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shooting death at Burlington’s City Hall Park last Thursday heralded the end of the Occupy Burlington encampment there.

More than 1300 people voted in Burlington’s Democratic mayoral caucus. Too bad they didn’t all stick around until the end. Now they’ve gotta do it all over again.

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Police identified the deceased as 35-year-old Joshua Pfenning, a transient who had been living in a tent in the park. According to the police, Pfenning shot himself on Thursday afternoon after consuming a “large quantity of alcohol.” It’s unclear if the shooting was intentional.

Images of storm damage helped Rep. Peter Welch convince Congress to release more federal aid for Vermont. A picture is worth $150 million in reimbursements. TYLER MACHADO

Pfenning had been part of the group “occupying” the park since October 28 in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has drawn attention to increasing economic inequality in the U.S. Burlington’s Occupy protesters clashed with police on Thursday night; at a press conference on Friday, Burlington Police Department chief Mike Schirling announced that tents would no longer be allowed in the park. By Monday afternoon, they were gone. In a message to the Occupy Burlington General Assembly on Sunday, Schirling wrote, “We very much appreciate the amicable way in which the issue of encampment appears to have been resolved.” The outcome was not as amicable in Oakland, Calif., where police raided an Occupy encampment and arrested 33 protesters on Monday, or in New York City, where police raided Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, arresting nearly 200 protesters.

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I’m getting pretty sick of hearing that Tiny Tim ruined the ukulele [“Uke Power, November 2]. You can’t ruin the reputation of an instrument; it’s a freakin’ instrument. It’s meant to be versatile; it doesn’t have a reputation. That’s like getting angry because some punks play guitar badly in their garage band. Man, these people are getting uppity about an instrument, ridiculous. Ukulele purists? Pathetic. Lauren Huffsmith

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How unfortunate that your article on ukuleles took the usual low road of a dig against Tiny Tim [“Uke Power,” November 2]. Here’s the real story. Tiny had more knowledge of the Tin Pan Alley and music-hall songbook in the tip of his pinky finger than your average hipster charging his fancy new koa soprano on his mom’s credit card could ever absorb. He played the uke when it wasn’t fashionable, not when it was. He kept alive many of the songs that the people now giggling at him are just “discovering.” He was surely a character, and to the media a caricature, but if you’d take a little time to listen to the strange little man, maybe you’d learn something. Raph Worrick CORNWALL

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Last week’s article about Burlington’s Democratic mayoral caucus [“In the Running”] mistakenly stated that all four candidates have Ivy League credentials. Rep. Jason Lorber does not; Stanford, his alma mater, is not an Ivy League school. In last week’s article “Go, Phish,” we wrote about an assemblage made and framed by Creative Habitat that includes photographs from the September Phish concert benefit. We failed to give proper credit to Vermont photographer Brian Jenkins.

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The attention Mary Powell deserves is a trip to the woodshed courtesy of her ratepayers [“Green Mountain Powell,” October 12]. Most do not realize she has effectively scammed them in the name of “renewable energy.” If the Lowell project gets built, it will cost GMP and Vermont Electric Coop ratepayers tens of millions more than other options for equivalent energy and CO2 reduction that are and will be available during the project’s 20-year lifespan. Even worse than needlessly overcharging ratepayers, though, is Powell’s appetite to destroy Vermont’s

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environmental ethic. Fury is the only appropriate response to the environmental catastrophe that is industrial wind on ridgelines in Vermont. The destruction in Lowell is child’s play, though, when compared to Powell’s support for the GMP/CVPS merger. This restructuring could pave the way for a massive transmission corridor the length of the state — one of the options on the drawing board to move Canadian-produced power south to urban areas. Now is the time for Vermonters to wake up to this reordering of their energy supply and make their voices heard. The best thing GMP ratepayers can do for themselves and Vermont’s energy future is to demand Mary Powell’s resignation. We will continue to get a lousy deal for our pocketbook and our environment so long as Mary and her ilk are running a “renewable energy” game sanctioned by an impotent Department of Public Service and power-hungry governor under the guise of climatechange action. Ira Powsner IRA

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FEATURES

Gus Speth: From the White House to the Big House

Crime: More than 40 Vermonters have disappeared since 1971— how do we find them?

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20 Potato Sack Pants Theater Sketches Out a New Show BY PAMELA POLSTON

20 Artists Pop Up in Winooski for the Holidays

Book review: Sex and the River Styx by Edward Hoagland BY AMY LILLY

34 If You’re Happy and You Know It, Tweet Social media: UVM researchers measure emotion through online communications

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their supporters. When they emerged on stage to announce a recount at Memorial Auditorium on Sunday, Ashe and Weinberger were all smiles. But a Weinberger supporter was already throwing chin music. Before the recount had even been announced, Weinberger backer dave GiBson posted a video link to his 913 followers on Twitter that shows Ashe in 2009 downplaying the seriousness of Burlington Telecom’s public debt.

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these next few weeks could affect democrats’ fortunes. Like the pre-2004 Red Sox, Burlington Democrats have been cursed not to win the mayor’s office — losing to Progressives or the GOP in every election since 1981. How the Weinberger and Ashe campaigns play these next few weeks could affect Democrats’ fortunes in the general election. They don’t need to play softball, but a bench-clearing brawl could hurt the Dems no matter which candidate ends up winning.

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How did the Democratic caucus almost end in a situation where one candidate had more votes than the other, but not enough to win? After the third round of voting on Sunday, Burlington Democratic Party chair sTeve hoWard announced that Tim Ashe led Miro Weinberger 541 votes to 540. But, Howard told the shocked crowd, neither candidate had met the majority threshold of 542 votes, and therefore there was no winner. The votes would be recounted. If after that there was still no winner — as turned out to be the case — a runoff election would decide the contest at a later date. Blame it on the fine print — or lack thereof. The Democratic caucus bylaws specify that any vote for a candidate who had already been eliminated in a previous round of voting (in this case, state Rep. Jason LorBer and City Councilor Bram

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would be discarded and not counted toward the majority threshold. There were three votes for Kranichfeld in that last round, which were tossed out. But the bylaws don’t say what to do with write-in votes — and there were two of them in that third round of voting. After huddling in the bowels of Memorial Auditorium, Democratic lawyers and party leaders ruled that the write-ins must count toward the majority total because the bylaws don’t specifically say that they shouldn’t. That meant the total number of ballots cast was 1083, and the winner needed 542. Ergo, no win for Ashe. On the recount, Ashe and Weinberger came out even at 540 votes apiece, so the write-in issue became moot. For Ashe, it’s probably a good thing he didn’t actually win by just one vote. Many Democrats already view him suspiciously for his strong ties to the Progressive Party (he was a Prog city councilor for four years and wears both the P and D labels in the state senate), and such a slim margin might lead some to question the legitimacy of his victory. But the same might be said for Weinberger, who, should he win the nomination, would almost certainly need Progressive support to beat Wright in March.

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By endorsing Jason Lober, the Burlington Free Press has continued its long tradition of picking losers in Queen City mayoral races. Vermont’s largest daily backed Lorber largely for his stated commitment to transparency and open government, which has become something of a crusade for the Freeps. Lorber boasted about the endorsement in emails and reproduced the editorial in posters that his supporters plastered all over Memorial Auditorium at Sunday’s caucus. He was the first candidate eliminated. Maybe Lorber should have disavowed the endorsement instead. It seems to be something of a curse. As the usual author of this column, shay ToTTen, has noted, the Free Press has an abysmal record of endorsing winners in Burlington mayoral elections (See Fair Game, March 4, 2009). Since 1981, the editorial board has only once endorsed the candidate who ended up winning: Progressive PeTer cLaveLLe over Republican Kurt Wright in 1999.

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Endorsements aren’t necessarily about picking winners. They are statements of a news organization’s values, and the Free Press values nothing if not “transparency.” But when an editorial board and its presumed readership are so far apart on something like this, someone looks out of touch. The good news for the Freeps: The revote offers another chance to endorse — and, maybe this time, get it right. Of course, if I were Miro Weinberger or Tim Ashe, I’m not sure I’d want it. Here’s a tip for the candidates: If you reinterview with the editorial board, steer clear of the transparency issue. It just might get you a blessing you don’t want!

Burlington cops have taken a different view. In a letter to occupiers last Sunday, Police Chief MichAel schirling wrote that he saw no way that police could guarantee the public’s safety should the encampment continue. “Quite the contrary, emerging safety issues ranging from violence and deaths to outbreaks of disease have begun to emerge in similar encampments across the nation,” the chief wrote, adding a note of thanks to occupiers for vacating the park voluntarily. Weighing the “pros and cons” of the two-week protest, Krutak says the clash with police was a “con.” In the emotionally charged hours after Pfenning’s death, Krutak says occupiers were fearful of an Oakland-style police raid and cops were afraid that demonstrators might “storm the crime scene.” Krutak still blames Schirling for not warning demonstrators beforehand that cops armed with Tasers and tear gas had arrived at the park to secure the crime scene, but she also blames occupiers for “acting too quickly.” Krutak doesn’t see the events as a setback for Occupy Burlington. Instead, she says they “further highlight the need for change in our system. That’s what this movement is all about. It’s about moving into a system that is more equitable and more just, that centers around human values rather than human vices.” In fact, she says, not having to manage an active campsite has freed up occupiers to work on other priorities. This Thursday, Occupy Burlington is organizing a rally in support of unionized postal workers at the Elmwood Avenue post office, followed by an event at Edmunds Middle School called “Teach In/Speak Out — Makin’ Trouble for the 1%: Tales of Labor Activism from the 99%.” “I can definitely say with certainty,” Krutak says, “that no one is ready to give up on this movement.” m

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Two weeks after setting up in City Hall Park, the Occupy Burlington encampment is history. Burlington police and city hall shut down the tent city following the death of 35-year-old Josh Pfenning, who fatally shot himself inside one of the tents on November 10. Later that night, chanting occupiers clashed with Taser-toting police after one demonstrator was detained for allegedly crossing into the roped-off crime scene. By Monday, November 14, the only signs of the former encampment were squares of dead, yellow grass where occupiers’ tents once stood. Sections of the park remained cordoned off with crime tape until maintenance workers could rake for condoms, broken glass and other hazards left behind. What lessons can be drawn from this tragedy, and the short-lived occupation? Occupy Burlington organizers say they weren’t equipped to handle the influx of campers with substance abuse and mental health problems — including Pfenning, who friends say struggled with alcoholism — but did their best to provide a de facto shelter. The encampment had a code of conduct that banned alcohol, drugs and weapons, but organizer AnnA KrutAK says such rules were impossible for the occupiers to enforce in a public space like City Hall Park. “The events of Thursday were really, really unfortunate, but I don’t think that they were a manifestation of our failure to effectively establish a code of conduct,” Krutak tells Fair Game. “It was a very isolated event that wouldn’t necessarily have been repeated if the camp continued.”

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alding, bespectacled Gus Speth stood out among the 50-odd protesters gathered at the White House gates. At 69, Speth was a couple of generations older than most of those congregated last August on the first day of a twoweek series of sit-ins against a proposed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline. But it wasn’t just his age: Speth stood out for his clothing too, wearing a brown suit jacket on that hot summer afternoon. As he was led away in handcuffs, Speth could look over his shoulder at the building where he had worked 30 years earlier as chairman of President Jimmy Carter’s Council on Environmental Quality. Two years ago, Speth added Vermont Law School professor to an already impressive résumé

that qualifies him as one of the most distinguished figures in the nation’s environmental movement. What motivated Speth’s journey from the White House to the big house? Simply put, it’s that, for the past three decades, the United States has essentially ignored an environmental crisis that imperils the future of humankind. Speth proudly recalls that the Carter administration issued three prophetic reports on climate change. Congress likewise cooperated in the 1970s with both Republican and Democratic presidents to enact landmark laws to improve air and water quality and to rescue species on the edge of extinction.

But that golden age gave way to an era of dross, Speth laments. “The problem of climate change has gotten horrendous, and nothing has been done about it. Europe, Japan and others have shown they’re ready to act, but we’ve not even tagged along, much less led,” Speth says. And so the Yale-trained lawyer who clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court justice decided he had to break the law. He and fellow climate-change activist Bill McKibben joined 1200 activists carted away by the feds as they sought to dramatize their opposition to a pipeline that would slice through the North American heartland. With “America’s insatiable appetite for gasoline” setting up a “carbon bomb,” Speth

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says he knew he had to “break out of the system.” That was both a courageous and catalyzing action on the part of someone with such impeccable establishmentarian credentials, McKibben observes. “Unlike most people, he managed as he got older to adjust his worldview,” McKibben says of Speth. “The argument in his last few books came down to ‘much of what I’ve done in my life didn’t work.’” But this new course of direct action did work. The Obama administration announced on November 10 — four days after Speth and McKibben had returned to the White House, this time with 12,000 demonstrators — that it will put off a decision on the pipeline until after the president’s current term in office. That marks a major victory for climate-change forces, McKibben declares, suggesting that Speth’s role may have been pivotal. He says Washington’s mainstream green groups were galvanized two months ago by the sight of a revered elder going to jail for the sake of his eco-principles. Influential organizations such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute — both of which Speth founded — let the Obama administration know they stood behind those penned in what McKibben calls the “weird and scary” D.C. Central Cell Block. It was not a congenial place to spend 48 hours, Speth recollects. “We had to sleep on slabs of stainless steel with no blankets and no pillow,” he relates. “We were given, literally, bread and water twice a day. But the spirit in there was wonderful.” The initial group of about 50 jailed protesters made use of the “human microphone” a few weeks before Occupy Wall Street popularized that method of amplification, Speth notes. “‘Yo, Speth,’” he says one of the detainees called out, “‘you’re a professor, so give us a lecture.’” He proceeded to summarize the thesis of a book he’s writing with the tentative title America, Rising to Its Dream. It’s a critical analysis of the current political and economic system

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as well as an appeal for a social movement that will replace it with something more humane. Speth recently delivered a series of related public lectures at Vermont Law School. Speth’s recent resort to direct action notwithstanding, he remains a scholar at heart. He’s written or edited four books on environmental and political themes in addition to serving for 10 years as dean of the Yale Graduate School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Speth’s latest manuscript may turn out to be more upbeat in tone than would have been the case several months ago. The nationwide upsurge of protests against economic inequali-

poverty and pollution. During his time as an administrator of the world body, Speth was the highest-ranking American working at the UN. He was lured to Vermont Law School by its dean, Geoffrey Shields, who had gotten to know Speth through the Vermont institution’s joint degree program with the Yale graduate environmental program. “When I heard Gus was thinking about buying a home in Vermont, I worked hard on getting him,” Shields says. Speth’s presence has been a boon to Vermont Law School, Shields adds. Not only does he help attract high-caliber students and faculty, the addition of so

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ties could mark the “great turning we’ve been waiting for,” he suggests. “Every progressive I know is praying that Occupy is the beginning of a strong popular movement.” Although he still speaks with the lilting cadence of his native South Carolina, Speth says he feels wholly at home in Strafford, where he and his wife, Cameron, raise chickens on a hill with “a great Vermont view.” In his concluding lecture at VLS earlier this month, Speth laid out a vision for what America could become. He says he told his hundreds of listeners in South Royalton, “This may sound a lot like what Vermont already is.” Speth remains marked by the Carolinas in other ways. Industrial poisoning of a mountain lake near his grandparents’ home in North Carolina propelled him onto a path that led to his leadership of the United Nations Development Program, as well as to an awareness of the connections between

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Everyone thought the Burlington Democratic mayoral caucus would be close, but who could have guessed it would end in a dead heat without a winner? More than 1300 voters attended the marathon caucus at Memorial Auditorium on Sunday. After three rounds of voting, plus a recount, Miro Weinberger and Tim Ashe (pictured left to right) were tied at 540 votes apiece. Rather than force a fourth round of voting after many caucus-goers had gone home, party leaders opted to suspend the proceedings and schedule a run-off vote at a later date. Jason Lorber was the first eliminated from the four-person race, followed by Bram Kranichfeld. A majority of ballots cast was needed to win, though a loophole in Burlington Democratic Party bylaws prompted a confusing review of what “majority” meant. (See Fair Game on page 12). The results of round one were: Ashe 458, Weinberger 391, Kranichfeld 354 and Lorber 106. (No majority winner, and Lorber dropped out voluntarily). Round two results were: Ashe 471, Weinberger 390 and Kranichfeld 356. (Kranichfeld eliminated). Round three results were: Ashe 541 and Weinberger 540. (Because 542 votes were needed to win, there was no victor). After a recount, the result came back an exact tie: Ashe and Weinberger each had 540 votes. On Wednesday, the Burlington Democratic Party will meet to set a date for a runoff election. (Disclosure: Tim Ashe is the domestic partner of Seven Days publisher and coeditor Paula Routly. See disclosure on page 7.)

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Guess it wasn’t enough for U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to have his name on both Lyndon State’s Center for Rural Students and ECHO, Burlington’s home-away-from-home for turtles, lizards and other creeping critters. This week, Champlain College rechristened its state-of-the-art digital forensics lab to honor Vermont’s senior senator and chief congressional patron: The Patrick Leahy Center for Digital Investigation, or LCDI, for short. LCDI is housed in Champlain’s brand-spanking-new Miller Center at Lakeside Campus, bringing together students, cops and other professional e-sleuthers. There, students learn how to recover evidence from computer hard drives, smart phones and other digital devices. The lab also offers low-cost digital forensics work for local businesses investigating computer wrongdoing on company time, as well as data recovery services for students who accidentally drop their Droids in the toilet. What’s it cost to get your name on a forensics lab? In 2010, Leahy scored a three-year, $500,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant to support local law enforcement’s digital forensic efforts. That half-mil was in addition to a $650,000 grant Leahy secured in ’06 to staff Champlain’s budding digital forensics program. “This is a program that already has proven itself invaluable in putting criminals behind bars,” Leahy said this week. He should know. Before getting elected senator in 1974, Leahy spent eight years as the Chittenden County state’s attorney. Thirty-seven years later, he ranks second in seniority in the Senate and chairs the Judiciary Committee, a position that offers him plenty of pull, especially on federal purse strings.

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I was initially happy to see the appreciation for these talented musicians in [Album Review, Flabberghaster, Live Like Lightning, October 5]. As a writer, though, I was surprised to see the review taking so much time to contrast the difference between binding genres and reinstating them. Flabberghaster are clearly a band that are hard to pinpoint by genre, and this is something they take great pride in. Saying that because these young musicians haven’t completely created a genre of their own is naïve. I believe if a band can take its first record, include multiple genres, and make every track differ from the previous, that band is creating its own thing. The whole album is a smooth mix of rock, funk, reggae and, most importantly, soul. I would have liked to see a review articulate on more specifics than choice of vocabulary. Emily marie Hurley bRattleboRo

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In response to the letter from Hope Johnson entitled “Irony on the Menu?” [Feedback, October 19], criticizing Leunig’s and Betsy Conlon for promoting fundraising for FAHC’s Breast Care Center through the restaurant’s wine sales, I would like to say that I have been an insulin-dependent diabetic for 28 years and have some understanding of incurable, chronic, life-threatening disease. If Leunig’s donated a dime to the American Diabetes Association for every crème brulée or banana cream pie sold, I am quite sure I would simply say thank you. Samantha Sellers Winooski

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Seven Days received many letters about last week’s story entitled “Burlington’s Occupiers Have Company — and They’re Really Homeless,” mostly from protesters who felt it was a negative portrayal of their Occupy Wall Street movement. A day later, a 35-year-old itinerant man committed suicide in the park. Police have since reinstated the city’s no-camping policy, and all occupiers have left the park. I appreciate a report on the homeless in City Hall Park, as they are usually invisible to the community. In the article, however, Occupiers are described as educated and articulate, implying that the homeless are not. A little deeper digging and you would find many homeless are extremely well educated. Many have advanced degrees. And they are also articulate if engaged in a respectful manner. Time to check those assumptions and not stereotype the disenfranchised. Donna iverson

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I wasn’t present during Kevin J. Kelley’s recent trip to City Hall Park, but he interviewed me for an October blog post on my first trip to Zuccotti Park. While annoyed at what I felt were mischaracterizations of our conversation, I let it slide. However, the recent article, and resulting criticisms I heard from individuals who spoke with Kevin on Friday, indicate a repeating pattern that I will address. Kelley characterizes the occupations as either akin to a Phish concert or awash with dispossessed individuals blamed for their own behavior. Rather than treat their very presence as politics, he defers spokespersonship to alreadyexisting leaders within social and political institutions. This logic delegitimizes the real people with real stakes in this movement for a society without hierarchy and, hence, inequality. Clearly he fails to understand our rejection of the very legitimacy of hierarchical leadership. Leadership, as invoked by Kelley, implies hierarchy within a bureaucratic society ruled by “experts.” The tacit assumption is that individuals need to follow orders and directions from above. This all too easily slides into a justification of the status quo — that divisions of wealth, power and privilege are basic social facts, rather than effects of the conditions in which they exist. By refusing to kowtow to false leaders, the Occupy movement

is forcing the conversation on social inequality to move toward addressing its root causes. Seven Days should stand by this, rather than hide behind tired conventions of a failed social order. Ian G. Williams burlington

I think this article missed the point of a very key aspect of our movement. It speaks about the situation between homeless and activists down in City Hall Park as “them” and “us,” “activists” and “homeless,” when in reality you cannot make these distinctions. We are one community down in the park, and the houseless community is just as much a part of the movement as any activist down there. I cannot tell you how grateful everyone down at the park is that Burlington’s movement is unique in its inclusiveness. The other night, Joel, who you speak about in the article, had a long conversation with me to help me calm an overly rowdy, inebriated man and get him out of the park. Joel told me how much he appreciated that we were there, and that he wanted to help out whenever he was needed. I just want you to realize that when you speak about the movement in ways such as this article, you only discredit all the good that happens down in that park every day and every night. This is what “occupy” is all about. If we are all looking toward Wall Street, corporations and the government, we also need to be able to look in the other direction, toward the portion of the 99 percent who struggle the most and need their voices to be heard more than anyone. burlington

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Kevin Kelley’s article seems to take deliberate pains to avoid balance and context. Gov. Madeleine Kunin, city councilors, mayoral candidates, Melinda Moulton, Ben & Jerry’s board of directors, the Salvation Army, Stone Soup and many more are among the broad-based community of support that Kelley omits. Employees of the Committee on Temporary Shelter and the HowardCenter — facing $45 million in budget cuts, short staffing and being over capacity — have started sending clients to the occupation. Additionally, it’s interesting that Kelley never once mentions the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, causes for Vermonters to experience homelessness or Vermont’s soaring economic inequality. Perhaps 81 percent of Vermonters not being able to afford the median-price Vermont home merits at least as much discussion as slandering our most vulnerable

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neighbors’ behavioral choices. With little empathy, Kelley paints in broadbrush generalizations: “belligerent drunks and mentally ill homeless.” A recent analysis by USA Today of the U.S. Census Bureaus American Community Survey shows Burlington’s middle class is shrinking faster than nearly anywhere else in the country. The University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute reported in 2007 that Vermont ranked second among all the states in fastest growth in income inequality. Kelley gathered interviews relating the information above. Unfortunately, through his omissions, lack of context and balance, Kelley instead utilizes Seven Days’ pages to disparage Vermonters coming together to turn these trends around.

