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Wow, reading Rick Kisonak’s review of Rust and Bone [Movie Review, January 23] made me wonder: What film did he see? From his plot description I could more or less guess we watched the same film, but very little else in his review matched what I saw. I’ve read many of his reviews and generally appreciate them, but this hatchet job seems so out of the park, I’m intrigued. I’ve certainly had bad reactions to films that others have loved, so I’m not so much taking issue with what is, after all, his legitimate critique as just musing on how personality differences influence perceptions in such divergent ways. Rick refers to the film’s identity crisis, the poorly developed characters, the incoherent story line, maddeningly artsy and arbitrary, not to forget meaningless sex — where was that film playing? The film I saw had characters who caught and held my interest, and story lines that wove through its own complex weft, bringing a couple of very different worlds together in the random way it happens in the real world, and I didn’t find it far-fetched and self-indulgent any more than all art is. If that becomes a standard to avoid, how do we deal with Lang, Cocteau, Almodovar, Resnais, Stone, Kurosawa, Coppola? At the very least, I agree that Rick ought to get his refund for having sat through it all for only two stars’ worth of
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I definitely think an article on daycare in Vermont is valid [“Daycare Nightmares,” January 30]. However, this was only about negative experiences. We’ve used a home-based daycare for nearly five years, and Beth Sanders, the woman who runs it, is amazing and now a valued member of our family. There are many stories like this that I’ve heard. I know many working parents with young children and only hear raves about the programs they’ve chosen. This article makes it look like the situation here is horrible, and it’s not at all. I’d hope for a follow-up article reviewing the stellar programs such as Nurturing Young Minds. Joanne Jastatt BURLINGTON
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It seems to me that getting off the system and going to work, if you possibly can, would so help the children [Poli Psy, “Poor Logic,” January 30]. Children need to see a good work ethic. Unfortunately, people in Vermont make more being on the system. Add up all the housing benefits, food, health insurance, etc. — why
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A letter in last week’s Feedback section titled “Biased Against Biomass” improperly identified Josh Schlossberg as a “paid activist whose backing comes from the out-of-state group Massachusetts Forest Watch.” Schlossberg does not work for or get funding from Massachusetts Forest Watch, which is an all-volunteer operation; he runs the Vermont field office for Washington, D.C.-based Energy Justice Network. He’s lived in the state for 11 years. would anyone want to work? Personally, I think the whole Vermont system needs to change. I think fewer children would be in Department of Children and Families custody if parents were held to a higher standard than what the DCF demands. I’m wondering, also, how much is the state spending on sending people to get a better education? How many people are being paid to take some college class, say, through CCV, and the minute they get the check, they quit school? I’ve seen a person do this for three years: get the $3000 check and then quit. That’s $9000 in three years for not having to do much of anything. Sarah Davis RuTland
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You might have included Steve Delaney in your lineup of nationally known journalists residing in Vermont [“Dateline Green Mountains,” January 23]. Delaney is a veteran journalist and correspondent for NBC News. He covered presidential candidates from 1964 through 1984, served as resident correspondent in the Middle East for four years and covered the State Department during the Iran hostage crisis. After NBC,
[Re “Papering Over History,” January 23]: While I was delighted Kevin J. Kelley chose to address a neglected portion of Vermont history in assessing the role of both the Burlington Free Press and the Burlington Daily News in forming public opinion during the period, I was disappointed how the important roles of the local clergy were marginalized in the case of Dr. Alex Novikoff. Kelley states, “Several UVM faculty members and Burlington religious leaders defended Novikoff’s rights.” Kelley duly cited Rabbi Max Wall but omitted that 18 religious leaders came to Novikoff’s defense. Interestingly, a member of the Catholic diocese, UVM alumnus Rev. Robert F. Joyce (who would later serve as bishop), was serving as a trustee of the university at the time of the case and was unwavering in his support of Novikoff’s rights. In the final vote on whether to retain Novikoff, Rev. Joyce was the only trustee to vote in Novikoff’s favor. The civic roles of Rev. Joyce are often diminished, but, as a Vermonter, he supported local higher education at both UVM and Champlain College and promoted interreligious relations through his collaborations with Rabbi Wall. This factor should be taken into account to provide a more inclusive view of attitudes of the time and accurately document the details of the historic events.
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Delaney served as host and correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor’s cable newcast, Monitor Radio. He is now a voice on Vermont Public Radio and is completing his third novel. When rendering news as the sage voice of Christian Science Monitor radio, he provided balanced and provocative insights, with a timbre that resonated like Walter Cronkite’s.
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We used to call this the Romance & Bridal Issue, but of course not all weddings have brides. Some COMMITTED COUPLES don’t have weddings at all, while others tie the knot after a very long time together. That’s the subject of a story by Kevin J. Kelley in this issue. And, demonstrating the lengths we’ll go to for the one we love, Ken Picard digs up some UNUSUAL NUPTIAL CUSTOMS. Megan James tells how Moretown’s BLISS RIDGE came to be the picturesque site of her own wedding. Alice Levitt checks out the WEDDING MENUS of some New Americans. Meanwhile, Dan Bolles gets behind the LOVESTRUCK LYRICS of local songwriters. And if you don’t understand this week’s cover spoof, visit PINTEREST.COM. Happy pinning!
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Dueling Cultures: PostNewtown, Vermont GunControl Supporters Are Gaining Ground
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Last Prostitution-Ring Perp to Be Sentenced, but It’s Not Over Yet
32 To Wed, or Not to Wed Love & Marriage: Longtime unmarried couples talk about finally tying the knot — or not BY KEVIN J. KELLEY
Love & Marriage: A young couple diversify their organic farm — with DIY weddings
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million and, better yet, force those bums to get a damn job. Legislators weren’t exactly overjoyed. “I’m not sure where these jobs are these folks are going to get,” said Rep. ANN PUGH (D-South Burlington), who chairs the House Human Services Committee. “Quite frankly, I think many people have viewed the proposal with a great deal of skepticism,” Smith said this week of Shumlin’s overall budget plan. “I do think the way the childcare subsidy is proposed to be paid for has colored people’s view of a whole suite of proposals.” In recent weeks, Smith and Sen. TIM ASHE (D/P-Burlington), who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, have been talking up decoupling elements of Shumlin’s proposal and considering them separately.
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“There is a tremendous hesitance to touch the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is the single most effective antipoverty measure in U.S. history,” Ashe said. “To link the childcare subsidy with a twothirds deletion of the EITC, I think, are two unrelated policy questions.” Not in Shumlin’s view. Perhaps in reaction to the threat of legislative meddling, Shumlin said last week, “I feel very strongly that my education ‘package for prosperity’ is just that: It’s a package. And we need to pass every part of the package.” He added, “If you pull out one leg from under it, the whole thing falls apart.” Smith’s reaction? “I don’t think that kind of language is helpful,” the speaker said. I think the legislative process is always about give and take. It’s not about take and take.” Why is Shumlin so adamantly opposed to finding another funding mechanism for his otherwise popular childcare subsidy expansion? “Talking about alternatives sounds great until you try and go find them,” he
said Monday. “There isn’t new money out there to be spent.” That’s coming from a guy who just two weeks ago managed to find $17 million in new revenue by taxing something most people had never heard of: those “breakopen” tickets sold at the local Elks Club and American Legion post. Asked if he had any other tricks up his sleeve, Shumlin said, “I would suggest that if they were there, we would have proposed them.” JACK HOFFMAN of the Public Assets Institute, a Montpelier think tank, said he plans to offer some alternatives. “I think there are other tax expenditures we could look at reducing that would hit a different group of people than cutting the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is taking money from the poor to give to the poor,” he said. In Hoffman’s view, “The cost of [expanded childcare] should be spread to the rest of the state.” Of course, that notion collides with Shumlin’s staunch resistance to raising “broad-based taxes,” which in Montpelier parlance typically refers to income, sales and rooms and meals taxes. “As I’ve said many times, Vermont’s biggest challenge is not that our taxes are not high enough. It is that they are too high,” Shumlin said last week. Fair enough. But why is it more acceptable to raise narrowly based taxes on the working poor than it is to raise broadbased taxes on the rest of us? After all, semantics aside, reducing a tax credit is no different than raising a tax. If he’s to succeed at expanding access to childcare — a laudable and universally popular goal — he’ll have to provide a more convincing answer than he has thus far. Selling childcare subsidies to the daycare crowd is easy. The tough part of the job is coming up with a palatable funding source — one with a realistic chance of passing muster with a newly assertive, and seemingly disenchanted, legislature. It’ll be tough, but didn’t we elect Shummy to get tough things done?
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to Brazil for five days. In September he’ll travel to China for a week and a half, according to Secretary of Commerce Lawrence MiLLer. During each of these trips, Shumlin plans to promote Vermont economic development projects funded by the federal EB-5 investor visa program, which provides green cards to those who drop half a million bucks into qualifying projects. While in Miami, Shumlin will talk up Vermont’s oversight of EB-5 projects to investors and attorneys attending a conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, according to BiLL Stenger. The Jay Peak co-owner is the mastermind of the Northeast Kingdom project — and the trip. Stenger’s new project manager, incidentally, is Shumlin’s former campaign manager and deputy chief of staff, aLex MacLean. “South Florida is an enormous market for immigration,” Stenger said. “It’s probably one of the most productive trips we can take.” According to Miller, Shumlin’s travel expenses will be covered by a special fund established by the legislature in 2011 that draws revenue directly from EB-5 investors. Each time one of them invests in a Vermont project, they owe the state a $1500 fee — and that money is used to promote the state program. Projects that preceded the 2011 law can be billed back for those costs. “The reason it sounds so fucking complicated is because it is,” Miller said. As for whether the governor should be flying around the world to promote a private-sector project, Miller said there’s no question. “I’m not sure how I could ask him to spend 10 or 15 days this year differently that would have a bigger impact in terms of thousands of jobs,” Miller said.
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ld and new Vermont coexist in relative harmony as a result of many shared values: conservation, for one. There’s trouble between them now, however, as rural traditions clash with cosmopolitan sensibilities on the issue of gun control. The conflict — which is as much cultural as geographic — is evident in the recent decision by a Morristown shooting range to ban members of the Burlington Police Department from conducting target practice there. The Lamoille Valley Fish and Game Club barred Queen City cops in retaliation for the Burlington city council’s move to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines within city limits. In a written statement last month, the Burlington PD called it “unfortunate” that a “much-needed community dialogue regarding gun control” has resulted in the loss of one of its principal training grounds. Police Chief Michael Schirling declined last week to elaborate on that delicately worded response, other than to emphasize that his department has taken no position on the proposed assault-weapons ban. Ed Wilson, a 40-year member of the Lamoille Valley group, defended the ostracism in an interview at the outdoor firing range, which was quiet last Saturday at 8 a.m. “It’s not as though they have no other places to shoot,” Wilson said, adding, “We felt we had to make a stand.” Wilson said a majority of the 400 families who make up the club’s membership probably think Burlington deserves to be slapped for considering action that would infringe on gun owners’ rights. “It would be so ironic for our members to be shooting here and to watch the Burlington police roll in with … weapons they can bring to our town but we can’t bring to theirs,” he said. Burlington City Councilor Norm Blais (D-Ward 6) isn’t apologizing for the assault-weapons ban he sponsored, which has the support of Democratic Mayor Miro Weinberger. “I’m embarrassed to say it took the tragedy in Newtown to lead me to do this, but we’ve just been lucky that nothing like that has
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happened here,” Blais says. “We do need to take the basic step of prohibiting the kind of rifles and high-capacity magazines that have nothing to do with hunting.” The council’s 10-3 vote to advance the proposed ban implies that most of Burlington agrees with Blais. The rest of Vermont? Not necessarily. Gun-rights advocates scored a Statehouse victory last month, when Sen. Phil Baruth (D-Chittenden) withdrew a bill banning assault weapons in the face of organized opposition. Now they’re targeting a bill sponsored by Rep. Linda Waite-Simpson (D-Essex Junction). Gun Owners of Vermont, a group that holds monthly meetings at the Rutland American Legion, has declared that it is “committed to a no-compromise position on firearms ownership rights.” Waite-Simpson’s bill, H.124, is broader than Baruth’s bill but does not ban assault weapons. The legislation would, however, tighten Vermont’s famously lax gun laws in several significant ways by prohibiting possession of highcapacity ammunition clips; requiring
background checks for anyone buying a firearm at a gun show; barring felons from owning guns; instituting a mandatory safety course as a condition for carrying a concealed firearm; requiring the state to report people with acute mental illnesses to the national gun-purchase background-check system; and repealing a ban on sale or use of gun silencers. Waite-Simpson says gun violence in her own community is what motivated her to propose the legislation. She’s referring to two gun deaths in 2006 that resulted from a murderous rampage at Essex Elementary School and the 2009 suicide of 15-year-old Aaron Xue, who was a classmate of one of WaiteSimpson’s daughters. “This is here. This is real,” she declared at a Statehouse news conference last week. One of the bill’s co-sponsors, Rep. Adam Greshin (I-Warren), admitted that Vermont ranks as one of the safest states. “But we live in a larger society,” he added. Winooski Police Chief Steve McQueen told assembled reporters that “large
numbers of individuals are coming into Vermont to purchase firearms to protect their turf” in drug wars. And state Rep. Mike Yantachka (D-Charlotte) observed, “Firearm regulations from one state to another look like Swiss cheese, and Vermont happens to be one of the holes.” The Lamoille Valley club’s Wilson, who is a registered gun dealer, rejects such arguments and the legislation they have spawned. Like many gun-rights advocates, Wilson takes an absolutist position on the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as well as Article 16 of the Vermont Constitution, which declares in part: “The people have the right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state.” He says these rights are “God-given” and cannot be abridged by the state or any town. Wilson declares gun rights to be “the most important rights because what good are the other rights if you’re dead or enslaved?” Greshin is familiar with that line of reasoning. Referring to Article 16, the
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Last year, state lawmakers asked the Department of Public Safety’s Law Enforcement Advisory Board (LEAB) to consider whether the results of investigations of police misconduct should ever be made public. Currently, those findings are confidential unless an officer is charged with a crime. On January 15, LEAB released a 51-page report recommending, among other things, that all law enforcement agencies in Vermont adopt a body “mirroring” SPAC. The seven-member civilian board, which typically meets every other month and reviews all internal affairs investigations of state troopers, provides nonbinding disciplinary recommendations, as well as other policy advice, to the commissioner of public safety. “They’ve certainly given me some very useful information, which in some instances caused me to pause and look differently at the discipline I was going to impose,” says Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn. By law, the all-volunteer SPAC has discretion to release any of its findings to the public. In reality, however, that almost never happens. Robert Appel, the outgoing executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that adopting a SPAC-like model for all police agencies in Vermont would be a big mistake. “I would caution against going down that road unless there’s significant reform to SPAC,” Appel told the
happens in executive session, during which no official notes are taken. As Appel told the Senate Judiciary Committee, SPAC has released the findings of its investigations only once in its 30-year history. That case involved an allegation that Trooper Jared Hatch violated the state police bias-free policy when he detained two illegal immigrants during a September 13, 2011, traffic stop on I-89 near Middlesex. That highly publicized arrest sparked
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committee, which is considering legislation to expand public access to police records. “The Vermont constitution says that public officials are accountable to the people. To me, this is not a viable scheme of accountability.” SPAC was created in 1980 following a state police scandal that became known as the “router bit affair.” An employee of a Lyndonville tool company who moonlighted as a state trooper was accused of giving fellow troopers router bits he’d stolen from the company. The internal affairs review — and subsequent cover-up by a St. Johnsbury police sergeant and other troopers — prompted a wider investigation into VSP’s internal affairs and ultimately led then-governor Richard Snelling to demand the resignation of state police commissioner Francis Lynch in 1979. Later that year, Corporal Howard Gould, a trooper implicated in the router bit case, committed suicide at the Statehouse to protest the negative publicity that ruined his career. SPAC was envisioned as a citizen board that would improve public oversight of police internal affairs reviews. But its own PR effort has been virtually nonexistent. SPAC’s website lists its members but includes no biographical information about them. The commission’s minutes are considered public information, but they’re not available online and can only be viewed by visiting Flynn’s office in Waterbury. Several people in the criminal justice arena — including one prominent defense lawyer — had never even heard of the group. A review of SPAC’s minutes dating back to 1994 — the earliest year for which the Department of Public Safety has records — confirms Appel’s claim that most of the commission’s business
protests by Vermont’s civil libertarians and immigrant-rights groups, who accused the trooper of racial profiling. Critics noted that Hatch never cited the driver, a U.S. citizen with a valid driver’s license, with speeding, even though he was clocked going 88 miles per hour in a 65-MPH zone. Instead, the trooper questioned the vehicle’s passengers, both of whom were migrant farm workers from Mexico, and asked for proof of U.S. citizenship. When they couldn’t produce any, Hatch notified Border Patrol, which initiated deportation proceedings. In its review of the case, the Vermont Human Rights Commission concluded that racial profiling had occurred. The incident prompted Gov. Peter Shumlin to enact new state policy prohibiting troopers from asking individuals about their immigration status unless they’re suspected of a crime. But SPAC reached a different conclusion about Hatch’s behavior. In an undated letter issued shortly after the traffic stop, SPAC exonerated the trooper, concluding that his actions were “free of improper bias and in compliance with all applicable policies.” It wasn’t the first time Hatch had been accused of racial profiling — or that SPAC had been asked to weigh in on his conduct. One year earlier, Appel referred a case to then-commissioner of public safety Thomas Tremblay in response to a phone call Appel’s office received from an interracial couple who alleged that Hatch had racially profiled them. According to the trooper’s own affidavit, on July 16, 2010, he stopped a rental car, driven by an African-American man, for backing up on the Exit 7 northbound onramp to I-89 near Berlin. The driver wasn’t issued a ticket, but the trooper interrogated the driver’s partner, a white woman, about their
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travel plans, origins and how much cash they were carrying. The couple’s young children were in the back seat of the car at the time. When the woman informed the trooper that they had $1200 on hand and were headed for a flea market in Queens, N.Y. — as well as a mall in Holyoke, Mass. — the trooper contacted a K-9 unit to search the vehicle for drugs. “Based on my training and experience,” Hatch wrote in his affidavit, “I know that Queens, N.Y. is a source city for narcotic traffickers. Further, I know that Holyoke Mall ... is a location that is commonly used by drug traffickers as a
Appel also questioned the diversity of SPAC’s membership. According to the Department of Public Safety website, “By statute, SPAC is made up of independent Vermont citizens who have no connection the Vermont State Police.” The problem, Appel explained, is that membership on SPAC is “highly stacked” with criminal justice insiders. The chair of SPAC is Nancy Sheahan, a partner with the Burlington law firm of McNeil, Leddy and Sheahan. She serves as counsel for the Vermont League of Cities and Towns and routinely represents municipalities that get sued for, among other things, police misconduct. Sheahan didn’t return a call seeking comment. Other SPAC members include Ugo Sartorelli, a former parole board member; Patti Pallito, a managing director at the captive insurance firm Aon Corp and the ex-wife of Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito; Tom Crowley, a former state senator and retired judge; Shirley Jefferson, an associate dean at Vermont Law School; Laura Williams, a retired state employee; and Leo Willey, a retired state trooper who left the force in 1996. Only one member of the group returned a phone call from Seven Days. SPAC member Willey, who spent 25 years as a state trooper — and was Flynn’s commanding officer when Flynn was on the force — confirmed that most of SPAC’s business, including all of its internal affairs discussions, happens behind closed doors. Asked about the Taser death of Macadam Mason case, for example, he said he could “neither confirm nor deny” that the commission ever discussed it. Willey, who was appointed to SPAC by former governor Howard Dean, also confirmed that the commission doesn’t compile statistics on the number of cases it reviews or which ones result in disciplinary action or criminal charges. Allen Gilbert, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, said he’s never seen anything produced by SPAC other than its exoneration of Hatch. Such sparse reporting, he said, doesn’t instill much public confidence in the process. As he puts it, “It’s kind of hard to have faith that the internals are getting some sort of independent review and a good judgment is being made, because we don’t know what the recommendations are.” m
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hen the U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Jose Tomas Flores-Rocha for bringing Hispanic prostitutes to “service” workers on Vermont dairy farms, their search turned up a mysterious business card. The card read “Don Chingon” — Spanish slang for “The Man” or “The Main Man.” Underneath that moniker was the name Alejandro Enrique Y Hernandez, with a Hyde Park, Vt., address. “The Man” turned out to be Alejandro Enrique Young-Hernandez, also known as Alex Young, a former state prison guard who was then employed as a case aide with the Vermont Department for Children and Families, connecting needy families with state assistance programs. Young-Hernandez spent six years keeping prisoners in line as a state correctional officer in St. Johnsbury in the late 1990s, but soon he could be the one behind bars. On Thursday, February 7, Young-Hernandez will be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Brattleboro for lining up Vermont customers for New York prostitutes who would perform sex acts on up to 10 farmworkers a day. Coincidentally, the federal law to which he pled guilty is called the Mann Act. Young-Hernandez is the last of the four defendants to face sentencing for their roles in a prostitution ring that authorities began uncovering in 2011. But new developments suggest the investigation is not complete — and may expand to snare other players. The FBI last week secured a search warrant
show that Young-Hernandez was hired in 1996 as a correctional officer at the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility in St. Johnsbury, earning $19,094 a year. He was promoted three years later and was earning $31,324 when he left the Department of Corrections in 2002. Young-Hernandez’s next job was at the state Department for Children and Families, where he earned $40,000 as a human-services case aide in the Morrisville field office. In that position, he provided case-management help for
14 and stayed that night at the Quality Inn on Shelburne Road. The next day, Flores-Rocha brought the woman to three different farms to meet migrant laborers. At the first one, she sexually serviced four men. At a second farm, she met another four customers and at a third farm, two more. The fee was $50 for 15 minutes, court records say, and she and Flores-Rocha planned to split the money at the end of the trip. The night of March 15, they stayed at the North Star Motel, also on
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suggest the investigation may expand to snare other players. investigators to additional “customers and co-conspirators.” Young-Hernandez told investigators he met Flores-Rocha — a stocky man with short hair — on the Hyde Park farm where he resided, and the two began exchanging phone and text messages. The arrangement they worked out, according to authorities, is that Young-Hernandez took requests from farmworkers who wanted a prostitute and texted their addresses to Flores-Rocha in New York. Young-Hernandez, who is in his fifties, is a native of Mexico who became a naturalized U.S. citizen. As he awaits sentencing, Seven Days has uncovered new details about his tenure as a state employee. Public records
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families, interviewed clients and did other clerical and office work, says Dawn O’Toole, DCF’s director of operations. O’Toole said she had no firsthand experience working with Young-Hernandez and that state personnel policies prevented her from saying anything more. O’Toole did disclose that YoungHernandez was relieved of duty in June 2011 following his arrest on federal charges and terminated from DCF two months later. Federal authorities stumbled onto the prostitution ring on March 16, 2011, after Border Patrol agents stopped FloresRocha and a woman he was pimping. According to court records, the pair had driven up from Queens, N.Y., on March
Shelburne Road. The next day, the duo went to another farm, where she serviced two more men. They were en route to another farm when Border Patrol pulled them over. When the agents searched FloresRocha’s truck, they found a green ledger book containing the names, addresses and phone numbers of numerous farms in Vermont and New York. The ledger also contained contacts at each farm and a list of the women providing prostitution services, with a tally of farmworkers serviced beside each name. In the truck, agents found a GPS unit with farm addresses stored in it. They also confiscated two cellphones belonging to Flores-Rocha: a Nokia Blink that
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between 16 and 20 years old. On every visit, he paid in cash. Young-Hernandez had been supplying customer names and addresses to Flores-Rocha since at least the fall of 2010, the FBI agent wrote. But the prostitute found with FloresRocha was not underage. The woman told federal agents she was not under the influence of drugs and did not experience violent acts from Flores-Rocha or any of the farmworkers she serviced. In fact, federal prosecutors argued for a lenient, 18-month jail term for FloresRocha in part because the woman was “not particularly vulnerable based on her age or personal circumstances.” “She was in her thirties, claimed to be living with family in New Jersey in a stable living environment, expected to receive half the profits from the venture with the defendant and was a prostitute before coming to the United States,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather Ross wrote in a June 2012 sentencing memorandum. Ross wouldn’t discuss the prostitution case beyond what’s in the public record. Young-Hernandez’s lawyer, Burlington attorney Frank Twarog, declined comment for the story. Seven Days spoke with several people
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who know Young-Hernandez from the migrant farmworker community, but none would talk on the record. One acquaintance said Young-Hernandez went by “Alejandro” among farmworkers but was known to Vermont farmers by the more American-sounding “Alex Young.” He was well liked by many farmers for providing translation services, the source said, and well liked by workers for hanging out and bringing them clothes from Walmart. Another person who knows YoungHernandez says he frequently drove farmworkers to a mobile Mexican consulate that comes to Vermont twice a year. He did so as recently as last July — more than a year after he was brought up on federal charges. But as Ross points out in a new court filing, YoungHernandez’s motivations were not entirely altruistic. “He marked up the costs of goods and services he sold to the farm workers as much as 30 to 50 percent,” Ross wrote. The first source said prostitution appears to be commonplace on Vermont dairy farms, which collectively employ between 1000 and 3000 migrant laborers. This person said that when he delivers food and other necessities to them, workers are “constantly asking” him to connect them with sexual services. Still, he was shocked when YoungHernandez was arrested for his role in the prostitution ring. “I had no idea he was involved in that at all,” the source said. Flores-Rocha and two other coconspirators all faced up to five years in prison for violating the federal Mann Act, but each received reduced prison terms of 10 to 18 months. One of the pimps remains incarcerated at a federal prison in Philipsburg, Penn., with a scheduled release date of May 10. Another was released November 16 after serving 10 months and subsequently deported. Flores-Rocha, the ringleader, was deported back to Mexico after serving an 18-month prison sentence. As for Young-Hernandez? He is cooperating with federal authorities in exchange for a more lenient sentence. In her sentencing report, Ross asks the judge for a downward departure from the five-year sentence the crime carries. “Young-Hernandez should receive a lesser sentence than others sentenced in this scheme,” Ross writes.
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us in starting our own student-run broadcasting studio. They have trained me, trained my students, and, most recently, worked with me to teach adults the art of producing quality media. Our program has won us national acclaim on more than one occasion. Jay m. Hoffman burlington
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Over the years I have worked with all three of our local channels, and I firmly believe that their dedication, professionalism and technical skills play a large role in strengthening the vibrant, thriving democracy that we have — and take for granted at our peril. Whether it is hosting local programs on diverse topics of interest as well as presenting controversial subjects that the mainstream media do not air, covering the nuts and bolts of governmental and educational meetings, or teaching us how to make our own media, the role that public-access television plays in our communities is vitally necessary if we are to be wellinformed citizens with exposure to diverse points of view. We need to back local media organizations in every way possible, and, if current funding mechanisms change, we need to come up with new ways to support them and the use of the public airwaves for the public good. Kristin Peterson-Ishaq essex Junction
I have counted on the savvy and expertise of RETN staff to help bring to vibrant life the experiences of people in my art classes. I took part in a weeklong teacher-training program, where faculty modeled best practices while also helping educators learn effective ways to share video skills with their students. It was one of the very best educational training experiences I have ever experienced in 30 years of teaching. Far from being a place just for the tech-savvy generation, there is an openarm welcome there for all who want to
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Andy Bromage brings up a lot of great issues about access television’s quest for relevance and funding in a changing media and communications terrain. I’d like to point out that there’s not three but five public-access TV stations based in Chittenden County. In addition to VCAM, RETN and CCTV, there are Lake Champlain Access Television in Colchester and our small but active station, Mt. Mansfield Community TV, in Richmond.
