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As a lifelong liberal, I cannot share Judith Levine’s excitement about Occupy Wall Street [Poli Psy, October 12]. OWS strikes me as a populist movement of self-proclaimed “common people” (who are actually rich beyond the wildest dreams of most of humanity) supposedly assaulted by an allpowerful minority. Its simplistic blame and victimhood bears resemblance to
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candidate against Kurt; Tim would be the Progressives continued. When he adopted the Democratic label to run for the state senate, Tim was hardly risking his political career to unify the Progs and the Dems; no, he was doing what he needed to do to be elected. And there’s no shame or harm in that. I voted for him and I value his progressive voice in Montpelier, but it’s time for a break from the Progs in Burlington’s mayor’s office. I’ve always identified myself as an independent. I have always voted for Bernie, another independent. I always voted for Peter. I voted for Bob the first time, and I voted for Bob second or third the second time. I appreciate how subtle the distinctions among Democrats and Progressives in Burlington can be. But right now we need a Democrat whose political roots are not Progressive, but unalloyed. The Progressives have become complacent instead of energized. They’ve been less than honest and anything but transparent. They’ve been fiscally reckless, disrespectful of taxpayers and their hard-earned tax dollars, green in name but not in deed, and weak on neighborhoods, quality of life, schools, business environment and economic development. Miro is the man of the moment, the Democrat for Burlington now. He has the Vermont roots, the education, the vision, the commitment to our future and our schools, the financial skills, the relevant experience, the business acumen, the sophistication and prudence to shepherd public-private partnerships for the city’s benefit, and, above all, the integrity to serve with distinction as our next mayor.
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Seven Days readers had strong reactions to our October 12 profile of Green Mountain Power CEO Mary Powell, as well as a news story the following week about GMP’s wind-power installation on Lowell Mountain. One project, many views…
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Protesters on Lowell Mountain have a valid point [“Occupy Lowell Mountain? Despite Court Order, Opponents Camp Near GMP Blasting Zone,” October 19]. I tend to lean against corporate control and destroying Vermont wilderness. But energy policies are really about paradoxes. Wind, wood, geothermal, solar, natural gas, nuclear and hydro are not all evil; nor are any of them perfect. We must choose between this mix in order to have enough electricity. Protesters should explain why they would rather burn fossil fuels and store nuclear waste for 500,000 years than temporarily put wind turbines in a high-wind zone to power tens of thousands of homes. Glenn Fay Jr. Essex
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[Re “Occupy Lowell Mountain? Despite Court Order, Opponents Camp Near GMP Blasting Zone,” October 19]: Before moving to Vermont, I grew up in a small town in West Virginia, where you hear all the horrific stories of mountaintops being desecrated for eternity by coal mining. I absolutely loved it there, but I couldn’t stay because I couldn’t just stand around watching my state destroyed — so I came to Vermont, where mountains still mean something to people. These days, communities throughout West Virginia are begging developers to come and add a little beauty and economic vitality to the land again by building wind farms. To hear a small but vocal group within Vermont comparing wind power to mountaintop removal is truly offensive to those of us who have seen our home state and neighbors destroyed by the real thing. Wind power does not ruin mountaintops; it saves them. It does not take away from our incredible views; it adds to them. What wind power represents — a safe, healthy future for our children here in Vermont — is a powerful vision. What wind power will provide — clean, reliable, local power — is something we need here in Vermont. I am proud to see Vermont move in this direction. It means that, as a nation, we won’t have to rely on dirty and dangerous electricity, and it means we can
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[Re “Occupy Lowell Mountain? Despite Court Order, Opponents Camp Near GMP Blasting Zone,” October 19]: Nobody seems to want wind towers, but everyone wants broadband access. Americans consume electricity at a rate unfathomable only 100 years ago, and global demand is growing at a staggering rate. The sad fact of the matter is there is no “clean” way to produce it; all methods of electrical production come with a devastating ecological cost. Would you prefer coal, hydro or nuclear? Take a look at the impact of coal mines or uranium mines — not to mention nuclear waste disposal issues. Hydro may be the “prettiest” of the lot, but drowning thousands of acres of habitat and the animals that live there is hardly environmentally friendly. Even for solar there is still a devastating mining cost. Could we meet our electrical needs with cow power and methane plants? I hate to see mountaintops destroyed as much as anyone else, but the alternatives are worse. The only real answer is to cut our electrical usage, and I don’t see that happening in America or in the rest of the planet that has widely embraced the American way of life. If anyone has genuinely viable alternatives and can make them affordable for homes and businesses, I hope they will bring them forward and get them distributed far and wide. Otherwise, turn off the lights, the computers, the phones, the multitude of appliances most people now have, and feel good about doing your part to decrease the need for an ever-expanding electrical grid. Cecile Johnston Cabot
$1 Million Morality?
[Re “Occupy Lowell Mountain? Despite Court Order, Opponents Camp Near GMP Blasting Zone,” October 19]: The Nelsons were offered their asking price for their farm, then instead of accepting it and walking away, which is the morally and ethically correct thing to have
done, they chose to counteroffer for $1 million more. The moral bankruptcy of that move needs to be discussed! Green Mountain Power indicated to the Nelsons that if they retained ownership of the farm they could incur up to $1 million in liability relating to work stoppages and the like. However, if the Nelsons had accepted the GMP’s offer, for 100 percent of the Nelsons’ asking price, they would not have been subject to such potential liability. Instead they chose to take a militant stand, contrary to common decency, and demanded $1 million more than their asking price. If an automobile dealer charges more than an advertised price the attorney general gets involved. How is this different? Paul Halbur
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Powell Surge?
Seven Days, really? “Green Mountain Powell” [October 12]? Yikes. At least the cover photograph is accurate: a well-dressed human sitting on top of a “green machine” with only the reflection of a single tree in the background. But why is Mary also in every other photograph in the article? Mary in her office; Mary shoveling a scoop of earth in a tent; Mary at a podium ... Surely you did a great job getting Mary’s Upper West Side perspective. Now would you like to walk though the heart of the forest that is being devastated for a realistic view of the land? Would you like to interview the endangered bats to get their perspective on how they feel about the loss of their habitat, destruction of the wetlands where they feed and drink, and the erecting of the 21 450-foot monsters that kill them? Though wind turbines are a great idea in many lands, in Vermont they are a joke. Don’t just assume that because it is sustainable, it is better. There are many factors to take into consideration that GMP likes to hide from the public. I’ve attended many of these public hearings and have seen the charts of the excessive risks of the project and they far outweigh the benefit. After all is said and done, compared to other wind turbine projects across the United States, just how beneficial is harnessing wind in Vermont? Have you looked it up? You 99 percent who care to investigate the real facts behind why the Lowell wind project is going on — and the many others that are planned, in some of the poorest towns across the state, BTW — should follow the money trail. Also, the surrounding towns were not allowed to vote on the project. Don’t be fooled. P.S. Go solar.
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There’s Something About Mary...
Thank you, Seven Days, for doing a great job capturing the skill and compassion that Mary Powell has brought to Green Mountain Power as its CEO [“Green Mountain Powell,” October 12]. I have known her for years and seen that Mary is a leader with a rare combination of skills — excellent vision and the energy to accomplish it, as well as being highly unusual in applying a human touch while leading one of Vermont’s larger companies. Look at what she has accomplished: contracts with Hydro-Québec and Seabrook for low-cost, low-emission power; building a wind farm in Lowell to greatly increase green energy in Vermont; and figuring out a way to make the utility industry in Vermont more cost effective by merging GMP and CVPS — something that has been talked about for decades. All of us current and future GMP customers, as well as those served by other utilities, are lucky to have Mary working to make Vermont a better place to live. Willem Leenstra Hinesburg
GMP-Commissioned Piece?
This uncritical piece [“Green Mountain Powell,” October 12] prompts the question: Who elected Powell to transform Vermont’s utility landscape, or did you anoint her? CEO Powell may be all Ken Picard describes. But her “efficiency” cum government conflicts of interest also reveal Powell’s antipathy to environmental and social realities. The photos present bizarre “power” metaphors of a woman perched on top of some outdoor apparatus in 5-inch heels, detached from her environment: Does she grasp the impact of inefficient 460-foot wind turbines on the Lowell or other Vermont ridgelines, publicly financed for corporate profit? Her misrepresentations of these projects and her treatment of people who oppose her goals look like systems she likes to “drive a truck through.” Apparently, Powell and Brochu of Gaz Métro aim to consolidate Vermont utilities to determine rates, gas pipelines and renewable options without citizen input. Did GMP commission this article? Its bias should spin Peter Freyne in his grave and calls into question the journalistic integrity of your publication. Annegret Pollard Walden
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Parlez-vous français? Mastery of the language isn’t necessary, but a healthy dose of Francophilia is recommended for Champlain College’s French Cinema Festival. In celebration of National French Week, movie buffs screen five recent French features — including Sylvain Chomet’s charming animation The Illusionist — with subtitles.
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Pop culture has a big love for the 1960s these days, but it’s equally exhilarating to catch Saturday night fever while revisiting the following decade. Don disco duds, hippie clothes or go-go boots for the Barre Opera House Gala: Celebrate the ’70s, the performingarts venue’s biggest fundraiser. Dance it out to the Hitmen, and beware of streakers — just kidding. We hope.
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Abigail Washburn melds East and West so well, it’s hard to tell where to draw the line. Known to sing in Mandarin, the clawhammer banjo player’s latest album — “one of the stronger folk albums in recent memory,” writes Paste — threads elements of ancient Chinese poetry together with Appalachian ballads and airy vocals. Globe-trot along at Club Metronome.
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urlington Telecom — the embattled city-owned utility that launched a thousand mayoral candidacies — may be closer to finding a private partner. SATURDAY, NOV. 5 That’s according to a bimonthly report 8am-4pm delivered to state regulators late Monday by the telecom’s attorney, WILLIAM ELLIS of SUNDAY, NOV. 6 McNeil, Leddy & Sheahan. The memo 10am-2pm says an “out-of-state independent telephone company” that’s been courting BT www.cochranskiclub.org for almost six months remains interested — and is putting together financing to make the deal happen. Members of the city council and Blue k12v-cochrans1011.indd 1 9/16/11 11:35 AM Ribbon Committee were briefed on the potential deal in secret in late September, according to city records. Under the prospective deal, the buyer would purchase all-new equipment to OUR COMMUNITY run BT’s phone, cable and internet serIS PART OF THE vices, according to Ellis’ memo to the WORLD COMMUNITY. Vermont Public Service Board. That’s significant, because the parent HELP US DEVELOP A VACCINE company of Burlington Telecom’s crediFOR DENGUE FEVER tors, CitiCapital, is suing BT in federal court seeking to reclaim the fiber optic Outpatient network. Burlington stopped making Clinical payments on its $33.5 million municipal lease agreement with CitiCapital more Research Study than a year ago. Ellis’ letter suggests that the new suitor — whoever it is — is undeterred by the looming legal battle. CitiCapital wants the city to stop using the BT network but it hasn’t asked the court for “emergency relief” that would fast-track the seizing of those assets, meaning a handover of BT’s • A 1 Year Study with Two equipment is not imminent. That’s good Doses of Vaccine or Placebo news for the city, since all of its key • Healthy Adults Ages 18 – 50 services — including police and fire — depend on BT for phone and internet, • Screening visit, Dosing Visits and pulling the plug would cripple them. and Follow-up Visits Meanwhile, Burlington Telecom is • Up to $2,120 Compensation slowly climbing out of its financial hole, under the watchful eye of turnaround expert TERRY DORMAN of consulting firm Dorman & Fawcett. As of mid-October, For more information and BT was $200,000 in the black, a feat scheduling, leave your achieved through layoffs and cost cutname, phone number, and ting. It’s still not enough to make a dent a good time to call back. in the $17 million it owes to Burlington taxpayers. In short, BT is like that college graduate who — deep in debt and unable to find work — is living back at home with his parents, indefinitely deferring payCall 656-0013 or ment on student loans. fax 656-0881 or email Sooner or later, BT’s gotta move out VaccineTestingCenter@uvm.edu of the basement.
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Republican mayoral candidate and House Rep. KURT WRIGHT made a splash when he proposed selling off the Burlington Electric Department and using the proceeds to pay off Burlington Telecom’s $17 million debt to city taxpayers, among other city IOUs. Before he sticks a “For Sale” sign into BED’s greenbelt, Wright might want to double-check that such a deal is even legal. From a close reading, it appears the city charter and BT’s certificate of public good from the Vermont Public Service Board forbid ratepayer dollars from being used to bail out BT. The relevant charter language reads: “In no case shall funds collected from electric ratepayers be used to crosssubsidize or finance the repayment of
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any debt instrument used to fund the construction, operation or utilization of any new cable television, fiber-optic cable, or other telecommunications network or telecommunications business.” Ironically, it was Wright’s fellow House Republicans who passed this charter language in 2000, before Wright was a state lawmaker. The GOP worried that Burlington would use its taxing authority — or, more specifically, its cash-cow utility, BED — to prop up BT during its start-up phase and gain unfair advantage over private phone and cable providers such as Adelphia and Verizon. Adelphia has since gone bankrupt and was purchased by Comcast. Verizon dumped its landline business onto FairPoint Communications. Unfair advantage? Bwahaha! Wright believes that GOP-authored clause didn’t envision the predicament facing voters today. “I think it was designed to make sure the city didn’t bear
the initial losses,” said Wright. “We’re facing a different scenario today.” Possibly, but a second charter clause notes that if BT is abandoned or curtailed, those costs must be borne by BT’s investors and not “the city’s taxpayers, the state of Vermont” or “electric ratepayers.” Look on the bright side, Kurt. Now you’ve got $17 million in fantasy dollars to spend on something else. Cha-ching!
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When Burlington’s largest labor union endorsed State Sen. TIM ASHE (D/PChittenden) for mayor last week, it made a potent comparison. “We feel like he’s a young version of BERNIE SANDERS and we need more politicians like him,” said BEN JOHNSON, president of the Vermont chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. The trade union represents 3000 workers statewide, including hundreds of nurses and technicians at Fletcher Allen Health Care and professors at the University of Vermont and state colleges. If hordes of them show up to vote at the November 13 caucus, the impact on the four-way race could be significant. Invoking the name of the “Progfather” Bernie Sanders in a contested Democratic caucus in Burlington, however, may not do Ashe any favors. Enough old-guard Democrats already suspect Ashe of not being a real Democrat. Ashe worked as an aide to Sanders years ago and has twice received his endorsement in state-senate campaigns. No word if Sanders will endorse Ashe before the caucus; traditionally, the Vermont’s independent senator stays clear of Democratic primaries. Other members of the Sanders political clan are weighing in. CARINA DRISCOLL, the daughter of JANE O’MEARA SANDERS and stepdaughter of Sen. Sanders, is endorsing … BRAM KRANICHFELD, a city councilor and deputy state’s attorney. “He will bring a new perspective to city hall, and he will connect with people from all walks of life, truly governing from the grassroots,” Driscoll told Fair Game. “Bram has what it takes to be the people’s choice for mayor.” Driscoll is no stranger to Burlington electoral politics. She’s served on the school board and was first elected to
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the city council in 2003 as a Progressive from Ward 3. Soon after resigning in 2004, she left the Progressive Party and has been an active Democrat ever since. Her replacement on the city council was none other than Progressive Tim Ashe. (Ashe is the domestic partner of Seven Days publisher Paula Routly. See disclosure on page 7.)
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Comedian Lizz Winstead brought her national “Planned Parenthood, I Am Here for You” tour to Burlington’s Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center on Saturday night to raise money for the women’s health organization. Lately, Planned Parenthood has been under intensifying attack from Winstead’s favorite punching bags — the Republicans who run Congress and statehouses around the country. Winstead, cocreator of “The Daily Show” and cofounder of Air America radio, has been touring the country since last summer. Last weekend, she performed in Burlington and Manchester, N.H., to benefit Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Gov. Peter shumLin introduced Winstead, noting that his administration is urging the feds to allow women’s health providers such as Planned Parenthood to qualify as primary care providers in the federal health care exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act. “If you’re going to provide men with access to health care, then you should provide complete access for women,” noted Shumlin. “I know, it’s a radical thought in 2011 America.” In 2010, PPNNE served 20,000 patients at 10 clinics scattered around Vermont, providing preventative health care services such as breast exams and cervical cancer screenings. Cutting family-planning funds to Planned Parenthood would force PPNNE to close clinics. Women — many of them low income — could lose access to basic primary and preventative health care, said JiLL KroWinsKi, PPNNE’s public affairs director in Vermont. To hear some vagina demagogues, er, congressional leaders, tell it, access to women’s health care is the biggest threat to the economy since credit default swaps. Winstead told the crowd that she watched in anger earlier this year when Congress — and state legislatures
around the country — tried to defund Planned Parenthood and restrict women from seeking even basic health care services from the organization’s clinics. “If creating jobs is the number-one priority for politicians in this country, why are they so focused on my uterus?” she asked the crowd. “My uterus doesn’t create jobs — in fact, it no longer even does the one job it’s supposed to.” Winstead has hosted more than two dozen benefits for Planned Parenthood and has no plans to stop. “The tour now is almost a lifestyle choice for me,” Winstead told Fair Game in a postshow interview. “It’s not something I can just do occasionally. The right wing already hated me, so I decided that I wanted to do something useful. This tour is it.” At the end of her standup routine — which satirized nearly every Republican candidate running for president as well as President BaracK oBama — Winstead read a more serious essay from her forthcoming book. At 16, she had sex for the first time and became pregnant. Unsure of what to do, and dumped by her then-boyfriend, she saw a bus ad for a teen pregnancy center and decided to visit it. There, after being “counseled,” she realized she was in a Christian clinic where she was told she had two choices: “motherhood or murder.” She left feeling humiliated, ashamed and confused. That’s where the essay ended, but not the story. She told Fair Game that after leaving the clinic she sat on a bus and saw an ad for a Planned Parenthood clinic. She visited Planned Parenthood two days later, where she found the process more humane and supportive. “It was as if they were asking the questions I needed to ask myself but was too immature to know at the time,” said Winstead. “Planned Parenthood has been there for me in every facet of my reproductive health, and now I want to be there for them.” m
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he escalating tension over a proposed new waterfront skatepark has all the elements of a classic Burlington development battle: generational antagonism, class issues, environmental concerns, arguments over aesthetics and, of course, litigation. At issue is a replacement for the existing facility for skateboarders — a set of fenced-in wooden and metal ramps situated just east of the bike path near the Moran Plant. The envisioned skatepark would be nearly double the size and more than twice as expensive as the existing 10,000-square-foot facility that cost $326,000 to build 11 years ago. Metal strips peeling off rotting wood in the current park pose dangers for skaters and bikers, warns James Maguire, a University of Vermont senior interning at the Ridin’ High skateboard shop on the corner of Pearl and Battery Streets. “A cut from a piece of metal sheeting can go pretty deep,” says Maguire, who skates “a healthy amount” at the waterfront park, which, he adds, “is not being properly taken care of.” The city has done what it can to maintain brittle materials weathered by 11 Vermont winters, responds Kirstin Merriman Shapiro, special projects manager in the Community and Economic Development Office. Rather than repair a park with an antiquated design, the city has approved the construction of a more durable and attractive replacement as part of its $4 million Waterfront North infrastructure project. This initiative, funded almost entirely by state and federal sources, involves realigning a portion of the bike path, burying utility lines, digging a storm-water retention pond, doubling the number of nearby parking spaces and installing better lighting on Lake Street. Waterfront North can go forward regardless of whether the Moran Plant makeover ever gets beyond the drawing board, says CEDO director Larry Kupferman. The new skatepark would occupy the site to the northeast of the Community Sailing Center, where a set of roughly sculpted granite slabs, now covered
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with graffiti, were erected 20 years ago. Kupferman says these pieces will be put in storage pending a decision about their reuse. The soil under the sculptures is contaminated with arsenic — residue from the coal pile that fed Moran for 30 years; the plant was taken offline in 1986. The toxic dirt will be scooped up and carted off for treatment before skatepark construction
starts, says CEDO’s Nick Warner. The roller-hockey and bike-polo rink alongside the existing skatepark will not be part of the new park. Discussions are under way with the Green Mountain Derby Dames about relocating the rink to Leddy or another city park, Kupferman says. That’s where a new skateboard facility belongs, as well, according to some
riled-up residents in the surrounding areas. In a recent letter to city planning officials, unnamed “representatives” complain that they are “frequently bombarded with ear-splitting, continuous noise” from events on the waterfront. A skatepark could amp up their headaches to migraine magnitude, they suggest — especially if it gets used at night. To underscore their objections, 47 residents of Lakeview Terrace, North Avenue and Lake Street — including the subject of this week’s cover story, Alan Newman — are contesting aspects of the redevelopment plan in a suit filed recently in Vermont Superior Court. Such legal action could delay construction of the skatepark, tentatively scheduled to begin next spring, Kupferman says. Missing from the list of aggrieved residents are tenants in the mixed-income project at 300 Lake Street. Organizers of the waterfront noise-abatement effort say they have sought unsuccessfully to gain support from occupants of that 40-unit building, which is much closer to both the current and planned skateparks than are the expensive condos and homes overlooking the project on the ridge that runs north from Battery Park. That may be because they are renters, says one aggrieved homeowner, speaking on condition of anonymity, suggesting the conflict is as much about protecting property values as it is about excessive noise and other inconveniences. The absence of fencing around the proposed skatepark is a primary concern for many opponents of the plan. They fear that the park, lit by new street fixtures nearby, will attract skaters long after the posted darkness-hour closing times for the existing park, which is officially open from April through October. A fence will make skaters feel as though they’re “caged,” says Micah Shapiro, lead designer of the new park. It will also destroy the “welcoming feel for families that we want to create there,” Kupferman adds. The 8-foot-high chain-link fence around the existing park isn’t all that effective, acknowledges Cardy Raper, a party to the lawsuit. Skaters sometimes climb over the fence at night, she says.
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themselves against buildings and cause havoc,” Kupferman adds. Josh Eichen, the 25-year-old co-organizer of the Burlington Skatepark Coalition, suggests that the homeowners’ objections arise from “preconceived notions of who skateboarders are and what skateparks are like.” Eichen’s group, which has some 1500 Facebook friends, has raised he is now about $25,000 in private contributions offering the finest for construction of the park. It’s appropriate to site it on the waterfront, estate jewelry he insists, because “that’s the city’s as well! crown jewel and putting it there will show respect for skaters.” Come Look Today! The waterfront “belongs to everyone in Burlington,” Eichen adds. “Neighbors can’t assume the waterfront is their Colchester Burlington front yard.” (Exit 16) (Downtown) Eat 85 South Park Drive Shapiro, who works for Grindline D E S I G N S 176 Main Street Local Pizzeria / Take Out Pizzeria / Take Out Skateparks in Seattle, says the facility Delivery: 655-5555 Delivery: 862-1234 he’s designing will be the best and Casual Fine Dining Tues-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-4 Reservations: 655-0000 Cat Scratch, Kinght Card probably the biggest in New England. 102 Harbor Road, Shelburne & C.C. Cash Accepted The Bakery: 655-5282 Eichen agrees, predicting that “it will 985-3190 attract skaters from all over.” www.juniorsvt.com www.matthewtaylordesigns.com That’s precisely the scenario that is freaking out some of the neighbors. They’re alarmed at the prospect8v-MatthewTaylor110211.indd 1 10/31/118v-juniors110211.indd 2:24 PM 1 11/1/11 5:50 PM of hundreds of destination skaters descending on the waterfront. Maguire, the Ridin’ High intern, fears that opponents of the new park will ultimately prevail. “A lot of us are skeptical that Burlington will allow it to happen,” he says of his fellow skaters. — The Jonathan “Generally, skateboarders get pushed Adler Manifesto aside when it comes to redevelopment. It would be a tragedy, though, if we go backward from having a skatepark on the waterfront to not having one.” Some of those filing suit on the park say they do support local skateboarders and are open to compromises. One NO 32 1/2 CHURCH STREET 861-3035 • TRINKET-VERMONT.COM of their chief complaints, however, is that the city has excluded them 8h-trinket110211.indd 1 10/28/11 2:03 PM from discussions about the new park. “It seems as if the city has had little regard or care for the livability of our neighborhood or of our concerns,” they write in their letter to Burlington planning officials. Kupferman says he has met with the residents on “multiple occasions” and intends to “continue the conversation Bar opens at 4:30 • Dinner service at 5:00 with neighbors whether it’s in court or Seven days a week out.” That’s the residents’ aim as well, affirms their attorney, Sam Hoar. “It’s 5247 Shelburne Road the great hope of the neighbors to Shelburne Village, 985-9877 resolve this issue through negotiations with the city,” he says. m thebeardedfrog.com
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The noise from the park can be disturbing then and at some other times, adds Raper, who lives in the condo development alongside the police station. She notes, though, that calls to the police do bring immediate responses. And she says she’ll be satisfied with the new park if its users abide by the rules that are supposed to govern the existing park. Designer Micah Shapiro assures neighbors that the new concrete facility will produce less noise than the hollow, wooden ramps of the old park. Also in their letter to city planners, the worried homeowners point to “the fact that a skatepark serves only the young.” The perception is reinforced by skaters who claim the new park should be in a central location, such as the waterfront, because many in their ranks aren’t old enough to drive. But the CEDO chief says the new park is intended for “people of all ages.” Moreover, skateboarders today don’t conform to the outlaw image of a decade ago, when they would “throw
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United States, have never seen the painful and often debilitating consequences of vaccine-preventable diseases such as polio, measles, pertussis and diphtheria. About 92 percent of Vermont children receive the measles-mumps-rubella, or MMR, vaccine by age 3. State infectiousdisease experts warn that anything less than 95 percent isn’t enough to guarantee the “herd immunity” necessary to prevent sporadic outbreaks of measles, which is highly infectious and still common in much of the developing world. Why? For one, no vaccine is 100 percent eff ective. Moreover, some children including babies under 12 months old and kids with compromised immune systems, cannot be vaccinated. All 50 states allow exemptions from vaccines for medical reasons; 48 states allow them for religious reasons. About two dozen states, including Vermont, let people refuse to vaccinate their kids on purely philosophical grounds. But, as Raszka points out, states that permit a philosophical exemption have twice the infectious disease rates of ones that don’t.
now-discredited link between the MMR vaccine and autism. This issue fi rst arose in a 1998 article that appeared in highly respected British medical journal the Lancet. The article was discredited as fraudulent when it was discovered that its lead author, Andrew Wakefi eld, manipulated his research data. Convicted of ethical breaches and stripped of his medical license, Wakefi eld received a prison sentence. Nevertheless, despite a broad consensus in the international medical community that the MMR vaccine is safe, Wakefi eld’s paper caused a steep decline in MMR vaccine rates — and corresponding spike in measles outbreaks — in the United States and Britain. Yet the media still perpetuate the myth. Raszka showed an excerpt from a 2008 CNN interview with actress Jenny McCarthy, who claims her son, Evan, developed autism from a vaccine — and was later “cured” of it. The temptation to link correlation with causation is understandable, Raszka says. Children are often diagnosed with
en years ago, Vermont boasted one of the highest rates of childhood immunization in the country. Today, it’s almost dead last, despite near-universal health care coverage for Vermonters under the age of 18. Among children between 19 and 35 months old, Vermont’s vaccine rate is an abysmal 65 percent, the lowest in New England and among the worst in the country. Why the sharp reversal? Last week, more than 250 health care providers from around the state, including many who work for public schools and pediatric practices, gathered in Stowe to discuss why a growing number of Vermont parents are delaying or refusing lifesaving vaccines J E F F H E ATH , for their kids — and what can be done to VE R MO NT D E PAR TME NT O F H E ALTH change their minds. A quick show of hands in the room Bottom line: Parents who choose not to autism spectrum disorder around age 2, revealed that the vast majority of attendees at the 2011 Vermont Immunization vaccinate their kids, or delay vaccines until which coincides with the recommended Conference, organized by the Vermont their children are older, may be putting timing of the MMR vaccine. It’s worth noting that autism rates haven’t changed Department of Health, have encountered others at heightened risk. Who are the refuseniks? They tend to be since the mercury-containing preservative parents who either refuse entirely to vaccinate their children or delay their highly educated, well-read parents. Some thimerosal, which was blamed for causing scheduled shots until the kids are older. distrust the U.S. government or question autism, was removed from most vaccines A smaller but still signifi cant number the infl uence that vaccine manufacturers in 2001. Currently, Vermont’s vaccine of health care providers in the room have over policy makers at the Food and acknowledged that they have dismissed Drug Administration and the Centers for schedule requires eight immunizations, patients who refuse vaccinations from Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, and recommends four more, in order several major pharmaceutical companies, to register a child for public school or their medical practices. Bill Raszka is a pediatric infectious including Merck and Eli Lilly, had roving licensed daycare. Because children today disease specialist at Fletcher Allen Health representatives and exhibit booths at receive more shots than their parents did Care in Burlington. He says the trend in last week’s conference in Vermont. State a generation ago, some parents express cials insist thata fear of “vaccine overload,” or the belief Vermont is consistent with what he hears health department offi from physicians across the country: More neither company paid anything more than that infants’ and toddlers’ immune systems parents are questioning the safety and the standard registration fee. And the front cannot handle the growing number of effi cacy of vaccines or express concern page of the conference schedule off ered shots the CDC recommends by age 4. What can health care practitioners that adverse reactions to them could be this disclaimer: “There are no confl icts of interest for planners-presenters and no do to assuage parents’ fears and boost worse than the diseases they prevent. In one respect, Vermont’s immunization commercial support is being provided for their children’s vaccination rates? Judy Orton, with Green Mountain Pediatrics in program is a victim of its own success, this conference.” A more common concern among Bennington, says she’s not above using scare Raszka suggests. Most Vermonters, including many health care providers parents, Raszka says, is fear of tactics, such as hanging graphic photos who’ve never treated patients outside the complications, often fueled by the of children with vaccine-preventable
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diseases, so parents see the possible consequences of their choices. Unvaccinated patients who show up at her offi ce with rashes and fevers may be triaged in the parking lot, Orton adds. In rare cases, she’s had to “fi re” unvaccinated patients from her practice. Jeanie Cass, a nurse practitioner at Johnson State College, says she often has to prevent students from registering for classes because they’re not current on their vaccines. Many of the same college-aged patients refuse annual fl u shots. Last year, after watching a YouTube video showing a cheerleader who purportedly developed disabling Guillain-Barre syndrome just days after receiving a fl u shot, members of JSC’s basketball team resisted getting the fl u vaccine. Although a swine fl u vaccine in 1976 is believed to have caused rare cases of the autoimmune disorder, fl u vaccines used today do not. The exact cause of the disease remains unknown. Cass says her approach is to “go wherever the students are,” such as classes, team practices and other public events, to explain to them the benefi ts of vaccines. For example, she says that whenever she informs a group of college-aged women that cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease that’s preventable with an HPV vaccine, which the CDC now recommends for teenaged girls and boys, “I tend to see a lot of them the next day.” Jeff Heath, a public health nurse with the Vermont Department of Health in Addison County, says that medical practitioners need to acknowledge that many of their parents’ fears derive from friends or family members who sincerely believe their child was harmed by a vaccine. But rather than denigrating such beliefs or taking off ense, Heath urges practitioners to arm themselves with current and accurate medical data that counter the plethora of junk science available on the internet. “Bring it back around to what the disease really is,” Heath suggests. Remind patients that once community-wide vaccine rates fall below a certain level, it becomes harder and harder to “hide within the herd.” Or as he puts it, “We’re just one plane ride away from a disease penetrating our community.” Finally, while as many as one-third of all parents voice some concerns about vaccine safety, Heath urges medical practitioners to “walk the walk” by vaccinating their own kids — and then share that information with their patients. He says that personal “we’re all in it together” approach goes a long way to assuaging parental fears — even when sound scientifi c evidence does not.
