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Batter Up! When it comes to crunching numbers, Ben Baumer knows his stuff. For more than eight years, he fulfilled his passion for data as the New York Mets’ statistics analyst, wherein he used sabermetrics — the unconventional baseball-analysis method featured in the 2011 film Moneyball. The Smith College mathematics professor recounts his big-league career and examines the validity of a system that favors a player’s ability to score runs over RBIs and batting averages. See calendar listing on page 50

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Piano Man Donal Fox (pictured) thinks outside the box. The renowned pianist regularly interweaves jazz, classical and Afro-Cuban rhythms into original compositions and improvisational performances. This unique trinity of genres creates a repertoire that is a musical collage, and one that has captivated audiences worldwide. In the aptly titled solo show “Mashups in Blue,” this king of the keys displays his skills with reinterpreted selections from Bach, Coltrane, Radiohead and others. See calendar listing on page 50

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Page Turner Looking for that first-edition Hemingway? Join fellow bibliophiles at the Vermont Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair, where more than 40 regional dealers display rare and out-of-print titles ranging from 17thcentury, leather-bound tomes to collectable works from Dr. Seuss and the Nancy Drew series. Historic postcards, prints and maps complement these examples of prose penned by some of the greatest minds in literature. See calendar listing on page 52

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Dancing Feet As winter weather wanes, folks put a spring in their step with the Latin-inspired rhythms at the Zumbathon benefit for Women Helping Battered Women. Fans of the fitness craze burn calories for more than two hours, then refuel with good eats from local food trucks while a DJ entertains the crowd. Hot Neon Magic rounds out the fun with ’80s tunes and a dance-off for the coveted Golden Sneaker Trophy. See calendar listing on page 51

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Structures of Sound When an album employs a music box, a smashed car windshield and a glockenspiel to create musical nuances, it might make you wonder just how they’ll all get along. The instrumental, postrock band Caspian integrate these elements and many others into their 2012 release, Waking Season. Songs such as “Long the Desert Mile” incorporate bluesy guitar and the violin, while the title track opens with haunting piano and crescendos with drums. The Massachusetts-based group brings its cerebral arrangements to Signal Kitchen. See music spotlight on page 60

Ongoing Burlington sculptor Nancy Dwyer earned a studio arts degree in upstate New York and once belonged to the same co-op gallery as now-famed artists Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo. But she credits a job at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble with sparking her career. While working as the bookstore’s in-house sign maker, she realized words could be the focal point of her creative expression. Thirty years and much professional acclaim later, the UVM art professor continues to make sign-inspired art in her Pine Street studio. See Eyewitness on page 66

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on’t look for white smoke to billow out of Burlington City Hall anytime soon. As the annual conclave to select a new city council president approaches, two candidates look like they may evenly split the vote. A tie in the 14-member council would lead to another vote. And another. Until somebody secures a majority and Mayor MIRO WEINBERGER rings the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica. Or something like that. “I’m just hoping we can get a council president elected in less time than it took the cardinals to pick a pope,” says Councilor NORM BLAIS (D-Ward 6). Running for reelection to the post is Councilor JOAN SHANNON (D-Ward 5), who took the reins last April after winning a unanimous vote. “I’ve enjoyed being city council president,” she says. “To be honest with you, you’re on a learning curve when these things start. But I think the council has been running smoothly, making good on their promises, and I’d like to extend it another year.” But last week another candidate announced her intention to run: Councilor KAREN PAUL (I-Ward 6). “I believe that I can be an effective president who intimately understands what it means to be nonpartisan,” she wrote in an email to her colleagues. “I believe I can be fair and appreciative of the many points of view on the council.” The subtext? I’m not a Democrat. That message appeals to the motley crew of seven non-Ds on the council, who occasionally band together to oppose the Democratic mayor and the seven-member Democratic caucus. Paul courted a similar crowd a year ago when she first sought the council presidency, but Progressive councilors ended up siding with Shannon and the Dems. In the end, Paul wasn’t even nominated for the position. A divisive city election earlier this month suggests that the Prog-Dem alliance isn’t likely to reappear this time around. Progressives are fired up over a series of negative attacks lobbed by the Vermont Democratic Party against JANE KNODELL, a former Progressive councilor who successfully ran for an open seat against Democrat EMILY LEE. The Dems also tried — and failed — to depose veteran independent Councilor SHARON BUSHOR (I-Ward 1), who often votes with the Progs. “The Progressives will act as a group on this,” Knodell says. “We’re looking for a president who sees the value of a strong council and a healthy balance of power between the council and the mayor.”

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Though Progressives made gains in the recent election, the council arithmetic isn’t dramatically different this year. Progs earned a fourth seat — five if you include Bushor — while Republicans dropped from two to one and Democrats maintained seven. So long as Shannon’s partymates stand together, nobody else can win. “I think the Dems are going to hang tough,” says Blais, a Shannon supporter. “We have a significant plurality on the city council.” Two councilors to watch? Bushor, who is always hard to pin down, and DAVE HARTNETT (D-Ward 4), who often defects to the Republican side of the aisle. But Hartnett says he’s staying put. “You’re talking to a councilor who was really on the fence a year ago about who I was going to support,” he says. “Ultimately I supported Joan, and she’s proven to me over the year that she’s very capable.”

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Hartnett adds, “Maybe the other side wants me to break a tie, but it’s just not gonna happen.” For his part, Councilor PAUL DECELLES (R-Ward 7) — the last Republican standing — says he’s definitely not backing Shannon, calling her “a mouthpiece for the mayor.” “I think Joan has some weaknesses and I think she has some splainin’ to do, Lucy,” he says. OK, Ricky! Shannon disputes the charge that she works too closely with Weinberger. “The mayor is pretty good about addressing concerns in advance of their coming to the table,” she says. “So it may look like a rubber stamp, but no, it actually wasn’t. It was behind the scenes.” You can expect plenty of behind-thescenes action in the lead-up to the vote, which is scheduled for April 1. If successive rounds of balloting don’t shake loose a majority, look for a dark-horse contender to emerge. Decelles suggests Knodell could play that role, though it’s unclear whether any

Dems would get behind her. That said, the former council president — she served in that capacity from 1999 to 2001 — won’t foreclose the possibility. “It’s not something I’m actively seeking, but I think anyone on the council could if we do get bogged down in a seven-to-seven vote,” she says. “Then we’ll have to find some other solutions.” Until that happens, Weinbergerappointed chief administrative officer PAUL SISSON will serve as acting council president. Now that’s a rubber stamp.

“R” Is for Rebranding

Ever since President BARACK OBAMA won reelection last November and Democrats expanded their ranks in Congress, there’s been plenty of hand-wringing among national Republicans about the future of their party. A little closer to home last week, one of Vermont’s most prominent Republicans got in on the action. In a lecture titled “GOP, R.I.P.?” delivered as part of the University of Vermont’s Rosen Memorial Lecture Series, former governor JIM DOUGLAS conceded, “At first blush, things don’t look so good right now for the Republican Party. “The basic problem,” he said, “is there are two fundamentally different visions of where the party needs to go in order to regain its competitiveness and have a decent chance of electoral success.” One vision is that of the Tea Party, while the other is of “broadening our base, becoming the true big tent, accepting differences among those who call themselves Republicans and directing our energies to winning elections.” Can you guess which vision he shares? In case you were wondering, Douglas has a three-part plan to get the party back on track. Appropriately for the Republican, each part starts with an ‘R’: respect, reach out and relevance. In Douglas’ view, his party must respect a diversity of opinions on social issues — gay marriage, abortion and physicianassisted suicide, to name a few. “I’ve voted for candidates on both sides of these issues,” he said. Republicans must also reach out to constituencies that haven’t traditionally backed the party, including immigrants, African Americans and, in particular, Hispanics. “After all, these are familyoriented, churchgoing folks who believe in entrepreneurship,” he said. “They ought to respond to a Republican message.” Lastly, the party must focus on relevant economic issues, not divisive social ones. Sure, number three sounds a lot like

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number one, but a trio of ideas sounds better than just two. Here in Vermont, Douglas said, “the hurdles are higher,” noting that fewer Republicans won election to the legislature last year than at any point in the state’s history. Lt. Gov. Phil Scott was the sole GOPer to win statewide office. Douglas’ local prescription? His party must contest every race, hold Democrats accountable for ethical lapses and improve their “ground game.” Not exactly breaking news. “I’ve reminded [Scott] that a dozen years ago as state treasurer, I was the only [statewide Republican]. The following year we recaptured the governor’s office,” he said. “Public sentiment can change quickly and anything is possible — especially as fiscal pressures mount in Montpelier.” Not all the students and community members assembled at the Davis Center’s Livak Ballroom were buying what Douglas was selling. During a question-and-answer period, one audience member called him out for vetoing a 2009 bill that would legalize same-sex marriage — a veto that was overturned by the legislature. The questioner invited Douglas to sign on to an amicus brief filed by many prominent Republicans who believe the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California. “I appreciate the invitation,” the ex-gov said. “I don’t think I’m likely to do that. I’m out of politics now.” Another audience member kept at it, noting that Douglas had just said his party should lighten up on the social issues: “I’m curious if you still believe the issue of civil rights, and particularly gay oppression, is still a ‘distraction,’ as you famously said in 2009 in reference to vetoing gay marriage.” Guess elephants aren’t the only ones with good memories. “I’m not going to re-debate the gaymarriage law, to be perfectly frank,” Douglas responded. “I never said anything as disrespectful as what you just said.” “You said it was a distraction!” the audience member called out. “But you enhanced that as you quoted it. The point is that I had a lot of friends who voted for the bill and a lot of friends who voted against it,” Douglas said. “I lost that debate, but I accept the outcome. I respect the outcome, and we move on.” Sounds like Douglas’ rebranding might need a little more rebranding.

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uperior Court Judge Helen Toor can’t say whether she’s seeing more defendants entering her Middlebury courtroom with a traumatic brain injury — or if she’s just noticing them more. She can say, however, that if the accused is found incompetent to stand trial because of a TBI, there’s not a lot she can do with them. “The state is required to dismiss the charges under our laws,” says Toor, who’s been a judge for 14 years and now presides over Addison County’s criminal division. “And yet, we don’t have a process for monitoring that person to try to avoid future criminal conduct.” In the last few months, Toor has had to dismiss charges against defendants accused of aggravated assault and repeated stalking because they had TBIs that might explain their inappropriate or violent behavior. In a third case, Toor has yet to rule on the competence of a brain-injured defendant charged with the sexual assault of a child. This situation differs from other cases involving defendants deemed by the court to lack a rational understanding of the charges, proceedings and their potential consequences. If a defendant has a severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, a judge may commit that individual to a psychiatric ward for treatment. If it’s effective, he or she may be found competent to stand trial down the road. A judge can also issue an “order of nonhospitalization,” putting the person under the supervision of a state-funded community mental health facility, such as the HowardCenter in Burlington or the Counseling Service of Addison County. Defendants with developmental disabilities, such as Down syndrome, can be placed under the supervision of the Department of Aging and Independent Living, which presently supervises about 30 Vermonters who have committed violent and/or sexual offenses, according to Commissioner Susan Wehry. But a TBI is neither a mental illness nor a developmental disability. As a result, Toor asked the Brain Injury Association of Vermont (BIA-VT) to visit her court last week to provide guidance and training to Addison County attorneys who are trying to figure out how to deal with brain-injured defendants once they leave the courtroom.

How common are TBI victims in the criminal justice system? Brain injury experts say they’re much more common than the public or court personnel realize. Remember Roger Pion, the Newport farmer who became an internet folk hero last year for crushing seven Orleans County sheriff’s vehicles with his monster tractor? It was widely reported at the time that Pion was enraged about his recent marijuana arrest. But Pion’s defense attorney, David Sleigh, now confirms that the court ruled his client was not competent to stand trial, in part because of a history of concussions. The Office of Court Administrator cannot say how common such cases are. In 2012, there were 772 cases statewide involving “the potential to include a competency issue.” But the judiciary’s decades-old computer system doesn’t gather data on defendants’ mental status or the reasons why some are deemed incompetent. Defender General Matt Valerio, who oversees Vermont’s public defenders, admits he’s unaware of the extent of the

problem. In his 25 years in the criminal justice system, Valerio says that cases involving defendants with obvious TBIs have been “few and far between.” If Vermont’s public defenders are representing brain-injured defendants, he says, those cases aren’t coming to his attention. Last year, the legislature asked the Vermont Department of Corrections to compile a report on the number of inmates suffering from a “severe functional impairment,” which can include dementia, mood or personality disorders, psychoses and TBIs. As of September, 121 offenders in state custody were known to have severe functional impairment. Only two were on the list for a known TBI. But that same report also indicates that although the number of TBI cases looks small, “It may be because it’s not commonly assessed in screenings, and patients may not report trauma that they don’t associate with current presentation.” Screening for TBIs, especially mild ones, is difficult, expensive and not done routinely by the Department of

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Recidivism rates are also higher among TBI victims. Barb Winters, BIAVT’s education and outreach coordinator, says that’s because those with brain injuries often have trouble understanding and abiding by the conditions of their release. “If you don’t have an understanding of brain injury and you tell someone with a TBI that they need to be here by two o’clock every day for a urinalysis and they forget, then all of a sudden they’re back in jail,” Winters says. “Poor decision-making on the part of an individual with a brain injury is probably what led them into the correctional system to start with.” Bob Luce, a trial lawyer with the Burlington firm Downs Rachlin Martin, specializes in civil lawsuits involving brain and spinal-cord injuries and is a founding board member of BIA-VT. He’s the attorney Toor approached for help on this subject, and he participated in last week’s training session. Luce says it’s no coincidence that young males 15 to 25 years old are the population with the highest number of TBIs — the same demographic most likely to end up in the criminal justice system. Most TBIs result from sports injuries, falls and car accidents, Luce says, and are likely to injure the frontal lobe. That’s the part of the brain associated with executive functions such as empathy, judgment, self-awareness, compassion, and a sense of right and wrong. Or, as Luce puts it, the “whole ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.” If public defenders haven’t encountered defendants with TBIs, criminal defense attorneys certainly have. About five years ago, Sleigh says, defense lawyers began researching the psychological impacts of TBIs, fueled in part by the growing number of vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who were later charged with violent offenses. According to Sleigh, he’s had as many as a dozen cases in the last several years in which evidence about the defendants’ TBI was used as a defense — though none was a combat veteran. One recent case involves what Sleigh describes as “monstrous behavior” — a man accused of assaulting and raping members of his own family. Sleigh declined to identify his client. Ordinarily, Sleigh says, a crime

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She calls the plant a “respected” and “community-minded” employer. “We’re thrilled to have them, and people are interested in seeing International Paper succeed.” The paper mill moved from the banks of the LaChute River, in Ticonderoga proper, to the shores of Lake Champlain in 1970; steam from the plant’s smokestack can be seen along a 40-mile stretch of lakefront communities from Ferrisburgh to Benson. Making paper is an energy- and water-intensive endeavor, and the mill pulls some 14 million gallons of water from Lake Champlain every day. The vast majority of that water is treated and returned to the lake. IP produces mainly two kinds of paper products: high-end office papers and corrugated cardboard. The Ticonderoga mill makes the former for brands such as Hammermill and Accent. The plant also produces paper for Hewlett-Packard, Staples and Xerox.

Between 70 and 80 truckloads of northern hardwood arrive each day at the plant, where they’re turned into pulp and run through noisy machines. The air in the plant is heavy with moisture being extracted from the paper as it dries, gets spun into huge rolls, and is cut into pages and bound in reams. The plant produces some 900 tons of paper every day; Wadsworth hasn’t run the numbers herself, but she says it’s enough to paper over a threelane highway from Ticonderoga to Washington, D.C. The mill’s parent company, International Paper, lives up to its name: IP operates in more than 24 countries and employs some 70,000 people worldwide. In 2011, the company did $29.5 billion in sales. But it’s not immune to trouble. In mid-2012 the company announced it would close four plants across the United States, in Arkansas, California, Illinois

and Ohio. The company also sold off three mills in California and Tennessee as required by the U.S. Department of Justice when it paid $4.4 billion to acquire Temple-Inland, a producer of corrugated packaging and building products. Three years ago, IP shut down a massive plant in Franklin, Va., putting 1100 people out of work. While the Franklin facility partially reopened last year — mainly to produce the “fluff” used in personal-hygiene products such as diapers and tampons, in high demand from a growing Asian market — the retooling restored only a fraction of the mill’s previous jobs. All this behooves the Ticonderoga plant to be as efficient as possible. It made headlines in Vermont in 2004, when the factory wanted to test tire chips as a potential source of fuel. The motivation was the same: to find a cheaper way to power the operation. But the proposed tire burn incited wrath across the lake.

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secession from the city! Made up of mostly middle-class, budget-conscious homeowners, that part of Burlington “gets it”: that we are merely funding never-ending raises and health care costs; that the teachers are never the ones to suffer in the budget-cutting process; and that unfettered 5 to 10 percent increases every year mean that in a matter of years, Burlington’s school budget will be in the neighborhood of $100 million. Something’s gotta give. So I propose the formation of the City of North Burlington, made up of average homeowners and taxpayers, who, like our compatriots in Milton and Colchester, will either regularly call our brand-new school board to task in the budget process by voting the initial dollar proposal down, forcing them back to the drawing board, or opt for a school voucher system for NNE students to attend area schools. Either way, I think it’s a cheaper option. The days of nine-month-a-year public employees demanding and expecting salary and benefit increases funded by the other 95 percent of us who don’t get that deal are over. Dave parker burlington

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college’s Humanities Program Concert Series, of which the Blue Heron concert is part. The series has hosted at least one community-student concert a year for the last decade with the organizational help of Shelburne pianist PAUL ORGEL (who also orchestrates the University of Vermont English Department’s similar Music and Literature Concert Series). Blue Heron was chosen partly to give the students in Dameron’s current class on ancient and

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medieval civilizations a revealing window into the era. For many of the students, the concert will be their first live classical experience, Dameron guesses. And, though they’ve studied the songs’ sacred and secular texts in class, the program will be a challenging introduction. Contrary to the general expectation, early music — especially Renaissance polyphony, as it’s called — isn’t simpler than its later developments. “The structure of a modern sonata or symphony is very apparent, but with polyphony it becomes trickier,” notes the Harvard-trained Dameron. Metcalfe elaborates: “The wonderful thing about Renaissance polyphony is that all parts contribute a melody. There are no secondary parts, no hierarchy, as in first and second violin parts. All melodies are speaking to each other, and all are saying something compelling at the same time. The challenge of listening is amazing. It’s different every time you hear it because your brain can’t possibly take it all in at once.” Among those most likely to be up to the challenge on Monday night are Metcalfe’s own parents, BILL and ELIZABETH METCALFE, aka Burlington’s first family of early music. Elizabeth has long been the region’s harpsichord doyenne; Bill has conducted Burlington’s early-music

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community chorus, ORIANA SINGERS, since 1981. Scott Metcalfe, 49, says his own path wasn’t as fated as it might appear. Though trained as a violinist, the Burlington High School graduate studied biology at Brown University. It was only during his post-college performance life that his musical interests started on a “trajectory backwards” to a time “before violin had been invented.” Blue Heron are the fourth group Metcalfe has had a hand in starting. Early musicians are entrepreneurs by necessity, he jokes, because “classical music is on the fringe of culture, and early music is on the fringe of the fringe.” In the competitive early-music hub that is Boston, however, Blue Heron are standouts that have won the praise of New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, among others. If anyone can turn Ockeghem into a “household name,” as Metcalfe says the composer deserves, it’s the Burlington native’s chamber-music group.

Blue Heron perform “Divine Songs” on Monday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester. Free. smcvt.edu/events And on Tuesday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m at Grace Congregational Church, 8 Court Street, in Rutland. Donations. gracechurchvt.org

I Live In, a Sundance-lauded documentary about the ruinous burden that U.S. drug policy puts on our prison system. Engaging in a panel discussion of the issues the film raises will be its Burlington-based cinematographer, DEREK HALLQUIST; Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan; and state rep Suzi Wizowaty (D-Chittenden). M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

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ike every married woman who “I’ve also made one dress that I’ll has “kept her name,” WyLie Garcia wear on Sundays,” Garcia notes. “It feels has experienced the chagrin of like a Victorian parlor dress, but I made receiving letters addressed to it.” And is there a dress code for guests? Mrs. [name of husband here]. And her “I’m not requiring that people dress up, reaction echoes the usual lament: “Mrs. but it’s welcome if anyone chooses to do that.” Derbes is my mother-in-law!” Known for her fabulous dresses, the But Garcia, a Burlington artist and spouse of fellow artist cLark Derbes, has artist last year completed a project called “The Dress That Makes decided to embrace the married moniker for an the Woman.” She wore a single frock each month upcoming performancefor a year, constantly alart project she’s calling tering and adding to each “Mrs. Derbes Is Home.” one. Garcia kept a blog, Every Sunday from April 7 through June 16, she with photos, about the process and noted how, as will hold “old-school visshe changed the costume, iting hours in a modern it also changed her. way.” That is, Garcia will For “Mrs. Derbes Is hand out calling cards — which she’ll make by Home,” she says, “I’ll also do some writing — about hand — to individuals she may encounter during who I met, what we disW Yl I E GArcI A cussed.” She won’t set the week, inviting them parameters for the chats, to stop in to her “living room/parlor” between two and four though. “I’m just going to see where it goes,” Garcia says. “We’ll have an intio’clock on Sunday. An artist who works primarily with mate conversation.” The idea for this ladylike, domestic fabric, she says she’ll probably embroider or sew while chatting with guests, and will offer tea and cookies. BuRlingTOn ARTiST » p.23

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ne of the thoughts running through Matthew POwers’ mind last January, as he observed more than 200 people joining arms in a “hug” outside the st. JOhnsbury athenaeuM, was Who knew this little building on the hill could command so much attention? And, he asked rhetorically during a recent interview, “How many directors have had the experience of a crowd of people showing up, on short notice, to encircle the whole place?” Not that this particular gathering was a positive thing. The Hug was a protest action in response to the layoffs, announced in December, of the Athenaeum’s library staff. Since 2010, Powers, 40, has been executive director of the 142-year-old institution, founded in 1871 by Horace Fairbanks, son of a successful scale manufacturer. Presiding over the legacy that the Fairbanks family created for the community but did not endow, Powers and the trustees cited mounting, unsustainable financial duress as the impetus for the layoffs. But many St. Johnsbury residents felt that abruptly dismissing their beloved — and, in some instances, long-serving — librarians was an unacceptable remedy. In the weeks since the Hug, the

spotlight on the Athenaeum has scarcely dimmed, given the drama of eight library staff layoffs, three board member resignations, one copresident of the Friends of the Athenaeum resignation and five new library staff hirings. Soft-spoken and quiet, Powers is not the kind of person you would expect to find at the center of a maelstrom. And, in fact, he has largely managed to stay out of the media coverage — board chair bill Marshall has been the Athenaeum’s spokesperson. “You’re only the third person so far who has asked me for an interview,” Powers told Seven Days. The way to Powers’ office goes through an inconspicuous door at the back of the library’s fiction room, near the entrance to the gallery that houses a famed collection of Hudson River School paintings. Up a flight of stairs, in an uncluttered, woodpaneled office, Powers sat at a desk near a photograph of a sequoia. The tree, which can live 3000 years, is an apt symbol for withstanding the winds of change. Powers grew up in Essex Junction and earned his master’s in American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Before taking a job at the Athenaeum, he was the assistant director of education at the Remick Country

Doctor Museum and Farm in Tamworth, N.H., followed by a 13-year stint as director of the Sandwich (N.H.) Historical Society. Both positions, he indicated, placed him in a milieu of scholarship beyond the classroom, history beyond the display case, and museums engaged in the community. When the Athenaeum board hired Powers, it had just initiated a capital campaign to install skylights in the gallery. The new director would have to oversee this fundraising and renovation, and bring the Athenaeum up to speed in the digital age. In addition, Marshall told the North Star Monthly in 2011, Powers would be required to “balance the budget, improve outreach for the art gallery, and collaborate with other local institutions to market St. Johnsbury as a cultural destination.” When the library staff was laid off in December, Marshall made it clear that one new goal for the Athenaeum was to market the gallery. The board chair has referred to the art repository as a “sleeping giant that has to wake up.” Mark Mitchell, a conservator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and author of the Athenaeum’s Handbook of the Art Collection, calls the gallery “the best of best, an irreplaceable asset.” No one would deny that the Athenaeum owns stunning treasures that deserve to be more widely seen. Yet, with operational expenditures exceeding income for at least the past three years, Powers has had to address the budget first. That has involved difficult and controversial decisions. Asked about letting go experienced librarians, Powers paused for a long moment before offering soberly that he saw no other way. Even with his limpid blue eyes and open face, mAt th E w Powers sometimes has the blanched look of a person under prolonged strain. “It’s been hard,” he said. Indeed, public disgruntlement has taken the shape not just of letters to the editor of the Caledonian-Record but of personal confrontations with him and members of his family. While the controversy concerns the layoffs on an immediate level, at its core it appears to be about whether the Athenaeum belongs to the people of St. Johnsbury or should remain under the sole aegis of its board of directors. On this matter, Powers was clear: “It’s a private, nonprofit institution,” he said. “The board of trustees are

the owners; they are responsible.” Plenty of critics question that view, including members of a group calling itself the neighbOrs in suPPOrt Of athenaeuM library staff. At a meeting on February 2 — to which the Neighbors invited the board, and the board declined — a former Athenaeum trustee asked why the board meetings were no longer open to the public, as they once were. A town resident wondered how the board intended to replace five vacancies, and whether the public would be allowed input. Before town meeting earlier this month, the Neighbors published in the CaledonianRecord a notice of no confidence in the Athenaeum’s board of trustees. While the Athenaeum does offer free membership to St. Johnsbury residents ($15 for others), this does not confer the voting privileges typical of other membership libraries, a species of 19th-century institution that is increasingly rare. Nor does the slim income from memberships come close to covering the institution’s annual budget of $560,000. The Athenaeum requests $115,000 annually from the town of St. Johnsbury. At town meeting, that appropriation was easily granted once more, but it is just 18 percent of the Athenaeum’s total operational budget — one of the lowest per-capita appropriations for a library in the state. Charging the 8000-plus annual gallery visitors a fee (as opposed to the previously suggested $8 donation) might assure a revenue stream to channel into a mix that also includes interest from the Athenaeum’s endowment, overdue fines, federal grants and income from benefit events such as an annual gala. (Yet as of January 1, access to the Po wErS gallery is now entirely free, according to the Athenaeum’s website.) The layoffs were part of the institution’s strategy to cut expenses. The Athenaeum’s new, smaller staff consists of librarians

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Burlington Artist « P.21 project came from watching period pieces such as “Downton Abbey,” the artist says. “I’ve been thinking about how these shows have us enraptured with the upstairs/ downstairs dramas, the expectations of a hostess, the polite conversation.” But in addition, Garcia notes, Derbes has been busy setting up a pair of exhibitions elsewhere in the state and “I’ve been staying at home a lot, being a fulltime mom and keeping the home fires burning … I thought, since I’m home, I might as well have people over.” (Her husband and young son will not be present, she says.)

“I like the nuances of connecting with people, being the catalyst for bringing other people together,” Garcia adds about her prospective calling hours. “It’s like Facebook, but it’s faceto-face.” Wylie Garcia’s “Mrs. Derbes Is Home” project will run Sundays, 2-4 p.m., from April 7 through June 16. Visiting hours are not open to the public, per se, but if you’re lucky she’ll hand you a calling card. wyliegarcia.com

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A few weeks ago in this space we noted the extensive auditions for the pivotal and challenging role of Maggie in the MIDDLEBURY ACTORS WORKSHOP production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Katie Hartke Well, director MELISSA LOURIE announced this week that she has chosen her “Cat,” as well as other cast members. New York City Equity actor Katie Hartke will play Maggie — a character in the classic Tennessee Williams play that some of us may still envision as Elizabeth Taylor, who embodied her in the 1958 film adaptation. Currently on Broadway, movie star Scarlett Johansson is reviving the stage role to mostly positive reviews. Lourie, who will direct the Vermont version, said that MAW’s STEVE SMALL will play Big Daddy, while Burlington-based actor ANDREW BUTTERFIELD won the part of Maggie’s handsome-but-soused husband, Brick. STEPHANIE GALLAS, of Vergennes, will play Big Mama. But we’ll have to wait until October to watch this cast prowl the stage. First up is the Middlebury company’s other major production of 2013, Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning God of Carnage. Commencing in June and guest directed by TARA DOWNS, the comedy of ill manners will pit MAW vets KAREN LEFKOE and HARRY MCENERNY against Burlington actors CHRIS CASWELL and BEN ASH, as the respective parents of two kids who’ve had a playground incident. Both productions will run at MAW’s resident Town Hall Theater and at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland. In other good news, Lourie announced the hire of an associate managing director, LIZ MARINO. Standing O for the burgeoning cast of local theater.

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STATEof THEarts Athenaeum « P.22 building, collections and furnishings.” And how does he propose to balance the budget? Through the kinds of partnerships and collaborations that he’s successfully implemented in the past, he said. “We have to create our own Athenaeum activities, harnessing our unique voice and expertise in humanities and American studies,” Powers asserted. By this he means not just hosting existing statewide lecture programs but launching signature programs. He means the Arts and Culture Series, which taps the indigenous talents and expertise of St. Johnsbury-area artists, art historians, scholars, authors and others for monthly presentations. And he means the Capstone collaboration with St. Johnsbury Academy, in which students capitalize on the Athenaeum’s unique history and collection materials to research and create presentations. Then there are programs underwritten by local businesses, individuals and foundations, such as the Acorn Club, which promotes literacy in 2-to-4-year-olds by

bringing the children’s-library materials to area preschools and daycare. “If we are doing our job,” Powers said, “and offering innovative programs and utilizing dynamic partnerships, then this shared value will hopefully translate into increased revenue and support. “We could just show up every day and open the doors and that’s all, but there’s so much more we can offer … we’re an Athenaeum,” he continued, harking back to the name derived from the temple devoted to Athena, goddess of wisdom, civilization, mathematics, the arts, crafts, law and justice. Meanwhile, the Neighbors are still hoping for productive conversations with the board. Considering that the Oxford Dictionaries define an Athenaeum as “an association of persons interested in scientific and literary pursuits, meeting for the purpose of mutual improvement,” perhaps they could meet inside that little building on the hill. stjathenaeum.org; rurallibrariansunite.org

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PEN New England passes judgment on works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction by writers around the region, and honors a scant few each year. In 2013, PEN’s award recipients include two Vermonters, both of them professors emeriti of the University of Vermont. Former UVM English prof DAVID HUDDLE, a novelist and poet, won the prize for poetry with his 2012 collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion (see Seven Days’ February 13, 2013, review at sevendaysvt.com). Wrote reviewer KEENAN WALSH, “Consistently, we encounter the tension of difficult intimacy, silence in the midst of words held back.” The nonfiction award was captured by BERND HEINRICH, UVM prof emeritus of biology, for Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death. While that may sound grim, Heinrich describes the book as not so much about how creatures die as about how the animal kingdom recycles itself and “how scavengers cleanse the world so there’s room for new life.” Could be some lessons there for us humans. As book critic MARGOT HARRISON put it in her Seven Days review (August 29, 2012): Heinrich “wants us to think differently about what scavengers do to corpses — animals’, plants’ and ours.” Huddle and Heinrich join fiction winner Heidi Julavits (The Vanishers) and Hemingway/PEN winner Kevin Powers (The Yellow Birds) — excellent company. Congrats.