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This past fall, the Fleming Museum was able to produce, with the help of RETN, seven hourlong educational programs covering a broad range of cultural programming including poetry, gallery tours, distinguished lectures, even a performance of traditional Balinese music. The productions are available to view not only on RETN’s channel and website but via our own YouTube channel that extends our reach internationally. RETN facilitates free equipment training and rental and expert advice, and then airs the productions through its many outlets. This has proven to be a win-win scenario for both organizations and helped us to realize an important goal for the museum in a manner that was both easy and affordable. We consider RETN an essential partner in our expanding media outreach. Janie cohen burlington
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I am a teacher who is active in getting my students into the community. RETN, the public television station in Burlington, has been an incredible support. I brought two students in to participate in a three-day video training. My students not only became motivated but were also engaged throughout all of the sessions. Josh said to me, “I think I can really use cameras to show what I learn in school.” This experience has transformed the way Josh thinks about learning. The other student, Brandon, was so excited to take footage of snowboarding and show what is possible. Public-access television has to continue to get funded because it truly changes how our community sees itself. Kimberly Ead bolton
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the annual meeting. That’s about 178 people voting on a multimillion-dollar budget that will affect more than 9000. Many more people watched the meeting a few days later because they couldn’t make it that night. CCTV is working with Essex Junction to cover our upcoming annual meeting live, so residents who can’t be there can watch in real time. It’s a first for the village, and hopefully the beginning of a successful partnership of technology and democracy that encourages more people to participate in village government. We couldn’t do it without CCTV. Public-access television funding should be handled like a utility; equal access to government is as essential as electricity. Elaine Sopchak essex Junction
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Since August, the Greater Burlington Y has been hosting “The Y Connection,” a live call-in program on CCTV Channel 17, and it’s an effective way to deliver news and information about our programs and services. We believe public-access television matters, and we hear from a lot of Y members and friends who agree. Recently, Rosemarie C. from Burlington wrote to us and thanked us for a program we aired on recovery from injury. “Before seeing your program and then meeting with the Y trainer, Casey, I was afraid to attempt any form of exercise for fear of exacerbating my injuries,” she said. “What a great service you have provided getting those of us with injuries moving and staying strong during recovery.” Since the work of the Y takes us far beyond our walls, this episode and all the others are “messengered” to public-access TV stations in Grand Isle, Richmond, Jericho, Underhill, Shelburne, Colchester and many more through a clever sharing service called the Vermont Media Exchange. Our show, this service, and viewing the Y Connection are provided for free. More than broadcasting programs for the community made by the community, public-access TV also trains people on equipment and provides affordable workshops on technology, advocacy and much more. I just attended an insightful workshop on marketing trends in Vermont featuring a panel of local experts, all for the cost of lunch. I hope public-access television sticks around for a very long time.
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Public-access television has been an integral part of community in Chittenden County, especially for Hunt Middle School. RETN actively seeks out teachers to provide opportunities to enhance history, science and language arts in their own neighborhoods. Students learn skills necessary for their future in a competitive digital world. Media allow thoughts and ideas to travel from the classroom to the community and beyond. Kathy Hevey and Deb Rossell burlington and cabot
As a small nonprofit without the luxury of a marketing budget, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of free services and education that public-access stations provide. Over the last five years, the staff of Linking Learning to Life has learned how to operate video equipment, edit using iMovie and get our material aired. I really have no idea how we would have been able to develop these essential skills without RETN.
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hen eben burr and his business partner, Pat McGrath, bought the Mountain Road Resort in Stowe in 2007, it was “just before the world ended,” as Burr puts it. He’s referring to the financial collapse the following year that, for them, almost resulted in a foreclosure on the property — which comprises a pair of buildings with 31 guest rooms between them, several smaller buildings and 16 acres of woods filled with trails. “We bought it back [from the bank] in 2011,” Burr says with a look of satisfaction. No wonder he’s pleased. This wasn’t just any long-distance real estate deal — though the partners do live in New York City. For Burr, 41, the renovation of the resort has a twofold goal: to “bring some modernism back to Vermont,” he says of the midcentury buildings being refurbished; and to create “an art hotel.” Both aims are already being realized, though the proprietors will hold off on a grand reopening until all the rooms are complete — probably this spring. Meanwhile, Burr has transformed even the rooms that still sport dainty vintage wallpaper by adding multiple pieces of original art, as well as new beds and carpeting. His objective, Burr explains, is to fill every room with contemporary art — so far, primarily by artists he knows in New York, though he’s “more than open” to connecting with Vermont artists. Everything is for sale: If a guest at the resort seeks to buy a work, Burr will connect the patron directly with the artist. “The artists get all the proceeds from the sale,” he says, noting the work ranges widely in price, from about $100 to $9000. When a work is sold, the artist replaces it with another, thus ensuring a steady flow of new pieces for Burr and, potentially, more income for the artist. It’s a tidy and sustainable loop. Besides potential sales, artists get another perk from the deal: “We are trading artists a piece of work for a stay at the hotel,” Burr says. “It’s an unusual exchange that has attracted the attention of many amazing artists, some of whom are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran
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[Gallery of Art] and the Whitney [Museum of American Art].” He believes that Mountain Road Resort has the largest non-museum collection of “emerging and mid-career artists on display anywhere in the United States.” Nearly 70 are listed on the hotel’s website, with links to the artists’ own. It’s an eclectic collection, to be sure. Burr has an eye for uniquely compelling pieces, and transports them personally from New York to Vermont. Though all the work can be called contemporary, and most is two-dimensional, no particular style or medium reigns supreme here. There are color and black-andwhite photographs, figurative and abstract paintings, screen-prints, collages and more. Some of the artists are well known; others are beginning their careers. All of them are quite good. Then there is the odd, not-for-sale bit of lodge kitsch, such as the mounted bear head — and paws! — over the bar. It was a gift from a contractor, Burr
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explains. Those paws were apparently, and creepily, meant to hold a rifle; now they proffer a magnum of champagne. The moment you step inside the Mountain Road Resort, it’s apparent that Burr eschews the “ye olde” New England aesthetic. Just off the registration area — which offers a tantalizing plate of homemade cookies — a light, high-ceilinged great room beckons. An enormous hearth with a crackling (gas) fire anchors one side of the room, a bank of tall windows the other. Handsome,
contemporary couches and chairs are arranged companionably, and a lot of artwork adorns the white walls. A pristine, all-white breakfast room is around the corner, just past the small bar. When Burr gives a tour of the space and some of the guest rooms on a recent afternoon, it quickly becomes clear that he loves telling the stories behind the art as much as he enjoys the art itself. And every piece does have a story — about the artist’s life, or how Burr met him or her, or what speaks to him about the work. “It’s kind of fun to have the collection be at my whim,” he says with a smile. “But there’s nothing too sexual or violent here — it is a hotel.” Burr himself cuts a stylish figure: Tall and slim, he’s nattily dressed, from the hipster shoes to the dandyish vest and tie to the cream-colored Kangol cap atop his close-cropped brown hair. Now working in boutique real estate and financial marketing in New York City, Burr is a native of Washington, D.C. He played guitar in punk bands — part of the indie scene that grew up around Dischord Records — before earning degrees in industrial design. In 2001, he bought and designed a nightclub, Luxx, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, then sold it a couple years later. Now Burr comes home from his Manhattan job to his wife and 2-yearold son, and builds furniture — a bed, some bookshelves — “for fun,” he says. Surprisingly, he’s also “a dessert nut” who loves both making and eating them. “Baking is my passion,” Burr reveals. In Vermont, he puts his design savvy to work at the Mountain Road Resort. Burr is looking forward to finishing all the guest rooms, as well as an adjacent building that will become a yoga studio. “In the spring we’re going to start having events,” he says. “I can’t wait for that. “What this hotel has to offer the most is being in Vermont,” Burr adds. “If we can offer something different with the art, and it’s always changing, we’ll have accomplished what we set out to do.” m
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Jacob and Kristin Albee planned “Off the Page” on March 2, Weiss JacobAlbee.com . 802-540-0401 will bring musical accompaniment: a 41 Maple Street, Burlington, VT clarinetist. Sun 12-5, m-sat 10-6 Studio Hours BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Novelists and co-op members mary 658-4050 • 115 college st, burlington Fillmore and mark pendergraSt rounded out Saturday’s event by reading from their works-in-progress. Pendergrast, who has 2/4/13 8v-marilyns020613.indd 4:28 PM 1 2/1/13 also published several books of nonfiction,8V-JacobAlbee020613.indd 1 urged audience members to email him with feedback on what does and doesn’t work in his forthcoming novel. A third event is scheduled for April 6. Seven Burlington-area writers formed the group last fall because “some of us who are co-op members have had a taste of the publishing world, and it’s a jungle out there. It’s tough,” Weiss said. “And I wanted to find ways to be a writer within the community, not just when I’m sitting at my computer.” Co-op members hit on the idea of a short, monthly reading series as a way to kick-start progress toward a grander goal: a dedicated writers’ room in Burlington. Beyond the three “Off the Page” events this spring, for which co-op members have agreed to share organizational duties and costs, many of the group’s plans are up in the air. Its stated mission is to support and interconnect a community of writers and readers while exploring different voices and forms. The group is open to new members, but has yet to agree on precise terms. “It’s an evolving group, and we’re still deciding how big to make it,” Weiss says. m
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eth Steinzor, lawyer by day and poet the rest of the time, took the podium in Studio B last Saturday night at Burlington’s north end StudioS. The room itself had been transformed from its daytime personality as a Zumba studio into a softly lit haven of literature, complete with microphone, refreshments, seating for a small crowd and books for sale. As the opening act of the newly formed Vermont WriterS Co-op’s debut event, “Off the Page,” Steinzor read from his 2010 book-length poem, To Join the Lost. And that’s where the similarities to just about every literary event you’ve ever attended stopped. Steinzor didn’t just intone from the book: First, he passed out printed copies of the passage he planned to read. Then he assigned four audience members specific parts, as if the crowd were getting ready for its first reading of a play. To Join the Lost is a modern retelling of Dante’s Inferno, featuring various latter-day souls walking around in Hell with demons lopping off their extremities. Steinzor needed one man to play a demon highway patrolman, a second to play Lee Atwater, a third to play someone named Bunky and a fourth to stand in for Dante himself. Never mind that Steinzor was flanked by a lifesize, hand-painted, cardboard facsimile of the 13th-century Italian poet. Dante sat folded in a chair, silently watching the proceedings. Dante was a contribution of SuSan WeiSS, who is working on her second novel when she’s not teaching writing at the Community College of Vermont. A cofounder of the 6-month-old co-op, she helped organize Saturday’s event, and created the cardboard poet with the aid of an artist friend in Massachusetts. “We’re kind of playing around with the idea of audience participation,” Weiss said. For her reading later in the evening, she passed out cardboard “desks” and invited the audience of about 30 people to participate in a writing exercise following a prompt. When she reads from her novel-in-progress during the second
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NEW LOOK FOR GREEN MOUNTAINS REVIEW Green Mountains Review is sticking out its tongue at you. Not really. But the current issue of the biannual literary journal, housed at Johnson State College, does have a striking cover, designed by W. DAVID POWELL. In the image by New York artist Urs Fischer, a human tongue protrudes cheekily from a hole in a sheet of drywall. The cover has drawn both positive feedback and a few “politely chastising letters,” says JACOB WHITE, GMR’s fiction editor since 2010, who, with poetry editor ELIZABETH POWELL, is spearheading the journal’s “new direction.” “We do like the idea of challenging readers’ expectations.” For a journal celebrating its 25th birthday — founding editor and poet NEIL SHEPARD edited the landmark anniversary issue preceding this one — GMR looks surprisingly young. The back cover of the current issue bears a photo of Eileen Myles, an activist poet to whom a large section of the journal is dedicated. (The New York Times has called her a central figure in “a new literary avant-garde.”) The pages are studded with well-known names: Lydia Davis, frequent New Yorker contributor James Robison, poet Gary Soto. But newcomers have a place in GMR, too; the issue showcases a poem from Burlington’s BEN ALESHIRE, editor of The Salon. (Another Vermont poet featured is St. Michael’s College professor ADRIE KUSSEROW.) White says he and Powell are “very proud of the accomplishments of Neil Shepard and want to continue building on the legacy he’s had as editor.” At the same time, they’d like to “open the journal to a more diverse range of voices and bring it into a more contemporary conversation.” By building an active web presence, White says — including onlineonly content — GMR has raised its profile and experienced a “little surge of readership among younger writers.” The print version took a circulation hit with the demise of big retailers such as Borders; current circulation stands at just over 1000, down from 1500 a few years ago. The new GMR has switched from a 6-by-9-inch format to a 6.5-by-7.5-inch one that “looks more square, more fun to read, feels a little more whimsical in the hand,” White says. Indeed, the 161-page journal is easy to slide into a backpack, in tune with a sensibility that White calls “edgier, frankly playful” — and, to an extent, DIY. While a JSC fund and donations cover the journal’s production and printing costs, “we don’t have really a paid staff, so to speak,” White says. “We all do it because we love it, and we put a lot of time into it.” If White and Powell are “trying to rip [the journal] at the seams a little bit and see what happens,” as White says, they aren’t lighting too far out into avant-garde territory. In the past three years, White notes, GMR has produced “three Best American Poetry selections, one Pushcart Prize and multiple Poetry Daily selections” — strong traditional bona fides. White, whose own story collection will be published by Leapfrog Press in October, says he hopes to keep old and new trends in “tension.” “We think of [GMR] as a party where the people you expect least to get together get together and see what happens,” he says. “You like it to feel a little precarious.” MAR GO T H AR R IS O N
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arly on in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, the chorus urges Dido to cheer up because “grief should ne’er approach the fair.” Alas for the Carthaginian queen, this is opera, where the fair almost inevitably come to grief. By the end of this 1688 work, Dido’s Trojan lover Aeneas has abandoned her, and she has committed suicide. But it’s not the story’s familiar tropes that have moved audiences for centuries; it’s Purcell’s music. “The music is absolutely, incredibly stunning,” says BILL METCALFE, who will conduct a performance of the opera on Saturday afternoon at Burlington’s College Street Congregational Church. The semistaged production is a collaboration between Metcalfe’s early-music community chorus, the ORIANA SINGERS, and BURLINGTON ENSEMBLE. BE foundJILL ers MICHAEL DABROSKI and SOFIA HIRSCH will play violin in the five-member orchestra along with harpsichordist ELIZABETH METCALFE (Bill’s wife), violist LIZ REID and cellist ARIANA FALK. Metcalfe is an exuberant fan of the work; he has already directed Dido and Aeneas six times. Most of these performances have been with the 30-member Oriana Singers, and the most recent was in 2008 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington. When Dabroski approached him about joining forces on the opera for a concert in BE’s 90/10 series, Metcalfe jokes, “It took me probably about a quarter of a second to say yes.” Like the conductor, the soloists
have long experience with the work: mezzo-soprano JILL LEVIS as Dido, baritone WILLIAM BICKFORD as Aeneas and alto LINDA RADTKE as the Sorceress will all be reprising their roles; and mezzo AIMEE BUSHEY, as Dido’s sister Belinda, has performed other parts in the opera. Levis, a voice teacher recently retired from the University of Vermont, will be singing Dido for the fourth time. She explains that in this performance, even the semistaging will be spare — a few symbolic costume accessories and some minor blocking — so as not to detract from the English Baroque composer’s score. “The music is so gorgeous that people will be moved by the sounds they’re hearing,” she promises. Levis recommends listening to Emma Kirkby’s Dido for a taste of Purcell’s magic; for Metcalfe, no one surpasses L EV I S Janet Baker. Both sopranos’ live performances of “Dido’s Lament,” the final and best-known aria, are available on YouTube. For Dabroski, the opera made perfect sense, not just for its music and minimal staging requirements but because it lasts a mere 55 minutes. BE’s 90/10 concerts, which distribute 90 percent of profits among six local charities (Rock Point School is the highlighted charity at this concert), tend to draw “a lot of people who’ve never been exposed to classical music,” he notes. Some come to support the charities; others are drawn by the concerts’ ticket prices — a mere $5 in advance and a $10 suggested donation
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quite real to people at the time: “Across the ocean, we were hanging them,” she points out, in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Radtke will wear horns. “I’ll be scary,” she vows. The singer says she “used to think Baroque music was stodgy” but has since found it “full of variety and exuberance, and some of it is really poignant,” especially in combination with the timeless classical tale. “Who doesn’t connect to that sort of love story?” Radtke asks. m
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at the door. Staging a typical four-hour opera is “asking a lot” of such audiences, Dabroski says. Anyway, Metcalfe opines, length is not necessarily a plus in conveying the classical story’s essence: “It takes Berlioz four hours to tell the same story [in his opera Les Troyens]. It takes Purcell one. And who’s to say which is more moving?” Purcell’s Dido is not exactly Virgil’s tale. The composer and his talented librettist, Nahum Tate, added a Sorceress who, with her gaggle of witches, tricks Aeneas into leaving by taking on the form of Jove’s messenger, Mercury. “[Purcell] knew what good entertainment is,” Radtke explains. The Sorceress soloist adds that witches were not just very English — “they come right out of Macbeth” — but
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his is a confused individual, I said to my assistant Una. Not many people are looking to hire serial killers. Confused individuals are the best job security we have, Una replied. And to be fair, this is a subject that would confuse anyone. First of all, from personal experience I can tell you: The deep web and the dark web are two different things. Really? I said. How so? The meanings have evolved, but basically the deep web is anything theoretically accessible via the internet whose existence can’t be detected by search engines. In the old days, that meant anything in a database. Nowadays Google spiders crawling the web for searchable content dig pretty deep, including into databases, but for one reason or another there are limits to how far they can go. Beyond this frontier lies the deep web. Many believe it accounts for the vast majority of what’s out there. Google, for example, knows of more than a trillion web addresses but has only indexed about 40 billion of them.
As of 2011 Google researchers estimated there were more than a billion data repositories on the internet, ranging from simple HTML tables to giant corporate servers like Amazon.com. Early speculation was that 400 to 550 times the amount of “surface data” existed in the deep web, and nowadays that may be an underestimate. Most of what we’re talking about, Una continued, is corporate data archives and whatnot and is excruciatingly boring. But not all. There are also some fascinating, if decidedly unsavory, bits. That’s the dark web. The dark web is a collection of sites and technologies that
don’t just hide data but conceal attempts to access it. For example, if I were operating a website for assassins, I’d want not merely to keep my roster of contract killers safe from accidental discovery, I’d also want it to be possible for potential clients to reach me and my site without their efforts being detectable. That’s what the dark web lets them do. Accessing the dark web requires special software, special passwords or both. The worst-kept secret of the dark web is Tor, originally an acronym for “The Onion Router.” Building on research originally carried out by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the
Tor Project became a community effort to design a way for anyone to communicate online without their location or identity being traceable. Most agree the Tor Project was originally created to ensure free expression without fear of government snooping and interference. The reality is that when you get a bunch of people together (not all of them notably mature) and give them complete anonymity and freedom from accountability, often it’s the worst impulses that dominate, not the best. Thus on the dark web you find the doings of the anarchist hacktivists of Anonymous and the folks behind Wikileaks; Islamic jihadist message boards; stolen credit card numbers, for sale singly and by the thousands; drugs of every description; child pornography; prostitute directories; contact info for purported assassins; and mundane wares such as pirated music and movies. One of the biggest retail commerce sites on the dark web, Silk Road, is estimated to move $22 million in drugs annually. AK47s, C4 explosives, fake driver’s licenses, gold bars — if you can imagine it, someone is probably selling it. Fulfillment can be a pain, and the authorities have started watching these sites and intercepting drug shipments — after all, the anonymity of the dark web means you can’t tell if the party
looking for frozen human pineal glands is a mere ghoul or a state DEA agent. The currency of choice on the Tor network is the bitcoin, a virtual monetary unit with no central bank behind it. As of last week it had a market capitalization of more than $220 million. Anyone can access Tor by downloading the software for free, although once you get set up there’s still a learning curve, and finding the most reptilian pleasures frequently requires some investigation or word passed through the grapevine. Once when I was young and foolish, Una went on, a dark web link led me to some disturbed (and disturbing) people who wanted to interview me online about how to generate electricity during the zombie apocalypse, which they felt was imminent. Over the next several months I browsed around some of the darker dark sites with no particular aim in mind — I wasn’t really in the market for genuine Ebola virus (“Amaze your friends”) or outcall intersex prostitutes, and my hacking days, such as they were, were even then long behind me. Even so, the experience was both thrilling and scary, a reminder that even in this era of ubiquitous e-commerce, the Wild West side of the internet is only a few mouse clicks away.
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Ten minutes passed with him periodically glancing, longingly, toward my toasty cab. Relenting (as I suspected he would), he sauntered back over, giving me the corkscrew redux. “Would you take 40?” he proposed. “My vehicle is at the park-and-ride just off Exit 18.” “Yup, that’ll work,” I replied, and he circled around to jump into the shotgun seat. “I was out tonight with my coworkers,” he volunteered, “but I’m too old to stay out for the duration. Those guys are all young
“Really? You mean, like, community theater — that kind of thing?” “Yup, exactly. I’ve been in tons of shows — South Pacific, Oklahoma!, you name it. Recently I directed my first production, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. I also played the leading role of Charlie Brown.” “A little long in the tooth to be playing Charlie Brown,” I pointed out with a laugh. He laughed along, saying, “Hey, that’s the magic of theater.” I said, “My theater debut — and swan
I smIled, thInkIng, thIs guy Is as Vermont as
sugar on snow. Just try to put him in a box. bucks.” He paused to chuckle, I guessed, at his use of the hoary phrase. “Me, well, I just can’t do this anymore. I knew I should’ve taken my own wheels into town. Oh, well.” “What kinda work’re you in?” I asked. “HVAC and plumbing the last 15 years or so,” he replied. “I’ve done a lotta other kinds of work, though.” “Like what?” “Well, I grew up on a farm between Jericho and Underhill, so I milked cows my whole childhood, along with everything else it takes to run a family farm. My folks sold the place when I was a teenager, and I worked — in succession — in sheet metal and cement mixing until I found my niche with plumbing.” “I get the feeling that you enjoy it.” “The plumbing? Well, it’s not the worst way to make a living. But that’s not my passion in life. My passion is theater. I’ve been doing it since I was a teenager.”
song, now that I think about it — took place in sixth grade when I played the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Oh, man, I can still remember … I could while away the hours,
conferring with the flowers, consulting with the rain.”
My customer smiled broadly. “That is great, buddy. You shoulda never given it up. You got some skills.” “Well, thanks so much. The thing is, once I hit adolescence, I got way too selfconscious to ever get back on a stage.” “Hey, just remember — it’s never too late.” We were scooting up the highway in a landscape rendered visible by a lustrous full moon in a cloudless sky. Despite my dismal performance in the few science classes I endured in the previous millennium, I do recall hearing that the moon is not self-illuminated but merely reflecs the sun’s light. Call me a Republican, but I’m
not buying it. On resplendent nights such as this, I’m pretty sure the moon is doing it on its own. As we came to the Georgia exit, my customer said, “My other thing — a close second after theater — is demolition derby. Every summer I try to get out there to watch and sometimes compete. Nothing is more fun.” “Yeah, I’ve gone once at the Essex fair,” I said. “I know what you mean — it’s like seeing a car wreck; you can’t look away. Well, I guess it is a car wreck.” “I can tell you this: You have not lived until you’ve driven in one. During the derby, you are so friggin’ focused, concentrating like your life depended on it. But I remember, when it was over, my heart was beating so loud, and I couldn’t stop shaking!” He paused to laugh. “I guess that’s what they call ‘post-traumatic stress.’” I smiled, thinking, This guy is as Vermont as sugar on snow. Just try to put him in a box — dairy farming, plumbing, theater, demolition derby. Dude is living life. “Eclectic” doesn’t begin to do him justice. In the park-and-ride, we pulled up alongside his big, white Ford truck. “Any new plays on the horizon?” I asked. “I got something brewing for this summer,” he replied. “Well, hope ya break a leg,” I said. “One way or another,” he said. “Either on the stage or on the track!”
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sk any soon-to-be-married couple what they want most out of their wedding ceremony, and you’re likely to hear a version of the following: I want my wedding to be special, unique and memorable. You want memorable? Consider adding some of these traditional touches from around the globe to your wedding. In Malaysia, the bride and groom are forbidden to use the toilet for 72 hours before the ceremony lest, it’s feared, their future kids not survive. Family members will even watch the couple round the clock to ensure that neither one sneaks a squirt. A couple who can survive three days sans evacuation is deemed ready for all the pains of married life. One can only imagine the relief — and release — that comes when they utter “I do!” If bodily deprivation isn’t your cup of tea, how about grotesque gluttony? In Mauritania, where a bride’s girth was traditionally seen as a sign of wealth and status, the practice of leblouh,, or forced fattening, has been around for centuries. There, older women, called fatteners, will gorge girls as young as 5 on massive quantities of milk, food and even vomit to make them more desirable and marriage-worthy. Thankfully, such foie gras-like -like forcefeeding has fallen out of favor among the younger generation. Not keen on marrying — or being — a bloated, constipated bride? How about one smeared with maple syrup and cow dung? One age-old Scottish ritual, called “bride blackening,” calls for the groom to douse his lass in eggs, feathers, molasses and manure, then march her through town as communal humiliation. That’s one way to ensure the newlyweds stick together — perhaps literally. Grooms aren’t entirely off the hook, either. In Germany, one wedding custom calls for the best man to “kidnap” the bride during the reception and bring her to a nearby pub, where they drink
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champagne together. According to Teutonic tradition, the groom can only “reclaim” his new wife after paying everyone’s bar tab. Imagine the marital fights that ensue when a hapless hubby forgets his wallet on the big day.
