeda-Benito explains. “I could relate to them, and they would trust me with less effort than if a gringo were talking to them.”

This was also a humble, impoverished and uneducated population, he notes. Cepeda-Benito vividly recalls one case, referred to him by the Texas Department

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of Family and Protective Services, in which a couple were suspected of neglecting their underweight child.

Once Cepeda-Benito began investigating the family’s history and interviewed the parents, he says, it was clear the child wasn’t neglected; the parents were simply poor. To them, an underweight child looked normal.

“That was probably the most frustrating case I’ve been involved with in my life,” Cepeda-Benito recalls.

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“What this family needed was help, not punishment.

You’re not helping anyone taking their child away.”

Presumably, Cepeda-Benito’s job application was only helped by the fact that UVM has made it a priority in recent years to hire more minorities. That said, his Spanish skills will likely prove less useful in Vermont, which is often listed as the second-whitest state in the country. Being from Europe, of course, Cepeda-Benito

has a different perspective on American ethnic categories such as “white,” “Hispanic” and “Latino.” When he first applied for his U.S. Social Security card, he recalls, the form asked him to identify himself as either white or Hispanic. Like many Spaniards, he considers himself both. In 2009, Hispanic Business Magazine included Cepeda-Benito in its list of “Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics.” But ultimately, the professor doesn’t get hung up on such terminology. As he puts it, “At the end of the day, what matters is how you use your skills and abilities to help people.”

How will Cepeda-Benito apply his clinical-psychology training to his new administrative job?

“A lot of [clinical psychology] is listening, reflecting back what you heard and maybe saying it in a different way to help the person see connections they didn’t see before,” he explains. “So I use a lot of those skills in my job every day, because a lot of this is problem solving, solving conflicts, getting people to work together and selling your ideas.”

Cepeda-Benito hasn’t formulated any grand design for the College of Arts and Sciences in the coming years.

Instead one of his first tasks, he says, is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the college and figure out how to build on them. He plans to talk to a lot of people, gather data, assess those data and then process them in a way that “gives students the best education they can to serve them for the rest of their lives.”

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t was Friday night, and my dad, whom I hadn’t seen since we’d come off the river a week earlier, was in a cheeky mood. All twinkleeyed, he kept saying, “I don’t want to influence the article you’re writing about our trip, but you might consider throwing in phrases like ‘handsome bowman,’ ‘fit and dedicated 61-year-old f ather,’ or even something as simple as ‘excellent paddle buddy.’”

I told him I liked that phrase — paddle buddy — but that my inclination was to focus more on the river than on

us. The river, I thought, is the real character in this story. Or maybe it’s more like a community of characters: the sexy, curvy lady; the old man in a smoke-col ored suit; the Zen priest; the marathon walker; the sleepy, yawning child.

“If I were to write about you at all,” I told my dad, “it’d probably be in the service of describing the river, the subtle ways it works over dinky little humans like us.”

He nodded. A week at the office swimming upstream against emails, meetings, assignments and stress had undoubtedly

taken its toll, but the memory of our time on the real river was still f resh. He’d partaken in the flow. The silt was under his fingernails. “Which is just to say,” I went on, “that I’d probably write about the time I thought you’d died.”

“You mean when we flipped in the rapid and the canoe shot into the air and I got sucked back up into the whitewater and disappeared?” he said, excited.

In the approximately 260 miles of river that we explored between the small town of Canaan and the small town of Vernon — miles rich in bald

eagles, smallmouth bass, slapping bea ver’s tails, oxbows, covered bridges, party barges, cornfields, submerged tires, protruding logs, lily pads and drifty clouds — there was only one spot where a paddler might actually flip his craft and disappear beneath a ferocious bulb of muscled water. I recalled swimming out of that bulb, turning around to make sure Dad was following and seeing only his hat floating after me. For all I knew, the river had him in a headlock.

“No, not that time,” I said, smiling.

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here were two potential explanations. The first was our daily routine. At 7 a.m., I’d wake up, boil coffee on a stove in the tent vestibule, scratch my bug-bitten, ivy-poisoned ankles and read from Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

Though written in 1839 on a different waterway (and published in 1849), Thoreau’s observations hold true for the Connecticut. He describes fishermen in their skiffs floating through the reflections of trees, birds flitting through the reflections of trees, trees reaching down to touch the reflections of trees, and the perceptual challenges of looking through the reflections of trees to the pebbly or muddy or weedy river bottom below.

In a burst of earlyAmerican eco-terrorist rhetoric, Thoreau even endorses taking a crowbar to the dam at Billerica, Mass., in the name of free shad. Free Shad! Return to the Actual! Along with the instant-coffee sludge, these passages got me psyched for another 10 hours at the helm.

Ten hours — that’s about how long we’d paddle each day, sometimes with the help of a rippling current, sometimes with the help of a lesser current, the kind not felt in the body but noticed in the motion of goose feathers and pollen swirls on the river’s elastic surface. As I’ve mentioned, there were long, straight, flat stretches as well. And there was tedium, too, a dull pain in the shoulders.

Don’t get me wrong: It wasn’t like moving sofas or chopping wood or anything. In a canoe you’re sitting. You’re taking breaks to swim, snack on peanuts or cast the fishing pole (that is, until you lose the rods to the whitewater). When bridge shadows band your shirtless chest, you pull over to a sandy beach, and Dad scrambles up to the road. He’s carrying empty water bottles, searching for a gas station. You stay by the river, twiddling your toes, not wanting to risk breaking that spell, that centeredness,

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ay four. Early afternoon. Sky like a low, gray ceiling. We weren’t really in Ryegate, Vt., or in Bath, N.H.; rather, we were between the two, me in the stern, Dad in the bow, both of us dipping, pulling and redipping our paddles to the same unheard but deeply felt beat.

Here was the heart of a 7.2-millionacre watershed — the wet middle — and a feeling of statelessness or, understood from another angle, of bioregional centeredness. As Gary Snyder says in an essay on sense of place, “… nature, which is actual, is almost a shadow world now, and the insubstantial world of political jurisdictions and rarefied economies is what passes for reality.” Technically, New Hampshire owns the river all the way over to the Vermont shore. Try telling that to the eagles and rotten logs and longdistance canoeists.

The river was “actual”: 500 feet wide, fringed with patches of marsh, walled in by steep, wooded banks.

There were no camps on the shore or other boats on the water. A great blue heron prowled the shallows off the starboard side; a belted kingfisher rattled its call down from a twiggy perch to port. Our map showed a dam five miles downstream at Dodge Falls; it would be the seventh of 12 that we would portage around over the course of a week. Some dams were breached, their broken concrete blocks overgrown with wildflowers. Others were close to 200 feet tall, gloomy, noisy, cranking out power. Many backed the river up into a flat, black, unmoving lake. The dam at Dodge Falls was one of these.

An eastern kingbird curled after insects in buoyant, acrobatic sallies, reminding me, by contrast, of my midday, flat-water fatigue. My dad must have felt the same because, without saying anything or even looking at me, he stowed his paddle and lay back, resting his head on one of the big, rubber dry bags tucked in behind his seat. It was a surprisingly comfortable-looking boat-bed, almost like a cradle, and the first time I’d seen him use it. He lay with his eyes closed, face to the sky. I kept paddling. Ten minutes later, realizing that he hadn’t twitched, shifted or made a single noise, I began to wonder. The cradle looked

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Dad returns with potato chips, chocolate and — what?! — a Styrofoam container of General Tso’s chicken from some Chinese take-out joint. You remind him that a bad sandwich crippled you with gut pain during the trip’s all-night-first-night thunderstorm, but it doesn’t seem to register. He’s looking over the map, sticky white rice clinging to his beard. And then you’re paddling again.

Paddling again, paddling again, paddling again. The river meanders through open farm valleys and pinched, misty canyons, past green tractors in green fields and a red fox running. It rolls on toward evening: 30 miles, 35, 40. Its persistence is intense, its “ancient, ineradicable inclination to the sea” (as Thoreau puts it) both mesmerizing and exhausting. There’s no stopping. The river is an arrow pointing in one direction, call it

Vernon or call it Long Island Sound. If a cradle should appear on some dreary afternoon, almost anybody — fit and dedicated 61-year-old father or not — would surely accept the offer.

There was something about the way Dad eased from uprightness to nap time, though, something so calm and deliberate and final about it, I had to consider another explanation as well. Perhaps, I thought, he’d altogether let go of the “insubstantial world” above the bank.

Perhaps he’d become one with the river.

Perhaps he was matching its horizontality with his own. It didn’t strike me as the least bit tragic. For days now, the fish had been jumping and the birds diving, everything converging at the same spot on the same blank plane of water where an insect is swallowed, where dry meets wet, light meets dark, life meets death.

I could feel it: Dad had chosen this. He was bowing out with style, embracing his place in the Actual.

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This is the fifth in Vermonter Leath Tonino’s “Seven Lengths of Vermont” series, each a different outdoor adventure in which he experiences the natural sights, sounds, smells, seasons and people over a year in his beloved state. His first essay was published in Seven Days on November 30, 2011. All of them can be read at 7dvt. com.

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ears ago I had a philosophy professor who argued that ancient Greek psychology was rooted in the idea that “you become like the object you intend,” which is just a fancy way of saying that the things we focus on, spend time with, commit our senses to and think about have a way of sneaking inside us and transforming who and what we are. For example: If you eat beside a river, sleep beside a river, bathe in a river, stare at a river and basically live on a river for 150 hours with

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So, then, what’s it like to feel like a river? Is it like a delightful version of multiple personality disorder; like becoming a sexy lady, an old man, a Zen priest, an endurance athlete and a drowsy child all at once? Or is it more like the converse, all the river’s different faces and qualities collapsing in on themselves to form one unified body, a body of water? Sitting at the helm for 10 hours a day, thinking my bioregional thoughts, I often recalled that my body is primarily made of water. I saw my fluid self as just another drop shuttled by the topography into this larger central flow. I saw myself absorbed, like water in water. In a way, it was like death, like losing yourself in something bigger; some ancient, ineradicable inclination.

But that’s some soggy nonsense. That’s a rambling man with silt still fresh beneath his fingernails. Feeling like a river is nothing so poetic or philosophical or complicated at all.

You stow your paddle, lean back against a dry bag, ease off into dream. The sky is gray. A spider crawls up your arm. A white bird flies low, bending its wings to touch their own reflections. A tree looks at itself, closes its eyes, leans out to kiss a mirror with its leaves. Everything is soft, rounded, actual and OK. Even the Chinese food is sitting all right.

You wake up. Maybe you don’t.

Maybe you’re still dreaming. You feel like a river and you feel like yourself.

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dove. The dam would appear soon, and I’d have to make a decision. Do I go find help, make phone calls, break the news and the spell of the river? (I suspected sadness would start to sink in if I left the river corridor.) Or do I throw Paddle Buddy over my shoulder, portage him around the dam like Thoreau would a sack of melons and potatoes, and return for the canoe and dry bags on a second trip? The river was such a mellow place, so peaceful and serene. If Dad really had Gone Actual, why not enjoy a few last days together? On the other hand, my neck still felt cramped from previous portages, and I doubted I had enough peanuts to fuel the extra labor.

The spider transitioned from the gunwale to the glossy varnish of my paddle shaft, moving in the direction of my hand. There was so much river left ahead of us, I thought, digging in harder, the canoe lunging forward. So many more clover-field campsites and osprey nests — quick rains, crayfish, rope swings.

Every day at 5 p.m., Dad had insisted we stop for a pre-evening swim, and when we got back in the canoe, wet and refreshed, he’d tell me that these last couple hours were his favorites. I knew what he meant; the paddling was not a chore but a meditation, the sun not set but setting.

Five o’clock would be upon us soon. I dug in harder. I knew what I had to do.

Paddle Buddy would have wanted it this way.

And then, as easily and unassumingly as he’d slumped down, Dad sat up.

He didn’t look at me. Neither of us said a word. He lifted his paddle, and on we went.

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Stormy Weather Theater review: Scattered Showers B Y PA mEl A Pol S to N

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Blachly; and a cof ounder of Marshfield’s Shakespeare in the Hills. In the program f or Scattered Showers, an accompa nying bio sheet indicates that the younger Blachly has penned 39 f ull-length plays. Though some of them have been performed in staged readings, this is the first of his works he has produced. It whets the appetite f or more — albeit one could wish for tighter editing; pacing in the first act of Scattered Showers is leisurely to a fault.

There’s nothing new about the play’s “odd couple” format — that is, pairing one duo with another to shake up the same old, same old. Nor is the weekend getaway in which people are stuck with each other an original theme. But the familiar structure works well for theater, both because it intensifies the drama and because it can work on a single set.

In Scattered Showers, that set turns out to be one of the stars of the show.

Marshfield resident Joe John built a façade of the back of the cottage, with a screen door that allows actors to move in and out; and a two-level deck the width of the stage where most of the action takes place. Occasionally, Blachly directs an actor down some steps to the floor (the dock) and through the aisle to the “lake” beyond. This device literally brings actors and audience closer while enlarging the virtual space of the story.

Props man Vince Broderick’s wicker chairs and settees complete the scene.

Another starring role in this produc tion belongs to a party heard but not seen: the weather. From a soft patter of rain to rumbling thunder, Bill Paine’s soundtrack is utterly convincing, an aural counterpoint to the emotional volatility onstage. And, in the end, the promise of a cleansing shower strikes exactly the right note. m

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but he’s come to the cottage primarily to fish. When he heads out to the lake with pole and gear in hand, Bay wastes no time coming on to Roman. He’s shocked when they lock lips, and jumps back in guilty horror. But not to worry, Bay reassures him: She and Jules have an open marriage. We find out what that actually means in time.

As the two Arrive At the cottAge, Animosity comes Along like

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It wouldn’t be f air to f uture viewers to reveal what ensues among this quar tet of characters. While you can predict from the start that individuals and mar riages will be altered, Blachly’s story does offer some surprises in its unfolding. And, to his credit, the ending is left ambiguous. Couples in the audience are likely to drive home debating its mean ing, what Blachly is really saying about long-term relationships, and whether more sex (with one’s spouse or others) is the solution to keeping them alive.

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eteorology provides abundant metaphors in Tom Blachly’s new work, beginning with its title, Scattered Showers.

That f orecast could describe the changeability of human relationships, and it does in this story about two married couples on a weekend getaway to a lakeside cottage. Just as clouds sometimes obscure sunshine, and storms eventu ally pass, theatergoers may expect the emotional climate in this two-act, four-character play to shift. And, boy, does it ever — though not always in predictable ways.

The cottage belongs to Ava and Roman — or perhaps Left to right: Chris Pratt, Christina Ducharme, Roman’s f ather, who, though Susannah Blachly and Vince Rossano not physically present, hangs like a stationary f ront over colleague andf riend. Jules (Vince his psyche. The barometric pressure Rossano) is a robust, well-heeled older of the stockbroker dad, whom we soon man in a second marriage to the much gather is disappointed in his artist son, younger Bay — or, as sarcastic Ava soon has ostensibly resulted in Roman’s low self-esteem, his repression and perhaps dubs her, the Dumbo-Bimbo. Indeed, even his tepid success as a painter of one the high-heeled, sexily clad Bay is flirtatious and talks like a hybrid of Betty conventional landscape after another.

But there’s something else bothering Boop and Marilyn Monroe. Willowy Christina Ducharme embraces every exRoman: his wif e. The opening scenes of Scattered Showers reveal Roman and Ava’s very stuck relationship. As the two arrive at the cottage, animosity comes along like an uninvited but very f amiliar acquaintance. Ava, a jewelry maker in chic black and multiple silver rings, is played with simmering disdain

by Susannah Blachly (the playwright’s aggerated cliché of the brainless sexpot, wife). She snipes at every little thing as and clearly has fun with the role. the hapless Roman attempts to get the Bay’s character is an interesting grill going and prepares his easel. anomaly in Scattered Showers. One Ava is angry, drawing resentment might wonder why Blachly chose to toss f rom a deep well. Roman (Chris Pratt) is defensive and irritable in turn, but his a one-dimensional ditz into this mix of hangdog expressions and body language otherwise “normal” and “complicated” adults, and why he directs Ducharme betray puzzlement, hurt and def eat. to play her so broadly. But what seems Neither spouse communicates without an undercurrent of — what? We find out jarring, even annoying, at first turns out as the play progresses. And we learn they to provide both welcome comic relief are both as unhappy with themselves as from the acidic Ava and sad-sack Roman and the necessary spark of life that ulti with each other.

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Left Alone Book review: Privacy by Garret Keizer

BY AMY LILLY

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lack privacy altogether. But his tone never leaves room f or doubt about the value of the ride: This is a subject on which Keizer is willing to bare his beliefs, privacy be damned.

Since the Lewinsky a˜ air, concerns about privacy have changed in tone from fear to cynicism — at least judging

by Keizer’s avowed adversaries. Besides the academics who live in a “post-privacy world,” there are those who have declared privacy bourgeois, elitist, culturally relative or prudish. And then there’s Christian Heller, the German blogger who has decided that the only way to confront the loss of privacy is to upload to the web every detail of his daily life, including a link to his bank account.

Meanwhile, everyone has her own story of violated privacy — to use Keizer’s default gender. Just hearing the title of his book caused a professor friend of mine to complain that her students consider having her cellphone number a right, not a privilege.

Food for thought at such moments: For Keizer, privacy is not just a ref uge. He seeks more than to show readers How to Be Alone — the title Franzen’s essay eventually bore in book form. Rather, Keizer sees privacy as an opportunity to form small social units by, for example, providing “a zone of refl ection and discussion in which gentler, less forward personalities can have some hope of making a contribution.”

In this way, privacy is “a petri dish in which resistance is able to grow.” And resistance, in Keizer’s view, is the key to democracy. Come together, privacy advocates, to preserve justice and liberty for all.

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I would not be writing this book if I did not regard direct assaults on personal privacy to be a vital issue, but in some ways the indirect assaults are more formidable.

In some ways, what we call privacy has become a shell game, one in which a show of superfi cial confi dentiality hides grosser violations of the same. Even what I’m calling direct assaults work this way. One goes to the pharmacy, for example, where privacy policies are prominently displayed and a virtual ritual is made out of protecting the privacy of the customer. Don’t stand too close to the person handing in the prescription until it’s your turn at the counter! ° ere you will be instructed to sign an electronic screen authorizing a “full release of medical information to any party connected with billing,” which in our global marketplace means any Delhi data clerk with minimal computer skills and even more minimal requirements for a livable wage. Back home you will sort through mail from medical researchers and philanthropic organizations with the uncanny ability to guess those medical conditions your doctor’s offi ce has assured you are strictly confi dential.

Similarly, we engage in discussions about the intricacies of protecting our personal information even as we lose our birthright to a full personal life.

A man is fl eeced of his pension, his right of collective bargaining, his chances of retirement, his likelihood of leaving a small nest egg to his kids — but look, look, here’s an article about the ever-looming dangers of identity theft! ° ere’s a thief on your back porch, says the robber at your front door, stepping into your living room while you go to check.

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n 1998, anno Monica Lewinsky, the New Yorker carried an essay by the novelist Jonathan Franzen about privacy. In it, Franzen dismissed the “panic” over the perceived loss of privacy in America created by the new accessibility to digital data. Just look at the di˜ erence in house size compared with a hundred years ago, he wrote, and it’s clear Americans are “drowning in privacy.”

Instead, Franzen bemoaned the loss of public forums, which were increasingly being invaded by private life. Art museums still imposed a sense of decorum on their visitors, he judged, but city streets were losing out to private cellphone conversations held in public. Then, in the form of Kenneth Starr’s public report on President Clinton’s conf essions, the private sullied even the most public of f orums — Washington, D.C. “What I f elt,” Franzen declared, after dutifully reading the report in the New York Times in an e˜ ort to remain an informed citizen, “was that my own privacy … was being violated.”

Much of Vermonter Garret Keizer’s new book,Privacy, echoes Franzen’s concerns, but in fi ercer, more impassioned tones. Keizer, a contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine from his home in Sutton and the author of six other nonfi ction books, is as disturbed as Franzen was by society’s apparent willingness to dissolve public-private boundaries — by what Keizer memorably calls the “new American type … for whom indignity is seldom so intolerable as inconvenience.”

Like Franzen, Keizer argues that digital technology is at best a “secondary privacy issue.” Privacy is about autonomy, not identity theft. It’s “the right to be let alone,” as Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren defi ned it in the Harvard Law Review in 1890 — a defi nition that most writers on the subject cite and approve before acknowledging that legal defi nitions of privacy are generally a mess, not to mention inadequate.

Attempting his own defi nition, Keizer says privacy is violated when one is “used against one’s will,” however intangibly, and whether or not one is aware of the exploitation. This means that his neighbors’ privacy is violated “if I make a clandestine movie of [them] having sex, [even if ] they never fi nd out about it … and I reserve the fi lm exclusively for my own enjoyment.”

But the di˜ erences between Franzen’s and Keizer’s views are instructive. The ornery novelist sees privacy solely as a refuge; when threatened, he escapes to an art museum. What he doesn’t mention is that the Museum of Modern Art in New York City currently costs $25 to enter, and that not everyone benefi ts from the increased square f ootage of American real estate. Keizer’s important contribution to the discussion is to remind everyone that privacy is a function of class privilege. “The right to privacy depends in large part on one’s opportunities for enjoying a private life,” he writes.

The observation is both obvious and inf requently acknowledged in popular discussions of privacy by writers such as Franzen (who, admittedly, has never evinced much concern for the truly poor). In his chapter “The Privacy of the Poor,” Keizer discusses some of the many ways in which privacy is denied the poor: They have smaller (or no) driveways, hedges, land, square f ootage; working multiple jobs leaves them less time to enjoy the privacy of home, if they have one; poor and minority citizens are more likely to experience routine police pat downs. In a survey of privacy violations of the disenfranchised, Keizer moves from Ota Benga, the African exhibited at the 1904 World’s Fair, to nursing-home residents on Medicare whose belongings are routinely subjected to sta˜ searches.

Meanwhile, he f ulminates, privacy “experts” distract citizens from recognizing the injustice of the class system by deeming privacy itself “undemocratic”; and academics (not the most moral crowd, in Keizer’s book) “hold forth on the f alse dichotomy of public and private, a f avorite trope among those with private o˛ ces in which to write theoretical critiques of privacy.”

Keizer’s often incredulous tone and his wide-ranging points of reference — everything from Jeremy Bentham’s 1791 book Panopticon to John Tyner’s objection to the Transportation Security Administration’s interf erence with his “junk” to Virginia Woolf ’s call f or “a room of one’s own” — combine to make the experience of reading Privacy something like trying to keep up with a roller coaster. The brevity of the book (a Picador Big Ideas// Small Books publication) is deceiving: Keizer packs more in than seems possible, including a thoroughgoing rout of anthropologists’ claims that some primitive societies

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s Rachel Schattman escorts a visitor to the three active acres of her 20-acre farm, it’s hard to miss the tattoo on her sun-browned calf . It depicts sprouting basil, a plant with which her name is now well associated. But Fairf ax native Schattman got the permanent art years before she began growing basil and turning it into Vermont’s most coveted pesto, sold under the brand name Bella Farm.

She was still living in Savannah, Ga., where she went post-college, when Schattman’s mother encouraged her to get the basil tattoo. The plant symbolized Schattman’s love for her close-knit friends and family: Her favorite kind of relaxed get-together, she says, involved preparing pesto for them.

Last winter, she moved to Monkton with life and farm partner Patrick Rowe, a dentist and former oral-health director at the Vermont Department of Health. During the fi rst f ull season at their new f arm, the couple has grown a broad spectrum of vegetables, including cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, ground cherries and braising greens. They have sold that produce to City Market, Kingsbury Market Garden in Warren, Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier, and the kitchens of Basin Harbor Club and Wake Robin.