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Franklin County dairy farmer whose migrant workers were removed by the U.S. Border Patrol earlier this year is speaking out about the incident, and about why he hired Hispanic workers to milk his cows. Chris Wagner and his wife own a 300-cow dairy in the town of Franklin, where he’s employed Hispanic workers off and on for the past 10 years. On January 7, 2011, one of his workers was trying to call Mexico and mistakenly dialed 911 instead of 011 to place an international call. When the dispatcher asked the nature of the emergency, the worker allegedly said, “No speak English” and hung up. That 911 hang-up triggered a response from the Vermont State Police, who sent two cruisers to the farm. State police, in turn, called the U.S. Border Patrol to come and “act as an interpreter.” A short while later, three migrant farmworkers were in federal custody, and Wagner was handcuffed in the back of a cruiser. Wagner says he’s speaking out now to clear up what he has long felt are mischaracterizations in the official police report. He also felt prompted by the recent high-profile detention of a migrant farmworker leader and the debate it sparked over immigration enforcement and migrant labor in Vermont. “They’re excellent workers, very strong work ethic in comparison to some of the local help,” Wagner says of his migrant laborers. “Which is unfortunate because there’s so many people that need work and these jobs are available. But there aren’t that many people who seem willing to put the effort into some of these highly intensive ag jobs.” The official police account of the January 7 incident differs from Wagner’s recollection in some key ways. Vermont State Police Capt. Daniel Troidl describes the incident in an email he sent to the VT Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project. State police allege Wagner drove his pickup truck into the driveway and “stopped sideways in an apparent attempt to prevent the troopers and border patrol from responding to the scene.” Wagner, who admits he was panicking, responds: “The driveway is 50 feet wide and I was parked on the side of it. I didn’t stop their vehicles from going up.” Wagner requires work papers from his employees but says, “It’s not easy as an employer to ascertain whether they’re legal.” The VT Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project’s Brendan O’Neill contends that calling border patrol to act as interpreter undermines trust between migrant communities and law enforcement and sends the message “If you call 911, the border patrol comes and gets you deported.” Troidl wrote O’Neill to say he reviewed the case and found the troopers acted by the book. “While the outcome of this incident is unfortunate for the individuals taken into custody by border patrol,” Troidl wrote, “the troopers acted in a reasonable manner with public safety being the number one priority.”
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magine Vermont as a design desti- of Burlington fi rmJAGER DI PAOLO KEMP nation, a place where creative folks DESIGN. A cofounder of NCC, he came churn out exciting products, brands up with its name in a nod to Vermont’s and concepts, while linked in fruit- uniqueness and tradition of free thinkful cooperation. The state retains its ers. The founders also include JEFF graduates and attracts top talent nation- RUTENBECK, dean of the Communication wide; local businesses and the commu- and Creative Media division at nity benefi t from an aesthetic revolution. Champlain College, and PATRICIA SEARS, The industry takes note. then CEO of Spike Advertising. ISSA While this might sound like science SAWABINI, a partner at Fuse Marketing, fi ction to some, a new group called the has joined the leadership team. NATIVE CREATIVE CONSORTIUM aspires to On Thursday, Sawabini and Jager lobmake it a reality by 2020. The consor- bied to broaden the consortium’s base. tium, which came together in January, “What is the meaning of creativity and so far consists of about 35 professionals creative community in Vermont?” Jager from design, advertising, architecture asked the audience. He also questioned and marketing fi elds and aims to “unify the Vermont brand, noting: “I dig cows, the energy of Vermont’s creative com- they’re cool, but there are other things munity” and “to create positive change that belong in Vermont.” and build awareness of Vermont’s creBurton snowboards and Vermont’s ative distinction,” according to NCC’s high patent rate were also topics of website. conversation as the group brainstormed Last Thursday, the Native Creatives future activities. Some ideas for action held their fi rst public event, at included encouraging people to swap Champlain College, with a talk aptly ideas on the group’s Facebook page, intitled “Amplifying Vermont’s Creative viting the local industry to take part in Community” by Nathan Shedroff of challenges such as how to help visitors the California College of the Arts. better engage with Vermont, and setting Addressing a mix of students and profes- up case studies for Champlain students. sionals, the design strategist, professor Reception to the consortium idea and consultant proposed that all designs ranged from gushing enthusiasm to are “created experiences.” Designers cautious curiosity. Champlain alum and need to go behind lines, colors and fonts freelance designer MOLLIE COONS said, “It to consider emotions, moods and issues would be really great if it could stay nonof identity and values, he said. ego-driven.” Fellow twentysomething One of those looking to amplify Champlain alum and graphic designer Vermont’s design industry is MICHAEL JOE MESTER agreed: “I like the idea of it so far … I think it’s well needed, especially JAGER, president and creative director
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Th is week, we’re spotlighting one of the many local books we’ve received over the past year. We’ll continue to do this on a regular basis, covering both commercially published books and worthy self-published ones. Have you ever seen a crowd at a rock show or political rally that seemed to function eerily like a single composite organism? Or wondered if your individual comings and goings were part of some greater pattern visible only to a godlike overview? Such meditations fuel Dance of the Innocents, a high-concept thriller from Burlington photographer and Brautigan Library founder TODD R. LOCKWOOD. David Peters, a laid-off marketer with time on his hands, examines recently declassifi ed satellite images of his city and makes a startling discovery. When he uses time-lapse manipulation to eliminate random deviations, people appear to be moving in a distinct collective pattern ... actually “dancing,” like bees in a hive. Th en the city’s “dancers” begin to develop cancer at an alarming rate. Th e Centers for Disease Control struggle to control the epidemic, while the U.S. military pursues its own agenda — and
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for young designers.” The NCC makes business sense to CHRIS COPLEY of Select Design, a company with 15 Burlington-based designers and Taiwan-based production. “I think the talent pool here is really deep for such a small place,” Copley said, adding, “Not everybody in Vermont understands or respects the fact that there are companies here who do world-class-level design work.” The timing may be right for cooperation with the state, as the Department of Economic, Housing & Community Development is launching an Offi ce of Creative Economy within two months. Reps from that offi ce, former fi commission director JOE BOOKCHIN and state marketer KATHY MURPHY, give the consortium a thumbs up. “They have tremendous enthusiasm and ideas,” said
Bookchin. “Vermont is now … a place of innovation, whether on a farm or in technology.” On the education front, Champlain College students and grads stand to benefi t, said Communication & Creative Media program faculty member SUZANNE GLOVER. “It would be wonderful if by getting the creative energy fl owing and creating a center for innovation, we could bring more jobs to Vermont, so they could stay.” Will this group be, as Spike Advertising’s KEN MILLMAN called it on Facebook, a “creative spa and gym”? Stay tuned. lm nativecreativevt.org
David, who holds the key to the mysterious events, becomes a man on a mission. It’s not easy to pull off this kind of mind-bending premise, and Lockwood has a straightforward, no-fuss style that serves him well, even when the plot hinges on improbable coincidences. (Hey, everything’s connected, right?) Th e characters never transcend stereotypes; this is the type of novel where, if a Native American appears, he’s sure to lecture the hero on his forebears’ ancient, nature-inspired wisdom. But tired stock elements never kept Dan Brown from selling books, and they aren’t such a problem here, either — at least for thriller fans — once the plot gets clicking. Some readers may fi nd the eventual resolution of the mystery too New Agey; others may be enraptured. But no one can deny that, in posing this intriguing “What if...?” Lockwood stands out from the crowd. Dance of the Innocents Todd R. Lockwood, iUniverse, 275 pages. $17.95. Lockwood reads and signs copies on Thursday, November 3, 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington.
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The real-life journey of steelhead trout — fighting their way upstream from salt water to fresh to spawn each year — is nothing compared with the 30-year odyssey of KATE POND’s “Steelhead” sculptures. After nearly a decade in limbo, her fish recently returned to their original “hatching ground,” the Winooski Falls park. “These fish have had quite a life,” says Pond. The Burlington sculptor, who is well known for her steel works — including “Kiss II,” which looks like an amorous pair of letter Fs, outside Fletcher Free Library — crafted the five fish from COR-TEN steel in 1981. RAY PECOR, who owned the Champlain Mill at the time, had commissioned her to make something for the adjacent park along the Winooski River. “I knew that he liked to fish,” says Pond, and so did she. So Pond suggested a series of sculptures that replicated the steelhead’s annual spring run. It was her first public piece. Pond had worked with steel before, but never on pieces so large. She built a gantry to hoist each fish, the biggest of which is 12 feet long and about 800 pounds. It’s the same gantry she uses now in the South Burlington workshop she shares with sculptor KAT CLEAR. Pond left the surfaces of the fish unfinished because she wanted them to accumulate rich layers of rust. These days, they are bright orange in some places, dark brown in others and slightly green where they’ve been tagged in the past. Intricate textures have Kate Pond’s fish during the floo cropped up d where the steel has been sandblasted and begun to rust over again. The medium hasn’t always been an easy sell. When Pond installed her library sculpture, many viewers recoiled. “They didn’t understand the rust,” surmises Pond. Pond recalls her shock in 1991 when Winooski city workers decided to paint her fish green. Back then, she says, she didn’t have experience with contracts and copyright. When she sold her sculptures to the city, “We just shook on it,” she says. As a result, the artist had no say in the fish’s fate. Luckily, the city understood her concern and let her sandblast the paint off the following day. In 2002, when construction began on the park, the fish were carted away to a Winooski garage. And there they sat, wedged between a chain-link fence and out-of-service machinery, for the next nine years. Pond says she visited them there occasionally. This past spring, Winooski photographer DAN HIGGINS, who has documented the Onion City for decades, suggested the city reinstall the fish. With the help of Winooski city manager KATHERINE DECARREAU, engineer STEVE PALMER and downtown superintendent RICK GAULIN, the fish made their triumphant return to the riverfront this fall. With any luck, it’s their final migration.
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“Well put, brother,” Pete said, laughing. “I think you nailed it.” “So what was the event at the Davis Center?” “Something at Brennan’s Pub, I think the place was called. The Davis Center is gorgeous — what a building — but this pub area was kind of food court-y, if you know what I mean. Anyway, we all just wanted to get back to my office where we could really chew the fat.” “Brennan’s Pub?” I asked. “I wonder if it was named after the old basketball coach, Tom Brennan. That guy was the living embodiment of good cheer and affability.” “Either that or some rich alumnus named Brennan paid for it.” We scooted up North Avenue, passing the Ethan Allen Park entrance. Idling in the Rite Aid parking lot, a police cruiser gave me two shots of his high beams — slow down, cabbie — a signal to which I instantly complied. I had been going 40 in a 30-mile-per-hour zone, not really dangerous at this late hour, but that explanation is not apt to fly with the police. At any rate, I appreciated the informal warning in lieu of being pulled over. Deeply appreciated. Taking the left at Shore Road, I asked Pete about the nature of the conversation with his old classmates. In this era of Facebook, I wondered if “catching up” is even required. “No, there’s still catching up to do,” he
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explained. “Some of us are on Facebook, but we’re not really of that generation. What’s weird is having to fill in the basic biographical events, like kids, work, health — that kind of thing. Because you’re looking into the face of a friend you know like a brother or a sister, and then you realize you may not have spoken for, like, 20 years.” “Yeah, I know what you mean. I have a handful of friends going back that far, and some I rarely communicate with, but when we do, it’s just as you put it — like no time has passed at all. I think there’s something special about relationships forged during the crucible of adolescence, where you’re all just figuring out who you are, who you want to be. Those bonds run deep and may not be replicable, even with close friendships you develop later in life.” The crucible of adolescence, I replayed the phrase in my mind. Who do I think I am — Henry Miller? Sometimes my pomposity is more than even I can take. I flashed on that old Green Day lyric: “Sometimes I give myself the creeps.” Fortunately, the people in my life — including old customers such as Pete — cut me a lot of slack, and that’s another thing I deeply appreciate, along with the lenient cops. We turned into Pete’s driveway and pulled to a stop. Robin had left the porch light on — a warm gesture, I thought. Pete still had that contented look on his face as he paid the fare and left the cab. It occurred to me that old friends are carried in our hearts like a movable feast, to lift a phrase from Hemingway — pomposity be damned. m
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it this way. You and I, contingent beings that we are, are mere dominoes in the great chain of existence, devoid of autonomous impulses or pretty much any clue whatsoever and dependent entirely on previous beings to kick our butts into gear. These antecedent beings are likewise contingent, as are those earlier still, and so on. However, it affronts reason to suppose that all beings are contingent, since creation would then consist entirely of passive mope-like entities, waiting for someone (or something) else to make the first move, absent which no first move would ever be made.
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Therefore, Thomas concluded, there must be a First Cause, or shall we say a First Finger, to administer the first flick to the first domino, and thereby jar the cosmos into motion. To this First Cause — essential, eternal and unchanging — Thomas assigns the name God. The usual objection to this proof (as a college sophomore I made it) is that there’s no obvious reason why the chain of causation has to start somewhere. Why can’t it extend forevermore in both directions, without beginning or end? Indeed, scientists Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok have conjectured that the Big Bang, once thought of as the starting point of the universe, was merely the latest burp in an endless cycle of colliding membranes
in an 11-dimensional reality that, one gathers, has always been there. But Thomas isn’t arguing there’s a First Cause chronologically. Rather, modern commentators tell us, he’s claiming there’s a first underlying or sustaining cause, in the sense that, say, the sun and its energy are the cause of life on earth. The distinction may strike the lay mind as rather fine and in any case seems of little consequence, since most thoughtful observers agree that in positing a First Cause and calling that God, Thomas assumes what he’s trying to prove. Thus his attempt to demonstrate God’s existence fails. Let’s not be too hasty, though. Thomas has shown us a couple things. First, the distinction
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ope, I’ve never written about this. Nobody ever asked. That all you wanted to know? Didn’t think so. Fine, have a seat while I … well, to say I’m going to prove God exists sets the bar pretty high. Let’s just say I’m going to show such a proof could be made. We start with medieval Catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas, the grand master of exploratory theology. Thomas proved the existence of God, to his satisfaction anyway, in his Summa Theologica. The core argument, if you’ll allow me to brutally oversimplify, is as follows: the transitory and inconsequential phenomena we see around us, such as humanity, the solar system, and rock and roll, are but contingent beings. (I use the term “being” loosely here. Deal with it.) Each was brought into existence by some previous being, such as the apes, the solar nebula, or the blues. Each of these, in turn, was engendered by some still earlier entity, and so up the line until we get to … the First Cause. There must be a First Cause, Thomas reasoned. Think about
between a chronological first cause and a sustaining first cause is in fact crucial, as we’ll see. Second, although Thomas labors mightily in the Summa to establish the attributes of God, one of which is personhood, no one can seriously claim the result is a personal God — the warm and fuzzy but also detail-obsessed entity who, if you were Roman Catholic, would condemn you to eternal fire if you died unshriven after eating fish on Friday prior to 1962. Thomas’s work is considered the definitive explication of Catholic theology. From this we deduce that, from the standpoint of one of the world’s great religions, an impersonal, abstract and frankly mechanistic God is nonetheless God. We turn now to the work of physicists, who in their way are also searching for first causes. Steinhardt and Turok have written of the endless universe, which on first thought seems to undercut any notion of a prime mover. However, calling to mind the Thomistic distinction between temporal and sustaining causes, we realize the conjectured 11-dimensional reality of which they speak arguably is itself the First Cause from which all else springs. Other scientists, taking a different tack, search for the First Cause in the quantum lint of which matter is composed, going so far as to call the hypothesized fundamental force holding all else together the God particle. A scientist’s joke? Not entirely. The God particle and 11-dimensional reality are, Jah knows, on the woolly fringe of science. However, should the existence of some such First Cause be demonstrated, one might, on the logic of Thomas Aquinas, be entitled to call it God.
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SD: But then there’s always the black market. DP: There’s also something that not a lot of people know — any gun made before 1898 is not considered to be a firearm. Anybody who is a felon, or mentally disturbed, can legally buy and own any gun made before then. That leaves four years of Winchesters. SD: Has anyone ever tried to rob this place? DP: No. And if I catch them, they’re dead. No questions. You can put that in print. m
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SD: What do you say to people who come in to buy handguns for self-defense? DP: Right here is a good test: when someone comes into your home, if you haven’t got the fortitude to pull the trigger and shoot, don’t buy a handgun. Buy mace. Because he’s going to have a gun, too, and he’s going to use it. So you should, too.
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n autumn, hunting seasons tumble one after the other — moose, bear, duck, deer. It’s usually the busiest time of year inside Pidgeon’s Gun Shop, an unassuming beige house on Route 7 in New Haven. Down a flight of stairs adorned by vintage posters of Remingtons and Winchesters, David E. Pidgeon presides over a cornucopia of guns, as he has for 52 years. Along one wall of his subterranean shop lean sleek rifles and bulky shotguns, many covered in camouflage patterns. On another wall are hundreds of boxes of bullets and containers of musket powder. Inside a long glass case are handguns — from squarish Glocks to an 1877 Colt Derringer .22 short to a dainty pink pistol. SD: What was your first gun? Pidgeon, 70, also maintains a ma- DP: A U.S. Springfield Model 1903 in chine shop with lathes, a drill press, caliber .30-06. I made shots with that a belt sander and a wall of hand tools. gun that were unbelievable. I took my He works on guns most mornings, and first deer with it. I can well remember sometimes well into the night after the a time that my father and I saw a deer, shop closes — cutting and crowning and he asked, “Do you think you can hit barrels, installing muzzle breaks, polish- it?” I said, “Haven’t you seen me hit the ing. The lifelong New Haven resident woodchucks?” The poor has been a hunter since deer was dead and didn’t Name he was a teenager and is even know it yet. DaviD e. PiDgeoN high-level member of the SD: Do you still have the National Rifle Association. gun? He also served on the TowN DP: I do. I hope they put it board of the Vermont Fish New HaveN in my casket. & Wildlife Department SD: What does under former governor Job gunsmithing entail? Richard A. Snelling. DP: You’ve got to learn On the eve of Vermont’s guN-SHoP owNer how every gun works — deer-hunting season, we caught up with Pidgeon inside his fire- the action of it, the bolt assembly, the safety, the triggers. Most guns are alike arms mecca. in some respect. You also have to learn SEVEN DAYS: Why did you start how to make certain parts. Guys come working with guns so young? up here goose hunting and they break DAVE PIDGEON: I was raised down the a firing pin and so I have to make it, beroad on a [dairy] farm. I’d just graducause they can’t wait for it. I also do a lot ated from high school, and I could see of adjustments. Sometimes people want there was no financial future in farms. a lighter trigger pull. I started fixing guns, and I did it in the evenings until 1986, when I sold the SD: What equipment do you use? farm. It was something I wish I had DP: I learned the old way, and I do it by done 20 years earlier. A guy named Cary hand. I use a drill press, and this here’s Marshall showed me how [to be a gun- a lathe, where I trim and thread barrels. smith], because I was just a young man. [Pulls back a tarp.] This lathe was made His brother, George Marshall, taught me in South Bend, Ind., in 1950. It has a small chuck and a tailstock. I think the a million times more.
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BUSINESS developing new recipes and beer styles on independent labels that will become part of the Boston Beer Company family — “distant cousins” of Sam Adams, as Newman describes them. He and Steinmetz will also hunt for new breweries and brew pubs for Sam Adams to invest in or buy, subject to approval from Jim Koch and Boston Beer’s CEO, Martin Roper. Even Newman isn’t entirely sure where his nebulous mission will lead. “Ask me in a year,” he says over coffee at his Burlington home overlooking Lake Champlain. Newman was almost ready to retire. The 64-year-old spent last winter in New Orleans penning a memoir titled High on Business: The Life, Times, and Lessons of a Serial Entrepreneur — which he self-published in September — a prerequisite for his imagined “retirement gig” as a public speaker. Newman’s last beer adventure ended on a sour note; after the financial crash of 2008 thwarted his plans to merge Magic Hat with Seattle-based Pyramid Breweries, he was contractually forced to sell his shares in the company. He went into exile, but it wasn’t long before new business ideas starting bubbling up. For this self-described “opportunity junkie,” entrepreneurship is something of an addiction. Alan Newman is best known as
the founder of Magic Hat Brewing Company, creator of the apricot-flavored #9 ale and other concoctions, but it’s far from his only achievement. Back in 1988, he founded Seventh Generation, turning a worthless catalog company called Renew America into one of the leading sellers of Earth-friendly cleaning products with the help of clever branding and marketing. And early on, Newman had a creative hand in Gardener’s Supply Company, based in Burlington’s farm-filled Intervale. Burlingtonians not familiar with Newman’s résumé may know him as the guy with the bushy gray beard and funky yellow glasses riding a Vespa around town. Along with Steinmetz, he’s also the person responsible for Burlington’s Mardi Gras parade. An exemplary partier, he donned an outrageous purple costume every year to lead the procession. He is jolly, yet opinionated, with a sharp and irreverent sense of humor. Think Santa Claus meets Rodney Dangerfield. Raised on Long Island during the height of baby-boom suburbanization, Newman moved to Vermont in 1970 “to avoid the traffic of metro New York” and to find other “long-haired, bearded folks.” He fell in with a class of hippie entrepreneurs, such as Ben & Jerry’s cofounder Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who charted a different
path to profits, one now referred to as “socially responsible business.” Placed beside that tradition, Newman’s new Samuel Adams gig looks surprisingly buttoned up. No longer the scrappy underdog, he’s now working for someone else — the big dog of the craft-brewing world. And Samuel Adams’ top dog says he expects big ideas to pour forth from Newman’s brain. “I’ve been making Sam Adams for 27 years,” Koch says in a phone interview. “I’ve made hundreds of beers in that time, probably more beers than any brewer in the world. And Alan’s got ideas I haven’t thought of.”
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THE GLASSES “We did a 10-day tour of Italy for Magic Hat’s 10th anniversary in 2006. The last day of the trip we were in Venice, and in the lobby of the hotel there was an optometrist’s display window, and these glasses were in it. It’s shocking what I’ve gotten because of these glasses: upgrades on airlines, free parking, special treatment at airport security. There’s something about these glasses.” THE “MAGIC” OF THE VERMONT BRAND “It’s heresy to say this, but I don’t think including the name ‘Vermont’ does anything to enhance most brands. Ben and Jerry are two Jewish guys from Long Island who featured photos of themselves swathed in tie-dye and with long, untamed hair on their product packaging. What marketing
morons! Wouldn’t they have done much better if they had called it the Vermont Ice Cream Company? And instead of those goofy flavor names, they could have come up with Vermont-associated names such as Middle Berry and Calvin Coolidge Crunch.” BEER GEEKS “I have issues with beer geeks. They’re snobby, and I’m not a fan of any snobs. I am a car snob. But I don’t put down people who drive cars that aren’t what I would want to drive. A lot of craft breweries make beer for the beer geeks. We always believed you make beer for people who like beer. That was the Magic Hat philosophy.”
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THE 99 PERCENT “I want to do something now called ‘the 1 percent for the 99 percent.’ I’m in the 1 percent at the moment, and I’m thrilled to be here. But I don’t disagree with the 99 percent. I totally agree with them. It offends me that after $109,000 they stop taking Social Security out of my check, and then they
bitch about the shortfall in Social Security. Well, fucking charge people and have the money!”
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WHAT HE LIKES IN A BEER “There’s a current movement to highly hopped, highalcohol beers. That’s not my favorite style. I like drinking beer with food — I love beer with dinner — and if I drink one of those big, bitter beers, I can’t taste anything. My personal favorites tend to be more malty than bitter, and tend to be some of the more interesting yeast profiles. I love the Belgian yeast profiles — lambics, Belgian whites, Belgian sours.”
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he kitchen counter in Alan Newman’s house is lined with fancy bottles of beer. Craft brews in big, brown bottles with corks in the top and enigmatic names such as 13th Hour. Years ago, these might have been beers made by Magic Hat, the quirky craft brewery Newman started in Burlington in 1994. But they’re actually part of the Barrel Room Collection brewed by Boston-based Samuel Adams. Newman purchased them from the brewery on a recent trip to see founder and brewer Jim Koch. Newman has called Koch a friend and competitor for almost 20 years. Now he’s calling him something else: boss. Fourteen months after he was forced out of Magic Hat, Newman is jumping back into the beer business. Only this time, he’s not doing it on a shoestring. Last week, Newman announced a partnership with the biggest name in craft brewing: the Boston Beer Company, owners of Samuel Adams. Koch has tapped Alchemy & Science, the company Newman founded with fellow Magic Hat exile Stacey Steinmetz, to serve as a craft-brew incubator for the Boston Beer Company. Newman won’t have anything to do with the Sam Adams brand. Rather, his five-year contract charges him with
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Maine in June 2010 when he got an email summoning him back to Burlington to meet the “new owners” of Magic Hat. “The new owners?” Newman remembers thinking. “Up until that moment I thought we were the owners of Magic Hat. And by ‘we’ I really meant ‘me.’ Hadn’t I started the company? Didn’t
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minority shareholder and, in doing so, I gave up some rights,” Newman explains. “It seemed like a good idea at the time because no one knew that the economy was going to tank in 2008.” When it did, the Pyramid deal went belly up. The bank that was financing it pulled out, and Basso was looking to unload Magic Hat “as quickly as possible,” Newman says. He made one request: Do not sell the company to KPS Capital Partners, a private equity company that owns North American Breweries, makers of Labatt Blue, Genesee, Dundee and Honey Brown. Newman wanted an owner that would be a “good fit” for Magic Hat’s brand — “maybe a European brewery looking for a strong foothold in the American craft-brewing market.” Just the opposite occurred. Magic Hat went to North American Breweries.
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I pour my heart and soul into it for 17 years?” The die had been cast four years earlier, however, in 2006. Magic Hat was “rolling in dough” at the time, Newman recalls, and brought on a financial partner, Connecticut hedge fund Basso Capital Management, to help it acquire Pyramid Breweries for $25 million. “When we did the Pyramid deal, I went from majority shareholder to
ewman was in no hurry to start a new business after Magic Hat. “I was enjoying the Burlington summer, which is about as good as it gets,” he says on a recent weekday morning. “I had my new house, which I’m totally in love with. I’d walk down to the bike path, walk downtown. My girlfriend was here. Every once in a while I’d follow my nose and explore a business idea.” Newman’s nose quickly led him to a slew of companies he considered buying. Perhaps the unlikeliest was Burlington Telecom, the municipal phone, Internet and cable provider that has become synonymous with debt, MAgic ToUch
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An excerpt from High on Business How did Seventh Generation go from being a worthless catalog business called Renew America to one of the leading sellers of Earth-friendly cleaning products? Alan Newman, who founded the company in 1988, attributes it to a “perfect storm” of renewed environmentalism, shrewd business decisions, and a publicity “bonanza” that put him and business partner Jeff Hollender (who has also claimed that he cofounded the company) in the pages of People, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. But by Christmas 1991, the Gulf War and ensuing recession had whacked Seventh Gen’s business. With profits plummeting and tensions mounting, Newman felt burnt out and told Hollender he was taking an unpaid “sabbatical” to recharge his batteries.
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I was still entirely engaged in the fortunes of Seventh Generation, but I consciously tried to stay out of Jeff ’s hair. The last thing the company needed was a distraction caused by the perception of friction or disagreement at the top. I knew he was coping with a lot, but in my own way, so was I. There was never a doubt in my mind about coming back to the company. Jeff had occasionally ranted that there would be no company for me to return to, but I thought that was the anger speaking. After all, this was my baby, and I brought him in on it, no? So, I gave him space. Myself, too. Gradually, I felt my mojo return. I was ready to climb back into the cockpit, to walk over the coals. I developed a clearer vision of the company that Seventh Generation could become. I presented these ideas in a letter to Jeff during the spring of 1992, but he responded in no uncertain terms that I no longer had a role in the company. I was stunned. This was a complete reversal of the understanding I thought we had. He was extremely angry. Even more so.
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Late in 2010, Seventh Generation’s board of directors (a group that includes Jeff ’s wife, Sheila) informed him that his services were no longer needed. Against his will, he was forced from the company that he had nurtured and grown. I don’t pretend to know the story-behindthe-story. But I did receive an endless stream of emails, many starting with the word “karma.”
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[Since my departure], Jeff Hollender has positioned himself as a prominent advocate for corporate social responsibility, the person who can bridge the gap between established corporate interests and the notion that a business can be about more than a single bottom line. He has that crossover credibility that can be accepted at WalMart in a way that Alan Newman — with his beard, bare feet and yellow glasses — never could. Jeff has written books, given keynote speeches, built a great company, and raised a wonderful family. He’s grown tremendously as a business leader and, I’m sure, as a person. He has much to be proud of.
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Complicating the situation was that we were such a highly visible company as a result of our media bonanza. Not only was there the dramatic downfall of yesterday’s shooting star, but, increasingly, there was an obvious conflict between the city slicker from New York and the happy hippie from Burlington. It was great local soap opera, and everyone wanted to know the behind-the-scenes story. ...
I can’t help but wonder, however, if his own experience of being forced out of a company that he nurtured and loved has given him a greater sense of empathy for what I went through in the summer of 1992.
