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Last week’s story “Health Care Providers Take a Shot at Increasing Childhood Immunizations” incorrectly reported that British physician Andrew Wakefield received “a prison sentence” for misrepresenting the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of his 1998 study purportedly showing a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. Though Britain’s General Medical Council proved dozens of charges against Wakefield, including dishonesty and abuse of developmentally challenged children, Wakefield never did any prison time. Seven Days regrets the error. trolls. It is full of earmarks, Wall Street banks, particular law firms and drug companies, Microsoft and big software, etc. Your article is an editorial, not legitimate reporting. Your facts are wrong, and your conclusions are, too. Bruce Burdick

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NOVEMBER 09-16, 2011 VOL.17 NO.10 32

NEWS

In the Running: Meet the Men Who Would Be Burlington’s Mayor

FEATURES

Burlington’s Occupiers Have Company — and They’re Really Homeless

Open season on Vermont politics BY SHAY TOT TEN

23 Poly Psy

BY KEN PICARD

30 Happy Trails

Outdoors: Hiking the Long Trail before the snow flies BY BRIAN MOHR

ARTS NEWS

20 From Library to Living Quarters: A Winooski Landmark Is Transformed BY PAMELA POLSTON

20 A Woodstock Paint Company Joins the Guggenheim in a Colorful Venture BY KEVIN J. KELLEY

12 Fair Game

Energy: The risks and rewards of privatizing Burlington Electric

BY KEVIN J. KELLEY

COLUMNS

26 Power in Play

BY ANDY BROMAGE

32 Murders, He Wrote

Theater review: The Pillowman BY ERIK ESCKILSEN

34 Water Works

Art: Video artist Molly Davies creates motion paintings BY MEGAN JAMES

36 Take It Outside

Go, Phish

BY JUDITH LEVINE

25 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot We just had to ask… BY ANDY BROMAGE

39 Side Dishes Food news

BY CORIN HIRSCH

59 Soundbites

Music news and views

Music: A new film screening in Burlington documents the rise of South By Southwest

BY PAMELA POLSTON

On the public uses and abuses of emotions

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REVIEWS 66 Art

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Think of SamulNori’s dizzying spins and flying leaps as a glorified rain dance. The South Korean troupe pairs acrobatic dance with pounding percussion in the country’s ancient practice of encouraging Mother Nature’s fruitfulness. Four types of drums symbolize lightning, wind, rain and clouds in a production of ceremonial music.

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a gotta feel a little sorry for Vermont Democrats. Why? They dominate the state legislature, holding 94 out of 150 seats in the House and 23 out of 30 seats in the Senate. They control four of the six statewide offices (governor, attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer). They occupy two of Vermont’s three seats in Congress — and the third guy caucuses with the Dems. You’d think that with the Dems’ iron grip on the state’s politics and purse strings, Vermonters would show them a little respect. But nooooooo. Last Saturday, some cranky labor activists, uppity environmentalists and those damned “occupy” hippies had to go and ruin a pair of perfectly polite Democratic gatherings — one a fundraiser — with pesky demands for fair treatment of state employees, protection of the state’s ridgelines and taxation of the rich to help the “99 percent.” Next thing you know they’ll be asking 10:49 AM for “hope” and “change.” The Democrats’ no good, very bad day started inside the Barre Municipal Auditorium when party chairman JAKE PERKINSON quashed an effort to vote on a pro-labor resolution at the party’s annual organizational meeting, pissing off members of the Democratic State Committee, many of them union members. The Lamoille County Democratic Committee approved the resolution three weeks ago, after Gov. PETER SHUMLIN called state workers “greedy in a time of crisis” for seeking emergency pay for work they did in the immediate aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene. The Washington County Democratic Committee followed suit, passing the same resolution in support of the 80 state employees who brought the grievance. Perkinson, a Burlington attorney, refused to allow the resolution to come to the floor for debate under “new business” because not all committee members received a copy of the resolution five days prior to the meeting — a stipulation required in the party’s bylaws. Supporters cried foul that the party leader was using parliamentary tricks to defeat a grassroots measure that spoke to the core of the party’s beliefs. “I think this shows the Democratic Party is more concerned about raising

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money and getting candidates elected than holding candidates accountable to the party platform once they are elected,” said CONOR CASEY, a member of the Democratic State Committee and interim co-executive director of the Vermont State Employees Association, the union that represents state workers. “Labor issues used to be the bread and butter of this party.” Casey, along with other state committee members, briefly walked out of the meeting in anger. “For the first time, I am actually disgusted to be a Democrat,” PETER BURGESS, chairman of the Lamoille County

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Democrats, told Fair Game as he left the meeting. “This was just shameful.” Burgess said he plans to reintroduce a similar resolution to the full state committee at its next meeting in January. By then, more details should be known about just how badly Team Shumlin wants to stick it to state workers. The two sides are presently in bargaining talks, and word is the administration may renege on its promise to restore a 3 percent pay cut accepted by state workers last year, and freeze pay for two years going forward. Stuff that in your holiday turkey!

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A few hours after state Democratic leaders angered labor activists, 50 environmentalists from around Vermont confronted the governor, U.S. Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT) and other lefty bigwigs as they entered the Socialist Labor Party

Hall in Barre for the party’s fall fundraising dinner. The group was protesting the industrialization of Vermont’s ridgelines, specifically the Shumlin administration’s approval of the Lowell Mountain wind farm, and the state’s increasingly cozy relationship with the wind farm’s developer, Green Mountain Power. Shumlin arrived with an entourage that poured out of his taxpayer-funded, gas-guzzling Ford Expedition and strode over to the protesters to mingle as they chanted, “Save our mountains!” and sang “We have had enough!” One protester repeatedly asked him, “How much are you getting from GMP, governor?” The gov didn’t take questions or offer much of a defense. He just smiled and attempted to shake hands — most refused. PEGGY SAPPHIRE, one of the rally organizers, was happy with the turnout, given that most people had less than 24 hours’ notice to attend. “There is a mind-set that what happens in the Northeast Kingdom is very far away, but that doesn’t mean we’re voiceless,” said Sapphire, who lives in Craftsbury. “It takes a lot to agitate people like this, but the governor and GMP have managed to do it.” One of the agitated was ERIC WALLACESENFT of Woodbury. He held a sign that read, in part, “You are the Gov. of Vermont Not the Bedfellow of GMP.” “When Gov. Shumlin opposed Vermont Yankee, he was doing the right thing and we supported him. But then Green Mountain Power turns around and buys power from Seabrook [Nuclear Power Plant] and he says nothing,” said Wallace-Senft. “He’s allowing Green Mountain Power to get everything it wants. We need to stop this kind of corporate dominance of our energy future.” After Shumlin ran the gauntlet of protesters, he probably thought he had escaped the rabble. He was wrong. A half dozen people affiliated with Occupy Vermont disrupted the wineand-cheese mixer to chant, “We are the 99 percent!” and “Banks got bailed out! We got sold out!” One protester even chastised Shumlin for refusing to tax the rich as a way to solve the state’s fiscal crisis. Fundraiser attendees joined in the chants and applauded at the end, said KEVIN HURLEY, one of the Occupy Vermont protesters who videotaped the

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disruption. The video is posted on the Seven Days staff blog, Blurt. “I am increasingly irritated by the polarization of the two parties and that’s why I’m a supporter of the occupation,” Hurley said. “The message, for me, is that it’s the plutocracy that’s dividing us.”

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You’d think after the weekend’s events, Team Shumlin might have steered clear of labor issues for a few days. Or weeks. Nope. Bright and early Monday morning, the gov (or a staffer) tweeted this message: “Vermont’s minimum wage is increasing to $8.46 an hour! Another reason why #VT is a great place to work, live and raise a family. #vtgov” Really? Earning $17,500 a year allows one to work, live and raise a family? The gov should do his homework. You need almost four of those minimum-wage jobs to earn a “livable wage” in Vermont. According to the legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office, a single parent with kids living in rural Vermont needs to earn $28 an hour to afford a “basic-needs budget” of housing, health care, transportation and, you know, food. The same person living in “urban” Vermont needs to earn $32 an hour. Like the old saying goes, moonlight in Vermont … or starve.

Progressive Party director MorgAn told Fair Game that Pollina isn’t running for governor in 2012, and said it’s too early to tell if any other Prog will. “We’re several months away from even beginning that discussion,” he said. “We’ll know more once we get into the legislative session.” The Progressives didn’t run a candidate in the 2010 election after Democrat Peter Shumlin promised to fight for key Prog priorities, namely enacting singlepayer health care for Vermont, shutting down Vermont Yankee, and addressing shortfalls in the state pension and unemployment compensation funds without asking more from state employees or the jobless. On the first two, Progs are likely to give Shumlin high marks. He’s continued the legal fight to shut down VY and to create a single-payer health care system, though it’s uncertain if he’ll prevail on either front. On that last item, though, Shumlin’s actions and those of his party have shaken unions’ support — unions that worked hard last fall to help him eke out a 4000-vote victory over Republican briAn Dubie. It’s unclear yet if Dubie will seek a rematch, but if he does, and a Prog jumps into the race, Shumlin knows all too well the likely result. In 2002, Shumlin, Dubie and Pollina — then a Progressive — squared off in the lieutenant governor’s race. Shumlin and Pollina largely split the left and Dubie walked away the victor by more than 20,000 votes. DAybell

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Watching last weekend’s spat between labor-friendly Democrats and the powers-that-be was Democratic Party newcomer Anthony PollinA. The longtime Progressive won a senate seat in Washington County last year as a “fusion” candidate — he sports both a “D” and a “P” after his name. Pollina’s take on the Democratic dis of labor? “I think it reaffirms the need for a Progressive Party — a party that stands up for regular folks,” said Pollina. In fact, the Progs plan to take up a pro-labor resolution virtually identical to the one Democrats killed at their meeting last week. The Progs will meet at the Statehouse on November 19. Could this be the start of a Progressive bid for governor in 2012? On the party’s blog this week, Rep. SuSAn DAviS (P/D-West Topsham) asked, “If the administration won’t support labor, why should labor support the administration in the next election?” Yikes.

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ave Burlington Democrats ever faced better odds of taking back the mayor’s office? Since Independent Bernie Sanders was elected mayor in 1981, Queen City Dems have been exiled from city hall as a parade of Progressives — and one Republican — has come and gone. But with incumbent Progressive Mayor Bob Kiss weakened by the Burlington Telecom scandal, Dems smell an opportunity. “I think this is the moment,” says

Bram Kranichfeld says he wants to end the partisan bickering that’s infected Burlington politics and believes he’s the guy to do it. “We need, as a community, to break out of this partisan framework that many of us are stuck in,” says the second-

Brooklyn with his wife in 2006, but says he’s felt a strong “sense of community” in the Queen City. As a city councilor, he’s also seen progress blocked by partisan fights. “I have been very frustrated on the city council,” says Kranichfeld, who was elected in 2010 to a Ward 2 seat historically held by Progressives. “Most of the energy and time the council spends is wasted on political posturing and bickering.” The problem is distrust with city government, Kranichfeld says, and

term city councilor and deputy state’s attorney. “The ideologies of the Democrat and Progressive parties are virtually identical. We want to improve the community, quality of life, and we want to move forward.” At 31, Kranichfeld is the youngest — and politically least experienced — candidate in the mayor’s race. But he argues he’s got “the right experience for what we need right now.” His résumé includes stints as a Wall Street lawyer, state prosecutor and chair of the Burlington Electric Commission. Kranichfeld is a relative newcomer to Burlington, having moved here from

the solution is “transparency and accountability.” He wants a city budget that’s easier for city councilors and the public to understand, expanded audits, and performance reviews in every city department to track service calls and response times. Kranichfeld says he’s constantly asked how public-works projects get prioritized, and he wants to peel back the curtain on that process. “We could post that information online,” he suggests. “Here’s the projects DPW is working on, here’s the queue of projects, and here’s why we’ve prioritized them that way. It would be

the caucus. And because it’s an “open” caucus, voters of any political persuasion can cast a ballot (see sidebar). Below are snapshot profiles of the four Democratic candidates.

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a totally new era of transparency, and sharing that information would improve the city’s relationship with residents.” Born in Dummerston, Vt., and raised in Rye, N.Y., Kranichfeld earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2001 and a law degree from Cornell in 2004. He landed a summer internship in the anticorruption unit of the New York state attorney general’s office when Eliot Spitzer was the boss. Kranichfeld interned — and later went to work — for the New York city

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law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn, representing clients with interests in natural gas and oil, finance, and public stock offerings. He left after two years. “I took a step back one day and asked myself, ‘What am I doing with my life?’” Kranichfeld recalls. “And the only answer I could come up with was, ‘I make rich people richer.’ I couldn’t continue that. I wanted to have a more meaningful impact in the world.” Even as he distances himself from his stint on Wall Street, Kranichfeld says the job endowed him with a “financial background” the next mayor will need to tackle the city’s vexing money problems. Like any good lawyer, Kranichfeld

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Tim Ashe is the latest entrant into the mayor’s race and the only one wearing two party labels: Democrat and Progressive. The 34-year-old state senator has won two terms at the Statehouse as a “fusion” candidate and believes that’s the formula for beating Republican candidate Kurt Wright next March. “I’m the one candidate who has demonstrated he can unite people,” Ashe says, touting the roughly 11,000 votes he received from Burlington voters in the 2008 election. He’s also running as the “experienced” candidate. “I have more familiarity with all the moving parts of government, and I have relationships with the business community,” he says. “I won’t have to learn on the job. I know this city inside and out.” Ashe says he “would be crazy to not see” that the Progressive brand has been damaged in Burlington, but maintains that the label is a strength and not a liability. “Progressives need to be in the fold, need to be part of the coalition moving forward,” he says. “There’s a lot of people out there that want to vote for Progressive values, and I’m not going to abandon that.” What might prove a liability for Ashe are two YouTube videos currently making the rounds. One shows him enthusiastically endorsing Bob Kiss for mayor in January 2009 at a city-hall kickoff. In the other, Ashe downplays the seriousness of the Burlington Telecom fiasco at a Progressive Party gathering in November 2009. Ashe calls the videos “personally embarrassing” but says their context is being ignored.

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or extensive set of rules, but, as Brunner ruefully noted, it goes largely unenforced. The protestors do carry out security patrols in two-hour shifts all night long. The purpose, one speaker declared to general approbation, is “not to try to win arguments, but to act nonviolently in making sure everyone is safe.” It may not be possible, however, to reason with those who are most troubled and/or inebriated. David Russell, a leader of Burlington Street Ministries, says that in his 37 years of interacting with the local homeless, “substance abuse and mental health problems” appear to be the key causes of their precarious condition. “I haven’t met anybody who’s ended up homeless for economic reasons only,” said Russell, a burly, bald and bearded man with a camera hanging from his neck. “Somebody who wants to get off the streets can definitely do that in Burlington.” In the same painstakingly egalitarian way they search for consensus on political issues, the occupiers are taking on the city’s homeless-related challenges, as well as the practical difficulties of living in a park. The protesters are relentlessly seeking to actualize Gandhi’s famous command: “Be the change you wish to see.” In Burlington City Hall Park, a motley collection of mostly twentysomethings is striving to create a new society that will have little in common with the structures and practices of the old. Anna Niemiec, 64, paused from a circle dance beside the fountain to marvel, “Their way of organizing and decision making is so different from what I grew up with.” At a general assembly conducted on the steps of city hall, a “facilitator” explained to newcomers the set of hand signals used by occupiers all over the country in responding to a speaker’s remarks. Every person’s verbal comments are repeated phrase by phrase and in unison by all assembled. A session begins with shouts of “mike check!” — a reference to this “people’s microphone” that takes the place of electronic amplification. Wiggling the fingers with hands pointed upward signifies approval for what’s being said; downward wiggling shows disagreement; fingers pointing straight out, a lukewarm response. There are also hand movements requesting recognition for a point of information. Assembly attendees can use sign language to suggest someone’s been talking too long or to make the most extreme statement possible in these assemblies: “I totally disagree and will leave this movement if this proposal is passed.” Equally unusual is the etiquette of many of the protestors. They are far more likely to express gratitude for someone’s comments than to adopt a defensive or snarky posture. At one recent general assembly, vigorous upward wiggles greeted a suggestion that Occupy Burlington draft an open letter thanking nearby merchants for their generous support. The group also agreed that a set of volunteers should meet with police and city officials to discuss problems in the park and to emphasize the protestors’ intention of acting respectfully. On Friday, the assembly also listened to a proposal to “use the old Vermont technique of heated bricks” for warmth in the tents on increasingly cold nights. One speaker endorsed that idea, but added that hot potatoes might be an even better option because “root vegetables are abundant this time of year and you can not only use the potatoes for warmth, you can eat them, too.” There was no reaction from the homeless contingent on that one, either verbally or through hand gestures. Occupy Burlington’s edge is generally articulated by Jonathan Leavitt, the closest approximation to a leader this gentle protest has. “We’ve done everything to be in compliance with what the city wants,” Leavitt said in reference to a recent letter from Mayor Bob Kiss citing alleged violations of various ordinances. “I find it ironic and unfortunate, though, that the Progressive mayor hasn’t said anything about the reasons why we’re out here.” m Kevin J. Kelley

he Occupy Wall Street movement may be complicating life for some bankers, but it’s been a boon for the homeless population — at least those benefiting from relaxed regulations in Burlington’s City Hall Park. Larry, a white-bearded 62-year-old who wouldn’t give his last name, estimates that on many nights, his fellow homeless make up half of the 60 or 70 campers in the park. He says the itinerant are drawn by the free food and clothing that Occupy Burlington offers, as well as by the safety the protestors’ presence ensures. “We couldn’t get away with doing this if it weren’t for this protest,” Larry observed last Friday night. But the disproportionate number of belligerent drunks and mentally ill homeless in the park presents unique challenges for the generally welleducated and articulate protestors who make up Occupy Burlington. Efforts to peacefully coexist are consuming much of the occupiers’ energy and Larry blurring the political focus of their protest. Disruptive behaviors on the part of some homeless persons are also generating tensions with the police and the Kiss administration, raising the possibility that an ugly confrontation could occur — even in mellow, progressive Burlington. In the food tent last Friday night, both homeless and occupiers were able to help themselves to as much strawberry cheesecake, baked ham, fresh fruit and granola as they could eat. The well-stocked outdoor pantry comes courtesy of local sympathizers, including farmers and restaurateurs, and Food Not Bombs, a volunteer group that helps feed the homeless year round. Beer and liquor are not provided, but many of the homeless bring their own. Substance abuse is common in the park, despite a sign in the protest’s information tent warning, “There is to be NO drug and alcohol consumption in our camp. This is a tactical decision, not a moral judgment.” That coda is an expression of the nearly absolute tolerance that is at once an appealing strength of the protest and a weakness that could lead to its demise. Keith Brunner, a recent University of Vermont graduate, says he’s “excited” by the “chance for dialogue between folks from privileged backgrounds, like myself, and people living on the streets.” CC Reuge, a UVM anthropology major, suggests that while aggressive outbursts are not acceptable, “the homeless do have a right to be angry.” Other protestors were also at pains to accentuate the positive even as two police officers arrived around 10 p.m. Friday in response to a call from an unidentified protester who was concerned about bellowed threats of violence from a drunken man named “Joel.” “He’s not like this when he’s straight,” said occupier Brad Hartley. “He’s actually a really sweet guy and a talented street poet.” It took police about half an hour to calm Joel down. They didn’t arrest him, but the police’s arrival triggered a discussion — “debate” would be too strong a word — among 30 or so occupiers gathered in a circle outside the information tent. Inside it, another sign reads, “We strongly discourage occupiers from involving the police unless a person is in immenant [sic] physical danger.” After an hour of talking in turns, consensus was reached only on the need to discuss the issue further at the next day’s general assembly. Joel, meanwhile, wandered back to the tent he was sharing with three or four others. An hour later, he and his friends were shrieking profanities and bellowing in a boozy chorus that made it impossible for nearby campers to sleep. In the course of earlier open meetings, the occupiers had devised a code of conduct that is supposed to apply to everyone in the encampment. It’s not a complicated

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touch with reality? Of course,” Ashe says. “But does the spirit of what I was saying hold true in some ways? Yes. I don’t think anyone was personally enriching themselves off this.” Ashe pledges that his administration would include people of all political parties to head off “partisan bickering” and would meet more frequently with city councilors. His agenda for city hall is ambitious. Along with finding a new partner for Burlington Telecom, Ashe has outlined an economic development vision that imagines jump-starting the Moran Plant project, enhancing the waterfront parcel known as the North 40 with botanical gardens or other amenities, repairing the bike path, and redeveloping the Battery Street railyard into 13 acres of retail, residential and commercial properties. “This is not going to happen overnight,” Ashe concedes. “We’re talking about a 20-year vision.” Born in Holliston, Mass., the youngest of four boys, Ashe came to Burlington to study history and English at the University of Vermont and graduated in 1999. He attended Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, earning a master’s in public policy in 2004. Ashe served on the city council from 2004 to 2008 as a Progressive, representing a section of the Old North End. Today, he works as a project manager for affordable-housing developer Cathedral Square. Ashe won the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers of Vermont, the union representing hospital and university workers, hundreds of whom call Burlington home. He promises he would not run as a Prog if he loses the caucus. Ashe is less definite about his senate seat. He says he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2012, but might hang on to the seat beyond next March to cast critical votes and ensure that Chittenden County isn’t “one vote short.” (Ashe is the domestic partner of Seven Days publisher Paula Routly. See disclosure on page 7).

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Fusion Confusion

Who is the real Tim Ashe [Fair Game, October 26]? As a Burlington voter who is an independent, I have been following the mayoral race with interest. I can’t understand why the Democrats are so hesitant to point out the obvious about Tim Ashe. He is a Progressive who appears uncomfortable running as a Progressive. Ashe says he is a “fusion” candidate. That means he expects Democrats to support him while he works for Progressives. Check out the YouTube video of “Democrat” Tim Ashe nominating Bob Kiss for mayor in 2009 and singing the praises of Bob Kiss while dissing Democrat Andy Montroll. Ashe says he isn’t doing the “expedient” thing by running as a Democrat. Who is he trying to kid? He is doing the most opportunistic thing he could do by using Democrats for his own political gain. Watch another YouTube video of Ashe denying there were any major problems with Burlington Telecom and thanking Bob Kiss and Jonathan Leopold for all the wonderful work they have done with BT. If Tim Ashe wanted to exhibit real integrity, he would run as a Progressive and leave the Democrats to nominate their own candidate. I hope he will. Paul Cummings

Burlington

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Party pooper [Fair Game, October 26]? Tim Ashe? I think we can all respect the idea that choosing a mayor isn’t just about the party; it’s about selecting a candidate who can best lead this city forward, regardless of political affiliation. It’s understandable that Tim Ashe might not guarantee an endorsement. To me, that just says he’s being thoughtful and honest about how he’s answering questions, and that he has integrity and the backbone to take on this position. That’s exactly what we would like to see in our next mayor. Tim Ashe has the experience to give Burlington a kick start into the next term. Katharine Montstream

for! Suggesting that Tim is a “Progressive in Democrats’ clothing,” despite the fact that Tim has twice been elected to the state senate as a Democrat/Progressive, is nonsensical. It is ironic that while Tim is trying to run a unity campaign, some are criticizing him for his efforts to set a new tone in Burlington politics. Isn’t it time we got past this kind of self-defeating silliness? Let’s support Tim Ashe in the Democratic caucus next week, and elect Tim as mayor in March to get Burlington moving forward again. Erin Hanley

Burlington

Call to Progs

The elections are shaping up once again to defy our innocent belief in the diversity of opportunity in our fair city [Fair Game, October 19]. The Democratic primary presents a group of white men, and can we doubt that the Republicans will do the same? They may be good candidates, but how is it possible that there is not one candidate of color, not one woman, not one member of the queer, transgendered, transsexual community, not one person who could bring an authentically new, fresh vision to the governance of this city? If you believe that Burlington is a city of opportunity for artists and immigrants and political refugees and people of color and radical lesbians and multilingual children and home-sharers and meals-on-wheelers and musicians and ice cream makers and microbrewers and tai-chiers and hot skiers and who even knows what else anymore, go to Burlington City Hall, check out the photos of past mayors, all of them, and ask yourself, “Is this all there is?” It doesn’t have to be this way. There is a third party. It has served us well, but the good old boys who have run it for 30 years have done their best and their time has run out. But the party remains; it just needs some rock and roll. And lots of fresh faces. And some truly progressive leadership. The Rainbow Coalition went out with the election of Barack Obama, but its legacy in Burlington is enormous: Seize it! There will be a progressive caucus. Flood it, demand to be represented, reach for the mayor’s office. One of you can get it; we will all benefit. Louis Mannie Lionni

Burlington

Editor’s note: In fact, State Rep. Jason Lorber, a Democrat running for mayor of Burlington, is a married gay man.

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Ashe Is a Unifier

[Re Feedback, November 2; Fair Game, October 26 & November 2]: For 30 years, many liberal Democrats have suggested that Progressives should join forces with them, instead of opposing one another at the ballot box. Now that Tim Ashe is doing just that, a small but vocal group of Democrats, mostly affiliated with Miro Weinberger’s campaign, are criticizing Tim for giving them what they’ve been asking

In Bernie’s Footsteps

It is easy to attack a candidate who is forging a new road by running a fusion campaign with the title Democrat-Progressive [Feedback, “Miro’s the Man,” November 2]. Following in the tradition of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was once the mayor of our great city, Tim Ashe is his own person. Bernie has remained his own person throughout his political career, standing strong for the people of Vermont above any party label. Similarly, I believe Tim Ashe

embodies the best of both Democratic and Progressive values. We need an experienced leader who will unite the people of Burlington and restore responsibility, accountability and transparency to city hall. Tim has been in Burlington for 16 years working on behalf of all residents of our city. His record is impressive: He worked as an aide to Bernie Sanders, served on the Burlington City Council for five years, organized low-income residents of mobile-home parks and now works with Cathedral Square developing affordable housing for seniors. Tim is serving his second term as a state senator in the Vermont legislature. He is the only candidate with the broad municipal, state and federal government experience to serve the city effectively. I also believe that Tim is the only Democratic candidate with the depth of knowledge, skills and experience to beat Kurt Wright in March. Tim Ashe will build on the successes of our vibrant and unique community. I hope you will join me in supporting him at the Democratic caucus on Sunday, November 13. Kelley Goulette

Burlington

Goulette is a constituent advocate for Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Tech Issue Clicked The whole tech issue was terrific [October 26]. As an old woman, I don’t know a lot about new technologies. I learned so many fascinating things in this issue. Keep up the education, please. Keep informing me about the world of the 21st century! Thanks a lot. Sophie Quest

South Burlington

iPad Disconnect?