Even before Schattman launched the new farm, other food producers, such as Peter Colman of Vermont Salumi, prized her produce. The Plainfi eld sausage maker recently received 100 pounds of her garlic. “I met Rachel two years ago,

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Now Schattman is making the stu˜ for a much larger group. At Bella Farm, which relocated f rom Burlington’s Intervale to Monkton last year, Schattman whips up pesto about 30 times during the summer growing season, each session yielding 200 batches. That makes her pesto a limited commodity but a hot one in the minds of f ans who buy it at the Burlington Farmers Market, City Market (where it’s found in the “hippie cooler”) and other stores.

Packaged pesto doesn’t have a great reputation; for most foodies, it conjures images of chopped basil and garlic fl oating in a sea of oil. Unlike most manu f acturers, however, Schattman keeps the ratio of pure olive oil to fresh ingredients low. Straight from the plastic tub, the texture of Bella Farm pesto is thick and spreadable. The taste is pure, herbaceous and kissed with tangy garlic.

Another ingredient — sunfl ower seeds — adds a rich nuttiness that Schattman says early testers couldn’t distinguish from the taste of Parmesan cheese.

In the past three years, “Bella Farm” and “pesto” have become synonymous in the Burlington area. But now Schattman is putting down roots on a bigger plot — and branching out beyond the popular sauce.

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while trying to source the best local, organic garlic possible,” Colman says. “It’s been a key ingredient to my products ever since. Its quality and fl avor, and her professionalism, are unmatched.”

Bella Farm’s expansion is impressive not only in size and scope but also in speed. Its story started a little more than three years ago, in July 2009, when Schattman and her then-business-partner, Kelli Brooks, won approval to join the Intervale Center’s incubator Farms Program. Despite Schattman’s tattoo, she says, growing culinary herbs and selling pesto was Brooks’ idea.

That summer was busy: It was Schattman and Brooks’ fi rst growing season, and it was when they both def ended their f ood-systems master’s theses at the University of Vermont.

The twof armers began developing their pesto recipe and raising money to start a business. “We used the ‘friends, f amily and f ools’ fi nancing method,” Schattman jokes.

That f all, Schattman and Brooks began selling garlic. When the second season of the Burlington Winter Farmers Market began, the women were ready to BELLA GUSTO

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fun Vermont food facts, contributed by cIty MarkEt. There, vendors organized by Adler and jErEMy sIlansky, general manager of the Montpelier Skinny Pancake and the company’s local food systems coordinator, will sell their specialties. Adler says all the participants have vowed to use only local meat; while they’re free to select any veggies or cheese, he is confident that most will pick local on their own.

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While fans enjoy tunes from the likes of nationally recognized Vermont natives Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and Gregory Douglass, they’ll have plenty of choices in the realm of home-crafted food, too.

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In 2010, Brooks decided to leave the business to have a second child — a change that put Schattman at a crossroads, since the pair had been processing pesto at Brooks’ home. Fortunately, Schattman’s mother had recently purchased a plot of land in Monkton. While she prepared the new property to be livable and farmable, Schattman continued to grow her produce at the Intervale and work as the local food-program coordinator at UVM’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Last month, she left that job to return to school and is now studying for a PhD in UVM Extension’s plant and soil science division. “It was like, Hmm, back to being a student?” Schattman says.

“But school feels comfortable to me; business does not.”

Though Schattman says her foothold in academia sometimes makes her feel like she’s leading a double life, she believes those connections have been invaluable in helping her establish her farming business. She names Vern Grubinger, a fruit and vegetable expert and director of the UVM Brattleboro Extension; and Linda Berlin, director of the UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture, as her mentors on the cerebral side of the agricultural world.

But starting a farm is about more than policy and strategy. Schattman says she got her initial hands-on education back in 2007, from George van Vlaanderen and Kristan Doolan of Does’ Leap Farm, where she apprenticed upon her return to Vermont after living in Georgia. It was during her time with the goatherd in East Fairfield that Schattman realized farm life was for her. “I arrived in February,” she remembers. “Goats all have their kids at the same time of year. I had just moved up from Savannah, and there was a huge snowstorm. I was covered in blood and placenta, and I was the happiest I had ever been.”

Schattman credits van Vlaanderen and Doolan with particular intellectual generosity during and after her tenure with their cheese-producing herd. But she notes that Doolan’s most important lesson had nothing to do with playing nurse to goats. The key to farming, Schattman says she learned, is choosing a lifestyle before choosing a farm.

Now Schattman has a farm to fit her lifestyle and her already thriving brand.

She’s expanding, but not wildly — don’t expect to see Bella Farm goat cheese, for instance. Schattman says she has

realized that caring for animals isn’t compatible with the time she spends at school. Her original plans for an oat or wheat farm also proved a no-go. “Maybe once this place feels more familiar,” she says of expanding on the Monkton land.

For now, Schattman says she’s happy with herbs, garlic and her new slew of veggies.

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The farmer and her small staff are busy making upgrades to their existing equipment. Last Wednesday, Schattman and a helper were putting in posts to hold up a pair of high greenhouse tunnels that will allow them to grow winter greens.

Next on Schattman and Rowe’s agenda is getting a tractor with which to keep the weeds down at Bella Farm.

They’re also working on installing a proper irrigation system.

As the new incarnation of Bella Farm continues to evolve, one thing Schattman can rely on is the plant whose likeness graces her leg. “Me and basil, we’re like this,” she says, twisting a middle and pointer finger together.

“Me and other plants, we’re still getting to know each other — we’re still in the dating stage — but we’re going steady with basil.” m

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Making such unprocessed eats accessible is exactly the point for the organizers of Grand Point Local. “We’re on a mission to make local food

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On August 25, EURO MARKET opened at 1295 Williston Road. The new store belongs to DALIBOR VUJANOVIC, former owner of A Taste of Europe, which moved from Winooski to the Colchester parking lot shared with Costco in April 2011.

Vujanovic says his previous location proved too large for the small business after its deli failed to take off. The spot on highly trafficked Williston Road,

once it became available, seemed like a more natural fit. “I carry still same things,” the owner says. “I didn’t decrease any. I just had too much space over there. I just wanted to stick with the grocery part, and I didn’t think I need more space than this for that.”

In fact, Vujanovic says he’s increasing his wares, adding more products from the Netherlands and Great Britain, as well as specialty meats from Germany. He also expects to put more types of Russian dumplings, including petite pelmeni, in his freezer chest.

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and branched out in other directions.

Their hiatus didn’t last long. “We just kind of missed it,” Jane Delia says. “It’s a fun, creative business.”

So the Plainfield couple has signed a lease on a storefront at 40 State Street in Montpelier, where they will open the COCOA BEAN, a chocolate shop, later this month. Jane Delia says she will make all the chocolate — truffles, barks, clusters and Lunch q Dinner q Sunday Brunch turtles, among others — on site.

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Albert set aside two barrels of those 2010 grapes for the vineyard’s Reserve wine, aging it for a little longer — 15 months total — in oak.

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Is the Queen City ready for the highend steakhouse that comes with parking?

Blue Mall, Dorset St., So. Burlington Blue Mall, Dorset street Tim Halvorson thinks so. E.B. Strong’s owner already runs an eponymous pub south Burlington on the top block of the Church Street Marketplace. This past year, he poured time, money and energy into the renovation 16t-hana082912.indd 8/23/12 3:34 PM 16t-Hana-080812.indd 11 8/6/12 10:06 AMof the adjacent space — formerly Sakura — into a handsome, clubby eatery with wine lockers, wet-aged steaks and a vintage feel.

Apparently, Halvorson’s instinct is spot on. All of the 30 mahogany wine lockers out front — where regulars can keep special bottles they’ve purchased from the wine list — sold out within weeks of Strong’s opening. More are being built in the back.

And, during two visits, the dining room held a steady stream of hungry customers.

Diners who do park in the lot off Pearl Street can slip in through Strong’s back door — a mixed blessing, as the passage leads them through a still-unfinished rear space with stacked chairs and tables and 58 N. Main Street, Downtown St. Albans, VT a noticeable aroma of fresh wood finish.

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If you walk in from the Church Street side, though, the transformation of this former sushi restaurant may momentarily take you aback. The Art Deco woodwork, long marble bar and high, leather booths fabric • yarn • classes suggest a 1920s steakhouse (only the two flat-screen televisions over the lounge do not). The classic cocktail menu reinforces the vintage feel: From a balsamic-cherry Manhattan to martinis and a bracing Negroni, it’s solidly old school, with a few 3+-)33,)++13 Â&#x; id_jqo)^jh 3+-)33,)++13 Â&#x; id_jqo)^jh 3+-)33,)++13 Â&#x; id_jqo)^jh modern twists. There are no beers on tap -+4 >jgg`b` No)' Npdo` -` -+4 >jgg`b` No)' Npdo` -` -+4 >jgg`b` No)' Npdo` -` here — only bottles. =pmgdiboji' Q`mhjio =pmgdiboji' Q`mhjio =pmgdiboji' Q`mhjio A stiff drink may be needed to help digest the menu. It’s filled with enticing-sounding 5/7/12 4:00 PM

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or creamed spinach were initially $10 each, though that price fell to $8 between my two visits.

Best to surrender to it, right? To unfurl your napkin and ready your knife for a night of big steaks, big red wines and maybe a bourbon or two? For the clutches

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The wine list is stellar, very well considered, with two dozen creative offerings by the glass and a bottle list customized to seafood or steak.

Like most of Strong’s other dishes, the sides were ample but uneven in execution. A hulking plate of tempura baby asparagus was fun and crunchy, but the hoisin sauce on the side th was too heavy for the delicate veggies. A $10 plate of sautéed mushrooms lacked seasoning and depth of flavor. The smoky bleu cheese potato gratin, which sounded irresistible on the menu, was a letdown: The crust was more of a soggy skin, overly pungent and cheesy, while the inside was a hard mass of compacted potato.

The steak fries, on the other hand, were oversized wedges of goodness — crispy and almost translucent on the outside, puffy on the inside. * After two visits there, I wondered if Strong’s shared a kitchen with the pub next door. I’ve learned that they partially do. Is it possible that the vibe, mindset and even prep of the two establishments might intermingle?

A steakhouse that aspires to be a modern-day Delmonico’s should be a finely calibrated machine, not simply a pricier version of a neighboring pub. Some elements of Halvorson’s new vision are already in place: snappy, warm service; great drinks and cozy décor. Give Strong’s more time to develop, and all the dishes may match them. m * Some restrictions apply. See details in The Coop.

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of businessmen who are typically indigenous to and sustainers of such places, that appears to be the protocol.

Yet the tieless and denim clad are welcome at Strong’s, too, and the servers are far from the stoic minions of yore: During my visits, they were uniformly warm and attentive.

Chef Brian Jenzer helms the kitchen.

He came to Strong’s by way of Singapore, where he worked as chef de partie at the much-lauded restaurant Iggy’s.

Accordingly, Jenzer brings a slightly Asian sensibility to some eclectic flavor combinations. Take the oyster sliders: Coated in cornmeal and fried to a perfect crisp, they were wedged into slightly sweet puff-pastry buns (pâte à choux) smeared with a tangy aioli. Each one burst in the mouth in a jangle of fry and brine, cooled down by a fringe of what tasted like misomarinated cucumbers.

Their flavor made up for presentation: The sliders seemed thrown askew onto an oversize plate that dwarfed them.

The haphazard plating proved to be a theme. A tin tray with oysters on the half shell looked hastily arranged (though the accompanying cider mignonette was delectable). Pan-seared pork belly, crispy yet moist in a silky mustard sauce, dotted with dried cranberries, filled its small plate. To look at it, you wouldn’t guess the meat was so well rendered; the charred romaine on the side was out of place, and the cranberries on top appeared shrunken.

On the menu, seared ahi tuna with watermelon and soy-mustard sauce sounded irresistible. In reality, the tuna looked and tasted tired and was so tightly wedged against watermelon slices of equal size that the dish was a monolith of dark pink. The sauce drizzled on top was a bit too unctuous for the fish.

Some starters shone, however. The appetizer menu is dense with shellfish, such as shrimp, crab crakes and ceviche — the last a citrusy tangle of tiny, sweet shrimp and house-cut potato chips dotted with microgreens and herbs. It was summer on a plate.

Strong’s salads, too, were excellent.

The chopped salad — a jumble of romaine lettuce, baby peas, avocado and crispy onions — was topped with half an oozing poached egg for a welcome, creamy touch.

A house salad of buoyant baby greens atop tiny cubes of mango and pear was feather light and an ideal palate cleanser.

Whatever the merits of the lighter fare, most Strong’s diners are bound to run headlong toward the steaks and entrées.

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FiEl D Walk : Professional growers and home gardeners take a peek at five acres of land dedicated to trialing and breeding in a workshop focused on choosing and producing seeds for disease resistance. High Mowing Organic Seeds, Wolcott, 4-6 p.m. $10-20; free for farmers and Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association members. Info, 4726174, ext. 132.

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Happy Hour Wit H Montp Eli Er young pro FEssionals : Young Capital City workers network at a casual gathering in the bar. The Black Door, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 570-419-3124.

VBsr Burlington policy Foru M: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility kicks off a series of informative and interactive policy forums featuring candidates for statewide office. Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sen. Randy Brock have been invited.

Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, forum, 4-5:30 p.m.; reception, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347.

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iMpro V 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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Wat Er Bury coMMunity Buil D planning MEEting : Neighbors begin planning for a new gathering space to be built in the spring of 2013.

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Mak E stu FF!: Defunct bicycle parts become works of art and jewelry that will be sold to raise funds and awareness for Bike Recycle Vermont. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687. opEn knit & croc HEt : Stitch and tell: Fiber fans work on current projects in good company.

Kaleidoscope Yarns, Essex Junction, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Battl E oF platts Burg H coMMEMoration : Over the course of nine days, concerts, history lectures, walking tours, reenactments and fireworks mark the bicentennial of the battle. See champlain1812.com for details. Various locations, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-9 p.m. $10 button includes admission to most events; free for ages 18 and under.

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VEr Mont stat E Fair : Crowds converge on the midway for giant pumpkin contests, a 4-H fashion show, a demolition derby, a goat show and music on the Sugarhouse Stage. Vermont State Fair Grounds, Rutland, noon-9 p.m. $1-15; $1-3 parking; free parking and admission on September 5; additional price for grandstand entertainment. Info, 775-5200.

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classic Fil M sEri Es: Tom Blachly and Rick Winston introduce and spark discussion about a favorite flick from the silver screen. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com. ‘saFEty not guarant EED’: Three magazine reporters go undercover as they investigate a man who placed a personal ad seeking a partner for time travel in Colin Trevorrow’s quirky 2012 comedy.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 748-2600. ‘t ak E tH is Waltz’ : Chemistry with a neighbor confuses a happily married woman (played by Michelle Williams) in Sarah Polley’s fresh look at long-term relationships. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 748-2600.

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Barr E Far MErs Mark Et : Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods in the center of the town.

Barre City Hall Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, barrefarmersmarket@gmail.com. cHaMplain islan Ds Far MErs Mark Et : Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291. colc HEst Er Far MErs Mark Et : Vendors present passersby with fresh local produce, specialty foods and crafts. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576.

MiDDl EBury Far MErs Mark Et : Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes.

The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 989-6012. nEWport Far MErs Mark Et : Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the fresh fare supplied by area growers and producers. 246 Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, sargentsbearnecessities@gmail. com.

Williston Far MErs Mark Et : Shoppers seek prepared foods and unadorned produce at a weekly open-air affair. Town Green, Williston, 4-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 735-3860, info@willistonfarmersmarket.com.

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MEDitation H Ealing & rE aDing : Psychic medium Michele Nappi hosts a spiritual group session.

Moonlight Gifts, Milton, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 893-9966. tHE BoDy as l iVED: Dr. Robert Kest leads an exploration of the psychology of the body — and how

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Anchorman He’s impersonated everyone from Anderson Cooper to Carrot Top, but most know Seth Meyers best as the snarky anchor of “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live.”

The New Yorker’s knackf or pulling jokes from news headlines has earned him one of the longest tenures at the venerable sketchcomedy show, of which he’s now also head writer. In advance of the 2008 election, Meyers was key in craf ting Tina Fey’s dead-on portrayals of Sarah Palin — so we can only guess what he’s got up his sleeve for the show’s upcoming 38th season. For now, head to UVM for a glimpse of his personal standup style.

SEth mEYEr S Thursday, September 6, 8 p.m., at u VM Patrick Gymnasium in South Burlington. $10-25. Info, 656-2076. uvmbored.com/event/sethmeyers

Curiouser and Curiouser “My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507.” So begins The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the first of this season’s National Theatre Live broadcasts f rom London. Based on Mark Haddon’s best-selling 2003 mystery novel, the darkly comic drama revolves around the suspicious death of Wellington, a large black poodle. Fifteen-year-old Christopher — a meticulous math genius with Asperger’s syndrome — f ollows the trail, unwittingly discovering a shockingf amily secret. Called “nothing short of a triumph” by Variety, the mystery unravels this week.

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The dog days of summer are behind us, but canine activity is at an all-time high at the 11th annual Green Mountain Iron Dog Challenge. Hosted by the Vermont Police Canine Association, which provides financial assistance and training for Vermont’s police-service dog teams, the 1.5-mile obstacle course and 100-yard dash simulate real-life K-9 deployment.

Police and citizen competitors tackle water crossings, f ence climbs, low crawls and even a shooting section in this pulsepounding challenge, which showcases the strength and skill of the species we call man’s best friend.

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oife O’Donovan’s crystalline voice is hushed but demands attention. And it’s been getting it. Best known for her decade fronting alt-bluegrass string band Crooked Still, the Brooklyn vocalist has recently rocketed into higherprofile ranks as a guest vocalist on Yo-Yo Ma’s collaborative album The Goat Rodeo Sessions , and the songwriter of “Lay My Burden Down,” a track featured on Alison Krauss’ Grammy-winning album Paper Airplane. Now pursuing her first solo effort with the Aoife O’Donovan Band, she takes the spotlight with an Americana set at Chandler Music Hall.

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HigHgate Story Hour: Good listeners giggle and wiggle to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

Moving & grooving WitH CHriStine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. readerS tHeatre reHearSalS: Readers and actors of middle school age and up attend an informational session for an upcoming performance of Bull Run. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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MonarCH Butterfly tagging: In 2007, a blackand-orange flyer identified at the nature center was recovered in Mexico. Folks catch, tag and release the migrating monarchs to help with future connections. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. $3-5; free for members. Info, 229-6206.

Wagon-ride WedneSday: Riders lounge in sweet-smelling hay on scenic, horse-drawn routes.

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

seminars

SpeCial eduCation advoCaCy training: The New England Education Law Center helps parents and caregivers understand the basic legal rights of students with special needs in public schools.

South Royalton Health Center, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 291-7161.

talks

alan taylor: The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian revisits the War of 1812, as well as the history of battle in the Champlain Valley region. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. Free. Info, 518-473-7091.

CHarlie tHoMpSon & Wendell noBle: Vermont Auto Enthusiasts members imagine a world without global-positioning systems and road signs in “Automobile Travel in Vermont in the Early 1900s.”

Milton Historical Society, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2598.

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auditionS for ‘rent’: Thespians ages 16 and up hope to break a leg in tryouts for Lyric Theatre Company’s take on this revolutionary rock opera.

The Schoolhouse, South Burlington, 5:45-11 p.m.

Free. Info, 658-1484. ‘roCk of ageS’: Classic-rock songs from the ’80s shape the Broadway National Tour of this jukebox musical about a small-town girl and a big-city dreamer. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $59.50-69.50. Info, 775-0903.

‘SWeeney todd: tHe deMon BarBer of fleet Street’: Gothic gore and a dark score fuel this thrilling musical masterpiece about a barber’s bloody search for revenge, transported back in time to 1745 by the Stowe Theatre Guild. Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 2533961, tickets@stowetheatre.com.

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Burlington WriterS WorkSHop Meeting: Members read and respond to the poetry and prose of fellow wordsmiths. Participants must join the group to have their work reviewed; see meetup. com for details and to register (space is limited).

Levity Café, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 383-8104. geof HeWitt: In “Who Was Robert Frost and Who Are We?,” the poet explores how Frost viewed Vermont — and whether he might see it differently today. Shoreham Historical Society, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 897-5254.

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SetH MeyerS: The anchorman behind “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live” makes keen observations in a side-splitting comedy show. See calendar spotlight. UVM Patrick Gymnasium, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 656-2076, upb@ uvm.edu.

dance

Square danCe WorkSHop: Spectators are welcome as Green Mountain Steppers Square Dance Club members do-si-do and swing their partners ’round. St. John Vianney Parish Hall, South Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free to watch. Info, 879-7283.

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Battle of plattSBurgH CoMMeMoration: See WED.05, 7:30-9 p.m. green Mountain perforMing artS open HouSe: Visitors tour the two studios, meet the faculty and kick up their heels at an introductory class to Irish and highland dancing led by the Health Morris School of Celtic Dance. Green Mountain Performing Arts, Waterbury, 5-7 p.m. Class for 6- to 9-year-olds, 5-5:45 p.m.; class for ages 10 and up, 6-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8600. queen City gHoStWalk: tWiSted HiStory: Haunted Burlington author Thea Lewis induces goosebumps with hair-raising tales of the city’s fascinating — and spooky — past. Meet at the fountain, Battery Park, Burlington, 11 a.m. $13.50; arrive 10 minutes before start time. Info, 863-5966.

fairs & festivals

killington Hay feStival: See WED.05, 8 a.m. verMont State fair: See WED.05, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.

film

‘national laMpoon’S aniMal HouSe’: John Belushi and Kevin Bacon are among the cast members in John Landis’ classic 1978 comedy about a dean versus the Delta Tau Chi fraternity. Essex Cinemas & T-Rex Theater, Essex, 8-10 p.m. $11. Info, 878-7231.

‘Safety not guaranteed’: See WED.05, 7:30 p.m. ‘take tHiS Waltz’: See WED.05, 5:30 p.m.

food & drink

fletCHer allen farMerS Market: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. McClure Entrance, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-0797, tanya.mcdonald@vtmednet.org.

HineSBurg lionS farMerS Market: Growers sell bunched greens, herbs and fruit among vendors of fresh-baked pies, honeycomb, artisan breads and marmalade. United Church of Hinesburg, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3904 or 482-2651.

JeriCHo farMerS Market: Passersby graze through locally grown veggies, pasture-raised meats, area wines and handmade crafts. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, jerichofarmersmarket@gmail.com. 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. peaCHaM farMerS Market: Seasonal berries and produce mingle with homemade crafts and baked goods from the village. Academy Green, Peacham, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3161. tHe pennyWiSe pantry: On a tour of the store, shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

WaterBury farMerS Market: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 5225965, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com.

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health & fitness

Fitness Hula-Hooping: Hula-Hoopers wiggle their hips in a cardio workout aimed at improving coordination, balance and stamina. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 255-8699.

kids

early-literacy story time: Weekly themes educate preschoolers and younger children on basic reading concepts. Westford Public Library, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-5639, westford_pl@vals.state.vt.us. la lecHe league oF essex: Moms and mothersto-be gather to discuss parenting and breast feeding. Little ones are welcome. First Congregational Church, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 383-8544. music WitH rapHael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves to traditional and original folk music. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. teen Jazz auditions: Intermediate to advanced high school dancers demonstrate their choreographic commitment and talent at class tryouts.

Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 229-4676.

language

plauderstunde: Conversationalists with a basic knowledge of the German language put their skills to use over lunch. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, noon. Free; cost of food. Info, 862-1677 or 863-3305.