South Korean grooms undergo a ritual that’s part Trivial Pursuit, part fraternity hazing. Before he can leave the ceremony with his new bride, family members bind the groom’s legs, strip off his shoes and socks, then beat
the soles of his feet with a dried fish while quizzing him on various topics. “Quick! What’s the capital of Belgium?” Thwap! Clearly, a “traditional” wedding means different things to different people. Even modern, egalitarian American couples who shun the archaic bride’s vow to “love, honor and obey” her husband may observe other rituals based in misogyny: The white dress and veil were intended as symbols of the “blushing” bride’s virginity. “Giving the bride away” is a vestige of the transactional history of betrothal. And tossing the garter used to indicate that the newlyweds’ union had been duly consummated. Today’s couples can feel enormous pressure to conform to age-old traditions — even ones that are neither particularly “old” nor “traditional.” That white wedding dress? In Western society, it dates back only to 1840, when Queen Victoria wore one for her marriage to Prince Albert. And never mind the widespread belief that diamond engagement rings have been around for as long as men have had knees on which to kneel and propose. Actually, the notion that “a diamond is forever” was a Madison Avenue creation for the De Beers empire. The slogan, created in 1947, became the most successful marketing ploy in advertising history. And, as Matthew O’Brien explains in his April 2012 story in the Atlantic, “The Strange (and Formerly Sexist) Economics of Engagement Rings,” it made the diamond ring a form of “virginity insurance” to ensure the groom left the bride with “collateral” even if he didn’t follow through on marrying her. Gives a whole new meaning to “a girl’s best friend.” These days, many Vermonters — including former refugees from traditional cultures — are retaining some marital customs while tailoring others to better suit 21st-century American values and sensibilities. Mukiza Noel, a native of Burundi who moved to Burlington in 2007, explains that, in his culture, the bride
remains covered throughout the wedding ceremony until the groom is asked to “unveil” her and verify that she is the woman to whom he was pledged. In earlier times, Noel says, the bride was selected by the groom’s parents, sometimes years in advance of the marriage. Today, he says, Burundians in America marry for love. Still, he notes, some Burundian fathers of the bride continue to abide by the custom of not attending their own daughter’s wedding, as this is considered bad luck. Sita Luitel, of Winooski, who was born in Bhutan and moved to the United States in 2008, explains one Bhutanese wedding tradition that endures in this country. The mother of the bride will lay out a flat stone large enough to support the standing bride. During the ceremony, the mother places her daughter’s feet on the stone to represent her daughter moving from one “land” to another. Traditionally, this meant she was expected to care for her in-laws. Today, the ritual is more about symbolism than labor, Luitel notes. Loan Nguyen, a Vietnam native now living in Williston, describes a similar ritual in which the bride’s mother-in-law builds a fire at her own front door over which the bride must step. “If she can do it, that means she will come to the house, and they accept her and she becomes the housewife,” Nguyen explains. “Then she will cook three meals a day for the whole family.” But, as Nguyen explains, in traditional Vietnamese families, the trial by fire was only the start of a relationship that was more indentured servitude than familial bliss. Sometimes, she says, it even entailed daily massages for the groom’s mother. “When we come to the America, the mother-in-law didn’t do that,” Nguyen
adds about a custom that rubbed her the wrong way. “I’m really glad about that point.” Other Vermont couples, hetero and gay alike, are not only abandoning the Martha Stewart/Emily Post wedding playbooks but hitting them with a flamethrower. For those who want their weddings quirky, there’s no one better at delivering that than Rev. Moretti, an ordained nondenominational minister from Fairfax. Moretti — one name only, like Sting and Cher — has presided over more than 100 weddings in his 15-year career, and has earned a reputation as the reverend who gives people what they want. Like what? Moretti has done weddings in drag. He’s done firebreathing and stood barefoot beside a pond. He performed one ceremony on a boat offshore from Alcatraz. Choose your own symbolism for that one. Moretti insists he couldn’t care less for strict adherence to custom or faith. He routinely incorporates rituals from cultures and religions different from those of the couple. He’s done Celtic handfasting for those who are neither Celtic nor pagan, and married non-Jewish couples under the chuppah, or traditional Jewish wedding canopy. Too often, Moretti says, people feel overly “bound by the ritual.” For him, a wedding ceremony should be a communal expression of love and joy, not “high googah.” He urges his couples to leave plenty of “white space” in their ceremony — or time for levity, laughter and spur-of-the-moment emotion — however the couple envisions it. And if that means getting doused in cow dung or slapped on the soles with a dried fish, so be it. m
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But it isn’t as though Lanahan and Douglas have never felt tempted to certify their union with a marriage license. “We’ve talked about it, even gotten engaged and made a prenuptial agreement, but somehow can’t seem to do it,” Lanahan says. An unusual living arrangement, which was highlighted in a 2011 New York Times story, may help account for the longevity of the couple’s unsanctioned alliance. They commuted for 18 years between Douglas’ lakeside home in Charlotte and Lanahan’s spacious house in Burlington. But a few years ago, when Douglas was no longer able to pay what he says was
nearly $30,000 a year in property taxes, they decided to cohabit at Lanahan’s place. To accommodate the needs of two older adults deeply set in their ways, they built a sizable wing onto the house, where Douglas hangs out much of the time. He crosses an enclosed bridge to his partner’s part of the home, where they eat and sleep. Other local couples have taken a different path, deciding to wed after living together for more than a decade. They tell Seven Days they eventually came to accept that love and marriage do go together like a horse and carriage. Financial factors, parental expectations and evolving views on romance and commitment have played
various roles in these highly personal decisions. (So personal, indeed, that a few Vermont twosomes declined to be interviewed. Former Burlington mayor Bob Kiss and his longtime partner, Jackie Majoros, are among the unmarrieds who just said no.) Syndi Zook, director of Lyric Theatre Company, says that attending the funeral of her grandfather in 1988 helped her decide it was time, after 10 years, to get engaged to her partner, Stanford “Bones” Blankinship, a mechanic and musician. “Seeing the family together then, I thought, Hey, a wedding — and a party — would
make everyone happy. Let’s do it! Plus, we needed stuff for the house,” she says. Zook and Blankinship, now both 56, got hitched in 1990. Tim Jennings, 65, of Montpelier had an epiphany while writing his will seven years ago. A box at the top of the form required a check beside “married” or “single,” and somehow, Jennings relates, that “pushed me to propose” to Leanne Ponder. They weren’t rushing into the decision, having lived together for 20 years. And Ponder, who works professionally with Jennings as a musical and storytelling duo, says she never worried about the sort of financial matters that arose as her partner studied his will. “Tim’s a totally trustworthy and
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honorable man,” Ponder says. “I’ve always had the sense that he’d do right by me.” Erin Hanley, a 53-year-old finefurniture maker in Burlington, says she did feel she would have more legal protections as a married woman. That wasn’t the main reason she and David Weinstein, an aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders, got married last September after 20 years of swaying along
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to what Hanley calls “the rhythms of a long love affair.” She notes, however, that formally exchanging vows did save “a pile of money on health insurance.” Bottom-line advantages aside, Hanley says she didn’t arrive easily or unambiguously at the choice to marry. She liked living with Weinstein out of wedlock. “It felt to me like we were inventing this relationship while we were unmarried,” Hanley explains. “I felt like we were still in a state of becoming.” At the same time, though, “the relationship felt sort of contingent,” Hanley adds. “Being married meant, I thought, that we were affirming it.”
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Despite the debate she had with herself and with Weinstein, Hanley says she’s satisfied with the outcome. “I was actually surprised at how happy getting married made me feel,” she says. Concerns about durability helped nudge Zook toward the marital option. Recalling that she met Blankinship while she was a student at Emerson College in Boston, Zook says it was a matter of “love — or lust — at first sight.” Waving her arms, Zook declaims, “It was like the cartoon when the birdie hits your head with a hammer and your tongue pops out and it’s ‘Aiii-oooga! Aiii-oooga!’ “We were so young, we kept thinking, This is great, but no way it’s going to last,” Zook confides. The pair proved enduringly compatible, but, Blankinship observes, “Whenever any two people get together, there has to be a degree of luck for it to work out.” Jennings and Ponder worried that uniting professionally might wreck their relationship romantically. “I’d been in a musical group where there were confrontations over things in the group’s dynamics,” Ponder notes. “We were really reluctant about getting together as an act.” But that partnership has also lasted for a long time — about 25 years so far. Like Hanley, Jennings says he didn’t see how marriage would strengthen his romance. After many years of happiness as a devoted couple, Jennings says he told Ponder, “If we’re not as good as married, nobody is married.” The couple hadn’t gotten the blessings of the church or papers from the state, but “we had said all the important things to one another and made all the promises,” Jennings says. Politics wasn’t a major consideration for any of the couples in their decisions to live together or marry. Douglas does say, though, “I never wanted to bring the state into my personal relationships.” And, asked whether feminism influenced her choice, Lanahan replies, “I suppose, insofar as I don’t trust myself not to play the traditional role of a wife.” But politics did drive the decision of one Vermonter — me — not to marry, and to remain unmarried for 25 years with a single partner. When the relationship was in its formative stage, we were living together in London in the early 1980s — a time of ascendant feminism and a place where two pairs of good friends lived unmarried with the children they had respectively produced. It seemed right to transplant that circumstance to Vermont. The deal didn’t stay sealed, however, and I did marry another woman a few years after the unwedded relationship fell apart. Looking back, it still seems cool to have had kids together outside the bounds of bourgeois propriety. Hanley, the mother of a 12-year-old daughter, knows the feeling of boho selfsatisfaction. “Yes,” she agrees, “that did feel cool.”
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ll they wanted was a log cabin and an acre to call home. But when Jordan von Trapp’s parents arrived at the top of the hill at Old Gove Farm in Moretown in 1983, everything changed. They had driven their Volkswagen bus all the way up the East Coast after leaving their home in the Caribbean with 2-and-a-half-year-old Jordan, searching for a place to land. When a real estate agent said, “Let’s just see the view” up on Gove Road, they climbed past a late-19th-century dairy barn and took in the panorama. Mt. Mansfield, Hunger Mountain, Camel’s Hump and the rest of the central Vermont ridgeline rolled out before them; nearly 88 acres of forest stood behind them. “My mom’s from Kansas,” von Trapp says. “She was just blown away.” Her parents bought the land, the barn and a farmhouse the next day. Such is the magical persuasion of that ridge. These days, von Trapp, now a 31-year-old freelance writer, editor and photographer, lives on the ridge with her husband, artisan cheese maker and timber framer
Dan von Trapp, also 31. They’ve found a distinctly 21stcentury way to capitalize on the same intoxicating beauty that won over Jordan’s mother and father 30 years ago: They’re renting out the picture-perfect rustic barn — and that million-dollar view — for weddings. The von Trapps call the place Bliss Ridge. It’s different from most Vermont wedding venues in one key way: Couples can use any vendors they like. They can have a catered six-course gourmet meal or throw together a potluck. They can rent décor from the von Trapps or bring their own. “A wedding is a celebration of your love,” says Jordan. “If you have to have the same one as someone else, how terrible is that?” Cookie-cutter weddings might not be as horrifying to many people as they are to Jordan von Trapp, whose own 2010 wedding at Bliss Ridge was an utterly DIY affair. Pretty much everyone the couple knew contributed something — seeding the grass, cleaning the barn, excavating, scouring yard sales, crafting paper flowers, dressmaking, even concocting signature cocktails. “We had to
re-landscape the property,” Dan recalls. And they did it all in less than four months. The wedding was such a hit that the von Trapps decided to open up Bliss Ridge to other couples. Jordan saw it as an outlet for creativity. Plus, she says, “It’s supporting our farming habit.” She and Dan grow organic vegetables and hay the fields, and they’re hoping to soon raise beef cattle and ducks. (Jordan documents their farming adventures on her blog, Saucy Vermont.) “We’ve been to enough wedding venues to know what we didn’t want to be — a fake barn,” Jordan says. Bliss Ridge’s $5000 site fee includes use of the grounds and barn — which features catering areas and a “rusticchic powder room” for the bride — as well as tables and up to 200 chairs and assorted eclectic décor. There’s no septic system, so people rent port-o-potties or fancy bathroom trailers. Beyond the basics, Bliss Ridge offers rentals and other services à la carte — everything from hay bales to
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since they were 14. They were friends in high school but never dated, though both now admit to teen crushes. They saw each other twice in the decade between their high school graduations and 2009: Once Jordan spotted Dan on a motorcycle, flagged him down and jumped on. Another time, on a winter night, he encountered her riding in her sister’s convertible with the top rolled down. They drove off to look at the stars. Romance blossomed quickly after Jordan and Dan ran into each other at a local bar in 2009, just a week after she moved back to Vermont. A long conversation turned into a moonlit kiss in the Bliss Ridge barn. “I’d been wanting to do that for a really long time,” Dan says. Seven months later, they hopped a plane to Greece, and Dan proposed near a chapel on the island of Skopelos. “We often talk about how much sense it
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hand-painted signs to a homemade dessert bar to Jordan’s signature “crack corn,” maple-sage-caramel popcorn. “I had this girl in September who basically told me, ‘Make me a surprise wedding,’” Jordan says, so she charged the bride an hourly fee and planned the whole affair. That kind of comprehensive wedding planning isn’t something Jordan does all the time, she says, but when it feels right, she’ll go for it. So far, with the exception of one wedding at which the caterer didn’t clean up, the guests flicked cigarette butts everywhere and the bride ended the night yelling at everybody, they’ve all been good. To establish Bliss Ridge as a boutique events venue, the von Trapps had to apply for agriculture-residential zoning permits from the town and appear before the Moretown Development Review Board. They also had to upgrade the electrical wiring in the barn to accommodate wedding sound systems. At the moment, the town limits Bliss Ridge to 10 events per year. Since the venue opened in 2011, the von Trapps have hosted eight weddings. One of them was mine. My now-husband and I had already decided on a different venue, but a neighbor suggested Bliss Ridge was worth a visit. So we went, and when we climbed to the top of the hill, we fell in love with the place instantly. At the end of that first visit, Jordan surprised us with homemade green-tea cupcakes in the barn. When I returned last week to talk to her and Dan for this story, they had whipped up a delectable lunch spread: chicken curry with spiced rice, a cabbage salad with orange slices, toasted rolls dotted with figs and fennel seeds, and an enormous wheel of von Trapp Farmstead Oma cheese. (Dan founded the Farmstead with his brother, Sebastian von Trapp.) Jordan says she avoids the grocery store as much as possible, preferring to cook with the vegetables they grow and meat they get from nearby farms. It’s all part of the locavore philosophy she and Dan hope to spread. Bliss Ridge, Jordan says, “is a platform for our mission of teaching people about agriculture.” To make it work financially, the von Trapps cobble together income from various sources — not that that bothers Jordan. “My whole life,” she says, “when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always thought, Do I have to choose one thing?” She hasn’t. When she’s not coordinating with caterers or decorating port-o-potties with oil paintings, fancy French soaps or fall foliage, she’s often producing marketing materials for private islands and yachts. Before she moved back to Moretown in 2009, Jordan was a managing editor and photographer at Boat International Media, which took her around the world. Jordan and Dan have known each other
Hurts So Good
Local musicians tell the stories behind their love songs
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ccording to Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, love hurts — and scars, wounds, mars and burns. According to Def Leppard, love bites — and bleeds. And, according to Frank Sinatra, love is lovelier the second time around — doo be doo be doo. The annals of pop-music history are filled with love songs for every conceivable romantic condition, from love at first sight to heartbreak, and in every conceivable genre, from rock and country to hip-hop and jazz. No other topic has been written about at such great length or with such passion. For reasons too numerous to count, we simply love our love songs. Recently, Seven Days asked some Vermont songwriters to share the stories behind love songs they’ve written. Their responses were as varied as the songs — from sad, introspective tales of love lost to raucous torch songs about pinups and porn stars. Some songs are straightforward, while others are as much a mystery to their writer as to the listener. Yet, no matter the style or metaphor, each offers a glimpse into how and why love songs tug at our heartstrings. To listen to the songs, visit sevendaysvt.com.
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I wrote this song about an old lover who had an affinity for terrariums — basically an ecosystem of plants, soil, rocks and/or tiny animals enclosed in a container, usually a glass jar. The cool thing about them is that you don’t really need to water them like plants; if the lid is closed, the water already inside them can sustain them. But these terrariums he made me kept dying, one after another. It was a striking metaphor for our relationship. These terrariums were high maintenance and just not working out … and though from afar they would look beautiful and alive, if you got close and really peeked into the glass, you’d see everything wilting away. Everything was tiny, beautiful and trapped. CA ROLIN E O’CON NOR
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“Matador,” tooth ache., Flash & Yearn (2011) “Matador” is a glimpse at love as the game or sport or chase. In the song, the matador exercises more control over the situation, while the speaker, the bull, is the
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I didn’t want to be corny and just write an “I love you, baby” song, so I wrote “Destroying Everything They See,” which is about two things: a Playboy centerfold and the superpowers you feel when you’re in love with somebody and just starting a relationship. On the surface, it is a love letter to Crystal Smith, Miss September 1971. I’ve had this old issue of Playboy forever, and, when I lived in NYC in the late ’90s, I was very lonely but had Crystal there to keep me company. She’s wearing these amazing American flag bellbottoms and just has the sweetest smile on her face, like an “everything is gonna be all right” face. She just sort of looks like a topless superhero. The verses are mainly just about the ads and letters in that particular issue — lots of high-end stereo equipment, Puerto Rican rum, pants, etc. — but the chorus is about finding new love and how powerful it makes you feel. “Together, you and me: we’ll destroy everything we see!” Like you’re suddenly Wonder Twins and you can do anything as long as you’re together. When I was making the song, I had just found out that someone was “in like” with me, and it made me feel stronger than I’d felt in a long time. I’d forgotten how good it felt. It was great. And now I’m going to marry that person. JA S O N C O O L EY
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“Ragman Rolls,” Scott Baker, unreleased passionate, even desperate one, hurling herself at him despite love’s lances. But the matador is in danger, too. So while it may seem like the bull is the “victim” of love, they’re both in this turbulent, dangerous, but showy and appealing zone. It’s this kind of chaotic but necessary ritual. It’s anxiety and anticipation … the drum machine’s urgency or the bass line’s hesitance. AL E X AND R IA H AL L
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“No Gal Cooks Like Mine,” Starline Rhythm Boys, Red’s Place (2007) The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. I am in love with Mrs. Bratcher, and her cooking is one fine perk. For example, tonight’s meal was cassoulet, a classic dish from France, accompanied with fresh bread she baked. Her pesto bread has opened my heart to levels I never thought capable. BIL LY B R AT C H ER
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“Ragman Rolls” is a song I wrote a few years ago about a girl named Jacqui, whom I met shortly after I got a divorce in a previous life I led. She was a gorgeous, blackhaired beauty, and I was very candid about how beautiful I thought she was. And she was very coy about revealing the fact that she was in a relationship … but she was. Long story short, we ended up shooting whiskey and making out on the hood of her car at 1:30 in the morning after meeting at a bar she knew I frequented. I thought it was an isolated incident until she agreed to see me again, and history repeated itself. A long evening of shooting whiskey
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: Are you a fan of Science, Math, Engineering or Information Technology? and drinking Guinness ended with some pretty serious tongue wrestling, until she slinked away in regret. “Ragman Rolls” is the song that came of the tryst, and the line that started it all in motion was the unforgettable thought that I’ll always hear your name in the bottle’s empty chime. And I do. S COT T BAKE R
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“Two of Us,” Brian Clark, Solo Duo Trio (2010)
perfect relationship. I don’t know where she ended up, but I hope she got out of LA, found that job she was hoping for, settled down with someone nice and remembers our brief time together fondly. RYAN H E BE R T
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thing who is today’s guileless, striving-hipster version of a dumb blonde. Sarah and James promptly sell her short, but Mandy has something the other three characters lack: a fully developed emotional core. In Vermont Stage Company’s polished production of Time Stands Still, which opened last week, the performances, staging and story are gripping from the moment the lights go up. The script is perfectly constructed and beautifully paced, moving effortlessly between humor and dramatic intensity. Margulies draws four complex people and gives us reasons to care about all of them. But he’s also generous in doling out their flaws, and the play stubbornly resists easy categorization or simple solutions. This is a play about ideas, which we experience through characters who have a vested interest in facing them. Once again, VSC works magic with the intimate environs of the FlynnSpace. Set designer Blair Mielnik brilliantly builds realistic detail in a three-quarter-round
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playing space that gives director Gregory Ramos freedom to present a range of situations, from intimate to confrontational. Ramos keeps the energy pulsing with movement that underscores intentions and concentration on the characters’ rapid-fire connections, while still serving the naturalism Margulies intends with his unmannered, overlapped dialogue. By building an ensemble acting style and locating the tension in each moment, Ramos draws us in, the better to savor characters and not just performances. We are in the loft, not outside peering through a window. That proximity makes us feel in the line of fire, too. This challenging intimacy subtly underscores a journalist’s need to pierce private walls to make stories, and the emotions beneath them, public: What entitles a photographer to shoot moments of great human emotion and then hand over the shots to viewers like us? Chris Caswell plays Sarah with tightly concentrated calm. She has the hard edge and a ready supply of the cynical and selfdeprecating wisecracks that Sarah needs for a career as a photojournalist in a war zone. When Sarah’s shell briefly cracks, Caswell nails the emotion, letting the truth of the moment surprise and overwhelm her. Caswell makes us care about the reason Sarah has constructed an iron façade, and despite how much Sarah tries to hide behind it, the actor never walls us off from her emotional need. As James, Robert Harte bustles into every corner of his character: the attentive companion, the second fiddle to Sarah, the lover who ranks irony a bit higher than romance. Harte is at his best when he lets the emotion of a scene sweep him away, as he does when recounting a moment of battlefield trauma, or when he becomes an expansive and potentially volatile drunk. At other times, he stays too close to the surface of Margulies’ witty dialogue. Then again, James’ main purpose is to show viewers another toll of war: a deadened soul. Paul Ugalde plays Richard as a thoughtful, compassionate man who’s quietly happy to have forged a May-September romance that seems to have some staying power. Ugalde is graceful and wonderfully focused on stage, and his take on Richard as a peacemaker makes him a warm, conciliatory presence. What’s largely unexplored is Richard’s ability to exploit James and Sarah, and Ugalde gives us the tougher side of the character only when Richard makes a firm, and far-reaching, editorial decision.
Playing Mandy, Kari Buckley tackles a role that might defeat a lesser talent, for she must inhabit a character that the audience — like Sarah and James — is inclined to treat with contempt. Buckley immerses herself in the lovely purity of this raw, witless girl. One of the pleasures of the play is watching Mandy evolve even as she retains just the right degree of ditziness. She could have stopped at the easy punch lines, but Buckley probes and reveals Mandy’s heart. Margulies never misses an opportunity to reveal the quiet contradictions in his characters. When Richard and Mandy cluster around a laptop to look at Sarah’s latest photos, they murmur in approval, flicking from picture to picture, 6000 miles from the battleground. They are reverent about the solemn subject matter but insatiable in their desire for more pictures. Sarah tries to stay detached but cannot help peering in from behind them to check for a favorable response. Photo editor Richard craves the aesthetics of horror: He needs pictures for his magazine that will punch viewers in the gut. And Mandy’s gut is punched when she learns that a baby in one photo died despite the mother’s efforts to find help. Mandy confronts Sarah, James and Richard with the central question of a journalist’s responsibility to subjects, to viewers and to self-protection. Mandy’s expression of revulsion takes courage, especially when the people who surround her take pride in their ability to be detached. James and Sarah’s journeys into war zones take courage, too, but, as they both admit, it’s exciting to find yourself alive when danger is all around you. Above all, what does it mean to bring back proof of atrocities when the viewer can do nothing to address them? Neither Margulies nor Ramos offers any pat answers. As we watch these richly drawn characters who have much at stake, we can pause to examine how our own lives are affected by the news-making machine. And we can reflect on what it takes to build a strong, mature relationship. Both couples test their bonds to see how much closeness or distance they need, and their hard-won decisions are powerful to witness. It’s another kind of wartime, and no less powerful. m Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, produced by Vermont Stage Company. Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.; through February 17 at FlynnSpace in Burlington. $27-32.50. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org
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its own personality. This may be a common experience. Just days after the Bistro’s December 19 opening, the bar was already well established as a local hangout, no doubt owing in part to its all-Vermont tap list. (Sunshine & Hoppiness, from Middlebury’s Drop-In Brewing Company, was the brew of choice one night we visited.) Hunter and Fucile made another wise decision when they kept on Lagniappe chef Gary Jacobson, who assured them that his oeuvre extended beyond Cajun food to the Euro-American-Alpine plates they hoped to serve. Boston-born Jacobson was a longtime
chef at both Zarela and Alma, upscale Mexican restaurants in New York City. His menu here reveals a tropics-inflected joie de vivre, manifesting in salads laced with jicama and citrus, sultry sauces and riotous colors. It isn’t food for vegetarians or the faint-of-appetite. Flesh looms large at the Bistro, whether from sea or land. A few appetizers might sate meatless eaters, however, such as the pineapple salad, one of a handful of holdovers from Lagniappe. Though it may not sound enticing on a January night, the salad’s hues alone could heat your
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in September. Gilson is known for his German-style beers, Weiss beers in particular, to which he has devoted himself during decades of brewing in Utah, in Vermont and at New Hampshire’s Moat Mountain Smoke House & Brewing Company. In December, the system finally arrived, accompanied by Caspary founder Rudolf Caspary, who traveled from Germany to help install it. In early January, Gilson and Caspary brewed two batches of Münich-style Helles lager together. Last week, that Helles was tapped for the first time, as was Gilson’s hallmark style: a Bavarian-style Weiss beer.
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marketing for Foss, who will be chef-owner of the mobile eatery. Williams set up a Kickstarter.com campaign with the goal of raising $7800 to give Foss a running start. “It just seems like a no-brainer,” he says. “If people in central Vermont [and Burlington] want to have a YakIttoMe! food cart, they can pitch in.” If Foss raises sufficient funds with the campaign, which ends on February 27, he expects to begin serving yak by May 1. His plans include selling at both the Burlington and Waitsfield farmers markets, parking on Church Street for late-night eats, and feeding attendees of summer festivals. Pending permitting, Williams says, Foss hopes to be a presence at the VErmont brEWErs FEstIVal (“Yak pairs well with beer,” Williams notes) and at GranD poInt loCal, the foodvending area of Burlington waterfront fest Grand Point North. YakIttoMe! will certainly qualify as locally sourced
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blood: It looks like an exploded piñata of diced pineapple, bright-red cherry tomatoes, sliced jicama and slivered red peppers, showered with minced scallions and sesame seeds. The citrusy dressing, tinged with sesame oil, is tart and addictive. The moules marinières also scored big on flavor and exuberance, and boasted some of the fattest, plumpest, freshest mussels I’ve ever tasted in Vermont. (This became a theme: On my visits, the fruits de mer at Ten Acres, which come from nearby Stowe Seafood, tasted like they had been caught that morning.) The mussels’ garlicky broth was studded with tiny grape tomatoes, their skins slightly blistered from the heat; curls of steamed fennel formed a web of sweetness across the top. Equally gorgeous, at least on the plate, was the barbecue shrimp — a handful of steamed Gulf shrimp arranged in a pool of peppery, Tabasco-laced sauce, then covered in dried, pulverized bay and rosemary. While the shrimp’s shells helped to keep their flesh succulent, both my friend and I struggled to extract the meat, which made eating them neither easy nor satisfying. Scoring the shrimp’s skin might help hapless diners like me — or perhaps I need to take a lesson from the Louisianabased side of my family.
The bigger plates at Ten Acres separate the vegetarians from the carnivores. Pork shank, steak frites, roasted chicken — these are hearty dishes for hungry people. And these days, it seems no Vermont menu is complete without some kind of duck. At Ten Acres, the kitchen approaches the bird with simplicity: Crisp skin on the breast and leg shimmered with fat, and the meat, apparently seasoned only with salt, was rich and moist. The sliced, sautéed red potatoes on the plate were a smidge undercooked, but the bed of braised red cabbage on which the bird rested was melting, buttery and tarted up with slivers of apple. Cherry tomatoes made a third appearance as bobbing, swollen orbs atop a seafood stew, a hillock of steamed salmon, mussels, shrimp and scallops so fresh they could almost swim from the plate. The sweet-potato broth, though fragrant with saffron, could have used more personality. At $30, the most expensive entrée on this menu was also the most popular during our visit, judging from the diners around us. Once it arrived at our table, we understood why. The pan-seared lobster came with its limbs akimbo and curled around a pile of tarragon-flecked polenta. The scents of bourbon, butter and brine wafted into our faces before the first bite. The sauce was so luscious
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At 4.5 percent alcohol by volume, the Helles is light on its feet; Gilson wanted to create a standard session beer for the pub, and this is it. The Weiss — brewed with 50 percent wheat — is zesty, with tart-sweet flavors and a spicy underpinning of banana and cloves. Up next: an English-style brown ale and an American-style double-brown ale, both set to be tapped this week. Greensboro’s HIll FarmstEaD BrEwEry continued its march toward world domination when it beat out more than 14,000 breweries all over the world to be named 2013 Best Brewery by RateBeer, the world’s largest beer-review website. Eight of Hill Farmstead’s beers were listed in the top 10 new beers of 2013, and the brewery picked up 31 awards overall. RateBeer executive director Joe Tucker says it was the first year the top brewery picked up so many high-level awards, and he called 2013 “the (First?) Year of Hill Farmstead.” — c .H .
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The original Souper Bowl was the brainchild of maD rIvEr loCalvorEs organizers roBIn mCDErmott and nanCy Baron. Menard says their busy lives got in the way of continuing the event, but that didn’t stop a constant stream of requests for revival from past attendees. This year, Menard made the last-minute decision to give the people what they wanted. In just a few weeks, he’s enlisted a who’s who of Mad River Valley restaurants, from upscale destinations such as the Common man and tImBErs rEstaurant at sugarBusH rEsort; to casual spots including BrIDgE strEEt ButCHEry and the warrEn storE. The evening will begin with slices from amErICan FlatBrEaD. After that, diners can use their own bowls or ones provided by the Round Barn to feast on four-ounce soup samples from each of the 10 vendors. “A lot of people think, Oh, it’s just soup; you’ll have to go to dinner afterward,” Menard says. “But if you go to each of those tables, you’re going to be sloshing for sure.” At press time, Menard didn’t yet have a list of soups — even his own is still to be determined. In past years, he has served cheddar-ale soup in local hydroponic tomatoes; beef stew in pastry; and a make-your-own option that allowed guests to combine their favorite stocks, meats and veggies. This year’s choices are sure to be equally inspired — and filling. — A . L.