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ell, I prefer “teeming millions” to “shambling hordes.” But you think I’m surprised at the idea that a large subset of the populace is out there plaintively crying for brains? The zombie fixation that has become so familiar in the 2000s mystifies many. Numerous popular video games, role-playing games, films, internet videos, television programs and books have arisen from it. My assistant, Una, even found a master’s thesis on the phenomenon, leading one to seriously ponder higher education’s decline. The government of Québec attempted to conduct an emergency-preparedness exercise based on the premise of a zombie apocalypse, only to have it canceled by humorless spoilsports. This was preceded by a discussion in Canada’s House of Commons in which the government was questioned about its ability to withstand a zombie attack. The Centers for Disease Control released a zombiepandemic-preparedness manual, disturbingly in comic-book form.

retrospect the ball had just gotten rolling. Browsing through Google search-term trends from 2004 to the present, we find “zombie” and “zombies” showing sudden increases toward the end of 2008, as does “zombie apocalypse,” with a pronounced increase in early 2011. Meanwhile, searches for “ghost,” “witch,” “werewolf,” “demon,” “vampire” and variants thereof stayed relatively flat. What accounts for the heightened fascination? Theories abound: 1. Decaying corpses are horrifying. Get out, all monsters are horrifying. That’s why we call them monsters. 2. Decaying reanimated corpses are really horrifying. This gets closer. The scariest moment of my postcollegiate moviegoing experience was watching the Terminator come

high output till 2003, at which point zombie filmmaking went through the roof. The 1973 jump coincides with Watergate, and I suppose 2003 might be a delayed reaction to 9/11, but more precisely, it’s the year we invaded Iraq. Not to harp on this, but was there ever a time when we were more desperately in need of brains? 6. Paging through the scholarly journals — and again I think how frightening it is that we rely on these people to instruct our youth — we find claims that zombies are a Marxist metaphor for the human face of capitalist monstrosity, or tap into a latent desire for racial violence, or somehow are connected with Hurricane Katrina. Enough of this foolishness. We at the Straight Dope know damn well what the zombie apocalypse is a metaphor for: the tsunami of ignorance that’s threatened to overwhelm us since — well, maybe it’s just coincidence, but I got started in 1973, too. Will we be able to hold off the shuffling dimwits? Reading news accounts of, say, the budget crisis, where you have an unfortunate conjunction of the brainless plus the spineless, you have to think: This doesn’t look promising. But I tell myself: Light always chases out the dark.

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We’re compelled to wonder: What’s behind it all? Or has the ZA become — one shudders — a self-sustaining meme? Myths about the undead have been around for millennia, and the relatively harmless automata of Haitian folklore have been getting the Hollywood treatment for most of the past century. But the current popular concept of zombies as shuffling, reanimated corpses with a hunger for humans was inarguably forged by George Romero in his 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. For decades after that, zombies were merely part of the fright-movie pantheon, which also included your slashers, your aliens and so on. Their ascent to the top of the horror heap is quite recent. Newspaper articles in 2006 noted an upswing in zombies’ cultural presence, but in

back to life, or whatever it is homicidal robots come back to after they’ve been to all appearances annihilated and you’re getting ready to head for the toilets. OK, Ahnold wasn’t a zombie, but same idea. 3. “Zombie narrative presents us with a postcolonial consideration of identity and power, which allows us to challenge social and cultural hierarchies and power structures.” Please, professor, save it for the faculty lounge. 4. Let me throw in my own theory: If not zombies, then what? Vampires? Vampires have been the alpha pop-culture monster for at least 46 fricking years. (See Barnabas Collins, “Dark Shadows,” 1967.) But, let’s face it, the vampire as decadent sex metaphor, notwithstanding its ongoing box-office success (e.g., the Twilight series), is surely running on fumes. We need zombies because they are, after a manner of speaking, relatively fresh. 5. Another hypothesis is that zombie films are more common when the U.S. faces war or societal upheaval. Una, showing the fanatical devotion to precision that is the hallmark of her work, has charted 492 zombie films by year of release from 1910 to the present. She finds modest annual production until a spike of 15 zombie flicks in 1973, followed by fluctuating but generally fairly

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behind the wheel. I’m not exactly a spring chicken — autumn chicken is more like it — and I’d been driving nonstop since early afternoon. The orange numbers on the dashboard read 3:11, putting the tally at more than 12 straight hours and counting. That’s Mardi Gras weekend, and that’s the life of a cabdriver: When it’s busy, you need to be out for the duration. No leaving any money on the table, not for this hackie. “I’ve been driving a lot of St. Mike’s alums this weekend. This is not an alumni weekend, is it?” “Nope, but there’s a bunch of us up here, kind of like an informal alumni reunion, I

does that work? Man, we were scared. We were stuck there for three days until they decided to deport our asses. Thank goodness they resolved it that way, ’cause none of our parents ever found out.” He stopped to laugh for a moment. “Actually, one of the guys was roped into a Montréal vacation with his folks a year later. Let me tell you, he was sweating bullets as they passed through the border. Somehow they didn’t catch it because, technically, in Canada all of us are — what do they call it? — persona non grata.” Ah, yes, I remember it well, I thought, reflecting on his story. Those wild nights of

These ill-advised and chaoTic youThful advenTures are male riTes of passage and bonding … Or maybe men are just dOpey yahOOs. guess. We scheduled it to coincide with Mardi Gras. I’ve been hanging with a whole bunch of my classmates. Man, I miss college. We had no idea, I mean no clue how good we had it. It sucks being out in the real world, working every day.” “Sounds like you and your buds had a great college career — some crazy times, I bet.” “Dude, you don’t know the half of it. When we were, like, sophomores, four of us got busted up in Montréal. We were at some St. Catherine Street strip club, and none of us remembers what the hell happened. Total blackout of the whole night. “We woke up in jail the next day charged with ‘assaulting a vehicle.’ How the hell

mayhem fueled by testosterone and tequila, bravado and brio. For me, such escapades are decades in the past, but the memories (or the inflated memories) remain vivid. These ill-advised and chaotic youthful adventures are male rites of passage and bonding, perhaps echoes of the longed-for primeval mastodon hunt. Or maybe, less romantically, men are just dopey yahoos. “Crashing tonight on campus?” I asked. “Most definitely,” he replied. “We still have tons of friends at school.” “Didja play sports at St. Mike’s?” “No, but I did play high school baseball. Have you heard of Catholic Memorial?” “I think so. Isn’t that the Roxbury high school that produces all those sport stars?” “Yeah, that’s the school. Yup, I was a

pretty good outfielder. I was able to get to anything hit out there.” “So, crazy Sox fan, right?” I asked. “The craziest. When we were teenagers, we used to sneak into Fenway. Can you imagine that? We found this tuckedaway eight-foot fence beneath the Green Monster. It was dangerous, but what did we care? We did get booted out once in a while, but mostly we got to see the games. The 2007 World Series year? We made it into all four home games of the League Championship against the Indians. I’ll never forget that.” We pulled onto the St. Mike’s campus. “The three hundreds?” I asked, naming the cluster of upperclassmen dorms notorious for some of the heavier partying. “How’d you guess?” he replied with a laugh. “Am I that obvious?” As he paid me the fare, my customer emitted an audible sigh, saying, “As awesome as this weekend has been, it’s also been a little depressing, because I got to work again on Monday. Is life ever going to be as good as it was at St. Mike’s? I’m really, like, starting to worry.” I said, “I hear you, brother. I’ll say this: If you let it, if you embrace it, there’s all kinds of new and better awesome in store for you in the years to come. Maybe even better than Montréal benders.” I stopped to chuckle, adding, “Well, maybe not that awesome, but close.”

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hat a town, man. It feels like I never left.” “Didja grow up here?” “No, I graduated last year from St. Mike’s. This is my first time back.” It was a late night on Mardi Gras weekend that found me driving this young man to his Colchester alma mater. That would be Burlington’s Mardi Gras celebration, the one taking place a few weeks after the original, Big Easy version. My customer was squat and muscular, with a tough-guy shaved head and goatee. His demeanor was free and open, though, suggesting a person who enjoys connecting with others, even strangers like me. Given the circumstances, I’m sure he was at least a little drunk, but not so you could readily tell. Put it this way: All day long, I’d been driving customers way drunker than this guy. Scooting up the Main Street hill, I asked, “So where did you grow up? Given the school, I’d say Boston is the easy guess.” I watched my customer chuckle in the rear-view mirror. “Yup, I guess there are more than a few of us Massholes at St. Mike’s. I’m from Southie, my whole life. I’m back living with the folks, but I’m actually moving out in a few weeks. Staying in the neighborhood, though.” “Southie — that’s as Boston as you can get. Real Affleck country, right? Have you been working since graduation?” “Yeah, I caught a job in Quincy, a 20mile commute, but that’s not so bad for Boston. It’s an entry-level position at an accounting firm. Wicked boring, but ya got to start somewhere, right? It’s the field I studied for, so that part’s good.” I couldn’t tell you how I was still standing that night — or rather, still sitting

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Thirty-eight years after going to Washington, Sen. Patrick Leahy has arrived B Y PAUL H E I N T Z

n a recent Wednesday in Washington, forecasts of a foot of snow had ground official business to a halt. Across the street from the U.S. Capitol in the lobby of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a digital sign proclaimed, “There are no hearings today.” But two floors up in an ornate, wood-paneled hearing room, Sen. Patrick Leahy was holding court. Across from the Vermont Democrat sat Attorney General Eric Holder, alone and ready to submit to his biennial grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Leahy chairs. “Mr. Attorney General,” Leahy began, outlining legislation he’d introduced to crack down on the flow of guns to criminals. “Do you agree that there is a need for specific statutes criminalizing gun trafficking and straw purchasing?” Yes, Holder said, the Obama administration fully supported the chairman’s bill. Noticing suddenly that he’d forgotten to let the attorney general read his prepared testimony to the committee, Leahy interrupted his own line of questioning. “Mr. Attorney General, I realize — and I can’t claim it’s because I’m new to the committee — I forgot to give you a chance to give your opening statement,” Leahy said with a mischievous smile. “Please give your opening statement.” Laughter erupted in the room filled with senators, staffers, reporters and Code Pink protesters. “I’m trying to juggle too many things here!” Leahy exclaimed. Thirty-eight years into a Senate career that has lasted more than half his life, Vermont’s longest-serving senator in history is indeed juggling more than ever before. With jurisdiction over gun control, immigration reform and Supreme Court nominations, Leahy’s committee has emerged as the battleground of the 113th Congress. “Right now, Chairman Leahy is in the middle of many of the most important items on President Obama’s agenda for the second term,” says Ed Pagano, the White House’s liaison to the Senate and a former Leahy chief of staff. By all appearances, Vermont’s senior senator is loving it. “I told the president, ‘You got anything else you wanna send to my committee?’” Leahy likes to say. “He said, ‘I don’t want you to be bored!’” In his nearly four decades in Washington, the son of a Montpelier printer and grandson of immigrants has grown to appreciate the trappings of power: the classified briefings, the security detail, the face time with U2 frontman Bono. The death of Hawaii senator Daniel Inouye late last year elevated Leahy to the ceremonial peak of the U.S. Senate. As the most senior member of the party in power, he was anointed president pro tempore, third in line to the presidency. “He is where no Vermonter has ever been,” says National Life vice president Chris Graff, who covered most of Leahy’s career as a reporter and Montpelier bureau chief for the Associated Press. “He has waited his whole life for this moment.” Though he looks and sounds older than his 72 years, Leahy does not act like he’s ready to ride off into the sunset. “We’re kind of used to president pro tems who are in their final stages, their doddering years — and Leahy is certainly not in that category,” says Norm Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. “In some ways he seems at least as much or more energetic and enthusiastic about what he’s doing as 10 or 15 years ago.” “I think I’m about the youngest they’ve had,” Leahy observes. “I’m not in a wheelchair!” In fact, it’s hard to keep up with the septuagenarian senator, as Seven Days discovered over a couple of days this month in Washington, D.C.

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Over lunch later that day in the Senate’s basement cafeteria, Leahy was back to it: telling stories set in the Middlesex farmhouse. It was there, he said, that he’d emailed back and forth with Holder when the future attorney general was helping candidate Obama select a running mate. “He knew he could talk to me and not have it be in

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Not long after the hearing started, Leahy left Holder When Leahy arrived on the Senate floor, his Republican to fend for himself and hustled off to the Senate floor, counterpart on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck where an Obama appointee to the D.C. Circuit Court of Grassley (R-IA) was busy telling the C-SPAN cameras Appeals was facing yet another filibuster. that Obama’s appeals-court nominee, Caitlin Halligan, As he led an entourage of Capitol Police guards, was too liberal for the job. staffers and a reporter down an elevator to the Dirksen Like many of Obama’s federal-court nominees, the basement, he quickly segued from his exchange with former New York solicitor general has been repeatthe attorney general to two of his favorite subjects: his edly blocked and filibustered by a Republican minority grandchildren and his Middlesex farmhouse. since she was first nominated to the court in September Though the senator and his wife of 51 years, Marcelle Pomerleau Leahy, live much of the year in suburban McLean, Va. — barely a mile from the CIA’s Langley headquarters — you’d never know it by talking to him. Most of his yarns spin around his idyllic Vermont property at the end of a dirt road — like his oft-repeated tale of target practicing there with former FBI director Louis Freeh. Leahy picked up his pace to catch a departing Senate subway train, which would carry him to the Capitol Building. The entire trip from hearing room to Senate floor took less than five minutes. In the miniature subway car — the system more closely resembles a monorail — Leahy turned to the subject of the day in Washington: drones. A staunch defender of civil liberties, Leahy has been pressing Holder since November 2011 to provide the Judiciary Committee with a topsecret Department of Justice legal memo justifying the use of drones to kill suspected American terrorists living abroad. Attention to the matter grew last month when members of the President Obama signs the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization Senate Intelligence Committee refused to consider Obama’s nominee to lead the CIA, John Brennan, until they were granted access. The administration 2010. eventually caved to the Intelligence Committee’s It’s a subject that infuriates Leahy. The judicial demand for the memos, but not to Leahy’s. backlog has grown dramatically since Obama took That morning, the Vermont senator had pushed office, leaving 90 federal judicial seats vacant — his demand for the memos further, threatening more than twice as many as at this point in the Bush Holder that the issue “may be brought to a head with administration. a subpoena from this office — from this committee.” The slowdown is symptomatic of a broader rise in As the Senate subway bumped along, Leahy struck hyper-partisanship that has infected the Senate in the a more conciliatory tone, noting that if Holder wasn’t years since Leahy first took office — back when Barack “limited” by others in the administration, “I think he’d Obama was entering high school. be happy to turn over the classified one.” John Podesta, who worked for Leahy in the 1980s The senator’s real fear, he said, was not so much before serving as president Clinton’s chief of staff and lethal drone strikes in Yemen but the growing presence founding the Center for American Progress, says Leahy of surveillance drones within the States. “reflects the sensibility of the Senate he found when “That’s not my idea of America,” Leahy said, as he he first got elected to the Senate. I think that sense of neared the Senate chamber. “The idea of having drones comity and courtesy remains with him, and yet I think flying around your neighborhood — this worries the the place has toughened up and it’s a more hardened heck out of me.” atmosphere.”

Nowhere is that more true than in the irregular, blockbuster events that are Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In his time on the Judiciary Committee, Leahy has played a role in the confirmation or rejection of 13 nominees to the court — including the entirety of its current membership. Asked how many vacancies he expects to open up during the remainder of Obama’s second term, he says, “I don’t know. I’m meeting quietly with some justices to see what they’re thinking.” Leahy will likely be among the first to find out. The last two justices to step down from the bench, David Souter and John Paul Stevens, both asked him to deliver notice to the president of their intention to resign. “I almost feel like the grim reaper coming in here,” Leahy says he told Stevens when the two met to discuss the justice’s retirement in 2010. “If somebody has something similar they want to share with me, I ask if I can share with the president so he can at least prepare.” When Grassley finished his remarks, he yielded the floor to Leahy. The Vermonter rose and delivered an impassioned speech in defense of Halligan. “No one can seriously question her legal ability, her judgment, her character, her integrity, her ethics or her temperament,” he told the nearly empty chamber — and C-SPAN. Later that day, Democrats fell nine votes short of the 60 necessary to end the Republican filibuster and force a vote on Halligan’s nomination. “This double standard is ridiculous,” Leahy complained as he left the chamber. “The most qualified woman in the world. She can’t even get through!” On the way back to Dirksen, Leahy shared a subway car with his Judiciary Committee colleague, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who ribbed him about the Holder testimony. “The beginning of the hearing today — not letting the attorney general even read his own testimony — that was inexcusable,” Franken joked. “It was due to a lack of experience, clearly.”

Seniority Rules « p.29 That hasn’t kept Vermont reporters and Montpelier gossips from quietly speculating about his health. Many still feel burned by the manner in which protective staff members kept the media in the dark about former senator Jim Jeffords’ declining health. Understandably, Leahy’s handlers have earned a reputation for fiercely

lining up the vote on Brennan for today and, uh, you know, this may be, you know, a vote against.” Dowd explained that Leahy, who has backed every one of Obama’s major nominees, might break with the president on his choice for CIA director to show that he’s serious about getting his hands on the drone memo.

combating such speculation, which they say is utterly unfounded. “They’re very sensitive about it,” says one veteran Vermont journalist, who has pressed Leahy’s staff on the matter, but asked to remain anonymous. “It was clear the message was being delivered to me to shut the fuck up. This guy’s going to be down there forever.” Back in the cafeteria, Leahy pondered the question of whether there’s a way to break the impasse between his committee and Holder on the drone memos. “We’ll see,” he said, pausing for several seconds. “I may cast a vote that would be a shot across the bow, but we’ll see.” Precisely what Leahy meant was unclear until his chief of staff, J.P. Dowd, who sat next to him at the lunch table, jumped in to clarify. “He’s referring to—” Dowd began, looking at Leahy to make sure he wasn’t stepping on his boss’ toes. “They’re

Asked if he’d told the White House his plan, Leahy said, “We’ll probably let them figure it out.”

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the paper,” Leahy recalled between bites of a chicken wrap. Asked how he thought Holder performed that morning, Leahy appeared at first to ignore the question, preferring instead to show three staffers and a reporter photos of his grandchildren on his Blackberry. But then he launched into an extended answer, digressing into

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his access to classified briefings, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, and cuts to research funding. “Didn’t mean to get off the subject,” he said, catching himself. Leahy can be quite difficult to understand. His staff says he suffers from chronic laryngitis, aggravated by allergies and asthma. Particularly when he’s been speaking at length — a hazard of the job — his raspy voice can deteriorate to somewhere between a wheeze and a croak. In combination with his proclivity to wander around a question without ever really answering it, Leahy’s vocal struggles can create the impression that he’s no longer with it. A better explanation may be that in his four decades in the Senate, he has simply perfected the art of the conversational filibuster. Or that he’s a 72-year-old guy rightfully worn out by a rigorous schedule.

Made-for-TV moments The next day, in a marble-walled hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building, Chairman Leahy was in his element. It had been three months since a gunman tore through a Connecticut elementary school, killing 20 children and six teachers. Five weeks had passed since the Judiciary Committee convened its first hearing on gun violence with emotional testimony from former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — herself a victim of a mass shooting nearly two years earlier. Now the committee was poised to vote on four bills meant to address gun violence, ranging from enhancing school security to banning assault weapons. For his part, Leahy had fastened on to

legislation that would crack down on gun trafficking and create stiff penalties for those who buy firearms from criminals. In his opening remarks, Leahy hailed Grassley for agreeing to cosponsor his bill — a big coup, given the nearly unified Republican opposition to any new gun laws. Then Leahy went for the made-forTV moment. He picked up a recent copy of USA Today and held it up for 10 seconds, being careful to keep his fingers from blocking the front page. Photographers snapped away. “This week USA Today ran a frontpage story about a study that estimates gun violence costs Americans $12 billion — $12 billion — a year,” Leahy said sternly. “I don’t care whether it’s $12 billion or $10 billion or $2 billion. We oughta do what we can in this committee to mitigate those unnecessary costs.” Ever the showman, Leahy lives for moments like these. You won’t find him stalking the MSNBC green room, as many of his colleagues do, but Vermont’s senior senator likes nothing more than a committee room packed with reporters and his photo the next day in the New York Times. That helps explain why Leahy took a pass on the traditionally allpowerful chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee when Inouye died in December, preferring to stick with the more visible Judiciary chairmanship. The decision shocked many political observers in Vermont, who believed Leahy had been holding out for the post so he could bring home even more federal money. “Vermont is heavily dependent on federal aid. It was something I thought and I still feel Vermont would benefit from,” says longtime Montpelier lobbyist Bob Sherman. “I just felt it was too bad for Vermont that we lost that opportunity, and so did a lot of other people.” Leahy himself has cultivated an image as Vermont’s chief benefactor. His occasional public appearances in the state nearly always revolve around dispensing multimillion-dollar contracts and grants to local companies and nonprofits. In television commercials produced for his last reelection campaign, the unmistakable theme was his ability to bring home the bacon. While his precise impact on the state’s bottom line is incalculable, Leahy’s staff estimates he secured more than $1 billion for Vermont between

2005 and 2010. And when a tropical storm or a federal budget cut hits the state, his office is the one to call. Leahy argues that because he remains the most senior member of the Appropriations Committee and earned the gratitude of its new chairwoman, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Vermont won’t lose out on a dime. D.C. insiders also note that the chairmanship isn’t what it used to be, now that earmarks are banned and Washington has embraced austerity.

State College poll showed that most Vermonters favor some new regulation, but gun-rights supporters remain vocal and powerful in the state. “It’d be a lot easier on Appropriations,” Leahy says. “I wouldn’t even begin to have all these contentious issues.” Leahy handles his assignment with efficiency, humor and frequent references to his own gun ownership. When conservative freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) hinted during the hearing that he could eventually get behind Leahy’s

making a political statement about it,” Podesta says. Grassley, meanwhile, calls Leahy “fair and tough” and says they share the same philosophy: “The Senate ought to work. It ought to produce product.” Precisely what Leahy hopes to achieve with his political capital is another matter. He has always been a bit of a cipher on gun rights — he opposed a 1993 law instituting background checks for gun purchasers but favored a 1994 ban on as-

with that notion, saying, “How else do you do it? Are they suggesting we pass legislation and then find out what’s in it? “Come on! Give me some credit! Name one person who’s trying to pass more legislation!” he shouted over the phone. “I have never once held a hearing just for symbolism. I don’t have time. I put in a 75-hour week as it is.” In the weeks following, Leahy honed in on the gun-trafficking bill and managed to secure several Republican cosponsors, which bodes well for eventual

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sault weapons. Like the rest of Vermont’s congressional delegation, he has mostly opposed new federal gun laws in recent years, arguing that they should be decided by the states. After the massacre at Newtown, Leahy embraced universal background checks and limits on high-capacity ammunition, but he declined in January to endorse Obama’s proposed renewal of the assault-weapons ban. At the time, administration officials and gun-control groups worried Leahy was insufficiently committed to new gun laws and might try to slow-walk the committee process, the Associated Press and Washington Post reported. But in an interview with Seven Days that month, the senator took umbrage

Security details No profile of Leahy would be complete without mention of his favorite pastime: photographing official Washington from his perpetual front-row seat. Like his love of Batman and the Grateful Dead, it’s part of the carefully crafted Leahy lore. SEnioRiTy RUlES

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gun-trafficking bill, the chairman tried to find common cause. “I don’t know if I’m the only person on this committee, but I’m probably one of the few, to have a pistol range in my backyard, which I use except when we have two feet of snow,” Leahy told Cruz. “So I’d be happy to sit down with anyone.” Former Leahy staffer Podesta thinks the Vermonter is well suited to the task of finding consensus on the matter because “he has the ear and the understanding of hunters, as well as the sensibility of what’s going on in the Senate across a broader spectrum.” “He’ll have the right touch to get done what is doable — as opposed to

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Leahy’s perch at the top of the Judiciary Committee comes with plenty of political risk — particularly when it comes to gun control. The issue is equally divisive in Washington and Vermont. Threading the needle is a tough task — even for an old pro like Leahy. Within his own caucus, the Vermonter has had to reconcile the views of rural, pro-gun Democrats such as Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and urban gun-control advocates such as Sens. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Back in Vermont, a recent Castleton

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Senate passage. But his bill doesn’t exactly address mass shootings involving legally acquired weapons, such as the one at Newtown. Tougher measures, such as universal background checks and an assaultweapons ban, still face fierce resistance. While both bills passed Leahy’s committee on party-line votes a week later — each with his support — Reid announced just this week that the assault weapons ban would not become part of a comprehensive bill headed for the Senate floor. Leahy himself says he still doesn’t know how he’d vote on the ban if it emerges on the floor as an amendment. “I have problems with some parts of it,” he said. “It is very broad. That bothers me.”

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“If that had come up 10 years ago, I would’ve been shocked,” says Ornstein, of the American Enterprise Institute. “But the appropriations process just doesn’t have the same kind of clout that it had before and, in particular, it doesn’t have as much substantive responsibility.” “Basically, your job as Appropriations chair is to rule over a shrinking pie,” says Luke Albee, a former Leahy chief of staff who now works for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA).

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Seniority Rules « p.31 the CIA if one day I do a book,” he said. “Marcelle knows the story, too. She was there for part of it.” Marcelle, sitting beside him as she often does in both Vermont and Washington, pled ignorance. “I have a lousy memory,” she claimed. “He trained me well when he was state’s attorney.”

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Leahy’s motorcade deposited him at the carriage entrance of the Capitol Building, which faces east toward the Supreme Court. The senator hopped out to cast a no vote against Brennan. Joining him in opposition were Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Sanders

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(I-VT) and 31 Republicans. For the first time since Obama took office — on the same day the president praised him publicly — Leahy turned down one of the commander-in-chief’s nominees. “Because I am a friend of the president’s and I’ve been very supportive, I think they took [my vote] for granted. And this is one way of getting their attention. So I’m hoping — I’m hoping they’ll pay attention.” He added, “I’m sure I’ll be getting a call from Brennan.” After leaving the Senate floor, Leahy returned to his recently acquired president pro tem’s ceremonial office in the northwest corner of the Capitol Building. Sitting in his shirtsleeves at a desktop computer, he uploaded photographs from the bill signing to send

to reporters back in Vermont. Within in an hour, one would appear on the Burlington Free Press website. Leahy pointed out several framed photographs displayed underneath Sir Amèdée Forestier’s 1914 painting, “The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814,” which is on loan from the Smithsonian. Nestled between photos of Marcelle and his grandchildren is a treasured picture of the senator and his wife with Bill Clinton and Bono. “The kids all call him ‘Uncle Bono,’” Leahy continued, living up to his reputation as a chronic name-dropper. “He sits on the floor and sings to them. They have no idea who he is or anything. He’s just a friend of the family.” Leahy’s spokesman, David Carle, interjected from across the room, “Bono calls Sen. Leahy ‘my hero’ for all the work they’ve done together over the years” fighting HIV/AIDS and hunger. Seated in an armchair in front of the office fireplace, the senator addressed the question many in Montpelier are asking: Will he seek an unprecedented eighth six-year term in 2016? The speculation is driven in part by up-and-coming politicians whose ambitions are thwarted by a bottleneck at the top of the state’s political hierarchy. But its significance is far greater than political gamesmanship: If Leahy retires, he’ll leave the tiny state he represents with little power in a seniorityobsessed system. “Eventually we’re going to end up with a freshman senator again,” laments Graff, the former AP reporter. “And I don’t know if we’re ever going to see someone like Patrick, who was only 34 when he was elected.” So will he run? “If I do run for reelection, at the end of that term, I’ll still be a couple years younger than my predecessor was when he finished,” Leahy says, referring to George Aiken, who was 83 years old when he retired from a 34-year career in the Senate. Between the two of them, Leahy and Aiken have held the Senate seat since 1941. Is that a yes or a no? “To answer your question, I can honestly say I don’t know the answer,” he says. “I raise money. I will be prepared to run. And I guarantee you, if I run, I’ll win.” m

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Sure enough, later that day the sena- one’s staff and the presence of armed tor was both participating in and docu- guards. menting President Obama’s signing of a Leahy has plenty of each. His empire bill reauthorizing the Violence Against recently expanded when he was asWomen Act onstage in a Department signed a second ceremonial office in the of the Interior auditorium a few blocks Capitol Building — in addition to his from the White House. Leahy was home base in the Russell Senate Office the bill’s chief sponsor and ushered it Building and two offices in Vermont. through committee to the Senate floor At his command are 21 staffers in February. in his D.C. office, 12 in Burlington The 78-22 vote helped overcome and Montpelier, 25 on the Judiciary entrenched opposition from House Committee, and another three on his Republican leaders, who took issue with Appropriations subcommittee. His pernew protections for domestic-violence sonal office budget is $2.8 million, and survivors in same-sex relationships and his share of the committee’s budget is on Indian reservations. $1.5 million. A crowd of more 500 advocates and An even better indication Leahy has politicians on hand for the bill signing arrived? clearly appreciated Leahy’s role, cheerIn the event the president, vice ing enthusiastically as he crossed the stage to snap a photo of the desk where Obama would sign the bill. The president, too, was appreciative. After taking the stage, Obama called out the two senators who helped drag the bill across the finish line. “I want to say a special thanks to Pat Leahy and [Idaho Republican Sen.] Mike Crapo,” the president said. “Thank you guys for your leadership.” As Leahy beamed, Obama took the praise one step further, hailing the Judiciary Committee’s action earlier in the day to advance his gun-trafficking legislation. “I also want to take a minute, Leahy crosses the Capitol grounds with security in tow before I begin, to thank the senators who, just a few hours ago, took another big step towards sensible gun-safety reforms by advanc- president and House speaker are killed, ing a federal gun-trafficking bill,” Obama Leahy says, “I carry a special card, said. “That’s real progress.” which I break open. Numbers come When the ceremony ended, Patrick on it. Somebody calls and coordinates and Marcelle Leahy exited the audito- the numbers, and I’m given the nuclear rium to a motorcade waiting on C Street. codes.” Ever since Inouye’s death and his Leahy directed his motorcade to the elevation to the presidential line of Capitol, where he was due for a vote on succession, the senior senator has re- Brennan’s nomination. ceived ’round-the-clock protection from Asked whether he was still planning Capitol Police guards overseen by the to fire that shot across the bow, Leahy Secret Service. Two armored SUVs were said, “I will eventually get the paperrequired for a 10-minute drive back to work I’ve asked for. I talked to the presithe Capitol with three staffers, Marcelle dent a little bit about this this afternoon. and a reporter. I suspect I’ll be voting against [Brennan]. Leahy and his staff claim he’d rather He’s not a bad guy. He’d probably be not have the security, but it’s clear tough as CIA director. I’ve known him they enjoy the status it confers. In for years, but they’re going to have to—” Washington, after all, power is measured His voice trailed off. in square feet of office space, the size of “I have an interesting story about

Ski School

At Killington Resort, a ski mountain turns into a college classroom B Y KAt hrYN Fl A gg

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magine living at the base of a major ski resort, hitting the slopes dozens of times each winter and doing it all in the company of similarly snow-obsessed college kids. For many undergrads, that would be a daydream, but it’s life as usual for a small group of Green Mountain College students shacked up in a former inn at the base of Killington Resort. These aren’t your average ski bums, though. For the GMC students, life at

Killington includes both the usual trappings of college — think class schedules and homework — and long, grueling hours of working the front desk at a hotel or manning snowmaking machines during peak season. Enrolled at Killington School of Resort Management, they’re learning firsthand what it takes to keep a resort like Killington running smoothly. That means working hard and playing hard at the ski-resort-turned-campus.