I found Andy Bromage’s story [“iPads for All: Public Schools in Northwestern Vermont Make Education Interactive,” October 26] to be at once infuriating and profoundly dispiriting for its unquestioned assumption that our children’s future should be defined by digital technology. “Not really rigorous learning, but if you’ve got downtime, there’s worse things you could be doing,” says Bellows Free Academy Fairfax middle school principal Tom Walsh of a game that one of his eighthgrade students likes because he gets to “viciously attack cats and dogs with throwing stars and swords.” Meanwhile, technology coordinator Tom Mays notes that some of the students’ parents have not embraced the digital era. “They spend most of their time cutting down trees in the middle of the woods,” he says, as if that were some sort of moral failing. Do none of our education leaders wonder if the pursuit of technology in the

classroom has a downside? Is none of them concerned by the widening chasm between our children and the natural world that provides the basis for their very survival? Can it truly be that none of them makes the connection between the fact that the average American child now spends 53 hours per week on a digital device and our culture’s increasing apathy toward nature? When superintendent Ned Kirsch says of his kids, “Their whole world is a digital world,” and that he wants ensure that all schools follow suit, my heart breaks for Vermont’s children. I dearly hope that in this rush to embrace the latest technogadgetry, someone is taking these young people deep into a forest, to sit against the rough bark of a sugar maple and just be. But somehow, I doubt it. Ben Hewitt

Cabot

Better Education

As an internet business owner and a parent of young children, I am compelled to write in response to “iPads for All: Public Schools in Northwestern Vermont Make Education Interactive,” [October 26] about an iPad initiative in a Vermont school. It’s remarkable that [three days earlier] New York Times published a contrasting article about a Waldorf school in Silicon Valley that believes that computers and elementary school “don’t mix.” The school featured in the Times is not a fringe school but a school where executives from tech giants such as eBay, Google, Apple and Yahoo send their kids. For me, the heart of the Times article lives in this quote by Paul Thomas: “Teaching is a human experience.” Yes, we live in the digital world, but let’s take a moment to ask ourselves: “What do we want for our children? What do we want them to value?” The Seven Days article references how schoolchildren are being spared the “messy” human element — and are instead choosing digital interactions that can be edited and updated instantly. This is a powerfully attractive way of living, and it is no surprise that children are enthusiastic about it. But maintaining relationships takes real work and skills that are learned in person, face to face — not from a screen. There is another alternative to handheld devices: hands. Get the children building, engaging the natural world and routinely participating in useful work. Allow children to move their bodies throughout the day, solve complicated problems with pencils and paper — and, most importantly, build real relationships with real people. David Sewell McCann

Charlotte

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political backstory: The Hill Section home where he lives with his wife and 5-and-a-half-year-old daughter was once the residence of former U.S. Attorney Joe A. McNamara. By day, Weinberger runs the Hartland Group, a housing development and consultancy business that puts together mixed-use projects around Vermont. In Burlington, the firm is developing the former Packard automobile showroom on North Avenue into loft apartments and a café. Heading into the caucus, Weinberger boasts some big numbers: more than 200 public supporters (whom he lists on his website) and $29,588 raised (almost half from out-of-state donors).

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Jason Lorber doesn’t just want to be Burlington’s next mayor. He wants to be its “chief marketing officer.” The 44-year-old state legislator and business owner says the next mayor will need strong communication skills to accomplish his agenda. For Lorber, the top priorities are to “restore trust and restore fiscal stability.” “You can’t do either one of those without strong communication skills,” he says. That comes naturally for Lorber, an amateur standup comedian whose research and marketing business, Aplomb Consulting, teaches improvisation to business executives. As a performer, he may be best known for his Moo Jew Comedy shtick, doing standup at Chinese restaurants at Christmastime. Lorber was the first entrant into the mayor’s race. His unofficial launch was an op-ed in the Burlington Free Press calling for a “clean slate” at city hall. He says city government needs better bookkeeping, clearer communication with city councilors and improved transparency. Transparency is something of a buzzword in this campaign, but Lorber says it has real meaning for him. He released his list of campaign donors and expenditures weeks ago, even though the law doesn’t require their release until after the caucus. He supported bills in Montpelier to penalize agencies that withhold public records. Lorber even holds up a transparency lens to one of the more sensitive events in his personal life: when, at age 21, he told his parents he is gay. “I was scared of what they were going to do,” Lorber recalls. “They stood with me and they taught me that we are stronger when we confront who we are, when we address the issues in our lives that may be a little messy.”

Born in Philadephia, Lorber was raised in Long Beach, Calif., the son of a public school teacher and a neurologist. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, in 1989 with a degree in rhetoric, and earned a master’s in business administration from Stanford University in 1995. Lorber moved to Vermont in 2002 when his husband got a job teaching at St. Michael’s College. In 2005, he won a seat in the state House of Representatives. His priority was working on single-payer health care, but he ended up tackling another vexing and expensive problem: prisons. Not convinced he was getting the full picture at public hearings, Lorber conducted a series of off-the-record interviews with corrections commissioners, parole officers, advocates and inmates, and released their anonymous insights in a report titled “53 Voices on Corrections in Vermont.” Lorber also touts his work on the so-called Farm to Plate initiative, which makes $5000 state grants to ag-related businesses. His committee was shaping the program in 2009 when it was called “something like the Vermont Agriculture Sustainability and Investment Program,” he says. “I said, ‘We need to get a name for this,’” Lorber says. “I said, ‘I’m a marketing guy. Trust me. You don’t have a name for this.’” Someone threw out “farm to plate” and Lorber jumped on it. “I wasn’t an expert on agriculture. I wasn’t an expert on prisons,” he says. “But by taking these projects on, I became an expert, of sorts.” Lorber opposes the idea to sell Burlington Electric, but he has floated selling off or regionalizing the Burlington International Airport and using the money to fund local transportation projects such as bike lanes and new bus routes. “Let’s call it a ‘shareport,’” says Lorber. “Share the burden and the benefits.” Cycling is another priority for Lorber and something he has addressed at the 20 “backyard brainstorm” sessions he’s held during the campaign. An avid cyclist, he believes Burlington can be the “bike capital of the country.” m

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mind bathable. But the pace is steady, and Jacobson, 39, and Mills, 40, have been keeping track of their progress on a blog recently shared with Winooskiites on the Front Porch Forum. Mills, whose parents live on a sailboat and keep in touch through a blog, thought “this would be a neat way for family and friends, and for the people of Winooski, to follow what we’re doing. There’s a lot of memories here.” On a recent chilly morning, the two take a break to show a reporter around. The interior still reeks of mildew. We stand outside to talk. Just below the roofline, the ghost of “Winooski Memorial Library 1963” clings to the white wall; Jacobson and Mills removed the aluminum letters and numbers and plan to use them in the future home. A large transformer on a concrete platform looms in the small front yard. Mills, who works at the Key Bank and is also a professional gardener, says she plans

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ard-carrying members of the Winooski Memorial Library still occasionally show up at the East Spring Street location, even though the library moved into its current quarters in the Champlain Mill in 2005. Mostly, though, the curious passersby are neighbors who wonder what the heck is going on in the cinderblock building where the library had been for nearly five decades. What’s going on is a top-to-bottom renovation; within a few months, the former library will become a private, one-family home, explain current owners and business partners Jake Jacobson and Jennifer Mills. They’ve been hard at work gutting the one-storywith-basement structure: The roof has already been replaced; energy-efficient windows and doors are in; an upscale limestone tub has been purchased for the master bath. Of course, it will be a while before this place is inhabitable, never

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to obscure the behemoth rectangle with trellises, wrought iron and plants. She envisions a patch of herbs in the brick planter in front of the bank of windows. Jacobson, a NECI-trained former

chef who has worked in various venues out of state — and in Vermont, with Dish Catering and Penny Cluse and as a personal chef — seems to have learned all the requisite building skills as well:

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high-end Vermont paint company is expanding as a result of a deal it recently made with New York’s Guggenheim

Museum. Under the exclusive licensing arrangement, the terms of which were not disclosed, Woodstock-based Fine Paints of Europe and the Guggenheim are jointly marketing two lines of colors for use in homes and businesses. One consists of 150 paint colors inspired by works in the museum’s extensive collection of modern art; the paints re-create the palettes of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Kandinsky, among others. The second includes 50 hues that Guggenheim curators and designers have used in the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building on Fifth Avenue, which opened in 1959. “We have chosen Fine Paints of Europe to develop these new collections because of the company’s expertise in re-creating even the subtlest nuances of color and because of the quality of the paint itself,” says Karen Meyerhoff, the

Guggenheim’s managing director for business development. The museum was specifically drawn by the company’s unique tinting system, says John Lahey, founder and president of Fine Paints of Europe. An in-house color-reading device developed by the company’s techies “enables us to create a formula for producing any color in the world,” Lahey explains. He’s also proud of his paints’ pedigree, which is traced to the family-owned paint company in the Netherlands from which Lahey sources ingredients. It was on a trip to Amsterdam in 1987 that Lahey experienced an epiphany that led him to a new career after several years in the wine industry. He recalls being stunned by the beauty of a

green-enamel façade that he glimpsed in a restaurant. Lahey found out where to get a bucket of that green paint, and he brought it back to his home in the Hudson Valley. He knew just where to use it: on a kitchen door that his three dogs scratched so much that it had to be repainted once a year. The Dutch paint looked great — so much so that it drew admiring comments from “everyone who visited, from the UPS guys to my bridge partners,” Lahey relates. The paint also proved so durable that, despite the pups’ scratching, the door remained unblemished a year later. Lahey figured there would be a big market in the U.S. for this kind of paint. “We live in a country that put a man on

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the moon, developed the polio vaccine and built supercomputers, but that can’t produce paint that lasts more than a few years,” he comments. Fine Paints of Europe was founded in Blooming Grove, N.Y., not far from Lahey’s home. Soon, though, he was looking to relocate and inquired with economic-development agencies in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont about moving the business to one of those states. Lahey was persuaded to choose Vermont after getting a call from then-governor Howard Dean, who made a 45-minute sales pitch. It proved a smart move. “The power of the Vermont brand — its association with high quality — is such that I’d rather have the business located in Woodstock than on Park Avenue [in Manhattan],” Lahey says. The deal with the Guggenheim is having a “dramatic impact” on his business, adds Lahey, and could provide some sweet payback to his adopted A Woodstock Paint Company

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plumbing, electricity, carpentry. These were honed after he bought a foreclosed home on North Street just blocks away. “It was a mess,” he recalls. Jacobson plans to keep the brick façade on the library but cover the cinderblock with metal siding; cedar shingles will go on the gables, and the trim will be wrapped in copper. Overall, the exterior will be retro-meets-industrial. Inside, Jacobson continues, there’s an open floor plan for the living JAkE room and the kitchen — the latter outfitted with granite and stainless counters and architectural-grade appliances. His current job at Lowe’s helps: Jacobson can get quality materials at a discount. The drop ceiling is coming out, exposing a high, pitched ceiling. There will be three bedrooms and two baths, and an entertainment den downstairs. The approximate asking price: $250,000. Jacobson notes he’s already had inquiries about the place.

“Winooski is becoming more of an urban living community,” he surmises. An urban-minded future resident will not mind, then, the diminutive yard, the minimal parking, the frontage on a well-traveled street. The building is snug against a driveway that serves the apartment building next door; the back is a concrete plain for tenants’ cars. But then there are the advantages: This home will be utterly unique and JAcObSOn have a conversation-worthy history. It’s a relatively affordable option in Chittenden County. It’s close to downtown Winooski’s bars, restaurants and coffee shop, and near a bus line to Burlington. And, not least, it’s just a few blocks’ walk from the Winooski Memorial Library. m

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STATEof THEarts QUICK LIT Defying the crowd is almost an axiom of the young-adult genre, deeply influenced as it is by the Holden Caulfield model. But in BETH KANELL’S The Secret Room, the young heroine would rather fit into her close-knit, traditional community than stand out. And, the author suggests, that’s just fine, provided the community can accommodate a few outsiders who question its ways. The setting is a fictional Northeast Kingdom village. Kanell, the author of a previous YA novel, coowns KINGDOM BOOKS in Waterford. Like fellow NEK writer DAVID STAHLER JR. in his recent novel SPINNING OUT, she’s chosen for her young protagonist a native who bonds with a more affluent newcomer. Eighth grader Shawna Lee is accustomed to hearty farm fare and heavy farm chores. Many things about her new friend Thea’s home perplex her, such as the dainty salad she’s served as a main course. But culture clash fades into the background when the two girls discover a hidden room in Thea’s basement. Could it have been a stop on the Underground Railroad? In a smart twist, Kanell paints

the adults in the novel as quicker to jump to that romantic conclusion than the middle schoolers are. Encouraged by a tough history teacher to ferret out the facts, Shawna and Thea become archive sleuths. The revelations that emerge about the secret room aren’t stunning (they seldom are in historical research), and Shawna’s parallel, more disturbing discovery about her own family is too heavily foreshadowed to surprise. But the novel’s power is in its light touch with weighty subjects. Kanell finds low-key, constructive ways to broach issues that cause real conflict when “flatlanders” settle in rural Vermont, such as the comprehension gap between Shawna’s church-going family and Thea’s nonobservant one. The author also shows — more gently than Jamie Oliver ever could — that, while Shawna’s mom’s food is delectable and made with love, it’s making her fat. The real food revolution, the novel suggests, will take place in homes across the nation where kids from healthconscious families stop their friends from taking that third cookie. MARGOT HARRISON The Secret Room by Beth Kanell, Brigantine Media, 281 pages.

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Not Getting It about men in general. George H.W. Bush felt enough pressure to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which strengthened the enforcement of workplace-discrimination laws, giving plaintiffs the right to trial by jury and damages for emotional distress. Then, in 1992, national elections swept an unprecedented number of female congressional candidates — many of them openly feminist — into office, along with Bill Clinton, who campaigned with the tough, smart, egalitarian Hillary by his side. Today? Sarah Palin and her grizzly sisterhood call themselves feminists (though — thanks for small blessings — Michele Bachmann renounces the label). And while the GOP candidates outshout each other with vows to destroy the government, their party is deploying government to destroy the rights of women. In response to Obama’s health care reform law and new federal rules requiring insurers to cover contraception and other reproductive medicine without copays, congressional anti-choicers are pushing the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act. The regs already allow religious institutions to opt out, but

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the amendment doesn’t use the word “abortion,” it would equate the termination of a pregnancy with murder, with no exception for rape, incest or protection of the mother’s life. Doctors have said it would criminalize most contraception and even miscarriage. But opponents aren’t fighting the proposal on the grounds that women have a right to choose their reproductive destinies. They’re appealing to “pro-life” voters in hopes that they, too, will find the wording so vague that the amendment could,

Cain is a jester to Thomas’ seething villain. But in the context of current politics, this rerun of history is worse than farce, worse than tragedy.

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for instance, allow fetuses to be counted as persons in carpooling lanes. According to Personhood USA, similar amendment campaigns are underway in 13 other states. In case you think this is all just political fanaticism — which it is — and women’s sexual equality is alive and well ... it isn’t. In Egypt, Mubarak’s probable successor, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, is clarifying his vow to bring reasonable Islamist law to the country by telling a TV interviewer that, under him, women wearing two-piece bathing suits on the beach would be arrested. Even the Occupy movement is keeping a safe distance from sexual politics (in spite of the whiff of feminism I described in the last column). We are the 99 Percent? And this just in, from the September

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that’s not enough for supporters of the RRCA, which would exempt any employer, insurer or health care provider from offering “specific items or services ... contrary to ... religious beliefs or moral convictions.” That, some Democrats have pointed out, could mean drug rehab or treatment for gay people with HIV/AIDS. The Center for Reproductive Rights reports that in the first half of 2011, state legislatures passed more than 50 measures restricting abortion and undermining preventive care and family planning. In Mississippi, a state constitutional amendment defining a person as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof” looks likely to win voters’ approval. Although

issue of the journal Sexologies: A new sexual dysfunction has been identified — “female premature orgasm,” defined as climax that occurs with “minimal stimulation” or “sometimes even before intercourse.” Nothing is safe, gals — not even the clitoral orgasm. By the time this column runs, Herman Cain may have fallen on his own, or someone else’s, sword. Last week, Politico.com published more corroboration of the first accuser’s narrative of Cain’s advances at a National Restaurant Association group event: “The woman told one of the sources Cain made a suggestion that she felt was overtly sexual in nature and that ‘she perceived that her job was at risk if she didn’t do it.’” You could hardly ask for a clearer legal definition of sexual harassment. But Cain’s supporters don’t seem to care. He is receiving ecstatic ovations and raising money like a house afire. A Washington Post-ABC poll released the day after those revelations found that 70 percent of Republicans said the accusations would make no difference in their votes. Fifty-five percent of the respondents viewed the reports of sexual harassment as “not a serious matter.” Judging from everything he’s said and done, Cain feels the same. Beyond the potential political fallout, he seems to think that pressuring a woman to have sex (or electrocuting an immigrant) is a joke. Maybe Thomas felt the same way about Hill. Or maybe neither guy noticed what he was doing. They, and a lot of Americans, still don’t get it. m

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hey just don’t get it.” That’s what women were saying almost exactly 20 years ago, when the U.S. Senate endorsed Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court. Law professor Anita Hill had come forward with precise and sickening details of the nominee’s campaign of sexual harassment 10 years before that. Hill told how her boss bragged to her about his penis size and his prowess at oral sex, discussed pornographic movies and picked up a Coke can and asked who had left a pubic hair on top of it. You couldn’t make this stuff up. Yet Thomas’ champions interrogated Hill as if she had. After his famously smarmy performance, Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter emerged from the hearing room to announce: “Her credibility is demolished.” Meanwhile, Thomas portrayed Hill as a frustrated, horny fantasist and himself as a perceived “uppity black,” the victim of a racist plot — a “hightech lynching.” At least two other accusers were ready to testify, but Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Joe Biden declined to call them. Many critics hold the Delaware Democrat responsible for Thomas’ ascent to the bench. First time tragedy, second time farce? It may have seemed that way recently, when one and then — at this writing — two more women revealed they had been sexually harassed by Tea Party darling Herman Cain, and the presidential hopeful responded that he, too, was the victim of a high-tech lynching. As in 1991, Cain’s conservative white pals rose up against an imagined leftwing conspiracy incensed by the idea of a black conservative (that was before it became a Rick Perry campaign conspiracy). The only difference this time around is that the leggy blond blowhard on the team is Ann Coulter, not Laura Ingraham. Cain is a jester to Thomas’ seething villain. But in the context of current politics, this rerun of history is worse than farce, worse than tragedy. It’s a horror story. For one thing, 1991 was the beginning of what felt like a rebirth of the women’s movement. During the hearings, Americans expressed more sympathy for Thomas than for Hill. But feminists changed the conversation. “They just don’t get it” became a national rallying cry, not only about elected officials but

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s sea creatures go, you don’t think of halibut as being all that dangerous. Other aquatic denizens, sure. Sharks, barracudas, stingrays, jellyfish, sea urchins, octopuses, squid, moray eels, piranha, our little friend the candiru… these are names that justly inspire dread. The halibut, no. The only weaponry you

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Dear cecil, I grew up in Alaska and I’ve heard this story forever, including when I worked on a salmon fishing boat for two summers. It’s the claim of a sometimes lethal danger to fishermen posed by a large halibut landed on deck but not yet dead. According to the story, a flopping halibut broke a commercial fisherman’s leg in two places, causing him to bleed to death on deck because he was alone and couldn’t crawl to the wheelhouse and radio for help. I’ve landed fairly large halibut; they are hard to kill, apparently due to a small brain and its odd position, and they flop suddenly and unpredictably long after you think they’re deceased. But I can’t find anything definitive about deaths or serious injury to fishermen from landed halibut. Want to wrestle with this one? Wei Ji

figure to need with a halibut is a fork and some tartar sauce. When a halibut confronts its prey, do you think it says, “I am Halibut. Fear me”? No, because fish can’t talk. But even if they could, a halibut wouldn’t say this, because it knows it’s in the peewee leagues of perceived marine ferocity. You should fear the halibut just the same, as one would rightly fear anything that’s huge, powerfully muscled and prone to thrashing when pulled into your boat. Some halibut weigh more than 400 pounds and have to be killed by beating them over the head with a club. This is best done surreptitiously. If instead you do it on

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your reality TV show like Sarah Palin before the shocked eyes of animal rights activists, you’re going to take some heat. Native Americans, now, they understood halibut. The Tsimshian tribe of the Pacific Northwest has a tale of a monster halibut that ate an entire canoe, along with the prince and two princesses who were aboard. Bent on revenge, a twoman suicide team paddled out to face it and also got eaten. However, they succeeded in gutting the fish from the inside before expiring, ultimately resulting in the giant halibut dying too. So, just like the ending of Hamlet, only with a fish. As for the tragic tale recounted above, it’s no fish story. In August 1973 the Juneau Empire reported that a solitary

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Alaska fisherman had indeed been killed by a halibut. Joseph T. Cash, 67, caught a 150-pound specimen near Kupreanof Island and succeeded in hauling it aboard. In the process, though, the flailing fish evidently broke his leg, severing an artery and sending Cash crashing to the deck, cracking three ribs. Though mortally injured, the stubborn fisherman managed to lash himself to the boat’s winch to avoid falling overboard. He was later found there when the boat washed ashore — and by God, he still had his fish. This incident illustrates a stark fact: halibut fishing is dangerous. Commercial fishing in general is one of the riskiest occupations in the country, with a death rate 32 times the average for U.S. workers. Crab and other shellfish are the most dangerous critters to go after, as fans of the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” may know — Alaska shell fishermen perish at more than 90 times the U.S. rate. Sport fishing is less lethal. Nonetheless, horrifying reports surface from time to time, many emanating from Florida and the south Atlantic, which seemingly teem with angry, bitter fish. For example: • A Florida teenager suffered serious injuries to her vocal cords after a houndfish attacked her, leaping out of the water and driving its needle-sharp bill into her neck, just missing her carotid artery.

• A Florida spearfisher, diving without a tank, drowned when a goliath grouper he shot took off at high speed, wrapping the line around his wrist and dragging him to the bottom. His body was found still tethered to the fish. • Sturgeon leaping from the water have injured yet more Floridians. In 2006, a sturgeon knocked one person overboard and broke the arm of another when it jumped over their boat. According to a news report, it was the sixth sturgeon attack that summer. • Finally, sport-fishing-boat crewman Ian Card was lucky to escape with his life after being impaled by an 800-pound blue marlin near Bermuda. He was carried overboard when the fish, which had been hooked by a passenger, leaped over the boat, spearing him in midflight. Amazingly, Card pushed himself off the marlin’s spike and made it to the surface despite a fist-sized hole in his chest. Rescuers sensibly cut the marlin loose, but mindful of Joseph T. Cash, The Old Man and the Sea, etc, I imagine many old-school anglers thought: What, you couldn’t hang onto the damn fish?

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while sticking it to smaller, locally owned retailers? No. Just the victim of Burlington’s byzantine zoning rules. The particulars get a little technical. The Panera sign is what in zoningspeak is called “nonconforming” — that is, it is larger and sits higher off the ground than the current zoning ordinance allows. Old Navy’s sign was nonconforming too, but the Panera sign is “less nonconforming” than the one it replaced, in the estimation of city zoning officials. Therefore it could be permitted “as a substantially more compliant sign.” The OGE sign was apparently even more nonconforming. Or, in the words of planning and zoning director David White, “The wood sign really doesn’t fit the architectural style of the building.” Sherman thought his rustic sign was cool. “It adds character to the street, which we need,” he said in June. “It’s what defines our downtown as being different than a shopping mall.” But the Development Review Board disagreed and sent Sherman back to the drawing board to come up with a new design — one with “individual channel

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read on. When the national bakery chain Panera Bread opened a store on Church Street in September, a big illuminated sign was installed prominently above its front door. Meanwhile, next door at the locally owned Outdoor Gear Exchange, the store’s hand-carved wooden sign is under a glass canopy — practically invisible to shoppers passing by. Seven Days readers may recall the minor brouhaha the OGE sign provoked this summer when the gear store moved from Cherry Street to the former Old Navy space on Church. Owner Marc Sherman wanted to place the wooden sign — which depicts the Green Mountains over the motto “Clothing and Equipment for an Active Life” — above the glass canopy that fronts the Marketplace. He wanted a second oval sign that said “OGE” on the corner tower of the building. Old Navy

had large, lighted signs in exactly those places. But city planners objected, saying both signs would be “inappropriate and insensitive” to the building’s Googie, space-age style of architecture. Plus, the city said they would exceed the zoning code’s 14-foot height limit for signs on Church Street. Sherman protested, noting that numerous downtown chain stores — Macy’s, Starbucks and Borders — all had signs higher than 14 feet. But he was told those were grandfathered in under a previous version of the zoning ordinance. “The one local business looking to put their sign above 14 feet is denied,” Sherman complained at the time. And now? Nothing has changed. Above Panera is a glowing sign, 17 feet off the ground, that beckons the hungry inside for bear claws, granola parfaits and Asiago bagel breakfast sandwiches. Above OGE is a blank gray façade. Oh, and that smaller wood sign crammed under the canopy. WTF? Was Outdoor Gear Exchange the target of some zoning conspiracy meant to accommodate corporate chains

letters” that would resemble the Old Navy sign or the Woolworth’s sign that graced the façade years ago. In September, OGE came back with new sign proposals and won approval. How? By designing something more similar to the Panera sign: individual letters, placed at the same height, with the same “halo lit” backlighting. “We’re really happy with it. They’re really happy with it. We’re all singing ‘Kumbaya,’” White reports. With permits in hand, Sherman says local metal artist Kat Clear is working with Twin State Signs to get the new sign fabricated and installed within the next few weeks. Though getting permits was a “slog,” Sherman says he is “quite pleased” with the new look and with his interactions with city zoning officials. “Regardless of locally owned or not, I think this is a great example of how two businesses were able to learn from each other’s experiences with the city to reach a positive end goal,” Sherman says, adding that the original wooden sign will be hung inside the store. And did the lack of a visible sign — a store’s biggest advertisement — for six months cost Outdoor Gear Exchange business? “So far, we have been quite pleased with our foot traffic,” Sherman says, “even with the minimal signage that we have now.” Oh, and guess where the new sign will be placed? Above the glass canopy, in the precise spot that planning and zoning previously said was inappropriate. As Sherman said all along: “That façade was actually built for a sign.”