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stroke your Joke ii: Standup comics entertain a live audience in short-and-hopefully-sweet sevenminute time slots. Espresso Bueno, Barre, 8-10 p.m.

Sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted.

Info, 793-3884.

community

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

dance

Ballroom lesson & dance social: Singles and couples of all levels of experience take a twirl.

Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; open dancing, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. latin dance party BeneFit: Nine-piece band Alejandro & Grupo Sabor serve up a sizzling soundtrack for salsa-dance instruction, a creative silent auction, and Latin-inflected appetizers and desserts. Proceeds benefit Hands to Honduras.

Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 7-11 p.m. $30; cash bar. Info, 425-3838.

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Jim andreWs & kris myrick andreWs: Both experienced birders, a herpetologist and a gardener draw on their recent travels in the East in “Birds and Wildlife in India.” Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, wine and cheese reception, 6:30 p.m.; program, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 434-2167. melody Walker Brook & Frederick Wiseman: In “Something of Value: The Vermont Indigenous Experience, 1790-1970,” the speakers share research on a wealth of largely overlooked oral histories. Jost Foundation Room, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 363-6147.

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Burlington songWriters: Lyricists share and critique original works. Heineberg Community & Senior Center, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 859-1822.

JoHnson state college concert Band: Community musicians join an ensemble of college students, staff and faculty members, and select high schoolers in weekly rehearsals of contemporary compositions. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 821-0504, steven. light@jsc.edu. leFt ear trio: New York City jazz guitarist Michael-Louis Smith fronts this threesome influenced by Wes Montgomery, Grant Green and John Scofield. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $12; $22 includes early-bird dinner special; BYOB. Info, 465-4071, info@brandon-music.net. music in tHe loFt concert series: Lowell Thompson serenades grape vines and listeners alike with modern Americana. Partial proceeds benefit Slow Food Vermont. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; wine priced by the glass. Info, 985-8222. ruBBleBucket: This Brooklyn band, by way of Boston and Burlington, blurs the lines between psychedelic indie-rock and upbeat dance. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. $25; free to the JSC community with ID. Info, 635-1476.

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Shelburne Town Center, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, shelburneplayers@aol.com. auditions For ‘rent’: See WED.05, 5:45-11 p.m. ‘real Women Have curves’: Five full-figured Mexican American women try to keep their tiny sewing factory afloat, but one of them dreams of a different life in this coming-of-age comedy presented by Depot Theatre. Depot Theatre, Westport, 5 p.m. $27. Info, 518-962-4449. ‘scattered sHoWers’: A quiet cottage getaway is a more eventful weekend than planned for two couples in this original play written by Vermont’s Tom Blachly and performed by the Plainfield Little Theatre. Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7:30 p.m. $15; mature subject matter may not be suitable for children. Info, 426-3955. ‘sWeeney todd: tHe demon BarBer oF Fleet street’: See WED.05, 8 p.m. ‘tHe curious incident oF tHe dog in tHe nigHt-time’: middleBury: Top-notch British theatrics, such as this stage adaptation of Mark Haddon’s mystery novel, are broadcast around the world as part of the National Theatre Live series. See calendar spotlight. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10-17. Info, 382-9222. ‘tHe curious incident oF tHe dog in tHe nigHt-time’: st. JoHnsBury: See above listing.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $1023. Info, 748-2600. ‘tHe year oF magical tHinking’: Janis Stevens steals the stage in Joan Didion’s theatrical adaptation of her bestselling memoir about grief and resilience, produced by Lost Nation Theater. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492.

‘WHo made me?’: Actor and storyteller Dennis McSorley takes an original look at doubt, risk, confusion, faith and fear in a question-raising performance. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0773, theoffcenter@gmail. com.

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Proceeds benefit the Arvin A. Public Library. Davis Park, Richford, 5:30-8 p.m. $6.50 per plate. Info, 848-3313.

Queen City ghostwalk: Darkness falls: Chills and thrills await as paranormal historian Thea Lewis recaps the city’s dark and twisted past. Meet at the steps, Burlington City Hall Park, 7 p.m. $13.50; arrive 10 minutes before start time. Info, 863-5966.

Queen City ghostwalk: twisteD history: See THU.06, 11 a.m. the ghosts of the olD Posts: Brave souls follow the light of a lantern around the resting place of more than 100 unknown soldiers and the Plattsburgh Barracks for spine-tingling ghost tales.

Old Post Cemetery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8-9:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 518-645-1577.

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killington hay festival: See WED.05, 8 a.m. verMont state fair: See WED.05, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

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‘nefarious: MerChant of souls’: Benjamin Nolot and Matt Dickey’s eye-opening 2011 documentary takes viewers into the nightmarish world of sex trafficking. Not recommended for viewers under 18. Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield, 6:30-8:45 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 485-2319, pinkhamc@norwich.edu.

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avoiD falls with iMProveD staBility: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5.

Info, 658-7477.

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high sChool Book lust CluB: High schoolers dish on reads they love — and the ones they love to loathe. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6956. songs & stories with Matthew: Musician Matthew Witten helps kids start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

first friDay youth ChaMBer MusiC ConCert: Up-and-coming instrumentalists, many from the Vermont Youth Orchestra, demonstrate the power of playing. Proceeds support scholarships for young musicians in need. Christ the King Church & School, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 917-558-5187. hoPaPalooza!: Funkwagon, Trapper Keeper, Suzanne Friedman, Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band, Cameo Harlot, and others create a rollicking kick-off to the South End Art Hop. Located under the SEABA tent in the back of the building, Maltex Building, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 859-9222.

J.D. gorDon BanD: One of Canada’s most versatile songwriters melds bluegrass, country, blues and Southern rock. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 873-3022. near north BanD: Based mostly out of Franklin County, this Americana rock ensemble brings on a boot-stomping good time. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 524-1500, ext. 253.

Point CounterPoint: The faculty of an annual summer conservatory bring the season to a close with an evening of chamber music. Brandon Music, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 247-8467. the gusakov truCking CoMPany: Composed of long-standing local musicians, this new group plays foot-stomping, old-time dance tunes, acoustic swing and original songs. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; wine priced by the glass; bring a picnic or buy a cheese plate; bring a blanket or lawn chair. Info, 388-7368. verMont Choral union auDitions: Experienced basses and tenors pipe up at tryouts for the a cappella choir specializing in music from the 15th to 21st centuries. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; call to schedule an audition time. Info, 989-7355, director@ vtchoralunion.org.

Plant walk: Nature lovers learn about edibles and medicinals on an exploratory walk with Sage Zelkowitz, which includes samples of sumac lemonade. Meet at the picnic tables, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. $6-7; preregister; bring a cup. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop.

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auDitions for ‘anne of green gaBles’: See THU.06, 6-9 p.m. auDitions for ‘rent’: See WED.05, 5:45-11 p.m. nightMare verMont auDitions: Want to be wicked? Folks with a spooky streak learn more

about joining the state’s interactive haunted house as physical actors and crew. Auditorium. South Burlington High School, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-830-0888. ‘real woMen have Curves’: See THU.06, 8 p.m. ‘sCattereD showers’: See THU.06, 7:30 p.m. ‘sweeney toDD: the DeMon BarBer of fleet street’: See WED.05, 8 p.m. ‘the year of MagiCal thinking’: See THU.06, 8 p.m. ‘verMont Boy in west oaklanD’: Middlebury native turned San Francisco actor Mike Sommers recaps his journey in a one-man show, part of the THT Cabaret Series. Byers Studio, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 382-9222. ‘who MaDe Me?’: See THU.06, 7:30 p.m.

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viCki hoefle: The educator and author of Duct Tape Parenting: A Less Is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible and Resilient Kids shares her hands-on approach to child rearing. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.

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bazaars

BirD’s Book exChange: Bibliophiles’ hearts soar at a used-book sale that caters to avian interests.

Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2167. norwiCh antiQues show: Dealers from across New England and New York offer a range of eyecatching antiques. Attendees can bring their own attic treasures for informal appraisals for an additional $5. Proceeds support the Norwich Historical Society. Norwich Historical Society and Community Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $5; free for ages 12 and under.

Info, 649-0124.

community

BriDge street BloCk Party: Mad River Valley residents celebrate post-Irene community resilience at a pedestrian party with local bands and food vendors, flood-recovery updates, and kids activities. Bridge Street, Waitsfield, 3-10 p.m. Free. Info, 598-4819.

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Bellows falls farMers Market: Music enlivens a fresh-food marketplace with produce, meats, crafts and ever-changing weekly workshops.

Waypoint Center, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 463-2018.

Burger night: Live music lends a festive air to a local feast of grass-fed beef or black-bean burgers, hot dogs, fresh-baked buns, salads, and cookies.

Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Free; cost of food. Info, 985-9200.

Chelsea farMers Market: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common,

Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 685-9987, chelseacommunitymarket@gmail.com. five Corners farMers Market: From natural meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an open-air exchange.

Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@gmail.com. fooDways friDays: Historic recipes get a revival as folks learn how heirloom garden veggies become seasonal dishes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355. harDwiCk farMers Market: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with fresh produce and handcrafted goods. Granite Street, Hardwick, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2337, hardwickfarmersmarket@gmail.com. luDlow farMers Market: Merchants divide a wealth of locally farmed products, artisanal eats and unique crafts. Okemo Mountain School, Ludlow, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 734-3829, lfmkt@tds.net. lynDon farMers Market: More than 20 vendors proffer a rotation of fresh veggies, meats, cheeses and more. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 3-7 p.m.

Free. Info, lyndonfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Monthly wine Dinner: Chef Dennis Vieira stirs up a special menu of local food designed to complement the featured pours. Red Clover Inn & Restaurant, Killington, 6 p.m. $75 plus tax and tip.

Info, 775-2290.

PlainfielD farMers Market: Farmers, cooks, herbalists and crafters attract grocery-shopping locavores with a bounty of fresh veggies, berries, meats, infused olive oils, breads, salsa and more.

Mill Street Park, Plainfield, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 454-8614. riChMonD farMers Market: An open-air emporium connects farmers and fresh-food browsers.

Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 603-620-3713, rfmmanager@gmail.com.

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TradiTional CrafT SaTurdayS: Experienced artisans demonstrate their expertise in blacksmithing, weaving, cooperage and lace making.

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

dance

‘SinnerS & SainTS’: Aysun Middle Eastern Dance Company presents the ultimate dance-off between good and evil. North End Studio B, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 881-3193, yasmia_dances@yahoo. com.

STuarT Singer: Fresh from working in the companies of many well-known, contemporary choreographers, the Brooklyn-based freelance artist offers an informal showing of dance material from current projects. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-5258.

Swingin’ aT The garden: Fancy footwork pairs with tunes by the Keene Jazz Orchestra at an all-dance benefit kickoff to the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce’s One and Only Brattleboro campaign, supporting businesses affected by Tropical Storm Irene. Robert H. Gibson River Garden, Brattleboro, 8 p.m. Donations accepted; cash bar.

Info, 254-4565.

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BaTTle of PlaTTSBurgh CommemoraTion: See WED.05, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.

BookS & Brew: Three Penny Taproom and the Mad Taco turn the lawn into a bustling beer garden as Scottish fiddler Joanne Garton and guitarist Michael Jeremyn make music at the kickoff to the library’s Fall Foliage Book Sale. Kellogg-Hubbard If you are interested please call Library, Montpelier, 6-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink; must be 21 or older to enter the beer garden. Info, 802-656-0309 for more information.

223-3338. green mounTain iron dog Challenge: Canines compete in athletic obstacles and a 100-yard dash based on what police K-9 handlers experience 9/3/128V-DeptOBGYN062911.indd 4:23 PM 1 6/28/11 10:09 AM in real life. See calendar spotlight. Camp Kiniya, Colchester, 9 a.m. $35; free to watch. Info, k9tazor@ gmail.com. hiSToriC Tour of uVm: Folks register online, then meet at Ira Allen’s statue to tour the campus’ modest early clapboards and grand Victorians, led by professor emeritus William Averyt. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 656-8673. hiSTory on Parade: hiSToriCal Pine STreeT walking Tour: As part of the South End Art Hop, Preservation Burlington sheds light on the architectural and industrial history of this fascinating part of town. SEABA Center, Burlington, tours at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 522-8259. kiTe flierS meeTing: Common interests soar as fans of tethered aircrafts meet like-minded peers.

Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free.

Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. moTorCyCle ride for CamP Ta-kum-Ta: Ten starting locations across Vermont and New Hampshire lead hog riders to the camp, which supports children affected by cancer. Various locations statewide, 6:30 a.m. $50-75 minimum donation; preregister; see takumta.org for details. Info, 2728531 or 372-5863.

PlaTTSBurgh miliTary aPPreCiaTion day: Military retirees, veterans and active-duty service members are honored with a Posting of Colors ceremony and the national anthem. Crete Memorial Civic Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 518-563-9479 or 518-565-4720.

PreSerVaTion BurlingTon hiSToriC walking Tour: Walkers and gawkers see the Queen City through an architectural and historic perspective.

Meet in front of Burlington City Hall, Church Street Marketplace, 11 a.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 522-8259.

Queen CiTy ghoSTwalk: darkneSS fallS: See FRI.07, 7 p.m.

Queen CiTy ghoSTwalk: TwiSTed hiSTory: See THU.06, 11 a.m.

SeVen dayS’ STruT: an arT hoP faShion Show: Creative threads made by local designers hit the runway to beats spun by DJ Frank Grymes. Under 8/28/12 9:48 AM

the tent behind the Maltex Building, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $12. Info, 859-9222.

SoldierS aToP The mounT: Dedicated reenactors transport visitors back to 1777 at this Revolutionary War living-history weekend brimming with demonstrations of military tactics, camp life, colonial crafts, cooking and more. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $6; free for kids under 15. Info, 759-2412.

The hidden hiSTory walking Tour: Folks follow in the footsteps of soldiers, sailors and patriots as they hear forgotten stories of the historic downtown, including tales of murders, hangings, the epic 1814 battle and the Great Fire of 1867. Trinity Park, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6:30-8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 518-645-1577.

ThiS iS our VermonT!: The VermonT land TruST annual CeleBraTion: Six morning field trips, a locavore lunch and a keynote speech by Eastern Mountain Sports CEO Will Manzer celebrate 35 years of land conservation. The Ponds at Bolton Valley, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $25; free for kids under 12; preregister. Info, 262-1241.

fairs & festivals

eThan allen heriTage feSTiVal: Channel your inner 18th-century Vermonter at an afternoon of period arts, crafts and cooking, with performances by folk singers, a fife-and-drum corps, and the Vermont National Guard’s woodwind quintet. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556. glory dayS feSTiVal: An annual family-oriented fest celebrates the town’s choo-choo history with train excursions, model railroad shows, a pancake breakfast and carnival entertainment. Main Street, White River Junction, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $3. Info, 295-5036. growing loCal feST: Central Vermont artists, craftspeople, food producers, street performers and educators convene for music, good eats and entertainment celebrating the region. Food Works at Two Rivers Center, Montpelier, noon-6 p.m. $5; free for ages 5 and under. Info, 223-1515. killingTon hay feSTiVal: See WED.05, 8 a.m.

VermonT STaTe fair: See WED.05, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

VermonT VeTeranS feSTiVal: The Dave Keller Band and House Rockers set the tone for motorcycle benefit rides and a pig roast honoring Vermont service members past and present. Carpenter Park, Washington, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Donations accepted; $1025 for motorcycle rides; $20 (or $35 per couple) for pig roast. Info, 522-8044. whiTe riVer Valley PlayerS’ harVeST fair: Flap Jack, the Adirondack Harper, Whoever Shows Up, Jim and Tracy Goodwin, and Bob Dean and the Bethel Peapickers amuse onlookers at a chicken barbecue, craft festival and flower show. Rain date: September 9. Rochester Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Donations accepted. Info, 767-3025.

film

‘liemBa’: Vermont filmmaker John Billingsley screens his award-winning documentary about Africa’s last surviving steamship. On the Rise Bakery, Richmond, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 318-5447.

SilenTS are golden: a CeleBraTion of SilenT Cinema: Circus Smirkus founder Rob Mermin pantomimes and provides running commentary to clips from more than 100 classic silent flicks. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 457-3981.

‘The goonieS’: A pirate’s treasure map leads a band of neighborhood kids on a wild adventure in Richard Donner’s 1985 action-fantasy film. Icecream sundaes provided. Old Town Hall, Brookfield, 6:30-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 276-3535.

‘The rolling SToneS: Some girlS liVe in TexaS ’78’: Shot at the height of the English rock band’s musical career, this recently released concert movie screens in high definition. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $8-12. Info, 382-9222.

food & drink

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

BurlingTon farmerS markeT: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City

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aoiFe o’donovan Band: The folk songbird makes Mon-Thur 10-9; F-Sat 10-10; Sun 12-7 good on USA Today’s prediction that she’ll become “the newest darling of the Americana set.” See For more information calendar spotlight. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, facebook.com/VTNorthernLights call Eva at 802-847-5444 7:30 p.m. $26.50-32. Info, 728-6464.

Must be 18 to purchase tobacco products, ID required BoB murray, JeremiaH mClane & Jim goss: Singer-songwriters sound out soulful music at an intimate house concert. Private home, Randolph Center, 6-9 p.m. $15; preregister for exact location. 8V-uvmpsych082912.indd 1 8/23/128v-northernlights082912.indd 3:44 PM 1 8/27/12 2:28 PM Info, 728-4505.

BomBino: Tuareg guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar performs electrifying jams capturing the spirit of resistance and rebellion. Recital Hall, McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 425-2118. lewis FranCo and tHe missing Cats: Music lovers tune in for mostly original blends of gypsy, jive, bebop, Dixieland, blues and ballads. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $3-8. Info, 388-6863. me2/strings: Music director Ronald Braunstein conducts the new string orchestra — on a mission to erase the stigma surrounding mental illnesses by encouraging community dialogue — in Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Grieg’s Holberg Suite and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. $1525. Info, 238-8369. rik Palieri & rik Barron: Same-named singersongwriters pool their talents in folk songs, sea shanties and more. Music Box, Craftsbury, 8 p.m. $8-10. Info, 586-7533. sCotty mCCreery: Country songbird Jenna Jentry opens for the season 10 winner of “American Idol” at the Vermont State Fair. Vermont State Fair Grounds, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $35-45. Info, 775-5200. vermont CHoral union auditions: See FRI.07, 9:30 a.m.-noon.

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Bird-monitoring walk: Beginning and novice birders fine-tune their eyes and ears to recognize winged residents as part of an e-bird database project. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-9 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068. milton Conservation Commission Canoe/ kayak: Paddlers observe resident plant and animal life with naturalist Laurie DiCesare. Meet at the fishing access by High Bridge in Georgia. Lake Arrowhead, Milton, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; bring your own canoe or kayak. Info, 893-1845, naturehaven8@ hughes.net.

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r.i.P.P.e.d.: An acronym for Resistance, Intervals, Power, Plyometrics, Endurance and Diet, this class challenges participants’ determination and strength. North End Studio A, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $8-10. Info, 578-9243. yoga on tHe mountain: Early birds salute the sun in a gentle yoga practice and short meditation to support the Center for Mindful Learning and New Sudan Jonglei Orphans Foundation. Mt. Philo State Park, Charlotte, optional hike up the mountain, 7:30 a.m.; yoga at the top, 9 a.m.; refreshments follow. $35 suggested donation; fundraising encouraged.

Info, 646-812-3339.

Family Field day: Student curators organize an outing to explore the nearby meadows, forests and wetlands. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, 10 a.m.-noon. $5 per family; preregister.

Info, 748-2372, tholt@fairbanksmuseum.org. gardener’s suPPly kids CluB: Youngsters stretch their wings as they study the amazing diversity of feathers, eggs, nests and songs in nature — and meet live raptors. Gardener’s Supply, Williston, 10-11 a.m. $5 benefits the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. Info, 658-2433. keeP stormy Cool Fundraiser: Before Birth Bonding hosts a benefit for the beloved mascot of the Vermont Ice Storm semipro football team.

Festivities include cheerleading and football camp, cotton candy and other concessions, face painting, and a bounce castle. Sand Hill Park, Essex, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $5 for kids; adults by donation only. Info, 497-0872. kids day: Little ones get their spines checked for good health at this open house featuring pony rides, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, face painting, games and a fire truck. Chiropractic for Kids and Adults, Shelburne, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 985-9500. making Books Come alive: Parents, teachers, daycare providers and, of course, little ones learn the power of the written word in this hands-on reading workshop. Roxbury Free Library, 1 p.m. Free.

Info, 485-6860, roxburyfreelibrary@hotmail.com. musiC For sProuts oPen House: Youngsters up to age 3 sample a brand-new music-and-movement series, with snacks, games and farm tours to boot.

Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 497-7217, musicforsprouts@ gmail.com.

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Canning: Homemade Preserves: Burlington food blogger Robin Berger shares tips for no-pectin preserves as she follows a recipe for tomatoorange marmalade. Gardener’s Supply Company, Burlington, 9:30-11 a.m. $10; preregister. Info, 660-3505.

CaPital City Farmers market: Fresh produce, pasteurized milk, kombucha, artisan cheeses, local meats and more lure buyers throughout the growing season. Live music and demos accent each week’s offerings. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com.

CHamPlain islands Farmers market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. St. Joseph Church Hall, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291.

CHiCken BarBeCue: The Galusha Hill Gang sound out rock-and-roll oldies at a community cookout.

Proceeds benefit the Rhythm of the Rein therapeutic riding program. Water Tower Farm, Marshfield, farm tours and silent auction preview, 4 p.m.; cookout, 5-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 426-3781, rhythmoftherein@aol.com. middle eastern Feast: Capital City Concerts opens its season with a three-course banquet, with Arab American composer Mohammed Fairouz attending as the guest of honor. Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $55; preregister. Info, 793-9291. middleBury Farmers market: See WED.05, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. mount tom Farmers market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 7632070, foxxfarm@aol.com. new england Culinary institute tastings: NECI chef/instructors and students host a series of cooking demonstrations utilizing seasonal ingredients available at the Capital City Farmers Market.

60 State Street, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 223-2958. newPort Farmers market: See WED.05, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. nortHwest Farmers market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821. norwiCH Farmers market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447, manager@norwichfarmersmarket.org. roast Pork suPPer: Mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, applesauce and apple crisp à la mode balance a meaty main dish. United Methodist Church, Vergennes, 5-6:30 p.m. $4-8; takeout available. Info, 877-3150. rutland County Farmers market: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, mushrooms, fresh-cut flowers, sweet baked goods, and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813. sHelBurne Farmers market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables at a presentation of the season’s best. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 985-2472, shelburnefarmersmarket@ sbpavt.org. waitsField Farmers market: Local entertainment enlivens a bustling open-air market, boasting extensive farm-fresh produce, prepared foods and artisan crafts. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.

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Battle of PlattsBurgh CannonBall run: All participants earn a medal at this fundraiser for the Veterans Assistance Funds of Clinton County, which offers 5- and 10K runs and a 1-mile walk/run.

Plattsburgh Gym Complex & Fitness Center, N.Y., 9 a.m. $15-25; $35 per family of four or more. Info, cannonballrun2012@gmail.com.

ChaMP trail ride: A midday picnic breaks up this 8- or 16-mile horseback outing to support the Champlain Adaptive Mounted Program. Good Hope Farm, South Hero, arrive at 9 a.m.; hit the trail at 10 a.m. $100 minimum fundraising donation. Info, 372-4087.