The students’ “dormitory” is more ski lodge than campus apartments. The brickred building is located two miles down the road from Killington Resort, among the kind of businesses — an Italian deli, a pizza joint, hotels — that inevitably crop up on long, winding drives to ski areas. Formerly the Killington Village Inn, the “Lodge,” as the program calls the building, functions as a satellite campus for GMC. The program’s 43 students live and eat all

of their meals here. There’s a cozy lounge outfitted with the accoutrements of dorm living, including a pool table and shabby, overstuffed chairs. The 12-year-old resort & hospitalitymanagement program was the brainchild of former Killington Resort president Allen Wilson and former GMC president Thomas Benson. The resort needed a reliable pool of prospective employees who could pitch in during the booming ski season. The college, in turn, ended up with a specialized program in resort management that it can market to prospective students and their parents. At nearly $90,000 for a bachelor of science degree, the program isn’t cheap. But program director Frank Pauzé says students, on average, earn about $16,000 over the course of their studies in wages from resort jobs. Plus, by working at an accelerated pace, students complete the program in three years rather than the traditional four. And, for a certain kind of student — typically a hands-on learner, says Pauzé, less interested in hitting the books than in real-world experience — the program offers a uniquely suitable pathway through college. Students tend to agree. “I didn’t even think I’d be going to college,” one second-year student says. On a recent Friday at midday, students in the Lodge are lunching on “crispy chicken sandwiches,” to their delight. A special on Comedy Central blares from the television in the small dining room. College-age boys in bare feet and sweats pad around the dorm; one, dressed in a Killington Resort jacket, rushes in for a quick drink from the soda fountain and tells his buddies he’s got to get back to work on the mountain. Later, as lunch winds down, one ruddycheeked young man comes clomping through in ski boots. “Just in time, buddy,” says Richard LaRose, the general manager who lives at the Lodge, as he and the cook set about clearing away the meal. Over their meal, 19-year-olds Erik Keefe and Max Rowe, both from Massachusetts, agree there are a few common misconceptions about their degree. Rowe, who transferred into the program in December, says his friends think he’s chosen a “joke of a major.” Not so, he insists. Students work every weekend during the busy winter season. Their downtime comes midweek,

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professor Sean Doll, they tend to be the kind of people who “just enjoy sliding on snow at the end of the day.” “It’s something that they’re very passionate about, and it’s what they want to do for the rest of their lives,” Doll says. Resort management programs are evolving beyond a career on the ski slopes, however; Doll says that students increasingly need to be prepared for a “four-season” operation. Resort owners have realized that they need to offer summer as well as winter activities, both to adjust to the changing climate and to “keep up with the

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Joneses,” as Doll puts it. He insists that’s good news for students entering the field, who no longer have to resign themselves to painting houses or mowing lawns in the summer while they wait for ski season to roll around. The ultimate goal at Lyndon, as Doll sees it, is to cultivate jacks-of-all-trades — students who can operate a ski lift, read a budget and understand both the blue- and white-collar work that goes into ski-area management. “That’s what we pride ourselves on — being able to step out of the Carhartts and into the suit if we need to,” says Doll. In the Killington program, students get a bit of experience in both worlds. Each winter trimester, they forgo classes

altogether to focus exclusively on work at the mountain. When the students apply for jobs at Killington, they join the same applicant pool as any other would-be employee. Some operate ski lifts; others dish up fries and burgers in the food-and-beverage department. They work in marketing, hospitality and ski-equipment rentals. And they receive the same wages as their entry-level peers. Asked about his career goals, Rowe says he’d like to manage a ski area someday — or “drive the ’cats,” referring to the beefy snowcats used to groom ski trails. Apparently, it’s not an uncommon wish. “All the boys want to be in grooming,” says Colleen Garrett, the training and education coordinator at Killington Resort. But realistically, she says, they won’t get those jobs at this stage; the resort isn’t putting heavy equipment, worth up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, into the hands of greenhorns. Garrett says students entering the program are all over the spectrum in terms of work experience. Some grew up working on farms or in family businesses and know firsthand what it means to put in a long day. Others, at 18 and fresh out of high school, are shell-shocked by their first 40hour workweeks. Despite their initial unevenness, Garrett says the resort is happy to have the GMC students: By and large, they make a driven workforce. That can be hard to come by in a seasonal profession that sees Killington’s employee ranks swell from 250 in the summer to 1500 at peak season. Killington employs alumni of the GMC program at the resort today — eight in year-round, benefited positions, which Garrett calls a “huge” distinction in her industry. Other alumni have scattered to the winds — some to other Vermont ski resorts, others to resorts out west. Resort management isn’t easy to take on, both Bittinger and Pauzé say. “You’re working when everyone else is playing,” Bittinger says. But when the students’ “weekend” rolls around — typically on Tuesdays and Wednesdays — their long hours pay off. Killington’s winter hubbub dies down to a manageable pace, and the crowds at the mountain thin out. That’s when it’s time to skip the books and hit the slopes. m

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when business on the mountain slows, and their shifts can be grueling. (Keefe works two overnight shifts a week at the front desk of Killington’s hotel.) Meanwhile, their academic schedule is structured so they’re at Killington during the Christmas, New Year’s and Presidents’ Day rushes, ruling out holiday plans with their families. “It’s something you’ve got to do in this industry,” Rowe says of the hours. But there are perks: being able to ski for free, for one. In fact, the students engage in some friendly competition to see who can squeeze in the most days on the snow during the season. Every student invokes the elusive “Zach” as the leader here: He’s clocked around 130 days so far, consensus says. A Brit named Oliver tells me he’s at 102 days. Rowe’s at 49; Keefe — “I’m slacking,” he says — at 56. Their off-work hours aren’t all skiing and riding. During the fall and spring, students take any number of classes related to resort management. As instructors, Killington Resort lends the program experts with hands-on experience, such as the directors of marketing or retail. “We talk a lot about budgets,” confides Larry Bittinger, the program’s “executive in residence,” who is teaching a managerial accounting course this semester. While that may not sound like your average skiobsessed college kid’s cup of tea, Bittinger and Pauzé say alumni are often surprised by how useful they find basic accounting in their new careers. In various resort departments, Pauzé says, these former students “live and die by budgets.” And the students, by and large, seem engaged in their coursework. Holed up in a classroom at a nearby condominium development, a class of second-year students is studying hospitality law. The discussion gets its start, under Pauzé’s guidance, in the historical roots of the field, but soon students — dressed in beanies and brightly colored ski jackets — are hashing out the finer points of liability. The GMC program isn’t the only one of its kind in Vermont. Lyndon State College offers a mountain recreation management degree that includes a mountain resort management concentration; the latter has nearly doubled in size in the past decade, from 34 students in 2003 to 67 this year. LSC students work closely with four ski areas in the region: Bretton Woods, Burke, Jay Peak and Stowe. According to

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Dream Machines The end of reel film is nigh, but a local movie-house dynasty is going strong B Y M AR GOT HA RR ISON

n 1947, Merrill Jarvis started supplying Vermonters with celluloid dreams. Each week, the 12-year-old and his uncle packed up a portable projector and drove to tiny towns such as Rochester and Proctor, where they screened movies in town halls. The projector had to be rethreaded every 20 minutes, a hassle almost unimaginable in an age of instant streaming. But in that pretelevision era, customers were just hungry for an evening of entertainment. “I knew right away, This is what I want to do,” Jarvis says today. He held on to that conviction through 66 years in the movie exhibition business: “I never thought, This is work. I always loved it; I couldn’t wait to get there.” In the course of his career, 77-year-old Jarvis has owned or operated most of the movie theaters in greater

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how long. He has an eye for potential sleeper hits — 1973’s Walking Tall, for instance, for which Jarvis offered the audience a money-back guarantee if they left in the first 30 minutes. They stayed. Jarvis remembers when downtown Burlington was packed with movie houses: the Strong, the Flynn, the Majestic, the State. On the outskirts of town, drive-ins sprouted like weeds in those postwar years: Jarvis’ uncle built the Malletts Bay Drive-In in 1949. At the Milton Drive-In, customers sometimes paid in chickens or eggs. The Milton Drive-In and the Strand Theatre in downtown Winooski belonged to a second local movie dynasty, which produced Jarvis’ wife-to-be, Lucille Barrett. When they first met, he was the Strand’s 17-year-old projectionist, she its 14-year-old cashier. For their first date, the

pushed aside to make room for silent digital projectors like the one currently showing Oz the Great and Powerful in a theater below. With price tags of $29,000 to $32,000 each, the new NEC NC1200C projectors look like computer servers with lenses and xenon bulbs attached. Instead of being threaded with film, they “ingest” movies on hard drives or receive them from another server, a “library management system” that can be programmed to control all the theaters’ basic operations, from trailers to ambient music. While Merrill Jarvis III says no layoffs are planned, the traditional role of the projectionist is obsolete. There’s no use for the old projectors, either; this month, Fujifilm will stop manufacturing motion-picture stock. In the Palace 9 stands a stack of carry-cases that hold the

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Burlington and built several of them. Today, he and his son, Merrill Jarvis III, own the Majestic 10, Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas and the Palace 9 — every multiplex in the Burlington sprawl except the Essex Cinemas. Another son, Bill, owns the Bijou 4 in Morrisville. In those 66 years, movies and movie theaters have seen radical changes. But one thing has remained constant: the flicker of film. Until now. Last week, the Jarvises converted their last two 35-millimeter multiplexes to digital projection. It’s a change dictated by industry-wide market forces that has already swept over most of the theaters in Vermont. The Savoy Theater in Montpelier, an art-house holdout, converted this month, too. MERR IL L On a recent Wednesday at the Palace 9 in South Burlington, a technician examines the newly installed projectors in the spacious attic that once held gigantic, whirring platters of film. Those have been

“last of the film,” Jarvis Sr. says, “never to be seen again.” It’s the end of a cinematic era that began in the 19th century. But it’s not the first seismic shift Jarvis has seen in his business, and it’s not likely to be the last.

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arvis’ theaters are up to date, but he’s something of an old-school guy. He pronounces “theater” with the emphasis on the second syllable. He’d rather watch old movies on AMC than current action flicks — “all gadgets and gimmicks and blowing up this and blowing up that.” He wishes Hollywood would focus on stronger storytelling. Trim, dapper and tan from his winters in Las Vegas, Jarvis typically projects wry bemusement, whether he’s talking about JAR VIS schmoozing at exhibitors’ conventions or a Justin Bieber sighting at the Majestic. Name a blockbuster of the past several decades, and he can probably tell you where it played in Vermont and for

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couple saw The Robe in CinemaScope at the Flynn — a theater they would later own. Today, of course, the Flynn is an upscale performance venue. But Jarvis recalls that, even as a midcentury cinema, the theater, built in 1930, had certain pretensions. Candy and popcorn weren’t sold there, because “they didn’t want to get the floors dirty.” In the 1950s, “People dressed up more” for the movies, Jarvis remembers. “They went in suits.” And tickets were cheap: “We’d fill the theater up, and we’d have $40,” Jarvis says. “I used to make $45 per week as a projectionist.” Films were cheaper for exhibitors, too. In his early days, Jarvis says, the studios took only 25 percent of the gross. Today, it’s closer to 60 percent. With 600 or 700 movies released each year, theaters could switch their programming more than once a week. “This was the only place you could go to be entertained, really,” Jarvis says. “Sometimes I’d go as many times as I could get the money.” Movie theaters may have been a solid business proposition, but they were vulnerable to other forces — like fire. Because nitrate film (used into the early ’50s) was highly

flammable, projection booths were built with fireproof shutters. Jarvis recalls an incident at the Sunset Drive-In: “A piece of film caught in the projector and broke off … and then the fire started, and it went up to the top reel, and the whole thing just exploded, so we had to get out of that projection room as quickly as we could.” Even after the demise of nitrate, many of greater Burlington’s theaters fell prey to flames, never to be rebuilt. Jarvis remembers trying to salvage film from the Strand, which burned in 1956 (“As I was jumping out, the roof of the theater collapsed”). He was working at the State Theatre when it met its fiery end in 1977; appropriately, Bound for Glory was on the marquee. By then, the Strong Theatre (on the present Courthouse Plaza) had also burned. With a chuckle, Jarvis recalls his wife suggesting he exercise special caution at the Showcase in South Burlington (now Higher Ground), given the apparent jinx on theaters with “S” names. Changing moral standards brought a firestorm of another kind. In 1973, Jarvis went to court for screening Deep Throat at the Flynn, a theater he had purchased the preceding year. The FBI “came in and scared” Lucille Jarvis, demanding she hand over the offending reels, but the U.S. Justice Department’s actual target was the film’s distributor. “We just watched the bullets fly,” Jarvis says. And Burlington turned out not to be as conservative

But the theater experience of 35-millimeter projection was still vastly different from anything most people could experience at home — until digital culture came along.

oth Merrill Jarvises have been busy lately. On a recent Sunday, father and son were up till 5:30 a.m. installing silver screens at the downtown Roxy — not the “silver screen” people use as shorthand for “Hollywood,” but the kind you need to show movies in 3-D. “We’re not happy with the change. Who’s happy with change?” Jarvis III, 55, asks rhetorically. But his dad has seen plenty of it — CinemaScope in 1952; stereophonic sound; early 3-D (which required two synchronized projectors); Sensurround, which rocked the State Theater in 1974. And now change is happening faster than ever. The shiny new digital projectors will probably only be good for 10 years, says Jarvis III. The next trend on the horizon is laser projection. How does the elder Jarvis feel about digital? “The picture’s great,” he says. “There’s no weave, no jumpiness. You can read the smallest lettering.” Focus and framing are automatic, not subject to the whims of a projectionist, and “bad prints” are no longer an issue. But, as with most high-tech devices, digital projectors

Part III. In 2002, the family even acquired a new flagship theater, the downtown Merrill’s Roxy, which had been opened by Boston-based Joel Tranum as the Nickelodeon in 1981. “I wanted to retire,” Jarvis says. “That was 22 years ago, and I’m still here. Gotta have something for my kids to do. That’s my inheritance; I can either give it to them or go out and spend it all. I tried to spend it all,” he adds with a chuckle, “but it just didn’t work.” Boston-based Harold Blank co-owned the Majestic 10 with the Jarvises when it opened in 2004; last November he sold them his share in the digital multiplex, along with the Palace 9. Blank calls Jarvis “a very astute business guy. He’s knowledgeable about the business, and he really loves the business.” Just like his dad, Merrill Jarvis III got into the biz early: He was doing reel changeovers at the Burlington Drive-In at age 10. Lucille Jarvis worked alongside her husband, handling bookkeeping, concessions and human resources for the company. When Lucille passed away in 2010, University of Vermont film scholar Frank Manchel delivered the eulogy. A longtime family friend, Manchel often disagreed with the Jarvises on the merits of movies, Jarvis recalls. But when Seven Days spoke with him in 2010, Manchel delivered a stirring testament to the family’s efforts. EvA SollbERgER

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n the 1990s, Jarvis almost left the business. He sold a slew of theaters to the Australia-based Hoyts Group: the Ethan Allen, Newport, Century Plaza, Showcase, Cinema 9. But when Hoyts pulled out of Vermont, Jarvis was pulled back in, just like Michael Corleone in The Godfather:

“Together [Lucille] and Merrill really founded the movie business in Burlington,” he said. “These were two people who started out basically with nothing. The two of them worked day and night for 14 and 15 hours a day.” And they lasted. As Jarvis puts it, “I’m the original guy here. The other guys have come and gone.” How long can they last? Will people keep going to the movies? Of course they will, Jarvis says: “They want to go out. They want to date.” “Everybody’s happy to come to a movie,” his son says. “It’s getting away from home … and coming into a fantasy world.” With nearly seven decades of perspective, the elder Jarvis isn’t daunted by the new challenges to his business — home theaters, instant streaming on smartphones. “They’ve been saying that the death of movies is coming, and I’ve been hearing this for 50 years, and we’re still here,” he says. “Through TV, through videotape, through DVDs, through Blu-ray, through video on demand, we’re still here.” His son puts it succinctly: “It’s in our blood.” m

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can be a headache when they don’t work. “Before [with 35-millimeter], I could fix the projector,” Jarvis says. “I could probably have it up right away or for the next show.” When a digital projector malfunctions, he has to call a technician. “You’re at the mercy of that projector,” he says. “It’s very complicated … They’re not really perfected like I’d like to see them. They’re great when they’re working good, but when they’re not working good, they’re bad.” The conversion is an upgrade that will allow the Jarvises to collect 3-D ticket prices at the Palace and Roxy, but it isn’t really a choice. As they did back in the days of blind bidding, the studios — which save money with digital distribution — are calling the shots. After 2013, Jarvis says, “if you don’t have digital, you won’t have a movie.”

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in its community standards as the Nixon administration had assumed. After the case was dismissed, Jarvis recalls, he met one of the jurors, an “older woman,” on the street. “She says, ‘You know, I don’t want anybody telling me what I can see and what I can’t see,’” he says. “I thought I was going to get holy hell there. Instead, she stood up for the film totally.” In the 1980s, massive blockbusters such as the Star Wars trilogy made bank for exhibitors — at least, those who were willing to gamble on them. Today, studios push their big films into as many theaters as they can to maximize the opening-weekend gross. But back then, Jarvis says, exhibitors blind-bidded for the right to run a blockbuster exclusively. He recalls making good bids ($35K for On Golden Pond) and a bad one ($25K for the George Lucas bomb Howard the Duck). Once a theater landed a hit, it held on tight: “We had films that ran 17, 18, 20-something weeks,” Jarvis says. When E.T. was exclusive to the Showcase, “we started in the summer [and] played it right through Christmas.” The spread of home video would shorten films’ runs.

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ut together two people from opposite ends of a spectrum, and first you see their differences. Give them a reason to stay together, and eventually their similarities emerge to produce a full portrait. This is playwright Amy Herzog’s technique in the warm, rich comedy 4000 Miles. She separates a grandson and grandmother by 70 years, then lets him end a Seattle-to-New York City bike trip with a spontaneous 3 a.m. visit to her Manhattan apartment. What begins as an overnight stay quietly extends into weeks as Leo and Vera build an understated companionship. They have a lot in common, including two manifestly childlike dispositions. At Vera’s age, there’s no longer any need to fuss over what other people think, so why not plunge to the heart of the matter? To Leo, life is an adventure best accepted with cheer and wonder. But they have some darker parallels, too. Both have reasons to think about mortality. Both are drifting, and neither is in any hurry to find out what comes next. For Vera, it will be her life’s end; for Leo, it will be the start of his, but having every possibility open is more comfortable than choosing one. And in the present, Leo is trapped in an orbit around a departing girlfriend, while Vera hasn’t gotten around to taking her husband’s name off the doorplate 10 years after his death. Both of them are stuck in place. In a high-voltage drama, the two of them would unstick each other, probably with a great deal of soul-scouring emotion. That’s not what 4000 Miles accomplishes, because Herzog’s abundant talent lies in sounding the delicate emotional truths underneath small events. The plot consists of an intersection, not a transformation. Herzog’s low-key character study, with its perfect mix of funny and sad, needs talented actors. In Vermont Stage Company’s production, the skill is there, but the delicate chemistry between Leo and Vera is not. Chemistry takes some luck and grace, and director Michael Dove comes just shy of cultivating it. The two lead actors are both fine talents. Tall and dark-haired Willy McKay, as Leo, has great presence, strong vocal ability and lovely comic timing. He’s alive and loose, showing his character’s earnest youthfulness with a rubbery bounce in his step and the occasional wide grin on his face. In a monologue about losing his best friend, McKay’s natural ease lets the story

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spin out. We feel we’re in the living room with him, rapt. Herzog writes with attention to the type of details that wedge themselves into memory, turning an abstract story into experience. McKay weaves the humor and sadness through the story by letting it happen to him. Actors give audiences no greater gift. Waltrudis Buck gives Vera an exhilarating lack of self-consciousness. If age has its privileges, one of them is being outspoken without fear of consequences. Petite and white-haired Buck brings some smart details to playing a 91-year-old, including a pace that’s far from the snappy banter typical of comedy. Buck makes Vera ring true: Small physical afflictions slow her down, and she has to take time to find her words — the worst part about getting old, she says. Through it all, though, Vera’s hearty spirit gleams through. Her levelheaded approach to aging includes a refusal to

shrink into the background and a hilarious ability to skewer the tedious neighbor who checks in on her with verbal barbs. The two characters need to grow close without a sudden, galvanizing event. McKay and Buck bring great energy and life to their roles. It’s craftsmanship that connects them, not that ineffable bond that two actors sometimes share. Still, there are glorious moments between them. One night, as they start sharing stories, Leo loses all shyness about topics that one would never broach with a grandmother. And so does Vera, to great comic effect. In other interactions, the two actors seem to be rowing two separate boats. But the delights of the script and the charm of the characters deflect attention from this limitation. Two smaller roles round out the cast. Katie Peters has a fast-talking, scenestealing turn as Amanda, a girl Leo picks up. Peters takes it a bit over the top, but the

scene is written with such broad comedy in mind that it almost feels like a different play, and Peters brings out every hilarious morsel. We forgive her, and we can’t stop laughing as she stalks about on platform heels trying to puzzle through each awkward step of a seduction to which she may or may not surrender. Andrea Underhill plays Bec, Leo’s exgirlfriend. Like Vera and Leo, she’s not entirely sure of the next step in her life, but she’s courageous enough to make some choices. Underhill is good at showing the little tremors beneath Bec’s brave face, but she doesn’t really connect with McKay or Buck. And, particularly when she reverses course and seems interested in Leo again, it’s unclear what purpose Herzog intends for this character. There’s another obstacle at play here. Set designer Jeff Modereger creatively realizes a Manhattan apartment with detailed decoration, but leaves an awkwardly large, open area bereft of furniture. The long, deep diagonals don’t suit quiet conversation or support the subtle connections between characters. Dove calls on sound designer Martha Goode and lighting designer Lauren Glover to create a passage-of-time gimmick. On its first appearance, the revolving light and bits of music, each turn representing another day, seem clever. But the slow crawl appears far too many times. Inexplicably, Goode has chosen five-second snippets of folk-pop music from the 1960s and ’70s. Yet Vera’s formative years would have been set to the music of the ’30s and ’40s, while mellow Leo is likely into Mumford & Sons, if not the Grateful Dead. The namethat-tune interlude is distracting at best. These concerns aside, Herzog’s dialogue is rich, funny and so authentic to today’s idioms and vocal rhythms that watching 4000 Miles is like finding ourselves in overheard stories. The observations are a lovely combination of funny and true. And, though the play lacks a vivid event that transforms the characters, it’s all the more real without it. m

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Plainfield’s VErmonT salumI has made a name for itself with handcrafted, locally sourced sausages. Late last year, salumiere PETEr colman debuted a line of bacon, too. On March 8, he finally began doing what he aimed to do with his company all along — dry curing — with the help of the new curing facility at Waitsfield’s maD rIVEr FooD hub. Once the state accepted Colman’s HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control points) plan, he set to work plying his trade on pork from DEEr run Farm in Danville and VErmonT WhEy FED PIgs in Waitsfield. In the temperature- and climate-controlled aging facility, Vermont Salumi is now curing its first specialties, including guanciale, capicola, lonza, pancetta and two different trial batches of salami. All consumers can do is wait for a taste. “I’m guessing within three months, you’ll be seeing this stuff out in stores,” Colman says. Even then, Vermont’s first Italian-style dry-cured salumi will remain a limited commodity, at least for now. Look for it in stores where Vermont Salumi products are currently sold.

Since 1980, the lines have snaked down Winooski’s Main Street for breakfast and lunch at snEakErs bIsTro. If all goes well, that could soon be the case in the evening, too. On March 6, the restaurant began what owner marc DysIngEr terms “the softest of soft openings.” After two weeks of keeping it quiet, he says he and his staff are now offering dinner service from 5 to 9 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. What made Dysinger decide to add dinner after 33 years? The inspiration came as he returned to the restaurant after an evening lecture at MyWebGrocer. “I noticed the block has a really good energy — ours was the only dark storefront,” Dysinger remembers. “We just felt like we wanted to be part of that energy. We always knew that Sneakers dressed up really well at night, and we have a pretty solid talent pool. We finally decided, Let’s make this happen.”

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Burlington tea geeks too harried to stop for a pot will soon be able to get their Dobrá TEa fix to go. The teahouse’s take-out window on Bank Street will also dish out a new, eclectic menu of snacks. Spinach boreks, falafel and dumplings will be part of the savory fare at Dobrá, and the window will be located in a new dining space where deli Mad Hatter used to be. “We’ll have street food from all over tea-drinking land,” says Dobrá owner sTacy JollEs. “We’re sort of imagining an indoor street cart.” The menu will include a few new sweets, too, made by Dobrá’s food partners, including anaTolIan and on ThE

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chef Phillip Clayton. But List couldn’t keep up with the popular restaurant’s demands. “They’d eat this whole herd in six months,” he says. But small scale is key to maintaining an excellent product, Ward says. “I don’t think, when you start raising a thousand or 2000 animals a year, you’re going to be able to keep those standards in place. Five hundred to 600, maybe 800 max, they can maintain that quality and integrity,” says the butcher, who recently helped draw up a cut chart to aid Hinesburgh Public House in maximizing the use of its Grass Roots beef. List hopes one day to grow Grass Roots Farm to 400 or 500 head, with 80 to 100 animals born on his farm each year. To give himself room to expand, he’s in the process of adding a former dairy farm in Williston to the four Chittenden County patches that his cattle currently occupy. List doesn’t own any of the land that he aerates and tills himself, often working until midnight. He either leases it or arranges with the owners to occupy it in exchange for the current-use tax benefits and well-tilled fields they reap from the bargain. While staying small is responsible, tiny Grass Roots Farm alone is unlikely to popularize Lowline Angus cattle the way List hopes to. That’s why he’s reaching out to other farmers, encouraging them to begin raising the animals. Among the younger farmers List has mentored are Rick King and Seth Brownell. King purchased his first two Lowlines in the summer of 2011 and raised them on his 20 acres of land in Swanton. Since then, the two have grown their herd to

16 animals. They plan to do their first slaughter this summer, keeping some of the meat for themselves and selling the rest from a freezer at Brownell’s home in Essex. Brownell says they chose the Lowline Angus for its small size and puppyish temperament. The hobbyist farmer, who grew up on a dairy farm, only half jokes, “My experience wrestling with bigger cows wasn’t so much fun.”

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him crazy. But he counters with, “I say, ‘If people don’t say you’re crazy, you’re too late.’” List is convinced there’s a method to his madness, and in that method are the seeds of a rebirth of Vermont’s beef industry. The first step, he says, is to create a governing body to guarantee quality and true Vermont provenance. As Ward puts it, “Why is a beef cow that comes to Vermont at 10 months old and is fed genetically modified feed for four months allowed to be labeled ‘Vermont grass-fed’? For me, it’s about honesty and integrity … There’s so much deception.” Ward and List envision a board or agency in which membership would require random farm inspections. State rules would govern where animals came from and what they ingested before slaughter. To qualify for the “Vermont grass-fed” label, a steer would need not only to have been born in the Green Mountains and not fed grain, but also to be free of antibiotics and hormones. And what better breed to meet all those qualifications than the Lowline Angus? With droughts making production more difficult and costly out west, List thinks Vermont has a chance to make a name for itself in the beef world. “I just really believe it’s time for Vermont to have the guts and the vision to start doing beef right,” he says. And for the rest of us to taste the difference. m

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Last week, an early-morning barn fire at Springfield’s cavENDIsh GamE BIrDs killed 20,000 quail and 30 pigs. The owners are already planning their rebuild. Though a barn — one of three — burned to the ground in an hour, co-owner rIck thompsoN reckons that thick smoke killed most of the animals, about half of Cavendish’s stock and all its breeding birds. The cause of the fire is still unknown. Thompson and his brother, BIll, supply thousands of Coturnix quail and their eggs each year to restaurants and distributors throughout the Northeast. The farm has about a month’s supply of birds left, after which the Thompsons will shut down production to concentrate on rebuilding. They hope to be selling birds again by late summer. We wish them the best.