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he sun is setting on the Joseph C. McNeil Generating Station in Burlington’s Intervale, and houses and street lamps overlooking the plant are starting to light up. Inside, shift supervisor Frank Vigneau sits in a second-floor control room. His job is to make sure those twinkling lights on the hill never go out unexpectedly. From his workstation, Vigneau keeps an eye on virtually everything happening at the 46-acre facility. Closed-circuit TV cameras monitor conveyor belts that shovel 76 tons of wood chips per hour into the furnace. Computer screens show the temperature and pressure levels of superheated steam that drives the massive turbine, as well as the mix of

Just outside the control room, at the foot of a 10-story-tall boiler, plant manager John Irving shouts to be heard over the deafening roar of the furnace and the 183-ton turbine generator that rumbles the floor beneath us. “We’re the only major generating source in the load pocket of Vermont,” he yells, referring to Chittenden County, Vermont’s biggest energy user. “So when there’s a big storm, like the hurricane or the ice storm ... we’re the ones who are going to keep the lights on at the hospital and the city, not Vermont Yankee.” During the Northeast blackout of 2003, for example, it was McNeil that kept Burlington lit while most of New England was dark.

says Wright gave her just five minutes’ heads-up before announcing the plan, the centerpiece of his mayoral bid, on October 19. What was the reaction of BED’s 90 union members? “Shock and awe,” says Jeffrey Wimette, business manager at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 300. “It seems foolish to sell it ... It’s not like they’re getting money from the police department or the fire department.” Wimette is referring to the $2 million in PILOT, or payments in lieu of taxes, Burlington receives each year from BED and McNeil. The Queen City has many jewels in its crown: Church Street, the Intervale

“several million” is required for muchneeded repairs to the Burlington Bike Path, a major tourist draw for the city, as well as long-overdue upgrades and improvements to Burlington public schools. Wright’s proposal certainly sparked a reaction. Three of the four Democratic challengers lambasted the idea, calling it “totally half baked” (Tim Ashe), “ill informed” (Bram Kranichfeld) and “financial malpractice” (Jason Lorber). Progressive Mayor Bob Kiss called it “shortsighted and irresponsible.” Only Miro Weinberger seemed willing to consider such a “highly unpleasant option” as a way of digging Burlington out of its fiscal hole.

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gases going up the smokestack — “all the important stuff,” he says. One crucial number in the room is found on a clipboard hanging on the wall behind Vigneau. It contains McNeil’s marching orders from ISO New England, which manages the entire region’s wholesale energy market. On this particular day, it indicates McNeil will run at 50 megawatts, enough juice to keep the entire city of Burlington humming on a typical autumn day. But only 25 megawatts of that power will go to Burlington Electric Department, Vermont’s largest municipal utility, which owns 50 percent of McNeil. The rest is fed into the power grid and consumed by McNeil’s other owners: Green Mountain Power, Central Vermont Public Service and the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority — the last a conglomerate of 12 smaller utilities around the state.

Irving has been at the plant since it was on the drawing board — literally. A mechanical engineer, he worked at the Boston firm that designed McNeil and joined BED while the facility was still under construction. It opened in 1984 and is still one of the world’s largest wood-fired power plants. “I came here in spite of the fact that it was municipally owned,” says Irving, admitting he was skeptical a city department could run the plant as efficiently as private industry could. “But right now, I think it’s the best utility in the state of Vermont to work for, no doubt in my mind. They just have their priorities straight.” Little wonder that many of BED’s 125 employees were blindsided last month when Republican mayoral candidate Kurt Wright proposed selling the utility, including its 50 percent stake in McNeil. BED General Manager Barb Grimes

and the Burlington Bike Path, to name a few. But as Burlington municipal departments go, it would be hard to identify one that shines as brightly as BED. Indeed, as Wright often points out, it’s BED’s efficiency, profitability and commitment to green energy that would make it such an attractive asset to prospective buyers. So why does he want to sell it? “I don’t want to sell it,” he stresses. “I’m not eager to ... run down there and throw a ‘for sale’ sign on the front lawn of BED if I get elected,” Wright explains. “It’s because of the financial condition we’re in that it’s necessary to consider something like this.” That “financial condition” includes Burlington Telecom’s $50 million debt, an unfunded pension-fund obligation of about $48 million and nearly $10 million owed on the parking garage at Burlington International Airport. Wright also points out that another

But Wright remains undeterred. “The campaign platitudes that people could get by on in other times and in other campaigns won’t work this time,” he says. “We have to start moving in the direction of solving problems in Burlington. And we can’t have any sacred cows taken off the table.” For now, it won’t be. Regardless of which Democrat wins the caucus, on Sunday, November 13, the proposed sale of BED will remain an issue throughout the mayor’s race — and possibly beyond.

ould an investor-owned utility run BED as efficiently as it’s currently operated, with the same commitment to renewable energy as BED? Wright certainly thinks so. He suggests that Colchester-based GMP, soon to be the state’s largest utility, is the most obvious suitor. GMP is a known commodity,

a well-managed Vermont company with an environmental ethos similar to Burlington’s. And, with the financial muscle of its Canadian parent, Gaz Métro, it could pull off such a hefty purchase, Wright suggests, possibly offering rates even better than BED’s. The problem is, GMP President and CEO Mary Powell says she’s not interested — at least for now. In light of GMP’s ongoing merger with CVPS, as well as the Kingdom Community Wind project now under construction on Lowell Mountain, “We don’t have any appetite to be pursuing other transactions” at this time, she reports. Could that position change in three to five years?

utility, or “IOU.” Grimes, a former state legislator who’s been at BED since March 1999, is pleased to explain. She has a reputation as a politically astute, no-bullshit boss who can be gentle but tough — like a cross between your grandmother and a parole officer. Sporting a hard hat and high heels, Grimes offers a spicy analogy to make her point. A gynecologist and an auto mechanic are taking a class in advanced car repair, she offers. Tasked with repairing a transmission, both do it equally well. But when the gynecologist gets a higher grade on the test, the mechanic complains. As the instructor explains, “The gynecologist did the entire job through the muffler.”

commission OKs the rate hike, the proposal moves on to the finance committee, which can either recommend it to the full city council or reject it. Only after the entire city council OKs it can the rate increase go before the PSB for final approval. At any point, Grimes says, commissioners, citizens or city councilors can try to scuttle the deal. Spencer Newman, who currently chairs the Burlington Electric Commission, says most Burlingtonians probably don’t realize how much say they have over their own power supply. Daryl Santerre, BED’s chief financial officer, sits down with commissioners every month to review the finances. An independent accounting firm, KPMG,

and the price you would accept to sell it. Wright has also said that any prospective buyer must guarantee that customer rates are “comparable to” BED’s. Two Vermont utility executives, both of whom asked not to be identified for this story, suggest that Burlington customers probably could pay lower rates if BED were sold to an IOU. For example, GMP and CVPS, both investor owned, charge lower residential rates than BED. In fact, those executives note that BED has some of the highest rates in the state. What would enable BED to charge less? Economies of scale. A corporate parent would likely reduce BED’s overhead by getting rid of management

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positions and consolidating operations. Presumably, an IOU would also have an easier time financing deals. Borrowing money has gotten tougher for BED since January, when Moody’s downgraded Burlington’s credit rating. Grimes counters that the cost per kilowatt-hour is a less important figure than the typical bill paid by the average residential customer. By that measure, she argues, Burlington residents pay some of the lowest utility bills in the state — lower than both CVPS and GMP, according to figures from the Department of Public Service. Why? Because BED has spent the last 20 years investing heavily in efficiency, allowing its customers to use less energy. Back in 1990, Burlington voters approved an $11.3 million energy-efficiency bond, much of which was spent in the public schools. BED ratepayers

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audits BED once a year and delivers its findings directly to the commissioners, not BED management. “It’s a great model to look at for citizen government,” Newman says. “In the end, Burlington citizens get to decide exactly what happens.” How much could those citizens get for BED? Wright estimates the utility’s book value, after all outstanding debts are paid off, at somewhere between $65 million and $125 million. And, as he puts it, there would be no “fire sale” of the utility. Grimes puts the figure closer to $50 million to $55 million. “Not that we’d ever sell it for that, of course,” Grimes emphasizes, suggesting its book value would only be a starting point in the negotiations. She likens the discrepancy between her figures and Wright’s to the difference between what the city assessor says your house is worth

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BED, Grimes says, does all its business “through the muffler.” That is, a muni is constrained by much tighter scrutiny and greater transparency than private utilities. Every email, report and financial statement is subject to openrecords requests. “Trust me,” she says, “Investorowned utilities do not have their board meetings televised on Channel 17.” Consider the process of getting a rate increase approved. When investorowned CVPS wants to charge more for power, company executives put together a proposal and have their attorneys plead their case before the Vermont Public Service Board. The process is more complicated for BED. First, Grimes must go before and seek approval from the Burlington Electric Commission, a five-member citizen panel appointed by the city council to represent ratepayers. If the

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“We’d be happy to talk to folks, if there was this huge groundswell of interest,” Powell says. “But candidly, our view has always been that Burlington takes great pride in its municipal utility.” Furthermore, few in the utility industry expect Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s socialist senator and former Burlington mayor, to let a publicly owned utility in his own backyard get privatized without a fight. Nevertheless, other utilities, including some from outside Vermont, may be interested and wouldn’t necessarily need to have operations that abut Burlington, as GMP does. In fact, BED and Stowe Electric once considered a merger. Before Burlingtonians can decide what to do with BED — any such sale would be determined by a citywide vote — they first need to understand the difference between a municipally owned utility, or “muni,” and an investor-owned

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Power in Play « p.27 financed those improvements, but the investment has more than paid for itself. Overall, electricity usage in 2009 was only 2 percent higher than it was in 1989. In fact, BED’s overall investment in efficiency saved Burlington customers more than $10.1 million in 2009 alone, according to data from the Burlington Electric Commission. Supporters of public power like to point out another thing about BED: Its “value” extends beyond what it saves residents in dollars and cents. In 1991, the Burlington Electric Commission and city council asked voters to consider a proposal by Hydro-Québec to sell the city low-cost power. 6h-danforth110911.indd 1

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of indigenous people, even if it meant higher energy bills. As Hoffer puts it, “There was a reservoir of trust in BED because they’re local ... But if you’re not a muni, you don’t get to make those decisions.” A similar vote occurred in 2004 when the Burlington Electric Commission expressed concern that the city was too heavily invested in the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon. At the time, Vermont Yankee made up 40 percent of BED’s total energy portfolio, and every time the plant shut down unexpectedly, Grimes says BED was “paying through the nose” on the spot-energy market to make up the shortfall. With voter approval, Grimes was allowed to negotiate BED out of its nuclear contract. Today, more than half of

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Doug Hoffer, who chaired the Burlington Electric Commission from 1995 to 2000, recalls the public debate over the proposed Hydro-Québec contract, which soon focused on the disastrous impact the hydroelectric dams, known as the Great Whale Megaproject, would have on thousands of native Cree and Inuit people in northern Québec. Matthew Coon Come, grand chief of the Cree, addressed the council in person in order to drive that point home. In October 1991, Burlingtonians rejected the Hydro-Québec deal by a vote of 58 to 42 percent. Although Burlington’s share of the contract — 15 megawatts — was just a small fraction of the 325-megawatt deal with 17 Vermont utilities, the vote was a symbolic victory: Burlingtonians rejected a project that would disrupt the lives of thousands

with the same commitment to renewable energy as beD?

BED’s energy load comes from renewable sources, including hydro, solar and wind. In fact, the Burlington Electric Commission has since directed BED to commit to a 100 percent renewable portfolio by 2020, a goal Grimes firmly believes will be achieved. And BED is well positioned to add more local, renewable energy to its mix. In 2014, Grimes notes, BED’s debt on the McNeil plant will be fully paid off, freeing up resources for new investments. BED also has the right of first refusal to buy back the Winooski Hydroelectric Project, the 7.4-megawatt generator on the Winooski River. “Are we going to treat this like the Connecticut River dams?” Grimes asks, referring to former governor Jim Douglas’ decision to pass on a similar option. “Opportunities like this don’t

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miles of overhead power lines it needs to maintain. A corporate owner may try to get by with fewer “boots on the pole,” this executive explains. Those “boots” earn good wages, which helps explain why the average BED employee has been on the job for more than 20 years. According to IBEW’s Wimette, a typical meter reader earns about $24 per hour; line workers get paid between $28 and $34 per hour. In addition to the 40 BED employees on site at McNeil, the plant also supports another 70 or so workers in the field, including train operators (75 percent of the plant’s wood chips arrive by rail), loggers and foresters, who ensure the wood is harvested sustainably. Though McNeil can also run on oil and natural gas, wood chips from forests throughout

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elling BED to an investor-owned utility would have one consequence even Wright can’t ignore: a loss of jobs. The GOP contender acknowledges that job cuts would be “likely” but “I don’t think there would be a ton ... You’d probably just lose a few managers.” But one utility executive suggests those cuts could go deeper, depending on the buyer. Part of BED’s appeal is that it has a high density of customers in a small geographic area. A major cost driver for utilities is the number of

Vermont and northern New York are its primary fuel source. It’s unclear what a new buyer would do with wood-burning McNeil. As Grimes recalls, her first vote in April 1999 as a representative on McNeil’s joint ownership board was whether to mothball the plant — a proposal favored by CVPS and GMP. At the time, McNeil was running at only 25 to 30 percent capacity because fluctuating oil prices were setting nationwide energy prices, making its wood-dependent operations less financially desirable. Grimes voted to keep the plant up and running. Less than a year later, she points out, “Enron exploded, California imploded and we never looked back.” Regardless of whether Wright gets elected, his proposal has already tripped some breakers at BED. Both Grimes and Wimette confirm that a tentative deal reached between the union and management over company retirement benefits was scuttled due to uncertainties about BED’s future. “If you’re going to solve your problems by selling us, why do I need to give up my pension?” is all Wimette will say. That dispute now goes to fact finding and arbitration, Grimes notes, which will cost ratepayers additional money. In the end, the electricity business is very simple: Whether it’s from BED or one of Vermont’s 19 other utilities, customers want reliable power at an affordable price. As Burlington Electric Commissioner Newman points out, it’s not like the government has one flavor — vanilla — and for-profit corporations offer 10 different flavors. So does it even matter who owns BED? “Electricity is almost as important as air, water and the food we eat. Obviously, we think so, because we tightly control it and regulate it,” says Rep. Tony Klein (D-East Montpelier), who chairs the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee. BED’s legacy suggests that competition is not the only route to efficiency and innovation. “So what’s the benefit of private ownership?” he asks rhetorically. Evidently, Grimes doesn’t see any. “I would remind you that the mayor of the city of Burlington in 1905 did not like the commercial utility that was serving the city and created Burlington Electric,” she says. “I think over the 106 years we’ve been in existence, we’ve proven to be a valuable asset for this city.” When Burlington voters go to the polls in the first week of March, their vote may very well decide whether it’s worth more to hold on to BED’s power or give it up. m

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anada to Hazen’s Notch? Sure, count us in!” That’s the answer my wife, Emily Johnson, and I gave when her sister, Leah Johnson, and Leah’s beau, Richard Savory, asked us to join them for the first few days of their open-ended hiking journey south. We hadn’t seen Leah and Richard for months, and winter was fast approaching, making this trek on the Long Trail impossible to turn down. We headed out on a calm, late-September morning. Arriving at Journey’s End — the northern terminus of the trail — we were quickly reminded of how fortunate Vermonters are to have one of the world’s greatest backcountry trail systems. Just 30 minutes into this adventure, we felt deeply immersed in the rugged wilds of the Green Mountains; our world was all towering trees, rocky ledges, moss-covered boulders and fern-filled grottoes. At a scenic overlook along the U.S./Canada border, we sliced up smoked bluefish and rye bread — fuel for a big day ahead — and glanced at our trusty map. It was published by the Green Mountain Club, whose volunteers and staff have been the primary stewards of the 273-mile Long Trail since 1910. The corridor now boasts a great number of shelters, signs, bridges and side trails along the way. Heading south that first day, we were distracted by numerous unique mountain vistas

OUTDOORS that we rarely get to see. Pushing on, we passed up several cozy shelters, opting for an overnight bivouac on the summit of Jay Peak. We reached our destination under the subtle glow of dusk. Not long after a starlit dinner, the whisper of wind eased us into a pleasant night of sleep on the mountain. At sunrise, we awoke in a cloud bank and then drifted off again. A short while later we finally woke to rays of the rising sun streaking through the clouds. Big Jay, just south of Jay Peak, appeared to be floating in midair. We had a round of hot drinks, packed up and moved on. South of Jay Peak and the comfortable Jay Camp shelter, where we stopped for water and breakfast, the Long Trail finds its groove in the upper-elevation hardwood forest that defines much of the corridor. Being among the aging trees, with a kaleidoscope of color overhead and the elaborate roots of the yellow birch underfoot, we felt as if we were traveling through the storybook fantasylands of our childhoods. Mushrooms clung to nearly anything rotting. Late-season flowers dotted the forest floor. Signs of deer and moose were abundant. Ravens and hawks soared overhead. Buchanan Mountain was our last high point — and a great spot for lunch — before we wandered down the trail for several miles toward Hazen’s Notch Camp and a fine

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ince he burst onto the theater scene in 1996, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has earned a reputation for darkly comic fare with a violent streak. It would be reasonable to assume, then, that a theater company that adds puppets to his terrifying 2003 play The Pillowman might be trying to lighten things up a bit. And this assumption would be dead wrong. The puppets in the Saints & Poets production of The Pillowman, now running at the Black Box Theater at Main Street Landing, arguably deepen the darkness in McDonagh’s play. In the process, the show, directed “for mature audiences only” by Tara Lee Downs, challenges assumptions about what puppets can accomplish in the hands of a fearless cast and crew. The Pillowman begins with its protagonist, a fiction writer named Katurian (Seth Jarvis), in the midst of an interrogation at the hands of a detective (G. Richard Ames) and a policeman (Andrew Butterfield) in an unnamed totalitarian state. It seems that some of Katurian’s more violent yarns resemble recent crimes — child murders, in particular — closely enough to have alerted the authorities. Katurian claims he’s innocent. The cops don’t buy it. Unlike in other Saints & Poets productions, in which puppets play the major roles, in The Pillowman they appear as a kind of visual aid to the stories Katurian narrates for his interrogators. The puppets enter and exit the stage, or are projected as silhouettes, as if figments of his imagination, acting out the tales’ oftengrisly events. Puppet designer Kevin Christopher’s handheld creations — somewhat crudely rendered, faceless figures — are well cast in this role. Their blank expressions bring another degree of callousness to the terror they unleash, amplifying the horrors described in Katurian’s words. Meghan Dewald’s shadow puppets

add a touch of refinement to this narrative element while enhancing the nightmarish effect. Adam Cooper Wood’s sound design envelops the spectacle in subtly discomfiting melodies and tones. What makes puppetry such a bold artistic stroke in The Pillowman — what puppets bring to the play that live actors could not — is a metaphorical dimension. The question of what drives people to do what we do permeates this performance, in which small characters are controlled by invisible agents cloaked in black against a black stage and curtain. Doomed by their tales’ violent plots and thrust at cruelty by the hands that hold them, the puppets extend an important theme about the impact of past trauma on present thoughts and behavior. The eponymous Pillowman himself — a towering creature who looks like a jack-inthe-box clown on meth — addresses the cycles of violence and despair that, in this play, are the very definition of a human life. If trauma is the underlying problem in this play, then storytelling is the solution. Katurian’s fictions are so transcendentally twisted that they imply a horrifying set of experiences that inspired them. Critics have compared The Pillowman to the works of Kafka, Dostoevsky, Harold Pinter and the Grimm brothers. While this may be an accurate appraisal of McDonagh’s play, it underestimates the bleakness of Katurian’s vision. Think Neil LaBute meets Neil Gaiman to channel Edgar Allan Poe on a very bad day. Think innocent little kids forced to wear barbedwire crowns or tricked to look the other way while their toes are chopped off. Such stories are both Katurian’s sanctuary in an inhospitable world and his way of railing against it. Yet, as Jarvis plays him, he’s not an especially gloomy figure. Yes, he’s on the bookish side, but not way out of balance. Though many of his stories are gruesome, he seems proudest of his

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timing and understated acting yield a solid all-around performance. As Tupolski’s coinvestigator, Ariel, Andrew Butterfield plays the openly pissed-off part of the crime-fighting team. The contrast with Ames is comical, and Butterfield is convincing as the brute about to blow a gasket. He may hold that particular note too long in spots, but he shows greater range in more nuanced emotional moments in the play. Emotional complexities are part of what make The Pillowman a compelling play — but probably not the largest part. Katurian’s emotional journey as a bent cog in the machinery of the state is interesting, but what really commands attention is the sheer weirdness and darkness of McDonagh’s vision. The story here, and the stories within the story, fascinate and horrify with their moral emptiness. This production serves the material well, taking an innovative approach and delivering depravity with a fresh, frightening edge. m

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craftsmanship. When pressed on his preference for violent themes, he insists, “I’m not trying to say anything at all.” Katurian appears, at first, as a decent citizen willing to cooperate with a police investigation. As he comes to realize he’s the chief suspect, Jarvis is called on to strike a range of emotional notes — from earnest to confused to frightened to enraged. He shoulders the material well, effecting haplessness punctuated with wry humor that gives the play some of its rare moments of levity. As Katurian’s mentally challenged brother, Michal, Jordan Gullikson crackles with enthusiasm and childlike mirth. He and Jarvis bear the burden of some of the play’s weaker scenes, which lack the quick-witted, rapid-fire dialogue of the interrogation. Gullikson is credible in this part — and he and Jarvis enjoy good chemistry — but is conspicuously lacking in sweetness. This robs both Michal and Katurian of sympathy at points in the play when it might have been dramatically useful. As the lead investigator, Tupolski, Ames is cool and confident in inverse proportion to Katurian’s unraveling. He’s the indifferent functionary who accepts the absurdity of a broken system rather than fight what he can’t fix. Tupolski’s vision is not as jaundiced as Katurian’s, but it’s cynical enough to lace every other line of his dialogue with biting irony. Ames’ sharp

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girl in a floral tankini is spinning, oblivious to everyone around her. When a boy doing a cannonball crashes through the water beside her, the girl keeps spinning. When another boy, wearing goggles and a Speedo, swims right up to her and punches her in the gut, she regains her balance and keeps on spinning. “There was just something about those kids,” Davies says. They didn’t know she was filming them, and Davies wasn’t sure exactly what she was looking for, content-wise, she explains. The challenge she set out for herself? Resist the urge to move the camera, and see what happens within the frame. She was delighted to catch this “gorgeous, long-legged girl who was completely lost in that moment of childish self-absorption,” she says. “The tender human qualities are what make that piece.” On a recent afternoon, Davies is hiking up a steep, wooded path on her 600-acre Northeast Kingdom farm. Wearing a vest over a plaid flannel shirt and a worn-in blue bandana knotted around her neck, she looks a little more farmer than filmmaker. These days, in addition to her artistic projects, Davies is engaged in a different kind of

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he invisible but pungent vapors that swirl through the Caledonia Spirits & Winery distillery in Hardwick are most intense in the loft, where clear alcohol spins through a glass coil and drips into a jar. As I watch, head distiller Duncan Holaday appears with two small samples drawn at different times from this batch. “Try some,” he urges with a smile. Each sip of fresh vodka passes over my tongue like liquid embers. One sample prickles the sides of the mouth; the other has more depth, but also a hint of beguiling sweetness. These are the

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cold plates, condense and are collected in jars. The first alcohols to rise during this process, such as methanol, are lighter and sharper tasting; distillers monitor when these vapors shift to the “heart of the run,” or the purer ethanol with soft hints of the honey base. Clarity, flavor and temperature all help determine where to make this cut — or, as Caledonia Spirits general manager and co-distiller Joe Buswell describes it, to recognize the moment when the spirits change “from nail polish remover to vanilla.” Hardie, Holaday and Buswell are participants in a modern distilling revival in Vermont, blending the fruit, flowers and other products of the local landscape with their own imaginations: brandy made from local apples; a cordial from elderberry flowers; rum, vodka and liqueur from maple sap. Soon there will also be whiskey made from local corn. Fourteen entities now hold distilling licenses in Vermont, many of them so new that companies such as Stowe’s Green Mountain Distillers and Quechee’s Vermont Spirits Distilling Co. — founded in 2002 and 1998, respectively — are veterans by comparison. Some distillers are enticed by a recession-proof product and a buoyant market for local goods; others, including Hardie and Holaday, are also guided by a long-held passion for harnessing the local landscape and capturing it in a bottle. Despite its apparent novelty, batch distilling is not new here. In the early 18th century, Vermont was dotted with breweries and micro-distilleries, but these were eventually shuttered in the fervor of the state’s temperance movement — Vermont banned alcohol in 1852, long before federal Prohibition. Though alcohol was legalized again in 1933, temperance still cast a long shadow on the state, and distilling took decades to appear again. Hardie had little inkling that he would one day make spirits when he began producing and selling raw honey in the 1970s. Coincidentally, the land in Morses Line where he first kept bees, which straddles the Québec border,