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mismanagement and political scandal. Newman wasn’t scared by BT’s $17 million debt to Burlington taxpayers or by the federal lawsuit brought by the company’s creditors. Ever the optimist, Newman envisioned reversing BT’s fortunes by ditching the cable TV division and focusing exclusively on providing high-speed Internet, particularly to businesses that need significant bandwidth. He went so far as to contact the consulting firm brought in to manage BT, Dorman & Fawcett, but says his phone messages were not returned. Newman also explored buying Vermont Castings. He’d owned one of the company’s woodstoves during his “hippie, back-to-the-land days” and dreamed of rekindling the brand by turning its Randolph foundry into a tourist destination, throwing parties and reaching consumers with social networking. But the vagaries of manufacturing, the sum required (upward of $80 million) and the complexities of running a foundry scared off investors, Newman says. “It was trying to overcome the belief that serious manufacturing was dead,” Newman explains. “Do I believe that I could have overcome it? Possibly. But then I got distracted with chips.” Specifically, Madhouse Munchies, the South Burlingtonbased potato-chip maker. Newman’s plan to make Madhouse a powerhouse? Build a “Willy Wonka-esque” potato-chip factory in Burlington. “I’m kind of a one-trick pony,” Newman says. “I was going to follow the Ben & Jerry’s/Magic Hat model. I was going to come out with wacky names and unusual flavors and tie it into social causes. I saw clearly how to do that business.” So did Newman’s investors. With money in hand, he made a bid for Madhouse Munchies. He received a counteroffer and was preparing his response when the phone rang. It was Jim Koch. He wanted to talk to Newman about a job.
agreement he signed with Magic Hat was just expiring. Newman is a huge admirer of Koch, calling him “probably the smartest guy I’ve ever met. Seriously.” Koch, in turn, describes Newman as “one of the most innovative and creative forces in the success and growth of the craft-brewing industry.” But working together? At first, Newman was skeptical. “I said, ‘Jim, I don’t work for people. I’m not good at that,’” Newman recalls. “He said, ‘That’s OK. We don’t want you to work for us, because we’re really
good at Sam Adams. But we’re really not much good at anything else.’” Ultimately, Koch convinced Newman by offering him a “white sheet of paper” — which he understood as the freedom to write his own ticket with the financial backing and institutional support of Sam Adams. That could mean buying up craft breweries, starting one from scratch (Newman won’t say whether a Burlington brewery is a possibility) or producing single beers using Sam Adams facilities. “At the moment, the funnel is wide open. They’re not saying no to anything,” Newman says, before adding one caveat: “As long as I keep my grubby little hands off Sam Adams.” Under the deal, Alchemy & Science becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boston Beer Company, a publicly traded company whose revenues grew by 12 percent last year, to $463 million. Based in Burlington, Alchemy & Science will operate out of a waterfront office
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The ukulele phenomenon has been growing for years around the country and the globe — including Vermont, although, typically, the state is late to the party. Players gather regularly in both Montpelier and Bristol, and hold other impromptu sessions around the state. An Upper Valley group practices in Hanover, N.H. The Montpelier band got rolling last spring following a screening of Mighty Uke at the Green Mountain Film Festival. The entertaining 2010 documentary about “the amazing comeback of a musical underdog” inspired a lot of nascent
ukuleleists. Barrett, who had musical experience playing guitar and studying harmony at the Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture in Montpelier, connected with Lucinda McCloud, then director of the senior center, about using the facility for rehearsals. With an email list some two dozen strong and expert help from Fran Broughton — a music teacher and the director of the Bristol group, as well as of the Vermont Ukulele Society — players began to meet and strum away. Sort of. “Many people in the group have never played a musical instrument before,” says Barrett. “We started from scratch with a lot of folks.” For an introduction, they brought in a ukulele instructor. Now the players gather every other Thursday at 7 p.m. to work through songs and build a repertoire from “The Daily Ukulele: 365 Songs for Better Living.” The playbook includes gospel ballads, Tin Pan Alley tunes, jazz, Hawaiian classics, and even rock and roll.
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store. You can buy a ukulele for as little as $30, or a nicer one for $100. They’re easy to carry around and easy to learn. The uke has indeed been mighty for GuitarSam, which carries a couple dozen models in different sizes and all kinds of wood, some painted in bright colors. Crossett sells at least one a day at the store and ships more around the country from his website. He pulls down an instrument and plucks a riff from the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun.” Crossett notes that George Harrison, who wrote the song, was a big uke fan.
sensation — and turned the ukulele into an object of some ridicule. “He really turned the ukulele backward as an instrument,” says Crossett. “We had to wait ’til people outgrew his memory.” Consider it done. Today, YouTube is filled with boundary-breaking uke players who are doing for the instrument what Béla Fleck did for the banjo and Yo-Yo Ma did for the cello. They include the Hawaiian virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, doing Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”; Brittni Paiva playing Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”; and John King plucking the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1.
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have made many a dinner from Molly Stevens’ 2004 cookbook All About Braising: The recipes are delicious, the directions clear. Besides, one of the best things about winter is the aroma of a slow-cooked meal in the oven, not to mention sharing the one-pot wonders with friends. That book wasn’t a hit only with home cooks; it won awards from the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. So when Stevens’ long-anticipated new volume arrived recently, I was eager to give it a try. The Williston-based author and cooking teacher is serious about the “all” in All About Roasting: A New Approach to a Classic Art. Like the braising book, this one includes a generous compendium of information in the first section, from measurement conversions to the history of roasting to a lexicon of pan drippings. For rank beginners, this is invaluable, but even experienced cooks are likely to learn something new. What cuts of meat require a lower cooking temperature? What is the Maillard reaction? What exactly is happening when you let a cooked roast “rest”? Stevens is a personable teacher with an intimate writing style and encouraging tone. She is firm on the science behind roasting, but lets you know when there’s wiggle room. “I’m not terribly strict about basting,” she confides. Elsewhere she observes that in researching the book, “I came across a technique I’d never heard of.” Hers is the voice of authority without being authoritarian. At first I thought I’d just choose a dish in All About Roasting, make it and critique it for this article. But then I hit on the idea of inviting other cooks to contribute to a collective dinner. So I scanned the book, created a menu and invited six fellow foodies to join in the fun — and the review. I photocopied their recipe assignments and put them in the mail. On Saturday night, everyone showed up at my house with their respective dishes.
Roasted Brussels sprouts with capers and lemony browned butter
BRUSSELS SPROUTS AND CAPERS MAY SEEM LIKE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, SO TO SPEAK, BUT THE COMBINATION IS TOTALLY INSPIRED. What ensued was a leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable “potluck” with a little critique after each individually served course. I asked the cooks to comment on the recipe and preparation, and we all chimed in on the finished dish. The results? Read on.
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Herb-Roasted Shrimp With Pancetta
This dish was our starter (though we also nibbled on cheese, crackers, olives and maple-candied nuts). Stevens notes in the book that she was on a beach vacation when she got the idea to swaddle shrimp
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in pancetta and roast it atop a bed of herbs. Any herbs will do, she says; their purpose is to keep the shrimp off the bottom of the pan, and their aromas infuse the seafood while also wafting pleasantly through your house. A little white wine (or dry vermouth) is poured over the dish before roasting, and the strained liquid is used to dress it before serving, as well. Stevens claims the dish is simple, and on the surface, it is — not to mention a great way to use up some of those end-of-season herbs from your garden. However, my friend H. said wrapping the shrimp was a bit labor-intensive, and he wouldn’t make this if he had to prepare an entire meal by himself. Stevens does note that the shrimp can be wrapped and refrigerated up to six hours ahead of time. We all agreed this recipe is a winner, but J. said it was a bit salty for her taste. Whereupon H. admitted he’d brined the shrimp beforehand in salt and sugar. (In our circle of friends, his brined holiday turkey is famous.) Being a salt freak myself, I didn’t mind the extra salinity; no doubt the pancetta was responsible for most of it. H. also said he used vermouth for the liquid; tarragon dominated the herb mixture, and its unique sweet-savory essence permeated, but did not overpower, the dish.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Capers and Lemony Browned Butter
Even some devoted foodies cannot abide Brussels sprouts — particularly their vaguely sulphurous smell. But Stevens insists that aversion is probably due to growing up with a cook who did not know how to “splash the mini-cabbagey vegetables with olive oil and roast them in a hot oven until they were utterly tender and sweet.” That was certainly true in my family; my mother either boiled vegetables to death or fried them in Crisco. In adulthood I learned to like Brussels sprouts, even just LOVIN’ THE OVEN
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There are few things my friend C. likes better than cooking, and he tested this Spanish-influenced recipe before making it a second time for our dinner — with more olives. For her part, Stevens writes that she gets “raves every time I make this.” Most likely it’s because of the compelling combo of dried apricots, olives — mixed green and black — and orange. And the pimentón, which adds a subtle smokiness. Stevens recommends marinating the chicken, fruit and other ingredients overnight, which leaves the meat tender and allows the flavors to marry. Despite that wedding in the fridge, though, each party retains its individuality. C. said he used more than twice the teaspoon of orange zest called for in the recipe. He also noted he’d like to experiment with different kinds of vinegar in future iterations — the recipe specifies red-wine vinegar. Most of us found the meat quite moist, but F. said her chicken breast was a tad dry. Possibly it was a smaller piece and hence cooked faster; Stevens advises removing small pieces of meat and keeping them warm while the larger ones finish cooking. In my own ongoing education about cooking meat (after being a vegetarian for half my life), I’ve found you really need to keep an eye on the stuff. Hello, meat thermometer! As for this yummy dish, I look forward to making it myself. Although I love dried apricots, I think it would still be good without them if you have none on hand. Or experiment with other tart-sweet dried fruits, such as cherries or cranberries. To borrow a cliché, it’s all good.
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My mouth began to salivate when I read this recipe, which is why I chose it for my contribution to the roasting dinner. I’m sorry to say it was somewhat disappointing. I think it was not the fault of the recipe, however, but of my bad timing. Because two of the other cooks wanted to finish their dishes in my kitchen, I thought I should make my pork loin before they arrived and stick it in the warming oven until I could serve it. Unfortunately, the waiting process — and the additional heat — dried out the meat. In retrospect, I should have prepared it and stashed it in the fridge, then put it in the oven once we cOurtesy OF all abOut rOasting
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I gave B. two options for dessert; the other featured roasted apples and was certainly more seasonal. But she located some fat California plums and opted for this more unusual dish. Neither of us had ever roasted plums. And plums with ginger? Who knew that would be so good? B. said she shredded fresh ginger with a Microplane and used more than the half teaspoon called for. In her intro to the recipe, Stevens notes that she once purchased a lot of plums over the summer at a farmers market and then
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dried prunes were a brilliant counterpoint to the savory sausage, little pillowy treats in the mouth. (An aside: The next morning, determined not to waste what remained of the pork loin, I minced a slice of it into tiny cubes and sautéed them in a bit of butter. I threw in a handful of plump golden raisins, a cup of leftover fusilli, and a little salt and pepper, and produced a very tasty breakfast. With the extra fruit and fat, the meat no longer felt dry.) On Saturday night, my companions kindly praised the pork, and I noticed most of them actually cleaned their plates. I think, however, that it was one savory dish too many; at my next roasting dinner, I’ll stick with a single meat entrée. For sure, we were all ready for dessert.
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SEVEN DAYS: How did you come to be in Vermont? BARRY ESTABROOK: I grew up in Ontario, having had the good sense to leave New Jersey when I was a baby. It was actually because my father was working for an aluminum company, and we moved. After graduating from Queens University, I worked for Harrowsmith magazine, which was like Mother Earth News. It was run by James Lawrence, who went on to start EatingWell magazine [in Charlotte] and hired me as the founding editor. I didn’t know much about food at the time, but those who did thought it would be helpful to have someone around to ask stupid questions. That was 1989. After a couple of years, EatingWell started a book-publishing company, Chapters, that I worked for as an editor. It was later sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, so I moved to the Boston area for five years. I met my partner, Rux Martin, at EatingWell. She’s now an executive editor with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and in charge of a cookbook line. I came back to Vermont in 1997 after
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I will write another book eventually; I’ve got two or three ideas relating to food topics. Right now I have no time, because I’ve been doing nothing but promoting Tomatoland. I’ve made five trips to the West Coast since March. Magazine writing isn’t an option for me. There are very few magazine outlets for the sort of stuff I do. Food mags are all running away from issue-related stories. Food magazines’ big advertisers are food companies, so they’re not going to offend or upset anybody. SD: You’ve been on a long book tour, essentially. Are there still bookstores where you can talk about and sell your book? BE: There’s actually a lot of really cool bookstores in this country. People running a bookstore these days have to be way cool, way smart and way engaged.
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Houghton fired me. I got a job writing for Gourmet, which was owned by Condé Nast [a magazine-publishing conglomerate]. Condé Nast let me work from Vermont, flew me down to New York regularly and also had no idea what the rest of the journalism world was earning, so I got a nice chunk of change for some time. Working for Condé Nast, though, was like being a sergeant in Saddam Hussein’s army. They treat you well, but someday, what happened to the guy before you will happen to you, too. Gourmet was shut down in 2009 even though it had close to a million subscribers. SD: That must have been pretty nice, being able to live in Vermont and going to manhattan every few weeks, where they put you up in a swank hotel.
BE: Sure was. The only problem with living in Vermont is a professional one. You can stop learning here because there’s not enough challenge. You need to have young smart-asses around. They’re more tuned in, more flexible, more creative. SD: Tomatoland grew out of an article you wrote for Gourmet. How much of the research for the book came from that reporting? BE: A good piece of it. Tomatoland was meant to be the icing on the cake that I was getting from Condé Nast. I had plenty of time to work on the book. But when Gourmet got dumped, the icing became the cake. SD: What will you do next? Write for magazines? Write another book? BE: You sound like my agent, who’s always asking me the same questions.
SD: oK, but I bet a lot of copies of Tomatoland are sold in e-book form. BE: Yeah, more than half. Amazon’s got a special on it for $2.39 until the end of the month. SD: How can you make money when your book is selling for $2.39? BE: It’s not so bad. I get about a third, the publisher gets about a third and Amazon gets a third. SD: What do you think of how big a foodie place Vermont has become? BE: I think it’s absolutely incredible and every year more so. Winter farmers markets, for example, were unheard of a few years ago. Now you’ve got a good one in Burlington. People in Vermont are really fortunate with the access they have to good, fresh food, so there’s no excuse here for eating crap. I met an old-time organic farmer in [California’s] Central Valley — which in itself is rare enough — and he was telling me how lucky I am to be in Vermont. The guy’s got a 12-month growing season, and he’s saying how lucky it is to be getting food from Vermont. SD: Even so, a lot of Vermonters eat crap, same as a lot of Americans do, right? BE: We’re still food illiterate in this country. It’s easy to forget when you live in Vermont or travel in foodie circles, but organics account for about 5 percent of the market in the U.S. It is improving, though. Rux and I were in Shaw’s recently, and we actually counted how many kinds of tomatoes were available. There were 11. People are cOntinuED aFtEr thE classiFiEDs
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SD: Do you trust the USDA and the FDA to keep the food supply safe? BE: Hell, no. Look at what’s happened just recently with Listeria. [At least 15 Americans died from eating cantaloupe containing the bacterium.] SD: Do you think eating conventional food will shorten a person’s life span? BE: Definitely. Industrial chicken, beef and pork, just for starters, have been pumped with antibiotics all their lives. Hamburger meat you get in supermarkets can come in the same package from cows in Uruguay, Canada and the U.S. Does that make sense? Do you think that’s healthy?
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SD: Do you eat organic? Are you a vegetarian? BE: I try to eat organic. I’m not a vegetarian. We shop at local farmers markets and at the Middlebury [Natural Foods] Co-op. I buy toilet paper at Shaw’s. I don’t have to buy many veggies, though, because of all we grow in our garden. This has been a wet season, so not great for tomatoes, but we typically make a huge pot of sauce and then freeze it in baggies for the rest of the year. We get meat at the Shelburne Supermarket and don’t ever eat feedlot meat.
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SD: So the penny a pound has been widely adopted by food outlets? BE: A lot of restaurant chains and companies like Sodexo have adopted it. But none of the supermarkets have signed on to it, except for Whole Foods. As a result, about half the tomatoes sold in the U.S. aren’t subject to the penny-apound standard.
The other thing I say to them is we all should vote through what we eat. When tomatoes are in season from New Jersey north, by all means, enjoy them. But maybe don’t go eating the tomatoes that come from Florida in February.
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SD: So you see progress on the issues you wrote about in Tomatoland? BE: It would be a really different book if I wrote it now. The gains made by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have been major. The campaign to raise tomato pickers’ pay by a penny a pound is making a big difference; it can raise their pay from $50 a day to $80 a day. The workers now also have tents in the field, so they can get out of the sun occasionally. They’re trained in first aid and can recognize pesticide poisoning. They know what to do if somebody gets sprayed. And if somebody says to one of them, “I’m being enslaved,” they previously would have no idea what to do about it. Now they do. There’s also this amazingly revolutionary device that’s been introduced for the pickers: a punch clock. They only have to work a set number of hours now, not as many as the boss tells them to work.
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WED.02 agriculture VERMICOMPOSTING: Participants learn about using squirmy invertebrates in their gardens with Melissa Jordan of Wormpost Vermont. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.
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conferences KEY4WOMEN FORUM: Speaker Cindy Solomon offers insight on “Creating a Culture of Courage: The New Leadership Challenge” at an educational and networking event for female business owners and leaders. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Women’s Fund. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7:30 a.m. $30. Info, 660-4223, lesli_ blount@keybank.com.
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BALLET FLAMENCO JOSÉ PORCEL: Eight dancers share fiery Andalusian traditions to tunes set by six musicians in Gypsy Fire. Lyndon Institute, 7 p.m. $20-44. Info, 748-2600.
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‘TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD’: Gregory Peck took home an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in this 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 4263581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. ‘TOAST’: The son of a hopeless cook has higher culinary aspirations in S.J. Clarkson’s 2010 coming-ofage drama starring Freddie Highmore. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.
food & drink CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: Fans of cocoa-covered confectionery experience the tempering and dipping process. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591.
health & fitness A NATURAL APPROACH TO ELIMINATING LOW BACK PAIN & SCIATICA: Bye-bye, back pain. Wellness consultant and chiropractic physician Stephen Brandon addresses the roles of weight, exercise, posture and more. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. COMMUNITY EDUCATION FORUM: WAYS WE CAN HELP: Those concerned about memory changes attend a workshop detailing the services provided by the local chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Grand Way Commons, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6610, gagner@vnacares.org.
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SERENITY YOGA: Gentle poses foster a sense of peacefulness in a deep-relaxation floor class. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6-7 p.m. $5 suggested donation; bring a pillow and blanket if desired. Info, 881-5210.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY PHILATELIC CLUB: Stamp collectors of all levels of interest and experience swap sticky squares and stories about them. GE Healthcare Building, South Burlington, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817, laineyrapp@yahoo.com.
TAI CHI/QIGONG CLASS: Simple techniques, practiced sitting or standing, enhance physical and emotional well-being. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.
FALL CAREER FAIR: Employers fill their full-time or internship hiring needs by meeting with Norwich students. Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2125.
WOMEN’S STRENGTH & CONDITIONING CLASS: Female athletes work toward their fitness goals at the high school track. Mount Mansfield Union High School, Jericho, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $10 for drop-ins. Info, 922-5924.
film ‘KOYAANISQATSI’: A Phillip Glass score meets nonlinear images to create an ecological theme in Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 experimental film. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘ONE DAY’: After meeting on the eve of their college graduation, Emma and Dexter are shown, together and apart, on that same date every year in Lone Scherfig’s 2011 drama starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.
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Stranger Than Fiction Those who have seen the 2008 film In Bruges, Martin McDonagh’s black and rather bloody comedy about a pair of hit men, can begin to get a sense of the Irish playwright’s macabre style. He goes even darker in The Pillowman, in which a fiction writer living in a police state is interrogated about the suspicious similarities between his graphic short stories and a rash of child murders. Packed with grisly horror recalling the original Grimm Brothers fairy tales, the Saints & Poets Production Company’s rendition uses a creative integration of tabletop puppetry, silhouettes and live acting to give birth to these tales, which, though hard to swallow, get to the very heart of storytelling.
irene benefits IAN ALTMAN: The solo pianist keys up works by Scarlatti, Schubert, Chopin and Liszt. Partial proceeds will be given to flood-relief programs. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 223-2424, ext. 24.
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‘THE PILLOWMAN’ Thursday, November 3, and Friday, November 4, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, November 5, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, November 6, 2 p.m., at Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, in Burlington. View website for future dates through November 13. $20; for mature audiences. Info, 863-5966. saintsandpoetsproductions.org
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MARYANNE GREBENSTEIN: Fancy fonts and ornate illustrations are the topics of discussion as the calligrapher and book artist walks people through her design process and techniques. BCA Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 735-1443.
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Into the Fray It’s hard to put a name on what’s going on at Burlington Dances this Friday, November 4. There’s movement and music, but it’s not vaudeville. There’s sketch comedy and improv, but it’s not variety. “It’s not quite Fringe,” explains the studio’s founder and director Lucille Dyer, but “it’s kind of ‘unraveling.’” At UnRavel: An Evening of Dance, Theatre, Song and Laughter, local creatives gather semi-regularly to stitch together eclectic works. Expect sidesplitting comedy from Potato Sack Pants Theater, Argentinean tango from Cathy Salmons, work-in-progress dance from Julia Peoples-Clark and Joy Madden, and half a dozen other acts that Dyer says will reframe how we view the arts.
‘UNRAVEL: AN EVENING OF DANCE, THEATRE, SONG AND LAUGHTER’ Friday, November 4, 7 p.m., at Burlington Dances, Chace Mill. Choose your own price from $10100. Info, 863-3369. burlingtondances.com Joy Madden
‘THE GREAT FLOOD’ Thursday, November 3, 7 p.m., at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Informal discussion with the artists immediately follows. $10-53. Info, 603-646-2422. hop.dartmouth.edu
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Climber Freddie Wilkinson believes “any adventure is only as good as the stories you bring home,” he writes on the Nameless Creature, his blog of vertical exploits. And you’d better believe the New Hampshire-based Alpinist and author has the tales to show for it. In “Karakoram Frontiers: A Season of First Ascents in the Himalaya’s Last Refuge,” Wilkinson and his wife — fellow climber Janet Bergman — recount this summer’s high-altitude expeditions, in which they and four others made some epic progress on the world’s highest unclimbed mountains. Images, videos and storytelling collide as the two share electrifying adventures from more than 20,000 feet up.
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Irene is still heavy on our minds, but its deluge doesn’t come close to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. After pounding spring rains, the Mississippi River burst from its banks, drenching 10 states with water as deep as 30 feet and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. As the current flowed, so did something unexpected: music. Black sharecroppers, forced to move north, incited the spread of the Delta blues, which, over time, morphed into the Chicago blues, R&B, and — oh, yeah — rock and roll. Found-footage filmmaker Bill Morrison and guitarist Bill Frisell capture this period of change in The Great Flood, which gives a masterful montage of blotchy archival footage a live blues score.
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activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. FairField PlaygrouP: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. HigHgate Story Hour: Good listeners soak up classic fairy tales. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. KidS in tHe KitcHen: Ambitious chefs yield tasty triangles in a cooking class all about apple turnovers. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. Middle ScHool BooK grouP: Young people dish about their current reads. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. MiddleBury toddler Story Hour: Young children develop early literacy skills through stories, rhymes, songs and crafts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Moving & grooving WitH cHriStine: Young ones jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Recommended for ages 2 to 5, but all are welcome. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. PajaMa Story tiMe: Kids up to age 6 wear their jammies for evening tales. Arvin A. Brown Library, Richford, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
language PlauderaBend: Conversationalists with a basic knowledge of the German language put their skills to use over dinner. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, 6 p.m. Free; cost of food. Info, 862-1677 or 863-3305.
valley nigHt: The Great Brook Blues Band let loose danceable blues, jazz, funk and rock in the lounge. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.
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SPend SMart: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-1414, ext. 104.
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Richard Kogan, M.D., Julliard-trained pianist and Harvard-trained psychiatrist, blends brilliant performance with a talk about the power of music to help heal artist and audience alike. Kogan also considers the influence of psychological factors on Beethoven’s creative output. The New York Times has called Kogan’s performances “exquisite playing . . . eloquent and compelling.”
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Barry eStaBrooK: In “Slavery, Tomatoes and Social Justice on the Plate,” the investigative journalist and food writer argues that eating winter tomatoes inadvertently supports migrant slavery. See story in food section. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. cHriStoPHer SPatz: Cougar Rewilding Foundation’s president sorts through fact and fiction about this elusive mountain cat in “Return of a Legend? Cougar Recovery in the Eastern United States.” Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 453-7880. eMily Bernard: In “Some of My Best Friends: The Power of Interracial Friendship,” the UVM professor considers the impact of race and history on meaningful bonds. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. george denniS o’Brien: Exploring the promises and dangers of rock stardom, the former president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester goes “In Search of Nirvana: Rock-andRoll Religion.” Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.
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in Jane Austen’s writing in “In Want of a Wife: Romance and Realism in Pride and Prejudice.” Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184. jernigan Pontiac: Seven Days’ “Hackie” columnist reflects on “Combating Prejudice and ‘isms’ on a Personal Level.” Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. joHn joHnSon: Looking at labor unions, industrialization, environmental changes and more, the speaker gives a historical view of Vermont’s stone industries. Shoreham Historical Society, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 897-5254. nancy jay cruMBine: The Dartmouth College professor highlights the interconnection of “Words, Creativity and Spirituality” in the works of Emily Dickinson and Annie Dillard. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. Paul BierMan: Archival photographs depict the arrival of the interstate to the most rural state in the UVM professor’s talk, “Remaking the Landscape, 1958-1978.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Sienna craig: Recounting years spent living in Nepal, the anthropologist speaks on “Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas.” St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. Woden teacHout: Refuting Henry Ford’s claim that “history is more or less bunk,” this author and professor sheds light on “What We Learn When We Learn About History.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
theater ‘Boeing-Boeing’: A Don Draper-esque lothario skillfully juggles three flight-attendant fiancées at once until their plane schedules change in this jet-speed comedy by Northern Stage. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $30-60. Info, 296-7000. ‘criMeS oF tHe Heart’: Men, morality and attempted murder are the subject of this Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, directed by professor Peter Harrigan. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. ‘laugH lineS’: Six offbeat one-act comedies, presented by Stowe Theatre Guild, explore themes of marriage, family and racism. Town Hall Theatre, Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 253-3961. ‘Playing Hard to get: SHort WorKS 2011’: Joanne Farrell and Kim Jordan codirect Champlain Theatre’s production of six short contemporary plays boasting themes of desire, misunderstanding and relationships. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5-15; free for Champlain students with ID. Info, 863-5966. tHe MetroPolitan oPera: live in Hd: Anna Netrebko stars in a broadcast screening of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $18-24. Info, 660-9300.
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conferences Fall SyMPoSiuM on adoleScence: Speakers Kenneth Downes and Michael Thompson discuss “Helping Youth Manage Difficult Transitions” and “Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys,” respectively, at Northeastern Family Institute Vermont’s two-day conference. Majestic 10, Williston, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $99-119 per day; $159-199 for both days. Info, 658-0040, amywhittemore@nafi.com.
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Vermont Web marketing Summit: Social media hounds and marketers lay plans for coordinating, monitoring and measuring digital activities through breakout sessions, keynote speeches and networking. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. $139-159 includes breakfast and lunch. Info, 862-8783, info@vtwebmarketingsummit.com.
crafts eVery Woman’S Craft ConneCtion: Inventive females work on artful projects at a biweekly meetup. Essex Alliance Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 879-5176. knitting group: Needle crafters form a circle to finish sweater and sock projects. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
etc. Community bike Shop night: Steadfast cyclists keep their rides spinning and safe for year-round pedaling. FreeRide Bike Co-op, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 552-3521. green mountain Care board SpeCial meeting: A board moving Vermont toward a single-payer health care system meets for a briefing on expenditure analysis. Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care Administration, Montpelier, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2900, gmcb@ state.vt.us.
fairs & festivals danCe & drum feStiVal: World-renowned teachers and musicians join Burlington’s Jeh Kulu Dance and Drum Theater in four days of West Africaninspired classes and performances. Burlington City Hall Auditorium and Memorial Auditorium, 5:308:45 p.m. Concert tickets are $6-15; see specific class costs and a full schedule online at jehkulu. org. Info, 859-1802.
film ‘eyeWaSh’ film & Video SerieS: Filmmaker and artist Naomi Uman offers a curated program of experimental shorts. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘one day’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m. ‘toaSt’: See WED.02, 5:30 p.m.
games CheSS Club: Checkmate! Board-game players try to attack the king with sly strategies. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $2-3. Info, 363-5803.
health & fitness tai Chi for SeniorS: Folks over 50 increase flexibility, balance, strength, energy and stamina while reducing chronic pain, anxiety and falls. First Congregational Church, Essex Junction, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-0360, ext. 1028.
irene benefits interVale Center benefit dinner & liVe auCtion: Chef Phillip Clayton and bar manager Chad Rich put forth four courses of food and beer tastings. All proceeds will be donated to the Intervale Center Farmers Recovery Fund. Farmhouse Tap & Grill, Burlington, 6 p.m. $95; reservations required. Info, 859-0888. Jon katz: Personal experiences, tales from fellow pet owners and philosophical reflections fill the best-selling author’s new book, Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die. Bartleby’s Books, Wilmington, 6 p.m. Donations accepted to raise money for libraries and bookstores affected by Tropical Storm Irene. Info, 464-5425.
kids 4-h SpeCial intereSt program: UVM engineering students guide 12- to 16-year-olds through a series of science and engineering activities. University of Vermont, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, 656-5429, rosemarie.garritano@ uvm.edu. early literaCy Story time: Weekly themes educate preschoolers and younger children on easy literacy concepts. Westford Public Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639, westford_pl@vals.state.vt.us. fletCher playgroup: Little ones make use of the open gym before snack time. Fletcher Elementary School, Cambridge, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. ‘food for thought’ library VolunteerS: Pizza accompanies discussion of books and library projects for teens. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
a Very Veggie thankSgiVing: Tofurky eaters pick up fresh side-dish or main-course recipes from demo coordinator Gerda Lederer. On the menu: carmelized-onion and herb polenta with roasted vegetables, spanokopita, stuffed mushroom caps, and more. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.
‘madeline and the bad hat’: Unbreakable bonds of friendship and family are the theme of this ArtsPower National Touring Theatre production, an adaptation of the beloved children’s tale by Ludwig Bemelmans. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 9:30 a.m. $6. Info, 4310204, outreach@chandler-arts.org.
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muSiC With raphael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. paJama Story time: Little kids rock nightgowns and flannels as special guests read from books. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
burlington SongWriterS: Lyricists share and critique original works. Heineberg Community & Senior Center, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 859-1822. CoffeehouSe nightS: The Sticky Souls deliver a Burlington-grown blend of funk, soul, jazz and jam. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2536. muSiC in the loft ConCert SerieS: Tony Catlin and Brett Hughes sound off. Ten percent of proceeds benefit the Shelburne Art Center. Shelburne Vineyard, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; wine available by the glass (proper ID required). Info, 985-8222.
seminars keyS to Credit: A seminar clears up the confusing world of credit. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 104.