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sushi bar would be incorrect. As anyone who has visited its sister restaurant in Burlington knows, the menu there touches on almost every conceivable Asian cuisine, from Thai (chicken satay, panang beef ) to Korean (bibimbap) to the seaweed salads, gyoza, tempura and sushi of Japan. As we waited, huddled in the doorway, we peered across the foyer at a glassed-in vault door left over from the Chittenden Bank that used to operate here. Maki rolls issued from the sushi bar, where owner-chef Gary Ma seemed to be seriously hustling. Along the bar, people sipped pastel cocktails from bulbous glasses. A hostess seated diners

wait another 15 minutes or so to place our order. The menu is almost a carbon copy of the Burlington restaurant’s, with an extensive array of maki rolls, noodle soups, udon and even a Korean-style grilled ribeye steak. Ma stresses that the menu is temporary — “I still need to learn a lot from this town” — and says he’ll add new dishes over time. The Japanese chef who was supposed to launch the restaurant with him was unable to move up from Boston in time, so Ma himself is stewarding the kitchen.

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Just three weeks in, Asiana still has the feel of a restaurant in mid-launch. We tried to order a Japanese beer, but all the imports were sold out (Long Trail IPA and Harpoon Brewery’s UFO Hefeweizen are on tap). As we waited for our order of oysters, sashimi and lychee margarita, a plate of sushi arrived. Each piece of tuna and salmon was cut with precision and beautiful to behold, but the dish was not what we asked for. Back it went. Soon after, the server set down a plate of fried calamari so huge and fragrant we were tempted to dive in — but, again, this wasn’t our order. We sat on our hands, sent it back and continued to wait.

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ith a 25-minute wait for a table at Asiana House, the long-awaited new sushi place in Montpelier, a friend and I had plenty of time to mull over our first order: the sashimi appetizer, a plate of fried oysters with spicy mayo and maybe a lychee margarita. Although it was Wednesday night and not Friday, the crowd — which filled the bar, the sushi counter and all of the tables — gave off the vibe of a long-suffering, now emancipated group. Apparently, Montpelier has been hungry for sushi, pop-up meals from Himitsu Secret Sushi notwithstanding. Yet to label Asiana House simply a

with austere efficiency, skillfully avoiding eye contact with those who had a reservation but were still waiting past their appointed time. By the time we sat down at a comfy corner table, we were hungry. Very hungry. And, though the food at Asiana House is decent — sometimes even excellent — we learned that iffy service and organization could muddle the experience. The story of Asiana House goes back a decade, to when Ma — a sushi chef trained in Boston — founded Burlington’s Asiana House on the corner of Pearl Street and South Winooski Avenue. It’s been a fixture of the local sushi scene ever since, probably owing to Ma’s commitment to very fresh fish (he makes regular Boston trips for it) and the voluminous, something-for-everyone menu. With 10 years under his belt, Ma says he was tapped by two Montpelier landlords, Jeff and Jesse Jacobs, as a potential tenant for the longempty historic building at 43 State Street. Jesse Jacobs, Jeff’s son, has made a point of getting tenants into the vacant storefronts owned by his company, Montpelier Property Management. He’s a proponent of historic preservation, and the elegant rooms at Asiana House show it. The renovation preserved details such as the vault and the counter where bank slips used to be kept. Added were antique sconces and modern lamps, wooden blinds and cushy banquettes. The result is almost speakeasy-like, especially at the enormous table tucked into a sinuous banquette at the very back. Ma rented the space last fall but opened just a month ago; the only signs are a neon “Open” sign and a temporary banner hanging over the door. In the midst of all of Asiana House’s elegance, our Wednesday night visit gave us a sense of controlled chaos. We seemed to hit the place at peak dinnertime, yet once we were finally seated, it emptied out rapidly. Even so, we had to

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than any we had ever seen, as well as hunks of salmon, scallops and shrimp. The maki rolls at Asiana House are outsized too, and there are dozens to choose from. I went for a Scottie 2 Hottie Maki, a cylinder overstuffed with salmon and sweet, succulent slivers of mango, with torched salmon belly draped over the top. Texturally, it was slippery, but the chile-flecked mayo lent the roll a smoldering heat. Vegetarian options are plentiful at Asiana House, and the mockeel roll, stuffed with chewy, crunchy bits of fried tempeh, came blanketed in shiitake mushrooms and slices of avocado. It was salty, layered and delicious. My only complaint: Both rolls were heavy on the rice. For a lighter touch on the palate, diners can choose from at least six salads, and some of them are unusual, at least in Vermont. Though the house dressing for greens was a bit heavy on Japanese mayo, the seaweed salad was sweet, crunchy, cooling and generously seasoned with sesame oil. The smoked-octopus salad was not for the faint of heart, visually speaking. The pile of tiny red octopi atop greens looked like they were having an orgy. But it was a creative, smoky and tasty snack, one I wished I’d ordered earlier. Two hours passed between the time we sat down at Asiana House and the time we left. We had a hard time ordering everything we wanted. In a town that had a culinary hole to fill, Ma’s restaurant is off to a sputtery but still promising start. The chef seems cognizant of the challenges of opening a new place, and my guess is that feedback will not fall on deaf ears. m

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BURLINGTON TAIKO Sunday, March 24, 3 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-30. Info, 863-5966. fl ynntix.org

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harles Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty” is one of the most popular fairy tales in the literary canon. Choreographer Marius Petipa’s adaptation of this story of a beautiful princess’ imposed slumber broken only by a kiss from a handsome prince became his finest achievement. Driven by Tchaikovsky’s score, the piece is considered by many to be the crown jewel of classical ballet. Nearly 100 years after the production’s 1890 premiere, the Russian National Ballet Theatre was founded. The internationally renowned company portrays this classic narrative by bringing mime and pas d’action to traditional elements performed on a lavishly designed stage that’s truly fit for royalty. RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE Wednesday, March 27, 7 p.m., at Lyndon Institute. $26-53. Info, 7482600. catamountarts.org

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South Korean violin prodigy Amadéus Leopold — the artist formerly known as Hahn-Bin — is not your typical classical musician. The incendiary talent redefines the genre’s aesthetic with an over-the-top appearance and elaborate costumes that reflect his love of pop and performance art. However, his visual identity is no gimmick. The avant-garde performer made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 22 after an early graduation from the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, where he studied under the famed Itzhak Perlman. Leopold returns to the Paramount Theatre to play the second installment of “The Renaissance of Classical Music.”

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journals. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:308:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 8786956, kat@brownelllibrary.org. AmericAn Girl Just Between us workshop: Girls ages 8 and up join their caregivers at this event based on Valorie Schaefer’s book The Care and Keeping of You, which addresses preteens’ changing bodies. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 864-8001. 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: 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 entertainment in creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. hiGhGAte story hour: Gigglers and wigglers listen to age-appropriate lit. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. Journey From sAp to syrup: Little ones ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions learn about collecting and boiling sap, then sample various grades of the finished product. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/ child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068. mAy’s world music & movement: Energetic children lace up their dancing shoes for a fun class with May Poduschnick. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. move, Groove & siGn: Kiddos ages 2 to 5 celebrate creative movement and National Deaf History Month with activities that include American Sign Language. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. preschool discovery proGrAm: siGns oF sprinG: use your senses!: Themed activities teach young minds how to identify seasonal changes in nature. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5-8. Info, 229-6206.

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st. AlBAns plAyGroup: Creative activities and storytelling engage young minds. NCSS Family Center, St. Albans, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. story time & plAyGroup: Read-aloud tales pave the way for themed art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. 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. 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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sonG circle: community sinG-AlonG with rich & lAurA Atkinson: This experienced pair of musical leaders provides instrumental accompaniment to participants’ voices. No experience necessary. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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First-time homeBuyer seminAr: Theresa Ferrara joins real-estate colleagues and finance professionals, each of whom give a brief presentation about the process of purchasing a home. Hampton Inn, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister at vthomebuyer.info. Info, 578-9497. powerinG your Business with microsoFt 365 cloud: Network Performance employees guide area professionals through hands-on information sessions about the software system. Network Performance, South Burlington, 9 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 859-0808, ext. 236.

retirement plAnninG For smAll Businesses: Area professionals learn about creating and implementing financial strategies for the future. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790. spend smArt series: This practical introduction to money management focuses on personalized financial goals. Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 8601417, ext. 114. tech help: Readers learn how to utilize the library’s online offerings. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. the re-emerGinG Green: sprinG wildcrAFtinG, herBAl medicines & the plAnt/humAn relAtionship: VCIH graduate Graham Unangst-Rufenacht demonstrates culinary and medicinal preparations for seasonal, bioregional vegetation. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100. usinG sociAl mediA to promote your Artwork: BCA Center’s Eric Ford and Torrey Valyou, cofounder of New Duds silkscreen company, share tips and techniques for using Facebook, Twitter and more to create a fan base. Lorraine B. Good Room, BCA Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $1315; preregister. Info, 865-7166.

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colleGe niGht: Current students take advantage of their flexible schedules and Vermont’s ski-andsnowboard opportunities. Bolton Valley Resort, noon-8 p.m. $19 lift tickets with valid school ID. Info, 434-6804. Green mountAin tABle tennis cluB: Ping-pong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 7-10 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

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chris hedGes: As part of the Peace & Justice Center’s “Cost of War Speaker & Film Series,” the award-winning foreign correspondent discusses his experiences abroad. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10-15; free for UVM students with valid ID. Info, 863-2345, ext. 8 . John emiGh: The professor emeritus of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University share his knowledge in “The Topeng Masked Theatre of Bali.” Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. $3-5. Info, 656-0750. mArc ellis: The prolific author presents “Jewish Liberation Theology and the Crisis of Israel/ Palestine.” McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. mAry ABele & nAncy wriGht: The reverend and pastor, respectively, share insights about the potential of spirituality to raise consciousness and motivate action. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-0322 or 985-3819. rose diAmond: The singer and certified McClosky vocal technician discusses how the subconscious interacts with vocal mechanics. A Q&A follows. Pathways to Well Being, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-2328. sAcred sites AliGned with the sprinG equinox: Andrew Sepic employs Esoteric Teachings techniques and guided visualization to explore universal themes associated with this astronomical event. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; see esotericteachings.org for details. Info, 730-9094.

grandmother after he bikes across the country. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24.30-32.50. Info, 863-5966.

of the healing properties of native vegetation. Gardener’s Supply: Williston Garden Center & Outlet, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.

‘rAce’: Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill directs a Northern Stage and Capital Repertory Theatre coproduction of David Mamet’s provocative tale of sex, guilt and cultural taboos. Contains sexually explicit language and adult situations. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $10-60. Info, 296-7000.

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BurlinGton writers workshop meetinG: Members read and respond to the poetry and prose of fellow wordsmiths. Participants must join the group to have their work reviewed. Halflounge, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com. Info, 383-8104. sArAh Gillen: The therapist introduces her new book, From Hurt to Joy, which details techniques for healing via the body’s energy systems. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338 . sprinG Book sAle: Lit lovers leaf through affordable titles to add to their bookshelves. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

liFe-drAwinG clAss: Live models inspire studies of line work and shading. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 6-9 p.m. $15-20. Info, 775-0356.

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FrAnklin county chAmBer oF commerce mixer: Members and area residents tour Northwest Tech Center’s culinary-arts kitchen and Hideaway Café, where they sample items from the students’ menu. Northwest Technical Center, St. Albans, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 524-2444.

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vermont nonproFit conFerence: More than 200 industry professionals convene to network and gain knowledge based on the theme “The Data-Driven Nonprofit: Tracking Results, Telling Our Story, Improving Vermont.” Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $79 includes lunch; see commongoodvt.org for details. Info, 379-4013.

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lunch & leArn series: plAnts with medicinAl interests: Heather Irvine of Giving Tree Botanicals leads an interactive discussion

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Home, Sweet Home Every March, Vermont’s freezing nights and daytime thaws yield pure, liquid gold — the state’s signature liquid asset. Want to sample the sweetness? Sugar shacks all over the state open their doors during the 12th annual MAPLE OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND. Activities vary at each location, but if the weather is right, families can join hardworking sugar makers as they tap trees and watch sap turn to syrup over the fire. No visit is complete without the ultimate treat: sugar on snow.

MAPLE OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND: Saturday, March 23, and Sunday, March 24, various times at participating sugarhouses statewide. All ages. Free. Info, 763-7435. Visit vermontmaple.org to find a list of events and locations.

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scott mcdowell: In the annual Ellsworth Lecture, the Vermont historian considers how labor laws affected the 1935 to ‘36 strike by Rutlandarea marble workers. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1664.

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Dancing Uphill: This spring tradition of creative movement features UVM dancers in works choreographed by faculty, students and a guest artist. Mann Hall Gymnasium, UVM Trinity Campus, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 656-2295.

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hiking Boot Maintenance & RepaiR: Well-worn footwear gets a little TLC at this informative session on repairing soles and treating leather. Eastern Mountain Sports, South Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0473. MoUnt MansfielD scale MoDeleRs: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

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enviRonMental caReeR faiR: Several organizations — including EarthWalk Vermont and Yestermorrow Design/Build School — present opportunities for employees, interns and graduate students. Dunbar Dining Hall, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 586-7711, ext. 164.

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‘DeaR pina,’ filM scReening: Lukas Huffman’s footage of Hannah Dennison’s June 2012 dance/ theater tribute to renowned German choreographer Pina Bausch brings the stunning ensemble performance to the big screen. A discussion follows. Marquis Theatre, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $6-8; see hannahdennison.org for details. Info, 388-4841. ‘genetic RoUlette’: Jeffrey M. Smith’s 2012 documentary scrutinizes the agri-corporation Monsanto’s development of genetically modified seeds. A Q&A with Cat Buxton and Will Allen of the Vermont Right To Know GMOs Coalition follows. Upper Valley Food Co-op, White River Junction, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 295-5804. ‘koch’: See WED.20, 5:30 p.m.

‘veRMont eneRgy inDepenDence Day’: As part of a statewide project led by Bright Blue EcoMedia, Vermont’s first crowd-sourced documentary presents ideas about transitioning to a sustainable energy future. Room 11, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 303-247-1800.

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aBove the city MeDitation night: Attendees attune their bodies and minds breath by breath. Comfortable clothing and personal cushions recommended. October Tea Room, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 651-1054.

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. 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, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. MUsic With MR. chRis: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains kids and parents alike. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. MUsic With Raphael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918. oRigaMi aniMals: Crafty kiddos ages 8 and up learn the Japanese art of paper folding and create cats, dogs, frogs and more. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. RU12? playgRoUp: LGBTQA families bring infants and children up to age 4 together for crafts and physical activities. Leaps and Bounds Child Development Center, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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We are excited to co-sponsor the LCRCC’s 21st Annual Ambassadors’ Silent Auction at UVM’s Davis Center on March 28th... Hope to see you there!

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haRleM sUpeRstaRs coMeDy BasketBall: Members of the St. Johnsbury Academy’s all-star team match up against the New York City-based players in a friendly competition that encourages audience participation. Alumni Memorial Gymnasium, St. Johnsbury Academy, 6:30 p.m. $10. Info, 748-2600.

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fReD Beckey: Now 90 years young, this climbing legend with more than 1000 first ascents under his belt recounts a lifetime of extreme adventures. Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 861-0190. goRDon Maas: Drawing on more than 30 years of experience, the Montessori educator explains the philosophies behind the teaching model. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:15-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3320. tRansition toWn seRies: Educator and environmental consultant Eric Garza details fossil-fuel consumption relative to agricultural production in “The Energy Basis of Food Security.” KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

‘falsettos’: Douglas Anderson directs a producOF tion of William Finn’s groundH EN RY S HEL DO N M US EU M breaking Tony Award-winning musical, which sheds light on the AIDS music crisis. See calendar spotlight. Town Hall Theater, excision: The Canadian dubstep DJ tests the Middlebury, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 382-9222. limits of electronic music by morphing sounds and ‘Race’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m. adding aggressive bass. Paper Diamond and Vaski ‘the Witch’s lUllaBy’: The Rutland High School open. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 7 p.m. Encore Theatre presents Martha Bennett King’s $32.25-37.25. Info, 863-5966. adaption of this fairy tale about the last three pracJason palMeR QUintet: Cited as one of the top titioners of witchcraft in Scotland, who also happen trumpeters of his generation, this compelling musito be sisters. Rutland High School, 7:30 p.m. $4. cian leads his band in an evening of jazz. Brandon Info, 770-1134. Music Café, 7:30 p.m. $15; $30 includes dinner package; preregister; BYOB. Info, 465-4071. words TE

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WilliaM haRt: The Middlebury College associate professor considers the life of Martin Henry Freeman, an African American from Rutland who emigrated to Liberia. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 8v-neuon032013.indd 1 Middlebury, 7 p.m. Info, 388-2117.

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nathan laUBe: In a fitting celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday, the acclaimed organist performs selections from the composer and others. Mead Chapel, Middlebury College, preperformance lecture, 6:45 p.m.; concert., 7:30 p.m. $6-20. Info, 443-3168. noontiMe conceRt seRies: Tom Jocks and Lynnette Combs honor J.S. Bach’s day of birth with virtuosic works for viola da gamba and the harpsichord. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6515. snoe.DoWn festival: Jam band moe. headline this music fest, which features Tauk, Strangefolk, Floodwood and others. Killington Grand Resort Hotel and Rutland’s Spartan Arena. 8 p.m. Prices vary; see flynntix.org for details. Info, 863-5966.

angelica haRRis: The author, abuse survivor and human-rights activist shares personal and professional stories aimed at helping others to heal. A book signing follows. Room 17, Bogue Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8299. Jenny MilchMan & JennifeR McMahon: In “Dealing in Darkness: The Writing and Publishing Lives of Two Suspense Novelists,” the authors discuss their craft. Phoenix Books Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 615-715-8465. spRing Book sale: See WED.20, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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flUiD yoga: Early risers focus on arm balances, proper alignment and creative sequencing based on vinyasa principles. A guided meditation follows. SEABA Center, Burlington, 7-8 a.m. $5 suggested donation; see pascucciyoga.com for details. Info, 859-9222.

faMily gaMe night: Kiddos ages 3 to 10 who know their colors and numbers play interactive versions of bingo and other popular pastimes. Center Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

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inteRMeDiate BRiDge class: Louise Acker teaches participants how to place opening bids in this popular card game using the 2Club and 2NT techniques. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 388-4369.

caRtooning WoRkshop: Cartoonist and illustrator Will Workman, of Williston’s Midnight Ink Studio, teaches kids ages 9 and up how to sketch compelling characters. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-5030.

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fRienDs of the Winooski RiveR DinneR: Likeminded locals gather for good eats and a presentation by fisheries biologist Rich Kirn, whose work includes managing the river’s habitat. Cider House BBQ and Pub, Waterbury, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $22-27; preregister. Info, 882-8276, info@winooskiriver.org.

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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UvM BoDy in filM seRies: ‘Dancing acRoss BoRDeRs’: Anne Bass’ 2010 documentary chronicles the journey of a teenage dancer she met in Cambodia, who, with her help, became an international performer. Billings Lecture Hall, UVM, Burlington, preshow discussion, 6 p.m.; movie, 6:45 p.m. $4-10. Info, 656-4455.

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All-You-Can-Eat Fish Fry: Folks fill up on fried or baked haddock, French fries, coleslaw and dessert. St. Ambrose Parish, Bristol, 5-7 p.m. $5-12; $35 for family of five. Info, 453-2488.

Chuck Ross: Vermont’s secretary of agriculture outlines post-Tropical Storm Irene rebuilding efforts, after which farmers take the floor with questions and concerns. Conference Room, Springfield State Office Building, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 272-0822 .

Burger Night: Community members feast on beef patties with special toppings before live music by Johnny B. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 878-0700.

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Life of the Child Conference: Renowned neurophysiologist and educator Carla Hannaford presents strategies for parents and educators in “Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head.” 7-9 p.m. $20-60; see lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org for details. Info, 985-2827, ext. 12.

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Mad Robin Contra Dance: Folks in clean, soft-soled shoes move and groove to music by Gallimaufry in traditional New England social dances. All dances are taught. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $5-10; $20 per family. Info, 503-1251.

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.

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Brandon Library Gala: Ten Rod Road provide live music during an evening of dancing, poetry readings, a silent auction and more. Proceeds benefit the library. Brandon Inn, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 236-4519.

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College of St. Joseph’s Gala: Live music from On the Rocks complements dinner, dancing and a live auction at this annual event. Holiday Inn, Rutland, 6-11 p.m. $100. Info, 773-5900.

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Lenten Fish Dinner: Neighbors gather for a shared meal of seafood, soup, salad and dessert. Children’s menu available. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier, 5-6:30 p.m. $6-10; free for ages 3 and under. Info, 793-4276.

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Queen City Tango Milonga: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, introductory session from 7-7:45 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.

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Fish Fry: Locals pile their plates high with fried haddock, baked potato, coleslaw and dessert. St. Paul’s Catholic School, Barton, 5-7 p.m. $5.95-9.95; call for takeout. Info, 525-6578.

‘Reaching Critical Mass: International and U.S. Law in the Wake of Modern Exigencies’: Attendees explore the relationship between modern security threats and protection of human rights and civil liberties. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1000.

Dancing Uphill: See THU.21, 8 p.m.

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‘56 Up’: The eighth installment of Michael Apted’s long-running documentary-film project, Up Series, catches up with a group of British citizens he began following as children. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. Green Mountain Film Festival: Over the course of 10 days, this 16th annual cinematic celebration of full-length features, shorts and documentaries highlights works of cultural, social and historic significance. Savoy Theater & Pavilion Auditorium, Montpelier, 6-9:30 p.m. Prices vary; see gmffestival.org for details . Info, 262-3423. Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: This minifestival of francophone filmmaking showcases seven newly released flicks. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-8; see catamountarts.org for details. Info, 748-2600. ‘The Hedgehog’: Mona Achache’s award-winning drama about an 11-year-old girl’s philosophical observations screens as part of the Tournées French Film Festival. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 6542835, lclerfeuille@smcvt.edu. ‘The NIMBY Project’: Hollywood actor and Northeast Kingdom resident Luis Guzman presents the Vermont premiere of his documentary, in which he goes undercover and lives on the New York City streets to shed light on the issue of homelessness. Jay Peak Resort, 8 p.m. Info, 988-2611.

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.

Enosburg Falls Story Hour: Young ones show up for fables and finger crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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. 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. Info, 878-6956. Montgomery Tumble Time: Physical fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Night Sky Viewing Party: Star light, star bright! Youngsters use a high-powered telescope to view the moon, Jupiter and more. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Reading & Writing Dystopia: Crazy about The Hunger Games? Lit lovers in grades 6 and up discover apocalyptic reads and learn how to craft similarly compelling tales. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Songs & Stories With Matthew: Musician Matthew Witten helps kids start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Spanish Stories & Music: Niños up to age 6 and their parents practice their español through stories, rhymes and songs. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. 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. Write On!: Budding wordsmiths ages 6 to 10 brainstorm ideas and spin a story or two. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

music

African Brothers Concert: Hailing from Burundi, Sudan and Congo, this trio of teens brings hip-hop flavors to contemporary world music. Special guests include Vermont’s A2VT. North End Studio A, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 863-6713 . Amadéus Leopold: In “The Renaissance of Classical Music,” the virtuosic violinist formerly known as Hahn-Bin incorporates elements of provocative performance art. See calendar spotlight. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 775-0903.

Bristol Drumming Experience: Folks feel the beat at this informal, all-ages jam session. Instruments provided to those who need them. Recycled Reading of Vermont, Bristol, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5982.

‘Skin Deep’: Gary Thompson directs the Marble Valley Players in Jon Lonoff’s comedy about romantic connections that may or may not blossom into love. West Rutland Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 775-0903.

Donal Fox: In “Mashups in Blue,” the renowned pianist displays his improvisation skills with reinterpreted selections from Bach, Coltrane, Radiohead and others. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $15-25. Info, 863-5966.

‘The Neo-Futurist Project’: Green Mountain College student Nora Alexander directs an improvisatory show of several works based on the aesthetics of honesty, speed and brevity. Ackley Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926.

Sensible Shoes With Tom Lord: Barbara Blaisdell and Tim Utt welcome the guest vocalist in an evening of funky originals and covers. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, Woodstock, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3500. Snoe.down Festival: See THU.21, 12:30 p.m.-midnight. Travis Tritt: Southern rock influences the country music of this award-winning crooner, who performs a solo acoustic show. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $39-59. Info, 603-448-0400.

seminars

Create A Vision Board: Life-empowerment coach Marianne Mullen demonstrates how visual representations of goals can manifest positive change. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $7-10; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Powering Your Business With Microsoft 365 Cloud: See WED.20, 9 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

talks

Adam Kane: The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum codirector discusses the history and cultural significance behind the area’s sunken canal boats. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Ben Baumer: The former New York Mets statistician crunches numbers in “Moneyball Revisited: Assessing the Sabermetric Revolution in Baseball.” Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 3:15 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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‘4000 Miles’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: Peter Young directs an unconventional interpretation of the Shakespearean comedy in this Echo Valley Community Arts and Shakespeare in the Hills coproduction. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 229-4191. ‘American Dream’: As her senior project, Elizabeth Thompson directs Johnson State College students in a production of Edward Albee’s absurd one-act satire of American family life. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476. ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’: Castleton State College Theater Arts presents David Yazbek’s musical adaptation of the 1998 comedy involving two con men who pursue an heiress on the French Riviera. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 468-1119. ‘Falsettos’: See THU.21, 8 p.m. ‘Hello, Dolly!’: Rice High School Theater Department presents a production of Jerry Herman’s Tony Award-winning musical about the hilarious adventures of Dolly Gallagher Levi, whose nose is in everyone’s business. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $14-17. Info, 863-5966. National Theatre of London Live: Tony Award-winner John Lithgow plays the title role in a broadcast screening of Arthur Wing Pinero’s Victorian comedy, The Magistrate. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $10-16. Info, 518-523-2512. ‘“Our Town” of Woodchuck, Vermont’: Woodchuck Theatre Company presents George Woodard’s lighthearted play about small-town life from days of old. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 800-611-6045. ‘Race’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m.

‘Who Made Me?’: Actor/storyteller Dennis McSorley performs a solo show about doubt, faith and everything in between. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 201-238-3369.

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Crop Mob: Helping hands get dirt under their fingernails as they help area food growers get a head start on the planting season. Intervale Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister at citymarket.coop. Info, 861-9753. Huntington Sugar Makers Open House: Folks tour area maple-syrup operations to observe the sap-boiling process and sample the finished products. Various locations, Huntington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3269. Tree-Pruning Workshop: Gardeners bring their own tools and learn trimming techniques outside with John Snell, cochair of the Montpelier Tree Board. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 10 a.m.noon. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Vermont Farm & Garden Exchange Seed Swap: Green thumbs trade garden starters to diversify their summer harvest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 343-3391.

art

Ukrainian Egg-Decorating Demo: Theresa Somerset demonstrates the elaborate art of pysanka. Frog Hollow, Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6458.

conferences

Life of the Child Conference: See FRI.22, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

dance

Dancing Uphill: See THU.21, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Montpelier Contra Dance: Soft-soled steppers move to calling by Will Mentor and live tunes from the Homegrown Chestnuts. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, beginners session at 7:30 p.m. $4-8; bring snack to share. Info, 225-8921. Norwich Contra Dance: Adina Gordon calls the steps to tunes by Cuckoo’s Nest. Tracy Hall, Norwich, family dance, 5-6:30 p.m.; potluck supper, 6:30 p.m.; contra dance, 8 p.m. $5-8; free for kids under 16; by donation for seniors. Info, 785-4607. 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. TRIP Dance Company: Helena Sullivan directs 36 local dancers ages 8 to 18 in award-winning ballet, jazz and modern numbers. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 760-4634.

education

Wisdom of the Herbs School Open House: Attendees learn about experiential, nature-based programs, including certification options and threeday intensive studies. Tulsi Tea Room, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 456-8122.

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Gala 54: Black tie is optional, but disco glam is mandatory for dinner, dancing, a silent auction and music by DJ Luis at this benefit for the Helen Day Art Center. Stowe Mountain Lodge, 5 p.m. $125 includes dinner; preregister. Info, 253-8358. Saxon Hill ScHool artiSan auction: Jamie Polli solicits bids from attendees at this annual fundraiser, which features good eats, live entertainment and handcrafted wares. Catamount Country Club, Williston, 6 p.m. $20; cash bar. Info, 872-9309. ZumbatHon: Fans of the fitness craze get moving at this benefit for Women Helping Battered Women, then refuel with local eats before grooving to ’80s tunes from Hot Neon Magic. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, check in, 5-6 p.m.; Zumbathon 6-8:30 p.m.; DJ and food trucks, 8:30-9:30 p.m.; concert, 9:30-11 p.m. $100 from sponsors or $30 donation; $10 for concert only. Info, 658-3131, ext. 1077.

film

‘56 up’: See FRI.22, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. Fly-FiSHinG Film tour: Tri-Lakes Trout Unlimited presents compelling footage of getting fish to bite hand-tied “bait.” Proceeds benefit area environmental and conservation projects. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $12-15. Info, 518-8911829, vince@wileysflies.com. Green mountain Film FeStival: See FRI.22, 10 a.m.-11:45 p.m. rendeZ-vouS witH FrencH cinema: See FRI.22, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

SuGar on Snow: SoutH burlinGton: Maple syrup takes center stage at a celebration of Vermont’s famous flavor that includes this traditional treat and family-friendly activities. Dakin Farm, South Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-9560. SuGar-on-Snow party: This seasonal maplesyrup treat joins baked goods and Chinese auction items at a celebration of local foods and artisan wares. Craftsbury Community Care Center, 2-4 p.m. Free; $1-5 for raffle tickets. Info, 586-2414. SuGar-on-Snow party: HuntinGton: Attendees satisfy their sweet tooth and learn about maple syrup’s origins via tours of the sugar bush and sap-boiling demonstrations. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3068. vermont maple open HouSe weekend: ‘Tis the season for syrup! Folks explore sugaring operations throughout the state and watch sap turn into the sweet stuff. Various locations statewide, times vary according to specific location. Free; vermontmaple. org for details. Info, 763-7435.

health & fitness

tHrive center oF tHe Green mountainS: yoGa Sampler: Jennifer Coleman leads guided stretching and breathing exercises to improve strength and flexibility. Warm clothes, mat and blanket required. Gymnasium, Wallingford Elementary School, noon-2 p.m. $10-20; preregister. Info, 446-2499.