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up a glass fractionating still and condenses on a glass coil into jars. He and Holaday are also aging rum in small oak barrels, constantly sampling to note how the flavors evolve. ES. SALUTE e HIT These spirits express the unique goût BU &W ON de terroir of this corner of Vermont, DS Holaday believes. He envisions a time when tourists can wander the state sampling the essence of each locale they visit. “It’s about appreciating what a place can do — water from the springs, wood from the land, sugar from maple trees.” Hardie, Holaday and other distillers applaud the Vermont Department of Liquor Control for being nimble and responsive to their needs. New legislation allowing on-site tasting rooms and sampling at farmers markets is fueling CHURCH STREET MARKETPLACE expansion. Price might remain a barBURLINGTON 802.660.9533 rier for some Vermonters, though. Like BE SMART. EAT WELL. ENJOY YOUR DAY. Vermont Spirits vodkas and Shoreham’s MAPLE TREE PLACE WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey, Barr WILLISTON Hill Vodka fetches premium prices: A 802.857.2200 375-milliliter bottle costs $32. Honey is expensive to produce, Hardie points out, and harder still to ferment. But he thinks the final product is worth it. “I did not know, even with a ThreeTomatoesTrattoria.com bachelor of science in agriculture, that the way you’re taking care of your bees and your people goes into every product, 8V-3Tomatoes110911.indd 1 11/7/11 every bottle,” Hardie says. “With a strict science background, they don’t teach you that, but it’s true. The consumer will know the difference between a good and a mediocre product.” A mini-wave of local whiskeys is poised to appear in the state soon, including Appalachian Gap whiskey from a distillery in Middlebury, and a 10-yearaged whiskey from Green Mountain Distillers, which will be released in three years or so. In Vershire, Flag Hill Farm hard-cider makers recently created Pomme-de-Vie, an apple brandy inspired by the French Calvados. Vermont Spirits will release an apple brandy next year, as well, and Holaday is designing a custom still for a group in Richford but won’t say what they’ll distill. Within a decade, Vermont may well be known as a craft-distilling epicenter. “To transform something from an agricultural product, and to process, package and deliver and bring it to the stores is a minor miracle,” says Hardie. “It’s very humbling.” m ITA

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still, and simultaneously began plotting his next spirit. This time, he decided, he was going to make rum. Holaday reopened the distillery on his property in Barnet, and set to work again on still design and construction and tinkering with formulas. Walking into the sun-drenched Dunc’s Mill distillery is akin to entering a lab. A hodgepodge of fermentors, stills and glass demijohns fill the multilevel space. In one corner, a white tub holds an experimental infusion of elderflowers and hibiscus; nearby, a nascent whiskey dribbles into jars. In the center of it all, fresh, clear rum travels up a tall, fractionating glass tube and into a jar. Holaday became intrigued by the

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idea of making rum as he read about its roots. “What we’re doing is playing with the history of rum, which is a history of mistakes,” says Holaday — or the happy accidents that can yield new flavor profiles. “I made the mistake of scalding [some sugar] and I thought, Oh, this is terrible. But we realized we were doing all the wrong things right.” Though the organic cane sugar he uses comes from afar, Holaday adds a local spin with flavors of elderflowers or his own maple sap. He calls maple “a beautiful fermentation,” and boils his sap to make the amber-colored, gentle and sweet Dunc’s Mill Maple Flavor Rum. In spring, Holaday and his young assistant distiller, Daniel Keeney, gather hundreds of white elderflower blossoms. “We put them into a simple sugar-water solution, and after a few days we get that beautiful aroma,” says Holaday. Hence, Dunc’s Mill Elderberry Flavor Rum. Both rums were released earlier this year, and other spirits will come. On a recent afternoon, Keeney monitors a batch of raw corn whiskey as it travels

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Himalaya Restaurant offers a focused menu of specialties from Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal. The three cuisines are far more different than one might imagine. And the half-Tibetan, half-Bhutanese Dorjee, whose first language is Nepalese because of a native nanny, is in a good position to appreciate them. Tibetan food, he explains, is fresh, mild and mostly steamed. Nepalese curries use the same fresh spices as Indian cuisine, but in much smaller doses. Bhutan specializes in food made fiery with chili peppers to keep bodies warm at high altitudes. Unless guests order their food spicy in advance, Tsering prepares it at more Western-friendly levels. That’s how Dorjee prefers it, too. The son of a high-ranking official in the Bhutanese government, the restaurateur attended a British-run boarding school in India from the age of 3. There, he was weaned on bland egg and bread dishes, and he admits that he still has a subnormal tolerance for spice. Slim and well groomed, Dorjee has a professorial vibe and a grasp of the English language superior to that of many Americans, with just a hint of an Indo-British accent. His love of food was nurtured in his annual one-month school break. Dorjee’s father considered it a priority to teach his children to cook and sent the servants home on weekends. He also believed in tough love when it came to mistakes. “No

matter how bad it was, we ate everything we cooked,” Dorjee recalls. “It made you want to try harder and become better.” Drawing on those youthful experiences, Dorjee carefully trained Tsering in his turn. The Gelug monk is not only a chef and painter, but also an expert butter sculptor, a skill he showcases each winter at the Festival of Tibetan Arts that the Dorjees organize in Plattsburgh. Americans may have heard of a similar practice at midwestern dairy festivals, but shaping and dying yak butter into the forms of religious icons called tormas is an old Tibetan Buddhist celebratory tradition. Tsering does most of the cooking at the restaurant, while Dorjee converses with guests, and Yangchen runs their adjacent store, TibetAsian gift shop. Although Tsering doesn’t follow the vegetarian diet to which many Buddhists adhere (even the Dalai Lama only goes veggie every other week), he still can’t eat some of the foods he prepares. Pork and beef are acceptable because one animal can feed multitudes. Since smaller animals, such as chicken and fish, must die to fill a communal bowl, they are taboo choices. Locavores can’t argue with the meat at Himalaya Restaurant. The beef in the Tibetan stir-fries and noodle soups comes from grass-fed cattle at Parker Family CONTINUED AFTER THE CLASSIFIEDS

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price prohibitively high for his menu, which tops out at $13.75 for Nepalese curries with pork and salmon. Also among the most expensive dishes, at $12.75, is a Bhutanese dish called tsipsha paa. In a big city, the braised pork ribs would retail for far more. The meaty baby backs are lusciously soft, but adhere well enough to the bone to be eaten with one’s fingers. Their tomato-based sauce is flavored with the fresh ginger, garlic and chili powder that Tsering keeps neatly organized in Mason jars beside the stove. The accompanying whole chard leaves stew with the pork and soak up its spices and flavor. Dorjee gives diners a choice of white or brown rice, but says a hard-to-find red variety is standard in his homeland. Dorjee is currently working on getting a license to serve beer and wine. He points out that Himalayans love their booze, especially Bhutanese: “In eastern Bhutan, they make liquor out of everything. In Bhutan, any crop you teach them to grow, they’ll grow it and make liquor out of it,” he says. “It’s kind of like college kids.” Eventually, Dorjee hopes to procure a license to distill his own Himalayan hooch. That may be more likely to happen in Vermont than Plattsburgh. The restaurateur has his eye on adding a Burlington location. “My wife and I are pretty passionate about doing a restaurant in Burlington. We are keeping our eyes and ears open,” says Dorjee of looking for an affordable space. He’s been taking on extra computer jobs to finance the Vermont spot with no help from the bank, just as he did with his current restaurant. The family hopes to open in the Green Mountains next summer and to use Vermont farms as suppliers. Dorjee says he’ll hire extra help at both locations so he can travel between the two each day. He adds that he’s grateful to Plattsburgh for embracing his family, but he looks forward to being able to serve some of his favorites that New York diners have rejected, such as Bhutanese pork belly with potatoes. Sooner rather than later, it looks like Burlington will be tasting the Himalayas.

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CIRC TASK FORCE MEETING: The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Metropolitan Planning Organization hosts a public meeting to address transportation, safety, livability and economic development in the region. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4071, ext. 15, mboomhower@ccrpcvt.org. NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT NIGHT: Get a say on your ’hood! Folks in Ward 1 weigh in on PlanBTV — Downtown & Waterfront at a neighborhood planning assembly. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7193. WINOOSKI COALITION FOR A SAFE AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITY: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by planning community events, sharing resources, networking and more. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1392, ext.10.

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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.

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ADVANCED TECHNIQUE & CHOREOGRAPHY DANCE MASTER CLASS: Choreographer Nicholas Leichter teaches a regularly scheduled technique course. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 2:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 443-3168.

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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. ‘SENNA’: Asif Kapadia’s 2010 documentary chronicles the monumental life — and early death — of the Brazilian Formula One racing driver, remembered as the greatest of all time. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘THE DEBT’: Three decades after a spy mission against a Nazi war criminal was accomplished, the case’s legitimacy is questioned in John Madden’s 2010 thriller. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

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‘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, 863-2569, ext. 1. UNDERSTANDING NATURAL SWEETENERS: HOLIDAY EDITION: Put different sweeteners to a taste test and learn how to incorporate them into seasonal recipes in this educational class with Lindsay Ingalls. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

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‘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. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7-9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 357-4616.

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The Boys Are Back Nearly 20 years ago, a black queer performance group straight out of San Francisco’s Castro District debuted Fierce Love: Stories From Black Gay Life. Known as the Pomo Afro Homos (that’s Postmodern African American Homosexuals), the avant-garde troupe fused theater, hip-hop and comedy to tackle what the Los Angeles Times dubbed “the great Pomo no-nos”: racism and homophobia. The vignettes were both hard-hitting and humorous, skewering stereotypes with satire and style. Now, original member Brian Freeman tours the resurrected piece with a new crew. Only slightly updated, the work functions as a time capsule of the black gay experience in the early ’90s and challenges audiences to consider what’s changed since then — and what hasn’t.

‘FIERCE LOVE (REMIX): STORIES FROM BLACK GAY LIFE’ Thursday, November 10, and Friday, November 11, 8 p.m., at FlynnSpace in Burlington. $21-25. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

Performing at a farm one day and a concert venue the next, Music for Farms defy easy categorization. Take their standard repertoire: One moment, the foursome has feet stomping to rollicking Canadian fiddle tunes; the next, they’re pulling a 180 with Indian classical music. The opposite tacks underscore the ensemble’s twofold goal to support sustainable farming and promote classical arts. Formed in 2008 by New York pianist/ percussionist John McDowell and Canadian violinist Emmanuel Vukovich (pictured)— and later joined by bassist Evan Premo of Vermont’s Scrag Mountain Music and cellist Julia MacLaine — the band puts the “culture” in “agriculture” while fundraising for Irene-damaged farms this weekend. SMM’s Mary Bonhag joins in.

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Saturday, November 12, 4 p.m., at Green Mountain Girls’ Farm in Northfield. Donations accepted; $7-15 for following farm supper. Sunday, November 13, 4 p.m., at Big Picture Theater & Café in Waitsfield. Donations accepted; community pie potluck follows. All proceeds benefit local farms affected by Tropical Storm Irene. Info, 734-9045401. scragmountainmusic.org

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THE GREAT TURKEY CHASE Saturday, November 12, noon to 2 p.m., at Maglianero Café in Burlington. Rain date: Sunday, November 13. Donations accepted; bring $15 to purchase food along the way. Food benefits the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. Info, 347-647-0371.

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Getting a 20-pound turkey into the oven is enough of a feat — ever tried transporting one via bike? Pedal pushers power through it at the fourth annual Great Turkey Chase, a rolling parade of poultry and Thanksgiving-dinner provisions. With the goal of creating a holiday feast for families in need through the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, cyclists embark on a foodie scavenger hunt. The route, roughly 15 miles, propels them to grocery stores in search of cranberry sauce, sliced potatoes, pumpkin-pie filling and more — bonus points for those who nab a bird. Last year’s chase yielded 1225 pounds of food, plus 10 turkeys. Organizer Liam Griffin is wisely making plans to deliver Saturday’s haul in something bigger than the trunk of the usual Subaru.

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Hairspray — that 1960s story of “inappropriate hair height” and social injustice — has made its musical way to the big stage and the big screen since the release of John Waters’ campy 1988 cult classic. But could it be produced in Vermont? “This is a show that not a lot of people thought could be done locally because it requires such a diverse cast,” explains Lyric Theatre Company producer Erin Evarts. The troupe wasn’t about to let that preconception stop the beat. With 18 new cast members, many of them college or high school students, “Lyric is so proud to be able to bring the show to Burlington,” says Evarts. Catch the indomitable spirit of the ’60s — and an appreciation for aerosol — starting on Thursday.

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WellneSS & reSilienCe in the ClaSSroom & at home: While children listen to stories in the library, superintendent David Young and local educators share research and practices that can help students and adults alike reduce stress, calmly face tough situations and improve relationships. Then kids over 5 and adults regroup for learning activities. South Burlington High School, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 6580521 or 652-7346. 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.

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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. enoSBurGh PlayGrouP: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing 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. homeSChoolerS’ event: Players face off in games galore. Fairfax Community Library, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. leGo CluB: Children connect colorful blocks to create masterful structures of their own design. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-3:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. 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.

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. 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.

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Pajama Story time: Evening tales send kiddos off to bed. Berkshire Elementary School, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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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.

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Foot-Care CliniC: Toes in need? Adults ages 50 and up pamper those digits at a service provided by the Visiting Nurses Association. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free; RSVP; bring a towel. Info, 685-3585.

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.

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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.

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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. valley niGht: Jonah Neale and Jason Hagler of central Vermont’s Pushbutton grace the lounge with original songs ranging from punk to tango to country. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.

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, 224-7100, 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, 4263581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. 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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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. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 805-635-1423. vinCent Feeney: The author and historian looks at the early American real-estate business in “The Allen Brothers: Original Vermont Developers.” United Methodist Church, Grand Isle, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-4058.

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‘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. 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. ‘SWeeney todd: the demon BarBer oF Fleet Street’: Gothic gore and a dark score fuel this thrilling musical masterpiece about a barber’s bloody search for revenge, presented by the Colchester Theatre Company. Colchester High School, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 264-5729.

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a ShameleSS eveninG With Pamela madSen: In Shameless: How I Ditched the Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure ... and Somehow Got Home in Time to Cook Dinner, the memoirist details her search for wholeness, both sexual and spiritual. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-3999. Book diSCuSSion GrouP: Bibliophiles dissect Wells Tower’s short stories in Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. 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. 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.

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‘To Kill a MocKingbird’ readers’ TheaTre: Sixth graders through adults channel their inner Atticus, Scout, Jem or Boo during an evening of excerpted readings, done in character. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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Financing The WorKing landscape: Entrepreneurs and students network at a local-money conference bringing together businesses involved in food, agriculture and forestry, and exploring how to prepare those businesses for capitalization. American Legion Post 27, Middlebury, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $1530. Info, 382-0401. VerMonT consUlTanTs neTWorK MeeTing: Microdesign Consulting’s Lawrence Keyes facilitates an interactive discussion about “Collaborating With Other Consultants for Client Projects.” Network Performance, South Burlington, 8 a.m. Free for firsttime guests. Info, 373-8379, info@rcuerzandassociates.com.

comedy

bob Marley: The Maine comedian has made his own name through a Comedy Central special and jaunts on the late-show circuit. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $24.50. Info, 476-8188.

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neighborhood iMproVeMenT nighT: Get a say on your ’hood! Folks in Wards 2 and 3 weigh in on PlanBTV — Downtown & Waterfront at a neighborhood planning assembly. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7193.

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The people’s poWer TalK: Vermonters ages 18 and up consider their relationship to the federal, state and local governments in an ongoing conference-call series. This talk explores hemp prohibition and industrial hemp’s capacity to replace petroleum. Various locations statewide, noon-1 p.m. Free; participation is limited. Info, 218-237-0330; access code is 541119#.

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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. gap year Fair: High school students and family members learn about opportunities to take time off from school and try something completely different, such as cultural immersion. South Burlington High School, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7065.

‘asK Us Who We are’: See WED.09, 7-9 p.m. Food For ThoUghT FilM series: Foodie film buffs screen Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture and the New American Farmer, Jamie Howell and Guy Evans’ documentary about the decline of a traditional way of American life. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. ‘senna’: See WED.09, 5:30 p.m. UVM FilM series: Girl power! A lineup of flicks celebrates the role of female directors. Next up: Samira Makhmalbaf’s Blackboards. Billings Lecture Hall, UVM, Burlington, prefilm lecture, 6 p.m.; screening, 6:45 p.m. $4-10. Info, 656-4455.

ThanKsgiVing dinner Wine TasTing: Oenophiles sip seasonal selections that would suit a holiday feast. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

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

sUpporTing a healThy digesTiVe sysTeM: Akshata Nayak addresses bloating and other gut issues that hamper proper digestion — and how to create a diet that works with your body, not against it. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. 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.

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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. ‘charlie and The chocolaTe FacTory’: Chocolate rivers! Everlasting Gobstoppers! The Enosburg Falls afterschool program presents Richard R. George’s adaptation of this sweet Roald Dahl story. Proceeds benefit LEAPS. Enosburg Falls Junior/Senior High School, 7 p.m. $3-5. Info, 933-6171. early liTeracy sTory TiMe: Weekly themes educate preschoolers and younger children on basic reading concepts. Westford Public Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639, westford_pl@vals.state.vt.us. 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. 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. Kids in The KiTchen: Budding bakers roll homemade dough and make filling from scratch for tiny and delicious pecan tassies. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. MiddlebUry preschoolers’ sTory hoUr: Tiny ones become strong readers through activities with tales, rhymes, songs and crafts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. MUsic WiTh raphael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. science Magic: Kid chemists in grades 3 and up use simple household materials in fantastical tricks. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. ‘The hobbiT’: Reluctant Hobbit hero Bilbo Baggins goes “There and Back Again” in this Children’s Theatre production of the J.R.R. Tolkien classic. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $6-8. Info, 518-523-2512.

coFFeehoUse nighTs: The Milkman’s Union deliver dreamy indie-rock. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2536. sTUdenT perForMance reciTal: Music scholars take their various instruments for a spin on stage. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

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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caFé scienTiFiqUe: Chris Danforth, assistant professor at UVM’s Department of Mathematics & Statistics, puts two and two together in “Measuring Happiness: Social Media as a Laboratory.” ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation; cash bar; for ages 21 and up. Info, 877-324-6386. conVersaTion on race noW: Sherwood Smith facilitates panelists Wanda Heading-Grant, Robert Appel, Donna Bailey, Laura Fishman and Major Jackson in a discussion of race and racism in Vermont today. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:15-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-5612. KingdoM coUnTy prodUcTions’ The salon series: Filmmaker Jay Craven conducts a compelling live interview with novelist Howard Frank Mosher. August First, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $20-22. Info, 357-4616. Manny garcia: Embark on a “Transportation History The Music of Picture Tour in Central Vermont” with the speaker, 8V-ORSports110911.indd 1 11/7/11 4:17 PM who guides listeners through the evolution of regional roadways, railroads, trolley lines and air travel. featuring Peter Rowan, Tony Rice Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1:30 p.m. Free. and The Travelin’ McCourys Info, 223-3338.

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Michael sharKey: The New York City photographer shares stunning color portraits and video of queer teens and young adults in a multimedia talk giving voice to today’s young gays. Room 232, Axinn Center at Starr Library, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4964. roberT holland: The U.S. Army photojournalist and St. Mike’s ‘07 alum recalls life in Afghanistan under “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. Will Miller social JUsTice lecTUre series: Michael Parenti addresses imperialism in “Why Does the U.S. Have a Global Empire?” Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 914-980 2155.

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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‘arT’: The purchase of a $50,000 painting — a white canvas with a few white lines — unexpectedly puts friendships at stake in this comedy from Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theater. Brick Box Theater, Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $15; $55 with three-course meal at Roots the Restaurant (reservations required). Info, 747-7414.

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‘boeing-boeing’: See WED.09, 7:30 p.m. ‘Fierce loVe (reMix): sTories FroM blacK gay liFe’: Drama, hip-hop and comedy fuse in 12 vignettes exploring racism and homophobia by San Francisco’s black queer performance group Pomo Afro Homos (Postmodern African American Homosexuals). See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $21-25. Info, 863-5966. ‘FiTz loVes sTrindberg’: Theatre Virsces’ evening of theater and spirits includes presentations of F. Scott Fizgerald’s “Porcelain and Pink” and August Strindberg’s “The Stronger,” and an intermission of local wine, mead and cider tastings. Plainfield Community Center, 7 p.m. Free; for ages 10 and up

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iTalian cooKing series: gnocchi: Home cooks prepare little dumplings two ways — from potatoes and from Parmesan — in a delicious demo with Adele Dienno. Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

bob aMos, paTTi casey & colin MccaFFrey WiTh Jesse ForesT & KaorU azUMa: Five musicians swap spots onstage. The Old Meeting House, East Montpelier Center, 7 p.m. $12-15; $40 per family. Info, 229-9593.

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FiVe corners FarMers MarKeT WinTer sUsTainabiliTy series: Chef Courtney Contos whips up an apple strudel and a dazzling Thanksgiving side dish while sharing recipes and tips. Essex Junction Senior Center, 6:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 879-6701.

alan greenleaF: Northern Vermont informs the musician’s Americana, which he shares in a performance and discussion, “Music From the (NE) Kingdom.” Billings North Lounge, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389, crvt@uvm.edu.

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Wnrcd annUal MeeTing & chicKen dinner: At this Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District gathering, folks tune in for an overview of district projects, a presentation on hop production in the Northeast, a raffle of local goods, the honoring of local conservation stewards and supper. Waterbury Congregational Church, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $13; preregister. Info, 828-4493, ext. 113, justin.kenney@ vt.nacdnet.net.

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saMUlnori: Thunderous percussion and acrobatic dance overlap in a searing performance intended to preserve traditional Korean performing arts. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-35. Info, 603-646-2422.

Warren Miller’s ‘...liKe There’s no ToMorroW’: Ski icon Jonny Moseley provides narrative to powder trails in India, New Zealand, Alaska, Norway and beyond for the snow-obsessed. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 603-448-0400.

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First 100 Brides receive 20.00 gift cards. Courtesy of Needlemans Bridal & Formal.

Meet Vermont’s FINEST wedding Professionals Hundreds of Dollars in Door Prizes! Runway • Fashion Show • Spa Tours & Seminars Enjoy Fabulous Hors d’oeuvres from Local Professional Caterers Silent Auction - Items that spoil, intrigue, entertain, and bring happiness into your life!

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Central to Your new life “It has been a great experience. The staff are all incredible. We can’t say enough about the nurses.” Little Lukas Harrison Patno created quite a commotion upon his arrival Sunday afternoon, October 30. Aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents, and a great grandmother traveled through snow, sleet and freezing rain to celebrate his arrival. Declarations were made: Lukas has the best uncle ever! He’s the cutest baby ever! His parents, Kate and Cody Patno, are the happiest ever! But wait, there’s more. As nurse Denise Parry placed 7lb/12oz, minute old Lukas on his mama’s chest she turned to his dad and announced that she had also helped deliver him. Rumor has it tears were shed – by many. Don’t you just love it? All the best to the Barre Town family. Lucky Lukas! Lucky Kate and Cody.

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only; valid ID required for the tasting. Info, 522-8005, theatrevirsces@gmail.com. ‘Hairspray’: A plus-size girl with plus-size hair shakes up segregated 1960s Baltimore in this musical comedy produced by Lyric Theatre Company. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $21-33. Info, 863-5966. ‘Lend Me a Tenor’: The Cleveland Grand Opera company eagerly awaits the arrival of Tito Merelli (“Il Stupendo”), but — through a series of unfortunate and hilarious events — the show must go on without him in this comic masterpiece produced by Lyndon State College and the Twilight Players. Alexander Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 626-3663. opera nigHT: Theatergoers screen a broadcast of Iphigénie en Tauride, Gluck’s update on the ancient Greek myth of Agamemnon. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 496-8994. ‘sweeney Todd: THe deMon BarBer of fLeeT sTreeT’: See WED.09, 7:30 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 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. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20; for mature audiences. Info, 863-5966.

BarBara zucker: The sculptor and UVM professor emerita shares her first book, Animal Sightings, a colorful, abstract visual representation of her threeyear odyssey commuting between Vermont, New York and Philadelphia. Special Collections Reading Room, Bailey/Howe Library, UVM, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2138, uvmsc@uvm.edu.

neiL sHepard & Tony wHedon: Two former JSC professors excerpt their new collections of poetry. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2536. ‘new engLand review’ verMonT reading series: Ellen Dudley, Estela Gonzáles, Sydney Lea and Leath Tonino share poetry collections, fiction, essays and articles. Carol’s Hungry Mind Café, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-0101.

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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.

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gasTronoMy Book discussion: Readers devour mouthwatering novels, such as Chitra Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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Languages of THe Brain for BuLLying prevenTion & TransforMing cHiLdren’s Lives: Child advocate Frank J. Kros offers two sessions: “Change Your Language, Change Their Lives: What Adults Can Say Differently Today to Transform the Tomorrows of Our Youth” and “Battling the Bully: Brain-Inspired Responses to Bullying.” Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $100. Info, 860-3349, sarah@puppetsineducation.org. THe Joy of wriTing: Slam poet star Taylor Mali offers a keynote speech and performance at a gathering

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focusing on the teaching of writing. Hands-on workshops cover everything from online publishing to making sense of state standards. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $50-95. Info, 656-3935. verMonT HuManiTies counciL faLL conference: Folks consider the poles of the human experience by exploring the power of literature, history, art and religion in two days of talks and breakout sessions. Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, Stowe, 1:30-9 p.m. $69-99. Info, 262-2626, ext. 304. zesT fesT: On the weekend of 11/11/11, women explore their “inner goddess without apology” and learn to “live out loud” through 10 presentations about embracing the feminine self. Lake Morey, Fairlee, 5-10 p.m. $95 for Friday night; $155 for Saturday; $215 for full conference. Info, 565-0506, turnitup@zestfestvt. com.