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Barre Opera House presents 1 10/24/11 10:17 AM a teaCh-in on the eConomiC CriSiS: A panel of 12v-burlwinterfarmmkt110211.indd seven experts dispels myths and looks at the global and local realities of the current financial crunch. Room 207, Lafayette Hall, UVM, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0192. bruCe ruSk: Cornell University’s assistant professor of Chinese literature in the Department of Asian Studies takes a look at late Chinese metalwork in “Imagined Into Existence: How the Ming-Qing Art Market Made History.” Room 125, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
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CCV leCture SerieS: Faculty presenter Jean Olson presides over an illuminating lecture on “The Educational Experience of Some of Vermont’s High-Performing Adolescents: In Their Own Words.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. guS Speth: In a three-part lecture series, “America, Rising to Its Dream: Charting Passage From Today’s Decline to Tomorrow’s Rebirth,” the professor and environmentalist calls for a new American economic and political order. Q&A to follow. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 5:15-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1106, stadd@vermontlaw.edu. Jerry Shedd: Wagner fans gear up for a broadcast of the third music drama in the Ring Cycle, Siegfried, with an explanatory talk by this local composer and conductor. Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Facility, Porter Medical Center, 7 p.m. Donations accepted for the Opera Company of Middlebury. Info, 388-7432. Joel naJman & Stan greenberg: Two well-known personalities play records, provide song backstories and talk about musicians in “Rock and Roll: Up Close and Personal.” Snacks, dessert and beverages provided. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 864-0218. kingdom County produCtionS’ the Salon SerieS: Filmmaker Bess O’Brien conducts a compelling live interview with author Katherine Paterson. August First, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $20-22. Info, 357-4616. Stephanie Seguino: The UVM economics professor discusses her research on the impact of globalization on income distribution in “Debt, Deficits and Human Well-Being,” and St. Michael’s College economics prof Reza Ramazani responds. McCarthy
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young WriterS group: Homeschoolers learn about revision, editing and proofreading in an out-of-classroom setting. Write on. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 355-1841.
aCouStiC @ home: Singer-songwriter Brooks Hubbard and the Moontones supply soothing sounds. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 603-448-0400.
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Staff & Volunteer reCognition dinner: The Visiting Nurse Association honors its members and community supporters with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails at 5:45 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. and
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day of the dead Celebration: Tamales and other mouthwatering dishes make for a Mexican fiesta honoring Día de los Muertos. Face painting, “Gringo Bingo” and a Latin dance party with DJ Hector add to the festivities. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994.
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Cider Sampling: Drink connoisseurs sip the dry, sharp and fruity flavors produced by New Hampshire’s Farnum Hill Ciders. St. Johnsbury Food Co-op, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-9498, info@ stjfoodcoop.com.
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benefit bake: Folks down slices to support Partners in Service, which funds activities for Addison County children who need help rebuilding their lives. American Flatbread, Middlebury, 5-8 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 388-7634.
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franklin Story hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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a rainboW of rootS: Colorful beets, celeriac, turnips, carrots, parsnips and rutabaga inspire winter dishes such as curried potato-carrot soup. Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.
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‘Anything goes’: Love triangles flourish and Broadway tunes abound on the open seas in the theater department’s romantic comedy set aboard an American cruise line. Essex High School, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 879-7121. ‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m. ‘Crimes of the heArt’: See WED.02, 7 p.m. ‘LAugh Lines’: See WED.02, 8 p.m. ‘LittLe Women’: Louisa May Alcott’s steadfast females overcome challenging times in Marian de Forest’s heartfelt adaptation, directed by JSC professor Russ Longtin. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. $5; free for the JSC community. Info, 635-1476. ‘PLAying hArd to get: short Works 2011’: See WED.02, 8 p.m. ‘the good WomAn of setzuAn’: Three gods single out Shen Te as a good person, but the fortune with which they reward her leads to trouble in Bertolt Brecht’s drama, presented by UVM Theatre. Royall Tyler Theatre, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $7-18. Info, 656-2094. ‘the greAt fLood’: Guitarist Bill Frisell and a small ensemble provide accompaniment to Bill Morrison’s film about the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River. See calendar spotlight. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-53. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘the PiLLoWmAn’: The Saints & Poets Production Company puppets and actors present Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy about a totalitarian state in which a writer is interrogated for the content of his short stories, which are eerily similar to a series of child murders. See calendar spotlight. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20; for mature audiences. Info, 863-5966. the metroPoLitAn oPerA: Live in hd: PALACe 9: See WED.02, 1 p.m.
words dyAd CommuniCAtion WorkshoP: Participants — either solo, with a friend or as a couple — speak their truths and receive others with compassion. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 6:15-8:45 p.m. $10; donations accepted. Info, 522-5855.
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senior Art CLAsses: Folks ages 55 and up explore drawing, pastels, oil and acrylic paints, printmaking, collages, and sculpture while discussing basic design concepts such as shape, texture and color. Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $5; preregister. Info, 864-0604.
conferences fALL symPosium on AdoLesCenCe: See THU.03, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
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ArgentineAn tAngo: Shoulders back, chin up! With or without partners, dancers of all abilities strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077.
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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.
drum & dAnCe: Feel the rhythm and keep the beat at a lesson in West African and Middle Eastern music for all levels. Shelburne Town Hall, 7-9:15 p.m. $3-5. Info, 922-1711. engLish Country dAnCe: Those keen on Jane Austen’s favorite pastime make rural rounds to music by Aaron Marcus, Laura Markowitz and Ana Ruesink. All dances are taught; newcomers welcome. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $5-8; $1 extra for first half hour for experienced dancers; bring finger food to share. Info, 899-2378. get PiCkLed With WiLLoWeLL: Party down with nine-piece band the Real Deal at a dance benefit for the Willowell Foundation. A silent auction, raffle, and pickle tasting and sale round out the affair. Vergennes Opera House, 7-11 p.m. $10-15; free for ages 12 and under; cash bar. Info, 716-640-4639, david@willowell.org. WorCester fAmiLy dAnCe: Movers of all ages take over the dance floor to tunes by High-LowJack and calling by Michael Travis. Town Hall, Worcester, supper, 5:30 p.m.; family dance, 6:30 p.m.; dessert, 8 p.m.; music by The Rich and Laura Bend, 8:30-10 p.m. $5 per person; $8-12 per family. Info, 229-0173.
etc. AmeriCAn internAtionAL CLuB of vermont: Expats, well-traveled citizens and Vermonters with a case of wanderlust gather for drinks in an intellectually stimulating atmosphere. Lobby, Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 347-569-4336. grouP emPoWerment drumming: Pounding percussionists give themselves permission to play. This wellness exercise uses drums as a tool for community connection and stress reduction. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $7-10. Info, 540-0181. middLeBury’s 250th BirthdAy PArty: The Addison County town celebrates a milestone with history talks and displays, entertainment, refreshments, and a fife-and-drum parade to the Cross Street Bridge for fireworks. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 382-9222. vermont Arts gALA: The Vermont Arts Council and Gov. Shumlin honor Julia Alvarez, recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts; Syndey Lea, the newly appointed Vermont Poet Laureate; and Christian Wolff, recipient of the Walter Cerf Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. Governor’s Ballroom, Capitol Plaza Hotel, Montpelier, 6-10 p.m. Free; bring a nonperishable food item to benefit the food shelf. Info, 828-3293, mbernier@vermontartscouncil.org.
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film ‘Ask us Who We Are’: Bess O’Brien’s documentary puts a face to the foster care system, focusing on those young Vermonters’ search for family and a sense of belonging. Discussion with the director and others from the film follows. Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans, 7-9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 357-4616. frenCh CinemA festivAL: Francophiles view Of Gods and Men, The Illusionist, Potiche, White Material and Wild Grass with subtitles as part of National French Week. Discussion follows each screening. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; see champlain.edu for screening times. Info, 865-6432. ‘king Corn’: Director/producer Aaron Woolf introduces his 2007 documentary about two college grads who try their hands at farming, only to stumble upon troubling issues of how we eat. Discussion follows; popcorn provided. Ascension
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Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 652-0056. ‘Page One: InsIde the new YOrk tImes’: Andrew Rossi’s 2011 documentary looks for the new face of journalism in the era of free online content and Twitter. Discussion with Rossi and producer Kate Novack follows. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422. reel rOck FIlm tOur: Six shorts capture stunning feats of vertical climbing. Petra Cliffs, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 657-3872.
food & drink hartland wInter Farmers market: Everything from freshly grown produce to specialty food abounds at stands highlighting the local plenitude. Damon Hall, Hartland, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2500, hartlandfarmersmarket@gmail. com.
games carnage In wOnderland: dOwn the rabbIt hOle: Tabletop enthusiasts convene for a weekend of board games, card games and role-playing games. Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, noon. $25 for a single day; $50 per weekend. Info, 436-2004.
health & fitness taI chI FOr senIOrs: Folks over 50 increase flexibility, balance, strength, energy and stamina while reducing chronic pain, anxiety and falls. Pine Crest at Essex, 10-11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-0360, ext. 1028. wOmen’s strength & cOndItIOnIng class: See WED.02, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
irene benefits aFter the FlOOd, there wIll be dancIng: Vermont choreographers join forces in a moving, multimedia response to excessive water. Discussion and light refreshments follow. Fayston Municipal Office, 8 p.m. Donations to mrvcommunityfund.org, the American Red Cross and vermont211.org are encouraged. Info, 310-467-5879.
kids cOmmunItY PlaYgrOuP: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. enOsburg Falls stOrY hOur: Young ones show up for fables and occasional field trips. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 933-2328.
mOntgOmerY tumble tIme: Physical-fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
tOddler YOga & stOrIes: Tykes up to age 5 stretch it out in simple exercise and reading activities. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
daYve huckett & FrIends: The Burlington guitarist’s hybrid style encompasses rock, classical and jazz. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. dOYle lawsOn & QuIcksIlver: More than 40 years into his career, the bluegrass-gospel star continues to plow new ground. The Bluegrass Gospel Project open. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $29.50. Info, 603-448-0400. gOrdOn stOne trIO: Stone collaborates with Matt Schrag and Doug Perkins on original compositions and bluegrass standards. Bring a picnic dinner or purchase a Vermont cheese plate, beer or wine. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7368. harrY manx: A Canadian bluesman stitches together Indian folk melodies with Mississippi blues. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455. JeremIah mclane & annemIeke sPOelstra: A Dutch classical piano virtuoso and an accordionist extraordinaire join forces on classical and original compositions. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. JOsh brOOks: Simple folk ballads and rowdy honky-tonk have earned this singing storyteller the nickname of “Vermont’s Johnny Cash.” Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189. theY mIght be gYPsIes: A father-son band plays 1930s-style gypsy-jazz inspired by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $9-11; cash bar. Info, 728-6464.
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seminars ‘magIck & sPellwOrkIng’: Local author Kirk White imparts the basic theory of casting spells. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 660-8060.
talks charles bergerOn: Math and science buffs listen to a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute postdoctorate researcher explain “Least-Squares Curve-Fitting Techniques for Improved Medicine Development.” Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. emIlY bernard: The UVM department of English professor turns the topic to “The Harlem Renaissance.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. JOsePh g. POnterOttO: The coordinator of Fordham University’s Mental Health Counseling Program addresses “Serving Our Diverse Communities: Transforming Health Education for Cultural Competence in the 21st Century” in a lecture and discussion. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8739.
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swantOn PlaYgrOuP: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
alan reId & rOb van sante: One of the initial members of Scotland’s famed Battlefield Band and a guitarist perform at a house concert. 1060 Bent Hill Rd., Braintree, 7:30 p.m. $15-17. Info, 728-6351.
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graPhIc memOIr wOrkshOP: Ten- to 17-yearolds commit their life stories to words and pictures with Center for Cartoon Studies grad Jen Vaughn. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4655.
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beneFIt cOncert: A lineup of all-Vermont songwriters and acoustic musicians — including Susannah Blachly, Patti Casey, Tom MacKenzie, Will Patton, Lewis Franco & the Missing Cats, and the Brown-Eyed Girls — supports the Vermont Disaster Relief Fund. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 223-0882.
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‘bOeIng-bOeIng’: See WED.02, 7 p.m. ‘crazY ’bOut PatsY’: Dallas’ Sherrill Douglas channels the country-music sweetheart’s spirit and sound. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $15-30. Info, 476-8188. ‘crImes OF the heart’: See WED.02, 7 p.m.
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tertulIa latIna: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.
‘murder On the hIgh seas’: The Brandon Town Players put on a thrilling whodunit, complete with audience participation, in an annual
‘lIttle wOmen’: See THU.03, 7 p.m.
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murder-mystery comedy dinner theater production. south station Restaurant, Rutland, buffet dinner, 6 p.m.; show, 7:15 p.m. $35 includes dinner; cash bar; advance tickets required. Info, 645-3033. ‘Playing Hard to get: SHort WorkS 2011’: see WED.02, 8 p.m. ‘tHe good Woman of Setzuan’: see thu.03, 7:30 p.m. ‘unravel: an evening of dance, tHeatre, Song and laugHter’: “Miraculously random acts of (invisible) improvisation” meet eclectic displays from Awareness Arts Theater, Julie Peoples-Clark, Lucille Dyer, Potato sack Pants Theater and other performers. see calendar spotlight. Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, 7 p.m. Choose your own price from $10 to $100. Info, 863-3369. ‘tHe PilloWman’: see thu.03, 7:30 p.m. ‘[title of SHoW]’: This R-rated Valley Players Theater production chronicles the making of a musical under a three-week time crunch. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $18; get half-price tickets at deals.sevendaysvt.com while supplies last. Info, 583-1674.
words literature extravaganza: Writers of all ages read original fiction, nonfiction and poetry over a chili dinner at Pacem Learning Community’s annual literary benefit. A teen poetry slam follows. Noble hall, Vermont College of fine Arts, Montpelier, 5:308:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 223-1010.
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Saturday art SamPler: Adults and teens grout and set glass and ceramic tiles to make masterful mosaic trivets. Davis studio gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24; preregister. Info, 425-2700.
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fall Bazaar: Browsers wander among unique gift options, jellies, pickles and fudge. Proceeds benefit the united Church of fairfax. Baptist Building, fairfax, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. free. Info, 849-6313. fall craft SHoW: holiday shoppers get a jump on gift giving by gazing at the works of more than 100 crafters. Williston Central school, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. free. Info, 343-7808. Holiday Bazaar: Early shoppers peruse a bounty of handmade wreaths, crafts, attic treasures and more. soup and slices of pie fuel their exertions. Congregational Church, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. free. Info, 388-7634.
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annual Bid & Boogie: Crowds get on their feet to live music by the Joshua Panda Band at spring hill school’s stick-season benefit, complete with a silent auction and food. gate house Base Lodge, sugarbush Resort, Warren, 7 p.m. $20-25. Info, 496-2139. Ballroom leSSon & dance Social: see fRI.04, 7-10 p.m. caPital city contra dance: feet in soft-soled shoes make the dance-floor rounds to tunes by Rodney Miller, stuart Kenney and Peter siegel, and calling by Rachel Nevitt. Capital City grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 744-6163.
education diScover goddard: Would-be students chart out their education plans through meetings with program directors and current students. goddard College, Plainfield, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. free; lunch included. Info, 800-906-8312. fall family oPen HouSe: Independent thinkers with a love of learning and their families meet teachers and high school students, tour the campus, and wise up on the Waldorf education through kids’ activities. Lake Champlain Waldorf school, shelburne, 10 a.m.-noon. free; preregister. Info, 985-2827. ScHool oPen HouSe: Parents of preschoolthrough kindergarten-aged kids consider an alternative to public ed. International Children’s school, south Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. free; preregister. Info, 865-3344.
etc. aPPraiSal day: Attic treasure hunters haul in antique furniture, art, jewelry, sports memorabilia and more for verbal estimations by six experts. Courtyard by Mariott, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $7 per item; $25 per four items. Info, 388-2117. Barre oPera HouSe gala: celeBrate tHe ’70S: Colorful costumes — think disco pants and ’fros — pay homage to the peace-and-love era at a fundraiser with a four-course meal, silent auction and dancing to tunes by the hitmen. Capitol Plaza, Montpelier, cocktails, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7 p.m. $65. Info, 476-0292. diWali nigHt: The festival of Lights commences with Indian food, music, dance and a “Bollywood Through the Ages: from 1940 until 2011” theme. grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, uVM, Burlington, 6:30-11:30 p.m. $20-25; free for kids under 3. Info, 881-3751 or 656-2642. everyWoman café: guest speaker Linda turner discusses how to combine life with Biblical truth over a breakfast buffet. Essex Alliance Church, 9-11 a.m. $7. Info, 878-8213, ext. 21, pam@essexalliance. org. Jazz imProviSation: Dancers, instrumentalists, vocalists, technicians, visual artists and enthusiasts convene to explore the heart of jazz in an improv session and dialogue with Melissa hamEllis. town hall, Warren, noon-1:30 p.m. free. Info, 310-467-5879.
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cozy nook craft fair: Local artisans set up shop on all three floors of the library to support children’s programs. Baked goods are also available. Essex free Library, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. free. Info, 879-0313. dance & drum feStival: see thu.03, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
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caSino nigHt: Dealers dressed in formal attire preside over games of blackjack, craps, roulette and wheel of fortune. Proceeds benefit local food banks and people affected by tropical storm Irene, as well as the Colchester-Milton Rotary Club’s other charitable causes. hampton Inn, Colchester, 7-11 p.m. $5 admission; $100 buy-in for texas hold ’em tournament (preregistration starts at 6 p.m.); cash bar. Info, 864-0670.
‘aSk uS WHo We are’: see fRI.04, West Monitor Barn, Richmond. ‘exit tHrougH tHe gift SHoP’: secretive graffiti artist Banksy directed this oscar-nominated feature about a french immigrant’s street-art obsession. Dana Auditorium, sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. free. Info, 443-3168. frencH cinema feStival: see fRI.04, 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m. ‘tHe WHiStleBloWer’: While spending six months in Bosnia as a uN peacekeeper, a Nebraska cop (played by Rachel Weisz) uncovers a humantrafficking scandal in Larysa Kondracki’s 2010 drama. Loew Auditorium, hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, hanover, N.h., 6:30 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘againSt a tranS narrative’: In conjunction with the “Manhood: Masculinity, Male Identity and Culture” exhibit, folks screen Jules Rosskam’s documentary about gender politics and social selfidentity. Discussion with the director follows. helen Day Art Center, stowe, 5 p.m. free. Info, 253-8358.
food & drink Burlington Winter farmerS market: Vendors sell ethnic cuisine, pottery, artisan cheese and anything else they can produce in the cold. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. caledonia Winter farmerS market: freshly baked goods, veggies, beef and maple syrup feature prominently in displays of “shop local” options. Welcome Center, st. Johnsbury, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. free. Info, 592-3088. cHamPlain iSlandS Winter farmerS market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. south hero Congregational Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. free. Info, 372-3291. community BreakfaSt: The Ladies Auxiliary sponsors a gathering for that all-important first meal of the day. VfW Post, Essex Junction, 9-11 a.m. $3-7. Info, 878-0700. emPty BoWl dinner: A simple homemade meal served in handmade pottery feeds diners and raises funds for two area food shelves. united Methodist Church, Middlebury, 6 p.m. $25. Info, 388-7276. middleBury Winter farmerS market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. free. Info, 388-0178, middleburyfm@yahoo.com.
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marine corPS BirtHday Ball: Local marines celebrate the 236th birthday of the united states Marine Corps at a black-tie or business-dress affair. Lt. Col. Robert L. Walsh is the principal speaker. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 6 p.m. $35; preregister. Info, 578-6508.
norWicH Winter farmerS market: Neighbors discover cold-weather riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. tracy hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. free. Info, 384-7447, manager@norwichfarmersmarket.org.
annual food & WellneSS exPo: health nuts take advantage of wellness consultations, massages, local and organic food samples, and more. Montpelier City hall, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. free; nonperishable food donations accepted. Info, 223-8000, info@hungermountain.com.
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training for tranSition: Community members switch into action to address the “triple challenge” of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis in a two-day course. Charlotte senior Center, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $140. Info, 425-2111.
1950S Sock HoP: Put on a poodle skirt or bolo tie for mid-century music and concessions. Proceeds benefit veterans and community-donation programs. VfW Post 309, Peru, N.y., 8 p.m.-midnight. $2.50. Info, 518-643-2309.
Winter clotHing drive: Vermonters keep warm and toasty with community donations of quality cold-weather apparel. old schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com.
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form to function equine clinic: Equestrian enthusiasts learn about the principles of conformation analysis on saturday at Vermont College of fine Arts, Montpelier. At Burlington’s uVM Morgan horse farm on sunday, folks participate in a handson study focusing on the Morgan horse. 9 a.m.noon & 1-3 p.m. $100 per day; $125 per two days. Info, 603-756-4707, annasmit@sover.net.
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annual cHriStmaS Bazaar: The sugarplum Bakery, Christmas Café, photo booth with santa and seasonal crafts spark the holiday spirit. st. Pius X Parish, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. free. Info, 879-6122.
Senior craft claSSeS: folks ages 55 and up experiment with applied decoration — flower arranging, jewelry making, glass painting and more — while discussing design concepts and color. shelburne Bay senior Living Community, 1:30-3:30 p.m. $5; preregister. Info, 864-0604.
ricHmond HiStorical Society Potluck SuPPer & fall meeting: slide-show program “Downtown Richmond: A Look Back in time” features historic photos and stories of the business district. Richmond Congregational Church, 6 p.m. $2 for potluck; bring a main dish to share. Info, 4346453, rhs@oldroundchurch.com.
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annual art & artiSanS’ Holiday market: More than 20 vendors from the Jericho-underhill area showcase jewelry, glass, sculpture and print creations alongside a bake sale and soup café. Mount Mansfield union high school, Jericho, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. free. Info, 238-7391.
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floodaPalooza: Carol Ann Jones & the superchargers, the Nobby Reed Project, Mellow yellow and student performers play to support the Vermont Disaster Relief fund. A silent auction, bake sale and raffle augment the affair. Performing Arts Center, Bellows free Academy, st. Albans, 6:309:30 p.m. Afterglow Reception at Chow! Bella. $1015 suggested donation. Info, 524-5156, dynagirl38@ yahoo.com.
kids BerkSHire tumBle time: Provided snacks fuel exercise for tots. gym, Berkshire Elementary school, 9:30-11 a.m. free. Info, 527-5426. get your lake PHySicS on: Members of the uVM chapter of the society of Physics students make a splash with interactive demonstrations about the various properties of water. ECho Lake Aquarium and science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. nortH Hero tumBle time: free-play stations around the gym keep youngsters — and their adult companions — on the go. North hero Elementary school, 10-11 a.m. free. Info, 527-5426.
music affiliate artiStS’ collaBorative concert: guitarist Paul Asbell, sopranist Carol Christensen, saxophonist Miles Donahue, pianist Cynthia huard and nine other private music teachers prove their musical prowess. Concert hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. free. Info, 443-6433. BluegraSS goSPel ProJect: four-part harmonies and stellar instrumentation run through early American spirituals and contemporary music. Proceeds benefit Volunteer Vermont. first Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 863-5966. eleva cHamBer PlayerS: An allstring chamber orchestra goes Latin in “scent of a tango,” with a preconcert tango demonstration and selected works featuring award-winning pianist Rudolf golez. Congregational Church, Waterbury, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 244-8354.
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fiND SElEct EVENtS oN twittEr @7dayscalendar Jeh Kulu Dance anD Drum TheaTer: In Woh Dinye Mahmadi, the high-energy ensemble shares a classic village story of redemption and forgiveness. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $5-15; free for kids under 3. Info, 863-5966.
VincenT feeneY: The author and historian looks at the early American real-estate business in “The Allen Brothers: Original Vermont Developers.” Vermont National Country Club, South Burlington, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8479.
lucinDa Williams: Fusing rock, blues, country and Americana, the established singer-songwriter lives up to her Grammy-winning reputation. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $49.50-65. Info, 603-448-0400.
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‘mini muD’: Teens and tots share their talents at a stage event honoring youthful flair. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. $6-14. Info, 728-6464.
shinDig WiTh The shugarmaKers: Bandmates Connie Button, David Indenbaum, Corey Unger and Norman Labrecque wind from old traditionals to classic and contemporary rock with Rocco Russelli and Keith Friedland. Tunbridge Town Hall, 8-11 p.m. $8. Info, 889-9602.
‘PlaYing harD To geT: shorT WorKs 2011’: See WED.02, 8 p.m.
social BanD: In “The Vermont Poetry and Song Project, Part Two: A House of Many Rooms,” the Burlington ensemble debuts works by 10 local composers. Richmond Free Library, 7:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 658-8488. unresTraineD, Dangers & Draize: Punk bands play in a 100 percent substance-free venue. The Bristol Hub, 7-11:30 p.m. $15; transportation available from Burlington to Bristol; call for details. Info, 453-3678. William ÖgmunDson: The pianist and composer takes to the hammers and strings with original ragtime and jazz tunes along with audience requests. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 496-8994.
outdoors WaTerfoWl WalK: Birders scope out the last of the season’s winged migrators. Berlin Pond, 7:30-10 a.m. $5-10. Info, 229-6206.
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inTroDucTion To PoWerPoinT: Slide-show makers experiment with templates, text, chart, animation and more. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.
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chariTY carBine-marsh: VPIRG’s environmental health advocate considers whether Vermont’s single-most-effective recycling program can be expanded and improved in “A Bigger, Better Bottle Bill?” A potluck follows. Grange Hall, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0782.
The meTroPoliTan oPera: liVe in hD: loeW auDiTorium: See above listing, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., noon. $10-29.50. Info, 603-646-2422. The meTroPoliTan oPera: liVe in hD: Palace 9: See above listing, Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, noon. $18-24. Info, 660-9300.
VermonT inTerfaiTh PoWer & lighT conference: Speakers Gus Speth, Michael Dworkin and Amy Seidl weigh in on what individuals and congregations can do in response to environmental change in “Justice and Climate Change: Faithful Action.” Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 1:15-5:45 p.m. $10-25; $12 for supper; preregister. Info, 434-3397, info@ vtipl.org.
etc. communiTY rememBrance & canDle-lighTing ceremonY: The Hospice Program of Franklin County Home Health Agency hosts a nondenominational service in which folks honor loved ones through readings, poetry and music. Holy Angels Church, St. Albans, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 527-7531. DaY of The DeaD/ancesTor ceremonY: Shared stories and photographs honor loved ones who have passed. A potluck of traditional ancestral foods follows. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-6203. TroPical fish cluB of BurlingTon aucTion: Fish fans bid on tropical swimmers, aquarium plants and manufacturers’ donations. VFW Post, Burlington, viewing, 10:30 a.m.; auction, noon. Free. Info, 879-4147, fran.kinghorn@gmail.com.
fairs & festivals Dance & Drum fesTiVal: See THU.03, 10 a.m.5:45 p.m.
film ‘asK us Who We are’: See FRI.04, Essex United Methodist Church. french cinema fesTiVal: See FRI.04, 2 p.m.
‘[TiTle of shoW]’: See FRI.04, 7:30 p.m.
‘The general’ WiTh liVe accomPanimenT BY alloY orchesTra: Buster Keaton’s 1926 war comedy gets a vivid instrumental score from the threeman musical ensemble. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
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archer maYor: The author of a Vermont-based mystery series starring detective Joe Gunther introduces his latest whodunit, Tag Man. Baker’s Hallmark, Brattleboro, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 257-9546. Joni B. cole: Twenty-eight essays explore what it means to be human in Another Bad-Dog Book: Tales of Life, Love, and Neurotic Human Behavior. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189. marTin magoun: The Vermont author excerpts Russian Roulette and Shattered in “A Search for Common Joy,” a reading and reception that addresses depression and suicide prevention. BCA Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-9570 or 431-5063, wharfratbooks@gmail.com.
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annual arT & arTisans’ holiDaY marKeT: See SAT.05, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. elDoes Bazaar: Homemade crafts, baked goods and lunch support local nonprofit organizations. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2424. WoKo inDoor flea marKeT: Feeling thrifty? Bargain hunters lose themselves in a sale of collectibles, antiques, crafts and household goods. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. $3. Info, 878-5545.
annual TurKeY Dinner: Get in the Thanksgiving spirit with a harvest feast. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 11:45 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:45 p.m. $5-10; free for kids under 6; takeout available; reservations required. Info, 527-1121.
music ‘an eVening of song’: Piero Bonamico, conductor of the South Burlington Community Chorus, gives voice to a variety of funny song selections exploring life, love, and the trials and tribulations of being a working musician. Proceeds benefit the SBCC. Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 5 p.m. $55; $100 per couple; $400 per table of eight; includes full dinner; cash bar. Info, 846-4108. DarTmouTh college gosPel choir: A 100-plusmember choral force honors gospel greats. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. $5-18. Info, 603-646-2422. eleVa chamBer PlaYers: See SAT.05, Universalist Church, Barre, 3-5 p.m. folK & TraDiTional music series: Bread & Bones unleash original songs influenced by Celtic, British and early American music. Brandon Music, 2-4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 465-4071. Jazz Brunch: Anthony Santor and friends pep up a midday meal, complete with Bloody Marys and mimosas. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $5 suggested donation; cost of brunch. Info, 496-8994. Jeremiah mclane & annemieKe sPoelsTra: See FRI.04, Richmond Free Library, 4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 434-3036. naTasha KoVal PaDen: A Liszt-centric program by this music-department affiliate marks the Hungarian composer’s 200th birthday. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. norTheasT fiDDlers associaTion: Stringedinstrument players gather for a monthly jam. American Legion, Colchester, noon-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 728-5188. social BanD: See SAT.05, Congregational Church, Charlotte, 4 p.m. VermonT WinD ensemBle: Alan Parshley conducts a band of air-powered-instrument players. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.
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‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.02, 5 p.m.
oPen meDiTaTion classes: Harness your emotions and cultivate inner peace through the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Laughing River Yoga, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $5-15 suggested donation. Info, 684-0452, vermontrsl@gmail.com.
holidays halloWeen funDraiser: Don’t pack those costumes away just yet. Music from the Conrad Samuels Band, the House Rockers and Rock Solid gives way to dancing, raffles, a silent auction and a potluck. Proceeds benefit a community member who has been diagnosed with cancer. Moose Lodge, St. Albans, 1-8 p.m. Donations accepted; cash bar. Info, 527-1327.
kids BeTh Kanell: Two eighth-grade girls discover a hidden space in an old Vermont inn in the local author’s suspense story for young adults, The Secret Room. Kanell reads passages aloud and signs copies. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 751-8802.
café au PlaY: Pendragon Theatre cast members read Gina Gionfriddo’s popular new play Becky Shaw in a café-style setting. Annex building, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. $20 includes refreshments; cash bar. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘The PilloWman’: See THU.03, 2 p.m. ‘[TiTle of shoW]’: See FRI.04, 2 p.m.
words archer maYor: See SAT.05, Misty Valley Books, Chester, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 875-3400. ‘To Kill a mocKingBirD’ BooK Discussion: As the grand finale to the Vermont Reads program, bookworms start a dialogue about Harper Lee’s novel and the movie adaptation over Southernstyle refreshments. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. Women’s PoeTrY grouP: Writers give and receive feedback on their poetic expressions in a nonthreatening, nonacademic setting. Private
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The meTroPoliTan oPera: liVe in hD: laKe PlaciD cenTer for The arTs: See above listing, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., noon. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512.