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woodStock Film SerieS: Gael García Bernal stars in Icíar Bollaín’s award-winning historical drama Even the Rain, about a film crew that stirs up trouble with native Bolivians while shooting a movie about Christopher Columbus. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-2355.

meet cliFFord: Little ones get acquainted with the beloved character from Norman Bridwell’s popular children’s-book series Clifford the Big Red Dog. Themed activities and story times round out the fun. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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.

burlinGton cHamber orcHeStra: Acclaimed violinist Soovin Kim and violist Mary SangHyun Yong join a self-conducted performance featuring Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 655-2768. burlinGton enSemble 90/10 SerieS: ‘baroque but GoinG’: Aimee Bushey conducts period

extra Stout & rick redinGton & tHe luv: Traditional Irish tunes and bluesy rock fuel this benefit concert for Rutland-area swimmer Bethany Bosch’s 2014 English Channel crossing. Merchants Hall, Rutland, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 518-321-7787 or 848466-7215, info@merchantshall.com. Sacred Harp SinG: Locals lift their voices in regional shape-note music, wherein four-part harmonies resonate from a large group. Town Hall, Irasburg, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 525-6212. Snoe.down FeStival: See THU.21, 12:30 p.m.-midnight. tHe macHine: With theatrical elements, stateof-the-art lighting and spot-on interpretations of original material, the acclaimed group perpetuates Pink Floyd’s legacy. Foeger Ballroom, Jay Peak Resort, 8 p.m. $30. Info, 327-2154.

outdoors

birdS & maple-Syrup SeaSon: Museum visitors search for feathered flyers whose habitat includes trees that are tapped for their sap. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $3-6 admission; free for members. Info, 434-2167. lake cHamplain waterFowl watcH: Birders train their binoculars on geese and ducks migrating north as winter transitions into spring. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $25-30; free for teens. Info, 229-6206. pond SkimminG: Skiers and riders don themed “Rock Stars and Musicians” costumes and do their best to propel across the water without sinking. Bolton Valley Resort, registration, 10 a.m-noon; competition, 1-3 p.m. $5; lift ticket required. Info, 434-6804.

seminars

avian reHab workSHop: wound manaGement: Using bird specimens, participants learn how to identify and treat various injuries. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 1-4 p.m. $24-30; preregister. Info, 359-5000, ext. 223. GenealoGy workSHop: Ed McGuire demonstrates how to access pension and naturalization records on the website fold3.com. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 238-5934. introduction to diGital video editinG: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the editing software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692. introduction to microSoFt windowS workSHop: Folks looking to improve their computer skills follow Ted Horton’s lead through an overview of relevant software programs. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 865-7217. parentS oF cHildren witH Special needS workSHop: becominG a community reSource volunteer: Vermont Family Network hosts the second of two informative sessions for family members looking to offer support to others in similar situations. La Quinta Inn and Suites, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 353-3277.

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Strike out Senior HunGer bowl-a-tHon: Participants in Caribbean-themed threads topple bowling pins at this fundraiser for the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging’s meal programs. Spare Time Family Fun Center, Colchester, 1:30-4 p.m. $400 per team of four; limited space; preregister at cvaa.org. Info, 865-0360. vermont antique Ski race: Skiers — including former Olympians and U.S. Ski Team members — don pre-1975 equipment and compete in divisions determined by their gear. Pico Mountain, Killington, registration, 7:30-10 a.m.; race, 11 a.m.; awards, 3 p.m. $29 includes lunch; lift ticket required. Info, 253-9911, ext. 202.

theater

‘4000 mileS’: See WED.20, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘a midSummer niGHt’S dream’: See FRI.22, 7:30 p.m. ‘american dream’: See FRI.22, 7 p.m. community SHowcaSe: In this yearly tradition, residents of the Woodstock region take to the stage with singing, dancing, comedy and more. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 457-3981. ‘dirty rotten ScoundrelS’: See FRI.22, 7 p.m. ‘FalSettoS’: See THU.21, 8 p.m. ‘Hello, dolly!’: See FRI.22, 8 p.m. ‘race’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m. ‘Skin deep’: See FRI.22, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘tHe neo-FuturiSt project’: See FRI.22, 7 p.m. ‘wHo made me?’: See FRI.22, 7:30 p.m.

words

Giant uSed book Sale: Lit lovers turn the pages of affordable titles during a celebration of the written word that includes a story hour, Vermont author readings and music from Feral Godmother. Brandon Free Public Library, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 236-4519. SprinG book Sale: See WED.20, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

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film

‘56 up’: See FRI.22, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 8 p.m. Green mountain Film FeStival: See FRI.22, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. rendeZ-vouS witH FrencH cinema: See FRI.22, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

food & drink

aHead oF tHe curd: a celebration oF cHeeSe, Food and Flavor: Fromage lovers sample Vermont’s varieties and gain knowledge from local chefs and cheesemakers. Main Street Landing Train Station, Burlington, 4-6:30 p.m. $50. Info, 864-7999. country breakFaSt: Neighbors rub elbows over plates of pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage and toast. Pittsford Congregational Church, 7-11 a.m. $3-6; takeout available. Info, 468-0051. SUN.24

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SuGar on Snow: FerriSburGH: Locals ring in the maple-syrup season with sap-boiling demonstrations, a pancake breakfast, live music and more. Dakin Farm, Ferrisburgh, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 425-6726.

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plattSburGH roller derby: pint oF revenGe bout: New York’s fiercest females face off when Syracuse’s Battery Brigade travel upstate to take on the North Country Lumber Jills. Plattsburgh City Recreation Center, N.Y., 6-9 p.m. $5-12; free for children under 5. Info, 518-420-7687.

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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.

Swanton tumble time: Vivacious youngsters monkey around in an open gym. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

cabin Fever concert SerieS: rick ceballoS, mattHew witten, david GuSakov & nate GuSakov: The banjo and violin drive this quartet’s spirited original music. WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room, Bristol, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 453-3188, ext. 2.

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middlebury winter FarmerS market: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 247-4699, gildrienfarm@gmail.com.

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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works, including Vivaldi’s Gloria, at this benefit for local nonprofits, which also features student compositions. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 2 p.m. $5-10. Info, 598-9520.

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International Dinner: Francophone: Foodies dine on Québécois, Moroccan and French cuisine followed by live entertainment. North End Studio A, Burlington, 5 p.m. $15-18; cash bar. Info, 863-6713. Maple Weekend: See SAT.23, 1-5 p.m. Sugar on Snow: Ferrisburgh: See SAT.23, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Sugar on Snow: South Burlington: See SAT.23, noon-4 p.m. Sugar-on-Snow Party: Folks sample this traditional maple-syrup treat and watch sap boil down into Vermont’s liquid gold. Palmer’s Sugarhouse, Shelburne, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5054. Sugar-on-Snow Party: Huntington: See SAT.23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sugar-on-Snow Party: Milton: The Arrowhead Ramblers provide live music for community members as they tickle their tastebuds with maplesyrup treats. Milton Grange, 1-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 363-2598. Sunday Breakfast: Rise and shine! Bacon, scrambled eggs, corned-beef hash, sausage and biscuits await. Proceeds benefit veterans and their families. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $5. Info, 518-643-2309.

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Vermont Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair: Bookworms peruse selections from more than 40 dealers, who display rare titles, postcards, maps and more. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $4; free children under 16. Info, 527-7243.

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Friends of Brownell Book Sale: Bibliophiles expand their literary collections and benefit library programs and collections while doing so. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

community

Stories With Megan: Preschoolers expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Swanton Playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

music

Blue Heron: In “Divine Songs,” Boston’s acclaimed Renaissance choir performs the sacred and secular music of Johannes Ockeghem. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. 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.

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Burlington Chamber Orchestra: See SAT.23, 3 p.m.

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‘Race’: See WED.20, 5 p.m.

Vermont Maple Open House Weekend: See SAT.23, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

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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‘Hello, Dolly!’: See FRI.22, 3 p.m.

‘Star Wars’ Club: Lego Session: Fans of George Lucas’ cinematic opus create structures and play Wii games related to the films. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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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‘Falsettos’: See THU.21, 8 p.m.

Reading With Frosty & Friends Therapy Dogs: Animal lovers bring a book and read to canines who comfort. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for 10-minute individual sessions. Info, 878-4918.

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.

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‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’: See FRI.22, 2 p.m.

Burlington Taiko Drummers: The acclaimed ensemble brings rising rhythms to a performance of “Kohyoh/Autumn Fire,” a new piece commissioned by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3 p.m. $15-30. Info, 863-5966. Snoe.down Festival: See THU.21, 1-3 p.m.

outdoors

Early Spring Medicinal Plant Walk: Clinical herbalist Rebecca Dalgin honors the recent vernal equinox and identifies the healing properties of native vegetation. Meet outside Wild Heart Wellness Office. Goddard College, Plainfield, 1-2:30 p.m. $410. Info, 552-0727.

sport

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. 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.

Upper Valley Educators Institute Information Session: Potential teachers and principals gain valuable knowledge about the nonprofit’s educator-preparation program. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 603-678-4888.

film

‘56 Up’: See FRI.22, 7:30 p.m. Green Mountain Film Festival: See FRI.22, 2-10:30 p.m. ‘MAKERS: Women Who Make America’: AOL and PBS collaborated to profile powerful females whose actions have shaped our society over the past 50 years. Stearns Cinema, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1259. Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: See FRI.22, 5:30 p.m. ‘The Hours’: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman star in Stephen Daldry’s awardwinning film about three generations of women affected by suicide and Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

health & fitness

Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: See FRI.22, 10 a.m. Qigong: Jeff Cochran hosts a session of breathingin-motion exercises. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872.

kids

Alice in Noodleland: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Joyful Noise Laughter Club: Robin Cornell and Charlotte Gilruth lead playful exercises for ages 8 and up that focus on moving, breathing and giggling. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3427 or 223-1607.

Women’s Pickup Soccer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.

Music With Raphael: See THU.21, 10:45 a.m.

theater

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.

‘4000 Miles’: See WED.20, 2 p.m. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: See FRI.22, 2 p.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.

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. 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. Technology Class: Virgil Fuller guides readers through the process of using their devices to access e-books and audiobooks available through Listen Up! Vermont. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. Vermont Tourism Team Roadshow: Members of the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing present the latest research on the in-state destinations and spending of travelers. Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, Burlington, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister at vermontpartners.org. Info, 828-3683.

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

Cheryl Hanna: The Vermont Law School professor presents “The U.S. Supreme Court in the Age of Globalization.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Tom Simone: The UVM English professor speaks on the value of the humanities at the inauguration of the St. Michael’s College Humanities Center. Room 315, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

dance

Swing-Dance Practice Session: See SAT.23, 7:30-9:30 p.m. ‘What the Body Does Not Remember’: The Belgium-based company Ultima Vez performs a revival of choreographer Wim Vandekeybus’ acclaimed 1987 piece of precisely timed, athletic movements that border on dangerous. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-19. Info, 603-646-2422.

fairs & festivals

Career & Graduate School Fair: Castleton State College hosts a networking event in which students meet with area professionals and education institutes about jobs, internships and more. Spartan Arena, Rutland, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6052.

film

‘56 Up’: See FRI.22, 7:45 p.m. ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’: Peter Sellers and George C. Scott star in Stanley Kubrick’s acclaimed 1964 satire about an Air Force commander who goes crazy and attempts to start a nuclear war. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 540-3018 . Green Mountain Film Festival: See FRI.22, 1:15-10:30 p.m. ‘MAKERS: Women Who Make America’: See MON.25. A panel discussion follows. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 743-2600. Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: See FRI.22, 5:30 p.m.

health & fitness

Improving Your Lipid Profile: Cholesterol & the Role of Nutrition: Akshata Nayak presents diet modifications and exercise routines to help maintain the correct balance between the different types of cholesterol. Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, 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.

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.20, 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. 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.

words

Preschool Story Hour: Three- to 5-year-olds keep their hands busy with crafts at tale time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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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.

Friends of Brownell Book Sale: See MON.25, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Science & Stories: Spring!: What happens when the seasons change? Little ones learn how to identify clues in nature. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free with admission, $9.5012.50. Info, 877-324-6386.

Spring Book Sale: See WED.20, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT Story time With Corey: Read-aloud tales and crafts led by store employee Corey Bushey expand the imaginations of young minds. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Student matinee SerieS: ‘if you Give a mouSe a Cookie’: Theatreworks USA delivers a lighthearted revue of mini-musicals adapted from seven popular children’s books. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. & noon. $8; for grades K to 3. Info, 863-5966. ‘the GrandparentS aWard Storybook SpeCtaCular’: Nikki Juvan directs elementaryschool students in adaptations of three of this year’s nominated books, as chosen by Addison County seniors. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-1436.

language

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.

seminars

beGinner Computer ClaSS: Tom Barber leads participants through the basics of internet browsing, email and more. Fairfax Community Library, 2:45-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

talks

Charlie broWn: The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium director presents the illustrated lecture “Vermont Birds and Climate Change,” following the meeting of the Burlington Garden Club. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6764. ‘faCulty perSpeCtiveS on the death penalty’: Laurie Gagne moderates a panel discussion with three colleagues who share their opinions from the fields of sociology, political science, philosophy and global studies. Room 315, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

REMEMBER & PRESERVE

William SChleSinGer: The esteemed scientist discusses his pioneering research on the influence of soil and trees on atmospheric carbon dioxide, among other topics. Ackley Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926.

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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. ‘dead talkS’ debate SerieS: Using the prompt “Is Feminism Dead?” Simona Sharoni leads gender and women’s studies students in a pointcounterpoint response. Feinberg Library, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 11 a.m. Free. Info, 518-565-0145. Guido maSé: The clinical herbalist discusses his new book The Wild Medicine Solution, which presents the healing properties of native plants. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

SprinG book Sale: See WED.20, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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John enGelS memorial readinG: Friends and family of the esteemed poet and longtime St. Michael’s College instructor read selections of his work. Room 315, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

deSiGn for SuCCeSS Seminar: See WED.20, 8-9:30 a.m.

paul olSen: St. Michael’s College professor presents “Use of Positive Psychology to Enhance the Undergraduate Business Internship Experience.” Room CO UR 315, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. TE SY Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. OF C AS Free. Info, 654-2536. TLET ON

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vermont Women in JournaliSm: Rickey Gard Diamond of Vermont Woman newspaper moderates a panel of area professionals, who discuss the industry relative to print, web, radio and television. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2180.

Green-enerGy information SeSSion: Representatives from the nonprofit Energy Co-op of Vermont present their Co-op Solar hot-water heating program for northwestern and central parts of the state.

mike mCConnell: The former director of national intelligence presents “The Future of Cyber,” in which he considers issues of security and warfare. Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield, 7 p.m. Info, 485-2633.

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story time & pLaygroup: See WED.20, 10-11:30 a.m.

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film

‘56 up’: See FRI.22, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘briDe of the WinD’: Bruce Beresford’s biographical drama depicts the life — and many loves — of gifted composer Alma Schindler, including her marriage to Gustav Mahler. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘CoCo before ChaneL’: Anne Fontaine’s biographical drama starring Audrey Tautou as the fashion icon closes the Tournées French Film Festival. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2835, lclerfeuille@smcvt.edu. green mountain fiLm festivaL: See FRI.22, 1:45-10:30 p.m. renDez-vous With frenCh Cinema: See FRI.22, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. ‘the house i Live in’: Eugene Jarecki’s awardwinning documentary about the repercussions of the War on Drugs screens as part of Burlington College’s civic engagement series. A discussion follows. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-3018 . ‘the WorLD aCCorDing to monsanto’: Marie-Monique Robin’s documentary examines the American agricultural corporation’s practices, including its development of genetically modified food. A Q&A follows. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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babytime pLaygroup: See WED.20, 10:30 a.m.-noon. CharLie broWn movie night: Little ones don PJs and enjoy a snack of cookies and milk while viewing It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. JCPenney Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 6:30-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. enosburg pLaygroup: See WED.20, 10-11:30 a.m.

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montgomery pLaygroup: Little ones exercise their bodies and minds in the company of adult caregivers. Montgomery Town Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. moving & grooving With Christine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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presChooL DisCovery program: nature’s shapes: Little learners examine circles, triangles and squares as seen in animals, plants and rocks, then head outside to identify the patterns. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5-8. Info, 229-6206. reaD to a Dog: Bookworms share words with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420. 4t-porter020613.indd 1

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brit fLoyD: In “The Pink Floyd Ultimate Light and Sound Experience,” the renowned group delivers a multimedia show of meticulous interpretations of famous material. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-46. Info, 863-5966. ‘the next generation’ auDitions: Area high school students ages 18 and younger present brief instrumental, ensemble or vocal material to be performed at the May concert. Call to schedule an audition slot. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, noon Free; preregister. Info, 728-9402.

outdoors

fuLL moon WaLk: Locals stroll by lunar light and discuss the seasonal behaviors of area wildlife. If necessary, snowshoes will be provided. Macrae Farm Park, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5744, americorps@wvpd.org.

seminars

e-book & e-auDiobook Drop-in Day: Hightech bookworms learn how to access downloadable titles for their devices. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4369. ‘Let’s get organizeD’ Workshop: The Vermont Family Network leads a roundtable discussion with parents, who create an efficient filing system for their children’s medical and educational records. Burlington School District Central Office, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-5315, ext. 218, janice. sabett@vtfn.org. soLar-net-metering Workshop: Members of the Marshfield Energy Committee lead an informative session on financing single and group systems to utilize the sun’s resources. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 426-3100. teCh heLp: See WED.20, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

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green mountain tabLe tennis CLub: See WED.20, 7-10 p.m.

talks

pubLiC forum on marijuana DeCriminaLization: The Greater Barre Democrats lead an open discussion on the pros and cons of the issues surrounding proposed legislation. A Q&A follows. Milne Room, Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4185.

theater

‘4000 miLes’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m.

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burLington Writers Workshop meeting: See WED.20, 6:30-7:30 p.m. ContempLative meeting: Reading material inspires discussion about Gnostic principles relative to “Truth and Reality.” Foot of the Hill Building, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706. Dine & DisCuss: Led by Edward Cashman, folks share a meal and conversation about Jil Ker Conway’s The Road to Coorain. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister; bring an Australian dish to share. Info, 878-6955. norWiCh university Writers series: Awardwinning author James Patrick Kelly reads excerpts from two science-fiction novels. Multipurpose Room, Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University, Northfield, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 778-0284. spring book saLe: See WED.20, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. m

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acting BEGINNERS MEISNER TECHNIQUE: Jun. 22-30, 12-5 p.m. Cost: $225 /4 5-hr. classes. Location: Writers’ Barn, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Acting Workshops by Carole Zucker, Carole Zucker, 425-4936, info@ actingworkshops.info, actingworkshops.info. Stand up for yourself; be who you really are; lose self-consciousness! The workshop is designed to develop the actors’ imagination, flexibility and focus. The course is based on the Meisner Technique as taught at the Neighborhood Playhouse, considered one of the finest acting schools in the U.S. Instructor Carole Zucker studied at the Playhouse and HB Studios in NYC and taught private acting workshops in Montreal since the 1990s and recently at the Flynn and Off Center.

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CLAY: INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WHEEL: Apr. 11-May 30, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Weekly on Thu. Cost: $252 /BCA members; $280/nonmembers. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Local pottery artist Jeremy Ayers will help you refine your wheelwork in this morning class for intermediate and advanced potters. The class can be tailored to students continuing from Intermediate Wheel, or for new students. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, decorative and glazing methods. Students should be proficient in centering and throwing. Over 30 hours per week of open studio space time included.

PAINTING: ABSTRACT: Weekly on Tue., Apr. 9-May 21, 6:30-9 p.m. No class Apr. 23. Cost: $162 /BCA members; $180/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Students will be guided to explore the many exciting possibilities of abstract painting. Using the paint of their choice, students will be encouraged to experiment and try adding other mixed media as well. Bring in some ideas or reference materials to use as a starting place. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Instructor: Lisa Jones. PAINTING: REALISM: Mar. 28May 16, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $176 /BCA members; $195/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Do you want your paintings to be so real they pop off the canvas? Classically trained realist painter Sheel Gardner Anand will present to artists of all levels a simple and logical approach to oil painting from life and photos. Learn the foundation to create a believable three-dimensional illusion on a two-dimensional surface. Beginners welcome. PAINTING: WATERCOLOR: Apr. 10-May 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $176 /BCA members; $195/nonmembers.

PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK: Apr. 17, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $13 /BCA members; $15/ nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 2nd floor, Burlington. Professional photographer Michelle Saffran and BCA art director Ted Olson will demonstrate techniques for lighting, setting up backgrounds and achieving the correct color in the photos of your artwork. Also, get tips on how to properly upload and save images onto the computer and about photo file sizes. Please bring your SLR or digital camera for the class. Knowledge of camera basics is required. PRINT: SILKSCREENING T-SHIRT DESIGN: Apr. 11-May 30, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $207 /BCA members; $230/nonmembers. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Wow your friends with your personally designed T-shirts! Local silkscreen legend, Torrey Valyou, co-owner of New Duds, will show you how to design and print T-shirts just like a professional. Learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Cost includes over 25 hours per week of open studio hours. No experience necessary! Some materials are included. PRINT: WOODCUT: Apr. 17-May 22, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $162 /BCA members; $180/nonmembers. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. With local printmaking expert Gregg Blasdel, discover the unique process of woodblock printing during this 6-week-long introductory class. Learn fundamental techniques and characteristics of relief woodblock printing. Explore the

GETTING SERIOUS: INTRO TO BIZ: Apr. 4-25, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $125 /2-hr. class/4 wks. Location: Mercy Connections Offices, 255 South Champlain Street, Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@mercyconnections. org, wsbp.org. Have an idea for a business? Wondering if business ownership is for you? Go step by step through every facet of what’s involved in business ownership. Led by knowledgeable, caring instructors in a highly interactive, supportive classroom environment. Identify your business skills, reality-filter your idea, make an action plan to succeed! WHAT’S NEXT FOR SM. BIZ OWNERS: Apr. 10-May 8, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $550 /3-hr. class/5 wks. Location: Mercy Connections Offices, 255 South Champlain Street, Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 8467338, gpokalo@mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org. Stuck in the same places in your business? Not sure how to implement your business plan? Don’t go it alone; join other small-business owners in this 5-week course to identify obstacles you’re currently experiencing in your business, source solutions with business owners like you, take tangible steps to implement innovation and see results in your business revenue!

camps AFRICAN ART & FRENCH SPRING BREAK CAMP: Apr. 22-26, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: $300 /1wk. camp. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 2337676, maggiestandley@yahoo. com, 4A Howard St, 3rd Fl. Make art & learn French in this Spring Break Vacation Camp extraordinaire! Do you know how many countries are in this diverse, rich continent? We’ll explore cultures, creatures, music and geography through projects such as watercolors, acrylic painting, mud-cloth creation, music making & more!

computers INTRO TO HTML/CSS: Apr. 13 & Apr. 20, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: $72 /8-hr. class. Location: Office Squared, 77 College Street, Champlain St. entrance, Burlington. Info: Girl Develop It Burlington, Maureen McElaney, maureen@girldevelopit.com,

cooking ACCESS CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: Apr. 10, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35 /person. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, access@cvuhs. org, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access. Vietnamese cuisine w/ Lauren Gammon. Vietnam, in her sublime beauty, offers a cuisine of contrasting textures, aromatic herbs and deep savory flavors that light up the palette. Renew your dining experience at home by bringing three refreshing recipes to table while exploring the culinary trends that weave this cuisine into fruition. Menu: Shrimp and Rice Vermicelli Bowl, Beef Wrapped in Vietnamese Leaf, Daikon and Carrot Quick Pickle. Limit 16.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! DSANTOS VT SALSA: Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m., intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10 /1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt. com. Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50 /4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Lessons also avail. in St. Albans. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, FirstStepDance.com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our DANCE

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CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: Apr. 11-May 30, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $216 /BCA members; $240/nonmembers. Clay sold separately at $20 per 25-lb. bag, glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. In this class, designed for those with some wheel experience, students will learn individualized tips for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, beginning to

PHOTO: DIGITAL WORKFLOW: Mar. 28-Apr. 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $184.50 / BCA members; $205/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn how to manage your digital files, edit your photographs and print. Uploading images into Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop editing tools such as color and white balance correction, layers, masks, sections, retouching will be covered, as well as color-managed printing on our large format Epson printer. No experience required.

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meetup.com/Girl-Develop-ItBurlington. Learn to build your own website! Learn how to better control the one you’ve got! No prior web-design experience necessary; RSVP required. This eight-hour workshop spans two consecutive Saturdays! Girl Develop It Burlington is on a mission is to provide affordable web-design courses for women.

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TINY-HOUSE WORKSHOP: Mar. 23, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $125 / person. Location: East Johnson, Vermont. Info: Peter King, 933-6103. Tools, techniques, materials and design for framing and sheathing a small wooden house will be covered during this full day of lecture and practice. We will use a 1/5-scale model as well as the actual building of a full-scale floor and single wall to learn from. Plenty of hands-on experience for absolute beginners. Tools provided; safety glasses required.

CLAY: AFTERNOON WHEEL THROWING: Apr. 11-May 30, 12:30-3 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $216 /BCA members; $240/nonmembers. Clay sold separately at $20 per 25-lb. bag, glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This new eight-week class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Learn basic throwing and forming techniques while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Learn various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No previous experience needed! Class includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice.

PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Mar. 28-May 16, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $247.50 /BCA members; $275/ nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Community Darkroom, Burlington. Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Guided sessions to help you improve your printing and film processing techniques and discussion of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside-of-class printing and processing. Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent experience. Instructor: Mary Zompetti.

use of multiple colors and other creative possibilities for printing your design. Cost includes use of open studio hours for class work. Materials provided, except cost of paper.

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Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org. Teacher bios are also available online.

PHOTO: ADOBE LIGHTROOM 4: Mar. 27-May 1, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $225 / BCA members; $250/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW riles, organization, fine-tuning tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on our Epson 3880 printer will all be covered. Bring a Mac-compatible portable flash or hard drive with your images to the first class. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Instructor: Dan Lovell.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students paint on watercolor paper and gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade. Class may move outdoors to paint en plein air on nice days! Instructor: Marc Nadel.

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ART & POTTERY IN MIDDLEBURY: Location: Middlbury Studio School, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. Info: Middlebury Studio School, Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org. Adult: Tue. Watercolors, Wed. a.m. Int./Adv. Oils, Wed. p.m. Wheel, Thu. a.m. Hand Building, Color Workshop for Oils Apr. 13, Digital Photography, Mon. p.m. Oils. Children’s: PapierM√É¬¢ch√É¬©, Mon. & Wed. Wheel, Thu. Hand Building, Home School Pottery Apr. 5, Home School Art Apr. 19, Vacation Wheel and Hand Building, Vacation Nature Art.

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intermediate trimming, and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Students must be proficient in centering and throwing. Over 30 hours per week of open studio time included.

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programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. SWING DANCE LESSONS: Apr. 9-May 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $50 /6-wk. sesson. Location: The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Vermont Swings, Michael Boucher, 4482930, vtswings@gmail.com, vermontswings.com. Learn to swing dance in a fun, low-pressure, supportive environment. No partner necessary! Bring clean shoes and a willingness to have fun! Includes admission to open practice session immediately after.

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TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com. Tuesday Taiko adult classes begin April 30, 5:30-6:20 p.m. $72/6 weeks. Kids classes begin the same date, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6 weeks. Conga and Djembe classes also avail. Call for locations.

fiber & surface design ACCESS CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: 200 offerings for all ages w/ great instructors. Full descriptions online. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, access@cvuhs. org, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access. Needle Felt a 3-D Owl w/ Annette Hansen. Wed., Apr. 10, 6-9 p.m. Learn the techniques of basic 3-D needle felting in this threehour class. You’ll be able to give your owl lots of personality! This is a great class for all ages. All materials provided. $40, limit 12. Paint with Wool and a Felted Needle w/ Annette. Wed., Apr. 17, 6-9 p.m. Fee: $45, limit of 12. Senior discount.

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COMPANY: Adults & teens 14+: Sun., Mar. 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Limit: 14. Cost: $95/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4500, flynnarts.org. A fun and rigorous full-day workout where you’ll learn how to approach the language, poetry and physicality of Shakespeare and transform the text into action by deciphering clues and cues Shakespeare left in the text. Returning students very welcome, but experience not necessary! Lunch break midday. ADVANCED STAND-UP COMEDY: Adults: Mon., Mar. 25-Apr. 15, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $95/4 wks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4500, flynnarts.org. It takes years to master the art of stand-up, but you can accelerate the process in this advanced session for students who have taken Laugh Attack two or more times, or who have been performing for at least a year. Class ends with the ultimate challenge: an optional live performance in front of a full house in FlynnSpace on April 30. MUSIC TOGETHER: Apr. 1-Jun. 11: Session D: Mon., 9:30-10:15 a.m., or Session F: Tue., 9:3010:15 a.m. Cost: $105/10 wks. + $39 materials fee ($144 total; CD & book are new for each fall, winter, & spring session; $50 for each additional sibling). Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4500. Music Together is a music and movement curriculum based on research that shows children learn best from active caregivers and a non-performance-based musical environment. Families receive a songbook and CDs with the music learned in class so you can continue nurturing your child’s imaginative growth at home.

gardening GARDEN PLANTS WITH MEDICINAL INTERESTS: Mar. 23, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505. Many plants do more then just beautify a landscape. Learn about the medicinal properties of plants such as angelica, baptisia, black cohosh, calamus, calendula, California poppy, echinacea, elderberry and many more with Heather, of Giving Tree Botanicals.

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INTRO TO SQUARE FOOT GARDENING: Mar. 23, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 660-3505. Over the last 20 years, Peter has learned a lot about square-foot gardening. In this seminar he will cover the basics: planning, raised beds, permanent paths, perfect soil, grid planting, watering, trellising, succession plantings and maintenance, and how not to have a jungle of weeds in August! Convert your lawn to a garden or convert your garden to permanent beds that save space. PROTECT YOUR GARDEN: Mar. 30, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/ person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. Info: 6603505. Charlie Nardozzi will teach you how to safeguard your garden from deer, woodchucks, rabbits and other furry foes!

healing SELF-CARE FOR SENSITIVE PEOPLE —THE BASICS AND MORE: Apr. 6, 10 a.m.-noon Cost: $35/person. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909. Learn how to stay balanced and happy through good self-care practices that have a proven track record of success. Led by Cornelia Ward, consultant and teacher.

health NUTRITION TELECLASSES: Mar. 7-28, noon-1 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $15/per class or $50 for all 4. Location: Via conference call, from your home or office, Your own home town. Info: Transformation One, Morella Devost, 735-1348, mdevost@transformationone. com, transformationone.com. Four one-hour teleclasses on nutrition: sugar and carb addiction, fats that heal fats that kill, detoxification and eat-thisnot-that. Recipes, easy tips and tools for health are included. Facilitated via conference call so you can be anywhere. SPRING CLEANSE AND DETOX CLASS: Apr. 1-May 6, 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $160/5 classes + materials. Location: Eastern View Integrative Medicine, 185 Tilley Drive, South Burlington. Info: Inner Health Resources, Bryn Perkins, 735-1766, Bryn@ InnerHealthResources.com, InnerHealthResources.com. Move into summer with new, more empowered eating habits. We focus on nutrient-rich foods, smoothies and juices. Tailored to your needs, this class is inspiring, supportive and rewarding. You’ll want to take before-and-after photos! Free guide for first time cleansers at innerhealthresources.com. Taught by Bryn Perkins, PA, CBS.