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e are so seat of the pants, it’s not even funny,” says MEREDITH GORDON. Except that it is. Snort-milk-out-your-nose funny. “We” is POTATO SACK PANTS THEATER, a sketch-comedy troupe that debuted last May at the Burlington Fringe Festival, a three-day event at the OFF CENTER FOR THE DRAMATIC ARTS. PSPT’s piece “Character Flaws” was all ridiculous costumes, bad wigs, vaudevillian shtick and unhinged humor. Gordon was responsible for several of those “flawed” characters. The group put on another show at the Off Center in September — the first in its “A Mini Series: A Series of Mini Comedy Shows.” The second, and last, show is this Saturday, November 19. Though local standup comics have proliferated in recent years, Potato Sack is the rare ensemble devoted to the sketch format, recalling Burlington’s short-lived Laff Dammit in the late ’80s. Audiences have responded with giggles,

guffaws and peeing their pants a little. So, why such a short “series”? “We don’t know what we’re doing. I mean, we really don’t know what we’re doing,” ANDY GORDON, Meredith’s husband and comic partner, confides faux-gravely during a recent interview. It’s a point he stresses several times. At first, the six members of Potato Sack thought they’d just do one show a year, explains Meredith Gordon, but then they “had enough material left over” for a couple of fall performances. And for several very silly videos, which can be viewed on YouTube. And then, she says, “We thought we’d spend the winter writing new material.” In fact, PSPT never expected to be a “troupe” in the first place. “We’re just a bunch of friends who like to make each other laugh,” says Meredith. She and two other member-friends work together at Burlington’s Select Design, which suggests the company’s “fuel for innovative brands” may be hopped up on

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humor. So far, Andy Gordon’s presence in the creative department at WCAX has not made the news funnier, but one can still hope. All six friends — three couples, all native Vermonters — show up for an interview at the Off Center, chairs arranged on stage in a circle, as if for group therapy. The potential concept for a future sketch does not go unnoted. The Gordons, both 29, have known each other since seventh grade. Meredith is average height, with short blond hair and a perpetual smile that suggests she’s in on the cosmic joke. As a character-driven performer, she is loud,

uninhibited and versatile, like Gilda Radner on early “Saturday Night Live.” Andy is tall and lanky, quick witted, prone to funny faces and physical slapstick. Think a young Dick Van Dyke. (Kids, if you don’t get these references, visit the internet.) Andy Gordon’s foil is STETSON WARD, 32. Somewhat shorter and stockier, he bears a resemblance to Billy Crystal. (“But his lips,” declares Gordon, blocking the rest of Ward’s face with his hands, “are totally Macaulay Culkin.”) Ward shows up late, clad in grass-stained shorts and knee socks — he’s been playing football. Ward and Andy Gordon have a natural

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some artistic and retail life into two formerly vacant street-front suites. “Empty spaces are a blight, and it’s about removing the last blight in downtown Winooski and filling it with light and color,” said Harrington at the opening. “Artists kind of see vacant space as an opportunity,” said pop-up organizer RIC KASINI KADOUR. After working on last

summer’s Pop-Up Gallery District, he teamed up with Harrington again to put art into some of Winooski’s vacant spaces. At the opening, artists, their friends and others curious to see what was going on inside the brightest windows on the block congregated at the market. Nature as inspiration and recyclable materials were common themes, but there was a huge range — from ROBERT GOLD’s vivid manipulated digital photos to BIKE RECYCLE VERMONT’s spoke bracelets and EVE JACOBS-CARNAHAN’s knitted veggies. The prices ranged from $5 to $500. Harrington has become landlady of the large space, completed in 2007, after entering a five-year lease with Massachusetts-based owners HallKeen. To the artists taking part, it seemed worth it to pay rent for a limited period. “Frankly, these are the months

that people shop,” said LIZA COWAN of the retail enterprise SMALL EQUALS, which specializes in keepsake boxes of Vermont pine with vintage-print covers. The owner of the defunct Pine Street Art Works explained that renting for just two months and working with people she trusts makes sense. Chatting with friends in her display space, abstract painter LINDA MANEY noted, “I was interested in the opportunity, because I normally show in central Vermont.” Among her paintings on sale was “Goodnight Irene,” which was inspired by flood damage to her town of Roxbury following August’s devastating tropical storm. Business started with a bang for at least one artist. “I sold an angel!” Westford-based artist LONGINA SMOLINSKI happily announced to Harrington at the end of the opening night, referring to a piece in her new painting series. Subtle

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temporarily derailing the conversation. “I like humor that makes people uncomfortable,” reports Hayden. Says Goodall: “real-life stuff that isn’t supposed to be funny.” Meredith Gordon agrees that life stories, “the things people do and say,” can be fodder for her — “My mom and grandmother somehow find their way into my characters,” she says. “We all have different senses of humor,” Meredith continues, “so someone in the audience will connect with each sketch.” “Sometimes there’s one person laughing hysterically and no one else is,” adds Goodall. So will Potato Sack Pants Theater turn into Burlington’s Second City? Too early to tell, but it’s clear this bunch, perhaps appropriately, doesn’t take itself too seriously. “We don’t really consider ourselves a theater group,” reiterates Andy Gordon. “We just put something out there and hope people laugh.” If all else fails, there is this: “In the next show,” Gordon intones, “Stetson and I will be naked.” m

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When Borders announced the closing of its Burlington store, everyone wondered how long this classic college town could remain without a downtown bookseller. First, Church Street’s CROW BOOKSHOP — known for used books — stepped into the breach by expanding its stock of new titles. Now comes big news from RENÉE REINER and MICHAEL DESANTO, who own PHOENIX BOOKS in the Essex Shoppes and Cinemas. In their store’s holiday catalog, to be published next week, the couple will announce that they “are engaged in an effort to open a bookstore in downtown Burlington. We plan to keep the Essex store open and establish a nearly 6000-square-foot store on or near Church Street within five months,” their statement says. Because they’re still negotiating a lease, Reiner and DeSanto can’t specify the store’s potential location. But DeSanto does say, by phone, that they are “looking for the community to be really involved in this bookstore.” What does that mean? When Borders closed, some locals speculated that an indie bookseller might be able to draw on community support, just as Claire’s Restaurant and Bar in Hardwick drew on demand for its locavore cuisine. “To make something like this work these days, it needs to be a community-sponsored effort,” PAUL BRUHN, director of Preservation Trust of Vermont, told Kevin J. Kelley for an article in this paper. While bookstores aren’t restaurants, Reiner and DeSanto confirm they’re contemplating a business model “philosophically” similar to that of Claire’s. “We believe that the future can be profitable for a unique, local and independent front-list bookstore in downtown Burlington,” their statement reads. “We’re inviting people who are interested in making this project come about to get in touch with us.” It’s a bold move to open a bookstore in 2011 — but it was in 2007, too, when the couple opened Phoenix in the former Book Rack space. They recently added an art gallery to their store and café, which hosts regular readings and events. “We’re very excited,” Reiner says of their plans. And, she adds, “we have every reason to think we’re going to be successful at doing it.” They’re hoping local book lovers are on the same page.

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Dear cecil, What’s that smell in the air (some people like it, others don’t) right before it rains? I’ve lived all over the country and there’s no variation ... when you smell it, you know rain is on its way. Nicky, mount Prospect, Ill.

important in an era long past. Geosmin is produced by several types of bacteria and algae, which manufacture a volatile compound that can be kicked up when soil is disturbed, such as by gardening, plowing or a hard rain. When a storm threatens and a few molecules of geosmin waft your way, it signifies rain is falling to windward, and in the fullness of time, will fall on you. Because we’re so attuned to it, a little geosmin goes a long way, and a lot can be decidedly unpleasant. Geosmin and another fragrant soil-borne compound, 2-methylisoborneol or

Is there something you need to get straight? Cecil adams can deliver the straight dope on any topic. Write Cecil adams at the Chicago reader, 11 e. illinois, Chicago, iL 60611, or visit www.straightdope.com.

2-MIB, can make wine taste earthy, water yucky and fish foul. (Catfish are especially susceptible.) The scent of geosmin may tell farmers their soil is healthy, but this is one area where a lot of non-farmers would be content to leave their ignorance intact. Repellent though some find it, geosmin seems to be harmless to most animals, and in itself doesn’t signify that anything toxic is brewing. In fact, nobody really knows what it does or why we’re so sensitive to it, and most scientists, by nature practical folk, decline to speculate. But a scarcity of facts has never bothered me, and in this case we’ve got a sliver of information to go on. A couple of UK scientists, wondering

I just recently finished spinning around a lot at my friend’s house and feel very dizzy even after two hours. This got me thinking: Is it possible to die from spinning for too long? or would you just have one of the worst hangovers ever and possibly splurge your inner contents? Science demands an answer! Jay meza hat’s how you and your friends like to pass the time, Jay — spinning around a lot? Well, it beats snorting PCP and

thinking you’re Jesus. However, the practice isn’t without its perils. As a general matter the worst that could happen is you fall down, hurl or look like a putz. But if you’re not healthy to begin with, there’s a nonzero chance you could die. We know this because a couple of people have, although at an amusement park, not at home. Specifically, two people expired after going on a Disney World ride called Mission: Space, which subjects you to sustained centrifugal acceleration of just over 2 g. While this is less g-force than is generated by other rides, including numerous roller coasters, those rides typically produce their peak force for shorter intervals. In one case, a 4-year-old boy passed out while riding Mission: Space and later died as a result of a pre-existing heart condition; in the other, a 49-year-old woman suffered a fatal stroke as a complication of high blood pressure. Then again, astronauts and others undergoing centrifuge training as part of the (real) space program endured spins of up to 32 g with nothing worse than mild sinus pain. One scientist, knowing sustained acceleration would substantially quicken a Mars trip, successfully withstood a constant 2 g for 24 hours. So unless you’re adding some twist to your spinning that I really don’t want to know about, you should be OK.

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he smell is called petrichor, the scent of rain falling on dry earth. It’s caused by a couple of compounds in the soil, one of them known as geosmin, “earth-smell,” a term I found wonderfully Tolkienesque. (O geosmin! O earth-smell! A Elbereth Gilthoniel!) However, the Straight Dope copy desk recoiled, noting that any such reading would necessitate a vulgar conjunction of Elvish, pseudo-Anglo-Saxon and Greek. We’ll therefore refrain from literary commentary and proceed in strict accord with science. The human nose, not normally considered a particularly acute instrument, is extraordinarily sensitive to geosmin; we can detect it at a level of just ten parts in a trillion. Today this is mostly an annoyance, since in our supercilious age many prefer the fragrance of machine oil and ozone to the sweet smell of the planet. But I’ll venture to suggest it was

how Bactrian camels in the Gobi desert were supposedly able to sniff out water from 50 miles away, proposed that the animals were actually smelling geosmin carried by the wind from oases. A survival trait so obviously useful to camels would likewise be advantageous to us. Long ago we were mainly nomads wandering in arid regions. It’s easy to imagine a parched band trudging mapless in the desert looking for the next watering hole. Then the breeze picks up, and what do they detect? Had they lacked the appropriate olfactory adaptation, nothing, with possibly disastrous consequences. As it was, if they were fortunate, they might smell the faint odor of moist earth, and with it the promise that they’d live another day.

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Tangletown “Nope, not really. When it all went to the bulk storage, they had to sell out on account of we couldn’t afford the new containers the milk processors required.” “So, what kinda work did you go into, Francis? Did you stick with the farming?” “Nope, I been a mechanic my whole life. I can fix purt near anything, I mean, if I put my mind to it.” “So you never left Vermont?” “Not hardly. During the war, in the Navy, I was stationed in Australia and New Zealand. And for about three years in the ’60s, my brother-in-law lured me and the wife down to Florida for a job as a Pan Am plane mechanic. The work was OK, as far as that went, but I could never get used to livin’ in Florida. You see, all the water there is black and stagnant like, and it’s filled with reptiles and whatnot. And one thing I cannot abide is rattlesnakes.” Francis paused for a moment, shuddering at the thought. “So we moved back to Vermont. I guess I just prefer the clear water.” We were cruising south on the highway. I generally take it up to 70, but I stayed closer to 60 — selfishly, to extend this trip. As we passed the Waterbury exit, Francis perked up, saying, “I remember when we was kids we used to make these contraptions, we called ’em ‘scooter skis.’ You’d kind of stand on them like a scooter, and we’d go flying down the hills in the winter. Then somebody opened a ski factory in

Waterbury, and we’d buy the seconds for about two bucks. I remember walking up the hills with them over my shoulder — beautiful wood and the strap bindings.” “This is before the ski lifts?” “Yup, way before. Then some folks got the idea for the rope tow. We liked that.” We exited the highway, and Francis indicated the way. We drove in silence for a few minutes before he suddenly turned to face me and asked, “Are you a hunter?” Knowing the place hunting holds in Vermont’s rural culture, I felt put on the spot. But I responded honestly. “I don’t think I could stand to shoot an animal, particularly a deer,” I confessed. “I mean, they’re so perfectly beautiful.” “Well,” he said, “I used to hunt all the time. Then, it was about 25 years back, I shot this big buck. It was dawn, I remember, not far from where we are right now. I walked over and looked down at him, and my heart just about broke. I guess you mellow with age or something. When we were young, it was a real macho thing, like. You’d try to get your name in the paper for the best deer and whatnot. But that was the last time I been hunting. Oh, hey — take this left right here.” I looked up to see a sign marked “Molly Supple Hill Road” and took the turn. This was virgin territory for me — a rare occurrence after 30 years of hacking in northern Vermont — and the road name tickled me. I asked my customer about it: Was there something particularly supple about Molly?

This old genTleman, i recognized, was a member of ThaT club i’ve dubbed

the “Vermont royalty.”

“Oh, no — I see what you’re getting at there,” he replied, chuckling. “Nope, Molly Supple lived right up here a ways. I guess she killed her husband, and they named the road for her.” My eyes widened. I honestly had no idea if the guy was putting me on. A Vermonter like Francis wields a humor as dry as vermouth, so it was hard to determine. “I don’t know,” he added, after a pause of precisely the perfect length. “It could be he had it comin’.” We turned into Francis’ driveway. Set on a slight rise off to the right was a one-story cabin. The wood was rough hewn, but the entire structure was gracefully fashioned. I asked, “Do you own this place, Francis?” “Ayup, I built it myself about — well, 40 years back.” “If you don’t mind my asking, how old are you, anyway?” “I’m 91 years old.” Taking in that piece of information, I glanced to the left to see a long woodshed lined on one side with what looked like at least 20 cords of perfectly cut and stacked firewood. I asked, “You got somebody comes up here to cut the firewood for you?” “Nope,” he replied, as that light in his eye seemed to brighten up like the North Star on a clear November night. “I split it all this past summer. It’s what I do for recreation.”

And that’s just the thing about our Vermont Royalty, I thought to myself as I

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oy, oh, boy.” Francis grabbed my attention with his surprisingly vigorous voice. “I am glad to get out of there. The doctors were all set to release me early this morning, but it took ’til three o’clock to get all this gosh-dern paperwork squared away. I just hate bein’ cooped up, is all.” Sitting in the shotgun seat, he clutched a manila envelope in his right hand. I presumed it contained the gosh-dern hospitalrelease papers. On a bet, I couldn’t have said how old this man was, but he had to be 80, anyway. His stooped posture and graystubbled, concave cheeks echoed, in my imagination, the wizened appearance of a Tolkien wizard. Despite his age and infirmity, Francis’ eyes shone with a splendid sparkle, as if he were privy to some classified cosmic whimsy at the core of the universe, a liberating knowledge that stuck with him even as life threw its inevitable left and right hooks. This old gentleman, I recognized, was a member of that club I’ve dubbed the “Vermont Royalty.” When I’m lucky to have contact with such a personage, I just try to keep the conversation moving along and soak it in. “So, Francis,” I said, “they told me I’m taking you to Middlesex, but they weren’t sure exactly where. They said you’d tell me.” “Yup, I’ll tell ya. You heard of Tangletown? That’s where I live. It’s kinda a part of Middlesex. Just take that exit off’n the interstate and I’ll get ya up there.” “Didja grow up in those parts?’ I asked. “Well, close to there, yuh. Grew up on a dairy farm. I worked the horse team from about age 6. My two older brothers did the hard work.” “A horse team?” I said. “You mean your folks weren’t using a tractor yet?”

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aula Jean Welden wasn’t known as the type of person who took off without telling her friends or family where she was going. Until one Sunday in 1946. After working the lunch shift in the school’s dining hall, the 18-year-old art major at Bennington College left campus at about 2:30 p.m. on December 1. A passing motorist picked her up hitchhiking 15 minutes later and dropped her along Route 9, a few miles from Glastonbury Mountain. Welden — who was slim and fit, with blue eyes and wavy blond hair, according to a subsequent police description — told the driver she planned to hike the Long Trail. An experienced camper from Stamford, Conn., Welden was last seen at 4 p.m. by a fellow hiker, whom she asked how far the trail went. All the way to Canada, he told her. Several hours later, it began to snow. When Welden didn’t show up for classes on Monday morning, college officials called police, whom began seeking leads. Friends told them that, despite her good looks, Welden never had a steady boyfriend. Family members said she was occasionally depressed, but was never down enough to take her own life. Police from Vermont, Connecticut and New York scoured the Long Trail and surrounding areas for weeks but turned up nothing. Did Welden freeze to death? Was she kidnapped? Was she murdered and buried along the trail? No one knows, as her body was never recovered. Thousands of Vermonters have gone missing in the last century. The cases range from rapidly resolved disappearances to enduring mysteries to current

puzzlers, such as that of William and Lorraine Currier, the Essex couple who disappeared on June 8. But Welden’s case stands out for one reason: Her disappearance revealed that local police at the time were woefully ill equipped to handle such investigations on their own. Thanks in large part to the lobbying of Welden’s father, in 1947 the Vermont Legislature created the Department of Public Safety and its law-enforcement arm, the Vermont

State Police. Today, the VSP serves as the central clearinghouse for all missingpersons cases in the state, lending its expertise, staffing and other resources to what are often time-consuming and highly technical investigations. However, the VSP rarely takes the lead on missing-persons cases; that’s the job of police in the locality where the person disappeared. As a result, such investigations can vary with the agencies working them. While

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Vermont’s approach to missing-persons cases has evolved considerably since Welden’s day — and continues to do so — not all of those agencies avail themselves of the high-tech resources now available. Nationwide, missing-persons investigation has advanced light-years since Paula Welden’s disappearance. Today, many critical details about her — the small scar under her left eyebrow, the red parka with fur-trimmed hood she was wearing when last seen, her Elgin wristwatch with repairer’s markings scratched inside the case — could all be entered in a national database known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs for short. The NamUs, which was created in 2007 and is maintained by the National Institute of Justice, is designed to match the DNA of missing persons to the tens of thousands of unidentified human remains found nationwide. In June 2007, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that, in a typical year, coroners and medical examiners handle about 4400 unidentified remains, of which 1000 are still not identified after one year. The NamUs website, which is free and accessible to the public, currently lists 16 missing Vermonters. The newest additions to the list are William and Lorraine Currier. The oldest case: Lynne Schulze, an 18-year-old Middlebury College student who went missing on December 10, 1971. Yet the Curriers are not the most recent Vermonters to be reported missing — nor does the NamUs’ total of 16 match that held by the state police. As of last week, the police listed 43 persons missing in Vermont: 28 adults and 15 juveniles, including 17-year-old Marble MISSING!

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hen 17-year-o ld Marble Arvi dson went missing Marble lived the day before with the Cata Tropical Stor ldos for a year and m Irene tore southern Verm a half. It was th ro ug h good ont, it was ea fo r a wh ile, but not pe sy to imagine that the Brat rfect: The tleboro reside Cataldos are nt was homesteader stranded som s out in ewhere on th th e W ilm in e wrong side of gton sticks. “It a washed-out wa road. More th sn’t th e be st place for a an two month later, the floo teenager,” s dwaters have Cataldo conc receded. Road ed and bridges ha es. Marble wa s ve been men nted to be closer to ded. But Marble is still his friends in missing with town. He wa nted access to B Y M E G A N JA M E S out a trace. The details su a computer rrounding his and TV. And th disappearanc e adults in hi e are agonizin s life ag re ed gl he could bene y sparse. He was last seen fit from a on Saturday, more indepe August 27, at West Brattle nd en t living situat the boro home he ion. So he moved shares with tw parents and to the home another child o foster in West . sa On Br w at e M tle of ar the housemat boro. ble answer th recognize the es e door at arou visitor. Marbl Marble and Ca nd 2 p.m., bu e had made a afternoon, so t didn’t taldo remaine date with his , before leavin close. “I spen d gi rlf rie g wi nd th the visitor, saying he’d be fo t an inordina r 4 th at he left a note back in abou te am ou nt of time wi for his housem t 20 minutes The rain bega th Marble,” sa . He never retu ates n falling that Cataldo. “I love ys rned. night. By Mon missing, Brat d the kid.” Up day, when Mar tleboro was in until he we nt bl a e st missing, Mar was reported ate of emerge flooded with bl e saw his several feet of ncy. Downtown mentor three water. Comm had been blocked. Brid or four days a unications we ges were out. week. They especia re do wn . Ro lly loved driv ads were Marble doesn’t Marble ing on own a cellpho ba Arvidso ck ro ads together shoulder-leng ne. At six-foot n , listening to th blond hair, -tw o an Bo d b Marley. 165 pounds, he blue eyes and wearing black, a fair complex ha s including his fa ion. His family The Thursday vorite black bo says he was By Wednesday before he wler hat, the da , the Brattlebo disappeared, y he went miss disappearanc ro Marble spent Re fo in rm g. er had report e, but washed the night in W dr ove him hom ed on Marble’ -out roads ke ilmington. Ca Marble’s mot e the next da s pt the paper taldo her, Sigrid Ar y, and they ta st fro ar m te vi cir ds d se cu on lked about th eing. “She’s a lating widely. sergeant maj , and her sist e girl he’d rece nice girl, very er, Trish Kittre or for the Mas ha pp y together. Th intelligent,” sa ntly sachusetts Ar dge, a comm the newspape ey were groo and ys Cataldo. “Th my National r to all the su ving.” Guard, hand-d ey seemed Th ey rrounding to ’d be organized th en hanging ou elivered wns they coul e search for he t over the sum including the d reach. Kittre r nephew. mer with a gr girl’s ex-boyfri Rumors were dge oup of friends end. Rumors already flying house with th , have circulate . The most pe was that Mar e ex that Saturday rvasive, acco d that Marble ble must be st has denied it. afternoon, bu rding to Arvids left his randed in ha that theory to t, ac co rd on -h rd , it in g to Cataldo, Dover. It didn be quashed. On Sunday, Ca the boy ’t take long fo The Brattlebo taldo got a ca r ro police adm ll from the fo returned. Cata it they’re gras lot of informat st ld er o wouldn’t ha family saying ping at straws ion on how he ve worried — Marble hadn except that it . “We don’t ha went missing is handling th “He’d done th ’t was the week ve a ,” says Detect e case. “We do at before,” he en d sa of ys Ire iv e Ca ne Paul Beebe, wh says — n’t know if he taldo. “He chec . “He wasn’t th away, [or] if he went missing o e ke ty d was kidnappe pe in of ne ki ar in d not to call,” ly every day. Wilmington, because he wa d.” The person wi If he was awar he would have lked th whom Mar e of the floodi called.” The Brattlebo ble left his ho according to ng ro co m use remains Beebe. He co munity has ra his status as unidentified, uld not divulg llied around M say the depa a kid in foster e more details ar bl rtment has be e, bu ca t re Ar mother of a m complicates vidson says of the case, ex en looking fo networking si the issue. “It’s issing child — cept to r leads online tes. Police ha difficult to be that’s an unde social stigma — in particula ve been work the and have cont rs ta ar te r, ou on m nd en in so g t,” she says. “B aspects of ou cial with the Verm acted the Na r lives.” That stigma, ut there’s ont Fusion Ce tional Center Marble is not Arvidson belie nter for Missing an currently liste ves, has led so he left of his d Exploited Ch d in the Natio Persons Syst own accord, ev me in the com ildren. nal Missing an em (NamUs), en though M munity to as runaway. “Th d Unidentified a database wi arble hasn’t be sume is unfamiliar. ere are people th which Beeb en classified wh o sa sa e says his de y, ‘He just we y, as a ‘D on ’t ke ep For her part, pa nt to Florida. lo rtment ok in g, ’” sh Arvidson bega e He’s not lost; says. “People Arvidson also n the hunt fo he’s not comin pretty much worries that r her son right everywhere in g back.’” people percei differently th away. “I’ve se Brattleboro,” train tracks, up ve an a th m arched ey would a gi issing 17-yea she says. “I’ve and down the r-old boy rl. “It provokes mind,” she sa gone up and riverbeds.” ys. “I think it’s Shortly after a different im down the scarier for pe Marble disapp age in the pu a di ffe re nt op blic’s eared, the gr set up shop un le when a girl connotation. assroots sear It’s sexualized goes missing der a tent in stresses. “And ch began. 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Arvidson, who disappeared from Brattleboro on August 27, shortly before Tropical Storm Irene hit (see sidebar). Why the discrepancy? Shouldn’t all unaccounted-for Vermonters, including Arvidson, be listed in the four-year-old federal database? They aren’t, for various reasons — some stemming from the facts of the case, others from the investigators’ approach. Things could be worse. Lt. Mark Lauer recalls that, in 2007, the Vermont State Police website listed the names of 76 missing persons. More than 30 of them had already been found. Lauer updated and overhauled that website when he took command of the Vermont Fusion Center (VFC) in Williston, one of 72 such centers around the country that were created after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Each fusion center has its own mission, depending on its location. Some focus on homeland-security threats, others on illegal immigration. Generally speaking, their overarching goal is to help state and federal law-enforcement agencies share information in a timely manner and to prevent the accumulation of their findings in inaccessible “silos.”

The VFC, which is staffed by state police, focuses primarily on crime solving and unsolved disappearances. Lauer, its commander since 2007, has been the “go-to person” at the VSP for all missing-persons cases for about a decade. He also activates Vermont’s AMBER Alert, the nationwide emergency broadcast system used to help recover missing and abducted children believed to be in imminent danger. “When I first came to the fusion center, it occurred to me that we, as an agency, didn’t have a very good handle on missing persons,” Lauer says. One example was the state police website, with its lack of “clean” information, which reflected little follow-up, management or coordination with local police. To address the problem, Lauer and his staff built a database of all outstanding missing-persons cases and adopted better policies for future reports. Today, when someone goes missing in Vermont, Lauer’s staff immediately contacts the lead agency to offer assistance. That includes producing a flyer with identifying information, such as the person’s name, age and physical characteristics, as well as any available photos and lead-agency contact info. The case

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is then time and date stamped, and the clock starts ticking. Contrary to popular belief, a person need not be missing for 24 hours before police will consider an investigation, Lauer notes. In fact, because the first 48 hours are critical in solving abduction cases, the authorities want to know as soon as possible. What transpires next depends on the circumstances, Lauer explains. An

Yet the New York Times reported last year that police often don’t comply with that mandate. One such oversight, the Times found, involved a 13-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome who ran away from home and spent 11 days riding the subways in New York City. NCIC reporting is critical, police say, because it’s the only way they will know when they encounter someone who is wanted or presumed missing. Once the VFC receives a missing-persons report, Lauer’s staff initiates preliminary legwork of its own, including open-source searches using Google, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. “Sometimes someone will post something on their Facebook page and say, ‘Hey, going to Colorado for the weekend,’” Lauer reports. “Now LT. M A R K L AUER, V ERMON T STATE POLICE they’re not missing anymore.” Occasionally, Lauer’s staff Alzheimer’s patient who wanders off offers more technical assistance, such from a nursing home in the dead of as accessing the individual’s financial winter will elicit a very different re- statements and cellphone records sponse from, say, a 16-year-old boy who (with a subpoena) or enlisting the help disappears after a fight with his parents of out-of-state law enforcement. For over his curfew. In both cases, however, example, Lauer was recently involved police are required by law to enter the in an abduction case involving a father name of the missing in the National who disappeared with his wife and Crime Information Center (NCIC) daMISSING! » P.30 tabase within two hours.