Kelly Brush Century ride: Hand cyclers and bikers take a 25-, 50- or 100-mile loop through the Champlain Valley and raise funds for the Kelly Brush Foundation. Middlebury College, 7:30 a.m. $150; free for handcyclists. Info, 846-5298. stand uP for the laKe: Stand-up paddleboarders of all experience levels do a balancing act in recreational races, demos and clinics in support of lake stewardship through the sailing center’s Floating Classroom Program. Live music and food augment the affair. Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center, Burlington, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $20-75; free to watch. Info, 864-2499.

VerMont reMeMBers: An 11K run/ruck march, a 5K fun run/walk and a youth 1-mile fun run benefit the Vermont National Guard Fallen Soldier Memorial. Camp Johnson, Colchester, 8:30 a.m. $25; free for youth fun run. Info, 899-7226 or 338-3475.

talks

WilliaM hosley: The speaker “reads” art, artifacts, architecture and gravestones to better understand Vermont history. Green Mountain Perkins Academy and Historical Association, Woodstock, 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 457-4065.

nightMare VerMont auditions: See FRI.07, 2-4:30 p.m. ‘real WoMen haVe CurVes’: See THU.06, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. ‘sCattered shoWers’: See THU.06, 7:30 p.m. ‘sea MarKs’: Fable Theatre’s Emily Fleischer and Andrew White star in this play about the uniting and defining characteristics of love and land, staged after a locavore meal from the fields. Fable Farm Outdoor Theatre, Barnard, 6 p.m. $25 includes meal.

Info, 234-5667. ‘sWeeney todd: the deMon BarBer of fleet street’: See WED.05, 8 p.m.

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south end art hoP: See FRI.07, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

bazaars

Bird’s BooK exChange: See SAT.08, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

dance

israeli folK danCing: Movers bring clean, softsoled shoes and learn traditional circle or line dances. Partners not required. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:25-9:30 p.m. $2; free to first-timers.

Info, 888-5706, portico@stowevt.net.

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BaKersfield hoMeland days: Townsfolk plan their day around the annual cow-plop and frogjumping contests, which wrap up a Main Street parade, chicken barbecue, tunes by the Missisquoi River Band, a corn roast and self-guided walks on the Conservation Commission Trail. Various locations, Bakersfield, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 827-6145. soldiers atoP the Mount: See SAT.08, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

fairs & festivals

Killington hay festiVal: See WED.05, 8 a.m.

VerMont state fair: See WED.05, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

film

Chandler filM soCiety: Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee! Film buffs screen 12 thrilling movie clips in a lecture on “Alfred Hitchcock’s Art of Suspense.” Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 431-0204, outreach@chandler-arts.org.

food & drink

dehydrating fruits & VegetaBles: Garden guru Peter Burke demonstrates an inventive way to preserve late summer produce. He shares recipes for fruit leathers, soup bases and trail mixes, too.

City Market, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 861-9700.

PreserVation Party: The Swap Sisters host a daylong workshop about food preservation, which covers vegetable fermentation, canning, brewing, sausage making and root cellaring. A homemade happy hour tops it all off. Wheelock Mountain Farm, Greensboro Bend, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations

accepted; bring a dish for the potluck lunch. Info, 755-6336, swapsisters@gmail.com. sMall farMs food fest: Vermont farmers and food producers present prepared dishes alongside live music, hayrides, apple picking, face painting and other family-friendly activities. Shelburne Orchards, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $5; free for kids under age 12 and seniors; nonperishable-food-item donations accepted.

Info, 985-2753. south Burlington farMers MarKet: Farmers, food vendors, artists and crafters set up booths in the parking lot. South Burlington High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, sbfm.manager@gmail.com. stoWe farMers MarKet: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 4728027 or 498-4734, info@stowevtfarmersmarket.com.

WinoosKi farMers MarKet: Area growers and bakers offer live music, ethnic eats, and a large variety of produce and agricultural products on the green. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, winooskimarket@gmail.com.

health & fitness

VerMont MediCal Marijuana assoCiation KiCKoff Meeting: Folks discuss ideas and concepts — including the future of dispensaries in the state – that affect their legal access to medical marijuana. Various locations statewide, 2 p.m. Free; preregister by email for meeting location. Info, 7347600, vtmedmpa@gmail.com.

music

northeast fiddlers assoCiation: Stringedinstrument players gather for a monthly jam.

American Legion Post 59, Waterbury, noon-5 p.m.

Donations accepted. Info, 728-5188. out late: Northeast Kingdom native Diana Di Gioia’s musical duo delivers roots songs with smart lyrics and infectious hooks. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 3 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 748-2600.

sport

run for the laKe: Sprinters support lake cleanup through a flat 5K run or 2K walk along the shores of Champlain. Georgia Beach, 9 a.m. $20-25. Info, 524-2194.

talks

daVe BroWn: The outdoor adventurer shares slides and tales from favorite canoe and snowshoe trips with rapt armchair travelers. Craftsbury Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 586-9683, craftsburylibrary@gmail.com.

theater

auditions for ‘anne of green gaBles’: See THU.06, 1-4 p.m. ‘real WoMen haVe CurVes’: See THU.06, 5 p.m. ‘sCattered shoWers’: See THU.06, 7:30 p.m. ‘sea MarKs’: See SAT.08, 4 p.m. staged reading of ‘the Chosen’: Theatre Kavanah, a new production company “devoted to exploring the intricacies of the Jewish experience,” offers an informal presentation of Chaim Potok and Aaron Posner’s play, as well as refreshments such as homemade chicken soup. A feedback session follows. North End Studios, Burlington, 1:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 482-5282. ‘the year of MagiCal thinKing’: See THU.06, 7 p.m.

words

WoMen’s Poetry grouP: Writers give and receive feedback on their poetic expressions in a nonthreatening, nonacademic setting. Call for specific location. Private home, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 828-545-2950, jcpoet@bellsouth.net.

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2012 national CoMMunity land trust ConferenCe: Tours, lectures, a film festival and a keynote address by J. Otis Smith energize participating housing practitioners to strengthen affordable housing organizations in communities across the world. Various locations, Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $295-435. Info, 503-493-1000, ext. 4.

fairs & festivals

Killington hay festiVal: See WED.05, 8 a.m.

food & drink

Benefit BaKe: Folks down slices to support Diversity Rocks!, a group of formerly refugee teens building a new life in Vermont. The restaurant will donate $2 to $4 per pizza. American Flatbread — Burlington Hearth, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink.

Info, 655-1963.

Burger night: See FRI.07, 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Killington restaurant WeeK: Fork and knife at the ready! Eateries throughout the resort community offer prix-fixe menus showcasing a variety of cuisines and specialty foods. See discoverkillington. com for details. Various locations, Killington, 9 a.m.9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 422-2185.

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Avoid FAlls With improved stAbility: See FRI.07, 10 a.m. herbAl ConsultAtions: Folks explore the art of “green” health care at a personalized, confidential clinic with faculty and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister by email. Info, 861-9700, info@vtherbcenter.org. hWA yu tAi Chi demo: Instructor Ellie Hayes introduces folks to an ancient form of meditative exercise. The Montpelier Shambhala Meditation Group, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 456-1983. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See SAT.08, 7-8 p.m.

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musiC With rAphAel: See THU.06, 10:45 a.m. shAke your sillies out: Tots swing and sway to music with children’s entertainer Derek Burkins.

JCPenney court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10:35 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. stories With megAn: Preschoolers expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free.

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reCorder-plAying group: Musicians produce early-folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. sAmbAtuCAdA! open reheArsAl: New players are welcome to pitch in as Burlington’s samba street percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience

and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017. the ChAmplAin eChoes: New singers are invited to chime in on four-part harmonies with a women’s a cappella chorus at weekly open rehearsals. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 6:159:15 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0398.

elder eduCAtion enriChment FAll series: Vermont state curator David Schultz offers insight on the historic statehouse. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. vermont AstronomiCAl soCiety: Stargazers recap their experiences around the state viewing the transit of Venus in June. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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stAged reAding oF ‘the Chosen’: See SUN.09, 7:30 p.m.

words

book disCussion series: mAking sense oF the AmeriCAn Civil WAr: America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries illuminates a pivotal moment in the history of the United States. Quechee Public Library, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 295-1232. mArjorie CAdy memoriAl Writers group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@comcast.net. shApe & shAre liFe stories: Prompts trigger true tales, which are crafted into compelling narratives and read aloud. Dorothy Alling Memorial

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bAllroom & lAtin dAnCe: Samir and Eleni Elabd guide a dance social in waltz and salsa styles. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $14. Info, 225-8699 or 223-2921. modern squAre-dAnCe ClAsses: Participants do-si-do and swing their partners ’round at a wholesome evening of stress-relieving dance. Cafeteria, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-2485 or 985-2012.

environment

green drinks: Activists and professionals for a cleaner environment raise a glass over networking and discussion. Skinny Pancake, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2253.

fairs & festivals

killington hAy FestivAl: See WED.05, 8 a.m. milton ACtivities FAir: Families and community members familiarize themselves with enough businesses, clubs, sports and recreation services to ensure a lively fall. Milton Elementary School and Milton High School, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.

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‘hAlF the sky’: As part of the Community Cinema series, folks screen a 60-minute preview of this documentary in which celebrity activists such as Meg Ryan and Olivia Wilde travel the world, making a personal impact in health care, education and economic empowerment. Discussion follows.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.

A mosAiC oF FlAvors: Somalian native Fatuma Malande walks curious cooks through recipes for canjeero and vegetable stew. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 861-9700. killington restAurAnt Week: See MON.10, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. rutlAnd County FArmers mArket: See SAT.08, 3-6 p.m.

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Ready to ride the rails? The GLORY DAYS FESTIVAL, designated as one of the state’s “Top 10 Fall Events,” is designed to be both nostalgic and locomotivational. Wannabe conductors of all ages enjoy carnival games, model railroad displays, a pancake breakfast and train rides along the Connecticut River. You can even take the choo-choo to and from the festival; contact your local Amtrak station for details.

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lAughter yogA: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual health and well-being. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 355-5129. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See SAT.08, 5-6 p.m. steps to Wellness: Cancer survivors attend diverse seminars about nutrition, stress management, acupuncture and more in conjunction with a medically based rehabilitation program. Fletcher Allen Health Care Cardiology Building, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2176.

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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. girl sCouts inFormAtion session: Would-be scouts and their parents learn about this leadership-development program for girls in kindergarten through 12th grade. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 888-9686, ext. 301. highgAte story hour: See WED.05, 10-11 a.m. musiC With robert: Music lovers of all ages engage in sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. story time in the nestlings’ nook: Preschoolers take flight in bird-themed craft, book, music and nature activities. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10:30 a.m. Free with regular admission, $3-6. Info, 434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont.org.

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BuddhiSm in a nutShell: Amy Miller serves up a comprehensive overview of the Tibetan Buddhist path in bite-size modules, combining meditation, lively discussion and practical exercises. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted.

Info, 633-4136.

Killington reStaurant WeeK: See MON.10, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. middleBury farmerS marKet: See WED.05, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. nofavore SoCial: Folks join NOFA Vermont to celebrate local, organic agriculture with fresh, wood-fired pizza. Attendees contribute to a discussion of its five-year strategic plan. Wellspring Farm, Marshfield, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4122, info@ nofavt.org. neWport farmerS marKet: See WED.05, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

WilliSton farmerS marKet: See WED.05, 4-7 p.m.

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South Burlington Community ChoruS rehearSalS: Singers chime in at weekly practice sessions in advance of the annual holiday concert.

Multipurpose room. South Burlington High School, 7-9 p.m. $50 registration fee. Info, 846-4108.

seminars

‘the CuriouS inCident of the dog in the night-time’: St. JohnSBury: See THU.06, 7 p.m.

BaBy time playgroup: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659. highgate Story hour: See WED.05, 11:15 a.m. moving & grooving With ChriStine: See WED.05, 11-11:30 a.m.

Storytelling With linda CoStello: Good listeners are rewarded with the legend of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and other classic tales. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6956.

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roBert Keren: The Middlebury College editor, writer and photographer shares insight on the settlement of Addison County and on William Douglass, an officer in the American Revolution, in “The Forgotten Patriot.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, noon. $2; bring a bag lunch; beverages and dessert provided. Info, 388-2117.

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andrea CheSman: The author of The Pickled Pantry: From Apples to Zucchini, 150 Recipes for Pickles, Relishes, Chutneys and More serves up samples at a presentation and book signing. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. daniel JoSé CuStódio: The slam poet and educator uses raw, rapid-fire words as his instrument in “Thunder Is the Language I Speak.” McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 654-2536.

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improv night: See WED.05, 8-10 p.m.

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outdoors

monarCh Butterfly tagging: See WED.05, 3:30 p.m.

Wagon-ride WedneSday: See WED.05, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

seminars

foundationS of inveSting: Edward Jones financial adviser Thomas Pound helps spenders and savers alike understand the basics of bonds, stocks, mutual funds and getting started in an investment program. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-1114.

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‘life in orange County’: Created by Peregrine Productions’ Vince Franke and 11 students from Sen. Bill Doyle’s Vermont government and history class at Johnson State College, this very local documentary features resident interviews. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Barre farmerS marKet: See WED.05, 3-6:30 p.m.

Champlain iSlandS farmerS marKet: See WED.05, 4-7 p.m.

ColCheSter farmerS marKet: See WED.05, 4-7:30 p.m.

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Burlington WriterS WorKShop meeting: See WED.05, 6:30-7:30 p.m. david anderSon: In “Climate Change and Human Culture,” the archaeologist digs into the effect of the evolving environment on people and societies in the past and present. Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3050.

John merSon: The author of War Lessons: How I Fought to Be a Hero and Learned That War Is Terror delves into war crimes, conflict-prevention strategies, and the effects of combat on soldiers and civilians. Burlington College, 6:15-7:30 p.m. Free.

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green mountain Chapter of the emBroidererS’ guild of ameriCa: Textile artists preserve the needle art. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free for first-timers; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255.

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

Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. maKe Stuff!: See WED.05, 6-9 p.m.

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allen gilBert: In “Privacy in the Digital Age,” the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont considers the erosion of privacy due to social media, license-plate readers, cell phone signal data and more. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

Byron Kidder & harry mClam: The speakers travel down the “Old and Forgotten Roads and Pathways of Bradford.” Bradford Academy, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 222-4423.

JameS a. Welu: In “Built to Educate: The American Art Museum,” the director emeritus of the Worcester Art Museum offers the first in a series of lectures about issues in the museum world.

Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168. laWrenCe hayeS: The Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium and Lyndon State College meteorologist gives listeners the forecast in “Soil Moisture and Its Effect on Weather.” Room 203, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327.

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WinooSKi Coalition for a Safe and peaCeful Community: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by discussing how to promote civic engagement. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4565.

italian ConverSation group: Parla Italiano?

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

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art WATERCOLOR WEDNESDAYS: Sep. 5-26, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $30/3-hr. class. Location: Studio Ginny Joyner, 504 B Dalton Dr., Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester. Info: Ginny Joyner, Ginny Joyner, 6550899, ginnyjoynervt@gmail. com, ginnyjoyner.blogspot.com.

Advance your skill or come as a beginner. Paint in a relaxed, beautiful, nonjudgmental atmosphere with Ginny Joyner in her home studio. Ginny will help you develop your own style and provide gentle encouragement and advice. Paint your own projects or work from still lifes set up in class. Bring your own supplies. Sign up for one class or all. Drop-ins welcome!

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PRINT: INTRO TO SILK SCREENING: Weekly on ˜ u. Cost: $225/ nonmember, $203/BCA member.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Torrey Valyou, local silk-screen legend and owner of New Duds, will show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fi ne art and more! Learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using handdrawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Includes over 30 hours per week of open studio.

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PRINT: NONTOXIC ETCHING: Sep. 25-Oct. 30, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $200/ person, $180/BCA member.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Learn how to print using ImagOn, a user-friendly, nontoxic etching process that reproduces a range of graphic techniques from line and gouache drawings to photographic imagery. Since etching is a drawing process, emphasis will be placed on drawing and pictorial composition. Includes 30 hours of open studio time per week.

career WISDOMS@WORK: NATURALBRILLIANCE: Sep. 14-16. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Five Wisdoms Institute, Anne-Marie Keppel, 279-5762, annemariekeppel@gmail.com, fi vewisdomsinstitute.com.A more awakened experience of work and life? Get to know the wisdom of simple presence, clarity, richness, passion and action as a tool for self-discovery. ° is workshop will help you understand a way to live a healthier and more balanced life. Contact author of “Natural Brilliance,” Irini Rockwell, info@fi vewisdomsinstitute.com.

cooking CANNING: HOMEMADE PRESERVES: Sep. 8, 9:30-11 a.m.

Cost: $10/1.5-hr. class. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington.

Info: 660-3505, gardenerssupply.com. Robin Berger, home canner and food blogger, will teach us how to make nopectin preserves using a truly unique recipe: tomato-orange marmalade. Everyone will take home the recipe along with a jar of marmalade. Preregistration required.

PREPARING FOR THE GREAT ATTUNEMENT: Nov. 9-11: Fri., 5:30-9 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Cost: $295/3-day conference. Location: Best Western, Waterbury. Info: 244-7909, jungiancenter.org. Learn how you can prepare for the great shift coming on 12/21/12 in this three-day conference that includes 16 presenters, a keynote address, a peace concert, a trade show, fi ve meals and multiple practitioners. For more info or to register go to jungiancenter.org.

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ATS BELLY DANCE LEVEL 1: Sep. 10-Oct. 15, 6:45-7:45 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $50/6 classes or $10/class drop-in.

Location: Studio 3 Dance & Fitness, 65 Creek Farm Plaza, Colchester. Info: Aeshna Mairead, 603-860-4865, aeshna. mairead@gmail.com. ° is beginning-level American Tribal Style belly dance class introduces the basic slow and fast dance movements, including posture, body awareness, formations, fi nger

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cymbals and combining steps.

Women of all shapes, sizes and ages are encouraged to attend.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class.

No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Mon. evenings: beginner class 7-8 p.m., intermediate 8:15-9:15 p.m.

Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt. com. Add some spice to your life by learning to dance salsa club style. We also touch on bachata, merengue and cha-cha-cha.

Experience the excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world-famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance and have a great time!

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Lessons also avail. in St. Albans.

Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@fi rststepdance.com, FirstStepDance.com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance!

Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary.

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Figure-drawing experience is very helpful.

PAINTING: OIL: Sep. 25-Nov. 13, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $250/person; $225/BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Ages 16+. Learn how to paint with nontoxic, watersoluble oils. With an emphasis on studio work, this class will consist of fun exercises. Discover a variety of painting techniques and learn how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to your work.

PHOTO: ADOBE LIGHTROOM 4: Sep. 20-Oct. 25, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on ˜ u. Cost: $250/person; $225/BCA member. Location: Burlington City Arts Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW fi les, organization, fi ne-tuning tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on our Epson 3880 printer will all be covered.

PHOTO: DIGITAL PHOTO BASICS: Sep. 17-Nov. 19, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $225/ person; $202.50/BCA member.

Location: Burlington City Arts Digital Media Lab, Burlington.

Info: burlingtoncityarts.com.

Learn the basics of digital photography. Camera functions and settings, white balance, composition, uploading and organizing images, making basic edits in Photoshop, printing, and much more will be covered. Any digital camera is acceptable! Bring your charged camera with its memory card, cords and manual to the fi rst class.

PHOTO: INTRO BLACK & WHITE: Oct. 10-Dec. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $215/ person, $193.50/BCA member.

Location: Community Darkroom, Burlington. No experience necessary! Explore the analog darkroom! Learn how to properly expose black-and-white fi lm, process fi lm into negatives, and make prints from those negatives. Cost includes a darkroom membership for outside-of-class printing and processing. Bring a manual 35mm fi lm camera to the fi rst class.

PHOTO: INTRO FILM/DIGITAL SLR: Sep. 19-Oct. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $160/person; $144/BCA member. Location: Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Explore the basic workings of the manual 35mm fi lm or digital SLR camera 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. Bring an empty manual 35mm fi lm or digital SLR camera and owner’s manual.

PRINT: ABSTRACT PRINT: Sep. 24-Nov. 12, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $230/ nonmember, $207/BCA member.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Experiment with a variety of printmaking methods, such as etching and linoleum cuts, to create uniquely expressive artwork. ° is is a great way to start creating your own art or explore printmaking

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CLAY: INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED WHEEL: Sep. 27-Nov. 15, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Weekly on ˜ u. Cost: $280/person, $252/ BCA member. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag, glazes & fi rings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Wheel Room, 250 Main St., Burlington. Refi ne your wheelwork in this morning class for intermediate and advanced potters. Learn individualized tips and techniques on the wheel.

Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, decorating and glazing methods. Students should be profi cient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls.

Over 30 hours per week of open studio time included.

CLAY: WHEEL THROWING: Sep. 24-Nov. 12, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $240/person, $216/BCA member. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St. , Burlington. An introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. No previous experience needed! Class includes over 30

hours per week of open studio time to practice. Ages 16+.

CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: Sep. 27-Nov. 15, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on ˜ u. Cost: $240/person, $216/BCA member. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag, glazes and fi rings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Wheel Room, Burlington.

Learn individualized tips for advancement on the wheel.

Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing and beginning to intermediate trimming and glazing techniques. Students must be profi cient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. Over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice!

DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS6: Sep. 18-Oct. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $205/ person; $184.50/BCA member.

Location: Burlington City Arts Digital Media Lab, Burlington.

Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator, a creative computer program used to create interesting graphics, clipart and more!

Learn how to lay out and design posters. Explore a variety of software techniques and create projects suited to your interests.

For beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills.

DRAWING: FASHION: Sep. 27-Nov. 1, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on ˜ u. Cost: $215/person, $194/BCA member. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St. , Burlington. Ages 16+. Learn the basics of fashion drawing! Draw and paint using gouache, watercolor and more. Illustrate your own designs and experiment with a variety of fashion drawing styles. Mixed-level class, open to beginners and advanced students, prior drawing experience is helpful. Includes fi gure drawing with a live fashion model.

DROP-IN: ADULT POTTERY: 2nd & 3rd Fri. of the mo.: Sep. 14, 21; Oct. 12, 19; Nov. 9, 16; Dec. 14, 21. Cost: $12/participant, $11/ BCA member. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Wheel Room & Craft Room, 250 Main St., Burlington.

Curious about the pottery wheel? ° is is a great introduction to our studio. ° rough demonstrations and individual instruction, students will learn the basics of preparing and centering the clay and making cups, mugs and bowls. Price includes one fi red and glazed piece per participant. Additional fi red and glazed pieces are $5 each.

DROP-IN: FAMILY CLAY:Sep. 14-Dec. 14, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $6/child, $5 for BCA members. Location:

BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St. , Burlington. Learn wheel and hand-building techniques while hanging out with the family.

Make bowls, cups and amazing sculptures. Price includes one fi red and glazed piece per participant. Additional fi red and glazed pieces $5 each. No registration necessary. Purchase a $30 punch card for 6 drop-in classes; $25 for BCA members.

DROP-IN: LIFE DRAWING AGE 16+: Sep. 10-Dec. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $8/ session; $7/session for BCA members. Location: BCA Center (135 Church Street), Burlington. ° is drop-in class is open to all levels and facilitated by local clothing designer and artist Amy Wild. Spend time with other local artists, drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary.

Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit free!

DROP-IN: POLLYWOG PRESCHOOL: Sep. 13-Dec. 13, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Weekly on ˜ u.

Cost: $6/parent-child pair, $5 for BCA members. Location: BCA Center (135 Church Street), Burlington. Introducing young children (6 months to 5 years) to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment. Participants will work with homemade play dough, paint, yarn, ribbon, paper and more! Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. No registration necessary. Purchase a drop-in card and get sixth visit free!