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diners once their meals were eaten. As I passed the bar on my way to the bathroom, I noticed the bartender doling out the same generous pours we had received in our glasses. Less generous was the service, which was sharp one night and extremely languid on another. Two apps, an entrée and a dessert shouldn’t require two and a half hours at a table, but on our second visit, they did. We passed the long stretches between courses — or waiting for items such as bread with our mussels or a necessary utensil — chatting, staring at the fire or trying not to watch a couple making out on a nearby couch. Fortunately, the lovebirds didn’t distract us from our dessert. Pastry chef Tess Cashin seems to share her colleague’s penchant for largesse and drama. A Grand Marnier crème caramel, though too sweet for my taste, arrived topped with an impressive, three-inch-high crown of caramelized sugar. A plate of chocolate-bourbonpecan pie topped with vanilla ice cream was crumbly and midnight-dark. Eating it was like mainlining cocoa and cream. With nothing left to order, we extracted ourselves with difficulty from the table. It was tempting to take full advantage of the lodge and nab a room; instead, we trudged back into the night, warmed from the inside out. m
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man Hayyat never thought she’d be engaged at 18. “I was not planning on that. It just kind of happened,” says the now-21-yearold University of Vermont global studies major. “He’s an awesome guy.” The Middlebury native is talking about Alaa Bader, the 30-year-old engineer and lifelong family friend she married in a ceremony in Jordan in 2011. However, according to their cultural traditions, they’re not allowed to act like a married couple until after the celebration. Bader moved into the finished basement of Hayyat’s parents’ home in November, while she remains in Burlington for school. “We’ve never lived in a house together. We’ve never done anything. It’s very much like it’s a dating period,” explains Hayyat, a smart, fast-talking young woman whose 3:44 PM parents moved to the States from the West Bank in 1979. “I cannot wait to get our life situated.” This spring, once Bader has found employment, the couple will finally hold their wedding reception. And the feasting will begin. Like many New Americans, Hayyat’s family won’t order her wedding meal from a caterer or restaurant. For all the Vietnamese restaurants that have cropped up in Vermont in recent years, there’s still a dearth of catering options for immigrants from Africa, the Himalayas and the Middle East who seek traditional meals. And that’s where family comes in. Hayyat says she plans to incorporate some Western traditions and Vermont touches into her ceremony; homely Mason jars, for instance, will get Jordanian flair from her own hand-painted henna designs. But the bulk of the ceremony — and the food — will be thoroughly Middle Eastern. That’s why Hayyat is enlisting her mother, Salwa, to do the cooking, and her brother, a local restaurateur, to assist. Salwa Hayyat knows her way around the kitchen; she grew up in the restaurant business. Her father owned a restaurant in her native Jordan, and her mother helped him do the cooking. “I wanted to help, but he’d say, ‘No, it’s hard job,’” Salwa remembers. Her brother now has his own eatery in Jordan. Her son, Usamah Hayyat, who goes by Sama, carries on the family tradition; he’s chef-owner of Middlebury
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Market and Sama’s Café, and of locally focused Sweet Marie’s Bistro, also in Middlebury. Family-prepared wedding meals aren’t uncommon in the Middle East. Salwa’s husband, ophthalmic technician and optometrist Mahmoud Hayyat, says catering and wedding halls have recently become more popular in both Jordan and his native Palestine, but mostly among city dwellers. When he and Salwa wed in 1972, their war-torn countries weren’t celebration-friendly. They marked their nuptials with a simple family dinner. Salwa was given permission by the government to move to the Palestinian West Bank city of Ramallah with her husband, where she became a teacher, while he commuted to a Jerusalem eye hospital. There, Mahmoud Hayyat met American eye surgeon William Eichner and obtained a work visa to join Eichner in his Middlebury practice. The Hayyat family moved to Vermont on December 10, 1979, with their three sons. Two daughters would be born in the Green Mountains, including Eman, the youngest. Sama, the eldest Hayyat child, was 4 when his family moved to Middlebury. When he married his wife, Marie, seven years ago, his mother was the clear choice
to cater their ceremony at Colchester’s Islamic Society of Vermont, he recalls. (Sama also had a Western-style wedding on Block Island, R.I., where he and Marie once worked together, and planned a third celebration in Jordan that never materialized.) “I’m a chef, but, obviously, I was the one getting married, so I didn’t want to do it myself,” Sama says. “[Salwa] loves cooking. It’s something she’s done for me my whole life, and she does a great job.” Sama and Marie’s original guest list of about 150 for the celebration later jumped closer to 250. Salwa Hayyat had previously cooked in bulk for Ramadan celebrations at the Islamic Society (in which the family is active), but never on that scale. In her daughter’s mind, Salwa passed the test with flying colors. The spread of roasted lamb, hummus, salads and a roasted chicken and rice dish called ouzi inspired a young Eman Hayyat. “It was a lot of food. It was awesome,” the bride recalls. “I still remember that huge leg of lamb. I just want to put the leg of lamb in
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OUZI WITH CHICKEN Eman Hayyat says her mom’s ouzi may be too casual for her elegant, Middle Eastern-themed nuptials. “Ouzi just seems like such an at-home, I-don’tfeel-like-cooking-today thing,” she says. Not everyone agrees: The Jordanian rice dish is often served at celebrations and was a hit at Eman’s brother Sama’s wedding. Given its ease of preparation, it’s bound to be popular in your kitchen, too. Salwa Hayyat doesn’t take measurements when she cooks, but, with Sama’s help, we think we’ve figured out a pretty close approximation. Salwa served this as a wedding dish to 250 people; this version serves four to six. For the chicken: 1 cup plain yogurt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon cardamom 1/4 teaspoon hot paprika Black pepper and salt to taste 1 whole chicken, divided into the cuts of your choice. Reserve backs and wings for stock, if you choose to make your own.
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the oven and let it roast for hours. That would just taste amazing.” Now Eman plans to do just that, enlisting Sama and his café’s woodburning oven, usually used for gourmet pizza, for the job. Sama says he plans to roast the beast for at least six hours. The Johnson & Wales University-trained chef will also help with prep and sourcing the best ingredients. But he’ll for delivery call remain sous-chef to mom Salwa. 863-TOGO (8646) “I’ve always wanted my mom to 207 Colchester Ave Burlington,VT 1 Bakery Lane, Middlebury, VT cook for my wedding, because she is 802-862-7800 www.tasteofindia.com an amazing cook, and she taught me so much about food that I couldn’t think of 5/7/1216t-shoplocal-guy.indd 4:00 PM 1 4/24/12 3:56 PM anyone that would do it as well as her,”16t-IndiaHouse050912.indd 1 Eman says. That’s high praise, considering there’s a professional chef in the family. The bride hasn’t yet chosen a venue, but she’s certain it will be in her native Addison County, and she’s seeking a mountain view to show off to Bader. The A Time to Celebrate Love of Family, Friends or That Special Someone.... room will be decorated in Eman’s theme colors — lush Middle Eastern gold, Join Us beginning Thursday, Feb. 14, and throughout the weekend for maroon and purple — giving way to a buffet table laid out with all her favorite dishes, she says. The 70 guests will also be able to choose from homemade hummus and pita bread; falafel balls like those Eman serves in her weekend 97 Falls Rd, Shelburne • 985-2830 • barkeatersrestaurant.com job at Sama’s; and salads such as laborOpen Tues-Sat 11:30am-9pm & Sun until 8 • Reservations Recommended intensive tabbouleh, composed of finely chopped tomatoes, parsley, onion and 8h-020613Barkeaters.indd 1 2/4/13 3:31 PM garlic with bulgur. Eman Hayyat isn’t a fan of cake, so she’s looking to replace the Western-style dessert with a two-tiered ice cream cake from Ben & Jerry’s. Her mother’s baklava will be the focus of the desserts, though. “Kanafeh, for sure, is going to have to be there,” she adds, referring to the goatcheese-filled, rose-flavored pastry. The Hayyat-Baders prefer to keep their vows private, but say they will partake in one traditional ritual before dining. On a stage, Bader will switch the thin gold bands he gave Hayyat from her right hand to her left. “I think it’s one of the cutest things ever,” Eman says of the tradition. The diamond ring she wears is her dowry and will not need to be moved to signify their marriage. Be Safer, Be Smarter, Come Hear. Islamic law forbids a champagne toast. Eman Hayyat says she’s seen Pepsi Now scheduling new patients. served at other Jordanian weddings, but she envisions replacing it with Empire Plan accepted. sparkling nonalcoholic cider. Following another religious dictate, Hayyat and her bridesmaids will wear “evil eye” Call us today to begin hearing better tomorrow. jewelry to ward off bad luck — though Locations in: Burlington, VT • Plattsburgh, NY • Saranac Lake, NY • Potsdam, NY • Malone, NY Hayyat admits she doesn’t believe in that. Once wed and living with her husband, Eman Hayyat says she looks forward to following in her mother’s and brother’s culinary footsteps. “At this stage, I can’t Keith P. Walsh wait to get my own place,” she says with a Au.D. smile. “I can’t wait to start cooking in my own kitchen.”
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Burlington Young ProfEssionals sEminar sEriEs: Phil Merrick and Jen Mincar from August First and Office Squared, respectively, share their professional experience with entrepreneurship. Office Squared, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 863-3489. HEaltH CarE DECisions for small BusinEssEs in 2013: Danforth Pewter CEO Bram Kleppner and Vermont Health Access Department's Sean Sheehan co-moderate a discussion of upcoming changes in the healthinsurance market. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.
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imProv nigHt: Fun-loving participants play "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"-style games in an encouraging environment. Spark Arts, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $7 suggested donation. Info, 373-4703.
community
CHamPlain vallEY loCalsourCE mEEting: Like-minded folks gather to share ideas about getting food and other products from as close to home as possible. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 355-0635. Winooski Coalition for a safE anD PEaCEful CommunitY: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by weighing in on public-health and civic-engagement initiatives. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4565.
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makE stuff!: Defunct bicycle parts become works of art and jewelry that will be sold to raise funds and awareness. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.
education
tEaCHEr aPPrEntiCEsHiP Program informational sEssion: Qualified individuals with a desire to work in education learn about accelerated certification for teaching grades 6 to 12. Essex High School Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 238-9637.
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'42nD strEEt': Lloyd Bacon directs this 1933 classic about an ailing Broadway director whose new show and romantic yearnings do not go as planned. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ClassiC film nigHt: Tom Blachly and Rick Winston facilitate conversation following the screening of Fred Zinnemann's 1952 Western starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. 'HitCHCoCk': Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson star in Sascha Gervasi's portrayal of the renowned filmmaker's decision to adapt the novel, Psycho for the big screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. 'niCkY's familY': Matej Minac's award-winning documentary tells the story of Englishman Nicholas Winton, who coordinated the rescue of more than 650 Czech and Slovak children just before World War II. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600.
food & drink
a mosaiC of flavors: rECiPEs from tHE HimalaYas of nEPal & BHutan: Umesh Acarya pairs up with City Market and prepares variations of culturally significant, fermented foods from the countries. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700.
Hard-Picking Harmonies Growing up on an upstate New York dairy farm, Eric and Leigh Gibson were more concerned with cows than chords. But at their father’s insistence, the brothers learned to play the banjo and guitar, respectively. When a teacher introduced them to the music of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, the pair became obsessed with bluegrass and never looked back. Years later, they formed the Gibson Brothers band, an award-winning combination of talent featuring upright bassist Mike Barber, fiddler Clayton Campbell and mandolinist Joe Walsh.
thE gibSoN brothErS Saturday, February 9, 8 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $26. Info, 476-8188. barreoperahouse.org
games
Burlington go CluB: Folks gather weekly to play this deceptively simple, highly strategic Asian board game. Uncommon Grounds, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free; bring a set if you have one. Info, 8609587, dfelcan@yahoo.com.
health & fitness
guiDED mEDitation: Marna Ehrich guides a weekly themed practice based on the process of exploration. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11 suggested donation. Info, 238-7908. living HEaltHY WitH CHroniC ConDitions: Participants learn various self-management skills to better deal with issues such as diabetes, arthritis and asthma. Altona Town Hall, N.Y., 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-656-4620. mEDitation & DisCussion: Powerful energies arise from this participant-led session, followed by 20 minutes of meditation and a brief discussion. Inspired Yoga Studios, Jay, 5:45-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 988-0449. mEDitation, HEaling & rEaDing: Local medium Michele Nappi leads a group session focused on WED.06
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aligning body, mind and spirit. Moonlight Gifts, Milton, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 893-9966. Winter Wellness: Clinical herbalist Shona MacDougall discusses tonics, supplements and superfoods that help keep cold-weather ailments at bay. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100. '80s Workout Wednesdays: Break out the Spandex and sweat bands, and get moving to aerobic workout videos led by Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8-10 a.m. $2. Info, 496-8994.
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Book talks for HomescHoolers: Students in grades 4 to 8 discuss titles from this year’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award list. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. enosBurg PlaygrouP: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing and other activities. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. fairfield PlaygrouP: Youngsters find enter-
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PrescHool discovery Program: tHe WoodcHuck's Winter: Young minds learn about hibernation and how "Chuckie" managed through the winter. Will he see his shadow? North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5-8. Info, 229-6206. red clover Picture Books for HomescHoolers: Students in kindergarten to 3rd grade read two titles that are up for this year’s Red Clover Award, then participate in related activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.
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traPP nordic cuP 2012-13: Race against the clock in this weekly nordic 5K skate and/or timed trial at the home of the first cross-country ski center in the U.S. Trapp Family Lodge Nordic Center, Stowe, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $8 plus trail pass; see trappfamily.com for specific prices. Info, 253-5719.
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one World, many journeys: islam: Members of the Islamic Society of Vermont participate in an informal Q&A session about all aspects of their religion. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
institute for civic engagement lecture series: t.j. donovan: The Chittenden County state's attorney discusses illegal drugs in the area and law-enforcement strategy for dealing with the issue. Room 253, Burlington College, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 923-2335.
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Patrick WalsH & sHefali misra: The associate professor of economics and assistant professor of political science, respectively, explain the debt ceiling and how it affects politics. Room 315, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.
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doug mccarty: The area resident recites The Song of Hiawatha, then provides background information on the legendary Native American leader. Craftsbury Public Library, Craftsbury Common, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 586-9683.
farmers' nigHt series: jim cooke: History comes alive with the actor's solo performance, "Calvin Coolidge: More Than Two Words," inspired by the 30th president's writings and publicspeaking engagements. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
toddler taekWondo: Kellie Thomas of K.I.C.K.S. leads little ones in a playful introduction to this ancient martial art. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4369.
discover tHe didgeridoo: Pitz Quattrone plays this aboriginal wind instrument, then explains its role in the culture, rituals and traditions of
'tHe imPortance of Being earnest': Northern Stage produces Oscar Wilde's comedy about a man's double life within the constraints of Victorian society under the direction of Carol Dunne. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $15-60. Info, 296-7000.
Burlington Writers FL I ND WorksHoP meeting: Members SAY R AYMOND JACK read and respond to the poetry and prose of fellow wordsmiths. Participants talks must join the group to have their work reviewed. Bill mckiBBen: The author and environmentalHalflounge, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preist discusses the science and politics of climate register at meetup.com. Info, 383-8104. change. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, ES
nancy jay crumBine: Using writers Emily Dickinson and Annie Dillard as reference points, the Dartmouth College professor presents "Words, Creativity and Spirituality." Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
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'time stands still': Gregory Ramos directs Vermont Stage Company members in Donald Margulies' dramatic portrayal of a photojournalist and her reporter partner facing the physical and emotional ramifications of war correspondence. A panel discussion on the effects of PTSD follows. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24.30-32.50. Info, 863-5966.
story time for 3- to 5-year-olds: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and picture books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
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Wild neigHBors lecture series: Animaltracking expert Sue Morse employs her knack for storytelling in "Wild Cousins of Our Best Friends: Wolves, Coyotes and Foxes." Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 860-0190.
nigHt riders: Skiers and riders compete in the illuminated terrain parks for prizes. Bolton Valley Resort, 4:30-8 p.m. $18 includes lift ticket; $12 for season-pass holders. Info, 877-926-5866.
story time & PlaygrouP: Read-aloud tales pave the way for themed art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
canzoniere grecanico salentino: Alternating between ballads and modern instrumentation, this group reinterprets the ancient music and dance of Italy’s Adriatic coast. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-30. Info, 603-646-2422.
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mark a. stoler: The UVM history professor discusses how presidential ratings have changed over time in "Who Were Our Worst Presidents?" Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
youtH media laB: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with local television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4097.
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Australia. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $3-10; free for members, local college students with valid ID and kids under 6. Info, 6560750 .
Peter galBraitH: In "America’s Foreign Policy Agenda," the Vermont senator considers international issues facing the country. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-8291. scott WHeeler: Vermont's Northland Journal's editor traces regional history from the Abenaki to modern times in "Newport: The Evolution of a Lakeside Community." Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. sienna craig: In "Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas, " the Dartmouth College anthropologist recounts her
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luncH & learn series: terrariums: Annie Leadbetter demonstrates different ways to create these mini-gardens in jars. Gardener’s Supply: Williston Garden Center & Outlet, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. seed sWaP: Dreaming about ripe tomatoes and salad greens? The Hardwick-area "Swap Sisters" host an exchange of garden starters. Greensboro Free Library, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6336, swapsisters@gmail.com.
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Better Buildings By design conference: See WED.06, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. vermont entrePreneursHiP day: New and potential business owners learn about marketing, financing and social media from policymakers and technical-service providers. Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Montpelier, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. $25. Info, 828-5236.
crafts
knitting & HandWork Huddle: Ann Wadsworth facilitates a gathering of needlework enthusiasts and their current projects. Kolvoord Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 578-8716. Women's craft grouP: Inventive females work on artful projects at a biweekly meet-up. Essex Alliance Church, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 238-2291.
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'Long gone': Lida Winfield and Ellen Smith Ahern explore questions of memory, lineage and identity through choreographic movement and spoken word. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $10-20; for ages 6 and up. Info, 229-0492.
education
RochesteR schooL Long-Range PLanning committee meeting: Parents and community members meet with educators to share ideas and concerns and address specific goals. Rochester School, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 767-3161.
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tax-PRePaRation heLP: Experts Tak and Dorothy Ng assist taxpayers in the lower- and middle-income brackets. Aimed at ages 60 and older. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15 a.m., 10 a.m., 10:45 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.
fairs & festivals
igLoofest: An igloo village and electronic music from top DJs draw crowds by the thousands to this popular outdoor festival. Jacques-Cartier Quay in the Old Port of Montréal, 6:30 p.m.midnight. $16-20; $40 weekend pass; ages 18 and over. Info, 514-904-1247.
film
community cinema fiLm seRies: 'the PoweRbRokeR': This 60-minute preview of Jordan Melograna's documentary follows the journey of outspoken civil-rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. A discussion follows. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408. 'hitchcock': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m. 'hoLy motoRs': Leos Carax's 2012 fantasy-drama follows a man who inhabits several different characters and lives over the course of a day. 7 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. 'nicky's famiLy': See WED.06, 5:30 p.m. 'the gates': Albert and David Maysles' documentary details the 26-year struggle to bring Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 2005 Central Park art installation to fruition. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 468-1119.
annuaL souP suPPeR: Savory broths and salads make way for dessert at this benefit for the Sara Holbrook Community Center featuring special guest Gigi Weisman. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $30; free for children under 14 with an adult; preregister. Info, 862-6342, jkounta@saraholbrookcc.org.
health & fitness
intRoduction to ayuRVeda: Karen Johnston outlines the basic principles of this ancient alternative medicine, including individual "doshas" based on body type. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 2238000, ext. 202.
kids
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. middLebuRy PReschooL stoRy time: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4369. montgomeRy infant/toddLeR PLaygRouP: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. music with RaPhaeL: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk music. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918. Pajama stoRy time: Little kids rock nightgowns and flannels as special guests read from books. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
language
PLaudeRstunde: Conversationalists with a basic knowledge of the German language put their skills to use over lunch. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, noon. Free; cost of food. Info, 862-1677 or 863-3305.
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money-smaRt chiLd woRkshoP: Lisa Helme introduces parents to helpful tools for teaching their children financial responsibility. Pizza and childcare for ages 3 and up provided. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. Peace is PossibLe woRkshoP: Peace fRom 'a' to 'z': In multimedia and interactive sessions, John Reuwer provides a simple model for making positive change on personal and interpersonal levels. Peace and Justice Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.
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afteR schooL cRaft: duct-taPe VaLentines: Creative tykes shape this sticky stuff with a million purposes into a heart, bracelet or rose. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister; for
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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fLuid yoga: Based on vinyasa principles, early risers focus on breathing techniques, proper alignment and balance. A guided meditation follows. SEABA Center, Burlington, 7-8 a.m. $5 suggested donation; see pascucciyoga.com for details. Info, 859-9222.
food foR thought LibRaRy VoLunteeRs: Pizza fuels teen discussion of books and library projects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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heRbaL VaLentines: Health educator Dana Woodruff demonstrates how to make aphrodisiac treats and massage oils with chocolate, roses, ginger and cayenne. City Market, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700.
aLbuRgh PLaygRouP: Tots form friendships over music and movement. Alburgh Family Center of NCSS, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
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talks
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Jewish GenealoGy: In “The Greenbergs of Piater," Fern Blood discusses family-tree pursuits in Ukraine, while Diane Sophrin details 10 years of research in "Lost and Found." Beth Jacob Synagogue, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 279-7518. sTephen sT. onGe: The dean of Burlington College addresses issues facing adolescents and how to best improve their learning experiences. Room 253. Burlington College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8616.
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Book discussion series: memoraBle memoirs: Historian John R. Turner facilitates conversation about the prominent writer and intellectual's The Education of Henry Adams. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. elizaBeTh BradField: The acclaimed poet reads selections from Interpretive Work and Approaching Ice. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1343.
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roBerT Belenky: The local author signs and discusses his book, Collective Memories of a Lost Paradise, about Jewish agricultural settlements in Ukraine during the 1920s and '30s. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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'romeo and JulieT': The renowned State Ballet Theatre of Russia brings Shakespeare's most famous characters to life. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $35-55. Info, 603-448-0400.
fairs & festivals
GreaT ice in Grand isle: This annual frozen fête begins with a bonfire and chili cook-off and continues with a weekend of skating races, sleddog demos and the Lake Champlain Ice Fishing Derby. City Bay, North Hero, 5 p.m. Prices vary; see champlainislands.com for details and events schedule. Info, 372-8400 . iGlooFesT: See THU.07, 6:30 p.m.-midnight.
film
'anna karenina': The third collaboration between Keira Knightley and acclaimed director Joe Wright tells this powerful love story adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:45 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. 'sTruck By liGhTninG': In Brian Dannelly's comedic drama, "Glee" star Carson Colfer plays a high school student who ruminates on the last few weeks of his life after his demise. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600.
health & fitness
avoid Falls wiTh improved sTaBiliTy: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.
kids
enosBurG Falls sTory hour: Young ones show up for fables and finger crafts. Enosburg Public Library, Enosburg Falls, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
hiGh school Book lusT cluB: Bookworms dish on reads they love — and the ones they love to loathe. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
dance
Ballroom lesson & dance social: Singles and couples of all experience levels take a twirl. Lesson 7-8 p.m.; open dancing 8-10 p.m. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.
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rock The ‘80s dance parTy: Hot Neon Magic provide tunes from the era of big hair and Spandex for attendees dressed accordingly at this benefit for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Burlington. Catamount Country Club, Williston, 8-11 p.m. $20; for ages 21 and up; cash bar. Info, 862-4943.
The world Famous popovich comedy peT TheaTer: Gregory Popovich complements European-style clown training with talented fourlegged friends in skits and stunts. See calendar spotlight. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $19.50-24.50. Info, 775-0903.
vermonT symposium on Bowen Theory: Eight professionals each give 15-minute presentations about holistic approaches to pain relief and healing based on fascia. Registration at 8 a.m. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $55-85. Info, 658-4800.
conTra dance: Fiddlers Shirley White and Susan Reid and guitarist George White fuel a social 2/4/13 3:47 PM
Queen ciTy conTra dance: Atlantic Crossing dole out live tunes as Rebecca Lay calls the steps. Beginners session at 7:45 p.m. Edmunds School Gymnasium, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $8; free for kids under 12. Info, 371-9492 or 343-7165.
FairFax 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.
conferences
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'love, loss and whaT i wore': This Girls Nite Out production of Nora and Delia Ephron's play explores women's relationships and wardrobes — and the occasional intersection of the two. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $18-20.
'Time sTands sTill': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m.
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'edwina's Folly': Vermont playwright Tom Blachly examines rural life and family ties in his drama about the death of a community theater director. Auditorium, Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 426-3955.
dance benefiting the Jaquith Public Library. Call for directions. Private barn, Marshfield, 7 p.m. $510; for ages 10 and up. Info, 426-3190, jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com.
isle la moTTe playGroup: Stories and crafts make for creative play. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. liFe-size candy land Game: Youngsters who know their colors move around a winding track amidst giant lollipops and vivid décor. University Mall, South Burlington, 4-7 p.m. $3 suggested donation. Info, 863-1066, ext.11. maGic: The GaTherinG: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or "planeswalkers," fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free; for grades 6 and up. monTGomery TumBle Time: Physical fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. sonGs & sTories wiTh maTThew: Musician Matthew Witten helps kids start the day with
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tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
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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teen Movie: Peter Parker discovers a clue about his parents' disappearence that leads him to his father's former colleague in 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. toddler yoga & StorieS: Little ones up to age 5 stretch their bodies and imaginations with Karen Allen. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:15 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.
music
'edwina'S folly': See THU.07, 7 p.m.
chriS BakrigeS & Mark dunlaP: The jazz pianist and bassist, respectively, celebrate Black History Month with works by Duke Ellington, Benny Golson and others. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, Woodstock, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3500.
'tiMe StandS Still': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m.
lake chaMPlain chaMBer MuSic feStival winter encore concert: The acclaimed Jasper String Quartet perform selections from Beethoven, Haydn and Aaron Jay Kernis. A 6:45 p.m. discussion with LCCMF artistic director Soovin Kim precedes the show. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $15-30. Info, 846-2175. loS angeleS guitar Quartet: For more than 30 years, this Grammy Award-winning foursome has dazzled audiences worldwide with everything from Bach to bluegrass. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $15-30. Info, 863-5966.
Seth glier: With a powerful falsetto and melodic skills that defy his age, the 22-year-old singer, pianist and guitarist performs an intimate show. See calendar spotlight. Esther Mesh Room, Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $16-19; cash bar. Info, 728-6464.
'the iMPortance of Being earneSt': See WED.06, 7 p.m.
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dawn gray: The local author signs, then discusses, S.P.I.R.I.T Fire Storm, about a team of paranormal investigators in the Northeast Kingdom. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
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Mike BirBiglia: The standup straddles the line between comedy and theater with details of his romantic shortcomings in the one-man show "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend." See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-36. Info, 863-5966.
Saturdays at Gardener’s Supply in Burlington February 9 • 11:30–1:00pm
Shade Gardening-Seeing Your Way Out of the Dark
MontPelier town Meeting: Bernie Sanders joins local and national experts in a discussion on senior issues, including social security and health care. Montpelier High School, lunch provided at noon; meeting at 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-339-9834.