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Circumstances : Maitland’s cowo rkers at the Black Lant ern Café watched her drive away at ab out 11:30 on the night she disappeared . Her Oldsmobil e was found three days later backed int o an abandoned farmh ouse one mile fro m the café. Uncash ed paychecks, ke ys and medicine were sti ll in the car. Two years after her disappe arance, a caller to the Vermont St ate Police claim ed he’d spotted Maitlan d in an Atlantic City casino. Based on videotape evide nce, her parents belie ve this person co uld be Maitland, but he r whereabouts rem ain unknown. Polic e suspect foul pla y.

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However, Lauer admits that local police are free to handle each case as they deem appropriate. While entry in the NCIC database is required, there’s no legal mandate that Vermont police use the NamUs database at all. “We can’t make them do anything, but we can certainly push them,” Lauer says. “Our cooperation between agencies is much, much better than I’ve ever seen it in my career ... but it’s not perfect.” Why wouldn’t local police use all the resources at their disposal? Sometimes,

SHOULDN’T ALL UNACCOUNTED-FOR VERMONTERS BE LISTED IN THE 4-YEAR-OLD FEDERAL DATABASE?

THEY AREN’T, FOR VARIOUS REASONS. Once a person has been missing for seven days, Lauer strongly encourages local police to enter the individual’s data in the NamUs and begin gathering DNA samples, dental records and other identifying info from family and friends. These measures are taken even when police don’t suspect foul play, he says, because they preserve that material should it be needed later.

Lauer explains, their reluctance is due to the seemingly less pressing nature of the case — such as that of a teen who’s run away from home repeatedly. Or the local agency may be small and have limited resources to devote to the investigation. Or, Lauer acknowledges, some cops may find the NamUs daunting because it asks for a large volume of information.

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Selinda (“Cindy ”) Jean Winegar Missing since: March 21, 1979 Missing from: Burlington Age at time of disappearance: 16 Height: 5’4” Weight: 115-120 pounds Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue Clothing: White -and-green stripe d shirt, jeans, sneakers, numerous rings Circumstances : Winegar was las t seen as she left her fam ily’s home on Fo rest Street in the Ne w North End. A few days after she vanishe d, her mother rec eived a phone call fro m an anonymou s party saying Winegar had been murd ered and her body wa s at the bottom of the Winooski River. The river was ne ver dredged, but a fri end of Winegar’ s sister claimed she snag ged a clump of blond hair while fishing on the river in 19 85.

What happens when the trail leads nowhere? Another popular public misconception, Lauer says, is that police eventually list a missing person as a “cold” case. “We don’t officially use that term,” he says, “but, yes, there is a point when you’ve exhausted all your leads.” For example, in the early months of the Currier case, both the Essex PD and the state police had as many as 10 detectives working on it around the clock, seven days a week. Lauer’s staff even set up a “war room” in their Williston headquarters where all the relevant info was displayed on bulletin boards. Today, the VFC still assists Essex on that disappearance, but “that’s all calmed down,” Lauer says. “We just can’t expend those kind of energies.” In short, he says, once the leads are exhausted, police are often forced to move on to fresher cases. Sometimes, Lauer acknowledges, people simply “walk away from life, and there’s no crime in that.” While Vermonters may be missing for weeks, months or years, they’re never forgotten. One crucial policy was put in place after the disappearance of 17-yearold Brianna Maitland of Montgomery in March 2004: Every missing person in

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Vermont is now assigned a state trooper who serves as the liaison with family members to keep them apprised of any developments. Captain Glenn Hall has maintained regular contact with the Maitland family. Hall readily admits the Maitlands were initially very unhappy with the way police handled Brianna’s disappearance. (The Maitland family didn’t respond to requests from Seven Days, via the state police, to be interviewed for this story.) “We don’t get a lot of these cases,” Hall says. “It’s pretty rare that a 17-yearold girl just vanishes and seven years later there’s no sign of her, and we can’t figure out what happened.” But, Hall notes, the Maitland case changed the way missing-persons reports are handled in Vermont, in large part because the family kept pushing police to do more. Regular contact with families of the missing is now not a recommendation but a requirement. Seven years later, Hall still investigates fresh leads and occasionally looks into old reports. And, at a bare minimum, he checks in with the family on the anniversary of Maitland’s disappearance. Despite the time that’s passed, he says, “We’re never going to stop working this case.”

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Hoagland also remembers the wealthy neighborhood’s African American servants and nannies, including one his mother hired whose stay was brief. Hoagland’s father, from the “former slave state” of Missouri, believed that “it reduced a property’s value ... if a colored person had ever lived in it.” The essay accumulates a series of close, frank observations of both nature and people that finally underpin farranging musings about how linked we humans still are to our surroundings, “still with our feet in the primal muck.” It’s a fair sample of this writer’s richly digressive, meditative style. Hoagland is a writer’s writer, as evidenced by the slew of tribute quotes on Sex and the River Styx’s back cover from the likes of

FROM “A LAST LOOK AROUND” I left the city for the country in the 1980s, preferring at that point, I guess, to watch the carnival at one remove, and haven’t shifted from typewriting essays to word-processing screenplays, as so many good folks have. Indeed my politics and style of dress (both shabby Ivy) have scarcely changed since I left college. I pounded cross-country during the 1950s; heard Martin Luther King deliver his radiant speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963; protested against Vietnam; and saw tickertape parades for FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, plus King George VI and Charles de Gaulle. Didn’t do drugs, but saw action enough, and didn’t drop out of the domestic brouhaha until ten years ago. I wanted to know shadbush from elderberry, dogwood from chokecherry, bluebirds from indigo buntings, yellowthroats from yellow warblers, the French horn from an English horn, a trombone from a sousaphone, Red Grange from Red Barber, and Newt Gingrich from Joe McCarthy. We opt for what we want as daily conversation in the privacy of our minds, and whether on most days we get to watch the sunrise and listen to a snatch of the genius of Bach. It’s not expensive to pay attention to the phases of the moon, to transplant lemon lilies and watch a garter snake birthing forty babies and a catbird grabbing some, or listen to the itchy-britches of the Canada geese as autumn waxes. We will be motes in the ocean again soon, leached out of the soil of some graveyard, and everlastingly rocking. That is my sense of an afterlife and my comfort. The hurly-burly of streambed turmoil will be our last rushhour traffic — thocketing through boulders, past perch pools and drift logs. Enough, we will say, reaching tidewater. We saw enough.

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places as Iraq,” he asserts, “but against the splendid diversities of nature, with no armistice planned or system invented for winding it down.” Perhaps because he has led a life so steeped in the observation of nature, Hoagland is continually wondering what “evolutionary purpose” this or that human tic serves. Our capacity to feel joy when we witness something beautiful in nature particularly stumps him, because it can’t be attributed to survival or procreative instincts; it’s not “utilitarian,” as he puts it in “Curtain Calls.” In “Endgame,” he concludes that the otherwise useless feeling is “an outgrowth of a gradual refinement of existing rudiments in other creatures.” We’re not so far from animals, in other words. Hoagland asks rhetorically, “Do the species that wear the splendid plumage or coats of fur or superb scaly camouflage we admire not feel an equivalent ebullience at the sight of one another, too?” Hoagland starts to sound old fashioned when he maps these evolutionary musings onto male-female relationships. “Nubile women,” he writes in “Sex and the River Styx,” “need a long-term partner, not a one-night stand or a creaky pasha, in order to raise children.” And, having passed the procreative stage, older women, he assumes, “don’t covet pretty men at their bedside, or cross the River Styx joking of blondes” as their male counterparts do. Seeing women’s desires through the prism of biological determinism is rather outdated; didn’t the second wave of feminism put that nonsense to rest? One suddenly wishes for a bit of David Foster Wallace’s meta-awareness, some arch footnotes à la Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, for example, to indicate a layer of irony. But then it wouldn’t be Hoagland, whose candor is what makes these essays so absorbing to read. In the end, the writer who contemplates the River Styx and thinks of “primal muck” — not to mention “sunshine chevroned with tree shadows in the woods, plus the low-slung moss, a tigercolored butterfly, the Tiffany glitter of a spider’s web after a gust of rain, and the yellow-spotted salamander emerging from under the nearest log” — is the one whose books you want in your bedside pile. m

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Annie Dillard, Philip Roth and Robert Stone. Like these admirers, Hoagland has written both short stories and novels; his first book, published while he was still an undergraduate, was Cat Man, a novel based on his time in the circus. But he’s best known as a “master personal essayist,” as the New York Review of Books recently hailed him. Part of Hoagland’s appeal may lie in his ability to combine clear-sightedness with an endearing kind of hope. In “Visiting Norah,” Hoagland notes that he has been sending money to a grandmother in Kampala, Uganda. The woman, Norah, obtained his name and address from a contact Hoagland had made on a previous trip. Norah needed help financing her grandchildren’s education (their parents had died of AIDS), and Hoagland obliged. After some time, he writes, he decided to fly over and meet her. Acutely aware of “the tacit barrier that they were nearly destitute and I was not,” Hoagland got to know not just Norah but a string of other individuals whose stories he tells in detail, including two Rwandan prostitute-refugees and a hotel owner who describes escaping death by Idi Amin’s henchmen by a couple of hours. Hoagland acknowledges the “urgent subtext of ‘money, money’” in these interactions, but that doesn’t stop him from attempting to understand and befriend the people he encounters. The writer regards his own eventual death with a similar combination of clarity and equanimity — an attitude that Julian Barnes, author of another meditation on death, Nothing to Be Frightened Of, might find admirable but baffling. Hoagland hopes his own body will feed the millipedes and requests “a minimal coffin” to speed the process. For him, death is a way of “repaying our infinitesimal loan from the universal energy pool.” Remembering the odd prevalence of “an Etruscan sort of smile, inward-turning” among his older gurney-bound charges in the morgue, he guesses that death won’t be unwelcome. Hoagland takes a different perspective when he looks beyond the demise of individuals. The greater “death” he writes about is that of the natural world itself, which is happening on a staggering scale — a reality he doesn’t downplay. In his own lifetime, Hoagland writes, he has witnessed the shrinking gene pool and shortened lifespans of the very animals he cared for as a 20-year-old. “The major wars of our epoch in retrospect will not have occurred in such

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n a recent rainy Thursday night, a couple hundred people gather after hours at the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center to listen to a University of Vermont assistant professor of math and statistics talk about happiness — or, more specifically, using Twitter and other online communications as a barometer of happiness. Chris Danforth is an engaging public speaker who doesn’t need any charts or graphs to articulate the findings of his big data project. The crowd at ECHO will leave tonight knowing this: There’s a lot to learn from social media and digital communication. You just need to know how to harvest the data. Danforth works at UVM’s Vermont Advanced Computing Center, a research facility that’s essentially about using computers to do more than browse eBay and send email. Along with fellow professor Peter Dodds and a team of undergrad and graduate students, Danforth is using those high-powered computers to glean data from billions of tweets sent from all over the world. Computer algorithms and Twitter’s open-programming interface allow the researchers to amass huge amounts of raw data. They then use their human imaginations to figure out which information to look at. The team’s research into Twitter addresses the question: How can we measure happiness? Danforth notes that gross domestic product is not necessarily the best way to measure the collective wellbeing of our society; Bhutan has actually adopted the concept of “gross national happiness” to gauge the total health of the country. But happiness is a lot harder to quantify than are most economic indicators. So Danforth and his team have come up with the “hedonometer” to measure happiness through the words we use. Their research isn’t limited to Twitter; they pull content from blog posts, music lyrics and New York Times stories, to

name a few other sources. “What we’re doing is collecting words. We collect every public Twitter message that Twitter will give us,” Danforth says. The messages

the researchers had 50 people assign happiness scores to the 10,000 most frequently used words on Twitter. The scale is simple, ranging from 1 for the saddest words to 9 for the happiest. The

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— about 20 million English-language tweets a day — come from an open application programming interface that Twitter makes available to developers. “What we do is watch trends in the way different words are used,” Danforth continues. “Underlying all this is the assumption that each word has some happiness value associated with it.” How do the researchers determine the happiness value of an individual word? The team turned to a website called Mechanical Turk, a division of Amazon.com, which facilitates paying large groups of people a small amount to complete menial tasks. In this case,

average of those 50 scores becomes that word’s happiness value for the purposes of the research. This is where the data start to become more revealing. The “happiness values” of those 10,000 most frequently used words are a good starting point, but you don’t really need to survey people to assign a word’s happiness value. “The collection of sentiments expressed about a particular topic tend to be very closely related to the sentiment of that topic itself,” Danforth says. Say the topic is “cold,” and the researchers want to assess the happiness value of the “bag of words” in tweets

that contain that word. “Shake out all the ‘colds’, because I know that’s in every one of them,” Danforth says. “And then I compute the happiness of [the remaining words]. Turns out we get a number that’s very close to the number that the Amazon people gave to the word ‘cold.’” This finding means the researchers can gauge the sentiment of words that weren’t among the original 10,000 but become more common over time. Like, say, “occupy.” “I don’t need to score ‘occupy,’ because I have scores for the billions of words [people use with ‘occupy’] … and the average of them all will be very close to the score that ‘occupy’ gets,” Danforth says. “And that will change over time, because two or three months ago it didn’t mean anything.” This means the happiness scores are not absolute, but act as a reflection of realtime sentiment about a given word. A word like “happiness” won’t see its score change too often, but words tied to news and current events could vary wildly. This is one of the most illuminating parts of the project. UVM graduate student Kameron Harris illustrates how words and phrases can see dramatic shifts in sentiment over time. Golfer Tiger Woods used to be one of the most revered figures on the internet, but his score tanked in November 2009 when word of his marital indiscretions leaked out. By contrast, public sentiment toward Michael Jackson improved after the singer died in 2009, as the prevailing associations with him shifted from allegations of child abuse and strange behavior to memories of his great music. Harris says he’s combining linguistic and geographic data to see how tweets containing the word “Irene” have shifted in Vermont — perhaps becoming more positive as tweets about the storm’s damage gave way to ones about communities pulling together and rebuilding. The researchers are also looking at every blog post that uses the words “I feel” or “I am feeling,” using data acquired by digital artists Jonathan Harris

(a Shelburne native) and Sep Kamvar for their online data visualization project “We Feel Fine.” In that information, Danforth and his colleagues found another surprise. Many bloggers post their age, making it possible for researchers to correlate that with words and happiness. Mashing up age data and happiness scores, they found a mountain-shaped bell curve revealing that younger and older people are least happy, while people in midlife are the happiest. This is the opposite of results researchers have attained in old-fashioned phone surveys, where a random sample of people were simply asked how they felt. Danforth says this project could provide a “more honest assessment” than a survey of participants, “because it’s [people’s] behavior as opposed to their reported behavior,” he notes.

point toward the happier side of the scale, centered over 6. This is true of all their sources of data — tweets, blog posts, even New York Times stories of the past 20 years. “It appears there’s a bias toward happiness that’s kind of built into the way we communicate with each other,” Danforth says. “It’s not an accident that our language evolved to be like this.” He and Harris haven’t yet determined if a similar bias toward happiness exists in other languages. Harris points out that there could be psychology at work here, too. “When you make a negative statement, you try to make it more positive,” he says. Essentially, our beating around the bush skews the results toward the happy end of the scale. In the future, the researchers plan to continue the project with even more

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This chart shows the collective happiness of Twitter users every day of 2011 through mid-September. The happiest days were New Years’ Day and Valentine’s Day, while the saddest was the day Osama bin Laden was killed.

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“Whenever you ask somebody a question, all kinds of complicated stuff happens in their brain,” Danforth says. “But if you’re just looking at what they’re doing, and hopefully doing it in a way where you’re not invading their privacy ... then hopefully you’ll be able to learn something more about them than if you asked them the question.” (Don’t worry, bloggers and Twitter users, Danforth doesn’t have a happiness file on you; the data his researchers use are all anonymized.) Ultimately, the UVM research goes beyond a real-time measurement of happiness and becomes a larger study of how we use language. Danforth says he and his team expected the distribution of happiness values for all words to be roughly normal, a bell curve centered over the middle of the 1 through 9 happiness scale. While they did find a bell curve, its center turns out to skew a full

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Learning Center director at Healthy Living Natural Foods Market, South Burlington “I used to be a personal chef in New York City,” explains Nina Lesser-Goldsmith. “I was hired by this person to prepare Thanksgiving sides for her. At the time, I was researching a lot of new recipes.” One called out to her: a recipe for vanilla mashed sweet potatoes on RECIPES FOR THANKS

Two generations later, we’re dealing with picky eaters and a chronic tendency to forget to write down recipes, which means that on the one night a year that’s all about food, dinner makes its way to our table in a haze of guesswork. There is no turkey — most years, it’s chicken; one year, I recall duck. There’s always stuffing, but my mom and I invariably stand over the half-made dish, scratching our heads. “More chicken stock?” we ask each other. “Do we usually add raisins?” Let’s just say our food traditions are still being forged. Almost every American has an immigrant past, but we all express our traditions differently — and, on the Thanksgiving table, creative variations typically show up in the side dishes. Who’s eating the mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows, and who’s experimenting? I turned to a handful of Vermont cooks for their own Thanksgiving family histories. They graciously shared side-dish recipes and the nutty and wonderful stories behind them.

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t was November 21, 1951. A distant cousin showed up in my grandparents’ driveway with a big bundle under his arm. In the kitchen, he unwrapped two things: a bottle of fancy liquor with fruit growing inside and a turkey. “Tomorrow is a big holiday,” he told them. “We didn’t have any idea what Thanksgiving was,” my grandmother recalls now. She’d never even tasted turkey. On that long-past Thanksgiving, she and my grandfather had only recently arrived in Newark, N.J., from Ukraine, their home country. Before that, they’d spent five years in a refugee camp in West Germany, displaced by the war. A new kind of pilgrims, they’d tried to immigrate to many countries, including Australia. But, because my grandfather had had tuberculosis, only the U.S. — where an American relative vouched for them — accepted them. That Thanksgiving Day, my “babcia,” as we call her, stuffed the turkey. She remembers serving it with “regular potatoes and some corn, and whatever vegetables we could get. We ate it and we thanked God that we came to such a bountiful country and that we could live here.” With a beginning like that, you’d be surprised by my family’s current Thanksgiving food traditions, or lack thereof. Although my grandparents swiftly absorbed the spirit of giving thanks, they never adopted all the conventional American dishes. Sweet-potato pie was a bizarre and foreign concept to my grandmother, as it still is to us today, though she found cranberry jelly from a tin modern and delicious.

5 large sweet potatoes 2 cups heavy cream 1 vanilla bean Zest and juice of 1 orange Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 1/4 cup cold unsalted butter 1/4 cup flour 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup chopped pecans

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Preheat oven to 400°. Prick sweet potatoes with a fork and cook in the oven for one to one and a half hours, or until tender when poked with a knife. Add cream to a small sauce pan. Split vanilla bean lengthwise and scrape seeds into the cream. Add the vanilla pod and simmer until hot but not boiling. Turn off heat and let pod steep until ready to use. Peel sweet potatoes and place in the bowl of a food processor. (You may have to do this in two batches.) Add orange zest and juice, and about one-third of the vanilla cream. Pulse until smooth. If the mixture is

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not puréeing easily, add more cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper and transfer to a baking dish. For the streusel topping: In a food processor or stand mixer, combine the butter, flour, sugars and a pinch of salt. Pulse until the ingredients are incorporated but still crumbly. Add the pecans and pulse a few more times. Sprinkle the crumble mixture on the mashed sweet potatoes and bake in a 400° oven for about 20 minutes, or until topping is crisp and golden brown.

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Fans of deep-fried pork shanks will have to wait for the next Champlain Valley Fair to satisfy their craving. The only place to regularly find the delicacy, VAL’S WILD TOMATO in Winooski, has closed its doors. The sandwich shop, specializing in quirky mayos and local ingredients, opened two and a half years ago next to BEVERAGE WAREHOUSE. Owner VALERIE MASIELLO left a phone “The crown prince of family music.” message apologizing to cus- People Magazine tomers for the short notice. Sat., November 19, 3 pm “We suffered a huge loss in my family this year, and I Barre Opera House need to focus on helping to sponsored by: put things back together,” Swenson Granite she later told Seven Days. media support from The Point “I’ll be leaving Vermont, and For tix, call 802-476-8188 or order I’m not sure exactly what’s online at www.barreoperahouse.org next. I already miss my regulars at the deli. I had a e s s e x s h o p p e s & c i n e m a wonderful clientele who kept 8V-BarreOpera111611.indd 1 11/14/11 2:53 PM me smiling.” Winooski residents won’t have to wait long for a replacement. NICK LIN, of Williston Korean/Chinese Special Promotional Information Available at spot NARU ASIAN CUISINE, is www.essexshoppes.com already at work on the takeout restaurant he will open Open 7 AM to 8 PM (Nov. 26) Black Friday in the former Val’s space. Open 8 AM TO 8 PM (Nov. 27) Saturday So long, “pig wings”; hello, Visit our website for more information. Most store’s participating. bibimbap?

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Locals who are still mourning the loss of SADIE KATZ DELICATESSEN may take some solace in the new arrival in its wake, if diners can switch their allegiance from latkes to tacos. EL CORTIJO TAQUERÍA Y CANTINA will open in the space sometime this winter, with a bar, take-out window and New England Culinary Institute-trained chef. “El Cortijo” translates to “the farmhouse” — a clue to who’s behind these tacos. The new owners are the crew from the FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL, who have bought the historic diner. They will transform it into a lunch, dinner and late-night spot serving farm-fresh tacos alongside local and Mexican beers, tequilas, margaritas, and a “killer housemade sangria,” says Farmhouse owner JED DAVIS, who envisions a bustling after-hours scene. Farmhouse chef PHILLIP CLAYTON, who nurtured a love of tacos during his North Carolina upbringing, will oversee the menu. Davis says to expect traditional standbys such as tacos al pastor, tacos de pescado and tacos de lengua, as well as some creative appetizers. “[Mexican food] is a natural vehicle for local food,” he adds, and the success of Taco Tuesdays at the Farmhouse has provided definite encouragement. Since the dining car that once housed the Oasis Diner is on the National Register of Historic Places, renovations won’t be dramatic, but the partners are striving for a “gypsy-ish” interior. They plan to replace the diner counter with a wooden bar top, lay new tile and hang lights from CONANT METAL & LIGHT, as well as open a taco take-out window facing Bank Street. “We’re definitely

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Recipes for Thanks « P.36 the popular website 101 Cookbooks. Her client loved it, and so did Lesser-Goldsmith. “I wanted to make it for my own family’s Thanksgiving,” she says. “We had always, always had regular mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. My grandmother would make it. She never made enough. We would always fight over it.”

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The new potato dish’s introduction met understandable resistance. LesserGoldsmith compromised by serving it alongside her grandmother’s treasured one. “It was the only year I can ever remember that we had leftovers” of the marshmallow recipe, she says, noting that the new dish “trumped tradition.” Now Lesser-Goldsmith makes this dish every year. “There would be backlash from the family if I didn’t,” she says. “It kind of blurs the line between dinner and dessert, savory and sweet. It’s the thing I always leave on my plate for last.”

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since he and his wife bought the French restaurant in 1988, it may come as a surprise that he takes Thanksgiving off from the kitchen, even at home. His wife Christine makes the big meal, everything from scratch. But it wasn’t like that on their first Thanksgiving. In 1981, Grangien had newly arrived in New York City from France. He had “carte blanche for [making] very upscale to-go food” at a gourmet store attached to a Bloomingdale’s, he recalls. When Thanksgiving rolled around, his boss took the Grangiens out for a holiday feast. “We were completely overwhelmed,” he says, calling the sense of ceremony and tradition “completely interesting.” These days, with the couple long settled in Vermont, Thanksgiving has become “a big celebration for us,” Grangien says, representative of the place they call home. That’s evident in one of Christine Grangien’s annual side dishes, starring maple syrup. “Maple syrup amplifies the natural sweetness of the root vegetables,” notes Patrick Grangien.