DROP-IN: PRESCHOOL CLAY: Sep. 14-Dec. 14, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $6/child, $5 for BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio , 250 Main St., Burlington. ° rough projects designed for early learners, young artists will hand-build with clay to create pinch pots, coil cups, sculptures and more! Parents must accompany their children.

All materials provided. Price includes one fi red and glazed piece per child. Additional fi red and glazed pieces are $5 each.

No registration necessary.

ILLUSTRATION: Sep. 26-Nov. 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $200/person; $180 BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Learn a variety of illustration techniques! Whatever your interest (children’s books, news stories, comics, sci-fi or political blogs), there’s a technique for you. Using traditional materials such as pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and watercolors, students will be encouraged to draw the human fi gure, likenesses, animals, landscapes, interiors andmore.

PAINTING: CONTEMPORARY FIGURE: Sep. 26-Nov. 14, 1:304:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $320/person; $288/ BCA member. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Ages 16+.

Intermediate and advanced painters: Revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the fi gure. Work from live models each week, explore a variety of contemporary techniques with water-soluble oils and get supportive feedback in a small-group environment.

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gardening FALL BULBS: Sep. 22, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/1.5-hr. class.

Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardenerssupply.com. Our in-house expert on bulbs, Ann Whitman, will talk about planting and landscaping with fall bulbs, plus demonstrate how to choose, pot up and prepare bulbs for winter bloom indoors. Preregistration required.

healing HAPPINESS IS THE BEST REVENGE: Sep. 25-Oct. 30, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $270/6 90min. group sessions. Location: JourneyWorks, 11 Kilburne St., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, Michael Watson, 860-6203, mwatsonlcmhc@hotmail.com, journeyworksvt.wordpress.com.

A six-week, arts-based psychotherapy group devoted to aiding members to build creativity, joy and play into their lives. Often hardship and trauma rob us of our joy and creativity. What better revenge than to take them back? Led by Jennie Kristel and Michael Watson. Most insurance accepted.

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health STUDENT & APPRENTICE PROGRAM IN ENERGY WORK HEALING: Dates & times will be arranged to accommodate the schedules of participants.

Location: TBA, Middlebury.

Info: Barbara, 324-9149, FeelingMuchBetter.org. Medical intuitive and energy work practitioner Barbara Clearbridge is now accepting students and apprentices for individualized one-to-three-year part-time programs. Study what you need for home or professional use.

Love offering (you determine what you can pay). Register now, sessions begin September 15.

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herbs HERBAL WORKSHOPS & OPEN HOUSE: Open House ˜ u., Sep. 20, 7:30 p.m. Workshops on Mon. & Wed. evenings, 6-8 p.m. Cost varies depending on class; open house is free.

Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 250 Main St., suite 302, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Laura Litchfi eld, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter. org, vtherbcenter.org. Apply now for comprehensive herbalist training programs at Vermont

Center for Integrative Herbalism.

Visit website for course catalog and application and come to our open house on ˜ ursday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m. Join us for community herbalism workshops. Preregister by email or phone. Workshop descriptions online.

WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wild Edibles 2-day program: Sep. 16 & Oct. 14. $200, $50 deposit. Wild Plant Walk: ˜ u., Sep. 27, 5-6:30 p.m., $0-10. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. Wild Edibles two-day program and Wild Plant Walk, preregistration appreciated. VSAC nondegree grants available. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local, wild edible and medicinal plants, food as fi rst medicine, sustainable living skills and the inner journey.

Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

kids AFTER-SCHOOL ART/NATURE: ˜ u, Sep. 27-Dec. 6, 3:30-5:30 p.m., ages 5-12. Cost: $300/10week class, incl. materials.

Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard Street-3rd Floor, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 2337676, maggiestandley@yahoo. com, wingspanpaintingstudio. com. Explore materials, mediums and ideas to cultivate creativity, confi dence, fi ne motor skills, visual storytelling and critical thinking. Draw, paint and construct found-object sculptures inspired by the natural world and students’ interests. Focusing on a child’s organic relationship to imaginative ideas, create in beautiful working studio with experienced, encouraging instructor.

knitting KNITTING CLASSES: Classes starting in September (daytime & evening). Location: ˜ e Knitting Circle, 23 Orchard Terr., Essex Jct. Info: 238-0106, thetravelingknitter@gmail.com.

Learn to knit in a comfortable, helpful setting where you can purchase yarn and supplies. All ages and skill levels welcome!

language ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Cost: $175/10 1-hr. classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury

Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Spanish classes starting September 17-20. Our fi fth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking.

Lesson packages for travelers.

Specializing in lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details.

BONJOUR! FRENCH: KIDS/ ADULTS: Youth French Fun! Tue., Oct. 2-Dec. 4, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Adult Int. French, Tue., Oct. 2-Dec. 4, 5-6:30 p.m., Adult Beg. French, Tue., Oct. 2-Dec. 4, 6:45-8:15 p.m. Cost: $200/10week class. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard Street-3rd Floor, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 2337676, maggiestandley@yahoo. com, wingspanpaintingstudio. com. Supportive, interactive, fun French classes in group settings or privately led by fl uent speaker, an encouraging instructor who has lived in Paris, France, and West Africa. Youth and adult.

Multiple modalities used to reach students of diverse learning styles. Held in beautiful Burlington atelier.

FRENCH CLASSES THIS FALL!: 11-wk. term begins Sep. 24 & continues through Dec. 14; all classes held 6:30-8:00 p.m. Cost: $245/11-wk. class.

Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 302-304 Dupont Bldg. (Fort Ethan Allen), 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 497-0420, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, afl cr.org/classes. shtml. French at the Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region in Colchester. New fall schedule of French classes with offerings at six levels, evenings for adults, beginning the week of September 24 for 11 weeks. Full details and easy registration at afl cr.org/classes.shtml, or call.

martial arts AIKIDO: Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org. ˜ is Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. Classes for adults and children ages 5-12.

Scholarships for youth ages 7-17.

Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certifi ed Aikido teacher. Visitors are welcome seven days a week.

AIKIDO CLASSES: Cost: $65/4 consecutive Tue., uniform incl.

Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd fl oor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical fl exibility and strong center within fl owing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others and confi dence in oneself.

Vermont Aikido invites you to explore this graceful martial art in a safe, supportive environment.

MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CENTER: Please visit website for schedule. Location: Martial Way Self Defense Center, 3 locations, Colchester, Milton, St. Albans.

Info: 893-8893, martialwayvt. com. Beginners will fi nd a comfortable and welcoming environment, a courteous staff, and a nontraditional approach that values the beginning student as the most important member of the school. Experienced martial artists will be impressed by our instructors’ knowledge and humility, our realistic approach, and our straightforward and fair tuition and billing policies.

We are dedicated to helping every member achieve his or her highest potential in the martial arts. Kempo, Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Wing Chun, Arnis, ˜ inksafe Self-Defense.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free.

Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston.

Info: 660-4072, Julio@bjjusa. com, vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, fl exibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fi tness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confi dence.

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 certifi ed 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian JiuJitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian JiuJitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

massage CRANIAL WORKSHOP 16 CEUS: Oct. 6-7, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Cost: $275/16 CEUs ($250 when paid in full by Sep. 13).

Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com, ortho-bionomy.org/SOBI/DianneSwafford. ˜ is course focuses on the observation and exploration of movement within the cranial bones. ˜ e participant will learn how to work with the facial muscles and bones in addition to the bones and muscles of the cranium. Great for neck, headache and migraine work. No prerequisites required.

ETHICS & EMOTIONAL ISSUES: Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $130/ course, 8 CEUs. Location: TBA, Burlington or Essex area. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail. com, ortho-bionomy.org/SOBI/ DianneSwafford. Participants learn skills for addressing, in an appropriate and professional manner, emotional responses that may arise during a session.

In addition, participants discuss the guidelines for professional conduct and review Code of Ethics. Includes content required for NCBTMB recertifi cation.

MANA LOMI HAWAIIAN MASSAGE: Sep. 7-9, 8:30 a.m.6:30 p.m. Cost: $545/course.

Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington.

Info: Touchstone Healing Arts , 658-7715, touchvt@gmail.com, touchstonehealingarts.com.

Learn full-body lomilomi! Explore ways to use breath, posture and body weight to deliver effective work that is deep and gentle, and easy on the therapist’s body; the history of lomilomi; Hawaiian healing chants; and the concept of ho’oponopono, living in right relationship with all natural things. Optional shoulder-treatment class offered.

meditation INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: Sat., Sep. 22, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: $30/half-day workshop, limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 ˜ omas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext.net, vermontzen.org. ˜ is workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism.

Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction avail.

Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & ˜ u., noon-1 p.m. ˜ e Shambhala Cafe meets the 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon.

An Open House occurs every 3rd Fri. evening 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. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. ˜ rough 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. ˜ e Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

greenmountainmusictogether. com. Green Mountain Music Together offers family music classes for parents and caregivers and their children from babies to toddlers to preschoolers in Colchester, Shelburne and Burlington. Music Together pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement.

IT’S DUE TOMORROW?!: Oct. 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $45/ seminar. Location: Stern Center for Language & Learning, 183 Talcott Rd., suite 101, Williston.

Info: Stern Center for Language and Learning, Jenn Proulx, 878-2332, jproulx@sterncenter. org, sterncenter.org. ˜ is twoevening seminar will provide parents of middle- and highschool students with strategies to improve their adolescent’s time-management, homework, study and test-taking skills.

Parents will be given techniques to try, and opportunities for discussion and feedback will be provided. Register today!

performing arts MOUNTAIN THEATRE RETREAT: Sep. 7, 6-9 p.m., Sep. 8, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Sep. 9, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Cost: $225/ retreat. Location: Dreaming Mountain Retreat, Johnson.

Info: Majalehn, 646-5544914, theatre.nouveau@ yahoo.com, facebook.com/ events/400951033296905.

Accelerating the Creative Pulse: An Innovative ImproviSATORI Performance Practice. ˜ is unique Movement ˜ eatrue Workshop includes interdisciplinary THEATRE.DANSE.VOICE Performance Practice Sessions.

We cocreate a cutting-edge theatre collective that gently broadcasts a new consciousness for humankind as a vital part of the global PEACE in PROGRESS’ Project, an evocative evolutionary vision and passion.

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nature R.O.O.T.S. RENDEZVOUS: Sep. 14-16, 4:15 p.m. Cost: $40/ single day; $110/all three days. Location: Roots School, 20 Blachly Rd., E. Calais. Info: ROOTS School, Sarah Corrigan, 456-1253, Info@RootsVt.com, RootsVT.com. ˜ ree-day gathering of learning and in celebration of the natural world. Workshops all three days and night activities. Wilderness living skills, primitive technologies, weaving, tracking, bows and arrows, naturalist studies, ninjutsu, herbal medicine, hide tanning, strength training, fermentation, and so much more. All skill levels, ages and families welcome!

parenting GREEN MOUNTAIN MUSIC TOGETHER: Contact for schedule info. Location: Venue varies, Burlington. Info: Alison Mott, 310-2230, greenmountainmusic@gmail.com,

WOMEN’S/COED CLIMBING CLINICS: Oct. 2-Nov. 6, 6-9 p.m., Tue and ˜ u. Cost: $175/6 classes, rental gear, 6 additional visits. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 657-3872, info@petracliffs.com, petracliffs. com. Learn to climb or improve your skills this fall! Intro levels cover basic climbing skills: belaying, balance, footwork and route reading. Intermediate levels progress technique, endurance and strength. Clinics are a great

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photography Autumn in Vermont Photo tour: Sep. 30, 1:30 p.m., through Oct. 4, 11:30 a.m.

Cost: $595/person. Location: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, central Vermont.

Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops , Kurt Budliger, 223-4022, info@ kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops.com.

There’s no question that autumn in Vermont is a magical time to be an outdoor photographer.

Join us for an intensive, five-day instructional photography tour (or “tourshop”) in Vermont. The emphasis of our time together, sunrise to sunset, will be on creating stunning images of the Vermont landscape.

Your Vision, Your Voice: Sep. 8, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Cost: $70/workshop. Location: Darkroom Gallery, 12 Main St., at Five Corners, Essex Jct. Info: Darkroom Gallery, Ken Signorello, 777-3686, ken@darkroomgallery.com, meetup.com/DarkroomGallery/ events/71231712. Your photographic voice, or style, is based on recognizable commonalities.

These commonalities are more than just your preferred subject matter. subject matter may not be the commonality at all. let’s explore how to perceive and strengthen (or create) those commonalities in your work, and set your work apart.

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2012: WhAt’s coming?: Thu., Sep. 6, 13, 20 & 27, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/class series. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: 244-7909. Don’t believe all of the gloom and doom you hear about the end of the world! learn about the many visions and scenarios for our collective future and how you can seize all the opportunities of this time to thrive in the years ahead. To register, call sue, 244-7909.

skating leArn to skAte: Sep. 15-Oct. 20, 9 p.m.-10 a.m. Cost: $90/ basic skills program; $50/Snow Plow Sam 5 & under-30-min. lesson; $90/5 & up 30-min. lesson w/ 30-min. practice time. Location: Gutterson Field House, 97 Spear St., Burlington.

Info: Champlain Valley Skating Club, Jennifer Lupia, 309-0419, cvsc_us@yahoo.com, champlainvalleyskatingclub.org. Join our certified and experienced cVsc coaches for the fun of skating. learn a lifelong sport with our UsFs basic skills program. We offer snow Plow sam, Basic eights, Hockey (no sticks or pucks), adult and Freestyle classes. For ages 3 through adult, new and advanced skaters welcome!

tai chi snAke-stYle tAi chi chuAn: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles.

Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

YAng-stYle tAi chi: Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo. Beginners welcome.

No class Aug. 1 & 4. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Turn right into driveway immed. after the railroad tracks. Located in the old Magic Hat Brewery building. Info: 4342960. Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. For more info: 7355465 or 434-2960.

BAlAnce Adhd W/ mindfulness: Tue., Sep. 11-Oct. 16, 7:15-8:45 p.m. Cost: $140/series. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, vtcit.com. With Joey corcoran, Ma. Do you feel scattered, overwhelmed, disorganized, yet know you’re a creative person with lots of ideas? Do you lose focus or feel ever-hyper? Balance aDHD With Mindfulness offers a skillful way to cultivate your attention and reduce anxiety. mentAl conflict: trAnsformAtion And deeP AccePtAnce: Sep. 28-Nov. 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, South Burlington.

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hakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice may be the Bard’s only play that is both revered and reviled. The tragicomedy, which centers on the questionable dealings of a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, has been a lightning rod for criticism, owing to the play’s cryptic themes of antisemitism.

What’s unclear, and has provoked a centuries-long debate among scholars, is whether Shakespeare’s work lands on the side of tolerance or the side of bigotry.

While it likely won’t solve the argument either way, a new album and accompanying illustrated story booklet, Shylock Sings the Blues, by local writer, visual artist and retired psychologist David Sokol and local guitarist Dennis Willmott, lends a new, bluesy voice to the debate. Sokol’s work, which he hopes to turn into a musical play, is an updated adaptation of Merchant, set on the streets of a “Jewish-Mafi a” neighborhood in 1950s New Jersey.

Fueled by early rock and roll and Delta and Piedmont blues, and featuring an impressive assortment of local musical talent — as well as illustrations by Sokol — the album is a shadowy and of ten playf ully stylized take on Shakespeare’s controversial play. It suggests old Bill was perhaps even cagier than we realized. Sokol, 65, is Jewish and believes that Merchant indicts prejudice.

“Shakespeare knew what bigotry was about,” he says f rom his home in Shelburne. “So he spoke loudly to the bigots and whispered to those who knew what it was really about.”

In November 2010, Sokol took in a Broadway performance of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino as Shylock. Calling himself an “amateur Shakespeare fan,” Sokol had seen the play performed before.

But this version included a monologue that is cut from many productions — including the 2004 fi lm version starring Pacino and Jeremy Irons. “Most directors don’t see it as driving the story along,” Sokol explains of the scene.

The monologue is by Shylock’s servant, Lancelot Gobbo — Lance G. in Sokol’s version. In it, he presents what Sokol calls a “scathing analysis of the bigot’s mind.” In Shakespeare’s day, servants were bound to their masters by artifi cial loyalty, a notion Gobbo questions.

“It’s an interior conversation between his conscience and his selfi sh needs,” Sokol explains. “He thinks, This guy is good to me, I need to be loyal. But on the other hand, I could do better if I abandoned him .”

Adding to Gobbo’s internal debate is the

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fact that Shylock is Jewish. The prevailing “wisdom” of the time held that Jews were damned. Gobbo’s conclusion is, according to Sokol, “It’s OK to abandon the Jew.” For him, it was a revelatory moment.

“A light bulb went o° in my head and I thought, This is what decent people do ,” he says. “Germany, America, wherever. You can be prejudiced but otherwise be a decent human being. Shakespeare isolated the process of how decent people can turn into bigots.”

Sokol has written at length about antisemitism f or a number of academic journals. He says Gobbo’s monologue settled the Merchant debate for him.

“That speech put me over the edge,” he says.

Sokol became obsessed with the play.

He wrote a short novel and then a stage

play. But nothing stuck. Frustrated, he began brainstorming a new way to voice his idea: music.

Sokol is quick to point out that he is not a musician. But he’s been lifelong fan of blues music, dating back to his days growing up in a predominantly Italian and Jewish neighborhood in New Jersey and scouring record-store bins in nearby black neighborhoods of Newark. He says he grew increasingly enamored with the idea of penning a musical.

“I felt challenged,” he says.

With an outline f or a cabaret-style album in hand, Sokol called his old f riend and local blues musician Dennis Willmott, whom he has known since 1965. Now 67, Willmott has been the leader of local blues band Lef t Eye Jump f or 14 years. When Sokol told him about his idea, Willmott re-

sponded by reciting a lengthy passage from the play.

“I thought,This blues guy knows Shakespeare?” says Sokol. “That’s a sign.”

“It was a false promise,” Willmott interjects. The guitarist, who was a high school dropout, confesses Sokol simply presented the one play f rom which he happened to memorize some lines during his abridged school days. “That passage calls ideas of justice and mercy into question,” he says.

“It stuck with me.”

Sokol and Willmott began collaborating on the 12 songs that compose the album.

Sokol says they were written in about four days. The pair retreated to Gus Ziesing’s Low Tech Studio in Burlington to record.

To fl esh out the band, they enlisted local musicians, including bassist Tom Buckley, drummer Je° Salisbury and Ziesing on saxophone. The album’s primary vocalists are Dwight Richter and Nicole Nelson, of the local blues and R&B duo Dwight & Nicole.

In Sokol’s rendering, Gobbo’s monologue is illustrated by the song “The Devil Told Me,” sung by the character Lance G. and given voice by Nelson. The song serves as the centerpiece of the album and is the clearest indication that Sokol believes Shakespeare was opposing, not supporting, bigotry.

Many critics, including noted Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom, f eel The Merchant of Venice should never be perf ormed because of the harm the play is perceived to have caused the Jewish community.

“Bloom thinks it is the single most damaging event in history against the Jews,” says Sokol. He has a point. Among its other blemishes, Merchant was used as propaganda in Nazi Germany, where performances included grotesque caricatures of Jews. But Sokol notes that the play’s central message was actually a treatise on materialism. By combining Merchant’s darker themes with the inherent hopefulness of rock and blues, Sokol hopesShylock Sings the Blues illustrates what he believes Shakespeare was trying to say.

“On a deeper level, the story is really about trading material possessions f or spiritual value, being willing to lose worldly attachments f or a higher purpose” he says. “And that’s the blues. You take misery and turn it into something joyful.”

Shylock Sings the Blues is available at david-sokol.com.

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surf-noir ripcurls from BarBacoa, stoner metal from BLack norse and late-night sets from DJs theLonious X and snake Foot. Got all that?

For the last six years, the openingnight party at Speaking Volumes on Pine Street has been the Hop’s unofficial main event, musically speaking. You could argue that Signal Kitchen is giving SV a run for its money this year, but that doesn’t take away from the impressive roster of bands set to rock the secondhand shop’s outdoor stage on Friday. Highlights include headliners the wee FoLkestra, apocalypse rockers waVe oF the Future, errands, dino BraVo and the return of BLowtorch, to name but a few. As usual, the human canVas will be on hand for all your body-painting needs, while local EDM crews 2k deeP, mushPost and Montréal’s construct keep the party jumping into the night.

Moving south on Pine Street, a joint venture between SEABA and Big Heavy World, Hopapalooza, is a solid complement to your hopping on Friday.

Sponsored by Burlington College, the showcase is a benefit for BHW and features rockers cameo harLot, R&B diva kat wright & the indomitaBLe souL Band, singer-songwriter suZanne Friedman, gnarly pop-punk trio traPPer keePer and local wagon o’ funk, Funkwagon.

(As an aside, this party looks great. It really does. But can we please retire the “palooza” thing in reference to anything

festival-like? I’d even be cool with “Hop-aroo” or “Hop-chella” if we really need to go there. Thanks.)

So yeah. It’s a big weekend for local music. But what I’ve laid out here barely scratches the surface of what you’ll find at the Art Hop this year. Wander just a little, and you’ll no doubt discover even more great music stashed away in various nooks, crannies, galleries and shops all over Pine Street.

Did I mention how much I love this weekend?

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As I believe I’ve mentioned in every Art Hop-week column since I took over this gig five-plus years ago, opening night of the Art Hop is on my short list of favorite annual Burlington events, alongside such staples as the opening night of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, anything related to Halloween and that first glorious night after all the students have gone home for the summer. Er, I mean … welcome back, kiddos!

Anyway, even if you’re only peripherally in tune with the local arts scene, it’s hard not to love the Art Hop. Obviously, it’s a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the embarrassment of artistic riches the city has to offer.

It’s one-stop shopping for people who like to walk around stroking their chins, gazing knowingly at photos, paintings and sculptures, and saying things like “Hmm…” But more germane to our purposes here — music — the Art Hop has become a diverse and bountiful showcase for the bustling local music scene. Every year, the number and variety of musical options escalates.

Looking at the slate this year bears that out. Particularly on Friday, September 7, as with the visual art, more music is available than you could hope to see.

At last year’s the Art Hop, Signal Kitchen threw its unofficial grand opening with a well-attended bash featuring some of the city’s rockingest indie bands. In the 12 months since, the space has been almost completely renovated and is now one of Burlington’s most exciting venues, regularly drawing national and local acts and filling a niche that exists somewhere between the hipness of the Monkey House and the marquee value of Higher Ground. In short, Signal Kitchen has become an excellent complement to an already vibrant scene.

Fittingly, SK has excellent lineups on tap for both nights of the Art Hop. Friday’s slate includes songwriters Zack duPont and LoweLL thomPson, indie favorites heLLo shark, Parmaga and ViLLaneLLes, and disco rock diva heLoise wiLLiams, with DJs disco Phantom and two seV spinning until the wee hours.

Saturday, September 8, looks equally swell, with early sets from lo-fi electropop auteur tooth ache. and indie-folk ingenues aLPengLow, followed by kinky

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1/2 LoungE: scott mangan (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free.

CLub MEtronoME: Bass culture: Jahson & Nickel B (dubstep), 9 p.m., Free.

Finnigan’s Pub: Jangover (rock), 10 Franny o’s: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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MonkEy housE: Guttermouth, the scandals, River city Rebels, Hunger, 10K Volt Ghost (punk), 7:30 p.m., $13.