February 16 • 9:30–11:00am
'go-go for MoMo' Bottle drive: Locals drop off their empties to help raise money for the team's participation in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Beverage Warehouse, Winooski, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Donations. Info, 777-9638.
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Special Workshop: Homesteading Markey Read & Tim King Feb. 11 - Backyard Chickens & Bees Feb. 18 - Vegetable Gardening $20/Session, Pre-register and you can bring a friend for FREE! To register, call 660-3505, or sign up in store. Pre-registration and pre-payment required. Classes are $10.00 per person. See www.GardenersSupplyStore.com for program details and for information on our lunch & learn series. 4+2 Plan is for Gardener’s Club members. Seminars are held at Gardener’s in Burlington.
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Bryce dance coMPany auditionS: Experienced movers showcase their skills to be considered for upcoming spring and summer contemporary performances. South End Studio, Burlington, 2:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 322-5040.
winter-wildlife tracking: Environmental educator John Jose teaches participants how to identify local mammals, beginning with plaster casts of their tracks. Hunger Mountain Co-op,
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Bolton Backcountry tour: The Friends of Bolton Nordic and Backcountry group introduces appropriate terrain to intermediate and advanced cross-country skiers and snowshoers. Bolton Valley Nordic Center, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 262-1241.
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felting with llaMa fiBerS & JewelryMaking deMo: Lindsay Chandler, Jan Stuart and June Taylor teach farmers-market shoppers this unique fabric-art form while Khaos Designs' Dave Kaczynski creates hand-wrought pieces. Vermont College of Fine Arts Gymnasium, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958 .
they Might Be gyPSieS: Father-son duo Greg and Aidan Ryan perform spirited tunes with acoustic-guitar stylings inspired by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Rochester High School, 8 p.m. Info, 767-3954.
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'Strange Matter': The opening day of ECHO's exhibit features the surprising science behind the unseen components of everyday products, such as cellphones and DVDs. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $9.50-$12.50. Info, 877-324-6386. 8V-ORS-ShoeHorn020613.indd 1
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the BluegraSS goSPel ProJect: The popular group brings keen vocal harmonies and deft instrumentation to the Coffeehouse Series. Peru Community Church, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 518-643-2735.
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Savoy Brown: Led by founder guitarist Kim Simmonds, this legendary blues-rock band brings innovative style to the stage — and has since the late 1960s. Tupelo Music Hall, White River Junction, 8 p.m. $30. Info, 603-437-5100.
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John daly: Back by popular demand, this singer-songwriter plays acoustic originals. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.
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Stowe derBy 'deScent recon': Scope out the best routes for the oldest downhill/cross-country ski race in North America — including the famed downhill portion. Meet at the base of Look Out Chair. Stowe Mountain Resort, 1:30-4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 253-9216.
BlackBerry JaM: The identical twin brothers in Vermont's up-and-coming boy band perform original songs and pop covers. Milton High School, 7:30-8:45 p.m. $5. Info, 893-3215, ext. 1208.
JiM & Jennifer vyhnak: The Vermont Ukulele Society cofounders perform old-timey music on the instrument as part of the Downtown Music Series. Recycled Reading of Vermont, Bristol, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5982.
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friday night Ski & dine: Kids and adults work up an appetite on illuminated slopes. Lessons available for beginners. Cochran's Ski Area, Richmond, 5-8 p.m. $5-10; $25 lesson. Info, 434-2479.
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Sanders. Memorial Auditorium Annex, Burlington, 7:30-11 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 862-1505. Contra DanCe & PotluCk Dinner: Rebecca Lay calls this traditional New England dance while American Toad provide live music. Caledonia Grange, East Hardwick, potluck at 5:30 p.m.; dancing at 6:30 p.m. $5-25 suggested donation. Info, 472-5584. Family SoCk HoP: Adults and kids alike do the twist to hits from the 1950s and '60s played by Bobby & the Retrotones. New Life Fellowship, Milton, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 876-7021. 'long gone': See THU.07, 7:30 p.m. norwiCH Contra DanCe: Hawaiian nigHt: Folks in clean-soled shoes and loud tropical shirts move to tunes by Northern Spy and calling by David Millstone. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 16; by donation for seniors. Info, 785-4607, rbarrows@cs.dartmouth.edu. 'romeo anD Juliet': See FRI.08, 7:30 p.m. Swing DanCe: Quick-footed participants get moving in different styles, including the Lindy Hop, Charleston and Balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 8:30-11 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
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'walk tHe reD CarPet': Celebrate the glitz and glamour of Hollywood with themed attire, fine cuisine, a silent auction and a costume contest. Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 7-10:30 p.m. $3540; cash bar. Info, 862-5125.
fairs & festivals
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film
2013 aCaDemy awarD-nominateD SHortS SCreeningS: Two evenings of films display top talent in animated and live-action categories, respectively. Black Family Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.
FilmmakerS in tHe rounD: 'motHer nature'S CHilD': Burlington's Camilla Rockwell explores how nature affects childhood health and
'Stark raving BlaCk': Standup Lewis Black delivers biting social and political commentary in this feature-length comedic film. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 5 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634. 'StruCk By ligHtning': See FRI.08, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
wine & CHoColate weekenD: Fourteen Vermont wineries please palates by pairing local grape varietals with sweet treats. Various locations statewide, noon-5 p.m. Free; see vermontgrapeandwinecouncil.com for details. Info, 388-7368 . wine & CHoColate weekenD oPen HouSe: Foodies combine Vermont-made vino with local sweets and learn how to find the ideal combination of the two. Shelburne Vineyard, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222. winter waFFle BreakFaSt & Silent auCtion: Griddles sizzle at this town tradition that features kid-friendly activities in addition to good eats. Proceeds benefit the Hinesburg Nursery School. Hinesburg Community School, 8-11 a.m. $4-6; free for kids under age 2. Info, 482-3827.
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norwiCH winter FarmerS market: Farmers offer produce, meats and maple syrup, which complement homemade baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. rutlanD winter FarmerS market: More than 50 vendors sell local produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at this indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 779-1485. tranSition town montPelier PotluCk: Community members share camaraderie and good eats while Paul Markowitz leads a discussion of "Vermont's Home Energy Challenge." Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 12:15-2:30 p.m. Donations; bring dish to share and place settings. Info, 456-8122. waterBury winter FarmerS market: Locally grown, seasonal produce and root veggies join handmade products to fill foodies' bags at this arts and agriculture gathering. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 279-4371. wilD weSt murDer myStery & Dinner: Don cowboy gear and help solve a heinous crime while noshing on kosher deli sandwiches. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 plus cost of food. Info, 864-0218.
marDi graS CaSino nigHt: Feeling lucky? Play rounds of blackjack, craps and roulette for prizes at this benefit for St. Ambrose Caring Community. St. Ambrose Parish, Bristol, 7 p.m. $20 includes $150 in chips and hors d'oeuvres. Info, 453-5599.
health & fitness
montréal-Style aCro yoga: Using partner and group work, Lori Flower leads participants through poses that combine acrobatics with therapeutic benefits. The Confluence, Berlin, 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. $16; as space permits. Info, 324-1737.
kids
Diy valentine time: Creative minds use provided supplies to make heartfelt crafts for others. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Family magiC SHow: Philip & Henry Amazing Magicians dazzle little ones and their caregivers with tricks and illusions. Proceeds benefit the Wee Explorers Preschool program. Gymnasium, Morristown Elementary School, Morrisville, 3-4 p.m. $5. Info, 888-2087 . ForeSter For a Day: Kids and their caregivers don hard hats and watch a logger fell a tree, then head to the wood shop to make a craft to take home. Shelburne
Franklin PlaygrouP: Toddlers and their adult companions meet peers for tales and singalongs. Franklin Central School, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Franklin tumBle time: Snacks power free play in the gymnasium. Franklin Central School, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
wooDStoCk Film SerieS: In Thomas McCarthy's award-winning drama, The Station Agent, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot to reconcile the death of a close friend. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-2355.
CaPital City winter FarmerS market: Root veggies, honey, maple syrup and more change hands at an off-season celebration of locally grown food. Vermont College of Fine Arts Gymnasium, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com.
Farms, 9:30-11:30 a.m. & 12:30-2:30 p.m. $5-6; preregister. Info, 985-8686.
liFe-Size CanDy lanD game: See FRI.08, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. oPen tot gym & inFant/Parent Playtime: Tykes work up an appetite for snacks with feats of athleticism. Gymnasium, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. SaturDay Story time: Youngsters and their caregivers gather for entertaining tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. Swanton tumBle time: Vivacious youngsters monkey around in an open gym. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. valentine'S Storytime: Kiddos gather to listen to Joanna Walsh's The Perfect Hug, followed by treats and activities. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
music
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raChel Barton pine: The virtuosic violinist performs a varied global program, including a piece written for her by Arab-American composer Mohammed Fairouz. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 793-9291.
seminars
avian rehaB workshop: anatoMy & physiology: Bird lovers learn about the feathered fliers' unique bodies and how they differ from mammals. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 1-4 p.m. $24-30; preregister. Info, 3595000, ext. 223. Beginner CoMputer Class: Hester Fuller provides step-by-step instructions for navigating Microsoft Excel and the basics of spreadsheets. Craftsbury Public Library, 2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 586-9683.
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introDuCtion to Digital viDeo eDiting: FinalY Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the editing software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. CM Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692. MY
introDuCtion to MiCrosoft winDows workshop: Participants looking to improve theirCY computer skills follow Ted Horton's lead through CMY an overview of relevant software programs. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217. K leasing your lanD to a farMer: UVM's Center for Sustainable Agriculture joins local businesses to share key information about forging positive relationships with new and expanding farmers. South Burlington City Offices, 2-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-5459.
The Science of German Beer Thursday, February 14; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. An ECHO AfterDark evening on the topic of German beer! Forget Oktoberfest! Join us as we head into the science, flavor, and history of a wonderfully rich beer producing region of the world. Enjoy three presentations while sipping delicious world-class beer.
sustainaBle forestry 101: Participants learn about various aspects of this timber-management practice, including site classification and logging operations. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $15; preregister; lunch provided. Info, 7236551, ext. 115 .
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Bolton after Dark: After the sun goes down, skiers and snowboarders explore Vermont's most extensive night-skiing terrain and watch movies from Meathead Films. Bolton Valley Resort, 4-8 p.m. $19 lift tickets; $2 refreshments. Info, 434-6804.
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genealogy: using the Drouin & loiselle Marriage MiCrofiChe: Janet Allard demonstrates how to access millions of Québécois marriage records with these invaluable resources.C Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m. noon. $5. Info, 238-5934. M
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Bolton valley snowshoe shuffle: A specially designed 5K course provides ideal terrain for all skill levels at this benefit for the American Lung Association. Check-in at 9 a.m. Bolton Valley Nordic Center, 10 a.m. $35-40; individual fundraising encouraged. Info, 434-6814.
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snowshoe traCking walk: The Winooski Valley Park District's environmental educator leads participants along trails to observe signs of wildlife. Snowshoes, binoculars and track-identification materials provided to those who need them. Woodside Natural Area, Essex Junction, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5744, americorps@wvpd.org.
the giBson Brothers: The two siblings, who took top honors at the 2012 International Bluegrass Music OU Association Awards, lead a RT ES quintet in hard-picking harmoyO FA nies. See calendar spotlight. Barre NDR E W EC CLE S Opera House, 8 p.m. $26. Info, 476-8188.
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Glenn BrouGhton: At the Chittenden County Dowsers meeting, the sacred-sites expert shares his knowledge in a narrated slide show, "Ancient Mysteries for Modern Times." Shelburne Town Offices, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5; free for members. Info, 434-4904.
'loVe, loSS and what i wore': See THU.07, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 'the importance oF BeinG earneSt': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m. 'time StandS Still': See WED.06, 2 p.m.
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Group: Cornelia Ward outlines spiritual healing and psychic reading skills as presented in Doreen Virtue's book. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060.
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montpelier antiqueS market: Lovers of all things yesteryear peruse offerings of furniture, art, toys, books, photos and ephemera from the New England area. Elks Club, Montpelier, 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138.
dance
Balkan Folk dancinG: Louise Brill organizes people into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. No partner necessary. Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, 3:30-6:30 p.m. $6 donation. Info, 540-1020. 'lonG Gone': See THU.07, 2 p.m.
Great ice in Grand iSle: See FRI.08, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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2013 academy award-nominated ShortS ScreeninGS: See SAT.09, 7 p.m. 'anna karenina': See FRI.08, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. & 7:45 p.m.
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chocolate, romance & Bronze: The Northern Bronze Handbell Ensemble entertain attendees during an evening of appetizers, decadent desserts, wine and beer. A silent auction benefits the group. Jeff's Maine Seafood, St. Albans, 4-6 p.m. $20 includes food and drink; preregister. Info, 524-6135.
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indoor Garden workShop: Peter Burke teaches his innovative method for growing and harvesting salad greens throughout the winter. City Market, Burlington, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 861-9757.
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health & fitness
liGht Body Spiritual meditation Group: Cynthia Warwick Seiler facilitates sessions
designed to attune the mind, body and soul. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m. Donations. Info, 671-4569. thriVe center oF the Green mountainS: yoGa Sampler: Leslie Silver leads guided stretching and breathing exercises to create strength and flexibility. Warm clothes, mat and blanket required. Wallingford Elementary School Gymnasium, noon-2 p.m. $10-20; preregister. Info, 446-2499.
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motherS oF preSchoolerS FundraiSinG BreakFaSt: Moms and their kiddos convene for egg-and-cheese burritos, sausage, hash browns and fruit at this benefit for the parenting support group. Church of the Rock, St. Albans, 8 a.m. & 10 a.m. $6-8; free for kids under 3. Info, 802-393-4411.
language
French conVerSation Group: dimancheS: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.
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darol anGer & FriendS: The renowned fiddler and his partner Emy Phelps join two other couples in "Sweethearts Night Out," a whimsical ode to love and Valentine's Day. Richmond Free Library, 3 p.m. $15-20. Info, 434-4563, don@valleystage.net. 'Stuck on you: a Valentine oF SonGS': Pianist Timothy Guiles accompanies cabaret singers Marguerite Corbin, Karen LeFevre and Tracy Perrapato, who reflect the many aspects of love. StudioThree, South Burlington, 4-6 p.m. $20 suggested donation; BYOB. Info, 865-7626.
outdoors
SleiGh rideS: See SAT.09, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. SnowmoBile hill climB: At this benefit for Northeast Slopes, timed races up steep terrain are awarded with cash prizes, trophies and a winter barbecue. Northeast Slopes, East Corinth, 11 a.m. $5. Info, 535-4170.
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adult pickup dodGeBall: Participants heave rubber-coated foam balls at opposing team members during weekly games. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $5; for ages 15 and up; players under age 18 need parental permission. Info, 578-6081. camel’S hump challenGe: Experienced backcountry skiers traverse around the mountain on a 26K course at this fundraiser for the Vermont Alzheimer’s Association. Camel's Hump Nordic Ski Area, Huntington, 7:30 a.m. $125 fundraising goal; see camelshumpchallenge.com for details. Info, 316-3839. Green mountain curlinG cluB: Players of all abilities sweep the ice every Sunday throughout the season. No special equipment is needed. Green Mountain Arena, Morrisville, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $12 per game with membership; $16 per game otherwise. Info, 399-2816. women'S pickup Soccer: Ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while passing around the ball. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.
talks
Fearn lickField & iVan mcBeth: The director and founder, respectively, of the Green Mountain Druid Order hold an informational session about the spiritual community. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 505-8010. SuSan Bacot-daViS: The interior designer, who specializes in green design and renovation, presents ways to detox and safeguard children's home environments. The Green Life, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 881-0633.
theater
Faculty ScholarShip recital: Dance professors present choreography to classical and jazz selections performed by their colleagues in music. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 656-7776. 'loVe, loSS and what i wore': See THU.07, 2 p.m. 'the ciVil war': Theatreworks USA's new musical incorporates period songs and factual events into a narrative told through the eyes of children. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 3 p.m. $10-23; for ages 7 and up. Info, 603-646-2422. 'the importance oF BeinG earneSt': See WED.06, 5 p.m. 'time StandS Still': See WED.06, 2 p.m. A panel discussion on the effects of PTSD follows.
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heart & hearth Book Sale: Works of fiction and nonfiction appropriate for Valentine's Day gifts are featured among other titles and genres. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 598-0351.
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'anna karenina': See FRI.08, 7:30 p.m. 'BamBoozled': Spike Lee's satire of racial issues in the television industry stars Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mos Deaf. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. 'Struck By liGhtninG': See FRI.08, 5:30 p.m.
food & drink
dumplinGS For the chineSe new year: Chinese teacher Ben Wang pairs up with City Market to usher in the Year of the Snake with traditional fare. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9700. herBal ValentineS: See THU.07, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
health & fitness
aVoid FallS with improVed StaBility: See FRI.08, 10 a.m. herBal conSultationS: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and and health conditions. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister at info@vtherbcenter.org. Info, 861-9757.
kids
hiGhGate pajama Story time: Kiddos outfitted for sleep listen to bedtime tales at the library. Highgate Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. middleBury preSchool Story time: See THU.07, 10:30-11:15 a.m. muSic with raphael: See THU.07, 10:45 a.m. Shake your SillieS out: Tots swing and sway to music with children's entertainer Derek Burkins. JCPenney Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10:35 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. South hero playGroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. StorieS with meGan: Preschoolers expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes. MON.11
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Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Student Matinee SerieS: 'Medicine Bear': Canada's Kaha:wi Dance Theatre shares Iroquois legends through native language, song and dance. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. & noon. $8; for grades K to 6. Info, 863-5966.
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evening knitting circle: Needleworkers pull up a chair and get loopy with fellow crafters over dessert. Shelburne Farms, 7-9 p.m. $5; preregister. Info, 985-8686.
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SPaniSh iMMerSion claSS: An experienced teacher offers an interactive music class en español. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 9-9:45 a.m. $15; for ages 1-5. Info, 917-1776, constanciag@ gmail.com.
'chaSing ice': National Geographic photographer James Balog captures a multi-year record of climate change via state-of-the-art, time-lapse cameras in Jeff Orlowski's 2012 documentary. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600.
music
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recorder-Playing grouP: Musicians produce early folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net. SaMBatucada! oPen rehearSal: New players are welcome to pitch in as Burlington's samba street-percussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.
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BaSic coMPuter SkillS: Community members enter the high-tech age and gain valuable knowledge. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3403. hoMeSteading 101: Looking to become more self-sufficient? Learn how to keep backyard bees and chickens in a suburban setting. Gardener’s Supply Company, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. $20. Info, 660-3505 . internet eSSentialS workShoP: Ted Horton teaches participants how to navigate the worldwide web via different search engines. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217.
sport
adult dodgeBall: Grown-ups hit the court in weekly games and take aim with brightly colored foam balls. Orchard School, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $5. Info, 598-8539.
talks
BiograPhy aS hiStory SerieS: 19th-century ruSSian noveliStS: UVM professor Denise Youngblood discusses the work of renowned poet Alexander Pushkin. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. 'celeBrate lincoln’S Birthday': Singer/ researcher Linda Radtke joins pianist Arthur Zorn in a dramatic telling of Vermont's Civil Warera history through soldiers' letters and song. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
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cheSS cluB: Checkmate! Players of all ages and abilities apply expert advice from a skilled instructor to games with others. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420, knorwood@ fwsu.org.
health & fitness
gentle yoga on the go: Miv London of UVM's Mindfulness Practice Center leads gentle stretches that can relieve stress and stiffness while in the car or at the office. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School Library, South Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7102. introduction to heartMath: Stressmanagement coach Sherry Rhynard presents ways to foster the body-mind connection through "emotional nutrition." Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-7; preregister. Info, 2238000, ext. 202. laughter yoga: What's so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 355-5129. living healthy with chronic conditionS: See WED.06, 1-1:30 p.m. reiki clinic: Master teacher Jennifer Kerns and her students introduce this Japanese energyhealing technique with brief treatments. Vermont Center for Acupuncture & Wellness, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 339-2224753, shantihealingservices@gmail.com.
kids
creative tueSdayS: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. FairFax Story hour: Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. highgate Story hour: See WED.06, 10-11 a.m. iMProv: Quick thinkers in grades 6 and up get silly in spur-of-the-moment games. Brownell
Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
'the iMPortance oF Being earneSt': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m.
MuSic with roBert: Music lovers of all ages join sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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richFord PlaygrouP: Rug rats let their hair down for tales and activities. Cornerstone Bridges to Life Community Center, Richford, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
cady/Potter writerS circle: Literary enthusiasts improve their craft through "homework" assignments, journaling exercises, reading, sharing and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 349-6970.
Story tiMe For 3- to 5-year-oldS: See WED.06, 10-10:45 a.m.
heart & hearth Book Sale: See SUN.10, 1-5 p.m.
Story tiMe For BaBieS & toddlerS: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
Sara j. henry: The award-winning author of the thriller Learning to Swim reads from the sequel, A Cold and Lonely Place. Bear Pond Books, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.
winooSki PreSchool StorytiMe: Tykes listen to stories and participate in games and arts and crafts related to the theme "Sweethearts." Winooski Memorial Library, 10:30 a.m. Free; for kids ages 2 to 5. Info, 655-6424.
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iMProv night: See WED.06, 8-10 p.m.
French converSation grouP: Beginner-tointermediate French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Halvorson's Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. PauSe-caFé French converSation: Francophiles of all levels speak the country's language at a drop-in conversation. Mr. Crêpe, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.
music
'Fat tueSday' cajun MuSic concert: Yankee Chank perform traditional dance music from southwest Louisiana. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 6:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 888-1261. hirSch-PinkaS Piano duo: Dartmouth College pianist-in-residence Sally Pinkas and her husband Evan Hirsch play four-handed works by Schubert, Fauré and others. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-27. Info, 603-646-2422.
seminars
BaSic introduction to caMera uSe: Budding videographers learn about media production and opportunities for becoming a Channel 17 volunteer community producer. 294 North Winooski Avenue, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 862-3966, ext. 16, morourke@cctv.org.
talks
Bryan PFeiFFer: Charles Darwin meets St. Valentine in "Animal Attractions," wherein the naturalist explains his photographs of wildlife courtship displays. Richmond Free Library, 6:30 p.m. Free; not for young children. Info, 434-3036. eric werner: In "Women & Money: A Basic Primer," the financial expert demystifies IRAs and retirement logistics, while offering planning strategies. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295. juliette Bianco & Pieter Broucke: The co-curators of Edward Burtynsky's "Nature Transformed" discuss the photographer's career and the process of organizing the exhibit. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. richard kujawa: The St. Michael's College economics and geography professor makes a case for environmental education warranting a transdisciplinary approach. Room 315, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, noon. Free. Info, 654-2536.
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'Broadway'S next h!t MuSical': Master improvisers think on their feet and use audience suggestions to create spontaneous songs, which develop into a full-blown musical. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7-9 p.m. $7-12. Info, 468-1119.
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dinner & converSation with FriendS: Involved citizens discuss the arts in our community over delicious fare. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 6 p.m. $25. Info, 443-3168. green Mountain haBitat For huManity inForMational Meeting: Dream of owning a home? Potential applicants learn about the program and necessary criteria for participation. Town Hall, Charlotte, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8726. Mentoring Brown Bag diScuSSion: Those who serve as "big buddies" in the King Street Center's program share ideas about their roles over bagels and coffee. King Street Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-6736. old north end artS & BuSineSS network Meeting: Association of Africans Living in Vermont director Jacob Bogre and Alisha Laramee of New Farms for New Americans speak about their work at this open gathering. Association of Africans Living in Vermont, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-7528. PuBlic ForuM: Rochester School principal Linda Kelley discusses her long-range planning process with members of the Pittsfield, Stockbridge and Gaysville communities. Town Hall, Pittsfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 767-3161.
crafts
green Mountain chaPter oF the eMBroidererS' guild oF aMerica: Needle-andthread enthusiasts bring current stitching projects and share ideas about redwork patterns. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255. Make StuFF!: See WED.06, 6-9 p.m.
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aPhrodiSiac herBology: Andrew Wolf explains the science behind romance-inducing concoctions and helps folks create their own to take home. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $18-20; prergister. Info, 224-7100. tax-PreParation helP: See THU.07, 1-4 p.m.
film
'anna karenina': See FRI.08, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 'chaSing ice': See TUE.12, 7 p.m. coMMunity cineMa FilM SerieS: 'the PowerBroker': See THU.07, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. 'Struck By lightning': See FRI.08, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.
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MayFly & young tradition verMont FarMers' nigHt ConCert: Katie Trautz and Julia Wayne join siblings Oli, Yasi and Louli Zeichner in an evening of traditional and regional music. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-5293. sHai Wosner: Composers get paired up in the acclaimed pianist's program, which explores connections between Schubert and Widmann, and Debussy and Beethoven. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-20. Info, 443-3168.
health & fitness guided Meditation: See WED.06, 5:30-7 p.m.
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aspiring naturalists teen prograM: Outdoorsy adolescents observe changes in the landscape and learn primitive skills, such as fire by friction, carving, foraging and animal tracking. Shelburne Farms, 4:30-7 p.m. $10-15; preregister; for ages 14 to 17. Info, 985-0327, mburke@ shelburnefarms.org. BaBytiMe playgroup: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3659. enosBurg playgroup: See WED.06, 10-11:30 a.m. FairField playgroup: See WED.06, 10-11:30 a.m. iMprov: See TUE.12, 3-4:30 p.m. MontgoMery story Hour: Good listeners are rewarded with an earful of tales and a mouthful of snacks. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Moving & grooving WitH CHristine: See WED.06, 11-11:30 a.m. pajaMa story tiMe: Evening tales send kiddos off to bed. Berkshire Elementary School, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.
peaCe is possiBle WorksHop: nonviolent CoMMuniCation: In multimedia and interactive sessions, John Reuwer introduces specific language for improving physical and mental health and relationships. Peace and Justice Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 8632345, ext. 6.
sport
College nigHt: See WED.06, noon-8 p.m. green Mountain taBle tennis CluB: See WED.06, 7-10 p.m. nigHt riders: See WED.06, 4:30-8 p.m. trapp nordiC Cup 2012-13: See WED.06, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m.
talks
digital HealtH revolution panel disCussion: UVM's Jill Jemison and Lewis Mitchell, Global Media Health Project founder Deb VanDyke and Broad Street Maps cofounders Anna Clements and Hannah Judge present ideas about technology, social media and the medical field. Mount Mansfield Room, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1305.
theater
'CaBin Fever Follies' auditions: Locals showcase their talents in brief acts and vie for spots in the Valley Players' April variety show. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-6651 or 583-6767 .
story tiMe & playgroup: See WED.06, 10-11:30 a.m.
'love, loss and WHat i Wore': See THU.07, 7:30 p.m.
story tiMe For 3- to 5-year-olds: See WED.06, 10-10:45 a.m.
'tHe iMportanCe oF Being earnest': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m.
student Matinee series: 'Walk on: story oF rosa parks': Mad River Theatreworks portrays the Civil Rights icon, whose refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 gained national attention. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. & noon. $8; for grades 3 to 10. Info, 863-5966.
'tiMe stands still': See WED.06, 7:30 p.m.
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'learned ladies': Chris Colt directs Johnson State College students in Moliere's 17th-century satire about the pretensions of scholarship and culture. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 1 p.m. $5. Info, 635-1476.
toddler taekWondo: See WED.06, 10:30-11:15 a.m.
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liBrary Books on kindle: Assistant librarian Susan Pierce demonstrates how to find available e-books and "borrow" them on the device. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
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PAINTING: CONTEMPORARY FIGURE: Weekly on Wed., Feb. 20-Apr. 17, 1:30-4:30 p.m. No class Feb. 27. Cost: $320/person; $288/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Intermediate and advanced painters: revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the figure. Work from live models each week, explore a variety of contemporary techniques with water-soluble oils and get supportive feedback in a small-group environment. Figure-drawing experience is very helpful. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Instructor: Linda Jones. PHOTO: VACATION CAMP: Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: $350/person; $315/BCA members. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab/Community Darkroom, Burlington. Explore both darkroom and digital photography in this fiveday vacation camp! Kids will go on guided photo shoots in downtown Burlington, will print black and white photos in the darkroom, and will print color prints in the digital lab. Cameras, all supplies and lunchtime activities are included. Students should bring a snack and a lunch. No experience necessary; ages 9-12.