SUZANNE PODHAIZER

Owner of Salt, Montpelier One year, Thanksgiving went south of the border. Another, it only ventured below the MasonDixon Line. The cuisine is ever changing, but you can count on one thing in Suzanne Podhaizer’s family: Thanksgiving comes with a theme. Working at gourmetfood and cookware stores as a young adult, Podhaizer quickly learned to get creative in the kitchen. “My family didn’t go out to restaurants very much when I was growing up,” she explains. Bringing home interesting seasonings to share with her younger siblings was “a way to bring the restaurant to them.” That habit inspired her to riff on the usual Thanksgiving-dinner suspects. Whether she’s adding chorizo and olives to the stuffing for a Spanish meal or whipping up collard greens and buttermilk mashed potatoes for American Southern cuisine, Podhaizer typically starts by tweaking

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a few go-to dishes, such as her fail-safe stuffing recipe. Her playful aesthetic carries over to her restaurant. In the Thanksgiving spirit, every dish on Salt’s current menu is “stuffed,” from shrimp-and-flounder ravioli to housemade éclairs.

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Chef, food educator, consultant and writer, Chittenden County

— Contos calls Thanksgiving eve “the calm before the storm.” She and Prince Charming, appropriated as sous chef, always open a favorite bottle of wine as they set the table and prep the veggies. Not to be left out, their three dogs work their way into the hustle and bustle. One year, as Contos was cleaning homegrown Brussels sprouts outside, one of the dogs snatched the stalk right out of her hand, she says. The dogs “took off.” They played tug-of-war. Now, Contos forfeits the stalks to the dogs every year. “We just let them do their thing,” she says. “We laugh at the sight of these green bits all over the kitchen floor.” Needless to say, Thanksgiving always begins with a very thorough vacuuming.

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By Thanksgiving morning, chef Courtney Contos will already have spent about two weeks preparing for the meal — planning recipes, harvesting vegetables from the garden and laying out china. With nine guests on the way and a turkey throwdown in store — she’ll be preparing a maple-brined bird; her partner, Jim (aka “Prince Charming”), a barbecued one

Pour off all but 1 tablespoon of pork fat and add the shallot, celery and sage to the pan over medium-low heat. Sweat the vegetables until the shallots are translucent. Add the shallots, celery, bread cubes and chestnuts to the baking dish. Pour 1 cup stock over the mixture; stir. Cover with foil and place in the oven at 350°. After 30 minutes, pull back the foil and add another cup stock. Stir, replace the foil and return to the oven for another 30 minutes. This time, remove the foil, add another cup of stock, stir and return to the oven. The goal is to get a little bit of crustiness on top while keeping the stuffing beneath moist. Add more stock if necessary. Let the stuffing cook 45 minutes more, stirring every 15. Season with salt and pepper, if needed, before serving.

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hen chef Alexandra La Noue-Adler and her husEBT/Debit Cards Now Accepted at the Market band, Adam Adler, purchased Quechee’s Parker House Inn & Restaurant eight years ago, it was in something of a rut. The stately Corner of Main Street & South Union 1857 inn had good bones and a plum spot Every other week — November-April overlooking the Ottauquechee River, but 10AM - 2PM it also had a fusty interior and reputation. The Adlers, fresh from turning around an inn in Maine, were un“Best Japanese Dining” 12v-burlwinterfarmmkt110211.indd 1 10/31/11 1:24 PMdaunted. They took to renovations with — Saveur Magazine zeal — planting kitchen gardens, adding a funky bistro with tables on the wraparound terrace overlooking the river and giving the fire-lit dining rooms a French provincial vibe. They also introduced La Noue-Adler’s French-inflected food, and steadily built a following. Now the Parker House is a popular spot with both locals and tourists. Many of them get to meet the effervescent La Japanese Restaurant Noue-Adler, a baby-faced blonde who often pops out of the kitchen to mingle. 112 Lake Street While her husband works the bar and Burlington manages the front of the house, La Noue-Adler turns out polished seasonal fare — mussels in an earthy saffron broth; salmon topped with panko, roasted pistachio oil and strawberry chutney; rack from 11 am of lamb in a honey-lavender reduction. Chef-owned and operated. Like her, the menu is colorful, gutsy and Largest downtown parking lot. original. Though many of her dishes embody a respect for classical French cuisine, 12v-sansai101211.indd 1 10/10/11 2:00 PMLa Noue-Adler didn’t come to chefdom via traditional training. Rather, hers is a lifetime of eating, cooking and learning by doing. La Noue-Adler, 42, grew up in Manhattan and Brooklyn’s bustling Fort Greene neighborhood. She absorbed the French style of her father’s cooking

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and, on the street, sampled ethnic dishes that would come to influence her style. She attended a high school of music and performing arts, earned a degree in early childhood education from New York University, and taught in Chinatown. “My problem was, I wanted to take all of the kids home with me and make them better,” she recalls. Next came a stint in publishing, but since La Noue-Adler “hated sitting behind a desk,” she did an about-face in her midtwenties: She started making sandwiches and selling them to local delis, and managed one in the East Village. Time at a

Hudson Valley catering company and at a seafood market followed. When La Noue-Adler found out she was pregnant with their first child, she and Adler decided to find a quieter place to raise their family. They came across an inn in Bethel, Maine — one that needed a lot of work — and made an offer. “To our shock and horror, they accepted,” she jokes. The couple opened L’Auberge Country Inn in 1999. At first, La-Noue Adler cooked breakfast while her husband ran the front of the house, but gradually she began cONtINuED AFtER tHE cLAssIFIEDs

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SD: Did you eat out a lot? ALA: My parents loved food, so when they were together they both went out a lot and cooked a lot. I was exposed to all different kinds of foods when I was younger — mostly Ethiopian and Jamaican and Puerto Rican. SD: Were there any foods you wouldn’t touch as a child? ALA: I don’t think so! My nickname was Beanie, because I loved lima beans so much. I could eat a bowl of them with butter and salt and be as happy as anything. The only thing I’ve never been too fond of is ricotta cheese. I don’t like the texture. SD: What’s the most offbeat thing you’ve ever tried? ALA: Maybe rattlesnake. I’ll try anything once. SD: What ingredients are always in your pantry? ALA: Everything. It goes back to me feeling like I never had enough food as a kid — I hoard food. World War III could happen, and we would be OK. But we always have marinated artichokes, capers, sun-dried tomatoes. I grow a lot of basil, and so I usually purée that, put it into ice-cube trays and freeze it, so I always have pesto and basil.

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SD: What music do you listen to in your kitchen? ALA: That’s easy. On a busy night, zydeco. SD: What local restaurants do you visit when you’re not in the kitchen? ALA: It’s hard to find time, but when we do, we go to Yama [in West Lebanon, N.H.]. Every time I go there, I try something different. SD: What is your favorite beverage? ALA: I drink a lot of Orangina. SD: Where do you like to travel for food? ALA: I love Morimoto in the Chelsea Market [in New York City]. My daughter and I] just sit at the sushi counter and just eat lunch. It’s probably one of the most pristine eating experiences. Adam’s father has a place in Spain, and one of the best experiences we’ve ever had is sitting on the beach there, drinking sangria and having grilled sardines — sardines that were grilled on an overturned boat. SD: If you could have any other chef in the world prepare a meal for you, who would it be? ALA: Probably Gordon Ramsay. I love his attention to detail. The same with Morimoto — I really love the attention to detail and layering of flavors. It’s very clean food. To do it correctly is very hard. SD: What was the last thing you ate? ALA: Tamari almonds and a glass of milk. I’m a tamari almonds connoisseur, and the ones from Hannaford are the best. SD: What do you like most about what you do? ALA: I really enjoy taking care of people. I get something out of that. It satisfies the need in me to take care of people. And being paid to be creative is the most amazing experience.

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SD: What about to impress someone? ALA: Probably a bouillabaisse. The presentation is always so gorgeous. Anything seafood — if I could have a totally seafood restaurant, I would.

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SD: If you’re trying to comfort someone close to you, what do you make? ALA: I make this thing we call “stoup.” It’s a soup, but it’s a stew, with chicken, cabbage and shiitake mushrooms. You cook it all day. I’m a big soup maker.

SD: What’s your favorite cookbook? ALA: I have a collection of over 1400 cookbooks, especially antique ones. I’ve found great recipes in antique cookbooks. For day to day, though, I look in the Silver Palate cookbooks, because you can always find something good in them. Even though I shouldn’t say this, I also have all of Gordon Ramsay’s cookbooks, because he’s an amazing cook.

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SEVEN DAYS: How did your family eat when you were growing up? ALEXANDRA LA NOUE-ADLER: When I was very young, I ate a lot by myself. My father was an artist and lived

in a loft. At the time, I didn’t know it, but we didn’t have much money. Even so, at his house it was always more traditional French, with salad as the last course and crudités on the table. Sometimes he would cook dinner on a hot plate. So, food and comfort and stability have always been intertwined for me. I’m 12 years older than my brothers and sisters, and, as I got older, I took care of them after school. I cooked for them and baked cakes. It gave me my first taste of Wow, I can cook something and watch them really, really enjoy it.

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cooking dinner, too. For someone who lacked previous restaurant experience, it was a gratifying leap. “We would have 26 people on the books [for dinner], and I would freak out,” she says. “I had to come up with my own menus, the whole thing. But our reputation grew very quickly as the top spot to eat in Bethel.” In Maine, La-Noue Adler had the couple’s second daughter. “Later, I used to cook with her on my back,” she says. In 2004, a buyer surprised the Adlers with a too-good-to-refuse offer on the inn. After scouring New England for another, they purchased the Parker House. Each year was better than the last, and the place earned accolades from the Boston Globe and Yankee magazine, among other publications. Then, on August 28, came Tropical Storm Irene. La Noue-Adler says she never expected the flood. That afternoon, she watched as Dumpsters and propane tanks crashed by in the increasingly violent Ottauquechee River. By 4 p.m., Parker House’s basement was under water, and the river was lapping at the porch. The nearby covered bridge in Quechee was disintegrating under the river’s force. La Noue-Adler left for higher ground with their children, and her husband was forcibly evacuated from the inn at seven that night. The next day, they found the lower level of the Parker House destroyed. Everything in the basement — including a $7000 food order delivered the day before the storm — was covered in muck. “It was incredible devastation, and very tough. It’s kind of a blur, those first two weeks after Irene,” La Noue-Adler says. Friends, customers and neighbors pitched in to help. La Noue-Adler juggled phone calls with local officials as the couple tried to save their home, whose plot had been eroded by the storm. The Adlers reopened the bar a week after the storm, the restaurant a week later, albeit with a limited menu. They are now living in a rental and trying to keep the inn flourishing despite the closing of the Quechee bridge. La NoueAdler still spends part of each day navigating the labyrinthine aid process. But when Seven Days catches up with her, she declares, “Let’s talk about food!”

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HOOKED IN THE MOUNTAINS: More than 400 textiles hang out in the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild’s 15th annual rug and fiber art show. The weeklong celebration includes workshops, demonstrations, talks and children’s programs. Shelburne Museum, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-8; free for children 12 and under. Info, 673-2093.

etc. BOOMER EXPO 2011: Baby boomers seeking new careers or education and training opportunities meet agencies and community groups serving mature individuals. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3489, ext. 221. 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, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 878-8213.

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food & drink 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 BEGINNING HOT YOGA: Is it getting hot in here? Yogis practice in a heated studio to enhance stretching and reduce tension. North End Studio B, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. $10. Info, 999-9963. SERENITY YOGA: Gentle poses foster a sense of peacefulness in a deep-relaxation floor class. Unity WED.16

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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.

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WINOOSKI HOLIDAY POP-UP ART MARKET: Fine arts, crafts and locally made products fill a vacant space. Entrance to the market is on Main Street, by the top right side of the Winooski circle. 25 Winooski Falls Way, suite 17, noon-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-4839, info@kasinihouse.com.

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A Whale of a Tale “Call me Ishmael.” It’s a pithy first line for Herman Melville’s MobyDick, that 822-page behemoth of a book — some would call it the great American novel. In it, the seafaring narrator follows his captain’s obsessive attempts at revenge against the white sperm whale that made off with his leg. Translating all of that to the stage with a single actor sounds about as maniacal as Captain Ahab himself — but Gare St Lazare Players Ireland takes a stab at it in a two-hour production touring the state this week. The Irish Times calls Conor Lovett’s bare-bones monologue “a distillation of Melville’s genius.”

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“Gin Lane” isn’t a place you’d want to visit firsthand. A prostitute reaches for a pinch of snuff as her infant falls to its death. A starving man clings to a bottle of booze. Drunken lowlifes beat each other with bar stools in the streets. But this sordid scene — depicted in a 1751 engraving by famous pictorial satirist William Hogarth — is, essentially, the destination of playwright Nick Dear’s The Art of Success. Audiences tag along with a reimagined Hogarth, one who’s not so much a social critic as a participating character in one of his early editorial cartoons. More than a bawdy dark comedy about a wild evening

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If Regina Carter has a bucket list, one would imagine she’s already crossed off quite a few items. She’s played a 1743 violin once owned by Italian virtuoso Niccolò Paganini. She’s acco mpanied music A-listers such as Lau ryn Hill and Mary J. Blige. And her violin has taken her from European clas sica l mus ic to American blues. These days, Carter’s busy applying her jazz aesthetic to trad itional African music. Having recruited Yaco uba Sissoko on the kora, a West Afri can harp historically played by village stor ytellers, the artist reinterprets folk melodies with Afro-pop energy in her lates t album, Reverse Thread. Sounds pret ty forward thinking to us.

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Thursday December 1, 7 PM A staged reading in commemoration of World AIDS Day. Directed by Dan Butler, featuring Lisa Harrow and Alan Gelfant. Mature content. Admission by donation. Group reservations required; individual reservations encouraged. Proceeds to benefit Vermont CARES and the HIV/HCV Resource Center.

Tai Chi/Qigong Class: Simple techniques, practiced sitting or standing with Madeleine Piat-Landolt, enhance physical and emotional well-being. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585. 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.

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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. hogWarTs reading soCieTy: Fascinated by fantasy? Book-club members gab about the wizarding world of Harry Potter and other series. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

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leT’s learn JaPanese!: Little linguists get a fun intro to the language and culture of the Land of the Rising Sun with Middlebury College student Jerry Romero. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. middle sChool Book grouP: Young people dish about their current reads. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. middleBury BaBies & Toddlers’ sTory hour: Children develop early literacy skills through stories, rhymes, songs and crafts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. moving & grooving WiTh ChrisTine: Young ones jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Recommended for ages 2 to 5, but all are welcome. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

music minimalisT BassoonFesT WiTh sTeve reiCh: The celebrated composer appears in a matinée concert featuring a student performance of Clapping Music, plus minimalist and postminimalist favorites by a long lineup of artists. Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1498. Piano reCiTal: Students of Diana Fanning prove their keyboard command. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433. 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 boundary-breaking compositions during a short concert, followed by a reception. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1498. 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.

World-musiC PerCussion ensemBle: Dartmouth musicians celebrate the cross-fertilization of traditional and contemporary tunes in “The Sounds of Brazil: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-16. Info, 603-646-2422.

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talks 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 adviser 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. 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. riChard sTallman: The computer programmer and activist considers “Copyright Versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks.” Dole Auditorium, Norwich University, Northfield, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2886. ‘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. The mollie ruPreChT Fund For visiTing arTisTs & sCholars leCTure: Artist Fred Tomaselli discusses his paintings, which are often made with unorthodox materials — such as prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants — suspended in thick layers of epoxy resin. Room 301, Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2014.

theater ‘Boeing-Boeing’: A Don Draper-esque lothario skillfully juggles three flight-attendant fiancées at once until their plane schedules change in this jet-speed comedy by Northern Stage. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $30-60. Info, 296-7000. ‘moBy diCk’: Irish actor Conor Lovett brings to life Herman Melville’s great American novel in a groundbreaking solo show — with musical accompaniment — presented by Dublin’s Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. The meTroPoliTan oPera: live in hd: Mariusz Kwiecien stars in a broadcast screening of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $18-24. Info, 660-9300.

words 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: The Marshfield author’s first novel, Loisaida, explores the impact of memory and imagination on social change. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. dine & disCuss: Readers dish about the Harper Lee novel over a potluck of Southern cuisine. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. 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.

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WaTerColor Class: Painters dip into a palette focused on autumn fruits and leaves in a workshop led by local artist Deb Runge. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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business CaPTive insuranCe ComPanies: The Vermont chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals offers a training conference. Professional Financial Associates, Colchester, 9-11 a.m. Free for members; $20 otherwise. Info, 6609639, exec@vtfinancialpro.org. legislaTive roadshoW: Networkers share their thoughts on disaster-relief funding, health care initiatives and economic development opportunities at this event hosted by the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce. Chow! Bella, St. Albans, 5-7 p.m. $5 for nonmembers; RSVP. Info, 524-2444, info@fcrccvt.com.

community shelBurne road Corridor sTudy PuBliC meeTing: This gathering, held by the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission in partnership with the city of South Burlington, assists in the development of short- and long-term recommendations for transportation issues on Shelburne Road. South Burlington City Offices, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1794.

crafts every Woman’s CraFT ConneCTion: Inventive females work on artful projects at a biweekly meetup. Essex Alliance Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 879-5176. hooked in The mounTains: See WED.16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

Mount Mansfield scale Modelers: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature-construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

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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.

four perspectiVes on poVerty: Vincent Bolduc, Bill Grover, Herb Kessel and Katie Kirby address the topic through the lenses of sociology, political science, economics and philosophy. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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.

kathleen ryor: The Carleton College art history professor considers the role of the literati in military matters and martial life in “The Painter as Knight-Errant: Xu Wei (1521-93) and the Creation of an Alternative Artistic Persona in the Late Ming.” Room 125, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

operation christMas child national collection Week: See WED.16, 8:30-10:30 a.m. relay for life nordicstyle teaM night: Potential team members, volunteers and planners join together to fight cancer and kick off their fundraising efforts. Mozart Room, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 872-6304, jessica. blais@cancer.org.

film ‘food staMped’: Shira and Yoav Potash chronicle their efforts at creating a nutritious diet on a foodstamp budget in their 2010 documentary. Room 207, Lafayette Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 774-573-3695. ‘higher ground’: See WED.16, 7:30 p.m. ‘silenced Voices’: A documentary by the Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project considers the causes and effects of crossing the border. A discussion follows. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 496-8994. ‘the hedgehog’: See WED.16, 5:30 p.m.

food & drink a Mosaic of flaVors: congolese greens & chicken With ugali: Beatrice Medi demonstrates how to make traditional African cuisine. Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700. old-fashioned gaMe supper: Meat pies filled with venison, moose, bear, raccoon, beaver, rabbit or chicken weigh down tables filled with seasonal side dishes. Danville United Methodist Church, 4 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, tobybalivet@ netscape.net.

earn, Mirror to Mirror & harMonizer: Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey, and Toby Aronson and Greg Davis perform in their respective gigs. BCA Center, Burlington, 8-11:45 p.m. $7; free for BCA members. Info, 865-5355. rachael elliott & ear duo: The local bassoonist performs a short solo set from her new CD, Polka the Elk, and the Electro Acoustic Reed Duo offer experimental music accompanied by video. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $7-10. Info, 748-2600.

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theater ‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.16, 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. ‘funny girl’: Douglas Anderson directs the Middlebury Community Players in this beloved musical about comedien Fanny Brice. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $35 for the opening-night gala; $20 otherwise. Info, 382-9222. ‘hoMesteaders’: Shelburne Players presents Nina Shengold’s dramedy about the troubled inhabitants of an Alaskan fishing cabin. Shelburne Town Center, 7:30 16t-dobratea111611.indd 1 p.m. $10-15. Info, 985-0780.

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‘MoBy dick’: See WED.16, 7:30 p.m. ‘seussical the Musical’: Horton the elephant and the Cat in the Hat are among the storybook stars of St. Johnsbury Academy Theatre’s colorful, song-filled production. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 748-2600.

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‘singin’ in the rain’: High school thespians “make ’em laugh” in the two-act musical comedy made famous in 1952 by Gene Kelly. Mount Abraham Union High School, Bristol, 7:30 p.m. $7-11. Info, 453-2333.

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‘south pacific’: A World War II nurse tries to wash a man right outta her hair — to no avail — in this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, performed by the high school drama department. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 7 p.m. $6-12; tickets available at THU.17

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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. Champlain Housing Trust, Burlington, 10 a.m. $12-14; preregister. Info, 3728511 or 483-6335.

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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.

young Writers group: Homeschoolers learn about revision, editing and proofreading in an out-of-classroom setting. Write on. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 355-1841.

herBal facials: Do-it-yourselfers conquer stress and dry skin by making scrubs, cleansers, toners and moisturizers. City Market, Burlington, 5:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

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.

panel discussion: In “Transgender Experiences: Exploring and Defining (or Not) Our Gender,” transidentified speakers share parts of their personal journeys in a talk broaching self-discovery, transition, societal expectations and relationships. Q&A follows. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4964.

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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.

lunch & learn: Rabbi Jan Salzman explores eco-kosher, the link between modern ecology and ancient Jewish dietary laws, giving special attention to how industrial agriculture, climate change, animal husbandry and fair treatment of workers affect food choices and preparation. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. Donations accepted. Info, 863-4214, jhersh@burlingtontelecom.net.

sWeet relief: a Beer & chocolate pairing: Four courses of Lake Champlain Chocolates are paired with locally crafted brews — from Long Trail Brewing Co., American Flatbread’s Zero Gravity and Switchback Brewing Company — at a benefit for the Sara Holbrook Community Center with live music by the Dave Grippo Trio. Lake Lobby, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 5-7:30 p.m. $40. Info, 862-6342.

let’s talk turkeys: Little ones ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions pound the trails to learn more about these wild birds — and what they eat for Thanksgiving. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child. Info, 434-3068, vermont@ audubon.org.

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starting your food Business right: understanding state & federal regulations: Food safety specialist Londa Nwadike covers food standards, safety measures, licenses and registrations, and more. Vermont Food Venture Center, Hardwick, 6:30 p.m. $5. Info, 472-5362.

franklin story hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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pie loVe you!: Dessert fiends sample tasty pastries from the bake shop. Local ice cream and seasonal drinks round out the sweet affair. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. & 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

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lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org only. Info, 985-2827. ‘The Art of Success’: Based on the life of pictorial satirist William Hogarth, Nick Dear’s play reveals the dark underbelly of 1700s London. See calendar spotlight. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6-12; for mature audiences. Info, 443-6433. ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’: Jazz Age tunes burst to life in this glitzy, Tony Award-winning show within a show, presented by the Peoples Academy Stage Company. Peoples Academy, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 888-4600. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Palace 9: See WED.16, 1 p.m. ‘The Music Man’: Fifty-three student actors, 34 techies and a full-pit orchestra present this songfilled classic about the ultimate con man and the librarian who stops him in his tracks. Vergennes Union High School & Middle School, 7 p.m. $8-10. Info, 877-2938.

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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.

bazaars Ski/Ride/Skate Sale: Got gear? Trade or donate it at a sale benefiting Winter Wellness Days at Smugglers’ Notch and the community skating rink. Donation drop-offs accepted from 6 to 8 p.m. Cambridge Elementary School, Jeffersonville. Free. Info, 793-5509, swlvt@together.net. Winooski Holiday Pop-Up Art Market: See WED.16, noon-8 p.m.

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dance 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.

Epilepsy Foundation Annual Meeting: Guest speakers Melissa Rosenberg and Elizabeth Bushey discuss “Epilepsy: Not Defining Who You Are or Who You Will Become” after a social hour with music by Caroline Bright and Gary von Stange. A short business meeting and awards presentation follow. Rutland Country Club, 6 p.m. $6.50-16.75 for buffet; preregister. Info, 800-565-0972, epilepsy@ sover.net. Group Empowerment Drumming: Pounding percussionists give themselves permission to play. This wellness exercise uses drums as a tool for community connection and stress reduction. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 660-8060. Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week: See WED.16, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Plattsburgh Roller Derby Information Session: Fans of the flat track look into joining the North Country Lumber Jills, an all-female derby league, as skaters, referees, coaches or volunteers. City Recreation Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 518-578-0645.

film ‘Brighton Rock’: A British gangster well on his way to infamy hits a speed bump when a girl witnesses him taking out a rival in Rowan Joffe’s 2010 crime drama. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘Mozart’s Sister’: René Féret’s 2010 drama reimagines the early life of Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart, a musical prodigy in her own right pushed out of the spotlight to make room for her brother. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘Soul Keeper’: Adapted from a Joseph Citro story, Middlebury director Tim Joy’s short film portrays a man faced with life-or-death circumstances regarding faith and the afterlife. Citro and Joy attend the screening. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 888-1261. 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. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $1518. Info, 518-523-2512.

food & drink Candy-Cane-Making Demo: See WED.16, 11 a.m. Ice Cream Social: Dessert enthusiasts get the scoop on the art center’s activities and new executive director while enjoying a scoop or two of a frosty treat. North Country Cultural Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-1604.

Brick Church Music Series: Crowfoot and opening band the Phineas Gage Project offer traditional and acoustic faves. Proceeds benefit the Williston Rotary Club. Old Brick Church, Williston, 7 p.m. $6-10. Info, 878-5121.

The Alexander Technique: Folks work to regain ease and poise — and improve their sense of well-being — by learning about the body’s natural coordination with instructor Katie Black. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $3-5; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

Mary Bonhag & Matthew Odel: The soprano and pianist join forces on French, Swedish and American compositions. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 223-2424, abz@ arthurzorn.com. Peter Case: The master troubadour who wrote Blondie’s “Hanging on the Telephone” tours solo with songs off his latest album, Wig. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Opera House. Bellows Falls Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $18-30. Info, 463-3669.