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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. BaLLrooM Lesson & dance sociaL: Singles and couples of all levels of experience take a twirl. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; open dancing, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269. Queen ciTy conTra dance: The Turning Stile serenade organized movers in soft-soled shoes, and Luke Donev calls the steps. Beginners’ session at 7:45 p.m. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $8; free for children under 12. Info, 371-9492 or 343-7165.

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casTLeTon sTaTe coLLege Honors veTerans: The Castleton American Legion Post 50 Color Guard, Castleton Marching Band and speaker Brad Young remember our military vets at the flagpole in front of Woodruff Hall. Castleton State College, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 468-1394. MediTaTion fLasH MoB: People in more than 200 cities across the globe exude inner peace, strength and happiness in a half-hour meditation followed by a “sound bath.” Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, noon. pLaQue dedicaTion: Vermonters convene to honor veterans of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. Bradford Academy, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 222-4423.

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an evening wiTH fiLMMaker aLanis oBoMsawin: The Canadian director and Dartmouth College Montgomery Fellow presents her documentary Professor Norman Cornett: “Since When Do We Divorce the Right Answer From an Honest Answer?” Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘HigHer ground’: Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut deals with one woman’s struggle with faith in a tightknit fundamentalist community. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘ouTside indusTry: THe sTory of sXsw’: Austin filmmaker Alan Berg answers questions after a screening of his documentary about the evolution of the massive yearly music festival. Live music by Lawrence Welks and Our Bear to Cross, Caring Babies, and Shawn Grady follows. BCA Center, Burlington, 6:30-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. TeLLuride MounTainfiLM fesTivaL: Adventure hounds get carried away in award-winning films celebrating mountain culture, outdoor sports, sustainable living and the environment. Proceeds support UVM’s Outing Club. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8-12. Info, 860-0190. Proceeds benefit the Waitsfield Children’s Center. Gate House Base Lodge, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 6-10:30 p.m. $8-15; $36 per family; $5 raffle tickets. Info, 496-8931. ‘THe HedgeHog’: A world-weary 11-year-old has a self-made appointment with death on her twelfth birthday — but a few new faces in her building may change her mind in Mona Achache’s 2009 drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

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health & fitness

Five Rhythms movement WoRkshop: A sweaty, free-form dance workout moves through different paces to integrate the mind, body and soul. South End Studio, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 540-0044. tai Chi FoR senioRs: See THU.10, Pine Crest at Essex, 10-11 a.m. Women’s stRength & Conditioning Class: See WED.09, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

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Community danCe: Revelers celebrate 11/11/11 and the reopening of the Route 73 bridge to DJ-spun tunes. Proceeds benefit the Rochester School auditorium chair fund, PTO scholarship fund and Rochester relief fund. Rochester School, 6-10 p.m. $8; $10 per family; donations accepted. Info, 767-4327. ‘moRe than gRavel Was stiRRed’: The White River Valley Players present newly written songs and short plays inspired by Irene experiences. All proceeds support the Save a Seat fund, which will help replace the flood-damaged seats of the Rochester School auditorium. The Park House of Shared Elder Residence, Rochester, 7:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, 767-3954, virginiascottbowman@gmail.com.

kids

‘ChaRlie and the ChoColate FaCtoRy’: See THU.10, 7 p.m. 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.

the Franklin County Democrats. Bliss Auditorium, St. Albans Historical Museum, DJ Money, 7 p.m.; show starts at 8 p.m. $10; cash bar. Info, 233-7587. ‘the musiC oF bill monRoe’: The Travelin’ McCourys, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice celebrate the 100th birthday of the father of bluegrass by recreating his greatest recordings. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $42.50-47.50. Info, 728-6464.

talks

gReg gause: The UVM poli-sci professor focuses on “The Winter of Arab Discontent 2011: Causes and Consequences.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. stephen kRess: The National Audubon Society’s vice president for bird conservation discusses his seminal work in “Project Puffin: A Seabird Restoration Program.” Billings Lecture Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4132 or 863-2436.

‘aRt’: See THU.10, 7:30 p.m. ‘boeing-boeing’: See WED.09, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘bReaking e.d.e.n.’: Seven playwrights contributed to this Dartmouth Theater Department production about the future of America’s most powerful labor union. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-17. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘FieRCe love (Remix): stoRies FRom blaCk gay liFe’: See THU.10, 8 p.m. ‘Fitz loves stRindbeRg’: See THU.10, 7 p.m. ‘homesteadeRs’: Shelburne Players presents Nina Shengold’s dramedy about the troubled inhabitants of an Alaskan fishing cabin. Shelburne Town Center, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 985-0780. ‘lend me a tenoR’: See THU.10, 7 p.m.

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.

‘the good Woman oF setzuan’: See THU.10, 7:30 p.m.

language

teRtulia latina: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.

music

indieCon 2011: live musiC: Big Heavy World’s grassroots, do-it-yourself music festival presents Lawrence Welks and Our Bear to Cross, Caring Babies, and Shawn Grady. BCA Center, Burlington, 8:30-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

no Walls & moRe: Bill Gagnon, Stephen Goldberg and Genevieve Mauffette offer experimental, dreamlike sounds. Performance artist Lee Anderson and Montréal’s Gabotron also perform. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5; cash bar. Info, 863-6648.

the lynguistiC Civilians: Dancers rub elbows with Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, State Treasurer Elizabeth Pearce and others while listening to the Burlington hip-hop band. Proceeds benefit

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aRCheR mayoR: The author of a Vermont-based mystery series starring detective Joe Gunther introduces his latest whodunit, Tag Man. Fairfax Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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agriculture

CRop mob: Volunteers converge for a guerilla act of agriculture including weed pulling and onion trimming. Meet at UVM’s Davis Center in Burlington at 9 a.m. for a ride; work party at Maplewoods Organics, Highgate, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; bring a potluck dish to share. Info, 249-3415, eparadis@uvm.edu.

art

oWl-CaRving Class: Whittlers fashion and paint snowy owl miniatures with Green Mountain Woodcarvers’ David Tuttle. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $25; preregister; bring your own lunch and carving tools. Info, 434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont.org. satuRday aRt sampleR: Materials from nature add form and texture to holiday decor in a workshop on “Pine Cone Topiary” for adults and teens. Davis Studio Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24; preregister. Info, 425-2700.

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bazaars

annual ChRistmas bazaaR: A home-cooked lunch fuels holiday shoppers as they pursue quilts, knitwear, watercolors, jewelry and greeting cards. Proceeds support local service and church projects. United Church of Colchester, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1595, fallyn2@comcast.net. holiday bazaaR: Baked goodies join tables full of up-for-grabs crafts, books, antiques and jewelry. All Saints Episcopal Church, South Burlington, 9 a.m.2:30 p.m. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9750.

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Fall ChoRal ConCeRt: The Middlebury College Choir and the Women’s Glee Club take a stand onstage. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

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

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Holiday Bazaar & White Elephant Sale: Shoppers break for breakfast or lunch while browsing crafts, candies, jams and more. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6764. International Holiday Market: Items from around the world — think handwoven baskets, wreaths, coffee and chocolates — help support the various producers, the church’s steeple fund and wider church missions aiding people in crisis all over the map. United Church, Northfield, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Soups, breads, desserts and beverages for $5 on Saturday. Info, 485-8347. Pre-Christmas Craft Show: Catch the holiday spirit as more than 70 vendors display unusual gift options. Milton Middle/High School, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; nonperishable food donations accepted for the local food shelf; lunch available. Info, 893-7387. The Craft Bazaar at Country Park: Crafts, collectibles and Christmas decor pervade an indoor gathering of gifts galore. Country Park Apartments, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 489-5196. Vermont Crafts & Products Fair: Woodworkers, knitters, bakers, florists and jewelers tout their wares. St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Northfield, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 485-8313. Winooski holiday pop-up art market: Fine arts, crafts and locally made products fill a previously vacant space. Entrance to the market is on Main Street by the top right of the Winooski Circle. 25 Winooski Falls Way, Suite 317, noon-8 p.m.; grand opening with music and cash bar, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 264-4839.

conferences

Vermont Humanities Council Fall Conference: See FRI.11, 7:15 a.m.-4:15 p.m. Zest Fest: See FRI.11, 6:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

crafts

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.

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Ballroom Lesson & Dance Social: See FRI.11, 7-10 p.m. Norwich Contra Dance: Northern Spy sound out music for caller-led dances. Wear clean-soled shoes. Tracy Hall, Norwich, potluck supper at the Congregational Church, 6:30 p.m.; beginners’ session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 16. Info, 785-4607, rbarrows@cs.dartmouth.edu. Open Marley Nights: Local dancers take the floor at an informal sharing of in-progress pieces. Chase Dance Studio, Flynn Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15 choreographer fee; donations accepted from observers. Info, 863-5966, openmarley@flynncenter.org.

education

Academic Preview Day: High school seniors and their families get a taste of college life through student and faculty presentations and campus tours. St. Michael’s College, Colchester, noon-3:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-762-8000. School Open House: Educators and member families take questions about Vermont’s parent-cooperative preschool. Saxon Hill School, Jericho, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0182.

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Annual Catamount Benefit Auction: A fundraising gala for Catamount Arts commences with a silent auction and reception at 6 p.m. A live auction follows at 7 p.m. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury. $25 includes food and refreshments. Info, 748-2600.

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Annual McAuction: Bidding battles ensue over items benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities of Burlington. Elks Lodge, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4943, deanna_cameron@comcast.net. Holiday Pet Photo Day: Animal lovers capture their pet’s mug for season’s greetings at a photo shoot with Fluffermutter Pet Photography. All proceeds benefit the animals of Central Vermont Humane Society. Central Vermont Humane Society, East Montpelier, 1-4 p.m. $5-25. Info, 476-3811, ext. 110.

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 Ham-Ellis. Town Hall, Warren, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 310-467-5879.

Greek Pastry Sale & TakeOut Dinner: Break out the baklava and pass the dolmades! The sale of homebaked treats at 10 a.m. precedes a take-away dinner at 11 a.m. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington. Cost of food and drink. Info, 862-2155.

Model Citizen: Community catwalkers strut the latest fashions of local retailers in the second annual fashion show benefiting Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE). Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $10-18; cash bar. Info, 382-9222.

Lasagna Supper: Cheesy baked pasta takes center stage in a buffet of greens, bread, beverages and dessert. United Methodist Church, Vergennes, 5-6:30 p.m. $4-8; takeout available. Info, 877-3150.

Rutgers Club of Vermont: Rutgers alumni and guests wear red to cheer on the Scarlet Knights football team as they battle the Army Black Knights. Upper Deck Pub at the Windjammer, South Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 734-5689. Waitsfield Ski & Skate Sale: Sweet snow-sport deals mark this 32nd annual stick-season rite of passage. Donations of new and used gear in good condition are accepted on Friday between 4 and 7 p.m. Waitsfield Elementary School, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 496-3643, info@wesskiskate.com. West African Juba Dance & Djembe Drum Classes: Beginning and somewhat-experienced hand drummers learn traditional rhythms and techniques with Guinean master drummer Chimie Bangoura at 11 a.m. Barefoot dancing follows at noon. Burlington Taiko. $15 for djembe class; $12 for dance class. Info, 377-9721, chimiebangoura@hotmail.com.

fairs & festivals

Brazil Fest: Samba street band Sambatucada! headline a dance blowout also featuring Naquele Tempo and capoeira by Fabio “Fua” Nascimento. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7:30-11 p.m. $8-10. Info, 343-7107. Conroys Farm Fest: An aerobatic demonstration accompanies a petting zoo, hay ride, bouncy house, and samples of local and organically grown foods and wines. Conroys Organics, West Chazy, N.Y., noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 518-562-2333. International Festival: Traditional Ghanaian drumming meets global cuisine and multicultural dance performances. Tarrant Student Recreational Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5 p.m. $3-5; free for St. Mike’s students with ID. Info, 654-2536.

film

‘Ask Us Who We Are’: See WED.09, First Unitarian Church, Burlington. Hirschfield International Film Series: Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall star in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind, 1956’s stylish soap opera of a drama concerning the son of a Texas oil tycoon. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. ‘Rip the Greens’: Green Mountain Rippers Films premieres its first full-length film, a look at completely man-powered backcountry snowboarding in Vermont. Reciprocity Studio, Burlington, 5:35 p.m. Free; space is limited; preregister. Info, 338-2807. ‘The Future’: A thirtysomething couple alter their lives to make room for a cat in Mirandy July’s 2011 imaginative comedy. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. Woodstock Film Festival: Winter Series: Movie buffs view Buck, a documentary about the American cowboy who inspired The Horse Whisperer, on the big screen in the museum’s theater. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $4-10. Info, 457-2355.

food & drink

Decadent Dessert Bash: Partygoers sample a smorgasbord of truffles, chocolate cake, fresh apple pie, cheeses and wines at a benefit for the opera house with live music by the Felix Klos Quartet. Vergennes Opera House, 8-10 p.m. $20-25; cash bar. Info, 877-6737, info@vergennesoperahouse.org.

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. Rhino Foods’ Benefit Sale: The sale of Vermont Velvet Cheesecakes, cookies, chocolate-coated pretzels and Chessters ice-cream sandwiches satisfies the sweet-toothed. Proceeds benefit the United Way of Chittenden County. Rhino Foods, Burlington, 9 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-0252. The Perfect Bird: Baffled by brining? Intimidated by trussing? Learning Center chef/instructor Donna Vartanian offers tried-and-true methods for impeccable poultry — plus classic bread stuffing and turkey gravy. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. ‘Viva las Artes!’ Benefit Dinner & Silent Auction: Frida’s Taqueria & Grill’s Jack Pickett and Josh Bard cook up a five-course meal to support River Arts programming. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 6-9:30 p.m. $65. Info, 888-1261. Waterbury Winter Farmers Market: Cultivators and their customers swap edible inspirations. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 279-4371, info@waterburyfarmersmarket.com. Wine & Food Festival: Vino lovers toast the season over wine and specialty-food tastings. Donations and partial proceeds benefit the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. Shelburne Vineyard, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; bring a nonperishable food donation. Info, 985-8222.

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After the Flood, There Will Be Dancing: Vermont choreographers join forces in a moving, multimedia response to excessive water. Discussion and light refreshments follow. Upstairs from the Warren Public Library, 8 p.m. Donations to mrvcommunityfund.org, the American Red Cross and vermont211.org are encouraged. Info, 310-467-5879. Going to Bat for Vermont Farmers: Baseball Roundtable: Some of the best minds in baseball — including Theo Epstein, Brian Cashman, Neal Huntington and Peter Gammons — answer questions about the sport to support the Vermont Farm Disaster Relief Fund. Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, cocktail hour, 5 p.m.; live music by the Plainfield Plowboys, 5:45 p.m.; roundtable, 6:30 p.m.; baseball memorabilia display, 8-9 p.m. $20-250. Info, eventinfo@battingforvermont.com. Holiday Vendor Fair: Swing by the bake sale in between stops at Pampered Chef and Lia Sophia booths. Partial proceeds go to United Methodist Committee on Relief’s Vermont flood-relief fund. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, St. Albans, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 752-0879. ‘More Than Gravel Was Stirred’: See FRI.11, 7:30 p.m. Music for Farms: John McDowell, Emmanuel Vukovich, Julia MacLaine and Evan Premo offer everything from Georgian love songs to tangos to Indian classical music. All proceeds benefit local farms that were affected by Tropical Storm Irene. See calendar spotlight. Green Mountain Girls’ Farm, Northfield, 4 p.m. Donations accepted; $7-15 for following farm supper. Info, 734-904-5401.

kids

‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’: See THU.10, 7 p.m.

Deer Hunters/Community Family Breakfast: Early — and we mean early — risers take a seat for a menu of bacon, sausages, pancakes, eggs, home fries and toast. Oh, yes — and coffee. Baptist Building, Fairfax, 4-9 a.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 849-6313.

Creatures of the Night: Walkers explore the forest and its nocturnal inhabitants by the light of the moon. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-8:30 p.m. $10-12 per adult/child pair; $4-5 for each additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

Food & Beer Pairing: Experts pair four courses of ethnic food — a Lebanese appetizer, a German soup, a French-Canadian main course and a Scottish dessert — with the right brew. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 5-7 p.m. $30 includes a souvenir tasting glass. Info, 456-7456, info@oldlaborhall.com.

Fairfax Tumble Time: Tots burn off some energy in an open gym. Special play area for infants provided.

Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. ‘Fall Into Winter’ Fair: A craft- and gift-making extravaganza takes place in the midst of a book sale, puppet shows, storytelling, face painting, guided hikes and more. Orchard Valley Waldorf School, East Montpelier, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free admission; cost of certain activities. Info, 456-7400. Family Portrait Session: To celebrate National Adoption Month, local adoptive families score a photo shoot with Karen Pike. Casey Family Services, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregistration required to reserve a slot. Info, 338-4713. Franklin Playgroup: Toddlers and their adult companions meet peers for tales and sing-alongs. Franklin Central School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Franklin Tumble Time: Athletic types stretch their legs in an empty gym. Franklin Central School, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Katherine & John Paterson: A Stone Age man hungry for power returns thousands of years later to wreak havoc on a universe of humans, fairies and animals in the coauthors’ adventure tale, The Flint Heart. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189. National Gaming Day: Kids who like to play amuse themselves with magic and Pokémon diversions, and more. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4655. Owl Crafts: Bird buddies have a hoot learning about the nocturnal hunters during an art session. Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-noon. $10-12 per parentchild pair; $5-6 per additional child. Info, 985-8686. Paul O. Zelinsky & Emily Jenkins: The illustrator and author share Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stingray, a Brave Buffalo and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic, their new collaboration about a toy adventure. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-3999. Saturday Family Drop-ins: Young artists of all ages gaze at the current exhibition, and make and take home a special piece of art. Parents must accompany their children. BCA Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 865-7166. ‘The Hobbit’: See THU.10, 2 p.m.

music

1964 ... The Tribute: With vintage costumes and practiced onstage mannerisms, the acclaimed Beatles tribute group delivers an uncanny impersonation of the Fab Four. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $28-32. Info, 476-8188. Antje Duvekot & Cheryl Wheeler: Two folk singer-songwriters share the stage. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $26.50-30. Info, 728-6464. Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble: Guest trumpeter Conrad Herwig collaborates with the band on the music of jazz giant Charles Mingus. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-16. Info, 603-646-2422. Bosnian Singing Workshop: Singers learn folk songs and instrumentalists pick up song introductions and breaks in this class led by Mary Cay Brass. Northgate Community Hall, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 849-6968. Capital City Concerts: The Czech Republic’s Talich Quartet contribute substantial works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Beethoven to a chamber-music series. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 793-9291, info@capitalcityconcerts.org. Gordon Stone Band: A genre-crossing master moves from bluegrass to country to funk to Latin on the banjo and pedal steel guitar. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $3-8. Info, 388-6863. Heloise & the Savoire Faire With DJ Disco Phantom: Late ’70s disco-punk meets ’80s synthpop in an electric, dance-inducing performance. BCA Center, Burlington, 8-11:55 p.m. $6; free for BCA members. Info, 865-5355. Iain MacHarg: Scottish bagpipes sound out as this accomplished musician plays the aerophone. Jaquith

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‘Fitz Loves Strindberg’: See THU.10, 7 p.m.

Itzhak Perlman & the Perlman Music Program: Orchestral & Choral Concert: Maestro Perlman conducts a 25-member string orchestra and maestro Patrick Romano conducts the PMP Master Singers. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $15-40; $250 for VIP tickets. Info, 760-4634.

‘Homesteaders’: See FRI.11, 7:30 p.m.

Kingdom Coffeehouse: Fiery jigs meet Celtic music and folklore from Vermont’s Wind That Shakes the Barley. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 723-6551, events@ northwoodscenter.org.

‘The Pillowman’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Mark LeGrand & Sarah Munro: Honky-tonk ditties fill the all-acoustic venue. Adamant Community Club, optional potluck, 5:30 p.m.; show, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 456-7054. Middlebury College Orchestra: Conductor Andrew Massey leads the student ensemble through major orchestral works. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. Montpelier Chamber Orchestra: Piano soloist Michael Arnowitt improvises in the style of Mozart during a concert of “Classic Classics” directed by Paul Gambill. College Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10-15; free for kids under 10. Info, 229-1501. 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. United Church of Hinesburg, 7:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 658-8488.

outdoors

Wagon Ride Weekend: Riders lounge in sweetsmelling hay on narrated, horse-drawn routes. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

seminars

Genealogy Workshop: Ancestry-interested folks drop by to learn about using familysearch.org and the records put online by Utah’s Family History Library, the largest genealogy repository in the world. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 238-5934.

Introduction to Microsoft Windows: Want to be tech savvy? Get an overview of the operating system used by all Microsoft Windows software programs. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

sport

‘Lend Me a Tenor’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’: See WED.09, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Good Woman of Setzuan’: See THU.10, 7:30 p.m.

words

Book Discussion Series: Earth Tones: Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea Wind explores how to live in harmony with nature. Varnum Memorial Library, Jeffersonville, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 644-6632. Book Launch: Mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses mushrooms with regard to his recent book, Fascinating Fungi of New England. After the discussion and book signing, he’ll lead a local foray. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 1-4:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-6206. Booked for Lunch: Mark Pendergrast discusses his nonfiction work, Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon. Donations accepted; bring a bag lunch, cookies and beverages provided. Info, 865-7211. Catamount Trail Association Author Reading: Birkebeiner: A Story of Motherhood and War author Jeff Foltz shares passages and answers questions after a short Catamount Trail business meeting. Green Mountain Club Headquarters, Waterbury Center, 3-5 p.m. Free; space is limited; preregister. Info, 8645794, intern@catamounttrail.org. Megan Price: The author of Vermont Wild: Adventures of Vermont Fish & Game Wardens, Volumes 1 and 2 shares her latest tales of wildlife watching. Phoenix Books, Essex, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. RealityFix: Participants spin true tales to build community. The event also serves as a campaign rally for Burlington mayoral candidate Jason Lorber. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 310-8265.

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agriculture

Indoor Gardening Workshop: Gardening guru Peter Burke teaches locavores the steps to harvesting fresh greens in seven to 10 days with only a cupboard and a windowsill. City Market, Burlington, 11 a.m.noon. $10; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

bazaars

Antiques Market: Treasure hunters find bargains among collections of old furniture, art, books and more, supplied by up to 20 dealers from the New England area. Elks Club, Montpelier, $5 for early buyers (7:30 a.m.); $2 for the general public (9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.). Info, 751-6138.

The Great Turkey Chase: Shopping list in hand, cyclists pedal to multiple grocery stores to pick up food for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, with the goal of creating Thanksgiving dinner for a family in need. See calendar spotlight. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Donations accepted; bring $15 to purchase food along the way. Info, 347-647-0371.

Student Choreography Showcase Series: Dance-composition students Hannah Brown, Erin Duffee, Samantha Ethridge, Dylan Friedman, Carlyn Levy, Kaleigh Mulpeter, Tierney Munger, Chelsea Ryll and Dan Yablonsky unveil brand-new works. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6567776, paul.besaw@uvm.edu.

talks

IndieCon Panel: Building a Global Music Community: Panelists Jacob Edgar, Jordon Mensha, Dev Jana and Eric Sample explore globalization, technology and the future of music in the context of making worldwide connections from Vermont. BCA Center, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

‘Art’: See THU.10, 7:30 p.m. ‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.09, 7:30 p.m. ‘Breaking E.D.E.N.’: See FRI.11, 8 p.m.

dance

‘The Hedgehog’: See FRI.11, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

food & drink

Spaghetti Dinner: Plates of sauce-smothered, stringy pasta benefit local veterans and their families. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 3-6 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 518-643-4580.

games

Burlington-Area Scrabble Club: Tripleletter-square seekers spell out winning words. New players welcome. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7558.

health & fitness

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. Walk to Help Rachel Live: A short jaunt raises funds for Burlington resident Rachel Phillips, who is in need of a rare transplant surgery in order to live. All donations go to her medical recovery fund. Chace Mill, Burlington, 1 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 448-1610.

irene benefits

‘More Than Gravel Was Stirred’: See FRI.11, 2 p.m. Music for Farms: See SAT.12, Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 4 p.m. Donations accepted; community pie potluck follows.

kids

Family Portrait Session: See SAT.12, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

language

Dimanches: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

music

Alex Alvear & Mango Blue: An Afro-Latin music ensemble swirls together batá drumming, Changüí, salsa, reggae and other multicultural traditions. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $16-20. Info, 863-5966. Dartmouth College Glee Club: Gleeks concentrate on Bach’s Magnificat and the works of his contemporaries. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $5-18. Info, 603-646-2422. Folk & Traditional Music Series: PossumHaw unleash authentic bluegrass and folk ditties. Brandon Music, 2-4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 465-4071. Martin Luther King Jr. Spiritual Choir Performance: Alexander Twilight Artist-inResidence François Clemmons leads songs and spirituals. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3268. Mike Gordon: The multi-instrumentalist best known as Phish’s bassist shows off his solo style with music from his most recent release, Moss. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $25-38. Info, 603-448-0400.

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Montpelier Chamber Orchestra: See SAT.12, 4 p.m.

Waitsfield Ski & Skate Sale: See SAT.12, 9 a.m.

Sierra Marcy: Michael Halloran accompanies the South Burlington soprano in “My Favorite Things,” an annual voice recital. Recital Hall, McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 3 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-0696.

film

Social Band: See SAT.12, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 3 p.m.