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COMPOSTING: Feb. 16, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505. Ideal for Soil 101 attendees. Learn how to make compost the right way. Your plants will thank you for it.
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helen day art center ACTION PAINTING: Feb. 16, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $115/6-hr. class. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@ helenday.com, helenday.com. This workshop will help you to leap over that hurdle with big, expressive gestures that can open the door to a freer and more satisfying painting experience. Big is not necessarily better, but it is useful to push your limitations and to get comfortable working in a large format. Instructor: Galen Cheney.
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THREE SEASONS OF OUTRAGEOUS COLOR: Feb. 9, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/ person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505. Discover spectacular perennials for sun and shade that brighten your landscape spring through fall. Many newer varieties will be featured. As one perennial stops blooming, it passes the baton to the next winner. Kerry will also share helpful garden care tips as well as shortcuts to maximize color and to reduce maintenance.
WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Winter Ecology Walk w/ George Lisi, Sunday, Feb. 3, 3-4:15 p.m., call to preregister, sliding scale $0-10. Now accepting applications for Wisdom Eight-Month Certification Program, Apr. 20-21, May 18-19, Jun. 15-16, Jul. 13-14, Aug. 10-11, Sep. 7-8, Oct. 5-6 & Nov. 2-3. Tuition: $1750; nonrefundable deposit: $250; payment plan: $187.50/mo. Applications for Wild Edibles spring term: Apr. 28, May 26, Jun. 23. Tuition: $300. VSAC nondegree grants avail. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, wisdomoftheherbsschool.com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.
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KITCHEN MEDICINE: Tue. from 5:308:30 p.m. in 3 seasonal sessions. Spring classes: Mar. 12 & 26, Apr. 23 & 30; summer classes: Jun. 25, Jul. 9 & 23, Aug. 20; & fall/winter classes: Sep. 10, Oct. 8 & 22, Nov. 12. Cost: $500/all 12 classes; preregistration req. w/ a $50 deposit. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main Street, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org. Through this seasonal series, learn where to find affordable high-quality food, how to stock your kitchen, create balanced meals, follow and improvise recipes, and prepare healing foods for everyday enjoyment. Enjoy a meal together during each class and leave with recipes and meal plans. Taught by Lisa Mas√ɬ© and guests. ROOTS OF HEALING: Mon. 4:306:30 p.m., Mar. 18 through May 20. 2 weeks off: Apr. 8 & 15. Cost: $160; preregistration req. w/ a $20 deposit. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main Street, Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org. Explore the history and evolution of global medicine traditions, all of which have included herbs, food, ritual, community and connection to place. By integrating folklore, energetic theories and shamanic practices, we’ll create a context for examining our current health care system and the need to
ACCESS LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages w/ great instructors. Full descriptions online at cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194. French: 3 levels; beginning Spanish: 2 levels; intermediate Spanish: 3 levels; immersion Spanish; Italian for Travelers: 2 levels; beginning Mandarin: 2 levels; German: 2 levels. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Senior discounts. LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail. com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our sixth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private instruction, student tutoring, AP. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. LEARN FRENCH THIS SPRING!: Spring term classes meet weekly for 11 wks. from 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $245/11-wk. class. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 302-304 Dupont Bldg. (Fort Ethan Allen), 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise of the
Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 497-0420, michelineatremblay@gmail.com, aflcr.org/classes. shtml. Registration now open for the spring schedule of French classes at the Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region in Colchester. Classes offered at six levels, evenings for adults, beginning the week of March 4 for 11 weeks through May 23. Full details and easy registration on website, aflcr.org/classes.shtml.
martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tue., Feb. 5 at 5:30 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and relieve stress. Classes for adults, teens and children. We also offer morning classes for new students. Study with Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 6th degree black belt and Vermont’s only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. AIKIDO CLASSES: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido. org. Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. Vermont Aikido invites you to explore this graceful martial art in a safe, supportive environment. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, Julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: Weekly on Mon., Tue. Cost: $5000/500-hr. program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 288-8160, elementsofhealing@ verizon.net, elementsofhealing. net. This program teaches two forms of massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB-assigned school.
clASS photoS + morE iNfo oNliNE SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSES Exploration of MovEMEnt: Mar. 16-17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245 ($225 if paid by Mar. 4; call about risk-free introductory fee). Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail. com, ortho-bionomy.org/SOBI/ DianneSwafford. Using orthobionomy, participants will learn to recognize and palpate patterns of joint and muscle movement in order to facilitate tension release and increase range of motion. These techniques help relieve tension in those stuck places in our body that keep our bodies from moving well (i.e., shoulder blades or pelvis that won’t move when someone is walking).
meditation lEarn to MEDitatE: Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. The Shambhala Cafe meets the 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An Open House occurs every 3rd Fri. evening of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.
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WorKinG WitH yoUr SHaDoW: Weekly on Wed., Feb. 13-Mar. 6, 7-9 p.m. Snow date Mar. 13. Cost: $60/ series. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. Discover your shadow, in both its good and bad guises, through a variety of exercises that help to expand your consciousness. led by sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.
spirituality GranDMotHErS’ CoUnCil: Feb. 17, 1-5 p.m. Location: Lightheart Sanctuary, 236 Wild Apple Road, New Haven. Info: Lightheart Sanctuary, Maureen Short, 453-4433, Maureen@gmavt.net, Lightheart. net. a beautiful ceremony for women, passed orally with mysterious origins. It is cross-cultural although Native american in feel. We journey to a shamanic drumbeat to the Grandmothers of the sacred 8 Directions for inquiry, guidance, wisdom and healing for ourselves, each other, our loved ones, our communities and our world.
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tea DoBra tEa prESEntS: HaWaiian GroWn tEa & CHoColatE: Feb. 10, 9-11 a.m. Call for ticket info. Location: Dobra Tea, 80 Church St., Burlington. Info: 951-2424. Taste the unique flavors of the delicious tea and chocolate from the island paradise of Kauai and the Big Island. slide show of our amazing travels to the farms and gardens producing this tea and chocolate. White, green, oolong and black tea. Dark and coconut milk vegan organic chocolate.
theater CollEGE ConfiDEntial: tHEatEr proGraM aDMiSSionS 101: Parents and students grades 10-12: Fridays, Feb. 8 & 15, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $40/ family. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4500. This workshop demystifies the application/audition process, empowering college-bound theater kids and their parents. learn the differences between top theater schools and their degree options, who gives financial aid and everything there is to know about the audition process.
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SnaKE-StylE tai CHi CHUan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. tai Qi EaSy WitH liz GEran: Mar. 9, 16, 23 & 30. Cost: $60/4 90-minute classes. Location: Burlington Dances Studio, 1 Mill St, suite 372 Chace Mill Building, Burlington. Info: Jade Mountain Wellness, Liz Geran, 399-2102, jademtwellness@gmail. com, jademtwellness.com/classes. Join us for easy-to-learn, slow movements that relieve stress, improve balance, and promote heart health, immune health and mental focus. Tai Qi easy is appropriate for all ages and experience levels and is a simple and profound way to promote well-being. Taught by liz Geran, acupuncturist and herbalist.
HEalinG GriEf tHroUGH MinDfUlnESS & MovEMEnt: Feb. 26-Apr. 2, 7:30-9 p.m. Cost: $140/ series. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, South Burlington. Info: 658-9440. Many of us hold unresolved grief. Is there a disappointment or loss from your life that stands in the way of your happiness now? Joey Corcoran and annette Brown will offer you tools to explore your grief from a fresh perspective through practicing gentle yoga and chakra work. Pre-screening required. Please email joey@mindfulrest.com.
aCCESS ClaSSES in HinESBUrG at CvU HiGH SCHool: 200 offerings for all ages w/ great instructors. Full descriptions online at cvuweb. cvuhs.org/access. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: 4827194. simple Therapeutic Massage, Core strength, Weight Training, Resistance Training for Cyclists, Cardio-Resistance Training, Upper Body, Golf Conditioning, Zumba, Zumba Gold, Yoga, Tai Chi, swing or Ballroom, african Drum, african Dance, Jazzercise, Jazz Guitar, VoiceOvers, Guitar, Ukulele, sweet Old Time lullabies, Mindful Meditation, luscious lotions, Herbal Facial, Milk soap, Herbal summer Beauty Care, and Juggling. low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed. Materials included.
yoga EvolUtion yoGa: $14/class, $130/ class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. evolution Yoga offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and prenatal, community classes, and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Breast Cancer 8v-matttaylor020613.indd 1 survivor and alignment classes. Certified teachers, massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose. Hot yoGa BUrlinGton: Get hot — 2-for-1 offer. 1-hr. classes on Mon., Tue. & Thu.: 5:30 p.m; Fri.: 5 p.m.; Sat.: 10:30 a.m. Cost: $14/1st 2 classes, multi-class cards avail. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave, Old North End, Burlington. Info: 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt. com. Hot Yoga Burlington offers creative, vinyasa-style yoga featuring practice in the Barkan Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Try something different! laUGHinG rivEr yoGa: classes 7 days/wk. Cost: $5/13/class; 10-class card $115; monthly unlimited $130. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga. com. Compassionate and skilled instructors offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Yoga Dance, Yoga Teacher Training and more. Deepen your practice with sunday morning intensives or one of our beautiful yoga retreats. all bodies and abilities welcome. m
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privatE pHotoGrapHy ClaSSES: Location: Linda Rock Photography, 48 Laurel Drive , Essex Junction. Info: 238-9540, lrphotography@ comcast.net, lindarockphotography. com. One-on-one, private digital photography classes of your choice for beginner and intermediate levels. Understand Your Camera, lighting Techniques, Portrait Posing, Digital
introDUCtion to JUnG: Weekly on Thu., Feb. 14-Mar. 7, 7-9 p.m. Snow date Mar. 13. Cost: $60/series. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. a basic overview of Jung, the man, his thought and his legacy to psychology and our world, providing a primer of key Jungian concepts. Highly recommended for all who plan to take more advanced courses in the Center’s Via Investigativa, e.g., alchemy, archetypal psychology, archetypal astrology and the Mysterium Coninunctionis. led by sue Mehrtens.
aStroloGy anD tarot: Feb. 9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $75/8-hr. class. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. learn how to work with both your natal chart and the Tarot in this workshop that integrates the two ancient disciplines to provide you with clarification of your past, present and future. led by susan ackerman, author, teacher and counselor.
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Not Fade Away An interview with Yo La Tengo’s James McNew BY D AN BO L L E S
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SEVEN DAYS: After working with producer Roger Moutenot for 20 years, you went with a new producer for Fade, John McEntire. What prompted the switch?
JAMES MCNEW: The switch was really nothing more than wanting to try something new. It just took us a very long time to think of something like that, but I’m not sure why. We’ve known John as friends for over 20 years and are huge fans of the bands he plays in and his productions. It was a great experience working with him. We gave ourselves over to his recording process and let him do his thing. At the same time, John was very interested in letting us preserve our sounds and what we do.
SD: Was there a “feeling out” phase working with John? JM: Definitely. We were friends, but in the sense of working together in the studio, we were strangers still. We started
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n the pantheon of indie rock, Hoboken’s Yo La Tengo occupy a place alongside the giants of the genre, bands such as Built to Spill, the Pixies and Dinosaur Jr., whose contributions have directly influenced subsequent generations and shaped the course of indierock history. Just don’t tell them that. “I really don’t think much about that stuff,” says Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew in a recent phone interview. YLT would belong on the Mount Rushmore of indie rock, should such a monument ever be erected. But McNew, a key member since joining the band full time in the early 1990s, says the band still prefers looking ahead rather than navel-gazing. That is clear in the new album, Fade — YLT’s 13th full-length since their 1986 debut, Ride the Tiger. The record, produced by John McEntire of the Sea and Cake and Tortoise, is classic Yo La Tengo, featuring subtly clever wordplay, easy melodies sung in typically hushed tones, and enough ingenious twists and turns to keep audiences guessing. This after more than 25 years in the biz. In advance of Yo La Tengo’s upcoming performance at the Higher Ground Ballroom on Tuesday, February 12, Seven Days caught up with McNew on the road in St. Louis.
strangest thing. I think it might have been the band Why? that wrote a song about it being bad luck to make a statue of someone before they’re dead. I kind of agree with that. I’m really proud of everything we’ve done, but I don’t sit back and recount it very often. We’re more interested in working and moving forward. It does feel like we’re still growing, more than ever in some ways. So I haven’t found a way to balance those things yet.
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working with Roger eons ago. And even now, our technical language in the studio isn’t the most precise. So Roger knew how to interpret what we liked and what sounded good. He understood us. To work with John, we still had to come together to figure out how to express to him clearly what we liked and why. That was something we didn’t really think of beforehand. But once we were there on the spot working, we did come together in that way. Being able to verbalize things really informed the way the sessions went. It gave us purpose.
magazine says. I think that’s kind of insulting, to everybody. Why bother reading the rest of the review? Thumb up/thumb down would also work. But that’s just me. I have my own issues.
SD: Yo La Tengo are famously critical darlings. Do you pay attention to the things people write about you?
JM: I guess so. I really don’t think much about that stuff. I don’t take stock, really. Jesse Jarnow wrote a book about us last year [Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock], which was kind of related to your question. While I think he’s a great writer and a really nice guy and I thought the book turned out good, at the same time it’s a very weird thing to do. It’s like a statue of yourself, which is just the
JM: I would say “we” do. But I tend not to, personally. Sometimes I’ll read things, but it’s rare. It’s a strange situation. If I see a publication that uses some kind of a number system or grading system for a record review, I will either stop reading that magazine or simply not believe anything that
SD: I’ve often wondered about that. How does Pitchfork quantify an 8.1 versus an 8.3? What’s the formula? JM: Yeah. I was never good at math.
SD: Yo La Tengo are often cited as an influence by younger bands. Is that a surreal thing for you?
JM: Well, from a technical standpoint, it seems like the whole world has changed. But I think we’re better at it now. We’re more comfortable now. As far as a business world, it is very much like the basic premise of “Futurama.” We started such a long time ago, and to look around now, it’s like this dystopian future that we’re currently in.
SD: Speaking of which, I’m guessing doing the closing credits for “The Simpsons” has to be a career highlight.
JM: That was quite a day! One of the writers of the show was a fan of ours and came to see us one night. He introduced himself and I recognized his name right away. We stayed friends for a while, and he thought we’d be really good for the music at the end of an episode he’d written. He asked us to do it, and we dropped everything. It was so much fun. The only specification they gave us was to make a psychedelic version of the theme song. Knowing us, basically our lives are centered around psychedelic music. So we did three demos: one based on “Tomorrow Never Knows,” which they used; one based on “Ohm” by John Coltrane, which was pretty out there; and another based on Davie Allan and the Arrows, kind of a biker-rock version. Actually, that one would make a good single. We should put that one out.
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Perhaps it’s because Andy is hopefully on the back nine with his in-patient treatment and is physically recovering. But — at the risk of being maudlin — I think a lot of it has to do with the support the local music community has sent his way. It’s a cliché that the power of positive thinking can affect healing. But as someone who has recently seen a family member battle cancer (which has, against very long odds, gone into remission), I can tell you it’s absolutely true. This stuff matters. Williams declined to answer questions about his prognosis and when he might begin outpatient treatment, mostly because he doesn’t really know and he doesn’t want to give false hope. But he did say he’s deeply moved by the community support, and that he hadn’t quite realized how many lives he has touched. “The support has been unbelievable,” said Williams. “But I had a feeling Burlington would be there for me. It always has been.”
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paraphrase ron Burgundy, he’s kind of a big deal. I think most of us expected an exceptional outpouring of support for A-Dog, who is not only one of the region’s finest turntablist but one of the friendliest and most likable people you could ever meet. But even I didn’t anticipate the community rallying around him to this degree. It’s been astonishing. The Higher Ground show will be at least the fifth major benefit in Williams’ honor since his diagnosis in December. And each has been very successful. I don’t see that trend changing this week. I had the chance to chat with Williams over the weekend. We spoke by phone — his immune system is still recovering from two rounds of chemotherapy, so visitors are kept at a minimum to decrease the risk of infection. Anyone who has experienced chemotherapy or watched a loved one go through it knows how debilitating it can be. And it can take weeks, or months, to recover even a fraction of that lost energy. But chatting with Andy, I was struck by how normal he seemed. During our 20-minute conversation, I never once got the sense that I was speaking to a gravely ill man. Maybe a little bored — hospitals don’t offer much in the way of entertainment, though he has been making remixes on his laptop, enlightening younger nurses on the finer points of A TriBE CAllEd QuEsT and catching up on TV. But not sick. He sounded like his usual, upbeat self.
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It is A-dog Week here in the Queen City. Well, unofficially, at least. Sadly, I’m told I don’t have the power to officially designate special, citywide holidays — see my ill-fated attempts at “Ed BEmis Day,” “TrEy Look-alike Week” and “dAn BollEs Appreciation Month.” I’m told it has something to do with my not being the mayor. Well played, miro. Anyway, if I did wield such power, my first act would be to designate the upcoming seven days as A-Dog Week, since we’ll have not one, not two, but three blowout bashes raising money to help the estimable local DJ — aka Andy WilliAms — offset the cost of his ongoing treatment for leukemia. The first such benefit is this Wednesday, February 6, at Nectar’s and features Williams’ old hip-hop group, ThA VT union, reuniting for their first show since 2010 — see last week’s Soundbites for the full story. Bennie number two is the following night, Thursday, February 7, at Red Square, where A-Dog has been a fixture since … well, as long as I can remember. I’ve been sneaking into that joint since I was, like, 19, so let’s just say it’s been a while. (Note from the 7D legal team: Sorry! Please don’t arrest Dan.) The Red Square show will feature a smorgasbord of local DJ talent including CrE8, mAshTodon, KATA & Con yAy, sTAVros, dEE JAy BAron, roBBiE J, BonJour-hi!’s Vidi ViCi, dAKoTA, mArio and the godfather of BTV house DJs, CrAig miTChEll. Completing the Fitid hat trick, Higher Ground will host a massive blowout on Monday, February 11, with DJs spinning in both rooms, including Baron, Vidi Vici and Cousin dAVE in the Showcase Lounge. Meanwhile, in the Ballroom, highlights include lAzErdisK PArTy sEx, Nexus Artist’s Chris PATTison and another reunion of local hip-hop royalty, EyE oh you, which featured post-BElizBEhA FATTiE B and KonFliK on the mics and A-Dog on the ones and twos, and was an evolutionary precursor to the aforementioned VT Union. Oh, yeah, the show also features the legendary dJ z-TriP, who is among the most revered live-performance DJs on the planet and an incomparable producer — just ask PuBliC EnEmy, who tabbed him on their last record. He’s also a personal friend of A-Dog, dating back to their days rocking parties for Burton and Gravis. To
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Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. HalFlOungE: scott mangan (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. HigHEr grOunD sHOWcasE lOungE: Pork Tornado (rock), 8:30 p.m., $15. AA.
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JP's Pub: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. nEctar's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. mc B-Free & the ice coast Band present tha VT union Reunion: A Benefit for A-Dog (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. On taP bar & grill: chad Hollister (rock), 7 p.m., Free.
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raDiO bEan: Risa Binder (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Heather Pierson (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Punk Rock Night with Trapper Keeper, Worst 5, 11 p.m., Free.
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rED squarE: Wildcat O'Halloran (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. signal KitcHEn: Badbadnotgood, DJ Disco Phantom, FRNDs (EDm, jazz), 9 p.m., $10. AA. sKinny PancaKE: Josh Panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.
central
bagitOs: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. cHarliE O's: mark LeGrand (country), 8 p.m. tHE PinEs: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. WHaMMy bar: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.
city liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.
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bEE's KnEEs: Fred Brauer (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. tHE Hub PizzEria & Pub: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. MOOg's PlacE: Danny Ricky cole (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. ParKEr PiE cO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.
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P-Funk Era In the history of funk music,
this Thursday, February 7, go see them at the Higher Ground Ballroom and, while you’re shaking your ass to the music of funk’s grand designer, think long and hard on the clearly ill-advised life choices you’ve made. Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HigHEr grOunD ballrOOM: George clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (funk), 9 p.m., $30/33. AA. lEvity : standup comedy Open mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Hot Wax with Justcaus & Penn West (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. MOnKEy HOusE: cam Will (singersongwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. nEctar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Po Boyz, What's Good (funk), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
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On taP bar & grill: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., Free.
DObrá tEa: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., Free. Finnigan's Pub: craig mitchell (house), 10:30 p.m., Free.
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O'briEn's irisH Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.
club MEtrOnOME: Electrode Entertainment Presents sunGlo ii: A Winter Wonderland (EDm), 9 p.m., Free.
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MOnOPOlE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.
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tWO brOtHErs tavErn: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. 50s Night, 10 p.m., Free.
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raDiO bEan: Dave Fugel & Julian chobot (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio with Geza carr & Anthony santor (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squarE: summit of Thieves (rock), 6 p.m., Free. Red square for A-Dog (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Donations. rED squarE bluE rOOM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free.
rí rá irisH Pub: The cop Outs (rock), 9 p.m., Free. vEnuE: Thirsty Thursdays, 7 p.m., Free.
central
bagitOs: colin mccaffrey & Friends (folk), 6 p.m., Donations. cHarliE O's: Open Blues Jam with Blue Fox, 8 p.m., Free. grEEn MOuntain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. lOcalFOlK sMOKEHOusE: Honeywell (folk), 9:30 p.m., Free. PurPlE MOOn Pub: Open mic with Bruce Jones, 8 p.m., Free. sKinny PancaKE: 4tet, Katie Trautz & michael Roberts (indie folk), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation. tuPElO Music Hall: Open mic, 7 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
51 Main: Brent Thomas Quartet (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. city liMits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. On tHE risE baKEry: songwriters in the Round with Derek Burkins, Giovanina Bucci (singer-songwriters),
8 p.m., Donations. tWO brOtHErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.
northern
bEE's KnEEs: seth Eames and miriam Bernardo (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., Donations. tHE Hub PizzEria & Pub: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., Free. MOOg's PlacE: Tim Brick (country), 8 p.m., Free. ParKEr PiE cO.: can-Am Jazz Quintet, 7:30 p.m., Free.
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MOnOPOlE: The snacks (rock), 10 p.m., Free. MOnOPOlE DOWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. OlivE riDlEy's: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free. tHEraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.
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Speaking of good folk music, the Skinny Pancake scored a coup by snagging upand-coming contemporary folk outfit 4TET — not to be confused with the British post-rock artist FOUR TET — for a pair of shows this week at both their Burlington and Montpelier locations. The group is headlined by fiddle phenom BRITTANY HAAS, who is best known for her work in the excellent old-time band CROOKED STILL. Haas is joined by a trio of equally talented young acoustic musicians, including fiddler CLEEK SCHREY (BIGFOOT), guitarist JORDAN TICE and dancer NIC GAREISS. They’ll be in Montpelier this Thursday, February 7, and in Burlington on Friday, February 8. WOODEN DINOSAUR’s KATIE TRAUTZ and MICHAEL ROBERTS open both shows. It’s shaping up to be a nice weekend at the Monkey House, including a show on Friday, February 8, with LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES, whom local alt-country bumpkin LOWELL THOMPSON tells me are
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fodder infighting, “Behind the Music”type shenanigans that would make MÖTLEY CRÜE wince, and the mysterious deaths of four drummers. Kidding! They’re actually parting ways amicably and just think it’s time to pursue other outlets. Best of luck.
Friday, March 8 at 8:00 p.m. Town Hall Theater $20 advance, $22 at the door She redefines the boundaries of folk-urban pop music with her inventive guitar wizardry and uncompromising vocals and lyrics. P.O. Box 684 Middlebury, VT 05753 e-mail: aftdark@sover.net
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“the truth of Southern rock.” Of course, Thompson is opening the show, so maybe he’s biased. Still, I trust him. Then on Sunday, February 10, garage-punk duo HILLY EYE, featuring AMY KLEIN — formerly of TITUS ANDRONICUS — swing round the rotary in support of their debut, Reasons
to Live, which has been getting some favorable reviews around the webscape. No idea what Lowell thinks, though.
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Last but not least, Layla. Ya got me on my knees, Layla. And this Saturday, February 9, I’m guessing you may similarly prostrate in Montpelier when BOB WAGNER reprises his local all-star tribute to DEREK & THE DOMINOES’ classic double LP, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, at Positive Pie 2. Joining everyone’s favorite ax-wielding ginger are bassist ROB MORSE, keyboardist RAY PACZKOWSKI and drummer — and 7D employee — STEVE HADEKA.
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Red squaRe: aaron Flinn (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Eastbound Jesus (bluegrass), 8 p.m., $5. Wild adriatic (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. Red squaRe Blue RooM: DJ mixx (EDm), 9 p.m., $5. RuBen JaMes: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free. Rí Rá IRIsH PuB: supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., Free. skInny Pancake: 4tet, Katie trautz & michael Roberts (indie folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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BagItos: David Kraus and John LaRouche (folk), 6 p.m., Donations. cHaRlIe o's: Live music, 10 p.m., Free. coRk WIne BaR: Whiskey Bullet (country), 7 p.m., Free. gReen MountaIn taveRn: DJ Jonny p (top 40), 9 p.m., $2. PuRPle Moon PuB: Jersey Rollers (rock), 8 p.m., Free. slIde BRook lodge & taveRn: po Boyz (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
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Dream Works Owing to their heady blend of influences that range from
gritty, back-porch Americana to druggy psych-rock, Hudson Valley’s gandalF MuRPHy and tHe slaMBovIan cIRcus oF dReaMs own perhaps the world’s greatest, and most fitting, genre
descriptor: “hillbilly Floyd.” That about sums it up, we think. Follow them down the rabbit hole this Sunday, February 10, at the Tupelo Music Hall in White River Junction. tHu.07
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Backstage PuB: trivia with made in the shade Entertainment, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free. Banana WInds caFé & PuB: Red stellar (country), 8 p.m., Free. cluB MetRonoMe: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. HIgHeR gRound BallRooM: aer, mod sun, cisco adler, Jacob Es (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $14/16. aa. HIgHeR gRound sHoWcase lounge: Winter Fiesta with DJ two Rivers (EDm), 8 p.m., $15/20. aa. lIFt: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3.
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cluB MetRonoMe: takeover with austin sirch, maui (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., $4. Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. FRanny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HIgHeR gRound BallRooM: papdosio, consider the source (jam), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. aa. JP's PuB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., Free. MaRRIott HaRBoR lounge: Eight02 (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. nectaR's: Red clover and the Hermit Thrush (country-punk), 7 p.m., Free. sophistafunk, the Folkadelics (funk), 9 p.m., $5. on taP BaR & gRIll: The influence (rock), 9 p.m., Free. RadIo Bean: pappy (old time), 12 p.m., Free. Kim and chris (acoustic blues), 5:30 p.m., Free. Renee & Joe (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., Free. Doctor sailor (indie folk), 8 p.m., Free. Wren & mary (indie folk), 9 p.m., Free. michelle sarah (soul), 10 p.m., Free. Red squaRe: perry Nunn (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. John Fries Band (rock), 8 p.m., $5. DJ mashtodon (EDm), 11 p.m., $5. Red squaRe Blue RooM: DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., Free. DJ stavros (EDm), 11 p.m., $5. Rí Rá IRIsH PuB: Bling cherry (rock), 10 p.m., Free. skInny Pancake: cats melvin & Glimpse trio (rock), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.