Women’s Strength & Conditioning Class: See WED.16, 8:30-9:30 a.m.

kids ‘Cars 2’: Speedy race cars come face to face with an intriguing case of espionage in this animated 2011 adventure. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Booked for Lunch: Author Mark Pendergrast goes into detail about his two most recent books, Japan’s Tipping Point and Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

Senior Thesis Concert: Jeremy Cline’s Climbing on the World Tree comments on the nature of our relationships with spirit by creating physical representations of heaven, Earth and the underworld. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. $6-12. Info, 443-6433.

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Barry Estabrook: The author of Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit explores how commercially grown tomatoes threaten our interpretation of sustainability in a book talk and PowerPoint presentation. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-2211.

Salsa Social: Salsa dura band Afinque offer danceable rhythms and grooves with special guests DJ Raul and Nelson Rodriguez. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8 p.m.-midnight. $8-10. Info, 863-6713.

Methodist Church, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 879-4606. Alexander Melnikov: The winner of BBC Music Magazine’s 2011 Instrumental Recording of the Year performs Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87, on the ivory keys. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. $6-25. Info, 443-6433.

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Archer Mayor: The author of a Vermont-based mystery series starring detective Joe Gunther discusses his writing career and crime-scene investigations. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

English Country Dance Party: Those keen on Jane Austen’s favorite pastime make rural rounds to music by Frost and Fire with guest cellist McKinley James. All dances are taught by Tom Amesse; newcomers welcome. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $5-8; $1 extra for first half hour for experienced dancers; bring finger food to share. Info, 899-2378.

Wine-Tasting Fundraiser: Oenophiles sip domestic and international wines at a benefit for the Travis Roy Foundation, complete with hors d’oeuvres, a raffle, a silent auction and live music. The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa, 6-8:30 p.m. $40; advance tickets recommended. Info, 879-2839.

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Afternoon Poetry & Creative Writing Group: Scribes come together for an artistic exploration of the inner voice. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

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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. Family Portrait Session: To celebrate National Adoption Month, local adoptive families score a photo shoot with Karen Pike. Casey Family Services, White River Junction, 3-8 p.m. Free; preregistration required to reserve a slot. Info, 296-8948. Montgomery Tumble Time: Physical-fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Once Upon a Time: Fairy tales and crafts offered by two Middlebury College students occupy kids in grades K through 2. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

Regina Carter: The violinist applies her jazz sensibility to African folk music in Reverse Thread. See calendar spotlight. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455. ‘ThanksRIFFING’: It’s a Bear!, Giant Travel Avant Garde, the Law Abiders and the Pilgrims perform at a “funtastic feast” of music. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 7 p.m.-midnight. $8. Info, 952-8218.

talks Allison Stanger: The chair of Middlebury College’s political science department makes sense of the “Privatization of Power, Contractors and American Foreign Policy.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Leslie Pelch: The outreach coordinator for the Vermont Center for Geographic Information maps out some of the new geographic technologies that computers and satellites have introduced. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Sign a Story: Babies and toddlers up to age 4 listen to tall tales as the reader signs key words in American Sign Language. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Swanton Playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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Toddler Yoga & Stories: Tykes up to age 5 stretch it out in simple exercise and reading activities. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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.

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‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.16, 7:30 p.m. ‘Breaking E.D.E.N.’: See THU.17, 8 p.m. ‘Homesteaders’: See THU.17, 7:30 p.m. ‘Moby Dick’: See WED.16, St. Johnsbury School, 7 p.m. $12-32. Info, 748-2600. ‘Seussical the Musical’: See THU.17, 7:30 p.m. ‘Singin’ in the Rain’: See THU.17, 7:30 p.m. ‘South Pacific’: See THU.17, 7 p.m. ‘The 39 Steps’: Hitchcock and hilarity go hand in hand in this spoofy comedy-thriller from the theater department. Mount Mansfield Union High School, Jericho, 7:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 899-4690. ‘The Art of Success’: See THU.17, 8 p.m. ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’: See THU.17, 7 p.m. ‘The Music Man’: See THU.17, 7 p.m.

802 Quartet: Jane Bearden, Laura Markowitz, Paul Reynolds and Suzanne Polk create strings sounds to the tune of Beethoven, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky compositions. Winooski United

‘Water is Rising’: Three dozen dancers and musicians wield harmonies, poetry and movement in a reaction to the rising sea levels in the Pacific Islands and a plea for environmental stewardship.

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Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-35. Info, 863-5966.

words Brown Bag Book Club: Readers gab about dining incognito in a discussion of Ruth Reichl’s Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Poets’ Night: Writers flock to an open reading of lyrical lines and (very) short prose. Flynndog, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6106.

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Saturday Art Sampler: Adults and teens pick up decorative painting techniques to transform walls, wooden furniture and more. Davis Studio Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24; preregister. Info, 425-2700.

bazaars ‘Celebrate Local Art’ Holiday Show Reception: Three floors fill with high-quality, affordable crafts and locally made artwork. Studio Place Arts, Barre, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 479-7069. Christmas Cupboard Community Craft Fair: ’Tis the season to wander through cheery displays of original gift options, gingerbread houses, wreaths and more. Underhill I.D. Elementary School, Jericho, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4076. Healing Gifts: A Healing Arts Expo & Fair: Shoppers browse through an array of gifts that have low or no environmental impact, experience different healing and life-improvement modalities, take a guided meditation or laughing yoga class, and more. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 10 a.m. $16-25; $15 for raw-food lunch. Info, 888-480-3772. Holiday Art Show & Sale: Music plays as shoppers eye painted wood, pottery, jewelry, glassworks and more. Milton Grange, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission; donations accepted for the Milton Artists Guild. Info, 893-2480, snowgise@myfairpoint.net.

Holiday Bazaar: Between shopping at Grandmother’s Attic and scoping out the jewelry corner and arts-and-crafts center, folks sample a delicious array of locally made savories and sweets. United Church of Hinesburg, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch served 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3352.

Ski/Ride/Skate Sale: See FRI.18, sale 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Winooski Holiday Bazaar: Sit for a meal of homemade baked beans, chili and cornbread, or browse through seasonal crafts and baked goods. Winooski United Methodist Church, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 355-3139.

Foundations of Compassionate Communications: An all-day workshop for adults and teens fosters effective interpersonal communication skills to enrich relationships, resolve conflicts and more. Gates Beiggs Building, White River Junction, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $100-150. Info, 659-0144. Sow, Reap, Prepare, Eat!: Upper Valley teachers, food-service staff, parents and farmers explore the connections between local farms and school cafeterias, classrooms, and communities. Lebanon High School, N.H., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $35. Info, 436-4067.

crafts Hooked in the Mountains: See WED.16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 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.

dance Capital City Contra Dance: Feet in soft-soled shoes make the dance-floor rounds to tunes by Glen Loper, Rodney Miller and Owen Marshall, and calling by Rebecca Lay. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 744-6163. Middle Eastern & American Belly Dance Showcase: Hips shimmy and shake to highenergy dances from around the world in an annual display featuring Gina Capossela and 70 members of the Raqs Salaam Dance Theater. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 603-448-0400. Senior Thesis Concert: See FRI.18, 7 p.m.

etc. 15th Anniversary Party: Regular readers contribute quilt squares at a celebration of literature and the bookstore that brings it to them. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999. Customer Appreciation Party: Boot shinings, mini chair massages, food and presentations on the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge make customers feel valued. Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4778. 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. Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week: See WED.16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Big Kicker: Ski-and-ride season clicks into gear with a Mountain Freestyle Teams exhibition, photo contest reception, screening of Meathead Films’ Prime Cut, live music by Red Hot Juba and the Starline Rhythm Boys, and more. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994. 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

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Woodstock Winter Farmers Market: Eggs, produce, meats, jams and more are readily available thanks to local farmers and crafters. Masonic Hall, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 763-2476.

‘Brighton Rock’: See FRI.18, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘Fear in Three Acts’: A reel of quirky trailers precedes this 16mm film extravaganza. Folks screen 1973’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and three of Andy MacDougall’s homeade shorts. North Country Food Co-op, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-5615904, serious_61@yahoo.com. Hirschfield International Film Series: The Los Angeles Times called Manoel de Oliveira’s The Strange Case of Angelica, centered on a photographer asked to capture the image of a recently deceased girl, “profoundly spiritual.” Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middleburey College, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. ‘Mozart’s Sister’: See FRI.18, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘Nuremberg’: Its Lessons for Today: Stuart Schulberg’s 1948 documentary captured the world’s most famous trial — but all but disappeared in the following decades. The director’s daughter, Sandra Schulberg, screens a restored version of the film and leads a discussion. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink Burlington Winter Farmers Market: More than 50 local farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts, and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. Caledonia Winter Farmers Market: Freshly baked goods, veggies, beef and maple syrup feature prominently in displays of “shop local” options. Welcome Center, St. Johnsbury, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088. Candy-Cane-Making Demo: See WED.16, 11 a.m. Capital City Thanksgiving Farmers Market: Root veggies, honey, maple syrup and more change hands at an off-season celebration of locally grown food, complete with a variety of holiday gift options. Montpelier High School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com. Champlain Islands Winter Farmers Market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. South Hero Congregational Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291. Hinesburg Winter Farmers Market: Growers sell bunched greens, pickles and pasture-raised chicken among vendors of cupcakes, crafts and pottery. Hinesburg Town Hall, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4354. Homemade Applesauce: Burlington Farmers Market shoppers take a break to help crank cooked apples through the mill. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. Locavore Dinner: Just Delicious Catering serves apple-and-cranberry-stuffed pork roast, roasted beet and chévre lasagna, blue-cheese-smashed potatoes, and other mouthwatering dishes as Knotwork provides a backdrop of lively music. Applecheek Farm, Hyde Park, 5:30-9:30 p.m. $13-26; free for ages 5 and under. Info, 888-9407, jdccatering@yahoo.com. Middlebury Winter Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. American Flatbread, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-0178, middleburyfm@ yahoo.com. Norwich Winter Farmers Market: Neighbors discover cold-weather riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local

games 2011 Day of Games: Gathering of the Gamers organizes this daylong marathon of community fun. Kids under 13 must be supervised by an adult. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Espresso Brain-o: Quick-thinking team members answer 20 trivia questions over beer, wine, Mexican food and café treats. Espresso Bueno, Barre, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 479-0896.

irene benefits Amazing Grazing Dinner: The Vermont Fresh Network’s final 2011 Farmers Series Dinner, a feast of locally grown foods with music by Last October, benefits farm neighbors affected by Tropical Storm Irene. Round Barn Farm, Waitsfield, 6:30 p.m. $50; cash bar; reservations required. Info, 496-2276, info@theroundbarn.com. Vermont Fiddle Orchestra: Soaring string instruments band together to benefit the Braintree Flood Relief Fund. A ceilidh follows with Cape Breton fiddler Beth Telford. Town Hall, Braintree, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 877-343-3531. Wild Night on the Catwalk: Compassion for Fashion: Extravagant, repurposed looks crafted by local and regional designers benefit the Brattleboro Area Hospice and the Experienced Goods Thrift Shop, which suffered damage from Tropical Storm Irene. Michael S. Currier Center, Putney School, 6:30 p.m. $50 for runway seating; $35 for standing room only. Info, 257-0775.

kids A Dangerous Night of Writing: Young scribes join a write-a-thon inspired by NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Prizes ensue. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. Dan Zanes & Friends: The Grammy-winning family entertainer bridges folk, rock and roots in music that doesn’t have to be just for kids. Barre Opera House, 3 p.m. $20-25. Info, 476-8188. 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. Family Portrait Session: See FRI.18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Kids Night Out Jam: Active 5- to 12-year-olds burn off some energy playing “freeze” dance, musical games and more. Pizza and beverages provided. Urban Dance Complex, Williston, 6-9 p.m. $18 per child; $30 per two; preregister. Info, 863-6600. Morning Magic: Tom Joyce combines comedy, puppetry and audience participation to amuse and astonish folks of all ages. Discovery Preschool, Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Canned-good donations accepted for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. Info, 951-4259. North Hero Tumble Time: Free-play stations around the gym keep youngsters — and their adult companions — on the go. North Hero Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. ‘Pre-Thanksgiving — Yes, It’s All About Digestion’: Inspired by “Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body,” family audiences learn about what makes us “go” in a digestion demo with the Vermont Children’s Hospital. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. sat.19

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Winooski Holiday Pop-Up Art Market: See WED.16, noon-8 p.m.

E-Communities in a Digital Age: Anne Galloway of VTdigger.org keynotes a gathering focused on using online tools to create jobs, reinvent schools, attract visitors and enliven communities. Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $20. Info, 859-3090, joanna@snellingcenter.org.

entertainment. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447, manager@norwichfarmersmarket.org.

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Queen City Craft Bazaar: Holiday Craft Show: Recycled skateboard jewelry and plush fiber arts are among the items offered by 45 crafters, artists and designers at this indie fair. Union Station, Burlington, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 233-6252.

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noon. Burlington Taiko. $15 for djembe class; $12 for dance class. Info, 377-9721, chimiebangoura@ hotmail.com.

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Holiday Showcase & Craft Fair: Area artisans lay out their creations at a benefit for the high school boosters club and the local food shelf. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 782-6874.

‘A Mini Series: A Series of Mini Shows’: Potato Sack Pants Theater splits sides with a sketch comedy show. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 373-0332.

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Holiday Artisans’ Bazaar: More than 50 artists and crafters from Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine exhibit pottery, weaving, glass work, jewelry, ornaments and other seasonal creations. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 431-0204.

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Santa’s Arrival Party: Mr. and Mrs. Claus drop by from the North Pole via caboose at 11 a.m. for a host of holiday activities, including face painting, Santa bingo, a marionette show and a bouncy castle. Center Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Free; $3 for train rides. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. 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 Laughing Couple: Carolyn Hunt shares traditional Abenaki tales as Rick Hunt illustrates them in a spectacular mural. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

music 802 Quartet: See FRI.18, T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Birthday Celebration With Chick Peas: Jody Albright, Darienne Oaks and Linda Pervier offer sweet vocals, strings and keys to celebrate the bookstore’s third year. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189. Burlington Choral Society: The vocal ensemble takes on works by Franz Liszt and Edward Elgar, as well as Vermont composers Patricia Julien and music director David Neiweem. Guest artists Melissa Dickerson, the Essex Children’s Choir and the Vermont Youth Orchestra Chorus join in. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $17-20. Info, 863-5966. Béla Fleck and the Original Flecktones: The five-time Grammy-winning group produces its signature blend of bluegrass, fusion and jazz. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $36.50-56.50. Info, 775-0903.

Mattan Klein Jazz Ensemble: The voices of four flutes meet energetic acoustic rhythms in fresh world-jazz arrangements. Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $18; free with student ID card. Info, 862-5125. Mellow Yellow’s ‘Hit Parade Live’: A peaceand-love-era tribute band plays tunes from the golden age of Top 40 radio. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 399-2589. ‘Still Black, Still Proud: An African Tribute to James Brown’: Acclaimed musicians such as Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker pay homage to the “Godfather of Soul” through an Afrofunk exploration. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-46; half-price tickets available at deals.sevendaysvt. com while supplies last. Info, 863-5966. Ka

Introduction to Microsoft Word: From toolbars to text and paragraphs to pictures, students get savvy about the word processor. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217. Irish Genealogy Workshop: Speakers Ed McGuire and Joann Flynn share personal examples of tracing lineage, as well as how to use library resources and online databases to do so. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 238-5934. Preliminary Titleholder Program Development Workshop: Young women between the ages of 13 and 24 attend a skill-building workshop hosted by the Miss Vermont Scholarship Organization. Topics include how to interview well with the media, positively utilize social media and build your own brand. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, noon-3:30 p.m. $25. Info, 878-8487.

sport Annual Harvest Classic Table Tennis Tournament: Racket swingers of all levels of ability attempt to put a good spin on the ball during nine separate matches throughout the day. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-10 to play (preregister); free to watch. Info, 247-5913. Turkey Trot: Runners celebrate the bird of the moment with a 100-yard tot trot, two-mile walk/ run and 10K run supporting programs for Westford families. Westford School, registration, 8:30 a.m.; trot, 10 a.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 8782902 or 879-5726.

talks Faculty Chalk Talk 2011: Pregame with a prof? Environmental studies professor Andrew J. Friedland addresses climate change in “Why Worry About Carbon Emissions?” Room 105, Dartmouth Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2258, dartmouth.alumni.relations@dartmouth.edu.

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‘Homesteaders’: See THU.17, 7:30 p.m. ‘Seussical the Musical’: See THU.17, 2 p.m. ‘Singin’ in the Rain’: See THU.17, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Emerging Self Workshop: Sandra Lucas explores the “inner barriers to becoming” through Gestalt experiments with imagery, metaphor, poetry, visualization and dialogue. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.

‘Funny Girl’: See THU.17, 8 p.m.

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‘Breaking E.D.E.N.’: See THU.17, 8 p.m.

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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.

‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.16, 7:30 p.m.

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Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra: Anthony Princiotti conducts the Hop ensemble in Mendelssohn’s overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-29. Info, 603-646-2422.

Moonlit Wagon Rides: Marvel at the evening sky on a scenic horse-drawn loop through the fields and woodlands. Shelburne Farms, 5:15 p.m., 6 p.m., 6:45 p.m., 7:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, 985-8686.

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Bird-Monitoring Walk: Beginning birders fine-tune their eyes and ears to recognize winged residents. The information gathered will be entered into Vermont “e-bird” database. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-9 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068, vermont@ audubon.org.

‘South Pacific’: See THU.17, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. ‘The 39 Steps’: See FRI.18, 7:30 p.m.

broadcast screening of Philip Glass’ Satyagraha. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-23. Info, 748-2600. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Lake Placid Center for the Arts: See above listing, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Loew Auditorium: See above listing, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-29.50. Info, 603-646-2422. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Palace 9: See above listing, Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 12:55 p.m. $18-24. Info, 660-9300. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Town Hall Theater: See above listing, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $24. Info, 382-9222. ‘The Music Man’: See THU.17, 7 p.m.

words Megan Price: The author of Vermont Wild: Adventures of Vermont Fish & Game Wardens, Volumes 1 and 2 shares her latest tales of wildlife watching. Annie’s Book Stop, Rutland, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 775-6993.

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Holiday Artisans’ Bazaar: See SAT.19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Shop for a Cause: Gift givers scope out work by more than 15 local artists, as well as baked goods. Ten percent of sales benefit the Richmond and Williston food shelves. WAG (Women Artists’ Guild) Holiday Market, Williston, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 238-7994. Ski/Ride/Skate Sale: See FRI.18, sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Winooski Holiday Pop-Up Art Market: See WED.16, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

crafts Hooked in the Mountains: See WED.16, 10 a.m.-noon.

dance Israeli Folk Dancing: Movers bring clean, soft-soled shoes and learn traditional circle or line dances. Partners not required. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:25-9:30 p.m. $2; free to first-timers. Info, 888-5706, portico@stowevt.net.

etc. Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week: See WED.16, 2-4 p.m. Transgender Day of Remembrance: ‘Helping Ourselves’: Folks share stories, art, music, activities and more to honor and memorialize those who have been killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. Block Gallery & Coffeehouse, Winooski, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9677, ext. 3, dawn@outrightvt.org.

film ‘Brighton Rock’: See FRI.18, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Chandler Film Series: After a bad split, a con artist gets back at her former beau in Preston Sturges’ 1941 romantic comedy The Lady Eve. Film critic Rick Winston hosts a talk before the screening. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 431-0204, outreach@chandler-arts.org. ‘Drive’: Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stunt driver by day and a getaway chauffeur for criminals

by night in Nicolas Winding Refn’s stylish 2011 thriller. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. Labor Film Night: As part of the Canadian Labor International Film Festival, folks screen three films about the conditions in which workers live, work, fight and succeed: Breathtaking, Locked Out and Triangle: Remembering the Fire. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 1-3:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 485-4554. ‘Mozart’s Sister’: See FRI.18, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

food & drink Fair Haven Farmers Market Holiday Show: Farmers and crafters from around Vermont and upstate New York bring a bounty of food and eye-catching knickknacks. Hot foods and a raffle raise money to help the farmers market. American Legion Post 49, Fair Haven, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 518-282-9781. Pancake Breakfast: Stacks of flapjacks break the night’s fast. Seatings at 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Grace United Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 8 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 878-8071. Thanksgiving Farmers Market: Roughly 30 vendors peddle homegrown and handmade goods as Last October dole out tunes. Round Barn Farm, Waitsfield, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 922-1832.

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.

irene benefits Folk & Traditional Music Series: Members of the Saltash Serenaders and the Cold River Band raise funds for Brandon’s flood-relief efforts in “The Salt River Revue.” Brandon Music, 2-4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 465-4071.

kids Create a ‘Harris Burdick’ Display: Young readers and writers help craft an eye-catching tribute to Chris Van Allsburg’s compelling picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

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 Dartmouth Chamber Singers: Robert Duff conducts this Hop ensemble in monumental works by Handel and Mozart. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $5-18. Info, 603-646-2422. GreelySavoyDuo: Two of Louisiana’s top Cajun fiddlers, David Greely and Joel Savoy, join forces. See calendar spotlight. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 888-1261. Middlebury College Community Chorus: Singers from Addison County and beyond join Middlebury College students, staff and faculty in a song celebration of Thanksgiving. Mead Chapel, Middlebury, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

outdoors Wagon-Ride Weekend: See SAT.19, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

‘The Art of Success’: See THU.17, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’: See THU.17, 7 p.m. The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD: Catamount Arts: Richard Croft stars in a

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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 Jeffrey kran: The representative of Chosen People Ministries discusses “The Fall Feasts of Israel.” First Baptist Church, St. Albans, 11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 524-3529. rick Bartlett: In “The Ethan Allen House Through the Years,” this former resident shares family photos and anecdotes about the property from the 1950s. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556, info@ ethanallenhomestead.org.

theater ‘Boeing-Boeing’: See WED.16, 5 p.m. ‘Breaking e.D.e.n.’: See THU.17, 2 p.m. ‘funny girl’: See THU.17, 2 p.m. ‘south Pacific’: See THU.17, 2 p.m. ‘the 39 stePs’: See FRI.18, 2 p.m. the metroPolitan oPera: hD live: sPaulDing auDitorium: See SAT.19, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-29.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

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community village-BuilDing convergence organizers’ meeting: New faces are welcomed at a planning meeting for the fourth annual Village-Building Convergence, a celebration of sustainability and community to be held in June. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 2235844, gryneman@gmail.com.

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.

oPeration christmas chilD national collection Week: See WED.16, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

film ‘Brighton rock’: See FRI.18, 7:30 p.m. ‘Buck’: Cindy Meehl’s documentary paints a portrait of American cowboy and original Horse Whisperer Buck Brannaman. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 748-2600.

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zumBa golD: Invigorating Latin music fosters a party-like workout atmosphere for baby boomers and active older participants. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 5:15-6 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

Vermont’s indie craft fair featuring 45 crafters, artists and designers. Offering an assortment of unique, handmade goods. Shop local, Shop handmade!

kids music & movement With may: Caregivers and their charges lace up their dancing shoes for a fun and educational session with May Poduschnik. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. music With raPhael: See THU.17, 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.

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music musician Jam: Singers and instrumentalists mingle at a casual recording session. The tunes may be edited and shortened for TV or radio play. Vibesville Audio & Visual Production Studio, Essex, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, website@stephpappas.com. recorDer-Playing grouP: Musicians produce early folk and baroque melodies. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. the chamPlain echoes: New singers are invited to chime in on four-part harmonies with a women’s a cappella chorus at weekly open rehearsals. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 6:15-9:15 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0398.

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.

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talks carrie shamel: The speaker offers “A Brief Glimpse of Elder and Health Care in Helsinski, Finland.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

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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.

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.

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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.

aura-clearing clinic: Call to reserve an energy-healing session and investigation of the state of your field of radiation. Sessions start every 15 minutes. Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090.

herBal clinic: Folks learn to improve their health with herbal medicines at a personalized, confidential consultation with faculty and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-9700.

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keys to credit: A seminar clears up the confusing world of credit. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 104.

‘Brighton rock’: See FRI.18, 7:30 p.m. ‘Mozart’s sister’: See FRI.18, 5:30 p.m. ‘raiders of the Lost ark’: An archaeologist walks softly (sometimes) and carries a whip in this 1981 Indiana Jones action flick about the pursuit of a biblical artifact. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018, mariah@mainstreetlanding. com. ‘the Muppet Movie’: Jim Henson’s puppets head to Hollywood in their first full-length film. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. tuesday night at the Movies: Cinephiles screen film gems, sleepers and festival favorites. This month’s selection: Home for the Holidays, starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $8. Info, 496-8994.

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creative tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. hand in hand: The Middlebury youth group organizes volunteer projects to benefit the environment and the community. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

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Morning pLaygroup: Astrologer Mary Anna Abuzahra leads storytelling inspired by seasonal plants, fruits and flowers before art activities, games and an optional walk. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-0043.