SPRING CLEANING YOUR HEALTH: Apr. 27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $195/daylong retreat & 3 coaching sessions. Location: Dharma Door Retreat Center, Underhill. Info: Trail to Wellness, LLC, Susan Whitman, 923-6070, susan@trailtowellness.com, trailtowellness.com. Clear out the parts of your life that aren’t serving you and make room for the person you were meant to be. A day of mindfulness, movement, motivation and an interactive cooking hour. Leave inspired, thoughtful and ready to walk your own path to a healthier and more fulfilling life.

helen day art center BASKETWEAVING: Apr. 6, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $125/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com. Learn how to weave a simple basket using all-natural weavers and spokes. Basket weaving is a long-standing tradition shared by cultures throughout the world. The variety of construction allows for endless possibilities in creating beautiful and useful objects. Weaving provides both a means of creating a unique expression and also a way to connect with tradition and craft in a meaningful way. Materials included. Instructed by Linda Lomasney. INTUITIVE PAINTING: Mar. 31, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $50/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday. com. A creative painting adventure focused on the spirit of play and discovery. This will be a time to connect with your creative self and intuitively express yourself through gesture and colors. Working with gouache and acrylic paint, students will be lead through a spontaneous process of discovery and experimentation. No prior painting experience is required. MOODS IN THE LANDSCAPE: Apr. 3-24, 1:30-3 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $40 . Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com. This lecture series and field walk shall take a critical look at the landscape and the moods that can be attributed to flora, site and season. The natural and designed landscape shall be discussed and viewed through images produced over a 50-year period. Emphasis on the natural landscape and selective subtraction will be the thesis.

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Herbal Medicines & the Plant/ Human Relationship w/ Graham Unangst-Rufenacht, Wed., Mar. 20, 6-8 p.m.; Flower Essences for Joy w/ Fearn Lickfield, Tue., Apr. 2, 6-8 p.m. ($5 materials fee); Spring Time Tincture Making: Dandelion, Burdock, Plantain & Nettle with Rebecca Dalgin, Mon., Apr. 15, 6-8 p.m. ($5 materials fee); Five Important Wild VT Medicinals: A Chinese Medicine Perspective w/ Brendan Kelly, Wed., Apr. 24, 6-9 p.m. ($15 members/$17 nonmembers). Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter. org. Workshops cost $10 for members and $12 for nonmembers. Some classes may have a materials fee, noted in the descriptions. Registration is required for all classes. Please call or email to reserve your space. Detailed descriptions at vtherbcenter.org. INTERMEDIATE HERBAL PROGRAM: May 5-Sep. 29, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., 2 Sun. monthly. Cost: $1200/person; incl. all books & supplies. Location: Horsetail Herbs/Kelley Robie, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Info: Horsetail Herbs, Kelley Robie, 893-0521, htherbs@comcast. net, horsetailherbs.org. Ten days through summer, formulating, harvesting, & preparing plants for medicinal use. Will focus on supporting body systems with our formulations. Projects will include advanced tinctures, tonics, salves, soaps, glycerites, creams, butters, capsules, oils, flower essences, syrups, aromatherapy, liniments, incense, chocolate and more. VSAC grant opportunities. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Open house, Sat., Mar. 23, 1-3 p.m., at the Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Emerging Plants, Returning Brids: Early Spring Nature Walk, Tue., Apr. 2, 6-7:30 p.m. Sliding scale $0-10, please preregister. Now accepting applications for Wisdom EightMonth 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.

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language ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Beginning wk. of Apr. 9-11 for 10 wks. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Join us for adult Spanish classes this spring. Our sixth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Also lessons for young children; they love it! See our website or contact us for details. ADULT FRENCH CLASSES AND AFRICAN ARTS/FRENCH SPRING BREAK CAMP: Spring-session Adult Group French, Adv. Beg. & Int., starts Apr. 9. Youth Spring Break African Art/Language Vaca Camp: Apr. 22-26. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@yahoo.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com. French, art and more for preschoolers, youth and adults in a beautiful atelier! Through multiple learning modalities, you will cultivate confidence in a supportive, fun, beautiful space. Madame Maggie is a fluent French speaker, is an encouraging and patient instructor and has lived/worked in Paris, France and Yaounde, Cameroon. Allons-y!

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tue., Apr. 2 at 5:30 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 9518900, 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: 4-wk. Intro Class for Women starts Mar. 14. To register, email aikidointroclass@gmail.com. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself.

Karate Class for Women: Mar. 16-Apr. 6, noon-1:10 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $15 payable in cash or by check. Location: Artemis Fitness, 7 Fayette Dr #2, South Burlington. Info: One Heart Karate, Veronika Travis, 399-7492, veronika@oneheartkaratevt.com, oneheartkaratevt. com. Relieve stress, feel stronger and have a great time learning Isshin Ryu Karate. Instructor Veronika Travis brings 25 years of martial arts and mindfulness study to the practice. The class is noncompetitive, and all participants are encouraged to discover the strength and calm they can bring to everyday challenges. ninjutsu martial arts Class: Mar. 13, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $15 /2-hr. class. Location: 19 Church Street, suite 1 , Burlington. Info: Johannes Ziegler, 598-8070, jziegler01@ gmail.com, matendojo.com. Ninjutsu is a Japanese system of body movement (Taijutsu). This class will involve a heavy focus on basic techniques and stances, conditioning, traditional weapons, grappling and striking.

is associated with the activity of “crazy wisdom” or perfectly pure conduct that is beyond the conventions of ordinary ego and habits. as this practice has been directly passed down to Rinpoche through his family lineage, it is particularly auspicious to receive it from such a master. enlighteneD soCiety treatise: Fri., Apr. 5, 6:30-9 p.m., Sat., Apr. 6, 8:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Sun., Apr. 7, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $110 /weekend program. Location: Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center, 187 South Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Shambhala Center, Elizabeth Kanard, 658-6795, ekanard@ gmail.com, burlington.shambhala.org. The enlightened society Treatise by sakyong Mipham Rinpoche explores in detail how human society can manifest its wakefulness, intelligence and basic goodness while acknowledging the suffering in the world. This weekend offers an opportunity to study this text in the context of meditation, contemplation, exercises and talks. Pre-registration is required.

Dorje Drollo empoWerment: Apr. 5-7. Cost: $150 /3-day empowerment & teachings. Location: Shelburne Town Hall, Main St., Shelburne. Info: Younge Drodul Ling, 4885011, President@youngedrodulling.org, youngedrodulling. com/index.shtml. Younge Khachab Rinpoche will offer the Dorje Drollo empowerment and liberating instructions from the terma cycle of Younge Mingyur Dorje. Dorje Drollo is an intensely wrathful manifestation of Padmasambhava and

spring in Vermont WorKshop: May 17-19. Cost: $595 /person. Location: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, Central Vermont. Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, Kurt Budliger, 223-4022, info@ kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops. com. spring in Vermont is one of the most magical times to be outdoors exploring the landscape with a camera. During this three-day, intensive photography workshop we’ll explore and photograph some of the most stunning Vermont landscapes as they burst with spring color.

psychology the BeeBe BreaKthrough: Apr. 13, 9 a.m.-noon Cost: $45 /person. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 2447909. Understand psychological development, relationship challenges and the dynamics of emotion and the unconscious through Jungian analyst John Beebe’s sophisticated model of personality type. Both experts and novices in type theory can gain insights. ceUs are available. led by Mark Hunziger; cosponsored by VT-aPT and the Jungian center.

reiki seConD Degree reiKi: Sat. & Sun., Apr. 6-7. Sat. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 10:30 a.m-5 p.m. Cost: love offering (you determine your payment). Location: Venue will be sent upon registration, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Clearbridge, 324-9149, clearbridge@FeelingMuchBetter.org, FeelingMuchBetter.org. Ready for more — more power, more knowledge and more skills? Includes mental and emotional healing techniques and distant treatment methods. Prior First Degree Usui Reiki certification is required. limit: 10 participants. Instructor Barbara clearbridge is a teacher of traditional Usui Reiki, with over 25 years’ experience with healing energies.

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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 survivor and alignment classes. certified teachers, massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose.

sewing aCCess Classes in hinesBurg at CVu high sChool: 200 offerings for all ages w/ great instructors. Full descriptions online. Cost: $85 /person. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194, access@cvuhs. org, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/access. It’s Your Bag! 3 Bags sewing Workshop. Mon., apr. 29, May 6 & 13, 6-9 p.m. a colorful folding shopping bag, small zippered organizer bag and tote with lots of pockets created as you learn to sew or continue to sew. Basic machine use, patterns and lining a bag are taught. Bring your own machine or use one at the school. Receive materials list upon enrolling. limit 8. senior discount.

tai chi snaKe-style tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, iptaichi.org. The Yang snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. yang-style tai Chi: Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/ class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. New 8-wk. beginners session starts Wed., Mar. 20. $125/8 classes. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Immediate right turn after railroad tracks. Follow the curve, then turn right & go through the parking lot, passing Vermont Hardware. Turn left

DialeCtiCal BehaVioral therapy: Mar. 21-Apr. 25, 6-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $185 / series. Insurance may cover cost of group. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440. This is an ongoing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group. The purpose of DBT is to teach new skills or behaviors that can be applied to current stressors to ultimately help us feel better and to cope more effectively. Instructed by adrienne slusky & Kristen Johanson. Prescreening required. yoga for anxiety & aDDiCtion: Apr. 10-May 29, 5:156:45 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $120 /person. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 658-9440, lakshmi.yoga.vt@gmail.com. Within anxiety, addictions can be born and feelings of claustrophobia within one’s skin arise and grow. The antidote to anxiety is relaxation within the body and mind. This class will begin with a gentle heat, fueling the body with breath-based movements, then slowing down for long, comfortable holds focusing on reducing stress through restful rejuvenation and meditation.

wood WooDturning: intro to BoWls: Apr. 27-28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monthly. Cost: $175 / two-day class. Location: The Sculpted Tree, 150 West Canal St., Winooski. Info: The Sculpted Tree, Nick Rosato, 999-2976, thesculptedtree@gmail.com, thesculptedtree.com. Guided by

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hot yoga Burlington: Get hot — 2-for-1 offer. 1-hr. classes on Mon., Tue. & Thur. 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! plant spirit yoga year: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. each time (except overnights): Mar. 31, May 11, Jun. 22 (overnight), Aug. 3, Sep. 21, Nov. 2, and Dec. 21 (overnight). Cost: $600 /entire series; sorry, no drop-ins. Location: Dharma Door Retreat Center, Underhill, Underhill. Info: Saprema Yoga, Lydia Russell, 229-6300, lydia. dragonfly@gmail.com, sapremayoga.com. Join herbalist, storyteller and yoga teacher lydia Russell-McDade on a journey to deepen your yoga and your connection to Nature. Over the course of a year, we’ll meet seven times at a beautiful country retreat to delve deeply into the teachings of the plants through movement, meditation, myth and magic! m

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BoW meoW pet grooming sChool: Spring session begins Mar. 25. Location: Bow Meow Pet Grooming School, 26 Susie Wilson Rd., Essex. Info: 8783647, bowmeowpetgrooming. com. Have you always been fond of dogs and cats? Do you have a creative streak? If your answered yes to these questions, then you may have what it takes to be a successful pet groomer! Why don’t you find out? Now accepting applications for the spring session beginning March 25.

tango-inspireD Couples therapy: Apr. 8-29, 7-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $360 / couple; preregistration req. w/ $50 dep. by Apr. 1. Location: Perkins Room, College Street Congregational Church, 265 College St., Burlington. Info: Tango Wise LLC, Elizabeth M. Seyler, 658-5225, elizabethmseyler@gmail.com, tangowise. com/workshops. express yourself and experience your relationship through movement and play. This exciting series for four to six couples uses argentine tango to explore communicating without words. couples of all ages/configurations welcome. Wear clean indoor shoes or socks. No dance experience required. Instructors: Kevin Gallagher, Ms, lcMHc, Ncc; elizabeth seyler, PhD.

professional woodworker Nick Rosato, you will be introduced to the art of bowl making using hand chisels and a lathe. each student will design and produce their own bowl from salvaged wood. Use your bowl for salad, ice cream, peanuts or to display wood shavings from your class!

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priVate photography Classes: Location: Linda Rock Photography, 48 Laurel Dr., Essex Junction. Info: 238-9540, lrphotography@comcast.net, lindarockphotography.com. One-on-one, private digitalphotography classes of your choice for beginner and intermediate levels. Understand Your camera, lighting Techniques, Portrait Posing, Digital Workflow, Photoshop, set Up a Photo Business and more. $69/half day; $125/full day. small group classes also available.

at the end of the brick building & you will find a Tai Chi sign on your left. Info: 434-2960. Tai chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance and ease in the symptoms of fibromyalgia. 735-5465 or 434-2960.

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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 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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Four for the Road Checking out four albums from Vermont expats B Y DA N BOL L ES

t is a sad reality of the Vermont music scene that promising local musicians often feel pulled away by bright lights and big cities. Though not exactly on par with the state’s infamous “brain drain” that lures young, talented locals to more lucrative jobs elsewhere, bands and artists frequently migrate from the Green Mountains in hopes of making their mark on grander stages. Though these prodigal players have gone, we still like to keep tabs on them when we can. (You never call, you never write…) To that end, here are four recent records from formerly local artists worth keeping on your radar.

Steelesque, Johnny On the Spot

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(Tuppance A Bag Records, CD, digital download) Steelesque is a Pittsburgh-based duo fronted by Swanton native Rob Eldridge, formerly of the Spring Heeled Jacks. The band’s debut EP, Johnny On the Spot, has garnered some positive press and airplay in the Steel City, including glowing reviews in Pittsburgh Music Magazine and Pittsburgh City Paper, owing to its bracing fusion of garage-blues swagger, indie-rock melodicism and a heaping dose of classic-rock grandeur. The band’s guitar-drum core inspires convenient comparisons to similarly blues-informed duos such as the Black Keys and the White Stripes. But such critical folly misses the mark and overlooks the wide array of influences that bloom under Eldridge’s command. This is densely layered stuff, meticulously sculpted with clay mined from numerous locales along rock’s terra firma, from the latter-day jam of Phish to Rush-inspired prog and the occasional mascara-painted wink at David Bowie for good, glam-rock measure. steelesque.bandcamp.com

Good Night, Gold Dust, Towards the Sun

(Self-released, CD, digital download) Good Night, Gold Dust, of Mankato, Minn., began essentially as a vehicle for singer-songwriter Laura Schultz and guitarist Colin Scharf. But since its inception in 2010, that vehicle has added a few passengers, including bassist and Bristol, Vt., native Eric Blake. The added instrumentation, which also includes keyboards, pipe organ, accordion and horns, has fleshed out the band’s sound from an introspective acoustic duo to still-pretty-introspective, but sonically adventuresome chamber folk. GNGD’s latest full-length, Towards the Sun, is a melancholy affair, an azurehued work that evokes the cruel chill of winter in the north. But, as any Vermonter knows, there is warmth to be found when bracing from the elements, especially in the company of friends. Laced with vivid imagery and well-considered flights of indie-folk fancy, the album plays like the aural equivalent of a frosty picture window overlooking a frozen countryside. If possible, it’s recommended you enjoy it by the warmth of a woodstove, hot beverage in hand. goodnightgolddust.bandcamp.com

Zack de la Rouda, ReWild or Die

(Self-released, CD, digital download) Zack de la Rouda should never be confused with Zack de la Rocha, the outspoken front man of Rage Against the Machine. But, at least in terms of highminded ideals, the two do share some loose similarities. On his debut album, ReWild or Die, the former Queen City MC offers 17 tracks of almost impossibly positive hip-hop. But where de la Rocha prefers his screaming message wrapped in crushing guitar assaults, de la Rouda favors a gentler, brighter approach rooted in funkdafied backing beats and samples — courtesy of Burlington’s Face-One, who engineered and produced the album. Now based in Portland, Maine, de la Rouda preaches his gospel of live and let live with an easy flow. He won’t blow your mind plumbing deep philosophical questions. But his light tone and laid-back cadence is undeniably likable and, ultimately, effective for delivering his earnest musings on life, love and, of course, hip-hop. zackdelarouda.bandcamp.com

Whiskee, Last Summer Ever (Self-released, CD)

Allston’s Whiskee feature a pair of Vermont escapees, guitarist/vocalist Billy Spaniard and bassist Diggy Gibson, both of whom attended college in Burlington and stuck around for a few postgrad years before fleeing to Boston. Last Summer Ever, a full-length follow-up to Whiskee’s debut 2012 EP, Road Ham, is a blistering fusion of blues, funk, soul and even world music, delivered with the brassy swagger of a cock-rock band. Spaniard howls and wails through eight rollicking tunes as energetic as they are well crafted, backed by a juggernaut rhythm section and aggressively dueling guitars and keyboards. This is high-octane stuff from a band equally as comfortable unfurling extended guitar-hero jams as snarling, fist-pumping punk anthems. whiskee.bandcamp.com

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like a microcosm of the Levity experience itself. Levity has been a grand experiment; a great idea that ultimately failed despite good intentions. But if nothing else, it has opened many local eyes to the burgeoning comedic talent in Vermont. Those eyes won’t close just because Levity does. And I have a feeling the local comedy scene will continue to evolve and improve no matter where it calls home. Thanks, Levity. It’s been a fun ride.

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companions and I — one of whom had never been to Levity and had been dubious of the caliber of local comics — were having a great time. From our perch at a back corner table of the near-capacity room, the laughs flowed as freely as the PBR. (Maybe those things are not unrelated?) Unfortunately, the word soon came in that the evening’s headliners, a trio of comics from Boston — including BTV expat James huessy — had gotten stuck in bad weather en route to the club from Beantown and might not make it in time. They didn’t. The evening’s last remaining scheduled comedian, 2012 HG Comedy battle champ KyLe GaGnon, admirably doubled his set — no small task in comedy — riffing with the crowd and regaling us with sordid tales of being young, bored and drunk. (Twentytwo-year-old me would have gotten along with Gagnon famously.) His set wasn’t without some rough moments. But considering he’d planned on 10 minutes and did more than 20, it was impressive. (Gagnon will also appear at Levity this Saturday, March 23.) You know you’re in trouble when you’re at a comedy club and the host starts soliciting audience members to perform — doubly so when one actually does. But that’s essentially how the night ended, as Waymond, clearly out of material, finally conceded the inevitable and apologetically bade us good night. It was an inglorious end to an otherwise glorious time, which, in a way, is something

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As we reported a few weeks ago, Vermont’s first/best/only comedy club, Levity, is closing at the end of the month. To be sure, it’s a tough blow for a comedy scene that in recent years has really begun to legitimize itself in the eyes of casual fans. It’s not a knockout punch. But losing what had become something of a second home to many of the area’s upand-coming comics has justifiably cast a degree of uncertainty around the future of comedy in Vermont. As the scene matures from adolescence into adulthood, there are legitimate questions regarding what the next phase of Vermont comedy will look like. What is not in question is that the end of the Levity era is close at hand. This weekend, the club will host its final standup showcases. And on Thursday, March 28, a farewell open mic is planned to send Levity off to the great comedy club in the sky. In other words, opportunities to experience the joke joint are dwindling fast. So last Friday night, I made what was likely my last trip to Levity to pay my respects. And really, it couldn’t have been a more strangely appropriate experience. The evening’s host was Raymond Waymond, a middle-aged local standup whose routine primarily centers on, well, being local and middle-aged — the old axiom “write what you know” applies to comedy, too. His riffs on marriage, Viagra, divorce, sex, Viagra, poking fun at podunk towns, and Viagra, while a little predictable, nonetheless had a certain stilted charm. Josh staR has come a long way since last I saw him, roughly one year ago. He’s harnessed the manic energy that once threatened to derail his sets, which allows his delightfully warped perspective room to breathe. The results are often hilarious, something like Jim GaffiGan on speed. Joe GinGRas was a late but welcome addition to the bill. His painfully selfaware style of humor was endearing and a nice contrast to Star’s more aggressive approach. Levity manager CaRmen LaGaLa continues to impress. I’ve caught her on a few occasions since her breakout performance at the 2011 Higher Ground Comedy Battle, but I’ve never seen her so at ease onstage as on this night. She’s got great material and an increasingly commanding stage presence. That’s a potentially powerful combination. She’ll be among the comedians featured at both of the club’s final showcases this weekend, by the way. At the midpoint of the evening, my

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Club MEtronoME: WOKO presents carol Ann Jones and the superchargers (country), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+. Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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To be eligible to take part in the Long-Acting Beta Step Down Study (LASST): • 12 years or older • Under the care of a physician for well-controlled asthma using a combination of asthma medications If you qualify you will receive treatments at no cost to you. All test drugs are FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved for the treatment of asthma.

HigHEr grounD ballrooM: The Expendables, Fear Nuttin' Band, Pacific Dub, Dented Personality (reggae-rock), 8 p.m., $13/15. AA. HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE loungE: Freshlyground (world music), 7:30 p.m., $17/20. AA. JP's Pub: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free. lEunig's bistro & CaFé: cody sargent (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. lEvity: Fun & Games Night, 8 p.m., Free. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free. Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. nECtar's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. uV Hippo, serotheft (funk), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on taP bar & grill: chad Hollister (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Jodi Ouellette (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. cheap Blue Yonder (folk rock), 7 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Dudestew (bumpkin punk), 11 p.m., Free. rED squarE: Joshua Glass and Nuda Veritas (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. signal KitCHEn: Rough Francis, Thelonius X (punk), 9 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: Jesse Gile & James Rosebush (alternative), 8 p.m., Free. tHE PinEs: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m. PurPlE Moon Pub: Bruce Jones (folk), 7 p.m., Free. sKinny PanCaKE: Jay Ekis (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. WHaMMy bar: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

51 Main: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., Free. City liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. tWo brotHErs tavErn: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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HalFloungE: scott mangan (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

bEE's KnEEs: spider Roulette (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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Wake-Up Call On their latest full-length, Waking Season, Massachusetts’

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further explore the dark, mysterious crossroads where the ethereal art rock of Sigur Ros meets the jagged metal aggression of ISIS. That record, dubbed the best post-rock album of 2012 by Spin magazine, is a bracing, textured exposition of multifaceted, instrumental rock. The band plays Signal Kitchen in Burlington this Sunday, March 24, with nativE and ClouD EyEs.

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MonoPolE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.

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Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squarE: Fortunate Beggars (rock), 7 p.m., Free. Gretchen & the Pickpockets (rock), 8 p.m., Free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. rED squarE bluE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free.

Dobrá tEa: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

rí rá irisH Pub: Dan Parks (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

signal KitCHEn: select session: Paul simon's Graceland, 8 p.m., $15.

HalFloungE: samara Lark and sarah stickle (singer-songwriters), 9 p.m., Free. The Harder They come (electro), 10:30 p.m., Free. HigHEr grounD ballrooM: Lindsay stirling, the Vibrant sound (EDm), 7:30 p.m., $17/20. AA. sold Out.

vEnuE: Thirsty Thursdays, 7 p.m., Free.

central

bagitos: John mowad (blues), 6 p.m., Donations.

lEvity: standup comedy Open mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free.

CHarliE o's: DJ crucible (metal), 10 p.m.

ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Hot Waxxx with Justcaus & Pen West (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

grEEn Mountain tavErn: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 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. Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. tHEraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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baCKstagE Pub: Trivia with made in the shade Entertainment, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free. Club MEtronoME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

champlain valley

HalFloungE: myra Flynn (neo-soul), 8 p.m., Free. Bonjour-Hi (moombahton), 10:30 p.m., Free.

MuDDy WatErs: Jamie masefield, Doug Perkins & Tyler Bolles (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

tWo brotHErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (house), 10 p.m., Free.

HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE loungE: Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck, suitcase Junket (rock), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA.

nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. sound Remedy (EDm), 9:30 p.m., $5. 18+. Excision Afterparty: the Frim (EDm), 10 p.m., Free/$3.

bEE's KnEEs: Z-Jaz (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

MonKEy HousE: Jonah ParzenJohnson (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., $5. 18+.

o'briEn's irisH Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Moog's PlaCE: Rudy Dauth (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

on taP bar & grill: Jenni Johnson & Friends (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

ParKEr PiE Co.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

raDio bEan: Dave Fugel & Julian chobot (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Zack duPont (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio with Geza carr & Rob morse (jazz), 8:30 p.m.,

City liMits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

northern

tHE Hub PizzEria & Pub: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., Free. MattErHorn: ski Bum Prom, 9 p.m., Donations. Moog's PlaCE: mark struhsacker (folk), 8 p.m., Free. ParKEr PiE Co.: Don and Jenn (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., Free.

JP's Pub: starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. lEvity: carmen Lagala, Kit Rivers, Joe Gingras, Rohit Kohli, Phil Davidson, Adam cook, Kyle Gagnon (standup), 9 p.m., $8. liFt: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Hopeless Radio (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. Marriott Harbor loungE: Jeff Wheel and Friends (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free. FRi.22

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That GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS are rock stars is no longer debatable. (They are. Deal with it.) But there are degrees of stardom. And recently, GPN reached a new level, going from “Rock Band That Contestants on TV Talent Shows Cover” — which, FYI, is just a notch above “That Band From That Commercial” — to “Rock Band That Lesser-Known Artists Cite as Influences.” This week, one such band will, ahem, grace our cozy hamlet, New Hampshire’s GRETCHEN & THE PICKPOCKETS, who cite GPN as an influence on their ReverbNation page. GP play GPN’s home state with a gig this Thursday, March 21, at Red Square in Burlington. No pressure. I always appreciate when readers take the time to write in and express enthusiasm for a local band they’ve recently discovered and think I should know about. One such

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set to unveil a new semi-regular series at the venue this Thursday, March 21, called Select Sessions. For each installment, the local all-star band featuring Price, WILL EVANS (BAREFOOT TRUTH), JOSH PANDA, RUSS LAWTON, members of the GRIFT and others, will be recreating a classic pop album in its entirety. First up, PAUL SIMON’s Graceland.

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have experienced that level of music locally. Too good to believe!” Actually, Jim, I do believe that. Now if we could just get Bob to release that MOVELLES album…

missive came in last week from a reader named “Jim” regarding the residency everybody’s favorite ginger guitarist, BOB WAGNER, has going every Monday at the Monkey House. “I lucked into the sickest set of serious bluesy rock tonight,” writes Jim, adding that he feels “very lucky to

Once again, here is a look at what was on my iPod, turntable, eighttrack player, etc., this week.

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Last but not least, This Week’s Sign That Warmer Days Really Do Lie Ahead Despite the Fucking Blizzard We Just Got: Higher Ground has announced another artist for this Summer’s Concerts on the Green Series at Shelburne Museum. EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS will play the museum’s stately lawn on Tuesday, June 11. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 22, at highergroundmusic.com.

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& Saturday, March 23 9 am-5 pm (free admission)

Mr. Crêpe: Art Herttua (jazz guitar), 6:30 p.m., free.

Giant Used Book Sale, VT Poet Laureate Reading Silent Auction with scores of VT author-signed books Live Music, Story Hour, Author Readings

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on tap Bar & Grill: Zack dupont and pat melvin (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Last Kid picked (rock), 9 p.m., free.

franny o's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

red square: moonschein (acoustic jazz), 5 p.m., free. swift Technique (funk), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

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Jp's puB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., free. levity : carmen Lagala, Kit rivers, Joe Gingras, rohit Kohli, phil Davidson, ryan Kriger (standup), 8 p.m., $8.

central

WHaMMy Bar: Big Hat, No cattle (western swing), 7 p.m., free.

champlain valley

51 Main: mogani (Latin jazz), 7 p.m., free.

neCtar's: Acoustic cats (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 7 p.m., free. Kloptoscope, mushroom cloud, What's Good (live EDm), 9 p.m. on tap Bar & Grill: High rollers (rock), 9 p.m., free. radio Bean: The peasant Dramatic (singer-songwriter), 12 p.m., free. The cause Arts Quarterly release party: the Dusty Neutrals, 2 p.m., free. Alex smith (folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Gordon Goldsmith (acoustic

soul), 7 p.m., free. Danny Whitecotton (alt-country), 8:30 p.m., free. Quiet Lion (basement soul), 10 p.m., free. The summit of Thieves (rock), 11:30 p.m., free. Budney’s Buddies (soul), 12:30 a.m., free. red square: Lila Webb (country), 5 p.m., free. The Aerolites (rock), 8 p.m., $5. mashtodon (mashup), 11 p.m., $5. red square Blue rooM: DJ raul (salsa), 7 p.m., free. rí rá irisH puB: The complaints (rock), 10 p.m., free. skinny panCake: Ashley Jordon (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. venue: 18 & up Destination saturdays, 8 p.m., free.

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BaGitos: irish sessions, 2 p.m., free. Bagitos film festival, 5 p.m., Donations. The summit of Thieves (rock), 6 p.m., Donations. CastleroCk puB: straight Jacket slumber party (rock), 9 p.m., free. CHarlie o's: All request Dance party, 10 p.m., free. Cider House BBq and puB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., free. tHe reservoir restaurant & tap rooM: red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 10 p.m., free. soutH side tavern: The House rockers (blues), 9:30 p.m., NA. tupelo MusiC Hall: Tupelo Night of comedy: pJ Walsh, ryan Gartley, Will Betts (standup), 7 p.m., $17. club 188 at Tupelo music Hall (dance), 10 p.m., $5. WHaMMy Bar: The usual suspects (blues), 7 p.m., free.

champlain valley

51 Main: Anthony santor Group (jazz), 8 p.m., free. City liMits: Dance party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., free. tWo BrotHers tavern: Zack dupont Trio (indie folk), 6 p.m., $3.

Bee's knees: Thompson Gunner (alt-country), 7:30 p.m., free. CHoW! Bella: The Best Little Border Band (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. tHe HuB pizzeria & puB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. MatterHorn: Kevin Kinsella and mosaic foundation (reggae), 9 p.m., $8. MooG's plaCe: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 9 p.m., free.

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Monopole: maaze (rock), 10 p.m., free. olive ridley's: party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m.