51 MaIn: Bob macKenzie Blues Band, 9 p.m., Free.
venue: 18 & up Destination saturdays, 8 p.m., Free.
on tHe RIse BakeRy: The Julian chobot trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Donations.
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BagItos: irish sessions, 2 p.m., Free. The Light and the Laugh (folk), 6 p.m., Donations.
Bee's knees: The Hubcats (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
castleRock PuB: Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 9 p.m., Free.
tHe HuB PIzzeRIa & PuB: tammy Fletcher (americana), 9:30 p.m., Free.
cHaRlIe o's: all Request Dance party, 10 p.m., Free.
MatteRHoRn: mango Jam (Zydeco), 9 p.m., $5.
cIdeR House BBq and PuB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., Free.
Moog's Place: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 8 p.m., Free.
PosItIve PIe 2: Bob Wagner & Friends: Layla & Other assorted Love songs (rock), 10:30 p.m., $7.
MaRRIott HaRBoR lounge: Ray Vega (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.
PaRkeR PIe co.: celtic acoustic session, 6 p.m., Free.
PuRPle Moon PuB: mcBride & Lussen (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free.
Monkey House: Lee Bains iii & the Glory Fires, Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 9 p.m., $5.
RIMRocks MountaIn taveRn: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
tHe ReseRvoIR RestauRant & taP RooM: Lynguistic civilians (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
nectaR's: Happy Ending Fridays with Jay Burwick (solo acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Dub is a Weapon, aabaraki (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. on taP BaR & gRIll: Nerbak Brothers (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. The Hitmen (rock), 9 p.m., Free. RadIo Bean: Kid's music with Linda "tickle Belly" Bassick (children's music), 10:30 a.m., Free. Gerhard and Julia (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Kwesi Kankam (americana), 8:30 p.m., Free. John Fries (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. The move it move it (afro-pop), 11:30 p.m., Free. sunday Face (folk rock), 1 a.m., Free.
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JP's PuB: starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.
tuPelo MusIc Hall: Kim simmonds and savoy Brown (blues rock), 8 p.m., $30.
cHuRcH & MaIn RestauRant: Night Vision (EDm), 9 p.m., Free.
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slIde BRook lodge & taveRn: tim and Heff (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
MonoPole: Return of the Fly (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
tuPelo MusIc Hall: mix and mingle in the upper Valley (speed dating), 7 p.m., Free.
tHeRaPy: pulse with DJ Nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.
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51 MaIn: Bob Gagnon trio (jazz), 9 p.m., Free.
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cIty lIMIts: Dance party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9 p.m., Free. tWo BRotHeRs taveRn: First saturday Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.
Backstage PuB: smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
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Burlington is hardly a bastion of prog rock — at least not in the current century. But Elephants of Scotland, a newish local supergroup of sorts featuring members of Mailbox, Hot Neon Magic and the Dirty Blondes, are out to prove that certain segments of the local scene remember the epically heady glory days of Yes, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer rather fondly. On their debut record, Home Away From Home, the band draws on the genre’s late 1970s and early ’80s heyday. The result is an updated take that both honors and teases prog conventions and manages to paint outside its royal red lines. The record checks in at six songs and a prog-worthy 40-plus minutes. Despite that seemingly bloated run time, the album is actually quite efficient. Led by vocalist, keyboardist and primary songwriter Adam Rabin, EoS deliver a
generally well-crafted suite of material. It’s founded on songwriting structures that are rigid enough to give each song an identifiable framework but pliable enough to allow for flights of improvisational fancy. As prog aficionados know, there’s a fine line between instrumental ingenuity and outright wankery. To their credit, these Elephants prove surprisingly nimble. On the lead cut, “Geograph,” Rabin and guitarist John Whyte build a lean, insistent groove on a bed of staccato guitar and fleeting synth arpeggios. Backing this are Dan MacDonald’s propulsive bass and an alternately functional and flashy drum line, courtesy of Ornan McLean, that would make Phil Collins grin. It’s all a setup to the vocal storm that follows, in which Rabin and company exhort the virtue and violence of nature. Couched as an environmental statement, it’s about as close to straight-faced as the band comes — lyrically speaking, at least. While the remainder of the album
cheekily touches on appropriately fantastic subjects ranging from alien invasions to time travel — again, this is prog rock — in terms of sheer musicality, EoS remain dead serious. “Full Power” is something like what might happen if the Nice kidnapped Ben Folds. Nineminute album centerpiece “Starboard” breathlessly dives into the New Wavemeets-metal end of the prog pool — where it likely encounters Styx swimming with floaties. The title track, clocking in at a comparatively sparse four minutes, is a lean, aggressive cut that practically begs to be the soundtrack to the montage sequence of a great 1980s flick. The album’s shortest track is a setup to its longest and most epic, “Errol McSquisitor.” After generally managing temptations in the preceding half hour, EoS finally succumb to an 11-minute opus that builds from breezy keyboard pop into a maelstrom of psych-rock and finally relents in an ebbing tide of washed-out synth. It’s a masterful finish, made all the more satisfying by the previous restraint. Home Away From Home by Elephants of Scotland is available at elephantsofscotland.com. The band celebrates the release of the new album at Metal Monday at Nectar’s on Monday, February 11.
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and ride.” It’s a rollicking tune, though the bright tone and fine polish sap some urgency from the song’s cautionary “live fast, die young” mantra. Written by the band collectively, “Dust Bowl Heaven” follows and bears more in common with the early grooves of Phish than the Woody Guthrie ballads its title evokes. But it’s a tight little number, nonetheless, with Wyckoff delivering elastically funky organ work and Brooks a particularly smooth lead vocal turn. Panton Flats flatline on Bob Levinson’s “Won’t Lose My Stride,” which suffers a terminal case of cornball earnestness — perhaps brought on by middle-agedwhite-guy-blues-itis. At no point on the record does the band truly break established genre molds. But they generally play them well. “Stride” seems to actively sublimate itself to rote blues contrivances and convention. The band rebounds on “Moped
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Self-proclaimed supergroup Panton Flats may not boast the all-star lineup that the term typically suggests. Still, the quintet does boast a fine lineage of veteran local players. Collectively, the jam-rock outfit has traded licks with the likes of Billy Joel, Todd Rundgren, Phish’s Mike Gordon and Russell Batiste, to name-drop a few. On their self-titled debut, recorded by über engineer Lane Gibson at Chuck Eller Studios in Charlotte, the Flats serve up a handful of tunes that hint at a burgeoning star power. The record opens on “The Morning Comes,” written by Vergennes’ Josh Brooks, a well-regarded singer-songwriter and the leader of alt-blues duo Grant Black. Following a lead riff eerily reminiscent of Big Star’s “In the Street” — aka the theme song from “That 70s Show” — the song settles in to a rambling groove complete with a rubber-band bass line, courtesy of Andy Smith, and Chris Wyckoff ’s honky-tonk piano. Brooks spins a salacious yarn of late nights misspent with “junkies and dealers at the park
Moses,” a quirky, talking-blues-by-way-ofmid-tempo-jam-rock nugget that finds the troubled, titular Moses “trippin’ balls one day sittin’ on the front porch swing” when he encounters his own sort of burning bush. It’s a clever, fun and surprisingly subversive romp. The album closes on the Wyckoffpenned “Lonesome Road.” The ode to post-Katrina New Orleans is meant to be inspirational. While well intentioned, there’s something disingenuous in both the clunky wordplay and faux-gospel mood that fails to stir the soul. On the whole, Panton Flats (the album) is an uneven collection, intriguingly vibrant in moments and frustratingly stale in others. Still, Panton Flats’ (the band) pedigree suggests it is more than capable of an improved follow-up. Panton Flats is available at joshbrooksmusic.com/panton_flats. Panton Flats release their new album this Saturday, February 9, with a show at the Vergennes Opera House.
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Bee's Knees: steve morabito (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Chow! Bella: The Best Little Border Band (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. The huB Pizzeria & PuB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. MaTTerhorn: spiritual Rez (reggae), 9 p.m., $7. Moog's PlaCe: mardi Gras party with Gumbo Diablo (cajun), 8 p.m., Free. ParKer Pie Co.: Granite Junction (country), 8 p.m., Na. PosiTive Pie: Nuda Veritas (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free.
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MonoPole: Kloptoscope (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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JaMes Moore Tavern: Dewey Drive Band (rock), 8 p.m., Free.
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CluB MeTronoMe: The malah, the indobox (electronic), 9 p.m., $7/10. 18+. MonKey house: am & msR presents: Hilly Eye (indie), 8 p.m., $5. 18+. neCTar's: mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free.
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on TaP Bar & grill: mitch terriciano (acoustic), 11 a.m., Free. radio Bean: Queen city Hot club (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free. saloon sessions with Brett Hughes (country), 2 p.m., Free. Burlington Kirtan (mantra), 5 p.m., Free. tricky Britches (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free. mike sullivan & collin cope (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., Free. ava marie (folk), 9:30 p.m., Free. The Lesser Gentlemen (folk), 11 p.m., Free.
dupont (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., $13. 18+.
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sKinny PanCaKe: patrick Fitzsimmons (singersongwriter), 6 p.m.
MonTy's old BriCK Tavern: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free.
higher ground BallrooM: Yo La tengo (indie rock), 8 p.m., $20/23. aa.
PurPle Moon PuB: andy Reiner (folk), 7 p.m., Free.
TuPelo MusiC hall: Gandalf murphy and the slambovian circus of Dreams (rock), 7 p.m., $25.
northern
Bee's Knees: Rebecca padula (acoustic), 10:30 a.m., Donations. second sunday comedy (standup), 7:30 p.m., Donations. MaTTerhorn: chris tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free.
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higher ground BallrooM: Friends for a-Dog featuring DJ Z-trip (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $25/27. aa. Muddy waTers: spielpalast cabaret Fundraiser with Brass Balagan, 400 Lux Klezmer Ensembele, Lois trombley (eclectic), 8 p.m., Na. neCTar's: metal monday: Knights of crinitus, Elephants of scotland cD release, Know Your Enemy (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on TaP Bar & grill: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. radio Bean: The Good Reverend Ben Donovan (acoustic soul), 7:30 p.m., Free. Open mic, 9 p.m., Free. ruBen JaMes: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
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Moog's PlaCe: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.
neCTar's: mihali from twiddle (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Dead set tuesdays (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. olde norThender: abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. on TaP Bar & grill: trivia with top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. radio Bean: stephen callahan and mike piche (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Haley Jane & the primates (folk), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honkytonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. red square: craig mitchell (EDm), 7 p.m., Free. craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free. red square Blue rooM: DJ Frank Grymes (EDm), 11 p.m., Free.
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Charlie o's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. whaMMy Bar: trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Free.
champlain valley Two BroThers Tavern: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
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Bee's Knees: children's sing-along with Lesley Grant, 10 a.m., Donations. The huB Pizzeria & PuB: Entendre (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. Moog's PlaCe: Open mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.
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on TaP Bar & grill: pine street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free. radio Bean: Ensemble Five (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. red square: Hayley Jane and the primates (rock), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. sKinny PanCaKe: Josh panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.
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BagiTos: acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. Charlie o's: abby Jenne (rock), 8 p.m., Free. green MounTain Tavern: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. PurPle Moon PuB: Bruce Jones (folk), 7 p.m., Free. whaMMy Bar: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.
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CiTy liMiTs: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. on The rise BaKery: Open Bluegrass, 8 p.m., Donations. Two BroThers Tavern: trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. Open mic, 9 p.m., Free.
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Bee's Knees: allen church (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. The huB Pizzeria & PuB: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Moog's PlaCe: D. Davis (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. ParKer Pie Co.: trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.
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ArtsRiot added a physical space to its online territory last October when Wai and McHenry signed the lease on nearly 2000 square feet in the Howard Space, behind Speeder & Earl’s Coffee off Pine Street. Then they set to work converting the former Volkswagen auto-body shop into a gallery. Over a month and a half of scrubbing, the space went from looking like the “inside of an oil can,” according to McHenry, to a legitimate exhibition space — all crisp white walls and bright lights. ArtsRiot, which is identified by a sprawling street-art mural on a brick wall out front, did retain a few of the auto-body shop’s industrial flourishes, including the concrete floors and exposed piping. Wai, 33, and McHenry, 26, inaugurated the ArtsRiot Gallery in December with their first public exhibition, which featured the work of Rwandan-born Vermont photographer Jean Luc Dushime. Now on view through March are the journals, models, sketches and designs of pioneering design/build architect David Sellers, who lives in Warren. “Dave loved the idea of the community-centered gallery and business,” says gallery curator Hillary Clark. “He volunteered to bring a bunch of stuff to the space and help as much as he could.” While hosting exhibition-based events is a huge part of ArtsRiot’s mission, Wai and McHenry say they feel they’re just hitting their stride with the Sellers show. In coming weeks, they’ll offer complementary happenings, including a lecture by Sellers and jazz musician Bruce Sklar, which will explore their respective creative processes. McHenry and Wai, who first met through mutual friends, came up with the concept for ArtsRiot while both were working at Outdoor Gear Exchange on
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ucked among the artist studios that populate Burlington’s South End is ArtsRiot, a gallery with a conscience, say its cofounders. Launched by Felix Wai and PJ McHenry in July 2012 as a website, ArtsRiot aims to bring people together — primarily via social media — through shared interests in art, food, music and culture. “The focus,” Wai says, “is making connections and inspiring people to engage and become more aware of their community.”
Felix Wai and P.J. McHenry
THE FOCUS IS MAKING CONNECTIONS AND INSPIRING PEOPLE TO ENGAGE AND BECOME MORE AWARE OF THEIR COMMUNITY.
FELIX WAI Church Street. Rather than letting the sometimes-monotonous world of retail get them down, the duo brainstormed during shared shifts and soon identified a common goal: to create a hub that would help locals plug into the city’s art, food and music scenes. Later, during the course of a long textmessage conversation between McHenry and Wai, the name ArtsRiot was conceived. The term communicates the pair’s objective in a simple, straightforward way. Burlington has proved an ideal home for the venture. The small scale of the city has allowed Wai and McHenry to make countless connections, and the lively art scene has helped them stay afloat. “While we are still a hurting country, and people are struggling everywhere,” Wai says, “Burlington maintains its vibrancy; it still feels like there are things happening and thriving.” Landing a gallery space was an important step for ArtsRiot, but there is no concrete plan for an endgame. “We’re not
summiting a mountain here,” McHenry says. “We’re just working.” Wai adds that, on a practical level, they’d like to be less worried about money. “Our ideas are now tempered by trying to break even, and I can’t wait to be free of that shackle,” he says. ArtsRiot, which is a full-time job for both Wai and McHenry, supports itself through online advertising, events, art sales and studio rentals. A visitor to ArtsRiot passes through the main gallery and a small lounge into a space divided into six artist studios. Current occupants include spray-paint artist Scottie Raymond, textile artist and photographer Suzanne Dollois, painter and illustrator Will Barker, poet Trevien Stanger, designers Giovanna Jager and Tyler Hopkins, and the space’s newest additions, multimedia artists Bryan Miller and Phoebe Low. While the ArtsRiot tenants are creatively diverse, Wai and McHenry made sure each artist had one thing in common: a commitment to community
involvement and working collaboratively. ArtsRiot has a long list of events, collaborations and developments in the works; the excitement is almost palpable when Wai and McHenry talk about them. While they already employ a number of interns from area colleges, the pair intends to flesh out the educational component of ArtsRiot. “One of my loves is teaching,” Wai explains. “We can’t do everything ourselves, and we’re working on structuring the company so that we can get people who are interested in the ArtsRiot components involved.” For example, McHenry and Wai are planning a series of summer workshops on design, photography and healthy living. They’re also working on getting involved with Burlington’s burgeoning food-truck scene this summer. Other ArtsRiot partners include the Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District and ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center’s Connecting the Drops project, which aims to maintain public awareness of water-quality issues through a public art and education display in downtown Burlington. Essex Junctionbased Darkroom Gallery’s annual Champlain Valley Photo Slam will be held at ArtsRiot during Memorial Day weekend and ArtsRiot will join Burlington’s New City Galerie to put on a collaborative, community-centric exhibition. Last September, for the South End Art Hop, Wai and McHenry hosted a block party in the Curtis Lumber parking lot. They had six artists painting live, a lineup of bands and food trucks. The idea was to show art in progress while having a big party. They also loaned out their colorful van as a shuttle for the event, a role the vehicle reprised during December’s Holiday sHop. ArtsRiot is working on a plan to fund a South End Arts District shuttle using the van this summer. In an impressively short time, Wai and McHenry have transformed ArtsRiot from an amorphous digital entity into an active for-profit organization that seems to have a finger on Burlington’s pulse. “We have a lot going on,” Wai says, “but we’re excited for it.”
ArtsRiot is at 420 Pine Street in Burlington. artsriot.com
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Anthony Sini: "An Arrangement of unequal Things," paintings and drawings. Through February 22 at Flynndog in burlington. info, 863-2227. 'Broken heArtS & Sweet tArtS': Artwork about love and loss, and saucy depictions of "tarts" behind a red curtain in the backspace gallery. Through February 23 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. info, spacegalleryvt.com. CArl ruBino: "Facing the Music," photographs of musicians — some famous, some unknown — immersed in their performances. Through February 24 at uncommon grounds in burlington. info, 518-524-8450. ChriSty MitChell: "source and Alter," artwork made from discarded architectural drawings, children's books, magazines, wire and bathroom tiles. Through February 26 at Vintage inspired in burlington. info, 355-5418. 'Folio 2003 ProjeCt': hand-made folios containing the original work of 22 of Vermont’s finest artists. Curated by seAbA. Through February 28 at speeder & earl's (pine street) in burlington. info, 658-6016. gABrielle tSouniS: "Tzigane," oil and acrylic paintings inspired by the artist's world travels. Through April 1 at Vintage Jewelers in burlington. info, 862-2233. gAlen Cheney: Mixed-media abstracts, skyway; "Via della spada," oil and enamel on three panels, escalator; Steven goodMAn: Abstract oil paintings, gates 1-8. Through February 28 at burlington Airport in south burlington. info, 865-7166. 'giFtS For StrAngerS': Vermont artists' visual responses to the question: what would you give to a stranger for the holidays? Curated by Art's Alive. Through February 15 at union station in burlington. info, 660-9005. grouP exhiBit: photography by Jaques burke and Kristen watson; paintings by Marie lapre grabon and leslie McCool; mixed-media work by Maria Anghelache and Alan Arnold; collage work by elizabeth nelson and erika lawlor schmidt; and sculpture by Janet Van Fleet. Through April 30 at Maltex building in burlington. info, 865-7166.
hAndS Art exhiBit: Dozens of wooden hands decorated by artists from 8 to 80. Through March 1 at penny Cluse Café in burlington. info, handsvt.org. 'high trASh': Artworks made from cast-off materials and detritus. February 12 through May 19 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750.
jACkSon tuPPer: illustrations by the university of Vermont senior. Through February 23 at livak Room, Davis Center, uVM, in burlington. info, 201-919-2947.
jill MAdden: "northern landscapes," oil paintings inspired by the local woods, water, snow and mountains. Through April 27 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001. buRlingTon-AReA shows
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'the gAteS': Albert and David Maysles' documentary features Christo's draping, gold-panel art installation that filled Central park in February 2005. Thursday, February 7, 6:30 p.m., Casella Theater, Castleton state College. info, 468-1119. 'Print And ProCeSS': A behind-the-scenes look at prints by artist members. Through March 6 at Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction. nancy wightman demonstrates drypoint etching on plexiglass: wednesday, February 6, 11 a.m.-noon. lois beatty demonstrates the monotype process: saturday, February 9, 11 a.m.-noon.
listings and spotlights are written by mEgAN jAmES and cArlEY StEmpEl. listings are restricted to art shows in public places; exceptions may be made.
joAn wAtSon: "Assemble Disassemble Reappear," a ceramic installation. Through February 15 at living/learning Center, uVM, in burlington. Reception: Thursday, February 7, 5-6:30 p.m. info, 656-4200. BiAnCA Perren: "The Center for Circumpolar studies: Arctic Views," plein-air paintings and prints by the artist/ scientist who studies the changes in Arctic landscapes as a result of climate change, pollution and human land use; liSA ForSter BeACh: "Cultural energy," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 25 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Reception: Thursday, February 7, 5-7 p.m. info, 888-1261. 'Color Story': photographs that use color to characterize, describe, communicate and celebrate. February 7 through March 3 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. Reception: sunday, February 10, 4:306:30 p.m. info, 777-3686. hAl MAyForth: "subversive in his own little way," watercolors, abstract acrylics, word paintings, grid paintings and humorous paintings that originated in the artist's sketchbooks. February 8 through May 11 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. Reception: Friday, February 8, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 652-4510. joyCe hAyden & nAnCe SilliMAn: "Resiliency," assemblage boxes, collages and paintings by hayden; paintings and mixed-media work by silliman. February 9 through April 13 at nuance gallery in windsor. Reception:
'2013 BeSt oF the uPPer vAlley high SChool exhiBition': work by upper Valley teens; Artwork By StudentS FroM geiSel SChool oF MediCine At dArtMouth: A series of colored-pencil drawings called "Metastasis" by benjamin blais; prints of watercolor and ink paintings by Thanapoom (Mo) boonipat. February 8 through March 1 at AVA gallery and Art Center in lebanon, n.h. Reception: Friday, February 8, 5-7 p.m. info, 603-448-3117. 'Fun-A-dAy Art Show': work by more than 80 Vermonters who spent the month engaging in daily art making. February 9 through 28 at new Moon Café in burlington. Reception: saturday, February 9, 4-8 p.m. info, 383-1505.
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liBBy hillhouSe: www.alchemyjewelryarts.com "parallels," photographic COrner Of Pine and HOWard, BurlingtOn portraits paired with text drawn from interviews with Open Fri & Sat 10–5 or by appointment Vermonters living below the poverty line. February 8 through March 30 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.6v-alchemy020613.indd 1 2/5/13 12:25 PM Reception: Friday, February 8, 5-7 p.m. info, 388-4964.
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elizABeth nelSon: "winter," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Catamount Arts Center in st. Johnsbury. Reception: Friday, February 8, 5-7 p.m. info, 748-2600. eriC FitzgerAld: Art Affair by shearer presents landscape photography by the Vermont artist. Through March 31 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. Reception: Tuesday, February 12, 6-8 p.m. info, 658-1111.
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'nAture trAnSForMed: edwArd BurtynSky’S verMont QuArry PhotogrAPhS in Context': iconic photographs exhibited within the context of the geological and social history of the area, including the italian immigrant stoneworkers in the granite quarries near barre. February 8 through April 22 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Curators Juliette bianco, assistant director of the hood Museum of Art, and pieter broucke, director of the arts at Middlebury, discuss burtynsky's career and the process of organizing the exhibition: Tuesday, February 12, 4:30 p.m., Concert hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. info, 443-3168.
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rAndi Siu: "Amoroso! The Art show," acrylic heart paintings by the boston-area artist. February 8 through 28 at galleria Fine Arte in stowe. Reception: Friday, February 8, 5-7 p.m. info, 253-7696.
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jAniCe kiriyA: "My imagination," drawings by the Vermont artist. Through March 1 at Turning point Center in burlington. info, 825-6056.
'the MySteriouS Mind': paintings and sculptures by nina benedetto, Joan Curtis, Thomas Mcgraw, Mareva Millarc and Fran bull that aim to reflect the subconscious through the insights of Jungian psychology. Through March 24 at Vermont institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Michael Conforti gives a gallery talk: Friday, February 8, 7 p.m. info, 875-1018.
'interSeCtion: PreSenCe || CreAtivity || dreAMS': Artwork by students of the Archetypal Dreamwork practice — Karla Van Vleit, laura smith, Joan Murray and lily hinrichsen. Through February 28 at walkover gallery & Concert Room in bristol. Reception: bob Murray, getty payson, Jim goss, Karla Van Vliet and susan Marie scavo perform music and read poetry, saturday, February 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. info, 453-3188.
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j.B. woodS: paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438.
gAlen Cheney: Colorful, large-scale, abstract paintings that evoke urban graffiti, architecture and the organic. Through February 24 at helen Day Art Center in stowe. Talk: Thursday, February 7, 6 p.m. info, 253-8358.
'SeAt'S tAken': An exhibition that aims to examine human interaction, question the way we navigate the world and challenge our reactions to the unfamiliar, uncomfortable and different; gregg BlASdel: "bounty," a sculptural installation by the recipient of the 10th annual barbara smail Award. Through April 6 at bCA Center in burlington. exhibiting artist Vanessa german gives a spoken-word performance called "stand up, stand out" with new American artists to honor the late Dan balon, who served as director of diversity education in burlington schools: Friday, February 8, 6-8:30 p.m. info, 865-7166.
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grouP Show: works by paige berg Rizvi, Tom baginski, lorraine Manley, Ruth hamilton, nancy Dwyer, elizabeth nelson and Ron hernandez. Curated by seAbA. Through February 28 at The innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, 859-9222.
eSSex Art leAgue Meeting: Members gather for business and social time, plus a presentation by a guest artist. Thursday, February 7, 9-11 a.m., First Congregational Church, essex Junction. info, essexartleague.com.
Rachel gross demonstrates chine collé. wednesday, February 13, 11 a.m.-noon. info, 295-5901.
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Jonas Powell & Ryan Peden-sPeaR: powell's photography of Chittenden County landmarks, food and culture; peden-spear's mixed-media works that explore perception and the merging of organic and machine. Through February 28 at Davis studio gallery in burlington. info, 425-2700. KeRin Rose & david ePstein: Jewelry by Rose, who uses an ancient process called lost-wax casting, and epstein, who combines traditional metalsmithing with an artist's vision. Through February 18 at Frog hollow in burlington. info, 863-6458. 'laRge woRKs': Artworks that measure at least 3 feet in one direction. Through April 20 at soda plant in burlington. info, 578-2512. liza Cowen: "saki: pug for Fun," photographs of the artist's dogs. Through March 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men's Room in burlington. info, 864-2088. MaRianne devaux: Food-themed artwork. Through February 27 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 862-9614. niCholas heilig: work by the burlington artist. Curated by seAbA. Through February 28 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 859-9222.
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niCholas tayloR: "Jean-Michel basquiat: An intimate portrait," photographs of the artist at 19 taken by his friend and fellow frequenter of Manhattan's famed Mudd Club. The exhibit is on loan from niagara university's Castellani Art Museum. Through March 30 at bailey/howe library, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-3294. noRtheRn veRMont aRts assoCiation: work by artist members. Through March 2 at Fletcher Free library in burlington. info, 865-7211.
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'oCeaniC aRt and the PeRfoRManCe of life': intricately crafted objects, including masks, textiles and weaponry, from indigenous cultures of the pacific islands. Through May 24 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750.
annette CoMPton fieRtz: "Compton Art: work at Rest," artwork by the south woodstock artist who died last spring. Through February 9 at ArtisTree Community Arts Center & gallery in woodstock. info, 457-3500.
PhiliP hagoPian: paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 1 at the gallery at burlington College. info, 923-2335.
daniel a. neaRy JR. & JessiCa neaRy: "back in the Day: Artworks old and new." Through February 28 at Kellogg-hubbard library in Montpelier. info, 223-3338.
Quinn delahanty: sculptural paintings that the artist infuses with a sense of beauty and discomfort. Through March 1 at Magic hat brewing Company in south burlington. info, 658-2739. RobeRt hitzig: wood sculptures painted with tinted shellac; gwendolyn evans: Mixed-media work in clay and acrylics. Through February 27 at seAbA Center in burlington. info, 859-9222. RogeR ColeMan: "Take outs From the hungry ghost series," paintings inspired by the creatures in Chinese mythology driven by intense emotional needs. Through February 28 at The Firebird Café in essex Junction. info, 658-1081. steve ClaRK: watercolor, acrylic and mixed-media works depicting iconic Vermont scenes. Through February 28 at shelburne Vineyard. info, 985-8222. 'stRength in nuMbeRs': work by 11 Vermont art teachers who meet twice monthly to work on their own art. Through February 28 at Mezzanine gallery, Fletcher Free library, in burlington. info, 865-7211.