Winooski hoLiday pop-up art Market: See WED.16, noon-8 p.m.

film ‘Bride fLight’: Three war brides share a flight to New Zealand in this epic 2008 drama by Ben Sombogaart. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘Brighton rock’: See FRI.18, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘Mozart’s sister’: See FRI.18, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.

food & drink candy-cane-Making deMo: See WED.16, 11 a.m.

health & fitness serenity yoga: See WED.16, 6-7 p.m. tai chi/Qigong cLass: See WED.16, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

story tiMe for tots: Three- to 5-year-olds savor stories, songs, crafts and company. CarpenterCarse Library, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 482-2878.

BaBytiMe: See WED.16, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

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

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siLo session concert series: A bakery doubles as a cozy listening room as Michael Chorney and Dollar General share Green Mountain State-made acoustic layers. Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 922-5349.

kids Moving & grooving With christine: See WED.16, 11-11:30 a.m. paintBaLL: Who will emerge victorious and who will end up a multicolored mess? Teens test their endurance and cooperation skills with members of the Bristol Hub Teen Center & Skatepark. Colchester Paintball, Colchester, noon-5 p.m. $30; parents must fill out consent forms. Info, 453-3678.

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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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.

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stunt nite: Students from Rice Memorial High School offer four musical comedies in a stage revue on its 82nd year. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. $12-17. Info, 863-5966.

tai chi: Easy, intentional poses for intermediates increase chi, or energy flow, in a four-week cycle. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6:307:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 881-5210.

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building TINY-HOUSE RAISING: Cost: $250/workshop. Location: Richmond, Vermont. Info: Peter King, 933-6103. A crew of beginners will help instructor Peter King frame and sheath a 20 x 24 tiny house in Waterville, November 19 and 20.

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PACIFIC ISLANDS SONG & DANCE: Adults & Teens, Thu., Nov. 17, 7-8:30 p.m. Cost: $18/class. Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. This workshop is led by performers from the Polynesian island of Tokelau whose performance ‘Water Is Rising’ raises awareness of the plight they face: rising water levels due to global warming, submerging their homeland and forcing loss of their culture as they assimilate into other lands. In this participatory workshop you’ll learn some of the traditional songs and dance forms they’ve used for centuries to record history and express deep feelings through elegant movement, vibrant rhythms and the power of communal expression. No experience necessary. FOSSE JAZZ MASTERCLASS: Adults & teens, Fri., Nov. 18, 5:45-8:45 p.m. Cost: $35/ class. Location: Flynn

WINTER CLASSES ENROLLING NOW!: Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. Acting, singing, dance, standup comedy, jazz music, parent/child music making and more! Children, teens and adults all welcome, scholarships available as needed. how choirs will be filling open spaces in January for grades 4-6 and 7-12 and adults. Jazz music combos will be holding placement sessions for grades 5-12 and adults on January 10. Dance exhibition “Open Marley Nights” is accepting applications for dancers who want to share worksin-progress. Visit website for full listings and to register.

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

STONE WALL WORKSHOP: 1-day workshops run Jan. through Mar. 2012. Cost: $100/1-day workshop. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Queen City Soil & Stone, Charley MacMartin, 3182411, macmartin@igc.org, queencitysoilandstone. com. Our introductory workshops for homeowners and tradespeople promote the beauty and integrity of stone. The one-day workshop focuses on the basic techniques for creating dry-laid stone walls. Workshops are held in warm greenhouses in Hinesburg. The workshops are hands on, working with stone native to Vermont. TERRARIUMS: CREATING ONE OF YOUR OWN IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK!: Nov. 17, 12-12:45 p.m. Location: Gardener’s Supply Garden Center, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 658-2433, seminars@ gardeners.com, gardenerssupplystore.com. Free to attend. No preregistration required.

herbs LOCAL HERBS & CHINESE MEDICE: Nov. 28, 5:308:30 p.m. Cost: $18/3-hr. class & detailed handouts. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Hebalism, 250 Main St., suite 305, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. com. Acupuncturist and herbalist Brendan Kelly will discuss using local, Western herbs to treat colds and flus within the HERBS

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TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave. Suite 3-G, Burlington. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, 18 Langdon St., Montpelier. AllTogetherNow, 170 Cherry Tree Hill Rd., E. Montpelier. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com. Burlington! Beginners’ Taiko starts Tuesday, November 8 and January 10; kids, 4:30 p.m., $60/6 weeks; adults, 5:30 p.m., $72/6 weeks. Advanced classes start Monday, November 7 and January 9, 5:30 and 7 p.m. Women’s Haitian classes start Friday, November 11 and December 9, 5 p.m., $45/3 weeks. Morning Taiko workout/polish starts Saturday, November 12 and December 3, 9-10:45 a.m., $45/3 weeks. Beginning Cuban Bata starts Sunday, November 20, 1:30-3 p.m., $45/3 weeks. Montpelier Thursdays! Haitian starts November 10 and December 8, 1:30-2:30 p.m., $45/3 weeks. East Montpelier Thursdays! Djembe starts November 10, 5:30 p.m., $45/3 weeks. Cuban congas start December 8, $45/3 weeks. Taiko starts November

DEVELOPING YOUR INTUITION: Nov. 19-20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $75/ 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.

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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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

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Center, Burlington. Terrie Robinson was one of the original dancers in the Broadway production of ‘Pippin,’ under jazz great Bob Fosse. Fosse is the man responsible for this highly distinctive jazz style, full of elegance, precision, humor, isolation, detail and show-stopping pizzazz. Challenge yourself in this one-day intensive for intermediate and advanced dancers, and tell your friends that there’s only one degree of separation between you and Bob Fosse!

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HARMONY IN MOVEMENT: Mon., 6:45 p.m., & Sat., 10:45 a.m.: work-inprogress format, drop-ins welcome. Cost: $15/class (better rates w/ your Any Class Card). Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Info@BurlingtonDances. com, BurlingtonDances. com. Have you ever pictured what your body movement means? Come to Burlington Dances and learn about meaning and self-expression, Laban, Delsarte, Bartenieff, and how dance “technique” classes give you the creative tools, strength, alignment, and endurance to move with meaning, elegance, and style in a work-in-progress format.

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.

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!

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perspectives of older, pre-Westernized schools of Chinese medicine. Class includes an introductory discussion of Chinese medicine and is appropriate for those with a general interest in herbs as well as practitioners. Detailed handouts provided. WESTERN HERBS TO TREAT PAIN: Nov. 20, 1-3:30 p.m. Cost: $20/2.5hr. workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 W. Canal St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, Purple Shutter Herbs, 865-4372, info@purplshutter.com, purpleshutter. com. We’ll discuss different kinds of pain, from general aches to arthritis to headaches and their different causes. We’ll also explore a variety of western herbs, including valerian, willow, juniper berry and wild ginger. A detailed handout will be included. Brendan is a practicing acupuncturist and herbalist at Jade Mountain Wellness. 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.

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. MARTIAL WAY SELFDEFENSE CENTER: Please visit website for schedule. Location: Martial Way Self Defense Center, 3 locations, Colchester, Milton, St. Albans. Info: 893-8893, martialwayvt. com. Beginners will find a comfortable and welcoming environment, and a courteous staff that is dedicated to helping each member achieve his or her maximum potential in the martial arts. Experienced martial artists will be impressed by our instructors’ knowledge and humility, our realistic approach, and our straightforward, fair tuition and billing policies. 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.

nature ROOTS SCHOOL: Location: ROOTS School, 20 Blachly Rd., E. Calais. Info: ROOTS School, Sarah Corrigan, 456-1253, RootsVT@gmail. com, RootsVT.com. Fibers from a wild landscape: This is a working process and understanding of fibers that live around us with emphasis on an ethno-botanical, primitive technology and craftsmanship focus. 12/10-11/11. Origins: This is a nine-month adult program devoted to studying, making and using primitive weapons, tools and technologies. January 2012.

photography FALL PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES: 1-on-1 private classes. Cost: $69/half day, $99/full day. Location: Linda Rock Photography, 48 Laurel Dr., Essex Jct. Info: 238-9540, lrphotography@comcast. net. Beginner Digital Photography, Intermediate Digital Photography, Digital Workflow, Lighting Techniques, Set Up Your Photo Business, People Posing, Photoshop and more. For more details see lindarockphotography.com for more details. Sign up today!

pilates ALL WELLNESS: Location: 128 Lakeside Ave., suite 103, Burlington. Info: 863-9900, allwellnessvt. com. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater

ease and enjoyment in life by integrating physical therapy, Pilates Reformer, Power Pilates mat classes, Vinyasa and Katonah Yoga, and indoor cycling. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful instructors and beautiful, light-filled studio-your first fitness class is free if you mention this ad! EVERY BODY LOVES PILATES!: Pilates Mat, Reformer, Circuit Training, Mat/Cadillac & Senior classes. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington. Info: 863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Feel the feeling! See the difference! You’ve heard of the Seal, Teaser, Corkscrew, Swan and Mermaid! Try a month of Pilates and find out why every body loves Pilates! No introduction needed for Mat or Pilates Circuit Training: Reform your body, enjoy yourself! Bring your friends to Natural Bodies Pilates!

shamanism INTRO TO SHAMANIC JOURNEYING: Dec. 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $75/5-hr. class. Location: Shaman’s Flame, 78A Cady Hill Rd., Stowe. Info: Sarah Finlay & Peter Clark, 253-7846, peterclark13@gmail. com, shamansflame.com. Experiential workshop includes shamanic cosmology, shamanic journeying. Meet spirit guides, find your seat of power and begin to walk the path of self-empowerment. Learn about divination and basic forms of shamanic healing. Discover the great relevance of this ancient spiritual practice. Expand your consciousness, learn of integrative spiritual healing.

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ank Williams III is rarely at a loss for words. Now going by the streamlined stage name Hank3, the grandson of country legend Hank Williams and son of the country star Hank Jr. is as outspoken as they come. He says, and does, exactly what he feels and makes no apologies. As his surname suggests, he’s a little bit country. But, as his fans have long known, he’s also a whole lotta rock and roll. The latest evidence is a trio of new records, released simultaneously this fall: a country double album, Ghost to a Ghost/Guttertown, a doom-metal album, Hank3’s Attention Deficit Domination, and a speed-metal record, Cattle Callin’ (released as Hank3’s / 3 Bar Ranch). All three were released on his new label, Hank 3 Records. They are his first releases following an oft-contentious and ill-matched relationship with his longtime label Curb Records. Seven Days recently spoke with Hank3 by phone, in advance of his show at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge this Monday, November 21.

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SEVEN DAYS: What prompted the name change to Hank3? HANK3: It was always supposed to be that, from the beginning. But Curb Records wanted to shelve me as Hank Williams the third. So it’s trying to focus on a new beginning as opposed to the history with Curb. And Hank3 rolls off the tongue a little better. SD: So Curb was basically trying to market your last name? H3: Correct. I’ve always known my vision. But if you’re on a major label, they’ll try to tell you how to act or what to play. I’ve always known what I wanted to do, and they don’t really like that. I don’t need a producer to tell me what sounds good or bad, or how to write a song. I write songs for myself. I don’t need someone saying, “If you write a catchy song and make a hit, we’ll pay this radio station all this money to make all this money.” I’m not about that. I’m about rock and roll and longevity. SD: You clashed with Curb virtually the entire time you were with them. I gather they just didn’t know what to do with you. Was it liberating to break away? H3: Yeah. But here’s the thing. It doesn’t matter if it’s someone like me who didn’t make them much money, or someone like Tim McGraw, who has made them millions of dollars. He’s in the exact same situation I was in. Curb always said they didn’t know how to market me and didn’t believe in me as an artist. That’s just not good business. It’s nice to work with people that respect what you do, whether it’s on a small scale or a big scale. SD: It seems to me that you’d be uniquely positioned to reach a wider audience because there are three different demographics who would be interested in what you do. H3: That’s the way I look at it. But now they’ll be back to having their same old roster of pop country and Christian bands.

SD: Um … well, that’s not the kind of thing you’d read about in a press release. H3: It’s been for the best. If I was just a country singer, it wouldn’t be as special. If I was just a metal guy, it wouldn’t be as special. Having diversity and open-minded crowds, it really worked out in a good way. SD: You play a pretty ragged version of country music, especially compared to a lot of the commercial country that’s out now. Is that a conscious choice? H3: I just do what I do. Some people feel a catch to it and some people don’t. A lot of my songs I’ve lived out, and sometimes it’s a little bit of fantasyland. Being from the South, the swamp stuff, it’s in my blood. SD: You certainly come by it honestly. H3: I was at Sirius Radio a while back, and this old-schooler named Alamo Jones told me, “Oh, you sound country when you talk. That’s refreshing.” SD: Ha. I guess there are a lot of country singers with affected accents. H3: There are. And then when you hear them really talk in their normal voice, you know they’re puttin’ on a show. SD: The new records have more than 70 tracks, all totaled. Is that all new material, or had you been sitting on some of it while you were with Curb? H3: It’s all brand new. In January I started sketching out all the songs, and started recording in February. And from February until June, from the moment I woke up to the moment I couldn’t work any longer, I was dedicated to the music. I normally weigh 160, and I got down to 135. It was an intense process.

SD: Your country background is obvious. At what point did you realize you could incorporate punk and metal into the same show and it would work for audiences? H3: I got my first Kiss records, Black Sabbath, when I was 7 years old. And I got a drum kit. That set me on my way to energetic music. Then I started listening to punk shows on college radio and would tape them right off COU RTE the radio. That’s when I got into the Dead SY O F HA NK3 Kennedys, the Sex Pistols and the Misfits. Then the music got faster with S.O.D. and Slayer. Being a drummer, that stuff mesmerized me.

SD: No kidding. H3: In the daytime I was more serious, working on the country stuff and worrying about pitch and time and tone. But at night I would open it up and have more fun with some of the heavy guitar or crazy drum tracks. Not being as uptight.

SD: So the heavy stuff hit you first, before country? H3: I had a one-night stand who waited three years to tell me that I had a child. They served me papers when I was onstage. They took me to court and I had a judge tell me playing music was no real job. So I went out and showed him, well, yeah, it is a real job. I had to get into country to not be a deadbeat dad.

SD: Do you find thematic similarities between punk and country? H3: There are underlying themes between both: the outsider theme, depression, independence, loss. Those things are similar. I mean, Hank Williams was singing rock and roll before they knew what rock and roll was. He had “Move It on Over,” then five years later Bill Haley has “Rock Around the Clock,” and that’s supposedly the first rock-and-roll song. Well, Hank Williams was already doing that. Then you have Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Jr. Then kids are listening to David Allen Coe and Pantera. There’s always been an underlying theme there, and the walls have been broken down over the years.

SD: When you’re writing, at what point do you know when a song will be a metal song versus a country tune? H3: Because of my learning disability, it’s hard for me to write and read. It always has been. So when I’m working on country, I hit record and basically start channeling what’s coming off the top of my head. Then I go back and write down what’s important with a pen. Doing the doom-metal stuff, it’s just about the guitar and the riff, then drums, vocals are the last thing. It’s two different writing styles. A night-and-day difference.

Hank3 Hank3 plays the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington on Monday, November 21, at 8 p.m., with his bands HellBilly and Attention Deficit Domination. $17/20. AA.

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accessible stuff I’m bringing to town.” Also, “I think people will dig it.” Correct on all three counts, Greg. Though it should be noted that “accessible” is a relative term, especially when it comes to music. What’s accessible to one set of ears may be akin to fingernails on a chalkboard to another. One person’s Justin BiEBEr is another’s, well, Justin Bieber. But I digress. Back to the point, Earn is the alter ego of MatthEw sullivan, better known in experimental circles for his harsh noise project Privy sEals, as a co-owner of the cassette label Ehkein and as a onetime member of dEEP JEw, all pretty big names in that scene. As Earn, Sullivan trades in emotionally fueled, guitar-based soundscapes that are intended to evoke the sensation of an out-ofbody experience. And they often do. Sullivan’s dense compositions are almost like the sonic equivalent of a mood ring, shifting dispositions and tones in a shimmering array of fluid sound. Imagine if you could listen to the northern lights. Mirror to Mirror is the brainchild of alEx twoMEy,

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who also runs cassette label Jugular Forest. He’s touring behind a debut LP, Here You Leave Today, that, much like Earn, uses sonic abstractions to stimulate visceral emotional responses. Of the two, M2M is a little more impressionistic — again, that’s relative — melding drones with more rigid compositional structure. It’s also probably the least accessible. (Imagine if you

could listen to the northern lights … on acid.) But those with an open mind could well be surprised at just how easy and rewarding an experience both acts are. Oh, and the opening band, harMonizEr — Davis’ collaboration with toBy aronson — ain’t too shabby, either.

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1/2 LoungE: Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. CLub MEtronoME: Jewish Heat Fundraiser: Dr. Ruckus, moses & the Electric company, something With strings (rock), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. 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. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: marchfourth marching Band (circus rock), 8:30 p.m., $12/14. AA. LEunig's bistro & CaFé: cody sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. MonkEy HousE: sonni shine & the underwater sounds, mash mcLain, Flabberghaster (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. 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.

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pursuits of personal enlightenment and spiritual awakening and the art of hot-steppin’, ass-kickin’ “lethal funk.” The band is a supergroup composed of members of the Breakfast, RAQ, Deep Banana Blackout and Jazz Is Dead, and they draw deeply from each of those band’s unique styles to create a new, funkdafied improvisational discipline for which there is no defense. This Thursday, November 17, Kung Fu light up Nectar’s with Burlington’s squiD City. HigHEr grounD baLLrooM: The Joy Formidable (rock), 8 p.m., $0.99. AA. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE LoungE: Aer, Jacob Es (hip-hop, acoustic pop), 9 p.m., $10/12. AA. LEunig's bistro & CaFé: Ellen Powell & Billy Ruegger (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

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ParkEr PiE Co.: Don and Jenn (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Free.

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MonoPoLE: Peacock Tunes & Trivia, 5 p.m., Free. misfits tribute (punk), 10 p.m., Free.

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— a performance that seems especially significant given the tragic suicide at the camp the following day. So thanks, Eugene. It’s always a pleasure to have you back. What is the second thing I’ve openly wished for that has come to pass? Latenight gravy fries made their gloriously gooey return to the front window at Nectar’s this past weekend! I’ve been not-so-subtly angling for them for, like, three years. By the way, I’m not really taking any credit for the Fags or gravy fries. I had nothing to do with either. Clearly, this column is inhabited by a genie who grants its writer wishes. And by my count, I should have one left. Have I ever mentioned how much I want to meet PENELOPE CRUZ?

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Band Name of the Week: RED FANG. This band is making a pit stop while on tour with metal legends MASTODON to throw down at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge on Tuesday, November 22. They’ll be joined by SPIT JACK, recently tabbed in this column as the baddest local band in all the land for a disturbing/amusing tendency to get kicked out of their own shows.

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Happy birthday, Jamba’s Junktiques! The eclectic secondhand store on North Winooski Ave. in Burlington celebrates its eighth b-day this Thursday, November 17, with a party at the store featuring the trash-pop stylings of JOEY PIZZA SLICE and the provocatively named SUPER BONHEUR and DINOSAURSCUM. Also, I’m told there will be an “interactive cathartic exhibit,” which I gather entails smashing junk with blunt objects. Awesome.

The GREEN MOUNTAIN DERBY DAMES are throwing a benefit to benefit, well, themselves on Thursday, November 17, at the Monkey House. I need to be very careful what I write here, as I’ve been threatened with bodily harm by certain surprisingly sensitive Dames in the past for — if you can believe it — casually flippant remarks in this very column. So I’ll simply point out that there are at least two pretty rockin’ bands on the bill: DR. GREEN and TRAPPER KEEPER. Also, I’m told there may be some sort of impromptu riot-grrl supergroup making an appearance. (Note to the Dames: Please don’t hurt me.)

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the likelihood of a reunion while interviewing him about his other band, GOGOL BORDELLO, last year. And with GB playing two local shows in seven days last week, it seemed a natural time for me to start grousing again — especially as the Fags’ bass player, JASON COOLEY, was opening the second of those shows with his band, BLUE BUTTON. But I took a different tack in last week’s column and intentionally stifled the urge to call for the Fags to get back together. (Sort of.) Anyway, toward the end of Gogol’s set last Thursday at the Higher Ground Ballroom, Hutz paused and invited Cooley on stage. Cooley, still sweaty and disheveled from an inspired set fronting Blue Button earlier in the evening, strode to the stage, bass in hand. Just then, the strains of an oh-so-familiar accordion riff filled the air and the band launched into “Jung and Crazee,” from the Fags’ classic album No Fleas, Lunch Money and Gold Teeth. I nearly fainted — as did, I’m guessing, the other 14 people in the room who knew the song. (Note to the guy wearing an old, sleeveless Fags T-shirt: You’re my new best friend.) If you missed it, there’s a YouTube video of the song now making the rounds. Look it up. The song — and really, Gogol’s entire set — put quite a cap on Hutz’s hometown visit. In addition to the HG shows, he worked Radio Bean into a frenzy with his JOHNNY-CASH-by-wayof-GENE-AUTRY country material during a recent Honky Tonk Tuesday. Then he thrilled a sizable crowd with an impromptu set at the Occupy Burlington encampment in City Hall Park last Wednesday evening

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LEVITY: Crowd Control (standup), 7:30 p.m., $5. Friday Night Comedy (standup), 8 p.m., $5.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Eric Nassau & Friends (Americana), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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CHARLIE O'S: KuFui (rock), 10 p.m., Free. GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. PURPLE MOON PUB: White Zinfandel (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: The Bi-Polar Bears (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Intensive Care, Black Norse (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

NECTAR'S: Jimmy Ruin (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Grippo Funk Band, 10 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: Doll Fight! (punk), 12:30 a.m., Free. Steve Sorr (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Kim Lamothe & Christopher Moon (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Samara Lark (singer-songwriter), 8:45 p.m., Free. Mighty Tiny (rock), 10 p.m., Free. The Toes (rock), 11:30 p.m., Free.

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

MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Brian McCarthy (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Justin Levinson, Maryse Smith, the Smittens, KNOX (rock, pop), 9 p.m., $5.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: A Fly Allusion (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Johnny A (blues), 8 p.m., $27.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

MOOG'S: Woedoggies (folk), 8:30 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

PARKER PIE CO.: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., Free.

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RUSTY NAIL: Last Kid Picked (rock), 10 p.m., $5.

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MONOPOLE: Tim Herron Corp. (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Benjamin Bright (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Felice Brothers, Gil Landry (indie folk), 8 p.m., $15. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Spiritual Rez, Hoots & Hellmouth (roots, reggae), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LIFT: DJ EfX (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

51 MAIN: David Bain (blues), 8 p.m., Free. Mark Lavoie (blues), 10 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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When They Might Be Gypises released their self-titled debut album last year, the record introduced Aiden Ryan as a stunning voice in local gypsy jazz and swing. The guitarist staked his claim as one of the region’s elite players, displaying precise technique, uncommon style and remarkable sensitivity. He was 14 years old at the time. Now the Gypsies are back with a new album, Rendezvous. A year old and wiser — and almost of legal driving age — Aiden continues his ascent as one of Vermont’s rising young stars. Under the watchful eyes and keen ears of his father, guitarist Greg Ryan, the Middlebury-based duo provide yet another striking collection of acoustic suites. They skip through a sophisticated array of worldly influences, from hothouse swing and manouche to Latin-flavored rumba and Spanish flamenco — and even occasional hints of rock-and-roll snarl. They Might Be Gypsies closed with a composition written by Aiden Ryan. Fittingly, Rendezvous picks up where that record left off: with the budding prodigy’s tune “Rajana.” The Latin-tinged instrumental is warm and breezy, as Aiden effortlessly winds a hazy nylon-string melody around an insistent, throbbing upright-bass line from Robinson Morse. The song is the first of a trio of compositions from the younger Ryan, all of which suggest he’s coming of age

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When a band breaks up, its members don’t neccessarly put aside music altogether. Case in point: Jamericana, the first release by Maine’s Dirigo. Guitarist Luke Patchen Montgomery and bassist Erik Glockler trace their genealogy to Vermont’s nowdefunct Strangefolk. But, note to fans of those jam-pop darlings: Don’t expect the usual here. Dirigo comprise a new union of players with outside influences in tow. From blues to folk, R&B to pop, this record tests the sonic waters. Jamericana is less a reinvention than a continuation of previous aspirations. But it offers genre hopping in small, digestible doses. For die-hard Strangefolk fans, the first track, “Wrong Way,” will instantly satisfy any withdrawal symptoms. It’s a fine introduction but does not set the tone for the album. And that’s a good thing. “Day Job” softly expresses workingclass frustrations as Montgomery proclaims, “I would love to sit down and write a masterpiece / but I got to go to work.” At least he found time to sit down and write a few good songs. “For Jenny” just might be the feelgood center of the album. It is acoustically driven, with strong harmonies and a down-home feel, courtesy of Maine guitar legend Steve Jones and his seamless performance on the slide. Throughout the album, Jones seems to be the Americana link in this chain. His tasteful lines pepper the record with elements of country and blues. “Before the Moment’s Gone” is a lighthearted love song that again features Jones’ guitar prowess. His heartfelt vocals distantly reflect the vocal styles of Bruce

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Springsteen and Michael McDonald. The band’s backbone, drummer Ginger Cote, soars through this record effortlessly, with chops to make the boys run for cover. Her drumming is on point throughout each song and keeps everyone solidly aligned. As its title implies, Jamericana is a hybrid of jam and Americana. But the record leans more toward the latter genre. Its final track, “The Scene Fades to Black,” offers a beat from the disco era — one that the jam scene has hijacked and used as a secret weapon on young audiences. Dirigo utilize this feel to their advantage, with an extended jam and a Robert Smith-worthy vocal sentiment. It’s an excellent closer. “Dirigo” is Latin for “I lead.” Based on the strength of Jamericana, it’s safe to say this band will soon be leading an audience of its own. Dirigo play Nectar’s on Friday, November 18.