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Dimanches: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.
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‘The gooD Woman of seTzuan’: See THU.03, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
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comPuTer Training for seniors: A technology tutor helps folks decode laptop lingo, surf the web and more in one-on-one sessions. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.
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food & drink sMaRt shOppiNg: Folks travel the aisles and taste as they go in a rundown of fresh, affordable and heart-healthy ingredients. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569.
health & fitness auRa-CleaRiNg CliNiC: Call to reserve an energyhealing session and investigation of the state of your field of radiation. Sessions start every 15 minutes. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090. geNtle gRatitude YOga: Easy lying, sitting and standing poses improve balance, coordination and flexibility, and encourage an appreciation for life. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 10-11:30 a.m. $5 suggested donation; bring a yoga mat. Info, 881-5210. heRbal CliNiC: Folks learn to improve their health with herbal medicines at a personalized, confidential consultation with faculty and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700.
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tai Chi fOR seNiORs: See FRI.04, 10-11 a.m. WOMeN’s stReNgth & CONditiONiNg Class: See WED.02, 8:30-9:30 a.m. YOga Class: Instructor Michelle Chasky facilitates an exercise session for fitness and relaxation. Cold Hollow Career Center, Enosburg Falls, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $5; bring a mat. Info, 933-4003, mchasky@ hotmail.com.
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4-h speCial iNteRest pROgRaM: See THU.03, 5:30-7 p.m. isle la MOtte plaYgROup: Stories and crafts make for creative play. Yes, there will be snacks. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. MusiC & MOveMeNt With MaY: Caregivers and their charges lace up their dancing shoes for a fun and educational session with May Poduschnik. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. MusiC With Raphael: See THU.03, 10:45 a.m. stORies With MegaN: Preschoolers ages 3 to 6 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. sWaNtON plaYgROup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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ReCORdeR-plaYiNg gROup: Musicians produce early folk and baroque melodies. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net.
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sport hORsebaCk-RidiNg deMO: Students with special needs show off their equestrian excellence as the finale of Vermont Horse-Assisted Therapy’s eightweek after school program. Pease Farm Stable, Middlesex, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4828.
talks CCv leCtuRe seRies: Faculty presenter Donald De Voil shares examples from the news media in “The Camera Never Lies: How Photographic Images Shape Our Understanding of World Issues.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. tOM siMONe: The UVM Department of English professor ponders “To Film or Not to Film: Hamlet on Page and Screen.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.
words beN heWitt: The Vermont author of The Town That Food Saved discusses a rural community’s burgeoning local-food system. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1469. bOOk disCussiON: the geNius Of MaRk tWaiN: Bibliophiles relish the satire and pointed social commentary of the man also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in a chat about The Prince and the Pauper. Wake Robin Retirement Community, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-0659. 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.
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fall fOliage WReath-MakiNg WORkshOp: Materials from nature make their way into an ornate and seasonal ring. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free; RSVP. Info, 658-3585.
dance ballROOM daNCe Class: Take a swing and then a waltz with instructors Samir and Eleni Elabd. No partner or experience needed. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, swing, 5:30 p.m.; waltz, 6:30 p.m. $14 drop-ins. Info, 223-2921 or 225-8699. iNteRMediate teChNique daNCe MasteR Class: Choreographer Nicholas Leichter teaches a regularly scheduled technique course. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 443-3168.
environment gReeN dRiNks: Activists and professionals for a cleaner environment raise a glass over networking and discussion. The Skinny Pancake, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2253.
health & fitness ChaiR YOga & tai Chi: Slow, gentle movements aid stress reduction, balance and flexibility. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 10-11 a.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 881-5210. iNtROduCtiON tO MeditatiON: Instructor Sherry Rhynard shares handouts and tips for managing stress and improving health and inner peace. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@ hungermountain.com. tai Chi: Easy, intentional poses for intermediates increase qì, or energy flow, in a four-week cycle. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6:307:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 881-5210. tai Chi fOR seNiORs: See THU.03, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
kids CReative tuesdaYs: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. faiRfax stORY hOuR: Good listeners are rewarded with folklore, fairy tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5246. fall stORY hOuR: Picture books and crafts catch the attention of little tykes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. fROstY & fRieNds theRapY dOgs: Young readers share their favorite texts with friendly pooches. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. highgate stORY hOuR: See WED.02, 10-11 a.m. MORNiNg plaYgROup: Astrologer Mary Anna Abuzahra leads storytelling inspired by seasonal plants, fruits and flowers before art activities, games and an optional walk. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-0043. MusiC With RObeRt: Music lovers of all ages engage in sing-alongs. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. sCieNCe & stORies: aNiMals iN NOveMbeR: Kids have aha! moments regarding the winterizing ways of mammals. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. sOuth heRO plaYgROup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. st. albaNs plaYgROup: Creative activities and storytelling engage the mind. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. stORY tiMe fOR tOts: Three- to 5-year-olds savor stories, songs, crafts and company. CarpenterCarse Library, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 482-2878.
language pause Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Levity, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.
music daRtMOuth WiNd sYMphONY: In “Masters on Winds,” Matthew M. Marsit conducts the Hop
ensemble in works by Respighi, Saint-Saëns, Hindemith and Wagner. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-20. Info, 603-646-2422. gReeN MOuNtaiN ChORus: Men who like to sing learn four-part harmonies at an open meeting of this all-guy barbershop group. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 505-9595. jOhN hiatt & the COMbO: The raspy-voiced singer-songwriter offers blues, folk and country tunes at a benefit for the Good Neighbor Health Clinic. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $3969. Info, 603-448-0400.
seminars basiC iNtROduCtiON tO CaMeRa use: Budding videographers learn about media production using public access video cameras. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 862-3966, ext. 16, morourke@cctv.org. speNd sMaRt: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1414, ext. 104.
talks ChRistOpheR R. aNdRes: Ancient architecture provides important insights into the collapse of a civilization as the anthropology expert speaks about his “Recent Investigations at the Newly Discovered Maya Center of Tipan, Belize.” Conference Room, Robert A. Jones House, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3268. laMOille seMiNaR: Hunger Free Vermont program director Dorigen Keeney puts a local lens on the social condition, discussing its existence in Lamoille County. Department for Children and Families Commissioner Dave Yacovone receives the annual Sylvester-Hulburd Award for Community Service. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1241, sally. laughlin@jsc.edu. luNCh & leaRN: A five-part series explores topics related to the theme of “Making the Most of Your Life in a Tough Economy.” O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, noon-1 p.m. Free; meals are provided. Info, 655-4565, kate.winooskicoalition@ gmail.com. susaN pedeN: Wearing an 1830s-style dress, the educator presents historic letters written by Vermonters who traveled to the new frontier during the 19th century in “Westward Ho.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, noon. $2; bring a lunch; beverages and dessert provided. Info, 388-2117.
theater ‘bOeiNg-bOeiNg’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m.
words bOOk studY gROup: Scholars of humanity and spiritual nature analyze Robert Brumet’s Birthing a Greater Reality: A Guide to Conscious Evolution. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 1-2:30 p.m. & 6:30-8 p.m. $10 suggested donation; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Info, 876-7696, lane2love@yahoo.com. YOu COMe, tOO: Spend autumn considering Shakespearean sonnets with Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert. Vermont Humanities Council, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626, ext. 307.
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WiNOOski COalitiON fOR a safe aNd peaCeful COMMuNitY: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by planning community events, sharing resources, networking and more. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1392, ext.10.
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Thanksgiving Boarding! crafts 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.
education Paying-for-College Presentation: University-bound students learn about available aid, financial forms and comparing college costs. Cafeteria, Burlington High School, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-9602.
etc. new ladies night: Women who ride — and those who aspire to — get together to talk Harleys at an evening of demonstrations and door prizes. Speaker Wendy Battles recounts her experiences on one of the toughest motorcycle endurance rides. Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; RSVP. Info, 878-4778, info@greenmtnharley.com.
film ‘asK Us who we are’: See FRI.04, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury. CommUnity Cinema: Anne Makepeace’s 2010 documentary We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân follows linguist Jessie Little Doe as she attempts to revive the Wampanoag language more than a century after its last native speaker died. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. ‘PeoPle on sUnday’: A handful of young German filmmakers who would go on to become major Hollywood players directed this 1930 silent film about a weekend outing in interwar Berlin. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
food & drink ‘no sUgar, dairy or wheat? so what Can i eat?’ thanKsgiving edition: Dietary restrictions or not, a holiday meal can still be delicious. Learning Center chef/instructor Nina LesserGoldsmith whips up orange-and-vanilla-scented sweet potatoes with toasted pecans and other mouthwatering menu items. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 8632569, ext. 1.
foot-Care CliniC: Toes in need? Pamper those digits at a service provided by the Visiting Nurses Association. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. $5 suggested donation; RSVP. Info, 685-3585. serenity yoga: See WED.02, 6-7 p.m. tai Chi/Qigong Class: See WED.02, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
kids BaBytime: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-3659.
moving & grooving with Christine: See WED.02, 11-11:30 a.m. Pajama story time: Evening tales send kiddos off to bed. Berkshire Elementary School, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
language italian Conversation groUP: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.
music starline rhythm Boys: The Vermont band sounds out swingin’ honky-tonk and rockabilly. Bayside Pavilion, St. Albans, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 524-0909.
seminars CommUnity herBalism Class: VCIH student Abigail Houghton demystifies “The Secrets of Our Cycle” in a menstruation lesson covering hormone fluctuations, charting methods and womb wellness. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 2247100, info@vtherbcenter.org. how eleCtriCity is made: Lightbulbs brighten, both literally and metaphorically, as people of all ages experiment with electric charge with Vermont Energy Education Program’s Erin Malloy. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. sPend smart: See WED.02, 10 a.m.-noon.
talks jane williamson: In “Slavery a Sin: Radical Abolition in Antebellum America,” the director of Rokeby Museum gets in the mindset of 1830s abolitionists. South Burlington Community Library, noon. Free. Info, 652-7076. janet Bergman & freddie wilKinson: Two Alpinists recall their first ascents in the Karakoram mountain range. See calendar spotlight. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College. 7 p.m. Free. Info, 805-635-1423. vinCent feeney: See SAT.05, United Methodist Church, Grand Isle, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-4058.
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theater ‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m. master of illUsion: Magicians and escape artists present daredevil tricks in a glitzy show with live tigers, exotic birds and graceful dancers. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $45.50-55.50. Info, 775-0903.
words BooK disCUssion: Pilgrimage: Readers take a vicarious journey through Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra. South Hero Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209.
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montgomery story hoUr: Good listeners are rewarded with an earful of tales and a mouthful of snacks. Montgomery Town Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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dan ChodorKoff: The Marshfield author’s first novel, Loisaida, explores the impact of memory and imagination on social change. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. m
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highgate story hoUr: See WED.02, 11:15 a.m.12:15 p.m. homesChoolers’ event: Players face off in games galore. Fairfax Community Library, 3:304:45 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.
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Lucinda Williams @ Flynn MainStage The Pillowman (11/3-6, 11/10-13) @ Main Street Landing Black Box Theatre Harry Manx @ UVM Recital Hall Green Mountain Derby Dames @ Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction Bluegrass Gospel Project @ First Congregational Church Jeh Kulu Dance & Drum Theater @ Contois Auditorium Burlington Civic Symphony @ Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester Pomo Afro Homos (11/10-11) @ FlynnSpace Lyric Theatre’s “Hairspray” (11/10-13) @ Flynn MainStage Jaime Laredo & Sharon Robinson @ UVM Recital Hall Going to Bat for Vermont Farmers @ Judd Gym, Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center Alex Alvear and Mango Blue @ FlynnSpace Social Band’s The Vermont Poetry and Song Project: “A House of Many Rooms” @ The Cathedral Church of St. Paul 11/16 WED “Moby Dick” (11/16-17) @ FlynnSpace 11/18 FRI “Water is Rising” @ Flynn MainStage 11/18 FRI Regina Carter @ UVM Recital Hall 11/19 SAT “Still Black, Still Proud“ @ Flynn MainStage 11/19 SAT Burlington Choral Society @ Ira Allen Chapel, University of Vermont 11/19 SAT What’s Alive Inside? (11/19 and 1/28) @ Chase Mill, Suite 250 11/22 TUE Stunt Nite @ Flynn MainStage 11/25 FRI James Harvey @ FlynnSpace 11/26 SAT Albany Berkshire Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” (11/26-27) @ Flynn MainStage 11/29 TUE Chris Cornell @ Flynn MainStage
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art PRINT: CARDS & GIFT WRAP: Nov. 14-Dec. 19, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $150/ nonmembers, $135/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166. Who doesn’t love receiving gifts with a homemade touch for the holidays? Learn to make your own cards, gift tags and wrapping paper using techniques such as stenciling, Turkish paper marbling, linocut and silkscreening. Plus, learn to use recycled materials to make your holiday a little greener. Ages 16 and up.
building TINY-HOUSE RAISING: Cost: $250/workshop. Location: Richmond. Info: Peter King, 933-6103. A crew of beginners will help instructor Peter King frame and sheath a 12 x 12 tiny house in Richmond, November 5 and 6.
circus arts THE ART OF HOOP DANCE: Nov. 6, 12:15-1:45 p.m. Cost: $15/class. Location: Burlington Dances Studio (Chace Mill, upstairs), 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Lucille@ NaturalBodiesPilates.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Sam Resnicow, the Hoop Master from the International Competitions Hooping Idol: “Join us as we connect body and mind, transforming a childhood toy into an instrument of flow and movement.” Great for all ages and open to all levels! Kids welcome, hula-hoops provided! Burlington Dances Birthday Celebration all weekend!
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BALANCE, HARMONY, BALLET: Cost: $13/class (class card rates & annual memberships, too). Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Love ballet? Release unnecessary tension and connect with your inner dancer to shape, tone and align your body while experiencing elegance, personal growth and grace. Classes include teachings of the masters of movement: Pilates, Delsarte, Balanchine, Vagonova, Laban and Bartenieff for balance and harmony in the mind, heart and body. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 7:15 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! JOY MADDEN/SHERIEFS GAMBLE: Sat. Nov. 5, modern dance w/ Joy Madden 11 a.m.-1 p.m., & Sheriefs Gamble, 2:304 p.m. Cost: $15/each workshop. Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances. com. Burlington Dances Artist in Residence Joy Madden offers Moving From Experience, a dance art workshop during which participants delve into childhood memories, emotions and movement. Visiting artist Sheriefs Gamble pushes the boundaries of pure and raw movement in a workshop fusing Krumping with modern dance. Young men encouraged to attend! LEARN TO SWING DANCE: Cost: $60/6-week series ($50 for students/seniors). Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: lindyvermont.com, 860-7501. Great fun, exercise and socializing, with fabulous music. Learn in a welcoming and lighthearted
environment. Classes start every six weeks: Tuesdays for beginners; Wednesdays for upper levels. Instructors: Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl. LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4week class. Location: The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington, St. Albans, Colchester. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance. com, FirstStepDance.com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Three locations to choose from!
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BOOKCRAFTING WORKSHOP: Sat., Nov. 19, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Taught by Donna Stepien. Registration deadline: Wed., Nov. 16. Location: White River Craft Center, 50 Randolph Ave., Randolph. Info: 728-8912, wrcraftcenter@comcast.net. This workshop is for anyone who would like to design and craft a book or journal. Perfect for holiday gift giving! You’ll make three books: Japanese stab, concertina and saddle-stitch. Basic materials and supplies are provided. Bring anything flat/lightweight (magazine/ newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, buttons, beads, ribbons) to personalize your books. HULA-HOOP: MAKE YOUR OWN!: Dec. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/class. Location: CVU High School, 10 mins. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, access@ cvuhs.org, cvuweb.cvuhs. org/access. Make your own durable, beautiful hula-hoop out of high-quality materials. Join Carolyn in this onenight class to make, tape and design your own colorful hula-hoop. Great gift for yourself or another, no batteries necessary. Customize your hoop to create a truly original object of fun. All materials included in fee. Instructor: Carolyn Siccama. Limit: 10.
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CLAY: HOLIDAY GIFTS ON THE WHEEL: Nov. 21-Dec. 19, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $150/nonmembers, $135/BCA members. Clay sold separately at $20/25-lb. bag. Glazes and firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Bring your own ideas or let our expert potter Chris Vaughn guide you in creating special ceramic pieces to give as gifts or use for your own decorations. Work with the wheel and
fine metals, get help with your precious-metal-clay and enameling projects. A perfect time to work on gifts for the holidays! Ages 16 and up.
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hand-building techniques to create ceramic mugs, bowls, teapots, ornaments and more. Ages 16 and up. DROP IN: GIVE IT A WHIRL: ADULT POTTERY: Fri., Sep. 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18 & Dec. 16, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 3rd Fri. of the mo., 4 Fridays total. Cost: $12/person, $10/BCA member. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This is a great introduction to our studio for those who don’t have time for an eight-week class, or who just want to try the wheel and have some fun with other beginner potters. Through demonstrations and individual instruction, learn the basics of preparing and centering the clay, and making cups, mugs and bowls. Ages 16 and up. DROP IN: LIFE DRAWING FOR ADULTS (16+): Sep. 12-Dec. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $8/session, $7/session for BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. This drop-in class is open to all levels and facilitated by a BCA staff member and professional model. Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. No registration necessary. Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free! DROP IN: PAINTING FOR ADULTS (16+): Sep. 15-Oct. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $10/session, $9/session BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. This drop-in class is open to all levels and facilitated by Linda Jones, an accomplished painter and BCA instructor for over 10 years. Come paint from a still life or bring something (abstract, landscape, mixed media) that you are working on. No registration necessary. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Please bring your own painting materials. Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free! DROP IN: POLLYWOG PRESCHOOL: Sep. 15-Dec.
15, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $6/parent & child pair, $5/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. This popular drop-in program introduces young children to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social. Participants will work with homemade play dough, paint, yarn, ribbon, paper and more! Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. No registration necessary. Ages 6 months to 5 years. Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free! DROP-IN: FRIDAY NIGHT FAMILY CLAY: Fri., Sep. 16Dec. 16 (no class Nov. 25), 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $6/ person, $5/BCA member. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Learn wheel and hand building techniques at BCA’s clay studio while hanging out with the family. Make bowls, cups and amazing sculptures. Staff will give wheel and hand building demonstrations throughout the evening. Price includes one fired and glazed piece per participant. Additional fired and glazed pieces are $5 each. No registration necessary. All ages. Get a free visit! Purchase a $30 punch card for six drop-in classes, $25 for BCA members. DROP-IN: PRESCHOOL CLAY: Sep. 16-Dec. 16, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $6/parent & child pair, $5/ BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, Burlington. This popular drop-in program introduces your child to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social. Through art projects designed for early learners, young artists will draw, work with clay, and create collages, paint murals and more! Parents must accompany their children. All materials provided. Ages 3 to 5. Get a free visit! Purchase a $30 punch card for six drop-in classes, $25 for BCA members. JEWELRY: GUIDED OPEN STUDIO: Nov. 9-Dec. 14, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $160/nonmembers, $144/ BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Get help from the instructor, Rebecca Macomber, a professional jeweler, or just use the studio equipment to work on your own. In addition to
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FREE CLASSES SAT., NOV. 5: 8:30 a.m. Pilates Mat, 10 a.m. TangoFlow!, 1:15 Belly Dance. Location: Burlington Dances Studio, upstairs in the Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Lucille@ NaturalBodiesPilates. com, BurlingtonDances. com. Feel the feeling! Find out why every body loves Pilates at 8:30 a.m.! Get into the TangoFlow! with Cathy Salmons: a fun, sweaty, sensual workout, 10 a.m.! Move, sway, shake, smile, laugh in this ancient expression of femininity, beauty and grace in Belly Dance with Gail McKenzie, 1:15 p.m. Free!
WRITING & PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP W/ BRIAN FREEMAN: Intermediate Adults & Older Teens, Tue., Nov. 8-6 p.m. Cost: $20/ class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Brian Freeman is an awardwinning playwright, director, performance artist and cofounder of San Francisco’s groundbreaking black queer performance troupe Pomo Afro Homos. In this workshop, he introduces participants to strategies
for writing and performing original works, including techniques to prepare the body and voice for performance and strategies for developing monologues from personal narratives, found text and devised text. AFROHOUSEHOP W/ SOUL NUBIAN: Intermediate Adults & Teens, Sat., Nov. 12, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $15/class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Soul Nubian (Rashid Pridgen), a mover and shaker in urban dance culture for nearly two decades, is the founder of Afrohousehop, a contemporary form with roots in underground dance culture. In this workshop he introduces participants to AfroHouseHop, which builds on the stylistic forms of pan-African dance, the soulful foundations of house dance and the momentum of hip-hop. FOSSE JAZZ MASTERCLASS: Adults & Teens, Fri., Nov. 18, 5:45-8:45 p.m. Cost: $35/class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Terrie Robinson was one of the original dancers in the Broadway production of Pippin, under jazz great Bob Fosse. Fosse is the man responsible for this highly distinctive jazz style, full of elegance, precision, humor, isolation, detail and showstopping pizzazz. Challenge yourself in this one-day intensive for intermediate and advanced dancers, and tell your friends that there’s only one degree of separation between you and Bob Fosse! HIP-HOP WORKSHOP W/ JEFFREY PAGE: Intermediate & Advanced Teens & Adults, Sat., Nov. 5, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $15/workshop. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. An Emmy Award-nominated and VMA Award-winning director-choreographer in NYC and L.A., Jeffrey’s credits include choreography and staging for Beyonce, Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith, R. Kelly,
VH1, MTV, Cirque du Soleil, and more. He danced in Bill T. Jones’ Broadway production of Fela! and is a resident choreographer for reality sensation “So You Think You Can Dance!” Don’t miss out! PACIFIC ISLANDS SONG & DANCE: Adults & Teens, Thu., Nov. 17, 7-8:30 p.m. Cost: $18/class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. This workshop is led by performers from the Polynesian island of Tokelau whose performance ‘Water Is Rising’ raises awareness of the plight they face: rising water levels due to global warming, submerging their homeland and forcing loss of their culture as they assimilate into other lands. In this participatory workshop you’ll learn some of the traditional songs and dance forms they’ve used for centuries to record history and express deep feelings through elegant movement, vibrant rhythms and the power of communal expression. No experience necessary. LECOQ TECHNIQUE W/ CONOR LOVETT: Intermediate Adults & Teens, Tue., Nov. 15, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $40/class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Conor Lovett, artistic director of Ireland’s Gare St Lazare Players, trained as an actor at Ecole Internationale de Theatre de Jacques Lecoq in Paris. At the Flynn he’ll be performing his one-man ‘Moby Dick’ and will lead this practical actor training workshop covering key elements of Lecoq’s training techniques with an emphasis on exploring each actor’s own state as a starting point to build character, emotion and attitude.
gardening MASTER GARDENER 2011 COURSE: Feb. 7-May 1, 6:15-9 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $385/incl. Sustainable Gardening book. Late fee after Jan. 20. Noncredit course. Location: Various locations, Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Ctr., Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, Waterbury, White River Jct. Info: 656-9562, master. gardener@uvm.edu, uvm. edu/mastergardener. Learn the keys to a healthy and sustainable home landscape as University of Vermont faculty and experts focus on
gardening in Vermont. This noncredit course covers a wide variety of horticultural topics: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany basics, plant pests, soil fertility, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plant control, introduction to home landscaping, and more!
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announced on our Facebook page, or join our email list, or call us. Dates for our 2012 Wisdom of the Herbs and Wild Edibles Intensive are now posted on our website. VSAC non-degree grants are available to qualifying applicants. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local, wild, edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.
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PAPER MARBLING FOR KIDS & ADULTS: Nov. 11, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $35/class (family discount of $10/person). Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Learn the Italian art of paper decoration. The marbling process is as fun as it is easy for anyone to do. It involves floating paint on top of water and swirling designs that are then transferred onto specially treated paper. Every print is totally unique! Participants will create a number of marbled papers to use for stationery, collage, wrapping paper, scrap booking and more. Instructor: Natasha Bogar.
herbs EDIBLE/MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE NORTHEAST: Cost: $20/session, $150/prepaid. Location: NatureHaven, 431 East Rd., Milton. Info: Laurie DiCesare, 893-1845, naturehaven8@hughes. net. 10-session home study/ field trip program. Includes botany, folklore, traditional, Native American and current uses; printed plant family handouts, hands-on herb projects, local park walks. Flexible scheduling, certificate. Individual or group nature walks, interpretive trails, species listing also available. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Monthly Wild Edible and Medicinal Plant Walks with Annie, $10, no one turned away, dates
ENERGY SEX INTENSIVE: Nov. 13, 12-5:30 p.m. Cost: $95/workshop, 20% discount if you register 2 or more people. Location: Burlington Dances Studio, 1 Mill St. (Chace Mill), suite 372, Burlington. Info: Intimates Arts Center, Carolyn Cooke, 363-4878, intimateartscenter.com. Turn on your erotic circuits! Learn how to play with your own sexual energy toolkit by using breath, sound, movement, vision, awareness, intention, imagination and more to access, enhance and channel your own erotic power. The workshop is clothes on, hands off for men, women, singles and partners. HAND WISDOM: JOURNEY TO HEALTH: Nov. 12, 1:30-3:30 p.m., & Nov. 17, 6-8 p.m. Location: Spirit Dancer, 125 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Hand Tales, Julie or Janet, 655-5229, J_Sonack@yahoo.com, handtales.com. Free hand analysis group clinic! Come explore what your hands have to say about your life purpose and how injuries may be sending you a message. Join Janet and Julie to test out some theories and discover the power and magic of your hands.
language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter. com. Broaden your horizons,
connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, teens and children. Personal instruction from a native speaker via small classes, private instruction or student tutoring, including AP. See our website for complete information or contact us for details.
martial arts AIKIDO: Join now & receive a 3-mo. membership for $190. This special rate includes a free uniform ($50 value) and unlimited classes 7 days a week. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. Aikido is a dynamic Japanese martial art that promotes physical and mental harmony through the use of breathing exercises, aerobic conditioning, circular movements, and pinning and throwing techniques. We also teach sword/staff arts and knife defense. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 7-17. We also offer classes for children ages 5-6. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s only fully certified (Shidoin) Aikido teacher. AIKIDO: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido for Children (ages 6-12) at Vermont Aikido. Class starts October 29. Saturday mornings, 9:30-10:30. $50 monthly fee includes uniform you get to take home. Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility with flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 6604072, Julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardiorespiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian
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performing arts PerFormING ArTISTry: deLSArTe: Nov. 6, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $18/class. Location: Burlington Dances Studio, upstairs in the Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Lucille@ NaturalBodiesPilates.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Performing artists will meet gestural vocabulary head on, awakening the theatrical body to levels often believed impossible. see the expression of body, mind and spirit in every little movement. Joe Williams introduces the Delsarte system of expression, a powerful tool for developing body awareness for any number of creative ends.
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reiki USUI reIKI: 1ST deGree: Nov. 20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $175/6-hr. class. Location: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Hinesburg. Info: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Cindy Carse, 9859580, cindy@energymedicinevt.com, energymedicinevt.com. learn Reiki, a traditional Japanese healing art that facilitates health and transformation on all levels (body, mind and spirit). Reiki can be supportive of any life path or career. In this class, you will be attuned to Reiki and trained to practice Reiki for yourself, loved ones, plants and animals.
spirituality FAScINATING FAcTS: exPLorING The myThS & mySTerIeS oF jUdAISm: Nov. 7-Dec. 12, 7-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Location: Chabad of Vermont, 57 S. Williams St., Burlington. Info: 658-5770, chabad@ chabadvt.com, myjli.com. a new six-week course from the Rohr Jewish learning Institute. classes: Know something about the Bible?; From Womb to Tomb; angels, Blessings, and evil eyes; Foods and Feasts; It’s all Hebrew to Me; Myths, Misconceptions, and Urban legends.
peace of mind and martial skill. TAIjIqUAN, BeGINNerS WeLcome: Nov. 4, 6-7 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $5/1st class. Location: Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts (Old Magic Hat Brewery Bldg.), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts, 355-1301, wxcma@yahoo.com, facebook.com/wxcma. The key elements of Taijiquan are relaxation and mental and physical suppleness. It is an excellent mental, physical and spiritual exercise for people of all ages and athletic ability. Our school offers a friendly, noncompetitive environment. $5 for first class; enroll for $40 per month. yANG-STyLe TAI chI: Beginner’s class, Wed., 5:30. All levels class on Sat., 8:30 a.m. Cost: $16/class. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Turn right into driveway immediately after the railroad tracks. Located in the old Magic Hat Brewery building. Info: 318-6238. Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease in blood pressure and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Janet Makaris, instructor.
well-being PAThWAyS To WeLLNeSS: Nov. 6, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Location: The Healer Within You, 528 Essex Rd., off Route 2A, Williston. Info: Sukhada, 730-4440, rayoflight108@mac.com. aroma Reiki, the Bars, Readings, Reconnective Healing, aromatherapy Massage, esoteric Healing, Dowsing, shamanism, aura Photography. Young living oils avail. to sample. Presentation: 1 p.m. Playing W/ energy. $1/min.
yoga vermont yoGA: $14/ center for yoga eVoLUTIoN class, $130/class card. and therapy $5-$10 community classes.
tai chi SeLF-comPASSIoN: TAmING The INNer crITIc WITh ISABeALL LoGAN, Phd, Lcmhc: Nov.8-Dec. 13, 5-6:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $90/class. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Often the first step on the path to healing, balance and growth is making peach with our own inner critic. This workshop will use
Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 864-9642, yoga@evolutionvt.com, evolutionvt.com. evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner to advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, anusara-inspired, Kripalu and Iyengar yoga. Babies/ kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre-/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/evoblog. SImoN PArK AT LAUGhING rIVer: Nov. 11-13: Fri., 7-9 pm.; Sat., noon-5 pm.; Sun. 9:30 a.m.-noon. $35-$40 per workshop or $130 for the whole weekend. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119,
laughingriveryoga.com. Vinyasa fans! Take your practice to the next level with Vinyasa yoga instructor simon Park and Dj Hyfi. chosen by Yoga Journal as “one of the most influential and gifted, next generation of Yoga teachers”, simon is humble, skillful and kind. learn more at laughingriveryoga.com/retreats. The LoST yoGA oF Body LANGUAGe: Nov. 5, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Cost: $18/ class. Location: Burlington Dances Studio, upstairs in the Chace Mill, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Lucille@ NaturalBodiesPilates.com, BurlingtonDances.com. Join Master Delsarte teacher Joe Williams for this yoga intensive to experience how the Three Pillars approach can enrich and deepen both the physical and the meditative aspects of your practice. The techniques are safe for any age and physical condition, from beginning levels to advanced. STUdIom NoW oPeN IN VerGeNNeS: Cost: $13/ single class, $110/10-class card, $120/unlimited mo. Location: studioM Yoga, 179 Main St., Vergennes. Info: Michelle LaJoice, 777-0098, mlajoice@studioMyoga. com, studioMyoga.com. Yoga for everybody and level of practice; our teachers offer a variety of creative classes, including little & afterschool Yogis, $5 community class, Vinyasa, Power lunch Flow, Nosara and more. Give yoga a try or restart your practice, and your first class is free!