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'20-30/2d-3d': work in a variety of media by 20- to 30-year-old Vermont artists. Juried by cartoonist James sturm and printmaker Rachel gross. Through March 13 at Chandler gallery in Randolph. info, 728-9878.
'digital Regional': A photography exhibit featuring digitally manipulated images, virtual-reality photography and panoramas by ian Creitz, les Jorgensen and MaryJane sarvis. Through February 8 at Feick Fine Arts Center, green Mountain College, in poultney. info, 287-8398. dRew PebeRdy: Artwork that explores why directors make bad movies. Through March 13 at Main street Museum in white River Junction. info, 356-2776. fiona sullivan: "shades of pussy," watercolor paintings of flowers. Through March 30 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. info, 223-0043. glen CobuRn hutCheson: paintings, drawings and sculpture by the Montpelier artist. Visitors are invited to drop by Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m., and be the subject of a "talking portrait," a life-size pencil drawing. Through July 31 at storefront studio gallery in Montpelier. info, 839-5349. 'hey, they Can Really dRaw a line': A group exhibit of works curated from Mark waskow's waskowmium that examine line quality. Through March 30 at oRCA Media in Montpelier. info, 223-0432. 'in the eye of the beholdeR': paintings by three Vermont artists — Anne unangst, Marcia hill and Cindy griffith — interpreting the same landscapes. Through March 31 at governor's office gallery in Montpelier. info, 229-4326.
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'INTERTWINED': Innovative fiber works by Marsha Chase, Pamela Druhen, Elizabeth Fram, Christine Fries, Marilyn Gillis, Rae Harrell, Karen Henderson and Eve Jacobs Carnahan. Through March 9 at Festival Gallery in Waitsfield. Info, 496-6682.
LOIS BEATTY: Monoprints by the Upper Valley artist exhibited with jewelry by Stacy Hopkins and sculpture by Ria Blaas. Through February 23 at Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction. Info, 295-0808.
JOAN HOFFMANN: "American Wilderness and Habitats," oils and watercolors by the Royalton artist. Through March 22 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404.
MICHAEL T. JERMYN: "New American Impressionism," photographs. Through February 13 at Aldrich Public Library in Barre. Info, 223-1570.
JOHN SNELL: “Still Learning to See,” work by the life-long photographer. Through March 15 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, 371-4375. 'LABOR OF LOVE': An exhibit featuring photos of and excerpts from interviews with women who are passionate about their work, are an inspiration to others and exemplify excellence in their field. Created by Vermont Works for Women in collaboration with the Vermont Folklife Center. Through February 28 at Statehouse in Montpelier. Info, 655-8900. 'LIGHT & SPACE': Work by printmakers Sabra Field and Dan O’Donnell, fiber artist Karen Madden and sculptor Pat Musick. Through May 10 at The Great Hall in Springfield. Info, 885-3061. LINDA HOGAN: "Ever Moving ... Ever Changing," digital photographs by the Montpelier artist. Through February 25 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676. LIT TYLER: "Memories of an Unconscious Nothing," artwork by VTC's director of institutional research. Through May 31 at Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center. Info, 728-1237.
PATRICK LEAHY: "The Eye of Senator Leahy," a collection of photographs by the U.S. Senator, who has kept his camera close at hand during his 38 years in office. Through February 28 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. SARAH ROSEDAHL: "Whimsical Watercolor Birds," nature-inspired paintings by the self-taught artist and former engineer. Through February 28 at The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Info, 223-1981. 'SURVIVAL SOUP': Collage, painting and mixedmedia work by Randolph artists Travis Dunning, Matthew Riley and Seth Tracy, and White River Junction artist Ben Peberdy. Through March 8 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776.
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dOuglaS kirkland: Photographic portraits of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, John Lennon and George Clooney. Through February 28 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222. eliza STaMpS: Line drawings inspired by Vermont's mountain ranges. Through February 28 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. evie lOveTT: "Backstage at the Rainbow Cattle Co.: The Drag Queens of Dummerston, Vt.," Vermont Folklife Center audio interviews paired with photographs from a gay bar on a rural strip of Route 5 just north of Brattleboro. Through February 9 at Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.
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carOlyn ShaTTuck: Works created by layering individual monoprint plates over one another to create subtle environments of color, pattern and line. Through April 1 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.
'hOuSeS fOr a wall': Student-made models that synthesize balsa, hardwoods, foam-core and fused glass into an imagined house that hangs on a wall. February 12 through 20 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168.
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'uSeful and eleganT accOMpliShMenTS': Landscape drawings by 19th-century Norwich University alumni and their contemporaries, many of whom were involved in the Civil War (through June 30); '1861-1862: TOward a higher MOral purpOSe': An exhibition exploring the experiences of Norwich University alumni who fought in the Civil War, featuring photographs, artwork, weapons and equipment, including a cannon likely used by Norwich cadets (through March 31). At Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183.
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Seeking lOcal arTiSTS: Pompanoosuc Mills, a furniture showroom at 50 Church Street, is seeking wall art and possibly other types of work to display on a consignment basis. Work will be displayed for 30 days, and we can arrange artist receptions with refreshments. Please contact Sam or Mary, 862-8208, sam. longe@pompy.com. Seeking yOga-inSpired arT: The Burlington Yoga Conference is seeking yoga-inspired artwork to hang at the conference on May 4 and 5 in the UVM Davis Center. Deadline: April 20. Please contact ben@ empvt.com to submit.
Janice a. Bauch: Nature photography by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at CarpenterCarse Library in Hinesburg. Info, 482-2878. leOnidaS chalepaS: "Sculpture," work by the visiting artist in residence at West Rutland's Carving Studio and Sculpture Center. Through February 22 at Calvin Coolidge Library, Castleton State College. Info, 468-6052. ‘linear Thinking: SOl lewiTT, MOdern, pOSTMOdern and cOnTeMpOrary arT frOM The cOllecTiOn’: A LeWitt drawing installed by students. February 8 through May 5 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. rachel Baird: "My Pooling Heart," acrylic paintings that explore emotional damage, vulnerability and redemption. Through February 28 at ZoneThree Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 800-249-3562. STudenT arT ShOw: An annual exhibit of artwork by children and teens from seven local schools. Through February 28 at Brandon Artists Guild. Info, 247-4956.
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anna diBBle & dan gOTTSegen: "Upstairs at West Branch," Dibble's paintings of humans and animals attempting to navigate social interactions paired with Gottsegen's paintings that offer multiple points of view on a single scene. Through February 24 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943. chriSTina z. anderSOn: Snowflake Bentley’s images printed with the mordançage process by the Montana State University, Bozeman, professor. Through March 15 at The Old Red Mill in Jericho. Info, 899-2335. feBruary ShOw: Work by woodworker Hans Jaensch and painters Genie Rybicki-Judkins and Pat Murphy. Through February 28 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403. JOSeph SalernO: "Ridgeline," new multipanel landscape paintings. Through February 16 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. liza MyerS: "Nesting Instincts," paintings and sculpture related to birds and migration. Through February 28 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 467-3701.
lOcal MarkeT SeekS peepS! Waitsfield Farmers Market is seeking local agricultural, artisan and specialty food producers for the 2013 season. Information, waitsfieldfarmersmarket.com. Application deadline: March 1. chandler annual area arTiSTS ShOw: Orange, Washington and Windsor County artists are invited to submit one sample of their work. Drop-off: April 7 and 8. Opening: April 13. Info, chandler-arts.org. ‘The wOrld arOund uS’: Photographers 18 and under are invited to submit photos for a contest. First-, secondand third-place cash prizes will be awarded in three categories: people, animals and nature. Deadline: March 15. Call Camilla, 988-4300, or Emily, 988-4741, for info.
Rules and applications, woodenhorsearts.com/ photofun/index.shtml. Skin: call fOr enTrieS: The undulating landscape of the human form is one of the most variable in nature. Photo entries. Juror: Allen Birnbach. Deadline: March 6. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ ex40. creaTive cOMpeTiTiOn_004: Presented by the Root Gallery. $8 entry fee. People’s choice vote; winner takes all (compounded entry money). Limit one piece, any size, media or subject. First Friday of every month, 6-10 p.m. Vote for your favorite piece until awards ceremony at 8:30 p.m. Location: RLPhoto, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. Info, publicartschool@gmail.com.
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American men fighting in the Civil War. Norwich is marking the 150th anniversary with a pair of exhibits at its Sullivan Museum in Northfield. “Useful and Elegant Accomplishments” features drawings by 19th-century alums. Some recorded their wartime experiences by drawing the battlefields they encountered; others drew tourist sites they visited abroad later in their careers. The concurrent exhibit, “1861-1862: Toward a Higher Moral Purpose” — which comes down March 31 — delves further into the experiences of Norwich’s Civil War vets through photographs, artwork, weapons and even a cannon. Pictured: “Bridge Over the Bear River, Salt Lake Valley, 1867” by Grenville M. Dodge.
Margot EastMan & CasEy DEarborn: Photographs by Eastman; watercolors by Dearborn. Through March 4 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.
KathErinE buChMayr: Paintings of rural landscapes and animals. Through February 18 at The Gallery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center. Info, 362-4061.
MiChaEl lEw-sMith: "Portraits in Stone," black-and-white photographs of historic granite cemetery statues and monuments. Through February 26 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.
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Polly whitCoMb: "Old Implements & Fresh Clay," sculptural wall hangings made from salvaged industrial parts. Through February 28 at Stowe Craft & Design. Info, 253-7677.
sanDra Ershow: Watercolors and pastels by the Waterbury artist. Through March 15 at Copley Woodlands in Stowe. Info, 253-7200.
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'Molas in transition: thE tExtilE art of thE Kuna woMEn': A collection of the layered, reverse-appliqué and embroidered blouse fronts and backs made and worn by Kuna women in Panama. Through February 12 at Bent Northrop Memorial Library in Fairfield. Info, 827-3945.
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n the course of three decades as a reviewer, there have certainly been times when I’ve changed my mind about a film. There have been a few I initially dismissed and later grew to admire. And even fewer I considered significant on the initial viewing but less so with successive ones. I can’t recall, however, ever changing my mind about a film — doing a complete critical 180 — while still in the process of watching it. That’s exactly what happened in the course of watching Stand Up Guys. To say it doesn’t start out promisingly is an understatement. Al Pacino, now 72, plays Val, a small-time hood getting out of jail after 28 years. Christopher Walken, who’ll be 70 next month, is Doc, the old friend and partner in crime who picks him up. Can you blame me for abandoning all hope when, within minutes, the reunion has degenerated into a brothel visit and extended Viagra gag? I’m pretty sure I could’ve made it through life without hearing the man who played Michael Corleone utter the line “I’ve got a python in my pants.” Next stop: a nursing home. The two decide to “rescue” their one-time getaway
driver, a semi-comatose coot attached to an oxygen tank. Hirsch is played by Alan Arkin (age 78). It’s the movie that’s in serious need of saving when his friends’ pop-in magically rejuvenates the old fellow. The filmmakers aren’t content to have him outmaneuver cops in a high-speed freeway chase; back at the brothel, he follows that up by realizing his lifelong dream of having a three-way. Even that’s not ridiculous enough for the movie’s makers, though: Hirsch’s paid pals fall madly in love with him. Then, just as you’re about to write the whole thing off as mobster bucket-list baloney, the last thing you expect happens: Things get interesting. And human. And real. The film turns its focus to the relationship between Val and Doc, and we come to understand there’s more happening here than we realized. What looked like Val’s first night of freedom may in actuality be his last hurrah. The boss (Mark Margolis) of the organization for which Pacino’s character worked has, we learn, also been counting the days to his release. His son was killed by a bullet from Val’s gun in the shoot-out with police for which Val did time. Neither the acciden-
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tal nature of the death nor Val’s refusal to rat out the gang makes a lick of difference. Margolis’ character wants Val dead by 10 a.m., and he wants Doc to pull the trigger. Directed by Fisher Stevens (Just a Kiss) and written by newcomer Noah Haidle, the picture isn’t so much a work of art as a playground for a couple of artists doing their most resonant work in years. Pacino and Walken pull pathos and gravitas out of thin air, imbuing these two characters with depth beyond anything in Haidle’s script. As the old friends drink and drug the night away, they speak wistfully of lives misspent and matter of factly about what awaits them in the morning.
Stevens’ second feature proves unexpectedly thoughtful and affecting, thanks in large part to virtuoso interplay between its leads. And, speaking of unexpected, how about an Amour reference? Like Michael Haneke’s Oscar contender, Stand Up Guys offers a clear-eyed rumination on the limits of human connection in the face of old age and death. The list of films that waded into waters this existential over the past year isn’t exactly long. I don’t want to oversell it, but that’s not bad company for a movie that came this close to being Grumpy Old Gangsters. RICK KISONAK
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arm Bodies starts like a parody of a teen-angst flick. Nicholas Hoult plays a pale, blankeyed, vinyl-collecting young man who slouches through his day, asking in voiceover, “Why can’t I connect with anyone? Oh, yeah,” he observes, “it’s because I’m dead.” Our hero, R, is a zombie, and not just metaphorically. Unable to remember the rest of his name, R shambles through a postapocalyptic urbanscape (obviously Montréal), occasionally stopping to groan at his best friend (Rob Corddry) or to reminisce about the days when people breathed and looked each other in the eye. As R envisions a pre-zombified world where people “connected,” director Jonathan Levine (50/50, The Wackness), who adapted Isaac Marion’s novel to the screen, inserts a shot of a present-day crowd with every pair of eyes glued to a smartphone. That juxtaposition is probably the satirical high point of Warm Bodies, which starts bold and finishes timid and tepid, unable to do justice to its conceit. Because, you see, Marion’s novel isn’t just a zombie comingof-age story: It’s a zombie version of Romeo and Juliet. R falls in love with Julie (Teresa Palmer),
a surviving human, after he eats her boyfriend’s brain and absorbs his memories. He becomes her protector, and Julie less plausibly reciprocates his feelings, precipitating changes in R’s cold, undead nature. That’s right: Love makes zombies’ hearts beat. In montages set to ’80s pop songs, R rediscovers his humanity. Warm Bodies is no Twilight: For one thing, even though he acts mainly with his unblinking eyes, one shoulder and the occasional grunted phrase, Hoult is far more expressive than Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen. It’s a minimalist comic star turn from the actor who made his name on the British dramedy “Skins,” with a touch of genuine pathos. For another thing, R doesn’t virtuously abstain from human flesh, like those sparkly vampires; he chows down until Julie’s love redeems him. Here’s the problem, though: Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. There is no possible happy ending to the story of a girl who loves the boy who killed her kinsman — or ate her boyfriend — and no amount of fuzzy, love-conquers-all mysticism can change that. Warm Bodies does have actual villains: the “bonies,” zombies who’ve abandoned their humanity to become pure killing machines (and bad CGI). Equally opposed to
THE QUIRK AND THE DEAD Palmer and Hoult engage in a little human-zombie bonding.
young love is Julie’s dad (John Malkovich), the quasi-fascist leader of the human settlement. But really, can you blame him? Levine gives Warm Bodies a hazy, indiestyle wistfulness that makes the story’s more ridiculous aspects easier to swallow; in his rendering, zombieism is just another quirk that makes it harder to relate to people. But a metaphorical conceit can only be stretched so far. This one snaps with a bang when Julie too quickly forgives R for his big transgression, rendering her character — who seemed likably grounded up to this point — shallow and unbelievable. Yes, her boyfriend (Dave Franco) had a death wish. No, zombies can’t help wanting to eat people.
Yes, R wants to change, and his goth look is fetching. But the movie transforms from a smart little comedy to another eye-rolling teen romance when the pair’s love becomes a force that can change the world. By the time the film wobbles to a close, satire has been abandoned, and Levine seems to have given up on creating anything but an Instagram-twee zombie Valentine. That’s too bad, because, had the romance been as messy and conflicted as the blood bath where the lovers met, Warm Bodies could have been more than just another dead high concept walking. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N
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BEAUtiFUl cREAtURES: A Southern teen falls in love with a young woman from a family of witches, and yes, this paranormal romance is more of what Twilight wrought. Based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis star. Richard (P.S. I Love You) LaGravenese directed. (124 min, PG-13; starts Wednesday, February 13, at Capitol) iDENtitY tHiEF: Jason Bateman vs. Melissa McCarthy? Our money’s on the lady with the smart mouth. In this comedy from director Seth (Horrible Bosses) Gordon, he’s the mild-mannered victim of identity theft; she’s the con artist. With John Cho and Amanda Peet. (111 min, R. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Stowe) SiDE EFFEctS: Rooney Mara plays a young wife whose anxiety medication fails to improve her mental state in this thriller-slash-critique-ofthe-pharmaceutical-industry from ever-versatile director Steven Soderbergh, who says his next step is to retire from big-screen filmmaking. Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jude Law also star. (106 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)
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GANGStER SQUADH Los Angeles, 1949. A renegade LAPD team goes up against the ruthless mobster who owns the cops in this crime thriller that sounds like a mashup of L.A. Confidential and Young Guns, since it stars flavors-of-the-moment Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone — plus Sean Penn and Nick Nolte. Ruben (Zombieland) Fleischer directed. (113 min, R)
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STAND-UP GUYS★★★1/2 Is there honor among thieves? An aging con man released from prison is about to find out, as he tries to reunite his old gang. Alan Arkin, Al Pacino and Christopher Walken play the boomer bad apples, naturally. Fisher Stevens directed. (95 min, R. Roxy)
CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER★★1/2 Actress Rashida Jones cowrote this relationship drama, in which she stars as an alpha female who divorces her slacker husband (Andy Samberg) but then finds herself needing his friendship. Lee Toland Krieger directed. (91 min, R)
WARM BODIES★★★ Vampire romance, OK. But zombie romance? Nicholas Hoult plays an undead teen who falls in love with a living one (Teresa Palmer), and, thank God, this appears to be a comedy. With John Malkovich and Rob Corddry. Jonathan (50/50) Levine directed. (97 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)
FLIGHT★★1/2 Denzel Washington plays an airline pilot whose heroism in an emergency is questioned after certain circumstances come to light in this drama from director Robert (Cast Away) Zemeckis. With Don Cheadle and John Goodman. (139 min, R)
ZERO DARK THIRTY★★★1/2 The team behind The Hurt Locker (director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal) bring us this controversial fact-based drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton and Chris Pratt star. (157 min, R)
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n 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay left his home in San Antonio, Tx., and did not return. Nearly four years later, his family received a call from Spain. Their missing child, they were told, had been found. Nicholas’ grown sister, Carey Gibson, jumped on a plane. What she didn’t know — but the viewer of Bart Layton’s documentary does, early on — was that “Nicholas” was actually a 23-year-old Frenchman named Frédéric Bourdin who made a habit of impersonating abused or abandoned teenagers. His motive, he claimed, was to find the love and care his own family had denied him.
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Sheriff’s deputies investigating a convenience-store robbery in Niceville, Fla., arrested suspect Zachariah Dalton Howard, 22, after they spotted him at a nearby supermarket calling his mother for a ride home. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) Police searching for thieves who broke into a home in Gaithersburg, Md., and then stole the homeowners’ car for their getaway, spotted the vehicle at a nearby convenience store. The suspects were there because one of them, Marcus Lee, 20, stopped to use the bathroom, where he spent 11 minutes. “That 11-minute period is when the police come,” prosecutor Stephen Chaikin explained after Lee pleaded guilty. (The Washington Post)
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After a Seattle city bus hit Carl Gray, 32, shattering its windshield, the victim managed to get up and walk about a block with a bloodied head to a Starbucks and ordered a cup of coffee. Paramedics followed him and, before he could drink his brew, took him to the hospital. (Seattle Times)
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(april 20-May 20): north america’s most powerful and iconic waterfall is niagara Falls, which straddles the border between the U.s. and Canada. in 1969, the U.s. army Corps of engineers managed to shut down the american side of this elemental surge for a few months. They performed their monumental magic by building a dam made with 27,800 tons of rocks. Their purpose was to do research and maintenance on the stony foundation that lies beneath the water. i’m thinking that you tauruses could accomplish a metaphorical version of that feat in the coming weeks: some awesome task that allows you to peer beneath the surface and make refinements that enhance your stability for a long time.
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Young art student Andrzej Sobiepan sneaked into Poland’s National Museum with a painting he had done himself and managed to surreptitiously mount it on one of the walls. It hung there for a while before authorities noticed it and took it down. “I decided that I will not wait 30 or 40 years for my works to appear at a place like this,” he said. “I want to benefit from them in the here and now.” This is the kind of aggressive self-expression I’d like to see you summon in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Don’t wait for the world to come and invite you to do what you want to do. Invite yourself. P.S. The English translation of Sobiepan’s Polish last name means “his own master.” What can you do to be more of your own master?
geMiNi
(May 21-June 20): National Geographic reports that dung beetles have an intimate relationship not only with the earth but also with the stars. scientists in south africa found that the bugs use the Milky Way galaxy to orient themselves while rolling their precious balls of dung to the right spot for safekeeping. The bright band of starlight in the sky serves as a navigational aid. i nominate the dung beetle to be your power animal in the coming weeks, gemini. it will be prime time for you, too, to align your movements and decisions with a bigger picture and a higher power. (read about the research here: tinyurl. com/galacticbeetles.)
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Grimm’s Fairy Tales includes the story “The Devil and His grandmother.” in one scene, the devil’s grandmother is petting and rubbing her grandson’s head. or at least that’s what
Virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22): in her book Jung
and Tarot, sallie nichols notes that the sixteenth card in most tarot decks portrays lightning as a hostile force: “jagged, zigzag strokes that slash across the sky like angry teeth.” but there’s one deck, the Marseilles tarot, that suggests a kinder, gentler lightning. The yellow and red phenomenon descending from the heavens resembles a giant feather duster; it looks like it would tickle and clean rather than burn. i suspect you’ll be visited by a metaphorical version of this second kind of lightning sometime soon, Virgo. Prepare to be tickled and cleaned!
libra (sept. 23-oct. 22): years ago, “bastard” was a derisive term for a child born to unmarried parents. it reflected the conventional moral code, which regarded a “birth out of wedlock” as scandalous. but i think we can safely say that this old dogma has been officially retired. according to recent statistics compiled by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), over 40 percent of the kids born in the U.s. are to unmarried mothers. Just goes to show you that not all forbidden acts remain forbidden forever. What was unthinkable or out of bounds or not allowed at one time may evolve into what’s normal. i bring this up, libra, because it’s an excellent time for you to divest yourself of a certain taboo that’s no longer necessary or meaningful. sCorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): While trekking
up Mount Katahdin in Maine, naturalist Henry David Thoreau had a “mountain-top experience” that moved him to observe, “i stand in awe of my body.” you’re due for a similar splash of illumination, scorpio. The time is right for you to arrive at a reverent new appreciation for the prodigious feats that your physical organism endlessly performs for
you. What could you do to encourage such a breakthrough? How can you elevate your love for the flesh and blood that houses your divine spark?
sagittarius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): How do you like your caviar? Do you prefer it to be velvety and smooth, or would you rather have it be full of strong, fishy taste? if it’s the first option, beluga caviar is your best option. if the second, sevruga should be your favorite. What? you say you never eat caviar? Well, even if you don’t, you should regard the choice between types of caviar as an apt metaphor for the coming week. you can either have velvety smoothness or a strong taste, but not both. Which will it be? set your intention. CaPriCorN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Dear astrology guy: i have been reading your horoscopes since i was 19. For a while, i liked them. They were fun riddles that made me think. but now i’ve soured on them. i’m sick and tired of you asking me to transform myself. you just keep pushing and pushing, never satisfied, always saying it’s time to improve myself or get smarter or fix one of my bad habits. it’s too much! i can’t take it any more! sometimes i just want to be idle and lazy. your horoscopes piss me off! — Crabby Capricorn.” Dear Crabby: i’ve got some good news. in the coming week, you are completely excused from having to change anything about yourself or your life. stay exactly the same! be frozen in time. resist the urge to tinker. take a vacation from life’s relentless command to evolve. PisCes
(Feb. 19-March 20): before any system can leap to a higher level of organization, says poet susan goldsmith Wooldridge, it has to undergo dissolution. “Unraveling or disintegrating is a vital, creative event making room for the new,” she declares. guess what time it is for the system we all know and love as yoU, Pisces? That’s right: it’s a perfect moment to undo, dismantle and disperse … as well as to unscramble, disentangle and disencumber. be of good cheer! Have faith that you will be generating the conditions necessary for the rebirth that will follow. “to change from one reality to another,” writes Wooldridge, “a thing first must turn into nothing.” (Her book is Poemcrazy.)
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CaNCer (June 21-July 22): you should go right ahead and compare oranges and apples in the coming week, Cancerian. Honey and butter, too: it’s fine to compare and contrast them. science and religion. bulldogs and siamese cats. Dew and thunderclaps. your assignment is to create connections that no one else would be able to make … to seek out seemingly improbable harmonies between unlikely partners … to dream up interesting juxtapositions that generate fertile ideas. your soul needs the delight and challenge of unexpected blending.
the english translations say. but the authors wrote in german, and in their original version of the text, grandma is in fact plucking lice from the devil’s hair. your job in the coming week, leo, is to ensure that no one sanitizes earthy details like that. be vigilant for subtle censorship. Keep watch for bits of truth that have been suppressed. you need the raw feed that comes straight from the source.
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SexY afro girl pearl ST. Saw you through the window at Leonardo’s Thursday night (1/24) at 5:15 on Pearl St. Dayyum! I would love to get a chance to know you and your afro, which you should let run wild. You look so dark and mysterious with your red lipstick on. Let’s share our demons. When: Thursday, January 24, 2013. Where: pearl St. Burlington. You: Woman. me: man. #910975 riSe and Shine I see you across from the room. You are usually busy making sandwiches but sometimes we make eye contact and you smile. You have beautiful red hair and a great sense of style. Would love for you to make me breakfast in bed :). When: monday, January 28, 2013. Where: Kountry Kart deli. You: Woman. me: Woman. #910974 WinTerang321 Fun: OK, I know what that is, I mean for me, that is — maybe your fun is like mine? Maybe not? I know that when I read your writing, I can not help but ponder, “What journey has lead you this far, thus far?” I want to know more. When: Sunday, January 27, 2013. Where: 7dvt. You: man. me: Woman. #910973 WalmarT WiTh Your dog To the nice man leaving the store with his dog as I was going in with my daughter, I just want to say thank you for bringing your dog over for my daughter to pet. The momments of happiness you brought to my daughter meant a lot to the both of us! When: Sunday, January 27, 2013. Where: Williston Walmart. You: man. me: Woman. #910972 ServiCe merChandiSe 07/1986 I was 18 and you were 17. I had on a yellow dress. I fell in love with you that day and have loved you every day since then! You warm my heart and make me smile (and sometimes you piss me off!). You have a special place in my heart! When: Sunday, January 27, 2013. Where: in my daydreams. You: man. me: Woman. #910971 Warming Smile aT WalmarT You are handsome and have a beautiful, radiating smile. Ran into each other several times, I was too chicken to say hi! You had on a black fleece with a Gatorade logo on it. I had on a long, black wool coat. Last saw you in the wine aisle, bought two bottles that I didn’t need hoping you’d say hello. When: Wednesday, January 23, 2013. Where: Walmart Williston. You: man. me: Woman. #910970 6:45 parKing 6:45. That was nice, as was your look when I left. I hope we see each other again. When: friday, January 25, 2013. Where: yoga. You: Woman. me: man. #910969 da needS STud We know you like to read Seven Days on Thursdays. Thanks for entertaining us while we were in line. See you next Friday! Love, the Derby Girls. When: friday, January 25, 2013. Where: pearl St. You: man. me: Woman. #910968
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