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MoNkey houSe: citizen Bare, Halle & the Jilt (rock), 9 p.m., $3. NeCTar'S: mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. radio beaN: Old time sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. aaron Burroughs (soul), 5 p.m., Free. Halle petro and the Jill (folk), 6 p.m., Free. Georgie Jones art Reception, 8 p.m., Free. Knights of crinitus (metal), 10 p.m., Free.

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ye olde eNglaNd iNNe: corey Beard, Dan Liptak and Dan Haley (jazz), 11:30 a.m., Free.

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higher grouNd ballrooM: The Wailers, Duane stephenson (reggae), 8:30 p.m., $20/22. aa. higher grouNd ShowCaSe louNge: Hank3, HellBilly, attention Deficit Domination (metal, country), 8 p.m., $17/20. aa. MoNkey houSe: The Likeness, st. Theodore, John Nicholls (rock), 9 p.m., $5. 18+. NeCTar'S: metal monday: musical manslaughter, Filthy minutes of Fame, Kairos, Wave of the Future, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. oN Tap bar & grill: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

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1/2 louNge: turntable tuesday with DJ Kanga (turntablism), 10 p.m., Free. Club MeTroNoMe: Bass culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (dubstep), 9 p.m., Free. higher grouNd ballrooM: awolnation, middle class Rut, twin atlantic (hip-hop, electronica), 7:30 p.m. higher grouNd ShowCaSe louNge: Red Fang, spit Jack (punk, metal), 8 p.m., $12. aa. leuNig'S biSTro & Café: taryn Noelle trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. MoNkey houSe: stone Bullet (rock), 9 p.m., $5. MoNTy'S old briCk TaverN: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free. NeCTar'S: DcLa (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. oN Tap bar & grill: trivia with top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

red Square: industry Night with Robbie J (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

radio beaN: Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6 p.m., Free. patience Lawton Band (folk), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3.

rozzi'S lakeShore TaverN: trivia Night, 8 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.

T boNeS reSTauraNT aNd bar: trivia with General Knowledge, 7 p.m., Free.

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51 MaiN: Quizz Night (trivia), 7 p.m., Free.

oN Tap bar & grill: The Fizz (rock), 7 p.m., Free. radio beaN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Jason Lee (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free.

Two broTherS TaverN: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

red Square: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. Whiskey Likkers (honkytonk), 7 p.m., Free.

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bee'S kNeeS: alan Greenleaf & the Doctor (blues-folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. The hub pizzeria & pub: Jive Farmer (acoustic), 9 p.m., Free. Moog'S: Open mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

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Beast Wishes Delia Robinson, Flynndog

reatures fly, squawk, slither and swim in Burlington’s Flynndog gallery this month — that is, in illustrations by Montpelier artist Delia Robinson. The drawings are from a new collection of poetry, a bestiary, by University of Vermont Italian professor Antonello Borra. In the Middle Ages, the Bestiarum vocabulum became a popular form of illuminated manuscript. A traditional bestiary was a catalog of animals, some fanciful and some real, each entry with a religious subtext. The medieval mind saw God in everything, so all parts of nature reflected aspects of Christian mysticism. Borra’s new AlphaBetaBestiario is decidedly worldlier. Each of his poems has an existential subtext. For example, Borra’s verses about a lamb conclude with these words: “my innocent blood cries out to heavens / who knows if anyone is there to hear it?” Robinson’s corresponding lamb lies in the grass and looks straight at the viewer with a subtly anthropomorphic gaze. Other images in the black-and-white collection are more abstract, as Robinson adroitly modulates light and dark values. Though the poetry is organized alphabetically (in its original Italian), this isn’t a child’s primer, and Robinson’s drawings are not the cute pictures of a little kid’s book. Rather, they are gestural and expressive. The artist concocted a diverse range of compositions that bring the animals to life, and employed a broad suite of lines, patterns and visual textures.

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AIA-VERMONT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION: Vermont entries in the American Institute of Architects design-excellence competition; visitors can vote for the People's Choice Award. Through December 7 at Windows & Doors by Brownell in Williston. Info, 425-6162. 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.

THE ARTIST CONCOCTED A DIVERSE

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THAT BRING THE ANIMALS TO LIFE.

“Lessons From History” is a large, altarpiece-style painting presenting a girl in the foreground looking at a castle on a distant hill. The clear blue sky becomes the interior of a dome encompassing the scene. Robinson’s paint is loose and watery, her hues simple and direct. The vibrant acrylic-on-panel “Mangos and Macaws” is a more traditionally painted still life. It’s colorful and playful, with brightly plumed parrots in the right half ambiguously positioned in space — one is perched on a column. Architectural designs, such as machicolation and arches, are lightly inscribed in the background. The mangos are piled in a bowl at left, their roundness echoing the arches in the composition. Arches, in fact, seem to be a recurring theme in Robinson’s work. The vertically composed “Magician and His Family” probably comes from the metamorphosis series. One brown bear and two polar bears sit in the interior corner of a red-walled, multistory atrium. Arches that seem to have grown into a forest appear on the first floor. The 800-year-old Aberdeen Bestiary is the best-known text of the genre; it presents critters such as the Phoenix and Satyr as real, along with fanciful plants and minerals. While they are more naturalistic, Robinson’s illustrations in the AlphaBetaBestiario are equally intriguing.

The Penguin takes a gracefully curved crescent shape, with snippets of text appearing in the background on what seem like torn and reassembled paper scraps. The Giraffe is also curved, but the animal is too big to fit in the square picture plane, so its neck appears as a matrix of black circles. Robinson placed it in front of a curious background featuring a colonnade and a door. All 32 images in the book are displayed in the exhibit, framed and sited along the capacious eastern wall of the

Flynndog. A copy of the book, splayed open to the appropriate page, hangs next to each illustration. Robinson describes her technique here as “faux etchings.” The drawings have been scanned and Photoshopped, then printed as giclées on high-quality paper. Along the opposite wall, Robinson displays something of a retrospective of her earlier series, along with a few newer works. Though quite different, the two halves of the show work well together. In an oblique reference to traditional bestiaries, one of Robinson’s older series features large-scale images shaped like altarpieces; implied themes include captivity and metamorphosis.

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.

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.

scrap to create a spontaneous and collaborative sculpture, displayed with other works completed individually. Through November 30 at Shelburne Art Center. Info, 985-3648.

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.

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.

CAROL MACDONALD & ERIK REHMAN: "Transcendence: Mooring the Storm," artwork

'COLOSSUS AND THE BAD WOOD SHOW': Five local woodworkers used construction and wood-shop

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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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. Grace cothalis: Vibrantly colored paintings, monoprints and collage. Through november 28 at Vintage Jewelers in burlington. info, 849-6051. iDa luDloW: "Fall: something Must be Drawn About it," drawings. Through november 17 at healthy living in south burlington. info, 863-2569. 'iMpressions of the four seasons': paintings by Carolyn walton, gail bessette, Athenia schinto, susan bull Riley and Charles Townsend, plus jewelry by Tineke Russell, exhibited in celebration of the gallery's 25th anniversary. A portion of the proceeds benefit the humane society of Chittenden County. Through november 30 at luxton-Jones gallery in shelburne. info, 985-8223. Janet freDericks: "Minute particulars," drawings and paintings that recognize the infinite in the small. Through november 29 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. info, 985-3848. Jessa Gilbert: boldly colored paintings that investigate movement and time. Through november 30 at gallery 388 at burlington Furniture Company. info, 862-5056. JiM thoMpson: handmade painted kites. Through november 30 at salaam in burlington. info, 658-8822. 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.

kiMberley hannaMan taylor: photographs from the banks of the Mississippi River during the new orleans memorial for poppa neutrino. Through December 1 at Computers for Change in burlington. info, 279-1623.

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, 578-2512.

holiDay art shoW & sale: Fine art by members of the Milton Artists' guild; free raffle tickets available for

'short stories': small works under $500 (through December 31); victoria bleWer: hand-tinted photographs of rural scenes (through november 30). At edgewater gallery in Middlebury. A reception doubles as the gallery's second-anniversary party: saturday, november 19, 5-7 p.m. info, 458-0098.

receptions althea freeMan-Miller: “Childish Things,” work by the stowe printmaker honoring the parts of us that will never grow up. Through november 30 at Townsend gallery at black Cap Coffee in stowe. Reception: Thursday, november 17, 4-6 p.m. info, 774-521-6373. 'celebrate': Three floors of affordable crafts and fine art by local artists. Through December 30 at studio place Arts in barre. Reception: saturday, november 19, 4:30-6:30 p.m. info, 479-7069. 'kick-off the holiDays': Artwork and crafts by members. november 18 through December 24

Matt thorsen: "sound proof: The photography of Matt Thorsen, Vermont Music images 1990-2000," chemical prints accompanied by audio recordings in which the photographer sets the scene and the bands play on. Through november 30 at Maglianero Café in burlington. info, 865-1140. Molly Davies: A retrospective spanning three decades and featuring three meditative underwater video works, one a collaboration with composer David Tutor, another featuring a swimming polly Motley, the Vermont choreographer. Through December 31 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4500. Mr. Masterpiece & Michael sMith: paintings by the burlington artists. Through november 30 at Dostie bros. Frame shop in burlington. info, 660-9005. 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. noveMber exhibit: work by Annemie Curlin, Charlie hunter, Carolyn hack, leah Van Rees, Judy laliberte, Jeff Clarke, steven Chase, Melvin harris and Axel stohlberg. Through november 30 at Maltex building in burlington. info, 865-7166. 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. '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. philip herbison: "plastic personae," close-up photographs of dramatic tension in plaster faces. Through December 1 at Artspace 106 at The Men's Room in burlington. info, 864-2088.

paiGe halsey Warren: "pages," graphic-novelinspired acrylic paintings; november 20 through January 2 at The Daily planet in burlington. Reception: sunday, november 20, 3-5 p.m. info, 917-287-9370. lori hinrichsen & liz kauffMan: "open ended," paintings, monotypes, intaglio and collage. Through December 12 at Vermont studio Center in Johnson. Reception: wednesday, november 16, 6-8 p.m. info, 635-2727.

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.

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shayne lynn: large-scale color photographs of lake Champlain in February. Through november 30 at Metropolitan gallery, burlington City hall. info, 865-7166. '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. 'three seniors' exhibit': Art Affair by shearer presents work by Kim, sylvie and pogo senior. Through December 31 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. info, 658-1111. 'verMont ski posters': nicholas heilig's posters illustrated in a vintage european style. Through november 30 at Davis studio gallery in burlington. info, 425-2700. 'Ways of seeinG': photography by Vermont high school students. Through november 25 at Vermont photo space Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686. 'We art WoMen': work by members of the art cooperative. Through november 30 at livak Room, Davis Center, uVM, in burlington. 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. info, 264-4839.

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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.

freD toMaselli: The artist discusses the meticulous paintings he makes with unorthodox materials suspended in layers of epoxy resin. wednesday, november 16, 5:30 p.m., williams hall, uVM, burlington. info, 656-2014.

anDreW raftery: The artist discusses his work in a talk called "engraving: Technique and Visual language." wednesday, november 16, 12:15 p.m., Fleming Museum, uVM, burlington. info, 656-0750.

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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.

'Winter Wreath anD Wine tastinG': hors d'oeuvres, wine tasting and a silent auction of local artisan wreaths donated or sponsored by small businesses in the area. proceeds benefit shelburne Art Center's educational programming. Thursday, november 17, 5:30-8:30 p.m., shelburne Vineyard. info, 985-3648.

at Memphremagog Arts Collaborative in newport. Reception: wine and cheese are served. Friday, november 18, 6-8 p.m. info, 334-1966.

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lonGina sMolinski: Abstract paintings (through January 2); iDa luDloW: "Feasts, Food and Fowl," vibrantly colored paintings of Vermont lake wildlife (through December 1). At The Daily planet in burlington. info, 508-494-2336.

'art froM the earth': An exhibit of nature-inspired work by local artists accompanies a silent auction to benefit the clinic. Friday, november 18, 7-9 p.m., Vermont Center for integrative herbalism, Montpelier. info, 224-7100.

those who bring an item for the local food shelf. saturday, november 19, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Milton grange. info, 355-6583.

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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.

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Gallery Profile: Dostie Bros. Frame Shop & Gallery B y Me g an Jam es

lex and Jeremy Dostie can rattle off all the firsts at their two-month-old business, Dostie Bros. Frame Shop & Gallery: First person on the doorstep the morning they opened? “Mad scientist” clay sculptor John Brickels. First paying customer? Painter Michael Smith, followed by artist Clark Derbes. First to place an order? Black Horse Fine Art Supply’s John Bates. The Dostie brothers are devoted to the Burlington art scene, especially in the newly designated South End Arts District. Alex and Jeremy Dostie credit their artist friends with getting their business off the ground, and they hope to return the favor — by selling those friends’ artwork. It was no coincidence that the brothers opened their doors in early September, just a week before the South End Art Hop. They began their lease on the Kilburn & Gates Building location six weeks before the annual art event and

hustled to set up shop so they could welcome visitors that weekend. “Imagine 50,000 people on your doorstep the week after you open,” says Alex.

It’s all about letting the design reveal itself.

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The 650-square-foot space, which is divided by windows into a gallery/ retail area and a framing workshop, is crammed with ornate vintage frames and a rainbow of frame samples hanging from reclaimed barn board. Still, Alex, 36, and Jeremy, 34, manage to fit a fair number of artworks on the stone walls. “We squeeze ’em in where we can,” says Alex.

This month, they’re showing the popart-style work of Burlington painters Mr. Masterpiece and Michael Smith. Exhibitions will rotate monthly, but visitors will always find a few pieces of Alex Dostie’s, as well as work by Kristen L’Espérance, Brooke Monte and Adrian Tans. Alex says he’s a huge fan of all three but has a special connection with Monte and Tans: He’s on the VermontSnows.com Snow Sculpting Team with them. A deep windowsill is covered with smaller paintings, various oddities, a Keurig coffee machine and wooden bird decoys by Rob Root, a local butcher who moonlights as a bass player and vocalist for the Decoys. The Dosties view their current location as a starter space. But, no matter where they move afterward, they have no plans to leave the South End. “Being on Pine Street is just a huge part of our identity,” says Alex, who wants to build

on the community’s artistic energy. “This is where I want to spend my life.” Alex and Jeremy are proud Colchester natives. Alex went to Rice Memorial High School, Jeremy to Colchester; both graduated from the University of Vermont. They were born on the same day two years apart, a fact that still seems to delight them more than three decades later. Physically, the Dosties are variations on a swarthy theme. When they opened the business a couple months ago, they both had full, dark beards. These days, all that remains of Jeremy’s is a soul patch. Before the brothers teamed up, Jeremy worked for several years as a consultant analyzing flood-hazard zones in central Vermont, woodworking on his own time. As he began looking for a career change, his older brother, an experienced framer, was hoping to start his own business. “I was excited about the possibility of getting out from behind a computer,” says Jeremy. He wanted to work with his hands, to create something. Alex, an artist himself, has been a key player in the Burlington arts scene for more than 10 years. He’s currently manager of the Box Art Studio on Pine Street and serves as board president of Art’s Alive and on Green Candle Theatre Company’s board of directors. “I’ve curated a lot of exhibits in this town,” he says. The brothers say they work well together. Alex handles most of the sales and design. Jeremy has engineered the space and takes care of the books. “It’s really symbiotic,” says Alex. “There’s no other partner I’d rather have than my brother.” Plus, Jeremy keeps his older brother on track. “Left to my own devices, I will just talk and schmooze,” admits Alex. Still, they both take their framing seriously. Alex discusses the custom work as an art in itself: “It’s all about letting the design reveal itself. It’s about revelation.” And, he adds, customers should take it seriously, too. Buying a frame, Alex says, is an investment. Everything else in a room may change, but “that $500 frame is going to be there for three decades.” So far, with a boost from their artist friends, the Dosties say they’ve had a good reception. “A lot of the time in the arts, it can feel like you’re screaming into a dark hallway,” says Alex. “To have an echo come back is a really great feeling.” m Dostie Bros. Frame Shop & Gallery, 308 Pine Street, suite 101, Burlington. Open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Info, 660-9005. dostiebrosframeshop.com

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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.

Culturehall neW artists: Culturehall, a curated online resource for contemporary art, invites artists to submit work to an open application call. Info, culturehall.com/apply.html.

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.

the human form: entry Call: Simple yet subtly complex, always present yet hidden. Expose your vision. A juried photography exhibit at Darkroom Gallery. Info, DarkroomGallery.com/ex24. Deadline: December 28. the holly daze: Seeking artwork representing iconic images of the holidays in America with a focus on the relationship between commercialism and belief. Info, artsalivevt@yahoo.com. 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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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. 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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annie tiBerio Cameron: "Art Seen," photographs of the natural world. Through November 30 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-9369.

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. 'Bundle of Joy': Artwork and craft on sale for the holidays. Through January 21 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616.

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'earth from sPaCe': More than 40 views of the Earth as captured by orbiting satellites in an exhibit developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Through November 27 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200. heather ritChie: Acrylic paintings of ethereal dreamscapes. Through November 30 at The Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com. 'holiday shoW 2011': david BuBeCk: Sculpture; The Small Great Art Wall: Work under $1000 by gallery artists. 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. 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. CENTRAL VT ART SHOWS

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arthur B. zorn: "Fall Dances & Autumn Hues," paintings. Photo ID required for admission. Through November 30 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 662-0376.

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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‘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. Through November 20 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 434-8191.

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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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.

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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'Wosene Worke kosrof: Paintings from the Paul herzog and Jolene tritt ColleCtion': An exhibit exploring the role of language and graphic systems in the Ethiopian-born artist's work; 'systems in art': An exploration of the systems that artists use to establish parameters for their work, to explore spatial relationships, and to invent new grammars and rationalities, on the occasion of IBM's centennial anniversary. Through December 16 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

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Joy Huckins-noss: "The Texture of Light," plein air paintings. Through December 29 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. Patty castellini: "Monotypes," work by the New Hampshire artist. Through November 30 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901. PHyllis cHase: "Vermont: Inside and Out," a retrospective of paintings and prints. Through December 21 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338. '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. '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. '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. 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.

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marni mckitrick: "Wild for Watercolor," Vermont landscapes, florals and still lifes. Through November 30 at Charlotte Senior Center. Info, 864-2820.

'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; 'How did i Get Here?': Recent acquisitions presented within the context of how they came to Middlebury by art history students; ricHard duPont: Work that explores opportunities for self-surveillance and the perception of identity in an increasingly digital world. Through December 11 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. Patricia leBon HerB: "Paris Apartment," paintings. Through November 30 at Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury. Info, 388-4095. 'PersPectiVes': Art and fine crafts by 20 juried Champlain Valley artists. Through December 31 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222. '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. 'tHe landscaPe re-imaGined': Large-scale images of Middlebury's campus executed by art students in marker, pen, oil paint and digital photography. Through November 25 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168. tom merwin: "Drawing Water," central Vermont's waterfalls and gorges depicted in sumi ink, watercolor and oil on canvas. Through November 30 at Merwin Gallery in Castleton. Info, 468-2592.

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'autumn in Vermont': Work by Elisabeth Wooden, Gary Eckhart and Thomas Torak. Through November 27 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653. BarBara waGner: "Something Ventured — Something Gained," abstract works in oil. Through December 31 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. 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. 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 in Johnson. Info, 635-1469. carol BoucHer: "New Work," oil pastel paintings created from imagination, memory and personal photographs. Through December 23 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

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staked out in the woods with her camera as she does at the easel. The New Hampshire painter waits for wildlife to approach her camouflage tent so she can snap intimate close-ups. She’s spotted bobcats roaming the White Mountains. She’s fashioned handmade “moose calls” to lure the elusive ungulates. Afterwards, she recreates the photos at home in watercolor. Fournier’s show, “The Art of Nature,” at Jeffersonville’s Bryan Memorial Gallery catalogs her recent animal encounters, including chickadees, foxes and owls, as well as animals from farther afield, such as elephants from a Chicago

'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.

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

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.

Jane S. MorGan: "Light and Mood," landscapes in oil. Through November 27 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. Jeanette Fournier: "Art of Nature," watercolors depicting creatures in their native surroundings; 'treeS': Paintings, drawings and prints by 65 juried artist members. Through December 23 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

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

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alicia adaMS hunSicker: "Moments of Creation," paintings inspired by the moment in which thought is transformed into matter. Through December 31 at Gallery in the Woods in Brattleboro. Info, 257-4777. aliSa dworSky: Drawings and prints by the Vermont artist. Through November 26 at Catherine Dianich Gallery in Brattleboro. Info, 380-1607. m

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'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

terry lund: "Vermont Cherished," work by the artist who has recently returned to painting with improved eyesight after a medical condition left her blind for several years. Through November 30 at Island Arts South Hero Gallery. Info, 372-5049.

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Jericho Plein air FeStival exhibit: Work painted at Barber Farm and Jericho Settlers' Farm, on the grounds of Emile A. Gruppe Gallery, and at the Jericho Center green during the July festival. Through November 30 at Jericho Center Town Hall. Info, 899-3211.

Scott & kelly Funk: Photographs of Vermont by the owners of Richmond's Gallery 160. Through November 30 at Deborah Rawson Memorial Library in Jericho. Info, 434-6434.

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Fred Swan: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Through December 31 at Village Frame Shoppe & Gallery in St. Albans. Info, 524-3699.

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movies Margin Call ★★★

oincidentally, I watched an award screener of Contagion just before running out to catch Margin Call and was unsettled by the number of eerie parallels between the two pictures. No fooling: I kept expecting Jude Law or Matt Damon to walk into the offices of the film’s fictional investment firm. The feature debut of 37-year-old writerdirector J.C. Chandor (whose father worked at Merrill Lynch for 40 years), the movie traces the current economic crisis back to the moment of its 2008 Wall Street outbreak. Imagine Inside Job adapted for the screen by David Mamet, and you’ve got the general idea. As the picture opens, a battalion of drones straight out of Up in the Air floods the glistening corporate digs of a powerful 107-year-old investment bank and proceeds to downsize the hell out of it. Some employees are saddened, others relieved, but everyone behaves as though the bloodbath is business as usual. But, as Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci) points out after he’s instructed to pack up his things, gutting the risk assessment division of a financial institution probably isn’t the brightest move. As he’s escorted to the eleva-

tor, Dale slips a flash drive to a young analyst named Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) and warns him to “be careful.” Later that evening, Sullivan pops the thing in to his computer. What he discovers prompts him to summon his new boss (Paul Bettany), who in turn summons his superior (Kevin Spacey), who does the same, until it’s 4 a.m. and the company’s brain trust is assembled before Jeremy Irons. He plays CEO and Prince of Darkness John Tuld (an echo of Richard Fuld, who made half a billion dollars leading Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy). “Speak to me as you would a small child,” Tuld invites Sullivan, “or a golden retriever.” (One of the film’s running jokes is that the higher on the chain of command these people are, the less they seem to understand the business that’s making them millions.) Quinto’s character presents a computer model projecting that the bank’s aggressive position in the subprime mortgage market has already doomed it — most of its assets have lost so much of their value that losses will soon exceed the company’s worth. This is when Chandor serves the meat of the movie. Hard decisions must be made. A

head or two must roll. His script doesn’t stop to flesh out its characters, who are busy until dawn batting around one essential question: Should the firm take its medicine, or attempt to save itself by unloading its toxic holdings to clients, thereby contaminating the market with financial time bombs? My sense is the filmmaker could have moved the last two acts along more briskly, as everyone knows what happens next. The film’s attraction lies not in suspense, but in the behind-the-scenes glimpse at the dynamics of a global powerhouse, and the ethical wrestling match that ensues in such a situation. Some of the responses we observe are more convincing than others. Despite the many glowing reviews it has received, I found Spacey’s performance as the company’s Official Conflicted Bigwig contrived. Demi Moore adds little to her filmography

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playing a top executive whose inscrutability may simply be the result of too much Botox. Tucci, as always, is a joy to behold. Unfortunately, he’s afforded minimal screen time. Which leaves Irons in yet another scenechewing role as a privileged bloodsucker. A titan of finance who descends by helicopter in the dead of night to assess the damage and devise the most expedient means of passing it along, his character is the movie’s most credible creation. This member of the 1 percent can’t be bothered by something as mundane as a financial apocalypse for the average Joe; he may be worth a billion or two less the next day, but stays fabulously unruffled. As though he knows the bailout check is already in the mail. RICK KISONAK

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Immortals ★★

nce upon a time, there were people who worshipped a pantheon of lying, scheming, meddling, philandering and generally really fun gods. Millennia of subsequent taletellers plundered this dramatic gold mine, and so it came to pass that the Greek divinities became Christian, existential, romantic, postmodern and gym toned. But not until now have they been depicted as a bunch of enervated supermodels hanging around a nightclub after a Maxfield Parrish-inspired photo shoot. That sums up Immortals, the latest vaguely Greek-inspired action spectacular. Director Tarsem Singh (The Fall) approaches the material the way Werner Herzog might approach a film adaptation of “Gossip Girl”: He doesn’t get it, but that won’t stop him from doing his thing. Singh’s thing is striking, painterly visuals. Even in dimming 3D, Immortals is a pleasure to behold, full of sublimely rugged cliffs and seascapes, luminous red and yellow accents, actors’ pectorals shimmering with oil, and animalistic masks and totems. If it were a silent film, we would knock its rating up two stars. But alas, there is dialogue. And a plot. Mickey Rourke plays Hyperion, an evil Cre-

TAKING STOCK Spacey plays an investment banker torn between company loyalty and personal ethics in J.C. Chandor’s dramatic Wall Street indictment.