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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,
presentations, mediation, readings, journaling and discussion to foster the natural self compassion waiting to be discovered in each of us. WomeN, Food, ANd SeLFLoVe WITh TIShA ShULL mA, cyI ANd LAUrINdA PoIrIer-SoLomoN, mPh, rN: Nov. 12, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $70/day. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. For women seeking a positive group experience, focusing on developing self-awareness and intuition around food. along with gentle yoga/meditation, shiatsu bodywork, Reiki and a shared, vegetarian meal, this workshop is a wonderful way to enter the colder months from a place of intention and consciousness. VHaP accepted.
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ALL WeLLNeSS: Location: 128 Lakeside Ave., suite 103, Burlington. Info: 863-9900, allwellnessvt.com. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating physical therapy, Pilates Reformer, Power Pilates mat classes, Vinyasa and Katonah Yoga, and indoor cycling. come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful instructors and beautiful, lightfilled studio-your first fitness class is free if you mention this ad! eVery Body LoVeS PILATeS!: Nov. 5, 8:30-9:25 a.m., This is a summary of the repeat configuration.. Location: Natural
Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates. com. Feel the feeling! You’ve heard of the seal, Teaser, corkscrew, swan and Mermaid! Try a free Mat class and find out why every body loves Pilates! Join our birthday celebration for UnRavel: Dance Theatre, song and laughter, Delsarte in action, dance workshops, Hoop Dance, free belly dance and TangoFlow classes!
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INTrodUcTIoN To ZeN: Sat., Nov. 5, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $30/half-day workshop, limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 985-9746, ecross@crosscontext. net, vermontzen.org. The 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 available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of
each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington shambhala center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.
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Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. accept no imitations. learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, cBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under carlson Gracie sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! a 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro state champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. VING TSUN KUNG FU: Mon. & Wed., 5:30-7:30. Cost: $90/mo. Location: Robert Miller Center, 130 Gosse Ct., Burlington. Info: MOY TUNG KUNG FU, Nick, 318-3383, KUNGFU.VT@ GMAIL.COM, MOYTUNGVT. COM. Traditional Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu. learn a highly effective combination of relaxation, center line control and economy of motion. Take physical stature out of the equation; with the timetested Ving Tsun system, simple principles work with any body type. Free introductory class. VermoNT NINjUTSU: Tue. & Thu. 6:30-8:30 p.m., Sun. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $80/ mo. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: 825-6078, vtninjutsu@ gmail.com. an ancient art with modern applications, Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu comprises nine samurai and ninja battlefield schools. Training includes physical conditioning, natural awareness, spiritual refinement, armed and unarmed combat.
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t’s a typical Friday afternoon at Burlington’s Radio Bean. A random assortment of ’80s pop classics blares over the stereo as the lateafternoon sun beats through the coffee shop’s floor-to-ceiling front windows. By the bar, an equally random collection of youngish artist types chat over beer and coffee — perhaps discussing the finer points of Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough.” Outside, a few hipsters smoke hand-rolled cigs and lounge around patio tables on the sidewalk. All in all, a fairly typical Friday afternoon at the Bean. In recent weeks, however, Friday evenings there have been anything but typical. The din of conversation is shattered as a ragtag group of young men bursts through the front doors. The group’s leader, a scruffy fellow clad in jeans and a dark hoodie, hoots unintelligibly as he bounds across the floor. He carries a snare drum in one hand and a stuffed lion’s head in the other. Marco Benevento excitedly throws himself at Joe Adler, the Radio Bean’s recently installed musibooking guru, and they embrace like old friends who haven’t seen each other in years. It’s actually only been a few days. Benevento, best known for his work with experimental rock outfit the Beneveto Russo Duo, is in town for the third night of a four-week residency at Radio Bean — and the first ticketed shows in the café’s 11-year history. The acclaimed keyboardist and composer’s first two Friday shows have been the talk of the Queen City, intimate and informal
performances that have packed the tiny hipster haunt and pulled in a number of local guest stars — Phish bassist Mike Gordon, guitarist Bob Wagner and vocalist Samara Lark dropped by last week. This night’s bill includes the horn section from local funk outfit Dr. Ruckus, as well as soul vocalist Kat Wright, among others. And a stuffed lion’s head — the band’s mascot. Benevento is a force of personality as his band loads in. He greets friends old and new with the same enthusiasm with which he tackled Adler. As two helpers roll his modified miniature Wurlitzer piano down the sidewalk into the coffee shop, he skips along, banging out a jaunty, ragtime-ish progression and nodding and smiling to amused onlookers. He’s excited to be here. And it’s infectious, as a capacity crowd later that night will discover. Prior to the show, Benevento sat down to chat with Seven Days over a dinner of salad and poutine at ¡Duino! (Duende), the Bean’s adjoining bistro. He wraps up his residency this Friday, November 4. SEVEN DAYS: I’ve gotta say, you make quite an entrance. MARCO BENEVENTO: Ha. Yeah, I guess I do. But now when we come here — this is our third show — it’s like [Radio Bean] is a home away from home. SD: Speaking of which, you come to Burlington pretty often. Do you have a personal connection here? MB: Not really. I spend a lot of time in New York, so Burlington has always been like the Boulder of the East Coast
for me. It’s a cool mountain town with good food and good music. SD: True. And you’ve made some musical connections here. MB: Well, the Phish guys are from here, and I’ve played with them a few times. But really, it’s just a cool town to come to and play gigs in. And now, having come so many years in a row and playing so many venues, from Higher Ground to the fairgrounds, Radio Bean, Parima … the community here is just really supportive of creative music. It’s awesome. SD: What does playing in such a small venue like Radio Bean allow you to do differently that you might not be able to do on a larger stage? MB: Well, I thought it would be cool to do a small residency where I come back once a week and really get into the community, tell people to bring their instruments and sit in. And the fact that it is such a small place makes that easier to do. You get to play with people you might not otherwise at a bigger place like Higher Ground. You need to scale it down. SD: Well, you can’t scale it down much more than Radio Bean. MB: Nope. And that’s great. When you’re touring around, playing bigger rooms and in the flow of things, you sometimes forget about this element of music where everybody is in your face, you’ve gotta be on your game. There’s no downtime. No rock-star stuff. It’s a very raw way to see somebody, to see their subtleties and imperfections. And I love that.
SD: I imagine the cramped quarters present some challenges, too, though. MB: When we walked in before the first night, I was so nervous. First, I didn’t know how we were going to fit on the stage. And the sound system … well, I didn’t think we’d be able to hear anything. But things went so well and it’s so punk rock. You just make it work and have a good time with it. SD: Logistically, touring small venues must present some financial limitations. MB: That’s another thing. Realistically, at a small place like this, there’s not a lot of money to be made. So we’ve been staying at a place, like, three blocks from here and sleeping on a couch. It’s not ideal. But it’s like a sleepover. It’s fun. A musician’s career is hilly. Sometimes you’re up and you only want to stay in hotel rooms. Like, “No way, I don’t crash on couches anymore.” But things are different now with touring. We don’t have a sound guy or a driver. It’s three of us in a van and we stay at people’s houses. So our philosophy is “Stay small and keep it all.” SD: Solid financial strategy. And it actually sounds like a lot of fun. MB: It is! I probably won’t ever do this kind of thing again, so I’m embracing it. Like, “Yes! Let’s go to that girl’s house, sleep on her couch and drink beer until five o’clock in the morning. Let’s do it!” I like it. Although I’d also like to be on a tour bus and sleep in a hotel… SD: The grass is always greener, I guess. Maybe next time? MB: Yup. Maybe next time. Marco Benevento closes out his Radio Bean residency this Friday, November 4, at 10 p.m. $17.50/20/60.
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Speaking of glorious returns to the stage at Higher Ground, eugene hÜtz is set for a homecoming of sorts in a rare acoustic show with his globe-trotting caravan of gypsy punks, gogol boRdello, this Thursday, November 3. They’ll also play an electric set the following Thursday, November 10. The acoustic show is a benefit for the Seven Below Arts Initiative’s Artist-in-Residence Program, which, in partnership with Burlington City Arts, hosts a pair of six-week residencies at phish’s famed studio, the Barn, every summer. The overarching goal of the program is to “foster artistic development and to support arts education in the state of Vermont.” I like it. No word on what GB’s acoustic set list will look like. But I emailed the band’s publicity rep to see what the chances were of Hütz perhaps busting out an old Fags tune or three, and to SoUnDbITeS
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Oregon was the last straw. Jordan’s bandmates left him at the hospital in Eugene and continued to the next stop on the tour without their lead singer. “They played the next show in San Francisco without me,” he recalls. “Though I’m not really sure how.” The Rosewood Thieves disbanded after that show. Abandoned in the Pacific Northwest, Jordan eventually made his was back east. He says he never had a problem with drugs and that he’s seen several doctors, none of whom have been able to pinpoint the source of his anxiety. So last year, he decided a change of scenery might help. Jordan relocated to Burlington, where he now works as a talent buyer at Red Square. He also began writing again. “I didn’t know if I wanted to do music anymore,” he says. “So I came here to clear my head and figure things out.” Jordan says he tried writing in the immediate aftermath of his breakdown, but nothing sounded right. He was trying to force the issue. Shortly after landing in Vermont, his creative juices began to flow again. “It just started happening,” Jordan says. “I started to realize how much I missed playing and recording. But I was just such a mess before, I couldn’t do it.” His new material is darker than the pop-informed indie and alt-country fans may remember. Though he adds that his latest suite of material marks a natural progression from where the Thieves left off. “That was the direction we were heading in,” he explains. “It just took a little while to get back to it.” What’s entirely new is his backing
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When the Rosewood thieves take the stage at the Higher Ground Ballroom this Friday, November 4, in support of acoustic-pop phenoms state Radio, it will mark more than the debut performance of a local band on one of the grandest stages in the land — always a notable occurrence. It will also signify the rebirth of a talented tunesmith who nearly lost his gifts in a battle with personal demons. In 2005, the Rosewood Thieves were a bright, up-and-coming outfit based in New York City. The brainchild of songwriter eRick JoRdan, the band was touring nationally and gaining exposure thanks to placement on television shows such as “Entourage” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” as well as positive press from media outlets including Spin, Magnet and National Public Radio. A fresh deal with V2 Records (the white stRipes, Moby) in hand, the Thieves were becoming legit. Then things took a sour turn. V2 essentially folded shortly after the release of the band’s debut album, From the Decker House — a record that featured guest turns from the likes of vetiveR’s andy cabic, whiskeytown’s Mike daly and the subMaRines’ blake hazaRd. The band continued to tour and release records and enjoyed modest success. But the pressures of a rapidly changing music business were beginning to take a toll on Jordan. “I started losing my mind a bit,” he says in a recent phone conversation. That’s an understatement. Jordan began experiencing frequent panic attacks that would often manifest as phantom physical ailments. Then, in 2009, while on tour in Eugene, Ore., he refused to take the stage, or even get out of the band’s van. These were not the antics of a petulant wannabe rock star; they signaled a complete nervous breakdown. “I was really going crazy,” he says. “So I went to a hospital.” Jordan says his bandmates had grown increasingly frustrated with his unpredictable behavior leading up to his refusal to play in Oregon. And, he notes, that wasn’t the first time he had to be coaxed out of the van. Nor was it the first time he checked himself into a hospital. “I had developed a habit of checking myself into hospitals thinking I was dying,” he says.
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1/2 LoungE: Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. CLub MEtronoME: Play Your Dream Axe Open Jam, 7 p.m., Free. Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. LEunig's bistro & CaFé: Paul Asbell & clyde stats (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. MonkEy housE: Br'er (indie), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. nECtar's: Flat Nose Diesel Bus, Jeremy Harple (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on taP bar & griLL: Leno & Young (rock), 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Dan Aaron (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. rED squarE: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.
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between. Wherever the banjo-picking songwriter goes, she absorbs cultural bits and pieces that
bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam, 6 p.m., Free.
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inevitably find their way into her music. The latest example is her critically acclaimed new record, City of Refuge, on which Washburn blends the Chinese and Appalachian archetypes she has long
gusto's: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.
as it is charmingly humble. This Thursday, November 3, Washburn’s travels land her at Club
champlain valley
City LiMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.
northern
MonoPoLE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.
Friday, November 11, 7:30 pm Pre-performance talk w. Peter Rowan, 6:45 pm A centennial tribute to the undisputed father of bluegrass! Reserved: Advanced $42.50 • Day of show $47.50 Sponsored by Naylor and Breen Builders, Mascoma Savings Bank and The Point. Lodging sponsor: The Three Stallion Inn
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thE bLaCk Door: swing Dance with the Bohemian Blues Quartet, 7:30 p.m., $5.
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thE skinny PanCakE: Paul cataldo (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.
bEE's knEEs: Rapscallion (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
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explored into a musical melting pot simmering with adventurous folk-pop as grandly ambitious Metronome with local bluegrass favorites the CLEary brothErs.
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Saturday, November 12, 7:30 pm Two gifted folk singer/songwriters on the same bill! Reserved: Advance: $26.50 • Day of show $30 Sponsored by DuBois & King, VPR and The Point Lodging sponsor: The Three Stallion Inn
rasPutin's: 101 Thursdays with Pres & DJ Dan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
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rED squarE: DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
burlington area
CLub MEtronoME: msR Presents: Abigail Washburn, the cleary Brothers (folk), 7 p.m., $15. Franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. highEr grounD baLLrooM: Gogol Bordello (gypsy punk, acoustic), 8:30 p.m., $30/35/50. AA. highEr grounD shoWCasE LoungE: Dead sessions All star Jam (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $7/10. AA.
LiFt: DJ Josh Bugbee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. MonkEy housE: The Amida Bourbon Project, canadian Lesbian Twins, Aaron Flinn (folk rock), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. The Grift (funk), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. o'briEn's irish Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.
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raDio bEan: Paul cataldo (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Jazz sessions, 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. The unbearable Light cabaret (eclectic), 10 p.m., $3. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3.
oLivE riDLEy's: ADK Jazz Orchestra, 8 p.m., Free.
LEunig's bistro & CaFé: mike martin & Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.
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on taP bar & griLL: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., Free.
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rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 9 p.m., Free. rí rá irish Pub: Kitchen Party (celtic), 9 p.m., Free. thE skinny PanCakE: Allison Weiss & Bess Rogers (indie folk), 8 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. vEnuE: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.
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grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. PositivE PiE 2: The chris Beard Band (blues), 9 p.m., $10. AA. sLiDE brook LoDgE & tavErn: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free. DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. tuPELo MusiC haLL: cindy Pierce (standup), 7 p.m., $35. 18+.
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on thE risE bakEry: iTR @ OTR with Derrick Burkins (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., Donations. tWo brothErs tavErn: DJ Jam man (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
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baCkstagE Pub: Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free.
bEE's knEEs: Jake Henry (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
CLub MEtronoME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.
broWn's MarkEt bistro: The Wall-stiles Band (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free.
highEr grounD baLLrooM: state Radio, the Rosewood Thieves (rock), 8 p.m., $20/23/34. AA.
Moog's: shrimp (eclectic), 8:30 p.m., Free.
highEr grounD shoWCasE LoungE: First Friday with Emily White, DJs Precious & Llu (singersongwriter, house), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+.
riMroCks Mountain tavErn: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.
MonoPoLE: Peacock Tunes & Trivia, 5 p.m., Free.
LEvity: Friday Night comedy (standup), 8 p.m., $5.
MonoPoLE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free.
LiFt: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. DJ AJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
oLivE riDLEy's: Karaoke with Benjamin Bright and Ashley Kollar, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke, 8 p.m., Free. Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free. tabu CaFé & nightCLub: Karaoke Night with sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free. thEraPy: Threesome Thursdays with DJ Deuces (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
Marriott harbor LoungE: Queen city Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. MonkEy housE: Nervous But Excited (folk), 7 p.m., $5. 18+. msR & Am Presents: the Loom, christopher Paul stelling, maryse smith & the Rosesmiths (indie), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. nECtar's: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. The move it move it, the Roots collider (drum & bass, Afro-pop), 9 p.m., $5. on taP bar & griLL: The Growlers (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
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see if there had been any movement on a reunion of his late, great Burlington punk trio — which he hinted at when I interviewed him last year. As of press time, Hütz hasn’t replied. But if we all drunkenly chant “Ukrainian Folk Song” for a while, he’d pretty much have to oblige, right?
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Happy trails, UNRESTRAINED. The welltraveled BTV hardcore outfit is calling it quits after their show this Saturday, November 5, at the Hub in Bristol with DANGERS, DRAIZE, SPIRIT QUEST and TRAPPER KEEPER. Over the course of its five-year run, the band has logged more miles than any Vermont act not named Phish or GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS, having played in 30 countries on three continents. In fact, the Bristol show comes on the heels of a two-week Central American tour. Gogol Bordello
Farewell, ADAM KING. The longtime local keyboardist and songwriter plays his final Burlington show, an all-star jam with GRATEFUL DEAD tributeers the DEAD SESSIONS, this Thursday, November 3, at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge before lighting up, er, out for the Left Coast. Best of luck, Adam.
worth noting that LENDWAY were just added to the bill alongside CHAMBERLIN and VT expats the MILKMAN’S UNION at the Showcase Lounge this Saturday, November 5. It’s also worth noting that Lendway are finishing work on a new series of singles to be released over the winter in an attempt to keep our ears warm, like jangly, indie-pop earmuffs.
Last but not least, this has been a Higher Ground-heavy column, but it’s
Once again, this week’s totally selfindulgent column segment, in which I share a random sampling of what was on my iPod, turntable, CD player, 8-track player, etc., this week.
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Band Name of the Week: SUPERSONIC PISS. You gotta love any band whose motto is “fuckedfuckedandmorefucked.” And guess what? This Iowa City-based
outfit is seriously fucked. This is some incredibly heavy metal and punk that’s not for the faint of heart — or hearing. It is violent, female-fronted rage distilled to its pure sonic essence. If this sounds like your thing … seek help. Then swing by the Monkey House on Tuesday, November 8.
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CLUB DATES
RADIO BEAN: Jessica Smucker (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Dave Keller (blues), 8 p.m., Free. The Wee Folkestra (folk), 9 p.m., Free. Marco Benevento (solo piano), 10 p.m., $17.50/20/60. RASPUTIN'S: DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $3.
THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Something With Strings (bluegrass), 10 p.m., Free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Hu Dost (World folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. The Days Weight (Americana), 9 p.m., $5-10 donation.
TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Rusted Root, Adam Ezra (jam), 8 p.m., $45. AA.
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champlain valley
BAGITOS: Eric Fernald (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free.
CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
THE BLACK DOOR: Andric Severance X-tet (Latin), 9:30 p.m., $5.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: 3 Sheets 2 the Wind (rock), 10 p.m., $3.
CHARLIE O'S: The Riot (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
northern
GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.
BEE'S KNEES: Laslo Cameo (electric roots), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
POSITIVE PIE 2: Groundfood (hip-hop, funk), 10:30 p.m., $5.
MOOG'S: Funkleberries (funk), 9 p.m., Free.
THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: DJ Slim Pknz All Request Dance Party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. ROADSIDE TAVERN: DJ Diego (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
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champlain valley
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
51 MAIN: Kareem Khalifa and Damascus Kafumba (Afrofusion), 5 p.m., Free. Jazz Jam, 7 p.m., Free. The Buskers (folk), 9:30 p.m., Free.
TABU CAFÉ & NIGHTCLUB: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.
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CITY LIMITS: The Johnny Devil Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
northern
BEE'S KNEES: Live Music, 7:30 p.m., Donations. MOOG'S: Bob Wagner and D. Davis (singer-songwriters), 9 p.m., Free.
ZOË KEATING refers
to herself as a “one-woman orchestra.” And she is. Using all manner of electronic loops and other digital shenanigans, the classically trained cellist coaxes a multitudinous phalanx of sound from her instrument that really is, well … orchestral. But she’s so much more than a sonic novelty. At the heart of her sweeping experimental suites lies an uncommonly gifted tunesmith, a songwriter as intuitive and emotionally vulnerable as she is otherwise seemingly fearless. Sunday, November 6, Keating plays the Higher
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THERAPY: Pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.
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RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Benjamin Bright (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
central
POSITIVE PIE 2: Vozca (jazzfusion), 10:30 p.m., NA.
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
VENUE: The Inlaws (country), 9 p.m., $3.
THE BLACK DOOR: Hu Dost (world music, folk), 9:30 p.m., $5.
RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.
ON THE RISE BAKERY: Down A Third (folk), 8 p.m., Donations.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Caitlin Canty Trio (folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
BAGITOS: Irish Session, 2 p.m., Free. Jimmy Ruin (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free.
RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Stavros (house), 10 p.m., $5.
TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Patty Larkin, Chelsea Berry (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., $25. AA.
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: The X-Rays (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
Ground Showcase Lounge with another electro-acoustic provocateur, Burlington’s
CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.
LIFT: DJ EfX (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: The Christopher Peterman Sextet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.
HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: State Radio, the Rosewood Thieves (rock), 8 p.m., $20/23/34. AA.
MONKEY HOUSE: Red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.
burlington area
1/2 LOUNGE: The Amida Bourbon Project (folk rock), 7 p.m., Free.
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Chamberlin, Wildlife, the Milkman's Union, Lendway (rock), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA.
NECTAR'S: Adam Reczek (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Groundfood, Craig Mitchell and Motor City (funk, R&B), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
BACKSTAGE PUB: Last Word (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
RADIO BEAN: Kin'rede Spirits (folk), 5:30 p.m., Free. Dan Lavoie (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Elanor Krause (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Meagan Hickman (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Stag Line (rock), 10:30 p.m., Free. Mission South (rock), midnight, Free. Tik Tok Laboratories (rock), 1 a.m., Free. RASPUTIN'S: Nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5.
burlington area
1/2 LOUNGE: Funhouse with DJs Rob Douglas, Moonflower & Friends (house), 10 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Orgone (funk), 8 p.m., $7/10. 18+. Black to the Future (urban jamz), 10 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Mat Kearney (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., $18/20. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Zoe Keating, Nuda Veritas (electro-acoustic), 8 p.m., $15/18. AA. MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: George Voland JAZZ: Juliet McVicker and Dan Skea, 4:30 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Old Time Sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. Saint Anyway (alt-country), 5:30 p.m., Free. Tango Sessions, 7 p.m., Free. Mouthbreather (experimental), 10 p.m., Free.
central
TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Acoustic Alchemy (contemporary jazz), 7 p.m., $35. AA.
northern
BEE'S KNEES: Cody Michaels (piano), 11 a.m., Donations. Andrew Parker-Renga (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. YE OLDE ENGLAND INNE: Corey Beard, Dan Liptak and Dan Haley (jazz), 11:30 a.m., Free.
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NECTAR'S: Metal Monday: White Noyez, Boatman's Aament, Angel Bones and the Walking Dust (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: The Thoughts (indie folk), 7 p.m., Free. Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: Industry Night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. ROZZI'S LAKESHORE TAVERN: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free. RUBEN JAMES: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
central
BAGITOS: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free.
northern
MOOG'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.
regional
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Lucid Unplugged (acoustic rock), 10 p.m., Free.
TUE.08
burlington area
1/2 LOUNGE: Turntable Tuesday with DJ Kanga (turntablism), 10 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Bass Culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (dubstep), 9 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Blue Scholars, Bambu, Grynch, DJ Treatz (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $13/15. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Advance Music SingerSongwriter Finals, 7 p.m., Free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: Lawrence Welks & Our Bear to Cross, the Liz, Supersonic Piss, Joey Pizza Slice (experimental pop), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: Open Mic, 6 p.m., Free. NECTAR'S: DCLA (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6 p.m., Free. Zack duPont (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. TUE.08
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Pretend You’re Happy, The Great Joyful Rebellion (DIY BANDITS, CD)
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album doesn’t offer much in the way of new material — most of the music here has been previously released — it is nonetheless a fine collection of Vermont music and a worthy addition to the record stacks of local aficionados and do-gooders. The album bears fairly predictable thematic threads. The bulk of the tunes offer perspectives on the importance of hope (“Work It Out” by Hotels & Highways) or observations on loss (Gregory Douglass’ “Havoc”) or serve as odes to the Green Mountain State (Diane Zeigler’s “December in Vermont”), But the songs are cleverly arranged so as to form a sort of narrative that outlines the events of Irene and the ongoing recovery. Bluesman Seth Yacovone leads off with “Measured Mile,” from his most recent double album, Land of Split Decision. His blues-rock gives way to Americana starto-be Erin McDermott and her moody “folk-ass” — that would be a hybrid of folk and bluegrass — number, “Time to Go.” Later, Bow Thayer checks in with “Good Time to Holler,” a rowdy tune from his 2010 release Bottom of the Sky that, amazingly, deals with a river overflowing its banks. How’d he know?
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The record’s second half offers a more introspective and hopeful gaze. Lowell Thompson provides a welcome jolt of sneering alt-country angst with “Pictures.” Douglass returns with his sweetly melancholy “What a Long Year It Was,” from his 2010 Christmas EP, Merry. The holiday cheer continues as Amber deLaurentis serves up her second cut of the record with the decidedly upbeat jazz-pop tune “All Year Long.” The album closes with Patrick Thomas’ pretty, yearning yuletide charmer, “Giving My Christmas.” Vermont (Vermont Artists for VT Relief ) is available at malletsbayrecords. com and iTunes. All proceeds from the album go to Vermont Hurricane Irene Relief and the American Red Cross.
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This just in: Tropical Storm Irene was bad. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the devastation the storm caused in Vermont. Millions of dollars in damage. Scores of families displaced. Businesses, homes and roads literally washed away. The weeks since Irene hit have been among the most trying in our state’s history. But in a way, the storm’s aftermath has also proved to be Vermont’s finest hour. The outpouring of goodwill from every corner has been phenomenal. In particular, the local arts community has become a rock. Whether through the headline-grabbing exploits of Phish and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, or smaller-scale bennies at nightclubs and bars, Vermont’s artists have gone above and beyond the call. But there is still work to be done. As such, the latest help comes by way of tiny local imprint Malletts Bay Records and its charming new sampler, Vermont (Vermont Artists for VT Relief ). The 18-song CD features a who’s who of local contemporary folk, pop and Americana songwriters, from established veterans such as Patrick Fitzsimmons, Aaron Flinn and Patti Casey to fresh faces such as Casey Dubie, Justin Levinson and Hotels & Highways. While the
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Full disclosure: I’ve had an up-anddown relationship with Pretend You’re Happy. To recount, in January 2009 I thoroughly panned a woeful performance by the Brattleboro-born collective at Burlington’s Radio Bean (“Not Happy? Blame MySpace,” January 14, 2009). That review was followed two weeks later with a comparatively glowing critique of the group’s self-titled debut full-length (Pretend You’re Happy, Pretend You’re Happy, January 28, 2009). So it was with no small degree of uncertainty that I approached their latest offering, The Great Joyful Rebellion. Based on previous experiences with the band, it would either be transcendent or terrible, with almost no in-between. So, which is it? I’m happy to report the record falls closer to the former category — and I don’t even have to pretend. An ambitious project more than two years in the making, The Great Joyful Rebellion is indeed joyously rebellious. While it may fall just short of “great,” it is a compelling work, often cinematic in scope, that finally does justice to the enigmatic songwriting talents of PYH honcho Jeremiah Morelock. From start (the Ennio Morricone-esque “Prelude 1 — Fantasy”) to finish (the gleefully goofy “Finale — Joy Forever”), PYH lure the listener down the rabbit hole with a mind-bending array of psychedelic indie-rock. It sounds like what might happen if They Might Be Giants hooked up with DeVotchKa, or if Dr. Demento went on a Kool-Aid bender with the Polyphonic Spree. Sound weird and wonderful? It is. “Hail to the Dream” is a heady blend of celebratory pop-punk bombast and marching, orchestral pomp. “The Song I Sing” begins
as a sweet 3/4 duet between Morelock and flautist Joanne Morelock, whose schizophrenic arrangement owes debts to Sufjan Stevens and, at the song’s sinister, metal-hued conclusion, Gwar. Really. What made Pretend You’re Happy’s debut enjoyable was how the band embraced its imperfections. While that record was also ambitious, the collective’s flaws humanized the recording. It was relatable precisely because they aimed high, fully aware they could likely never attain such lofty artistic goals, but defiantly tried anyway. On The Great Joyful Rebellion, however, Morelock and company shoot for the moon and almost unfailingly land there. It is a polished record that challenges the listener to stay in stride. The blemishes that defined their debut are gone, replaced by keen attention to detail and forceful idiosyncrasies that ultimately elevate the record from a quirky charmer to a legitimate artistic triumph. The Great Joyful Rebellion by Pretend You’re Happy is available at diybandits.com.
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limbo in which an adult is no longer particularly young, landscape, the group ponders the larger questions of observations. The result is a record that likely raises more questions than it answers, yet finds joy simply in the asking. This Friday, November 4 the Loom play the Monkey House with songwriter ChRiSTOPheR Paul STelling and Burlington’s MaRySe SMiTh & The ROSe SMiThS.