‘Heroes of the Holocaust: Courage and Faith in Action’ Film Series: Edward Zwick’s Defiance recounts the story of four brothers who aided Jews in

‘The Music of Billy Joel’: Central Vermont musician Chris Smith and friends evoke all the charm of “The Piano Man” in favorite ballads, a cappella arrangements and masterful pop alike. Proceeds support the Randolph-area food shelf. Chandler Music

Children’s Memorial Service: Families, friends, health-care providers and community members gather to remember the loss of a child. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info, 847-4880.

‘Ask Us Who We Are’: See WED.09, Unitarian Church, Montpelier.

University Concert Band: Students jam out under the direction of professor D. Thomas Toner. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. Vermont Gregorian Chant Schola: Organist William Tortolano directs a multilingual choral concert, in which men give voice to liturgical music as well as works by Mozart, des Pres and Tallis. St. Mary’s Church, St. Albans, 3 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 527-7775. Winter Music Series: Five-piece ensemble Full Circle thread together medieval, renaissance, and traditional songs, dances, and carols. United Church of Westford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 879-4028.

outdoors

Wagon Ride Weekend: See SAT.12, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

sport

Women’s Pickup Soccer: Ladies of all ages and abilities break a sweat while passing around the spherical polyhedron. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, 862-5091.

talks

Fairfax Historical Society Meeting: Attendees look at the bygone days of turn-of-the-century Vermont orphan trains. Fairfax Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

theater

‘Art’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. ‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.09, 5 p.m. ‘Breaking E.D.E.N.’: See FRI.11, 2 p.m. ‘Hairspray’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. ‘Homesteaders’: See FRI.11, 2 p.m. ‘Lend Me a Tenor’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. ‘North and South’: Local actors give voice to Vermont playwright Tom Blachly’s work about the political crisis of the 1850s in a staged reading. The author and cast welcome feedback after the performance. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3955. ‘The Good Woman of Setzuan’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD Encore: Lake Placid Center for the Arts: Mariusz Kwiecien stars in a broadcast screening of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 4 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Spaulding Auditorium: Gary Lehman stars in a broadcast screening of Wagner’s Siegfried. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., noon. $10-29.50. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘The Pillowman’: See THU.10, 2 p.m.

MON.14 dance

West Coast Swing Dance Lessons: Dancers do a twirl to blues, pop and funk tunes. No partner required. Middlebury Fitness, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 388-3744.

etc.

Do-It-Yourself Gift Giving: Community herbalist Dana L. Woodruff demos how to whip up affordable presents such as lip balm and bath salts. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com. Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week: Community members help fill empty shoe boxes with school supplies, toys, hygiene items and notes of encouragement for overseas youngsters in need. Essex Alliance Church, 8:30-11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 878-8213.

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winooski holiday pop-up art market: See SAT.12, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

‘Play Time’: The bumbling Monsieur Hulot wanders around a very high-tech Paris in Jacques Tati’s 1967 comedy filled with sound effects instead of dialogue. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

The Phineas Gage Project: Groove-filled originals and favorite cover tunes come from this three-piece acoustic folk-funk band. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 2-3:45 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4962.

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International Holiday Market: See SAT.12, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

‘Higher Ground’: See FRI.11, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

Hall, Randolph, 3-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 728-3164, csmith19@hotmail.com.

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Run Your Can Off!: Joggers make as many 1.25mile loops as they like on a forest trail to support the local food shelf. Gilbrook Natural Area, Winooski, registration, 8 a.m.; run, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Donations of food, toiletries, cleaning supplies and condiments accepted. Info, 233-9992, runyourcanoff@yahoo.com.

Poland during World War II. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 6560750, perb26@comcast.net.

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IndieCon Workshop: Music for Independent Games: Champlain College assistant professor in the electronic games department Dev Jana demonstrates the inner workings of the indie-game world, as well as how to create music for games and find an audience. BCA Center, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

‘Hairspray’: See THU.10, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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Ciné Salon: A series devoted to 16mm film seeks to enlighten with “100 Films to See Before It’s Too Late.” This week, viewers explore clips with a common theme: “Truth Found at the Bottom of the Well.” Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120. ‘Higher Ground’: See FRI.11, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Hedgehog’: See FRI.11, 5:30 p.m. ‘The Trip’: When his girlfriend backs out, a restaurant critic is forced to bring his obnoxious best friend along on a tour of the English countryside in Michael Winterbottom’s 2010 comedy. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 748-2600.

health & fitness

Beginning Hot Yoga: See WED.09, 5-6 p.m. 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. Herbs to Support Mood & Energy in the Darker Days: Herbalist Guido Masé suggests safe plants to use for gentle reinforcement as the sunlight hours decrease and the weather cools. City Market, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. Tai Chi for Seniors: See FRI.11, 10-11 a.m. Women’s Strength & Conditioning Class: See WED.09, 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.

kids

4-H Special Interest Program: See THU.10, 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.

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Music With Raphael: See THU.10, 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.

sport

Coed Dodgeball: Players break a sweat chucking and sidestepping foam balls at this friendly pickup competition. Arrive early to form teams. Orchard School, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5. Info, 598-8539.

talks

Pete Johnson: The Pete’s Greens owner looks ahead in “Creating a Farm for the Future.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Tony Pipolo: In “Idealized and Shattered Identities in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind,” the psychoanalyst and emeritus professor of film at the City University of New York looks at the irony and excesses of the American cinema classic. Room 232, Axinn Center at Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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words

Book Discussion Series: How They Lived: Giorgio Vassari’s The Lives of the Artists illuminates a bygone era. Heineberg Community & Senior Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. 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.

stability. RehabGYM, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 876-6000.

Shape & Share Life Stories: Prompts trigger true tales, which are crafted into compelling narratives and read aloud. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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.

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Tai Chi: Easy, intentional poses for intermediates increase qì, or energy flow, in a four-week cycle. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 881-5210.

community

Neighborhood Improvement Night: Get a say on your ’hood! Folks in Wards 4 and 7 weigh in on PlanBTV — Downtown & Waterfront at a neighborhood planning assembly. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7193.

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.

environment

Energy Series: The Mad River Valley Planning District focuses on biomass and hot water in the fourth of a five-part series. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994.

etc.

Art & Storytelling in Civic Engagement: Artists, community planners and civic-minded citizens share “Stories of Art-Powered Community Change: How Starksboro, Vt., Tapped the Arts to Fuel a Better Future.” Holley Hall, Bristol, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-6336.

Tai Chi for Seniors: See THU.10, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

kids

Spend Smart: See WED.09, Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m.

Alburgh Playgroup: Tots form friendships over stories, songs and crafts. Nonmarking sneakers/ shoes required. Alburgh Elementary School, 9:15-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. 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. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. Georgia Playgroup: Provided snacks offer an intermission to free play. Georgia Youth Center, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Highgate Story Hour: See WED.09, 10-11 a.m.

Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week: See MON.14, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Rutland Economic Development Corporation Annual Meeting: A handful of award winners are honored for their work encouraging and enhancing successful business in Rutland County. Rutland Country Club, noon. $30; preregister. Info, 773-9147, info@rutlandeconomy.com.

Music With Robert: Music lovers of all ages engage in sing-alongs. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. North Hero Pajama Story Time: Listeners show up with blankets for bedtime tales. North Hero Public Library, 6-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

film

Science & Stories: Migration: Kids have aha! moments regarding the reasons why some birds fly south and others weather a cold Vermont winter. 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.

‘Dirt! The Movie’: Jamie Lee Curtis narrates this 2009 documentary about the often underappreciated ground we walk on. Bring your own cup and bowl; popcorn and cider provided. Municipal Building, Milton, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1186 or 8728100, ext. 234. ‘Higher Ground’: See FRI.11, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Hedgehog’: See FRI.11, 5:30 p.m. ‘The Maltese Falcon’: The Catamount Community Film Series brings old Hollywood favorites back to the big screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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.

‘The Wizard of Oz’: Dorothy Gale and her little dog, too, get lifted somewhere over the rainbow in this 1939 MGM classic starring Judy Garland. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018, mariah@ mainstreetlanding.com.

Story Time for Tots: Three- to 5-year-olds savor stories, songs, crafts and company. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 482-2878.

food & drink

language

The Pennywise Pantry: On a tour of the store, shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

health & fitness

Active Against Cancer: Author and cancer survivor Nancy Brennan lists the benefits of exercise during recovery. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com. Alzheimer’s Education Program: Folks gain a basic understanding of memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, from causes and risk factors to treatment and hope for the future. Starr Farm Nursing Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800-272-3900. Balance Assessment & Fall Prevention: Feeling shaky? This seminar addresses mobility and

AARP Safe Driver Course: Motor vehicle operators ages 50 and up take a quick trip to the classroom — with no tests and no grades! — for a how-to refresher. Trinity Episcopal Church, Shelburne, 10 a.m. $12-14; preregister. Info, 372-8511 or 483-6335. Parent Education: Caretakers focus on the challenges and changes faced by 14- to 21-year-olds in “Strong Tides: Adolescent Development and Waldorf Education.” Orchard Valley Waldorf School, East Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 456-7400.

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, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-0043.

Community Bike Shop Night: See THU.10, 6-8 p.m.

seminars

Toddler Story Time: Tots 3 and under discover the wonder of words. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 9:30-10 a.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.

Pause Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Levity, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

music

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. Noontime Concert Series: Violinist Kevin Lawrence and pianist Robert Rachlin duet up for works by Copland and Foote. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0471. University Symphony Orchestra: Professor Yutaka Kono conducts student musicians in a classical concert. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

Vermont Lobbying & Communications Bootcamp: Experienced legislative operators help train nonprofit staff members, activists, community leaders and small-business owners to increase their profile and influence the Vermont state legislature. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 862-1645, ext. 21, ncarter@cctv.org.

talks

Behind-the-Scenes Lunch & Discussion: ‘The Art of Success’: Director Richard Romagnoli and members of the cast and crew share insights on the upcoming comedy. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 12:30 p.m. Free to college ID cardholders; community donations accepted; lunch is provided. Info, 443-3168. 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. Making Government Benefits Work for You: Play a financial planner: Folks learn to improve the potential lifetime benefits of Social Security and get the most out of government benefits. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790. UVM Extension Dairy Biosecurity Public Issues Forum on Community Preparedness: What would happen if a highly contagious animal disease threatened Vermont livestock? The UVM Extension Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s biosecurity project team explores how Vermont’s agricultural industries and communities can stay strong. Middlebury Ambulance Center, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 497-1236.

theater

An Evening with Garrison Keillor: The radio star of “A Prairie Home Companion” shares anecdotes about the midwest, the fictional residents of Lake Wobegon and fatherhood. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $59.50-109.50. Info, 603-448-0400. ‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.09, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Kitchen’: Romance and drama build as chefs, waitresses and porters race to keep up with demand in the kitchen of a massive restaurant in 1950s London in the latest broadcast from National Theatre of London. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512.

words

Beach Conger: The author’s funny and poignant tales in It’s Probably Nothing: More Adventures of a Vermont Country Doctor juxtapose practicing medicine in rural Vermont and in inner-city Philadelphia. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. 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. Bryan Alexander: The Ripton author of The New Digital Storytelling: Creative Narratives With New Media looks into the modern expression of an ancient art. 51 Main, Middlebury, 5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061. Jim Stapleton & Diana Bigelow: The husbandand-wife team weaves together songs and stories in “Return to the Sanctuary,” part of the Lawrence Memorial Library’s yearlong centennial celebration. Federated Church, Bristol, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted for the library. Info, 453-5060.

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Winooski holiDay pop-up art markEt: See SAT.12, noon-8 p.m.

business

kEllEy markEting mEEting: Marketing, advertising, communications, social-media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Nonprofits seeking help apply online. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495.

conferences

VErmont BusinEssEs for social rEsponsiBility fall confErEncE: Workshops, conversations, business exhibits and networking revolve around the theme of “Resiliency in Uncertain Times: Socially Responsible Businesses Working Collaboratively.” Grand Summit Resort Hotel, West Dover, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $25-100. Info, 862-8347, ritab@vbsr.org.

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‘highEr grounD’: See FRI.11, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. inDEpEnDEnt lEns sEriEs: 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. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘thE conVErsation’: While on a shady assignment with plenty of allusions to Watergate, a surveillance expert becomes paranoid that the couple he’s spying on will be murdered in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘thE forgottEn BomB’: Folks screen Bud Ryan’s documentary, which features extensive interviews with bomb survivors, scientists and politicians in an examination of ongoing nuclear destruction and radiation. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 238-4927. ‘thE hEDgEhog’: See FRI.11, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.

canDy-canE-making DEmo: Confectioners boil, pull, turn, roll and twist striped seasonal sweets. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 11 a.m. Free to watch; $6 to make your own (preregister). Info, 253-9591. mythBusting gmos: NOFA Vermont’s Dave Rogers and City Market’s Clem Nilan discuss the realities of our food system regarding genetically engineered crops. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

health & fitness

sErEnity yoga: See WED.09, 6-7 p.m. WomEn’s strEngth & conDitioning class: See WED.09, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

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BaBytimE: See WED.09, 10:30 a.m.-noon. EnosBurgh playgroup: See WED.09, 9-11 a.m. highgatE story hour: See WED.09, 11:15 a.m.12:15 p.m. lEgo cluB: See WED.09, 3-3:45 p.m. miDDlE school Book group: See WED.09, 3:304:30 p.m. miDDlEBury toDDlEr story hour: See WED.09, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

music

minimalist BassoonfEst With stEVE rEich: The celebrated composer appears in a matinee concert

WorlD music pErcussion EnsEmBlE: The Hop ensemble celebrates “The Sounds of Brazil: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” with special guests David Newsam and Luã Yvys Kirk Mattar, and dancers. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-16. Info, 603-646-2422.

seminars

spEnD smart: See WED.09, 10 a.m.-noon.

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ccV lEcturE sEriEs: Faculty presenter Eva Zimet helps build communication and shared context in “Unmixing Our Messages: How Do I Misunderstand Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. china toWn hall: local connEctions, national rEflEctions: Fifty U.S. cities participate in a day of programming on China. University of North Carolina’s Christine E. Boyle speaks about “Understanding China’s Water Crisis: Perils and Progress in North China” at 4:30 p.m. Former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski participates in a webcast at 7 p.m. A Middlebury College panel follows at 7:45 p.m. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5795. hoWarD coffin: In “Vermont and the Civil War,” the historian and author offers a very local history. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 888-7617. ‘sustainaBlE transportation altErnatiVEs’: Mark Smith, senior project manager at Resource Systems Group, kicks off a presentation and discussion about getting around by addressing the state’s first Complete Streets Project. Talks by Matthew Robinson, Jan McCleery and Nadine Canter Barnicle follow. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-3141.

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Book Discussion: thE gEnius of mark tWain: Bibliophiles consider the man also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in a chat about Pudd’nhead Wilson. Hartland Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2473. Dan choDorkoff: See WED.09, Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. stEphEn russEll paynE: In his debut novel, Cliff Walking, the Vermont writer sets a tale of loss and love on the rocky coast of Maine. Phoenix Books, Essex, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. m

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moVing & grooVing With christinE: See WED.09, 11-11:30 a.m.

VallEy night: The Phineas Gage Project grace the lounge with grassicana originals and covers. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.

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stEVE rEich: The New York Times called this 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music winner “one of the most important living composers.” He’ll discuss his boundarybreaking compositions during a short concert, followed by a reception. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1498.

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piano rEcital: Students of Diana Fanning prove their keyboard command. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

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craft 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: 4827194, access@cvuhs.org, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access. Make your own durable, beautiful Hula-Hoop out of high-quality materials. Join Carolyn in this one-night 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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AFROHOUSEHOP W/ SOUL NUBIAN: Intermediate Adults & Teens, Sat., Nov. 12, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $15/class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynnarts@ flynncenter.org, flynnarts. org. 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. Info: 652-4537, flynnarts@ flynncenter.org, flynnarts. org. 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 show-stopping pizzazz. Challenge yourself in this one-day intensive for intermediate and FLYNN ARTS

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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

weekend, incl. lunch & snacks both days. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. Learn six proven ways to access your inner wisdom and discover your personal intuitive style. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author, with over 30 years of experience in Jungian analysis, dreamwork and leading adult programs. Limited to 12 students.

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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! 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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BLISSBORN CHILDBIRTH HYPNOSIS: Classes meet in Burlington on Sat., 6:30-8:30 p.m., beginning Nov. 19. Classes meet in Montpelier on Sun., 6-8 p.m., beginning Nov. 20. Cost: $260/5 2-hr. classes. Materials incl in cost. Location: South End Studio (Burlington); Yoga Mountain Center (Montpelier), 696 Pine St. Burlington; 7 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Unfolding Joy Hypnotherapy, Lauren Akin, 505-228-3741, LaurenAkin.CHt@gmail. com, hypnosisforjoy. com. A five-class series that combines powerful self-hypnosis techniques with childbirth education

to control pain, dissolve fears, and empower mothers to envision and create their perfect birth experience. Come learn the 100% natural way to enjoy (yes, enjoy!) a birth that’s relaxed, calm and connected. Partners, midwives or doulas are free to attend at no extra charge.

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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 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 eightweek 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. 15Oct. 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 dropin 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.

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advanced dancers, and tell your friends that there’s only one degree of separation between you and Bob Fosse! PACIFIC ISLANDS SONG & DANCE: Adults & Teens, Thu., Nov. 17, 7-8:30 p.m. Cost: $18/class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynnarts@ flynncenter.org, flynnarts.org. 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. ACTOR TRAINING WORKSHOP: LECOQ TECHNIQUE W/ CONOR LOVETT: Intermediate Adults & Teens, Tue., Nov. 15, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $40/ class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynnarts. org, flynnarts.org. 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 oneman ‘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

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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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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: Open House, Saturday, Dec. 3, 1-3 p.m. at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Winter Ecology Walks with George will be announced on our Facebook page or join our email list or call us. Wisdom of the Herbs 2012: April 21-22, May 19-20, June 16-17, July 14-15, August 11-12, September 8-9, October 6-7 & November 3-4, 2012. Wild Edibles Intensive 2012: Spring/Summer Term: May 27, June 24 and July 22, 2012 and Summer/ Fall Term: August 19, September 16 and October 14, 2012. 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.

holistic health 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, 8629785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido for Children (ages 6-12) at Vermont Aikido. Class starts October 29. Saturday mornings, 9:3010:30. $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: 660-4072, Julio@bjjusa. com, vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian JiuJitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian JiuJitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian JiuJitsu 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 time-tested Ving Tsun system, simple principles work with any body type. Free introductory class.

meditation 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 Friday 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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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, 985-9580, 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.

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 slowmoving 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.

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he 1990s are often namechecked as a high point in the Burlington music scene, but the following decade proved equally fertile for local music. Some of the city’s most memorable and beloved acts emerged during the early 2000s, including Swale, the Cush, the Jazz Guys, RAQ and even a bar band called Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. About halfway through that decade, a slowly fermenting underground scene started bubbling up. Art spaces such as the Narthex House and the Green Door Studio began hosting shows that felt more like intimate parties with live music. Later, the Fifth Element, the Bakery and other nontraditional venues offered solace to outsider acts that had much smaller audiences than, say, Grateful Dead cover bands at Nectar’s. A band called Nest Material was at the center of those early days of Burlington’s creative music underground. (According to some sources, they may have been the entire creative music underground.) Started by a group of friends who wanted to make something “chaotic” together, Nest Material aimed to play — and listen — in the moment. The seven-person collective played traditional rock instruments, as well as bassoons, oboes, saxophones, synthesizers, percussion, loops, turntables and various other noisemakers. They drew from krautrock, psych folk, free jazz, contemporary classical, noise rock and beyond to produce an unclassifiable riot of sound. Their complex and challenging music often displayed breathtaking openness and visceral emotion — with dulcimer. Nest Material recorded the madness on several albums, including two 2006 long players, Metaphysical Graffiti and Radio Kinetics. While their music was unlike that of any other Burlington band, Nest Material’s story arc is familiar: A bunch of friends practiced and gigged around town for a couple of years, did some recording and then slowly fell apart. Some members moved to far-off cities. Others stayed in Burlington. This Friday, November 11, they’ll reunite for a one-off gig to celebrate drummer JB Ledoux’s 30th birthday. Several band members recently answered questions about their collaborative creative process and what they learned from the experience. What follows is a short oral history of Nest Material from members of the band, as well as insight from friends and musicians Greg Davis and Toby Aronson, and former Seven Days mu-

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sic editor Casey Rae-Hunter, who wrote about the band during its heyday. In the Beginning “I don’t remember how the band came together exactly, but I do remember we were very intent on making something chaotic. I know someone was playing an alarm clock radio at the first practice.” —Ben Hedstrom, guitar “… It seemed that every practice we had was a type of musical discussion.” — Sarah Rubbins-Breen, trombone “Everybody just went into it with their own influences and their own idea of what they wanted to do, and kind of threw it all together in a pot and let it duke its way out.” — Tanner McCuin, synthesizers “They just wanted to run a turntable backwards and fart on a synthesizer for hours at a time, and I was like, ‘Well, I have a drum set. What am I supposed to do?’” — JB Ledoux, drums, percussion The Burlington Scene Before Nest Material “There was absolutely no experimental music scene at all. ... The closest thing was maybe some of [Signal to Noise editor] Pete Gershon’s free jazz concerts that he did from time to time.” — Greg Davis, electronic composer and musician “I think a very small percentage of the

DJ community was exploring out-electronica, but it was by and large beat-driven sound collage and nothing terribly out there ... Some portions of the jazz scene were pretty progressive, but there was really no center to things.” — Casey RaeHunter, former Seven Days music editor Playing Out “They could play a really mellow, beautiful acoustic set in the 1/2 Lounge, where people were playing slide whistles, and then they could have these freakout things where they’re throwing shit around and screaming and getting naked.” —Toby Aronson “I felt like I never really existed in the physical realm of Nest Material. I was always like a little birdie floating above. All [the] guys were, like, doing beats and rhythms and chords and stuff, and I was just like bee-de-be-dee-dee [makes bird saxophone sounds].” — Sara-Paule Koeller “Playing alongside both really learned and experienced musicians, as well as amateur noisemakers, made me realize that emotion was at least as important as talent, maybe more so.” — JB Ledoux Changes “Once it became a thing, we all started to have an idea of what that thing was, and it was a little different for everybody. In-

stead of listening more, we all tried to direct more.” — Tanner McCuin “In retrospect, it’s fairly obvious that even the littlest amount of conscious thought that made its way into our music probably damaged it to some degree. Controlling the indulgence of consciousness in our music played heavily into the creative process for better and worse.” — Ben Hedstrom “When there’s seven people in a band, one of them is always moving for school.” — JB Ledoux Looking Back “Nest Material changed the way I listen to music, because I no longer needed a four-on-the-floor rock band to get me off. I could listen to complex improv or simple synth drones and still get the same enjoyment.” — JB Ledoux “It affirmed a lot of what I suspected about music: That it’s difficult, that it challenges you, takes you out of your comfort zone. It could be a lot to do with the type of music we were playing: improvisational noise/rock in front of a live audience. Sometimes you’d hit your stride and it was like you couldn’t hit a bad note, other times it was nothing but sour notes ... It could be unnerving.” — Tanner McCuin “I felt like there was a really nice spirit and community around what they were doing at the time. They were all good friends of mine and they’ve mostly all moved away since then, so I have fond memories. But really there wasn’t much of an experimental music scene in Burlington, before or after Nest Material.” — Greg Davis

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the day, UVM faculty and students will perform Reich’s “Clapping Music” along with minimalist compositions from a number of other composers at the Davis Center. After chatting with the Rosewood thieves front man, eRick JoRdan, for a piece in last week’s column, I was really curious to know how the reconfigured band’s two-night stand opening for state Radio at the Higher Ground Ballroom went last weekend. Unable to attend myself, I dispatched a spy to the Friday-night gig. Her assessment: “Ahhhhhmazing.” Thanks, mystery woman. Speaking of Higher Ground, following up last Thursday’s acoustic performance, gypsy punks GoGol BoRdello again take to the Ballroom stage this Thursday, November 10, for a full-on electrified performance. What’s notable is that Gogol front man euGene hutz has tabbed bands fronted by two of his old B-town pals to open the show: JaMes kochalka suPeRstaR and Blue Button.

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on the same stage, I’m not gonna do that. Instead, I’ll simply harp on Cooley to finish his band’s fucking debut album already. When you see them this week, you’ll understand why I’m so anxious. Speaking of long-awaited new albums, heloise williaMs … what the hell? The discorock diva has been promising her new record with the savoiR FaiRe for what seems like an eternity now — OK, it’s only been, like, a year. But still. Anyway, this Saturday, November 12, Heloise and company plan to debut some tunes from that forthcoming record at the BCA Center in Burlington. dJ disco PhantoM opens.

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Band Name of the Week: The diRtY Blondes. Kinda cheating here, as the Dirty Blondes have been around for a long, long time. In fact, they’ve even won a few Seven Daysies awards for Best Vermont Band — which I’m sure is in no way related to the fact that vocalist diane sullivan works for Seven

Days. Nope. Nothing fishy about that at all … ahem. Aaaanyway, this week, the hard-partying Blondes improbably celebrate their 12th anniversary with a show at Club Metronome they’ve dubbed “The Dirty Dozen: 12 Years of Explosive Rock.” Of course, in an annoying twist of scheduling fate, the show is the same frigging night as Gogol Bordello at HG. In fact, the Blondes have challenged Hutz and Co. to a rumble on Main Street later that evening. By the way, I’m setting the odds on that melee at three-toone in favor of the Blondes. Seriously, I would not mess with those cats, and Hutz is surprisingly slight in person. Also slated to appear, rockers shaRk victiM, Gas & oil and two previous BNOTW winners: dino BRavo and cRazYheaRse.