GREEK CHIC Cavill makes a great centerpiece for action tableaux but not much of a character in Singh’s swords-and-sandals epic.

tan king who seeks to free the Titans, antagonists of the gods, from their prison in Mount Tartarus. Henry Cavill is Theseus, a peasant secretly mentored in sword fighting by Zeus (John Hurt). He alone can oppose the invading hordes, or so says a virgin sibylline oracle (Freida Pinto) who becomes less attached to her purity when he’s around. Who wants to keep your pipeline to the divine when you could get with the future Superman? Screenwriters Vlas and Charley Parlapanides can’t seem to find a consistent tone — or build a coherent plot. (Key developments depend on stupid accidents.) Whatever one

thinks of 300, it was true to its self-serious vision, while the recent Clash of the Titans reveled in feta cheese. Immortals serves up camp (“Let me enlighten you,” Rourke suggests to a priest before immolating him) along with sketchy attempts at saying something earnest about men, gods and animal masks. It’s not easy to draw on the enduring resonance of myths, though, when you’ve gutted them. Never mind that Theseus and Hyperion were completely different figures to the ancient Greeks, or that a heroic peasant is a modern concept. While Immortals

posits that “immortals” can slaughter one another (and bleed copiously, adding more of those scarlet accents), it neglects to mention the crucial familial relationship between Zeus’ crew and the Titans. More amusingly, this Zeus (who becomes the younger, buffer Luke Evans when he’s on Olympus) sternly lectures his progeny about staying out of human affairs. The slew of mortal women whom the god-king famously ravished might have something to say about that, as would everyone who fought in the Trojan War. None of the actors transcend the script’s mix of solemnity and silliness, though Rourke revels in it. As for the battle action, much of it unfolds in the alternating slo-mo and fast-mo mode beloved of Zack Snyder. Rather than immersing us, this technique invites us to admire the art of carnage. It’s like walking past a series of friezes and imagining them coming to life — a metaphor Singh cleverly literalizes at the end of the film. Someday, perhaps, our descendants will wonder why we were as obsessed with slowly spurting digital blood as the Greeks were with divine randiness. And what will we tell them? M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

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ANoNYmoUS: Director Roland (2012) Emmerich throws his weight behind the old Shakespeare-wasn’t-Shakespeare argument in this Elizabethan political thriller about the supposed real Bard, the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans). With Vanessa Redgrave, Rafe Spall and David Thewlis. (130 min, PG-13. Capitol) BlAcKtHoRN: Sam Shepard plays an older version of Butch Cassidy, still alive and holed up in Bolivia, in a moody Western from director Mateo Gil. With Eduardo Noriega. (98 min, R. Savoy) HAppY FEEt tWo: In this sequel to the animated hit, a tap-dancing penguin tries to win his son’s respect as they face a threat to their Antarctic world. With the voices of Elijah Wood, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt. George Miller directed. (99 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol [3-D], Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis, Palace, Stowe, Welden) mARtHA mARcY mAY mARlENE: A young woman struggles to readjust to “normal” life after fleeing a cult in this acclaimed psychological thriller from writer-director Sean Durkin. Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson and John Hawkes. (120 min, R. Roxy) 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. (117 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Stowe, Welden)

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JAcK AND JillH 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 cAllHHH 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) 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. Palace) 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. Essex, Majestic, Paramount, Welden; ends 11/17) 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)

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J. EDGARHHH 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)

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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 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. Big Picture, Bijou, Palace)

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; ends 11/16)

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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. Marquis, Roxy)

immoRtAlSHH 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)

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wednesday 16 — thursday 17 *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 Thu: midnight. The Ides of march 8:30. Puss in Boots 4 (Wed only), 6. Footloose 8 (Wed only). Real Steel 6. Full schedule not available at press time. Times change frequently; please check website.

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Dawn: Part 1 Thu: midnight showings: 12:05 a.m., 12:10 a.m. Immortals (3-D) 1:15, 4:10, 7, 9:25 (Thu only), 10 (Wed only). J. Edgar 1, 3:50, 6:40, 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 time 12:30, 9:25 (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. friday 18 — tuesday 22 ***Horton Hears a Who!

movies Immortals (3-D) 12:10, 2:25, 3:45, 4:45, 7:10, 8:30 (Wed only), 9:35. J. Edgar 1, 3, 3:55, 6:25, 8:35 (Wed only), 9:20. Jack and Jill 12:15, 1:30, 2:30, 4:50, 6:15, 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 (Wed only). 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; Wed only). Paranormal Activity 3 7:20, 9:40 (Wed only). Footloose 12:20, 6. friday 18 — tuesday 22 *Happy Feet two 11 a.m. (3D), 12:20, 1 (3-D), 1:20 (3-D), 2:50, 3:50 (3-D), 5:25, 6:35 (3-D), 9 (3-D). *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 11:05 a.m., 12, 2, 3, 3:40, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9:50. Immortals (3-D) 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:45. J. Edgar 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:35. Jack and Jill 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:25, 6:40, 9:10. tower

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wednesday 16 — thursday 17 Immortals (3-D) 6:30, 9. Jack and Jill 6:30, 9. tower Heist 6:30, 9. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas 6:30, 9. In time 6:30, 9.

Sat: 10 a.m. *Happy Feet two 10 a.m., 12:30 (3-D), 1, 2:45 (3-D), 3:15, 5 (3-D), 5:30, 7:15 (3-D), 7:45, 9:30 (3-D). *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 1, 1:20, 3:30, 3:55, 4:20, 6:20, 6:50, 7 (Fri; 21+ only), 7:20, 9:10, 9:40, 10:10. Immortals (3-D) 1:15, 4:10, 7, 10. J. Edgar 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30. Jack and Jill 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 2:50, 5, 7:20, 9:40. tower Heist 12:40, 9:45. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D christmas (3-D) 10. Puss in Boots 10 a.m., 12:30 (3-D), 2:40, 5 (3-D), 7:10 (3-D), 9:15.

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friday 18 — tuesday 22 *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:15, 9. Puss in Boots (3-D) 1:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 8:45.

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friday 18 — tuesday 22 *Happy Feet two Fri: 7, 9:10. Sat: 2:30, 4:30, 7, 9:10. Sun: 2:30, 4:30, 7. Mon & Tue: 7. *The twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat: 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:15. Sun: 2:30, 4:40, 7. Mon & Tue: 7. Jack and Jill Fri: 7, 9. Sat: 2:30, 4:30, 7, 9. Sun: 2:30, 4:30, 7. Mon & Tue: 7.

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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)

tHE RUm DiARYHH In this adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, Johnny Depp 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. Palace, Roxy, Stowe; ends 11/17)

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BEllFloWER: Evan Glodell directed and starred in this festival fave about a young man who’s distracted from his efforts to build Mad Max-style vehicles by a love affair. With Jessie Wiseman and Tyler Dawson. (107 min, R. Read Margot Harrison’s review this Friday on our staff blog, Blurt.)

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

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BEGiNNERSHHH1/2 Christopher Plummer plays a man who makes a surprising late-life change — he comes out of the closet — in this drama from director Mike (Thumbsucker) Mills. Ewan McGregor is his adult son. With Mélanie Laurent and Goran Visnjic. (104 min, R)

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A witness observed a boy who appeared to be breaking into a pickup truck in Port Charlotte, Fla. When confronted, the suspect fled, but as he did, the witness told Charlotte County sheriff’s deputies, his shorts fell down, revealing red boxer undershorts. The deputies reported that they located the suspect, Antonio Kleiss, 14, and “asked him to pull down his tan shorts a little, and he revealed that he was wearing red boxer shorts underneath.” Recognizing the shorts, the witness identified Kleiss, who was charged with burglary and attempted grand theft. (United Press International)

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After Charlie Bolden, the administrator of NASA, declared that deflecting a near-Earth object (NEO), such as an asteroid or a comet, will be “what keeps the dinosaurs — we are the dinosaurs, by the way — from becoming extinct a second time,” he admitted that the space agency couldn’t afford to tackle that task, even if it wanted to. He explained that the annual federal allocation for “planetary defense” is $5.8 million, which represents a mere 0.03 percent of NASA’s budget and is barely adequate merely to locate NEOs and track their orbits. (New Yorker)

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Rude Awakening

After a couple staying at a tree-house bed-and-breakfast in Taklima, Wash., fell to the ground, they sued Josephine County for $1.2 million for physical, financial and emotional injuries. The suit filed by Michelle M. Buswinka and Maurice L. Breslin charged, among other things, that the county failed to stop the Out ’n’ About Tree House Treesort from building structures without a permit. County legal council Steve Rich said the county had threatened to tear down the tree houses over permit issues but ultimately allowed it to operate with five tree houses. On its website, however, the resort lists 18 tree houses, as well as rope bridges, zip lines and rope swings. (Grants Pass Daily Courier)

Why Banks Always Win

During the 2008 financial crisis, trading companies Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley declared themselves to be banks so they’d be eligible for emergency loans from the Federal Reserve Bank. When

the Fed issued the Volcker rule, which bans banks from trading when their own money is at risk, Susquehanna Financial Group analyst David Hilder reported the firms would shed their bank status to avoid having their activities constrained. (CNBC)

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Firefighters had to be summoned to free a man from a straw dispenser at a McDonald’s restaurant in Ipswich, England. The victim tried to remove straws from an opening at the rear of the dispenser that workers use to refill it but became trapped. The rescue crew took 20

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Firefighters in Vallejo, Calif., rescued a 21-year-old man who spent nine hours stuck in a child’s swing. The man told police he became stuck after making a $100 bet with friends, then lubricating himself with laundry detergent so his legs would fit through the swing’s two leg holes. When he couldn’t get out, his friends left him overnight. Summoned by a groundskeeper who heard his screams for help the next morning, firefighters cut the swing chains, then took the victim to a medical center and used a cast cutter to slice the

Silent Treatment

To encourage civility among reckless drivers and inattentive pedestrians, Mayor Carlos Ocariz of the Sucre district of Caracas, Venezuela, assigned 120 mimes dressed in clown suits and white gloves to wag their fingers at offenders. “Many times, the mimes can achieve what traffic police cannot achieve using warning and sanctions in their efforts to maintain control,” Alex Ojeda, head of a cultural organization that hired professional actors to train the mimes, said, although he conceded that changing motorists’ behavior

might take time. At a ceremony for newly trained mimes, Ocariz vowed to continue the initiative “until the streets of Sucre are full of creativity and education.” (Associated Press)

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After sponsoring a bill to legalize carrying a gun into bars in Tennessee, state Rep. Curry Todd was arrested in Nashville for drunken driving while possessing a loaded .38-caliber pistol. State law makes it a misdemeanor to consume alcohol while carrying a firearm in public. The police affidavit stated that Todd, who refused to take a Breathalyzer test, was “almost falling down at times” and was “obviously very

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nov. 17-23 find easier ways to do something.” That’s exactly the kind of progress you are in an excellent position to stir up in the coming weeks. You don’t have to match the stress levels of the Type A people who might seem to have an advantage over you, and you won’t help yourself at all by worrying or trying too hard. The single best thing you can do to supercharge your creativity is to think of yourself as a “happy-go-lucky” person while you go around dreaming up ways to have more fun.

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n his poem “Ode to the Present,” Pablo Neruda tells us how to slip free and clear into the luxuriously potent opportunity of the present moment. The here-and-now is so ripe and willing, he says, so malleable. “Take a saw to its delicious wooden perfume,” he continues, and then “build a staircase. Yes, a staircase. Climb into the present, step by step, press your feet onto the resinous wood of this moment, going up, going up, not very high ... Don’t go all the way to heaven. Reach for apples, not the clouds.” Such good advice for you, Scorpio! It’s a perfect time to learn more about the magic of the present moment as you free yourself from “the unrepairable past.” (Read the poem at bit.ly/NerudaOde.) ARIES

(March 21-April 19): If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. Why? To me, the enclosure is distracting and unnecessary. Why can’t I just enjoy the arresting composition on the naked canvas, unburdened by the overwrought excess? I urge you to take my approach in the coming weeks, Aries. Push and even fight to get the goodies exactly as they are, free of all the irrelevant filler, extraneous buffers and pretentious puffery.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle,” said the 13th-century poet Rumi. More prosaically put: Evaluate people according to the nobility and integrity of the desires they’re obsessed with. Do you want to hang around with someone whose primary focus is to make too much money or please her parents or build a shrine to his own ego? Or would you prefer to be in a sphere of influence created by a person who longs to make a useful product or help alleviate suffering or make interesting works of art? It’s an excellent time to ponder these issues, Taurus — and then take action to ensure you’re surrounded by moths that favor beautiful candles. Check

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there used to be a nightclub that featured live rock bands on a big stage but enforced a strict policy forbidding its patrons from dancing. The one time I went there, the music was loud and infectious, and I naturally felt the urge to move in vigorous rhythm. Moments after I launched into my groove, a bouncer accosted me and forced me to stop. I think this situation has certain resemblances to the one you’re in now, Gemini. Some natural response mechanism in you is being unduly inhibited; some organic inclination is being unreasonably restrained or dampened. Why should you continue to accept this?

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(June 21-July 22): During the time a blue crab is growing to maturity, it is very skilled at transforming itself. It sheds its exoskeleton an average of once every 18 days for an entire year. You’re in a phase with some similarities to that period of rapid ripening, Cancerian. Your commitment to change doesn’t have to be quite as heroic, but it should be pretty vigorous. Could you manage, say, two moltings over the course of the next 30 days? If done in a spirit of adventure, it will be liberating, not oppressively demanding.

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(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Our elders know you don’t find the answer by asking thousands of questions,” says an essay on the website of the environmentalist group the Last Tree (thelasttree.net). “The wise way is to ask the right question in the beginning.” I recommend this approach for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Given the sparkly mysteriousness that now confronts you, I know you may be tempted to simultaneously try a lot of different routes to greater clarity. But the more effective strategy in the long run is to cultivate silence and stillness as you wait expectantly for the intuition that will reveal the simple, direct path.

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(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In a review of James Gleick’s book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, The Week magazine reported that “the world now produces more information in 48 hours than it did throughout all human history to 2003.” From that dizzying factoid, we can infer that you are more inundated with data than were all of your ancestors put together. And the surge will probably intensify in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be asked to absorb and integrate a voluminous amount of interesting stuff. Don’t be hard on yourself if you sometimes need to slow down to digest what you’ve been taking in.

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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Seminal psychologist Carl Jung wasn’t afraid of applying his scholarly analytical skills to the phenomena of pop culture. Late in life, he even wrote a thoughtful book on UFOs called Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. To be as thorough and careful as he could possibly be about such an elusive subject, he wrote an afterword to his main argument, to which he added an epilogue, which in turn was followed by a concluding supplement.

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(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A great deal of land in the Netherlands has been reclaimed from the sea by human effort. But the system of dikes that holds back the primal flow is not a foolproof or permanent guarantee against flooding. That’s why more and more people are building homes that can float if they have to. “We are actually trying to move away from fighting against the water,” says architect Koen Olthuis. “We are beginning to make friends with the water.” I recommend you adopt this as a useful metaphor, Capricorn. During the coming months, you should be doing a lot of foundation work. What can you do to add buoyancy?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According

to my old philosophy professor Norman O. Brown, “Our real choice is between holy and unholy madness: open your eyes and look around you — madness is in the saddle anyhow.” Let’s take this hypothesis as our starting point, Aquarius. I propose that in the coming weeks you make an effort to get more accustomed to and comfortable with the understanding that the entire world is in the throes of utter lunacy. Once you are at peace with that, I hope you will commit yourself to the sacred kind of lunacy — the kind that bestows wild blessings and perpetrates unreasonable beauty and cultivates the healing power of outlandish pleasure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It won’t be enough to simply maintain your current levels of strength, clarity and intelligence in the coming weeks. To stay healthy, to keep up with the rapidly evolving trends swirling in and around you, you will have to actively push to get stronger, clearer and smarter. No pressure, right? Don’t worry, the universe will be conspiring to help you accomplish it all. To trigger the boost you’ll need, imagine that you have a reservoir of blue liquid lightning in the place between your heart and gut. Picture yourself drawing judiciously from that high-octane fuel as you need it, bringing it first to your heart and then to your brain.

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Fierce Domination Looking for discreet rough, hot sex. The fewer attachments, the better. J2185, 26, l, #122404 Excitement beyond your wildest dreams I live for adventure, rushes of adrenaline and a partner in crime. I’m new to Burlington, looking to live life to the fullest. People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. Whether it’s Risky Business or a cup of coffee? Between the sheets or

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Couple Looking for Hot Loving Couple looking for lady for threesome opportunities with the possibility of a relationship for her (f/f). Would possibly accept a NSA situation. Skins8587, 24, l, #122492 Free Lover My husband and I are looking for another bi couple to experiment and play with. We are both very attractive, 19 and 20 YO. We are kinky. Hit us up :). Freelover19, 19, #122433 together in vt Slightly submissive couple looking for dominant males within reasonable

Kink of the w eek: Men seeking? Adventure anyone? Laid back guy here, 21, digging the bar scene but there’s one problem...DRINKS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE. Outgoing, open to suggestions and like an occupy riot in the bed. Let’s meet for coffee or a Switchback and take it from there. I’ve carried memories of Felix the Cat and The Nightmare Before Christmas over time, time to make some new ones. Mr_Right_Now, 21, #122466 FROM HIS ONLINE PROFILE:What is the freakiest place you’ve ever had sex in Vermont? On a river bank while trying to stay hidden from passing eyes. just lunch? I’m passionate, fun loving and a wild time; I’m waiting for you. ADKMan13, 25, l, #122391 maestro in your bed Aged excellence in fit, attractive, educated package for play of the highest order, satisfaction all around, gentle but excitable. Can meet weekdays. I appreciate all ages and body types. Spirited humans of all persuasions are encouraged. Please send me a note! p.s. I’m experienced in massage and thoroughly enjoy giving. surmounting, 61, #122386 No names, no questions Pleasure is key. Two bodies losing themselves in each other, striving to reach new heights of intensity. I don’t care if you’re married or single or whatever. Let’s just see what we can do for each other. AllNighter, 47, u, l, #122368 Horny, Fit, Hung I’m back in town for the time being and looking for some fun. I’d be down for pretty much anything. I’m fit, active and love the outdoors. I’m looking for some NSA fun that stays between us :). Trackbody, 24, l, #122361 Kinky Male Seeks Discrete I am new to VT and looking for discrete, exciting, safe, mutually beneficial encounters. I do not have a preference, as long as you love to laugh, love sex and occassionally like have a good time in a social/group setting. I am not seeking anything in particular, so please get back to me to know more. Take care! GoodTimes11, 34, #122351

distance from given location. We are interested in real-time fun. We both enjoy verbal commands. He is an experienced bottom and she is a first timer. There will be no oneon-one contact AT ALL. Safe and consensual is a very firm requirement. togetherinvt, 47, l, #122405 Seeking sexy couple for poly-play Deeply committed couple seeking man and woman for exploration and uninhibited sexual play. Us: fit, fun, STD-free professionals with full-time jobs and diverse sexual fantasies. You: stable, sane, sexy, STD-free, open to polyamorous possibilities. We are looking to meet an adventuresome couple to have fun with in many different positions. Replies must include recent pics. creative_connections, 45, l, #122302 Massage, Connection, Comfort, Kissing, Orgasms Massage explores pleasure with or without stepping into the sexual. We’d like to massage a woman, man or couple at your level of comfort. Softness of skin, the bliss of massage. We offer nonsexual, sensual massages, or ones that progress to orgasmic bliss. Four-hand massage is an amazingly sensuous path to sensual bliss, or all the way to orgasm. Lascivious, 57, l, #117437

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City Market Boy You work at City Market, but every time I go there I’m checking you out. I scan you every time. You are a charmer- dark brown hair, the perfect amount of manly scruff, solid as the grocery shelves, and that smile of a thousand suns. My city market boy, I’m interested in your finest shift- after hours. When: Saturday, November 12, 2011. Where: City Market. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909682 Bennington friend at Pauline’s Haven’t seen you in years until I bumped into you at Pauline’s. You came into the bar alone, didn’t recognize me, but eventually we chatted about mutual friends who we lost contact with. I looked up your company email address and tried to contact you but you didn’t reply. I don’t want to lose track of an old friend again. When: Thursday, October 13, 2011. Where: Pauline’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909681 handsome new moon employee you came out of the back as my salad was being made, you had a scruffy, lightcolored beard and a gray slouchy hat. I couldn’t stop from glancing at you, I was trying to catch your eye. Ii had a lanyard from my job on, if you are unattached and remember me would you like to get a drink When: Friday, November 11, 2011. Where: New Moon Cafe, Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909680

Cute redhead on the elliptical You: redhead, red shorts and white top. Your two girlfriends joined you a bit later on the elliptical (tall blond and brunette). Me: on the bike before heading over to the freeweights. You definitely caught my eye, but I didn’t want to interrupt your workout (although we definitely exchanged lots of glances). Grab a bite or drink sometime? When: Thursday, November 10, 2011. Where: Gym in South Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909673

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Re: blonde woman walking yellow lab Thank you for your i spy, it made my day. The “chews me out of house and home” is true, how did you know? Next time, say hello! When: Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Where: Waterfront. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909668 I spy a firefly A summer of bliss, a fall of beauty, a winter of love. I want to share my everything with you everyday. We are made for each other and mad for each other. Daily creeping and creepers, pints of micros, gallons of love, there is no measure for my love for you. You are my taco, my tower and my paradise. When: Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Where: In my soul. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909667 cigarette slingin’ dimples “I think you’re cute, I know you’re sexy, you’ve got the looks, that drives the girls wild. You’ve got the moves, that really move ‘em. You send chills up and down their spines.” I miss you jazz. When: Friday, November 4, 2011. Where: Garcias. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909666 The Checkout Line Shouldn’t be... ...a place with so much excitement and nerves. You know, I always secretly hope you’ll be there, but I hope even more that I will see you somewhere where I can actually talk to you and make more stumbled and jumbled senseless comments. When: Wednesday, November 9, 2011. Where: Somewhere between aisle 1 and 7 cm. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909665 AFB staff party You told me about your farm, we danced, you kissed my matching birthmark and left abruptly. I’d like to get to know you better and get out to your farm. When: Monday, November 7, 2011. Where: Flatbread. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909663

Dave Happy birthday. I love you so much. When: Tuesday, November 8, 2011. Where: St. Albans. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909657

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mistress maeve Dear Mistress,

I met a guy through an online dating site and we had a pretty good first date. He texted me the following day asking if I wanted to hang out again, and we made a plan to hang out the following Sunday. On Sunday morning, he texted to say that he needed to reschedule because his brother came into town. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and texted back that it was no big deal and that we could make a new plan. Then I didn’t hear from him. After more than a week, he texted wondering if I’d still like to reschedule. I had already written him off. Part of me feels like this guy has already shown himself to be non-reliable and I should move on, but another part of me wonders if I’m being too harsh. Should I give him another go?

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Hey, life happens, and sometimes we have to reschedule a date — but this guy totally flubbed it up. In the beginning stages of a relationship, trust hasn’t yet been established, so rescheduling a date must be done with the utmost care. If your guy had followed these three steps, you wouldn’t be debating whether to see him again. 1. Pick up the phone. Texting is fine for most relationship communiqués, but to truly convey sincere regret for canceling, a conversation is in order (or, at the very least, a voicemail). 2. Apologize. Never underestimate the power of those two little words, “I’m sorry.” 3. Suggest an alternative plan. Even if the other party is unavailable for the time suggested, it shows a true commitment to rescheduling. Obvious? Yes. But in this era of communication via texting, instant messenger and Facebook chat — people need reminders about how to really talk. This guy failed miserably at rescheduling your date, but it doesn’t mean he’s a total dud. If you’d like to see him again, text him back and say, “Sure, let’s reschedule. Give me a call and we can make a plan.” This way, you’ll be able to hear his tone and decide if he’s enthusiastic about seeing you again. If you continue to see red flags, you’ll have to cancel — permanently.

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Yeah, you. D’you remember that time when I saw you there, and we were, y’know, and it was awesome, right? I know! When: Monday, November 7, 2011. Where: In town. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909658

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