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current exhibit in the main gallery of Stowe’s Helen Day Art Center takes on an unwieldy concept: maleness. In fact, its title, “Manhood: Masculinity, Male Identity and Culture,” sounds like a college sociology course that would take at least a semester to address questions such as What does it mean to be male, now, in this society? By what shifting of hormones and expectations does a boy become a man? How do a man’s roles — as father, provider, soldier, hunter, athlete, and so on — shape his identity and behavior? Sociologists may have no problem taking the feminist theory handed down from the 1970s, turning it on the gender fulcrum and riffing on male (masculist?) theory. The rest of us may simply ponder, What’s up with guys, anyway? Such questions provide a heady premise for a visual-art show. Curator/ executive director Nathan Suter invited the dozen male artists, and one female, from around the country because concepts of masculinity are integral to their work. The individual artists meet his expectation with various degrees of success. The exhibit is heavy on photography. Some of it, in portraiture or documentary style, presents males in diff erent guises without adornment or context. Barring explanation, viewers are left to invent their own stories. What are we to make, for example, of Jesse Burke’s large-scale image, “Nectar Imperial, Nils,” of a young man looking a little apprehensive, clad in a stained blue Nike jacket? Turns out the dude has just chugged quite a lot of beer, slopping it on his face and clothing, explains Suter, who calls the subject “uncomposed.” Men, he says, find ways to be competitive. But viewers can’t know that unless someone tells them; the man’s unguarded expression and the black background keep “meaning” elusive. Thus, the moment of vulnerability becomes generic, universal. That’s an entirely different, and more
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WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT MASCULINITY IF A GUY JUST REALLY ENJOYS CARETAKING? sympathetic, template than the one for binge drinking. Which does Burke want us to consider? Does it matter? Burke, from Providence, R.I., off ers another seemingly straightforward portrait, the backdrop a line of trees, in the black-and-white shot “William II.” Here an adolescent boy with unkempt blond hair and a dirty jacket stands, hands in pockets, and looks directly at the camera. At the threshold of adulthood, the boy appears confi dent, but is it just a teenager’s pose? This is a picture of anticipation. San Francisco-based photographer Jason Hanasik approaches this theme in a series of images of another adolescent, Sharrod, who is planning to enter the military. We see the boy transformed by the uniform, saluting, prepared to become a man who may be asked to fi ght for his country. Though dignifi ed, he looks too young to bear such a weight. On the other end of the spectrum, Oli Rodriguez presents a video of a male nanny interacting with a little girl. Is he a daddy? Does he work in a daycare center? The specter of sexual
predation arises, forcing the viewer to ponder the obstacles men might face in proving they can be trusted with young children. Again, the images do not directly reality, but but address this reality, provoke suspicion. Has media coverage of pedophiles made it impossible for us to think of men as nurturing? And what does it say about masculinity if a guy just really enjoys caretaking? Andrew Mowbray contributes a welcome sense of whimsy, and different media, to the exhibit with works from his “Palingenesis” series. In addition to multiple stills from his video “Walden Pond,” the Dorchester, Mass., artist has made a life-size white suit of vinyl with a fishing-pole holder in front; a gigantic, pink fly-fishing creel; and a cabinet filled with fantastical flies made from human hair. What this says about masculinity is open to interpretation. But it most certainly is
different from what Keith Hoyt’s “Unknown” work says. Hoyt, of New Paltz, N.Y., has encased in a rugged wooden column a video screen that plays a continuous loop of the fi nal shoot-out in the spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The image steadily closes in until all you can see are the shifty eyes of the three gunslingers in turn, played by Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach. In front of the column is an actual gun in a holster that viewers can literally pick up and shoot, mirroring a video game. When they pull the trigger, it sets in motion the shooting sequence in the movie, à la remote control. Who inchfifirst? rst?What Whatis isthis thisimpulse impulse will flinch to harm or kill another man? What is it like to be driven by violence? And why is it fun to shoot this gun? If the ultimate symbol of masculinity is the superhero, Michigan artist Mark Newport undercuts it with humor. His works are hand-knitted, headto-toe unitards in the colors, if not the precise forms, of various comic-book heroes. These suits, hung along one wall, are free, their their implied implied empty, muscle free, characters sheer fantasy. When will the man come along who can fillll Never. Though, Though, according according to to them? Never. known to to Suter, Newport has been known wear his costumes at art receptions. Surely being an ironic, knitted superhero is far less stressful than embodying the real thing. “Manhood” Viewers will leave “Manhood” with questions, talking points and possibly criticisms about what the exhibit does not bring up. As for finding answers, it’s every man for himself. PA M EL A P O L S T O N
“Manhood: Masculinity, Male Identity and Culture,” Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Through November 27. helenday.com “Against a Trans Narrative,” by filmmaker Jules Rosskam, documents his own journey within the trans-masculine community. It screens Saturday, November 5, 6 p.m., at the gallery.
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talks & events First Friday Art Walk: More than 30 galleries and other venues around downtown stay open late to welcome pedestrian art viewers. Friday, November 4, 5-8 p.m., Various downtown locations, Burlington. Info, 264-4839. 'Creative Competition': Artists bring a work of any size and medium and face off in the Root Gallery and Public Art School's people's-choice competition. $8 entry fee; winner takes all. Friday, November 4, 6-10 p.m., RLPhoto Studio, Burlington. Info, 540-3081. 'Amantini's Saint Teresa: Visualizing Ecstatic Union via Erotic Transcendence': Art history professor John Hunisak and student Kathryne Downs discuss one of the treasures of the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Friday, November 4, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168. Maryanne Grebenstein: The calligrapher and book artist discusses her manuscripts and demonstrates her technique. Presented by the Book Arts Guild of Vermont, Wednesday, November 2, 6 p.m., BCA Center, Burlington. Info, 735-1443. 'Manhood: Masculinity, Male Identity and Culture': A discussion follows a screening of against a trans narrative, an experimental documentary investigating gender and the nature of community. Saturday, November 5, 5-7 p.m., Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info, 253-8358. Lisa Forster Beach: The artist leads a workshop on technique and composition. Saturday, November 5, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info, 253-8358.
'Discovery in Our Everyday World': Photographs taken by HowardCenter adults participating in VSA Vermont's Can Do Arts program. Through November 27 at Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Reception: Wednesday, November 2, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Info, 865-7211. Alicia Adams Hunsicker: "Moments of Creation," paintings inspired by the moment in which thought is transformed into matter. November 4 through December 31 at Gallery in the Woods in Brattleboro. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 257-4777. Patty Castellini: "Monotypes," work by the New Hampshire artist. November 4 through 30 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Reception: Friday, November 4, 6-8 p.m. Info, 295-5901. 'Think Out of the Box': Artwork and holiday gifts, all under $50, by local artisans. November 6 through December 31 at Block Gallery in Winooski. Reception: Live music heats up a tasting with certified wine specialist Nina Koch, Sunday, November 6, 3-5 p.m. Info, 373-5150. Katherine Taylor-McBroom: "Paranormal Hollow," mixed-media work inspired by life in a haunted Vermont home. Through November 27 at Uncommon Grounds in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Info, 865-6227. Sally Linder: "Approaching a Threshold," paintings in oil and tar exploring climate change and its effects on the polar bear. Through November 12 at The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 734-7344. 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!': Original work by member artists offered for $200 or less, plus handcrafted holiday ornaments. November 4 through January 31 at Brandon Artists' Guild. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 247-4956. Jon Young: "F Words," paintings. Through November 30 at Red Square in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 7 p.m. Info, 318-2438.
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.
'Make Art, Repeat': Artwork by Ashley Roark, Christy Mitchell, Jaclyn Bishop, Wylie Sofia Garcia, Hilary Ann Love Glass, Abby Manock and Isaac Wasuck, who explore the use of repetition in this annual exhibition. Through November 26 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-9 p.m. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.
'Colossus and the Bad Wood Show': Five local woodworkers use construction and wood-shop scrap to create a spontaneous and collaborative sculpture, displayed with other works completed individually. November 4 through 30 at Shelburne Art Center. Reception: Friday, November 4, 6 p.m. Info, 985-3648. November Artists: Photographs by Charlotte Rosshandler; multimedia work by Becky Wright; paintings by Jean Cannon and Sharon Fiske; and pottery by Barbara Colgrove. November 3 through 30 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Reception: Thursday, November 3, 5-8 p.m. Info, 933-6403. 'The Government Morgan': Photographs, paintings, prints and leather tack. Through March 31 at The National Museum of the Morgan Horse in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 388-1639. 'Trees': Paintings, drawings and prints by 65 juried artist members; Jeanette Fournier: "Art of Nature," watercolors depicting creatures in their native surroundings. November 6 through December 23 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Reception: Sunday, November 6, 2-4 p.m. Info, 644-5100. Mr. Masterpiece & Michael Smith: Paintings by the Burlington artists. Through November 30 at Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. Reception: Hot apple cider and cookies are served, Friday, November 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 660-9005. Ronald Braunstein: "Re/ collection," paintings on recycled brown paper and cardboard in homage to Ludwig van Beethoven and his struggle with mental illness. November 4 through 30 at North End Studio A in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 863-6713. Annual Holiday Group Exhibit: A constantly evolving display of juried artisans' holiday-themed creations. November 4 through December 2 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-8 p.m. Info, 863-6458.
Carol MacDonald & Erik Rehman: "Transcendence: Mooring the Storm," artwork inspired by interviews with survivors of sexual violence, presented in collaboration with the Women's Rape Crisis Center. Through November 26 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-8 p.m. Info, 859-9222. Grace Cothalis: Vibrantly colored paintings, monoprints and collage. Through November 28 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-8 p.m. Info, 849-6051. Jim Thompson: Handmade painted kites. Through November 30 at Salaam in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-8 p.m. Info 658-8822. Shayne Lynn: Large-scale color photographs of Lake Champlain in February. Through November 30 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-8 p.m. Info, 865-7166. John Brickels & Wendy James: "Cluster Bot Infestation," clay robots and "Mini Ma Cheens" by Brickels; paintings and photographs by James. Through November 30 at Brickels Gallery in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-8 p.m. Info, 825-8214. 'Vermont Ski Posters': Nicholas Heilig's posters illustrated in a vintage European style. Through November 30 at Davis Studio Gallery in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-8 p.m. Info, 425-2700. 'We Art Women': Work by members of the art cooperative. Through November 30 at Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 4, 6-7 p.m. Victoria Blewer: Hand-tinted photographs of rural scenes. Through November 30 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 458-0098.
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Andrew Raftery: "Open House," a five-part print series, as well as the artist's preparatory drawings and models, depicting moments in the process of shopping for a new home. Through December 16 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. 'Fall: Something Must Be Drawn About It': Drawings by Ida Ludlow. Through November 17 at Healthy Living in South Burlington. Info, 863-2569. Ida Ludlow: "Feasts, Food and Fowl," vibrantly colored paintings of Vermont lake wildlife. November 4 through December 1 at The Daily Planet in Burlington. Info, 917-287-9370. 'Impressions of the Four Seasons': Paintings by Carolyn Walton, Gail Bessette, Athenia Schinto, Susan Bull Riley and Charles Townsend, plus jewelry by Tineke Russell, exhibited in celebration of the gallery's 25th anniversary. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Humane Society of Chittenden County. Through November 30 at Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-8223. Janet Fredericks: "Minute Particulars," drawings and paintings that recognize the infinite in the small. Through November 29 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848. Jessa Gilbert: Boldly colored paintings that investigate movement and time. Through November 30 at Gallery 388 at Burlington Furniture Company. Info, 862-5056. Joan Hoffmann: Vermont and western landscapes in oil; local birds in watercolor. Through November 30 at The Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Info, 540-0188. Johnnie Day Durand: A solo exhibit curated by SEABA. Through November 26 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 862-9614. Kate Longmaid: "Small Offerings," contemporary still lifes. Through November 16 at Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne. Info, 985-8922. Lorin Duckman: "God Faces the Street," photographic street portraits. Through December 4 at St. Paul's Cathedral in Burlington. Info, 864-0471. Lynn Rupe: "Disaster Detritus," abstract paintings, Skyway; Wendy James: Oil paintings, Gates 1-8; Carolyn Hack: "Flight Simulator," paper and mixed-media work, Escalator. Through November 30 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. Marc Awodey: "An Artist's View," mixed-media work; Tessa Holmes & Barbara Nedd: Paintings, in the Second Floor Gallery. Through November 30 at Community College of Vermont in Winooski. Info, 654-0513. Matt Thorsen: "Sound Proof: The Photography of Matt Thorsen, Vermont Music Images 1990-2000," chemical prints accompanied by audio recordings in which the photographer sets the scene and the bands play on. Through November 30 at Maglianero Café in Burlington. Info, 865-1140. Molly Davies: A retrospective spanning three decades and featuring three meditative underwater video works, one a collaboration with composer David Tutor, another featuring a swimming Polly Motley, the Vermont choreographer. Through December 31 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4500. Nicholas Heilig: "Pop Up People," stencilinspired portraits of icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Bob Ross, James Bond and Martin Luther King, Jr. Through January 1 at Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington. Info, 861-2067.
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Bill Crosby: "Environmental Gestures," abstract landscape paintings in acrylic. November 4 through December 2 at North Country Cultural Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Reception: Friday, November 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 518-563-1604.
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Bruce Rusk: The Cornell University assistant professor of Chinese gives a talk called "Imagined into Existence: How the Ming-Qing Art Market Made History." Thursday, November 3, 4:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168.
Delia Robinson: Artwork from AlphaBetaBestiario, a new book of poetry by Antonello Borra: also, “Captive,” new paintings. Through December 29 at Flynndog in Burlington. Reception: Borra reads from the book, Friday, November 4, 6-8:30 p.m. Info, 863-0093.
Ben Barnes: Paintings of gothic mansions and abandoned trucks in rural landscapes. Through January 9 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Reception: Monday, November 7, 4-6 p.m. Info, 472-7053.
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Fleming Museum Sneak Peek: Curator Aimee Marcereau DeGalan presents and discusses several new works soon to be on display in the museum's European and American Gallery. Wednesday, November 2, 12:15 p.m., Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington. Info, 656-2090.
Linda Maney: "Meditating on Movement and Stillness," abstract work on paper and canvas.Through November 4 at City Center in Montpelier. Reception: Thursday, November 3, 6-8 p.m. Info, 793-6038.
Sue Lezon: "Rubáiyát," photographs by the associate professor of art at SUNY Plattsburgh. November 5 through January 15 at Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Reception: Saturday, November 5, 4-6 p.m. Info, 518-564-2474.
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'Celebrating the Life and Art of Mikey Welsh': Friends and fans of the the Vermont artist — and former Weezer bassist — who was found dead in Chicago last month, gather with a display of his work, live music, an open skate ramp, a cash bar and some of Welsh's favorite snacks. Saturday, November 5, 6-9 p.m., Maglianero Café, Burlington. Info, 864-5884.
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fter the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, Burlington artist Sally Linder started painting with tar. She’d recently begun a new series, an exploration of the effects of climate change on polar bears. Until the spill, the paintings were all red and blue oil pastels (red for the heating planet, blue for the melting ice); after, she began to smear and scar them with thick, black tar, gritty asphalt, charcoal and wax. At her studio one recent afternoon, Linder’s bears surround her — cool black eyes watching her from every wall. She pushes up her sleeve to reveal a scar on the side of her wrist. Linder had applied the tar with her bare hands, the same way she applies acrylics, and it burned right through her skin. “For three weeks, I could hardly touch anything,” she says.
Another artist may have switched course. But Linder, 60, saw the unintended pain as a kind of research. What better way to understand the deadly effects of our addiction to oil than to feel it burn her skin? This isn’t the first time Linder has physically immersed herself in a series. In 1996, she traveled to Africa to bury in the earth her series of paintings “Re-Membering the Primates,” a tribute to the 23 animals killed in an electrical fire at the Philadelphia Zoo the previous year. And in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Linder and hundreds of others walked her 500-pound “Ark of Hope” from Burlington to New York City over two months. Her new series, “Approaching a Threshold” is also headed to the Big Apple — it will take up residence in the headquarters of the Natural Resources Defense Council. But
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first, the paintings will have a weeklong exhibit at the brand-new Gallery at Main Street Landing, accompanied by several climatechange-themed speakers and events. The first painting Linder completed for the series is named for the date of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, “April 20, 2010.” Instead of an oil rig, Linder, who is haunted by the threat of the polar bears’ shrinking habitable land, painted a giant, water-filled vice. Bears walk along the top, as if on ice floes. They swim in a crowded space below, which looks as if it’s about to get smaller as the vice turns. In the lowest level, beneath the vice’s jaw, the bears — some of them ghostlike, scratched out in wax and charcoal — tumble and drown in a filthy, oily abyss.
In “Stena Don,” named for an offshoreGreenland oil rig, a ball of blackened polar bears appears to be hurtling through space. The rig is just a smear of dripping black above them. In “Avarice,” bears peer out from behind the heavy door of a bank vault. Most of the paintings evoke a sense of desperation — though a few have a softer edge, such as “Gossamer,” in which a mother bear cradles a human toddler, along with her own young. “Symbiotic” is the darkest: A human skull merges with a polar bear skull, the bear’s long snout lending the hybrid face a gas-mask shape. Together, they’re caught in a bear trap. “I thought I was going to destroy it,” says Linder of the painting. “I thought I’d gone too far.” At heart Linder is an optimist, and she feared the image was too apocalyptic. “I have children. I love the planet,” she says. “I believe if we engage, we can overcome.” At the reassurance of her husband, Bob — and the clear, brave eye staring out of the bear-skull half — she kept the painting. There’s something childlike about Linder — and it’s not just her appearance: She’s about five-foot-two with short, bouncy whiteblond curls and a smile so big it scrunches up her blue eyes. As she talks about the bears, which she considers “sentient beings,” she exudes a deep sense of wonder. Despite everything human beings have done to harm the planet, she says, she still believes we’re going to adapt — and survive. Linder grew up in Boston and Princeton, the “right-brain child” of medical-researcher parents. They always expected she would come around to some such scientific field, as her siblings did. “The most artistic thing allowed in my family when I was in college was to get a writing degree,” says Linder. So that’s what she did at Maryland’s Goucher College. Afterwards, she and her husband — whom she met and fell in love with at age 12 — moved to Montréal. He went to medical school; she studied art at Concordia University. She’s been painting ever since, though it wasn’t until she hit 40, Linder says, that she came into her own creatively. “My first series was decorative,” she admits. “It was to put my husband through med school.” Linder’s work is now fully part of her. When she dug up the earth in Cameroon, Borneo and Madagascar to bury her primate paintings, it wasn’t difficult to let them go forever. “It never is,” she says. “My love is the process.” In the grim face of climate change, Linder says, she has wrestled with the fact that as a painter, she is creating more expendable objects, “and the world doesn’t need more objects,” she says. “But it’s all I know.” m “Approaching a Threshold,” paintings by sally linder, november 4 through 12 at the gallery at main street landing in Burlington. Reception with remarks by gus speth and a screening of david wright’s Realm of the Great White Bear on friday, november 4, at 5 p.m.; Amy seidl and Joe Roman lead a discussion on friday, november 11, 7 to 9 p.m. info, 734-7344. sallylinder.com
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call to artiStS the 2011 moretowN artiSaNS Sale iS Now accePtiNg artiSaN aPPlicatioNS: Sale to be held at the Moretown Elementary School, Saturday, December 10, and Sunday, December 11. This popular local holiday sale has been relocated. The new location will allow for more vendors and better parking and will incorporate a fundraiser to aid artists affect by Irene floods. Info, moretownartisan.com or megsevents@gmavt.net. aNNual giNgerbread houSe coNteSt: The Chaffee Art Center is inviting everyone — kids, adults, students and professionals — to let their culinary imaginations run wild! Create a holiday work of art using entirely edible materials. Gingerbread is only one of the many possibilities! Participants will exhibit their creations December 1 through 18. Gingerbread creations must be delivered to the Chaffee November 29 or 30. Applications can be found at chaffeeartcenter. org, or by visiting the Chaffee Art Center.
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thiNgS that move: Bryan Memorial Gallery invites artist entries for “Things That Move.” Specs and entry form: bryangallery.org. Deadline: November 19 for winter exhibit. all a’board: traiN exhibit: Bryan Memorial Gallery invites entries into “All A’Board,” a train exhibit. Specs: bryangallery. org. Paintings, sculpture, prints (no giclées.) Deadline: November 19. holiday Jury: Deck the walls! And windows, trees, tables, more! Art on Main is looking for high-quality seasonal crafts. Submit photos and application by November 10. Info/ application: artonmain.net/ forms.html. architectural PhotograPhy: “Build Environment,” a juried photography exhibit of images capturing visions of the man-made world. Deadline: December 1. Exhibit dates: December 27 through January 20. DarkroomGallery. com/ex23. call to artiStS: ‘Small workS’: All artists are encouraged to apply to the annual “Small Works” exhibit at the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. To participate, your work of any medium must measure 12 inches or less in all directions, excluding the frame. The show will run from December 2 to January 28, with two First Friday receptions and participation in the South End Holiday Hop. Application and drop-off dates are online at spacegalleryvt.com.
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'outdoor excurSioNS': Work by 13 internationally acclaimed artists — including sculpture, video and wall works made of thousands of Icelandic lava chips — curated by Art in America writer Gregory Volk, who aimed to transform the First, Second and Fourth Floor galleries into his version of a wilderness adventure. Through December 3 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.
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J2012: womeN iN the artS: Rutland’s Chaffee Art Center is accepting submissions from Vermont women artists interested in being featured during a festival for women in the arts. Deadline: January 1. Info, info@chaffeeartcenter.org. crafterS waNted: For 4th Annual Holiday Showcase & Craft Fair to be held at BFA Fairfax on Saturday, November 19. Info, 782-6874.
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womeN artiSt guild of richmoNd holiday market: Work by seven local artists and craftspeople displayed in an old driving range. Through December 22 at 6180 Williston Road in Williston. Info, 238-7994. 'woSeNe worke koSrof: PaiNtiNgS from the Paul herzog aNd JoleNe tritt collectioN': An exhibit exploring the role of language and graphic systems in the Ethiopian-born artist's work; 'SyStemS iN art': An exploration of the systems that artists use to establish parameters for their work, to explore spatial relationships, and to invent new grammars and rationalities, on the occasion of IBM's centennial anniversary. Through December 16 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.
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arthur b. zorN: "Fall Dances & Autumn Hues," paintings. Photo ID required for admission. Through November 30 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 662-0376.
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'wayS of SeeiNg': Photography by Vermont high school students. November 8 through 25 at Vermont Photo Space Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.
chaNdler call to artiStS: Chandler Gallery in Randolph seeks artists for the upcoming exhibit “Art of the Chair: Process and Possibility,” January 21 through March 6, 2012. The subject is the chair; the concept is beyond the limits of sitting. It is about process, utility, history, sentiment, from representational to the obscure. Looking for innovative multimedia submissions (digital, conceptual, 2-D, 3-D). Deadline: December 31. Info, 431-0204, qpearlmay@ valley.net.
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November Show: Work by Mary Provenzano, Nicholas Heilig, John David O'Shaughnessy and Sean Metcalf. Through November 30 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107.
holiday hoP: SEABA is now taking registrations for the South End Holiday Hop! South End businesses and studios may open their doors for holiday sales of art and other goods during the weekend of December 9 to 11. SEABA will promote the hop in posters, maps, print and online media. Call the SEABA Center at 859-9222 or go to seaba.com for details and registration.
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November exhibit: Work by Annemie Curlin, Charlie Hunter, Carolyn Hack, Leah Van Rees, Judy Laliberte, Jeff Clarke, Steven Chase, Melvin Harris and Axel Stohlberg. Through November 30 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.
weatheriNg it out: In recent months, we’ve experienced pelting rains, hurricanes, unrelenting blizzards, flash floods and mudslides. Artists are urged to explore how they are weathering the weather, using a variety of media and perhaps incorporating items salvaged from a weather event. Show dates: January 24 to February 25, 2012. Deadline: December 9, 2011. Info, studioplacearts.com.
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Bryan Pfeiffer: "Wings," nature photography by the cohost of WDEV's "For the Birds." Through November 23 at Korongo Gallery in Randolph. Info, 728-6788. HeatHer ritcHie: Acrylic paintings of ethereal dreamscapes. Through November 30 at The Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com. Helen raBin: "Still Rising," landscapes and still lifes in oil. Through November 13 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-1275. Jan GHirinGHelli & PHilliP roBertson: "Paint and Print: The Vermont Landscape," recent work. November 7 through December 2 at City Center in Montpelier. Info, 229-5209. Jennifer Palkowski & roByn Pierce: "Origins and the Species," watercolors by Palkowski; mixed-media works by Pierce. Through November 29 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com. P
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Joy Huckins-noss: "The Texture of Light," plein air paintings. Through December 29 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. leslie Parke: "Chrysalis," paintings that reimagine the Adam and Eve story, examining themes of shame, expulsion, interdependence and transformation. Through November 11 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Info, 287-8926.
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'How did i Get Here?': Recent acquisitions presented within the context of how they came to Middlebury by art history students; 'Painted metaPHors: Pottery and Politics of tHe ancient maya': Nineteen Chamá polychrome ceramics accompanied by more than 100 objects illustrating Mayan daily life, religious ritual and shifts in rulership. Through December 11 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. ‘iconic silHouettes: new enGland BarnscaPes’: Classic rural imagery reimagined in colorful paintings by Woody Jackson, Michele Dangelo, Suzanne Crocker, Peter Batchelder, Kathryn Milillo and Jean Jack. Through November 6 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. kelly funk: "Post Cards From Red Rocks," photographs of the Nevada canyon by the co-owner of the gallery. Through November 15 at Gallery 160 in Richmond. Info, 434-6434. koicHiro aitani: Designs by the architect and professor at Japan's Kyushu University who is in residence at Middlebury for the fall semester. Through November 3 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168.
Pat adams & BHakti Ziek: "Geomancer," paintings by Adams; textiles by Ziek. Through November 21 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.
krista cHeney & JuditH Bryant: "Ice Effect," Cheney's photographs of flowers locked in ice; Bryant's stoneware and porcelain pottery inspired by her brook in winter. Through November 15 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032.
'rock solid in & out': Stone sculptures and assemblages, in the Main Floor Gallery and the temporary outdoor Sculpture Park; n wasko: "Auto World," in the Second Floor Gallery; Juliana cassino fecHter: Paintings, in the Third Floor Gallery. Through November 5 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. 'tHe Body Human: off tHe wall and on': Paintings by John Hoag and three-dimensional work by Marie LaPre Grabon, Georgia Landau, Ann Young, Sabrina Fadail and James Teuscher. Through November 13 at T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743. 'tHe History of Goddard colleGe: an era of GrowtH, exPansion and transitions, 1960-1969': An exhibit of photographs, historical records, college papers, interviews and video recordings that focus on the college's response to the rapid growth of the 1960s, in the Eliot D. Pratt Library. Through December 20 at Goddard College in Plainfield. Info, 454-8311. 'wet: wasHes, enerGy and tecHnique': Juried work by Vermont Watercolor Society members. Through November 12 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 431-0204. 'wHo cares?': Artwork inspired by the word care, produced on 4-by-4-inch canvases distributed by Montpelier's Reach Care Bank, a network of individuals and organizations who provide preventive care and support for each other. Through November 21 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 262-6043.
'BackstaGe at tHe rainBow cattle co.: tHe draG queens of dummerston, Vermont': Folklife Center audio interviews paired with the photographs of Evie Lovett, who spent two years documenting the queens at the Rainbow Cattle Co., a gay bar on a rural strip of Route 5 just north of Brattleboro. Through December 4 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. @vtcafesci
'endurinG traditions: tHe art of memorials from marBle Valley': Historical photographs and modern reproductions of traditional carving patterns tell the story of Vermont's marble industry from the end of the Civil War to the early 20th century. Through November 13 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.
'Paradise lost/Paradise found': Paintings, assemblages and sculpture created in response to climate and social-justice issues. Through November 7 at Plainfield Community Center. Info, 223-6805.
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cameron scHmitZ: "Marks of Passage," paintings and drawings inspired by the Brattleboro Retreat trails and Vermont's back roads. Twenty percent of proceeds benefit the Vermont Disaster Relief Fund. Through November 6 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222.
lin warren: Work by the artist who employs textural form and reflective surfaces to create rigorous contrast. Through November 22 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1119. PinHole PHotoGraPHy exHiBit: Work by students in John Huddleston's black-and-white photography class. November 4 through 12 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Info, 443-4168. roBert Black: "The Memory Chamber," an architectural installation; 'PHotoGraPHic memory': An exhibition by photographers of all ages. Through November 4 at Gallery in the Field in Brandon. Info, 247-0125. tom merwin: "Drawing Water," central Vermont's waterfalls and gorges depicted in sumi ink, watercolor and oil on canvas. Through November 30 at Merwin Gallery in Castleton. Info, 468-2592.
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altHea freeman-miller: "Childish Things," work by the Stowe printmaker. Through November 30 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 774-521-6373. 'autumn in Vermont': Work by Elisabeth Wooden, Gary Eckhart and Thomas Torak. Through November 27 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653. BarBara waGner: "Something Ventured — Something Gained," abstract works in oil. Through December 31 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. BoBBy aBraHamson: "One Summer Across America," photographs of a 2001 cross-country bus trip. Through December 20 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.
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prima tradition — layering oils before they have dried — Longmaid creates fresh, bright imagery with a sense of immediacy, as if her paintings were simply impressions left behind in an intimate, hourlong session. Through November 16. Pictured: “When Life Gives You Lemons.”
dohrn ZaChai: Paintings and drawings that explore the Sisyphus myth in mountains and clouds. Through November 6 at Winding Brook Bistro in Johnson. Info, 635-7776.
Jane s. MorGan: "Light and Mood," landscapes in oil. Through November 27 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. JeriCho Plein air Festival exhibit: Work painted at Barber Farm and Jericho Settlers' Farm, on the grounds of Emile A. Gruppe Gallery, and at the Jericho Center green during the July festival. Through November 30 at Jericho Center Town Hall. Info, 899-3211.
sCott & kelly Funk: Photographs of Vermont by the owners of Richmond's Gallery 160. Through November 30 at Deborah Rawson Memorial Library in Jericho. Info, 434-6434. terry lund: "Vermont Cherished," work by the artist who has recently returned to painting with improved eyesight after a medical condition left her blind for several years. Through November 30 at Island Arts South Hero Gallery. Info, 372-5049. m
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kelly holt: "Rhythmics," paintings and mixed-media work. Through November 30 at Green Goddess Café in Stowe. Info, 253-5255.
'Manhood: MasCulinity, Male identity and Culture': Artwork that examines the gap between culturally constructed expectations of maleness and the identities developed and living choices made by all men; lisa Forster beaCh: Work by the Stowe painter recently named 'People's Choice Artist' at the Taste of Stowe Arts Festival, in the East Gallery. Through November 27 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.
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ken leslie: "Out There..." artist books, including some from his "Arctic Cycles" series and others in 3-D, plus paintings and drawings. Through November 5 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.
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movies The Rum Diary ★★
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n the one hand, it’s impossible not to be touched by Johnny Depp’s devotion to Hunter S. Thompson. The two became friends around the time the actor starred in Terry Gilliam’s 1998 adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the legendary journalist’s 2005 suicide has done nothing to slow Depp’s output of Thompson-related projects. He personally organized and financed the firing of the author’s ashes from a giant cannon Thompson designed. He narrated Alex Gibney’s fine 2008 documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. He uncovered the manuscript of The Rum Diary among papers in his friend’s Woody Creek, Colo., cabin and was instrumental in getting it published and made into a movie. On the other hand, it’s impossible not to notice just how flawed and forgettable both of the Depp-starring film adaptations are. If ever a writer’s work was meant for the page and not the screen, it was Thompson’s. Initially, I was surprised to learn that The Rum Diary was produced three years ago and shelved. Then I watched it. Written in Thompson’s twenties, the novel offers the autobiographical story of
a struggling young journalist named Paul Kemp. After being fired from a number of jobs in the States, he decides to try his luck at the San Juan Star, a rundown Englishlanguage newspaper in Puerto Rico. Depp plays Thompson’s alter ego as an idealist in the barely embryonic stages of gonzo. Like almost everyone we meet, Kemp drinks like he’s being paid by the shot glass, despite having assured his editor (Richard Jenkins) during the interview process that his consumption ranks at “the high end of social.” Kemp has yet to find his voice and mission as a writer, however, as well as to discover the pleasure of firearms. So writerdirector Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I) finds himself in the unenviable position of attempting to entertain Hunter Thompson fans with a character who has not yet become Hunter Thompson. His solution is a never-quite-satisfying mix of period recreation (think “Mad Men” on spring break), bar-crawl comedy, social commentary and romance. The last two elements are combined in a subplot in which a shady land developer (Aaron Eckhart) recruits Kemp to write his promotional copy as he transforms the tropical paradise into a tacky tourist trap.