AA. nECtar’s: Dwight Richer Trio (blues), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. onE PEPPEr griLL: Open mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free. on taP bar & griLL: Kode 3 (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

raDio bEan: The committee for Getting Attention (folk punk), 4:30 p.m., Free. Jon Bell (singersongwriter), 5:30 p.m., Free. Jessica smucker (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. mushpost social club (downtempo), 11 p.m., Free. rED squarE: Joshua Glass & the mood stabilizers (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. skinny PanCakE: Ed Grasmeyer and Joshua Panda (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation. t bonEs rEstaurant anD bar: chad Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. thE bLaCk Door: Happy Hour with montpelier Young Professionals, 5:30 p.m., Free. gusto’s: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 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: mid-week music melodies, 9 p.m., $2/3. 18+.

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bEE’s knEEs: Dale cavanaugh (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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o’briEn’s irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free. on taP bar & griLL: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: marco calliari (singer-songwriter), 4:30 p.m., Free.

Jazz sessions, 6 p.m., Free. Bird Dog (Americana), 9:30 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squarE: Red sky mary (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free. shELburnE vinEyarD: music in the Loft: Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 6 p.m., Free. skinny PanCakE: Ray cashman (blues), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. vEnuE: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.

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bagitos: colin mccaffrey & sarah Blair (folk), 6 p.m., Free. thE bLaCk Door: Old Time Night with Run mountain, 9:30 p.m., $5. grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

Dobrá tEa: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

PurPLE Moon Pub: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free.

Franny o’s: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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LEvity CaFé: Open mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Hot Wax with Justcaus & Penn West (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

51 Main: Verbal Onslaught (poetry), 9 p.m., Free.

City LiMits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

nECtar’s: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Turkuaz, What’s Good (funk), 9:30 p.m., $5/10.

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Performances Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.* This musical is not recommended for young children, unless supervised by an adult.

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new bar top, etc. But the biggest change is that the Irish pub is set to begin hosting live music on a regular basis.

Owner TERRY SUSKIN has built a small stage along the east wall and hopes to present bands a few times per week, including this Saturday, September 8, when local rockers JANGOVER set up shop.

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ORNETTE COLEMAN. Correctly sensing that I was in way over my head, Ed graciously agreed to meet with me and fill me in on pretty much everything I could possibly want to know about Coleman — some not found in jazz histories. That piece is still among my favorites I’ve written, not because it was particularly good, but because of how much I learned — about jazz, Coleman, writing and, most importantly, humility.

You never really know as much as you think you do. Thanks, Ed. A jazz tribute is scheduled for October 13 at Burlington City Hall. We’ll have more details as they become available.

Last but not least, the Burlington jazz community was saddened last week by the passing of ED BEMIS. Bemis, 84, was an unofficial ambassador for Burlington jazz: He started the state’s first jazz radio show on WRUV and served on the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival advisory board for several years. He was also a walking encyclopedia of jazz history. I had the pleasure of speaking with Bemis on just a few occasions. One of them was when I was a rookie music hack trying to tackle a cover story on the notoriously difficult sax legend

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Happy trails to KIT RIVERS. The local comedian, who for my money is the most talented young female comic in town, is moving to London later this month. But before she hops across the pond, the local comedy scene has a pair of farewell shows slated to send her off good and improper. The first is a showcase at Levity Café in Burlington on Friday, September 7, featuring DAN RUSSELL, CHAD COSBY, RYAN KRIGER, JASON LORBER and Rivers herself. The second is a Friar’s Club-style roast of Rivers, slated for the Monkey House on Sunday, September 9. As of press time, the full lineup for that show is still in the works. But in talking to a few comics who plan to perform, Rivers can expect some, ahem, chin music. Best of luck, Kit.

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guitarist and Cumbancha recording artist BOMBINO on Saturday at the McCarthy Arts Center. Bombino is a rising star in both world and Western music, praised for his groundbreaking fusion of African rhythms and rockinfluenced chops. And he’s been winning over some impressive fans of late, including the BLACK KEYS’ DAN AUERBACH, who is producing the guitarist’s next record. Bombino will play a rare mostly acoustic set at the free show. Future installments of the series include local Somali band WALINJA (October 19) and GRUP ANWAR (November 10).

Once again, this week’s totally self-indulgent column segment, in which I share a random sampling of what was on my iPod, turntable, CD player, eight-track player, etc., this week.

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mOnOPOle : Dynomatics (rock), 10 p.m., Free. mOnOPOle D Ownstai Rs: Gary peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free.

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RaDiO Bean : Dale c avanough (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. t revor Wilson and Vocal Ensemble (alt-folk), 8:30 p.m., Free. Jonah parzen-Johnson (experimental folk), 10 p.m., Free. s tudio c hicken t rio, 11:30 p.m., Free. Revibe (jam), 1 a.m., Free.

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Cha Rlie O’s : Bedeviled Eggs, c ozi c ome (punk), 10 p.m., Free.

t heRaPy: pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

ReD squa Re: t idal Vote (rock), 5 p.m., Free. c lose to Nowhere (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ c raig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

gReen mOuntain t ave Rn: DJ Jonny p (t op 40), 9 p.m., $2.

ReD squa Re Blue R OOm: DJ mixx (EDm), 9 p.m., $5.

RuBen James : DJ c re8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.

Rí Rá iRish Pu B: The Blame (acoustic rock), 9 p.m., Free. s upersounds DJ (t op 40), 10 p.m., Free. signal kit Chen : DJ Disco phantom, 12:15 a.m., Free. t wo s ev (DJ set), 1 a.m., Free. Zack dupont (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 7 p.m., Free. h ello s hark (indie), 8 p.m., Free. parmaga (indie), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Villanelles (indie rock), 10:30 p.m., Free. h eloise & the s avoir Faire (disco rock), 11:30 p.m., Free. skinny Pan Cake : amy Black & s usan c attaneo (folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Bagit Os: poor h oward s tith (blues), 6 p.m., Free.

esPRess O Buen O: s troke Your Joke 2 (standup), 8 p.m., Free.

PuRPle mOOn Pu B: mind the Gap (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

champlain valley 51 main : s wing Noire (gypsy jazz), 9 p.m., Free.

City l imits : The Blame (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

On the Rise Bake Ry: h illary Reynolds Band (pop), 8 p.m., Donations. t w O BROthe Rs t ave Rn: Roots, Rock, Reggae Night (DJ), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee’s knees : malicious Brothers (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

RimROCks mOuntain t ave Rn: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. sh OOte Rs sal OOn: t ommy and the t ricksters (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

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Bayview eats : Dewey Drive Band (americana), 6 p.m., Free.

Clu B met ROnOme: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. fR anny O’s : Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. h ighe R gROun D sh Ow Case lO unge : amy h elm (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., $13/15. aa .

JP’s Pu B: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., Free. l evity Café : Dan Russell, c had c osby, Ryan Kriger, Jason Lorber, Kit Rivers (standup), 8 p.m. & 10 p.m., $8. s aturday Night c omedy (standup), 10 p.m., $8. maRRiOtt h aRBOR lO unge : anthony s antor (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.

ReD squa Re: marco c alliari (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free.

The c olt s ix (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ a-Dog (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

ReD squa Re Blue R OOm: DJ Raul (salsa), 6 p.m., Free. DJ s tavros (EDm), 10 p.m., $5.

Bagit Os: t om Gregory (folk), 6 p.m., Free. t he Bla Ck DOOR: Jeanne & the h i-t ops (r&b), 9:30 p.m., $5.

Cha Rlie O’s : c ameo h arlot, t orpedo Rodeo (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

PuRPle mOOn Pu B: Dale c avanaugh (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

City l imits : Dance party with DJ Earl (t op 40), 9 p.m., Free. t w O BROthe Rs t ave Rn: The Would i’s (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

Rí Rá iRish Pu B: party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

signal kit Chen : tooth ache. (experimental pop), 6 p.m., Free. alpenglow (indie), 7 p.m., Free.

Kinky c reature (indie), 8 p.m., Free. Dr. Ruckus (rock), 9 p.m., Free. Barbacoa (surf-noir), 10 p.m., Free. Black Norse (’80s dance party), 11 p.m., Free. s nake Foot (EDm), 1 a.m., Free.

Ch Ow! Bella : The Best Little Border Band (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

skinny Pan Cake : The amida Bourbon project (folk rock), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Bee’s knees : Laslo c ameo (electric roots), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

RimROCks mOuntain t ave Rn: DJ t wo Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

ROaDsi De t ave Rn: DJ Diego (t op 40), 9 p.m., Free.

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would you rather have holding court, the Poindexter at the front of the class or the dudes in the back shooting spitballs? School is in session this Sunday, September 9, at the Higher Ground Showcase. c Ou Rt Es Y OF th E DEaN’s List

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BaCkstage Pu B: Groove Thing (funk), 9:30 p.m., Free.

RaDiO Bean : Lesbian s eagull, 4 p.m., Free. c harles Von Rosenberg (folk), 5:30 p.m., Free. Dale c avanaugh (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. ashley Jordan (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free. c hris Dorman (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., Free. Nemes (indie rock), 11:30 p.m., Free.

central

probably rarely graced the academic honor roll for which they’re named. But look at this way: When you’re at a party, who

Clu B met ROnOme: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. h ighe R gROun D sh Ow Case lO unge : First Friday with Linda c ullum, DJs precious & Llu (singer-songwriter, dance party), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

JP’s Pu B: Dave h arrison’s s tarstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

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On t aP BaR & gRill : The c omplaints (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

t BOnes Restau Rant an D BaR: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free.

Truant That Judging by the roguish energy found on their electric and party-centric mixtapes, the members of Boston-based hip-

Banana w in Ds Café & Pu B: The h itmen (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free.

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neCta R’s: matt t ownsend (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Grippo Funk Band, 9 p.m., $5.

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BaCkstage Pu B: Karaoke with s teve, 9 p.m., Free.

l evity Café : Dan Russell, c had c osby, adam c ook, Jason Lorber, Kit Rivers (standup), 9 p.m., $8. l ift : Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. maRRiOtt h aRBOR lO unge : Dave Grippo (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. mOnkey hO use : The h ardscrable h ounds, Zephrus (americana), 9 p.m., $5. neCta R’s: s eth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

On t aP BaR & gRill : The Woedoggies (blues), 5 p.m., Free. phil abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

mOnOPOle : Formula 5 (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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on “Red Haze.” A coursing charge of fiddle gathers over an ominous minorkey progression. Redding’s croon is distinctive and effectively jaded as he laments, “Every rose has a thorn, every thorn has a rose. / Well, we’re damned if we do, and we’re damned if we don’t.”

It’s not Faulkner, exactly. But hey, it ain’t Poison, either. The songwriter’s gothic imagery comes together by the second verse and matches his visceral delivery.

On first listen, it’s hard not to compare Redding’s booming vocal

style to that of Crash Test Dummies front man Brad Roberts. (Take that however you want.) But Redding’s inky-black tone suits his generally bleak Art/Drafting/Framing Supplies songwriting, shading his words with Handmade Paper • Paints • Brushes palpable desperation. The problem Portfolios • Cards is, Redding rarely relents. Songs such as “Lay Low” and “Give Love to Get Love” — the latter of which centers on love gone sour and societal ills including slavery and materialism — inspire an appropriate degree of empathy, but they do little else. The permeating hopelessness batters almost unyieldingly.

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But here’s the thing: Based solely on talent, Chamberlin deserve every shred of success and adulation they’ve received — and that includes some recent pimping by the likes of Rolling Stone, Paste and others. The band’s latest EP, Look What I’ve Become, released on Tuesday, September 4, is a sparkling effort, building on the solid foundation laid down on Bitter Blood and a follow-up cover EP, Cabin Covers.

The record reinforces the notion that Chamberlin are no mere GPN vanity project. They’re the real deal.

While Bitter Blood was impressive, it was hampered by a derivative bent that’s not unusual with a debut, especially from such young musicians.

Their influences read like a 2011 Pitchfork sampler: Band of Horses, My Morning Jacket, Passion Pit. Not so with Look What I’ve Become.

Chamberlin appear to have outgrown their hero-worship phase and set about the task of writing music that is purposeful, nuanced and, more importantly, genuinely gripping.

The EP is noticeably darker than the band’s earlier work. Well-wrought themes of jealousy and betrayal wind through leanly arranged songs such as “Thief” and “A Pleasant Conversation Over Drinks” with chilling urgency.

That guitarist and vocalist Mark Daly and guitarist Ethan West fired the rest of the band prior to recording — and subsequently felt super guilty about it — seems to fuel the EP’s overwhelming and tangible sense of treason.

Chamberlin have since kissed and made up and are back together. Word is they’ve begun work on new album.

But if Look What I’ve Become is any indication, the next big thing out of Vermont may already be here.

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Politically charged and emotionally bold, the EP suffers no shortage of raw urgency. But sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. And City Without Wine, while undoubtedly intense and admirably impassioned, ultimately staggers under the weight of its own brooding machinations.

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I’ll admit it: I really want to not like Chamberlin. It’s nothing personal.

I’m sure they’re really nice guys and all. And far be it from me to begrudge anyone success. But, come on, their story is so annoyingly improbable, it’s hard not view them with at least a little bit of (admittedly jealous) skepticism.

To recap…

Four virtually unknown dudes hole up in a rural Vermont cabin to record a demo. Scott Tournet, guitarist for Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, somehow gets hold of said demo and goes appropriately apeshit. He signs on to produce their 2011 debut, Bitter Blood, and then takes the band on the road with GPN, almost instantly making Chamberlin one of the three or four most successful and well-known rock bands from Vermont. It’s a fairy tale. It’s also the kind of break most local bands toil entire careers for and never get. So it’s understandable — if not entirely fair — that some degree of cynicism would follow.

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Monopole : Doom & Friends (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Tabu Café & nigh TClub : All Night Dance party with DJ t oxic (t op 40), 5 p.m., Free.

Sun .09

burlington area

Club Me Trono Me: Nerve ft.

Jojo mayer, Errands, mushpost (live EDm), 9 p.m., $10. h igher ground Show CaSe l ounge : Dean’s List (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. Monkey h ou Se: The Roast of Kit Rivers (standup), 7:30 p.m., $5. 18+.

Mon Ty’S old bri Ck Tavern : George Voland JAZZ: Elizabeth! and Dan s kea, 4:30 p.m., Free. neCTar’ S: mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. on Tap bar & grill : mitch t erriciano (jazz), 11 a.m., Free. r adio bean : Queen c ity Hot c lub (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free. s aloon s essions with Brett Hughes (country), 1 p.m., Free.

Randal pierce (piano), 5 p.m., Free. montana s kies (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Girls Rock Vermont (rock), 8:30 p.m., Free.

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r ed Square : The Hardscrabble Hounds (Americana), 7 p.m., Free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

central

bagi ToS: s unday Brunch with Eric Friedman (acoustic), 11 a.m., Free.

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Skinny pan Cake : Big Hat No c attle (western swing), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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of blues, country, rock and soul, Alabama’s l ee bain S iii & The glory

f ire S trade in something like the rock-and-roll equivalent of the Southern

Reconstruction. Following a stint touring with fellow regional sensations the Alabama Shakes, the band is currently on the road with a critically acclaimed new album. There Is a Bomb in Gilead brazenly deconstructs, and then rebuilds, the hazy, gritty sounds and themes of classic Southern music. Wednesday, September 12, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires play the Monkey House in Winooski.

r iver h ou Se r eSTauran T: s tump! t rivia Night, 6 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

Club Me Trono Me: FOu ND magazine 10th Anniversary t our, 7 p.m., Free. WRu V & miss Daisy present motown monday (soul), 9 p.m., Free. h igher ground Show CaSe l ounge : Alberta c ross (rock), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA. Monkey h ou Se: Kevin Greenspon, Even the Dew is porous (experimental), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. neCTar’ S: Thre Great Divide (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. metal monday: Filthy minutes of Fame c D release, musical manslaughter, u ntapped, s avage Hen (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on Tap bar & grill : Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

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r adio bean : Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.

r ed Square : Bob Wagner t rio (rock), 7 p.m., Free. industry Night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. r uben Ja MeS: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Signal kiTChen : Am & msR presents: maps & Atlases (indie), 10 p.m., $10. 18+.

northern

Moog’ S pla Ce: s eth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

Tue.11

burlington area

h igher ground ballroo M: The Wombats (rock), 7:30 p.m., $0.99. AA. Mon Ty’S old bri Ck Tavern : Open mic, 6 p.m., Free.

on Tap bar & grill : t rivia with t op Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. r adio bean : s tephen c allahan and mike piche (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Nick Losito (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Joe Redding (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Honky-t onk s essions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. r ed Square : Ellen powell (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. c raig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free. r ed Square blue r oo M: DJ Frank Grymes (EDm), 11 p.m., Free.

T bone S r eSTauran T and bar : t rivia with General Knowledge, 7 p.m., Free.

central

baCk To ver Mon T pub : John Gillette & s arah mittlefeldt (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

Charlie o’S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

Two bro Ther S Tavern : t rivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

northern

Moog’ S pla Ce: Open mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

1/2 l ounge : Rewind with DJ c raig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free.

Manha TTan pizza & pub : Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

Monkey h ou Se: Am & msR presents: Lee Bains iii & the Glory Fires (rock), 9 p.m., $10.

18+. neCTar’ S: Dwight Richer t rio (blues), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. one pepper grill : Open mic with Ryan Hanson, 8 p.m., Free. on Tap bar & grill : pine s treet Jazz, 7 p.m., Free. r adio bean : Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish s essions, 9 p.m., Free.

f ranny o’S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

r ed Square : s tarline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 7 p.m., Free. DJ c re8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

h igher ground Show CaSe l ounge : Aer, Yonas, David Dallas, Jacon Es (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $12/14. AA.

Skinny pan Cake : Ed Grasmeyer and Joshua panda (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Jp’S pub : Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free.

T bone S r eSTauran T and bar : c had Hollister (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

central

bagi ToS: Acoustic Blues Jam with the u sual s uspects, 6 p.m., Free. guSTo’S: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

CiTy l iMiTS: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

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big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. thE bLAck Door, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 225-6479. brEAkiNg grouNDS, 245 Main St., Bethel, 392-4222. thE cENtEr bAkErY & cAfE, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500. cAStLErock Pub, 1840 Sugarbush Rd., Warren, 5836594. 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.

LocAL foLk SmokEhouSE, 9 Rt. 7, Waitsfield, 496-5623. mAiN StrEEt griLL & bAr, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. muLLigAN’S iriSh Pub, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545.

NuttY StEPh’S, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090.

PickLE bArrEL NightcLub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. thE PizzA StoNE, 291 Pleasant St., Chester, 875-2121.

PoSitiVE PiE 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453.

PurPLE mooN Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. thE rESErVoir rEStAurANt & tAP room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827.

SLiDE brook LoDgE & tAVErN, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202.

South StAtioN rEStAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1736. tuPELo muSic hALL, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 698-8341.

bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. bLAck cAP coffEE, 144 Main St., Stowe, 253-2123. thE brEWSki, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. broWN’S mArkEt biStro, 1618 Scott Highway, Groton, 584-4124. choW! bELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. cLAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053. coSmic bAkErY & cAfé, 30 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0800. 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, 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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NAkED turtLE, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200. oLiVE riDLEY’S, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200. tAbu cAfé & NightcLub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-0666. thErAPY, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-561-2041.

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

DAN’S PLAcE, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. gooD timES cAfé, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444.

ND’S bAr & rEStAurANt, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. oN thE riSE bAkErY, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787.

South StAtioN rEStAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1730.

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StArrY Night cAfé, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. tWo brothErS tAVErN, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

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1/2 LouNgE, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012.

242 mAiN St., Burlington, 862-2244.

AmEricAN fLAtbrEAD, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999.

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Ceramics made in this way also acquire visible physical properties that an electric- or gas-fi red kiln can’t replicate. Wood ash gets deposited on the surface of objects as they bake, forming a natural glaze and producing “di° erent gradients of brown coloring” for the pots, Quinlan explains. “Pieces made in an electric-fi red kiln will come out the same 100 times out of 100. Wood fi ring will produce di° erent results 100 times out of 100.”

That’s what motivated Meno to build an old-style kiln. “Electric kilns give very dependable and sort of standardized results,” he says. “I was looking for a more natural aesthetic. There’s also a di° erent market niche f or what comes out of a wood kiln.”

Meno and Quinlan both graduated f rom Marlboro College, where they’d become passionately committed to pottery making. Each of them sells some of the ceramics he produces, but neither manages to make a living from the craft.

Meno works at a metal-fabrication shop in Northampton, Mass., while Quinlan, a Winooski resident, does residential carpentry and construction. He’s also the leader of the Clay Construction Collective, a small group of Burlington-area potters whose skill levels range from rudimentary to advanced.

It’s a stretch, Quinlan says, to make the rent that Shelburne Pond Studios charges f or storing the kiln. That’s one reason he’d like to fi nd it a good home — pref erably closer to, or within, Burlington so that many more potters could have access to the wood-fi red alternative.

A kiln of this kind, while not unique in Vermont, is usually viewed in operation only by “maybe half a dozen people JOSHUA QUINLAN somewhere out in the woods,” Quinlan spiritual experience,” says potter Kileh says. He likens this means of making So why bother? What’s the point of reverting to this most ancient method of Friedman, several of whose pieces will pottery to old-school sugaring, in which pottery production, when electric-fi red, be used at the Art Hop to demonstrate sap gets boiled down by the heat from a the kiln’s workings. “It takes you back to wood fi re. “People love watching that,” computerized kilns o° er a much easier the origins of ceramics.” way to bake clay? Cheaper, too: Meno Quinlan notes. “People are really fasciThe Chinese and Japanese develfi gures it cost him about $15,000 to nated by fi re.” build his wood-fi red kiln in 2002. Even oped a fi rebox-and-fl ue model 1500 And, for one day only, the experience years ago. But vessels were fi rst fi red the two priciest of the three electricwill be available to anyone attending fi red kilns in the BCA Clay Studio retail in simple hearths about 10,000 years the Art Hop. The site won’t be hard to for about one-fi fth what Meno spent on ago, Quinlan notes. “There’s a historifi nd — just look for the smoke spouting cal sense you get with a wood-fi red kiln f rom a tall oven made of bricks with a his wood burner. that’s pretty cool,” he says.

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n addition to the usual displays of paintings and sculptures, this year’s South End Art Hop will feature an unusual hands-on demonstration of a wood-fi red pottery kiln.

Better make that “hands-o° .” Organizers plan to keep spectators at a safe distance f rom the 20-f oot-tall, trailermounted brick structure that will be fi red up to a temperature of 2300 degrees Fahrenheit. Art Hoppers who gather in the Pine Street Studios lot at 339 Pine Street on Friday will nevertheless be able to watch the kiln cook clay objects until they magically morph into glazed ceramics.

Kiln builder Don Meno of Brattleboro will be on hand to help oversee a heating process that takes 12 hours to complete. That’s actually quite quick in comparison with typical wood fi ring.

The fi rebox will be gradually fed two and a half cords of scrap wood f rom a Hinesburg lumber mill. Constant stoking and monitoring are required for the temperature to top out in just half a day, rather than the two days needed by other types of wood-fi red kiln.

“You’ve got to watch the rhythm of the fi re,” explains Chris Vaughn, a technician and teacher in Burlington City Arts’ clay and print studio. Vaughn, Meno and the kiln’s current keeper, Joshua Quinlan, will be able to check the fl ame’s intensity through several “spy holes” punched in the brick exterior.

None of this is dangerous, the kiln’s operators insist. “The worst thing that can happen is that the fi re will die o° ,” says Vaughn, who did a practice runthrough a couple of weeks ago at Shelburne Pond Studios, where the kiln normally resides.

It was transported to Burlington last week on a 20-f oot trailer towed by a DPW truck. The shrink-wrapped tower, with its detached fl ue riding alongside on the trailer bed, presented quite the spectacle as it proceeded up Shelburne Road at a speed Vaughn describes as “caref ully miles per hour.” It’ll take a few hours for the kiln to be reassembled prior to being fi red, Vaughn notes — and, for its trip home, the entire procedure must be repeated in reverse.