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CluB MetronoMe: B-Town Divaz with craig mitchell (drag show), 8 p.m., $10/15. 18+. HalflounGe: B-sides with DJ sleezy D (deep house), 7 p.m., free. Building Blox (EDm), 10 p.m., free. HiGHer Ground sHoWCase lounGe: That 1 Guy, captain Ahab's motorcycle club (eclectic), 7:30 p.m., $15. AA. levity: Troy stark, Blayne smith, claire stollery (standup), 7:30 p.m., NA. Monkey House: sound Without, Nuda Veritas (ambient), 8 p.m., $3. neCtar's: mi Yard reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., free. on tap Bar & Grill: Brunch with Wylie (acoustic), 11 a.m., free. radio Bean: Queen city Hot club (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., free. saloon sessions with Brett Hughes (country), 1 p.m., free. christina Holmes (acoustic pop), 7 p.m., free. John fuzek (singer-songwriter),

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tWo BrotHers tavern: matty Burns (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $3.

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Bee's knees: max Weaver Band (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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CHoW! Bella: comedy for a cause (standup), 7 p.m., $15. 18+. tHe HuB pizzeria & puB: Lendway (indie), 9:30 p.m., free. MooG's plaCe: Tim Brick Band (country), 9 p.m., free. parker pie Co.: summit of Thieves, suncooked, red Tin Box (rock), 8 p.m., free. riMroCks Mountain tavern: friday Night frequencies with DJ rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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HiGHer Ground sHoWCase lounGe: spectacle of sin Viii (metal), 8 p.m., $14/16. 18+.

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HiGHer Ground BallrooM: robotic pirate monkey, Alpha Data, Kicks N Licks, crook$, Whole-Z, T. Hath (EDm), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

Marriott HarBor lounGe: ray Vega (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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rí rá irisH puB: supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., free.

Green Mountain tavern: DJ Jonny p (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

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CluB MetronoMe: retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

ruBen JaMes: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free.

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neCtar's: Happy Ending fridays with Jay Burwick (solo acoustic), 5 p.m., free. seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Kevin Kinsella and mosaic foundation (reggae), 9 p.m., $5.

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

olive ridley's: party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m.

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himself like a DEA agent first on the scene of a big bust, hoisting a battering ram. Bassist Steve Hazen Williams sneaks in through the side door with a rumbling bass tone recalling that of Ron Asheton of the Stooges. Guitarists Paul Comegno and Julian Hackney join forces and parachute onto the roof, creating a double wall of fuzzy intensity. Lead vocalist Bobby Hackney sends a message to the public suggesting, “We got to come together, let’s put our minds together, we got to learn from each other right now.” Lyrically and vocally, Bobby Hackney navigates his way through this record with meaningful passion and commitment. “I-90 East” echoes the early sounds of the Motor City scene made popular by the likes of the Stooges and MC-5. Although similar in vibe to those bands, Rough Francis take a positive hardcore mindset and apply it to rock and roll. “Staring Out the Window,” furnished with falsetto backing vocals, introduces a more emotional shade of Rough Francis. The ardently delivered tune is instantly memorable. The comedic “Not a Nice Guy” offers an important element of any good punk-rock album: humor. Much like Minor Threat’s “Good Guys (Don’t

Wear White),” it is biting but lighthearted. The hard-hitting “Righteous” includes Julian Hackney gusting the hell out of the harmonica, in addition to guitar panning and lyrics that would make Lou Reed smile. MSP closes with the extended sixminute “Comm To Space.” The song begins with a recording of a prank phone call made by the Hackney brothers’ late uncle, David Hackney, whose country-music side project, Rough Francis, gave the band its name. The song ventures off into a noisy guitar-soloing fever as the bass and drums stand strong. Recorded at Burlington’s Signal Kitchen, the production of Maximum Soul Power aids the album’s ageless feel. Although peppered with a suitable looseness, the authenticity throughout this record brands it as one to remember. Maximum Soul Power is available on CD, vinyl and a limited-edition cassette. It is available for download at roughfrancis. bandcamp.com. Rough Francis play a free show at Signal Kitchen in Burlington this Wednesday, March 20.

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Who the hell is Ray Fork? A mystery seemingly by design, there is next to nothing about the man available either online or from the fellow members of his band, “El Rey” Tenedor y Su Conjunto Cuchillo — which, loosely translated from Spanish, means “Mr. Fork and his Knife Set.” That cutlery includes some sharp local players, namely percussionist Jane Boxall, keyboardist Ray Paczkowski, guitarist Kevin Stevens, drummer Russ Lawton and guitarist Raph Worrick. But they ain’t talking. Though one might wonder just why it is that Worrick, the group’s primary songwriter, and Mr. Fork are rarely, if ever, seen in the same place at the same time. Hmm… El Rey’s debut, Pig Latin, does little to dispel the uncertainty surrounding Fork’s true identity. In fact, the five-song EP serves only to deepen the enigma amid a spicy frijole of rock and roll wrapped in a Tex-Mex tortilla. But this is less Tejano rock by way of Los Lobos or the Sir Douglas

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Quintet than a cheeky interpretation filtered through the offbeat lens of bands such as Sparks, Ween or early Camper van Beethoven. While the music contained herein certainly bears the influence of south-of-the-border grooves, its acerbic northern sensibilities suggest it requires a new definition. Ver-Mexicano, perhaps? The album opens on “Beach Song.” Recorded as if live at an oceanside tiki bar, with sounds of clinking glasses, breezy chatter and crashing surf in the background, the song has a boozy, celebratory lilt. That airy feel comes to life as Boxall’s bright xylorimba dances over the band’s propulsive, syncopated swagger. Or maybe it’s more of a stagger? Fork spins a cheery yarn of road trips to the beach with good friends and cheap wine. He’s like Jimmy Buffett for the punk set. “(I’m Just a Minor Threat to Your) Banana Bottom” continues the Margaritaville-by-way-of-the-Road-toRuin groove, with Heimo Wallner’s wailing trumpet leading the way like some sort of Guayabera-clad pied piper. “Let’s Complain” discards the preceding

beach-blanket bingo in favor of more contemplative, but dryly witty, fare. Here Fork’s wry humor is front and center as he muses on the unifying romantic power of bitching about shit. It is an unspoken truism that the only thing that draws people together more strongly than shared love is shared loathing. “Your Song’s Too Long” gleefully — and somewhat ironically, given its rambunctious, Mr. Bungle-esque romp — skewers indulgent jam rock. Here Fork sings, “You opened up nice with two verses and a chorus / But right after that you started to bore us / You were four minutes into your first guitar solo / When I looked at my watch and said, “Time to go!” Pig Latin closes on a cover of Sparks’ “Hasta Mañana Monsieur,” reimagining the song as lounge-y Latin jazz. It’s a surprisingly effective device, making for that rare cover that both honors the spirit of the original and highlights the band’s own (in this case saucy and mysterious) personality. Who is Ray Fork, indeed? The band plays a release show this Friday, March 22, at the ArtsRiot Studio on Pine Street in Burlington. Pig Latin is available at rayfork.bandcamp.com.

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lounge: Lucero, shovels & Rope (rock), 7:30 p.m., $17/20. AA. Manhattan Pizza & PuB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. MonKey houSe: Bob Wagner and Friends (blues), 8 p.m., Free. nectar'S: metal monday: Thrillhouse, Amadis, Hessian (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on taP Bar & grill: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. radio Bean: West (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Open mic, 9 p.m., Free. ruBen JaMeS: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Signal Kitchen: The Black Atlantic (acoustic pop), 9 p.m., $8. 18+.

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charlie o'S: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.

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Moog'S Place: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

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techniques combined with live percussion. Touring in support of her debut EP, The Moment Of, Sound Without share the stage with a kindred musical spirit, Burlington’s nuda veritaS, at the Monkey House this Sunday, March 24.

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8 p.m., Free. Andrew stearns (bluegrass), 9 p.m., Free. Jive Farmer (funk), 11 p.m., Free.

SKinny PancaKe: The Foghorn stringband (string band), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Signal Kitchen: caspian, Native, cloud Eyes (post-rock), 8 p.m., $13.

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central

BagitoS: sunday Brunch: Eric Friedman (jazz), 11 a.m., Donations.

Bee'S KneeS: Rebecca Padula (acoustic), 11 a.m., Donations. Hee Hawk (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Matterhorn: chris Tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free.

Sweet crunch BaKe ShoP: spider Roulette (blues), 10:30 a.m., Free.

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halflounge: Family Night Open Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free. higher ground ShowcaSe

cluB MetronoMe: Dead set with cats under the stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

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radio Bean: stephen callahan Trio (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Justin Levinson (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. red Square: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free. red Square Blue rooM: DJ Frank Grymes (EDm), 11 p.m., Free.

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radio Bean: Dave mirabella (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. corin Ashley (acoustic pop), 8 p.m., Free.irish sessions, 9 p.m., The underscore Orkestra (Balkan), 10 p.m., Free. red Square: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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champlain valley two BrotherS tavern: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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the huB Pizzeria & PuB: 2nd Agenda (rebel folk), 9:30 p.m., Free. Moog'S Place: Open mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

cluB MetronoMe: Jandee Lee Porter Band (country), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

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leunig'S BiStro & café: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

franny o'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

levity : sexy chat with chicky Open mic (standup), 7:30 p.m., Free.

halflounge: scott mangan (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free.

nectar'S: Zack Deputy, Dan Henig (soul, funk), 9 p.m., $10/15. 18+.

on taP Bar & grill: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

whaMMy Bar: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Free.

higher ground ShowcaSe lounge: marcus Foster, sean Rowe, Ruston Kelly (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., $13. AA.

Monty'S old BricK tavern: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free.

nectar'S: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. serotheft, Turbine, the Hornitz (live EDm, funk), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

SKinny PancaKe: Josh Panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

charlie o'S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

higher ground BallrooM: Todd snider, Amy cook (singer-songwriters), 7:30 p.m., $18/20. AA.

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on taP Bar & grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

Bee'S KneeS: Girls Night Out (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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olde northender: Abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

JP'S PuB: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free. leunig'S BiStro & café: Paul Asbell, clyde stats and chris Peterman (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Manhattan Pizza & PuB: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free. Open mic with Andy

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BagitoS: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. charlie o'S: Townes Van Zandt Tribute with Dan Zura and Pete Rahn, 8 p.m. SKinny PancaKe: Jay Ekis (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation. 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. two BrotherS tavern: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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Bee'S KneeS: Andrew ParkerRenga (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. the huB Pizzeria & PuB: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Moog'S Place: mike and John (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. ParKer Pie co.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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MATTHEW THORSEN

s a child in Schenectady, N.Y., Nancy Dwyer elicited oohs and aahs for her artwork, which she recalls as being “effortless” for her to create. That talent eventually took her to the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she studied studio art and joined a co-op gallery along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo. Those two went on to become global art stars, but, back in the 1970s, “we were all just a bunch of grubs,” Dwyer recalls. Now a sculpture professor at the University of Vermont, the 58-year-old Dwyer has achieved her own measure of success as an artist. Her work is the subject of a current retrospective that fills the spacious display area of the Fisher Landau Center for Art. This former parachute-harness factory in the New York borough of Queens has assembled

I HAD A REVELATION THAT I COULD JUST USE WORDS BY THEMSELVES. IT OCCURRED TO ME:

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NANCY DWYER 25 of her pieces, some of them quite large, under the heading “Nancy Dwyer: Painting and Sculpture, 1982-2012.” About a third of the works are part of the permanent collection of Fisher Landau, which serves as both a repository and a showcase of contemporary art. The word-based works that have made Dwyer almost famous make up most of the show. Verbal/visual punning also inspired a Dwyer piece that’s included in the Fleming Museum of Art’s current “High Trash” show. It consists of four galvanized-steel garbage cans reconfigured to spell out “FOOD.” Interviewed in her semi-orderly Pine Street studio, the tall, slender and platinum-haired artist cites many influences that inspired her to make word art her métier. Surprisingly, perhaps, it was a clerking job at Barnes & Noble in the early ’80s that turned out to be the most powerful catalyst. Managers of the original B&N on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan had asked whether any employees could draw signs for displays. Dwyer could. And she proved so adept that it became her regular gig. More significantly, sign making had a transformative effect on her art. “It morphed into words as the most important element,” Dwyer recounts.

Nancy Dwyer in her studio

“I had a revelation that I could just use words by themselves. It occurred to me: ‘Why not just make signs?’” Signs with jokey or disturbing meanings, or both, have become Dwyer’s specialty. At Fisher Landau, an aluminum surface is sliced up to spell out “KILLER,” with knife-like blades jutting down from each of the letters to act as table legs. In another piece, Dwyer uses mahogany, leather, glass and brass to produce what she calls “The Desk of ENVY.” Its shape does resemble a desk, and the capitalized letters are colored green, of course. In a side room that offers a view of this postindustrial corner of Queens,

upholstered cushions attached to steel frames have been arrayed as a seating platform that spells out the word “window.” Can you guess the title of this work? Yep, it’s “Window Seat.” Dwyer’s art wasn’t always about words, however. As her admirers attested during her childhood, she’s good at drawing. In the early ’80s, Dwyer was painting figures in outline form on canvas, and samples of that work are some of the strongest pieces in the Fisher Landau show. In “Cholesterol,” a man with a stunned expression lies propped on one forearm while his other hand clutches his heart. “Lady Cop” consists of a woman in

uniform pointing a revolver directly at the viewer. These pieces from 30 years ago testify to Dwyer’s membership in what New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art dubbed “The Pictures Generation.” That was the title of a 2009 show at the Met that included two pieces by Dwyer as well as works by her friends from Buffalo, Longo and Sherman. Other pieces on display were made by equally well-known artists with whom Dwyer associated in Manhattan’s SoHo district in

the years when its residents were young and hungry. In its commentary on the “Pictures” show, the Met suggested that this group of artists, most of them born in the ’50s, had been shaped by their unrelenting exposure to media images. “Their relationship to such material was productively schizophrenic,” the show’s curators wrote. “While they were first and foremost consumers, they also learned to adopt a cool, critical attitude toward the very same mechanisms of seduction and desire that played upon them.” The Pictures Generation was, in other words, consciously political, but not given to overt expressions of political beliefs. These artists also had a mighty impact on the art world. Reflecting on the scene of which she was a part, Dwyer remembers being “on fire for making art.” When she moved to SoHo from Buffalo in the mid-’70s, she saw that “everybody was serious about what they were doing. They were dedicated to it even though there was no money in contemporary art at that time.” Now as then, Dwyer says, she views herself as “a committed artist.” Committed to what? “I’m committed to my main responsibility of documenting and expressing as best I can my position as a person in today’s world,” she replies. Dwyer has also come to see herself as a mentor. She began teaching as a visiting lecturer at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1980s and later taught at

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the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, which Dwyer describes as “my healthinsurance job.” It proved much more than that, though, as she came to realize how much she enjoyed being “the students’ art shrink.” Of her arrival at UVM in 2004, Dwyer says, “I’m really grateful they hired someone in mid-career.” She notes it’s often younger artists who get tenure-track positions. Burlington has proved a salubrious setting for her, Dwyer adds. She says she enjoys living downtown in the Vermont House and strives to be an active member of the arts community, working with organizations such as the BCA Center, which staged a Dwyer solo show in 2006. UVM, she notes, offers “a positive and supportive environment — it’s very unlike New York in that way.” Dwyer was a child of the city, however, and still exhibits symptoms of New Yorkphilia. She was born in Manhattan but moved upstate with her mother and two older sisters following the sudden death of her father, an Irish American beat cop in Harlem, at age 46. Life in Schenectady proved disorienting for her. “It felt like some sort of cosmic mistake for me to be living there,” she relates.

LISA FORSTER BEACH: “Cultural Energy,” vivid abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 25 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. The artist talks about her work, Wednesday, March 20, 7-8 p.m. Info, 888-1261. GALA 54: A evening of dinner, disco dancing and silent and live auctions, all inspired by the famed Manhattan nightclub Studio 54. Music by DJ Luis Calderin. Proceeds benefit Helen Day Art Center. Saturday, March 23, 5:30 p.m., Stowe Mountain Lodge. Info, 253-8358. SATELLITE ARTS ‘3-2-1 BLAST OFF!’: The new artists-studio and gallery space hosts a preview party and fundraiser, preceded by a space-themed parade from S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, 266 Pine, beginning at 4:15 p.m. Refreshments by Tom Girl Juice and Misery Loves Company, music by DJ Phantom, artwork, a 50-50 raffle called “It Came From Space,” and more. Thursday, March 21, 6-9 p.m. at Satellite Arts in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. PAUL BOWEN: The sculptor talks about his work in wood and other materials and his inspirations over a 40-year career. Thursday, March 21, 7-8 p.m., Chaffee Downtown

Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. ‘TREASURES FROM THE SHELDON’: A new curation of 19th-century objects, art and ephemera from the museum’s permanent collection. Through April 22 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Talk: Director Bill Brooks leads a gallery talk. Wednesday, March 20, noon-1 p.m.; Wednesday, March 27, noon-1 p.m. Info, 388-2117. MAIN STREET MUSEUM BENEFIT NIGHT: David Schein’s one-man show, “Out Comes Butch;” food from Crop Bistro and NECI; and live music raise funds for the quirky museum. Saturday, March 23, 5-11 p.m., Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776. CURTAINS WITHOUT BORDERS LECTURE: The Bryan Memorial Gallery presents director Chris Hadsel in an informative lecture about the project that has retrieved and restored 19th-century theater curtains. Sunday, March 24, 1-2 p.m., Cambridge Elementary School, Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. UKRAINIAN EGG-PAINTING DEMONSTRATION: Theresa Somerset shows how to turn eggshells into works of art. Saturday, March 23, noon3 p.m., Frog Hollow inBurlington. Info, 863-6458.

ONGOING 17TH ANNUAL CREATIVE REUSE SHOWCASE: Area high school students show what clever artwork can be fashioned from trash in this yearly exhibit, in conjunction with the Chittenden Solid Waste District. Through March 28 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Info, 863-6458.

ABBY KELLER: Paintings by the local artist. Through March 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. AMBER DEVOSS: "The Tempest Collection," brilliantly colored abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. CATHERINE HALL: "Recycled/Reborn," an exhibit of mixed-media works by the Burlington artist. Through March 31 at Vintage Inspired in Burlington. Info, 355-5418.

DAVE SELLERS: "Fundamentals of Design," an exhibit by the eclectic Warren architect. Through March 31 at ArtsRiot Gallery in Burlington. Info, 203-788-0909.

COLIN WALSH: “The Family Landscape,” photographs of the artist’s family history. Through March 31 at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne. Reception: Friday, March 22, 7-9 p.m. Info, 985-3819.

DOK WRIGHT: "Crescendo," large-scale images by the Burlington photographer. Through April 5 at Burlington College. Info, 923-2335. EMERGING ARTISTS SHOW: This group exhibit features works in a variety of media by 14 local artists. Through March 30 at Davis Studio in Burlington. ERIC FITZGERALD: Art Affair by Shearer presents landscape photography by the Vermont artist. Through March 31 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Info, 658-1111. 'FOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS': Robin Katrick, Trine Wilson, Mellisa Thebarge and Laina Johnson show their works. Through March 29 at Art's Alive Gallery in Burlington. Info, 660-9005. 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: "Via della Spada," oil and enamel on three panels, Escalator; Kevin Ruelle: Vintage-looking Vermont posters, Gates 1-8; and Tod Gunter: Aviation-themed illustrations, Skyway. Through April 30 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. GROUP EXHIBIT: Photography by Jacques 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.

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DIANE G. BELL: "Watercolors Through the Year," impressionistic landscapes by the Weston painter. Through April 28 at Magnolia Breakfast & Lunch Bistro in Burlington.

RICK NORCROSS: ‘Photographs: The Faces of Rock and Roll, 1969-1974,’ images from Janis Joplin to Johnny Cash shot by the Vermont musician as a young music journalist. Through April 5 at Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne. Reception: The musician celebrates 50 years of performing, his own birthday and his exhibit with an acoustic concert of original songs, Saturday, March 23, 3-5 p.m. Info, 985-8922.

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CREATIVE COMPETITION #17: Artworks submitted by local artists in a variety of media are up for viewers' choice award and for sale. Through March 31 at RL Photo in Burlington. Info, publicartschool@gmail.com.

‘SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A CLOUD’: A showcase of student work from the Creative Expression Program. March 25 through April 5 at Living/Learning Center, UVM, in Burlington. Reception: Wednesday, March 27, 6-8 p.m. Info, 656-2085.

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Dwyer fled to Greenwich Village at age 19 and moved into an artists’ housing development. She was married from 1993 to 2001 to photographer Oliver Wasow, and lived for some of those years in Warwick, N.Y., a Catskills town that “I really liked,” Dwyer says. She has no children. Asked which artists she admires now, Dwyer offers the names of a few of her contemporaries. No one from an earlier time? No appreciation for the impressionists, for example? “I’m much more interested in what’s new than what’s old,” Dwyer responds. “I’ve never been much into narrative in art. If I looked at an impressionist painting, it would be to study the way the paint was applied, not to take in the subject.”

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AVA’S SILENT AUCTION: This annual fundraiser offers works of art in every medium, as well as merchandise from local businesses. Through March 23 at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon. Talk: Party and final bids. Saturday, March 23, 5:30-8 p.m. Info, 603-448-3117.

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Group Show: works by Marc Awodey, Carolyn enz hack, paige berg Rizvi, Ruth hamilton, will patlove, Che schreiner, David powell and ethan Azarian. Curated by seAbA. Through May 31 at the innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, 859-9222. 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. Through May 11 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center, in burlington. info, 652-4510. 'hiGh traSh': Artworks from 18 contemporary artists using discarded materials address themes of waste, environment and consumerism in the age of climate change. Through May 24 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750. 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. Johanne durocher yordan: Dreamy abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by seAbA. Through May 31 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 859-9222. Johanne durocher yordan: "Contemplation," acrylic paintings that represent change and evolution in the artist's life. Through March 30 at studio 266 in burlington. info, 578-2512. Judith tuttle & robert huntoon: "waterscapes," pastel and oil paintings, respectively, by the Vermont artists. Through May 30 at shelburne Vineyard. info, 985-8222.

'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. Through April 6 at bCA Center in burlington. info, 865-7166. 'StorMy weather': heavy skies and ominous storms inspired the artworks in this group exhibit in multiple media. Through March 30 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. info, 578-2512. trevor Sullivan: Vermont-inspired paintings on old windows. Through April 30 at Fiddlehead brewing Company in shelburne. info, 508-523-7476. wendy JaMeS: photographic illusions and vivid paintings by the local artist. Curated by seAbA. Through May 31 at speeder & earl's (pine street) in burlington. info, 859-9222. willow baScoM: Colorful illustrations of animals, curated by seAbA. Through May 31 at pine street Deli in burlington. info, 859-9222.

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barbara leber: "seasons of the Year," acrylic paintings on board with the theme of color and light. Through March 30 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness studio in Montpelier. info, 229-4676.

cynthia e. frantz: "garden of My heart," still-life photographs that explore the sacred feminine. Through March 30 at shifting gears gallery in Montpelier. info, 793-7654. elizabeth billinGS: "Kinetic," paintings relating to the motion of material bodies and the force of energy. Through April 2 at Feick Fine Arts Center, green Mountain College, in poultney. info, 287-8398. fiona Sullivan: "shades of pussy," watercolor paintings of flowers. Through March 30 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. info, 223-0043. Gallery MeMberS Show: A group exhibit featuring works small and large, in a variety of media, by 35 regional artists. Through March 30 at bigTown gallery in Rochester. info, 767-9670. 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.

cherie StapleS & Marilyn winGerSKy: The sisters, members of the Art Resource Association, exhibit photographs and watercolors, respectively. Through April 6 at City Center in Montpelier.

'how people MaKe thinGS': in a hands-on exhibit inspired by "Mister Rogers' neighborhood," visitors can make objects using four manufacturing processes: molding, cutting, deforming and assembly. lab coats and safety glasses available! Through June 2 at Montshire Museum of science in norwich. info, 649-2200. '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. Jeanette fournier: Realist bird-focused watercolors by the new hampshire artist. Through March 31 at Vins nature Center in Quechee. info, 359-5000. Joan hoffMann: "American wilderness and habitats," oils and watercolors by the Royalton artist. Through March 22 at Tunbridge public library. info, 889-9404. Joyce hayden & nance SilliMan: "Resiliency," assemblage boxes, collages and paintings by hayden; paintings and mixed-media work by silliman. Through April 13 at nuance gallery in windsor. info, 674-9616. 'leGendary landScapeS': works by union elementary school second graders inspired by Chinese landscape paintings. Through March 31 at Montpelier City hall. info, 229-9416. '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.

Karol KawiaKa: Contemporary abstracted paintings. Through March 29 at seAbA Center in burlington. info, 859-9222. 'labor of love': Created by Vermont works for women with the Vermont Folklife Center, the touring exhibit features 25 photographs of women with various occupations. Through April 10 at burlington College. info, 655-8922.

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'larGe worKS': Artworks that measure at least three feet in one direction. Through April 20 at soda plant in burlington. info, 578-2512. 'liGht Snow': Metal sculpture by bruce R. MacDonald, woodcuts by george peterson and kinetic, floating clouds by gordon Auchincloss. Through March 31 at havoc gallery in burlington. info, 800-639-1868. liza cowan: "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. 'loSt and found': A group photography exhibit, curated by Davy Rothbart of "This American life" and Found magazine, explores that which has been lost, rediscovered, and forgotten. Through March 31 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686. MarK boedGeS: An exhibit of new winter landscape paintings by the Vermont artist also includes scenes of other seasons. Through March 31 at Mark boedges Fine Art gallery in burlington. info, 735-7317. 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. '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.

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Sachie KohlMan: pet portraits on paper. Through May 31 at Firebird Café in essex Junction. info, 310-0458.

Diane G. Bell The former Burlington artist, who now splits her time between Austin, Texas (winters), and Weston, Vt.

(summers), returns a little early this year — or at least sends some of her artworks — for an exhibit titled “Watercolors Through the

Year.” Now on view at Magnolia Bistro in Burlington, the collection showcases Bell’s expertise in both plein-air and studio painting. Her loosely evocative style captures the beauty in scenes as diverse as panoramic snowscapes and urban bus stops. The exhibit closes April 28 with live music from jazz guitarist Chris Bell. Pictured: “Walking Home.”

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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. castLetoN FacULty show: Works in a variety of media by 13 college art faculty. Through May 11 at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. Info, 468-1266.

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'eMergiNg artists': Works in a variety of media by 11 art students at Mt. Abe Union High School. Through March 26 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032. FULL hoUse: This annual exhibit showcases the colorful works of artists Richard Weis, Brian Sylvester, Johanne Durocher Yordan and Katherine Langlands. Through March 23 at Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. Libby hiLLhoUse: "Parallels," photographic portraits paired with text drawn from interviews with Vermonters living below the poverty line. Through March 30 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

Judith Tuttle Never mind March snowfalls, a whiff of spring is in the

air. Definitely reason enough to pair art gawking with a glass of crisp wine. This month,

Shelburne Vineyard opened its spring exhibition, “Waterscapes,” in the Tasting Room Gallery, featuring works by Vermont artists Judith Tuttle and Robert Huntoon. Tuttle’s collection of soft-pastel pieces attests to her skill at capturing the liquid stuff on paper, no easy task. Have a quaff and take in the views through May 31. Pictured: “After the Storm.” 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. Micki coLbeck: "Underwater," large oil paintings by the Vermont artist that reflect the blue planet's liquid in its many guises. Through April 30 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 765-4468.

'PLowiNg oLd groUNd: verMoNt's orgaNic FarMiNg PioNeers': Black-and-white documentary photographs by John Nopper, along with narratives collected in oral histories by agricultural writer Susan Harlow. Through June 1 at Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Info, 479-8519.

saNaM erFaNi: "Liberata," photography and mixed-media works expressing life's inspirations. Through March 31 at Green Bean Visual Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com.

'UseFUL aNd eLegaNt accoMPLishMeNts': Landscape drawings by 19th-century Norwich University alumni and their contemporaries, many of whom were involved in the Civil War; '1861-1862: toward a higher MoraL PUrPose': An exhibition exploring the experiences of Norwich University alumni who fought in the Civil War. Through June 30 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183. weNdy hackett-MorgaN: "Animals Art Figures, Too," mixed-media works that explore the human mind's ability to see images in everything. Through April 26 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223.3338.

Marc awodey: "Painting IS the Object," a selection of figurative paintings by, and in tribute to, the late artist and Seven Days art critic. Through April 5 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1266. MeMbers' show: "Vermont Scapes," works in a variety of media that reflect the beauty of Vermont. Through April 30 at Brandon Artists Guild. Info, 247-4956. Pete sUtherLaNd: The well-known Vermont folk musician is earning a second reputation for his cut-paper artworks, on display here in a number of colorful collages. Through March 29 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. stU haLL & caLeb Foster: "Snapping Snowflakes," images of the frozen stuff by two local photographers following in the footsteps of Snowflake Bentley. Through April 30 at Mt. Mansfield Community Television in Richmond. Info, 434-2550. 'the bLUe swaNs: seveN woMeN artists': Works in a variety of media by local artists Klara Calitri, Linda Hampton Smith, Molly Hawley, Patty LeBon Herb, Phoebe Stone, Sarah Wesson and Yinglei Zhang. Through March 31 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 388-1436.

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adrieN 'yeLLow' PateNaUde: "Yellow Vistas," landscape paintings by the Newport painter. Through April 14 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. aMaNda veLLa: Boldly colored abstract paintings by the local artist. Through March 31 at Merchants Bank in South Hero. Info, dupasquier@aol.com. chris stearNs & gaLeN cheNey: Art photographs and colorful abstract paintings, respectively, in the Upstairs Gallery. Through March 31 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

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robert goLd: "Embracing Change," multimedia, photorealist images in vivid colors by the Vermont artist. Through April 30 at Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-3291.

two rivers PriNtMakiNg FacULty show: Masterful prints by more than a dozen member and nonmember instructors. Through April 30 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

'LiNear thiNkiNg: soL Lewitt, ModerN, PostModerN aNd coNteMPorary art 12v-rusford030613.indd 1 2/28/13 2:00 PM FroM the coLLectioN': A LeWitt drawing installed by students (through May 5); 'NatUre traNsForMed: edward bUrtyNsky’s verMoNt QUarry PhotograPhs iN coNtext': Iconic photographs exhibited within the context Saturdays at Gardener’s Supply, Burlington of the geological and social history of the area, including the Italian immigrant stoneworkers in the granite quarries near Barre (through April 22). At March 23 • 9:30–11:00am Middlebury College Museum of Art in Middlebury. Garden Plants with Medicinal Info, 443-3168.