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Regular readers are undoubtedly familiar with JKS, but they may not know that, once upon a time, Hutz was a member of that band — though in fairness, I’m pretty sure anyone who played music in Burlington in the 1990s was in JKS at some point. The thoroughly asskicking Blue Button is the latest and perhaps greatest project from Jason cooleY, who, once upon the exact same time, was the bass player for Hutz’s legendary B-town punk band, the FaGs. See where I’m going here? Clearly, this would be the point in the column where I shamelessly beg for a Fags reunion. And though it would make sense, what with two-thirds of the lineup

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MonoPoLE: steven smith Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

oLivE riDLEy's: Karaoke with Benjamin Bright and Ashley Kollar, 6 p.m., Free. tabu CaFé & nigHtCLub: Karaoke Night with sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

HigHEr grounD baLLrooM: The machine (Pink Floyd tribute), 9 p.m., $20/23. AA. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: matthew & the Atlas, David mayfield Parade, Laura shera (Americana), 7:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LEvity: Friday Night comedy (standup), 8 p.m., $5. LiFt: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. DJ AJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: 2nd Agenda (rebel folk), 9:30 p.m., Free. Marriott Harbor LoungE: simply Acoustic, 8:30 p.m., Free. MonkEy HousE: Nest material, Ryan Power, Wirefall, DJ Greg Davis (experimental), 9 p.m., $5. nECtar's: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Roots of creation, sophistafunk (reggae, rock), 9 p.m., $5. on taP bar & griLL: Leno & Young (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., Free. Justice (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

rí rá irisH Pub: Longford Row (irish), 8 p.m., Free.

raDio bEan: Joe Adler Album Release (singer-songwriter), 11:11 a.m., Free. The Rusty Doves (old-time), 4 p.m., Free. Tumbling Bones (folk), 7:30 p.m., Free. Linda Bassick cD Release (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. sarah Lee Guthrie (folk), 11 p.m., Free. Darwin (hip-hop), midnight, Free.

tHE skinny PanCakE: Live music, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

rasPutin's: DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $3.

rED squarE: DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 9 p.m., Free.

vEnuE: Karaoke with steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.

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tHEraPy: Threesome Thursdays with DJ Deuces (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LoungE: The Peterman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

tHE bLaCk Door: The Heckhounds (blues), 6:30 p.m., $5.

baCkstagE Pub: Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free.

grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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

sLiDE brook LoDgE & tavErn: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free. DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Franny o's: Groove Thing (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

rED squarE: Aaron Flinn (rock), 5 p.m., Free. starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 9 p.m., $5. rED squarE bLuE rooM: DJ stavros (house), 10 p.m., $5. rubEn JaMEs: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. rí rá irisH Pub: supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free. FRi.11

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battle at 1/2 Lounge this Wednesday, November 9. This is actually the third such title match between the veteran area turntablists. Rounds one and two were reportedly both draws. So I’m giving even odds here, though, based purely on strength of jokey nicknames, the smart money is on Jockey Balboa (Fattie B) over Apollo Creed (Mitchell), the latter of which is literally the name of the character in the Rocky movies and thus loses points for lack of punny ingenuity. Sorry, Craig. Songwriter JOE ADLER has a new record in hand, which he plans to release at Radio Bean this Thursday, November 11, 2011 at — wait for it — 11:11 a.m. Anybody wanna guess how many songs are on it?

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recent email, Concklin writes that FP won’t abandon the artistic values set forth by Mushpost, but that those shows will be geared more toward a “good ol’ fashioned party.” See for yourself this Wednesday, November 16, when Filthington Prep presents FIGURE with the KILLABITS at the Higher Ground Ballroom. What do JOSHUA PANDA and POISON’s BRET MICHAELS have in common? If you said “sleazy reality TV show” … you’re an idiot. Oddly enough, the two singers will soon share a stage. No, really. Both Panda and Michaels will appear at a veterans’ benefit in Westfield, N.Y., this Friday, November 11. Curious to know more? Ask Panda all about it when he plays a benefit closer to home for the Savoy Theater the following night, Saturday, November 12, at Montpelier City Hall with the MARTIN GUIGUI ALL STAR BAND and TOWER OF POWER’s ELLIS HALL. And while we’re in the capital city, I’m happy to report the recent Stomp and Smash Irene benefit with

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16, will be more than worth checking out. Last but not least, happy birthday, WBKM. The online radio station and purveyors of “Burlington’s Kinda Music” turns 4 this Saturday, November 12, with a birthday bash at Nectar’s featuring SETH YACOVONE and the BOOK ’EM BLUES BAND. Swing by early for an acoustic set from ANDY LUGO, who is releasing his latest solo EP, Loved Ones.

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MOOG'S: The Merge (rock), 9 p.m., Free. PARKER PIE CO.: Great Brook Blues Band, 8 p.m., Free. RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. Suncooked (folk rock), 5 p.m., Free. Coba Stella (trip-hop), 9 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5.

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RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Kenny Mehler Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE: Sinecure (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Live Music, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Benjamin Bright (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Neil Gillespie (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free.

VENUE: Live Music (country), 9 p.m., $5.

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

BACKSTAGE PUB: Night Train (rock), 9 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

inspiration. Just as her father, Arlo, and grandfather, Woody, did in previous eras, songwriter SARAH LEE GUTHRIE seems poised to become the voice of disillusioned Americans. Bright Examples, her latest

album with husband JOHNNY IRION, is a cosmic-folk opus sonically removed from the traditional folkie aesthetic associated with her musical family’s name. But it still bristles with hope and moments of good, old-fashioned populist fervor. This Friday, November 11, Guthrie and Irion occupy Burlington’s Radio Bean with the WINTERPILLS and MARYSE SMITH & THE ROSESMITHS. FRI.11

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BAGITOS: John Mowab (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free. THE BLACK DOOR: Justin Levinson Band (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5. CHARLIE O'S: Monolith (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Ian Thomas (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

CITY LIMITS: Toast (rock), 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Garrin Benfield (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Donations.

POSITIVE PIE 2: Lava Moss (rock), 10:30 p.m., $3. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: DJ Slim Pknz All Request Dance Party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Happy Hour with Last October (folk), 4:30 p.m., Free. ’80s Throwback Night with DJ Jam Man, 10 p.m., Free.

TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Catie Curtis (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $25. AA.

northern

BEE'S KNEES: Karen Krajecic & Jon Rose (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

champlain valley

51 MAIN: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Mogani (Latin jazz), 9 p.m., Free.

MATTERHORN: Nerbak Brothers (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Trampled by Turtles, Johnny Corndawg (rock, country), 8:30 p.m., $15. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Barefoot Truth (acoustic), 7 p.m., $12/15/20. AA. Barefoot Truth (rock), 10:30 p.m., $12/15/20. AA.

the United States finds itself mired in a profound social and political divide, we look to heroes for

BAGITOS: Irish Session, 2 p.m., Free. Nancy Smith (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free.

CHARLIE O'S: The Move It Move It (Afro-pop), 10 p.m., Free.

burlington area

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central

THE BLACK DOOR: Darwin (indie, hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., $5.

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RASPUTIN'S: Nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

THE PINES: Jeanne & the Hi-Tops (r&b), 9 p.m., $5. THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 10 p.m., Free. TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Duke Robillard Band (blues), 8 p.m., $25. AA.

champlain valley

51 MAIN: Afro-Zep & Seneke (Led Zeppelin tribute), 9 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

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

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

LIFT: DJ EfX (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

MAGLIANERO CAFÉ: IndieCon: Sound Proof opening with My Revenge!, Get A Grip, No Submission, Ground Zero (hardcore, art opening), 7 p.m., Free. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: The Trio (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: The Willoughbys (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Trevor McSpadden (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $5. NECTAR'S: WBKM Birthday Bash: Seth Yacovone band, WBKM Blues Band (blues), 9 p.m., Free/$5. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Real Deal (r&b), 9 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., Free. Claudia Varona (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. The Wall-Stiles Band (folk), 7 p.m., Free. The Beerworth Sisters (folk), 8 p.m., Free. Bret Deptula's Piano Trio, 9 p.m., Free. Ian Thomas (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. Mickey Western (singersongwriter), 11:30 p.m., Free. Electric Halo (rock), 12:30 a.m., Free.

BEE'S KNEES: Broken String (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations. MOOG'S: The Song Rangers (Americana), 9 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. SNOWSHOE LODGE & PUB: Sara Grace (soul), 9 p.m., Free.

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MONOPOLE: Blind Owl Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Spiritual Rez, Lucid (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. TABU CAFÉ & NIGHTCLUB: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.

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perfectly measured foil to Stroem’s more emotionally charged delivery, especially on album opener “Down This Road.” Here, the duo weaves vocal lines together in beautifully soothing, dovetailing fashion. At moments — “All You Do,” for example — Last October do tread awfully close to feel-good, folk-pop schmaltz. Yet, rescued by an irresistible homespun charm, they never fully tumble. Frequently throughout the record, and particularly at that song’s winding chorus, there’s a naked vulnerability in the pair’s performance that is simply impervious to cynicism. So, I apologize, Last October. I do believe you melted my heart. Last October play Two Brothers Tavern in Middlebury this Friday, Novermber 11.

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Here’s a confession: I really wanted to dislike the self-titled debut record from Mad River Valley-based duo Last October. To explain, I need to avail myself of a dirty little music-scribe secret. You see, the fastest way to lose a critic’s interest is to prattle on about how much music means to you. Your music, someone else’s music, music in general … it doesn’t matter. If, as a musician, you need to explain that music is important to you, the odds are high you’re not very good at it. Otherwise, why the hell are you/we here? But I digress. In preparing to review Last October, I started doing a little background research on the band. That’s when I discovered this eye-roll-inducing nugget in their bio material: “Honing their crafts from opposite sides of the country, Erica Stroem and James Kinne came together through their sheer love and respect for music.” Awww. (As an aside, have any musicians ever

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Two years ago, local songwriter David Kaczynski released his debut record, The Night of Arrows. Though it showed promise, the album also suggested that Kaczynski had a long way to go to transcend the influence of his musical idols and come into his own as an artist. Now, he returns with a follow-up record, True North, and has adopted Night of Arrows as his songwriting sobriquet. While a step forward creatively, Kaczynski/Night of Arrows still bears the telltale marks of a novice songwriter grappling with his artistic identity. On his debut, Kaczynski overtly laid bare his admiration for dour songwriters such as Elliott Smith, Eddie Vedder and Mark Kozelek. At times on True North, he does a better job of filtering their influence, though it takes a little while to get there. The album’s opening track, “Super Moon (Part 1),” is the first of a threesong suite that thematically informs the record’s somber mood. Whether the tune reflects insecurity, indecisiveness or a feckless experimental bent, the tune is a confusing mishmash of sound and audio trickery. Kaczynski wrote and performed every instrumental part on the record. And he’s a capable player. But here he buries what might be an interesting arrangement under a grating conflux and tinny distortion. Worse, he attempts to mask poor vocal intonation — a recurring problem throughout the record — with an ill-executed mix of double voicing and soupy reverb. The result is a brooding song that is almost comically melodramatic. It’s a suspect start. But things improve.

Spare and moody, “The Quitter” is an album highlight. Kaczynski strikes a fine balance between melancholy and introspection. He uses his naturally rounded and mournful baritone to great effect, cooing downcast lyrics with compelling ease. Here, Kaczynski seems to fully commit himself to, well, being himself. It’s among the least produced tracks on the record and easily one of its finest. As on his debut, Kaczynski is at his best when he sticks to delivering his songs as simply as he can. He’s a talented writer with a unique viewpoint. And when he doesn’t meddle with hackneyed effects, that trait shines through, as on the angular alt-rockinformed “Managed Forest” and the acoustic/vocal number “East Meets West.” Unfortunately, those moments don’t come frequently enough. And sometimes when they do, Kaczynski tends to derail himself with curiously poor choices, such as on schizophrenic album closer “Wrecking Ball (Part 3).” As a result, True North is the definition of “hit or miss.” It’s a frustrating, uneven record that largely fails to capitalize on the nascent promise of Kaczynski’s debut. But it does offer hope that he may put it all together next time.

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1/2 LoUNge: funhouse with dJs rob douglas, moonflower & friends (house), 10 p.m., free. CLUb MetroNoMe: sunday night mass: frankie Bones, craig mitchell, sharkat and Justin r.e.m. (house), 9 p.m., $10/15/18. Black to the future (urban jamz), 10 p.m., free.

fraNNy o'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free. HigHer groUNd baLLrooM: figure, the Killabits, the orator, Kmpsr, Jakels, whole Z (electro), 8 p.m., $15/18/22. aa.

NeCtar'S: mi yard reggae night with Big dog & demus, 9 p.m., free.

HigHer groUNd SHowCaSe LoUNge: marchfourth marching Band (circus rock), 8:30 p.m., $12/14. aa.

radio beaN: old time sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., free. trio gusto (gypsy jazz), 5 p.m., free. girls rock Vt: missy Bly, Lily sickles, samara Lark, uncledad (rock), 7 p.m., free.

LeUNig'S biStro & Café: cody sargent trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. MaNHattaN pizza & pUb: open mic with andy Lugo, 10 p.m., free.

central

MoNkey HoUSe: sonni shine & the underwater sounds, mash mcLain, flabberghaster (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

bagitoS: stephen morabito (jazz), 11 a.m., free.

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MoNkey HoUSe: ian Thomas, paul Lee Kupfer, John smyth (singersongwriters), 9 p.m., $5.

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oN tap bar & griLL: open mic with wylie, 7 p.m., free.

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red SqUare: industry night with robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

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dJ Kanga (turntablism), 10 p.m., free.

red SqUare: upsetta international with super K (reggae), 7 p.m., free.

rUbeN JaMeS: why not monday? with dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

LeUNig'S biStro & Café: Juliet mcVicker (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

bagitoS: storytelling, 6:30 p.m., free.

central

MoNkey HoUSe: rachael elliott and ear duo (bassoon), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

CHarLie o'S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

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red SqUare:The amida Bourbon project (folk rock), 7 p.m., free. dJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. tHe SkiNNy paNCake: paul cataldo (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

central

bagitoS: acoustic Blues Jam, 6 p.m., free. tHe bLaCk door: swing night with the Bohemian Blues Quartet, 7:30 p.m., $5.

champlain valley

City LiMitS: Karaoke with Let it rock entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

rozzi'S LakeSHore taverN: trivia night, 8 p.m., free.

Moog'S: seth yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., free.

radio beaN: melody walker (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free. ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., free.

51 MaiN: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., free.

CLUb MetroNoMe: Bass culture with dJs Jahson & nickel B (dubstep), 9 p.m., free.

northern

NeCtar'S: Lynguistic civilians with Learic, face one, unkommon, memeranda (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5. oN tap bar & griLL: cooper & Lavoie (blues), 7 p.m., free.

radio beaN: dark green folk (folk), 6:30 p.m., free. open mic, 8 p.m., free.

bagitoS: open mic, 7 p.m., free.

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NeCtar'S: metal monday: swiftshire, the Knights of crinitus, amadis (metal), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

wed.16

CLUb MetroNoMe: Jewish heat fundraiser: dr. ruckus, moses & the electric company, something with strings (rock), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

MoNty'S oLd briCk taverN: george Voland JaZZ: dan silverman, Joe capps, dan skea, 4:30 p.m., free.

Sweet CrUNCH bake SHop: mary collins and don tobey (folk), 10:30 a.m., free.

Moog'S: open mic/Jam night, 8:30 p.m., free.

1/2 LoUNge: rewind with dJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., free.

HigHer groUNd SHowCaSe LoUNge: enter the haggis, scythian (celtic rock), 7:30 p.m., $14/16. aa.

bee'S kNeeS: woodchuck's revenge (acoustic), 11 a.m., donations. rupert wates (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., donations.

bee'S kNeeS: ian Thomas, paul Lee Kupfer (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., donations.

burlington area

HigHer groUNd baLLrooM: mimosa, the m machine, sleepyhead (idm), 9 p.m., $17/20. aa.

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northern

MoNty'S oLd briCk taverN: open mic, 6 p.m., free. NeCtar'S: workingman's army, 2nd agenda, tommy alexander (rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. oN tap bar & griLL: trivia with top hat entertainment, 7 p.m., free. radio beaN: stephen callahan and mike piche (jazz), 6 p.m., free. The wind woods (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. honky-tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3.

central

SLide brook Lodge & taverN: tattoo tuesdays with andrea (jam), 5 p.m., free.

champlain valley

51 MaiN: Quizz night (trivia), 7 p.m., free. two brotHerS taverN: monster hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., free

good tiMeS Café: tim grimm (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $15. oN tHe riSe bakery: matt schrag and friends (bluegrass), 8 p.m., donations.

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anet Fredericks’ show of new, insect-themed artworks is almost as literary as it is painterly. In addition to the usual artist’s statement, visitors to “Minute Particulars” at Shelburne’s Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery can peruse a four-page handout of works by poets such as Dylan Thomas, Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The key passage, which gives the show its title, comes from William Blake: “He who wishes to see a Vision, a Perfect Whole, must see it in Minute Particulars.” The English mystic is an especially apt source for this show’s epigraph in that Blake was a double threat with pen and brush. Fredericks applies this kindred spirit’s better-known notion of the “world in a grain of sand” to the bugs she sketched outside her home in Lincoln. “The quantity and diversity of winged and walking insects” have clearly demonstrated the concept of interdependency to her, Fredericks writes in the introduction to her exhibit. “Everything is connected.” In two of the larger pieces in the show, bees flit around the heads of children who seem entirely — and oddly — unperturbed. In “Looking,” four girls in pinafores stand nonchalantly in a curved row as bugs as big as their noses swarm in a circle; in “Listening,” it’s the artist’s brother, Charlie, as a boy of about 8, who stares expressionlessly despite being haloed by what look like

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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.

miniature drones. Fredericks dissolves some of these creatures into blurred shapes and thinly inked angles that suggest rapid motion, and perhaps their humming and buzzing, as well. In “Of the World in Its Becoming” (a title taken from the close of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road), there’s clearly an auditory connotation to the squiggles accompanying three large insects flying up and away from the viewer. Fredericks is trying to paint the noises her subjects make. The artist’s intention, as well as her inspiration, is strongly implied through one of the Rilke poems included in the gallery handout: “Everything is blooming most recklessly: if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the

heart of the night.” “Of the World in Its Becoming,” like a couple of other paintings at Furchgott Sourdiffe, includes faint scribbles in cursive, furthering the show’s verbal dimension. Despite its fixation on bugs and words, “Minute Particulars” varies in media and modes of composition. Fredericks lays down oil paint in thick splotches on some smaller canvases, and on loosely hung paper creates a summery, gauzy effect with washes and watercolors in images that seem to float. She also veers toward abstraction in two of the show’s loveliest works, the biomorphic, Kandinsky-esque “Psyche’s Ascent,” and “Luminous,” which calls to mind Monet’s late-era series of waterlily paintings.

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. Info, 859-9222.

‘COLOSSUS AND THE BAD WOOD SHOW’: Five local woodworkers used construction and wood-shop scrap to create a spontaneous and collaborative sculpture, displayed with other works completed individually. Through November 30 at Shelburne Art Center. Info, 985-3648.

COLIN-PATRICK CHARLES: Drawings by the Burlington artist. Curated by SEABA. Through November 26 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 658-6016.

DELIA ROBINSON: Artwork from AlphaBetaBestiario, a new book of poetry by Antonello Borra; also, "Captive," new paintings. Through December 29 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 863-0093.

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ANNUAL HOLIDAY GROUP EXHIBIT: A constantly evolving display of juried artisans' holiday-themed creations. Through December 2 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Info, 863-6458. ART HOP EXHIBIT: Work by artists who took part in the 2011 South End Art Hop. Curated by SEABA. Through November 26 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 651-9692.

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A couple of pieces read like aerial maps of switchbacks or rivers. Viewers who have followed the shifts in subjects and styles of this Vermont artscene doyenne will be reminded of illustrations she made previously in her 30-year career. Other works in “Minute Particulars” reveal resemblances to Fredericks’ earlier watercolors of water. Those paintings from 2008 sought to convey what the artist terms “the language of water” — as spoken by the New Haven River near her home in Lincoln. The current show also features a waxy self-portrait from what Fredericks terms “several years ago.” As she suggests in gallery notes, its ghostly aura makes it a fitting addition to this collection of recent works. The show, however, is weakened by its repetitive dreaminess, and viewers of “Minute Particulars” may start craving something more substantive by the time they reach the last of these 20 works. A modest ink-on-paper piece with the straightforward title “Insect Sketch,” at the end of the show, does supply a bit of what’s otherwise missing. Its success lies in the congruence between its scale and its ambition. There’s no overreaching with “Insect Sketch,” no attempt to weight an itty-bitty bug with metaphysical heft. It’s just a skillful rendering by a talented artist — which makes for quite an eyeful. K EV I N J . K EL L EY “Minute Particulars,” new paintings by Janet Fredericks, Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, in Shelburne. Through November 29. fsgallery.com

DIERDRA MICHELLE: "Dualities, Doppelgangers and Dreams," new works. Through November 25 at Barnes & Noble in South Burlington. Info, 864-8001. '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. Info, 865-7211. 'FALL: SOMETHING MUST BE DRAWN ABOUT IT': Drawings by Ida Ludlow. Through November 17 at Healthy Living in South Burlington. Info, 863-2569.

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Grace cothalis: Vibrantly colored paintings, monoprints and collage. Through november 28 at Vintage Jewelers in burlington. info, 849-6051. ida ludlow: "Feasts, Food and Fowl," vibrantly colored paintings of Vermont lake wildlife. 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 in burlington. 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. 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. info, 825-8214. Johnnie day durand: A solo exhibit curated by seAbA. Through november 26 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614. Jon younG: "F words," paintings. Through november 30 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438. kate lonGmaid: "small offerings," contemporary still lifes. Through november 16 at Village wine and Coffee in shelburne. info, 985-8922. katherine taylor-mcbroom: "paranormal hollow," mixed-media work inspired by life in a haunted Vermont home. Through november 27 at uncommon grounds in burlington. info, 865-6227. lorin duckman: "god Faces the street," photographic street portraits. Through December 4 at st. paul's Cathedral in burlington. info, 864-0471.

'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. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

mr. masterpiece & michael smith: paintings by the burlington artists. Through november 30 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. info, 660-9005.

william tortolano: The saint Michael's College professor emeritus of music and fine arts discusses the Canadian artists known as the group of seven. sponsored by the Vermont Arts Council. Thursday, november 10, 6 p.m., helen Day Art Center, stowe. info, 253-8358. 'manhood: masculinity, male identity and culture': uVM assistant professor of geography Rashad shabazz, an expert in theories of race, black cultural studies, gender studies and critical prison studies, leads a discussion. Tuesday, november 15, 6 p.m., helen Day Art Center, stowe. info, 253-8358. veterans' day display: world war i posters donated by collector and former AVA chair Alfred Quirk. wednesday and Thursday, november 9 and 10, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., AVA gallery and Art Center, lebanon. info, 603-448-3117. Jake beckman: The mixedmedia sculptor-in-residence at green Mountain College discusses his work. Tuesday, november 15, 6 p.m., griswold library, poultney. info, 287-8398.

receptions 'endurinG traditions: the art of memorials from marble valley': historical photographs and modern reproductions of traditional

‘all the live-lonG day: a celebration of workinG, industry and innovation’: The 15th annual "hooked in the Mountains" exhibit features more than 400 rugs and fiber-art pieces by green Mountain Rug hooking guild members, including betty bouchard, bev Conway and helen wolfel, in the Round barn. november 12 through 20 at shelburne Museum. Reception: saturday, november 12, 5-7 p.m. info, 434-8191. 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. Reception: Thursday, november 10, 5-8 p.m. info, 434-6434. carol boucher: "new work," oil pastel paintings created from imagination, memory and personal photographs. Through December 23 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Reception: Thursday, november 10, 5-7 p.m. info, 888-1261. 'ways of seeinG': photography by Vermont high school students. Through november 25 at Vermont photo space Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. Reception: Friday, november 11, 6-8 p.m. info, 777-3686. 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. Reception:

laliberte, Jeff Clarke, steven Chase, Melvin harris and Axel stohlberg. Through november 30 at Maltex building in burlington. info, 865-7166. 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.

november exhibit: work by Annemie Curlin, Charlie hunter, Carolyn hack, leah Van Rees, Judy

philip herbison: "plastic personae," close-up photographs of dramatic tension in plaster faces.

aia-vermont architectural desiGn competition: Vermont entries in the American institute of Architects designexcellence competition; visitors can vote for the people's Choice Award. november 10 through December 7 at windows & Doors by brownell in williston. Reception: Thursday, november 10, 5-7 p.m. info, 425-6162. 'bundle of Joy': Artwork and craft on sale for the holidays. november 12 through January 21 at nuance gallery in windsor. Reception: saturday, november 12, 4-6 p.m. info, 674-9616. winooski holiday pop-up art market: Artists and artisans sell their wares in a vacant storefront on the top right side of the traffic circle. Through December 31 in downtown winooski. Reception: saturday, november 12, 5-7 p.m. info, 264-4839.

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'three seniors' exhibit': Art Affair by shearer presents work by Kim, sylvie and pogo senior. Through December 31 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. Reception: Thursday, november 10, 6-8 p.m. info, 658-1111.

Through December 1 at Artspace 106 at the Men's Room in burlington. info, 864-2088. ronald braunstein: "Re/collection," paintings on recycled brown paper and cardboard in homage to ludwig van beethoven and his struggle with mental illness. Through november 30 at north end studio A in burlington. info, 863-6713. 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. info, 734-7344. shayne lynn: large-scale color photographs of lake Champlain in February. Through november 30 at Metropolitan gallery at burlington City hal. info, 865-7166. buRlingTon-AReA ART shows

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nicholas heiliG: "pop up people," stencil-inspired 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.

'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.

Joy huckins-noss: "The Texture of light," plein air paintings. Through December 29 at Vermont supreme Court lobby in Montpelier. Reception: Thursday, november 10, 5-7 p.m. info, 828-0749.

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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.

nicola lópez: The visiting artist, who recently created the sitespecific work “landscape X” at the guggenheim Museum, discusses her work. Thursday, november 10, 4:30 p.m., Johnson Memorial building, Middlebury College. info, 443-3168.