WOOD FIRING WILL PRODUCE DIFFERENT RESULTS100 TIMES OUT OF 100.

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tAlks & events ‘creAtive coMpetition’: Artists bring a work of any size and medium and face off in a people’s-choice competition. $8 entry fee; winner takes all. Friday, september 7, 6-10 p.m., The Root gallery at Rlphoto, burlington. info, 540-3081. figure drAwing And coMpositionAl study session: instructor Mark Merrill provides live models and still-life compositions suitable for any medium. Artists bring their own supplies and equipment. $20. Thursday, september 6, 7-9:30 p.m., Main street Museum, white River Junction. info, 356-2776. first fridAy Art wAlk: More than 30 galleries and other venues around downtown stay open late to welcome pedestrian art viewers.

Friday, september 7, 5-8 p.m., various downtown locations, burlington. info, 264-4839. restorAtion gAlA celebrAtion: one year after it was badly damaged by Tropical storm irene, the art center celebrates its reopening with three days of open studios, outdoor exhibits, demonstrations, live music and food. Friday, september 7, 4-9 p.m.; saturday, september 8, 1-9 p.m.; sunday, september 9, 1-6 p.m., the whetstone studio for the Arts, brattleboro. info, 257-4073. south end Art hop: burlington's south end Arts District comes alive with art shows, open studios, demos, workshops, outdoor sculpture, performance art, fashion shows and more. For a full schedule, visit seaba. com/art-hop/art-hop-events. Friday, september 7, 2-10 p.m.; saturday, september 8, 10 a.m.-11 p.m.; sunday, september 9, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., various locations, burlington. info, 859-9222.

Anne schAller: Recent paintings by the northfield artist. september 7 through november 2 at Tunbridge public library.

Reception: Friday, september 7, 7-9 p.m. info, 889-9404. dAn bArlow & scott bAer: “green Mountain graveyards,” photographs of Vermont’s historic, artistic and spooky cemeteries. september 7 through 30 at big picture Theater & Café in waitsfield.

Reception: Friday, september 7, 6-8 p.m. info, 496-8994. dierdrA Michelle: “peep show,” tongue-in-cheek acrylic paintings celebrating the holiday marshmallows and the human form. Through october 1 at black horse Fine Art supply in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 7, 5-9 p.m. info, 860-4972. dok wright: “The love of light,” photographs. proceeds benefit Vermont CARes. Through october 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men’s Room in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 7, 5-10 p.m. info, 864-2088. erikA lAwlor schMidt: “Rock paper scissors,” artwork by the perfoming artist. Through october 2 at Feick Fine Arts Center in poultney.

Reception: Friday, september 7, 5-7 p.m. info, 287-8398.

JAMes vogler: “A Trail of breadcrumbs,” abstract paintings inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales.

Through november 2 at walkover gallery & Concert Room in bristol.

Reception: saturday, september 8, 5-7 p.m. info, 453-3188.

Reception: Thursday, september 6, 5-8 p.m. info, 933-6403.

september 7 through 30 at Draker labs in burlington. Reception: wine and appetizers, Friday, september 7, 5-8 p.m. liZA Myers: “nesting instincts,” acrylic paintings depicting ancient stone engravings paired with the wild creatures they represent. september 7 through october 31 at brandon Artists’ guild. Reception: Friday, september 7, 5-7 p.m. info, 247-4337. lynn newcoMb: new works in a show titled “Anvils, bridges and steel.” september 6 through october 31 at Vermont supreme Court lobby in Montpelier.

Reception: Friday, september 7, 5-7 p.m. info, 828-3278.

‘represent’: An annual exhibit featuring examples of work by artists near and dear to the gallery; ‘5 And diMe’: Artwork priced between $5 and $100, in the backspace gallery. september 7-29, 5 p.m.-midnight. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

‘20 MediuMs’: The best of local art exhibited in honor of the 20th annual south end Art hop. september 7-29 at the soda plant in burlington. Reception: Friday, september 7, 5 p.m.-midnight. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

‘lAndscApe AlternAtives’: work by Vermont members of the American society of Media photographers including Carolyn bates, Raj Chawla, Caleb Kenna, brett simison, berne broudy, Andy Dubak, Don Ross and natalie stultz.

septeMber Artists: work by fiber artist Jan brosky, photographer David Juaire, printmaker lyna lou nordstrom and potter susan Delear. Through september 30 at Artist in Residence Cooperative gallery in enosburg Falls.

art listings and spotlights are written by mEgAN jAmES. listings are restricted to art shows in truly public places; exceptions may be made at the discretion of the editor.

verMont photo group AnnuAl exhibit: landscapes and images of nature by fine-art photographers. Through september 29 at pickering Room, Fletcher Free library, in burlington. Reception: sunday, september 9, 1-3 p.m. info, 434-5503. victoriA herZberg & sheryl trAinor: “Following the Muse,” new hand-pulled monoprints and collagraphs. september 7 through 30 at Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction.

Reception: Friday, september 7, 6-8 p.m. info, 295-5901. wylie sofiA gArciA: “Dazzle Camouflage,” paintings, textile works and dresses inspired by the female body and the camouflage paint scheme used on world war i war ships. Through september 28 at living/learning Center, uVM, in burlington. Reception: Thursday, september 6, 5:30-8:30 p.m. info, 656-4200.

Time Machines: Robots, Rockets, and Steampunk Now on exhibit A fanciful exploration of the art of time travel including robots from the Golden Age of sci-fi, the 1930s-1950s and steampunk.

Featuring contemporary steampunk artists Bruce Rosenbaum, Christopher Conte, Daniel Ashby, Tom Banwell, Benjamin Harvey, Thomas Willeford and many more.

gAllery grAnd opening: Artwork and artisan food and crafts by Kimberly bombard, Karen barry, Annalisa parent, Ann McFarren, Chantal lawrence, Tinka Teresa Martell, ben Thurber and others.

Through December 31 at Vermont Artisans Craft gallery in burlington. info, 863-4600.

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JiM Moore: "eccentric Variety performers," photographs of new York City's fringe performers by the photographer who documented philippe petit’s 1974 wire walk between the world Trade Center towers. Through september 30 at Metropolitan gallery, burlington City hall. info, 865-7166.

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kAte longMAid: "Face Time," contemporary portraits. Through september 18 at The gallery at burlington College. info, 862-9616.

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dAvid stroMeyer: "equilibrium," a retrospective of the Vermont artist's monumental-scale, steel-and-concrete sculptural works; 'eMergence': Digital and traditional artwork by members of the first graduating class of Champlain College’s emergent media MFA program. Through september 28 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166.

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Alison bechdel: "Dykes, Dads and Moms to watch out For," artwork spanning the Vermont cartoonist's career, including drawings from "Dykes to watch out For," Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Through october 27 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4510.

briAn collier: "The Collier Classification system for Very small objects," a participatory exhibit of things big enough to be seen by the naked eye but no larger than 8 by 8 by 20 millimeters. Through october 15 at Durick library, st. Michael's College, in Colchester. info, 654-2536.

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Abbey MeAker & AMAndA ZAckeM: "Chapters," photographs that suggest a narrative, guest curated by Seven Days contributor Amy Rahn.

Through september 18 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. info, 985-3848.

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'lAke studies: underwAter explorAtions in conteMporAry Art': paintings, photographs, fiber art, sculpture and a site-specific installation inspired by Daniel lusk's book of poetry Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain. Through october 26 at Flynndog in burlington. Reception: lusk reads his poems. saturday, september 8, 6-8 p.m. info, 363-4746.

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vAnessA coMpton: Mixed-media works, shown in conjunction with 12v-review.indd 1 the 20th Annual south end Art hop. september 7 through november 7 at petra Cliffs in burlington.

Reception: Friday, september 7, 5-9 p.m. info, 657-3872.

philip hAgopiAn: paintings by the new england artist. Through october 3 at salaam and the Men’s store in burlington. Reception: live music and refreshments, Friday, september 7, 6-8 p.m. info, 658-8822.

'An outgrowth of nAture: the Art of toshiko tAkAeZu': Ceramic sculptures inspired by the poetry of the buddhist nun otagaki Rengetzu. Through september 9 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750.

siennA fontAine: “And i eat Meat,” a gluttonous exploration of meat cuts, and the art of butchery, through graphic-diagram-style paintings. Through september 30 at Red square in burlington.

Reception: Friday, september 7, 8-10 p.m. info, 318-2438. uvM stAff Art exhibit: work in a variety of media, in honor of staff appreciation week. september 6 through 27 at livak Room, Davis Center, uVM, in burlington.

Reception: Tuesday, september 11, noon-1 p.m. info, 656-2060.

pAul gruhler: paintings that explore line, form and color.

Through november 5 at brown library at sterling College in Craftsbury Common. Reception: wednesday, september 5, 5-7 p.m. info, 586-7711, ext. 124.

'sculptfest2012': An outdoor exhibition of sculptural installations by artists responding to the postindustrial landscape. september 8 through october 21 at Carving studio and sculpture Center in west Rutland. Reception: "heritage wall," a large stone block engraved with the names of workers in Vermont's once-thriving marble industry, is dedicated; live music by swing noire; fine-art raffle at 7 p.m. saturday, september 8, 5-8 p.m. info, 438-2097.

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'shots!': photographers Jon olsen, Fred stetson, Tom way, Victoria blewer and John Churchman interpret the same five themes to create 25 pictures. september 7 through 30 at Frog hollow in burlington.

Reception: Friday, september 7, 5-8 p.m. info, 863-6458.

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Kathleen Caraher & eri Ka White : Art Affair by Shearer presents acrylic paintings by the Shelburne Community School art teachers. Through September 30 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Info, 658-1111.

Katie Grauer : "Chairs," large-scale paintings of bright, patterned chairs. Through September 30 at The Firefly in Burlington. Info, 559-1759.

'Mobile- o-Graphy' : Photographs taken on smartphones. Through September 23 at Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

'Sno W Mobile S: Slei Gh S to Sled S': Early, experimental snowmobiles, machines from the ’60s and ’70s, and today’s high-powered racing sleds, as well as horse-drawn sleighs; 'Man-Made Quilt S: Civil War to the pre Sent' : Quilts made by men; elizabeth berdann : "Deep End," miniature watercolor portraits on pre-ban and prehistoric mammoth ivory; 't iMe MaChine S: r obot S, r oCKet S and Stea Mpun K': Toys, textiles and art representing the golden age of sci-fi, the 1930s to ’50s, as well as work by contemporary artists and designers. Through October 28 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346.

‘Camera Work: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, and Company’

In 1903, when Alfred Stieglitz published the first issue of his pioneering journal Camera Work, photography wasn’t considered a fine art. The prolif eration of Kodak box cameras gave any old amateur photographer the ability to snap haphazard shots. So Stieglitz invited an elite group of artists, including fellow photographers Edward Steichen and Paul Strand, to contribute work to the journal, which promoted the medium as a means of personal expression, and as a legitimate art form. Explore Stieglitz’s legacy, as well as issues of his journal, through October 28 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Pictured: “The Hand of Man” by Stieglitz.

SuMMer Sho W: Work by Joan Hoffman, Lynda McIntyre, Johanne Durocher Yordan, Anne Cummings, Kit Donnelly, Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, Don Dickson, Kari Meyer and Gaal Shepherd.

Through September 30 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. t erry abra MS: Photographs of Turkey. Through September 30 at North End Studio A in Burlington.

Info, 863-6713. t erry Findei Sen: Still-life and landscape paintings by the Vermont artist and architect. Through September 29 at Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Info, 862-1001.

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'1861-1862: t oWard a hiGher Moral purpo Se': An exhibition exploring the experiences of Norwich University alumni who fought in the Civil War, featuring photographs, artwork, weapons and equipment, including a cannon likely used by Norwich cadets.

Through April 30 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183.

26th annual Quilt exhibition : More than 50 quilts by Windsor County participants in a quilt challenge, plus ongoing quilting activities and demonstrations. Through September 23 at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. Info, 457-2355.

'aFter irene Flood Gate S art proje Ct' : More than 250 6-inch-square artworks made by community members in response to Tropical Storm Irene. Open to the public on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Through September 29 at 3 Elm Street in Waterbury. Info, sarahlee@revitalizingwaterbury. org. anCi Slova K: "What We Cannot Say," a retrospective of the late Vermont artist dedicated to the doctors, nurses and staff at CVMC. Through September 9 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, maureen.oconnorburgess@cvmc.org.

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Call to artists lake PlaCid Center for arts: Artists are invited to drop off two works between september 4 and 8 from 1 to 5 p.m. A $20 nonrefundable entry fee applies. There will be an opening reception and awards presentation on september 14 from 5 to 7 p.m.

Info, 518-523-2512.

Vermont Hs PHotograPHers: 3rd Annual Vermont hs student photographer exhibition.

Darkroom Gallery: personal style. Free entry deadline: september 26. Juror: st.

Michael’s photography instructor Jordan Douglas. sponsored by fotovisura.com. darkroomgallery.com/ex35.

Call to artists: The Fletcher Free library is looking for local, talented painters, photographers and sculptors for an october/ november exhibition. Info, 355-5485.

CHandler HolidaY BaZaar: chandler Arts seeks submissions of arts, fine crafts, food products and more to be juried on october 8 for the holiday bazaar. Info, chandler-arts.org.

‘red’: A juried photography exhibition at Darkroom Gallery. Deadline: september 19. Jurors: lenswork’s Brooks Jensen and Maureen Gallagher. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex34.

Crafters Wanted!

Annual holiday showcase and craft fair, on november 17, is seeking crafters and demonstrators. Registration deadline: november 1. Info, 782-6874 or fairfaxcraftfair@ yahoo.com. neW sPaCe seeks fine art: seeking 2-D art for Burlington location for oneto three-month rotation beginning now. please email three JpeG submissions, artist website and a brief description of the work to anna@eastshorevineyard. com.

Call to art oWners: Bryan Memorial Gallery requests the submission of privately owned fine art by deceased artists for exhibition and sales in its galleries this fall.

Info, info@bryangallery.org or 644-5100. restaUrant art: hang your work in a fine-dining atmosphere. chow!Bella Restaurant and Twiggs @ chow!Bella are looking for artists to exhibit their work on a three-month rotation. chow!Bella is located at 28 north Main street in st.

Albans. If interested, email wendi Murphy, wcmurphy06@hotmail.com, with at least two images of your work or your web address. no charge to hang; no commissions.

'BrUsH and lens times fiVe': paintings and photographs by Karin Gottlieb, Robin lahue, linda Maney, Jack sabon and Missy storrow. Through september 7 at city center in Montpelier. Info, 793-6038.

Call to Craft Vendors: south Burlington’s University Mall is holding its annual Fall craft Fair, saturday, october 13. There are 10-by-10-foot spaces at a reasonable rate.

Info, 863-1066, ext.11. lgBt and allY art: RoTA Gallery is holding an open call for lGBT and ally artists to submit pieces that will help to further showcase the diversity of our community.

Info, Matt hall, 518-5630494 or rotagallery@gmail. com. street artists needed: Get involved in Art hop and paint during a live concert by a local band. Info, pj@ artsriot.com.

'emergenCe': large-scale works by artists from Vermont and beyond make up the inaugural exhibit in the former Fellows Gear shaper Factory building. Through november 1 at The Great hall in springfield. Info, 258-3992. gerard rinaldi: "homage to Giorgio," still lifes inspired by the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi.

Through september 28 at Governor's office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

JoY HUCkins-noss: pastel landscapes by the Vermont artist. Through september 8 at contemporary Dance & Fitness studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676.

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'off tHe Wall': sculptural works in a variety of media; roBert CHaPla: "Baled to Abstraction," paintings; d'ann CalHoUn fago: A 75-year retrospective. Through september 8 at studio place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. ria Blaas: large-scale sculptures and installations, puppets, furniture, paintings, and tableware.

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CHristine destremPes: "stream of conscience: River of words," a community art project in which participants write their thoughts and memories of water onto tiles, which are arranged like a river on the museum grounds. Through september 9 at Montshire Museum of science in norwich. Info, 649-2200.

Call for dark art: The s.p.A.c.e. and Backspace Galleries are looking for artwork that best defines the “art of horror.” we accept 2-D, 3-D and photography.

Deadline: september 17. To submit: bit.ly/MJtn1K.

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CHristian tUBaU arJona: "Textures of the earth," photographs that invite the viewer to contemplate the transparencies of autumn leaves, the colors of a stone's strata and the purple veils of light at dusk. Through september 21 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 272-0827.

riVer arts Call to artists: Display your work at River Arts in Morrisville, which is an open studio weekend hub site, october 6 and 7. Juried. Info, riverartsvt.org or 888-1261.

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'BigBike sHoW': An exhibition featuring new prints by edward Koren and custom bikes by Zak hinderyckx, in celebration of nearby Green Mountain Bikes' 25 years in business. Through september 30 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

Info, 767-9670.

CreatiVe ComPetition_004: presented by the Root Gallery. $8 entry fee. people’s-choice vote; winner takes all (compounded entry money). limit one piece, any size, media or subject. First Friday of every month, 6-10 p.m. Vote for your favorite piece until awards ceremony at 8:30 p.m. location: Rlphoto, 27 sears lane, Burlington.

Info, publicartschool@ gmail.com.

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PUBliC art ProJeCt: BcA center and Redstone are accepting proposals for new public artwork to be the defining landmark for a hotel planned on st. paul street in Burlington.

Deadline: october 19, 5 p.m.

Info, burlingtoncityarts. org/uploadedFiles/ BurlingtoncityArts-org/ community/Art_in_public_ places/stpaulsculptureRFp Reissue.pdf.

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Katie Grauer At 72 by 72 inches, Katie Grauer’s paintings of extravagantly

upholstered armchairs are larger than life. Using bold oranges, lime greens and

shimmering gold, the Baltimore artist draws attention to her chairs, but situates each on a similarly colored background, so that it appears somewhat camouflaged. The result, on view at Burlington’s Firefly Gallery in a show called “Chairs,” is mesmerizing.

Notably, each chair is empty, inviting the viewer to imagine what that smooth upholstery might feel like on the back of the thighs. Through September 30. Pictured: “Chair.”

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Stuart EldrEdgE & Marion SchuMann: "A Love Story in Paintings and Letters," artwork and correspondence by the Springfield couple, who met at New York City's Art Students' League in the 1930s. Through October 8 at Springfield Art and Historical Society at the Miller Art Center. Info, 885-4826. 'thE uncoMMon thrEad': Contemporary quilts and fiber art by eight of the region’s top fiber artists. Through October 21 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018.

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'autuMn lEavES': Monoprints by Casey Blanchard, jewelry by Bruce Baker and collage by Linda Durkee. Through September 30 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222. 'caMEra Work: StiEglitz, StEichEn, Strand and coMpany': An exhibit highlighting three luminaries of American photography — Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Paul Strand — and featuring issues of Steiglitz's pioneering journal Camera Work, which was published between 1903 and 1917. Through October 28 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. dick & nancy WEiS: Large-scale acrylic paintings

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Nancy. Through October 5 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071. dona ann McadaMS: "A View From the Backstretch," photographs and audio stories from the venerable Saratoga racecourse. Through September 8 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

'Full houSE': Christine Holzschuh, Kitty O'Hara, Mareva Millarc, Meta Strick and Chikako Suginome each fill a gallery room with a completed body of work. Through September 29 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. nini cranE: Vermont barn and landscape scenes in watercolors, oils, pastels and acrylics. Through September 30 at Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg. Info, 482-2878. 'takE ME to thE Fair: an addiSon county tradition': Photographs of the 2011 fair by Markham Starr, plus 19th- and early-20th-century fair posters, ribbons, photographs and other ephemera from the Sheldon collection. Through November 10 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury.

Info, 388-2117. 'thE dElight oF dEcoyS': A bird decoy for each of the 25 years the museum has been open.

Through October 31 at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Info, 434-2167. toM MErWin & dianE laFontainE: "Maui Artist in Residence," Merwin's Vermont landscapes paired

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

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charlie hunter & susan aBBott: "Vermont: A Place Apart," new paintings of the Vermont landscape. Through October 31 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943. chelsea spear & Marjorie KraMer: Landscape, cityscape and self-portrait paintings by Kramer; landscape and floral paintings by Spear.

Through October 8 at White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. Info, 563-2037.

Share Now, a central Vermont organization that facilitates affordable shared-housing situations (through September 7). At River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261. john caggiano: "Vermont: A Romantic Journey," paintings by the plein-air artist. Through September 26 at Galleria Fine Arte in Stowe. Info, 253-7696. l. Michael laBiaK: "Painter of Light," New England landscapes in watercolor or oils. Through October 7 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

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MatheW pardue: Paintings in oil of the Shelburne Farms area. Through September 23 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053. otto: "A Need for Space," oil paintings. Through September 29 at Montgomery's Café in Newport.

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dorothy Martínez: "We the People," more than 50 figurative paintings celebrating political change in America. Through November 12 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

richard BroWn: "Vintage Tasha Tudor," photographs of the Vermont illustrator's early-19th century lifestyle. Through September 25 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 467-3701.

dusty Boynton: Paintings, works on paper and structured reliefs; 'iMpressed: VerMont printMaKers 2012': Work by Vermont artists in the print medium. Through September 9 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

'the VerMont landscape': Work by self-taught Vermont artists Merrill Densmore, Lawrence Fogg and Dot Kibbee. Through October 9 at GRACE in Hardwick. Info, 472-6857.

'exposed': This annual outdoor sculpture exhibit includes site-specific installations by 17 regional and international artists around the gallery grounds, along the bike path and throughout town.

Through October 13 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. henry Kiely: Large paintings of utilitarian objects on white, gessoed backgrounds (through October 14); john lazenBy: "The Portrait Project," photographs of people who participate in Home

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tore through the lower half of Brattleboro’s Whetstone Studio for the Arts during Tropical Storm Irene, local camera crews waited in a nearby parking lot to catch the building collapsing completely — but it never did. A year later, the art center, which used to house a dozen artist studios, has been restored. To celebrate the reopening, Whetstone is hosting three days of events — September 7 through 9 — including outdoor

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movies Lawless ★★

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hy a movie doesn’t work is not necessarily a complicated or mysterious thing. Sometimes the reason is surprisingly simple. Take the case of Lawless. Despite everything the production has going for it — a great director, a gif ted screenwriter, an inspired score and more acting talent than you can shake a Thompson gun at — it doesn’t work. At fi rst glance, that may seem ba° ing.

So let’s take a second glance. The latest f rom Australian-born fi lmmaker John Hillcoat (The Road) is based on Matt Bondurant’s 2008 f act-based novel The Wettest County in the World . It’s a fi ctionalized account of his bootlegging grandfather and two grand-uncles and of events that took place in Franklin County, Va., during the early 1930s.

See, here’s your problem:The Wettest County is just not a particularly interesting book.

All the money and moviemaking savvy in the world can’t turn ho-hum source material into riveting cinema, so it should come as no surprise that Lawless does not rivet. There’s a reason why nobody’s made a motion pic-

ture about the Bondurant Boys bef ore now.

As ruthless, gun-toting gangs go, they’re kind of on the snoozy side.

You know a character’s dull when Tom Hardy can’t make anything memorable out of him. He’s one of the fi nest, most inventive actors on the planet, yet his Forrest Bondurant, the oldest of the brothers and the brains of the outfi t, is a bore who grunts incoherently and f avors cardigan sweaters. He has a reputation as the toughest man in the Appalachian hills, but presents like a mumbly Fred MacMurray.