OLD NEWS Depp plays a fledgling reporter in the big-screen version of an early Thompson effort.
But Kemp has less interest in the developer’s business interests than in his love interest. “Oh, God, why did she have to happen?” Depp mumbles the first time he sets eyes on Amber Heard. She plays the glamorous blonde trophy Kemp falls for but fails to win for himself, in just one of several storylines Robinson develops and leaves dangling. Even the picture’s climax is anticlimactic. Not to mention borderline embarrassing. Bear in mind that, in adapting the book, the filmmaker was authorized to make tweaks and additions to increase the movie’s appeal to a new generation of Thompson enthusiasts. One of these consists of a scene in the film’s final moments where Kemp suddenly and melodramatically plunks himself down at a newsroom typewriter and pounds out
this weird cross between a manifesto and a declaration of war. He warns the bastards of the world that he is not on their side and intends to make it his life’s mission to keep them in his journalistic crosshairs while providing a voice of outrage to disempowered readers. It’s like something out of a superhero origin story. It is not something its reallife model would have found amusing. The bottom line: While it’s a noble and rare thing for a Hollywood star to champion great literature, at this point, Depp would probably be doing his late friend a favor by getting back to swashbuckling and letting Thompson’s twisted, timeless work speak for itself. RICK KISONAK
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In Time ★★★
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s it possible to give a film four stars for its premise and two stars for its execution? As an avid fan of wacked-out premises, this reviewer says yes. Sometimes a film’s concept is so rich in potential that it compensates — up to a point — for a cartoonish realization. Writer-director Andrew Niccol has produced more than his share of clever premises over the years, in films such as The Truman Show (which he scripted), Gattaca and S1m0ne. He has two great flaws, though: an obsession with surface prettiness, and an intense literalism. The first flaw guarantees that, even when Niccol is depicting the grossest social inequities, his futuristic worlds don’t feel particularly grubby or lived in. In Time gives free rein to his ad-man aesthetic by permitting him to work solely with actors who don’t look a day over 25. That’s because their characters aren’t: Humanity has found a way to switch off the aging gene, replacing it with an internal clock that contains as many hours or years of life as a person can earn (or steal) on the free market. For the super-rich, immortality is real; for the 99 percent, time has literally become money. When they’re broke, they drop dead,
conveniently removing a drain on society. Justin Timberlake plays one of these peons, a factory worker named Will Salas who lives day to day — again, literally. From the first scene, it’s clear that Niccol is less interested in fleshing out his sci-fi conceit than in literalizing every conceivable metaphorical use of the word time. “Who has time for a girlfriend?” Timberlake laments, overemphasizing the key word, after his age-inappropriate mother (Olivia Wilde) nags him about giving her a grandchild. Think of any time-related figure of speech — “time-share,” “punching the clock,” “cleaning someone’s clock” — and you can be sure Niccol will make it a punch line or sight gag. He should have put more of that ingenuity into his plot, which closely follows that of Gattaca. A rich man weary of living bestows an entire century on our have-not hero, who thus gains access to the world of the haves and meets an evil time magnate (Vincent Kartheiser) and his rebellious daughter (Amanda Seyfried). Fleeing the authorities, the heiress and the upstart become Robin Hood-style populist outlaws. Like V for Vendetta, In Time had the potential to be explosively, well, timely. Striking the right political nerve is no easy task, but,
TIME BANDITS Seyfried and Timberlake are the world’s best-groomed anarchist revolutionaries in Niccol’s futuristic thriller.
failing that, Niccol could still have explored compelling questions about how human life might change if we removed aging (and, for some, death) from the equation. Instead, the film’s cardboard characters and situations drain its own life force. Thanks to the cinematography of Roger Deakins, Timberlake and Seyfried look luminous in the film’s bleak industrial landscapes, yet they lack the urgency of characters who are (again, literally) running for their lives. Only Kartheiser and Cillian Murphy, as the time cop on Will’s trail, seem to relish their roles. If Philip K. Dick had written In Time, Mur-
phy’s character — a middle-class flunkie enforcing the rules of an unjust system — might have been its reluctant antihero, and the film would have been considerably more interesting. But then we wouldn’t have had Seyfried and Timberlake looking cute while robbing time banks, or Alex Pettyfer as a natty time mobster, or all those puns. No doubt there are in this world people for whom a day’s wage means a stark difference between life and death. But they’re probably not wasting their time on wordplay. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N
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El BUlli: cooKiNG iN pRoGRESSHHH Gereon Wetzel’s documentary gives foodies a look behind the scenes at Spanish chef Ferran Adrià’s pioneering restaurant. (108 min, NR. Savoy; ends 11/3)
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JoHNNY ENGliSH REBoRNHH1/2 In a sequel to the 2003 comedy many of us have forgotten existed, Rowan Atkinson plays Britain’s most confident — but not most competent — secret agent. With Gillian Anderson, Rosamund Pike and Dominic West. Oliver Parker directed. (101 min, PG. Majestic; ends 11/3) lE HAVREHHHH Set in the French port city, this drama from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki tells the story of a shoeshine man who aids a young undocumented immigrant. With André Wilms, Kati Outinen and Blondin Miguel. (93 min, NR. Palace) tHE lioN KiNG (iN 3D)HHHH The 1994 Disney animation about a cub’s coming of age returns to theaters with an added dimension. (88 min, G. Essex; ends 11/3) loVE cRimEHHH A ruthless executive (Kristin Scott Thomas) steals ideas from the younger employee she’s mentoring (Ludivine Sagnier) in this French workplace thriller. Alain Corneau directed. (106 min, R. Palace) miDNiGHt iN pARiSHHHH An American screenwriter (Owen Wilson) vacationing in Paris discovers another side of the city after dark — namely, shades of its artistic past — in the latest from Woody Allen. With Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard and Tom Hiddleston. (98 min, PG-13. Roxy; ends 11/3) moNEYBAllHHHH Brad Pitt plays the Oakland A’s’ general manager in this drama loosely based on Michael Lewis’ best seller about how to assemble a winning baseball team. With Jonah Hill, Robin Wright and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Bennett (Capote) Miller directed. (126 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Stowe, Welden) pARANoRmAl ActiVitY 3HH1/2 Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish) directed the third installment in the found-footage horror trilogy about a supernatural entity working out its unresolved issues with a suburban family. With Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden and Chloe Csengery. (81 min, R. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Welden)
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pUSS iN BootSHHH The swashbuckling, fearsome feline goes after the goose with the golden eggs in DreamWorks’ animated prequel-slash-spinoff of the Shrek films. With the voices of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek and Zach Galifianakis. Chris Miller directed. (90 NOW PLAYING
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iN timEHHH Writer-director Andrew Niccol, who made Gattaca, returns with a new dystopian thriller about a world where the aging gene has been switched off and everyone looks 25 until death, just like in Hollywood. Justin Timberlake (30), Cillian Murphy (35) and Amanda Seyfried (actually 25) star. (109 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy)
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FootlooSEHHH Craig (Black Snake Moan) Brewer seems like an odd choice to direct a remake of the 1984 teen flick about a rebellious lad who introduces dancing to a repressed town, but that’s what he did. With Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid. (113 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Welden)
tHE HElpHH1/2 In 1960s Mississippi, a reporter (Emma Stone) joins forces with the servants who wait on her privileged class in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel. With Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard and Sissy Spacek. Tate Taylor directed. (137 min, PG-13. Welden; ends 11/6)
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4, 6:30. Puss in Boots 1:45, 3:55, 6:45, 8:45. The Rum Diary 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1, 3:35, 6:40, 9:15. Paranormal Activity 3 4:10 (except Sat), 9:05. The Three musketeers 1:05, 9:10. Footloose 1:25 (except Sat), 6:35. The Ides of march 1:20, 4:05, 7, 9:20. moneyball 3:30, 6:25.
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in Boots 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 12:35, 2:45, 4:50, 6:55, 9:05. The Rum Diary 12:55, 3:35, 6:40, 9:20. Paranormal Activity 3 12:45 & 2:50 & 4:50 (Wed only), 7:10, 9:30. The Three musketeers 1:25, 4:10, 6:45 (Wed only), 9:15. Footloose 1, 3:40, 6:30 & 9:10 (Thu only). The Ides of march 1:20, 4:05, 7, 9:20 (Wed only). moneyball 12:30, 3:30, 6:25, 9:10. friday 4 — thursday 10 ***The met opera: Siegfried Sat: 12. *tower Heist 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1:15, 3:45, 6:55, 9:25. *A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas (2-D) 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:30. Love crime 1:30, 8:30. In time 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20. Le Havre
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(March 21-april 19): Here’s Malcolm gladwell, writing in The Tipping Point: “We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen quickly … look at the world around you. it may seem an immovable, implacable place. it is not. With the slightest push — in just the right place — it can be tipped.” you are now within shouting distance of your own personal tipping point, aries. Follow your gut wisdom as you decide where to give a firm little push.
taUrUs (april 20-May 20): Welcome to the
autumnal garden of earthly delights, taurus. it’s a brooding, fermenting paradise, full of the kind of dark beauty that wouldn’t be caught dead in a spring garden. There’s smoldering joy to be found amid this riotous flowering of moody colors, but you won’t appreciate it if you’re too intent on seeking bright serenity and pristine comfort. be willing to dirty your hands and even your mind. Feel the moss on your back, the leaves in your hair and the mist on your bare legs. (P.s. if you like, you can take what i just said as an elaborate metaphor.)
gemini (May 21-June 20): Here’s a vignette
CanCer (June 21-July 22): if you want to grow vanilla beans, you have to pollinate the plant’s flowers within 12 hours after they bloom. in nature, the only insect that can do the job is the Melipona, a Mexican bee. luckily, humans can also serve as pollinators, which they do on commercial vanilla farms. They use thin wood splinters or stems of grass to perform the delicate magic. i’m thinking that you resemble a vanilla bean right now, Cancerian.
a fresh rebirth every few years or so would be quite healthy. if it means adding additional astrological identities to our repertoire, so much the better. Thanks for bringing up the subject, as it’s an excellent time for sagittarians everywhere to seek out an exhilarating renewal.
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CaPriCorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): social climbers are people who are focused on gaining higher status in whatever circle of people they regard as cool, even to the point of engaging in fawning or ingratiating behavior. soul climbers, on the other hand, are those who foster the power of their imagination, keep deepening their connection with life’s intriguing enigmas, and explore the intersection of self-interest and generosity toward others. according to my reading of the astrological omens, you could go far in either of those directions during the coming weeks, Capricorn — but not both. Which will you choose?
(July 23-aug. 22): even our most sophisticated drilling machines have barely made pinpricks in the earth’s surface. The deepest hole ever dug was 40,000 feet, which is just 0.2 percent of the planet’s 20-millionfoot radius. i offer this up as a spur to your imagination, leo. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to plumb further into the depths of anyplace or anything you’re intrigued by — whether that’s a subject you’ve always wondered about, a person you care for, the mysteries of life or the secrets of your own psyche. you could reach the equivalent of 5 million feet into the earth’s innards.
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(aug. 23-sept. 22): National Geographic speculates that most of the species on earth are still unknown and unnamed (tinyurl.com/Unknownlife). While 1.2 million life-forms have been identified by science, there may be as many as 7.5 million that are not, or 86 percent of the total. i suspect that this breakdown is similar to the situation in your life, Virgo. you know about 14 percent of what you need to know, but there’s still a big frontier to explore. The coming months should be prime time for you to cover a lot of new ground — and now would be a perfect moment to set the stage for that grand experiment.
libra (sept. 23-oct. 22): i suspect that you will have a minor form of good luck going for you this week. it probably won’t be enough to score you a winning lottery ticket or earn you a chance to get the answer to your most fervent prayers. but it might bring you into close proximity with a financial opportunity, a pretty good helper or a resource that could subtly boost your stability over the long haul. For best results, don’t invoke your mild blessings to assist in trivial matters such as finding parking places or avoiding long lines at checkout lines. Use them for important stuff. sagittariUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Dear rob: i was born on november 30, and am quite attached to having it as a birth date. but there’s a complication. While in iraq in 2006, i
Scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
“Try to be surprised by something every day,” advises Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. That’s an inspirational idea for everyone all the time, but especially for you Scorpios right now. This is the week of all weeks when you have the best chance of tinkering with your rhythm so that it will thrive on delightful unpredictability. Are you brave enough to capitalize on the opportunity? I think you are. Concentrate your attention on cultivating changes that feel exciting and life enhancing. was half blown up by a bomb, and had a neardeath experience. When i returned from my excursion to the land of the dead, i felt i’d been born anew. Which is why i now also celebrate september 24, the date of the bombing, as my second birthday. What do you think? two-Way tamara.” Dear two-Way: i believe we’d all benefit from having at least one dramatic rebirth in the course of our lives, though hopefully not in such a wrenching fashion as yours. in fact,
aQUariUs (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): an australian man named Daniel Fowler has more giraffe tattoos on his shoulders than any other human being on the planet. so says the Universal record Database at recordsetter. com. Meanwhile, Darryl learie is now the only person to ever be able to insert three steak knives into an inflated balloon, and billy Disney managed to inject a world-record 31 sexual innuendoes into a rap song about potatoes. What could or should be your claim to fame, aquarius? This would an excellent time to try to establish your reputation as the best at your specific talent. PisCes
(Feb. 19-March 20): “you have to know how far to go too far,” said poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. i reckon that’s good advice for you right now. you’re at a phase of your astrological cycle when you really can’t afford to keep playing by all the rules and staying inside the proper boundaries. For the sake of your physical and psychological and spiritual health, you need to wander out beyond the limits that you’ve been so faithfully respecting. and yet, on the other hand, it would be a mistake to claim you have a right to stop at nothing. Know how far to go too far.
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described by columnist Thomas Friedman: “ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is 2 plus 2 and he tells you 5, that is a mistake. but if you ask a man how much is 2 plus 2 and he tells you 97, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking with is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.” i’d like to suggest, gemini, that for you right now the whole world is like the man who swears 2 plus 2 is 97. at least temporarily, you are on a very different wavelength from your surroundings. in order to understand what’s coming toward you, you will have to do the equivalent of standing on your head, crossing your eyes and opening your mind as wide as it’ll stretch.
it is the season when you’re extra receptive to fertilization, but all the conditions have to be just right for the process to be successful. Here’s my advice: Figure out exactly what those conditions are, then call on all your resourcefulness to create them.
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Constant Companions Authorities in Jefferson County, N.Y., questioned Ned Nefer, 38, after he was observed walking alongside a highway pushing a 6-foot mannequin he identified as Teagan, his wife. Finding no reason to detain him, Sheriff John P. Burns said Nefer explained he met Teagan when she was just a head and built a body for her before they were married in 1986 in California. Nefer added that the two were traveling from Syracuse to Watertown, a journey documented on a Facebook page created for them. He had 16 disposable cameras with him to take pictures along the way, pointing out, “We both really love the outdoors.” (Watertown Daily Times)
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Honesty Is the Best Policy Facing federal bribery charges for arranging a quarter-million-dollar consulting contract for himself, Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie, 74, was portrayed at his trial as too stupid to have planned such a scheme. Defense attorneys called as the first of several character witnesses former state lawmaker Timothy F. Maloney, who described Currie as “a wonderful person” and “nice” but insisted, “No one would call him smart.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo J. Wise
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Raised in Virginia, I carry my Southern charm and love for chicken and bluegrass music with me everywhere I go! Just moved back to Vermont from Boston after being away for three years and I could not be more excited. Reuniting with old best buds and hitting up my favorite spots in town! Let’s have a drink and some laughs! vavt16, 25, l, #122317 froM her online profile: The quickest way to my heart is laughter, the quickest way to my bed is whiskey, and in the morning, I like my eggs cooked over easy. in my ear and we’ll see where it goes. tickledbleu. tyrranulet, 41, #121530 still Belive in love Somewhat fit, 50, white male looking for that someone to travel the road that is life. That someone should be able to laugh at the bumps we might hit along the way. fit4you, 50, #121510 first tiMe for everything Just looking for occasional company. Average-looking guy looking for quiet, easygoing woman to spend some time with. Average looking, non-cigarette smoker, social drinker, easygoing and kind. spider, 60, #121487 catch and release fantasy Not complex. Looking for a fit woman over 40, miles and smiles. Smart talk, lively fantasy, real-time friend with benefits or just the fantasy of benefits. Not changing status quo, but would enjoy a little sizzle. Already have the steak. Must be able to read, do not need to be able to spell. pridenjoy64, 59, #121484 stop looking, you found Me I am that sweet, fun-loving, sensitive, caring man that women say they want. I am active and love living in Vermont. The bike path is my nirvana. On any given weeknight you will find me biking, ipod cranked. I love to snuggle. I am a romantic at heart and love to treat the one in my life to little surprises. funinvt22, 46, l, #121475 art, Music, crafts, zones, tones I am a creative artist looking for a female companion to enjoy life’s wonders. I enjoy going to “under the radar” shows
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let’s have fun I am very outgoing, love life and meeting new people, and being around friends. I like cross-country skiing, sailing on the lake (did extensive sailing on Martha’s Vineyard) and coming home to a warm house. Then having a glass of wine and enjoying my company. I have a love of horses and going to class A shows. ladyluck, 64, l, #117577
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live siMply, love extensively Life has a tendency to reveal to us exactly what we need right when we need it. Love is a gift life brings, and with love, life evolves. We are all destined for a soul mate, but one must be open to enduring the many challenges life faces us with and with another those challenges may seem less simple. When two.hearts.merge.simplicity.begins. like2knowmore, 39, l, #101859
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girl With freckles like stars Just moved back to the state. Looking for a butch girl to wine-and-dine with. Let’s hang, go apple picking or meet for coffee, and see where things go! freckleslikestars, 22, l, #122208
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beers. People seem to like to be around me. I can be shy and nerdy at times. I like smart conversations and silly conversations, too. I am pretty good at making women smile and that is, seriously, like my most favorite thing in the world. phlseb, 38, l, #122274
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Witty, fun loving and faMily oriented I’m a person who can enjoy the little things in life and loves to try new things and travel. I am very passionate about work, my family and friends. I regularly embrace my dorky side :). My ideal match would be someone who is loyal, kind, giving, open minded and likes to enjoy life to the fullest. carpe_diem, 29, l, #122374
spiritual, Musical ,MelloW, artisan, tradesMan I love music, food, family, friends, and work. I love living where I live and the life I’m living. I would like to be able to share my life with someone someday but with the right person only. You should be able to help eachother thrive in life and well being. spiritualy, emotionaly, and physicaly. vtbassplayer, 35, l, #121541
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Bi-Sexual Femme SeekS Same I’m looking for open-minded friends to create fun, quality relationships with. If you like to go out on the town or enjoy a wild time at home, then look no further. You must be STD- drug-free, respectful and discreet. If you are a woman/women, or a “couple” (man/ woman) and are interested in the wilder side of life, let’s get together! whynotbeyourself, 42, #122313 little Goth Girl I am newly single and looking for someone to have casual sex with. I like slightly older men, like in their late twenties and thirties. missGracie, 20, l, #122301
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Sweet, Gentle hearted, Funny Looking to make new friends and explore my options. TheGoddessFreya, 49, l, #120282 Skin-deep paSSion Freak I’m horny as hell for a hot femme but also need a connection and some emotional grounds to really let myself go. Once the cap is blown.....you’re in for pleasure that will only end when you want it too ;). vtvegan, 33, l, #120509 hunGry In a committed relationship with a much less hungry man. He knows I am looking around but, out of respect, discretion is a must. I am looking for a man who wants discreet encounters to leave us breathless and wet. Laughter, playfulness, mutual respect a must. Into light bondage, oral play, etc.; mostly I want to get laid. penobscot, 42, u, #119855
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Fierce domination Looking for discreet rough, hot sex. The fewer attachments, the better. J2185, 26, l, #122404 maeStro in your Bed Aged excellence in fit, attractive, educated package for play of the highest order, satisfaction all around, gentle but excitable. Can meet weekdays. I appreciate all ages and body types. Spirited humans of all persuasions are encouraged. Please send me a note! p.s. I’m experienced in massage and thoroughly enjoy giving. surmounting, 61, #122386 no nameS, no queStionS Pleasure is key. Two bodies losing themselves in each other, striving to reach new heights of intensity. I don’t care if you’re married or single or whatever. Let’s just see what we can do for each other. allnighter, 47, l, #122368 horny, Fit, hunG I’m back in town for the time being and looking for some fun. I’d be down for pretty much anything. I’m fit, active and love the outdoors. I’m looking for some NSA fun that stays between us :). trackbody, 24, l, #122361 Game on Let’s see what’s on tonight. I am good looking and looking to have fun. jason30912, 29, #122358 kinky male SeekS diScrete I am new to VT and looking for discrete, exciting, safe, mutually beneficial encounters. I do not have a preference, as long as you love to laugh, love sex and occassionally like have a good time in a social/group setting. I am not seeking anything in particular, so please get back to me to know more. Take care! Goodtimes11, 34, #122351
Sexylover I like to find a women to play with in bed and in the shower. I am horny and want to get laid because I haven’t had it in four years. I am fun to be with. I like to find a LTR because I went through a divorce about two years ago. I am 42 yrs old. Please contact me at bobby69. Bobby69, 42, #122329 Sexpot, women pleaSer,FantaSy Filler I am looking for a very sexual women for intimate encounter or one-on-one relations, or an all-out relationship. They must be willing to meet. minor26, 26, l, #122308 wooF? OK, We’re like puppies! Delightful playmates, but the minute you adopt we start chewing furniture, barking
man For Like giving anal, like a woman who likes all kind of play spanking, etc. stuffed, 49, #122259 BikerBoy76 I’m looking for a lady, or ladies, 21-40 for some NSA fun. Tired of posting on CL and getting nowhere. I like mountain biking, hiking and the outdoors. Want to go out for dinner, movie, and then jump in the sack for a snack. Clean and DDF, you be too. BeantownBoy, 35, #122254
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excitement Beyond your wildeSt dreamS I live for adventure, rushes of adrenaline and a partner in crime. I’m new to Burlington, looking to live life to the fullest. People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. Whether it’s Risky Business or a cup of coffee? Between the sheets or just lunch? I’m passionate, fun loving and a wild time; I’m waiting for you. adkman13, 25, l, #122391 From hiS online proFile: my biggest turn on is... tight jeans and boots, lace booty shorts, beautiful eyes, long hair, making out while being straddled. and wheedling everywhere. So why buy trouble when you really want just an occasional game of fetch the bone, with some nice warm wiggles? I’m house trained, know lots of tricks and am ready to play. Sound like fun? You? F45>70 with Libido/Humor Me? Woof! ticon1, 59, u, l, #122279 hard worker Looking to find someone to have fun with and see where it gos from there. hardworker, 50, #122247 Star warS nerd Am looking for first time and to get experience. Am willing to try anything not involving other guys or pain once. Please be the Leia to my Han Solo. starwarsdude, 28, l, #122277 neolover, colleGeBoy, rouSed Hey, I’m a college student looking for a female, or group of females, for a good time. Ages up to 35. I have plenty of energy and imagination. ananta, 20, l, #122275 love to talk dirty I’m look for someone who stricly wants to talk dirty in a polite and sweet way always, and of course all sorts of things besides. The things you might have thought about doing but never dared to speak about. I’m not looking for any kind of relationship, just to have some fun times talking while on this web page. pathfinder802, 43, #122273
consensual is a very firm requirement. togetherinvt, 47, l, #122405 SeekinG Sexy couple For poly-play Deeply committed couple seeking man and woman for exploration and uninhibited sexual play. Us: fit, fun, STD-free professionals with full-time jobs and diverse sexual fantasies. You: stable, sane, sexy, STD-free, open to polyamorous possibilities. We are looking to meet an adventuresome couple to have fun with in many different positions. Replies must include recent pics. creative_connections, 45, l, #122302 maSSaGe, connection, comFort, kiSSinG, orGaSmS Massage explores pleasure with or without stepping into the sexual. We’d like to massage a woman, man or couple at your level of comfort. Softness of skin, the bliss of massage. We offer nonsexual, sensual massages, or ones that progress to orgasmic bliss. Four-hand massage is an amazingly sensuous path to sensual bliss, or all the way to orgasm. lascivious, 57, l, #117437
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Hipstaaaaa boy at RiRa! Holla! You were a hipstaaa boy with red plaid, hat and big glasses at RiRa Friday night. You danced nearby and I definitely wanted to dance closer! Me? Short gal, blunt bangs, dark hair, tights and a dress. I was dancingggg with my gals! Holla back! Maybe we can hang sometime! When: Friday, october 28, 2011. Where: RiRa. you: Man. Me: Woman. #909622 Clad in plaid: pC beRlin You: green plaid shirt, tan Carhartts, blonde hair in a ponytail. Me: jean Carharrts, blue barn jacket, purple/pink beanie. I wanted you to grab me instead of the salt pork. Find roller derby in Barre and you’ve found me. You’re pretty cute, for a girl. When: Friday, october 28, 2011. Where: pC barre/berlin. you: Woman. Me: Woman. #909621 Filson bag beauty-onion RiveR Thurs 10/28 Our paths crossed several times as we wandered the aisles , Your beauty had me awestruck, and a bit tongue tied- yet you managed a smile,and a blush. I commented on your bag...you turned your head..... Who are you?dark eyed beauty?...Lets have tea!! When: Thursday, october 27, 2011. Where: onion River co-op. you: Woman. Me: Man. #909620
you’ve CoMe a long Way, booMbina At the homeland on your birthday. Glad it was a good one, and hope your 40th year is the best ever! We did so well on our first airplane trip, World Peace Through Beer has come and gone, so let’s get ready for an exciting 11/11/11. Thanks for putting up with all my quirks and eccentricities. I love ya, Beb! When: Monday, october 24, 2011. Where: The mysterious Chittenden triangle. you: Woman. Me: Man. #909615
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have amazing legs and a stunning smile. Sometimes I see you walking with some short dude. That can’t be your boyfriend. Let’s grab vanilla chai lattes at Uncommon Grounds sometime! When: sunday, october 23, 2011. Where: Church st.. you: Woman. Me: Man. #909610 bRoken CHain! tigeR bike guy! Hi there. My friend and I were walking on the waterfront when we came across you and your friend. You’re tiger-striped bike was broken and you needed a new chain. Maybe a drink sometime? Or a ride on your awesome bike when it’s fixed? When: sunday, october 23, 2011. Where: Waterfront burlington. you: Man. Me: Woman. #909609 Cute sHoRt guy I see you everywhere. I saw you when I was shopping Monday. I was that Asian kid that smiled at you as you were walking down the stairs at Urban. I think I saw you in l/l at UVM. I’ll introduce myself next time. When: Monday, october 17, 2011. Where: gap, urban outfitters, uvM. you: Man. Me: Man. #909608 soRRy, i don’t danCe You: white shirt, jeans, nice smile. We made eye contact and said “hi” and “bye,” if I’m not imagining things. I was at the corner table, over-dressed for the occasion (late dinner at the Belted Cow), black top, dark-brown hair, bangs. I’m not a dancer, but hoping you have other interests, too. If so... When: Thursday, october 20, 2011. Where: on tap, essex Jct. you: Man. Me: Woman. u #909607 eMily Hottie I got over how beautiful you are. I even got over your hot-ass body. But I just can’t lose your amazingly positive and fun-loving attitude. You are a true Rea of sunshine...LBR When: tuesday, March 8, 2011. Where: burned in my mind. you: Woman. Me: Man. #909606
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Dear Mistress,
I feel like I’m losing my husband to texting. I’m actually concerned his thumbs might fall off. I’m not opposed to technology, but I feel that if you’re home in bed with your wife, there are other things that you should be doing rather than texting a complete novel to your friends. I have mentioned before how it upsets me, but I just woke up (on what should have been a very sexy morning) to him clacking away to his friends and co-workers. To make matters worse, he pretended like he had just woken up… as if he wasn’t just checking his phone AGAIN! Help me, Mistress; I’m losing my battle against the machine.
Signed,
Dear L.I.T.T.T.,
losing it to the tech
It’s time to set some serious ground rules with your text-hungry husband. Don’t get me wrong, I love technology as much as the next gal, but I have a strict no-phone policy in bed. Your bed is the most intimate of places, and it shouldn’t be shared with friends or coworkers — at least not via text message. It’s time to address this issue head on, before it creates a firewall between you. Have a heart-to-heart with your hubby and tell him how his texting is affecting you. Let him know that you understand that he loves technology, and that you’re not asking him to go back to a flip phone — you just want to agree on time that’s exclusively for the two of you. Ask him to turn the phone off (or put it away in a drawer) when you’re in bed together. Your relationship needs that time to refuel, and his phone is getting in the way. You may even consider asking him for one night per week when he puts the phone aside and focuses on a more old-fashioned way of communicating with his hands, if you know what I mean… If he loves you and honors your relationship, he should be able to meet these very reasonable requests. If not, you may have to say “C U L8TR.”
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Re: FouR HouRs in s.b. I was looking for a slinky sex vixen, and I found it in you! Who would have guessed that a proper soccer mom would be so...voracious? You are so much more than a fantasic lover, and I am enjoying everything about being with you. Be careful about saying you will match any dare, I have a few ideas… When: Monday, october 17, 2011. Where: My bed. you: Woman. Me: Man. #909602
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Walking in MontpelieR My brown-haired beauty walking down Franklin Street. Puffy vest and a green scarf, your hair was gone with the wind but I thought you looked better than ever. Happy birthday babe. When: tuesday, october 25, 2011. Where: Montpelier. you: Woman. Me: Man. #909611
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dental assistant into CoaCH We laughed and talked about your love of Coach purses and your trip down to NYC, jumping into a van just for a deal on a Coach purse. You were also a great singer. Maybe we could grab a drink and you could sing some more to me? When: Thursday, october 27, 2011. Where: essex Family dental. you: Woman. Me: Man. #909617
deaR luCy Our eyes kept catching eachother outside the store and you have a beautiful smile. Was finally planning on giving you my number and to grab a coffee but you weren’t around Tuesday before I left. Me: working outside the store. You: blond/curly hair, beautiful eyes and smile. Generally in a skirt with sweet-colored tights. Hope to hear from you. When: Monday, october 24, 2011. Where: dear lucy. you: Woman. Me: Man. #909612
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