My Revenge!, get A grip, no submission, and ground Zero perform, saturday, november 12, 7-9 p.m. info, 865-1140.

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marc awodey: "An Artist's View," mixedmedia work; tessa holmes & barbara nedd: paintings, in the second Floor gallery. Through november 30 at Community College of Vermont in winooski. info, 654-0513.

amanda demilt: pop-artinspired portraits of children make up this one-day exhibit in a pop-up gallery; reception starts at 6. saturday, november 12, 9 a.m.-10 p.m., 7 Main street, bristol. info, 349-3565.

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. Reception: Curator Anne Tait, monument research and preservation program director for the national park service, Dennis Montagna and Castleton state College history professor Michael Austin give a presentation. Friday, november 11, 5-8 p.m. info, 775-0356.

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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.

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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 on 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

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'Think OuT Of The BOx': Artwork and holiday gifts, all under $50, by local artisans. Through December 31 at Block Gallery in Winooski. Info, 373-5150.

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.

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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2012: 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.

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Annie TiBeriO cAmerOn: "Art Seen," photographs of the natural world. Through November 30 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-9369. 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. 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. 'celeBrATe': Three floors of affordable crafts and fine art by local artists. November 16 through December 30 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. 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.

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zOë BArrAcAnO: Artwork made from photography, paint, wood, toys and scraps of paper. Curated by Kasini House. Through November 30 at Opportunities Credit Union in Burlington. Info, 865-3404 ext. 130.

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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'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.

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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'We ArT WOmen': Work by members of the art cooperative. Through November 30 at Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington.

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cAll TO ArTisTs: The Central Vermont Artists’ Marketing Cooperative, which operates the Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield, invites area artists to join the cooperative and sell their work in the gallery. There is a simple jurying process for applicants. To inquire about joining, call Helen at 454-7119 or email info@blinkinglightgallery. com. To learn more about the gallery and view the work of current members, please go to blinkinglightgallery.com.

A meTAfesTO: Connectivity. Emergence. Technology. Artists, send us your digital work for the “Second Annual Emergent Media Symposium” on December 9 at Champlain College. Deadline: December 1. Info, metafesto2011@ gmail.com.

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'HOLIDAY SHOW 2011': DAVID BUBECK: Sculpture; THE SMALL GREAT ART WALL: Work under $1000 by gallery artists. November 16 through January 15 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670. JAN GHIRINGHELLI & PHILLIP ROBERTSON: "Paint and Print: The Vermont Landscape," recent work. Through December 2 at City Center in Montpelier. Info, 229-5209. JASON LUTES: "Berlin: City of Drafts," a chapter from the cartoonist's latest book, plus source material, thumbnail drafts and preliminary sketches. Through November 26 at Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. Info, 295-3319.

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. MARNI MCKITRICK: "Wild for Watercolor," Vermont landscapes, florals and still lifes. Through November 30 at Charlotte Senior Center. Info, 864-2820. PATRICIA LEBON HERB: "Paris Apartment," paintings. Through November 30 at Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury. Info, 388-4095. 'THE GOVERNMENT MORGAN': Photographs, paintings, prints and leather tack. Through March 31 at the National Museum of the Morgan Horse in Middlebury. Info, 388-1639.

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.

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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. PATTY CASTELLINI: "Monotypes," work by the New Hampshire artist. Through November 30 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

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'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.

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'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. '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. 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. 'LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW!': Original work by member artists offered for $200 or less, plus handcrafted holiday ornaments. Through January 31 at Brandon Artists' Guild. Info, 247-4956.

‘Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya’

Nearly 100 years ago, an archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania dug up something remarkable in a highland village in what’s now Guatemala: exquisitely painted Mayan pottery unlike anything found in the region before. The discovery was puzzling because the village, Chama, was located far from the more sophisticated lowland centers of Mayan civilization. It remains a mystery, as does much of Mayan civilization, which collapsed in the early 16th century after the arrival of the Spanish. Researchers have been piecing it together ever since. The Chama pottery, along with more than 150 other Mayan artifacts, are at the Middlebury College Museum of Art through December 11. Pictured: “Incense Burner and Lid in the Form of a Deity Head.”

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at the Shelburne Museum’s Round Barn next week, as part of the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild’s 15th annual “Hooked in the Mountains” exhibit, are woven works of art. From a distance, Betty Bouchard’s “Portrait of Mila,” made from plaids and tweed scraps, could pass for an impressionist painting: an old woman bending to pull weeds in the green-gray landscape of her garden. Bev Conway’s rugs are bright and playful, like children’s-book illustrations. Helen Wolfel creates mesmerizing patterns with her rich, hand-dyed wools. The show, November 12 through 20, includes workshops, demonstrations and speakers. Get hooked. Pictured: “Rufus,” by Bev Conway. 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.

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.

keLLy hoLT: "Rhythmics," paintings and mixed-media work. Through November 30 at Green Goddess Café in Stowe. Info, 253-5255.

VicToRia BLeweR: Hand-tinted photographs of rural scenes. Through November 30 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098.

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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.

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. gayLeen aiken: "Music and Moonlight," work by the Vermont artist. Through December 31 at GRACE in Hardwick. Info, 472-6857.

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 in South Hero. Info, 372-5049. 'TRees': Paintings, drawings and prints by 65 juried artist members; JeaneTTe FouRnieR: "Art of Nature," watercolors depicting creatures in their native surroundings. Through December 23 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. m

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Jane s. moRgan: "Light and Mood," landscapes in oil. Through November 27 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. 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.

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Ben BaRnes: Paintings of gothic mansions and abandoned trucks in rural landscapes. Through January 9 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

noVemBeR aRTisTs: Photographs by Charlotte Rosshandler; multimedia work by Becky Wright; paintings by Jean Cannon and Sharon Fiske; and pottery by Barbara Colgrove. Through November 30 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.

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'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.

'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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'The Landscape Re-imagined': Large-scale images of Middlebury's campus executed by art students in marker, pen, oil paint and digital photography. November 14 through 25 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168.

movies Tower Heist ★★

here are at least four robberies associated with this film, and only two of them appear in the screenplay. There is the embezzlement of billions by Arthur Shaw, a Bernie Madoff type played by Alan Alda. There is the revenge theft plotted by employees of the Manhattan luxury high-rise atop which Shaw resides, after they learn he pocketed the retirement savings they entrusted him with investing. If you’ve caught the trailer, you’ve already learned this much and seen most of the movie’s funniest moments. Somewhere along the line, the buzz on Tower Heist became the promise of a vehicle for the long-awaited comeback of Eddie Murphy. Not the Eddie Murphy of family films and dopey, Latex-encased characters, but the edgy Eddie Murphy who was capable of making grown-ups laugh several administrations ago. If you’ve seen that trailer, believe it or not, you’ve also seen a shockingly large percentage of the screen time the actor was accorded. He’s barely there. Which brings us to rip-off No. 3: Tower Heist was Murphy’s idea. I kid you not. What he envisioned was an all-black variation on the Ocean’s Eleven formula. The suits he pitched loved the concept — except

the part about the stars being black. In the end, Universal agreed to make the picture, but with a multiethnic, mostly white cast, a legendarily lame director (Brett Ratner, whose principal contribution to American cinema has been limiting the number of Rush Hour comedies he helmed to three) and Murphy relegated to an underwritten bit part. Ben Stiller is the movie’s star. He’s Josh, the professional suck-up who manages the Tower. The first half of this nearly two-hourlong credibility stretcher consists of a cavalierly paced introduction to its main characters. So we watch and wait as Josh fawns over the building’s residents, until we eventually meet Matthew Broderick’s Mr. Fitzhugh, a sad sack who’s been sacked by Merrill Lynch, lost his family and faces eviction. Casey Affleck is Charlie, a distracted concierge whose wife is expecting. Michael Peña’s a bellhop, Gabourey Sidibe’s a Jamaican maid and Stephen Henderson is the doorman who finds out he’s lost everything on what he thought was his last day of work. Because Josh handed over his coworkers’ savings without consulting them, he feels duty bound to hatch a scheme to get the money back. It involves breaking into the billionaire’s penthouse. Politically Incorrect

BLAND LARCENY Stiller heads an all-star cast but doesn’t come close to stealing the show.

Plot Point Alert: Since he has zero experience in this area, Josh recruits Murphy’s character on the basis of his being black and having “been arrested a bunch of times.” The climactic heist is a preposterous bit of logic-defying nonsense. Between the overlong setup and the silly finale, however, is a stretch of 15, maybe 20 minutes during which the unlikely crew prepares for the big day, and most of what passes for funny business can be found there. The movie is most effective when Murphy is tutoring his mild-mannered gang in the ways of grand larceny. He doesn’t attain the sassy heights of his Axel Foley heyday, but he comes close enough to remind us what a force of nature he once could be. So we watch in utter bafflement as, again and again, Ratner

rushes him off screen, robbing the actor of a chance to strut his stuff and the audience of a shot at getting its money’s worth. I guess, technically, that qualifies as five rip-offs. Rarely have so many (the film has five writers) gone to so much trouble to produce so little in the way of honest-to-God film fun. In the age of Apatow, an old-fashioned caper comedy like Tower Heist might have proved an entertaining novelty. But that’s the thing about going old school: It only works if the filmmaker has learned from past mistakes. And I’m not sure this represents a step up from anything we would have gotten from Rush Hour 4. RICK KISONAK

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REVIEWS A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas ★★★

inally, someone has found a good use for 3D: to waft giant clouds of digital pot smoke at the audience. Action directors try not to make it too obvious when they’re thrusting that 3D sword or spear directly in our faces; they don’t want us to confuse the story they’re telling with a cheap carnival attraction. But this third film in the stoner-buddy comedy series, directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, revels in the gimmick and breaks the fourth wall to mock it at every opportunity. After all of Hollywood’s efforts to take its new, lucrative format super-seriously, that’s kind of a relief. As for the movie itself, it targets a select audience: the 420 crowd, the pop-culture literate, the fans of twisted holiday fare and the not easily offended. 3D Christmas starts slow, with plenty of gags that fizzle like poorly wired holiday lights. But if you belong in one or more of those categories, it may grow on you. That has a lot to do with the enduring likability of stars John Cho and Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar, respectively), who were introduced in the sleeper hit Harold & Kumar

Go to White Castle (2004). Their first adventure was a quest for burgers and weed with complications; their second, in 2008, had a high concept — the pair were falsely imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. The third movie, set several years later, uses the same tired comedy setup we saw last May in The Hangover Part II. Harold has left his grubby roommate bromance with Kumar and settled into a Wall Street job and suburban married life with his longtime crush, Maria (Paula Garcés). The only problem is her dad (Danny Trejo), who disdains his son-in-law and harbors a fetishistic love of Christmas bric-a-brac. On Christmas Eve, Kumar reappears in Harold’s life and, agent of chaos that he is, destroys the father-in-law’s prize tree. Having become a suck-up of Ed Helms proportions, Harold embarks on a desperate mission to replace it, which takes the pair through the dark heart of holiday-season Manhattan. Will they rediscover their friendship? Will Harold man up? Will bongs be enjoyed, ethnic and religious groups be disrespected, and allusions to A Christmas Story be given obscene twists? Of course.

HIGH HOLIDAYS Cho and Penn soldier on in their third go-round as affable stoner buddies.

Many of the film’s lamer jokes and concepts are saved by supporting cast members — such as Thomas Lennon, twitchily silly in an all-too-familiar weenie yuppie dad role; and Trejo, who gives new life to the standard domineering patriarch. Then, playing himself, there’s Neil Patrick Harris, who was portrayed as a rapacious hetero horndog in the previous films. Now that the actor is way out of the closet, the script needs to find a way around that real-life contradiction, and it does so with brio. The first Harold & Kumar movie made mincemeat of ethnic stereotypes, such as Harold’s coworkers’ assumption that the Korean guy must be a joyless dweeb. This one too often uses them as comic shortcuts, and its fe-

male characters remain cardboard, as well. Still, considering what happened between the conception and realization of Tower Heist, it’s nice to see someone can sneak a movie with nonwhite stars into theaters. 3D Christmas offers inspired moments of surreal comedy, like everything involving a contraption called the WaffleBot (he hates pancakes!) and a drug trip in which the heroes become Claymation. It’s not as clever as the Claymation Christmas episode of “Community,” but few things are. The best comedy is on TV these days — but, for creatively inappropriate uses of 3D, you’ll need to hit the multiplex. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

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immoRtAlS: Set in ancient Greece, this adventure tries to recapture the magic (and box office) of 300 with Henry Cavill as the Titan-fighting hero Theseus. Mythology nerds, get out your red pens. With Stephen Dorff, Mickey Rourke and Freida Pinto. Tarsem (The Fall) Singh directed. (110 min, R. Capitol [3-D], Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Palace) J. EDGAR: Clint Eastwood directed this biopic exploring the controversial life and career of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio). With Naomi Watts, Judi Dench and Armie Hammer. (137 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) JAcK AND Jill: Movie-goers have voted with their dollars for more Adam Sandler, so Sandler obliged with this holiday comedy in which he plays both the hero and his obnoxious female twin. With Katie Holmes and Al Pacino. Dennis (Grown Ups) Dugan directed. (91 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Stowe, Welden) mARGiN cAll: J.C. Chandor wrote and directed this fictional thriller about real-life scary stuff: It takes us inside an investment firm on the brink of the 2008 financial crisis. With Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons and Demi Moore. (105 min, R. Roxy, Savoy) tHE tWiliGHt SAGA: BREAKiNG DAWN, pARt 1: At last, with a tripartite title, comes the sparkly-vampire wedding ceremony and impregnation we’ve all been waiting for. Just don’t bring nonswoony sentiments to the nuptials of Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson). Bill (Dreamgirls) Condon directed. (Running time N/A, PG-13. Midnight showings November 17 at Big Picture, Bijou, Palace, Paramount, Stowe, Welden)

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DolpHiN tAlEHHH A marine biologist and a young boy fight to save a dolphin caught in a trap in this family drama based on a true story. With Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble and Morgan Freeman. Charles Martin Smith directed. (112 min, PG. Bijou; ends 11/13)

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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; ends 11/10)

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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; ends 11/10) 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. 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) 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 min, PG. Big Picture, Bijou, Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis, Palace, Paramount [3-D], Stowe, Welden) REAl StEElHHH Robots! Boxing! Those two words should guarantee a good take for this near-future action flick about a down-on-hisluck boxer (Hugh Jackman) who gets replaced by fighting machines, then decides to make his own. With Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly and Anthony Mackie. Shawn (Date Night) Levy directed. (127 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Essex, Majestic) tHE RUm DiARYHH In this adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, Johnny Depp 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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tHE iNtERRUptERSHHHH1/2 To make this hard-hitting documentary, director Steve Ames (Hoop Dreams) embedded himself with CeaseFire, a Chicago organization of “violence interrupters” taking risky steps to stop urban crime. (125 min, R. Savoy)

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DRiVEHHHH1/2 Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stunt man who finds himself driving for his life in this festival-favorite action flick from director Nicolas Winding Refn. With Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Christina Hendricks and Bryan Cranston. (100 min, R. Savoy; ends 11/10)

tHE iDES oF mARcHHH1/2 George Clooney directed this behind-the-scenes presidential campaign drama, based on a play by former Howard Dean staffer Beau Willimon. He also plays the candidate; Ryan Gosling is his press secretary. With Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman. (98 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Majestic, Marquis, Palace)

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50/50HHHHH Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play two good friends grappling with the discovery that one of them has cancer in this serious comedy from director Jonathan (The Wackness) Levine. With Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston. (100 min, R. Big Picture, Marquis, Roxy)

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, Stowe, Welden)

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wednesday 9 — thursday 10 Puss in Boots Wed: 4, 6. Thu: 4. 50/50 Wed: 8:30. Footloose Wed: 8. Thu: 8:30. Real Steel Wed & Thu: 6.

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wednesday 9 — thursday 10 The Ides of march 6:50. Puss in Boots 6:30. Paranormal Activity 3 7. Footloose 6:40.

tower Heist 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas (3-D) 12:45, 3, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. In time 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30. Puss in Boots 12:30 (3-D), 1:20, 2:40 (3-D), 4, 5 (3-D), 6:30, 7:10 (3-D), 8:45, 9:15 (3-D). The Rum Diary 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:50. Paranormal Activity 3 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40. The Three musketeers 12:30, 3:15 (Thu only), 9:40 (Wed only). Footloose 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30. Real Steel 1, 4, 7, 9:45. friday 11 — wednesday 16 ***The twilight Saga: Eclipse Tue: 8. *Immortals (3-D) 1:15, 4:10, 7 (except Tue), 7:10 (Tue only), 10. *J. Edgar 1, 3:50, 6:40, 7 (21+; Fri only), 9:30. *Jack and Jill 12:45, 2:50, 5, 7:20, 9:40. tower Heist 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas (3-D) 12:45, 3, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. In

movies Diary 12:40, 3:25, 8:40. The Three musketeers (3-D) 6:15. Paranormal Activity 3 2:05, 4:30, 7:20, 9:30. Footloose 12:55, 6:40. The Ides of march 12:40, 7:25, 9:45. Real Steel 1:15, 4:05, 7. moneyball 3:35, 9:15. friday 11 — thursday 17 ***The twilight Saga: Eclipse Tue: 7. *Immortals (3-D) 12:10, 2:25, 3:45, 4:45, 7:10, 8:30 (except Tue & Thu), 9:35. *J. Edgar 1, 3, 3:55, 6:25, 8:35 (except Thu), 9:20. *Jack and Jill 12:15, 1:30, 2:30, 4:50, 6:15 (except Tue), 7, 9:15. tower Heist 1:05, 3:30, 7, 9:25. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas (3-D) 12:55, 3:05, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45. In time 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35 (except Thu). Puss in Boots 12 (3-D), 12:30, 2:10 (3-D), 2:40, 4:20 (3-D), 4:50, 6:10 (3-D), 8:15 (3-D; except Thu). Paranormal Activity 3 7:20, 9:40 (except Thu). Footloose 12:20, 6. ***See website for details.

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wednesday 9 — thursday 10

The Way 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:10. In time 1:15, 3:30, 7, 9:35. The Rum Diary 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15. Paranormal Activity 3 1:20, 3:20, 7:30, 9:30. 50/50 1:25, 4, 7:20, 9:25. friday 11 — thursday 17 ***Beneath the Darkness Sun: 6:30. *J. Edgar 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15. *margin call 1:15, 3:30, 7, 9:20. tower Heist 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30. The Way 1:10, 3:40, 6:50, 9:10. In time 1:05, 6:30. The Rum Diary 3:20, 8:40. 50/50 1:25, 4, 7:20, 9:25. Showtimes expected to change slightly on Saturday and Sunday.

PALAcE cINEmA 9

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

wednesday 9 — thursday 10 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 4, 6:30. Puss in Boots 1:45, 3:55, 6:45, 8:45. The Rum Diary 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1,

friday 11 — thursday 17 *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 Thu: midnight. *Jack and Jill 1:15 & 3:45 11/4/11 5:38 PM(Sat & Sun only), 7, 9 (Fri & Sat only). The Ides of march 1:15 (Sat & Sun only), 6:50. Puss in Boots 1:15 & 3:45 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 8:15 (Fri & Sat only). Paranormal Activity 3 3:45 (Sat & Sun only), 9 (Fri & Sat only). Footloose 3:45 (Sat & Sun only), 6:40, 9 (Fri & Sat only). Dolphin tale 1:15 (Sat & Sun only).

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friday 11 — thursday 17 *Immortals 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30 (3-D), 9 (3-D). *Jack and Jill 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. tower Heist 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas 1:30 (3-D; Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9. In time 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9.

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wednesday 9 — thursday 10 ***Jurassic Park Thu: 8.

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wednesday 9 — thursday 17 *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 Thu 17: midnight. Puss in Boots (3-D) 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 8:45. Paranormal Activity 3 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 8:45.

tHE SAVoY tHEAtER

26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290509, www.savoytheater.com

wednesday 9 — thursday 10 ***Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Wed: 6, 8:15. The Interrupters Thu: 6 & 8:15. Drive 6:30, 8:30. friday 11 — thursday 17 ***Beneath the Darkness Sat: 6. ***Solitaire Tue: 7:30. *margin call 1 & 3:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30 & 8:30 (except Sat). The Interrupters 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 7.

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wednesday 9 — thursday 10 Puss in Boots 7. Footloose 7. moneyball 7.

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wednesday 9 — thursday 10 tower Heist 6:30, 9. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas (3-D) 6:30, 9. In time 6:30, 9. The Rum Diary 6:30, 9. Footloose 6:30. The Ides of march 9.

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a.m. (Thu only), 1:45, 3:55, 6:35, 8:35 (except Wed). The Rum Diary 1, 3:35, 6:40, 9:15. The Ides of march 1:20, 4:05, 7, 9:20. moneyball 12:50 (except Thu), 6:25.

time 12:30, 3:15 (Fri & Tue only), 9:25 (Sat, Sun & Wed only). Puss in Boots 12:30 (3-D), 1:20, 2:40 (3-D), 4, 5 (3-D), 6:30, 7:10 (3-D), 8:45, 9:15 (3-D). Paranormal Activity 3 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40. Footloose 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30. ***See website for details.

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

wednesday 9 — thursday 10 tower Heist 1, 3:30, 6:05, 7:10, 8:30, 9:35. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas (3-D) 12:30, 2:35, 3, 4:40, 6:50, 9:05, 9:45. In time 1:10, 3:45, 6:55, 9:25. Puss in Boots 12:20 (3-D), 1:30, 2:30 (3-D), 3:45, 4:50 (3-D), 5:10, 6:25 (3-D), 8:35 (3-D). The Rum

Puss in Boots 7. moneyball 8. Paranormal Activity 8. The Ides of march 6. 50/50 6. friday 11 — thursday 17 *Jack and Jill Fri: 6:30, 8:30. Sat: 2, 4, 6:30, 8:30. Sun: 2, 4, 7. Mon-Thu: 7. Puss in Boots Fri: 6:30, 8:30. Sat: 2, 4, 6:30, 8:30. Sun: 2, 4, 7. Mon-Thu: 7. The Ides of march Fri: 6:30. Sat: 2, 6:30. Sun: 2. 50/50 Fri: 8:30. Sat: 4, 8:30. Sun: 4, 7. Mon-Thu: 7.

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222 College St., Burlington, 8643456, www.merrilltheatres.net

wednesday 9 — thursday 10 tower Heist 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:20.

3:35, 6:40, 9:15. Paranormal Activity 3 4:10, 9:05. The Three musketeers 1:05, 9:10. Footloose 1:25, 6:35. The Ides of march 1:20, 4:05, 7, 9:20. moneyball 3:30, 6:25. friday 11 — thursday 17 ***The met opera Encore: Don Giovanni Wed: 6:30. Thu: 1. *Immortals 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35. *J. Edgar 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25. *Jack and Jill 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:05. *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 Thu: midnight. tower Heist 1:15, 3:45, 6:55, 9:20. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas (2-D) 4:15 (except Thu), 9:30. In time 1:10, 3:50, 6:45 (except Wed), 9:10. Puss in Boots 10:30

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friday 11 — thursday 17 *Jack and Jill Fri: 7, 9. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9. Sun: 4:30, 7. MonThu: 7. *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 Thu: midnight. The Rum Diary Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:15. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon-Thu: 7. Puss in Boots Fri: 7, 9. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon-Thu: 7.

WELDEN tHEAtER

104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 5277888, www.weldentheatre.com

wednesday 9 — thursday 10 Puss in Boots 7, 9. Paranormal Activity 3 7, 9. Footloose 9. moneyball 7. friday 11 — thursday 17 *Jack and Jill 2 & 4 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9. *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 Thu: midnight. Puss in Boots 2 & 4 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9. Paranormal Activity 3 4 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9. moneyball Sat & Sun: 2.

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plays a journalist who takes a job in Puerto Rico for the easy life but soon finds intrigue and corruption. With Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins and Amber Heard. Bruce (Withnail and I) Robinson directed. (120 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Stowe) tHE tHREE mUSKEtEERSHH Proving that there is no adventure story that cannot be “rebooted,” bullet-timed and 3-D-ified, director Paul (Resident Evil: Afterlife) W.S. Anderson offers his take on the Alexandre Dumas tale of swordplay and intrigue in 17th-century France. With Logan Lerman, Matthew MacFadyen, Milla Jovovich and Orlando Bloom. (100 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic [3-D], Palace; ends 11/10) toWER HEiStHH Workers at a luxury condo tower plot to get their own back from the resident Wall Street billionaire who stole their retirement funds in this caper comedy from director Brett (Rush Hour) Ratner. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and Alan Alda star. (104 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) A VERY HARolD AND KUmAR 3D cHRiStmASHHH Harold (John Cho) juggles his friendship with Kumar (Kal Penn) and the responsibilities of married life in this comedy sequel, in which the two stoner buds reteam for a holiday adventure. With Neil Patrick Harris and Danny Trejo. Todd Strauss-Schulson directed. (90 min, R. Capitol [3-D], Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Palace[2-D]) tHE WAYHHH A grieving father (Martin Sheen) follows in his son’s footsteps on the Camino

de Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route across Spain in this drama from writer-director Emilio Estevez. With Deborah Kara Unger and Yorick van Wageningen. (115 min, NR. Roxy)

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HARRY pottER AND tHE DEAtHlY HAlloWS: pARt 2HHH With the whole wizarding world under siege, the young spellcaster gears up for his final battle with Lord Voldemort. (130 min, PG-13) liFE iN A DAYHHH Director Kevin Macdonald solicited video footage of a single July day from people all over the world and collaged together this record of 24 hours on Planet Earth. (90 min, PG-13) tHE SlEEpiNG BEAUtY: French director Catherine Breillat retells the fairy tale with modern twists. Starring Clara Besnainou and Julia Artmonov. (82 min, NR. Read Margot Harrison’s review this Friday on our staff blog, Blurt.)

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