Hardy is British. Middle brother Howard, the outfi t’s enforcer, is played by the Australian actor Jason Clarke. The runt of the litter, Jack, is played by Transformers series star Shia LaBeouf (really). Taking these three seriously as siblings, each sporting his own distinctive accent, requires big-time suspension of disbelief, to put it kindly.

As completely reimagined by Bondurant and adapted by Nick Cave, the author’s forebears’ story is a bloody but straightf orward one: They run moonshine. When a f ederal

FAMILY FEUD Hillcoat tells the ho-hum story of three brothers who fi ght for their right to run moonshine.

special agent f rom Chicago named Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce) arrives on the scene demanding a piece of the action, they refuse to cooperate. Shooting ensues. The end.

Hillcoat takes various stabs at padding the saga in an attempt to make it seem more epic than it really is. He has Pearce play Rakes as a sadistic, glove-wearing dandy.

He has Gary Oldman commit a selection of violent acts in a cameo as a big-city crime boss. He has Jessica Chastain play a former showgirl who falls for Forrest, and Mia Wasikowska play a preacher’s daughter who falls for Jack. Neither of these narrative tangents nor the production’s numerous quirky

touches (a hillbilly rendition of the Velvet Underground's “White Light/White Heat”?) add much to the proceedings, unfortunately.

They just make the movie longer than you’re likely to wish it were.

On the upside, it’s not as though anyone who’s hankering for a Hillcoat period piece, scripted by Cave, about a band of brothers on the wrong side of the law has to make do with this watered-down concoction. The director mixed pretty much the same ingredients in 2005 in The Proposition, and the result was strong stu˛ . That was a movie that worked.

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ridesmaids has led something of a mini-movement toward romantic comedies that refl ect romantic realities. Movies in the 27 Dresses mold, with their pastel palettes, clean language and simpery heroines whose main fl aw is “caring too much f or others,” now seem a bit passé.

Coscripted by its star, Rashida Jones, Celeste & Jesse Forever embodies a new trend of relationship fl icks with sharp-tongued heroines who cuss like sailors, drink like fi sh, screw up their own romantic opportunities and don’t always get happy endings. That sounds promising, but Celeste & Jesse , directed by Lee Toland Krieger, su˛ ers from a wobbly structure and general lack of inspiration. It’s not terrible, but in a crowded fi eld, it isn’t sharp enough to stand out.

The fi lm opens with a solid joke: Celeste and Jesse (Jones and Andy Samberg) are getting divorced after several years of marriage, and they’re better friends than ever. In fact, the duo get along so f amously, practically fi nishing each other’s sentences, that their weirded-out friends, an engaged couple (Ari Graynor and Eric Christian Olsen), ask f or time away from them.

Why are these two splitting? The reason is f amiliar, both f rom movies and f rom lif e:

Celeste has drive; Jesse doesn’t. She’s a wellgroomed trend spotter for a top LA marketing agency; he dabbles in art and likes to surf.

Or, as Celeste puts it, the father of her children should at least have a checking account.

It’s a provocative setup. Traditional wisdom says women always marry up the success ladder, which raises the question of what happens when they don’t. Can an alpha female be happy with a beta male who’s a great partner in every respect but worldly achievement? Plenty of recent comedies, starting with Knocked Up, have explored this conundrum, but always f rom the perspective of the fun-loving man-child courting the perfectionist ice queen.

Jones has played her share of blandly attractive characters who f unction as straight women to the f unny guys (particularly in I Love You, Manand on “The O˙ ce”). When she wrote Celeste & Jesse with Will McCormack (who also appears in the fi lm), she may have wanted to explore the messy reality behind the rigidity. Early scenes establish Celeste as uptight and humorless in public. But the movie gets under her skin as we discover that she needs Jesse, who loosens her up, as much as he needs her, if less openly. Naturally, Celeste realizes this too late — when her ex has already taken her advice and started moving on.

DIVORCE, MILLENNIAL STYLE Jones and Samberg play an odd couple whose split brings them closer in Krieger’s dramedy.

The movie has the loose structure of a semi-improvised comedy, with skit-like scenes of Celeste enduring disastrous dates, or drowning her sorrows in a giant bong, that never quite come together. Sometimes it lurches into a more dramatic mode, with the camera capturing Celeste’s anguish in closeups. Director Krieger never nails the rhythm that would allow him to make these transitions without jarring the audience. (He had a similar problem with his previous feature, The Vicious Kind, another sort-of-comedy of angst.) When the fi lm wanders into a mishandled subplot about a teen pop star (Emma Roberts) — a f rothy detour that would f eel more at home in a traditional rom com — it feels like no one’s in the driver’s seat.

If nothing else, Celeste & Jesse establishes Jones as more than a likable second banana to Amy Poehler, the role she’s been playing on “Parks and Recreation.” She holds her own, but her character never evolves much beyond the elementary insight that happiness sometimes means relaxing your standards and not being quite so judgmental. It’s a message f amiliar f rom Jane Austen and every rom com she ever inspired, but here it lacks f ollow-through. Jones and McCormack have bravely chosen not to go f or the traditional relationship-movie conclusion, but they haven’t put much of substance in its place. Bittersweet nostalgia forever!

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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS★★1/2 Hasn’t he grown up yet? The titular weakling (Zachary Gordon) returns for a summer adventure wherein he attempts to pass himself off as the employee of a swanky country club in the third installment in the kid-aimed comedy series. With Steve Zahn, Robert Capron and Devon Bostick. David Bowers directed. (93 min, PG. Bijou, Sunset) THE EXPENDABLES 2★★1/2 The team of mature male action stars is back for another go-round, this time on a revenge mission in enemy territory. Butts are liable to be kicked by Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, while Liam Hemsworth is the token millennial. Simon (Con Air) Green directed. (103 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Sunset)

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BRAVE★★★1/2 In the latest Pixar animation, set in ancient Scotland, a feisty princess decides to defy standard female roles and go all Hunger Games with her bow and arrow, then must face the consequences. With the voices of Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters and Emma Thompson.

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THE BOURNE LEGACY★★★1/2 Tony (Michael Clayton) Gilroy directs the fourth in the conspiracythriller series, in which Jeremy Renner (playing a new character) takes over Matt Damon’s punching and kicking duties. With Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Joan Allen and David Strathairn. (135 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Sunset)

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Sundance hit is a near-future fantasy about a delta community grappling with radical environmental change, told from the perspective of a 6-year-old girl (Quvenzhané Wallis). With Dwight Henry and Levy Easterly. Benh Zeitlin makes his feature directorial debut. (93 min, PG-13. Roxy, Savoy)

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movies 6:50, 9:20. The odd Life of timothy Green 1:05, 3:30, 6. ParaNorman 12:15, 2:30 (3-D), 4:45 (3-D). The Bourne Legacy 3:20, 6:15, 9:10. The campaign 7, 9:05. Hope Springs 3, 6:30. The Dark Knight Rises 8:15. Ice Age: continental Drift 4:40. The Avengers 8:35. Brave 1. friday 7 — thursday 13 *The cold Light of Day 1:15, 3:45, 7, 9:10. *The Words 1, 3:30, 6:45, 9:05. 2016: obama’s America 1:25, 4:05, 6:30, 8:45. Lawless 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:15. The Possession 1:10, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:20. Premium Rush 6:40, 8:50. The Expendables 2 7:15, 9:35. The odd Life of timothy Green 1, 6:25.

ParaNorman (3-D) 1, 3:05, 5:10. The Bourne Legacy 6:10, 9:10. The campaign 4:15, 6:25. Hope Springs 1:30, 4. The Dark Knight Rises 1, 8:35. Ice Age: continental Drift 1:30. The Avengers 3:35, 8:40. Brave 3:40.

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The oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure 12, 2, 4. The Possession 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:20, 9:40. Hit and Run 12:35, 9:05. Premium Rush 12:15, 2:30, 7:05, 9:20.

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7. ParaNorman 6.

The Expendables 2 7.

Hope Springs 8.

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wednesday 5 — thursday 6 celeste & Jesse Forever 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:10. Peace, Love & misunderstanding 1:20, 6:30. Hit and Run 3:20, 8:40. The Bourne Legacy 3:30, 8:30. Hope Springs 1:15, 6:20. Beasts of the Southern Wild 1:10, 3:05, 5:05, 7, 9:20. The Intouchables 1:25, 4, 6:50,

9:05. moonrise Kingdom 1:05, 3:10, 5:10, 7:20, 9:15. friday 7 — thursday 13 *Where Do We Go Now? 1:15, 6:40. *The Words 12:55, 2:55, 4:55, 7:05, 9:05. celeste & Jesse Forever 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:10. Beasts of the Southern Wild 1:10, 3:05, 5:05, 7, 9:20. The Intouchables 1:25, 4, 6:50, 9:25. moonrise Kingdom 1:05, 3:10, 5:10, 7:20, 9:15.

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wednesday 5 — thursday 6 Farewell, my Queen 1:10, 3:45, 6:50, 9:10. Lawless 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20. The oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 12:45, 2:40, 4:40, 6:35. The Possession 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30.

Premium Rush 1:25, 4:05, 7, 9:30. The odd Life of timothy Green 1, 3:35.

ParaNorman 3:55, 6:25.

Ruby Sparks 6:55, 9:25.

The Bourne Legacy 12:55, 8:40. The campaign 12:50, 2:50, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15. Hope Springs 1:05, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15.

The Dark Knight Rises 8:30.

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ParaNorman 1:35 (except Fri). Ruby Sparks 3:50, 6:55, 9:25. The Bourne Legacy 9:05. The campaign 3:55 (except Fri), 7:05, 9:10. Hope Springs 1:05, 3:30, 6:30.

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Screen 2: The Possession at dusk, followed by The Dark Knight Rises.Screen 3: Hit and Run at dusk, followed by The Expendables 2. Screen 4: Brave at dusk, followed by Ice Age: continental Drift, followed by ParaNorman.

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and Steve Martino directed. (93 min, PG. Essex, Majestic, Sunset) THE INTOUCHABLES★★★ In this hit from France, a young daredevil from the Paris slums (Omar Sy) brightens the life of a wealthy quadriplegic (François Cluzet) when he becomes his personal assistant. Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano directed.

(112 min, R. Roxy) LAWLESS★★ Tom Hardy and Shia Labeouf play bootlegging brothers in 1930s Virginia in this gangster epic based on Matt Bondurant’s book The Wettest County in the World. With Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke. John (The Road) Hillcoat directed. (110 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe, Welden) MOONRISE KINGDOM★★★★1/2 Writer-director Wes Anderson returns with this whimsical period drama, set in the 1960s, in which two kids on a bucolic New England island decide to run away together. With Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray.

(94 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Roxy) THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN 1/2★ Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton play a childless couple who, instead of adopting, bury their wishes for their ideal child in their backyard — only to find said kid sprouting there. Peter Hedges directed this Disney drama. (104 min, PG. Essex, Majestic, Palace) THE OOGIELOVES IN THE BIG BALLOON ADVENTURE★1/2 Billed as “From the marketing visionary who brought you Teletubbies,” this musical fantasy about bright-colored humanoids was designed to appeal to tots who have trouble keeping quiet in theaters — and their parents. All others: Be warned. Toni Braxton, Cloris Leachman and Christopher Lloyd star. Matthew Diamond directed. (83 min, G. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace) PARANORMAN★★★ A boy who can communicate with the dead seeks a productive use for his ghoulish talent in this stop-motion animation from Laika, the studio behind Coraline. With the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Chris Butler and Sam (The Tale of Despereaux) Fell directed. (92 min, PG. Big Picture, Capitol, Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis, Palace, Sunset, Welden)

PEACE, LOVE, & MISUNDERSTANDING★★ Jane Fonda plays an aging flower child trying to reconnect with her estranged conservative daughter (Catherine Keener) and grandchildren in this comedy from Bruce (Driving Miss Daisy) Beresford.

(96 min, R. Roxy; ends 9/6) THE POSSESSION★★1/2 A family makes the classic mistake of bringing a haunted box into their home in this horror flick. Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis, Madison Davenport and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star.

Ole (Nightwatch) Bornedal directed. (93 min, PG-13.

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PREMIUM RUSH★★★ Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a bike messenger who finds himself delivering a dangerous package in this thriller from director David (Secret Window) Koepp. With Michael Shannon and Dania Ramirez. (91 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount) RUBY SPARKS★★★1/2 A blocked novelist (Paul Dano) invents the woman of his dreams (Zoe Kazan), only to find she has come to life and he can script her every action, in this offbeat romantic comedy from Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. (95 min, R. Palace) TED★★1/2 A Christmas miracle brings a boy’s teddy bear to life — and, as an adult, he can’t shake the fluffy, obnoxious companion in this comedy with Mark Wahlberg, Joel McHale, Mila Kunis and Giovanni Ribisi. Seth (“Family Guy”) MacFarlane wrote, directed and voice-starred. (106 min, R. Sunset) TOTAL RECALL★★ A blue-collar worker’s vacation in virtual reality turns into a thrill ride that makes him doubt everything about his life in this remake of the 1990 sci-fi flick based on a Philip K. Dick concept.

Colin Farrell plays the Arnold Schwarzenegger role.

With Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel and Bokeem Woodbine. Len (Underworld) Wiseman directed.

(118 min, PG-13. Big Picture) THE WATCH★★★1/2 A bumbling batch of suburban neighborhood watchers find themselves facing a real menace — from extraterrestrials — in this comedy. Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, Rosemarie DeWitt and Billy Crudup star. Akiva (Hot Rod) Schaffer directed. (R. Sunset; ends 9/9)

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Georgia authorities accused former DeKalb County Deputy Marshal Washington Varnum Jr. of unprofessional or deceptive conduct and bad moral character. According to Ryan Powell of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, Varnum tried to serve his own eviction notice and then “provided a sworn statement to the courts that he himself could not be found.”

(Atlanta’s WSB-TV) After leaving several phone messages threatening to burn down the gas station where he used to work in High Springs, Fla., Kalpeshkumar Patel, 40, drove to the station, pulled up to a gas pump, and poured gasoline all over the car and himself. The threat ended when Patel realized he had no lighter and no customers would lend him one. The station owner called police, who arrested Patel.

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Airboat captain Wallace Weatherholt, 63, faces charges of unlawfully feeding an alligator while leading an Indiana family on a tour of the Everglades. The passengers told Florida Fish and Wildlife officers that Weatherholt held a fish over the side of the boat to attract the gator, which bit off his hand at the wrist. Following the attack, FFW officials tracked and killed the gator. They retrieved Weatherholt’s hand from its stomach, but doctors weren’t able to reattach it.

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The Sayonara Effect

Since the Seattle Mariners traded outfielder Ichiro Suzuki in July, Japanese tourism to the Emerald City has dwindled. “It’s really disappointing; it’s an unexpected turn,” said Makota Ogasawara, manager of the Seattle branch of a company that books tours for visitors from Japan. The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that Japan sends more tourists to Seattle than any other country, twice as many as China, the second-highest source of tourists. After Suzuki, already a star in Japan, came to the Mariners 12 years ago, he became the main attraction for Japanese visitors.

Despite the loss, Ogasawara pointed out, “We still have two Japanese players,” citing pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma and infielder Munenori Kawasaki. (Seattle Times) A month after Suzuki’s trade, police said a man smashed a window at the Seattle ballpark’s team store and made off with 16 Ichiro replica jerseys. Nothing else was taken, according to store supervisor Chris French, who said the jerseys originally retailed for $240 apiece but

since Suzuki’s departure had been selling for half that. (Seattle Times)

Tables Turned

A Chicago gun buy-back program paid out $6240 in gift cards to the Champaign-based pro-gun group Guns Save Lives, which turned in “rusty, non-firing junk,” according to the group’s president, John Boch. He indicated most of the money would be used to buy ammunition and four bolt-action rifles for a National Rifle Association-sponsored youth summer camp, boasting, “We are directing funds from people who would work against the private ownership of firearms to help introduce the next generation to shooting safely and responsibly.” (Chicago Sun-Times) When the Ceasefire Oregon Education Foundation offered a $75 gift card for each gun surrendered at a Portland parking lot, gun buyers staked out the periphery and offered to buy guns from people arriving to turn theirs in. Prices started at $80, but many sold for much more, and some buyers immediately sold their guns to other buyers at a profit. “They have a right to buy guns,” police Sgt. Tim Sessions said. “That’s in the Constitution.” (Portland’s Oregonian)

Device of the Week

Specialty retailer Family Christian released the world’s first Christian tablet.

Dubbed the Edifi, the Android-based tablet offers “the ability to use our Holy Bible application, which has 27 different English translations of the Bible,” technology supervisor Brian Honorable said. “It goes along with our mission: trying to get people closer to God.” More than just an e-reader, the Edifi, priced at $149.99, comes with movie-watching capabilities, Christian radio stations and even a web browser with built-in “safe search,” so children won’t “have access to things they shouldn’t have access to,” Honorable explained. “We definitely had to tailor it to our customers.” (Fox News)

Bad News Gets Worse

Baseball’s Worcester (Mass.) Tornadoes not only occupy last place in the fiveteam Can-Am League, but they also had a recent game delayed when their cleaning company showed up right before the first pitch claiming the team owed it more than $4000. The Enterprise Cleaning Co. of Worcester had a court order entitling it to seize the game’s receipts, as well as the team’s uniforms, bats, gloves and other equipment. After league officials promised to pay the bill, the game started an hour late. The Tornadoes lost to Newark, 4-3. (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

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what kinds of tests you’d prefer. Just keep in mind that the more interesting they are, the bigger the rewards are likely to be.

taURUs

(april 20-May 20): according to the religion of ancient egypt, tefnut is the goddess of moisture. in the natural world, she rules rain, dew, mist, humidity and condensation. For humans, she is the source of tears, spit, sweat, phlegm and the wetness produced by sex. in accordance with the astrological omens, i nominate her to be your tutelary spirit in the coming week. i suspect you will thrive by cultivating a fluidic sensibility. you will learn exactly what you need to learn by paying special attention to everything that exudes and spills and flows.

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I’ll bet that a-ha! experiences will arrive at a faster rate than you’ve seen in a long time.

Breakthroughs and brainstorms will be your specialty. Surprises and serendipitous adventures should be your delight. The only factor that might possibly obstruct the flow would be if you clung too tightly to your expectations or believed too fiercely in your old theories about how the world works. I’ve got an idea about how to ensure the best possible outcome. Several times every day, say something like the following: “I love to get my curiosity spiked, my hair mussed, my awe struck, my goose bumps roused, my dogmas exploded and my mind blown.”

gemiNi (May 21-June 20): i’m guessing that

you don’t know the name of the person who sent the first email. it was ray tomlinson, and he did it in 1971. you’re probably also unaware that he originated the use of the @ symbol as a key part of email addresses. now i’d like to address your own inner ray tomlinson, gemini: the part of you that has done valuable work hardly anyone knows about; the part of you that has created good stuff without getting much credit or appreciation. i celebrate that unsung hero, and i hope you will make a special effort to do the same in the coming week.

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aRies (March 21-april 19): life tests you all

leo (July 23-aug. 22): imagine you’re living

in 1880. you’re done with work for the day and are at home enjoying some alone-time leisure activities. What might those be? by the light of your oil lamp, you could read a book, sing songs, compose a letter with pen and paper, or write in your diary. now transfer your

libRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): “Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed,” said the aphorist Henry s. Haskins. That’s good advice for you right now, libra. it’s an auspicious moment for you to set fire to your defeats, letdowns and discouragements — and let them burn into tiny piles of ashes. i mean all of them, stretching back for years, not simply the recent ones. There’s no need to treat them like precious treasures you have an obligation to lug with you into the future. The time is right for you to deepen your mastery of the art of liberation. scoRpio

(oct. 23-nov. 21): Columnist sydney J. Harris told the following story. “i walked with a friend to the newsstand the other night, and he bought a paper, thanking the owner politely. The owner, however, did not even acknowledge it. ‘a sullen fellow, isn’t he?’ i commented as we walked away. ‘oh, he’s that way every night,’ shrugged my friend. ‘Then why do you continue being so polite to him?’ i asked. and my friend replied, ‘Why should i let him determine how i’m going to act?’” i hope you’ll adopt that approach in the coming week, scorpio. be your best self even if no one appreciates it or responds. astrologically speaking, this is prime time to anchor yourself in your highest integrity.

sagittaRiUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): in the 1960 olympics at rome, ethiopian runner abebe bikila was barefoot as he won a gold medal in the marathon race. Four years later, at the summer games in tokyo, he won a gold medal again, this time while wearing shoes. i’m guessing this theme might apply to you and your life in the coming weeks. you have the potential to score another victory

in a situation where you have triumphed in the past. and i think it’s even more likely to happen if you vary some fundamental detail, as bikila did.

capRicoRN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Wikipedia has extensive lists of the biggest unsolved problems in medicine, computer science, philosophy and nine other fields. each article treats those riddles with utmost respect and interest, regarding them not as subjects to be avoided but rather embraced. i love this perspective, and urge you to apply it to your own life. This would be an excellent time, astrologically speaking, to draw up a master list of your biggest unsolved problems. Have fun. activate your wild mind. Make it into a game. i bet that doing so will attract a flood of useful information that’ll help you get closer to solving those problems. (Here’s Wikipedia’s big list: tinyurl.com/listofProblems.) aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s a certain lesson in love that you have been studying and studying and studying — and yet have never quite mastered. several different teachers have tried with only partial success to provide you with insights that would allow you to graduate to the next level of romantic understanding. That’s the bad news, aquarius.

The good news is that all this could change in the coming months. i foresee a breakthrough in your relationship with intimacy. i predict benevolent jolts and healing shocks that will allow you to learn at least some of the openhearted truths that have eluded you all this time. pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): a mother wrote

to the “Car talk” columnists to ask whether it’s possible to cook food on a car engine. she wanted to be able to bring her teenage son piping hot burritos when she picked him up from school. The experts replied that yes, this is a fine idea. They said there’s even a book about how to do it, Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine! i suggest you engage in this kind of creative thinking during the coming week, Pisces.

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Beauti Ful WHile Bu Ying Paint At Ace Hardware out on Rt.2. You were getting paint to help a friend revamp her daughter’s room. We talked about the blue tape. I wish I just asked you right there if you wanted to get a drink or a coffee sometime, because now I am doing this, a bit silly but there is something about you that resonates. When: Wednesday, august 29, 2012. Where: ace Hardware on r t. 2. You: Woman. me: man. #910593

Fat al Bert C HamPlain valle Y Fair Tuesday, 8/28/12, 3:30ish I saw you playing the Fat Albert game with your mom? You were wearing a striped shirt and blue pants. “Nice tan as well.”

I was with my son and you caught my eye. You look very familiar. I saw you again on the slide. I would love to hear from you. : ) When: t uesday, august 28, 2012. Where: Champlain valley Fair Fat albert game. You: Woman. me: man. #910587

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drummer Pla Ying Farm House Your band was playing the beer garden at the Farmhouse on Thursday. I was sitting at a table with a guy (just a friend!). We kept eyeing each other throughout your sets. Edward sometime?

When: Thursday, august 30, 2012. Where: Burlington. You: man. me: Woman. #910599

Pool sHark at mCkee’s It wasn’t too long ago that I watched you shark your way through a couple pool games and a few beers before you asked me to be your girlfriend. We’ve had our ups and downs, but years later, you’re still the only girl I see ... make me the happiest girl alive, and be mine? When: saturday, august 25, 2012. Where: downtown waterfront. You: Woman. me: Woman. #910585

Cro Quet in t He Park We played once and I had to ask you out.

Unfortunately the “timing” wasn’t right and opportunity passed us by. As we played again, I was left to imagine what could have been.

Our meet-ups are sadly far too long apart.

When: sunday, august 26, 2012. Where: o akledge. You: Woman. me: man. #910589

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