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NathaN vaUghaN: "Glass Cat Presents," digital prints of album covers for fictitious bands on the artist's fictitious label. Through March 29 at Local 64 in Montpelier. Info, 595-0605.

'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. Info, 875-1018.

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'MoLd Makers': A group show of artwork made from and relating to the mold-making process, Main Floor Gallery; Norwich UNiversity stUdeNts: Five years of lo-fi works, Second Floor Gallery; and Theodore Ceraldi: "Hidden," paintings and sculpture, Third Floor Gallery. Through April 6 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

'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 April 5 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776.

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imagined it, anyway. Channeling his inner music-biz mogul, the Vermont artist created album art for madeup bands managed by his made-up label, Glass Cat Presents. Vaughan’s funky-fresh taste and design skills are on view in an exhibit at Montpelier’s Local 64 through March 29. Pictured: “Totally Tammy.”

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Clark Derbes: "Prehistoric Art of the Future… Today!" Two- and three-dimensional geometricpainted works by the Burlington artist, including a wall collaboratively painted with JSC students. Through April 13 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. 'CliCk! a PhotograPher's View of Vermont': The gallery's first-ever photography exhibit features painterly images in black-and-white and color by 75 juried artists. Through March 31 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. 'ConVersations in Cloth': Quilted works by June Bugbee and friends. Through April 30 at Jericho Center Town Hall. Info, 899-2974. Curtains without borDers exhibit: Photographs by Carolyn Bates of some of the 180 19th-century theater curtains retrieved and restored by project director Chris Hadsel. Through March 31 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. 'graCe: Past anD Present': A group exhibit of artists represented by the community-arts organization. Through April 25 at GRACE in Hardwick. Info, 472-6857. Jan tiChy: “Installation No. 6 (tubes),” an artwork of sculpture and light that references urban landscape, architecture and human activity as light pulses, crawls and glows through paper tubes. Through April 14 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. kelly holt: "I Walk the Line," mixed-media paintings. Through April 30 at Green Goddess Café in Stowe. Info, 253-5255.

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Lydia Corrow & Mathew Purdue: "Summer of Change," interpretations of landscape by the Vermont artists. Through April 22 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158. Mary ann duffy Godin: "Birds, Blooms and Vintage," watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. Through April 17 at Bent Northrop Memorial Library in Fairfield. Info, 827-3945. PaM turner: Paintings in acrylic and mixed media. Through April 1 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366. SeCond tueSday artiStS GrouP exhibit: Paintings by artist-friends Alex Bottinnelli, Liz Nelson, Maggie Neale, Kathy Stark and Ann Young. Through March 31 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 802-586-8078. 'SourCe: GuiLd of VerMont furniture MakerS': An exhibition of fine furniture by Vermont craftspeople with a focus on the source of all the elements that collaborate to make the final piece. Through April 14 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. StePhen huneCk: "Working Dogs," prints of Sally the curious Labrador by the late artist, in conjunction with a Courageous Conversation lecture about women and girls. Through April 30 at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. Info, 800-449-2580.

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art Lab exhibition: Work by adults with special needs who meet weekly for art classes at AVA Gallery and Art Center. Through May 31 at Courtyard by Marriott in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117.

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LoGo deSiGn ConteSt! Remember the painted bears on Church Street last year? Design the logo for this summer’s art installation! Deadline: March 22. More info, artsriot.com.

a 50/50 fundraiser this June. Visit artandsoulvt.org for more details. Deadline: May 3.

VerMont bird art needed Do you do birds? The Birds of Vermont Museum and the Vermont Center for Ecostudies are collaborating on an exhibit for this year at the Birds of Vermont Museum. The art we seek is ready to hang and is at least 10 by 10 inches. Deadline: April 5. Details at goo.gl/1GsZo. we are faMiLy: SubMit now Calling for photo submissions. Deadline: April 27. Juror: Chris Verene. Say cheese! Capture the characters that make your family truly one of a kind. darkroomgallery.com. art+SouL: Art+Soul brings artists and nonprofits together to celebrate our creative community! In 2013 the beneficiary is ECHO, and we want to see your Lake Champlainwatershed-inspired artwork sold at

brandon artiStS GuiLd Jury: The Brandon Artists Guild jury of potential new artist members is on April 14. Info, 247-4956. Application at brandonartistsguild.com. Mud (SeaSon) exhibit: Work representative of our region’s most cautiously optimistic season. Whether you are looking up, down or ahead for inspiration, submit! Full details at artistreevt.org/ submit-work-mud/. 2013 Photo SLaM Darkroom Gallery is calling photographers of all ages, students, amateurs and pros, for the 2013 Champlain Valley Photo Slam. Deadline: April 24. darkroomgallery.com/ex42/

Jean-JaCqueS duVaL: Paintings, stained-glass sculpture and preliminary drawings for large stained-glass windows installed in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Through March 24 at Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Info, 518-564-2474. 'Peru: kinGdoMS of the Sun and the Moon — identitieS and ConqueSt in the anCient, CoLoniaL and Modern eraS': A collection of

art of CreatiVe aGinG Juried exhibit featuring recent work of older (70+) visual artists living in central Vermont. Send digital submissions to mharmon@cvcoa. org by March 30. Info, 476-2681. oPen GrouP Show at “CreatiVe CoMP” First Friday every month. $8 entry fee; limit 1 per artist. No rules, any size/media/subject. Entries accepted Wednesday through first Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception on first Fridays, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. People’s choice winner gets cash prize. Exhibit up for month. Location: Root Gallery at RL Photo, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. For info, call 540-3081 or email publicartschool@gmail.com.

pre-Columbian treasures and masterpieces, many of which have never been seen outside Peru. Through June 16 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-1600. Suny PLattSburGh StudentS' CLotheSLine exhibition: This 3rd annual event features work, hung on clotheslines, by students campus-wide, not just art students. Through March 24 at Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Info, 518-564-2474.

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triCk of the eye exhibit Calling for submissions: Optical illusions conjured by a variety of processes, from studio setups to spontaneously captured works, that inspire the question, “How did they do that?” Deadline: April 3. Juror: Benjamin Von Wong. More info at submissions@darkroomgallery. com. darkroomgallery.com/ex41. 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. 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.

'tony bennett: the art of anthony benedetto': Watercolors, sketches and paintings by the world-renowned singer. Through April 14 at Galerie of the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan in Montréal. Info, 514-288-8882. m

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CALL OF DUTY Berry plays a 911 operator who puts her life on the line in Anderson’s over-the-top thriller.

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ere’s a fun party game I made up: It’s called How Would This Movie Have Ended If Cellphones Had Existed? You can play it with nearly every film ever made, because the proliferation of mobile devices is a relatively recent phenomenon. Take Jaws. Quint smashes the Orca’s radio so Brody can’t call for a bigger boat, potentially dooming everybody onboard. If cellphones had existed, Hooper could have slipped into the can to text the Coast Guard, and the good folks of Amity, flush with tourist dollars, might’ve made him their next mayor. Or The Godfather. Remember the scene (spoiler alert!) where Sonny’s about to drive into that tollbooth ambush, and his troops hit the road in a high-speed attempt to stop him? They never would have massacred Vito’s boy if the Corleones had signed up for Verizon’s Friends & Family plan. In Rear Window, when Grace Kelly sneaks into Raymond Burr’s apartment while James Stewart watches from across the courtyard, a cell would have come in handy to warn her the creep had returned

and was about to walk in on her. Imagine how much grief Richard Dreyfuss’ Close Encounters of the Third Kind character might have been spared if he’d been able to do a search on that funny-looking mountain instead of making mashed-potato models until he came across it on TV. Dustin Hoffman could have just called Katharine Ross at the end of The Graduate instead of racing from one end of Los Angeles to the other. And, more recently, all that stood between those walking wolfburgers and a Disney ending in The Grey was a cell tower. I could play all day, but I should probably address Halle Berry’s latest professional faux pas, whose gimmicky plot hinges on cellphone use. A former beauty contestant and model, Berry parlayed her cheekbones into an acting career. But over the years she has displayed spectacularly crappy instincts when it comes to choosing parts. It’s possible she’s made more duds than any other Oscar winner in history. Berry turned down the starring role in Speed but signed on the dotted line for The Flintstones, Strictly Business, B*A*P*S, Swordfish, Gothika and Catwoman — which,

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with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 9 percent, isn’t even the lowest-rated in her oeuvre. New Year’s Eve earned a 7 percent, Movie 43 a 4 percent and Father Hood and Dark Tide a combined 0 percent! My guess is Berry’s (Oscar-winning) participation in Monster’s Ball was the result of a paperwork mix-up. The Call is about par for the course for Berry. As directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist) from a script by Richard D’Ovidio, it takes us into the high-stakes world of an LA 911 operator whose resourcefulness is tested when a terrified young woman (Abigail Breslin) phones from the trunk of a serial killer who’s just kidnapped her. The good news? The first half is edgeof-your-seat material. D’Ovidio was on to something. Seldom explored on film, the emergency-call-center milieu proves instantly immersive. Someone could craft a classic crime thriller from the elements of

this movie. Someone other than Anderson and D’Ovidio. The bad news: The second half squanders everything fresh and intriguing about the first. Imagine the most meatheaded series of developments a Hollywood hack could concoct, dumb it down by a factor of 10, and you’re still giving this picture more credit than it deserves. Movie-critic law prohibits me from getting into specifics, but let’s just say that screen psychos have seldom been dashed off as lazily as in this film. Berry’s dispatcher doesn’t make out much better. Breslin makes the leap from Little Miss Goofball to scream teen seamlessly, but there isn’t much else in this once-promising director’s “cell”-out to make it worth your time to take this call. RICK KISONAK

KILLER VACAY Oram and Lowe make unlikely serial killers in Sightseers, coming up at the Green Mountain Film Festival.

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hen new lovers Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice Lowe) set out on a road trip across England, they make a picture of premature domestic bliss. She knits herself sexy scanties in their cozy trailer. He scribbles notes for a literary masterpiece and appoints her his “muse.” The only blots on the couple’s idyll are the other tourists they keep running into — slobs or snobs who just don’t show them proper respect. When these strangers get irksome, Chris has a habit of brutally murdering them. And Tina isn’t sure she minds. Imagine one of Mike Leigh’s slice-of-life comedies crossed with Natural Born Killers and you have Sightseers, the latest from Ben Wheatley. The UK director drew deserved festival attention in 2011 with Kill List, a hybrid of kitchen-sink drama and hit-man thriller with a bizarre twist. Sightseers is nearly as inventive, but it’s a comedy. A very dark one: Not for nothing does “Tainted Love” play over the opening credits. While Chris and Tina are undeniably

sociopaths, their familiar foibles make them the sociopaths next door. (“He wasn’t a person; he was a Daily Mail reader,” Chris says of one of his victims.) Actors Oram and Lowe developed the characters based on memories of their parents on road trips, giving Chris and Tina’s relationship a believability that makes their antics both funnier and more disturbing. It’s not for everyone, but it’s a hard film to forget. And, for now, locals can see it only at the Green Mountain Film Festival. Sightseers, which plays on March 22 (8:30 p.m.) and March 26 (8 p.m.) at the Savoy Theater in Montpelier, is one of 65 flicks the 16-year-old fest will bring to town starting this Friday. Now run by Savoy owner Terrence Youk, the fest has a somewhat smaller local component than in years past; don’t look for a showcase of Vermont-made shorts. But do look for intriguing features from around the world, few of which have reached our screens. For instance, Reality, the latest from Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone, takes a

skewed look at reality-TV stardom. Oscarnominated War Witch is the magical-realist tale of an African child soldier. On the Road retells Jack Kerouac’s American odyssey, while Beyond the Hills, from Romania’s Christian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), is a more harrowing odyssey through the heart of an unforgiving faith. In Ginger and Rosa, Orlando director Sally Potter offers a tale of radical coming-of-age in the 1960s. The GMFF has plenty of documentaries, too. Some fire up audiences (A Place at the Table, about hunger; The Revisionaries, about a creationist trying to steer public education); others take them on unlikely journeys (Kumare, in which filmmaker Vikram Ghandi impersonates a guru and finds himself becoming one). 5 Broken Cameras is a searing, first-person view of conflict in the

West Bank (See my Movies You Missed DVD review at sevendaysvt.com.). Girl Model follows an impoverished Russian teen lured into the fashion industry with promises of fame and fortune. Room 237 explores the cult that has developed around Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining — which, naturally, will also be screened, with commentary from a visiting Kubrick scholar. Animation fans won’t want to miss Don Hertzfeldt’s experimental It’s Such a Beautiful Day, which some critics have called the best film of 2012. The choices go on and on — you can find them, along with the schedule and ticketing information, at gmffestival.org. And try to avoid too-happy couples on your next RV vacation. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

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ADmiSSioN: In this comedy, Tina Fey plays an uptight Princeton admissions officer who suspects she’s discovered the son she gave up for adoption at an alternative school. With Paul Rudd and Nat Wolff. Paul (About a Boy) Weitz directed. (107 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) tHE cRooDS: In this animated family adventure, a prehistoric family explores the wide world after they’re forced out of their comfy cave. With the voices of Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds and Emma Stone. Kirk De Micco and Chris (How to Train Your Dragon) Sanders directed. (98 min, PG. Big Picture, Bijou [3-D], Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Palace [3-D], Paramount [3-D]) G.i. JoE: REtAliAtioN: Retaliation for what? Honestly, we don’t remember what happened in the first G.I. Joe, but Dwayne Johnson is on board this time, the president is trying to terminate the super-soldier program, and there will be explosions. With Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis and Adrianne Palicki. Jon M. (Step Up 3D) Chu directed. (110 min, PG-13. Opens 3/27 at Bijou [3-D], Capitol [3-D], Stowe) GREEN moUNtAiN Film FEStiVAl: See preview this week in our movie review section, and schedule at gmffestival.org. (Savoy and other Montpelier venues, through March 31) tHE HoSt: Stephenie Meyer’s only non-Twilight bestseller asked: If an alien parasite took over your body, would it still be in love with your boyfriend? Andrew (In Time) Niccol directs the film version of the sci-fi romance, and Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons and Diane Kruger star. (120 min, PG-13. Midnight showing on 3/28 at Paramount) olYmpUS HAS FAllEN: The president (Aaron Eckhart) has been kidnapped by terrorists, and only a disgraced ex-secret serviceman (Gerard Butler) can save him in this thriller from director Antoine (Training Day) Fuqua. With Morgan Freeman and Angela Bassett. (119 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) SpRiNG BREAKERS: Exploitation, art or a little of both? Indie director Harmony Korine (Mr. Lonely) made this deliberately scandalous flick about girls on spring break who go a bit too wild, starring James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens. (94 min, R. Roxy)

21 AND oVERH1/2 The writers of The Hangover, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, attempt to rekindle the magic of inebriation comedy with their directorial debut about a kid whose big medical school exam happens to fall the day after he celebrates his 21st birthday. With Miles Teller, Justin Chon and Jonathan Keltz. (93 min, R)

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EScApE FRom plANEt EARtHHH1/2 The scary aliens are us in this family animation about a heroic astronaut from the planet Baab (voiced by Brendan Fraser) who responds to a distress call from Earth. With Rob Corddry, James Gandolfini and Sarah Jessica Parker. Cal Brunker directed. (90 min, PG)

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iDENtitY tHiEFHH 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) tHE iNcREDiBlE BURt WoNDERStoNEHH A superstar magician (Steve Carell) tries to rekindle his faith in his craft in this comedy involving many sparkly costumes, much like Blades of Glory. Also starring Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, James Gandolfini, Alan Arkin, Olivia Wilde and Jay Mohr. Don Scardino directed. (101 min, PG-13)

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liFE oF piHHHH Ang Lee directed this adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel about a zookeeper’s son who finds himself adrift in a boat with an assortment of hungry animals. Starring Adil Hussain, Irrfan Khan and Suraj Sharma. (126 min, PG) oZ tHE GREAt AND poWERFUlHH1/2 The trend begun by Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland continues with this eye-candy prequel to The Wizard of Oz in which the titular magician, played by James Franco, tries to find his niche in a fantasy world. With any luck, director Sam Raimi drew on the rich and wacky stores of L. Frank Baum’s other Oz books. With Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams. (131 min, PG) QUARtEtH Dustin Hoffman directed this comedy-drama about a British retirement home full of former opera musicians, where the arrival of a diva (Maggie Smith) stirs up old rivalries and resentments. With Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins and Billy Connolly. (95 min, PG-13)

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DEAD mAN DoWNH1/2 Noomi Rapace plays a woman who enlists a professional killer (Colin Farrell) in her quest for vengeance in this rather redundantly titled action drama from director Niels Arden Oplev (who made the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). (118 min, R)

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cHASiNG icEHHH1/2 Jeff Orlowski’s documentary follows the quest of photographer James Balog to record graphic, undeniable evidence of climate change through global footage of glaciers in retreat. (76 min, PG-13)

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AmoURHHHHH Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an elderly man struggling to care for his beloved wife (Emmanuelle Riva) as she experiences dementia in this Oscar-nominated drama from director Michael (Caché) Haneke. With Isabelle Huppert. See review, this issue. (127 min, PG-13.)

tHE cAllHH Halle Berry plays a 911 operator who finds herself up against a serial killer after she takes a call from an abductee in this thriller from Brad (The Machinist) Anderson. With Abigail Breslin and Morris Chestnut. (95 min, R)

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21 dead man down 6:20, 9. The incredible Burt wonderstone 6:25, 9. oz The Great and powerful in 3d 6:10, 9. silver linings playbook 6:20, 9. snitch 6:15, 9. friday 22 — thursday 28 *admission Fri: 6:20, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:25, 3:10, 6:20, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9. *G.i. Joe: retaliation 3d Wed: 7. The incredible Burt wonderstone Fri: 6:25, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:35, 3:15, 6:25, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:25, 9. *olympus has Fallen Fri: 6:15, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:20, 3:10, 6:15, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:15, 9. oz The Great and powerful Wed: 6:10, 9. oz The Great and powerful in 3d Fri: 6:10, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:15, 3:15, 6:10, 9. Mon and Tue: 6:10, 9. Thu: 6:10, 9. silver linings playbook Fri: 6:20, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9. Mon and Tue: 6:20, 9.

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21 21 and over 5, 9:10. The call 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:10, 9:20. dead man down 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9. escape from planet earth 3d 12:50, 2:55, 7:05. identity Thief 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50. The incredible Burt wonderstone 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9. oz The Great and powerful 12:30, 3:15, 6, 8:45. oz The Great and powerful in 3d 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:30. safe haven 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9:10. silver linings playbook 1:15, 3:50, 6:25, 9. friday 22 — thursday 28 *admission 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40. The call 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:10, 9:20.*The croods 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45. *The croods 3d 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15. identity Thief 3:45, 8:45. The incredible Burt wonderstone 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 1:10, 6:15. *olympus has Fallen 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:20. oz The Great and powerful 3:15, 6, 8:45. oz The Great and powerful in 3d 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:30. safe haven 12:45. silver linings playbook 1:15, 3:50, 6:25, 9.

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21 21 and over 2:15, 7:05. The call 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7:15, 9:35. dead man down 4:30, 9:15. escape from planet earth 12:05. escape from planet earth 3d 1:10. identity Thief 1:05, 4:10, 7, 9:40. The incredible Burt wonderstone 12, 2:20, 4:45, 6, 7:10, 9:30. Jack the Giant slayer 3:10. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 12:40, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20. life of pi 3d 3:20, 6:10, 9. oz The Great and powerful 12:10, 3, 8:15. oz The Great and powerful in 3d 1, 4, 6:50, 9:35. safe haven 12:30, 6:20, 8:50. silver linings playbook 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10. friday 22 — wednesday 27 *admission 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:35. The call 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25. *The croods 3d 12, 2:20, 3, 4:40, 7:05, 9:20. *The croods 1, 3:40. escape from planet earth 12:50. identity Thief 3:20, 6:30, 9:10. The incredible Burt wonderstone 1:20, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30. Jack the Giant slayer 6:20, 8:50. *olympus has Fallen 1:15, 4, 6:50, 9:35. oz The Great and powerful 2:50, 8:30. oz The Great and powerful in 3d 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30. safe haven 12:20, 6.

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21 oz The Great and powerful in 3d 7. Quartet 7. silver linings playbook 7. Full schedule not available at press time.

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21 amour 1:05, 3:40, 6:20, 9. argo 1:25, 4, 6:50, 9:20. The incredible Burt wonderstone 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:25. oz The Great and powerful 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10. Quartet 1:20, 3:30, 6:10, 8:15. silver linings playbook 1:15, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15. friday 22 — wednesday 27 *admission 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15. amour 1:05, 6:10. The incredible Burt wonderstone 3:40, 8:50. *olympus has Fallen 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9. oz The Great and powerful 1:10, 3:45, 6:20, 9:05. silver linings playbook 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:10. *spring Breakers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:20.

palace 9 cinemas 10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 argo 1:05, 3:40, 6:25, 9. dead man down 1:25, 4, 6:55, 9:20. escape from planet earth 1:10, 6. identity Thief Wed: 1:30, 4:05, 9:10. Thu: 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10. The incredible Burt wonderstone 1, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:45, 9:30. Jack the Giant slayer Wed: 1:15, 3:50, 6:40. Thu: 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15. ***The metropolitan opera: parsifal encore Wed: 6:30. oz The Great and powerful 12:30, 1:40, 3:20, 6:10, 6:50, 9. safe haven 3:25, 8. silver linings playbook 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:10. friday 22 — wednesday 27 *admission 1:10, 4, 7, 9:20. argo 1:05, 6:15. *The croods 1:20, 3:30. *The croods 3d 12:45, 3, 5:05, 7:10, 9:15. escape from planet earth 1:15. identity Thief 3:45, 8:45. The incredible Burt wonderstone 1:25, 3:55, 6:50, 9:10. Jack the Giant slayer 6:10, 8:40. *olympus has Fallen 1, 3:40, 6:25, 9:05. oz

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paramount twin cinema 241 North Main St., Barre, 4799621, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 identity Thief 6:30, 9. Jack the Giant slayer 3d 6:25, 9. friday 22 — thursday 28 *The croods 3d Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun: 1, 3:30, 6:30, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9. *The host Thu: 9. identity Thief 6:30, 9. Jack the Giant slayer Sat and Sun: 1, 3:30.

the savoy theater 26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290509, savoytheater.com

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 happy people: a year in the taiga 6, 8. Quartet 6:30, 8:30. friday 22 — thursday 28 *Green mountain Film Festival.

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21 The incredible Burt wonderstone 7. Jack the Giant slayer 7. silver linings playbook 7. friday 22 — thursday 28 *G.i. Joe: retaliation Wed: 7. The incredible Burt wonderstone Fri: 7, 9. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:10. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. oz The Great and powerful Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:15. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. silver linings playbook Fri: 7, 9:10. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:10. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7.

welden theatre 104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888, weldentheatre.com

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 identity Thief 7:15. The incredible Burt wonderstone 7:15. oz The Great and powerful 7. Full schedule not available

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Police investigating a driveby shooting that wounded 13 people in the District of Columbia identified Craig Steven Wilson, 19, as a suspect after surveillance videos showed shots fired from a vehicle registered to him at the scene. Wilson was also wearing a court-ordered electronic ankle bracelet with a GPS tracking device, which indicated his movements coincided with those of one of the shooters. (The Washington Post)

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Polaroid Fotobar opened its first store in Delray Beach, Fla., where it offers customers the opportunity to turn pictures on cell phones and other digital devices into prints that replicate traditional Polaroid instant photos. Prices begin at $1. “Digital is not permanent,” Warren Struhl, Fotobar’s founder and CEO, said. “Physical is permanent.” (Associated Press)

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Tracer rounds fired at a Dallas shooting range apparently triggered a four-alarm fire that engulfed the one-story building. About 50 people inside the range when the fire broke out managed to escape safely, ac-

cording to Dallas Fire-Rescue official Jason Evans, who said a shooter at the range admitted to firing unauthorized tracer ammunition, which produces a small flare that makes following a round’s path easier but can ignite the target backing at the range. After the blaze was doused, security personnel were dispatched to the wreckage to prevent looters from taking at least 100 handguns, assault rifles and ammunition amid the debris. (Houston’s KHOU-TV)

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The University of North Dakota became the first to offer a degree program in unmanned aviation, although it’s just one of many academic settings, along with companies and individuals, preparing for the day when cheap, remotecontrolled aircraft will occupy civilian air space. “The sky’s going to be dark with these things,” predicted Chris Anderson, who runs 3D Robot-

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ing security surveillance and advertising. (The Washington Times)

The Defense Department is creating a medal for drone pilots and cyber-warfare specialists that recognizes “extraordinary achievements that directly impact on combat operations but do not involve acts of valor or physical risks that combat entails.” The new Distinguished Warfare Medal ranks just above the Bronze Star with Valor device, which is awarded for specific heroic acts performed under fire in combat. (Marine Corps Times)

Numerous media outlets, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, reported that the federal government possesses unmanned aerial vehicles capable of detecting guns and tracking citizens via their cellphone signals. The agency explained it merely wants its 10 border-patrolling drones to be equipped with cameras capable of zooming in close enough to see whether people crossing the border from Mexico are holding a gun in their hands, but Amie Stepanovich, an attorney with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, pointed out that the technology “is only going to get cheaper and easier to implement” and will soon expand to other government departments and agencies. (The Washington Times)

Celebrity news and gossip media outlet TMZ has applied for a permit to use drones to follow the activities of its targets, according to reports, which TMZ and the Federal Aviation Administration have denied. By 2015, TMZ and virtually anyone else will be able to use drones for private and commercial purposes, such as taking photos, shooting videos, conducting research, provid-

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files, which are sent electronically to recipients. Outbox cofounder Will Davis said the company already has more than 600 customers in Austin, Texas, and just began service in San Francisco. (CNN)

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“Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings,” says poet Muriel Rukeyser in her poem “Elegy in Joy.” “Not all things are blest,” she continues, “but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.” I urge you to adopt this perspective in the coming weeks, Aries. Be extra sweet and tender and reverent toward anything that is just sprouting, toward anything that is awakening, toward anything that invokes the sacredness of right now. “This moment,” sings Rukeyser, “this seed, this wave of the sea, this look, this instant of love.”

caNceR (June 21-July 22): “stories happen

to those who tell them,” said the ancient greek historian Thucydides. Modern radio journalist ira glass goes even further. “great stories happen to those who can tell them,” he has said. let’s make this strategy a centerpiece of your life plan in the weeks ahead, Cancerian. i have a suspicion that you will need firsthand experience of novel, interesting stories. They will provide the precise nourishment necessary to inspire the blooming of your most soulful ambitions. one way to help ensure that the best stories will flow your way is to regale receptive people with transformative tales from your past.

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(July 23-aug. 22): “Dear rob: i’m spreading the word about beer Week in your town, and i’d love to see you and your beerloving readers at some of the events. any chance you can include some coverage of beer Week celebrations in your upcoming column? Cheers, Patricia.” Dear Patricia: i don’t do product placement or other forms of secret advertising in my horoscopes. to allow it would violate the sacred trust i have with my readers, who rely on me to translate the meaning of the cosmic signs without injecting any hidden agendas. it is true that leos might be prone to imbibing great quantities of beer in the coming week, simply because they’d benefit from lowering their inhibitions, getting in touch with their buried feelings and expanding their consciousness. but to be frank, i’d rather see them do that without the aid of drugs and alcohol.

(aug. 23-sept. 22): Hoping to stir up some fun trouble, i posted the following message on my Facebook page: “Don’t judge someone just because they sin differently than you.” a torrent of readers left comments in response. My favorite was from sue sims, who said, “yeah, they might be better at your kind of sin and you might learn something!” That advice is just the kind of healing mischief you need right now, Virgo. it’s a bit ironic, true, but still: take it and run with it. study the people who have mad skills at pulling off the rousing adventures and daring pleasures and interesting “sins” that you’d like to call your own.

liBRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): The French verb renverser can be translated as “to turn upsidedown” or “to reverse the flow.” The adjectival form is renversant, which means “stunning” or “astonishing.” i think you may soon have experiences that could be described by those words. There’s a good chance that a dry, impoverished part of your life will get a juicy, fertile infusion. a deficiency you have worried about might get at least half-filled. an inadequacy that makes you feel sad may be bolstered by reinforcements. alas, there could also be a slight reversal that’s not so gratifying. one of your assets may temporarily become irrelevant. but the trade-off is worth it, libra. your gains will outstrip your loss. scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): Professor Martyn Poliakoff creates short youtube videos to help teach the public about chemistry. in one video, he explains why an explanation he gave in a previous video was completely mistaken. “it’s always good for a scientist to be proved wrong,” he confesses cheerfully. Then he moves on to speculate about what the right answer might be. i love humility like that! it’s admirable. it’s also the best way to find out the truth about reality. i hope you will summon a similar attitude in the coming weeks, scorpio: a generous curiosity that makes you eager to learn something new about stuff you thought you had all figured out. sagittaRiUs

(nov. 22-Dec. 21): on the one hand, menopausal women are no longer able to bear children. on the other hand, they often overflow with fresh possibilities and creative ideas. More time is available to

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The reality tV show “Freaky eaters” profiled a woman named Kelly who had eaten nothing but cheesy potatoes for 30 years. Her average intake: eight pounds of potatoes and four cups of cheese per day. “i love cheesy potatoes,” she testified. “They’re stewy, gooey and just yumyum-yummy. They’re like crack to me.” i’m a bit concerned that you’re flirting with behavior comparable to hers. not in regards to cheesy potatoes, of course, but to some other fetish. i will ask you to make sure that you’re not starting to over-specialize. it would be wise to avoid obsessing on a single type of anything.

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(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): in the 17th century, polite people referred to mountains as “warts” and “boils on the earth’s complexion.” so says robert Macfarlane in his book Mountains of the Mind. annie Dillard describes the peculiar behavior of educated european tourists in the 18th century. When they visited the alps, she writes in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, “they deliberately blindfolded their eyes to shield themselves from the evidence of the earth’s horrid irregularity.” Don’t be anything like those dumb sophisticates, aquarius. When you spy irregularities in the coming weeks, consider the possibility that they are natural and healthy. This will allow you to perceive their useful beauty.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): you are not for sale. remember? your scruples and ideals and talents cannot be bought off for any amount of money. you will not be cheated out of your birthright, and you will not allow your dreams to be stolen. although it’s true that you may have to temporarily rent your soul from time to time, you will never auction it off for good. i’m sure you know these things, Pisces, but i suspect it’s time to renew your fiery commitment to them.

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